skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
people didn't listen to warnings against using Zoom whose actions suggest massive incompetence at best and malice at worst. Even government officials have continued to use it. I doubt many people will take the commissioner of the FCC's warnings any more seriously.

People will continue to do whatever is most convenient for them no matter how much harm they risk in the process. The more abstract and delayed that harm is the less they will care until they are bit square in the ass by it personally, and even then some people don't learn their lesson the first time. Corporations will simply do whatever makes them the most money no matter who it hurts.
> but I do know that he's being held to a much higher standard than almost anyone else because of his race

No offense, but this is almost certainly a false narrative that you are telling yourself and your son. It’s not healthy.

You summarized everything else outside of his grades and SAT scores as “strong extracurriculars”.

Show me an impressive hook and a few rejections from elite schools, and I will agree that there is likely discrimination of some sort somewhere in the process (possibly his high school, possibly at the elite schools).

I somehow doubt that there is an impressive hook, otherwise you would have mentioned it.

Elite school admission is totally not a lottery for someone with your son’s scores and a strong hook. Quite the contrary, admission to at least one elite school is almost a lock, even as an Indian-American.

That said, most families with really smart kids don’t focus on the strong hook, often because they don’t know that they need to do so. As such, they are left grasping for explanations. Race is an easy crutch to lean on (especially these days), but it is likely not the actual reason.

If you really think that he’s almost there, I recommend throwing in at least one application to an elite school. If he’s not at least wait listed, then he wasn’t even close, and no amount of race blind admissions would change that.
I hope Edge and Safari will enable JPEG XL, but not AVIF. AVIF has several disadvantages, for instance, it takes much longer to encode than JPEG XL and it doesn't support progressing decoding.

Google just doesn't like formats created outside their own company. They prefer WebP and AVIF (created by themselves), but dislike JPEG XL (not created by them).
Thats why services were prohibited. Cloud providers had to sell off their assets

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-sells-assets-...

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/building-wall-around-cloud-chi...
Running a Private VS Code Extension Marketplace
Newspeak?

https://newspeaklanguage.org/
Why don't Edge support AVIF? Isn't it a downstream of Chromium?
CCP has the party member in every company board. American companies has a leash. That's the difference. China is not ur typical democratic country. I wish we could just get over this point.
Someone emailed to protest the flags so we turned them off.
Can't believe it took 4 clowns - Hannah Murphy in San Francisco, Alistair Gray and Arjun Neil Alim in London and Leila Abboud - to make up this shit.
This subthread, not the article, is about a proposal that the State use its power and funds to directly build housing, and, were it to choose to do so, it could alter the power of subordinate jurisdictions to impede that in any way it chose. So, current local administratively imposed costs are not, legitimately, part of the building cost the state would necessarily face in such a hypothetical, only actual construction costs or federally-imposed administrative costs.
1. I suspect that the 1% who owns 98% of the wealth parks their money into things like land and real-estate, which is causing an artificial shortage and price hikes.
Hackers in the sense that HN uses the term have never been a monoculture. "Government" isn't a monolithic concept either. Some is good but some is not.

Plenty of hackers, for instance, supported the creation of the EPA. I know plenty of permaculture hackers and mycologist hackers who very much want the government regulating pollutants and safety.
The scoop: a JPEG XL developer explains how JPEG XL is uniquely better than AVIF, webP, and PNG, and laments the Chrome team's decision to drop the experimental support for it.

AFAICT, JPEG XL does not seem to have the licensing complications of JPEG2000.
What's in it for Apple? End up with pissed off users, probably brand damage in China, so that an ad network they don't compete with, but Google does, is crushed? And if Google allows it back on their store or just people publicize how to sideload, it could even cause a few super fans to switch platforms to android.
On the first point it looks like Tesla's approach to fixing bugs is much easier compared to Georges approach to fix bugs which is to modify and retrain the model until there are no regressions. I don't understand how this can cover every possible scenario. I am not in to ML and Tesla's approach seems more sense to me. Can anyone in the ML field comment on why George's approach might work.
FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32148218 - July 2022 (848 comments)

FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores over spying concerns - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31923483 - June 2022 (505 comments)
I always think of information warfare. Why bomb another nation when you can use all their private info to destroy their personal life’s. People ask why I’m not worried that the US has the same info, and I am to a degree, but in the current climate I’m more worried about an attack coming from china / Russia then from the US ( I’m from the EU).
Ask HN: Platforms for Engineering Blogs?
What platform do you use for blogging, specifically to share the progresss of an engineering team?
It's not a conspiracy theory:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/faceboo...
Where do the dryer vents lead? Is that heat captured and used?
Real life isn't a detective show. Cops don't task resources with hunting down your stolen TV. At best, you may get it back when someone tries to sell it to a pawn shop.
> American companies has a leash

And what leash is that? The US government is the prime example of what happens when corporate money enters politics. There are only two parties and both of them serve the interests of capital. The US doesn't even break up monopolies or cartels anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture#United_Stat...
The apple v epic saga has lead to the same result. Epic pulled fortnite from the appstore and blamed apple for taking all their money. Now the kids are mad at apple for inciting the removal of their favorite game.
Ask HN: Animated GIFs as fallback when no JavaScript support?
A hobby project [1] is a website with text animations driven by a Javascript renderer. Search engines, obviously, don't index the proprietary content properly and a few visitors who disabled Javascript bounce.

I was thinking of linking animated GIFs or video versions with a noscript tag for those cases, but it would blow up the page's HTML. What other options do I have?

[1] https://animasci.com/
America’s defence department is looking for rogue geoengineers
https://archive.ph/PIUcG
I wonder what is the Mozilla's position on JPEG XL.
Maybe to some degree, but it's not all that different. The way I look at it, for that job and one other, was that I was underqualified, came with a built-in tax break, and preferential resume review. It's still a form of affirmative action, and its purpose is similar. I'm specifically referring to being a campaign badge class, and to a time period in my career that was when I first got out.
If they had disclosed their involvement in their profile at least I could give them the benefit of the doubt but in this case, like the other commenters, I assumed he had used the tool as a customer and had a positive experience, not that he was literally the founder of the group making the tool.

That’s not to say his opinion is not wanted, just that the potential bias should be made transparent.
Way overpriced
The whole premise that it collects "everything" is FUD and inaccurate:

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TikTok is said to collect "everything", from search and browsing histories; keystroke patterns; biometric identifiers—including faceprints, something that might be used in "unrelated facial recognition technology", and voiceprints—location data; draft messages; metadata; and data stored on the clipboard, including text, images, and videos.
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None of this can be captured due to app sandboxing on any up-to-date mobile OS.
The only one that might have been possible in the past is "data stored on the clipboard" (like many other apps) and even that is not possible anymore since iOS 16 beefed up security there (requires permission).
> one of them cannot remove TikTok because everyone will flock to the other side.

If Google did it, for sure, and then everyone shares how to side-load on Android.

If Apple did it, I'm pretty sure you get a whole lot of complaints but little action.

Apple's lack of ability to side-load or have alternate app-stores, plus their lock-in for the rest of their ecosystem makes that barrier to switching a lot higher.

I think Apple would have to do something a lot bigger than banning TikTok to get a critical-mass to move off Apple devices.

One of the larger messaging services perhaps - WhatsApp or Telegram or whatever's big in various regions might do it.
> (and risk of breaking their phone) of jail breaking is too high for ~99% of iPhone users.

really 99%, you have the data backing that up? At any rate my baseless assumption is that TikTok is mainly younger users, I bet for people who do not have their phone from work or purchased themselves from having a job i.e kids and teens, the risk of jail breaking is minimal - at least the first time.

on edit: assume the preceding in a jocular tone.
As a casual Google user, how do you start developing something like this? Does Google Sheets allow loading custom plugins?
Same here. I’m wondering. Is this an Android issue maybe?
On one hand numbers do not mean much, but I think that releasing a 1.0 version of official library would at least help with morale and signal some completeness.

I’m sure there are reasons making fresh 0.x releases even after creating a standard format, but it was a bit disappointing after years of waiting, even before this blow by certain browser maker.
Ordered the book you suggested, and I'll reconsider how I represent Ujaama.

I'm curious, given your background as coming from Nigeria, and given the extractive (and write destructive, from my understanding) oil industry there that seems to be primarily benefiting the wealthy, how do you view the role and impact capitalism has on Nigeria?

Is it the best model? Are there other models to try?
I like this decision too, however I do believe in remote work. I'm hoping this company will go into a death spiral and go the way of MySpace or worse, so Musk loses all the money he put into it. He should have just stuck to EVs and rockets.
Apple's Unionized Maryland Store Files Complaint over Benefits
The point of the article is that Chrome removes the experimental, behind-a-flag support of JPEG XL, which dramatically decreases the reach of JPEG XL, so yo say.
One place I worked had layoffs and project cancellations, so morale was way down. As a tone deaf move one day, we got an email saying as a treat because we appreciate you all being here despite how shitty everything is, you can purchase yourself a coffee and expense it (max of $10). That turned into more jokes than anything. Morale was horrible and they thought making people feel good was letting them buy coffee, which they'd then have to fill out expense forms to get "for free".

Yes, we're privileged to get a free coffee, but relative to our paycheck, it's a pointless gift and just smacks of being out of touch with employee sentiment at the time.
We agree on the big picture but not the details. Instead of race, why not look at economic position? I think the white family living in poverty in rural Appalachia is probably more deserving of AA than the middle-class Black family in Atlanta today. If there's a kid with a lower GPA/SAT than my son, but he's worked throughout HS, didn't have the same resources we have, he deserves acknowledgement and assistance. Colleges should definitely consider that as a factor. But that is irrespective of race.
Never heard about this thing
The licence isn't problematic, a blender app is a customized version of blender so of course it inherits the blender licence. If someone wants a closed blender there are many alternatives
> Personally, I always act as though everything about everyone is being taken and that's the world we live in now and there's too much money companies are making for anyone to ever protect the data cow. If the US government wants to prevent this then they have to legislate and make rules that turn off the data spigot to US corporations too.

That should also include giant fines for privacy violations for all companies who want to operate in the US or the EU and the fines should be in the billions of dollars.

Given that Facebook got a $5BN massive fine from the FTC for violating the privacy of their users and Google repeatedly getting fined for privacy violations in the EU nearing in the billions of euros, then TikTok should most certainly be fined in the multi-billions for all these privacy violations in [0], [1], [2] and [3].

[0] https://futurism.com/tiktok-spy-locations-specific-americans

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/03/tiktok-just-gave-itself-pe...

[2] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-...

[3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63494951
It might be possible to train yourself differently. Since having kids my sleep is much more like a control knob - I can go more days without it before needing a recharge.
> They prefer WebP and AVIF (created by themselves), but dislike JPEG XL (not created by them).

This is a common misconception; JPEG XL is jointly created by Cloudinary (which employs the author of FLIP/FUIF) and Google Research Zurich (which previously created PIK, and employs authors of Brotli and WebP lossless format as well) with an official blessing by JPEG (which mostly set the goal for the format). The only difference here is that the authors do not belong to the Chrome team.
"an X is just a Y" is a common turn of phrase in mathematical writing. It means that Xs and Ys are the same thing, whereas "an X is a Y" may, depending on context, mean only that every X is a Y. A human is a mammal, but a human is not just a mammal.

The original quote (from Categories for the Working Mathematician) is:

> All told, a monad in X is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors of X, with product × replaced by composition of endofunctors and unit set by the identity endofunctor.
An Arab thinker invented economic theory 400 years before Adam Smith did (2017)
Similar. I run text editor on the main OS but run language server in the requisite environment with all the requirements in a container.
Yes I don't trust these companies, but I sure as hell trust them more than Bytedance or the Chinese government. The amount of whataboutism in this thread.. Do we have a lot of Bytedance employees on hn?
He is not arrogant, he is just being honest. He does not display false humility. Just like his programming skills his style of communication is fast paced with no filters. geohotz is so inspiring.
Making sure everyone sees this:

https://papersplease.org/wp/

As far as I'm aware, the public has still never gotten a reasonable answer as to through what legal authority the TSA demands this. Yet another loss of liberty thanks to the godforsaken "PATRIOT" Act.
Those are also bad? Why TT is being talked about is that the bullshit Facebook and Google pull is normalised now so people don't talk about it as much.
The problem is that certain organizations can harvest recordings of illegal or semi-legal activities (think a teenager sharing a video with her crush, etc) and then five-ten years down the line that content can be used as a blackmail to do industrial espionage, sabotage, etc.

China is an autocracy. Even if it is not doing it already it can easily start doing it in the near future. One can look at the example of another neighboring autocracy and see where the trajectory could lead.
I'd have expected HEIF to be implemented in Safari, at the very least mobile Safari. Did Apple really not include their native image format on recent iPhones?
EDiffi, Nvidia's new State-of-the-Art Diffusion model
Highlights
1.Beats Imagen in quality
2.Incredible img+text2img capabilities
libavif is still not at 1.0 (in fact, 0.11.1 at the time of this writing). Having a 1.0 release is good, but not relevant to this matter.
The star trek angle seems more prevalent than one would imagine. In my experience, every single time this topic comes up, people mention the star trek computer, sometimes kitt from knight rider, or that ai from iron man.

However, people seem to forget these aren't computers, but characters in TV shows or movies and they were "designed" with voice interaction because that's the only way to convey what they are doing to an audience. The entire voice control fantasy comes from limitations of the TV (or film) medium and not at all because it's the most convenient way to do something.

It's not too different from the way hacking or programming is portrayed on TV: it's extremely silly but you need a way to visually explain something to an audience of people who aren't technical. It's entertainment.

While I admit there is a case for disabled people, as stated here in the comments, trying to imitate these things from sci fi shows just feels awkward to me.
TikTok is well-known for using vulnerabilities to access more personally identifying data than it should from users [0], such as MAC addresses [1] and IMEI numbers for the SIM cards.

[0]: https://theforestscout.com/35101/in-lfhs/tiktok-app-comes-wi...

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-tracked-user-data-using-...
Who cares? You still have to write the code that handles failure when the buffer length isn't zero.
If half of my coworkers got laid off, I would be exactly the opposite of inspired. I'd feel ashamed that I stayed after that.
You can use C libraries in Rust, even compiled .so files where you dont have the corresponding C headers.
Heh, I guess when you abuse a term all the time it eventually becomes meaningless.
Do you live in California, USA?

Google Maps is quite terrible in many parts of the world that are not-America. In Europe, it routinely suggests absolutely insane "shorcuts" because it doesn't seem to understand that even though a narrow, winding country lane with stone walls on either side may have a 90 kph speed limit, it would be suicide to actually drive at that speed.
The article discounts dynamic FP languages that most real world delivered FP code is written in (Erlang/Elixir, Clojure, etc). The claimed "the top dozen functional-programming languages" list is also missing Scala, Ocaml/ReasonML, etc.

I can understand wanting to focus on your preferred FP subdisciplines (statically typed purely functional languages) but it seems eliding any mention of this will be confusing the readership since IEEE Spectrum is targeted at a general engineering audience.
I think you must be unfamiliar with job control, but I could be wrong. How do you Ctrl+Z a foreground job, maybe several, and then switch between them.

All of what “powershell” provides depends on knowing you want to background something ahead of time, and even then I don’t think you can make it the foreground task (maybe wait job comes close) There is even a Github issue on it, which I’m afraid I can’t be bothered to go find again
has anyone here worked on graph neural networks ? basically creating embeddings for node based on their edge connectivity (or reachability) and using that for neural networks ?

how do you do this at scale ?its generally a NP hard problem, but wondering whether something like AGE helps.

not sure how Google, etc or even someone on fraud detection does this at scale
Learn Python 3: A Free and Open Source Book to Learn Python
YouTube is dead because it became a left-wing platform.
Next.
A typical yak shaving session
Transformer object detectors are less robust than CNNs
Unlikely, dryer output is very humid, unless you have a tropical greenhouse next door.
>That's a great story, how you came up, after immigrating to America from India. However, very important points that you have glossed over is the history of slavery, redlining, Jim Crow (and other laws), voting suppression, etc... of Black Americans who are the descendants of slaves. They (and other ethnic groups) were being shut out of opportunities, and the courts were attempting to alleviate this in some way. The original purpose of affirmative action, was to help those that were being actively and consistently discriminated against.

And not one of those things is in the least bit his fault or responsibility, least of all the fault or responsibility of his son or many other kids in the same situation. It's a pernicious, grotesque notion that people with no personal or ancestral fault in a specific historical context should be punished for its existence as a compensation to others. The idea is in fact little better than the implicit punishment-through-bias accorded to other minorities because they or their ancestors were at one time considered inferior. A society can alleviate past wrongs without creating new ones of a similar if softer flavor against yet other collectively defined groups.

>As a more recent immigrant, you are benefiting from laws and polices, which are the result of historical issues, court battles, and actual battles in America. Many Americans fought, died, and were jailed to get laws changed.

And so what? Does he somehow owe a personal debt to a country because it, for reasons of its own, decided to fix and fight against internal historical wrongs that its own people had created in the first place? Another idiotic and ugly idea: that a country makes itself better and then is right to foist part of the cost onto people who later come to it specifically because it's supposedly become a better and more just place, as if they'd had a part in its previous wrongs.

That you make such absurd arguments shows how much the ideological aspect of affirmative action (vs. its practical, carefully balanced merits) has contaminated much progressive thinking.
Commercial coin laundromat front loading washers also match all those criteria.
FPLs yes, FP no.

We might argue it's influenced by FP indirectly because those adopted features from ML etc also jive well with functional programming, for example pattern matching as a control flow construct...
In practice consumers just go straight to Amazon because they're afraid of the wider internet and depend on the return policy to save them when they get scammed. Doubt any "opt-in validation, ring of trust, p2p feedback and rating" will change that in the next decade.
I recently had a couple of catalytic converters stolen. I think the same guys stole about 20 grand worth of tools and scientific equipment. I have their faces and vehicle on video, but they haven't been caught.

https://youtu.be/SPO5s8AZVeQ
The entire purpose of the article is to refute this exact argument.
Ask HN: Is OpenBSD still considered secure?
Title says it all. OpenBSD is not set up for SecureBoot out-of-the-box - which, while its not a deal breaker, would be a disadvantage in some contexts. Does anyone know about where the project is at?