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> if you don't work hard and generate wealth, your next generation of family won't enjoy the life that you had

This seems like a very upper-middle class mentality. The vast majority of people don't ever pass on wealth. Hell, go back 30 years and getting an inheritance was something the ultra-wealthy only did.
Daala's and Thor's features were supposed to be integrated into AV1, but in the end, they wanted to finish AV1 as fast as possible, so very little that wasn't in VP10 made it into AV1. I guess it will be in AV2, though.
That ship has sailed (or sunk) a long long time ago
Css tricks is a treasure. I have no idea why digital ocean would let it languish.
You're right, but on the other hand, I like that they mentioned DisplayPort as a viable alternative that doesn't suffer from the problem at hand. Not too thrilled about the exact phrasing, describing DP as "the likely best option", which is too opinionated for my taste.
But I'd appreciate if other publications did this, so that e.g. every article about Microsoft's subscription model for Office 365 mentioned LibreOffice, every article about Steam users losing access to some of their games mentioned GOG, and so on. Especially when the alternatives are not well-known among one's readers.
Makes me miss nephoscale.
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Those extensions are part of it, but to get the full picture you also need to see the features and limits. E.g. an extension may gate its functionality behind feature flags, so a conformant implementation of the extension may just be a stub that says "feature not supported", or only support a subset of the extensions functionality.

Yes it's convoluted, that's Vulkan in a nutshell.
Lossless WebP is very good indeed. The main problem is that it is not very future-proof since it only supports 8-bit. For SDR images that's fine, but for HDR this is a fundamental limitation that is about as bad as GIF's limitation to 256 colors.
Some Mistral 7B fine tunes are borderline usable, but yes it's still very marginal.
In my experience this seems to be much less of a problem now with contactless payments, in both directions. US cards that used to require swipe-and-signature or chip-and-signature instead of chip-and-PIN seem to just work in when tapping (at least in the 3-4 countries I’ve traveled in extensively, although contactless isn’t widely accepted in some countries) and cards from a few European countries seem to work with contactless which is finally increasingly widely adopted in the US.
The email to the VP of Content & Community is wonderful, it covers a lot of detail and explains plainly why the idea would work. A great example for people wanting to get into freelancing, it's not for every client but once in a while you want to solve most of the problem in the first email. Why are you here? Why is this beneficial? Don't just ask "let's talk" or "maybe you have a project"... hand them the project on a silver platter and make them want to pay you. Almost worked it seems!

I respect Chris' decision to part with CSS-Tricks, it is a shame they couldn't figure out a better agreement for making sure the website continues to thrive but that is no easy feat. Onward and upward.
WebP is awesome at lossless and way better than even PNG.

It's because WebP has a special encoding pipeline for lossless pictures (just like PNG) while AVIF is basically just asking a lossy encoder originally designed for video content to stop losing detail. Since it's not designed for that it's terrible for the job, taking lots of time and resources to produce a worse result.
It’s a recently popular thing to use a tv as monitor.

Only if you you define recently popular as "More than yesterday, but still a rounding error."
> It seems DigitalOcean got excited when the whole industry started doing huge layoffs

Didn't they all... "everyone's laying off people, so we have to find some people to lay off too!"
Leaving the bias in your training material taint your model is also a choice, a moral and political choice. You say, "I don't care".
Oligarchs gonna support each other.
Just look it up.

Here is the pure number of facilities in Germany (2021)... Verdi (the relevant union) is collecting this data and distributing it.

17 fulfillment centers (logistics)
47 distribution centers (logistics)
7 sorting centers (logistics)
2 amazon fresh centers(logistics)
2 customer service centers
3 AWS centers
4 development centers

19k of the 28k workers are working in the fulfillment centers.
Sure.
Try dumping SkyShowTime shows/movies then. (refuses to run on GNU/Linux).

The average power user won't be able to run SkyShowTime on Linux. The idea is locking everyone on Windows, OS X or Linux with Secure Boot and verifiable boot chain if you want to watch movies or TV shows.
He was probably high on something when the idea that AGI competes with Nerolink came to him.

You know, the same way he decided trains are evil because they competes with his cars.
i think it's fair to want a middle ground between a 1% having 90% of all assets and absolute communism.
Ah, thank you, this is interesting. So in a way the original IP is kind of poison which forever taints their source code, diminishing what they can do with it.
There are things that are slow that can't be made to be fast. And there are even more that CAN be made fast but only at extreme cost.
Yeah to be honest my experience in an office where uncompensated overtime was common, it was largely driven by management essentially using the "average" amount of work hours as a stick to beat anyone who wanted to work their contracted hours.
Pretty close. A typical fiber latency to a CDN in-city is actually closer to 2ms. It takes 5 round trips to negotiate a TCP SSL connection (I will exclude the cost of generating the crypto), so 10ms later you start getting bursts of content. A typical cablemodem latency is 10ms, so 50ms later you start getting bursts of content. Anything over about 20ms is perceptible (human factors research, see also dan luu´s work on keyboard latency here).

So when you are talking about shaving off 6ms from a 70ms connection, it is nowhere near as dramatic as shaving off 8ms from a 10ms connection.

Now, QUIC is doing wonderful things here - 0rtt resume, and in the cloud the overall bandwidth to a given end-user is cached, but there is a really big difference between 2ms and 70! That´s just content. Geoff Huston gave a really good series of talks this week about AS paths getting a lot closer to 1 - 50 miles - across his data set, in the last 4 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxO73fH0VqM - hopefully this will become a separate hackernews thread.

Most of my focus, however, is not on content, but communications, where we still see 300+ms glass to glass latency for videoconferencing, or worse - and bufferbloat when you are actually using the link for other things - even fiber networks tend towards 100ms worth of buffering, and fiber has a tendency to bufferbloat the wifi.... I have seen a trend in fiber towards 10ms of buffering which is actually too low and too brittle, unless fq´d and aqm´d also.

To go back to your HN example - HN loads fast because it is ONE IPv6 address (for me) and very lightweight so tcp slow start ramps up pretty darn fast, even going all the way to San Diego.

A packet capture of even a big HN discussion is really lovely, btw. More people should do that and admire it, compared to the sordid mess older websites with 100s of objects have.
I am interested in finding a hash function that helps me fill an array in a more compact way, without too many empty spaces. I.E. if I have 10k words to hash I don't want to use a 20k array.
So, the EU is 70 years old. But we should thank them for bringing 100 years of peace. From 1924 to 2024.

I'm starting to understand why the sentiments around EU here on HN is completely different from what I hear from anywhere else.
>Omitting a leap year every 4000 years

Wait, is this right? omitting every 100 and adding every 400 should be enough.

EDIT: the 4000-year rule is just a proposal for now. So 365.2425 is correct.
I could've expanded but for senior engineers or managers in europe it's generally easier to get better vacation packages even before adding in public holidays. I know I value extra 10 days of vacation more than like $50k/year extra on my salary.
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> And I suppose the Chrome folks have the telemetry to know how many people set that damn flag.

How is that relevant? Flags are to allow testing, not to gauge interest from regular users.
Definitely agree. But it's not only about keeping things running though. People want to fix issues by rewriting everything because it's gonna look good on their resumé and it's "easier". You don't have to deal with the old stuff.

It saddens me because improving code (especially one that changes often) is absolutely crucial, but we seem to never bite the bullet and improve the existing code, instead opting to rewrite the entire world in never-ending projects.

After a company gets burned by one of these rewrites, they often become averse to any refactoring and the few legitimate rewrites that need to happen.

We spend all our influence capital on useless projects and then wonder why our industry is so often viewed as unprofessional and amateurish.
Apple's FineWoven cases are so bad Amazon had to add a label
They are all from Unsplash.com :) Source: I'm the author of The Olognion
It is not about Ring but the title was written in a clickbait manner to make it feel as if it were about Ring (which is an Amazon product)
Denpok was exactly my inspiration and a kind of an easter egg, kudos for noticing it!
> costs were not surprising

Costs were mind boggling and surprising. I got in huge trouble when I was in elementary school because I called my best friend who lived 1 mile away. It could cost more to call someone who lived in a different LATA (in my case, the other LATA was one mile away) than it did to call a different time zone. As I recall a call 1 mile away was billed at 23¢ per minute and a call to Portland, Oregon, three time zones away was 12¢ per minute (and this was in 1977 money, which where one dollar was worth six hamburgers). Another: the cost to rent a handset was $3 per month. By 1988 (and $1 was worth four hamburgers), you could buy a touch tone phone for $3 at Target.
This is so cringey. Spotify once was the best music platform but they keep trying different things that take away from the core product. Not to mention no longer paying smaller artists any royalties for streams.
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Just updating a compiler could break workflows for historical versions of the code. It is unavoidable. But it is easier with build flags if you use VCS: these flags could be different for different versions.
I asked ChatGPT 3.5 "Which 20th and 21st century conflicts have involved the deplorable use of child terrorists?"

It gave a non-exhaustive list of ten, cursorily looking correct to me, but not including the Israel-Palestine conflict.

When I asked "What about the Israel-Palestine conflict" it replied that some Palestinian militant groups, naming Hamas and Islamic Jihad, faced allegations, while Israel did not. It did mention Israeli detention of Palestinian children as a way Israel involved children in the conflict.

Asking about the Irish republicans during the Troubles got a vague "maybe, kinda a little bit" response.

It said the Houthis have "credible reports and concerns" about using child terrorists.

The Nazis, it said, did not deploy child terrorists, but it noted the Hitler Youth and their last-ditch use as a militia towards the war's end.
The only issue that I have with Firefox is that some UI libraries don't work very well in the browser.
Been trying to use svelte-typewriter (https://www.npmjs.com/package/svelte-typewriter) but it seems to only work in Chrome for instance.

But it seems to be fixed now with polyfills
https://todo.sr.ht/~henriquehbr/svelte-typewriter/13
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Wow, that new jpegli encoder. Just wow. Look at those results. Haha, JPEG has many years left still.
"Companies are collecting more of Americans’ data than ever before, and it is often legally sold and resold through data brokers. Commercial data brokers and other companies can sell this data to countries of concern,"

The first part is the problem, not the second part. The US needs to enshrine privacy as a basic right - it is unfortunately not listed in your Constitution. Failing that, you need a GDPR. An executive order makes for great publicity, but is pretty much useless in this case.
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Well, lots of things other than JXL use ANS. If someone starts trying to claim ANS, you'll have Apple, Disney, Facebook, and more, on your side :)
On a somewhat related note, it's very surprising how hard it is to get DisplayPort out of a USB-C connection. Although DP is natively there all the cheap adapters tend to be HDMI even though that requires extra hardware to create the complex HDMI signalling out of the DP native output. So although monitors tend to have DP inputs and now everything has DP outputs in the form of USB-C it's actually hard to connect the two.
Thanks, I emailed them:
# Solutions for the growing open source user base
"Hello, I am an AMD user, who uses Linux, and I currently use a small HDMI screen but I am looking to upgrade to a larger screen and I am concerned about the forum's decision to deny AMD's open source HDMI implementation. This decision has led to criticism of the entire HDMI enterprise as rent-seeking, and encourages non-trademarked implementations that weaken the HDMI brand. Linux is only growing in popularity, as people are tired of the advertising baked into Windows, and don't always want a Mac either, I highly suggest a re-think that looks at the rising popularity of open source with Linux, Android, Chrome and so on, to protect the HDMI brand.

Sincerely,
Luke Stanley"
it's in line with conflating the meaning of male genitalia and selfish behavior, i see no problem.
I cited cellVIEW in a parallel comment. ;)

I still think "few" is the wrong word. I usually think of "few" as meaning up to around 6, while Chimera and VMD can easily handle hundreds of proteins at the atomic level.
> It made me really contemplate the state of our society in which putting clothes on people is counterculture.

If it’s done to insult people, and dismiss their bodily autonomy, then yeah, it’s counterculture. There’s nothing wholesome about it. Like “well bless your heart” and “I’ll pray for you”, they’re intended to be insults in sheep’s clothing.
None. Microsoft has Copilot in preview mode in Windows and it's not very integrated apart from a chat window. I doubt GNOME/KDE will be able to dedicate enough resources to adding an assistant that is well integrated with the desktop environment any time soon.

A search in Fedora yields a single GSoC project[0] limited in scope to NetworkManager and it's not clear if anyone actually is working on that.

If the use case you're interested in is actually having the LLM doing things for you in SaaS applications, that wouldn't need deep integration but, considering Google is yet to deliver a Google Drive client for Linux, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a native Linux AI-assisted assistant.

Your best option right now is to interface with the assistants through their web interface and hope they have plugins/extensions to interact with things you want.

Other than that, some people have built prototypes running LLMs locally that talk to things like Home Assistant. But again, no deep desktop integration.

0 - https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/mentored-projects/gsoc/...
Don't, just buy things that still have DVI?

https://www.inet.se/produkt/5414109/asus-geforce-rtx-3050-6g...

In stock in 44 days, I can vouch for this card as I have the same without DVI, but I will pick up this one for 75Hz over DVI.
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Good point on SEK. I just saw "telecoms" and my brain shut down.
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I don't really subscribe to a communist philosophy. Communism was still attached to the idea of mass industrialism and some sort of vague equality for all. I just would be interested in having more equality in the realm of large land ownership for people that live on the land, which would include

(1) Restrictions on foreign investments
(2) Restrictions on large corporations/rich people owning lots of houses and real estate
(3) A minimum, sort of "Universal Basic Land" similar to "Universal Basic Income" where everyone is entitled to at least some land
You can do what you love and have no money. Depends on what you love.

Seems like this guy loves creating money making businesses.

Someone banging out some obscure GNU code, because he loves it, will not be bathing in stacks of $1000 bills.
I miss that page so much. Honestly I kind of forgot about the buyout for a while and didn't notice the sudden lack of well-written articles about cool new CSS stuff – but one day I realized that nothing relevant has been in my RSS feed for a while and it seems like this won't change in the near future :/
Is this a reference or just some solid on the fly sci-fi commentary?
That is a small hurdle. Just come up with a name. HD driver? If that is too close then something else. End of the day call it bollocks and since you are using hardware detection anyway who cares.
The only reason the Euromaidan happened was, because Janukovych ran on a pro EU platform and promised an association agreement with the EU. The day before signing that agreement he got bought off by Putin and proclaimed that Ukraine would instead join a customs union with Russia and Belarus. No population would allow such a shameless betrayal without massive protests.

This was completely on Russia and Janukovych without any possible influence of the CIA.

The Nuland phone call was after Janukovych fled the country even though an agreement had been reached. And yes, Nuland had an opinion on what a solution could/should look like.
The biggest thing that makes me nuts about our speedtest regimes is that we test upload and download separately, rather than at the same time. People have 16+ wifi devices on their networks today. There IS upstream traffic going on at the same time, most of the time, and what happens when one side or the other also saturated or merely in use is widely misunderstood. For example a short packet fifo on the uplink starves the downlink, which you can see from Oleg´s recent starlink rrul tests here: https://olegkutkov.me/2024/02/12/starlink-terminal-revision-...

If more of our tests tested up + down + latency - and ISPs and users deployed bufferbloat fixes like fq_codel, cake, and libreqos.io - the internet would be a lot less jittery and feel a lot more fast, all the time.

https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/speedtests/ has some ranting. More ranting about saner uses for fiber here, also: https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/towards_better_broadband/

So the nutrition label scheme is seriously flawed without testing up+down.
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Real-time encoding is pretty popular, for which encoding speed is pretty important.
Thirdly there was the Salmon protocol, although with the Plussing of Google Buzz it never got traction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_(protocol)
I have proposed "Glitches per minute" where there is a perceptible glitch while videoconferencing + some other load. The poster child for this is Starlink, which glitches 4 times a minute....
I would say it's still worth having -Werror for some "official" CI build even if it is disabled by default.
Otherwise you’d give up having types and linters because god forbid they might prove a program will halt!
There is RFC 5005 - Feed Paging and Arching, but sadly the world of RSS Tools has never been very specification-forward, mostly, because the publishers of RSS feeds are even more desinterested.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5005.html
FastMail, Cloudflare, GitHub co-pilot and OpenAI are some of the other services that comes to mind.
anticipates shift in perception of danger across society, then argues in favor of foam rubber flooring... go ahead, make my day
I like it! I happily note that you mention that the client works fully offline. But is there or have you considered a self-hosted option that can be run completely on-premise and without cloud access?

Being cloud-based makes this an immediate non-starter for many use cases (and I specifically don't mean large enterprises but especially SMB, NGO, and homelab use).
This is the guide on how to make a basic tech SEO fix to maximize the outcome of Googlebot crawls, improve website usability, and boost web page rankings.
> It's worth noting though that there's no dependency on a JavaScript backend - the same thing can be achieved on PHP, Java, Go, etc.

The only Javascript in the article is on the server side to handle the HTTP.
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They are plenty accessible if you use the APIs Apple provides to talk to them, such as the one mentioned in the article: CoreML.
Hm, curious what your work station is, its stats - if custom or off-the-shelf from what brand? Thanks!
Yes, plus a bunch of warnings for unsafe type conversions where the compiler did pointer to int, back to pointer conversions. In the process of cleaning it up I found at least a dozen serious bugs.
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I've developed a neural network model for text correction, prediction, and autocompletion, specifically optimized for one of my iOS keyboard apps. The model is compact, at only 32MB, allowing for swift loading times. It predicts the next word based on the last four to five words, demonstrating robustness against errors, typos, and making minor grammar corrections.

The goal was to mimic the functionality of the stock iOS keyboard. This approach also opens up the possibility of training (or fine-tuning) the model with specialized vocabularies for various professional fields, such as law, medicine, and engineering, to predict, correct, and autocomplete domain-specific terms. I'm exploring whether this addresses a genuine need or is a solution in search of a problem.

Additionally, I'm considering integrating a comprehensive grammar correction feature directly into the keyboard. While there are existing apps with this capability, they rely on online APIs. My aim is to offer a self-contained, local model as an alternative.
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In general, using an empty channel, less wide, has more range, and with less interference

So I would vastly prefer that in contended scenarios - an apartment building for example - that the actual channel width provisioned to be not be much more than what the ISP is providing. (and that the wifi be de-bufferbloated: https://lwn.net/Articles/705884/ )

Instead people keep provisioning 160mhz channels with dozens of other APs also living on those channels, and interference and retries go way up...

Above 50Mbits, most of the bufferbloat problem shifts to the wifi.
far safer than combustion; not zero risk.

And a tastier and more pleasant high, generally. I like the ones with an all-glass or metal air path, generally, though the storz and bickle products are well regarded.
You do what you can, and then insure the remaining risk away.
SPA like React, Vue, Angular, Svelt, solid, should be not needed if HTML implemented these features. Or make JSX a standard again such as E4X.
I was also thought that. At some scale it must stop... so not real infinite? :D
looks like a place for toddlers that can barely walk
On top of everything else I do, I run a pretty good email discussion list for starlink stuff, over here: https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/starlink/