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This biggest problem with employer paid health insurance is that the people who receive it are sheltered from a lot of the problems with the current system. It’s easy to say everything’s fine when you are happy with your current situation.

Imagine if senators and congress had to buy their own individual plans.
I guess it is referred to in that way to give the reader context as to why it is needed now.
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I think there are statistics showing that black people are much more likely to be arrested for committing the same crime as a white person, and thus more likely to have a criminal record even if they don't commit more crimes.
> Their actions have, at least, influenced the proliferation of these weapons

How? The number of nuclear weapons was growing rapidly until the 80s, to the point where dozens of bombs were aimed at single targets.

> informed the public about their dangers

Seeing the effects of bombs informed the public, not a committee
OH yes but it would have to be done properly between uses and regular office cleaning would now have to be more rigours and costly than it is now.

Probably closer to how a low risk hospital ward is cleaned than the perfunctory wipe - you might also have to use those sealed keyboards designed so they can be cleaned.
> That should be all we need to know, right?

Not really, their whole proposition is to do ads in a privacy respecting way, and you always have the option to just turn them off entirely. The payments model they have for websites is my favorite thing about the browser and I'd love to see more models like it catch on. Giving the ability to easily fund content creators by just filling up your wallet periodically (without having to view ads if you don't want) is a great idea. Perhaps the execution leaves something to be desired, but I wish people would at least discuss the important ideas it brings rather than simply dismiss it as an evil browser and recommend Firefox + ublock origin (which, while a good temporary solution, is ultimately just kicking the can down the road and doesn't do a whole lot to solve the root issues).
Another patent encumbered monstrosity? No, thanks. Enough of this junk. Some just never learn.
You pulled a quote from tomp's post history, in a post made 8 days ago in a discussion on an unrelated story, and gave no indication of where it came from. You should have posted the source link as an attribution, because I was really confused about where you were getting that from until BerislavLopac found it and posted the link.
"Imagine if you could fund a tech startup by pre-selling product to customers"

I know of a couple tech ventures that did exactly this...they (1) had established a minimum viable audience and then (2) queried their people for what they wanted and how much they would pay for it, and (3) developed technology that delivered above and beyond functionality at (4) less cost than people expected which resulted in (5) a lot of pre-orders that (6) they delivered on which (7) that was the genesis of how they raised $VC to scale rather quickly.
Do we know what the Chinese government is doing to ethnic minorities? I've seen enough evidence from both sides to know that it's despicable but that it is also not a genocide.

That is where the accusation of "whataboutism" comes into play, because given my limited time and influence I'd rather focus on issues of similar or greater magnitude (indigenous rights, climate change, the prison system, healthcare, white supremacist structures in our countries, imperialist tendencies that result in freedom bombings) over posturing about re-education and vocational camps in China that have humans rights abuse. I would 100% prefer the latter to not exist but it really feels like a distraction tactic and something we in the West have no power over.
832x480 is ~480p video (720x480 is standard widescreen dvd)
720p is 1280x720
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Add fax machines and it will be perfect picture of current situation in Germany.
I would be grateful for having such strong legislation that protects the remaining swathes of nature.
"Why CS though?" is a weird statement here.

Why should the vast majority, or even a sizable fraction, of fields not have a gender or race balance even remotely approximating the balance of the general population? Is it not a 'should' but merely 'it's okay if they do'? If the balance was in the other direction and men or white people were being intentionally denied jobs, would that be okay?

Should it be OK for other things to be unbalanced? Should it be OK if 60% of black people can't get houses but only 10% of white people have trouble getting homes? Should it be OK if 90% of asians are turned away from emergency rooms but only 20% of mexicans are?

You can argue that race/gender genetic differences play a role but it's kind of hard to explain away the widespread imbalances here just based off DNA.
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Pedantic historical browser etymology note: Firefox began as Phoenix, because it was metaphorically rising from the ashes of Netscape. For trademark reasons, they changed it to Firebird. Then they learned that there was already an open source DB using that name, so they picked Firefox.
And the increased rent/mortgage/property tax payments for the extra rooms/space ?
I'm not sure what you mean. There are already multiple research articles that show that deep neural network based video compression can be competitive, here's an example:

https://papers.nips.cc/paper/9127-deep-generative-video-comp...
I suspect it's a cultural and generational thing. These days many Americans can't name the modern composers who score the films they watch.

For the generation who grew up with the Fistful series, they probably know Ennio Morricone is extricably linked to Sergio Leone, much in the same way my generation knows John Williams and George Lucas are linked.
This company is quite advanced, but now focusing more on research and IP:

http://afstrinity.com/company/

I've seen a system meant for hospital ride-through that packed an amazing amount of power into a relatively small enclosure using carbon fiber wound flywheels. For short durations you can get away with this because you're only going to operate one of those. Larger installations would need multiple of those and then you need to get very serious about containment so that if one of the flywheels ever fails it doesn't set off a chain reaction.

The nice thing about the fiber would units is that when they break they self destruct completely within the enclosure. The fiber acts as energy sink by breaking up, as opposed to a steel wheel that will spit out sizeable chunks across fairly larger distances (many meters).

Another player in that market:

https://vyconenergy.com/products/ups/vdc-products/

Grid stabilization is better done using superconductors rather than with flywheels.
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My understanding is that it changes the toe of the front wheels, and is used to slightly increase speed on straight sections.

There are rules limiting what can control the steering / suspension components of a car, and that's one of the reasons why this is controlled by pushing/pulling on the steering wheel rather than something else.
This might interest you:

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2019/12/10/watch-a-power-st...

"The power plant was notable for being one of the few that could restart generating electricity without an external power to restart its generators in case of a wide-scale power-outage. This was partly due to cold-war concerns that an attack could take out London power supplies.

To be able to restart the plant, it made use of versions of jet engines based on those used on Concorde to jump start the main generators — and they were used to keep the lights on following the October 1987 storms."
If they don't care about privacy enough to learn about it, that's fair, no point wasting your time to avoid a problem that isn't affecting you much.
It's true that bad debt isn't paid back, but in a bankruptcy the investors are wiped out so it would be disingenuous to frame those monies as "corporate bailouts." The funds will have gone to sustaining the business and employing the employees -- not to shareholders.

The tax change isn't a reduction per se, it's a change in the way we account for losses across multiple years. It's also very new -- it's removing a new carryover rule that was added in 2017. I think it's also disingenuous to frame this as a reduction as the losses would be carried forward anyway. It is, like most of the other "corporate handouts," more of a shift in when the money is paid rather than a change in the amount.
1) Create a throwaway account and (re)post a Ask HN

2) ????

3) Profit

Hope that helps ;-)

For a more helpful response - what Leftium said (in your previous ask HN submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23740649)
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Apple earns more profits from the Smartphone market than all the other hardware venders combined.

Apple earns more profits from the Tablet market than all the other hardware venders combined.

Apple earns more profits from the PC market than all the other hardware venders combined.
This is racist crap. If you over police black and brown neighborhoods, you’ll manage to find ways to incriminate black and brown people at a much higher rate than white people, because you won’t be around to see white people committing the same crimes.
Great read thanks for posting.
> But as soon as you find a good job with a decent manager that pays 50% more, you are going to leave.

Well yes, I would. But that doesn't mean it's only about money.

> And you are going to continue lose more of your motivations because you know that you can earn more.

Partly agree. I know I can do more and be in a role with more responsibility. If I find a new job as a manager/team lead which pays same or 10% less, I would actually go for it. Because in the long run I may move up to director/VP level. So maybe money is important as I mentioned, but it's not the only thing.

> So Money is important. You can't keep good, motivated, high performing employees only with a good pay check. But you can't keep them without a good pay check either.

Totally agree.
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Yes but you will get a pay cut its not like they are going to pay London /SF wages in the country.
Something that I learned about 10 years ago when bandwidth was still expensive is that you can make a very large version of an image, set the jpeg compression to a ridiculously high value, then scale the image down in the browser. The artifacts aren't as noticeable when the image is scaled down, and the file size is actually smaller than what it would be if you encoded a smaller image with less compression.
Eh? Are you implying that violent police offers are violent because they want people to read their "manifesto"?

And, in fact, yes. I think that if police officers or military wings blow stuff / people up, just to make a point, then we should ignore that point. But I don't think that's why they do it.
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A file server is a pretty basic task, and zfs is a pretty good choice of fs for a file server, and zfs wants all the ram you can scrape up.

But still there may not be many such examples so your point is still valid.

I use a 3b+ for a 3d printer and that means, octoprint, klipper, octolapse, live streaming from a webcam while printing, a web server and web ui with various plugins, a slicer (I don't slice on the pi, but it's there and I could) and for all that the 3b+ is hardly scratched while running full out. It's a 4g model that is always using only couple hundred meg if you don't count disk cache. This is exactly consistent with your supposition.
Yeah - SpaceX got their first NASA contract after their first successful Falcon 1 flight, with 3 failures before that. The Falcon 9 needed for that NASA contract for ISS resuply was still on the drawing board back then.
> It's silly to allow the most extremely (often unreasonably) sensitive people to set the threshold for what is sensitive or insensitive speech.

Well, that's one of the drawbacks of social media. Offended people can band together, amplify their voices, and spark nation-wide outrage. Whether the outrage is "real" or just "perceived" (i.e. the media says everyone is outraged so it must be so) is a different debate.
I feel like that is a pretty big stretch.

Basically there is a "cash cow" if someone can monopolize the market, not have competition, and if people are willing to pay more.

What isn't a cash cow under those circumstances?
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How would you rephrase it? Does “science have a toxicity problem?”

Academia? Humans in general?
Our building superintendant had it as his ringtone and spoiled the song for me.
In Japan you can end up with more office space at home if you can spare space for a decent desk than at work, where desks are small and crammed next to each other's, at least until COVID19.
By many other researchers in the field.
1) Even very minor changes, like leaving electronics in a different room, help.

2) The best website blocker for me isn't one that that blocks me from Facebook/reddit/etc for a week -- I just start to rebel against it and eventually uninstall. The one I use is called "Focus" and blocks me out for 20 minutes. Enough to get work done, but also not enough for me to start resenting it.

3) I figured out that I could actually read books again if I biked to the park without my cell phone and read in a hammock. To get internet again, I have to bike all the way home and I'm too lazy for that. It worked great until it reached 1000 degrees in Texas -- maybe you're in cooler climes.
My wife's company is kind of curious, and also typical, I think. She works in production planning and SCM, so obviously the early phase of the Covid-19 crisis was the one with the highest workload. It was also the first time they were allowed to WFH. One would have expected that it would be very difficult. It was, for a week or so until people got to understand Teams.

Now, that things calmed down and they started "Kurzarbeit", basically reducing working hours where the state offsets salaries, the company insists that everyone returns to the office. Old ways die hard it seems.
Scrounging up a down payment when even a 2 bedroom apartment is $1-$1.5 million is not the easiest task

America is a big country and is not specific enough when describing these prices.
It's basically a longform "guns don't kill people" argument for dopamine and addiction.
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It's a trade off. When I have a batch of 40 videos and encoding h264 takes 20 minutes per video and h265 takes 4 hours means the difference between 13 days and 160 days.

The latter isn't practical, I'll eat the couple hundred MB in order to save a lot of time.
I'm the worst about this, but I found a trick: bike to the park with a book. Leave your cell phone at home.

In order to get my hit of internet I have to bike all the way home again, so I'm forced to focus.
It's so obvious that it's reptiles, yet we jump to a simple search on Facebook.
https://youtu.be/RDFyFSnUFx4

There are around 25 transitions in place when reducing the width < 600px or the height < 400px, to make it feel more natural.
I really like them - here are some photos of putting it all together:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23744973
If this explains expansion, then it also eliminates dark energy, no?
Does anyone have any real information about this project? The Guardian article is essentially the same as the press releases on both GE's and Statkraft's web sites and says nothing about the scale of the project.
> Money is the best way. Your situation is a different scenario. If you were going to accept the other offer what would it took to keep you in your current one? Money.

Not necesseraly. If I had the chance to move up in my current role and keep the same salary I would stay.
Probably make space very unlikely the average person is not going to have a spare room to fit a desk with a double monitor.

And if its a couple or a shared house even worse - probably increase the divorce rate for couples both WFH
It adjusts the toe of front wheels and it's called DAS (Dual Axis Steering). This is only currently being used by Mercedes in F1. In simplest of terms and from what I have understood, it can reduce friction and tyre wear on long stretches by having 0 toe (parallel front wheels). And achieve better grip on corners by moving the front wheel outwards.

This is a nice video explaining all this: https://youtu.be/TxKhi6Qsrog?t=67
I am quite bearish about the impact of WFH, especially for software engineers, but if there is one country where I think the coronavirus can have a huge positive effect for the economy, it is Japan.

Japanese companies are generally extremely inefficient. Outside of a few powerhouses, partially thanks to a protected and large domestic market, Japanese labor practices are antiquated. There is a culture of overwork that begets a culture of inefficiency that boggles the mind. Few people know that Japan has a labor productivity lower than Italy, for example.

To give a concrete example, you will have companies where people will make sure to start meetings at 7 pm to make sure they can maximize "残業" (overtime). The labor ministry is trying to curb on companies that expect more than 80 hours of overtime per month. On top of it, if you live in one of the big city (Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka), 3 hours of commute per day is not atypical. And then you have the practice of 飲み会 ("business dinners" where people drink, abuse toward women common, etc.), which also takes time.

Finally, Japanese companies rely a lot on paper and 判子 (hanko) and other seals systems. My wife sometimes has to go the desk of a colleague dozens of times a day to get some paperwork. IT systems are antiquated. And yet, Japan has one of the most educated workforce in the world. Especially women are often relegated to menial work. Internet is fast everywhere. It is the true steam punk country !

Coronavirus and WFH change this. Seeing large companies like fujitsu publicly taking a stance is highly significant in a country like Japan where executives are often extremely risk adverse.
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Its the law in the UK and from what others have said the USA as well
In the not-to-distant future, this might actually play out IRL considering the direction some people want to take things...you sound like a thought leader who is ahead of their time and therefore may I suggest posting to LinkedIn meanwhile if you have not already and just get the ball rolling already because there are those out there who want to believe.
Sadly, I'm no fan of COM either. It's an engineering design that while conceptually not unrelated to better similar systems of its time, just reeks of everything that was wrong with MS during the 1990s. I don't think that anyone that actually cares about cross-platform would ever choose COM-like stuff for anything. Or maybe I'm just no fan of "component object models" in general.

But anyway, Robin Gareus has already implemented the bulk of VST3 support inside Ardour so we should that emerge sometime (7.0 or before).
So you accept its impossible to do mathematically, But insist we still need to do it because we have no alternative? Doesn't this mean that no community can ever actually function beyond very small sizes? They will just get stuck answering infinite moral quandries?
...except that recognizing birds is pretty trivial these days if you let somebody else do the heavy lifting: https://cloud.google.com/vision

Which is the OP's issue as well: they'd be better off letting somebody else like Google parse their text instead of trying to reinvent the wheel.
I tried using Kindle this way earlier… but it only worsened for me. :-(

I think the issue is with scrolling itself. Scrolling erodes the attention span because it kinda goes against the grain of saccadic perception. As opposed to that a page turn on a physical book transitions to the next page and stays there in a state of rest until we have comfortably absorbed all of the content on page and are ready to move on to next.
How many pre-dominantly Muslim countries have come out in outrage to criticize China's policies?
I built a 64x64 grid of neopixels. It used 2-3 large PC power supplies, providing about 1.2kW at peak (all pixels fully on).
Yes, do that then.
2000 = x,
4000 = 2x,
6000 = 3x,
8000 = 4x
HN discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23735205
Yeah, one of the most beautiful movie soundtracks ever. Sad to say there's nowhere as good composers in modern Hollywood.
I tried that but I'm such an addict I changed it back.

A better solution for me is a chrome extension that blocks it for 20 minutes at a time. Long enough to make decent progress and get started on work, but no so long that I resent it and give up.
Wow, silly me I misread that thanks for the correction sorry gp. Yes, it has coroutines in the sense that you can queue functions to be run as soon as the event queue is drained, so that it looks like your UI is responsive, but they probably won't be able to run concurrently unless said event loop runs on a separate thread which I don't think it does correct me if I'm wrong.
You can license x264 to not have to worry about the GPL. Though that costs money and you may find yourself signing MPEG LA contracts.

edit: Your project reminds me, https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module is super worth checking out and might be helpful to you.
Because the developers of x265 (which is the real codec and ffmpeg is a wrapper around it) are located in France.

http://www.videolan.org/developers/x265.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoLAN
There are no obvious trades. And 2012 is around when smart people were yelling at me that Apple was doomed, they could never compete on price and had missed the large screen market.
When I’m studying cryptography and mathematics, I find myself thinking visually and scribbling down little diagrams too. The ADEPT method [0] would suggest that this is one way to better absorb knowledge and form understanding. It’s really cool to see more content creators exploring visual communication.

[0]: https://betterexplained.com/articles/adept-method/
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