CharlesW

The evaluation tools used are helpful for encoder development, but at best they're imperfect proxies for human perception, and their predictions are often inconsistent with the human experience. …

> Why not use a lossless codec if you care about quality? (1) Lossy codecs are transparent at half the file size (or less) of FLAC/ALAC. (2) AAC (strictly, AAC-LC) is universal, where FLAC a…

You might like Poppy (in beta), which supports all media servers (including OpenSubsonic/Navidrome) and Opus as a first-class music format. https://www.reddit.com/r/PoppyApp&…

Plus, at 96+ kbps (assuming an Apple-quality AAC-LC encoder) Opus loses its quality advantage. So at higher bitrates, the benefit of choosing Opus is that encoders/decoders are royalty-free.

Favorable benchmarks for Pangram exist, and it is one of the better AI detectors. But it's never been trustworthy as proof of authorship/misconduct, and it's getting less useful as mode…

AI can't be a competent person , but inanmate things can be competent. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/competence …

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48709744 https://swelljoe.com/post/will-it-mythos/ : "Poor performer here, only found the one bug that…

Oops, the "cost 2x" mention in the first paragraph confused me. Thanks!

> in California (PDT / UTC-7): 03:00 to 18:00, and 21:00 to 23:00. I think that’s incorrect. For California (PDT), 2X pricing will be in effect from 6–9pm and 11pm–3am. During PST, the CA wi…

I can highly recommend the documentary Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! What a legend, what a life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Brooks:_The_99_Year_Old_Ma... !…

Like iOS 27’s Apple Intelligence Extensions?

I didn't write this or submit the link, but in case a bit of context helps folks like @OutOfHere: This is an edited transcript of a keynote the author gave at the Applied Machine Learning Confer…

> What's up with people using such poorly descriptive titles on HN? HN title guidelines strongly emphasize: "…please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don&#x…

Agreed, this would be a great way to streamline our country's government-controlled digital panopticon.

The opposite. If the claims weren't true, they'd have sued her for libel.

To be fair, it's difficult for a European to walk to a grocery store in Texas.

How does one find trustworthy ZDR DeepSeek 4 Pro providers?

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