skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon Linux 2023 a Cloud-Optimized Linux Distribution with LTS Support Released
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Is that a limitation of the format itself, or just a limitation of libavif?
You're probably right that I shouldn't have been so rash, I'm sorry for the omission & my despondent attitude toward HEIC. My enthusiasm is sullied by the presence of royalties & a non-existent web presence because of these royalties which I consider reasonable (where JXL's lack of web presence is questionable). In the future, I may do a similar test and include HEIC, but currently I believe it fares worse than AVIF almost across the board. I'd be willing to see whether or not I'm correct in saying this, though.

I should include that under "Takeaway," I do say that " ... this is a non-scientific test," & it shouldn't be considered objective despite the use of metrics. While I find SSIMULACRA2 correlates very well with what my eyes see with these images & most other images, 27 landscape/architecture images aren't enough to draw any objective conclusions here & I'd need to do more testing in the future to produce research-quality work.
Sadly, I think this is true about a lot of the food in Manhattan: the middle got squeezed. There's low end, high volume and high-end, low volume. I'm always amazed Manhattan can support so many on the low end with the economics on the rent, but I think they end up with just truly amazing foot traffic and volume that other cities can't touch.
a praxis of Latour's Facing Gaia. beautiful.
I don't think anyone is claiming that. But 2 or 3X? Possibly. And that would be enough to be a game changer.
Did she write it in Esperanto? I have a vague memory of cartoon characters doing things you typed in. But the developers thought Esperanto was easier to parse, so they made humans learn it to talk to the computer. Jen kial mi lernis esperanton.
No kidding. I used to drive Toyota Tercels of the same vintage. Like a lot of Japanese cars then (and even now) they were totally reliable except for one detail. Only car I've ever had to change the igniter (the electronic part of the ignition system) by the roadside! I had a spare along, just in case, and needed it.

Even so, modern cars are really a different show. Current one is 11 years old, driven in a road salt environment, and has 207,000km on it and basically drives almost like new and has no noticeable rust. And has never even had the spark plugs out or the valves touched.
So this is the same as

a[low:min(high, max)]

?
What do you think countries did differently in the 1930s-1940s to help Nazi victims that they’re not doing for these other cases of genocide? I doubt the Allied countries would have done anymore to stop it then we do today, if they hadn’t been forced into war by the Axis. Race has much less to do about the lack of action then the enormous cost of action. I think where race does play in is not just the ethnicity of the victims but also the ethnicity and perceived civility of the perpetrators, prior to the war. Germany was a liberal democracy that turned to unimaginable darkness. You don’t see the same reaction to the Soviet Gulags, which killed more people, because the Soviets were already viewed as brutal.
Bold of you to assume they’ve paid their GitHub bill
Why does it need a database on the client side? Sounds like a significant restriction. A lot of apps do not have a database at all or have an exotic one (NoSQL).
US fighter pilot accused of helping China moved to maximum security jail in NSW
Smart ? Isn't it a risk that Twitter (the company) gets litigated because it has done illegal or unfair things in the past ?

If some politics discover that Twitter has influenced in one way, they may be able to sue for example.

Or if there were illegal discriminations.

Also it makes it much easier for scammers to game the algorithm.

The smart move would be to do nothing, as nobody has ever asked for Twitter's ranking algorithms.
New Mexico (and a lot of other states) has had a lottery funded scholarship for decades. We've had an oil boom for a few years and yeah mostly funded the remainder through oil revenues/permanent fund.

But yes the fundamental notion is that we decided to fund it. And that's replicable anywhere, i promise, New Mexico is q bottom 3 poorest state in the country but we decided that college was important. Florida is awful in a lot of ways but when I lived there in the mid 00's the Sunshine State Scholarship covered 100% tuition and was automatically granted for like a B+ average, an A and some community service would get you room and board.

Though when I said other places i meant non-US places.
I would say that knowing eligibility requirements of the governor of Kentucky without using the internet is useless information to everyone that doesn't work in the Kentucky election office.

The useful skill is being able to find the information on the Internet if you want to run for governor of Kentucky. If you grow up in Kentucky learning it once in seventh grade is sufficient so you know it's a possibility, but will most likely never matter again after that class.
> People stopped wearing suits at work, even for interviews, because the signaling value of a suit is zero.

In fact it's become an anti-signal in software; people look at you funny. I actually failed an interview once because I wore a suit.
Everybody seems to be counting their plutonium currently
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Isn't the first row both the declaration and definition is this case?

(I assume f() is a call.)
The L0pht had no leadership. Only partners that paid rent and utilities. You had to pay to cover your share of expenses but also contribute with sweat equity. We ended up kicking out a couple of people that ceased to contribute to the common good even if they paid.
You don't pay for electricity, water, internet, mobile phone, health insurance, home insurance...?
Manhattan is an absolute wasteland for authentic, cheap food. Queens and Brooklyn are much better. Some of the best food in the country there.
Windows already has a codec system. Chrome just doesn't use it. No matter how perfect a system service you have, if the premier web browser doesn't use it, it doesn't matter.
It gave me "AI generated" wibes before having read your comment too
Its a red queen situation though because the agricultural industry is constantly coming up with ways to get around resistance when it does appear
I wonder if people would complain as well if it was an other boring generic office building... Is there even way to win?
I suggest you read the article. If that doesn't answer your question I think you and I are interpreting the claim differently.
This portion of the linked article seems to contradict your claim of "has not raised the rates for any of their services since 1995"

>Had the pathology fees that apply to the examination of breast masses not increased, our price would be the same now as it was in 1997, but alas it is now $2,365. Only three other fees have increased since we began quoting them over the phone in 1997.

That said, I'll admit that the claim is broadly true.
Afaik you don’t even need to use macros for this, can’t you just put a build.rs file in the crate and it will execute on build?

Almost all build/project systems I know have this functionality simply because execution of arbitrary programs is too useful to go without. Any C# project (.csproj) for example can include a task that eats your homework.

It’s scary but I don’t see a solution like sandboxing being very easy to retrofit either.
Synthesis.io creates training videos in 85 languages with 120 avatars using AI
As an Aussie I find the American pizza scene so interesting - so many regional variations, I’d never heard of this thin style crust pizza until I saw Kenji posting on his Insta about it a while back. Looking forward to making it sometime.
I'm from the Chicago area. Thin crust? He's a heretic.
Sure, there are some things that won't apply to you, but there are many that do. Also, why limit the scope of importance to state and local - it seems arbitrary. Things all over the world affect you. Look at climate change, as an easy example. (Also, the Antifa trial is in San Diego.)

> pure sensationalism

Political censorship in elite law schools, corruption by your President, AI dangers, justice, political oppression. Those things can certainly affect you and do, and will. The freedom of future Americans and people around the world depends on you - there's nobody else to do it for you. We're on our own. Let's get to work!

While you fight for this narrative, you surrender your power to others who are determing the course of your life. You are doing just want they want.
If something is 'byte-for-byte identical' wouldn't it be the same size?
Why the hell is this exploit being fully provided for use via a handy-dandy web interface? An image /cleanup/ tool is one thing... this is very irresponsible.
I usually use something completely different for that use case.
Specifically, ECDsaCng class from the standard library, which implements ECDSA asymmetric cryptoalgorithm.

Generate a key pair, embed public key in your executable, keep private key private.

A license is some JSON or XML or whatever, signed with the private key. If your licenses are permanent, and you don't need different license types, a license is just a signature of some computer ID (like hard drive serial), with that private key.

Unlike the older RSA, ECDSA results in very small signatures, even for very strong curves like NIST P-521.
These signatures only take couple lines in Base64 text format.
Yeah. It looks like they mixed up production from the mk1 wiki article with model year sales.
As I mentioned in the article, Thorium is a Chromium-based browser that fully supports JPEG-XL. Here's the libjxl patch that can be ported to other Chromium-based browsers: https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium-libjxl
HDI is the primary metric used to compare quality of life and development between different governments.

As I shared in the comment above, HDIs of all 50 states in the US are comparable to Western Europe. The worst state, Mississippi, is comparable to Portugal, and the US average is comparable to the UK, Luxembourg, and Slovenia (on a separate note I'm very surprised by how Slovenia delevoped after the Iron Curtain fell) and well above France.

There are of course issues in the US that we need to tackle, but fetishizing European countries makes no sense when at best they are roughly middle of the pack if they would have been states in the US.
Tesla FSD is also coming any day now too.
I doubt they will release that stuff. probably just some core sorting routines

> as nobody has ever asked for Twitter's ranking algorithms.

Actually many many people have. And this is good PR for his marketing department
"...and mathematics their" ?
"Proto" meaning protobuffers?
I love Force Touch trackpads more than anything. I specifically got an Apple trackpad to use with my desktop because it's so much better than anything else out there.

But having a good trackpad doesn't make up for other blunders like an annoying keyboard layout, a low-DPI screen, or etc., and you bet nobody who makes the thick and heavy high-performance machines is going to care about a good trackpad anyway.

You don't really see OEMs that put top-of-the-line hardware inside a thick and sturdy chassis, and then... add a nice 4K screen and a numpad-less keyboard and put the charging/USB ports on the left instead of the back.

The list of possible blunders is so long that you'd be hard-pressed to find a machine that hasn't been subject to most of them. That's just not how laptops work. Laptops are a package deal, all or nothing. You can't ensure every requirement individually like you can with a desktop.

And the reason I don't like the market is because nobody makes a really good one.
Sounds like you'll have to trouble managing your bootloaders should they break, and you might even enjoy learning some quirks about how both Windows and your distro of choice treat the ESP.

Have fun! May the source be with you ;)
I would expect any sufficiently powerful macro system would have to be this way.

Don't most editors ask you whether or not you want to trust some code before opening it with full privileges anyway?
You're right. Academics and graduates are terrible for claiming universities teach critical thinking, yet never stating exactly what they mean or how they think they're doing that. Maybe an obscure philosophy class tries, but the vast majority of students don't take that and the claim is made about a college education in general, not philosophy classes specifically.

Seems to me like it's a self-defeating argument. If they were really teaching critical thinking as a skill, degree holders would immediately start arguing with them about this vague and poorly thought out claim, but in practice people just nod along.
Doesn’t bcrypt2 essentially truncate every source input to no longer than 35 characters?
I have one of these and haven’t used my pizza oven since.

I turn the oven on as high as it goes and put the steel in and prep all the pizza toppings, then I switch the oven to the grill mode (or broiler in the US) then make the pizzas. It takes about 5 mins per pizza, so it’s a bit slower than the pizza oven but I can make the next pizza while the first is cooking so it’s fine.

My family say they prefer this to pizza made in the Ooni, I think they are both on par with each other but this is less hassle, cheaper than running the Ooni and less stressful because things don’t catch fire as fast.
> Our “algorithm” is overly complex & not fully understood internally. People will discover many silly things , but we’ll patch issues as soon as they’re found! […] Providing code transparency will be incredibly embarrassing at first, but it should lead to rapid improvement in recommendation quality.

Sounds like Elon wants to crowdsource the analysis work.
System Settings -> Appearance -> Fonts
Amazing; thanks a lot!
I doubt this will ever make sense. An 8k screen that is full field of view is already big enough that the pixels aren't visible.
Why do you treat humans so very different from AlphaZero here? Alphazero could badly play other games quickly, just like humans can. AlphaZero is just able to improve beyond what any human can ever achieve for a lot of types of games.
The problem with the tech incubators and hackathons and so forth of today is that it's only tangentially about having fun.

Back then it was 90% fun and maybe a few random guys were trying to figure out how to start some sort of tech business. It was mostly hobbyists just screwing around. That sense of play and screwing around is what made it so magical.

The last time I felt that kind of magic was when I attended an event called BIOcurious (Note the 'O' in previous word) where they showed complete novices how to use a minION device to sequence DNA with pipettes and reagents. It's the kind of thing that you need to be physically present for. The tech is not easy, but crazy powerful. With biotech gear getting cheap enough to be prosumer, maybe there will be that kind of extreme hobbyist thing forming around biotech? In a similar way, in the 80s computers went from things only big companies could afford to prosumer and even consumer devices and so all these people were getting involved just to see what they could do with these new magical devices.
Old, it's not new that macro expansions, build files and build tooling can do that. (And if we sandboxed that, you still get infected release builds, check your deps..)

See NPM installations and "please sponsor this project" messages, which can also give you a virus.
That's true except for the bit about Plato terminals in the library. In the school across town, in the high-school in Springfield, and in colleges in Dover, Tallahassee and Dallas.

I mean sure. Except for those places, the only place you could find a multi-thousand dollar PLATO terminal was the old RF research building. And CDC headquarters and a one or two at Cray's lab.
That's all shit that I am sure I would be able to answer if I had paid attention in class. Which is what they are trying to test.
I've been using Tortoise TTS[1] to narrate the sci-fi novel I'm writing (alpha readers wanted, see profile for contact):

$ find audio/ -type f -name "*combined*wav" | sort -n
audio/01-xander/xander_combined.wav
audio/01-yuna/yuna_combined.wav
audio/02-xander/xander_combined.wav
audio/02-yuna/yuna_combined.wav
audio/03-cassandra/cassandra_combined.wav
audio/03-yuna/yuna_combined.wav
audio/04-xander/xander_combined.wav
audio/04-yuna/yuna_combined.wav
audio/05-cassandra/cassandra_combined.wav
audio/05-yuna/yuna_combined.wav
audio/06-cassandra/cassandra_combined.wav
audio/06-yuna/yuna_combined.wav
audio/07-xander/xander_combined.wav
audio/07-yuna/yuna_combined.wav
audio/08-cassandra/cassandra_combined.wav

I started the task on March 10. My NVIDIA T1000 GPU (no joke) has been chewing through the prose non-stop. There are 12 chapters written so far, with the computer narrating about a chapter a day. I can't share the audio for legal reasons (celebrity voice snippets plucked from YouTube interviews), but the output is nearly human in quality, though there are numerous glitches in the o̶u̶t̶p̶u̶t̶ matrix.

Here's the script that launches Tortoise TTS:

for i in $HOME/.../chapter/??-*.txt; do
F=$(basename $i);
VOICE=$(echo ${F%.*} | cut -c 4-);
CHAPTER=$(echo ${F%.*} | cut -c -2);
D=$(dirname $i);
CLIPS="$D/../audio/$CHAPTER-$VOICE";
mkdir -p $CLIPS;
./scripts/tortoise_tts.py -O $CLIPS -v $VOICE < $i;
done

[1]: https://git.ecker.tech/mrq/tortoise-tts
I’d file that under pirating. I don’t judge folks for pirating, but I think it’s a little rich to be like “why does anyone pay for things they could steal”.
The surprisingly intellectual cabbie is practically a trope. They get to talk to a lot of different people so can end up learning all sorts of things you wouldn't expect.
In the 90s the L0pht was not commercial and was funded as a hobby. Nearing 2000 we wanted to make it our day job and not a hobby and transition from to jobs we all had working for someone else. It was the beginning of my journey to entrepreneurship but this transition was very rocky. Manu didn’t survive. It was a huge learning experience documented in Space Rogue’s book.
"According to one survey conducted by the National Survey of Student Engagement, most college students spend an average of 10–13 hours/week studying, or less than 2 hours/day"

"A recent study showed that college students spend between 8 to 10 hours a day using a cell phone. Every day."

I agree with the parent comment. You have conflated college with education.
I'm not reading articles (especially Wikipedia) and trying to infer your argument for you. You state it if you've got it. Stop making excuses. Assume I know about the Cambodian genocide.
I disagree that Caesar had total control over his soldiers. Labienus and Antony alone among his legates shows that loyalty to Caesar had very real limits that could either turn into antipathy or debauchery. The diadem incident showed that whatever the intent was, Caesar was limited in what he could do.

I don't believe that violation of precedent leads to positive outcomes and that each violation destroys its own foundation, but I also believe that slavish adherence to a stultified and failing system of precedence leads to outcomes that mimic the proverb "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." Lawfare is another kind of civic death, as Cato demonstrated multiple times. So if you want to call opposition to terminal ossification "populism" then sure, you've got me.
Zero one infinity (many) is a good rubric for test driving, and for thinking how close to infinity your system can/should actually support
How about a sign bit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)
Yeah no this is BS. Pretty much nothing already established got bulldozed save a scant few downtown highways. What happened is that growth got "planned" either explicitly or implicitly via zoning and places like California and the Southeast that weren't really built up previously got built out in the form of this new sprawling system.

Those who think they can city plan the utopia of tomorrow with "zoning but with different priorities than last time" would do well to learn the lessens therein.
Conversely, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."
Yeah, LLVM is a dog, about twice as slow and GCC and 20 times slower than TCC:

gcc-11.2 -O0 0.02
clang-12.0.1 -O0 0.04
tcc 0.002

I wish TCC was still being maintained and supported by modern toolchains.

[1]: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/8677
I took typing as an elective class in school in Denmark fully expecting it to be useful for decades. And I was right :)

The teacher was a bored and unpleasant secretary and the typewriters were mechanical (and the shift keys so heavy for our pinkies) but it was still the most useful thing I did in school since I learned to read in first grade.
Mostly, I wasn't comfortable saying NYC when people mostly mean Manhattan and fancy parts of Brooklyn for this comparison :).
> At some point if food, housing, medicine, education etc are consistently rising faster than inflation for long periods perhaps there’s a constant issue with how inflation is being measured.

The CPI is computed from a basket of goods, so you're always going to be able to pick some components that are growing faster than average. The fact that such components exist doesn't mean that "there’s a constant issue with how inflation is being measured".

>In the end if your spending doesn’t map to the basket of goods used to calculate inflation then the official figures aren’t meaningful.

Sure, they might not match your consumption patterns 100%, but that's because everyone's consumption patterns are different and it's impossible to come up with a metric that maps 100% for everyone. What matters is whether the basket accurately captures the spending patterns of the public as a whole. The BLS makes the basket weights publicly available[1]. I skimmed the list and they look fairly sensible. Are there any specific items from that you think don't accurately capture how the average american spends?

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2022.htm
Yeah; expected limits are also fantastically useful in performance engineering. It’s very common your code needs to handle an arbitrarily sized input, but 99% of the time the input will be bounded. (Or generally simpler). Special casing the common code path can make a lot of code run much faster.

For example, in some code I’m writing at the moment I have lists of integers all over the place. I call them lists - usually they only have 1 element. Sometimes they have 2 elements (10%) and very occasionally more than 2 elements or they’re empty (<1%).

If I used a language like Javascript, I’d use Arrays. But arrays are quite expensive performance wise - they need to be allocated and tracked by the GC and the array contents are stored indirectly.

Instead, I’m using an array type which stores up to 2 items inline in the container object (or the stack) without allocating. It only allocates memory on the heap when there are 3 or more items. This decreases allocations by 2 orders of magnitude, which makes a really big difference for performance in my library. And my code is just as readable.

I’m using the smallvec crate. There’s plenty of libraries in C and Rust for this sort of thing in arrays and strings. Swift (like obj-c before it) builds small string optimizations into the standard library. I think that’s a great idea.

https://crates.io/crates/smallvec
Honestly, this came to my mind as well. I don't want to lie for many reason but simply I just hate keeping track of lies. Something I regret from my younger years in the college.
How are these anti-competitive?
I am encouraged by how many people are now becoming aware of the influence of central banks on our lives.. I think the central bankers also know this, that we know now.. I think that makes them nervous