skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first thing that poked my eyes in this article was the "Czech" sentence in the illustration which is just totally wrong... Even when we ignore the missing diacritics, "isi" is not a word in Czech. It's probably a typo from "Jedl si ten žlutý sníh?", although that translates to "Did you eat the yellow snow?", not "Why are you eating the yellow snow?" like the caption suggests which would be translated to "Proč jíš ten žlutý sníh?"...

Looks kinda bad in an article about language learning in a serious newspaper like Bloomberg... unless it's also mistranslated in duolingo in which case I think it should have been explained...
> In a lot of places, it is socially unacceptable to wear the same thing for days in a row, even if you change your undergarments.

Maybe depends upon how you own the choice. You react negatively to snide or snark: you lose power and social standing.

You shrug neutrally then move on unaffected, and only when pressed do you explain you save time making decisions over unimportant clothing that you put to turning a profit: you're hailed a visionary and VC's clamor to be let into your Series A's.

I wouldn't mind spending the time and money on Ship-of-Theseus-replacing what wears out on a few items of extremely high-quality high-durability clothing, except I have not been able to establish suppliers for replacements. For example, I was excited about American Giant when they first came out. Until I determined I cannot purchase from them swatches of the same fabric, thread, and hardware they use to repair whatever I get from them, much less offer a pay-to-repair option.

As a personal preference, I do not mind paying 50% or more (even >100%) for a tailor to repair my clothing than I can "buy new", and if there are repair options in other possessions I also pursue prioritizing repair over buy. "Trash" is shorthand for, "my civilization is not scientifically literate enough and/or too energy-poor to re-structure diffused baryonic matter up the energy gradient sufficiently to use it again".
I wanted to post a JPEG XL pic of some Sony Betamax tapes, but I couldn't find anything to support encoding it.
This isn't correct. Several of our attacks succeeded without any warnings popping up.

Furthermore, you need to distinguish between what Element happened to do (which users may or may not watch out for) and what the standard demanded.

Note that at this point, as far as I understand it, there is no dispute between us - the authors of this research - and the Matrix developers about that leaving group membership under the control of the server was a bad and avoidable design decision. The Matrix developers are working on a spec change/fix which resolves this, linked elsewhere in this thread.
That's terrible. I avoid SSO systems entirely for a whole bunch of reasons. I'll add this to my list.
Making the Office a Destination of Choice in the Era of Hybrid Work
It also means fewer tools in developers' toolboxes. Not being able to make your own system calls directly, or exercise control over your own address space, means that anything that doesn't conform to a C runtime won't run in OpenBSD. Perhaps that's a tradeoff that the OpenBSD developers are willing to make, but even so, these particular "mitigations" do not address the root cause of many security vulnerabilities: failure to verify untrusted input.
The Science of Career Success: It's Who You (Sorta) Know
Oh it is. The other users are just brainwashed /s

Big fan of pop os personally.
Can't really consume it if it's locked behind a flag. 99% of chrome users never touch the flags at all.
> you get to learn another 'language'

But "languages aren't something you learn" right?
Not used anywhere? E.g. Affinity Photo has support for JPEG XL, but not for AVIF. Not used in browsers because they are nearly controlled by Chromium, which is clearly biased toward AVIF.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XL#Official_support
Official support:

Squoosh – In-browser image converter[42]
Adobe Camera Raw – Adobe Photoshop's import/export for digital camera images[43]
Affinity Photo – raster graphics editor[44]
Chasys Draw IES – raster graphics editor[45]
Darktable – raw photo management application[46]
ExifTool – metadata editor[47]
FFmpeg – multimedia framework, via libjxl[48]
GIMP – raster graphics editor[49]
gThumb – image viewer and photo management application for Linux[50]
ImageMagick – toolkit for raster graphics processing[51]
IrfanView – image viewer and editor for Windows[52]
KaOS – Linux distribution[53]
Krita – raster graphics editor[54][55]
libvips – image processing library[56][57]
vipsdisp – high-performance ultra-high-resolution image viewer for Linux[58]
Qt and KDE apps – via KImageFormats[59]
XnView MP – viewer and editor of raster graphics[60]
Pale Moon – web browser[61]
Same here. Author comes off as a bit of a jerk. Stopped reading.
That's awesome! MtG didn't make me any money but it got me into MIT, so I love sharing this story:

I was super into the game in my later high school years (1994-96), right when the market started going absolutely bonkers (relatively speaking). And I discovered a pattern - there was a price guide that got published on Usenet every week, and every card had "low", "average", and "high" prices. But people would only transact at the "high" level, so every week the price guide was updated with the new average and the loop began. Anyway I discovered this loop, started trading actively at tournaments, built up a huge portfolio of cards.....and then had the entire collection stolen from me while I was playing a match.

Anyway, I told this story to my college interviewer who just so happened to be an early Algo trader at a large Wall Street bank, and he loved it and wrote me up a glowing interview recommendation.

(Side note: At one point I had 9 Black Lotuses and was super proud of that...first page of my album. Few Alpha, few Beta, mostly Unlimited, one was signed by Christopher Rush, etc. Ahh memories.)
Cloud computing is a 50 years or more old idea and it took political/commercial shenanigans before the U.S. Defense Department awarded the $9B contract to four service providers.
Following. I got off the train about two years ago to work more in engineering.
The way I see it, if you’re not a research scientist - this field is best addressed as an ML engineer as there are more challenges in systems.
Would love to be proved wrong.
A personal check in this case I guess would be... odd. And there are certainly other red flags. But I receive checks from various organizations I don't have direct deposit set up with on a semi-regular basis, e.g. from my healthcare flexible spending account. Checks are definitely still used in the US even if much less frequently than they used to be. (If you count the ones my bank sends out on my behalf I write a few checks a month myself.)
Lol. Guess you haven't tried it for yourself.

You don't need to market something that can hit 1 million users in 5 days through word of mouth.

Don't know how to break it to you if you don't legitimately see how revolutionary its capabilities are.
No, that’s not us. We teach customers from the ground up how to cultivate using sterile spawn, whereas they sell pre-colonised substrate where much of the process has already been done :)
arrested and jailed/convicted are two very different things

let me guess this will end up with lengthy process and in the end she won't serve any time

plus just because other politicians let her get arrested doesn't mean they are not corrupted too, it can just mean they wanted to get rid off competition (see Xi Jin Ping corruption fight theatre play)
The author may be suffering from a form of blub paradox when it comes to how he identifies, which I would assume include white, male, rich, smart, founder, and writer.

It's easy for him to discard "lesser" identities like "javascript programmer" because that doesn't cost him anything.
It contains 8 links to the Chromium bugtracker in this paragraph:

However, if the enthusiastic support in the Chromium bugtracker from Facebook, Adobe, Intel and VESA, Krita, The Guardian, libvips, Cloudinary, and Shopify is any indication, it seems baffling to conclude that there would be insufficient ecosystem interest.

That's why I assumed there was demand for JPEG XL.
JPEG XL was not used anywhere on the web because no browser shipped with JXL support. As soon as Google enabled it in Chrome, Mozilla in Firefox or Apple in Safari, we would've started to see adoption.
The word "bansturbation" was invented to describe such people.
I wonder why nobody used a hidden feature that needed to be activated manually.
I think we have the same preference regarding text editor. I also prefer Atom UI compared to VSCode UI. And even if I can customize it to look the same as Atom, it will never feel the same.

My only complaint with Atom is about performance. A fresh install of Atom feels normal fast at first, but as I add more plugins, it gradually feels slower. VSCode is better in this regard. Nowadays I mainly use Sublime Text, which is faster than VSCode. I also keep an eye on Lite-XL, which has the potential to be as fast as Sublime Text with a smaller memory footprint.
A very good format killed by it's license
No. It completely disrespects the recipients work and time by demanding a meeting with no agenda.

Everyone I work with feels the same. The “hello” people are the outliers and the rest of the office knows it.
I've always wondered about the hidden convergence of the "9" in Plan 9, and the "IX" in Unix. IX, after all, is how Romans and Western Civilization wrote numbers until say 1200CE.

Given how smart Pike, Thompson, Ritchie etc are and we're, I doubt this is a coincidence!
A phone has the same chances of being lost and I would say a higher chance of being stolen.

My question would be who is in control of the backups? The same vendors who want to lock you into their ecosystem?
In a Future Filled with Electric Cars, Am Radio May Be Left Behind
Yes - I have done this in an MV3 extension. You can basically re-implement your own runtime and download the code and run it there instead of using eval/script tags.

It's very inefficient and it's a pain to write, but it is possible.

I suspect they will not approve extensions that do this if it becomes popular.
We do. Small companies don’t want to deal with setting direct deposits through an ACH and it’s much easier to write a check. The latest number from the Federal Reserve was that in 2018 they processed 18 billion checks issued by companies and individuals.
Yeah nah. The scripting support (both direct and via styling) makes shipping SVG a complete hell. Aggressive (restrictive) CSP policies actually degrade and break SVG styling because of that. And it's absolutely necessary if you allow direct SVG linking / opening.

If anything, SVG is the one image format most in need of replacement.
I really like Duolingo as a way to practice (Spanish) every day, on top of a foundation of via-zoom language classes for 2h/day over a couple months from Baselang, and living in a Spanish speaking place (Puerto Rico), traveling to Spanish speaking places, etc. I don't really interact with people locally in Spanish all that much at home, and beyond basic transactional interactions at the airport, shooting range, and costco, can easily go a month+ without speaking Spanish, so it's nice to have a consistent motivation to practice.
Is that really true? https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/gdp-per-hour-worked.htm , set the base to US dollars instead of 2015 normalized. Most EU countries and the EU average of $54.20/hour seems to be above Romania's figure of $38/hour.
One of the original microsites, dating to 1999!
Isn't that circular reasoning? Chrome shouldn't support JPEG-XL because not enough consumers support it? Chrome is the number one consumer of images. If Chrome added support, suddenly 90% of people would be able to use the format.

(Also EOG and IrfanView are image viewers, not production tools.)
Identity is not 'what I do', but 'who I am.'

'Who I am' does not include tangents such as what programming language I utilize.

'Who I am' speaks to the intrinsic nature of me. What my core being considers unalterable and unchanging specifics.

Most of the topics here in this thread do not speak to that.
YubiKeys can't have copies of themselves, that's a big portion of their selling point. As far as I know and strictily in FIDO, there is no solution here. The closest that Yubico has is this draft: https://github.com/Yubico/webauthn-recovery-extension which will roughly make an authenticator register two keys with an RP. The draft itself is not implemented anywhere as far as I know and while better than the current state of hardware key backups, it's still not problem free.

I personally would love to see it implemented, so it can be used for logging in to the service that provides a WebAuthn sync fabric.
The History of the Net (1993)
It depends on the definition of "parliamentary immunity" in their home country, though. In some EU countries, it is indeed practically immune unless "caught in the act" (e.g. inviolability in France).
Rally a team around a single goal, get out of the way and let them move fast. If you don't trust your people, you have bigger problems that no methodologies will fix.
In adult language learning, practicing pronunciation early is far, far easier than fixing it later. Correcting bad pronunciation habits is extremely hard once engrained, but learning it the right way early isn't as hard as people think. Most courses don't focus on this enough IMO, resulting in people with hard-to-understand accents, which makes them feel less confident when practicing speech as they're asked to keep repeating themselves.
Yes, and lossless JPEG doesn't matter, especially on the web.
I have no idea whether the research this article is based on is sound.

What seems interesting is that the non-caloric sweeteners they tested are completely different chemicals, and yet they all were correlated with weight gain or diabetes. It's as if just being a sweetener is enough.

That makes some sense to me. If a jolt of sweetness primes the metabolism for a glucose rush that never comes, perhaps the subject starts (unconsciously) hunting for another food that will provide the rush - starch might fit the bill, I guess. Or alcohol.

Someone noted that the article title is clickbaity. Of course it is - this is The Guardian, which is now effectively a tabloid. It's not really a newspaper of record any more.
Society 'upgraded' how - what does that mean?

Anyway, there is an environmental price as well as a $$$ price to clothing production. What you pay might not be the true price (eg. aquifers getting drained, soil erosion, CO2 emission etc, possible deforestation).

Even ignoring my point about non-fiscal cost "that can be bought new for a day's or even a week's wages" is great if you're rich, even relatively speaking. From wiki: "...which found roughly 734 million people [in the world] remained in absolute poverty [circa 2015]". I guess you grew up not having your parents unable to buy except as a last resort and having to patch everything repeatedly.
JPEG XL implements lossless image compression, but that's definitely not the most interesting feature. It also implements lossless JPEG recompression. So your existing JPEGs can be served with ~20% less bandwidth, without quality loss.

Unlike AVIF, JPEG XL also has advanced progressive delivery features, which is useful for the web. And if you look at the testing described in the post, JPEG XL also achieved higher subjective quality per compressed bit, despite having a faster encoder.
Consumption wasn't possible in standard Chrome. So that's hardly a benchmark.
> socially unacceptable

Are you familiar with Gomez Addam's wardrobe?

Interestingly, he may have also had a few ideas on social acceptance.
Not OP but thanks for this response, as someone on the front end with a passing interest in AI this helped me recalibrate my thinking on this.
> Atom Z3735F

That's Bay Trail Atom. Launch date: Q1'14, two years after the platform launch, two years before the platform sees the latest release.

Or this is old new stock (of Bay Trail Atoms?) of something completely insane. Come on, 8 years! I had Acer W4-821 tablet with similar CPU in 2014! And was quite hampered by an upgrade to Win10, though I managed to run Virtual Box with CentOS on it to live test some code.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/80274/i...
Yeah you just enter your recipient's IBAN in your 2FA banking app, and that's it. The transfer gets processed in about a business day.

If you want the "check" experience, you can also fill out that information in a form and hand it to a bank teller.
If you need native access to a platform, write a native application.
You'd be excluding a whole lot of people who don't have any social media accounts, and a lot of others who aren't willing to use them for this purpose.
I don't see why you're getting downvoted. With Chrome removing JXL and all the browser vendors' expressed intentions to get behind AVIF, it certainly seems like AVIF is the clear winner in this round of the image format wars.
Thanks for this. I looked through the big-player comments and the one I found most persuasive was from Shopify, who had specific, practical reasons for needing this: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...
OP again. I couldn't get this out of my head, so I went to some steps to mitigate the unrealism. Updated now, with a slightly less wobbly horizon.
But bags of cash do tend to raise eyebrows and the conclusion was that it'd be best not to accept them in the future...

You can raise your eyebrows all you wish, I'll stick with the bag of cash, thank you.
Rotate then. You don't have to wash it every time.
Wonderful detailed explanation. Thanks! I couldn’t agree more. FTX did use customer funds which led them to where they are today.

My problem is that I’m treating Coinbase as a regular company. Regardless of user funds, which supposedly are kept unused, they’re losing money each quarter, a good amount, and they’re losing the investor sentiment.

Putting that together, what would stop them from losing even more stock value? Over the short term, I don’t believe a stock symbolizes much. But over the long term, it does.

The only problem is, it’s not easy to recover from an all time drop of 95%, for example. (if it reaches that.)

All the other similar startups have drops, but:
1. It’s not as major.
2. They’re not directly related to the crypto market.

Sentiment plays a bigger game here.

Just doing a brain tease, thanks a million for your comment, I’m enjoying this.
In my opinion, Electron wasn’t designed to be like this. It was originally created for Atom, to be customizable. The choice of using and bundling Chromium is for ease of customizability.

Web technology for desktop apps will be prominent because we are lazy. A lot of people know JavaScript/HTML/CSS or just web technology in general, so why not just use it rather than learning a new language like Swift or C++ (for some)?

Tauri looks promising. My personal thoughts is that it’s much easier to create apps via Tauri than Electron. At least, so far. The template used for using Svelte to create Tauri apps is much shorter than the one for Electron.
I'd love to hear how the car has saved you while you were paying attention.
Nope. In my eyes AVIF is not more performance. It makes photos suffer and become blurry, especially so in highly saturated areas, skin, marble, vegetation. Once beautiful things start to look like cheap plastic.
I don't know about the specifics of DDR5, and specifically LPDDR5, as used by Apple, but many other manufacturers solder their chips, although their specs say that the speed is the same as in models with separate DIMMs.

One such example is the HP Elitebook 1040 G9. The tablet-like version has soldered RAM, whereas the regular has external modules. They both use 4800 MHz DDR5.
JPEG XL is royalty-free
Maybe it's just me, but it sounds like you're only interested in getting back into AI because it is currently in the limelight. "Working in AI" a few years ago doesn't mean much if you have nothing to show for it. What I'm getting at, is your motivations don't seem genuine; there's nothing that tells me you care about the technology advancing more than a paycheck.

As someone with 10 years of professional experience in software, I find every AI "trend" that has come up in that time to be incredibly odd. It is certainly remarkable what chatGPT, StableDiffusion, and other examples are doing today... Ultimately people are giving waaaaaaaay too much credit without understanding the technical details. These are pidgeon-holed examples that still aren't solving any real problems.

AI is still just statistics with marketing.
Clarification - by "Russian Empire" here, I mean the old Empire - say, from the Battle of Kulikovo (1380) up until the Crimean War (~1855). The latter was against several modern-ish, getting-industrialized major powers.

Yes, plenty of parallels can be drawn between the Crimean War and the current Russian "special military operation" in Ukraine. The former ended with the Treaty of Paris on March 30, 1856 - which was a very clear Russian defeat.
Yes, but if Ireland were not part of the EU there would be no tax arbitrage and Ireland would pick a market determined corp tax rate.
I see a gray area here if using an AI as an assistant. Would it be a violation to run your own text through it before posting to clean it up? Or would it be required to have it add a typo? I expect an arms race developing with the checker.
Regarding Apple Silicon, they claim that their soldered LPDDR5-6400 RAM can provide 100Gb/s of bandwith (per one chip?), which is amazing, but it seems that the CPU cannot fully utilize this bandwith.

For comparison, a cheap removable DDR4 module at 3200MT/s can provide theoretical bandwith around 25 Gb/s and two of them can provide 50 Gb/s which is also very fast (for me) and good enough for many tasks. More expensive DDR5 modules can provide up to 50 Gb/s bandwidth per module, and four of them give you 200 Gb/s of theoretical throughput.

So I don't see problems with using removable DDR5 modules. They are good enough, and being able to expand RAM cheaply is more important, than getting 2x bandwidth, that you cannot utilize, at a premium price.
> unless its your very close friend or family, don't launder money. i think this is a life lesson we learn in middle school

Sorry, what middle school child learned that? None that I know.
Some options: ffmpeg, GIMP, Krita, Photoshop (if you enable it in the settings), and the reference implementation cjxl which you probably already have installed if you use Linux (because QT and GTK depend on it).
> The point is that if your threat model cares about interception, you have to verify the identity of users out of band - same as Signal or WhatsApp or whatever.

I’ve read your blog posts and this comment, congratulations it seems to have satisfied most people. Howerver it is NOT the same as Signal. Signal servers cannot just add a device to a group chat.

I would challenge you to get one reputable cryptographer to back what you’re claiming about these vulnerabilities and your proposed fixes.

To me Matrix isn’t secure, the organizations responses to these disclosures has been poor and the “fixes” weak.
Well, in general falsifiability and its application to psychology is up for debate because it is generally unethical/impossible to run single variable control experiments on humans :)

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0062...
I think with "project-based learning", they mean one will create one's own coding projects? Learning by doing, and videos. (Personally I prefer reading)
> You can't always avoid it.

I've managed to. It does mean that some services are unavailable to me, but that's life.
At Least Assert Your Serialisation Roundtrips
Yes. It's not super fun, but I only need to do it once per service.

I even built a Solo 2 key into my framework laptop:

https://imgz.org/i6Gn2fyS/