skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar to your points, i also expect `perceptually lossless` to be a valid term in the future with respect to AI. Ie i can imagine a compression which destroys detail, but on the opposite end it uses "AI" to reconstruct detail. Of course though, the AI is hallucinating the detail, so objectively it is lossy but perceptibly it is lossless because you cannot know which detail is incorrect if the ML is doing a good job.

In that scenario it certainly would not be `transparent` ie visually without any lossy artifacts. But your perception of it would look lossless.

The future is going to be weird.
> There’s a reason why we still use e-mail and JSON for interoperability, instead of smarter technology.

Ironically, JSON came out of one language, and didn't come from any standards body, like ActivityPub. It wasn't until ECMA-404 (2013) that JSON got a standard from one of the bodies.

It's a good example of technology that came from outside the typical standards, but was eventually adopted by a large portion of the ecosystem, and eventually became a standard. Just like HTML :)
Scaleway announced Jean-Baptiste Kempf as its new CTO
> And last but by no means least, Scaleway announced Jean-Baptiste Kempf – an open source legend who was one of the masterminds of open source media player VLC – as its new CTO. In this role, Kempf will lead the creation of a new generation of sovereign and European AI products and services.
The Calc demo seems to fail on iOS.
Jason Hall's claim there was very incorrect and he later walked it back. People tried very hard to find a context in which was true and the best anyone could come up with was that the horse had higher day one profits by virtue of that it cost basically nothing to make and SC2 wasn't profitable off preorders alone.
And there is scratch right?
An article assessing the state of tech in 2024 is a bit remiss if it's not mentioning AI, for better or for worse. Regardless of your feelings about it, it makes things these days feel very different from the stagnation described in 2004.
He is also 56 years old and has the muscle definition of a man in his 20s, when biology shows building and retaining that kind of quality muscle at that age is very difficult even with a history of physical fitness. I'll just say it, he's probably on TRT or some other gear..
> Do you seriously think that we would be in the current situation had NATO flat out told Ukraine "no", or if the US had backtracked in the 2020s, instead of pushing forward?

No, we’d be in a situation where Russia was firmly in control of Georgia, Ukraine, and probably Moldova, and was actively pressuring, e.g., the Baltic republics.

The way we’d be in a better situation is if NATO had told Russia to take a flying fuck in 2008 and extended MAPs and interim security guarantees to Georgia and Ukraine, and backed those guarantees up with forward deployed forces.
EHT Makes Highest-Resolution Black Hole Detections from Earth
Also in cases where the physics can truly be modeled. Usually there are so many assumptions, simplifications, and added constants, made so that the math can work, that the model is only applicable in very specific or simplistic cases. Then when proven effective for those cases, it gets applied in the wild, and assumed correct. We have seen many simplistic models from the dos days, upgraded to windows - yet the math hasn't changed. Simplifications made for 1990 computers,
linearity for example, are used model non linear events.
Missed Connections: AppServers in the Containerized Landscape
I think the author did a good job of challenging my assumptions going in at least, which is nice.

My initial reaction was that it was a list of fairly complex things, but they are not necessarily complex to implement, even if people commonly over-complicate a couple of those things or make them a pain for other developers to setup, which seems to be part of the point.
And that usually breaks, as another reply said, when the manager of the two people delegates responsibility for the problem getting solved to one of those two people instead of keeping it for themselves.

If you have a boss who cares whether the task gets done, you can’t make excuses about how it violates your moat to have to do it. Shut up and help your coworker. Now. Or you’re on PIP.

The coworker who isn’t getting useful collaboration gets blamed for their soft skills, when it’s the boss’s soft skills that should have reigned over both.
Netdata 2.0 Released
Genetic repair via CRISPR can inadvertently introduce other defects
I want my remote work back from that period.
> A ‘side’ doesn’t imply an ‘economic class’?

It does when the side described was the edges of a distribution.

> wealth distribution, on the one side we have the super and hyper-rich

Replace a few words and:

> height distribution, on the one side we have the tall and hyper-tall

PS: To be clear the political interests of a group exist even if the group doesn’t map to a specified political party or ideology. Groups have specific interests independent of which other stances they take. We don’t think of short people in political terms, but there would be a real outrage if gas stations put their credit card readers 7 feet off the ground.
You should post this in the ongoing thread on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42081309
Hola! I thought that Baba is Lovely at first, but then come the later levels and alas, Baba is Too Much.

(With the usual qualifier: for me ! I don't doubt many puzzle freaks absolutely loved it and 100%ed it, but for me it was too much, too hard, too tedious).
Bunwork is just a Bun.serve based but make it easier for developer, designed to simplify HTTP server setup and routing for developers.

Features

1. Middleware support
2. Route definition with dynamic parameters
3. Blueprint-based routing (modular route groups)
4. Easy integration with Bun.serve
What I really liked were small-ish online communities focused on a specific topic. Reddit is (was?) great for finding answers to weird issues and questions much faster due to its size, but I never really felt like I was part of a community in any subreddit. Still, with all that social media focused on self-promotion it was close enough to the old days of bulletin boards with aliases and not caring so much about who's behind them.
> And if anything X/Twitter is gaining more relevance in normal peoples' lives, not less, since the acquisition.

I'm pretty skeptical of that claim, I know plenty of non-techy people who hardly even know Twitter got renamed. Previously they would have stumbled on and read Twitter pages fairly often, but they never had an account so now they largely can't see any of it.
It's interesting to think about what could have been.
I totally agree. And a lot of them really love coding. Thats how I meet them. Its a game for them, and as they are kids, I think it should stay a game for them.

Its just that they dont understand (and I am struggling to tell them) what these skills will be useful for in their adult life. For parents it is really important. They want their kids to have fun. But in the same time they are worried if their kids are going to succeed in life.
People are going to have to get real creative to square this with the "One China" policy.
In the days of the early web there was a database that would give you timestamps and descriptions of nudity in movies, so that you could cut straight to the chase

Or maybe I am remembering a scene from a raunchy comedy of that era (which probably prompted someone to make it)

But the point is that in the dial up era there was no other way for horny people to get full motion video and audio smut, and there was a high demand for it

Today the supply has far outpaced demand and we can consume as much as we can, all day every day.

Movies simply don’t need to cater to that need any longer, and the movies are better for it
One application we care about is using quantum computers to build high resolution telescopes https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.2939. A wide area network is required because the telescopes need to be far apart.
iirc there's "easy" (though i don't know them) tests to validate if the signal is lossless or not. When played over speakers for humans, at least.

I always intend to figure out how that works, because i don't feel a lot of audiophiles are actually speaking truth in many cases lol. Still, i don't know - i can't remember my sources to figure it out for myself :/
How? AI is a marketing bubble. It’s the only reason tech stocks haven’t collapsed.
I am glad to hear this. I enjoyed Bandersnatch, but I do not think it was the right tone for a launch title for this kind of project, personally.
In 2004, IPv4 addresses may have been cheaper, but IPv6 wasn't as widely used as today.
Now, 88% of mobile operators offer IPv6, and 94% of fixed ISPs: https://en.arcep.fr/news/press-releases/view/n/transition-to...

So the price of a single routable address has gone down by a _massive_ factor.
Really enjoyed IRC in the 90s... it was an underground culture that was unknown to most people... and a place where I got most of my MP3s!
The problem is that most of the time, errors are not to be handled but only bubbled up. I've also seen it in Java with checked exceptions: the more explicit error handling is, the more developers feel they should somehow try to do _something_ with the error when the correct thing to do would actually be to fail in the most straightforward manner. The resulting code is often much heavier than necessary because of this and the stacktraces also get polluted by overwrapping.
I am building the https://github.com/claceio/clace project as a platform for teams to deploy internal tools. As part of that, Clace implements an application server which uses containers to host any application. This post talks about why that is useful and how it is different from PaaS solutions.
I've been using the Lingo so I can't comment on that.

Also, it really important to note that I don't have diabetes or any metabolic disorders. I am mainly interested in learning more about the foods that I eat and their effects on me.

The Lingo is the same hardware as the Abbott Freestyle but the difference is in the app.

The way I've been using mine is to consistently log the foods that I eat (the app is really helpful for this) and then seeing what it does to my blood glucose level. My goal has been to minimize spikes in my blood glucose level.

Things I found interesting:
1. Instant oatmeal spikes my blood glucose level a lot.
2. A honeycrisp apple will also spike it but a granny smith apple is much much more modest.
3. Eating bread and rice will spike it. However, eating rice as part of a meal will cause a much smaller spike.
4. Gelato can cause a modest spike but much less than you would expect, smaller than instant oatmeal or a sweet apple.
5. Dark chocolate has little effect on blood glucose.
6. Running will cause a tiny rise (maybe my body is preparing me for the energy needs?)
7. I become borderline hypoglycemic when I'm sleeping.

A very notable effect from this is that minimizing these spikes has been very helpful with my dieting. My desire to snack has been much much easier to control and I've had much better success with my diet plans (I've lost 10 pounds in 3 months whereas my previous attempts only managed to lose 5 pounds before I just gave up).

Once you see what food does what to your blood glucose you sort of remember what foods or groups of good to avoid. I will also say that I'm now super wary of most processed foods. I don't want to be too cynical but I do wonder if the companies knew the connection between blood glucose level spikes and hunger signals.
> Is it still missing "minimize to tray" functionality without extensions?

Yes. This remains the same pain point for me that it has been for years now. I hope they fix this at some point, but I've stopped expecting that it will happen.
Even that advantage for hydrogen is limited. It's quite corrosive, and leaks easily. It has to be compressed at extremely high pressures to achieve that density, making storage even harder.

I never understood why Japan thought hydrogen was a good bet. If they were really that invested in internal combustion, why not turn that hydrogen into hydrocarbons? There's even more energy loss, but at least you can use the existing distribution infrastructure, and not touch your engines.

They really look like they're leaning heavily into a sunk cost fallacy. Surely it can't be that simple.
US cities, infrastructure, and political attitudes are irreparably predisposed to support the dominance of the automobile. The problem here is simply not fixable on any scale larger than a neighborhood-level during any of our lifetimes.
"Protestants also tried to impose their own bigotry but lacked sufficient coordination and authority. Had they been more effective, modern science and sustained economic growth might have never taken off."

That's an interesting take. It seems to have a continental Europe perspective. In the first 150 years of the American colonies, Catholicism was illegal, except for Pennsylvania. However, even there, Catholics remained disenfranchised. The first Catholic university in the US, Georgetown, opened in 1789. (Harvard: 1636, Yale: 1701). The first amendment was ratified in 1791 (meaning Catholicism could no longer be made illegal). Catholics were mostly unwelcome to attend other schools, that was the reason for divergence and almost certainly assured a high nepotism rate. Also note that in the 1700's/1800's nepotism in government was considered normal.
wow, never knew what Tabata meant back in my crossfit days :)

Now i do -- its a persons name
Isn't this effectively how the interactive materials behave, or am I misunderstanding? It was my understanding that they all were analogous to DVD-style interactive extras where you essentially choose left or right at points in the story.
Europe's largest local authority slammed for 'poorest' ERP rollout
> Mark straight-up said in an all-hands that as a patriot, if asked, he would provide his country with military assistance in the form of software and intel. This to an audience that is about 1/3 foreign employees, who are all sitting there going "even when it's my country the US is invading?"

Meta is an American company. This shouldn't be a surprise, and in fact is the default expectation. The same logic applies to companies in other countries and any belief to the contrary is badly mistaken.
Just to be clear, I will be doing this to the Chicago Trump Tower over the weekend. Taking my son for his first introduction into civil disobedience.
Both Java and C# do. In Java marking a variable final makes it immutable after assigned. In C# a variable marked readonly is the same.
It should just work if you start tapping notes or press play. Make sure the phone's sound toggle is not muted. I'm not sure of any other reason it wouldn't work. Are you using Safari?
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.7310

.. but I doubt you've have a rational basis for a belief that Central America in particular is likely to be one of the regions that will become dryer.

Is your belief rationally based?
light vs dark was in multiple sports due to early television being black and white. It made easy to understand what's going on on the screen.
I've never had the google service fail, but my employer added another layer to our email -- proofpoint. Google redirects to their URL, then I go to the urldefense.com URL, then to my actual website. Hopefully.
Yes, I get by with dtruss which is inferior to strace but usually good enough. It's just a 1000 line dtrace program so I guess it could be improved.
1932 was in 2016 and DNC did nothing
Scrum seems to be more about helping a manager of less skilled/experienced people get more output from them.

As people become more familiar with agile processes in general (we all say we are “doing scrum” but we are also doing more than half of XP - otherwise a scrum doesn’t work at all) those gains diminish and I think among us we can agree they go negative.
Case study on a side hustle which turned into 10MRR
The weeds discussed in this article, Amaranthus tuberculatus and Amaranthus palmeri, are exactly the kind of plants that early human cultivators would have selected as a seed crop - fast-growing robust plants that could be continually selected for maximal seed size and minimal toxin production generation after generation (which is how crops like maize were developed). Indeed members of this genus were used by Aztecs and others for just that purpose:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth_grain

As far as maintaining fields, area spraying of pesticides and herbicides will be replaced with robots wielding lasers and using AI image recognition to catch pest infestations before they take over entire fields.
I bought some Tushies for my house and they were awful, they were so thick that they broke my toilet seats. I then bought new toilet seats and little stick-on bumpers, but they fell off.

I then visited a friend who had an older Tushy and it was thin enough that he had no problems.

It's like they switched to a cheaper version without testing it, and then marketed the hell out of it.

I ended up replacing all my Tushies with Amazon's toilet seat with a built in bidet. It's decent.
That sounds significantly more like C++ trying to be a dialect of Rust, rather than the other way around. I don't think that was the GGP's main gripe.

But more importantly, Safe C++ is just not a thing yet. People seem to discount the herculean effort that was required to properly implement the borrow checker, the thousands of little problems that needed to be solved for it to be sound, not to mention a few really, really hard problems, like variance, lifetimes in higher-kinded trait bounds, generic associated types, and how lifetimes interact with a Hindley-Milner type system in general.

Not trying to discount Safe C++'s efforts of course. I really hope they, too, succeed. I also hope they manage to find a syntax that's less... what it is now.
Apple does have this stance. They have been subpoenaed before to assist in unlocking older iPhones that don't have as strong protection of user data as modern iPhones and they refused those orders as well.

Basically older iPhones without the modern secure enclave enforced the password attempt lockout period in software so the FBI obtained a court order to force apple to create and sign a new version of iOS that would not enforce the lockout period, which would allow the FBI to guess the password. Apple refused to create this new version of iOS and the FBI eventually retracted their request.

Modern iPhones enforce the lockout period in the secure enclave hardware so this is no longer something Apple could even possibly assist with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...
> so in the event of effective sanctions on a country

That's the point. You can't effectively sanction china.

> where the tariff is effectively infinite making the amount supplied go to zero

There is a difference between a complete blockade and targeted sanctions.

> this should be even better for the country affected?

One causes a complete collapse of an economy (north korea) while the latter helps a nation build up a sector of an industry (china).

China is the top trading partner of most countries around the world. Even with these sanctions. Go figure. It would be like if china banned exports of 'rare earth minerals' to the US. It would only make the US stronger because we'd just invest in mining rare earth minerals.
Interesting set up, thanks for sharing. Do you write code, or use docker at all?
To me, the cabal of "offended people" is a fiction of propaganda. I haven't met those people in any substantial number, and I live in a famously woke enclave. It's a meme, not necessarily related to reality.

Another cabal of "offended people" who may have decided the recent presidential election, are those who are offended by any frank description of the economic and social conditions of the working class. For instance, this week David Brooks of the NY Times lamented that the Democrats failed to "respect" the working class. "Abandoning the working class" is also a fiction of propaganda. The head of the Democratic party rightfully called it BS.
Weeds are just plants

You can eat weeds, and they turn back into plants or crops.

It's just some word trickery.
Apple Vulnerabilities: The diskarbitrationd and storagekitd Audit
The EPA says that glyphosate isn't carcinogenic in humans. The WHO says that it is.

The EPA says it's not an endocrine disruptor. Numerous studies and experts suggest that it is, although I can't find any major government or NGO that agrees.

I'm not a doctor or molecular biologist. How should I decide which experts to trust? I can easily afford food grown without glyphosate, so that's what I eat.

EDIT: I'm not religious about this, presumably all the restaurant food I eat is grown with glyphosate. But my local grocery store only has organic produce, I usually buy that since it's convenient and the cost difference is not a big deal.
I love Go for writing servers. And in fact, I do it professionally. But I totally agree that for parsers, it’s not the right tool for the job.

First off, the only way to express union types is with runtime reflection. You might as well be coding in Python (but without the convenient syntax sugar).

Second off, “if err != nil” is really terrible in parsers. I’m actually somewhat of a defender of Go’s error handling approach in servers. Sure, it could have used a more convenient syntax. But in servers, I almost never return an error without handling it or adding additional context. The same isn’t true in parser’s though. Almost half of my parser code was error checks that simply wouldn’t exist in other languages.

For Rust, I think the value proposition is if you are also writing a virtual machine or an interpreter, your compiler front end can be written in the same language as your backend. Your other alternatives are C and C++, but then you don’t have sum types. You could write the front end in Ocaml, but then you would have to write the backend and runtime in some other language anyways.
> But that is anathema to tech companies

One of the biggest dangers in business is believing your own PR. And yet tech companies do it over, and over, and over again.
> Apple's was actually super late to the nvme storage party

I'm not sure what you're talking about here, because Apple was one of the first PC OEMs to adopt PCIe storage, and very quickly followed that up with a transition to NVMe. This was circa 2015. They just didn't use the M.2 connector, and when they introduced the T2 chip they stopped using third-party SSDs in favor of their own built-in NVMe SSD controller.

Also, I don't think PCIe gen5 SSDs are being shipped in laptops yet (at least not in any significant volume), on account of the extra speed being completely not worth the power cost. Much like the transition from gen3 to gen4, availability of SSDs that are only suitable for desktops with large heatsinks comes long before availability of reasonably-efficient SSD controllers. Eg. Samsung's PM9E1 SSD for PC OEMs only started mass production a month ago: https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-starts-mass-producti...