skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self-Supervised Learning from Images with a Joint-Embedding Predictive Archi
that's what I thought. What if there's a gust of wind?
How a 'citizen map' is helping Brazil prepare for its next big flood
I am an associate editor of a journal and I have suggested that the journal strongly encourage authors to pass their papers through an LLM before submitting if they think it might need it. A large fraction of the submissions we receive have terrible grammar and unnatural phrasing. The only options for editors are to reject or send out for review. Rejecting because of the grammar seems overly harsh, but I know that it is a lot more laborious to review a paper with bad grammar. The easiest fix seems to be to try to ensure that the grammar is reasonable before papers are submitted.
Psi+ 1.5.1995.0 Installer Has Been Released – Qt Jabber/XMPP Omemo/OTR E2EE
Yes this is the keypoint. There is a famous blogpost on how to address this which boils down to acquiring a lock explicitly with a very short timeout, and only after acquiring the lock the alter statement is executed. Do this in a loop and essentially it prevents the disaster, but it might fail the migration if unable to take the lock (just repeat the migration)
All of the waste that went into producing it of course.

IC fabrication produces a lot of chemical waste, and I would imagine that these ICs aren't fabbed in a place that has a great track record on pollution.
I, a random HN user, can personally attest to having never pictured anything and being a 5 in the sense of this image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Aphantas...

And apparently they can prove differences with MRIs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8186241/
I don't like the e-waste aspect either, but realistically, the chip is so minuscule that the amount of waste is trivial compared to almost anything else you might discard. The chip is literally the size of a grain of salt.

The other factor is that people who use tickets regularly would use the rechargeable plastic cards, rather than the disposable tickets, so the amount of waste is reduced.
In absolute numbers, the US is the #1, but immigrants as percentage of population has the US as #65 (Canada #41).

Still way higher than Russia or China. While a little over 15 % of the US population are immigrants (defined as not born in the country), only 0.07 % of the Chinese population are immigrants. Roughly 7 % of Russian population is immigrants.

Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/immigrati...
An Odd Rock in a Box Gets Linked to a Shooting Star That Fell 54 Years Ago
Agreed! In Rome for some time now one can top up his paper NFC ticket; there is no reason to throw it away.
Not just 4K- all resolutions and it's getting worse with plenty of comparisons available online for those who care to look. Streaming video quality has generally declined across all platforms in the last few years with the exception of Apple TV+ and contrary to this puff piece it's to the point it's very noticeable to the discerning end user.

Enshittification continues relentlessly.
Psi+ 1.5.1995 portable has been released – Qt Jabber/XMPP OMEMO/OTR E2EE
Makes sense, because everything starts with philosophy.
> e real hair-raising thing is that HH70 is out of the blue.

I wish them best of luck and China speed. It doesn't matter who develops the technology, in either case it's a win for humanity. 7 out of 8 billion people are not in the "west".
I haven’t watched them in many years but my experience was that compression sucked on dark scenes even in 1080p. On the other hand, you were able to watch on a 3G connection without any buffering bumps
Why does this remind me of something out of a certain old point and click adventure game, it was one that had the verb USE apply to every type of action.

click>(GUM)

click>(SELF)

click>(USE)

"You used the GUM on yourself.

Nothing special happens.

You now have 0 GUM."

There was another game in the same genre that did the same, but with the verb OPERATE. As teenagers my friends and I used to laugh way too much at dialogue responses these games would craft, where you would get things like "OPERATE GUM on SELF"
Thank you for G'MIC! The FFT in partiqular has been a life-saver on multiple occasions, letting me denoise specific patterns out various old images and photos.
Also, Oi tudo bem @quirino?!? Will you be posting the number of competitors at any point? I would love to see how good my 24 is in the grand scheme!
If the chosen stopping point was some other category, would the percentage be lower? Or is this merely a phenomenon that you can eventually reach any category by repeatedly clicking on the first link?
I just passed a lot of time going through all the examples/demos—render me impressed!
> Not to mention MINIX is hidden away in almost every modern Intel CPU as part of its Management Engine.

Sometimes I wonder how the world would be today if MINIX was distributed with a FLOSS license similar to Linux. I think the Linus Torvalds vs Andrew Tanenbaum debate could have been a pivotal moment in tech history by the way MINIX missed a huge opportunity to step up in the history.
I don't know personally about the antenna manufacturing, but one web page talks about printable conductive silver ink for producing RFID antennas.
https://www.sunchemical.com/product/printed-antenna/
Deepfake crypto scam uses Elon Musk to target investors [video]
To be honest, if I were writing software in Go I would just test it end-to-end.

If the software's logic is too complex and fiddly to lend itself to straightforward end-to-end testing (i.e. enterprise software), I just wouldn't write it in Go. I'd choose a higher level language like Python or Java where mocking (and other kinds of dynamism) are straightforward and require no boilerplate.
If it can help appreciate impastos better:

First, most paintings are created to be looked at from a distance, and not from up-close. In particular to this effect, painters regularly step back when working.

Second, regarding impastos, the wikipedia article is quite expeditious:

> it makes the light reflect in a particular way, giving the artist additional control over the play of light in the painting

Here's a practical example:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Duparc-v...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Longcham...

Because the painting is lit from above (it's almost always the case), the portion of the impasto facing toward the light, receives more light than anything else in the painting: it's one way to "paint" "whiter than white", very convenient to create highlights.

It's in particular noticeable on the nose of the previous painting. Noses are a bit greasy, and will thus reflect more light.

On the other side of the impasto, a little shadow can be casted. It can be used to echo the form being depicted. This is being used, for example on her right lower eyelid, where there's a little cast shadow (and a highlight).

It's some sort of a tiny bas-relief.

But all those impastos from up-close look weird, unnatural. "Gross" even, in this particular case…
But those are small, isolated attacks. Front line is still deep in the Ukrainian territory. If Ukrainian counter-offensive manged to move it deep enough withing Russian borders, Russia would nuke them.

And as for consequences I do not think the West would do anything about that. US won't go on full scale nuclear war with Russia over some insignificant country at the end of the world, that isn't even a NATO member. So the worst outcome of nuking Ukraine for Russia is to get even more economic sanctions, that's all.
Rarrr, no issues here
People often forget the original purpose of these state forests was to harvest the timber and pay the teacher salaries as part of the Oregon Common School Fund... As the great great grandson of Francis Elliott (Oregon's first state forester), I have been reminded of this by my family many times over the years. I'm unsure of it's purpose today, but I suspect the teachers wouldn't mind the extra pay.
>build Harfbuzz with -Dwasm=enabled and build wasm-micro-runtime, then add the resulting shared libraries, libharfbuzz.so.0.60811.0 and libiwasm.so to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable before running a Harfbuzz-based application such as gedit or GIMP

It'd be lovely if someone embedded the font in a website form to save us all the trouble of demoing it
yes, poor people prosper when international megacorps pay them minimum wage to chop down all their trees. the corp keeps all the profit, and moves on when the trees are gone, and usually leaves a bunch of pollution behind. That's why old mining towns in the appalachians are so prosperous!
Some of us care about actual understanding and intelligence. Other people just want something useful enough that can mimic it. I don't know why he feels the need to be an ass about it though.
> there's a good chance the average person who buys a lot of beer skews a certain political way

There really isn’t! In fact I can think of few drinks more universal among men than beer.

You note in the quote provided the VP said “another”, not “a replacement”. They were trying to appeal to a new market alongside their existing one. They underestimated the culture war outrage that would provoke but that outrage wasn’t actually based on anything real. The product remains the same, the price remains the same. Unlike in the article we’re discussing.
Okay, thanks a bunch. I work a lot with students studying for the SAT and GRE, and something like this could be very useful for them.
That's unfortunate to hear, I'm sorry you've had to deal with that :(
it's not exactly chosen to be the stopping point
also check out the video mentioned in comment which explains how the centrality, being in a big loop and being a high indegree node leads to this behaviour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-llumS2rA8I
The article says that there is a gene for resistance to that cancer already present in the Tasmanian Devil genome. It's a fascinating mechanism. Wonder if it evolved related to overpopulation?
Where do you live? Chicago has had these contactless paper tickets since 2013
Switches don't need to change anything to support QUIC, precisely because it uses UDP. So, the deployment of QUIC doesn't involve any technical changes that would enable a version of QUIC that worked directly over IP. It's possible that the defeat of middleboxes would change the motivation of ISPs to filter out alternate protocol numbers, meaning that there might be less resistance to getting them to allow that in the future - but doing so is still a big exercise.

Also, the overhead of a UDP packet is 8 bytes total, in 4 16-bit fields:

- source port

- dest port

- length

- checksum

So, we can save a max of 8 bytes per packet - how many of these can we practically save? The initial connection requires source and dest ports, but also sets up other connection IDs so theoretically you could save them on subsequent packets (but that's pure speculation, with zero due diligence on my part). It would require operational changes and would make any NATs tricky (so practically only for IPv6)
Length and checksum maybe you can save - QUIC has multiple frames per UDP datagram so there must be another length field there (anyway, IETF is busily inventing a UDP options format on the basis that the UDP length field is redundant to packet length, so can be used to point at an options trailer). QUIC has integrity protection but it doesn't seem to apply to all packet types - however I guess a checksum could be retained for those that don't only.

So in sum maybe you could save up to 8 bytes per packet, but it would still be a lot of work to do so (removing port numbers especially)
Road construction is afaik used to make traffic/transportation more effective, so not doing so seems like a gigantic waste of resources in a growing society.
this
Planning on going full-in on rails soon
Cool. One issue: not all wave shapes play at the same volume.
The video referenced in this news report (or something very similar to it), just showed up in my top suggested videos stream on Youtube.

- YouTube is not doing enough to purge these fraudulent videos.

- YouTube is actively promoting these fraudulent videos.

What kind of business is Neal Mohan running here? Isn't he worried about YouTube liability in its role of actively promoting deepfakes?
Complaining among the first amendment applying to corporations (you know, like the ACLU) with a second Trump term looming … is a choice.
Or use lasers and tiny gum-shaped smoke bombs to sample and model the local air column currents, pre soften and flatten a portion of the gum paper-thin with some sort of wettimg/rolling assembly, stage, then let it drop and form its own miniature gum parachute or replica of one of those whirling propeller seeds that have a built-in wing to slow their fall.
Bigger RC helicopters and RC planes are often fuel powered

>internal combustion

Thing with this is that now you need:

a) Fuel tank plus a pump

b) A combustion chamber

c) Gears or a way to mechanically regulate fuel flow

...of which b and c probably need to be metal. For light & small drones you're not necessarily winning here on weight
I am on the camp that agrees with that, but there are many who don't :/
This works for text-expansion snippets too. All of the text expansions that I do with Alfred (other tools might work, too) are all comma phrases. I realize that writing English or even programming scripts/tag, I'd never (not so far) encounter a word or text that starts with a comma immediately followed by anything. I used to use period but have stumbled on instances such as file extension where a period can be followed by words.
Interesting post. I've used Laravel for a few years now for work and personal projects, and I've really enjoyed it. I tried to test out Rails to explore other MVC web frameworks, and I just couldn't vibe with it. I think the major areas in which I was incompatible with Rails were:

- Lack of dependency injection/inversion of control. I find it interesting the author lists this as an advantage. With Rails, I was always a little anxious not knowing where things were defined or being implemented.

- Validation happens on models, not requests. With Laravel, I really appreciate being able to validate pretty much any data coming into the application regardless of whether or not it ends up in the database. With Rails, I tried to look for something similar to FormRequest and its validation rules, but I couldn't find many solutions. I think it might just be one of those things that's not the "Rails way".

- Perhaps more of a Ruby issue than a Rails issue, but the dynamism of the language - especially in its type system - was a bit of a drawback for me. I really appreciate PHP 8 and newer versions of Laravel for their support in type hinting and static analysis; being able to mouseover anything and know pretty confidently what I'm working with is a huge boon in my productivity.

I definitely agree with the author on a lot of the Laravel tooling stuff. I've learned to just kind of ignore most of the offerings outside of the core framework. I'm sure it's all great, but there's always a bit of churn in Laravel as the author mentioned so I'd rather save myself the future heartbreak.
AI -> Machine learning -> Deep Learning -> LLM's - LMM's -> ?
Definitely noticeable on Netflix, but I also have some specific issues with Amazon Prime, where certain scenes have these weird, thin horizontal artifacts.
I'm happy with Steam on Windows but hate its behavior on Mac. It's slow and keeps stealing focus while starting up. I haven't gotten the "choose user" thing though. Cmd-Q does quit Steam for me.
I think Rails is great if you don't go wild with things like callbacks, 10s of levels of partial nesting, and mystery behavior included in controllers. If you keep your gem use sane too, you'll be fine.
Shadcn-UI like library, for authentcation. NextJS and Firebase –> NextFireJS
I was in Paris in March and had a ticket for this. I was at the museum an hour before my booked time slot. The square in front of the entrance was one gigantic queue, and when I asked at the front I was told that they were still processing people who had booked a time slot an hour before that. I decided not to stand around in the rain for two hours for a very dubious chance to get what I had paid for. There are no refunds for any reason ever, of course.

It's a shame because when I lived in Paris the Musée d'Orsay was one of my favorites. Apparently management changed sometime in the last few years, and ticket sales are higher than ever. But only because it has turned into yet another tourist trap.
It would not be of much use as no browser enables this experimental feature. So unless you somehow build a wasm build of Harfbuzz with the feature enabled and embed it on there nothing will happen.
The chip is the size of a grain of salt, but there's a relatively huge antenna inside made of conducting material (metal?) and glue and all that.
I don't know of anyone who's written about it, unfortunately; I discovered it in the course of my own analysis of Euro-NCAP standards as part of a work project.

The test protocol is here:

https://www.euroncap.com/en/for-engineers/protocols/vulnerab...

I used to be very excited about Euro-NCAP but when I actually researched it, I became fairly critical. It only measures AEB, and leg impact and head impact against the car, with very little consideration put into how the general profile of the car affects the collision kinematics. Whether the car pushes pedestrians onto the ground or throws them up in the air, it doesn't matter -- only the initial contact between the car and pedestrian is measured. (And while representing the pedestrian by a disembodied leg and a disembodied head).

It's had a good influence in some ways, most importantly by testing head impact at various points on the hood, which has forced automakers to reduce stiffness and add more space for deflection between the hood and the engine block. I think in other ways, it's helped accelerate a trend towards brick-shaped vehicle fronts, because they perform better on the leg impact tests. I personally believe this will result in fewer leg injuries but more deaths.
The government would probably be knocking on his door if he developed a guided hat dropping system
The statistical trees per acre reminds me of:

If the utilitarian state could not see the real, existing forest for the (commercial) trees, if its view of its forests was abstract and partial, it was hardly unique in this respect. Some level of abstraction is necessary for virtually all forms of analysis, and it is not at all surprising that the abstractions of state officials should have reflected the paramount fiscal interests of their employer. The entry under "forest" in Diderot's Encyclopédie is almost exclusively concerned with the utilité publique of forest products and the taxes, revenues, and profits that they can be made to yield. The forest as a habitat disappears and is replaced by the forest as an economic resource to be managed efficiently and profitably. Here, fiscal and commercial logics coincide; they are both resolutely fixed on the bottom line.

“Seeing Like a State” Jaces C. Scott

https://files.libcom.org/files/Seeing%20Like%20a%20State%20-...
NFC supports passive mode (where one side is powered and the card is not) and active mode (where both sides are powered). So, yes, your phone is probably more reliable because it provides a powered data transmission.

An NFC card doesn't actively transmit data. Instead, it sends data using "load modulation", where it switches a load across the antenna to change how much power it absorbs. The transmitter can detect this change in power, but the signal is extremely weak (80 decibels below the transmitted signal), so it's amazing that it works at all.
I mean if you keep asking why you eventually get to a point where you hit the limits of human knowledge and then have to make do with subjective opinions aka philosophy.
New 18Mb/s transfers are better than their back stock.
Today's featured article, Cyclone Taylor, goes to an Ancient Greek -> Greek Language loop.

Today's top in the news link, Iberian lynx, leads off site (to Wiktionary) on the first link.

I've tried getting to philosophy years ago and it was reliable--but what's up now?
The immediate destruction of client resources even under server grab is not new functionality to the epoll port; it behaved the same under the old select-based loop, too. It might be a bug, but that's how it's always behaved.

It shouldn't be too hard to fix if you want to try, either; check client->ignoreCount > 0 when handling X_NOTIFY_ERROR before calling CloseDownClient.
What’s going on with fuel cells? It seems like they’re never considered for anything.

What am I missing?
I use short custom command names like aa, st, di, dp, cm and le in some thin wrappers around git.

One of these names actually collides with a utility that is installed by default on some systems.

Doesn’t matter to me. I have my own bin dirs before the system dirs in my path, so mine “win”, and I’m not really interested at all in the tool that mine has a name collision with.

If someone were to make a useful to me tool that collided with one of my own tools, I’d probably sooner alias that other tool to a new name that didn’t collide with mine, than to change any of my own tool names.

It’s just too comfortable to use these two-character tools of mine.
Yeah, building a repository of knowledge naturally leads to the question of "how do we define knowledge"?
Movies Anywhere is consistently great quality.
I was also curious about this. a bunch of BASE jumping hats dropping off a building is exactly the sort of project I would momentarily think about doing and never seriously entertain due to being certain that sooner or later someone, somewhere is going to sue me for some marginally harm-like side effect.
> There have been some theories on this phenomenon, with the most prevalent being the tendency for Wikipedia pages to move up a "classification chain".

I've not heard people talk about it, but it seems like there's a model of information in the Dewey classification system, where 000 includes information systems and general reference itself, then 100 is philosophy, all the way up to 900, which is history. It's something like abstract ("information" to concrete ("real, specific things that happened"). By this theory, it makes sense that moving up the classification chain would take you to Philosophy, if you go far enough. But if that's what was happening, I'd expect it to keep going beyond Philosophy into the 000s.

Maybe, maybe not. Rather than admit my theory is wrong, I'll just pretend that the substrate on which Philosophy articles are built is Wikipedia, the internet, and other information organizing systems. Thus, all Philosophy articles on Wikipedia have an implied link above them in the classification chain. Phew, crisis averted.
all of that is probably negligible compared to how much disposable foil is used for cooking or packaging.
> Presumably, the makers thought that making the card look like a smart card would help people understand it. The card actually uses an entirely different technology.

It’s kind of the same, though. The physical communication layer is different, but the higher protocol layers are basically identical. Smart cards with contacts follow ISO 7816. These MIFARE contactless cards are ISO 14443 Type A cards, and their protocol follows ISO 7816-4.

This shouldn’t be terribly surprising — the entire ecosystem built for smart cards with contacts wants to support contactless cards with minimal changes, and this includes the host software, the readers, and the logic in the cards. There are even plenty of devices where the same device supports contact and contactless uses — plenty of credit cards, bank cards, and FIDO devices are like this.

This is analogous to WiFi and wired Ethernet. They’re have very different physical layers, but they are logically compatible, and the same software supports both.
Yap. Nice idea - try it now!