skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As another JS -> Rust dev I do agree. Over time I have grown to understand why it complains when I do X, Y and Z and I like having deeper visibility into what's going on. That said, I did some experimentation with Nim and it truly feels like a language that does the best of both. But the community isn't so huge.
Maybe let them maintain a 20 years old project with unusual behavior and requirements, and nice helpful 20 years old commit messages?
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Nobody said this; you're inventing strawmen.

e: Apparently someone did say this. Apologies.
I'm confused. How is Sisvel able to sell a license for AV1 patents when they're not a member of AOMedia? Do they actually have AV1 patents, or are they trying to trick companies that would rather pay up than risk violating patents?
At 99 cents for the add on, the decision to charge users smells more like a political decision than an economic one. The cost to Microsoft is undoubtedly far less than that. 99 cents is basically the bare minimum you can charge when you accept credit cards as a method of payment.
It's about the assumptions made during the standardization.

Compared to 30 years ago, we now have better knowledge and statistics about what low level primitives are useful in a codec.

E.g. jpeg operates on fixed 8×8 blocks independently, which makes it less efficient for very large images than a codec with variable block size. But variable block size adds overhead for very small images.

An other reason can be common hardware. As hardware evolves, different hardware accelerated encoding/decoding techniques become feasible that gets folded into the new standards.
My group of hard core ML friends went fully private. I don’t even pay attention to the public ML discourse (except on HN.) I think a big part of it is a low barrier to an international culture and academia which can be toxic in their own ways.
Thanks! Yeah I've used that extension. If anyone's curious here's the official Amazon one:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-kindle-for...
It would be hard to build a new algorithm without stepping on other established algorithms that are patented.
>It would also only allow a one-way travel along the local field gradient. No round trips.

Turn the magnet around?
> mistakes

These aren't mistakes, though, at least not in the sense of accidents. They were bad ideas, but it certainly wasn't a case of "oops, I accidentally added affiliate hijacking, silly me".

I mean, I suppose you could interpret them as severe naiveté and/or incompetence? That's probably the most charitable way to look at them, but still wouldn't exactly encourage me to use the product.
Rather than as a general parsing problem, isn't it possible to reformulate this in a different way that is much easier to solve by using the fact that these are strings describing flights we want to get destination and sources from?

So what you could do is take a general database of all flights (which is structured data and easy to work with) and then the problem is to label the unstructured input data with the probability it relates to a particular source, destination pair.

For example, there are no flights from York (lovely though York is) to Venice, so that mistake isn't one such a model could even make. Whereas there are a lot of flights to and from New York (including to Venice), and since that number is large it's a much higher probability labeling than some others.
I want to know things like this. Any recommendations for books or lectures?
Yes. This worked well for me.
This sound fascinating. Could you give us some examples of what you'd like your keyboard to do?
Pretty much every method involved in high-efficiency video compression has a patent on it, doesn't matter how small part is involved.

Now compound this by the fact that a) trying to make an exhaustive patent search to get a verifiable claim that you don't infringe on any patent is very problematic b) known patent pools like MPEG-LA are known not to cover everything.

So you can make a reasonable bet that you avoid infringing patents by avoiding patents from MPEG-LA and few other better known groups, but you can't actually guarantee that you're not infringing on any patents.

This resolves, sort of, into a game of chicken and depends heavily on whether a lesser known patent holder decides it's worth it to bother executing against you... but even if they don't, unless they come out with a royalty-free license, the possibility of patent is a Damocles' Sword hanging over your codec.
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I think the problem is that it's not really in the power of regular citizens to make meaningful changes to structural/institutional racism; these kind of changes have to happen at a different level (e.g. correcting the disadvantages socio-economic status would probably my #1 thing, although I'm not 100% sure how to do this). You can "not be silent" all you want, but if that doesn't change much then, it's kinda of ... pointless.

"Looking the other way" in the face of blatant racism is of course bad and, IMHO, inexcusable, but it's usually a lot more subtle than this. Besides, that if speaking up may have real consequences for you? What if it risks alienating life-long friends, your job, your volunteer work? And will speaking up actually achieve anything?

Also some people might choose to focus on different aspects of society to improve. A day has only 24 hours, and there are many possible topics you can fight for. Not everyone needs to fight for every cause.
How much does Cisco pay (to MPEG?) for that?
Commercial leases also tend to be fairly long-term. So a lot of companies are in the situation where they want to use their existing space in a way that's appropriate for the current situation. Which may be different from what they'd do if they were starting from a clean slate.
Because there are companies with a lot of money in this space which spend all their time trying new things and patenting anything they come up with, even if it doesn't make it into a published codec, basically.

The way to get around this is to exist in the EU and avoid providing anything to the US.
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Agreed, though the fact conveyed by the title itself was a surprise to me.

Why would a company keep such a large amount of cash in hand? Especially when we saw a big enough dip in many scrips. Tech has more than recovered.

I am an author for the technology blog on this website.
The field is littered with companies holding submarine patents just waiting for that big payday when something using some tiny part that they patented gets popular and deployed to millions of devices so they can surprise everybody with their pricey licensing terms and huge lawsuit.
We inch closer and closer to the Wuhan corona lab being the source of ... the corona pandemic.

My favorite theory for the release is a lab tech selling lab rats on the side for pets or food. :)
Apple is also on the list of organizations behind H.266 so it’s difficult to conclude anything beyond wanting to bet on all the horses.
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I'm not defending Mao or Stalin. I'm critiquing utopian thinking, including that of Mao and Stalin. Communists pursued a utopia, and neoconservatives are pursuing their own utopia modelled on Chicago school economics and liberal democracy.

We should pursue a non-interventionist foreign policy and not force our way of life, which itself is a compromise between different groups, onto other countries. Other countries need to come to a different modus vivendi compromise between themselves and with us, and have as much right to sovereignty as we do.
This is a solution that works reasonably well.

Formulating a working alternative is far from trivial.
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That's the way to do it. It's easier said than done to stick to just the alarm when the phone is already in your hand with an active display. Especially if you have new notifications.
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Not only a GPL reference implementation, GPLv3 would preclude patents on any improvements.
There are many other questionable privacy policies from Firefox. Here's one (mobile):

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1265029

But there are many others, just search "firefox privacy concerns" or similar keywords. Telemetry data -- Pocket suggestions -- etc.
Were I an interviewer, I think I would have actually really liked that one. It demonstrates real understanding of how human mistakes get made and prevented.
Software patents aren't a thing in ~~Europe~~ a few European countries. Sure it's difficult to ignore the American market for a company, but an independent developer could specify a state of the art video codec without thinking about patents.

Edited because I didn't know that some European countries accept software patents.
Not for consumers, obviously?
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What do you think about this?
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Not OP but I think he meant "h266 is now significantly more efficient than av1"
This is because it started out as a Google project.
There is an internal time-series framework there called Monarch that does the same thing for composing operations.
Clicks and Click-Through-Rate are measures for direct marketing efforts, not advertising as a whole. You can have an effective branding ad and you don't even consider clicks as a main KPI.
>I've disliked Brave from the beginning. Initially because of the pretentious - and frankly appropriated - name

I always joked that if you were really Brave you wouldn't need their browser, it should be more aptly named "Wimp".
Being careful and being successful are two different things, especially given how hard it is to do an exhaustive search over patents to ensure that no, no claim in any patent filing touches your code, especially given that there are regimes where patent filings for software get pretty much a rubber stamp and are based around "first to file" even if there's prior art.
The way I read the release was that it's not a lossless compression, it reads like it's downscaling 4k+ video to a lower format with 'no perceptible loss of quality.' Since this is also seemingly targeted at mobile, I'm guessing the lack of perceptible loss of quality is a direct function of screen size and pixel density on a smaller mobile devices.

For me, this is another pointless advance in video technology. 720p or 1080p is fantastic video resolution, especially on a mobile phone. Less than 1% of the population cares or wants higher resolution.

What new technologies are doing now is re-setting the patent expiration clock. As long as new video tech comes out every 5-10 years, HW manufacturers get to sell new chips, phone manufacturers get to sell new phones, TV manufacturers get to sell new TVs, rinse, repeat.
Of course it's exhausting. It would be less exhausting if more people paid attention to these things instead of viewing it as someone else's problem.
"For research purposes.. of course..."
I think a multipronged approach is needed. Many families in the food deserts lost the know how to cook properly. But it’s very unfortunate that the most subsidised crop is corn. If beans were, I am sure it would be perverted too somehow but maybe not as bad.

My general point is that the incentives today are all wrong. Many things need to be fixed and subsidies of corn syrup is one egregious thing.
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I created a Terraform course on YouTube with 17 videos
I see the formula one body always trying to change rules that effect car performance. The goal, more overtaking and competitive racing.
My question is if they were to have more technology limitations meaning less area of improvement would that balance of 90% car 10% driver change for the better. Say 60% car and 40% driver. Wouldn't that make it more competitive?
It's not as common as you might think nor is it always free or affordable.

In NYC, the Sweetgreen/Dig Inn/etc. type places in areas with offices are packed from 12pm to 3pm every weekday. It's a huge market for them.
They use ffmpeg, which is developed by people who do not care about software patents because it doesn't apply to them.
second h265 was probably meant to be h266
This is a film project where all the decisions are crowdsourced. That means every decision made for this film will be done collectively, through polls, and the majority vote will always win. These decisions will range from picking a script, to selecting an actor for a role, and eventually deciding how this film should be distributed. This could be an amazing experience, or a complete disaster. Who knows? Everyone decides. Your feedback is much appreciated!
I am in the US. It was disabled by default in Debian, but it is on in Windows. It looks like I have not participate din any studies on the Windows machine.
H.265/HEVC takes about ten times as much computation to encode than H.264 [1], so H.264 still has legitimate technical use cases, even with licensing/patents aside.

This makes it great for a company like Netflix or YouTube, but less good for one-to-one and/or battery sensitive use cases like video calls. However, specialized chips help, and some mobile devices can record in HEVC in real time (mine from 2019 can). I believe current smartphones have HEVC encoding hardware, but I'm struggling to find a source for that right now.

I haven't seen the details of this new codec yet, but it's quite possible it also has a large encoding cost which will make it better suited to particular use cases, as opposed to a blanket upgrade.

[1] http://www.praim.com/en/news/advanced-protocols-h264-vs-h265...
I’d recommend searching for an addiction therapist. Most will revolve around alcoholism, but there are many that specialize in more general forms of addiction.
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So compressing a 1080p video with H266 will not result in similar file size/quality improvements as a 4k video? How much are we looking at for 1080p, 10%?
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No such measure exists, at least not one that can’t be gamed.
I’ve always thought that the “advanced tracking” touted by some in AdTech was:

1. Generally not that advanced (yes I searched for hotels in Florida and so yes I’m probably taking a trip to Florida... don’t need fancy ML to figure that out.)

2. Not that smart. (Hey we actually got back from our Florida vacation two months ago... don’t need to keep seeing hotel offers for Florida!)

It totally makes sense that just “dumb” targeting (show people adverts related to the content on the page they are currently looking at, which requires no tracking) might actually work better than all the black magic products companies promote.
At some point the compressed version of "Joker" will be 45 chars:

"Sequel to Dark Night starring Joaquin Phoenix"

Of course we will not have to film movies in the first place then. We will just put a description into a compressor start watching.
That's what patent trolling is
They are modern video codecs which are playing chicken with possible submarine patents.

Ultimately, it's a question of how much you're gonna risk to get where you want, and how much power/influence/wealth you can bring to squash a possible lawsuit.
I know nothing about pro and cons of Brave, but many people that criticize Chrome hegemony often see Brave as inconsequential. It has zero leverage on the evolution of web standards as they will never be able to hard-fork the engine.

In particular it does close to nothing to solve the problem of chrome-only websites.

It is one of the reason the demise of edgeHTML/chakra was a bittersweet news for many (in this case Microsoft could have the resources, in extreme cases, to hard-fork blink/V8).
I'm guessing you don't know how much your time is worth. Suppose you wanted a nice meal for a friend you spontaneously invited over. You’ll go to the grocery store, cook, clean. Not only have you spent say two or more hours for a meal. If you paid yourself minimum wage, you wouldn't break even no matter how cheap the ingredients.

Frugality is a useful mentality, but it’s important to account for the economic value of time, energy, focus, and happiness. If you try billing yourself for your chores at your normal wage, your behavior will change.
> don't supply ML Tech for immoral use. But beyond that?

There's a lot to that and it goes beyond the scope of what researchers can handle by themselves. It's an effort that involves more than just the researchers, though they will take a central role.

For one thing, how do you evaluate whether a usage is "immoral"? How do you enforce correct usage? These are difficult questions with multifaceted answers which no one has yet elucidated (yes, it has to be more than "I'll know it when I see it").
The book Walden by Henry David Thoreau would be a nice read for anyone interested in additional experiences from this article. I wanted to start gardening at a local club, but due to the situation it has been hard to do so. I encourage anyone who might not want to travel to participate in community organizations that involve gardening or related activities. Or alternatively, taking long walks also helps! Thank you for sharing!
What funds and what is your allocation
But for most situation you encode once and play multiple times. Wouldn't it be better to reduce storage and bandwidth costs with a smaller file (assuming the same quality)?
The divide you're describing between careers C++ development and physics can be explained by simple supply and demand. You've responded to the market and are better off for it.

Also, when you have a bunch of very intelligent and hard-working physics grad students, how on earth can "working hours" not be a discriminatory mechanism between them, when the coveted faculty positions are so few and far between? Does it not stand to reason that a person who devotes more of his day to the work will come out ahead, on average?

It isn't good or bad, it simply is.
libressl is the only one I'm aware of.
> What is your solution to bring awareness against police brutality

Unlawful police brutality is bad regardless of who it is being committed against. Framing this as a "black" issue and not a general issue which everyone can unite on, is divisive.

The solution is obviously to provide better training for new police officers and foster a better attitude among the police force (in general, new or old) towards their role in society.

> systematic racism

I don't believe in unfounded claims. Are there actual data to back this extraordinary claim of systematic racism today (as opposed to in the past), or is this just internet-outrage?
There are patents that cover AV1 and VP9 they just are just licensed without royalties: https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/+/refs/heads/master/PAT...
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x265 ffmpeg
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MPEG-2 doesn't support video larger than 1920x1152, so it's hard to compare on 4k video, let alone 8k. But according to https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321412719_Subjectiv... H.265 can achieve similar visual quality with 10% of the bit rate of MPEG-2 even on SD video (832*480). [Edit: not 720p]
> This is the first time a project of this kind will be used anywhere in the world and ESO believes it could be a “huge step forward” in running a zero-carbon electricity grid.

I'm trying to find some stats on this, because flywheel UPS aren't a new idea:

https://www.finning.com/en_IE/products/new/power-systems/ele...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_storage_power_system#...
They envisioned a world without police
AV1 and VP9 are covered by plenty of patents. One of the differences here is that there is a retaliation clause in the licenses for AV1 and VP9. https://aomedia.org/license/patent-license/

"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)."

This makes it much harder for practicing entities or their licensees to assert claims against other practicing entities over the formats.
you'd have been bonkers to buy it at any point in the past 5 years and yet look at it now.
It's necessary if you want to offer an interactive Python shell in the browser, e.g. for websites that teach programming or otherwise use programming as a means of user interaction.
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"or similar" - I mean an open-source free license to use, that is not encumbered by patents. GPL was the first license name to pop into my old-man brain.
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And doesn’t actually make much sense, as Chrome when it was released made a point of having vastly less ‘chrome’ than the incumbent IE.
If I understand correctly, around 10 million USD per year (according to https://www.mpegla.com/wp-content/uploads/avcweb.pdf that's the cap, and from what I've heard Cisco is selling enough actual products to hit that cap, so providing their software for free to everyone else doesn't cost them any extra in licensing fees, just hosting and such)
Software patents are a very complex thing.

For example, many countries in EU do not allow patents on software, but that's not something you can claim to be true for all of them - at least before Brexit, since iirc UK was pretty happy to provide software patents.

Then there's a case where if you're really willing you can, as far as I understand, force a patent dispute through WTO, with possibility of patent valid in USA being executed for example in Poland, despite the fact that the patent is invalid in Poland (it doesn't matter if your software is part of physical solution in Poland, algorithms of any kind are not patentable).
I won't claim Russia is remotely peaceful, but the Cuban missile crisis is an extremely bad example. The US had missiles in Turkey that could destroy the USSR [1], but when the USSR responded in kind by placing missiles in Cuba, suddenly it was a "crisis". Why wasn't it a crisis before, with US missiles at the USSR's doorstep?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis "Another major reason why Khrushchev planned to place missiles on Cuba undetected was to "level the playing field" with the evident American nuclear threat. America had the upper hand as they could launch from Turkey and destroy the USSR before they would have a chance to react."
>Lots of strip malls and even regular malls around the country are going to be converted into housing

Unlikely. Most "dead malls" are in suburban and rural locations, often depressed. Maybe there will be some housing development in the acreage but they're mostly in areas where land is relatively plentiful and cheap. Dying malls aren't going to open up prime real estate because retail in prime real estate is mostly still doing pretty well.
I live in Japan and at first everyone was against it, now everyone is for it and a whole new industry is cropping up. HP is early to the market with their solutions and Fujitsu must also be sensing the opportunity.

The reason the tides are changing is that there is a social consciousness aspect to it now whereas before it would've been viewed differently.