skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing how many are in denial about this. If it were so self evident that cheaper apartments were worthwhile to developers in LA, then we'd be seeing more new ones being built as opposed to the luxury megacomplexes that have been popping up everywhere.
> I wonder why ffmpeg doesn't just auto detect this?

Hardware encoding is often less configurable and involves greater trade-offs than using sophisticated software codecs, and don't produce exactly equivalent results even with equivalent parameters. On top of that, systems often have multiple hardware APIs to choose from that often different features.

FFMpeg is a complex command-line tool intended for users who are willing to learn its intricacies, so I'm not sure it makes sense for it to set defaults based on assumptions.
"And don't ask how someone on medium income can put 50% down on a $800k home)."

I believe there are a lot of families that pass down wealth, most of it being used to buy houses.
Competition here is great
Not up in the hills or on oceanside lots on the Pacific Ocean next to the PCH. I’m no builder, but my sense is, even if the zoning were relaxed, you are at best building like a quadplex. Four apartments are not going to equal an $80M home.

Maybe in the flats of the palisades.
As of this year, the US employment-based green card backlog for citizens of India is such that they're currently still processing applications filed in 2019 for the top EB-1 category (that's "Extraordinary People, Outstanding Researchers and Professors, and Multinational Executives and Managers"), and 2012 for mere PhDs. So the numbers would have to go down a lot for US to even notice.

Speaking as an immigrant myself, so long as there's still noticeable wealth disparity, people will make the jump. The other aspect that makes US specifically especially attractive compared to some others is its family immigration policy - people generally want their family to join them eventually, and US has an unusually large allotment for that compared to many other countries.
Does anyone else find their results don't match their claims? In many cases the base model or a simple LoRa beats their proposed method. The few times theirs wins, the difference is very small. I feel like some of these "wins" are more sampling error than any significant improvement.

I'm always happy to see publishing of negative results, but it seems like they are selling what are negative results as positive results.
Try looking at the artifacts, not the actual bands. There's a little black hairline on the top right corner of the leftmost band, and a similar line toward the left of the middle band.
I just made a video on how EV rapid charging works
It's a high level overview, a starting point for googling the keywords really, there will be future videos illuminating separate aspects in more detail.

I spent 5 years building my own electric cars and am now sharing everything I know in videos like this and am making a little app as well, like Duolingo or brilliant but for learning energy tech.

I hope this helps someone and is enjoyable to watch.
Theres a constant churn of a bunch of dependencies. Devs add minuscule libraries all the time. And I think some of the best React libraries have been abandoned, which is kinda sad, but nice from a maintenance perspective.

React very much feels like programming using only side-effects and that’s not really a fun experience IMHO. Performance issues are also somewhat difficult to spot in review and not very elegant to solve.

It’s been a few years since I’ve used React Native so maybe things are better now?
Disaggregating Observability with Apache Kafka, StarTree Cloud, and Grafana
P4 is used by Cisco Silicon One, Xsight, AMD Pensando, Intel Mount Evans, etc. "Contact us" isn't the same thing as vaporware; the Pensando SSDK and Intel ES2K SDE definitely exist for example. I realize it sucks when things aren't available to hobbyists but it's a mistake to pretend it's fake.

P4 is really only needed in data center networks because slower campus/home networks can usually get away with software processing and their lower prices probably can't support the R&D of a programmable architecture.
> My experience in K-12

"I can definitely understand how someone might end up with that belief system. It was probably formed while they themselves were a kid and thus lacks the nuance and maturity that comes with time."
This. It's not like all of downtown LA was leveled and we get to re-imagine it through rose-colored glasses.
> ChromeOS is no more what people consider “Linux” than iOS, MacOS etc is considered BSD.

ChromiumOS is a Linux distribution and ChromeOS is basically ChromiumOS with Google Play etc. Whereas macOS isn't just FreeBSD with the App Store and Safari and in particular it's only licensed to run on Apple's hardware.

> Linux is at less than 5% and was at around 1% in 2012.

It was around 1% forever, until recently it wasn't.

> ChromeOS is at less than 2% and most of that is in schools. Macs had much more than 2% in 2010.

Macs had 6% in 2010, which is the same as Linux has now. And the Macs were disproportionately in schools too. Now the Mac market share is above 20%, because eventually the people using it in schools start using it somewhere else, so if people are using non-Windows systems in schools now...

> What company is going to pay for Linux Crapware?

The same ones paying for Windows Crapware, presumably.
Could you genericise the requirement in postgresql and provide a storage interface we could plug into? I think I have a use for this in Polykey (https://GitHub.com/MatrixAI/Polykey) but we use rocksdb (transactional key value embedded db).
I think there's also a certain amount of "jank" to the Steam Deck.

Don't get me wrong it is a super cool console and pushes a lot of boundaries, but you don't really 100% know whether a title is going to run the way you want it to on the steam deck.

The switch is a more curated experience, you can pretty much expect every game to run properly, going to put caveat for very heavy graphic cross platform title like the new Harry Potter game, etc.
Ironically there was a whole post about basically exactly this the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42655870
There is a lot of interesting work in this space by the IndieWeb community. They've got a vision of (and lots of a spec for) a social reader[1] that uses RSS for lots of the things people got in the habit of with Web2 social media (comment, repost, etc)

[1] https://indieweb.org/social_reader
Gasoline as a fuel is an absurdly stupid idea, dangerous to handle, toxic, and has a tendency to burst into flame!
This is protein on a western blot but the general idea is the same.
what kind of kiss is that? certainly not a french kiss.
I still don't see how building more homes would fix the housing crisis. Aren't there like millions of uninhabited homes? Isn't the problem that landlords are free to extract as much money as they want to provide a necessity without adding any value to it? Wouldn't any solution necessarily involve a massive direct or indirect devaluation of properties?
I'm a huge fan of rss, bemoan Google's evil actions, etc.

I'll add my recommendation after looking for an rss reader for the longest time - Feeder. Free, open source and excellent.
First Wii was able to play Game Cube Games. WiiU was backwards compatible to Wii. All theses consoles used nearly the same chipset anyways.
Any article that doesn’t put ‘fact checkers’ in quotes at this point is implicitly biased.
"You need to buy the game" hardly makes it a gray area.
If California does not do controlled burns to the underbrush like what nature or the American Indians were doing when the Conquistador arrived, then there will be more and more wildfires. This is regardless of climate change or what politicians are in power.
So sick of Hanlon's Razor. It's just a gift to the actually-malicious. If the outcome is the same then intentions don't matter.
Why's that counterintuitive? It makes intuitive sense to me that an approach optimized for throughput would make trade-offs that are less optimized for quality.
In different documents?
Those apartments would all cost more than 3k a month. Putting up high rises in LA is expensive. (Earthquakes, fires, etc). So there is zero motivation for developers to not get the maximum amount of rent possible for a given square footage.

No one has explained why a given developer should rent for less than 3K when they could easily rent the same space fo 4K? Is the government providing an incentive covering the shortfall?
That's interesting, it hasn't occurred to me to check his games. That said, I remember reading that Machiaveli was once given a territory to govern and he was terrible at it, despite The Prince. It may be a thing about teachers vs doers.

THAT said, there is a lot of intersting things one can learn from John Carmack, so there's an exception to every rule.
Suggestion for @dang, a montlhy "who wants to hang out?" thread.

Although, I can see how it could enshittify quickly with recruiters and whatnot.
Well I own more than six, only six still work. :) The rest have drifted.
That really sounds like something someone made up in marketing.

The Wii came about because an independent company pitched motion control technology to Nintendo and they liked it and licensed it. Not because of the 3d chess game of going from "evolutions" to "revolutions".

The Switch came about because it's less expensive to make software for a single hardware unit than a separate handheld and console and this became an issue as games got more expensive to make.
> Now with all the AI hype we suddenly don't hear so much about that.

It is because AI will help us reduce CO2 output. /s
Because of the popularity of the ‘I’m no Elon fan’ preamble on HN.
In practice, yes. In principle, it is a matter for debate.
wow thanks for reading it! yeah i think i should just write the new book for ai engineering i guess but Chip Huyen already took the oreilly slot lol
Whereas actually Spotify funds artificial bands because they're more profitable

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machin...
> Iterating instead of throwing out everything with each new version. There is a part of me that is going to miss the, do weird shit and see what works, Nintendo that brought us some really fun ideas. But a stable Nintendo just being able to continue putting out great games has its advantages.

Yeah, I've always felt that Nintendo being willing to try out cool stuff is something that will be very sad to lose. The Wii, DS, and the Switch have all been very cool consoles. I personally only buy Nintendo consoles, as I feel like everything else eventually gets ported to PC anyways.
Was just saying the same thing on another comment!

Feels like the Steam Deck is like a Hot Rod / Muscle car and the Switch is a Toyota Corolla.

Might not be as cool or have as much HP and you aren't going to tinker without it but you can always turn it on and get to your destination.
What are you talking about? They'll launch of their own volition!

"Chinese rocket static-fire test results in unintended launch and huge explosion" (30 June 2024)

<https://spacenews.com/chinese-rocket-static-fire-test-result...>

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=IlQkeKa4IKg> (Shakeycam video)
Close - this is a SDS-PAGE gel, and you run it using proteins. The bands in the first two rows are from a western blot (gel is transferred to a membrane), where you use antibodies against those specific proteins to detect them. The Pon S row is Ponceau S, a dye that non-specifically detects all proteins - so it's used as a loading control, to make sure that the same amount of total protein is loaded in each lane of the gel.
Relative to population, that’s probably the lowest it’s ever been. Obviously the correct number is zero, but it’s an unfortunate fact of life that bad stuff tends to scale with population just like good stuff.
Not just same bands, but same noise and artifacts too. They copypasted the data?
> do you not believe human level intelligence is possible?

In humans ? /s
The explicit fees are near zero, but if you watch your trade you always get an adverse price.
I love HN - thanks!
I absolutely love that beautiful film footage, particularly well-exhibited in one of my favorite documentaries, the spectacular "When We Left Earth" (a lovely and lengthy series). That said...

Modern rockets have the ability to stream a great deal more data, including live camera streams, than the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo or Space Shuttle could. This increased real-time data bandwidth is probably much more valuable than high-dynamic-range cameras were.
Ask HN: How much does AI threaten your job security in this decade?
I've been reading about this a lot lately and am in the process of applying to YC. I am a creative and technical founder with experience in sales too. I am best with design and sales but have enough engineering acumen to have ticked off Google's algorithm and recieved the 'foobar challenge' when I was 26.

I don't see myself ever becoming a senior level engineer anywhere but I do feel confident that I could manage a startup working closely with a few of them. They would benefit greatly financially by me doing what I am best at. As the saying goes 'A-level players like to play with A-level players'.

AI is fascinating for sure but there are some major red flags as well. The main one being Suchin Balaji mysteriously dying right after becoming a whistleblower. I am looking at this question from all angles and leaving no stone unturned.

This is an ethical question as much as a technical one.
Bunkers in Albania
I'm angry because apes are the most obnoxious people on the internet and you never shutup about your stupid conspiracy theories.

So you're just pointing out that markets are poorly regulated and it's a total coincidence you're repeating all the talking points that apes never shutup about?
> He said a new feature added to YouTube last year that enables some users to add contextual notes to videos "has significant potential." (That program is similar to X's Community Notes feature, as well as new program announced by Meta last week.)

It's hard to imagine this isn't what ultimately happens. It seems to be a tall order for an EU court to compel speech from an American company in a political sense. In this case, Google can and I believe will stop offering youtube in the EU until the EU says that Google's proposed "fact-checking" system is Good Enough.

(Not to mention how gross it feels to insist that someone has not stated the correct facts and must do so or face a penalty.)
what does this have to do with google?
Official stream link:

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...
04/02/2025 Release Date via NintendoDirect.
All black, smooth rounded edges.
Trailer shows upscaled remaster of Mario Kart 8(Maybe 9?)
This is my experience with all javascript stuff these days. If you leave the codebase even for a few months now you're spending days updating it to all the new breaking library changes. Worse, if your tooling is out of date you're probably spending a week just fighting to fix/change/update the tooling. It's the most brittle tech stack I've ever had to work with.
This is what I'm talking about. This attitude of I read a paper or two so I know what it's like in a classroom with multiple kids at different ages that have different needs. Or I know what it's like in a classroom with 20 kids. Yes there are bad teachers, but you present the argument like "there are bad teachers therefore all homeschooling teachers are better" which is absurd.

"There are thousands of effective teachers without teaching degrees."

I doubt it. And there are countless thousands more that are terrible and whose kids are very behind.
> The one from 2001? I thought we were talking about the conditions today.

They arrived at a weak settlement in that case and have been largely ignored since. Why would they have stopped instead of just being more subtle about it?

Also, if they weren't still doing it then why don't major Windows OEMs also promote Linux machines when non-Windows OEMs do? Specialization doesn't really explain this; they sell Linux machines but don't promote them, so whatever fixed costs they have to pay to do that, they're already paying.

> Because it counts Chromebooks, Android, and Steam OS.

It doesn't. Android has basically zero PC market share, ChromeOS is almost 2% by itself, but regular old desktop Linux is up from ~1% to ~4.5% over the last few years (and it's 6% if you count ChromeOS).

Steam OS is a pretty decent proportion of Linux gaming systems, but most Linux PCs aren't gaming PCs.
We really do need more of this kind of stuff. Really cool. I’d apply but video calls feel yuck for me.

I also like time idea of a cross mentorship. Two people mentor each other.
That's hilarious.

For anyone else wondering, it's AS27612 and the registered address is mentioned online -- unsurprisingly -- as the "CALEA Implementation Unit".
I'd love to do this. The context switching between doing development and then sales is so freaking high for me that I basically had to dedicate a specific day to just doing calls and the rest of the days to only doing dev work.

I'm in the camp that I'd rather hire the right person to do the job better than me (in sales) and focus where I'm most strong in instead.
That isn't guaranteed, because if so you can always do the opposite of what you think and you will overperform. Even if you think you know something, you are, at best, still being random. Anything perceived decrease in return from taking actions is itself just chance (and confirmation bias), because otherwise you could inverse it.
No nation has a done what spacex has.
They did attempt to control for the ammonia concentration in the collected water without their catalyst. But they did not try to calculate the equilibrium concentration of ammonia in water exposed to the atmosphere.
No, but they want to be able to remotely abort.
There's a video that's quite convincing: https://youtu.be/K0Xio5yo_x8

It inverts the second image and passes the first and third images under it, and when there is a complete overlap the combined images make a nearly perfectly gray rectangle, showing that they cancel out.
Dude that's the logo for the sports car company Shelby, which is also that person's name. It's just infusing a little bit of personality into the drab hellscape that is LinkedIn.
For me personally, the lack of hot-reloading is painful for portions of the app where it takes you a few steps to get to the UI state you are working on (e.g. rendering a model with tabs).

Having to add custom code to for flash, their special form handling, and other Inertia specific parterns that only I really understood made it difficult for some collaborators. I don't remember the specific of the form handling either but from what I remember it would have been difficult to instrument client-side validation such as react-hook-form as well.

> The issue I have is the constant change of mind their devs have regarding how to do things, even when they say "it's stable"... it's not... every day they come up with "a better way" to do things which usually is not better, just different.

It is annoying. They are pushing people towards Remix as well, which I have tried and prefer to avoid unless I absolutely must have SSR. But their docs for older versions are still around so you can stick to what you like.
It actually is a feature of capitalism. Envy can blind though.
Also, if you were a European Jew in the late 1940s after the fall of the Nazis, you were still faced with the prospect of living under the local governance of Nazi collaborators, continued pogroms [0] and antisemitism, and potentially Joseph Stalin's USSR. It's not like everything immediately went back to normal, either in real terms or psychological ones.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kielce_pogrom

It's unsurprising that many wouldn't want to reintegrate with that society after what they experienced, even if they managed to avoid the camps (and especially if they didn't).
The insurance crisis in California highlights the impact of underpriced wildfire risks due to regulatory limits and poor forest management. Platforms like lawyergist.com can help navigate legal complexities arising from such challenges. Addressing the issue needs reforms for risk-based pricing, better wildfire mitigation, and public awareness of living in high-risk areas.
Huh - the implications of this time period reach much farther than I would have expected.

I recall switching from a small, regional cellular carrier to Cingular with the launch of the iPhone 3G. It only now occurred to me that I'm still there. I stayed with Cingular when it became AT&T, and still have service through them. For that matter, the service has significantly expanded; I now have tablets, watches, and four phones for family members... some of whom weren't even alive when I switched carriers. My bill is ~$450 / month.

If I assume an average monthly bill of $300 (it started around $100, but has been as high as $550), there have been 196 months that I've paid that bill. $58,800 in revenue from me alone, that would have gone to someone else had Cingular not allowed Apple to launch on their network in 2007.
Also this reminds me of orthogonal persistence https://wiki.c2.com/?TransparentPersistence

Did you do literature research of Smalltalk?
> But without any real upgrade or even games announcements, I suppose most people will keep holding off their purchase decisions for now.

It's not for sale yet—they haven't even announced when it will be for sale. So what purchasing decision are you talking about?
I'd argue that shorts, even the educational ones, are still the same brain-rot slop.
I was at RIM at that time and saw _exactly_ the same thing. When I started in 2008, in addition to WiFi and apps they were squabbling with carriers about whether or not the Blackberry needed an antenna. Carriers were micromanaging devices to an astonishing degree.

The river of money from Macs, iPods and iTunes gave Steve Jobs a completely different kind of leverage in those carrier negotiations. Device only companies like Palm and RIM couldn't have broken that carrier strangle even if they did have the technology.
Yes. The timings involved would make it impractical to land a rocket reliably via human teleoperation even with zero latency.
Forced displacement is a recognized crime against humanity. Israel forcibly displaced these people, refusing their right of return is a crime.
You are repeating all the talking points of GME holders, including obscure things almost nobody knows about, and it's just a coincidence? At least have the decency to be straight-forward with your arguments.
Prop 13 may be a part of the problem, but not the biggest. The biggest problem is the same as all the other cities without prop 13 in the country that have budget issues: pensions.

A lot of government officials abuse the system and get exhorbidant pensions, especially when early retirement options start at 50.
The page has another comment with an animation where they're overlaying the images to show how similar (same?) they are.
They use a slightly modified Ubuntu kernel (https://github.com/proxmox/pve-kernel), with things like ZFS added. They also really are good about using proper Debian tooling, and so their kernel doesn’t cause any weird dependency issues.

Right now they install proxmox-kerne-6.8.12-6 by default (using pseudo-packages called proxmox-default-kernel and proxmox-kernel-6.8 pointing at it), and offer proxmox-kernel-6.11.0-2 as an opt-in package (by installing proxmox-kernel-6.11)

I’ve been using the latest opt-in kernels on all of my Proxmox nodes for a few years now, and I’ve never had any issues at all with that myself.
Indeed. This is basically enterprise sales, and sales guys will not be happy with anything else.
Why does it need to tessellate if there's only one chip per wafer?
Slow ffmpeg pipelines are typically cpu-bound rather than io-bound.

e.g. When doing a simple copy, progress status messages upgrade to scientific notation.