skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, lifting the cap on the number of representatives we can have as a nation is the best way to fight this issue. Representatives are supposed to represent the people in their district. If each representative represented no-more than, say, 200k people, then gerrymandering would almost be impossible and the people would be better represented.

Yes, we'd have a LOT more representatives. But we also now have the technology to support such a thing.

> As a result [of the Reapportionment Act of 1929], the average size of a congressional district has tripled in size—from 210,328 inhabitants based on the 1910 Census, to 710,767 according to the 2010 Census. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reapportionment_Act_of_1929
A bit. This whole fiasco reminds me of Better Off Ted's "Racial Sensitivity" episode (S01E04).
Here is an extensive 2018 study on climate impacts in the Midwest: https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/chapter/21/

There are expected to be agricultural impacts:

> The Midwest is a major producer of a wide range of food and animal feed for national consumption and international trade. Increases in warm-season absolute humidity and precipitation have eroded soils, created favorable conditions for pests and pathogens, and degraded the quality of stored grain. Projected changes in precipitation, coupled with rising extreme temperatures before mid-century, will reduce Midwest agricultural productivity to levels of the 1980s without major technological advances.

I know you're responding to a comment talking about climate refugees ... the HN comments often jump quickly from realistic scenarios to Mad Max.

But even the projected impacts are significant. Other concerns are impacts to the Great Lakes and to extreme heat events. All covered in the link, which is really very good.

I don't know if you live there or keep in touch with people there. The changes in snow and rain patterns since my childhood in the 70s/80s seem noticeable to me -- although I'm open to correction since I haven't looked at the numbers and this kind of change is not covered in the above report. I don't remember rain in February in Kansas, for instance, but it happens now.
I for one am ecstatic about this. I want less competition for my role, not more. It is hard to compete when the top 5% of every other economy comes in and crowds me out.
A much more succinct and appropriate answer than mine :-)
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> Mandatory Google bash comment: - It's mainly another wheel reinvention from Google, because reasons.

WebP seems to have been the first "let's just use intra-frame coding" image format out there though, and it's hardly the first format to have tried to unseat JPEG.

WebP is 4 years older than BPG (Bellard's HEVC-based format), 5 years older than HEIF (MPEG's same) and AVIF was only specified 9 years later.
I actually really want to live in San Francisco, but I don't want to and am not smart enough to work for a FAANG-type company. It's one of the few American cities where you can be a first-class citizen without owning a car and comfortably bike/walk everywhere year-round. SF has a really fascinating history and cool culture. I wish it was possible to work in academia there without already being wealthy.
Incorrect. Consent under the GDPR, must be “explicit and freely given”. This means that the mechanism for acquiring consent must be unambiguous and involve a clear “opt-in” action (the regulation specifically forbids pre-ticked boxes and similar “opt-out” mechanisms). Hackernoon clearly state this with: "You can consent to the use of such technologies by closing this notice, by scrolling this page, by interacting with any link or button outside of this notice or by continuing to browse otherwise." along with two buttons, one to customise and one to accept.
Agree on information density - I am finding also that conference calls (internally) are getting shorted. 1hr was norm, then 30mins now 15min catchups are in place. I actually like this - can work if both parties are like minded - a lot of information can be exchanged this way in 15min. Obviously does not leave much time for 'small talk' though, which for me is good.
I feel like those might convey too much content?

Perhaps a link to a three-second "Never gonna give you up..." Rick-roll video?

Yo was one-bit Twitter. I don't know what one-bit video looks like?
Remember how you learned to ride a bike or to swim as a kid. You couldn't avoid the practice because the thing you wanted (have fun with other kids swimming and biking) could only be obtained by this practice.

E.g. you can learn languages or whatever you want actually the same way, but might have to engineer your environment a bit to create a similar anti cheat system like with the kid example above.

You can constrain your environment in a way so that those constraints push in you towards your destination. Think of it like filters or hurdles, where another thing you want (like advancing another hobby) can only be obtained through those filters. It's like jumping into ice cold water, it's brutal at first, but you get used to it.
That's the big piece I've been wondering about too.

Three options as I see it (none of them great):

1) Pin all threads in an x86 process to a single core. You don't have memory model concerns on a single core.

2) Don't do anything? Just rely on apps to use the system provided mutex libraries, and they just break if they try to roll their own concurrency? Seems like exactly the applications you care about (games, pro apps), would be the ones most likely to break.

3) Some stricter memory model in hardware? Seems like that'd go against most of the stated reason for switching to ARM in the first place.
Most H-1B to green card conversions are never really offered as competitive jobs. The job postings are so ludicrously specific that they are targeted to that one exact person. Plus, the pay is always lower.

If we can't do the job ourselves, we shouldn't have the job.
I would fully support reform. Do you think there is a meaningful chance that is the current plan?
That's the goal of a nontrivial number of social conservatives.
I don't know if you are implying that I'm from the left. I'm not either left or right, although as the right has moved righter I guess I have become relatively more left by staying in the middle :)

> With the continuously widening scope of what could be considered "racist" or "anti-science"

I agree this is a danger. But in my original comment, I'm referring to basics. Evidence has mounted that masks work, yet people still physically fight over wearing one. Evidence has mounted (IMO overwhelmingly) that HCQ does not work and is even dangerous, yet people keep saying that's all they need to survive COVID. Then there are the anti-vaxxers. It's a concern that even after a vaccine is found, it's possible not enough people will even get the vaccine to reach herd immunity[1].

[1] https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/05/04/a-majority-of-vaccine...
The "constraint" against revealing Scott's real name has always been clear up-front to people who were familiar with his work, even on-line. If it wasn't clear enough to this NYT reporter, that's their problem.
Everyone I know, including me? There is _no_ shortage of workers for virtually any industry. There is a shortage of people willing to work for submarket rates.
Qualified Immunity is fascinating. Nobody ever passed a law for it, it just evolved. Really weird. Need new laws to remove it.
I didn't know what "certain large games company" prevented a trademark on Riot. A Wikipedia search seems to suggest this company is large (I haven't heard of them, tbh): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Games

I'm curious what name they have or will pick. I've been using Riot for around a year now, it's great!
I heard of this first with respect to a carbon tax, but one solution is to evenly redistribute the collected tax among all citizens. This way, the market can internalize the externality while keeping the average person no poorer.
Bah (yes, looking at the source code instead of the description is a good advice, and to focus on the comments is another one, but I really lost you) (sorry for the late reply)
Having a peace officer department that is not given guns, or a mandate to apply violence first, and ask questions later, would be a substantial improvement for doing 95-99% of the work police currently do.

It might still be systemically racist, but at least the consequences thereof will be lower.

We've already tried reforming departments. It doesn't work. The entire management structure of your neighbourhood police department resists reform. The line officers resist reform. The police chief resists reform. No amount of winger-wagging at them will result in reform. No amount of sensitivity training or unconscious bias training, or body cams have managed to reign them in.

Wiping the slate clean, and starting over might.
Sorry, I didn't meant to quote "that" part (by that I take it that you're referring to the "beautiful theory" aspect — edit: I think you were referring to the mention about her book) to provoke. I just wanted to briefly mention Hossenfelder's position as I haven't seen it mentioned when I saw the thread.

And yeah, this might be a "piddling" amount compared to the military spending.

On the whole, we're in agreement; as the 'PS' in my first comment hints, I'm of course all for anything that instills scientific curiosity in the broader public, while discovering new stuff or carefully sussing out bogus hypotheses.
The message has been loud and clear: do not emigrate to the US because no career advancement is worth constant uncertainty about your possibility to build a life.

Middle income emigrants nowadays have a choice of multiple countries with a high standard of living and job opportunities, in addition to the many new opportunities that have been created by offshoring and satellite offices.

In the past 4 years I have seen all my software engineer and PhD friends choosing Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Denmark to emigrate. I have discarded the US for potential MBA studies since then too.

Desperate poor refugees will just take whatever country takes them as anything is better than war or genocide, so ironically this does very little to dissuade the most desperate, which I would assume would be one of the primary targets of these xenophobic policies.
> Who is happy about H1B Visa suspension? Who was advocating for it?

Mostly, hard-right Republicans have been advocating for it, but I suspect a lot of labor (who has been raging against H-1B for a while) is happy with the policy of suspending H-1B visas, though quite dissatisfied with the politics, which is why you want hear any public support from them on it. (I favor abolition of H-1B as part of wider immigration reforms, but think that both the immigration suspension in general and the addition of various economic non-immigrant visas, including H-1B, to it in particular are bad policy, in the interest of disclosure.)
How is that quantifying impact on the U.S. innovation? It shows people being moved out of a bunch of countries and to another but I see no demonstration of that positive impact.
Sure, I'm aware that this is how things are done. The problem is that the goal isn't really to convey the information in its best form, it's to alter the information to suit the existing form.

When people are complaining about how a format doesn't suit what it is trying to present, I don't believe the correct response is to underline how difficult it is to properly format things that way. If the format is set in stone for various reasons, perhaps the solution is to not publish things that are complicated rather than failing in an attempt to simplify complex issues.
According to your link, Q and Z were officially added sometime in the 1990’s, in a later revision. That puts the official change well into my childhood, which explains my out-of-date information; I didn’t put much effort into researching my comment.
You're right: PhotoStructure for Desktops is currently packaged with Electron, but I'm not happy with how heavyweight it is. I see it as a way to "kick the tires" and a way for my Grandma to run it without opening a terminal.

PhotoStructure for Servers has two flavors: a docker image that's based on Alpine (it's a ~300mb image and typically takes ~30mb RAM to start), and, if you're more comfortable running Node directly, you can git clone the repo that the docker image is built from and run directly.

Imports are slow on an RPi (it's about 1/4 the bogomips of my decade-old MBP), but the UI is quite snappy. This is because the import front-loads all the computationally expensive work, like metadata extraction, inference, image resizing, and video transcoding.

Also: Libraries are both cross-platform and cross-edition. Start importing on a Mac with Desktop, rsync the library to your NAS, and continue with docker.
I looked at the numbers in another comment[1], and it seems that for every one black person killed by police (justifiably or not), over 20 black people are murdered by other blacks.

So either there's something wrong with my analysis, or the fear of police is somewhat misplaced.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23579467
Bon Voyage! There are enough Americans who need an MBA degree. And there are more than enough Americans who can do an investment banking jobs.
Ghislaine Maxwell 'is hiding in Paris bolthole'
The largest H1-B visa sponsors are Cognizant, Tata, Wipro, Infosys, and Deloitte. None of those scream "innovation" to me. The system absolutely needs reform, and I think most people can agree with that.

But that said, blanket bans on immigration by the white supremacists and nationalists currently running our government and deciding our immigration are probably not designed to help America or innovation either.

The whole H1-B ban feels like something the admin could throw to their supporters without making too much noise in the press, because it affects very few voters and we have more pressing economic problems than the tech labor shortage.
This one is very not applicable to policing.
My argument is nothing to do with political correctness or the current cancel culture, which I shall not express an opinion on.

I'm just saying that if I am arrested and at the trial it is stated that "xyz has an app called Riot which she used for coordinating illegal gatherings", some people in the jury may understand this as proof of intent. This is especially true in a multilingual society where the app name will be translated into Chinese for the benefit of the jury.

This is why I would not use an app called Riot in Hong Kong. If you are unable to understand or emphasize with our situation then you will indeed keep arguing against me and there's nothing I can say to convince you.
> the later is more neutral and part of basic journalist work, especially if the exposed is a public persona.

This is where the problem comes in-- best practice on the Internet is to let people who want to be anonymous stay anonymous. This is analog world culture butting into digital world culture, and in this case _digital world culture is right_, and also a case of the NYTimes being hypocritical.

The guy who wrote the NYTimes Resistance piece is allowed to stay anonymous, but a guy who writes about the efficacy of different depression medications isn't? [0]

It's ridiculous.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house...
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That seems covered by this paragraph:

"Some people want to kill me or ruin my life, and I would prefer not to make it too easy. I’ve received various death threats. I had someone on an anti-psychiatry subreddit put out a bounty for any information that could take me down (the mods deleted the post quickly, which I am grateful for). I’ve had dissatisfied blog readers call my work pretending to be dissatisfied patients in order to get me fired. And I recently learned that someone on SSC got SWATted in a way that they link to using their real name on the blog. I live with ten housemates including a three-year-old and an infant, and I would prefer this not happen to me or to them. Although I realize I accept some risk of this just by writing a blog with imperfect anonymity, getting doxxed on national news would take it to another level."

Do you feel that that addresses your concerns? It seems reasonable to predict that he'd have more of those safety problems if the number of people who know his real name increases by 2+ orders of magnitude, and if it appears prominently on a website with a high rank on Google.
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Sounds like it's time for anti-racist movements to start pressuring the ML community to start introducing and using datasets which aren't biased towards white people.

Though, things like black people being more poorly recognized by facial recognition can be a blessing in disguise depending on the circumstances
I've been better.

I just lost my drivers license due to a medical issue (my "controlled" epilepsy ain't so much any more). My partner left for a six-week trip recently. I'm working from home because my office still can't open up. Most of the stuff near me is still shut down. I'm effectively restricted to a relatively small radius around my house.

I'm trying to get out as much as I can, and go as far as I can. I'm taking the opportunity to get more cycling in-- which is my hobby anyway, but it feels odd in light of the fact that now it's my ONLY reasonable option for, say, getting to the grocery store.

I think if my partner were home, I'd be okay. I think if I had my license and could just go around and take a drive somewhere, I'd be okay. I think if work were back to normal and I could spend the days working with people in close proximity, I'd be okay.

But it's everything together that's just screwing me up. I feel isolated. I feel trapped. I'm losing weight because I'm not bothering to cook or eat beyond the occasional slice of toast or handful of trail mix. I'm not sleeping well, which is making my seizures worse, which is going to make the wait for my license reinstatement take that much longer. All the stuff reinforces all the other stuff, which makes it difficult to break out of it.

I don't know. I'm lucky that my seizure are not, comparatively speaking, all that bad. I'm lucky that I have a job, and that I can work from home-- plenty of my neighbors and friends are out of work. I'm SUPREMELY lucky to have the love of an incredible woman whom I love dearly, and who makes me want to be a better person. I'm lucky to be able-bodied enough to go cycling, and I'm definitely lucky to have the money to afford my groceries.

All in all, I don't have it bad at all. But everything just feels like shit right now.
If the earnings are made outside of the US then he doesn't pay tax on less than 100k. The earnings are in the US so he would need to pay, he still has to fill in a W9 form as he's a US citizen.
When I speak about email, I don't say "I'm sending you an SMTP message". I say "I'm sending you an email (message)". For all intents and purposes (besides writing code involving these protocols), the name of the protocol is "email".

In public communication, it almost never helps to start a sentence with "well, technically".
Hmm, I seem to recall comments being entirely suppressed from view on reaching some threshold, thought it was -1...
If all you're interested in is a list of topics he wrote about, the table of contents on that page serves that function reasonably well. Some of the links in it are even live because they are to places he wrote other than SSC.

I. Rationality and Rationalization

II. Probabilism

III. Science and Doubt

IV. Medicine, Therapy, and Human Enhancement

V. Introduction to Game Theory

VI. Promises and Principles

VII. Cognition and Association

VIII. Doing Good

IX. Liberty

X. Progress

XI. Social Justice

XII. Politicization

XIII. Competition and Cooperation

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vwqLfDfsHmiavFAGP/the-librar...
Or, as with much else in the woke lexicon[1], they don't use the word "safety" in the way that most people understand it.

[1] https://newdiscourses.com/translations-from-the-wokish/
Exactly. Whenever business leaders moan about 'shortages', they say "We can't find Americans to do the job" when they mean "We can't find Americans to do the job at the shitty wage we want to pay"
Glass bottles are being removed more and more in Sweden, and it would be interesting to see the microplastic waste created by recycled plastics, and the comparative energy requirements to produce and ship a glass bottle vs. a plastic bottle - Esp. plastic made from plants or sugar cane.

All soda/beer bottles and cans sold give you a small refund, and pretty much all waste is recycleable in some way. Slightly dependent on infrastructure in your vicinity, but most municipalities ought to be able to recycle food waste, cardboard, plastic, glass, and metal easily.
Perhaps something like https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/doc_for?object=section(%27p...
I wonder how the GC pause times and throughput compare. My understanding is that Go sacrifices some compute performance for better GC pause times.
I wasn't aware that our government was currently being run by white supremacists. Do you have a source?
Anonymity and/or pseudonym are appropriate in certain situations. In this situation, you have a source you know which is credible (you know their name), and they ask you not to publish their name. In such a case, it is standard journalist ethics in The Netherlands to not disclose the name. Sex crimes and exploitation are two (good) examples of such, but there are other examples as well. Consider for example a whistle blower, a (former) member of a cult, or -to put it generally- someone who can, realistically, be threatened when their real name is released. Such is the very case here. I am in awe that The New York Times does not adhere to the very same principles as the Dutch media do, although I am aware that the vow has been broken here as well (such as in the case of Rob Oudkerk and Parool's Heleen van Royen).
Lossless is pretty easy, there's no subjective qualities to compare, just file size.

WebP Lossless almost always results in a smaller file than PNG. I have seen exceptions to this, but they're sufficiently rare that it's not worth worrying about.
So much new perspective and so many new rules to absorb. We need some kind of efficient way to learn these things. Maybe some kind of (re-)education center, maybe. Hey, it's summertime -- how about a camp?
/s

We're in very bizarre times, for sure. Is all this even meant to be constructive (because it's not), or just provocative and divisive (which it demonstrably is)? I can't help but think that the outcome we're seeing (division) is the actual goal.
The graph is not just people, but specifically inventors.

The US has a giant net influx of inventors (some of whom arrive on a H1B), which presumably creates wealth, jobs, etc.
I don't follow your logic, maybe I'm missing something. Let's say I publicly claim to be Scott Alexander. The owner of slatestarcodex with the email address scott@slatestarcodex.com also claims to be scott alexander? Doesn't the latter claim carry far more weight? If so, why is the personage relevant?
Apple's policies permit charging $360/year for that email client, so they do, and that's actually cheaper than many small iOS utilities and games. Since you can cancel any time it is presented as your fault if a small utility, recently worth maybe a buck or two, quietly charges you hundreds of dollars.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/07/12/predatory-ios-app-subscri...
H1B is a scam. It allows employers to shortchange their workers and abuse immigrants who are beholden to them for their right to live in the US.
Which is why I said they should be looking for the next Ninja. The assumption that Ninja and Shroud would always be bankable can be just as arrogant and lazy as anything.
That's bizarre. Two minutes? Mine takes about 3-6 seconds generally. Yours is 20x as much.
Will this change affect the apps on mobile as in a if we have to install new apps and start all over with key verifications?