skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm curious how much energy it takes to send bits over cellular or wifi, my intuition is that this is orders of magnitude higher than compression or encoding.

Correct, but the computational cost of decoding a codec is generally correlated with the number of bits. So JXL is not necessarily more expensive to decode than older codecs, if it compresses better.
Best comment I've seen on hn, maybe ever. Perfect refutation, comic, on point.
Single sign on works just fine without third-party cookies.

You forward the user to the SSO system with some URL parameters, the SSO system checks the first-party cookies (as the SSO system's domain is shown in the URL bar), then the SSO system forwards the user back to you with some different URL parameters. It can also be done with a popup login window, in many cases.

After all, what if the SSO system needed to ask for the user's password? Your users should know better than to enter their password on a third party's domain - so you need the forwarding mechanism for SSO login anyway.
This is a good correction, thank you. Yes, modality matters.
Out of curiosity:

1. How did you define the scope of "what to build"? Did you have tickets, or some less formal specifications like wiki pages, or simply a verbal agreement? How did you ensure that everyone's on the same page?

2. How did you track the progress of "building a thing"? Did you have some kind of "statuses", or each work basically had only two states -- "not done" and "done"?

3. How did the engineers coordinate on their work? Or every "thing to build" was always done by one single engineer? If the latter, how was it later maintained - always by that same person or did others work on it as well?

Please note that I don't mean to demean your experience -- these are simply issues that pop up in software engineering, and decisions have to be made how to approach them. And not making a decision is also a decision.
Oh, I would still have to carry that big old device. I thought it would just be a connection from my phone to some roaming network. On a sidenote, does StarLink allow me to move around with with this device and have people pay to connect? Can i make a business out of my device to provide a hotspot at people's events and stuff?

Or they have the same rules for like Tesla chargers where you can't ask for a fee.
I read snow crash, loved the first half, the end was really weird to me.

I get the sense that Stephenson is really good at starting a novel, setting the scene and building a world that's ripe for some great storytelling. But from my limited experience the end is a total cascade of craziness that leaves the reader frustrated.
You wouldn't like a website that accepted raw phone photos, because they're in HDR, and you'd get blinded by looking at them.

Instagram already does this to me when I look at it at night, because it accepts HDR video.
I'm going to bug report something very strange: once I started trying to make music with your instrument, _both_ of my dogs reacted with serious concern for me. I don't know what they heard in your samples, but something that made them worry. You should test with more dogs. ;)
... and comes accross as a deus ex machina transition.

More authors should be brave and have their stories end bleakly.

Great examples that come to mind would be 'Death's End', 'Echopraxia' (to a lesser extent also the prior 'Blindsight'), 'Consider Phlebas', just to name a few.
I'm not sure, I'm not a Nix expert. The comments here also refer to it as both instructions to build something, as well as the intermediate build artifact. This discussion[1] on the NixOS forums explains it as a "blueprint" or "recipe". So there's clearly a lot of confusion about what it is, yet everyone understands "blueprint", "recipe", or even "intermediate build artifact" if you want to be technical.

The same is true for "flakes". It's a uniquely Nix term with no previous technical usage AFAIK.

Ideally you want to avoid using specialized terms if possible. But if you do decide to do that, then your documentation needs to be very clear and precise, which is another thing that Nix(OS) spectacularly fumbles. Take this page[2] that's supposed to explain derivations, for example. The first sentence has a circular reference to the term, only mentioning in parenthesis that it's a "build task". So why not call it that? And why not start with the definition first, before bringing up technical terms like functions and attributes? There are examples like this in many places, even without general problems of it being outdated or incomplete.

Though I don't think going the other way and overloading general terms is a good idea either. For example, Homebrew likes to use terms like "tap" and "bottle" to describe technical concepts, which has the similar effect of having to explain what the thing actually is.

Docker is a good example of getting this right: containers, images, layers, build stages, intermediate images, etc. It uses already familiar technical terms and adopts them where they make most sense. When you additionally have excellent documentation, all these things come together for a good user experience, and become essential to a widespread adoption of the tool.

[1]: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/what-is-a-derivation/28311/6

[2]: https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.18/language/derivations
This depends on if you can vote to change the presidents of US or China or not.
My Dad's American Dream
Words mean things. Please use the right words.

1. As another commenter points out, your device works exactly as it did before.

2. Nobody on the face of the earth is making a decision about whether or not to buy a new phone based on JPEG-XL support. The fact that you’d even entertain that either means you’re in too much of a bubble or you’re so blinded by Apple hatred that you’re willing to believe any contrived thing that paints the company in a negative light.

Stop it.
> Compared to a standard JPEG, a JPEG XL file is up to 55% smaller

I still find JPEG "XL" to be such a bizarre name. I would intuitively think it would result in larger file sizes.
What if that regulation blocks progress like direct cell to satellite connectivity. Just to keep astronomers happy, which would be better off using space based telescopes anyway.
> Ireland's conflict has been going on in ebbs and flows since 1919

But the big difference in this conflict is that Ireland was colonised prior to 1919. They were always the underdog, and still are.

In 1880 when the first waves of refugees arrived, Palestine was part of the Ottoman empire, mostly Muslim and there was economic and ethnic mayority of arabs. And the first pogroms already happened then.

The original partiton the british proposed was, in part, because they considered the arab violence against the jewish population to be a big issue. There were other terrible reasons like the british who designed the plan was an antisemite and thought Israel would be enticing for european jews to leave. But the reality of the origins of the fight was that a bunch of refugees arrived, built their own insular communities and they got attacked to the point the UN decided them having their own country would be safer.

If Ireland became 1 country, even if they mistreated the british people in northern Ireland later you could hardly say they have always been the aggresor because we know thats not true. Somehow Israel story has been flipped where instead of the underdog, now becoming dominant, they are seen as always the one on top. Other historical inaccuracies like America's allyship with Israel is considered eternal when in reality it started in 1960s when Egypt tried to take over the Suez Canal. America only cares about free trade and boat routes. In 1947 they sided with the Arab league, due to access to oil, who said they would exterminate the jews in the UN floor and no one stopped them despite military analysis in Uk, france and USA agreeing they would win against Israel.
Isn't it a little early to write this article? They haven't tried the implementation yet.
I mean they even named the website cargo, after cargo culting! (jk)
1. There's a lot of superhuman AI out there already, just in narrow domains like protein folding, chess, and so on.

2. Doctorate (and postdoc, and professoral) level responses were already in the training sets.

3. Aim of current AI research is to create a model of the underlying reality which produces the observed signals — what must a PhD candidate have observed for them to write that particular paper, etc.

I have no idea if these AI efforts will succeed or not, hence no idea where we are on the S-curve. But that's the goal.
Well that was a rabbit hole.

Current version is hard to even see with high-res screens. A few checks shows endless ports, code from the 90s and before, and all sorts of other fun.

Wonder if the author will reply.
I did not. On the firefox mobile browser it was just using screen space.
Not true at all. I'm a tech person, understand it all and the implications, and I'm not being a doomer about it.

The more people faff about and fight for privacy as a misguided absolute, the less discussions we can have about ethical, safe and managed uses of surveillance. Privacy advocates have this weird habit of thinking they speak for everyone, which they don't.
This convinced me to never use Arc again. I created a small guide to migrate from it to an open-source alternative: https://gist.github.com/clouedoc/4acc8355782f394152d8ce19cea...

TL;DR: it's not possible to export data from Arc, but it's possible to copy-paste the folder to a Chrome profile, and Firefox and other browsers will detect&import it.
I also enjoyed Space: 1999; seen as a kid when it was first aired then watched again years later. Yes, it lost a lot in the 2nd season, but the 1st was really good with bleak and less cheesy plots compared to other series. Of course one must ignore science and suspend their belief to a zeppelin to watch it, still it was really enjoyable. One of the old series, along with UFO (by the same creators) of which I'd love to see a modern reboot.
An improved and more interactive version of Google Sheets' explore tab. Looks good!
> “Mastery” was not direct imitation but an ability to vary and adapt to circumstances.

compare Rombauer's epigraphic choice of Goethe:

> "That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it."
> Compared to JPEG XL, HEIC — an implementation of HEIF — is just not good.

I would've loved an explanation with this statement.
Sigh. I’ll happily hold my breath. Apple has done plenty to reduce use of storage. They even give you free iCloud storage to back your phone up when transferring to a new device. A very clear attractive source of penny pinching that they’ve put effort into to leaving on the table. This is tiring.
We do actually have a theory of someething that might cause it to happen; primordial black holes zipping through space, randomly going through the moon (and continuing their way as if nothing happened, because that's how physics would work out). However, it's only a theory and depends on in-flux research on early universe cosmology — and the black hole could equally randomly zip through Earth rather than the moon. Or pass in the space between. Or pass between Earth and the sun. Or…

The book AFAIR does point out it "might have been a primordial black hole but they don't know", which matches what the situation would be IRL.
I find the idea of new countries fascinating and the constant disparagement of their supporters as “crypto bros” annoying and inappropriate for a supposedly serious news organization like the BBC.

Otherwise, though, I think the obsession with making a new country is slightly off the mark. Labeling yourself as a country puts the target on your back in a way that doesn’t really exist for a global distributed corporation/organization with a specific purpose. Many of these efforts would be better served creating novel forms of corporations that exist within existing states, not trying to found a new state itself. The model should be the Hanseatic League or something similar, not a fully-fledged nation state. Even a private club like SoHo House is probably a better first step.
Some here may be interested by this fantasy for a microtonal piano:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw5-RAhYt80

Made with my software: HighC https://highc.org
Why Everyone Imitates the OpenAI API
You do know that there are more than chrome and arc right?
Midigen: Generates royalty-free melodies in one click
I'm not normally a big fan of facebook etc... but there are a selection of photographs of this device here:

https://www.facebook.com/nxigestatio/
> You could’ve owned literally every user of Arc… The NSA would’ve paid a couple more zeros on that.

only the 17 users they have.

Shouldn't a government sue you if you try to sell him out vuln unless you personally know people in charge?
Renovate's TS tooling seems to work fine otherwise, and for ts-remove-unused as a new tool wanting to get adoption then you should be aiming to work the way your users already work, and not fail + tell them that they are the ones which need to change.

BTW the VSCode extension which someone else linked to discovered everything perfectly, which is another hint that your tool needs to improve, not your users.

Even if tsconfig.json was very important, and the users are all wrong and you're right, the only thing your readme says is: "The CLI will respect the tsconfig.json for loading source files." which is insufficient.
I had Quicksilver as audiobook on a mp3 player during my 2 month trip through south america in 2006. Found the history lessons kind of interesting, but never managed to finish the book despite having a lot of time on my hands. Its just too fucking long winded without a real narrative. Apparently it was more interesting to sit still in a bus driving 48 hours through Peru, then to listen to this long-winded never-ending story...
Sailfish has the simplest, most consistent UI of all. It's a joy to use, but sadly comes in a distant third in the mobile OS ecosystem. (https://sailfishos.org/)

Also worth mentioning is Jolla's AppSupport (https://jolla.com/appsupport/), which allows Linux devices to run Android apps - a killer feature of Sailfish phones!
There's also "A Thousand Kisses Deep" and its rare cover by Jackson Browne https://youtu.be/w_mV4tdw2wY

And "Dance Me To The End of Love" which has also been beautifully covered.

I'm also very fond of Chelsea Hotel (more touching if you get the context) and Boogie Street.

Most of Cohen isn't very accessible to me as I miss many cultural markers, but they still very often feel appropriate (pop-up) in times of melancholy...
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Remix Fetcher and Action Gripes
As they are currently constructed, I would say that it is out of the question.

Humans usually know (at least roughly) the source of anything they know, as there will be a memory or a known event associated with that knowledge.

LLMs have no analogous way to determine the source of their knowledge. They might know that all their knowledge comes from their training, but it has no way of knowing what was included in the training and what wasn't.

This could maybe be achieved with some more fancy RAG systems, or online training abilities. I think an essential piece is the ability to know the source of information. When LLMs reliably do, and apply that knowledge, they'll be much more useful. Hopefully somebody can achieve this.
> The whole microchip registry thing is a mess, though. There's no authoritative database and I'm certain that the database entry for my cat is at some shelter where he was briefly held.

Yeah it is a mess, but my vet told me they use this to search across the dozens of registries in the United States: https://www.aaha.org/for-veterinary-professionals/microchip-...

That form is able to find my cat's microchip information in both the registries I have her on, for example. But yes, I was surprised the pet microchip scene isn't more consolidated. Like bicycle registrations are, where the two major U.S. players are https://bikeindex.org and https://project529.com

EDIT: But I was unable to read my cat's microchip with my Flipper Zero, even though my vet confirmed it's still readable using their more appropriate tool for the job.
What is being blocked by this that would protect the vulnerable in a school?
Not russia.
People don't want to commute; they just don't want to miss out (2019)
Then the world would likely get by just fine with ground based optic fibre to urban areas and along highways to remote area hubs with people in truly remote areas getting by just as they have done since homo sapians first banged rocks together.
Actually Microsoft do now have Copilot and Python in Excel recently released last week. Maybe a bit slow.
I thought it was going to be made of cloth that stiffens when current passes through it... :)
I will give you another unrelated example to demonstrate fake obsolescence on an iPhone. For example, on the iPhone 13 Pro Max, You cannot set the battery to stop charging at 80%. You can do this with the new iPhone. I don't remember either 14 or 15, but you can't do this with the 13 Pro Max. So can you say that the iPhone 13 Promax is actually supported for so many years with the latest and greatest iOS When apple doesn't actually bring these new features. Back to the older version of iPhone?
It might age like fine wine once the current political situation passes. The self insert part is also very uncharitable.
Write. Push. Publish. Separating the Concerns
This is tiring. What would constitute informed consent for you? Is there any hypothetical bar that could be met? I’d just like to get that on the table so others know if it’s worth replying.
Me too. Snow leopard got out of the way and didn't try to nag you about cloud services ("warning: you didn't finish setting up Apple pay!")

It also left far more decision-making with the user. It's why I left macos a few years ago. An opinionated OS only works if you agree with all the vendor's opinions.
GraphRAG requires you define upfront the schema of entity and relation types. This works when you are in a known domain, but in general, when you want to just answer questions from a large reference, you don't know what you need to put in the graph.
C++ Exceptions for Smaller Firmware – Khalil Estell – CppCon 2024 [video]
> I pick "New Screen Recording". No prompt.

But that's also you performing a positive action to start the (presumably time-limited) recording which is different from something in the background passively recording your screen over a long period (Bartender, etc.)

(I do not like the permission prompts but I understand where they're coming from)
Do we act differently in a foreign language?
I have to disagree about a modern reboot (of Space: 1999; I haven't seen UFO). The entire premise is just so ridiculous that I don't see how to reboot it at all. It's fun to watch as a product of the 1970s, and knowing that standards for realism were much, much lower back then, but in the 2020s, a show with such bad science, I think won't fly, especially after we've seen The Expanse. Campy stuff from the 1970s is fine, because the 70s were famous for campy sci-fi (and everything else), but not now.

I'll have to check out UFO though.
I was similarly fascinated by the stylistic choices made here. No capitalisation of even any names, no hyphen in a compound adjective, but dots and commas and spaces are deemed necessary, also before "and" where the word clearly acts as separator already. If you look at the waveform of speech, we have no spaces between regular words so, if they want to eliminate unnecessary flourishes... though perhaps (since text largely lacks intonation markers) that makes it too unreadable compared to the other changes. All this is somehow at least as fascinating to me as the vulnerability being described!
> I already get blocked connection (on target site) because EU regulation is too onerous

More like "we want to track every single user coming to our website without giving them the option to not be tracked".
I'm your Man has been rarely covered but someone did a good job of it https://youtu.be/qH06n-5-B70
This is not "just to keep astronomers happy", because the science gleaned from astronomy benefits all of us, and relying solely on space-based telescopes is far from feasible.

For things like the Square Kilometre Array it's simply impossible to place them in space using current technology, and satellite constellations that leak too much unnecessary RF energy will destroy the investment we've made in them.

That also doesn't take into account things like space weather monitoring and forecasting, which also relies on highly sensitive distributed earth-based receivers.

Good regulation allows for both progress and an avoidance of a tragedy of the commons situation where unregulated satellites emit so much unnecessary RF energy that ground-based radio astronomy becomes impossible.
To fill empty seats ? Still better than nothing
This looks great! Well done. My concern is that there's not a single mention of data privacy. Which is is a red flag for any one coming from an enterprise world. Get that sorted and I'd consider using your tool for actual work.
> iPhones usually broadcast a list of previously connected SSIDs

Why would they broadcast this? Wouldn't they just be listening for SSIDs?
Although it might seem confusing at first glance, having your selling point as "our file sizes are larger!" is so counterintuitive, that I think it's obviously not that!
My first thought was "oh here we go again" - I'd try it though.
I find most interesting about Seveneves is how the technological assumptions have changed since the book predates the first landing of a falcon 9 booster stage. Getting the tin cans into orbit is described as using traditional use-once rockets. Assuming that you can reuse the first stage 20 times alone would enormously scale up the avaible cargo and m³ you can get into orbit since the upper stages would need not nearly as many rocket engines (and those would be the limiting factor in onstruction really).

if you could get a starship booster to work with similar reliability you could put up about 2-3 times the m³ of the ISS with each launch (assuming a wet-workshop design for he upper stage where the empty fuel tanks are prepared to be made habitable).

assuming an "ISS" can host 10 people that means for 20k people in orbit you need 50 boosters launch 20 times each for a total of 1k launches. This is a very small amount for a larger country like the US on a war economy considering that the upper stages would be the somewhat easier to construct parts.

I would assume that basically every industralized country on earth put up at least as many.
Attempting to please everyone pleases noone.
I didn't even notice that the name (let alone the novel) was a palindrome, that makes a lot more sense.
Ubuntu ships tested ZFS modules.

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/UbuntuKernels...

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZFS
Disagree. They're abusing a monopoly in one market to push their product in another. It's very much illegal in EU competition law.
Starlink has millions of customers mostly in the developed world because existing solutions are non existent, terrible or cost prohibitive.
Chechnya (or the Chechen Republic) is a republic of Russia (or the Russian Federation) so it seems to me the title is imprecise, but not wrong.