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>“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” ― Aldous Huxley

It may have provided us with the largely unused means to more easily go backwards if we want to (for example, via nuclear or massive biological war), but the idea that it's made us worse off from some ideal previous state of lower technology is popular, fashionably nihilistic nonsense with no bearing on concrete reality. It was also just as stupid an idea in Huxley's time.

Anybody who thinks such a thing should really read more carefully on how nearly every aspect of life was in the past, even fairly recently, or if they have the means, go visit a society that today genuinely lives without using modern technology.

(pseudo-hippie communes of "like-minded" individuals that back up their cute experiments with modern industrial products, modern medicine and the ability to go back to civilization at any time, don't count)
You're right. I think hypocrisy is an adult thing. Parent's post gives unjust bad reputation for children.
To solve #1, you could use the Sponsorblock extension; it still works with YT premium. I don't since sponsor segments are skippable and I make a little game about guessing the exact amount of time to skip forward. Some creators are even kind enough to put timecodes there (but that feels like cheating).

I don't mind sponsor segments. Multiple unskippable ads in a row that have nothing to do with the topic are infuriating.
Looks practical, but I can't seem to be able to save any image. I click the button but nothing happens. I can copy it though.
There's the possibility of making mainboards with other features though, built-in FPGAs, SDRs, or maybe lower-powered x86 chips for more battery life.

I guess that all falls under "curiosity", but I really do hope that the ecosystem for framework compatible parts blow up.
Accelerated muons bring next-gen particle colliders closer to reality
European countries practically begged the US to place nuclear weapons after the Berlin blockade.
Vim added :x though it doesn't exist in Vim
You don't have to defend it, but if your motivations are that you want to have some measure of control over the serfs you own, be prepared for people to also mock and scorn you for it.

That right to have an opinion cuts both ways, bud.
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To get ads after paying subscription is simply nonsense, but people are beaten into submission to simply pay the tax, get less, all with a shrug like good cattle led to slaughter.

I used to use adblock, sponsorblock, others, but still the youtube random garbage and ads for asian/russian brides and latest disposable Chinese garbage resellers. Finally the US election nonsense got me to switch to using Freetube for any youtubing. I'm far less annoyed by it now, less doom-scrolling, I forget it's youtube all together without everything I hated about it. All content, no filler.

Do yourself a favor and set up Freetube, stop paying for (or just watching even) commercials.
Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if Google is so disorganized they are unable to close these loopholes. Any of the things you suggested could’ve already been done long ago, but haven’t
Jungle has breakbeats, whereas that music is four-on-the-floor.
https://sponsor.ajay.app/
Sponsor skip
Cute but by that logic the implication is that you're entitled to everything for free. While Youtube might not be one of them, there are things in this world that are worth financially supporting so that they can continue to produce content. (Like the Economist for example)
They're not the customer they're the product, their customer is clients who purchase advertisement space.
In NYC, rents went way down, to the point where there was a sticker shock from people who moved to NY during Covid and were shocked when prices went back up a year or two later.
> This being so controversial and difficult to pass is sad.

The controversy is created by the people who have something to lose by it passing, and they somehow manage to fool voters into believing their bullshit "but regular people will be hurt because X!" justifications. And voters for some reason don't look at the background of the people who support or oppose these sorts of things to see where their interests are aligned.

I don't really know how we get to the point where we have an educated, informed electorate, where people are resistant to misinformation, and think critically about what a yes or no vote actually means, filtering out arguments made by people with sneaky ulterior motives.

Personally I think people should be strongly discouraged from voting on issues that they don't understand. When I fill out my ballot (California & SF, so there are always quite a few ballot propositions), I try to do my best to read about each proposition, arguments for and against, and take at least a cursory look at the people doing that arguing, but honestly there are still probably some I should leave blank, as I don't fully understand the consequences of a yes/no.

> you should not be forced to pay a fee for someone who does not have a fiduciary duty to you

This is one reason why I'm glad real estate purchase commissions are getting shaken up (the other is breaking up monopoly abuse). The current/previous commissions structure is bonkers.
Their end users aren't the customer. Of course they won't listen to them.

Their customers are the ones that pay for ads and buys end user data.
It’s just too tantalizing. If you have the disposable income to pay for ad-free, advertisers want you more. AND the field is not crowded. They’re willing to shell out big time to reach you.
Damn, who could've seen this coming!?
Is this related to Verizon going down recently?
I was wondering how they managed such an impressive signal fan-out - I thought that telephones at that time were purely powered by acoustic energy moving the coil in the microphone. Turns out that the amplifying telephone repeater had just been invented a few years previously, enabling transcontinental phone calls and - in this case - splitting a signal to be played in many places.

It must have been an incredibly exciting time to be alive.

https://ethw.org/First_Telephone_Repeater
I do not mind these bits because:

1) There is no tracking done, my privacy is not violated

2) At least the YouTuber is willing to debase themselves for the ad.

My main gripe for blocking ads is privacy and in-video segments where the presenter says stuff does not violate my privacy.
I think the basic premise is that the rules-based world order is dead, and having nuclear weapons would not make you any more pariah than you already are. If Ukraine is forced to accept an unfavorable peace deal, they would try to build an effective nuclear deterrent. One that could create serious doubts among the top Russian political and military leadership about their ability to personally survive another invasion.
Please email hn@ycombinator.com to report these kinds of things.
> They're not the customer they're the product

If you are a free Gmail/YouTube/etc user, sure. But a company who pays for a couple hundred Google Mail users is definitely a customer:

> I also managed to cancel all of our work google accounts.
That's the point. Rents should stay more or less the same, but now renters won't have to pay a bullshit fee up front.

Landlords can list their units on whatever listing sites/services for like $500 a pop, and renters won't have to pay $5k-$10k to a broker who did basically nothing for them.

Rents will not go up; rents are a function of what the market will bear, not of a landlord's costs.
The music you linked is too slow for Jungle.
The culture of Amazon is to demand data and anecdotes for every decision, and how that will make customers better off.

> If you don't want to come in, why not just find a remote job?

This is why it's described as a layoff, and they should just announce that it's a layoff and do their paperwork.
Yeah, the guy is literally named evildojo.
> I would always be willing to pay them more not to see ads than they would've ever made from me watching the ads in the first place.

You cannot afford it. There’s an advertiser willing to pay more than your net worth on a campaign.
Isn't art the place for unbounded creativity?
SponsorBlock is very configurable so that you can block only the kinds of native ads you want, while letting others play normally or only skipping them manually instead of automatically.
It's legal speak for "They are looking at who we have wiretaps on", which any country would be interested in, just to see which of their assets are being watched, for counter-counter-espionage purposes.
Samsung: Exynos problems are due to "too short" 52-hour working week in Korea
They're probably already on the EU's list for looking at as well.
I think the idea is that a major reason for inadequate ventilation comes from venues cheaping-out on their air conditioning setup.

Not because of containing noise, or a strange aesthetic decor, etc.
I don't get the logic of showing ads here. Premium users are paying $14/mo, surely that should completely dwarf the fractions of a cent Google would earn by displaying an ad. Is this just a simple bug? Or are advertisers now paying orders of magnitude more in order to reach people who have enough disposable income to afford a $14/mo subscription? Or is Google that desparate and they see this as a way to earn slightly more than $14/mo from that user?
No honour among thieves, I guess!
Doesn't seem like anyone here is talking about exactly what ads these are, but as far as I can tell, these are banner ads for YouTube TV's NFL Sunday Ticket that show up on the home page when you are browsing for videos. To me, this is about as annoying as a recommendation I don't want, and I get plenty of those, especially for news content when something happens.

The headline (YouTube Premium Showing Ads) makes it sound like if you pay for YouTube Premium you are now getting ads in videos just like normal YouTube, but maybe a little less, but this does not seem to be the case.
>so their models don't get Habsburg'd.

Nice metaphor
Great gift for YouTubers
Twitter is not even in the top 10 of popular social media.. so many already are more popular then Twitter..

Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok are all more popular then twitter.. Hell, i bet even Orkut was more popular then twitter back in the day..

I don't think Twitter was ever the number 1 social media in popularity..

Also, Twitter was never valued at $44bi by anyone other then Elon, and even he saw the terrible deal he made and tried to back out of it..

And value has only dropped after..

And they are bleeding both money and users.. So the user base is clearly willing to use something else..

It will surprise me if twitter is still a thing by this time next year.. it might still be around but i think it will be small and irrelevant..
Project: Verdad – tracking misinformation in radio broadcasts using Gemini 1.5
Thanks. I wasn't trying to be snarky. I really couldn't find where that was explained in the article. I guess I should have followed the links.
Why would that be a good solution, let alone the "correct" one?
On one hand you have the richest man on earth purchasing one of the largest social platforms, and singlehandedly wielding it to subvert American democracy.

On the other hand you have a guy who kinda liked crypto.

You call it "basically a mirror"? Do you see the absurdity of comparing the two things as if they're even remotely close to one another?
This is madness. I will never try this!
As someone who rented for 20 years in NYC, this is a bizarre scenario you describe. You deal with a broker during the leasing process, and then after you lease it, you pay the landlord, they have to sign the lease and approve repairs, and are the person with whom you review lease increases. The most arms length relationship I have ever heard or seen is having an admin assistant for the landlord handle all the operational things.

I have never seen a situation where the broker is responsible for the lease terms, because in the end the landlord has to sign their end.
I still have the bongos, although they may need some repairs to get them properly working again. I'm excited to check this out!
Care to share any of these chats?
A ton of places are doing that. Restaurants that want to price things differently from their main. Or primarily in-store restaurant chains that don't want branding impacted by crappy delivery reviews. Keyword competition to improve sales. Menu, naming, picture, process experimentation. Additional placement in search results with different ranking. Bad review evasion. Limiting blast radius of bad reviews (eg, they still have a second high-rated listing for those X months they get less orders until a spat of negative reviews expire).

Basically, 'cheating' because it's not very honest, or can also be putting in extra effort to sell more and/or limit risk.
I reckon that 'gnutella reborn' would look like Retroshare in the year 2019. (and probably today, I haven't tried it recently)

Same as all p2p systems, Retroshare has the problem of NATs and firewalls preventing two thirds of the users from directly exchanging data.
You need to ask someone you know that is already on lobste.rs for a invite[1], or join it's chat room and ask there[2].

[1]: https://lobste.rs/about#invitations

[2]: https://lobste.rs/chat
And then a 666 to boot, I mean gosh. Bad news.
I imagine maths teachers had a similar dilemma when pocket calculators became widely available.

Now, in the UK students sit 2 different exams: one where calculators are forbidden and one where calculators are permitted (and encouraged). The problems for the calculator exam are chosen so that the candidate must do a lot of problem solving that isn't just computation. Furthermore, putting a problem into a calculator and then double checking the answer is a skill in itself that is taught.

I think the same sort of solution will be needed across the board now - where students learn to think for themselves without the technology but also learn to correctly use the technology to solve the right kinds of challenges and have the skills to check the answers.

People on HN often talk about ai detection or putting invisible text in the instructions to detect copy and pasting. I think this is a fundamentally wrong approach. We need to work with, not against the technology - the genie is out of the bottle now.

As an example of a non-chatgpt way to evaluate students, teachers can choose topics chatgpt fails at. I do a lot of writing on niche topics and there are plenty of topics out there where chatgpt has no clue and spits out pure fabrications. Teachers can play around to find a topic where chatgpt performs poorly.
And it's so just as "factual" now. People trust the pundits giving ill-thought-out opinions and distrust the anchors delivering the news.
Ha ha, same here. The only ads my daughters ever saw on TV growing up were the ones between PBS shows. Staying in hotels was a real eye-opener for them.

Of course now that they are adults I get the blame for their having missed out the cultural touchstone that was apparently Sponge Bob Squarepants.
I notice their front-end engineering (and design). The app experience has always been noticeably better than every other streaming service, which matters to me

It's also possible that savings on infrastructure costs, reduced engineering hours spent on debugging, etc give them a quiet competitive advantage

Most engineering is not visible to the end-user
Elon endorsed antisemitic comments (https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-row-uk-rishi-sunak...) and conspiracy theories. Several studies found that there was a substantial increase in hate speech (https://www.newsguardtech.com/special-reports/twitter-misinf...) after the acquisition. He substantially manipulated opinions on X to serve his own ends, most recently during the election. It's grossly misleading to compare this to a strawman.
They’re already going after sponsor reads.

On iOS with YouTube premium, I get a button prompt asking if I want to skip a commonly skipped sections.

9/10 it’s the sponsor read. The remaining 1/10 is patreon

I haven’t seen much about it so I’m not sure if im in an A/B test
Although, I agree with the general point, I am thankful for the bit of extra work they do when I travel abroad. The quality and availability of Netflix is far superior (many don't even work outside the US).
The plot was just showing where the solid lines were trending (see prior messages), and that happened to predict the performance at 400k samples (red dot) very well.

An exponential scaling curve would steer a bit more to the right, but it would still cross the 85% mark before 2000k.
Invisible watermarks is just steganography. Once the exact method of embedding is known it is always possible to corrupt an existing watermark - however in some cases it may not be possible to tell if a watermark is present, such as if the extraction procedure always produces high entropy information even from unwatermaked content.
Almost by definition it is not. If you are "gaming" a specific benchmark, what you have is not progress in general intelligence. The entire premise of the ARC-AGI challenge was that general problem solving would be required. As noted by the GP, one of the top contenders is BARC which performs well by generating a huge amount of training data for this particular problem. That's not general intelligence, that's gaming.

There is no reason to believe that technique would not work for any particular problem. After all, this problem was the best attempt the (very intelligent) challenge designers could come up with, as evidenced by putting $1m on the line.
While #1 is definitely pedantic, YouTube has added a 'Jump Ahead' button that allows you to skip content that a majority of users have skipped. This usually lines up with sponsor segments.
If tags are the way people want to work, then there needs to be a new repo class for actions which explicitly removes the ability to delete or force push tags across all branches. And enforced 2FA.

Using a commit hash is the second most secure option. The first (in my eyes) is vendoring the actions you want to use in your user/org's namespace. Maintaining when/if to sync or backport upstream modifications can protect against these kinds of attacks.

However, this does depend on the repo being vetted ahead of time, before being vendored.
TL;DR: Why not add a capability/permissions model to CI?

I agree that pinning commits is reasonable and that GitHub's UI and Actions system are awful. However, you said:

> Maybe accounts should even require ID verification

This would worsen the following problems:

1. GitHub actions are seen as "trustworthy"

2. GitHub actions lack granular permissions with default no

3. Rising incentives to attempt developer machine compromise, including via $5 wrench[1]

4. Risk of identity information being stolen via breach

> It's time to take things seriously.

Why not add strong capability models to CI? We have SEGFAULT for programs, right? Let's expand on the idea. Stop an action run when:

* an action attempts unexpected network access

* an action attempts IO on unexpected files or folders

The US DoD and related organizations seem to like enforcing this at the compiler level. For example, Ada's got:

* a heavily contract-based approach[2] for function preconditions

* pragma capabilities to forbid using certain features in a module

Other languages have inherited similar ideas in weaker forms, and I mean more than just Rust's borrow checker. Even C# requires explicit declaration to accept null values as arguments [3].

Some languages are taking a stronger approach. For example, Gren's[4] developers are considering the following for IO:

1. you need to have permission to access the disk and other devices

2. permissions default to no

> We can't afford to fuck around anymore,

Sadly, the "industry" seems to disagree with us here. Do you remember when:

1. Microsoft tried to ship 99% of a credit card number and SSN exfiltration tool[5] as a core OS component?

2. BSoD-as-service stopped global air travel?

It seems like a great time to be selling better CI solutions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1]: https://xkcd.com/538/

[2]: https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/cont...

[3]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...

[4]: https://gren-lang.org/

[5]: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/windows-recall-demands-an...
I dispute that random people have no reason to lie. There's a ton of money to be made blogging lies, for one thing. Notoriety, attention...
The Chinese did it. Nationalism is a powerful force.
Considering how deeply infiltrated German intelligence services were/are by Russia, it's hard to feel bad about spying on them.

At least the Dutch are competent.
with the abysmal market share it has these days

It just has no killer features. Once it will have that one, https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+use+ad+block...

But I think it’s an empty threat. Google cannot really do anything with it without hurting itself. It will lose all arms races because anti-ads anti-drm community incentives are high and will remain so. “Annoying the whole humanity even more” isn’t an easy business model.

slipstreaming the ads into the content stream itself

All that energy only for a user to see a black rectangle rendered over a video by sponsorblock.
> But a company who pays for a couple hundred Google Mail users is definitely a customer:

I see your point

But I think it should say: "But a company who pays for a couple hundred Google Mail users is a sucker"
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The difference is NSInvocation. A function pointer doesn't capture the arguments to the function, but a message does.

Also, you can change the destination of a message send at runtime, but you can't change the destination of a function call unless you're dtrace and can do code patching.
I've invented a few unsuccessful software products myself and worked on successful ones, too. I don't think it's any service to the OP to pull punches here.

Anyone who invents a language is obviously bright and probably well intentioned. It would be best to redirect those talents now, methinks.
It will be much worse than cable. Since the first DVR came out in 1999 you haven't had to watch a commercial on cable if you didn't want to. Streaming brought us unskippable ads and surveillance.
The planes are important for collision and occlusion queries.

And yes. Intersection of planes is a higher level language than vertices and UVs. It pushes more work onto the computer instead of the human.
South Korea total fertility rate on its way to 0 even faster (0.72 in 2023, forecasted to be 0.68 in 2024).

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-fert...
server is extremely slow
It kind of reminds me of this figure from Godel, Escher and Bach.

https://imgur.com/a/1sNHCqV
Maybe relevant: "Workers at Bethesda parent company strike over remote work policies"

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/13/24295556/video-game-deve...
My point is that the "learning about what is happening in the world around us" part falls flat when what comes next is "by finding which person to copy test answers from."

I mean, yeah, you technically learn something, but the limitations undercut the sales-pitch.
These 51 intelligence professionals were not supposed to be politicians, they are supposed to be "experts" in the field.
Judges aren’t automatons, they won’t self combust after deciding differently…