skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does have "checks and balances", to be sure, but I don't trust them to self-correct.

On the one side you have the Supreme Court, two-thirds of whom were nominated by the same political party. Their views were vetted for party loyalty before the nomination, and that vetting has become increasingly stringent. I do not trust the Court to fix a melt-down by a President who himself named a third of them -- which we had and may soon have again.

On the other hand we have the Congress, who is almost clinically incapable of anything. This law is part of a budget that was required months ago; the government itself has been operating on duct tape and baling wire. This is a rare instance where the Congress was able to act in a way that protects itself from its own incapacity.

And frankly I don't put much stock in it. I'm quite certain that a future President who chose to withdraw from NATO would simply do so and concoct an excuse why Congress' inaction was in fact consent.

The Congress has practically no power to force its will. It could potentially impeach and convict, but that has not happened even once. And even if it did, a President having a "melt down" could simply ignore it.

We do have self-correction, in the form of a vast government bureaucracy that keeps functioning even when its top leadership is a complete nutcase. But that has been increasingly presented as a conspiracy in itself, by the Presidential candidate most likely to have a melt-down. If he wins, it's because tens of millions of Americans support is belief that the government itself is a conspiracy against them.
It can also vary depending on the subject to be imagined.

For some people faces, especially familiar ones, I can see their faces in high detail (flaps of their noses, even pockmarks and other texture). The "picture" doesn’t stay still and it sometimes requires effort; though some imagery comes unbidden and effortlessly.

Other topics I have a harder time with and are more abstracted.

The problem with discourse at this level, however, is how subjective it is: when I say I can picture in my head the beautiful outdoors scenery of my last vacation, how accurate is it? If you could download a hardcopy from my brain, would you tell me "this doesn't look like a photo at all"? But what if I'm actually there, watching with my eyes -- is the image that forms in my brain accurate? Maybe someone would also scoff at it if they could download it, "this isn't what the scenery looks at all!".

I fear we will never be able to solve this riddle.
According to the article, a new color requires spending a frame:

> Want a part in a different color? That costs designers a frame. A new piece? Spend some frames. Bring back an old out-of-print piece? That’s a frame, too.

This makes sense, since a new color requires dedicated storage space (which frames are intended to control).
> Extrapolate this to 36 months or to twenty years to compare.

Extrapolating like that is a great way to achieve amazing numbers with little relation to reality: wars don't keep up the pressure throughout their duration.

For example: The latest number I've seen was 857 civilians murdered by Hamas on Oct 7. That would be 26500 dead civilians per month, but of course that number exaggerates an already horrible situation into ridiculous heights.
What you're saying is true, but for context the article is an old April fool's joke. Not sure why it was posted today.
Mastodon founder touts Threads' federation, makes it 'a more attractive option'
Same. Even argued with Flat-Earthers. It's wild. you make some progress, then they come back and say "you almost had me there, but what about XYZ?", and we're off to the races again.
It is the excrement of thought produced by not 'being aware' as the Buddhists put it. It is the waste of not pouring one's attention into being in the body. When delusion/sleep/loss of 'consciousness' takes hold, this waste will flood into the brain without cessation.
> 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.

That's not the hypothesis the way I heard it - men are more expendable to society, but it's really a stretch to conclude that because men are more expendable, they make decisions with this knowledge in mind.

I mean, really - there's no logic linking the two.
The browser support for webp is fine, problem is everything else. If you only care about displaying the images (not letting people use them elsewhere), you only use lossless webp, and all your backend infra supports it, then sure.
Statement by Marc Rogers on the CTI League
it's a winning hand if the other player doesn't counter any of your cards before you exile their hand and library ;-)
I did use ed, ever so briefly. I was introduced to it when my employer brought-out a new machine that ran SVID. We talked to it through glass teletypes.

The commands in vi are based around the commands in ed. They belong to the same family. sed is also a family-member, and an amazing tool. But I won't be sorry if I never run into ed again. Essentially, it's a rudimentary editor with zero dependencies; it doesn't need a curses library, in particular. And it would work on a terminal with only a printer for output, which was useful, back then.
Yes, because they have more to gain from taking the risk. Think about it for a moment.
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That’s my point though - they’re catching up, not leading, which rather implies that they absolutely missed a beat, and don’t therefore understand where the market is going before it goes there.
There are so many quality of life improvements I could make for myself if only Pipes was still around. Nothing I've encountered since has ever matched or beat it.
This seems like a version of the ambiguous cylinder illusion
https://youtu.be/yupxceBjDa0
It’s a weird skeuomorphism that online payments are even related to physical cards. It should just be through your online banking account.
Yeah so which team is winning on that front? Apple or amd.
Then you should try it, it will become obvious pretty fast.
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If you are ever nearby, I can strongly recommend visiting Bletchley Park. It is a pretty small museum now, but almost everything about it is fascinating and you can easily spend a full day there.

https://bletchleypark.org.uk/
It probably depends on which ones they have encountered in real life. From a Google image search, it seems that less than half are.
Hmm, “Pythia.” No etymological link to “pithy?”
“Notepad.exe too crappy for you? Buy Word!” This is why.
Judge rules Prince Harry's phone was unlawfully hacked by UK tabloid
"So-Called Neoliberalism and Its False Critics" Anarchists on Election of Milei
San Francisco, You'll Miss Your Tech Bros If They Flee (2018)
Already superseded by 6.6.7 :)
But the planes didn't cause the buildings to collapse. The internal steel structure of the buildings reaching annealing temperature caused them to collapse.

The jet fuel didn't need to melt the steel beams, it just had to get close, and gravity would do the rest.
Makes you wonder whether they even handed it to their security team, or if this was just a response written by a PR intern whose job is projecting perpetual optimism.
When a kid can walk into a 18+ movie showing at a theater or buy a porn magazine from the corner store without proof of age you'll have an argument.

Until then you're advocating for the continuation of a a special exemption for online porn sites, which are worse than adult movies and magazines because they are known and habitual hosts of child sexual abuse materials, non-consensual porn, child and adult sex trafficking victims.
I mostly agree, however it seems that a certain core of editor controls has managed to spread and become a commonly available default in various products. The emacs shortcuts in particular seem to be available any place there is a text editor box like in browsers, in web IDEs, mainstream IDEs like VSCode or IntelliJ etc etc and as such I think it makes good sense to learn those just as a matter of education.
How is your experience???
That's funny - I also have aphantasia and described it in much the same as the parent. But your comment threw me, I think of them as plain.

Looked it up, and turns out the ones in Oregon are. https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=oregon+lighthouses&form...
>[...] they'd rather believe in some evil cabal that makes bad things happen.

The flip-side of this is also true. Many people reflexively reject alternative theories because it makes them uncomfortable to feel like they're being manipulated by powerful actors. I'm not saying that's the case with 9/11, although, I suspect we were never told the total truth about that day (as with most big news stories.)
Kind of a side bar but I wonder as AI generated images get better, it seems to me only a matter of time (if it hasn’t happened already) before images are generated to create “proof” of conspiracy theories. I wonder if over time, particularly with our history now being primarily digital, if it will become more and more difficult to “know” which history is “true.” I say this as a quote from Napoleon comes to mind: History is a set of lies agreed upon..
If satellite cameras are capable of extreme resolution, would it work the other way? Could a camera be pointed up from ground, and capture revealing details about orbiting vehicles (like the X-37 & Chinese variant)?
For those curious how it actually looks like when a skilled person uses it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNYpmLH6IjQ
Eh, I'm tired of arguing. Believe what you want.

I do agree that undermining all trust in science, education and things like this is generally bad. I just think if someone is a serious flat earther, I'm not going to convince them otherwise, and I'd rather just enjoy the rest of my day.
> It's absolutely ridiculous that someone would even suggest this, but meh.

It is, but note that someone suggested the very same thing below.

Anyone who has ever been out their front door knows why men take more risks - it's because riskier behaviour gets them laid more often, with more different women.

Being the top-dog amongst your male peers gets you more women. To get to the top-dog spot you need to take a ton of risks (challenging existing leaders, creating your own subgroup, learning new skills, etc).
Maybe more of a capacitor than a battery. Maybe there’s a way it manages flux?
Advancing AutoGen Towards AGI: Improving Open Source AI Agents
As a fan of the occult & alchemy this Wikipedia page made me feel so emotional especially the "Gallery" section.
I found it a few weeks back & I keep visiting it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splendor_Solis
The Self-Employed Tax Credit (SETC)
one can cast Force of Will (or any `instant` card, really, but that's just a well-known counter that doesn't (necessarily) cost any mana) during the other player's turn. so even if the other player drew the perfect hand, one could counter any of his spells to break the combo early and prevent it from working

there's a chance they could recover from it, but one could always cast another Force of Will...
This is yet another reason why the WebP format has been deprecated, at least in these parts.
As an undergraduate we had to use ed for all our editing needs after we moved away from punch cards because vi was considered too resource-hungry. Four years of ed on an IBM 3101, and to this day 4 decades later I still prefer a green-on-black CLI interface and Cherry MX Green keys but use vim in big windows.

I can still get by using ed when I have to though.
It's purpose is be able to open a text file and encourage you to buy word and visual studio.

A user who has an grade F and many grade A and B options may not be better off if upgraded to a default D or C. In fact if they don't move on to one of the A options they may be worse off.
> I'd be pretty astonished if a credit card company didn't cancel someone's credit card if someone was tried a handful of transactions with random security codes, let alone enough to guess one number in a thousand.

If you have a whole database of them, the trick is to try one code with a thousand cards. Even so, that was a major improvement over the status quo before, which was to use the expiration date, meaning you only had to try about 24 or 36 cards with one month/year.
Ask HN: Is Heroku Down?
CLI, Login, and all our apps don't seem to be working. Their status page says all is fine though: https://status.heroku.com/
> I never have any use for the long-winded descriptions of a place and a character.

Same, and oh my goodness did my teachers in High School chastise me for not wanting to produce those same strings of adjectives in my own works. I fundamentally could not understand why someone would want to read that much description about the appearance of something.
It's just a legacy pattern. Online credit card payments predate online banking. The whole model for US card payments online was created as an extensions of the way credit cards were used to pay via mail or telephone.
I send an email to your username @gmail.com. I'm so grateful for your kindness. I promise that I will make good use of this subscription. I can't thank you enough.
I only looked at WASM when the spec was first released but at that time it looked like tail call was not possible. Has that been corrected?
Most supervillains have a profit motive. Selling poisoned food to kids to make a few more dollars could easily be part of a Bond villain plot.

Anyway, the executives involved deserve the death penalty (see: 2008 Chinese milk scandal)
The main JS build tools have hosting options, there are tons of lightweight hosting providers, or you can go with a more general cloud provider.

I'm partial to the Google Cloud, but pretty much anything is going to be fine, especially if it is a demo/mvp size project. There is a lot of detail and nuance I'm glossing over, but to fill that in would require detailed knowledge of you application and ambitions for it
I would have strongly preferred if my reMarkable didn't come with a mandatory subscription. It's mandatory because you completely lose warranty service if you ever cancel it. The reason? I had been saving up to afford the device for five years and missed the introduction of their subscription by one. single. month. I'm stuck paying forever because I don't count as a "grandfathered" customer.

What's worse is that their customer service told me I'm eligible for unlimited free service, got me to cancel (and lose my warranty), then backpedaled and told me that I'm not actually eligible and on top of that I just lost my warranty.

I managed to get them to un-cancel it but that entire ordeal is just even fucking worse. I never want to deal with that company again, and will not be recommending their products.
check the publication date.
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What you're ignoring is that WebP is from the year 2010. JPEG XL is from 2022. Incidentally, JPEG XL is also a Google project, making your ranting about how bad they're at image formats pretty funny.
Emacs keybindings are even baked into NSText, the basis of everything to do with text handling in macOS.
Mysterious fast radio bursts in space keep getting stranger
"Fast radio bursts, or bright, millisecond-long flashes of radio waves in space, are one of the most enduring mysteries of the cosmos — and they just became a little stranger."
That’s great to hear, thank you! Please feel free to email us if you have questions. For pricing, the first link is for VMs, and the second is for managed database instances, which also have 5x more disk. You’re right in that we should aggregate and better present our pricing.
Spoiler: it's fast, cheap, overly protective, and has Kafkaesque DX
Lego has got to be the lowest on the list for me as far as concern about plastic use. Who throws away Lego? Post a couple pounds of Lego on FB marketplace and see how fast it sells.

Some of our Lego is from the 1950s, and my daughter is the third generation playing with it. Surely 60+ years of use is a pretty good run for something made of plastic.
Ask HN: ProtonDrive is open-source, what's blocks us from building Linux client?
ProtonDrive is listing "open source" as one of it's main features. They provide links to source for Android and iOS apps. Are there any hurdles to build an open-source Linux client, that would work like classic "dropbox", just syncing files between ProtonDrive account and local computer?
As the article you're responding to details in one case FDA inspectors literally saw employees frantically destroying documents as they walked in. That factory was allowed to continue producing drugs. Empirical tests have shown certain factories manufactured drugs with insufficient concentration of the active ingredient. Those drugs are still on the market.
That's the only case when I can see visual images eyes closed.
I wish they beefed up their ARC processor to at least match the RTX 3060, that would allow people to play most games without needing to buy a separate video card ... that would be a huge win.
> Right now if you don't have one of these MI cards or a rx7900 & you're not running linux you're not going to have a nice time.

Are you saying that having rx7900 + linux = happy path for ML? This is news to me, can you tell more?

I would love to escape cuda & high prices for nvidia gpus.
> LinkedIn was having a hard time taking advantage of the cloud provider's software. Sources told CNBC that issues arose when LinkedIn attempted to lift and shift its existing software tools to Azure rather than refactor them to run on the cloud provider's ready made tools.

I think I need this translated back into tech-speak.
In Search of Cash, Studios Send Old Shows Back to Netflix
40 years from now, I wonder what kind of health effects will be experienced by the millions of people who feel compelled to buy food and other products that go in/on their body from stores like Dollar Tree.
Vague insinuations without support, most of which are effectively mitigated by running synergy or barrier over an ssh tunnel. What you mean by "unsafe language"?

> waynergy is a synergy client

Yes, a client, but you can't actually be a synergy server with waynergy. And input-leap support to work with a subset of the waylands depends on libei.
Great read! Thank you! Now do OLAP :p
It also had issues before the take over.
I'm curious what issues you had with P/Invoke. I use SQLite's C API from C# using P/Invoke rather than using a high-level .NET library. I've implemented virtual table modules, VFSes, application-defined SQL functions, you name it. I even reach into SQLite and call their internal tokenizer directly. The Visual Studio debugger was key to getting this done productively. With C#'s high level of interoperability with C, I can't imagine a similar "SQLite transpiled to C#" project gaining traction in our ecosystem. I think C# stands out from the crowd on interop with C libraries.
Ask HN: Have you gotten a job by contributing to open source software
Hello,

Would love to hear everyone’s thoughts how they got a job offer contributing to open source
> it sounds like the theory of explaining how classical causality falls out isn’t fleshed out yet & is still a work in progress

Yes, that's true. One of the confusing things is that this "indefinite causal order" thing is very limited--for example, you can't use it to send actual information faster than light. It can produce correlations that seem to defy our usual intuitions about cause and effect, but to actually make use of such things, you have to wait for ordinary classical (i.e., light speed or slower) transmission of the information you need to do so.

For example, in the Alice an Bob scenario at the start of the Quanta magazine article you linked to, while it's possible for Alice's dropping the plate and Bob burning himself to be correlated in ways that defy our classical intuitions, Alice can't make any use of the fact that Bob burned himself until the information from Bob reaches her at light speed or slower, and Bob can't make any use of the fact that Alice dropped the plate until the information reaches him at light speed or slower.

(Btw, the article is misleading on this point, since it describes Alice as dropping the plate when she hears Bob cry out in one version, and Bob burning himself when he hears Alice drop the plate in the other version. If the Alice and Bob events are spacelike separated, which is the scenario that causes all the head scratching, these descriptions are wrong--Alice and Bob can't hear each other faster than light. A proper description would be something like: Alice drops a plate for no apparent reason, she says it just happened out of the blue before she could react; and Bob burns himself for no apparent reason, he says it just happened out of the blue before he could react; but it turns out that every time these things happen, they happen together--Alice never drops a plate without Bob burning himself, and vice versa.)

So it's even possible to interpret all this as not changing our concept of "causality" at all, just putting a little quantum wrinkle in that only has limited effects.
I can night dream. But up until now I didn't even know a daydream existed and this is the first time I hear such a term (well, I'm not native English anyway)
sorry but this sounds like it's written by someone who is definitely not a teenager and who hasn't experienced this before.
The Squirrel Test
It was mostly a tongue-in-cheek comment since Force of Will is notorious from preventing opponents from playing their perfectly structured plan even when they think they've accounted for the target player not being able to cast an instant counter (which traditionally was the case when the target player has no mana available, since most counters cost mana)...

so I guess I'm just saying it's not guaranteed to work every time you draw the perfect Turing-complete hand setup because you may be foiled by a counter you don't expect

MTG has "stacks", and cards are cast-and-resolved in two separate steps. Which means cards are all cast in sequenced but then resolved in the reverse order they were cast. For example, if Player 1 casts spells A, B, C, and then Player 2 casts instant card D which reads ("cancel the prior spell") in response to Player 1's casting of C, then D resolves by popping C off the stack without C impacting the game at all, then B and A resolve
From my own experience, JPEG quality and compression efficiency can differ a lot depending on the encoder implementation. It would make more sense to compare specific encoders rather than formats in general.

In 2014 (WebP was released in 2010) Mozilla claimed that the standard JPEG format is not used to it's full potential [1] and introduced mozjpeg project that is still being updated [2]. I wonder how it compares today with current WebP implementations.

[1] https://research.mozilla.org/2014/03/05/introducing-the-mozj...
[2] https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg
Yes! We are so close with the configuration as code paradigm. Why can‘t I configure K8S with python or javascript?
That is tech speak. They tried to redeploy existing architecture into azure and it failed