skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In prior discussions about JPEG XL on here, some didn't realize that modern browsers already let you pick the "best fit" image from a set of images in basic HTML.

https://dennisforbes.ca/articles/jpegxl_just_won_the_image_w...

So if a site decided to support JPEG XL (including recompressing their existing JPEG library, going forward additionally high-quality encoding to better codecs for new images) they can easily support it in a way that lets the browser choose. No weird reverse proxies or machinations or polyfills to support it.

Another great aspect of JPEG XL is that it is a short circuit answer to almost any "what format should you store an image in?" question. Instead of the classic "is it comic book style? GIF or PNG. Photorealistic? JPEG. Need transparency....oof, is it photorealistic, because then things get ugly....", with JPEG XL it truly becomes the universal answer.

At least outside of absurdly high compression rates on photorealistic content where it does suffer.
Yes. Original content is an automatic ticket to the top of any niche NSFW sub where you will probably be exposed to a bunch of Onlyfans users
I take it that prior to French occupation, Algeria was an exceptionally prosperous, safe and free country?
You're not refuting the point, though. Both technologies provide utility that is not all-encompassing. People promote it as a panacea, and investors get angry when their investments aren't reciprocated. That's a hype bubble, and AI perfectly aligns with all of it's criteria.

> The number of people who have been defrauded by AI are zero.

What's the number of people who have been murdered by AI? It's a much more dubious figure, but a larger one to be sure. If you want to move the goalpost to which one is more harmful, I still think you hamstring your attack on cryptocurrency.
This is very true. Background noise tortures me. Especially those leaf blowers. Three hours of that and my day is ruined. Really pisses me off, and I fear one day I’ll lose my cool on some poor laborer just trying to make a living.
Couldn’t they make a quiet version?
I believe that knowing and believe are two different things ;)

Belief is far stronger - that's why people do things all the time they themselves at one point "knew" they couldn't do.

If you start with a flawed belief - things won't improve from there. You'll ending "knowing" a whole lot of stuff that reinforces your flawed belief - simply glossing/ignoring/downplaying the facts that don't support... this becomes a bit of feedback loop after awhile.

So either learn to let go of your beliefs and adapt or at least don't firmly establish beliefs until after you know enough stuff to decide for yourself what to believe.

I reevaluate mine all the time and I'm not wrong on of my strong convictions - albeit from my point of view, which I've made as broad as possible but I'm still human.

My highest beliefs today are built upon a foundation of information, learning and mistakes - I may state a belief with a single sentence but I can write books about why I've arrived at that belief.

I don't that's morality - I sometimes do things I "know" to be immoral, when the justification warrants it, I've never knowingly decided to believe something I know is wrong - even if I was forced, I'd only pretend to believe at best.

In college I'd cheat on a test tho if I thought it the only way I'd pass - bc I believed passing was more important than the test... maybe it's a bad example of immorality.

Anyways, I completely agree with Cortesoft - I'm settling on the understanding that all people everywhere are fundamentally important, collectively and individually.

Allowing and empowering all people to live their best lives is in all of our best interest.
I've gone further even than equal right to existence and yet I'm supremely confident.

I think this rant also rather effectively demonstrates exactly what the OP was saying about our strongest convictions.

An incorrect fundamental belief - like say I believed the earth was flat, that belief would be implicit in all that I believe after that, just part of my world view and muddling up everything I think about anything - I wouldn't even be aware of that.

Mental liquidity. Fantastic.

Otherwise knowledge can be an immovable trap that becomes harder to avoid/escape the more stuff you know.

Scientists are great examples of this - if it can't be scientifically methoidized it doesn't exist and therefore must be explainable within the framework they already know, bc that's always right ;)
[shrugs] the mods will be deleted and replaced with a Mechanical Turk style outsourcing system.
Would removing old.reddit.com break the site for you?

It would for me, and thats the trajectory. The new UI is an absolute pig.
> Quick Google searches reveal that Reddit has something between 0.5 and 1.5 billion monthly users

Not disagree-ing with your points, but do you have a source for this? It doesn't pass the sniff test to me.

1.5B people is ~ 20% of the world population, and probably closer to 50% of those with computers & internet capable of downloading reddit.com, an image heavy forum.

I'm in the demographic for Reddit (30s, male, western country), and I think maybe 10% of my friends, family & coworkers even know what Reddit is, let along are an MAU.
This just lists what they do support, not what they leave out compared to the free alternatives. Here's a better chart -- look at all that red in the Apple clang column: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support

I don't understand why they deviate so much from mainstream clang. I think they'd be better off being closer to the trunk. TBH I don't really understand why they have their own tree at all.
Allowing third party also circumnavigates Apple's approval process.

Personally I don't care about giving up choice if it means reduction of spam.
awww, what a way to instill murderous thoughts of their retired parents.

No meaningful corrective actions, no planning suggested, no concrete policy recommended.

Leave it to the millennial to form their own reactionary ... reaction(s).
I do think “AI” is a hype-bubble, but machine learning and specifically the sort of LLMs we’re seeing now are definitively not a hype-bubble.

We don’t really need general AI, nor are we going to be able to make a true flawless general AI anytime soon. AI was always a really vague marketing term, and can be applied to anything for instant relevancy boost. Bubble territory.

The LLMs we have now are extremely effective though. There’s real use case here for automating writing, and some menial tasks that human beings were unfairly burdened with, but were impossible to automate till now.

That’ll stick around. (Considering that ML concepts have been around for decades, you could even say they already have!)
Ah what a clarifying perspective: lumpers vs splitters /s
So what isn’t true of the listed problems? One might argue that some of those are not big problems, but advertisers pulling out is an absolutely major problem.
Normally aac and opus are used.
An organisation might hack some of its allies, who would act as a contact canary. Reporting contact by the police to their friends.
> not the case for the US, no matter how big the military budget is

If anything, the U.S. military's budget having to plop production in every Congressional district speaks to who needs whom to get that money.
> The thing is, human eyes and ears aren’t getting any better and computing performance seems to be plateauing.

My guess is that we'll ideally end up with something that isn't hard to use copyright/patent wise and offers "optimal" quality but at smaller file sizes when compared with the prior technologies, which would be a good thing for both storing your own video files, as well as when handling them en masse in most businesses. After all, if someone could reduce the bandwidth usage of their video hosting or streaming site by 10%, they'd be saving millions in hardware/networking expenses.

Though I don't think that we're at that point yet, many of these more recent technologies are not widely supported, or just not good enough.

For example, I rendered a ~6 minute 1080p video with Kdenlive with multiple codecs, to compare encode performance and resulting filesizes with the default settings:

Codec Time Filesize
H264 2:27 172 MB
VP8 9:34 244 MB
VP9 19:29 332 MB
AV1 FAIL FAIL

I probably should have figured out a way to get similar file sizes, but either way you can see that VP8 and VP9 take way longer to process when compared to the version of H264 that's available to me. So the old H264 is indeed a good enough choice for me, at least for now.
I think the only knowledge u need is:

- Make a plan

- Execute it

- Execute Faster

- Even more Faster

If you get stuck in some parts such as Market Validation, then picking up the recommended book will be useful. It's easier to learn after failing.

I used to take months thinking about idea, market validation, half-decent codebase. Nowadays it's more of build in a day and try the best marketing channels according to the product. Then onto the next one. Improved "Turn Around Time" really helps in increasing number of iterations.

If it's loved(tolerated) in its worst possible self, then it has a chance.
I rabbit-holed to the 2005 "irate call" from Steve Jobs: https://www.techemails.com/p/sergey-brin-irate-call-from-ste...

Does anyone know who was the REDACTED browser expert being recruited by Google?
Thanks for pointing out. Fixed it.
Right, that's the point.

The Allies helped France rebuild after their occupier - Germany - was defeated _by the Allies_. France's colonies, however, did not receive the same courtesy when their occupier - France - had to be violently forced from the colonies.

The independent nations were, more often than not, left ruling over ashes.
> Who were they conquered by, in a manner that's REMOTELY analogous to Algeria's history?

The Inca? The Maya? The Navajo call the Ancestral Pueblo the Anasazi for a reason [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral_Puebloans#Etymology
> And they'll find new people to do it for no compensation, just as they did before the mod tools in question existed.

For free? I doubt they could find any for free.
Subreddits have been striking for years. This is not the first response.

This is quite an escalation though.
It would be more accepted as an idea if after independence France completely cut ties with Algeria. But it's absolutely not the case.

As for most of its former colonies, France kept meddling to keep a foot in the country and sustain economic ties, and this often goes through making sure a French friendly gov is in place. We've seen former colonies get into a lot turmoil as their gov gets cosy with the US for instance, and start to severly reduce French influence.

In Algeria during the civil war, French support happened to go to the pro-French gov. In Madagascar for instance it went to against the established gov that was pro-US.
They've developed a sort of polite code that stands in for more precise/honest wording they would use in person. Execs understand the discoverable nature of email.
> I suspect some application developers should rethink when then need to use network connections or DNS lookups

And I suspect the commercial ones were just ordered by someone above them (e.g. Firefox; they'll die if they don't bow out to Google's surreptitious data gathering needs) and most OSS ones are over-eager to get telemetry or... I don't know what else?

I applaud articles like these. They point out the problems. Hopefully more scrutiny leads to more restraint.
That's more typical of a framework than a library. This is one of the areas where the difference becomes clear: with a library, you will see your own methods in the call stack somewhere, and be able to tell what got called and why; with a framework, it's often not so simple.
I've read all but three of these books and I've been building startups for 12 years.

Some of them are excellent, some have better alternatives since they were published, and some are outright obsolete/no longer valid.
> The number of people who have been defrauded by AI are zero.

Not true. I’m seeing fake voice scam stories on the news lately, fake kidnapping claims, etc
No, recent kindles are 300 ppi and have screens a few inches across and several inches tall. Paperwhite 5 is 1236×1648
Let's Learn about Waveforms (2018)
It'd be nice if there was a count of the total # of subscribers across all of the subreddits that have gone dark
reading this makes wonder what scott forstall is doing now. I hope he's not completely disgusted by what happened to him at apple and will get back to creating tech. We need people with truely innovative ideas from that era.
Seeing Java getting these features is a breath of fresh air. I wonder how this will impact Kotlin.

Being compatible with Java was one of the goals for Kotlin. We soon have a lot of features in the JVM mother language that are solved different in Kotlin. For example:

- Data Classes vs Java's Records
- Nullability
- String Templates

Not diverging from the core language is what made TypeScript successful on a long term. This won't work for Kotlin (and was not a goal). It will be interesting to see whether the languages will diverge even more - maybe to an extend where they will become incompatible - or the interop will converge somehow. Diverging languages will certainly make the interop harder.
This email was shortly after Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt blatantly discussed their illegal wage suppression scheme until Schmidt sent an email saying basically "let's stop emailing about our crimes".
> If you were the owner of such a big site, wouldn’t you be thinking of ways to get yourself a -very comfortable- early retirement?

As a small business owner myself, I can very much assure you that we're not thinking of that at all; we're thinking of ways to get back into the black!

Once we're in the black, we'll start thinking of ways to get an early retirement.
Is this an ad?

Article Summary:
Living near water is good for you, because there's a completely correlative 17% reduction in all-cause mortality if you live near the ocean. One study in particular used the the incredibly scientific metric of "wonderful tonic" for how ocean smells and sounds impact our health.

Also some marine biologist, who spent most of his career studying sea turtles, did some "research" on humans, and did a TED talk and wrote a book about how living near water is better for your health (link to buy said book).

Now go visit some fucking water, any water will do, even whatever you can find in your backyard! It's good for you!

Thanks for reading "InsideHook", because InsideScoop and InsideLane were taken.
I'm wondering about the school bus story here, as a non-USA person. Does the school bus display flashing warning lights to indicate that a child is crossing in front of the bus while it is stationary? Seems like a dangerous situation (that the driver should have slowed for). Is crossing in front of the bus really safer than making the child cross after the bus has departed?
> What I don’t understand is how they used an unencrypted form of communication for such important topics.

?

What would encryption have changed? Apple were compelled to produce these as part of Epic v. Apple.
Which ones are excellent?
My first thought was '20 books on starting a profitable SaaS business that were all actually written by ChatGPT'.

I'm guessing if the 20 books are actually written by people in all seriousness and the belief that they understood and cared about the subject, they're probably still going to be better than what we'll have in ten years, which is 200 books all of which are echoing voids of ChatGPT.

It'll be a lot cheaper to produce such books and put them into the marketplace if you don't actually have to write, learn, or know anything: so much cheaper that it'll become untenable to write 'real' books.

Which mostly means 'marketplace' will stop meaning anything. Knowledge will still mean something but we'll have to arrive at it and disseminate it in different ways that don't resemble the commercial marketplace, as that will not stand up against the cheapness of AI labor.
Encrypt the email, rotate and delete keys after 18months.
Ask HN: Why isn’t there an open source Reddit app where I can use my own API key
If there was a personal app I could install on my phone locally, using and paying for my own API access, I wouldn’t mind so much about losing access to Apollo app.
I'm sorry, I wanted to quote:

> And what if I need to evacuate the family in a natural disaster?

When I said it's a corner case but pasted the wrong sentence.

> You're really missing the point. It won't actually be cheaper except for the few customers who rely mostly on public transportation.

Am I? Why would you not expect it to become cheaper overtime? Uber/etc. needs human drivers who need to be paid and car sharing is inefficient because because most cars end up somewhere where none needs them unless there is continuous bidirectional traffic which is pretty rare. Self driving in theory would solve both these issues.

> Very few married couples with children would be able to manage with one car; they often need to go different places.

Yes well they could in theory get two separate self-driving taxis they don't have to always stay in the same car together.
According to the spez AMA, Reddit is not profitable.
> What I don’t understand is how they used an unencrypted form of communication for such important topics.

How do you know they did? For all we know, this was on an internal mail system that encrypted messages everywhere, except when showing their content to humans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole)

Also, FTA: “[This document is from Epic v. Apple (2021).]”

I think that means they would have been forced to disclose this, even if it were encrypted (“we lost the keys” would be a viable defense to that, but would require a really, really good set of arguments supporting the claim that happened before a court order arrived)
Lossy codecs intentionally allow distortions that are too small to see with the naked eye (without zooming in). They're designed to operate at some "normal" viewing distance. If you zoom in, you defeat that technique.

In case you actually wanted to compress images specifically for viewing when zoomed in, you should use different codecs, or higher quality, or configure codecs differently (e.g. in classic JPEG make quantization table preserve high frequences more).

But for a benchmark that claims to compare codecs in general, you should only use normal viewing distance. Currently it's controversial whether the norm is still ~100dpi or whether it should be the "Retina"/2x resolution, but definitely it's not some zoomed-in 5dpi.
> On top of that, annotations make it impossible/very dificcult to know what code is actually executed (and also it not possible to navigate to the code in an IDE)

I have never understood this argument. What is exactly the problem with identifying the executed code?
I'm not sure this qualifies as censorship. There are a bunch of posts and comments that get flagged and unfairly downvoted for no apparent good reason, yes. It might depend on the mood of the users with voting power on that day, and that's unfair, yes. But from what I've seen there is no central agenda to systematically filter out topics or people. Subjectively, I find HN to be much less judgemental than Twitter (musk or not) and other places.
In scramble for EV metals, health threat to workers often goes unaddressed
> They have far more behaviors, and infinite corner cases. Writing laws that cover all of them is incredibly difficult, and as soon as you do something pops up that you didn't anticipate.

Pretty irrelevant in this case, where we're talking about easy, obvious ways to abuse this rule. Your "it's all so complicated" argument relies on ignoring the substance of the objections to making ones victimization an opportunity to reduce their civil rights, and moving into generalization and vague abstraction.
If there is any random variability in promotion guidelines or policies or even process, then the probability of advancing from level N to level N+1 approaches one over time. For many typical corporations, the policies change often enough that you will get promoted quite a bit higher than you intended, assuming of course you do your job, ensure that your work is useful, and get along with people reasonably well.
I don't know if you're trying to prove secure hardware is impossible by induction or something, but it does work.
Yeah, I suppose hubris or anger sometimes blinds them to being prudent. I think they really got caught up in "poaching" somehow being the big problem.
The yanking doesn’t even stop then; it just changes who is pulling. Various institutional investors are all over Google to do better than it is. Google makes billions of dollars a year. More. More. More.
How is a fee for a certification "a nice barrier to entry"? I get an argument about funding the body in question, but the barrier thing?
What do you mean? Client to server on both sides is encrypted. I can’t say for sure, but it’s not unlikely to think the emails would be encrypted at rest on the email server.

The server itself is owned by Apple and is fully trusted to be secure by the exec team using it.
Twitter is way smaller than the media makes it seem. It's in the second tier of social media, along with Twitch, Snap and Pinterest. It's not a major marketing channel for any of the big brands with strict brand safety guidelines. Note that pushback on NSFW content is usually just a price negotiation tactic of big brands on their biggest marketing channels
Surging stockmarkets are powered by artificial intelligence
You have neglected the man with a big gun security hole.

Do I need to link to the XKCD comic?
This person appeared to make hardware manufacturing applications (like CNC machines). In my experience with software like CRM there's a nuance to which domain knowledge is important (but I presume also financial software, and to a lesser extent ERP).

My experience is more with CRM. In these cases, domain knowledge is still important, but it's more about the curiosities around how a specific sales/marketing/customer support team is structured - how do they divide up leads? Do they compete with each other within the team or are bonuses given to teams? Usually these decisions are informed by domain knowledge. E.g. the customer support of a boutique expensive watch brand would be more of a concierge service (with tickets requiring immediate attention - a delay in response could represent a big loss in sales), while for a mass manufacture cheaper line it would have more of a volume of tickets and human response times might differ. Escalations would therefore need to be programmed differently. To give another example, I can imagine seasonality having a huge impact on how a financial team want their software programmed, and that is informed by domain knowledge.

But knowing how watches are made wouldn't help me with understanding 'domain knowledge'. I need to understand how they are sold. The domain that I need to understand is 'how does this sales team work' not 'how does this product work'.

I guess what I'm saying is the right kind of domain knowledge to match the task.
Unlike Google, Apple isn't trying to hide anything (post-High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation)
Did you consider MRSK[1], k3s[2], or dokku[3]? They are all significantly simpler to operate than Kubernetes, curious to hear your take.

On logs, I agree and have looked for the same. A simple way to aggregate logs in one machine, heck it could even be running SQLite, and query via a web UI. Doesn't seem to exist for this scale.

[1] https://github.com/mrsked/mrsk
[2] https://k3s.io/
[3] https://dokku.com/
as a forum software, discourse (which flarum appears to be derivative of) is flatly terrible.

It's old but an SMF forum will be way more usable.
drug dealers shall not get high on their own supply.
Why? As a web app developer or user, the browser engine is low on my list of priorities.

Browser engine preferences are about far more niche concerns.