skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AV1 is finally happening but you’re still talking about millions of devices which can’t handle it. A rough figure is 90% vs. 75% but that also doesn’t account for software playback or less efficient hardware implementations causing worse battery life. A couple years from now, I bet it’ll be more of a default choice.

https://caniuse.com/hevc

https://caniuse.com/av1
AI still doesn't understand memes
Likely valid, but can you say why it sucked? And why any other input wouldn't struggle with the same faults?
>Strangely, I really loved the Windows Phone OSes, but I didn't really carry that love over when their design principles were ported to the desktop.

I think a lot of people feel this way. It's not terribly strange, though: the two products in question (WOS, Windows 8) were attempts to improve two platforms with some ancient common dna but adapted to interface with radically different hardware. One was an appropriate and successful design, the other very inappropriate and a failure.
IME Jellyfin struggles to deal with a few edge-cases, and the ecosystem for Subsonic is generally better: more applications, more servers, and therefore ultimately more choice. Though Navidrome may be the most popular, there are plenty of clients to choose from (Supersonic, Sublime-music, etc. etc.) where such an ecosystem doesn't really exist for Jellyfin.
There's no such thing as "the computer science definition" as far as patent law is concerned. Lawyers aren't engineers or scientists. Patents are basically lists of claims that have a lot of complicated wording that is designed to get interpreted by other patent laywyers in very specific ways. What is and isn't a software patent is extremely murky water.

As soon as you involve algorithms, it's not all that different from an actual machine or engineering system from a patent law point of view. Which is why you find the words like "method" or "apparatus" in a lot of patent claims. That's the little legal loophole that makes something an actual patent vs. just a "software patent".

Whether it's enforceable or gets past the patent office review is a second thing of course. In the case of the infamous 1 click shopping patent, the answers turned out to be that there was a lot of prior art and the EU declined to accept the patent for being too obvious. In the US it did get accepted but then a later ruling invalidated most of the claims. The patent expired a few years ago.

Having the patent is one thing; enforcing it another. The US being a bit more eager to accept all sorts of obvious patents has been used by patent trolls to harass small companies into payments. And it's also uses as a defensive tool by all sorts of big companies as a defensive tool and as a way to get other big companies to pay royalties for stuff that they did. Which, in this case, Netflix thought they could get out of.
> Heard

Don't they sound the same?
FYI, Forcepoint puts you in "Elevated Exposure: Sites that camouflage their true nature or identity, or that include elements suggesting latent malign intent."

I'm sure it's a false positive, just thought you'd like to know. If you ever write a book, you've got a great cover quote right there. "latent malign intent" - Forcepoint
Except when you look at benchmarks it's actually not that much faster than rails.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&hw=...
Jacksonville, FL, and Sitka, AK, are both “consolidated city-counties”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
I've never been able to approach this book in text. I did listen to an abridged audiobook performance of Finnegan's Wake, and enjoyed it in the same way I suppose I would enjoy listening to a foreign language poetry recital.
And of course Cisco was one of them.
Author of HashBackup here. I don't see how any kind of hash tree would be effective at de-duplicating VM machine images, other than the degenerate case of an exact copy, which is easy to detect with a single file hash.

Most OSes use 4K block sizes. To get the best dedup you have to hash every 4K block and lookup each one individually in a dedup table. Two VM images could both contain an identical 4GB file, but every 4K block of that file could be stored at different offsets in the VM images. A tree hash wouldn't let you dedup anything but identical sections stored at identical offsets, whereas a dedup table and 4K blocks allows you to dedup the entire file.
Amazon has always been the “by idiots for idiots” of tech companies.

Sorry this is patently elitist but I think it’s true.
> Youtube made it mandatory to have AV1 decoding in TVs/STBs for new devices since 2? 3? years, so it should become more common.

I think you mean Google, and they made it mandatory for Android. Most of those old devices don't use the latest Android version. And YouTube still happily delivers up VP9 to older versions as recently as two months ago.

> FWIW, on the vast majority of devices (well, all that I'm aware of), Mali isn't responsible for hardware video decoding.

If you're talking about LG, Samsung and Sony; yeah they have their own image processing hardware. That only applies if you're using the TV's app and not a settop device.

To clarify, I'm not claiming there are no AV1 devices or that it's particularly rare. Just stating that it's not ubiquitous enough to be made universal without a large segment of the populace/devices being affected.
Isn't that equivalent to setting the tax rate X% lower?

The only problem I see otherwise is that it's not a progressive tax - 5% of a trailer is much more of a poor person's income than 5% of a mansion is of a rich person's. But for that you can use UBI or something to make any flat tax net-progressive.
> you’ll definitely look dumb if you do the totally wrong thing because you didn’t ask a question.

> Do not, DO NOT, assume they are too busy to answer clarifying questions as you work on the [t]ask.

Any tips for this when you're working remotely and online chat isn't an option?

In-person, it feels easier to ask lots of small, quick, imprecise, and half-baked questions because you get a quick reply then can follow-up. Over email though, I end up spending more time articulating what I'm confused about and trying to pre-empt possible replies because it feels more formal and interruptive. Video calls can take time to arrange and have a lot of overhead.

One trick I use for client projects is to have a Google Doc that I append small questions to as they crop up, I ping the client occasionally to check the doc (or they subscribe to edit notifications from the doc), the client writes the answers directly into the doc, and this repeats as the task goes on.

Pros: the client doesn't have to answer everything in one go, client gets less notifications, feels like less formal writing is fine on both ends, feels more collaborative, it's easy to add follow-up questions next to the relevant snippet, you can add comments to the doc for quick discussions and to assign/track small tasks, easy for others to read and contribute to.

(Edit: I'm thinking contract work here with non-techy people where you don't know them or their business well, and you'll have lots of little questions)
Which scientist is letter B?
I agree with you that the reduction to financials is problematic.

But for me, the reason is that the reduction misses out harms such as lost education, and time spent with near to end-of-life relatives.

Don't forget also that most of the financial costs are not paid they are debts that most countries will continue to service for many years. We all will, through our taxes.

It also misses the cost per life saved. Here, I agree, we could do with more colour. For some, the saved life will have given them a truly new lease. But I suspect many — to be blunt — did not survive much longer. Are 40 more QALYs worth €4k? For sure. But I'm not so sure an elderly relative would knowingly trade one more year if it meant forgoing visits with grandchildren, and so on. For this kind of discussion, we simply don't have the data. But I hope you will agree that the judgement "right or wrong" needs to really engage deeply in the topic — it must go far beyond the raw 'accounting costs', and I hope you would concede that it's not a slam dunk in favour of lockdown.
It makes sense if your employer views your position as commodity, like a warehouse worker. "Here is your labor area we carved out for you to do your commoditized work units, one size fits all". The same reason JIRA is popular with management. Gives them visibility and "metrics" to improve. A less-charitable interpretation of hot-desking is that it's a constant reminder that your job is not secure, and that new people can come and replace you instantly, vs your own personal place in a cubicle or private office signals some amount of commitment that you have "your spot" at the company.
HVDC facilities look like something out of a scifi movie:

* https://new.abb.com/news/detail/19701/abb-wins-600-mw-hvdc-o...
A textbook should be provided for reference. Copying its contents on a blackboard isn't teaching. You still have to design your course. There's goals to meet, you have to evaluate where your students come from and your job is getting them there.

Besides pedagogy, in college you have to respect your students as studying adults and give them a proper bibliography, emphasizing references for independent study if they don't like your lecture notes, nor your approach, nor whatever.

I understand what a university is, I also understand and am qualified in secondary education and it would be incredibly depressing turning colleges into extended high schools because of business models. That would be exploiting students, I never agree with that.
PS: I covered my pen in nail polish to deal with the smell. It sorta works but doesn't get rid of the smell for the full 100%.
>Memory is everywhere, whether or not anyone or anything remembers it.

That one is beautiful.
So there might need to be time lag where you can refuse a sale by agreeing to pay extra tax?

Then it's vulnerable to malicious buyers putting in fake bids. There is probably a good reason this hasn't been implemented.
>> I've watched direct reports operate as a "human command line", requiring precise syntax before they'll act. Don't be either of these type of people.

That's giving me PTSD. Run if you ever find yourself in such a team. Operating in good faith should be the base line of working together in and with a team but for some it's not. Then it just turns into politics and ego games.
Imo if you have video conference thats good enough, not like you get more information out of conversation in person vs on the phone or zoom.
Smoothing is a different operation where you are simplifying the bezier curve by removing redundant(ish) points. So if you draw an almost straight line, you may have created 100 control points, and then the software simplifies it down to 4 points.
an intake of breath is risky because it could be poisonous and kill you. Yet you wouldn't suggest someone stop breathing.

There's lots of ways this could be interpreted, that shouldn't stop anyone from attempting to execute a teachable moment.
It wasn’t showing up when I had edited initially, my bad.
Not OP but I have that experience. Europeans have been much more open.

My personal theory is that it's connected to job security and how big personal problem it is to lose your job in a layoff. If you get laid off in Europe, your health insurance is paid from public budget now and you get several months salary from your employer. If you worked for a big name, it may be six months or more. If it was a small startup, you get at least two months.

Our US colleagues always made more money but also were more afraid of losing their jobs. All of that said from the IT perspective. I'm sure being a coal miner and getting laid off is much worse.
Not sure why you were downvoted. Taiwan is in a precarious position and diversifying manufacturing away from them makes sense.
So, how much for the orb and when we can order one?
I don’t personally believe there is an actual performance boost. I think I is the opposite, and even where it might exist at the individual level I think it is certainly (to my eye) incorrect at the team and company level.

But I won’t make that argument because it is the third rail of HN comments. So I make all my arguments assuming WFH improves productivity.
AIPU?
That's amazing, went down a spiral of other projects too. Crazy stuff.

Also reminded me of this ferrofluid clock my buddy built back in the day: http://www.hellorhei.com
Toyota has massive scale, is very successful, and is japanese, and thus has extreme inertia on change, even in software where such things 'should' be faster. Their existing infotainment has been considered fine and functional for years, and Toyota likely didn't start seriously considering it till consumers were already demanding it.
Dam-building on Mekong poses risk to regional industries, report says
Let's keep the bidding going. I'd do it for $10M!
Since the article mentions the Kaliningrad exclave: what will actually happen with it once the Baltic states shut down the power lines to Russia? Then there will also be no way to transfer power from Russia to Kaliningrad - will they be forced to only rely on those power plants the article mentions?
It's also why senior's are so important and why the dichotomy between product people and technical people is so inane and stupid.

There are developers that just want to keep their head down and write code, you'll never get those people to ask the questions that are being suggested here.
> By the way, everyone knows that SSD is the first component needed by a slow PC. A second one is a dedicated GPU instead of integrated one.

The first? Hmm.. my usual list for old PC's:

1. Max out the RAM
2. SSD
3. Still not *feeling* snappy? Throw lean(er) OS and/or apps at it.

GPU depends more on 'heavier' games to be run (if any). Not desktop environment. DE 'needs' a better GPU? See #3
You're not supposed to be able to patent 'Mathematics' or 'Nature' because these phenomena are 'discovered' and not 'invented'. You can patent a device that exploits a natural phenomena but not the phenomena itself.
Maybe, that seems extremely rare though. Didn't they already roll some upper management heads?
It's amazing the efforts companies and businesses will go to to avoid understanding the effects of housing on labor supply. Shitty roads in a town without even decent cellphone coverage -- so basically forget amenities like internet -- and a housing shortage on top of that? You're supposed to come work at Cabot and live in a college dorm? All those wage increases the companies whinge about are often passthroughs to landlords.
First 2D semiconductor with 1000 transistors
That's what I thought... The price amortises over the length of the marriage, so it actually works out fairly reasonably.
I suspect it took mouse events, and initially drew straight lines between them. That's necessary on 1990's hardware because drawing straight lines is fast, and you need to do it fast.

Then, when you are done drawing, it redraws the line, using the same points as before, but this time as input to a spline curve algorithm.

Drawing splines isn't much harder computationally, but notably if you add one more point to the end of a spline curve, then part of the line that you have already drawn changes. That in itself is very computationally heavy, since everything behind that line now needs to be redrawn - certainly not something you can be sure can be done at 60 fps!
Stock-based compensation is counted as an expense in the accounting rules used by public companies (GAAP).

So if they give $100M in stock awards, that’s a negative $100M on the company’s profit & loss statement, even though it’s not actually paid in cash by the company.

For that reason many tech companies also report non-GAAP numbers where the profit looks nicer because they can leave out stock-based compensation (and anything else they feel like they can get away with).
> So stuck in 1987, got it.

Oberon-2 was in 91.

> What allowed Go to florish was being sponsored by Google

No. What allowed Go to flourish was a purely practical approach to the language, instead of theoretical nonsense.

For example, Oberon does not have ANY error handling.

> and being pushed alongside Docker and Kubernetes, without them, it would have had the same fate as Plan 9, Inferno and Limbo.

Facepalm. Docker was developed completely separately from Google.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell
Funnily enough, I would argue that dice and dies sound different, phonetically:

dies daɪz

dice daɪs
Counterpoint: if you don't have a longterm contract w/ a foundational piece of software for your business, that's kind of on you too.
Housing will end up like daycare or long term care: too expensive for the free market, only widely available with policy and government economic support. We under built for too long and as structural demographics squeezes the participation rate, labor costs will exceed what affordable housing can tolerate due to the median wage. A labor light cone if you will.

Existing home inventory in the aggregate has a labor cost profile built into them that no longer exists.
Show HN: NPM like package ecosystem for Prompts
The Princess Di Eagles jacket is iconic here in Philly! The Kelly Green era is having a moment here in general, so M&N picked the right time for this particular throwback. It's more of a Philly retro hipster thing, as I see it, than a we live Diana thing.
Why not patent actual math then? For example, math that is used in machine learning: linear algebra, quadratic error etc.
Asking someone to file a ticket does not seem to point to a lack of trust, in my opinion.
Having your own bathroom is the best, but one thing I liked when I worked in Italy is that they had real bathrooms in most offices. It's very normal to have a little room with a door that fully closes, rather than those stalls where you can see people's feet, as well as smell and hear everything.

I mean, I kind of get having that kind of thing in, say, an airport or somewhere with security concerns, but being treated like that in an office environment is horrible.
If this seems generous then it’s a good amount. That it’s only a drop in the bucket for Canva is not relevant.
He is one of those Russian trolls who roams around HN telling that the slaves brought to the Americans should be thankful for the free trip they got. Except since they work on a different historic context, their vile nature gets lost on most readers.

Pre-WWII Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were quite well developed small countries in Europe. Not on par with industrial powerhouses like the UK, but not the most undeveloped parts of Europe either. Estonia is a particularly notable example, since it shares lots of traits with Finland, comparing them is almost like a twins study. In 1938, Estonian and Finnish GDP per capita were very close, 3771 and 3589 dollars respectively.[1] Both were invaded by the USSR in 1939/40. Finland lost territory, but successfully fought Russians off and remained independent. Estonia was occupied by the USSR until 1991.

By 1995, the GDP per capita of Finland was 26 271 dollars, while Estonian GDP was 3134 dollars. In 2021, the Finnish GDP per capita was 53 489 dollars, while Estonian GDP had risen to 27 943 dollars.[2][3]

That's what 50 years of Russian rule does to a country - incredible economic stagnation, and then incredible rebound as soon as Russian tanks rolled out. In early 1990s, the average monthly wage in Estonia was 37 dollars. In 2023, it is 1800 dollars.

Russian trolls love to say how they "built the infrastructure", but they fail to mention that the natural pace of development would've been a much faster, like it is now.

And speaking of that "infrastructure", to a large degree it consisted of extremely polluting factories that produced uncompetitive garbage and went bankrupt as soon as free trade with rest of the world opened up. A great example of their "infrastructure" has been immortalized in Tarkovsky's sci-fi movie Stalker. The polluted wastelands with foaming rivers and white ebbs falling down like snow in summer weren't special effects. That was toxic waste from an upstream chemical plant that directed its waste unfiltered into a nearby river. Several crew members, including Tarkovsky himself, fell ill and died due to the poisioning received there.[4] Cleanup of such "infrastructure" continues to this day, 30 years later.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, and Russians building infrastructure.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/PolvBbR.jpg

[2] https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/FIN/Sta...

[3] https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/EST/Sta...

[4] https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/stalker-killed-andrei-tarkovsky...
Its not even that they leave it a mess. Some people sound like artillery fire in there and the smell makes you want to puke.
No it's not. I made it clear to my last team that I'm just super forgetful and if you don't write down your request, I'll have to stop and write it down myself, implicitly making me an over-paid secretary.

There was resentment yes, but I did trust them!
Bohr?
Doesn't that leave pretty much Samsung and Intel as the only options?
Extortion is a risk in this modified implementation. "Is that a $1 house? I'll buy it for $100. No? Enjoy your tax bill. If you want the bill to go away, sell it to me for $0.50."

If I had to propose a mechanism, I'd suggest using prediction markets instead.
I bought my wife an absolutely beautiful moissanite handmade ring on Etsy for a fraction of the price a real diamond would cost, and she’s been very happy with it. Not only does it look great, she has a tendency to leave rings lying around the house and forget where they are, so it’s not a panic-inducing event if she should happen to lose it.
I remember being tired all day long after waking up many time during the night to check the progress of my renders or to tweak it and restart. And then I got a math coprocessor so I could wake up more often in the night to check my renders.
Fast unfolding of communities in large networks: 15 years later
We are not talking about the energy balance, we are talking about grid strength/inertia also known as ancillary services. Two orthogonal concepts people tend to mix up.

The article mentions the critical parameters which historically have been sourced from big heavy generators like hydro, coal, nuclear or CCGT plants:

- Frequency regulation: When grid power crashes or surges, the device immediately releases or absorbs energy to minimize fluctuation in the AC frequency;

- Short circuit power: When the grid experiences a short circuit, the crashing voltage releases a tripling or more of current from rotating machines which signals breakers on the grid to activate and quickly isolate the fault;

- Voltage support: Producing current and voltage that are out of phase generates so-called reactive power that pushes the local grid’s voltage up or down to stabilize system voltage and/or increase the flow of real power.
The one that always gets left out (because it doesn't have a letter in FAANG), is Microsoft which, while bureaucratic, is stable and chill by all accounts.
I can't tell if this is an actual pseudo-complaint about a joking comment, or an honestly pretty amazing pun on licking/tongue.
Can you elaborate on why you describe 10^241 as non-physical? Just because it's too large to describe anything physical?

Anyhow, Aristotle had another take on the problem of universals, and taking his view that every concept abstract or otherwise can only exist as part of our physical world (I'm not a philosopher, and there are variations on both themes that different people subscribe to), then your supposition would be nonsense in itself. Stated as a question: What is your reasoning for preferring a Plato-like model of the world vs. a Aristotle-like one?

(If it needs to be said: This is not a gotcha or anything - your opinion intrigued me, and I'm curious as to your reasoning)
I never understood why anyone would want interlaced mode. Can someone enlighten me?