skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A related anecdote:

For teens a half-generation before mine, for music, it was common to buy CDs (and to have the money to do so). For my generation, it was common to pirate everything (so it was okay that we were all broke). In both cases, there was a sense of "ownership" over one's music collection. If someone wanted to take it away from us, they'd have to break into our house or burn it down or wipe our hard drive or something.

What do today's teens have? YouTube and Spotify and SoundCloud. Slightly more expensive than "free", even though affordability has gone down. But what's worse is how easily TPTB can reach into your playlist, your account, the platform as a whole, and erase your music. Just, poof, gone, with no warning.

The older ways of building a music collection still exist, of course, but they're not as accessible. Best Buy doesn't even sell physical media anymore; every teen's favorite boom box (their used car) is now prohibitively expensive. Torrenting still exists, but it's outside the mainstream of music consumption; can you even do it on an iPhone? Downloading in general is discouraged by the big platforms, except as a way to keep you engaging with the app if the WiFi goes down.

Teens, of course, have existed for millennia without easy access to the latest pop hits. I dunno if cultural expectations have caught up to this regression to the mean, though. Are you uncool if you don't have SOME kind of musical identity? Advertisers sure want you to think so. Your parents probably treat your adolescence as an echo of their own, too, even with the massive changes in just this small corner of teen life. Carbon copy to every other facet as is appropriate.

So (in a bit of semantic irony), I buy it. (Also ironically, given the above,) it's a bit of a mirror of Millennial angst wrt home-buying, marriage, etc. It's actually obvious to me, and obvious why Boomers can't see it (or are slow to come to it): they hold all the capital that would otherwise be solving our issue.
> while there's a degree of subtlety and complexity when considering the legal and moral position of Israel's armed forces

No, there is no such complexity. There are very obviously undebatable incidents of war crimes by the IDF. Like this footage from a drone who deliberately killed civilians in plain sight and trying to cover the bodies[1] and the IDF targeting aid workers in a location they knew about [2]. Also, there are widespread videos by IDF soldiers committing atrocities and crimes in Gaza and posting it on social media. That is hardly self-defense. This is obvious war crimes against civilians. Not to mention the mass starvation and carpet bombing of civilians. There is very little to debate, and denying them is immoral. You are just using a very old tactic of trying to minimize IDF crimes by claiming their position is complex. Remember the old say "Middle East is complex mess, let's just ignore what is happening there"

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/3/22/gaza-dr...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/central-world-kitchen-aid-worke...
Sort of like the quality vs. speed settings on libx264, I suppose jpegli aims to push the Pareto boundary on both quality and speed without changing the decode spec
To my poor eyes it's creating self sustaining computing blocks.

You could recurse using an explicit stack or use tiny function that will thread themselves as see fit.

In a way it's more encapsulating than languages preaching encapsulation.
Adolescence is a period of temporary insanity.

Source: firsthand knowledge
It is not about owing someone... it's about having provenance of code.

If you're just an anonymous guy doing stuff for free and want to remain anonymous, that's fine, but then your software shouldn't be used by anyone who cares about toolchain attacks as there's just no way to trust you, and no way to verify every single commit you make on new releases.

For software that gets used by many, which is a goal of OSS (otherwise just don't even bother to publish stuff, what's the point?), there needs to be a face behind it.

I do agree with others that identity is a hard problem, but people here are pretending there's no solution to that (or misinterpreting what I wrote to mean people should have a Facebook or Twitter account, which is absolutely not what I was trying to say - I just mentioned the most popular websites real people are likely to be found on, as that could be used to prove their identity... for example, I have a Keybase account where my proof of identity, which is tied to my public keys, can be found on my GitHub profile - but they let you choose Facebook or Twitter for that purpose as well) when obviously there is. I should know, I work on this space.
> Traditional rankings, like those done by ShanghaiRanking, use researchers' publications in a curated group of elite academic journals to create a list of the "best" and most prestigious universities. Switching to include a much larger group of open-access journal publications results in a very different Top 20.

> The open-access services often include content from potential paper mills, businesses manufacturing what look like scholarly manuscripts for sale. Despite concerns about the reputation and editorial practices of these publishers and editors, there’s little oversight. These services are flooding the publishing world with vast numbers of lower-quality articles.

Uh... Ok. Yes, it's indeed true that rankings will be different if you stop caring about things like quality control. This is not news.
So what are we calling "using bad AI to kill innocent people"? An oopsy daisy?
The cost of natural gas on the Henry Hub is somewhere around $300/ton. A ton of natural gas requires 2.75 tons of CO2, so the cost of CO2 capture has to be well below $110/ton (and that ignores the cost of the hydrogen and the equipment for doing the methane synthesis.)

They must be assuming large increases in natural gas prices or large CO2 taxes.

I think it will be much easier to get the price/BTU of H2 down below the current price of natural gas than it would be to get synthetic methane down that cheap.

(If they are assuming large CO2 taxes then it's probably a better business model to just collect CO2 from the air and sequester it.)
Mainstream israeli television pretty much agrees with the description you put in quotes. It's just that they think it's jolly good and something to be proud of, whereas you seem to disagree with that?
So ISIS gives "hitchhike rides [to innocent neighbors] in the back of trucks headed for the border with guns and bombs"?

If you want Al Qaeda-specific cases, they take about three seconds to find. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/18/pentagon-dro..., for example.

edit: The Yemen case cited in my link above was AQ; https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/02/19/wedding-became-funeral...

"They were an adult male near a target" is not a safe way of determining guilt for capital crimes. We should not accept it.
Phoenix residents can now experience Uber Eats delivery with the Waymo Driver
> Family-friendly land use reforms make for more vibrant, joyous, and welcoming cities—they’re good for the entire city. Other cities hoping to stem the tide of families flowing to the suburbs should follow Austin’s lead.

Every single time I read about land use, I feel like people are running head first into exactly the point and still completely missing it. People think others must have the same opinions and worldviews as they do, so they don't even consider the real reason land use policies are they way they are. They don't realize that people are just racist.

Maybe you read this and think "that's crazy, I'm not racist and I am against upzoning!". Well, I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about the person who is so passionate about keeping the neighborhood's "character" that they will go to every single local planning meeting to keep black people out. I'm talking about the person who will talk about how they don't want "big city problems". I'm talking about people concerned about the "riff raff" that more permissive land use will bring.

The exclusion is the point. Over and over and over again I see well-meaning people think they can just convince people that it makes it cheaper, convince people about the economy, surely that will be the breakthrough! But it's racism. It has been racism ever since the first zoning laws that banned laundromats next to houses, knowing landromats were mostly owned by the Chinese. It's been racism ever since highways divided cities into the "good side" and "bad side".

Stop arguing for this about cost, or "family friendliness", or preschool availability, or anything else, because you are immediately missing the actual reasons. NIMBYs are racist. It's that simple. Zoning and land use is designed to keep minorities away from "pure" suburbs.
I haven't tried it yet, but I think making it fast iteration and simple initially is the right way to go. Nice one sharing this as open source!
queue Red October quotes :)
I agree, these things seem to do okish on trivial web projects. I've never seen them do anything more than that.

I still use ChatGPT for some coding tasks, e.g. I asked it to write C code to do some annoying fork/execve stuff (can't remember the details) and it did a decentish job, but it's like 90% right. Great for figuring out a rough shape and what functions to search for, but you definitely can't just take the code and expect it to work.

Same when I asked it to write a device driver for some simple peripheral. It had the shape of an answer but with random hallucinated numbers.

I've also noticed that because there is a ton of noob-level code on the internet it will tend to do noob-level things too, like for the device driver it inserted fixed delays to wait for the device to perform an operation rather than monitoring for when it had actually finished.

I wonder if coding AIs would benefit from fine tuning on programming best practices so they don't copy beginner mistakes.
Other commenters have pointed out that hydrogen may not be feasible, but the other direction -- methanol or higher hydrocarbons, seems way more interesting. Storage and density are orders of magnitude easier, and since we're synthesizing it from atmospheric component we don't have to be concerned with contaminants, especially sulfur compounds, that plague higher hydrocarbon use.

Even better in a lot of ways would be to move to amorphous carbon; generating coal from atmospheric CO2 would be a huge win in transportability especially around safety and reliability dimensions.
Some industries do this using UTC. For example flight departure and arrival times are in UTC on all paperwork. And also the meteo reports and forecasts, and airspace restrictions, and airport opening times etc.

Mostly out of a necessity that fights tend to cross timezones and planes come and go from all over the world and they don't want to have to figure out everywhere what the local time is.

Really only passenger info screens convert to local time.
Awesome, looking forward to trying it out.
Collectively, we might do more about climate change (and other problems) if we weren't spending all our time and energy on our phones...
Interview with Marc Benioff, the cofounder of Salesforce (2006) [video]
People should pay their probate tax
Eh, some people actually have different visions for the world. They'll elect people who are abhorrent to western liberal values over and over again. I don't know what a new election in Gaza would yield, but I don't think it can be a given that giving X group dignity and self-determination will necessarily tilt them toward western liberal outcomes.
When I was a kid, there was a shining rainbow at the end of the long slog through High School and College. I just had to not mess things up so bad I became unemployable. My parents were a shining example of this. Then 2008 hit and suddenly, you didn't just have to not mess things up, but you had to have exactly the right skills and mindset to succeed with a whole hell of a lot of luck. Most of my friends ended up with college degrees working as bartenders and waitresses.

The amount of opportunities available to the next generation have dwindled compared to what I saw as a kid. Now, you can't expect to survive doing what you love. You can barely survive doing what you hate...
>> At what point does this look like an uncomfortable place to walk?

Compared to the real nature they look uncomfortable to walk.

>> What if you don’t have a car?

Then you get to live in a city and use every opportunity on HN to dunk on suburbs.

>> I’m trying to increase the amount of choice that suburban people have!

How nice of you. I guess there are no more problems to solve in the cities and now you have all the time to help the unfortunate suburbanites.
Did you mean "half as fast"? The way you worded it sounds like you mean to say that s3 is faster, but it says that r2 is twice as fast as s3.
Thanks for the suggestion. I personally used Dummit and Foote's book and found it useful, but like early Calculus with Spivak, it seems most people prefer clear and concise over slightly more comprehensive and rigorous while still being introductions.

With self study I prefer a bit more breadth to make up for the realities of needing to self study which often ends up with deep but not wide understanding of topics.

Having a brother who had a PHD in complex analysis to bother probably helped with self-learning. That is the only option when you are on-call for decades at a time as higher math courses are/were always in person.

But hopefully someone will figure out a business model to help people who need to grow and adapt.

Thanks again for the suggestions, I have ordered both books to add to my lending library.
Compare the number of issues here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Vulkan. The only issue with the Nvidia driver is that there might be another (open-source) driver installed. AMD has several drivers which fail in different situations. The same has been true for OpenGL implementations, the only truly good implementation is the one by Nvidia, this is even well known in the PC game development industry.
We use all that because natural gas is cheap. If hydrogen were cheaper than natural gas, we'd use that instead, at least for the industrial processes, and we'd switch away from combustion of a gas in the distributed residential/commercial applications.
Again, to be clear, I'm not an advocate of huge trucks. I'm just more understanding of why people get them.

> What about garages in homes?

In the suburbs in the US, it's common to have a large two-car driveway and deliberately not park in the garage so that the garage can be used for workshop space. (Personally, I would kill to have a garage big enough to have real woodworking gear and room for my kayaks.)

> And a Ford Focus does 30-40 mpg depending on travel type. A Renault Clio does 47 mpg.

Sure, and a moped has even better mileage. But the comment was about giant trucks in comparison to smaller ones. No one's going to take a family of five camping in the woods for a week in a Renault Clio.

There is a fair argument that truck owners rarely use the truck to its full capabilities. But I think that understates the psychological value of owning a vehicle that can do those things and that sometimes does.

We all know that it can be hard to find the activation energy to drive up in the mountains to hike, or go camping, or buy some lumber to start that DIY project. If doing any of those also means having to rent a vehicle, some of those experiences simply won't happen.

A vehicle that can do those things is a constant reminder to their owners to maybe live a little more.

> You're also forgetting the outsized impact on roads that everyone else pays for and the extra pollution everyone else is breathing.

I'm not forgetting it. I just think it's silly that people against huge trucks seem to completely overlook all of the real reasons why people like them.
Well, that was a 10% failure rate supposedly on selecting the primary target of the attack.

The attack itself was allowed to have a 15x to 100x number of civilians killed depending on the supposed importance of the target.
Meanwhile China is working on automated building facilities which can make 1,000 cruise missiles per day:

https://twitter.com/Aryan_warlord/status/1774859594747273711

Perfect match for a targeting AI, the AI could even customize each missile as it's being built according to the target it selected.
Some word processors on 8-bit computers worked like this. Your document took all of the available RAM. Text before the cursor was at the start of RAM and text after the cursor was at the end of RAM. Insertions and pastes didn't need to shuffle data around but navigation did. It worked well.
Are you saying that average tech pay in Eastern Europe is up to 240k euros per year? that sounds about 4x too high.
90% is a BS number . Computed basis what ? What is the baseline how did they benchmark . Is there any data whatsoever to back this claim ?

They just spout a high number that is not 100% (clearly civilians are being killed publicly undeniably ) claiming 100% would be too obviously ridiculous.

More than half of 32,000+ (more under the rubble) killed are woman and children, Hamas is still quite able to fight, hardly any hostages has been recovered .

Israel labels any sort of civilian organization as hamas including journalists, medical and aid staff. 200 UN staff and 100 journalists are dead so far . Israel’s argument is UNWRA terrorist aiding and journalists were also secretly Hamas and doing non journalistic stuff when killed so they include them in legitimate targets .

If you consider everyone is Hamas unless otherwise proven then 90% is possible .

There is no realistic way an algorithm was designed factoring in the level of destruction of infrastructure never seen in any real world data and also benchmarked accurately.
No and in fact my comment originally said "the current topic is perhaps the most divisive HN has ever seen".

Not measured, though, if you mean some kind of quantitative approach.
Discord obliterated a YouTube view count record. It may have been an accident
I agree, this is a very exciting direction. We shouldn’t let existing formats stifle innovation, but there is a lot of value in back porting modern techniques to existing encoders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war_prote...

>In Berlin, authorities banned a pro-Palestinian rally from being held.[176] A number of spontaneous demonstrations protesting the bombing of Gaza took place across the country, but were forcefully broken up by police.[177] Germany banned fundraising, the displaying of the Palestinian flag and the wearing of the keffiyeh.[13]

>In Neukölln, a neighborhood of Berlin, pro-Palestinian protesters described police crackdowns on protest that were "shocking and violent".[180]
If I'm understanding the history correctly, the British Empire eventually actively fought to end the slave trade because they realized there was something even more profitable than colonialism and extraction: trade.
The economic aspect of life has always been, for most people, decisive for understanding the state of mental health
Journalists aren't asking combatants - they are asking politicians in the Israeli government.

Because there has to be a number, right? Is 30k dead palestinians too many? Is 50k? is 200k? How about all of them?
Theoretically you should be able to opt out of at least some of it, though it does opt you out of chase sharing your data in all cases and not just for this one product (which honestly is probably what everyone wants).

From their FAQ page, you need to call them: https://www.chase.com/digital/resources/privacy-security/pri...
One of the first music videos made with Sora
Would love to see nuclear do this, but the challenges to getting nuclear built are myriad. Regulatory burdens, cost to build reactors, painfully slow learning rate for nuclear reactor design and buildout.

Solar, while certainly not ideal, is comparatively trivial to build out. Functionally you buy and lay out cheap panels. Far smaller political challenges. Some friction around land use and interconnect, but compared to nuclear, orders of magnitude easier and the way forward seems clear with the existing political realities and economies of scale in action for solar panels.
oh, idk

https://htmx.org/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port/
The narrative around climate change, i.e., that it's happening and that we need to do something about it, is not demoralizing. What's demoralizing is that the people with the power, money, and influence to take the biggest steps refuse to do so. Someone has figured that the only way to get them to care is to badger them with the facts until they do, and a lot of us are okay with that. It's preferable to the alternative, which is ecoterrorism. Trying to sweep the situation under the rug while things become more troubled and people become more desperate just makes the latter more likely. In this case, the opposite of mopey and depressed isn't optimism, it's rage.
anyone have a saffron chicken recipe they like?
I have had the exact opposite experience: clang constantly gives me much better error messages than GCC, implementations of some warnings or errors catch more cases, and clang-tidy is able to do much better static analysis.
Tree traversal almost never makes use of tail call recursion. Also, most of the times, you can just use a stack object instead of the program stack which saves you from insane stacktraces, arbitrary stack limits, and a bunch of wasted memory in call frames
Bessemer's second lesson learned on vertical software in the past 10 years: "The best vertical software companies build a layer cake of new products that drive continuous growth" - https://www.bvp.com/atlas/ten-lessons-from-a-decade-of-verti...

This is happening today with streaming - the various services are bundling back together and layering on ads to become profitable and less fragmented. Consumers switched to the underdog startup for something better, only to get rewarded with a new version of the same cable networks.

Is this just the cost of capitalism and innovation? It's close to what Joseph Schumpeter called 'creative destruction'.
Thanks, sounds great! Not sure if you are part of the research team but a follow up question nevertheless. Learning from JpegXL, what would it take to develop another widely supported image format? Would the research stage already need to be carried out as a multi-corporate effort?
I don't think there's any need to delete it. But please don't post archive links to HN unless the original article is no longer accessible on the web.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I get it, but this person is comparing apples-to-oranges. Austin, TX is not Brooklyn, NYC.

Austin relaxed their zoning rules for child-care operators because it was entirely reasonable and not onerous to do so. Brookyln, NYC does not have that luxury.

> By abolishing parking mandates and allowing childcares by right in most zoning districts, Austin has taken important steps to reducing the barriers that make it extremely difficult and expensive to open new childcare centers.

Again, Austin, TX is not NYC.
It's not like that was better 50 years ago.

But to think that there's "something wrong" with a specific teen is already down the wrong path. It's like 5 goung to therapy while working for Amazon.
Perhaps on pedagogy, or at least nice, intuitive, layperson (but technically accurate) explanations of things. And plenty of fully-rigorous explanations of some things too.

I'm a big fan of Sanderson.

But I don't think we can compare Sanderson to Feynman on raw intelligence or contributions to the state of the art in math/science.
Not to mention they have on multiple occasions made significant internal changes (including layoffs) to their sales organization. I have a feeling if the public were to get an introspection into their sales pipeline it would be eye opening, and not in a good way
The Guardian does not easily reference some random source. There is some vouching involved, especially for a story like this.