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The problem here is with the distribution of future geniuses. More likely than not they will be born into a population with low education. The probability of nurturing this talent for the betterment of mankind will be low. In highly educated populations, the birth rate is normally low.


Given enough time, there is no such thing as a 1:n relationship.


Much like the Y2K bug kerfuffle, there will be a time when the Copilot bug will cause an upsurge in business requiring developers to fix the stochastic parrot code bugs. I think this will be sooner rather than later.


I'm sure you know this, David, but it looks like it's a yes, there is life on Mars.


Who is the judge of “inflammatory” content? It’s just censorship plain and simple. Why not let the truth be told?

Edit: judging by the way the votes keep going up and down there's a yin to the gatekeepers of inflammatory content's yang. These are actions of a rogue state y'all.


>Why not let the truth be told?

Telling the truth is going to always be against someone's interest. If that someone can control the medium, he will do it.


I've used WebRTC in JavaScript, but I can't quite get why I would use this library. Can anyone respond with use cases?


Edge device that is communicating with web clients on a network would be my guess. People use WebRTC (mainly the Go library though) to create Remote Desktop implementations. Ex: https://github.com/imtiyazs/webrtc-remote-desktop


I hadn't considered an RDP use-case. Thanks!


Worked on a product that did that cross-platform thanks to go, surprisingly simple to work with.


Customers I have seen

* Taxi uploaded footage to analyze (guns, hostile body language)

* Rescue Delivery Robot (Get a delivery robot unstuck when AI gives up. Need video + send commands)

* Remote Mining Equipment ( Video + Control)

* Remote Surgery (Specialist hands super imposed for local generalist)

* Security Cameras/Doorbells

* Kids smart watch to give parents audio+video

* Battery Operated Wearable Cameras


Interesting, I hadn't thought of that. As a a developer about to use the Pi at the edge, I can see how this would be helpful with delivering footage from the IoT devices.

I'm not sure I understand or would use AWS as the hub though, I would probably build my own server hub.


Very nice, I've been waiting the longest time for something like this. I feel that WebRTC needs books like this, it's such an underrated technology.


I call BS on any corporation offering anonymity. I just don’t believe them anymore.


I’m glad that RISC-V SBCs are starting to become usable.


Depends on what you mean by usable. If you don't need long term support, strong software ecosystem support, and performance parity, it's great. It'll be a few more years before everything comes together, but hopefully not too many.


>If you don't need

Reads like FUD, as you go on to list a bunch of items that RISC-V actually already delivers.

Point per point:

>long term support

Is achieved via upstreaming drivers[0] and providing documentation[1], something that e.g. StarFive is doing much better than Raspberry Pi ever has.

>strong software ecosystem support

RISC-V is rapidly building the strongest ecosystem.

>performance parity

JH7110 SoC used in boards like VisionFive 2 provides CPU performance between Raspberry Pi 3b and 4, at much lower power consumption.

TH1520 SoC used in boards like Sipeed Lichee Pi4A[2] provides performance above Raspberry Pi 4.

Both SoCs provide faster GPU (JH7110 is 4x that of Pi 4, TH1520 is faster), better hardware video codec blocks, cryptography acceleration, faster memory interface, faster I/O outside of the SoC and otherwise better and more built in peripherals.

Note: Raspberry Pi have been used as reference points as they are, by far, the most popular ARM SBCs.

>It'll be a few more years

As proven above, it's already there against the Raspberry Pi line.

But next year it'll be better, as RISC-V will finally compete with the fastest cores available. This is based solely on what's already announced (Ascalon, Veyron, P570 and so on).

RISC-V enables the best processors.

0. https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan

1. https://doc-en.rvspace.org/index.html

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37201754


The RISC V fanboism is rampant here with bunch of them repeating their marketing slogan in the comments. There is nothing inevitable about RISC V. If anything it has lot of mountains to climb before it can be considered a challenge to the existing instruction set. It may or it may not do that. Being open does not automagically make it happen.


"Being open does not automagically make it happen." Absolutely true. Many many "open" things have never gained traction and have fallen by the wayside. It was a plausible argument about RISC-V in 2016. It is not in 2023, when it has already happened.

Lots of companies have made their decisions, projects are kicking off -- for example Samsung just started porting .NET and Tizen to RISC-V for use in their future TVs and other products. LG similarly. It will take five years for the products resulting from that to emerge, but they are coming.

The RISC-V ISA didn't even formally exist as a frozen spec a little over four years ago. Ratification in July 2019 was the starting gun for many to start projects. The results of that are just emerging in the last months -- the VisionFive 2, tne Lichee Pi 4A, the 64 core Milk-V Pioneer.

A lot more things have gone into the pipeline since then, and will be emerging in the next two to three years. Things up to around Apple M1 performance ... from multiple companies.


>If anything it has lot of mountains to climb before it can be considered a challenge to the existing instruction set.

That's not what ARM thinks[0].

>There is nothing inevitable about RISC V.

As it turns out, the decisions have long been made, and RISC-V has been chosen.

0. https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/risc-v-part-2-ambitious...


Same in Australia. The jobs are advertised but I never hear anything back. For me it’s not a racial thing as I too am an naturalized immigrant, but it seems the preference for subcontinental “skilled” workers is prioritized.


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