skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem showed up because we where concentrating chemicals found in plants in the first place. We aren’t adapted to large quantities of refined sugar and repeating the same process with some other sweeteners runs into the same issue. Evolution adapts to specific environments not every single chemical your ancestors encountered even a minuscule quantity of.

I can see why you might find it comforting but it’s really just a just so story. Evolution is really slow and needs significant pressure to result in adaptation, just look at how slowly humanity has been adapting to lactose.

Finding an obscure chemical that humans find sweet and then concentrating or manufacturing massive quantities of it isn’t inherently safe even if trace amounts of it are in some plant.
I can go on Walmart.com (or many other places) and get a box of checks made for $15 with any name, routing number, and account number I care to provide them.

That said, receiving a personal check from a company of any size should properly set off a lot of alarm bells.
> Research Unix v8-20 had quietly trended towards more things-as-files

That brings up another point; UNIXes v8-v10 are even more irrelevant and forgotten than plan9, despite presumably being more compatible with the venerable v7 UNIX. So pinning plan9s failures on it being different seems to me very misguided
why why why would you send money to someone who would ask you to send it back. why can't they just convert that money state themselves? i always wonder how people end up for these scams.

unless its your very close friend or family, don't launder money. i think this is a life lesson we learn in middle school and grow up to think adults are more trustworthy
Parliamentary immunity for MEPs does not extend to their privates lives. MEPs are only immune from prosecution for public statements they make (like, for example, "Qatar has a great human rights track record. It's the best, the greatest"), not for anything else they do.
> Not everybody is mentally sharp 100% of the time to identify a scam attack and fight it back.

Exactly. A point made over and over in "The Field Guide to 'Human Error'" [1] is that when looking at failure, you can't use your current knowledge and state of mind when evaluating the circumstance. You have to look at it with the actual knowledge and state of mind at the time. If you don't, you will fail to find the actual problems and correct them.

Take this, for example:

> You would think that by now every human being that walks the earth would know

I would not think that! That's an unevidenced assumption. It's less a statement about the world than it is a declaration of ignorance. It makes it hard to engage curiously with the reality of the circumstances. Even if it were true, it assumes that having heard something once is the same thing as being able to apply it in all circumstances and all cognitive conditions. If people just stop there, we will never improve things.

Indeed, I think it's worth asking why victim-blaming is such a common reaction to stories of scams. One part is the just world fallacy [2]. Another is the fundamental attribution error [3]. And one that I have definitely been guilty of is that it lets me feel smart. "I, a genius, recognize the specific scam pattern. They, those helpless fools, never see it coming. Ergo, I have once again proved my mental superiority." It's hogwash, of course. But satisfying, comforting hogwash. It took me a long time to realize that it was incorrect and that pursuing feelings of smartness often made me effectively stupider.

[1] A book I strongly recommend to everybody in software: https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis

[3] https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/the-fundamental-attribution...
Increasing Magic Pocket write throughput by removing our SSD cache disks
Does this mean that some Googler is going to get a promotion in six months by adding it back? It's my understanding that a lot of bizarre changes Google makes are best explained this way.
I quite liked this article from about a month ago on "The Case for JPEG XL": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33442281
Usually the biggest office asshole and last person you want to talk to for anything. The living embodiment of Nick Burns.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=25J3u3P-HHg
JPEG XL was not used anywhere which is why it got deprecated. It was never gonna be the future of anything.
LGBTQ+ can be used as a self-imposed label. Why not?
They fixed this a few weeks ago.
No loss there, just slowdown and additional complexity for the web devs to deal with.

Jpeg xl covers several important domains that are not served by AVIF. Jpeg xl will anchor in these domains and where AVIF cannot provide sufficient quality or speed. Eventually it cannot be ignored any more and will be made available in browsers, too.

Once jpeg xl is made available there is no reason to use jpeg1, WebP or AVIF anymore. Then we can simplify again.
I suggest you take a lot here with a grain of salt because either of personal opinions or half-reporting data, eg:

- She was removed from the party just yesterday afternoon after the publication of the topic

- Vote abstention is around 40-45% out of ~9,98m registered to vote (on 2019 elections) on a country of 10,4m people (census 2021) !!!!!! Never understood how this is even possible

- The specific person entered politics after a lot of the listed topics took place and her background was not a political one anyhow

EDIT: format
I can't think of a word for this post besides unhinged. The police aren't exercising an asymmetric power imbalance when they arrest you they're doing their JOB. That is the service they provide, that if you're doing something illegal and you're in a city where they're not redtaped to death then they come and stop you. The fact they do their job isn't a strike against them.
I think Twitters priorities are balance sheet related. Moving would seem like a bizarre distraction.
> Pretty sure that JPEG won the format war for the next JPEG, decades ago.

JPEG for lossy image formats, PNG for lossless.
This is the channel with more content:

https://www.youtube.com/@matthimf/videos
Multimodal models are also a red hot area. The interesting thing might be to combine specialized instances of LLMs and other models together, where each runs a specific subtask or event processing loop.

I think it'd be fun to use vision models to pick up the interesting parts of an image, describe only the high-yield context as English text, and put them in a sort of Unix pipeline or node graph to connect it to other models that can input/output text. With fine-tuned or prompt-engineered LLMs as the intelligent centerpiece.
Mallory is used to refer to active network exploitation (as opposed to Eve, who is passive). "Mallory-in-the-middle" is a great term that actually makes the attacker capabilities more clear and should already be understood by people with relevant context. The default "let's remove gendered terms" approach would be "person-in-the-middle."
(Effectively) reducing comp while also telling employees to be hardcore and work longer hours seems counterproductive.
IPO, smutty short stories, and kids' apps. You win the most-well-rounded award! ;)
Assuming they could just ignore local zoning:

The cost of security, social services, policing, and hygiene related issues (it’s an office not a home) would seem substantial.

Some locals not far from me tried doing that with an abandoned hotel. It was a mess of crime drugs and etc in the end.
LLMs aren't intelligent but if they can further --human-- understanding of what intelligence is, then that is sufficient. Take the Turing test for instance. Today, thanks to LLMs, we know that a machine can fool an operator into thinking it's intelligent over text, without actually understanding anything. 10 years ago we would never have believed that.

OpenAI is building stuff like Dall-E and GPT-3 is to further their understanding of AI, in order to get closer to AGI. It's the entire point of the thing.
As an aside, this is one of the users I think everybody should design for:

> I just had my first kid and I was stressed

I often think back to when my nephew was tiny and imagine my brother trying to work a particular interface with one hand while holding a crying baby in the other.
For used auctions (for things with demand) figure about 75-25% new prices.

If there is a glut, sometimes you’d end up with just price per lb. (Often just a couple dollars per).
Wow impressive! I need to learn more about negative prompting
Wow 350GB is tiny in the grand scheme of things.
How are you software engineering skills. Thats the biggest gap i currently see at my current employer. Way too many data scientists not able to make an impact because they are not able to put their notebooks into a product and run it in prodction.
Thanks for the link. That does look quite damning, seems that the already-supported AVIF format is overall the better choice based on these metrics.
That reminds me of the old argument that laws prohibiting same sex marriage or prohibiting engaging in homosexual sex do not discriminate against gay people since they prohibit both gay and straight people from marrying someone of the same sex or engaging in homosexual sex.
I have a few ongoing projects - one is a music block toy for my kids (assemble blocks together that makes a song), another is a IoT shelf which syncs inventory. Someday I'd like to also make a large scale pen plotter.

Embedded software is obviously a lot like backend in the day to day, write code, design docs, etc, but instead of trying to keep up with all the things like serverless functions, Kubernetes, Cassandra, etc etc we get to think about things like microcontroller peripherals (timers, serial data, power management, interrupts) and supporting a variety of hardware configurations with testable code.

It isn't a chore yet! My only problem is as a staff engineer only half my time is spent actually doing coding!
It’s a tough battle.

For about 10 years I have been thinking about new file image file formats, it wasn’t until last year that I started really using them. For the web there is the cost of data transfer and the cost of data storage. You can save on data transfer by adding more files in more formats but you pay more in storage cost. To fully realize the economy of better file formats you need to retire JPEG and not add more files.

I finally got convinced that WEBP was supported well enough that it was worth using 𝐚𝐧𝐝 that the image quality was really good with small files. I learned that the disadvantages of new file formats that claim to compress better are real but the better compression isn’t always real. I see people write a blog post where they compress three sample images but a real evaluation project is a lot more than that.

So the world may well be better off with a second-best file format that people really use than being stuck with JPEG because people are struggling to make up their mind about what new format to use, support, etc.
Following their flow at https://auth0.com/docs/get-started/authentication-and-author...:

> 1. The user clicks Login within the application.

> 2. Your Auth0 Authorization Server redirects the user to the login and authorization prompt.

> 3. The user authenticates using one of the configured login options and may see a consent page listing the permissions Auth0 will give to the application.

Here's the problem as I see it: say I'm Acme inc. and I create an app that does this. The user logs in, sees "allow Acme to access your account", clicks OK, my app gets access token, all good.

The problem is if a black hat does the exact same thing, with the authorization server and all, directs user to an interface that shows the exact same (and actually legit) "allow Acme to access your account" screen, except their code grabs the access token in the end.

I'm not 100% sure how the flow suggested by auth0 is helpful in addressing this compared the flow where the client secret is just stored in the app (and is not actually a secret anymore). The secret is what can prove to OAuth server the identity of the client. If there's no secret it's impossible: the server can't know if that's actually a client I wrote or a client written by malicious attacker to mimic my client but to steal user's tokens, right?

I guess I don't get something fundamental or it's not a problem that can be solved at all (not this way).
Most of this mess just seems like a bizarre distraction.
I do start with a Hello, followed by whatever I have to say in the same message. In addition I also annotate with an `<async>`/`<urgent>` at the end as appropriate.

It has seemed to work for me.
I'm not going to bother reading this because it's obviously click-bait, but I just want to relate that when I was in high school in the 90s, I remember being in a class where a guest speaker gave a talk and tried to convince us all that artificial sweeteners would "rot our brains" and give us alzheimers. For years, I avoided them because of that – until it became clear that real sugar was destroying my health and putting me on the path for diabetes. Since then, I've not only tried to minimize sugar in my diet, but also tried to sparingly use artificial sweeteners (specifically Stevia, whenever i can) to offset when possible.

Point being: Don't listen to this shrill health BS that purports to have new revelations about what's good for you or not, since this health advice comes in cycles. We saw the same thing with butter/margarine. First butter was good, then it was the devil and margarine was the only way to go. Then margarine was the devil and butter was the only way to go.
It got them 44 Billion dollars, they must have been doing something right.
PS4 compatibility layer (emulator) on Free Pascal
In my daily work life, academic discussions of "what is scrum (or whatever)" isn't of practical value. What matters is what your employer is requiring you to do. I have yet to work at a company that uses agile methodologies in a manner that doesn't effectively torture devs.

I'm not saying such companies don't exist, only that I've never personally worked for them.

I use "agile" as a filtering term these days. If the job description mentions being an agile shop, I know that job isn't for me. If they use agile principles but don't advertise it, I want to see what the process actually is before deciding to accept the position.
Is it money you're after?
Unless you have a strong network in the US, developing for US clients is probably better suited as a long term goal.

Using Eastern European contractors doesn't have a clear and obvious upside for US companies. The main argument for outsourcing overseas has always been lower prices and good clients don't think that way.

Good clients want to work with people they know and when that doesn't happen they ask people they know for recommendations.

What I am saying is that you can put a lot of time, energy and money into trying to develop a US client base, but unless you are world famous there's not a good reason to choose you even if your work is good. There are a lot of good US developers, and a lot of other good developers outside the US.

Good luck.
I believe current AVIF decoders and encoders are not competitive against JPEG1 codecs from the libjxl project. Check out the 'jpegli' effort. My guesswork is that jpegli is likely 5-10 % better for photography use case than AVIF. Jpegli also allows for similar HDR dynamics, 10-12 bits, like AVIF.
Even Minix, which was (IMHO) worse than Unix Version 7, was popular at one point! What Torvalds started from. With the advent of i386, many people definitely wanted something better than MSDOS or early Windows. If plan9 had been released as open source by 1992 things might’ve been very different.
I’m not seeing the threat model. Assuming E2EE of the password manager, how does it track you when syncing keys across devices?

Also, how is Microsoft not an enterprise security company? Their revenue from security products is probably 100x that from advertising.
I heard about this report, but I don't really understand what they mean. The BIS does a triennial survey of the FX markets [1], which they just released. It's a bit rich to say the FX markets lack transparency. What are they doing then in that survey?

Make no mistake, the Fed, and other regulators, have full visibility of what banks do. Every dollar they lend, every derivative, every repo, every mortgage, everything.

With the annual CCAR exercise, banks send a huge amount of information to the Fed. Not only numbers, but documents as well. A large bank will send tens of thousands of pages in one year. And countless number of spreadsheets with lots and lots of numbers.

A lot of these numbers have to be disclosed to the public as well. This way the banks are not subject to only regulatory supervision, but to market discipline as well. That's by design. The financial regulations rules were overhauled over the last decade and a half, and this is one of its pillars, the disclosure and market discipline.

If you are curious, here's [2] the full Basel framework in all its glory. Almost 1700 pages. Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg. The actual regulations go into the hundreds of thousands of pages.

[1] https://www.bis.org/statistics/rpfx22.htm

[2] file:///Users/viorelcosteanu/Downloads/BaselFramework.pdf
I linked https://cloudinary.com/blog/the-case-for-jpeg-xl in another comment which links to several big players requesting full JPEG XL support. It seems the reason why it wasn't adopted more broadly is that there was no full support for it in Chrome. I wouldn't even consider it a chicken and egg situation.
It is supported by every image manipulation program I use on a regular basis. Photoshop, Krita, EOG, IrfanView. That's enough for me.
Apple is on the AOM board, and introduced HEIF before AVIF even existed (HEIF shipped in 2017 in iOS 11 and macOS 10.13, the first AVIF images were published late 2018, and the format was finalized early 2019).

Apple has also shipped AVIF support in iOS 16 and Ventura, and AVIF-enabled Safari in the same.

HEIF support was never enabled in Safari. Still isn't.

There is no war. HEIF support was mostly a way to optimise storage on iPhones.
I couldn't find the face value of those coins?

If I understand correctly you're saying: there is a coin that I can buy for $100,000 (because of its weight in gold) yet it is stamped with $1, which is its face value.

As such it only counts as $1, and this thus is not reportable?
If 500 customers did this, I think the SEC would label this as a "security" and the company would be required to register as a public company, more or less. This is essentially what happened to Facebook which led to them going public: the private equity pool became too diverse and triggered this threshold, so publicly listing made sense.

Why don't Kickstarter campaigns have this problem? AFAIK it's because they are just presales, there's no notion of ownership so they aren't treated as securities. A poorly-designed kickstarter that looked like micro stocks would probably get shot down.
And another hidden one... fries and vinegar, especially if you prefer extra strength (pickling) vinegar.
I use the systems' package manager to install php on my system and it supports having multiple php versions.

That is for all but one version that is compiled from sources.
Many homeless won’t stay in homeless shelters due to ‘draconian’ rules like no drugs, no dangerous animals, etc.

Any attempt to do something like you’re proposing in a nice space not explicitly setup for the purpose is going to go pretty badly quite quickly.
Reminds me of Eckhart Tolle’s themes too such as “you are not your story”
Jpegli can be further compressed by lossless jpeg1 support in jpeg xl, and some more by using full lossy jpeg xl.
When the HN community "breaks down" articles/topics like this, are those arguments, facts, data repurposed somewhere into an organized fashion so that they can be referenced? *Instead of regurgitating similar arguments over-and-over as similar articles are posted? Is this an opportunity for A.I.? Could the AI solution that is created could be repurposed for other communities/forums/Discord Channel/Slack/Mastodon/youtube/etc?
You don't have to be tied to a single device. A common set up is a root yubikey you create children of. The root key is held in a safe location and the children have either copies or even better, short live keys signed by the root.
Couldn't any interested parties just enable the flag for testing? That doesn't seem a insurmountable challenge, given that the code is, or was, already in there.
>experimental nature of JPEG-XL

I wonder what exactly they mean by this because JPEG-XL is a ISO standard. So if it's already standardized, how the heck is still "experimental" ?

https://www.iso.org/standard/77977.html
AI label for content made with or without AI
Yes, because it is worth noting that there is a tangible investment being made by the scammer here. They have to know that there's a decent chance that the victim follows-through on the scam.

At a minimum there is the cost of the fake check itself (which looks pretty good to be honest) and the cost of the overnight UPS envelope. At a minimum I'd imagine this is a $25 investment on the scammer. If the victim gets cold feet (like OP) and doesn't go through with it, then the scammer actually does lose money here. They are making a real tangible gamble when they send the check that the victim will fall for it. I realize $25 isn't a lot, but they wouldn't want to just send this out to everyone. So there needs to be some level of filtering to give the scammer the confidence that the victim will follow-through.

The bad grammar is intentional. This is often cited as a way to think that the victim is "stupid", but thats actually not true. The scammer is assuming that the victim will know the grammar is bad and actually notice the mistakes. The scammer isn't looking for someone who doesn't notice the bad grammar, they are looking for someone who is willing to overlook the red flag that the bad grammar represents. If they are willing to overlook a major red flag like that, then they are more likely to overlook smaller red flags later on, making them more likely to follow through. OP is a great example of this as they state at the beginning that they noticed the bad grammar from the start, but were excited about the opportunity and overlooked it. Even someone with only high school education would read this and naturally notice the bad grammar. But overlooking it is what the scammers want to see.

I also think it's important the line where the scammer asks OP if he has ever done a wire transfer before. When OP says they haven't then the response from the scammer was "Ok do it NOW". Again, they want people who don't understand the un-reversible nature of wire transfers. A lot of people naturally assume that all banking transactions are protected like credit cards (and to a lesser degree debit cards) are. Someone who has never made a wire transfer is likely to not understand this, which is great news for the scammer. A natural response from a co-worker if they asked you legitimately (for some reason) to make a wire transfer and you say you didn't know how, would be to offer to explain how it works, not rush them to do something that they just admitted they know nothing about.
>But they also pointed to an unsung advantage - no one really cares if you speak it poorly.

Surely this is just a consequence of that fact that the majority of the world's English speakers speak English as a second language. As a native English speaker you're constantly hearing people speak bad English, so you're naturally somewhat desensitized.
Maybe $80k capital assets turning into scrap-value bricks would finally be significant enough for the general population to wise up to the scam that is the Internet of Trash.
I know that A8 part. It’s pretty cool. The speed limit there is most likely due to how steep it is. Trucks are pretty slow there. The ICE goes around that mountain as slow as the traffic on the Autobahn.