skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah it's probably 'she' not 'he' for this particular person but whatever.

No the point being made is more like that you can compute something doesn't mean you're right even if your math is correct. That goes for a lot of physics and also for a lot of statistics. Second the conclusion drawn by Bostrom et al is hilarious in a very bad way, and also completely beyond science and mathematics. Third, the argumentation is also ridiculous b/c in history as in weather and a lot of other fields we're dealing with a highly dynamic, basically chaotic system. Fourth, we can't predict what the future will be like in a year or in ten years, but here there's a bunch of rich technocrats who want me to swallow that it's OK to sacrifice hundreds and hundreds of millions of people for the greater good of mankind in a billion years? Bro do you even count? You don't even know how a big a number a billion is, and I can't tell you either. Lastly, these people are throwing around their assumption-laden probabilistic formulas like there's no tomorrow [pun intended]. Fact is we can't be sure of any of the assumptions or their probabilities, nor what they mean. People already get stuck with everyday tasks of risk assessment.

> seems very demeaning towards the math

Get over it. It's OK to ridicule the math of someone who makes an absurd argument and abuses the math for dangerous, delusional and nefarious purposes, as the longtermers do. This is fascism in every way but name.
That isn't a right, and plainly obviously not true anywhere in the world.
> that is currently engaged in one of the most deadly wars in history

? you dont have to use hyperbole to make a point.
It has absolutely nothing to do with capability of one person vs the other, it is about what is part of one job vs the other.

As a developer I’m very ”thankful” to a good manager shielding me from all the bullshit customers come up with — if they do their work well they indeed help productivity big time.
Twenty years ago, PNG wasn't really supported by any popular browsers of the day, but it showed its capabilities (especially compared to GIF) and was eventually incorporated. I'm assuming that you'll also say to me "You planned to move your entire business to a feature that has thus far never been shipped by any browser?"

In a more serious manner, JXL has features that both WebP and AVIF don't. Lossless images simply compress better with JXL than WebP (and if you in these circles you know to not bother with AVIF's lossless mode - even PNG beats AVIF in that arena). I know Google uses near-lossless images for their icons, but near-lossless wouldn't cut when it comes for medical diagnostics or meteorological uses. It has progressive loading, which WebP and AVIF don't really have. Speaking of near-lossless, WebP don't support 4:4:4 chroma subsampling while AVIF technically does but no encoder AFAIK focuses on it. Also, WebP only allows 16,384 pixels per side and AVIF only allows 65,536 pixels per side (which to be fair is the same as the original JPEG), while JXL allows 1,073,741,824 pixels per side (which is ludicrous, but considering that JPEG's 65,536 pixels per side was ludicrous at the time is good for future-proofing). There are also niche features which both WebP and AVIF don't have.

While I think that someone at Google was thinking that since AVIF beats JXL on compression at low bitrates there is no demand for JXL, that is a very narrow way of thinking. Not everyone is looking for bandwidth savings, some are looking that current image formats simply don't represent the things that they need (especially that most large companies have focused on "squeeze up the quality for lower bits").
A approaching incline has entered the chat.
That's a clever solution.

In a different vein, I thought about dismantling the mobile air conditioner and putting it in a cold water bath instead sucking air to heat to blow to outside. The lower part is wet anyway from condensate.

This summer I did something different and simpler: instead of a hose to outside, I made a wooden frame fitting into the window and strapped the air conditioner to it such that it sucked the air from outside instead from inside. I think it worked better this way because it didn't create negative pressure in the flat anymore and because it could blow the hot waste air directly to the outside. The fans didn't need to fight against the negative pressure and the long hose.
What do you mean by that?

Patents? Copyright? Brands? Standards? Product Safety?
A 27 or 30G insulin needle with some lidocaine (still often called lignocaine here in Australia ) is a nice addition to this procedure. I rarely omit it unless the patient is unconscious. If you inject the local anaesthetic under real time ultrasound, it can also serve as a seeker so you see if you’re off target with the 30G needle and adjust based on that information, which improves your success with the larger (commonly 22G) needle used to take the gas. Not unreasonable to request local anaesthetic, really - it is known to be a painful procedure.
I guess you are aware of Prisma. What is your opinion of it in this context?
Ask HN: Where would you feel proud to work?
Title says it all, really. I'm sure many of us are conflicted about our workplace and the impact it has on the world - either because we perceive the company as having a net negative impact on society, or simply because we don't see the "mission" as something truly valuable.

For those of you who are proud of your employer: where do you work?

For everyone else: if money was taken out of the picture, where do you think you would feel proud to work?
until this replacement is as stable in time and simple to implement, no worries. But if it is a stability joke or need 748937493874943 devs to code an alternative...
You won't be able to enjoy dank memes regardless, on account that you will be blind from cataracts. You see, you will be tilling the soil all day under intense UV rays.

https://www.webpal.org/SAFE/aaarecovery/1_farm_recovery/uv.h...
Hum, even better, they had covered it yet

https://maldita.es/malditobulo/20221028/elecciones-brasil-bu...
This is great. There's no technical reason why iPhone, Android phones, tablets, etc., have batteries that are glued in and not easily swappable.
Modern equivalent of a Numbers Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
Could it have something to do with the data type of your block column? (Check with typeof() function.)

Just guessing, but I would expect LIKE ‘1%’ to perform very differently for string vs numeric data.

Originally SQLite had no types for (most) columns - but it still had types for the values. Now with STRICT tables the columns can have types too.
Multicast storms happened regularly back in 2004
I wasn't (although I'll qualify with "modern history"): https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/06/23/ukraine-wa...
> i dont think i have ever noticed this in practise in modern times unless artificially rate limiting my connection.

I see a lot of loading even when I'm using a pretty fast broadband (fast.com says that my ISP is 350 Mbps down and 450 Mbps up). The network speed is a function of your ISP and the target host's ISP (and everything in between), and you can't control the latter. If you haven't actually noticed anything, you may well have avoided websites that are slow from your ISP, either by a luck or unconsciously.

Anyway, srcset is the very obvious evidence that progressive decoding is actually needed but hindered by the lack of image format features or browser supports so it settled on a compromise.
The whole reasoning seems to boil down to one of the standard answers to the Fermi paradox: We did not encounter any alians, because we are in our stellar neighbourhood either the first or anyone else is hiding. To "explain" that, we need to reason about the Drake equation, or rather a modification of it, since the original Drake equation did not include the possibility that an alian species colonizes other solar systems. In our context the question is at what time in the history of our galaxy colonization might start (if ever) or might have started and what the typical expansion rate is. Something like the Grabby Aliens simulation can only teach us how such a presumed colonization might proceed roughly under the most simplified[1] model. But it seems to tells us next to nothing about the parameters to fill into the (modified) Drake equation to solve the Fermi paradox. -- Or did I miss something?

[1] I do not think that the simplifications are problematic, as long as one is aware of them. It is rather the opposite: Running a simulation with a simplified model helps us to observe some basic principles at work. Later we might refine and enrich our models and simulations. To use an analogy: If we want to study the movement of objects under the influence of the Earth's gravity, we should start with cannonballs and not with feathers.
> Why is it considered by others to be a bad thing, to see women as lesser and to keep them down, just because they're women?

Eh? I thought you were using some obscure definition? What does any of that have to do with appreciating and making note of the female form?

Btw: this is kinda interesting: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncen...
I can simultaneously think that’s an abhorrent comment while also pointing out that the vast majority of the arguments (on both sides) regarding her ban were based on her beliefs, not her actions, which is counter to how these processes are supposed to unfold.
Your First IPv6 Request
Cancel culture isn’t new. We just used to call it “being tarred and feathered” or “being run out of town for dating a black man”.

If you went to high school in the US, you probably read “The Scarlet Letter”. That’s about someone getting canceled, too.

Shame for behaviors frowned upon by your community has been with us forever. Even chimps throw bad actors out of the group.
There are many discussion threads at the RIPE Network Coordination Centre (NCC) Services Working Group (ncc-services-wg) mailing list with a lot of direct and ancillary information [0].

There is also a detailed factual exposition of the technical changes forced by Russia since 2014 in Crimea and later Kherson "Rerouting of Kherson follows familiar gameplan" [1].

In [3] below Viktoriia Opanasiuk writes:

"responding on «As this only affects LIRs, I doubt there will be significant participation by non-LIRs» I must say that it affects all internet service providers that use IP resources. In Ukraine there are more than 5 000 registered ISPs, but not all of them are LIRs.

The situation that we have now is that when russian troops withdraw from our territory, they dismantle and take with them not only washing machines, but also telecom equipment, TV- and radio-transmitters, leaving people who live there without any information channels and means of communication. We have to re-build telecom and internet infrastructure, and yes, we could bring new equipment there, but if the IP addresses of local Internet Providers will be transferred to other parties, we will not be able to restore even our critical infrastructure there, and there is no place to
get new IPv4 addresses.

Therefore any solutions that involve allowing transfers now and somehow reverting them later are not solving this immediate problem that we have."

The threads with most focus seem to be:

"Protecting Resource Holders in Distressed Areas" [2]

"IP adress transferring in Ukraine" [3]

"UA IP transfer" [4]

"UA IP transfers situation" [5]

[0] https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/2022...

[1] https://www.kentik.com/blog/rerouting-of-kherson-follows-fam...

[1] https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/2022...

[2] https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/2022...

[3] https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/2022...

[4] https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/2022...
This seems interesting. But the claim about being "mathematically balanced" is skeptical to me. It seems it does better than Solarized which claimed a similar but weaker statement.

The nasty details in color space is basically that it is a non-Euclidean metric (when considering perceptual uniformity). There are empirical formula describing a metric. And one can probably numerically optimize in that metric. But it doesn't seem to do something like that (I skimmed through only.)
Except the debate on the ban (which is what I was referring to - the reply itself is pretty much indefensible) became a referendum on ideology rather than a legitimate discussion on a ban due to a harmful action.
You're wrong. Swap "spam" for "DDoS" in the following.

https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
"Right to repair" always seems a weak formulation. It's great to have
"rights" but people don't always care to exercise them, and can be
dissuaded from exercising them.

Right To Repair sounds nice. It alliterates. But of course we have a
right to repair our stuff. That goes without saying.

What's really at issue is a duty upon manufacturer's not to obstruct
the four R's, to;

- refuse

- reuse

- repair

- recycle

Let's get specific, instead of a wishy "rights" formulation.

No technology must ever by soft-mandated or made a dependency so as to
preclude an ethical, environmental or economic choice to not partake
in its use, or to substitute other choices.

No technology should be encumbered with locks, licenses or mechanisms
that affect the post-sale rights of its owner to repurpose or modify
as they see fit (all other safety and contention (RF) issues can be
dealt with at a another layer of legislation and enforcement.)

No impediment shall be made to the access, manufacture and distribution
of spare parts or consumables, software updates, power supplies,
connectors etc

Designs should not, by the use of adhesives, welding, non-standard
fixings, unnecessary integration, traps, and fuses, prevent the easy
disassembly and reuse of modular components.
I don't think that after seventy years Pantone needs any help with being the standard in the industry.
Well, the average office worker pretty much only does 3 hours of effective work in 8 hours. And that’s more than OK. Anyone claiming that they are productive during the whole day are just lying to themselves, we are not machines.
I suppose if we take the philosophical position of Bayesian statistics, where even one sample is sufficient basis for estimating results from some sane priori model, I would say this topic is within reach of some sane postulation. Some factors we can take into account:

1. Life can evolve into us. Therefore life on other planets has p>0 to evolve agglomerations of matter we would call "alien civilization"

2. Evolution seems to be driven through external constraints, and seems to generate similar structures to solve similar problems. Hence it's not insane to postulate organelles and their function are a particular energy minima to a complex set of constraints - ie. evolution on any earth like planet might reach similar patterns as earth life.

3. Neurological function seems to be driven by laws of mathematical dynamics up to a point - if it's math, we will see it everywhere in the universe. What sort of math - I suppose nobody completely understands yet.

4. I use the above to postulate that familiar modes of existence and familiar neurological function can emerge anywhere in the universe

5. If a species is to survive, it needs to have innate drive to do so. Unless species innate drive to survive perishes, an intelligent species will realize it's chances of survival are better if it is not limited to one planet. Then, one solar system and so on. Therefore we can postulate a "natural tendency" to start interstellar expansion.

6. Humans have already launched an interstellar space craft (Voyager). Therefore p>0 that life can evolve to develop vehicles that exceeds the escape velocity form their home star

Or something like that. The thing is, I don't understand the problem well enough to know if it's impossible to probe by statistics or not. I just know I'm not smart enough to solve the matter - when I did a course on Bayesian statistics the thing that left me astounded time and again was that one could create sane and accurate models from incredibly thin amount of data if one just had a good enough grasp of some of the factors at play.
I can't verify these videos but I'm not ready to just dismiss them as fake news either. Some of this stuff actually made it to the Lula-friendly mass media. Recordings of drug traffickers saying Bolsonaro is bad news for them. Videos of their cheers echoing in prisons after Lula won the first round.

> Time to remain very sceptical to the mass media, keep cold and care for yourself. I hope all will be okay.

Agreed, I'll be focusing on myself for now. I hope we'll all be okay.
One thing that Tesla engineers seem to keep forgetting is that human eyes are not fixed into a steel block. We can tilt our heads, crane our necks, hold hands up to block glare, and so much more. Human vision is responsive, adaptable, and not comparable to some cameras bolted to a car.

And even with all these advantages, tens of thousands of people are killed in car crashes every year. Some people make a compelling argument that this is evidence that human vision doesn't have all the information you need for driving. While I don't go that far, I do think autonomous driving has a long way to go.
Anecdotal, but I've some experience in running both TCP- and UDP-based VPN over long-latency links (I worked from half around the globe for some years).

With OpenVPN it's easy enough to test - configure for UDP, or configure for TCP. With long latency, and a tiny amount of packet losses, running TCP over TCP OpenVPN completely stalls, while TCP over UDP OpenVPN is excellent - it's around the same performance as running direct TCP, or sometimes actually better. At work we've also used other types of VPN setups (for engineers on the road), and the TCP based ones (we've used several) work fine most of the time, but if you try that from far away it becomes nearly unusable while UDP OpenVPN continues to work basically just fine.

The TCP over TCP VPN performance problem (over long latency links) presumably has to do with windowing and ack/nak on top of windowing with ack/nak.
True, because I saw how it was just being added to software/frameworks. Some parts of the web move slower than Google expects, I have a feeling.
Do you sometimes go outdoors to an area that has poor connectivity?

Not all of the modern world has the same kind of network speed.

If all pages would always load in less than 0.1 seconds for every web user, I would agree with you. But this is not the case, and I doubt it ever will be considering that web pages seem to get heavier faster than how quickly the network is getting faster for the median web user.
Why is it a better situation to continue with JPEG as the ubiquitous standard than to replace it with a technically superior but equally open alternative? I'm not understanding what you want, or who you think gains something by shooting down the best candidate to replace JPEG.
> The money was transferred to an outside organisation, Tides Advocacy, sometime in the 2019–2020 financial year when the Foundation found it had a large amount of money left over because of an underspend

This is the root of the problem. Wikimedia rises too much money, and instead of putting it in a fund they "need" to find projects, programmes and - now apparently - outside organization that are in no way accountable to Wikimedia.

Instead of burning all the money they are donated, Wikimedia should first and foremost strive to secure the technical and financial continuity of the project by e.g. investing a lion's share of the donations to a distributing fund that provides perpetual passive income from e.g. stock market dividends. Only once that passive income surpasses the current and foreseeable technical running costs (hosting, bandwidth, project and engineering staff) should they start giving money to external organizations.
You can also hashtag search the tech you're interested in, and find people that way.
The hosting cost is just tiny comparing with their other budgets, maybe having less income can make them spend less on something else?
Not to be cynical, as this is a student who built it, so props to them - that's probably a decent chunk of cash for them, and the experience of building and selling a product, even at such a micro-scale, could be life-changing to them.
On the other hand, if you're an independent product engineer or similar, aiming at an effective hourly rate of $100 / hour (and it should probably higher, depending on where you live), and assuming a ~$5,000 exit, that leaves you with a ~50h budget for everything from development to marketing to break even...

I've checked a couple of other case studies in this website, and all of it is extremely small scale, and not clearly economical, for example:

https://www.nocode-exits.com/p/6-how-a-camp-marketplace-was-...

This starts with a Tweet where the founder envisions a 12-hour project, and by their own admission ends up being 2 months to an MVP without core functionality such as payments (sound familiar?)

After 1.5 years a larger competitor buys them for having carved out a geographical niche within the niche - in other words it gobbled up the users, but probably discarded the tech.

None of this sounds economically mind-blowing, does it?

A semi-competent Rails dev could have done this any with similar levels of input/cost. I'll concede that it's likely more time-consuming to become a "good enough" Rails dev than a "good enough" Bubble dev, and that could be factored into the cost equation (but on the other hand, the Rails dev probably has a higer ceiling in terms of tecnical capability and scalability?)

All I'm seeing here is how low-code is opening up possibilities for non-technical founders to build micro-businesses with micro-exits, maybe interesting in its own right but still very far from the revolution we've been promised.

I think no-code already has very interesting use cases in the enterprise space, for internal apps, but I am still to see a case for a client-facing business, built and scaled on no-code tooling. If you know some please do share.
> Even life, is there any reason to think there WASNT some microscopic life there at some point?

Well the little thing of not having any evidence indicating the presence of life.
s/make/keep … bad choice of words on my behalf.

Argument remains the same.
I get where this is coming from, but no. We don't need to replace TCP in the datacentre.

Why?

because for things that are low latency, need rigid flow control, or other 99.99% utilisation case, one doesn't use TCP. (Storage, which is high throughput, low latency and has rigid flow control, doesn't [well ignore NFS and iscisi] use TCP)

Look if it really was that much of a problem then everyone in datacentres would move to RDMA over infiniband. For shared memory clusters, thats what's been done for years. but for general purpose computing its pretty rare. Most of the time its not worth the effort. Infiniband is cheap now, so its not that hard to deploy RDMA[1] type interconnects. Having a reliable layer2 with inbuilt flow control solves a number of issues, even if you are just slamming IP over the top.

shit, even 25/100gig is cheap now. so most of your problems can be solved by putting extra nics in your servers and have fancypants distributed LACP type setups on your top of rack/core network.

The biggest issue is that its not the network that's constraining throughput, it either processing or some other non network IO.

[1]I mean it is hard, but not as hard as implementing a brand new protocol and expecting it to be usable and debuggable.