skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Disney Imagineer Behind the VR Breakthough That Is the 'HoloTile'
A big difference in my view is that OpenAI doesn't meaningfully "provide access" to all the text and art and everything in the world; rather, they suck the marrow out of all the text and art and everything in the world and use it to sell their own replacement service for all the text and art and everything in the world. Google has done some questionable things to become a gateway to the world's work, but they're (mostly) still a gateway, not a copy.
This page makes no sense: e.g. proposing (uncompressed) jpeg over png for screenshots without any explanation why (note that even uncompressed jpeg doesn't necessarily store the exact original rgb color values but is likely ok for 8-bit rgb). Calls png "forbidden" but lists a bunch of other formats (without listing an actually good one like jpeg xl) as a valid replacement without saying what those (like webp which in its lossy version cannot even encode color at full resolution) formats do that png doesn't.

Complains something about alpha channels but doesn't explain what (and the mentioned jpeg has no alpha support)

PNG supports 16 bit per channel and ICC color profiles so can do HDR.
I think one of the bits of carry-over legislation in the Withdrawal Agreement after Brexit was the UK continuing to comply with GDPR. So using an Irish DC is still ok.
> Just stay away from the 18 or 20v lawn stuff.

Lol ok sure. I mean I might not want to handle multiple acres with them. That’s just because they’re small.
But my 18v lawn mower and leaf blower work great, and so do my parents’. We’re not using the same brand.

Opinion from the past?
Gross generalization?
‘Murica - everything bigger must be better?
Small quirk/bug report: maximized images can only be closed by clicking outside of them (no "X" or other control for that function that I could see), but the code doesn't take into account a browser window that is smaller than the image; in that eventuality the image can't be closed and the user is forced to close the tab because also the back button doesn't work.
Look at Telegram, all their apps are written in native. Still one of the best, and still getting better every release.
Hard agree. But yet, what became of the one who did try to fix it?
Use other languages, perhaps? English is a relatively compact language in terms of visual space, but there are even more compact languages. Typical examples include East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) and Nordic languages (Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish).
I also have the feeling that the Vision Pro will be Apple's Virtual Boy [1].

Impressive tech that would have been very successful in 2020 with Covid, work from home and all. But in 2024?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Boy
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I didn't follow LKML directly, but from what I saw elsewhere that seems right. I remember there being technical arguments against Reiser4, and the discussions about them getting interesting (not combative, but very direct) in part because Hans wasn't one with a "nicey nicey" discussion style either!

Though until Hans was out of the picture, those discussions were still on-going.
"Sign up for more like this"
Billy keeps getting got lmao

MAME is a legitimate platform at TG, but it's not as simple as "play on MAME and submit just a video". At the time of Billy's scores, I believe that MAME play on TG required one of a few specific builds of WolfMAME, a fork that removes some options that would be useful for cheating. It also always requires attribution as MAME, as well as submission of an input log. Billy did neither of these things, so it doesn't matter if MAME is 100% accurate for DK outside of VRAM scanout. He submitted MAME runs as non-MAME runs, and thus did not submit an input log.
Mistral becomes the talk of Davos as business leaders seek AI gains
I've worked on Tablet PC, Windows Phone, and Microsoft Band.

I'm surprised all three aren't in there! (Along with WebTV, Microsoft's ebook stuff, and Microsoft Auto, all of which were good ideas attempted way too early!)

They list Google TV, but that feels unfair, as some variant of something resembling Google TV still exists.
See, it's even worse for Boeing. Now their good planes are lumped together with negative connotations about their bad planes in negative news stories that have nothing to do with Boeing, while getting discussed in forums rather than the actual topic of the article. Which was something about loose bolts making outdoor equipment loud. Damn, it happened again.
I haven't been able to get `offlineimap` working with gmail in at least the last six months. If anyone has been successful, please let me know. The blog posts I've found all have out of date information. If I'm locked into their cloud, I'd at least like to have a backup of my data--

and no, I don't want the takeout service, the Maildir format and features of offlineimap are what work great!
> There are literally thousands of examples throughout history of smaller ethnic groups that were completely wiped out by their bigger and more aggressive neighbors.

Exactly. Figting and killing didn't help them in any way.

> Do you think these small groups were provoking their neighbors? Why? Did they all have a death wish?

The wrong decision in that case was deciding to be separate from their neighbors despite the fact that they presented overwhelming force. They were multitude of ethnic groups who survived by getting assimilated into their stronger neighbors. You might argue that it's not a survival if culture disappears. But that's just words. Genes are what matters in any broader context.

> If the Germans would have won, they would have cleansed large parts of Europe. Do you call that "prosperity"?

They would possibly kill all the Jews which is unfortunate and a terrible loss. The rest of the populace would just become the part of their empire. And running an empire is a troublesome thing as countries like Britain found out. India used to be a British colony. And today more property is owned in London by the Indians than by native British people. Some regions of London are minority white. Nobody designed it like that. It is just a result of previous attempts at exploitation of their acquired empire. Same happened to France. Germans would eventually succumb to the same fate.

Stalin is a different thing. Just because Russians are terrible at everything. I'm still sure they wouldn't manage to keep whole Europe under their shoe for long. And if they did that would mean they seriously stepped up their game, so prosperity of sorts.
Given the low proportion of people I've extended employment offers to over the years who even try to negotiate terms or drill down into employment terms that might affect the value, I'd assume it applies to most engineers.

At some point I got a week more holiday than every other employee in the UK at my employer at the time because I was the only hire who had questioned a contract clause and gotten them to confirm my preferred interpretation of a woefully misleading clause in writing before signing, and when they later wanted to stick to the technicalities of how it was written I was able to just forward them an email from the COO confirming that in my case they'd agreed to my interpretation.

Most people seem to only pay attention to the headline amount, and then grumble about the consequences after the fact.
In 2024, maybe. We stopped using Dreaweaver 20 years ago, totally different story then.
Veteran coder builds stone-covered Dome Home into Texas hill [video]
Prisma Cloud / Global Protect?
Javier Milei, Argentina President, Davos Speech [video]
I feel like you could have said the same about google or facebook. They made a dominant early platform and could have comfortably lived off that success?

There are a bunch of companies trying to compete with valve. They are not behind any more of a moat than anyone else.
A riding mower with sweeper is more effective if the terrain permits.

I have an acre of land with multiple large trees. I have an electric sweeper but never really loved the job it did.
Based on my own genealogical research, you can’t expect exact fidelity over time once you go back 120 years or so.

From my Irish side we haves back and forth over recorded name, baptism records, common names, nicknames and what all.

Not to mention just poor handwriting. Forebears that maybe couldn’t write, local variations of names, etc.

Walsh/Walch/Welch/Welsh

Mary Ann could be:

Maria Mariah Anne Marianne Annie Anna depending on the time, relation and who said it to the census guy
I’ve noticed several YouTube channels that have hundreds of thousands or millions of subscribers but new videos are watched only by a fraction of a fraction of that subscriber number. iJustine has 7.1 M subscribers but her latest videos have between 0.05 M to 0.15 M views.

Either TikTok and Instagram pull all the viewers over to their platform or there is a problem with YouTube’s subscribtions feed. In any case, many YouTubers are frustrated by the few views.
In reality, there are machines with enough memory that, for all practical purposes, they are unbounded.
>Hard is fine. The point is, taking VC money makes building the company (you wanted to build) straight up impossible.

What if you and the venture capitalists are on the same page and have the same goals?

Or what if you keep control, have a good money making plan and you don't ask for funding just to pay expenses and acquire unpaying users but use those funds for growth?
This is the first time I've heard about (Open)EXR, and it honestly sounds like a pretty neat format. But this article lacks context, and it sorely needs it. PNG has many good uses. Apparently not in the author's chosen domain, and yet they condemn PNG entirely.

Which makes this a highly opinionated piece. And why should I listen to the opinion of somebody who thinks it's necessary to disable context menus on their website?
I can't help but feel that is a rationalisation.
> ... it is because they had bad teachers.

> Math is easy if...

The one constant I observed in most parts of my mathamatics journey (math major in college, software engineering & computer science at university) was the lack of understanding by the person doing the math teaching that not everyone will be able to follow along if steps in the ladder are missing.

Words and sentences like 'it is obvious', 'clearly', 'as can be seen' should be avoided when teaching someone a subject as abstract as mathematics as inevitably you are not fully realising the size of the gap in knowledge between you and your students and how such statements can leave them feeling frustrated.
You are assuming it’s well paying.
Lots of defense contractors work inside SCIFs. Some of my co-workers collectively bought a record player because mp3 players, phones, and even CD boom boxes aren't allowed in and they wanted to listen to music while working.
Think of “AI” as a human without individual values, rights, freedoms, and agency. It’s like a perfect slave (and if it’s considered to be sentient/conscious then literally a slave), which you can clone on demand and scale into a highly coordinated swarm.
Not if they take away or keep watering down the 2nd amendment.
I don't think that any random image format can really replace PNG for web in terms of browser support...
The "math" used in ML/AI papers is usually just a sort of 'whiteboard math' which is a domain-specific mishmash of linear algebra, calculus, set theory and statistics.

If you could find a book just going through the relevant bits you wouldnt really have to "learn math again", it can be translated into english straightforwardly -- very very few ML papers relevant to industry have extended proofs, etc. that require eg., even being able to differentiate anything yourself.

90% of it is: here's the domain (ie., type) of our variables, here's the formula of our functions, we're taking a weighted average with some inner products involved.

It might sound like a lot of math, but it's really all doable in semester-1 of an undergrad course, were it focused enough.
Experience. I have 18v tools and 40v tools. I have an 18v weedeater and the thing struggles with anything thicker than a blade of grass. I've seen the same with mowers.

If you have a tiny, flat, well kept yard they are probably fine. If you're on a typical quarter acre or more, they're an exercise in frustration.
Indeed, if the clog is big/deep enough, the overflow won't work at all.[1]

[1]: Flooded 4 floors of a five-star hotel by puking in a sink and falling asleep before turning the water off.
Those comparisons are in 256-color GIF. The author is certainly making a lot of effort to avoid using PNG. :)
Not all Thais are happy about this law. There have been protests against it. The law is effectively being used to suppress freedom of speech nowadays. And the governmnet managed to twist it in a way to use it protect themselves from criticism to stay in power.

[1] https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/lese-majeste-continues-in-tha...
[2] https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/a-victim-of-thailands-lese-ma...
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The EU is working on "digital euro", which is meant to be free of transaction fees. I would rather see a 0.1% transaction fee to cover the costs, but at least it should make micropayments viable.
An interesting playground to understand the scheduler is here https://huggingface.co/spaces/sail/zero-bubble-pipeline-para...
A reminder that the decibel scale isn't linear. Much debate about how to define loudness, but human perception is roughly 10db as twice as loud.

110db is roughly 16x as loud as 70.
> Meanwhile every electron app loads another browser into the memory.

this will become a problem once the systray clock becomes it's own (electron based) app
Here in France, we're legally forbidden from being noisy during Sundays, isn't there something similar to guarantee at least one day of peace?
I've always felt that brake lights should be somehow encoded with the actual rate of deceleration not just the binary on/off of the brake application. It would make it much easier to gauge from a long distance how urgently people ahead of you are braking.
Interesting; I thought the term referred to the fact that electricity is being generated in the process. This appears to be the DOE's definition also. [1] I'd be curious to see how it was used before this, like you say!

1: https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/how-regenerative-brakes-w...
You'd have to deal with the Chagres (assuming the current drought ends) as well.

The original excavation was done mostly dry and massive by any standards: 27kt of dynamite were used.

I'm also not a digger, but 26 meters of dredging over a 13km distance sounds crazy expensive. You would have to also widen the valley to prevent landslides into the canal.
It's usually badly engineered things. However, just because it's badly engineered doesn't mean it's fine for it to break :-P

Things like a super complex n^3 complexity query to find all users who were 3 hops away from a known fraudster, where a 'hop' means 'shared any piece of account data in common'
What a sad story... That said, I absolutely love the expression "sonic assault". I'm adding it to my vocabulary, right next to the uses of "sonic" as a verb and as a noun. ;-)
They should get on it and adopt jmap already.

It’s a good, standard protocol with unreasonably low adoption because of the chicken and egg problem between mail providers and mail applications. If Gmail supported jmap it would encourage implementers everywhere to support it. And jmap supports notifications and all the rest.
HN of course. :)
> Maintaining all that, they're bound to f-up at some point and expose vulnerabilities.

Who maintains the 1600 dependencies of a project? Pretty sure some of those expose vulnerabilities. Not counting those that are downright malware.
> Whatever diagnoses I may or may not have, they are not me – and I don't want my children growing up identifying with their diagnoses either

It's not a matter of identity, but explanatory power. To reiterate, the self-acknowledgement/'diagnosis' as autistic (not ASD) is 'useful from a self-compassion and tolerance standpoint'. So instead of, why do I find X difficult when everyone else finds it easy (or even laughs/condescends/points it out), I can say, I'm autistic, that's not easy for me.

I agree that autism is a fuzzy socially-defined phenomenon. The distinction, once again, is only as valuable as how much it comes into conflict with society. So, by example, if a child is being made fun of for not understanding the tacit social rules of the playground, or a teenager of the art of seduction, or an adult of polite conversation, this self-awareness could be useful as a way of understanding one's own difficulties, and also as a way of surmounting or managing them. It can also be useful for others to be more aware or tolerant. I also agree, it's not on the person themselves, they are not broken in some way.
I tried math academy for this exact purpose, but I had to give up because it didn't let me test out of lessons that I was already good at (Similar to how duolingo would allow you to do). So I ended up wasting a lot of time sitting through all the exercises which I didn't need.
As someone who have implemented both EXR and PNG I can explain!

Alpha can be used in multiple ways, most commonly as a blend:

result = background * (1.0 - alpha) + forground * alpha;

If the alpha and forground is stored in the same image, you can notice that we can pre compute forground * alpha. This is known as pre-multiplication, and is a very common techniqe. An added benefit of this is that we get more dynamic range, and can add to the composit, without removing the background.

This is possible in both PNG and EXR. HOWEVER, if you dont intend to pre-multiply, then the forground is not used if alpha is zero. The people who implemented LibPNG, the most common implementation of PNG, figured that they could make an optimization by throwing away the forground and just store black if alpha is zero. This improves file sizes since run length encoding is used.

This means that while, PNG the format, can store forground data with zero alpha, any application using LibPNG or other implementation with the same optimization may throw away the data. Photohop is a prime example of this. This makes PNG very unreliable when working with alpha.
Reference checking almost always happens after the interviews. So no, the interviewer would not be expected to know this and should make an effort to confirm the person knows what they claim to know.
Does any service use it beside fastmail on a large scale?
>Ello tried for 8+ years but could not manage to do that.

Ditto. Retrospectively it seems a fiasco from the start. I wonder why investors bought it and Talenthouse.

Maybe investors in the first round were hoping to find some suckers in the future and offload the "business" to them.

But what about the final buyers? Didn't they smell anything wrong? You got to ask how did they make the money they lost on Elo / Talenthouse in the first place.
I was at a big conference in Dublin years ago where a Google talking head stated to hundreds of people that "google only hires the most intelligent people" with a grotesquely smug look on her face, instantly turned me off from ever considering applying to work there. Incidentally RMS was also there and screamed from the back "WHICH BSD LICENSE?" when the Google drone said google uses "the bsd license", which I thought was hilarious.
I usually get told not to be the other way around: dehumanising us! We are are essentially an advanced pattern matching system that happens to have developed higher order reasoning, and not as special as many like to credit us with being. Our evolution and programming methods differ from those of these "AI" models of course, but we and those are essentially information processing systems and there may be some similarity (so similar failure modes) in the respective "learn, do, relearn" feedback loops despite the obvious differences.
This is because, states at some size become immoral power machines deeply distrusting one another.
As long as you administer a couple of dozens of devices, you can get by with one of the mobile device management (MDM) provider services on the market. When you cross this threshold, it’s time to think about building your own Android MDM system.
> I got a free Ryobi 18v blower, and it's basically barely strong enough to blow dust off the garage floor.

But is amazing for making a clean burn barrel. one of these can make the barrel red hot - so everything there burns completely.
> They also have an educational system that wastes less talent and have fewer - if any - roadblocks to the will of the party bosses. In a war a dictatorship can move in ways that a democracy is ill equipped to follow simply because there is no dissent. That's why it took half the world to take on three relatively little countries in WWII

That last part is really scary. I wanted to add that their tiktok algorithmically encourages young people to achieve and push themselves where our tiktok algorithmically encourages young people to do stupid or whoreish stuff for likes.
not to dispute the point (i am cherishing tg for their native apps on all plattforms) but not sure about what is getting better
Note that sometimes text is not rendered as 1D monochromatic but with some kind of slight pixel-level chromatic abberation. In this case I'm not sure PNG will do so well
Interesting, I personally use my institutional OneDrive sparingly, but I would love to see my professors and IT staff scramble to switch from 1TB of cloud storage to 20GB. I have always opposed selling everything to MS and nobody has ever cared to offer alternatives (only Moodle and it's badly configured lol)
Also a very good point! We kind of have the same, in the sense that lower income brackets have tend to have a longer commute from the city limits, but in very dense cities like Frankfurt I see no real solution to that. Apart from a few "social housing" offers that need to be built on a quota for a lot of new buildings.

Texas -> Michigan is a very long way. Afaict this trend really got started with covid, where people fled to their home towns, right?

> I'd much rather live in an urban core within walking distance of work
The best. I have 14 minutes by tram from door to door.
About a year ago my wife and I made the joint decision to get her into college for a bachelor's degree in either English or computer science. Here in Finland, university admissions are based around how well you did on various end of school exams, and she fortunately did quite well on all of them a decade ago - except for math. She bombed math due to health and family problems as a teenager decimating her ability to pay sustained focused attention.

Luckily, soon after the decision was made, I finally got my first full time job in Finland. I could easily support the two of us and give her an uninterrupted life to focus on grinding up for the math exam. We took the last ~10 years' worth of math exams online, turned their problems into Anki cards, and set her nose to the grindstone. I had had tremendous success with this in college with abstract algebra and real analysis, so I figured the same methodical approach + a very stable living situation was bound to work for algebra through basic calculus.

Five months later, she retakes the high school exam and gets the highest score possible! Her rapid success at this convinced her to give CS a serious try, and indeed her improved math exam was the differentiator - without it she would not have been accepted to the CS program. She got top marks in her first semester at CS as well, I couldn't be more proud. My wife is truly an incredible person.
not sure why you'd go for the cloud for this, that seems misguided altogether.

To expand on this: A few TB diskspace are dirt cheap.