skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well either it uses only Bing for images, or it also censors. Because I sure wasn't able to find the picture on DDG.

So either way, as a user of DDG from day one - it's dead to me.
We certainly know that explantation isn't true because they are continuing to censor the results after "fixing it". Searching "tank man" now gets you images of tanks and men and not the iconic image. We know they could get it right if they wanted to because the non-image search for the phrase works.
That's only some of the threads.
People have been kicked out of other important things for less. I wish they put a warning label on social media... don't post unless you want your words used against you in a future you haven't envisioned.

It may be too late but I would advise anyone to delete anything you wrote under your real name now. In 10 years you are going to get buried for what is normal today. They are coming for you.

What he did was wrong but in the 80s the info would have passed on to a small group at a pool party.
Thank you. I think they put "being" in the wrong place and actually meant:

"Conversely, subjects reporting slow walking pace had shorter life expectancies, the lowest being observed in slow walkers with a BMI less than 20 kg/m2 (women: 72.4 years; men: 64.8 years)."

So if you're really frail and can barely walk, it doesn't bode well for you.

What if you're healthy, low-weight, and walk slowly??
Presumably the full paper contains that info, but I'm surprised it's omitted from the abstract.
It really changes the context doesn't it? It's pretty incredible.
That's very sweet of you and of course there's no need to apologize. The issues here are all systemic.
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Sure, but you don't normally end up getting an unnecessary biopsy with most other image artifacts.
Minus the soda, that’s actually not a badly balanced diet depending on the hamburger toppings.
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I took "maintained" to mean "being actively rebuilt on a regular basis in a way that would mean MooTools got replaced".

"I built this site when MooTools was cool so I used it and it still does what I need a decade later without any programming" would certainly qualify as a reason to keep paying for the hosting and domain name, as well as a reason to be angry if Mozilla's new browser broke it.
That is not necessarily true. In some cases, the compositor maybe configured to sample the input buffer directly from YUV420, applying the transformation on scanout and thereby saving memory bandwidth to read from the framebuffer. This makes a tremendous amount of sense when the source is a video, but much less sense when the source may be rendered vector graphics, which generally look pretty bad with subsampled chroma.
some images manage to communicate in spite of high compression. X-rays are an example of an image where the cost of misinterpretation is very high.
>But he's not guilty of breaking and entering

He is in my state:

>A person commits the offense of criminal trespass when he or she knowingly and without authority:

>(1) Enters upon the land or premises of another person or into any part of any vehicle, railroad car, aircraft, or watercraft of another person for an unlawful purpose;
> Second Life and Open Simulator use it for asset storage

JPEG2000 is such a cool choice for Second Life. The fact any truncation of a JPEG2000 bitstream is just a lower-resolution version of the image makes for convenient progressive enhancement when loading textures over the network, right?

(And Second Life even used JPEG2000 for geometry, sort-of. I guess with the advent of proper mesh support, that may be less common now though.)
According to your link the cost for a TS is $3000-$15000. That is just the expense directly to OPM (office of personnel management).

The hired employee cannot perform the work they are hired to perform until that clearance is granted which can take as little as 3 months. A TS investigation will generally run from 6-18 months. Mine took closer to 18 months and I am a boring nobody with no foreign connections. Jared Kushner, Trump’s senior advisor also took about 18 months for a clearance.

TS alone does not grant access. It is a classification umbrella allowing access to compartments, the most common being SCI. These also take time, money, and administration.
What are the rules for YC's private forum? Is it more restrictive than Chatham House rules? Is it permitted to leak internal conversations and denounce other YC members on Twitter?
Critique is good but depends on whether it is constructive or not constructive.

And that’s a bit of a subjective call
Only advice I can give is to seek our the work you want to do. That may mean moving jobs. Don't leave it too long or you'll have a hard time selling yourself in interviews
I'm also confused. But it seems like the tweet in question is a false story that could be libel/defamation or something?

He later issues a 'correction' (why not delete the original wrong tweet?) that says that the story about "advocating for lying to skip lines" is false. [1]

I don't have any part of this and I'm confused and don't know what's going on here. But it does not seem like the tweet everyone is focusing on was even true. So the story becomes possibly, that YC kicked someone out for spreading lies about people in their internal community? I don't know.

[1] "I was incorrect in saying the 2nd founder lied, and would like to apologize."
https://twitter.com/paulbiggar/status/1370144350861135881
I obviously don't know your situation, but there's a difference between giving useful feedback and just constantly bitching about everything. You also have to consider that maybe you didn't have the full picture, and there actually was a good reason for what was being done, even though that would be a management failure to not convey why something needed to be done.
This tax just comes with no guarantees - you're out of the job means all that you've spent is gone. In contrast a decent healthcare system will take care of you even when you're out of a job. A hospital in UK or Germany won't leave you on the street, even if they know you don't have insurance.
This is getting off-topic, but the US is like the motherland of telling other people how they should behave. Look up any of the "public freakout" videos, they're 80% each side trying to explain why what the other side did was wrong, all the while not realizing that pretty much nobody cares about their opinion and is just there to watch the drama for a few minutes. Every single "Karen" video is full of self-righteousness, that's what makes them so hilarious (until you get bored, which happens rather quickly).
Not exactly the same as orgs but it reminds me of the very very difficult skill of "criticizing the king". It's possible, but it requires a lot of finesse and skill, and even then you might get beheaded.

And it goes without saying, overtly criticizing the king is pretty obviously a bad idea.
What's the advantage of JPEG2000 lossless over, say, PNG?
Archives will probably be compress later on anyway and using a widely-supported and known format seems far more suited for archival purposes.
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Compression artifacts in X-rays can easily kill people, either by requiring additional unnecessary X-rays (which both delay diagnosis and cause cancer) or by causing erroneous diagnoses; by comparison, the cost of the data storage thus saved is trivial. Compression artifacts in filtered photos of your cute pet turtle for Instagram are much less likely to kill people.
The future of images is JPEG XL - https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/

A great overview and explanation: https://cloudinary.com/blog/time_for_next_gen_codecs_to_deth...
Great! I am so glad more people see types as a useful tool. Personally I see it as essential, so I struggle to understand the mind set of people who do not want to use them. I understand that people think it feels like a lot of work, but that is like nothing compared to the 90% of time people who dont use types spend on reading logs and fixng the same issues every day. I assume people have some sort of amnesia and thinking «oh the value was undefined, I have never seen THAT error before», but that is probably just me being bitter. So I was wondering, since you seem like a super-fresh converted;did you have any specific reservations originally, and whas there any specific type of solution to a issue that finally changed your mind?
I think trading is an important application of our modeling work, at least it would help bring real time pricing into equilibrium with 36 hour ahead futures so that power plants with poor ramping constraints can plan accordingly
None of the smells you mentioned are anywhere close to absolutes.
People don't know how to disagree anymore. It's disheartening, because I like a good disagreement and the deep debates that can come out of them ... that is, as long as the conversation is void of emotional temper-tantrums (and in a lot of cases these days, fear of cancel-culture.)
the mergers of state and capital is not socialism, as was the case with the third reich
That tweet is three months old. No way YC bans someone over a three month old tweet (unless they only discovered the tweet recently, which I doubt).

I'm betting there's more to this story.
I would also like to know. It's funny, because I feel like a lot of media and news I've consumed paints china as this hellish dystopia, so when I (very occasionally) talk with chinese nationals online I'm kinda underwhelmed by how it's just... a place? I don't know.
To be honest, systemd-resolved actually for the first time provides an option of a solution for this use-case. Properly configured, without CNAMEs involved, it would just do the right thing.

Relying on resolv.conf meant using the first one unless it times out, which makes it impossible for me to connect to two private networks with their own hostname resolution, if a hostname resolves in both but to different addresses.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27399731

explains.
Jesus how does everything bad about the world end up China related these days
I have him at 7th and 9th with safe search off now.
IIRC there was a study which indicated oncologists' ability to detect tumors in X-ray images was degraded even with lossy compression ratios which didn't introduce obvious artifacts. I couldn't find it with a quick search though.
I hope Paul Graham takes a principled stand and tweets his support for Biggar.

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Apaulg%20%22cancel%20cult...
I think we are in agreement? What you are saying is that conversion from linear YUV to linear RGB is, indeed, linear.

Further, the transformation from Y'CrCb to gamma-encoded R'G'B' is also a linear operation. Right?
I'll add - the synchronous by default, typed nature of Golang creates a massive amount of bookkeeping, as well as some fault tolerance issues you can walk into trying to build a robust service. It's definitely better than handling raw threads, but Erlang/Elixir beat it hands down.
> Attempting to remove dangerous meta-characters from the input stream leaves a number of risks unaddressed. We encourage developers to restrict variables used in the construction of pages to those characters that are explicitly allowed and to check those variables during the generation of the output page

Nice to see that allow-list input validation was proscribed as a solution to XSS (and really any injection attack) from the beginning. It even explicitly warns against trying to do deny-list.

Trying to sanitize or defang user supplied input is always very difficult and a handy bad-code-smell indicator during code review. It has a ton of corner cases and edge cases and by its very nature it fails deadly: can an attacker discover an injection using characters that aren’t in the denial list? They win. Oh you’re sanitizing function simply removes the malicious characters? Attacker constructs an injection string that contains an valid injection that is constructor by your sanitizer function removing characters.

Nice also see reference to output e coding as well. Defense in depth is always a good idea. It also protects you from injection through other means that may be are not properly validated.
I have worked for YC founders that have shared far more disturbing things from the YC forum to non-members. If the banning is for violating privacy or public mocking (no matter how small of a “public” it might be), the YC moderation here is pretty biased. The internal forum is pretty huge now, I guess they’re Doing Things That Don’t Scale (TM).
No, I only found out about it from the comment belter linked to. FWIW I think (god help us) fshbbdssbbgdd's explanation sounds plausible. I had a similar instinctive response but not as well thought through.

We have banned people in a few cases for serious $BigCo astroturfing but there's always a grey area in the Venn diagram around "PR operation" and "overzealous fan". You can't tell those apart without a smoking gun and those are hard to come by. Fortunately, from a moderation point of view it's a distinction without a difference because the effects on the site are the same.

Also FWIW, my sense (and we do have circumstantial evidence for this) is that even when these things are PR, they're somehow haywire (e.g. a contractor gone rogue), not official strategy, and if high-enough execs found out about it they'd probably shut it down. That's just speculation though; informed speculation, but not highly informed.
I agree that it’ll get more attention than it otherwise would, but I think that is a desirable outcome for YC. The more people who see the message “if you publicly badmouth us, you will be punished” the better for them.
Adding to the list: ESA's Sentinel 2 products (granules/tiles) in are typically distributed in JPEG2000 format. Anyone working with this imagery has probably experienced all the trouble associated with extracting and transforming it into a more useful format.
Stop buying products made in China. I personally made that decision years ago. Support local manufacturers as much as you can. What CCP does is disgusting.
Maybe I have a minority opinion, but critique does not always need to be constructive.
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Sacramento should burn.
It would be precious for you to suggest you might have some effect on "Wall Street". It's called "capitalism" because capital is in control; "democracy" would imply something else. Most humans break USA federal laws every day. That's the point of USA federal laws: if they couldn't be used to destroy any person at any time then the billionaires would come up with something else. At the same time, if rope is being sold, why wouldn't they sell it? Cops are sometimes surprised the first time they realize who they work for, but if you stick around you'll learn.

The most precious thought is that one might think to reign in authoritarian capitalists by attacking the one thing created in the last century that has a chance of actually undermining authoritarian capitalism. You don't actually think that, because ITT we see plenty of evidence you're on the other side of this conflict.
Did you not read the Vanity Fair article posted on here a couple days ago? Also who is "you people"? I haven't been posting about the lab leak until now.
Why is that confusing? If you condemn the in-group publicly, it's a sign of betrayal, and they kick you out. Monkeys strong together, that's all there is to it.
It is, but that's not relevant to what Carmack was talking about.
This money came with some very explicit strings attached about what it was intended for, that you weren't allowed to go buy yachts with it was not made explicit but even so it should be f'ing obvious.

https://business.gov.nl/subsidy/corona-crisis-temporary-emer...
Gavin Newsom is a hair gel nazi and Fauci is a genocidal piece of shit.
What an excellent demonstration of what values/norms a group really cares about.

Biggar violated the all time favourite in-group rule: Don't talk out of school. Don't talk about fight club. Don't snitch.

The other founders violated a norm against pushing yourself ahead and taking advantage of others that doesn't even seem to hold in many groups, especially upper class/wealthy ones.
"Globally" does a lot of the work here, though. 1% of world's population is a mid-sized country's worth of people.
I waited until I was eligible, which was about a month ago. Anyone could have lied about their eligibility and gotten shots early, and although I wasn't comfortable doing so, I also don't begrudge people who did. Frankly, the vaccine should have been distributed more widely from the beginning. It was disheartening to watch the politics play out where only the "most deserving" people were granted vaccine, which quickly turned into "hospital executives, their families, & high ranking admin" before they got around to the most deserving.

I certainly wouldn't have encouraged a group of wealthy or soon-to-be wealthy tech founders to lie for vaccine. "Hacking the system" has always implied a sort of robinhood ethos, at least to me, not just greed purely for its own sake. I guess it's easy to be confused when you were raised inside the bubble and everything is monopoly money.
>But it does not seem like the tweet everyone is focusing on was even true. So the story becomes possibly, that YC kicked someone out for spreading lies about people in their internal community? I don't know.

It's still partially true - the allegation of lying was wrong, but the allegation of instructing others how to lie is still being made. This is clarified by the tweet that you linked.
Hey, you could almost double that hard drive space with DRVSPACE.EXE!
I concur with your friends. The reason is due to the fact that in the military, people understand where they fall within the chain of command and that they must follow orders or there will be severe consequences. This strict structure is needed in life and death situations - I wouldn't know personally, but I'd imagine the medical industry (hospitals and such) have a similar respect for chain of command. It's more difficult to lead when employees have little respect for authority or directives coupled with companies that do not enforce chain of command rules.

You can hire a master artist to paint you a portrait, but if you only give them Jello and a steel 'canvas' to work with, your painting isn't going to be so great.

I have a few decades in private sector, 8yrs as a reserve officer, and I recently was publically berated by a junior engineer after simply asking him to explain his work (which was, incidentally, incorrect). He was forced to publically apologize in the face of losing his job, but this was an extreme example. An event like this would virtually never happen in the military, but I see it happen fairly routinely to other senior staff, albeit less extreme cases, with junior employees that do not have a military background.

There is a professional and orderly way to handle dissagrements with authority. The military helps teach you how to handle those situations in a more productive and stable manner.
danged if you do, danged if you don't
I suppose it takes less characters than marking the ordinal of the tweet and probably familiar to Carmack's technically-minded audience as escaping the return character in a command line (to add a new line to the command instead of running it).
The XVideo extension, commonly used by MPlayer (at least in the past, maybe still?), has supported sending YUV images to your video card for 20½ years, since XFree86 4.0.2: https://www.cs.ait.ac.th/~on/mplayer/en/xv.html

There are various problems in XVideo that make it hard to use for general application display, but the fact that this was a thing they included in it makes me think that a substantial number of video cards have included YUV decoding capability in hardware since the previous millennium.
We don't have full information about this story though. It may well be the case that the YC founder called out for lying about his qualifications for the vaccine was at a vaccination location where there were zero lines and poor community uptake of the vaccine. Idle doses sitting around doing nothing. At this point, the US has so many extra doses that it is shipping millions overseas. Depending on the location and timing of the founder who lied, he may be ethically doing a moral good by reducing his own potential to transmit the virus amidst a population of people who refuse to get inoculated anyway.

My point is only, it's sometimes dangerous to throw stones without asking questions or getting the full picture first. Taking doses when you aren't qualified for them is overall a bad thing I think we can all agree.
I'm guessing it goes like this:

1. Skipping vaccine line and talking about it is not actually against BookFace/YC ToS, or it would be a stretch to apply ToS.

2. Publicly talking about matters inside the private group is against ToS since it breaches privacy. In a way that paints the group negatively, nonetheless.

Pretty straightforward. It doesn't really matter *to YC* whether anyone skipped a line or not, what matters are private forum matters getting blasted to hundreds (thousands?) of Twitter users.

Edit: before you get angry, I'm presenting this from the most plausible perspective of YC, not my own feelings on the matter (which are irrelevant).

Edit2: what are people seeing that I'm not seeing here? Clearly I'm missing something, because wow I've never gotten piled on like this on HN.
What I find interesting is that Dale Carnegie published How to Win Friends and Influence People in 1936 covering this topic. Maybe that was the "beginning of the trend"... not really sure.
There's a very hard distinction between GPU texture compression formats and general image compression formats - the former need to support random access lookup in constant time. Anything meeting that criterion is not going to be generally competitive; it's like the difference between UTF-32 strings and UTF-8 strings.
Ask HN: APIs for getting books and author data
Hey ya'll,

I wanted to build a personal project for better tracking the books I read. I was wondering if:

1. There are any good apis for getting book data and author information (including demographic information). Paid is fine as well, if it's not too much I could consider that.

2. Anyones built something similar which collates this data from different places. Would be interested in hearing the how of that.

Cheers
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That's all true.

But US internet culture has changed dramatically in the past few years. And it's not just "eternal September".

I miss the early years. There are still vestiges left. Some public intellectuals still respond to unsolicited email from strangers.
Billions of individuals of their own species.

There's no reason to assume they would feel empathy towards other intelligent species. We coexist with intelligent animal species on Earth, and at best we consider their intelligence a novelty. If other apes began to speak and reason as we do, do you think we'd grant them property rights and a vote? No, we'd probably just slaughter them.

It seems more likely to me that an advanced alien species would see us the way we see animals, rather than as like themselves.
this is already on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27399581
Interesting, Viagra spam was mitigated by making these payments illegal? I have no idea, any source pls?
The iconic image comes up for me, could just be rolling out to massive infrastructure takes a hot minute
How about 't.' for thousand?
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He seems to have not advocated lying though just showing up:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oakland/comments/m4bqx9/comment/gqu...