skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting, as I had an idea to do this when I was working on a competitor service during lockdown. Our idea was to use this to cut the cost on transcoded renditions, and for streamers that didn't have the ability to generate multiple renditions but still wanted them, we would offer it as a service in exchange for a higher cut of their revenue. That said, if anyone gets a benefit from lower quality renditions being distributed, it's Twitch.

If you think about it, the less bandwidth that Twitch consumes through their CDN network, the less money a stream costs per minute. A viewer still watches ads with the same CPM, a viewer still subscribes for the same amount per month per broadcaster, a viewer optionally pays the same for ad-free viewing (Turbo), and a viewer pays the same premium for bits, regardless of what quality they're watching at. So, interestingly enough, the economics of limiting transcoding are more about limited capacity and ensuring a positive cost per streamer. If a streamer does not become an affiliate or partnered broadcaster on the platform, the only revenue Twitch gets from the streamer is the ad money from its viewers. By virtue, they want as many casters on the platform as possible to become affiliates, as being able to get commissions from bit sales and subscriptions gives Twitch more revenue streams for the same content.

So, to your point, they definitely want to be able to support more efficient codecs that are not as patent encumbered as h.265 (which IIRC did have limited support in SE Asian markets), because at the end of the day, if streamers are generating the renditions for the ABR ladder, and ultimately, folks are using lower bitrates, then overall, this cuts costs for the same operational cost.
Video is expensive, and streamers don’t like ads.

Amazon has for years been saying that they think that Twitch is under monetized. In their minds, 20% of watch time could be ads, just like regular TV. Streamers don’t like ads: it kills the vibe when your audience gets a 2 minute timeout. So streamers aren’t running enough ad breaks, and try to support themselves via memberships, merch and other alternative monetization methods. And for some, Twitch is only advertising for the real money-maker on another site. So Amazon doesn’t get the ad money they think they should get, and they only get a cut of memberships.

So then it’s a question of how many servers and engineers are needed to support Twitch, because that will determine profitability.
It looks much smaller than a Gameboy. About the size of a phone, just more square.
>they should cryptographically sign their messages in other platforms

Like a Nostr account?
If you live in California, you can potentially build one of these as an ADU (Accessory Dwelling Unit). Local agencies are required to approve an ADU within 60 days, and recent state bills (AB 976, 434, 1033, and 2221) make it easier to build/sell/rent ADUs on your property. You'll have to wait until 2025 before every locality is forced to have a process for pre-approved ADU plans (at which time you could potentially have an "open-source permit" to construct one of these very quickly).
> It’s a fact that North Korea relies on hacking it for funding critical imports at this point…

A fact? What are the #s that they are bringing in from hacking, versus the $4.8 billion/year they bring in from exports to China/Africa?
Twitter under Musk is absolutely not suitable for government communications.
And here’s the other thing: why doesn’t an Amazon prime subscription remove ads? Is there even a way to buy an ad-free experience?

I’m not a heavy Twitch user so maybe I’m wrong but I’m struggling to think of a killer feature of Twitch or an aspect of the overall experience that’s better than YouTube Live videos.

At least with YouTube I can watch ad-free with a Premium plan.
> Can't just throw that on a CDN.

You'd be surprised. I have no idea what Twitch does now, but when it was JTV, we had quite a bit of our streaming video on CDNs. We built a complex infrastructure to arbitrage bandwidth.

But yeah, if you do it naïvely, you'll hemorrhage money.
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przybylski%27s_Star
No company actually does this, they are just bloated because they have so much money and managers rank/value is determined by how many people they manage.
I wonder how much AWS gouges them on price
I love the super guppy. mentour now has an awesome video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seLORhTRck0

the atl-98 carvair on the other hand ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_Traders_Carvair
i'm sorry to hear that, and i am well aware that they happen today in real life, but what we were discussing in this subthread is not to what extent they are real, but rather to what extent fictional depiction of them is seen as socially acceptable
It seems like we could check this. Is your hypothesis that an outsized number of SVP/EVP at top paying tech companies are going to be from either dynastic wealth or from traditional Ivy backgrounds?
Western Union takes 30%+ fees from you? Exactly how much money are you transmitting through them? 5 bucks?
What percentage of financial transactions even involve coinage?
It seems the Romans took their concrete type secrets to the grave.
I'll struggle through the mamba papers, but does anyone have a good post or article that gives an intuition about what is fundamentally different about Mamba compared to transformers?
I tend to think highly of most of the comments I see from you man, but you are quite confused about how this stuff works if you believe that the pay-to-play aspect of a cryptocurrency can be divorced from the blockchain used to track it. They are no more separable from one another than front is from back or up is from down.

A blockchain without the economic carrot-stick power to protect its own integrity and internal rules, power that comes from aligning the behavior of otherwise unrelated and even mutually antagonistic custodial participants by incentivizing their common interest in getting rich (or at least not losing their existing wealth), is no more than a database with superfluous "decentralization theater" yak shaving bolted on.

If defecting from the game doesn't cost you a meaningful penalty (and such cost is defined by a fixed unit of measure, in order to distinguish in-game gains from losses) then you are not compelled to follow its rules except by your own conscience. This would be noble, but it would not be a blockchain.
I recently used Wise (formerly transferwise) to send money to someone in Pakistan. It was about $10 to send $1000USD. The exchange rates are competitive too. And the recipient is guaranteed to get the correct amount in their destination currency. It even has some degree of fraud protection and customer support baked in.

What’s the crypto solution that beats that?
If you have a openwrt router than it should be quite simple. Redirect the traffic from the ip of the washing machine to a machine that has mitmproxy installed (using iptables). Hopefully the protocol is https and it doesn't have some form of certificate pinning. That should get you the raw requests/responses.
kick.com is trying to run a clone of twitch on aws for a while now. too soon to tell.
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MHRD is also great in this genre. I’ve played it multiple times. I’m happy to hear there are more like it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/576030/MHRD/
The temperature setting controls randomness output of the LLM.

We paraphrase all the time to avoid plagiarism and that's just somewhat randomized retelling of the same idea.

If you set the temperature to 0 in an LLM it's basically in "decompress/rote mode". I don't think this is qualitatively the same as "copying", possibly more akin to "memorization". I haven't seen very many demonstrations of verbatim-copy output that wasn't done with a temperature of or near 0.
Yeah, and in fact, it was my first thought. He's an emotional man-baby with a God complex. Leaked credentials? Probably not. Those are hashed because competent engineers created the platform before he got there.

Made the account easier to be hacked? Yes, probably. That would be my assumption. Changed password, changed MFA, changed owner e-mail, etc. They no longer have a real support team, but I'm sure the support mechanisms are still all in place.
The SEC didn't even have 2FA set up on their account. One can hardly expect them to sign their messages.
It is a good point. Better for SEC/agency to setup an sec.gov/x page that x.com/secgov would replicate.

That works well until sec.gov/x gets hacked.
My rough estimate is around $4.75/sf for a high performance wall (drywall+2x6+osb+exterior foam ~ R31). They show £230/m2, so this product would be almost 7x more expensive.
This is really sad news for the networking industry. HPE is not the innovator Juniper needs and deserves.
Despite a loved and wellmade product; Pebble lasted three years a decade ago, not sure that is "succeeded".
Taxes are also a soft power, levered to accomplish things without the direct threat of violence. Not sure it's worked out so well in practice, but that is the argument.
> You can't show female-presenting cleavage, for one. They change their "attire policy" on a near-weekly basis…. And they hate anything even remotely sex-related.

It seems incomplete to complain about this without also noting that Twitch (along with almost every other social media platform) has increasingly turned into a lead generation platform for OnlyFans. The rules keep changing because the OnlyFans streamers will find whatever line is drawn and absolutely spam the platform with whatever drives traffic to OF.
> There is little point in using WebAssembly if you control both sides of a boundary

Mozilla is using this to secure native dependencies: the WASM boundary ensures the memory and function access is correct.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/securing-firefox-with-weba...

> The core implementation idea behind wasm sandboxing is that you can compile C/C++ into wasm code, and then you can compile that wasm code into native code for the machine your program actually runs on.
Fiat currency is a scam (including the USD) anybody treating it otherwise is overly credulous or in on the scam. Maybe it started out with better intentions but it is irredeemable.
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If you have enough savings to take year off, quit your job (or minimize/part time it) and apply yourself to what you really (think) you want. You may be surprised at the results, but at least you’ll know you pursued your dreams
Live streaming 1080p 60fps video to a channel with even just a few hundred viewers is a staggering amount of data that you need to push out. Multiply that by thousands of simultaneous streams, and the numbers don't look good. Because even though "Amazon" might be able to afford to send out all that data, "a subdivision owned by Amazon" still has to balance the budget and show that it can cover the cost for its slice of the pie... and Twitch simply can't.
Does it? Traditional finance is no stranger to extremely speculative assets, the difference is just when those assets go to zero for the banks it's a tiny fraction of their portfolio, for all the anarcho online enthusiasts it's usually their savings. Reminds me of the Gamestop fiasco one or two years ago.
Steph, as you near retirement, if you remember 98% then I'm down with that. Did Draymond introduce you to BSD? Seems like his kind of thing.

Edit: I know about how tall you are, but I didn't know you played center in high school. At that level, why not, I suppose?

Edit2: Sorry if I sound like a jerk, dismissing the FT shooting debate. Aruging that the best NBA free throw shooters ever - comparing yourself to effing Steph Curry! - might have done it over 20 games is not persuasive to me, any more than arguing that Timothy Gowers could prove some mathematics, so why couldn't you do it in high school? Your strategy for being a small center is a good story and smart approach, though.
Ordinals and restaking
When I had this problem I did the following:

* Rejected any meeting without a note that was booked in without me knowing what it was

* Rejected any meeting without a note that double booked me

* Rejected lunch time meetings

* No showed reoccuring meetings where I thought I wouldn't be missed. Sent my apologies most of the time.

* Set up meetings for myself in my calendar to do specific work

I never heard any complaints either from people or to my manager. I think people set up meetings as the easiest path. Since they're looking for the easiest path they're not going to put up a fight if you push back.
Well in this case communication broke down among the crew. A recording of that confusion could help in refining procedures.

Everything worked out in this case but that’s because every incident is a lesson.
Yes yes. I’m sure 15 years later you will be saying the same thing even when Bitcoin is showing up on reserve holdings of major central banks. I believe Bitcoin is around the 16th largest currency in the world today and it’s daily transaction volume indicates extensive real world use. But don’t worry you can keep ranting about how Bitcoin is a scam, you or others like you were 10 years ago, and will be in another 10 years. I have a hunch it’s a phenomenon somehow related to how socialists are still ranting about socialism 200 years now, the most failed ideas in human history, yet according to them never been done “correctly”, this is some collectivist mindset equivalent in reverse, ranting about how big a failure one of the most successful ideas in human history is.
> You basically seem to wish you were coding within a monopoly, for a single platform controlled by a single corporation.

Benevolent dictatorship has it's advantages. The JavaScript ecosystem is messy -- exactly why is up for debate and whether that's good, bad, or unimportant is also up for debate.
Honestly it could be Gensler getting “hacked” to pnd for his Wall Street pals. Absolute clown show jail sentences all around.
Sounds like a win for Twitch - you were costing them money and not giving anything back
The only way to achieve C/C++/Fortran efficiency is a statically compiled, strongly typed language. Witness the effort put into Java JITC and the rest of the modern Java (and Graal) runtime. Still well short of the promised “C equivalence”.

To me, Mojo looks like the best approach to fusing that with the Python ecosystem! (I have no doubt about it being open sourced at some point.)
The cache TTL on VOD is significantly higher, so your whole infrastructure needs to have a live origin, which gets hit repeatedly to get the latest fragments/segments from the origin, from multiple edges/midgresses.
I find that our origin consumes an order of magnitude more CPU than transcoding and packaging for live once you have even a couple of thousand live viewers and when serving LL-HLS/ll-dash with a low fragment size it increases more.
if you are latency sensitive then i between caching layers are not an option.
the keynote failed me at "Shake the device to create a keyboard on the screen".

if the whole damn point of suffering with your goofy wildly colored mostly-incompatible mobile device is a talkable LLM, then "shake to keyboard" is a failure.

at $200 i'd rather just buy any of the plethora of sbc mini devices with cell phone antennas and play with LLMs myself without the black box that I can't touch. a uconsole or similar is , generally speaking, cheaper AND open-ish -- it's a fool's errand to trust a non-paid subscription service to continue existing.
even more importantly you need people. Servers help too but fundamentally this speaks to a people problem.
Development seems to be alive, according to:

https://github.com/opencog/

Edit: Even more interesting is this repo of theirs:

https://github.com/opencog/opencog-cycl
Maybe this will be a good time to remove the X rated and otherwise gross content (there are other sites for this kind of stuff) and focus on the core experience.

Just kidding. They will probably double down on it and make it a onlyfans lite.
I don't really understand the confusion, a good writer (and Chambers is one) will make it clear from context whether the "they" is plural or not, but if you're confused you might enjoy her other works which use xe/xem so "they" is always plural and you don't have to sort it out.
I wondered about this as well.

Another article I ran across: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/
Then that's an entirely different point. There are many reasons why small phones don't sell well. There's the changing market in which a phone is the primary computer for many people. There's incomplete information, as the tethers in a showroom prevent you from holding a phone one-handed, or noticing that it is too big to fit in your pocket. There's a potential for decreased design costs, as a larger space provides more options for how the phone's internals can be arranged.

But calling those "revealed preferences" is a sleight-of-hand. It takes all those external factors and treats them as something intrinsic about the buyer, to be "revealed" by the market. The term itself is a lie.
That's interesting to me because they showed up in mine but I'd already expressed interest. I don't know why they're being tossed at you.

I honestly don't believe there's much money in the "NDE space". Certainly less than "hegetsus". Which is funny because the vast majority of NDE accounts really make all of the most popular world religions look pretty wrong (including Christianity, although its message of love over all remains... Not that its adherents follow that much or anything).
That's why you subscribe to the channel you like - or use Twitch Prime if you have Prime.
> What makes you think that the kids of tomorrow are going to give a damn about today's notions of what's valuable?

I mean, on a long enough time scale, they won't :) Same with USD, other currencies, or any given stock or bond. There are no guarantees. That applies doubly to crypto assets.
It's just a brutal space to operate in. Even YouTube barely manages to break even.
See also: https://cbr.stanford.edu/research.html
Why do you want them, exactly? If I want to set a timer, I can just speak and be heard by one of the phones, tablet, watches, and orbs dotted around the place which collectively cover all three main voice assistants.

And what's to display? It's an oven, not a website. Temperature is a dial, is it hot enough or not is just yes/no.
What makes you think the workload at Twitch must be minimal?
$1.8B lost to crypto hacks in 2023. Hard to say how much of that is North Korea, but it's a nontrivial amount.
Perhaps DEI hires that don't have to do their full duties because expecting them to is racist or transphobic or something stupid and they'll be protected by their manager who got shafted in his last performance review because he had too many "white males" on staff.
Ensure you are invested $200 in using it. Very few will pay that for an App.
I doubt they were hacked. If someone is smart enough to hack them, they would be smart enough to realize they would make more money if they released a note saying the ETF was rejected. My theory is that the SEC just posted it at the wrong time accidentally.
More than... previously known? Non-bottled? Last year?
the x-32, the plane that was competing with the f-35 (neé x-35) in the joint strike fighter program looked _weird_; it looks like a pelican opening its mouth. I remember watching a documentary about the JSF where someone said that its looks definitely played a role in it not getting picked.
Maybe go read their policy at https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Sexual-Content-Policy-Upd...

And if you find something you think breaks that, report it.
Honestly Unity has had a slew of problems for years. Completely useless purchase of WETA tech, product not improving markedly, ad network (IronSource) issues, problematic CEO.

The price hike fight was the last straw. They've had a ton of time to fix these issues but haven't responded to users asks, up to the point where viable open-source alternatives are starting to take root.
I like some TE gear.

But it would be an omission if we didn't also include the fact that TE hardware often has weird flaws like OPz cases never fit together properly even years after release and the more recent problems with shipping the ko2 sampler and broken faders.
i surely hope that safety feature is designed in such a way that you can't ever actually turn on the oven without standing in front of it, lest someone is able to break into the system and turn it on without you knowing. the risk is just to great.

sure, the benefit of the app at that point is questionable, but the alternative should then be to simply have no app.
> US tried to supply some cutting edge military grade drones(switchblade 300/600)

“Tried”?

> but there is no much reports about them,

There are lots of reports about them.

> and program has been canceled since then

US acquisition of the anti-personnel Switchblade 300 was cancelled recently, the anti-armor 600 was stepped up, both for deliveries to Ukraine and for deployment with US forces on a wide scale.

And, yes, the cancellation seems largely due to experience in Ukraine and the superiority of cheaper, adapted-from-consumer-models drones for anti-personnel use, but its important to note that's not an absence of combat experience—the 300 was rush developed and deployed to combat in Afghanistan in the early 2010s, and used extrnsively there. This is just the learning that happens with different approaches guided by different constraints finding different solutions.
I think it's for society buy-in and relatability - that we can assume, because we see in entertainment (or real-life footage) the horrors that happen during war, but other professions may be harder to relate to.
> But if the business model would be to cater only for 10% hardest cases, you don't need the funnel, since people coming to you already have a $100 need, so to say.

Now consider that the people with a $100 need are going to depend on how good the free system is. If the free system sucks, it's a lot.

But if the free system sucks, lots of people are going to be complaining about it because they don't like paying $100, and then it might improve some. The number of people who need something else goes down from 15% to 8%. Then there are fewer complaints, but the paid system has that many fewer customers.

At some point there are few enough people complaining and the free system stops being responsive to their complaints, but the main thing that depends on is how much the government cares about making their system any good.

If the premise of embarrassing the public system when a private system can do better is successful, the public system could get arbitrarily good over time -- until the private system doesn't have enough revenue to do better.

You push that point further down the line by not forcing the private system to duplicate the public system's work.

> That's no different from entering any other established market right now. Yes, incumbents have an advantage, this is always so, always have been so and always will remain so.

It's not the incumbent's advantage which is the issue because that isn't the change. What you'd be doing is closing the door to new entrants regardless of whether the incumbent continues to exist.

Even if the market provided enough revenue for Intuit to continue if well-managed, if they were to become mismanaged or otherwise go out of business, or just do a crappy job while not actually ceasing to exist, no one could replace them because no one else could cover the initial entry costs while competing with the free system.
It's unsettling how many times GPT 4.5 has been wrong about something that I can easily see and point out and often verify by finding documentation or testing. I don't know how many times I've asked a question and told the wrong thing.