skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It didn't come from left wing media, it came from a Hannity interview.
Very small, curly hairs... hmm. (I might have thought the same thing while reading this on the toilet... so you can imagine the extra layer of credibility that afforded.)
I am a programmer. I numbers strings, lists and arrays from 0. 'Normal' people don't. I asked my wife what the position of the letter 'a' was in 'abc' and she said '1'. When I suggested it was 0 she looked at me like I was insane. Excel FIND() indexes from 1.
You don't get to become a multi trillion dollar company by offering good value for money on HW upgrades.
I've done exactly the same. I must admit, there's a sense of FOMO — if I weren't hosting on GitHub Pages, I would 100% do some analysis of server logs to learn something about site traffic. However, on balance, this is still the best option!
Or instead Mozilla could actually listen to user feedback. People don't "shit" on Firefox for no reason.
I’m not 100% sure why you would like to run SQLite in your go program this way (using WASM) but I think avoiding cgo in the go community is a common thing for all the reasons mentioned here [1] (or perhaps even more directly, because that article exists :-p).

—-

1: https://dave.cheney.net/2016/01/18/cgo-is-not-go
I'm still missing some details to understand that story, as I don't believe that there is any platform that Go supports on which C sqlite would not run, more the opposite, the memory requirements of wazero.io way must be clearly higher than of the C sqlite library?

It seems to me it's not about would C sqlite run or not on that platform but that there is still some other convenience, and that's what I'd still like to learn, as I'm sure ncruces does solve some specific problem.
There's pretty bad posterization in the background. If you can't see it, kick up your contrast. You don't need HDR levels of contrast to notice it.
I don’t agree. RAG works just fine for this use case if you have a decent chunking methodology, good prompt design and some secondary safety rails. We do just this in our product (https://hrharriet.com).

The challenge Microsoft have set themselves however is that their problem domain is very large. They have to accommodate many different types of queries. We do benefit from having a specific type of usage pattern and much smaller data than a “real” Onedrive.

That said I am baffled that this product has performed as badly as it did in the review. These seem like pre-alpha type issues. I guess we should congratulate MS for being willing to put these things out to test at early stage but… come on!
It will fade away, preserve the information instead.

Make good copies in enameled brass or bronze, inscribe some words about their context, and sell them as souvernirs or collector's items to people that are interested in these things.
Mamba: A shallow dive into a new architecture for LLMs
Did he make that point? The only time he thought they were equivalent was when using lossless mode, which is not a reasonable comparison. He never actually compared webp at 30% more quality than jpeg.
I’ve been looking to add some analytics to the endoflife.date API (JS obviously doesn’t work) and my no-JS options are:

1. Netlify analytics, which I’ve tried in the past and found under-powered

2. CloudFlare analytics (yes, there’s a No-JS variant in the Pro plan)

3. get your raw access logs from your host, and throw them at GoAccess/…. BunnyCDN seemed like the simplest provider for this with access to raw logs in the standard tier. Both CloudFlare and Netlify restrict this to the Enterprise tier.
Because the application in question uses QString. I probably should have looked at std::string as well, but it might have just muddied the waters further.
OP is a photographer and is pretty clear about that being part of their motivation:

> Stick to JPEG at 90 quality (or at least 85) if images matter to you, e.g. if you are a visual artist. If images are pretty decorations for your textual content, it doesn’t matter.
First elf/linux vulkan3D AAA games are from 2017-2019.

The problem with the desktop/laptop linux (I am excluding the deck), is msft monopoly on desktop/laptop default installation.

It is a circular dependency to break: windows gets the games because it is mass installed by default, and windows is mass installed by default because it gets the games.

Breaking that circular dependency means a saner alternative to windows to invoke the ultra-hardcore regulation which would be required. Problem, massive and mainstream elf/linux distros out there are no less-worse than windows, and are mostly hostile to binary distributions which are games (ABI stability is stellar better on windows than on elf/linux).

You need to dicipline glibc/gcc devs first (easy out-of-the-box backward ABI support in the toolchain and not that symbol per symbol version handling pain with the binutils gas .symver directive), and make more "common" software package statically link friendly or "app internal packaging friendly" (collisions of app internal shared lib symbols with system symbols).

That has been the case for 10+years and it is still so much accute with so much nothing pertinent being done, I start to think about conspiracies: I am questioning for who those glibc/gcc devs are actually rolling for...
The entire article seems quite biased. Using footnotes after every sentence doesn't necessarily indicate a well-researched piece. I won't delve into recent events due to the challenges posed by the fog of war effect. A clearer example of Paul's bias is his choice of quotes regarding past events.

In reference [19], discussing the April 1948 Deir Yassin massacre, Paul presents the following quote:

"Women and children were stripped, lined up, photographed, and then slaughtered by automatic firing and survivors have told of even more incredible bestialities. Those who were taken prisoners were treated with degrading brutality."

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-211346/

This quote originates from a UN report just 11 days after the event, posing two critical issues: firstly, insufficient time for a thorough investigation; secondly, an erroneous casualty count of 250, later revised through subsequent investigations to a total of 107, inclusive of non-civilian casualties.

Furthermore, there's a significant omission. The Deir Yassin events didn't occur in isolation; they were part of a broader context — a battle during the Arab-Jewish civil war, where Jewish militias aimed to break the blockade of Jerusalem enforced by Arab militias.

The Deir Yassin incident has undergone extensive scrutiny, exemplified in Eliezer Tauber's book.

https://www.amazon.com/Massacre-That-Never-Was/dp/1592645437
It’s also unfortunately crucial to a number of different industries ranging from uranium and rare earth metal mining to semiconductor fabrication.

It’s the reason for many a superfund site.
snowjob, haha. Reminds me of the notorious pronview flamewar on debian-devel. Nice to see that language police hasn't fully overtaken FLOSS yet.
{search, surroundings*, serendipity}

(I try to be more active than passive on the box, which means I prefer actively searching to passively dipping into feeds. References can be explicit, as in bibliographies, but they can also be implicit: the better [noun] phrases produce searches with interesting results.)

* sometimes just lazily clicking links, other times mangling urls to turn up other things nearby interesting things.
Your viewing environment will matter a lot. In a dark room with a bright monitor, the banding in the background of the example images is pretty bad (if you are looking for it). But if you have a laptop in a bright sunny room in front of a window causing back lighting, you probably won't be able to see it.
Only because of their great ad integrations? And now they are taking significant piece from that revenue.
A few weeks ago, they renamed it "Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365.” https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/cop...
This tedious, snarky response is neither clever nor insightful.

Like, we get it - you resent your coworkers & consider them beneath you.

Hopefully, your unique, elite output keeps you employable for a few quarters longer than them.
I feel like the blog post confused domain registration and DNS on the root domain. CloudFlare absolutely demands the latter by asking you to change your name server on your root domain. The only way out is on the enterprise plan.
very interesting, i could clearly see the difference - even before reading. and i'm using a 9-year-old MacBook Air 11'... not bad, but not exactly high-end stuff.

fascinating how perception is different.
Pretty good explanation of why the app I use for sauna and laundry room bookings in my apartment building is more reliable than Nordea's online banking. Not even a month ago, the Nordea app was showing all my bank accounts as having a balance of 0€. Yikes!

Considering what they are working with, I'm surprised they don't have even more downtime.
Also check out https://archiveweb.page which is open source, local, and lets you export archived data as WARC (ISO 28500). You can embed archives in web pages using their Web Component https://replayweb.page.
Image decode is a rather tiny fraction of the loading time of a modern web page, or its power budget...

Thats why, to my knowledge, nobody even bothers to use hardware jpeg encoders/decoders on phones/laptops, despite many bits of silicon having them.
Waterfall is less common. The cloud exists. Some pretty major things.
It seems like the effort Apple is putting in stopping this is an indicator of how many people buy iPhones just for being in their iMessage circles. Which is only possible as long as Apple keeps snubbing RCS and making messaging painful to non-iPhone users.

If, say, a random cheap Motorola with Beeper could keep them in the same groups as before, Apple would probably lose a (small) chunks of its clients.
The numbers differ a bit in different sources, but seems to be around 60% for Sweden. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/sweden Based on that upper middle class being a bit more common seems likely.

Regardless, the original point stands regardless of it being 50% or 80%.
Clearly, from reading the comments here, most people don't see any difference. However, the argument still stands, and perhaps - precisely because of the comments here - it becomes even stronger: there is no point in using WebP.
Thanks for the overall contribution to the space, IaC has definitely come a long way. But man don't ever give us another HCL please!
hey hn, supabase ceo here

Fly's current Postgres offering is unmanaged, so we're working with them to run their managed offering. This is the same model that they run with the Upstash team for Fly Redis[0]

We're still working with testers to roll out HA features. We don't have firm timelines yet unfortunately, but we'll work with the Fly team to make it happen as soon as possible

I'll stick around for any questions/comments

[0] Redis: https://fly.io/docs/reference/redis/
> This seems to be in the same spirit as audiophiles claiming they can hear the difference between various speaker cables, or the "hints of dark chocolate" in wine tasting.

I can see why it would seem like that if you aren't seeing it, but it's not the case. The differences in color banding are pretty big if you are on a screen where you can see the background shading clearly.

The brightness of your monitor and the relative brightness of your room will matter a lot. In a bright room, you might not be able to see the subtle banding in the background of the images. But if you are looking at a bright monitor in a dark room, the difference is very obvious.
I don't know, I liked it on its merits before. I'm sure others did too.

Seamless legacy support is very valuable. And it still performs pretty well compared to competitors. I think it's a good default for a lossy network format.
I was collaborating on the latest feature in Memgraph Lab - GraphChat. To enable natural language querying in Memgraph Lab, we integrated the Lab backend with LangChain and powered this new feature with OpenAI LLM. Let me know what you think if you decide to try it out.
The global selfie stick market reached a size of US$ 610M in 2022
I often rant about everything related to the Delphi project I inherited, especially the stupid single pass compiler. But on the other hand having a blazing fast compiler that compiles even very large programs within seconds makes makes developing, debugging and testing so much easier.

Even better is developing a new project with vue.js and Vite, where changes in the code just show up in the browser. Often even without visible reload. Fells like magic.
No startups, no outsourcing, software companies with their own products.
That name is taken already by nVidia's power connectors.
Breakfast: A Delicious Way to Learn Kubernetes Deployments and GitOps
Hey Kubernetes community!

I recently worked on something called Breakfast. It's an attempt to make a visual learning material to represent Kubernetes deployments and GitOps workflows - as stages of setting up a Persian breakfast table.

What intrigued me about this approach:
- Intuitive Learning: Sometimes, visual metaphors can bridge the gap between complex concepts and understanding. I found this method simplifies grasping deployment phases.
- Versatility: There's a browser interface for those who appreciate detailed visuals and a CLI mode for a more succinct representation using emojis.
- Community Resources: It comes with step-by-step guides tailored for Kubernetes, which could be handy for both newcomers and veterans wanting a fresh perspective.

I'd love to know what you all think! If you're curious, you can find more details on the GitHub Repository: https://github.com/evryn/breakfast
Apple doesn't have predictable serial numbers anymore, they're all just random numbers corresponding to rows in a database. There's no way to generate them.
Did you get to meet that excellent dog that's in the hallway when you enter this tour?
AVIF kinda needs hardware decoding, because otherwise it’s considerably more expensive than the traditional codecs. Even with hardware decoding, I’m not sure if AVIF is actually faster/chaper—compared in https://jpegxl.io/articles/faq/#%E2%8F%A9speedfeatures, “AVIF” takes 7× as long as libjpeg-turbo to decode, and I don’t believe hardware encoders tend to bring that big a performance difference over software, but I’m really not sure.

AVIF reduces the amount of traffic required, but will tend to consume more power. This is the general compression tradeoff.

(Other formats often have hardware decoding support too, incidentally. But a lot of the time they’re ignored as too much effort to integrate, or buggy, or something.)
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

Wether there is a formalized contract or not Mozilla makes choicses in the interest of Google over (especially power) users all the time. And in general its absurd to think that taking money (not to mention almost your entire funding) from someone isn't going to make you biased towards that person. As has been pointed out many times in discussions about this, you don't need any explicit deals for conflicts of interest to emerge. Having the wealth of Mozilla's leadership depend on Google's good graces is going to encourage them to make decisions that will keep Google happy.

Attacking users users that bring up grievances is not going to help your case here.

> There are some things Mozilla is disallowed from doing to Google Search results that Firefox displays, but that's basically it.

What exactly are those things? Is that why Firefox does not come with ad blocking by default?
You don't get what you don't pay for, but nobody is paid enough to be abused
I think deuteranomaly plays absolute no role in B&W images. And if any, helps to view defects that other don't. I have it.

The artefacts are visible mostly in the background, where frankly I do not care.
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I agree that exclusivity to those most interested will provide better conversation, but I rather dislike the usage of “elite” in this context.
> how many people buy iPhones just for being in their iMessage circles

This is news only in the US. Literally everywhere else in the world (where iPhones don't have a supermajority market share), third-party apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Line, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, etc have been used for the past decade, with no problems whatsoever. My own WhatsApp account has been active for a decade, with chats going back exactly that far.
The author may be right but he definitely does not understand the difference between good and good enough.
Write a half page long python script that iterate all combinations , it won't take long, and you have to do that only once
The first picture is very hard to spot imo. I had to zoom in a bit to spot it initially. You'll see the "blockiness" is slightly worse in the webp version. (Left side of the image, head height)

For the second image, I opened the jpeg 90 [1] and webp 90 [2] versions. Comparing those two, there are clear banding issues to the right of the neck. Slightly less visible are the darker bands circling around the whole image, though still noticeable if you know where to look.

Comparing the jpeg 90 version with either webp lossless, jpeg 100 or jpeg 95, I can spot some very slight banding in the jpeg 90 version just to the right of the neck. Very difficult to spot though without zooming in.

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

[2] https://eng.aurelienpierre.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/20...
JPEG may be fast enough for all of that, but is that also true for these newer ones? Decoding the .heic pictures from my old iPhone takes 1-2 seconds on my laptop(!!) As near as I could find out that's because the iPhones and macBooks and such all have hardware support for that, and my ThinkPad doesn't.
I suggest using analytics that you can self-host, like https://www.goatcounter.com/ and renting a cheap vm to run it on along with your blog. It is way better, you have more control and you can be sure that javascript tracking is working for 100% of people using the site since you have full control over it not getting blocked by adblockers.
> as an iPhone users I feel sometimes feel left out because... I firmly refuse to give my personal ID to all theses companies just to keep in touch

You're not left out because of what kind of phone you use. You're left out because you refuse to use messaging apps that are available for your phone.
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I assumed they were intentional for editorial effect: deliberately designed to disrupt the flow of a reader attempting to follow the text, in the same way that he claims the compression artefacts disrupt the perception of a skilled photographer trying to use the heavily compressed webp and jpeg images.
The article is based on the author's own use case and understanding of Copilot's marketing. I don't think he used Copilot inappropriately, he just had an uncommon need that the tool badly failed to meet.

I will add that Robichaux is far more diligent and skeptical of Copilot than most people who use it, including Microsoft. MSFT's public Bing demo had a ton of awful mistakes, which is shocking: I assumed MSFT would have faked the demo! The fact that they didn't suggests they have a magical and undeserved belief in OpenAI's technology.

I suspect the demo you watched also had a ton of mistakes that went unnoticed - if Power BI makes a pretty graph with a plausible trendline, how many people are really going to go back and check the underlying code, making sure it's doing the right thing to the right data sources? If it generates draft minutes from a meeting transcript, but screws up 5% of the items, those errors likely won't be noticed in a quick spot-check, and will end up misleading people who didn't attend the meeting. Robichaux's post brings up a ton of issues that affect any use case - the tool just is not reliable.
> To the non-educated eye, this might look ok, but for a photographer it’s not, and for several reasons.

There surely must be better examples to show "non-educated" plebs (to use the tone of the post) why webp is bad and to justify the post and the tone.

I'm on Android, maybe this is why all pic quality look the same?

Also - yeah, if you are making pics for educated eyes: don't use tech that is not suitable for educated eyes? Or don't outsource that decision making to others?
Considering that we lost tabs because some peoples text editors and web browsers rendered them as 8 spaces, and drew the wrong conclusion, I don't have much hope for your plan.

However I would be completely on board if we could agree on a formatting configuration file that people could check into a repo for IDEs to pick up.
The best part of Pipes was that no one blocked it or it was difficult to block. I used it to scrape data from web pages that I served up via Android widget apps.
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Devs that implement user-hostile changes like reduced UI configurability, sure.
Or it is an indicator of Apple wanting to keep it secure
Reaction: If you are stuck in a every-word-must-be-PC purgatory, and can't just quit...
Then doesn't that follow the line of argument for why AV1 isn't being adopted, either? Namely, lack of hardware support?

I can understand why jxl isn't a dominant web format, but I don't see where avif has any place being a web format currently.
the second image and the third image are half resolution of the other, yeah some posterization is visible in Shoot-Antoine-0044-_DSC0085-lossless-1200x675.webp, but it's half resolution and he purposefully added a high frequency noise for his test then averaged the noise point trough resizing, and well, of course it's blurry.
WebP is actually based on a video codec. It's just that VP8 pretty much never caught on with hardware encoders/decoders apparently.
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This one is very good, and will provide certain key insights on the way you should think at NNs. -> https://www.amazon.it/Deep-Learning-Python-Francois-Chollet/...

This is a good explanation of the Transformer details -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCz4OMemCcA&ab_channel=UmarJ...

This is old but covers a lot of background that you needs to know to understand very well the rest. What I like of this book is that it often explains in a very intuitive way the motivations behind certain choices. -> https://www.amazon.it/Natural-Language-Processing-Pytorch-Ap...
If you want good up to date resources on the applied side I’d recommend checking out https://hamel.dev/notes/
Where do you see those $1000T?

I only see $13T - the market cap of gold.

Everything else seems to be a different game.

Who holds fiat currency will not buy Bitcoin. For the same reason they did not buy gold or any other asset - they simply don't think beyond fiat.

Who holds stocks plays a different game too. They are investing in enterprises.

Same for real estate, bonds etc. Those are all different games for different types of people.
There's a difference between the player having to decide to keep looping by performing actions vs. the loop continuing on its own via triggers. The rules make a distinction and specifically don't allow someone to do the former indefinitely.
> "WebP is actually 39 % heavier than JPEG 85 plus noise for a similar-ish look on this difficult picture, and still not totally as smooth as the JPEG (there is still a tiny bit of ringing). It’s also 30 % heavier than JPEG 90 with simple Floyd-Steinberg dithering."
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