skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Professional software (think Clip Studio Art, 3DS Max, Autodesk Fusion and alike) are almost exclusively disconnected from "native" looks, behavior and theming, which is perfectly fine, better than having a different experience depending on your OS.

I feel like it's mostly consumers who ask for native look, and particular users on macOS, as almost all other professional-oriented software doesn't offer that. But yet it comes up for every GUI toolkit that lands on the HN frontpage.
If you're spending $15k on a box, you can also spend $1200 for a small insulated shed kit and $800 for a small mini-split heat pump. I live in a much warmer summer climate than Texas and this solution works fine for me for my small network cabinet.
Thanks, gruez. I find the "fire in theatre" quote to be one of the most ironically misused arguments.
I've tried many different background removal algorithms and found that InSPyReNet has been the most successful one. I use `transparent-background` on pip a whole bunch and it rarely fails on me compared to remove-bg and whatnot

https://github.com/plemeri/transparent-background
So be it. Votes talk, and neither party has margins to risk.
This is an interesting approach and surely a game changer for any side…
I recall years back watching a video on a Russian university equivalent of STEM research project. The video showed students making drones from scratch and the comments made a mockery of the research; something in the realm of “they are making drones while we already have plenty in the market”. Needless to say that it’s one thing to buy a drone and another to make a drone that you control and can customize for whatever environment or needs.
Fair point, I guess it goes both ways.
They meant 'without added sugar' - it's obvious from context, but I don't know why there's emphasis on it. Maybe just for sensational headlines.
We first have to understand what the misinformation is in order to understand how to censor it.

You're going to say Trust the Scientist, I will point you to the replicability crisis...
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc877627/m1/4...
Indie World Showcase and Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase 8.27.2024 Livestream [video]
The source availability of the bitdrift Capture SDK
We shipped SSO support in a day, how?
Weirdly enough, Blink is the first time we have the equivalent of a shared "OS API", that's due to the browser becoming the main way to run apps (desktop at least) and that is supported by most consumer computing devices
I’m sure they would never do that here. Our price increases are completely organic, natural, and market-driven, as always. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Putting covid patients in nursing homes and then covering that up was certainly not anything related to a "pretty good job"
All fine except Itanium happened and it goes against everything you list out...?
Was ready to be super sceptical but this is interesting. The measure gets at ways of showing uniqueness (e.g. defending a view thats different from everyone else's, not caring what others think). So I can buy that has descreased.

What I bet hasn't decreased is the extent to which people say they want to be unique.
> I know this narrative is appealing to people when someone they disagree with is in the white house but it isn't true. If you are a member of a country club and then Biden or Trump (whichever you dislike more) has you kicked out of the country club, it doesn't become a free speech issue due to their involvement. There may be other issues but it isn't a free speech issue. So it is with private platforms which already do all kinds of other moderation.

"the narrative", who's narrative? Of course it IS a free speech issue when the boss of the country club is the chief of executive branch and being part of the country club is a quid pro quo. Zuck and Dorsey's lackeys back then, they weren't censoring informations unfavorable to democrats or Biden's family for free.
Don't forget bad UI decisions. Right now they have a 'Sign in with Google' pop-up on every page, and it doesn't stay gone no matter how many times you close it.
This is very nice I was nerd-snipped by it. Just kept drilling down and exploring adjacent trees in Java.

Thanks for making it authentication-free and free of charge.
I have been working on an open source MCAD application called cadseer.
https://gitlab.com/blobfish/cadseer
> I wouldn't call it a "tremendous sacrifice" then.

Moving 10K miles away from you family and friends, never to return home isn't a tremendous sacrifice? Living the rest of your life in fear of being snatched up or murdered by the CIA isn't a tremendous sacrifice? Okay, dude.

> It would have been had he decided to face trial

It's only a sacrifice if you submit corrupt justice? Yikes.

> or at least not flee to a country that is the historical enemy of the US...

This is the best option to avoid extradition, as you well know.

> ...with access to who knows how many copies of secret documents so that he could save his ass.

What a damning hypothetical!

> I don't know how a trial would have ended, but considering how much public attention he got, including many supporters, he would have had a fair trial, or at least, fair enough for the cameras.

This is weaselspeak for "we all know he wouldn't have gotten a fair trial."

> Chances are that by now, he would have served his time in prison

A decade in prison. For doing his duty.

> His actions, though undeniably human, taint his status as a hero.

Yours is the morality of a Vichy collaborator. True heroes submit to injustice? Bullshit! True heroes fight injustice and thumb their noses at corrupt centers of power.
Folie à Deux
The Geometry of the Set of Equivalent Linear Neural Networks
I’ve been using and recommending Signal for years now. Recently I have learned that Signal relies on AWS. What are the implications from a security perspective?
I don't really mind. My team has access to all the usual software (Fusion, Solidworks, Eagle, Altium, Houdini) and we did both PCB and enclosure and firmware before.

BTW, it seems like searching for filenames won't work when you do a cross-repository search on GitHub. And going for a keyword like KiCad will produce lots of repositories with scripts to make PCB design easier, but very little actual PCB design attempts.
> it sure shouldn't cost less to do it yourself

The companies produce generic solutions. Because software is complex, and their customers exist in many domains with different needs and whatever.

When you can make a really focused solution, it becomes cheap.

Look at the C++ STL. How much am I using? Not much in comparison to the whole thing. I could write an implementation of std::vector in an afternoon and use it in my apps. But std::vector is like 10,000 lines long and almost impossible to read. Because it's a generic solution, like the rest of the STL.

DD provides solutions with adapters upon adapters. Using this language? Use this SDK. How about this one? Then this other SDK. Have these types of data points? Use this. Need this graph? Use this. And on and on.

But most customers are only gonna use a little bit. Okay, we'll use the ruby SDK to collect metrics. What about the other 30 SDKs because this is a generic solution? I dunno. But you're paying for them.
>1. Work for a FAANG or adtech for 70 hours per week with a toxic manager on optimizing the psychological weapons and dark patterns they use to keep their users in a negative feedback cycle of dependence on their increasingly shitty and hostile products

Say what you want about the morality of working for them, but almost no one is working 70 hours there and the true .1% engineers are making multiple $M per year so the tradeoff may be worth it.

>3. Work in a niche industry or a consulting firm doing interesting and important work, but always for one client at a time, having an extremely limited impact (and limited pay to match)

If you are just selling your labor as a butt in a seat then yes this is true. I know solo tech consultants making 200k/mo because they moved up in the meta chain and sell strategy to CTOs.

>4. Start my own business and work 90 hour weeks spending 95% of my time on organizational business things that I'm bad at, leaving virtually no hours for the thing I'm a phenomenal super-expert at.

This is just fantasy.

>'ve chosen #3, but I'm honestly sick of just continuing to just get better and better at software engineering and having it mean absolutely fuck-all. What's the point? Why would you ever bother becoming an expert?

I think you have a warped view of reality and frankly of the value of expertise. There are world class engineers all over the place making 7 figures a year very easily. They aren't working 80 hours a week, they aren't working for soul sucking corps on boring problems, etc. I suspect you also aren't accurately measuring your own skill relative to these people. At the minimum they aren't as cynical and defeatist as you and know how to market their abilities.
> Elon Musk’s plan to open Tesla’s charging network is proceeding slowly. Nobody is entirely sure why

One of the reasons why is because Musk fired the entire supercharger team. When Musk threw away that experience and expertise for no good reason it would always be the case that everything to do with Tesla chargers would take longer:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/inside...

Europe picked their EV charging standards a decade ago. All EV makers, charging equipment manufacturers, and charging networks can build and deploy to the same standard. EV infrastructure is much further developed and interoperable in Europe because of that standardization.

North America will reach that basic level of EV charging interoperability eventually but it's still years away.
I mowed my lawn six weeks ago. Is that labor worth the same, more, or less than the labor of me mowing it today?
The Thread API: Concurrent, Colorless Ruby
Sounds like almost every large company I've worked in.
For the web, PHP remains #1. It's super fast, especially when using FrankenPHP or Swoole. Laravel has the fastest development velocity out of any framework available.
#2 and #3 were always there, just with different targets. You could easily get shut down for not confirming to (depending on your time frame and location) McCarthyism, the comics code, the wishes of the Nazi party, saying things the King didn't like, etc.

#2 has also been a thing basically forever, from "look how great $REIGNING_MONARCH is" to "hey look how screwed up our system for taking care of orphans is" (Oliver twist) to 1984, etc.
The thing about standards is they are able to be re-evaluated from time to time. I think it's worth examining what legitimate purpose spreading health misinformation serves, and how that is beneficial to society.
> maybe the discrepancy that dark matter was invented to explain will simply disappear when more accurate astronomical data including the fainter stars becomes available.

That's unlikely. Measuring the milky way galaxy's rotation curve is bitchingly hard because we're inside it. Curves of other galaxies are much, much easier to measure and for example Andromeda is likely to be correct.

Moreover galaxies with exceptionally large satellite galaxies are known to have keplerian decline, so this could have been predicted.

The more interesting recent results is that for some galaxies the rotation curve is flat very very far out (those measurements might not be as accurate ofc) which would imply much larger dark matter halos which are inconsistent with e.g. cmb ringing
People telling other people how to live sadly happens everywhere and I wouldn't correlate it with popular beliefs, as in religions et. al.
This is BS, as FreeBSD use linux kernel modules for half of its hardware and, OpenBSD with a lot smaller team has better support for various devices.
Prozac in waterways is changing how fish behave, research finds
As far as safety, I would expect this
depth to be below and away from any groundwater,

Nuclear power needs lots of water for cooling and this is no exception.

Can you realistically have a nuclear power plant far enough away from groundwater that this isn't a concern?

Not a rhetorical question. Maybe you can!
Skimpflation has impacted many things.
Gravitational lensing doesn't have to be apparent to the eye as those extreme examples on the wiki page are. The second image on the bullet page shows matter in pink and measured lensing in blue.
Isn't the photo quality better on Signal? My goal is to preserve memories with photos at high fidelity. Usually I just link photo albums.
Transplants were possible more than 50 years ago, but the few that were technically possible were still a bad idea.

50 years from now? My guess is that gender reassignment surgery will become so easy, so reversible, as to be as uncontroversial as a tattoo is today.

The controversy will shift to people getting very upset about furries who want living tails and full-body skin replacements for that glossy winter coat…
If you want something electric, hybrids are the only practical option for a very large number of people in the US.
I don't think they're intended for rack usage like that. More like for people to put under their desks... there would be no reason to build the giant case with fancy silent-ish cooling if you're going to put them next to your other jet engines.
If signal cant see your messages on their own hardware what's the difference with aws?
i can't think of any other syscall that makes use of tlb caches and page fault machinery to enter the kernel as needed in response to ordinary user space memory access.
> 6% false negatives

that's probably the most important number, and quite good
I find this a big + haha, no more stupid pics from friend groups in between my nice pictures. And if I want one in there it's two taps away.
I wonder if this is coming up just before the election because of the Harris campaign’s suggested policy of capital gains tax on unrealised gains for people who have over $100m in assets? I think this is a great idea personally given what these people are doing to avoid paying tax including taking out loans against their own share portfolios. Worth thinking about what people are willing to do to not pay billions of dollars worth of taxes.
This feels like a more verbose version of "keep politics out of videogames", which ignores how videogames have always had political messages. Every call of duty game has been a commentary on the military industrial complex and war. Final Fantasy VII had an eco-terrorism group fighting against an evil corporation. Short of perhaps pacman, videogames have and will always carry a message.

Also, if this is how the Chinese industry dominates, they're going to give up a good half of their userbase. The streaming prohibition against feminist messaging aside, the leadership of the development studio has been exceptionally sexist and misogynist in their public messages. Even if you set aside the potential to misconstrue idioms (which even Chinese news sites have called sexist), they've outright said that Black Myth Wukong is not for women, since they're only interested in sims style games.
> A people cannot understand themselves without understanding their past

This kind of stuff gets rolled out regularly by arty and literary types but never with any explanation as to why it might be true, and I don't think it is. Care to indulge me?
George Lucas wrote that twist for The Empire Strikes Back. The character was already named Darth Vader.
Since the requirements have made a C dependency acceptable, then why not make the job easier by just writing a Rust->C source translator ?
China's AI Engineers Are Accessing Banned Nvidia Chips
> to include people I knew

Sorry for your loss.

> the fatality rate was around one percent, wasn't it?

According to one report at least, it was 1% for folks in their 60s. For younger demographics it was quite a bit less than that.

> We report IFR estimates for April 15, 2020, to January 1, 2021, the period before the introduction of vaccines and widespread evolution of variants. We found substantial heterogeneity in the IFR by age, location, and time. Age-specific IFR estimates form a J shape, with the lowest IFR occurring at age 7 years (0·0023%, 95% uncertainty interval [UI] 0·0015–0·0039) and increasing exponentially through ages 30 years (0·0573%, 0·0418–0·0870), 60 years (1·0035%, 0·7002–1·5727), and 90 years (20·3292%, 14·6888–28·9754).

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

> So given that information, what is one to do?

You make the best decision you can for yourself, and sounds like you did that. The frustrating part is when other people felt entitled to make that decision for you.
I suppose.

Abstractly:

A constraint is an invariant that must be true before and after the change.

It doesn't matter if they are 'hidden' or 'visible'; if you must maintain the existing behavior, then you have to prove that no constraints are violated by the change you make.

The effort you have to expend is proportional to the number of places where you have invariant that must be maintained.

However.

If you isolate constraints in groups (call them crates, modules, whatever you want), then you can create a region which has no constraints except at the boundary where you interact with a defined API.

Since the volume is always >= the surface, you can prove that having the boundary is strictly <= effort to maintain than not having it.

Concretely:

If you can prove (because it is impossible due to the compiler rules or whatever manual process) that you have no dependencies on the internal functions inside a particular namespace / module / etc. because the only way it is ever possible to call those functions is via a specific public API.

...then you are not constrained in changing / refactoring / removing / whatever you want.

The internal workings have no external dependencies, no callers.

It is therefore less effort to maintain that code; because any change does not require you to go hunting around for someone calling helpers.internal.finance.convertCurrency for it's view model in a completely different domain.

If you want to call that 'hidden' then sure.

I'd probably say 'different view', but if basically yes, the point is that of the entire set of constraints for the system, you can say, today, our work is in this area of the code and we have a much much smaller set of things we have to worry about while we make changes here.

It's not rocket science; you see people doing this all the time; 'It's just a few tests, it can't break the database'.

Correct. The tests are a separate package that strictly the database schema has no dependencies on.

Therefore it is quick and easy and safe to make changes to them.

...

If your project only has two domains; 'tests' and 'non-tests', you literally doing the same thing the OP is suggesting, just at a slightly reduced scale.

In bigger, more sophisticated projects, the number of mini-domains inside a single project is usually > 2; but for exactly the same reasons.
I assumed the logo would be on the ones without child slavery. Similar to the organic logo.
What an absolute chad.
At the very least, the uutils project seems to be making good progress on becoming a "true" drop-in replacement for the GNU coreutils that will pass the GNU test suites and treat compatibility issues as bugs.

Honestly though, as time goes on, I'm not sure if rewriting UNIX utilities to be memory-safe actually gets you that much. I mean, having multiple implementations of something as important as the coreutils is good: nobody complains about the co-existence of e.g. BSD and GNU utilities, and IMO there's really no reason to feel any different about RiiR rewrites. That said, I can't really figure out what attack model would really make memory safety a particular priority. In most cases you would be isolating things that require these sorts of utilities using namespaces/jails/etc, and I wonder if memory bugs in the coreutils is actually a serious attack vector.

Of course in this case (FreeBSD-rustdate) it's literally for performance reasons rather than safety, so everything sort of makes sense (not necessarily using Rust for safety per-se, but for robust threading. That does make sense.)
> but we not only need reliable base load energy but lots more of it than we have now—and that base load will continue to increase

The term "base load" is not that useful; it's just the amount of load which can be supplied by generators which cannot vary their output quickly, like coal power plants. An increase on "base load" only means you can use more of these slow power plants (coal, nuclear), instead of requiring more flexible power plants (gas peakers, hydroelectric, solar, wind, batteries); but you don't have to.
Get rid of all unnecessary things and overhead in our society and we do not have a resource issue.

Focus on automatisation and we don't have a production issue.

Its a man made problem, not some kind of magic rule.
Another possible reason also mentioned in the article:

> speculation that Mr. Musk was having second thoughts about opening up Tesla’s network, possibly because he was worried that access would help other automakers sell battery-powered models and lure customers from Tesla
The "ease" with which one can run their own Matrix server is currently what causes the most problems that I see in the wild.

I love matrix, I use it a lot, it has its place. But Signal just works.
Hi,

nice work. I recently also published a WebGPU version of our browser-only background removal library. It's using the onnx-runtime under the hood. Weights are from isnet. It could also run birefnet – if there is some interest – however BirefNet weights are almost 1GB in size, which is a bit much to download I guess.

There is a blog post about it and also a CPU only version available.

https://img.ly/blog/browser-background-removal-using-onnx-ru...

Source is available at: https://github.com/imgly/background-removal-js

and on npm: @imgly/background-removal

Feel free to check it out!
Apple's Next Big Thing Might Be a Button
I am horrified by this notion. There's no reason to not just build a CMS on Laravel if you actually have PHP developers on hand, even if you have one competent PHP dev on hand you they should be able to build a CMS on Laravel without issue. This whole concept doesn't make sense to me.
Wasn't AP complicit in the laptop censorship? I feel like they claimed there was no evidence. Maybe I am mixing them up with another new org?
> Trees are loud, like really loud, but we can't hear it at all since it's all ultrasound.

Just to put loud in perspective: seems like cavitation produces ultrasound in the ~30db range at the highest[1], which is roughly the level of a whisper. I haven't knowingly captured trees in my ultrasound field recording, but it seems fun to try. That should be loud enough to pick up something with an ultrasonic recorder close by, I'd think, which is pretty cool -- I assumed you'd need to do something like David Dunn and embed microphones into the trees.

[1] https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1469-...
Bullet cluster is inconsistent with LCDM on the grounds that given the apparent dark matter:matter ratio a collision between clusters of that size is something like unlikely to the tune of one in a trillion? IIRC universes. (Aka the collision should not have happened in the first place).

The thing about lensing is that we don't have a solution in (GR would need to be tweaked if MOND is true -- the math is much harder!!) so we can't really say what the lensing would look like in any given MOND-like theory yet. Seems weird to declare that MOND can't explain lensing. It's should be more qualified: "we don't think MOND can explain the lensing"
Hydrocron: New Tool for Surface Water and Ocean Topography Time Series Analysis
The low precision is problematic as a high false positive rate will cause local officials and population to ignore the warnings.