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New comment by jlaporte in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

jlaporte — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:33:27 +0000

Treating protein as calories is a category error.

Fat and carbs are energy, properly treated as calories. Protein is not (in a non-starving person) used for energy, and it should be measured in grams not calories. The input calories weren't lost, they were converted to protein for use building body structure instead of energetic use.

If the authors wanted to make an honest argument here, they would show the relative conversion of feed calories to animal protein across different livestock.

New comment by jlaporte in "Servo v0.0.1"

jlaporte — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:10:24 +0000

I think the motivation is Ladybird [1] coming on the scene with lots of awareness and sponsorship

[1] https://ladybird.org/#about

New comment by jlaporte in "Why not use DNS over HTTPS (DoH)?"

jlaporte — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 17:40:49 +0000

> it moves the responsibility for name resolution from the operating system to each application

Browsers only took on DoH implementation directly because they were solving the cold-start problem for a new protocol. Nothing to do with the spec.

There is support for DoH in all major OSs today, but none have made it a simple box to click AFAIK (we could speculate why).

For macOS, iOS, either via Private Relay (paid) or a configuration profile. Premade profiles: * https://github.com/paulmillr/encrypted-dns

For Windows > In the Registry Editor window open: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters > Right-click within the “Parameters” folder and create a new Dword (32-bit) Value. Name this new file “EnableAutoDOH” and set its value to “2.” * https://superuser.com/posts/1764668/revisions

Linux: * https://dev.to/mfat/how-to-enable-system-wide-dns-over-https...

The Truth about AI and copyright that nobody will say out loud

jlaporte — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:21:21 +0000

Article URL: https://roadtoartificia.com/p/the-truth-about-ai-and-copyright-that-nobody-will-say-out-loud

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43718201

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by jlaporte in "Apache ECharts"

jlaporte — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 19:34:33 +0000

No opinion on this particular package. But on the naming, "Apache" ECharts...

It's long since time that Apache foundation projects stop using the Apache name. Apache is a license, a foundation, a webserver. Apache supported projects have little to do with that - not the same people, not the same product area. Just some help with money and logistics.

And for those that argue the tie to the Apache org:

They're not CNCF Kubernetes, CNCF Helm, CNCF Jaeger. They're Kubernetes, Helm, Jaeger.

New comment by jlaporte in "Launch HN: Modernbanc (YC W20) – Modern and fast accounting software"

jlaporte — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 01:02:09 +0000

Counterpoint: the product vision that is already on display here is going in a great direction, and colocating a spreadsheet with your accounting app is a great idea. I love the idea of being freed from having to use excel for particular aspects of my accounting flow. You've got the export. People that want to keep their painful workflows can be masochistically happy.

This is clearly not an attempt to replace Excel, it's an attempt to accomplish a set of use cases in a better way than clunky export-import flows.

The in-app sheets look great, keep going!

New comment by jlaporte in "Why AI is progressing so quickly in 2025, and why we know the pace will continue"

jlaporte — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:22:08 +0000

"...the chatter in the legacy media about AI being in a hype cycle or bubble is simply wrong, and why understanding just a little bit about where the advances in AI capabilities are coming from shows why. Continued AI acceleration in the coming months and years isn’t guesswork — its baked-in. There are persistent, reliable processes behind the steady advances as we’ll see."

Why AI is progressing so quickly in 2025, and why we know the pace will continue

jlaporte — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:22:08 +0000

Article URL: https://roadtoartificia.com/p/why-ai-is-progressing-so-quickly-in-2025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43282693

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

LLM Hallucination Leaderboard

jlaporte — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:19:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43282671

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jlaporte in "Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026"

jlaporte — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 01:23:15 +0000

And not a word of protest was uttered.

New comment by jlaporte in "Macron to open debate on extending French nuclear protection to European allies"

jlaporte — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:50:26 +0000

Macron has been advocating for a European Army for around a decade. With the recent EU defence spending announcements the idea of a unified command structure in Europe is becoming likely.

The French offer to extend their nuclear umbrella seems to me to have two purposes:

1. Deal with the immediate vulnerability opened by questions over U.S. Article 5 commitments to NATO

2. Try to get ahead of potential nuclear weapons proliferation among other EU states

New comment by jlaporte in "Time for smartphone makers to ship verified video capture"

jlaporte — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:20:05 +0000

Actually this is addressed in the article. Unique signing keys per capture or per short rotation period.

New comment by jlaporte in "Time for smartphone makers to ship verified video capture"

jlaporte — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:48:26 +0000

"Democracy depends on free speech, separation of powers, and smartphone camera design.

[...]

These technologies are tied together in a chain of trust, such that each layer verifies the next. In iOS systems, this chain begins with the Boot ROM, which is a piece of unchangeable code that is the first code to run each time the system starts. Each of the later pieces of software that are loaded are signed in a way that can be verified by the previous layer. So the Boot ROM can verify the bootloader’s signature, which can then verify the OS kernel signature, which can verify extensions and device drivers, etc. The real way it works has further protections and complexities, but this is the basic scheme.

[...]

Wouldn't it be great if smartphones became unassailable sources of truth?"

Time for smartphone makers to ship verified video capture

jlaporte — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:48:26 +0000

Article URL: https://roadtoartificia.com/p/time-for-smartphone-makers-to-ship-verified-video-capture

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43258521

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

New comment by jlaporte in "Forum with 2.6M posts being deleted due to UK Online Safety Act"

jlaporte — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 01:13:58 +0000

I sympathize with the operators of these forums of course -- the UK Online Safety Act is poorly conceived.

HOWEVER.

Deleting their forums? "The act will require a vast amount of work to be done on behalf of the Forums and there is no-one left with the availability to do it." [1]

This is a false dichotomy. Put Cloudflare in front of the site, block UK traffic [2], and you're done. 5 minute job.

[1] https://forums.hexus.net/hexus-news/426608-looks-like-end-he...

[2] https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/custom-rules/use-cases...

New comment by jlaporte in "The DeepSeek episode: separating fact and fiction"

jlaporte — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:39:34 +0000

"Throughout the last week, DeepSeek’s legend grew, with each new thread on X seemingly competing to explain a new way that DeepSeek’s R1 means the end of the line for OpenAI, Nvidia, Meta, Anthropic, the U.S. AI industry in general, and proves the uselessness of the U.S. chip export controls. That escalated quickly."

[...]

"Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis, one of the best-informed semiconductor industry analysts, reported back in November 2024 that DeepSeek had 50,000 Nvidia H100’s4 , an export-controlled GPU. And there’s not a lot of mystery about how they got there: Almost a quarter of Nvidia’s revenue is coming from Singapore, and Nvidia Singapore PTE Ltd is headquartered in… Hong Kong5 . The evasion of export controls includes chipmaking equipment."

[...]

The DeepSeek episode: separating fact and fiction

jlaporte — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:39:34 +0000

Article URL: https://roadtoartificia.com/p/the-great-surges-theory-and-ai-44ca9f626213fd54

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42891016

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jlaporte in "In the era of AI agents, Apple keeps agency for itself"

jlaporte — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:55:45 +0000

"AI agents are the new apps. But with Apple Intelligence, devs are just data donors and task runners - locked out of the agent layer entirely."

In the era of AI agents, Apple keeps agency for itself

jlaporte — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:55:45 +0000

Article URL: https://roadtoartificia.com/p/in-the-era-of-ai-agents-apple-keeps-agency-for-itself

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42380725

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by jlaporte in "Our Future of Abundant Intelligence"

jlaporte — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 19:44:33 +0000

"Building in the post-AI world means learning how to consume vast amounts of zero-marginal cost intelligence"