skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. As I've said elsewhere - very few people want to pay their way out of ads - in this case, buy YouTube Premium.

Newest public data I can find says there are 20 million YouTube Premium subscribers. There's 2 billion monthly actives on YouTube - ie, 99% are not YouTube Premium subscribers.

https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/youtube-tops-20-millio...

https://www.youtube.com/intl/en-GB/about/press/
India’s new liability and digital media regulations will harm the open internet
They do match. The thing is that the description is much more complex, nothing else.

What I see from the preprint (notice that the authors have not discussed it with Quanta, because it is under peer-review) and bothers me is that they "add a real qubit" (...) which should be done very carefully because the two real qubits are not independent (they are linked by the hamiltonian).

I have not read the whole preprint, though.
Researchers observe no magic behavior at N=32 in charge radii of K isotopes
How tall are you? [unmatches]
The phrase "mosts [sic] scales of reality" is doing an incredible amount of heavy lifting here, though, since the most reliable mathematics describing three of what appear to be the four fundamental forces of nature are indeed quantized.

It's more accurate to say that only integers appear to be relevant in describing the nature of the nuclear forces and electromagnetism/electroweak force.

And it seems that, at least for the moment, we're headed in a direction of quantization of gravity and a Planck unit of time as well.
IIRC the Mars Insight mission was able to reconstruct the sounds of wind in Mars from signals picked up by their super sensitive seismometter.
Maybe I'm just a simplistic person, but classical Linux distributions make this problem non-existing for 99% of what goes on in my world.

Their role is precisely to orchestrate the cooperation and interdepndency of those millions of lines of code. I don't understand why people have started turning those distros into glorified delivery vehicles for containers.
says the guy that got paid $2.5 billion.
Brendan Eich? Netscape, Firefox, JavaScript... and now Brave!

He is a legend of the Internet you idiot!
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Is this even possible? Won't their ML ad models still have seen data from when they DID track people across sites? And even if they stop using those models, won't the structure and tuning of those models have been derived from cross-site-tracked data? This sounds a lot like a computer vision company saying "we have stopped using imagenet in our model training!". Did you really re-train from scratch? Ok, even if you did, now did you also happen to re-derive your network architecture from your own data?
Thank for you opinion.
Factoring in the fact that Dan is quitting his current job at a big FANG with total comp in the 400-500k range (this creates a higher equity cost for him).
Most of us used to be software engineers, but with nowhere near that kind of comp. How much this consideration would that impact the equity?
Every single negative BBC articles about China these days reference him, it's actually rather funny considering his track record and background. I don't know why they treat him as some sort of authoritative source about China when he can't even read Chinese and has never been to China.
Duck duck go simply proxies other search engines. While they have been gaining traffic, they will never be as good as google/bing etc.

Good privacy focused search requires novel innovations and a solid attempt to "solve" the problem rather than simply wrapping some other engine.
Free VPN in 1 minute with Docker
The Register article mentions it in passing, pointing to the "Goggles" paper [1] that Brave has published. But the Brave paper actually gives no more information than that quoted in the article; it seems not to address its stance on censorship, but merely to pass the buck in the Goggles use case:

There will be Goggles created by creationists, anti-vaccination sup- porters or flat-earthers. However, the biases will be explicit, and therefore, the choice is a conscious one. We do not anticipate any need for censorship in the context of Goggles. Clearly illegal and sensitive content like child pornography or extreme violence should already be filtered out by the host search engine at the index layer. Consequently, such content should not be surfaced by any Goggle.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-B3ZvHpbnxsT2OdnUH8vS3-tvTv...
Of course fuel cells have some applications but they are not exactly dominate in any of these. A large number of these are still small scale pilots and often mostly government financed.

We have seen no massive adoption rate growth and we have seen no massive cost curve going down. We have also not seen a lot of gains in overall efficiency.

Battery on the other hand are showing massive adoption, at the same time as falling price and a gigantic amount of private capital.

And Toyota is making 10 million cars a year, they have not invested all that massive amount of money in the hope to sell fuel cells into submarine market.

Trucks and cars are basically already clearly going battery and that is far bigger market then all the others together.

Grid Battery also have not adopted fuel cell tech for the most part. LFP Chemistry seems like the most likely winner for grid batteries at the moment.

> - With the current power density level of battery and for the next decade, there is no way you can make a "green" long range commercial plane without a fuel cell technically

You can make simple produce a carbon based fuel out of hydrogen and use engines very much like the ones we use now instead of switching to fuel cells.

Also, I disagree depending on your definition of 'long range', if you re-engineer planes from the ground up to be electric you can replace a huge number of flights that are domestic, or rather within a continent. That is the majority of flights.
Charitably, I think what they are trying to say is that the output of an AI ethics researcher is not directly related to the application of a measurably skill.

It is instead related much more closely to a person's sense of right and wrong.

Of course AI ethics researchers have skills. They have skill in researching, they have knowledge of AI, and presumably education in formal logic and ethics. They have skill in writing and communicating the results of their findings.

However the product they produce is not writing and it's not research. It's the commentary on the research, the recommendations based on the results they have found. It's very subjective.

It's very different than a skilled hacker applying their skill and knowledge to uncover a zero-day exploit in your software that needs to be fixed. That's a much more objective process.
That’s quite the straw man. Like, I didn’t even mention anything about web search so that’s a really quite the attempt at reconfiguring my argument into something comical to mock. What’s more, the story is pretty explicit that they did look into the guys background and discovered his past, probably via web search. I was talking about the assumption that the people at ICANN should have known this “famous” person before that.
Maybe there's a positive correlation between high IQ and unionization though ;)
What would a nation state level attack look like? If they took over the network, it wouldn't really give them anything useful. If they took all the bitcoins, the value would plummet rapidly towards zero, unless they were willing to prop it up with their own currency.

Easier to just tax the crap out of BTC. i.e. any BTC mining done in this country owes us 80% of their BTC mining rewards.. etc.

If China did that, and they are currently doing some 60+% of the mining... it would change the incentives for mining BTC in China drastically, but China would make some sweet cash for a while, and eventually effectively ban BTC in China.

Rinse repeat in other countries, if they decide to hate on BTC.

Though really, I don't see any country wanting to do that right now. They are having too much fun watching who is transacting on BTC thinking they are hiding their transactions from the govt(which they aren't).
You know the GPs answer to this is No. Perhaps explain why you think it _is_ more dangerous?
Here's a decent (and corny) explanation video from Google on the matter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnDK17zP9BI
For the love of BOb, we desperately need a search engine that obeys booleans (DDG doesn't) and isn't Google. Please let this be it.
So basically men quit sex because it is difficult to obtain for them and there are now other options but women continue to have sex because it is easy to obtain?
I guess mobile is where most people use Youtube (by a very, very generous margin, too); for me, it's on an Apple TV, which also can't run adblockers. On mobile, even with DNS-based blocking, I wasn't able to block Youtube ads in the iOS app.
Probably worth noting that several people are, in fact, suggesting distributed DNS as the solution here.

Whether a rival private corporation or a distributed federation, competition is the only option if one doesn't trust a government to take the responsibility over.
> you must realize that the responsible part of the other side delegates the responsibility to exhaustive testing.

I certainly realize it, and I've seen it once in ten years and it'd have been dealt with automatically by a compiler because they were writing tests for autogenerated code. (Why not test the generator, you may ask - and that's a story for another day.)
> It's solving /some/ problems, for /some/ people, maybe businessmen that create jobs or wealth even.

Sure, but by that logic, selling crack cocaine solves some problems for some people, maybe businessmen that create jobs or even wealth.
I had a couple little issues as well when I switched over a couple months ago, but they just fell away over the ensuing weeks of updates until there's nothing left at the moment. Give it another try sometime soon.
How do you determine which sites get crawled?
Free penetration testing laboratory Test lab 15 – who is the n0v1ch0k?
Now it is too late to edit, I see an annoying spelling mistake. Should be “put themselves”, not “out themselves”.
Likely the same as Google, no policy on censorship until they feel like censoring something.
Moments that could have accidentally ended humanity
The Pre-Product Startup and the FDA
Show HN: Scoping the GraphQL API for WordPress with PHP-Scoper
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug
I wish them the best of luck. DuckDuckGo is my go to, but it leaves a lot to be desired.
Huh? But it's literally mathematical definition that a complex number is a pair of real numbers. Spinors are more interesting.
There were also a number of long hedge funds and sophisticated investors (who followed market sentiment on reddit and elsewhere)in Gamestop.
Yes but they are claiming that the link between the real and imaginary parts of the solutions to the Schrodinger Equation are "more linked" than just by the hamiltonian.

Have looked over the introduction of the preprint and have some issues with it but am not an expert.
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Our software stack is mostly Typescript, with our boards in C++. Our frontend is built with React and React Native, and our backend services use Node.js. Some tools we use are Firebase, GraphQL with Apollo, Expo, and AWS.

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Interesting how computers (which only understand ‘1’ and ‘0’ can do multiplication of reals, then. Unless you’re intel, of course... (no, I will never let it go :)
The necessity of complex numbers in quantum mechanics was also discussed a while ago in a blog post by Scott Aaronson: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4021.

At the very least, he's able to show the problem with QM described using quaternions: superluminal signalling!
Interesting. I have PulseEffects running all of the time on PulseAudio and don't notice much CPU usage. However maybe that is because I only apply effects to the mic and it seems to disable itself when nothing is recording.
If we look at biology and medicine, there's both. The NIH requires everyone funded on their training grants to be given instruction in basic bioethics, and at the same time there is a profession of bioethics that is involved in grant review and oversight committees because a lot of cases aren't simple and covered by the basics. Bioethics enters the picture from regulation rather the way independent financial auditing does.
There is an easier explanation- that the young women are having sex with men older than 24. With people getting married later in life the pool of unmarried men from 24-30 is much larger than in the past. My understanding is that younger women tend to prefer a slightly older guy and men tend to prefer a slightly younger woman. In the 18-24 age group, the 18-24 year old men are competing against themselves and older men.
> An internet composed of relevant and useful information stored as light weight documents could easily (and used to) exist without advertising.

Any concrete traffic measurements between those sites then and now? I'd be extremely surprised if traffic didn't shoot up by orders of magnitude.

That's also assuming that no ads means we'd go back to the mid-90s internet. Pretty sure there are still companies that would like to do business online, even without targeted ads. The tactics would change, that's it.

> Without ads we probably wouldn’t have millions of identical recipe sites with infuriating backstories, pop ups, share buttons, in-line promotions, etc.

True for pop-ups, in-line promotions or ads. But SEO will be a thing as long as we have search engines. Hell, earlier search engines were getting gamed with keyword stacking all the damn time. Bringing you on the page and showing you ads wouldn't be enough to make money, but I don't see how you'd even get rid of sites wanting traffic. Unless you're really advocating for getting rid of commercially motivated sites - which I'll assume you're not, as it is kind of delusional, IMHO.

> we would still have people sharing their grandmother’s apple pie recipe on personal sites along with a few paid services that add real value instead of SEO garbage and social fluff

That's a whole lot of extrapolation, and a rather subjective judgement call. Hell, one could definitely call this very site "social fluff".
He is doing it by force. Paying ads, paying politicians, paying experts, paying democratic party, insisting on vaccines, insisting on removing meat (have you seen healthy athletic vegans ? extremely rare).

You have to look at things that he wants to be applied by force, not things that he "generously creates and you can optionally use it".

If I want to eat meat and Bill wants to raise taxes on meat by force (using his billions so I pay higher taxes on meat) then I don't see this being a good thing for me.

If he makes cheap soy-lent so people can drink it and rest in peace, then it's ok by me. But he is forcing soy-lent to me too.
Ask HN: How does Twitter “get away with” video ads on top of promoted videos?
Hi HN,

Indie game dev here. I've got a few titles under my belt and so I've begun looking into doing paid ads on various platforms.

One of the big things I don't understand though is: How is Twitter able to put ads on top of ads?

For example, just this morning I was served a promoted post for "The Masked Singer" show, but instead of serving me a video for the show, I was served a "T-Mobile" ad accompanied by the message "Video will play after ad".

Sure it's their platform, but as a little guy my concern is, if I pay to have a video made, and I pay Twitter to promote my posts, am I actually just going to be paying Twitter to advertise other companies on my promotion? I don't want people to buy cell phone services, I want them to buy my books.

I couldn't find anything about this when I went through twitter's help pages, is there maybe an industry term for this sort of thing I should be looking for? I don't notice this behavior on other platforms, but are there comparable "tricks" out there that say, Facebook does?

Or does this only occur when there's some kind of partnership between the two advertising companies (in this case The Masked Singer and T-Mobile), and they've asked for this to happen?

Thanks for any insight!
Practical Differential Privacy for programmers with code
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26328872
Perhaps we can make this a little easier and more obvious for people?

How about when you’re convicted of an offense you have to wear a letter on your chest representing that offense? The shame and additional punishment should go on indefinitely long after the actual punishment has ended, right?
if you are long a company then you benefit from helping it. For example, lobbying to dismantle environmental regulations to increase the value of your fossil fuel stocks
I don't see how that's relevant, he said piracy won't matter for the games success and he was able to cash out 2.5BN even though this was the stance of Mojang.

If anything, it proves his point.
Sounds like we should eliminate the need for and concept of wealth, then, so people can congregate based on shared interest instead of having to factor in the possibility of monetary support from their partner(s).
The ALSA interface can actually refer to two different things:

1. The ALSA kernel interface

2. The interface provided by libasound2

The former is basically the device files living in /dev/snd, this interface is hardware dependent and whether you can or cannot send multiple streams to the sound card all depends on the actual underlying hardware and driver support.

The later is actually a shared library that when linked into your application exposes "virtual" devices (such as `default`, or `plughw:0` ...), these devices are defined through plugins. The actual configuration of these virtual devices is defined in `/etc/asound.conf` and `~/.asoundrc`. This is typically where dmix is defined/used. Which means that if you have any application that does not use libasound2 or uses a different libasound2 version, you are in trouble.

p.s. Pulseaudio implements alsa API compatibility by exporting an alsa device plugin to reroute audio from all applications making use of libasound2 (except itself).
"God made the integers; all else is the work of man." Kronecker
let's not forget that nation-state(s) (maybe singular, but not certain) have weaponized Polonium[1], and also the ubiquity of americium-241[2] which could be used similarly...Outside the human body but readily available for inimical ends...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_detector
Open Syllabus Project Visualizes 1MM+ Books Most Frequently Assigned in College
You've got to be a paid shill or blissfully ignoring.

If you were making a low wage and easily replaceable would you bitch about your job to random people who asked you if you liked it or smile and say its great?
Why there Needs to be an iPad Pro Max
However, pi is already a ratio…
I use Jirav. They have full collaboration capabilities so many people in my org can input into the budget, forecast, etc across multiple plans.
Can we not consider that the algorithm taught for multiplication of real numbers is repeated multiplication of natural numbers which can be seen as repeated addition of natural numbers so we could define an addition only algorithm for multiplication of real numbers.
That gave me "services.pipewire.alsa" does not exist on 20.09; does this require unstable?
ICANN has a monopoly on domain names and is unaccountable
D-Bus isn't suitable for realtime, to get that to work would require additional changes within the D-Bus daemon to add realtime scheduling, and even with all that, it would still introduce latency because it requires an extra context switch from client -> dbus-daemon -> pipewire. Maybe they could have re-used the D-Bus wire format? That's the only bit that might have been suitable.
I'm still kind of surprised to see people think of the internet as this static information library it was originally thought as. It hasn't been this way for decades.
Isn't this probably because most developers have shifted focus on PipeWire? I thought both came from more-or-less the same community?
This is the same argument often made against prediction markets. I remain unconvinced this is a significant issue, but I'm always open to changing my mind :)
Offering the fruits of their fuel-cell development in standard OEM packaging is good business. It potentially unleashes all sorts of creative grid-disconnected applications. Not everything electric is a road-certified vehicle. It makes those applications able to succeed at fairly low volume. Farm equipment? Fork trucks for warehouses? Backup power generation?

Now, if they can get those boxes to run both directions (to consume power and water to produce hydrogen when needed) that will be very interesting.

Of course, this may also be a hail-mary attempt to monetize their years of R&D of fuel cells for vehicles.

We gotta try everything!
The ancients had orgies as a part of religious mystery cults. Those weren’t widespread to the level that Tinder is today.

The birth control pill also enabled many of these attitudes, so it almost by definition wasn’t a return to their “true nature.”

But yes of course people like having sex. What’s new is that this pleasure-focused view of it has become the dominant one, to the exclusion of all others.
Researchers discover SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors
The M1x benchmarks that recently leaked show that it supports 32 Gigs of RAM, has twice the number of big CPU cores, and twice the GPU cores.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/macbook-pro-m1x-benchmarks-ju...

It should be adequate for a non-entry level laptop.

One of the fairly accurate Apple leakers, Jon Prosser, has said that one of his proven sources has informed him that the leak is legit.
I like io-ts, but I've moved mostly to runtypes: https://github.com/pelotom/runtypes

I forget why Zod didn't pass muster for me now, but I've looked at it before and didn't find a compelling reason to jump to it. Thought it seemed good, though.

I really wish at least one of these let you emit JSON schema back out, though. That'd be way easier for dealing with stuff like OpenAPI.