skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can have a PNG and JPG versoin of the original image without no loss, and the files would be about the same size.

You can have a PNG and JPG version of the original image, with the same loss - "average error per pixel", and the files would be about the same size.

I know there is no lossy compression described in a PNG standard. But there exist programs which produce tiny PNG files with a loss. So comparing an MP4 encoder with a bult-in loss to a PNG encoder without any built-in loss is not fair. They should have made the MP4 encoder encode the video in a lossless way, just like they did with PNG.
Right? That’s a huge red flag.
Hi gaby,
Can you pls be more specific what needs to be changed in it? like theme? or anything else?
I'm pretty sure that manufacturers have some room to include a 9-year reliability in the design of a +700€ oven.
That's why consumer laws have differents warranties.
Because you just have services that are already "internet hardened" running?
It was a complete mess, hard to maintain the code, with scalability and performance problems. The semantics were very error-prone because it combined two interpreters (Python interpreter, optional, as a preprocessing step) followed by the interpreter in Bazel.

Bazel started a Python process for each BUILD file to preprocess. If two BUILD files were using the same bzl file, that bzl file would be parsed/evaluated twice. In a graph with lots of dependencies, it was causing a lot of redundant work. It's a bit like #include vs modules in C++: Starlark can evaluate a dependency file once, and provide the result for each BUILD file.

Python can be hard to sandbox, and we got multiple security reports about exploits.

Interestingly, Facebook Buck went through the same way. They originally copied the Python preprocessing approach. When we open-sourced Bazel, the Buck team took our Starlark (aka Skylark) interpreter, and started the migration. See https://buck.build/concept/skylark.html
These cases do not go to court, they go to a tribunal. They are not heard by a judge (or at least a judge in their capacity as a court justice) and the results are not entered as judicial cases and do not set precedent.

It’s designed so a lay person can represent themselves without having to understand the justice system.

I know in New South Wales companies have to apply for special leave to have a lawyer represent them, and they need to supply a reason why. In New Zealand lawyers are not allowed in the tribunal, a company must be represented by a manager.
I know very little about horses, but find myself surrounded by them thanks to my wife’s interests.
We have a horse who is quiet natured and well behaved.
But, the fight or flight instinct wakes up very quickly and he’s 600kg.
An Image Is Worth 32 Tokens for Reconstruction and Generation [pdf]
I honestly thought this would be this video: https://youtu.be/GjmFbgqFeMQ?si=zc983kptBZQsBLoK
I mean, a LaserJet 4L is still quite a decent printer today. Just don't buy an HP printer that was made in the last 25 years, and you should be fine!
Is it really? Touchscreens and the tech stack to drive them aren't exactly simplistic. A handful of simple switches and a few rheostats seems like it'd be cheaper if for no other reason they don't invoke the avalanche of dumb shit that kicks off whenever software is brought into a project.
> Absolutely blows my mind how many people have fallen into the trap that is "SMART" devices and "POWER EFFICIENT" appliances. Only to find out just after the warranty runs out that they ultimately invested in a hawt piece of trash

Those two/three things are entirely unrelated.

Power efficient appliances are a must in most countries not powered by low-carbon energy (so in the EU, that basically leaves everyone outside of France and the Nordics), and a good to have for those that are. Quality of those appliances is entirely unrelated to their power efficiency.

Smart appliances are on a spectrum. Some are useless, some are practical. Again, their quality is entirely unrelated to their smartness. Their smartness can be optional, non-blocking and using open protocols; or it can be mandatory, cloud-only so that when the cloud service gets retired to save money the appliance is useless. As an example, my LG washing machine/dryer combo can connect to my Wi-Fi network to be able to send me notifications when it's done, to load custom programmes, to remind me I need to do a wash cycle of the machine itself. Those are useful features, entirely optional, and the machine won't stop working if it can't connect to the Wi-Fi.
Where in Scotland? There’s 5G almost everywhere.
Show HN: An MP/M based multi-user 8-bit computer in a Docker container
When I lived in Hongkong, my oven failed after less than 10 years. When my landlord came to replace it, he told me that it was common due to the extreme humidity that eventually ruins the circuit boards. I'm still a bit skeptical of that explanation -- but he has probably replaced more "white goods" (refrig, oven, etc.) that I will in a lifetime. Weirdly, my washing machine by Bosch was tough as nails and never had any issues. One would assume that it would be similarly affected by the humidity.
The term at which burden of proof shifts from the retailer to the consumer has been raised to 1 year in the EU (maybe not in the UK due to Brexit). As this is a matter of civil law, the standard of proof is also "more likely than not" proof, not "beyond reasonable doubt". You don't necessarily need an expert opinion, it _can_ be sufficient to collect a bunch of reports of similar failures.
No, not really?

The customers at the national labs are not going to be sharing custom HPC code with AMD engineers, if for no other reason than security clearances. Nuclear stockpile modeling code, or materials science simulations are not being shared with some SWE at AMD. AMD is not “removing jank”, for these customers. It’s that these customers don’t need a modern DL stack.

Let’s not pretend like CUDA works/has always worked out of the box. There’s forced obsolescence (“CUDA compute capability”). CUDA didn’t even have backwards compatibility for minor releases (.1,.2, etc.) until version 11.0. The distinction between CUDA, CUDA toolkit, CUDNN, and the actual driver is still inscrutable to many new devs (see the common questions asked on r/localLlama and r/StableDiffusion).

Directionally, AMD is trending away from your mainframe analogy.

The first consumer cards got official ROCm support in 5.0. And you have been able to run real DL workloads on budget laptop cards since 5.4 (I’ve done so personally). Developer support is improving (arguably too slowly), but it’s improving. Hugging Face, Cohere, MLIR, Lamini, PyTorch, TensorFlow, DataBricks, etc all now have first party support for ROCm.
A massive overstatement. Even ignoring everything else, cars may have started down the touchscreen route (which is insane for anything the driver is using), but that is recent and not universal still. I can't believe there is a professional dev today that hasn't seen a few cars with physical user interfaces.
> the ones who behaved predictably and weren't willing to randomly hurt you for no apparent reason at their own expense, were eaten by our ancestors.

This doesn't make sense to me. Sure, an an animal that is generally a belligerent asshole will discourage humans from trying to tame it, but why would it discourage hunting? If anything, it would encourage hunting the bad animal to extinction, no? Humans successfully hunted Mammoths and other large game even in the stone age, so I don't see how having a bad temper would help.
Or that one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nGCihgndng
I would suggest Scala as FP for beginners. It doesnt forces you to do pure functions. And its really beginners friendly to start with.
>> AI has certain features that would make it better than human judges. (1) AI is unbiased. It does not care about the race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or any other irrelevant characteristic of litigants or their lawyers.

> What this author does not know is that AI can be extremely biased.

Then he also does not know of the explicit biases added to AIs, or their interfaces, in an attempt to fudge them
Labor also isn't getting cheaper, and someone has to assemble and test all those switches. You can automate... but LCD touchscreen is simpler.
What's the small claims court named in Swedish?
In a way, one benefit is the whole ecosystem / culture / idioms built on top. Haskellers went further in that direction than most languages (except maybe scalaz and some hardcore typescript devs).
Someone has a (3d render?) better concept indeed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nGCihgndng

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My guess: These companies have an internal repair division that will try to sell it as "warranty repaired" later. Or, they sell it at a discount to a company that specialises in oven repairs. They will fix it, then resell it. My guess: Apple's devices are way harder to repair than your average oven or refrigerator.
For me it falls under "if you have to say it in the name it ain't so", like Natural Life Soap Co. or Good Burger Co. So I see meme paper titles as no different than calling your paper New Watershed Moment Paper Breaks Popularity Barrier To Confirm A>B.

If the very first impression you want to convey is how you feel you need to circumvent any logical assessment of you then it's not you leading with your best foot and that's what category you belong in. I chalk it up to the scientists who want to spread a neediness for external authority persona in every breath—your assessment is not required for this one, only your accolades.
I appreciate your feedback. Scribix is designed to create concise and effective emails, not to generate unnecessary fluff. The aim is to help users manage email overload by drafting clear, to-the-point messages, saving time for both the sender and recipient.

Regarding persuasive emails, the goal is to assist in professional communication, ensuring messages are well-structured and impactful without being manipulative. Ethical considerations are a priority in our design.

As for Gemini, it is integrated with Gmail and offers a range of AI features. However, Scribix is more specific, focusing exclusively on enhancing email communication efficiency. Additionally, Gemini is part of Google's premium plan, which can be quite expensive. Scribix aims to provide a cost-effective solution that integrates seamlessly with both Gmail and Outlook, offering tailored experiences for diverse user needs.
Ninety percent of manufactured goods are ultimately trash, pride in craftsmanship has gone by the wayside. Things are shoved through production with little to no f*cks given in regards to quality, if the S.O.B is just a gnats ass within tolerance, just send it, and pump out as many more as you can because we have quotas and due dates to meet.
I think there is a close causality with soldiers on amphetamin and commiting atrocities. But I can't seem to find any research on it.
> A not often discussed problem with the EU guarantee is that in the first 6 months, every defect is presumed to have been present at the time it was bought. After 6 months it is on the consumer to prove it, and for most things it is just not worth it to pay for an expert opinion.

I don’t think the EU says anything that specific (https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers...)

> At least that's the interpretation of the law in the UK.

If that’s true, I think it would be specific to the UK.

Also, what the UK says isn’t relevant for discussing EU consumer rights anymore.
Forget your “values”, it is always best to be kind. It’s rarely evident the value you produce, because it may take generations. But it is real.
Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity
So apparently this is what broke my CI job since it was indirectly installed. One of the downsides of using loose version locking with requirements.txt rather than something like poetry I guess.
Is the idea of these indices to encourage buyers to choose more repairable / durable goods? I can remember shopping for a new fridge with my parents as a kid: The energy efficiency labels (mandated by the gov't) made a big difference on their purchasing decisions.
I was thinking it would be this one!
Did you read my post from 4 years ago?

Is AMD the king of the Titanic (x86)?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMD_Stock/comments/kg4e8j/is_amd_th...

I basically outlined why I would not invest in AMD and it's inevitable that ARM would take over servers and personal computers.
> It was linked from the ACM or consumentenbond, or some such consumer website. I don't have the tab open, but it wasn't just a random link from Google.

Yes, it gets often quoted, but things don't become true by being often repeated. It probably wasn't the Consumentenbond, as they actively call out the list from Techniek Nederland (previously Uneto-VNI) as being too short on their website.

[1] https://www.consumentenbond.nl/nieuws/2016/consumenten-hebbe...
Cities: Skylines II Found a Solution for High Rents: Get Rid of Landlords
Quality has much to do with efficiency. Try driving on bent wheels and let me know how efficient that is. My washing machine tells me its done by making a chime same as my oven... no internet needed.
Protests still happen in China very often.

For example, the strike at BYD's factory due to wage cuts and silent layoffs a couple weeks ago [0] (the original QQ post was taken down under the NSL [1]), a work stoppages and strikes in Anhui [2], Guangzhou [3], and Shandong [4] a week ago, as well as Workers Call for Help (basically workers complaints to the govt that often turn into strikes if not listened to) [5]

The issue is Western reporters don't really use Chinese social media and aren't monitoring it, and in a lot of cases can't even really speak or read Mandarin.

Also, China is not that centralized. In most of these protests, the organizers take efforts to point out they are protesting against local functionaries, not Beijing - and they aren't wrong, as Deng's reforms devolved power significantly to the local and provincial level.

In China, it tends to be the working class and poor (rural and urban) that tend to protest the most as they have the least to lose and are the ones that face the brunt of economic slowdowns.

[0] - https://archive.is/dwGdd

[1] - https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/io1cSoE_i_pohJEoDOjkgw

[2] - https://v.kuaishou.com/EokPBo

[3] - https://v.kuaishou.com/CXrU74

[4] - https://v.m.chenzhongtech.com/fw/photo/3xxbacwt646zfwu?fid=3...

[5] - https://liuyan.people.com.cn/threads/mobilelist?tid=20864736...
Well, technically that isn't true if you use, for example, unsafePerfomIO in the defintion of x. Referential transparency is still a spectrum, just like purity. Haskell is much closer to purity than the vast majority of languages out there.

Also, even if Haskell were perfectly pure, the fact that it uses lazy evaluation is far more important to actually being able to make use of referential transparency. In a strict language you will still see a massive performance differences if replacing the first version with the second, in the most common cases.
> Ever looked at uranium mining and nuclear fuel production?

90 percent of solar panel production is in Chinese hands, between slavery in Xinjiang and environmental impacts of rare earth mining.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...

https://www.antislavery.org/latest/solar-panel-industry-uygh...

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2024/03/28/solar-panel-productio...

And on the transparency of China emission...

https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2023/7/3/solar-pa...

Do you have any data regarding uranium? Consindering that a typical 1,000 MWe Light Water Reactor (LWR) produces 20 to 30 tons of spent fuel per year.

> Many countries still work with Russian Rosatom (even France), which has a track record for environmental catastrophes.

Which catastrophes?

> If this thing blows up, then what happens?

Ahahaha you have to study nuclear energy more.

> That's your opinion, it's not a fact. Don't think that your opinions are facts and thus automatically what other people say is wrong.

Its cheap and clean, its a fact.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

> nuclear power plants work only in a political environment, where they got a state-support/owned monopoly.

German nuclear power worked, and you decided to shut it down, you certainly didn't shut it down because it didn't work. Your arguments are self-contradictory.

Your comments are now indefensible, now you are self-contradictory, bring absurd arguments, and even deny facts.
It is a shame that this is needed to be said but in many laws it is true. Employment, consumer, health, and prisoner come to mind.
Recognising red _is_ recognising its wavelength. True, we don't know what frequency we hear/wavelength we see is associate with which specific number, but that's irrelevant.

Humans are born with the capability of doing a mechanical Fourier decomposition in our ears. Knowing the amplitude at each frequency, as all humans that can hear do, gives us information about the waveform.

Sensing timbre therefore is information about the waveform. We do not have complete information (e.g. we do not sense all the phase information) but we have approximate information about the time-domain waveform.
So what is your question? The standard definition of a topos spells out the structural constraints for subobject classifier, finite limits, and Cartesian closure. You can write out these definitions for the topos of sets and any "small" structures in your topos which are points of the specified logical/structural variety will be small toposes internal to the topos of sets.
Would plugging in your fastest external SSD and then using a hard drive read/write tester achieve some of the same ends? I've done that before with Blackmagic's disk speed test app and found it useful
These seem to be more bugs than features of the totalitarian regime. A couple of illustrative points from Lem's Wikipedia page:

After the 1939 Soviet occupation of western Ukraine and Belarus, he was not allowed to study at Lwow Polytechnic as he wished because of his "bourgeois origin"

"During the era of Stalinism in Poland, which had begun in the late 1940s, all published works had to be directly approved by the state.[23] Thus The Astronauts was not, in fact, the first novel Lem finished, just the first that made it past the state censors"

"most of Lem's works published in the 1950s also contain various elements of socialist realism as well as of the "glorious future of communism" forced upon him by the censors and editors. Lem later criticized several of his early pieces as compromised by the ideological pressure"

"Lem became truly productive after 1956, when the de-Stalinization period in the Soviet Union led to the "Polish October", when Poland experienced an increase in freedom of speech"
Mesh is a mess because meshes do not, in fact, work very well.

You set up a mesh network to provide community internet access to an underserved community? 99.9% of traffic will be going to or from the node that connects to the internet at large.

That means that although notionally adding a node to the network adds more bandwidth to the network, in practice that's only true if the new node happens to add extra bandwidth at a bottleneck.

And if everyone aims their directional antennas at the egress node, to avoid this? You've just reinvented the centralised network.
Was expecting physical buttons and knobs that matched winamp's default interface.

Very disappointing - running winamp in fullscreen is now 'physical'?

Seriously?
Well yea, two points:

a) thats awesome
b) I am taking a wild leap in deducing you're the same retro-games Benj Edwards journalist that was part of the infamous Retronauts East team. Just wanted to say i always quite enjoyed your presence :)
> Is it wrong for me to expect that most programmers are already familiar with functions that only use their inputs

They'll experience no friction when using Haskell then. Haskell only refuses to compile when you declare "Oh yeah I know functions from other languages this is easy" but then do some mutation in your implementation.
Perhaps the developer wanted to support skins this way. /s
should be fixed, if you get the time, lmk.
Such a missed opportunity though, should have made buttons and sliders physical as well!
Becomes a question of how much you are willing to stand for. If being pro genocide is acceptable, then I guess staying is OK.
> People whose animal experiences are limited to pets and zoos have many wrong ideas about how real wild animals are.

How are they? Really shy and prefer cermonial fights?

I would guess a stray dog is a bigger threat than a wild wolf that have not got its instincts breed away to have the fur in a special way.

(Note, I don't mean I'd rather be in room with a wolf than a stray dog. But that the wolf would bail 1 mile away from me.)
> .. has a compact hydrogen generator in its product portfolio, which can produce 20 g of hydrogen from 200 ml of purified water in around five-to-six hours.

> .. that hydrogen is transferred to a 25-cm-tall (9.8-in) bottle-like container at an internal pressure of 1 MPa. Popping one of these containers into the frame of one of the company's HYRYD ebikes feeds the onboard 180-W fuel cell and offers up to 60 km (37 miles) of range. Then it's just a case of removing a spent container and replacing it with a fresh one, which is said to take just 3-10 seconds.
Since this is like ten of the top ten comments here, complaining that it's not physical, I'd like to point out that physical controls are expensive. Slide pots are about a dollar: https://www.digikey.co.uk/en/products/detail/bourns-inc/PTA2... ; if you want a motorized one, that's way more.

Pushbuttons are similar. The XOR system is literally "radio buttons" or "ganged switches", but I can no longer find that exact item on catalogues. It works by having a bar hooked around all the switches so that when one is halfway-pressed it triggers the unlock across all switches, so the unused one pops out.

Then you need to hook all that up to your microcontroller as inputs, do panel cutouts, etc. The switches tend to be through-hole, complicating manufacturing. Then you discover that you end up needing two boards, one full of inputs and display parts which are through-hole so there isn't space on the back for the actual MCU.
[Took a look at my stove] Nope, all the easily-accessed wiring (under the stove top - which lifts like a car hood, for quick clean-up after a pot boils over) is in excellent shape. Insulation colors look a bit faded, but that's it. (Yes, all those wires bend a bit when you either remove a burner, or lift the top. But the design is such that the radius of those bends is extremely large, compared to the diameter of the probably-solid-copper wire.)

Guess: "Gas Seals" was a checklist item for that last service man at church. I think we have our gas stove, water heater, and furnace looked at every 7-ish years by someone from the local gas company.
>For instance, ancient people from southwest Asia known as the Yamnaya...

They really hate saying it, don't they.
That link redirects to google homepage, is that intentional?
Now I'm thinking about the creative misuse of (non-existing) technology.

From the numbering scheme, the "4" in "RP2040" is log2(ram/16K). If we wanted to emulate a Lisa, we'd need 1MB of RAM, which would mean, at least, an RP2060 chip (log2(1024/16) = 6) or, more comfortably, an RP4x70 or RP2x80). Those parts, unfortunately, don't exist yet. Maybe they get inspired with their IPO and start making those parts.
Where I live I can only find discarded beer cans and (used) Costa Coffee cups, and inverted broken umbrellas, because itś windy. These people must live in a nicer part of a nicer city ;-)

BTW, in which city can I find a discarded DEC V230/240 or 330 terminal on the street? I need it as a reference implementation of Tektronix graphics ate ReGIS. I promised the VTE crowd I'd work on that.