skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can run efficient VM-like distro containers inside VMs (eg. LXD), and if necessary VMs inside VMs. So you only need one rented VM at the top, if your performance needs are low.

It probably doesn't make sense economically, due to the cost of managing the infra vs the cost of more top-level VMs from a provider, but you can certainly segregate prod, staging, and independent spaces for multiple developers (or yourself on different projects) on a single rented VM if you want to.
I'm pretty sure there's no legislation that mandates paper straws (I could be wrong here). Legislation bans straws made from non-decomposable single-use materials. There are much better materials than paper, that aren't even particularly expensive (compostable plastics). My suspicion is the paper straws were a product of the plastics industry to try and make it unpopular to pass environmental regulations.
Yeah I kind of think that visions of the future from 50 years ago envisioned flying cars being the result of a new kind of propulsion - not something akin to a small plane that has wings and requires a runway
Humane Releases AI Pin
They've been working with Intel on AV1 hardware since 2019.

[1] https://research.netflix.com/publication/AV1%20at%20Netflix
I think a lot of that is the (musical) artists/businesspeople demanding a higher - most reasonable - cut, so we all get more ads.

Just think how expensive YouTube would be if artists started demanding royalties for works that match their video fingerprints (in addition to the payouts according to audio fingerprints that YouTube pioneered).

Encoding, moderation, storage, and bandwidth cost money. I'm sure the YouTube financials and margin are posted.

A video streaming service can afford to operate without ads only if: _____.

You understand this if you've ever tried to host (multiply-reencoded) video on a shared hosting service with a bandwidth quota for $10-$20 a month.

https://WebMonetization.org/ is one proposed solution to advertising-supported media.
Nobody claim to be entitled to free video, just a reasonable amount of advertising. Which is not what I (for example) get when I go on YouTube.

Google already has a definitive solution: close down the free access under a registration+payment (reasonable one). Why they are still serving free content? Why they don't get the moneys from the viewers directly?

I think that the reason is that they are inflating the number of viewers to everyone (content creator, stakeholders, etc.). You can fake viewers, you can't fake revenue. So, Google wants us to get more advertising so that they can claim that the number of views in ads increased, to earn more.
> Why do you pretend that you are entitled to free video storage and bandwidth from YouTube? You haven't been sleighted. That service costs money to provide.

Because Google has been monopolistic in their strategy to become the no.1 video platform and crushed alternatives.

This behaviour comes at a cost, pushing alternatives and now forcing adverts on everyone?

I can't do much to stop their monopolistic behavior but I can block adverts.
You can get a Youtube Premium family plan for $15/mo that works for 6 people.

I'm as against ads as anybody, in the sense that (1) in general I think ads are unhealthy (2) I want infrastructure that makes access to content without ads possible (3) being able to disable ad blockers is one reason it's bad to let one company control how your browser works.

I can't say I disagree with Youtube's right to monetize, it's more of an "I'd really rather if you didn't" thing, but I think they do in fact offer the affordable plan you are asking for.
Think of it as the speech of a politician. You know it’s a bunch of nonsense, he knows it’s a bunch of nonsense, many people know it’s a bunch of nonsense. But most people don’t. And it’s all about the mass.
Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk from the past year?
Please share a link to a recording if at all possible.
> Syntax and other errors in Haskell provided through VSCode Haskell extension via GHC are comically bad, IMO, often amounting to a small red squiggly that's not even where the actual error is, with the message "parse error". When I have put the code snippets into GPT-4, it has identified and corrected the issue 99% of the time

Wow, GPT-4 can correct whitespace errors in whitespace-sensitive languages? That's pretty astonishing.
I was just about to reply with this hahaha. This guy clearly does not know consultants.
> Having a disability or similar does not entitle you to an unsubsidized Times Square with no ads.

Isn't Times Square public property? NYC could absolutely make that a thing if they wanted.

> How the heck can you require only Netflix to host 30% local EU content and also demand free video streaming service with no ads?

Nobody's asking to make Netflix free. YouTube could absolutely charge for access if they wanted. Ads aren't the only way to monetize a service.

With that said, I'm generally in agreement that Google has a right to run ads on their platform and to try to block users who are blocking ads. The "spyware" argument seems pretty weak to me.
> will just ignore my scroll wheel input sometimes.

The other day I was trying to set the scroll speed (and have it consistent for all apps) on KDE and it was quite a struggle. AFAIK it just works on Gnome/Wayland but having to chose between something as basic as this and using a DE the UX of which I personally find slightly repulsive (at least in default config) doesn't seem ideal.
> Patents don’t even appear to be serving their intended purpose, I mean Netflix subscribers just got a worse service now.

Think longer term. Without patents, maybe there would be no H.265 to use in the first place. So consumers win after all.
I had a 1930s edition of a "radio physics" textbook as a child, and because there could be no prior assumptions about exposure or familiarity, it was filled with very complex ideas explained so cohesively and coherently that, well, I could understand.

The author knew that this book was for people who might be as involved in the business of radio as its science or engineering, so they wrote as much about the application across every industry, breaking down the systems to the component level and manufacturers, deployment, and ordering, as they did the design and theory.

I learned how to evaluate a textbook from its structure and style. It certainly wasn't designed for discrete lessons, and the professor would have needed a diverse and practical understanding to teach it effectively.
Well, times change, so well - laws change and society can renegotiate laws if they oppposse the common good. Nothing written in stone.
> not wanting to share the larger context

... or not being capable of articulating the larger context (edit: in which it would be the perfect case to do micro management)
The whole point would be that Netflix would license the patents from Broadcom.

Instead either Broadcom is blocking them to prevent their growth, or Netflix is trying to be greedy.

Either way, nowhere here are patents helping or protecting citizens/consumers
Youtube may very well charge for whatever they want. But pretending to offer the service for free and looking at your information (in the form of browser capabilities and other PII), is like you entering a store and the owner going through your wallet just because you want to browse around
You mean the ad people may have to explicitly pay for information they want to use? Horrifying stuff.
My favorite quote by someone on a forum a decade or two ago:

> Man-made diamonds are forged from the will and brilliance of man.

> Millions of years of loving relationship have lead up this point and have been distilled into 2 carats of sparkling magic,

> brought forth from the ether of the universe by man's desire to express his love.

>

> Or you could dig up some dirty rock from the ground, like an animal would do.
The downfall of the previous govt in 2014 was a case study in "don't get caught or called out for bullshit". Citizen-led and media-driven discussions on corruption decimated any speck of pro-govt voices in the country.

The govt that replaced them took note, and used old laws to effectively crush dissent in mainstream media (major newspapers and the top TV channels) while building an army of loyal followers fuelled by bot-energy who invade any comment section seen to criticise the Modi govt.

It is hard to say how much of the country is nationalist. perhaps only the 35% odd per cent that voted for Modi in a first-past the post system are possibly in this club. But online, they dominate discourse.

It is a strategically built system, with Whatsapp forwards decided in advance and lines of thought determined through centralised control. It made use of the analytics Obama used and even pioneered the use of newer companies like Cambridge Analytica even before Brexit, to control discourse on social media.

Some people genuinely drink the cool-aid, but rarely does an intelligent person do so. Nationalists are usually upper-caste and elite and prone to self-victimhood ideals about how they are oppressed.
Also Intel CPUs have much lower consumption while idling, right?

As much as I like AMD, I find this a significant advantage for a workstation / small server.
It absolutely was
And then you give up specialized cuda kernels, which is necessary to run mistral 7b in 4 bit float mode.

There were some experimental cuda kernel for jax codebases. They didn’t work very well at the time, but maybe it’s better now.
You're are more than right about memory/storage upgrades but otherwise Macs seem to be priced very competitively considering what they offer.
You saw what they wanted you to see.

NOTABUG, working as intended.
You're a real company when (2007)
Or perhaps without patents there wouldn't be false monopolisation preventing better standards being contributed by people who can't afford expensive lawyers.
Most content creators are either doing it for free, or getting a percentile of a cent on the dollar. As far as I'm concerned, that makes it communication infrastructure, not service provision. Youtube is providing the infrastructure, the creators are providing the service.

As I think that infrastructure should be publically owned, I'm happy to do my bit for nationalization, and use adblock.
that's why i used the past tense
Thanks, took a look at it. Seems quite heavy though, lots of huge dependencies like pytorch and torchaudio, and seems like the speaker diarization requires a GPU if I'm not mistaken. And as another poster pointed out, it does require a Huggingface API key as well.

I wanted to keep my script lighter weight and also GPU optional (i.e., a GPU will work and make it faster, but it also works acceptably with just the CPU). I really feel in my gut that the speaker diarization doesn't need to be so complicated or hard once you already have the accurate timestamps of each transcribed segment and the underlying audio file-- no reason why it shouldn't be able to run fine on a CPU and get good enough accuracy.
I seems unlikely that they meant a modern API syntax (as the OP mentioned)
When people tell me that I normally times their expectation by three.

Saves on the risk of them being disappointed by an hours output.

I’ve had this in interviews where people say, ‘don’t spend more than 5 hours in this prep task’ and then wonder why it isn’t a golden monument of best practices and tech
Cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack – ArsTechnica
A Eulogy for Coding
AV1 was literally created to be patent-free.

So yes, please continue to threaten me with a good time.
I read one file, src/BrokenSomething.cs, and as an opinionated SWE I would say they could do some Separation of Concerns refactoring to clean it up.

I could do that refactoring, I suppose I could make it better, in addition to piling on about it on hacker news. ;-)
But they aren’t being compensated, they are just blocking the use in those markets.

Mine are heavily cited:

https://patents.justia.com/inventor/andrew-kemendo
Is it not a "thing"?
I don't it would have moved far, even with 10x the budget.

There are very real technical and physical and physiological limits preventing this which might be overcome at some point, but not in a few decades through sheer will, or more money at the problem, or because "it's inevitable".
At 50% rate, it’s not a tail risk! Not to mention the men that “stay in it. Cuz cheaper to keep her”!
> Imprecise asks from managers and leaders cause a disproportionate amount of turmoil and wheel-spinning.

True. But the scope is far too limited. When you listen *very* carefully to comms you quickly realize how much fill-in-the-blanks and vagueness (is back filled with assumption) is typically involved. This happen with leaders, managers, colleagues, family, friends, etc.

"It's not what you say, it's what they hear."

Sure, off the clock it doesn't always lead to turmoil and wheel-spinning, but it can. Regardless, those habits get brought into the office.

All that said, leaders and managers of a culture where asking questions (for clarity) is discouraged need to rethink their culture, as well as the quality of their comms.
Yeah but you can't be consistently fully mathematically correct with people around you, its often the parts you don't even realize have some room for mis-interpretation that tend to bite back hardest IMHO
Discussed 4 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36481693

(408 points/4 months ago/209 comments)

And another big turmeric/lead post 9 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38139011

(270 points/9 days ago/191 comments)
>The moderation policy of Wikipedia literally states it's better to just indiscriminately ban all people in an argument because new users will inevitably show up to fix the issues in a more level-headed manner.

I call... baloney? Which policy, may I ask?
I'm not surprised. LLMs are not good at those problems. There is a lot of hype, it not good at every problem, but it is quite good at some of them. If you have a classical NLP task, then it is good, particularly GPT4. If you have a generative problem where you don't care about mistakes, such as grocery list, marketing copy rough draft, etc, then it is good.

LLMs are not good at search, math, encyclopedias, logic engines. Maybe some day they will be, but not yet.
I don't know, but with many names, even if they are spelled the same, the pronunciation is completely different, not to mention the meaning. My approach is a bit different: I try to find a name that is native to one language but easier to pronounce in the other, so that at least the baby has a name with a full meaning that people can still pronounce easily. But I'm also fully aware that this is not always the case.
The Politics of Time
50% chance you will divide everything. Risk a dollar to pick up pennies. Risk vs reward.
“Quick” means “done in a short time”; the sentence you call out is still using time to describe work.

> When anyone measures in time, there's no guarantee that you'll get what you want in that amount of time, and then what? Well, we add more time!

I believe you that this has been your experience, but it’s not universal. The problem is treating “what you want” as the end in itself, which is why the article also mentions “tell people what you need it for”: “our biggest client needs to know before they renew their contract” is worth more money, and thus more employee-hours, than “I was just curious”. At the leadership level, you are expected to realize that you can’t chase every benefit, and strategically focus on those with the best cost ratio.
Crumpled sheets reveal a mechanism for glassy relaxations
> probably started yesterday or earlier to replace it with something that doesn't have fees to use.

For netflix? its not that simple. Video codec design is a mammoth task. Sure you can make your own fairly easily, but making an efficient, hardware accelerated encoder that is suitable for broadcast work is one thing.

Making a spec for consumer hardware to implement, efficiently and cheaply is another.

go and read the spec for MPEG2, then compare it to MPEG 4, with all the amendments to make h.264. Its a lot of work.
> there's no guarantee that you'll get what you want in that amount of time, and then what?

I am absolutely _shocked_ you've never received an answer to this.

There's no guarantee you'll get what you want in _any_ amount of time. You absolutely need to timebox, everything & anything, to make sure projects aren't going off the rails and ending up in the trash. This applies even to personal/solo work too. You can keep working on anything forever, it's much better to force a stopping point, get feedback (or ship it) and decide if it's worth continuing or not.

The mechanism at work here is forcing people to prioritize. If you're very good at prioritizing then a timebox maybe doesn't make sense, but even then, it may be hard to resist continuing to work on something to a higher degree of quality than is needed without a timebox.
Well, aparantly my comment is not about this laptop then, because this laptop doesn't have a dGPU.

(But you are right, maybe I should have formulated it better. I meant all Laptops with dGPU they offer are with a Nvidia dGPU.)
I have the exact opposite view. We need a law that guarantees end users the right to study and adapt software to fit their personal needs, especially in situations where vendors disregard accessibility (see the June 2023 Reddit API shitstorm and r/blind[1]).

Ads are often loud and obnoxious. An ad blocker that turns the volume down (rather than blocking an ad entirely) could be seen as a means of improving accessibility.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/13zr8h2/reddits_rece...
maybe they will ditch the protocol over the years and come up with new protocols instead
But cigarettes, not nicotine. I have used nicotine lozenges for weeks or months at a time when I need to concentrate on some critical projects and for me it has always been easy to stop, but I once was drinking 7 or 8 cups a day and decided I needed to stop and that took nearly a year and many terrible terrible headaches.
The problem is that there is no good textbook for Classical Mechanics out there. At least not on an introductory level.

It's funny that for the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th one physicists were so eager to simplify and generalize their knowledge. With the side-effect of learning quite a few surprising things from the work. And yet for almost a century the goal is explicitly the opposite. (It's almost like if Academia is in crisis...)
You have parental rights even without marriage, in America and the western world.
All that may happen is disabled supercharging and loss of Internet Connectivity
She didn't follow your directions, they seem to have been quite clear, why is that your fault?

Part of communication is also to give feedback about such things
I saw it and I don't think it make it any justice, Ruby on Rails changed the paradigm of creating web applications with routes instead of files (like PHP, JSP and Webforms did) with the MVC pattern that now is present in every respectable web framework and the documentary doesn't tell that. It was enjoyable though.
Coincidentally I threw something together this weekend that attempts to do just that. [0] It's really simple - just extracts subtitles and feeds it to ChatGPT to generate a markdown "article".

[0] https://vreader.va.reichard.io/

[1] https://gitea.va.reichard.io/evan/VReader
YouTube updates the script multiple times per day and uBlock Origin devs are fighting back, but they will always be a little bit behind.

Maybe you didn't try to play videos when they didn't update their fix yet.
> with violence fall on deaf ears - approximately everyone in the west is participating

That's no excuse to continue.
Broadcom aren't on the list of HEVC licensors, so they haven't patented HEVC itself, but some related process of handling HEVC video...

Which begs the question, if it's an essential patent, why is it not part of the pool from MPEG-LA?
The problem with leaving little to assumption is that this tends to be verbose and people tend not to like to listen to long speeches and will simply not read long text. So, as everything in engineering, it's a tradeoff.
The purpose of patents is to encourage disclosure. By disclosing how something is accomplished, a business is rewarded with exclusive use of their method for a limited period.

I think the argument to be made in many fields is that patent law does not necessarily function correctly when technology advances so quickly.
There is no direct parallels. And guess what - the brain is not even a computer.

Everything this was just metaphors for non experts, irrelevant contexts and making money on pseudo science books.
Sometimes, people's thoughts for you overpower your explicit directions - she obviously didn't want you without your umbrella.
I don't think this is the correct description of the situation. Is there any indication that if Netflix pays a fair amount, Broadcom will still not let Netflix use the tech to deliver its services?

The court order seems like an implementation detail for the enforcement of the patent. The court orders the cessation of the illegal activity, it's up to the relevant parties to come to an agreement and continue doing the same thing but this time legally.
And both men are sadly no longer with us. Coincidence, hmm?
I wish there was a version of Copilot that can do time-estimates for programming related questions.
You're bike shedding [0].

Rails/DHH took already established design patterns and made strong opinions into a convention on the folder hierarchy of where you store your code. You can change that hierarchy, its not set in stone. It will require a lot of change. I've been on teams and it isn't just on-boarding time, its countless hours trying to find code written by someone no longer there that had their own layout of where files should go. Without conventions, people will run amok with a file structure. Multiply that by the number of developers on the team with attrition and different view points on organizing files and it can be a giant mess after a number of years. Its all a waste of time and has nothing to do with the quality of the code, what domain the application is in or anything really.

If you love Ruby there are other libraries out there like Sinatra [1] that don't have the conventions of Rails.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

[1] https://sinatrarb.com/
Following that rationale, why haven’t we kept using H.264, when H.265 started existing?
LeCun et al. got 99%+ handwritten digit accuracy in 1995, which is pretty analogous to shape identification.

Having it run trivially and performantly in the browser is still an accomplishment. As always, the experience for the user is what counts.
There's possibly a buried lede there, of the GF feeling like she cannot ask questions for clarifications or cannot let the commenter down.
I wonder if the topic comes up about common Mustard oil, which I use to cook with almost every day, and how it is actually banned for human consumption or anything other than a topical rubbing oil in the US.
"The course is turned into a game of skill, where manipulative
ability outweighs understanding"