skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, absolutely. Because in the general case: computers are more dangerous than guns.

You can literally do far more harm with data than with automatic weapons.

Because that data gives you access to narrow-band propaganda. Instead of hope-for-the-best broad messaging you can target specific groups with content, signifiers, and emotional tone that is known to be effective for them, and encourage specific collective beliefs and behaviours.

It's not even persuasion any more in the ad tech sense. When it's done by hostile troll farms or state actors with a covert political agenda it's literally psychological warfare.

IMO the industry needs to take a long hard look at itself and start asking questions about whether this is really where it wants to go.

Hacker culture has a benign, goofy, on-the-spectrum, somewhat arrogant but mostly harmless reputation.

The reality couldn't be further from the truth. Data collection and social media systems are psychological weapons. They're absolutely hostile to rational informed choice and participative democracy.

And given the temptation to abuse that power in various ways, we should be having more of a conversation about this than we have so far.
> shakes fist at Google substituting all keywrods with their synonyms and searching recent pages only

You can set a time range in Google; "Tools" link under the search bar. DuckDuckGo has this as well. Super useful, especially if there's some recent/prominent news and you want to find things other than this news, or if you're looking specifically for older stuff.

I think you can use "word" (with quotes) to prevent the synonym thing; not entirely sure about that.
I find that narrative on the Fox News news shows to be much more in line with what people generally consider "MSM" anyway. Wallace, Shep, and etc were constantly pushing back on a lot of the same BS that other outlets were.

Big difference between the Fox News and Fox News news.
Your story doesn't sound that different from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27400221, tbh, other than the driving 100 miles and the Trumpian bits, which aren't relevant to the ethical question.

It seems to me that the important information would be: did anybody who was eligible fail to get vaccinated as a result of the extras dropping in? In your story the answer is no. In the other dude's story, it seems like we don't know. If his story is accurate then the answer is probably not because otherwise the people running the site would have told him "please don't do that because it might take doses away from the eligible". But who knows.
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We do a mix of things ranging from marketing and ads automation to supply chain fulfillment. We also work with no product innovation. It’s a surprisingly great place to work.
Seems nice until the intentionally abusive use this information to toe the line or inundate moderation until it’s crippled.
Because people are interested and want to find out the truth? At the moment it's a he-said-she-said situation, with each side posting their own (probably biased) version of events.
Crypto is really exciting for new entrants to the finance space.

In traditional finance all water has been wrung out, but in crypto relatively unsophisticated versions of strategies like arbitrage can be quite successful. Traditional finance institutions are more sophisticated and have more resources than their crypto equivalents. I really think traditional finance orgs need to realize they can employ the same skills to the crypto space with a much lower investment for the same returns because the space is so immature.
> There are a number of 'special' vaccination sites in the USA which are indeed vaccinating first come, first served people

Same here in Canada. Some private clinics have been offering FCFS vaccines to eligible age groups for some time now. I assumed the US must be the same and wondered what the outrage is here. I got messages from people encouraging me to do the same.
I am also super interested in the answer to this particular question. I know a lot of people who waited for surplus/standby shots at the end of the day outside clinics in SF. Anecdotally, a lot of my coworkers got early vaccines that way.

As a non-essential worker with no risk factors, I felt that my contribution to the pandemic was to stay home and wait until my turn. I did, by the way, wait until the vaccine was generally available before scheduling. Before general availability, most of my friends my age (mid-30s) had been vaccinated by stretching the truth. I felt like the idiot, and had a fair amount of resentment.

I wonder about the surplus doses, though. Did a substantial culture of seeking out unused doses result in outcomes that were net positive from a utilitarian point of view? It's unclear to me how much "line cutting" this resulted in.

Clearly, stretching the truth to get a dose ahead of others is selfish at least. Back in March, I assume that there were plenty of people in need that didn't/couldn't get an appointment that needed a shot more than YCombinator founders. This wasn't stretching the truth though, just exploitation of a loophole and small surpluses of a limited resource.

In the end, I think the morality hinges on your question, koolhaas. To what extent did standby shots interfere with mitigating the health crisis. Is that what dasickis was doing? Was dasickis aware of opportunity cost of taking that shot? Did he even care?

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/03/13/covid-your-bay-area-g...
This is at the bottom for the simple reason people cannot do this effectively.

Getting over mental blocks like these may require decades of maturity, if ever achieved at all. Getting to care about others, is rarely part of anyone's developer bubble.
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That's a great link. I didn't realize how heavily the U.S. bombed Cambodia.

That said, it seems the bigger problem in Cambodia is landmines, and AFAICT most of those were buried during Cambodia's internecine conflicts by various domestic factions and by the Vietnamese. See https://www.halotrust.org/where-we-work/south-asia/cambodia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_mines_in_Cambodia, and https://www.dw.com/en/clearing-cambodias-leftover-land-mines... According to that last article a large number of them were planted along Cambodia's western border by the Vietnamese to keep the Khmer Rouge at bay. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K5_Plan
Video codecs generally use one or another type of YUV format so lots of display hardware can already use it, on something like a mobile SoC or settop box no one can afford the memory bandwidth to do the conversion anyhow.

Carmack is giving an extremely simplified version of the world as it exists today. Your hardware can already use YUV formats, maybe it is even outputting YUV because you chose a resolution and bit depth that forced it to for bandwidth or clock constraints. Complex apps like browsers that do their own compositing can already choose to use YCbCr formats when supported for textures.
Love the explanation of the DAA instruction. I wrote a gbc emulator in college, but couldn't figure out what that instruction was supposed to do.

I ended up just copying a lookup table from an open source emulator at the time, which of course didn't help my understanding: https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m/blo...

Funny to finally realize what this does, and now see how the lookup table works.
This is really frustrating to me, I also got vaccinated at that clinic through the same mechanism - I live in the complex on the street a block away and perpendicular.

I also had people complain at me, and I had to patiently ask them, "would you rather the doses expire"? It's really frustrating but I understand the confusion and also the general feeling of "unfairness", as everyone right-thinking is eager to get vaccinated if possible.
My understanding is a small minority own all the land, this is the kind of stupid anemic growth China would've experienced without Mao's land reforms.

Protip: Never the let criminal class keep/hold the majority of the land.

South Africa needs land expropriation without compensation, immediately.
Your speculations might be true if all other variables were held constant, but obviously there are many other variables which have changed in that time too.
I didn't flag it, but it's a boring link to an empty search result with no discussion except outrage. I know political topics can be on-topic here, but why is this worthy of a HN submission and not being flagged? What's particularly interesting about it?

(And before you respond with the obvious - Microsoft has clearly blocked this, and it's in China's interest for them to do so, yes, but can you explain why you think that is that particularly Hacker Newsworthy? Like, the only thing you've posted is 5x comments of single line outrage - you've called for people to be banned, DDG to be removed from a list, called it suspicious, cast aspersions on HN employees - you don't seem to be trying to start a detailed discussion about anything related - and neither does almost everyone else.)
The original tweet was from March, when there indeed was a queue.
Mostly the issue is the layout, not the color space. YUV420 is awkward to handle because it's "420", not because it's YUV. There wouldn't be too many issues if everything ran on the 1-byte-per-pixel-component YUV444, besides converting to/from RGB for certain processing steps.
Wow. That's surprisingly different to the UK - I've never heard of anywhere having no kitchen available. (Other options are of course available, but certainly not required.)

In fact I'd guess it's probably a requirement here - I don't think student halls are treated any differently to any private rented accommodation, it's probably a requirement that there be access to a (possibly shared) kitchen.

It's also quite (and increasingly) common that you're only in halls (or at least only guaranteed a place) in first year, thereafter in private rented accommodation of course you'd expect a kitchen; whereas I gather in the US the vast majority are campus universities, and provide on-campus accomodation throughout all years.
Yeah, what's really compelling to me is how much effort zig puts on "plumbing" work as opposed to tacking more and more language features.

It speaks volumes that zig can provide toolchain-level benefits to other low level languages like Rust.
I am beginning to think that no at Amazon actually does anything except follow some rubric.....

does anyone have morals or think or have discussions about this? seems like a relatively simple fix to just have some trust in your driver's......why is Amazon always seem like the epitome of negligence and I always get a sense of contempt for them?
Biden has deployed an app for asylum seekers. Privacy experts are worried
This is concerning.
The European Union officially bans its airspace to Belarusian companies
I've heard "it's a scam" a lot recently, but nobody can articulate how in a way that is similar to any real, provable scam in the past. It's a giant, distributed scam?
I've been developing a CHIP-8 emulator as a means of learning Zig, it's been very fun! The community seems quite small and tight-knit, and with that, comes a lot of helpful individuals.

Having never worked with a language that is particular about memory, Zig has felt like a nice balance. Dealing with the allocator is clear and being intentional about the bit-width of things like integers helps articulate what is expected, which can be important in an emulation project. The built-in WASM compilation seems like something I will explore with this project too. That part is a nice touch
Indeed. As a high school and college student, I was very good at "hacking" multiple choice tests. I did manage to crush my SATs (800's in the achievement tests), win local and state chemistry competitions, and came in second on the national college level math test (whose name I forgot, but it gets you an entry into the Actuary Guild.)

I remember these, but I am actually most proud of being one of the top 100 scorers on the Putnam competition, definitely not a hackable test!

Sadly, I didn't know Microsoft hired top Putnam scorers, no questions asked, at the time (1970), so I missed out on being a Word programmer. Oh, wait! That's a good thing!
I don't make them "beautiful"; I like to make them compact and workable, with everything relevant displayed in a compact format, and to put the rest in the documentation.

Show what you have and then see if it looks like good or not, I suppose. Maybe it is good for whatever it is being done or maybe not, depending what you are making, I suppose.
That accusation is far more serious...
If your original content wasn't one of YouTube's current formats it was likely reencoded. If the original was MPEG-4 part 2 or Sorensen Spark that a decade ago YouTube might just passed through, today it would be reencoded before delivery.

Their pipeline taking 1080p or 4K content to a 360p stream will produce decent quality. The encoding configuration for today's use also might be very different from the original. If their 360p profile used today ups the GOP length and drops the video bitrate the video content can definitely end up bit starved. Readable text in a 360p video would be difficult to keep readable reencoding without manual tweaking of the encoder settings.

I also wonder if old content with low viewership is just encoded on the fly with a hardware encoder and thrown into a big YouTube-wide LRU cache. Hardware encoders can have some really coarse grained settings and make low resolution/low bitrate content look pretty horrible.
Regarding nearly all of these points, if you're on tight fixed-income budget, these don't matter, you don't have much choice. Similarly, you don't have much choice when Walmart is the only option around without a fair bit more travel, unless you pay very large markups at local convenience stores.

#7 is a separate issue though. That is a predatory practice and I'm glad I live in a state where it isn't allowed.
There's a difference between spreading the idea that it may have happened versus spreading the idea that it did happen without evidence.
Ah yes, the "technology". Any day now. Won't know what hit them. Around the corner really, alongside cold fusion and the chewing gum that replaces toothbrushes.
>Frankly HN will be (marginally) better if someone erased every comment of mine in any thread that mentions Trump.

Or you could do what I did: something unknown that resulted in years of being limited to about 4 replies a day.
Batteries are continuing to fall in cost and improve, and batteries+solar is now competitive with fossil fuels in some markets today.
What is the difference between natural volatility and the system fundamentally breaking?
>I don’t know anyone that would want to spend money on a hotel if there was a security camera in the room

why do you think is that ?

>Do you think doctors should be able to tell advertisers what their patients are going through

Why do you think they shouldn't ?

>these corps profiting off data definitely find value in lack of privacy.

Yes of course there is value in lack of privacy, but what is value in privacy ?
> It's impressive that the iPhone survived the whole ordeal

My SE just survived a trip through the washing machine. It got very mildly scuffed by buttons and zippers, but you couldn't tell it spent 30-40 minutes sloshing around in dirty water.
given that the article is about inefficient use of content delivery technology, it is poetically ironic to try (and kinda fail) to post said article on a website that doesn't allow the article to be fully posted
It also seems like support for JPEG 2000 can be hit or miss. I tried to open a .jp2 file I downloaded from the web into GIMP, but it looks all funky.

Original image: https://www.fnordware.com/j2k/jp2samples.html

What it looks like in GIMP: https://imgur.com/a/HCNz7ga
The point is to disrupt, not mass murder, and in that sense, mission accomplished.

This scenario is just as plausible as the lab leak theory, and probably has just as much evidence.
Biggar's accusation is that you "lied to skip the vaccine queue". In your comment implies that you didn't, but it wasn't stated explicitly. For the record, can you affirmatively deny that you haven't "lied to skip the vaccine queue"?
Are there any similar tutorials written for the LLDB bindings? Since the only LLDB documentation I could find was auto-generated doxygen with no usage code.
Agreed, I bet as users of ddg we could press the team at duckduckgo to prioritize a fix for this failure mode of censorship.

Maybe they can somehow detect censorship real-time and have their own hot image cache for a certain sized corpus.

This is a fun problem for them to solve for us now that it's a failure mode they didn't fully appreciate until now. They are a search engine aggregator, they need another feed for internet images. This is an engineering problem to do cheaply centrally or distributed.
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It would depend on the specific circumstances, but I can imagine doing that, or perhaps there would be something else we could do that was better; it's hard to say in general, because cases like that are always very specific. We'd want to explain as much to the community as we could without harmful side-effects, but if someone's safety or privacy is at risk, I'm comfortable telling the community so, and I'm confident that the bulk of this community would respect that.

In such situations the thing to do is email hn@ycombinator.com.
We can thank Dijkstra for that I guess... He was very pro theory and anti practice. Most CS folks from that era had a math or physics background. At Eindhoven University of Technology they still have a Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. So your literally part of the same department as math students.
Cryptocurrency is a long lesson about why things are the way they are.
This article that I found by the New York Times[1] says that American troops reported finding almost 5k "chemical munitions" (unclear as to exactly what this means, but I would guess shells) - and that they interviewed dozens of people and confirmed with FOIA'd documents.

Are you suggesting that these dozens of people, including some Iraqi officials, all consistently lied to the NYT and that the USG manufactured false documents to release in response to FOIA requests?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/world/middleeast/question...
That’s not a distinction I hear a lot of people make. Andrew Cuomo used “cancel culture” to describe calls for his resignation in the wake of sexual assault allegations. The owner of a horse also used it to describe his suspension after the horse failed a drug test. People said it was “cancel culture” when the estate of Dr. Seuss decided to stop publishing some of his books.

But even if there is a line, it’s really blurry. A lot of people said it was “cancel culture” when Blake Bailey’s publisher decided to pull his biography of Philip Roth. The sexual assault allegations are ostensibly unrelated to his contract. But they gave him that contract with the expectation that publishing him would be profitable; is it “canceling” to renege when that’s no longer the case?
Depending on how it is moving.
IIRC GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture is basically GL_APPLE_ycbcr_422, only supports packed 422, and was primarily intended for letting a compositor pass a 2vuy/yuvs surface to the overlay HW without actually converting it in GL.

GL_EXT_YUV_target is close, but it doesn't transparently include the specific step of YUV -> RGB conversion, just the sampling multiple planes + upsampling for chroma (and convenience functions for shader conversion.) (I think? actually not certain, since I can't find definition of how chroma is upsampled)

Well, I guess Vulkan's isn't completely transparent, since the conversion sampler has additional restrictions as to how it can be used. But at least with it shaders can be written to not care whether the source is RGB or not.
Appendix A has the translation table.
Because it’s just gawking curiosity, not intellectual curiosity - the latter being what the site is ostensibly about
If Bing can censor this, what else do they censor?
> maybe they didn't realize the Contact link exists or reaches the mods!

Actually, the Contact link doesn't exist or reach the mods:

$ dig mx ycombinator.com
[...]
ycombinator.com.299 IN MX 10 aspmx.l.google.com.
[...]
$ telnet aspmx.l.google.com 25
Trying 142.250.141.27...
[wait a minute or two]
HELO example.com [typed]
[wait a minute or two]
^C

(The other MX results behave similarly.)
It seems to boil down to whether maintaining the environmental factors that produce merit are the purview of society to define and enforce or the purview of individuals and households to decide for themselves.

Taking your example of SAT score, to which the main contributing factor is clearly time spent studying. If we investigate further, we find that the main factor in determining whether young adults spend time studying isn't economic, but rather cultural.

Students who grow up in households that highly prize grades, study and education unsurprisingly spend more time studying, regardless of household wealth. These students also unsurprisingly have much more well-developed skills and habits around study and educational attainment.

The question is what would you do about this? Should you do anything? I personally don't think it's any of our collective business how a household chooses to raise their children beyond the extremes of physical abuse and neglect.
Why ? because some one could stole my money or because someone else could log in without my authorization? What if there is a way to prevent that without PIN or private key ?
It's pretty big on YouTube. There's also a fair amount of underwater metal detecting and phone recovery/lost stuff discovery. It's oddly entertaining! Unfortunately a complete waste of time, too. Haha.
Depends what telephone you use, maybe. Can you block an entire range of numbers?

For a land line, maybe something in between to intercept and block the calls, try to make up such thing; for a cell phone, to try to modify the software to add such a capability.
Well, maybe there were not as many die-hard lispers within the Clojure community and many were looking for something that handled better than Java 7. I know two other former Clojure programmers that went to Scala, but also find Java passable enough to just use it rather than Clojure.
That doesn't really make sense to me, even in pipelines that deal only with YUV (very common in professional video) you always upsample to 4:4:4 in a linear colorspace and you convert back to 4:2:0 or 4:2:2 at end.

How would you do even trivial things like color blending in 4:2:0?
This is where it gets distressing.

I'm now seeing tank man, it's image number 27... recently posted news article.

When a page returns "no results," something is obviously being banned or censored... at least we know. If the action is less explicit, we can't really know for sure what's happening. How do you distinguish tank man losing prominence from the millions of people complaining that their posts, sites or whatnot aren't receiving a fair amount of exposure?
Japan has had really, really strong anti nuclear sentiment since Fukushima despite being very gung ho about it before.

Of the 54 reactors operating pre-earthquake, only 9 have been approved for restart and only 4 are actually operating. This is a huge operational risk for investors when billions of dollars of capital are at stake, so investors have piled into smaller, nimbler projects.
The person you're replying to is suggesting that everyone who's "interested and want to find out the truth" here should stop and re-evaluate what utility that gets them, vs what disutility that information-seeking gets the people involved.

To put this another way: the paparazzi that chased Princess Diana to her death, did so because there was demand for tabloid journalism.