skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is surely better in the long term. AV1 encoders need a lot of work still to be usable though in real time, which is critical for something like WebRTC.

For example, rav1e still needs multithreading support:
https://github.com/xiph/rav1e/issues/132

And once encoders are ironed out, hardware support is also needed.
>This isn't true. //

In general wealth doesn't correlate with van/trailer/home size?
I second Tao of Pooh. It’s genuinely insightful and I plan to read it again. However no one I recommend it to seems to take it seriously. They think it’s a parody of some sort because it seems unlikely that a “serious” text would involve Winnie the Pooh.
Seems cutting the fillets off would achieve the same thing without the ritual.
For me, the act alone of killing an animal isn't immoral. However, I think that modern intensive farming is immoral.

It's one thing to go out and hunt an animal to provide for yourself, I used to be a hunter myself, or to have a goat or some chickens in your back yard to provide for you and your family.

I think that the concept of raising entire fields and barns packed full of animals who are raised to be slaughtered to provide entertainment for people is morally wrong.

Eating meat in the quantities we do as a western society is simply entertainment. It goes far beyond what we need to eat to survive or even to be comfortable.

I'm not actually a strict vegetarian on that note. I actively try to avoid eating meat, but if I need to eat and there is nothing vegetarian available, I will eat meat. I don't think that eating meat is an absolute moral wrong, but I do think that the way we eat meat as a society is wrong.
"The Image" by Daniel Boorstin. It's kind of about what living in a world of mass-produced images does to our sense of space, time and reality. So much of our experience is of things that were created by other people to persuade us to do something, and that's a pretty recent thing. More here: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/12/th...
One of the big problems is the anti scientific method.
the scientific method consists of formulating a hypothesis and a method of testing the probability of failing to reject a null version. in common speech this means make an assumption, observe data/evidence and alter the assumption to fit the evidence. in the case of anti science such as forensics or investigations of crime, the opposite occurs. the assumption or theory is made the data or evidence is observed, and discounted or re interpreted to fit the theory.
> Such places need a human present to understand the context of what is happening and can spot corruption as it occurs.

We have some interesting AI projects going for spotting corruption as it occurs here at Brazil, both government backed and fully private ones.
Don't you need to bleed the fish out before you cut the fillet? Also, don't you butcher the fish as the last step before actually cooking it?
> I am against one-year parental leaves. My wife and I want ten children. That means ten years off work?

You are an outlier in terms of how many children you want. This sort of benefit is intended to help with people who have the median number of children (1.9 in the US today) [1].

The way to deal with outlying cases like yours is to rapidly phase out the benefit as you move far above the median, so you only get the benefit for the first N children.

We already do this today with income-based tax-credit phaseouts for tax mechanisms like the investment and education tax credits.

That's not at all to say that you shouldn't have that many children, but rather that after a certain number of children, it's only in your personal interest to have them, and not in society's.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/718084/average-number-of...
NSFW is not filtered out of /r/all; it is from /r/popular. AFAIK though subs have to opt-in to being part of /r/all.
Eh frankly, x265 is not worth it unless you're an expert encoder or don't care about transparency. If you're not making multiple test encodes and fiddling with the encoding options, you should stay on x264.

If you're interested, here are the settings for four recent transparent expert x265 encodes: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/PRZFyrgxzc/

You could compare them to find interesting options to review.
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with Figes' books in general, but with a few searches I came up with a few reviews. The first, on the LRB, is quite positive, but the author, Geoffrey Wheatcroft does not seem to have, based on his wikipedia page, much expertise on the topic. The other, published in Victorian Studies, is more academic, and is quite negative. The author, Andrew Lambert, cites numerous errors. His most important critique is that this book narrates what he calls the "old-crimean war", and that it largely ignores what are now considered some very important aspects of the war. If you want some alternative books, consider taking a look at this thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5v7ggr/what_...), where u/kieslowskifan, a user who I absolutely admire for his knowledge, recommends a few crimean war books to a fellow redditor. Happy reading!
People are complaining a lot about GDPR here but such a case would definitely lead to a fine of 4% or 8% of atrients revenue.
I think I read faster and retain more when I read actual paper rather than reading something onscreen, too - nice to see this corroborated. I do feel like I get judged when I read a physical book at work (staring at a book for more than an hour or so brings the boss around to ask 'what are you up to there, commandlinefan? Keepin' busy?'), whereas nobody bats an eye when I spend all day staring at my computer monitor, so I lean toward digital "books" like O'Reilly Safari for learning even though they feel less efficient.
Multi-Language Strategy and Interoperability in Pulumi
I think fasting is a process helping me against the aging peril. I'm not convinced if it will help me live longer (if nothing else goes wrong) but I can say my focus is increased and compared if I ate 2-3 meals per day. I'm skeptical if fasting triggers cells into the claimed "garbage collect" process or if my focus is just a hunter gather sense of I'm in danger from low calories kicking in. I assume endurance exercise is the best for the mind. I doubt non-physical games directed at improving thinking really help at all. The only supplement I've had benefit with is fish oil.
I like what they do in Switzerland. 3 years is ridiculous for a small business, you often don't know you can survive the next year let alone plan for 3. It's the problem with laws in EU in general though. They are very often made for reality of big businesses hiring hundreds of people. The laws and regulations often make sense there but present a huge obstacle for small players.
CN spun reddit off as independent company in 2012, though afaik CN’s parent company is still the majority shareholder. They have Sam Altman, Marc Andersen, Peter Theil, Jared Leto and Snoop Dogg as investors (the usual suspects basically).
Few things

1. You don't need Web PKI certificates for encryption. Indeed in TLS 1.3 this is very obvious because the encryption switches on before any certificates are even involved. You need certificates to... certify identity. And this isn't some oddity of "the web" which might show it's "broken" but simply a mathematical fact about what identity is. If you don't want certificates, you have to just magically know every identity somehow. Works for ten PCs in your office, doesn't scale for tens of millions of web sites.

2. Tim's "Original design goals" are for a system that runs at CERN in Switzerland and is modelled on an earlier system he'd worked with in the 1980s. Tim's system has no encryption, nor does it have most other features you'd expect.
Based on, yes, but since OSX 10.0 it's been diverging from what was the 1990s era NeXT. The core OSX team up to v10.5 or so was basically the same people who wrote the NeXT OS, and were acqui-hired.

Apple bought NeXT pretty much for their IP and software. By the time they were acquired NeXT had been out of the hardware manufacturing business for many years.
I've heard of a time when women actually raised their children. It was less than 100 years ago, in every country too.

Now it's 'generous' to get to spend 6 months with your child. Great progress everyone - please hurry back to your open office to check reddit, instagram, facebook, twitter and do that crucial collaborative work open offices encourage.
Trotsky's book on the revolution is a literary masterpiece on par with Thucydides, though it's obviously not the best choice for an objective or broadly-based historical picture.
> encouraging you to read it with a lens that it is completely sincere

Ok, you've convinced me to not go anywhere near this book if it teaches you to 'communicate' like this.
Wonder if anyone's tried to build a tiny home that's wheelchair accessible.
Added to my queue, thanks!
Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Before, I'd thought of science as absolute truths about the universe which we could only discover, linearly. Afterwards, I learned that science is as much a political process as any other major institution, that scientists are not immune to human psychological biases, that the process of getting scientific theories accepted is just as subject to selection bias ("the old generation dying out") as the things it studies, and that science is effective to the extent that it acknowledges these biases in a way that faith does not.

For a real mindbender, read Kuhn (history of science), Carlota Perez (economics), and Stephen Jay Gould (evolutionary biology) in rapid succession. There're very similar ideas there around paradigm shifts, selection bias, and responses to environmental change there, appearing in many disparate domains.
I'm surprised no one in this thread has mentioned Hacker & Painters: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1449389554

This is the book that really got me into programing. I'd tried programming before, and had even studied a C++ textbook and written some simple programs. But it really hadn't clicked. Graham's points about the fundamental expressiveness of different programming languages really blew my mind. This started a chain of "learn language X and try to build Y" for different values of X and Y.

Part of what I realized is how much I had been hampered by how difficult C++ is to pick up (especially with the IDEs of the early 2000s, which would give you an "empty" project with a couple hundred lines of code in it). When I realized that to write a Perl script, all I needed to do was open Notepad and start from an empty file, it was just so unbelievably liberating. That and also, obviously, just how much easier dynamic languages are to work with in general. Of course I eventually came back to C++, but that was the spark which kicked off a journey that lead to me flying through CS in college and eventually ending up in a PhD program.

Edit: Fixed link. Note also that the essays are available online for free, though you have to reverse engineer the reading order from the table of contents.
You see this with everyone who has no exposure to a type of person. “How many people actually stand in LINE to buy sneakers?” “How many people are ACTUALLY going to vote for that clown?” Etc
Note that I charged by week, not by hour, which eliminates a lot of these issues.

The problem with the project was essentially that the data was incredibly messy, and by the time I found this out the project was already well underway. So I could have abandoned the project, lost the fee, and screwed over my client...or put in a bunch of extra work to get the project over the finish line. I chose to do the latter.

I'm not confident enough in my ability iron out all such uncertainties in future projects – software is already hard to predict at a job, and even harder with new clients. Charging by week seems like the best compromise overall.
Ahh, I ended up doing the same and have painfully migrated everything over to a regular Google Account (except mail for which I'm still considering my options) just so I could use the Family sharing for Music, YouTube, Drive/One.
StackOverlow is a small website that can run in a garage on a couple of servers, and that's with a lot of margin.

I wouldn't be surprised as well if reddit was two orders of magnitude more than that, but that's still a fairly moderate site to operate.

It is numerous orders of magnitudes away from the like of google, youtube or facebook.
I do now, I tried to do it in store, but I forget things, I don't have time to think, and the store next to me sucks. Delivery is like $5 so I go for it.
Dirtbag is rock climber slang for someone living life on the road ultra-cheap.

Camper, i.e. RV, popup, teardrop, etc.
The person in question lived in California.

It is a violation of federal law to buy a handgun in a state you're not a legal resident unless you go through an FFL in your home state.
I myself have been looking for a good Reddit alternative.
> I think the key for me was getting to the point where I could cook really delicious vegetarian and vegan food so that from there it really was an equal choice

This is exactly the problem that I think western society has with its meat eating habits. People feel obligated to eat meat, like a meal isn't complete without it.

Try feeding someone a vegetarian dish for dinner, and far too many people will complain that it doesn't contain meat. Even if they admit that it's tasty, they'll complain that it's vegetarian.
Ooh. Was just about to mention it. It's been a life-changer since I'd read it some three years ago.
There is also a sliding scale in EU. Western European countries like Germany, France, Sweden, Netherlands, take in far more immigrants than Poland, Hungary etc. The point that triggered this whole thread was immigration is the reason America doesn't have the same quality of life as EU. Which is clearly not true, considering Germany and NL takes in very high % of immigrants. Even with your 13 vs 10% is negligible for any meaningful policy differences. US is different not because of immigration, but due to its political bent.
I'd posit that making public blanket statements about being willing to break the law increases both probability and consequence, and thus expected value.

Which means I don't have high confidence in the risk assessment in the first place, but thankfully it's not my business :)
True. Russians and also Poles have suffered a lot over the last centuries. From one bad situation to a worse one.
I swear if <insert language> C's <insert relevant language library> stdlib didn't come with a <insert Quicksort function and or method> qsort() I would have shipped a lot more code with a hand-rolled bubble sort implementation of my own lazy design....
Being OK with the recent abortion bills in NY and VA is pretty far left. Statistically speaking.

Reddit has also had a problem with anti-religious hate content, which isn't necessarily left wing except that the hate is often pointed at uncultured, socially conservative stereotypes.
He took me out of the pit of my sunken thoughts, I wake up, I take off the blindfold, it was the first book to open my mind and I will always be grateful
It happens to me frequently. Sometimes they just log me out for no reason.
Distributed Reactive Programming for Reactive Distributed Systems
Good points here. There is no such thing as "toxic masculinity." There are only individual bad behaviors. Being a male does not automatically condemn one to such bad behaviors. Even the social and cultural norms imposed on men don't require bad behavior. Each person can take individual responsibility for how he wants to present himself.

There was a time when we thought that women were "less than." In many countries, this is still the case. We also thought that black people were "less than" and this isn't the case, either. It's possible (and important) to claim our masculinity and the things that make us male without being a negative factor in society.

We should not be less male, but better males.
The town square “gathering places” notion isn’t a bad concept to have for a retail operation to adopt for their internal vision.

It’s fine and really just a rip-off of Starbuck’s “third place” (which was around long before Apple used it for their retail vision).

While Apple Retail was headed by Angela however she was involved in preposterous keynote speeches about how it’s making cities better and supporting the community. It was corporate BS writ large and used as a justification for pushing large retail stores into state significant public spaces.

It’s not a town square when it’s owned and controlled by a corporation who decides what does and doesn’t occur within its boundaries.
There is at least one game where knowledge of the rules is restricted from the players: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)
Biggest issue I’ve seen was the change of sending retail employees out for training at the mothership to doing it at the stores. That’s a huge cultural shift and a horrible horrible horrible idea.
Not sure why, but this remembered me of Tiny Core Linux: https://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/

It's a very different and clever way of deploying Linux.
The counter-argument book to Thinking Fast and Slow:

Risk Savvy by Gerd Gigerenzer
I'm definitely not blaming them for anything, if anything that's the parent comment. I would love to find a way to encourage people in those environments. I think some things have been successful at improving that. Sesame Street, as one example (at least according to some documentaries I've watched).

I will say, though, that I went to an average public school and did my best not to draw too much attention to myself because I was one of the smarter kids and would sometimes be picked on. Not usually too bad, but enough that I went through periods of depression during my high school years.

It probably stunted my trajectory (along with some other choices I made) in my career, but I'm doing well enough. It helps that I was naturally interested in computers, which ended up being a route to well-paying jobs, but if I was naturally interested in art more (and I sure doodled my fair share and have released games with art that I've made in the past), I might be one of those poor people that people such as the parent assume to be anti-intellectual today.

Hell, I know a super talented artist and animator that ended up taking a programmer boot camp years later in order to get a better paying job, and it just makes me feel sad, because he deserves to be paid well for following his passion for being as talented as he is, but this world is not set up for that, unfortunately.
I would choose none of the above, i would go to a nonindexed site and find the information i want for free, and let them link to my site for free. actually this is what i do already my site is in excess of 20 TB and uses mesh technology as well as providing a gateway to the common internet.
* valued roughly $10 per monthly active user

* Must make something like $0.01 - $0.007 ROI per active user per year to justify that valuation without growth.

* If user base grows, you can reduce those numbers accordingly

* If you take into account the risk that comes with new competition, valuation should go down. 20 years from now Reddit can be as valuable as Slashdot, Myspace or Usenet.

Personally I think Reddit has limited lifespan. $3B valuation is based on dot-com type hype. World changes and Reddit's is very basic technologically. When popularity goes away and next big social media innovation comes, Reddit's value plummets. It's never going to die completely off, of course.
I grew up on the Moray coast in Scotland, with a shotgun and shooting pigeons, rabbits etc from the age of 9. I used to sell them to my mother - the key was she bought them "dressed for the table" as in plucked/skinned/gutted. At the time the going rate was 1 pigeon = 2.5 cartridges. On a good day I made a profit, but plenty of not so good days!

Anyway, we ate what I killed. And it seems a good understanding to have. What one then does with said understanding becomes a personal issue...

That said, times have changed, I live in London and my teenage sons don't have easy way to experience this should they be interested (plus gun laws totally different due to sundry incidents)...
Brave New World.

The Design of Everyday Things.
As if blackhats in Vladivostok are particularly afraid of the FBI. Once the vulnerability is public, if that stuff is still connected to the public Internet, game over.
I hadn't recognized the equivalency of [lean] and agile before. That's interesting and helps give me a better appreciation for why we only end up paying lip service to the idea. Thanks for the thought.
Why do business people love cross-platform so much?
when it comes to a social policy question like parental leave there is no size fits all solution, so we need to ask what we prioritize.

I respect people who want to run very small businesses, but we can't realistically make policy for them if we want to guarantee some basic welfare and labour protection.

Small businesses are often so unprofitable, have so little savings, and are so exposed to risk (as in this pregnancy case), that you realistically need to scrap so much protection just to accommodate them.

So the answer to the question of how to combine very small business and paternal leave is quite simple, you really can't. It's a policy that favours middle-sized and large businesses who generate more profit, suffer less from a few workers dropping out, and can organise these benefits.
people older than say 40? What would keep you from hiring them?

They are expensive :)
No. I pay and donate to some, but they tend to be niche sites where ad revenue wouldn't be high enough. I get so much value out of ad-supported sites and could never afford to pay enough for all of them.

Ads can be done well.

I commonly back out of sites with intrusive ads that significantly degrade the experience. And I completely avoid most social medial, including Facebook.
I would echo AnimalMuppet and add that you should research something where your particular skills are going to benefit the project.

After you do your research, think about how you're going to get your message out to the world. That's at least as important as doing the research itself.
> I still believe we should have a tiny bit more integrative groups. Just a tad. No need to force people and resist their energy, but a bit of constructive interference.

There's nothing stopping you from running a vanilla Ubuntu install.

What other people choose to do is still none of your business, though.
Josh Kaufman's How to Fight a Hydra [1].

Says a lot about risk taking and potential rewards. It's short enough to read in one sitting, but more importantly, picking up a book like that reminds me why the world needs more risk takers.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/How-Fight-Hydra-Ambitions-Destined-eb...
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, by René Girard.

Girard was a professor at Stanford and writes about the idea of 'mimetic desire'. His overarching idea is humans are fundamentally creatures of mimesis, and whether we realize it or not all our desires are born out of mimic the desires of those around us. We don't think critically about what we actually want, we just sub-consciously mimic each other's desires - which ultimately leads to conflict.

[West World Spoiler coming]

Reading his book, and theory on mimetic desire, felt like when Bernard realizes he's a host in West World
https://www.amazon.com/See-Satan-Fall-Like-Lightning/dp/1570...