skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole refusal to accept that a field could legitimately define something differently than how you prefer, and then running off to blog about it and name names... and then coming around for round II of flamewar... with ever more splitting of hairs in definitions... is not awesome.

You are especially well-answered here, I think: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41599131

One reason the delivery / processing distinction exists because very often the application needs to atomically persist "I have received this message" with any other state changes made as a result of processing that message for correctness. You can't generally solve this with a layer put on top, even on the same machine. If it's not atomic, then you can still deliver duplicates to the application or end up never delivering to the application. (Power goes out when one side has written but not the other).

So, the state change to "already received" and the changes you want to make in response to the message being received have to happen together. TCP or even a message queueing implementation with a persistence layer cannot solve this problem for you. Thus, the application needs to deal with multiple delivery.

Imagine a "subtract $5 from my bank account" message with no ID on the message itself, and a layer "on top" that gives IDs and tries to ensure exactly once delivery. If the layer "on top" does not change state at the exact time $5 is deducted from the account, bad things can happen-- and in practice this is impossible. Hence, the application needs to be able to cope with the "subtract $5" being delivered to it multiple times, and this deduping has to be intimately tied to it subtracting the $5 (processing).
Lotta money to spend when not being such an asshole is free.
> these .jxl files are wrapped in a DNG container, so you can’t just fire off .jxl files from the iPhone 16 Pro.

Any move toward JPEG XL support is good, but this is lame. Even if the Chrome team comes to its senses and restores jxl support you won't be able to view these files.
The CPU isn’t used for encoding video
> power users

Not that many. Most power users don't like to be forced for logging in, before they are able to use the browser.
You're conflating two different things:

- broad Twitter ban (which is the topic of TFA), which itself results from Twitter refusal to cooperate with Brazilian justice.

- prosecutions related to the attempted coup in Brasilia, which includes activities on Twitter (and obviously there isn't a single pro-lula in the list of people involved, like there's no Bidden supporters among the people charged for Jan 6th, and it's not a conspiracy against republicans …).

Big corporations aren't exempted from laws and they cannot unilaterally decide not to comply with Court's order, whatever you think about the order in the first place. And the reason why Musk doesn't comply with Brazilian justice isn't free speech, as he's eager to comply with authoritarian regimes all around the world, he's just doing that for political motives.

Reminder: you'll get censored on Twitter if you type the word “cisgender" and Musk supported Ron De Santis censoring books in libraries, and also canceled Tesla orders from people after they criticized him personally: Musk doesn't give a shit about freedom of speech, he just claim he does hopping enough idiots will buy it against all evidence.
If they did why didn't they blow up all four pipes?
Avaq Semiconductor
Zoloft does have some very strange applications
Generate an entire app from a prompt using Together AI's LlamaCoder
It’s a big field!

But if you’re in a few discords and a bunch of subreddits, you’re doing it right.

The most interesting stuff happens in GitHub PR’s, but you have to know where to look. Kohya’s misnamed SD3 branch has a ton of good flux hints, for example. It’s also where furkan gets pretty much all his content, before it gets paywalled.

Unfortunately, unless you participate full-time it’s hard to follow along. But if you really dig in and learn to modify your tooling (Comfy, kohya etc), you’ll start to come across some really impressive people who are all self-taught, and very accessible.

It’s totally possible to work your way up to the frontier with a few months of hacking. (And disposable income for GPU time.)

And the overlap between image AI’s and LLM’s is actually pretty great since they’re all transformers under the hood.

Civit, in my experience, is a good source for weights but most of the guides are written by people without much actual experience.

If you haven’t already, use tensorflow or wandb to get an intuitive understanding of your training parameters. It’s very easy to connect your tools to these services. This is by far the most helpful thing I’ve done, and something I really regret not doing sooner.
Very interesting. The similarity to the sidekiq is a bit confusing, but it doesn't really matter.
The switch to "platforms for everyone" was basically the triumph of platforms over protocols.

And that mostly happened because, as software got more capable/powerful, and the median user less-so, there was a shift in the relative importance of user experience vs underlying power/capability.

Having users essentially cobble together their own custom experience out of interoperable parts is certainly more powerful, but it can't keep up UX-wise. Standard protocols are, by their nature, slow to evolve; they can't quickly bolt on a new feature if one is needed to make things easier for users.

Before forums there were Usenet and NNTP clients; before Discord, Slack and WhatsApp there was the IRC protocol and its various clients.

Around the turn of the millennium there was a brief trend of trying to make protocols feature-rich and faster moving, basically semi-public and operating outside of standards bodies. Stuff like ICQ and filesharing protocols. And they're mostly a buggy, insecure mess. Interoperability is hard if you're trying to be feature-rich, secure and user-friendly.. see the struggles the fediverse is having on the third one.

95% of what Facebook is used for could be cobbled together out of NNTP, RSS and SMTP, but it does it in a way that's idiot-proof for users and, perhaps equally importantly, controllable and ownable for investors.

Oh, and as to " algorithms that figured it's better NOT to give you what you actually came there for so you keep scrolling"... think about the financial interest for dating sites, where they're trying to maximise subscriber retention.
You don't need them on an expensive Gen5 drive
I think watching horizontal video should be a pretty major use case, but then again; it is only an issue in the browser, because apps like Netflix seem to handle the horizontal lock themselves.

Another thing that is messed up with horizontal video in Safari is stereo audio. This should also depend on the orientation of the phone, and in the apps I think it does, but in Safari only sometimes.

I guess I should just use the apps, or maybe in the age of TikTok horizontal video is dying anyway?
Bit of a teaser episode so I guess we'll wait for episode 3?
Gold Treasure Worth a Fortune Was Just Hidden in a Forest. The Hunt Starts Now
From what I remember from working in the industry many years ago, the process is actually split into (at least) 3 parts.

1. Reservation

2. Booking

3. Ticketing

Each step has its own expiration dates set by the airline, which can range from "instant" to several days/weeks. They may also set different cancelation fees for each step. A smart travel agent could in theory use this to cancel an old booking and book again if the price is reduced, but I think some airlines have changed their practice to avoid this.

Keep in mind that I mostly worked for the European market. I know US airlines operate a bit differently from the rest of the world. They usually have more flexible rules around flights and exchanging of tickets.
Funny thing is that the arbitrary deadline maybe was real 5 years ago, but nowadays is a lie.

Every major macOS and iOS version in the last couple of years has had a feature that is "coming later this year". For this cycle it's Apple Intelligence, last year it was the Journal app, and the year before there also were a bunch of things that were delayed.

Why not just wait until they finish those features and use the extra time to actually test the OS? (Rhetorical question, the answer is probably 'investors').
Hacker uses chatbots to leak data of top Indian insurer Star Health
Anyone who uses Hallelujah as a Christmas song should be filed with the folks who think Springsteen’s Born in the USA is positively patriotic.
Same goes for anxiety, in the short term it protects you from danger, but when it gets out of control it dictates your whole lifestyle and turns your life to hell.
Also: Kamal, CapRover
Like top comment, my first exposure to programming was basic on a ti-86 (better than 83, but quickly outdone by 84 shortly after)

My first program was doubly cheating, not only did I have a program for solving quadratic equation, but I copied the basic off the internet in true open src fashion

When I told my dad I copied code from internet, he was so disappointed and thought I had 0 skills. Now, we pip/npm/etc install anything and are heroes for choosing to "buy" not "build"
I read this as svg icons of size 3 kilobytes
Make a settings page where I can go and explicitly enable tracking rather than make it popup.

Oh, right, nobody is going to use that page.
So, is it really the EU fault for the cookie popup, which is a dark pattern?
I had long covid before, I was literally wasting away, I had no appetite, was losing weight rapidly, and my strength diminished everyday. I got out of it by force-feeding myself and forcing myself to do high-intensity exercise. My energy levels, I don't think they ever fully recovered, but I'm fine doing work and I do still exercise but not nearly as often as I used to. Nothing I can do about it, but I'm certain that the body works this way pretty reliably: you have to push until you die, and you will never know how far that is, so you just got to keep pushing and with some luck you'll grow ever stronger.
If you track down the original source, there's a video of the lead author of the Nature paper explaining how it works:

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/gargantuan-black-hole-jet...
wow, sounds like someone is taking the back story of Snow Crash a bit too seriously!
Mental Outlaw definitely doesn't know how to threat model anything. Keeps assuming you'll be targeted specifically, but then tries to evade that with i2p and Tor. Most people aren't going to be specifically targeted though, especially if they keep a low profile (i.e. don't be one of ~50k i2p users, that's sure to be a selector) and especially not for torrenting content illegally (as opposed to illegal content).

If your threat model is actually three letter agencies coming after you specifically... that's an entirely different problem not (just) solved by software.
If this is how it is, then that explains why all of the people I know who have Long Covid are hyper-neurotic people. They didn't get the repeat exposure to rid themselves of the other one.
This whole group of a16z are scared folks who will do anything to keep a seat on the table. One needs to be careful they don't sell state secrets to Saudi. They have no morality or national pride.
That’s good news. I’ve watched a really good video in the last weeks about JPEG XL advantages, if you want to learn a bit more: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FlWjf8asI4Y
There is also under count, as people who apply outside of LinkedIn won't be counted.

I'd assume they've found showing a number improves a metric like sales of LinkedIn Premium.
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How does JPEG XL compare to Apple’s current default HEIC? Is HEIC eventually going away in favor of JPEG XL?
The company Alcan Sytems also produces 5G glass antennas. But they use LCD (Display Technology) to create a phased array to dynamically direct the signal.
https://www.alcansystems.com/
Not every change is for the better. You gotta admit that TVs used to be able to switch channels much faster then they do now. And analogue controls in cars are safer and better then touch screens for everything.

A lot of change is for the better, but quite a lot is a regression.
You will have to excuse me for effectively ignoring the rest of your comment since what I'm about to point out more than makes up for the things you pointed out.

>What benefit is "the sheer power to hose Windows with a single Powershell line" when it is not you whom executes it?

The benefit is the sheer power to hose Windows with a single Powershell line.

In case that doesn't make sense, let me put it this way: The benefit is the power to do whatever you want with Windows.

Windows essentially will not say no to what you ask of it, you have the freedom to do with your computer as you desire with Windows. With this power, this freedom, this virtue comes responsibility. You as the user must secure the system as desired from the ground up, you have the power to do so and the responsibility.

Computers are tools, Windows enabling your ability to use your computer as a tool is a virtue that is priceless especially in this day and age.

If you don't believe me, consider that Windows brought forth the era of personal computing to the commons and continues to enable them by nurturing an ecosystem that can cater to almost all users' desires that now spans literally decades.
The DirectX specs are much better than both the OpenGL and Vulkan specs because they also go into implementation details and are written in 'documentation language', not 'spec language':

https://microsoft.github.io/DirectX-Specs/
The "general purpose" / digital junk food platforms were absolutely ruined 4-5 years ago.

Facebook as a prime example of this started having a large amount of non-user garbage content, which drove the users away, which made the garbage even more prevalent. I can't even categorize the garbage. Just random junk being presented as "content".
Pipewire will benefit in exactly the same way as jack.
Because WebGL, just like WebAssembly (with its hacky thread support and compilation issues) is a giant kludge.

WebGL still has fundamental issues of not even supporting anything resembling a modern OpenGL feature set (with modern meaning 2010s era stuff like compute shaders and multi draw indirect) in theory, and in practice, macOS doesn't support WebGL2, meaning stuff like multiple render targets (which is necessary for deferred rendering), so it's almost impossible to make a modernish game that runs in a browser well.

Imo the problem isn't that WebGPU/Wasm is a decade/X years behind, but that we cannot reliably expect a feature set that existed on typical mid 2000s PCs to reliably work in the browser across all platforms (which is the whole point of the web).
Silvergate executive blames Fed, FDIC and OCC for bank's collapse
I think your point of view is overlooking the concept of loophole or more precisely, malicious compliance.

Businesses can make a separate page, a settings page, where you enable tracking. This solves the problem.

But obviously the cookie popup is HUGE to cover your view of the page and it's as confusing as possible, even with the requirement of an explicit reject all button.

This is textbook malicious compliance, and the EU has been trying to combat it (the explicit reject all button), but I suspect they don't want to codify in law the exact pattern they want to see (law becomes outdated)
I’m not sure what your last sentence is saying. To the question, an example would be resource extraction and refinement. The United States has no less appetite for the materials but denies permits locally in favor of other countries doing the work. Regardless of what you think about reasoning and justification, this is an example of pushing dirty work to another country.
Similarly, policies on labor, safety, environmental protection make a lot of manufacturing and textile work relatively untenable in the United States relative to the developing world. These are policies of the nation. Individual politicians are not really relevant to the point.
Human rights are important, for example the right to be heard in conflicts.

Let me explain why I believe that a new form of country will appear: Companies will turn into countries.

Currently large companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and so on, don't "offer" human rights. People however want them to have more responsibility, especially in Europe. This is a changing force already in progress. Perhaps it will turn out that the European Court of Human Rights or a similar institution will do the same thing to Corporate what it already does for many countries.

Of course the ECHR is not working well today, there are many problems, but should we just give up and let Corporate become feudal? At least I propose we should think about what we people need from countries and corporate entities and how to gain these needs.

I guess at some point Europe could enforce corporate entities to give the right to be heard to people, for example.

And that's one step of them turning into countries.

Perhaps you think, a country, that's something with an army. But an army is not really neccessary if there is some other way to control power. Currently, however, the world doesn't seem to have a lot of power as we see with many different wars.

I am a bit pessimistic about the future of humanity, but I still hope that in the long-term we will find a way without raw material power to resolve conflicts, because this is really wasteful and might even lead to our demise.
In older days, platforms were new and few, and people consumed the platform itself. Nowadays, platforms are common and technically insignificant (i.e. no differences b/w services), and we now consume networks.
The last part is not as frantic as the first one, for good reasons. Nevertheless there are a lot of huge orbital machines and political plots that keep it going. Maybe there is some unbalance of tension between the two parts but I enjoyed the last one too.
The same can also be said about D3D12, it is at least 'heavily inspired' by Mantle. In the end, not much of Mantle has survived in Vulkan either though. Mantle was a much cleaner API than Vulkan because it didn't have to cover so many GPU architectures as Vulkan (Mantle especially didn't have to care about supporting shitty mobile GPUs).
??? I've always found wikihow superbly curated, clear, direct, readable, with simple clear diagrams and almost no fluff. At least for how-to-do guides, not buying.

Can you post a link to a low-quality wikihow article or two?
It's like Hives in Too Like The Lightning. I do admit I like the idea of having a different set of laws in the same geographical space. There are some things that are like that: accredited investor, etc. And it would be good to broaden the amount of things where you can say "I'm an adult; if I lose, I lose" and then refuse it to people who could not possibly reasonably say that.
No FCC in space?
I'm old enough to remember ILOVEYOU. During years after that I have seen millions and millions thrown into educating users not to click on wrong things.

Last month I was in conference where the keynote was from CEO of cyber security company. The whole point of the speech was that we need more money because in some cases more than 80% users still fall into email scams. My very serious question to the speaker was - if after many millions and almost 25 years more than 80% users still click on wrong links, then maybe we do something really wrong?
If you directly download the HEIC photos to your windows PC.

The iPhone tends to convert to jpeg whenever you email/whatsapp/etc a photo, so it's only direct file import that nets the original HEIC file.
Everything always does, but with a cheap battery from Lowes I now have Internet everywhere I go for $60/month beamed to me from space. I'm good with it.
This can probably be used to de-stealth US stealth aircraft: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/17/china_starlink_stealt...
The guy who paid $70k to convert 14000 existing icons/logos to SVG for commercial use because he wanted to use these icons according to his product standards. All existing SVGs icons are for personal and study purposes, that's why he spent so much amount out of good faith, moral compliance and professional courtesy.

Moreover, this website has 3198 icons and what about the remaining icons as per his specifications?

One very important thing to note here is that these SVG icons come with the GNU Affero General Public License meaning you must allow users to download the source code no matter whether it's modified or not.
Indeed, but Chrome removed support for the format some time ago.
Longer, regularly updated list of links: <https://dark.fail/> (also <http://darkfailenbsdla5mal2mxn2uz66od5vtzd5qozslagrfzachha3f...>).
> Just wait a few years and it will be a whole new “epidemic”.

Considering COVID is still around and harming people... yes, yes it will, what are you even trying to say?

That everyone who's disabled due to undiagnosed fatigue and trying to find answers is just malingering?

If so, f you, that's a really bad faith argument.