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>Like, why couldn't have H.266 been invented 30 years ago?

It is all a matter of trade offs and engineering.

For MPEG / H.26x codec, the committees start the project by asking or defining the encoding and decoding complexities. And if you only read Reddit or HN, most of the comment's world view would be Video codec are only for Internet Video and completely disregard other video delivering platform. Which all have their own trade off and limitations. There is also cost in decoding silicon die size and power usage. If more video are being consumed on Mobile and battery is a limitation, can you expect hardware decoding energy usage to be within the previous codec? Does it scale with adding more transistors, are there Amdahl's law somewhere. etc It is easy to just say adding more transistor, but ultimately there is a cost to hardware vendors.

Vast majority of the Internet seems to think most people working on MPEG Video Codec are patents trolls and idiots and paid little to no respect to its engineering. When as a matter of fact Video Codec are thousands of small tools within the spec, and pretty much insane amount of trial and error. It may not be as complicated as 3GPP / 5G level of complexity, but it is still lot of work. Getting something to compress better while doing it efficiently is hard. And as Moore's Law is slowing down. No one can continue to just throwing transistors at the problem.
Memo for members and affiliates of the intergalactic computer network (1963)
loved reading the old comments. ty!

sp332 on Dec 20, 2013
"Well you won't know which people have good ideas until they tell you their ideas :)"
Yes there is room for improvement, but this is what I mean that these are further iterations on the same platform. The "Ghost in the Machine" however remains the same. Hard to see how that can be improved upon! The noise of the thing is crazy!
Good point, and I didn't know that about NKJV. Very interesting.
Yep, also minimum 2 lines to address SPOF (single point of failure).

Just because one little thing went wrong, you don’t stop the entire production line.

My guess is that they have 12+ parallel lines.
I've always wondered if you could automate a sort of standard assembly system with a certain amount of adjustments within some parameters (device dimensions, how things are connected)... and pump out any number of different electronics all on the same assembly line / factory using the same robots?

Granted that probably already is a thing, or isn't for good reason.
I really like this comment. It's almost like distraction is a symptom of escape from something in our everyday lives.

I think one part is curiosity like the other commenter said, but I also think that part of it is seeking distraction from something. Like we want to take up the space in our mind, so there isn't room for something else.
I wonder why?

Even Raspberry Pi has a hardware decoder: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/VrmacVideo

Linux Kernel support for HEVC is WIP but I’m pretty sure they’ll integrate eventually.
I’ve written various applications on top of FFmpeg but never looked into encoder technicalities, so I don’t know if and why GPU encoding has fundamental limitations. I heard nvenc has vastly improved on RTX cards; I’m still rocking an old GPU so can’t verify that, but presumably that means there’s no fundamental weakness and GPU encoding is just playing catch up?
> it has to be the peak of this class of machine

Not even close, in fact PS4 is famous for being the cheapest sony home console relatively speaking. PS3 costed more and was sold with losses.

PS4 was made with very cheap hardware in mind, and the next generation seem to be committed to cheapness as well. For those prices a PC gets better hardware and well, it's also counts as a PC.

Even a PS4 Pro is weaker than a One X, and both are behind a cost effective PC. and most games don't even run at a 60 fps which used to be the case 2 generations ago. Worse than not running at 60 is stuttering, for most games 30 is more than enough, but when the console can't keep that rate it is annoying to see framerate drops.
Not sure. Even politicians still hold up meetings way too close to each other to avoid COVID19 contamination so I doubt there's a realization that proximity needs to change. Private companies have limited floor space and management style is not well suited to having everyone work from home, so it's going to be back in the office with masks, rather than redesigning the work space.
>Superior is an opinion just like mine.

The increased performance is the only reason to buy an M over a lesser trim. Performance metrics are as objective as you can get and modern BMW's are far superior in that regard.
> 5.1. Remember to free the class instances

> The class instances have to be manually freed, otherwise you get memory leaks.

This was the most annoying part back in the Turbo Pascal days, I am surprised it is still there. I'd think with all the changes (generics, etc..) they could have added a smart pointer class?
I’ve always been waiting for something like this! Now I got an excuse for a new project. Ty ty:)
In principle, you would hope a CA would be able to precisely account for the number of backup copies of their private key.

In practice, of course, that doesn't mean every one of them will have done. There's 293 of them, after all.
Proptech startup aims to democratize the industry by providing
Coroutines do not really run concurrently unless you yield explicitly or call functions that do async io (those yield automatically).

The main reason it is directly available in languages like Go is that they are meant for building servers that do lots of network/file interactions and very little actual calculations. In this pattern coroutine looks rather natural and your code is not riddled with endless explicit yields. As soon as you step out of that pattern coroutines became headache where once must constantly watch and make sure that the interval between yields is not too big and they do not block each other.

In my opinion coroutines are an artificial construct that is very specific to the OS (Windows has fibers for example) and one can argue that it belongs to some standard library rather than first order language construct.

Well Delphi is guilty in this department as well. It has direct language support for automation services on Windows for example.
Looking at Amazon's top PS4 games right now, the vast majority are under $35.

I wonder what % of gamers actually pay full price anyway. The next 12-24 months look like an insanely busy release schedule, with that long a backlog for many gamers I doubt many but the most hardcore of gamers will be picking up more than 1-2 titles at full price and many (most?) will be picking up games at more like 50% off, many (like me :) ) wait until the price dips below $20...

"Never pay more than $20 for a computer game"
- Guybrush Threepwood.
It's a longstanding problem that a very large number of parse trees (1000s) can be found for sentences of any real complexity: there are so many of them that the one with the highest probability of being right is still likely to be wrong!
this can be aggregated from news source. aggregator itself do not know if article is an ad or something else..
I wrote news aggregator myself and many news providers put sponsored articles in the middle od their news feed without marking them as such
I, for one, both agree with your perspective and see how the last sentence of your original comment could be taken as engaging in a "political slapfight" (a pretty vague term) when viewed from the other side. I think being able to view the world from the eyes of the other is a useful skill, even when the other is a literal fascist -- I'm not even arguing that you should necessarily come across differently, just that you should understand how you may come across to people with different perspectives.
Very cool! If you're a VS Code user, I ported my favorite Tron-based iTerm theme here https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=emeraldi...
I ended up buying the standard PS4 6 months ago because I had less than fond memories of the noise my first-gen PS3 made. I don't have a 4k television so it seemed like a good decision even though a Pro would have been nearly the same price.

The newest PS4 slim is silent and TLOU2 graphics are still incredible.
You should. The visuals are stunning, the score is highlights galore, and Henry Fonda is the ultimate villain.
Making time to change (part 1)
Someone values something different than you, and that's brainwashing? Baloney. (Maslow's Hierarchy, while not perhaps perfect, does seem to have some reasonable insight into how humans work. It seems more accurate than your comment.)
C64 shipped something like 20 Million units over its lifetime. You could use it as a gaming machine (many did) - or you could go further if you wanted to. The appeal of consoles to many in the industry is that it was locked down and you could ringfence your revenue but that's not to say you couldn't address these issues with modern commonly available technologies like digital signing and cryptography. Basically like what Apple is trying to do but that could certainly be improved upon in terms of implementation.
A DNS-based system reduces the attack surface for any given domain massively: The gTLD registrar and your domain registrar become the sole entities that can create trusted certificates involving your site.

Right now, how many different companies could issue a microsoft.com cert if compromised or sketchy? Hundreds?

Right now CAs delegate trust to bunches of questionable sites as seen here with poor oversight or security based on business interest. On a DNS-based system, the entities involved are limited to those who actually manage your DNS.

It also removes the agency of browsers to decide who does and doesn't get to play, which is the current system.
This is a fantastic video, extremely well done in my opinion. I remember fanatically watching "How It's Made", in that show they focused on more run of the mill assembly lines for generic plastic things and usually there was a ton of labor involved. The video linked here was really the first time I saw this level of automation and my jaw nearly hit the floor, the technology industry has created some incredible feats of engineering.
Nobody reads the articles apparently. This is getting as bad as reddit :-(
Good writeup, but I'm unsure about the clinical use case here. Isn't it pretty rare for a doctor to first learn about a Covid diagnosis from a CT scan? Rather, I think a tool that can isolate the location of GGOs and monitor their progression across a few metrics (overall volume, density, etc) might be slightly more useful for a clinician as they consider disease progression. Of course, I guess that would mean that someone has to segment CT scans to mark where the GGOs are.
I've thought about how systems like this could be used to greatly enhance the world of RPG's. Being able to generate a full back story and personality for every NPC would be fantastic, but only a start.

Then there could be an idea of 'atom' of information that uses models to spreading via NPCs.

There is just so much I know that could be done with this, but I'm guessing hasn't been because it takes more computation than I realize. Or maybe there just hasn't been the effort put into it. I'm hoping it's the latter.

Video game graphics seem to be providing diminishing returns for the game experience compared to depth of storyline/world building. Gamers will not care as much about how a game looks when it is very engaging due to the other elements. But it seems like those other elements are constantly undervalued by game makers.
This is still available.
Just posting this for your reference:
https://www.who.int/csr/don/archive/country/chn/en/
They won’t be. I definitely thought deeply about that aspect, but am choosing to not make them non-viable for the following reasons:

1. Payloads are in domesticated strains, which are less efficient than wild strains, which are already global

2. Exotic growth media requirements make the cells only for wealthy organizations, which is status quo and aren’t target audience

Of course, if good reason comes to change that, I would.
I thought MFT indexes were the same as inodes.
Ask HN: Is it feasible to create a Twitter Client in 2020?
I have been toying with a plan for a custom Twitter client, but have heard that Twitter has made it more difficult to build custom clients. If anyone has information on this I'd be glad.
Lots of folks here are talking about the latency and throughput, but nobody is amazed at what the robots are doing. Plugging in cables and putting down tape is fiddly and hard. I'm super impressed that they elected to automate those things based on cost merit. Massive kudos to the manufacturing engineers who managed to pull that off.
Pretty accurate, only thing I would say is that I feel reaching out to a recruiter or a dev solely for a reccomendation is fine if you're polite and not overly blunt about it.
SK Learn is the most popular ML libs. Well written, source code available, etc. But I am not opening it up to optimize it and neither should anyone unless they are already a SK Learn contributor OR have a ton of time on their hands.
You introduced the topic. Asking for you to support that position isn't off-topic. And the link you provided does not support your position. It says that the Air Force OJAG advised minimizing its use in order to prevent unnecessary suffering when other munitions were available and DU was not needed for armor-piercing. It doesn't say use of DU is "in contravention of international law."
Zero-sum game [1] is the root term. An example is playing poker or similar (without any outside sponsorship or the like) - no matter how well we all play, there's no way for our combined wealth to be greater (or lower) at the end than it was at the beginning. Zero-sum thinking or mind set or whatever is the assumption that a situation is a zero-sum game, which may or may not be true.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game
You should look into pick-and-place machines and other awesome fab robots.
Gold electroplating can utilize some relatively nasty chemicals such as cyanide and cobalt but some ways are more safe than others. You could more easily and inexpensively nickel plate it with household materials (and a nickel plating layer is often used as a flash layer for gold plating anyway.)

Simply tinning the copper with solder would likely be the easiest option although I couldn't say how durable that would be against contact wear over very long periods of time. I'd suspect just as durable as nickel or gold plating would be...
The article's point is not that dopamine isn't involved in addiction. It's that knowing that dopamine is involved isn't enlightening. What's enlightening is to understand why you get addicted to things that are bad for you. And for that you have to look at the specifics of the situation, not just at the chemical.

It's a little bit like saying, hey, I took a road and I went to the wrong destination. Let me look at the road and understand this process. It is paved with asphalt, so maybe asphalt is the problem. Maybe the road surface is too good and easily drivable. Which doesn't make sense, because (a) roads that take you to good destinations are also paved with asphalt and (b) you ended up at a bad destination because of a wrong turn rather than because of the road conditions.
I'm optimistic about AGI because I see no reason for it not to be implemented (though the time-frame is a different matter).

Going by the hype articles (which may be unrepresentative), we just seem to be moving faster and faster on an impressively powerful, but AGI-irrelevant train along a machine "learning" railway track and although I suspect plenty of people on the train would like to get off, the drivers and momentum are making that very difficult, as indicated in the OP article.

I'm completely optimistic about AGI, just think we are allowing the excitement of the advances in Artificial Unintelligence over the last few years erroneously dominate our thinking about it - at least in the sort of papers that turn up in tech-related feeds. Again, this may be unrepresentative of the top thinkers in computer science (machine-learning/whatever).

My own (layman!) opinion is that the good ideas have and will continue to come from external (or intersecting) fields, philosophy, neuroscience, etc; not computer scientists raving about the power of DeepWhatever using cloud-enabled networks.
Hey, you should add your company here: remote.lifeshack.io !
Drive to Survive was my gateway drug as well. Since then, I've watched every race, and qualifying if I can help it (which can sometimes be even more exciting). I'd suggest watching current races - you'll know most of the people involved from watching DtS, which makes it much more compelling.

Also, I've found a few podcasts that I listen to during the week that help me stay up to date with the storylines of the season. In particular, Missed Apex[1] and Shift+F1[2] are my go-tos. The former is a little bit snarkier and opinion-based, the latter is more straightforward and factual - both are good. Check out their race previews/reviews, it will give you some things to pay attention to when watching a current race.

[1]: https://missedapexpodcast.com/

[2]: https://www.f1.cool/
The later Pros supposedly have revisions to make them less loud
Pointers for Software Engineers
Now audio uses open codecs for the part and new video will to.
This looks super adorable. Have you gotten it into the hands of learners yet? What do you see as your customer demographic?
I haven't tried Ceph. It didn't seem as appealing, judging from comments I found (mostly on Hacker News):
http://www.regressionist.com/2020/06/20/reviews-of-distribut...
But it's also hard to tell exactly what people are reviewing. Evidently CephFS is less mature than Ceph object store.

But, yeah. This just all seems so much cheaper than AWS. There are other advantages, too. Like, a lot of stuff is better with the low latency that comes with having the cluster on-location. Python plots are more pleasant to interact with (ssh -X). NoMachine remote desktop is faster, etc.

Also, it's a bit like an all-you-can-eat buffet. You pay once, and then you can just relax and enjoy. I have enough storage now that I don't need to stress about costs before deciding to cache intermediate data. And I don't need to worry about whether I really need those older results that I still have saved on disk that I'm paying each minute to store on AWS. Those kind of thoughts are just gone.

I do have one GPU now, a 1080 Ti ($450 on eBay). I am ready to house a total of 6, but I'm waiting to buy more until I really need them.
This should definitely be addressed by the mobile OS but I'm not sure how many applications use this maliciously.

Do we know of apps that send the clipboard to a remote server?
I don't get why people are viewing user-based and content-based signals as two totally separate things.

Aren't most ad providers using both to serve ads?
Some people here are saying of course basing ads on the page will work better, and hence tracking cookies (or for some, even ML/AI) are useless... if that was the case, why are all these different players building all this infrastructure and developing these complex models? Just for fun?

Clearly, knowing that this is an article about pets helps. But knowing that you've been specifically reading articles about dog food gives you that extra information to serve particularly relevant ads (rather than say, display hamster cages).
I was looking for a comment mentioning Seamless. This is the best counter example. Note that these guys bootstrapped correctly from the start; as you mentioned, group buys was a great low cost/high margin way to get started.
Hey Joshua, thanks for your kind comment! Very interesting thesis in your paper.

Do you think that besides as a framework for anxiety diagnosis, this could suggest lucid dreaming as part of the therapeutic treatment? Consciously inducing lucidity and choosing confrontation of the dream scenario rather than defaulting to avoidant behavior?
I'm surprised they didn't design out stuff like tape. Although perhaps they did and the article actually means handling things like ribbon cables, which is super impressive, as humans can barely handle those.
Yes. The company distributing the work has to make sure it has licenses for any required parts.
> Ok, so what is your solution to fix the effects of past systematic racism.

Whats your solution to fixing past inequality of wealth? Shall we disown the rich of their personal property?

Some problems we just decide not to fix and just move on, trying to create something with a more fair, and level playing field from here on.

I don’t see how we can handle this any differently.

Implementing systematic new racism in our time to fight racism from past times obviously won’t work and will just create new sets of problems for future generations.
WhatsApp and Telegram will not hand over user data to Hong Kong authorities
Some never learn. Also surprising to see supporters of this approach in this thread. They are still around apparently.
I think a lot of the "words are violence" types are also trying to prove they are Good People, just with a different standard of what makes one "Good".
Chinese Research Papers Raise Doubts, Scientific Integrity Questioned
> I love Nintendo but they're more like toys than hard core gaming

Some of us really love our toys. Playing MarioKart or Super Smash Bros. with my kid makes both of us happy. I used to have a PS2 and owned quite a collection of titles but I think playing Nintendo games is a joyous experience that PS2 and its titles never delivered.
I think if its the odd day you might getaway with it - but when your workplace is formally defined as your home it might be very different. I suspect it for the USA it will be the medical insurers that will insist on it.
What's the plan? Do you start executing anyone who doesn't openly support your cause? I mean, their silence is violence right? It's justified if we kill them. Only by killing the racists and enablers of racism, can we tear down the old system and build a new one that is not racist. I think that's the right thing for you to do. Anything less must be perpetuating a systemically racist system, no?
I like 1995 era laptops more than modern ones. I also like the the plastic casings of desktops back then—they feel solid, same with the mechanical keyboards!

Today companies so busy trying to “slim things down.”

P.S. why doesn’t apple release a matte display laptop? I would buy it.
> strict moderation and intentional, reputation-based communities

Those sound expensive, as in time, time and money, or just money.

But I don't have a lot of experience in that space.

What's your experience with that?
You're really over interpreting my initial comment and not wanting to believe people have preferences.

People like different things. E.g. some people might prefer cars that sound louder but are slower over a quiet cabin and faster.

Some people might think the engine is the only important aspect and prefer older engines.

And who said we're only talking M?

Chill...
It's not operating anymore though.
"ultimately driver skill is what determines who gets to drive for Mercedes" - not what happened with Bottas. Doubt that's what happened with Sainz.
This looks so amazing and I wasn't aware that Playstations are still manufactured in Sony's home country itself. I guess automation helps in keeping the manufacturing cost low.

Now I am intrigued about what high selling electronic devices are manufactured in their home country itself and not by the ODMs/CMs in countries with cheap labour like China.