skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as bandwidth grows, people's choice is to keep upping their fidelity. If the subscriber base was OK with a 480p video, they would've seen it. And negotiating peering/transit deals are fickle and isn't guaranteed to work as cable companies may be playing politics/business games to squeeze netflix.

Therefore, a technical solution is the next best option.
Capital and risk level seem to me something that AIs would be extremely good at adjusting for -- more so that humans, who will bring irrational thoughts into it.
But by that point he might be retired on an island somewhere and that extra 100 saved has turned into 300 due to wise investment choices
We’ve actually had ways of observing neural signals for quite some time. In order to identify the regions of the brain requiring surgery for epilepsy, patients get electrodes implanted and spend several weeks in hospital. Various researchers have recruited volunteers from this cohort for neural signal studies. A team recently managed to decode speech from neural signals from such a study!

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/04/414296/synthetic-speech-ge...
How does redis make money?
The strategies on both sides are fairly obvious. On Apple's side, the strategy is to make an example of Epic, in order to dissuade other developers from becoming "rebels" too.

It all depends on who ultimately wins the lawsuit, and that's up the in the air. It's a fairly high risk strategy on both sides, but it'll pay off for the winner. Apple is probably confident (perhaps overconfident) that they'll win in the end.
The theory was that apple might revoke their ability to use the developer tools/SDKs (Broadly, this is what was stated in the letter saying their developer account would be revoked, even though you don’t need a paid developer account to download some of that stuff).

Xcode, the SDKs, etc. are licensed, not open source, and probably contain clauses allowing apple to terminate the license.
You aren't (usually) wiring the money to the property owner. It goes to the title or escrow company processing the transaction. They get the money, execute the paperwork, and then transfer the money to the owner after everything is squared away.
For the same reason they’ve pushed Epic Games Store on PC - they take 5% of gross revenue as royalties for any product that uses UE4 and lower fees charged by distribution channels makes that easier to swallow for both larger and smaller studios.

Mind you, this is pure speculation on my part - but given they consider that 5% royalty paid as part of the fee for every title sold on EGS it seems likely that their goal is to sell more licenses, not just to cash in on Fortnite.
> not getting the special treatment they want

this is pretty dismissive considering Apple is messing with every developers on their platform and their known not to give special treatment.
Hard to do that when the antenna size is correlated with the frequency you can use. Tiny micro bots would need really high frequency signals
> only a third of what AppleTV+ offers (36/48) and only 2/3 of Disney+ (18/24)

I'm very suspicious of these numbers, I think they might be the maximum transient bitrate and not the average bitrate. Do you have an example of an AppleTV movie or show that actually has an average bitrate that high?
Monopoly. At some point this will head to regulators
Not to take anything away from the Neuralink team, but predicting joint movements and angles is about the edge case of what can be achieved with semi-invasive and non-invasive bci.

Recording from the nerves predicting joint movements in a steady gait is definitely already achievable.
It would be interesting to see numbers for the actual active radio Hans rather than license holders.
I’ve a feeling (but no proof) that a ham license today is more of a geeky/fun thing to get whilst learning about radio than it was 50 years ago and many with a license may have a UHF radio but don’t actively use it as much.
I wonder if sudo make me a sandwich could be a reality in our lifetimes?
Actually, hasn't happened all that often. I've had more of a problem with discs arriving broken.
Medicare/Medicaid is cheap because it is legally required to be the lowest price, so providers make up the cost by raising prices for other users.
If you didn't already, consider taking look at the details/summary elements (https://caniuse.com/#search=summary) which provide a non-JS method for collapse-by-default and as of late have quite good evergreen support. They're fairly versatile, I've even used them recently for JS-free context menus. The only gotcha (the 80% implementation part) is in consistently overriding their default styles on all platforms.
I'd love to see a command line option to adjust the framerate of the resulting video!
> They disallow cloud gaming because it they can't collect fees from it or control it.

They disallow cloud gaming for the same reason they disallow non-generic screen mirroring. Because people would use it to circumvent the App Store policies. I’m sure it nets them some cash to do this but I’m sure they would be happy to take 30% of the cloud gaming subscription revenue and allow it. Can you imagine if Facebook didn’t want to follow App Store rules and just streamed the app?

> They remove apps that compete with their own apps even if those apps existed before hand

This is just f.lux. I don’t see Apple banning notes apps in droves. And f.lux ran into the issue of Apple adding the feature and then suddenly f.lux running afoul of “you can’t sell OS functionality” which is a good rule in general. Android is rampant with apps that charge for push notifications.
> $1 is $1 no matter which pocket it comes from.

For all the uproar about Chinese ownership of tiktok, zoom, etc etc, I suspect that your assessment is a minority opinion here.
Apple is about selling an image.
And Apple is caring as long the money flows. Don't get fooled, it's always about money. Apple sells products with a high margin that's why they can do without advertisement at the moment.
That can change every moment.
Remember how Steve Jobs laughed at using a stylus for tablets, what do we have now?
New management, new rules.
Depends on the state and plan. For me COBRA was $2000/mo. When employed I paid like $20/mo and my employer paid $1980/mo. When I left I paid the entire amount.
That's kind of the thing though...those took 26 bil in subsidies to generate 20 bil in revenue to duplicate existing tech (spacex def gets credit for reusable, obvi, but Tesla man, yuck)
> Wallmart choose their suppliers, and sets the markup, why can't Apple?

But, at the end of the day, Walmart can't prevent customers from proceeding to Kroger down the street to get the products or deals they want. That's the market regulator of last resort in most circumstances.

You say "Apple doesn't have a monopoly on phones or games". In the broad view, you may be right, but they've spent significant effort in creating a closed ecosystem with non-trivial switching costs, inside of which they DO have complete gatekeeping power. They may not have a full "prevent the customers from going to Kroger" power, but they can basically say "here's a several hundred dollar toll to leave our store, and BTW, we won't let you back in for anything else we sell", which is a pretty high barrier. Is the only available counterweight for their behaviour "drop everything and buy a new $500 phone to express your discontent?"

Google gets out of this with their hands much cleaner-- they can retreat to "Well, you can sideload apps". Epic proved they can make that a viable business that way on Android. But iOS offers nothing resembling that without asking consumers to jailbreak their devices, which is probably beyond reasonable accommodation.

I'm sort of amazed they're so desperate to cling to the no-sideload mentality. Offering sideloading with a lot of big angry red warnings immediately defuses the vast majority of anti-competition complaints, while still being scary enough that most name-brand software isn't going to immediately drop off the App Store. I'd also think it presents a welcoming option for some hobby developers, where even the $100 annual developer fees are prohibitive, until they can show there's enough of a business there to justify going to the real App Store.
What I think is happening is Epic is trying to force a jury trial on anti-trust and won't hold out for a settlement unlike Amazon and Netflix. At this stage all Epic's actions are geared basically around collecting arguments to bring in front of a jury composed of regular folks.

I'm very confident the old Steve Jobs emails from the eBooks anti-trust case will also be brought into the trial to argue anti-trust is in Apple's DNA.

That's also the reason for that silly 1984 ad parody, so they can bring Apple's original 1984 ad into the trial and make an argument of hypocrisy in front of the Jury - once they were plucky upstarts but now as the most valuable company, they're vampire like etc.

Other vendors are also at this same time taking the opportunity to test Apple store rules limitations - either for Epic to be able to add those additional arguments to their own case OR possibly for them to get standing to join the suit - look at the PR yesterday around Facebook donations to creators hurt by Covid being blocked by Apple store rules.

In this situation, there's very little role the judiciary can play except move the process along. It's going to be a fun battle to watch.
American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time
Tax deductions are not costs. They are shifts in weighting between taxpayers.
Chess vs. poker psychology impact difference
We're not :/ we just know our field
In-Home Daily-Life Captioning Using Radio Signals
> when they pretty much just stand for family, God, and loyalty to the country and ideals of individual freedom.

> You've flattened an extremely large diverse group of individuals into your caricature viewpoint.

I think you might've done that yourself.
everyone thinks it's pretty far away, i'm just glad someones taking a serious go at this
What is the time complexity?
O(n log n) most probably.
And what actual sort does it use? Quick sort or merge sort or any other?
The case is not about closed platforms in general, it's about monopolistic behavior. In the US (the legal jurisdiction), Apple is the largest smartphone vendor by far, with ~50% market share. Epic is trying to show that Apple is abusing its market dominance. That's the case.
Another likely explanation is the online application was done by an intern fresh out of college and GPA is the only metric they had ever known. Like not being able to enter a birth date before 1970 (time_t), or not allowing more then one John Smith to register an account.
Always thought it a bit odd to see the creator of v-bucks moralising on the business models of others.
See, even if I could afford that I would not.

I’d buy a robot though.
DebConf20: My phone runs Debian – and it does phone calls [video]
Similarly, if I can buy an iPhone from a store (like Target), and it contains a store… why can't I get Fortnite from the App Store then buy V-Bucks from Fortnite?
The article was fine until it started randomly mentioning AI.
The first programming work I ever did was with CGI, about 25 years ago, writing bash scripts to control playing MP3s using webmin's HTTP server (I think Apache was too complex for me to figure out how to setup at the time).

I'd be lying if I said I was't a bit sad that we've gone so far that CGI isn't even in the thought process for this problem.
NSF grant changes raise alarm about commitment to basic research
> remotely launch/quit Slack

Curious, why would you want/need to do this?
The strategies on both sides are fairly obvious.

If that's the case, the thing you said in your original comment and what I'm taking issue with seems very unlikely - that "Apple is playing right into his hands". For this to work, everything happens to be obvious to everyone except Apple and the court who are somehow inexplicable naifs.
Why is that the case though? Do conservatives not like going into journalism? Or does become a journalist turn one away from conservatism?
Oh yeah, wow, it seems to work for the literal biggest game ever, I'm sure it'll work for everyone then.
Volatile is for memory-mapped IO. It's not particularly useful anywhere else.
No, it happened via a webform. This wasn't an adhoc thing, this was something seamlessly integrated into their EHR system.
The College Manifesto
Thanks. There's no getting around it. This is genocide.
No it doesn't weaken the argument. The point is that seems to elude you is that they aren't bribing other devs by offering cash for an exclusivity deal. In the cases you highlight they bought IP outright. Also people seem to forget that Valve released a lot of their games on consoles which aren't open market places.

Anyway this is distraction from the general point I was trying to convey that store specific exclusives doesn't promote competition, it actually retards it.

If Epic had a store and just offered the same games for cheaper. I would be fine with it.

Also everyone keeps pretending that EPIC is this tiny company when nothing could be further from the truth.
The belief that there are two sides, in the first place, is a problem.
As an attorney, you should know to read your contracts more carefully :) nothing in a pet store should qualify as a "stray dog," so is the whole thing null and void now?
Yes! Another indicator of how bad it is.

Relatedly, I like to joke that you can get a huge discount on delivering a pregnancy if you make sure you're on a European vacation when the baby comes due.

They'll come to you and super-apologetically explain that, well, you're not a citizen or permanent resident, so you haven't paid into the system and have to pay the full price of the medical services, which is sadly ... something like 500 USD. And then you laugh at how that's less than you'd pay with insurance in the US.
Really? I will try it.

I always thought DaVinci was extremely powerful and overkill. I need something which can handle HDR and is a bit better than iMovie, but, both FCPX and Premiere were too much work for me to learn.
The judge is using "irreparable harm" as a term of art. What he's saying is you cannot have standing to sue for irreparable harm that you inflicted on yourself.

You can't deliberately crash your own car and then go to court demanding the manufacturer give you a whole new one because the crash revealed a loose screw.
> Apple will never let them back on the AppStore.

Apple's statement today: "We hope that we can work together again in the future".

Also, Apple requested that Epic submit a new rule-compliant version of Fortnite.

I think Apple would be happy to have Epic back and paying 30%, which is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. It won't break Apple if they don't get that money, but it's still nice money, with little work required from Apple.
Regulators won’t see it like that because you didn’t factor in opportunity cost.

If Apple takes one of Spotify’s customers then not only do they lose out on the 30% but they’ve just taken on the burden of providing the actual service to the customer. So Apple not only has to make a profit but make more profit than the 30% would have gotten them. And music streaming is a competitive business.

Do you never think how Kroger brand products don’t run into the same issue?
They wouldn't be able to publish OSX binaries.
I believe they are working on this and the code name is grey goo.
It's not clear we need universal markers though. We need that for targeting with things like drugs. Cancer in general though kills by physically impinging on or resource starving other body systems. There's a certain amount of "we know it when we see it" to that (and we're pretty good at seeing it).

If you could direct a swarm of micro-robots towards the sites of metastasized cancer growths (which kill you because we can't go in and cut them all out without killing the patient from the surgery) then the prognosis would change substantially.

The holy grail would in essence be, having a system which can get to all the places cancer can, at the same sorts of size scales cancer operates - rather then needing to be in the limited range of things we can surgically intervene on.
> Reread my original post carefully - my point is that if you're stuck with 1080p as the maximum resolution, than the quality you can get with the revised ladder is strictly worse, because Netflix will want to jump up to UHD resolutions, but your device won't support it.

These are for their HEVC encodes. Apple (and most others) require H264 to have a separate ladder which will be 1080p limited and will be generated on different encode set and maximum video quality.* Almost any HEVC capable device can go to 4k, even if the screen is only 1080p. It will be used than down scaled.

> (And even assuming that the UHD will be better based on this chart is kind of a leap, because it depends on what artifacts you're most sensitive to. Objective metrics ≠ subjective experience. In several of their comparisons, I prefer the lower res version because the new one is simply too artifacted.)

Certainly objective and subjective metrics have differences, but 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

* https://developer.apple.com/documentation/http_live_streamin... 1.23 iirc
Maybe it's technically illegal. I don't care.

In the USA, it would be civil issue not a criminal one anyway. They can sue me if they like.

As far as the morality portion of things is concerned, I don't consider what they are doing moral anyway and I sleep fine at night.
I don't think that is quite right. Fdroid and the Amazon app store are two prominent examples. While they don't have the same impact as the first party store, they also aren't Fortnite.
You might find the Multireal trilogy by Davis Louis Edelman interesting: https://www.amazon.com/Infoquake-Jump-225-Trilogy-v/dp/15910...

Not the best writing in the world but several of these ideas are touched upon before it kinda goes off the deep end. A fun read at least.
There are a half-dozen groups (companies & in academia) that are building neutral stim & recording platforms with thousands of channels & high bandwidth comms so that we can at least capture, analyse, & transmit signals to start learning & closing the feedback loop. Think of it like designing the first real integrated circuits so that we could eventually get the 8086.

This needn't be directly in the brain. E.g. there are a lot of groups looking at the parasympathetic nervous system (ie vagus nerve) for a host of organ control applications.

Been almost 5 years since I was working in the field... But there seems to have been a lot of progress already. Big limiting factor for iteration velocity is identifying viable test subjects -- elective participants aren't really an option (few volunteers, ethically questionable, & regulation); you have to find people with diseases or conditions that can justify such extreme interventions.
No Apple doesn’t. Spotify literally right now charges more on iOS than direct on their website or on Android.

You’re thinking of credit card merchant agreements.
BTW if Apple wins, developers are fucked. Apples gatekeeping will become the norm.
Developers would be resigned to the role of supplicant, who have to beg to sell their apps in the App Stores.
Just as is already happening in supermarkets and the automotive industry.
The farmers and suppliers are squeezed out and the big corporations make even more money.
It's ironic that once Apple sold Macs with the spin to prevent a 1984 like computer scenario.
Now they are big brother who watches over us to keep us secure.
It"s am incapacitation of its customers.
You're really missing one part about Valve. Game developers that publish games on Steam are not allowed to set lower prices on other stores; at least on release when bulk of sales happening and most of full price sales occur.

So developer can't sell game on Steam for $60 and at the same time sell it on Epic Games Store for $50 due to lower commission. So Epic don't have any other tools to compete with Steam.
A lot would be gained by treating software like a pet rather than as a building. Regular brushing and care, occasional picking up of errant poop, vaccines, checkups with the vet, and the knowledge that Fido will only live about 10-15 years.
That may be but if you want an equivalent robot arm driven by an ordinary motor you still need the torque. Otherwise you would need a completely different system of actuation. I've heard of "artificial muscle" systems but I'm not sure if they're sufficiently developed yet.
> ... It allows society to coordinate.

That's also the role of prices - they are signals for people to take action, provided the actors are free. Prices as an information signal simply fail to work when entities like the government use coercive force to interfere. Prices also fail if the markets are based on coercion or violence towards others.
To me this is exactly where their argument falls apart.

I don’t get what Epic wants exactly. Even with Android where they initially had users side load their apps they eventually gave up and put it on the Play Store after complaining that there’s too many warnings when users load third party APKs (how dare they include security warnings of un-reviewed apps!)

It seems to me that Epic expects Apple and Google to offer up an Epic App Store/Epic made games in their own App Stores free of charge, and conveniently ignore any developer terms they previously agreed to. Talk about entitlement.
Elon Musk Unveils Brain Computer Implanted in Pigs
I’m not sure about the numbers, was thinking about the model to progress technology rapidly.

The reusable rocket tech seems worth it alone.
I can think of three reasons:

1. It would stop SSH agent forwarding from working if the remote has it enabled.

2. It would stop alternative SSH agent implementations from working.

3. It would only make sense if you actually have multiple identities.
I would love to be able to control vim entirely through Neuralink. Using vim already feels like I’m coding at the speed of thought, this would literally be the speed of thought. The era of the 100x developer is coming.
I wonder why is it so, in the end it's just electrons flowing from negative to positive end to create current, why do they behave differently inside neurons?
This is great. Thanks for sharing!

Does anyone know of new works being written and released in installments this way? Through newspapers, magazines, blogs, etc?
This is an artifact of insecure communications systems and poor operational security. Making people shuffle physical paper around, especially considering things like pandemics and climate change, is a temporary workaround, not a long-term
solution.
I've been a financial backer of Zig for several months now, and plan to continue, because Andrew and the other contributers are pushing language design in directions that no other language is.

That being said, Zig's comptime is not a proper replacement for typeclasses/traits. Zig can do both comptime duck typing and vtable-based dispatch, but it cannot do proper bounded polymorphism type checking. It always fully evaluates types before type checking them. This might make it difficult (or impossible?) to provide type checking error messages of similar quality to Rust. I'm not sure if there are any other practical consequences for realistic programs, though. I suspect there might be issues around interface stability gaurantees, though I can't quite put my finger on why.
Neuralink v1.0 has all the hardware for self-driving.
Signed up!

I always kind of hoped Cell phone novels [0] in English would come, but I've never seen any.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone_novel