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It's not theft for the simple reason that the video producer isn't deprived of anything. If I rewatch the same video a million times can I bankrupt that creator? If I sit five other people in the room with me while I watch does the creator lose something in proportion to the the number of "thieves" present?

Nope, turns out it doesn't actually share that much in common with theft, it's a simple EULA breach at most.

I'm sure it feels righteous to point the finger and yell thief but it's such a sloppy argument. I'm not sure why anyone's still dying on this hill, people were unsuccessfully arguing this on IRC in 2004 with regards to DMCA, it's still not convincing decades down the line.
I live in a major city in America (not SF), and like every major city in America, it is run by progressive democrats. I like that neighborhood rules have kept things a certain style, but we have a pro-development local group that runs zoning and stuff gets built (however we still need more housing). The public schools are absolutely dogshit even though they are funded through the roof, with a few test-schools that the activists are actively trying to ruin. The cops don’t do enough, but they do solve murders and prevent violent crime. We have pretty decent public transit (although it’s also a corrupt mess, in many ways).

In summation, I’m a city guy and I like living in cities, and despite my political differences, I made my peace with the situation and greatly enjoy the restaurants, museums, events, and so on that city life provides.

That said, I cannot possibly understand how people can think SF is desirable. Your tax dollars that aren’t stolen by this-or-that office or agency or politically connected consultant are being incinerated as quickly as possible. How many bonds and tax increases have been issued specifically to alleviate poverty and drugs and homelessness and what is the ROI of this spending? It seems like no one gives a shit and the worse things get the more the distortion of what “normal” city life is gets turned up. What a crazy situation you SFers got yourself into.
Theft is a criminal law term. So is the act of prosecution. Terms of Service are a civil law thing. IANAL but this still makes it not theft in my view, but breach of contract.

It's questionable how enforceable a ToS is though that is only clicked with a button and in some cases (eg NewPipe) not shown at all. But either way it's civil law not criminal.

YouTube is totally within their rights to block adblocking viewers though. Which is a fine solution for this problem IMO. No need to get the law involved.

More and more sites are doing this now though on most of them it's easily bypassed (on the site I use the most I can just turn off JavaScript :) )
the closest alternative to Youtube I have seen is Odysee (formerly known as LBRY) https://odysee.com/

it reminds me of the old youtube experience. I like that their ads are images and banners rather than video interruptions. the content and viewerbase are a bit limited at the moment but that can easily change.
I really really hate how Sheridan doesn't die at the end; I felt Lorien saving him at the last minute with this meta-physical "beyond the rim" crap really took the punch out of things. In general I felt all that meta-physical stuff like "humans will evolve in to beings of pure light and goodness" was one of the weakest aspects of the show.

It's still a good episode overall, but the last minute or so really ruined it IMO.
Yup. Lawyers and finance folks cried themselves to sleep at the parent comment.
He does have an idea. Are there any VPNs that let you acquire an Iranian IP? Iran is not even a geotargeting option in Google ads because of all the sanctions. I've always wondered what Google search results looked like from inside the country? Pure and ad free?
That is a wonderful site.
1. OP said “what it is about, when was it published, the author, etc.” That’s what these mechanisms already cover. Consent is an interesting possibility that I’ll admit something like ai.txt might be better for, but my post was largely focused on the OP.

2. These are all complex formats. If you want to ingest and process them then you already have to build all the hard parts. Getting the metadata out is dead simple compared to parsing, decoding, and then processing an image, for example.
"Loophole-free Bell test ‘Spooky action at a distance’, no cheating (tudelft.nl)" (2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10430675

/? ./hnlog: "nonlocal", "unitarity":

From "The fundamental thermodynamic costs of communication" (2023) https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#story-34765393 :

> Isn't there more entropy if we consider all possible nonlocal relations between bits; or, is which entropy metric independent of redundant coding schemes between points in spacetime?

From "New neural network architecture inspired by neural system of a worm" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34809725 :

> Is there an information metric which expresses maximal nonlocal connectivity between bits in a bitstring; that takes all possible (nonlocal, discontiguous) paths into account?

> `n_nodes2` only describes all of the binary, pairwise possible relations between the bits or qubits in a bitstring?*

> "But what is a convolution" https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/convolutions

> Quantum discord: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_discord

From "Formal methods only solve half my problems" (2022) https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-31625499 :

> It might be argued that side channels exist whenever there is a shared channel; which is always, because plenoptic functions, wave function, air gap, ram bus mhz, nonlocal entanglement

> Category:Side-channel attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Side-channel_attacks

/? ./hnlog: "entanglement" ... Quantum FlyTrap
I am kind of on the fence about the content on YouTube being worth paying for but the website makes it so difficult to find the content that I am actually interested in seeing that it makes the whole experience absolutely not worth it to me to pay for.

Faced with blocked videos I would either figure out a way around or do something else with my time. No way I'm disabling my ad blocker.
In various countries in asia the cross-body small bag is wildly popular, probably because everyone's always carrying phone batteries and umbrellas and a bunch of other random stuff. It wears like a sort of tight-to-the-body pocket-on-a-strap. Really, really convenient, but every time I tried it as an enormously wide white dude in a Hawaiian shirt I don't think I pull it off lol. I think it's more of a streetwear look. Keeps your pockets nice and slim.
That is a bit reductionist. They turned it into a for-profit company controlled by a non-profit entity, with profits / returns being capped for employees / investors.
Which TV Shows Transcend America's Red-Blue State Divide?
Indeed they do (although that fact itself might be confidential and proprietary as well).
Man, the amount of misunderstanding present in the comments here is astonishing.

1. YT doesn't decide how many ads to show. The creator of the video gets to choose exactly how many ads are shown and when and where they are shown.

If you see too many ads on your videos, get pissed off at the creators you're watching, not YT.

2. Ad revenue is a very large portion of income for most creators. It's definitely not as large as sponsorship deals, but it's nothing to sneeze at. You people who are entitled to your free content aren't sticking it to the man by refusing to watch ads. Instead you're directly hurting the creators you enjoy watching by specifically depriving them of any ad revenue they may otherwise have gained from you. Shut up and sit down and watch the 30 second ad or stop watching YT altogether. The creators don't give a crap either way because you clearly don't give a crap about financially supporting them in the simplest way possible.

3. If anything, I believe YT will stop showing ads if they're too prevalent. There's a feature where creators can play ads at the beginning/ending of their videos. These ads don't play all the time, and I think that's because the YT algorithm is making sure that if you're doing something like playing music it doesn't play an ad at the beginning of every single song even if the video creator tries to make that happen.

Honestly, these comments read as if cable didn't exist just a few years ago (and still does today!) where they literally play 2 minutes of ads for every 5ish minutes of content. Even with DVR, skipping through the ads would take around 30 seconds (and then you have to adjust to make sure you didn't skip too far and everything) which is the length of typical YT ads. Buck up and pay up to support the "amazing" content that you selfishly indulge in and refuse to pay for out of a warped sense of entitlement.

Contrary to popular belief, most content creators are not putting their content out for free. They're putting it out knowing the majority of viewers will at least watch the ads and help them make money.
The "large fleet of responsive consumers" is polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyzers, that produce hydrogen for making steel, fertilizers, plastics, and industrial chemicals. PEM electrolyzers can start up in seconds.
They don't seem to work in Firefox on Linux either (Ubuntu 20.04), seem to be Windows only for whatever reason.
No, not everyone uses an adblocker, otherwise services like YouTube wouldn't exist. You are trying really hard to absolve yourself of culpability but nothing you're saying makes any sense.
I found it useful to define terms like "startup". Because some people would ask why Uber is a startup, but not some restaurant. That leads to questions like why Uber loses more money than a restaurant or why VCs put money into Uber but not restaurants.

One current example on AI is that people like to make the argument that AGI is a pointless goal because LLMs can't be sentient. Well, my definition of AGI doesn't need to be sentient, why does this matter? It just has to do my job better than me; I don't expect it to be sentient any more than I would of Stockfish.

When you break it down, it turns out we have very different core specs.

If I buy an AGI, I fully expect it to be able to cook for me and do my taxes. For someone else, AGI means it can give me recipes and how to do my taxes, but not actually filing them.

A lot of it is political too, like being the first to hit AGI, or some charlatan selling GPT-4 labeled as AGI. Which might be the reason why some don't like definitions.
So I also ran this test with resetting and it did identify itself repeatedly as PaLM 2
No sign of battery issues is huge, I'm still rocking my 3 year old Pixel 3a and recently replaced the battery, it was a night and day difference. General slowness/lack of responsiveness, half day battery life. Been like that with all my other smart phones since 2013. Would love my next phone to go on year 4 with no sign of battery degradation (although in lieu of that I'll take an easy to replace battery).
And with Microsoft's stock purchase plan you are incentivized to buy stock anyways.
Edit: I stand corrected, it does parse correctly when embedded in HTML!
Small companies also don’t care about you. Startups implode or the founders acquihire everybody so they get fat stacks and you get little.
It's called having soft skills.
So, I tried that and that was not the case for me. It actually generated response that its on PaLM 2 and I ask for all these permutations.
Could you imagine if Amazon made a fire phone unfolded that’s opens into an e-ink kindle? I would own that.
For now.

It's just like cable TV. They promised that a subscription to cable TV would mean no ads. They lied, and went back on their promise within a very short time.

They'll do the same here.
Why? You'll have access to google when you're working so I would assume you're allowed to google stuff during the interview.
Python performance on wasm is going to be abysmal because you're essentially running a VM inside a VM. Other languages like rust can compile directly to wasm. Until Python can do the same it will be a second or third class citizen in wasm.

Put another way, you could make one of those tier charts for WASM tooling, and if rust is in S tier, python is like C or D tier.
>If I were to allow all ads but make it a rule to never actually watch them or heaven forbid, buy anything in them, would that be ok?

Yes, you would be holding up your end of the agreement.

>If I can't watch it without ads, I simply won't watch it. And I certainly won't pay for it if it still includes ads.

Buy YouTube Premium and you won't get any ads and the content creators you watch will get more money than if an ad had played instead. Win-win.
I did also but if you ask PaLM 2 it interpreted the result differently
> Ads are immoral

How do you justify this claim? How can advertising your product to attract customers be morally wrong?
Asus and Lenovo already sell them as Windows tablets with attachable keyboards. The Asus Zenbook 17 Fold and the Lenovo X1 Fold.
They break lol. Don't do that. BTW also don't take your laptop onto the beach.

It was only like 6 years ago that leaving your phone in the same room as a running shower was a risky gambit, not sure why we expect ip7 waterproofing on brand new tech.
Are there any implimentations of this? I got started working on one for rust, but got kinda stuck in a few places.
This could be very useful for RTS AI I think, or anything where you need to optimize managing resources and build orders, if I understand negative weight shortest paths correctly.
I don't think this is true. It's just that there aren't many optimization practitioners and the OR community has done a terrible job promoting itself. The value in scheduling and logistics is well established. So optimizers tend to congregate. But optimization could be applied to lots of other domains successfully. ML is just minimizing a loss function. I see simulation and post-hoc analyses being applied in numerous situations where optimization would be more efficient and produce a guaranteed optimal result. RL on simple, static problems is really an MDP but I've seen organizations fail to realize this. Etc.
> YouTube will have to break compatibility with countless outdated Android / iOS apps, Smart TVs and other devices

Minus smart TVs, this seems like the point of the policy change. (And even on the TVs, if they're watching without paying while blocking ads, that's purely a cost centre.)
Generally speaking, holding (significant to you) stock in your employer is a bad strategy.

Because if the company goes under you lose your job, and your savings at the same time. In other words it consolidates risk rather than diversifies it.

But honestly the idea that you don't need a raise but rather invest and wait for a dividend return is bonkers. Those are to completely unrelated things.

By all means invest. There are lots of stocks to choose from. But that's completely orthogonal to your salary package.
People love to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like.
Since this in the Economist, I'm surprised the author didn't go full Swiftean "Modest Proposal", and say that this is a good thing, because it frees up a lot of caregivers to do more productive things.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
> I am however curious to know who they will get to replace the talents of Andreas Katsulas, Richard Biggs, Stephen Furst and others who have sadly passed on.

It's mentioned in the article: "The voice cast also includes Paul Guyet as Zathras and Jeffery Sinclair, Anthony Hansen as Michael Garibaldi, [..], Phil LaMarr as Dr. Stephen Franklin, [..] Andrew Morgado as G’Kar and Rebecca Riedy as Delenn."

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this; after Katsulas' passing in 2006 jms wrote "Andreas is gone...and G'Kar with him, because no one else can ever play that role, or ever will". People are entitled to change their opinion of course, but I find myself agreeing with that statement.

But I guess for an animated show it can work? We'll see...

As for the reboot, it seems it's still underway, according to [2]: "The separate B5 reboot/reimagining is still alive and well, just on hold until the Writers Strike is resolved."

[1]: http://jmsnews.com/messages/message?id=3872

[2]: https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1653974183586717697
Eyesight. Hard to imagine for someone under 35 but ya, it’s a game changer.
Put a blockchain wallet address or even multiples on different blockchains in the ai.txt to collect your shares of what the AI makes from your data + website. This is a fair way to solve the attribution problem. Similar to the robots.txt file this is not a hard enforcement but a way how responsible AI can differentiate itself from the rest.
>Can't possibly be secondary effects of Covid-19, right?

It could be because of that, which is why the article address it, and accounts for in in their modelling.
think last time I consulted it almost 10 years ago. Was fed up with it anyway.

Best thing for your career is read the documentation of the tech you are using. Most of the stuff is just right there.

Heck even on IRC 20 years ago first remark on Qs was RTFM.
One thing I haven't seen discussed here is: how exactly are they going to remove that option? Are they going to embed the ads into the video stream on-the-fly somehow?
I guess I only know transformers and how BERT or GPT works, as there would be a limit in the context length. With GPT, you can certainly generate infinite amount of tokens but the previous tokens outside of the maximum context length would be outside of the context window. LLaMa has 2k, GPT-4 has 32k.

Are you saying I can give unlimited tokens to PaLM and generate unlimited amount of tokens? So PaLM doesn't have a context limit?
Yes, me too. YouTube leads in my unregretted minutes, and I don’t want to watch ads when deciding what to watch.
Several of these are on Nebula [1], for what it's worth.

[1] https://nebula.tv
Also just came across this thread which is a good example of when definitions are unclear: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35882914

The answers suddenly become useless because it's unclear if they're even talking about the same thing.
Thank you for this information. I just find it amusing that instead of calling it "Big Brother telescreen" just calling it "Smart TV" made everyone comfortable with the technology : we are all smart, right?

As they say: just because you are paranoid, it does not mean that they are not after you.
Just because you are wealthy, does not mean you want to be inconvenienced. Especially to the degree that not using a modern iOS/Android device would inconvenience you.

There’s a million ways to show off you are rich that would not result in you wasting your time.
No, the GP is right. Text CRDTs (including mine) literally generate an operation per inserted character in a collaborative text document. Diamond types solves the data explosion problem by not storing the operations separately. Instead, we internally run-length encoding everything.

If you have these two operations:

Insert "h" at position 5, ID (seph, 2)
Insert "i" at position 6, ID (seph, 3)

... They get immediately merged internally to become:

Insert "hi" at position 5-6, ID (seph, 2-3)

This reduces the number of items we need to process by an order of magnitude. In practice, the metadata (positions, IDs, etc) ends up taking up about 0.1 bytes on disk per inserted character, which is awesome.

This works great for (agent, seq) style IDs because the IDs can also be run-length encoded. But we can't run-length encode hashes. And I don't want my file size to grow by 32x because we store a hash after every keystroke.

(I didn't invent this idea. Martin Kleppman first used it for storing CRDTs on disk, and Kevin Jahns made in-memory structures use the same tricks in yjs)
I thought I was just making a funny, but apparently it was a grave offense.
I’m generally pretty pessimistic about the effects LLMs are going to have on the world, but I tentatively agree with you on this point. In fact, a silver lining might be that SEO content marketing becomes worthless, so we’ll have fewer product review listicles that didn’t actually review products, but just did a roundup of other articles in hopes of getting some affiliate link clicks. Genuine writing is usually less directly profit driven, so maybe there will be more room for that in traditional search results hereafter. Still a raw deal for anyone that blogs or writes tutorials and now OpenAI makes money off of them.
I don't usually say this, but I really wish the executive branch would just rip this responsibility out of Congress' hands. I'm not an expert but my understanding is there are at least theoretically Constitutional ways - that would surely go to court of course.

I'm just so sick of Republicans being unserious about the debt ceiling and causing this FUD over and over again.
> progressive

The real question is, how many of them are actually progressive, and how many are just people using the right buzzwords? SF sure looks like a lot of the latter, given the chokehold that NIMBYism has over any and all new construction that might actually help with the city's cost-of-living issues.
What is the natural conclusion of your argument? That if you make “enough”, you shouldn’t make more? Hogwash.
I feel like...meetings are often a waste of time, and people deliberately use them to waste time, but meetings are also the most important tool to prevent people wasting time.

I haven't figured out how to get people to prepare for a meeting.
But if you apply this line of reasoning, you will never make a single recurring purchase. Sure, if they introduce ads to premium I will be the among the first to cancel.
Sorry, can you elaborate? I would like to learn. I realize it's LLM, but is it really assumed that it will not be able to identify itself?
It's definitely captive depending on who leads the team. I've done it before. And it can be abusive if the CTO demands 100% code coverage. It gets to the point where writing any test, even a bad one is better than delaying a release just for the sake of "100% coverage". And that was at an early-stage startup where we had to move fast - and guess what, they went out of business in 6 months because we couldn't get any kind of product out. It was hilariously stupid to demand 100% code coverage on a startup without any product. TDD and testing isn't a cure-all, and in some cases it's a curse.
This.

I feel exactly the same way. Majority of the content I actually want to watch is very difficult to find and the remaining content I get sucked into consuming would be better spent reading a book instead.

They might be doing me a favour by blocking ad blockers lol
yeah lack of stylus is a killer for me - I would use the samsung one instead just due to that. hoping this spurs Samsung to make their next version even more compelling and also ensures Google mainlines all the OS support for foldable phones - and then I can get a foldable with a stylus.
Samsung is doing all the heavy lifting in this market anyway. This Google offering doesn't even have a pressure sensitive screen for pen input! That alone justifies the price of a Galaxy Fold over this thing.
It’s a recurring pattern on the Internet: people unashamedly claiming they’re getting X for free, and will gladly pay if Y condition is met. Then Y condition is met, and people (possibly the same, possibly different) unashamedly come up with new excuses of why they’re still getting it for free and won’t pay.

Never believe “I’ll pay if …” if you’re running a business.