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   by alberth 1y ago

   Will streaming services ever stop over-compressing their content? I have a top-of-the-line 4K TV and gigabit internet, yet the compression artifacts make everything look like putty. Honestly, the best picture quality I’ve ever seen was over
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   by alberth 1y ago

   Why isn’t Pypy the default recommended runtime? The performance increase seems jaw dropping.
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   by alberth 1y ago

   260 comments | 1 month ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45127983
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   by alberth 1y ago

   McKinsey has pitched my company on projects where their compensation is entirely outcome-based — for example, if a project generates $20 million in incremental revenue, they would earn 10% of that amount. I have to admit, the results they d
5. 185.▲
   by alberth 1y ago

   I thought Cloudflare was 100% Rust, and x86 (EPYC) these days. Interesting to hear Go & ARM in use.
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   by alberth 1y ago

   Lots of dupes lately. I've personally commented on lots of dupes lately. Makes me wonder if HN dupe detector is broken/changed recently.
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   by alberth 1y ago

   200+ comments, HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045558
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   by alberth 1y ago

   I’m a big fan of NPR and the quality of their journalism. But it’s always struck me as odd that their frequent pledge drives suggest the ads they run don’t actually cover their costs. In effect, each 30-second pledge driver must generate mo
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   by alberth 1y ago

   It’s a Catch-22. If you don’t memorize numbers and call your family from your usual phone (via saved contacts), they’ll answer because they recognize the number. But if your phone breaks and you have to call from another phone, memorizing t
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    by alberth 1y ago

    I was hoping this was going to be about eliminating the heat trail of a plane. Then learned it’s just about rerouting a flight to climate zones that will less likely form a vapor trail.
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    by alberth 1y ago

    > allows OpenAI to buy 160 million shares at 1 cents a share. > I think at least part of the 10% is if AMD stock reaches 600. AMD market cap today is $350B (at $200/share). AMD would need to 3x their market cap ($1,000B) to be at
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    by alberth 1y ago

    Sale of shares on secondary market at that valuation. https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-hits-500-billion-v...
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    by alberth 1y ago

    The 10% option is interesting. As a comparison of stocks over the last 5-years: 1-Year 5-Year Market Cap (Today) ------ ------ --------- AMD 20% 150% $0.35T NVIDIA 50% 1,250% $4.5T
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    by alberth 1y ago

    Some refer to it as "circular financing". It's "seller financing" but to a degree we've never seen before in an industry (which create these "circular" effects). There's a good HN thread from 2-d
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    by alberth 1y ago

    SPARK is used by NVIDIA for the most secure compute code. https://www.adacore.com/nvidia
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    by alberth 1y ago

    (2024)
17. 197.▲
    by alberth 1y ago

    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45467166
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    by alberth 1y ago

    Naive question, but does this site actually require much ongoing maintenance? I’ve used it for years and find it incredibly useful (& am appreciative of its existence) - just didn’t realize it needed much upkeep.
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    by alberth 1y ago

    Texas still has its own struggles. "Tent cities" do still exist, regardless of what the article stated. And under bridges is still a common gathering point. But yes, to a way lesser degree than anything you'd find in CA.
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    by alberth 1y ago

    Am I the only one who struggles to even find where to use Googles AI offerings. It took me way too long to figure out how to even access & use Veo 3. It’s like Google doesn’t know how to package a product.
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    by alberth 1y ago

    I have a lot of respect for JetBrains. They are bootstrapped, doing $400M+ revenue, and selling to one of the hardest segments (developers who are notoriously frugal).
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    by alberth 1y ago

    After 30-years of CSS, we’re still debating what is the best unit to use.
23. 203.▲
    by alberth 1y ago

    Isn't fiber broadband exactly this? It's shooting a laser through a fiber optic cable.
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    by alberth 1y ago

    First, I really respect Frank. He’s an amazing designer and have enjoyed using what he’s made in the past (Abstract, etc). I have a different take thought and it’s not so bleak, and believe a few different topics are conflated in the post.
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    by alberth 1y ago

    Why do you have to download an app to use Sora 2 (vs it being available on the web like ChatGPT)?
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    by alberth 1y ago

    Thanks, I updated my wording as such.
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    by alberth 1y ago

    Looks like an improvement over the M4 iPad of: Single Core: ~12% (3679 vs 4133) Multi Core: ~15% (13420 vs 15437) Which is in alignment historically with improvements from a new node improvement. https://browser.gee
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    by alberth 1y ago

    > instead of a split between native code and Lua that is too slow to do more than config In case you’re not aware, Cloudflare ran on LuaJIT (not just for config) until not that long ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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    by alberth 1y ago

    > I have done this with Lua Do you by chance work at Cloudflare, who has migrated away from Lua to Rust? Curious to hear observations on productivity hit going from Lua to Rust.
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    by alberth 1y ago

    The irony of talking about loving mailing list … while we’re all using a centralized, proprietary web forum (HN) to talk about it.