skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no doubt that's part of it, but it's not all - I think it's the stillness.
I agree that intuitively it seems to not make sense, but with regard to your specific points, and assuming that there's actually more than a nothingburger behind this whole story:

1. I wouldn't necessarily assume FTL. But even if we assume "arbitrarily technologically advanced," there's no reason to think that any technology will ever have an absolute 0% chance of failure.

2. It only has to be sufficiently peaceful to not wipe itself out.

3. I don't think AI doing things changes either of the previous two points.

What I find harder to believe is that humans would be able to get their hands on a crashed alien craft and keep it.
Arguably, Napster and Bitorrent had issues that made killing them a tad easy.

Wonder what they were?
No, because in Germany we use nebenan.de :D And the fb groups I know are sane, otherwise I wouldn’t be there.
Isn't the current model better? Is it not (objectively) better for free users if they get all the same functionality as premium users?
It's amazing what the era of cheap money coming to an end is exposing.
They also avoided the metaverse & augmented reality traps.

Vision is solidly positioned as a spatial OS. Unconnected. Not virtual. Just space.

I think eventually it comes back around & metaverse/AR have huge potential. But being a good computer seems like the most important first step.
It was going to happen, mergers always cause layoffs in overlapping departments and positions, they said that just to get that merger approve.
Pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean by "it's in Leviticus"?
I'm not familiar with HDF5 but agree on resiliency. We are a collegiate racing team and our car's power rails aren't stable and redundant at all times, so power loss failure is something I've kept in mind from day one on my telemetry project. SQLite is generally equipped to handle power losses and write thread crashes:

> An SQLite database is highly resistant to corruption. If an application crash, or an operating-system crash, or even a power failure occurs in the middle of a transaction...

Quite often after a run the entire car is turned off and, on next power up, the databases are left as .db and .db-journal files. The code has no problem processing or even continuing on logging with DBs in this state.
The OP comment didn't give any context for what you should be thinking to make a judgement call on. Just blindly "run this command periodically". If I'm not making any actual decision, it should just be run for me by default.
I actually tested this, and could not measure any performance hit at all until I hit 95% full.

It sped right back up again when I deleted some stuff.

I wouldn't worry about it.
It isn’t admirable, it’s just not a thing that anyone really did or does.

It seems to me that if someone takes your order and cooks hot door for you and a place you go to twice a week, it’s decent to tip at least occasionally. If staff knows your name and order and remembers details about you, but out always select no tip, that’s pretty anti-social.
The community has almost unanimously shown their distaste for this proposal, so I wouldn't count on it shipping.

The consensus was that it provides almost no practical value and is a heavy syntactical burden both to read and write.

Many users seemed to be totally fine keeping function colors over adopting this.
I think the noise cancelling will come from AirPods. If they can pull off noise cancelling from the headset alone that would be quite impressive.
Imagine we develop a robot that is about to perform difficult physical tasks better than a human can.

Is that good news for the plumber you know?

Probably not unless he (and millions of others) are able to figure out how to survive when their labor is worthless.
Traders pull $800M out of Binance after SEC lawsuit
And what is considered by some the best UFO photo ever was taken in Costa Rica in 1971:

https://news.co.cr/best-ufo-photo-in-the-world-taken-at-aren...

UFO researcher Leslie Kean obtained a copy directly from the Costa Rican government:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentag...
It’s not a fancy alien who crashed. It’s a drone from a fleet of paperclip producing ai swarms. It crash landed here, but 1000 others didn’t crash, and they’re already at work secretly converting the earth to paperclips

The paperclip ai swarm’s origin story: some tech startup from 100 light years away screwed up their ai system and went extinct / got turned into paperclips

The universe is devoid of life because all of it, everywhere, has been converted to paperclips by various civilizations badly tuned ai systems. They don’t send out radio signals because, obviously, they need to grow as strong as possible before meeting other paperclip systems; so their kind of paperclips will win
Sure, we’re just talking about this particular one here and now.
In other words a wacko got trolled or pranked.

Then the troller was embarrassed about how well it worked and told him to never talk about it.
All this means in practice is that they have to be killed as humanely as possible.

We're not actually establishing an embassy with the Squid, Lobster or Crab nations.
There is, surprisingly, no correct labels exist for this class of images. Anime is incorrect because it’s not an animated film or directly derived from one, manga is kind of correct but modern definition is just panelists comics, nijigen is another term but it’s slightly deprecative, hentai is only for porn and also won’t be understood in Japanese. There just don’t seem to be one.
Nah. They were easy to kill because those in power wanted to kill them. The same excuses would have worked on plenty of other things that weren't killed, because those in power were happy for them to survive.
An Update on the Visual Studio Code C# Extension
Sometimes.

Quickly slapping some Vaseline on the has cap gasket has worked in my Ford.

A couple of German cars later, that CEL is always much much more expensive.
Nice, thanks for the info.

I feel like 600dpi ought to be possible with a DIY setup and a good quality but not break-the-bank camera, but maybe I'm wrong?

Where I work, I am not the one who works with the photographic digitization. I know we can do 600 dpi digitization of things of this size (whether we choose to depends on the material). But I suppose our setup may cost substantially more than OP, I'm not sure, I could ask the relevant staff.
> so more layers of abstraction can be added

The problem is that they're not layers of abstraction, they're just layers.

An actual layer of abstraction should allow you to replace or combine the lower layers. But we just have layers without abstractions.
The gaze tracking is process isolated. Only when you tap is that location ever communicated to the application process — so they had to build a UI API that supports configurable hover behaviour where that hover behaviour is never readable by developers

They've thought through the accessibility features, how VoiceOver works with the headset, dynamic type sizes, etc.

Designing this sort of consistent API across a whole platform, where it's not only easy to use, but really delightful, is the bit that's exciting to a lot of people

I have collected a bunch of A/VR headsets and developed for them. None of them think deeply about these things, so they just haven't been that interesting. They are more "we supply the hardware, you supply the opinion about how it should be used." I really want the other side of that story

The Disney part of the keynote was all "dreams work." It was complete nonsense with no clear direction. Apple's stuff, while it might be wrong, is at least opinionated and clear

There is a lot of marketing sheen, but there's a clear design opinion about human computer interaction that comes through. That's the exciting bit that I think people react to, sometimes without realising
I have seen them called "Quick Scan Code" or something similar in some ads.
What did Twitch do?
I think they'll inevitably introduce this down the track. The idea that you can set up a workspace as fixed to a particular place. Sit on the couch, and by default it has media apps and a big screen. Put it on in your office, and you can cover the walls with reference drawings and appropriate apps that are all where you left them.
And yet… the price of Bitcoin has surged the last 24 hours? This doesn’t pass the smell test, I feel like something fishy is going on
We use Discord as the primary communication channel for our two-man startup and love it. Both me and my co-founder pay for Nitro not because we want to participate in an "internet caste system" (my-founder is basically the only person that would actually see my "Nitro" status and vice versa), but because we want to support a great product that has served us well over the years. Some of the perks are fun but generally go unused by us.
> But there were no rules before.

The rules always were there. Just that the SEC was willing to turn a blind eye for years on this issue.

The reason why SEC couldn't ignore this anymore is FTX and SBF. It became clear that cryptocoins are full of fraudsters, and the cryptocoin community has absolutely no way to differentiate from the fraudsters and the legitimate groups.

SEC is simply not in a position to keep turning a blind eye to the cryptocoin world after $10,000,000,000+ was stolen by FTX and SBF.
You can ZFS send back and forth between pools or to a new dataset to defrag/fix that, so it's not "permanent" as in can't ever be fixed. It also depends on workload, write once/read many is different from VM disk files.
Wait, what was wrong with TeamSpeak?
Are you aware that Apple made it clear yesterday they have a full Direct3D 12 translation layer yesterday?

The biggest problem is chicken and the egg. There is no high-end gaming hardware, there are few games, and there isn’t much demand for the kind of games Windows gets.

But without the hardware it’s not clear the games makes sense. And without the gamers it’s not clear porting makes sense. And without the hardware the gamers and the games won’t come.

Even if Apple released a 100% functional and performant Vulcan implementation tomorrow I seriously doubt it would make any real difference to the gaming market on the Mac.
Like what.
Imagine comparing paying for a free service for a few irrelevant perks to a millennia-old systemic social system of oppression (that’s de facto still around, by the way). How tone deaf can you actually be?

Next up: paying for Twitter Blue is slavery.
Given the amount of politics involved from the very beginning, it's actually highly likely that it would not be exempt--moreso than probably most other areas of research.
I dunno maybe I’m wrong about the technical stuff. My minor point is that this software has some technical flaws today - forums and link aggregators are solved problems over and over again so implementation excellence is at least a unique value proposition.

I’ll quote the top-voted thread here

>> Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit. Nobody wants to choose a server.

> I want this. I want this because it's a sustainable way to have Reddit without the ads. The bad UX is an acceptable tradeoff for a platform that doesn't go to shit.

I’m just not buying how a federated system of isolated instances solves this. What fundamentally prevents the dominant oligopoly or monopoly server(s) from just being Reddit running on Lemmy? Lemmy doesn’t dictate how things are run - so why won’t a major funded instance just evolve to a new Reddit?
How does Lemmy decisively get you to a Reddit without the ads? What stops a major Lemmy instance going to shit?

Just having federation as an opt in feature doesn’t force the system to evolve in a particular way.

If a “Voat” equivalent pops up it’s not like the dominant instances are going to federate with it.
After years of salt the screw is now rusted stuck. Oops i just stripped the head. Oops the head just cracked off. Theres tools for this but it requires experience too
Walled garden consumerism is not what I consider the future or reinvention, no.
>BTRFS arrays will consistently corrupt with my reset button

YES!!! Sorry to beat a dead horse, but it has been so frustrating for me. I thought I did something wrong, like, how could the partition break for doing nothing! Where did I fucked up? I cannot imagine the experience with a RAIDed BTRFS array shudders
Napster was easy to kill. Bittorrent is still alive.
Pulling injectors on a Volvo penta md6b boat engine. Made a slide hammer to pull them. First one came out fine but the second came out with the copper sleeve that holds it so need to work on separating them.
Letting time and gravity mix with penetrating oil for the past couple days
> but since I've integrated LLMs into my development process I find all I need are two side by side windows

This irrelevant for those of us not doing cookie-cutter-been-done-1000000-times-before stuff. In such cases all the LLMs in the world are useless, but many pages of docs open at once are useful. Go tell your LLM to write a ARMv6M assembly MIPS-II emulator. I'll wait. Go on.
There are massive projects to digitize the known corpora of works in Latin and Greek, the Thesaurus Linguæ Latinæ (https://thesaurus.badw.de/en/project.html) and Thesaurus Linguæ Græacæ (https://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu)

While, as the titles indicate, the objective is to be able to find all usages of particular words, this does have the side-effect of preserving the texts themselves, although neither project necessarily works as a good means of being able to access the texts directly.
so in a class of 100, 2 people will be incorrectly flagged?

very low chance, unless you are one of the two people this week.
For an Inch of Blue Sea
It goes both ways. Shit hardware is papered over with firmware/driver hacks.
> ... which made a significant effort to stay on the right side of the rules and only allow crypto tokens that operated in ways that are closely analogous to e.g. frequent flier miles.

They list ICOs by the fistful.

I sorted alphabetically and only had to go as far as AAVE to find the first obviously-a-security.

They really didn't try and stay on the right side of anything.

Frequent flyer miles are generally considered to fall under the IRS rebate rule. They're considered rebates on purchases. There's no investment of money (they're a rebate on a purchase), there's no common enterprise, there's no expectation of profit derived from the efforts of others (after all airlines generally devalue miles 10-20% year over year). It fails all prongs of the Howey test. Not to mention you don't own your frequent flyer miles, the airline program does.

If you find me a crypto token that operates 'like a frequent flyer mile' I'll happily tell you why you didn't.

> They wrote a great many blog posts giving their perspective and calling for regulatory clarity.

They wrote a lot of blog posts, I'll give you that. They have regulatory clarity, they just don't like it. [1, 2, lots of case law].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/corpfin/framework-investment-contract-an...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf
Youtube had an even higher proportion of piracy than Bittorrent or Napster at the relevant time, assuming that's what the ancestor post was getting at.
He was a real piss-ant, after all.
Whole site. I've heard that you'll get banned even for a DM with the url.
My experience of doing maths in JavaScript was terrible. Fairly simple things like [1,2] < [10,2] return false (unlike every other language I’ve ever used), as < is implement by converting to strings, then comparing.

Is that fixed by Typescript, or does it inherit all those kinds of weird JavaScript behavior?
My first kid had some struggles with understanding why it was absolutely ridiculous to spend hundreds of real dollars to e.g. get a particular Dominus in Roblox. It caused a lot of fights for about a year, but it finally sank in. When my second kid started playing he started down the same path. Caused a few arguments for a little while but, one day my first told him it was pretty stupid to spend real money on fake stuff and that was the end of the problem.

I personally buy into things like that in places I want to continue to exist for a long time e.g. Rocket League, a handful of YT channels through Patreon, and even Roblox. Turns out it's really fun to play it with your kids if they're not constantly browsing the item shop and begging for Robux.

I've never witnessed anyone talking down to the "lower class" except from insignificant trolls no one in the community respects anyway. Maybe it's different on discord but, if it is, I would blame the members of the community first, discord didn't invent the idea of selling cosmetics to keep the servers running and everyone needs to learn how to get over jealousy at some point in the their life.
I guess another option would be for her to get a job at Apple, in a role where her ideas would be considered.
The fact that general English language proficiency is far greater in India (where English is an official language) than China ... may have something to do with this.

Boiler-room telephony operations tend to follow linguistic capabilities. The Philippines is another locale with widespread English-language capabilities and a low prevailing wage rate, though it seems less associated with technical scams than India is.
I applaud your perspective, but if you want to truly break caste systems, seek social justice. Seek educating people who don't have access to affordable schooling. Seek public health care. Seek affordable housing. Seek fair elections. Seek prison reform. Seek fair wages.

Seek everything that affords people the dignity of live that everyone deserves.
Please don't fulminate or call names on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

You may not feel you owe an author better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
It is commonly said extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Much less commonly said, but still true, is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary trust. I do not trust the people saying these things. That I can not 100% guess their motivations for this is not particularly relevant. They have a long history of consistent and large lies. Failing to take that into account when they're making this sort of claim is foolishness.

In fact at this point they're really in a Catch-22... if they really do try to come out with "Yes! Aliens! Really!" then we have the question of, why then were you lying the up to this point then? Because if they are real you've been lying and lying and lying and lying beyond my capacity to express in a single sentence... why should I trust you now, then?

I mean, it isn't that hard to imagine how "alien threat!" will require us to, once again, give them more power. It's absolutely astonishing how no matter what the problem is, the solution is to give them more power.
I don't generally have a good sense of where gen pop is heading, but recently the few social media type sites I still use are losing what little appeal they had. It's all just so boring and recycled.
That's a great idea, I will look at FAISS for now. Thank you.
ctrl+f "accessibility" in part 2: zero results

ctrl+f "accessibility" in part 1: zero results

Does anyone care about digital access to content for disabled people ? Or about the ADA ?

Svg to canvas without any answer for accessibility is backwardness, plain and simple.

You are letting down anyone who's deaf, blind or has trouble hearing or seeing, anyone who does not know how to read, has motor impairments, temporary or not and the older folks. Also screen translaters will not work on canvas.

Please follow the WCAG guidelines.
If not having access to "super reactions" or special avatars on Discord make you feel a genuine and affecting sense of envy and self-consciousness I uh... don't know what to tell you. It's some gifs, you just can't post some gifs.

This feels monumentally overblown to me. I don't pay for nitro but I clearly benefit from all the people who do and if they get some fun, silly little perks that's fine.
I recently replaced an image classification pipeline that leaned heavily on classical computer vision techniques (like you'd find in OpenCV) with a neural network based approach using open models. There were about 4 years of developer effort invested in that old pipeline and I got better results with 2 months of effort invested in the new NN based system.

Later this year I plan on revamping an old NLP system with even more man-years of effort invested in it. I think I can beat it with neural networks too. The main reason I haven't started already is that open language model progress is so fast that I expect significantly better building blocks in 4 months. Using these new tools feels magical, particularly when you have experienced how much effort it took to get half-as-good results with older techniques.
What is this right wing nonsense.
I feel like this got better for developers, and much worse for end users. Containers and Infrastructure as Code brought quite some sanity for myself, and even the beast that is Kubernetes is optional and has alternatives. Clouds are complicated but mostly work, and are certainly more reliable than most in-house solutions. Language safety is now a big talking point.

But the end users got screwed. We forgot about consent, from "yes/maybe later" options, to obligatory apps, and shrinking features. Then offline applications became unfashionable, and now every action takes two seconds. The final nail is suicidal monetization, like seemingly every game publisher, Google Maps, Twitter, and recently Reddit.

I found https://handmade.network/ a breath of fresh air, but so far it's been too little, too late.

Here's to the next 12 years.
> Fun fact: Google docs is actually a canvas.

This is often said, and almost as often misunderstood as referring to what I call the “pure canvas” approach where you throw away almost everything the browser gives you and start from scratch. Some key points about Google Docs, just to clarify (I’m not disagreeing):

① Only its document area is rendered with canvas; its chrome is all still regular HTML.

② It still uses the browser for text shaping and painting, just not for macro-layout (breaking paragraph into lines, &c.). (I expect that’s what this article’s subject would be doing too, but it’s part of common misunderstandings.)

③ Even things like scrolling are completely left to the browser: it’s not a single <canvas>, but a regular DOM scrolling area contains a bunch of <canvas> tiles.

④ The shunning of using HTML-with-contenteditable for the entire thing makes editing perform very badly (throughput, latency and jitter), and things like keyboard caret navigation behave non-natively in ways that will be very frustrating for people that actually use and care about this stuff (you get to relying on things behaving the same, like with touch typing, so things that get it wrong like Google Docs and LibreOffice (which gets it all wildly wrong) constantly grate).

⑤ They could just as easily use HTML or SVG rendering as <canvas> (while keeping their input and layout the same, so I mean still with all manual line breaks and that kind of thing). You’d get quite similar performance (though probably overall a little worse), and the same problems (since it’s the input layer that makes it slow and jittery—it just fundamentally can’t be as good in those ways as boring old contenteditable, given the current primitives). In fact, it’d mildly surprise me if they didn’t have an SVG or HTML renderer handy, or did in the past and could revive it to complete indistinguishable functionality within a day or two (even if hacky).

(I wrote a little more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33863185.)