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Yes, exactly. Do you really want every RPG to be harder than Dark Souls where you die every minute so the non existent cabinet can steal another quarter? It’s a silly argument that ignores context completely. I love the hell out of Robotron, but do I want every game to be that way regardless of genre?
One of very few saved comments I have on HN is on this topic.

> I don't know if it's safe. The actual quantity used is so incredibly tiny that it seems irrelevant. I'd sweeten my coffee with polonium-210 if it could be done in Neotame-like quantities.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440236#9440566
It probably was, seeing as Plan 9 was named after a movie.
A distinction without a difference. Compare:

"I order you to do X, and if you don't you'll be punished with bad thing Y."

vs.

"You can agree to do X, but if you don't then bad thing Y will happen to you."

The choice is the same. The difference is merely semantics.

Prosecutors in the USA are well known to use these sort of coercive tactics in plea deals all the time.
A case study in parallelisation: Advent of Code 2022, day 9
GNOME development with x11docker containers
Just use Postgres for everything
It wouldn’t work as a variable, you’d get race conditions unless you explicitly wrapped both query statements in a transaction.

It could work as an expression which gets injected into the 2nd query. So the second query would effectively have a nested SELECT statement as defined by the americans expression.

But this has the downside that if you reuse americans you have to know that it will be recomputed at each query. So unless you know the semantics of these variable-expression things over time you get race conditions. The solution again would be to wrap everything in a transaction, but at that point you just have to constantly think about transactions, which you don’t if your query is a one-liner.

Also good luck writing a query planner that has to efficiently take into account variables.
> In the article I linked, the creator of ANS asserts that Microsoft's patent covers the variant used in JXL.

Microsoft is a member of ISO. They're obligated to notify ISO if they have any relevant patents to new standards. The subcommittee that JPEG is part of is even chaired by a Microsoft employee, so it's not like they'd be unaware.

Duda seems to think that Microsoft's patent simply covers rANS in general, but this seems dubious. Not only would it cover a lot more than JXL, it would have shitloads of prior art. The patent seems to describe an improvement of rANS, which isn't used in JXL.

Further still, Microsoft has straight up said that the patent is free to use for any open codec.

> That is completely irrelevant to Chrome, why would Google change their mind on that basis?

WebP adoption was slowed, and is to some extent widely hated, because it for many years had zero support outside the web. Not only is JXL seeing faster than adoption outside the web than WebP, it's seeing faster adoption than AVIF. That seems relevant to me. And of course, web companies literally can't adopt it until at least one browser starts supporting it. Shopify already serves JXL when you enable the flag. Facebook wants to use it. Yet Chrome's devs claim that there is basically no ecosystem interest. It's pretty ridiculous.
I wouldn't say that "the opportunity all seems to be on the front end". Specifically for stable diffusion, there are a lot of different ways to use the model. I think we're just starting to scratch the surface of what SD can do, so there is some value in tinkering with different ways to use and apply the model.

Example 1: have a look through here: http://synapticpaint.com/dreambooth/browse/ for some examples of dreambooth models people have created

Example 2: you can merge different dreambooth models together to varying degrees of success (the idea being, you train model A on subject A, model B on subject B, and now you want to generate pictures of A and B together). My understanding is that this doesn't work too well at the moment, but it's possible that a different interpolation algorithm can yield better results.

I do agree with the general sentiment that you wouldn't necessarily be training your own models or creating your own architecture, just want to provide the perspective that understanding the AI side is valuable because it can lead to different capabilities and products.
People have attributed a lot of overinflated image to Musk and his effects and skills over the years, regarding Tesla, SpaceX, and other companies of his.

They still are doing so about this Twitter thing. It’s all a nothing burger.
I live in NYC and the city does indeed charge higher property tax on more valuable properties, so I'm not exactly sure what point you think you're making here? Charging property tax proportional to the value of the property is common across basically the entire world (as far as I'm aware).
The change of terms itself, or the people getting so riled up about it?
Yeah, jxl support is a huge win for anyone working with large quantities of jpeg files; aka basically everyone now that we all have smartphones with cameras and jpeg is the default format.

Jxl is a huge upgrade for simpler images as well, I think I save something like ~60% of the space used by my comics collection with no visual detail loss by converting to jxl.
Author is right, but chosen wrong example.

Religion is not a tool, unlike programming language, limited by definition, Religion is Universe, with endless number of variants.
Some religions, like protestants, are by definition distributed, they just have not some acknowledged position on many questions.

But if we talk about business, this is exact hit, in business, to convince client, you should have narrow offer, which fit this client believes, nothing more.

Why so, if you widen offer, because of steel triangle of PM, you have to raise costs, and/or lower quality.

And yes, I know about smartphones, but my estimation, at least, 10-25% of HN discussions, are about low quality of widened solutions, including smartphones, or about excellence of narrow solutions, like C64, or ST.
My dishwasher tub is made of a kind of plastic that’s very good for not absorbing foods/liquids but therefore is very bad at having anything adhere to it.

This is a problem as a tiny hole was burned through it. I’ve had a hard time finding something that plugs the hole. Various epoxies. Silicone caulk. JB weld for plastics. Everything peels off in weeks or months.
> Aon, Dhà, Trì, Ceithir

This resembles Slavic: jeden, dva, tri, stiri
I think that only Linux had some syscall stability. Every other operating system provides libc or other kind of library with stable interface but syscalls are not stable. Yes, technically you can execute those instructions and your software will work on a fixed kernel version, but that's not what people do.
This is obtuse. Native applications require multiple codebases. Electron doesn't. The value prop is there...
> lossless matters for lots of images on the web (like logos and other images with text)

Couldn't some make the point that SVG can be a better format for things like that, especially logos? After all, raster graphics will always have drawbacks when compared to vector graphics for things like logos and other non-photographic content.
> MathML is making a return next month

Yeah, and that's arguably thanks to Igalia and all of their sponsors. They've put a colossal amount of work into this project. If you have the means, it's worth donating for ongoing support, too: https://opencollective.com/mathml-core-support

Google just removed it and would've been content with it staying gone. They said "it wouldn’t have been a good return on investment for us to do it".
If you care about your user's machines or being able to do anything other than use your app on their machine then please use the platform's tooling and not things like electron.
And you can use it like a taxi service and send a non-driving human as a passenger. Or no passenger and just send it to an address to retrieve or deliver a package.
Met Opera “cyberattack”
"The Met has experienced a cyberattack that has temporarily impacted our network systems, which include our website, box office, and call center. All performances will take place as scheduled; however, at this time we are unable to process new ticket orders or facilitate exchanges and refunds. Once normal operations have resumed, we will honor all refunds and exchanges that we have been unable to process during this period.

We are grateful to our friends at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts who have allowed us to continue to offer tickets to select upcoming performances through their website. Tickets are general admission and priced at $50 each. Seating will be in the orchestra section of the opera house, and locations will be assigned by Met ushers on a first-come, first-served basis immediately prior to curtain. We appreciate your patience through this difficult time as we work to resolve the issue and resume full operations."
So what you're saying is that his company posted a mockup then listened to people with real life experience through the development process and produced a good actual product?

Is this supposed to be a bad thing?
"Cross-platform" is attached to those statements 90% of the time, including this time, but go on.
Similarly, my linear regression and decision tree ML skills are feeling really outdated :)

But understanding AI fundamentals gives me a fresh perspective on how to build applications that leverage ChatGPT (for example).

Crafting the inputs to achieve desired outputs. Training the models with a corpus of data relevant to a niche industry, etc...
Tesla FSD can barely handle a balmy 70 degree day, so I think you'd be disappointed.

I might biased because I work on actual self-driving efforts, but nothing at all about Tesla has ever indicated they were serious about solving self driving in any capacity.

The day that Elon proclaimed they already had the sensor suite decided was the day that they openly admitted this was fraud.
If you advertise a problem as already solved and just needs fine tuning and sell stuff based on it and continue with the lie even after there are clear signals of it likely failing then I don't think then it's a failure _AND_ fraud.

The fraudulent part is making absurd promised anyone with understanding of the topic knows you probably won't be able to keep. It is the part where you continue to push sells through this technology when it has shown to have problems.

Being optimistic is grate, but lying is still lying and ignoring facts is still ignoring facts.
The Ongoing History Crisis
> So, when AV1 becomes more popular and starts really showing up in silicon (which Google is putting huge pressure on silicon vendors for), almost everyone will have a hardware AVIF decoder for free, should they choose to use it. If that happens, any decoding speed advantages that JXL has could be blown apart very quickly.

No one has any plans to decode AVIF still images in hardware. There are two problems. The subset of AV1 supported by hardware is much narrower than what is in practice used in AVIF images. Such images cannot be decoded by hardware. Second is that it actually doesn't get you any speed. Each image would need to be shuffled to the GPU, decoded, then sent back because browsers aren't really set up right for doing everything on the GPU. And any non-stateless HW decoder would be problematic, since every single image would need to reconfigure the decoder state, which is slow.
> Clearly the meaning of 'beta' has lost all meaningful definition

I think that ship sailed when Gmail kept a “beta” label for five years.
It's MacOS only, sadly
Don't assume that this would happen overnight. Real wages have been essentially flat for median workers since the early 70s, while CEOs have greatly increased their own real salaries and companies have made a greater focus on short term profits and dividends for their stockholders. The common justification I see for 100:1 CEO to median income gaps is that "CEOs provide value to the shareholders." They do that specifically by depressing the wages of their employees to make room for dividends.

And it's not like any of the above is some shadowy conspiracy. It's the mainstream practice that is literally taught in business schools worldwide and championed by politicians, most famously by Regan and Thatcher. You're paraphrasing the "trickle down" theory yourself.
They’re working on ending the OS-parity nonsense with AVIF. https://webkit.org/blog/13584/release-notes-for-safari-techn...

To be clear I didn’t say I’m holding my breath. Just that it’s not “obviously” impossible.
I’m mostly shocked that you can spend $64,000 on a Dodge Challenger.

Sorry you had to deal with that, sounds like a nightmare.
Absent all the red flags, the basic form of the scam is pretty sophisticated. Here's a check to get yourself setup from our preferred supplier and expense it when you start probably should set off alarms to the degree that other things seemed off. But it's not by itself something a legit company would likely never do.
We were deciding on a business name at the time, so we didn’t already own the trademark. Based on other similar names that we were considering, voltive.com should probably have been under $10k, but the seller absolutely refused to budge (why not, carrying cost is only $12/year after all).

But getting a decent name is hard. We wanted something that was two syllables, not trademarked (trademarks are important when selling on Amazon, as we do), easy to spell if you hear it said, had a toll free phone number available (we have 888-VOLTIVE). That narrows things considerably.
Two notes:

- selling something as a commercial product, claiming it can do something that actually can not is not failure, is fraud. Failure is selling something stating it's an experiment "use at your own risk, the price is low because of that";

- try seeing our kind of "piloting automation": in air and see it's FAR EASIER, we are in liquid environment without constant very near constraints. A ship travel from A to B, sure it need to take care of eventual other ships, floating obstacles etc, but in the mean they are FAR LESS than "other cars on the road" and far away, no ships normally travel as near as a car with another. Similarly for planes where there is even a third dimension of limited movement freedom.

Long story short:

- ALL modern companies sell experimental cheap crap sold as finished high-quality product because the private research model IS A FAILURE, we need PUBLIC RESEARCH for public development where the private sector pick things to implement and sell BUT do not drive the research;

- ALL efforts to mimic something old with new tech is doomed to fail. Computers as featured-typewriters was an idiocy, similar try mimicking the physical office desk on a computer (see for instance old General Magic UI) and so on. People DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE and that's why keeping the old paradigm in the new tech spread well commercially and ultimately fails creating big disasters, that's why we need culture, witch means PUBLIC schools, universities, open to anyone for free, but we need to change to make evolution happen. We can't get FSD for cars, we can get for flying cars. We can't get flying cars we all dream since decades in modern cities built for cars on roads and so on. The public do the research for the sake of humanity not single cohort profits, spread the new knowledge via public schools, institutions, private sector push such change in the society and the market create the equilibrium.
> What does “full self driving” sound like to you?

Well, that I would be fully self driving the car? ^^
My phone is a tool that I use to communicate and store information.
Why do you think that polyfills can't implement progressive decoding?

It's simply a matter of using <canvas> for progressive rendering.
We can debate the purity of scrum, but in practice, every company I've worked for has modified it to suit management desires, and those modifications have almost always been to the detriment of developers. For example, the "complexity" of a story is inevitably interpreted as "time". And the end of every sprint is often turned into a deadline that leads to tech debt. Creative development is not always a linear process, which scrum somewhat enforces. I think it could work if every story was treated as a spike, and every spike could be pre-empted by new spikes as you discover new things. If it was able to truly flow the same way software devs actually think and work, then it could work. The result of a spike could be a finished work, or perhaps many other spikes. This would model creative development better. But companies don't go for this because they cannot easily estimate time and schedules.
No, believing things other people don’t believe is actually not evidence of objectivity.
And that's not even counting the remaining >21.000 EUR / month that they earn.

And we're talking about a European salary! Which they don't even pay income taxes on (only a small EU tax). So that's practically after-tax money we're talking about.
I don't like how this whole thing has played out, but to be fair, I think fear of missing out over something that would, if successful, be an existential threat to Uber is probably a rational response.
I found out about the Younger Dryas because of the notion that "Jericho is the oldest human settlement".

Apparently, it was a "good" site, but too cold in the Winter, in the Younger Dryas, so it was inhabited nomadically. When the climate settled, Jericho could lure the nomads into "staying more" and became the "first city".
This will hardly seem like a controversial opinion, but LLM are overhyped. Its certainly impressive to see the things people do with them, but they seem pretty cherry-picked to me. When I sat down with ChatGPT for a day to see if it could help me with literally any project I'm currently actually interested in doing it mostly failed or took so much prompting and fiddling that I'd rather have just written the code or done the reading myself.

You have to be very credulous to think for even a second that anything like a human or even animal mentation is going on with these models unless your interaction with them is anything but glancing.

Things I tried:

1) there are certain paradigms I find useful for game programming. I tried to use ChatGPT to implement these systems in my favorite programming language. It gave me code that generally speaking made no sense. It was very clear that it did not understand how code actually works. Eg: I asked it to use a hash table to make a certain task more efficient and it just created a temporary hash table in the inner loop which it then threw away when the loop was finished. The modification did not make the code more efficient than the previous version and missed the point of the suggestion entirely, even after repeated attempts to get it to correct the issue.

2) I'm vaguely interested in exploring SU(7) for a creative project. Asked to generate code to deal with this group resulted in clearly absurd garbage that again clearly indicated that while ChatGPT can generate vaguely plausible text about groups it doesn't actually understand anything about them. Eg: ChatGPT can say that SU(7) is made of matrices with unit norm but when asked to generate examples failed to generate any with this property.

3) A very telling experiment is to ask ChatGPT to generate logo code that draws anything beyond simple shapes. Totally unable to do so for obvious reasons.

Using ChatGPT convinced me that if this technology is going to disrupt anything, its going to be _search_ rather than _people_. Its just a search engine with the benefit that it can do some simple analogizing and the downside that it has no idea how anything in the real world works and will confidently produce total garbage without telling you.
This is a minority opinion though when compared to usage and market share of these orgs.
This seems vaguely familiar, I wonder where I've seen another dominant browser vendor engage in anticompetitive behaviour before?
I know. I'm just wondering if they increase the tax by 80x for those properties (like $12 -> $850), do you think it will make the overall market better somehow?
Mandatory on-call duty exists, as do drug tests, background checks, security clearances, etc. Employers can certainly decide how "free time" is spent and with whom you associate.
Recently I've read lidar is in again, is this correct?
Milton from Nikola would be better example in my opinion. You had him rolling a truck down the hill to show it works despite at the time it was still technology in development (company is still doing progress now). It still shocks me he is going to prison for that as a fraud when it was just a commercial. I don't know if you know - but classical trick in advertising food is using cigarette smoke instead of hot steam to show hot fresh food. Obviously steam would cover camera's lens and render image useless. Also most close-up food commercials have food made from rubbery guee, and not actual food because it shines better and "stays" fresh for longer than an hour when you want to do multiple shots for hours. How come McDonalds management is not facing prison like Milton is? Its because everyone knows commercial of a product does not equal to the same exact product you will pick up off the shelf and eat. Nobody at McDonald is going to jail because you attempted to sell people plastic guee covered with cigarette smell.
JPEG XL needs some support from the camera manufacturers. They’ve mostly gone with HEIF so far and seem unmotivated to do anything different.
Erythritol absolutely has laxative properties, but as usual, it depends on the amount.
> For that matter, people call themselves "gay" for "joyous".

Uh... I don't think people do that anymore.
Mr. Graham does have a big political identity (on twitter). Sure, he shares more anecdotes about raising his kids than "anti-woke" messages, but it doesn't hold up against this essay.

His essay might still be right of course.
The rain can be no joke here. I've had to stop driving and pull over for the first time in my life after moving to NC. The rain was too heavy to see more than 10 feet or so.
Really? I’m not an expert, but that seems far fetched. There are no stroboscopic effects on the page, nothing much different from looking at an old TV set.
Thank you for sharing that, very interesting, especially the hickory dickory dock bit. I'm going to see if there is somewhere I can buy a poster of that sheep chart. Edit: apparently we can - https://www.beccahallillustration.co.uk/product-page/print-c...
Did it even fail, though? AIUI, they never claimed more than SAE Level 2, meaning that the driver must maintain full control at all times...
What?! The 2016 full-self driving video where Tesla drove from home to office was a fraud?!

I thought Musk got spoiled under the influence of his success. He might have been a bad apple all along. :(
What would be an appropriate price?
> Obviously, jpeg has this. I know it is supposed to be a 20% reduction in size, but that is a relatively small incremental improvement.

Let's not forget that a 20% reduction across the entire internet is very significant.

> jpeg also has this, and it’s a niche feature these days.

Because we can't rely on it, I'd suspect?

> png covers this

Without covering the rest.

> Not really a reason to include jpeg xl in the browser unless it actually is being widely used across workflows.

This line of thinking will inevitably lead to a chicken-and-egg problem. Just like with EdDSA certificates and for example H/2 PUSH (support of which got deprecated basically the same time some frameworks just added support).

I think the web doesn't move as fast as Google thinks or hopes it does, and it has and will make people reluctant on adopting next new features.
No it means that you have to drive the car with your full self.