skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same.

Also, when reading fiction, I never have any use for the long-winded descriptions of a place and a character. I don't picture the scene or character, but I create my own "space" where I can place the characters and the action, and I can feel beeing there. This "space" can have details, but usually not a lot.

Recalling memories are similar. I can vividly feel the moment, and I can remember a lot of non-visual details, and often some distinct visual details. But I can't really picture it.
> Are there tests for aphantasia?

Sure, they are usually something like “imagine an apple on a table” and then some questions about it like its color. There are also fMRI neural signatures.

Aphantasia is also often linked with SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographic Memory).
There was at least one hypothesis floating around a while ago that males take more risks because they’re expendable to society, but females are not. If a society is decimated by a famine, disease, war, etc, it can be repopulated with just a few males, but requires many females. Thus males evolved to be more risk-taking and females more risk-averse.

At an individual level, the incentive may be social esteem/bragging rights, or it may be based on a calculation of greater risk = greater reward = more resources = more mating options, etc. It’s not that males are “selflessly removing themselves from the gene pool”, but that there’s some incentive and/or lack of disincentive to be more risk-taking.
The "t" or the "ct" ligature?
I wouldn’t be surprised if 99% of the discourse here is just miscommunication on what “picturing something in your head” means and 99% of people who think they are different are not.

Picture a dog in your head. It’s such an fuzzy, imprecise action that you can skew the definition of “seeing it” from nothing (you are mostly reasoning about what this dog looks like) all the way up to a visual mental concept of it that does everything but actually block your field of vision.

Depending on what they think "seeing it" means, 100 different people can have 100 different explanations for the same phenomenon.
There's room for different opinions.

His font choice is terrible for my legibility. Maybe for others it's great. But it made the already difficult article that much harder to read. And I like this topic. I already seriously question his sense of what is reasonable and good and for what purpose. His purposes are so alien to mine that his opinion ends up being pretty irrelevant to mine. I wish him well with his.

I can't see the things he's pointing out in the images, and I tried and tried.

I use webp extensively, there have been zero complaints from users about the images. But I don't make art sites. I make software people use to get stuff done. I don't transfer images above maybe 50-80k. Art, aside from modest marketing, is most definitely not the point.
Fourier transform can be defined for any locally compact abelian group. Integers modulo n is one such.
small update: I'm trashing 16TB with many small files. That seems like a multi week operation oO
This is one of the real productivity superpowers of ecosystems like Go and Rust imo
Why is GPT not smart enough to do this? That is not obvious to me.
AI-generated news anchors are freaking me out
Why do people continue to think that you have to have a monopoly to be monopolistic? Also, Apple does have a monopoly. They have a monopoly on all devices that can communicate through iMessage.

If that should be taken up by the DOJ or some other body is up to your interpretation of the law.
ed also was, at least on LPMuds in the 90s, the only online editor. It was a bit crippled, but still recognizably ed.
> Your cell phone wouldn't exist without the Fourier Transform, or the discrete fourier transform, to be correct

Yes that is great to know. But where can I find an article that explains how exactly FT helps in my cell phone? What exactly do we do with FT in a cell phone?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-12-05/pentagon-... | https://archive.today/ubLmg ("The Pentagon Wants to Root Out Shoddy Drugs. The FDA Is In Its Way.")

> They’ve saved taxpayers and consumers hundreds of billions of dollars a year. But recalls related to drug manufacturing quality doubled in the US from 2018 to 2022. With almost 80% of FDA-registered generic production facilities located overseas, years can pass between inspections. Profit margins on generics are so thin that there are often only one or two suppliers of vital medications. As a result, quality issues are fueling shocking shortfalls in supply, which a US Senate committee will examine on Tuesday. Shortages in the US reached near-record highs this year and left cancer patients, among others, waiting for life-saving treatments. Generics are supposed to be affordable and safe. Instead, they’re cheap — but sometimes dangerous.

> Concern about the nation's drug supply has reached the point that big hospitals, the Defense Department and Congress are raising questions about the FDA's ability to monitor it. The Pentagon in August chose an independent lab with which the FDA has publicly feuded, Valisure LLC, to test some of the generics available to millions of military personnel and their families, two years after Kaiser Permanente, a health system serving 12.7 million in the US, started a similar program with the lab.

> The efforts have run headlong into a major roadblock: the FDA itself. One might assume the US drug regulator, which dates to the 19th century Division of Chemistry, leads the mission of testing drugs. In fact, the FDA resists the idea of grading drugs by quality and rarely conducts tests of its own. Agency officials sought to block the Pentagon's nascent study, cast doubt on Valisure's methods and, according to multiple government officials, soured a Biden administration effort this year to introduce third-party testing more widely.

I would be wary about trusting current FDA oversight and governance implementations overseas, especially in India due to geopolitical concerns (prioritizing the relationship over robust testing). The above piece dives into detail.
it's not even about slowness, I just can't read more than a single paragraph with those intrusive animations. vertigo sets in immediately...
A great point, but even over a teletype you'd use "ex", not "ed".
I have no idea if this is true or not, but I'll note that isn't Apple saying that. It's a random user on an Apple forum.
hahhah I just tried this. I'm impressed!
PSA if you use sed with anything but trivial patterns, consider supplying the pattern via file `sed -f script.sed`. Saves you a lot of sanity not having to escape everything in arcane shell + regex escape rules.
And the CSS definition of "inch", of course, has nothing to do with a real world inches. (He says, while pushing the zoom in/out buttons.)
I didn't finish these in the last year, but some of my favorite ones are provided below:

Economics of Money and Banking: https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking

Lectures on the Geometric Anatomy of Theoretical Physics: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPH7f_7ZlzxTi6kS4vCmv...

Introduction to Dynamical Systems and Chaos: https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/98-introduction-t...

Discrete Optimization: https://www.coursera.org/learn/discrete-optimization
The original claim was made about "large number of normal Germans". By the time of WWII, Ukraine was subject of genocide from two sides. And again, local camps guards were especially selected, coached and punished if they were not cruel enough.

OP referred to supposed process in which people spontaneously become super cruel. The claim that "it is possible to make people cruel by authorities" is something completely different.
Costco sold more than $100M in gold bars last quarter
I’m not sure what you mean by formats. It should support all the old raw/jpeg formats, or at minimum it has for me
The problem is money. Burning fossil fuels is profitable, not burning them is not. If you want to make money then you must opt into the fossil fuel economy and utilize whatever resources are available to increase GDP. It wouldn't be much of a conceptual leap to consider the global economy a death cult (40k+ drivers are killed every year on the freeway before we even get to side-effects of pollution). Everyone knows what the inevitable endpoint is going to be but no one is willing to do anything about it. But as a techno-optimist and singularitarian I believe AGI will save all of us for a mere $80B so tell all your VC friends how cheaply I can save the world. All I need is the GPUs and compute fabric to build the "panoptic computronium cathedral"™ and enact a world government managed purely by algorithms and math.
I am struggling to see how this is comparable. Allowing iPhone users to talk to Android users through iMessage is a benefit to iPhone users. iPhone users get more end-to-end encrypted messages.
Picture an apple in your mind. What colour is it?

...

Most people say red or green.

If you don't see a colour then you have aphantasia.
https://caniuse.com/webp

Any updated (modern) browser should be able to see webp just fine, I'd rather just serve it without a backup plan if I'm planning to have webp in my website.
Back when people got physical checks for payroll, I worked at a company that did this, and gave physical stubs to those of use who did direct deposit which was still kind of new.

Biweekly, the person handing them out would take them home to sort by floor/area/whatever to ease their work the next day.

You guessed it, one day their car was stolen, with ALL of our checks/stubs in them. And our SSN's were printed on them too.

We were given a year of credit monitoring at the credit unions, paid for by the company. And they stopped printing the SSN's on them.
Upon a bit of introspection I found that for me, such things were just ways of stroking my ego. I just find it liberating to not really care or give much thought about what my audience cares about or who they are. I write first and foremost for myself, second to help others and third to have something to show to prospective employers.

What those metrics mean to oneself is different for everybody. Also, being a vanity metric and being useful are not mutually exclusive either.
So this is a metrology instrument then, and if that's true, then it's by far not the oldest, because I'm pretty sure there were semi-calibrated vessels for volume measurement since way before this sundial.
For their main use case they do package it up for npm, but the crates folder have each portion available to build/distribute as a stand alone binary you can run against javascript without node or npm installed.
This is a good paper for a similar kind of overview:
https://dsf.berkeley.edu/papers/fntdb07-architecture.pdf
Politics Isn't about Policy
Without wishing to come across as someone "going mental", it is fairly clear that the global mean temperature has been increasing

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/

with a change of about 1 degree Celsius over the last 100 years about 0.4 degrees over the last 20 years. This shows no sign of stopping and although the details are of course very complicated its obvious that at some point if the temperature keeps going up there are going to be problems (maybe you think there will be problems at 5 degrees, maybe more or less).

Unless you can convince me there is some mechanism that will stop the temperature continuing to rise as it has over the last hundred years, I would say this constitutes something to be worried about!
They didn’t misunderstand. If you look at the images included in the paper (this link has them inline: https://journalofillusion.net/index.php/joi/article/view/983...) you can see that it is an illusion that can be created with 3D printed objects.
GM stops Chevy Bolt production (for now), lays off 1,314 workers
That is awesome. This might be my weekend project to do something similar.
An ex boss of mine (head of engineering and later CTO) contributed code by working on small things: either prototypes that an IC would later reimplement properly now that the requirements were nailed down, or a small service that could go straight into production and wouldn’t require maintenance.

In both cases, this removed the overhead of communicating requirements to another person, and avoided distracting an engineering team from their usual duties.

In neither case was he contributing code to one of our main components.
Really basic security practices weren't followed. I cancelled my plan now and switching to my new primary health insurance dental plan which I should've looked at. I don't know why these companies wait for a breach before looking at their systems after all these data breaches. I mean storing credit cards is Do Not Do 101.
Show HN: GEITje-7B – A New Large Open Dutch Language Model
Tried my hand at training a large open Dutch language model, for which the pickings are slim right now.

GEITje is a large open Dutch language model with 7 billion parameters, based on Mistral 7B. I've continued pretraining it on 10 billion tokens of Dutch text. This has improved its Dutch language skills and increased its knowledge of Dutch topics. There's an experimental chat-finetuned model too, called GEITje-chat.

I have to say the experience of gathering a dataset and training a model has been very educational for me. Being forced to deal with every detail yourself really deepens your understanding of a subject.

It's all in the hands of the community now. Can't wait to see what they do with it!

Want to try it out? There's a demo live at Hugging Face Spaces right now: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Rijgersberg/GEITje-7B-chat
Two huge oceans on both sides, friendly bordering nations, effectively no competition in the whole western hemisphere, and being primarily English speaking are other ones.
Every time I've used webp, I've been disappointed. And when I'm disappointed, I try jxl for giggles and find much better photo quality (especially fine gradients), at a much better file size.

Let's cut our losses, ditch webp and move to jxl.
> I opened the first two pictures in separate tabs and switched quickly between them. There is zero difference. Tried it on two different monitors, Chrome and Firefox. Same with the pictures of the guy at the end.

One easy difference to spot is the background in this pair is posterized (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterization) in webp but not in jpg:

https://eng.aurelienpierre.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/20...

https://eng.aurelienpierre.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/20...
They have those soft ones at Legoland. They put them in the water park (they float!). I'm not sure they're compatible with regular bricks though.
I worked at a DB product startup, doing DB internals development [storage engine, etc], for a few months (before my personal/family situation forced me to have to move on), and WLB seemed pretty reasonable -- though there was a mandatory on-call rotation, that's kind of expected at most startups in the cloud space.

People were very smart and friendly, and took vacations and all that kind of stuff. I'd say the "worst" part of working there was the amplification of my impostor syndrome?

I don't know if that's typical for the industry as a whole. I'd definitely like to get back into DB internals dev at some point, it's one of the few places in our industry where you get to do fundamental systems dev. The job I had was in many ways my "dream job" but family situation at the time meant I couldn't manage it.
> The way I see it, the whole point of ROCm support is being able to service the many users who have pre-existing AMD cards and nothing else available.

ROCm is a stack of a whole lot of stuff. I don't see a stack of software being "the whole point".

> the thing I need from AMD is to ensure that the ROCm support I make will work without hassle for these end-users with random old AMD gaming cards (because these are the only users who need the tool to have ROCm support)

From wikipedia:

"ROCm is primarily targeted at discrete professional GPUs"

They are supporting Vega onwards and are clear about the "whole point" of ROCm.
Just for those who may not be aware of Nate Silver:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/?s=FiveThirtyEight rates Nate Silver's site, FiveThirtyEight, as having "LEFT-CENTER BIAS".

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/rasmussen-reports/ rates Rasmussen reports (who did the poll showing 1 in 5 persons used mail-in votes to commit election fraud) as having "RIGHT-CENTER BIAS".

That having been said, so what? Suppose the poll had revealed that HALF the actual number illegally used mail-in voting? How about 1 in 20? Would that be OK with you?

Fact is, mail-in voting has proven to be a failure and a scourge on our democracy. Get rid of it.
There are tons of plans available online for LEGO "products". Stands for smartphones and tablets and headphones are the first thing that comes to mind and I've seen a lot of those. Pencil holders and such are popular as well.
> These kinds of banks won't bet the house on a newfangled system every couple of years because some bright-eyed engineer told them it's the trend nowadays.

The thing about banking, is that they keep records of everything — not just "state now", but all previous states, and all the state deltas, and all the commands that produced those deltas, and an audit log of who/where/when the requests were made to triggered those commands. Financial-ledger databases are the original CQRS event-streaming reducer systems.

And this actually means that it's very easy to produce a new system that is provably "at parity with" an existing system. No faith required. You take your complete historical CQRS event stream from your existing system, stream it through the new system, and see that it produces the same state that's in the existing system. If it does — and if you're operating on years of real data — then that's more evidence for exact parity than a test suite would ever be.

(You may also want to produce hypothetical CQRS command streams and run them through both the existing and new systems. This would mostly be useful for regression-testing of edge-case logic that is required for e.g. compliance, but so rare that it has yet to ever actually come up in practice.)

> Most of them were computerized seventy years ago if not earlier, back in the stone age of computers.

You can do everything I mentioned — factoring out your business rules into simpler rules that apply to a collection of orthogonal sub-ledgers — on paper. These ideas are not "newfangled"; while they were introduced into computing through the formalism of relational algebra (as database normalization), the ideas existed well before the mathematical formalism for them existed. Clever people have been simplifying their paper records into orthogonal sub-ledgers since the invention of double-entry book-keeping in 1494.
Some people like it to call it the “Mind’s eye” - Basically you can create images in your mind by just thinking about them. Like if I wanted to “see” a golden retriever, I can just imagine one because I’ve seen them before, so my mind knows what to do. You can also manipulate those images; so for example instead of the golden retriever being gold, I can imagine it in a purple or green color, etc.

A good analogy is that the human mind can have it’s own internal stable diffusion or Midjourney, complete with the ability to give it a “prompt” i.e. thinking about what you want to imagine.

I was surprised to learn a while ago that not everyone can visualize things in their mind. As far testing for it, I don’t really know how that would work. I don’t think you really need to test for it, I assume most people who can visualize things in their mind know that they can.
The entire home-buying process (in the US, at least) seems to be built on shady-looking ways to nickel and dime people. I remember telling friends when going through it that it'd be easy to scam me because I got so used to urgent requests to pay some fee for inspections or legal stuff or whatever that I'd just shell out the money without asking questions.
I find this especially ironic given the fact that most tech companies I’ve been at used Delta dental of California

I feel like we all deserve this somehow for allowing bad practices like this to proliferate in the favor of business objectives
Any level of random sampling is a serious concern for a conglomerate like P&G with both many products and high volume. Negasmart may be able to sell for years at a substantial volume for them, at a considerably higher price compared to BRICS, before their first finding. I would like to see evidence from the FDA that they aren't just lucky on this one detection, (if it even was detected by them before doctors/parents reports.)
I don’t think anyone doubts that planes hit the buildings except WTC7. University of Alaska Fairbanks published a paper which suggests fire was not the cause of WTC7 collapse[0].

Memories can be faulty, but I remember news reports from the time of a controlled demolition of WTC7 to avoid a more catastrophic collapse later. In the midst of all the chaos I thought it crazy that they could set that up so quickly, but before long the building was down.

0 - https://ine.uaf.edu/wtc7
The linked STL is a different Kokichi Sugihara illusion - by the same creator as this new class of illusions, and part of a body of work in this field that this appears to be a continuation of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokichi_Sugihara
I think that would fall under the "must accept interference" portion of FCC Part 15, my phone communicating back to the tower might raise some alarms if I tried amplifying it at all though!
Totally true! Thank you for reminding me of ex.
"st", also.
Yeah, Firefox on my office desktop (10-core i9 with 16GB RAM. Crap GPU though) was unresponsive for a good 30 seconds before I was able to close the tab. Worried for a sec that I'd have to force close the browser.
> Re-encoding from a lossy compressed source will make quality worse.

JPEG-XL is supposed to reencode old JPEG files into 20% smaller files without quality loss though.
In context, Google has been holding JPEG-XL back by removing support for it from Chrome and refusing to reinstate it, claiming that it did not have good enough "incremental benefits compared to existing formats" such as webp.
Risk management is not project management
Is it easy to get write access to the documents that somebody else’s project relies on for answers? (Is this a general purpose problem, or is it more like a… privilege escalation, in a sense).
I used ed on video terminals connected to VME 68000 Unix V7 machines around 1986. For some reason, I don't remember using vi on them, and in any case, ed remained very useful when the terminal type was misconfigured or unknown to the system, which happened quite a lot (I guess that not everything emulated a VT100 at the time). We actually jumped directly from ed to some Emacs relative (Jove probably), which was the beginning of paradise, and then we received our Sun 3 and it was Emacs all the way to present :)
Space Force chief: Timing of Chinese spaceplane launch "no coincidence"
I didn't know Gensler had his own HN account!

https://twitter.com/TheBTCTherapist/status/17353627302388821...
On wayland, I have an animated wallpaper of a forest:
https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/11w3zzj/hyprland_...

Why can't we bring the apps you mention to wayland as a background?

For the foreground, the compositor could even use the alpha channel to draw see through snowflakes: I have foot in quaketerm mode showing what's behind. Replace foot by a smaller snowflake, make more than one of them, and it should be the same!

Or am I missing something?
the West is preparing for a future without America
You could call the b-cell strategy CAR-T B (sorry for the terrible pun)
I guess my unexpressed actual question was whether the API is materially different for small-scale operation.
Man, you didn't do a s**t. Just spending five minutes with the code reveals that it is compiled with -std=c89 and strict adherence to a standard is neither a promise nor a goal of the author. "C89" is not a protected term and is not uniformly understood or used in any way. So don't be so picky.