skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this the first really big thing to come out under Tim Cook? I guess the homepod and apple watch also came out under him? Still those feel like relatively minor things that were never going to revolutionize the world. The way they're trying to sell this they really think it will. There's no avoiding the Jobs comparisons.

My guess is this is just too expensive for people to actually use in any large numbers, but maybe there will be cheaper versions down the line.
This is a very odd framing of the matter. Here, the invocation of CSAM is like some sort of stun spell.
Why not a bittorrent style peering mechanism? Popular content will always have pools of people who are consuming it.

I've had an idea in the back of my head for what would make a decentralized video service work, and it plays with the idea of peer driven networks.

So, there a few kinds of people on the network: advertisers (hang in there, I'll explain why), leechers (or consumer), content producers, and seeders.

The prime relationship is between a consumer and a content producer. Every other part of the network is designed to support and benefit their interaction.

First, a content producer creates a piece of content (or steals it, let's be realistic) and publishes it on the network. Attached to the content is a pay-per-view requirement; the producer has elected to require payment to view this content. This money can come from one of two places: first, an advertiser can bid on slots the producer has chosen, second, the consumer can pay the producer directly. The producer doesn't have a choice whether the consumer pays or not, only that payment is required.

Requiring payment for the content is optional, but advisable. You see, the producer has a second order relationship with the seeders. The producer can't possibly feed a million viewers in the first hour. That would be a very difficult task. But what a producer can do is elect to provide a percentage of their required income to seeders. Now there's a financial benefit to seeding a popular video/song. The producer can set their payments to whatever they want. The market may equalize itself.

Finally, we have advertisers, which are the monetary fuel for the fire. Most viewers will tolerate ads and wont want to pay money; so instead they pay time. An advertiser can bid on slots in as precise or general way as they want. If they want to bid on a specific creator's video slots, they can. If they want to bid on a broad category of creators or videos, they can. Etc.

This won't ever be truly decentralized, and there is a whole ecosystem of services external to the network that would be needed for this to function well (payment processors, content collation and moderation -- kind of like how mastodon works, a bidding marketplace for advertisers to interface with the content network, a front end for seeders to select and re-seed, and so on).

I don't have the technical hutzpah to build out something like this. I wish I did. Is there someone out there who wants to be a technical mentor? I'd be game.

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[edit] There should be more and less granularity in how different parties engage. Some people want to pay 10 bucks a month (Amazon Prime) and forget about the rest. Some people want to pay per view. Advertisers might want to target specific creator's channels or whole segments of created content. Creators might want to be able to never even think about ads and just check a box that says "put an ad in front of every video I upload" and then forget it. Or a creator might want to put ads in videos longer than a certain length. And so on. What I've specified above is loosely conceived and would need a lot of thought to turn it into something useful.
https://archive.is/ff935
But Index/Match doesn’t play nice with array formulas :/
This is definitely not the first time temperatures have risen due to direct co2 levels. Last time was only about 3 million years ago.
You say they play video games because the economy sucks. I say the economy sucks because they're playing video games. Real chicken and egg situation we have here.
> Pixel size matters, you are not supposed to be able to clearly discern every pixel of the content you are consuming.

If that's really important to you (why?) then you can adjust your position in the virtual world until the viewing angle is the same as your TV or whatever the ideal size is.
Gotlin – understanding Kotlin coroutines better via goroutines
Blog post: https://valbaca.com/code/2023/04/26/gotlin.html

Github: https://github.com/valbaca/gotlin
The Wait Until 8th pledge
It sounds like they're leaning on the internal video encode/decode of the M2 ("media engine"), which they claim can decode 22 streams of 8K ProRes on the Ultra. It looks like this replaces dedicated Afterburner cards? And would apply to both the Studio and Pro. But I am not a video production professional.
It wasn't secret. It was covered in disinformation so you would dismiss it, as you have, until it was officially confirmed, like it seems to be now. Previous government insiders have come forward with the same story, but have been dismissed, and the whole topic seen as crazy, because the carefully crafted disinformation counterintelligence campaign was working as intended.

That, along with black special access programs (like described in the article), covered with classified programs, is how you keep it, not secret, but "partially occluded."

The question is not: how? But: why? The answer is because they were afraid and in denial because it challenged their authority, and they wanted us to be in the same fear and denial, because then they can maintain "control".

Maybe now it's shifted. And that's good. Not because everybody gets to know there's aliens, but because the governing corporate superstructure is choosing to no longer continue to act like scared little idiots. And I think that will be better for all of us.
Just use whatever is easy to get started with for you and go from there. My first version was something like:

#!/bin/sh
for p in *.html; do
cat .head >out/$p
txt2tags $p >>out/$p
cat .footer >>out/$p
done

And that worked for me. It was simple to set up and it allowed me to focus on the writing itself, rather than all the plumbing surrounding it. You can always switch tools later if need be (as I have done).

Sometimes programmers can get all hung up on the tooling: "I want to do X", "Oh, I need to find or write software to do X", spends more time tinkering with or writing software for X instead of doing X.
Apple is incredible at a lot of things and no doubt this is impressive. Apple's entire lineup is the best version of things people already have and use. A computer, a laptop, a screen, a phone, a watch, headphones, speakers. The tablet was new but made sense as a replacement for books/newspaper/laptop.

I have been in the vr space since the dk1 and used a bunch of headsets in both consumer and professional settings. It is magical if not a bit gimmicky...in short bursts. It can do wondrous things like give you a sense of scale or transport you to another environment.

But it's not an extension for or replacement of the real world.

The use case is gaming, media consumption on mass transit, and niche professional use cases (eg how to do heart surgery, or fix an engine, or location scout a movie) where 3d visualization adds meaningful context to the process.

It's not billions of people. Or rather if it is, then we are all plugged into ready player one and I think that would be a sad outcome for our species.

Maybe we are already headed that way with the amount of screen time everyone is putting in these days. Time to log off and go for a run.
Airpods Max are 100% everywhere. And not in affluent areas either.

I probably see people wear them on public transit most often—and when I visited NY the subway was by far the most common place to see them.
I doubt it would happen with coinbase considering they are a public company in US.
If the soil was sterilized the forest would be dead. The trees need soil microbes to survive.
> how do you ensure that the screens anchor directly in front of you every time you use it?

That might link to why they made the otherwise slightly weird way you activate it - by looking at your laptop screen. So it knows exactly where your laptop is, and can position the screens perfectly relative to that.

I found it odd because partly the whole point is that it liberates you from being anchored but perhaps this is part of the reason they did it that way?
If you discovered that trick yourself, you're very clever. It was documented by Henry Baker and is implemented in Chicken Scheme.

The basic ideas are:

1. All allocations (e.g. consing) take from the stack.

2. Tail calls are stack calls, so we keep consuming stack.

3. No function ever returns; all calls are tail calls. The Lisp code is CPS-transformed. (Since functions in the compiled code don't actually return even when appearing to, the stack-allocated objects remain nicely valid.)

4. When the stack reaches a certain limit, we rewind it. At that point, all the data which we consed on that stack which is still reachable is relocated to the heap, so they remain valid while we clobber the original stack.
https://www.foia.gov/faq.html

>For a typical requester the agency can charge for the time it takes to search for records and for duplication of those records. There is usually no charge for the first two hours of search time or for the first 100 pages of duplication.

>You may always include in your request letter a specific statement limiting the amount that you are willing to pay in fees. If an agency estimates that the total fees for processing your request will exceed $25, it will notify you in writing of the estimate and offer you an opportunity to narrow your request in order to reduce the fees. If you agree to pay fees for a records search, you may be required to pay such fees even if the search does not locate any releasable records.

For requests that the receiving agency doesn't like, they will either ask for a lot of money or just sit on the request for years/decades: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/foia-audit/foia/2019-03-08/25-year...
High gas prices are explicitly why I take transit and avoid driving. I have a car, but it works out to $10 CAD every day to drive to work - so I make the effort to get up a little earlier and take the train when I can.

"It's regressive and has an undue effect on the poor" and "It's moderately effective" are not mutually exclusive. That was a major reason public transit bounced back so fast in the Lower Mainland of BC, Canada - because driving is decidedly not cheap. Moreover, high gas prices are something I endorse, loudly and often, because it subsidises transit, and how much more expensive it makes the biggest (most dangerous to pedestrians) vehicles.

Still need to drive, and don't want to pay an arm and a leg? Skip the Silverado, get a hatchback or moderately-sized SUV or van. Need to haul your boat (or 40-foot camper instead of a tent)? Sounds like an expensive hobby - and anyone who's owned a boat can attest to that.
Nothing. Have seen ones over 125gb. Something to strive for? ;)
I've had pretty good results with Google Lens in the past, but occasional misses as well. I'll have to check if this fills the gaps.
Personally, face emulation isn't there yet for video calls and face pass through is a bit odd giving off a dead eyes stare look. Their focus on a portable interface, but stationary and passive spatial entertainment experiences is the right call for where we are with battery capability and weight. It is also what can be generally 'useful' to the broad market class Apple likes to target.

Hopefully, the field of view experience is really as good as it appears. I think they nailed the execution here and definitively defined the vision of these devices going forward.
Definitely. As I said though, given the push online and my social circle, I'd expected at least some higher percentage of areas to get much more relaxed zoning. Where I live there are a ton of new developments and they are all the absolute worst of both worlds. Hundreds of identical townhouses with nothing within walkable distance. It's too dense to feel rural and free, but has none of the benefits like being able to walk to a cafe or store and the density isn't high enough to make a massive impact on the market either. You even still hasn't neighbors you share walls with.
Anyone who isn't in health doesn't need to be HIPAA compliant, and thus isn't likely to do so.

That means that pretty much every possible service that is commonly used is off-limits. JIRA is an especially frustrating, but not entirely uncommon, example: to get them to sign a BAA, you need a massive contact.

That means no bug reports can go into JIRA with anything resembling the actual bug other than very vague info, so your internal customers (i.e. clinicians and customer service) have to jump through extra hoops just to file an issue.

I would love a world where HIPAA level compliance was standard for all PII across all industries. Until then, people will keep making mistakes.

Imagine this: you have two websites, a marketing site and a separate subdomain for your actual "app". There's a login button on the marketing site that redirects the user to the subdomain login page. Marketing adds GA to the marketing site to track conversations.

Congratulations! You've just violated HIPAA, because the rules apply to "past, current and future users" meaning that Google could theoretically identify people who were interested in either creating an account or wanted to log into your website. "But our company has a BAA with Google! We use all sorts of their products, right?" Wrong! Analytics is the one essential business software that Google refuses to cover with a BAA, which alone should tell you why you ought never browse the internet without uorigin and co.

I'm not making excuses for anyone. This is really important stuff to understand. It's also not always entirely obvious just exactly how leaky the entire SAAS world is to business people making what, in any other job, are obvious decisions.
Same. Use it everyday for majority of my G searches, never once seen a captcha (except when using VPN). OP, are you logged in to google? I am. Wonder if that’s the difference?
> This is the !very first! statement of the opening paragraph of my comment. Why are you saying that I have not said it. Have you not read the actual comment?

> Why would they be relied upon if they exist, even further, why would they be the basis of the actual law?

I said you didn't use it in the statement describing civil law.

I didn't bother tackling "common law is based ..." because frankly if I tackled every inaccuracy in your statements, I'd be here all day.

You were opining on the merits of civil law, by describing an "ideal" model of system which doesn't exist in any of the countries you've mentioned.

You attempted to exclude principles, which even if they don't exist in the same form, that are still present in those other country's judicial apparatus-- just with different weights and state supervisory organs.

> I will respond to that comment here because HN rate limits me, making any productive discussion totally infeasible, which is why I almost totally stopped participating on this platform. Seeing how it makes actual discussions impossible, I should altogether stop participating here. But here goes the reply:

The site is actually having problems at the moment for many, including me, you're likely not being targeted specifically-- unless you're getting an explicit error indicating so.

> The term exists, its an important term in history, political science, diplomacy for a very long while, the very Cambridge university uses it itself. At this point you should be aware that even you would be able to find many references using the term. So dont sweat it. The rest of the world is not going to stop using it just because you people have a beef with some country that uses it.

They used it to describe how it goes un-used, outside of France in this specific instance, don't misrepresent the article.

> At this point, seeing that you have claimed that I said various things I have not said and also claimed that I didnt say things that are the very first things that I said, I have no other option but to conclude that you are an insincere debater. Which concludes our discussion since I will spare both of us of a potential unproductive discussion by disengaging...

Where? Don't blame me for your inability to articulate.
Yes of course, I wasn’t encouraging anyone to evade taxes. However, if you are an Oregonian or Alaskan, you are good to go. Not sure how it works if you are from BC, maybe it’s covered under your tax free import allowance.

As a Washingtonian, I would always list and pay use taxes on my purchases from the Portland Apple Store cough if I ever shopped there before.
So that Blender release contains an alpha release of OSX Metal: https://code.blender.org/2023/01/introducing-the-blender-met...

Would be good to at least see it stabilise and optimised a bit before jumping to conclusions.

And yes Apple could make a better GPU by building a 450W discrete card but given that they make the most sales from lower end devices probably not a sensible strategy.
I just had a funny thought experiment along this self identification route. "I identify as a trillionaire" and finding that claim triggering the IRS to go hunt me down to find all those taxes I never paid as a trillionaire.
Yeah but google also became wildly successful to the point that they blow money on ventures with no real businesses plan and give up two years later when they can't turn a profit. They effectively have a blank check at all times. They're more like a businessman who's addicted to making money at the expense of all their personal relationships.
the 3D camera should be a separate device. Don't need a head mounted monster for it.

I am actually surprised that with prevalance of all the big powerful smartphones with cameras being a flagship feature, we haven't seen 3D cameras (two 2D cameras separated by the inter ocular distance, mounted on the back of a phone) become common yet.
I'm as perplexed as the dog
I just want to point out: At the time of the iPhone launch, AT&T's business model (and every other telecom up until this tipping point) was to sell "minutes" which was essentially micro-charges for consumers who want to make calls or send texts.

This was mostly an infrastructure problem that Apple innovated on and helped AT&T solve- carriers would no longer need to sell "minutes" but could instead sell Data, which was a much better value proposition. There's a quote in the movie Blackberry along the lines of "the problem with selling minutes is that there's only 60 of them in a minute to sell".

I can only assume this attributed to the global adoption of the "data sale" model (and the iPhone with it) since the profit ceiling was exponentially higher for every carrier.
Well, he is an expert on the subject matter, so....like, what are you an expert on? He he he :)
I don't like "play the man not the ball" responses but I need to see more diverse sources and the peer review reflections on this, to find it believable. I'm not comfortable with how this is being sold, and the source.

Eric Hobsbawm is said to have said "counterfactual history is shit" and I think when it comes to public policy, it's doubly hard to say how re-rolling the dice plays out. Did we actually need all those mechanical breathing machines? Was it wrong to try speedrunning the development of better ones? Is how you wear PPE more or less important than just having it?

It would be foolish to assume isolation is a bad response to the next one, on the basis these authors don't think it worked for this one.

Covid has a long (economic) tail, for sure. I think it also says a lot for the fragility of the world economies considered both as isolated policy decision making spheres, and the interconnected inter-dependency, that we're still somewhat in a supply chain crisis.

Sweden decided to let old, vulnerable people just die. I suggest the Authors volunteer to go first there. (Sweden is also an economy which is happy to displace bedridden dements back to other economies because the paperwork is too hard post brexit. Thats .. pretty damn cold logic)

Did the authors actually go and look inside the rental freezer trucks in the USA and say "cool: these things work as morgues and we can re-use them to ship chicken afterward" or what?
They had to have articles to qualify as a real magazine, probably for reduced mailing rates.
I think this will be quite successfully marketed as a status symbol.

Obviously, it was intentional to create a scenario that there are viral videos of people gasping at the price reveal.

I do think this is a revolutionary day but in a totally dystopian way. I suspect this is the start of where the tech innovations are more and more not going to be targeted at the mass market. The mass market is financially tapped out. The future is what Bernard Arnault and his 200 billion dollars figured out a long time ago. As AI starts to make society more and more unequal the money will be more and more in the high end luxury products. Everyone else can eat cake.
It does feel like coinbase will be the last domino to fall.

If you came from the future to tell me that coinbase would be shut down 5 years ago, I wouldn’t have believed you.

But after the last few years (NFT stuff, allowing sketchy coins and tokens to be pumped and dumped in their platform), it feels like it’s a matter of time.

It’s going to be a much more complicated case than binance’s, but it feels inevitable that they’ll be held accountable. It’s a shame, they had so much goodwill going in to 2020.

Maybe the best time to start a crypto exchange will be in 2025. (:
I totally get your point about security updates but maybe, making some generalizations here, it is not a terrible thing that the machine OPs parents use, doesn't get unexpected surprises - no unexpected family tech support calls. Us technology folks love the new and the shiny but predictability is a premium for the older generation (again generalizing - there are seniors who can run hoops around the average developer with their tech skills but thats not the norm).
You certainly have an opinion, but you do also keep leaving out facts that don't particularly support it, both here, and elsewhere.

"and the commit to remove support was created by a co-author of WebP who gives talks on WebP and is the primary contributor to libwebp."

Google also employs two of the co-authors of JPEG XL, who give talks on JPEG XL, and was were two of the primary contributors to libjxl.

The main authors of the JPEG XL specification are Jyrki Alakuijala, Jon Sneyers, and Luca Versari. Jyrki is a Googler. Jon is at Cloudinary. Luca is also at Google.

If you are going to try to come up with a silly conspiracy about this being WebP related, it probably would help if this wasn't the case.

Maybe consider that they do in fact have the expertise necessary to decide whether JPEG-XL is something they want to do?

I mean, seriously. You can disagree with the decision, but your argument that they have no idea what they are doing WRT to JPEG-XL seems pretty silly - the only company who arguably has any better idea would be cloudinary.
What do you think the CEO's job is? Only to tell people what to do?
I think metal is already a target of microbial corrosion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial_corrosion
"ultra" means "beyond" as in "beyond a limit" so it makes some sense for it to be more powerful than Max. Not saying that the naming is clear.
Does anyone get an unpleasant feeling from these typical "founder" types? Something always just feels deeply off about them. They all seem like carbon copies of each other too.

Nice response from Nvidia though.
Mostly seems like marketing and hedge against real world affects today.
I wouldn’t assume you can draw 1A.
This is a good point. Google got to the top by having the best search result back when it mattered. It now no longer matters.