skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Water is still extremely cheap." - your anecdote. The entire point of a scientific study is to determine the truth of statements like these. Comparison is made to global standards and the consumer price index.

And fine, I get you're saying you don't care about the millions of other people in your country who live a different lifestyle and pay ridiculous amounts for water. Fine, they're not your problem. But if you read the article, it's not just about affordability, it's a sign of the decay and decline of the infrastructure that supplies your water. You should care about the nation's water infrastructure, even if you don't care what other people are paying.
One of the problems I have is that as a moderator on some subreddits I have issues if I don't use the new reddit site. I prefer the old site much more but find it annoying to have to flip flop back and forth so I have settled on the crapdesign.
I'll join in as well! Please roast my profile here: https://github.com/sponsors/YorickPeterse
> Note that Mozilla somewhat walked back from this and implemented WebP support for Firefox in 2019

I wouldn't call the decision to support a format 6 years after first evaluating it a walk back, it's a concession that the format has been adopted by the industry. If the most popular browser supports WebP and sites are using it, it makes sense that you should support it.
> The German venture market (USD 6B) is about the size of a second tier market like Los Angeles.

I don't know where that number comes from, but I'll assume it's the sum of investments and not the sum of capital available for investment since the latter is a bit hard to determine.
I’ve had good luck with the Hackers Diet (calorie counting) in the past: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/

When counting calories and exercising, my weight loss was linear in the number of calories I (didn’t) eat, regardless of what they were.

I’m trying intermittent fasting because calorie counting is a pain, and the less mental energy required the better. Hopefully it’ll work out.
It's great in terms of compression (close to half size of WebP for comparable quality), but:

• In countries with software patents it's illegal to use BPG without a patent license for the H.265 codec, and that patent pool is a mess. Someone needs to do BPG with AV1 payload, or just wait for browsers to finish implementing AVIF.

• JavaScript adds significant latency. Browsers request native images before running any JS, so even an infinitely fast JS polyfill already starts from a losing position. On top of that, low-end devices are likely to spend more time and energy on running the JS decoder than on downloading a larger JPEG.
Here Is a Gist where I compare Crystal, Go, OCaml including compile time.
https://gist.github.com/s0kil/155b78580d1b68768a6c601a66f8e2...
Those dev kits ran on P4 processors. IIRC, they later sent all the devs a Core 2 mac pro.
Ah, I see. :)
The NYT has published op-eds from Vladimir Putin and the Taliban.
not necessarily on both counts.

But interactions with police are less likely to go smoothly if you're black, and you're more likely to have those interactions, so the perceived threat is real, it's like being into extreme sports.

So I guess that is my assessment of black life in America...it's an "extreme sport" and it shouldn't be.
This isn't meant to be a provocative question: What's the messaging from India been like?
I think his given explanation is plausible. Having that much opinion and personal information tied publicly to his real identity _would_ make it hard to do his job as a psychiatrist well. Presumably that is very important to him, possibly even more important than the blog, especially when you take into account the personal safety issues of doxxing.
@apple4ever Thank you very much for your feedback! This is very helpful for us to iterate on our handbook explanation and our pricing strategy.
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Unfortunately, from what I've heard, that product is being discontinued for business reasons: https://arcentry.com/discontinuation-letter/

Which is a shame because the product screenshots look pretty impressive! I'm not too sure what the ultimate experience with 3D/isometric drawings is like, but the diagrams sure look cool!
outstanding - I've struggled with regex, the capture group lesson was illuminating
Segway Ends Production
Funny though that you see a muuuch more receptive tone to H1B limits here on HN compared to say, a story about American manufacturing going overseas. Quite interesting how one’s perspective on outsourcing changes when it’s YOUR livelihood being threatened.
> Selenium came out as a side-project for another internal system we needed.

What kind of system? I had thought that selenium was created to TDD web development front-end.
Maybe I'm just imagining things, but if I have a map from PC to function or line and Rosetta rewrites all my functions then I have a problem unless the Rosetta output is by some miracle exactly the same length as the input.
Sure we do, I have spent the last week trying to upload 10 MB files in a quite slow uplink, and yes in Europe, suburban area of a German town.

First reason why people uninstall apps on mobile devices is app size.
Do those "shot and killed by police" numbers include beatings, choking to death, or hit by a car?

Anyway, the presumption that any group should meet some standard before being deemed worth of justice is utterly repulsive.
How common are bootstrapped (i.e. non-wealthy, non VC-funded) entrepreneurs in Finland?
The eBay sourced chips are likely counterfeits that won't meet all the specs.
Setting up a personal Git server
Except a journalist isn't going to sit back and take his "reasons for his choice" as true and go away, they're going to dig even more and he's smart enough to know that.

He just made things worse for himself by deleting that blog and drawing attention to himself.

Now it's not just the original reporter looking into this story, a whole bunch of journalists have dived in, and are now looking for an even bigger story.
An implicit assumption is that "smaller file size is better" and if this discussion were about audio would probably be mp3 vs ogg vorbis... but flac is the BEST to em because I want all of the audio data in the best lossless compression scheme. As a photographer, I would like to have ALL of my image data in a losslessly compressed format as well. What is the FLAC equivalent in the photo/image space?
So then Walmart should have a spy agency because they're bigger than some countries?
Hard to imagine HEVC and unencumbered in the same sentence...
In many cases teachers salaries are based on a schedule. If you know how long they've been teaching you can pretty much figure out where they are on the band. And there are additional grants subsidies; Title I school teachers get a Ed Dept supplement for teaching at poorer schools. They also get paid more for having a Master's or Ph.D. A teacher who has a M.Ed in early childhood development and also designs the curriculum (lead teacher) at a Title I school with 10+ years of experience will be pretty far up there. My college roommate became a biology teacher and his starting salary for a small T1 school district was $28k. If I remember the schedule correctly it was going to double once he completed his Masters and gained 4-5 years of experience.

> teacher's unions have benefited greatly by the perception that they're universally underpaid.

The union would still be closer to correct, teacher salaries, on average, are still low [0]. School performance and property prices are intertwined so maybe your district has decided that to retain good teachers they have to pay good salaries. 200 $500,000 homes will kick in over a $1.2-1.4MM/year in property taxes.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2018/a-look-at-teacher-pay-acro...
When I was younger I lived in a fairly rural area. I was driving home late from work one day on a remote highway and came across one of the most horrific accidents I've ever seen. A driver was pulling onto the highway and was hit by a police cruiser at an almost impossibly high speed. The highway was marked at 55mph, and under normal conditions, the driver of the other car would have had plenty of time to pull out, speed up and join the road at speed. On this road, at this time of night, there were virtually no other cars on the road.

The cruiser was going at least 130mph, without lights or siren on, struck the car at the b pillar and literally sheared the car in half right behind the driver. It was unreal, the two pieces of the car looked like they had been cut in two by a giant table saw. The front end of the cruiser was smashed in pretty well.

Incredibly, when I pulled my car off the road to help, I found both drivers up, relatively unhurt, ambulatory and in a daze from shock. A few minutes later another cruiser pulled up, called a tow and drove the civilian driver home. It became a local news story as the police officer was not only not arrested, but not disciplined in any way. Insurance covered the cars and the officer was back on the beat in a new car within the week. His rush? He wanted to make it home in time to watch a college ball game after his shift was over.
> So either there's something wrong with my analysis

its that one
It's not a dumb move. The current reality is that you can get #cancelled for telling students you won't give them higher marks just because of their race. Scott wasn't exactly politically correct, him getting fired for something he wrote was a very real risk.

Fuck that reporter.
> 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.

Factory workers in 80s and 90s said the same thing. All it did was price American factory workers out of the labor pool completely, moving jobs elsewhere.

American greed and I-got-mine-fuck-you attitude is exactly why US will not remain a global superpower country anymore.
Why do you believe the next will be worse? Covid is already a global pandemic and will likely reach a majority of the global population before going away.
with the covid rules to ban shared items (napkin holder, big sauce bottles and restaurant menus), many restaurants have put an sticker with a QR code pointing to their menu on a website or even a pdf, and it works flawlessly both on android and iphone.
What causes the insecurity if not inequality?
> The option not to have live in San Francisco, a dismal place that very few people want to actually be in anymore.

Dismal? Lol I love it here. People are moving out of cities all over the country because of coronavirus, sure, but only because most of the perks of city living are non-existent right now. I know a couple people moving and they're not going far, because of the nearby available amenities, that being excellent cycling and motorcycling roads, great mountain biking trails, climbing rocks, whatever water sports you could want...

Never quite got the hate. It's good weather and a great region.
To Whom It May Concern at The New York Times: An Open Letter
Since people are showing interest in GitHub Sponsors, I just wanted to mention: The types of services listed in the article likely falls under VAT in specific regions which can be a pain to calculate. That's one of the reasons I'm sticking with Patreon; they handle tax and chargebacks so the fee isn't a big deal. GitHub Sponsors explicitly says the tax is all on you. They don't mention chargebacks in their docs so it's hard to say, if they're processing the payment on their end, I'd guess they handle it.

https://help.github.com/en/github/supporting-the-open-source...
Eh, I live in Sweden and I make around that much before taxes and me and my wife could manage with just my paycheck if we really had to. That's with a mortgage on a house, two cars, and a four year old kid.

I doubt the cost of living in Denmark is that much higher than Sweden, so I'd say you're living beyond your means if you can't make it work on 329K DKK after tax...
How familiar are you with the bail and plea bargain system?
Police regularly get no punishments for murdering civilians, as they are trained to give the "I was fearing for my life" line in courts.

Whereas if I'm a Black individual, especially in a poor area that's over policed, I won't be able to pay for bail, and won't be able to afford a good lawyer if I'm pinned for murder. Over 90% of cases are settled by plea bargains, where the defendant will take a guilty sentence if it results in less jail time.
The difference is presumably that those sources keep feeding them interesting information, so they have to respect their anonymity to avoid jeopardizing that relationship. Scott is only good for one story, so they can treat him however they want.
Slate Star Codex says they were expecting a relatively nice article, not a hit piece.

Are you referring to Episode 207? https://overcast.fm/+KhqFMR3J4

I think Sam did a very poor job in that episode -- he was preaching exclusively to the choir. He spends the start of the podcast explaining the important distinction between justified and unjustified police involved killings. This is a very important distinction, and I would love to see data about the racial breakdown of unjustified killings, relative to a racial breakdown of police interactions.

But, Sam then completely abandons this distinction. He discusses "An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force", Roland G. Fryer, Jr. July 2007, a NYC-only study that does not measure unjustified killings.

Then, as usual, he spends an awful lot of time spouting his usual rhetoric of truth, epistemology, science, data, facts, and knowledge. This is merely rhetoric because his reference to that study is clearly meant to be evidence that we have the truth -- that police brutality is the issue, and unjustified killings do not disproportionately affect black Americans. He even discusses the Fryer study and moments later is confidently stating "race isn't the relevant variable". This is a grand claim that can't possibly be justified based on the Fryer study.

All interspersed with more rhetoric such as:

- "expiation of sins" for you Botox as if you're "woke as AOC"

- "ecstasy of ideological conformity"

- "woke analysis" is where "democratic politics goes to die" (probably means Democratic Party politics)

- "social activists playing chicken with the forces of chaos"

- "form of political pornography"

- "unable to speak or even think about facts"

Sam's usual parade of platitudes about epistemology are best understood by another quotation from this episode: "the difference between the branding of a movement and its actual aims, that's why propaganda works".
SSC is a highly influential analytical blog, NYT is fast becoming a fact free propaganda horn.

They're bound to clash.
Can you not do a "pay what you want" product? Here is this software which is open source. You can pay me what you want to for it- here's the link.

The software (Or service in your case?) is the product.
The US has an order of magnitude more crime than Europe but is policed by roughly the same number of officers. That, justifiably or not, leads to short cuts where extrajudicial and unjust tactics are used to enforce compliance.
I have a few NPM packages that get millions of downloads per week. I collect about $5.50 US per month from Patreon and exactly $0 US from Github sponsors. I still consider that $5.50 a win.
And that is the reason why I dont like Open Media Alliance in General.

Not only does the best JPEG encoder perform as good if not better than the best WebP encoder. With a JPEG Repacker [1] JPEG file size could easily be 20% smaller. If you have to support a new format with relatively little benefits, why not just support using the repacked instead.

[1]https://github.com/google/brunsli
I would recommend googling the process and try it out. Just try to find out if it is actually easy before commenting.
I agree, it's plausible.

But journalists don't stop at "plausible" and then write, they keep digging until they have "the facts" (or their biased version of the facts) right?
Vampire myths originated with a real blood disorder
You're right, sorry about that one.
Police brutality is one problem.

Systematic racism and segregation is another problem.

The first problem exacerbates the second. We have to fix both.
I'm curious how this will compare with https://github.com/iberianpig/fusuma/blob/master/README.md

I've also personally been using multitouch zooming and scrolling in kde for years now.

It will be cool to see a simplified, 'just working', desktop independent multitouch system for linux though.
I live in Montreal and 4% of my salary goes to rent. Depends on the city in Canada
I suspect a large part of it is a SEP IRA which lets you pack away like 57k in a tax advantaged account. Business deductions are almost like icing on the cake vs that.
I’m surprised no localities have rolled out an ADS[1] yet to deal with crowds. These systems always gave me an ominous feeling, and I don’t want to be around when they start doing trial runs on Americans.

https://youtu.be/kzG4oEutPbA
> We have a law called "Money Collection act", which states that to gather donations (i.e. payments with nothing in return), you have to get a permit

That's what socialist policies gets you, permits from the state to do anything
Ubuntu, as of 20.04, is using X by default.
Life on Earth Is a Sketchy Guide to an Alien Civilization
Typically the way systems do this is by translating small sections of straightline code, and patching the exits as they are translated. So you start by saying translate the block at address 0x1234. That code may go until a jump to address 0x4567. When translating that jump, they instead make a call to the runtime system which says "where is the translated code starting at address 0x4567?" If the code doesn't exist, it goes ahead and translates that block and patches the originally jump to skip the runtime system next time around.

This means early on in the program's run you spend a lot of time translating code, but it pretty quickly stabilizes and you spend most of your time in already translated code.

Of course, if your program is self modifying then the system needs to do some more work to invalidate the translation cache when the underlying code is modified.
> Other employees are not interested in increasing the supply of similar labor that will drive down their market value.

I’m not sure it’s that simple: lots of workers know they’re competing at their current employer with H1-B’s who are underpaid and mistreated. If they’re paid more that dynamic softens a lot and there’s still a cap on the total number.
In regards to the quarantine: I actually don't mind at all. But I understand that by already having been working from home, as well as being rather introverted, I am less affected than most.

In regards to everything else: Heartbroken. Liberalism is being replaced with racial collectivization, something with which you cannot build a stable or just society.
This is a pretty easy conclusion to come to theoretically, too. Any position of power is going to tend towards abuse and incompetence if there's not some sort of filter in hiring for or sustaining the institution. Newspapers live or die by clicks and subscribers: There's no incentive towards any notion of "journalistic integrity", there's no filter ensuring that journalists are especially intelligent or honest, and there's no reason to believe that the typical journalist is any less likely to abuse their position than the typical police officer.

Just as there are individual dedicated, ethical police who believe deeply in fulfilling their mission the right way, there are good journalists out there who make the world better. But for every Ronan Farrow, there are a thousand Farhad Manjoos and Cade Metzes; for every Foreign Affairs, there are a hundred New York Times or Fox News. The net effect is the same as with police: understand that we've got a horridly imperfect system chock full of dishonest actors and engage with it on those terms. Don't talk to cops without a lawyer; don't talk to a journalist without a PR person and/or a specific plan for what you're getting out of the exchange and how to protect yourself from exploitation[1].

The Internet has greatly accelerated this trend. Pre-Internet, if by some miracle you managed to get enough honest, intelligent people together in a single paper, you could establish a culture of journalistic ethics under the aegis of the slack afforded by your local monopoly on distribution. But in the Internet era, you need to be fully competitive on the terms defined by the market, which, as described above, don't point towards honest, ethical reporting at all.

The tragedy with journalism is that government is usually a useful tool to address this problem: well-crafted regulation can shape incentives such that you don't need to rely on wishing for good cops, which is the direction that police reform discussions are taking. A heavy government hand, however, is anathema to the role that journalists are supposed to play in modern society, so this tool is off the table.

I've thought about this for a very long time, and I don't know how to solve this.

[1] This obviously doesn't apply in narrow cases like "observation from man on the street"
It's available https://crystal-lang.org/reference/guides/concurrency.html. Fibers (like goroutines) are scheduled by Crystal and map to system threads.

The work on parallelism is available as a compile-time flag, but not yet GA: https://crystal-lang.org/2019/09/06/parallelism-in-crystal.h...
I agree that is a concern with a US centric team. Imagine a globally distributed team - 3 engineers are in Asia pacific region, 2 in Europe and 2 in US. Everyone in the team is equally affected by timing constraints and language barriers, so it becomes more palatable. And in such a world even the notion of coming to US and working on an H1B visa does not exist.
Unless he sold stocks on the rise he didn't make anything. Unrealized gains are possible but not actual gains.
Yes, a bit tricky. You don't need to declare arrays in AWK, amazingly. Interesting how long it takes to get ergonomic gestures just right in languages.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Array-Exa...
The narrative you are suggesting is unequivocally false and has been for a while. While the black on black crime rate is at 89% the white on white crime rate is at 83%, not far off and receives very little relative attention.

In addition, according to the Bureau of Justice statistics, while blacks in the absolute cause 50% of the violent crime, when you control for income (white people have 10x the wealth) and location (rural, suburban, urban, etc) white people actually commit about 5% more violent crime i.e. poor urban white people commit more violent crime than poor urban black people.

People need to start understanding these facts, remove old narratives and realize there's more interesting things to focus on than race its self.
Fair point. Then what's the link between plastics in general and biodiversity collapse and other terrible things?
Counterpoint: I’d rather gut the H1B system and ease the path to citizenship. The H1B system just exists for employers to pay lower wages to skilled workers. I would much rather those workers get fast-tracked to citizenship instead. Letting them leave with the money they make here isn’t in our best interests and neither is preventing them from changing companies, which allows employers to underpay them. I would heavily support using the H1B as a probationary period to test assimilation into the US before granting full citizenship but that’s not really in the spirit of the program at that point.
So, I thought chrome was a loss making project, and the only reason it exists is because Google fund it for the data it generated and as part of their wider "use our stuff in exchange for your data" business model.

So if you break up Google, chrome would have to cut its budget or stop existing. And either way, chrome extension Devs wouldn't be better supported than they are now would they?

This is always my question with "Break up X": then what?