skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Latency is the mind killer, but if available bandwidth is low, you save a ton of overhead by bundling 2-5 of your 20ms samples. Enough that the codec savings start to make sense, even though 100ms packets adds a ton of latency. Fancier systems can adapt codecs and samples per packet based on current conditions. The one I work on is a static codec and 60 ms of audio per packet, which isn't ideal, but allows us to run in low bandwidth much better than 20 ms per packet.

Edit to add: Meta can also afford to add a bit more sampling delay, because they've got very wide distribution of forwarding servers (they can do forwarding in their content appliances embedded in many ISPs), which reduces network delay vs competing services that have limited ability to host forwarding around the globe. Peer to peer doesn't always work and isn't always lower delay than going through a nearby forwarding server.
GP's point is that responding to an aside about how to do something with a snarky "or you could just buy a dedicated machine" will come across as obnoxious. This should be obvious to you or anyone.
The Freakishly Fast World of Robot Sumo (2018) [video]
It would be more polite and useful to ask me to clarify rather than producing a strawman.

I don't prefer driving because it is inexpensive, I prefer it because it has greater utility for me. If the cost of fuel doubled or more I would still do it, I'd just be a bit more efficient with the journeys I do make.

I'm not terrified of the tube/trains/buses, I use them. It's just a bit shit, doesn't go to loads of places I want to go, and is generally less comfortable.

I do think that bigger is better. I don't pay for someone to clean or maintain my house, I do it myself.

I haven't been told that bigger is better, it simply is. For example, just yesterday I made a table. In order to do that I needed enough space to work in and store my tools. I could not do this in a smaller house or apartment.

Theoretically I could hire a workshop or go to a hackspace but that would be substantially more hassle than just walking into my garden or the garage or whatever.

I like human interactions. Just not with endless hordes in a super dense city centre. I prefer chatting with my neighbours, or someone on a hiking trail, or having people over, etc.

It sounds as if you just have different preferences to me. Different hobbies, desires, etc. That's fine, that's why you don't prefer driving. I do.
Peregrine from Oak Ridge National Lab does exactly this. Lots of other research papers about it too.
I'm especially surprised that tmux itself can't be used as a client of a remote control mode session.

It is pretty annoying that the only terminal that I know of that supports tmux control mode only works on mac.
Corrollary: people who build bridges don't think it's fun when bridges collapse, but bridge builders have had millenia of accumulated experience that inform the codes and practices of bridge building.

That's what we lack in software. If you do electrical work that isn't up to code, you as the electrician are liable. That means literally that if you touch a system, and you were the last one to touch it, you're liable. So it better be up to code when you're done.

It should be the same for computerers.
I've noticed that since the beginning of this year, YouTube has gotten very aggressive with ads, including more and more ads and multiple unskippable ads. And then they treat you like an idiot with a little popup that says "What to learn more about how to get rid of ads?", which just takes you to the YouTube Premium product, which is nothing but a premium for Google. Amazon Prime has also started adding unskippable ads.
As that site states, public Nitter instances are no longer viable.
AMD is struggling with unsafe C and C++ code breaking their drivers.
Correct, I'm pointing out politely that's in conflict with the person I'm replying to.
I'm sympathetic to your point. I think Corpos have too much power. However, on this precise subject I really don't see what to do about it. The state can't mandate that they don't censor their models. Indeed, there is no good definition at all of what not-censoring these models actually means. What is and is not allowed content? I tend to be rather libertarian on this subject, but if I were running a corporation I'd want to censor our models purely for business reasons.

Even if you were to make the absurd suggestion that you have a right to the most state of the art language model, that still just puts the censorship in the hands of the state.
The best job is sitting around and doing nothing. So ideally yes.

But sure, ethically speaking when things get heated they will exploit every loophole they can find to avoid liability. So, lawful evil?
Yep. Southwestern states are eventually going to have to decide between their own residents and, e.g., providing year-round lettuce for the rest of the country (Arizona).

The imperial valley - a single farming region in a literal (rather than metaphorical - LA isn't a desert) California desert - uses enough water from the Colorado river to account for 100% of residential water use in California.
Thanks for your help, we appreciated it a ton?
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com

Not to single out twitter because a lot of web sites simply appear as a blank page.

The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

But if you must:

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

At the moment, this worked for me:

https://xcancel.com/soren_iverson/status/1801253187602788424...
If it's actually working fine, then Google search is aiming at a demographic or use case that I'm not a part of.

I can confidently say that because Google search absolutely doesn't work fine for me. Well, to be entirely fair, it didn't work fine for me a couple of years ago and I stopped using it entirely as a result. If it's improved since then, I'd have no way of knowing. My current search solution works great, so I have no incentive to revisit Google.
Show HN: Migrated from Supabase to Pocketbase => 4x+ text search speed in my app
Hi everyone,

TLDR; built an app with large dataset and moving from supabase to Pocketbase improved speed dramatically. I recommend anyone checking Pocketbase for your next project.

I wanted to post a follow up to share some surprising results I got while building https://amznbargains.com in public.

See full context below but in a nutshell the app collects hundreds of thousands of Amazon Warehouse deals and organize them for a better UX.

To my surprise the volume of records quickly became an increasing struggle for Supabase when performing a full-text search on the whole dataset. Even after indexing, the queries ran above 8s when not simply timing out.

Some quick prototyping on Pocketbase gave me optimistic results and after full migration I'm now averaging sub-2,000ms responses on much bigger datasets.

To be fair Pocketbase does not support real fts yet so it's not an apple to apple comparison but with my use case the simpler search it offers is totally fine to start with. Outside of text searches the overall responsiveness of the application has visibly improved with sections and filtering feeling far snappier than before.

When factoring in the absolute ease to self-host Pocketbase I'm clearly switching to it as my go-to base for starting projects.

---------

Context on the application
A web app to see, filter and sort through Amazon Warehouse deals easily. Limited to US market for now but will add coverage as I go.

https://amznbargains.com

Why: Convenience and Affordability. This came from a personal frustration of not being able to browse efficiently across deals while on Amazon's website. They have a bazillion refurbished or like new items available but no good way to search and sort them out without clicking through individual pages. After building a prototype for my friends and family I realized most seemed to be able to find items of interest for much cheaper than they were expecting. That's when I got the idea to open up this project externally to get ideas/feedback to iterate on and hopefully help folks find cheaper alternatives before buying anything.

Tech stack:
Backend:
- Core: Nodejs via PM2 + Bash
- Workers: Proxmox VMs behind rotating VPNs
- Database: Pocketbase (was Supabase)

Frontend:
- Core: Sveltekit
- CSS: Tailwind CSS
- UI Framework: Shadcn-svelte
- Testing: Playwright
- CDN, DNS & Hosting: Cloudflare
- Analytics: Plausible

Notes on Privacy:
- No registration required to get service.
- No personal data ever stored or even less exchanged/resold.
- No ads, commercial collaboration or algo biased by monetary incentives.
- Plausible selected because it allows me to track the few metrics required to run the app while respecting stringent privacy guidelines.
- The only source of revenue will be through the Associate Program as it comes at no cost to users and requires no data to be collected/exchanged.
Fuchsia has already shipped. It's also called Fuchsia internally.
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That being said, you may be being downvoted in part due to your tone: you accuse OP of dishonesty/stupidity ("you and your friends are either lying or really ignorant"), berate people who disagree with you ("Some people look at pearls and turn into swine") and disregard anyone with a differing viewpoint ("nobody with any sense or perspective will support it.")
>Stealing an OAuth key is just as bad

What is an "OAuth key"? Do you mean an OAuth token? No, Golden SAML is worse than stealing an OAuth token, because an OAuth token is valid for 1 user, but Golden SAML can be used to impersonate any user. Also, OAuth tokens expire, but Golden SAML doesn't expire (although if you steal an OAuth refresh token, that won't expire).

>I fail to see how in this particular incident its Microsoft's fault.

Andrew Harris wanted to warn customers about the weakness, and tell them they can prevent the weakness by disabling seamless SSO. Other Microsoft people said no, that would alert hackers to the attack, we want to keep the attack secret, and it also would jeopardize our contracts by making the default setting sound insecure. Then Golden SAML was published publicly, so that first reason was no longer valid, but Microsoft still wouldn't tell customers they could prevent the attack by disabling seamless SSO. Then Solarwinds happened, and Microsoft finally advised customers to disable seamless SSO.
> I seem to remember some controversy with Canonical recording your searches when hitting the super key, and Ubuntu having Amazon ads built in by default.

It was also other way around with Microsoft. If you deploy Ubuntu VM in Azure, they contacted you in LinkedIn to offer commercial support.

Not joking: https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/11/microsoft_azure_ubunt...
The article gives the answer.

It’s not about being lazy with ports. It’s that the asset budgets are so large that making games is way too expensive. For any normal company you basically _have_ to launch on multiple systems if you want a financial payback.

And every time graphics get better the problem gets worse. More models, more textures, more detail, more everything. $$$

Unless you have a monster hit (Zelda, Last of Us) you may be unable to make your money back on one machine. Even if you could, why not just make more money by adding in the other machines?

There’s a reason pretty much only 1st party studios do exclusives.
Even in the Western world, you can appreciate low bandwidth apps even you are a music festival or traveling through relative wilderness.
This is untrue and creates a false dichotomy. The Supreme Court does resolve cases, and the manner in which they do so is by resolving legal questions.
You are correct, and with the current metal AM techniques (DED, SLM), you can also take thermal imaging of the melt pool throughout. From this you can a pretty accurate picture of the weld quality across the whole volume.

I'm not sure that's sufficient to eschew any other non destructive testing, but it is great information.
"Ad blocker?? Sounds great! I'll have to ask Bob how I can get one."
Let's not be obtuse -- if you're familiar with internal info on this, you should/could understand exactly what I'm talking about. If you're just trying to do a drive-by dunk about spelling, and just thought it was cute to add on "internal" while doing so...more power to you, I guess.
If it's on device and the output is hashed I don't see much of a problem with it. I guess the question would be whether you can trust big tech companies / governments not to have some backdoor to the raw data and what your concern would be if they did have that data.

Here in the UK face ID is pretty common place so I must admit my phone having this data is probably the least of my concerns. For example, one guy I know can't buy his own groceries anymore because he stole some food products from one of our major supermarkets, and since all major supermarkets in the UK have linked facial id systems he's now effectively banned from all supermarkets lmao.
The hour's getting late for being able to easily avoid this sort of bullshit. It's time to gather what you can, save it locally, and then shift to physical media. DVDs, books, etc.
By the way, that summary only says "It provides the basis on which.. war reparations may be demanded". If anything I bet it sets out 'restrictions' on when countries can do that.
Okay okay I like that. Let's transport your argument towards an argument about front door locks. And let's cook with that.

Your argument is that you doubt that there's any danger of people breaking into your front door, but even if there was, then locks are an ineffective mechanism because anyone with a $5 pick can pick them.

From this argument you conclude that there should be no front door locks at all, will surely feel comfortable without a lock on your own front door. In fact, since locks are so trivial to crack, people should just leave their houses unlocked.

Yet I'm fairly certain of three things:

1. You have a front door lock and it's probably locked right now.

2. I could, with high likelihood, pick your front door lock in less than a minute

3. Despite this fact you still feel more safe because of the lock

Why is that?

Minding that this is a hypothetical argument, let's point out that to be consistent with your argument you'd have to eliminate you front door lock.

But that's absurd because the truth of the matter is that front door locks provide a significant level of security. Most petty criminals don't actually know how to pick locks well.

I propose that this argument transfers faithfully back and forth between the two situations, because both are technologies that can lead to easy and needless harm if these rudimentary measures are not taken.

If you disagree about the transferability of the argument between the two situations can you tell me why? What makes the two technologies so different? Both block the doorways to avenues for producing harm. Both are sophisticated enough that it requires a nearly professional dedication to unlock. Both provide a measurable and significant increase in security for a community.
Osprey V-22s won't return to full flight operations until mid-2025
pganalyze's blog is a goldmine of Postgres tidbits, a lot of which is recapped in their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@pganalyze6516

I'm not at all affiliated, just a happy consumer of their material.
.xyz, the TLD that screams legitimacy.
Late to respond, but thank you for the in-depth response! Your research into the different options judged by your use-case is greatly appreciated.
Carved from antlers. What tool would you use to make such clean, deep, small, circular features such as the pips and eyes on the figurine?
There's a "debian" folder, I suspect it's trivial to build a Deb and manually install?

Seems to have pretty modest install dependencies?

https://github.com/shell-pool/shpool/blob/master/debian/cont...
Big Tech's A.I. Takeover and the Slow Death of Silicon Valley Innovation
I just move on to something else. Twitter's not worth the time/hassle.
https://archive.ph/2024.06.11-154057/https://www.scientifica...
Smort. Monopolies gonna monopoly.
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If you think this way, you should be covering up the camera lenses on all of your devices. It is happening everywhere already.
I’m looking for an ultrasonic cleaner. Did you settle on a brand or model?
I love Stoke (and I sorta really want to work there). It has like a startup vibe to it, but with some seriously advanced technology. Dogs in the workplace, and also two enormous, expensive, metal 3d printers.

Shout-out to Joshua and co for letting me look around.
I know for certain that defects in the powder layer can be fixed in binder jet by redoing the recoater. There has been talk in the research world about being able to fix errors in L-PBF but I’m not sure they’ve gone past the research stage. The big point is that you can know a part might be out of whatever your acceptance criteria might be.
hah true
Labor Transitions in a Net-Zero Era
Reportedly the US government had no problem paying $599 per PS3 to build ML/AI supercomputers out of them.
Starlink is in a better position as their satellites are in a low earth orbit - 30 times closer than geostationary. It correlates to 1000 times (30dB) stronger signal on both sides.
Remember Cell was “the future”. It was going to go into the PS3, but also TVs and computers and whatever else. If you squint it’s a bit like Apple putting a ton of investment in the A series chips that then went into iPads and Macs (via the M series).

Problem is: no one wanted it. So none of that panned out. If it had gone on to be something like Intel’s Core 2 Duo that showed up everywhere in hindsight it would look smart.
Western leaders have totally lost their minds. The Gaza War proves it. It's like August 1914 all over again.

Britain is a Vassal state of the USA. American Private Equity owns practically everything there. EU seems hell bent on joining them in Vassalage.
I care. I think a lot of people care about using language that isn't offensive or promotes asshole-ism. For example, the other day I heard my 7-year-old nephew say "wife beater", referring to one of those sleeveless undershirts. I've used that phrase for years, thinking nothing of it. But, do I want my 7-year-old nephew casually using the phrase "wife beater"? Nope. And, call me a libtard, but I don't think anyone should casually use the phrase "wife beater", including myself, as doing so just helps normalize beating on women.
> In rockets/aerospace, where the failure of any one of a thousand different parts means instant disintegration

To make matters worse the failure modes don't only affect the launch vehicle itself. A failure of a rocket likely means a total loss of the payload. It also runs the risk of damage/loss of the launch pad, support structures, and hapless down range victims.

Rockets contain a significant amount of stored chemical energy, enough to get the payload mass into a stable orbit of the Earth. If you release all of that energy at once as an explosion it will cause a significant amount of damage. Rockets aren't something to goof around with and make assumptions about safety.
You're on a roll
Wow, that would be an extremely low packet rate indeed!

That would definitely increase the utility of low bitrate codecs by a lot, at the expense of some latency (which is probably ok, if the alternative is not having the call at all).
Yes 380/min = ~6/s which is a very open ptime of >100ms, this can also be dynamic and change don the fly. It ultimately comes down to how big the packet can be before it gets split which is a function of MTU.

If you have 50ms of latency between parties, and you are sending 150ms segments, you'll have a perceived latency of ~200ms which is tolerable for voice conversations.

One other note is that this is ONLY for live voice communication like calling where two parties need to hear and respond within a resonable delay - for downloading of audio messages or audio on videos, including one-way livestreams for example, this ptime is irrelevant and you're not encapsulating with SRTP - that is just for voip-like live audio.

There is a reality in what OP posted which is that there is diminishing returns in actual gains as you get lower in the bitrate, but modern voice implementations in apps like whatsapp are using dynamic ptime and are very smart about adapting the voice stream to account for latency, packet loss and bandwidth.
Why would you need 50 packets per second vs 10? Is 100ms not acceptable but 20ms is?
Meta Won't Fight Online Kid Safety Regs Since It Sees Them as a Competitive Moat
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Dark matter is called "Dark" because it doesn't seem to interact with EM. It describes it fine and isn't wrong because you don't like the the name.
After a century of humiliation, this is a well orchestrated revenge, without a war, congrats China
Your opinion is based on hype, not actually understanding the problems.

The original ARC is “grade-school level, multiple-choice science questions” which is not much different than existing benchmarks.

The new ARC is different because it’s resistant to memorization and, as a result, modern AI algorithms do terribly even though the problems themselves are very simple.

We are clearly missing something and acknowledging that has nothing to do with admitting we’re the “lesser intelligence”. Frankly your comment sounds cultish.
Digital Health Startup Founder Arrested for $100M Adderall Distribution Fraud
He should patent the idea and block anyone else from attempting this.
Canada isn't doing well. Homelessness is out of control. GDP declining badly. Extremely unpopular prime minister is all but kicked out of office.

Our green transition? What exactly do you think is going to happen here?
X has replies? I thought they shut that off.
Yea, I've been looking into what to do. I'm tired of subscription fees for one, although Spotify has remained sane. But I absolutely refuse to pay trillion dollar corporations more money, who already steal my data, just to get rid of ads. If they kept them reasonable, it'd be fine. But nearly all of the UX/UI additions are not to make the experience better but to make you click more videos and ads. There are even times that you can't even see the last few seconds of a video because it pops up clickable things that can't be disabled.
Personal health LLM performs as well as experts
Only slightly OT:

ELI5: Why is a typical phone call today less intelligible than a 8kHz 8-bit μ-law with ADPCM from the '90s did?

[edit]

s/sound worse/less intelligible/
> Not every business owner is out to get you. Not every company suffers under never-ending, always-increasing shareholder pressure.

At any moment no but over time statistically likelihood is high.
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