Hacker News: Sopel

New comment by Sopel in "H.264 Is Magic (2016)"

Sopel — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:18:53 +0000

ssim by bitrate for prores, h264 with IPB frame types, and h264 with only i-frame types (which is a direct prores alternative) (the last one is for some reason not visible on this plot, only one post up)

New comment by Sopel in "H.264 Is Magic (2016)"

Sopel — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:47:34 +0000

not even for editing https://www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/46562-prores-vs-h264-vs...

New comment by Sopel in "Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance"

Sopel — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 01:49:40 +0000

because crypto is just an excuse to speculate in an unregulated market

New comment by Sopel in "H.264 Is Magic (2016)"

Sopel — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:23:56 +0000

that's like asking "should I use an audi or a tesla"

New comment by Sopel in "H.264 Is Magic (2016)"

Sopel — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:20:26 +0000

you can easily record lossless h264 via obs and any ffmpeg-backed player will play it just fine

the days where the OS matters for video playback are long gone

New comment by Sopel in "H.264 Is Magic (2016)"

Sopel — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:17:27 +0000

prores is not lossless. It's also an intraframe codec so compression is not great.

New comment by Sopel in "Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue"

Sopel — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:15:39 +0000

pure text search (the deterministic kind you're talking about) is medieval technology that's useless in a web search engine

New comment by Sopel in "Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue"

Sopel — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:13:07 +0000

Is this related to the fact that I'm regularly unable to find many github repos via google?

New comment by Sopel in "Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking"

Sopel — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:39:20 +0000

> did not respect our robots.txt

I don't see a problem

> ignored our Terms of Service

ban them from the service then and case closed?

> and defied the creators' licenses: 423 of the 712 projects are licensed for non-commercial use only

because it's been proven they have been used commercially?

New comment by Sopel in "Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking"

Sopel — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:08:54 +0000

well it kinda worked? over on reddit r/gaming thinks the data has been stolen

more radicalization towards AI

New comment by Sopel in "France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms"

Sopel — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 11:27:54 +0000

title says DNS, article says access, so which is it?

New comment by Sopel in "Page Table Memory Consumption"

Sopel — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:55:48 +0000

At least on windows zombie processes may use no memory but still keep >=32KiB page table. So in this [extreme case of an AMD iGPU driver bug](https://superuser.com/questions/1838566/how-to-identify-a-dr...) close to 100% of memory was used by page tables (or would if pushed far enough)

New comment by Sopel in "What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?"

Sopel — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:47:26 +0000

yes, you would have to allocate space for up to 100 file paths, but the article says

> it’s more efficient because it reduces the amount of calls into the file system, which is where the bottleneck is

Upon reading it a few times I think the article is alluding to a crappy two-pass solution where you don't store a filename but instead an index into a directory, which is flawed anyway due to being racy.

New comment by Sopel in "Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?"

Sopel — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:52:15 +0000

The cart is moving down faster than the light "bouncing" from the top of the cart towards your eyes. Whether the light can actually bounce this way I do not know. https://imgur.com/a/Aztdj4C

New comment by Sopel in "What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?"

Sopel — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:26:08 +0000

I don't see how this is supposedly more efficient than the easier approach of listing all files and choosing a single random number in 1..n

New comment by Sopel in "Stockfish 19"

Sopel — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:03:26 +0000

yes

New comment by Sopel in "Stockfish 19"

Sopel — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:35 +0000

also in chess a better line is not required to be shorter

New comment by Sopel in "Stockfish 19"

Sopel — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:56:02 +0000

AlphaZero does not exist, as far as modern computer chess is concerned

New comment by Sopel in "Stockfish 19"

Sopel — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:55:05 +0000

They could but it's pretty much meaningless. You're bound to find outliers in favor of either engine, and the landscape is pretty chaotic

New comment by Sopel in "The C++ Standard Library Has Been Walking Itself Back for Fifteen Years"

Sopel — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:48:59 +0000

don't care, it has all the right points