skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. If it helps to clarify things, I don't personally think the image itself matches the quotation you shared from my comment. I never made any statements about the uploaded image beyond describing it because no one asked and it wasn't relevant. I'm sorry I can't agree that it's "anodyne" because the world is filled with diverse convictions about what constitutes what kind of public nudity is appropriate and when, but I do personally agree that the image is innocuous at any rate.

My anecdotal experience and concern was provided for context and conversation around what I clearly stated was pure speculation about realized ethical concerns the maintainer may have had. In other words, I was suggesting that maybe the author had seen the same kind of stuff I've seen, saw this image, and due to personal convictions decided they felt uncomfortable with continuing work on this project. Based on what some others have mentioned, that actually doesn't seem that far from the truth.

I have no idea what the person who uploaded that image's intent was, and I'm certainly not trying to libel anyone.
In March 2023 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released, for public comment, proposed MCLs of 4 ng/L. Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...?

maximum contaminant level [MCL]. Straw weighs around .42 grams. I am not to concerned about the upper end of 7.15 ng/g contamination. By all means worry about PFAS if you wish, but straws really don't look like the problem.
> Abundance and option (rather than bare sustenance) are defining features and goals of a healthy society…

Do you have a source for this claim? It’s not something I’ve read or heard in 36 years.
Environmental-friendly and addictive bubble popping
No. You're paying so much because (a) they make a lot of money ($20bn yearly profit) and (b) they have an extremely large headcount which are building the large number of services they provide.

Never heard of them running on other providers though.

Surely that would a problem for all of the compliance e.g. HIPAA, FIPS ?
Adding a Gallery with multiselection to your Android App
By testing the hearing of people after accidents with and without this system.

I guess you could also do testing on people who buy vehicles with and without this system - before any accidents.
You mean the language which, in every major implementation, that particular function is a macro?
It's a stupid and tired myth that every successful association must be very tight, military not just economic, with a special new currency, zero differences of opinion between the members, etc. This is a strawman that people like to kick around and ridicule anything less than that, but what is currently happening in reality is much more nuanced and interesting.
People should be free to live as unhealthily as they choose as long as the problems they inevitably create don’t negatively affect other people.

Activities high in negative externalities should be prohibitively expensive to help pay for remediation, and the opposite should be positively reinforced, even subsidized. A stitch, in time, saves nine.
The settings page had the root password and you ssh in over (IIRC) usb
Personally I hate that if you want a reasonably sized trunk you need to buy an SUV. My early 2000 Hyundai Accent hatchback had a nice trunk compared to what you can get in that category now..
Route 53 latency based routing -> APIGW or ALB -> Lambda or Step Functions -> DDB Global Table.

No reserved capacity (pay for usage), so it works for boot strapping startups and provides superior resilience while being extremely simple to setup and involves almost zero maintenance or patching (even under the hug of death). I don’t understand settling for less (and taking longer and paying more for it).
As much as I disagree with the tone-policing of dissent and/or protest, there is an art to disagreement or countering ... um ... let's call it careless thought with style. And if nothing else, HN's policies have encouraged me to cultivate that.

One of my personal faves was responding to what struck me as a somewhat unthinking response to the true reality at the time of the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum by the 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius, here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22132283>.

Another addressed common tropes from Wealth of Nations: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17965681>.

I've increasingly taken to responding to highly disinformational or misinformed commentary by simply linking an authoritative rebutting item, occasionally quoting the specific element that addresses the point in question. E.g., <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33999668> and <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27284014>.

I'll also, when the argument seems to be circling rather than progressing, leave as my last response (if any) a link to a previous comment of mine in the thread, to make clear that I'd already addressed that point.

And much of that is not with the goal of convincing the person I'm responding to directly, but in addressing the wider audience. Though occasionally the former seems to occur: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36550938>.
This article had one detail that was not included in the video that had always bugged me. Carl says "how could it be .. that at the same instant there was no shadow at Syene and a very substantial shadow at Alexandria". That seemingly requires coordination between 2 people across a vast distance and accurate time measurement. I rationalized that it could be accomplished with people at each location, each with a sundial, making records of shadow length, and later comparing their measurements, but it still seemed like a messy explanation.

The detail of no shadow at the zenith on a specific day solves that problem. That removes the complication of the coordination of 2 observers and the lighting of the well better explains why the phenomenon was noticed to begin with.

The other unresolved problem for me is that it still requires the assumption that light is parallel i.e. the sun is (relatively) incomprehensibly far away, and that was not established fact at the time afaik.
you can persistently keep talking to people 7 days per week, drives them nuts but eventually they return to earth for as long as you keep it up. skip 3 days and all answers are humm uhh again, if you get any
And not a penny over.
As late as 1983 Denmark and Sweden had a dispute about another small island in the area:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesselø
Terraform has got to be the only tool I've used a lot and still don't like one bit. The license change was the last push I needed to look seriously into Pulumi. What a wonderful tool in comparison, I'm not touching TF again if I can help it. I also got the feeling this fork will be better than the original eventually.
It's very interesting. I tried similar approach just by giving some input text to Stable Diffusion and the images are not satisfactory. So I didn't pursue the idea. Because making a site with serious content, people are very reluctant to get in. But satirical or comical way of telling the stories are attracting them very fast. Like Tick Tok videos.
One of these days I'll get serious about trying to configure KDE to actually look usable. Every time I try it (about once every 1.5 years) I keep getting struck by how everything is the wrong size or is spaced incorrectly relative to everything else.

Like the search field in the 4th screenshot in this article. Why are the magnifying glass and delete icons essentially flush with the edges of the field, while the search string is is an entire length of the icons away from the magnifying glass? It doesn't just look bad, it looks like a mistake. Even the title of the General pane is closer to the delete icon than the text the delete icon actually will delete.

That's a particularly egregious example, but there's stuff all over the place in KDE that bugs me. In the 2nd screenshot the Start button is aligned with... nothing else at all. And it makes the part of my brain that processes design hierarchy cringe.
New York Is Full. And it’s the housing market’s fault
Serious question - If all the profits go to the workers' salaries and nothing is left to pass through to the owner, who would have an incentive to guarantee the workers' salaries if revenue falls short? Who would be willing to risk capital to get the company through unexpected hard times? Should the workers chip in to keep it going?
Dex also works on tablets without a dock, of course. You can just attach a keyboard sleeve to the tablet to turn it into a laptop.
I don't think any of those steps significantly disrupt type checking or memory safety. It's hacky as all hell but it's still constrained by the JVM and bytecode validity.
I don't know about the rM, but for Kobo - why not just run Linux? it literally runs Debian (and others). I've written so apps for it (e.g. https://github.com/bjesus/pidif) using GTK. It would have been great if we had a more unified eco-system for e-ink supported apps.
SwiftUI apps get basic things about the experience wrong. Things like margins around window borders and interaction with system UI.

SwiftUI apps stick out like a sore thumb, just as bad as Electron if not worse. The worst offenders on my phone are SwiftUI. And it is horrible on Mac - see System Settings, which has somehow managed to turn their lead over Windows into being worse than the Windows 10 era settings app.

SwiftUI apps are. not. native. Full stop.

Apple needs to try harder if they want to maintain their reputation for high-quality, high-polish, premium software experiences.
And it will end up as yet another "research" funded by petroleum companies.
Well, they certainly know plenty more details about the military payloads they occasionally carry than the general public.
I love e-ink and simple interfaces. I don't believe in low-powered hardware, however.

This said remarkable 2 is so underpowered it's impractical. I love the paper-like experience, but I never use it for any important notes because I can't find anything ever. For example copying and pasting more than a trivial amount can take minutes (i.e. it blocks for minutes) and scrolling is just painful. Writing is not always accurate and you can get weirdly thick lines, etc. All of this can be fixed with better hardware and more performance, but I suspect the experience vs cost ratio is logarithmic/exponential.

While scribbling in Goodnotes an iPad pro is not as "rewarding", actually working is so much better.
> When presented with an intense sound stimulus, the stapedius and tensor tympani muscles of the ossicles contract.[7] The stapedius stiffens the ossicular chain by pulling the stapes (stirrup) of the middle ear away from the oval window of the cochlea and the tensor tympani muscle stiffens the ossicular chain by loading the tympanic membrane when it pulls the malleus (hammer) in toward the middle ear. The reflex decreases the transmission of vibrational energy to the cochlea, where it is converted into electrical impulses to be processed by the brain.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_reflex
Well, you could mandate that women aren't allowed to use particular types of beauty products to compete for more desirable partners, and hope that the follow-on effects of that lead to lower straw usage. But then you're totalitarian and convoluted.
What kind of normalization are you thinking of?
Like adding a constant to all edge weights?
Nothing I described requires giving up ownership of the vehicle. All that is needed is for it to be able to navigate to and from the parking lot by itself, and to move spots when requested by the parking lot's computer.
A bottle uses way more plastic than our flimsy plastic lids do. Paper cups are mostly paper which comes from trees which are grown just because there’s a need for paper (big carbon win).

It would be a massive step backward to use bottles instead of fountain drinks. Not to mention how much more expensive they are than a fountain drink. And there’s no way you could fill them efficiently from a fountain at the restaurant.
Of course not. Note the word "regardless" above.
My father taught me at a young age to never use a straw as it makes a guy look effeminate. I know it is the advice for everybody, but it stuck with me, and I guess I am healthier for it.
No, ZK solves a different problem. (Namely: providing a proof (usually of knowledge), without compromising some secret information.)
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None of printf, iostreams, or std::fmt are macros in any implementation I'm aware of.
Probably not. But they like them.
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Form follows function. You only need to include that which is necessary to solve the problem defined by your problem definition/statement.
> (..) yet RISC-V is rapidly building the strongest ecosystem.

Architecture & software support is one thing, quality implementations is another.

ARM has decades of evolution & optimization behind it. Implemented in billions of devices. From cheap, small, low power to high-performance cores implemented on latest process nodes.

True, RISC-V is picking up speed. But world domination is a big task. ;-) All the places that ARM already has gone, RISC-V has still to go.
It feels like the dynamic in the US is a lot different. Probably because an obvious majority of people get offended when you bag on minority religious groups. And especially true in urban areas where you are likely to find them. Not to mention most American's have a deep seated sentimental attachment to immigrants.

Side comment. Most of the far right crap you see on the internet in the US doesn't smell homegrown if you get my drift.
How does your company use Linux for workstations and laptops?
If your company uses Linux for a lot of desktop and laptop systems, what sort of architecture do you use? One particular distribution? Particular approaches to managing the systems and logs? Have any hints for someone setting up a new network (say a dozen computers and users)?
It's a known issue with HM type systems in the presence of mutation with known remedies (linked in that ticket), so I don't think it's insurmountable. It's maybe a little concerning that it hasn't been addressed in ~two years, but I understand that the Coalton team's is small and have to prioritize; while soundness is a virtue, in my experience working with languages like this, you run into the value restriction quite rarely in practice.
Which brands? Cant get at the supplementary materials.

I bought a set of those IKEA bamboo straws, said to be 100% natural, and indeed I don't see why pfas would be needed on those; solid bamboo.
Also international airports
Well, let's put it this way.
The python cryptography package contains rust code.
The rust cryptography libraries are certainly not going to contain python code.
But so does our drinking water afaik. The real news is that

> PFAS are sometimes used as a water-resistant coating [on "paper" straws]

Surprised Pikachu that paper isn't water resistent (though then why do they melt in your mouth? Are those straws the pure paper variant?). What we need is for people to be able to reuse the things. Return the reusable straw to any McDonald's worldwide for dishwashing and reuse, for example, if we can't get people to bring it from home (the latter is my solution atm). Single use paper straws isn't more greenhouse gas efficient than single use thin plastic straws anyway, that was never going to be the answer even if it alleviates a decimal of a fraction of plastic trash issues
Plugins are actually supported, but they obviously have to be reimplemented in go.

Gojekyll currently supports the github pages, sass, jemoji, sitemap, feed, redirect, seo tag and avatar plugins, among others, see https://github.com/osteele/gojekyll/blob/main/docs/plugins.m... for the full list.
Hard to sell people on spending 10x the cost when they can just buy, abuse, replace after 3-5 years what they already have.
Jekyll is notoriously slow even for a very small website, unfortunately.
Site has a cookie permission box where “Deny” takes you to Wikipedia, which is both non compliant and pointless
I already agree with the DSA, there's no need to sell it to me
This is completely pointless without considering the power used to transmit the data. He has AVIF using about 30% more power than Webp, while creating files a little more than half the size of webp.

Well one has to consider the power used to transmit the files. If I had to guess the power to transmit is much higher than the CPU rendering power and one should just optimize for smaller file sizes while keeping image quality and rendering time acceptable.

For the usual person to get that file on the internet, one needs the processors of about 20 routers/switches and the like to move the data back and forth, the data has to go through a couple of hundred of kilometers of distance (at least) on fiber optic, the signal being generated by power hungry lasers, etc.
Jekyll is used by default for GitHub Pages sites, so I'm sure companies like GitHub would appreciate the savings from speedups like this.
Or is it because the Dutch politicians are getting snagged by these algorithms?
MIMI is a system to allow different chat services to communicate with each other. It's intended to be the protocol between WhatsApp and Signal, for example.

MLS is a standardised encryption standard for messages, including a protocol and an architecture, to ensure that MIMI can be implemented securely.

MIMI and MLS are still being worked on by the IETF taskforce so you probably haven't heard of it because it's not even sure how it works exactly yet.

The difference between these protocols and the semantic web is that people from actual chat apps actually got involved in its development rather than just being a good idea by a bunch of ideological people.
I’m an ex gamedev with the misfortune of having to work with a legacy SwiftUI project. SwiftUI, and Jetpack Compose on Android, are basically react-style functional dom-diffing style renderers and have all the problems that come from that. What’s worse is that often the project has to be recompiled in order to preview changes with this functions-as-UI-components philosophy
Thank you for being brave enough not to suggest Rust.
> We're talking about responding to threats of violence from the likes of Al Qaeda (https://www.thelocal.se/20230815/al-qaida-calls-for-revenge-...) with capitulation. Not because the act in question is harming anyone, not because it's common or remotely illegal otherwise.

> It's just appeasement and it won't be enough.

No. We're talking about disarming seditious groups that want to leverage Islamic terrorism as part of their accession to power. It has nothing to do with appeasement (let's continue to assassinate Islamist leadership all day), it's about neutralizing another (arguably bigger) threat.
That and faster builds overall, especially with large projects.
For example, the documentation of my MadelineProto project would take more than an hour to compile with Jekyll, compared to a few minutes with Gojekyll.
(1) It’s billions of years, and

(2) If you could capture enough sunlight to “lift” the star’s mass away to slow down its rate of burn it could be billions of more years, see

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/523/3/3251/7...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting
I haven't used Slack in a long time, but isn't this just the normal enshittification cycle that occurs with all Internet products? The founders got a nice exit several years back, I doubt they stuck around at Salesforce for long, so it's natural that the product would deteriorate over time.

Slack IRC bridging in the 2014/2015 era was great. We had a lot of people who spent their whole workday in a terminal window and weren't interested in running a web browser in the background continuously just for a chat room.
Gold is not the only commodity that can be exchanged as 'currency'. Some people will use oil, others might use steel, titanium, etc.

Before the dollar, there were other ways of international payments. They haven't been used for years, but they could be used again.

The US's economic sanctions and reserve confiscations are the biggest killer for the Dollar. Without the sanctions, the Dollar would probably have been used indefinitely without major problems.

The definitive shot to the Dollar's head was the confiscation of Russia's international reserves. If it can happen to Russia today, it could happen to anybody else tomorrow. That makes countries insecure about their wealth. Just like a working man knowing he's possibly going to get fired any time now.
I don't think that's current. Certainly the object detection models work on bigger images, and the datasets they're pretrained on e.g. coco are not 224x224. I think standard models pretrained on imagenet, like the Resnets usually have everything resized to 224x224, and so they favor this kind of scaling.
The drastic measure is because of the large amount of code serde generates. The features you describe, by contrast, do not involve much code from a macro standpoint and such macros would not benefit from precompilation.

If you're complaining about something that TFA is not an example of, it's a good idea to at least provide something that is an example of it, because otherwise you're just yelling at clouds.
Is this just because these chemicals are just everywhere? Or are PFAS actually used in the production of straws?
I also don't know if the code I write in D today will compile 20 years from now. A few months ago there was a discussion on the D forums which spilled over here about constant churn due to breaking changes in the language.
You mean by scraping it and seeing if it rusts, or something else?
A good counter to this is having a strong technical IC leadership roles(I.E. Staff IC or similar) that leadership regularly gets input on in terms what is impactful in areas like this. The key piece is the work is low-visibility when successful and high visibility when it goes all wrong. A strong technical organization will recognize that and leverage high-judgement individuals close to the technical work so that they it can be accounted for properly.

Mekka talks about this in terms of underrepresented groups[1] but the same principals apply as well to any low-vis when successful / high-vis when it goes wrong(I.E IT, Ops, etc) roles. It's really up to technical leadership in an organization to make sure that they're noting high-impact/low-viz work and surfacing that in a way that the "new shiny" doesn't drown it out. I've been in both domains(high-vis graphics/shiny!, low-vis tooling/devx that had huge impact) and you really do need to account for it properly otherwise you'll have exactly the situation described in the article. Your company/org will falter and stumble as those infrastructure pieces slow everything down if you don't retain/reward the people doing that work.

[1] https://mekka-tech.com/posts/2018-08-09-the-difficulty-ancho...
Are there any hardware accelerated decoders for static images? AVIF and WebP's lossy (vp8) codec might have some support, but I'm be curious to see what percentage of browsers actually have support for accelerated decoding.
In fact, most retail shops that have anything other than paper use LCD price tags. If they are making the switch is because they expect to be frequently updating them... and then any eInk battery life advantage evaporates.
We witness quantum entanglement everyday.

- Photosynthesis

- Photoelectric effect

- electrical wiring

- cellular mitosis

- Van der Wahl force
you seem to have interpreted my comment as saying the opposite of what it did in fact say, presumably for humorous effect
I agree, very beautiful and otherworldly when compared to the average Danish landscape. Sailed there three years ago.