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>> It's about formulating laws that describe the behaviour of physical systems - that's the essence of what Physics is.

I didn't see any attempt to formulate laws. The researchers trained a neural net model to predict the next event in a sequence. That is not a natural law, it's a maximum probability estimator.

To clarify, a natural law would be a formula with variables that one can plug in numbers to, in order to predict the behaviour of a system. For example, Newton's law of gravitation is a natural law, Kepler's laws of planetary motion are natural laws, the laws of thermondynamics are natural laws. But a neural net model trained to predict the next frame in a video? How is that a "law"?
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India withdraws personal data protection bill that alarmed tech giants
The core problem with most social media, including TikTok, is that they fully control how you can consume the content, be it the endless-recommendations-scrolling of TikTok or the Twitter or Facebook timeline. You can't browse it in a non-addicting fashion, even if you tried, as third party clients are not allowed.

So the solution should be to force them to open up to third party clients. This won't magically make the problem go away completely, but not having so much content locked inside a Skinner box would certainly be helpful.
Re pickleball as a sport.

I started playing two years ago. I was worried it was a sport for old people but every age plays and matches get really competitive.

Here are the benefits I see that make it a pretty unique sport:

Open play times and venues all over my county. I can go play almost any time I want without having to coordinate with other people.

Very social sport where you meet a lot of new people.

Easy to start playing and actually have fun but it can take a lifetime to master.

There’s enough of a strategy element to the game that an experienced 80 year could beat a beginner 18 year old. (Yet speed and athleticism plays a major role between equally skilled players.)

It’s a great way to get hours of intense cardio without even realizing it.

(This is all coming from someone who hated tennis every time I tried it.)
Yes. Try to be a cold-blooded professional. Do your job without attachment. Your company is not your family. It will end one day, but you will still be going. What you take away is experience, learning from success and mistakes, connections, and most importantly - friendships. The rest is insignificant.
The supply kept up just fine, farmers were literslly destroying food a few months ago because our 'efficient' market system wouldn't pay them and store this food for a rainy day, and now we have shortages and inflation.

But it's heresy to blame the market for being shortsighted, and to suggest any kind of long-term planning is needed.

https://www.businessinsider.com/food-destroyed-farms-amid-co...
Thing is nearly all the ARM-chip manufactures are similar or the same.
One of the weird things about the Apple M chips (well at least on Laptops) is you can make the more open source than most ARM chips.
It deters a lot more than that. Remember when you couldn't migrate phone numbers, before carriers were forced by regulators? So many NANP phone number blocks absconded... You know carriers have the same recourse as car dealerships for having their property stolen, right? More, because mobile phones are serialized tracking devices that can be remotely disabled with a simple addition to the IMEI blacklist.
Ads should never be above perfect matches, this is misleading.
“On purpose” probably wasn’t the right wording. What I mean is that sometimes it will give an answer that is obviously wrong, like 2+2=5. Seems like that would be hard to catch if you’re doing something complicated.
>They say that by extracting ground water to sell, bottled water companies are actually draining natural waterways.

Okay but people have to drink somehow right? It's not like if nestle stopped operating that the demand for water would evaporate. It'll just cause another waterway to be depleted instead.

The other point raised in the article seems to be that nestle is taking water, which it pays little to nothing for, and charging $1/bottle or whatever. This sounds outrageous on the surface, until you realize that water in a well or whatever isn't really useful. You still need to bottle and transport it, which is where most of the value-add is. If people only needed water they'd get it from their tap, not buying $1 bottles. When they are buying bottles, they're paying for the convenience of water being available right then and there.
This is like saying the US had segregation and internment camps in the 40s, so it had no moral standing on the USSR and Nazi Germany committing genocide. Which would be complete nonsense.
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I mean, I think I have some idea. The problem is more on the affordability side. I had to scale up the containers in my cluster to cope with the increase in 502s. I live with the fear of a high AWS bill. Then there is the question of the proxy rotators data limit being breached, which happened! I topped it up for now. Now I’d rather spend time asking Zillow to allow me to exist rather than trying to architect a more efficient proxy mechanism.
And indeed, there's an important caveat in the Django 4.1 docs;

Note that, at this stage, the underlying database operations remain synchronous, with contributions ongoing to push asynchronous support down into the SQL compiler, and integrate asynchronous database drivers....

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/releases/4.1/#asynchro...
We seem to be talking past one another, and from what I can tell you are more or less agreeing with me. Supporting additional traffic takes additional money. The estimation of the amount of money it costs to support the traffic they receive is evidence of this being the case.

Commenter
> In an era of unlimited scaling infrastructure, it's a shame they're struggling to capitalize on an exclusive superbowl scale marketing event.

My Reply
> Unlimited Scale = Unlimited Cost

You
> estimate the cost of a limited amount of traffic

Me
> wasting time talking in circles reiterating my original point
> And can you publish your ground breaking research without being authorised by your boss?

As a student. Yes? How would they stop you?
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Come work on Gaia Ai! We are using a very similar tech stack to the AI we use to build for autonomous vehicles to solve the problems holding back forest carbon credits, and create truly impactful incentives towards making high impact with forests.

Cheers,
Peter McHale
The US just bombed a dude in a foreign country they recently abandoned. As a different non-American the level of anti-TikTok sentiment still seems really weird.
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I think the more accurate measure is the median salary. It’s not that high now and probably wasnt back then either.
> A map between algebraic curves is defined by polynomials.

That's a statement that requires IMO justification.

Is that really always the case?

Does it somehow stem from the fact that the source and destination sets are - albeit large - finite?

Again: not obvious.
what inspired you to make this?
What won't net zero be enough for?

The mythical climate change boogeyman, that's hasn't melted all the glaciers or put Manhattan underwater like we were warned of 30 years ago.The fearmongering is all based on models- and covid demonstrated how useless those are with complex systems.

What's the solid evidence any of it will happen? The IPCC model is an average of other models, it has no validity by itself (just reject the carp models until it's past performance looks good). What models have had an accurate forecast and for how long?

https://nypost.com/2020/01/10/the-telling-tale-of-glacier-na...
Lol, I never knew this song but I knew a similar song by Sean Kennedy called Wear Body Armour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUq6YotwOIo
I guess we'll only know for sure when Thibault loses interest in lichess or gets hit by a bus, but I think lichess could continue without him.

There are only people working with him, he's not alone in the project. And other people have access to the servers so even if he dies suddenly without having time to do a hand-off the project could still continue.
Yeah to me seems they rather buy data, so in the app I see ads about things things I've looked for somewhere else. Never seen it other way around, but maybe it is more subtle - YouTube Shorts and TikTok have a huge overlap in content for me, but does it mean YouTube buys my data from TikTok?
This is pure speculation, not based in any kind of falsifiable science.
Java's Loom model really does feel like the future of concurrency in many ways.
The company I was at in March 2020 had no issues getting more general purpose compute, and our growth was massive
The climate has always changed. Trying to stop it is an exercise in stupidity.
Nuclear power has a lot of room for improvement. The problems are related to cost and complexity of the specific designs, not fundamental to the physics of using nuclear reactions for energy. Much like early computers, the current designs are large and difficult to build. There is a lot of potential to scale down and reduce costs, like was done for computers.

Molten salt reactors, for instance, offer a massive potential reduction in size and complexity (they eliminate a lot of the risks of water-cooled designs, so shouldn't need the same kind of massive containment structure to contain e.g. large volumes of highly radioactive steam in the event of a failure).

If next-gen fission research got even 10% of the resources that are currently spent on fusion, I think we would see a lot of progress towards improving the economics.
Most laws are at least somewhat ambiguous and unreadable for the layperson. The gist of the GDPR is not particularly hard to understand and a lot of the complexity comes from covering obvious loopholes. In my opinion, the GDPR is not clumsily implemented at all (well, not within its text anyway). It's also deliberately technology-agnostic, to prevent a trivial loophole (Oh, I'm not tracking you through cookies, I'm tracking you through Biscuits™, totally different!) and that's one reason why a list of scenarios with clear-cut answers is not really possible.

A lot of tech involves interacting with data about people, so the software industry is affected by GDPR particularly hard. That's why you'll have a lot of people on a tech industry news website who may gave to consult a lawyer about the regulation.

Similarly, new traffic safety laws might have logistics companies seeking legal advice, health and safety regulations might have food companies doing the same or financial regulations might have any type of company ask a lawyer about the implications.

Besides, you might not be a layperson. There's a good chance if you frequent this website that you are a professional expert in different ways to store and use data for various purposes. In that case it might be a wise idea to take the time to learn your legal responsibilities with personal data to a slightly deeper standard than most people do.
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It drives ad revenue. Content quality doesn't matter, only you watching as much ad's as possible.

I've switched to using Yewtu.be, it's a proxy where you can have subscriptions and, for instance, only see new content, chronologically, from your subscriptions. Does make it a bit harder to find new stuff, but at least no spam.

And the search seems less spammy too, not sure.
I've thought about this myself before so this was an interesting read! I've thought in particular about quantum theories and how they are so hard to reconcile with gravity, and the hierarchy problem. Maybe we do simply struggle because this reality is so distant from the one we experience that we have trouble understanding it. Or maybe it is because we formalized it empirically but we got off on the wrong foot unlike Einstein's part that seems to come together better. Max Planck built his framework, not because he understood why quantum physics is the way it is, but because he observed how it worked. Since it works, we build upon that, what else can we do... So it looks like it's right to build on but we're having the damndest time to move forward. This can be very hard to later backtrack on!
It also incidentally underscores the amazing predictive powers of Noam Chomsky, when he thinks he's describing something that common sense indicates is dumb, and then a few years later someone actually goes out and does it, and does it in earnest, and unironically, and tries to promote it as an actual advance:

So for example, take an extreme case, suppose that somebody says he wants to eliminate the physics department and do it the right way. The “right” way is to take endless numbers of videotapes of what’s happening outside the video, and feed them into the biggest and fastest computer, gigabytes of data, and do complex statistical analysis — you know, Bayesian this and that [Editor’s note: A modern approach to analysis of data which makes heavy use of probability theory.] — and you’ll get some kind of prediction about what’s gonna happen outside the window next. In fact, you get a much better prediction than the physics department will ever give. Well, if success is defined as getting a fair approximation to a mass of chaotic unanalyzed data, then it’s way better to do it this way than to do it the way the physicists do, you know, no thought experiments about frictionless planes and so on and so forth. But you won’t get the kind of understanding that the sciences have always been aimed at — what you’ll get at is an approximation to what’s happening.

http://chomsky.info/20121101/
But why do they need regulations to do that? Can't they just... not sell to consumers?
None of this detracts from concerns about Tiktok and the CCP though. Just as Microsoft funding anti-Google pieces doesn't detract from Google's near monopoly status in online advertising. Competitors do that all the time, you can't let that be a distraction from what the underlying problems are.
> That is a ton of wasted work, and there are literally sections in the PHP docs about tools to circumvent this problem.[0]

Install opcache, done. No need for hyperbole.
Is probably correct. There is another comment in this post and I did some investigation. The 3.89 million dollar property was erroneously entered as 389 million.
Censorship has removed much of the good content.
Thanks!

It's not vector text (webp doesn't do that). You are seeing the magic text recognition that iOS can do on images.
> use an async app server like uvicorn with async views instead of gunicorn

I believe gunicorn with the uvicorn worker class is the recommended production server.

> For production deployments we recommend using gunicorn with the uvicorn worker class.

https://www.uvicorn.org/#running-with-gunicorn
That doesn't sound like it would meet the drinking water needs of a family of four, but the one in the article does.
Public Relations (PR) is not advertising.
Fertilizer in water is a problem to this day in capitalist USA. And every attempt to limit it is attacked, ironically, as communism.

https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/sources-and-solutions-...

The EPA itself was started by a right-wing president because rivers were catching fire due to pollutants.

In China, a nominally communist party is working to shift from coal because air pollution was a threat to their continued rule.

Politics is definately important to climate change, but not the team sports level politics that many indulge in.
The sad thing is, this is the same problem TV has had for a long time that YouTube was solving. TV programming will take 10 minutes of content and stretch it into 40 minutes of filler with 20 minutes of commercials. YouTube used to have a much better content to filler ratio in general. "It was said that you would destroy the TV producers, not join them."
Hey, cool to see you post on HN. I started following you and your dad on YouTube during the pandemic.

It's been fascinating how you've (very intentionally) built your online following. Between social media vectors, the website, forums, paid tier access, pricing tools, and now insurance, you have quite the operation.

Other folks on HN should take notes on what you've accomplished so far.
I almost always tear up when I hear this song. I was 13 when it came out. It brings out a mix of nostalgia and “wisdom of life”, if that’s a thing.

Every decade the lyrics have new meaning.

I believe our generation genuinely wears more sunscreen :)
Not the place for me apparently
Counter argument: YouTube has been absolutely great for me. Spend at least 2 hours a day on it and YouTube knows me.

On my desktop it shows me action sports and high energy stuff. While in bed on my phone it's mostly science and documentaries and historical boxing fights. It doesn't ever recommend me anything mainstream.

Sometimes YT treats me on some really good gems as well.

The biggest problem is, the first 1-2 rows are mostly videos I haven't clicked on. Have to scroll more down to get to the good stuff.
I went with Django Rest Framework when I used it for a project because it provided things I would otherwise spend says implementing out of the box. The one thing I definitely did implement for myself was filtering, the built-in stuff was kind of mediocre for our needs, outside of that I want to say we left pagination and everything else as-is. It was a bit of a nightmare to look up documentation on though I will admit, if you don't know the Google Buzzword Soup you got to look up. Previously to that I was using CherryPy and building my entire kitchen sink myself, so it had nice moments and bad moments, but it definitely saved me on time and effort.

You typically do Django + REST because you are already comfortable with Django or because you were already using it, although I could argue, you could consider making your API project stand alone and using CherryPy or even FastAPI for a much nicer experience. The downside there being you wouldn't be using Django's ORM. I really do wish Django's ORM would be spun off into a stand alone project that Django then imports, so anyone else can use it in other non-django specific projects.
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If you were to develop a new web-based text game today (e.g. A Dark Room, Universal Paperclips), what language / framework would you use? RoR, JS, Typescript, etc?
Decades back there was a UI sketch for a phone answering machine. It dropped a marble in a tray for each message received. "New messages? How many?" was a simple glance "New marbles? How many?". To play a marble/message, place it on the play-back dimple. Replay by nudging it. Save the marble, save the message. No "to save this message yet again, press N". Delete by dropping it in the recycling hopper. Running out of length-limited n-slot message storage is running out of marbles in the hopper. Very tactile, tangible affordances. The marbles were merely ID, not storage. But (reliably archival?) storage might be fun too - eg, finding a bag of marbles from when you were a kid? EDIT: Durrell Bishop
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OBS Studio 28 Beta 1 is now available for testing! This will be a HUGE update including 10-bit, HDR support, Apple Silicon support, Qt 6, AMD encoder improvements, NVIDIA Background Removal, new theme, and much, much more.
When politics starts changing words and definitions to manipulate people, sides or groups is when I stop participating. How can I participate in the process if I cant even communicate ideas because the meanings of the words are changing to fit one side or another.
I graduated high school the year this was most popular, so the graduation speaker at my high school made a reference to it. The closest thing I can think of to a hit as a precedent for it is maybe I'm too sexy by Right Said Fred. It was a gimmick song and everybody knew it was one, but it was fun.
What you experience as short videos turning into long ones was to me the addition of ads inside videos everywhere.

SponsorBlock has saved my enjoyment of YouTube and allowed me to subscribe to channels I never would have watched because of their constant self-promotion.

With an adblocker stopping the ads outside the video, and SponsorBlock to stop the ads inside, I enjoy YouTube like never before.
I've yet to visit a country that didn't sell bottled water though. That doesn't seem US specific
Location: Atlanta Ga, USA (planning on moving to another state though).

Remote: Required.

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: Modern C++, some Python, familiar with HTML/CSS/JavaScript but rusty, Qt (also kinda rusty)

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z7nffjr7mikbtya/Iris%20Chase%20Res...

Email: iris (at)) ....... enesda puncutation com (good luck scraping that ;)

Self-taught, I've spent years trying to bootstrap software companies but I've exhausted my ramen money if you catch my drift.

My crowning project is called IVD (github.com/irischase/IVD) which is a GUI programming language and implementation; it's also: A bad way to try to make money from scratch. I really leveled up a ton in all aspects as an engineer from the project, but it's unfinished and in hiatus because after spending 3+ years on it I realized how much time doing anything interesting takes (especially alone) and that I need to pick my battles more wisely. I still want to get back to it someday though, but for now I'm seeking employment to get my ducks in a row. Other highlights are in my resume.

I'm fine with web tech, it just wasn't appropriate for the projects I got most of my experience on. Feel free to reach out if you think I could be useful! :)
The Jetsons were meant to be as predictive of the future as the Flintstones were meant to be historically accurate.

It's part of the golden era of high concept situational comedy: The Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched, The Adams Family, Car 54, Where Are You?, Flipper, Gilligan's Island, The Munsters, My Mother the Car, My Favorite Martian and the Flintstones.

It's a strategy like the western was (Bonanza, Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, Rawhide), to make decent consistent content easier to produce. See also detective shows.

What's much more interesting to me, take SE01E01, Jane goes to get a maid and there's 2 auditions beforehand. The first is a British maid the second is a French, so then what's Rosie? The mammy stereotype. Maybe it's too obvious to mention but I would have assumed many to find that objectionable these days.

Once something gets novelly abstracted, it looks like you can punch down all you want and nobody notices.
Yeah, not particularly proud of the "achievement". I play for fun. My rating has not increased much since I started because I don't really do deliberate practice. I don't analyse my games, etc.

You're pretty much spot on. My average game length is 5 minutes and 7 seconds. lichess tells me my time spent playing is 54 days, 5 hours and 6 minutes and now 15,273 games.

It works out to average just under an hour a day, and I play most days.

Breakdown:
6,157 bullet (90+% are 1+0 but a few 2+1)
7,430 blitz (90+% are 5+0 but a few 3+2)
1,368 rapid (99+% are 10+0)
184 classical (100% are 30+0)

I've also played a small handful of correspondence, chess960, etc. which is why it doesn't quite add up.
> It exposes our 'hypocrisy', and failure to live up to our own democratic standards. That fuels the narrative of the western nations as corrupt.

I don't know why though. It should be clear by now that nobody in the west cares about hypocrisy, democracy, standards or corruption.