skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intel is much more open about their future than most companies, by publishing a roadmap with years in advance.

Since Pat Gelsinger has become CEO, Intel has reached successfully all the milestones on their public roadmap, even if there have been a few predictable problems that have increased their losses, like low fabrication yields on their new Intel 4 CMOS process.

Unfortunately, even if their roadmap is ambitious, it is still not ambitious enough to ensure a quick return to profitability and some of the decisions on which it is based are very questionable.

The main problem is that it appears that they have a very big inertia in their design and validation processes, which prevents easy corrections of the projects that are already known to have no longer appropriate goals.

While after AMD finishes the design of a new CPU core, like Zen 5, during the next few months they introduce products using the new cores that update all their product lines, from low-power mobile to high-end servers, after Intel launches the first product using new CPU cores, like they are doing now with Lunar Lake, which includes Skymont and Lion Cove cores that are competitive with Zen 5, Intel may continue for a long time to introduce other new products that still use obsolete CPU or GPU cores, like with Granite Rapids for servers later this year or Arrow Lake H for bigger laptops at the beginning of 2025, and they may succeed to update all their product lines only after one year or even more, e.g. they may launch up-to-date server CPUs (Clearwater Forest and Diamond Rapids) only during the second half of 2025, at a time when they will introduce improved laptop CPU cores in Panther Lake, making again obsolete their 2025/2026 server CPUs, which might end competing against Zen 6, instead of against Zen 5, with which they would have been well matched.
I think the search results are not representative of what actual humans think.

I guess I consider myself an environmentalist, in that it's a relatively high priority to me to avoid causing unnecessary environmental destruction. I regularly take some effort to dispose of hazardous waste appropriately, etc, but I normally don't go around announcing my environmental priorities. It's not that I don't care, it's just that talking about it is usually not much fun, and is unlikely to help anything.

I think my attitude on the matter is pretty common in my area.
Around June of this year.
Well, see, I've never assumed bad faith... um... at least not today... so far...

Thanks for listening when called out. That's not easy.
I created Broadcast Box originally as a reference server to test OBS against. It was way easier for people to test my WebRTC/WHIP PRs against. Seeing people use it I am seeing the benefits/excitement more.

* low latency means you have a relationship with your audience. These intimate broadcasts are a new medium.

* Simulcast means it is way cheaper to run a streaming site. No more running ffmpeg/generating transcodes server side.

* AV1/H265/Opus means users with lower bandwidth can now broadcast. Users with enough bandwidth can stream at quality levels they couldn’t before

* UDP gives us IRL/Roaming streams. No custom setup for re-connects.

* Multi-track lets you send multiple video feeds or languages at once

* E2E Encryption means that P2P distribution could be a thing
Calling criticism of AI "classist and ableist" is not neutral.

Describing that as a "heinous re-configuring of language used to fight actual injustices into a shield" does not strike me as an overreaction to the language it was actually reacting to (rather than the quote you juxtaposed it with).
Chemists explain why dinosaur collagen may have survived for millions of years
Christmas in Venezuela kicks off in October, President Maduro has declared
Coincidentally, I used almost the exact same palette for my own project that overlays a spectrogram on a piano keyboard

https://hackaday.com/2022/04/26/pianolizer-helps-your-musica...
> This is a routine update that includes minor bug fixes.
So wait, I should not use `argv` in C's main() or what?

Is it only speaking against `argv[0]` or `argv` in general?

What is this proposed solution if any?

What about `__progname`? The only issue here is that if `argv[0]` is a path, then `__progname` is only the filename. What if I want the path?
It telegraphs very strongly that it's not meant to be taken seriously. The main character's name is Hiro Protagonist, for example.
Dupe: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434500>
Why is PostmarketOS based on Alpine Linux?
Not a good looking commercial. There are many other ways to cut on production costs and still make a commercial better than this one. Something tells me this wasn’t about cutting costs, but rather a C-level exec finally getting to play with his AI toys in front of a captive audience.
Makes sense. Care to elaborate on Musk's recent erratic behavior?
To be fair, many of them do seem to operate on the "op sees, op does" level.

Just last week, we had some mails escalating, client had "issues" with their on-prem install of our software, which ran on a dedicated VM.

I read the mail thread and turned out the database service "used a lot of memory", and they'd tried rebooting the server several times but it just kept using a lot of memory. So now they had escalated because they couldn't figure out how to "fix" this issue.

Of course, this was not an issue. The database is designed to use all available memory by default, and this was a dedicated VM so it didn't affect other services.

I've seen many such and other instances over the years. While there are certainly awesome ops people out there, which is always a pleasure to interact with, a significant amount are at a much more basic level.
Yes, I have already read that.

I am asking about the title of this Hacker News submission, which appears to say something unsupported by the facts. (Or at least is ambiguously worded.)
Anyone else worried how backward this sounds? I mean this is like totally giving up on the dismal state of website UXes these days and gladly accepting that website navigation and experience should remain utterly confusing for humans but machines (yes, machines) should get preferential treatment! Good UX is now for machines, not for humans!

Shouldn't something like this be first and foremost for humans ... which also benefits machines as an obvious side-effect?
One of the big reasons that I moved to MacOS in ~2004 was that, at that time, for reasonable money you couldn't get a laptop that had any sort of reliably sensible sleep behaviour in Linux, and even Windows was iffy. The iBook had no such issues.

It's somewhat surprising that this is still the case, 20 years later.
I believe that there are already several decoder implementations that pass the ISO conformance test for JPEG XL. I don't remember which one's exactly but I believe at least both jxl-oxide and libjxl do.
Westinghouse accident tolerant fuel in US licensing 'first'
It only seems fair to also include the previous block:

Ultimately, what we realized was that there had to be some visual way to bridge the gap between professional expertise (often confined to academic papers and reports) and public understanding.

Our virtual city of Colombo serves as a crude "Digital Twin," offering a platform to:

1. Visualize and understand current urban design issues

2. Test and communicate potential infrastructure changes

3. Explore the impact of policy decisions on traffic and population distribution

4. Educate students and the public about urban planning concepts

Note how it specifically mentions public understanding and education twice. If you want the public to be able to relate to such a simulation, you want it to look as close as possible to the real thing. Otherwise, it will just remain an abstract simulation in which people will have trouble recognizing their own city.
You've commented this several times, but it's actually quite misleading despite being technically accurate.

Yes, there hasn't technically been a universal ban since a few years ago, but until this year legislation basically allowed NIMBY's to veto any new onshore wind farms with no way for local authorities to force approval through, which is why less than ten new onshore wind projects were approved England in 2021-23 compared to hundreds in Scotland.

So sure, not officially a ban but it was effectively a ban.

And that's what the new government have fixed: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/policy-statement-...
I think Highway is a critical component for libjxl and has to be counted towards the line count. (CMS can be ignored here, and any Rust implementation should ideally use qcms [1] which is already in use in Firefox anyway.)

[1] https://github.com/FirefoxGraphics/qcms
Phoenix R&D | Senior Rust Engineer | Full-time and Freelance | REMOTE (European TZ compatible) | https://phnx.im

Phoenix R&D is a bootstrapped Berlin-based messaging technology company founded in 2022. We, the team behind it, have been active in the area of secure messaging in both industry and academia for over 10 years.

Among other things, we are working on a modern messaging application for a range of target groups. To reach and empower as many developers and users as possible, the technology we develop is open-source, focusing on thorough documentation and user-friendliness. Our explicit goal is to develop a community of contributors and users that helps us build the next generation of private and secure messaging.

We strongly prefer open standards over proprietary solutions and actively contribute to IETF working groups such as MLS, MIMI and Privacy Pass to make the internet a more secure and private place.

Open Positions:
- Senior Rust Engineer full-time: https://join.com/companies/phoenix/12328987-senior-rust-engi...
- Freelance Senior Rust Engineer: https://join.com/companies/phoenix/12328997-freelance-senior...
Open Source doesn’t have an instant scalability offering yet. I hope someone takes it on!

Quite a few companies offer this a service though. Cloudflare, Twitch’s IVS, Dolby Millicast, Phenix RTS…

LiveKit did a write up on how they built theirs https://blog.livekit.io/scaling-webrtc-with-distributed-mesh...
Phoenix R&D | Senior Rust Engineer | Freelance | REMOTE (European TZ compatible) | https://phnx.im

Phoenix R&D is a bootstrapped Berlin-based messaging technology company founded in 2022. We, the team behind it, have been active in the area of secure messaging in both industry and academia for over 10 years.

Among other things, we are working on a modern messaging application for a range of target groups. To reach and empower as many developers and users as possible, the technology we develop is open-source, focusing on thorough documentation and user-friendliness. Our explicit goal is to develop a community of contributors and users that helps us build the next generation of private and secure messaging.

We strongly prefer open standards over proprietary solutions and actively contribute to IETF working groups such as MLS, MIMI and Privacy Pass to make the internet a more secure and private place.

Open Positions:
- Freelance Senior Rust Engineer: https://join.com/companies/phoenix/12328997-freelance-senior...
It would be better if they put pressure on the Senate to act.
Was Your Website Hit by the August Google Core Update 2024? (AI Data Check)
There’s a working group under the Eclipse Foundation that’s actively working to standardize AsciiDoc. I’m eager to see that effort succeed/complete.
great analysis and summary of the JPEG XL benefits!
Most online games use client side prediction, so any input made by the client happens almost instantly on the client and it feels really good, and can be rollbacked if the server disagrees. If you stream your game remote with 40ms it will add 40ms to your input and that just feels bad (not to mention jitter, especially if you're on semi-congested wifi), but its not unplayable or even that noticeable in many games. Would I play some casual Dota like that? Sure. But not high ranked games.
Archive / payall, though it appears to be possibly incomplete: <https://archive.is/rErAr>
Balancing Latency, Interpretability, and Consistency in Hallucination Detection for Conversational AI

If you find any of my observations to be inaccurate, please feel free to let me know…

I appreciate that this study focuses on introducing guardrails & checks for conversational UIs.

When interacting with real users, incorporating a human-in-the-loop approach helps with data annotation and continuous improvement by reviewing conversations.

It also adds an element of discovery, observation and interpretation, providing insights into the effectiveness of hallucination detection.

The architecture presented in this study offers a glimpse into the future, showcasing a more orchestrated approach where multiple models work together.

The study also addresses current challenges like cost, latency, and the need to critically evaluate any additional overhead.

Using small language models is advantageous as it allows for the use of open-source models, which reduces costs, offers hosting flexibility, and provides other benefits.

Additionally, this architecture can be applied asynchronously, where the framework reviews conversations after they occur. These human-supervised reviews can then be used to fine-tune the SLM or perform system updates.
Yeah, probably, just thought it worth mentioning since it was literally made by Google for use within Chromium.
Show HN: Using SQL's Turing completeness to build Tetris
was the internal one something like "developer V"?
Grenfell Report: Key Findings from the Inquiry
I got the SRE book by google, and read the whole thing, cover to cover.

Companies want SRE people but aren't willing to give SRE empowerment and authority.

So companies do what companies to: take a regular team of operations people and slap the SRE term on it, and call it a day.

And it doesn't work, of course.

---

Regarding the empowerment & authority: according to "the book", SREs often play the role of "launch coordination engineers" as in vetting (read: roasting) a service before it goes live and have authority to say "this won't go live, fix this first" and to do so no matter what deadline is going to be missed.

Also SRE team have the extreme prerogative to "give back the pager" as in take a service back to the development team and say: it's not stable enough, YOU will be on-call for it until you fix the shit you wrote.

These are two emblematic examples, but there are many more in the book.

Can you imagine any of the non-google (and non-faang) companies actually doing something like that?
>Mondragon sounds a lot like the kind of late 1800s / early 1900s syndicalism that later evolved into Italian fascism and German National Socialism.

Sure, if you dishonestly use their slogans rather than policy decisions as your barometer. What actually happened is that fascists co-opted the language of the left and deployed it in service of entirely different ends.
Adding my reply that explains why your claim that there hasn't been a ban since 2021 is only technically correct while actually misleading as to the real effects (to this comment that's in a more prominent thread).

Pasting from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41444838 :

Yes, there hasn't technically been a universal ban since a few years ago, but until this year legislation basically allowed NIMBY's to veto any new onshore wind farms with no way for local authorities to force approval through, which is why less than ten new onshore wind projects were approved England in 2021-23 compared to hundreds in Scotland.
So sure, not officially a ban but it was effectively a ban.

And that's what the new government have fixed: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/policy-statement-...
Sherpa-ONNX: Speech recognition, synthesis, ID using NG Kaldi without Internet
So can I use this to record multiple streamers, add commentary and tracker overlays, to stream it back to twitch? I've been wanting to make something like this for a while...
It's called Mobx, I use it all the time to not have to touch React's stupid API.
>> Nobody else offers the same combination of battery life to performance/weight, build quality, keyboard, trackpad, and screen.

Exactly this. And also a decent sound. I would definitely want to have a linux laptop again as OSX s*cks in many ways but Macbooks with M chips are still far superior so I keep monitoring the situation and waiting...

It is not a problem to find a laptop with high specs but then battery su*ks, it's made of creaking plastic, has a plastic clickpad hard to click, bad key travel and response or audio sounds like a 5y old cheap smartphone. This is something I am not willing to spend money on and torture myself at the same time.
I thought my results were a bit strange until I remembered that I leave Night Light on 24/7 on my PC.
I would argue that agentic means writing and running code at will, by the LLM.

Eric Schmidt recently commented that he thought three things would bring profound change: (a) an infinite context window, (b) chain of thought reasoning in agents and (c) the text-to-action capacity for programming.

In that view, agentic is mostly about (b) and (c). Having a way to chain together steps (which is just looping with the right context) and the ability to write and run code allows LLMs to take action on the things it is given to "do".
Well, yes, because separation of powers.

Congress makes the laws.

Government (bureaucrats) enforces the law.

Judges decide if government enforces the law correctly.

The important part is not how bureaucrats or judges get their job but that bureaucrats were de facto creating laws exceeding their authority.

Because the authority to create laws belongs to congress.

It's not a perfect system but it would be even worse without separation of powers.
I think there's also an element of herd mentality. People I know who use Reddit also have reduced the quality of their comments to similarly inane one-liners and throwaway jokes of a dubious standard.

While I have no doubt that there are bots there, there are also a bunch of sheeple following the lead of the bots.
>"The biggest upside is that Alpine is small. The base installation is about 5 MB! Thanks to that, our development/installation tool pmbootstrap is able to abstract everything in chroots and therefore keep the development environment consistent, no matter which Linux distribution your host runs on."

[...]

>"Will Android apps be supported?

We support Android apps through Waydroid! However, it is highly recommended to use native Linux applications, as there are some downsides to Android apps:

Freedom issues — most are proprietary, or only work together with a proprietary network. Some even track you. See F-Droid for FOSS programs that respect your freedom.

Heavy resource usage: You need to run an Android environment inside of postmarketOS. So it uses not only more RAM and storage, but also more CPU and in turn eats more of your battery life compared to native Linux applications.

As such, we recommend at least trying to find a native Linux alternative to your favourite [Android] application, or ask yourself if you really need it."

Nice!

PostmarketOS is definitely in the running as a potential candidate to become my next mobile phone OS...

Related:

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Waydroid

https://f-droid.org/
Lots of options! More and more WebRTC SFUs are adding WHIP support. Check out https://galene.org/ it lets you do OBS in and has things like chat. Might be better if you are streaming to family and want chat. I would try and find a VPS that is best geographically located.

Cloudflare if you want this quick. Even though it is proprietary you have no vendor lock in, just change your WHIP URL in OBS if things aren’t going right.
Why would plants need minerals in the water? Rain doesn't contain any.
> Aren't there things we can do to simplify the software stack, so we're more likely to find candidates with all the required skills in one package?

"Can't we simplify the human bodies, so that we can crank out doctors after a two years bootcamp rather than 10+ years of med school and specialization?"

The answer is no.
vdo.ninja is a fantastic project, can’t recommend it enough.

It made the dream of ‘co-streaming’ available to home users and not just those with hardware/pro setups.
I have signed a two-year non-compete as a part of my contract in the Netherlands. The official government website says basically "yeah so non-competes are binding, but if you go to court, you have a decent chance of voiding it, no promises though, good luck".

Regarding the EU document, there's a very long way between "EU noticed a problem" and "EU fixed a problem".
No X in Brazil? No problem, Brazilians say
It's recognizing that the needs of a human are different from the needs of an LLM.
It's pretty much how every giant tech business happens, except the law-breaking step isn't always "steal IP"
not quite, sampling theorem specifically refers to aliasing, whereas uncertainty is the general reciprocal correspondence.
There's no EU-wide law about this.
Outdated proof of concept version (can only use super slow local LLM using Ollama with llama3.1): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/llm-form-fill...

Will probably update it in the coming weeks with one that can use LLMs through openrouter (Claude and others). I'm testing that now and fills forms in < 5 sec, usually better than existing tools (roboform, Bitwarden, ect).
You see it everywhere you look. Audio is my favorite pet example. We hit the limit of human perceptibility in the 1980s. The marketing continued to push for two more decades. Now we have a situation where the average consumer is less educated and the enthusiasts are least educated of all.

We push technical advance until it hits a cliff in returns. We will never get there. There will be no 10 million mile drivetrain in a car. There will be no multi-generational fridge. There will be no house that withstands a tornado.

Software feels like it should be different because it's "free", but really any advance beyond the cliff is a great gift and not something to take for granted.
Could not import my 10 year + google history hosting it in my raspberypi 5. The number of pending tasks was over 2 million after one day. I guess it was not optimized for large imports, sadly :(
Ironically, just from this comment I get the impression that you are misinformed about environmental issues.

Good job taking down that "waste is bad" straw person.

But what about the EU or the EPAs (or a range of other relevant institutions) waste management hierarchy?

It would appear you've just placed almost the entire waste management industry, its regulators, and related academia in the "don't know what they are talking about" pile, which seems somewhat bold.
Want to learn how to serve requests in microseconds?
can we stop saying/writing "formerly known as twitter" - please?! Also, Starlink is overcoming this without an issue.
If you have an iPad already you can get screen covers that give your screen a paper feel. Elecom sells them
The oversimplification in your description is unnecessary. The antennas and forces are instead sensory in nature. We constantly receive much more information through our sensory pathways than we're usually consciously aware of. I'm autistic and I have little to no filtering. That helps me "see" things most don't but I'm also overwhelmed for example just being in a backseat of a car while people in front are talking. My brain constantly tries to compute what happens in the car engine because I'm interested in physics, whether it is or isn't relevant to life at the time.
V2G is actually a much easier scenario for a battery than driving down the high way, so not impossible at all!
Why do I have to disable uBlock Origin to make this work?
Rosa parks was arrested more than 60 years ago. I'm talking about today, not 60 years ago.
Out of curiosity, how does one prove near optimality in problems like this?

E.g., do you assume that the optimal value is the one produced by the non-integer LP?