skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being best customer doesn't always come with proportional perks.

US oil/lng imports from MENA down to ~1/3 of peak. IIRC below PRC current imports which exceed record US highs. Meanwhile US is now net fossil exporter and direct competitor. Same with PRC EV/green exports will be antagonistic to medium/long MENA fossil/lng exporters interests. Being current/historic best customer, how much energy does PRC have to import to get MENA to swap US military bases with PRC ones? And for how long? My guess is too much and for too long. PRC enduring interests in MENA is for energy security anyway, once that's gone, their essential interests will dissapate, much like it has with US trying to move from CENTCOM to Indopac post shale/lng independance.

But realistically, PRC will be dependant on imported fossil for industrial inputs for a while, the important goal is to wean off strategic sectors like transportation 7/14millionbarrels and use domestic oil of 4mb for mainly industry, with 3-4mb gap filled by imports - i.e. energy security/independance goals is changing energy mix to 7mb per day, 4mb domestic, 3-4mb imports vs current 10mb imports out of 14mb consumption. That gap of 4m is still large enough to influence select exporters strategically if targetted instead of current 10m distributed imports. But medium/long term that's a bribe for RU cooperation.

Like if PRC really wanted to gain influence with MENA, they'd start a TW war and escalate to hitting US oil and lng plants and disrupt US exports to put MENA fossil export back on top. Many would also call that suicidal. Long term PRC best to learn from US and avoid MENA drama and sell EVs / electric / renewable infra to rest of world.
If it was just me then yeah.

Thankfully enough people have made it for Fedora to be convinced it's a good idea. Other distros will soon follow (as always) and X11 will wither. Finally.
The reasons they don't pick it is because they are just as illiterate as their microsoft shop counterparts.

I have colleagues who worked in a "macOS + Rider and Linux Hosts" style teams for a long time, and had great experience, but when they talk about this to a wider audience they get a similar treatment to what another commenter described when dealing with an architect from Walmart. People only ever listen to what confirms their beliefs and at best ignore when being exposed to something different, or sometimes react in an outright hostile manner.
Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI secrets
That is a very good question.
I think I read Sam Altman saying "AGI is everything we haven't done yet. Something new that will feel like magic.".
Sadly, I can't find a quote and URL so I can't confirm Sam Altman said it.
But the concept resonated with me.
We have had Google Translate for a decade. It was and is simply a miracle of technology straight out of sci-fi books.
Yet we grew quickly accustomed to it, taking it for granted.
So, it's a bit the same with the concept of AGI.
Now chatGPT 4.0 is the new normal and is taken for granted.
So AGI is essentially anything better than ChatGPT 4.0

Frankly, I don't know if we are close to AGI.
We could be years away or thousands of years away.
I'll mention some past discoveries and how people reacted to put things in perspective.

We went to the moon in 1969. We then dreamed we would be colonizing the galaxy.
Yet space is very big and empty. If Starship lands on Mars 10 years from now, 65 years will have passed between the Moon and Mars landing.
Other solar systems and Earth-like planets are much, much, much further away than Mars.
It's the same in AI. We might just have landed on the moon, and we might have all these dreams about colonizing other planets (creating AGI).
We might be technically very far, far away from it.
We will make steady progress, and we will give names to each step of the process. AGI seems a generic name for the journey.
Chair of the JPEG XL adhoc group of JPEG here.

I wasn't around when the name for this project was chosen (I only got involved after the call for proposals, at which point the codec already had a name even if it didn't exist yet). I haven't been able to track down the actual etymology or rationale for the name, though "Long-term" has been suggested to be the main interpretation.

I think the name was to some extent chosen as a tongue-in-cheek pun because obviously compression is about making large things smaller. The name must have been chosen around the time that there was a lot of activity around JPEG XS. That codec is all about speed and low complexity, which is where the S comes from: it is very fast (so S for speed) and also it has a relatively simple and small implementation (in terms of circuit complexity), since it is designed for hardware.

So in contrast to JPEG XS, JPEG XL is actually "extra large" in the sense that it does have more complexity, more coding tools, more functionality. All those things are of course there with the goal of making smaller files, but the codec itself is "extra large" compared to JPEG since it has all the coding tools of JPEG plus a bunch more. So in that sense, JPEG XS is indeed "extra small" and JPEG XL is "extra large", as a codec, but in terms of the sizes of the compressed images, it's exactly the other way around: JPEG XS will produce larger files (it sacrifices compression for simplicity/speed/latency), JPEG XL will produce smaller files.

I agree that all this is quite confusing. If it helps, you can always just call it by its filename extension / media type instead of its full name: "jxl".
Well, there are things that cannot be bozt-sided:

Everything that violates human right for example. Or direct threats to democracy.
Every time this gets posted to HN, the comments go straight for "DRM bad!", when the Bob dishwasher does NOT in fact require you to use the proprietary cassettes.
I might be talking past you here, but: The idea that mathematics is entirely mental is a contentious statement and not one a lot of mathematicians would necessarily agree with.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/

I think your intuition is right but I think it’s more because of the embodiment of humans in the world. The machine wouldn’t invent calculus because it wouldn’t be in a physical world that needed to.
Huh. I was thinking about this in much lower level terms, it seems weird to me to define these structures recursively when how they're actually stored is thus omitted yet that's actually crucial, but I guess if you work in a sufficiently high level system you don't care about the implementation details.
Red cameras are overhyped, but picture quality is not the issue. It is very likely that what you describe is more due stylistic differences in lighting, color grading and editing than due to the camera itself — coming from someone who professionally had to match colors on films shot on multiple different cameras on more than one occasion.

Reliability is the main reason why Red cameras are overhyped, but you get good pictures and specs for the price, just like with black magic cameras but a notch higher. Most DOPs I know would go fo ARRI if given free choice.
Interesting! Can you point me to some further reading or resources on these different paradigms?
My house is largely matriarchal and I’d be surprised if it scores better on your suck scale.
Proof forbthe claim about the US bombing the Netherlands please.
By reading the comments on this post I have learned about non-central hypergeometric distributions - which I didn't know about (and turn out to be relevant to a bunch of problems I am thinking about for my job).

HN readers and contributors at least try to think of themselves as the grown-ups in the room. So, by having conversations about contentious topics in a civilized and respectful way, we learn things.
The Linear Look
> Patriarchy is dominant culture in most parts of the world, and it utterly sucks, period.

might be a worthwhile to look at the places were it isn't and compare the suckiness. thou correlation does not imply causality...

"men pretend to hate each other and women pretend to like each other."
> I think Egypt has room to take in Palestinian refugees. They simply refuse to do it. I have not gotten any good reason why they hate them. I guess the Lebanese hate their Palestinian enclave. It is clear the Arab world doesn't care about the Palestinians, and a common brotherhood of Islam doesn't carry weight.

This is a bad take. Egypt, and others, refuse to take "Palestinian refugees" because doing so would make them complicit in Israel's ethic cleansing. Why should Palestinians be forced off their own land?
'Rust' Armorer Convicted of Manslaughter in Alec Baldwin Shooting
I think there is a subtle difference here in that the X server was a target that things were built on top of. Wayland is one component of a larger ecosystem has the same goals as X.

It is feasible to just run X and have a passable desktop experience. I don't think it is feasible just running a vanilla Wayland compositor, it needs to support a bunch of non-Wayland technologies and extensions to be useful. I'll point at Pipewire as the major example. And the kernel plays a more active role than X11 was designed to handle.

So it is similar to Python 2->3, but if major parts of the standard library were being shed. Given the screenshot situation, I'd say it was a Python 2->3 except the core team insisted that printf among other things be implemented outside the language core. Wayland explicitly doesn't cover the same design space as X11 and in most cases that is intentional and an improvement.
The mechanism we have for this is supposed to be competition. If one company is screwing you over, you patronize a different one.

This, of course, doesn't work in consolidated markets, and so what is necessary is for consolidated markets to be deconsolidated.
India plans to spend $3B on space. Can it catch up to China?
most husbands will emphatically agree. i wonder if we're representative thou
There's a race for corporations to own identity management. If the government has to ask a private entity to confirm who people are, we will be effectively living in under that private entity's discretion.

Offended the wrong person? Stood in the way of their plans? Black box back room deals get you a criminal record with arrest warrant. It doesn't even matter then if they are tied to your real identity. The government asks the private identity provider who you are at say an airport border control and private entity says: oh they're this fugitive, arrest on sight. Then what?
Visual Studio C++ programmer here. My Visual Studio crashes depends a lot on the last update. Some updates work correctly, another ones have a lot of crashes. Now I have like three or four crashes per day with the last one (no problem with the previous one).
It's likely he would not be allowed to leave by internal forces. Obviously he could try to sneak away but that's what the Russia aligned guy did back in 2014...
JPEG XL is a royalty-free codec and "generating revenue streams" was never a goal for the project. You can see this already in the very first draft call for proposals from 2017: https://jpeg.org/downloads/jpegxl/jpegxl-draft_cfp.pdf
(see section 5 on page 7)
Python has no concept of an “entry point”. You just run the program from start to end. What’s hard to understand about that?
There is no proof that ever happened... And even if, no, you do not bomb hospitals if you do not want to be the baddy.
This post resonates a lot with me, but being a good "code writer" is just a small part of being a programmer. I couldn't (and still can't) recall the simplest algorithms without opening a book, but that wouldn't stop me from solving problems because that is the real gist: identifying a problem and the right path to the information you need to solve it. Also being a sort of jack of all trades helps a lot more than excelling in just one task, or at least it worked a lot with me. I was probably a sub par mere "code writer", but I knew how to read a data sheet and use a solder iron, I had basic networking knowledge and a history of writing database software, although not SQL, and knew how to talk with people. I was average at best at any of those skills, but having many of them helped me to become a valuable asset in every company I worked at, because I knew how things were progressing in various groups so that colleagues with a technical problem could ask me who or where to head to find information, help, solutions etc. In the end I had many pay raises, but never left the technical side to become a PM or get a different job because I always wanted to remain a tech guy. So, the author is definitely not stupid; he probably has some other skills he didn't identify yet.
Trump and MAGA Republicans are eating their own voters That could spell disaster
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I get where you are coming from with the bleeding edge comment, but Arch is not really experimental levels of cutting edge, they just try to follow upstream as close as possible. Fedora OTOH is happy to do these kinda non-upstream stuff to actually bring stuff forward.
"Never let a good crisis go to waste" is commonplace knowledge.
In your leadership team's defense, they are all probably on blow.
That's a conservative estimation of the lifespan (how hard you can hit it while maintaining a very low probability of SSD failure). The more interesting question is "How likely after n years is the SSD to be the first non-replaceable component to fail on this laptop?" I don't know the answer to that question, but I'm guessing it's a good long while before the answer to it goes above 0.5.

Apple have been shipping laptops with non-replaceable SSDs since around 2017. Anecdotally, we hear so much worrying about potential future SSD failure, and yet so few people saying things like "I bought an M1 Air two years ago and now the SSD has died".
Funny thing is, since this all kicked off I've seen several photos and videos clearly showing Israeli soldiers using civilians, including children, as human shields. I haven't seen any evidence of Hamas doing anything like this; it seems Hamas are mostly accused of this by Israel, simply because Hamas exists in a dense, urban environment.
And yet. Why invent new scummy ways of making money if the old ones still work?
I agree with you. From my Southern European perspective, I don't find this site particularly "progressive" at all. I would describe most of the comments as liberal or centre-right.

And indeed, there is no solution here other than to be tolerant of other opinions, which may come from very different contexts than your own.

american foreign policy often becomes european union migration policy. just remember that, for example, when discussing international affairs.

Having said that, I have to say that HN is one of the communities that is better at dealing with different opinions, from different places. It's much harder on Reddit. On Metafilter, it is absolutely impossible: anything far from mainstream American liberalism is considered taboo.
I'm member of other communities and at least one person is talking about something not working on Wayland, but working on X11, so we still have ~2-3 (up to 5) years.

X11 will not wither overnight. There are still things which are very dependent on X11. Remote connections comes to my mind, for example.

Lastly, not all distributions are followers. Debian (testing at least), installs Wayland by default, but not enables it. It's installed on my system for a couple of years now.
Engineer Warns FTC About Microsoft's AI Image Generator
For many app-entrepreneurs, app website has become embodiment of American Psycho business card, rich and expressive nonetheless how shallow app-product or app-idea actually is.
Spain does it, Portugal does it. Sweden does it.
Minimal as in the amount a person needs to learn the language or minimal as in tiny if compared to English in common crawl but still orders of magnitude more than a person goes through for infancy language acquisition?

I think you know the difference.
canada still mostly pays higher than eu
makes one wonder if having an affair/fwb is the common and cold reality behind the curtain of the monogamous relationships.
If anyone at Lenovo reads this thread, test and fix your EC firmware---both earlier and to a higher standard.

The support forums constantly reveal EC-realm issues: suspend broken, lid switch screwy behavior, odd interrupts causing battery drain, holding power 10 seconds does not work during some hangs, keyboard stops working (even in the BIOS tests in some cases), long startup, keyboard beep setting is ignored, changing settings via /proc/whatever does not always persist, and the list goes on.

Every BIOS update has half a dozen EC-related "fixes", so it's clear that problem discovery and reporting is left to the customer. So many Linux desktops run 6.6, 6.7, 6.8 totally fine, which to me suggests a problem involving addition of a battery, low-power states, and the controller tying all that together.

I will never buy another modern ThinkPad. It has cost too much of my productivity figuring out problems that should crop up in internal testing and never, ever reach the customer. I was able to find (and document) ten showstopper bugs in the first week of owning the damn thing!
Well in this case, Doctorow is one of the drafters of the CC license, so he's effectively criticizing what he sees as an abuse of his own creation here.

Which he is rightfully doing - CC4.0 adds the "forced grace period" you find in a lot of other licenses, where there's basically a period of time between being in breach of the license and when the license gets revoked. Usually the way thats defined is that you have something like 30 days to "cure" the mistake once you're notified. Only after those 30 days do you lose the rights granted by the license itself.

It specifically exists to avoid this kind of copyright trolling, where a lawyer uses the complicated demands in the text of the license to make a mess of the intent behind it. The actual viability of that type of trolling is questionable (German courts threw it out for example), but the threat of legal fees can be too costly for most so it works as an extortion mechanism.

(The main notable variant of this is in pre-3.0 versions of the GPL, where the 30 days would start the moment you breached the license rather than being notified. 3.0 fixed that and I've seen people who prefer GPL2.0 often modify this term in specific to be more like GPL3.0 so they can avoid the headache.)
Might I suggest the plugin uBlacklist. I use it to block a whole bunch of domains from google search that I don't want to see anymore.
Genghis Khan is estimated to have had over a thousand children, it is an extreme example but it certainly is possible. About 8% of men in previously Mongol areas carry his Y chromosome.

> Or repsecting the womens voice in that?

Believe it or not, but some women actually wants to have babies with men even if they wont get a relationship from it. Why do you believe women can only want a monogamous close relationship? I know of a happy woman who had 2 kids with a guy she never had a relationship with, the kids are happy etc.
Wow clutching hard at straws to justify hamas and deny their usage of hospitals as military bases.
Anyone acting surprised should read about what Fedora is. They were always an bleeding edge distro and are often the first major distro to adopt something that later becomes widely used if not a de facto standard.

Just a few examples:

- Fedora 8 changed to Pulseaudio by default [0]

- Fedora 15 adopted systemd [1]

- Fedora 34 default PipeWire [2]

Sometimes these things don't work out like the attempted switch to Wayland for Fedora 25.[3]
This attempt now is really nothing out of the ordinary for Fedora and with the current state of Wayland I am in no doubt that this time they will stick with Wayland.

[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePulseaudio

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/systemd

[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultPipeWire

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-25-Wayland-Default
aren't salaries in all these higher on avg for tech workers compared to NL/EU in general? Imo in this case more likely Spain which is much friendlier with immigrant visas now
Fuck that. Pardon my language but that's a falsehood I am so sick of hearing repeated, and the only reason anyone believes it's an inevitable tradeoff is that this belief has been imposed on us by proprietary software ecosystems that have obtained the monopoly status needed to unilaterally reject competing models

The price for convenience and security being compatible is for these extensions to be auditable and for updates to be opt-in. Sure, someone could still install malicious updates under this model, but the value proposition of doing so scales with the number of people who care about the thing, and auditability allows experts who care about the thing to warn people if it does something suspicious, which also scales with the number of people who care about the thing
According to some estimations China spends about $12B annually on space programs. Almost on par with that of NASA. [1]

$3B is a good start, and I believe India will eventually catch up, but probably not very soon.

[1]: https://payloadspace.com/china-to-invest-heavily-in-its-race...
Haiku OS in my opinion solves this better by basing everything on default font size (in pixels). Eg it defaults to 12px, I used 20px for a 3840x2160 monitor. Some GUI widgets scale based on this. All text (when using be_default_font) scale based on this. Spacing / layout depends on this. The key difference (compared to a global x1.5 scaling factor) is that developers of each app decide how to use this information, so different parts of the GUI are scaled disproportionatily. Sloppy apps ignore this, but the devs are quickly notified. So you end up with text larger but GUI widgets can grow dis-proportionatily, so you can fine tune what is 125%, 150%, etc. Eg. ScrollBar can be 125%, toolbar 150%, text 233%. Haiku has had this since the beginning (even BeOS in the 90’s had this). By 2024, almost all non compliant apps have been fixed and support this.

What Haiku needs is font setting per screen/resolution for multimonitor support. This way you can support mismatched monitors with different factors.
> Destroying Hamas is a pipe dream - the famine, death, and destruction they are pereptrating in Gaza today will, inevitably, create a new wave of terrorism, whether it's called "Hamas" or something else, as it always has throughout all of history.

I've seen it argued that is exactly what Israel want - to whip up a new frenzy of Islamophobia, both encouraging immigration to Israel and also making it easier to attack their neighbours and advance their plan for "Greater Israel".

I thought it sounded unlikely at first, but with everything going on in the UK right now... I'm inclined to believe it.
why would a liquidation preference not have an expiration date? it's wild to me that a VC can ask for this with unbounded time, that goes far beyond protecting from the #1 outcome described above.
Your experiences being positive while mine not so much automatically invalidates mine and makes your more valid? I believe not. I am happy that you have more positive experiences then mine, no worries. However, it is in the human nature that we can only extrapolate from personal experiences. You can believe in things which havent beeen confirmed by your experience, but that is mostly wishful thinking.