skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just an interesting note I learned recently - it’s estimated that India’s population overtook China’s this year (within the last couple of months)
I feel like JPEG XL's problem is branding. The name suggests it's like JPEG, but the file size will be bigger which isn't something I want.
Memory is hazy but doesn’t JXL have better colors or color profile support?
Is there going to be a universal SDK / API we can use with this? This would cut alot of middle companies out of the payments industry (or at least put pressure on lowering fees). That would be a huge win.

Wish we could do the same for the credit card companies. Would be great if the Federal Government could intervene in some way to have Visa / Mastercard / American Express / Discover use the same API interface for payments. Would dramatically increase competition for providers.
English, of course, takes from every language it encounters.
Well, he asked for truth, not lying. What you're doing is lying. Which can be fine but let's not invent new names for lying, it already has enough of them.
Seems such a mass of materials would make building actual megastructures possible.
Who built this? Dev was obviously contracted out.
Exactly. The main problem with any space mining or processing is the extreme cost of transporting materials to a destination. If you extract materials on Luna you use them in Luna, extract them on Mars you use them in Mars, etc. Earth will be the cheapest source of most things in cislunar space for a long time. By the time we can get platinum group metals on Earth people will have advanced a lot in developing iron-based, synthetic enzyme and other chemistry that makes platinum group metals obsolete.
> We need to legally regulate remote attestation.

I'd go a step further. We need to ban it. It should be illegal to sell devices to consumers that already contain private keys, unless all of said keys are provided to the consumer at the time of purchase.
And the repo doesn't ask you to pipe curl output directly into the shell? Neat!
Motivation is usually the most important factor. Someone who is motivated can learn and retain more in the same time span.
I haven't started it yet, but I have great expectations of ”Software Design for Flexibility: How to Avoid Programming Yourself into a Corner" by Hanson & Sussman.

Hopefully someone else can provide a review?
Could be. Chalk it up to Poe’s Law, then.
Doesn't seem to much too relevant for image codecs though, no? Decoding 10s of still images on a CPU for a webpage that'll be used for minutes versus 10s of delta images in a much more complicated video coded aren't quite comparable.

I don't think we have much deployment of WebP or AVIF hardware decoders yet the formats have widespread use and adoption.
The STP request includes jxl.

image/webp,image/avif,image/jxl,image/heic,image/heic-sequence,video/;q=0.8,image/png,image/svg+xml,image/;q=0.8,/;q=0.5
> This isn't true. Private currencies exist(ed) and are afaik still legal.

For most of my life, those were ancient history or theoretical. Then in 2009, something changed.

And ever since then, I've seen nothing less than the most zealous propaganda campaign to undermine those... it's bizarre to watch it unfold. I keep side-eyeing everyone, wondering if I'm the only one that sees it. Sure, it doesn't help that the cryptocurrency people are whackjobs that might have screwed it all up without any outside help. But I guess they couldn't trusted to do that, so the help was provided.

Saying that it's "legal" doesn't change the fact that if someone were to come up with a private currency, gigantic forces, government and not, would be arrayed against them to put an end to it.

> Any currency needs some mechanism to control issuing. If not the government who else could do that?

I think the implication here is: who could be trusted to do it in a way that doesn't favor some at the expense of others?
Using it over WiFi is big feature alone for a lot of people who are often in spaces with good WiFi but poor cellular reception. Some carriers support SMS over WiFi in the same way they do "WiFi calling" which can alleviate that.

The other major feature I see for other messengers over SMS/MMS is much larger attachment sizes. It can be challenging sending an MMS with attachments >1MB. Meanwhile, I can send a 100MB file/video or an 8MB photo over Signal. WhatsApp allows for 16MB attachments. Sending a quick video in-line with the chat thread in MMS is miserable and gives an incredibly trash quality video while most other chat apps you can stick a decent quality 30 seconds or so video without any issue. Photos sent over MMS are usually junk while one could get a decent 4x6+ print off an 8MB photo.
No, this is a false cognate. Chinese bāo (包) is short for miànbāo (麵包), literally meaning "flour wrap/package", and its use has been attested since the Song Dynasty (ca. 11th century), whereas the Portuguese didn't have contact with China until the 16th century. The pronunciation of 包 at that time was still mostly similar to what it is today – using IPA notation, it is reconstructed as /pˠau/, compared to /pau̯/ today.
I was going to say that the GameCube and Wii are very similar to the point where the Wii is backwards compatible but I guess that argument would apply to the Wii U too. Either way, Dolphin doesn’t emulate the Wii U
> Whoa. Is this as awesome as it sounds?

No. A possible CBDC rails in the US is nothing to get excited about. Unless you want savings limits and expiry dates on your money.

> Is this akin to government-backed Venmo, or something?

Yes, but even worse.
Always loved that simple joke from Takahashi: "Pan da panda"... (Depicting the bread holding aloof panda.)
While your sympathy is admirable, they chose to deal with the unpleasantry. It's in the job description to deal with mentally ill and intoxicated people.

In the same way I fought for my country in the military with pride, I hope our police forces can exert pride about their job, instead of cowering and complaining about how dangerous it is. If you don't have the propensity to be a cop, then get the hell out.

You can project this lack of understanding on others if you want, but the power cops possess vs civilians is easily observable. Just because being a cop is often unpleasant, doesn't mean they should only get a slap on the wrist for abusing their power. There are many benefits to being a cop, don't act like they're poor little puppy dogs.

It's wishful thinking to believe all people will respect police because they are by definition authoritarians. There are tons of people who don't respect veterans but do I let it bother me? No, because I'm not a fucking cry baby.
The Current Tech Backlash Explained
> eSign tech is a commodity

We learned this pretty quickly with our banking products. Having your own bundled, first-party e-sign features can help differentiate your product from other vendors, but if the only thing you are selling is e-sign, they probably won't look at you. We do have an in-house e-sign feature in our product now. We evaluated integration with Adobe & DocuSign, but their APIs were so far away from what we needed that we decided to DIY.

Consider this - what is a bank going to do with raw access to something approximating docusign APIs? They outsource everything. Their vendors are the ones who would be consuming something like this and then reselling it. Getting onto the QVL for a US financial institution (and staying there) is usually a monster battle if you are a new kid on the block.

If you still wanted to market this solution towards US financial institutions, I'd start with the vendors of those institutions. Companies like Jack Henry & Associates, FiServ, CSi, FIS, Harland Clarke, et. al.
The thing I learned when we fixed our old house up for sale, is that in some municipalities you need a building permit to replace a floor that already exists with a new one. In our case water damage was from a claw foot tub drain, which I had fixed but years after the problem started, so it was in the middle of the floor. The contractor ripped it down to the joists and doubled them, which does not it turns out require a permit.

Sounds like your guy had a similar experience.
T’is the silly season.
I find it weird that no-one is focusing on the last paragraph of the letter:

The technological measures on Nintendo's consoles and games are essential for Nintendo to protect its intellectual property from piracy. When those measures are circumvented, Nintendo and third-party game developers suffer tremendous harm because, for example, individuals can then use the emulator to play pirated games. Other commercial platforms have recognized these concerns and. as an example. We understand Microsoft recently took various emulators - including
Dolphin - off its Xbox Store

This isn’t an argument about interoperation, it’s an argument about piracy.

In my experience, though there is a lot of lip-service about ‘only playing games you own’, the vast majority of emulator users are playing pirated games they don’t own. This would be a different argument if it was about literally playing Wii discs directly.

[Personally I believe that the copyright terms in computer software like this are way too long, and much (most?) Wii software is really abandonware at this point, and should be allowed to be distributed - but that’s not the law]
Most of our repositories are MIT licensed, which holds significant value. Some of our repositories are source-available. We believe we are building an open-source product, and we reserve the right to define what 'open-source' means for us. Our only prohibition is against competitors making minor modifications and then selling our product. Our position on this is clear. We recognize that our definition may not align with others' perspectives here, and we are open to understanding that. However, labeling our approach as dishonest isn't something we consider accurate. To avoid any confusion for those who uphold the traditional notion of 'open source', we will change the term 'open source' to 'open code' on our website.
As with most technology, there are plusses and minuses.

If used correctly (if is doing lots of heavy lifting here) this type of system, eye gaze, imu & microphones would provide much much better hearing aids than the current state of the art, at a much cheaper price (go look up the price of hearing aids, its _extortion_ )

Using gate analysis, it would be possible predict when someone is prone to falls, allowing much longer independence for older people.

Assuming that its possible to understand who you are talking to and what they said, you could mitigate and support dementia much more than we can now.

However.

You also have a vast network of headsets with highly accurate always on location, able to see what you are looking at, who you talk to, what you say, and in somecases what you feel about things.

Add in some basic object/facial recognition and you have an authoritarian's wet dream.

now is the time to regulate, but alas, that wont happen.
I had to do a garage roof a few years ago. The previous owner thought it would be a good idea to put a hole in the main crossbeam to attach the garage door opener. As soon as I bought the house I removed the garage door opener and put metal plates on both side of the hole bolted together.

My "fix" held for about 11 years, but apparently it very slowly weakened, creating a small divot on the roof. Which got bigger and bigger with each rain, but since I never go on the garage roof, I didn't notice.

Until during one heavy rain I got a surprise skylight!

So yeah, you probably want to fix that before you get a total collapse like I did.
> a still image container would do nothing useful

It would, at least, create a codec-neutral location and format for image metadata, with codec-neutral (and ideally extensible + vendor-namespaced) fields. EXIF is just a JPEG thing. There is a reason that TIFF is still to this day used in medical imaging — it allows embedding of standardized medical-namespace metadata fields.

Also, presuming the container format itself is extensible, it would also allow the PNG approach to ancillary data embedding ("allow optional chunks with vendor-specific meanings, for data that can be useful to clients, but which image processors can know it's safe to strip without understanding because 'is optional' is a syntactic part of the chunk name") to be used with arbitrary images — in a way where those chunks can even survive the image being transcoded! (If you're unaware, when you transcode a video file between video codecs using e.g. Handbrake, ancillary data like thumbnail and subtitle tracks will be ported as-is to the new file, as long as the new container format also supports those tracks.)

Also, speaking of subtitle tracks, here's something most people may have never considered: you know how video containers can embed "soft" subtitle tracks? Why shouldn't images embed "soft" subtitle tracks, in multiple languages? Why shouldn't you expect your OS screen-reader feature to be able to read you your accessibility-enabled comic books in your native language — and in the right order (an order that, for comic books, a simple OCR-driven text extraction could never figure out)?

(There are community image-curation services that allow images to be user-annotated with soft subtitles; but they do it by storing the subtitle data outside of the image file, in a database; sending the subtitle data separately as an XHR response after the image-display view loads; and then overlaying the soft-subtitle interaction-regions onto the image using client-side Javascript. Which makes sense in a world where users are able to freely edit the subtitles... but in a world where the subtitles are burned into the image at publication time by the author or publisher, it should be the browser [or other image viewer] doing this overlaying! Saving the image file should save the soft subtitles along with it! Just like when right-click-Save-ing a <video> element!)
>Basically it's more of an art installation than it is a serious censorship circumvention tool. Still neat for what it is I guess.

Why cant it be both?
> Would that really be out of reach for what we can currently do?

Naively. I would say yes. I think you're far far underestimating the thrusts needed to move big rocks and match orbits. But please go ahead and do the math if you think that this extra-ordinary idea can work.

Having a 173 mile metal object in LEO is also a non-starter - getting it there and keeping it there are both insanely dangerous if anything goes wrong. The ISS's orbit is not stable without periodic booster thrusts (1). And higher orbits where there is not-one around - how useful are those exactly? They could become useful, maybe. but that's not what we can currently do.

1) https://www.universetoday.com/155694/watch-what-happens-to-a...
I find the solar propulsion much more interesting than the mining value ...

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/solar-electric-propulsion-make...

>But the rest of the journey, once Psyche separates from the launch vehicle, will rely on solar electric propulsion. This form of propulsion starts with large solar arrays that convert sunlight into electricity, providing the power source for the spacecraft’s thrusters. They’re known as Hall thrusters, and the Psyche spacecraft will be the first to use them beyond the orbit of our Moon.

>In fact, the thrust is so gentle, it exerts about the same amount of pressure you’d feel holding three quarters in your hand. But it’s enough to accelerate Psyche through deep space. With no atmospheric drag to hold it back, the spacecraft eventually will accelerate to speeds of up to 124,000 miles per hour (200,000 kilometers per hour) relative to Earth.
Feel free to back up this assertion with examples. I hope you'll come back with something better than 'I couldn't find anything about Hunter Biden's laptop.'
There's zero growth in film projection. There's 30 film IMAX screens in the world. So using a Palm device (or emulated variant) is zero risk.

This is a good technical and organizational choice.
I find marking files, hunks and single lines to commit extremely comfortable in tig. And also reverting is as easy as selecting a file or hunk and pressing Shift+1. But yes, more complex operations are not supported or rather you have to define an external command and thus use an external tool for those.
Yes it is an interesting set of trade offs. I have first-hand experience. Six years ago, people on one end of the political spectrum mistook me for someone on the opposite end, and doxxed me. My name is similar to theirs, but I have an additional part of my name that makes it more specific. Now, my google results are polluted with the residue of that doxxing event.

For a while, I actively tried to remove my google results, but there are still archive and social media sites that have my info up, despite my best attempts to take it down. There are also people’s personal sites that have my info, but I don’t want to contact them, because I doubt that these people would believe that this is a case of mistaken identity, and I don’t want to draw attention to myself all over again. I have family who had a similar thing happen, and they counseled me not to take legal action, since it would probably lead my harassers to double down.

So now I am trying to rebuild my actual, positive online presence, except for contact information, because I still fear for my physical safety all these years later. It is a delicate balance. The political situation here (US) is so unstable, the memory of the internet is so long, and developing technology (generative AI) is making it so that there might be a point in the future where a sufficiently motivated individual could exact political retribution on a whole set of perceived enemies at once. This would make my entire life a hellish experience (or end it), no matter the fact that I wasn’t an extremist. I feel that this makes my online presence as essential to my well-being as things like exercise, investing for retirement, etc.
> Common misconception but this is not true. If you use cookies only for functional purposes (not for tracking for example), you do not need to show any cookie banners. Like if you have a shopping cart and you have a cookie for keeping track of what's in it, it's for functional purposes for the user and hence needs no notice to be used.

Personally, I would not put a cookie banner of any kind on my website. However, given this text:

The term 'strictly necessary' means that such storage of or access to information should be essential, rather than reasonably necessary, for this exemption to apply. However, it will also be restricted to what is essential to provide the service requested by the user, rather than what might be essential for any other uses the service provider might wish to make of that data. It will also include what is required to comply with any other legislation the person using the cookie might be subject to, for example, the security requirements of the seventh data protection principle.

Where the setting of a cookie is deemed 'important' rather than 'strictly necessary', those collecting the information are still obliged to provide information about the device to the potential service recipient and obtain consent.

I think it's clear why a more risk-conscious organization like Meta might take a more conservative reading of "Strictly necessary" that does not apply to e.g. bandwidth optimizations related to a device's DPI
Erdosian means having the genetic trait Paul Erdós had, which was the uncommonly good reaction to similar stimulants to those he took, without which he could not do any math research at all. He was steroidal, i'm steroidal too in my research, it's like bodybuilding in that steroids are part of the game. As long as they do not damage your health, it's fine. I literally get time dilation from the stimulants i take, which i do under prescription of course, but at the same time i know it's not fair to play sports for instance, because they're performance enhancing drugs (n generally outright forbidden). But sports are zero-sum, research is positive-sum, so that's what i do instead.

In particular the critical trait is amplified creativity to the point i share Erdos view that "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper.". Same exact symptoms.

In addition, my being steroidal is justified by the fact that i got brain surgery, like the radio transcranial magnetic crap, against my will n without my knowledge, electroshock too, the works. So perhaps it is understandable in my case.
Deceptive
Confluence was a piece of crap 10 years ago.
> on behalf of the customer

Not on behalf of the website.
Huh? Isn't this story about the possibility of the UK government legally requiring Apple to do something?
I imagine your experience of sending a message to multiple people and it not making a "group message" was your older dumb phones weren't switching to MMS, it was keeping it as pure SMS. In the SMS world, there is one recipient. In MMS, it's like an email, you can list a lot (100+ in some cases) of receipts and they can all see the list.
> while pretending that it isn’t intended to infringe on copyright

It might be used for that but it isn’t intended to by the developers
Wake me up when they get tired of all the useless tech in their internet.
iPhone has like a 33% market share so I wouldn't call it common if you can't reach 2 out of 3 people on it at least.

In contrast, in many European countries Whatsapp has 90%+ penetration [1]. Even where it's relatively unused it's more common than iMessage.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1311229/whatsapp-usage-m...
(2022)

I remember when publicity stunts like this would ship in Second Life. The more things change...
How much better do you think a new codec needs to be to make it all the way to mainstream? 2x? 10x?
Background: SICP was the textbook for my undergrad intro to CS class, though I was already a self-taught programmer at the time.

SICP provided a different way of understanding programming. I enjoyed the class, did well, and became a big fan of Scheme for quite some time.

But the text was written for a different era, one dominated by C, PASCAL, and COBOL and when parallel programming was rare. In a time where almost all programming required working with low-level, basic programming constructs designed around the CPU's architecture, using Scheme to teach future non-academics was a great way to open their eyes to different ways of thinking about programming.

But it's close to the 40th anniversary of the first edition and past the 25th anniversary of the second. A four core CPU is low(er) end. Phones have 4+ cores. Even watches have dual-core CPUs. Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, Rust, and a zillion frameworks are all available and widely used.

It wasn't possible to get performant Scheme on the hardware of the time. Now that we have the hardware, other languages have taken what Scheme could do and done it better.

Are the concepts useful? Certainly. But if your goal is to be a better programmer now, I'd pick a different book. If you're a Python programmer, pick a (modern, recent) Python book. If you're a JavaScript dev, then a (modern, recent) JS book.

If SICP was teaching woodworking, it would be the no power tools, start with a standing tree method. It's fascinating, it's neat, there are cool concepts to learn. But it's of little relevance, day-to-day, in a world filled with tools that let you focus on the goal instead of a million tiny details.
Exactly. Trusted Computing means that the FAANGs and the MAFIAA can trust that your computer will put their interests ahead of your interests. There is zero benefit to you.
> But if you threaten politicians with losing their blue bubbles they’re gonna fall in line.

This is not a thing outside the United States, and I doubt that most British politicians are even aware of 'blue bubbles'.

For example, the recent controversy regarding the release of Covid-related government communications was centred on WhatsApp, with no reference to other platforms like iMessage.

https://news.sky.com/story/politicians-are-drawn-to-whatsapp...