skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose this is heavily discipline-specific. In my specific subfield of CS, the execution is often a Python program or bunch of scripts that can be (and often are) coded by an undergrad if given enough guidance on what exactly is wanted. And then of course the way of presenting it in the paper, choosing which data to show, etc. but cheating doesn't help much there. The hard part in my view is coming up with what Python program should be written (i.e. coming up with a relevant algorithm, experiment, evaluation methodology, etc.).

I can see how in other fields, e.g. biomedical, execution could be more challenging and ideas more plentiful.

Anyway, I don't think ideas (read: good ones, because obviously anyone can have nonsense ideas) can be a commodity in any field. It is quite widely accepted that, e.g., when applying for an ERC grant (the highest-regarded individual research grants in Europe), having a good idea is as important as the CV if not more. This wouldn't be the case if coming up with good ideas were so trivial.
Everyone on HN isn't enough to have an impact. And telling friends and family isn't good enough because changing default behaviors is very difficult in practice and they would listen do you, but ultimately keep doing what they're doing.
Huh, only by five months. Dr Pepper was officially sold starting on Dec 1, 1885, Coke on May 8th, 1886.
Per bank. $25/month/account would be insane.
>The past is never dead. It's not even past.

― William Faulkner, 'Requiem for a Nun' (1951)
I think this could be a bad idea for some prople, and here’s why.

I was just searching an old teacher of mine to see how she was doing. I knew she was super old-school (doesn’t even have a smartphone, let alone social media profiles) but I thought, I’ll just see what comes up - it’s a little lower friction than calling her.

She still doesn’t have any online presence except for one thing. The top search result for her name was a Project Veritas video where they had cornered her to ask some questions about her workplace and skewer her for whatever soundbites they could get. It was heartbreaking.

It’s an example of the benefits of the “security through obscurity” security posture. If there’s lots of info about you online, then it waters down the impact of any potential negative information.

The “stay offline / stay ungoogleable” security posture, on the other hand, is fragile with respect to random spikes of negative information.

Reality is that there’s a gray area and most people have middling risk tolerance in this area. As for me, I rarely post on social media and have never deliberately cultivated an online presence, so I’m somewhat ungoogleable. But not so much that someone couldn’t find me if they really tried. An seo-heavy event like that Project Veritas thing would probably take over my SEO presence, but I’m okay with that risk, and I also have the skills to spin up an official personal site if I want to.
Notice how the commenter here skillfully talks in general instead of asserting that the original replier did anything in particular. This is how to write a good HN comment.
Except that microaggression includes the word aggression which is defined as:

> hostile or violent behavior or attitudes toward another; readiness to attack or confront.

I don't think they were suggesting police brutality is caused by cancel culture - I think that was you reaching. I think they were suggesting that laws being passed to protect police from being made fun of, are the result of people being overly sensitive and allowing the words of others to hurt them personally.

It appears that if anyone was doing mental gymnastics here, it was you.
Not even on HN people are united in preferring Google.

Personally I tried to switch many times and always made my way back, and I'm not even really in the Google ecosystem unlike others.
The header image I see is indeed an AVIF but it depends on what your browser sends in the `Accept` header. Chrome sends image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,image/svg+xml,image/*,*/*;q=0.8 but if you drop image/avif from there you get a webp and if also drop image/webp from the header you finally end up with a jpeg.

However if you manually request that image with a custom `image/jxl` at the start of the `Accept:` header, you get a JPEG XL result. So GP is correct, but you won't see that behavior except on their PC (errr, Mac) -- unless you use Firefox and enable JPEGXL support in about:config, of course.
The police have a monopoly on the legalized use of violence.

And it's impressive to see how quickly one gets shouted down on "progressive" forums when one objects to this inherently-illiberal state of affairs.
I think you misunderstood my argument. I’m not advocating for police brutality WTF?
I have so many problems in my personal life, and I don't know how else they could be solved except for the government to carefully micromanage that for me.
I'm not suggesting vendor lock-in is necessary which is exactly why I mentioned there were multiple ways to do that. I think it is great to have options.

It was also just one example I knew of where code review tools were getting more respectful of user preferences. I stated pretty plainly that I wish a lot more tools were doing that beyond the examples that I knew. I'd love to see more font options in code review tools.

I don't know about Gitlab and the last I used Slack I had wished it had font options because I hated whatever fonts they chose that they thought aligned best with their brand. Mailing lists are actually an easy answer: use a mail client that happily lets you switch an email's fonts. (I used to do that when reading code in mailing lists in Thunderbird to switch from the default proportional fonts of email to a monotype font and back. I assume Thunderbird still has features like that, but it has been forever since I've personally been on a mailing list involving code reviewing.)
I have a stupid question. What should we think of Stanford ethics when said individual still retains a board position?

If his excuse of not enough detail investigation of lab reported data before sub mitting research report than should not same lack of skillset be a requirement for his firing form Stanford board?
If your company has a board and a CFO then sure, go with the trusted solution. If you're starting a scrappy, modern, real world business, things like this can help avoid death by a thousand cuts that is paid microservices.
I assume it would accelerate.
As a counter argument in one sentence you say

> Will Nintendo suffer the same fate? Highly unlikely.

In next you suggest not to discount something "Highly unlikely".

That's basically a Pascal Wager territory.

Building closed off ecosystem is Nintendo's whole business, you making business decisions based on idea Nintendo might upend their whole business is... wasteful?
A man who cannot stop himself from saying that HIV was created by vaccine researchers is an idiot in any context.
Zelle has been a nightmare to use. Apparently they rolled out a major update that caused many financial institutions to drop support. Because of that, my phone number is now unusable/blocklisted in their system because it's in a limbo state that neither Zelle nor my bank can fix
Now we need a filter that would clothe us. Come to a meeting with a T-Shirt and you appear to be with a suit and tie. Or the feminine equivalent.
The levels of abstraction are improving, but we're still far away from true utility-level convenience. Ideally, you'd be able to put your code rules in Github and be done with it. Details of database, file storage, caching, scaling, etc. would be something you didn't have to think about at all.
That article you post as [1] refers to https://opensource.org/osd/ for "The official definition of open source software (which is published by the Open Source Initiative and is too long to include here)"

The FSF article directly follow with this, which contradicts your claim: "However, the obvious meaning for the expression “open source software” is “You can look at the source code.” Indeed, most people seem to misunderstand “open source software” that way. (The clear term for that meaning is “source available.”) That criterion is much weaker than the free software definition, much weaker also than the official definition of open source. It includes many programs that are neither free nor open source."

And the OSD also disagrees: "The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software."

Terms that can be summarized as "whose source code is available to the public" are called "source available", even by the FSF.
> No one is mass-sharing their safe of child-porn worldwide with thousands of other child-porn voyeurs.

I wouldn't call 1 on 1 chats mass sharing
Reading and manipulating files on my local disk is near-instantaneous. Not sure how you could ever replicate that level of latency as long as there's a remote network hop required for every read and write.
> This is a categorically false premise. The kind of statement that only makes sense when you're in a deep bubble and entirely removed from the average person's use of the internet.

The average person isn’t going to google an individual to find their blogs or whatever. The first stop is figuring out their social media destinations. You would hardly expect to find really anything about a person on Google that isn’t a link to their socials. Or perhaps an article related to some crime.
In addition to the strangler pattern, look at the tools from Michael Feathers's "Working Effectively With Legacy Code." along with refactoring. If you can get all pieces under test, you can have the confidence to replace and refactor larger pieces of the system without replacing the entire system.
I do agree that we might live peacefully with AIs because they need different things. Two points:

We still compete for space and energy at the very least.

Humans are sympathetic to animals because we are alike. We don’t want animals to suffer. However, will an AI be sympathetic to humans because we „think alike“? We don’t know.
This is the end for humanity.
OpenAI themselves have said they hat GPT-4 internally before they ever released the first version of ChatGPT.
My mom's situation was almost exactly the same. Our family has a history of cancer and it turned out she had the harmful BRCA2 variant.

Were you offered any kind of genetic testing?

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/geneti...
We're starting to see a move towards this with HEIF / AVIF containers, however in cases where "every bit must be saved" the general purpose containers like ISO-BMFF introduce some wastage that is unappealing.
I got into IT because of him mainly. When I was 12, where I was growing up I was the only one who knew what a computer is. I remember reading his story somewhere, then I got to my mom's computer at her office and read all I could find about his story.

I wrote "Free Kevin Mitnick!" with a black marker on my tshirt and was walking around my town proudly wearing it. Nobody understood anything about it but it made me feel like involved into some secret society.

Next year I convinced parents to pay for me learning QBasic (the only computer course in my town back then), and 3 years later I got into university on an Information Security specialization.
Some of my friends say that I was the reason why they got into IT. Well, I guess we all owe that to Kevin.

I talked to him in person once at a conference and was happy like a little puppy, but being socially awkward as I am I didn't tell him that he is my childhood hero. I hope now when he has trandcended to the cloud, he has a bird's eye view on our realm and can see all the positive impact that he had had on my life and lives of people I've influenced...

The very brightest memories
Linux, being a kernel, has no external dependencies (except for its menuconfig, which requires ncurses). That sort of isolated build tree is very rare in almost every other software project, even something like gcc has a dozen external dependencies IIRC.
This summer is nice: hot and unusually dry in Southeast Texas, just as it was during my childhood. Normally summers have oppressively high humidity but it's different this year (so far).

There is an almost constant breeze so I can walk around even in the sunlight yet remain comfortable. I drink lots of water and take extra salt. With the low humidity sweat evaporates immediately unless I am laboring.

I fear however that this long hot and dry spell in SE Texas will result in something we haven't seen in decades here - a malaria epidemic:

1. we already have some cases not brought in from outside the area,

2. severe malaria outbreaks are sometimes preceded by an unusually hot and dry period such as we're experiencing,

3. malaria was once endemic here. The land has changed somewhat but we have flooding, heavy rains and their effects,

4. It is hurricane season and a hurricane would undo all the good things I described in the first paragraph.
Just wait until they add AI voice assistants to the windshield wipers.
The headline itself clearly states that he resigned.

And where is that fabled "mob" here?
No discovery depends solely on one person. The example illustrates the mechanics in the last line.

Fringe elements are analogous to a society's surface. They, by definition, interact with novel elements and ideas at a higher rate than population.

Internal interactions exchange information. That distributes information (physical and intellectual). It also increases entropy and thus homogeneity. Conductivity (the term of art is legibility [1]) and complexity are at odds with one another.

Ceteris paribus, internal homogeneity shouldn't change the surface. But humans have agency. Homogeneity precedes conformity which drives more homogeneity. Furthermore, less diversity means fewer novel opportunities/interactions between the fringe and the unknown.

Privacy preserves a diversity of fringes which drives social complexity. A society without privacy is simpler, and thus less capable of innovation, than one with it. (There is obviously an upper bound to this phenomenon. A perfectly opaque system is static. But humans, as social creatures, resist isolation more naturally than conformity.)

[1] https://publications.aston.ac.uk/id/eprint/27204/1/Linked_da...
The comparison doesn't even make sense. You can make a gun in your own home. You can't make a police officer
Majority of the usual users wouldn't even notice (save for possibly faster page load). JPEG XL has mostly only benefits - backward compatible, can be converted without loss to and from, has better compresión thus smaller sizes and less data to transfer/store and it has nice licensing. JPEG2000 had nothing of that...
Yes, I agree. But if things go south with starting up. Failure is a possibility, it's good to have something in your back pocket no?
I had to double check everything to make sure it wasn't me.
It would compile quickly -- on a relative basis -- it would just take 2 - 10x longer to write than something in a language more suited to web development...

And probably also contain a bunch of RCE vulnerabilities.
Once you have gcc installed, yes it just works. It's only 184MB and 2153 files (tested on random VM).

Python is actually smaller, 82MB and 1461 files, and has a much better stdlib.

If you never wrote zero-dependency python scripts, give it a try! It's a very nice experience: download file / clone repo, run a file and that's it. Not even a build step.
I don't think it's fair to equate colors in natural scenes with the space of colors you find with diffuse reflection. There are tons of things (fireworks, light shows, the sky, your 1337 RGB LED setup, fluorescent art, etc.) people may want to take photos of that include emission, scattering, specular reflection, etc.

In practice that larger space of things you could perceive "in theory" is full of everyday phenomena, and very brilliant colors and HDR scenes (e.g. fireworks against a dark sky) tend to be something people particularly enjoy looking at/taking pictures of.
Didn’t say it could be interpreted as giving people license.

I’m talking about the people who already do the things — and not giving them a Tums and Tylenol for the indigestion and headaches it’s causing them.

Stop doing the thing to stop suffering the consequences.

The people also tend to be really brittle. Once someone points out that they’re running around stabbing people they’ll get all offended: “See! It’s not fair! Everyone I’ve stabbed is out to get me. I’m the victim!”
That distinction is not rigorous. To be rigorous the distinction must not be made.
It's usually brigading by other Apple fanboys. Their master can do no evil. You could see this alot during the local device scanning controversy, but anytime you try to point out obvious facts (like Apple building the largest Ad empire for example, while virtue signaling about Meta's ads on their platform) you get downvoted and flagged.
There are no protected class allowances for assault.

This thread is a menagerie of legal misunderstanding and buzzword abuse.
And this is one of the least charitable readings of a comment I have seen before.
Is there any evidence that low-level people have been targeted, or is this just speculation around what could happen?

Yes, "evidence for a secret program" is a bit tricky to produce, but the one I know of - Doe v. Ashcroft - the president of the company was compelled to produce data. I'd be very surprised if this wasn't the universal approach.
You can also spam the web with profiles, pictures, and posts from fictional people that share your name. LLMs have made that much easier. It's a pretty common tactic for reputation management companies.
Feels a little like a déjà vu from an older browser by a big company that had a monopoly..
IMO, the sad truth is that what will happen is that JXL simply won't be used because it's not worth it to lose customers in exchange for a few kilobytes saved. Google has won, it has a monopoly on search, advertisement and the browser and decides de facto of all standards.
Touché.

Just seeing those laptops is frustrating. What is the point of the trackpad if you have to use a mouse?
I'm guessing it's mostly up to mostly tradition/momentum on how the formats where initially created and maintained.

Videos has (most of the time at least) at least two tracks at the same time that has to be syncronized, and most of the time it's one video track and one audio track. With that in mind, it makes sense to wrap those in a "container" and allow the video and audio to be different formats. You also can have multiple audios/video tracks in one file, but I digress.

With images, it didn't make sense at least in the beginning, to have one container because you just have one image (or many, in the case of .gif).
True. If humans didn't have a positivity bias our own intelligence would be unbearable. We have to be able to viscerally imagine and reckon with the worst possible realities while keeping our heads above water. It's also why I believe humor exists: it provides a psychological and social reward for effectively navigating negative circumstances.
Just because somebody is somehow "clever" doesn't make them immune to scams -- they just need to be a specific type. Scientology targets a person's sense of self-importance and empowers the feeling that they are somehow special and mentally gifted. Something that many "clever" people have.
Yeah I wondered the same thing - without doing any research beyond reading the article, is gold actually useful for anything if it's plentiful? Now, if they could find a lithium asteroid for instance, that would actually be useful.
Good point.

Root beer isn't a thing here, so I don't had a reference.
The curse of being human is that we need to do uncomfortable things to grow and maintain ourselves all while avoiding things we enjoy but are bad for us. It's a catch 22 if you like.

Imagine how nice it is to get home after the monsoonal cargo cycling, how happy you are to see the family, how nice they are to you drenched and exhausted, how good the food tastes, the cardiovascular perks.

With a car you carry your mood wherever you go, there is no hard reset. You correct your sensitivity to register signals the monsoon would "normally" drown out until everything becomes a stress signal and you need Prozac or Valium to deal with it.

Car owners can workout too of course but it's an entirely different game if you have to fuel it with discipline in stead of necessity.
Yep, sounds like my garage.

At first look it seem like someone backed into the garage door and mangled the hell out of it but on more careful inspection the roof is being barely held up by the tracks that the door runs in and is pretty near to giving up the ghost. Was just going to splice the ends of the rafters (like someone did on the other side who knows how many years ago...if it works, it works) and replace the garage door but now its looking like I'll need a whole new roof.

What really worries me is the dodgy wiring strung all across the basement which is a combination of newish wires, old cloth covered wires and liberal applications of electrical tape to splice it all together. Luckily none of the wires seem to be load bearing...
Eating less meat 'like taking 8M cars off road'
Read assault laws. As is common, you are conflating assault with battery.
Threads is already GDPR compliant, that's not the only regulation the EU has made that covers these kinds of apps.
You are correct but I think the comment was tongue in cheek.
The theories come from concerned critics mostly. As far as I know there has been no discussion as to how the government might influence the functionality of a CBDC.
> It’s an example of the benefits of the “security through obscurity” security posture. If there’s lots of info about you online, then it waters down the impact of any potential negative information.

Only if your worst fear is bad PR.

If there is some sophisticated enemy who might want to attack you, then the fact that the embarrassing video is the 4834th Google result doesn't protect you from anything, it means there's at least 4834 results for you, all of which contain potentially dangerous information, instead of one.
It looks like they have worked with CISA to remove the "logging tax".

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/a...
> it's not scaring anybody

i don't use the term 'scare-quotes' to mean "to scare people", but rather because that's actually what the practice is called

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
Take away from the parent and your comment is that Policing is a high skill hard job with a lot of associated responsibilities and accountabilities.

Thus I find it alarming that on average, US officers spend around 21 weeks training before they are qualified to go on patrol [1] while a teacher needs at least a bachelor degree so 4 to 5 years of training [2].

I find compensation for both professions laughably low in the US (teacher: $57,220[2], officer: $62,600[3]) however police equipment budget [4] is orders of magnitude higher than that of teachers that need to spend their own money on school supplies [5]. So there is an argument to be had about the difference of quality of life of these two very important professions. The LAPD gets a $2 billion budget [6] which is equivalent to the total military spending of nations like Lithuania [7]. Maybe a lower barrier of entry to the force and bigger crime and arrest statistics with everything that it entails and it implies on the ground to create such numbers in the books is what it takes to maintain this kind of budget?

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56834733
[2] https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/how-...
[3] https://www.salary.com/research/salary/alternate/police-offi...
[4] https://www.investopedia.com/how-are-police-departments-fund...
[5] https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/out-p...
[6] https://knock-la.com/lapd-budget-2023-increase/
[7] https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/military-spending-by-...
Doesn't the UK sound more and more like some third world dictatorship?