skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say that once you get beyond those additional two-three accounts, you have tackled the mess and scaling to 1500 gets easier. And yes it's mind blowing.
>my impression is that Europe has a number of very well developed systems to protect the social elite from becoming social not-elites

To add onto your complexity: socioeconomic movement in Europe is higher. Anecdotally, tax breaks are high for individuals who've 'made it'. Kids, housing etc. Social dynamics (strong coupling age and assumed experience) adds to this, too.

>Even with the social safety nets to protect against failure.

These social safety nets also require payment. Look at what individuals are paid for, multiply by 1.5x for each employee you think you'll need for your still growing startup. You're not getting paid 100k a year early, saving isn't easy, good luck paying a full FTE for someone else without any instances around to give you VC money.

The safety nets also breed a risk-averse mentality.
JPEG XL format internals are beautiful -- control structures are self-similar and the image coding itself is used to code substructures, similar to WebP lossless.

libjxl C++ implementation is modern high-performance multi-threaded SIMD code, with layering, animation, streaming and progressive features, it can look scary. With some less emphasis on performance it could be written rather elegantly.
Nazi is a such an overused label that it is bordering hilarious. My personal experience shows that people wearing swastika tattoos are no more dangerous than those dressed openly LGBTQ+.

Evil is more nuanced and resourceful than that.
The tax code is the least of Europe’s outlier creating problems. Nearly everyone can just go to the neighboring country and let it grow tax free.

Europe’s growth issues come primarily from mindset, liquidity, and mindset again.

There is practically no risk appetite.

Venture Capital? Private Equity? Its a joke.

The banks themselves have such small capital positions that its mind boggling.

Such nearly perfect and stable combinations of regulatory playgrounds to arbitrage, but nobody is there for it. If you are a foreigner with capital already, have fun! Knock yourself out! If you need to acquire and grow capital? You’re in the wrong continent.

And the solutions themselves are very recent. The monetary union was very important for having contracts and credit in the same currency. Things we take for granted in other economic unions. But thats only 20 years old. The attitudes just haven’t shifted and there isn’t a human infrastructure to help the attitudes shift. The software developers that would shift it are making 25,000 - 80,000 / yr and so they will never accumulate capital fast enough to shift it themselves.

When it comes to growth possibilities, Its a very steep bell curve from 1st place to 2nd place. Various markets in the US represent the US as a whole and thats 1st place, and 2nd place, whatever that even is, is very far behind in financial infrastructure, liquidity and risk tolerance. These concepts are not separable.
> my impression is that Europe has a number of very well developed systems to protect the social elite from becoming social not-elites

This. Going to med school in Germany is the standard way of keeping your upper middle class social status if you are not super talented but willing to work hard.
I don't personally know if that's true for JPEG XL, but WebP was kind of underwhelming.

I remember all the same conversations happening now on HN, but for WebP back in the day, and Mozilla being really doubtful it was worth the maintenance effort. FF eventually added it... in 2019, and Safari in 2020. Only two years later we're discussing a format that will completely supplant it, but the browsers will have to maintain WebP forever.
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> To me it's very simple: nation states should have their own layer that uses the national registry for companies to verify a domain.

I think this can just add layers of bureaucracy that don't address the problem anyway.

In the early days of widespread internet use in Sweden it was quite difficult to register a .se web-address: not only were company documents needed, but the authority that granted use of the address also split your right to it geographically within Sweden, so that if you wanted the address to stretch across the whole country you needed to make multiple applications (using a subdomain system).

This process just made it almost impossible for a small personal startup to own a Swedish domain, and it was completely impossible to register a domain on a 'try-it' basis, to see if a nascent business idea would take-off.

In other words it just entrenched the dominant position of incumbents.

What happened instead, was that Swedes registered .com addresses, or .nu ('now' in Swedish), or other variations. And the same sort of thing would happen now: the international fraudulent sites would still be possible - just legitimate registrations would become much harder.

A little like what happens with pirating, where people using pirated software often have to jump through fewer hoops than legitimate users, who've paid for their installs, but need to constantly dial-up to be allowed to keep using the tools they've bought.

tldr; more bureaucracy for legitimate businesses, but doesn't address the core problem for end-users.
Could David Hume Have Known about Buddhism? [pdf]
It's a program to wrap stable CLI programs, makes sense that they recommend a wrapper around a stable program like pacman
Those error bars shrink based on the number of observations you're able to make of the asteroid. Once we get to the point of committing to a redirect mission we would have made sufficient observations to know exactly what the asteroid's trajectory is. After that it's just math.
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You are also omitting all the instances where the person who delivered on electric cars and reusable rockets has been a total piece of shit.

The person who is saying that FSD is just around the corner, upcoming next year™, since 2016 should also take a hit on credibility, no?
Despite conflict Russia sends France giant magnet for nuclear fusion project
Side question, what's better at chess today - neutral network approach or deep blue approach?
If the holodomor, the great leap forward, and all the other horrible things that happened under communist regimes are part of the 'death toll of communism', I'd be interested in what you think the death toll of capitalism is. I'd argue the Atlantic slave trade, the Bengal famine, the Irish famine and the genocide of native Americans would count for a start.
IMO price points are OK (guy needs to make some money!) but included text messages is way too low.

Since email is just as good (get phone notifications of it!) I can see a lot of people sticking on free because of this.
Not parent, but easy: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/forecast/index.html

/e: I'm a bit out of this game for 2-3 years now, but Python had nothing comparable. Prophet is suboptimal at best. Some things are implemented here or there, but it's all over the place. So I agree that R really shines here.
The title is from LinkedIn, as the announcement of new CEO of CLEARink Gene Feng.

(Seemingly, no discussion is possible from LinkedIn submissions - but Michael Kozlowski had also reported on GoodEreader, so that will have to be the submitted link.)

> ... 9.7”, 454ppi, B&W electronic-ink panel prototypes ... based on CLEARink’s TIR technology ... built on automated production lines ... capable of running 30fps videos with great contrast. Full-color panel prototypes will be available soon. Stay tuned. // CLEARink’s electronic-ink panels are easy on eyes, use extremely low power to display images and videos, and are outdoor viewable even in the strongest daylight. They are suitable for notebook, mobile, wearable, automotive and outdoor display applications

Several presentations of the TIR ("Total Internal Reflection") technology have been available on YouTube and on the original CLEARink website - which has remained unmaintained soon after CLEARink started having increasing participation from Eastern players ( https://www.clearinkdisplays.com/lenovo-invests-clearink ):

https://clearinkdisplays.com/technology
Germany has one of the best health care provisions in the world. It has one of the highest median salaries in the world. It has a powerhouse economy driven by expertise and innovation.

Might be worth understanding how the current system supports that before trying to fix it.
Plus with literally hundreds of millions of dollars in profits there’s no problem doing some “industrial process“
And Mozilla waited for libwebp to reach 1.0 before making the plunge to support it in Firefox. One of the main issues was that libwebp was willing and frequently made backwards-incompatible changes to the codec in the 0.x days; Google simply didn't care about breaking images, but Mozilla cared.
That's not a bad one-word description. :)
An asteroid impact isn't theoretical. It's a statistical certainty like Russian roulette, just because the gun hasn't gone off yet doesn't mean it's safe to put it to your head and pull the trigger.
I started using Firefox as my daily browser when the Firefox Photon redesign launched and reluctantly switched to Brave when they removed it. RIP to the best looking default browser skin of all time.
Or, they just don't have the resources, market share, or interest to fight this battle. I can think of many better things FF should do other than try to push forward a new image format.
While some doctors can be arrogant bastards, those people aiming at medical studies are usually highly devoted to the field. One would assume the high entry barrier, based on the Abitur average (upon graduation of the highest tier basic education, and don't get me started how that system is fucked up in its own way), would drive people not directly qualifying for a slot to other fields. Guess what, it doesn't. Since you can get slot by simply waiting it out (your average in improved by 0.1 per semester, at least that's how the NC system worked back the day I care about it). And there are people that wait for years until they qualify for a slot. If working for years side jobs, as waiters or what not, and miss those years of white collar salaries in the end, only to have to spend years of training to start working cruel shifts at a hospital at the early days of their medical careers, doesn't show dedication I don't know what.

Side note: All the doctors I met so far, ranging from GPs all the way to surgeons and oncologists, would have made for less than stellar engineers. My oncologist maybe, but being a good oncologist is probably saving more lives than being an electrical or mechanical engineer.
They mentioned “here” to be Aotearoa (also known as New Zealand), so it’s likely they currently live there.
I think it's better to look at something like https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pulse/monthly. You can see there were 1.1K pull requests and 435 issues closed in a month.

Also it's a bit hard to judge what the number of open issues means right now, because we use github issues also to track internal tasks (for better visibility). So as we have more engineers and more users there will inevitably be more open issues/PRs at any given moment.
Are we gatekeeping walks and meetings now? You can walk and talk and not annoy other people -- if other people are even around. You can also walk and talk and give enough attention to your meeting. Use your judgement.
Open-source TypeScript event manager `apphook` which inspired by WordPress Hooks
I open-source a lightweight TypeScript event manager which called `apphook`.

Which inspired by Wordpress Hooks

Our team has used it for 3 years in production.

NPM.js: https://www.npmjs.com/package/apphook

Install now: npm i --save apphook
AVIF practically comes along "for free" by just having AV1 support in the first place.
> But, at all times, your requirements/specification must be accurate.
>
> If the requirements say "the system does X", the electrical engineers must be free to use this assumption, without talking to the software engineers. The sales people must be able to put this in the marketing docs, without having to guess.

Fine, sounds nice! A team that can work without a communication overflow, that's wonderful!

A few lines later:

> Requirements should be a living document.

He lost me here.

On one side, he preaches for a "source of truth" that everybody can read and take autonomous decision accordingly; on the other side, he recognizes that the "truth" has the horrible tendency to drift with time. He just misses the elephant in the room: what do you do after you updated the document?

How do you track all the assumptions that every team member has made based on that item that you have just changed? What useful is an accurate document if you can't trust it won't change?

Requirement/specification change is the bane of every complex engineering challenge, and acknowledging it while proposing to ignore it cannot be a solution.
No, it's incredibly stupid and is missing the point. You use tabs to not be consistent. So that the crazy js person can have a 2-wide indent and the slightly visually impaired person can have an 8-wide indent without reformatting the entire codebase
Hm... I've just checked gas prices and they are still 10x higher than 2020. It's not obvious to me that German industry in general and chemical industry in particular can stay competitive at this price point.
You could also argue that universities create (or are a major factor in creating) real estate hot spots. A city with a major university is definitely also more desirable for other groups than a non-university city. Not talking about cities like Munich, that would be hot spots anyway, but smaller cities (e.g. Aachen) definitely gain (or lose, depending on your point of view) a lot through their university.
>GP came here with a stem degree worth millions of dollars

Degree helps you at the beginning of the career

After you have exp and knowledge

It becomes less and less relevant

It is impossible to predict value of degree

Just like the value of connections
I don't know how it is in Germany, but in Norway at least, software engineers are actual engineers. We have the same basic package: a little physics, a lot of calculus, some discrete maths, basic economics, basic signal processing, and a bunch of business-related softer topics around leadership, planning etc. The non-software engineers also have a bit of programming in their programs, of course.
Yeah, we have have only created tiny software companies like Spotify, Klarna or Minecraft.
Looking at github, it was only moved from AUR in May this year, but the commit only changed the description, not the commands.

But this is 100% going in my toolbox - I can think of a couple of scripts that I can update to use this right of the bat!
A Software Engineer. I'm just specialised a bit in DevOps, Data Engineering, and (beware buzzword) MLOps
What is passive code documentation? Why is it hard to scale? What to do?
If anything, German universities are trying everything they can to dissuade people from studying medicine. There are simply too many candidates for the limited number of slots.
Also processes. If I'm a company I might be liable. There might also be higher QA standards as there are people who's very job this is to verify things. I'd say it's easier to enforce standards.
This is backwards. Do you have data to prove that police are responding to all stolen property reports?
The quality metric is your own view of the user-provided reasons for moderation.

Posts on Slashdot have a score between -1 and +5. They can be modded up or down by randomly selected average users who get 5, 10 or 15 'karma' to apply. Karma is applied along with the set of negative or positive reasons (flamebait, troll, insightful, informative). You can tune the slider to show you posts rated in any range between -1 and +5, and apply special mods to certain reasons (e.g. make 'troll' mods drag things down more, or either get all the funny posts or push them down) to customize this further. All posts are visible if you browse at -1. Logged in users default to a score of 1, or 2 if they have a history of positive contributions and elect to check the box to add 1 to their score. Anonymous users (who are now required to be logged in as well, but who select 'post anonymously) start at 0 always. It's possible to have your account fall hard enough that your posts start at -1 as well.

I believe they said they'd only ever actually removed a handful of posts due to some lawsuit or another (might've been that 09 F9 11 02 key? I don't remember any more).

There's also meta-moderation, where anyone can vote on whether the mods that were applied are fair or not.
What can "strong extracurriculars" mean if not the things you described? I would expect significant things like sports (which wouldn't be "strong" if not at least varsity which isn't very special anyway, and some awards), and competitions with awards in other areas.

Though I do agree the odds are quite insane lately, with the top schools receiving applications from the top students of the entire planet. Basically everyone has to shift their sights down the rankings as a result.
I also had a tough time trying to understand what the author was trying to say. My best guess is that he's hardcore into "effective altruism" (based on the rest of his website) and is trying to use this particular hammer with every nail.

Most doctors I know got into the profession because they wanted to cure people. They don't care that this is not optimal from a theoretical point of view, and they most certainly didn't do it to "prove themselves". And once you start with a wrong thesis, all bets are off.

If the author really wants to solve the health sector problems in Germany he should instead try to figure out why I need to book an appointments months before I get sick. Unfortunately fixing bureaucracy is not as sexy as creating Euro Harvard.
I agree with that. In addition to that, German students who want to go to elite schools also go abroad (like ETH of Zurich), this is probably an effect that is unknown to US people.
The thing about energy crises is that they provoke new forms of innovation and can usher in necessary change. Europe made a strategic mistake, but they are correcting it, and even if the next few years are hard, it's not going to have too many deleterious long-term effects.
Probably. This is a view that is already starting to get a lot of transaction in SV/VC circles from what I've seen. In VC they obviously have a vested interest in that they want the "overpaid" big tech engineers to get fired and come work for cheap at their startup, but still.

The thing about Twitter is that it is so obviously overstaffed (on a Revenue/Employee basis when comparing to other META/AAPL/MSFT/etc) that there isn't an easier company to get the ball rolling with.
The journey to JPEG XL started with guetzli (which started with butteraugli to guide loss in JPEG encoding) and brunsli. Guetzli is a great (but very very slow) JPEG encoder. Brunsli is a classic JPEG1 recompressor. We mixed those and got the first version of PIK. We added some forced format-level progression, adaptive quantization, filtering, larger DCTs, integerated HUIF as lossless/super-progressive coder, and adopted some WebP lossless features into HUIF (Select, 2d-LZ77, entropy clustering).

The final version still had brunsli-like features and we surfaced those as a JPEG recompression system.
I used to teach and I loved it other than the low pay. I then took a look at what life I wanted in my future and realized for me, what was important was the type of life I wanted overall. I want to be able to afford life's emergencies, I want to be able to not stress about money. I want to have a schedule that is flexible and where my employer trusts me to do my job like an adult.

I'm now a software developer and my job isn't as exciting as teaching and nowhere near as social. But it's affording me the life I want both freedom wise and money wise.

I don't think of my job as needing to be the thing I love for 8 hours a day. It's a thing I do for 8 hours a day that I like that then gives me a stress free 16 hours a day afterwards. It's a holistic thing.
I don’t think it’s fair to call it that - just look at France right next door to you. They aren’t very Anglo-American :)
Yeah, I wish that were the case too. But supporting all websites is a little hard. I don't intend to stop with just GitHub though, but will be adding more slowly over time.
First time encountering a 406: Not acceptable.
> people accross europe are realizing that the US (and of course the UK) see them as competitors

That's been quite a while already.

> US elites are relizing that the EU as a living destination is becoming more attractive than US

It's hardly more attractive for elites. It's already been quite a while: some people moving from the US to EU for a comfortable life while others moving from EU to the US for self-realization, studying in top universities and working for top companies. Pretty precarious situation long term. At least our politics (at least in Germany and westwards) seems more stable though.
This article is based around 3 pieces of flawed research:

1. "German academia doesn’t have world-class universities"

https://ommer-lab.com/ just built Stable Diffusion. Lead author of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine paper is from https://tron-mainz.de/ . Fraunhofer with MP3 / MPEG-H, H265..

2. Paper Count != Quality

One of the main points of the article appears to be to compare "Havard Medical School" against "Germany as a whole" solely based on the number of papers published. But that might also just mean that the US has more junk papers. Or different financial incentives for PhD students. They should have compared something like (number x impact). Or maybe look at conference attendance.

3. Patriotism != Nobel Price

Their nobel price diagram is probably just due to different levels of patriotism. Not many people in Germany would proudly proclaim "I'm a German!" in their nobel price biography (due to history). For comparison, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_cou... states that the US has 4x the number of Nobel laureates compared to Germany, which seems just fine considering that the US also has 4x the number of citizens.

After misunderstanding the problem, the author then offers a flawed fix: the highest-IQ students from Germany should move to the US
Oh wow, so it wasn’t random homeless folks but actually a bazillion dollar industry? Everyone on earth fainting from surprise at the same time.
For time series, classical methods (ARIMA etc) still continue to perform very well for most problems.
I think you seriously underestimate the value of job satisfaction and its effects on productivity.

I would also say that dev environments can be “streamlined” and “repeatable” while allowing for personal choice of editor and whatever other ancillary tools the developer is productive with. They’re not mutually exclusive.
> Joe is free to resell converters, provided ...

... an increased burden over private sales of other goods (and over existing standards for sales of catalytic converters), which quite literally constitutes an "intrusion."