skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original entrant in this competition is TIFF, and—like Matroska or QuickTime add indexing to raw MP3 or MPEG-TS—it does provide useful functionality over raw codec stream non-formats like JPEG (properly JIF/JFIF/EXIF), in the form of striping or tiling and ready-made downscaled versions for the same image. But where unindexed video is essentially unworkable, an untiled image is in most cases OK, except for a couple of narrow application areas that need to deal with humongous amounts of pixel data.

So you’re absolutely going to see TIFF containers with JPEG or JPEG2000 tiles used for geospatial, medical, or hi-res scanned images, but given the sad state of open tooling for all of these, there’s little to no compatibility between their various subsets of the TIFF spec, especially across vendors, and more or less no FOSS beyond libtiff. (Not even viewers for larger-than-RAM images!) Some other people have used TIFF but in places where’s very little to be gained from compatibility (e.g. Canon’s CR2 raw images are TIFF-based, but nobody cares). LogLuv TIFF is a viable HDR format, but it’s in an awkward place between the hobby-renderer-friendly Radiance HDR, the Pixar-backed OpenEXR, and whatever consumer photo thing each of the major vendors is pushing this month; it also doesn’t have a bit-level spec so much as a couple of journal articles and some code in libtiff.

Why did this happen? Aside from the niche character of very large images, Adobe has abandoned the TIFF spec fairly quickly after it acquired it as part of Aldus, but IIUC for the first decade or so of that neglect Adobe legal was nevertheless fairly proactive about shutting up anyone who used the trademarked name for an incompatible extension (like TIFF64—and nowadays if you need TIFF you likely have >2G of data). Admittedly TIFF is also an overly flexible mess, but then so are Matroska (thus the need for the WebM profile of it) and QuickTime/BMFF (thus 3GPP, MOV, MP4, ..., which are vaguely speaking all subsets of the same thing).

One way or another, TIFF is to some extent what you want, but it doesn’t get a lot of use these days. No browser support either, which is likely important. Maybe the HEIF container (yet another QuickTime/BMFF profile) is better from a technical standpoint, but the transitive closure of the relevant ISO specs likely comes at $10k or more. So it’s a bit sad all around.
This is actually the correct way. Robots.txt only stops google from crawling your website, but it might still appear in the index. If you search for the site, then it is shown in the search results, but without any of the content of the page.
If you want to prevent indexing as well, you'll have to do this.

Also explained here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
Because it enables monetary policy which is in large part responsible for the most successful economic century in human history. Why do you think the "natural" interest rate is better than the feds?
Wasn't there a story recently about a janitor ruining 20 years of research or something?
Have a list of generally useful low-hanging fruit?
Because you get bombed if you don't accept it. There's no "we have allowed", it is "they have imposed", and you and I were born into a slave system. Thank God there are ways to escape, such as crypto and foreign accounts.
Totally this. I should've made that explicit in my post. Thanks for pointing it out.
If you make a mistake like this, where you owe a debt that can never be repaid, I think we need some social mechanism where you can do your best to make amends and get some measure of closure. This probably should follow you around forever, but maybe it shouldn't dominate every moment of the rest of your life.
You need to see it from the merchants perspective. What if they offered you a 5% discount for paying with FedNow?
True that. Sadly not much progress has been made to get rid of that status quo.
ISIS and neo-nazis have the backing of powerful friends and allies with lots of money and power.
A $1000 dinner is nothing in comparison to the cost of going to the moon.

I’m definitely glad we did it.

However, the Apollo program was expensive. It was 2.5% of GDP for 10 years.

https://www.herkulesprojekt.de/en/is-there-a-master-plan/the....

Imagine today if we said we were going to try and cure cancer(s) in 10 years by spending 2.5% of GDP over the next decade.

Think people would support that? Doubt it.
Sounds like a budget car sold in SE Asia / Latin America in the base trim level.

"Can't decide between a Nissan March, Jpeg SX, or the Honda Jazz EX"
That's a wonderful story (and told well).

> The closest relative that might have had anything to do with me being into computers is my mother's father, who was an accountant, and could add up a column of numbers just by sliding his finger down them (and that quickly). That is literally the only "analytical" type of person in my entire extended family.

How much of that was because relatively few jobs 50/ 75/ 100 years ago required "analytics" as we think of it? For your parents and others of their generation, how many of those jobs were gated behind education (and the English language) they didn't have as kids?

Research has shown that environment ("nurture") have huge impacts on development, but it's also shown that genetic inheritance ("nature") plays a major role and perhaps a bigger one that environment. That doesn't mean it's easily recognizable when comparing someone born in the 1940s versus the 70s versus the 2000s.
A CBDC does not necessarily need to be implemented with that capability.
It's explicitly discussed at the end of the post:

> According to the MTG fandom, “the Azorius Senate mediates and regulates the activities of all of the other guilds and of the plane despite their numerous decrees being ignored. The Azorius Senate are characterized as being aloof, bureaucratic, excessively formalistic, and fastidious, spending hours upon hours with legal documents and ensuring action, if any should occur, stringently adheres to protocol.” However, this is irrelevant, since azorius is unrelated to MTG.
Canada's likely a pretty good model of what would have happened if we had not left England, and their GDP per capital is within spitting distance of the USA despite having a less favorable geography.
They right way to look at any conspiracy is to assess how many people would be required to pull off the fakery. In the case of the moon landing, it would have to be thousands of people, this very unlikely. A soccer or hockey game on the other hand really only requires two people: the goalie and someone paying the goalie. I’m not suggesting that hockey or soccer are rigged however, it is merely an example.
If I wanted Ayn Rand banalities instead of serious answers, I would have asked as such.
Backing up your point by making up a bullshit story is called "lying" and "disinformation" and should be rejected outright by anyone who wants a high trust society. We should not build policy, intentions, or any ideologies based on a single lie from some dude trying to push a "nobody is ever guilty of anything" agenda.

This post adds nothing to the world, especially with the horrific conclusion it is encouraging you to accept. "The past is not real" is utter horseshit, and does not follow from "I did something I thought was really bad but was only kinda bad actually" in the first place.
Not OP, but apparently in the movie Interstellar a school teacher is convinced that the moon landings were faked to bankrupt the Soviet Union. I've spoken to an amateur Apollo historian/buff and I am convinced we landed on the moon in the 1960s.
You probably know that this is routine and even simpler in Go:

$ go run main.go
Or JPEG XL can takeover all of it.

- JPEG XL can do lossless compression better than PNG if I’m right.

- At low bit rates, JPEG XL isn’t that far from AVIF quality. You will only use it for less important stuff like “decorations” and previews anyway so we can be less picky about the quality.

- For the main content, you will want high bit rates which is where JPEG XL excels.

- Legacy JPEG can be converted to JPEG XL for space savings at no quality loss.
Here's a relevant paper that folks may find interesting: <snip>Semantic Interpreter leverages an Analysis-Retrieval prompt construction method with LLMs for program synthesis, translating natural language user utterances to ODSL programs that can be transpiled to application APIs and then executed.</snip>

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03460
The implication that this local police force is the same "UK Government" pushing for encryption standards.
Get a heat pump system. What extra energy you use in the summer may be roughly counterbalanced by the savings in heating in the winter.

Heat pump heating is the most efficient way to heat a space (well, not counting simply putting a block of highly refined plutonium in your house).
It would probably exist either way.
Still possible, as presented at BlueHat IL 2023, the goal is to eventually have everything signed, based on how UWP sandboxing is working, now extended to Win32 as well.

First set of changes already in flight for the next Windows 11 stable release.
The insane amount of conspiracy theories surrounding the landing.
As a journalist, I hate writing. I like hunting down facts and details, the actual writing part is miserable and boring. There's constant sweating over how much context to include so that the reader is well-informed vs the risk of burying the important stuff. I've never used an LLM to write anything, but I have seriously considered doing a dense infodump and telling it to ask me up to 5 contextual questions before spitting out a report.

Editing other people's stuff is even worse, because many writers aren't burdened by editorial concerns and don't bother to put in the effort to make their story coherent and interesting in the first draft. Also the money is terrible unless you are lucky enough to work in a corporate newsroom.
> AI art isn't illegal

All indications are that the dubious legality of ML-generated art is exactly why Valve is not approving those games. Valve isn't taking a moral stance against ML-generated art, they're playing it safe legally by avoiding distributing such games when they cannot ensure the ML models were not trained on unlicensed content and will not spew copyright infringements.
> The moon landings were successful and also a waste of money

As long as we have

colleges and universities pour money into sports,
taxpayer subsidized NFL stadiums (not having to pay taxes is also a subsidy, we don't have to hand them buckets of cash, just waiving taxes is taxpayer subsidy)

and really any corporate welfare at all

I don't want to hear how investing in science is a waste of money.
Oh, so THAT's the real reason for why we have so much fake moonlanding nonsense still to this day.

If there's some thing I've learned in the past 6 or so years is that when morons attach their personality to a certain claim and then they're proven wrong, they just double down. So I can totally imagine that a very large fraction of those 66% who opposed it couldn't just be proven wrong and instead attack it. It can't be that I was wrong and landing on the moon was actually awesome, instead it must be fake! Didn't happen!
I'm not sure I subscribe to that. I've spent a lot of time or the web, and I've seen a lot of gore. So much so it doesn't phase me now, even after not visiting those sites for a decade. I haven't dealt with csam, but I imagine the impact is similar. You get desensitized to it. The difference: LE gets to put and end to it via their investigations. That is rewarding enough for people to stay, I assume.

Plus even if you did dragnet everything, you'll still need a human in the loop to verify the findings, even if ml classifiers are used to find leads.

Plus what about people that just encrypt their messages locally before sending them across a backdoored platform? The gov can't make encryption illegal. It's just math. Folks will steno it into memes or whatever is hot that gets shared to allow it to live in plain sight.
Opt-in would still allow for that.
This article spends most of its time outlining relations between _domestic police_ -- local departments and officers -- with the public, and doesn't say a ton about the FBI, save for a blurb about statistics here and there... its substance with regard to the implications of the title is lacking.

I'd really like to understand more about the anti-FBI sentiment that's going around.
> China is the worlds most populous country (for now).

nit: they arent. India is.
Just don't look up
Not much of a stretch to believe the country responsible for MKULTRA would fund a huge and fake propaganda piece against the USSR.

That said, it would have been pretty silly to waste as much money as we did in the rocket program if the goal was to fake it all along. Plus, the Soviets weren’t exactly knocking on the moon’s door.
captions / alt-text could also very reasonably be part of the image, as well as descriptions of regions and other metadata.

there are LOTS of uses for "image containers" that go beyond just pixels. heck, look at EXIF, which is extremely widespread - it's often stripped to save space on the web, but it's definitely useful and used.
In an interview with Vivek Ramaswamy Presidential Candidate he said he plans to fire all of them including most of the redundant 3 letter agencies. Are U.S. presidents empowered to do that? Interview is on TimcastIRL on YT.
>> The UK is a democratic country which should be upholding the right to privacy.
>
>I mean sure, but Chinese people should have the same rights of privacy as anyone else. It's not suddenly less-bad because their government is totalitarian.

The extent to which Chinese people oppose the government being able to read anyone's conversations is quite different vs. the UK. Unfortunately, it's not likely that this or the Chinese government's behaviour will change any time soon. But in the UK it is an active political question that is still undecided.

And as you said, the size of the market -> how much money they get probably has an influence on Apple's decision to operate in China, even with all the caveats. But it's also not the only factor. If it was, Apple wouldn't consider blocking iMessage/etc for UK customers.
can you please elaborate which use-cases? - maybe that's something that actually can be possible by splitting some parts of the project into MIT licensed dependencies?
The recent "Silo" series on AppleTv had some nice retro-terminals. I've been trying to find better pictures or references, so if anyone has any, gladly appreciated.

Only reference I currently found: https://twitter.com/AdamRedwoods/status/1677878315284316161
shakes head in windows

> make: The term 'make' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
The answer is almost always some kind of special local tax break. Companies go where they can get the best deal.

In theory, capitalism is supposed to be a bunch of companies competing against each other to attract consumers. In reality, it often turns out to be a bunch of local governments competing against each other to attract a few BigCos.
> The NSA monitoring any and all electronic communications (foreign and domestic) ...

Not revealed in the last 5 years.

> The federal government cutting off financial services for ...

Not revealed in the last 5 years. Was this subject of an actual conspiracy theory?

> The Canadian government freezing the bank accounts of those who supported the trucker protest.

At least this is within 5 years. I can't judge if this was an actual conspiracy theory or not ( I don't think so ).

> - Kidnapping hobos and force feeding them LSD

> - Intentionally infecting people (mostly black) with syphilis

> - Feeding irradiated oatmeal to mentally handicapped children

> - Obama personally ordering the execution of an American citizen ...

All of those AFAIK not revealed in the last 5 years.
Speeding up our technological timeline by decades, and it was decades, has saved tens of millions to hundreds of millions of lives. The Integrated Circuit revolution wouldn't have happened at the same pace without Apollo. Apollo (and to a lesser degree the defense program) funded the industry for the first few years of its existence. Something like 2/3rds of all ICs produced until the mid-to-late 1960s were used in the program.

They were extraordinary customers — willing to fund R&D, patient with bad results but extremely demanding. Without them, I suspect we'd be at least one to two decades behind in your computing timeline. Given how many lives these machines save on a daily basis... it's not hard to do the math.
I think we could do that with SVG, no? SVG is a vector format of course, but can also have raster parts embedded.
> You see how quickly you are to believe these are the "actual facts"?

I am taking the author at his word that when he reports something as fact, he is not lying. If you think he's lying, then obviously we're not going to find any common ground here.

> We aren't talking about observed realities (she is going to the park, I am eating an ice cream)

Um, yes, we are. The woman was not permanently disabled, although he previously thought she was. That's not a "feeling", "thought", "flash in the mind". It's a fact. Unless you think the author was lying.
"A blockchain" can be quite useful, "the blockchain" is nonsensical.

So we sign all our sensor data and roll up every installation in a merkel tree (including timestamps from GPS). Our revenue comes from the integrity of those measurements.

This is simply boring computer science and we avoid any mention of "blockchain" for the reasons of your comment. But technically it is a chain of blocks.
I'm not rooting for or against anything other than shitty arguments. I come to this site to read smart takes, not half-baked sarcastic nonsense. Based on what I'm reading, maybe that's asking too much.
flight computers were already designed and built for the missles that predated Apollo- in fact, that's why the team that built them for Apollo was able to be so productive.

freeze dried food predates the space program by decades.

Any money spent on a goal that leads to valuable side effects, could instead have been spent on researching the valuable side effect directly.
This is basically the raison d'etre of the American justice system today. Of course, I also think it would be nice if someone who committed hate crimes was justly punished for it, but stepping back from this specific example, I think the bloodlust around what constitutes a "just punishment" goes too far in most cases.
> I don't really want a gigantic federal agency having insight into every financial transaction I make. Hard, fucking, pass.

If that's the case, I have bad news for you about the banking system of literally every developed country.
"Eventually" is a pretty long time. If you were in 1959, would you press a button that caused satellites and freeze-dried food and flight computers to arrive 20 years earlier if it cost $10 billion to press? That saves billions of lives over the next 50 years and dramatically accelerates humanity's technology tree, so it seems like it's worth it.
There's a big difference between checking passports before onboarding a customer, and sending every transaction to the federal government in real time.
This is so cool. As somebody else also pointed out, journalism is all about the data collection. Say what you will about WikiLeaks, one of the things I liked about them was the whole data dump thingy. I prefer the idea of "Here's the data, make up your mind"
The ROI for R&D isn't exclusive to space programs, the space race was just an impetus/motivator for blank check by-all-means research. As a general rule shouldn't as much money as possible go into that sort of research until the marginal return is below $1 for each dollar spent?
There's only Safari on iOS. EVERY browser on iOS is just a skin on top of Safari's WebKit.

See 2.5.6 here - https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
I would say NASA is the public facing R&D arm. They also have DARPA as a more secretive R&D arm.
What kind of argument is that?

Might as well not send any boats out to find new continent, they will be discovered anyway!

We have far more real technology today than we would have, all thanks to us moving some made up money around 60 years ago...
Thank you, I can feel my allergy was cured after walking briskly on my lunch hour!

But seriously, I understand you're not suggesting that regular exercise will cure all conditions, just that it will help reduce prescriptions caused by a sedentary lifestyle.
That those things would have been invented anyway, because science and technology progresses even without gov't intervention.
Maybe, but what's the point in not generating 7 dollars of economic activity for every dollar spent, inspiring millions, and bootstrapping the process?

If it was "basically a photo-op" it wouldn't have generated so much economic activity in the long run, even if perhaps it wasn't the most cost effective way to get there (in some eyes)?
Not my good friend from Tuvalu
You say that like the government is the only buyer in town. That said I wouldn't mind an award scheme like that, government should support an entire economic ecosystem, not pick exclusive winners and losers. Big military contracts tend to be intentionally split among multiple defense contractors for this very reason.

However, looking at other sectors, somehow Toyota and Honda seem to make decent money off of low-margin Corollas and Civics with superior build quality, but American car manufacturers are ditching their sedans because they "aren't profitable enough". Many of our supply chain issues strike me as something similar. American business leaders love to claim "hate the game not the player" when they do something predatory, but then bitch and moan when the government occasionally tries to make the game less predatory. Likewise they'll cheat, but when regular people try to cheat as well they get called out with "yeah we cheated but two wrongs don't make a right!". Funny how that 1st wrong is always in their favor, and it's only the 2nd wrong that isn't allowed to happen and must be punished.

I don't trust the government, but I trust the private sector even less. Never mind that private sector lobbying is half the reason I don't trust the government.
There are a few system prompt tricks to make it more resilient to prompt injection which work especially well with gpt-3.5-turbo-0613, in addition to the potential of using structured data output to further guard against it.

The "think about whether the user's request is 'directly related,'" line in the prompt is likely a part of that, although IMO suboptimal.

I suspect that ChatGPT is using structured data output on the backend and forcing ChatGPT to select one of the discrete relevancy choices before returning its response.
Nobody gives a shit about style for news reporting, which is about fact gathering. AI-generated style imitation will hurt opinion columnists, but they're a complete waste of oxygen anyway.
Isn’t Katyn hard counterproof against that strategy?
The UUID is all that's significant, technically may be watermarked still

https://wcnc.com/article/a/b/c-eb35781b-ac79-4399-955a-dcece...

Of course, this url is now assuredly unique