skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some engineers wrote a couple of insightful internal post-mortems about Google Video after the YouTube acquisition. It's telling, I think, that the deep analysis of what went wrong came from front-line engineers rather than the executives you'd be expecting to produce it as part of their job. I read them many years ago so what follows might be a bit garbled by time and bad memory, but the gist of it went like this:

1. YouTube bet on user generated content. One of Wojcicki's primary decisions was to focus on commercial high-end content by trying to cut deals with firms like Disney.

2. YouTube bet on Flash Video. Google Video used a VLC-based browser plugin that never worked as well and didn't have as much distribution. This was partly driven by the first decision, because Flash didn't support the video DRM that movie houses wanted, and was optimised for small low bandwidth, "postage stamp" sized video instead of high-def full screen that commercial content wanted. YouTube had no formal strategy around commercial content beyond turning a blind eye towards the piracy on their platform, that let them outsource their video tech to Macromedia, who were quite good at it.

3. YouTube bet on social. They had comments, thumbs up, thumbs down, channels and other social features when Google Video was still a search engine badly welded to a video store. Google didn't "get" social at that time and GV/Wojcicki saw it as a net negative anyway because does Disney really want their premium content to be shown next to a bunch of inane comments from anonymous trolls?

4. YouTube was implemented in Python. Google Video was implemented in C++. Python allowed the YT guys to iterate way faster and throw features out the door way faster, at a cost in performance and reliability. But a social website doesn't really need much reliability and whilst the performance costs were killing them, Google bailed them out after the purchase by rewriting and porting large parts of their stack to their in house tech.

I think those were the main problems identified in the post-mortems.

What's interesting is that of course the general themes here are identical to what is causing YouTube problems now. Wojcicki was obsessed with professional/authoritative content. It killed Google Video then because there was a competitor who bet on the little guy, but now she controls that competitor she's doing it all over again. YT is actively suppressing the little guys in favour of big media, they've added a video store, their recommendations aren't social anymore but rather just promoting whatever political elites are saying today, she's removing other social features like downvotes, etc etc. She never learned anything from her prior failure, and why would she? When Vic G failed at Google+ he was immediately fired, but Wojcicki cannot be penalised for failure. Whether that's due to her familial connections, her gender or what is hard to say, but the contrast between her and what happened to other execs that failed to beat their competition is hard not to notice.
I guess insurance could be cheaper for people who drive defensively. I'd sign up for that.

I imagine a future where people who drive recklessly get their insurance contracts cancelled and have to pay ridiculous premiums to get a company to take them. That's a dystopia I could kinda live with.
Yes, and they refuse (apparently) to join Apple's Find My, and instead want users to install their Tile app (and their tags are then only findable by users that have the Tile app installed). They want to own the entire relationship, but I think here they'll lose out.
Americans of Chinese descent are not Chinese. My wife is Beijing born-and-bred and refers to (East) Asians as yellow people, as do many of her friends.

If you want a more objective source and can read Chinese, there's a Baidu Baike (think Chinese wiktionary) page for the term (黄种人):

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%BB%84%E8%89%B2%E4%BA%BA%E7%...
You won't find any. I searched as well. Once you try to make your dapp interact with the real world you run into so many problems that it is very unclear whether it could ever be competitive compared to traditional legal/financial structures.
> We humans have this weird concept, that there's "something", that makes us fundamentally different from the rest of the animal life on this planet. Yes, we've got the largest impact on the biosphere, we can reason about it. But if you were to track back on the coginitive abilities of our evolutionary ancestors, I'd say it would be very difficult to put a hard threshold in the phylogenetic tree, where suddenly a whole subset of means of communication discretly vanishes.

Agreed, there is no hard threshold (biology seems to avoid those anyways) but subjectively there is some sum of fuzzy attributes in humans which allows for us to achieve the highest complexity of lifestyle(?) of all lifeforms on the planet.
I have a 2019 16": 8-core i9, 32GB RAM, 5500M 4GB GPU.

Worst Apple product I have ever owned. Overheating, slow (forever throttling), battery hog.

Can't wait for the Apple Silicon 14/16" MBPs this year.
Basically, digital yuan will be USD replacement but article dare not to make that claim, instead keep saying USD will still be reserve currency which directly conflicting what digital yuan will achieve. The entire discussion is just hopeful unrealistic claims similar in line with Bitcoins being the reserve currency because it is "untraceable", "zero transaction cost" and "decentralized". Any major currencies especially serving as reserve currency must have at least these criteria: 1# the backing of world most powerful military. 2# Then the backing of world most powerful financial centres. 3# Then the backing of world trusts. USA has all these 3 far ahead of any other countries. China can't compete in criteria 1# simply because of being a paper tiger. It has internal regionalisation and self-fulfilling expectation of fragmentation which is due now. Its military can't really hold against India or Russia (while USA doable easily though not pretty). China is very authoritarian where digital currency will be closely monitored and control by central entity - CCP. It has also very poor transparency as can be seen by their latest COVID deaths stuck perpectually in their low end thousands since early last year (there are plenty other examples you can ddg). These are not going to give them #3.

Currently powering their currency demand mostly from their export. Brazil, Africa and India will be chipping away that in coming years. In fact there are significant resurgent of moving factories to Vietnam and ASEAN within this 2 years (mainly due to Trump factor). Currently only Shanghai and HK has the financial attractions. But HK trajectories are sliding since their unrest since 2 years ago. The discussions totally ignore reaction from EU, Japan and USA (and to some extend Russia). Western banks will be blocked from accessing/control this digital currency. You think the bankers of the old and new world will just sit idle while a string of Sino bankers take their pies? If you believe that, I got some valuable digital bridges to sell to you at a bargain price.
Try QtQuick2 if you want to target mobile, too. QtWidgwts for desktop only.
People do not get sick and die on the same day from Covid. Numbers of deaths lag by a few weeks. The worst is yet to come :(
I don't see the connection between Smashing Pumpkins and Aphex Twin though, what kind of genre matching do you think would enable that on your specific example?

Not nit-picking, just piqued my curiosity about how you would connect those artists.
Have a play with the CO2 emissions data from OurWorldInData[0]. 416 tons is not to be sniffed at although it is small in the grand scheme of things.

The biggest benefit by Stripe purchasing carbon removal is the increase in awareness, funding and acceleration of research. It takes a lot for a company to buck the trend of $5/ton carbon credit greenwashing and invest $600/ton into active carbon removal.

- [0] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
To allow the next generation the luxury of not being priced entirely out of the market.

The difference as you go down the wealth classes hits a point of, being able to afford a home at all or never being able to purchase a home.
Don't know if this will be it, but a Boer-war type event is in the very near US future.
That solves the problem in the sense that it replaces the problem with another, functionally identical problem.

If the need for escrow diminishes because trust is provided in other ways, then it doesn't really matter to the escrow agency which currency the former customers now use to settle their purchases.
You will be among the first volunteers to go to the frontline, I presume?
To me the issue is the constant races to create more and more annoying ads. I do not mind ads which are relevant and not too annoying, but every time advertisers find a new medium they abuse it as much as they can to squeeze every cent out of the channel even if it ruins it for everyone.
That's a philosophical question. In the end, we don't know what came first: the word (sound), or the abstract mental image. It's quite possible that our analytic ability (the ability to perform abstract thought) evolved after the first communicative speech, simply because there is no need to form coherent abstract "ideas" if your interaction with the world consists solely of concrete objects.
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Because the coefficients of the larger powers are more sensitive, and most attempts to fit those models don't account for that, penalising high weights for those values more. You could have a regularisation regime that accounts for that. It's also why extrapolation fails on them so often.

x^2 grows fast, x^3 even faster. They outpace the other parts of the model. Any changes to those coefficients also means you'll need to change the coefficients of the smaller powers to adjust to the change.

A small amount of error in the largest power means two things - one the error will be exaggerated, because the power has an oversized effect, two the values of the smaller powers will also be wrongly adjusted to account for that error, and will contribute that poor fit to the model as well.
What is the mechanic in Settlers that enables this? Can't think of anything apart from how resources seems to be unevenly used throughout the game (wood and brick being more sought after early on to build roads and settlements, while iron and grain become more important when cities are built later on).
The only gripe I have with it is the approach to security, i.e. the lack of user accounts (even one). So you have to either block the stats by IP (who is doing it these days?) or use other workarounds like proxying by Nginx etc.
I am not sure if lending makes sense if the collateral is the same asset that is borrowed.

A more typical example I can envision:

Someone owns land in Decentraland. The land is an NFT on the Ethereum blockchain. To make profits from the land they need to put a hotel on top of it. But they don't have the means to buy/build the hotel. So they lend Decentracoins (some other asset on the Ethereum blockchain) and provide the land as collateral.

If all goes well, the borrower buys/builds a hotel with the decentracoins. Makes more decentracoins from visitors. Pays back their debt.

If it does not work out, the land goes to the lender.
One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up from the Dirt
Super cool to see Matthew's library as well: https://libfive.com/studio/
I was very worried when I was reading about FSB entering NginX offices in Russia. I think your statement might be a bit too optimistic..
> Honestly, springing this out of the blue on the fans and players both speaks of astonishing arrogance.

Clearly this was not handled well, but Wikipedia does have a page of failed attempts going back to 1998.

My guess would be that they thought pandemic financial losses would allow them to force this through.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_a_European_Sup...
Wherever possible, they've done exactly that—so how is that a criticism? Case in point is the end-to-end encryption of iMessage. Or the at-rest encryption of iOS devices.

In other instances where Apple does have access to your data, there is a plausible justification for that access and no evidence shown where Apple has ever abused that access for commercial gain.
Imagine playing Monopoly but one player starts with a couple properties and a little extra cash in hand. As if that game wasn't bad enough as it is.
Lets imagine the coup is orchestrated by the West.

The guy currently in charge is corrupt and a murderer. Is living in Belarus going to get worse without him?
Spotify shows you the problem with this.

People want access to "everything", that means dividing whatever they're comfortable paying by a massive amount, leaving crumbs for each creator except for the very biggest ones.

I believe any system that tries to scale up to support every creator will have this problem and I suspect the core problem is that consumers want to consume more and pay less than is sustainable.
Sure: the point is that every language has its own set of difficulties and hurdles, and your existing knowledge of other languages may remove or lessen some of those hurdles. So a Farsi speaker will not need to learn the Arabic alphabet from scratch, but (other than loanwords) the languages' vocabularies are different. On the other hand, a Maltese speaker will need to learn the Arabic alphabet, but will find Arabic vocabulary familiar as both Maltese and Arabic are Semitic languages.
Checking the page source, this website almost seems like a quine? The whole HTML is embedded inside a hidden form field.
It's a very good point. IMHO copy right transfers are something to be wary off. Any company that practices that can do a bait and switch on the license. I see it has a hard requirement for long term success of an OSS community to have a large and active community of copyright holders.

IMHO who holds the copyright is more important than the actual license. Anything OSI endorsed should be fine. However, AGPL to me screams "talk to us about buying a special license if you want to use this commercially". That requires copy right transfers. AGPL without copyright transfers does not make sense for companies for this reason.
It's worth noting that the new Siri Remote for Apple TV does not have a U1 chip (the technology that powers AirTag), and so will not be findable in the Find My app. If you want to be able to find your Siri Remote easily, you'll need to buy an AirTag separately and strap it to the remote.

Source: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/20/siri-remote-no-u1-chip/
MDBG, too, offers their data for download https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=cc-cedict

I think they prefer paying the one-time cost of a relatively small download over the continuous cost of performing a search every time a user of some other service wants to look up a word.
Reading that they need cameras to monitor the roads makes me think, why not have the government pay people to install data collecting sensors/cameras on their private cars.

Yeah, the answer to the "why not" is simple, because most governments can't be trusted nowadays, especially not with data. Which is a freaking sorry state of the world.
Interesting article.

One thing is what is happening internally in China's yuan economy. That really doesn't threathen the status of the USD.

Another thing is whether better logistics, credit extension backed by assets (such as a partially manufactured product from a factory) would do the demand for holding cash (which would be mostly dollars) in international trade.
"All those things will never break among the common folk."

Just like normal folk will never use TCP/IP, know HTML etc?

Nobody needs to know that something runs on a blockchain or how NFTs work. Yes you need to know now but in 10 years my mum will use these things without having any idea what they are. Same as she's using an ipad now without knowing objective C or any underlying protocols and tech.
CBDCs enable negative nominal interest rates on cash deposits, not just on bonds.

What I don't understand is the consequences of that on private banks.
note.com isn't the site, it's url-wiki.com. If you translate it with Google Translate you get the gist of it.
Have to say that I've not tested it yet, but https://www.mint-lang.com/guide seems like the "rust safety equivalent for the front end" you are searching for.

Anyway, scrollbar loops and other stuff are not going to be resolved by this kind of tools I think
> Developing the SQL schema backing that UI is arguably something that is 100% deterministic and can have mathematical proofs established which prove its correctness one way or another.

Maybe you can prove what software does, but "proving" that what it does is the right thing is necessarily subjective and grounded in reality; mathematical proofs need to get dirty.
Opera just got even faster with M1 support for Mac
The self-host documentation returns a 404: https://cusdis.com/doc#/self-host/installation
Most fans are delusional. They believe it is a fair game that their club is like a charity. The for money parts are totally ignored even though they fork thousands of dollars every seasons for their club while they have financial difficulties. Seen this many times already personally. Those profiteer did correct assessment rationally. Given 2 years, these fans will happily pump money into ESL just like EA new buggy releases and then truck load of dlcs. The risk here is mainly the obstacle to flatten that delusion of fairness of the game. Here they should have bribe the politicians and media to side with them. Surprisingly this wasn't pursue.
You contradict yourself. It's not any "improvement" if the results are the same as before.

The user realizes no "improvement" here at all. The bottom line is that 3rd party cookies were being successfully blocked --- and for good reasons --- so Google built a workaround --- which is now being blocked too.

The apparent plan being that most users are clueless lemmings who will continue to use Google Chrome --- for no good reason. Stupidity gets exploited --- a universal law of commerce.
Isn't this the same basic principle that drove American suburbia? Expand the outskirts with building houses on bigger plots of land and empty the city centers. It just seemed to have killed city centers in the US.

Granted that Finland has a very different culture (disclaimer: I live in Sweden) and we aren't in the 50s anymore to invest heavily on a car-centric society but incentivising people to move away from city centres can have unpredictable consequences 20-50 years down the line.
It might get worst if country gets into a war situation like in Ukraine..
> I rather enjoy being able to set breakpoints in my view templates to confirm the state of affairs in local testing.

That’s a local development environment.

Have you had similar experiences when dealing with deployed applications? How did you do it? It’s rather more difficult when, eg. You can’t have a copy of visual studio there to use on your production deployments.
Yes, that's what our politicians here in Germany also said. And now they don't get why people are mad at them, who could have known that the thing hospitals, the state epidemic institute and other experts warned about would actually happen, and its totally unfair to blame them for needless deaths!
You are asking the wrong question. "What is NFT for" question has a million convoluted and opaque answers with zero practical information.

Better question would be - "what is NFT". And the answer is JSON file with a hyperlink inside. That is all, literally nothing else is in NFT and no existing legal artifacts are any way related to selling/buying of NFTs.
IIRC, thermal light sources have a coherence length of about 10µm. Otherwise reflection holograms wouldn't work when viewed in a thermal light source.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-film_interference
> This is one of those very rare events where the 1st generation product was actually a huge leap forward and the hype was totally justified.

I'm pretty much laughing at the fanatics here and the early adopters, especially the existing power users and developers who went all in and bought it on launch day and until now who were hit with multiple bugs, unstable 'workarounds', beta preview software issues, recovery OS failures and so on with the immature software ecosystem on the M1 which they don't tell you about here. That was the hype.

I am long term Apple Silicon, but not any 1st generation Apple product or even M1.

> It's actually made a mockery of the ancient wisdom of "Always avoid 1st generation Apple products" rule. You are wrong.

Was this you with the 'fanatics' on launch day suggesting macOS for Docker on Apple Silicon at the time? [0]

Say I immediately joined the hype train in November, you're telling me that I have to wait almost half a year since the launch of M1 for Docker to be stable? You might as well skip last year's model and go for the M1X or M2 Macbook. No point chasing a 6 month old product when the software was not even ready and Apple will refresh the line up to M1X or M2 this year.

For professionals and existing Mac users, the rule still stands. It's always about the tiny small prints that Apple discloses or what they just don't tell you until you actually buy it but it's clear that many others have already done this for me; Including yourself.

I don't upgrade my Macs as if they are iPhones. Unlike most here. By the time I move to Apple Silicon, all these issues and limitations will be fixed on a M1X/M2 Mac or higher. No rush to get last year's model and plenty of time to wait for the Intel Macs to be unsupported and I will be getting a newer generation Apple Silicon-based Mac. Not specifically M1.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25081189
Only those who know nothing of war could wish for it to happen. You're totally for dragging Russia into a bloody war until your dear ones will be killed by this war. Remember that Russia rockets are pointed all over the world and death of the human civilization is one button press away, so even if you're sitting in US, you're not safe.

Putin is not eternal. He's old man. He'll die soon. He'll likely give up presidency earlier. If Putin is all you hate about Russia, you just have to wait a little bit.
Researchers’ VR walking simulator feels surprisingly close to the real thing
> For me, he's the greatest President because of the ACA.

This is the very definition of uncritical, subjective thinking. :\
Let's pretend the lender is "smart contract" (even though it's not). You lend X to the smart contract, and after a while the smart contract pays you X+y. Where does the y come from?
Lockdowns hurt poor people very badly; they need to earn to survive. All the more reason everyone should mask up. And yet, most people stopped masking months ago. Crowds are as bad as they were in 2019.

On top of that, doctors here have created a craze for remdesivir, resulting in a blackmarket for it.

The central and state governments have mismanaged plenty of things. While they deserve their share of blame, the ordinary people have only made matters worse. Chin-mask, no-mask, herbal "remedies", religious gatherings, weddings, engagements, naming ceremonies... the list goes on.

As a truly perfect representative of the people, the chief minister here got COVID once, got vaccinated, and then got COVID a second time.
With fat tailed distributions, like the ones our latencies tend to look like, the signal is in the tail. The central/common observations are just noise and tell you little to nothing about how the system performs.

That said, I do look at percentiles in addition to the max. But I find the 99th, 99.9th, and the max together tells me a lot more about the system performance than the uninformative stuff at the 90th and below.