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I can load YouTube just fine over Tor

Peertube would likely be a good self hosted solution for scaling this, as you end up with a swarm of seeders as content gets more popular, reducing the load on the main server: http://joinpeertube.org/en/

The first gen Archer C7 routers kernel panic as Qualcomm decided to not support the 5GHz card in the driver they use (but later revisions of said card are supported). You end up needing to open the router and remove the card just to get it to boot.

Mozilla did not fire Brendan Eich, the board actively worked to try and retain him: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich

Please cite sources when making claims in the future

This is very exciting, the novel application of crystalizing antiretroviral therapy is very useful on its own for preventing HIV replication in organs like the brain (where traditional ART therapy is less effective due to the blood/brain barrier).

Combined with an engineered virus to rewrite the DNA of HIV infected cells, this could potentially be useful against a whole bevy of viruses!

Advocating for assaulting and murdering fellow people in your country will result in Visa, Mastercard, American Express & Discover pulling the plug on your merchant account.

All the payments networks have morals clauses in their payments contracts, InfoWars blatantly violated said contract and has kicked up a fit over First Data doing what they are contractually obligated to do.

Some of the frontends like First Data can be very restricitive with their own morals clauses, banning bars, sex shops, book stores, and various other "wrong think". Bitcoin and other schemes will never have a reliable connection to the USA's current payments system due to this type of embedded moralizing.

Lower mileage insurance can help reduce that cost by the way, if you tell your insurer your only adding 2k miles a year to the car rather than 10k miles, they will drop your rates commensurately.

Sub in an eBike for the commuting & errands, its quite doable to go car light or car free (esp. if Car2go, Lime pod or another service is available in your city).

Depends where you want to go in the city and what you want to do. Portland has some hellish traffic at times, and free parking isn't as plentiful as you describe. The inner suburbs all have metered parking on 2+ lane streets, and extremely competitive side street parking. Plus, the west side suburbs have zoned parking to keep out non-locals: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/39277

Taking a bike is a much easier thing to do if you want easy access to the inner burbs and urban core of Portland.

Its warped idolization of the west. Very weird, but likely caused by the far reaching effects of US cultural influence.

It is unlikely that significant optimization will happen outside of companies payong for it to happen, most of the tinkerers that do this type of optimization for fun are working on projects like Armbian, as a $15 SBC is a more useful target than a piece of big iron.

Signald allows you to make an account via pairing (which requires a smartphone) or by registering a new number. It also supports having multiple registered numbers.

Both of the programs I mention are built atop Signald

When teachers and administrators are the only one with access to the camera system, they can choose to look the other way and use the panopticon of surveillance only on the students.

Meanwhile, the disempowered students can complain all they want, which will just encourage administrators to crack down more using their new camera system.

Ignoring the probable outcomes of your actions is willful ignorance, and rather callous toward those around you.

I hope your never in a position of power over youth or vulnerable people, as your mindset could cause severe harm to people undeserving of such treatment.

Check out Pyre.chat and Signal-Weechat perhaps?

StreetComplete has been collecting business hours for OSM, that is likely where this data is coming from.

China can train chip designers just like Israel does, but they are on a path to end up in Intel's predicament, where they don't have the ability to fabricate competitive chips as their foundries are one to two generations outdated.

A node is the process a chip is built on. Smaller process = smaller circuits in your chips that use less power/run faster.

Darwin is already open source, albeit Apple does a code dump every few years iirc: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

The author also omitted that China has no bleeding edge foundries (like TSMC & Samsung's 7nm fabs) and it is unlikely they will be able to build one any time soon.

Both Intel and Global Foundries are trapped on older nodes, and China is in a slightly worse position (with their most advanced node being 14nm).

All of AMD's new cores are built on TSMC 7nm, and with outdated nodes & 3 revision old designs, China is unlikely to be able to significantly improve on the designs they licensed from AMD.

Arguably, China doesn't have the homegrown talent to do chip design. Allwinner yeets barely altered SOC designs from ARM into existence, and Hygon's chip design talent is in large part not China based.

WebRTC's AEC is integrated into most browsers, PulseAudio (https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/webrtc-audio...) and a variety of other systems.

Google, Mozilla and all the organizations that have collaborated on WebRTC have spent 7+ years tuning this component. Much like Opus versus AMR-WB, I doubt there is anything notably better in the proprietary software/hardware world.

The orgs that develop the WebRTC standard have spent years implementing and experimenting with nearly every algorithm that is available for each of the various components (resulting in Opus, AV1, WebRTC AEC, etc), combing research papers daily and often working with researchers directly.

AV1 is not jut Google's child, but rather Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix's collaboration to create a standard that isn't beholden to MPEG-LA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1

Your CPU is missing AVX2 & AVX512 (and numerous other CPU extensions), the amount of optimiztion that can happen for your CPU is limited.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions

Money isn't a fix all for AEC, frankly Google's WebRTC AEC is the best commercially available AEC. You can see it in action when on a call over Signal Private Messenger, it knocks out background noise (eg: loud car noises if your walking down the street) like a champ.

Its likely a network problem causing large jitter buffers (see my other comment). Buying Polycom won't solve this problem, unless the jitter buffer is in adaptive mode and its wildly overestimating the jitter (a problem I've seen on Polycoms and Grandstreams before).

Sounds like your conferencing system has large jitter buffers. If your internet is stable, you should be able to reduce the buffer.

To test your network, go to https://www.dslreports.com/speedtest and see if you have significant jitter or bufferbloat. If your rating is an A, then your good to go, otherwise its time to clean up your local network :P

Conversations is the only decent XMPP client, and server XEP support is a mess. Its unusable for normal people if you want to use any kind of advanced features.

Berkely (BSD), MIT (of MIT license fame) & CMU (Sphinx) have a history of notable software that has enabled computing for decades, most HN users can name software developed by either institution.

Stanford doesn't have that cache, despite what US News & World might say. US News & World rankings tend to be fairly subjective, look at their top 15 cities.

Edit: CS School Rankings for those interested: https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-sch...

OSU has quite a bit to offer that can jumpstart a CS career, like the OSU Open Source Lab: http://osuosl.org

Meanwhile, not really sure I think of Stanford as a CS school, unlike MIT & similar.

A few dozen sensors can go a long way, for example a municipality can find that a particular pipe is consistently pushing 100gpm, despite serving residential customers that don't normally have that kind of even usage. This implys a leak on that section of pipe, making a root cause analysis (and shutting off just the worst leaks in the system, rather than the whole town) much easier to do.

Note that this chip cost increase is due to silicon defects, a larger chip has more defects, thus your failure rate significantly increases with each increase in chip area.

AMD is working around this by using 8 separate CPU chips, wired together with one interconnect chip.