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Ask HN: How can unnecessary mobile data usage be reduced?
Lately every website seems to have video ads instead of still ads. Google search plays video thumbnails automatically without clicking them, and has images displayed at the top in the "Shopping" advertisement section, even when it used to just be text before. Basic web browsing has become massively data intensive and I feel this has snowballed in the last few years. I have considered switching back from an unlimited data plan with my mobile carrier to a fixed one, but the way things behave now, that might hinder me far more than it used to. I suppose I am also irritated knowing that server farms supplying this content, that I don't even want to see, are wasting electricity. Is there any way to get things to be more bare-bones? To stop images and videos from loading automatically in mobile browsers? I'm better at fixing physical things than being hacky, so I'm interested to hear what technologically inclined people have to say about this. Is there any hope for a simple, dare I say austere internet?
Not sure what the English term is, but Denmark operates with the "three separations of power". Parliament makes the laws, the police enforce them and the judicial system punished. The police, for good and bad, is never suppose to decide whether or not a law is right or wrong, how it's punished and to what extend.

If the police have become a punishing force, or even make the rules, then something has gone very wrong. Now even in civilized societies things sometimes goes wrong, e.g. the parliament provides police with too broad a framework to operate within, in an attempt to be "tough on crime" or attempt to dictate the framework of the judicial system to ensure a minimum sentencing. It's just rare that the police force itself is to blame. Blame mostly falls back to the people writing the laws.
I think the problem a lot of people have (even math majors) is expecting the lecture to be the first introduction to the topic. It's like taking a literature class and going to lecture without doing the reading. Reading (or even just skimming) the next section/chapter of the book before the lecture allows you to focus and ask questions on the parts of the material you didn't understand during the lecture. I very rarely wrote down full proofs in my notes during the lecture. I focused on the lecture itself and wrote down the pieces that I wanted to remember.
> From a game theoretical POV this is false;

Except we're not talking about game theory here, we're talking about reality.
This is what I imagine now: "I am a serial entrepreneur who has created three companies with a valuation of over $100,000,000, and I led one company into an IPO." lol
Well, GPT is well known for being able to formulate very convincing bullshit.
Just on copyright - all you want is to take a peek? It is not that you would have to share the complete scans with the world.

Let's say the character means "X" and you can see it on some obscure page - could sharing that be a copyright issue?
Nowadays while watching videos in YouTube, I get more occurrences of ads, even in short videos, compared to just a few days back. Very irritating. Started looking out for other options than YouTube.
Have you tried Mercurial? The Git user interface is a mess in comparison, since it evolved from a collection of loosely related scripts rather than being cohesively designed. Git does the same things and works fine once you learn it, but there's a lot of unnecessary inconsistencies to learn.
I could give a damn about 2A/the right to bear arms, but if I had to ID myself to police for asking for directions…
I’m sure you’ve heard of Amethyst, but it does address at least a few of your concerns. Particularly focus following the mouse and conflicting shortcuts.
AssistGPT: Multi-Modal Assistant That Can Plan, Execute, Inspect, and Learn
A vibe I noticed in California that I see here in NY as well - but not in the Midwest or down south - is the overt disrespect to the mainstream working / family people / anyone who can take care of themselves.

I am sure it starts from a empathetic place but leads to bad policy (eg: not prosecuting crimes out of empathy or to correct historical ethnic wrongdoing etc.) The problem is that these policies cause a real decline in the quality of life for everyone. Then folks who can afford to leave, leave - which happens to be the people who work, pay for everything for everyone and keep the place going. Their departure kicks off a spiral that keeps going until those stuck behind had enough.

An example of that turnaround is the Giuliani/ Bloomberg years in NYC - folks who ran on platforms of reducing crime and actually making life better for those who keep the place going.

From that limited perspective, I am going to be "short" San Francisco until the rhetoric changes.
Where should they be, and why?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wall_(TV_drama)
Put criminals in jail?
Okay I guess with that extra context your comment makes more sense. But you are still off on the tdp, unless you dispute AMDs numbers.
Why not? I dislike the Windows snapping behaviour for halves. Most macOS casual users won't need it. These apps work great and allow a lot of customisability that an OS-level snap might not provide. I'm but sure having it built in would be all upshots.
>Germany is a fucking joke and the worst example of a Climate friendly policy due to their rejection of nuclear.

Couldn't agree more. Funnily enough the single most important reason Germany abandoned nuclear is because of the Green party, which promotes itself as the climate party.
That they singlehandidly returned Germany to coal power (the actual policy was enacted by the CDU, but was 100% the result of decade long anti-nuclear activism by the Green party) does not seem to matter. Germany has now fully left nuclear power under a Green "Economy and Climate" minister, the sane alternative would have meant an enormous loss of face for that party.

If this does not tell you that there will never be a politcal solution to the problem I don't know what to say.
Collapsed part of I-95 will reopen in 2 weeks
Cardassians. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribunal_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Sp...
Option-clicking the green maximize button is the shortcut I usually tell people about. If you hold down option, you'll notice that the mouseover for the green ball changes to a plus instead of the fullscreen icon.
Until 2021 or so, even a really crappy startup could raise 8 digits with relative ease. Then all of a sudden those investors realized that the economy was bad enough that those companies may never make it big enough to justify the investment.

I don't think this recession will mean the end of crappy tech at scale, but it will make it really hard to justify certain strategies such as burning mountains of cash to build a (micro)blogging app, to name an example.
Cause society never appears in the heroes tale of one man doing the impossible, besides as a choire invisible of doubters.
Billion dollar bullshit generator is better at generating bullshit than humans
Westfield’s San Francisco centre mall lost 46% of its stores since 2020
Defenses Against Bugs
Again, not a million miles from other real world founder decks you could care to mention…
Open source Diablo 1 engine – DevilutionX 1.5.0 released
I would bet people here are more than willing to have a genuine discussion about how SF’s policies have contributed. You should drop the Fox News “liberals” schtick and try again.
Absolutely. This project is super cool!! I'll likely use this to send a postcard to some friends.

Such a cool little website to start and it feels so indie!
I haven't had problems because I just build images myself, using images such as alpine as a base.
An LLM is Always making things up - that’s what it Does. It is a corpus of word (token) probabilities and a function to generate probabilistic paths through them from a starting point. It is always hallucinating, it just often hallucinating things that also happen to exist.
Betteridge alert!
CAX11 looks like a great deal, especially with IPv4 disabled.
Where do chiplets fit in Moore's Law? Moore said that the number of transistors in a single package would increase. Well, are chiplets their own package? If so, then Moore's Law is clearly broken, because they are a decrease in the number of transistors in a package (compared to conventional approaches).

But if you don't consider a chiplet to be an independent package, then yes, maybe they can save Moore's Law.

Personally, once chiplets enter the picture, I think the question is becoming one of semantics, and therefore less interesting.
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Who?
Never heard of that two.

I think the real competitors are VW, BMW, Ford etc.
Pentagon’s PSB trawls social media for mean tweets about generals
»For example, when the cutting-edge image-recognition system Noisy Student converts the pixel values of an image into probabilities for what the object in that image is, it does so using a network with 480 million parameters. The training to ascertain the values of such a large number of parameters is even more remarkable because it was done with only 1.2 million labeled images—which may understandably confuse those of us who remember from high school algebra that we are supposed to have more equations than unknowns.

Each picture has more than one pixel, so for the network to "remember" the images, we need more parameters than there are pictures.
I really think that they may now sprinkle good results between worse ones just to show more ads, and force you to scroll, and scroll, and read more ads. Why to provide good results immediately if it is not a good business decision? They need to balance good and bad results to not anger consumers too much and to get target revenue
I wonder, if I could feed true facts into a prompt and consistently get well written decks on the other side. I think I’ll try that.
don't patents expire after 20 years? I'd assume some of those should be older by now, leaving me to think the reason lies somewhere else.
Of course I will do anything other than trolling in a place that insta flags you when you don't have a hardcore leftist opinion
Same here. I don't use spaces because I can't stand the animations, and they can't be turned off.
Even in the US it's weird. I arrived on a passport + visa. No requirement to carry it. Got a driver license. No requirement to carry that either, unless I'm driving. But now that I have a Green Card I need to carry it at all times. At least until I get citizenship.

I live in a state that allows for having my driver license on my phone.
I think it's really interesting, both as a view into how quickly English was changing around the advent of the printing press, and as a way to appreciate how quickly common knowledge can be totally lost or supplanted.
I see parallels between the Unabomber manifesto and his 'bullshit jobs' thesis. Although over a decade a part, they both sorta came to the same conclusion about how humans are being alienated. Both works are fundamentally critiques of modernity.
Firewall Factory
TFA describes the E3-1230 as an 8 core server when it is actually a 4 core server with 8 threads. That means the ARM vs x86 per-core performance comparisons are off by a factor of 2. I stopped reading when I noticed that. For cheap sustained compute, it's hard to beat a Hetzner auction dedi.
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That is a bleak point of view.
It might not have the answers he's looking for. When I've gone on such hunts, yeah, any one cost isn't so bad, but if I open that box of paying for documents, I could easily drop thousands of dollars and not actually be any closer to the answer.
Security Expert Defeats Lenovo Laptop Bios Password with a Screwdriver
Any particular theorem? This links to hard/impossible to access materials, but does any of them actually contain a theorem which proof is not accessible in some form?

Further is it any relevant theorem, which has been cited many times?
On further reflection, I'm adding this extra note indicating that I think my theory doesn't really work, even if it was a fun idea. Generating that much blue light via Cherenkov radiation seems like it would require such a flood of high-energy particles that it would have killed everyone in the area.
Siracusa also developed an app to get Classic Mac window layering behavior on MacOS.

- https://hypercritical.co/front-and-center/

And one that gives him an application switcher that works the way he likes:

- https://hypercritical.co/switchglass/
I share your sentiment and opinion.

Gitless looks, feels and smells like Mercurial (hg), which is simpler and more effective.

It only took everyone 18yrs to realize it (sarcasm).
If you looking into Chinese culture [1][2], it is astonishingly autocratic. Creativity is frowned on, and criticizing superiors is nearly impossible. There is a very strong "do what is asked, no questions" attitude. Business has very strong "nothing matters once I have your money" policy. I took South East Asian history in college, and Chinese culture is abundantly self-sabotaging. It was morbidly fascinating, which is why I took several courses on it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@serpentza
[2] https://www.youtube.com/@laowhy86
Isn't the same true for scammers?
It turns out when people earning several multiples of the median national income have to live in squalor (a few hundred sq ft), work in squalor (12 sq ft to call their own in an “open” workspace), and walk through shop and live in public spaces in squalor (locked cabinets to buy soap, open drug use, tents, human excrement in streets, etc), …

Eventually owners squeezed all the blood from the stone there was and… people fuck off and leave. And there’s nothing left.

There’s not a marginal adjustment that’s going to bring back everything, this is a crash. SF is going to plummet until prices and conditions significantly improve but given people will likely try to hold on to the dream of the previous status quo it will have a long way to fall.

Density and failed dreams of no law enforcement being an improvement lead to those desolation and I really wish the people who drove this to happening would learn their lesson but they won’t. Lots of people made plenty of money in this game and the cost is being seen with plenty of bag holders on display.
Default behavior of the green button click is full-screen, but option-click maximizes.

The behavior of double-clicking the title bar is controlled by the "Dock & Menu Bar" settings pane. It can be configured to minimize the window instead. You can also double-click any edge or corner to maximize from that side alone. Option-double-clicking will grow both sides. I like to option-double-click my Terminal windows to maximize their height without changing their width.
I suppose it has. The answer is (hopefully understandably) disappointing, since it can be used to discard any scientific efforts involving subjects, but it's what I expected.
I recommend reading "Liberal Parents, Radical Children" by Midge Decter.

https://www.abebooks.com/9780698106758/Liberal-parents-radic...
i would agree if someone is suspected of committing or witnessing a crime but to require ID for simply asking directions, and then getting arrested, seems like exactly the kind of overreach that gives a bad image to cops.
That was nuclear waste from medical instruments, not 12 foot high concrete cinders of nuclear power plant waste: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_cask_storage#/media/File...

If anything, this example serves to prove that we have an irrationally heightened fear over nuclear power's waste: we have had incidents with medical radioisotopes, but yet that doesn't get nearly as much press as the supposed "waste problem" with nuclear power.
> Is there any country where it's advantageous to speak more than required to the police

I think it's more a "why would it be problematic?" and not so much if it's advantageous. Unless you're guilty, but then it's normally advantageous in the sense that your punishment often reduced when you admit guilt.
You could take the bitcoin from excess hydro generation in a northern climate and deploy solar panels in a climate where solar has great ROI for instance.
I think we're just in this strange zone here in the EU, where we all enjoy freedom of movement but the penalties for not understanding the subtle differences between states can be quite a shock if you're caught out.
A Survey of Modern Compiler Fuzzing
The substance is the base, the presentation and storytelling is the multiplier (and yes the latter can be < 1)
Not really. Tons of these preferences are gated behind SIP, something you can't turn off if it's a work laptop.
The only time a sitting president has led an army in the field.
I disagree. You can slam SF policies pretty hard without getting flagged. But “liberals” this-and-that is low-effort partisanship, and HN does downvote that as a rule.
You forgot to throw “timey” in there too ;)
yeah nothing weird about these LLMs at all
Exercise. Eat meat. Don't eat junk food or food from plastic. See what your levels actually are. Look at the water you are drinking. Make sure nothing is adversely affecting your endocrine system and you are not getting extra estrogen from somewhere. A fit young man should be oozing testosterone!
> Photoshop will not regurgitate someone else's program practically line-by-line when you type the first 7 words of it into a prompt

You could argue that the people who have that specific bit of code would have a decent right to sue, because they have real definitive proof that their works are in that model in some form.

But unless you have managed to make such an output for (insert work here), You have no real claim to copyright on that model.

Which is why I made that Photoshop analogy. You can use it and get it to output someone's copyrighted work. The fact that you can do that doesn't make photoshop itself a problem. The act of making it spit out that copyrighted work, then distributing it, is the problem.

The liability for that is going to have to be figured out in the court system.

> A person with a camera and/or a copy of the original code, if anything.

No, the model doesn't have a copy of the original code when it's running. It only has what it was trained on, as if you read a bunch of stuff on GitHub and later on use what you saw in there while you were writing your own stuff.

And people totally do this as well, they will see things and learn from them and accidentally or unintentionally reproduce them when they are working later.

Which is another reason I think you should treat the output of these models as if someone has actually done it themselves. If you can prove there was violation there, there was violation there. Otherwise, you can't claim the model just like you can't claim the person who learned from your stuff.

> The fact that it compresses very well

It doesn't. The data of these things are trained on is absolutely massive and the final files are not nearly so large. The compression ratio would be absolutely bonkers if that was what was going on here.

What you're seeing is the effects of overfitting on specific examples, which doesn't represent the whole at all. This is finding an exception to the rule and taking it out of context.

To say that the model itself is a derivative work is absurd. You've got a picture and you're going to claim that this AI model that was trained on 7 billion pictures or something like that is derivative of your work?

> This is no different that compressing my program

It is very very different than compressing your program. A compressed file is a compressed file, builds to be compressed and then decompressed to get the original file back.

Again, except for the example where you own a work that is being reproduced by one of these models, proven, this is more like claiming a hash of your file in a folder with 100,000 other files is a derivative work of your file.
I don't know how successful of a metaphor this would be for students, but for developers who haven't had any familiarity with DVCS that I have worked with, I use a coat-rail analogy with some success:

You start with a "main" rail of coats. Each coat is given a number, indicating what order it is in.

You start adding coats to a new, empty, rail, using the next number. When you are done collecting coats on this new rail, you want to move your coats onto the original rail.

In the time it has taken you to collect the coats onto your rail, someone else has already added coats from their new rail to the end of the "main" rail, and they used the same base number that you have - which means you cannot just add the coats from your rail onto the main rail, else the numbering would be broken - we call this a conflict. (NB: There is a magic guardian of the rails that means this just cannot happen, which is a plot device that is just to make this metaphor work so don't question it, it's just a metaphor.)

To resolve the conflict you have the following "rebase" options:

- Slide all of the coats on the main rail up to make room for yours, and update all of the numbers on your coats, using the new number from the last coat as the base number for your rail's sequence. This ensures that everything on the main rail is "before" your rail. This is the equivalent of a rebase. After this, you can then put your coats on the end of the main rail without conflict.

- Then there is the option to take a copy of the main rail onto the front of your rail, and organising the coats one-by-one (much like in the above), placing your coat(s) in between some of the new coats on the main rail, then forcibly replacing the main rail with your updated rail. This last one is just as drastic in reality as it sounds in this metaphor. We call this the "interactive rebase" and it is rewriting history for anyone who has used the main rail before.

- Finally we have a merge which means adding one big magic coat at the end that takes the coats from both rails and combines them in a singularity, with the new base number being Hawking's radiation or something, I dunno. The metaphor is no good for merges.

(Truth be told: the entire metaphor started in my head some years ago with just the visualisation of that distinct coat rail sweep noise to squish the garments on the rail to onside to fit what our main protagonist is holding onto the rail, the rest I just back-filled over time)
I miss reading things like this.
These ChatGPT pitch decks might start offering something even more ludicrous, like profitability!

That's the real risk to the startup ecosystem.
Agreed. Pronunciation is almost always the least interesting thing about the evolution of language.
Speaking for myself, the language itself is simple. There aren't a lot of features, which means you do have to write more and it's more verbose, but learning the entirety of the language's features is very easy to do.

Even with the relative magic of things like init functions that execute on import, there's so much less magic that you have to consider.

IMO it's the easiest to jump into for this reason. Yes, the code itself might be excessive, but reading Go is as simple as can be.
>It's clear that he's not interested in those

How so?
While I totally agree that is how the system is designed, that's also the fundamental issue I have with it.

If we have such a fragile banking system that those in charge are expected to lie to us to keep people from seeing the fragility, we have to rethink the system.

> In fact, people in society today believe plenty of white lies already - what's one more?

That feels like a bit of a slippery slope, selling people on one lie shouldn't justify telling another. It also means first defining what a white lie is, and who gets to know the truth to decide whether it's acceptable or not.
ETH Zürich – Deep Learning in Scientific Computing 2023
We’ve reached the event AI horizon when we’re now scraping the barrel for chatGPT wins.
It Depends on the local node, mine is Chicago IL which has no issues