skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> HEIC/AVIF container is a complicated kitchen sink. It's closer to being a PowerPoint file than an image format.

This is untrue. While anything written by a working group that isn't trying to get to the moon with a below-average calculator will be more complicated than necessary, it is not a kitchen sink.

Both AVIF and HEIF store just a sequence of images with metadata (EXIF, depth maps, animation frame timings, profiles, ...). It's comprehensive, sure, but not a kitchen sink.

The AVIF spec is quite readable: https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-avif/

> The reference implementation is a ton of C++ code I would not dare to use in a security-sensitive application.

You shouldn't be concerned because the implementation is big—you should be concerned because it is of non-zero length and parsing wild data. You need a safe port regardless if you're going to play the security sensitive card. BGP being C is an equal liability.

I don't want neither BGP nor HEIF to become popular at the cost of AVIF due to being based on HEVC, but I see no significant differentiation between them—HEIF is already established and does the trick.
> Windows hasn't worked like that in a very long time, a user's default storage locations (Desktop, Documents, etc) are all held centrally and it is completely transparent to the user.

This has to be set up and configured, it is not default by any means. That and most places I have seen a mix of macOS and Windows, and people use their personal devices all the time, or put something in DropBox / Google Drive etc to share things, etc. This is not a button to press.

> What "legal restrictions" stop government from hiring IT Staff?

Have you seen IT budgets in local government? That, and salary guidelines set by law. It's not a simple question of whether or not it's possible to hire IT staff, but a question of whether you can pay enough to attract the talent you need, whether you can afford the opex+capex for the level of service you think is standard, etc.

When I've worked at larger organizations like universities, things were usually handled very well with everything set up the way you describe, automated, and hands-off. But there's a lot of variation when it comes to things like city governments.
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Let us remember that Peter Thiel founded Palantir to give himself backdoor influence on policy.
What if we could see all concurrency bugs in the debugger?
Search "marquee html"
Good point, language is important. I should have said "act immediately." I meant more like "get out from your desk."

The idea is to move.
Things like these is why most Mac converts never want to return to Windows. Not just the issue in TFA/post, which may seem trivial, but the overall “telemetry” debacle and experiences like jtdev’s comment.

For all their claims of having reformed, Microsoft will always be that ex you don’t want to do anything with ever again.

There are worse horrors than the lack of a physical Escape key, waiting on the other side of the fence.
fwiw

Mets Payroll in 1999 - 71,506,427

5,900,000/71,506,427 = 8.25% of payroll

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Mets Payroll 2011 120,147,310

1,193,248/120,147,310 = 0.99% of payroll

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Mets Payroll 2018 $154.61M

1,193,248/154,610,000 = 0.77% of payroll

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also fwiw, not sure we can trace exactly how efficiently the Mets spent the $5.9 million they saved in 1999, but the Mets won 97 games that year, the next year they won 94 and made it to the World Series

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given time value of money....

'worst contract in sports history' seems pretty hyperbolic
Someone in the tech industry decides to build such product for the lawmakers. These people in the tech industry know how this software is being used and they continue supporting it.

Yes, lawmakers are responsible for it, too. But let's not justify the "we just built and sold a weapon, we didn't fire it" mentality.
Nothing fetishized about it at all. The middle class is being destroyed, it's eat or get eaten. Society is more competitive than it's ever been. It's going to get much worse.
Yo dawg I heard you like job security, so we put a program in your program, now you you can render while you render

More seriously, I do understand the difference, but disagree with the whole approach in 95% of cases
Executive Order on Collecting Information about Citizenship Status on Census
Ctrl-f family ... no you didn't.
The pitchforks are coming (2014)
I mean, how many of us work at Microsoft or Amazon? Companies currently in a bidding war to build the "War Cloud".
Does the crafter still avoid blame if they were knowingly contracting to craft knives for a gang that has a history of hurting others?
In other words, don't buy on Amazon, particularly by third-party marketplace.
The relevant comparison is to 6.41% (nominal), not 4.8% (inflation adjusted)
Bonilla's contract was 8% nominal.

a 1.59% premium for 25 yeras AND trading market risk for Mets solvency risk is a pretty good deal, though. Mets/MLB may be headed down in the future, but the are likely to be solvent for much to all of that 25 years.
Hunting is a very social exercise. My sons are not yet old enough to go without prattling on about this or that, spooking any game worth taking. I'm planning on next season taking one at a time and teaching them the craft and all that goes into it, which is great bonding. My dad was not much of a hunter, but my grandfather was, and because of that, some of my fondest memories are of us hunting doves and rabbits, and the countless fishing trips we did.

My hunting trips are just day trips. I'm not like some guys I know who fly to Colorado and Alaska, leaving the family behind. I want my sons to be involved, but they are not quite ready. My wife will sit in a deer stand with me and like to shoot, but will not shoot at animals. She likes the resulting venison, however.

Our early ancestors hunted in parties of several to dozens of men, often for safety against predators, both two and four legged. I like the idea the British use, several people driving birds, a good hunt, and cigars and gin and tonics afterwards in the game room. Done it. It's great.
Yeah I think this is a pretty apt. When I was more social and hung out with people more I appreciated my alone time more but it wasn't really idle time because I was doing things that I like to do alone more. I guess it is more about having idle time where I don't do anything that can really ramp my anxiety up.
Chronic Schizophrenia Put into Remission with Ketogenic Diet
Say whatever you like about Apple, they don’t do this.
And what is the proof?
My boyfriend disclosed that he does not believe women should be allowed to vote
Okay, you have a point. Bitwarden though is at the end of the day a commercial product. I don't know about the user-friendliness of pass but it certainly has a good reputation.
What to Do When You’re Caught in a Lie (Even an Unintentional One)
We hope you'll like it :)
To be clear, the moment one is accredited they can make all the dumb investment decisions they would like. However, beneath a magical line of $200k per year salary the government prevents you by legal force from doing so. When you make above that number you are free to be dumb. I'm advocating letting everyone make their own decisions, for better or worse.
I'm using Safari exclusively, but back when I had Firefox installed, you could change the shortcut for 1Password X. Does it not accept Command + \ as a shortcut?
Thanks for the recommendation, I will definitely add it to my list .
So there is no misunderstanding - I agree with everything you said, however, the problem with facts when looking at history, are that we're really don't know all of them. Just look at the situation today - every country has it's own propaganda machine, trying to spin the truth so they can present their point of view as THE facts. In 200 years the facts will be not what really happened, but what we can piece from the few articles and books that will survive. And who knows how close to the real truth they will be?

But the truth usually is somewhere in the middle.

The idea behind my original post was to get people to give me some names of the important figures from their countries, so I can learn more about their history, views, and heroes. I don't want not to talk about the complicated history of one nation, but about these ignored (by the western society) heroes of exploration, science, politics that we never talk about because - how many people really know history of Tibet, or Uganda or.. _fill the blanks_. How many people heard about __ who discovered ____ but lived in a _____ so only few people heard about them?
But we can't talk about that because someone has to prove why your side is as bad, or worst as my side.. FFS
>Once and for all, it is the policy makers, not the tech industry

This is what people working on horrible things say to themselves to justify collecting a (giant) paycheck. Many parties are at fault, whether they write the laws or the software.
This is relevant to my interests +1

This looks like the free/open-source version to Sendy based on more modern tech like Golang/Docker/etc I've been hoping for, congrats on your alpha release!
It's funny I used to think I was an introvert for so many years because I spent so much time alone. My therapist always used to tell me different and I just thought he was disconnected on that subject. How could I be an extrovert when I spent so much time alone? Wasn't until I started having managers tell me the same that I started to consider it. Turns out I really like being around people but I had a few painful experiences that made me avoid it.
I asked the question in earnest, so I appreciate your reply. I think you're probably right.
What you say could be true, but I don't know that we can assume it. If downtime requires several things to happen (cascading errors), but those things interact somehow (problem with one makes another more likely), I could imagine it might not be normally distributed. Disclaimer: I Am Not A Statistician.
The sweet spot where I work is online forms that pre-populate excel playgrounds and allow download. Then, you can tweak till your heart's content.
People have been making 2.8 tutorials for months. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blender+2.8+tut...
Ask HN: What if drugs were legal?
I have always wondered what the world would be like if all drugs were legal and licensed like alcohol with minimal but strict protectionism. Do you guys have any data or thoughts about it?
Much of what they are doing stretches and very likely breaks constitutionality. The fact that they can track you without any probable cause for any amount of time and then store that information means that essentially they no longer have to get warrants, meaning there is no oversight, on anyone they want as long as they claim it's related to a case. That's absolutely wrong.

No one wants gang members running around shooting people up. We are very clearly not a nation of laws as laws apply differently depending on the very things you claim not to care about. Sentences are harsher, applications of justice are different depending on what race, nationality, or religion they are or even how much justice they can afford. This isn't an affront against the police, I'm good friends with officers, but at the end of the day as citizens it's our responsibility to hold our police accountable and establish the limits imposed upon them. Our founding fathers lived under a police state that was unaccountable to the people and we are drifting closer to that line. Our character as a nation is not defined by what we do when it's easy, but how we act when the decision are hard.
I would think racism would affect their ability to do jobs that have interacting with the public and representing a brand as key responsibilities. So in the Mcdonald’s case, no I wouldn’t hire a racist for Mcdonald’s. I’m sure there are jobs that don’t require that, and then maybe it wouldn’t be relevant. In any case, racists aren’t a protected class, and I believe racism is a changeable set of beliefs and behaviors.

In this specific case, LEO interacts with the public and they represent the executive branch of the government of the United States of America. I’m pretty sure racism would be a problem.
What prevents hostyoself.com (or more likely, a malicious actor that hacked HYS) from executing a MITM attack on everything?
I wish they won't use .avif file extension. It becomes .avi on old systems with 3 letter extensions! AV1 already looks like AVI. avif will be even more confusing.
So instead of watching video on demand on a TV - since almost all TVs sold these days are “smart TVs”, it’s a different experience watching it on a phone or computer?
I'm sorry to hear about your personal experience; I've been in a similar situation myself, related to voice assistant technology. However, I don't think either of our experiences necessarily imply that Palantir is evil. For example:

Typewriters can be turned to evil. IBM showed this to the world with their WWII-era Nazi collaboration. That doesn't mean the world should abandon typewriters, or that no self-respecting engineer should work on typewriters, or that they would be necessarily used for evil by the law-enforcement arm of a democratic society.

Should police agencies collect and store real-time location data for every private car? Probably not. I'd support legislation to restrict such practices. Should Palantir help police officers sort and present the data they collect, in general including not only LPR data but also criminal records, known associates, and vehicle information? I'd say yes.
> remove the non-essential steps that increase the quality by a negligible amount but have a huge impact in the running time. Knowing what parts of the algorithm are essential and what parts are superfluous is not easy if you don't understand the algorithm

Yeah that's what figured but hoped against. I still might have a curious look later...

any pointers for where a good resource might be?
I'm mixed on this.

I hired a former CIA analyst a few years ago. Part of his job at the CIA was to contribute to the daily briefings provided to president Obama. I asked him how he felt about the ethics of spying on American citizens. He said I wouldn't believe the number of threats that were prevented on a daily basis because of the tools and data they have access to. He said they don't share the information about what or how many crimes they prevent because it would cause panic. They also don't share that information because it would give away how they were uncovering the plans.

It seemed like a viable explanation and I don't think he had any incentive to embellish...but it also seemed like something big brother would say to get me to give up freedoms.
A friend of mine who is retired military told me there is a saying that "once is bad luck, twice is a coincidence, but three times is enemy action". Doesn't necessarily mean it's true, of course.
The problem is most people that want undocumented immigrants deported don't actually want them deported. They just want them to be an underclass available for cheap labor and keep their mouths shut. Undocumented workers are essential to the economy and the same people that hate them hire them.

If you want rule of law, provide work permits and a path to citizenship. Immigrants of all variety aren't going away. We need them.
So it's analogous to the key revocation problem, but more like a key invocation problem.
Which requirement? Supporting legacy hardware such as VGA resolution monitors (640x480) adds a lot of complexity for little gain IMO.
Per Martin-Löf writes so beautifully.

Here’s more: https://github.com/michaelt/martin-lof

Here’s another one - this one is wonderful: https://archive-pml.github.io/martin-lof/pdfs/Bibliopolis-Bo...

As far as I understand the theory, then dependently typed languages such as Idris have their roots in his work on intuitionistic type theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionistic_type_theory

Intuitionism in math is beautiful imo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionism
Maybe don’t use windows for your build machine.
I'm trying to promote "zero carbon life" and educate people that co2 taxes and especially negative taxes (aka allowances) are our solution to neutralize the bad effects of living (not just co2 but other harmful things too). Then free market and technological progress will fix things automatically. Negative tax creates incentive for companies to clean environment.

We just need to get people to understand this to vote politicians who will implement the taxes and not waste time to talk about different life styles and what is socially ok (pets are) and what is not (plastic straws are not). I've written a longer essay about the idea: https://palsta.pulu.org/en/73-zero-carbon-life
on infoq: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-...
I would never use this but I love that it exists and I love the humor/personality behind the project.
When you described me as a racist for making an innocuous observation I stopped reading.

I pointed out that the other poster was being unfair, and I guess you expected that doubling down was going to get more of my time?

I don't know what you expected, but whatever it is, you were wrong. There are entirely too many jackasses willing to scream racism, and I'm too fucking old to do anything but dismiss them.
That would be a good option if they supported all of their clients equally, but the developer has pretty much said that he's not going to update the extension to support Safari 13. As a Safari user, it's not a good option.
I’ve seen less on the Windows 10 Pro version (switched off all datasending features on install).
So the purpose of this model is to be able to identify a person despite their changing of clothes?

Not a sarcastic question
Glad to see that Cook hasn't altered this as Apple always had security as focus. It was one of the reasons I got my wife into using macs years ago, I never had to support her or worry about what website has managed to install ad malware.

We recently went back to PC's and it was immediately obvious we needed wall to wall antivirus protection which was not always the case on macs.
You can't have it both ways. Police can easily hold someone as guilty of a crime for being in the same car as someone committing a crime. If you can be charged for that then a creator can be held complicit for any actions done using their software as intended.
Oh, SOAP, that bastion of high performance and improved efficiency.
"not for public release" then you got the search results: About 81,600 results (0.31 seconds)
I notice every time I read about some historical figure too. They just seem to hop in boats and end up in foreign countries willy-nilly.

But I think it's important to remember that we only read the stories of typically-wealthy, often aristocratic people who accomplished enough to have their lives remembered for hundreds of years. There's a lot of survivorship bias here. For every Kosciusko, there's a thousand 17th century people who never once left the village they were born in.
The submitter's history suggests they try to submit every xkcd comic.
Since not everyone will get the reference: according to the Christian Bible's New Testament, this is what Pontius Pilate (the Roman administrator who sentenced Jesus Christ to death) said when he reluctantly allowed the angry mob to decide JC's fate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontius_Pilate
Privacy of Progressive Web Apps
In an interview at the time, Holmes said, "What we're really talking about is to say, 'Just put 'em in jail. And at least that offender will be out of sight and out of mind for a defined period of time. Not receiving treatment, but at least out of the public view.'"
I'm not sure whether he's criticizing this thought or not, but if he IS, why? Having these people out of the public is obviously better than having them attempt to throw people off bridges or scream incoherent nonsense at random bystanders, regardless of whether they receive treatment.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Lectures) (1986)
They are essential to the economy because American employers can pay below-market wages for back-breaking labor. I'd prefer to make such practices illegal, rather than continually subjecting undocumented immigrants to awful working conditions with no healthcare or legal recourse in cases of abuse.

If a concerted effort was made to improve the lives of such workers, I think you'd be surprised how quickly Americans would be willing to do those jobs.
I'd recommend video tutorials on YouTube. There's many great ones already: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blender+2.8+tut...
And use forums if you get stuck. https://blenderartists.org/ Help others to learn faster.
Gmail isn't a social network.
Completely disagree. I don't think humans are meant to live in cities. Something about being around that many people and ongoings makes me and from what I can tell a lot of other people, on edge so to speak.

I grew up in a suburb and it was not at all isolating. We had close communities and nearby family. I was friends with kids on my block and had freedom to explore and be independent. I would say technology is what is driving people to isolation.
It's one thing to show compassion and not be overly punitive on those suffering from mental illness or addiction.

It's another thing to throw up your hands and let unstable people cause chaos in your streets. That's not good for them or you.
Is there anyone Oracle won't sue? I think most companies would take that as a signal they need to improve their offerings. Oracle on the other hand says, "Are our cloud offerings sub par? No, it's the customer who is wrong."
They're saying the opposite. They're saying that Palantir is helping catch violent racists after they commit crimes.
Or, just as valuable to society: online shopping. ;}
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Augsburg′s water system is a UNESCO World Heritage site
LogDNA (YC W15) Is Hiring Software Engineers – DevOps Monitoring at Scale
That would only be if they hosted an online meeting (an audio or video conference), not for any outlook meeting (i.e. a meeting booked with outlook doing scheduling, but meeting happening in a good old meeting room). And that is then comparable to slack video conferencing, so probably a fair comparison.
I don't have any links to offer. The best I can do is an argument. Here's a tool or method that lets you prove that there are no security holes. Now here comes someone who identifies a completely new class of exploits. Does the proof prove that the software is immune to the new class of exploit? Maybe - it depends on the details of the new class of exploit, and on the details of the proof.

So the proof that software is secure may be invalidated by new attacks. And this is (part of) why "proof against all software errors" is... let us say overly optimistic.

Even when it's not security issues... do you have a list of all possible software errors, so that you can prove that none of them occur? I don't. I'm not sure that anyone does. I suspect that there's always some kind of error that isn't covered.