skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual cpuid checking code is drilled from here:
https://github.com/oneapi-src/oneDNN/blob/master/src/cpu/x64...

to here: https://github.com/oneapi-src/oneDNN/blob/master/src/cpu/x64...

It's using feature-flag checks, not family checks, so you shouldn't be affected if you're using oneDNN.
It's really too bad that they haven't rolled this out for 1080p too. Their 1080p video quality is god-awful compared to Amazon. They may even have made it worse: from the "ladder" comparisons, it looks like they jump to higher resolutions at lower average bitrates now, so if you're stuck at 1080p you're going to be getting worse quality after these changes than before.

Also, something that's kind of weird about all this is that encoders (x264, x265, etc) already have their own rate control algorithms that decide on a frame or scene basis how many bits to use. Netflix taking an approach like this is equivalent to claiming that they're capable of doing a better job than these codecs in an automated way - so why not just contribute the code needed to achieve these improvements back to the projects they're using?

Last, it's very weird to select individual frames from an encode and not a selection of frames. The comparisons purport to show that the lower bitrate encode is better than the higher bitrate encode, but in fact (if I understand how they're using rate control correctly) what they are showing is a single frame in the lower bitrate encode that uses more bits than the same frame in the higher bitrate encode. So it's arguably not a fair comparison. And even with that, depending on how sensitive you are to artifacts, some of the "optimized ladder" encodes still look worse.

Edit: here is an example of what I mean when I said that they may have made the quality at 1080p worse. If what you end up watching is the highest bitrate 1080p available, you would get higher quality on the old latter than on the newer one. https://i.imgur.com/rzPR7Sh.jpg Actually, on some of the examples, even 720p on the older ladder is better than 1080p on the newer one!
If you just use perspective (which this library uses for grid views), support for dataframes is native.
Too often there is a push to replace what is not actually understood in the first place.
Oof. I wish YouTube had more than 2x playback rate. Elon is hard to listen to at less.
I didn't downvote the comment, but this seems like an extraordinarily combative response to what you assume others are thinking about a pretty unclear issue. When you say it's an intended feature, for example, who is it specifically that intends the feature? I've never seen anyone say it's a good thing for poor people to go without electricity, but perhaps you have.
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Apple was obligated to open source WebKit. The only other project I can think of where they have been open by choice is Swift.
Why not go all the way and just ban all ISPs?
Since they started the presentation announcing it was a recruitment event, I think you are right.
> So maybe do something less violent, like kneel during a football game. People will definitely unilaterally support that, right?

Yeah, get one of those famous players like Roger Federer. Or maybe the whole Detroit Redskins team.
One unexamined side effect of this is that Epic is no longer able to security patch Fortnite. A sufficiently bad exploit would have really interesting tradeoffs for both parties. If Apple is standing on security being the core of their offering, they'd undercut it by not letting Epic patch it. But if Apple didn't let them patch it would Epic be forced to come to terms?
This sounds very similar to my perspective, which is that most applications try to provide a nice user experience in order to assist in doing something: creating a document, communicating with friends, reading the news, etc. With a game, though, the user experience is what it is trying to do. There's nothing other than UX. That makes game development good practice for focusing on UX in general.
The original Blade Runner is a great example of a film that depicts the changing architecture of a city - while we see sweeping shots of mile high sky scrapers throughout the film, on the ground we still see the remains of historic architecture, repurposed and built over - the police station was built within Los Angeles's 1939 Union Station, Frank Lloyd Wright's 1924 Ennis House makes an appearance as Deckard's apartment, and of course the famous Bradbury Building was used as the set for the film's finale. The end result is a city that still feels like it has a history not too dissimilar then the Los Angeles of the real world, extrapolated out to 2019 based on 1980's fears of overpopulation and such.

Something it's sequel wasn't really successful with, where instead the city looks unrecognisable, with architecture that looks alien rather then anything actually realistically plausible. If it wasn't for the frequent Coca Cola and Sony product placement you could be convinced the city was Coruscant from Star Wars or something.
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Because Epic is happy with the console makers, but they're not happy with Apple.

The console makers actually actually do things for Fornite, other than offering a download. Sony sells like a Fornite + Playstation bundle, and do marketing with them.
I think these all also touch on deeper aspects of our personal stories and the emotions we feel about them. See the post about a non-white person viewing it as a battle between an oppressed party and a party upset at being viewed as an oppressed party.

Although people like to believe they think rationally, especially here; the truth is, none of us is capable of doing so all the time. We all bring things to the table. And I think each of the things you mention touches all of us pretty deeply, as it has to do with all of our individual standings in society and our freedom to live our lives.
>To be an open platform for free speech, no censorship.

Unfortunately this kind of rhetoric is frequently coded language meaning "Hey Nazis, we won't kick you off of our platform for threatening to shoot up a synagogue". I think people should still legally be able to create unmoderated platforms, but the majority of people won't participate in them because they quickly become cesspools of hatred and harassment. Gab is the newer, shinier tech startup version of this, but it's existed before in the forms of 4chan, 8chan, and probably other platforms that I'm not familiar with.
>transfer

More like, copy to the new body and kill the old one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletransportation_paradox
Charities suck and you suck for supporting them?
Given people like pointing out that consoles lose money on each sale, I wonder what the profit margin of an iOS device is over the average supported life time?

Major Android vendors selling at similar prices to Apple, who don’t even have to pay for OS development seem unable to afford to provide support for 6 months, let alone The 5 years Apple supports a device.

What is the margin after 5 years of support?

Who is paying to provide that support, if not the companies that are benefiting from the platform, and that platform’s longterm support and consistency?
I would, if I could.

Take Amazon’s Audible as an example. I use that. I want to continue using that. If Amazon launched its own store on iOS, does that mean they stop distributing it on the native App Store? If they do make it exclusive to their store, I will have to download their store.

I really don’t like the 30%, but that I see the line Apple shouldn’t cross. Loosening restrictions or opening it up for more stores effectively means the iOS platform wouldn’t be worth What it is now.
>I don't want Apple to open up their devices. Average Joes around the world outside of HN crowd will have everything to lose and nothing to gain.

Well, they have Fortnite to gain...

But seriously, I've lost count of the number of apps I've enjoyed on Androids that were either unavailable or stunted on iOS. Recommending even basic apps like Google Photos to family comes with a long list of caveats like, "oh yeah, it uploads your photos automatically... as long as you open the app manually to do it". It's icing on the cake that they're also taking such a hard stance against game streaming right now, which is IMO going to be a huge market going forward that a lot of people are going to miss out on (or maybe not, since most of the game streaming market is poorer people...).

I guess the argument of dumbed-down phones for the sake of security/privacy is a reasonable one, but why wouldn't people just buy, like, actual dumb phones? Having a premium phone that you don't actually own just seems like an oxymoron to me. I don't "hack" my own phone and I'm certainly no tinkerer, but being able to actually use the apps my friends use and changing the settings I want to change makes my day to day life a little better every time I do have to use my phone.

Opening up what my friends and family can do with their phones seems like it'd have a lot to gain and very little to lose.
Reminds of a scene out of Westworld where they are talking about how the "hosts" are more human than humans since they can modify their "core directives" or the code running inside them. Cuts to the heart of the "free will" argument since humans cannot change "our core wiring."
email doesn't imply a phone.

In fact, I'd argue the phone aspect argues against what you're trying to say here. That you don't actually need to be able to see and respond to email immediately so having a phone is a moot point there.
It always has been.
It's non-invasive. No need. (Maybe you were joking.)
I’ve had some pretty good luck integrating Common Lisp and the Objective-C runtime: the difference of memory models isn’t a huge problem, as long as there’s a nice way to map between them.
Can you point to the specific consumer protection laws that Apple is breaking here?
Elixir has an anonymous function short hand that makes the "partial application" use case pretty easy for me.

&Compare.clamp(&1, some_min, some_max)

The above creates an arity one function which puts the arg into the first position in the original function.

I've never felt pain around partial application because I use the anonymous function short hand a good deal
nice! played until the ending so far.
Well, how could Epic continue developing unreal engine for iOS without a developer account?
You are relying on a benevolent dictator.
If Apple decided to sell you out you are fucked.
BTW if you are such a security fan would it be good if Apple watches which websites you visit in your browser?
Wouldn't it be even better if only websites are allowed which are hosted on Apple servers on Apples own internet?
Both Apple and Epic are exceptionally.... "controversial" companies that people have Thoughts on.

Tie that in with the usual Software Freedoms and people wishfully thinking they one day will be in Apple's shoes.
Is there some type of calibration that would be needed after implant to allow for variance? Or does the robot surgeon just have perfect accuracy in where the threads are implanted?
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Probably the user would have to dig out their birth cert, and visit the notary they originally used to get internet access. Then the notary would contact their ISP (or maybe they push the update to their public records, and the user asks their ISP to pull the update) with the replacement user ID.

Whatever the specifics, the basic idea is that there be a one-to-one relationship between a user and their account.
Um, that would tend to support de Icaza's argument, no?

The app in question would presumably be denied by Apple.
Booting Linux from Scratch on a Google Cloud VM
That's a strawman, I said nothing about Wal-mart passing the cost onto the consumer.
That seems to imply there’s some problem with hg the tool, being big and bloated? In my experience the tool is fine (quite a lot better than git, IMO) - the problem is that distributed version control is all about community, and the community uses git. Mercurial-the-tool would need to be 10x as good to get people to consider leaving git’s community, and it’s only 2x as good, so they don't.
The article shows even at lower bitrates higher quality/sharpness. This also helps people on metered connections or slower connections which would include mobile consumption.
Unimpressed, but great work..I can see potential but this is like making a plane for landing on moon we are one decade early on this technology ...Electrode impedance is a big deal that I didn't see addressed here...It hasn't been addressed for the past decade...There are so many impressive work I see like the work by Berkeley professor Jose M. Carmena that could address this issue...next Decade can be exciting.
If you like this sort of thing then you may also like Samuel Pepys' diaries read in "real time" on twitter.
https://twitter.com/samuelpepys
How to Sort a List in Python
Physicists found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality
Much of human creativity is likely linked to some sort of Bayesian analysis, but it also can happen based on limited sample sets and unseen situations. As you point out, the Alpha Go likely just saw that scenario out of millions of random scenarios never explored by humans before. Given the enormous compute resources used, it's possible AlphaGo has made more Go moves than all of humanity ever combined.

Reminds me of a quip about Richard Feynman that he'd spend many hours honing a new way of doing a physics problem, but carefully present it as if he just did it off handed. So we just need to link human brains with cybernetic implants to compete. ;)
TotalWar franchise works great in native Linux/Steam. I think I even got better performance than when I played the same (Shogun 2) in Windows on the same laptop. Kudos to CreativeAssembly for backporting all the old releases to the platform. One day all my old purchases just showed up under Linux and was installable without any fuss using the steam interface. Oh yeah, Civilization 5/6 showed up as well. You may want to take a look at what's been added recently. You might find something you like!
This reasoning also (especially?) applies to voting. Trying to make voting "efficient" is not worth it when we do it rarely and we have not had a problem just getting people to count ballots manually.
Sure we can, that’s how we learn new skills and knowledge.
I don't know where you live or what your internet setup is like, but I can't stream 4k at ridiculously high bitrates consistently, and apparently many of Netflix's customers can't either: "The number of rebuffers per hour go down by over 65%; members also experience fewer quality drops while streaming." Additionally, "members who were limited by their network to 720p can now be served 1080p or higher resolution instead."
Apple was not going to explicitly block Unreal Engine from the App Store, but instead they were going to terminate a different Apple Developer Account that Epic uses for Unreal, hindering them from developing it on Apple platforms.
"Can I borrow your charger my brain is dead" lol
That comment doesn't appear to explain anything about GoodRX changing their prices. It's ranting about how pharmacies lose money on the coupons, but I don't think that's how drug pricing works. If a pharmacy has a $100 drug and the coupon brings it down to $80, nobody "lost" $20.
You're completely ignoring iOS. Fortnite has been in the top 5 top-grossing games on iOS for over a year now making insane amounts via IAPs.
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I’ve always wondered if internet trolls are all 14 y/o boys or if some of them are like legal adults. The constructions and logic they use are are so simplistic. Is there a pervasive mental disorder common among trolls? Or are they all just a bunch of bad people?
What is my motivation to practice my bass?

If I do it to make a living, that’s one thing.
If I do it to be “the best,” that’s another thing.
If I do it for the pleasure of learning to do a thing, that’s a third thing.

It’s the same with games, but the emphasis on winning skews the culture towards wanting to be “the best.” But for those following the third path, AI beating humans changes nothing for them, just as synth bass and sequencing changes nothing for me.
> Now the downside. What happens at an exception? You have to back all of this optimization out.

Just what always happens at an exception. You just replay everything up until the exception occurred.
>Now you've got it.

Is that a net benefit for society? The last thing I want is for google (or other tech giants) to be even more trigger-happy about banning people because they view you as a high risk user. "decentralizing the web" isn't a good excuse, as most people don't have to know how to set up their own hosting, and only shifts the liability from the host to the search engine (because you have to find the content somehow).

>The end-user chose to apply that sorting, so they have accepted some of the responsibility for what they consume.

Don't we already have that? On reddit you can sort by "hot", "new", "rising", "controversial", and "top". On gab you can sort by "hot" and "top". I'm not sure how that would change things, other than forcing yet another modal that users have to click through.

>If you're choosing to run a bulletin board, presumably you're doing so to get something out of it for yourself. Is it fair for you to receive that benefit while taking no responsibility for anything that happens on it?

Not every website has to be a for-profit venture. Many (small) forums run essentially on donations, or are low maintenance side projects attached to a bigger project.
Tying health insurance to your employer is incredibly dumb. It means insurarers compete for your employers business, not yours, which influences their incentives. It means if you don't like your insurance company, your only option is to change jobs. It disincitives people from being self employed, because then health insurance is prohibitively expensive.
Are snarky comments like this really necessary or relevant to what's being discussed here?
This is a huge part of the problem. The amount of risk that exists in legacy systems is actually pretty huge because of the amount of interdependencies that exist.

It's the sort of thing that people who operate those systems know but that knowledge doesn't seem to spread beyond that.
I was an Apple fanboy until the 2011 MBP fiasco.

My top of the line MBP died aprox 2 years after I bought it. By that time there were thousands of people with the same problem on the internet. Obviously I had to buy another Mac to keep on working.

If Apple had cared about its customers it would have taken the defective machines early on and either exchanged them for new machines, or at least offered a proportion of its retail price towards a new Mac. Apple didn't do nothing of the sorts.

It took almost 2 more years and 3-4 action class lawsuits for Apple to finally start a repair program.

By that time I could't even sell the damn thing after the repairs. I ended up giving it away to a junior dev and guess what? It died a year later of the same problem.
> In the short term, Epic loses money by not having Fortnite on Apple devices.

Will they though? For all the players who already had the app they still have access to Epic's payment system meaning they're making 20% more on those transactions. I'm not sure that new user purchases will be > 20% they make in the short term from those existing users.
If Apple wants to make their own users hostages that's their choice and Epic shouldn't bend to it. Apple has totally shattered the illusion that their walled garden model is about Security and not Control.
> I actually really hope that is the case. I have a feeling of existential dread every time I imagine all the effort I am putting into learning and acquiring new skills all going to waste when those tasks become absolutely second nature to everyone, irrespective of effort or time investment.

I'm not a neuroscientist, but with such a limited understanding of the brain, beyond just the anatomy and the nature of neurotransmitters, let alone consciousness, I think you can allay such fears for the time being.

I think this could have significant benefits for neural diseases like Alzheimers, Parkinsons, ALS and possibly anxiety and addiction/mania based maladies but the idea of simply being able to 'download' the ability to learn a new skill in real time seems entirely preposterous.

I say that because some of the skills that I have been able to turn into careers have actually required I learn something where my brain no longer interferes with the process so that it is done effectively.

The notion of muscle memory is real, meaning you cease thinking about it and it just occurs out without any effort due to continual practice and repetition: my question is how can your body recover from an unexpected/unpredictable error if you haven't already practiced that same scenario over and over, and you were only given the default normal operation of x skill? Most learning is adaptable and gained from observed behavior, be it our own or others, to mistakes.

Experience is a funny thing, and our brains are flawed in recalling many of our most cherished or dreaded events and experiences accurately; I honestly think this could be a medical boon for the aforementioned diseases, but the Matrix-like learning will probably be a quixotic pursuit, in my opinion. One that sounds awesome on paper but would be horrible in practice.
It's a great idea, just one suggestion: would it be possible to choose the language of the novels we decide to read? For example, I am French, so I would rather read _The Count of Monte Christo_, _Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas_ or _Madame Bovary_ in their original versions.
That’s great. I’d love to see how they fare on this glitter which seems to destroy all compressors: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=MG_Lyg74UlU&t...

(I saw a similar problem with a famous monarch butterfly footage that I don’t have time to chase down)
I don't feel existential dread, but I certainly do a feel a level of demotivation.

That being said, neuralink not being able to do this at the present moment is of no help to people who need to learn right now.
> both for ethical and commercial reasons

But primarily commercial reasons related to having a completely different distribution model.
Got the torch in the hole!

Holding the mouse button to look around is awkward, but it was fun!
This is one of those long-running debates in the social sciences.

The economist Dierdre McCloskey, for instance, argues forcefully that the revolution started with the idea that all souls weigh the same -- i.e., people are all equal under God. [1]

That conviction led to the belief that people should be allowed to read the Bible for themselves, which led to widespread literacy, which led to a demand for books, which allowed the printing press to survive and spread.

After much to-ing and fro-ing I think I'm more inclined to McCloskey's view, that cultural beliefs and values determine institutions, and so determine which technologies survive and which die out.

Of course these things are not one-way. Technology affects beliefs and institutions. But other things do, too, and McCloskey thinks the other things are at least equally as important.

[1] McCloskey D., Bourgeois Equality.
Moved to examples?

[1] https://threejs.org/docs/#examples/en/renderers/CSS3DRendere...
[2] https://threejs.org/docs/#examples/en/renderers/CSS2DRendere...
[3] https://threejs.org/docs/#examples/en/renderers/SVGRenderer
So you are against a free market. Instead of multiple shops you want one megastore.
Only one webshop: Amazon
Only one Social Network: Facebook
Only one search engine: Google
Only one OS: Windows
Only one chip manufacturer: Intel
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Epic launcher isn't even available on Linux unlike Steam..
GoodRx is taking up the same role as a PBM. If you use them, insurance is not involved in the transaction.