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A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux
The fact that some innovations succeeded despite having to tiptoe around patents is more of an example of survivorship bias. When we get something working first, there are probably some optimal partial solutions there. Working around the patent means having to do some things inefficiently while being able to provide b…
A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux
Suppose you came up with AI algorithm which is better than transformers and such. Your options are: 1. publish it e.g. as a paper or open source, letting all big AI labs to use it for free 2. keep it secret Are you saying that it's evil to have a secret third option of making the algorithm public but forcing AI labs t…
Micron, SK Commit Billions to RAM Capacity, but Almost Nothing Lands Before 2028
CAMM2 is really just two DIMM sticks in one; you can even buy adapters where you plug in two SO-DIMM modules and get one CAMM2 (and there are also adapters for SO-DIMM to DIMM). Yes CAMM2 allows for faster and better signaling but it is entirely orthogonal to DRAM silicon manufacturing. What you probably want is more…
How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
It is funny how those name often sound differently than intended in other languages while still remaining memetic. My best example is "Knorrig" as it sounds like a fun name for a pig since "knur" is a male ping in Polish.
How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
The umlaut does mean that to a Swede it is not the same word sound at all. I can only guess that is why it was allowed?
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
Thanks for the summary! By the way, would you happen to know if it possible to distribute the same app in the AppStore under the 15/26% commission and in alternative stores in the EU with the 10% commission? Or maybe this somehow constitutes a danger Apple has to protect its users from, and can only be alleviated…
Cerebras CS-4
> I was planning on using it for a design tool, but moved over to luna since it's comparable speeds and cost for a lot more intelligence. Everyone should occasionally go back to the old models to see how much worse they were, like even a year ago you could generate results but they were typically full of bugs and you…
Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone
In London that is difficult – there is not a lot of space. Plus the idea of having everything within a 15 minute walk including access to public transport.
Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
Very firsts Philips/DEC LMSI controller did DMA https://github.com/AkBKukU/CM153-Repro https://github.com/AkBKukU/CM153-Repro/blob/main/EDA/ISA-Car... Panasonic (MKE) was pure pooled PIO and didnt even support Interrupts. Sony and Mitsumi do have DREQ&#x…
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
So you are saying Germany and the UK have no right to see Russia killing people on their soil as hostile act because the US drops some bombs in the middle east? The history is far more banal and less nefarious than you give it credit. Nobody gave a fuck about Russia. Russia was a self limited kleptocracy and everybody…
Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities
I guess I'm confused why you're still on HN, arguing with people, trying to shake them out of their complacency. I can see there is some despair in this comment, but at the same time you are doing something, and there are certainly others like you. As for two weeks being short - as the saying goes, there are weeks whe…
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
You're correct in theory. I'm just not sure we have a cartel situation. Micron is a US company, and it controls 25% of the global market. I see no evidence that they nor SK hynix nor Samsung are intentionally limiting production. I do see people arguing, "they had years to increase production - why didn't they?" They'…
A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome
quite interesting, very small neural nets mimicking the brain of a fruit fly
Effects of Corporal Punishment on Children
https://www.academia.edu/41057874/Scientific_Evidence_Suppor... Scientific Evidence Supports Customary and Backup (Conditional) Spanking by Parents: Update of Larzelere and Baumrind (2010) and Fuller (2009) Robert E Larzelere, Jason Fuller 2019, Session at the Association of Family and Conciliation…
Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
No, if anything there will be more because some of the funds freed up can be spent on healthcare delivery. But you will lose endless billing departments at general/specialist practices, hospitals etc, because actual consumers would not engage. Hospital administrations will be driven by the government setting reim…
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
Wait, which apps are you referring to having been delisted by EU (which branch? what process?), as opposed to "breaching app store terms and conditions" (which the companies do of their own initiative all the time)
Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI
We hit the same problem building a voice-memo-to-notes tool: "meet Tuesday, no wait, Wednesday" is exactly the failure mode. We ended up not trying to fix it at the ASR layer at all. We run faster-whisper (large-v3, local) and let the raw transcript keep the self-correction intact, including the discarded "Tuesday." T…
Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries
Not at all, the pain of doing plugins with UNIX IPC was another one. Ah, you have lots of memory, we're very wealthy. /s
Being ambitious and being a dad
> Agreed. I'm well travelled. Have had a very fun and satisfying dating life. A great career. Accomplished many life goals. Nothing comes close to fatherhood. I completely agree with you. But I can't say around me, people, movies, society ever sent the message that parenthood is terrible. The way I interpret the messa…
Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
Awesome. I had a crack at the Xerox Travel Scanner 150, which had niche drivers for some reason, only shipped Windows and didn't make it into SANE. Wireshark and prior art from SANE got me most of the way. Getting the stepper motor working was really hard and I didn't manage to get it completely working Maybe I'll res…
Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
Does anyone know if Apple would actually agree to sign and allow the distribution of such a driver? The vendorid and productid clearly belong to another entity, which could hypothetically want to create their own driver?
GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
> multi-vendor GPU compilation framework Technically true, since it supports NVIDIA and AMD. But we have a different definition of portability, if I cannot bring a Metal device and expect it to work.
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
The up to 3 apps per device stay but cannot be opened after 7 days until refreshed. And "whatever code you want" here excludes JIT compilation, or as I understand it memory that is both writable and executable, as your app would require a special 'entitlement' from Apple.
We turned off Pub/Sub and nobody noticed
I still can't get over the demise of Memphis [0]. :'( [0] https://github.com/superstreamlabs/memphis
Being ambitious and being a dad
Some do try to put it in words: It's difficult to explain ... an intensely personal experience. Every child is different. Every parent is different. Every culture has their own way of doing things ... yet children are the one universally shared thing that binds our giant collective together ... When I am holding He…
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
If what we were discussing was hacky ways of installing apps on your own device rather than distribution to end users, you can do without the Developer membership cost. It would just be limited to 3 apps per device that require to be refreshed every 7 days to continue to be able to open them. Web apps are a non starte…
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
There’s a whole layer of VPs banging their head against the wall 24/7 on how to make it possible, don’t worry.
Where Human Sleep Went Wrong
> It's still very odd that no species has ended up evolving a continuous maintenance system that can run while conscious Great point. Afaik, our bodies do preserve energy when we sleep/rest. A few questions that needs to answered first: - will gains of 24/7 hunting/foraging offset the extra energy cos…
Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation
"Idiosyncratic" doesn't mean "we expect it to me less accessible", it means "we expect it to behave in its own special way so just taking a random one of them doesn't tell us anything about the average experience". Given the number of goods and services there are in any given economy, you can probably find at least on…
A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux
I think of them as legalised marijuana. It is not good for you, but if it were made illegal, there will be criminal organisations providing the service. Without patents, we would be mired in NDAs dictating which company can talk to which other company about what technology, and quite possibly several open-source devel…