skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The video carrier can have a lot of effect over the replication properties, though. HLS is essentially a playlist of video URLs that the client fetches and stitches together, as well as refreshing the playlist to get the names of new chunks. Without an extremely specialized web server, each chink needs to be complete and published before adding it to the playlist, putting a lower bound on the overall latency of the chunk size.

RTMP, on the other hand, maintains a live socket between the server and client, and the server can forward each packet as it becomes available.
Have you seen Jonathan's Blow talk that touched on this? I enjoyed it. I think his fundamental point is that as we build on complexity, future generations lose track of the underpinnings and things start failing for unexpected reasons and we may eventually lose our capability entirely. But he does meander a lot.

I've definitely seen this where I work - the "old guard" setup the system that put the company in a prime market position, the newer people are just doing API calls and scratching their heads if it doesn't work.

Here's a reddit link because YouTube is blocked here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bq1dt6/jonatha...
GP here: And not just contact information, but a legitimate US legal and financial presence.

If you're selling in the US, I need to be able to effectively sue you and win in the US if you sell harmful or illegal products, full stop. So you should have to put up some kind of financial bond and a law firm to represent you. Because mom and pop businesses can't do this themselves, this should be provided as a kind of insurance policy that's just part of the cost of doing business. Heck, Amazon can be that insurance policy if they want.

But right -- if I can't sue you, you should under no circumstances be allowed to sell within the US on a US platform.
No one who is outraged by this didn't know this was going on with almost every email tool out there. I don't understand how this manufactured outrage gets hyped, when literally every email tool in existence does this as standard practice. Every marketing email you get from a brand has this tracking. Every customer support email has this tracking. Every feedback form has this tracking. Every receipt for every purchase has this tracking. Every signup form for your kids friends birthday parties has this tracking. Every single pull request notification you get from GitHub has this kind of tracking. Go to your inbox right now pick any email message and view the source. You will most likely find a 1px by 1px tracking pixel.

I imagine anyone who works at any company that uses any kind of digital tool uses this exact same method to track people, so why the outrage here. Go tell your marketing departments to turn off email tracking in Salesforce, or to stop the marketing team from running campaigns with tracking in them.
Static typing doesn't help you much, when you have 20 teams hating each other and 20 different ways to write statically typed C++ code.
> Consciousness, intelligence, and self-awareness might all be orthogonal.

Maybe, but probably not!

> I can imagine a human-level intelligence that lacks consciousness (this is sort of what is meant by the term 'p-zombie'). I can imagine a being that almost or completely lacks intelligence (in the sense of problem-solving ability, pattern recognition, etc.), yet is conscious.

I can imagine living forever, but it's actually impossible. The p-zombie argument depends upon a rhetorical trick that exposes our ignorance, much like Zeno's paradox.

> There is no reason to assume that it is in principle possible to objectively evaluate whether some entity is conscious.

Whatever argument you might use to to justify this, would also suggest that it is not possible in principle to objectively evaluate whether something is healthy, or alive or feels pain. And yet we seem quite adept at this.
Alaskan permafrost warming experiment produces surprising results
> Okay one city.

That was a for instance. There are a number of other large and economically significant cities in the US that aren't on the West Coast, many of which also have relatively high existing (absolute, not just relative to local CoL) tech salaries. Washington, D.C., metro is just behind New York, for another example, but the list is long.
California requires solar power on every new house. It's a huge cost. Most local governments also require off-street parking, which is a huge cost. The regulatory burden isn't just in planning and permitting.
Tracking pixels have been a normal part of the email ecosystem for more than 20 years. If an esoteric use of the law was going to stop it it would be done by now.
They should probably just revive winamp. Winamp really kicked the llama's a$$, and knew what random meant... And also knew how to have a good UI.
> " given enough time, the markets will take care of it. "

And death finds all murderers in the end, but why wait for that? I prefer we actively hunt them down, to limit the damage they can do.

See also: Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Rights are pretty useless things if you cannot afford to exercise them, or even if you try, you can be consistently outgunned. Most citizens do not have the time to personally go lobby, they got rent to pay, while a minority can pay teams of professionals in $1000 suits, to go and lobby on their behalf, whilst they are asleep on a nice beach somewhere. I, in no way want to ban citizens from lobbying. I just think that perhaps 'lobbying' could do with a narrower definition and 'criminal interference in the electoral process', a wider one.
It’s about time. I just finished dealing with one of these vendors and they already had a laundry list of terrible reviews showing EXACTLY what I experienced but for bunches of other people. How in the world were they still a vendor?
0day patch gone wrong? We've seen before that these companies work together to patch issues behind the scenes before announcing them.
Not sure how massively increasing VMT will make mobility more sustainable. It`s more likely to do the opposite.
Paine was also directly involved in the French Revolution, and was elected to serve in the french assembly (or whatever the revolutionaries called their congress), which he did even though he didn't speak a word of french.

He was a very interesting character.
The good news is that it takes like an hour to learn enough go to be productive.
> Someone will point at the GDP going up and say this justifies literally everything that corporations do. Someone will draw comparisons between two lines on a graph and say this is why Facebook never did anything wrong.

Except literally nobody will do that, except the caricatures in the fantasy of your own mind.
I don't think that the degree to which an individual has a right to reek redress of grievances is determined by the amount of money they can spend.

I agree that no restriction will be perfect; however, I think that it's likely that restrictions could be crafted that are better than what we have now. For example, maybe something like:

- A non-profit can spend as much as they want on politics as long as the money comes from individuals.

- There is a restriction on how much an individual can give to any given non-profit. Or perhaps there would be restrictions on what percent of the PACs spending comes from any one person. It is illegal for non-profits to collaborate to bypass these rules (in the similar way to how it is illegal for corporations to collaborate to fix prices).

That being said, what's your solution if you are opposed to campaign finance regulations?
You're really ignoring the main point that the tech in these machines makes them more difficult to use and less intuitive.

I'm wondering how many cars you drove that did not have any screens. Having grown up during a time when the most sophisticated display was the LCD for the radio station, I can assure you car interfaces are getting worse.

Japanese cars used to be my favorite because they had consistent manual interfaces across models. Perhaps Renault and Peugeot have always had bad design but the digitization of the interfaces and the software that's now controlling some aspects of the actual driving makes them more dangerous.
You might not be aware, but for some politicians, they won’t give you an audience if you don’t donate and spend to lobbying them. Unlimited spending means citizen's voices aren’t heard.

It’s a real problem, so let’s work on some solutions. Mercenary sock puppets should be limited, no?
There's a difference between having the opinion that "I don't use it, so it shouldn't exist" & I don't have a problem as long as the people who use it aren't obsessed with it. Honestly I'm not sure which opinion brootstrap holds, but he's entitled to it either way. For those who can't stand selfies/facetiming there's a perfect song from Brad Paisley called "selfie":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rGlcScJ0lE
It's not modifying content and meaning, it's preserving content and meaning. When you're on FaceTime, the image you're seeing is not captured from where your eyes are presented on the screen, it's captured from somewhere above. This is a technical defect and it means that when the person you're talking with looks you in the eye, you don't see that. This is correcting that flaw and makes it so when the person you're talking with looks you in the eye on their end, you see that on your end too.

This is more akin to doing a white balance adjustment, such that you see what the scene is expected to look like rather than the raw data captured by the camera, it's just correcting for camera location instead of exposure.

Another way to think about it is this is a software fix for a hardware limitation. In an ideal world we'd fix the hardware limitation, remove the software fix, and your experience would be unchanged (or actually, even better, because of the lack of distortion on stuff crossing your eyes).
Not sure if you're missing an /s or not.
Try getting a meeting with some of your reps as a normal citizen is very difficult however it doesn't seem like large companies have much trouble at all...
Pedantic nitpick: it's not just music labels, but copyright trolls/racketeers in general; music is just the industry where it's most obvious/egregious.
Don't corporations also answer to employees? Employees will quit if they're dissatisfied enough, or just never apply in the first place.

Don't corporations also answer to customers? Customers will stop buying from a corporation if prices are too high or service is too poor.

The people who really need protection are the third parties who can get stuck with externalities from activities they had nothing to do with.
Driving is dangerous in generally predictable ways, and people accept that. People also accept that there is usually someone to blame for most car accidents. Driving is dangerous but it is under human control.

Autonomous vehicles are dangerous in unpredictable ways. People might be injured or die in accidents that would not have happened with human drivers, as the result of software bugs rather than human decisions. When things like that happen, statistics about accident and death rates being lower with self-driving cars are beside the point.
We’re so fucked and nobody is doing anything about it. We’re going backwards actually increasing emissions. even the people who most want to do things are proposing solutions that barely make a dent in the problem. We need to impose draconian carbon taxes worldwide immediately if we want to have any hope of stopping this.
I'm not even sure what that would mean since the machinery to compute the value won't exist in the binary.

You can get this behavior by initializing a variable with the value of another variable whose value is a constexpr. This is a case in which the order of initialization of global variables is not ambiguous!

constexpr int foo_init_value = 2 + 4;
int foo = foo_init_value;

Actually not a bad idiom.

But like you I do wish you could apply constexpr-like behavior to expressions rather than just statements:

What you're If you could really apply really applied to expressions you could write something like

int foo = _compute_at_compile_time(2 + 4);

Of course the compiler can already do this degenerate example for you.
The solution to alternative communities having too many 'undesirables' is pretty simple; you focus on a specific niche/field that YouTube or whatever doesn't do well, then build up from there.

That's how Twitch took off. Started off being gaming focused, became a bit more open to other content later on. Same with Discord compared to say, Reddit or Twitter or Slack or what not.

The reason most alternatives attract the wrong audience/don't reach critical mass is because their marketing is always focused on the freedom of speech/privacy/whatever angle. That's attractive to a certain audience (those who are being censored more often on existing platforms), but not to the general public.

So you aim your new privacy/decentralised/free speech focused platform at gamers or sports fans or software engineers or what not, and then slowly open it up to the general public/all topics. Like how Facebook started out being aimed specifically at college students.
In my day, they told new people that Alt-F4 made all kinds of programs run faster, unlock cheat codes, etc. Especially the online games. You always knew the adventurers when you saw "has disconnected from game."
I understand what you're saying but I fear you may be misunderstanding my intentions and opinions. I feel you may be injecting your own issues with things into my blog post. Please allow me explain.

The importance of having a secure and correct OS is most important to me (I feel OpenBSD is most appropriate and interesting here). I feel the value of OpenBSD outweighs the lose of two applications. I'm not part of an OS war, I frankly don't care what anyone uses. I just posted about about my experience on my blog (blogging is a new/rare thing for me and I am proud of the post, it took hours to do) and frankly didn't expect the post to HN to do anything (I posted on a whim, a coworker next to me loves the site) :)

I intended to migrate off of Evernote at some point, it is a tough band-aid to pull off after getting used to it for 10 years. Not having native VirtualBox on the machine is definitely a dislike, but isn't the end of the world. I only need it for labs. NetBSD can apparently run in vmm, too, just have to pass a boot option for the serial console (but I haven't tried it).

For Evernote, I had to ask myself what I'm actually using Evernote for. I'm solely using it for having minimally rich text and website scrapes stored in notebooks, and all notes being searchable. And I want it available wherever I am. I don't use OSR, non-text notes, pro features, related notes, etc. So, I question why I'm still paying for it, entrusting a vendor with all my data, and dealing with non-standard clients outside of windows/mac. Doing something just because I've always done is a terrible pattern. Time to re-evaluate and fix. That's what I did, and now I have an extremely portable and flexible solution that doesn't cost me anything but time, which I'm OK with.

I make a living with Linux for high traffic web applications, I use NetBSD and Linux for my personal servers, and OpenBSD for my workstation. I enjoy operating systems and I'm comfortable in all of them. Each one has their own character, their own quirks and pros and cons. One size fits all, for me, is a fool's game. No matter what you choose, there's some price to be paid for what you get.

And to be crystal clear: I'm not trying to change hearts and minds, or influence others, or be part of some cool kids club. Ultimately, I'm selfish with my hobbies, which this is, and so I do what solely is interesting to me. If I was able to help others, that's great and I'm happy for that, but I have no expectations.

Thank you. I hope we can be on the same page now, and I hope I was not too verbose. Be well.

An update to the article too about VMs:
Note that for VMs I'm now using Oracle (non-distro provided) Virtualbox with their VRDP active, which is RDP for the VM instance and not the VM OS itself, so can RDP to the VMs on the network much better than libvirt. So, it is good enough. VirtualBox is mainly for intensive labs or monkeying with NetBSD kernel development, which 99% of the time I'd do at home.
I wonder what the violation of privacy law was for the apps taken down by Kuwait (and Saudi Arabia)...
> Sure they don't release private symbols intentionally but they have done in the past accidentally.

Even if that is the case, it's an incredibly poor idea to use them, so that the code ends up with spurious similarities in spite of being (otherwise) cleanly developed.
Hold up. The theory (and practice) is that interpreters are superior for code that is only ever executed once, as you don't pay the [relatively high] cost of optimization for a single execution.

Unless the most trivial possible JIT is used (one that doesn't optimize at all)?
Or if the UI allowed me to easily play music based on which folders tunes are in, it would solve most of my problems... I already have my mp3s organized by genre in folders, and updates are easier to manage that way, and then random play can match my mood better, instead of going from wu-tang to Celine Dion (I also keep wedding music in my collection just in case...)
> California requires solar power on every new house.

No, it doesn't, though it will soon.

> It's a huge cost.

The estimates of $10-30k are under (to far under) 5% of the median home price (for all sales, not just new homes, which would drive the median much higher). It's obviously not a significant current cost driver, and it also won't be a big cost driver when the mandate actually applies next year.
They already do this today, and clearly the judge isn't letting it slide.
The money goes to making PowerPoint presentations and white papers. $3.4 billion sounds like a lot, but you have to understand just how huge the US economy is. The US legal services industry generated $260 billion in revenue in 2018. That’s just money for paying lawyers. That’s 10% the GDP of the UK (but only 1.4% of the GDP of the US).

Lobbying is very similar to legal work, and often is done by lawyers. Highly trained professionals take often very complicated domain issues and distill them into terms politicians and their staff can understand. (Typically, the politician, as a matter of ideology, already supports the position the company is espousing. The purpose of the lobbying then is to arm the politician with data and legal arguments to support that position and counter the data and arguments offered by the opposition.) Producing a single document can cost tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars.
For a remarkable footage showing how plants might fit some definition of "conscious", I recommend the French documentary called Microcosmos.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117040/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcosmos_(film)

Some of the scenes in time-lapse ("fast motion"), you can see how plants reach out their vines and leaves, moving and feeling the world around them. So, at least they seem to have a level of "awareness", by some definition of the term.

Anecdotally, I've had countless experiences of what might be called "consciousness" in all living beings - but then again, it depends what one means by that word.

Edit: I mean, is a maze-solving slime mold conscious? And what makes human consciousness so uniquely different from slime mold's?
Year old made a holographic flag for the 4th
You can get mid 2000s car with many of those features and without the bloat.
Well idunno. I don't concern myself with "trends" and such on GNU/Linux, and things generally get better for me year over year. I have used Linux as my main desktop operating system, to do productive work, for years. I pay a bit of attention to the hardware I'm installing it on (which a lot of people I guess don't feel they should need to, but what do they say about macOS?), but other than that it's basically been the same for me for years. I get better peripherals, components, and assembled computers, and the experience gets better in the ways you would expect for that upgrade.

I think in both cases, people could stand to pay a little bit of attention to what hardware they're using. A lot of people aren't used to this because their hardware comes with an OS that is ostensibly "certified" for it, in the way that bugs in the integration can sometimes be warranty claims. Those manufacturers pay attention to whether or not drivers are available for Windows to support the hardware they're shipping, but consumers experience it as "it just works".
The list prices for US medicine are completely fictitious. It doesn't cost them $30 for an aspirin, what it costs them is millions of dollars to staff and supply an emergency room with the capacity to handle a bus accident even though most of the time there isn't a bus accident. Which they then try to recover with higher margins on ordinary commodities when they can.

It's certainly the case that some of the underlying costs are higher than they ought to be. The problem is you can't fix that by lowering payouts across the board -- if certain medical devices are too expensive because of a lack of competition, the hospital can't lower the price the other company charges (or they'd have done it regardless). Nor can they reduce regulatory compliance costs when they still have to comply with the same regulations. So they have to cut something else instead. Which isn't what you want when the something else was a cost effective method of improving patient outcomes.

There isn't a "make it cost less" button that can magically lower prices across the board. Some things already have reasonable margins. To reduce costs without killing people you have to specifically target the waste (and its causes, which in many cases are high compliance costs, barriers to entry and a lack of competition).
What are you talking about? Duke was never elected to Congress. He was never even the Republican nominee for any Congressional seat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke
That may be true (I tend to agree) but it is just as hard to implement. It's not a magic bullet.
That is like a $90 head unit from Amazon, my friend, except for adaptive cruise control and a pushbutton, though that is not difficult or expensive to add either.
I agree and we are looking to move. USD$200 per month for ~12k subscribers isn't worth it for us, especially with such poor segmenting and automation features. At least they finally got tags, but you can never add someone to the same automation twice even with years between events that's dead for a lot of use cases.

I was really looking forward to trying Drip but they doubled their prices this year so I'm still looking around.
EDIT: dupe — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20109840

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I wonder why this feature hasn’t attracted much attention:

21 days ago | 1 points | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20170908
20 days ago | 4 points | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20174715
19 days ago | 2 points | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20183253
18 days ago | 2 points | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20193151
15 days ago | 2 points | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20216782
14 days ago | 2 points | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20227589
2 days ago | 1 points | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20327128
3 hours ago | 12 points | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20348641

We will see again when it is out of beta.
This is just a direct advertisement.
> Our behaviors are tremendously complex, but that doesn't demonstrate that we have free will.

If by "free will", you do mean what I think you mean, it would be very surprising we have it. It would basically imply dualism, which I have dismissed a long time ago.

Of course our thoughts are entirely automatic. They're physical processes like any other. It would still be nice to understand their structure. I for one would be thrilled to learn how choices actually happen.