skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the era I'm referring to, and I recall the difference being a bit beyond marginal. Literally the verification (i.e. read) phase of the burning sequence would take several times longer... in practice, not in terms of advertised maximums. Maybe it would read data discs at 48x but it would refuse to read audio discs beyond 8x or something like that. Same goes for ripping software like Exact Audio Copy (EAC); it could not read at high speed. And I don't think Riplock had anything to do with it, as that's a DVD thing whereas my experience dates back to CDs.

Strange hill to die on, I'm aware.
as I am approaching my 46th anniversary, I also experience a desire to stop communicating with earth and fly my own ways
As a tech employer, he may be regretting the political, climate, energy, and cultural trends in that state. Turns out smart people are portable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38596797
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India's TaTa Group? From memory, they donate 2/3rd of profits to selected charities. Patagonia is similar, but I believe founding-CEO-directed.

As for Adobe — GFk'd! I'm still keeping CS4 alive, offline, on legacy hardware =D
I have a UniFi AP and a 24-port 10G switch from Ubiquiti. As far as 6. goes, you are sadly correct. It’s all Linux underneath so there are plenty of changes you can make in the CLI, but the middleware will happily stomp all over it at the next upgrade or reboot.

For no cloud, it’s quite easy to avoid. The middleware can be spun up in a container or installed on any Linux VM and have no access to Ubiquiti’s servers at all and it’ll work fine (you’ll have to upload updates yourself). However, the product will be full of little nagging notices coaxing you into going to the cloud, or as in my case, getting mad you aren’t using a UDM for your router/firewall and turn off a bunch of the L3 features. The software is meme-level in how many bad patterns and form-over-function decisions are in it. Cloud or no, it’s frankly kinda crap.

The APs are solid, but I’ll likely not buy another switch from them if I can help it. Depending on your needs, there is plenty of used enterprise gear to be had for quite cheap on eBay. But, I’m in the market for a fat 48-port switch with a huge PoE budget and they have one that’s all 2.5G. I don’t know that anyone else makes one, and if they do, it’s three times the price, or I have to call some sales person to talk about it, or the actual existence of the product is impossible to surmise through thick marketing wank datasheets.
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"not many people"

My own experience is that half of the people I know can't do more than 20 minutes in one session. The longest I could do is 1 hour and that's it. Unless you have real numbers to back up that claim, it is meaningless.
I totally agree with your assessment, Nerf and Gaussian are much more interesting and I'm sure they will be huge in the future. But I don't think it will ever be easy to capture a clean scene randomly, at least not with anything that moves like people in the scene.

The issue is that in order for the Nerf/3DGS to be clean, that is to not have too many zones where the data is not sufficient to train the model for that particular spot, you need to have pictures from every angles to train the scene.

For a totally static scene, it will work: walk around the scene until you have all the angles, and you are done. The capture won't even need to be perfect because diffusion models will be able to fill in the gap for what you missed.

However, if you are talking about recording a memory, presumably with several moving people and objects, it's going to be a challenge as you can't freeze time (or I can't at least).

For planned production, it won't be an issue, the trick will be to setup enough cameras around the scene to shoot from all the angles, but I don't think we can expect to ever have a single magical device that you can walk around with and record Nerfs on the fly.
Ah, there was more to the article? I gave up after a few photo's..
> AVIF reduces the amount of traffic required, but will tend to consume more power. This is the general compression tradeoff.

Mobile devices on battery are connected wirelessly, so traffic consumes a lot of power. The faster the radio can power back down the better, so CPU time is usually a worthwhile trade.
It depends on how much attention you pay to why you’re doing what you’re doing and who is running the growth team.

Best case you’re working with someone who is multi-disciplinary and brings the team along in decision making

Worst case you’re working with a shill who just wants you to churn out features and AB tests with no real strategy other than number go up
Almost identical pathway here, except with some Spybotics thrown in around the same time as Bionicle. I sometimes wish Mindstorms had that level of world building...
What operating system did you type this post on? Apple is more than phones.
Because it's a substantial amount of effort to upgrade to the "new" tech, and he's showing that the "new" tech is actually worse than the "old" tech of reliable old jpeg.

> Bandwidth is cheap.

Labour is not. Just leave your jpegs as-is!
Rhetorical questions: Who defines what is ethical? Who defines what technical feature (e.g., endless scrolling, automatic play) are to be banned? What expertise makes the decision makers an authority to decide?
What happens in the brain while daydreaming?
I think learning to oil paint could be a very meaningful experience. Relaxing to watching Bob Ross videos and paint along with him.

I do also feel there is this sort of "cult" of self-improvement going around. Like if you're not spending every waking minute of your life learning some new skill or marketing yourself or trying to get a promotion, then you're wasting your time. It's very toxic.

Doing things that you find relaxing should be accepted, even if they don't teach you anything or improve you in any way.
"are worth it"

ok now please prove these gimmicks are worth the $3500 price tag
https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream/issues/954

No I don’t think so. You probably want n8n if you’re keen on self-hosting.
Slightly tangential to the discussion, but are there any readings you would recommend on moral decision making?
Background: I am(was?) a left-leaning israeli jew, and Oct7 and the subsequent IDF response make me feel as if I can hang up my moral compass on the wall as a non-functional vintage decoration.
Disagree on ESLint vs Typescript. ESLint and TyepScripts jobs should have minimal overlap.

ESLint primary job is linting. It should be finding 'foot guns' and code style issues. Things that are absolutely valid in the language, but could lead to potential issues. Because of that, it's totally valid that you're not finding as much value in it. It depends on the rules you enable in it, etc. And yeah, it can feel super nitpicky when it's yelling at you for not having a radix in parseInt().

Typescript's 'compile' step or whatever, it doing type checking and making sure your code is valid. If you're using bare JS, your IDE should be doing this job, not eslint.

(but yes, anything more than a few minutes to lint even a large code base is insane.)
Totally unusable on iPhone 14 Pro.
Seems Safari has it enabled by default now, and Apple has support at the OS level. Firefox at least has it under a flag. Chrome team are the odd ones out here.
Bad safety standards create strong unions. Strong unions create good safety standards. Good safety standards allow stupidity. Stupid people allow safety standards to get rolled back.
It's from my experience promoting VR solutions inside our company. There's a handful of people that have serious issues but 95% are totally fine.
Ask HN: I have a small project generating 1700e annually, should I keep going?
I started this small project for booking tennis courts in 2018. It was free until this year, when I started charging clubs for using my platform. Out of 15 clubs, 14 clubs agreed to pay for my solution. I'm doing some updated, no marketing at all. It's a side project.

Should I sell it? Work on it? Leave it?
Google spent a large amount of money purchasing On2. WebP and WebM were a way to show shareholders that they were seeing benefits from the acquisition, and if you look at Google’s traffic volume you could make an argument that even a modest size reduction would pay for the engineering time.

The problem was that this was basically only true for the largest sites. If you’re YouTube or Netflix, it pays to optimize your video encoding but for most other sites the volume just isn’t there and the performance costs for anyone who uses a CDN cancel it out because you need a lot of traffic for each format before a 10-20% byte size reduction saves more time than the cache misses take.
75 minutes to 10 seconds is no joke in terms of speedups. Imagine that this time is saved for a small team of 4? 10? people who can then inspect/qa/iterate on the build in a PR-preview staging environment. Imagine this kind of time saving across many teams at Shopify’s scale.

Imagine that your pushes to production can happen an hour faster. At Shopify’s scale.

Do you see the pure economic value?
Yeah I wouldn't buy one, was just trying to make the point that it wasn't so expensive that it didn't have potential to sell well just based on price, given the parent millionaire remark.
You've sufficiently talked me out of it.
So dumb. It's free publicity for the rest of human existence. They should have been begging to have the song included.

Even a small chance of aliens becoming Beatles fans and coming to Earth to trade unimaginable wealth in exchange for licensing rights.
Me too! There have been a few experiments in this but none have caught on. Here's a nice article that explores the idea: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/12/how-to-make-everyt...
Any government that wants to snoop on journalists is a government that knows it's doing things against the interests of their constituents.

France of all places.

One problem is, modern governments seem to think that any situation in which they may get voted out counts as a national security risk.

Another problem is that anything at all that can change how society operates is a national security risk. Climate change is about as big a national security risk as you could get, ironically it seems to be the only one that gets ignored.

Solar power is a national security risk because it can change the power balance between consumers and long standing utilities. Same with electric cars, consumers, and fossil fuel companies.

Any change to the balance of power / status quo is literally a threat to national security because society sits on a long established foundation of dependence upon certain utilities, companies, services, etc. Change the power dynamic and the foundation of society changes, which is a threat to national security.

The final grand irony is that threats to national security are sometimes a good thing, and indicate the healthy progress of society in integrating new technologies and schools of thought.

No national security threats is a symptom of stagnation. The ultimate victory of conservatism, the prize for which is generally losing the next war.
that makes sense, I've updated the README and created an issue to remind me to make available trough brew.

Thanks!
Outside of photographers, how many people are looking at super high-resolution images on the web? Even images that might have high-resolution versions are usually converted to a shrunken image 600px wide to fit inside the website's theme scaffolding.

Is that really even worth shaving 15% off the file size? If bandwidth matters, websites should look to reduce the volume of useless stock images littering their templates.

WebP seems like a gift to Cloudflare and the other companies that do the heavy lifting of caching and serving millions of images across multiple sites. For users, it's at best indistinguishable from JPEG, and at worst an obstruction to saving images from the web.
They did recently produce a set loosely based on the F-35 Lightning ("Blue Power Jet").
The concrete walls of my house already resemble a 4x2 block, although slightly higher in the body relative to the “pins” on top.

Or are you referring to something else? Lego is plastic. Houses need wood or concrete and all kinds of isolation etc.
(There will be better obituaries for her, but for now the DailyMail was one of the first to publish)
This comment requires some context and nuance.

I've worked with conscientious engineers. Sometimes they are right but their delivery mechanism is broken. Sometimes they are just in the wrong place. If we're building a POC SASS product, it really doesn't need the quality of a avianoics microcontroller. All these trade-offs come with risk and cost, good engineers need to know the difference.
I think these are biggest ones you can buy (or used to) not sure on the size comparison - at a guess x8 to x10

45003: Soft Starter Set
https://www.rapidonline.com/45003-lego-soft-starter-set-70-1...

I had loads of fun playing with these in the lego centre (forget the kids!)
Exactly. This will be fun for the 5 kids from rich families for 10 minutes and that's it. Far from a "revolution".
Why do you NEED animations though? That has never been an important feature for users.
Going to try this in my pfsense console because I am a bad admin.
I'm currently using Linux with pop-os, both for work and personal stuff.

I do have a macbook stored under my desk but it's only used for specific Apple-only stuff and it's really slow, not sure what's wrong with it.
I can give a couple examples of utility, showing the difference between a business like Apple and LVMH. That is not to say Apple is completely and forever irreplaceable. Replace Apple with Google or Samsung.

I had a completely uneducated, non English speaking great grandma living halfway around the world from all her grandkids. Due to the consistency, performance, and ease of use of FaceTime, we could easily video call to her regularly.

I have a business where IT/tech support costs are way down due to implementing iPads for all the front line employees. Troubleshooting is as easy as turning it off and on, or replacing the device. Training is cheaper too.

On the other hand, you have LVMH. I don’t see how anything they sell benefits 90% of the world’s population, and while people might buy expensive purses and whatnot, they will buy a smartphone first.

Edit: another one I just thought of. I just helped someone calculate a return on investment using a shared spreadsheet in google drive. Clearly provided greater utility to me and my relative than me buying expensive clothing.
There use to be a tiny software at the time of windows XP. It created a falling snow effect on your screen (they were just tiny white pixels as i remember) which collected on sharp edges including icons, taskbar and text and accumulate over time. It would disappear when a window was moved. Anyone remember its name?
It is surprisingly a serious use case post college. In my personal life, if someone is going to be so stupid and immature as to not want to communicate with me because I'm an Android user, then good riddance. I don't need people like that in my life.

However, there are a lot of people who are impacted, and it's not always the case of the mean girl on tinder dumping an Android user. I know people who have group chats with family and friends, that will be left out because the iPhone is programmed to downgrade the entire group's chat if a single member is an Android user. This makes it so that messages don't work all the way, quality on images and video is garbage, and other legitimate usability concerns. Are super snooty, it's that it truly is very difficult to communicate from an iPhone to an Android phone.
Do you have a project manager dedicated to analyzing and structuring requirement and communicating with the client? Seems like you need it

Their job is to remain in constant contact over email, meetings documents, slide decks, whatever it takes
In this particular case, you wouldn't be installing oxlint unless you had npm installed already?
>barrier has been unmaintained for a long time.

As if not having new features added for 2 years makes it stop working? barrier is perfectly fine on normal linux desktop installs. I actually use synergy 1.x personally which has been "unmaintained" for much, much longer. Except synergy 1.x will compile and run on anything from windows 98 to ubuntu 10.04 to latest arch. You can't get a waynergy or inputleap to compile on an OS more than 3 years old. And even then, as you say, it's crapshoot if the particular wayland you use will have libei; many like sway are actively hostile to it and never will: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/2378
I think the great thing about HN is how subtle it is in terms of features; they're there if you want them (be it discussion/link aggregator). It's the tribe that makes HN great (like-minded people posting interesting topics) and I think it is a case of me only recently appreciating the link aggregator side of HN. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the 0 comments; like skilled said, it's an important part of HN. I tend to get mini dopamine hits when I see an interesting link posted and a high comment count next to it. Hence my habitual frontpage use. Thankfully, a daily fix of HN is a healthy thing!
The "[!IMPORTANT]" block in the README is really fancy. I had no idea you could do that.
Lego is heavy, bulky, expensive, and falls apart when you move it. What are you thinking we’d manufacture from it?
In general I've found that this shift to .webp breaks all the nice interoperability and composability we used to have with audio and video image files since there seems to be zero interest in making sure that simple familiar features like still work.
> Protected methods can be invoked on self or with an implicit receiver.

No, protected method can be called on self or from other instances of the same class. Typically used for implementing `==` methods.

> Private methods can only be invoked on an implicit receiver.

That used to be true, but as others mentioned is no longer true as of Ruby 2.7.
'Green roads' are plowing ahead, buffering drought and floods
> Iran had the means to bombard Israel, but they are not doing

I was not talking about bombardment. I was talking about means for genocide and extermination. Out of your examples, only USA and Russia have the means. Iran is not there yet.

> Can do, doesn't mean should do.

This is ridiculous, I never claimed Israel should exterminate Gaza. I claimed the opposite - Israel never did, thus it will not do that now either. Contrast that with official Hamas 1988 Charter [1] arguing for exterminations of all Jews.

> Why did you bring this topic?

I've brought the topic to demonstrate a way to judge various claims about the war.

> People ... are getting integrated into [USA]. Can't say same about Israel

This is incorrect. 2 million Arabs [2] are living in Israel proper: 20% of the whole population. They are perfectly integrated. For example, Knesset has 10 Arab members. Compare with Gaza before October 2023: 0.0% Jews. Iran: 0.009% Jews.

[1]: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel
Rather relevant in this case…I was like “ok interesting debugging but have you considered just running a kernel that was released in the last decade??” until I got to the date at the bottom.
> if you don't have "ubuntu", you are done for

Steam provided libs seems to be from Ubuntu, but the host does not need to be? Or what did you mean.

I used to make OCI containers from games and run them in Docker/Podman, since there were a lot of GPU specific driver issues, so I could easily swap between different drivers. But I did not notice any issues when running games with Arch or other distros.

Edit: Pressure vessel seems to be open-source

https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/t...
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I'm not a fan of trying to put hard numbers on unknowns like this because it biases against uncertainty, but if they shaved ~74 minutes off their CI time and assuming it runs multiple times a day that very quick equates to a small teams cost savings over a year.

However, I think trying to find the actual numbers is dumb because there's also the intangibles such as marketing and brand recognition bump by doing this both for the company and individuals involved.

That's not to say all greenfield endeavors should be actioned, but ones with substantial gains like this seem fine given the company is big enough to absorb the initial up front cost of development.
Thanks. It was more of a proof of concept to see what I could do or not do with Q. The product looks promising to an Enterprise as it has connectors for most of our existing document stores.

Executives will ask questions about the technologies they hear about in the news, and it's good to be able to quickly speak to the good and the bad.
Apple subsidize OLED manufacturing by buying up Samsung touchscreens, which directly feeds into the photovoltaic manufacturing chain (solar panel and OLED manufacturing is largely the same).

Apple subsidizes Telecom chipset manufacturing by buying up Qualcomm and Broadcom chips, which directly feeds into Military and Industrial IoT applications.

Apple subsidizes SoC research and manufacturing, which directly feeds into Military and Industrial IoT applications.

Apple subsidizes Battery research and manufacturing, which directly feeds into EV. BYD was originally a battery supplier for Apple before they entered the EV space.

Apple subsidizes CPU and chip manufacturing, which directly feeds into smaller and more efficient chipset generations.

Apple creating the first App Store in the World subsidized mobile app development, which directly fed into scaling out Digital Infrastructure like eBanking, BNPL, Microlending, etc

China's entire dual use supply chain can be attributed to the scale of Apple (and Samsung's) supply chain there, and both companies are having a similar impact in Vietnam and India now for the exact same reason (eg. all Samsung OLEDs are manufactured in a suburb of New Delhi now, 50% of all Samsung phones are assembled in Vietnam, 25% of all iPhones will be assembled in India by 2025, Airpods and other small consumable electronics by Apple will be assembled in Vietnam, etc)
It’s quite noticeable on a 2011 MacBook Air, too. The issue is less pronounced if you don’t have a decent display but it’s more that people are not used to it. Like bad kerning, it’s something you’ll notice everywhere if you train your eye to look for it, but otherwise probably don’t notice except that some things feel less appealing.
I've played with neither, but how does it contrast with play-cljc?
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Not just Hungary.

German prosecutors are not able to issue European arrest warrants due to their lack of independence. The Ministry of Justice can just order them what to prosecute and what to drop.

Relevant ruling from the European court of justice https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/201...

There was talk of changing this after the ruling, but the German government decided it would rather not.
Young people today.
I will respond to you since you posted about this so called "SINGLE IMAGE" three times in this post already.

Ackchually, the blog post contains a comparison over TWO IMAGEs. But since you work with codecs, surely you understand that the blog post is complaining about how WebP interacts with gradients in general and not just about the specific images in the blog post.

JXL was getting plenty of attention before the Chrome debacle. Of course it was less than WebP and AVIF but JXL wasn't getting pushed or championed by anyone (other than Cloudinary I think) so JXL didn't have the marketing powers the others had.