skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even the Apple TV 4K’s UI suffers from banding, such as when they generate blurred backgrounds in the Music app to match album artwork. They need to bring back their 1980s dithering algorithms or something.
Since when is back awful to write? I live writing bash :(
High-incline and knee push-ups are useful progressions for beginners.

An incline changes the moment and resistance to make the movement easier. It changes the mechanics of the movement less than the knee pushup does.

Knee push-ups shorten the moment by shortening the lever arm you're working against.

<https://blog.paleohacks.com/push-up-progressions/>
The Inefficiencies of Christmas
I remember someone telling me about a requested feature in Chrome that got rejected because it would create "yet another option" that would need to be tested etc.
In practice this is not true. De-federating based on association is not common, and mostly used by very tight and usually small servers. The big ones don't do that.

Truth social defederated itself.
India has seen an increase in RWAs recently. Sometimes people want a system to govern their community outside of government but also within laws.

I don't think one can say racism is the major function, especially in other societies that have HOA-like systems. Admittedly they tend to be the lighter version of HOAs and not the type that act like Disney Village dictatorships who find any excuse to fine residents. If the HOA is made up of residents (rather than administered by an outside party) they tend to be more representative of the wants and needs of the development and inhabitants they govern.
> Docker can actually create and manage Windows containers in addition to Linux ones.

The reason why I’m bullish on WASM is the hope that there will not be a “Linux container” or a “x86 binary”, but only universal binaries and libraries. Unlike the JVM though, they’ll be sandboxed and don’t impose a GC with 200 tuning parameters. Lastly, there is language interop on an FFI level between any two languages that bind against WASM. In short, it’s an interop dream of mine.

That doesn’t mean I endorse premature shilling of everything WASM. That can do more harm than good.
Gateway is a desktop app. https://www.jetbrains.com/remote-development/gateway/
Do you think Ukraine would accept this abdication? If the world gives up on Ukraine, I would not be surprised if they just said fuck it and sent a bunch of missiles into Moscow.

In terms of world peace, I fear the best we can hope for is a prolonged stalemate, or something unexpectedly changing in Russian politics. In the past, I might have hoped that Ukraine would trade invaded land for NATO membership, but it seems this is untenable for both Russia and Europe (e.g. Hungary).

Also, leaving a country to die would surely cause mass political unrest across Europe.
Incredible. He really should have just started from scratch. You know what has high feature velocity? Brand new projects. You know what doesn't cost $40b? Brand new projects.
Really? Are you saying professional drawing tablets have been completely replaced with iPads?
Maybe if they hadn't tried to tackle it into an entirely unrelated bill, that right wing party (which yes, is corrupt and trashy) wouldn't have had grounds to complain, and it would not have been rightfully blocked.

This is why following the right procedures is important.

And this is also why the quality of Spanish democracy is viewed as seriously low.
Is Firefox this complicated?
If you want to stop the inevitable new chrome 0-days:

--js-flags="--jitless"

Blows my mind you can't turn off JIT in the config. It's a searchable setting in Firefox and on by default in Edge's Super Duper Secure mode.
A stone also captures some of the moisture being released, slowing the drying process and allowing the dough to expand for longer. Not likely to affect pan pizza, but important for bread. Source: Bouchon Bakery Cookbook by Thomas Keller and Sebastien Rouxel
That was a problem early on, maybe, but probably by the 1980s and certainly by the 1990s, it was a dead issue in terms of consumer TVs that weren't antiques or damaged somehow.
Excuse me? No I didn’t.

I was never discussing the leaks. I was discussing what Twitter took down (aka what was reported to them).
I've seen some prototype compression algorithms that work like:

1. Heavily compress image

2. Use neural net upscaler to upscale back to original size/quality

3. Record the diff between the real uncompressed image, and the upscaled image. This should be small if your neural net is good.

4. Store the compressed image + the diff.

This is a lossless image compression algorithm. Part of the trick is that the neural net size is not included in the compressed file size, because that is amortized across many different files you'll be compressing/decompressing.

It's not super portable, though, because whoever is opening your file needs identical neural net weights to get the identical output to apply the diff to. It wouldn't surprise me if eventually one of these neural nets gets baked into a standard somewhere, and every browser ships with that network baked in. Call it NeuralPNG or whatever.
Even when the local department store was selling home computers based on microprocessors, they still devoted a chunk of retail floor space to a self-service vacuum tube tester.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/195497221166
https://www.ebay.com/itm/324762243586
https://www.ebay.com/itm/403979880899

I wonder when these finally disppeared from stores, and what the market is like for vacuum tubes for antique TVs and radios?
Encrypted Messaging Protocol Mask Network Acquires Mastodon Server Pawoo.net
> Also you reclaim the energy on the downhill.

What does this mean? A downhill gives your legs a rest if you coast but it's not going to restore all the energy you burned going up the hill. And if you're riding sportily (not even a race necessarily), you'll still be pedaling the same amount of watts downhill. You'll just be going faster for the same amount of muscle power.

> Mass doesn't matter as much as people used to think. (Hence no modern bikes being made out of drillium.)

Modern bikes are getting lighter and lighter.

> The one thing where I suspect mass might matter is in the wheels.

Yes, in terms of ROI by unit weight, lighter wheels are the best place to start.
My dad used to repair TVs; I asked him what the easiest way to discharge a tube was and he said "grab the anode lead and the chassis" then after I gave him a look he said "well you didn't ask for the easiest safe way to discharge one"
I repair tube guitar amplifiers from time to time, and I cringe when I see the 50L6 power tube and the 35Z4 rectifier. These tubes light up like lightbulbs, and run so hot that the amplifier case is often charred near them. The chassis shows staining from the heat, and the plastic tube socket can even melt.
These amps always hum because the same reasoning that goes for the cheap on the circuit design also uses cheap and low value capacitors.
I hate these circuits. Several times I've gutted the chassis, screwed a power transformer in place and wired the amp as a tweed champ, Gibson Skylark or Premier 50, so I have a chassis with the right number of tube sockets and pots, and I get a brand-new vintage amp for the cost of a used transformer.
I have a Gretsch amp that had two 50L6 tubes, that made a beautiful 1957 Fender Pro amp and sounds wonderful.
As far as I know, you can’t get an executable script like that to act like an app that’s launchable when double clicked from Finder or clicked the Dock. Even though it’s executable.
Yes, i did the same! I also recommend following Stephane Chazelas on stackoverflow. The guy is a shell wizard who writes multiple quality answers a day. He's also the guy who found the "shellcheck" vuln some years ago. Learned a lot by reading the RSS feed of his SO profile every day.
> sucked in by the Borg Cube of banal political debate

That's an apt description of the phenomenon.
Sounds like something out of Better Call Saul
They are launched into low orbits where they are often visible to the naked eye, as a train of 50 or more satellites following each other across the sky. It's quite a sight.

Over a few weeks they raise their orbits to operational altitude. Once they reach it and orient themselves for operation they are much dimmer and can't be seen without magnification. So the vast majority of orbiting Starlink satellites are invisible to the naked eye.
at some point you gotta start engineering a solution instead of just adding to the list of flags.. isn't that what engineers are supposed to do?

Seems like they got themselves into a tech debt situation now
Then it sounds like with your specific experience, you probably were in touch with a disproportionate amount of students with "learning disabilities"
Netflix: 30% bitrate saving using Film Grain Synthesis
Is there not a forced update?
Ducting - Cause and Impact on Radio Performance : https://www.slideshare.net/MdMustafizurRahman1/ducting-cause...

SF <-> LA <-> SD

'aircraft contrail induced clouds'
> No 3rd party libraries, only C standard library and OS libraries for window, input, etc.

It might be interesting to do a survey of OSes and pick carefully. I think Amigas were used to do TV work back in the day...
The magical number for performance is actually memory bandwidth which is actually lower for TPUs compared to A100s. They have more aggregate compute, but it's not trivial to use that to get very low latency on a per request basis.
Yeah, I might be overselling that a bit but I think the point that there was a lot more music-free time is basically true.
putting it below 1 reveals one thing swing does- it orients your ear to the beat. as i think lots of musical devices do, it enhances perception. it sounds "backwards" when you have it less than 1
Where does Q = { (S1 . T1) . (S2 . T2) : S1,S2,T1,T2 in Q } not work?
> I read "those" as "those subgraphs" rather than "those graphs".

That is the correct reading; your mistake must be elsewhere?

>> [the proof] proceeds by showing that there is a small set of sub-graphs such that every graph must contain one (an unavoidable set), and then showing for each of those that it cannot be in a minimal counter example.

No minimal counterexample to the claim [that a planar graph is 5-colorable] can contain any of these subgraphs. All planar graphs contain at least one of these subgraphs. Therefore, all planar graphs fail to satisfy the predicate "this graph is a minimal counterexample to the claim that all planar graphs are 5-colorable".

The elaboration is very explicit that the theorem is "for every subgraph S in the unavoidable set U, that subgraph (S) cannot be contained in any minimal counterexample":

>> we have also shown for every element S of G that any graph containing S cannot be a minimal counter-example.
Even if we somehow "solved scarcity" and robots could automatically produce all the goods and services everyone needs for free, if we don't get past the primitive "value must be provided through work" mentality, there would be no benefit.

Stuck with this "work virtue" mindset, society would find a way to make it so half the people were paid to dig holes and the other half paid to fill them in, just so we could go on with this fixation on the need to work for a living.
Gnome, nixos, helix editor, rust embedded graphics
Rendering vectors on the GPU is possible, just quite tricky.

But signed distance fields work well and easily on GPUs.

Here's a recent article and discussion about it:

Vector graphics on GPU (gasiulis.name)

235 points by mpweiher 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 95 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32384016

https://gasiulis.name/vector-graphics-on-gpu/
Electricity in the UK Won’t Be Cheaper Than Gas Anytime Soon
They certainly are a bad choice if they are not actually an expert though
Cloud backups work if you have one device
Pixelmator is amazing - it’s replaced Photoshop for me as one of the essential pieces of software all computers should have installed.

I’m consistently impressed with the range and quality of features they add - it got video support only the other day. Won’t be long before it’s a motion design tool as well.

AI upscaling may not be as good as something like Topaz Gigapixel or RealESRGAN, but it’s damn handy to be able to enlarge a layer without worrying about image quality.
I just tried it, seems to work! Make your script with custom options, mark it as executable, make an alias for it within finder, and drag that into your dock.
This situation was posited very early on in the age of the Internet. When everyone can publish, the noise floor rises above everything else. Back in the late 90's early naughts I believed that a new "job/career" would arise which was simply "curator of good stuff related to <x>". There was a lot of discussion about that, and for a long time Google's page rank was a kind of side effect. People would bookmark pages that they found reasonable and then Google would harvest that curation signal and rank that content more highly. In 2010 the book "Building Web Reputation Systems" was published by O'Reilly and a consensus built around "algorithmic curation" based on social cues (like "reputation").

This web site is sort of the epitome of that way of thinking. It's diverse members "vote" on topics and bring them to the front page (or keep them on the front page if they are put there for reasons). And it suffices for a lot of things, but it doesn't really do the job that an editorial staff could do. There is no way to distinguish between votes up or down because the reader agrees or disagrees with the politics of a piece, or the merits. Everyone has their own internal metric for what deserves "up" votes and what deserves "down" votes. The aggregate of those metrics may rarely converge on a consistent notion of "good" or "not good."

At the same time, there is no straight forward way to monetize curation in order to pay the curator(s). Historically that has been via subscriptions to publications, but the resistance to paywalls and intrusive advertising (both mechanisms in use on today's network) have reduced the effectiveness of those techniques tremendously. Worse, the term "blog spam" is a pejorative for a reason, the blog owner, wrapping something they felt was worth reading in some prose and advertisements, do not compensate the author, and for many provide insufficient value to justify their attempts at monetization.

Getting back to the article's main point however, for specialized topics, finding that curation is difficult, getting paid to facilitate it more so. And that means that quality information (wisdom) is drowned in the sea of noise (hot takes).

My guess is that the Overton Window for paying for the work someone has done to distill the wisdom out of the signal has to move from the "radical" to the "acceptable" before we'll see much progress here.
> * Remove every memory option except orc, arc, none, go

I feel like memory option removals remain more "planned/maybe revisable/maybe not really agreed upon as the right direction" with only a change of AMM defaults happening in 2.0. (I'm also not sure what value in removal really is except less to learn about/more inflexibility..). The rest of the list seems represented, though.
How much would $100 worth of BTC be worth today?
Haven't read it, but researching it a bit out of interest and came up with this

https://web.archive.org/web/20210413173809/https://www.arist...

from one of the authors, which you might or might not find useful.
That doesn't make sense though, because software has very different qualities from human beings : it's (typically) both much dumber and much faster.

So the design itself needs to be questioned.
Interesting!

For each source, they must develop a "grain profile" (or, likely multiple profiles) so they're applying the right grain ""effect" when re-graining?

And on the re-graining: is this being done on the client side??? Like, is my Roku adding back the grain to my Paul Thomas Anderson films?

(Note: I'm only 5 min through the video, so these may be answered)
When I was a kid in the 90s (in Australia, not the US), we lived in a cul-de-sac suburb, and every cul-de-sac had a footpath to nearby streets and parklands.

In the early 2000s, residents realised they could petition the local government to have the footpaths removed and the land would be allocated to the neighbouring properties. Within the space of a few years, the route I used to walk to my school bus stop was completely blocked off because all the footpaths were removed. I went from having 4-5 different routing options to none. Also made it so that instead of riding my bike to my friend's house through parks and away from the road, I had to be driven (because my parents didn't like me riding near a high traffic road which I can understand).

Me and Mum were the only people on the "against" side to show up at the council meetings.
>I get wanting to solve a problem, but at what point into fighting the language, to accomplish something simple, do you take a step back and just pick a better one?

What makes you think they haven't tried what you think are "better ones" and moved away because they had more problems to fight the language/ecosystem about with those?
> That's absolutely not true. Commuting on a nice road bike is awesome.

OP said racing bike not road bike. I agree commuting on a nice road bike is awesome and the comfort/endurace category of road bikes is great for that (e.g. Specialized Roubaix, Trek Domane, etc.)

I wouldn't want to commute on an all-out race bike though. Too stiff, too uncomfortable geometry.
Whaat, this was made by South Park creators?! I was amazed when this music video came out but I had no idea it was them.
Fuchsia natively does not use VMs for isolation (although there might be some compat effort that tries to do that). In fact, fuchsia is shipped to one of the lowest-end devices on the market - an old gen smart display. It also uses content addressable FS to deduplicate shared deps. Remember, nightmares aren’t real.
New York to San Francisco by Way of Milan: What Frequent Fliers Do for Status
Pardon me I meant the "fresh" stuff they sell in US stores is outrageously expensive, ~$10/lb. I don't really know what Bufalo is but the stuff I'm talking about would be fairly moist too, you need to use the cheese sparingly or else it will create a puddle on the surface.
> Roads are a 'soft grid' for pedestrians and cyclists but stopped up for cars

How do emergency vehicles get in and out?

If a doctor is called in to an emergency, walking or biking is too slow. How do they get to the case?
> moderators often run ban scripts that check which subreddits you have interacted with

I made a user-centric version of this and it's the only thing that has made Reddit usable. All the people who participate in toxic communities are just gone, invisible. I don't have to see them, their replies don't show up in my inbox. It's absolute bliss. I'm sure there are plenty of false positives but I really don't care since the value of any particular user's comments is zero.

Like people seem to intuitively get that /r/all is only usable once you filter out basically everything; my own list has a little over 1200 subreddits on it and then you add in keywords.

It was the same with Twitter. The enjoyment and usability skyrocketed once you used a recursive blocker on worst kinds of people.

I can understand the frustration but it's really hard to argue with the results.
I was just thinking that in my own code I have a tendency to add more command line arguments as a quick fix and then (hopefully) go back and limit them to what is essential and add config files if necessary, etc. It does seem like a sign that too many people are able to come in and do some debugging or experiment via flags, without cleaning up afterwards.
Wow, yea, I've have the exact same experience with bash.

"im using mac, not linux" is an often prompt I need to use, but otherwise this type of flow works great for simple bash functions.

For more advanced scripts, prompting & careful flow are important, but I've done some pretty awesome things. Today, ChatGPT helped me create a bash script to create a flat structure of large tars from an nTiB dataset directory by aggregating multiple sub-datasets & their files into the desired tar file size. Eg. "need single tar files of all the data in that folder/subfolder, every tar file must be 50GB, most files range from 4MB-1GB. So, need to aggregate them"
In the days and weeks directly after launch, yes, particularly when they're illuminated in direct sunlight at their altitude and where you're standing on the ground the sun has just set.

https://findstarlink.com/

search youtube for "Starlink train" for some good examples.
Writing for its own sake has its benefits. It forces you to flesh out your ideas, to consider how you actually feel, and to flex your writing skills.

I like having a record of my thinking. I read a travel journal I wrote some time ago, and it painted a much more faithful picture of my trip than dozens of photos. I had a good chuckle at some passages, and at my doodles in the margins.

I also write in public, mostly to share solutions, but occasionally to share my thoughts. I've shared a few posts here and loved the ensuing discussion. Some people have reached out because they somehow came across a post I wrote. It's cool to help a guy from Tennessee change his break pads, or to meet a guy from Berlin because he thinks we'd get along (we do).

In the end, I write for the sake of writing. It's like practicing guitar. I have no dream of being a rockstar; I just enjoy the process. However, doing things in public occasionally bears fruit in the most unexpected ways.
Thanks for the idea! I just found a Streamdeck from a past Cyber Monday when I was cleaning out my closet.
No, his lifetime work, e.g. https://herbsutter.com/2018/09/20/lifetime-profile-v1-0-post...
As someone that runs an interest-based instance, this take is just does not ring true. Sure, if you want to join my server you probably should have an interest in palaeontology or zoology, but I have no problem at all if people want to talk about whatever they want to talk about§. This seems to be true of most such instances.

Hacker News seems to have an interest in finding things wrong with Mastodon. There are things wrong with Mastodon of course, but they pale in comparison to the problems of centralised internet that had nearly devoured the entire world. I'd like to see more talk about how to build and improve or solve actual problems rather than these usually pretty off-base complainy takes.

§Within the rules of decency, of course.
Shameless plug: http://hypervault.github.io. Hypervault is a single HTML file (with no external dependencies) which allows you to encrypt files, and it outputs a single html file (with no external dependencies) with a copy of the hypervault decryption software packaged together with your encrypted data. To unlock a hyper vault, all that is needed is the encryption password (entered at creation time).
GPG for sure, be very careful with "vim -x" as that's the only implementation of that encryption scheme, not supported in neovim anymore (and I've found security issues in it: https://dgl.cx/2014/10/vim-blowfish, "blowfish2" is just ok, but it's frankly still there to not break people's workflow, I would think very carefully before using it).

Annoyingly this technique uses AES-GCM (which is good!) but OpenSSL's command line tool can't cope with it: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/12220

It would be nice to have a command line tool to extract these files too, then you know the implementation is correct. (Blowing my own trumpet but my very old project https://paste.sh does this.)
>Despite this, there has always been interest in the possibility that Java programs could be directly compiled to machine code and execute standalone without a JVM.

Cue the "you could always do that with some niche commercial product all 3 people used" from certain HN circles -- you know you who are :)
You can embed the images into an html page as data urls, then save the HTML file.
I think attributes provide the flexibility to avoid dealing with ISO. Stay tuned. :-X