skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not very good at the low bitrate ( compare to State of the Art ), Although the author did said they spend very little time in optimising.

And Still image with VVC at low bitrate is even more impressive.

We need it to be both smaller and better than the best of JPEG. Which is still getting many improvement.
This is going quite deep, is there any chance that Tolkien actually planned for these?
Would be interesting to see the "preponderance of evidence" which let them establish the _names_ of those involved. Did they upload the source code with their names in the comments or something? Or is this simply PR designed for people who have no clue whatsoever?
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I'd rather have MS take some of that market than Google have the monopoly you are speaking of.
I could not agree more! And I think this comes about from the UX correctly identifying a critical frustration but them failing completely to address it in a good way.

The purpose is of cause to avoid a frustrated user who clicks delete on something that cannot be deleted. But when a user does that it’s because they want to delete it. So what the UI should do is: 1 gray out the button to clearly communicate “this is an option that you do not have” and on a mouse over communicate what privilidges you lack. Then on the disabled button put a drop down or something that provides a path for you to temporarily or permanently gain the needed privilidges.

The idea here is to make it clearly visible what is going on and provide a way to rectify it. Instead of silently hiding the options that are not currently possible.
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Clicked the link, immediately annoyed by the cookie banner which covered the bottom HALF of the screen. I believe humanity went wrong somewhere.
> I understand why java doesn't have this

It's getting it in Project Loom as far as I understand (hierarchical/supervisor processes).

It goes to show how badly thought out golang is when it comes to language design.
I write production-quality code in Rust, and the vast majority of my error handling consists of the character `?`.

The mess of thousands of lines of `if err` and the lack of any language feature to actually deal with tuple returns as first class citizens was a mistake, full stop. It makes it significantly more difficult to actually read go code, since the actual logic is hidden amongst dozens of lines of visually-indistinguishable error handling logic.
I think spam and commercial entities would be all that were left.
All tech companies have support costs. This does not make them non-tech companies.

Salesforce isn't suddenly an old school manufacturing business just because they have a customer success team.
This is a really cool service for content creators who want to easily switch channels.

Descript offers the ability to go the other way with their transcription service
https://www.descript.com/

For readers who want to listen to articles that they like, there's the (free?) Pocket text to speech service, plus other sites like mine (https://blogreader.com.au/) which put TTS articles into a podcast for you.
I think its any macbook that has a T2 chip which only came out somewhat recently I think.
I never understood why Airbnb (and even Uber for that matter) were seen as prestigious tech places to work at.

Expedia, hotels.com. booking.com and most airlines are handling more requests than Airbnb in more challenging environments.
Not docker performance but IDE and other tools performance and effortlessness.

That's where tool user, AKA "The Developer" experiences the performance. If the autocomplete comes up fast, you are a happy developer, if your scripts finish running instantly on every save, you are a happy developer. If you click and it runs, you are a happy developer.
If you think about it, Docker itself is about that comfort of not having to deal with the tool setup every time. On Apple dev technology that's the default without Docker. Search for Xcode on AppStore, click download, click open once it's downloaded, write your Swift code that can do UI and backend , click run and it runs. Sometimes autocomplete stops working but you just close Xcode and open it again and it works :)

There's nothing you can't do on 2015 Macbook Air that can be done on a fresh high end Macbook Pro. The difference comes from the comfort of being snappy and people pay multiple times more for that snappiness.
I would have never upgraded from Windows 7. That OS is the best version of Windows ever. Unfortunately the hardware manufacturers have stopped making drivers (especially for laptops).

The good news is such shenanigans are forcing more and more users to move to Linux which has improved so darn much in the recent years (especially Linux Mint) that the experience is far better than Windows.

Unfortunately a lot of games and programs like Photoshop still require Windows so I'm stuck with it (play on linux never worked for me), otherwise I would be happily get rid of Widnows forever.
The CEO of the medium sized fintech company I work at loves sending goofy videos out.
Practically the same browser core, slightly different but equally dumbed-down UI.
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Lawyers and judges from the Western District of Pennsylvania are involved in an elaborate conspiracy with the Trump administrator to indict these individuals. Now did they doctor the evidence themselves or was the whole trial a sham ?

Just curious about how this PR exercise works.
>Let's hear some specific predictions of things that the Trump administration has been behind that you believe those who opposed him will support if the Biden administration does them.

This is explicitly making it about Trump, when I did not mention him at all. Perhaps he lives rent-free in your head? Seems to be the case for many people.

What I said, could be said the same of Trump in 2016. His constituents voted him in because x, y, and z reasons. And then he proceeded to backtrack on them because of "reasons". And his supporters then shifted, instead of calling him out for his betrayal of their ideals. I argue that the same will happen again with Biden. Too many people voting against Trump, rather than for someone they actually wanted, who could uphold their ideals. Biden is heavily entrenched within the establishment government. How could anyone expect otherwise? He should know better than anyone what is possible and what isn't possible, yet he'd campaign on those things anyway and people eat it up.
The analog hole means its always possible to record what is displayed on the screen.
And MS telemetry instead of Google's.
Even purely supervised model plus alpha-beta search or Monte Carlo Tree Search has the capability to surpass humans.

See eg also how classic chess engines work.

(Of course, you could describe alpha-beta search as some form of self-play. But that's probably going to far.)
This isn't a black or white thing. It's a spectrum. On one end you have pure play tech like Stripe or Facebook (100% zero marginal cost). On the other end you have industrial firms who produce mostly undifferentiated commodities with thin margins like tires (super high marginal cost).

Apple is clearly a tech company since they conduct tons of activities that are zero marginal cost (iOS, MacOS, App Stores, AppleTV, Apple Music, Apple News, Logic Pro, iCloud storage, etc. etc.)

However if you remove the software part of their business, then they'd be a commodity phone company, and valued by Wall Street in the same way TV manufacturers are (ie. like Samsung, with a PE ratio roughly half that of Apple).

The higher value and differentiation is mostly derived from the software (an OLED screen with a processor attached isn't high margin otherwise--see Samsung's margins). Hence why "software is eating the world."
Try reading about Iran-Contra or the NSA Snowden disclosures sometime.
The Wine and ReactOS projects are more important than ever.
Yeah, but that’s an extra click that would require more effort than a quick Google search... I’m not worried about a determined attacker here ;-)
"ATTENTION: We sincerely appreciate your interest. We are currently not taking orders till July 2022."[1]

Handling fabric automatically remains difficult. One company, Sewbo, took a straightforward approach - they starch the fabric before sewing, handle it as a mostly rigid object, then give it a light rinse after assembly.[2] Chicago Dryer is able to handle sheets, towels, and work shirts if a human feeds in the first edge.[3] Once they grab some part of a flat surface, the machines can take it from there.

The home folding machine people from 2019 are still stuck at "sign up for our waitlist". And, like the industrial scale Chicago Dryer machines, someone has to feed in a leading edge to get it started.

Robots are not cost-effective against labor in Bangladesh, world leader in T-shirts. There's already much mechanization. If you watch videos of that, mostly what people are doing is grabbing an edge of something and feeding it into a machine that does the rest. It's doing that first grab cheaply that's the unsolved problem.

[1] https://softwearautomation.com/tech-packs/

[2] https://player.vimeo.com/video/158544539

[3] https://youtu.be/7bd900ehE9M

[4] https://foldimate.com/
The stock options were written to expire after ten years and the ten year expiration date was coming up. Airbnb wanted to IPO to ensure these early employees got properly rewarded for their huge contributions. I’m not sure exactly why they couldn’t just grant replacement options but I believe this would cause issues with the cost basis / additional tax and they probably can’t issue equivalent options to some of those people who no longer work for them due to IRS regulations
I fully agree that website owners shouldn't lose the right to determine what goes up on their own website, but with the caveat that this right also comes with legal liability for anything that's on there.
The common knowledge is that Microsoft doesn’t need to be worried about antitrust action because they don’t have a monopoly on the OS anymore. But on the other hand, a lot of people are talking about antitrust against the other tech giants that also don’t have monopolies, because they have so much power within their share of the market. Interesting that Microsoft apparently isn’t afraid of that.
Sure - then what happens? They notice that they have been fired, but they don't remove themselves from the payroll, or anything like that. So what does the message do?
Security in obscurity.

I can’t gloat, after 10 years I recently discovered I can favourite threads. It’s changed everything.
I think it looks scarier than it is! I tried to be as comprehensive as possible, but a lot of these don't have much mental overhead at all. For example, I've forgotten and rediscovered squoosh multiple times when looking up how to compress images — and the extent of my use is basically dragging an image into the browser and maybe fiddling with the settings a bit.

On the other hand, maybe this is a testament to how many moving parts there really are in an app like this. I do try to keep things as simple as possible, but there's definitely a minimum possible complexity — every web app will need a DNS provider, a web host, a database, etc.
I’m still on Windows 7 and probably won’t move off unless my computer dies. I don’t engage in high risk behavior so my chances of getting a virus through web sites is low but I am a little worried about malware through ads. But I would rather risk it than switch
My computer science lecturer (Ross Anderson) reported it as the potential end of the world, in 1998. I was so surprised I underlined it in my lecture notes I was taking.
10 years after Caltech, I went to law school. I was surprised to find that they did not have take home exams. Law is a profession that actually has ethical requirements, but apparently we can't trust law students to behave ethically?

This annoyed me not only because of the lack of trust, but because law school exam questions are almost always essay questions that take a few pages to answer. No way did I want to try handwriting that much.

Fortunately, they did allow you to at least bring a typewriter to the exam (they set aside a separate room for this so it would not disturb the people who were handwriting).

There were limits, though. The typewriter could not have more than 2 lines of storage. This was around 1992, and already by then microprocessors and LCDs had become cheap enough that even most entry level typewriters exceeded the limit. It took a fair bit of effort to find one that was acceptable.
> From a combination of drinking fruit juices and [other stuff] ...

Yes! Juices and smoothies are bad for you. Eat fruit in solid form only, to make your digestive system work harder (as designed), and slow down your rate of calorie ingestion.

It's getting harder and harder to find fruit that hasn't been bred to maximised sugar content, though.
Our PSQL instance is in the range of multiple terabytes on disk. There's no way we can migrate using a dump.
If you need Photoshop, just use a virtual machine. Virtualbox works great.
Thanks, I'll definitely take a look.
Meta: HN should enforce post size minimums on contentious topics like this. Basically every long post is a sincere perspective from the author trying to convey their viewpoint, and 9/10 of the short posts is reddit/twitter level snark like "Translation: You're a dictator-wannabe"
I really, really think he’d make a great president someday.
The word "recommended" has been used so much and in such a subversive fashion for so long that I have an instinctive repulsion whenever I see it used now. I believe it was first used by adware many years ago. The smarmy messaging and that style of flat-cutesy blandness in the marketing material has also become equally repulsive to me.
Producing an equivalent result in less time than a less capable engineer is not the main benefit of having some really good engineers, at least not at all companies. It's being able to perform work (and well) that requires more knowledge/ability. I know quite a few people who can't be replaced with 2 average engineers, but that's not because they work at a >2x faster pace, it's because I wouldn't trust an average engineer to do their job.
Windows 10 LTSC edition has allowed me to avoid most of the Windows 10 issues I read about on HN.
This is almost certainly a response to Google nagging Edge users to switch to Chrome. What else do you want them to do?
Does this really matter to anyone except a select few people? Thats the issue I see here over and over. Missing the forest for the trees. No solution is perfect, but there's a feeling of exceptionalism that permeates this website.
so...... the pink elephant in the room. how does this handle moderation, respond to reports and takes action? who decides? how long? how is this better than existing structures or even mastodon instances?
Wow, is it google team that downvoting?

Ok, here are some: if you resize your instance you will get a downtime.

There is no support for CDC.

You pay for multi master but failover is painfully slow

If you launch more than one using terraform all except one will fail and will stuck in an unrecoverable state

They broke something last week so our proxies lost connectivity
> the other is dubious, it seems to be the one that combines with hydroxychloroquine "standard of care".

I believe you're referring to this one, the RCT run in a hospital in Spain, with a startlingly huge effect size:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...

It seems that giving all patients hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin was the policy at that hospital at the time the experiment was run, so the RCT didn't vary that between control and experimental groups; they just gave vitamin D pills to one group and not the other. Is there some problem with this?
The inflated death numbers thing is Fox News disinformation.
> It’s worth noting that Microsoft’s rival Google is also aggressively pushing Chrome to users accessing Google Search, Gmail, Google Drive, Chrome Store, and other services via Microsoft Edge.

Seems like Microsoft's behavior is in line with the other platform vendors such as Apple and Google.
Can john carmack build 10 crud apps in a week?
> I say this all the time to frontend people and they brush it off as the rantings of a backend CLI user who should never design UIs.

The UX concepts of "Discoverability" and "Learnability" [1] pretty much directly contradict these frontend people. Hiding controls is literally the opposite thing of making them discoverable.

> I strongly recommend disabling buttons instead of hiding them. It makes it immediately clear that the action is normally possible but not available for some reason.

100% agreed. To go the extra mile, put a tooltip that appears on hover/click that actually states _why_ the button is disabled.

Seeing "You don't have permission to perform this action" lets me immediately go ask an admin (or if I have access, to go check permissions/configuration myself).

Not seeing the expected button makes me hunt around for several minutes thinking I must be doing something wrong, then get angry that the software is making me feel stupid, which in turn makes me hate the software.

[1] https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/make-i...
I use Windows for gaming but spend majority of my time in Linux now. Windows 10 is far and beyond better than Windows 7.

What I don't get is people complain about nagging to convert to Edge, yet every time I open google related stuff on my phone, I'm nagged for Chrome.

On iOS, if you click a link on YouTube, it doesn't open in Safari, or ask to open in Safari, its like "hey, look at this great first option of Chrome which you don't have installed so I'll take you to the app store." For every...single...link.

Then on my desktop, every google service I use, "wanna use chrome instead"?
Rookie mistake, Always insist on a rewrite. :p
It doesn’t have Store though. Store is sometimes very useful, there is software that is only on Store. There are some shady weird scripts to enable Store on LTSC though, I use them
It doesn't work, that's their point. With modern python versions those env variables do next to nothing. It won't crash your python but it also won't help you.
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I don't have this problem on my Arch installation with Qutebrowser.
TablePlus is a good native macOS app, I’ve been using it for about a year now and love it.
Because Chrome is just as aggressive with it's nag prompts, it would be a bit weird for Microsoft to just lay down and take it in this case though.

I think for the average user Chrome/Edge are pretty much interchangeable now. For advanced users it's pretty annoying but it's less than a second to switch off.
While jobless it's important to have problems that keep your mind occupied and exercised. So good your mind has taken that path.

But the type of problem you pick is very important.

Picking problems with "too many dimensions" is a bad idea for many reasons.

1. Chance of failure is high and if you fail you don't just feel jobless but also useless. So it can be a double whammy at the end of 2-3 months of hard work.

2. Any solution to such open ended complex problems will have holes. And you know people will fixate on them and easily dismiss the solution instead of appreciating you for whatever hard work you have done.

The better approach is to pick something with a clear and achievable goal that someone else has already defined.

Like on their bug tracker or feature tracker. That way at the end of a few months of hard work someone somewhere is satisfied with that hard work and can vouch for your abilities helping your job hunt.
Good thing I'm using Firefox on Linux. No nagging from MS.
Exactly. It does AOT, but certainly not exclusively.
I lack the willpower myself. If I have a bag of chips, I gonna empty that in 5 minutes. Was rapidly climbing weight 7 years ago.

What helped me stay lean without the need of willpower are these rules:

* just drink water, tee, coffee without sugar

* max 2 meals a day

* 2 meals a week have to be salad (lettuce
, eggs, tomatoes; dressing just oil, vinegar, mustard)

* 1 meal a day has to contain veggies (I often just add frozen carrots or broccoli)

* don't buy any snacks

Helped me stay at 25 bmi for the last 5 years without ever feeling like I have to starve or needing to count calories.
Fair enough. In that case, I would expect a multiplier much larger than 10x. :-)

Definitely encountered folks who fail on FizzBuzz and similar problems.
Add to that the simplicity, physicality and aesthetics of the physical book. No DRM, no chance of remote deletion or modification, shareable, giveable, faster skims, and it can be just as beautiful as a etching, since with certain printing technologies that’s exactly what it is.

For work ephemera, PDFs are probably the way to go. For pleasure, nothing comes close to a physical book...until you run out of space. Then it provides gainful employment to the building trades.
This is the same question I’m pondering. I bough 2020 32gb MBP in October and it came last week and of course now the same one chip is available except 16 GB I will look at my memory usage today it looks like just with several chrome windows open dropbox zoom windows applications that’s about it 19 GB to 22 so I’m thinking as much as I’d like to get this 16 GB just isn’t enough. Apple is willing to let me in return the MacBook Pro and I could buy the new one but the memory I believe will be an issue.
If I read those graphs correctly, except during the peak of each waves, the death rates seems very similar to other years?

ie, people dying of covid are people that would have died anyways from other causes.
Because "old and fat" people make up about half of the population and you can't isolate them from the other half effectively when the infection is rampaging there. This has already been explained countless times.
hopefully this pushes IE marketshare under 1% (finally)
I have the same reflex when companies use the words "your data"... that data lives in a server owned/rented by them, in a database/source code I have no access to.
Encourage responsible use with Firefox?
Still nagging from Google tho.
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why [strikethrough]would[/strikethrough] [edit:do] you think people here would oppose weakening (or abolishing) police unions?
I left my MBP16 unused for a few days, and during that time the battery got fully depleted. The machine never booted again, and Apple replaced the logic board + T2 chip. It would have been a ~$900 fix excluding labor if it would have been out of warranty.
I understand that the arguments both for and against the current DKIM regime are fairly nontrivial (should we analyse it as a loss of rights to the public (your past emails can be attributed to you) or a gain (you can hold the powerful to account)?), but either way, it seems that the only position that is consistent with the author's would be one that is enthusiastically in favour of improvement and proliferation of DeepFake technology. After all, we already live in a world where technology has created a novel form of attribution that could be used for blackmail: slightly over 100 years ago, nobody could prove or disprove that you said or did something in the past, whereas nowadays a video (given some pixel-level forensics) works as irrevokable proof positive.
You don't need to wait for Go version 1.16, you can use gotip and compile for AS right now.

Electron 11 was released today and supports AS, but it is listed as experimental.

Would love to see an experimental docker for mac soon.
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I assume you mean wired, then? So, for the usual connection of laptop on wifi, there would be an ethernet dongle, to the slug, to a wifi client bridge? Three external devices?

If you meant wifi, do you have configs available or hardware you recommend?