skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I proposed lossless JPEG1 recompression as a functionality of JPEG XL after PIK/FUIF were chosen as a platform. The committee saw this of great value and we decided together this as an additional requirement after the competition was completed. We had a lot of experience of this in brunsli and were sure that we can deliver a good solution for it.
Yea, my 2000 Honda Accord's instrument cluster just had a digital wiring harness to drive it. Even an older somewhat cheap 2002 motorcycle I owned had a completely digital instrument cluster.
Lol, I got prescribed SSRIs as a teen with no discussion of side effects. Doctors just prescribe these things like they give out candy. Most people just do what their doctors tell them to do, they don't nerd out and look up the details of every, or any, medicine they take.
>>I’m starting to treat general aviation as though it was 50 years ago: Very unsafe and expensive

50 years ago civilian aircraft deaths were, on average, 400% higher per year than now. You might want to rethink your comparison; it has never been safer to fly commercial airlines.

IIRC, less than 5 people have died in the USA in commercial airline crashes since 2010.
No, I am saying that they are successful despite being expensice and not so good quality.

> China can manufacture good stuff, but in my view only with good external QA

That's borderline offensive, IMO, and proved wrong by many examples.
wifi7 has MLO, which will contribute to devices getting satisfied with their data sooner and not asking for more timeslots. 4096 QAM will also, however marginally, contribute to this effect.
Take your brownies, I guess, that wasn't my point.

As if me mis-remembering Common Lisp capabilities, invalidates the rest regarding "modern" GC languages.

Here is an array of structs in Oberon, 1987,

TYPE
Point = RECORD
x, y : INTEGER
END;

Triagle = RECORD
v1, v2, v3: Point
END;

Data = ARRAY 100 OF Triagle; (* static sized *)

DynData = ARRAY OF Triagle; (* dynamically sized *)

VAR
dynData : DynData; (* Allocated via NEW(dynData, elems)*)
Good luck getting the world into situation #2 since it's impossible to see Western creators of the tech getting poor and West-hostile societies on board. Though I think somewhere about 250 MM people is the best density myself and would be best even with current spans.

Billionaires wiping out the poor would incite a vigorous class war.
Good news:
Virtually all helium-3 used in industry today is produced from the radioactive decay of tritium in reactors, given its very low natural abundance and its very high cost.

Tritium, in turn is produced from lithium- 6. Between 1.9% and 7.8% of terrestrial lithium in normal materials consists of lithium-6
Not answering your question, but the Roku app includes a better version of the remote.
The role of the family doctor (in the US) has changed drastically in the last ~8 years. They are a heuristic wearing a lab coat doing mostly data entry.

The healthcare industry (in the US) needs sweeping reform to embrace technological and sociological realities for the 2020s. The AMA is a brake on progress, and not crazy progress or "disruption," but basic things like providing more direct access to care. Insurance companies are changing some aspects, but mostly in ways that benefit them, not the individual.
The actual data does not align with your anecdote. Unemployment is historically low.
Yes thank you for noticing that. My bigger concern is NPS paying for expensive auto-scale resources for what is basically CSV files that could be hosted cheaply and securely.

REST API compute is very expensive when you include compute costs, transfer fees and admin costs to keep it up.

Not to mention the cost to implement a bespoke API and deal with security issues.

All to make CSV available!
A month of work for a whole team was never even committed or stashed let alone pushed? That is not a git problem.
It’s not like Congress needs to separately pass funding for the NPS. In 2023, the NPS was given a 6% budget increase, even!
You may be right that this is a prioritization problem, in that the priority is allowing incompetent/bad bureaucrats and unelected administrators as a central-single point of failure to make decisions - rather than allowing the free market decide, allowing the general population decide - so then the most efficient providers while providing an acceptable quality of care gain momentum, can hire more staff, etc.

But this is not a "just don't pay them properly" issue because in Canada free market competitive forces don't economically suffocate out the bad-incompetent doctors and administrators, and also then don't fuel-reward the good-best doctors and administrators.

How do I know this? 10+ years of hell trying to navigate the Ontario medical system, the prior 10+ years being harmed by that Ontario system - where I have had to spend $600k+ getting medical treatment outside of Canada, with the next surgery coming in in Europe to add another 60k EUR to medical expenses - of which I would have to find a lawyer who specializes in suing OHIP, spend another $200k+ and years of time, to try to get compensated for any of the expenses; stress, time, and money that isn't available to initiate that.

Anyone defending the current system has no leg to stand on: there's absolutely zero oversight and accountability. Example? I recently actually became a "rostered" patient with a general-family physician, rostered meaning that instead of going to a walk-in clinic and waiting many many hours to briefly discuss 1 thing - I can book an appointment instead. Of the 3 phone calls I had with this "family" physician so far, of which I had a file with them for years and recently had see multiple of his assistants (PAs: physician assistants), he hadn't even for a moment reviewed my file, nor on the 2nd and 3rd call did he even review the previous call notes with me - to even know what page he should be on; and no, not a new physician, he's been practicing for 25+ years.

This also is part of a planned destruction-erasure of Canadian culture and weakening of the population strategy.

In part via weaponized immigration + weaponized international student visas + irrational-illogical highly harmful "carbon tax" on all Canadian products and services - rather than say specifically on products coming from China - which arguably the majority are but Trudeau is toeing the CCP line, our intelligence agency CSIS having multiple whistle blowers [one who even came publicly forward to add credibility] stated that Trudeau and 11+ MPs had help of CCP to get elected for at least the last 2 elections; and more tactics they deployed.

Chart showing the West reducing its CO2 emissions vs. China's skyrocketing: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?facet=none&Gas+or+W...

Ignorance is bliss, and if the depths of your understanding is only what's discussed as acceptable to pop culture - which is heavily crafted by what narratives state-funded media like CBC floods the landscape with - then you'll miss the foundational points, because they don't want you to know the fundamentals, don't want you critically thinking through - they want you regurgitating-parroting.
This sounds like a solution in search of a problem. I’ve never encountered any of the problems suggested with git in this post.
Yeah this is a funny situation where Google's brand naming strategy does them no favors: Android Auto (their CarPlay equivalent) != Android Automotive (their Car OS) and Android Automotive supports both Android Auto and Apple's CarPlay, except when turned off (as GM is doing for reasons that escape everyone except presumably GM executives).
so are Americans trying to say Eichhörnchen (the German word for squirrel). I’ve used that as an icebreaker for kids in a German-American exchange program - both groups trying to say the word in the other’s language.
I mean, it sounds like we completely agree?

> It’s important while driving that I’m not required to read what’s on the screen to perform common actions. Having to browse to the music app just to pause means I’m spending several seconds not looking at the road.

Exactly, which is why I love that on my car I can just press a physical button with my thumb on the steering wheel to pause the music.
Trump's Trade War Built Shein, China's First Global Fashion Giant
dang, can we change the title back to the original. This article is about "the man who the word robot" not "a man who coined the word robot". I know that often "the man" is used for clickbait purposes. Here it is just being accurate and to the point. The title being used now suggests that many people have coined the word robot which is untrue.
>If TV manufacturers would have just put in a DisplayPort port, we wouldn't be in this mess.

HDMI winning the TV market over DisplayPort wasn't a free market victory like VHS over Betamax, it was an anti-consumer corporate monopolistic grab.

The big TV manufacturers at the time (Hitachi, Panasonic, Philips, Sony and Toshiba) were also the main founders the HDMI consortium when it was invented, meaning they had vested interest to push their proprietary shit to get paid and make more money.[1]

HDMI was also backed by Fox, Universal, Warner Bros and Disney along with system operators DirecTV, EchoStar (Dish Network) and CableLabs.[1]

It's like politicians voting themselves bigger salaries. Open standards like DisplayPort stood no chance compared to so much corporate moneybags, who monopolized the TV market, pushing in the opposite direction.

Consumers were never given a choice in the matter, but the TV manufacturers, movie studios and cable operators decided for us. From the bottom of my asshole, a big "fuck you" to them and to the regulators who slept at the wheel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#History
>It fuses to stable beryllium

Source? 3He+D does not produce beryllium, it produces 4He+P

And under those conditions you'd also get significant D-D fusion too, producing T, 3He, protons, and neutrons
Part of eating a bar (or similar) is to have a sporting event on TV so you can watch it while being out. I would be upset if someone was turning those off in that type of place. If you don't like it, don't go there.
It’s not the same though. A high dose can lead to life altering insights. A low dose will just be a fun time.

Alcohol in higher doses isn’t therapeutic. More than 4 beers and any therapeutic effect alchohol could’ve had is now also gone. :)
I've seen people maintain their own, incompatible forks of both of those, sometimes for quite a long time. No company maintains a fork of the entire Linux kernel in private: the closest thing is RHEL's additional hardware support, but that's basically just drivers.
“ Corporations are extensions of the desires of the average person”

Not true. The people who own and manage corporations only follow the desires of the average person when it’s convenient and profitable for them. They also put in a lot of effort to shape the desires of the average person in a way that’s profitable for them.
Force a better group decision by making a bad choice first
I don't think this article is guilty of that. Maybe OP thought this was one of those "<Interesting intro with a simple quickly answerable question> ... Dave lives in a small house nestled into the hills of rural Wales. He has long flowing hair and a slight stutter. His three children - Mary, Anna-belle and Calista - have long sense left home and he spends most of his time blah blah blah blah I don't care."

This isn't that thought.
Program Composition Notation – A Tutorial
EDIT: responded to the wrong comment, apologies.

I really don't understand your point. If I hash on the browser the hash is still being sent to the server. A MitM or sniffing attack can just send the hash and log in. It doesn't actually protect the user at all unless they're re-using the password elsewhere. This also assumes that you're using a seeded hash of some sort, or a multi-round hasher with settings unique to every other website. Otherwise you're still going to run into stuffing and collisions.

So for sites where the plaintext password is sensitive (password managers etc) that's important. For most sites, it's not inherently wrong not to hash passwords in the browser, though it does protect against password reuse.

I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't think you're accurately portraying the problem you're fixing.
Very unsafe? In the past 14 years there have been 72 fatalities involving US Air Carriers, out of around 250 million flight hours flown[1]. That’s fewer fatalities in 14 years than there are US motor vehicle fatalities in a single day (on average).

[1]: https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/StatisticalReviews/Pages/CivilAv...
Maybe some has been captured by the "capital elite" or whatever that is (I think personally that is more a function of globalism). But it's also just been captured by society itself. We now have access to far more goods and services than ever before, and for incredibly cheap.
Almost all of our colleges are diploma mills now. Not just the private ones.
> Does anyone prefer the digital gauges to real ones?

Yes, at least in theory: I can remove gauges I don't care for, and have the ones I do care for instead.

However in my experience (mostly renting low-end cars so it might be a lot better on the higher end)

- the customisability is very limited, and usually does not have what I'm interested in

- digital screens are used as an excuse for completely worthless animations

- some of the digital readouts ridiculously low granularity / functionality, I've seen digital fuel jauges taking the entire height of the dashboard yet only having 8 segments, that's worse than even the most basic of fuel jauges from the 80s

Anyway like digital displays, I just wish they were more functional, and less shit.

Digital (dematerialised) controls however, are a whole other kettle of fish.
> WebP was better than standard JPEG.

Feature-wise, maybe (transparency, animation). Compression-wise, not really (better at low qualities because the artifacts are somewhat less objectionable than JPEG’s, but worse at high qualities).

Lossless WebP (practically a separate codec) is nice though, albeit 8-bit only.
FreeBSD Considers Making Use of Rust Within Its Base System
I prefer head-up display. I barely watch anything on the dashboard level now I have it available.
Have you seen the BLIP paper? It's a bit old now, but it introduced a curation method.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12086
I’m very interested how they handle it. IMO, previous, somewhat more PC oriented release (World) showed Capcom how fertile PC gaming is. Rise working great on Steam Deck was a one up. I talked with friends about doing a Steam Deck party just couple weeks ago.

This seems… counterintuitive. But companies make mistakes so in the end it’s all about how they work this out.

Ignoring both performance and Steam Deck compatibility doesn’t bode well for the next iteration.
The taxpayers are the patrons. The API consumers are the customers. When the customers make a lot of API calls or cause security issues, the patrons have to pay.
The world needs a git alternative. Anyone who has used mercurial at Google or Facebook knows the tooling could be much better.

As soon as you have 2-3 people committing to the same repo daily, git falls apart fast. The biggest difficulties with git are merging and branch rebasing. If git could do rebases better, I would suspect software development teams to universally move about 20% faster.
This will sell easily. It's by far the most advanced Vision Pro yet.
Or just don't play it?

Why is the default always pirating and not just skipping? It's not as if there aren't more games available out there than there is time to play them. Reward the developers/publishers who aren't being asses, and we might just get more of 'em.

EDIT: When writing this, I focused too much on piracy and not enough on "you've already bought this." My bad.
My AP is a Mikrotik hAPac2: https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ac2

Mikrotik claims it is a wifi 5 device on 5GHz bands. Qualcomm says the SOC used also only supports wifi 5 on 5GHz: https://www.qualcomm.com/products/internet-of-things/network...

Installing the OpenSpeedTest app on my iPhone and then running the test from my desktop which has wired Ethernet shows 646Mbps/472Mbps throughput.

Thanks for the tip about OpenSpeedTest! I have been curious to get a tool like this for other easy local speed testing! :)
> BECAUSE WAVES 5G COVID CHIPS

Is that really the main line, or is that just the media smear being used against a majority who have fair concerns, such as privacy or a move to phase out fixed-rate tariffs? This Wikipedia article has a good summary, and while the "Health" section is bullshit, the rest is mostly valid points https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_meter#Opposition_and_con...
Yes. TCP connection establishment inherently forms a two-way channel between two entitys. There is little reason to duplicate the connection/routing (in the generic sense) establishment for each direction in the general case where you might want a two-way channel.

The problem in the presented example is that there are, fundamentally, 3 communicating entitys A->B->C, which logically demands two channels. A quirk of the example where A and C happen to be on the same system and coincidentally can use the channel disjointly (read-only and write-only) in conjunction with TCP being inherently two-way allows it to be kludged into a single channel, but frankly it is your fault for relying on bizarre implementation details [1].

If you want a proper abstraction, what you would actually do is multiplex multiple logical streams over a single duplex channel. The code would then operate purely on the logical streams (pipe-like) and everything would be clean. The implementation would then only need to establish connection once, removing the inherent overhead associated with establishing multiple network protocol connections, while still giving you a clean and consistent abstraction (barring the standard leakiness of the TCP abstraction).

[1] https://xkcd.com/1172/
What a great proof of the value of 3rd parties. What airline would EVER provide such a feature?
Also, why does having many "notable publications" make someone "the best"? That seems pretty arbitrary and subjective. How many Academic Publications™ does John Carmack have?
There's a ton of TikTok/Instagram nonsense showing it out in the world doing those things.

A large volume of the stuff you can do with it is just spoofing a USB keyboard and running console commands. You could do that for years with tons of existing microcontrollers the price of a hotdog, but suddenly script kiddies have taken notice and are willing to pay 100x for the ability.
True, that is one those interactions between users that I mentioned. But the amount of people having the code checked out and poking around its history is only limited by capacity to clone the repository. All other operations are just local.

Having hundreds of committers merging into one branch is problematic. Perhaps splitting the repository into smaller parts does have its advantages. Monorepos often have the architectural split of the software while throwing away the advantages of the split at the vcs level. But there is also other large software, developed by hundreds of people, that cannot meaningfully split into separate git repositories without messing about versioning and releasing. The Linux kernel is such a system. They use a loose network of repositories -- mostly a hierarchy -- to pre-aggregate merges. Git is well equipped to handle different approaches -- separation of mechanism and policy.

I am looking forward to learn how a central but cloud-native VCS will improve on that.
I didn't even proceed when I saw what they wanted. I thought about how many people are likely to be applying to Canonical, and decided not at all worth the time.
Reminds me of when we got a local TV/radio newsreader (Julie Skentelbery) to voice the (default) TERPROM Terrain Awareness Warning System (TAWS) alerts (which no-one ever hears because they all have their own preferences):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h6dn7x

<https://www.collinsaerospace.com/what-we-do/industries/milit...>
I would imagine that the target demographic flies premium/business and will almost certainly have power sockets for long flights.
I would be surprised if the price dropped. I believe Apple is known for keeping their pricing fairly neutral or increasing it. You could get a Gen 1 second hand, though.
As someone with a HackRF PortaPack knockoff I got from ebay, I would agree that SDRs are better and cheaper than ever before. However, I think the average person will struggle with using a HackRF for more complex projects. I've used URH before, and while useful, it can be intimidating for beginners.

Also, while I like the RTL-SDR (and the price tag!), you can't transmit with it. While this isn't a deal breaker to everyone, if you'd like to clone a garage door remote, for example, you need to be able to transmit. While you could use something like a raspberry pi and rpix [0], but I think it is more work than it's worth for many. Also, multiple RTL-SDRs are required for higher bandwidth applications like ASTC TV or trunked radios.

With the flipper, I think the main draw for most is the point-click-done nature. Include the Android/iOS app and it makes it easy to configure on the go without a computer. The expandability is one of the main feature that will increase adoption over time compared to the HackRF+PortaPack which, from what I saw in the past, lacked longer-term support and regular updates and new features.

[0] https://github.com/F5OEO/rpitx
Well, the truth is somewhere in between. A decent market for now perhaps depsite the hesitation in buying the first gen product because of its imperfections.
Method Chaining in Pandas
RFC a Link Aggregator Service
I'm still not decided on AOT vs JIT being the endgame.

In theory JIT should be higher performance, because it benefits from statistics taken at actual runtime. Given a smart enough compiler. But as a piece of code matures and gets more stable, the envelope of executions is better known and programmers can encode that at compile-time. That's the tradeoff taken by Rust: ask for more proofs from the programmers, and Rust is continuing to pick up speed.

That's also what the Leyden project / condensers [1] is about, if I understand correctly. Pick up proofs and guarantees as early as possible and transform the program. For example by constant-propagating a configuration file taken up during build-time.

Something I've pondered over the years: a programmer's job is not to produce code. It is to produce proofs and guarantees (yet another digression/rant: generating code was never a problem. Before LLMs we could copy-paste code from StackOverflow just fine)

In the end it's only about marginal improvements though. These could be superseded by changes of paradigm like RAM getting some compute capabilities; or programs being split into a myriad of specialized instructions. For example filters, rules and parsing going inside the network card; SQL projections and filters going into the SSD controller; or matrix-multiplication going into integrated GPU/TPU/etc just like now.

[1] https://openjdk.org/projects/leyden/notes/03-toward-condense...
> you're simply ignorant of the fact that the supposed racial results disparity in tests like the SAT measures more accurately disparity in opportunity

Literally all this chart shows is disparity in performance, thereby proving my point. Unless you're trying to say standardized tests are racist?

>And if you somehow still think that some races are more intrinsically intelligent than others

Black people just have more access to sports, which is why they are more athletic. Disparity in opportunity, right? Asians just don't have access to enough basketball courts. But yeah, I'm the ignorant one.
I don't think counting "let me google that for you" as a point to ease of use of the internet is legit.

I always saw it manifest as another version of RTFM. Meaning stop being lazy/do your own work.
Yes you can. The battery pack has a usb-c port for charging while in use