skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wanted (and still want) JPEG-XL to succeed.

Not sure how feasible this is, but one thing that could of helped with .jxl is allowing it to be read by a jpeg decoder. Let me explain. JPEG-XL has a feature that allows you to pull out a fully compliant jpeg, if you could somehow send the entire .jxl payload, and the browser's jpeg decoder just decoded the jpeg part, I feel adoption would be significantly easier, because then there is very minimal risk to just serving JPEG-XL with or without browser support.

Edit: Changing jpeg decoders around the world is not the approach I'm suggesting, but rather a carefully done "byte hack". Put the JPEG at the head of the binary blob, and stop decoding when the JPEG ends. If JPEG decoders only stop at the end of the byte stream, then another approach would be required.
If you read the Washington Post article it's pretty clear he was showing off for some online friends. He was even getting mad that they weren't paying attention.
> I couldn't disagree more strongly. Artists can create the content you love because they get paid to do so. Without IP, these artists do not get paid, and therefore cannot create the content you love, full stop.

But why? Why full stop? There's no argument here, just an assertion. I want artists to create things. I will pay them to do it! There are many others like me in this regard!

> It's the underlying premise of capitalism; I focus on making art in exchange for a shared currency I can then use to buy housing and food from people dedicated to those things.

Yes, we agree there. You should make art in exchange for currency. You should not make art and then try to extract currency from people for looking at it.

In an alternate reality, Netflix produces shows that it streams to its subscribers. Subscribers review those shows which influences which shows continue to be developed. Just like in our reality, some people are "freeloaders" who watch the shows without paying for them (but it's not illegal). Still, many people subscribe because it's broadly understood that shows only get made if people subscribe.

In this reality (much like our own), production houses release pilots. If nobody wants to watch the show that would follow the pilot, then it's a sunk investment. But if they do, then they have to pay for it to get made (which they do, because that's how capitalism works). The rest is just a coordination problem, which the Internet trivializes. Need $5 million to make a season? Don't make the season until you've got it. If you're on the other end of the transaction: Do you want that season to get made? Then do your best to get it paid for.

I'm happy to listen to an argument for why this model would result in a smaller industry, and a subsequent argument about why a smaller industry is so unacceptable that we need IP law. But I won't accept proclamations like "...cannot creeat the content you love, full stop." The market is not so totally uncreative that it can't match up broadly distributed demand (I want to watch good TV) to concentrated supply (I can make good TV).
It doesn't take a dedicated agent to impact an impressionable 21 year old. Just the right sequence of Youtube Shorts and TikTok clips.
> Imagined crime epidemic

Is the SF/Bay Area really having an "imagined" crime epidemic? Serious question. Seems the crime rate is very high
> But, almost anything to do with obtaining and using information would be utterly alien.

Would it? I doubt it. Computers answering 'arbitrary' queries were a trope of popular fiction for a lot longer than the past 30 years, and computers answering limited queries were already commonplace. In the lifespan of someone who was an adult in 1993, computers went from being something that occupied most of a room to something that could be found in many offices.

Also, the first cell phone was built in 1973.

For the information age to be truly alien, you have to go back to a time well before Turing machines. 1933? Maybe even further past that, to before wireless communication. 1873?
The guy in his comment responded that murder is a regular occurrence in SF. This is just a lie.
Not just a shorter skirt...the miniskirt reflects a cultural shift in how women are understood in society, a change in what qualifies as sexy, and a transformation of morality as expressed by comportment, among other things. It is a truly revolutionary development.
everything you refer to is less than 0.5% of emacs use

maybe 0.2% of all emacs users even know EmacsConf exists

maybe 1% know of Sacha Chua, doubt it though, probably 0.1% have heard of her

easily over 99% of emacs use is for coding, actually that is low, if you snapshotted all emacs sessions in the world right now, more like 99.9% of them would be coding

I'm not even sure why this is being debated
Women outlive their reproductive years (and men too!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis
Speaking as someone who knows architects working with computers, architecture hasn’t achieved as much with computers as you think.
PBS Newshour has posted three times in the past hour, and pbs.org still promotes its Twitter presence on its homepage. Until these orgs actually delete their account, they haven’t “quit Twitter” — they’ve paused posting.
because mis/disinformation is the real problem here. We will be seeing a lot in the media and when 90% of consumers don't bother to check the source, it _will_ skew a lot of things.
Hi, I'm from Pinecone. We support up to 20,000-dimensional vectors.[1] A meaningful percentage of our customers use OpenAI models. If you got that 700 number from our site or docs I'd love to know where so we could correct it.

[1] https://docs.pinecone.io/docs/limits
I appreciate you saying so. As a 20-year SF resident I wondered if it was just confirmation bias making me think those topics/views were incredibly common. But it's at the point where I'd almost rather deal with Bitcoin boosters.
first thought I had was "they made it free to collect data since they don't own github or similar"
As an engineer on those level you are also mostly dealing with how to align a huge group of people - you are just not required with hiring, compensation, etc.
It's weird because the VPN industry is usually portrayed as having high margins (and it makes sense, considering how much money is spent on marketing by various VPN services).

Is it a case of "winners take all", with smaller players having little revenue and profit? But then again, everyone seems to offer their own vpn now (adguard, blokada, protonmail, etc). Is it just profitable if you offer a bare minimum, almost white labeled service?

(I guess I have always wondered how and why VPN offering seem to have exploded recently, and how tons of them seem to be able to afford lavish ad spend even with little VC money)
This is my fan theory of The Terminator: that the machines never took over. They worked for billionaires and the billionaires wanted the rest of humanity to THINK the machines had taken over.
"They're afraid of someone coming into their home or grabbing them on the street and things going south"

Luckily, this isn't a real thing that happens.
They have their own internal internet. Accessing Google and Youtube aren't critical to modern life.
> "Sorry, but if you're referring to the current state of the art here (overtly cartoon-like 3D avatars that sort of look like your friends) - that's plainly ludicrous."

Welcome to being old, mate. You don't even need state of the art. Literally hundreds of millions of people sit around in Fortnite and Roblox. That's more than good enough. Then you get to VRchat and it's next level. It doesn't just feel like you are interacting with people. You are interacting with people.
Short answer: if it could it would already be.

First, no one wants to move away from the "real" thing. The alternatives are there and there, even things line NOSTR where you own your own identity and not a server.

Then, and most importantly, the fact that users do not make the rules is part of the appeal of twitter, even if users themselves do not recognize it. It forces the most dissenting people together on the same platform. If they had to agree on rules, then either everything would be banned, or islands of incompatible moderation policies would form.
The concern is that people will assume the OSS is for both scenarios, so even if you close issues and have a PR bot rejecting PRs, you'll still get both support tickets and (good|bad) PR from people trying to run the mainline system themselves.

Supporting development on a made-for-self-hosting OSS project is the most user friendly option and allows them to avoid needing to handle the woes of public code.
the current workflow I've seen use is midjourney for the portrait creation, elevenlabs to do the voice and D-ID to animate the picture to the voice. Apparently the entire process can take under 15mins.
Actual code: https://github.com/bingcicle/gram

A text editor in less than 1000 LOC. Pretty cool!
Okay, but the funding for NPR must also have some stipulations, since a normal American can't just access it. There's probably something on the CBP grants page[1], I didn't look too deep.

So if the whole point is that the money comes with stipulations, this seems to be fulfilled without a need for hidden content control through the state. Shouldn't we, as per Occams Razor, not assume that NPR really has creative control?

https://cpb.org/grants
(just looking at heterosexuals as you are doing,) every time a man forms a relationship with a woman, a woman also forms a relationship with a man. So, "different outcomes" for men and women are bounded by the roughly equal numbers of men and women, and the number of single men will come out the same as the number of single women*, so any impact that introversion of either sex has will also play out in the other sex. So, if introverted women are getting more relationships than introverted men, then there a bunch of extroverted women who are not getting relationships.

*women tending to date men older than them and vice versa does mean that in an increasing population there might be more women in a particular dating pool than men than one would otherwise expect, but there might be negative feedback in the form of more pressure for age-reverse relationships to take up the slack

btw, this type of reasoning also applies to many other relationship canards like "men are more promiscuous than women", because no, not possible
What would this even accomplish? How would that solution generalize to other sources of hackers? It's the equivalent of going "hmm, they all seem to love using Aquafresh toothpaste, what if we banned it?"
nah, TL;DR: he got mad the teens on his Discord weren't reading his typeouts of them and started posting photos because it was more titillating to see it in all its glory, with markings etc. (also, saved him time in his weird little god simulation, why should someone as wise and talented as him A) be mostly ignored B) waste a ton of time trying to help these fools?)
"More local" may not be the perfect description. When I wrote it I was thinking of things like AIM where, for the most part, you knew everyone you were interacting with. The more I think about it, there were plenty of chatrooms and forums at that time though, so yeah, probably not a good word to use.

I think "trust-less" is more what I'm getting at though. In the 90s and early 00s the whole, "don't reveal anything personal, assume anyone you don't have a history with as if they might have malicious intent" was still very prevalent. That only changed when the early versions of social media really started to catch on. My mental mile marker for that switch happening has always been when Facebook no longer required an edu email to sign up (2005), but I'm sure you could argue it happened a few years earlier.

There are plenty of reasons we should go back to that mindset and AI bots making it incredibly hard to verify that you are talking to an actual human maybe the thing that pushes us back toward that mindset.
I've been using Emacs for more than 30 years and my init file is mostly loading and configuring extra packages, and not customizing the editing behavior. I have no problem working in a basic "emacs -q" session (which skips loading the init file) when I don't want to "pollute" my main session (eg. working with huge logs/dumps).
The problem there is that natural language processing is a highly specialized field, not something one can expect a generic SRE to know unless it's explicitly mentioned in the posting. I'm willing to bet the posting said nothing about NLP.

I could ask a detailed question on cryptography, robotics or reverse-engineering, and it would be just as (ir)relevant to the SRE. Computer science is a much broader field than your niche area. Arbitrary goal-posts are arbitrary.
Are you suggesting this is a bigger change than say, 1910-1940, or 1920-1950 to use your timeline? I don't really understand what you are trying to say in the above.

Beyond that, most of the bones of the information systems were already there in 1993, you'll have to add at least another 20 years, if not pre-computer, to make it "alien".

I think ubiquitous cell phones would be a surprise, but it's hard to argue that is a bigger change than say, automobiles.
I like how this article conveniently left out the fact that Google also created JPEG-XL, and implies AVIF is a Google proprietary format.

Can't believe how far FSF has fallen if they have to resort to straight up lying to people to get their message across.
Thats about 30870 humans pee in a year.
In Italy too, to visit the churches your knees and shoulders should be covered. Men and women alike.
Sure, "feeling" is rather ineffable and plenty of ink and bits have flown trying to fixate it. Taking it down a notch, you can probably put it as a very strong dichotomy like-dislike. I know my dog has some proto-feelings because he really likes belly rubs and he really dislikes pulling his tail. Nevertheless, there is probably something akin to the Weber–Fechner law [1] through which "feelings" will be disambiguated. And when that happens, we might discover it was us who have been artificial from the start: biochemistry being merely ridiculously advanced technology, indistinguishable from magic as the saying goes, by comparison with our rusty transistors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E2%80%93Fechner_law
What are some good applications which require stylus support on Linux?
Yeah, Fark was the one that used "fark". Also "coont" and "biatch" and "attractive and successful African-american"
Especially considering it is vanishingly unlikely for a Windows user to inadvertently send you a command key down, or the Mac to send you a ctrl down. It's not like you have behaviors to swap.
As a woke person, I consider these important questions.
owner == leaker, multiple sources on that, then we see his family's reaction. Still not 100% clear its 100% confirmed but shy of him admitting it, probably best we'll get.
The numbers might not be 100% accurate (as other commenter mentioned, there is no normalized dataset available) but they show an approximate scale.

It seems though that some Bay located HN readers disagree with both statistical and anecdotal evidence, which might be actually an example of sunken cost bias (it's not surprising considering the cost of property in SF / Bay Area)
That is a bizarre decision. Have we learned nothing from the hundreds or thousands of examples of humans inadvertently messing with ecosystems by introducing new organisms?
Well you have a phone or a car that is partially manufactured in China.. so there's probably some Chinese river pollution from that. Globalization goes both ways.
Are Coincidences Real?
> Objects are obviously rooted for blocked virtual threads that may resume

If by "rooted" you mean reachable in the object graph when starting the traversal from the roots, then yes. If a blocked thread isn't reachable, there is no way to call its unpark method that resumes it.

> the heap object containing the stack at the moment of being blocked, presumably by a JVM native method or similar.

Yes, we implemented virtual threads on top of continuations that, in turn, are implemented inside the VM. Their stacks are reified as heap objects.
My favorite argument is the seatbelt argument. If car dealerships sold cars without seatbelts, but charged $1,000 to upgrade to included seatbelts - how many people would die due to it?

Your point (if we take this discussion in very very good faith and keep it theoretical) is similar - will people make the best choice for themselves, or is it better to have rules/requirements to push them towards decisions that will benefit them?
This is essentially what has gotten me into Rust. Knowing how easy Elixir makes it to offload a piece of my system that would benefit from it without needing to write the entire thing in Rust.
Posting from the Rebublic of Ireland now, as a tourist from the Schengen zone. UK requests a passport, but the Rebublic does not. So we flew in with ID cards only then drove into UK not having passports and this is explicitly allowed. Border crossing doesn't feel like border crossing at all. A small sign and a change of road sign is all. Suddenly the speed is signaled differently (mph vs. km/h). Even the driving culture is the same: speedy but careful and respectful.

In other words, this agreement seemed to have survived Brexit.
The claim is that he assisted Manning et al with hacking in violation of the espionage act.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-julian-assa...
Ask HN: Starting out programming for the first time in a functional language?
How is it going for people whose first acquaintance with programming was in a functional style?

What book or course did you learn from?

How do you program in imperative/OO languages now that are not tail call optimised? How did the knowledge transfer?
I think eventually we should get to the point where it should be considered prima facie fraud to use an unidentified AI in commerce. That is, you can use AI generated text, voice, or video but it has to clearly identify itself as such.

At the very least, responsible businesses can agree by common convention to abide by this code of conduct. There could be something like a "good AI seal of approval" issued to businesses that voluntarily adhere to the standard, like those web certificates that were ubiquitous in the early Aughts. Not only should the communications be public-key signed so the browser can identify them, but the the synthetic authors/speakers etc. should be named in a consistent way that unequivocally identifies them as AI.

For example, appending a numeral to the name. Instead of calling itself Joe Rogan, the AI would be "Joe 7 Rogan." Or instead of an article written by Jennifer 8. Lee, it would be written by, hmm, okay there might be a little problem in her[0] case. One thing I've been mulling around is the idea of repurposing the Apple][ symbol. So Joe][ and Jennifer][, where ][ is pronounced "two." The convenience being that it's comprised of glyphs that are on every keyboard, and they also look mechanical and nothing like normal names.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_8._Lee
We are still going to evaluate code in our heads. If anything, we need to enhance our capacity to do so. That is where AI can assist. A simple overview or graphical representation of a codebase will be a good start.
When that country is fomenting unrest in the west through various means utilizing the internet, why should the west allow themselves to remain at the mercy of these operations? Liberal principles should not be a suicide pact.
> The algorithm is public. It is a straightforward application of well known primitives. It is hardly proprietary.

Note that its predecessor, was very much not that (e.g. https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-ecdh/ was a vulnerability in it, and it stuck to some weird choices of crypto primitives/key sizes for a pretty long time). This colors my expectations about the current version slightly.

I personally know nothing about the current protocol used (mtproto 2.0) and a few minutes of googling surfaced https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/595.pdf, https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/469 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03141, which I'd need to read in reasonable amount of detail to have an opinion on mtproto 2.0.
> There are few to no paths to a non-dystopian outcome currently.

Said Caveman 1 to Caveman 2 shortly after the discovery of fire. ;-)
Writing code is one thing, owning it and having responsibility is another. But can we build tooling for this to on top of LLMs too? This won't happen overnight but it will certainly happen gradually, I don't see why not. By owning it, I mean, upgrading libraries, fixing bugs, writing tests, running tests, fixing tests, and maybe even adding features.

It's totally possible to make LLMs write actually good code that can be maintained using normal software engineering practices.

Of course there will still be a need for a human touch, such as knowing limitations of LLMs and possible workarounds and understanding business requirements. Such productivity boost may even create more jobs as products will become cheaper and faster to create, hence more new markets will be explored. The pie might also get bigger not smaller.
Nice. Probably the most popular IDE today.
That, and other physical differences.

Men are on average larger and stronger, making them more capable of manual labor.
Is OpenAI at risk with MS deal?
> the first words said is

you want to make the call even longer than necessary to provide me with information i can do nothing about. excellent.
> Every WiFi ISP router I have used provides a single network

Actually, many provide multiple SSIDs (5GHz and 2.4GHz). While you’d think these would be interoperable, it’s a massive pain in the ass. IoT devices only have the 2.4GHz antenna. And you want your main devices on 5GHz for speed. If you combine the 2.4 and 5 networks into a single said and let band steering work, IoT devices often don’t place nicely. If they’re separate, then you have to rely on the custom local app to see a server running on the other ssid. Another issue on top of that is apps on iOS will be required to use SSL for HTTP connections, and making sure your washing machine has always up-to-date certificates is also not simple.
Peter Watts' (of Blindsight fame) novel Starfish revolves around geothermal harvesting of this rift as you describe. Fun read. https://www.amazon.com/Starfish-Rifters-Trilogy-Peter-Watts/...
The hardware mute on Amazon Alexa's is actually supposed to be a real mute, and on the Echo 5 we have, there's a hardware shutter over the camera.

Once the hardware mute is engaged, I've not had the Alexa reply.

Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of reasons to bash Amazon. I just don't count Alexa and privacy with mute among them.
Just because an economist wrote a utilitarian calculus saying "this is what makes a city great" doesn't make it so. The logic they use to define "good" ultimately has, at it's deepest core a morality. The morality that "longevity is good" "per capita GDP good", "average happiness good" ... is not an objective fact and has no bearing on how human beings measure greatness. The anesthetized bug-brained western homo-economicus would probably be laughed at by a Spartan warrior ... is one objectively a "better" human than the other?
A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors. Would most people know what "brrrdogcogfog" means? Couldn't we make that argument about literally any word? I don't see why it applies more here than elsewhere. For people who have experienced it before, it's straightforward and easy to work with, for those who haven't, then there's a learning curve. No one would likely have encountered "brrrdogcogfog" before and everyone would have to go through the learning curve.
Literally taking the software to the cloud