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To free the Baltic grid, old technology is new again
If you also run ad blockers, aren't you also claiming to be entitled to content online for free? Or do you go about supporting content producers in other ways? Do you turn off ad blocking for all the content you consume?

Or do you just 'not tell yourself you deserve it?' and take the content none the less?
Resources provided to beginners on C# development on AI, web, mobile, and game development.
Protective vaccination rates falling out of reach in US; exemptions hit record
Irrelevant - you must use machine learning for everything now.
The $48 million in political donations might have something to do with the terrible deals.
That's pretty dogmatic. I don't see much issue with proprietary drivers (even if it's not ideal how Linux handles that) if they actually worked properly, which unfortunately they don't..

Not that this is relevant for this laptop.
Interesting and complicated. Arguably, the Bloomsbury set tried to reform the idea of elite to be based on a much lower bar to entry, notably taste instead of skill and responsibility. Criticisms of aristocracy use a bit misdirection and equivocation about what they want to replace, and then stack on the rest of the justifications that support the idea that a legitimate elite is liquid and interchangeable - because they have reframed the legitimacy to be as arbitrary and accessible as taste and position.

The paper's use of the word "highbrow," frames pursuits in terms of taste instead of their bar to entry, where someone playing golf can be considered as having an equivalently highbrow interest as someone who sails or rides horses, which is like comparing playing video games to programming or electrical engineering. Their interpretation of tastes in music conflates affect with effect, where pop music and "highbrow" music are placed on the same continuum of experience to create a grouping that seems more inclusive of lower-bar positional elites who have taste for pop music, and along side of the higher-bar company of actual musicians and patrons who support the pursuit of ideals and excellence in performance. The underlying misdirection is that the legitimacy of an elite does not require skill, responsibility, continuity, or succession - which of course a usurper would say, and so say these usurpers.

I'd argue the legitimacy and even the station of an aristocracy is a function of its actual nobility, which is the perfection of its ideals and the cost of their investment in aligning to and achieving them. The reason is that we have more in common with people who have pursued and achieved similar levels of excellence than with people who just like the same things. An olympic athlete has more in common with a CEO than someone who goes to the gym, and a concert pianist has more in common with an olympian than they do with someone who plays in a band. Interesting paper, but unless a writer is demonstrating noble ideals and the means to achieve them, I think they are misleading people.
> there will no video...

There will likely be video. Visual presentations can be an important part of learning. Perhaps it will be generated JIT, but likely AOT compilation of video will represent a useful savings in processing power. Students can always "put their hand up" to interrupt a presentation for a little one-on-one time with professor AI.
HEVC has a very wide support for hardware acceleration while AV1 barely has any, especially for encoding. That's important, especially on battery-powered devices.
Netflix can run on the absolute worst of TV boxes, many still on armv7. AV1 is a pipe dream on these.
Having been at different levels in engineering (from junior up through C) there are a few things I've learned along the way.

(1) Everyone needs to operate in good faith. I've observed leaders ask their direct reports for something off-hand, without giving it more than 5 seconds of thought. I've watched direct reports operate as a "human command line", requiring precise syntax before they'll act. Don't be either of these type of people.

(2) If you're a manager/leader, there are no "one-off" requests. Any ask carries an implicit priority over everything else. You have to work within the overall system and environment, otherwise you are forcing your team to make choices about those things. Don't be this kind of manager/leader.

(3) If you're the one receiving an ask, help your requestor understand what's involved. Eliminate implicit assumptions; that's where the dragons lie. Communicate, inform, educate. Nail down what the requestor wants and be sure you both agree.

We do these things in the name of efficiency, of not wanting to waste time if it's not necessary. I've found if we all try to help each other in these requestor-requestee situations, it generally makes life much more tolerable.
How do you handle Global Tax (VAT, GST, etc.) when using Stripe?
I know there are Merchant of Record services like Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Gumroad, etc. but Stripe is definitely superior in my mind.

And Stripe Tax is great, but doesn't handle the actual remittance part. Curious how other folks are handling this issue?
Trademarks and copyright are enough to compensate innovators.

The only possible exception I can think where patents are distinctly useful is Pharma, and even there it's not exactly a closed case.

In aerospace, software and electrical engineering; there are many examples of consumer harm from patents and very few, if any, examples where patents enabled innovators to do useful things which were otherwise economically unfeasible.
It also changes the nature of the content. I was watching some sports videos this week and all the advertisements were for gambling websites. Meant I was no longer comfortable watching the content around children.
The history of CA is a history of sleazy backroom water rights deals. At any point in history one could pretty accurately make the claim that "they" were conspiring against "us" to redirect the allocations of water.

Certainly don't make the mistake of separating the state from the corporations and their lobbies when assigning blame.
> Seek ways to support the creators, not the platform.

And where exactly will these creators publish their content if not on a platform? YouTube solves their techology problem, delivery problem, storage problem, costs problem for all the previous things and gets them access to advertisers that pay for their content and handles payments across the world for them.
(Patreon is a platform too, which also works on handling a subset of those problems).

I don't see those creators rushing to cover 6-7 figure AWS bandwidth, transcoding and software development costs themselves for their self hosted videos. They seem to be happy double dipping into YT ad paid service costs and adding sponsorships and patreons on top of that. I haven't seen a single one move to their own AWS hosted machines and paying 5-7 figures in badwidth and CPU costs to get their content delivered to people who want everything for free.
> ...people took a lot more time to pay than it took the cashier to scan and bag...

Stores vary, but one of my reasons for usually paying with cash is to minimize the chance of computerized delays or f*ck-ups during payment.

> ...cashiers are usually much faster than the customers themselves...

My experience is that this varies enormously between stores. Trader Joe's, Aldi, and most "little local" stores are fast. Vs. the last time I was at a Target - Cashier Training [FAILED], No Long Procedures Required During Checkout [FAILED], Sane Store Policies [FAILED], Competent Manager Available [FAILED], etc., etc.
>I mean Netflix subscribers just got a worse service now.

Your first points have merit but this is an odd point. Of course Netflix customers will get worse service. If you start a business and succeed by illegally using someone else's patent then you (and your customers) should suffer from a legal decision.
If you ever play Improv you soon realize that learning the basic rules of improv quickly lead to better scenes. You don't verbalize these while playing, but you keep them in your head and have a feel for them. I believe the authors greatly miss out on these internal representations by only focusing on the outcomes of what is being said.

Shameless plug, I made a GPT for playing improv: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-LkQhMxpvM-improv-theatre
> Doesn't Netflix use AV1 exclusively to stream it's contents?

And double its electrical power impact by going from hardware decoding to software decoding? I certainly hope not. (Anyway on TVs, it's impossible to do in software decoding, both because the CPUs are very bad, and even with literally 0 CPU you can't access 4K HDR surfaces)

> that HEVC will be replaced with AV1 in Netflix.

I personally would wait for AV1 to be court-tested before eagerly switching to it. Unlike dear ol' Theora, AV1 wasn't designed to not be patent encumbered. One would even argue the opposite. It is "patent free" only because Google claimed it was, and we're hoping noone will have the will to go against Google. Broadcom might have them.
You're conflating two issues. Should the cashiers at supermarkets be upset that they don't get a share of the profit from every canned soup sale?
Just to add a different POV, this didn't register as an "insult" or "idiotic take" at all for me.

If a project amounts to basically running another project's binary and displaying the results, it's fair criticism to point that out, is it not?
It’s also absolutely vital as a manager to put in place a system of psychological safety before making these kinds of asks. If someone feels like they will be held accountable for not accomplishing the task in the allotted time, then everyone is hurt by the exercise, and morale and trust can plummet - to say nothing of the exploration itself being compromised by a panicked context. But done in the right environment, this can be an amazing technique for exploring a design space.
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> I have received neither any compensation nor any benefit for it

Is this because your invention wasn't commercially exploited or because your invention wasn't protected by the patents(because of reasons)?

Correct me if I'm wrong but In this particular case it appears that the patents of Broadcom worked as intended and they will be compensated if their invention is used. A good example of actually investing in inventing something, then make money with it thanks to enforcement of patents.

This doesn't appear to be a patent troll case but actual technology with actual use case in an actual multi billion dollar corporation and the other corporation who invented the technology demands to be compensated for the use their tech in this multi billion dolar trade.
Care to explain how is it better for "national security" that some of Google's division have to be sold/spun off into different companies?

What is exactly the threat of YouTube becoming an independent company again, e.g.?

The only thing I see is a loss for Google in revenue and in YouTube in the "quality" of their ads.

None of this has any implication on national security.
I don't know of a single person that feels good about cargo ships burning bunker fuel.

But it seems like a small group of people is able to sway the policy.

A few activists can make us all use paper straws, and a few rich shipping companies can prevent us all from switching to cleaner fuels for prime cargo movers.

Why have democracies become tyrannies of minorities?
>Except there is no such reliance on perfect information of all parties.

Exactly. The market is the decentralized method by which information is distributed.

>Straw-man

Yes, agreed. I wonder how much laissez-faire material some of these commenters have actually read. Perhaps they read from a different flavor of "market absolutism", which brings the question of unnecessary generalization.

In my reading of the Rothbardian ancap canon, insurance companies, liability for damages and private certification boards are advanced. Under this system imperfect information is taken as a given. Market participants like private food safety inspectors have an incentive to have better information than their competitors.

Contrast the above to the government regulation schemes where acceptable levels of adulterants are not necessary to report. Similarly, polluters can freely pollute within the EPA guidelines without liability. One could make the same leap of attributing "perfect information" to government regulators. If not for perfect information, how else can the FDA know the acceptable level of a contaminant?

Private regulatory and certification bodies would give consumers choices for cleaner standards than the government monopoly. I hope it goes without saying that the existence of a state backed regulatory body makes it harder for a private one to enter the market.

Finally, in response to the top level comment, it is worth noting that if a similar comment were made in favor of markets rather than regulation, one could reasonably expect it to be flagged into oblivion. Perhaps rightly so, because the topic has derailed the discussion. It speaks to the depth of the discussion when market opponents haven't even bothered to read what they are criticizing. HN isn't the place for this.
Counterpoint: The article is titled "HTML First" not "HTML Only"

Admittedly I had the same reaction you did as I was reading the article. All I could think was how poorly these approaches would scale when the need arose for even modest ly complex state management.

While the body of the article doesn't address this, IMO the title does. I think it's generally good advice to suggest only reaching for the tools intended for complex environments when they become necessary, not before.
> Isn't something special about HN? I think so.

One of the core advantages of HN, imo, is the absence of any of the common monetization models. The site itself and the moderation are run by a company making money in another field. Of course HN serves a function for that company, at least marketing, recruiting and community building. But, HN is not optimized to keep me "engaged", because engagement leads to more ad impressions. Things like the noprocrast feature would never make it to Reddit etc.

Another important difference is moderation is paid for and not based on volunteers. This means there is no regular way for someone to become a moderator and getting their own little fiefdom. For as long as I am following this site, dang has been the moderator here and with this consistency also comes consistency in decisions. Sure, dang does not set the tone directly, but at least we don't get "hostile takeovers" followed by a purge of supporters of the old moderation team.

Maybe it is also the topics of HN. They are at the same time really niche, but also very broad. You can find deep dives on esoteric programming languages, some social/political issues, biology research papers, history and even some gaming here. Sure, all of these topics have dedicated subreddits, Discord servers or boards, but here we get all of these topics more or less in 30 links on a single page. Maybe having a space to interact with many different topics and thus people is what keeps this interesting.

I don't know whether these things are due to something like a master plan or are just happy little accidents. No matter, it seems to work.

P.S. some comments mention the lack/low amount of humor. I agree that meme spamming is not great, but I like that we occasionally get a bit of snark or sarcasm mixed in. And without any shiny medals like Reddit gold or a point score attached to such a comment, it is easy to just skip over.
But he's not wrong... "more water" in this case is like 16-18" of rain per year. It survives well on down towards 12".

This is like "does well in Arizona unirrigated" levels.
I love how seriously HN takes a nothingburger about a seriously unfounded complaint from one guy. That didn't even pass a basic legal smell test.
We don't choose to purchase slave phones, computers, etc. over free trade alternatives. Choosing blood diamonds over artificial diamonds, makes the cruelty the point, no?
You mean companies that failed because they implemented their own build and deploy scripts? Their own CI/CD workflow engine? Or for trying to sell a workflow engine?

Because I can imagine why almost nobody could be able to do the third one.
No, but leaving your door open with a sign that says “Anything you want, $1” does excuse people ripping you off (which is more or less what happened here, the state traded something very valuable for something comparatively worthless). I’m not saying that the farmers here are saints or anything, but at a certain point it’s at least partially the state’s fault for not trying very hard to protect its own resources.
I listened on a calibrated speaker setup and on my good Sennheiser headphones. Yes, there’s a difference, but both sound like shitty speakers just with different EQ profiles applied to it. It's still compressed to hell and extremely tinny no matter what.
You can get a 14900k with better performance (single core and multi core) for cheaper. Between my 7950X system and that I've found the Intel memory controller to handle higher RAM capacities speeds as well. It also comes with ECC support if you get the right motherboard and you get additional usable PCIe bandwidth over what the 7950X will expose.
Show HN: Open-source alternative to OpenAI Assistants API
GitHub: https://github.com/Superflows-AI/superflows

Henry and Matt here: we’ve built Superflows - a fully open source alternative to the OpenAI Assistants API. It makes it easy to add an AI assistant to a SaaS product.

The assistant answers questions or completes tasks for the user by calling API endpoints in your SaaS product. E.g. a user could ask their CRM assistant “Eve is sick today, move her calls to the rest of the team - prioritise those who’ve had prior contact with the prospect” and the assistant would do this by calling the CRM’s API.

Like OpenAI’s recent Assistants API release, it handles threads, chat history, RAG on your docs and API call selection, but without the lock-in to OpenAI & you can self-host.

It supports various LLMs: an OS model we fine-tuned (based on Mistral 7B), fine-tuned GPT3.5 & GPT4. We also support Claude 2, Llama 2 and PaLM, but haven’t tested them rigorously. We’re still working on streaming the Mistral model, but have it hosted without for now.

You can upload your swagger file (OpenAPI spec) to get up and running. Endpoints can be enabled/disabled and you can evaluate performance in the playground. There’s a React component library for easy integration.

You can self-host for free. We're charging for the cloud version. This has faster & easier setup, user permissions, analytics (soon) & support.

Give it a spin and let us know what you think!
GDPR applies when you have EU users. Legal presence is irrelevant.

Enforcement is obviously a different matter.
Nowadays = this + last generation on nVidia, Intel and AMD GPUs?

It's still fairly uncommon on ARM, MIPS, etc GPUs being used in low-cost cores for TVs and set top boxes. Mali being the biggest.
There's an extension called Enhancer for YouTube (and probably others) that allows you to automatically set the quality without needing to do it manually. If your default quality setting is higher than a video offers, it'll choose the highest available.

There's also other features like automatically expanding the video, converting Shorts to normal videos, automatically expanding the description, automatically hiding chat for live streams, etc.
This is a 1 dimensional view of things.

Maybe I can simplify it for you with this question:

Does Google have the ability to legally compel you to only use chrome?

Im guessing you would say no- Antitrust and whatnot. So the next followup is, Does Google have the ability to tell blind people they cannot use screen readers? Or that people on linux cant browse the site in lynx?

Again, I am guessing the answer is no- Theres anti competitive, antitrust and 230c reasons why. Legally, ad blocking is fine to do. Heres a great article going over it : https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...

HOWEVER- I disagree with the premise that Youtube cant try to stop adblockers- They just need to do so in a way that doesnt target specifically target a user. Twitch did a system where they would not send the video stream to you until the advertisement was done playing (which was embedded in the feed itself)- So if you blocked the ad somehow, you would just look at a black screen for 15-30 seconds. This, in my opinion would be completely compliant.
Road approval looks very differently for mass-produced vehicles. It is not an easy thing to pass.
I agree with that, I would also have liked to have seen Tenderlove in it.
That's not the issue here. The issue is that YT is (arguably) using illegal measures to enforce their own rights. Just because someone infringes on your rights doesn't make it legal for you to infringe back on theirs.
Here,s a deep, deep dive into AGC rope memory. My mental model was stuck on core memory until I saw this and finally got the difference. Tl;dr Way higher information density. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hckwxq8rnr0
Yesterday I asked it to generate i18n translations in a dozen languages for a few words in my app, in a specific syntax for React Native localization support. I have a pretty simple app I'm building with a few UIs, so only needed to translate a few words, but I basically just made my app shippable to a dozen other languages with a simple ask to ChatGPT. I'm not really an evangelist. It suits specific use cases well, and does require some learning and some engineering. I think people are expecting to say "Solve this very complex problem for me by yourself" and giving it a terrible prompt and then blaming it. It requires the same level of creativity that programming does. You have to think about what to ask it, and it what way. Once you get the hang of that, it's pretty powerful.

In my example I said "I'm trying to translate my React Native app into multiple languages. I need an object that looks like this: <example JS code>. Can you generate this object for French, German, <insert more languages>, and for the following words: <words I needed>."

Luckily I know basics in a few languages and the words were simple enough that I could easily verify it wasn't a hallucination. I also know enough JavaScript to know that it was syntactically sound, but my IDE would've told me if it wasn't.
Exactly this. Context is king - and as someone else stated below knowing how to get to the actual ask vs. how the ask is being phrased is something that comes with experience.

That said, it should also be the role of the more senior technical leadership to involve junior technical staff in the process so they have the opportunity to grow. For example, CEO asks CTO how long it would take to add X feature so CTO loops a junior engineer into the conversation and demonstrates how to get to what the CEO is actually asking (which may or may not be X) vs. just providing a time estimate for X feature. Hopefully the CEO learns something here too but ymmv.
That's precisely the issue I've got – yes, there’s a difference, but both sound like shitty speakers just with different EQ profiles applied to it. It's still compressed to hell and extremely tinny no matter what.
You're trying to paint this as a fumbled negotiation on the part of the state, when it was actually graft.
AV1 is fairly cutting-edge as far as codecs go, so typically only newer devices can perform AV1 hardware decoding.
While I do agree with you and recommend everyone uses them, I still don't believe this is acceptable for websites and that we are basically forced to use adblockers if we don't want migraines
Ten Ways AI Will Change Democracy
I can report that I am still waiting for my GDPR mandated data checkout from metacompliance.com after filing it every month over again, which they happily ignore.

I think their web form just lands in /dev/null and nobody bothers to do anything. Time to get a lawyer and report them, I guess...