skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a child in the late fifties and early sixties sweet fizzy drinks were a once a week treat. If we wanted a drink in between times we drank water.

We brought up out children (late '80s to late '90s) the same way, in fact that was not particularly unusual at the time here in Norway. When we visited friends in the US they were taken aback when my children asked for a drink of water instead of fizzy sweet stuff.

It seems to me that a lot of the problems associated with sugar and other sweeteners would be solved simply by ingesting less of them. But I don't know how to convince anyone else to try bringing their children up that way.
I don't think retired people are overloaded with depression, anxiety, addiction, and interpersonal turmoil.

The fact that the lack of work / ability to sustain yourself leads to those things: those states of mind reflect the literal existential insecurity you must deal with.

Because having a really shitty job that is just slightly less insecure kinda leads to the same thing.
There's a couple clinical trials with various variations of young blood or blood plasma being given to Alzheimer's patients. Should be interesting to see how that goes.
> That shouldn't change desire - desire is instinctive

Contextual desire triggers are at least partially shaped by experience.
If there was an alternative in the form of a guaranteed not-terrible job at minimum wage, wouldn’t that necessarily raise wages (or maybe working conditions) for currently terrible jobs?

Giving people a real choice seems easier than regulating every possible kind of job.
Apology accepted, no worries
He forgot one, you can also use Postgres for ML tasks too:

https://postgresml.org/
Seriously? In developed countries much of housework is either neurotic and unnecessary (sweeping floors every day) or sign of extreme laziness or unhealthily low energy (leaving dirty laundry around). Either case will be obviously correlated with people not finding themselves or each other sexy. If it's just practical issues, there are plenty of dishes one can just throw into oven or pressure cooker and eat from paper plates. Or if you are middle class, hire professional cleaners to come every other week. But these issues are rarely practical. Could be a husband who doesn't respect his wife's personal time. Or a wife who pours her general anxiety into unnecessary busy work and then nags husband to do the same. Either way, resolving underlying issues rather than focusing on particular chores is needed for enjoyable marriage.
Guess based on historical anecdata: I think that is because it looks like the current gen AI:s will help automating lot of stuff, but wont enable anything new. I would say we are at the analogous point where ’computer’ no longer meant a chain of humans with calculators. First the automation needs to become entrenched, then new innovations can emerge.
> Austrian employers, like those in America, are currently having difficulty hiring people to take hard, poorly paid jobs

Sounds like a signal from the market that they are not paying enough. One might argue about how social welfare programs and / or importing cheap labor distort the labor market; but it doesn’t change the fact that jobs are the dregs of the labor market.
I know essentially zero about this space, but I would almost argue categorically that 20% is not "incremental".
PNG is really bad for anything photographic. As in, it's pixel-perfect, and the images are also absolutely enormous, unusably so.
The way I see it is competition. The government in a particular place sees that wages and conditions are poor so they offer guaranteed jobs with better wages and conditions - now companies have to compete for their workers. And if that sounds like a tax payer burden, consider that low wage workers tend to be net tax beneficiaries their whole lives, it probably saves the state money long term. You just get to exchange higher priced goods and services for lower tax (or more tax services).
How do we make cleaning septic tanks more enjoyable?
Agree. In my case, I went from Excel stare'n'compare to MS Access and finally mySQL for several years.

mySQL worked great for my lil piece of company business involving a few million records. But then I volunteered to do some analysis with files an order or two of magnitude larger (10 mlllion-100 million). mySQL started coughing up with memory errors. Uh oh. Embarrassing.

I should mention that I'm doing all this on a Windows desktop, as that's what is installed and locked down on the machines they give me.

Enter postGRES. No matter what I throw at it, it gets to end of the queries without errors—in Windows, no less. With an nVME and 32 GB of ram, I can run a complex report on 70M records in seconds. Loading and indexing takes about 15 min.

mySQL was very very good to me for a long time, but for the really big stuff I'm sticking with PostGRES.
Needs a (2016) in the title. The situation is even worse now.
What powers artists who reach old age? The work
>IOW, heterosexual women are still going to be attracted to traditionally masculine traits. It's almost a tautology - if they weren't, they wouldn't be heterosexual.

Setting aside that "traditional masculinity" is a moving target, plenty of heterosexual women are attracted to non-traditionally masculine traits. Desire isn't merely instinctive. Humans aren't rutting animals hardwired to fuck in the presence of phereomones and sexual display. A person's definition of feminine and masculine absolutely informs, if not defines, who and what they find attractive.
We can solve world hunger. It's just that we've collectively decided we don't care enough.
Sugar is a valid source of nutrition at the very least. It does both stimulate the sweet taste buds, prompting body to expect additional energy and it provides the energy.
I don't know where you did get that impression but JPEG XL has written specifications which is exactly the standard.
It looks like they've been around since 2010, which surprises me because GitHub was around for a year or two before that iirc. I still envy that username, though!
I am a bit annoyed that people think "resting the hand on the bottom of the wheel" is enough.

Why can't people hold the wheel properly, with two hands, in ten-to-two (or quarter-to-three) position? If something unexpected happens, you can react much faster.
His mother runs a super PAC for the dems
Related:

Chrome team released the data for the decision to remove JPEG XL support - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33866388 - Dec 2022 (1 comment)

Revert “flag_descriptions: Add note about JPEG XL removal” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33803941 - Nov 2022 (17 comments)

What Is JPEG XL? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33646153 - Nov 2022 (7 comments)

Chrome Responds "No" to JPEG XL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33563378 - Nov 2022 (55 comments)

The case for JPEG XL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33442281 - Nov 2022 (209 comments)

Removing the JPEG XL code and flag from Chromium - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33412340 - Oct 2022 (42 comments)

Chrome drops JPEG XL, “not enough interest” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33404840 - Oct 2022 (4 comments)

Google set to deprecate JPEG XL support in Chrome 110 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33399940 - Oct 2022 (93 comments)

Google Chrome Is Already Preparing to Deprecate JPEG-XL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33383880 - Oct 2022 (20 comments)

What’s the best lossless image format? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31657006 - June 2022 (164 comments)

FFmpeg now supports JPEG XL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31177098 - April 2022 (91 comments)

The JPEG XL standard has now been formally approved - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29598090 - Dec 2021 (17 comments)

Using Saliency in progressive JPEG XL images - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28468284 - Sept 2021 (44 comments)

JPEG XL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27577328 - June 2021 (234 comments)

JPEG XL would be Turing-complete without the 1024×1024 pixel limitation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27559748 - June 2021 (36 comments)

JPEG XL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26186707 - Feb 2021 (1 comment)

Overview of JPEG XL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25560683 - Dec 2020 (1 comment)

Brunsli: Practical JPEG repacker (now part of JPEG XL) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22456764 - March 2020 (72 comments)

JPEG XL: Next-Generation of Image Format for the Internet [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21612708 - Nov 2019 (3 comments)

JPEG XL Reaches Committee Draft - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20603501 - Aug 2019 (2 comments)

JPEG XL is coming to store our photos at 1/3 size - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19816485 - May 2019 (2 comments)

JPEG XL could let you pack twice as many photos into your phone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17356913 - June 2018 (57 comments)

JPEG XL could let you pack twice as many photos into your phone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17345470 - June 2018 (6 comments)
Be careful when using Postgres as queue with priorites, especially if your messages are large. Removing rows doesn't free up the memory in Postgres and vacuum could remove rows only from the end of a 'page'. As a result of that queue will require enormous amount of space to work. The only way to free up space is to use VACUUM FULL which rewrites whole database and will lock queue for long time. I've had a lot of headaches when we've tried 'use Postgres for everything' on production :)
Also, chrome(/ium) has like 70% market share. Not supporting it is pretty much the equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot.
No - it's not X, it's doesn't share a screen in the way X does.

That said... if this is a shoddy attempt at a "gotcha" style question - Screen sharing and remote desktop are both supported.

Ex - for Gnome:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Mutter/RemoteDesktop

LibVNCServer for VNC support, FreeRDP for remote desktop protocol.

For KDE:

https://userbase.kde.org/Krfb

Which mostly just works as long as you have Pipewire and xdg-desktop-portal-kde installed (the base plasma-wayland session usually includes them)

This one is a bit less polished - some users still have problems with keyboard input, depending on the distro and other installed packages.

For Sway:

xdg-desktop-portal-wlr works just fine for screen sharing, and you can use https://github.com/any1/wayvnc for VNC access (including having a completely headless machine).
That’s Safari’s preview.
I think that the job of a CTO is to minimize the surface area of "built in-house" so that your team can focus on things for which your customers actually pay you.

Sure, PostgreSQL can be used for sessions, but Redis has solved this problem on virtually every single platform a long time ago. Your customer probably doesn't even know what a session is, but they will definitely learn about them when your in-house implementation inevitably encounters an edge case.

Of course, PostreSQL has wonderful search capabilities but it was never intended to be used as a search engine. Solr was created in 2004 and is still being improved and used in production every day. Do you know what will happen to your full-text search when your customer types in a mix of English and Chinese characters?

Yes, PostgreSQL addition of SKIP LOCKED was neat but AFAIK the author of that feature himself recommended using a traditional job queue unless you had a very good reason against it. RabbitMQ was designed as a message queue and when you read the documentation you realize that they had encountered virtually every single problem and figured out a way to deal with it so that you don't have to. The documentation pretty much tells you what problems you are going to have later so that you can plan for them today.

Choose boring technology (tm), follow industry best practices, and enable your team to get their work done using the right tools for the job, so they can deliver the product to the customer, and leave the office on time.
> who would do the grungy, difficult work? Austrian employers, like those in America, are currently having difficulty hiring people to take hard, poorly paid jobs

> “If they’re shit jobs, try to pay them as well as possible. Try to change the working conditions as much as possible until you reach the point that somebody wants to do them, or automate them if you can. And then, if nobody wants to do them, maybe we shouldn’t do them.”

Seriously, if you can't find people to do those jobs then you're simply not paying them enough. This whole idea of intentionally disadvantaging people in order to force them to do what you want them to do is some comic book super villain thinking.
Indeed false advertising is a thing and it's not legal(depending on where you live ? it is in most of the world that has teslas at least). The government reaching further than going for false advertising is where the slope gp mentioned would come in I assume, and on that I fully agree.
> It's so complex to work with, that unless you're specifically in data science, it's both unheard of and unusable.

FWIW, in my experience at a "data analytics platform" company, it's reasonably popular for data-heavy workflows since Parquet is well-defined, and file sizes (especially as the amount of data grows) are a fraction of their CSV equivalents.

> Is it a limitation of the format itself?

I don't think so. In other languages, you can generally read/write Parquet files without a ton of dependencies (e.g. https://github.com/xitongsys/parquet-go).
Unpoly is pretty good, and operates on a slightly different level than htmx, which is all about AJAX. Also, this slideshow is from 2016, when htmx was pretty much unknown.
> Contextual desire triggers are at least partially shaped by experience.

If that were even remotely true, then the arguments about sexual orientation being a choice would be valid.

I don't buy either of those arguments, and for pretty much the same reason.
> who would do the grungy, difficult work

Robots.
Have you tried using Tab Groups? I'm using Work/Study/Personal and switch between them at the end of each pomodoro (hit CMD + Shift + <up, down>).

It's not as good as FF containers or separate profiles in terms of sandboxing/isolation, but in terms of UX it's pretty neat.
I keep HN and all of my distractions in one tab group then just hit one key to hide them and only see the work context, all distractions are gone.

This approach works well enough for me because it feels super simple, although I miss FF containers a little bit.
Sometimes people assume the low character count usernames are taken and don't even try. I've snagged some cool twitter accounts this way (not low though but like regular words).
> It's meant in the sense of "coerced into working."

In case of slavery one is forced to work (and that is basically the best case).

With enough stuff like company scrip, company stores, ensuring that laws outlaw being homeless and deliberate breaking of relationship allowing people to escape you can get situation undistinguishable from slavery.

But just "if I will be fired then I am instantly homeless" is still markedly better than "my owner can force me to work to death in a mine".

And forces even horrible employees to be better option than begging friends/family/strangers for help. Slave owners have no need even for such bare minimum. To say nothing about less pathological cases where employees at least sort-of compete for workers.
I just use MongoDB for everything. It's easy to scale both vertically but also horizontally. Also enhances availability and avoids data loss to have replica set with at least three MongoDB instances geographically distributed. MongoDB also keeps most frequent queries in memory which makes it super fast. ObjectID UUIDs are generated client-side making it fast writing. GridFS makes storing files easy, fast and robust etc...
What would you say about someone new to all AI starting by working through the Neural Networks from Scratch book? https://nnfs.io/
By paying a lot more.
I think these programs are very positive. One thing that worries me today is the reductive way we talk about work often. On the one hand there's the "just give them cash, let the market figure it out" aspect that just reduces work to a commodity, on the other there's the 'all work is terrible' mentality. Oddly enough both have a sort of similar disregard for work in a way.

There's really a lack of discussion about the meaning-giving and social aspect of work and how to actively design work in communities. I wonder whether the parallel decline of both traditional labor and religious groups had a strong impact on the perception of work because those were the two main camps resisting that reductive mentality.
I'd try to optimize logic on the client before moving more logic back to the server. This is essentially what Svelte and SolidJS do - they clean up a lot of the existing overhead of SPA solutions. Of course, rendering server-sent HTML as in the HTMX model (or perhaps HTML generated in-client via WASM) instead of doing costly fine-grained DOM updates could then be added as a further optimization.
Judging by the trustpilot review solicitation, the business model could be "start free, amass trustpilot reviews and backlinks for SEO purposes, rank near the top of google searches, start charging for the service".
They do keep astroturfing on Reddit though.
Robots and or increased pay.
I usually prefer a binary encoding. More efficient on the wire, easier to parse and generate, and with no ambiguity. We have 2 control codes given to us by the teletype era that have the perfect meaning for this kind of data:

0x1E Record Separator
0x1F Unit Separator
This is a frankly disingenuous way to put it. Saudi isn’t to blame for world hunger, which isn’t caused by money anyways. The primary concern of the Saudi ruling family is themselves and their citizens and last time I checked, they weren’t facing food insecurity.

Countries facing widespread hunger do so due a mix of factors, including war, corruption, lack of policies promoting agriculture, etc…throwing money alone at the problem won’t solve it and at some point, these countries should be held responsible to fix their problems.
You're probably right. I'm not really a DB admin I just found the builtin fulltext search when I was tasked with reworking a million + users table to go fast. Boss thought we needed sphinx or elastic or something hahaha
I agree that the current produced images by say SD, are more of a curiosity than true art. Give it a year or so, I would say, and we will change our mind. Remember the early VR models? Not comparable with the quality you have now in real time. Only AI seems to increase in quality of output at a much faster pace.
If they can do that to IoT devices, well…
There seems to be no way to inspect the intermediate signals. This makes it difficult to understand what you're actually looking at.
Andrej Karpathy designed a system that is literally 1000x worse in miles between disengagements than the systems deployed by Waymo and Cruise. It reached that level more slowly than just about every other company in the space and is improving more slowly than other companies that are already tens to hundreds of times further ahead. For crying out loud, they have not even figured out “Do Not Enter” signs, school bus stop signs, and not running into children and strollers yet after literal years of development. His opinion on the subject relative to the real experts, who do use more thorough sensor suites, is worthless.

That Andrej Karpathy admits that they hamstrung themselves by focusing on BoM, development costs, and production logistics when they have received payment for and are currently shipping a defective safety-critical product demonstrates either their total reckless disregard for all established safety process or total ignorance. Neither of which is acceptable when doing regular engineering, let alone safety-critical engineering.
Have you had a look at https://nnfs.io/ ? I bought the book and am gearing up to start working through it, I would be interested to know your thoughts. Generally I want to chart a personal curriculum from data engineer to practical application of modern AI to real business problems.
To the completely unethical person, people making decisions for ethical reasons will always appear to be madness.

I might have been a little less "blunt", but the word "deranged" for someone's ethical choice made me vomit in my mouth a little.
Plentiful and easy to do means nothing in the face of sufficiently low supply of workers. If there isn't a low supply of workers, then why is there a quote given about people turning down work?
> What's up with this JPEG XL cult in hacker news?

I'm not sure it's on HN specifically. There seems to be a JXL cult, and like butters they flock to any mention. And in the same vein, they seem to inject large amounts of copium when reality doesn't go their way.
By paying enough
> Humans aren't rutting animals hardwired to fuck in the presence of phereomones and sexual display.

No one made that claim.

> A person's definition of feminine and masculine absolutely informs, if not defines, who and what they find attractive.

Nonsense. If that were at all possible, all the "pray the gay away" processes would have worked. It hasn't.

What humans find sexually attractive is hardwired. If you want to claim it's a choice, you're going to be arguing with more people than me.
"lane assist" can defiantly be annoying. While mine doesn't try to kill me by driving off a cliff... It does seem to prefer that i drive dangerously close to those cement "jersey barrier" walls they use in construction sites??

The lane narrows due to construction and it prefers to maintain the lane even thought it is too narrow... I don't get why it cant detect the barrier and realize that driving over the line is safer?

This is my big issue with the whole "FSD" - roads are not uniform and driving conditions are not always idea.

Let's say FSD is fine for 80% of the time, but what happens if drivers depend on it and it is now in the 20%?

I think giving drivers a false sense of security is very harmful.

Psychologists have shown time and again that as car safety improves, driver aggression only increases to remove the benefits.

ABS - You can now drive faster knowing you wont skid...

"lane assist" has shown that people will depend on it and allow their cars to drive right off the road and into the ditch (youtube has a lot of these). FSB will only be worse.
The fact you’re not surprised that a car can drive itself is telling. And not in the positive way you want to make it seem.

It’s magic man. You’re jaded, and have set the goal posts too far and likely increasingly far.

WRT delivery timing, who amongst us had delivered a complex R&D heavy software project on time? I’m not an Elon fan boy but I respect he laid out a vision and worked to execute on it. That he didn’t hit the mark with 100% fidelity doesn’t seem like an issue to me.
Cheaper to hire a felon or immigrant. I'm not saying I agree with this arrangement.
There are lots of questions about that data for example why was the testing carried out in Chrome 92?

https://mobile.twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/159877483772342...
Have you actually tried to read them? They don't exist.

https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/

https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/documentation.html

All we have is a whitepaper.
People would do that if they could afford to... They need to be able to survive though. So it's rather our refusal to help them than their "refusal" to do anything...
Use gzip for compressing. If you want to stream, use following syntax:

[\n

{ ... },\n

{ ... },\n

{ ... },\n

...\n

]\n

With this simple trick you can stream easily..
or just don't share a household with sexual partners?
> a leap of faith.

This is absolutely the case. It takes "second" (or more like 100th) order thinking to recognize that you're part of an ecosystem that will be less well if you stop contributing just because you're not being paid. The faith part is that you will continue to have your needs (not necessarily wants) met through reciprocity -- which is a basic human psychological trait, so not the worst gamble.