skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been writing a series on _Image Processing_ algorithms in WebGL covering a range of topics such as Color Correction, Blend Modes, Thresholding, Dithering, Convolution and Film Grain.

https://maximmcnair.com/webgl-image-processing
> documentation should be near the source
I totally agree with this statement. Moreover, I plan to have a feature that will allow to place your whole project folder into your vault in my app and then reference a diagram through the code/inner file (e.g. using comment blocks). And that file will be visible, searchable, within my documentation software. Think of it as a layer above the code.

However I do not want to tie the documentation process to git as it will be harder for other team members (think of POs, Teamleads, clients) to find the documentation through git history. Instead, a separate IDE for documentation (as is my app) is an ideal place to store & share knowledge. Just like there is separate app for slack, e-mail, browser, etc.

Thanks for your thoughts!
Idk if I count “turning all the features off” as a valid option…
My concern with fixing a storage device is that storage is pretty much the worst thing to fail. Maybe as a cache drive or perhaps for some large applications - but I wouldn’t trust it with data I cared about…
Golden handcuffs if you will :)
It makes me wonder what an impactor like that would do if intercepted by the moon; that may be even enough mass to cause a temporary ring field just from the debris
I've stumbled over my son's toy ambulance more than once in the middle of the night. Sirens and flashing blue lights!
https://archive.md/1HIIT
Nice straw man you've built there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.
> Both have been (de facto) kicked out of their respective parties since the last election

I thought that by "Eton Mess", you meant to include Rishi Sunak and David Cameron. The former is the leader of the Tories, and I'm not aware that Csameron is (de facto) no longer a Tory.

What did you mean?
At this point, I'm surprised by the fact that we haven't bred a superior race of Mice that glow in the dark and live forever.
So passengers crowd into narrow tubes a bit earlier, and then the narrow tubes are winched into the aircraft with the sort of painstaking precision that takes several minutes? Even assuming airframes could be redesigned to make this possible [at zero cost, without implications for structural integrity or operational complexity of the resulting aircraft] I'm not sure who benefits here?
I'm just waiting for the shitty recipe sites to start hiding the recipes in the content...

<wall of text useless content>

<start of bulleted ingredients list>

* Rosemary - I remember the first time smelling fresh rosemary, it was the spring of 1989 and I was in my dear aunties kitchen...

* 1 boneless skinless chicken brest - Chicken breasts are a common ingredient in many dishes throughout the world. This hearty chunk of meat contains a high amount of protein and is quite versatile...
Yes, this really showed me what a great deal of science is nowadays. Backstabbing to publish, get credit/funding, rinse/repeat, so you can continue to marginally exist. Would be nice if we could just return to do actual science, for, you know, science and the advancement of our species.
That's probably why OP said it's open for discussion. But yeah herding (isn't the correct term flight attendants and not stewards?) the passengers would be difficult.

Perhaps the procedure should be, if everyone in your group is holding all their belongings - either in the aisle or standing in the footspace of an aisle seat (so rows C and D in a 3-3 configuration), then they can join the deplaning wave. But if you're standing in the aisle but one from your group is still crouched in a window seat and will need to grab their bag, and you don't want to abandon them, then you don't occupy the aisle go back to your (presumably aisle-) seat and wait for the next wave/go into an empty row so the crouched passenger can stand in row C/D, and wait for the wave to finish so they can grab their bag.
Interesting. That sounds basically perfect for ZFS where the default is 128KB blocks and zstd compression.
They are so terrible that they manage to get the 2nd place in arms export...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/13/france-challen...
Making it easier to take a car places has always caused an increase in driving. I don't see a reason that this would change with increases in automation. It's an additive solution (like feature bloat, for example) when we need subtractive solutions (better products)
> It's a bit disingenuous to claim that I wrote the code once and it is now static

Unless the library code were in some way self-updating or had some server side component, I think it's disingenuous to call the library code embedded in my app anything other than static. I assume by "not static" you are referring to decision to continue improving it, which I think is great and affords you the ability to sell me a newer version.
I did a test, searching for a pop song. I got 9 results for that pop song and then the "People also watched" section comes up. After 4 results with a +6 more button, it goes back to my pop song results.
Land - and thus population - is not evenly distributed across the globe, there is far more of both in the northern hemisphere.

Global transmission of electricity isn't a "problem," it's non-existant.
The Evolution of Application Architecture: MVC, GraphQL, BFF, RSC
Looking back over different patterns shows how projects and teams should be organised to scale complexity, and how new tech like React Server Components and Backend for Frontend should be used.

Some ideas from the post:
BFF should be outside the security boundary (so it can be owned by product teams)
RSC is a view layer! Don't put business logic in it.
Happy to send you the Enterprise license factsheet, please send an email to the address listed on the site.
In the movie 'Kursk' there is exactly such a scene and the literal quote is 'By the book, better start praying. I'm not reli...".
> Honestly there are times a status LED is really useful for quick troubleshooting,

I 100% agree. Status LEDs are often really useful and important. They just shouldn't be blue, and shouldn't be bright.
In any other field of engineering, the engineers are all trained and qualified. In software 'engineering', not so much.
Because not all countries are the same. In Canada owning a home is the historical norm and until a few years ago someone making the median income could have afforded one in most places.

Very few Canadians actually want to live in an apartment, home ownership is the goal.

Canada's home ownership rate is currently 66.5%[1] which is higher than many countries, but it used to be higher.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220921/mc-b0...
I do not. Where I live you buy new oil getting a receipt for a change. You get $5 back if you bring back the used oil, but if you lose the receipt you have to throw the oil away. It's... a really bad system
It will be cheaper until it isn't. Then, it won't be.

Hydrogen electrolysed using zero-marginal-cost power from solar farms producing in excess of demand, on cheapest-conceivable electrolysers, will become cheaper than what depends on extracting, concentrating, and transporting NG.
We already ask them to load themselves with debt, seems like the natural next step.
Scarfolk Council
Thank you for these pointers!
If it's person-specific, imagine isolating some of it when you're still young, then producing copies and rejuvenating your aging self literally by your own young blood.
Get humans to do a few hundred, log their movements, sample from the distribution, sleep(t), and voilà.
Iceland has some PSAs running right now about e-scooter safety that have a similar vibe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSUNZ3quITA&list=PL3prAqz9YE...
> In a well designed engineering org, the "local minima" and "optimal" are indistinguishable from each other

You're talking about a platonic ideal that rarely ever occurs in real life, except for very simple systems.
Complexity Theory’s 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge
I've had a good experience using https://github.com/nimiq/qr-scanner for QR codes too.
I've not encountered a non-white LED that was even vaguely visible through a layer of black electrical tape, and there's always room for a second layer.
It's good to do that when you're prepared for it, but it's exhausting having political screeds permeate every discussion. I miss when it was a faux-pas to bring up matters of religion and politics.
Paper in a box does not last forever--less than 100 years. It can last longer with the right paper and in climate-controlled environment. But this is not passive storage, you have to use energy every day to maintain the facility.
Just buy healthy children. You pay a little bit more in the short term, but in the long run you can really feel the difference.
Google started moving away from just providing links along time ago. They routinely scrap data and show it, keeping people from visiting the links. I don't see how this behavior could be allowed while also crushing LLMs.

Personally, I like the flexibility of an LLM being able to describe a process at different skill levels. This is of tremendous educational value to the world.
Next Time You Buy Parmesan, Watch Out for the Microchip
I've been wanting an app that would let me see all my hikes on a single map. I'd imagine my use case is pretty obscure, but I walk a lot, and I'd like to walk literally every street and alley in my city.
Speaking from experience the problem with landing in at a FAANG without having gone through the usual Google-style interview process and all the academic pre-reqs and so on that everyone else around you went through is that, depending on your personality type and experience, the imposter syndrome can just go off the charts.

I came into Google through an acquire, and one where the usual interview process was waived. They needed us to continue working on the thing we worked on, and they went through our job histories and talked to our mgmt and slotted us where we would fit and for people that didn't "fit" they were mostly given 1-2 year contracts instead.

And while I lasted there 10 years after that, it really didn't do me any favours. Going through the process and succeeding would have been far better for me. A lot of people around me at Google had imposter syndrome, but I was an actual imposter; didn't do the interview, and didn't have a CS degree. Made worse by the fact that I was a site (Waterloo) where the vast majority of people -- including all the mgmt and site leads -- went through the rather rigorous program at U Waterloo, and were damn proud of it, and so ...

Just sayin', this is not a path I'd recommend. Google in particular is kind of run like a big university. Complete with their own equivalents of thesis committees (promo/calibration etc. etc.), an obsession with publish-or-perish, and campus cafeterias (and even equivalent of dorms). And their interview process is highly highly biased towards recent college grads who studied hard and recently in their algorithms and datastructures classes and are ready to whiteboard that up with confidence... It's a shared culture, with a high degree of conformity (that most of the people there wouldn't see/admit-to because of their conformance.)

I'm glad to hear Apple doesn't fit that mould entirely? Myself, at Google... if the money hadn't been so far beyond what I could get elsewhere, I would have walked after 6 months to a year.
Oh my gosh, thank you so much. <3 :)
Altria bought Juul. Nothing stops a company from leveraging itself with the beast that will one day eat it.
Sugar industry influence on dental research (2015)
I'm Carl Wheatley - Recruiter
Bing's LLM does that too.
That joke was based on real life.

edit: see Peter Thiel.
Yep.

I also personally managed to drop out of both high school and college.
Well, that's not supposed to happen, obviously, not in the way you put it anyway.

But definitely give me an article/situation on Wikipedia where you feel that this is the case, and I'll take a look with you. Diffs appreciated!
This article and video were pretty helpful on eliminating all the Windows 11 bloat/cruft from the start:

https://christitus.com/windows-11-perfect-install/

It:

- Bypasses the installation of most of the junk apps using a non-messy region "hack".

- Bypasses Microsoft account requirements.

- Removes telemetry.

- Gets rid of Edge.

- None of it is too janky, and yeah, I did audit that GUI PowerShell app before running it.
In ten years, expect nothing visible to happen. The time horizon for a heavy H2 infrastructure is at least 20 years, probably more.
A good percent, a bunch of full time people in my team used to be interns. But I could have started out as full time if I talked with my manager, I just didn’t want to get stuck in a big company without trying other stuff first
I put up a draft PR to demo how to run it on a GPU: https://github.com/getumbrel/llama-gpt/pull/11

It breaks other things like model downloading, but once I got it to a working state for myself, I figured why not put it up there in case its useful. If I have time, I'll try to rework it a little bit with more parameters and less dockerfile repetition to fit the main project better.
Iowan's priorities are where they always have been. They've just been ashamed of them for a long time. In the past decade or so, they've been told that it's OK to be anti-science, bigoted, and paranoid. They're now saying out loud what used to be quiet.

Not All Iowans, to be sure. This is largely a rural/urban divide, with college towns usually acting as urban islands even when they are otherwise rural. In the past, the two often didn't meet, but social media and the 24 hour news cycle have made them a lot more visible to each other.
With that way of thinking, you exclude almost every content, ever.

Most people do not produce content to be left unread.
> Threads is related to and interoperates with Mastodon

Threads has far more integration with Instagram than with Mastodon, despite repeated promises to the contrary. If you want Mastodon, you should just do that and not Threads.
Ah, vampire mice who want to stay young forever!
the 'scanner darkly' method, i think xxxterm used to do that

probably more annoying to fingerprint in general, but its own signal in another way
Dracula called. He wants his recipe back.
There's a supercomputer lodged inside this Barcelona church
I think the game needs more contrast. Make the blocks that change the stream a different color and not transparent maybe?
I have also moved towards "dumb data objects", immutable if possible, and a library of functions that operate on them. Exactly what this looks like will obviously depend on the language, though.

In Java, I might have a Foo object and a FooController.

In Kotlin, I'd probably have a Foo object and a FooController file, but that file would contain functions, not a controller object. Of course, in the bytecode this would map to a FooControllerKt object.

Kotlin also offers extension functions, which are similar to how Go declares object methods. I use these for utility functions, as opposed to business logic. If I wanted a function to camel-case a string, for example, I'd use an extension function. If I wanted a function to determine if a string is a valid zip code, I'd use a method that takes in a string.
It is very common in disaster scenarios to put limits on trade or commerce when an emergency is declared. Emergency powers are broad, both at the state and federal levels. You are free to your opinion of course, the people of Hawaii will decide with their vote if the governor runs again. The governor is doing what they believe to best for their constituents. No solution is perfect. Democracy!
I remember in the text captcha days there came a point where I just couldn't do them anymore. The letters were so distorted it would take me 10+ tries.
I think management often believes it's existence is justified by "protecting" the engineers. Of course, they are protecting them from other managers. So it's an arms race - or more technically, going from the good Nash equilibrium to the bad one.
Except that's not, in my opinion, what will happen.

1st off, I cannot be convinced this procedure (if it's ever a thing) will be covered by medicare/medicaid or regular insurance, because, I believe, it will be viewed as solely elective. So it will be restricted to those who pay.

And the donors will (mostly) not be altruistic people, they will be people who need the money (see plasma donation in the US for an example of this). These are predatory practices, preying on the poorest of the poor, for the most part.

A+B=C

Wealthy people will pay cash to buy their health off of the poor.
As if average FAANG quality in customer-facing software is better.

If that’s the hang-up on hiring him, they need to get the log out of their own eyes first, because shifting to the quality level of Homebrew would be a big improvement for a whole lot of their software.
I guess I will find out. :-)
Who specifically determines what is misinformation? I ask because I find false/conflicting information on Pubmed/NIH all the time. I report it and sometimes Pubmed will remove it and sometimes they won't. Who is Youtube trusting?
It's also important to remember that history is full of people claiming we're about to run into a brick wall (Malthus, Erlich and company), yet things just keep getting better.

Perhaps humans are better drivers than you think?
Well, this will provide signed binaries and a "native" (to the browser) update service that doesn’t rely on a third party to update it.

Librewolf breaks trust (for lack of a better term) by not offering both of those options.

You just have to assume the binary you download isn’t compromised (maybe you could argue checking the hash is enough) and that the third-party updating service won’t serve you a compromised update.
Easy. Open it up, find the LED(s) (easy to do by powering it on), and if you're feeling dainty, clip the lead to it or desolder it. If you're not feeling dainty, crush it with a pair of pliers.
- literally every human

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...
What you describe still is uneconomical: building out solar farms to exceed demand.
SF still smells
What a brain deadness... "Maybe secure but must include HTTP.*"...
So negative cost electricity tends to be a side effect of large thermal power plants that can't ramp down quickly due to a drop in demand. Renewables can typically be turned off relatively easily. Maybe there will be situations that might still happen with an over build of renewables but I haven't heard of any. But either way if prices of electricity become very cheap then using that electricity directly with a heat pump or resistive heater also becomes cheaper.

I am not saying making hydrogen can't be economical utilizing cheap off peak rates. I just don't see it as economical for home heating or typical consumer transportation since there are alternatives that utilize electricity directly.
Obfuscated javascript is no more transparent than webassembly. And today the webassembly "state machine" is quite isolated from the web-page and web APIs, making it easy to observe all inputs and outputs.

Also, nothing is stopping a web page author from implementing a simple webassembly interpreter in javascript and using that to execute the code if the browser's webassembly engine has been turned off.
Cool, I didn't even know that existed. It'll be cool when it's widely available, but even before then it's fun for some personal or PoC stuff
The more people accept walled-gardens as their normal computing experience, the more we'll see the powers viewing end-user software as something they can control.

Stop computing this way people. Use and support FOSS software first, not last.
Why does Dracula need to call?
Square is not meant to mean any 4 sided polygon.

Squares are 4 sided polygons, but rectangles, diamonds, and rhombuses are not squares, despite being a 4 sided polygon
We haven't?
There's been an "AutoSummarise" tool in Microsoft Word since 2003 [1]

Whats different these days is people might actually trust the tool enough to use it :)

[1] https://www.officetooltips.com/word_2003/tips/getting_to_the...
As an American who has lived in Europe (UK and now Germany) for the last 6 years, this sort of thing now blows my mind. Mixed residential and light commercial zoning? Who cares! I have a modest grocery store just up my thoroughly residential neighborhood and it's great. My kids large-ish daycare is a 10 minute walk away and it's wonderful. We have single family homes and small apartment buildings intermixed and you wouldn't even know.

We seriously need to get over this NIMBY problem.
How to Build your own Offline Google
What happens when you COPY in Postgres?
this is the kind of human interest story i log into hn for each morning
> To ice the cake she even talks about "tech bros" (the implied tone being white men).

It is interesting how you are projecting meaning onto her use of "tech bro"? I'm guessing you're a white tech bro?

It's interesting how men in tech get extremely offended by her lack of deference to them. I think it probably is a result of her appearance as a nonwhite "bimbo-aesthetic" engineer - (especially white) tech bros feel like she should address them as a superior and their egos feel threatened when she does not.

You're calling her a crybully. I'd argue this comment I'm replying to is a much clearer example of "crybully" behavior. I hope you can reflect on why you reacted in this way.
> prefix or suffix the comment with a "just a suggestion"

That's what the article suggests, using "Suggestion:" as a prefix.

> or an explicit "I'm not asking you to act on this remark"

Same, the article suggests the "Remark:" prefix. Both are more terse than what you suggest here.
"Suitably-shaped geology" means a hilltop, depression optional. Without, you can scrape off the hilltop itself, and use the material to build a levee.
One of my favorite scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBA0AH-LSbo
Peaker plants. But the slip is nicely Freudian: hydrogen is incredibly hard to contain, and an awful lot of it does leak out.
Let’s be clear here: the certification steps are required to give a talk as an Amazon staff member. You can go to conferences as an attendee, you can mention where you work. You just can’t get up on stage and give a talk about what you work on without going through some steps to make sure you’re not inadvertently giving away secret sauce or putting the share price into a tailspin.
I do often look back less favourably on photos I've taken that don't have people in them. I have to keep reminding myself to include people in my photos.
The Why of GraphQL Client Side Nullability in Examples
The client has a better idea than the server of what should be null in a graphql call.

This is available in Relay today and is coming up as a graphql RFC.
As opposed to everything else in capitalism? Like Jeff Bezos’ warehouses or Foxxconn iPhone workers? Hmm
It is publicly available data from Chrome's non-URL keyed metrics system. https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/overview?hl=en