skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this comment and upvoted it for credible argument's sake
Also try searching "journalist in blue" via the default (not image) article search on Bing. It lacks the relevant results found on Google or DuckDuckGo.
OpenJPEG has improved the situation a bit but I use JPEG 2000 as a cautionary example. The community had some good selling points but assume that meant inevitability and slacked off on browser compatibility, open source, and even interoperability. For the first decade or so you had to pay something like $1,500 to get a copy of the spec, too.

I work in the library/archiving space where people spent years trying to make this happen due to the compression wins, support for a good range of color depths and spaces, and the progressive decoding is perfect for browsing galleries of high-res images before zooming way into the one you wanted.

The frictional cost largely canceled that out: people don’t trust unreliable formats and the JP2 files which only opened in one of {Kakadu, Aware, Adobe} and couldn’t be used with any open source tools live long in the memory. Performance in Jasper was wretched … and while the vendors thought that’d boost sales, it seemed far more effective to me at getting people to use other formats instead.

These days, if anyone is talking about new image formats the first question is what they’re doing for open source (especially things like ImageMagick which half the world uses) and specifically browsers. A WASM polyfill for <picture> or <img srcset> is really critical because it means people don’t have to transcode everything for a handful of users.
I keep thinking of Madoff's fund. It was once called "the Jewish T-bill". It worked just fine until there was a significant net outflow. Then, total crash, because the backing assets were not there.

Tether is way too much like that.

Remember, Tether has no upside. There is no reason to ever hold Tether for any length of time.

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/before-dying-bernie-madoff-lif...
Rich nations 'millimetre away' from tech tax deal
I really don't think those things were related. The Wyoming reactor story has already popped up many times and there have been several dupes on the front page. People submit them and upvote them because they haven't seen the previous ones, it's as simple as that.

I unflagged your post; I don't have time to look at it because there is Tank Man drama and YC drama right now and Epstein drama is too much on top. But it's not off topic in principle. It's only probably off topic.
Digital number, the output of an analog to digital converter.
Bitcoin crashes and dips all the time. It's lost over 80% of its value at least four times since it launched, plus the recent big 50% drawdown. It slows the cryptoeconomy for a year or so, but doesn't stop it, and then there's another bubble again ~2yrs later.

Bitcoin's high but natural volatility is not the same thing as the price collapsing due to the system itself fundamentally breaking. For example, the Global Financial Crisis was the result of the system itself fundamentally breaking, not natural volatility, and its blast radius was immense.

Tether or other major stablecoin collapsing due to being exposed as a fraud, or a fractional reserve with no reserves, or similar, would be more analogous to the GFC. And the blast radius could be worse than any of Bitcoin's 80% drawdowns, both economically and wrt to regulatory and legal attention.
I do think that - how would you go about testing them with a nuclear test-ban treaty in place?

* Assuming that Germany remains responsible and doesn’t go NK route. Maybe that’s not reasonable.

* also assume we are talking about modern thermonuclear weapons
Simplify React state management with Hookstate
We actually use a combination of Transferwise, Paymentrails and PayPal. We are a US e-commerce company with hundreds of foreign vendors that we pay every month. It gets complicated quick, particularly when dealing with certain countries. Some countries might have receiving limits, some countries don’t allow business to personal transfers. That’s partly why I use a mix of payout providers. Usually one of them will support the country I’m trying to send to. Be careful with Tipalti. I think they were the ones who wanted to have you sign a contract and guarantee them certain volume.

I have not looked into Stripe, but TransferWise is by far the cheapest option overall. And all three have an API.
In Germany, it's even better: if you're out sick for longer than 6 weeks, health insurance takes over paying your wages, although at a reduced rate (~70% or such, got changed two years or so ago).
VK_KHR_sampler_ycbcr_conversion is defined to support the practically used matrix coefficients, range, siting, and has both 2 and 3 plane formats.
This expression comes from the getto's of America and it means anyone who tells the police anything will get hurt badly or their family hurt or killed.

Anyone who airs dirty laundry is called a gossip not a snitch.
Mathematically Y'CbCr is a lossless conversion of RGB. Practically there are some losses, though, especially if you use video-range.

4:1:1 is half of RGB but I've never seen anyone ever use it. Pretty much everything in use today (at the consumer level) uses 4:2:0. It's good enough for today's standards (AV1 Main profile only supports 4:0:0 and 4:2:0).
See: the article we are commenting on.
Scientists learn what fuels the 'natural killers' of the immune system
Yes in Oregon it was ultimately very similar. I was just perhaps a little too close and saw the sausage being made behind the scenes.
Except nothing prevents you learning both. JQuery is still far more widely deployed than React, Vue, and Angular combined. It’s not going away, it’s under active development.

It may not be the big thing employers ask for this month but that doesn’t make it obsolete or “damaging.”

If your career goal is to always work with the cool new fad then good luck with that. If your goal is to open the most doors and always have options get good with what most companies actually use. HN is not a good cross-section of the industry.

It’s very short-sighted to focus on languages or tools, because most of them come and go. Instead focus on core skills, adding business value, solving problems, working with people. Those skills pay off forever.
Do they define (or is there a commonly understood) definition of what makes a food ultra-processed, vs. processed, vs. not processsed? A quick cmd-f does not tell me what this means in the context of the study.
I doubt it will for a long time. Democracy Perception Index (chaired by former NATO general-secretary and former State minister of Denmark Anders Fogh Rasmussen) found that 77% of Chinese citizens see their government having "just the right amount of democracy". The exact same number they found in Fogh's home country Denmark.
> I have absolutely no concern about nuclear waste or a chernobyl.

Most people do, though. And it is one of the biggest political barriers for opening a nuclear plant.
I think you're reading a lot of stuff out of my comment that isn't there. I've spent most of my career doing software security, if that helps with context.
It can reasonably argued (and has been argued iirc) that you are not authorized to enter the room if not on official business.
> shell also has discovery and documentation problems

Only because people refuse to read the specification. The POSIX Shell & Utilities volume is exceedingly clear and straight-forward. (I vehemently disagree w/ its characterization in that paper.) It helps if you use the frames-based HTML version to make it easier to navigate and explore the various utilities, and especially to see how the syntax specification is broken down--while that section is short, it's difficult to appreciate without explicitly seeing how the subsections are related.

I only code in POSIX shell because I really can't be bothered to remember all the minutiae of other shells, almost all of which provide strong POSIX compatibility, Bash especially. I've never lamented the lack of arrays; but I regularly wish that POSIX would adopt ksh-style coprocesses so dash would have them. The shell is really all about stitching together processes (including subshell contexts), and coprocesses fill a conspicuous gap in functionality.
Partly telling that we're in a frameworks-for-frameworks stage of webdev.
You've missed the point. He isn't advocating for everyone to suddenly use JPEG where they wouldn't before. He's advocating that, since there are so many JPEGs already in use, the architecture for displaying them should avoid unnecessarily converting them into RGB 32bit, and instead display them without conversion in a YUV 420 format, to align with the internal encoding of JPEGs which is YUV 420.

Essentially, rendering JPEGs directly as a GPU texture (since GPUs can already natively use 420 encodings for textures). His point is that this would improve performance, very slightly improve quality, and reduce power usage as there's no colour space conversion.
It could be argued (pretty convincingly) that the collection of PSYCHOMETRIC data, (like what Cambridge Analytica did in 2011-2015; via innocent-seeming "personality quizzes" on social media - then the weaponization of that data by foreign intelligence services to target ads directly at people with certain personality types, in order to subvert the democratic election process on a massive scale, in order to affect a nation's foreign policy, and therefore the strategic balance of powers in the world - does, indeed represent "a real crisis".

(the real horror here, is they only had to sample a small subset of social media users, then compare their profiles with everyone else via "likes" and whatnot to develop accurate personality profiles of users who had no fucking idea they were being profiled because they never took a personality test).

I assume that data like that, unless refreshed, gets stale and useless fairly rapidly. But holy shit we're just sitting here, blind to the dangers of this data collection.

Or it could be as mundane as Russia's CozyBear group hacking a Ukrainian app store to insert malware into popular messaging apps, and using that app installed on a Ukrainian soldier's phone to direct artillery fire. Maybe THAT'S "a real crisis"?
free-as-in-beer unless you make more than $1m/yr, free-as-in-speech for everyone seems like a really good license to me. if anyone reading this thinks it's a bad idea, could you explain the drawbacks?
Or maybe not censure it at all? Maybe say "Thanks, but no thanks" to the CCP?
Year added. We usually don't add author names; in fact we usually take them out. Also Aaron's domain is right there.
And emulators like Mame too I think.
In my experience, it was quite jarring to see a python function with a bunch of : -> Union[int,str], Optional, Any, etc.

Change is always hard.
Honestly it sounds likely that management didn't handle this well, but possibly you pushed things further than you should have because you hadn't received a clear (to you) signal to stop.
Bill Gates may not have a perfect business record, but it's not like he was running rubber plantations protected by an army of child soldiers.

The whole Epstein-Gates-pedophilla-cabal theory is a load of nonsense.
This is some remarkably long-term planning:

"If construction goes ahead as planned, the majority of the foundations for the island off Denmark's capital should be in place by 2035, with an aim to fully complete the project by 2070."

I can't recall ever seeing the year 2070 or later in print, in the context of some definite project or plan. Are there other examples?
Thank you for teaching me the difference between the two words with humour. I'm 35 and I somehow completely forgot it was spelled flagrant.
Use an editor with an LSP client, along with pyls-mypy[1], and you'll get type checking support as you write your code. I just use the typing module and not Mypy, and it still works great.

[1] https://github.com/tomv564/pyls-mypy
I dislike Bill Gates' era Microsoft, but his post-Microsoft life is OK.
There have been some threads about this already:

Next generation nuclear reactor to be built in Wyoming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27376834 - June 2021 (26 comments)

Wyoming site of new nuclear power plant from Bill Gates' TerraPower - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27374840 - June 2021 (109 comments)

Hell, how about this one too:

Wyoming teen builds nuclear reactor in dad's garage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5810940 - June 2013 (25 comments)
I've been working with Zig almost 8h/day since Sept. of last year[0], and am super excited about the ideas it is bringing to low-level programming - even to C/C++/Rust. I hope folks outside of the Zig community give it a glance even if just for the ideas it brings around cross-compilation and being a nice out-of-the-box experience.

Some of my favorite highlights from this release:

> With the advent of the Self-Hosted Linker, Zig is now able to generate well-formed and codesigned binaries on arm64 macOS (aka the Apple Silicon). It is also able to cross-compile C, C++, and Zig code to an arm64 and x86_64 macOS. Additionally, arm64 nightly binaries of Zig are automatically generated by our Continuous Integration service, meaning both arm64 and x86_64 macOS are now Tier 1 targets.

From what I know, with existing cross-compilation for C/C++/Rust, code-signed MacOS binaries are not possible. This new Zig linker makes it possible and works for C/C++/Rust as well[1].

> Finally, as a side experiment, Jakub added in Zig Build System integration with Darling (#8760), a translation layer of macOS syscalls to Linux, with the intention of being able to cross test MachO binaries and macOS specific tests directly on Linux simply by passing in an additional flag -Denable-darling to zig build test.

This line of thinking - not only "how do I cross-compile", but "how do I test my cross-compiled code?" is super interesting to me. I hope it is explored further.

Finally, it's just incredibly cool to see how quickly Zig is developing and how financially stable it is[2], supporting handfuls of core team members to work on Zig. I haven't seen any other language community achieve this, let alone without corporate backing. Truly beautiful.

[0] https://devlog.hexops.com/2021/increasing-my-contribution-to...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/nii64t/zig_makes_rust...

[2] https://github.com/sponsors/ziglang
Ask HN: Assisted Suicide in Canada?
Will they take me gracefully if I'm depressed or is it just near end-of-life only? Is there anything I can do to get them to take me?
Jump to the front of the line? Do we still have a queue? I was able to get very prompt appointments and I live in a dense and relevant tech area.
If you look at revenue, they are the exception that proves the rule though right? 90-95% of the revenue is in the other camp, depending on how you define it.

For every life coach able to make a living, I’m guessing there are 10-20 business consultants, therapists, psychologists, etc. called in to fix a problem no?
> don't require banks, immune to government influence, and even completely outside any law

If any of those things were actually true we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

Also, since you apparently do think that they are true, why are you at all concerned about what banks or governments or laws might mean for cryptocurrency? I thought cryptocurrencies were immune?
I wonder if an awk/perl script for this would be easier to
manage.
Sculpted prim. The object was basically a mesh of triangles in a fixed configuration, but the coordinates of the individual vertices were derived from an image (compressed using lossless JPEG2000, as any compression artifacts, not to mention chroma subsampling, would cause really ugly distortion). This was a halfway point between allowing arbitrary meshes and only pre-made object geometries (but with skinnable textures).

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Sculpted_prim
in countries with free healthcare, everyone gets stitches when they need them, not only snitches..
> 3. Proliferation: This technology cannot go to most places it is needed because there is a risk of atomic bomb making

Is that really true? The international community has various safeguards in place to allow the use of nuclear power without enabling proliferation of nuclear weapons. Ignoring a few governments which intentionally attempt to subvert them – and almost always get punished with sanctions for doing so – those safeguards work. Most countries which don't have nuclear reactors, it is because they don't think it is an affordable or worthwhile investment for them (given the capital cost, expected returns, environmental risks, etc). There are a few countries locked out of international nuclear energy markets due to sanctions, but they are very much a minority.
Nuclear plants take a long time to build, but decarbonization also takes a long time. The world will not be fully decarbonized by the 2030s. We're going too slowly. That means that reactors coming online in the 2030s can still contribute to decarbonization. I wish that we were decarbonizing so fast that reactors built in the 2030s wouldn't matter, but we aren't.

You can see from my posting history that I am more bullish on renewables than nuclear but I'll take low carbon power of any kind until we've phased out all fossil fueled plants.
The Economist on the Creator Economy
Social-media platforms used to get most of their content for free. That dynamic is changing…Though there is more content than ever, platforms are competing harder than ever to get it. “There’s an arms race to acquire creators,” says Li Jin, founder of Atelier Ventures, a venture-capital firm. Startups are developing new ways for creators to monetise their work. Substack gives writers 90% of the subscription fees they charge for newsletters; together its top ten authors earn more than $15m a year.
TBH it's very routinely done with onboard GPS tracking instruments which also have accelerometers, (or apps running on phones) - used by insurance companies, car rental agencies, and other fleet operators.
The city of Copenhagen has a more comprehensive breakdown of the project.[1]

I think it's interesting that they intend to build residential property to accommodate 35,000. The area around that island is very...heavy industry related. It's also very very windy over there, but then again so is Denmark in general.

1. https://www.kk.dk/lynetteholm
I suppose the term is used in lots of way.

For the most part though, it means getting fired/etc. over something that is unrelated to your work, rather than breaking a (literal or assumed) work rule.

I think it'd be more cancel culture to fire the other guy. He did something bad that isn't related to YC's rules, but maybe shows poor morals.
It's a divisive political topic, and he associated an individual post made on an internal Ycombinator forum with Ycombinator itself. Comments of individuals don't represent the company, and by framing it like he did, he publicly dragged Ycombinator right into the middle of a contentious political debate.
Even for WFH: just set up a damn openvpn in front of the vcenter server, if you don't have the money for a Cisco Anyconnect appliance.

It's not that hard, and anyone ignorant enough to expose a vCenter to the Internet deserves being shut down. This is unacceptably incompetent.
Just want to say, this was flagged, but I appreciate the mods unflagging this so quickly. I don't think this is a poor quality article.
In my experience, manual QA is a symptom of bad engineering culture where engineers inherit large systems with poor test coverage. Automated testing is only hard when it isn't considered from the beginning of the project.

A lot of manual QA is bad testing too. If you have a grueling and linear process to go through to test your software each release... why isn't it automated? Is it doing something that fundamentally cannot be automated? If yes, you're probably wrong - almost everything can be automated.

Humans need to be put in the loop when requirements are changing and problems need to be solved. Designing comprehensive testing systems may be the role of good QA, but actually running the tests by hand is not a great place to be regularly.
I don’t understand. It’s a marketing tactic except for this place you’re doing this exact thing with?
In case you don't know about them, they also make plastic blades with steel teeth embedded in them. I use them to get rid of thistles for when I don't want to deal with the extra weight of my brushcutter.
I just don't see it being worse. There are plenty of replacements in place - USDC is also in the top 10. BTC crashing 80% is at least similarly drastic (many losing 'faith' or all their savings in crypto) and I don't expect the recovery from a Tether crash (which is also a much smaller part of the market and again, has replacements) to be worse or take longer.
I've been following cryptocurrencies since their inception. No one who knows anything is investing in or holding fiat based currencies. It may make some people some money, but it is assuredly not going to make you any money, and will probably make you lose money.
At least we have a good example answer to “Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage”. Lie about eligibility to the health system, in order to get an advantage in the vaccine line! In a way, this behavior is kind of consistent with the “disruption” ethos of tech startups.
The situation in Oakland was even more bizarre at the time. The state had generated certain “equity” access codes which would allow you to book non-public reserved appointments. The idea was that these codes could be used by members of otherwise hard to reach communities. Instead, they were shared by a bunch of local arts groups on Instagram. I’m sure they were abused. Witnessing that debacle made me lose a lot of faith in the prioritization as practiced at the time.
The title is misleading. Bitcoin isn't reliant on Stablecoins. DeFi, is but DeFi !== Bitcoin...
Very true, but there is a gradient there. I have an example of the opposite extreme. A few years ago I worked with a person who would rather continue working in php 5.3 than start using Scala, which was hot at the time. He literally copy-pasted an old project instead of starting a new one in Scala (or ANY other language, this was a payment system and php does not even have strong enough crypto support in old versions). And I can tell you for sure he had at least 1 year exposure to Scala and doing at least 1 full project. His reasoning for copy-pasting old php: He was «just too stupid to understand Scala». It is an extreme example, but most people I met who dont like strong typing fall into that category (lazy? Certainly not stupid) and I just dont know what to say to them or what to think myself to accept them or even how to use whatever hidden powers these people have other than creating circular dependencies for the company by making obvoius mistakes they themselves spend most of their time fixing. Im not actually bitter, just frustrated that so many seem to just not care.
Just a reminder that these severity ratings, while often directionally useful (a 9.x probably is something you should care about if you run the target software; a 2.x is probably not), the ratings themselves are total horseshit and are running industry joke; literally a Ouija board, starting from a hopelessly ambiguous "calculator" that you run and then apply subtle inputs to to get the score where you want it to be.
Understood. My comment was mostly tongue-in-cheek. Thank you for unflagging.
That’s the kind of claim you need to back up with examples and citations. True or false it just sounds like slander when you throw it out there in a thread like this without any sources.
Lakka 3.1 released (based on latest RetroArch)