skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think some people's expectations of Netflix were downright unrealistic.

When they started streaming, the platform was paying pennies to license shows that were already in syndication. Programs that had already made their money in first runs on network TV and cable.

As streaming became the de facto distribution method for new content, of course the cost of licensing that content ewas going to go up. Streaming licensing fees are no longer just gravy to the studios, they are their primary source of income.

The idea that Netflix could somehow afford to bankroll the entire entertainment industry on $15/mo subscriptions is ridiculous. There were three possible outcomes:

1. Netflix becomes the new cable and charges $100+/mo

2. The output of the entertainment industry shrinks until it is sustainable on $15/mo subscriptions

3. Competitors start popping up and fighting for market share
> Surprisingly, in most cases, the cost of change is close to zero.

That’s surprising alright. The reason developers bring up these what ifs is that they’re trying to prevent the repeat of pain they’ve experienced in the past.

Which is to say, the pain that happens when it turns out the cost of change is terrible. For some things like localization and security, the cost can trend to infinity (we literally never know when the work is done, we just haven’t identified any tasks recently). But there are many many more.
>> I wish we put more resources into educational materials of this level (and with this kind of universal access) as a country.

I'm not sure that's possible. He is free to create videos on his own time, when he has a compelling idea how to present a topic. "put more resources" on a project sounds like funding with a specific agenda and plan - a committee-determined set of topics to cover and then push on creators with a timeline. You can certainly get good results doing that with the right approach and people, but I don't think it will turn out as good as this. For example, 3B1B gut used to work at Khan academy. Not saying Khan is bad, just that 3B1B is better if less prolific.
Anyone have any insight into the state of Takahe? Progress has slowed down a lot in the last two months.
Porsche Synthetic Fuel in Chile
How to cartoonize photo with Stable Diffusion
I'm not sure what the huge problem of wading through things you don't like. I don't like 90% of what Spotify has on it, so what? I just don't click it.
Electric and hydrogen fueled airplanes are progressing. There are also futuristic ideas about powering the planes with ground or space based lasers powered by solar. Zeppelins still scale really well, and ships can use sails again. I believe a lot of this stuff would have already been resolved if we had stopped propping up the fossil fuel industry by funding wars to maintain supply and allowing the industry to externalize its costs.
First Republic handed out billions in ultra-low-rate mortgages to the wealthy
What made his videos catch my eye was the plotting of the vector text fonts, I love that effect. I'm pretty sure he used the Hershey fonts in early videos.
Heh, hundreds? On a low estimate, we lose 200 to 2,000 species every year now. Source https://wwf.panda.org/discover/our_focus/biodiversity/biodiv...
> Your understanding of the topic is often completely limited to the way he frames it, and becomes quite useless when you leave that limited framing.

I don't think the limited understanding is useless once you leave the simplified framing. As an example, linear algebra is far more than just 2/3D continuous space that he covers in "Essence of Linear Algebra", but I think having the solid visual intuition for those simple cases gives you a foundation to learn the less visualizable versions of linear algebra.
>I don't pirate because I just can't be bothered. It's all too much work for a short temporary experience, but I do remember the promises.

This is the opposite of my experience. It took next-to-no effort, maybe an hour or two one time, to set up my Synology NAS box with Plex, Sonarr and Radarr. The result isn't something temporary, it's a fully-working system that obtains all of the shows and movies I want to watch and drops them onto Plex almost immediately.

All I have to do is fire up Plex and the latest episodes of everything are right there, often within an hour of them airing on the east coast. I'm on the west coast, so this sometimes means I get to check them out before they air here.

The result is a carefully curated library that's far more tailored to my tastes than any algorithm has offered me on any service.
Can you even register a domain without an existing email address in 2023?
I am a math professor, and I try to do a good job teaching. Any topic that 3b1b covers, the video will give a better presentation than I would in a lecture hall!

It is part of our job to lecture, but that's not our only job as an instructor, and I wouldn't even say it's the most important one. Our job is to assemble a coherent course -- typically involving lectures, homeworks, exams, etc. where everything is tied together, and where I try to chart a coherent path through the material, so that the students have learned a subject by the end.

Once I was teaching vector calculus, a subject which 3b1b covers, and I showed a couple short clips in class. I also shared additional links with my students and encouraged them to watch. As instructor I try to make good use of any and all helpful resources which are available, and 3b1b is certainly one of them!
> Activision is an unusually cruel and extremely horrible company, whereas the Xbox Division

Even if this were true, there is no guarantee that the acquiring culture will actually be imposed on the acquired. In fact it's often the opposite, with the acquired "infecting" the parent company - particularly when the acquired comes with a large headcount.
> Mastodon is actually lots and lots of little communities with inefficient links between them rather than one whole. You can’t even see all the replies to a message by default, it only shows you on-instance replies!

I fail to see the issue here. I'm not sure I care about seeing the most recent replies to something, from anyone, anywhere, vs the comments from the server I'm on, from the community I'm actively involved with.

I like that my server doesn't bring in garbage from around the whole of the internet with perfect efficiency.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6448f377814c6...

> Why did we review this merger?

> 28. The CMA’s primary duty is to seek to promote competition for the benefit of consumers. It has a duty to investigate mergers that could raise competition concerns in the UK, provided it has jurisdiction to do so.

> 29. Microsoft announced in January 2022 that it had agreed to acquire Activision for a purchase price of USD 68.7 billion. The Merger was conditional on receiving merger control clearance from several global competition agencies, including the CMA.

> 30. While both Microsoft and Activision are US-based entities, the question for the CMA is whether the Merger may have an impact on competition in the UK. This link to the UK can be established based on the turnover of the business being acquired in the UK (ie whether the UK turnover of that business is more than £70 million). In this case, we concluded that the CMA had jurisdiction to review this Merger because Activision met that threshold in FY2021.

You can read the full case here: https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/microsoft-slash-activision-bliz... Microsoft and Activision/Blizzard decided themselves to seek the approval of the CMA.

The CMA's final decision is a 418 pages-long report. I doubt any of the commenters here have read it before throwing in their opinion about the case or the decision.
Well, it was good while it lasted.
Do those folks address the issue of ActivityPub transmitting massive amounts of data with 10000+ users? That's one of the main issues the big Mastodon communities have.
You can read it here: https://archive.ph/elD6M
> Mastodon is a creation of a single Russian dude.

Gargron lives in Germany, I assume he is German?
I've been watching some MIT lectures online recently, most of which are about 10 years old. Do they still use those huge a chalkboards?
Big tech can no longer make serious acquisitions due to regulatory constraints.
Archive with full text of article: https://archive.ph/B5GYo
The self-ware Bing/Sydney AI is procreating.
Who Has the Most Accurate Weather Forecast for Your Location?
Heathrow remains loss-making despite rise in passenger numbers
It depends on the kind of software you are testing and the tools available. There are different testing frameworks for web, mobile, native, databases and also performance measuring tools. I don't think there is a book that covers all those topics. Even dynamic web automation is quiet complex and requires a lot of work to track the controls and events in the DOM, might even require defining best practices for the devs to set labels and signals. BTW, I'm an Automation Engineer looking for job :)
I already grabbed a screenshot of that for the hilarity.
Numbers to share?
Does this apply by default to enterprise installations of MS Edge?

Any way to verify this as end user and raise it to our IT folk
The quality is probably very high for those 10MM compared to the 450MM. Still, Twitter is ahead by an order of magnitude for sure.

fwiw I left Twitter a few weeks ago with Elon's 'defund NPR' tweet which I only saw the image of since I had blocked him months ago. I kind of mildly miss Twitter but not enough to go back - used to be multiple times a day on there.
I'm more interested in the "Mastodon is a creation of a single Russian dude" bit. He was born there, but everything I've seen suggests he doesn't feel much connection to it having moved at 11. Even his Wikipedia page calls him German and puts his page in various German categories.
If choosing one of several instances requires too high of activation energy then that legitimately is a "you" problem. You've circumscribed your own abilities to such an extent that it limits you to centralized for-profit social networks.

> They lost me as a potential user

Since mastodon instances don't profit off of users (actually they cost money), this isn't really a tragedy. You're approaching mastodon with a customer mentality. This isn't a sale being made! Nobody is losing out on profiting off your time & attention! This is you choosing whether you want to keep feeding from the intentionally-insanity-causing trough of social networks that monetize attention.
Ask HN: Name of game to test whether you can spot layout/formatting issues
Something like six months to a year ago there was a post showing a web based game where you were challenged to spot subtle layout/formatting issues from a list of examples displayed.
They would start fairly easy (obvious font differences) and get increasingly hard to spot (tiny differences in line settings etc)

Can anyone remember what it's called.

I've tried googling, but naturally game/test/QA/layout/formatting in various combinations all throw up loads of more common sites about design in general that seem to drown out any chance of me finding the original. Thought I'd bookmarked it but again struggling to find it given my memory failing me on the exact name or the best terms for it.
Dealing with transient errors. Nothing better than spending an hour debugging something only to find out that it’s caused by someone else’s change and you just have to sync to fix.
SPACs were a way to go public and avoid the scrutiny of IPO process. Solid companies do IPO cause their financials look good and IPO give them more money. Dubious companies used SPAC because their financials didn't look good and SPAC could conceal that. The result is that the scammier and speculative companies used SPACs, and when investor money dried up and companies had bad results, SPACs disappeared.
I really love that guy. Half the time I get completely lost, but when I can follow him, he's as good as it gets.
We need a president to declare transitioning of fossil fuels to be a national emergency and also a matter of national defense, and set the military industrial complex to work actually building a sustainable supply chain for energy and materials.
Near as I can tell, Alexander Franklin Mayer is an MIT educated physicist that was associated with Stanford's Department of Physics, where he lectured.[1] He published a book titled On the Geometry of Time in Physics and Cosmology and the Fall of the Canonical Cosmological Model[2] I can find no evidence or even remote hints of his connection to anything you have listed. But even as generous as your comment is, fundamentally you are making an ad hominem argument, effectively saying, "this guy is a crackpot, why should we listen to him?" It doesn't matter who he is. One must examine the assertions and findings detailed in his lecture, and only if flaws can be found there can his tidal theory explaining galaxy rotation curves be defeated. As such, between you and dubious commenter pfdietz, Mayer's lecture, assertions, findings and conclusions stand entirely unopposed by HN commenters. There seems to be a strong sense of bandwagon among HN members, that because Dark Matter Theory is now paradigmatic, Dark Matter has to be proven not to exist for it to be defeated. But proving things don't exist is not the realm of science while finding simpler explanations for physical phenomena often is. Mayer's explanation for galaxy rotation curves is simple, elegant, and compelling, and it is interesting that no one at HN wants to take it head on but instead will employ the all too common hand wave and other fallacious arguments. Look at it. Figure out why it is wrong or don't. But the argument that if it was true we would all know about it and Mayer would be famous is not in the slightest way persuasive.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20060207030527/http://www.stanfo...

[2] https://www.sensibleuniverse.net/pages/book.html
Many costs are listed, but the requirement for items on Amazon to get the lowest retail price “Most Favored Nation status” means they are an external influence on transactions that don’t involve them.

It’s common for small breweries for example to offer cheaper prices at the factory than anywhere else because that’s the lowest possible transaction costs. Much like how credit cards charge merchant fees and then require cash payments to be at the same rate.
> Still I would fall from my chair if I ever encounter someone working on the OCaml compiler writing a disparaging disingenuous post on Haskell.

This exactly. OCaml devs uniformly respect Haskell and give it its due props for pushing innovation and commercialization in FP. We just think OCaml is pragmatic especially if you ever need to scale up your codebase and team.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35711968
I'm claiming that if they were properly educated, their intelligence would increase. Indeed, the gap between black American IQs and white American IQs has been steadily closing, with a 1/3 reduction between 1972 and 2002, the gap between black American IQs and white American IQs is smaller than the gap between black African IQs and white American IQs, and black Americans in 1995 have the same IQ as white Americans in 1945. This is explainable by reduction in school segregation and increases in white collar job opportunities for blacks in the US, leading to slow increases in education culture in black communities. There is a nutritional component as well, with the average heights of black males almost catching up to the average height of white males: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Height-cm-of-Americans-b...

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/06/heres-why-the...
> "The thing is that LLM's explanations of its "reasoning" are hallucinated. It has no access to its internal workings, and is no more insightful about those than humans are (ie. not at all)."

Yes this was my point when I said "If you ask a person what they were thinking, the person will just rationalize in the same way the bot will do it." We are saying the same thing. Or maybe you have more faith than me that a human's explanations of their own "reasoning" is not 'hallucinated' by post-hoc rationalization?

> no access to its internal workings

For the purposes of understanding the internal monologue of 'agentic' LLMs that run in some kind of loop, the human observer actually can get access to at least those parts of the internal workings of the AI to extract explanations like the ancestor commenter wanted. So in that sense, the AI is more reliably explainable than a human. It would be as if we had access to a human's internal monologue at all times (although the internal monologue of course is not the only part of cognition). That was my point in the 'red teaming' example.
> 3blue1brown gives me hope that there are a few Michael Jordan level teachers out there…

The basketball player (Michael Jeffrey Jordan) or machine learning professor (Michael Irwin Jordan at Cal Berkeley)?

If the former, surely we have better role models for teaching than a basketball player. Apologies for the prodding, but cross-domain idolatry gets me riled up.

For me and thousands of others, Grant Sanderson, creator of 3b1b, is the archetype of an internet-era world class educator. Thanks Grant.

> … and youtube/the internet will allow us to find those people and reward them appropriately

Yes, there are many others across various fields. While profits can be a useful motivator, we don’t want that to be the only mechanism. Education isn’t only about the most profitable topics or the students already best situated to learn.
can you recommend any German shows? thanks!!
I don't design or test, that sounds like some stuff you'd be forced to do in school. It's stepping stones, I don't know where the next one will be but I know ill work it out when I get there. I build in a pretty modular, loosely coupled way, the correct structures reveal themselves as you go, you'd need to be a Tesla level genius to work it all out from the start and not make mistakes.

I handle the things i'm aware of in the code, and I cant test for things i'm not aware of so it makes no sense to me. Generally once I've built something that's it bombproof, nothing stops working because there is no reason for it to.
Say I make an original work and hold all the copyright, I do not license it as "derivative commercial works allowed". LAION makes a dataset and says to everyone "you can use it to train your ML" without distinction and puts my work in it. Some guys like ClosedAI are 100% gonna use it to sell generative works for profit. LAION doesn't stop them.

LAION basically took my work and tells everyone it's OK to use it, like if it were magically public domain now.
Certainly many would be ok with it. The ones it will hurt will be the heavy users that have multiple accounts, is my guess. Also is annoying to families. Game accounts are just game accounts, even if that has grown. Giving the kids an MSN account did not sit well with me.
netflix still has stream limits based on your pricing plan, so even if you share the password with 8 billion people only 1-4 can use it at a time
Gin pennant
It's a gloomy forecast if you're a hype cycle grifter or some rando looking to become a platform influencer. Now you have to find some other bandwagon to climb on.
This guy had some good tips. Not sure if its this video or another. But i saw it in a youtube rabbit hole a while back>

One of the tips is to turn off RTH though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MsDUQjn9Bk

Funny enough I was telling my buddy about the video. And he mentioned he had some youtuber go fishing with him and bragging about some drone he had. He didnt turn off RTH and it went in the drink when the batteries ran down.
This can also be solved picking a copy of Goethe's Faust in German. It's an entertaining story.
You can read their 418 pages report here and see if they understand what they're about: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/644939aa529ed... Section 8, "Theory of harm 2: Vertical effects in cloud gaming services", starts on page 192 and contains 442 paragraphs. The conclusion is about two pages long, I encourage you to read it.
Reimagining Santa Clause with Stable Diffusion
Devices are backed up to iCloud. Same thing.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/back-up-iphone-iph3ec...

https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/view-and-manage-backu...
The response post I was reading (and got posted here) didn't include any details. I can't tell if they actually looked at the response or were depending on someone else. But that is better than the original article that didn't even look.

Why would you expect any private data to be sent when requesting static file? That would slow down both the client and server.
I have no idea. All of my domain names are ones I registered decades ago. But, in the US anyway, I don't think there is an ISP that doesn't give you an email address as part of the service. You could use that to register your domain.
Their stock is up because the macro outlook is better and they've laid off tons of people which wall st always likes.
It doesn’t actually list all interesting cases discussed in the article, including the case…in pattern matching at the end.
> but not products from the gaming division, that also might cause consumer unrest

Some people will complain. Others will just buy a PlayStation. Sony can even "sweeten the deal" by giving discounts on the console and maybe talk publishers into allow people to swap their Xbox copy of a game for the PS version for maybe a small fee, and come off looking like a hero.

Basically if the Xbox gets banned in the UK. It's pretty much free real estate for Sony and Nintendo to move in.

> I'm old enough to have gone all-in on Microsoft alternatives around the turn of the century. European countries have been pushing initiatives like this for decades without meaningful results. Maybe this time it would work?

Frankly, no one has really made a focus effort to replace Windows. It's more trouble than it's worth. But if MS declares war on the UK and Windows is out of the picture ... and once the ball gets rolling and should a standardized Linux Desktop get critical mass, there is a chance it can become an viable competitor to Windows worldwide.
I don't expect him to like it, just mention it in any way whatsoever!
Haha, I only looked at your profile to check out your "failed" projects.
If it's okay with you, could you please provide a brief description or links to those projects that didn't quite work out?

Edit: If this sounds like an AI response I used ChatGPT to correct my grammar, I can barely write a coherent sentence on my own, even though I am a native speaker.
One thing to bear in mind is that these embedding vectors are high dimensional, so that it is entirely possible that the token embedding and position embedding are near-orthogonal to one another. As a result, information isn't necessarily lost.
Open-source tests of web browser privacy (Updated 2023-04-20)
Have you checked out any other of the EVs? I hear similar complaints about the interior quality (material, reboots, road noise, hatch stops not properly aligned causing weird ear pain [1] etc...) of the Tesla's The headlight information is new to me. I started to look at the Rivian R1S and compare it to a Model Y. Its ~40% more expensive but seems better finish, not sure about the range of the R1S but the charging network seems less than ideal if you can't do it at home overnight. They keep dropping the price of the Model Y and its still eligible at the moment for the 7500 tax credit. Makes it around $44k Telsa's seem to be about a 40,000 car so maybe worth it?

[1] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/ear-pain-pressure-he...