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> By your analogy, John Deere is a food company, because people aren't there for the tractors, they're there for the harvested crops. But that doesn't work because John Deere and Conagra are not the same kind of operation.

Deere's customers are there for the tech. They're handing over money for it.

Twitter's customers are there for the audience. The audience is there for... the rest of the audience. Their tech is entirely incidental to their value. Calling twitter a tech company is like calling Deere a factory company—one uses tech and one uses factories, but that's not what they are.

[EDIT] To be clear, I'm not saying we should call John Deere a tech company—I don't think it's the best label, even as a very broad one, for what they do—but I do think Twitter is so not one that it'd make more sense to call Deere a tech company than Twitter.
People who think they're smarter than everyone else tend to be very gullible. It's not about TV, its about you.

If you want to be smart, don't judges technologies based on supposed virtues signalled; judge them by understanding how they work independent of how their salesmen say they work. Learn, know and understand.

Your entire world view is pretty dumb: who is signalling what I should be allied to?

That's a dumb question; and it signals that you're ripe for abuse. All you need to be sold an idea is to have it associated, by signals of virtue, with what you hate.

You're not alone. This type of gullibility is the mentality of most victims of crypto; and indeed, many scams.

80% of the crypto community is people who think they're smarter than the people scamming them -- that's the other 20%, and they're winning
> but I don't think they looked like bad ideas to almost everyone. A lot of what qualifies as innovative from your tech community really just might be crap.

Cool. How about brain surgery? Clarification: how about brain lobotomies?

Without the benefit of hindsight, can you explain how open heart surgery is "clearly" good and innovative while the later is harmful. I mean, everyone knows it's a good idea: it even won a Nobel Prize.

The fact is, everyone only obviously knows an idea was crap or obvious in hindsight.
> Even just paying multiple times more for reliability in the forms of quality components is a hard sale.

Hard to justify 2-4 the cost when a consumer has no idea if it will last 2-4 times as long (or the warranty will be honored).
The consequences of a 51% attack are greatly overstated. A 51% attacker can prevent new transactions from confirming, and roll back recent transactions. They can't roll back transactions that happened (roughly) longer ago than the sustained duration of the attack. They can't mint extra coins, or double-spend arbitrarily old transactions. Under 51% conditions, you need to be more careful about accepting recently-confirmed payments, similar to 1 sat/vB transactions in a full mempool today. You can still transact, you just need to be patient and careful. The value will drop, yes, but it won't go to zero unless the attacker is able to sustain the attack indefinitely.
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I don't think it common, but I feel you. I have a TV, but it's a 3rd computer screen just for playing movies. Every now and then someone from my family calls me asking for help with her TV, something broke, video is breaking, there's white noise on, or audio interrupts, etc. Gradma calls me because I work with computers. I don't have an antenna or decoder or something else I don't even know what these things are called. For music I play from phone connected to bluetooth speakers.

>I’m happy to announce the release of a new tvOS app called Blank

This got me so confused, I didn't even know TVs have apps, I mean I knew there is AndroidTV and nvidia shield, but somehow concept of 3rd party apps on a TV didn't get to me.
It’s not personal, it’s not stupidity it’s just business and there are hundreds of thousands of developers who are willing and capable of replacing any of us.

I agree that it's just business, and that ultimately what employees at most large companies are paid for -- is to smile, and eat boneheaded apparently blatantly hypocritical directives from upper management (in the latter sense, referring specifically to the attempt to drag mid-level employees back to the office, while top lieutenants are apparently exempt).

But I don't see why we're not allowed to call it "stupid" (or to apply even stronger words) when that's plainly what it is.

The alternative is to start your own business.

Or join a company with more manageable levels of cognitive dissonance.
Can you demonstrate this at all? Bitcoin has been mined for over a decade and never came even close. When miners drop off, mining difficulty decreases.

If you're talking about a nuclear war scenario, we will have much bigger problems than bitcoin mining being slow.
It ranges from $10 to $90 depending on the state (average is ~$30) and most states also have a discounted rate for people under the poverty line.
I agree, it seems so simple. The more we focus on this stuff the more it makes people adopt it as a worldview, imho. I just don't understand why people want to look at the world this way - and it is something you need to be taught.
you assume that just because some one is brilliant, they use 100% of their time trying to make discoveries?
Yeah, I meant it enables one to listen to whatever without the display on, for some definitions of whatever..
1. As other people mention Bitcoin is highly divisible.
2. Other Bitcoins simply becomes more valuable and thus strengthening the system
Who gets to say what is sane moderation? Sane is not something I would ascribe to Musk.
On a similar note, it is becoming increasingly popular to assert that there's no such thing as free will, asserting that this will lead to "compassion" for people convicted of crimes. But it's really about giving up on people, warehousing them, and denying them any chance at all. It is a caste system, just disguised as a compassion system, or a "justice" system, all a nothing system in which people mean nothing.
> The big telcos were handing out data in miserly amounts and eye bleeding prices (think 50 bucks for 1MB then another 30-50 for SMS). AT&T was willing to pair with an unlimited plan set the iPhone wildly ahead of all the other phones in that category.

From what I recall, the original iPhone only supported 2G, while contemporary phones supported 3G. I remember a lot of criticism around the iPhone web experience because of that, even though the interface was clearly superior to everyone who used it.

It looks like there were relatively competitive data plans available[1] that offered unlimited data. I'm not really convinced that that was the problem.

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1. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/04/data-plans-the-barri...
My vim experience is going to be more ergonomic than ever, plus after I deliver this project I'm gonna be ripped.
It's very hard to compare Supabase + Firebase pricing because it depends on which features you're using. For example, API requests are free on Supabase and paid on Firebase.

The 500 connections you quoted is for the "Realtime" feature (which provides multiplayer functionality). You're correct, this is 500 clients connected simultaneously
My test query is "why LOLIN S3's LED is not working". All LLM failed on that query, this included.
My favorite way to mine bitcoin!

https://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-an...
> _reasonably_ trust a power-only USB ... like the built in ports on aircraft.

I'm with you, this might fall under "safe". Then again, from threads posted here and elsewhere, and through personal investigation...the infotainment systems on airplanes are an absolute disaster with regards to security and software design. They're often part of the same system as the provided USB ports. While the risk is small, there's nothing stopping 1 person from running a script that exploits some flaw in the outdated Linux distro the airline is using to manage their in-flight entertainment.

There's also a chance I'm paranoid and spend too much time here, but I'm gonna stick with my Altoids.
> There isn't anything in gradient optimisation that has to do with "meaning" at all.

That seems like a disingenuous interpretation of what I was saying. It should have been obvious and implied that I was referring to a loss function that was designed and engineered to choose a model that optimally captures meaning relations in the data (among other things). Gradient descent is directed by its loss function and that is not some random arbitrary function. For GPT it was specifically engineered for the purpose of selecting a model that captures meaning etc. These models are also trained with reinforcement learning which is a topic I don't know much about yet.

> it seems to me you're trying to close that gap by alluding to how humans close it.

I am talking about deep neural networks, not humans. GPT is a type of deep neural network. We do know something about how they work.

> It's incredibly complex. I don't know what "sophisticated" means.

I don't have time or patience for this pseudo-intellectual nitpicking. Just look it up in a dictionary. Basic English.

"Sophisticated (adjective) - (of a machine, system, or technique) developed to a high degree of complexity. E.g.
"highly sophisticated computer systems""
This is indeed a theme for large software companies, but Microsoft has perfected it over the years. The way they turned open source and web technologies to further their goals is just another reminder. Many companies are now entrapped into Azure-related software that can only survive in a Microsoft world.
Adobe demo'd this 10 years ago and never launched the product
Oh yeah, the “should”. I agree on that one. One way or another, it’s going to be an interesting ride.
The power and control wielded by centrally planned economies allows for wide-scale top-down dictation which vastly exceeds that of the democratic-capitalistic states. Thus enabling destruction on this scale. It's not about specifics of ideology, it's about how much authority is concentrated in the hands of the central planners. If central planning only works in a world where perfect knowledge of the state of the economy is possible, then central planning can never work.

Fun side note: I really love The Culture sci-fi series by Iain M. Banks, for it's depiction of a truely utopian, classless, centrally planned Galactic Empire. As it turns out, this is the ideal form of human social organization provided that the central planning is done almost exclusively by post-singularity benevolent AI ( who are essentially gods). This is about the only scenario where central planning seems viable.
After 600 episodes, Syntax.fm is joining Sentry
3 kids and some foster animals, so I have normal full loads plus some stuff that really needs to be washed separately. On a normal day it's not a problem. But if anything happens that causes a washing backlog then it starts getting logistical and that's when the timer makes things harder. I don't separate whites except for my kids karate gear. My washing machine does 10kg which is 22lbs. I try to fill it where possible.
what's the right answer?
I think this is not a realistic worry for potential attackers. If someone gets control of 51%, there will be a lag time for when people start to truly believe that the currency lost its value. So there will definitely be a huge value gain for any attackers that manage to pull this off.
one nitwit in a town somewhere decides to kill sparrows - stupid, but not too bad

one nitwit, megalomaniac communist dictator decides to kill them all off across a vast country he rules by terror - stupid, and a disaster
The title is confusing but refers to the Huggingface Diffusers v0.15 release which brings new pipelines for video and audio to diffusers, showing that diffusion is a great choice for all sorts of generative tasks.
everything is transitory. Unless people define their words differently.
It's not that it's impartial or unbiased. It's that it's not an editorial arm for the state. The United States doesn't even have a centralized, consistent state-run party that would exercise consistent pressure on NPR to publish certain stories or frame them in a certain way. It's an absurd comparison to link these to Chinese or Russian state-affiliated media.
Some skepticism, but not too much. There's a decent possibility the self-sabotage at Intel stopped after new CEO Pat Gelsinger took over.

Previous leadership was seriously mismanaging things. The following comment sheds some light on their stagnation during the 10nm/'Intel 7' node development period:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31759034
i know where i grew up
> I've been deep in technology my entire life

> gun to my head, I could not give even a rough definition of what the metaverse is or is supposed to be

I don't think you're as deep as you think you are then. Come on give it a try - what is the metaverse?
It is unacceptable to charge people any amount of money for a voting requirement.
It's uniquely grimly funny because "how do disparate impact & outcomes emerge across racial lines in systems that are explicitly written without regards to race" is a pretty complex and interesting question that a lot of scholars have added to the understanding of over the years.

The loosely collected framework formed by those approaches was what used to be called critical race theory, before the right wing moral panic got their hands on it and made it mean something else.
I'm not aware of dozens of definitions, at least not which apply to the context of this particular thread. Maybe you should start at the Wikipedia page[0] for what is commonly accepted as the general definition.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse
You can use it to replace the people you care most about in life if you have so much as a petty argument, because machines are perfect and people are not. :)
>> I figured that I don't mind my kids playing computer games as long as they move.

These could also be of interest for inspiration as well - basic idea this Youtuber is doing is to use console gamer joystick re-mapper hardware to convert joycon acceleration readings to button presses/button combos.

Can you Lose weight by playing Breath of the Wild? - Ringfit Controller Mod Explained Version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYn3pWXMPF8

- Today we talk about the Ringfit Adventure controller mod for Zelda: Breath of the Wild. With this mod you can Exercise and play BotW at the same time.

I made a Ring Fit Adventure Mod for Mario Kart - Controller Bending

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNZSfunw85A

- Today on Controller Bending we mod the Ring fit controller to play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with. With this Ring-con mod you have to run to drive. Literally. Squeezing the ring-con activates items!

I'd imagine a lot of similar mods could be done via computer vision instead of using joycon accel readings.

I think the key would be to show up to a gaming console as a PS4/XBox controller instead of just a keyboard. I think there are Python libraries to do this [1] or just stick to Steam games that just need WASD controls. This allows you to tap into already huge library of high quality games and just focus on the OpenCV movement-> joystick button remapping part.

[1] Something like this - although it might be Windows only https://pypi.org/project/vgamepad/
The suggestion of OP is that 30seconds is too long.

I have to agree. Thats why every single industry has their own term for "above the fold".

It is easy to understand. It could crucially be easier to understand, reaching more people, if it was faster to explain itself.
Because the NPR receives almost no money from the federal government. Read the article. It receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
>I dunno about you, but I and basically everyone in my circles at the time agreed that it was most likely a terrible idea.

Same. No wireless, less space than a Nomad. Lame.
Or the covering of an air vent in a house.
They are not categorized as a publisher. They receive legal protections as such. This will quickly evolve into a section 230 debate.

I do agree social media companies should be categorized as a publisher - or content providers, but they are not. I think changing section 230 would solve a lot of problems by removing very specific legal protections, which news companies do not receive, and help prevent clear issues such as knowingly promoting false information.

There are those that disagree with me. Problems exist with any solution such as who should judge what should not be allowed and would the counter devolve into an organization that could control information dissemination? A valid point. I think the answer is already out there - a very low standard (or to say another way the high burden of proof required) current news organizations are held to by law, which most seem not to debate is too restrictive, or some line between nothing and that.

There is a lot of academic discourse on this topic and I recommend researching 230 more. It’s a fascinating policy debate with pros and cons on both sides. It was written in 1996, the year the palm pilot and the Pentium 166MHz processor was introduced.
> They took a hard turn left after Trump was nominated.

This would seemingly support that they are less than state controlled; The idea that the executive branch, the senate majority, and the house majority would be criticized by a state sponsored media in recent history suggests independence.
> Online users are now more interested in engaging, up-to-date content rather than keeping up with their friends' activities.

I'm still interested in keeping up with friends, but Facebook has undermined this by anti-patterns that show me more ads, more trashy content, more recommendations, and less actual content from friends. If Facebook wasn't incentivized to maximize the number of ads it showed, maybe it would be able to actually deliver on that value proposition to users.
> This is nonsense. Nothing is "created" when someone says something superstitious. There is no cause and effect. Supernatural entities/realms either exits or they do not. And there is zero evidence they do.

WHY does a person say something superstitions? What makes it superstitious if not the beliefs behind the statement? You didn't answer this fundamental question.

> Whether or not they actually do doesn't matter, it is rational to not believe in them until someone presents evidence for their existence.

This is an assertion without any proof. Your only proof for this is the burden of proof. The burden of proof itself demands that it be proven. A religious person might assert that it is true because it was made so, but you have no such fallback, so you MUST prove the burden of proof in order to assert it as a meaningful argument.

> His theorem says no such thing. It simply makes a statement about the trade-off between the consistency of axiomatic systems and the provability of truth statements. I could easily just argue the universe is a system with inconsistent axioms where every law can be proved.

He most definitely does. His point was to expressly disprove the "theory of everything" that mathematics attempted to achieve at the time.

If you come up with a mathematical framework of the universe, either it cannot be proven or it is NOT the correct framework.

Trusting in a model that MIGHT be correct, but is not provable shares your definition of superstition. Just because your superstition changes over time doesn't make it any less superstitious (in fact, most superstitions change over time).

Your appeal to science is just a no true Scotsman fallacy where you attempt to redefine superstition to be "everything except what I believe".

> This is called science. We collect evidence. We develop approximations of reality that best conform to this evidence. We collect new evidence. We refine our approximations.

This was the original claim of astrology and many other superstitions.

> I don't care what "so many theoretical physicists" believe. I care what they publish in peer-reviewed literature.

You should care because it will be reflected in what they publish and why they publish it. Likewise, it will reflect what they do not publish or decide not to research in the first place.

> Perhaps humans are hardwired to make spears and kill each other or hunt and gather. That doesn't mean we should be doing that in 2023.

This is a non-sequitur. Humans are hardwired to breath. Should we stop that in 2023? Your statement is completely orthogonal to the current value of religion or the ability to "overcome" its influence.
You're seeing the government entity as separate from the corporate entity, but quite often in the US its the other way around. The government entity is a rather hollow shell, and the 'brains' of the operation is contracted out to the corporation. The government entity would almost cease to exist if the corporation under it magically disappeared.
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the browser extension is just where i started. a gmail add-on that will be released in the nearish future.

would you mind sharing the issue or concern about using a browser extension?
Social media companies are media distribution companies. They're analogous to the street-corner newspaper and magazine shop, except they only occasionally pay their content producers. They're more related to media than cyberspace is to space.
I asked for alternatives to a python library. I did not turn on expert mode because it wasn't clear to me what that meant: expert in the topic, expert in using your tool, maybe something else. I tried turning that on just now and it gave me an answer that looked worse, but so slowly that I gave up before I got to the end.
> Maybe the context of this appearing on HN is shifting the perception of this page, but this is posted on an individual's blog. If the author had the mindset of "literally don't have to write anything more than that", then they wouldn't have been blogging for seemingly 15 years.

100% agree. But the OP is the highest rated comment, so clearly HN thinks this is important.
I think any HR manager or legal professional that would let a company anywhere near this shouldn't be employed as such. This sounds like a defamation lawsuit waiting to happen.
The ideas of communism are that of the command economy, total centralization. Someone at the TOP decides all of this stuff. This means that if someone at the top (who is not to be questioned, see Mao's other wacky hijinx) makes any kind of error, well, you don't hear about it until it is unavoidably terrible. No early feedback, everyone is afraid to give it to you.

In a more decentralized setup, it is bottom-up, and suddenly "hey this isn't working" gets propagated. Also, a peer is more willing to call you on your bullshit, but if you're a dictator, you just get yes-men.

Essentially, the setup was such that anyone less than a perfectly informed leader who never made mistakes would wreak havoc.
The thing is the carrying case is super small and easy to lose unless you attach it to something big.
More Americans View China as ‘Enemy’ as Trust in Xi Deteriorates
Yes, but not because of type conversion: Python's booleans are a subclass of int.
The single biggest threat to BTC isn't that. It is tokenized BTC. As soon as enough people realize that there is a lot more utility to bitcoin, as a tokenized version, on other networks, they might stop using bitcoin itself. I did that years ago.
I don't see much colour running happening except with brand new clothing, which I always wash separately the first time. Maybe you're washing too hot?
What’s your business model for this? Free GPT-4 seems too good to be true…

whats the catch?