skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, to be clear, you’re saying that conservatism is synonymous with directly attacking “other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.”? I couldn’t agree with such a broad claim about millions of people.
Hurricane Debby losses to largely fall within reinsurance retentions: Moody's
I am taking a look at the Nvidia shield, which also uses the cast button. I have 3 Chromecasts that need to be replaced, but the cheapest Shield is $150!!

I guess each time Google kills something and I remove one more part of my life from their ecosystem they are doing me the real favor.
RIP Trevor, I met him once at a show him and his buddies from wkuk did at a bar and he was super cool
No idea what you're talking about. The system is still there. Instead of a DJ speaking the artist and song name to you, you can look at your phone screen and read it. Spotify weekly playlists are fantastic for discovering music. You can check forums or use the Google. You can talk to people. If you still want to be spoonfed what you're supposed to like, you are always free to turn on the radio for some brainless consumption, just like the good ol days.
>because GNC stopped making the micro nutrient powder that was essential too it.

Your anecdote is interesting, but it seems biased towards, "everything was better and healthier, but I didn't get the joy of food".

I'm skeptical that you were getting optimal nutrition from some powder produced in a factory in Mexico. If everything about this was "better", I assume your original diet was terrible.
This is a widely supported standard by the WiFi Alliance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracast
How does Japan deal with the convenience tax, that is, stores within a train station charging more for the same product than stores half a mile away? I remember passing through Portland Airport a few years ago and seeing signs saying the stores in the airport were legally prohibited from charging more than the retail prices found elsewhere in the city.

Every time I go through a retail development in conjunction with transit of any sort, prices are higher, and I make a conscious decision not to spend any money there but instead go to more wallet-friendly places near where I live.
LLM-Centric Software Paradigms
It still seems to be called that: https://store.google.com/us/product/chromecast_google_tv

So that's not going away? I really can't tell from TFA. The entire thing seems like a hot mess – the link I was hoping would explain why I'd want AI in my Chromecast successor is dead/404 as well in the "Google TV streamer" announcement (https://blog.google/products/google-nest/google-tv-streamer/).
The 30 dollar price point was the big deal. A 100 dollar price point opens up competition to a lot more devices.
As a consumer, this is completely unexciting.
Have you paid much attention to the local model world?

They all tout OpenAI compatible APIs because OAI was the first mover. No real threat for incompatibility with OAI.

Plus these LLMs don’t have any kind of interface moat. It’s text in and text out.
The central bank raised interest rates.
I think it’s 125 hours of OT in 3 months. Also, paid vacation isn’t as liberal in India as it might be elsewhere.
We looked into this when moving house a few years ago in the UK. There didn't seem to be any viable options, so we bought a secondhand TV. I've heard that there are ways to get hold of shop display monitors but didn't figure out how to do this.
Carvings at Göbeklitepe could be World’s Oldest Calendar
> But the thing is Roku has far less data on me than Google

Do they? They have your IP address, most likely email, user IDs for various streaming platforms, your location... All of that for sale to anyone that will pay Roku for it.
Just thinking about the day-to-day elevated stress that this would generate makes me glad I will never live in a place like that. It is weird to read people trying to downplay it as if it is nothing.
The awkwardly-named "WiiM Pro" is a device that claims to support Chromecast Audio (and a bunch of other stuff like Airplay and Spotify Connect). It's been getting good reviews but I haven't pulled the trigger yet.
I wonder if we could train an LLM to port CUDA to Metal, OpenCL, etc?

Seems like the lock in here actually isn’t that powerful. Fundamentally it’s math implemented in a C-like language.
If you like this subject, I wrote a quicksort in lambda calculus in Python: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38848905
> I think WG21 has been violently against adding additional UB to the language, because of some hacker news articles a decade ago about people being alarmed at null pointer checks being elided or things happening that didn’t match their expectation in signed int overflow or whatever.

Huh, didn't expect the no-UB sentiment to have extended that far back!

> Regarding “not pan out”: I think the overhead of noexcept for the single function call case is fine, and inlining is and has always been the issue.

Do you know if the other major compilers also face similar issues?
We had this coming. Over the years, the various chromecasts in our house are slowly getting worse. I had the sense they are cutting costs on the software and servers powering these devices.

Spend way too much on the chromecasts and home devices. I guess they will continue to work for a few years, hopefully.

After this, no more google devices for me.
And they came with optical out. I have a couple as well and am hoping to get many more years out of them.
I think the interesting thing about this post is the sense of entitlement.

Why does a businesses operating in a way you dislike entitle you to yell at them and break their rules?

Maybe the cause is conflating not getting your way with active harm. Refusing to serve you would be neutral, stealing from you would be harm.
I'm a little confused by your comment, because I also admire the Kibutz method, however it's widely regarded as communistic (some interchangeably call it "socialist") so I'm not clear at the implied contrast to the other communism system where you need to bribe officials for a good funeral. Can you help me understand better what you mean?
I agree with your second paragraph for a lot of reasons and product lines of theirs. But -- I decided a while ago to bite the bullet and go whole hog on using Google everything for my personal life (for better or worse).

The decision was either to avoid them entirely or resign and buy into the ecosystem. I have a Pixel, my home uses Nest, I use their cloud storage personally, their AI, etc.

FWIW it is a better experience than using only a few of their products in isolation. At what cost, we will find out. But I imagine Google Streamer will be useful for people like me, the user group Google is presumably trying to expand.
Maybe a problem could be on the allocation side rather than the resource side.
This is gonna be me if or when my quite functional dumb LG from 2012 ever gives up the ghost. I just don't see the appeal of smart TVs when that functionality can be outsourced to a cheaper modular device.
For reference, an Apple TV 4K costs $129.
Or just people that work hard for what they want. Besides, you don't have to own one to use one. Lot's of folks can fly a plane without owning a plane.
But many, many more than have heard of Google TV Streamer.
They've basically lost the market to Zoom due to their failure to have a single stable offering when COVID hit.

I hope they're happy with the zoo they have.
Too bad they're not killing the Chromecast protocol as well, then maybe the world would start moving toward a simple, open protocol for casting.
Definitely, and the same probably goes for Pixel, Nest etc.

But those that have at least subjectively/anecdotally seem pretty happy with it – so why kill it and start from scratch?
More like 6-8% of non-mobile. And the only one left to support good adblockers.
Example of Personal AI Assistance?
(Not affiliated with this app). Found this recently and after watching their introduction video it seems like a very usable AI assistant to increase your productivity.
What is the general opinion here? Good option, better options that we should know of?
> It may seem unrealistic

Yes, it is unrealistic for the North American continent as our population is spread out today.

> Wouldn't we all benefit from distributing people more widely

No, this is antithetical to the protection of the environment. Concentration of population is far healthier for not only individuals (reduction or elimination of polluting personal transport; potentially walk-able locations), but for the environment, as well. Spreading people out creates a far larger impact and necessitates, as you can see in North America, the use of individual transportation and all of the support services that transportation requires, as well as the human requires (more city govt, more FD, more police, more sewage treatment, more... everything).

The op is on the path to produce a vehicle that dumps far greater amounts of pollution into the atmosphere than modern cars do. Whatever environmental "vision" the op has is pure greenwashing. Plainly, it's an outright lie.
AI startup raises $25M, inks deals with major media companies
Utah math professor's model to explain cancer development
And by none other than AMD themselves.
True, but at that point, what does the "Chrome" part of Chromecast mean? It made much more sense when the device was tied to a browser, and then (kinda) apps on a phone. Once they added a remote, I think the writing was on the wall for the name "Chromecast".

Google TV is a better "brand", IMO.
Chromecast symbolizes the older Google I loved. The one that did a damn good job competing with Apple. Exciting projects like Google Glass that while weren’t successful were still optimistic. Not today’s Google, the parking garage cloud company. Readers digest ad agency Google. I will admit that without those ads we wouldn’t have the cool stuff, I just don’t see that stuff much these days. I see 90s Microsoft monopoly dressed in Apples aesthetic.

Real shame, I prefer controlling with my phone more than the shitty smart tv interfaces. Don’t even get me started with controlling said interfaces with my phone, it’s not as simple.

I use a tv from 2010 , Chromecast is the retrofit that lets me do modern streaming. Of course we’re far past the transitional stage the device served as every $100 tv is equipped with streaming.
FslSimpleUI: Advice for people implementing a custom UI system
> Google search is the best business model ever.

IMHO I'm not sure even Google ever thought that.

AdSense is pretty much the only thing that makes Google money, and I'd eat my hat if that vast majority of that revenue did not come from third-party publishers.
It can be common for founders to go through an emotional roller coaster, especially before it has enough revenue to sustain itself. Once it can do that and you have many people (employees and customers) that depend on its continual success; you need to have a plan in case a key player quits or dies.

If you really feel that you can't talk to people in the company about your emotional state; then maybe approach it from another angle. Say "We need a plan in case I get hit by a bus tomorrow", and listen to their input. Part of your problem is you are worried that everything will fall apart without you.
Most "smart" TVs work perfectly fine as a dumb panel if you just don't give them internet access. And because they're sold expecting to get a bit of money back on ads, it's generally cheaper than a truly dumb panel of the same quality. I've got a Samsung QN90B and it has never once complained about not having internet access, and the UI is plenty responsive.
Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 (PDF)
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Cultural-dominance payments to the old US of A.
What about going to Bluey Burger instead? I know I would!
Many sources for this, including:

https://www.thestreet.com/technology/elon-musk-has-a-huge-tw... and

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/30/technology/elon-musk-twit...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-03/twitter-s...

If you don't like my choice of sources, any popular search engine will help you surface additional sources.
Lovely website and what looks like a lovely app. Will download and give it a try!
Then the AI marketing term is going to be cursed like 3D TV is, yet the tech itself more useful.
When hangouts was a singular app for all chat/sms (and google voice even), etc was peak power user to me... loved it. Downhill since.

The sale of Domains was also massive imo. No reason for half of this and their internal incentivization needs dramatic revision.
Grab Version 3 source code from the releases section while you still can!

https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA/releases
The lock-in is mostly in libraries and tooling. It's not really your CUDA code that is the issue.
The issue is that it's a numbers game right now, and it's tilted poorly in their favor. Yes, butterflies have to deal with natural predators, but their low numbers amplify their susceptibility to predators. If we can restore their numbers, then the percentage eaten isn't such a big deal anymore.
Miracast is not content-aware, it's just a standard to stream a video over Wi-Fi, competing with Intel Wireless Display (and other proprietary Wireless Display implementations)

The beauty of the Google Cast protocol is that you can hand over meta-data as well as the actual source-URL to the receiver and it can initiate the stream directly.

> the fact that google dropped it from stock android kind of says it all - they clearly think that chromecast isn't good enough to compete without being coddled.

Google had a basic implementation in AOSP to kickstart things, but when being deployed to the market it turned out to be too cumbersome and complicated:

1. Each vendor had to certify his device for Miracast implementation with the Wi-Fi Alliance.

2. The Miracast receiver (sink) was buggy in many TV-sets and often didn't even work well with devices from the same vendor (i.e. Samsung Galaxy with Samsung TV)

3. Mobile Chipset vendors (Qualcomm, Mediatek) started to provide their own Miracast implementations to make more efficient use of their HW-architecture

4. Power-consumption of Miracast was too high (the device has to encode it's display content into a H.264 stream)

In the end Google saw the potential to deliver a good experience with a cheap dongle and took matters in their own hands. Miracast on AOSP was not maintained further because it was anyway not used by any major device-vendor (Samsung, LG, Sony, Motorola)
> But I imagine Google Streamer will be useful for people like me, the user group Google is presumably trying to expand.

Until, in a few years, there is another such blogpost, and it goes to the Google office in the sky.

Really, Google seems like possibly the worst ecosystem to go all in on, in that bits of it keep unexpectedly vanishing.
>but I don't agree that it's something very important about being a human being

You don't understand that the preparation of food is important to being a human being? Both physiologically and socially? Across every culture on the planet?

>Someone trying to impose that on me is as unconvincing as a religious person trying to convert me. Give me practical arguments.

Nobody is imposing anything on you. Nobody cares to convince you. Go ahead and eat your meals alone.
I usually bump the major version number anytime I introduce important new functionality, major performance improvements, or a major new design change. While the API hasn't changed in years, the underlying implementation and file layout can change a lot between major versions. I want to communicate that.

Also rqlite doesn't support seamless downgrades between major versions, only seamless upgrades. I want to communicate that too (I've put a lot of work into the backup-and-restore system[1] so users can protect themselves if they are concerned about the seamless upgrade failing on them).

So by bumping the major version it helps people understand that they are upgrading to a substantially different version of rqlite, even if their client code doesn't have to change at all.

[1] https://rqlite.io/docs/guides/backup/
RE: unexpected performance degradation

programs can be quite sensitive to how code is laid out because of cache line alignment, cache conflicts etc.

So random changes can have a surprising impact.

There was a paper a couple of years ago explaining this and how to measure compiler optimizations more reliably. Sadly, I do not recall the title/author.
Essentially you wrap via CLI what you can code in ~/.ssh/config, I'm not so sure how this could be comfy.
Here's my answer to this from another comment

> It's not about what God can or cannot do, it's about treating the body with the honor due as a member of the Body of Christ. Someone who is burned to death does not die at a disadvantage at the last judgement.
Personally, I'm just used to the bindings and I strongly prefer the editing experience, and think about navigating text via Vim bindings as a matter of habit.

The biggest "productivity" changes for me in any IDE/Editor is the ability to fuzzy find for an arbitrary symbol, a keybinding to search for and subsequently open a file, LSP features like "goto definition", "find all references" (and jump back to where I was quickly) etc.
I find it funny that Google managed to sell you not one but two products in the same box that they unceremoniously discontinued. At least it looks like your Chromecast will continue to work for a while.
Yeah, don’t buy Google tech. If it ain’t search, stay away from it.
Disappoining. Nvidia wouldn't have surprised me at all, but amd seems to be turning more and more into this. Inevitable if you're successful enough?
It's such a shame that so many bright minds waste their talents in what now is essentially an ad business.
I viewed the old style on the Wayback machine and actually preferred the grey text.

You’ll find people complaining about low contrast. They can just use reader mode in my opinion.

Stick with whatever design you prefer.
What does a protocol for casting need that UPnP/DLNA doesn't provide?
The city of San Jose is spread over a huge area (a good fraction of Santa Clara Valley aka Silicon Valley). The downtown area of San Jose which you might think of as a city is rather small.
The new (Google TV Streamer) device seems to support Matter as a protocol, so maybe there is more hope here...
That's what USA has now. It sucks.
Now I'm even more confused. I thought that yen was the one with high interest rate, of the two. If yen is the one with the low ir, why does it matter that the boj cut ir?
Does anyone know what chipset that gogole tv streamer is using? A GrapheneOS streamig device would be so cool!
So if LLMs weren't surprising to you, it would imply you expected this. If you did, how much money did you make on financial speculation? It seems like being this far ahead should have made you millions even without a lot of starting capital (look at NVDA alone)
> I'm not sure what your visibility is inside teams, but seeing one of these "BSL" or "fair source" licenses usually terminates the product evaluation with a laugh.

Eric Raymond had a similar take. I wrote this response for him:

https://openpath.chadwhitacre.com/2024/widespread-use-of-a-f...

tl;dr Sentry, in addition to 100,000+ SaaS customers, has 10,000+ unmonetized self-hosted users from hobbyists up to FAANG companies. This is strong evidence against your claim that Fair Source licensing "usually terminates the product evaluation with a laugh."
Why spend my time teasing and coaxing information out of a system which absolutely does make up nonsense when I can just read the manual?

I spent 2023 developing LLM powered chatbots with people who, purportedly, were very good at prompting, but never saw any better output than what I got for the tasks I’m interested in.

I think the “you need to get good at prompting” idea is very shallow. There’s really not much to learn about prompting. It’s all hacks and anecdotes which could change drastically from model to model.

None of which, from what I’ve seen, makes up for the limitations of LLM no matter how many times I try adding “your job depends on Formatting this correctly “ or reordering my prompt so that more relevant information is later, etc

Prompt engineering has improved RAG pipelines I’ve worked on though, just not anything in the realm of comprehension or planning of any amount of real complexity.
>No need to remember server IPs

On your local machine under ~/.ssh/config you can add something like

#PERSONAL

Host vpn-us

HostName 1.2.3.4

User my_fun_username

Port 1212

now you can ssh using

ssh vpn-us

(above is the same as the following command --> ssh my_fun_username@1.2.3.4 -p1212)
1/3th hacked ISP, 1/3th applications downloading updates without signature validation, and 1/3th users downloading shady apps. I'd call this one a shared responsibility of foolishness.
I have no idea why they think that "full summaries, reviews and season-by-season breakdowns of content" is even a feature worth mentioning. The going value of that on the current market is $0. Heck, at times it's negative, you have to go out of your way to avoid the info if you don't want it. And there is no way whatsoever that this is happening locally. A $100 device is not spontaneously ingesting video, running speech-to-text on it or advanced video analysis, and processing it all down to a summary for you.

If this is what we can expect from "Gemini" technology, it's damning it with faint praise. Who even cares. Nobody has the problem of really wanting a summary of a season of TV, but they just can't get it because darn it all they lack access to super advanced AI. Nobody had that problem 10 years ago and they still don't. If I were them I'd scrub that off the marketing, it's a negative if it's anything.
> We had this coming. Over the years, the various chromecasts in our house are slowly getting worse. I had the sense they are cutting costs on the software and servers powering these devices.

I can't imagine they will get better. It seems smart devices always crap out after a few years. I am regretting buying my Samsung TV last Fall because it's already slowing down. It takes 5 seconds to load the options menu.
> You're actually more likely, per capita, to die to gun violence in rural America.

Isn’t the vast majority of gun violence suicide? Because if that’s the case than your statement is disingenuous, you’re not less safe in rural America if you’re worried about being shot on the way to the office.
Windows SmartScreen and Smart App Control both have weaknesses to be wary of
It depends on the project, and we do contribute upstream to other things all the time.

My comment wasn't so much about the overhead of collaboration, but of the chance of there being significant differences in opinion, leading to a place where we'd basically have to fork anyway. Remember, in this specific context, we're talking about an operating system and hypervisor that are core to our product, and we're building our own hardware.

You can't get one single answer for these questions for the entirety of the open source community. Even cross-language norms can be different. These things are inherently tradeoffs.
What's the non ai solution?
CrowdStrike doesn't claim that it doesn't owe Delta any money.
That's reasonable. Although Chromecast also has a brand identity of dongle you plug into a TV for streaming. If you're something a lot different/more ambitious then rebranding isn't a bad idea.

I'm actually a big proponent of moving TV smarts out of the display just as I am in cars.
Please don't post the exact same comment multiple times in the same thread.