skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just want to provide you with another data point. I may well be in the minority, but nevertheless I am a bonafide contributor and enjoyer of HN. I should also point out that I did not and would likely not flag posts about the Tienanmen Square Massacre. However, there is a sense in which I could be construed as being "sympathetic" to the CCP and I'm 100% British. I am not sympathetic in the sense that I support the murder and cover up of protesting students, rather I am unsympathetic to the idea that the CCP is motivated by a cartoonish idea of despotism. Whilst I do believe that the most significant component in the censorship of Tank Man is formal CCP policy, I don't believe that extends to the wider conversation. My feeling is that the majority of non-Chinese commentators are disproportionally informed on Chinese history compared to Western history. For example the Opium Wars, or why Hong Kong was a British colony, or the effect the Century of Humiliation had/has on the Chinese collective consciousness. Again, to make sure I'm clear, there is no possible justification for state-sanctioned murder. However my "sympathy" is that we are failing as intelligent and caring fellow human beings if we cannot imagine the CCP as anything other than a Hollywood-esque super villain. So whilst I know I push against these stereotypes, and I suspect so too do Chinese nationals, that doesn't mean I also push against attempts to censor The Tienanmen Square Massacre.

So I'm not trying to disprove your point that censoring is actively occurring, I just want to try to add some nuance to the situation, that there are other currents at play here. And that when sweeping sentiments are expressed and reinforced about China there's a danger those other currents get drowned out and even misconstrued. So if I'm interpreting @dang's intentions correctly, I very much support his attempts to navigate this almost impossible situation with fairness yet firmness.
One example would be a food critic. They give an honest description of a restaurant so readers can decide if they want to go there. The article doesn't need to be helpful for the restaurant.

But I can't think of an example where a company keeps unconstructive critics on the payroll.
And in truth, several important programs of the early PC years were, in fact, clones of the CP/M programs that proceeded them.

Wordstar 3.3 for MSDOS was an exact clone of the CP/M WordStar 3.0 that was released a year or two earlier. Even some of the data sections were in the same place, such that you could copy parts of the configuration data from the CP/M version across to the MSDOS version.
It's also not new at all:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dixie-chicks-were-cancelled-...
>they admitted it

He's now denying that he instructed others on how to skip the line, although it's not really that clear of a denial.
macOS and iOS have always supported JPEG2000.
Wow, there are 1502 TLDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
> (including light)

I remember being told in some physics class that visible light is actually the radiation which penetrates the most, and that indeed this may be the very reason why it's visible: eyes were developed when life was still aquatic, therefore they evolved to be sensitive to the range of frequencies that could reach them.
I really hate what I've learned about my friends and acquaintances over this pandemic. I hate that I've learned who's willing to ignore public health guidelines, who's okay with cheating to skip the line, who's okay with pressuring family to do the same. It's just so...grubby.

Especially since my social bubble is so very privileged. Let's face it. The majority of us are in good health with cushy jobs. We can afford to stay home. We can afford to wear high quality medical masks. We could afford to wait the extra month for a vaccine. Besides, a month or two is nothing compared to how long many countries are going to be waiting.

I can somewhat understand why people act this way, especially if they're pushing their loved ones to skip the line. But I can't help but feel it's this view of "I get mine" that is so ugly. And for what? A little more freedom a couple weeks early? What's the point?
More like lost access to a cult for telling the public the cult leader is a liar.
It does indeed have that vibe, and irrespective of what actually happened - it makes him look bad.

If he was indeed talking about inappropriately skipping the line, then this guy is a bad actor. But I should point out that we don't have any idea - the situation could have been very misrepresented - and he could have done nothing wrong.

But given the public information ... this Tweet is going to come of 'Snitches Get Stitches' in a 'lacking in self awareness' kind of way, as opposed to the 'I was slandered and misrepresented publicly, and that can be very damaging, I'm glad this issue is behind us" kind of way.

Why are adults in the US using Twitter/GIF memes instead of finding thoughtful and mature ways of communicating this stuff? I don't like this evolution.
If I were in the EU, I'd be more worried about political interference from Facebook. They'll have built up the experience to sway elections and they are going to be easy for the various three-letter American agencies to influence.

Facebook should be treated as falling under the "massive foreign media company" banner; but more extreme.
> I just happened to disagree.

Did you continue to disagree after the issue had been aired and a decision had been made? That could definitely end up in the territory you describe.
Thanks for explaining it.

Many of the things people switched to C# for were already present in Delphi. It's a shame the Borland/Embarcadero got greedy and started pricing most of us out of the market.
The intentional homicide rate is 7x USA’s.. Which is 7x my country’s (52x).

Sounds dangerous.
How do you hear it being used? Basically every time I’ve encountered the phrase, it’s referred to someone getting fired, kicked out of school, uninvited from a speaking engagement or something similar.
> NBC's chime was developed when it was owned by GE in the 1930s (the notes are G-E-C – General Electric Company).

Apparently this is folklore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_chimes#%22General_Electric...
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JPEG can use multiple: you can select the chroma-subsampling (with comp_info[0].h_samp_factor), and do 420, 422 or 444...
Though it makes YC look very weak and thin-skinned, I bet the same thing would have happened at a lot of companies if an employee tweeted critical comments about the CEO, owner, etc.
Going to the toilet is inefficient, that's why I only eat precisely the calories and nutritional content that my body needs without anything left over to produce waste
Are you advocating illegally assaulting people for merely words?
Rooftop solar and home batteries make a clean grid vastly more affordable
Accidents happen, and LLVM is a really large complex project with tons of downstream users (like Zig and Rust) discovering issues not caught by LLVM's test suite / clang.

It's definitely a real problem[0][1][2][3], I would argue LLVM needs a longer release-candidate cycle before a release is cut - to give downstream users more to pick up and report regressions, as well as LLVM contributors to fix them. A higher quality bar would be great.

[0] https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1365186310088974336

[1] https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1303046926430908416

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/gh3thc/llvm_10_has_pe...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/n5ne5i/regression_mis...
The submission is a link to a twitter thread. A tweet can have up to 280 characters. How many footnotes would you prefer John to have used?
It is government that steals income tax from my neighbors and from me.
Hm. I'm not sure where the calculus lies on having a dose go slightly more slowly to populations that are more likely to get covid and/or die from it than quickly to young, affluent populations who are much less likely to die from it or get it.

I am sure that those decisions should be made by the state, not the individual 25-year old who decides that they are deserving of the vaccine now.

Also, many of those links that were floated around had equity codes embedded that were not supposed to be used by the general public, so would show appointments made available specifically for high-risk populations.

My general opinion is that people who skipped ahead in their 20s, especially in the Bay Area, were in the moral wrong.
...until someone upstream from his server decides his content is no longer welcome on the 'net and pulls the server from the rack / drops his network service / drops his name service / refuses to process payment requests / cancels his domain registration / refuses to process mail from his domain / etcetera.

Think of how Parler was treated to get an idea of what I mean. Think of that scene in The Matrix where Neo was rhetorically questioned by agent Smith - "What good is a phone call if you are unable to speak?".

What good is a platform if you are unable to connect it to the internet?
Can you add a route for random images of Bubu? I would be very excited for that.
The error here is thinking that the rat is in danger when doing its job and that the word heroic cannot be used to describe non-human.

From Webster, heroic: of a kind that is likely only to be undertaken to save a life.

This rat's work has saved lives. So, we can call it heroic. It is not even anthropomorphic strictly speaking.
I wrote about a similar comparison way back in the middle of 2017:

https://benshieldsblog-blog.tumblr.com/post/165101127465/let...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9li-Wu3-bPEWEswQVdIOHVKTmM...
In this and age, if companies are not giving employees FIDO2 security keys it's just incompetence.
And the pipeline is able to convert it to RGB fine, so isn't the information available to use? Why would it be a challenge passing along that information?
I think it's telling that Atherton and Piedmont were above 80% vaccinated well before vaccinations were open to the general public. "Wait your turn" is not how they became members of their respective clubs.
If a story transitions to a high flag/vouch level (IDK, >10 of each), it should have its clock reset to be considered a new submission, regardless of dupe status. Maybe label with [controversial] or [hot].

This problem happens again and again with hot topics, and at the moment the default behavior is to let them disappear, which is a bit lame.
Middle class by the classical "very rich people who are still technically commoners" definition yes.

Middle class by the colloquial "everyone who makes more than a kid flipping burgers but not enough to buy an apartment in Manhattan" definition no.
That's a perfectly good explanation, apart from the fact that an American company does censorship for Chinese government. If it's "inside China" doesn't make it better.
A low dose has anti-depressive effects, but these are much larger doses. According to her husband she was addicted, and on Erowid there are reports of people getting addicted to it:
https://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Ketamine_Addicti...

Regarding suicide people could get strange ideas due to ketamine, perhaps it's accidental death - perhaps she wanted to try the biggest dose to get the ultimate revelation and while being in the so called K-hole, the cold got her.

Like a few unlucky souls experimenting with psychedelics, they want to fly to close to the sun and fall down. Zoe7.

Ketamine or psychedelic use can be a form of self-medication. But you'd think that if she had depression it was written about after her death or mentioned in one of her books or articles
Reading https://wiki.osdev.org/Interrupt_Descriptor_Table, the table contains a 32-bit offset that’s split into two halves for IA-32 or a 64-bit one split into 3 parts for AMD64.

There also seems to be some cruft from having segments and still having (¿some?) 16-bit code support, but I think that’s par for the game.
Your post is a bit inaccurate.

Biggar tweeted about his unhappiness about the behavior of a person in the private group.

He received a public response fromt he person in question with a dismissive meme.

He in turn responded to that.

So, one could argue that the line-jumping-advocate relinquished his privacy in the first place.
Fits perfectly imo. Did you read that article?
Not assaulted but they will face repercussions. The expression is a common one for American native English speakers.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snitches_get_stitches
I didn't quite read it that way. The accusation is that both told other people how to skip the line. My assumption is that the both founders told other people how they could get the vaccine. A more charitable observation would be that the second founder told people how they could get it without waiting in line or lying.

The accusation still sounds gross. Though vaccine rollout wasn't great in the bay area. I got an email from my doctor about appointments being available. The ones in the bay area were taken really quickly. Availability was much better in other counties. There were also a couple other replies. One mentioned you could get vaccinated for volunteering for 4 hours. Another mentioned some sites were doing first come first serve.
It depends what you want to do with the data. If you want to send your sRGB-profile Y'CbCr JPEG image directly to an sRGB display then you are done after applying a matrix.

If you want to composite multiple images, do other intermediate processing, or display the image on an arbitrary non-sRGB display, you probably want to convert to a linear space along the way.
> 4. EPUB is actually a quite nice format if you ignore it's all in XML.

That last line made me chuckle.
Because users can control how their cookies are set, cleared etc etc?

Because it's not evil to not want to risk jail when giving away some stuff for free if you set a cookie by accident that is not approved?

Because most users don't care about these endless navel-gazing exercises?

Because there are much MUCH worse things online, from scam tech support folks who rip you off to ransomeware to endless other scams and hassles?

Because the cookie notice farce has done nothing about my ISP selling my browsing history, my TV reporting my viewing habits and showing me unwanted ads and seems to be designed to get self important folks who are technically clueless to jump around and pat themselves on the back.

Because while I never minded making stuff available to EU it's not worth jumping through a bunch of hoops to do so.
I wonder how many jobs have been lost and reputations sullied by posting thoughtless comments on Twitter. 20 years ago, you really needed to make an effort to get a thought out to the world: create a website, write an op-ed in the NY Times, get interviewed on CNN. Now, it takes 5 seconds to ruin your life. There's a lesson in here somewhere.
The thing that pushes this more towards incredulity is that today is the anniversary of the famous photo.
> But how can you do that unless you are saying "map this .foo.com to resolver A, and map .bar.com to resolver B".

That's exactly what systemd-resolved does for you when properly configured. The linked issue is about something.foo.com resolving to blah.bar.com and then that hitting resolver B, and Poettering correctly notes how it might cause issues for some while it fixes issues for others.

Now, whether I think systemd and the ecosystem is too complicated? Sure it is, and that means it's a guaranteed pile of bugs. But I also believe the goals are admirable, and it is up to everyone to decide whether they are willing to live through the bugs (thus helping improve it) or not, relying on more traditional tools.

I am not sure how DoH is going to interact with local network DNS as I haven't looked into it, but if browsers are unable to figure it out the right way, I'll for sure disable it.
pg believes the Civil War wasn't actually about slavery (http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html), so I'm not sure that Sam actually made the place worse.
Hmm, now I'm a lot less sure. Both this website and the recent Vanity Fair article represent the "Drastic" team as heroes, but establishment public health people are less impressed. Here's a fascinating Twitter thread on the Drastic authors[1], though I'm sure their fans would dismiss this as an ad hominem attack.

The fact that the SPR people are anonymous is something people should be aware of when deciding how much stock to put in them.

[1]: https://twitter.com/wokeglobaltimes/status/13991870957642793...
TL;DR guy gets asked to leave exclusive party.

Kind of dumb to be raising a stink over the issue anyhow. Just get shots in arms. After front-line medical workers it doesn't matter whose. Prioritizing the elderly was baloney. Hell, smokers were a priority group. How much more obvious does an intentional backdoor have to be? This guy probably shames people who bluff in Poker.
Are you sure they are ignoring your emails?

From their perspective, is there enough value for them to respond?

Is there too much friction involved if they do respond?

Can they respond? Are you sure? If your answer is a rapid "of course they can, don't be stupid" then reconsider and explictly verify its true. Then perhaps youll be better off than a certain CEO who said exactly that but didn't check and kept finding lower than expected conversions. Sales funnels aren't perfect and fail for lots of mundane reasons. Check again.
Yup! Vigorously seek out and tax the externalities, helicopter money, and publicly administer natural monopolies (like transit, telecommunications, electricity, etc.).

It's a great simple recipe; amazing how much ink we spill beating around the bush.
Honestly stablecoins - specifically tether - is about the only thing about crypto that genuinely frightens me.

Crypto rollercoaster - up down sideways and in circles - sure I'm game. Tether that is stable until it implodes...hell no. Even without direct exposure the blast radius worries me.
Wow, this entire interview basically contained no information what so ever, except YouTube is awesome.
Someone used Bing?
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You don't know what you do and don't need to do. Literally the page linked here has lots of comments that they are doing cookie notices wrong / should be in jail etc.

Some people don't have time for all this lawyering just to post a few things online.
Don't leak internal forum discussions on Twitter.

If you want to criticize someone, use their name rather than "YC founder" multiple times.

If your Tweet contains misleading info, delete it rather than post a different threaded Tweet (which no one will see) with a clarification.

If the rest of your YC class now has doubts about whether what they discuss is really confidential, it's pretty clear that you have to go.
The parenthetical is more to indicate the comment isn't doxxing/a witch hunt.
> They focus on using propaganda to control individuals and then let those people make a mess of social media.

There was an interesting report in German TV, where they analyzed a paper looking for bot patterns in Twitter. That paper named some offending accounts, so what they did was PM one - and it turned out that it simply belonged to a pensioner with strong political opinions and a lot of free time. Interesting to look behind the cover some times (through I do think that TLAs realize this power and don't let that slide, to some extent at least).

> I'll be honest, at first I wasn't too keen on you moderation style, as I found it too heavy handed.

It's interesting how viewpoints diverge - for quite some time when I started reading, I actually did not realize that HN was moderated. If I may ask, where did you encounter so much heavy moderation?
I share your feeling and this concerns me most: China's leadership don't care anymore what the world think of China. China gave up the PR war because their next big move might be ugly.
Related discussion[1]. Also, funny how this popped up 30 minutes after a report on Gates' ties with Epstein was posted[2].

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27374840

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27399736
It's cool and reassuring that YC has no principles or morals other than "monkeys strong together"
>In what way is RGB easier to manipulate?

Probably because it's the native input format for every display technology in existence? If you're going to twiddle an image, you might want to do it in the format that it's displayed in.
Dear FBI

Go fuck yourselves
Actually at least in Massachusetts there was some rhyme and reason to vaccine priorities: the elderly and immune-compromised, frontline health workers, first responders, food service, teachers.

I thought it was pretty much the same in most states.

Anyway, the vaccine is pretty much generally available today, comparable to getting a flu shot. In some places, you don't even need an appointment; just walk in.
Seems like he lost his access to the internal forum and wasn't "kicked out" of ycombinator. The actual ycombinator program lasts for months and involves funding. Access to a website is different and involves following terms of service, whatever they might be.

Bit of a sensationalist post title
Ahh, public vs private. I see, thanks.
Not having Senior Frontend Developer on your future resume and being underpaid is far worse than having to code in jQuery. Senior dev means senior dev pay so they are effectively robbing you of not only present salary but future salary too.
jQuery is not a “stack.” It will not go obsolete any time soon. Using jQuery or any other tool or language cannot “damage you technically.” Comments like that may explain why the (most likely meaningless) “senior” didn’t get attached to the title.
How to Rebuild Trust in the Tech Industry
Given that the people in question lack apparently any sort of civic virtue or else they wouldn't be engaging in this behaviour in the first place, where else do you propose one exposes dirty laundry other than in the public?

This is exactly why people in positions of power are afraid of transparency and why there is such a anti-media bias in the tech industry.
Yeah, about 80% of my flags on the homepage are precisely this.
I used to do that before I got to the point of being unwilling to spend my time trying to beat my personal best record of two hours of holding them on the line.

"I'm very old and I don't know what you are wanting me to do... Can you say all that again? .... My bank login doesn't seem to be working.... My computer doesn't have that button on it ...."
Founders, executives and managers are all emotional beings. They can only handle so much criticism, regardless of if it is the right criticism they need to hear.

Imagine giving a speech to your team, and there is one employee who is rolling their eyes and smirking at things you say, and who you know disagrees with you. It’s very difficult to block out - and their are few who can handle that. You may be 100% onboard after a heated discussion and not making any outward gestures, but your mere presence will leave the person imagining you are rolling your eyes. And this festers.

You need to find a way to put yourself in their shoes and really feel what it’s like to have someone very critical of things around.

Yea, reputation is everything and you should never be completely open and it’s why people water down everything they say and end up kissing ass.

Even people who say they can take any criticism can’t. This is the best lesson you can learn.
in a way, he's saying snitches deserve to have their wounds properly sewn up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-ribbon_committee
That is why these companies should be treated as just that, private companies.

This means that section 230 of the CDA needs to be repealed and that they become liable for what their users submit. They will probably react by censoring even more, making their services even less palatable to more and more people. With a bit of luck that will give the decentralised 'net the push it needs to take the lead.