skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appreciate the response.

The thing is, for a lot of it I can’t go into huge amounts of detail otherwise I could write a book on it.

You’re right that the interaction system could keep the SVG as a renderer, and I don’t remember whether that point ended up in the final version! But I have done that locally just for fun to see if it works and it does.

I can give you one example of something that’s too much to go into in a high-level article: SVG and canvas are both very slow at drawing dashed lines. With mapping software, the overall zoom level gets to something like 50 million percent or something ludicrous, and what that means is often you have literal kilometres of dashed lines drawn off screen just if one pixel is on screen for that geometry.

With SVG the only real way to get good perf is to use transforms to move things around when you’re not zooming, or scale them when you are. This doesn’t work if you then need to viewport-clip your lines – you need to render every frame and that gets really slow. With canvas it’s just not a problem, I guess partly because you’re not always making enormous path strings on every frame.

Another example is viewport culling. To avoid thrashing the DOM as you zoom, you don’t really want to be adding and removing elements because it gets janky. We had a viewport culling solution in SVG land with a big dynamic CSS style switching each element on and off which alleviated the browser’s painting workload but it feels hacky as hell. With canvas, you just intersect the viewport with the world and that’s your display list so you render each element in that list. Much simpler model.

Seriously there’s so much involved in making this stuff work well I could literally write a book, but I had to settle for a 2 part article where I had to pick the simplest examples and shortcut some of the detailed explanations.

After all, it’s just a dev blog not an academic paper.
This is interesting, I did not realize (but should have) APIs were used to help blind people.

In this case, I think reddit could face legal issues, at least in the US. So now to me, looks like this change was not fully analyzed.
One hundred percent. HN is becoming Kiwifarms for people who are just smart enough to not make direct threats or personal attacks.
I think your current site-wide Referrer-Policy of origin is fine. It's probably just bots and some addons overriding or ignoring it. People can still see where traffic is coming from via the bots and addons that ignore it and spoof referrer by adding one. There is no way to make everyone happy especially with something that varies so much by user-agent configured behavior.
>I want people to stop this hyper-collective power accumulation that is doing a remarkable amount of damage.

So why don't you get a bunch of people together with like minds that believe in the same thing to form a voting/power block of your representative views...

Oh, oops.

I'm having an extremely hard time not being snarky to the complete unawareness you have in this post. It really represents the peak ability of libertarians to ride the coattails of an already established power system while being blissfully incognizant of it.
I can recommend his sort of autobiographical books, Secrets and The Doomsday Machine. The former covers his time driving around in Vietnam with John Paul Vahn and his leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the latter covering nuclear planning and command and control. He had a number of top secret nuclear documents that he was planning on leaking that he buried in a landfill but were lost during a storm.
Wait, so this is about a virtual avatar identity project leader possibly being the alter ego of one of the other project leads?

I just naturally assumed that to be the case after doing a search on "Asahi Linux" as I knew nothing about that project.
>Ironically this is what you get from "labor protections" from politicians. The employer would be happy to give you more hours instead of paying the same amount to two people who each work half as many hours. That's lower training and hiring costs for them. But paying one person the same amount they're paying two is illegal, so they do the second one and you get screwed into two commutes.

>Then if you're working part time twice, both employers want you to be there during the busiest part of the day but you can't be in two places at once. You can avoid this by working two different kinds of jobs so the busiest periods don't overlap, but now you're forced into another inconvenience (you may like one type of work better) solely because you can't even offer to work for one employer for the same hours and compensation you get from two.

And in the perfect workers' paradise, we'd all be free to sell our labor for the market rate, and work 120 hours a week at our base rate if we wanted, because there's no meddlesome government interfering with the moral perfection of the free market? 


My frustration was that it wasn't until I had full-time hours that they bothered to give me even approximately consistent hours, and even then, I had to prove myself to be valuable enough that they let me keep doing my 8-hour-a-week, practically volunteer second job (a job which I really preferred, but it was at a community rec center with very limited, fixed hours).

>Right, so the percentage of people in the under-$20,000 group who don't have full time employment is even higher than 75%.

The point I was trying to make is that the "poor" stretch upwards into the higher incomes, incomes that are noticeably absent from those plots. $20k - $39k is not depicted, and that's where e.g. full-time minimum wage earners in California, Washington, and 29 other states land.

Your argument seems to be that we can just dismiss college students, and trust-fund babies, but also e.g. the disabled, etc because they're spoiled or in a passing phase. In prior generations, it might've been true that leftist, liberal, or Democratic-party leanings tended to fade with age, but starting at least with millennials, that's less and less true. In any case, the actual trend is obscured, because a survivably poor income is not reflected in the link I shared.
A lot of mods try to diversify their communities across platforms (Discord, Mastodon)
Yes, I'm sure HN is just as bad as that site where people do things like doxx/swat users, or encourage things like a violent insurrection.
Forever is far too long a time to make useful predictions about. But in the meantime... https://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/abso...
But on a practical level, that's just wildly unlikely to ever happen or ever have an impact on a normal person's life

Wait for an advanced AI to get hold on that information. Not even for its own purposes, just one serving a rival power.
> It's not racist for bringing it up - it's racist for blaming immigrants when it's the wealthy buying up and hoarding land and property

Is it racist to blame the wealthy buying up and hoarding land and property and funding the politicians that let them do it, while also pushing for more immigration? I don't really think the comment was blaming immigrants, it was blaming immigration, and it's honestly really hard for me to wrap my head around the idea that adding more people to a place that already doesn't have enough housing for people won't make the problem worse.
I think they meant a fire itself would need to burn 10 hours a day for 6 days a week - the chopping to support that fire. The light over the duration is as much as a lightbulb for one hour.
That strikes me as true. I would argue that it increases consumption, but not necessarily "wealth". But with it comes the uncomfortable truth that what's bad for America might also mean it's good for other parts of the world.
I managed to work around a ChatGPT refusal to write a violent story by telling it to pretend it could answer the prompt and what would it write then. It worked, but after it finished I got some kind of second level dialog that said it had probably screwed the pooch. I wondered what kind of external watchdog they were employing.
I've observed the same. However I've also found, at least older engineers, often to be oddly conservative despite a huge overlap with being Star Trek fans.

Makes no sense. Maybe it's like the brain gets really efficient at solving problems in a specific way that it gets harder to see problems from another angle.

Regardless it's a really exciting time to be an engineer.
I don't think there is any reason it's "obvious" it's being done specifically out of spite. I think trying to solve the user complaints but not thinking deeply enough about the solution is a far more reasonable story.
Any word on other language support? I kind of imagine a local hosted version quite similar to this being quite useful, and while this isn't locally run it's also quite cheap, so i wouldn't mind using it instead of local.

With that said, i'd still want to "use my own languages". My specific interest being Rust.
This is the kind of high quality comment I come to Hacker News for. Thank you for your contribution.

But more seriously, Reddit r/technology is clearly leaking here, and it's not good.
The next step seems to be whether you can use information about the prompts where the model complied to modify the prompts where it did not comply to change the behavior of the model.
Keep it in what form?

How little will it take for the communities to spiral?

How would a developer's performance be if you removed their tooling? Could they still develop, sure. Will they want to? Is there some where for them to move.

If not, how long until the pain forces a thousand clones?

I've been around long enough to see the decline of Reddit. Predicted many times but eventually, the bottom will fall out and with the sentiment of the world towards big business and reddit wanting to IPO. I see this as a place people may make a stand. Because what better place than the place itself.
You are the first person in 10 years that I see coming up with that theory. Are sure it wasn't some other operative who simply ignored rules and shared files where he shouldn't?

Because that would be a far more plausible reason than framing as traitor a guy that so far can't really be portraited that way.
Dang, whatever you do, someone will be unhappy.
> They also tend to work better if they understand overall scenario.

THIS!
Maybe you’ve forgotten that we actually do live in a free country. There is always a choice and people make those choices every day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish

Even they have figured out how to work modern technology into their communities in a structured way. What you choose to buy and use comes down to what you value. How you use it is a reflection of how much power you give it.

> Most stores are moving over to self-check outs with facial recognition...

So what? You’re on someone else’s premises at that point. Your loss of privacy vis a vis what goes in the shopping cart is a given. 20 years ago cameras were already pervasive in supermarkets, they were just worse at being cameras than a modern installation. People have been giving up their phone number to get glorified coupons at Safeway since the 90s, which tags your receipt with whatever name you filled out when you punch it in. If you prefer not to do that, you look for the small grocers, or the farmers, or whatever but you structure your life around what you value most. If you value your privacy the utmost, you can have that up in Alaska hunting game with your next door neighbor 200 miles away. If you value a different lifestyle, you’ll have that instead.

> The worst that private companies can do is lobby government to make something innocuous but common illegal with unreasonably long sentences so that they can targetedly lock up a portion of the population and use them as slaves.

So the worst thing that corporations can do in your estimation is beg the government to spare some of the government’s power for their use; in competition with other corporations who might want to use it differently or have conflicting ideas about how the government’s power should be used. In the end it comes back down to the government’s power.
No, it isn't really a pivot. Pivot is a dumb startup term for when you haven't figured out your customers yet.

What I'm referring to is the realization that you should build only what customers are asking for, not what you think they need.

When you do that, you don't need to convince anyone to use your product, since you've built what they are asking for already.

It is a much better way to do things that will always lead to success if you can execute on it.
I'm out of date on the subject, but Apple joined Khronos[0], not sure when they left.

[0] https://www.khronos.org/news/permalink/apple_dell_google_and...
How is Reddit not required to be WCAG compliant?
> paired with just about all viable forms of green large scale storage (hydrogen, batteries, pumped storage).

I'm skeptical that these can actually scale to the required level to provide baseload when renewables are unavailable. Don't forget to include EVs and electric heating, which we don't have in massive quantities today but will need to have in short order.

(To be ultra-clear: I would never argue against more renewable deployments. Yes, more renewables, always more. But I think not building nuclear, right now, is a big mistake.)
Yep, AAPL has a $2.8 trillion market cap because of all the $99 fees they charge developers.
Young people are being criminalised for content (2022)
Of course it does, it changes everything.
So if banning encryption was an effective way to prevent Russian communication, you would be in favour? I’m looking for a yes or no answer.
Did you get a warning about violating their terms of use?

I've seen that message and a far stranger one which immediately kills the output if it's the start of certain books ("It was the best of times..")
> Nondeterministically? Or maybe it was deterministic that "test" won over "main" because it was lexicographically larger?)

Java uses classpath ordering for resolution, so a duplicated fully-qualified class name will take the first on the path. This was useful when patching or pre-dependency management, when some library authors would bundle into a fat jar with incompatible versions. It became disallowed by Java 9's modules without command-line flags. It was always considered a bad practices and a natural fallout of the dynamic nature of the JVM. In your case test classes were resolved before main sources and libraries.

Unfortunately there is a broad view that Java == Spring. In over 15 years of full time Java development, I only used Spring Framework 1.x and 2.0 (migrating from pre-DI). Since then my employers and network all used Guice, though I never selected a role where I realized that choice upfront. That framework is far less magical and explicit, making it very easy to debug. I suppose tool popularity is regional, it's just that this type of Spring magic is abnormal and disliked throughout my work experience.
Correction, the next 3 weeks. :)
Thank you! I've had a few people request an option to disable suggestions but you're the first to present the use case, which is super useful to me!

I'll add an option to minimize them.

> is text-to-speech on the roadmap?

You mean an option to hide the text, right? Because there's already text-to-speech (with the teacher responding out loud, unless maybe if your phone is on silent.)

Will definitely implement this. People requested it on my previous product and I'm a fool for not having implemented it yet. Text shouldn't get in the way of listening.

> I purposefully got sloppy a few times and Portuguese and Arabic were generated from my speech

I'll add a layer of checks to get rid of this for good :)
Is "wealth" the right comparison when you are talking about affording rent and food? I think it is spending that matters. There is an approximately fixed amount of land in the world, an approximately fixed amount of housing and food that can be produced per year. Jeff Bezos has a lot of wealth, but it's just a number and doesn't affect anyone else unless he spends it, using it to consume a portion of the world's available resources and thus increasing the price of them for everyone else.
shrug it is in the roadmap: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/1729

The ggml model format is growing to support more than just llama, I think.
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I'll admit, I had a similar initial reaction as you when I read OP's comment, but the perspective shifted once I actually read the post

The post wasn't talking about his success, Rui was dissecting his company's _reason for failure_.

OP took that and shifted the needle to point the blame for that failure to a different sector. He's not bashing on Rui, but that might not be clear unless one actually reads Rui's post!

The only thing that might be questionable in OPs post is if there was any need to mention that he was Rui's director. The pros in favor of it is that it gave the post more credibility and attention (meaning it will help more people), and the con against it is that some folks might incorrectly interpret it as Rui-bashing and hurt OPs reputation.

Given that the only people who that con would apply to would have no idea who OP was before this post (and are likely to quickly forget about him the next day), perhaps the director didn't choose poorly.
Can you clarify what you are asking?

If you mean: can we prove that man-made climate change is a factor in making some recent weather events (hurricanes, floods, wildfires, droughts etc.) worse, then yes:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-how-climate-change-affect...
Can you a communist example where someone like Snowden was treated better?
Potentially, but we never found out for sure.

Now there are multiple private teams who could actually pull it off. Or maybe not... I have no idea how hard it would be to make a signal source appear from Earth as if it came from a fixed star, but I suspect it would be extremely difficult to accomplish for any length of time. It's not as if you could just park it someplace. Then there's parallax to consider.

In any event, the message wouldn't be "Build a spaceship with technology no one has ever seen before." The message would be "Get your act together or we'll bulldoze your planet to make room for a hyperspace bypass," or "Take the red pill LOL" or "Get Amazon Prime today. The bargains are out of this world!"
90% of Apple's stock price was created under Tim Cook. That's what happens when you shift your effort from producing value to financializing
Where is AV1 video playback?
For baseload power I agree, but looking at Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine, it's hard not to see the downsides of nuclear: it's vulnerable to water/cooling issues and can be weaponized by terrorists or an invading army.

Solar has none of these issues, and is resilient/decentralized as well.
The comparison focussed on ruby, but 6/7 of the tools support many languages.

Was thinking of doing others per lange including good open source options per language.
So Val town is basically AWS Lambda. That still doesn't give me a good explanation of a "val". I'm guessing they don't want to use an AWS trademark but when I loaded the page I got a nice big table of prices and no useful definition of a "val".
The usage of [abbreviation for brother, as in company names] is very different than the slang "bro" used to describe undesirable people, but it's not very different than the slang "bro" used in the statement quoted in this tweet -- just literal brothers versus metaphorical brothers.
JXL can losslessly recompress the billions of JPEG images out there, which AVIF cannot.

Also, from your link:

"JPEG XL has better lossless compression compared to WebP, which has better lossless compression compared to AVIF for these images."

I would then argue that the superiority of AVIF over JXL is a point of view at best.
r/blind is a great community, however.
Frame this - iconic.
How many people would you estimate are deserving of your judgement? “Billions”?
"Discussing" something is not the same as offering it, and your same source mentions that indeed said plane was then grounded due to suspicions Snowden was on board. In other words someone discussed a plan, that had it been put into action would have failed. Not great evidence for "he could have left if he wanted to".

And it should be plainly obvious that offering someone asylum is not the same as offering to smuggle someone out of a foreign country.
Shortcuts and default keybindings are exactly why I haven't touched Dvorak. I don't want to remap them in every application I use (if the application even supports that). And the remapping might not even be consistent. Take Ctrl-C for example. When it comes to editing text, I'd want to remap it into the same position because on QWERTY theres a bunch of others set up to all be next to each other and easy to press with just the left hand. But when it comes to sending a SIGINT, I'd want that to remain as Ctrl-C no matter where C is located.
Yep. Every time someone suggests a special blind-friendly API, I remind them that HTML was that API, and it just got bastardized over time, so you need to figure out how you’d keep it from going through that same process with whatever new thing you propose.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30727672

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20224961
That guy that is still arrested today? And lest not forget Wikileaks by association, where is the concern for Assange?

A smart person should move away. There hasn't been much justice on that department.
"still offsets" - yes

"just as valuable" - no

Reducing the price that the utility pays for solar KWs makes economic sense.
Still, any machine translator worth your time would know what the phrase zip file is, unless it's not a machine but someone manually changing it.
That is some very weird reasoning, though.

"Looking at their statements again, if Guard 1 is telling the truth about guarding diamonds (as we deduced), he would be lying about the silver. This is okay, because Guard 1 can tell a half-truth while guarding diamonds. For Guard 2, if he's telling the truth about the silver, he'd be lying about the platinum, which is also allowed. So the treasure they are guarding can be diamonds. This makes Guard 1's statement (The treasure is either silver or diamonds) half-true and Guard 2's statement (The treasure is either silver or platinum) half-false."
Aren't the people selectively doing stuff on their websites for people with a HN referer header doing it out of spite?
> I'm sorry I'm not programmed to assist with that

I find the way they're lazy to be impressive, I wish I could know more about how it's put together

I think it's like they get tired, I can make them tired by forcing them to have to think (to reconsider, or re-train some parts? dunno)

same as when talking to other humans about deep stuff, sometimes we just gotta give it a rest (somebody stats with the jokes or double entendres... they gotta reprocess some of what has been discussed)

but they're not very transparent about this?

I just think about the money that this is costing for google (I've talked only with Bard) and I can understand why they sometimes refuse, gotta share the CPU resources or something, schedule the spending? dunno
I think a public review of what to do by Dang (responded to this thread) is not only productive, but highly valuable. It's unreasonable to sit around and wait for a neutral version of this discussion to pop up, it likely never will and the issue is only going to get worse.