skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fair to say Microsoft doesn't have a great track record over the last several decades with security of their flagship OS. A lot of the nightmares customers have suffered are a direct result of this, either inherent bugs or failing to nudge developers on their platform in the right direction with well thought out, friction-free best practices and tooling.

For sure they have a lot of insight to share but it would be nice to see them address before touting their laurels. (Yes they've gotten a lot better, but in my opinion still nowhere near as bulletproof as it should be).
Glad the KRAB archive is back up, I think it was down for a while.

There’s a great short documentary from 1964 about KRAB and Milam. Originally made for the CBC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRqcX3MVG0Q
> Freedom to root/jailbreak one's phone is not freedom to use a service, if they don't want rooted phones to use their RCS gateway I don't think they should be forced to allow it.

The whole argument that Google has been making for RCS is that it's open. However, that isn't actually the case. You're only allowed to use Google's apps (or Samsung's since they had enough market power to force Google to make an exception for them). RCS isn't an open service. It's just Google's chat service that they got carriers to adopt claiming it was open.

Google used RCS as a trojan horse to get the whole Android ecosystem to move to a chat service they control - and where they receive all the unencrypted meta-data. They block competing apps from getting access. Google got up on its high horse about supporting an open standard when that was a complete fabrication.
Strategically this was true a decade ago. Tactically/revenue-wise yes they'll make a lot on hybrids. Maximization of carbon impact of battery production would have been best with hybrids if the policy was properly aligned 20 years ago.

Hybrids should have been heavily incented or outright required in the year 2000. With the prius and insight showing such gains ESPECIALLY in city driving, the DoT for every major market should have told car companies to get 90% of new consumer cars as hybrids, and given them 20 years for trucks and heavy equipment.

But now, with the arrival of mass production sodium ion, hybrids are a legacy technology. Sure hybrids will have a role, but it is an inevitably diminishing one, just like ICEs.

I don't believe Toyota is right about anything with BEVs. They missed the EV boat and strangely keep pushing hydrogen. It shows shocking inertia and dysfunction in their management, and it has for ten years now.

Toyota likely has the size and resources to catch up. They can probably essentially buy a Chinese EV company or forge a really strong partnership to close the gap, but it will require management direction to become less muddled.
> a list of all allowed accounts

Oh, this is a great find, thanks very much for pointing it out. I admit I haven't (at least not in recent years) looked into Ledger's manual, so I was not aware or had forgotten about this possibility. This one would, indeed, solve a lot of potential problems or confusion.
Other possibility is that they claim they spent the non-profut funds prior to going for-profit? It would be dubious to claim damages if the entity was effectively bankrupt prior to for profit creation.
Curlie looks great; thanks!
Why do you assume that the benefits would outweigh said costs? That's a weird burden to set on the format. Using JavaScript on the browser to decode it is a huge hurdle, I don't know of any format that ever got popular or got its initial usage from a similar approach. Avif was just added too, even if no one was using a js library to decode it beforehand

Fwiw I agree that there's a weird narrative around jpegxl, at the end of the day it's just a format, and I think it's not very good for lower quality images as proven by the linked article in the OP. Avif looks better in that regard.

I think it would've made more sense than WebP though (which also doesn't look good at all when not lossless), but that was like a decade ago and that ship has sailed. So avif fills a niche that WebP sucks at, while jpegxl doesn't really do that. That alone is reason enough to not bother with including it.
Threads API Update
I have used Google messages with RCS on grapheneos.
Getting rid of rooting is not a "war on general computing." General computing means that you can write a wide variety of software for them instead of the computer being meant for a specific use case. The app platform on Android allows for such a variety of apps. Just because it's not possible for an app to record your microphone without asking the user for permission that doesn't mean that the phone isn't general purpose.
Cursorless by Example: Intro and demo [video]
That feels a little sad. If qoi had anything good (fast single-threaded decoding speed for photographic content) adding bz2 most certainly removed it. They could have just used WebP lossless and it would have been faster and smaller.
A. I'm not defending the company, only their right to refuse service under their own terms.
B. I think all devices and media legally purchased should be open and able to be modified in both form and function by the owner of said devices or media.
C. Being entitled to fully own one's device does not come with an entitlement to utilize online services of a 3rd party.

I understand your position but please try not to put words in my mouth.
You speak a lot about "reasonable" things. The parent probably could have made things a little more clear, but concerning "government, military" work policies it's almost expected a high percentage will be unreasonable.
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`Anything safe enough to allow Microsoft or others access too would be safe enough to release publicly.`

This makes absolutely no sense.
Fine, but what do we do with results from bad libraries? Looking at you, Excel.
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I'm looking for Staff/Principle level Eng roles. Doesn't have to be security, but that's my skill bias.

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defer is best compared to try/finally or unwind-protect and friends. You can defer any action, not just whatever the IDisposable happens to cleanup. It also gets access to the lexical scope for its deferred actions.

You could imitate that with IDisposable, but it would be overkill compared to just using finally (in C#).
Additionally, only Google’s is capable of encrypted RCS as far as I’m aware (as the standard does not include that), so using other clients means giving up encryption.
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they suppressed hackability since the beginning though, but of course not as much as Apple... For example, by default, they block native Linux apps, block ad-hoc WiFi, rooting your device can be a pain, etc
If money is not that important, then it must have been important to them at some point for them to have obtained and retained it.
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What happens when Tesla gives Musk sau a new 40B package? Will the lawyers return about 4B to match that percentage?
This feels like a take from someone frozen in 2004. Your description doesn't match my impression of present day Microsoft.
I know the experience is different for others, but I personally find a job posting I think I'll be a good fit for and apply on the company's careers page. Been doing this for 15 years, and have had a 100% callback rate for an interview.
Anything-in-anything-out: a new modular AI model
Processing Inputs from the Internet
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johanmoreno/2021/01/22/waymo-ce...

"Krafcik made the point, as some analysts predict autonomous vehicle technology will be too expensive to adopt en masse. Waymo uses LiDAR sensors in its vehicles, which previously retailed for as much as $75,000. In 2019, Krafcik signaled that its Honeycomb LiDAR units now cost around $7,500."

And price is only going to come down over time.
And what does Apple's servers detecting spamming patterns have to do with rooted/jailbroken devices? iMessage fundamentally is used every day by people who can have as much root as they want on their desktop Mac, and so whatever mechanisms we are talking about that differentiate iMessage from whatever other services can't be cited as an argument to take away freedom to modify your software.
I agree. I started out mission driven, now I'm a coaster after getting screwed.
Well it probably sells those same tools to the West as well. Gotta stalk those pesky journalists covering genocide somehow. Plus it helps if someone other than you is seen with the dirty hands.
Yep, I use it for simple internal tools, don't wanna make a bunch of frontend stuff myself
I would think if Delaware Judge approves this payout, it will accelerate companies leaving Delaware as their incorporation HQ.
I agree, RCS should have never been adopted as the messaging standard. We have had several open standards that accomplished nearly all the same goals. Personally I believe a federated standard should have been created, one that would allow people to host their own gateways and easily peer with the large carriers. Maybe something akin to the way IANA and BGP operate.
I’m not that pessimistic. The world ebbs and flows.

There was a time when if you wanted an app, it had to be for Windows. It needed to be digitally signed (for good reason) not long later. Good luck moving it to any other platform. Also, good luck getting past corporate IT departments.

Then, the internet got better. Anyone could make a program that ran on any device. Later, we need pseudo-signing for that too, but it was nowhere near as intensive to get.

Desktop computers have never been a free for all. It ebbs and flows. Less freedom on system apps, greater freedom for web apps is the new vogue.

Let’s also not forget the motivation for this - people learned to be terrified of installing software. Remember Windows 10 and 11 S mode? Microsoft claims 60% of users never leave that mode to install even one app outside the Microsoft Store. That’s how much the “Normie” has learned to fear programs, and I think that there’s some blame to be had there. We desired freedom at the expense of the normal user. The normal user has rebelled and rejected freedom voluntarily.

The “Normie” user is perfectly content with a walled garden and a big tech company “securing” their experience. They’ve had their taste of freedom with Windows in the 90s and 2000s and fear it immensely. Blue screens, viruses, clunky software, broken updates, unreliable - but free. Unlike iPhone: Automatic updates, no crashes, viruses almost nonexistent, reliable and simple. Not technically free, but it feels free enough. We don’t really have anyone but ourselves (tech enthusiasts in general) to blame.

I can’t overstate this enough: We want freedom? We need to break the well-earned cultural stereotype that freedom equals a terrible experience.
Sounds like anti-competitive fraud, or at the very minimum, false advertising.
Remaking Super Mario World in Godot
Were you involved in creating WebP? If so that's super cool! Why would they want to match webp's lossy compression though? To make it more uniform? And do you know why lossy WebP had such a limitation in the first place? Thank you!
I was thinking more of individual pricing
Ask HN: Is AI demotivating your will to code?
I'm beginning to feel what's the point in coding anything algorithmic anymore. I can just fire up GitHub Copilot or whatever and it'll do it faster and likely better.

It's like a dying craft now and it's so ironic because the whole beauty of software was to automate things.

Maybe it's me realizing that coding was never the important part.
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/09/using-saliency-in-... can be interesting
Sure, but arguing that requires separate evidence other than "all the biggest frauds were committed by companies audited by the big 4". That observation adds no evidence.
The subway cars on the tracks all need to go there yesterday.
The article isn’t fully accurate. For example old growth is not more knot free. That depended on a lot of factors. Maybe the wood used for windows was more knot free but that is a different matter entirely. Here is a counterpoint article: https://www.finewoodworking.com/forum/old-growth-vs-second-g...
They've probably also fixed more security problems than most, and as Fred Brooks said,

"Good judgement is the result of experience. Experience is the result of bad judgement"
There are no illuminati.

Interesting psyops to conflate corruption with "illuminati"..
https://struct.ai/struct-for-slack would allow individuals to use Struct as an interface to Slack, without the whole team having to switch in one go.
The Myth of Scarcity and Its Threats to Human Society [pdf] (2023)
I prefer self hosting

One remaining benefit might be caching
That's the same link I posted in the original comment, JSYK.
I can't stand the HDMI LA, they remind me so much of the MPEG LA. It's the same tactics over and over again, take an existing standard or create an open standard, release freely, then iterate and put future versions behind pay-wall and NDA.

HEVC is another example of this B.S. in the industry. STOP TRYING TO MAKE PAYWALLED/NDA'D STANDARDS A THING A-HOLES.
It's customary to mention when you're promoting your own project.
If everyone worked from 12 till 100 and the midle half of the population makes 24 hours the under and over aged would have to work 12 or so. 2x6 hours, 3x4 or 4x3 maybe 6x2.

You learn much more if you start young and keeping the expertice on the floor longer would also help.

If we reserve the younglings earnings for specific purchases productivity would increase even more.
There are studies in this direction, e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092544391...
Or replace/ldconfig the jpeg library with the jpegli library. It is API/ABI compatible with libjpeg-turbo and mozjpeg.
Definitely got played. Unless your daily driver is a train and you only go in straight lines, it won't matter about differences in the tire circumference. Every time you turn the steering wheel (even a little, let alone make a turn) all 4 wheels are rotating at different speeds anyway -- it's why we need differentials!

An AWD has an additional center diff or transfer case that allows the combined rotation of the front (trans)axle and rear axle to be different (because unless you are steering dead straight on a flat non-cambered road they will always be slightly different).

A 4WD doesn't have that center diff and you have to manually engage 4WD to use it (that difference between 4WD and AWD). You will get transmission wind-up if drive in 4WD in anything other than a straight line on a normal road surface -- fine in the mud or snow because the wheels will slip easily enough to reduce the windup.

In fact if you get really stuck, you want a diff-lock or limited slip diff so you can prevent the power going all to one wheel (or two in an AWD/4WD config).

It's a myth used to sell more tires.
Ask HN: Is there a good reason not to enable Lockdown Mode on an iPhone?
I've been using my phone in Lockdown Mode and surprisingly haven't noticed any degradation in usability / convenience features.

Is there any good reason people shouldn't all be enabling Lockdown Mode on their iPhones by default?
You are right. But...

All nuclear power plants come under the oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. And if you heard of Chernobyl and Fukushima and of earthquakes and floods, guess what, the NRC has heard of those too. And of 1000 other risk factors, and it keeps an eye on them.

If the NRC decides to shut down a reactor, I'm fine with that. If politicians decide to do that, not so much. Sure, politicians will always say something that amounts to "think of the children", but they are just playing with your emotions. They are not better experts than the experts whose jobs is to regulate the power plants.

In my state, NY, the politicians managed to shut down 2 reactors, claiming that they'll replace them with renewable sources. Shut them down they did, and replaced them with natural gas power plants they did too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Point_Energy_Center
And logically, flammable and inflammable mean the exact opposite, but here we are.
OpenAI has strict privacy rules in place. Being on a business account, any of the data that we send to OpenAI wouldn't be used for training.

It's a SaaS. Over the next few months, we'll be going through the SOC2 compliance process.

Will update the footer, thanks for catching.
I am not certain, but at a minimum, I suspect that Apple knows a non-rooted device will be incapable of lying about, say, its serial number; whereas a rooted device might make one up and try repeatedly until it finds one that works. The ability to lie about such identifiers makes a device ban impossible to enforce.
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"recognizing prompts that cannot be solely interpreted by semantics"

Humans certainly don't interpret language solely by semantics—why is this considered a flaw in chatbots?
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How would you secretly hide something like that in FOSS? And why would that be easier? It's seems to me that it's easier to inject into an existing company than to do all the work yourself. This is what they do with most things as I understand.
I encourage you to reevaluate your understanding of computer science.

I have. I have concluded that anybody who spent the last several years studying the way things work now has wasted a lot of time (and likely a fair bit of money), unless their goal is to help develop the next generation of tools.

Comp sci itself is relatively timeless, but the day-to-day practice of programming will be radically different in 5 years and unrecognizable in 10. And it's about freaking time.
Nimble: An Open Source, Portable and Offline-First Wireless Mesh Network
It's a little crazy that you're being downvoted. Cutting weight is 1000% easier in the kitchen than in the gym.

What's easier, saying 'no' to a coke, or talking yourself into the 1.5 mile run that's required to burn those calories?
I personally would separate that into two separate fuzz cases - one that generates only valid inputs and one that generates only invalid inputs and spend more resources on verifying the latter because validating invalid inputs is more important. I didn’t read the article but I like property testing for this where your mutator takes random values and uses that to generate a valid input somehow rather than stubbing in a static value. Where I can use a static value is where I wouldn’t be fuzzing the validation of that value. Of course certs are complicated beasts so I’m sure the cURL people did what made sense to them.
Thank you! We went through many iterations to get to this pricing model. So, I appreciate this comment.
We do have data from sports training. It is pretty simple: If you dont rest you wont grow. You get injured.
I asked simply to specify the argument criteria. You just went on a fallacy laden rant to redirect to me to define those criteria

So can you clarify?
I think you’re totally right. My big mistake facepalm

Still trying to make time to play with the data myself but I suspect it won’t really contain the information I want.
And a simple match can literally kill everyone in the house.
I believe JPEG XL binary size is about one third of AVIF binary size. It is relatively compact. It is easy to write a small encoder: libjxl-tiny is just 7000 lines of code.
Yea, I think that Bluesky is far more likely to inherent the good parts of Twitter/X than Threads, if only for a far more flexible moderation policy.
GPT-4's Hidden Cost: Is Your Language Pricing You Out of AI Innovation? (2023)
How does this work exactly? What calls that function and when?
A little more meddling with Apple by the EU and it would be appropriate to start thinking about reciprical measures against LVMH.
If I own it, I should be able to make it do what I tell it to do. Its a simple concept, no need to water it down to please our corporate overlords.
Apple has often asserted that software obtained outside their walled garden will do things behind your back on the phone, like using your phone to send spam or collecting your data. I do not agree with this assertion as it implies anyone not playing in their garden is a criminal, but I'd assume these types of behaviors will use that as an excuse.

Apple can't put the genie back in the bottle with macOS, they've been trying though. True root requires a special boot sequence otherwise you really only get pseudo-root. They introduced the AppStore to macOS and it was a huge flop because of how restrictive they made it. Microsoft also tried the same with Windows S on ARM devices and eventually were forced to allow disabling S mode.

Again, I think there is this impression that I agree with any or all of their behaviors. I don't, I'm only reasoning about why and how in some cases it might be one part of a deterrent. Nothing stops me from jumping over a fence, so why put it up to begin with?