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Direct link to 1.0.0 spec (PDF): https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/av1-spec/releases/download/v...

Unofficial working copy (HTML): https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-spec/

Source (of spec): https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/av1-spec/tree/v1.0.0

AV1 is a video codec developed by a consortium of companies, broadly descending from Google's VP9 while incorporating significant enhancements from Cisco and Xiph.Org. The participant companies are numerous and include big chipmakers and content delivery networks, banding together to perpetuate a royalty-free video codec that mounts a competition against MPEG's efforts, whose rules don't exclude techniques that are patented.

This is news because previous for previous codecs in this bloodline, like VP8 and VP9, the bitstream has never been frozen [1][2]. This wishiwashiness didn't preclude hardware implementations, and certainly not software implementations, but was very much a departure of the orthodox, old-hat practice in the standard-speccing space. With AV1, they're trying an approach that competes more directly with the MPEG specs, by having a bitstream that's not a moving target and is more formal than just a document embarrassingly marked as draft [2].

[1] http://blog.webmproject.org/2010/06/future-of-vp8-bitstream.... [2] https://www.webmproject.org/vp9/#draft-vp9-bitstream-and-dec...
Harvard has good company (quote from the article about Gregory Perelman)

"Leningrad University’s maths department had a quota of two Jews per year among 350 students. Its Moscow equivalent was more zealous and actively investigated all candidates for traces of a Jewish background. Students with Jewish sounding names were refused entry, just in case."

Source: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2012/02/08/ussrs-bans-j...
For me that's what it was - I gathered quite a collection of shit I never even used or played (apps, media), just because I could (before Napster). For the friends of mine with no technical chops who I taught how to pirate, there was no pride, it was pure greed.
Coda vs. notion vs. airtable
Have any of you guys used one of these products? Wondering what the relative benefits of each are / whether some are better for certain use cases than others.
If you have a message to get across, that's where the eyeballs are
Unlike the Carcross, this one receives too much rain to be classified as a semi-arid desert.
Unfortunately, that's not how the game works with the large services firms. The salespeople and account/project managers run the show. Their business isn't selling expertise / solutions, it's selling the maximum amount of billable hours at the highest possible margin via the illusion of expertise / solutions. (I say illusion because if you read the fine print of one of their typical contracts, there's very little actually promised other than providing warm body of type X for hourly rate of Y)
In this particular case it doesnt solve this problem.

It solves the problem of the tracker.. Before you needed to trust the middleman by using another authority for trust, like your government given permissions and making inspections.

With the blockchain you can transfer that to the peers participating in the activities themselves.

It's the descentralization of trust. Right now we have to trust several databases from different peers, that no one have access to, and make a big effort if we need for instance know the state of something tracked by those systems.

Blockchain is a hype in a lot of situations, but that doesnt mean it doesnt have some problem domains it can be used to solve..

For me is just a algorithmic tool, like a hash, binary tree or a merkle tree. There are some problem domains where you might consider it as something to be used to solve some particular sort of problems.

Maybe for tracking physical goods it might not even be the best tool, according to the circustances, but it is something to be take into consideration, to solve this particular problem domain.
It's about honesty - intellectual honesty. You / I can be mistaken, if it's an honest mistake then you/I will never know. Erroneously or not - the basic is that this is what you believe.
What a hellscape this creates.
It is an odd situation where Asians are academically superior to Westerners, yet Western academic universities are globally considered more "prestigious" than any Asian university.
That was not the kind of story I was expecting but was far more interesting. Thanks for sharing.
a bit off topic, but does it exit a list of old books, sorted by dates ? I mean the really old ones. Wikiepdia gives this :

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

but is there something more graphical (to get a picture of the history of these books)
Snowden revelations mentioned that even downloading or visiting sliaT website gets you on a list.
Just because a JS engine is really fast doesn't mean you should do everything in JS, esp if CSS is the right tool for the job (not to say that this particular demo is a good example of using the right tool for the job).
We've updated the link from https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/+/v1.0.0 to the official page, but we're happy to update it again if someone can suggest better.
The admissions are based on academics, extra-curricular activities, and personality.

I can understand how #2 is important, but #3 is ripe for personal bias.

A high bar, with people passing it entering lottery quotas is a far fairer way of having both diversity, and removing personal bias from the equation.
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Man I feel really bad now.
Worded differently:

With non-SNI TLS (traditional) the server name is only sent ONCE the connection is encrypted, you can have several severs by using Subject Alternate Names (SAN), with a de facto maximum of about a 100. All the names have to be in a single cert though, because at time of establishing the encrypted connection, there is no way to know which cert to use.

With SNI, the hostname is sent before the encryption starts, so you can have more than one cert on the same server. This makes life easier for the admins as they no longer have to coordinate a bunch of hostname within a single cert, but it means that the target hostname travels through your ISP etc... in clear.
> The "Forget" button,... now clears service workers and their caches.

Hooray :-) Decent Dev-Tools for service workers are essential for a good PWA developer experience.
Tracking physical presence with packet sniffing
That paper does cite a number of other PAKE papers, including SRP.
9 IE users for every 1 Edge user in our stats. Compared with 9 Win7 users for every 7 Win10 users.

We serve small to medium sized businesses for our customer base in NZ.

Although I am not surprised: the Edge UI is buggy and the browser engine has its problems with sites too. And we have put a lot of work into ensuring Edge works properly for our clients.
It's academia's equivalent of tech's "not a culture fit".
AV1 is a collaboration between lots of huge players combining their individual state of the art attempts (Mozilla, Google, Cisco, etc). It's really encouraging, actually.

From what I can tell Opus had development contributed by multiple groups, but significantly less.
And if the IoT device is using Wi-Fi anyway there is no need for low power demand of Bluetooth.
EA is largely hosted and managed by rackspace, who, for years, had default passwords on their iLOs - with public IPs. ;)
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This isn't a great argument, as the same could be said for food, water, and even money itself.

Desperation is what causes those situations, not the drugs.
#define strlcpy(d, s, n) snprintf(d, n, "%s", s)

Not quite the same (different return type) but close.
Welp... looks like we solved the crisis. Just stop asking for ethnic status. If the "character" aspect of the application is truly about character they wouldn't need the ethnicity questions
I had never noticed that "Where to invest $10,000" before.
It's true that the original post ended up in a flagged state, but not before it got a big discussion, 200+ upvotes, and time on the front page. That counts as significant attention. When a post has had significant attention we treat follow-ups like dupes unless they add significant new information.

It's not uncommon for a topic to have a big discussion on HN, prompting media outlets to write about it, and then people post those articles back to HN. Those don't make great HN submissions, because the story is still the same. An interesting recent example was the BBC doing https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44561838 after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350645. The present case wasn't quite like that, of course, but it's close.

Intellectual curiosity withers under repetition; ideological combat thrives on it. Most people are here for intellectual curiosity, and since that's what the site is for (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), those readers take precedence over the ones who want to have the same fights over and over.

What arguments does moderation have to moderate HN? Well, HN is a moderated forum, it always has been, and it makes no claim to be anything but. If we didn't moderate HN it would be a quite different place. We try our best to be even-handed, and I hope you realize that our reward for that is to get slammed hard from both sides. We get accused of supporting white supremacism and misogyny just as much as the kind of things you guys are saying here. It sucks, and there doesn't seem to be much we can do about it.

p.s. It looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. Please don't do that. It's not what this site is for, and it's incompatible with what it is for, as I explained above. This is in the site guidelines, which we'd appreciate it if you'd read and follow: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
> I see your point but have you met people with alcohol dependency? They aren't very social.

Fair enough but the scale from buzzed to antisocial is vastly shorter on heroin than alcohol. From my observations of others, the desired pleasurable dose of heroin takes you out of the conversation pretty much immediately. Thankfully I've never chased that dragon...
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I don't believe Wikipedia. The fourth IETF proceedings lists 90 .edu domains registered as of July 10, 1986.

Of those, 18 are still currently registered but are not in Wikipedia's list: buffalo.edu
colgate.edu
du.edu
houston.edu
lehigh.edu
merit.edu
mosis.edu
riacs.edu
sdsu.edu
sunysb.edu
tmc.edu
ucar.edu
uchicago.edu
uiowa.edu
umb.edu
uoregon.edu
villanova.edu
vt.edu

A further 7 are no longer registered:
mich-state.edu
ntsu.edu
ogc.edu
pittsburgh.edu
ukans.edu
wanginst.edu
waterloo.edu
It's 24% + 10% self employment + (NY? CA?) 9% state tax + Obamacare (often around 5% or more).

And if you have kids, you are paying a lot more stuff that is included as part of the deal in Sweden (and most other European countries).

And when your kids were born, you would have received 12 months paid maternity leave in Sweden (which can be divided among mom and dad).

If we are twenty, have no kids, no medical issues, and on an academic scholarship, the US taxes seem very low. In almost any other situation, they are comparable, even though they look much lower.

And especially at the top bracket, e.g. in NYC you have 39% federal + 13.5% state/local + health care ... which is almost the same 60%, except you get to pay $100K-$200K tuition for yourself or kids, and stuff like that.
Off topic, but is there a way I can view % acceptance rate of universities over the last 40 or so years?

Thanks.
I never understood why non-locality is a problem to begin with. I mean, are we assuming that the universe is implemented on an infinite grid of computers, or what? (...which, before you get any ideas, I don't think would work with relativity.)

Is there any reason to filter out nonlocal theories beyond vague notions of aesthetics?
Social media apps have "Research" now?
Absolutely this.

Academic performance is mostly a disqualifier to figure out if someone would be successful enough. Harvard, doesn't really care about the GPA of its existing students which is why they also don't care about grade inflation. They're looking for signals that you'll succeed outside of academia. If you want to go to Harvard, stop looking at the application as a checklist. The best applicants are differentiated beyond the classroom.
The title should be: “AV1 Released (for real this time)”

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16796127
Probably not the answer you were looking for, but one of the best ways is to simply just _make_ something of your own. At the very least it's good practice, and you just might make something people find useful if you've found an 'unscratched itch'.

Even failing that, your codebase can be an educational tool for others. rosettacode.org is a pretty solid example of this--any addition to the wiki is going to save someone's bacon at some point.

But to be more specific for a moment: I see you have a functional-ish language listed (Ocaml) and you've also mentioned compilers--If you're looking for low level stuff with a hint of FP, diving into Rust might be interest you. I'd suggest looking at Redox OS--it's a monster, but plenty of the big scary parts are modularized away. Might be interesting.
Why “shockingly,” when being anti-affirmative action is called racist by many?
Certainly this is possible with a raspberry pi and a handheld radio.

At my last company I had a friend and coworker who used a pi to communicate with his Android phone for GPS data to then broadcast APRS packets to track his morning bikeride in to the office.

Not exactly handheld but there is room for miniaturization.
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Instagram listens to what you say around your phone to serve you ads. It's kind of fucked up. I would get rid of instagram
on my phone if it wasn't for all the quality memes.

To all the downvoters - are you saying instagram doesn't use your phone microphone to serve you ads? It definately does. It's happened to me countless times.
> Before writing to the buffer you should've ensured that it's big enough, and decided what to do if it's not, long before actually doing it. In other words, what happens if it's not big enough?

If you planned all this out, you're still making an assertion as to the length. The contract is "give me a string of this length" and if that's not enforced by the compiler, it ought to be enforced at runtime so that the error is detected and dealt with as soon as possible.

So maybe "safe string functions" should really be "fail fast string functions."
Yeah, it must be based on querying whois, but for example, whois shows that uchicago.edu was registered in 1991 and northwestern.edu was registered in 1999 (!!). I suppose there may have been some lapse in the registration or something...
> We could become the successful low-tax Singapore style trading hub that so terrifies Europe. I can speculate also.

The UK’s main problem isn’t any particular UK goal, it’s the total lack of anyone competent in charge and, separately, the lack of anyone powerful/charismatic enough to pick only one of the, I count six, main mutually-incompatible post-Brexit targets (each of which comes in left and right wing variations) and say “this one and none of the others”.

Right now, becoming like Singapore wouldn’t have enough support from Brexiteers, never mind Westminster. Unfortunately, the same is true for 100% of the negotiating positions thus far named, and nobody (seems to have) thought about afterwards at all.
Asian Americans are technically westerners. The USA is a racially heterogeneous country.
Social media is depressing because all your friends seem to have much more interesting and entertaining lives than you do.
I think it would just be easier to be more honest about it rather than judge by "personality."

One criterion which would actually achieve what they want (and in fact greatly improve the diversity of any university) is to take into account the income/wealth background of applicants. It would not only allow more people of color, it would also open up the application process to poor white folk too who are also in a disadvantaged position in society. If there is anything that Harvard and Ivy's lack, it is the perspective of working people.
The problem with publishing data on all that is that it wouldn't convince any of the people who care strongly about this either way. All it would do is pour fuel on the flamewars. I say this with high confidence based on past experiences.
Harvard's admissions problems are not at all in the same category.
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Harvard is trying to admit people who will be rich and powerful in 30 years. Those people aren’t always academic achievers.
for what it's worth, vervaeke is best known for his work on relevance, and in particular for demonstrating how the "turing test" (currently the most accepted "test" of consciousness) is insufficient

http://www.ipsi.utoronto.ca/sdis/Relevance-Published.pdf
>It's not about customer service,

You have got to be kidding me.

Tesla is in the wrong, and even if their insurance is going to handle it, there is absolutely no reason for the service centre to absolutely ghost this customer. They are not returning calls or answering email.

They could call and say, "We are sorry this happened, the insurance will handle it, apologies." Simple. This is not a criminal trial.
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Instagram is by far the best big social network for "good photography"; I don't see how you can miss that. It might be due to just following / seeing pictures from your brother or IRL friends. Go follow some random accounts that post great photos related to your interests and you'll quickly discover the joy.
To me it generally came across as "self-indulgent" where authors write for themselves more than the readers. Cynically I can just imagine the author thinking "oh yes that's clever" while writing this part... And with AI in the media these days, it may just confuse readers. And for what, to fit in some fancy anthropomorphism?

But I don't think I'm using the term quite right, this seems to be a more specific issue in fiction.
Looking at this from an information exposure viewpoint, TOR is actually the only type of technology that I think can provide actual anonymity (by making it computationally expensive to track an end user with diligent opsec; which is actually an extremely high bar).

If one node is speaking to another node (packets are routed) then it is known that the user may be speaking to any publicly listed, previously expected to exist there (pub/priv), or plausibly secret services at that location.

If the attacker is able to impersonate the identity (crypto) of the target node or otherwise transparently observe the node's contents then the same can also be said for any data routed through the node.

Given the above I do not see a compelling reason to reserve information about a desired target of contact from that node.

Thus it seems logical to have any name resolution / identity certification system allow delegates for 'middle men' (other crypto IDs) that are authorized to provide termination routing.

With that included in the name resolution / certificate, connecting to a specified node and then asking for the 'named service' over that secured connection should not expose any information that could not already be observed via other systemic weaknesses. If desirable a tunneled session to the end service seems the most likely to be secure, but some method of switching to a still encrypted direct channel to that other service (without any further encryption between the source and middle node) might be useful in the case of load balancing systems.
Maybe 20% of tech jobs are in actual technology companies.

The other 80% of the jobs out there are about tech-enabling non-tech businesses. As in writing CRUD front ends for fairly straightforward workflows.

For 90% of the work in those jobs, the most you'll need from a formal CS background is the ability to choose between data structures.

For another 9% you'll need to be able to evaluate whether your nested loops will cause performance problems and to understand recursion.

1% of the work in those jobs requires the ability to write new algorithms.

You can almost certainly find a job and even career in programming that you can do well without any CS background. And at least 50% of the jobs out there can be done well with not much more than a basic understanding of a few core concepts.

And on the other hand, there are broad swaths of problems that require a deep understanding of algorithms or kernels or CPU architecture or whatever.

So it really depends on what your goals are and what areas interest you.
> When people imagine their consciousness/free will faculty as its own object, they sometimes see a theatre/stage, where they are in the audience and can observe the central point where consciousness ends up forming, or a deamon sitting in front of a bunch of levers and pulling one to make a conscious free will decision.

I don't know anyone who sees consciousness this way, but perhaps we've met different sorts of people.

Your second paragraph seems like a red herring. I don't see how any of this addresses the issue of conscious experience in the first place.
Rejection letters are generic. Your story is quite dubious, can you post a scan of the letter?
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So much of modern UI design is driven by just how different I/O is now compared to 20 years ago and how familiar users are with computers.

Like, 'cascading' windows (e.g. in Program Manager) made sense in a world where a 12-14" 640x480 monitor was normal, users still wanted to ability to multitask, and skeuomorphic design (everything is a 'window') was the most intuitive analogy for users.

Nowadays you would just tile your two main windows on your widescreen monitor.
In the US - a first world country, arrests are often public data, Although it varies from state to state:

https://sunlightfoundation.com/2016/02/01/the-perils-of-pers...
I did. Shame on me. I was just quickly skimming the comments.
Whoosh. They're not being "racist". They're simply applying a "character test".
Please explain what you mean
intel.com is there... microsoft.com isn't.
FWIW, you can implement cooperative multithreading yourself, by using the Fiber API on Windows, or with a few unstandardized function calls on Linux/probably other unixes.

It works beautifully (of course, putting the fact that it's slightly "magical" aside). It's much more comfortable to write Javascript-style programs in C than it is in Javascript (where you need to chain callbacks) this way :-)
>if you go pick out a machine from a store and take it home immediately then the chances of it having something preinstalled specifically to target you is nil

Well, the chances of having government installed malware is nil ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_inci...

(Kidding aside, purchasing a laptop at a store then wiping it is probably reasonably secure for even more paranoid users)
Fascinating...I have little doubt this was part of the impetus behind _Ruled Britainnia_, a Turtledove alt-history in which the Second Spanish Armada successfully invaded England, and the story is told from Shakespeare's perspective as the main character involved in the interactions of new plays of his and the brewing political unrest.

It's one of my favorite books, if only because much of the conversation is allegedly in free verse and I end up unable to speak correctly for 10-30 mins after a good reading session.
Who of us can really judge another person's personality objectively anyway especially from a short interview. Anyone with a history of high academic performance clearly has the personality to succeed academicly.
Yeah, I was just wondering what the alternative was, before Visi On, and then 1984's Macintosh? Didn't Apple ][ just boot right into BASIC (or Oregon Trail, as per my elementary school memories)?