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> This would cut into margins, but maybe it is not possible to run hyper scale companies only managed by a couple of engineers.

It wouldn't cut into margins, it would make YouTube wildly unprofitable, with no viable path to monetization that would ever pay for the support burden.

I realize that some on HN—it sounds like you included—are perfectly happy to argue that if a company can't provide human customer support to every one of their users then that company shouldn't exist, but most of YouTube's users would fervently disagree.
Yeah it feels like there should be an escalating series of consequences for infractions..

It should have been pretty straightforward to establish a pattern (or lack of) around whether this was an intentionally abusive channel or a first-time offence.

But of course this costs money and takes time to build.
If you're competing - in any measure - with the bottom half of the global teenage population, you're in deep trouble.
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> Comprehension is a higher bar than "literacy".

And one would argue that comprehension is more essential than ever, since every last thing you do in the modern world and nearly every product you interact with comes with a pages-long terms and conditions document in which you get the funny stuff like the inability to use iTunes to make nuclear weapons, and far more importantly, how a number of large platform services reserve the right to sell your soul to as many devils as they can.

Like, on balance, I'm doing okay in life. I could have more savings put away but ultimately I have a good job in tech, I own a home, and basically have all my essentials handled with a side of a few toys to tinker on. I cannot fathom how I could get my life functioning without strong reading skills. It's... it's literally everything, it's communication in my office since I'm remote, it's filing taxes correctly, it's interacting with my local government, hell writing is a side hobby of mine and has been all my life. I can't fucking imagine what kind of utter hell it must be to even only be literate, let alone illiterate.
I agree completely that it's a really hard problem, but this isn't an unusual case in a non-english language. Accounts are going to be hacked all the time, and all the evidence should be easily available to verify the claim that an attacker uploaded the porn, not the original account holder. There are plenty of other platforms with monstrous support requirements and while none do it perfectly or maybe even well, the popular perception of Google is that they have a policy from on high to not even try. This is across all Google products by the way, ReLogic (developers of Terraria) were locked out of their gmail and canceled their Stadia port over it [1]. I was trying to find a specific story related to GCP, but all I keep running into is people complaining about support [2] [3] [4] These are especially bad because it's affecting customers who are contributing to a very high margin part of the business, and in some cases customers have a line item for the support. Obviously bad experiences get talked about orders of magnitude more than good ones, but Google really is well known for this.

[1] https://www.techspot.com/news/88563-re-logic-cancels-terrari...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/m3hi63/whats_g...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1ey0rx8/gcp_su...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/owt679/how_doe...
One of the biggest things for events like this are:
- Regulatory Restrictions, many jurisdictions have limit on how to treat accounts like this
- Repeat behavior from others that have breached this segment of the ToS.

A good automation would be integrating something like what they already have for Music Copyright, where you can automatically trim the segments around the conflicting content.
We use it for excalidraw to generate opengraph previews of scenes when you send a link to somebody.
> latest rustc always able to compile older rust code.

That is not true. Adding any public method to any impl can cause existing working code not to compile, and Rust adds new methods to the stdlib all the time.
Hi there, Cody contributor here—sorry to hear you had a bad experience! In our evals, our DeepSeek variant outperformed previous models and other alternatives. If it's working worse for you know, would be open to sending us some examples/screenshots of poor completions examples? We'd like to incorporate these into our eval set so we can capture a more representative distribution of codebases and how Cody performs!
You’re being kind of an ass, which is fine but I just felt it should be acknowledged.

Of course I’ve been to an art museum.

I’m not sure what you mean by “pixel art”? Given enough pixels, you can scan a painting and represent it on a screen well enough.

Have you not played with Stable Diffusion or Midjourney or anything? It doesn’t just give you SNES sprites.
Their wonderful customer service probably explains why they're so widely beloved by their customers. /s
It wasn’t as perfectly tuned by machines of infinite knowledge and calibrated individually for every person over and over until they can no longer do anything other than generate a profit for the advertisers.

Some exaggeration above, but less than would be fair.
Lots of interesting things packaged into OneAPI for developers to check out: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/onea...

I quite enjoyed using the CUDA to OneAPI migration tool. Was a bit dodgy at times, but for the most part helped me move a lot of stuff out of the NVIDIA walled garden.
Even in South Korea it doesn’t exactly sound cheap - I really wonder what makes a 150 year old, mass produced vaccine so expensive. Haven’t we figured out how to produce it cheaply.
The numbers have been going up as those things have been introduced, not down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42318019

HN blames social media for everything, but this clearly isn’t it.
This also varies a lot across cultures: in Germany, people actually expect waiters to show up and say "Order?" and sometimes get irritated when they're overly bubbly. In the USA, the opposite is expected.
I'd say: Don't pick up the technical debt unless you have time to. If you do, make a song and dance about it, because otherwise no one will care.
Why is downloading a shell script from a website and running it any less safe than downloading a package from a distro repository and running it? The owners of rustup.rs are just as unlikely to be malicious as the people who package things for Debian.
What is necessarily provocative about the term? Both the noun and verb forms of the word "desert" fit well here, especially in the context of the history that this article talks about.

"If you don't have a car ... you are going to have a significantly limited life in so many ways that having to drive to the supermarket just seems like a triviality in comparison." Except that everyone needs to eat, and we know that a poor diet can lead to many, many bad health outcomes. You're correct that there are other disadvantages, such as access to employment opportunities. But if you didn't live in a food desert, you could get a job at the grocery store, right?

"people just like, have cars, it's normal"
Except that owning (or leasing) a car is a significant, ongoing expense. I barely use mine (<1,000 miles per year) and it still costs me $2k in insurance, registration, and maintenance. Some people just can't afford that. And what if you are young, old, or are unable to drive for any reason?
Well they are _Oxford_ ants. They are used to real hardwood floors with a coating of floor polish so storied you can do archaeology on it.
The EU-Inc Policy Proposal
Well... it's the ultimate safety net against the court system being weaponized or just stupid. (Granted it's usually not used that way. But the protection may be important.)
I feel like the concept of "protestant work ethic" has been coming up a lot lately. Make me wonder if this is going to be the stoicism of 2025.
I highly recommend checking out [Flop](https://hexdocs.pm/flop/readme.html) and its Phoenix.Component [Flop Phoenix](https://hexdocs.pm/flop_phoenix/readme.html).

Its extremely easy to customize and build a reusable paginated table component
Those pleasantries also keep the door open for more interactions. If you ask someone for help, being sociable will make them feel at ease and more open to asking your insights too, and that's a win-win for everyone. And really, that's how personal and professional networks are formed: through small gestures you do consistently over time, you build up comfortable interactions with the people around you.
Can we make a camera see behind walls? [video]
I would imagine the context takes up valuable input tokens that you would otherwise need to use for your request. So you'll run out at some point and then you just have a simple model rather than a skilled engineer.
For anyone interested in NEAT, you’ll likely enjoy Ken’s later work on novelty search, open-endedness, etc.

His book “Why Greatness Cannot be Planned: The Myth of the Objectives” is one of the most perspective altering works I have ever read.

Very excited to see what he does next. He mentioned on Twitter a couple times his interest in representation learning and how objective based search affects this. Very interesting stuff
With respect. Go to the map of school attendance percentages by nation.

Once there, compare Senegal's school attendance percentage to the attendance percentages in the rest of West Africa.

And the bad news is that percentages in Senegal are likely juiced and then reported given the way the government works in Senegal. Whereas percentages in places like Ghana are likely reported as lower than they actually are due to the way the government works in Ghana.
> don't provide services you can't support.

Also playing devil's advocate here: Define "support".

I'm sure Google will tell you that they support their billions of users just fine, relatively speaking, and that the percentage of people who fall through the cracks is an acceptable margin (to them, obviously not to the users themselves).

To your point about "not providing the service", do you believe that the trade-off that would happen if Google, for example, stopped offering free tier Youtube uploads, would be worth it for providing better support to paying users?

Would the incredibly massive reduction in uploaded content be worth it?

Or do we have to live with these kinds of gaps in order to get the rest?
There is a brand new book on Bonhoeffer[0] out!

[0] https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481321679/dietrich-bonhoeffe...
Loads of people do things that might result in a visit to hospital - my wife was hospitalised after a climbing accident (with a mountain rescue team and separate helicopter based team), I've been treated for cycling accidents and because one of our cats bit me...

You can either accept the vast bureaucracy of evaluating risk and paying for each bit of treatment or the much simpler and cheaper option of paying for it in taxes and giving everyone the same level of basic care and not worrying too much about the fugu eaters...
There are any number of >1/2" transitions on my ground floor. But, as I say it's a 200+ year old house that has been added to and modified many times. I wasn't going to buy a robo-vac just to find it wasn't very useful. Really it's just my dining room/kitchen that needs to be vacuumed regularly between monthly housekeeper visits and a stick vac handles that in a few minutes.
"This article is a proof of concept that Minecraft can be used in higher education. We should note that the goal of this article is not to have the most accurate approximations possible, the goal is to inspire people to have fun while learning about various mathematical topics."
Maybe the US should start making it possible to live without a car? No one loose if you do that.
I know it's like this but still so depressing this is the best we can do in America. Utterly garbage way to manage a core function of society.
Are you saying that we should kick all the poor people off of Youtube?
Agreed but the post I replied to said civilian, not amateur.

How about Armadillo Aerospace: better example?
Give me a single example of laws in any jurisdiction that require this user to be banned.

There was absolutely no reason to ban in this case and you know it. If there was one video where rules were unintentionally broken, and the user has no history of that before, you remove the video, not completely ban the user.
Clearly, as the parent commentor wrote, they are not able to solve it technically.

There is a segment on HN, it sounds like you are included, who believes that is is OK to entirely defer to algorithmic governance without any legal oversigt.
Well there is also a chance that you contracted the virus without noticing an animal at all.

Not to mention any number of other conditions that may lead to sudden death.

Risk is an inevitable part of being alive, all we can do is minimize it. Once it's minimized to noise levels it's not really rational to do anything else.
This is one of the reasons why I don't use genAI for programming purposes. It increases the need to review and correct code I didn't write, which increases the amount of work that I don't enjoy doing.
>This got me thinking that it would be interesting to see a kind of “YJIT standard library” emerge, where core ruby functionality run in C could be swapped out for Ruby implementations for use by people using YJIT.

This actually makes me feel sad because it reminded me of Chris Seaton. The idea isn't new and Chris has been promoting it during his time working on TruffleRuby. I think the idea goes back even further to Rubinius.

It is also nice to see TruffleRuby being very fast and YJIT still has lots of headroom to grow. I remember one obstacle with it running rails was memory usage. I wonder if that is still the case.
Theories of Error Back-propagation in the Brain [pdf]
Qvest LLC Fined After Investigators Find 11 Children at Pork Processing Plant
You can do foley today for free already.

If you’re primarily talking about the time commitment as cost, anyone who doesn’t have the time won’t care about foley to begin with. It’s an attention to detail that someone turning to automated tools won’t have to begin with.

Beyond that, foley is a very creative process. It’s not just placing foot steps at the right moment, it’s making them sound right contextually. It’s knowing that smacking a spring is a great blaster sound, not just putting a gunshot in.
> A lot of people don't/didn't set out in life to be a hyper-adaptiver worker who puts 110% into the latest thing they can be the best at all the time

This used to be life for 99% of human history. Don't take the past 30 years lifestyle for granted just because we created government, free market or whatever. Human nature is to be a hyper-adaptiver worker who puts 110% into the latest thing they can be the best at all the time otherwise they die.
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did you actually read the post? where from his post do you get "poster lacks the perspective to criticize certain languages?"

and of course even more pertinent - which languages did he even criticize other than to point out things that are not possible in Scala/Rust (certainly not a critique, each language has its pros/cons...)
The stronger claim is that not giving back is short-sighted rather than unethical: using a volunteer product in your business without doing anything to ensure it's long-term longevity risks regression bugs and dependency hell.
YouTube should be an entirely non-profit entity, with no interests beyond delivering content as fast as possible.
take a look under the hood for any Linux distro
Appears to be a targeted shooting, curious to see what the motive is.

Undergoing treatment and having to deal with insurance can put people in a dark place. Even if it's just an accidental injury putting you in medical debt, it can feel like the end of your life.

I'll never forget getting denied neulasta while on my last round of chemo and having to pay $21,000 out of pocket until we argued it with insurance. I wouldn't go as far as murder, but I can only imagine others would.
>3.5x the risk of what?? 3.5x of 1 in a billion is quite different than 3.5x of 1 in 5

I'm pretty sure the baseline is included in the relevant research.

And people should be scared of formaldehyde.
I learned that 1 / e is the limit probability of a permutation not having any fixed points, nice.
I find this quite funny, I've worked with this author at a company and the stories of his behaviour to other coworkers there make my WTF collection. So to find him talking about growing professional relationships either means he's made massive strides in his behaviour or it's a lot of nonsense.

This is the one I always tell people when I explain how WTF IT can be, I wasn't there for it, but it was retold with the author in the room laughing about it. A female coworker joined and on her first day he went up to her and said "You know you're a slut, right?" And there were tons of stories of him saying the craziest of shit.

That company had serious culture problems, from a CTO who would take his anger out on juniors, demand complete nonsense that made no technical sense, and a revolving door of employees who were leaving because of the CTO or Tejas.

Funny enough, in my personal opinion, Tejas was always well-meaning and rather friendly he just would say the weirdest of shit ever.
>What most projects do is to separate "common" namespaces and use the `.cljc` extension to indicate they're multi platform, and keep platform specific things in namespaces with `.clj`, `.cljs`, etc.

This is exactly what I witnessed when finding the example above.

Out of frustration, I tried patching shadow-cljs one afternoon and was able to implement :refer :all as well as automatically generating :require-macros when needed to some extent, but I haven't put the time to make it work fully. I don't think this is a limitation caused by the lack of a Clojurescript compiler that can run in a Javascript runtime. In short, I don't think this is an essential limitation of the way the language is hosted within its target language, unlike things like Vars, which are not introspectable at runtime in js.
Aloha Browser Update Promises End to Endless Cookie Prompts
Seems like you want all the benefits of having monopolised video upload but none of the downsides.
You know, Japan just recently had a gunman kill a very powerful person and then the country basically prosecuted the gunman but also completely vindicated them.

One can dream.
That is absolutely hilarious. There is definitely a middle ground between today’s “spend $0 on live human support” and “spend X% of YT revenue on the support a platform like YT demands”. There exists an X% where they are plenty profitable. It’s a video hosting platform subsidized by the largest ad network in the world.
this is actually a common misconception, since the GLA controls the LLDC, TFL, and LFC it has enormous influence on the square mile.

Significantly as I noted in my original comment the transit from outside the CoL into the market, but also directly.
What country do you live in and what is its population density?
I nearly lol'd at the people immediately jumping to "you're not a psychopath", as if that's a bad thing. Psychopathy can be essentially the selective inhibition of empathy (not to be confused with a total lack of empathy as in ASPD). If you choose not to feel empathy for people who are trying to small-talk you then that could technically be called psychopathy. And also a relatively common symptom of autism! (I, also, hate small talk in many transactional conversations, and am autistic.)
So while Reddit is huge, I don't think it's even close to the same scale as Google. And problems at Google's scale are hard to compare to smaller scenarios.

But I do agree with your 2nd point about misaligned incentives though. I don't think "how do we ensure that every user can get fair support" was ever on any product roadmap for these free global-scale products..

Or more accurately, the "users" in this case are the advertisers, not the uploaders.
Somebody else is building your binaries. You've added another link in your software supply chain. How do you know they haven't inserted malware?
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OK, I'll bite. What good has Netanyahu done that deserves attention?
We must be talking about longer stays then. In my experience hospitals are not particularly quick to bill or even inform the insurance company.

Last time my kid was in the hospital, the hospital didn't bill my insurance for 18 months on some items!
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That's certainly an issue. There have been a number of cases where companies have demanded that people hand over domain that they "where not using". Not using being defined as "does not have a website".

It feels like there should be some way of determining if a domain is actively being used, to combat squatters, but when ever someone tried to make a rule it ends up being something stupid, like not having a website.
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