skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not moving anywhere. I'm just an observer and that is simply what I have observed and experienced in my lifetime. Some women have told me they prefer to be a housewife, but modern society looks down on that. Nothing that I can or will do about that.

Natural selection will sort it out. No reproduction leads to extinction.

The strongest societies and cultures will survive. We'll see how it plays out over the next few generations.

I'm not moving to India, China, or Arabia, but they are certainly moving here. My city of ~2M people is now 50% foreign born and mass immigration is still at an all time high. The native populations here are reproducing at below replacement level. I have observed extreme demographic changes happening in real-time within a generation.

It is incredible to experience and none of us voted for it. There was no referendum. Nothing. Apparently this was UN policy and we had no choice.
I’m sure the Chinese can execute better than the Israelis. A decade ago the tech was simply not there, regardless of how much state funding they got.
If people whose houses were taken were given an amount of money that allowed them to maintain their standard of living somewhere else, I'd have no issue with increased use of eminent domain. Too often we do see it used in the poorest neighborhoods where people are given some kind of "market price" for their home which isn't enough to buy any other home nearby.

But even without this, the cost to build public transportation in the USA is absolutely insane. The latest figures for light rail in Houston indicate it costs $126 million per mile to build. Houston's "inner loop" (most of the densest housing, central Houston area) is 9 miles by 11 miles, and accounts for just 15% of the city of Houston's land area, or <1% of Houston metro land area. In order to get a "light rail" (above-ground subway) within 0.5 miles of everyone in the just the inner loop, you'd need to build 400 miles of light rail: 18 lines going east-west, each 11 miles long, and 22 lines going north-south, each 9 miles long.

So at $150M per mile it would cost $50 billion to build this just for the inner loop, or $330 billion for the entire city of Houston, or $5 trillion for the Houston metropolitan area. Houston's budget last year was $6 billion, and the GDP of Houston metropolitan area is $513 billion/year.

Inner loop: 96 mi^2, 450,000 people

Houston city: 665 mi^2, 2.3M people

Houston metro: 10,062 mi^2, 7.2M people

Granted, if this was built for the inner loop of Houston, the density of both residential and office space would shoot up immensely. People would love to be able to genuinely get around without a car, and right now vehicle congestion is the #1 thing limiting most inner-loop neighborhoods from expanding any more.
Because your competitors will grow to create economies of scale and vertically integrate, eventually killing your current business model since you won't be able to compete unless you're a boutiqueor some other niche. This is especially important if group think is a big part of your success (iPhones as a status symbol, always needing the latest one, iPods before that).
We grow saffron here in N Texas and have for about 3 years now. Last year was our best year for production but that is only because we expanded the number of bulbs that we have planted so our saffron harvest grew in line with that. The first year we ended up with less than a dozen threads total.

It is easy to grow. Just stick the bulb about 1" to 1.5" (25 mm - 40 mm) below the surface and water it in. Keep it moist but not wet so the bulbs don't rot. It will sprout and then produce a nice flower which will have the red stigma or styles that you seek. Each flower will have 3 of them. They pluck easily and take about a day to dry naturally.

Insects will visit the flowers like any other flowers. You have a time-limited window in which to pick them before the flower dries out and it becomes more difficult to separate them from the petals by hand.

The part of saffron growing that makes it expensive is the labor involved in harvesting the red bits which give the distinctive flavor. All of this is done by hand and if you have lots of crocuses to harvest from then you will spend a lot of time gathering them.

We have a couple of 2' x 4' (0.6 X 1.2 m) galvanized steel oval raised garden beds where we grow ours. They are filled with high quality raised bed soil and we do not fertilize our garden except with mulches and compost.

We had a great showing during the hottest part of the summer last year. In total we were able get several grams of saffron from our two raised beds which have between 75 and 200 plants growing in them. I don't really have an accurate count of the number of bulbs we have.

EDIT: This photo shows the saffron beds in our garden. [0] We are still in the process of clearing things this spring. Inside the rings you can see our bulbs, truly a tiny fraction of a metric fuck-tons worth but they have so far yielded several meals worth of flavor. We use about a dozen threads per meal which means that 4 blooms will give you enough for a single meal.

[0] https://postimg.cc/pmJbhZVk

EDIT2: I may have implied that a small operation like ours still takes a lot of time to harvest. That is not accurate at all. Since ours are confined to those two beds and considering that they don't all bloom at once it is a simple process to collect the saffron once the bloom period begins. It takes us a few minutes a day and we spend that time out in the garden anyway managing our other things so it really requires no extra effort to grow and enjoy this spice.
Yes: They are software running on hardware, after all.
What is the steelman you envision?
Not to be combative with the response here, but the density of destruction in Gaza is on par with the likes of Dresden. It's not really exaggeration to say that Gaza is one of the most bombed places since Vietnam, and you don't have to take anyone's word for it. You can go to companies like Maxor and purchase satellite images on the open market and see for yourself.
I thought sibo was fairly treatable with antibiotics?
Or is it a recurring thing that just won't go away?
On the plus side, Synology IS Linux and you can shell in and see some of what's going on and install your own things. It's been super solid and a drive failure just remirrored and done.

On the down side,

1. They are pushing cloud connectivity and telemetry very hard. Not sure if you can opt out any more?

2. The local control panel tries to be everything to everyone and as a result sometimes doesn't surface features you want from the underlying programs. They package a TON of things and don't really have time to surface all the config. I'd rather they package just NAS things well and leave the rest alone.

3. Their packaging is largely opaque, compiled code instead of linux standards, possibly for obfuscation, and it doesn't always play nice eg if you install your own VPN because the UI doesn't work for you, then it may step on you so you have to do it their way anyway.
I'll be that commenter this time, all green here! https://metastatus.com/
There was a predecessor to the Zip Drive that could do 120 MB. I’m blanking on what it’s called. My friend who was into MD data was into those first, then Iomega killed them.
Gitmo is still open, if the US isnt participating in those laws, I don't see how any of its allies are expected to
Why is it written in C++, when Google made Wuffs[1] for this exact purpose?

[1]: https://github.com/google/wuffs
And politicians who keep making promises about a solvent pension fund because it's not fun for them if it's not solvent, and unions/retirees are much better at voting than the average person.
You can now edit DALL·E images in ChatGPT
Interesting..

So let's say you could put your task maybe like "Do work report", and it helped you break down a clear task definition with the prompting and suggestion buttons to get you to a specific definition you're happy with like "Write a 2 paragraph introduction of the work report with financial data in 1 hour".

Then you can get an estimate of the priority of that task relevant to other tasks, maybe through some sort of "list out other tasks" coach responses, and then it organizes them into a visual block display that gives you estimated priorities by the AI. You can then edit those priorities by visually dragging the task blocks around to decide your order. Once you're done, it automatically sets outlook meetings with you to complete the tasks.

Do you think a workflow like that would benefit you?
How do you the weigh the transportation rights of many against the property rights of one?
Why is public knowledge of who owns what home required for accountability in a republic? A functioning government should have no problem enforcing whatever laws and codes exist regardless of whether the owner is directly known or shielded through some LLC.
Show HN: Open-Source Cross Platform HN Mobile Client
I didn't want to spend money on other HN clients, and realized that you have to give up your username/password to closed source software.

Slowly have started adding HN features to a fully open source client, currently can view, comment and upvote.

Happy to add other features if others find this useful!
cool game!
- FYI my first instinct was to swipe the tiles (but in 2 seconds you figure out the other mechanic also)
- currently at 4312, but I assume I can continue at any time? (until no more moves)
- have you thought about bringing this game to mobile? (very familiar with match 3 and 2048 - and there are 2 games that I found in the AppStore, but this one feels different)
- or maybe commercialising via web/HTML5 gaming portals?
It’s about image, not utility. I’ve had a few big projects in the past couple of years and all but one of the tradespeople drove vans (your tools don’t get stolen/wet) or an old, small pickup. I asked the HVAC guy about that pickup and he noted that it got better mileage, held and much, and he never had trouble parking.
What a trivial blog post.

Aside, Apple going into services is incentivizing them making durable devices which are used long-term. Without services Apple may "not be happy" that you use a 9 year old Macbook. But with services they do want a large install base, new devices and old, so they can sell Apple TV and Music and Apps.
It's not a new codec, it's a new encoder/decoder for JPEG.
Usually the same place the flag button is. It only appears when a post or commen is flagged/dead.
Media coverage of the Vietnam war was one of the decisive factors in the eventual US Withdrawal, and was a key part of the NVA's strategy.

WW2 was a considerably different war in scope, origin, and patterns of escalation.
> High quality results. When images are compressed or decompressed through Jpegli, more precise and psychovisually effective computations are performed and images will look clearer and have fewer observable artifacts.

Does anyone have a link to any example images that illustrate this improvement? I guess the examples would need to be encoded in some other lossless image format so I can reliably view them on my computer.
I wonder if Google will make a JPEG library with https://github.com/google/wuffs at some point.
I think the complaint about iMessage is more that people using the core SMS function on iPhones are automatically opted into iMessage, then get a worse experience when communicating with groups containing people who don’t have iPhones. It creates awkward social situations which nobody involved wanted to happen, and looks really exploitative.
I think that's just a mindset that made sense when tech was new. As this becomes just a part of life, I think you'll see a bifurcation between established tech and "new stuff", where the established stuff is treated more like a utility.

In some ways we have that now, it's just not flashy. There's countless websites (think Craigslist) that pull in predictable and reasonable income for the folks that run it.

I'd prefer a world full of those versus a bunch of megacorps using tactics of the KGB to try to increase their revenue by X% every year.
Yeah, this is just that. They took JPEG XL denoising and deartifacting algorithms and front loaded them into a 10-bit JPEG encoder.

There's more to it, of course, but it's essentially just an improved encoder versus a new format.
>> “You don’t want to waste expensive bombs on unimportant people — it’s very expensive for the country and there’s a shortage [of those bombs]”

expensive relative to what? a single rifle bullet? jdam kits are not expensive, easy to manufacturer, and there's plenty of 500lb dumb bombs lying around. If a country has access to precision guided bomb tech then I'd say the should be obligated to use it for bombing exclusively.
You can still use LiveView/Phoenix/Elixir, but have your game logic be in Gleam. I haven't used it though so I could be wrong here.

A little bit more about it here: https://katafrakt.me/2021/10/13/app-with-elixir-business-log...

You'd call Gleam code like this inside Elixir:

`:game.move(game, player_1, :left)`

And you'd receive an Elixir map `%Game{}` which you can then use in LiveView. If that makes sense.
Yeah, my only use of this post was to see if there was anything I could get my business removed from in the tools listed. I just don’t like people knowing where I live; various past experiences have made me hypervigilant about this. It isn’t hard to track someone down with a state and sufficiently uncommon full name.

“As soon as you run a business or have more than $X you have no right to privacy” is a position a bizarre number of otherwise normal people have, though never stated in those terms.
I flew out of SXM (St Maarten) Airport earlier this year. Their new departures terminal features an e-passport gate to exit the country. The agent watching over the turnstiles sits just past the gates in a glass booth. You can see them comparing the photo taken to the photo recorded in the passport. That's all there is to it.
This is an incredibly myopic take and unsophisticated take. Comparing to an artisan is in some ways apt, but undercuts the argument. For an artisan the growth target may be the growth of your skills or of your vision. That's growth, and it requires you to keep producing artifacts and to do so you must have some means of funding that production.

For any firm larger than perhaps a single person, you have to have some monetary growth in order to continue to exist. Eventually employees leave and new hires demand more money, equipment wares out and new equipment is expensive, your customers may demand more so you must invest in R&D. Unexpected expenses arise. A growing company can cope with change or rising costs.
From their Github:

> Support for 16-bit unsigned and 32-bit floating point input buffers.

"10+" means 10 bits or more.
> Apple has released ReALM (Reference Resolution As Language Modeling)

Interesting use of the word “released”. As far as I can tell, they published a paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20329), but didn’t release their model, nor their training set, nor their code.

All we have is a rough description of the approach and numbers measuring how well it works.

I wouldn’t know whether it’s easy or difficult to reproduce their results, but they don’t make that easy.

Edit: other articles use ‘reveal’, not ‘release’. That’s a bit better, but IMO still a bit too optimistic.
It couldn't possibly have been something else about that dish that was different, or simply that they didn't think saffron went well with that one..?
Recursion is a bad thing in embedded systems and generally overrated in CS pedagogy.

It can be useful in analyzing algorithms but often in cases like search it is a "second best" answer compared to say, using nondeterminism.
No, the "other option" is to realize that keeping people in what is effectively little more than a concentration camp with no hope of perspective or solution can only end in violence. Especially if you also start shooting the peaceful protestors like they did a few years ago. And then the government goes in to bed with the most extreme of extreme religious Zionists who quite literally support ethnic cleansing and murder.

That is not a justification or a moral judgement, it's just a fact that this will happen. This is what has always happened throughout history. To deny it is to deny reality.

Something Oct-7 shaped was bound to happen. You can't kick people in the face for 50 years, give no perspective for improvement, kick them harder in the face when they object, and expect all of them to forever turn the other cheek and have carefully nuanced opinions on the matter. That's just not how people work.

Current actions are not just killing Palestinians, it's also killing (future) Israeli. A new Oct-7 shaped event is bound to happen again if the current course is followed.

None of this is rocket science. None of this is a novel insight. People have been saying this for decades (have we forgotten the previous events like the intifada, the wide-spread protests 5 years ago, etc. etc.)? Some people were seemingly born on the morning of Oct 7 or something.
I never understood this approach. I ended up cutting ties with middle man providers. They just caused delays. I ended up saving tons of money.
They'll do literally anything rather than implementing JPEG XL over AVIF in Chrome, huh?

I mean, of course this is still valuable (JPEG-only consumers will probably be around for decades, just like MP3-only players), and I realize Google is a large company, but man, the optics on this...
To me the bottom line of life is to hold on to the fun stuff that makes you unique and happy. Other people practically hate you and pressure you to do things their way. Every time I "grew" it felt fake, performative, and aimless.
There's color, bold and emoji.
It is a little weird how there are two economic systems seemingly. The one you mention about market share and global slices of pie. But then there is the entire long tail of businesses that don’t participate in these games at all. Most private companies are probably like this. You know, the six person graphic design shop with a string of clients. The local glass and mirror business. Your dentists private practice. A locksmith. A taco truck. All these businesses humming along making money for their owners with sometimes decades of operation under their belt.
Google sure did a shitty job of explaining the whole situation.

JpegXL was kicked out. This thing is added, but the repo and code seems to be from jxl.

I'm very confused.
Not GP but:

> Lavender listed as many as 37,000 Palestinian men

> they were permitted to kill 15 or 20 civilians during airstrikes

37000 * 15 = 555000
37000 * 20 = 740000
Kiss High-Availability with OpenBSD
A WASM demo of this would be fantastic, would make it much easier for people to try it out.

Maybe a fork of https://squoosh.app/ ? The code for that is https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh
> Western mainstream media has been very passive when covering the current situation in gaza

Just FYI, all the examples I mentioned I read on our public broadcaster's website.
Was there no difference in fragrance either? Saffron imparts a very distinct fragrance, more than taste. And that fragrance affects perceived taste. In larger quantities, it has a bitter-ish taste. I use it in rice puddings, greek yogurt (simplest recipe possible - yogurt, sugar, cardamom powder and few threads of saffron. Big difference with and without saffron).
Remember the first hospital Israel bombed and then claimed it wasn't them? Since that didn't result in any consequences, now Israel bombs hospitals nearly every day. Same story with the flour massacre.
Good point. But highway expansions have localized benefits in ways trains don't. Everyone "knows" that another lane would fix everything on their daily commute, so amassing the political capital to make it happen isn't too hard. But a train to connect distant region X to distant region Y, by taking land from folks who hardly ever make that trip anyways? Harder sell.
What about Oscar? https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/articles/news/saffron-cult...
The sourcecode is on jxl's main repo. I'm confused to say the least
The IDF uses Palantir’s technology, and Palantir is outspoken about its support for the state of Israel:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-10/palantir-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/13/palantir-ceo-says-outspoken-...
FWIW I implemented SARIF output in GCC 13, which gives a machine-readable interchange format for the errors. It's viewable by e.g. VS Code (via a plugin). Hopefully that makes it easier to grok the messages.

You can see an example of the output here: https://godbolt.org/z/aan6Kfxds (that's the first example from the article, with -fdiagnostics-format=sarif-stderr added to the command-line options)

That doesn't cover the diagrams though (which I currently serialize in SARIF form by making a placeholder Markdown text containing "code" containing the diagram).

I experimented with SVG output for the diagrams, but didn't get this in good enough shape for GCC 14.

I've got a few ideas for more general UX improvements with how we do diagnostics, which I'll try in GCC 15 once we're finished focusing on GCC 14 bugfixing.
Hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians died in strategic bombing campaigns to achieve that outcome. Do the ends justify the means?
Can you elaborate on why you think it’s trivial?
In your story, there are two failures; firstly, the President's failure to exhibit due care in the content of his speeches (an increased responsibility due to his lofty station), secondly, the lack of a police response to disperse ominous gatherings before they become violent.

Neither of these failures have anything to do with the anonymity of company directors. The President could know you personally, and still leak your address. Similarly, there could be a mob vandalising your property even if you didn't run Acme Critical Publishing, because that kind of thing happens in riots sometimes.

In some countries there is almost no anonymity on the public record, but this doesn't seem to negatively affect the level of violence in their societies compared to otherwise comparable locations. Therefore I would opine that 'enjoying safety' and 'enjoying privacy' are two very different and mostly orthogonal issues.
One concrete claim I found is that many BTC holders might get paid back in USD at the then-price of the coin, which is ~$16K. Bitcoin is currently at ~$65K, which indicates that they could have lost up to 75% of the underlying coins. Just to be clear: this is not the same as being made whole.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39895869
I'm taking the cocaine wasn't locked then...
The opaqueness is transparently self-serving for those who own the stinkiest parts of our economy. We should demand better.
I guess sending threats then required more of sending a physical mail, which could be used with better effect in dealing with threats?
When it comes to the personal and intangibles, then grow all you want; read the books, develop the skills, and so on. But when it comes to consumption of resources and economic growth then cancer is the right word as unbounded growth fundamentally results in unbounded growth of waste products and overconsumption of inputs.

There is no system or ecology that can support infinite growth; as long as we're stuck in the "coasting is dying" mentality we'll see productive entities develop dysfunctions as they outgrow their ecosystems or kill themselves trying to expand. If coasting leads to gradual decline then over expansion leads to catastrophic failure.
But how would we know though right? I mean without having an A/B comparison.

Sure it didn't stop the destruction, but I don't think that was ever in the cards. But it might have helped by some amount even if small. 1%? 2%? 6%?

If it reduced destruction by 2%, would that have made the campaign worth it?

I think there's a chance it did do some good in that it was in enough awareness to end up somewhere on a foreign policy agenda higher than it might have otherwise been, and thus policies might have been negotiated in trade agreements, treaties, company due diligence source tracing, etc.