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This is Monty's jam. Why not? What's wrong with impressive technology? And I'll tell you one thing right off.

Gaming.

What if you wanted to have a seemingly normal game, but when played, you discovered that the characters have seemingly infinite dialogue trees? Tens of thousands of hours of voice performances. What if you could code up a game especially because it became possible to do something like that? What if you had lines delivered in ten different tones of voice and the modulation of that was relevant to gameplay? So it'd seem a little like normal gaming voice acting, except that maybe you'd be getting nonverbal cues and not know why you were reacting differently or getting more tense, except the 'other people' in the game were acting subtly differently.

Yes. Yes there are lots of ways to use this type of thing (also, I'll note that game engines like using Xiph tech already, Godot uses .ogg already)

Absolutely there's a use case for this. Many.
IMO yes: the promotion culture (technical complexity, impact) push people to come up with Big Ideas.

The thing with Big Ideas, is that they're often iterations of existing ideas, but just different enough that you can make a case for a fresh start. (And who doesn't want a greenfield project) Plus, the cost of experimentation is far less while you're not supporting a massive userbase.
fossils were the only thing to make sense to me in this fucked up world
Well this gets into the domain of realpolitiks. As I understand it the platform was not to reinvigorate coal but rather remove targeted regulation that accelerated the collapse of those communities especially in West Virginia and buy them time to transition. I want to lead the world as much as everyone else, but people argue that a heavy green investment would be a self inflicted wound especially when places like China are the biggest polluters and are still outputting more CO2 and see the results of a gas tax in France that disproportionately affects rural communities. I want sustainable energy as much as everyone else on here does, but we need to transition responsibly as our debt is massive.
This again. Not a week goes by without someone mentioning this. When a product is used by 0.001% of your user base you have to think about putting engineering resources towards that service. It just so happens that non-core products are often used by a vocal early adopter tech crowd like people on HN. Also 0.001% of Googles User base might still be 20,000 people.

The other thing is Google's business practices. I always think of Google as hundreds or thousands of startups. Small agile team builds up a new service. Where are we within 3 to 5 years. Over a billion users yet? No? Ok scrap or integrate it somehow.

One big problem of big slow boring corporate entities is that they always miss the next big thing that's gonna disrupt them. Google did it to many incumbents. So it makes sense that they might be worried to be next to be disrupted.

Also I think it's important to differentiate between consumer and commercial offerings with SLA's. There is no difference between the service discontinuation policies in GCP vs AWS and Azure. And also, gaming is way to important to abandon. Plus they have first mover advantage now as opposed to G+.
True, but even here we're not talking about identical molecules. Chiral molucules are ones (which are usually organic--based on carbon) which have both "left handed" and "right handed" versions. The two versions have the same molecular formula, but they're opposites of each other. So it's like having a left-hand drive car versus a right-hand drive car: they might look identical using a mirror, but they're really not, and you can't use them the same way because the way they interact with their environment is different (a driver in a RHD car in a LHD country will have a hard time seeing everything properly because the roads aren't designed with this configuration in mind).
> Most of what was told in schools are lie.

Do you have actually examples rather than hyperboles?
I have to disagree with the false hopes part. Just went to find some reviews(in 100s) on aswagandha products who gave 5 star reviews who claim it helped them with their depression better than prescribed ones. I think we are getting lost in the loop again - "I won't take it until it is well studied" while rest of the people already befitting from it without any side effects reported. Problem is no one wants to do it for other medicines like "Metformin" which is proven to result in a person getting promoted to insulin injections later. Strangely no one till date knows how it works! Diabetes is similar too, it happens because of a multitude of factors, yet it all reduced to one single medicine "Metformin". Did you ever question that? Why?
Choose wisely.
Yeah I also was sad about Inbox, it really solved all my problems. I loved it.

Now back in gmail and it sucks, it's just a cluster of emails with no way to filter thru without a lot of effort.

Specially the reminders and the automatic message bundling is terrible missing, the travel bundle feature were great as well.

What drives me crazy about it is that it is an awesome product, that I would probably pay a couple bucks if asked to but nothing can be done to save it.

I am at loss at how to migrate and where too.
As much as it pains me to say this, Apple is having much trouble juggling their endeavors. Apple's website is usually pixel perfect, but look at https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/index1.html and you'll see it isn't even responsive. Viewed on their own iOS devices renders the desktop nav. No one at Apple even goes to their own flagship desktop marketing page anymore.
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Right, thats the whole thing that sucks about DRM and these video providers in general. Not only do they want to protect their content from unauthorized viewers, they want to control how it is consumed. Which to me is especially outrageous because netflix and youtube are the only two with a good user experience. (I used to count Hulu, but at some point they really fell off)

I would think that Amazon would lead the charge for an open standard for distributing video which handles DRM, subscription, pay per view, etc. and then all the non-Netflixes would publish to that standard, and let player applications thrive. Even when using a Roku it feels like each app is completely different. And most of them suck. Imagine if in 1985 Prism, HBO, and Showtime all manufactured their own TVs and required you to use them, but they all had wildly different layouts and remotes.

The idea of syncing up two video streams is awesome, I can see people enjoying that, and it would encourage people to pay for whatever services their friends have. Though it does sound a bit similar to rabb.it
No, I don't think they're related at all. But if some percentage of high ability users have ethical concerns, it reduces the overall pool of high ability individuals available to them, while more ethical companies have their pick from the entire pool.
Here in DC, we don't update roads nearly that often, judging by all the potholes.
Last I checked, it was a significant pain in the butt to get an API key from Instagram, specifically because they didn't want you doing this sort of thing. Anyone know how he got access to the Instagram API? I've played around with similar methods but ended up using selenium because of the API restrictions of IG
Google Play Movies & TV, which is also available from YouTube, uses Widevine DRM. However, freely available videos and even YouTube Premium Originals do not use DRM.
There are already a small number of research groups trying to identify tumor specific immune receptors and then use those immune receptors as a treatment for the patient cancer. The process is lengthy and expensive but promising as a treatment for cancer. Hopefully, I and others can develop computational tools to assist in the discovery of tumor specific immune receptors, accelerating the treatment and reducing the cost
The QQ browser is the default for opening URLs in Tencent's popular messaging apps QQ and WeChat, so it probably has a larger market share than UC. The others are a bit more niche I think, but I don't know for sure. There should be some statistics on this page by Baidu, but I can't confirm because it requires Flash (!) and I'm on mobile: https://tongji.baidu.com/data/browser
And the truth is that we are. Here is a bunch of data on Intel's processes that I've pulled together from various public domain sources. The yield curves are a very rough estimate, so take them with a grain of salt.

https://www.nedbingham.com/intel_max_transistor.png

https://www.nedbingham.com/intel_switching_frequency.png

https://www.nedbingham.com/intel_tdp.png

https://www.nedbingham.com/intel_gate_delay.png
Yep. We optimized having Netflix over having another browser out there with a new feature-set.

For basically all the users, this works great; demand for a new browser is low, for streaming media pretty high.
satellite / emergency / packet radio / low income countries (with bad infrastructure)
Are there even reliable ways to measure enzyme levels in the brain? I'm trying to imagine what research they would have to do in humans to show that they've effectively increased the levels of Klotho available in the brain, but in my (admittedly entirely amateur) reading about neuroscience I can't recall anything about measuring enzyme levels. I know just measuring neurotransmitter levels in specific parts of the brain is very difficult.
I noticed a lot of the complaints about "problems" with
the EHR is in reality mistakes made by humans that the software could theoretically have caught, like bad drug combinations, but it didn't either because the app just wasn't that smart, or because it generated alerts the humans ignored due to warnings overload (presumably itself caused by the risk of lawsuits).

This doesn't seem really like an issue with the software per se - paper can't catch mistakes in what you write on it.
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some ads are also disguised as emails, thankfully AdBlocks picked this up.
Just remember. Not everybody studies particle physics. There are fields where there are no other options.
Widevine.
Just a sidenote Steve - I met you briefly at a rails event in Berlin about 6 years ago and you were inspirational. Love the fact that you're a super humble guy working your pants off for the community.
Super busy right now (yes I shouldn't be on hacker new right now but you know how it goes :) but I'm going to have a proper look at your article as soon as I get a bit of time. Its sure to be insightfull.
Remote? Yes, absolutely.

Never met in real life? Absolutely not.

It’s very important to know who you are going into business with.
I think a lot of it depends on your familiarity. I have a 2016 rMB with the gen-1 butterfly keyboard, and it's not very good, but comparing my rMB, a Thinkpad keyboard, and my preferred desktop keyboard (Kinesis Advantage), the difference between the laptop keyboards is only marginal, and they're both much worse than my desktop keyboard.

Similar to how I see touchscreen keyboards - they're not very good for lengthy typing, but they allow for the optimal form factor for the device.
Not sure if it's loose USB-C ports, but it seems like the adapters are very flaky. Some work well with one machine, but others take 10+ reconnects to make it detect a monitor plugged into the HDMI port
Trains solve a different problem. They are no good at transporting more stuff than you can carry. Also, they do an excellent job spreading infections.
It was never gonna happen; as soon as Intel introduced SGX, any DRM-producing company that wasn’t taking advantage of it would be seen as failing their shareholders. Even if Flash had died on schedule without browsers offering a native browser-DOM DRMed-content API, DRMed-content producers would just have jumped to another tech the DRM vendors sold them.

My guess is that, if browser vendors wouldn’t have played ball, the DRM vendors would have worked with one of the JRE vendors to optimize the Java applet runtime, and contributed to performance improvements on the browser side for all the open browsers, such that “Java applet” would no longer be a scary heavy-weight thing nobody wants their browser to launch. That would be (one of) the implicit threats hanging over browser vendors: if you don’t cooperate, we’ll take your control over innovation on the web away by refocusing it on an improved Java experience.
For wireless devices, bandwidth (and size) directly translates to radio time and power.

Alternatively, low bandwidth also allows the use of noisier links, since effective bandwidth is the product of the channel width and SNR margin.

The military applications of either case are fairly obvious, but I could also imagine the utility for battery-powered devices (portable baby monitors?) if the processing itself is brought within tolerable power limits.
Truth hurts. Is it too late to open up the web? I've already switched to Firefox.
What computers do you think all those iOS apps get built on?
>> Nothing is worth this price. Don’t pay it.

I hesitate to pass judgement on another's life choices. Some people want to do certain things and are willing to sacrifice everything, including their own happiness, to do that thing. If you want to be an astronaut, if you want to win an Olympic medal, you will sacrifice. If this drug allows a person to pass a test, to win a position that they otherwise would not, who am I to deny them?

Try spending time with military pilots, astronauts or elite mountain climbers. They can be very nice people, until you get between them and work. Don't ask an astronaut to delay a flight for a wedding, or to donate a kidney. Every one of them would take this drug if that allowed them to beat out the competition. Happiness, theirs or anyone else's, is secondary.
How specifically is your brain "turbocharged"? Is this something you have been diagnosed with? Have you always had it? Is it hereditary? Why do you think most other people would not be able to cope with this condition? Has this condition conferred any advantages such as professional success?
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The W3C membership nowhere near unanimously approved the advancement of the EME specification to Recommendation; that much has been said publicly by various people over the course of the past few years.

The majority of the membership was in favour, definitely, but it wasn't unanimous. Some members I think it's predictable how they voted (MPAA may have voted in favour, EFF may have voted against); others less so.
The biggest problem with this paper, as a published scientist, is that I read the abstract and had no idea what your paper was about. Your abstract needs to be more substantial, and cover a) the problem you're addressing, b) the approach you took, and c) the degree to which you succeeded.
I've generally found that the most intelligent people have had overall delightful dispositions, and it's the above-average-intelligence folks who, being obsessed with smartness, are far less happy.
They matched

I even ran a chmod to remove all old access control data in case it was some internal user id mismatch

Still not visible
OK, for example, they taught very bad things about Vietnam Cong Hoa party, but the fact is that: Vietnam Cong Hoa party doesn't harm anyone. Who was the bad guy here ?

The point here is that, as we grew up, we try to find out what the fact was, and it's not the same thing that they taught us.

I don't even care what's the actual truth is, i just care that, they taught us the untruthy things.
>Why do you assume that drivers have to learn from each other's mistakes?

Because that's what computers do: we can program them to avoid a mistake once we know about it, and then ALL cars will never make that mistake again. The same isn't true with humans: they keep making the same stupid mistakes.

>A drunk driver learning from his own mistakes is already significantly ahead of what a self driving car does which potentially just repeats the same mistake over and over again

Why do you think this? You're assuming the car's software will never be updated, which is completely nonsensical.

>10 self driving cars all doing the same mistake at the same time will cause even more damage than just a single one.

Only in the short term. As soon as they're updated to avoid that mistake, it never happens again. Hum
I don't know if this will be helpful to you but an open source media player, Kodi, recently added support for Netflix in the latest version of the app (by implementing a DRM engine for people to use).

This requires the use of the widevine library which then downloads things behind the scenes upon use (I believe). https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=329767

I can't imagine Google gave the OK to Kodi to use widevine so maybe you can see what they did?
This is not how it works. The dam in Oregon (or anywhere) doesn’t work on kinetic energy from the flow. In fact it often is stopping the flow (dissipating the kinetic energy) entirely.

The elevation drop that matters is from the top of the dam to the bottom of the damn.

Doesn’t matter a whit whether the water that falls that 500’ has previously come from 1000’ or 10,000’.
Which also exists on Android as a pretty light app: https://chris.boyle.name/projects/android-puzzles/

And apparently there's an app for iOS too.
Anyone have a version of this not blocked by the paywall? Thanks.
It is interesting to me that if there would be a way to stimulate red and blue cones, without stimulating green, you would see a color never seen before. As there is no wavelength that accomplishes that.
Firefox may be leveraging container functionality for private mode. Firefox containers are fully functional isolated containers of data where regular browser features function like expected.

Even if it doesn't, the Firefox temporary containers add-on would help.
slack sells itself as a psychological replacement for the constant communicating feedback people are used to thanks to our shift to always-on social networking apps. companies realized that trying to block this employee behavior is impossible, so they try to harvest it into internal interactions at least. slack is a last ditch effort to try to squeeze productivity, but not in the way you think.
> In today’s digital age, a large Instagram audience is considered a valuable currency. I had also heard through the grapevine that I could monetize a large following — or in my desired case — use it to have my meals paid for. So I did just that.

> I created an Instagram page that showcased pictures of New York City’s skylines, iconic spots, elegant skyscrapers — you name it. The page has amassed a following of over 25,000 users in the NYC area and it’s still rapidly growing.

> I reach out restaurants in the area either via Instagram’s direct messaging or email and offer to post a positive review in return for a free entree or at least a discount. Almost every restaurant I’ve messaged came back at me with a compensated meal or a gift card. Most places have an allocated marketing budget for these types of things so they were happy to offer me a free dining experience in exchange for a promotion. I’ve ended up giving some of these meals away to my friends and family because at times I had too many queued up to use myself.

> The beauty of this all is that I automated the whole thing. And I mean 100% of it. I wrote code that finds these pictures or videos, makes a caption, adds hashtags, credits where the picture or video comes from, weeds out bad or spammy posts, posts them, follows and unfollows users, likes pictures, monitors my inbox, and most importantly — both direct messages and emails restaurants about a potential promotion. Since its inception, I haven’t even really logged into the account. I spend zero time on it. It’s essentially a robot that operates like a human, but the average viewer can’t tell the difference. And as the programmer, I get to sit back and admire its (and my) work.
Flagging for inaccurate/inflammatory title. Google isn’t stopping the author from creating a web browser.
That sounds a lot like what I do using 'labels'. Other than the position on the screen, what's the difference?
Actually it's not.

$20k might seen like a lot to you at $50k, because your life and expenses are calibrated to that level. It means a little less at $100k, and much less at $200k. I'd argue that if you make it to $500k, a 20% raise is absolutely meaningless because you probably already have enough for your lifestyle needs.

Ever wonder why CEOs get SO MUCH MONEY to switch jobs? This is why. Lower amounts just don't move the needle and prove enough incentive.
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Remote: Depending on the role

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One can do as you propose for speech recognition, use noise reduction first, then a classifier. But it can be more efficient to just train a speech recognition detector directly on input corrupted by noise. This way the detector learns invariant to noise. This is commonly done via data augmentation, which mixes in various noise into labeled speech snippets.

There are still[1] circumstances where one would have noise suppression as a pre-processing step to the speech detector. For instance when using microphone arrays, the frontend may use data from many microphones (2-20), perform adaptive Beamforming extract the cleanest possible mono speech signal. This can include a Vocal Activity Detection (VAD) as estimator, and multi-source aware noise reduction. The output is then ran through a standard mono detector, either on device (typically only Keyword Spotting) or sending to the cloud.

Strong neural networks in combination with microphone arrays is the reason why smart home devices like Alexa etc have become pretty decent (compared to what was feasible 10 years ago) at speech recognition when the speaker is far away.

1. Integrating more and more into functions into big neural networks and jointly optimizing the overall system is definitely a trend, and very actively researched.
As I often write here on HN: "Learn the lessson not to make yourself dependent on a despot.".
Which is better than the alternative of nobody being rich.
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It is not 'around Mars'.
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I just replaced my old 2011 MBP with a ThinkPad. I couldn't justify the inflated Apple cost for a poor hardware experience.

Which ThinkPad did you get?
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I've had success in the past by just mounting the drive and exploring it like a regular drive of data instead of using the Time Machine application. Time Machine creates a bunch of folders (one for each backup event), but just use the one named "Latest".

I've read that some people discourage using this technique due to some permissions stuff, but I've never once had problems restoring data from a Time Machine backup using this method, and I've been doing it since 2012.
I think you'll find that only a smallish subset of above average intelligence folk are obsessed with smartness. Those are probably the less happy ones.
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Same story. Yet, should I buy a new laptop, it’d be a very difficult decision... considering a Linux machine too.