skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt we would have clicked on it if they called it a Modern Alternative to Yahoo! Directory. You are correct though.

Can you allow people to add sites they found, for example adding something like Hydra or Citus would require you to know about them.

This is perfect though, cause I'm always finding fascinating tools online that I either favorite on hn or star on Github but not all the time there's also a rust serverless company that I can't recall the name of, which fits your use case nicely.
Yeah, these numbers are always very dishonest. There's no accounting for

* People who were never planning to buy, including people who just plain could not afford to buy if they wanted to.
* People who bought after pirating
* People who pirated something that was not available anywhere to purchase in their region

It's basically impossible to account for all of these different reasons, but arguably none of those were really ever going to contribute the money.

Besides, people have no moral duty to support the US economy.
Well, I'd stop paying for Netflix well before I'd stop paying for Spotify because Spotify has much closer to the "everything"of that particular form of entertainment than Netflix does, and new albums and songs are relatively instantly available on the service.

For whatever reason, the ability to arrange music licensing to allow for an aggregator of everything is much easier than for movie and TV show licensing.
That's only a valid paraphrase if you think prioritising making money and value for shareholders above all else makes you "terrible people".

Personally I doubt that any more than low single digit percentages of people care at all about E2EE. Even me, as a tech person, I don't care about it, and I actively avoid Signal because of the inconveniences that E2EE causes.

This has been a very big effort to implement, and FB no longer deploys those kinds of resources on vague whims. I think most likely something to do with regulations, and not wanting to be on the hook for user message content, but it's just wild guessing really.
> I wish there was a study which analyzes what the magic formula of the US is.

I'll take a try from the geographical determinism viewpoint, which I believe in 100%:

* Have natural resources in vast quantities: temperate arable land (cold enough to have winter 'resetting the fields', hot enough for high yields), oil. Cheap oil means cheap mining, cheap cost of transformation, cheap transports. Cheap everything.

* Unify the country from natural border to natural border, yielding very little need for domestic defense

* Be somewhat big, so that you can bootstrap any innovative company to a massive market and economies of scale quickly. Big also yields resiliency

* Give relative freedom to compete, and give it early in history

These 4 item are IMHO the base of many others which reinforce this strength (WW2 winner with no destructions at home, petrodollar enforcement, Hollywood machine, tech first-mover advantage)

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Comparatively:

* Middle-East, Africa, India, Central America, SE Asia, don't have the 'winter reset'. Nor do they a need to develop a culture that had to plan and organize for a whole year; one part being food-rich, the other quite not

* Russia has huge unsafe borders (mandatory defense spending), elongated country (need for very creepy/scary internal security services, freedoms are quite limited)

* Europe has depleted its natural resources (but benefited from the industrial revolution then!), was divided for a long time (no big market), has no oil

* China has little oil, had a population matching its food production with very little to spare, had low freedom to compete

* Other parts are not big (Oceania), nor were populated early (South America, Australia)

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For the future, the main changes will be fossil fuels depletion, and climate change. Here is what could happen:

* De(petro)dollarisation, as oil depletes and is less used in the industry

* World going a tad multipolar. This means less pax americana, more wars

* Resource wars shifting from oil to key materials for electrification like copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt

* Efficiency going down, massive simplification of lifestyles

* Lots of countries going bankrupt like Lebanon. Can't feed without importing? Don't have industry that can export? Enjoy your worthless money

* Fertilizers going more expensive with gas depletion. Lower amounts of higher priced food. Extensive world food programs

* All this right when we need resources to adapt to climate change
So you have plenty, that's cool. Believe me, there are plenty of us out here that are feeling the crunch right now.
There are apps, like WhatsApp on iOS, that receive silent notifications and are started upon receiving them, allowing them to process these notifications locally (as explained in my other comment in this thread).

This method enables them to bypass the need for sending clear text content through Apple's servers, upholding their end-to-end encryption.

However, this practice can slightly impact battery consumption, which is probably why this specific entitlement is not freely available to all apps. It's a balance between enhanced security and a marginal increase in battery usage.
Plus DNS-level blocking is also better than nothing and works just fine on phones. Not affiliated just a happy customer, but I have NextDNS on my work iPhone and it manages to block most of the really annoying stuff even in Safari.
But you can prove you sent it by email.
This has to be the classic <numberOfPiratedStreams> * <priceWeSellToMovieTheatre> = crazy number.

Instead of <numberOfPiratedStreams> * <constToStream> = millions of dollars.

Like how the RIAA sued Limewire for 72 trillion dollars.

https://www.businessinsider.com/riaa-claims-limewire-owes-tr...
Love the interface. Great for discoverability. I assume you'll be adding stats and intel in to match the Crunchbase reference
Half-Quadratic Quantization of Large Machine Learning Models
Very excited to share our latest work on model quantization.
No data calibration needed, extremely fast , works on both language and vision models!

Code: https://lnkd.in/dM_NgSCQ
Models: https://lnkd.in/dyw4x6Ga

Why does it matter?
Quantization significantly reduces GPU memory requirements but degrades the quality of the models. Having faster and more accurate quantization methods is extremely valuable for the ML community.

Approach:
Sparsity-based error formulation between the original weights and their dequantized version. We used a Half-Quadratic solver to derive a closed-form solution that is 100x faster than backprop via Pytorch's Autograd.

Quantization speed:
~ 1 minute for Llama2-13B
~ 4 minutes for LLama2-70B (over 50x faster than GPTQ)

Findings:
- Larger models quantized to 3/2-bit outperform smaller full-precision models with similar or lower memory requirements.
- Successful 2-bit quantization requires a lower group-size (e.g., 32 or 16) and compression of both the zero-point and the scaling factor for lower memory usage.

* LLama2-70B-2bit (~26GB) > LLama2-13B-16bit (~26GB)
* LLama2-13B-3bit (~7.5GB) > LLama2-7B-8bit (~7.5GB)
> 50000 peripheral memory accesses are needed

Have you tried just replaying those 50,000 accesses and seeing if things work? Obviously some things might not be correctly calibrated, but merely knowing that a simple replay works tells you that there are no complex hardware/software handshakes (ie. Take random token from here and write it to there). It also tells you that the process is probably fairly timing independent.
Aside from the odd miniseries, TV was mostly sitcoms, cop shows, reality TV over time, etc. Even HBO was mostly a way to watch movies until the Sopranos came along. There's been a massive transformation over the past few decades to TV being something on par with film in terms of talent and production values. I have no idea what the shows on network TV even are these days and, as far as I'm aware, there's nothing with any sort of buzz.
What's the deal with airline food?
I think it's interesting to contrast this with music. Music is dominated by a few big labels, which makes it very easy for each provider (Spotify, Apple Music etc.) to provide a complete catalogue and thus convenience. (Though this does mean Spotify's unit economics are much worse, partially explaining the foray into podcasts and recent layoffs etc.)

Furthermore, whereas we hardly rewatch the same movies, we constantly re-listen to the same music we first encountered in our adolescence (nobody can convince me that the 90s is not the pinnacle of pop music). This makes things like playlists a lot more valuable and sticky.

I am not particularly ideological about copyright/piracy one way or another, but I know I probably won't be pirating music anytime soon.
The Effective Engineer [video]
On top of that, the services do crap like not offering 4k hdr versions of modern content.

In Netflix all third party films are offered in caveman 1080p sdr. In Prime and HBO it's similar.
Personally, I believe the 2600 was just a victim of age. There were a glut of shit games for it, don't get me wrong, but it's not like we were buying dozens of carts a week. We usually had 5-20 carts, with about half of them played regularly.

There was also the push to CDs, later, that doomed a lot of cart consoles. Not only was the media better, and cheaper, it was also "the new thing".

It was my last console. After that, PCMASTERRACE...ok..Vic-20/C64/Amiga/8088MASTERRACE. lol

Anecdotal, sure, but I was there. :)
I cannot agree with your point more.

I pirate a decent amount of media. If piracy was not an option, I would simply live without the TV/Movies I download.
Is this the beginning of a new piracy scare? To push for further drm?
Real here means only that these numbers are adjusted for inflation. It does not change the fact that they are a poor measure for cost of living.
Or if you have to use desktop mode in your browser...
You wouldn’t download a car?
If defense in depth is a foreign concept I imagine a lot of modern security mitigations will look wrong to you too.
I don’t like the frame of “it costs the economy X billion”. Without piracy people would not have bought it. It is not a cost.

Maybe “street value” would be a better term? If it was payed for, it would have the value of X billion. But it costs nothing.
Then it should be even better, because more mainstream interests means consuming media with more investment behind them.
This is true. I think I stopped pirating games - as soon as I could afford Steam games. Only rarely pirate games to "try" them out - then buy it on Steam. It also helps that they've gotten easy to run on Linux.
I have a friend that pirates everything. He's constantly telling me about movies and shows that just came out; usually seeing them before anyone else. For me, even if it elicits scorn, I like to pay for my media. As a youngster, I pirated. Nowadays, after knowing many artists and people involved in the creative end of things, I can't really justify that posture, anymore.

A big problem, is that all the streamers are breaking the landscape into hundreds of different parts. It's pure profit-seeking, and I can't actually argue against the business sense.

But it makes being a consumer, a nightmare. Book DRM is similar. I like to use the same reader for all my books, but was forced to crack many of them, just so I could read all my books on the same app. I also brought pirated books, because they didn't sell the ones I wanted, in the US. I would have been thrilled to pay, but they didn't want my money.

Bundles tend to become corrupted. Cable bundles are pretty much worthless, to me. They all force you to have sports, and sports are what makes the bundles expensive. I couldn't care any less, about sports. I guess I'm in a minority.

I would love to see the ability to "build your own bundle," including temporary subscriptions to services that carry just one show I want to see (I remember subscribing to YouTube Premium, just for one show. I found it to be an awful app, and quickly unsubbed, once I'd watched the show). Maybe even the ability to select individual shows, from different publishers, and watch them all on the same app. AppleTV is getting closer to that, but still has a loooong way to go.

The tech is definitely already here. The issue is with the distributors.
The tone-deaf post is here:

https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2023/37C3

> All official infection control regulations will of course be implemented. The CCC asks all participants to consider their own awareness of the health risks of large events before purchasing a ticket.

It's just a very weird way of saying "we're doing nothing, if you are at risk, don't come". The link goes to a government website that says there are no regulations. The middle sentence was edited in later, as was the last.

There was a bit of an expectation that there would be a better baseline to allow for individuals with higher risk to attend. And some former organizers that also remarked how the yearly "Congress-Seuche" (essentially getting some sort of flu every year, guaranteed) could be avoided pretty easily too as a nice side effect.
>What do you think of the quality of support provided by someone who spends 5 hours a week answering questions vs the primary developer?

In my experience, the quality of support is great!

A year into my business, I brought someone in to do customer support for five hours per week, and it freed up a huge amount of time and mental bandwidth.[0]

Since then, I've expanded support to two non-technical customer service reps and two support engineers. It's rare that I answer a question now because my team can generally answer anything I can.

>If he can free up 5 hours a week for $500 and loses 10 customers because they didn't like the support from someone who spends 5 hours a week on this product they've never used, do you think he wins or loses?

I think this is wildly unlikely in practice.

When you bring on a support rep, you don't just say, "Okay, you're on your own. Do the best that you can." You work to onboard them and make sure they're comfortable answering questions and asking for help when they need it. You also course-correct or jump in if they give someone an incorrect or unhelpful answer.

In my two years of having a support team, I can't think of a single time that a customer said they were dropping us because they were dissatisfied with our support.

Instead, what I've found is that the support team often does a better job than I could have because they have more bandwidth to dig deeply into issues.[1] On about 10% of support requests, customers go out of their way to tell us how satisfied they are with the help we gave them.

Documenting things and onboarding teammates is time-consuming and difficult, but the commenter I was originally responding to said that they've already done that work. They described themselves as "a solo developer answering emails that basically point people to various guides and FAQs I’ve published." If they're already at that point, bringing in a support rep is a no-brainer.

In my experience, the majority of support requests I receive are nontechnical. I sell a physical product, so it's probably higher than a pure SaaS, but it's still about 60% of questions are about billing or they deleted their invoice by mistake or they need to see our tax forms for internal paperwork. That's all stuff that a support rep can handle just as well as I can even if they know nothing about my product.

[0] https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-4/#good-leadership-me...

[1] https://forum.tinypilotkvm.com/-826#post-6
>But I still need at least 3 services to watch them.

Which costs you maybe a third of what a cable TV subscription cost you.
Show HN: Recompyle – A JavaScript developer-friendly console / debugger
Hi HN, I'm Damien, the solo founder of Recompyle. Self-funded.

As a JavaScript developer, I have been annoyed by the console.log not being practical enough, and the debugger being 'too slow'. So I made Recompyle to fix that.

It's kind of a mix of the console and the debugger. Plus, some file parsing to automatically log the start of the functions of the files you are working on.
Now imagine a world where Bitcoin miners would buy all that excess energy for more than that battery storage plant would be projected to earn after costs and you can see how Bitcoin is not just saving electricity that would otherwise go to waste.
If the boolean values are not 50%/50% but skewed like 1%/99% then there can be a big advantage in using a partial index

CREATE INDEX index_accounts_balance ON accounts (id) WHERE boolean_flag;
Yep, super easy, just pay the content creators in beans and peanuts.
uint_fast16_t is the fastest type (for some undefined meanings of fast) that holds at least 16 bits, I don't think the standard guarantees that it even has to fit into an int, so we are already silently discarding data. Worse if it uses an unsigned int then you are casting from unsigned to signed with a potential undefined singed overflow involved.
I am at first just saying that search as PageRank in the early days is a ML marvel that changed the way people interact with the internet. Figuring out how to monetize and financially survive as a business have certainly changed the direction of its development and usability.
Lithium “shortage” bubble implodes again
big friendly telescope?
I agree. My earlier comment is really about maximizing ability within your range of natural capabilities with a qualifier stating that most people’s ceiling is higher than they would expect.
I've also recently noticed that we're surrounded by a massive amount of ambient artwork - from advertising, logos, artwork on products, book covers, magazines & newspapers, websites and funny memes.

I recently started looking for pictures to print out for my kids to colour in, and there are thousands online that people share.

So at any time there must be hundreds of thousands of people creating content of various degrees of quality all the time.
To spell out what I think you're saying, the way to be ethical and have ownership is to pay for the content and then download a version of it so that you both supported the creator and have a copy of what you paid for.
When you filter out a value using !=, it's easy to forget that NULL won't come along for the ride since it's the database's way of saying 'value unknown'. To ensure NULL values don't slip through the net, you've got to explicitly fish for them with IS NULL or broaden your WHERE clause to catch everything with OR Val IS NULL. It’s SQL’s subtle reminder that NULL requires special attention.
These performance rules applies for all backend development. Use compression and caching, index foreign keys in your database and tune your sql queries.
I would say nothing comes close to the sheer detail of the universe porn that Webb gives us. It's one money-shot after another.

As far as astonishing tech goes, Webb charts hard.
>I encourage anyone interested in the consequences of whistleblowing to watch The Insider.

Surely there's better sources to read/watch than a fictional dramatization?
I laughed so much reading the article

> Compare that to the wealth of the entire planet at $60 trillion.
Hilarious to see a Legion of Skanks video in the immediate history list.

But it was surprisingly useful. The screen grabs throughout the summary were especially nice.

I'd like it if I could jump to the specific timestamp a summary relates to on YouTube itself from the gen'ed text.

Thinking about it more though I'd almost rather this backfill breakpoints in podcasts I listen to and let me jump to them.

I also wouldn't worry about perf too much. I'd be ok with waiting on the order of minutes to get a quality improvement.

Final nit, the tone of the LLM being used sucks. Maybe try a different one or give the user options with open router?
> Enable keep-alive connections. Keep-alive connections are reusable. They prevent having to re-establish a connection, as well as SSL negotiation. They reduce latency time for all pages made up of several resources.

Pretty sure this only applies to HTTP/1 and you'll get better performance with HTTP/2:

"Connection-specific header fields such as Connection and Keep-Alive are prohibited in HTTP/2 and HTTP/3"

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ke...

"HTTP persistent connection, also called HTTP keep-alive, or HTTP connection reuse, is the idea of using a single TCP connection to send and receive multiple HTTP requests/responses, as opposed to opening a new connection for every single request/response pair. The newer HTTP/2 protocol uses the same idea and takes it further to allow multiple concurrent requests/responses to be multiplexed over a single connection."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_persistent_connection
The density of rubber would only be a factor if it was solid, not hollow, and then it'd depend on what kind of rubber. Most rubber is in fact more dense than water (per googling density of rubber).

The fact that it squeaks when squeezed, as well as common knowledge about bath ducks, tells you it's hollow, therefore the density of the material it is made of would be the wrong way to determine it it would float. It's the average density of the entire duck that matters (i.e. weight of duck vs weight of water displaced by duck's volume).
cough Hollywood accounting cough
>Internet piracy isn’t ethically justifiable

it's quite easy once you realize buying isn't owning

>Digital video piracy is costing the US economy between $29.2 and $71 billion each year.

these numbers are so laughably vague and only exist to justify the existence of the content mafia.
I don't think larger single mirrors is going to be a thing. The numerous advantages of hexagon arrays far outweigh (pun intended) the single drawback of the large hexagonal diffraction spikes. The point spread function (PSF) is very well defined and can be easily worked around by some combination of PSF modeling, selecting a desired orientation, or multiple exposures.

The Keck Telescope was the first major observatory to use this technique in 1993.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keck_telescope
>That's the thing isn't it? It was convenient when streaming first came on the scene. Everything in one place.

I have to subscribe to a service where maybe only a tv show interests me and the rest is junk. Subscribe to another service for another tv show, and so on.

That is not convenient. Give me a website where I can pick from all online available media I can only watch and pay what I want.
Not to mention archiving. I trust anon pirates to keep content unaltered and available more than any single centralized organization.
Then you are particularly unlucky in that your salary didn't keep up with inflation. It did (and more) for everyone else, on average. Check the FRED links I posted elsehwere in this subthread. If you don't believe in economics, why bother to make an economic point?

It's really upsetting to me to watch this notionally rationalist community descend into this kind of memery.
In 2020, the price of a Netflix standard plan was $13. Now it's $16. That's a 23% increase. The "premium" (why 4k is premium in 2023 beats me, but okay) plan has gone up 43%, from $16 to $23. [1]

Has your salary gone up 20-40% since 2020? Mine has gone up, but at less than 20%. And Netflix is only one of the costs, groceries and food seem to have gone up by ridiculous amounts like 50% or so.

That's why the cost of living bites hard. Sure, incomes have gone up. Prices seem to have gone up more. I fail to see how this is a meme.

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[1] Source: https://flixed.io/netflix-price-hikes
And good luck trying to figure out what hardware you need to have in order to actually get the high-bitrate version of the video.