skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I've got no great love for these new image formats.

It's always a pain in the ass when you discover your phone has actually been saving your photos as heic or webp or avif or whatever and hardly anything will open them.

I could understand wanting to improve JPEG in the age of dial-up and 1.44MB floppy disks - 60% smaller images could have been a great benefit in those days. But today, even if I'm taking 30 photos every day at 4k resolution, it'd take 20 years to fill up a $50 1TB disk.

The other benefits of the format might be great for some specialist applications, but options like billion-pixel-wide images, 32 bits per channel and 4099 channels ready for medical imaging only get a shrug from me. I doubt my browser is going to start displaying 4099 channel images.

I just wish we could get rid of heic, webp and avif at the same time.
OpenSUSE had this 7 years ago when I last used it. I think they still have it, it's called snapper.

Not that I would really have turned any Linux significantly non-functional by updating during the last 15 years. But it's all software, so everything can happen one day...
CA’s deregulatory moves have been great steps in the right direction, and progress is usually incremental. But realistically the whole Bay Area should be at “if you want to build a 10 or 20 story apartment building on your own land, go for it.”

Allowing duplexes on smaller lots is great, but doesn’t go far enough. I actually think the momentum is in CA’s favor and they will be in a better position than, for instance, TX in 10-20 years, as it relates to housing affordability.
The problems I see with this:

* Websites will be hacked or expire your password, so you will have to generate a new one. Even assuming you have a way to make a new password for the same site name, how do you keep track of which version number you are now?

* Website names are not evenly distributed, especially if taking the first two letters. Example: twitter/twitch.tv/twilio would all share a password
Native Instruments is dying anyway.
From how I understand the presentation, they ran into trouble because of code size. Basically stack code is much denser because you don't need arguments for registers and, given the 16kbytes -> 6 kbytes is more than just half from going 32->16bit, appearantly a bit more efficient for implementing their program too I guess.

The size was a concern because of the limited size (16kbyes) of bram modules on an fpga.

I can't say why it performs so much better though, maybe just because it's simpler & 16 bit so it's smaller and can be clocked faster on the fpga? That is just a guess though.

I'm not sure if it is fair to compare the J1 to the BOOM, the latter does a lot more I'd think. That being said, it shows that for such use cases a stack machine can be better suited and much less complex to design, maintain and work with.
I like pass, the "Unix standard password manager": https://www.passwordstore.org/

It is very barebones -- basically a collection of GPG encrypted text files stored in Git. For that reason it's trivial to make clients for it and selfhost the repository if you're so inclined.
Just like most people are homeless through no fault of their own.
People write these headlines for the readers of their publications, not random link aggregators such as HN, and they're not intended to be an analytical and accurate summary of the article content. Sometimes people have some fun with the headlines – that's not "clickbait".

Your caustic contemptuous attitude is nonsensical, humourless, and exactly the sort of thing that just sucks the fun out of HN at times.
All fine but if say 2% is the tipping quantity (I'm pulling numbers out of my arse here) and it happens so that those 10% are the only percents we as humans can influence, shouldn't we push to reduce those 10% and keep an enjoyable planet for our grandchildren? Only a couple hundred years ago the equilibrium was without any human 10& so we have pretty clear numbers here. Decades later is nothing on the scale of the humankind and we claim all the time we are pushing our species forward (remember the saying "one small step for the man..."?) while currently doing things the majority agrees are harming ourselves. It's only that this majority won't agree to even try to do anything about it.
I think they’re vastly understating/oversimplifying how they use WASM. For audio analysis and operations on audio binary/encoded data, it’s quite possible that WASM is a very good fit. Maybe offloading that work to a JS worker would be sufficient—you’re right that JS VMs are extremely fast—but I wouldn’t necessarily discount this WASM use case either. And I’m saying that having explored these kinds of optimizations enough to generally recommend against using WASM unless you have strong reason to believe you’d benefit from it (ideally with benchmarks to prove it).

I’d also caution that using Web Workers isn’t always so obvious either (and the same applies to server side threading eg on Node). There’s significant overhead (runtime) in spinning up a worker, and in every communication between threads—enough to negate their benefit for many use cases. Both WASM and workers have roughly the same perf downsides, and both should generally be justified by real measurement of their impact.
You did and do by living there
Isn't the probability of a meteorite hitting the Sphynx the same as the meteorite hitting anything else on the planet?
Does any OS use capability-based security or other means to categorically lock graphics drivers out of network access, and why does Windows not?
Do you have a reference documentation for S3 data layout?
Zoom Forces Every User to Use Their Data for AI Training
I'm using an Alder Lake i7 12700K machine now as my daily driver since last year (2022), but before that I was still using my Sandy Bridge i7 2700K machine I put together in 2012. That's 10~11 years of active service, and I still use it once in a while as a sub machine with no really noticable deficiencies. That 2700K's still more than powerful enough for most things I can throw at it today.

I also still have a home server running that's built around a Sandy Bridge i3 2100, too. That CPU's overkill, let alone anything newer, for a server that just handles backups and LAN file sharing.

Sandy Bridge was, in my opinion, the turning point when CPU performance finally met and outpaced common user demands for processing power. In generations prior it was commonplace for CPUs (and thus entire machines) to be upgraded every few years, because performance always became insufficient, but since Sandy Bridge it became practical to just keep using it for the better part of a decade if not more.
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That "without customer consent" bit is probably doing a whole load of heavy lifting.
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While objectively correct, the policy you describe is incredibly cruel. People often end up homeless through no fault of their own, and more importantly, temporarily homeless. Should someone lose all their pets just because they end up homeless for a couple days or a week? Do we want to fill the animal shelters up even further and send more animals off to be euthanized?

Imagine being a young child, already traumatized by ending up homeless, and now the pet you've been growing up with gets dragged off by the authorities to be executed.

It's absolutely the case that difficult problems can require the state to exert force to solve them, but I'm also just not convinced that forcing people into shelters is going to fix everything. Especially in this case where we know the area does not have enough beds for everyone, and the constraints enforced to get a bed are onerous (throw out your belongings, get rid of your pets, etc)

Some of the people who reject housing also cannot realistically be in a shelter because they will just cause trouble for everyone else if you force them to go. My brother used to work in law enforcement and this was an issue with the most troublesome homeless people in the area - as a law enforcement officer he really didn't have any workable tools. If you take them to a shelter they'll get kicked out because they're troubled, and if you take them to jail their condition will not improve (only deteriorate) and then they end up back on the street again once they're discharged.
The irony here is that you will get NVIDIA (and AMD) drivers vendored through Windows Update automatically by default. These work fine for 3D acceleration, and don't install GFE or require an account.

You'll just be a few versions behind, not sure what their release cadence is for this. But as far as I know this is a net positive to the Windows PC user and potentially eliminates needing to deal with GFE/Adrenalin as long as you are satisfied with the builds Microsoft is shipping you.
Just wait for spotted lanternflies to take hold, they will devastate grape crops.
There are places where you could buy folks many houses for 600k.

What you need are a sort of anti-vagrancy law where the "punishment" is confinement in a very minimal security home where your basic needs are met, folks are nice and caring to you, and you're gently compelled to take whatever steps you need to put your life back together. Some people will stay indefinitely, be allowed to, and choose to.
Yeah, same thought. This actually does not feel like a bot (see random punctuation), just a typical bad 3rd-level support employee.
Meet also offers client-side encryption for "Enterprise" level accounts.

https://support.google.com/meet/answer/11605714?hl=en&ref_to...
I don't think anybody believes the thunderbolt, whatever it was, knocked off the Sphinx's nose. (Or are you speaking figuratively?) The stela cites the back of the headdress.

It is common to blame Napoleonic cannoneers for damage to its face, but apparently that is slander. We know that early Christians were very fond of knocking the nose off of anything that might attract offerings. I don't know of any surviving drawings that show the nose intact.
Couple questions:

1. aren't you going to get murderous S3 API call bills if you're pushing each message directly into S3? How're you buffering / queuing / coalescing messages durably without local storage?

2. what's the problem with "just" running a kafka cluster in each AZ and not replicating data between AZs until it's time to ETL the data to wherever? AZ1 clients push to AZ1 clusters; AZ2 clients push to AZ2 clusters, etc.

3. What's done to preserve order-of-operation within a kafka partition?
So? The jQuery code still works regardless of when the browser decided to catch up.

I picked up jQuery because JS in browsers weren't cross-compatible for ages. I don't see a need to stop unless jQuery stops being cross-compatible.
I'm a games developer - PS5/Xbox/Switch have excellent VS integration. And yes I mean the full fat VS.
Just how bad this is would depend on how they stored the data, I guess.

Why does it feel like they probably keep WAY more data than they need instead of just the hash?

Glad they’ve been shut down at least.
You very clearly don't care about 90% of the rest of the world who doesn't have fast internet

you also very clearly don't care about the entire internet experience, at all, whatsoever.

Edit: 60% space savings only available in the age of the floppy.... what? 60% cost savings when serving multiple terabytes of image data is useless?

You seem to view everything through the extremely tiny lens of a photographer or something... pun intended
Well, maybe they need to deal with the problems of (1) why people are afraid of shelters, and/or, even more importantly, (2) people not having homes, rather than whining that they can’t force people into terrible shelters or force them into jails for trying to survive outside of terrible shelters.

But, even so:

> Even after southern states have sent 100,000 penniless migrants to NYC, they still are able to find beds for people.

NYC is ~10 times the size of SF.
Seems like the tech side is solved on that, we just need more people actually making and distributing the stuff.

I wonder what the goal of all the education initiatives are over there though. Are they planning to go to college and do STEM? Do they intend to come to the US, or work there? Is better math skill more useful in daily life aside from STEM than it is here? Seems like the stuff that comes after getting an education is just as important.
Without knowledge of the details of the contract it's impossible to state anything about this arrangement isn't it?

There's not much of a difference between paying $20,000 for a wafer holding 400 chips with a known 50% defect rate versus paying $100 per chip. Could just be accounting games.
Probably by using public ones https://dev.to/aprogrammer22/list-of-free-stun-and-turn-serv...
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The Financial Modeling World Cup presents an elimination competition for expert Excel users. Every 5 minutes the player with the fewest points gets eliminated. This time 8 participants will show their Excel magic - Diarmuid Early, Andrew Ngai, Brittany Deaton, Michael Holmes, David Brown, Alana Reid, Isaac Lee, and Emilie Williams. Commentary starts at 5:03.
It’s a result of voting for Reagan and his dismantling of any support for asylums. Sure, it was cruel but the voters decided to throw the baby with the bath water instead of any kind of nuance.

Additionally, the NIMBY crowd goes against building anything, even with the new “builders remedy” in place. With a majority of homeless being from CA, this has affected everyone - homeowners can’t sell and “upgrade” because supply is too low, which doesn’t help mobility in the lower classes.

The other issue is the toothless law enforcement when it comes to actual crime. That I hope will change when residents of SF get tired of the shenanigans.

I’m against reducing social programs. We need it, especially if the income inequality gap keeps getting wider. We just need to be smarter about how we spend it.

It’s also important to remember that WSJ, and particularly their opinion pieces, are very much a right-wing mouthpiece and loves to dunk on SF and the “poors”.
Kafka replaced ZooKeeper with Kafka itself already a few years ago https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-500%3A...
Ben & Jerry's founders and ceo are doing great things. As in they have taken ethical decisions that have hurt their bottom line.
> Title IX legislation, passed in 1972, says that no one should be excluded on the basis of gender from participation in any education program receiving federal financial assistance. But private institutions have an exemption that allows them to use gender as a factor in admissions.

I was interested to see this legal explanation because I had read in a prior HN thread that schools could choose to be single-sex, but once they decided to admit both sexes they were forbidden from discriminating. The HN comment linked to an authoritative-looking website (Dept of Education?), but this seems to pretty clearly indicate that private schools are exempt.

EDIT:

Here's a link to a page on the Dept of Education's Office of Civil Rights website, which gives the impression that schools that receive federal funding (which is basically all of them) cannot discriminate on the basis of sex or gender in admissions. It mentions no exception for private institutions. [1]

But this other page on the same website shows the exemption for private institutions. Very strange that the first page, which has a section on the "scope of Title IX" would not mention that this rule does not apply to the thousands of private universities and colleges. [2]

1: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/tix_dis.html

2: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9-rel-exemp...
> I could understand wanting to improve JPEG in the age of dial-up and 1.44MB floppy disks - 60% smaller images could have been a great benefit in those days. But today, even if I'm taking 30 photos every day at 4k resolution, it'd take 20 years to fill up a $50 1TB disk.

60% smaller images are great for hosting providers. We have ample storage and bandwidth compared to the 90s, but it still ain't that cheap.
I made a person seven years ago. They started out pretty useless, just eating and pooping and crying a lot. But now they can walk, talk, think, read, write, act, sing, and love.
A lot of that information on Google Maps is, at least partially, crowd-sourced. OSM-based apps could do the same thing (indeed, it's already sort of possible by just editing OSM directly with a separate app), though they don't have nearly as many users as Google Maps does so it wouldn't be quite as effective.
In general, Silicon Valley has a huge problem with / misunderstanding of things like "permission" and "consent." If computing was like dating, Silicon Valley would be a creepy guy in the nightclub constantly telling women: "We are now dating. Do you want to dance? [Yes] [Ask Again Later]"
>I mostly try to head this off by trying to be self-aware about my knowledge level on a topic, and saying “I’m not sure…” when I’m not sure about something.

This excellent tactic for avoiding pointless debate and inviting helpful replies is sadly beyond many people in the software field. Software folks are used to the past where you could master things completely. With the continued growth of knowledge and the growth of the worlds complexity, it is quite impossible even for one super intelligent person that was present at the dawn of creation to keep up; failing to consider disagreement as a potentially useful pointer to the situation where you don't have as much knowledge as you think is a risk. (edited to add "is a risk" so that was a sentence.)

I have seen multiple projects led by extremely smart people fail because they didn't listen to key information from less smart people that were nonetheless better informed about the particular technologies involved.
Frictionless travel
I don't think there was any spite involved in Kodak's early film work. Or imaging work by Olympus, Sony, and anybody else was involved in early digital camera development.

But, by the time we got to Google and Apple? The problems with photographing dark subjects would have been well understood. It's sad that it took being "outed" in the media for those companies to actively address the issue.

What I don't know is how much of the issue was "new" (re-introduced by the software behind the phone camera magic) or "existing" (the same problem with color/white balance that has existed since the dawn of photography). If it was "new", that's rather damning, IMO, since the problem space was known, and the product people chose to ignore it. Put another way - some of this is just physics, but how much was physics and how much was software ignoring one set of subjects in an effort to improve outcomes for another?

But, no, probably not intentionally spiteful. Just some combination of lazy, greedy, and ignorant.
Samsung has a fighting chance, at least if they swallow their usual yield issues. Intel's foundries are good too, but probably not an upgrade over 5nm for Apple.

Customers like Apple will build new fabs if they're unhappy with the old one. Keeping them fat and happy is part of not going-under for TSMC.
Vaultwarden is even easier to self-host, it's basically a single binary that uses a SQLite database: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
> I'd expect JS would have worked just fine & let you do all the same things, at essentially the same speed

I think you would be wrong about that. Certainly, it's not just WASM that makes Figma fast, but it's an important piece. Look at it this way: why would they have built out the product with WASM five years ago if Javascript was just as good for their use case? It's a huge investment in a new technology with relatively few people you can hire for it, versus quite possibly the most well-known, well-supported language in the world. They identified some significant advantage that made the cost-benefit analysis line up.

Normally, I don't like the argument that because somebody did it, it must be the right choice. But, Figma made so many correct decisions out of the gate that, in this case, I'd give them the benefit of the doubt.
It’s odd that people forget about Samsung who, as recently as 2015, was ahead of TSMC. Even now they’re not far behind.
Yes exactly. Which means it's extremely, extremely low.

Even though the probably of a meteorite hitting somewhere is high, the probability of hitting somewhere in particular is tiny.
Those are very different questions...

If you want to simply run inference or do QLoRA fine tunes of "the best, largest open source models" eg the llama2-70b models, you can do so with 2 x RTX 3090 24GB (~$600 used), so for about $1200 for the GPUs, 48GB of VRAM (set to PL 300W, so 600W while inferencing) - q4 version of llama2-70b take about 38-40GB of memory + kvcache.

If you want 192GB of VRAM, your cheapest realistic option is probably going to be 4 x A6000's (~$16,000) - you will need to have a chassis that will provide adequate power and cooling (1200W for the GPUs). I'd personally suggest that anyone looking to buy that kind of hardware have a fairly good idea of what they're going to use it for beforehand.

I'm not sure what exactly you're asking about with regards to memory, but for workstations, the Xeon W-3400's have 8 channels of DDR5-4800 (the W5-3425 has a $1200 list price) and the upcoming Threadripper Pro 7000s will likely have similar memory support (or you can get an EPYC 9124 for ~$1200 now if you want 12 channels of DDR5).
Also a bribe. I could imagine the poor would be more willing to waste their time getting their eyes scanned.
I've used quite some graphic editing web apps, and I wouldn't count Figma to the snappy ones.

It's a bit like the Slack of graphic software.
Graphics drivers, at least on unices, come in two parts: one in the kernel, another one in the userspace. The latter provides interfaces such as Vulkan. That said, ANV (Intel's driver) is part of mesa, and not bespoke like nvidia's. But that's a moot point: this telemetry component is not a part of the actual driver, but another separate program in the package.
That article seems really interesting, but it's over five years old. Are there any updates on the artificial heart? Did it ever make it to human trials?
How do you access that feature in Chrome?
> Meta/Google workers aren't judged here for working at these un-ethical companies.

Sure they are. I've seen comments like these aimed at workers of those companies far more than workers at Intel. There have even been entire threads about whether or not having Meta or Google on your CV hurts you, and should hurt you.
Exactly, that's what I'm talking about.

For some applications people would be really happy with that F1 car image and I would even be happy with it for some applications (e.g. some random image to give spice to a blog) but for my photograph I'd say that's pretty lossy.
This same system applied in the US through the civil war at least ($300 would exempt you from the union draft -- about $11K in today's dollars).

Also, up to WW1, in the US and UK at least you became a commissioned officer by purchasing your rank. Of course during the war there were field promotions on merit.
We have seen that GitStart works best when its meant to accelerate an in-house team, instead of being a member of your team.

As a result, the end team that uses GitStart has full ownership of all code that gets merged.

However you can assign future bug fixes and maintenance work back to GitStart.
All you’re doing here is revealing your lack of ethics with regard to this topic.
They attack him because, rightly, it was his father who set in place a series of policies that destroyed English Canada's once unique, distinctly British, culture.

But, why do I care? My parents dragged me into Canada at age six, I left as soon as I graduated. Not my country, not my problem.
Thank You For Smoking was an all-around great movie.