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This reminds me of this investigation by CBC Marketplace[0], where cellphone and laptop repair techs spend time looking through customers' devices.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXAXabAzbk0

Re:Ask HN: Free online courses for gifted maths students on Friday January 26, 2024 @06:57PM (#39150600)
Professor Leonard [0] got me through calculus in university.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessorLeonard/playlists

Return Youtube Dislike [0] isn't perfect, but it's good enough for my use cases.

Unhook [1] lets you hide the shorts tab from the sidebar, but unfortunately doesn't (yet) filter shorts.

[0] https://returnyoutubedislike.com

[1] https://unhook.app/

Re:How did Stripe come up with its name? (2015) on Sunday September 03, 2023 @03:28PM (#37373513)
Also, Vine could have been TikTok.
Re:Tell HN: YouTube beat uBlock Origin on Firefox on Friday September 01, 2023 @06:48PM (#37356954)
Yup. This[0] comment seemed to do the trick.

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1679jmx/is_anyone_...

Tell HN: YouTube beat uBlock Origin on Firefox

When I go on YouTube, all I get is a blank page with a functioning hamburger icon, search box, and 4 placeholder icons.When I click on the hamburger icon and go to home, videos appear on the feed. When I click on a video I get ads as if I didn't have uBlock Origin enabled.Looks like others are facing the same issue.[0][0]...

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The Unhook extension for Chrome [0] and Firefox [1] is a great way to keep yourself from falling into the YouTube blackhole.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unhook-remove-yout...

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...

Re:Apple reports third quarter results on Thursday August 03, 2023 @09:41PM (#36994405)
Since Apple missed out on buying Tesla [1] for ~$60B, I could see Apple trying to buy out GM at today's price of ~$50B.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/22/22195959/elon-musk-tesla...

Re:Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM on Thursday July 20, 2023 @02:07PM (#36804339)
I recently started building something similar to this in Electron where users can create their own (React) components and extend the application. I used `live-plugin-manager`[1] to handle installing these components, but when two components use different versions of the same package, they can't simultaneously be used.

Have you been able to figure out a way for users to create their own plugins/components?

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/live-plugin-manager

Reddit relies on user-generated content so cutting the "unprofitable" users makes the product less useful for the "profitable" users.

This could lead to some initially profitable users into leaving the site and as a result make it less useful for the remaining users. This could lead to a negative spiral until Reddit is left with a fraction of its' user base.

Re:Visual ChatGPT on Friday March 10, 2023 @12:10AM (#35090624)
I think it's largely due to Sam Altman bringing the YC ethos to OpenAI. Building something people want, releasing products quickly, etc.
Re:Where do stolen bikes go? on Thursday February 16, 2023 @07:27PM (#34828887)
I really hope ChatGPT doesn't go with the advertising revenue model. I think the paid model they announced ($20/month) is a good starting point, but there's going to be significant drop-off from the mass market it serves today if there is no free tier.

I'm hoping they're able to figure out a model where the paying customers can offset the costs for the free tier for simple queries, and that the paid model is able to do more complex computations. (e.g. Input a 300-page book and condense it into a 2-page summary; or integrate a search engine in applications like Obsidian).

One thing to keep in mind is that it uses a lot of memory on the default settings. I've configured mine to use ~200MB/hour.

My video resolution is 1920x1200 and I record at 10fps.

One thing I've done to increase my productivity after reading a comment from a Hacker News post [1] is recording my work sessions on OBS.

The benefits for me are two-fold.

1) It keeps me accountable while working and

2) I could rewatch my work sessions and recall my thought process from a future me perspective.

It's amazing how much you forget about a day, but by watching the recordings after the fact, you recall the micro lessons you learned during your work sessions and you have the opportunity to encode these lessons into your long-term memory.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32215277#32215958

I wonder what the cost to take down the balloon was for the US (including monitoring it) vs. the cost of the balloon for China. If the ratio is something greater than 10:1, then I would say China got a pretty good ROI on a small investment.
Re:Ask HN: Books your kids like most on Thursday February 02, 2023 @08:50PM (#34636134)
I remember I would stay up late reading those books. Each chapter ended on a cliffhanger similar to shows like Breaking Bad and I just had to keep reading to find out what happens next.
Re:Ask HN: How can I check if a large number is prime? on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @02:38AM (#34592409)
Oh my goodness, you're right...

Ask HN: How can I check if a large number is prime?

I was looking at a list of prime numbers in binary format and I noticed a pattern, where if 2^n - 1, a Mersenne Prime, is in the list, then (2^(n+1) - 2^(n) - 1) is also in the list.I looked at the list of Mersenne Primes on Wikipedia and checked the primality of (2^43112610 - 2^43112609 - 1) on Wolfram Alpha, but to test for any results larger than that, the results are inconclusive.The...

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I assume it's all the emergency contacts
Re:Why ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon on Saturday January 07, 2023 @03:13PM (#34292187)
I've been using ChatGPT to suggest me books similar to books I've liked and so far the results have been good. Many of the books that are recommended are books I've read and enjoyed so the remaining ones on the list are added to my reading list.
> conduct regular scans for Ring passwords compromised in non-Ring breaches

Does this mean that Ring stores plaintext passwords?

Re:Trump’s Major Announcement Is $99 Digital Trading Cards on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:01PM (#34009306)
34000+ minted, lowest asking price is 0.075 eth (~$95), 10% Creator Fee. [1]

[1] https://opensea.io/collection/trump-digital-trading-cards?se...

Re:Mate with only pawns and no promotions on Thursday November 24, 2022 @10:20PM (#33738835)
Re:iCloud for Windows downloading other people's photos on Monday November 21, 2022 @06:03PM (#33699417)
Why aren't photos and files encrypted in the cloud? I feel like it should be standard for cases like this.
Re:Changing times (or, why is every layoff 10-15%?) on Friday November 11, 2022 @11:39PM (#33570002)
This reminds me of a story I heard about Steve Wozniak's time at HP: They were going to lay off 10% of the staff, but instead they decided to reduce everyone's pay by 10% and give them an extra day off every two weeks.
Re:Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max on Sunday November 06, 2022 @07:34PM (#33499457)
It's an optimization problem. You want to minimize the number of deaths AND minimize the impact on the economy.

Let's say if you shut down the entire economy, you're able to save exactly 1 life. Is this a worthwhile tradeoff? Probably not.

Now the question becomes, where do we draw the line on the number of "acceptable" deaths and the acceptable impact on the economy.

Re:Google Timer is gone (again) on Thursday October 27, 2022 @10:05AM (#33357629)
The 1 and 5 minute timers show for me, but they appear after video recommendations. For my display, this is just under my viewport.
I remember growing up in Canada, there were commercials about "house hippos" [1] and the first time I saw the commercial, I actually believed what was being presented.

Thinking back, I think the campaign actually worked on me because it made me realize how obviously fake things can be made to seem real if it's presented by a seemingly authoritative figure.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TijcoS8qHIE

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2022) on Thursday September 01, 2022 @12:04PM (#32678432)
Location: Vancouver, BC

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: For the right role

Technologies: Angular, React, Bootstrap, Node, AWS (Current focus on full-stack development). Also worked with Java/Python/C.

Résumé/CV: On request

Email: me[at]kibae.com

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