skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The case is not that compelling to me…

> * Lossless JPEG recompression

Obviously, jpeg has this. I know it is supposed to be a 20% reduction in size, but that is a relatively small incremental improvement.

> * Progressive decoding

jpeg also has this, and it’s a niche feature these days.

> * Lossless compression performance

png covers this

> * Lossy compression performance

Nice, but a relatively small incremental improvement in the general case.

> * Deployable encoder

This isn’t a case for jpeg xl, just table stakes for any format.

> * Works across the workflow

Not really a reason to include jpeg xl in the browser unless it actually is being widely used across workflows. Actually, this is something of a negative considering the resulting complexity of the codec and image format and that it muddles the distinction between the authoring and published form of an image.

There are negatives too, so it’s not enough to be a little better for some cases..codecs are attack vectors. An all-new complex codec is an all-new broad attack surface. And, of course, it’s yet another feature to test and maintain, which costs time and necessarily pulls focus away from other things.
Daily reminder that Chrome (and Chromium) is not unlike other Google projects: users are its cattle, not its clients. It’s naive to assume good intentions here.
Oh wow. If I was an educator, this book "A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing" is what I would put in front of people first.

Everything you do in software is in service of moving and munging of data, programming paradigms are tools secondary to that.
Ask HN: Is doing a Master's worth the opportunity cost
Currently I'm a Team Lead for a Machine Learning team at a mid-sized company. I'm really enjoying the work environment so far and have been given a lot of opportunities for growth and advancement. However, it seems like a lot of companies require some sort of graduate studies for more ML/AI oriented roles.

I really enjoy doing research (and have published some papers in the recent past) and I think that doing a Master' degree would be a good career move long term, but I am not sure how to reconcile that with losing 2 years of salary and career advancement.

Wondering if anyone has made the jump or has worked long enough in the industry to give some insights.
Oh, I see, it was a deal with the Tuvalu government. For some reason I misread it like they bypassed the country's authority somehow.
> Or maybe it’s ok because it’s beta?

Definitely not. I sat down in my wife's new Model 3 to help her configure it to her liking, and I was surprised to see that autosteer is still listed as beta. Clearly the meaning of 'beta' has lost all meaningful definition.
I do it all the time :-)

Just make sure it isn't consuming a lot of RAM and it's totally OK.
> You cannot control how a recipient receives your message.

My point exactly. Only problem: If A hurts B's feelings, that doesn't automatically mean B has the moral high ground and A is therefore in the wrong.

If B plays the "hurt feelings" card after A has done nothing to give offense other than start a conversation with "hello" in a text chat where they had no way of discerning B's emotional state, then that's the best example I've encountered yet, of a situation where A's hurt feelings clearly seem like A's problem.
The only thing worse than an image that won't display without javascript is an image that doesn't even exist without webassembly. I get that google has removed support so you're looking for other options but maybe consider putting up an announcement on your site(s) that google chrome is not supported instead of making it worse for all other browsers.
> the bacteria try to eat it like sugar but can't digest and it halts their growth.

Some sugar alcohols have antibacterial effects against tooth decay bacteria (e.g. there's some evidence for xylitol and erythritol against streptococci). Some sugar alcohols neither promote nor inhibit their growth (e.g. sorbitol, as far as I'm aware).

> I don't understand why people still use these artificial chemical sugars, when the natural alternatives seem to have lots of health benefits.

I'm guessing cost has something to do with it. Artificial non-nutritive sweeteners, being hundreds or thousands of times more potent than sugar, can be hundreds of times more expensive per gram than sugar alcohols and still be cheaper to use. Sugar alcohols aren't even as cheap per gram as sugar, nor as potent. I wish that weren't the case :/

(There is also, of course, the side effects of consuming too much. Most people could eat an abnormally large dose of artificial sweeteners without any major immediate gastrointestinal problems. When people eat too much sugar alcohols, they have the kind of problems that made Amazon reviews of sugar-free gummy bears famous...)
How do you get new contacts that you can pitch in a single email? Is it organic newsletter signups or something else?
Are conspiracy theorists true believers, or are they just acting out fantasies?
Consider Using CSV
I'm unfortunately quite familiar, and I heard him speak in person in Cambridge MA, many years ago when he was in the first period of his fame. Its not just my own feelings about him or his dishonesty, he truly was a lackluster speaker and the person who brought me to hear him was slightly embarrassed!
I think SBF is about to demonstrate for the world whether that strategy works.
Not if you want SLAAC to work, no.
Full fraud.
The Extraordinary Shelf Life of the Deep Sea Sandwiches
Counterargument to myself: Elon sold it with a claim that it would skyrocket the value of the vehicles.
Retail price for that furniture is appalling.
Fish shell – interactive use default bindings
I've been using Fish shell for a few years now but there were some shortcuts in here that I hadn't noticed before
How is it insulting of them to want to charge for their software?
Common Table Extensions are often good enough:

With
americans as (select ...)
select from ..., americans ...

https://www.draxlr.com/blogs/common-table-expressions-and-it...
This comment does not quite make sense: "The new trend here is very strongly Large Language Models (LLM)." Is every problem a language problem? No, of course. Is every problem going to be solved by an LLM? What about problems that require unique data sources that no LLM will ever be trained on?

And this: "If you are spending time with Jupiter notebooks I would say you are probably completely wasting your time" And how do you suggests one performs data analysis on any problem that's not an LLM -- data analysis of any kind, such as "is the model I am trying to build a front-end for even works for my problem?"
The Research Supporting the Comprehensible Input Hypothesis
Younger Dryas [temporary return to glacial conditions in the postglacial period]
Read the file in. It would look something like input = open("filename", "r")
Exclusive satellite images show Saudi Arabia's sci-fi megacity is well underway
> Not used anywhere? E.g. Affinity Photo has support for JPEG XL, but not for AVIF.

It also support PSDs. Should Chrome support PSDs?

> Not used in browsers because they are nearly controlled by Chromium, which is clearly biased toward AVIF.

Ah yes, Google, a major contributor to JXL, is "clearly biased towards AVIF".

I'm sure you'll find your saviours at Apple (governing member of AOM, shipped AVIF this year), Mozilla (governing member of AOM, shipped AVIF in June 2020, default-enabled in October 2021), or Microsoft (governing member of AOM).
There's not much to tinfoil hat about here, Google is killing jxl in favor of a format they control: webp.
Internet and radicalisation pathways: technological advances, role of attackers
> Because they cornered themselves into a niche by using an Apple-only stack.

HN: We demand native IDEs.

Panic: Here's a native IDE that uses platform APIs for the most native look and feel possible.

HN: That's too native, idiots.
Do you guys expect DL to have longevity generally speaking, or is the usurper already on the horizon?

There are a few non equivalent universal approximation approaches. I’m not sure I fully understand why this is will end up being the one even on a 10 year horizon.
That's not really true at all.

In terms of sweeteners which has the biggest effect on taste, Tab mainly used saccharin, while Diet Coke is mainly aspartame.

And then it's more accurate to reverse it and say Tab was a derivative of Coca-Cola. Tab was simply Coca-Cola's diet version back when they didn't want to "dilute" the trademark.

So no, Diet Coke isn't a "completely different drink". I mean, you can taste them side-by-side -- do you genuinely think there's some crazy different flavor profile in terms of the the citrus oils, cinnamon, and vanilla used?
Instagram facilitated the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests
Ask HN: How will internet change when ML like GPT replace search?
The eventual goal of search engines is to provide a direct answer. When technologies like GPT become mature in some distant future (unlike current the state), this goal would become a possible reality.

What would be the consequences of this?
One possible consequence of coming to a single answer for a search query is that users do not need to visit the websites of the data source. A large chunk of internet traffic to websites is for information (via search engines). These websites provide valuable information in exchange for displaying advertisements or social recognition.

If they do not have an income stream or recognition, they do not have incentives to collect, process and publish information.
How would incentives for creation of new information change?
But Elon told me it was only six months away
Maybe we should bring back patent medicines again? New, improved Radithor! If you're unhappy when your jaw falls off, it just means you should have read the fine print.
I am fine with applying either OO / FP approaches. This example is a sealed class, it is just my opinion that the OO version reads better. And the added benefit of having the function namespaced / bound to the class for IDE support (autocomplete) and documentation.
I have a feeling we might be talking about different things. I'm not talking about password managers, and having never used any password manager that wasn't opensource and offline I'm in no place to comment. What I do know is that at no point do I want these companies in charge or gatekeeping the keys (so to speak) to my kingdom. Their motives aren't ultruistic and are only self serving. In the case of Google certainly you could end up locked out of all your accounts if their AI decides to shut your account down without recourse or a Twitter/HN thread about it.
It means a car that can drive in a reasonably broad range set if expected traffic conditions and has no failure mode that is unsafe at any point.

It’s that second part that is the important one. If the car can’t drive in heavy snow or roadless areas or whatever that’s fine, as long as it’s able to recognize and avoid those situations in a graceful way, like refusing to engage with them and parking in a safe area, suggesting the trip be cancelled, that kind of thing.

The current approach of it works, but when it doesn’t it will say “just kidding take over for me now” while going 70mph towards the side of a truck is definitely not that.
Speaking in general real-world terms, I'd think complaining about unfairness in the division of labor would only matter for sexual desire in women if the man wasn't at a level the woman respects.

If a broke husband with a massive beer belly while sitting planted in front of the TV and covered in pretzel crumbs told his wife to clean all of the dishes and vacuum the house and then do laundry, anybody would probably mentally check out of that relationship eventually, and deservedly so.

But if a wealthy, hard-working, and fit husband asked his wife to do 100% of the housework, that's probably not going to dampen sexual desire in the slightest.
I have learned, over the course of five decades, French, German, Sesotho, and Japanese, with at least some immersion for all of them.

Outside of being immersed in the language, Language Transfer (which I'm currently using to learn Spanish) is easily the best method I have ever used. It relies mainly on recognizing patterns, rather than memorization, which is right up my alley. Maybe others do better with memorization?

It's also free, and very convenient (lessons are on YouTube, SoundCloud, downloaded MP3 files, or Android/iOS app). I'm a Patreon supporter, because I believe in it.
Show HN: Alle – a terminal todo manager in Rust
Loyalty to any one sports team is pretty hard to justify, because the players are always changing, the team can move to another city. You're actually rooting for the clothes, when you get right down to it. You know what I mean? You are standing and cheering and yelling for your clothes to beat the clothes from another city. Fans will be so in love with a player, but if he goes to another team, they boo him. This is the same human being in a different shirt; they hate him now. Boo! Different shirt! Boo!

- Jerry Seinfeld
Thanks for the comment.

>Fine tuning models is where the future will be

Who would request fine tuning? Businesses?

Are you suggesting to build some sort of data set broker?
unless we can figure out how to overcome those limitations, you're right. Potentially some sort of throttling system for CRDT updates (offloaded to a background worker so that it's non-blocking?). If anyone else has ideas/approaches which could work in a PG-only context, we'd love to hear them
Buyers perceive greater value in homes with whole, rounded numbers in the price
I never did understand how that passed the sniff test. Unleashing a fleet of self driving robotaxis wouldn't skryrocket the value of anything, it would be the fastest race to the bottom in memory.
I've been using superglue (cyanoacrylate) to attach a small metal L-bracket to some IP65-rated ABS plastic boxes, then hanging them on a nail or screw using the metal bracket. The boxes contain battery-powered temperature sensors. This has worked great for several years for the attic and crawlspace. But the outside boxes fall off every winter. I think the metal and plastic expand and contract at different rates through the temperature swings (40C/104F summer, -10C/14F winter) causing the bond to break. Amusingly, superglue is NOT one of the recommendations given on this website (LePage's Metal Epoxy, J-B Weld, Faststeel Epoxy Putty) for Metal to Plastic.
Also see the novel “S” about the fictional book “Ship of Theseus”, written as dialogue in the margins of said book. Comes with postcards and maps laid in between the pages. Elicited a feel of “Escape Game” in me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._(Dorst_novel)
The explanation is pretty plain: google controls the webp format, jxl competes with webp.
The API/ABI structure of every modern OS is a hot mess, that has nothing to do with syscalls not being files, and everything to do with the way the systems have been extended over and over again for decades.

Making a simpler API is a great idea, and from you comment I guess they mostly succeeded, but they did not have to go down the everything-is-a-file path to do that.

What role this played in lack of adoption depends on what alternate course of action you compare it to. A non-file-based rewrite of the API would likely have had approximately the same result, in any case a good compatibility layer might have made a big difference.
There is no need for any car to go faster than 80 or 90 mph. The fuel efficiency at those speeds is terrible.
Hi, would you mind elaborating, or throwing some links my way regarding the physics connection in particular? I am a physics postdoc that has been interested in the field for some time (this becoming less of a unique characteristic as the technology develops and hype cycles peak). I was motivated by Stuart Russell's Reith Lectures in 2021 to pursue the field outright and had been working towards this, but am becoming increasingly aware that seeking direct research involvement in the field is a bit quixotic starting from where I am.
I wonder if you could train it to apply a style guide like https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html . I think that this would be nice problem that static analysis can't necessarily solve but is more defined than general code reviews which are more subjective.
This article is kinda garbage, it gets simple facts wrong in the first sentence of the abstract (and again in the second sentence of the article): Plan 9 is not Unix. At all. It shares some ideas with it sure, but if that's enough to make something Unix so is Windows NT. It's also rather debatable that it "failed" - a lot of good research happened there and those ideas have gone on to influence production environments the world over.
They're also not saying it's "a failure", they're saying "failure to realize a goal is not fraud". There is a strong semantic difference between "we have failed to realize the goal (yet)" and "we have failed at realizing the goal (permanently)".
> ignoring

Yes I was - I was focusing on a different side.

Logic. "X brings fog" and "X brings clarity" are not contradictory, in a normal paraconsistent logic.

But note: if A uses X as a mental experiment for intellectual development, detachment is there: that is the opposite of "identification".
Except that, that quotation is a fabrication. It was never stated by me, nor was it stated in the article.

It is also logically flawed. If there exists in this world someone who was truly objective. Would they know they're objective?

Knowing if oneself is objective or not is in itself an objective calculation. If that person was truly objective, then the answer is yes, he would know. But I get your point, there are many who think they are "objective" but they are not.

Mind you, one test for objectivity is to see whether your thoughts are the result of parroting cultural norms or if they arise from objective thinking. If your thoughts are objective there is no rule that such thoughts should imitate cultural norms. One will notice that ones opinions are "different" so to say.

My points pass those tests. It doesn't mean I am "objective" but it is evidence for it.
For diffusion models I recommend you this blog post https://eugeneyan.com/writing/text-to-image/
>Browser vendors have other priorities besides having the latest-greatest compressor: code size, attack surface, long-term maintenance and compatibility risks, and interoperability.

You’ve missed two most important ones: “business reasons”, eg trying to harm some (potential) competitor, and someone trying to get promoted. Don’t assume there are valid technical reasons behind every corporate decision like those; usually there aren’t.
I welcome the public's acknowledgement that self-driving vehicles are completely infeasible for even the medium term future. It's just unfortunate that the trigger for this change seems not to be anything about snow, or the inability to replicate human flocking on buried/unmarked roads during winter, etc, but instead more about the current political fallout from Musk's take-over of Twitter.
Maybe the burden should be on the seller to call it “unfinished and unreliable attempt at self driving” instead?

The idea that we don’t let marketers make misleading product claims is very old. As a society our point of view is that no, actually the burden of proof should not be on the customer to figure out if a tube labeled “toothpaste” is actually wet gypsum or something.
I (mostly) like it better than reddit, but _shhhhh_ don't tell reddit.
Check the file size - anything will look bad if you set the compression too high. If you see AVIF images with some artifacting, find a JPEG of the same image and compare file sizes. An AVIF the same size as a JPEG will be better than the JPEG - an AVIF only 50% of the size will probably be visually undetectable to most people. An AVIF only 20% of the size... you'll tell. Same for JXL - if I set my JXL to compress to only 15% of the size of the JPEG, it's hardly a fair comparison.
Competition with webp. Elephant. Room.
As usual the best, most informative comments come in long after the sound and fury of the initial discussion.

This is a tricky issue to solve. It's not like we can region-lock domains to a specific country, like how Steam is able to use price discrimination to sell the same game for different prices in different currencies. The real price is indeed denominated in USD and billed to registrars in USD, and these prices have always remained constant for all registered domains on all of our TLDs (so indeed the real price is steadily going down over time thanks to inflation, particularly over the past year). Any other price displayed in a different currency by a registrar is performing currency conversion and is presumably subject to change in the future along with the exchange rates.

I agree with you, it doesn't seem like registrars are communicating this well. Prices of other goods (e.g. luxury watches) do also change multiple times per year to reflect changes in underlying exchange rates, but crucially, what you're getting there is a one-time purchase, and you know up front the only price you'll ever be paying for it. Domains, by contrast, are essentially multi-year subscriptions, and the price of subsequent years is liable to change both as the registrar themselves adjust pricing and as underlying currency exchange rates shift as well. I think the registrars broadly have looked at this issue and decided it would be too complicated to display the underlying USD price to registrants, so better to hide it and just display the price in the local currency?
> Amish

I think a typical Amish family farm is nowadays worth $1-2M, maybe more. And I believe their children have been moving to new places in recent years, in search of more affordable land.

> farming without buying the land

Illegal cannabis farms apparently operate in national forests. There are surreptitious irrigation systems, and there's a whole cat-and-mouse game to find and destroy them.

> We are lucky in the US- we still have quite a bit of wilderness, plenty to lose yourself in, and live a hunter gatherer lifestyle.

You're right though. Particularly, I would bet, up in Alaska.
The thing is, we may have evolved to deal with chemicals that killed us and/or caused serious harm, but there's no evolutionary mechanism that selects for good health - surviving and reproducing are all that matters.
Google's justification for removing this feature sounds like Tesla's for removing Radar.
I don't understand your last sentence. If a random password stored in a password manager is a passkey, then all providers already support them
Could you elaborate? I’m in the AI field myself but as a software engineer. But have a PhD in physics
I saw something similar on ChatGPT's subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/zdjowg/i_had_the_w...

It's amazing how the AI can segue from one topic to the next, and understand the command about "contextual transition" so easily. It's almost like ChatGPT is more creative than most people are themselves.
Many people successfully climbed Mount Everest so this is not apples to apples.

Musk said it is economically insane to buy any other car, because in the near future they will update your Tesla with newest self-driving software, and you will be able to make at least $30,000 a year by using your car as a self-driving taxi. With Tesla at price-tag of around $60,000, he was advertising a staggering 50% annual rate-of-return.

If you want to make a similar claim, it would be like he advertised getting to the Mars (something hasn't been done before) and make it so cheap you be able to sale tickets to other people at huge discount and make profit that way but only if you buy his non-existing technology now.
I'm a developer making a decent but not extravagant living in a low-cost-of-living area, who's sick of the assumption that every developer is somehow rolling in disposable income.