skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure, that's true. (Though I don't know why it matters that keyframes aren't aligned.) But at the end of the day the point is that Netflix has a better rate control algorithm, and this could be built into x264, even if it might require a significant amount of work. (Which I'm sure the x264 developers would be willing to do for a substantial quality improvement.)

You can't ABR adapt without aligned GOP boundaries.

> Of course it's not a strict tradeoff. It's a loose one. And yes, it may look better or worse. That's really my only point in that section of the comment: that bumping up the resolution earlier in the ladder as they're doing is not a pure win, and it may look worse to some people depending on their viewing conditions.

Of course not, that's why the perform an analysis of both options and select the better one. That's what the algorithm does...
Which banks allow non-trivial ATM withdraw limits?

My experience with 4 different banks:

1. Limit of $500 cannot be changed

2. Limit raised to $1,100 over the phone; apparently if I show up at a branch and bring my first born, I can get it as high as $1,500.

3. Limit of $500 suddenly reduced to $200 (!) with the option to call in and raise it to $400.

4. Limit raised to $2,000. Some years later, suddenly reduced to $1,000. Haven't bothered looking into this yet.
> You can't force someone to sell something they don't want to, especially because Apple is nowhere near a monopoly...

The case is going to not about that. The case is going to be about Apple not allowing developers to tell their users that they can buy subscriptions and in-app goods for cheaper through alternative payment mechanisms where Apple cannot take a cut. Payments is what is this is about (also see the FB release today).

Apple doesn't have to sell anything it doesn't want to but what it's doing is also preventing apps from telling users where they can buy these goods outside of Apple store unless Apple is offered a cut.

This behavior has a high chance of failing on anti-trust if it goes to a jury trial which is what Epic is trying to force (and likely others like Facebook will join or also sue) because Apple store is the only way people can install apps on iOS.
They effectively made it impossible to buy a computer without paying them. They profited even when they were not part of a transaction which killed BeOS and others.
Gamma rays would work well. We can keep the existing radiation treatment equipment.

/sarcasm
Nice tutorial. I didn't know about map with more than 1 iterable. Although I haven't really used map much since list comprehension always does the job for me.
Could you elaborate on why this is dangerous and shouldn't be done?
> If everyone willing to engage in pedophilia ends up chatting with a cop and landing in jail instead, that's the best case scenario.

The woman was 24 years old, had the appearance of an adult, was identified by Hambrick as an adult, and had her messages written by a middle-aged man, so there is very little evidence that Hambrick would have been willing to engage in pedophilia. Imprisoning people with no criminal records for crimes that they are suspected of being willing to commit is a situation straight out of Minority Report.
ok, lets say we build a software distribution platform and fix a 15% commission to list any software..

Cut - 5 years later, after a billion dollar sales via that platform, and all of a sudden some developers see this 15% as a burden..

Now for an outside consumer, he doesn't care about the split, all he sees is value and return of his purchase..

For a indie developer, getting the much needed traction could be well worth the 15%..

now for a bigger shark this could be a problem and they propose a solution that the store shouldn't be the only one and they will setup a new shop (today for free, with discounted 15% for their products, but one day they when their own side platform grows, they WILL start charging)

as a consumer I side with Apple, as a developer am split, but no matter what , I won't Side with EPIC, because, they pay the same cut everywhere else ( XBOX,PS4 etc)..

If the counter argument is that apple is getting billions in profits, lets take a devlis advocate position and say apple grows negatively and billions become losses, now will EPIC agree for a 40% cut instead of 30%? NOPE, because that's not how. business works!

a contract is a contract!
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Many humans are already on wheels, and the ADA tries to ensure accessibility.
This is like in Amazon sold a fridge and said you can only shop at Whole Foods. Epic wants users to be able to shop at stores other than Whole Foods, not to be carried at that store without a markup
We have literally no idea what thoughts are or how they are implemented in human brains. This is such a silly argument at this point. For 50 years people have been saying "obviously humans are just doing a probabilistic search" or some other such evidence-free assertion, claiming "it's not magic", an obvious strawman since no one is claiming it is. And for 50 years we have not created any system capable of creating new explanatory knowledge. Yet still the same claims are made, week after week.
Yeah, I bought a $1000 device, but somehow Apple gets to decide what I run on it? I just cannot see how that is a desireable situation.
This is possible because the telephone network is (more) secured, in the same way email and other forms could be, but aren’t.
The economic value of a face mask is $56.14
I don't think this fight is 100% rational here. There is a good chance they will only lose money.
It seems like Tim Sweeney is taking it personally, he is rich enough and has enough power at Epic to take the risk. As an indie game developer I can tell you that the AppStore is a pain and everyone would thank Epic if they manage to break or even change it, at this would lead to a large domino effect.
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Apple has 52.4% mobile marketshare in the US[1]

The Justice department has said that more that 50% is generally required to be considered a monopoly power, but 70% is a stronger case[2] (not a lawyer, if someone can parse this better please do)

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...

[2]https://www.justice.gov/atr/competition-and-monopoly-single-...
I would note that Apple and Samsung sue each others pants off over patents, but while their legal departments are fighting it out, the operations folks are making deals where Apple buys billions of components from Samsung for use in their phones. This despite the fact that those phones compete with Samsung’s phones. When two companies are engaged in mutually beneficial relationships, they seem to learn not to take the legal stuff personally.
There is a famous quote that we should all remember today " we overestimate what can be accomplished in the short term and underestimate what can be accomplished in the long term." - Arthur C Clarke
My kid is 6, just a few days ago when zoom failed, the whole class went to hangouts/meet during the first class and the rest of the day went without much disruption on that platform.

The main enabler for this is that apparently the school considered something like this happening and actually trained the teachers for such event.
I believe that Apple is making Epic's case stronger. However, the case is still very much a wildcard. Epic could lose, and then they've risked everything in order to get nothing in return. If Epic loses, then everything is on the table, including losing all of their Apple accounts.

I believe that Apple has other reasons for acting as it does, which are not necessarily directly related to maximizing its chances of winning this specific case.

This doesn't make anyone a naif. Every party in the situation is playing a different game, not the exact same game. Sometimes your hand is just forced by the actions of someone else.
Think of the iPhone as a mall then - it still gets to pick its tenants by whatever criteria it sees fit (that are not illegal, and fees are not illegal). Epic is not winning this one.

Edit: added the bit about fees.
The PS4 has 58% of the gaming console market currently.

I’m trying to figure out where the monopoly argument comes from. Apple hasn’t demonstrated that they have monopoly pricing power since even the Windows store takes 30% and they’re obviously using their dominance in the smartphone space to advantage themselves in… the smartphone space.
I disagree, Humans already have a neural interface with AI via the visual cortex and the auditory nerve. You are forming a neural link with an AI when you have a conversation with your Google Home.

I imagine a electrode neural link would with much the same way, but faster and less disruptive. Humans would off load tasks like: information discovery, complex mathematical calculations, and making arrangements for holidays to their AI companion.
I wonder if there's actually any kind of line between "inventing explanations" and actually theorising and studying the game's mechanics.

Obviously it's mostly pattern recognition, but that pattern recognition is partitioning parts of the board into classifications of what those sections are doing and whether to prioritise them or let it go in favour of something else, the immediate decisions within those sections are fairly logical. The more complex broader pattern recognition is how those sections will interact as they approach each other, which if there is that much inventing explanations where I imagine it comes in.
> We hope that we can work together again in the future

That doesn’t surprise me at all. Apple wants 30% of that sweet sweet pie.
In real life it would be subsampled 4:2:0 and 1000hz is nonsense because it's not divisible by 24 or 30. So a more reasonable 8k@960hz 4:2:0 is (76804320960) * (8 + 2 + 2) = ~356Gb/s or only 35.6Gb/s if you pick a reasonable 96Hz.

By 960Hz even a lossless delta coding scheme on the wire could reduce the bandwidth by over 10X for any normal footage.
I looked Agner's tables, and was curious how Intel fared with it.
All numbers are reciprocal throughput. So how many cycles per instruction in throughput.
zen 2 has it's gather variants mostly 9 and 6 cycles and one variant with 16.
Broadwell has only 6,7 and 5 cycles.
Skylake has mostly 4 and 2 and one variant with 5.

Now I was surprised by Agners figures for zen2 LOOP and CALL which both have reciprocal throughput of 2. Being equal to doing with just normal jump instructions.

Skylake on the other hand has 5 or 6 for LOOP and two CALL variants with 3 and one variant with 2.
We tried to go with some other services, but the number of groups we deal with that use zoom forced us to switch to zoom. It is good enough to work got non-technical people. The only real bug has been the microphone but turning off the auto adjust seems to fix that.
For sure, but that CCP $ isn't really what is at play here. Given the option to accept local investment vs. foreign in a competition, the entity receiving the cash would be able to make a choice based on their own values.

Anecdotally, British Columbia real estate is actively rejecting Chinese investment on similar grounds.
If the apps are going to be controlled on the smartphone as Elon mentioned, forget free software for now. Apple and Google are ready to take their 30% cut
Or maybe it's because i am using materialistic, and its browser problem.
This is something everyone wants, but I suspect many would hate in the middle of winter.

Folks seem to think that the day is static and we shift it. It is a bit more complicated than that.
The clause is impossible to apply period. It's undecidable.
You assume the IT people got to pick.
They said goal is to make it as affordable as LASIK
Has the ACA caused prices to go down? I'm getting mixed messages about who has actually benefited, with "only insurers and people who were covered by the Medicare expansion actually benefited" being the impression that I get.
war would benefit America to see China's fighting capabilities and watch them take some losses.
What? Tax deductions absolutely are costs. They are represented as expenditures on the Federal budget. The deduction isn’t a default, it’s an affirmative benefit by the Federal government, and one that causes a heavy market distortion.
Using cost of switching as an alternative would seemingly have ramifications that could be applied to almost everything from Fortnite skins to membership stores to video game consoles to state governments.
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Not to burst your bubble but I don't think they're not predicting X,Y,Z limb positions in that demo. The traces on the left don't line up with the video, what would they actually represent?

It looks a lot more like the result of adding physical movement markers to a pig with an implant, and then mining the recorded neural data for signatures which correlate with the marker data. I'd be willing to wager that's exactly what is shown in that video.
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Thinkpad X1 C7 + Pop!_OS 20.04. Couldn't be happier. Might have stayed if apple kept the 15" MBP but that was even too uncomfortable and I have no desire to lug around a 16" laptop. At that point I'll just get a desktop. The X1's 14" form factor is perfect
Windows and the Apple App Store don’t complete with each other.

Also, if PlayStation has control of that much of the market, perhaps there ought to be some regulations there as well. Does Sony similarly force all in game sales to use their payment processor and forbid you from mentioning it or encouraging folks to pay you directly?
Yeah, it's really unfair that the farmer got so angry when I was banging his daughter while staying at his house.

I don't think I should have to listen to the farmers rules when he's got such a sweet daughter there.
> These are for their HEVC encodes.

Really? I wasn't aware Netflix even offered anything other than H.264 at <= 1080p. I know Youtube doesn't. If this is all HEVC maybe you're right and the resolution issue isn't such a big deal. If this is actually the case I wish they would have said so explicitly in the blog post.

> VMAF does correlate pretty tightly with subjective metrics. This is a very detailed subject, I summed up many of my thoughts on the differences in my demuxed talk last year here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCUsXhSPyyw

Thanks, I'll check that out when I have the time. I'd still emphasize that it's quite possible for objective metrics to be fooled (that's why codecs have psy tunings!), and I do prefer several "old-ladder" images over the newer versions in Netflix comparisons here. I suppose I've become rather cynical about claims made on the basis of metrics ("now 50% less bitrate for the same quality!"), when to my eye, web video has always been very bad and is getting worse as companies keep reducing the bitrate.
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> Think of the iPhone as a mall then

Why?
Microsoft does exactly that on the Xbox and they also did it on the short lived Windows RT.
Epic’s endgame would be allowing consumers to install multiple stores on iPhones just like you can install multiple browsers on Windows.

Instead of thinking about this in terms of physical stores try to compare it to Netscape vs Internet Explorer.
He and his teams seem to have been quite successful with other businesses and ideas that were within the limits of known technology: electric cars and orbital rockets and LEO communications satellites. All of these things existed before (and all credit to the mountains of hard work of SpaceX and Tesla for polishing and improving them as much as they have).

Perhaps he’s not pushing the envelope enough if they haven’t attempted the actually impossible yet.

I’ll be cheering for them in any case; the impossible has a pesky habit of becoming possible in the decades that building some of this stuff takes. There is no shame in trying to do the impossible and failing; proving the current impossibility of hard things has value.
So the Pinephone is not a gaming phone?
Are you sure we'll be paying 30% less, or will they be pocketing 30% more?
No... make daylight savings time permanent instead.

As the paper states, the biggest problem is with the transition.

The paper also argues that standard time aligns more naturally with our circadian rhythm... but doesn't bother to compare that with the psychological benefit we get from hanging out with friends in daylight after work in the summer, or the psychological benefit of it not being dark when you go home and have dinner with your family.

I totally get that people who wake up early in the winter prefer standard time... but it really seems that for the population as a whole, permanent DST is the better option. And implementing it is so easy: once we're already in DST in the summer... you just never "fall back" to standard in the fall.
I was privy to some of the development process of Duskers, and I would say that Tim worked pretty hard to create opportunities for happy accidents to befall him. There were several other prototypes that he was working on at the same time, but only Duskers crossed the finish line. This is not uncommon among game developers I've known; generally they're bursting with ideas and have many in-progress experiments in various stages at any time. It's a little like an incubator, where there's a diversity of ideas in order to have a better chance of having one be a hit.

There is survivorship bias, but it's kinda all happening within the one designer.
It's hard to say without more data. Are more women who have never been in the workforce, or out of it for a very long time, now coming back in at lower positions and thus bringing the stat down, but there's a net benefit as those women are now there, climbing the ladder slowly but surely?

Or it can be as you say, and that they are getting glass ceiling.

We will see what the results are but - https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-trends/Japanese-co... is a goal at least, publicly stated. The US hasn't had such a goal by any administration.
It’s an interesting article, but I’m not sure why you would imply this orthogonal approach is further along than Neuralink.

The novel research being done in the paper you linked isn’t even around the sensor suite, it’s around training AI to extract more precise signal from a noisy sensor — in this case an EEG.

The premise of the article is that EEG is being used because direct neural monitoring is too invasive and difficult.

Neuralink is essentially attempting to disprove the premise of that paper.

I’m going to guess the signal processing Neuralink will be doing is much more sophisticated than whatever that paper was doing on top of an EEG feed, just because the data rate from Neuralink is so much higher.
My plan has always been to branch out and try to support Swift once objrs is more mature. But I haven't explored the Swift ABI at all so I might only be able to realistically support a small subset of Swift, if anything at all.
My serious op-Ed in this is that these problems for Epic, Apple and those who side with the general idea that Apple needs to loosen some grip around payments and distribution of software are as follows:

- If Apple has a blessed Paymenrs SDk, where you could use an alternative payment processor, thst would solve the percentage cut

- if Apple allowed for being able to do true software update sales - not subscriptions or in app purchases but a way to sell through “versions” of software that would solve the last missing let of distribution

- finally they could provide guidelines for acceptable ways to communicate pricing and alternative purchase points for a license. They already have a way for developers to generate codes that let you download an app from the App Store with said code, it’s a matter of blessing this as a distribution target and not just for testing

I think these three things happen, all these issues go away, and Apple won’t have to have a protracted fight in the courts and quite possibly come out the other side looking very bad.

I really believe this is the everyone wins scenario here
> This is so much of a violation the court doesn't even have to look for precedent.

Right here is the key sentence of the article. Normally, in cases involving qualified immunity, the circumstances have to match up more or less exactly with some precedent in order for qualified immunity to be denied. So, if officers break into someone's place and steal/seize money and rare coins, without justification, as happened recently, when faced with a precedent about officers seizing money alone, the Court might conclude that qualified immunity applies.

Once qualified immunity applies, that effectively kills the case. The worst part about this is that means the case can't become the specific precedent that the Court is looking for. This is why qualified immunity is terribly constructed: there is no way for the Court to say "You did the wrong thing, but you didn't know, so you had qualified immunity. But, next time someone does that, they should know better."
They want platform providers (Apple with iOS and Google with Android) to get out of the way. They are both providing platforms, as well as market places, as well as competing apps/services.
Tell that to the children whose parents will opt for the neural implant after birth.
Well there's this fashion of dumping 50+ IT guys. The systems they worked on will then stagger on. The new guys will throw on patches, but there's no money to really understand the system. The life support just gets more and more expensive.

The smart way to migrate a legacy system is to keep your maintenance crew to retirement age. Once they're approaching retirement bring in some kids to migrate to the shiny new tech and use the old crew to make sure they don't drop stuff.
„It works for me so it’s fine“ is a terrible argument.
It's hard to say. I resonated with at least a couple of things that were said. That Neuralink's biggest challenge is clearly materials science and that a very distant future iteration of this device could be biological instead of digital. (Then again, given the scientific progress maybe in the future there won't be any difference.)

I predict one of the medium-term iterations of this device could be a sensor mesh covering as much of the brain as possible.

I do remain a bit skeptical about its safety for the average human.

Still, I believe Neuralink's efforts are worth it. And at the end of the day, even if nothing large scale comes out of it, at least it has helped thousands of people with various sorts of brain or spinal cord problems.
hurr durr another insightful post from the contrarian. how does it feel being poor because you didn’t buy any bitcoins and you can’t even handle telling the pharmacist you have a coupon
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I think I am sort of similar. Most of my ideas are spontaneous products involving the combination of one or more disciplines and/or life experiences.

I would focus on hobbies and maybe look at combining it with software. For example, I think a beekeeper in Sweden created an app that can identify and count varroa mites on bees.
that's well put. i'll admit, i'm mostly reading these threads for the satisfaction of seeing the grievances aired with increasing volume and frequency.
I don't think this is a good comparison because there's so much about language that's subjective or dependent on context. if you could translate something with perfect denotation, you still need a human touch for connotation. the nuances of word choice and sentence structure that give something a flavor of emotionality, or cool logic, or confidence, or aloofness, etc. to say nothing of localization, how to handle meter, all the various tradeoffs a translator has to make because translation is inherently lossy. games don't have any of these problems, you either win or you don't

I think ai will prove "good enough" for most applications in the near future, but this won't eliminate human translation (or journalism, or copywriting, or whatever you might want to apply similar technology/techniques to). but it may well eliminate the bottom 80%