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> Here are five increasingly sophisticated views:

> Infinite – Pay any price for any chance to save any human life.

> [...]

Say you take this position, that the value of a human life is infinite. Then you come to a situation where you have to make a trade-off: some must die in order for others to live. Something of a Sophie's Choice, though perhaps less dramatic. Now what?

This does happen! When it happens it's not necessarily obvious, but it happens. TFA gives an example.

Putting an infinite value on human life isn't practical. Putting a finite value on human life seems crass, but is practical. We just have to be a bit crass then -- what else can we do?
That was a nice reading experience
Being patent-encumbered kind of makes it moot on the web though, just like H.265 video.
I wonder, why nobody mentioned Patrice Bellard's BPG[1]. It is based on HEVC and can be supported in any browser via a Javascript. From his website:

BPG (Better Portable Graphics) is a new image format. Its purpose is to replace the JPEG image format when
quality or file size is an issue. Its main advantages are:

* High compression ratio. Files are much smaller than JPEG for similar quality.
* Supported by most Web browsers with a small Javascript decoder (gzipped size: 56 KB).
* Based on a subset of the HEVC open video compression standard.
* Supports the same chroma formats as JPEG (grayscale, YCbCr 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4) to reduce the losses during the
conversion. An alpha channel is supported. The RGB, YCgCo and CMYK color spaces are also supported.
* Native support of 8 to 14 bits per channel for a higher dynamic range.
* Lossless compression is supported.
* Various metadata (such as EXIF, ICC profile, XMP) can be included.
* Animation support.

[1] https://bellard.org/bpg/
Upsampling used to be pitched in papers as a way to add plausible information to images so they don't look so degraded.

Recently, however, there's been a lot of work pitching upsampling for "deblurring" faces, which seems like a great way for LEO to run the programme until they hit on a face that most likely looks like a person of interest.

Hell, you can even make it explicitly so that the net takes two inputs, the blurred image and a suspects image, and generate a plausible upsample that is similar to the suspect.

That sounds like bad faith science that no judge would accept, but perfectly legitimate technologies like DNA testing has historically been abused this way in the courts.
Waiting for the CSI episode:

"Ok, zoom in... alright, now enhance that... now upsample using AI trained on criminal database... "
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Right, if you look at the example JIT project I posted, they start by creating the memory with mmap() and PROT_EXEC before generating any code. So yes, you'd need to trap subsequent writes to allow for retranslation [I assume they have hooks in the Darwin kernel for this].
Something about life imitating art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roark_family#Cardinal_Roark
Wirecard has been at highs too. That’s the point.

If you have high conviction something is wrong then it doesn’t matter that it works the wrong way in the meantime.
Good point, thanks. I did mean personal property.
Just find a western nation with nukes and try to move there...

Any hot war between a western nation and China goes nuclear, brings in all powers, and leads to the end of civilization. There is no scenario where combat beyond a border skirmish doesn't lead to total nuclear annihilation. Some large conventional war between NATO and China is fantasy and poorly reasoned fantasy at that.

That's good though, it means that a hot war with China is extremely unlikely and everyone on all sides will try to prevent it.

As far as fear of climate related stuff goes - it's pretty shitty but historically situations like climate change mostly just screw over the poorest in society. Medieval ice ages almost never impacted kings the way they did to peasants. Sounds like you have incentive to acquire as much power and wealth as possible before climate migrants plunge the world into deterioration...
> I bring this both to point out that there is a very valid reason to use WebP over JPEG — alpha blending — and that this entire field is still a gigantic mess.

Yeah, you can do manual alpha masking in webkit, but it's freaky and stupid.
On iOS, any screenshot taken while iOS background blur is active will balloon from 0.15MB to 15.0MB, because iOS uses PNG for screenshots and blurred backgrounds are apparently irreducible by PNG.

Does the WebP format permit bounded areas of an image to be represented at lower fidelity with a smooth blur, so that the blurred-background effect can be stored and retrieved using fewer pixels and a blur algorithm rather than more pixels and no blur algorithm? Do PNG or HEIF (h265) support this? Does any image format support bounded areas of lower fidelity?

The tricky part is that this implies that some areas of the image should intentionally be reproduced as ‘lossy’ and ‘lower fidelity’ and so forth, which is precisely correct - but goes against the grain of image encoding in the past.
Funnily enough, this is also true for humans: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/nyregion/the-science-behi...
HN isn't a person.
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You could alias it ?
The difference is even more pronounced. A very nice house in Nebraska is well under 300K but out of reach of almost all in most of California. Why you would live in either Nebraska or California though is up for debate...
Proving Too Much: https://archive.md/M1XHf
Woo! Amazing progress, and great to see the sensible approach. Well done Povilas and Bill.
So?

Maybe you and your friends are doing something wrong. Maybe I should be able to learn about an alternate opinion, and then decide that the opinion is dumb, using my own brain and reasoning.

Do you not see how dangerous it is to stop people from discussing a topic openly and freely? What happens when this censorship and attempt at controlling the narrative is aimed at you? Do you want to be the recipient of this treatment?
It uses a proxy server as said on the landing page. That said, the service is shut down apparently so you have to self-host your own proxy server. That's not too useful for me so I uninstalled the extension.
Thanks for posting (don't love the title though ;))

Startups are hard, and we were trying to grow something that hadn't gotten to product market fit yet. I'm working on getting to PMF, and thinking hard about what's needed to do that, while making sure Dark works in the long term.
Honest question. If this is not sarcasm, what makes it worth $30 a month. I can't think of a single other software I would pay that much for.
But regulations, inspections, codes and permits are all government-run systems. As a result, at least in principle in a democracy, citizens (including companies) can request to learn why those systems rejected them. Otherwise they can take them to court.

Neither Apple nor Google are governments. When laws and constitutions were crafted, those framers did not comprehend a future where private companies had effective control (and even monopoly) on what might amount to critical infrastructure, and if not critical, then infrastructure nonetheless.
I thought "accident" when I read that comment first, but on reading it again:

"sidewalk to strike an unarmed black man on a bicycle head on."

So... "to strike" this wasn't an accident?
I don't get why Zoom got such attention. I've never even heard about it before the pandemic. But I've heard of other video conferencing tools.
What was the result of the switch, how heavy is a full page load now?
Zerohedge is not a reputable source of information. You might as well link to Infowars. At best it's clickbait, at worst it's manipulative propaganda.
Inverting a non-invertible operator impossible, study finds.
1. Yes/no - my own team is more the latter as I'm more customer-facing and lone-ranger-y, but other teams do a lot more collab and keep things central. As far as I'm aware though, it's a bit of a mixed bag, so getting to the point where we're all on the same page would be fantastic.

2. This sounds great. I like the k8s angle particularly as well - I have yet to find much useful in that area, so having a service that's good at it would be wonderful.

3. This I'd imagine would be end-game at AWS. Specifically ability to handle own storage and keys would be an immediate sell here. We've just taken on Slack Enterprise Grid for basically this (granted this was a 2-way deal: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/4/21280829/slack-amazon-aws-...) so clearly we're up for it :D

I get the focus though. Seems like a good opportunity to set yourself up as best-in-class for this type of thing. I'll certainly be using CloudSkew for anything I need privately. :)
Doxxing is not something new. Scott Alexander is clear about his anonymity.

If a journalist interviewed a popular camgirl who introduced herself as (say) LustyClaraXXX, and then "did research" to compare pictures, and revealed her legal name an occupation (say, a schoolteacher), would you consider it ethical?

If yes, why so? If no, why so?
this is not true.
It's only a matter of time until AI generated sketches are trotted out in court to show someone's "obvious" guilt.
> Most applications do not contain JITs.

Java apps and JavaScript apps (Electron) come to mind.
I mean it wouldn't surprise me if the NYPD had a liaison directly with FBI field offices outside of the country, since the stakes are so high and tight integration could save lives. It would also be weird if the NYPD were operating much more directly than that.
I think collecting analytics from the server logs is going to get more popular again, though a problem for SPAs? We could call it Edge Analytics this time around and run it on cloudflare.

For publishing systems, couldn't wordpress report back analytics data to itself, on its own domain? Something like that existed but i'm not sure if it was using Jetpack servers or not. If this isn't already possible, it seems like an obvious thing for someone privacy concious to build.
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It's always great to read of someone making a living from what they love and a community supporting each other.
I concur with zpeti’s sentiment that “I think the markets have been completely messed up by stimulus since 2008, and it's only getting worse.”

And as you, Qasaur, say: “this erroneous monetary policy will only stop if politicians and central bankers are willing to stomach a harsh market recalibration, but seeing as they seem to not be willing to do that judging from their recent actions so I fear that this systemic malinvestment and inequality will just get worse and worse until something breaks.”

I think society has reached that breaking point and starting to show the cracks. Digging underneath the protests/riots/violence/standoffs in cities like Minneapolis or Seattle, as they have revealed, what you'll find is rooted in socioeconomics.
> I am genuinely baffled how Scott Alexander's post has turned into hundreds and hundreds of comments on cancel culture, as if it was anything near the #1 reason why he'd be in danger if his name was revealed.

People in comments sections (doesn’t matter which) don’t really “react to” or “engage with” the article very often. What they’re really doing is being reminded by the article of some thought that’s been affecting them in their own lives lately—which they then hold forth about. Sometimes the tangential thought can be supported by quoting the article (either literally, or in rebuttal); but this is still different from engaging with the article itself, per se.

For most people, the article is grist for the idea-mill of their own “blogging”, which they happen to do in the form of a comment. (Heck, that’s what I’m doing right now, to your comment!)

People who genuinely respond to a post as if they were in conversation with the original author are few and far between, and tend to put their responses on professional blogs rather than comments sections. (Which is funny, because "comments sections" are nominally for engaging with the post. We've all become very mixed up somehow.)
It's more like hedging their bets. The Chinese proposals (CEPC + SppC) are simultaneously underwhelming in terms of performance specs and over-ambitious in terms of timescale. There's also always a chance that they will never materialise. If they do actually get built, construction of the FCC will be cancelled and CERN will participate in (and hopefully improve) CEPC+SppC. Similarly if Japan builds the ILC, FCC-ee will be cancelled and CERN will join that while bringing forward the FCC-hh.
The Oprah one is probably worse:

https://twitter.com/Truttle1/status/1274361095285886982
Agreed, while the algorithm is novel, it is vulnerable to introducing false assumptions about the original image. For example, if you were to use this as a method for determine suspects from low quality security camera footage, you may generate suspect images that are biased or completely false.
The protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder are currently tapering off, but I don’t see any evidence at all that substantive changes have been made, which means that this is all going to happen again, and soon, and the protests will be bigger, the police response more violent. The black lives matter organization in my city presented a list of demands to the city council and every one of them was ignored, instead the council promised sensitivity training. This is nowhere close to over.
Tangential but for those who are developing Chrome extensions, I've made a post about what to expect when submitting a update and how to avoid the manual review from CWS.

It can be found at https://getsnapfont.com/posts/avoiding-lengthy-review-times-...
Africa's richest woman “ripped off her country”
And you make more than $15 an hour, too? The audacity. Don't they know the plan? Poor people and minorities are supposed to take the risks we're not willing to face upon themselves! Best take to social media and start in with the self-congratulatory virus shaming and empty solidarity with the lower class. Remember - you are socially responsible and letting the peasants fight Covid-19 is all part of The Final Solution.
> I don’t see any reporting on the dangers of talking to reporters.

There are plenty of resources on how to handle talking with a reporter.

One thing I would suggest learning the difference between going on- and off-the-record and speaking on background.

> Where is the NYT piece on what happens to people after they have been linked to something in the news?

Here's a free one: Harvey Weinstein's victims. Despite them coming out about his abusive behaviors, his attorneys and henchman are going after them.
NYT frequently uses anonymous sources, even in cases where it doesn't seem to be necessary. Search for "sources familiar with the matter" +site:nytimes.com for dozens of examples per month.
The examples you give at the end aren't remotely comparable to Scott's situation. Success in the film or music industries is synonymous with fame; it would be absurd to pursue a career in either while expecting to preserve your anonymity. You can't compare these career paths to "blogger who already has a successful career elsewhere, writing pseudonymously in his spare time to a niche, nerdy audience."

If you want to use Wikipedia as the gold standard, check out Wikipedia's own policies regarding privacy of article subjects. E.g.: "When the name of a private individual has not been widely disseminated or has been intentionally concealed, such as in certain court cases or occupations, it is often preferable to omit it, especially when doing so does not result in a significant loss of context." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_livin...
Do you have any links to a description of the Carma 2 physics engine?
Cool! Did you know about https://arcentry.com/ when you started this? Sorry on mobile so I won't look at your commit history to see if you started before.

I know the guy behind arcentry so just curious.
I'm more interested in hearing about support for AV1.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1
I should have qualified it as "RDBMS" server install. Most new SQL-centric web frameworks support three Open Source RDBMS engines: 1. MySQL, 2. PostgreSQL, and 3. SQLite. SQLite is rarely considered appropriate (arguably) for the server-side deployment RDBMS but its value comes from being embedded in the language runtime or web framework so it is available during development. IHP includes PostgreSQL as a Nix dependency so it is as ubiquitous as SQLite in the developer environment. "Out-of-Band" is relative to the project dependencies.

Using PostgreSQL in the development environment for say Rails or Django requires "out-of-band" installation, configuration, and management. Frameworks like Rails and IHP apply the schema/migrations to a live development RDBMS and read the Catalog Metadata to generate the classes/structs used as the Data Access Objects (e.g. ActiveRecord in Rails). The RDBMS, therefore, is part of the CI/CD pipeline.

Other ORMs define their entities independent of the RDBMS. I think Java JPA and Apple Core Data work this way; the SQL DDL is generated from the Entity Model. YeSQL-style frameworks also require a live development RDBMS but they extract metadata from each prepared statement rather than catalog metadata for each table which is mapped to a class/struct.
Has someone repackaged the decades-old phone hotlines as an app and named it Clubhouse?
Have you looked at Lucidchart - https://www.lucidchart.com/? They also have cloud infra icons.
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Or they just enforce W^X in the rosetta runtime by intercepting client mmap calls and fix it up as far as the client code is concerned by catching SIGBUS first.

I don't see anything here that requires extra kernel hooks.
Not an accident. He waited for the guy on the bike to come around a corner, then gunned the gas hard, crossed over the double solid line and drove up onto the sidewalk to hit the guy.
After trying out my Magic Trackpad on Pi OS a couple weeks ago, and finding that experience to be somewhat frustrating, I found out about this project and immediately sponsored it.

Even on Windows, trackpad support with my giant Apple trackpad is pretty good. On Linux (at least with Pi OS and XFCE) I couldn't figure out how to get it to have any good acceleration curve or work at all like on my Mac or Windows laptop.

Scrolling was pretty smooth, but the cursor control was all over the place, so I had to pull out an old mouse for that day.
Sorry! I meant down further in the HN comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23613234
Is 1 in 1000 an unbelievable concentration in topsoil? Microplastics in the atmosphere and in water supplies could result in an ever growing amount in the soil, and since the only way it leaves is by being washed away to contaminate someplace else, perhaps those concentrations will exist in a decade or so.
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Everyone in the ML field understands that ML-assisted upscaling doesn't produce output that accurately represents the original full-resolution image. It produces output that humans perceive to be realistic-looking, or free of traditional upscaling artifacts.

While this is obvious to anyone familiar with the technology, it's difficult to explain to casual observers. The image output looks real. It feels like it could be real. It's free of traditional scaling artifacts that would trigger suspicion. Without additional explanation, it's easy to see why casual observers would assume the hallucinated upscaled version is an accurate representation of the original image.

Historically, police sketches and blurry surveillance images are obviously low quality enough that people inherently know they're approximations. The problem with these ML hallucinated upscaled images is that they look and feel real enough that they bypass people's suspicions. We can try to present them as "Here's what the suspect might look like", but when they look like a full-resolution photograph, people will simply assume that it's exactly what the suspect looks like.
Lenovo Thinkpad laptops are pretty good, and in my experience run Linux very well. Get something with AMD APU (there should be new models coming out soon with Zen 2 + Vega).

The only annoyance is their refusal to refund Windows tax. But now Lenovo partnered with RedHat/IBM and started selling some laptops with Linux pre-installed (Fedora), so you can avoid Windows tax there, even if you don't plan to use Fedora. I hope that will eventually extend to all their models.
Two major advantages: transparency and optional lossless. JPEG blocky artifacts are very hard to remove for high resolution images unless you hand tune them.
It is a pretty damn dubious measure of credibility and it has already failed when suggested for civility.

I am honestly starting to think real name policies are just about hating anominity at this point.
I raise.

All holy books have _unsurprising_ political nuances because their whole purpose was providing guidance towards stable societies during lawless times.
Google should hire people like this.

Wouldn't it be awesome if developer talent was judged on the impact of one's open source projects / contributions versus leetcode competency?

Yeah, I know - it'll never happen.
I suppose you could click on the provided link and find out?
Ehhh, I don't think this accurately represents the situation with "on the record" or "off the record":

1. When a journalist identifies themself as a journalist, all conversations thereafter are assumed to be on the record unless specified otherwise.

2. Statements can't be made off the record after the fact--you have to say something is off the record before you say it for it to be considered off the record.

3. This is only journalist tradition, not law. Even if you say something is off the record, there's no real incentive for a journalist not to just publish it anyway, except their integrity. Journalists can and do break this rule, especially when they disagree with the person whose words they are reporting.
There is already a thread about this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23605557
Thanks, I didn't need to know what Markdown is, but thanks :)

I asked you because it seemed strange that a user with 120 points and 9 months of usage didn't know yet that this site doesn't support Markdown or anything close, and I wondered if they added some support lately without me noticing.

The only markup/formatting supported by Hacker News is what's described at https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc .
Technical writing might be an option to consider.
Actually, the op-ed states:

> Some elites have excused this orgy of violence in the spirit of radical chic, calling it an understandable response to the wrongful death of George Floyd. Those excuses are built on a revolting moral equivalence of rioters and looters to peaceful, law-abiding protesters. A majority who seek to protest peacefully shouldn’t be confused with bands of miscreants. But the rioting has nothing to do with George Floyd, whose bereaved relatives have condemned violence.

Setting aside whether using the Insurrection Act to respond to rioting and looting is an appropriate response, it is quite clear that Tom Cotton is not advocating the use of the the military to "suppress political dissent", which would obviously violate the First Amendment.
On the one hand, that’s ridiculous.

On the other, if you find a way to get people to pay you $30 a month for an otherwise free or cheap service, then bravo. Even if I think it’s silly, it’s a progressive tax on something way less evil than, say, bottling public water and then selling it back to the public.
Not sure what you mean by, the rest of your life, driving a bit slower to save lives is a fraction of your life spent. I guess there's probably some moral equation being levied when people decide speed limits, but it probably has more to do with minimizing deaths rather than comparing the value of time.