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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I don't even know what DRM brings to the browsers apart from breaking external monitors and blacking out screenshots

All the content behind it is still available day 0 on trackers

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Comment · 3 years ago
I think you only write WebGPU code if you are using JS or Rust for your hobby project
Comment · 3 years ago
Nowhere near CUDA. Maybe OpenCL and Metal replacement because nobody bothers to support them, so just a fallback option for AMD and ARM chips.
Comment · 3 years ago
These comments are deceptive. Yes, this is how LLMs work, but that doesn't mean they only repeat things they have seen before. LLMs are capable of following instructions to construct new words in any language they know, words never seen before.

I've seen it being dumb in maths or real world problems. But as a large language models, they understand and speak languages fine, and even mistakes they make look like mistakes humans who are not natives in the language would make.

We may as well say that when we speak, we are just predicting words we have trained on. I don't see how these models are worse than people in that regard.

The general knowledge and thinking of these models are surely limited. But seeing GPT-4 go from text only input to text with images, I think it is very possible to break the barriers very soon.

Comment · 3 years ago
Kinopoisk and Amediateka (legal places to watch content) grew a lot before 2022. Netflix launch there was a success too. Now there's no Netflix and shows are being pulled off Kinopoisk.

I guess there's not a lot of paid content in Iraq too.

Comment · 3 years ago
I think on macOS programs are able to store data "inside" themselves, because .app files are just folders. They usually shouldn't put stuff in Library.
Comment · 3 years ago
I think three.js is pure JavaScript, it may be some physics engine that uses WASM (like Rapier)
Comment · 3 years ago
You don't need to pay a fee to develop an app, only to publish it
Comment · 4 years ago
The message on driver's screen says something like "Note from passenger: Guys and girls, stop feeding the yellow [Yandex], switch to Wheely!"
Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah to me seems they rather buy data, so in the app I see ads about things things I've looked for somewhere else. Never seen it other way around, but maybe it is more subtle - YouTube Shorts and TikTok have a huge overlap in content for me, but does it mean YouTube buys my data from TikTok?
Comment · 4 years ago
In less developed countries $10k is >= 40% annual salary for most developers with almost any skillset
Comment · 4 years ago
Sometimes when I have a very limited connection on mobile, nothing helps the web and no pages would load over https, even if it's just plain HTML. And if the connection drops, then it almost certainly won't recover and full page reload is necessary.

Other protocols may work much better in such conditions, for example popular messengers can send and receive text, metadata and blurry image previews just fine. In some cases even voice calls are possible, but not a single website would load ever.

I think HN crowd won't notice the changes. I hope that the protocol would improve experience for smartphone users without reliable 4G connection.

Comment · 5 years ago
After some local streaming service took over like 70% of market (largely by expanding it, because it costs $3 compared to competitors at $5-10) other companies made a deal and now you can subscribe to "Most popular streaming service + exclusives from some other service at $5/$10 etc" and stream everything on one website/app.

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