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bwhitty··on Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained
Hot take !== unsubstantiated, xenophobic take
bwhitty··on Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
As another poster above linked, it’s been shown to be effective since 2022: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05482
bwhitty··on How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise
IMF chief economist has thoughts: https://www.afr.com/wealth/investing/the-crash-that-could-to...
bwhitty··on Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors
It’s a massive supply chain, so, yes, both. But also a hundred other companies. TSMC and other foundries bring together many technologies from many companies (and no doubt a lot of their own) to ship a full foundry solution (design-technology-cooptimization, masks, lithography, packaging, etc).
bwhitty··on Intel Meteor Lake Architecture
The 3D Foveros packaging technology is critical as it allows some path lengths to be much shorter than if you had to traverse that same path but only in the horizontal 2D plane.

Very excited to see how this plays out in practice.

bwhitty··on Ford Hires 550 Former Argo.ai Engineers, Creates Latitude.ai
Yes, another anecdote to add to this thread of anecdotes is that my HI5 with HDA2 is stellar. I do hours at a time on highways in CA without a disengage.
bwhitty··on How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?
6800U is awesome from what I’ve seen — better efficiency by far, and legit integrated graphics better than Xe — but it is vanishingly rare, even months after announcement.

The scale Intel has in manufacturing mobile CPUs is still unmatched.

bwhitty··on IEEE to Develop Standard for Autonomous Vehicle Decision-Making
More information: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ieee-to-develop-standard-f...

This appears to be driven by MobileEye.

Seems like a very logical thing to have engineers standardize on, and then hand off to the NHTSA, etc., for governance.

bwhitty··on GitHub is degraded/down
CenturyLink ISP is having issues: https://downdetector.com/status/centurylink/
bwhitty··on The Louisiana Environmental Apocalypse Road Trip
These are poor communities. I know you realize how much lawyers cost.

Could a firm step in in hopes of getting a big pay day going up against the huge titans of the Chemical industry? Probably. Just hasn't happened yet, I'd say.

bwhitty··on The Louisiana Environmental Apocalypse Road Trip
Is neoprene really the only way to make wet suits? I doubt it.

Regulate. A dirty word on HN, surely. Regulate the production of and, possibly, the import of neoprene, etc. Force industries to innovate - I know that's not a dirty word here - in order to sell these goods to Americans. Maybe then America becomes the sole producer of environmentally-friendly wet-suits to the whole of the word.

I think this is the only solution since your proposed solution of just "put the plants somewhere else" is, as you've pointed out, untenable.

bwhitty··on JSC loves ES6
"Registration requires an Apple developer license."

Hmm, not the open web I'm familiar with.

bwhitty··on Firefox 51.0
Very cool demo. Worked fine on my 2015 rMBP even if Ultra settings ran at about 10 FPS.

The web really has come a long, long ways.

bwhitty··on Wait continues for European Schiaparelli Mars lander
I believe a sol is a Mars-specific term (at least in this context).

But maybe reading The Martian has me thinking that.

bwhitty··on Facebook React.js License
Is there any talk within Facebook on amending this clause or moving React to a standard license? I believe it's stopping a lot of large companies (whom the patent clause could actually affect) from using React, and all other like-licensed Facebook software.
bwhitty··on Intel to Cut 12,000 Jobs, Forecast Misses Amid PC Blight
Not trying to be condescending, but legitimately not much. Anecdotes don't really help us here.
bwhitty··on Reactive GraphQL
Meteor is about the UX.

The ease of getting up and running, the ease of tools, and the ease of deployment. On no React stack can you (and in the future this will be more simple) run

  meteor create my-react-project
  npm init && npm install react
And start coding JSX, ES2015/2016 immediately. There is a non-trivial amount of boilerplate and configuration you need to do to get this working my hand, and while it can provide a greater level of control, it undoubtedly adds to the overall weight of code you need to maintain.

Then hypothetically after some time of development, do

  meteor add-platform ios
  meteor add-platform android
  meteor add-platform desktop (this is theoretical currently, but there exist packages which do exactly this)
And have Cordova iOS and Android builds, and an Electron desktop app. Then in a few weeks, do

  meteor deploy
and have a fully monitored application up and running on AWS with Meteor's monitoring and deployment tools. Meteor's play is in the ease of these tools. It is absolutely non-trivial the amount of glue and knowledge you need to create, understand, and maintain the current (and ever-rapidly expanding) Javascript toolchain.

This announcement touches on one of their most thorny issues of being tightly coupled to Mongo. Adding this abstraction layer allowing any UI and any data source is Meteor's ticket to the masses.

bwhitty··on CodePush by Microsoft
They already have blessed hot-code pushes; see Meteor: http://info.meteor.com/blog/apple-hot-code-push-mobile
bwhitty··on CodePush by Microsoft
Apple at least already allows this for Javascript based apps, particularly Meteor as an example: http://info.meteor.com/blog/apple-hot-code-push-mobile
bwhitty··on [dead]
This could be interesting for using Node on embedded devices. V8 is pretty memory hungry right now, and this could provide a nice way to sacrifice some speed for memory space which would be in short supply on an embedded device.
bwhitty··on Meteor 1.1 Released – Now Supporting Microsoft Windows and MongoDB 3.0
It's a full stack platform (note the distinction between a framework and a platform). I could explain it further, but I think reading through the tutorial [1] will help you more.

1: https://www.meteor.com/install

bwhitty··on Show HN: React 0.12 renders to Web Components
Polymer uses standard 2-way data binding. How does this fit into React's flow? I'd love to see an implementation of Polymer using the Flux architecture.