skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So no embeds, no CDNs, no analytics, lots of popups asking for permissions and going back to 2000s (just with cookie banners) in general. Isn't that ugly?
Exactly, it's not the EU overreacting about "what could be", those things have already happened
That's absolutely a red-herring, Pfizer can only increase their prices like this thanks to state protection of their business practices and intellectual property.
Amazing! Even includes anagrams: a person called Charis Law who owns a company called Whirl Casa.
Do you really want to complain about a car whose breaks could be altered via OTA update?
> Many of these ships were never found, so the exact number of shipwrecks in the Lakes is unknown; the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum approximates 6,000 ships and 30,000 lives lost, while historian and mariner Mark Thompson has estimated that the total number of wrecks is likely more than 25,000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_the_Grea...
Does Technology Destroy Art? [video]
Phones, TVs, Toasters
Well patio11 just came out with a whole article of BAM about leverage: https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/demystifying-financial-lev...

The point of this article was to make the consequences of the following statement clear:

And now you know enough to understand what I'm saying with an otherwise opaque statement like "Tether is 35:1 levered on risky assets during market contagion."

Yes, if everything goes Tether's way, they can weather anything, forever. But eventually it won't, and they won't.
I have a really hard time calling those plans "unlimited" when it becomes unusably slow after your full-speed allotment. I hope the waiter told you about their app discount before you ordered, because best-case scenario that 250MB app is going to take a little over an hour to download at the 512kbps they allow.
Interesting. A bit of Google and it seems that although this is technically true, the digital representation of a typeface (ie the font file itself) is copywritable (it is treated like software).
>Localised environmental destruction is such a pittance compared to global environmental catastrophe that its comical people even bring it up.

While every environmentalist ever talks about "the greater good" they pouted and whined and tossed the plate on the floor when there was nuclear energy on it. You'll have to forgive the general public for not taking you (as a group) at your word.
Maybe I am misunderstanding your comment, but there’s no way “unsafe” will be removed from rust.

It’s essential to doing many things.
I actually only looked at north america, knowing that it happens in every country that mines. Capitalism is not the scapegoat.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/china-wrestles-with-the-toxic...

The psuedo-environmentalists getting played like a 2-bit....crypto investor (not my 1st word choice, but still relevant) is funny though :p
Them giving their IP address is consent. If I put a dollar bill in your hand, I can come around a year later and ask for it back since I didn't "consent" explicitly.
Huge swathes of the human population doesn't eat that much meat, India being my go to example of delicious vegetarian food spanning a very very long time.
Very interesting, I will look into this! Thanks!
>> Although this was actually intended to be a punishment.

Involuntary YouTube shorts seems like authentic punishment to me.
Mutual funds and ETFs can have the same problem, but they generally structure it so the fund is a separate entity and a "customer" of the parent company. If the fund house goes bankrupt, the fund is safe because the fund house didn't actually own it.

While I don't touch crypto for the same reason I don't touch Beanie Babies, it's made me think more about what is money, what's intrinsic value, and what protections are in place in case something goes wrong.
PolarCBO: Particle Swarm Dynamics for Multi-Modal Optimization and Sampling
With this generalized consenus-based algorithm we can optimize multi-modal objectives. E.g., this allows to create cool swarm dynamics on a snowflake, as can be seen here https://github.com/TimRoith/PolarCBO.
> Simply because it's limiting. Which is good if you are inexperienced, but not so great once you grow and try to become more productive. A more expressive language is a must then or you'll be stuck.

I've never been "stuck" with Go in the sense that I wasn't able to do something I wanted.

I've programmed in plenty of more expressive languages over the years, and I don't think there's much difference in terms of productivity. Sure, some more expressive languages allow you to do something very quickly and concisely, but it also increases cognitive load when writing and reading and in the end it seems to balances out. Sometimes I do find myself thinking "gosh, I wish I had $feature_x from $language_y" at times, but I have that with every language.

It's a "dumb" languages in that sense, I guess. Which is also why it's nice: you don't have to focus on the mechanics of what you're implementing, you just implement what you want, as per the "Zen of Python"; "There should be one – and preferably only one – obvious way to do it."
This (and the article) have, coincidentally, been my latest fixation. I'm theoretically no dumber than any headline-making character these days, but they 1. Have connections and chance opportunities that have not fallen into my lap that have into theirs and 2. I don't have this insatiable appetite for power or money. Perhaps it's my depression or lack of confidence, but simply collecting my developer salary and spending my remaining time on my hobbies/relationships is enough for me and I have no desire (or energy, frankly) to pursue greatness.
Frankly, that last paragraph is the most important one. If you were on the fence about actually starting that start-up, this is your golden opportunity.
Throwaway as I used to socialize with a number of names connected to all this.

It did not “happen that fast”. It’s been forecasted and debated for weeks if not months. We were just not privy to those meetings, IMs, and calls. You’d have to be incredibly handicapped to assume behind the scenes comms aren’t occurring and merely a deluded rube to assume it’s all “nice”.

The analytics exist to predict these things and people chose to let it play out, see if it could be fixed before the bill was due.

This is the free market. Awareness exists for those with the money to build the analysis. They sit and gamble on the actual outcome that will occur.

SBF screwed up by assuming the establishment cared enough to rescue his ephemeral pet. The establishment never cares about the fallout to the average person. “Free market” to be stupid. Where being smart is kowtowing to established rule.

Because the establishment is people too. Same core motives. Same lack of obligation to buy into others bullshit. Life on Earth is sorted. It’s normalized. Actual science of net new discovery is the only true frontier, not engineering new versions of old shit. Crypto is just a new version of a manipulated value store like religious symbols and nation state currency. It has all the same upsides and pitfalls because it’s belief in nothing but the imagination of a handful of dumb apes.

As a data structure it’s not interesting; a linked list with a unique hash in place of an index. Yes yes much mathematical notation can be jotted down to explain it but the same can be said of growing lettuce and we don’t seem to feel the need to do so. Short hand recipes and experience suffice.

Crypto is former script kiddies clinging to nostalgia as humans do. It fills the same existential hole as things like superheroes, war heroes, and gods; not for everyone and demanding it should be is the same old human imperialism of thought. We don’t need crypto like we don’t need fiat currency, because special people don’t exist. Any rules for defining them are arbitrary given the unknown reason for our existence.
> Unfortunately, it's not up for you to decide. The US has laws that makes it legal for your government to harvest data, and it has used these laws against EU citizen in the past.

Yeah, I was afraid of this.

> The US has also asked US services to collect data they were not previously collecting, with a gag order to prevent customers from learning it.

I'm so bullish on privacy that I would actually shut down my company if this happens. US courts cannot force me to remain in business.
What boundless optimism.

It's Elon Musk. Ofcourse he can't be lacking in any respect. He's a genius.
Out of curiosity, are you a C/C++ dev?
The WARC (Web ARChive) format specifies a method for combining multiple digital resources into an aggregate archival file together with related information:

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0002...
I think it was Einstein who said "I probably didn't say this"
Interestingly American Samoa is only loosely bound to constitution / Washington.

AFAIK it's the only territory/state with institutional laws that expressly protect racism and sexism. For instance, only ethnic Samoans can control most of the property, and on one island women are barred from certain leadership positions for 'cultural' reasons.

And people from American Samoa, as "nationals" but not citizens, can't even vote AFTER they come to the mainland (unlike Puerto Ricans). Interestingly you rarely hear social justice warriors fighting against the racism/sexism of American Samoa nor the racism that stops them from voting on the mainland -- happening by statutory decree within US borders.
100% true. But objections to resource extraction for lithium should just be ignored. There are literally 1000x larger extraction sites for other purposes, especially iron and aluminum, but also table salt, laundry soap, etc. There are nation-sized areas of America that have been scraped flat for oil and gas production. The land sacrificed for lithium extraction is so far down the list of important environmental issues that it can't even be ranked more precisely than "tied for last place".
You're going to incur insane overhead doing this, since each file's actual size is a multiple of the filesystem's block size, which is similar order of magnitude as a compressed HTML file.
Happened with me when buying a nvm-e samsung evo 970 (if I'm not mistaken). I was getting a full new PC and only opened the ssd box after all components arrived, two weeks after receiving it.

I opened a ticket with amazon explaining what happened, got a call from their support to confirm that the violated box was the product one and not the carrier one, and then got reimbursed by the end of the same day.
The difficult part is that Twitter messed up privacy in the past and now they need to be extra careful. The most recent rollout was a mess.

https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cases/2010...

> IT IS ORDERED that respondent, directly or through any corporation, subsidiary,
division, website, or other device, in connection with the offering of any product or service, in or affecting commerce, shall not misrepresent in any manner, expressly or by implication, the extent to which respondent maintains and protects the security, privacy, confidentiality, or integrity of any nonpublic consumer information, including, but not limited to, misrepresentations related to its security measures to: (a) prevent unauthorized access to nonpublic consumer information; or (b) honor the privacy choices exercised by users.

> IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that respondent, directly or through any corporation, subsidiary, division, website, or other device, in connection with the offering of any product or service, in or affecting commerce, shall, no later than the date or service of this order, establish and implement, and thereafter maintain, a comprehensive information security program that is reasonably designed to protect the security, privacy, confidentiality, and integrity of nonpublic consumer information. Such program, the content and implementation of which must be fully documented in writing, shall contain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards appropriate to respondent’s size and complexity, the nature and scope of respondent’s activities, and the sensitivity of the nonpublic consumer information, including: ...

I'm going to draw attention to the last sentence of the second one. For any new product (like "Twitter Blue") it must be documented in writing, with a comprehensive security information how it is designed to protect the customer.
It says I should keep that tab open for the next 17 hours. What happens if I still close it?

Congrats for the unexpected success :)
Oh wow! Thank you so much for the correction. I somehow got those wires crossed in my head. I'm not sure if I read any of N Hill's stuff. But I recently ordered outwitting the devil on a friends recommendation.
This is ridiculous. Chrome's influence is too big and Google is basically dictating how the web works. The whole world must bow to what a select group of people decide. This internet explorer level of oppression has to stop.
Also, theres more companies than just FAANG out there that pay comparably, go down levels.fyi and start applying, for anyone who wants to try
Off topic, but this is the first time I've seen PLC mentioned on HN. Is there a well known path from transitioning from a normal style of "software engineering" job that isn't embedded focused, and into the PLC/industrial automation field? I have family working in chemical engineering plants and I think the machinery is badass. I feel like I would like a PLC job but I don't know where to begin.

From the other comments in the thread, I'm guessing starting on this new Arduino PLC might not be the best?
anyone can eat algae if they want to, most don't want to.

some people do want to eat crab and lobsters, some don't.

it's not a naming issue or a perception issue, it's a choice issue.
WebP has been in Chrome for years, and isn't going anywhere. WebP2 is cancelled. AVIF is still arriving and is Chrome's preferred choice over JXL. HEIC was not supported by Chrome until recently, but only on devices where the manufacturers already paid for decoding.

One advantage for AVIF is that an AVIF file is very close to just being an AV1 still, so if you implement AV1, you've basically got 95% of AVIF already. AVIF is also now natively supported by both Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, whereas JXL is supported natively by none. The fact that AVIF has gotten OS-level support and JXL hasn't is a sign JXL is dead.
The fence is well documented. https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cases/2010...
> Also, since the EU considers an IP address to be PII

As far as I know, it’s only one German court which once considered that an IP address was PII in a specific case. There is nothing in the law that explicitly says that IP addresses are PII.

I think you might be confused about the implications the German ruling has because you are from a common law country. One court ruling something doesn’t make it the law in Europe.
> The two companies that comes first to mind is BunnyCDN and KeyCDN

Merry Christmas to those two.
Keep in mind that you have to move your population to higher density housing. Essentially to really prompt public transit in the US you will have to introduce draconian laws that prevent the creation of single family houses and their future sales. This is if you work from the idea that we only have 9 years left until we can’t prevent the climate damage.
Sure if you're willing to violate the law, but if also need to accept never having any EU businesses as customer.
Currently running on a t3.medium AWS EC2 instance! (My max budget is currently $50/month since I get that much in AWS credits each month for building an Alexa skill a few years back.)
Which isn’t a real rationale. It says what some common problems are but not why specifically jpeg-xl is unfit. Are we really to believe that a new format is going to be perfect out of the gate? Surely there’s a path to introducing a new format that doesn’t screw over 3rd parties. I mean Google has been iron fisted with certain other formats… Something else happened here.
I don’t doubt that IntelliJ overall is more user-friendly. But just to note, Emacs’ undo-tree can also show the diff for each change.

Edit: Screenshot (with an unusually blue Emacs theme): https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UndoTree#h5o-5
They have not closed a narrower bug about the lossless JPEG compression: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=110969...

I think it's a legitimately different tradeoff because the recompression is not like a new lossy format--less code, plus you don't need the whole ecosystem to move, big sites and CDNs can transparently start using it--but still substantial (22% on JPEG content out there). And by being very CPU-light it fills a fairly large gap where people are not ready to use AVIF, which needs either dedicated hardware or tons of CPU to encode.

One thing this is right about is a WASM polyfill is interesting. With that and a ServiceWorker, you can make the recompression pretty transparent (right-click saves a .jpg) but still save your 22%. The performance penalty of doing it in WASM is a question, but it's definitely possible.
Even the oldest file-sharing services can fall to old-fashioned phishing attack
Supposedly the Japan “subsidiary” (if you can call it that) was set up by a Japanese person and a resident of Japan, who was a contact of SBF through the Effective Altruism thing. I think they knew something was shady, because the account they had opened in Japan was with a small rural Japanese bank.

When that “arbitrage” turned out to be really lucrative one of the founders of Skype (Talinn something) gave SBF a $50 million loan. SBF and that Talinn guy knew each other also from that Effective Altruism sect-like thing.

All this info was part of a Sequoia congratulatory piece on SBF, they of course had also given him money. The article has since been taken down, it’s still reachable through Web Archive.
Struck by Lightning
With them working so much on building up their ad business, having a search engine and switching the iOS default search to it might make up for the loss in Google money they get right now.

Just like with Google Maps / Apple Maps it doesn't seem very Apple-like to depend on a partner this heavily for such a core feature.
That looks like a mistranslation, Лиза translates into Lisa.
Semi-supervised learning for topographic map analysis over time
The money doesn't come from search quality, it comes from selling ads and Apple is a long way away from building up ad inventory and an ad salesforce like Google's. They absolutely are making money on ads today, but they're a long way from swapping out Google.
Mobile Paywall Open Rates vs. Transaction Rates – More Is Better
Okay, how does it cost to them?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33561234.
I think it doesn't require organizational alignment or faith in a leader for bad acting to occur. While I agree reality is more often obvious and mundane, the NSA has demonstrably not operated in the USA's best interests. The Snowden leak proves its inefficiencies, lack of oversight, and lack of access governance. History supports your point, but it also supports counter productive actions and nefarious self and private interests by individuals and small groups within those government agencies. It only takes a few minutes searching for leaks that made it to the main stream media to show both statements are true.

While this topic is about the NSA I feel this are relevant questions:

Why do we still have a FDA given they fail so regularly to catch food and drugs that harm people?

Why do we still have a FTC given they've fail so regularly to prevent monopolistic behavior from telecoms?

Why do we still have a FBI given they fail so regularly to prevent mass shootings and domestic terror attacks?

Why do we still have a NSA given they fail so regularly at sharing information allowing foreign entities penetrating our financial and tech sectors?

Surely you recognize at some point inefficiency must give way to the question, has this been done intentionally? Especially since that is supported historically.
Unfortunately nothing at the moment! Currently working on removing images from the queue if the user has left the page (which I'm guessing is the case for about 99% of the current queue).
A lot of hubris in this thread. My experience has been the opposite of what honestly sounds like a lot of sour grapes thinking here: when I’ve met hugely successful leaders I was taken aback at how much more intelligent they were than me. Their ability to contextualize questions and problems, to motivate others, to find a path through challenges when it seems like there’s none to be found, and to offer advice and guidance to peers and reports was incredible to witness. Even the bullshitters were bulls hitting on top of a staggering level of intellectual ability.
Do you know a way to keep the region selected after undoing so as to continually undo within the region?
What’s kinda annoying about comment sections on these articles is it shows how many people have opinions on this topic that they know only a bit about.

Rust is safer than C++ because it does “opt-out” of memory safety, rather than modern C++ which is more “opt-in”

But Rust (other than for threads) is definitely not more memory safe than Go/Java etc. Safe rust code can still memory leak. Unsafe rust code can have memory errors (and does frequently) that those others would stop.
To be fair you can't contact Twitter for a comment because there's no one left in the communications department.
Exactly, your baby sitter, your employer, your lawyer, the plumber you called two months ago ... Are covered.

The person you traded phone at the bar last week, your neighbor or your coworker from last job are not.
I tip my fedora to you kind gentlesir.
Yeah, but some of those people are fucking idiots.
I always hate to say we need regulation around something but then someone evil does something evil and the need for regulation emerges again...
All governments lie. The question is, whose lies are worse?
> These laws don't bind individual citizens, but companies offering services.

Right. EU companies whose websites are accessed by individual citizens and usually have assets stored by US companies, such as CDNs.
In addition to changing to roasting, and depending on how old you are, brussels sprouts may have literally been different when you were a kid [0]. Dutch biologists worked to alter the sprouts we eat and have changed the bitterness. That's why they've had such a renaissance. I never had them as a kid, but I distinctly remember my brother making them at Thanksgiving around 2010 and we were shocked at how much we enjoyed them and couldn't figure out why they had such a bad reputation in pop culture.

0: https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/do-brussels-sprouts-taste-...
> You don't have to build a search engine that is better than Google's…

You're right, of course — most companies would be happy with a "perfectly fine" DDG-like offering. I'm presupposing that "best" is Apple's bar for an M1-like slam dunk launch, since an underwhelming launch (think Apple Maps 1.0) can be hard to recover from.

> And working for years on a project that may never see the light of day can be hard.

For sure! Moonshots require a level of faith that I'm not sure could maintain for a decade either.
I'm all for blockchain socialism, but I doubt it will be called that ...
So Back to The Future II basically :-)

(edit below)

(1985 Marty + Doc) => 2015

(2015 Biff) => 1955 => 2015 (he shouldn't be able to return here)

(1985 Marty + Doc) 2015 => 1985' => 1955 => 1985
Could supporting JPEG XL natively be an opportunity for Edge and Firefox to compete with Chrome seriously?