skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are IEC prefixes, complementary to the SI prefixes, and they only are defined for positive exponents.

kibi : ki : 2^10
mebi : Mi : 2^20
gibi : Gi : 2^30
tebi : Ti : 2^40
...

Conveniently, these numbers are fairly close to 10^3, 10^6, 10^9, and 10^12 respectively (but with increasing error: 2^40 is almost 10% larger than 10^12, whereas 2^10 is only 2.4% larger than 10^3).

This leads to a lot of conflation, mess, and misreporting by vendors and OS authors. Windows is an egregious example. A 1 TB (terabyte, 10^12) disk is reported in Windows as 931.7 GB. It ought to be 931.7 GiB, which is what Linux does. macOS uses the correct number but SI prefixes, so 1 TB is reported as 1 TB.
Writing a good polyfill for this is harder than you might think, because the browser by default does lazy decoding of JPEG images to avoid holding too many buffers in RAM. Naive attempts (niutech/jxl.js) at JXL polyfills tend to crash browser tabs by using too much memory if they contain a few dozen megapixels of images, while Chrome normally can handle hundreds of megapixels of JPEGs on a page without difficulty.
zipline's "platform 1" is an airplane, and "platform 2" is a quadcopter shaped like an airplane. https://www.flyzipline.com/technology

So they should have much better efficiency than typical quadcopters
> Even if an LLM could provide me with a recipe that perfectly suits what I’m looking for, I wouldn’t want to give up the experience of using a recipe search engine and browsing through a large collection of recipes. Even if an LLM could provide me with restaurant recommendations based on my preferences, I’d still seek out a map-based UX for exploring the variety present in my vicinity. The desire to replace all UX with LLMs seems like a desire to replace all serendipity with efficiency, and I think (or hope) that such a transition is much more appealing in theory than it would be in practice.

I guess the question is: how much of our web or software use is leisurely browsing (reading news or HN would be other likely candidates for this category) and how much is more task-like, e.g. send a message to some friends, add a note to a specific list, order some groceries?

We might also want to consider how much of a role such private use of software plays in shaping UX trends. If business software (sheets, Photoshop, CAD etc.) can be sped up with chat input, it will be, and people will be expected to use the quickest UI.

This is not to say that browsing will disappear, but I can totally see it being relegated to a second class UI in the long run, even in applications where it's currently the obvious choice, just because our default UX expectations will be different.
I have a pair of Bluetooth headphones that indexes through 3 languages (Mandarin, Korean, English) on startup when you also hold down some other button besides power (play/pause IIRC). I don't think it's documented. Maybe your speaker is similar.
HTML is how I write.

I struggled with Markdown (and various other mark up formats) for a long time, until I realised that, for me, nothing beats plain HTML for simplicity and expressive power.

I now use HTML the way people generally use markdown: as an open, easy to read, easy to write, plain-text format for taking notes, writing articles, expressing thoughts, and so on.

I didn't really choose HTML, I just sort of noticed that I was using it. It seems like an unconscious decision, like a river flowing downhill, finding its own path.

Most used tag would be <p>, because I write a lot of essays and things with paragraphing. As well as other structural elements such as headings and lists, I lean into <time>, <cite>, <abbr> a lot.

I tend to use the 'optional' form. I don't close <p>'s and <li>'s unless required.
Structured Async/Concurrency Arrives in Lua
1.8kg isn't much of a payload, nor is a 5m diameter very accurate for military use.
> Did you consider running a second test instance of the DB in the cloud?

This is using the test instance :) The issue replicates both on prod (cloud) and test (cloud).

But not locally. So a nice 30 minute deployment pipeline run to test if your fix worked, since we are firewalled from direct DB connections from local dev machines, even for test instances.
I think with OpenTofu it's a weaker association, given tofu is an actual word many people already know.

(Edit: added a bit of context as parent comment suggesting you can interpret the new name as open to fuck was removed)
Your definition of programming is too narrow. It‘s like saying writing is easy, every 6 year old can do it.
in many ways
Only those who are still alive. Sarcasm? Or business optimization?
Now... Do we need JPEG-XL in the first place? What's the benefit? Hardware is fast enough to decode JPEG, also storage is cheap enough to stick to JPEG. What's the point in using JPEG-XL if you're not running an imageboard or whatnot?!

edit: Happy Birthday, JPEG! We also got 30 years of integration, optimization and everything else for that image format, too.
Amazon didn't go anywhere with drone delivery because for most last mole delivery peoblems drones don't make sense. Especially not at the scale of Amazon. Sure, drones are great for really fast point-to-point deliveries, especially in remote areas. And that is not a problem Amazon, or any other company like UPS or DHL, has to solve.

Another business Amazon retired, but a ton of start-ups still think is a good idea, is groccery deliveries.
https://archive.ph/Mp0fT
aaah interesting. Then the resolution is increased, but how does it affect the overall image quality since you have the same amount of photons in more wells ?
We do in fact have down votes, you just need 500 (I think?) karma to be able to use it. When you see comments that are not "dead" but are greyed out, they've been downvoted more than they've been upvoted.
Fun fact: just 103 more bits and it would be enough to address every point in the observable universe distinguishible by Planck length [1].

Not my thought originally, I heard it from somewhere else but can't find it. Possibly from Foone Turing.

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=log2%28+volume+of+unive...
Cute punny name, I like it. Congrats on joining the LF, and keep up the good work!
Does anyone know of a Go library for encoding JPEG-XL files?
This is an interesting design decision between protobuf and cap’n proto, one has “repeated field of type X” while the other has “field of type list of X”. So one allows adding a repeated/optional field to a schema without re-encoding any messages, while the other supports “field of type list of lists of X” etc.
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
"Teamwork makes the dream work,"

but what if your team isn't working as effectively as it could be?

John C. Maxwell's wisdom from 2002 is as relevant today as ever: "a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team."

Read about Google, Apple, Pixar, and others experiences: https://effyai.substack.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web...
I'm surprised to see a lot of people in the comments falling into the same trap as people on my local Nextdoor do. Just because we can't eliminate all tires and cars and trucks doesn't mean it's not hugely beneficial to reduce the scale of their use. Reducing dependence on cars would have a huge impact on this particulate matter pollution even if your food still gets trucked to the grocery store or people still drive for some less frequent trips.
3 marketers, 1 dev. Keep smashing. Fix the bugs = 44k DAU for demo day

Honestly a great piece of subversive commentary on the state of startups generally - I guess applies even more so on the Valley
Ultimately you can climb over the barbed wire fence and jump over the land mines.

They absolutely have agency to try. Just the same as Brand has agency to set up his own YouTube alternative.

Where do you want to set the limits? Is it at you and your extended family being executed?

What about starving people in Africa? They won't be executed if they leave, so it's their own fault for staying? What about USians that want an abortion? They can travel to another country, what about the first world unemployed in a recession? They could travel off to Africa and subsistence farm rather than complain about their mortgage.

Brand doesn't have a practical alternative to YouTube, so simply saying he can go elsewhere is stupid.
Garmin's Index BPM is the blood pressure monitor I've been waiting for (2022)
Oh, it's meatless terraform.
They dont have to comply then, as in that case both aren't operating officially in the UK.
I love this kind of stuff. When you're sure the thing that seems to be happening couldn't possibly be happening, and then you find out that literally the speed of light is coming into play.

We had a similar problem at one of my first jobs where I was a programmer and backup network support guy. One employee was having a problem with his CRT monitor flickering. It was very subtle, but just enough to drive him nuts.

So we replaced the monitor with one that worked fine on another machine. Same problem. We tried replacing cables, power cords, and did a bunch of other troubleshooting things. Problem persisted. Eventually we replaced his entire computer. Same problem.

Finally I put his computer and monitor on a cart with an extension cord and wheeled it out into the hallway. The problem went away. It turned out to be bad electrical shielding in his office.
High quality progressive decoding at reduced filesizes is a big positive for me. There is no other format that supports that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UphN1_7nP8U
Maybe because they have that power...
All of this makes sense.

I would like to add my own prediction for 2027. I believe in the next 4 years, much more comfortable and capable mixed reality glasses and goggles may be somewhat common. Also AI generation and streaming of realistic avatars will have advanced. Quite possibly this will use low-latency Wifi to stream from a PC.

So if you want, you will be able to have a fairly realistic representation of the AI as a synthetic person in the room with you when you put the MR device on. It will have eye contact and seem quite similar to a real person (if you want). You will be able to just talk to it.

Another thing that might become popular could be larger 3d monitors. The type that have some stereoscopic effect tuned to your exact position. So your AI helper might just live in a virtual window or doorway or something like that.

You can actually already build something a bit like this, at least in 2d, without really inventing anything complex. You would use things like a HeyGen or D-ID API and maybe Eleven Labs or something. You won't get eye contact or a realistic 3d avatar that seems to be sitting on your couch, and there will be pauses waiting for it to respond. But theoretically, fast-forwarding several years, those things are not at all insurmountable.
The biggest advantage I can think about is transparency support.
But isn't the nature of attractive forces, like gravity, to squish everything into perfect spheres? The matter wants to resist, but that's another topic. The main issue is that pesky rotation - angular momentum is a blemish on the otherwise perfect equations of the cosmos.
We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure
Is TruffleRuby compitable with Rails? If so, I wonder how much TruffleRuby would improve the performance and memory footprint.

Especially with native images, I wonder how that would turn out.
Well Facebook and Google both have a history of buying competitors, which could be regulated
The IPv6 forwarding through "bridge" nodes seems like a straightforward yet powerful feature!!!
I'm not sure any of those are actually quite right.

Valhalla supports flattening, that's the whole point of it. To get that you need to have a type declared as a value type, and then put it into a non-null variable, field or parameter. At least that's how the current prototype works. If you do that then the compiler will fully inline the allocation into arrays, containing objects/structs, or the stack.

Valhalla started with monomorphization prototypes, although that went silent years ago. I don't know if it'll be delivered in the first version. But, it's an intended goal of the project to deliver.

As for the final point, could you evidence that? It's very hard to do direct comparisons here because they're usually compiling very different languages and Graal hasn't been optimized for C++. For example, Graal can compile many languages LLVM just doesn't even try to. Also, you'd really need to compare against the Oracle GraalVM (née GraalVM Enterprise) to see the best of what it can do. I'm curious what comparison you're thinking of when you say that, as Graal is an extremely advanced compiler by any measure.
If anything, it's probably one of the fastest ways to access files remotely that I have come across.
The society you grew up in produces plastic. Indigineous people didn't use plastic before they became westernized. Is that so hard to understand?
Ideally you'd use little remote controlled electric cars, but driving on the ground is a MUCH more complex problem.
Wholesome and sustainable :)
Downvotes do exist, but you need to reach 500 karma to unlock them, or at least that's what the rumours say.

I don't have them, but I have seen comments in the negative, so there must be some truth to it
Ok, but we got PNG for that. Photos usually don't contain transparencies, so why have several Megapixel/Megabyte large PNGs?
I really like the new name and branding. Very cohesive, easy to pronounce, website looks good (and the benefits of this cannot be overstated). Hopefully the community can grow around it.

Well done and good luck keeping up the momentum.
Swap is horribly expensive and most hyperscalars run their servers without swap and set per-process memory limits, automatically killing workloads that go above their threshold..
I was definitely getting less than that in my first year in the UK. That was because of being scammed by a bootcamp tho haha. In my second year I make moderately more than that
Re-Logic, developers of Terraria, donate $100k to Godot and FNA
Haskell WebAssembly in the Browser
Sounds like an inventive to go watch some Brand..
The most important number isn't in your list: noise level

That's what really needs solving for mass drones to take off.
> Plus, cars tend to kill people... and drones would not.

I think this is an good move by the FAA, but I also think that if one of these airplanes flew right into my head at full speed, I'd die.
> Except... if you install Python from the Microsoft Store it does have `python3.exe`.

It's worse. If you don't install Python from the Microsoft Store there will still be a `python3.exe`. But running it just opens Microsoft Store.

Imagine how confused one could be when someone typed `python3 a.py` over a SSH session and nothing happened.
What these articles always miss is what are the real-world scenarios that use Kafka or RabbitMQ? I've never used one professionally and beyond the async processing cases I come across in web dev (mostly sending emails asynchronously), or seeing devs using one to handle 5 req/s which doesn't need it, I don't have a good feel for when they are really needed - especially for companies at sub-Uber scale.

What real-world cases would you use them for?
Absorbs juices much better.
You don't seembto grasp the reality of delibery drivers salaries. Teamsters are the exception, and even they are competively cheap per parcel delivered, otherwise UPS would never have agreed.
So Youtube is now judge, jury and executioner.
Oh, the test kitchen demo is pretty limited.

If you are curious about their linguistical style, the difference between GPT-3 and Lamda is akin to the difference between Ralof and Hadvar playthrough, respectively - https://www.palimptes.dev/ai

Mind you, these made silly mistakes, mixing overlapping tasks and whatnot. ChatGPT with GPT-4 beats that, even if it is primed to remind us from time to time about the name of the company who made it.
So that’s generally not very likely. You’re going to have some time of day effects that are shared but true “peak” tends to be service dependent rather than something all your services experience simultaneously from what I’ve seen (YMMV).

Killing “idle” processes is also extremely expensive because you have to restart the process, reload all state, and doing graceful handoff is tricky.

It’s good to have graceful handoff for zero downtime upgrades, but I still say having your allocator return RAM is the cheapest and easiest option and something good modern allocators do for you automatically.
Have you considered terrafork?
Ok, that looks better than Progressive JPEG, I'll give you that. ;-)

On the other hand: When your connection speed is 30 kb/s, images are probably the last problem with "modern" websites... ;-)
If you’re streaming, you generally don’t have random access.
Its a shame that .lan and .wan arent on lists too.
How many of you add salt to their meals without tasting it first?

I'm on a low-salt diet and it's true that at first it's tasteless without salt, but after a few weeks you get used to it (like all tastes).
Hi, this is the article author here. Thanks for the feedback! I've written this article 3.5 years ago, and it could definitely deserve a shake-up. I agree this should be cleared up a bit.
Project Gutenberg puts 5k audiobooks online for free using synthetic speech
I was seriously expecting some sort of open sourced tools for making tofu. As a vegetarian that likes to cook I was a little disappointed, but this sounds good as well.
There are plenty of other "hidden" permissions that are not exposed to user control. This include, but not limited to, the closest tower nearby you, the SSIDs around you, access to the list of apps installed, etc ... While the Android permission settings gives the illusion of "privacy", the reality is far more bleak. If you ever dip your toes in Android App Development you would know. But even now, relying on XPrivacyLua to handle the permission blocking. Don't even get me started on Apple and their illusion of privacy. At least with Android you can tailor an AOSP Rom to your liking with minimal Google apps, but with Apple, they don't even allow you to disable location from the Quick Settings menu.
What an odd set of licensing

> You do not use the Work for the purpose of expediting, coordinating, or facilitating paid work undertaken by individuals under the age of 12 years.

I guess I can't use this one in my family business unless I don't pay my kids? What a strange restriction
You mean, the school of life?

Forget it. Very hard to attend to. Also, if you did screw up once - they will never forget.

I tried 2nd life - even several times after beating it. But it's the same gurky murky as real Life is
Out of curiosity, how does OpenJDK not get sued into fine pulp over this? Oracle owns the Java trademark and aren’t exactly known for being kind in matters of litigation.
Ooo yes there's nothing I hate more than an address form for a business that clearly works internationally being only really compatible with US addresses. My "state"? At least Germany or something has states the UK does not. My "city"? In the UK cities and towns are distinct and I am from a town. I have very occasionally actually then not been able to proceed because someone has not actually configured the "zip code" field to accept postal codes that include letters.
So they are deliberately extorting local business people

lol, no.

Free parking is a great example of tragedy of the commons. Without time limits people will abuse it. Case in point: California. A handicap tag out here will grant you an exemption to whatever time limits are posted regardless of whether or not the spot is reserved for handicapped drivers. What ends up happening is people with handicap tags will just take up all the spots all day, leaving nothing for anyone else.

Or said another way, they got tired of chalking tires

Having worked in the smart parking meter industry I got to talk to city folks and, while it may be painful to hear the actual enforcement rate is pretty darn low with a few exceptions (typically time of day based ones like street cleaning and rush hour traffic). It's extremely labor intensive to monitor every spot, so enforcement is pretty haphazard.

the definition of "a block" is quite loose

This is, in California, defined on a city by city basis as far as I can tell. San Francisco defines the minimum distance as 1/10 mile (or 1 block), Pismo Beach specifies 100 ft or 1/10 mile on the odometer. Both of which seem pretty specific.
It was back up last week (2023-09-15 to 17 show data), but now zero again since 2023-09-18.

It's starting to show on npmjs.com's own statistical graphs.
Or BQP is a purely theoretical construct with no real-world counterpart. No world shattering result necessarily.

There’s plenty of math that exists purely in the virtual real with no connection to physical reality. Math is a language to describe any possible universe. That doesn’t mean anything we say in it necessarily applies to our universe.
There is more explanation regarding the fork in the readme

https://github.com/lxc/incus
This is too woke for the UK government. Terraform is widely used in the Home Office, I don't think Suella Braverman will approve a switch...

(Reference for non-UK viewers: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2022/oct/18/suell...)
Tbf though, I'm sure the number of cat pics floating about the internet dwarfs this number, so it depends on the data I suppose.

Plus rather simple things like pi could create rather a long message.
OP here. I had a lot of difficulty finding info on Books1 and Books2, even on HN. If there's a better source of info, please link or post.

What's the value of these scant few thousand unpublished romance and fantasy novels in the context of the rest of the corpus -- vast scrapings, all of Wikipedia, etc.? A sample of how people write? Why aren't more public domain works included?
Both of these seem .. illegal where I am from. 40 hours a week is the maximum an employee can ask of you in EU. So does Google in EU then explicitly ask in the contracts that you agree to work more hours or how does that work? And also, why the heck would anyone want to work more than 40 hours a week?
Interesting. How about five side-effects?
How can I distinguish between errors of perception, errors in manufacturing, and errors of perception of the designer who eyeballed circles on a computer screen with non-square pixels?
Before the westerners came, they didn't actually have plastic. So as long as you're talking about non-westernized indigineous people, your scotsman simply didn't have any sugar to put on his porrige.
New owners wouldn't OK a stolen part, the part would have to unpaired from the Apple account (on device or online) from the previous owner first.
Now apply that to every other "conspiracy.."
Coding in Rust? Here's a New IDE by JetBrains
Alex Karp sells software services and custom applications operating on Palantir's proprietary ontology management tools. One should take whatever he has to say about AI with a grain of salt.
I don't have any opinion on his guilt, that is for the court to decide.

However, I do believe it's wrong to start sanctioning people for a crime they've not yet been found guilty of.
PDF/A is the required format for delivering and archiving the final CAD drawings in many major civil engineering projects I've been involved in,
Sure. But names including “terra” would be even more risky. Someone suggested LunarSpoon though and I personally found it hilarious.
Python Libraries for Parallel Processing
Lovely, on record for life.

Turns out she got her answer to her original question via a phone call. Maybe she should have tried that route first.
> The timing is thematically apt.

What do you mean by that?
This sounds like spiritual bypass, which is a failure mode of mindfulness a lot of people can fall into. You say it drives your wife crazy, so it seems that being in this state doesn't actually help you resolve issues between you and your wife. It only numbs you to the conflict and puts the whole burden on your wife.
Their role as the user of their account?