skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, the official justification[1] for the deprecation is ridiculous.

> There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL

In the very same ticket that comment was made, the companies such as Adobe, Facebook, The Guardian and Shopify voiced their support for the format. In fact, Adobe has just added support for JPEG XL to Camera Raw[2]. Also, Cloudflare[3] and Flickr[4] endorsed JXL in Mozilla's bugtrackers.

Plenty of open-source projects have implemented support for JXL images. For example: ExifTool[5], FFmpeg[6], GIMP[7], ImageMagick[8], Krita[9].

Is this really "not enough interest"?

> The new image format does not bring sufficient incremental benefits over existing formats to warrant enabling it by default

The ability to losslessly recompress already exisiting JPEG images is the killer feature of JPEG XL. It allows seamless transition to the new format by converting old images. AVIF can't do that.

To be honest, their explanations feel like post-hoc rationalizations. It seems Google invested too much into an inferior format (AVIF) and now because of the sunk cost fallacy they can't pivot to JPEG XL.

[1] - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...

[2] - https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/using/hdr-output.html

[3] - https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/522#is...

[4] - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1539075#c23

[5] - https://github.com/exiftool/exiftool/blob/master/Changes#L44...

[6] - https://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=0008c15956...

[7] - https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/10/20/gimp-2-99-8-released/#i...

[8] - https://imagemagick.org/script/formats.php

[9] - https://docs.krita.org/en/general_concepts/file_formats/file...
Cool. Putting MGR up on a Raspberry Pi would be cool. The MGR model was awesome, but the ergonomics of move and resize could perhaps be modernized a bit. Do you have a github repo or somewhere we can follow the progress?
> 10 000 or even 12 000 (16 000?) ASA

I'm happy up to iso 32k/50k with my m10 monochrom
Accusing people of being jealous isn't engaging with their complaints.
Twitter Is Drafting Broad Job Cuts in Whirlwind First Weekend Under Elon Musk
Potentially, but it may be the reverse too. It’ll make it easier for them to deal with everything.
Why can't we build distributed networks? I more mean like Google, Apple, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, etc building methods to communicate through WiFi/Bluetooth and not be completely reliant upon cellular. I don't mean your random 3rd party app that is useless because no one uses it.

It helps the people that frequently text in the same room. It helps during natural disasters (including power outages). It helps prevent oppressive governments from shutting down communication. I see these companies talk a lot about promoting democracy, so I want to see them make an open protocol that is installed on all phones that allow this. They have the network effect that's required to do this.

Hell, I think even if Apple or Google just did this others would follow. It cleanly fits into the new privacy + safety narratives both are selling.
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Define “massively.” Sounds like a Reddit-esque waffle word like “wildly” or “dramatically.”
Isn't the problem for startups the lack of developers rather than the problem for developers a lack of startups? This seems to be aimed at the developers but in order to solve the startups' problems?
> likely far simpler to just stick to stereoscopic vision data (the same thing the human genome decided!)

Yeah and till we had reliable and powerful artificial lighting, it was highly unsafe to journey in low visibility/ darkness. We used to finish journeys when darkness fell.

Animals that do require precise movement in low visibility (bats, dolphins) conditions often evolved ultrasound solutions.

So should we license Tesla vehicles to only operate when visibility and weather forecast is good and not drive in the dark at all?
Make sure to rate limit so noone can drain your credits
Why is LiDAR still expensive enough for the cost to be a problem for anyone? Why have large numbers not driven these down to commodity devices at this point? Or maybe similar tech at another frequency like spread spectrum microwave with phased array semiconductor antennae?
the overwhelming majority of emergency orders surrounding COVID have all expired or been rescinded, or have been watered down

Too late for the countless people forced to give up bodily autonomy in order to stay employed, and for the ones who were brave enough to tell the fascists to kick rocks knowing it would cost them their jobs.
Man, whenever I read this woman's stuff, I wish everyone could be like this.

She really "gets" it. Technical whiz, and knows how to work with people.
Platform Engineering is not DevOps
It’s fairly rambling but he touches on that exact point several times most specifically here at the 2 minute mark:

“Organizationally it can be very distracting. If all you want to get to work is vision resources are on it and you’re actually making forward progress. That is the sensor with the most bandwidth the most constraints and you’re investing fully into that and you can make that extremely good. You only have a finite amount of spend of focus across different facets of the system.”

Which was from this section: Q: “Is it more bloat in the data engine?”

“100%” (Q:“is it a distraction?”) “These sensors can change over time.” “Suddenly you need to worry about it. And they will have different distributions. They contribute noise and entropy into everything and they bloat stuff”.

Even earlier he says:

“These sensors aren’t free…” list of reasons including “you have to fuse them into the system in some way. So that like bloats the organization” “The cost is high and you’re not particularly seeing it if your just a computer vision engineer and I am just trying to improve my network.”
In what fields is that true? Is that even true in computer science?
No, the authors state it takes more inspiration from django:
https://martenframework.com/docs/the-marten-project/acknowle...
There is some way for iOS, and some iOS apps work on M1, so maybe. Although Apple has been removing PWA style apps from App Store, so better check newest requirements somewhere at docs.

https://www.pwabuilder.com

https://docs.pwabuilder.com/#/builder/app-store
Tk had this language agnostic way of placing widgets and interface elements and the library took care of the layout. It was somewhat successful, but not as much as HTML, which is slow and clunky in comparison.
> The fundamental incentives for Twitter as a business have not changed.

Have they not changed? This is a genuine question.

How much control does Elon actually have? Can he decide to take the company in a direction that don't match the business incentives?

Can he tell an employee: "Do this or your fired" because it may make him feel better? Or because he misunderstood the situation and couldn't be told otherwise until he sees the results? Or both?

Does he have certain responsibilities that he is supposed to honor? What happens if he doesn't?
One things I want in my idea tracker is the abilities to a) Add context over time b) Grade my ideas, probably simply from 1 to 10 based on how much depth I think they have. Most of my ideas start out unverified and without context and when I share my idea or do more research about it or even think more about it, I always find some nuances, additional context, modifications or the best is that even better ideas come out.

So I am building what I call "Idea percolator" : https://github.com/abhihub/IdeasPercolator_react_frontend
This thread is unhelpfully mixing radar and ultrasonic sensors. Ultrasonic sensors, as your video explains, are primarily used as a parking aid; they are tuned for too low a distance to be helpful in just about any kind of driving scenario at speed.

Meanwhile, radar is the principal sensor used in systems like automatic emergency braking across the industry. It has no intersection with any of the parking stuff because it generally has to ignore stationary objects to be useful (hence the whole "Teslas crashing full speed into stopped vehicles" thing).
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The US is a diverse place, and these ideas date back to the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.
Yeah, I wouldn’t promote myself to a manager if I could help it. Senior IC means I’m doing what I like (and am good at).

The only bad part is that it’s hard to effect large changes, which is what we need right now.
I'm using a 60 years old lens on a 41mp monochrome sensor and it resolves skin pores and the micro hairs you have on your face from 5 meters away wide open

50mm lenses design didn't change much for decades because it was already very very good and still is very good
If you could use LiDAR well enough then it would solve the problem. Of course, if you could use vision well enough it would solve the problem too.
> In any event Star Fleet specifically is a dystopian hell has been analyzed to death.

Analysis about the dystopian back-workings is fan fiction. It's all fiction, to be sure, but the topic is constrained. STTNG portrays a society, in good faith that it's harmonious. This article is about STTNG, not DS9.
> More esoteric languages like Scala and Haskell might have the expressive power I want, but don’t seem practical to implement for other reasons.

Well, if you can't use languages that make it possible/feasible, then code generation might indeed be the best option. It's just that your claim sounded quite general, so I had to jump in. :)
Ah yes, Tall Poppy Syndrome. How quaint.
As for the issues flushing large, ahem, amounts of waste with the low-water toilets, it's mostly just cliche now. When the restrictions were first added, the toilet manufacturers weren't ready. Probably a lot of the complaints were from experiences with these early models.

Now, low-flow toilets have an amazing amount of research and design put into how to meet the guidelines while still performing as well as, and often better than, old 4+ gallon flushes.

A few (ill-informed) complainers aside, this actually seems like a win all around. Toilets don't cost more than they used to, they use less water, and perform better than ever.
The predictable result of groups that the US unleashed by bad decisions and creating a power vacuum? Yes, they own it.
A 30mm zoom would give the same perspective as a 30mm prime. I think the parent post was talking about telephoto vs wide-angle perspective distortion, not zoom vs prime.
Don't you see even Tesla Supercharger is opening for all EVs? It won't work.
Yep, those things. Are kids like trained animals, we praise and reward them when they do tricks for us?
Really? I'll test. Usually PWA icon is added this way:

https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/PWA
What California really needs to do is ban alfalfa farming for export. It is infuriating how much water goes to that crop alone for absolutely trivial amounts of return, compared to what the water consumed could have been used for. Water rights in the American West are an absolute cluster.
I'm oretty sure Twitter still allows this, but the API is crippled and this reflects the poor experience in custom clients. I used to use Twidere extensively, but it's been very limited for the last ~8 years or so.

You could make it use private APIs by copying OAuth client id|secret from an official application. This would enable some features (notifications and polls, and higher rate limits). Later Twitter fixed that and also sent a DMCA, so Twidere had to remove the code that worked with said APIs.
We need to normalize anonymity online so Kiwi Farms wouldn't be able to kill people. The successful push for real identities destroyed the internet.
Indeed. Having living in SE Asia where you can drink the tap water, it’s rough getting a glass of water from the tap and it’s 25C.

There is no “cold” tap, just warm and hot taps.
>* Generating our GraphQL API from Ent Schema

How do you make sure you don't accidentally expose an-authorized data to the user with auto-generating GraphQL APIs? Does Ent have built-in authorization validation?
There were rumours that Wordperfect lost their source code of Version 5.0
If the punishment for stalking a second time is life in prison, then quite a few more stalkers will resort to murder since the punishment is the same.
It looks like someone technical from your ISP also replied in the comments of your post and offered to set up a call to explain it to you. That is far better than you can expect from almost any other provider.
All of which is false. Nobody is in control when the crowd density reaches that point. Nobody has a choice in where they go or who they push. The crowd reached that density due to lack of crowd control.

You are either ignorant, or victim blaming. Go read wikipedia about crowd collapse.
Its connected to home assistant and I do manage all my (home)automations via node-red with HA backend. It just made sense to use node-red.
Very cool and very similar to some of the ideas I’ve been playing with!
I can see a path where with only cameras, Tesla might be able to reach level 4 autonomy in perfect conditions.

But the biggest thing that comes to mind is what happens at night. Are they only going to enable self-driving during the day?
Server admins each moderate as they see fit. Users can block users as well as blocking whole servers if they disagree with that servers moderation.
This apparently goes nicely with the other article currently on the frontpage ...

> I’d still recommend including JPEG XL versions of your images, because chances are that browser support will come eventually.

https://jfhr.me/optimizing-images-with-the-html-picture-tag/
> This was the net cost of storage, including construction, power transformers, etc. Batteries are around $150 of that cost. Note that even zero cost batteries won't eliminate more than about a third of the total cost.

And if you put a chemistry that isn't a fire hazard directly onto an MPPT that you have already paid for, how much does it cost?

Or what if you're simply building storage for daily variability rather than a first response peaking station picked as a straw man?

> And we'll see how far sodium ion batteries go. Scaling from literally zero to 400 GWh in the span of two years is rather optimistic to put it lightly.

The manufacturing process is designed to fit existing lithium supply chains. And has had billions spent on the parts that are not drop-in. This is like claiming someone expects Olkiluoto to go from zero nuclear power to gigawatts overnight some time early next year.

Also what's your alternative proposal? Lets examine it on the same basis.
> Billy and Jamal are similar students, who get in the same kind of trouble...

> ...but they don't face the same consequences, because one the agents with power over them does not believe in equality of anything

> ...and later arbiters of equality of opportunity either can't see[1], or choose not to see a pivotal moment when equality of opportunity was denied to one of them

Which of these is the tall poppy, exactly, and how on Earth is this chain of causal events by any means fair, under any value system?

Equality of opportunity doesn't work if you don't verify that everyone's actually had it, at every step in their life. Which is also why it doesn't work. That's not to say that equality of outcome doesn't have serious criticisms against it, either.

[1] It isn't their job to look.
Having kids is mostly reproductive instincts. Which is different from the instinct to support your "tribe".

Maybe you need find some place to volunteer? help your community? or do any kind of meaningful work?
> Ordinarily, ProPublica has a sterling record

Don't forget Vanity Fair while you're throwing stuff under the bus. They were involved in this as well.
I would not want to be in any form of position of authority above my friends. Sounds horrible.
Evaporating on running vehicle isn't problem since the vehicle needs vaporized hydrogen. Long term storing could be a problem but it's bus.
There are few things wrong with the concept though. 1. Even poor candidates can get past first round at pretty much all big tech companies. 2. Most candidates who apply to big tech are looking for big tech salaries, benefits, and clout.
This makes your own job more pleasant. Same for your manager. It’s literally a win-win.

If nothing else do it because your manager will like it and it increases your chances of promotion.
Yes, it's all about the dopamine hit from getting engagement. I'm guilty of it--sitting there thinking of a sharp reply to get people riled up. You'd think positive engagement would give the biggest boost, but it's actually the more hateful, negative replies that are the most satisfying. It's so toxic.
I don't think the F-15 would be the first to accelerate vertically, the English Electric Lightning was also known for incredible climb performance even in the vertical and it's a much older design of aircraft.
Yeah you're right and good point, and my earlier comment was partly misleading anyway, because there isn't much difference even among typographers between "apostrophe" and "right single quotation mark".

A better way of stating it is to start with appearance: people who started with computers where 0x40 ` and 0x27 ' looked symmetric (like ‘ and ’) would likely end up using them as symmetric quotation marks (thus the conventions used in some software like Emacs and TeX), while everyone else, where they were not symmetric (looking slanted and vertical respectively) would likely not be led down that route. It's a bit unfortunate that there was this divergence, and that it wasn't settled early enough.

An interesting example is The TeXbook itself: the 1979 TeX manual (in the "TeX and METAFONT" book), the precursor to The TeXbook and apparently written with mostly the SAIL environment in mind, simply says (early in Chapter 2):

> In the first place, there are two kinds of quotation marks in books, but only one kind on the typewriter. Even on your computer terminal, which has more characters than an ordinary typewriter, you probably have only a non-oriented double quote mark (") because the standard “ascii” code for computers was not invented with book publishing in mind. However, your terminal probably does have two flavors of single-quote marks, namely ’ and ’, which you can get by typing ` and ´. The second of these is useful also as an apostrophe.

While already in 1984, The TeXbook (second printing, October 1984: the earliest I have access to), written with more awareness of the rest of the world, has more-or-less the same text, but adds:

> American keyboards usually contain a left-quote character that shows up as something like `, and an apostrophe or right-quote that looks like ' or ´.

So already the appearance did differ across different systems.

There's a bit more on another related page of Kuhn at https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/apostrophe.html (this one is about the opposite problem: Europeans using acute accent as apostrophe), and there's a bit more about history of these two ASCII positions at https://jkorpela.fi/latin1/ascii-hist.html
It is now cheap enough for GM and Volkswagen:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-25/lidar-sen...
Using something like census block as a proxy for social class also can be gamed. I live in San Francisco where there is a confusing and frustrating school lottery that gives preference based on neighborhood of residence in an effort to help lower income families.

Some wealthy friends we met at the playground moved to a (snazzy new) condo at the corner of a low-income census block for a year or two so they could get their kid an advantage in the SF kindergarten lottery, successfully getting them into their first-choice school on the other side of town. Then after the kid was enrolled for a few months, they moved to the (higher-income) neighborhood where the school is located.

Being nominally in a census block with slightly higher school lottery priority is a well-understood perk of some of these fancy new condo buildings, and may even drive some amount of gentrification.

(That doesn’t necessarily mean that advantaging people from lower income neighborhoods in school choice isn’t helpful, but it’s pretty hard to set up systems that actually measure what they’re intending to measure.)
>According to the Star Trek timeline we're 4 years away from World War III.

That seems pretty accurate.
Okay so this is some protocol reference document. What is one supposed to use this for / what problem does it solve?
You are framing it as black & white - I think miscategorising the article and Bezos. From the article:

Decisions fall somewhere on the continuum from reversible to irreversible. You can tell where a decision lies on this spectrum by asking how much it would cost to undo. The higher the cost to undo, the more irreversible it is. The lower the cost, the more reversible it is.

Bezos considers 70% certainty as the cut-off point where it is appropriate to make a decision. That means acting once we have 70% of the required information, instead of waiting longer.
And you dont buy Champagne only because it tastes good, or in fact, it tastes good because it's a small luxury you afford yourself rarely. It has to come from Champagne and be a bit expensive or there's no point.

If we needed sparkling wine daily we could probably adapt our taste and production methods to make it anywhere in massive quantities.
Lovely docs. What were they written in?
There is/was FireChat [1], which does exactly that. AFAIK it gained popularity during Hong Kong protests. Looks like it's now discontinued, not sure if there's a successor app.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireChat
I think a lot of this stems from how our culture treats diagnosis. There is a strong pressure to conform to normative ways of being, and diagnosis with a "mental illness/disorder" is often the only way for non-normative ways of being to be legitimised and tolerated. Consequently, non-normative individuals will often seek some mental health diagnosis in order to avoid social pressure and judgment.
If Elon would migrate Twitter onto Mastodon, with the post history and all, now that would be a change for the history books. It would change social networks forever.
If admissions to an elite or selective university is a reward, then yes, we do (and IMO should) reward them for strong performance in terms of GPA, SAT, or admissions essays.

More broadly, I absolutely praise and reward my kids when they do things that I believe are worthy of such feedback. Sometimes that's for achievement; sometimes that's for effort. It's part of the feedback process inherent in raising children; if you have a different approach that you prefer for your children, I don't have any objections to you using your approach.
Humans work with much more than just eyes. We subconsciously move our heads in case of uncertainty in the stereo vision algorithm and have pretty good IMUs. And yet, everyone has the experience of wrongly focusing on a repeating vertical pattern (vertical blinds or coiled cord for example) and getting disoriented. And every experienced driver has experienced at least some of the following: a moment of glare from a wet road, driving into a sunset, snowy road with curves in flat lighting conditions, dirty windshield/headlights/backup camera.

All of those are challenging for humans and and probably even more challenging for computer vision with cameras only. But except for the last point, all are obviously improved by lidar.