skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been a frog trapped in a long heating pot situation.

Winning at any cost. That's the disease. The powerful people at the top see democracy as a game to be won, not a nation to help. It's been like this for a long time.

The Newt Gringich gang in congress, with the Hastert Rule, to never even allow considering or talking about an idea unless you already know you'll have a big win: that's a major hinge here. That was a new temperament for our highest bodies, a twist.

And having gobshite terror-mongering low-brow Fox News, brain-scrambling your population. Telling them to live in fear of what's happening, to be afraid afraid afraid. And now it's not even baiting enough. The hunger for red meat grew, the mania worked & spread, and even more extreme providers of outrage & programming have emerged.

Whats happening now traces back back back, is a consequence of how one side has long conducted themselves & how they go about the mission. They know they will never win a popular anything in America ever again. The conservatives are roundly outvoted & outnumbered. The demographics as we age will continue to worsen thensituation. Polarizing & being detached, wrapping madness around yourself like a warm blanket, is the only seeming tactic for dealing with the disonnance of being ever less popular, perceived as ever worse and ever worse.
https://youtu.be/FsqBYJd56Ko

Deluge system component delivery and install video, Feb 2023.
Something about this also makes me feel a bit, hmm, I guess "concerned". I know SpaceX is very efficient and that they hustle to a degree, but their launch site looks very "min-viable" (at best). I hope this does not and will not extend to other parts of their designs.
Seems like the author would be able to find concern for ecological disaster if SpaceX launched the rocket from the middle of a desert.
So right away on the first item:

>Max image size is limited to 4K (3840x2160) in AVIF, which is a deal breaker to me. You can tile images, but seams are visible at the edges, which makes this unusable. JPEG XL supports image sizes of up to 1,073,741,823x1,073,741,824. You won’t run out of image space anytime soon.

>JXL has a maximum of 32 bits per channel. AVIF supports up to 10.

Max resolution and bit depth is certainly massively higher for for JPEG XL, but spec [0] says that:

>"NOTE: [AV1] supports 3 bit depths: 8, 10 and 12 bits, and the maximum dimensions of a coded image is 65536x65536, when seq_level_idx is set to 31 (maximum parameters level)."

And 12-bits per channel is considered a lot for end user final display formats? It also seems to be supported in browsers too so it's not just theoretical. It looks like back in 2021 there was discussion around this and clarifying that the profiles decided on in 2018/2019 were more about giving targets for hardware acceleration of the time, but software decoders by 2021 supported essentially the whole spec (and it appears to me that another 2 years later now final lingering stuff has been dealt with) [1,2]:

>Cyril has proposed a pull request (#130) to better clarify what is and is not supported in AVIF. In short, AVIF supports everything that AV1 supports, which includes 12-bit encoding. The current software decoder implementations also support more or less all of AV1, which can be seen if you try to decode a 12-bit AVIF file in a web browser.

And for still images, hardware acceleration isn't important, so as a practical matter unlike AV1 video pure software for max features is fine. So 65k x 65k and 36-bit color appear to be the limit, which definitely isn't as much as JPEG XL, but is pretty respectable for majority of end user usage?

Edit to add: the comments there also mention complaints that the JPEG XL author has a history of spreading misinformation about AVIF, "See the article and infographic recently posted by the JPEG-XL author that claims (among other things) that AVIF does not support 12-bit images". So apparently there has been some good old dev drama going on during the last few years which means one may need to be a little suspicious about any "Good summaries" :(.

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0: https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-avif/#profiles-overview

1: https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/av1-avif/issues/128

2: https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/av1-avif/pull/130
Apple Plans to Launch More Than Just Its New Headset at WWDC
The handset is a dead concept and yet here we are carrying them around it’s sad. I can’t remember the last time I put a phone to my face yet that is exactly what the form factor was made for. It’s all but guaranteed Apple cannibalizes the phone handset market for a new mobile platform.
Contractors are well paid (per day) when they are in a "short term consulting role" for a company that doesn't need a permanent position.

When the role is "a body for the shop when the workload is high enough", the contractor is the least valued class in the team, paid less with less benefits, and first to cut when load or funding drops.
While I agree that English or any other spoken language is sufficient to describe technical requirements, many people have trouble communicating what they actually want because the language itself is very forgiving and so there is room for misinterpretation.

At least with a programming language, which is more precis e and limited and what you can express, you are forced to think more precisely the desired logic.

I've taught and gave workshops to business people on programming and database query languages for data analysis include non-SQL ones like Mongo. And I can say that those that took to time to learn the query language communicated more effectively because they can send over a query and then use English to give more context, mostly around the presentation layer.
Sure thing, a quick search yields Asciimath which seems at least at first glance as huge improvement in the syntax department: http://asciimath.org

As for LaTeX in general, Markdown beats it soundly in most aspects.
Those countries probably didn't have access to firearms in the first place.

By the way, as an owner of firearms, I can tell you that there is no where near "unrestricted access" for anyone unless you're buying them illegally. It was a huge process for me to buy weapons, including a firearm from my father-in-law.

Most people who think unrestricted access is the problem are people who have never bought a firearm.

Also, as part of getting my concealed carry, I had to attend a class, and in that class, they drilled into us that we are liable for any collateral damage from use of our weapons.

They also drilled into us the fact that we will always have to justify our use of force to our peers, and if we don't, we're going to suffer for it.

In addition, we were taught what situations were correct for using force and what situations are not.

Most of all, we were drilled to think before we do anything, including drawing our weapons.

All of this does pay off. My wife and I were confronted by an aggressive homeless person once. I never drew my weapon despite him walking up to us aggressively. I used my words to force him away. I did that because that class taught me to never drew my weapon until shooting is the only recourse left to me.

So saying that people are "so fearful that they feel they might be compelled to use deadly force in ordinary public situations to protect themselves" is wrong, at least in my state. In general, CCW holders are the safest, least trigger-happy, and least fearful gun owners in the US.
Any copyright and/or trademark experts around? It says here that previously Sega owned Alpha Protocol trademark has expired. Does that mean anyone can just use it? I know that the setting was generic as hell, but still.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Protocol#cite_note-62
i'm not an explosion expert, but i would imagine the sound from the previous test articles going boom boom pop would exceed the nominal performance of these engines.
I read the Wikipedia article, listened to some of the sounds and I still don't get it. I don't hear or "feel" a difference between the "p" in "pin" and "spin", except in "spin" the "p" sound is sort of "concatenated" to the "s" sound with no transition. In the "[tân] / [tʰân]" Chinese example, to me the "unaspirated t" is indistinguishable from a "d" sound.

Maybe English speakers are "blind" to the aspirated / unaspirated distinction, similar to how Japanese speakers tend to struggle with English's L/R distinction?
I've heard of cases of stuff like this being put out by competitors in similar scenarios in other industries.
there's a lot of emotional language in this article and words like "could", "maybe", "probably" etc. Also, the author mentions making snide remarks about Musk and obviously has other motivations. The concerns on noise may be valid but i'll wait for more actual facts before passing judgement.
I acknowledge that the jet industry it’s quite sensible to the fuel prices, but from that point jump that the industry its going to an end sound quite far fetched.

Unless that you live in China or Europe that has a good train network, I think the unintended consequence will be more people in cars and more accidents.
Probably good that you edited out your praise for how Russia and China would punish anyone who raised these kinds of concerns.
But nobody said not to make progress. Like, they could say least apply the same mitigations as have been used at most other launch sites. It costs more money and takes a bit more time, which is annoying and why SpaceX doesn't want to bother.

It's not a dichotomous choice of "now and success or later and failure" and it never has been.
Pearl clutching, concern trolling
https://archive.ph/L5sWA
Sure, and that line of thinking has always led us to good things ...
You can compare MathJax, KaTeX, and your browser's MathML support with this website I made: https://mk12.github.io/web-math-demo/
I think there needs to be a "center the page" browser extension because this is just absurd: https://imgur.com/a/HZqaA4V
I don't think it's naive. There's a difference between expecting something and thinking it will happen. You can expect from a supervising agency to function appropriately. Being surprised that it doesn't happen, especially when it demonstrated its inefficiency in the past is something else, but you can still expect it to be better
If most cars on the road are taxis, this means a few things. 1) It'll be much cheaper than owning a car. 2) There will always be a car within a minute or two to pick you up when you're ready. 3) There will be cars of every configuration available, including ones with car seats for kids (although it's not a huge deal, my twin's car seats take less than a minute to install). 4) These cars will be checked daily, and if you do happen to get a dirty car, you can just report it and get another one in the next few minutes. They'll likely have cameras in the cars that will know if someones smoking or having sex in there, so not many folks will do it if they don't want to pay a huge fee or get banned from the service.
The young are needed for slave labor and click farming, and you have to feed them something. Real food is for the rich.
The benefit of improved space travel and all that comes with that.

This seems like a decent location in that it’s not very populated and has appropriate conditions for rocket launches. It wasn’t picked randomly so other locations were considered.

I think these complaints would apply to other locations as well.

Building rockets and doing awesome things isn’t vainglory any more than any expiration and technical improvements. Rockets are needed for space exploration. Space exploration is valuable on so many dimensions - resources, sustainability, research.
I mean, I get it. There's a national security risk in letting major defense contractors go out of business.

So, naturally, as taxpayers, we should be kept in the loop on how much it costs, why we're paying it, and complete transparency with regards to how such entities are spending their (read: our taxpayer) money. That's not the case today.
I agree. Utilities should all be publicly owned, which would reduce costs to everyone without the pathetic means testing.
> if you say "latinx" you likely grew up in a mansion

I'm not a fan of the term either, but this is a wildly inaccurate generalization.
Any submission without an exploit? It's routine to find crash bugs or potentially XSS data or injection opportunities without going all the way to a compromised system.

The issue here is that the submit actually attacked live systems, instead of just reporting on the possibility of malicious library code.

...which is something everyone already knows about, and thus why he couldn't get paid. You don't get paid for actually hacking systems either!
Clojure Rationale (2008)
FSF is the uncompromising idealist for better and for worse. It takes some serious balls to live life the way RMS does, fetching HTML by sending email and all that. No one else wants to be that extreme, so even though they value computing freedom in the abstract they compromise and tolerate little injustices in the name of getting things done.

At the end of the day RMS is still right though. Those little injustices add up, the corporations creep up on you slowly and next thing you know you're being surveilled by the javascript you used to see as harmless, and soon you learn how to tolerate that too. Dude saw ridiculously far into the future even decades ago but it doesn't matter because stuff like RYF certification is irrelevant and will only ever apply to machines that must 20 years old by now because manufacturers don't care and everyone is on mobile now anyway.
I mean, do we even all agree on what consciousness actually is?
You ask a thousand people to define consciousness and you'll get a thousand answers. The only consistent part of all these definitions will be that humans have "it". So in a way, consciousness is just a way to categorize the haves and the have-nots. Us, and everything else.
I don't know what the FSF's argument is. I personally don't feel very strongly yet about this, but I am not comfortable with the "JPEG is sufficient" line of reasoning.

I don't know what the world could look like if a much-improved image format was common, but I don't think I'll see that future as long as the browser with 90% market share doesn't support that new format.
> Side note - in a different video she also did debunking on other food hacks and ended up investigating Russian bot networks who uploads both food hacks for hits and then slips in propaganda.

This reminds me of a food video I haven't been able to find for years; a dude was doing the Gordon Ramsey recipe for scrambled eggs, he then slipped in a 2 minute rant about money being worthless and the need to buy gold.

He had a replacement for Creme Fraiche, which was useful as Creme Fraiche didn't exist where I lived at the time, but I thought the interlude was so bizarre that I never bookmarked it.
More like consequence culture.
Wait, why is this submission flagged?
Yea. Also a waste of electricity.
Merck-Moderna Vaccine Helps Keytruda Keep Melanoma Patients Cancer-Free
In my experience, problems like that are almost always a matter of cookie/cache sticking around when it shouldn't or plugin interference. The only sites I ever have have blocking trouble with in FF are shitty web interfaces for local device configuration, old automatically generated webpages like from MS Access or some other super old enterprise abomination. I worked on a team of web developers that generally developed using FF and then tested heavily in chrome-- everything from simple pages augmented with JS to complex SPAs-- and the differences were pretty minimal.
Closure was written in 2008. This rationale document is interesting because it promotes VMs as the way of the future. It is interesting to note that since 2008 the industry has gravitated much more back toward compiled systems.
The trademark is just the name. Setting, story, characters, etc. would be covered by the copyright and unaffected by a trademark expiration.
I don't think you need to have a conspiracy brain to wonder if some of this may be plausible.

Musk's companies are famous for a self-described "move fast and break things" strategy, and local authorities are often incentivized to let them for what their presence does for local economy, e.g. job creation, infra buildout, further growth opportunities, etc.

There are precedents for this. I encourage you to read a little into the brouhaha and corruption revolving around Tesla's Gigafactory in Brandenburg, nearby Berlin. This was and is mired in environmental issues, from sapping the region of water to pollution concerns, yet Tesla at times kept building the thing in violation of having to wait for approvals, then environmental authorities were pressured and leaned on by local state gov to fast-track and grandfather approvals.

The above rises above the level of cospiracy theories - there are protocols, there are government employees who went to the press to complain, there is solid investigative journalism. And yet there is a car factory.

You can be on the other side of the arguments on the issues themselves perhaps (i.e. maybe your engineering/science opinion differs), or you can put humanity and economy over nature (this would be a political opinion), but rules being bent and better knowledge being ignored in favor of letting companies forge ahead at costs is a thing.
Have you been to the neighborhoods in question?
Did that add anything to the conversation? Is there something more to say?

Dissecting others' comments is a low-traction form of commenting. I like to stick to saying what I think.

And yes, this man is self-admittedly a regular guy who accomplished something impressive through daring and courage.
> Not sure if air traffic controllers do it but pilots do. Often will have one radio on in the left ear and another in the right.

It sounds very general, that pilots do, and often. I guess it is missing a "some", "few", and/or "I" somewhere.

Of all the various headset connectors [0], only redel/lemo and (probably) fischer are stereo. That's a very small part of the complete GA fleet, and likely even lower in commercial (if modern, using 5-pin XLR).

edit: Looks like U174 is stereo, too.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aviation_headset_con...
Yeah, you almost got it :) It's a simple backing store for a few jobs that create data feeds.

Agreed that JSON would be much worse. We have a hard requirement that all services must be Java based, and protobuf outperforms Gson and Jackson by miles.

I have been trying to find the cheapest serialization/deserialization I could find for cache purposes. So far, the best option is a Guava/Caffeine cache, because we skip the serialization completely in this scenario, but so much more costly than having a good external cache.
The earliest archive.org snapshot, from 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/20020605151248/https://futureblu...

(it appears mostly unchanged!)
I particular, SpaceX already has facilities at Cape Caneveral - an area well-acquainted with these kinds of launches. It's weird that Musk insists on Boca Chica.
We have managed to describe a small subset of the universe through a small set of laws. The current incompatibility of gravity and QM and the resulting dark energy/matter explanation means we can’t see or interact with most of the universe.
No, the language of “perfect sphere” versus “bumpy sphere” used by the article is just an analogy with a classical object that would interact with an external electric field in a similar way. Even when it is in a single position eigenstate, an electron has another degree of freedom, its spin orientation, that has nothing to do with its position. This is “like” a spinning pool ball in the sense that it possesses angular momentum in a certain direction and reacts to torques like a spinning thing, but beyond this the analogy breaks down. For one thing, its spin can never be increased nor slowed; for another it has this intrinsic spin even when its position is localized to a dot.

Similarly, a non vanishing Electric Dipole Moment would be some preferred direction to its electric interactions in relation to its spin. Its electric field would be slightly oblong even when position is localized to a dot.

So to clarify, there are multiple senses of “electron cloud” at play — the superpositions of positions is what is usually meant by the term, as in electron cloud around nucleus of atom. The article’s use of the term is a tad sloppy since it invites confusion with this — it means something that generates an oblong electric field and reacts to an external electric field through a term in the energy of the form p.E (with p the EDM and E the external electric field).
Still using my “third-world-chipset” I hardly believe that (the possibility of ban fireplaces) it will have an expanded blast radius beyond Germany.

Good luck for the politician that try to do it in the Nordic countries.
> In general safety limits are calculated with significant error margins, so I'd take this kind of scary blog post about destroyed houses with a pinch of salt.

The discrepancy between the calculated safety limits and measured sound levels inverts this "general" practice. And the measured sound levels were from a half-power test firing.
I've never heard any Hispanic say Latinx. I've seen it only on the internet being propagated by the usual suspects.
There are a bunch of studies showing it more definitively than your gut and secondhand knowledge of allegations
It’s SOP in many companies in my experience :(
Honestly it probably is - but I have no idea how much they collectively spend each year buying our government, so I figured a few billion would be a good number.

The real number is probably in the double-digit billions across the entire defense sector.
People aren’t birds. If hundred of people would die for this launch, I don’t think that’s acceptable.

There’s a certain amount of bird/wildlife loss is acceptable, but I don’t know the amount. But there are costs to rocket launches, and wind power, and many things that will kill a small number of animals.
> in the west

For reference, the flame trench shown in the article is in Kazakhstan; it was used for the first manned space launch over 60 years ago. "Be a bit careful with rockets" is not an exclusively western thing, nor is it new.
Having used TS in production with web and mobile (React Native) apps, most of it is rather simple interfaces to make sure you are passing data correctly. I'd say 99.9% of TS code I saw was to make sure that you passed SuperComplexBusinessObject correctly.

But like you, I've come across many instances where I got "hey TS aren't you supposed throw an error here?"
The greatest advancement in space flight since Apollo is more important than Musk's culture war BS.

Think of it this way: if Musk had drank the "woke" brand kool-aid instead of the right-wing kool-aid the far right would be bashing his rocket program instead. They'd probably find some way to link rockets and space flight to trans people or something. The far-right and far-left cults only care about your loyalty to the cause. If you are on their team everything you do is good, and if you are not on their team everything you do is bad.

The first generation to grow up on Mars will learn in school about this eccentric billionaire weirdo who helped kick the space program forward by founding a company, and that's about it. All the rest of this stuff will be forgotten.
> as likely as marking up the parse tree and parts of speech for all your regular prose sentences

That sounds completely doable with modern NLP like GPT-4. Maybe we should start doing more design experiments with how one could exploit such semantics? There's no reason to think that syntax-free writing ought to be ideal, any more than space-free and punctuation-free writing was the ideal form of writing which could not be improved...
The clean energy milestone the world is set to pass in 2023
On mobile I needed to switch to desktop mode for anything to display. Pages are loading fine for me currently.
Eating more fruits and vegetables, breathing, and stretching doesn't sound like so much of a downside risk. Hope has many lives.