skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most cameras produce 4:4:4 JPEGs at a high quality (something around q96 or more, on the libjpeg scale). WebP cannot do that kind of quality: it uses forced 4:2:0 and not full-range 8-bit YCbCr like JPEG but tv-range 8-bit, which effectively has the effect of reducing the bit depth / color accuracy. In RGB terms, this boils down to more or less 6.5 bits for R and B and 7 bits for G, and having only a 1:2 downsampled image for the reds and blues. For web delivery of SDR images that is (just barely, and not in all cases) acceptable, but for prosumer/professional photography this is not at all sufficient.

What is needed to get a big improvement for photography is a format that can do high-quality high-bitdepth, which would eliminate most of the need for shooting in RAW formats. If the format is precise enough to accurately represent the dynamic range of the actual data (which typically around 14 bits per sample), then this would be 'good enough' to no longer need bulky RAW files. Currently JPEG XL is the only format that can do that — JPEG and WebP cannot do it, and even HEIC and AVIF cannot really do that (especially not their hardware implementations).

It will take a while before cameras will start deploying JPEG XL, but at least now Adobe Camera Raw, Affinity Photo, and darktable support JPEG XL, photographers can already start converting their RAWs to JPEG XL and save tons of storage. Of course it would be even better if cameras can directly produce JPEG XL, and I think this will be a killer feature for the first cameras that will do that — effectively it will increase on-camera storage capacity by an order of magnitude and tremendously improve interoperability.

Chrome's decision is of course regrettable but I hope they will eventually revisit it as adoption of JPEG XL increases.
An interesting question. I think the problem would be that the existing structure, senior vs junior, could not easily be recreated. Everyone sitting at home would want equal treatment and nothing would get decided.
Unless your tickets are tiny, the single commit will have multiple functional changes and be harder to rollback.

I squash my commits into functionally independent units so they make sense and can be rolled back easily. Rebase FTW.
And what about depreciation?
All that you've mentioned may or may not matter eventually but it's not any sort of evidence of how Twitter did. The only things that matter are revenue, expenses, and growth. This tweet was made two days ago and nothing has happened since to provide any sort of evidence of how these actually important factors will unfold. To say that this tweet has "aged badly" is just nonsense.
There were already dozens of Russian oligarchs with net worth exceeding PG's. I don't think anyone is conflating wealth with genius or wisdom.
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I don't know what his true motivations are (do you?), but maybe he's just curious what the codebase of Twitter looks like; or maybe Musk is promising a big paycheck if he manages to... to do what? I don't think Musk even knows what his goal is.
There was a pretty interesting article about this recently, called "The end of social media". Social Media is becoming more and more like TikTok, where you don't see your friends content so much but rather upvoted content.

https://mignano.medium.com/the-end-of-social-media-a88ffed21...
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/elon-musk-would-...

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1524881263470993435
> Go to any casino at 4am and you'll find the same mentality.

At least the casino can tell you how much you've lost.
My one email exchange with Brooks had nothing to do with Mythical Man Month.

In the 1990s I was was the junior co-founder and, for a while, main developer of VMD, a program for molecular visualization. I wanted to include molecular surface visualization, but me being me, would rather integrate someone else's good work.

I looked around and found "Surf", a molecular surface solver written by Amitabh Varshney when he was at the University of North Carolina. (See "Computing Smooth Molecular Surfaces", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/310720 .)

Brooks, you may not know, heard Sutherland talk about using the screen as a window into another world, which got Brooks interested in VR. Back in the 1970s, at UNC, they started experimenting with head-mounted displays. Brooks worked on VR for the rest of his career.

The UNC VR group worked on many different VR approaches, including haptic (tactile) feedback. As I recall, the first was a used hydraulic-powered robot arm. People had to wear a lab coat and helmet when using it because it would leak, and had a tendency to hit people.

One of the experiments, the NanoManipulator, hooked up the VR and haptic feedback (not that same robot!) to an atomic-force microscope, so people could feel the surface and move nanoscale objects around. http://www.warrenrobinett.com/nano/ .

Brooks felt that VR would be very useful for molecular visualization, and developed the GRIP Molecular Graphics Resource. Quoting https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA236598.pdf , some of its early achievements were "the first molecular graphics system on which a protein was solved without a physical model", "using remote manipulator technology to enable users to feel molecular forces", and "Real-time, user-steered volume visualization of an electron density map".

As that document points out, their goal was to "wildcat radical new molecular graphics ideas to the prototype stage. Winning ideas are spun off to the thriving commercial industry or into autonomous research projects."

Surf fit very well in those lines, as VMD was an "autonomous research project".

My exchange with Brooks and UNC was 1) to get permission to distribute Surf as part of the VMD distribution, and, 2) a few years later, to provide numbers about how many people had downloaded VMD with Surf.
So offloading a critical part of your infrastructure to a $5/mo service is a good idea now?
Agreed. I used to work at a top 200 website (also social media) and we had about 30 engineers and another 30 non-engineer staff.

I think cutting workforce was the correct move for an acquirer, but he probably should've moved just a bit slower (e.g. using a more sophisticated metric for employee productivity than "# lines committed"). And of course try to make cuts in a way that doesn't harm the morale of those who aren't cut.
That may be true for its fit and finish (panel alignments etc.), but the fact that they mastered vertical integration and supply chain management in less than 10 years is beyond amazing. Their powertrain (battery, motors, other hv components like charger etc) are first class and unparalleled in performance (and cost). We’ll see what Lucid will achieve in the next couple of years, their claimed (and validated) numbers such as range are very impressive, but for now, but Tesla has proven that it is a hardcore engineering company in a few important areas, there are others that need to catch up.
The timeline you drew here is wack

He started firing people day 1 and bragging about it online. Of course his remaining employees are going to shit talk him.

The “ultimatum” sure as hell wasn’t in response to this either, I don’t know if you are implying that or not. He pulled this exact same stunt at Tesla just a few months ago.
The dude is a raging asshole surrounded by yes men. If you value your health and your family you should not work for this man
> I think there's assumption that people won't just rubberstamp significant diffs to code they don't own

I wouldn't advise doing that but to play devil's advocate, why shouldn't they do that when number of reviews are probably a metric in their performance review? What's in place to discourage that?
I do not know from where you have got that number, but it is meaningless.

The silicon atoms do not behave like spheres, only the atoms from many metallic or ionic substances have a behavior close to that of spheres. So it makes no sense to speak about a length "across" a silicon atom.

In the case of silicon, a meaningful number is that there are around 50 silicon atoms per cubic nanometer of silicon crystal.

The gate of a transistor (which is the active part of the transistor, and which has a much smaller volume than the complete transistor) in the latest 5-nm technologies is contained in a fin that might have a width around 5 nm, a length around 20 nm and a height around 50 nm, for a volume around 5000 cubic namometers (it is a complete coincidence that the width of a fin might be around 5 nm to 6 nm for a process named as "5 nm"; there is no relationship between the name of the process and the width of the fin; fins did not even exist for processes with names greater than "22 nm"). Such a gate of the smallest transistor might include around 250 thousand Si atoms. The volume of the complete transistor would be at least 10 to 20 times greater.

However the size of a transistor is not limited by the number of silicon atoms in the gate, but by the number of impurity atoms that control the conductivity of the silicon, and those are much less than the silicon atoms (I have not seen any number for the latest technologies, but they could be e.g. 10 thousand times less than the silicon atoms, so there might be less than 100 impurity atoms in the gate).
It's not the PR reviewer's job to go actively test it out (you can assume that your colleagues are somewhat competent at what they're doing), but if you review with the spec or the issue open on the side that says to add a blue button and you see it's red, it's your job to ensure it's not a mistake and point it out to the author.
I don't get this. The prosecutors decided not to press the hitman charges, so would the defense have even tried to gather evidence that it was false? Wouldn't that automatically make the preponderance of the evidence suggest his guilt, as only the evidence suggesting his guilt would have been presented?
I wonder if these electric ferries have diesel backup systems? A little 100 horsepower backup engine wouldn't use much space/weight/cost, but would still be enough to get the ship slowly home in case of other failures.

The energy required to move a ship isn't proportional to speed - so just a little slower saves a lot of energy.
A geek reference for visual novel fans (Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward):

MEMENTO MORI, IF THE NINETH LION ATE THE SUN.
never taken mushrooms but been mushroom foraging for food purposes and well, it has to be said: be very, very careful with this stuff. Pick the wrong mushroom and it can and will kill you, and it may be very, very difficult to distinguish the right one and the wrong one. Do things like spore prints, and read books carefully with every specimen.

Don't want folks getting hurt
They require an email address and a phone number, probably as a way to mitigate spam accounts. If you're worried about privacy, you could probably use a burner for each.
The book "Easy J" is also great (and binge-able) to start J with.
I'm not the person you replied to but when I read your comment at the top-level it suggested that "far left" and "liberal" people were a problem at Twitter and that they needed to be somehow removed from the org to fix it. This is a fairly common trope among the alt-right and far-right - that the damn snowflake liberals want to take away your freedom of speech (and take your guns, and turn your kids trans, etc etc), and to be honest I raised an eyebrow. Though it could possibly be that you meant it to be read as "ok assuming Musk thinks liberals/left-leaning employees are the problem, here's how he could have booted them in a less chaotic way ..."
Finnish has long and short consonants as well as long and short vowels. I imagine that can lead to a few "grass mud horse" incidents in song.
> render the pages server-side (for best performance) and then do some further updates client-side.

I am curious, how does this imapct SEO?
That is a joke post. That person was never a Twitter employee. But even if they counterfactually were, big deal if the grunts at the organization you take over have a nickname for you.
Having thousands of engineers tends to help on that. If there's a 5% chance one engineer is available in the next two hours after you post a PR, with a team of 10 you will probably have none, with a team of 1000 you will easily get some.
> This new service allows them (or if they’re hacked - anyone)… to MitM your connections...

TFA mentions that the immutable certificate logs reveal if something spooky is going on. Not enough of a guarantee since the tailscale client may siphon off certs from a local device to its servers anyway. But that's us being extremely paranoid about tailscale (in which case, why use it?).

Second, most services are run behind reverse-proxying load balancers which invariably are setup to "MiTM" aka terminate TLS. The providers running those load balancers control IPs + DNS records too, for good measure.

I guess, supporting a dizzying array of functionality makes Tailscale a decentralised cloud service provider themselves.
The gap was worse with fossil vehicles. None of the competition in that price class had a chance racing model S off a traffic light.
He isn’t in prison for murder. He is in prison for operating possibly the largest illegal drug market to ever exist.

The conviction and sentencing limits are of course there for anyone to see.
Nobody types URLs any more. Even when they do, Google returns them with a space in browser's autocompletion bar, so they trigger a Google search instead of actually going to the URL. Perhaps unsurprisingly, that Google search rarely has the requested URL as the first result.
Interesting perspective. Thank you very much! I didn't quite get the part about Ada - is it a language with a large surface area?
DMT and 5-meo-DMT are fundamentally different experiences, phenomenologically they're further apart than LSD is to Psilocybin.

If you're listing those two together you better also list 5-MEO-DiPT, 5-MEO-DALT, 5-MEO-AMT, 4-HO-DMT, 4-HO-MET, 4-HO-MIPT, etc. there are many many in the tryptamine family with fundamentally different subjective experiences.

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Tryptamine_(compound)
https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Substituted_tryptamines
it was self-reported data covering anything from diy via western clinical setting to trip to the amazonas:

> The researchers analyzed data from an online Global Ayahuasca Survey that ran from 2017–2019, recruiting 10,836 respondents from over 50 countries.

"requiring medical attention" includes any and all "felt bad, called ambulance or doc" scenarios

> Approximately 2.3% of the participants reported that they required medical attention for any adverse effects. “These results are consistent with previous studies, with regular users reporting that most adverse physical effects seem to not be serious and do not compromise health,” Perkins and colleagues explain.

and the paragraph right before states that nausea and headaches and drowsiness are expected and consistent with previous studies.

So what exactly is the message of extracting just this number, without that context?
I'd be worried about the same thing, and wouldn't execute blindly. It seems like a useful way to quickly find out which flags you should be checking the man pages for.
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I'm not denying that its possible to lose all concept of a "face" or even know what "is" is and to only be left with pain, suffering, spinning and eternity. On the contrary, I find it to be an immensely scientifically valuable observation that you lost all concept of a face, didn't know what "is" is and only knew pain, suffering, spinning and eternity. Just knowing that you end up with that experience and other people do not tells us something insightful about which sorts of brain function are universally hard wired and which parts can differ from person to person.

Maybe it is possible to sidestep the badness you experienced by trying to focus on scientific self experimentation like I end up doing. Maybe that's just not possible for you for neuro-physical reasons. If you ever decide to trip again, try it and let us know if it works.
Thanks for being understanding. Now like I also mentioned below, there is no true contract in reality. Since you need to have leverage to get your reward. The people don’t have much power in this de-facto contract that you mentioned, thus demanding things from the entity that has all the power sounds childish to me.
Regular people have been trying to explain this to the "center-right" for a while now: Twitter's moderation policies weren't primarily dictated by their political views, they were primarily dictated by building an advertiser friendly platform. Which Musk exploded almost immediately by endorsing a far right homophobic conspiracy theory about a violent attack on the family member of an elected politician.

You can say "with the benefit of hindsight" but I would put to you: with the benefit of foresight, lots of people told him exactly what would happen. The problem isn't the management structure, it's that Musk is unfamiliar with pretty basic facts about twitter, such as its engineering architecture, its business model, and its position in the market.
Presumably you'd be using your regular PC to host Nextcloud. You are correct that you'll spend more in electricity than a Hetzner sub costs, of course. (The 1TB tier costs 5.11€ now btw.)

However, Hetzner storage isn't encrypted (AFAIK) so I would _never_ put my personal files in there. I pay the extra cost gladly.

There's lots of alternatives, of course - right now Icedrive is the one that I find most interesting, as it has similar prices to Hetzner, provides nextcloud-ish features and is E2E encrypted. I still need to look into how trustworthy they are though.
I have used a couple of OneDrive family accounts to host some media files that I wanted to preserve (yt video downloads, academic courses and papers collected from questionable soruces). What are the chances MS blocks access to my data in the next 1 year?
> It's a messaging website with a character limit, image attachment and adverts. That's it.

You can reduce anything to sound meaningless with such trite statements.
> It may look very strange. The drugs are capable to give you a hallucinatory experience beyond the mundane world. That is the experience that is being searched through meditation.

I have never had hallucinations while meditating. Closest thing I would consider a hallucination is the so-called “entering the cavern” feeling, where some people (myself included) can pretty readily achieve a state where you have the vague bodily sensation that you’ve grown significantly in size, perhaps becoming like 10 times taller/bigger than you actually are. Trancelike states are barely a hallucination either.

Hallucination has absolutely nothing to do with meditation, nor have I ever treated meditation as an attempt to hallucinate. This article seems kind of ridiculous.
I guess GP sat down, and thought about it. I do that myself time to time, then I realize that despite to my best efforts I can't defend some common sense ideas, and must accept it as false. Usually hard to even explain.

.. just think about it with an open mind, or try to even defend that drummers are musicians. I think most definitions of musicians don't include drummers much more than the costume designers or the publishers. (They work in the music industry, make music better, but can't and don't create music themselves alone.) I lean towards that they are not musicians.

Also if GGGP doesn't classify hiphop or rap as music, then the "but the drummers are usually classified as musicians too" argument doesn't work on many levels.
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This is interesting. I hope someone will do the same to re-add PCIe 4.0 support to AMD AM4 B450 chipset mainboards (it was available temporarily until AMD took it away again in later AGESA versions). Not a trivial hack i reckon.
Always good, and not confusing at all, when the CEO of something is also a giant troll (on that same something).
Twitter may fail much faster with Elon doing what he's doing, but failure was going to happen eventually.
This is going to get so much worse...
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There's been scientific studies on whether people can get "machine elves" to tell them some actual factual information that they didn't already know.

In all of the studied cases the things that were told by the "machine elves" was either something that got verified as false/made up or something the user already knew.
I assume the wire is very very thin to keep it light.

That means it probably breaks down in the environment after a few years - with the time mostly depending on what type of enamel it's coated in.
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Are you suggesting that FBI actually forced him to contract a hitman? My understanding is that FBI set up the bait and this guy eat it hook and all. It is not illegal or even immoral to bait somebody, there was no pressure, FBI presented the opportunity and this guy wanted to have somebody killed.
you'll have compliance needs to speak for if you let code to prod unreviewed
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This is what humans in groups do, have always done, and there's nothing wrong with it. It's like a group sitting around a campfire each taking their turn to make joke, sing a song, do a dance, be profound and have others try out the same thing and take it further until the next new idea pops up.

It's lovely.
> If your aim is sabotage, you would have to find a like minded saboteur to work with you

Or forty-four billion dollars.

There's no need to actively sabotage the site from the staff position. Even if there isn't a single critical disk slowly filling up somewhere, there is a lot of dependencies in there that will eventually have a CVE.
> FTX
> Musk

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How can you argue that a result type is more forcefully thought about than checked exceptions?

If that was the goal, shouldn't we like checked exceptions the best?

The point of the article is that, at least in python, skipping the result check is cheaper in the happy path and slower in the exceptional case which is a useful trick. You haven't addressed that trade-off at all.
That's pretty much the use case of the ShakeAlert system which can provide notice for earth quakes a few seconds in advance.

https://mil.wa.gov/asset/61f184c815ef0
Nebula seems to be under Defined Networking (https://www.defined.net/) now. It lacks the ease and tooling of the multitude of others that emerged in the space. My gut is that it's usable for the clever home user but meant for a professional IT dept with the ability/desire to build their own tooling and automation around it. The spartan mobile app is a sign of such. Tailscale is probably more easily usable for the average user than nebula or even vanilla wireguard.
Twitter's media capabilities are really awful and have remained awful for as long as I can remember. The media player is slow as hell and malfunctions all the time.

Twitter was built on shaky foundations. From the very earliest days, the "fail whale" was a recurring theme
It went to appeal and all those points were addressed. But I agree that it would have been much better to actually prosecute those murder-for-hire charges. Even if acquitted, the judge can still take the accusations into account during sentencing (due to the different evidentiary standards).
At least trying to take the wrapper off the box -- not sure if he has figured out how to play yet..

Word on the street is full teams (including most of infra) have clicked "no". He may be in a state where the site can't even stay up as he coasts on employee fumes.