skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t want to “but, actually” this, but actually…

Gnome does what it does because Gnome is not intended to be the final form of a DE that the user uses. Gnome is intended to be a DE that distros can make their own by adding their own opinionated choices, extensions and modifications on top.

So while you complain about the lack of a vertical taskbar, in actual practice, outside of maybe Fedora users (which is essentially a distro largely designed to be used as a test bed), nearly every other Gnome user does have some form of taskbar because their distro included it, or they did a 1-click install from the Extensions app.
Spotify claims it pays out 70% of its revenue to record labels.

Fixed.
There’s plenty of examples of successful open standards out there. The real issue is that, when it comes to video, there’s a lot of money in closed solutions because of “piracy”.

The moment you want to control what people watch and how they watch it, you lose any hope of having an open standard.
Our devops/prod team is constantly migrating, upgrading and changing stuff.

At this point I am convinced devops is a job security scam, all the way up to the director in charge, with many of the engineers in between actually believing they are doing something useful and happy to be learning $in_demand_skill.

Just like "cloud" and "cloud native" altogether. Costs more, requires more engineers to be kept running and is just as incomprehensible, customized and brittle as good old sh scripts on bare metal.
In the purest of the pure internet, sure (depending on what level of the stack you look at). There you of course have other problems(?) like the fact that most browser-related standards are essentially steered by Google (via its dominance in browser market share). From the parts of the W3C that I've observed, I'd also not characterize them as a functioning standards body (I'm not sure they've published anything meaningful in the last decade).

But in many spaces where you interact with the "real world" you very quickly make contact with proprietary ISO standards (e.g. CAD, architecture). I'd argue that this is one of the big contributing factors to why there isn't more open source penetration in CAD, as central standards like STEP[2] would require contributors to purchase a number of ISO standards.

There are also some spaces where proprietary standards exist (usually when open implementations precede the standardized ones) like SQL[0], but the proprietary nature is ignored, as most people don't need their SQL implementations certified. AMD can't do that as they need to keep a friendly relation with the HDMI Forum for official certification.

There are also some ISO standards (associated with JTC1) that are open access[1], which seems like a decent model. I'm not sure who usually foots the bill for the whole standardization process here though.

[0]: https://www.iso.org/standard/76583.html

[1]: https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/in...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_10303
Yeah: isn't this in some sense great? If you search for someone and add "naked photo" to the end and literally everyone has an infinite amount of fake porn of them, unless the people in these threads about AI generated non-porn images who think they are "helping" by suggesting crazy DRM-ridden techniques like cryptographically signed cameras, revenge porn, leaks, extortion... these are all dead as your "real" images might just as well be fake.
I used to work in a senior position as a programmer making quite a lot, and of course, everyone around me including friends and family considered my successful.

But, a few years into that job, I considered it to be the most unhappy time of my life. I quit and became independent. I started building a series of passive income streams. I'm not really working very hard at it, and I certainly make hardly any money compared to before. But I'm a lot happier.

Now I "work" maybe 10 hours a week, and I spend the rest of my time chillin', working on projects that migth be profitable or might not be, reading, writing about whatever I want, etc. But I've got enough and it's the best time of my life.

Yes, I don't have kids and that's partly what enables my alternative lifestyle. But it just goes to show that private land ownership coupled with the family lifestyle necessarily leads to increasing wage-slavery, especially once areas become saturated and land becomes scarce.

What we need to do is move towards a system where private land ownership on a mass scale (not talking about your house) goes away and owning land for yourself to live and eat on is no longer an investment strategy but a way to establish a relationship with the biosphere. The current system is broken....
More like you're arguing that there is no baby in the bath you want to throw out.

Coming back to your previous comment:

> This (i.e. proving a variable is never used) is impossible in general since it is equivalent to the halting problem.

Many useful provers/programs don't suffer from the halting problem. Just because you're given a turing machine doesn't mean you can't use a subset of it with different properties.
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EU introduces digital passports for products' composition and production history
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Contract law has weird consequences in different places.

Indeed, if the legal encumbrance is not legal, than its often unenforceable.

Talking with your own lawyers before doing something silly is a good habit. ;-)
It would change if more people would realize employers can be sued, and not via any union, but directly.
You gotta read that out loud to yourself a couple of times.

Just affording a safer car, or not having health hazards in your house or workplace, buys you "seconds of life" on average.
People are never rewarded for keeping things running. They are rewarded for change, as long as they can at least pretend it is (or will be) paying off.
In countries with proper social safety nets, health care, pensions, paid vacations, parental leaves, &c. this isn't felt the same way.

Many countries with strong family values have none of this bullshit mentality either, it's perfectly possible to have a family and look after generations and have an healthy relationship with work and money.

If anything money tear families apart more easily than they get them together
FWIW, I tried to find an altitude-velocity diagram of a typical rocket launch without luck. Lots of diagrams, none with specific altitude & velocity components.

61 km altitude is FL200, a/k/a 200,000 feet altitude. That's above the operating altitude of any air-breathing so far as I'm aware.

As I'd noted earlier, the SR-71 (in regular operation) was limited to FL85, and the all-time altitude record was FL123, still 77,000 feet below your SpaceX Falcon pitch-over. The SR-71 saw significant thermal heating given its speed. The only aircraft that have gone higher are the rocket-powered X-15, with an all-time record of 347,400 ft (105,900m) in 1963, and Spaceship One, at 367,490 ft. (112,010 m), in 2004. Both the latter were themselves air-launched, though largely to gain initial altitude given the power and speed achieved under rocket power.

I'm unable to read the Twitter thread itself, so if there's any specific technical capability mentioned, I'm missing it. I'd be very surprised if the designs would exceed FL100, let alone FL200.
1.58-bit LLMs: thousands of tokens/sec, reduced computing footprint
Thanks, it took me sometime to get that it is a parody/joke :D

I liked this one -
Dev realizes he is still in the interview stage after 2 years of work [https://www.theolognion.com/p/dev-realizes-he-is-still-in-th...]

Especially the conclusion:

> Pawri's hope is that the offer will come before his retirement date.
Mistral AI wants us to talk to the cat
You can sometimes free up time by spending money. You don't need billions. At the same time, it's hard to pay someone to do work for you if you're barely scraping by.
This reminds me of real job post, I saw once for a Startup. No details on the actual product or company purpose. They were looking for a Kubernetes administrator. The main requirement, besides experience with Linux, was to write a long technical report on why Kubernetes was the right solution.
probably teams had one, today it was showing me all meetings from yesterday
All the G4 PowerBooks I remember used mini-DVI?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-DVI

Which is cool, but not quite as cool as micro-DVI, which they used for exactly one MacBook Air generation before mini-DisplayPort arrived on the scene

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-DVI

Edit: you are right though. I just pulled up pictures on early G4 variants, and there is indeed full-size DVI. I completely forgot that.
> The only problem is that the devil is in the details. Always. The only way you can make a good decision at the top of the tree, is by being an incredibly seasoned expert that has a strong intuition about how the details are going to play out on the leaf nodes.

You got that right. Being developing over a decade for different kind of companies. "the devil is always in the details"

However it is below that gets in the way:

> is incredibly dangerous. Engineers love to think about abstractions, and leaders managing a lot of people are all too eager to buy into the promise of magic abstractions that align everyone and produce optimal results with the army of worker bees figuring out all the details of the perfect vision created by the god-like leaders.
I was an early adopter and I still am.

I came to Firefox because it was extensible and customizable and it was a community project I could like.

I am leaving it because the only time Mozilla now think of us as a communicaty is when they have fundraisers.

I came to Ubuntu because it was stable, smart and good looking. Innovative while being usable.

I left because they copied a desktop paradigm I didn't like, breaking everything in the process.

I came to Google because they were nice and had the best search results.

I left because I feel they are somewhere between hilarious and criminal and their search results had been tragically bad for a decade already when I finally found a better option.
No offence but that's kind of survivorship bias from your wealthy developed Nordic bubble working in top partially state owned company.

Most people in the world, even in the west, don't have such fortunes of making good money while coasting.
THIS IS SO GREAT

There are many seminal papers in the older issues, and it's only right that they finally, again, be accessible for everyone!!!

As an aside, I encourage everyone learning or at least struggling with a new subject to check its first papers, they often clarify it better than anything else (and are usually less complex than you'd expect)
Cool thing!

But: The demo is not usable for me on my mobile device, the keyboard is missing a tab key.
That works somewhat well for 1080p but all adapters I have seen max out at 30fps for 4K video. Might be ok for movies but gamers might not like it.

55" monitors with DisplayPort do exist but they are only a selected few and seem to cost 4 times the price of a 4K TV.

So 4K is still pretty much a luxury that I will just ignore for now.
I love the idea, I usually used cryptopanic, but they had become quite confusing. The simplicity of reddit is gold.
> proprietary formats and specifications such as ... DisplayPort

DisplayPort is not proprietary; it is a VESA standard.

> Lightning

If you owned any iPhone between 2012 and the present, you had to use Lightning, without choice. And for some inexplicable reason, Americans love iPhones.
Difficult to know without reproduction steps from the article, but I would think it behaves better than libaom for the same quality setting.

Edit: found https://github.com/xiph/rav1e/issues/2759
>"But the plans were on display…”

> “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

> “That’s the display department.”

> “With a flashlight.”

> “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

> “So had the stairs.”

> “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

> “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.’”
> In practice you'll have to construct a financially sustainable
organization

Here's a list of just the best known ones [0]. There are literally
hundreds of thousands of open standards for everything from
communications to mechanical engineering, to packaging to chemical
formulas....

They make the world go round.

No piece of technology you use today, especially the Internet would
function without open standards and standards bodies.

For some reason bits of the digital tech industry, in particular media
and entertainments, have a parochial disconnection with the rest of
reality and forget that they stand on the shoulders of giants and
operate with the assent of everyone else in the world giving them the
standards space within which to work.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technical_standard_org...
Masters of the air is Amazing! The costumes alone are amazing. Restored leather bomber jackets, period accurate women's clothing, they even got the medals on their jackets right and you can see them changing the episodes. Colleen Atwood did an amazing job.
Many years ago I visited Laos. We crossed the border at a rather remote and little-used border crossing.

Laos issues 30-day tourist visas on arrival. We arrived on February first and I have a Laotian visa valid until February 30th, 2011.

Not a leap year bug but a February bug. Ended up being inconsequential, but still makes for a fun story.
Post cold war, the US have been very interested in having friendly governments in the previous eastern bloc nations. This hasn't been evident in actual coups, it's evident when you follow so called soft politics. Look at trade agreements, vocal support, NATO status etc for clues here.

The US knows how to manipulate with both the carrot and the stick.
> IMO, small LLMs are not good enough yet

Sure, but the only way they're going to get there is by people iterating on them while they're still crap
Another Matei Paper :)
An open standard is pretty useless without hardware that uses it. The makers of proprietary formats know how to prevent that.
At first I thought the trend hilarious too, however it is often accompanied with insults and harassment, which I don't consider funny.

Makes it hard to appreciate any other aspect of it, when the ideology behind it is to degrade other people, unfortunately.
The entite library?

This is amazing, I hadn't been following recently!!!
Raffaele Minichiello volunteered at 17.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaele_Minichiello
I suppose I'll trust the reality of what actual users are expressly asking for vs. your imagination that something different is implied
Computer money is easy money, not grief.
Look to Mozilla and Ubuntu to see and organization and a company that "bet the farm" on new users by systematically breaking everything we loved them for.

The problem with these (and many other UX initiatives) is there isn't a fallback for us who used them from the start.

If there was it wouldn't have been a problem.
You won't find many people on HN that care about Karma, it's not that kind of site. However, you'll find that many people here don't care for trite comments that add nothing to the discussion.
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.3 dev 4
>> purpose of certain parts of public services is to give people employment

That does not sound right. This could be partially true in old days (here in Poland during communists rule) but nowadays all public service has stated purpose that has nothing to do with employment.
The purpose can be total b*s of course but almost always has nothing to do with just providing jobs.
> And it seems perpetually ahead of HDMI in terms of features and Bandwidth.

Not for the past few years. Although DP 2.0 has been 'released', there are no products actually shipping with it, and in practice DP 1.4 is the latest standard. DP 1.4 can't transmit 3840×2160 at 4:4:4 144 Hz without Display Stream Compression (DSC). HDMI 2.0 can.
Reminds me of

>Video Out port: DVI-D signal in 640х480 px, 60 Hz. The port supports a well-known video standard that we can't name due to copyright limitations The first letter is H, and the last one is I.

https://blog.flipper.net/introducing-video-game-module-power...
No one installs Gnome on their computers.

You install a distro that includes Gnome. Did your distro choose not to package a taskbar extension? That’s a good hint your distro is not intended to be an end user distro.

99% of Gnome users have a taskbar.
We had a bug on the 1st of this month. Some billing code liked to invoice on the last day of the month and failed to account for this month having an extra day. Interesting it happened as soon as the "leap month" started. Easily fixed though.
One of the more unseen side-effects of this particular bug back in 2012 was datacenter internal temperatures spiking by ~5℃ due to the increased CPU usage iirc.
I'm not sure that's reasonable - The effort parameters are integers between 1 and 10, with behavior described here: https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl/blob/main/doc/encode_effort..., the intermediate options don't exist as implemented programs. This is a comparison of concrete programs, not an attempt to analyze the best theoretically achievable.

Also, the frontier isn't convex, so it's unlikely that if intermediate options could be added then they would all be at least as good as the lines shown; and the use of log(speed) for the y-axis affects what a straight line on the graph means. It's fine for giving a good view of the dataset, but if you're going to make a guess about intermediate possibilities, 'speed' or 'time' should also be considered.
> Aren't we able to create and use open standards?

You can, but you need monitor/graphics chip companies to use it. These are mostly the members/creators of the HDMI standard, they are also probably the best able to create a standard that others will use:

https://hdmiforum.org/members/
ChatGPT got 996 as the work schedule instead of the car

https://chat.openai.com/share/2778df30-19c5-4cf6-8f0b-07c30a...
I am unsure what the "correct" number is but do you believe it to be "0"? The way you get to 0 is by systematically removing everyone's autonomy "for their own good" :/. Like, are you upset about the 11 daily drownings enough to outlaw swimming pools?
If you want a simple conspiracy theory, how about this:

The person responsible for AVIF works on Chrome, and is responsible for choosing which codecs Chrome ships with. He obviously prefers his AVIF to a different team's JPEG-XL.

It's a case of simple selfish bias.
I imagine that if you have to work more than a sustainable pace to achieve a role, that it can be difficult to return to a sustainable pace and feel that you are "giving" the same. So, there is this self-imposed pressure to continue your behavior.

Even if the entire time one convinced themselves that the plan was to "get to the top and give 90%", it's probably hard to suddenly change. At least, this is my experience as a 35 year old who worked a lot, telling myself that the delayed pleasure was the right thing. Now, (sometimes) I genuinely do not enjoy "fun" things as much because I have conditioned myself to not enjoy it.

Suppose then, in that whole "life has many buckets" idea, you have some control over bucket size. Perhaps it is learned and intentional.
Less than the equivalent proof of US equipment having similar back doors.

Have we learnt nothing from the snowden leaks? Are we now living in innocent rainbow land?
I can't tell how much of this is sarcasm. Turning what started out as a problem of "How do you load arbitrary remote TROFF sources into man" into "throw docker at it" because someone suggested an intermediate solution of "apt" which introduces security issues and no one posed that there might be an alternative that obviates any need for containerization. I mean these two things could be further from each other on the scale of incredibly lightweight to massively heavyweight.

Or maybe this is a microcosm of why docker and kuberwhatever happens so much.
I have decided not to have kids (for clear cut personal reasons) and I find myself bouncing back and forth between wanting to amass some nest egg and just spending it all on life enjoyment. I also bounce back and forth between full time work and part time for the same reasons.

I am always much happier and healthier during part time work, but it isn't quite enough money to fully participate in the society I live in.
This is amazing!

Here in Germany, the only additional breakdown is that "glass" is separated into brown glass, green glass, and white (or clear) glass. Usually thought as beer / wine / other.
Only fools jump into using cloud providers without proper cost estimation.

EC2 instance prices are nothing compared to the many hidden costs e.g. ingress, VPC, NAT.
Brave browser launches privacy-focused AI assistant on Android
both - staircase style.
We do not have infinite resources?

You want to splurge tax payer money on a dead-end technology when the alternative delivers today.
I followed LFS and BLFS instructions verbatim when I was a kid with so much time on my hands.
Enormously informative and also empowering to get from source code to a complex usable system and to be aware of every package.

Even just skimming the passages about security and other bits now, this is still an epic resource to get real grounded knowledge about pieces of the complex systems I can merely use nowadays.
I think it's unlikely to be a patent issue. More likely a contractual one. If you sign up to the HDMI Forum to get access to the spec, you will have to sign away certain rights. Those contract terms will have been put in place by the same people who think HDCP is a good idea.

If that's the case, someone needs to either leak the spec or reverse engineer the driver. One or the other will happen eventually.
It's never been easier or cheaper to run systems.

And yet, engineers would rather deliver a pizza by organizing an expedition team, climbing Mount Everest, taking a picture of the pizza at the summit, then fly the pizza back home, rent a Lamborghini and drive the Mongolian rally race, then 18 months later deliver said pizza.

While they do that, just get on a cheap scooter and drive it down the street. Win.
There are no royalties to be paid on JPEG XL. Nobody but Cloudinary and Google is claiming to hold relevant patents, and Cloudinary and Google have provided a royalty free license. Of course the way the patent system works, anything less than 20 years old is theoretically risky. But so far, there is nobody claiming royalties need to be paid on JPEG XL, so it is similar to WebP in that regard.
No matter which way you slice it, 100 years of peace in Europe is an absurd claim.
Was there a warning for implicit function declaration and implicit variable type for each variable and call that used those? Or how could there be that many warnings.
Working 70 hours a week is a health hazard in itself.
Pretty brave of them to do this in a time where everyone is instead trying to sell their silos to AI companies.
The Power of Regret
Maybe you were thinking of Softporn Adventure from 1981. It's a text adventure game by Sierra (at the time they were called On-Line Systems), and Leisure Suit Larry 1 is a graphical adaption of it. Source Wikipedia.
No, but thank you for asking
Chocolate and the Hawaiian Dream Comes True
So was Hari's exile to Terminus, which IIRC wasn't mentioned in the original stories that later formed the 1950's trilogy. That first part of the first book was written a few years after the original 8 shorts and IIRC contained things not at all alluded to in those shorts.