skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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They are just not comparable.

Microsoft has the means and the marketshare to compete, and they do, they just failed to take the lead so far. There is no scenario where Sony could pressure developers to release exclusive games and content, and give nothing in return.

On the other hand, Microsoft has all the leverage in the world to pressure OEMs to distribute their software, and block competition. Historically, their marketshare has always been over 90%. Nvidia dominates in the professional market.

These are all publicly available numbers.

So far, you have failed to even provide clear and verifiable examples of developers "bullied" by Sony to not release content for XBox. You may want to take a look at Microsoft behaviour though, since they have a history of trying to get indie developers to prioritize their platforms or else [0]

[0] https://www.techdigest.tv/2014/02/are_microsoft_b.html
It’s funny to look back on all the people who were doing the “see, the world didn’t fall apart just because apple had to allow sideloading” over the last month. Like the law didn’t even come into effect yet and google is already flexing their monopoly power / browser monoculture, but people think that just because the internet didn’t explosively destruct overnight that everything is gonna be just fine.

See also, the “well, if they start abusing it, we can pass a new law to handle that!”. Yeah ok that’ll be great in 10 years, but what about now?

Manifest v3, the chrome Secure Enclave/remote attestation of ad delivery, and other measures are going to be coming down the pipe at an accelerated rate, and there's absolutely nothing to put the brakes on them anymore, because we now have a browser monoculture run by the world's largest adtech oligopoly. But people got their emotional victory over apple users and the app-review process.

Next stage: Youtube requires chrome, install it or get out. And I better see some remote attestation on that request, if you want FREE video. Why wouldn't they, when chrome/chromium control like 95% of every web request that's not iOS?

Now we get to do it again with RCS, where it's an "open" system that's chock-full of proprietary google extensions that google refuses to license or interoperate on. But everyone will nod along at how bad imessage is, and deliver us right into google's own proprietary system.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/new-google-site-begs...
or not follow anyone or read anyone and just use twitter as a pulpit, which some users do
Just let it all crash. It really is that simple. It's all their fault for "investing" money in the "safe" real estate market. They shouldn't be protected from the consequences of their decisions.
No reason a state couldn't decide to. New Zealand (approximately equal to Oregon) decided to do it in 2011 and finished the planned fibre rollout in about a decade.

This was a public-private partnership (funded by government but not rolled-out nor owned by our government).

The existing cable in my city is now unused (not sure how their incentives were structured, but I couldn't sign up to cable 4 years ago even though house was already wired for it)

I originally thought it was a dumb idea - state funding for netflix - however covid showed the value of the fibre connections.

https://sp.chorus.co.nz/stories/ultra-fast-broadband-ufb-ufb...

The second phase of the UFB rollout, called UFB2, means that 85% of New Zealanders will have fibre access by the end of 2022
> Regarding the distribution of content: Google has been more than happy to carry YouTube's operating cost from their quasi-monopoly on internet ads. In return, users gave them more detailed advertising profiles through the use of YouTube.

Ad data is not worth that much money, especially if you adblock all their ads. Every time you watch a Youtube video, Google loses money, why on earth should they serve their videos to you for free?

I use adblock, but I'm not under the delusion that I'm not freeriding off everybody who's not blocking ads.
Check out https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/ + https://libredirect.github.io/ for your homelab.

Related parallel thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37881771
And the chase begins.

I pay for premium so this won't affect me, but it's always interesting seeing the efforts even a trillion dollar company has to go through to fight against a relative few very determined "hackers" underground.
wait, pi-hole can block youtube ads? i thought they were served from the same domain as youtube-the-app making it impossible to do at pi-hole.

admittedly been a bit since i looked into it.
Even if it was 10 cents in some other country, I'll never pay a single cent to google, they don't need and most of all don't deserve my money.
Gradient free methods work on any optimization problem, including deep networks, because gradient free methods do not require a smooth parametrization of the search space. For deep networks the parameters are on a smooth manifold and that's why gradient based optimizers are used to find near optimal solutions/parameters, i.e. the search space has the structure of a smooth manifold so the parameters can be updated with gradient descent.
> By 2035, debris from low-earth orbit (LEO) objects, like Starlink satellites,

FFS this click-bait shit is killing me. Starlink is only an example, and likely less likely then all the other low orbit shit flying around up there.

Must the media be so sloppy and shameless?
4Mbps up per person can work, but much the same way as 15Mbps down can work. It's very reasonable to want much more.

> That said ISPs tend to scale up with down

Not in my experience, on both cable and phone lines.
I go into F-Droid and search for "connect". The product page says I updated it 15 days ago and offers an Uninstall option. It shows 1.29.0 as the latest version. So far it looks like a second package manager working properly.

I hit Uninstall and within a few seconds the button switches to Install.

I hit install and the app is installed from F-Droid. I open it and pair my phone to my laptop.

One data point. Perhaps a knob has been twiddled in the Chocolate Factory in response to this article. There are a lot of Googlers here.

(EDIT: formatting)

EDIT2:

I've gone into the Play app and got Play Protect to scan apps: "No harmful apps found". KDE Connect is still working
The UI is not terrible, but it feels very unpolished. The font line spacing seems off and too narrow, the toolbar and other UI components drift and shift when you switch tabs, the main window menu is in the wrong location, etc.
I think it served multiple purposes, they didn't raise consumer expectations at the time/ popularize 1 gig fiber service.

Around the same time the FTC was considering (and did) raise the speed definition of broadband and they YouTube had a big push to make 1080p streaming smooth and accessible, and they were being held back by a lot of slow last mile ISPs.
I dislike how there's no complete open source RCS implementation, and after trying it out a few years ago, I now actively avoid it (I instead use QKSMS on Android)...

But I don't see the problem with the decline link and EU law?

AFAIK, most EU regulations are about tracking and consent in using your information...

In this case, you're already using a Google product (the Messages app), and Google is just (aggressively) nudging you to use extra features that they have shipped in their app. It doesn't follow that Google is definitely going to use more information to track you than it would've done before (though it could be possible, of course)

...of course, I fully agree that this doesn't embody their "respect the user" ethos, but frankly... If you worked on new features for your users, I think it's fair to nudge them to try to make sure that what you worked on will end up benefitting them (of course, a company behaves differently than an individual, and it's not guaranteed that the work done might actually have merit... But that's orthogonal to this discussion)
Ask the LLM and see what it says.
That was unexpected and really interesting. I hope the results turn out to be good.
Anti-Anti-Anti-Anti-Adblocker is to come.
It just means eating 12% fewer calories than your baseline to maintain your current weight. So if you eat 2,500 calories per day to keep your weight and activity levels, bump it down to 2,200 and keep it there. I have heard that it is possible to build muscle while "cutting" (calorie restricting) but it's going to be much slower and probably more uncomfortable. Note that this study was a 12% restriction maintained for 2 years. The metabolic and inflammatory benefits persist long after the calorie restriction period in animal models, and this study seems to show the same genetic pathways are getting upregulated and downregulated in humans as we have seen in the animals that benefit from longer lifespan after calorie restricting.

When you put on 10 lbs of muscle, presumably your baseline will be slightly higher than it was prior to that (extra muscle requires extra calories to maintain), but still less than what it took to put that muscle on quickly and efficiently. I have no clue how much you should expect that difference to be, I'm sure many a bro scientist has opinions on it, some of which may be reasonable. Bulking and cutting is a classic technique in bodybuilding, however, typical cuts go on for a few months at most as opposed to 2 years.

One major takeaway from this study is that on average, you will be just as strong as when you started calorie restricting even though you will have lost muscle mass. It is theorized that your muscles will have become more efficient, so if you put on more muscle after a long period of calorie restriction you will be considerably stronger than if you had skipped the calorie restriction and just added the muscle. Food for thought.
plenty of objectively high IQ people are active there...
We unsubscribed from Netflix. Their selection is one of the worst around now.

And somehow they convinced themselves that cancelling shows constantly is good. I'm tired of getting into a show and finding out it's gone. We don't even bother pirating Netflix shows because of the inevitable letdown.
this is basically the 2023 answer

I don't care if you are a fifteenth generation swordmaker who practiced for sixty years...you cannot hold a blade in your hands steadily, at sub-mm precision, for more than one stroke

changing the angle even slightly is effectively starting over

but if you must go old school - BELGIAN COTICULE...all other sharpening stones are inferior, it is no contest imho
I'm pretty sure pihole doesn't block YouTube ads, they seem to be served server side but I could be wrong
They're looking at DOCSIS 3.1

"up to 10 Gbit/s downstream and 1 Gbit/s upstream"

Most of the 4.0 improvement is upload.

3.1 wouldn't do 2Gbps symmetrical, but it would do 2Gbps down with a reasonable up.
So - my great beef with the “Monty Hall Problem” is that it is often poorly, comically so, articulated such that one is led to draw the 50-50 conclusion because of the wording.

Then, someone springs the probability for the problem they poorly described and feels proud they fooled us all!

I _hate_ the Monty Hall problem for this reason. It’s not a function of statistics but rather a function of an author’s technical writing ability.
I’ve thought about their composition skills a lot though the years, being a musician myself. I’ve come to the conclusion that they are more than the sum of their parts. After they broke up, each of them were still pretty good and popular artists, but the magic was gone. None of them were particularly virtuosos on their instruments either, but, TOGETHER, there was a catalyst between them that sparked pure songwriting gold, and each of them knew exactly how to add to the song to make it just right. Add to that Martin’s genius of production and his own musical talents, and that’s what made them magical. As I watched in this series kind of fumble their way through some of the compositions, I initially often thought the ideas were less than stellar, but then I witnessed the magic of them building the song, together, eventually molding and shaping it into something beautiful. I’ve been in bands myself and have experienced some of this myself, and also imagine many other bands work that way, but The Beatles had an extra spark most others did not. Only a few other bands in history have had that spark and you could really feel it, e.g., Nirvana, Queen, Led Zeppelin, early Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd. I don’t think we’re likely to ever have that kind of magic in popular music ever again.
I honestly do not understand why. Especially now that Elon has basically raped the platform.
I did. Why pay twice for the same thing? YT music is perfectly adequate for my needs and also allows me to upload my own music.
My pleasure!

200x :O
Amount of land available for reforestation as of 2019 is enough for 1.2 trillion native saplings.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax0848

We could also set aside more land for reforestation as well.

Finding labor is easy.

This is an easy problem to solve, we just need to build up the knowledge that it is possible and then execute on it. Right now most people have never even considered things this way because they’re only exposed to doomer talk whenever climate change gets discussed. :(
Yes it can, but how often do you see ChatGPT make grammar or spelling errors unless prompted to do so?
> I'm convinced that by now after decades of bandwidth improvements etc we'd have free videos in the same way.

If you can figure out a way to serve petabytes of video every day for basically free, then you'd be rich.

The simple truth is that bandwidth is not free. The numbers are, of course, not public, but Cloudflare published some stuff here https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world... that we can use to guesstimate. Google likely has more peering agreements, but it still costs money.

That's just bandwidth, serving video also costs compute (re-encoding the video in a bunch of resolutions is not free), and running the software to serve the video is also expensive, memory, storage to store said video, and generally just hundreds of datacenters around the world. You can serve a million RPS of static HTML on a crappy server in a closet for a few thousand dollars, but you absolutely cannot do the same for video.
I can recommend a textbook called Probabilistic Robotics by Dieter Fox, Sebastian Thrun, and Wolfram Burgard. There's good coverage of Kalman and information filters in the first few chapters.
We had the "old" internet and we had ads... a text banner here and there, and then an image or maybe a gif banner on the other side. Noone really cared, sites got ad views, users got content.

Then ads moved to flash (security issues), popups, popups when you close the first popup, video was added, with sounds, two banners became 20, fixed location floating divs were added, and in the case of youtube, a 3 minute video of something contains 3 minutes of ads.

So yeah... they had a chance, went way overboard, and now they complain that people block ads.
I’m fine paying for content (I subscribe to Nebula and Spotify, for example); I am not fine paying to enrich organizations that engage in widespread surveillance and ad technology. Ads make the world worse. Creators make it better.

Google’s problem is that their mission statement is fundamentally misleading. They aren’t here to organize the world’s information and make it accessible, they are here to maximize ad revenue. The information thing is a means to an end. For them, ads are the point, because content doesn’t generate revenue - ads do.
Interesting, how many seconds of 2Gbps transfer do I get before I reach my monthly cap and they start throttling me?

Jokes aside, I'm curious how this is even possible over decades-old cable. I get there's a new DOCSIS standard, but I'm less interested in the protocol and more interested in the simple physics of it. How can a simple coaxial cable cram so much bandwidth?
Outlook webmail is pretty bad. Not only does it do the "... days ago" thing, but it wants to show what it regards are important at the top. So you get two partly duplicated lists, partially shuffled together - it's horrible x 2.
... you certainly can't understand it.

My first microcomputer ran a BASIC. The variables in that BASIC were single letters like A, F, X, etc. or a single letter plus a single digit like A4, A7, G2, etc.

Coming back to a program that I had written several months previously was pointless, as I couldn't remember what all the variables were for, or what they did. It was just easier to completely rewrite a program, rather than maintain one.

My next language happened to be COBOL with its variables that could be given fully descriptive names like EMPLOYEE-HOURS-WORKED, ITERATION-COUNT, SALES-TAX-VALUE, etc. Variable names like that mean that I can look at programs that I wrote in the 1980s and immediately be able to maintain them. That habit of giving variables really descriptive names has remained with me for decades.
Wildfire smoke leaves harmful gases in floors and walls
This kind of thing is especially egregious on the GitLab UI where,
for example, something was committed “a moment ago”, “just now”, or some vague shit like that.
There's another benefit of an encyclopedia set of books over Wikipedia: in the physical process of looking up a desired topic in a book, you can stumble upon COMPLETELY unrelated topics as you flip through the pages. This serendipitous effect led to reading random encyclopedia articles for HOURS as a kid, an interaction that's hard to replicate with Wikipedia today. Sure there's Wikipedia:Random [0], but you have to intentionally access it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Random
It's the regulation that should focus on creating the foundations of alternative systems, not the phone manufacturers. If a bank doesn't have a website, or a govt app doesn't have a website equivalent, then Librem & co is already out of the picture, from the everyday usability standpoint. To provide the citizens freedoms, service providers need to be forced to use open standards, like HTTP & HTML, to serve an standard interface that has all the necessary functionality. No matter how many grassroots initiatives we have, if this is not provided, they are automatically all out of the race.

So really, if anything, I'd like people to focus on regulation.
"Top engineers" aren't the tech workers that are getting laid off.
I don't think I mixed it up

> No human uses “more that 24 hours” as the definition of “yesterday”. Computers, unfortunately, do.

At 9pm on Oct 14, 6pm on Oct 13 was > 24 hours ago, and people would still call it "yesterday".
I don't know much about the beech boys, but didn't the bassist from the Beatles, once admit to admiring the beech boys' sound?
Open the video in an incognito tab, the limit is probably linked to your youtube/google account.
Most trees are cut with gas powered chain saws. Leave them up.
Radar-detector-detector-detectors are thing
What about using yt-dlp to watch videos?
people are dying, so maybe that policy should change
No, all websites show a banner on purpose to ensure users clicks on "allow all", or ensure the user gets the most annoyed when clicking on reject all by asking it again, or when click on "reject all" consider ADVERTISING as legitimate interest (apparently a loophole has been found).

Given that, I doubt this is certain in any way. Unfortunately without a court (not even just a lawyer), it's really hard to provide a definitive answer
Please tell me they'll marketing like this:

"Need to beat the heat? Netflix and Chill!"
agreed completely - "yesterday" usually includes times both greater than and less than 24 hours ago. People usually just mean… some time in the date previous to now. Roughly.
dont forget popunders! the sneakiest of the sneaky.
Shows who's boss on the phone. It's practically a remotely managed corporate environment.
Do HN contributers follow sport
I'm currently dejected from the Ireland loss to New Zealand in the rugby world cup quarter final and wondered do many of the HN crowd care about sports in a way that would impact their life in general or would a more analitical disposition distance people from such events?
> and just not allow any video to play at all if an ad blocker is detected

They intend to "go nuclear" and do that via their "Web Integrity API" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrit... Also previously discussed a few times here on HN.
If you're planning to setup a homelab, look into Invidious [1] or Piped [2] self-hosting too.

Mix well with Tailscale (or your mesh VPN of choice) and enjoy.

1. https://invidious.io/

2. https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
That might work as a stop-gap, but it's not at all cost-effective. Shooting down a 20-grand drone with a half-million (or more) missile is not sustainable.
Also, YT Premium is free with Google Fi phones and other things
Positional tracking on most VR headsets has the fast, low latency updates from the drifty IMU and slower ground truth updates from vision fused together with a Kalman filter. Consumer drones, military drones, and weapons guidance systems use it extensively too.
As far as resources, I’m not sure. It really only takes a few lines of code if you have a linear algebra library like NumPy or similar. However you need to write down the math describing your dynamics first.

The Kalman filter is really just Bayes Theorem applied to a particular set of system dynamics. Really it’s two applications of Bayes rule: given my current state estimate, how do I update my estimate when I receive a measurement? Then, after receiving that measurement, how will the system dynamics impact my uncertainty before the next measurement? You iterate applying these two every time you receive a measurement.

Do you have a dynamics model? I.e., a set of equations that tell you how what ever you are trying to track will update in time? That’s the first thing you need and if you don’t have that, I could see you being quite confused about the implementation.

It might help you to either read about particle filters or just Bayes filters generally. The Kalman filter is a Bayes filter for a specific set of assumptions that leads to a lot of linear algebra. If you understand the Bayes filter, the Kalman filter will make more sense, and you can learn about the Bayes filter without all the matrices. The particle filter is another algorithm worth reading about. Like the Kalman filter, it is a Bayes filter but it doesn’t require the linear algebra.

Aside: I always get frustrated when I see people saying that you don’t need to know math to be a software developer. Maybe that’s true if you want to make web pages, but the more math you know, the better your ability to model problems and either solve them yourself or find solutions others have created. The scope of problems you can solve via programming becomes so much bigger the more math you know.
Stanford shows otherwise

https://earth.stanford.edu/news/growing-carbon-offsets-trees