skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A channel I follow does ad reads in the middle of the show, and as such had to say “Say-bay-Day” when advertising a CBD product because YT would demonetize the video if they just pronounced it as one would pronounce “See-Bee-Dee”.

It’s wild that they couldn’t advertise a sponsor but YT allows scam ads to roll before their videos
I have actually seen the diamond "start" symbol [0] on ONE consumer-ish appliance! It was an office coffee machine at my old job, big green membrane IEC start button.

These symbols are ubiquitous on industrial kit (and in your car, surprisingly enough), it's kind of a shame they are barely used at all else where. There's a pretty wide vocabulary of symbols.

[0] https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#iec:grs:60417:5104
The Internet Internet of Things?
My wife has a fear of flying but she likes some mild turbulence. It helps her sense that flying is a physically sensible thing, not some magical thing that shouldn't work.
Don't report the Elon ads to google, report them to Elon, then maybe some action will be taken.
YouTube does not use ffmpeg, at the scale at which they operate it would be too slow / expensive.

They use custom hardware just for encoding.

fyi they have to transcode over 500h of videos per minute. So multiple that by all the formats they support.

They operate at an insane scale, Netflix looks like a garage project for comparison.
Very misleading name. The word "Memory" has a distinct meaning in relation to computing, but this is more about human memories.
Ask HN: What changes to X/Twitter have you noticed in the last year?
There's been a lot of chatter about the decreased performance of the platform. I would love to hear about what trends or changes you've noticed.
I'm using mSBC, but the quality difference compared with AAC when not using the microphone is wild.
This article has some examples of output from poisoned vs clean models.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/unive...
Makes sense to me. Their "work" was essentially just ... living life!

Now, living life is what you do with about 5-15% of your time. The rest is work/red tape/...
Manufactured crisis for those with exposure. Over leveraged in rapidly rising interest rate env. Failure to manage your risk doesn’t earn sympathy.
If the hunter-gatherer lifestyle was play, it for sure was closer to the literal hunger games than anything people do for fun.

Also, sharing of work was already a thing back than: hunters hunted, others went gathering, again others built tools...

Damn it, and I swore I wouldn't read stuff from substack again...
Your points are really good for home theatre playback,. However consider that in HT scenarios, you basically have your media and pixel array aligned in most cases. You essentially have a fairly straightforward interpolation before it goes to an analog space for viewing.

In VR you have two. You have the plane the video is played on and then the display. That disparity can cause issues like aliasing or generally weird bluriness.

You can see this even in relatively lower resolutin headsets like the Quest 2/3/Pro where even 1080p video often looks bad even though it’s occupying less than an actual 720p section of the display.

And yes you’re right you could employ an upscaler. But the name of the game in VR is latency and power draw. NVIDIA has done great work in this field but they have a lot more latitude due to form factor. To the best of my knowledge, Apple tend to prefer straight decode and playback without AI upscalers on their devices.
This sounds like its more about interest rates than it is people working from home, not that that'll stop anyone from trying to bring you back into the office anyway.
I didn't downvote the comment. Just wanting to address this idea:

> in nearly any big city in Wyoming

Every "big city" in Wyoming is smaller and way more remote than most "small cities" in the rest of the country. It is not really a good representation of the rest of the country. There are only four cities which break 30,000 people. There's 40 in Texas with over 100,000. Being 20 minutes out from a city of < 30,000 people is pretty radically different from being 20 minutes out from a city of > 1M people.

There's also a question of geography when it comes to places like Montana and Idaho compared to the rest of the country. I don't know if you looked out a window but the geography of Idaho and Montana looks pretty different than the geography of Kansas, Michigan, Florida, N+S Carolina, Illinois, Ohio, etc. Its way more difficult to operate cell infrastructure in such a place, and then on top of that each valley only has a few customers to try and cover the cost.

All in all, the experience of cellular infrastructure in Montana and Idaho are massively different from the majority of the rest of US consumers.

I've got family in the suburbs 20 minutes out from the deep urban areas of a large city. Their main home internet is T-Mobile 5G. It has stable and low enough latency for them to work remote a remote job with videocalling, they play regular online games and they even do Playstation cloud gaming on it without issue. I've seen it being demoed at county fairgrounds far outside the big cities where they offered free wifi, I was able to get pretty stable low latencies (~25ms) at several hundred megabits of throughput with a dozen+ people using it at the same time.

It might not work in every market. There's a lot of variables in place, even within a specific geographic area. But it is something viable for a large chunk of US households.
I'm confused by the example they gave.

> What is the meaning of a life well-lived?

Is the response to this based on browser data? Based on the description I was expecting queries more like:

> What was the name of that pdf I downloaded yesterday?

> What are my top 3 most visited sites?

> What type of content do I generally interact with?
That still seems like a good deal for Google. Anything on its way to becoming Google-sized has a pitstop to deal with the Canadian government at over 100x less revenue.
I can't read the japanese text but the "with the intent of business interference" makes it seems like could be about harming a competitor, and not for running your family photos through nightshade before uploading them.
Surprising and somewhat depressing. I wouldn’t be surprised if this leads to many artists in Japan who had been posting their works on Twitter, Instagram, and Japanese SNS sites deleting their posts and ceasing sharing. There’s no incentive to feed a machine that will never compensate you for your involvement and efforts despite generating value for others.
You can at least change your name. You can't change your DNA, so when companies start selling that data it will be easy to detect when you give out fake information.

The only missing piece is a way to scan your DNA as part of a login form.
Imagine the judge rejecting the argument: "you knew about this a year ago."
Neither the space shuttle nor Starship use ablative heat shield tiles.
Doubtful. Many codecs like MP3 aren't well suited to efficient multi-threaded encoding.
*month+
Having a techy wife has made internet access speed our #1 qualifier for any moves over the past decade. Great neighborhood and price but it only has DSL or slow cable internet? Automatic veto.

I can only hope this becomes more and more obvious to politicians that wonder why their constituency is stagnating. Even my less techy parents recently shared that they voted yes on their city's project to build a local fiber ISP.
The Age of Containers
2016 - 2023, I lived inside a national forest in a 100+ year old cabin... not even within the city limits of Chattanooga.

BUT, since I received electricity from the city's Electric Power Board... 20gbs syncronous internets was available for $299/month (all taxes included). Being a mere mortal, I settled for the 0.3gbs (300mb, synchronous, exactly $57.99/mo.) fiber, which allowed me to run a bitcoin node maintaining 100+ <9ms connections.

In the middle of a national forest, "out in the sticks."
Measuring the size of the cache line empirically
17% of all homeowners who defaulted in the 2008 mortgage crisis walked away strategically https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-menace-of-strategic....

I distinctly remember stories on NPR during the crisis that browbeat homeowners who did this or thinking about doing this, claiming it was “unethical”. It’s the same story with companies that ask for loyalty then lay off with pleas towards efficiency. It’s always business, whenever someone plays towards my emotions in financial deals I want to shake them.
And realist in me says that after they start charging money they will add ads too.. As that will make more revenue...
Right? I read 3-4 paragraphs then skimmed looking for some explanation of what this would actually mean and found nothing. The author just rages on about how you MUST understand it's bad. Horrible article
The ed line editor: bravado, utility, and history
The borders are legally closed everywhere except designated border crossings.
Youtube puts ads for investment funds in the middle of videos for three-year-olds.
> now it has settled into the narrowest field ever seen.

That's a hot take. It's never been a better time to be a gamer. In addition to most of the gaming backlog being available via emulation, it's never been easier for a small number of people to build a great game. So long as you're not extremely picky there's more good games to play than time to play them.
> If you go this route, not all roads would have belonged to Apple.

Yes, some backwoods roads would belong to Android. Maybe around 30%.

> If you're a business, why would you care for 30%?

Because it's a lot. Apple is triple-dipping:

1. You have to pay for Apple computers.

2. You have to pay for the SDKs.

3. You have to give the MAFIA shakedown 30%.
I love Chris and his work is amazing. I certainly hope we can work closely with Modular, although nothing specific in place yet. I was at ModCon last week and I think that Mojo might just be the future...
> Why did they choose this option to begin with

Because this will be the first time in history that the cost of a launch will be mostly the cost of the fuel. This is the first fully reusable rocket in history. If you had to throw away a dozen tankers it wouldn’t make any sense.
Let me mention that I've got pretty severe ADHD if not outright mild autism and a pretty strong lack of executive functioning.

Now - with that in mind, let me respond:

>Like physical exercise is meant to help with that. If there's one thing that's invariably true about physical work, is that people adapt to it by pushing the movements down to subconscious, and letting their mind think of something else.

You have a great point, and you're not wrong. That said, having done some pretty intense labor myself over the years, sometimes the body is so shot by the end of the day that letting the mind wander is physically difficult, and concentration is easier.

>How does that apply to the generation of the parents, though? Or grandparents, to compensate for US having a TV culture some 20-40 years before everyone else?

Another great point - and I have a feeling that previous generations were simply called lazy, or dumb, or whatever, because ADHD wasn't really in the educational lexicon until the last of the boomer generation were parents (90s and onward).

The generation of parents who had a TV but not a ton else still got plenty of exercise and physical activity. There wasn't engaging content on the TV 24/7 and cell phones weren't a thing, and there was still encouragement to go outside an play. Kids don't do that anymore.

>I never liked organized sports, and avoided them (and most PE) since early school, for a very simple reason: I was diagnosed with myopia and wore glasses.

I can sympathize, because I had terrible vision problems too (also wore glasses; but also had amblyopia) and being short and skinny didn't help me in most popular team sports. I took up organized sports that didn't require perfect vision, such as tennis (still a team sport but played individually) and swimming (you can count how many strokes it takes you to go from one end of the pool to the other, and try to replicate that). I also ran or did plyometrics frequently. It all helped.
Nice moving the goalposts! ...

I'll type slowly this time to make it easier to understand: I don't care about ads on other sites, I only care about avoiding them on YouTube, and YouTube Premium currently works fine for that.

It's OK if they "spy" on me to keep the other ads relevant, but that's not the subject of this thread.
Because otherwise you have to host everything yourself somehow, including stuff like the comment you just posted, because no one would be willing to accept the liability involved.
> But once four or five different competitors have tried, had Walmart drop prices again to undercut them, and gone out of business, no one else is going to try because they'll know they're doomed to fail.

Suppose Walmart has the lowest price for batteries. The local hardware store goes out of business. Now Walmart doubles the price of batteries.

The local grocery store is going to start selling batteries. Walmart has to lower their price again or people will buy them there instead. If they do, the grocery store will still eventually sell their stock to customers who value convenience over the lowest possible price. They may not restock them unless Walmart raises the price again, but as soon as they do, batteries are back at the grocery store.

If Walmart never raises their prices the grocery store may never start carrying batteries, but then Walmart can never raise their prices.
Hey, OP here. I don't have a Windows machine so have not been able to confirm if it works, and probably won't be able to develop/test for it either -- sorry! :/

I suspect that you should be able to take my code and only require a few tweaks to make it work tho, shouldn't be much about it that is macOS only.
yup, that's why there is a difference between manslaughter and murder of varying degrees
> Haven't you tried refactoring with gpt-4 yet?

I most certainly have not. At work, I do greenfield development in a specialized problem domain, and I would not trust a model (or, for that matter, a junior developer) to do any kind of refactor in an acceptable manner. (That aside, there's no way I'm goingto expose company code to any sort of outside party without the approval of upper management).

At home, I program for fun and self-improvement, and a big part of both is thinking hard about problems. Why would I want to wreck that with asking a model to do it for me?
Solving the drug problem in US through decriminalization and harm reduction programs is an effective as solving gun violence through the same means.
Sony shouldn't have sold shows to their customers without first negotiating contracts with the rightsholders ensuring Sony wouldn't have to renege.
I'd think it matters for the purposes of what behaviour can be changed by microcode updates, no?
It's good for basically everyone, except banks, when the lenders ultimately write down these losses. It frees the market from mental hurdles that discourage leasing activity and will lower rents more quickly. Lower commercial rents are a benefit to the other 99.95% of economic activity.

The only thing I find really inexplicable is those few submarkets where vacancies are high and rising, net absorption is negative, and they are still expanding the inventory by 2% or more annually. That's truly baffling but maybe those investors have reason for optimism.
There's a big community discussing exactly that over at https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/.
"artificially crippled products for blood-sucking rent seeking"

that's the point that's up for discussion, but that's just being asserted with no supporting arguments.
I think it's trending that way, but there are still going to be niche interest groups where you're almost certainly not going to have enough other members in your geographic vicinity to have in-person meetings. In the 1990s if you lived in a 10,000 person town you'd be lucky to find 4 other people in your age group with such niche interests as, say, personal computers or video games. Obviously those two things are quite widespread now, but there are new things that are just as niche as those once were.
Well, I suppose my key point is that if 3 people are chasing 2 homes, any surplus cash is likely to be poured in to housing.
Can you expand on this please? I know next to nothing about how this market operates, so it's very unclear if a 7% difference in supply nothing or absolutely disturbing.
It contains a lot of new footage from scenes we have not see yet. If you would put all the fragments from the three trailers in the right order, you would already get quite a lot of the story. That is a problem with trailers, they can become too revealing almost leaving nothing to be looking forward when watching the film itself.
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It's not really about capitalism. In capitalism capital is producing value and owners get rewarded. How is destroying a platform making tons of money capitalism?

The whole thing is caused by "shortermism" & "managerialism". The group dynamics are such that the company is not really owned by anyone in particular that would be attached and interested in its long term profitability, only by very distributed shareholders or entities interested only in very short term profitability, hoping to flip it in a matter of weeks. The power over company is in the hands of managers which also all are interested only in the most short term goals like their bonus or getting promoted.
I’m writing a sibling comment to answer the parent’s question directly rather than the meta-argument from my original reply.

> What I don't understand is the excitement for using Rust vs. using garbage collected languages like Golang… since they don't need to climb the Rust borrow-checking learning curve.

Because, in my experience, climbing that learning curve has made me a better programmer more than nearly any other change in my long career. And that benefit has extended to code in every language I write.

The borrow checker isn’t just some hurdle to get in your way; it’s trying to tell you (awkwardly at times and perhaps less helpfully than one would wish) something fundamental about the way you think about and design programs. Internalizing that lesson can bring significant benefits on designing systems with clean boundaries that are easier to test, easier to reason about, and easier to compose.

Besides that, Rust greatly assists you (through features other than the borrow checker) in building software that is correct. This means it will tell you in a much wider variety of scenarios when future code invalidates previous assumptions. This is invaluable for projects that we expect to survive for a long time since the time a project is maintained will dwarf the time it’s under active development. And it will almost certainly be maintained by someone without the full context of the original developer(s). This is true even if the maintainer is the same person who wrote it in the first place, since our mental model of a program bitrots far faster than the program itself.

In practice, this aligns with my personal experience. Go projects end up with a lot of implicit assumptions that are silently violated by future work and expose bugs. They crash on nil pointer derefs. They accrue a multitude of linting tools that usually paper over some of the language’s shortcomings, but only in common cases. And they become painful to maintain as the original developers move on to other projects, with new changes grafted haphazardly into dozens of touch points instead of cleanly in one or two places. Yes, you can “easily” follow what any particular function does, but to do so you have to parse out and mentally model every minute detail, rather than being able to reason at a high level.
> VMware has been on a journey to simplify its portfolio and transition from a perpetual to a subscription model to better serve customers with continuous innovation, faster time to value, and predictable investments.

Yea, a one-time cost wasn't predictable enough, instead a subscription number that will be changed each year on a whim is predictable.

Got it.
Seems to me it's more the inverse - Elon bashers trying to find a way to paint everything he's ever done as a dumb failure because they hate some unrelated thing that he did. Not saying the guy is perfect, but if he is a fuckup, you should be able to make the case without disingenuous arguments like misunderstanding the purpose of test flights.

Multiple iterations of test flights that are expected to fail is a much faster way to develop impressive tech than spending 3x longer doing on the ground analysis of every detail of everything because you can't bear the PR hit of something that can be painted as a failure.
We don’t have any real information on it but the benchmarks make me feel like some test data made it into the training set
It does strike me as ironic that they fired him after a meeting about cutting costs and increasing operating efficiencies.

I would guess AI authors would do both. There has to be more to the story for sure.
> The training for Phi-2 took 14 days on 96 A100 GPUs

This would mean that it costs around ~30k USD to train.

If training an LLM becomes cheaper than buying a car, it could democratize AI a lot.
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Yeah, the action is just ‘Google Chrome gets the good settings and the rest can eat dirt’. It’s not specifically Asahi Linux that Google/Youtube is acting antisocially to here.
> One day they'll be dead, and you'll be the old person everyone complains about who owns their house and bought if for next to nothing 30 years ago.

How are these mythical "young but future homeowners" going to get a house? They're not buying them at today's prices and interest rates. And their Boomer parents are drawing down the equity via reverse mortgages to fund their retirements, so there won't even be equity to inherit when they kick the bucket.

My bet is when the Boomers are dead, the only ones left owning homes will be banks and private equity firms, and we'll all be renting from them.
> defendants may feel coerced to settle these suits merely to prevent public disclosure of their identifying information, even if they believe they have been misidentified.

So basically blackmailing using Epstein’s business model with different type of contents and audience plus the help of the rigged legal system.
Or they are used as a basis for freighter conversions.

Not sure who still flys 757/767s so, at least for pax. Most shoupd have been replaced by 777/787/A350s by now.

Edit: Totally forgot about Delta.
Can we download this model locally or is it Azure only?
Zero downtime Postgres upgrades
probably still better than myfreebankapps.ru
My heart goes out to all of the institutions that are about to get hammered by this change, but I would by lying if I said I wasn't excited about a potential increase in investment in open source cloud virtualization infrastructure. Proxmox seems poised to benefit from this; is Openstack in a situation where it could be reasonably rolled out as a substitute for vSphere without requiring significant staff increases?
What I would love to see is this model being able to learn ti automate some tasks that I usually do! e.g. sign up for events/buy tickets etc! If this has access to your login details, and could log in, it could be a great assistant!
Anyone want to say hat the post actually says? Like virtually all hnn readers, I can't read Japanese. And I can't toss a screenshot into translate.