skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's 3 that I know of,

libaom https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom, the reference implementation.

https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1 - from the Alliance for Open Media, which Intel is deeply involved with and is spending a lot of time optimising.

https://github.com/xiph/rav1e - written in rust, also subject to a lot of optimising. It's not complete coverage of all features, intended to be used for places where libaom is too slow.
I wonder what these people were thinking. This is the kind of stuff an 8 year old would do. If a group of adults, powerful adults even, had these ideas and actually decided to act on them, they must live in some hellish kind of organization.
Should we not have counted Covid deaths or cases because those individuals also didn't want to be a data point?
This is the time of year in Austin (sxsw) that we load up on a years supply of free promo sunglasses.

The funny perk of being a highly paid engineer is all the free stuff you get.

I don't know if it's an accurate representation of the flow of money but I've always thought of it as the fed sending stimulus money to me directly through banks & VCs.
Many people don't have good access to clean water, over 2B according to the repo's readme.

Those people probably cannot afford $150, but the goal of the project wasn't $150, it was lower.

The unit is supposed to be solar powered, so access to electricity isn't strictly necessary, in the sense of being able to connect to the grid. They just need sunlight.

There is a sweet spot of cost, where those who need it can't afford it, but nonprofits, billionaire philanthropists, and local governments can afford to purchase and distribute such devices where necessary. In cases where the need for clean water greatly outweighs the supply, such entities see a good return on investment, simply by improving the health of those people there.

Furthermore, X is a moonshot program at Google. They attempt solutions for big problems with high likeihood of failure. Are you suggesting they shouldn't do this with their money printing ad machine? It seems like any good that comes out of that company should be celebrated, and in this case they are sharing a bunch of work on solving what will be an increasing large problem for the entire world.
This is a super common phishing attack on Steam, people send you links that eventually lead to a "Sign in with Steam" button, which opens up one of these fake popups with a perfectly styled login page. Almost got me the first time...
> Why do companies continue to waste money on useless swag?

Marketing, attracting talent, reminding people you care about your company exist. It has a use and it's cheap.

> What can be done to have companies think about the waste they are producing from swag?

Tell them plastic recycling is a scam perpetrated by the oil business and our weakly-spined governments and just a small portion of plastics get actually recycled; we end up eating and contaminating the environment with most of it.

Once this issue picks up enough steam maybe companies will stop with the useless gadgets in order to show they care about the environment for virtue points.
Never underestimate the power of HN pedantry.
Meta is going on a subpoena spree, targeting Snap, Twitter and more
Yet, you still understand what I mean by sub-tweet.

Just to head you off, I also know it is impossible to write a 5000 word sub-tweet as that is beyond the Twitter character limit.
I would tolerate swag more if it were actually quality. Like you mention, so much of it is junk. But I also hate logos on things I use, so it's only half the problem.
Wait, what?

What exactly is a data center by your definition? What individuals (that are entirely disconnected from corporations) need them? How many individuals have personal data centers of such a scale that they would need to produce liquid water on-site for their computing needs?

I genuinely believe you’ve described an entirely theoretical person that doesn’t reside in this universe.
The web plugin actually falls back to 'web page with snapshot' if it can't detect a journal paper, which in many ways is better than trying to drag around big PDF binaries.
When I had paid account, they promised that all public photos uploaded during my paid subscription will be hosted forever, even if I stop paying. They did not delivered on this promise.
I think the primary concern was stock price manipulation. There are some safeguards in place that prevent that from being too big of an issue.

The tax-free dividend is more of a modern discovery, I think. Which is why the loophole hasn't been closed yet.
Can the desiccant work in perpetuity? Or is it more of a "wear part" that needs replacement? I don't understand enough of the desiccant types mentioned in the Nature paper to know.
Well they've spent a decade trying the "be more like Chrome" method. I suggest they try the "be more like Firefox from when Firefox was successful" method.
Imagine you could stick a camera over your users' shoulders, mostly without them knowing you're doing it, instead of doing actual user research.

That's what the stuff's for. Some of the tools for these things record entire sessions, including mouse movements. It's creepy as hell and even the tamest of "telemetry" 100% would have gotten something classed, unambiguously, as spyware, in the distant past of ~15-20 years ago.
One of the best technical books I've read. A lot of books on the subject are math heavy but lacking in implementation detail, others gloss over the math and implement the easy stuff.

This book has a great mix IMHO, going into the math as well as tricky implementation details yet in a very approachable manner.

Lots of great times were had as a result of this book.
Not just NAFTA. From Wikipedia:

> On 10 January 2018, the Canadian government filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization against the US.

> On 26 January 2018, the four USITC commissioners unanimously determined that US industry is not threatened and no duty orders will be issued, overturning the imposed duties. The Commission public report was made available by February 2018. On March 22, Boeing declined to appeal the ruling. While the USITC had determined there was no threat, the ruling came too late for Bombardier, as the dumping petition by Boeing had already paved the way for Bombardier to relinquish a controlling interest in the CSeries to Airbus in October 2017.

This is just a repeat of the Avro Arrow story. US demanding free trade from everyone and then just bullying its weight around when someone comes along with a better deal than what they can manage.
The hamburger menu represents a list of items. It's symbolic, but at least a direct representation of the outcome the user wants.

The play and stop icons were icons that describe an operation of a machine that will then indirectly produce the outcome the user wants. They require the user to know how the machine functions. No one thinks "I would like the tape to move to the right" or "I would like the music to stop, which means the tape needs to stop moving, which means stopping the spools, which means selecting the least circular shape".
i agree it’s great. some minor ux issues. for example if i select text then click highlight it should highlight the selected text. keyboard shortcuts for annotation would be amazing.
> No company is safe. Boeing is exactly the type of company that won't know they're dying until they are dead.

Yes, but they're in a sufficiently protected region of state space guarded by landscape difficulty, moats, massive contracts and cash flows, the government, you name it.

You can't just build a better plane from zero and immediately start taking orders. You have to start with something small, tangential, and then grow into that market. That's still very hard to do in aerospace because the requirement is "don't kill people" yet the problem involves putting people in mortal danger.

I don't doubt that it could happen, but I think it's a very tall order.
No consultation for a redundancy were the service remains the same. Can notsee hwo this is compliant with UK employment law.
Yep! Those are all on my list.

I'm hoping heavy woodchip mulching can get me enough water retention to keep trees happy (we certainly get plenty of water the other ~9 months of the year!), but some supplemental water during the hot dry summer would probably significantly expand species and variety options.

Have a small well that should be able to help some... but looking at permaculture techniques (hugelkulture, swales etc) and possibly moisture farming as a potential way to improve moisture conditions in a 'greener' way then energy intensive pumping. Might try to build a pond high up on the hill to filter down over the dry season.

Kind of a paradoxical region, because plants want lots of water when there's lots of sun, and here we generally get one or the other :-/
The way firefox does it can connect the downloading session with the running session. You can argue with the value or validity of that, but it seems like the chrome installer cant do that, which is nice.

As for why it's in the article I think it's valuable to include it since if chrome was doing it too it might be seen as just "normal", but now it seems even more weird that firefox which is supposed to be the privacy alternative is tracking something that google is not.
> balance between companies' interests and protecting the public

I'm not paying tax money so they strike a balance between tax payers' interests and companies interests. I'd rather vote for a government fully in line with mines.
Can we stop using the Lena image please.
Not really "swag" but I would say iPod socks. I still have one that I keep an altoids tin inside of for transporting small fragile components.
the reverse case might be more interesting. Many downloads but few install follow throughs may suggest the installation process is to cumbersome or something along those lines.
> * a good conversation with a friend

* time outside, contemplating nature and purpose

* a hug from a family member

you can do all these while working a lot....
There are relatively few native French speakers in Vancouver..
So imagine if you could convince the open source community of the planet to optimise clean water consumption based on a cool prototype and then you mass produce hyper-efficient instances linked to a google account.

Saving the planet one artificial intelligence at a time.
Here in Michigan ive been cutting and burning 95% ash for the last 25-30 years because it is all dieing or now completely dead. Some woods are 50% ash trees and all dead.
> - Turning off yet again the annoying computer voice announcing any navigation or volume change on my parents' new Samsung TV (accessibility option, not sure why it turned on, but it required me visiting their home in person again to turn it off)

For this one, I don't think it's a software update but rather user error (though it's not clear even to me how).

I myself have accidentally enabled it, there seems to be some combination of buttons on the remote that will enable it. Still not sure on the specific combo though.
Good swag has insanely high ROI.
Really appreciate this- it's been on my mind for some time. I've been off the convention circuit since COVID hit, but before then I found myself awash in lanyards, stickers, pamphlets, t-shirts, plastic and canvas bags, etc. and it did weigh on my conscience.

I think some of this is purely cultural, insofar as startup tech companies see other startup tech companies do this and want to emulate as a kind of legitimacy-builder. I can attest that making custom shirts/hoodies for your team can actually be more fun and morale boosting than it might seem before you do it.

It's very cheap to produce merch compared to the money you might spend on conference attendance, which is another early sales/marketing driver for young companies- if you're spending tens (or in some cases hundreds) of thousands of dollars setting up booths or flying internationally to be somewhere, what's another couple of hundred to give your logo a bit more visibility?

One thing which isn't widely known is that some popular alternatives to swag i.e. food or coffee giveaways are often strictly controlled/monopolised by convention centres- so you'll often be forced to use their services, which can run into many thousands of dollars.

From my perspective as an attendee, the disposables do get really tiresome. I've joined the ranks of the business-card-free and don't think I'll move back. I'd like to see more eco-friendly manufacturing for this space, which probably starts with moving away from plastics and towards more paper. I do appreciate T-shirts and hoodies I've collected and wear even the old ones to this day.
>OK, however, are we completely sure that Chrome installer doesn't generate this token on launch and talk with the mothership?

That wouldn't give any information about where/when you got the installer from, which is the topic of this article. Doing so would be impossible without embedding information in the exe (which would change the hash).

While I agree that it's a little weird to specifically note it for Google of all companies, the relevance to the article is that Chrome isn't engaging in this specific type of tracking.
There were flash games in 2000's of wordle where you can play any time you want :)
Fun fact: Disney movies get separate dubs for Taiwan and for mainland China.
No, I doubt you could - 'pain' and it's synonyms, as well as basic body parts like 'chest' are pretty basic words for someone who's spent decades immersed in a language...
My partner has used an EMR called Epic in her work and it, like all EMRs it seems, is trash. Government protections and a moat of network effects, they’re untouchable.
Keep in mind there are immunocompromised people roaming the earth (I've read it's about 3%, or 9 million people in the US), and wearing a mask doesn't always mean someone is radicalized, crazy, or needs help "getting back to normal".

An immunocompromised person like myself doesn't know if they have protection or not, even if vaccinated 3 times. So wearing a mask at the grocery store or whatever is not a political statement, I'm not a mask fanatic, I don't insist others wear them around me, and I'm not a militant jerk about it. I don't like wearing them myself.

Having said that, in a doctor's office or hospital setting where the institution has said "Masks are required", it pisses me off when people come in with a mask around their neck, under their nose, etc. It's extremely inconsiderate to flaunt the rules in these settings because there are a lot of sick people nearby and you're basically saying "I don't give a fuck about others' health, I'm not wearing a mask".
As far as I know every "water from air" is literally a dehumidifier and is going to produce dirty water at 1000x the cost of just driving water anywhere on earth.
They should setup monitoring (email/slack) for commits and merges to the prod/main/master not their working branch is what I meant. But yes, even for random branches, setup a pipeline that will notify you after whatever tests/checks.

Assume it is only a matter of time before at least one dev's machine or git creds/keys are compromised. This way, it serves as a layer of defense to notify you of unauthorized modifications which could be subtle enough to make it past any review or qa.
This is exactly how we configure our development environments after trying all sorts of different combinations.

We find it significantly faster to do macOS + Linux VM + Docker than macOS + Docker for Mac. We're using the Remote Containers plugin in VSCode.

I just tried Docker for Mac 4.6.0 and it is still slower than the above setup - though I think this might be down to bind vs. volume mounts.
I think yes. If we assume reliable conversion of traceroute results to implied distances, and can generate selected data (routes) of our choice. That is, we can see results of remote hops that aren't directly connected to us. Then, ultimately, the resulting matrix of results would (mathematically, ++) conform to a spheroidal shape and no other.

++ think Map Projections, and the associated math.
It's all so repetitive. I have a cupboard full of mugs, travel mugs and water bottles. A bunch are even the same product with just a different color and logo! How many liquids does one man need to keep hot/cold for 24 hours?!
See https://jenne.uk as an example
The thing that is kind of baffling to me about so many people in this comment section is that they think their personal opinion about the ethics of what he did has any bearing on anything. That's not how the legal system works at all.

To quote Tom Scott, a youtuber, "I'm not telling you how it should be, I'm just telling you how it is."
I stopped reading when the author started to do comparisons with PNG. PNG or alternatives should only be used when the errors created by lossy compression is too visible.

With that said. Improvements of audio and video compression over the last 25 years are very impressive and have changed how the world works in several areas.
FLAC is actually much more widely supported than, for example, Vorbis.
Thanks for the insight, but this is the first time a situation like this has happened, the server has been operational since 2014. It is a private, low volume e-mail server as well, not something with external public users.

The reason for the delay in recognizing an issue existed is that same domain email was working as were the other internet facing services. The firewall had choked on state tracking of port 25 but was otherwise functional.
>Again, lived experience

Describing your "lived experience" is fine. What's not fine is saying "I took ivermectin and felt a little better the next day, therefore it definitely works". That's not science. In fact it's the opposite of science - it's motivated reasoning. You want ivermectin to be effective, so you're eager to accept the results of an uncontrolled, unblinded trial with an n = 1. Presumably that's also why you incorrectly describe this position as "backed by quite a lot of research".

>since when is consensus something to strive after in science... Where does this one size fits all approach suddenly come from?

Since always. Replication is the heart of science and Truth is indeed one size fits all. The more people study a thing and get similar results, the more confident we are about that thing. When most scientists agree, we call that the "scientific consensus".

>Should we just move from one panic to the next, always being afraid, always looking for shelter? ...Hell no, we shouldn't, nor will we.

Your response to an accusation of political motivation is... to double down on the politics. This rather reinforces the impression that your "scientific" claims are emotionally motivated.
Last I checked[0] I think there were some remaining H.263 patents in the US, but they only covered some error correction or optional annex features.

Interestingly enough, there's some non-standard-essential patents still floating around out there. For example, Mediatek patented converting Sorenson Spark bitstreams for decoding with standards-compliant H.263 hardware decoders[1], and that patent is still live until later in this decade.

[0] I wrote a Sorenson-flavored H.263 decoder in Rust for integration into Ruffle.

[1] The invention is literally just truncation-with-saturation wrapped in a bunch of patent language. If you have the money to front a legal fight against them, feel free to get the patent invalidated. But I don't think it matters.
Photography is not Objective, Art is a Set of Choices
Mage.ai if I may add ;)
The tech is interesting, but I think Apple's claim that the M1 Ultra "beats" the RTX 3090 is just absurd. Regardless, I'd also like to see some benchmarks centered around training ML models. It might get some bonus points there just due to its ability to support larger batch sizes.
And in the meantime, those who are confused can look up the difference between 'battle' and 'war'.
Okay, if I read the court document correctly Section 7 explicitly refers to Section 10 to limit its scope and section 10 is explicitly about things a licensee (You) isn't allowed to do. So it cannot be applied to terms added by the licensor.
Of course types can be modelled by sets, just not in the straight forward way you might envision. After all, if you cannot model it in ZFC, how do you prove correctness of your type system?
Firefox was successful when it was the alternative, better, option to the dominant Internet Explorer. Now the dominant browser is Chrom(e|ium). The two scenarios are very different.
Oh interesting! Rocket science is cool.
That seems like a very harsh interpretation. Very few people will care whether their specific download is tracked. I do honestly wonder how that adds vakuento Mozilla, but no one will not use Firefox due to this- especially as every single alternative is much worse than Firefox on such metrics.
1. Old fashion wide-mouth Nalgene bottle (easy to clean and therefore less likely to become trash, also great as a hot-bottle in winter).

2. I've been carrying a tiny Victorinox classic SD on my keychain ever since I've started hiking.
At some point when I lost it, and while they're not expensive (though there are much cheaper options that also feel cheap), they also don't break, so I went to ebay, scanned the completed listings to get an idea of the lowest price I can get, and there I saw soooo many used branded victorinox (in great condition).
None of them that I can remember had the logo/name of a tech company, which is a shame, because it seems like at so many conference booths they would aim for quantity rather than quality, whereas myself and most of the people I value, would rather appreciate something that is very very good in its category rather than assortment of junk that I wouldn't choose for myself even if I was stressed to buy a product in that category.
LH2 in tanks boils off and is vented. There will be different procedures for LH2 vehicles on hold than today. That might involve plugging in somewhere for active cooling while on hold. Or, it might just mean you load on enough LH2 to make up for losses while holding.

The practical merits of Jet-A fuel will be traded off against the value proposition of LH2 fuel. LH2 will win easily where volume is high and profits are greatest. So, marginal routes and uses will be the last to switch over.
> fall

Presumably what we saw as "fall" from the outside was Apple pouring hundreds of millions of $$$ into building M1, fixing design flaws in newer MacBook Pro lines etc.,
I met one of the creators of H264 years ago while photographing a party in Palo Alto. He and his wife were really genuinely nice and interesting people. At the time H265 was not released but it sounded like they were actively working on it and even something past it
A good solution is browser actually implementing useful stuff like needed widgets and useful features.

For example have a <login> element , browsers will style it the same for all websites and prevent developer to misled the user.
You need to convince the consumer not to collect something for free they’ll just never use or throw out. It’s human nature, free stuff is rare. So it works.
I always love seeing PBR here. I work in atmospheric science, in particular modelling of radiation in the atmosphere, and the equations that we use are identical to that of PBR. The main difference is that in the atmosphere you are more concerned with processes along the ray, e.g. Rayleigh scattering, clouds, or absorption/emission from trace species in the atmosphere, while in rendering it is all about surface effects.
I'm going to try this next time my son watches a Disney movie, and see if he notices.
I've been using this for years. Zotero is great. It's not perfect, like you still need add-ons to properly support bibtex for latex users, like myself. It would be alot better if this was a fully integrated part of the base zotero platform. But it works and I like it.
Well these are egregious examples but it’s not really uncommon. Any time a recruiter is involved it’s just pipeline and meat for the grinder.