skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Giving someone with a conflict of interest good faith is extremely unwise. I advise even for you never to do it.

In essence you can say my faith in him is 50% not 100% as good faith seems to imply. So with 50% faith, engagement is still has value. I never met a person who never lied, so every single person I've ever talked to in my life I technically never had 100% good faith towards. I expect everyone to lie and be untrustworthy at some point. For some people it's big things, for other people it's minor white lies. For someone with a conflict of interest I'd be more careful.

Additionally even someone completely untrustworthy can still be communicated with. You can still glean information from such a person by observing his actions. For example if dang censors this thread by deleting the whole thing, that would say a lot. Him not deleting the thread also says a lot.

What I don't understand about you is how you can say you don't "understand" something and then suddenly say "good evening" as if you're leaving. Wouldn't the goal be for you to "stay" and "understand" Or is the goal simply to debate and win or leave if you can't win?
Remind me which political ideology in the US is the one trying to forcibly manage reproductive rights?
I actually look through that and see quite a few things on that list I would be fine with my friends and relatives knowing. The difference between them and my work colleagues is that they are people who truly have my best interests at heart.

As opposed to most companies that are tracking me to try to take advantage of me.
This is interesting. Normally people say "innumerable" in a sentence like this, meaning "too many to count", but in this case there's a malapropism which literally reverses the meaning whilst keeping the sense of the original almost intact.
> > Latinx came from LGBT Hispanic people.

> I have a very hard time believing that this was invented by people who speak a Romance language as their first language.

Children of Hispanic immigrants often feel more comfortable with English than Spanish yet many will still identify as “Hispanic”. So the word is more understandable if you see it as a product of a predominantly Anglophone Hispanic subculture
I said Latinx is an English word mostly.

Many Hispanic people are natively bilingual. Many speak English primarily.

Folx sounds like it looks. Womxn sounds like woman or women usually. Latin@ depends on the speaker. Latinx rhymes with Kleenex.
Suuuuure. Whoops and there goes a vpn tunnel with a residential endpoint.
>Nothing is made, much is destroyed.

A huge amount of technological development occurred during WW2. The jet engine, rocket and nuclear energy all spring to mind.
Lukashenko profits by playing the EU off against Russia.

Banning/sanctioning Belarus naturally drives the country further towards Russia. The EU attempts to offset this by simultaneously dangling a €3B carrot: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_...
I'm watching it and it's completely blowing my mind! Thanks so much for sharing.

He has a funny slip too: at 20:51 he says Xeon instead of Xenon!
Apple employees call for more flexible remote work policy in letter to Tim Cook
I think you are coming at this with the judgment that his statements are malicious as opposed to honest reflections of how he perceives the world. I was educated at a Hebrew Day School and I found his consideration of “self-righteous impunity” of Israel state violence to be thought provoking, given the traditions dogmatic belief in its elected grace. Yet such opinions are muffled because? Oh that’s right, the majority of people cannot handle deep thought and get scared weighing ideas which are not the consensus. This Nietzsche called the “herd morality”; to censor is practically totalitarian and inimical to the American Founding Republic which savors self-independence which breeds liberty of conscience to promote the conscience liberty in others. It’s a shame people are not educated in this country to handle ideas and therefore liberty.
> The rural poor have plenty of power on both a federal level (each California House representative is responsible for 65 times as many people as each North Dakota representative; numbers are similar for Wyoming, Montana, and plenty of other rural areas)

So what? This is the result of a compromise established in 1776 to keep states with lower populations from unilaterally deciding to leave the Union when they lack representation. Do you propose ammending the constitution?
I think you are leaving out the pretty expansive middle ground where everyone lives. The options are not "pretty much any environment where they get paid" and "woketopia". Do you expect female employees to put up with harassment because it's too expensive to improve the working environment? Should employees "just deal with" being yelled at by managers? I'll pass thanks, but I don't think that qualifies me as an activist.
Amsterdam to trial self-driving electric boats
I've heard some environmentalists make an argument for dense human cities. If you're going to have all those people and their infrastructure either way, compress it down and maybe you can leave more room for nature? They tend to be very anti suburbs along the same thinking.
> “I have the feeling of doing useful work”

I'm sure the paper-pushers, the process guardians, the SAFe certified ninjas, the box tickers are convinced their job is of utmost importance.

Not that it always isn't. Sometimes you need people like that. But only sometimes.
> because meritocracy is about promotion of ability above all other consideration

It depends on the position. I do want this when it comes to surgeons as I’m concerned with outcome not with fairness to all the surgeons who weren’t born with a silver spoon.

Or when I’m hiring a programmer. I want the best programmer and don’t want to even out all the candidates based when some are worse but have good reasons why.

I also think it’s a good ideal once everyone is in the door and are competing for bonuses or whatnot. If I have a sales organization, I want to incentivize high sales achieved within an ethical, sustainable manner. If one person makes $10 in sales and one makes $5, the person with higher sales gets the bonus. I don’t want to give the bonus to the $5 person because it was harder for them to earn that $5. It’s unclear to know what’s truly fair, but clear to know who sells more.

This is an ideal and not perfect. But if not striving for merit and quality, what’s the goal? The goal isn’t that everyone gets the same. The goal is that the organization excels.
You need it for a CRT shader, but games pretty much universally were in RGB internally and got converted on the way out. Especially for MAME, which is emulating games that would use RGB monitors.
And more concretely, a language design rule of thumb in Zig is that if a function is called, there should be an explicit function call. Zig offers defer and errdefer as the closest substitute for RAII that makes all calls explicit.
The attacks are getting more funding and are exponentially more sophisticated. The investment in prevention is meh comparably.
The implication is that you would keep the data in its original form (or 420) only until you have to perform an operation to output a new image/rendering. You could then perform the operation (such as shading operations) in a larger color space on a graphics card, and finally afterward output again, perhaps as compressed YUV or perhaps as RGB over the wire in 8-, 10- or 12-bit (as you get to fancier HDR10+ and/or Dolby Vision). (Note in this post I'm using YUV instead of the more technically correct YCbCr...)

That said, this (storing JPEGs in YUV420) is just an optimization and the more images and displays go HDR, the less frequently we'll see YUV JPEGs, though we could see dithered versions, maybe, in 444. That's basically the same thing, but once you discard 420 and 422 you might as well use standard 8-bit RGB and skip the complexity of YCbCr altogether. If you're curious about HDR as I was, though 10-bit is "required", you can dither HDR to 8-bit and not notice the difference unless doing actual colour grading (where you need the extra detail, of course). For obvious reasons, I've never heard of anyone dithering HDR to YUV 420 though, and most computer screens look pretty terrible in when output to a TV as YUV422 or YUV420.
The author's tweet claimed 62 lines.
the windows 10 shell is fine.

press and release windows key, type the name of the application you want, press enter.

same as windows 7.

why would I need a different shell? last time I tried one, almost 20 years ago, it crashed continually and was therefore completely useless. same with all of the stardock software I bought. garbage, all of it.
it depends for me it is almost universally better unless something has a security device on it. on the other hand i worked as a cashier and latter lead cashier (i trained all the new cashiers on how to use the register) for years while in collage. So I can get through my cart much faster than most whoever is working the check out just because i know whats coming and what should be bagged together optimally. and then also the lack of forced social interaction makes me far happier.
This, in conjunction with [0] has made me quite sad over the last few weeks

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/18/any-amount-o...
JPEG itself has that property - you can decode any JPEG at 1/8 the size pretty easily, and progressive scan JPEGs do what you want here.

Dedicated texture compression formats would also do this since they use mipmaps, but I don't know if you can stream those.
The article fails to prove its central point because it fails to demonstrate that merit is non-heritable through for instance, genetics.

I'm not exactly sure what the argument against meritocracy actually was. Are these highly educated students NOT better workers? Are they better workers but they only got to be that way through the unfair favoritism of parents towards their own children and an insufficient social support network? Usually when I see complaints about meritocracy the solution is to put your fingers on the scale of adult employment because of the non-meritocratic nature of it but if the argument is the latter than one can raise many objections to this idea. If the idea is the former the argument has not been sufficiently made.

Is it being argued that nuture can't raise intelligence? That's questionable as well. Is meritocracy and egalitarianism supposed to be the same thing for reasons? I really don't know the arguments are clear as mud. I don't feel like me reading this article happened through any meritocratic process.
Got downvoted for this comment by a mob. How very on brand.
I'm surprised that most people don't understand this. It's not about being more effective. It's all about have sales or conversion attribution to be able to do stuff like A/B testing.
I mean priced into the crypto market writ large.
Me and my buddy in NZ tried unsuccesfully taking San Pedro cacti twice before we made an extract that worked: around six shot glasses each of a deep green viscous liquid that was the most horrible tasting shit I've ever swallowed.
No. You're right. I'm responsible for my comments and in hindsight a few of those were a bit emotionally driven rather than being objective. But I've been downvoted on my factual comments during Asian business hours and only to rise to positive number the following day during Australian hours. I wasn't trying to see how much karma I'd earned. I just happened to notice this trend on a couple of my comments. It's purely anecdotal and I've no data to prove that it's in fact the general case. I don't know how much fact there is to the Huawei case but the secretive govt that CCP is, I'd be very careful about using their services. I don't want my data ending up in their servers to feed into their algorithms.
This was mostly true until about 5 years ago. Over the past few years, housing prices have gone up substantially all the way through Abbotsford and started affecting Chilliwack.
I wrote consideration for a reason.

Caring is not enough!

When people take time to consider one another and field of play they also tend to understand everyone, that playfield and potentially themselves better. Not understanding people in our lives is a waste of time, energy, resources, and all of that comes with greater cost and risk exposure not associated with meaningful returns.

Unnecessary costs and risks do add up.
Aaron Swartz: 7 Essays on Getting Better at Life (2012)
> Amazon has nailed free shipping with prime.

Not everywhere. I didn't renew my prime subscription a few years ago, because they rarely met their delivery times and I was starting to get broken, counterfeit, and obviously returned/resold items.
And clean coal simply means coal that is clean.
> The compiler is forced to make a static choice while hardware can choose based on dynamic effects that the compiler will never be able to predict.

At the limit of complete generality the Halting Problem guarantees your statement is correct. But it also appears to be extremely difficult to do this at runtime without side-effects that change global state such that information leaks. The real cost for speculative execution may be that it can't be done in a purely-functional manner.
One of the more common "bitcoin implosion scenarios" keeping people up at night has been Tether collapsing. Certainly that must be priced into crypto by now. The accusations and suspicions that it is not backed by hard currency have been around for years.
That's only 7 years?
Awesome news in this space. Here in Victoria Australia, we're part of the Australian east coast network which covers Qld, NSW, Vic, SA, Tas.

The market is managed by AEMO and Victoria has a deregulated environment, separated into generators, distributors, and retailers.

I recently signed up with amberelectric.com.au which passes through the wholesale market price (set every 30m) and a fixed $15/month charge.

It's been interesting to watch the market in semi-real time and I would love to see an API that I could adopt/adapt to allow a household to participate in the market.

South Australia has an experimental "virtual generator" that is managed with rooftop solar on each of its public housing estates, combined with local battery storage.

One area that is not clear is that the grid is being stressed by the number of new generation and storage sources, so AI/ML work in modelling that environment is very important in Australia.
You can't do image decompression in GPGPU because the last step (Huffman coding) is not parallelizable - in fact if any compression is parallelizable it's not compressed enough. But you can do it in dedicated hardware.
Perhaps read “party” as “entity” or “organization of people” as in the phrase “a party to the agreement” or whatever?

That being said, I see no way that a governmental organization which plans the economy could fail to be political, by which I mean, closely connected to highly contentious government policy decisions.
Yeh they also totally fuck over farmers, employees, and even tried to pay Mexican employees in Walmart dollars while housing them in the back of the store.

It should have gone the way of sears. Its an abusive business that is bad for everyone.
I thought about that, but the claim was that it came from that community, which is still hard to believe when it's a language construction that is really only common in elite white circles, evidenced by the polling data cited up-thread.
Itanium of course was a huge win for Intel. By convincing all the RISC Unix guys to jump on the sinking Itanium they captured the high end server market for x86.
I agree with you - it depends and there is a nuance to each situation. Also, it is not like DMV because of the scale of vaccination. Vaccination is more akin to voting - less bureacracy leads to be better outcome. Too many rules and complicated voting process means lower voter turnout.

I hope that makes sense. Vaccination isn't an individual's selfish activity (like DMV queue) - it is a social contract and responsibility to prevent the spread of virus by lowering the r^2 value and breaking the chain of spread. It's not a perfect analogy of course and we're bikeshedding on the accuracy of the analogy... :-/
Add Swift, C and Objective-C to the "customers" list that really matter.
> Yet as a top-notch education becomes the essential requirement for the best job, the rich can buy educational privileges for their children

This is not meritocracy. Every argument made is just how much meritocracy has died in the U.S. not how meritocracy does not work. If it worked properly, the rich wouldn't have a leg up just because they have money, because in theory there wouldn't be elite schools to begin with. Schools themselves would be rewarded based on merit, instead of having these generational gatekeeping mechanisms that literally produce the ruling class in America. This is "the swamp" in politics, it's a bunch of elite people coming from elite schools, which might have some education, but are not necessarily the best for those jobs, just the ones with the best access... so not meritocracy.
That's because JPEG decoders use poor upscaling algorithms. I think libjpeg uses nearest neighbor.

It's pretty easy to write a better one since the full resolution image is already available for the Y plane, you can do super resolution.
The lightning or USB-c connector on a phone has voltage present, and exposed copper like that plus salt water surely isn't a good combination. Without making an ip68 rated twist lock huge charger connector I don't see how the port itself can be waterproofed.
> Wouldn’t it be better to refine the rules and disclosure when gaps arise, so everyone is participating in the same system?

I don’t agree with this. I think this idea works in computing systems and thus at least programmers are inclined to think in this fashion, however I don’t believe this is how every other framework functions, e.g., the UK legal system which is largely down to interpretation (and IANAL).
Australia.

We have an interconnected network covering most of our population, a wholesale spot market, high penetration of rooftop solar, infeed tariffs, subsidized household storage, and a network that is suffering growth issues in terms of accomodating the generation and storage facilities coming on line.

Our various states are pushing for net-zero generation in the next 5-10 years, while our Federal government is still subsdizing fossil fuel generation.
Mt. Zion wasn't "set aside for a high-risk community." It should have been, and indeed it was set aside earlier that week, but by Thursday morning they opened the gates and let everyone in. https://archive.is/Z55Oe

As a result, it was my turn, after I waited in line for four hours at a "first come, first serve" vaccination site.

Elsewhere you allege that @dasickis and I were "skirting eligibility rules." You know that's not true. Perhaps there should have been eligibility rules, but there simply weren't. There weren't even eligibility guidelines, not even a written sign saying "for West Oakland residents only."

The lack of rules actually means something. Due to the lack of rules, I didn't have the option to give the vaccine I took to an underprivileged person of color in the West Oakland community.

The SF Chronicle article describes the last person in line on Friday, "Roz M., a 37-year-old from Hayward with vivid purple hair."

Do you think I owed it to Roz to offer her the vaccine I took? You may say that neither of us deserved a vaccine, but, due to the lack of rules, in fact, it was me, or Roz.

(And let's not forget that I have a special obligation to my kid, who's not yet old enough to be vaccinated, to vaccinate myself and the adults in our family. I have no such special obligation to Roz.)
> I think most people just have a tendency to to repeat dogma they are exposed to, based on the groups they belong in.

This realization is basically how the "NPC" meme was born. It predated the "no inner voice" study, that's just how most people seem to have come across the idea because the study half-jokingly caused a "wait a minute, we were right?" moment.
> They've obviously carefully tuned their check out staffing so that the lines are always long.

I’ve noticed this at Walmart. However, I’ve noticed it’s worse at Target, (an arguably higher end store) where I’ve observed the queue reaching from one end of the store to the next. Interestingly, I’ve also noticed this effect on grocery chains in my area. Fry’s (Kroger) seems to have many queues open, which go quickly, whereas the higher end Safeway will have 1-2 queues open and zero open after hours.

All stores are bad with lines, until you get to really high end (like Whole Foods or Natural Grocers), but Paradoxically the more expensive stores (mid range, like Target and Safeway) are the worst offenders out of everyone. I don’t know why this is. Maybe they don’t have enough customers and not enough profit to justify more staff, or maybe they found that if the lines are long, customers will make another trip around the store and buy more stuff.
I would argue merit is luck. Intelligence is mostly luck. Taller basketball players have more merit and height is luck based.

How is it coherent that generational wealth in an invalid in determining merit because it's luck based but intelligence is valid in determining merit despite being luck based? If you have a determinist outlook luck and merit are inseparable.
> You still have to match the lighting of the photography to integrate the CG

True but dynamic relighting is rapidly improving, though it's not quite there yet for full frame hero shots.
One of the largest such projects was the Zuiderzee works, which closed a large inlet of the North Sea. Then (according to the table in the Wikipedia page), 1650 km^2 land was claimed from the sea (the land was large enough to add a new province to The Netherlands in 1986).

Even though (AFAIK) the timeline was not exactly laid out, it was clear from the outset that this project would take many decades.

The scale of the Zuiderzee works is really insane. Even building of the dyke that encloses the inlet was projected to cost a year of the national budget.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuiderzee_Works
This sounds like something that "increases engagement metrics" ...
well, not physically I suppose
I'd add the relative lack of calibration on NTSC as another huge factor. When you have TV manufacturers putting out sets with completely different defaults on top of broadcasters not being able to calibrate to any sort of standard TV appearance, you'd see a lot of different results per-station AND per-show.
Microsoft say missing tank man “accidental human error”
That's just pomp and show business though. I think the ancients were very long term planners. One of the upsides to a regime with very centralized and absolute power. Great wall of China, Pyramids of Giza to name some.
As much as this is true, OOP is the lingua franca of paradigms. You have to convince others this is true, otherwise any codebase shared by three or more developers will creep back towards it. Then you end up with the FP guy, the OOP guy, and your software project is an incohesive collection of paradigms. The upshot is everyone gets exposure to different ways of thinking, and if they find your approach easier, they'll join you. But what's an easier paradigm is a subjective exercise, we all think differently, of course. To most, there isn't an awareness of anything beyond OOP. Programming is just their 9-to-5 and OOP is a tool for accomplishing the job.
JPEG specifies the matrix, I think it's the same as BT.470. It's fairly easy to guess the intent even if the metadata is missing (which, well, it usually is) - just have to know if the source is a video or not and then if it's HD or not.
> a bullshit job is defined as one which the person doing the job believes doesn't have to, or shouldn't, exist.

So, he basically admitted that he had no objective and reproducible definition of what a „bullshit job“ actually is.
There are mechanisms that can intercede, and there are often more than one cpu thread per core.