skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vouchers that immediately squander the social mobility provided by public schools by placing them in an opportunity to go into a financial death spiral the moment those who can afford to leave and take the tax money with them while those who don't have the opportunity jump ship to a public school are left high and dry in a local education system bleeding viability. Public schools exist as an egalitarian institution, why deliberately fracture them into pieces for any reason other than to kill the whole idea off?
Tangentally the idea is often pushed underhandedly by some evangelical types to shovel taxpayer money into religious schools in a way that isn't currently legal to do outright, but that's a problem adjacent to the idea rather than the main problem with it.
Living the I wish my web server were in the corner of my room[1] dream. Which I think- as typical Webb- speaks so succinctly to what a real & meaningful connection to technology is.

[1] https://interconnected.org/home/2022/10/10/servers
To some extent that's reasonable, but I would set a cutoff. If the cutoff is 0.5% of changes that would be about 10 people. If it's 3% then that's only 4 people. If it's 0.1% that's about 20 people, and that already seems like overkill.
That project is pretty much what I'm talking about. How excellent to have a good excuse to by an arduino, thank you. I may well give this a shot.
I think you are quite accurate in everything you say.

I worked on an FX LP desk for nearly a decade. A happy place to be in times of turmoil. The more turmoil, the wider the spread, the more money we made. The mini gilt crisis made millions for my mates in fixed income. Confidence collapse is brilliant when you know others don't understand the markets. You sense the fantasy
"Better" by your own definition of what features hold utility, or model specific design issues that annoy you.

=)
Gamma does however have an effect on blurring. And I suspect that because of gamma correction, applying a blur filter to a premultiplied image is (very subtly) incorrect.
Ambien is an incredibly strange drug. Even in people without brain damage, it can cause hallucinations, weird dreams, sleep walking/eating/other actions (sometimes dangerous, like sleep driving), and major personality shifts.

It's commonly used to treat insomnia, though I believe it's being used less and less due to the side effects
>If there was a button that gave you a million dollars but would kill a person you have never met, I think you vastly underestimate the number of people who would press it, and those that do press it, would probably be happy to press it many times.

I have heard this thought experiment strikingly followed up with "Jeff Bezos is effectively a man who has built a machine to push the button as fast as is physically possible."
https://archive.ph/r4Glj
Why would they be independently distributed?
> your question is unanswerable

You've only shown that my question is not answerable by simply legalizing child labor, not that my question is unanswerable full stop.

> Can you formulate the question in a way that would invite a sincere discussion?

Sadly, I don't know how to phrase questions in a way that invites discussion; I only know how to ask questions that I want to know the answer to. But here's my question, restated, in case it helps:

@lupire said that support systems in "the entire civilized world" are successful at making it so that no family needs to have their kids work. By what measure do we know that these support systems are successful at this job?
>So it's up to them to keep using a version that won't get fixes or new features or accept the new license.

Users can always fork the old version. We can't force the ImageSharp team to maintain software under a licence they don't want.

>After having looked at the license, it seems reasonable enough to me aside from the technicalities others have brought up.

It's reasonable in theory, in practice I'd rather avoid entangling $WORK with potential liabilities. I prefer more clearcut licences (require payment for all commerical use or don't require at all).
YouTube has automatically-generated captions. What makes his content under the law different than YouTube?
It all still works tho :)
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It disregards everyone who helped ImageSharp get to where it is today. Are the other code / issue contributors and evangelists getting paid for their efforts?

The comment from Akka's relicense [1] applies just as well here:

"""

1) Project is open source

2) People use the project because it is open source

3) People contribute bug reports and fixes, creating value and improving the open source project because it is open source

4) People spread the word about the project, free marketing because it is open source

5) Maintainers decide to relicense, privatizing the value created by the community.

The "success" was a social phenomenon, not merely the efforts of the maintainers.

Relicensing is a betrayal of the community that was built around the software.

"""

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32755405
I think both conventionally and turn off all Russian infrastructure infrastructure using a cyberattack. Nearly everybody in the world uses iPhone and Android, so for the US it’s not that hard to take control of the machines they want to (and probably have already done it).
The Truth Behind Homogeneous Coordinates
Nobody would complain about an AI that does that, either. The problem isn't that the AI read some code and learnt from it. The problem is that it spits it back out, but without attribution. It's like listening to a song and then reproducing and publishing a strikingly similar version of it, but claiming that you wrote it on your own.
It's almost like one of those movies where the protagonist goes "how do we get out of this situation" and someone close to them suggests "this will sound crazy but..."
I was just adding some perspective that it's okay to be upset or frustrated without being entitled or ignoring the economic needs of the maintainers.

And yes, the particulars of this license seem more than reasonable from the standpoint of the threshold of needing to pay.

I should maybe point out that at one point, ImageSharp wanted Microsoft to stop their (still open source) graphics development and help contribute to ImageSharp.

https://github.com/dotnet/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics/issues/47
Oof I wasn't ready for that one. Great writing.
> What's the best thing about Switzerland? I don't know, but the flag is a big plus. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Quas cupiditate laboriosam fugiat.
I love this. Simple and to the point.

You can have free tier of 100 submissions a month which will let people have a taste of service before they are ready to buy. Suggestions about soft limit can applied here to drive more people to convert to paid plan.

Also can add a premium plan which remove the backlink.
I do think that over time, my WordPress sites saved me a lot of time compared to the custom-built ones. On my custom sites I use a similar service to sendfly: https://web3forms.com/

PS: I emailed you regarding WordPress and https://wplytic.com, I hope it's ok.
For similar reasons, one should blend and scale in a linear color space. It doesn’t fundamentally matter which linear color space, but sRGB and most other color spaces used in image files are nonlinear, and that nonlinearity scales wrong much like the (alpha * color term) is nonlinear and scales wrong.
Criminal mastermind there or just asking for a friend? ;)
The copyright holder can always choose to close off access to its copies of previously open source code. They cannot retroactively revoke the license of other people who already have a copy, nor can they prevent its distribution under the original license.
You need to go gamma -> linear before doing any linear algebra on your color values.

There is some debate over whether the alpha should be stored linearly or not in low precision (8 bit) formats. I think the standard practice is linear, but there’s good arguments it should be gamma encoded.

And, from there it’s important to point out that while pre-mul alpha is great for the math, having a color recorded in an 8-bit per channel image pre-multiplied doesn’t leave many possible values in the low range. So, you can get a lot of banding. Dithering becomes important. You should probably store the image non-premultiplied and do the premul as part of the math at runtime. Unfortunately, almost all image editors and encoders make it impossible to control the rgb values of low or zero alpha pixels. They all assume those colors conceptually “don’t exist” and don’t matter. But, they matter here because the filtered transition between solid and transparent pixels is the whole issue we are struggling with here.
In the military, we were also taught that many people die of gunshots simply because they believe the should die (movies/plays/books) when it is perfectly survivable. Sure, some people are motivated to rebel against authority figures telling them what they can’t do, but the vast majority are not.
Just because you have a license to use software doesn’t mean you have a license to change the license.
Here's a more succinct version of the story:

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedeta...
I've taken no offense! I took no offense to begin with! I'm only still writing because this is very funny.
Popes are still hit on the head with a hammer to make sure they're dead, though it's mostly just ritual at this point.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/3515/ancient-traditi...
A 'screenless smartphone'
Here’s the part that got me:
> We believe that sponsorship is a necessary component of sustainability. It’s an important way for users to say “thank you”. It is great to see corporations step up to sponsor projects, like AWS and Microsoft. Clearly, ImageSharp and projects like it need higher levels of sponsorship
I thought - I am not sure why but I did - that .NET foundation packages were well founded and they actively helped get funding for the projects.
It amazes me that Microsoft (and other big .NET players) aren’t already fully funding what is ostensibly considered a bedrock library within the community. It is my understanding after all the foundation only accepts projects in part due to their popularity and impact in the ecosystem as a whole.
I guess it’s not just the web ecosystem that has this problems
Library users should come together and fork the last open source version (https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp/tree/v2.1.3) and maintain that together. Just having a version still available, even if it's got no new features, may be enough to make the Six Labors reconsider their approach because why pay for a library that can mostly work for free?
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MS is more common the further from the equator you are. That applies to Northwestern Europeans. This does not apply to descendants who move closer to the equator. In short, the link between ethnicity and MS is not well understood at all. The only genetic factor that seems to be well understood is that MS is more than 2x more common in women than men.
Yes! The coefficient of friction can be greater than 1. For example, clean and dry rubber has a static coefficient of friction of 1.16, meaning that it takes 1.16x the force to move an object than the object exerts on the ground.

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/friction-coefficients-d_7...

(I think I’m correct here, but this is just from a quick google search and my very fuzzy recollection of high school physics)
>It's possible to use system drawing in Linux

This is deprecated since NET 6.0, eventually support will be removed:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/compatibility/...
https://archive.ph/RpRUs
> Are the other code / issue contributors and evangelists getting paid for their efforts?

Nobody is getting paid for the pre-license-change version. Which remains open-source under the existing license forever.
Visidata has no trouble importing the table:

vd 'https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/sbc-bench/blob/master/Results.md'
I worked with glass fibre multiplexers that used multiple colours of might back in 2000. It's called DWDM. I moved on to different things so I don't know if it's still used, I assume so because it had no real drawbacks. But it was definitely a thing used on many expensive long distance fibres.

On the short ones it wasn't used because the equipment was more expensive than just laying more fibre.
I think they make most of their money from the support contracts they sell, if I recall correctly. I think nearly every major company has one for instance and they’re pretty pricey
Sometimes I think I'm actually the weird one for preferring to live anyway. It seems like the world's best opportunity to cultivate an incredible interior life of prayer or meditation or whatever.

It sounds excruciatingly difficult, but I don't know. It seems worth doing to me.
Nope. They are having problems filling positions because the market has given people a better, higher paying option.
I'm also not an organ donor for the same reason.

If you read the medical literature on this they always claim that the test(s!) for death are reliable. But either they aren't, or people aren't able to always reliably perform the tests, or they don't want to.

Agreed that the hospital staff are not impartial, thus, the third option is not unlikely in my mind.
I think the claim is that surviving texts about training archers describe shooting an area is a certain distance and loosing two more before the first hits the ground (with some extra requirement that the first not be aimed at some high angle). You can then go back from the kinds of bows they had and turn that into an estimate.
> Same applies for aristocracy: they are the ones who are served by special interests, by definition

I'm not sure I follow. Homeless military veterans are served by extremely well funded special interests, but are not aristocrats.
People who need accessibility should have a tool like this automatically injected into all of their sites (since, even if you believe all sites should add this, many are simply not going to, so it will need to be injected anyways).

The real benefit IMO is if you can provide customization to the accessibility tool, so that a) they don't break your website, and b) you can add new custom tools if necessary. Without necessarily including the tool itself (though if you do need to include the tool to customize it that's ok).

Then people who inject your accessibility tool will get access to that customization, and it will provide them a greatly enhanced experience. And if enough people join and you're lucky, it can become standardized and widely adopted, like ARIA.
I like a workstation with battery backup built-in, and not being near the fan noise of servers.

Yet I agree for heavy GPU CUDA workloads, the desktops can offer a more economical and tolerable noise level option. Some studios will use ridiculously long HDMI cables to locate a box in another room. =)
Except for, you know, the one time nukes were used in anger (yeah I know it was complicated, but still). Strategic bombing is one thing, but it's really hard to depopulate a city that way. Whereas once nukes start flying, the majority of citizens know they stand a healthy chance of dying in the next few hours or days. I don't know if that changes the result, but the dynamics will be different enough that I wouldn't cite strategic bombing as a comparison.
Yes, I think the possibilities, in practice, for bad interactions between gamma-related and alpha-related operations are real.

"PS3 does sRGB conversion before alpha-blending, so the blending is done in gamma space, which is not quite right."

https://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html
Thanks for writing this, it was an interesting read
IMhO, one company tacled that very problem head on and did a fantastic job and it's my by far prefered chat (+ more) app today. Ironically, that company, https://keybase.io, got acquired by Zoom. Keybase still works today (thankfully), but there are AFAIK no guarantees for how long.

Keybase Chat is fully encrypted, persistent, and cross platform, and has the best solution to the identity problem.
Everything you said is valid assuming the student GRADUATES which is precisely the point Gladwell is trying to make.
I didn’t say the issues were massive, just that they were present (I did accidentally type “massive immigration” a sentence earlier, it should have been “mass”).

And yeah I agree with you and the other person who replied: immigration is more of an issue for Europe than it is for the States.
If you don't have this downgrade, then clients can't talk with servers that haven't been upgraded yet! This means either that:

* you expect all servers to upgrade immediately, or at least faster than clients, or

* you delay upgrading clients you know to be insecure until servers had time to upgrade, or

* you are ok with breaking a significant portion of the network for every protocol update.

Either way, your proposal makes no sense for the internet.

Additionally, this is already possible with the current negotiation scheme. You can have clients refuse old algorithms (and they do). Your proposal doesn't improve anything there or anywhere else.
For some reason they also try to prevent the license requirements from 'infecting' open source projects that use ImageSharp as a dependency. Unfortunately this means that anyone is free to make an open source project that doesn't do much more than wrap the project inside a new license. You can then compile that project and use it as is.

I get what they want to do, but I'm not sure if their self-made license holds up legally.
There have been no successful commercial fast breeder reactors (that is, competitive with existing burner reactors, especially when the cost of reprocessing is included.) France has mothballed their entire fast reactor effort, not even building another prototype.

Fast breeders have grave safety issues inherent in their physics. The delayed neutron fraction of plutonium (or U-233) is about half that of U-235. This means any breeder is skating closer to prompt supercriticality. If a fast reactor goes prompt supercritical, it will explode more violently than Chernobyl, since the time for the neutron population to double (for a given value of k) will be orders of magnitude shorter. Worst case, it would be an actual nuclear explosion.

Fast breeders also present proliferation concerns. To get a good breeding ratio, a blanket of fertile material is placed around the fissioning core, so the neutrons escaping the core are efficiently utilized. If this is U-238, the Pu produced in the blanket will be "superweapon grade", with very low concentrations of higher Pu isotopes. Thorium breeders also have proliferation concerns, from the need to separate Pa-231 and allow it to decay before. This produces essentially pure U-233 outside the core.

> cost and cost

Let's look at a simple model to see how using hydrogen affects cost.

https://model.energy/

Try Germany using 2011 or 2012 weather data and 2030 cost assumptions (note the cost of electrolysers in China is already half the number assumed there.) The overall cost of providing a steady 100 MW output is not bad, lower than what one would pay from a newly constructed nuclear plant including the cost of construction and financing. Hydrogen helps reduce the cost here, not increase it. Even very slight amounts of hydrogen noticeably help, covering for rare prolonged dark/calm periods.
We could start by not prosecuting done crimes. Why do you go to jail for possessing marijuana, prostitution, crossed a border without permission, or because you are awaiting trial? (Which is why most people are in jail.)

We start by taking these hundreds of thousands of people who really shouldn't be in jail or prison at all and ask, "what programs would help them from not doing this again? What's the root cause we can address?" And we start implementing social programs that will help support, educate, and reform folks.

Some combination of:

1) Remove a lot of drug crimes from the books and clear convictions. Many of these shouldn't be punishable at all.

2) invest in housing, food, and mental health support to catch folks before they turn to low level theft. Give them to people convicted as well. If you change their situations, many will never need to commit crimes again.

3) Levy fines, garnish wages while providing support. Restrict movement if needed by requiring folks stay in contact with a parole officer or mental health support professional.

Etc

Most "criminals" are folks who are in positions where we left them few choices as a society.
Any advice for others going through this phase of their life? I have a terrible feeling this will be me; when I think of having a child I do think about it as if I will only be living for someone else (which is fine) but I have ambitions I want to materialize.

How has living a post child life given you more insight into your pre child thoughts?
Well, I can't speak for others, but my obsession is not with the lack of credit per se, but with the shameless profiteering off of it. If it were just open-source and free for everyone, I wouldn't care.
I have never agreed with "two space is ugly" because I have always assumed em-space and en-space were being used in typography. It's the closest analogue.
They don't need to, by the Apache 2.0 license they're allowed to redistribute the software under the Apache 2.0 license.
>”bigoted parents”? Who are you refering to, FSF?

Homophobes, I should imagine. For a start.

>Here is the problem though: pedophiles and groomers do exist

Abusive parents also exist. Rather more commonly than pedophiles too, I'll wager.

> This gives power to the (bigoted lol) parents to filter out the bad and keep as much good as possible

Can you not see the ways this might go horribly wrong? Have you never bumped into a brain-dead internet filter?
This is a good comment, compared to the others in this thread. However this line

> There is merely the objective good

again falls into the trap of Kantian ethics. You might believe that there is an objective morality, but others may not [0]. It is a long held debate over whether there is objective versus subjective morality, with good (and poor) arguments on both sides. The utilitarian might say there is no such "evil as such and unjustifiabil[ity] as such" because they could find many scenarios where it is justified, as in the example above of causing an entire civilization to avoid harm were a child to be sacrificed. Let me also state that I am not a staunch utilitarian, yet nor I am I a Kantian, I (as likely most of us) am somewhere in between.

I will agree with you on the "condemnations of the West" points you made though, as I think it's really a strictly Western and perhaps even American view that sees Westerners as being the worst perpetrators, over and above all other civilizations on the plant. No, being humans, any civilization has committed atrocities.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-realism/, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-relativism/
Not even in a situation of child abuse? Should gay teens in ultra-conservative households just suck it up and not talk about their sexuality with anyone ever until they're adults? Perfectly healthy I'm sure...
> I prefer more clearcut licences (require payment for all commerical use or don't require at all).

I agree with that. I've always liked the way vvvv communicates their licensing:

* https://vvvv.org/blog/vvvv-gamma-licensing

* https://www.visualprogramming.net/#Licensing

* https://store.vvvv.org/

I've always been curious about how well it works for them.
Sounds great for the people who have enough money saved/good credit for a mortgage (eg. yuppies), not so great for everyone else.
Community service typically doesn't also come with loss of liberty. As someone who has been sentenced to community service but got to stay out of incarceration because of a stupid teenager move, it's effectively a different punishment.