skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's slightly obscure, but I think the BBC concluded that AV1 was better than x265.

They ran a similar comparison before and published more details. In that one, AV1 lost a little bit to x265 on objective PSNR but beat it on subjective evaluation.

In this latest result, they don't give as much info, but AV1 is closer in PSNR (ahead for 4k) while also being 25x faster than it was the last time, so presumably it would still win on subjective quality.
But your own article talks about facts. Speculating about what he actually meant as opposed to what he actually said is outside the realm of facts.
> Netflix/Google don't care so much about encode time

And yet Netflix is working on SVT-AV1 with Intel, which is one of the fastest AV1 encoders available:

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/introducing-svt-av1-a-sc...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/bxn2uw/svtav1_encoding...

https://github.com/OpenVisualCloud/SVT-AV1

How does that fit with your narrative?
Crypto Jews are people that profess to follow other religions while secretly being Jewish.

Clearly there's a range of personal beliefs on this topic, but in my eyes a cartoon saying that Israel has undue influence on the US is A-OK. Even if you don't agree with the cartoon's premise, there's a reasonable debate that can be had.

A cartoon saying that the Jews have an undue influence on the US is where things get yucky.

The inclusion of apolitical religious symbols instead of national or even Zionist ones is what leads me to think that the cartoon is referring to the latter scenario. I don't think doing things like including the Star of David or using a dog as a caricature are inherently anti-Semetic, it just displays a lack of awareness or sensitivity to how those images have been used in the past. But using them in conjunction with the yarmulke leads me to think the cartoon is trying to say that Trump has somehow been infected by the virality of Jewishness, not just by Israeli interests as some of the defenders of the cartoon are saying.
If you don't want questions about it, maybe don't promote your tech on a tech-focused site.
You can bear responsibility for something and still be a victim. It's really bizarre to suggest this is somehow not the case and to try to support that point with deities, comics and a call for GDPR legislation (for US federal agencies?). This kind of comment is the Markov chain with which threads are anchored to the bottom of the Abyss of Meaninglessness.
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> BBC, which has no skin in the game, claims AV1 is less efficient than HEVC

The BBC does have skin in the game. They have many people in house who have invested in HEVC, and put their names behind that decision; furthermore, maybe you'll remember when the BBC spent a huge amount of money on Dirac, which seems to have continued to be extremely impractical in the medium to long term. Maybe the BBC doesn't have a spectacular track record for picking the winners in the video codec game. ;- )

Added: The BBC's comparison also seems to be between professionally-configured and tuned HEVC/VVC encoders, supported by their vendors; and what seems to be a default-configured libaom, with no consultation with the vendor.
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They clarify in paragraph below that the data is from the credit bureaus which incorrectly factor in balances that will get paid off. You have up to 60 days to pay off your credit card debt before it starts accruing interest. It is a debt and counted towards the consumers debt levels even though the consumer could be paying off the debt every cycle. If you use credit card and pay off the card every cycle, you’ll have a revolving debt and you can easily see with credit karma or similar service.
> the destination checksum will not match the source checksum

There is no source checksum.

> transmitted file's checksum will not match the source's checksum

Most applications don't checksum their files when reading them.

> a retry will likely solve the issue

You can't retry; the only copy of the edited file is corrupt, and it's not possible to (automatically, in the general case) distinguish edits you made since loading the file out of ZFS from memory corruption that happened since loading the file out of ZFS.
Who exactly is talking about anti-openness here? We're talking about which open source piece of code to reuse. Someone gave a bad argument against one company's offering.

Microsoft of the 90s, which no one emulates these days and it's a wrongheaded comparison anyways, would have said that all the open options are bad to begin with.

If you meant to say "anti-free software" then maybe we could have a conversation, but that's hardly the problem Microsoft faced in the 90s and 2ks.

Seriously, what does your post mean? Could you maybe be specific? And while we're at it, what's your connection if any with the company that sells Purism phones.
I've been following this series since the author started it.

For context, when I first became aware of the Mark Seemann, he was very deep into the object-oriented way of doing things. I discovered him because he was the author of (the excellent) Dependency Injection in .NET. A while after writing that book, he started getting into F#, and eventually Haskell, and blogged about it all the while. The upshot being, his blog archive now tells a fascinating story of the evolution of one person from being a an extremely accomplished object-oriented programmer toward being a serious functional programming advocate.

He's also done a very good job of explaining what FP has to offer to an object-oriented programmer, or at least one who likes a certain style of OOP. For example, see https://blog.ploeh.dk/2017/01/27/from-dependency-injection-t...
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My naive view is that it's similar to the reason some companies use AWS rather than running their own data center. That is, it's worth it to pay the premium to not have to manage their own space, and have the flexibility to scale up/down their usage a bit more quickly than locking into multi-year leases.
> Power users can unlock their bootloader and do whatever they want. This is still officially supported, with vendor blobs officially provided.

A bit of a tangent but I'm a "power user" and still can't get rid of the stupid warning in the beginning. Definitely not a happy medium.
It is outselling every other luxury car on the market right now, so if by “fans” you mean “car buyers” then I guess I agree?

The WSJ review I read last year on the TM3 does not consider it “low quality”. I believe their words were “rainbow farting unicorn”.

For a more recent example, the TM3 beat out the M3 in, of all places, Top Gear.

Polarizing, to be sure. “Low quality” is, erm, highly opinionated. I would say it’s strictly better than my previous car (an Infinit) in every conceivable way. And yet, there are some people who say the panel gaps are a millimeter too wide.

My wife’s GL450 does ride smoother, and it certainly is cozy (heated, ventilated, and massager seats?!) but then again, at 40k miles and a few months out of warranty I’m bringing her car to the shop tomorrow because the air suspension is indicating a “Malfunction”. Any guess on how much that’s going to run? Probably the GL450 is simply not a car you can reasonably own outside of warranty.

I do have a bit of a similar concern about if the TM3 could fail in some unexpected and highly expensive fashion, as it’s a brand new platform, but only time will tell and so far it’s been flawless. The expensive parts also have excellent warranty coverage.
Regarding your first point, do you mean that you try running emacs inside a tmux inside a terminal?

If that is the case, I would recommend not doing that. The emacs gui will give you more colours, images, thinner window borders, better keyboard shortcuts (eg a difference between C-m and RET), mouse controls (if you ever want them), as well as potentially less lag.

The analog to the vim-in-tmux workflow is to instead keep emacs always open in the gui, run somewhere between none and all shell commands from emacs (depending on how you feel), and have a terminal in another window (as you might for web browsing or email) for more prolonged terminal things. One might skip this somewhat by running shell (or even term-mode) in emacs.

Similarly, for editing remote files one uses tramp to ssh from inside emacs and edit files whereas with vim one sshes into the remote box and runs vim.
Anything that does not praise Israel is antisemetic. More accurately such will be labeled as antisemetic by various special interest groups to further their own agendas and occasionally get picked up and amplified by the rage mob.
I don't know anything about Lyndon LaRouche...will have a dig into him. And your comment is why I like hanging out on HN :)
> reCAPTCHA tech is crazy; reCAPTCHAs are not simple web forms and Javascript, they're a sandboxed and monitored 'window' to a Google server. If you solve too many reCAPTCHAs too quickly (ie. when you are testing a web page, or are rotating your passwords on many websites) then Google's servers will try to rate limit you with slow animations and harder reCAPTCHAs.

Google should absolutely not be in a position where it can be inadvertently rate limiting your attempts to rotate passwords on different websites across the internet.
I would hope that they provide sufficient carryless multiply support so that _ANY_ crc polynomial can be efficiently implemented (not to mention fast error correcting codes and the great many other things that can be done with fast GF(2^n) arithmetic).

There is no one optimal CRC choice, the best CRC will depend on the error model of your channel and the lengths of the data that you're processing.
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This article: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1137539862293372928

Read the follow up tweets for some more context.

I'm a liberal, and happen to watch Ben Shapiro (an Othodox Jewish lawyer who records a conservative podcast) and follow Lauren Southern (the filmmaker who looks at people smuggling and illegal immigration, who directed the film 'Borderless') - both are mentioned in the 'online radicalisation' piece above.

Other fairly boring, obviously non-alt-right sources mentioned in the piece are Milton Friedman (who won a Nobel Prize for Economics) and Jordan Peterson.

Those are all very obviously non-alt-right, but included in what would seem to be a rather shady attempt to smear non-leftist sources.

I haven't heard of the people you mention.
I rarely use FB. However their Ads are lightweight and pleasant to interact with but I don’t think they have an ad serving platform for publishers on the web like Google and others do. If they do I am not aware of it.
CLP shares some similarity with Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT). Is there much overlap in how they are used in practice? When would you reach for SMT over CLP?
Back when I was in college in a database class, they professor asked us to divide into groups of 2-3. Many people didn't know each other so it was hit or miss. Inevitably one person in the group carried the weight of projects but everyone in the team got the same score. At the finals there was a twist because the exam questions were derived from details in the the team projects. If you actually worked on the project, that was easy to recall. Everyone else had a pretty hard time.
His first part about "aim" is soooo dead on. It usually happens after I started coding. I find a slack message to a co-worker asking them how to do something, but then having to explain EXACTLY why I need to do this is enough to basically solve my problem. By the time I am done writing the message I have thought of the problem, the rationalle, the why, the where, etc (I don't want to just ask a question I can answer on my own), that I never send the message and thus rubber ducking succeeded.
The way recaptcha happens to work now, and its purported goal - to differentiate humans from bots - are two different things. Privacy is not fundamentally opposed to anti-fraud in the slightest.
> In your mind it's a 1-3% rebate, but in actuality you're paying for it anyway due to merchant fees, etc.

Most US businesses don't bother with offering discounts for cash/debit payments, so it's not like cash-only lifestyle will generate dramatic savings.
same thing happened to me. I had no credit card and drove a prius c I bought with a check. I tried to rent a 1 month lease apartment and was told no due to lack of credit. completely mind boggling. I offered them all the money up front but they still said no. did they think I was going to squat the place?
You need Prime to get the 5%. Prime costs $119/year. You would need to spend $2,380 or nearly $200/mo just to make it worthwhile.

Sorry; that’s not a good product at all.
how do you make an interface monoidal?
Adding my comment from the other thread since it also applies here.

I agree, I'd be interested in this as well. Based on the replies you're getting, I'd also like to point out that I'm tired of this trend in discussions:

Person A states their preferences regarding a product and says that they wish that the company would offer certain options. Person A says that they would be more likely to buy (or would only buy) the product with those options available. Nowhere is it demanded that the company implement these options, but person A has very clearly indicated their preferences.

Persons B, C, and D then immediately come out of the woodwork to shut down the discussion:

* Person B explains why nobody else would be interested in the options that person A has asked for. Person A is a "niche" user and their opinions are unimportant.

* Person C characterizes person A as "unreasonable" or "entitled" and explains why no company in their right mind would want person A as a customer.

* Person D counters person A's statement by explaining that the company can produce any product they want to, and that they don't have to listen to person A's request. It's a private company, etc, etc. (Note that nowhere did person A imply that the company had to listen to their request.)

For real-world examples of this phenomenon, see any thread regarding (in particular) Apple, Mozilla, or Tesla.
1) Good post, but there is no "inequity" in GOP length, is there? The paper says "for all encoding technologies, each sequence was split into chunks of one Intra period."

2) I also don't really see why this would inherently disadvantage AV1, though obviously it would dampen any efficiency gain. (Why would it dampen it? Because it's not like one encoder is going to draw keyframes way more efficiently than another encoder, and as you lower GOP size, way more of the filesize gets taken up by keyframes, proportionally).

3) One-second GOPs are pretty out there, but we do live in a world where two-second GOPs aren't that unusual, so it's not that crazy.
HEVC Advance lists 681 US patents in their patent list.

It is completely unlikely that AV1 infringes on none of them or any other patents.

However, there's a big giant gap between a valid patent and actually expecting to get royalties without even revealing which patents are supposedly being infringed on even now that AV1 is standardised and in production usage.

So do I think that AV1 is patent-free when all is said and done from a legal standpoint? No. Do I think it'll be royalty-free anyway? Yes.

Also:

> 1.3. Defensive Termination. If any Licensee, its Affiliates, or its agents initiates patent litigation or files, maintains, or voluntarily participates in a lawsuit against another entity or any person asserting that any Implementation infringes Necessary Claims, any patent licenses granted under this License directly to the Licensee are immediately terminated as of the date of the initiation of action unless 1) that suit was in response to a corresponding suit regarding an Implementation first brought against an initiating entity, or 2) that suit was brought to enforce the terms of this License (including intervention in a third-party action by a Licensee).

vs.

* JVC Kenwood Corporation
* Koninklijke Philips N.V.
* Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
* Orange S.A.
* Toshiba IPR Solutions, Inc.

If they are intending to initiate any patent litigation (which is going to be a very long time yet not least of all because they won't even reveal which patents) I think they're going to be at a losing end very very quickly having waited this long for VP9/AV1 to establish themselves.
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I think a better real-world example would be paying a third-party for a billboard near a competitor's location.

Nobody's rights are violated by that. There's no conflict of business interests. That's just competition. I think it's the same with running ads against searches for a competitor; Google does not take payment for search placement nor provide unrelated benefits to paid users of its services.
>If I'm young and want to buy a house, the time advantage of buying now versus buying when I have $100,000 saved in the bank far outweighs the fees and interest payments over time

this is doubtful. the amount you'll have to pay on property taxes and the interest could easily equal or exceed rent. the increase in values in the homes is not guaranteed.
> Unified Patents is a membership organization that has aggressively contested patent abuse and recently challenged the validity of 29% of the HEVC-related patents in the Velos Media HEVC pool. Commenting on the Sisvel announcement, Unified Patents CEO Kevin Jakel said, "We continue to be concerned with the lack of transparency in these licensing programs. Sisvel publishes its pricing for VP9 and AV1, but not how it came about with this price. They also have not provided a public list or even number of patents which they consider essential. It makes it very hard for anyone to ascertain how relevant the patents are and how to value them. This creates uncertainty for companies deploying technology which we think is negative for everyone."

To my eyes, there's a pretty decent chance that the Sisvel pool is an HEVC industry ploy to propagate FUD around AV1 and VP9 (suspiciously both, the latter seeming to have been the subject of no lawsuits, despite being deployed widely for about six years), to stop the bleeding w.r.t. HEVC licensing (which is still an absolute steaming dump in the lap of your legal department).

I'll believe it when I see the receipts, and even then, it'd probably be less of a minefield than HEVC. And to be fair Sisvel has not, in other industries, seemed to be a particularly insidious actor; but given the number of big fish who are obviously using VP9 encoders to do tens of billions of dollars of business without licensing anything from Sisvel, I can't see it as anything other than bluster.
Raise enough money to hire lobbyists!
You're presenting that as a rhetorical question with an "obvious" answer, but it's not obvious to me at all that the latter person is clearly a lower credit risk. Being financially stable enough that you never need to borrow any money seems like as much a positive indicator of creditworthiness as a history of paying off loans in time.

I think you're bringing very US-centric prejudices to the table. In many countries there is no such thing as a credit score and having no credit history is considered equivalent to having a history of on-time payments. As long as you don't have any delinquent payments you're good. So clearly the financial institutions in these countries agree with my assessment.
Mostly this article, in addition to hearing about how good emacs is from various others, I want to try emacs. On that note, what you're saying sounds really useful - my .vimrc file is organized by folds to due to it's size. However, as a ~30min old emacs user, I have no idea how do do what you said. For example, is there a way to 'org-babel-load-file' when I open my init.el? When I try it by pressing M-x org-babel-load-file then typing ~/.emacs.d/init.el, I get a message "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"

edit: would you mind posting a sample of your init.el file so I can see how you organize it?
AFAIK, there was only one timeline, it was just a closed loop. Skynet was built using technology from the first Terminator (and presumably would never had been developed otherwise.) John Conner knew to send Kyle Reese back in time because his mother told him who came back in time to be his father (and even gave him a photo taken just after the events in T1.) The events of the first few movies play out as inevitabilities.
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This is a large and old topic but I'll attempt to summarize.

1. The difference between $0 and even the smallest license fee is essentially infinite; just the friction to track and collect license fees would basically kill off the open source ecosystem. Also, it really rubs some people the wrong way that you can get a complete operating system and hundreds of apps for free but a single modern video codec used to cost money.

2. Codec patent licenses are sometimes kind of trolly; some codecs want to charge fees per minute of video instead of per encoder/decoder which is an accounting nightmare and feels abusive.
I guess that is a shorter way of saying the exact same thing I just said, yes.
Looks like it went up a bit, but that figure also includes $150 million in reserves, while I’m not sure the original $650 million was factoring in the reserves.

Maryland is currently building a suburban light rail system that’s almost exactly the same length, with fewer stations. It’s closing in on $6 billion with no reserves.
You can use JSON as the serialization format for gRPC, so that's not really a great reason not to use it.

I would argue that GraphQL is a bigger competitor and much friendlier to web apps.
The Far Cry world generation talk was incredible - thanks for the link!
> Why do I borrow $100 to buy groceries every week? I have more than $100 in my bank account at any given moment.

Having just disputed a merchant transaction last week, I have one reason - to introduce an additional layer of consumer protection at no additional cost to the consumer. If I had transacted in cash, I would've been screwed. And this was a major nationwide retail chain, not a dude in the alley peddling stuff that "fell off the truck".
They've helped themselves to what seems to be limitless legal power as well as a functionally infinite budget... and still this type of incident doesn't surprise us in the least. Everyone just expects them to be one of the least competent actors in the space. And they don't disappoint. Hmmm.
Quote from the article:

“There should never have been the ability to download a database like this off of government servers.”

Sorry that I don't have a ton of links to support this claim, but "believe me" (as our Commander-in-chief would say) that the US Government would cease to function if it were not for subcontractors (read, private companies) performing tasks on behalf of the government. Personally, I don't agree with this way of our government doing business, but that is the way it is.

When I was in college, I worked for an archeology lab, and our lab was the subcontractor, of the subcontractor, of the contractor that had contracted to provide a service to the USACE (US Army Corps of Engineers). And every way along the way, money was skimmed off of the top. It's just "the American way" of doing business.

People lament regulation all the time. I have a feeling the executives of Ingersoll Rand love it every time a new regulation is put into place.

Follow the money.
Ok, that wasn't intuitive from the form, it looked like you wanted a ton of info before I got to the zipcode. Maybe a hint on that page to look. Thanks!
Parent was pointing to a real world analogous situation which we don't get upset about, and accusing OP of hypocrisy.

But it was a flawed argument, because CPU binning is not at all like Tesla software limiting battery packs. It's totally valid to be upset about one but not the other (personally I'm fine with both).

You coming up with any sort of theoretical scenario to continue the analogy doesn't counter my argument or boost theirs. We don't need help understanding what Tesla is doing.