skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the article, WebP requires more CPU to decode. JPEG XL also supports lossless transcoding from JPEG, so it could be used for old image sets with no loss in image fidelity.

There are arguments for the new format, but the Chrome people seemed unwilling to maintain support for it when pick-up was non-existent (Firefox could have moved it out of their purgatory. Safari could have implemented it earlier. Edge could have enabled it by default. Sites could use polyfills to demonstrate that they want the desirable properties. And so on.)

To me, the situation was one of "If Chrome enables it, people will whine how Chrome forces file formats onto everybody, making the web platform harder to reimplement, a clear signal of domination. If they don't enable it, people will whine how Chrome doesn't push the format, a clear signal of domination", and they chose to use the variant of the lose-lose scenario that means less work down the road.
I tried using DuckDyckGo (lol) for a few weeks recently, but its results are just as bad or worse than Google's are usually. It's the same problem of endless worthless listicle noise.
> After consolidating their knowledge, Itti and Ge explained, these AIs could serve as a comprehensive medical assistant, providing doctors with the latest, most accurate information across all areas of medicine.

As for the "most accurate" part, I would agree if at the same they provided the source of each bit of information. Otherwise it would be just speculation with varying levels of probability.
They can't do nothing and if they try, they will go to prison forever.
I asked it to draw a star and what it produced was open-loop code like this:
"forward(50); time.sleep(2); set_dir_servo_angle(35); time.sleep(1); forward(50)..."
This doesn't work and shows a great degree of naiveté! Odometry on robots is not, of course, not 100% accurate, so you always need to use closed-loop control (plans that include sensor readings).
They're different, but not that different as the functional message-oriented nature of Erlang means your entire state is typically in transferable terms, and the serialization format directly maps terms back and forth.

Technically Erlang could go much further, but much like multicore support took forever, I guess due to lack of funding, it doesn't. Things like:

1. When transferring between two compatible nodes, or processes on the same node, 'virtually' serialize/deserialize skipping both operations and transferring pointer ownership to the other process instead.

2. When transferring between compatible nodes on different servers, use internal formats closer to mem representation rather than fully serializing to standard ETF/BERT
Uber Eats drivers in South Africa are unionizing
Why hundreds of decades-old yet vital drugs are nearly impossible to find
Most people are. And Google tells you at least the same.
> Whenever I see a project like this, I have to ask: what kinds of true things are censored from the "uncensored library"?

I was curious about this as well.

The "criteria for inclusion" link takes you to a page on "weeding:" https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/weeding-is-fundamenta...

It describes the process (a few different ones, MUSTY, green/yellow/red) but not a lot of concrete facts (what books were "weeded" or which books were suggested but not purchased.)
And in the most egregious cases of police violence, the people who value their right to own & carry weapons are a strong base of police support.

There is actually nothing contradictory about either set of positions though. Guns don't protect you from cops. Guns are power and violence, and who we consider to have rightful access to it. So are police.
They don’t give scholarships but that isn’t quite the full story. The below link discusses ways a good sports background can make entrance considerably easier and costs far lower.

https://www.quora.com/Can-a-sports-scholarship-get-you-into-...
> I'm not a native speaker and am finding it hard with how many qualifiers one needs to put into English sentences as to avoid looking like one is making sweeping absolute statements. Is this also necessary for verbal communication?

My comment had exactly nothing to do with your supposed lack of qualifiers. No need to bring out the ESL qualifiers.
Why would people downvote a comment like this? Varanda in Brazil means "porch" indeed.
OP here. Persisting SQLite data in a browser is quite a complex topic in a rapidly-evolving space, with info spread out over official SQLite documentation, forum posts, GitHub issues and discussions. I spent many hours researching the various options and considerations, and I'm hoping this write-up will be useful to others.
I think Japan did try this, as they really wanted people to spe d, vs save.
> dealing with people at their absolute worst, taking crap you or I wouldn't be able to handle for 5 minutes.

For sure there's bad people, but most people are good. Those people that give cops crap are just some bad apples.
Meta already have Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp in compliance with EU legislation.

Threads is not an attempt to push spyware on users, that would be incompliant in the EU. (And what is this spyware you believe is in Threads?)
More likely they know exactly how much work it entails to be compliant and they decided to initially skip the EU market to speed up their launch.
If you are assuming how a hypothetical future currency will work then we could easily assume exactly the opposite and the money would be destroyed by a set date to maintain some stable rate of deflation. Do you have evidence that a time to live for a currency is being considered by the Federal Reserve and US government?
Question: why do we see stable video and audio "container formats" like MKV that persist as encodings come and go (where you might not be able to play a new .mkv file on an old player, but the expected answer to that is to upgrade your player to a new version, with universal support for pretty much any encoding being an inevitability on at least all software players); but every new image encoding seemingly necessitates its own new container format and file extension, and a minor format war to decide who will support it?

Is this because almost all AV decoders use libffmpeg or a fork thereof; where libffmpeg is basically an "uber-library" that supports all interesting AV formats and codecs; and therefore you can expect ~everything to get support for a new codec whenever libffmpeg includes it (rather than some programs just never ending up supporting the codec)?

If so — is there a reason that there isn't a libffmpeg-like uber-library for image formats+codecs?
Are you really trying to suggest that police brutality is caused by cancel culture? That the natural consequences of attempting to address problematic language include the rampant murder of minorities by members of law enforcement?

> You don't get to cancel others for their word-violence and then turn around and complain when your peers try to put a stop yours. Time to grow up.

Hoo boy. This shouldn't need to be said, but there is absolutely no equivalence whatsoever between an individuals right to refuse to associate with "Stop the Steal" people, and LEOs being entitled to murder whoever they feel like without repercussion.

Is this sarcasm? The mental gymnastics here are so insane I have to question your sincerity in posting this.

> words and subtle actions can be micro-aggressive and thus are violent

This is not what the term microaggression means. Microagressions do not imply violence.
Hot Summer KDE Akademy 2023 in Thessaloniki
Temporarily.

In the long run? Nah. Eventually the APCs roll in.
> I think it’s crazy that the default outcome in our current modern environment if you follow your natural instincts is obesity.

Is it a matter of natural instinct(s)? I don't think so.

Using food as a drug to cope with your life is not natural. It's understandable given our "modern environment", but it's certainly not a natural outcome.

Food addiction is the #1 cause of obesity. HFCS and other food additives come in a distant second if we're assigning blame.

(To make matters worse, once obesity sets in, Leptin & friends take over to add a physiological addiction on to the psychological one!)
Agreed. But I can choose not to use it. I don’t buy things in the App Store nor do I use pay pal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

Apple is a participant in the NSA's PRISM mass surveillance program. They've been compromised for a long time. I doubt any decent sized corporation isn't.
> Everyone doesn't get treated like shit.

But enough people do, by the police, that wanting to be able to hold the police accountable for their actions by recording them seems a reasonable position IMO.

If they have nothing to hide they have nothing to fear, right?
That CSAM detection method was something that apple published a whitepaper about to get feedback. The feedback was strongly negative, so they never implemented it.

I would hope that the grandparent was not referring to this thing that never existed as "the client side scanning ability that is built into the OS."
"...the NetScaler CLI allows for the stacking of commands. This means that it is
possible to stack the man and whoami commands. If these commands are stacked, the NetScaler shows that the man command failed to execute because without a parameter the man command does not know which manual must be opened. Still, whoami is executed successfully.

By running man ; shell, the man command errors out again, as expected. However, this time the shell command is executed, and no error is displayed that tells that the authorisation for executing the shell command is missing."

https://www.resillion.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Resilli...
Isn't it easier to assume Citi is recovering the 5% via interchange fees versus Citi is losing money every time a customer uses an advertised card feature.
I see it as an almost total impracticality to transition from our current system to a centralized national identity document.

There is no central database of:

* Citizenship

* Births

* Drivers Licenses

* Marriages

* Deaths (SSA death reporting is voluntary and customary by funeral homes -not required)

* Education history

* Criminal Records

* Firearm Ownership

* Property Ownership

* Vehicle Ownership

The only thing the feds or even the state government has a certain idea of is, how much you made in a given reporting period - not that reporting periods always overlap in any meaningful way. There is no requirement (as far as I can tell) to even request a social security number - most parents do, because they want to claim their children on their taxes.

Now, many of those records do exist - they exist at the county, state or local level in some manner or fashion - and of course, its not standardized either, sometimes its at the county, sometimes the state, sometimes at the county or state for the same record type based on year. (e.g. Marriages from 1902-1962 are in county records, and 1962 to current in state, or the other way around.)

Trying to link all of this data in a meaningful way, would be a monumental task that would likely require a vast amount of manual data matching - and it would still be wrong 40% of the time.
"Doesn't work" is nonsense language that arises from a clinically neurotic view of reality, which is in response to my patronizing (if practical) response to a clinically neurotic view of urban life.
I feel you.

Still, after hearing this story, my takeaway is not "Do not fix AI researchers' code if you want to become an AI researcher."

Rather, "Good news! It turns out a software engineer has much to offer AI researchers! However, as all too often, beware of politics - you need to find an organization where the AI folks won't be threatened by your fast work but will welcome you."
I find it annoying that we have these endless debates in the US where it's assumed that if there's some magnitude it of course must be more than epsilon.

I would be interested in if anyone can give a example where the friction increases in such a way as a person would experience an actual difference, or how this would actually make cash easier.

Otherwise this sounds to me like the endless silly arguments against a national id card by people. (State ID cards that then go into a federal database are no more private but come with annoying downsides like ID.me)
The Fed only runs FedACH, which is one of two ACH networks running the same protocol. The other is The Clearing House Payments Company's Electronic Payments Network. Indeed there used to be more private network operators, but the other two eventually folded, leaving just these two remaining.
JPEG XL can losslessy transcode JPEG into a smaller format. JPEG2000 (or WebP or anything but Lepton[0]) didn't offer that. Besides, we have gif and png for approximately the same space. gif still isn't gone. Displacement isn't necessary for a new format to become useful.

[0] https://github.com/dropbox/lepton
There is no such thing as a company's true stance. This is a fiction to make it easy to criticize.
People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars
This isn’t bickering. These definitions have existed for literal decades. There are multiple models for making source code available, and people can choose what license they want. But this isn’t open source. This is source available, free (as in beer, kinda) license.

You don’t have to pay, and you can see the source code. But, in my quick reading, I don’t think you can make modifications, distribute modifications, distribute unmodified versions, and there is a restriction on how you use the software (non-commercial only).

This is the same type of license Microsoft gave certain large (TLA) customers for Windows, IIRC. I believe they called it “shared source,” as in they shared a copy of the source with you, but you couldn’t use the source for more than review. No one would claim that was open source.

There are differences between free, open, and available. This is only the later. No one cares about what license something is available through. Authors get to do whatever they want. People only care when you try to claim one thing, but it is really something else. In this case, the company is trying to use the term “open source” as a selling point of their software, when it isn’t. This license doesn’t even match the definitions they use on their own site!

I’m happy the authors want to make it possible to audit their software. That’s a laudable goal. If they want to restrict usage of the source code to non-commercial use, that’s fine and up to them. Just don’t call it “open source”.

Just because something is free doesn’t make it open. And just because something is open doesn’t make it free (as in freedom or beer). Similarly, just because something auditable and available, doesn’t make it free or open.

The fact that the authors don’t know the difference (or are potentially misrepresenting the difference) will only make the community mad - especially the part of the community that would care about seeing the source code in the first place. If they instead were marketing the project as “source available” for auditing or non-commercial use, this wouldn’t have been an issue.
Where are these theories of how a hypothetical future CBDC come from? Is there an official announcement from the Federal Reserve about how they would like it to work? A committee hearing in Congress where this is discussed?
Last time I wanted to sign a document with the reputation of a third party I used PandaDocs free tier. Worked fine enough
I'm curious if Apple is complying with Chinese censorship with iMessage. As far as I know, at least it was usable in China without VPN in 2015.
Where is the API GW cluster load balancer?
Taoism has its root run back to at least the 4th century BCE, and quite possibly earlier. Even though this specific telling is probably considerably newer, it carries motives that are very common in Taoism in general. Claiming that the story is then a rip-off from a TV show from the 90s is... Well, it's possible, but not very likely.
You can make a reverse DNS record (or any DNS record, for that matter,) say anything at all. There isn't a National Committee for the Verification of DNS Updates checking this stuff out and demanding in-person inspections and notarized affidavits swearing that 100% of all information in the DNS is accurate and means whatever the end-user might infer it to mean.

For instance, part of the tracroute from my house to Google looks like this:

6 be-33112-cs01.doraville.ga.ibone.comcast.net (96.110.43.81) 19.602 ms

7 be-33142-cs04.doraville.ga.ibone.comcast.net (96.110.43.93) 22.738 ms

8 be-302-cr13.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net (96.110.39.49) 23.202 ms

You can see these hostnames are obviously meant to encode some geographic data -- strictly for the convenience of the provider, it doesn't mean anything else -- but you, as the user, cannot tell from these records that these routers are actually where you think they are, based on the host names.

Another issue is the server you're communicating with might take a completely different path to get back to you, and you'd have no real way of knowing that.
GitHub’s Copilot Chat AI feature is now available in public beta
> * Pay professional hitmen

You mean, pay an undercover cop who is advertising himself as a professional hitman?

> * Pay a hobo enough to go beat you up in your home.

He'll pay the hobo, and hobo will run off with the money

> all they saw was a subordinate of a subordinate of a subordinate

This is even more crazy than the earlier suggestions. You think there is going to be a chain of subordinates at apple who will all go along with a murder conspiracy? Try arranging a surprise party with five people, see how well people can keep a secret.
When the government does something unpopular against its own people, they can easily quell protestors at scale and force the usage of CBDC adoption by closing ATM withdrawals [0] add savings limits [1] and can incentivise spending with an expiring date. [2]

Whilst many HNers were celebrating UPI as the payment rails from India, it is almost the same thing as FedNow and is planning to put their own CBDC on UPI called E-RUPI [3] taking all the same valid concerns that I have mentioned.

Do you really want this?

[0] https://www.pymnts.com/cbdc/2022/nigeria-cuts-atm-cash-withd...

[1] https://reclaimthenet.org/digital-euro-spending-saving-limit...

[2] https://bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/policy/digita...

[3] https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/what-is-e-rupi-d...
https://archive.ph/FsEaf
Kagi search also supports this bang shortcut, which I find very handy.
The worst part is there's no particular reason for this -- infusing proper software development best practices into existing EE/ME coursework isn't that hard.

It's an instance of the larger pattern in which technical degree programs lag industry requirements by decades, as older faculty ossify at the state of the art circa 2-3 years prior to when they received tenure.

IMO one way to help would be to get rid of the entire notion of a "Professor".

Instead, courses should be taught primarily by a combination of professional instructors on permanent contracts and teacher-practitioners supported by the instructors. The instructors should have occasional sabbaticals for the professional instructors to embed in firms and ensure they're up to date on the industry.

The research side of the university can even more easily replace Professors and tenure with first-line lab managers on 3-5 year contracts whose job is simply to apply for grants and run labs, and who can teach if they want but are held to the same standards as any other applicant for an ad junct teaching position in any particular term.
See article 8, European Convention on Human Rights, is literally about privacy. UK is a signatory last I checked

(Russia was finally kicked out after continuing what they started in 2014, but their pledge was a joke anyway, or wishful thinking at best).
I read remarks where Yellen said explicitly that if FedNow works, they won't need a CBDC. I'll try to dig that up.
this is a backdoor that they're refusing to put into it, because it would make iMessage pointless
Brian Johnson is an interesting case. If you've got the money, certainly the thought "can I live longer?" crosses your mind, but no one has so far committed to the lifestyle "required" to live longer. Ignoring whether anything Johnson does is actually working, he's obsessive over his self image and his ability to claim his "blood work looks like an 18 year old's"

It's also interesting how he's clearly had facial plastic surgery, but is less keen to mention that amongst all the vitamin infusions and blood transfusions he's undergoing on a daily basis.
From Wikipedia: "Mitnick also intercepted and stole computer passwords, altered computer networks, and broke into and read private emails." - what a nice guy he was.
Are you referring to Jeremy Corbyn? He was brought down by a dishonest campaign by the Jewish lobby.
Ridiculous stuff like this is why I'm cringing everytime any apple fanboi appears.
Are you dense? Apple and all other major companies are cooperating with FBI/NSA/CIA all the freakin' time.

These things they throw up is actually smart play from these global police agencies, so sheeps like you feel safe.
(Android is the same thing)
Citi is definitely not earning 5% via interchange fees, this is known. While they might lose some money on the 5% for some credit card users that use it correctly, it is most likely more than made up for by other credit card users who either use the credit card for other types of purchases and receive much less in rewards, resulting in a net gain.

Or citi has figured out that certain users of the card carry a balance and they spend more on interest than it costs in Citi in rewards. If the situation changes and Citi is losing money, then they change the reward amount.
There are three extra zeros here
Europe went tit for tat during some of the 2016+ debacles when it came to visas and basically is requiring all US visitors get visas starting from 2024.

So that's going to be some of the mobility decline for US travelers
Maybe dumb question: If JPEG XL beats avif, and both are royalty free, shouldn't the AV group create a new video format based on av1 that for I-frames uses JPEG XL?

I mean, it feels like the same static image codec should be used in whatever free standard is being pushed for both video I-frames and images, since the problem is basically the same.
Per routing number, so effectively per bank.

Edit: (throttled, can’t reply) GSIPs (globally systemic important banks) like JPMC with multiple routing numbers are the exception, not the rule.
It's just distinguishing what is in-game for legacy audiences it's not scaring anybody
Although I haven't had the chance to experience the game's precursors or indulge in Dungeons & Dragons before, I must say, I'm truly excited about this upcoming release. The concept seems intriguing, and I can't wait to dive into the world of possibilities it offers. As a newcomer, I'm eager to see what this game has in store for both veterans and newcomers like myself. Kudos to the developers for creating such a captivating experience!
The story is not about past, but about how many middlemen there these days.

And how people got used to not taking responsibility for their own actions, communication etc.

People are not speaking directly anymore, only through layers of unnecessary, corrupted, stupid and ignorant lawyers, insurance companies, agents and other meaningless units.
No, but I have plenty of evidence to suggest that the US government doesn't have our best interests at heart...
As with crime statistics, you need percentages to make a point and not aggregate numbers. Also tell us which other professionals are murdered by guns on American streets for doing their jobs, at this rate.
If everyone on HN stopped using Google and started using DuckDuckGo. And we told all our friends and family to do the same. Would it have an impact?
Anyone working on a trackpad all day probably isn’t doing serious work ;) see we can all make unkind generalizations.
> - Mozilla

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS