BetterThanSober

Stop buying "smart" TV

I wonder how those AI company can snatch a very good domains and how much did they pay, z.ai is just peak

Left ear: Mozart, right ear: The Bible in Chinese

I can count while reading and it's fairly easy

The sentence below will be written when I'm counting to 60

Let me try counting while writing, it's hard with tons of mistakes and typo (like switching count with write), it's also demonstrably slower with this whole sentence taking more that 60 count. Verbalizing the count is way harder and I need frequent stops to gather my thoughts

I agree that "coding" isn't solved but LLMs needing a harness is not necessarily a huge hit on AI

As for valuation, it's all a grift, always has been for anything hip in tech. SpaceX should've been in the $500b range and they have an actual rocket and working satellite constellations

I wonder how much they spend on this rewrite, in tokens and $ using commercial pricing

(1) There is no single entity called "the backbone." (2) Yes, they do direct peering with ISPs whenever possible, but maintaining on-premise cache AND the "backbone" is not a trivial matter, nor free

They're paying a marginal cost compared to us plebs, yeah, but definitely not "free", especially when YT is allegedly responsible for 1/6th of global internet traffic

people simply do not value reliable and secure consumer software

Because the incentive to care is not there, we'll see things changing when self-driving cats is mainstream

Google definitely doesn't have free egress

accidental kratom overdose

You cannot overdose on plain leaf kratom

If it is mainly genetic then a bird raised in captivity should be able to track the route somewhat accurately, that's groundbreaking

aren’t inclined to give their money away when they don’t have to

vtuber culture proves that this is categorically wrong

That's on your bank and not necessarily because of Apple/Google duopoly. I think it is crazy to put the whole banking system on foreign, private company though

418 I'm a teapot

The chromecast should be running iroh, no?

Correct me if I'm wrong but assuming there is only Alice and Bob in the network, each with their key-as-address, and they are both behind a CGNAT, Iroh will still need a third party to host the relay?

Yeah misconfig would also be my guess, too much cache miss

positive collaborative environment

Yeah for human, by humans

For some critical software, open-source or not, a regression could literally kills, that's why I put SQLite as an example. A simple miss should NOT pass into stable, if it's an edge case due then yeah learn from it and built a test suite for that if possible

rsync is highly popular tools and a lot of people depends on them, whether you like it or not. At a certain point (I don't know what point, 10k, 20k, 500k users?) maintainers should respect the user expectations over their own ego and convenience

This is a problem for OSS in general, people treats their project like a hobby because it didn't pay enough, or corporates uses it without contributing back

regression happens

Yes, but some should absolutely be caught with a robust test suite, especially if it is not an edge case.

When was the last time there was a breaking regression in SQLite again?

I don't like the fact that a company can literally steal purchased product back from its users but I don't see how any company can realistically support a product for a long period of time, especially if it is a B2C perpetual license product

If Office 2019 got a zero day RCE just by opening a Word documents, the optics would be tremendously bad for Microsoft and they had to patch it, which cost money and time. We're on a day where zero day can be found using AI, and it's getting better at it every iterations. No, saying that it is EOL and "yeah not my problem" wouldn't fly at their scale, just see XP and how long they have to extend the support period

I'm not saying "but think of the multi-billion dollar company", I'm sure they can support it indefinitely, I'm just not sure if doing that is a good use of engineer's time

I'm pretty sure it is a homage. As for dav1d it's not a reference decoder (although partially funded by AOM iirc) so they might not know that the next iteration will simply be AV2, we have h264, h265, h266 naming though

Tangent but I cannot wait for h269 (or h267 for the younger gen)

I don't know if I'm underestimating HN's reach but I doubt we did that, probably traffic from a much bigger aggregator/forum

With a tuned cool down period this isn't a problem, especially if you frequent the sites. OpenWRT uses Anubis and usually when I need to peruse their site I'm on a very low-end device. I prefer waiting much more over finding Waldos

But in principle I agree that there's no good answer to this, scraping _is_ useful and I bet most of us here had scraped something, it is AI company and their use of human's material for training without consent and return that led us to this (I know botting exists in forum since forum is a thing but it is easily solved by human moderators and keyword filter)

It’s basically a guaranteed way to get your term into the first rank. When people run a simple keyword search without intending to visit the site itself, for example when eBay is caught in a scandal and you’re curious, you type “eBay” expecting a news link somewhere on the first page. That and mafia-esque protection money basically