skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Antagonism and scapegoating of The Other was, and is, currently the playbook of the democrats at the moment. They don’t have a monopoly on it, but they’re way more guilty of this. It just doesn’t seem like it, because you haven’t heard the other side of the story, and haven’t realized how much has been a total lie from the left. Everyone believes it all, uncritically, for the same reason they dismissed the lab leak.

Folks reflecting on this and saying, what else did we have completely wrong are asking the right question. Folks who think this was a one off, well, it absolutely wasn’t.

I doubt there is even a single “MAGA” person on HN, but you folks like to throw that epithet around to shut down dialog. It’s shameful.

And nobody needs to distance themselves from anyone. If you make a false association, that’s your fault, not theirs. Judge them on what they actually do and say, not on what you (incorrectly) assume they might think.
I'd prefer he stayed and keep him fenced, but he could leave within 20 seconds if he wanted to.
Majority of Americans Believe Covid Came from Wuhan Lab
I wonder what the breakdown on HN is? ;)
Accidentally applied worldwide instead of just China sounds possible (or more possible than "my fingers slipped on the t, a, ... keys")
Maybe start a hedge fund and speculate on electricity prices?
> not that the domain of morality is a piece of the competition in the domain of global mind share

Haven't the 'best morals' always have been those with the most mindshare ?
Exploring GraphQL Directives in the Wild
> Whether Van Buren deserves punishment is a separate question from whether the legal theory the DoJ sought to use to get him punished was proper.

Exactly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBiLT3LASk

"That man's bad" / "There's no law against that"
"Whilst you talk he's gone" / "And go he should, if he were the devil himself until he broke the law".
Bullshit.

Chesa is the son of domestic terrorists (both mother and father) and directly worked under Hugo Chavez.

This guy absolutely hates america. He should not only lose his job but be arrested himself.
Linux became popular within five years of its conception. What future lies ahead for Haiku and similar projects? Are they destined to remain forever little curiosities on the outside and huge time sinks on the inside? I wish I could see otherwise, but somehow I can’t...
This would save memory but add compute cost if the image is drawn to the framebuffer or another sRGB buffer more than once or twice. It wouldn't necessarily be a win to make this behavior the default everywhere.

In the case of web browsers it depends how the image is used. An <img> with a large JPEG is probably drawn only once during tile rasterization, and browsers could certainly use the memory savings, so it would probably be a win. But if you had a small JPEG used as a page background and tiled over the whole screen, the memory savings would be small and you'd be wasting power converting the same pixels from YUV to sRGB over and over, so that would likely be a loss.
>If a species can master interstellar travel, then they can probably harness enough energy to change elements at the atomic level - alchemy

Not even advanced aliens can get around the laws of thermodynamics - that would take far more energy than any resource it creates could possibly be worth.

But, they wouldn't even need to, because they can find abundant supplies of whatever resources they wanted anywhere. Even in our own solar system, they would be far better off mining our asteroid belt and Jovian planets and not even acknowledging our existence.
I've seen people solicit stuff like electronics if someone could "get them a vaccine". This stuff is driving people nuts.
Read the RFCs- they're surprisingly accessible.

Start with the TCP and IP related ones in the 7XX range, then branch out into HTTP, DNS, DHCP and so on.
Yeah, I do recall playing around with that at one point! I remember it saying something like, "I'll remember you said that once robots have taken over the world" if you ever insulted it. Actually kind of eerie in retrospect.
I am fascinated by his use of backslash-escaping the tweet EOD to signify that it's being followed by another one.
The article was not written for rats but for humans who love to anthropomorphize. So you comment is moot.
There are a few key things here that seems to get conflated:

1. Usefulness - Is it a useful thing to study and remember - for an engineer medieval history is utterly useless.

2. Interest - is the student interested in the subject beyond grades and usefulness?

3. Signaling - you need good grades to get to the next stage in your life.

4. Energy and Time - students have other things that they want to do outside of school.

Students are making a tradeoff on all these dimensions while optimizing for the grade - this in itself is no easy thing to do.
Same. I had Bonzi buddy as a kid, but try to avoid pretty much all apps now.
Why not. A human was asked to fulfill a request to block the "tank man" search in China and forgot to add the country restriction.

There is no way to know if it is true, but it is definitely possible. This is probably an interface that isn't used incredibly frequently and may not be as polished as one might hope.
Just because someone did something wrong and should be punished doesn't mean they committed murder.

Just because a computer was used doesn't mean it was "hacking".

The Supreme Court essentially limited the scope of the CFAA to unauthorized access of a computer system. That is a good thing. The alternative is your employer could institute a policy change in what you can use internal systems for and you could find yourself on the wrong end of a CFAA "hacking" criminal prosecution. That's not hyperbole.

On a side note, we once again find Thomas on the wrong side of history. The dissenters have gone well beyond what they might argue is strict textualism to simply supporting broad authoritarianism.

Aaron Swartz is frequently brought up here as a prime example of prosecutorial overreach. For example, he was charged with "hacking" with the (then) interpretation of the CFAA, which then compounded to other charges, like breaking and entering to commit a felony (CFAA "hacking" was that felony).

We need less not more overbroad legislation.
60B Chickens
Paul Biggar kicked out of Y Combinator
It's a bit distressing how organizations try so hard to keep a good reputation all the time. I mean, is it really that bad to publically admit that you are composed of people with questionable morals?
For example, in the first company I used to work, I was always bitching about how things could improve. I got fired because I was "bringing the moral down" and was "working against the company". I could see why they would think that, but in my mind this kind of loyalty that is required is very immature: very good things arise from conflict, why would you keep that from coming?
Or maybe I am being naive and a good reputation is much more important than everything else. I don't know.
I’m confused. So YC kicked out the guy who complained about it on Twitter and not the people who advocated for lying to skip lines? Wtf?
Wait, flags are only meant to be used for bad things? I've been using them for “title is bad, pls change” requests. (Oops.)
It is still not giving the correct results. Now Bing is pretending not to understand and giving innocuous pictures rather than the famous one. We can tell it's not just because of Bing's poor quality because similar searches, but slightly reworded get the iconic picture.

I don't see how it could've possibly been an accident when they "fix it" by slightly obscuring it. It's intentional deception and censorship by Microsoft. And it is particularly galling, because Microsoft, a massive and powerful international company without serious risk is cowering in fear of the same organization that one man, with everything to lose, stood against alone. Microsoft is trying to hide that he did so.
Wade's section is about:

>There are several curious features about this insert but the oddest is that of the two side-by-side CGG codons. Only 5 percent of SARS2’s arginine codons are CGG, and the double codon CGG-CGG has not been found in any other beta-coronavirus. https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...
What Your Phone Sends Every 5 Minutes to Apple or Google
Was this related to a malware called "Gator"? I remember not being able to get rid of some combination of Bonzi Buddy and Gator from a machine. I formatted the hard drive and it still didn't get rid of the problem. Still have no idea how they did it.
There's JPEG 2000, which is nothing like classic JPEG. It doesn't have the artifacts classic JPEG introduces at sharp edges, so you can read text. It has more color depth if you want it. It also doesn't mess up non-color data such as normal maps the way classic JPEG does.

JPEG 2000 is not used much. Decoding is slow, and encoding is slower. The decoders are either buggy or proprietary. It has way too many options internally.
The big users of JPEG 2000 are medical. It has a "lossless" mode, and medical imagery is usually stored lossless because you really don't want compression artifacts in X-rays.

(I've been struggling with JPEG 2000 recently. Second Life and Open Simulator use it for asset storage. Some images won't decompress properly with OpenJPEG, a free decoder. I finally found out why. There's a field used for "personal health information" in JPEG 2000. This is where the patient name and such go in a CAT scan. That feature was added after the original version. Some older images apparently have junk in that field, which causes problems.)
x86 is not going anywhere for performance computing, backwards compatibility, and plethora of other reasons.
Oh yeah, and I almost forgot: That dialog he's whining about is from a stupid application. It has fuck-all to do with the desktop metaphor and local files. Sheesh. Geroffmylawn.
For leisure walks with wide/normal lenses <50mm, sure.
For documentary work with an 800mm, with only ~10ft of depth of field from a couple hundreds of feet away [1], focus still matters.

[1] https://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html
Whatever - every fucking person in SF that wanted a vaccine went and got one already. You didn't need to cheat either.

They're already taking down the mass vaccination sites.

This is all more liberal drama.

I wish someone would drop a nuke on SF.
The only important bit of pedantry over analog/digital and prime is reminding people that no one deals with linear light unless you already know you're doing so, and that blending in nonlinear space is rarely correct, no matter how common it is to do so.
I don't think this sort of baseless speculation is useful. God forbid a Chinese citizen support their own government without being an agent or brainwashed. Way to deny a billion people the agency to disagree with you.

Flagged this comment; US citizen, btw
Why did you say “anything else”? This isn’t a conspiracy theory. They only detail that is even in question is whether or not one of their samples leaked. Nothing else about what that lab is, or what that lab does, is even in question. They go 1000 miles away to get bats and bat poop and bring it to the WIV to study bat coronaviruses and they modify them to be more transmissible. This is basic virology in 2021 and they have been proudly telling the world that they do this for years. None of that is speculation.

The question of whether one of their viruses leaked out again (yes, again!) that was a bat coronavirus found right by the bat coronavirus lab, or whether it was a remarkable cascade of coincidences that still has no viable complete hypothesis (the “modified” virus doesn’t infect bats anymore), is not one of “conspiracy”.
Seemed to work well for Viagra spam, and no violent black market for Viagra spam revenue clearing services sprung up.
> long covid

Why should I believe this is any more real than "chronic lyme"? There are a whole lot of hypochondriacs out there; something proponents of "long covid" and "chronic lyme" never seem willing to acknowledge.

The groups promoting both of these organize and operate the same way, and make similar claims. Huge lists of nonspecific generic symptoms and facebook groups full of uncritical believers mutually reinforcing each others' beliefs (parallel to the well understood phenomena of "support groups" which promote eating disorders and create social feedback loops for reinforcing/worsening body dismorphia.)
You're comparing the benefits the internet provides to society with an example of being able to buy e-cigarettes slightly cheaper?
> So I feel pretty strongly that what van Buren did is a massive abuse of authority and it warrants punishment.

After reading the background info in the Supreme Court decision PFD... Agreeing to accept a $5000 cash bribe from some sketchy dude for information available only to law enforcement, undoubtedly falls within many existing anti-corruption laws that he could have been prosecuted under.
Bitcoin transactions are all public. The wallets might not be tied to identity, but eventually you have to sell a bitcoin to recover other currency. This is something most nations have a good amount of surveillance over. Bitcoin is in effect a honeypot.

This is an example of the political idea of "never let a crisis go to waste", using crisis to push agenda.

Everyone is stoked with more fear by the media, which wouldn't dare explore even comments about real solutions.
The opinion doesn't mean they can't be held criminally liable for anything they do with access to that system, just that the CFAA isn't the law that is broken. That means that the punishment or restitution imposed, if any, has to do with some other harm that was caused, over and above the mere fact of, for example, your "intrusion" into Facebook's computers by posting a photo of a cartoon character and thus violating Facebook's terms of service.

In your gay-hookup-website example, you might be civilly or criminally liable in various states of the US under a variety of laws that have nothing to do with computers. For example:

· an invasion-of-privacy tort or negligent-infliction-of-emotional-distress tort due to publicly disclosing private facts about the plaintiffs;

· a breach-of-contract tort or tortious-interference tort or negligence due to damaging your employer's business relations with the users (especially if you signed an NDA);

· a misappropriation-of-trade-secrets tort arguing that the users' information is a "trade secret" of the employer;

· a breach-of-fiduciary-duty tort claiming that if someone was going to get paid for the users' information it should have been your employer and not you;

· a breach-of-confidence tort claiming that your employer owed the users a duty of confidentiality, and you correspondingly owed it to your employer, and that you breached it by selling the data to journalists; or

· a conversion tort because you used the computer system in a way you were not authorized to use it.

(Also, the employer can probably recover whatever you were paid with an unjust-enrichment tort.)

Aside from being a tort, trade-secret theft is also a federal crime, so if your employer can persuade a prosecutor to go after you, they may be able to get you jail time. IANAL but I think the trade-secret case here is kind of weak, because in your scenario I think the journalist isn't running a competing gay-hookup website, so they aren't competing with your employer. There's also a crime of "criminal conversion", which I think is also kind of a stretch, since the employer can still use the computer system.

However, there was a civil conversion award for conversion of computer programs in Alabama in 01978, and another for conversion of personal information in New York in 02007: https://www.law.cornell.edu/nyctap/I07_0029.htm and in Oregon in 02013: https://www.tradesecretslaw.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/232.... Such innovations are still controversial and not widely accepted: https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/-/media/files/nrf/nrfweb...)
An asset store for the godot game engine: https://godotassetstore.org
The difference is that it is not possible to modify the value of `a` in the scope that it is bound too. Try as you want, but you won't be able to write an `inc` that modifies the value of `a` within that scope.

The declarative nature is that you're declaring that you want `a` to mean 10 within some scope. That's why you say "let `a` be 10 in current scope", that's your intention here, for `a` to be 10.

After you've declared that, it holds true no matter what.

Where as in the imperative style you say: put 10 at place `a`. This is variable assignment, there's a place which is refered too as `a` and inside that place you can set values and change them at will.

At any point you can instruct the language to change what value is at place `a`, there are no restrictions to the instructions you can give.

It's a bit of a oversimplification to claim that imperative programming is distinguished from declarative programming by assuming a lack of ordering in the latter.

Functional programming is not prevented from expressing order, rather it is less able to express random accidental order at the operational semantics level.

At the end of the day, it's very much about the computational model, imperative is based on Turing model, and Functional on the lambda calculus. Because the latter doesn't depend on a global mutable running state, it is said to be declarative, in the sense that what you see is what you get, you don't need to keep track of what the memory currently has to proceed to the next step.

That said, you're right that Clojure supports some forms of imperative programming as well, but let isn't one, your parent commenter pointing to Atom was more on point. That's what you'd need to do to get back a more imperative `let`:

(let [a (atom 10)
a (+ (swap! a inc) (swap! a inc))]
a)

Will now give you 23.
6th, 7th and 14th result in image search for me.
> freezing, dicing, juicing

I know it's not the correct interpretation in reality, but it's fun thinking that by this definition, all beef is processed unless you buy the whole live cow.
The hamburger in the study had tomatoes and lettuce (but they explicitly pointed out no pickles or onions). So there was some vegetable material there already.
Does anyone know what fraction of jpegs in the real world are 4:2:0?

For photos I use whatever the camera likes, but for everything else I use 4:4:4.
I think your matrix depicts that [the hypothetical scenario where a person is unauthorized to spoof the obscure UA string, but is authorized to use the obscure agent] is allowed when saying "only if" but is not allowed when saying "if and only if" -- if I'm reading it properly. If so, and only if so, then I disagree with you; to me, the "if and" does absolutely nothing but add wordiness without changing meaning.

However, if the columns of your matrix were modified to compare "if" versus "[if and] only if" (where square brackets represent an optional component that does absolutely nothing), I'd agree with the logic, being analogous to the difference between OR and XOR (for the boolean sense of OR, not the English sense which is akin to XOR).
I think it's very apt that they use military language when talking about this rat.

Same language was used to describe heroic soldiers wanting to save lives with exactly the same disregard of what actual enlisted humans think and feel.
"you really don't want compression artifacts in X-rays"

You really don't want compression artifacts in any image, which is why you should set the compression ratio wisely when encoding. I don't see how X-rays are any different.
This is really distressing, especially considering the ongoing public behavior of the original founder. Kicking out Paul seems like the opposite reaction for YC to have. It would be helpful to hear a public comment from them about this situation.
Other big users of JPEG 2000 include libraries and archives storing e.g. historic map images.
Three, arguably—Yandex still exists and is generally pretty decent in addition to being the best at dealing with Russian morphology (although relying on it after Segalovich’s death seems foolish).
Well back in '95 you might have been running a 486 with a whopping 33Mhz clock speed, or a Pentium at 133Mhz if you were a baller.

Your hard drive might have been over a gig, but was most likely still measured in megs.

The entire system itself would most likely have 16MB of RAM, upgradable to 32MB for the power users.
What does Rainmeter has to do with any of the other examples? It is still a very popular framework, and the only good solution on displaying external data on windows desktop (which, I think still a better place for home user dashboarding than some browser tab)
From the information available publicly, it's obvious the issue was him airing his grievance publicly.

But being banned from YC is a fairly extreme measure - especially for an activity that has a hint of moral impetus.

Both 'skipping vaccine lines' and 'immediately naming and shaming private conversations to the entire world' are kind of selfish and toxic signals.

If I were the King of YC I would have had condescending words with both of them and told them to grow up and then that would be the end of it.

Note however, we don't really know what happened behind the scenes.
I can simultaneously believe in present injustice, and the pointlessness of flogging 19th century self-help books. There is no inconsistency, and I am not a reactionary for believing so. Nice strawman though.
Is your argument that only white people can be white supremacists?
If bazonga.com is domain only accessible through the VPN then you most likely always want to look up flargle.bazonga.com through the VPN name servers. On the internet you'll get NXDOMAIN.

However, this could be solved by setting the name servers always to the VPN name servers and make them recursive. But then, what if those name servers don't have internet access?
This is actually one of my rare criticisms of Clojure. There's a patch, but there was apparently concern about perf. Personally, if I had to do a lot of interop like this, I'd pull it into a custom build, as it wasn't large. I've not kept up with it lately, though, as I haven't needed to do a lot with Kafka recently.
The codebase im in is 10+ years old and macros are everywhere. Were macros a super hyped at one point in the past? I'm fairly new to Clojure just by virtue of being part of this system rewrite but I see stuff everywhere in the code im working in like in the article where there just seems to be macros that accomplish nothing except obscuring already built in constructs for the sake of maybe saving a few lines of code or combining one or two statements into one macro.

Its maddening to just be constantly mentally unpacking this stuff and searching through docs only to find out "Oh its not a clojure thing, someone wrote a macro for this"
So, the idea was to support Windows on other architectures? That didn't really pan out.
Hitting 50% over time is noticeably inadequate at a population level. https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/132/9/2920S/4687708
Yeah, I'm aware of the way they bin chips and segment the market, I was talking about "not having" the capability.

As I understand it, the ability to re-enable parts isn't really a thing any more. It was true historically that you used to be able to re-enable cores, but most modern chips have the components fused off at a hardware level.
guys, is it real? I tried to search the "tank man" word in Bing.
I can turn off the security search. And I can get the exact tank man image.
My IP is Hong Kong, so what happened here?
If you insist, you could calculate the log2 as something like

x |= x >> 1;
x |= x >> 2;
x |= x >> 4;
x |= x >> 8;
x |= x >> 16;
return popcount(x-1);

but there isn't really much of an advantage to it. lzcnt/bsr are better.
JPEG 2000 is not used much

There's one big win though. Digital cinema projectors, in now pretty much all theatres, run DCPs which have movies encoded with it.