skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not you or your display, linear color just isn't great for gradients:
https://bottosson.github.io/posts/colorwrong/

It can be better than sRGB for the color part of gradients but is awful for the brightness axis. The reason why linear color is so important for operations like blending light, antialiasing, and dithering is also why it is bad where perceptual uniformity is desired. sRGB isn't as good as Oklab or CIELAB perceptually, but a grayscale ramp rendered in linear color is so distorted towards white it's useless. Image formats also encode non-linear color for good reason. "Use linear color everywhere" is overly simplistic and bad advice.
I kind of wonder if some of those folks equate things like the gulf war or the war on terror as "foreign aid".
Trump was impeached not because of “biden’s ukraine links” but was impeached (the first time) because trump withheld aid from Ukraine on a phone call - contingent on Ukraine digging up dirt on a political opponent. Thats tinpot dictator stuff.

The FBI raided Mar-a-lago as a last resort. He was asked to return classified documents and lied about it. Then it was shown he ordered others to move the documents so as to obstruct the investigation. As pointed out before. What should happen? If I would do that I would be in jail, rightly so.
afaik the majority of ransomware does manage to use cryptography securely, so we only hear about decrypting like this when they fuck up. I don't think there's any good reason beyond the fact that they evidently don't know what they're doing.
A more insidious aspect of grocery shoppings is that companies can pay for better placement on the store shelves & floor.
The Principal Developer Advocate Paradox: Scaling Impact Without Burnout
Only if you believe he's being honest.
> The same is true for smart phones, yet almost nobody has an issue with those.

Let me just be the first to say I absolutely have an issue with smartphones.

(edit: Of course, I could very well count in the 'almost nobody' category, but the same might well be true in general for people concerned about smart devices.)
Middle East governments are huge newspaper advertisers. The Chinese government has a propaganda page in the wsj.
> so we could not hop on WiFi and message each other using Signal.

I have a feature request for this actually. I think if it got a harder push they would consider it. It's not full decentralization but does still prevent the concerns that Moxie and Meredith have stated.

It is like you say: I too wish Signal would allow for communication over any available medium.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-airdrop/37402
I used to work at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Web Solutions Ltd, and I gotta admit we used to have a hell of a time.
It may be like bitcoin mining in that sense but either way x% less time spent with a possible mark is x% less time to take their money.
Art is like cryptocurrency. It's valuable because it's scarce, not because it has intrinsic worth or beauty.
In recent years, it's started to feel like you can't trust third-party dependencies and extensions at all anymore. I no longer install npm packages that have more than a few transitive dependencies, and I've started to refrain from installing vscode or chrome extensions altogether.

Time and time again, they either get hijacked and malicious code added, or the dev themselves suddenly decides to betray everyone's trust and inject malicious code (see: Moq), or they sell out to some company that changes the license to one where you have to pay hundreds of dollars to keep using it (e.g. the recent FluentAssertions debacle), or one of those happens to any of the packages' hundreds of dependencies.

Just take a look at eslint's dependency tree: https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=eslint

Can you really say you trust all of these?
There are multiple of them!
I know PBS frontline did a documentary on this.
> your belief in the charity of developers or their lack of greed

Straw man.

> they'd be doing it on whatever app store is available,

But they can't do that, that's the issue.
I put salves all over me body.
Robert Fisk kept writing and talking about that wrt NYT right after 9/11: https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2003/fisk-i-think-...
can donate* for better placement
At least the false pretence would vanish if both support 100%
Chips generally is sglodion, else just siop chips. I’d include the χ but it’s more like a tsh.
Get an institution that has no fees or waives them. My Credit Union is on a network that has no fees, and lots of locations.
"a source close to the matter reports" basically implies whatever coming next is bullshit
Are you claiming that the NYT is biased in favor of Trump? That's so hard to take seriously that I don't even know what to say to that.
The word of anonymous sources should be taken with a pretty big grain of salt, but they can point to verifiable information.
Consider that technology may have moved on, and there are other better ways to communicate with journalists: https://www.nytimes.com/tips e.g. Signal and to read NYTimes e.g. high quality VPN.
It’s a cool idea. I’ve wasted a lot of time over the past few months futzing around with beautifulsoup, Playwright and others I forget, or cloning entire repos and trying to figure out exactly which incantations for which build tools are going to get me the built docs I need, all in service of setting them up for retrieval and use by LLMs. Some projects (e.g. Godot, Blender, Django) make it very easy. Others do not (Dagster is giving me headaches at the moment).

I would probably prefer to receive unmodified, plain text/md versions (with the heavy lifting done by, e.g., docling, unstructured) than LLM summaries though, since I’d rather produce my own distillations.

I would pay for that kind of thing. I think the intersection between ethical scraping and making things machine-readable is fertile ground. For a lot of companies it’s something that can be of great value, but is also non-trivial to do well and unlikely to be a core competency in-house.
cane someone elaborate on the energy bit? I vaguely recall something similar in ML 101 way back in university. Was that not widely used?
I wonder how important private charity is anyway. The US leads the world in private charity, yet we're worse off than countries with less charity and more robust public institutions, such as the safety net, health care, and so forth.
idk these sound like very specific problems they had. The chargers had an availability of only 23% because of a recurring issue with the power modules failing. In a later volume they also again attribute a lot of unavailability to the same chargers:

> The BEB fleet operated at 66% availability with more than half of the total days related to retrofit of the charger cabling and programming by the OEM.

I guess you could say this is due to immature technology but honestly I don't see 75% of HPC chargers being offline for maintenance at any given time. This is probably just bad luck with a vendor.

If you look at the road calls the BEB is by far the most reliable one, causing one road call out of 45. It was also the cheapest per mile by a long stretch.
If you don’t know your altitude, navigation isn’t fine though. Navigation should give you a position in all axes.
Or covering for Stalin and denying the famine in ukraine.
Logo reminds me of the old slack logo
Open source payments and billing infrastructure
That would surprise me too considering read-after-write consistency came to S3 like 5 years ago?
Going to Waterton, as I said, I was prepared for camping... got to the gate and the ranger looked at my car and informed me that the campground was full. However, camping was my backup if my first choice was not available... staying in the Prince of Wales. It was beautiful.

A selection of some of the photos I took there. https://imgur.com/a/stdkS0c ... some are memories, some are trying to capture the beauty of the area. I don't have them on http://shagie.smugmug.com because technically I was a tourist rather than a photographer and selling the prints gets into potential future visa issues. The rock formation is a nice, compact chevron fold.
> GPT-4’s text entitled “Why Did I Write GEB?,” if taken in an unskeptical manner, gives the impression that its author (theoretically, me) is adept at fluently stringing together high-flown phrases in an effort to sound profound and yet sweetly self-effacing at the same time. That nonsensical image is wildly off base. The text is a travesty from top to bottom. In sum, I find the machine-generated string of words deeply lamentable for giving this highly misleading impression of who I am (or who I was when I wrote my
first book), as well as for totally misrepresenting the story of how that book came to be. I am genuinely sorry to come down so hard on the interesting experiment that you conducted in good faith, but I hope that from my visceral reaction to it, you will see why I am so opposed to the development and widespread use of large language models, and why I find them so antithetical to my way of seeing the world.
The argument for hydrogen has to do with energy density. There are certain use cases where batteries are just too heavy, but hydrogen, with its higher energy density, is not. Maybe that will change in the future, but as it stands now, energy density is a significant barrier to adoption of battery/electric in certain areas. The cost of energy doesn't matter if it can't be used due to batteries being too heavy.

It's possible to imagine a future where both fuel sources have found their place, depending on context. Doesn't have to be an either/or.
Shouldn't it still be able to turn, just not tilt?
Wrtag, a new suite of tools for automatic music tagging and organization
Hi all,

I've been working on a new suite of tools for music managment. I've you've used beets.io or Picard, you get the idea. They are great tools but for me were not fast enough and hard to grasp. wrtag is fast enough that the filesystem can be the source of truth, so no need for a sidecar database which can get out of sync

it also includes a web interface to manage imports from external sources.

Hope you like it
If a web browser has a sufficient bug to allow access to webusb without permission in an exploitable way, it's probably also exploitable enough that even without webusb you'd have hardware access via RCE.
I have been playing around with MCP, and one of its current shortcomings is that it didn’t support OAuth. This means that credentials need to be hardcoded somewhere. Right now, it appears that a lot of MCP servers are run locally, but there is no reason they couldn’t be run as a service in the future.

There is a draft specification for OAuth in MCP, and hopefully this is supported soon.
Very few people will accept commutes that long and so they are not something to optimize for.
of the entire human race's knowledge, and it's like from written history, not 2 years ago.
Hey what is up with Biden’s rapid decline nowadays, anyway? I guess considering the rate he was apparently declining when it was a hot-button political issue, by now he must be a vegetable by now, right?
I used to be naive and covid changed that. I sincerely believe the US should have shared and China mainland should have accepted any and all knowledge we had about vaccines. Instead, we all went our own separate ways. It wouldn't have cost us much because it isn't like people in China mainland would have bought US vaccines and it isn't like we would import vaccines made in China mainland.

It was just common sense to share this knowledge the best we could and yet...
See also: the plot of Cars 2.

I’m only semi-joking.

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Allinol
It’s amazing to think about how much hinged on 537 votes in Florida. W could have been merely mediocre, but he was presented with a crisis and proceeded to mismanage it horribly.
True for that trip. However in return I've made a large number of other trips possible that couldn't have been done.
I guess I am saying it's a good value more than its raw price being less than other offerings.

The blue/green deploys, auto snapshotting, failover, upgrades, few-click resizing, etc justify the price vs running database servers (for me). I spend a lot of time looking for money in aws and never consider replacing RDS with anything else.
I wonder if the error propagation problem could be solved with a “branching” generator? Basically at every token you fork off N new streams, with some tree pruning policy to avoid exponential blowup. With a bit of bookkeeping you could make an attention mask to support the parallel streams in the same context sharing prefixes. Perhaps that would allow more of an e2e error minimization than the greedy generation algorithm in use today?
Well, google cloud has destroyed entire accounts, but I suppose that's not a storage failure per se.
You guys might want to explain what this is a little better. My first question was “what do they mean by ‘hardware accelerators’?”

It wasnt until I saw the matmul example that I realized this is (probably, its still unclear) for GPUs.
Why people make temperature in space a big deal? It's mostly vacuum and has no heat capacity. Sun radiation is the real threat, but the concept of temperature can't even be applied to vacuum.
Unless their processing is very weird, that shouldn’t be the issue.

You send a pulse and record the output of a detector to listen for the reflection. If the laser is reflected at the plume, you should get some pulses very quickly, but also faint and spread out in time, which you would be able to tune out. And the real response from the ground should be more narrow because it’s reflecting at a single distance.

If very short range noise influences the signal when measuring 30km real distance, you’re doing something wrong.
Making a lot more destinatians available will make people use the bus.
Like Android and iOS. The user manually has to grant access to files.
> 6 NVMe drives in raidz-1

Did you benchmark io rate with different ZFS layouts?

6 NVMe drives in mirrored pairs would probably be substantially higher latency and throughput

Though you'd probably need more pairs of drives to match your current storage size. Or get higher capacity NVMe drives. :)
Interesting - I’m planning to dial up contributions since they’re so much more needed and impactful now.
IIRC (it has been a while) the difference is that on Amazon it can only be consistent within a region whereas on GCS I believe even multi-region buckets offer strong consistency.
Lakehouse is an architecture defined to overcome the limitations associated with an immutable object store. It is already in my eyes introducing unnecessary complexity (i.e. at which point do I just need to transition to a proper database, even for larger scales (that cannot be accommodated by a database?), when is a tiered data architecture with stream materialisation snapshots actually simpler to reason about and more economic etc.)

I would hope that S3 could introduce a change in the operation of said fundamental building block (immutable object), rather than just slap an existing downstream abstraction. That's not what I call design for simplicity. As an external observer, I would think that's internal amazon moat management with some co-branding strategy.
Soft Welsh accents are really good for robots, because they combine the sort of officious, authoritative British English accent with a folksy, approachable quality. Then they wait for you to go to sleep…and with a lilting brogue glancing faintly off the meniscus of your dreams you hear, “Ay, oi, Dave! They’re out, it’s time.” and that’s how the world ends. A Welsh-accent LLM named “Dave” decides sheep husbandry is the maximally productive utility for the Earth and Solar System. Humanity is lost. Dave the AI companion from Swansea and a trillion sheep remain.
I don't see why all software roles are seen as in the same category. There is a huge difference between the difficulty level and experience requirements in different tasks and roles.
posted on reddit too about 6 hours back: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1jbc5gu/...
What's the difference between "IOPS" and "throughput"?
I haven't read him. but the competence in it is so rare these days that the understanding has been reduced to being on the spectrum of yoga and pilates vs. its history as a much deeper classical art
Single best tip: The AGE of the eggs is critical to peel-ability. If you prefer boiled eggs, buy ones closer to “best by” date. it makes a huge difference!
Agree to boil the water first. Don’t try to gradually heat egg and water. Will suck.

Sous vide is also a great way to dial in your perfect temp/goey-ness (or not) if you have some time to experiment to find that.

Also, baking soda in the water helps, so I agree with the article on that. Personally 11-13 minutes is much too dry IMHO. I’m a 7-8 minute egg guy.
The service itself isn’t available in China either anyway, I think.
Creating a self-repairing and environmentally friendly EV battery
The true hero in AWS is its authentication and accounting infrastructure.

Most people don't even think about it. But authenticating trillions of operations per second is why AWS works. And the accounting and billing. Anyone that does authentication knows how hard it is. At AWS' scale it's well, the pinnacle of distributed systems.
A few past threads:

Functional programming with bananas, lenses, envelopes and barbed wire [pdf] (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31152801 - April 2022 (28 comments)

Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24056901 - Aug 2020 (18 comments)

Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire (1991) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9080933 - Feb 2015 (2 comments)

Functional programming with bananas, lenses, envelopes and barbed wire - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6195603 - Aug 2013 (1 comment)
There’s not a direct causal link between the metrics you’re describing. The economy is too large for private philanthropy to meaningfully impact things like health care delivery costs but it can still be crucial for the arts, community programs, and science funding and all sorts of other unconnected things.
https://archive.is/YCgdP
I think most consider the "artificial" to be the kind that's not implemented with meat.
Amen to that. I should have known she was behind the Tor link, which I used often. I'm disappointed in the Times. Nothing new there.
Are official macOS/iOS WireGuard clients abandoned?
There are two dozens of pending PRs on the project on GitHub. There's hasn't been any change in the master branch (https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-apple/log/) nor any release in 2 years.

Some of those PRs fix seriously annoying issues like the currently non-functional Split DNS. https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-apple/pull/11 . For the record, that PR has been actually approved earlier this year in January but still haven't been merged.

In another comment from 2 years ago they mention they have resources issues: https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-apple/pull/17#issueco... . And I get that, but why not advertise for it, then, ask publicly for new members to join the project? I am sure many would be happy to.

It's rater odd keeping this project so obscure considering Wireguard's otherwise tremendous success.
At a broader level, parochial thinking and circling the wagons plays into the catastrophe song political narrative that is a strategy of the Steve Bannons of the world. Id encourage generosity for those who have the means. It’ll at least make you happier.
Gnome Debian desktop running on Pixel 6a in new Android 15 Linux VM
Ok so there's nothing they can do. Got it.
Ministry of truth incoming
Like Home Assistant voice?

https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/
And your first mistake is assuming I'm okay with a Democrat administration overlooking potential criminal actions.

That's a lot of the times the difference. Many left leaning people will say "and they should be prosecuted too" which is almost ... shocking ... to some on the other side (and not in part because they really see it as 'sides').

> Raiding your opponents house because you think they're improperly storing documents is blatant intimidation

Horseshit. You act as though it's some wild cockeyed theory. There are audit trails for classified documents. The President's office was the last who had them. He and his staffers were shown on national fucking TV carrying boxes that looked identical onto a plane and into his private residence. And then he lied about it, and attempted to conceal evidence and obstruct justice.

Your spin is disingenous at best. "Bullying". And if you think the public mostly thought Trump was being unfairly "bullied" and intimated over those documents, then that says something about your perspective.

Also for complete clarity, since Biden had a very similar thing happen with the improper storing of documents: He shouldn't be doing that either. Why didn't it rise to the same level? Maybe because he didn't actively try to sabotage an investigation into it. But I don't think it should have been ignored because "well, -he- has a '(D)' after his name".
If you went back to 2004 and told people the NYT was trying to help re-elect George W Bush they would nervously back away slowly from you.
You’ve got it reverse. You can transfer H1b to another company (without going through lottery again) but you cant transfer L1 visa to another company. L1 visa is used to transfer an employee from a foreign branch to the US branch of the same company, once in US if they want to change the company the new company has to sponsor their H1
First they discovered 64 new moons (a few years ago), and now they discovered an additional 128?

What's next, they'll discover an extra 256 as well in a few years?
In 2003 there were no viable or mass market electric cars at all. What a made up narrative.
I'm fairly sure pretty much everything at google since the doubleclick acquisition has been a loss-leader in order to give users good 'viewers' for advertisements, there's some nice byproducts along the way of course.
The ground it's laying on though does though.
Software freedom has nothing to do with using a Unix shell and you know it.
You’re conflating things. The question was about scaling compute and memory up and down based on load and you’re commenting about never needing to downsize on storage.
the "very long term" property of assets has very little present value with any reasonable discount rate, and fewer experienced people to actually care about it.
> Dropping the last 4 metres isn't a sign of having a ruggedized, over-speced "takes a lickin' and keeps on kicking' approach". In lunar gravity, you could drop a raw egg from that height and not perturb the chick inside.

Just for maximum pedantry:

Falling 4 m on the moon is like falling 66 cm or about 2 feet on earth. I don’t know about your eggs but the ones I know wouldn’t survive that.
> What exactly are you suggesting?

Not to reshape America into Japan, but attempt to keep the parts that are nice while integrating the best parts of other nations. America loved to claim it was a nation of immigrants; the French even sent you a gift for how much America would take the best of other countries (the brightest minds, the hardest workers), and build with that.

Maybe that's not how the country works any more, but it was a nice fantasy.