skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't that exhausting?

Eventually, but this is a unique time right now. People are paying attention to injustice.

I would say that much of these "stances" are inauthentic and done just for PR reasons. We'll see who is being genuine and who is phony soon enough.
Love it :) Will try to remember to report back here when I get around to it!
They are not the real problem. The all-or-nothing exaggerations that remove all nuance are (a major part of) the real problem.
Love the service - I've just signed up to give it a go.

I also use the "send to kindle" chrome extension which takes the web page page you are looking at and sends it to your kindle.

I find it really useful for long reads I need to pay attention to and I like having a queue of them on my kindle.
Thank You, Postmates
Sorry, what's a class in this context
I'm more than happy to say something like "injustice everywhere is bad and we should oppose it and not let our technology be used to support it". But I feel that's a bit less than people expect?
I'm thinking more closed off than forums. And more feed oriented.
The video codec battle is not about file size, it is about streaming bandwidth.
New Relic Python Agent is now open source
Progress < profits and control
> The use of illegal radioactive weapons in Iraq is resulting in deformities to this day.

Are you claiming there exists some kind of banned thorium weapon? And that Americans are using it? And that therefore Americans are responsible for these birth defects?

The article you linked does not contain any support for this claim of American use of radiological weapons. It describes thorium birth defects near Tallil Air Base.

I don't see how these thorium birth defects have anything to do with radiological weapons. There are no known thorium weapons.

Thorium is, however, used in making alloys for jet avionics, though. And it turns out the Iraqis buried a shitton of planes at Tallil AB.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170201130725/http://okwreckcha...
Shouldn't deep learning based video codecs take over dedicated hardware video decoders as more tensor cores become available in all new hardware?

NVIDIA's DLSS 2.0 supersampling is already moving into that direction.
Video sizes are not shrinking. 8K is coming, with even bigger sizes on the way. That matters at scale.

As long as someone sees the benefit, people will keep pursuing it. Compression (as like all tech) is a moving target with the platforms regularly improving on many axes.
SSIM
This article only has a few sentences, and it doesn't answer the question. The headline is the information
> Now, as to your current argument that these organizations have been more successful than Ted ever could have been. I want to believe they have been, yet reality does not reflect this.

They demonstrably have been. Organized NIMBY campaigns, including campaigns containing a part of illegal land occupation but no part of mailing package bombs to individuals, have shut down all manner of development, including both nuclear power plants and oil pipelines.

All the Unabomber accomplished was a lifelong stay in prison, the death of three people, and the injury of dozens more. By your strong metric, neither approach is successful. By a weaker metric, an organized campaign that doesn't include bombing people is partially successful.
Lossy compression is, I feel compelled to add.
The main take-away and problem for me is the 'arXiv dilemma', combined with shoddy scholarship: newcomers to the field regularly try to drink from the arXiv firehose and take every paper they find on there as gospel—even though it is not peer-reviewed (let's set aside the issues of peer review for that one).

The quick publication cycle creates an environment that is always just about 'beating' the state of the art, but if you look closer into the reported values, you will often find a lot of questionable experimental choices. In one of my main application areas, viz. graph classification, almost none of the papers holds up (with respected to the reported performance gains) if subjected to a thorough experimental setup.

This creates a dangerous environment; in the worst case, we might miss some interesting contributions because they are drowned by the noise of reviewers (here we go again!) claiming that 'It does not beat the state of the art, so it must be crap'.
Software patents are not valid everywhere, x264 is brought up by VideoLAN in France, where software patents don't apply like in the rest of the EU.
> After that threshold is met, most people have a lot of other things that matter more to them.

Absolutely true. People don't jump ship to get a 10% increase in salary once most of their usual financial needs are met.

However, when people feel they are underpaid compared to other companies, it might seems unfair and unjust. Engineers can feel unappreciated and leave because of that.

Furthermore, many companies seem to be able to think only in terms of money: very often the employee that is paid more is also listened to, given opportunities to grow, treated with respect.
In my opinion the dominant discriminatory mechanism is:

1. The expected working hours and travel schedule

2. Poorly-compensated, unstable unemployment through the mid-thirties as de riguer

I'm a man, but my experience is relevant in that I left early for industry from a Physics PhD that was dragging on, in large part because I wanted to start a family. I'm now, according to the feedback I receive, a high-performing C++ developer in the CAD / CAM space, and I didn't have to move around the country doing temp work for below-market compensation, work crazy hours, or suffer through the degrading administrative bullshit one must endure to convince a committee. And I have a seven-month-old and a partner getting a master's on my salary, and we get to live near my parents.

It was unpleasant to nod along when "enduring the company of gross assholes like you" was presented (rather than the above) as the dominant discriminatory mechanism, but, you know. There were plenty of gross assholes and it was a learning experience and I guess I'm now probably better for it.
Researchers find Apache remote desktop software silently pwnable for snooping
> but when I go to about:studies, I see that I have never participated in any studies

Are you in the US? I also have not participated in any studies but in the preferences it is marked as active. My guess would be that they either run very few of them or are restricted to the US.
“The honest truth is that I am not really politically oriented. I would have really rather just be living out in the woods. If nobody had started cutting roads through there and cutting the trees down and come buzzing around in helicopters and snowmobiles I would still just be living there and the rest of the world could just take care of itself. I got involved in political issues because I was driven to it, so to speak. I’m not really inclined in that direction.”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/theresa-kintz-interv...
MongoDB hacker threatens to report breach to GDPR
First time loading any of the examples it takes a noticeable time but it creates some cache files e.g. "e33b398b592a74de7cce1c9035ee8082-le64.cache-7" which seem binary. Subsequent loads are fast.
Thanks. I guess I can admire the intent and the recognition of consequences of important tech. Honestly though, I'm glad I'm not responsible for organising that sort of response...
BMW customer database for sale on dark web
After reading Steven Pinker's book The Stuff of Thought in which he describes verbs as the chassis of a sentence, I thought we would see various Natural Language Understanding algorithms that leveraged "verb classes". Beth Levin published a book called Verb Classes and Alternations which is effectively a database/index of a subset of verbs. Each verb takes one or two arguments and the arguments can appear on the LHS, RHS, or both (i.e. alternations). You can get a feel for them from a 2011 paper by Levin [1].

Normally you would start with a Parts of Speech algorithm but with the limited context of flights (international only?) you could focus only on a "to" clause and a "from" clause with the city/country found in the RHS of each clause.

Resolving ambiguous cities could start with a simple ranking algorithm based on a list of International/Domestic destinations and their corresponding traffic level.

NLU is hard but constrained domains like this are tractable, in my overly optimistic opinion.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/~bclevin/mpeva11vclass.pdf
OTOH, it's a generally a bad idea to invest in a company when the primary owner & CEO looks at the stock price and tweets "LOL". I feel it'd be a rational decision to short TSLA now except that "markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent". And also I like Tesla, don't want to short it :)
There was no mass starvation at the end of the USSR and economy was in OK state (considering low oil prices).
They said "human" what more do you want?
Why this has been downvoted ?
> The dirty secret of video codecs is that you can't make a modern video codec that isn't patent encumbered

The existence of Theora, VP8, VP9, and now AV1 seems to contradict that theory.

You could argue that they infringe on some unknown patents, but that is also arguably true of patent cabals like MPEG (you just hope that the cabal is big enough that there aren't any patentholders lurking outside). The only difference is that with a patent cabal you have the fun of having to obey the restrictions of everyone who showed up with a possibly-related-in-some-way patent and joined the cabal.

Not to mention that it isn't necessary for a patent pool to be a cabal. AOMedia has a similar structure to a patent cabal except it doesn't act like a cabal (its patent pool is royalty-free in the style of the W3C). So even if the argument is that a patent pool is a good idea (and video codecs cannot be developed without them), there isn't a justification behind turning the patent pool into a cabal.

> At least the patent licenses usually used with MPEG mean that private use of open source implementations is free.

You say that, but there's a reason why some distributions (openSUSE for one) still can't ship x264 (even though the code itself is free software). Not to mention the need for Cisco's OpenH264 in Firefox (which you cannot recompile or modify otherwise you lose the patent rights to use it). The existence of the MPEG patent cabal isn't a good thing, and any minor concessions you get from them do not justify their actions.
Question is, how does it compare to AV1?
My guess is, encoding speed will be worse. Video codecs for non-realtime applications are optimized for size and acceptably cheap playback. Encoding performance doesn't really matter since you encode only once but play and store more often.
https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?Art...

Care to try your luck?
> RTB "is a cancer eating the heart of legitimate media, and a business model for the bottom of the web."

RTB is actually a huge waste of power too.
I agree, but expand it to "compensation".

- match (or offer, if you don't) my 401k
- increase health benefits
- provide a learning benefit - no strings attached. It shouldn't matter if it "benefits the company" directly
- flexible hours. (I prefer a 6-2 schedule. Why do I have to be in 9-5 just because that is what most do?
- etc ..

Compensate an employee well, and they will see you care about them; not just their work.
Home router warning: They're riddled with known flaws and run ancient, unpatched
Infecting dozens in a hour sounds like droplet transmission. Especially when the events usually happened when people were signing etc. People shed droplets when they exhale and speak. Singing is much worse.

Aerosol transmission could infect several hundreds if it was significant transmission route.
I know right. I don't get it. I would expect a company like Microsoft that makes most of their money selling to businesses would take privacy and security more seriously.
I think the person saying that "akshually, women are more privileged because I'm a heterosexual" is the one lacking nuance.
The constantly growing list of H265 patent pool organizations with various licensing plans made even Apple to join AV1 bandwagon.
What accomplishments sound like on software engineering resumes
I did run a company and I feared making mistakes. In principle the best way to avoid making kinds of mistakes your users will hate you for is to put user interest first. By looking at Brave's profile I can not say they are living by that principle 100%.

For example, the decision to hijack links to insert their own affiliate links is not a mistake, it was a decision. These kind of decisions are not made by a developer in the team, it is a leadership level decision, coming from principles those leaders live by, and also one that does not put users first. On the contrary, it takes advantage of the users.

The principle of 'forgiving mistakes' applies only to honest mistakes. Otherwise we would all be browsing with Chrome/posting on Facebook/[insert currently hated company on HN here] and forgiving them all their 'mistakes'.
Watch out for this nasty new trend in robocall scams
A measure that has consistently high agreement when evaluated by humans, repeatable across laboratories. Image quality tests can (and are) be conducted in a structured fashion.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - Lime green background with Magenta text boxes? To each their own I guess
It's probably better to just make them Markdown inside the directory, you can export the Markdown files (since they're in git) but you can't export issues. Github renders both the same since, well, they're both Markdown.
They sort of half not apply in Sweden too.
Are AV1 and VP9 not modern video codecs? Or are you suggesting the patent claims have substance?
What you're looking for is the AV1 codec, which finalized a year and a half ago and will likely see much wider adoption, simply because none of the members want to pay royalties.

https://aomedia.org/av1/

https://aomedia.org/membership/members/

AV1 decoding has already been in Chrome and Firefox since at least a year ago. We're just waiting for hardware decoding and encoding support now, which should start appearing this year.

The next version of Chrome will also support the AV1-based AVIF image format this month:

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/22...

YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon/Twitch are also likely to not support VVC (and some of them don't support h.265 either) for their streaming services.
The situation with AV1 is "we are in middle of minefield and nobody got mine-clearing gear".

They can be reasonably sure they do not infringe known patents from certain Patent Pools and patents declared as part of MPEG-LA bundles. They can't provide reasonable data that they do not infringe on any submarine patent, something that killed 3 attempts by MPEG-LA to provide a royalty-free codec for the web - all that was required to kill it was a note from a company that they "might" have patents covering things they tried to release, or that they decided not to allow royalty-free license for their known patent.

Meanwhile patent search is complex enough that it's unreasonable to impossible to make a statement that you definitely don't infringe any unless you keep clear of anything invented within last ~20 years.
Yahoo engineer gets no jail time after hacking 6k accounts to look for porn
> perhaps they could swallow the costs? It is 2020 after all.

They should swallow so people again come back and say they are doing it to kill competition? Just received bill from doctor's visit for hundreds of dollar, I guess things are not gonna be free in 2020 after all.
Moreover, not everyone who receives benefits is aware of them in the first place. For example, I am reasonably sure that I have it slightly easier at conferences as a man because women do not hit on me, whereas my female Ph.D. students have to endure all kinds of sleazy invitations over the course of one week. (low sample size, admittedly, but it was eye-opening)
Avoiding Fallback in Distributed Systems
Wasn't aware blackouts were a significant problem in the UK. Great device for moving away from fossil fuels though
The key to stopping cyberattacks? Understanding your own systems
You are correct, I retract the argument that you cannot influence other people's actions.

The method of mailing bombs to strangers is demonstrably ineffective. Society interprets eco-terrorism as damage and routes around it. If anything, if society accepted it, it would accelerate the anthropoforming of the planet; if violence against the politically opposed is acceptable, who wins an open violent conflict? Those hoping to preserve nature as it stands or the "technologists" with the benefits of industry, modern organizational systems, and automation at their command?
I'm claiming the united states, in contravention of international law, used depleted uranium [1] as a weapon, and this depleted uranium is causing birth defects. We're getting side tracked, but you can do your own research on this topic and come to your own conclusions. The wikipedia page below is a good place to start.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium
I wouldn't say so, see Figure 1:

https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/papers/Zhang...
It is one of my all-time favorite shows. I am so glad I found someone recommending it about a year ago. If you are on the fence give it a go, you won't be disappointed.
Have you looked at Ceph ad a storage backend? It allows per-file erasure coding configuration and has a lot of cool features. It can also manage raw block devices from what I'm told.

It's really awesome you've gotten a chance to build up this cluster. I wish more startups realized that, despite the initial price tag, some of this is way better than what you'll get from AWS. Your NVMe is likely 10x to 100x faster than premium ssd storage at a fraction of the price. If you ever use GPUs you'll be saving loads of money.

It's hard to convince people though that bare metal isn't scary.
Law enforcement and judicial aspects related to 5G [pdf] (2019)
Others aren’t reporting that. What error?
I would like some pointers for networkx generation for my graphdb pypi package if you wanna share some thoughts. :)
Hackers are trying to steal admin passwords from F5 BIG-IP devices
Same article, no registration required. This site touts "Powered by The Guardian" and does not appear to be a scraper:

http://www.execreview.com/2020/07/giant-flywheel-project-in-...
Western propaganda infected minds of USSR citizens with western values. They thought that capitalism would fix their problems, they thought that Coca Cola and Mac Donalds are better than their national drinks and foods, they thought that jeans are superior to their pants. Also I think that US intelligence service funded national revolts in some republics which further undermined an Union and eventually led to its collapse and people were OK with that, because they thought that better future awaits. It was all lies. US bought Gorbachev as well, though that's a different matter, I guess.
> one can purchase a similarly spec'd laptop for a fraction of the cost of a MBP

Is this true? Do you have a spec sheet? My own research suggests for about the last 5 years Apple hardware has been pretty competitive.
Actually both! Arithmetic coding works over any kind of predictor.
> Of course, just because these toxicity claims are being made, it doesn't mean they are accurate, but they certainly ring true.

In many respects I think it is more important that we have no idea what is true about any industry. When I dwell too much about my impression of any part of the tech field I usually end up demotivated to do anything that might connect me with the social group involved. I think there is a general shallowness and overcompensation in our industry that makes it impossible to figure out what real life is like with a group until you are way too invested and they have already hazed you.
Five iPhone security settings you should check today
That's quite a stretch from taking a stance on the ways the products you are developing might be weaponized. The discussion is more analogous to groups making cruise missiles and the like.
>The author goes on to explain that revocation of the affected certificates is insufficient, because they could be used to effectively reverse their own revocation at any point in the future. Instead, it must be proven that all copies of the keys have been destroyed. That’s quite an undertaking.

How would this be verified? Presumably the keys are stored on HSMs, but you can I'm not sure how you can prove that you didn't make a backup of the key.
Those numbers are valid for a specific PSNR... but marketing and PR obviously prefer to skip that point.

For comparison, HEVC claimed 50 to 60% compared to AVC.
You can compare with reality...
From Idea to Kickstarter: A Product Design Case Study
Ben Evans: Tech and the new normal
$100k? A quick google shows me that median household income in the US is closer to $60k. And that's the median, so half of households will be lower than that.
Didn't some "AI" companies get caught doing basically this? Even Alexa had people listening in to the audio commands, AFAIK if the command could not be understood.

The question smells like one of those "Solve my homework/work assignment for me" questions.
> Canada is fairly totalitarian in policing of speech, etc. Would never fly in the US.

I'm an American living in Canada and that's just straight up incorrect. The level of discourse is effectively the same as in the US.
I cannot speak for The Economist or Forbes but I have read Financial times close to last ten years.
It is more objective than other newspapers as most business oriented papers.
Euro-centric but covers US (Over the years US coverage has increased) and brings somewhat outsider view of US which is a plus for me.
Their special reports are unique and gives you good overview about countries, healthcare and even diseases such as Malaria.
Weekend Edition is my favorite and the How to Spend it magazine is a visual treat even if you do not read it.
Some of the journalists and columnists I enjoy reading are Clive Cookson and Jo Ellison.
I don't have data, so I won't say you are right or wrong, but if you go by the anecdote in HN, SV/NY/Seattle pay significantly more than in rural areas, and have 10x or so more opportunities.
So did the beatles songs. I'm not sure licensing creation to ads is a sigh of loving money. Could even be the opposite: his songs may have been the most affordable quality melodies licensed for ads.
Ask HN: What is the most viable application of ML/AI in your industry?
Hadn’t heard of it! In the UK it seems to be available on Amazon Prime and I will give it a try
Migrating from CloudWatch to DataDog for Centralized Logging
End-credits are just text. So it should be possible to put it through OCR and save only text, positions, and fonts. And the text is also possible to compress with a dictionary.
I think that's more a case of Sisvel trying their luck.

I don't think they'll be successful. The Alliance for Open Media was careful to avoid potential patent problems during AV1 development. So, unless AOMedia seriously failed in that effort, AV1 will be alright.
This could be amazing. I worked 4 years at Massdrop (now Drop) and used probably close to 30 keyboards. I always wanted one that I could script instead of do a Windows -based rigmarole to flash the layers. If this comes in at or below a $300 price point I will definitely order one.
H264 seems to still be the preferred codec in this space, even though H265 is a smaller file size.

Largely due to the CPU over head of H265, though I am not sure why more people do not use GPU encoding over CPU Encoding, I have never been able to notice the difference visually
Syntax is the least interesting thing about a language (unless it's a lisp ^^). Why not different syntax for closures?
The typical plot device is that they predict published events for you. News, horse races, weather, stock prices, direct quotes, etc.