skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make sure you're using hardware encoding if you can. Using the CPU encoder can be higher quality, but it can't beat the dedicated hardware on your GPU for encoding in terms of performance.

Even a first-gen Raspberry Pi 1 is able to encode 1080p30fps video with its hardware encoder.
I was an avid user of Pentadactyl[1], but the project died when the Firefox plugin changes[2] happened. From what I could tell at the time, all of the similar plugins like Vimium[3] suffered from severe limitations. For example, if your focus ended up on browser chrome you needed mouse clicks to escape.

Is this actually getting us back to something similar to Pentadactyl? I had assumed the plugin changes were preventing such control from being granted to plugins. Was I wrong, and it was just that the authors didn't port to the new framework?

[1] bug.5digits.org/pentadactyl

[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-add-technology-...

[3] https://vimium.github.io/
That first video is heartbreakingly beautiful
Honestly, this had even more impact on me than the social cooling site. Very nicely done.
Make a post-commit hook that adds "#!/usr/bin/yes No." at the top of every file missing a shebang.
I believe that everything should be open source. Projects like this are cool, we should cherish them. What was your first open source project?
Would it be feasible to upgrade ITER into a much more powerful plant with the new magnets, or are they basically spending another 15 years building a huge thing that is already obsolete?
Improving Without Feedback
On a different thread this morning someone bemoaned the lack of statistical education - a sentiment that is widespread among people who have studied and worked with statistics and probability. It is really exciting to see pedagogical tools that help explain basic but important concepts like distributions and sampling. Great work.
Essentially, a sale contract can be written in many ways, but one can show the following generally for (more or less) all such contracts: to account for the fact that the firm is missing information about the counterparty, you, it will have to pay what is referred to as "information rent" to at least some customers. The firm ends up in a "second best" outcome merely because it does not possess all information about its customers. The difference, however, is "rent" that accrues to at least some customers. That is, you, the customer, can expect to pay less for things you care about. This in particular occurs when the contract is simply a single "price". With a price, you have to find the optimum between serving many customers and selling for high prices.
One can show that without enough information, the firm can not really do better than setting a single price, which leaves rents to the consumer lest demand is lost.

In contrast, if you have full information, you can construct pricing schemes that fully extract all surplus from the consumer. You can, in essence, get higher prices without losing customers. Many pricing schemes today are trying to use more information to approximate that situation (for example auctions, anything with subscriptions, fixed components, packages etc.). It is why firms like Amazon and Google hire a lot of Economics PhDs and Game Theorists.
You will also notice that many products are pushing toward such pricing models. This is not by accident.

So, your contention is half right and half wrong. In the greater scheme of things, full information is often (but not always) efficient for total welfare. However, in such situation total welfare also may accrue entirely to firms. That means higher profits, first, and higher costs for the consumer second.

In effect, you will pay more if you are more known.

It then depends on your faith in the fairness of the ownership and distributional properties of our capitalist systems, as well as the efficiency of the markets in question (e.g. competition), whether the increased profits are eventually redistributed to you, the consumer.

It seems to me that in many of the markets in question, even the description of oligopoly would be rather charitable. In that case, latter parts of your post do not seem likely.

Edit: Since you asked for the principles. The first iteration of this you may come across is called price discrimination. At that stage, it's not about information, but you can make that link in your head quite easily: The ability to set different prices, depends of course crucially on what you know.

Next, you may hear about auctions or contract theory, where such problems are tackled explicitly. Switching the roles, you may hear about principal agent problems, where a similar (really the same thing) occurs. For full generality, you may want to read into Mechanism Design. Tillman Borgers has a great book which used to be available free as PDF and you can probably still find it. If you are interested in questions such as: "What can we say generally about any sort of sales contract", then this is a good place to start. Needs some math though.
> Both of those things are empirically proven to make people poorer

Nothing of this sort has by any means been proven.

I’m from a country that probably has one of the highest—if not the highest—proportion of children born outside of marriage. I my self is raised by a single mother, my sister has a son born outside of marriage, and so do many of my friends. This country is also one of the wealthiest in the world and has way less poverty then many countries where child rearing outside of marriage is less common.

In fact you could probably argue just as easily that actively supporting single parents has greater economic benefits then to disenfranchise them.
> You’re supposed to top them up CONSTANTLY with Jet Dry

THANK YOU, I had no idea why my dish washer seems to go through jetdry like it was water!
I did this with Netflix....8 years ago. I wrote a cross-platform desktop app that named DistanceFlix for my wife and I while we were long distance.
> iPhone was not originally a game console. (Apple itself almost never makes games.) Indeed, iPhone was not originally a store either. Apple argued in court that App Store is not a separate product from iPhone, but that's easily historically refuted: iPhone shipped in 2007 without App Store! App Store was added a year later, so it's obviously not essential to the product. And IAP aren't essential to App Store either, because they weren't added until 2009.

The failure in your reasoning here is your assertion that the iPhone that was launched in 2007 is the same iPhone that's about to be launched in October.

They are different products.

The iPhone 12 DOES launch with the App Store. If Epic wants to make it so any iPhone(s) that didn't originally launch with the App Store must be able to side load apps, I mean, go ahead.

> Why are game consoles the relevant comparison?

Why aren't they? In fact, I'd argue they are even MORE of a relevant comparison and MORE like a general purpose computer. Sure, Microsoft has not written Office for Xbox, but that's not a limitation of Xbox. You can (and this is encouraged) plug a keyboard and mouse right into an Xbox. It has a GPU, processor, hard drive, RAM, motherboard, etc.. It's literally a computer.

> There's nothing in US law that says smartphones are supposed to be treated the same as game consoles.

There's nothing in US law that says smartphones are supposed to be treated like desktop computers either. I have yet to see a convincing and consistent reason that they should be. I guess if you want to say that all computing devices should be open source and modifiable and all that, sure that's fine, but the distinction here is very much an arbitrary one.
So would extending them to farm animals. (I'm aware there are ostensible protections for farm animals, but they offer very little protection even if they were consistently enforced. Animals raised for food are often explicitly exempted from animal protections.)
> Nothing to do with a bogus DOF count though

It seems that you don't understand the implication of the DOF count. Flying means moving freely through the air. That, colloquially, means 6degree of freedom movement through space. It means looping a, it means barrel rolls, it means it can run circles and go backwards and move upside down. You know, flying.

Ekranoplans fly as much as an hovercraft does, which mean they don't. Case in point: they are unable to do 6dof movement. An ekranoplan doesn't do barrel rolls for example.
Last time I checked it didn't support Wayland which makes it impossible to use on most modern linux systems.
That would be a nice and easy way for any government to censor TikTok.

"Hey, have you seen the new COVID-19 contact tracing app? It's named TikTok-19".
Plenty of people have your types of thoughts - I'd argue it is very rare that people don't :) They just happen to come to different conclusions regarding what's good and what's bad, including 'calling poor people bad decision makers is really bad' that you are aware of and are keen to avoid :).

These are interesting matters and are well explored by analytic moral philosophy.

Here's what some smart people have figured out thus far: http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/Cavalier/80130/part1/sect5/RMP.html
I would guess it's mostly an amicable relationship with one lawyer that happens to have connections to other lawyers.

Do good once with a connected lawyer, and your name gets passed around.
"Non Radioactive Fuel" is technically correct.

But.

The fusion produces neutrons.[1] That means that at least some parts of the infrastructure can't avoid becoming radioactive. Decommissioning -- at the very least -- is still a problem.

Any actual nuclear physicists want to chime in here?

[1]Yes, the concept of "Aneutronic fusion" exists: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion>. But read the parts about the required conditions being much more extreme than D-T fusion.
Fun side fact, I have a CFL bulb that I bought in 1999, and it still works.
This just saved my day :-)
What Is a Data Warehouse and Why to Use Them
Most newer gpus can encode video on the gpu. This helps tremendously.

A 2000 series NVidia GPU can encode 4K/60 at less than 5% load (and that’s gpu loaf, cpu loaf is essentially zero)

The MacBook can do none of those things, it’s old school cpu encoding.
That just isn't the case. Nuclear (fission) has always been the single most expensive way to generate electricity, and the expense has only increased. Uranium is crazy expensive. Security is very expensive. Spent fuel storage effectively never stops costing, and it isn't ever cheap. If nuclear was simply expensive because of regulations, investors would find a way, and you could not beat them away from building nuclear power plants. But that just isn't where the expense lies. Today it costs $20B to build a nuclear power plant, and that does not include the cost of spent fuel storage or decommissioning. Investors are actually pretty shrewd to stay away from that kind of an investment that always loses. The idea of "electricity too cheap to meter" simply never materialized. Today, electricity generated from solar power is cheaper than electricity generated from nuclear power. The main reason the 110 or so commercial nuclear plants were ever built is that the US military vastly overestimated its need for fuel for bombs.
For kids... on LinkedIn... C'mon!
Stop API Bugs by Inferring Data Formats
Anyone who cares about the environment does not use a dishwasher.
It's more that they're saying people just believe black houses are likelier to catch fire innately and that's acceptable, when they're not and it's not.
This seems like crap. It adds virtual every crappy Google Meet feature which makes it unusable for any sort of serious remote learning or remote work.

If you set up your cameras and microphone correctly, you don't want or need any of that stuff. And you can get adequate cameras and microphones for a fraction of the cost of even a basic NVidia RTX card.

I guess it's helpful if you're rich, stupid, and incompetent?
YouTube adverts have been obnoxious for a long time, but it's got far far far worse this year. Unfortunately, I think it is necessary to support the media industry thanks to the diminishing returns from sales of music/film due to the proliferation of "art is disposable and very cheap" $9.99-a-month streaming services, plus the fact that every new album ends up on YouTube within a week these days as an "entire album" upload.

The sheer amount of content available these days is probably what you are noticing regarding dramas / films; I can remember very few decent Hollywood films recently as utter garbage seems to make billions of dollars, so the studios believe it's what people want.

It isn't a new issue though - "Penny Dreadfuls" were the old poor-quality entertainment of yesteryear where I suspect people were saying the same things that we are saying now. The only difference now is the availability of immense volumes of instantly accessible tripe.

As for political messaging, I am entirely apolitical but do see a lot of ideologies being promoted/pushed in programmes, with an opposing stance on any "modern" issue descending rapidly into a shouting match instead of a reasonable, logical debate; it then turns into a witch hunt regarding the opposing party's behaviour instead of a balanced discussion of the first issue raised. Exercise your free will and turn the rubbish off like I do!
See also Neal Stephenson's Fall: Dodge in Hell. What happens there though isn't authentic experiences but instead people buy tailored human/AI agent filters called editors to construct a reality for them by filtering out most media sources, including billboards and other interactive real-world advertisements and media screens. This way each individual has their own media reality.
You are describing my childhood in the mid-90s Ukraine. Difference is, I never knew any different because I was 6 when the USSR collapsed, and by then even its version of "normal life" has been slowly decaying for a while. This decay accelerated in the 90s, but it was all normal to me. Hyperinflation, no hot water or heating for weeks, no electricity for 2-3 hours every evening (better not be stuck in an elevator at 6 pm when the blackout is scheduled to start!) Every piece of physical infrastructure slowly decays and doesn't get replaced.

It was so strange to go from that to Canada at 12 years old.
> IT'S DONE!

> Compiling Windows XP, part 1

https://twitter.com/NTDEV_/status/1309833107881811974

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IyW-bwGQTQ&feature=emb_titl...
with SNI based blocked, its almost there. The solution to that will be TLS1.3 ESNI or VPN. (but they can block VPN as well from SNI)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-54265571
Right exactly, you’ve narrowly defined a monopoly for your argument as “mobilizing iOS devices”, just like Epic had a monopoly on its App Store. There is a 100% analogous alternative to iOS devices: Android devices.
What do you think about the second issue : the "blackboxing" ?
There’s a decently well selling book on Python that is of the same format.
yes and that, to prove the authors point, is also collapse. The opioid epidemic, the car deaths, the obesity, the cancer, and the heart disease they're avoidable, they're the result of desolation at a societal scale, they're cultural illnesses, which the public responds to with indifference and numbness and another drive through at McDonalds.

Hundreds of thousands maybe more preventable deaths, every year, written off as "per capita" statistics, as if we're talking about a bad quarter at the office, and not human lifes. Every year maybe .5% more. That's what the author means when he's saying that you're already collapsing without even realising it.
How Coursera Makes Money
> The disclosure is there and Snowden made sure no one can declare themselves uninformed.

I don't think I need to offer additional commentary on that claim, I think it kind of speaks for itself.

> I'm not a big player, I don't make the rules, I play within them. Don't like the rules? Work on getting them changed. Don't like my funnels? Don't sign up.

But at least on this one point, both of us seem to be completely agreed.

The advertising industry is incapable of self-regulation, and there's no point in companies like Apple, Mozilla, DuckDuckGo, or Fastmail having a 'dialog' over blocking 3rd-party cookies, auto-denying permission prompts, blocking device IDs, and caching assets serverside in emails.

They just need to push their privacy changes and stop pretending that the advertising industry is interested in holding itself to a responsible standard. There is no realistic scenario where tracking mechanisms are left open and marketers commit to only using them responsibly.

This was Apple's mistake a few weeks ago with device IDs, where they backpedaled just because Facebook was angry. Platforms can't negotiate with advertisers, they just have to change the rules and let them complain.

Ultimately, the conversation we've had here hasn't boiled down to some kind of philosophical disagreement about the nature of privacy or how different concerns should be balanced, your position is just that you're going to do anything you're legally allowed to do, and if anyone feels violated by that, it's their fault for not stopping you.

That's not a philosophy that's worth negotiating or debating with.
I've been using a wireless corsair headset on the PC with it's own USB dongle. Latency, quality, range and comfort are all good enough for my needs. I've used long headphone cables (as the other reply suggested) but I usually end up getting twisted in them late at night or send drinks flying. I said for years that wireless was an unnecessary silliness, but I wouldn't dream of going back now.

Bluetooth headsets are impressively awful still. Even when they're really good they still fail in surreal and unexpected ways (ignoring all the problems I have pairing them to my laptop). Listening to an audiobook on the beach would regularly have problems talking from the phone in my pocket to the headset if I was laying down on my back or leaning on a wall. I've also recently moved near a railway line and whilst I don't get disturbed by the trains, 8 seconds before they go past I get a blip in my headphones which is screamingly annoying. There are still a stunning amount of upsides for me personally; I'm not sure I'd go back to cheap in-ear wired headphones readily at all.
There are sanitary reasons for closing the door while pooping.
When I bought my house it came with a dryer and indeed the sensory dry never seemed to work.

A year later, I decided to look into it. It occurred to me that there should be an exhaust somewhere on the exterior of the house where the dryer is blowing air out of. I went looking for it, and couldn't find it! This was crazy.

After a lot of searching, I finally found it - the previous owner(s) had blocked the vents - they were covered. I removed the block, and air could flow freely again.

And suddenly the sensor dry worked perfectly.

If yours is not working, do some debugging.
There definitely needs to be a way to turn off the localization.
Looks like the main difference is docker compose compatibility but admittedly I have more reading to do. Still tho that is a good difference! I have multiple caprover nodes in prod for hobby stuff so absolutely not knocking it.
3. Bufferbloat. It's still a thing. dslreports has a bufferbloat score, one of my coworkers has been really impacted by it. http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest
Yes and doesn’t Epic offer self serving discounts on fees I’d you use their own game development platform?
Knowing History and Knowing Who We Are
Disclaimer: I work on Cloud Run.

In my comment I was referring to open source PaaS projects building on Kubernetes/Docker. Those are managed services where you aren’t exposed to the underlying infra (to varying degrees). So they aren’t apples to apples with this project.
or the premium workstation of the 80s.
As an aside, I went down a rabbit hole trying to work out whether to look into this or PICO-8. I found a pretty good summary of the differences here:
https://nerdyteachers.com/Explain/FantasyConsoles/

Personally, I'm still undecided as I like the use of JavaScript in TIC-80 and the fact that it is open source, versus the wealth of materials available for the PICO-8.
I coin one rule for blogging: However you do it keep it consistent. If you do monthly long reads keep doing that. If you do short posts 5 times per day keep making them 5 times per day (its better to drop to 4 and make a buffer that auto publishes than to skip days)

Forum discussions can be a mess of excess and ot information. You could easily cut and paste questions you've answered. (Sometimes modify them to fit how generic your answer is) Then copy paste your answer under it as well as useful bits from other peoples response.

Put links to topics and/or profiles with everything you "steal" to promote the forum.

Make tools to automate the process. You don't want to be muleing clip board back and forwards.

Just dump it into a post and save the draft if it isn't finished in 15 seconds.

Again: be consistent at it. If there is one post per day the visitor should be able to visit 1 time per day and find it. If it isn't there for 1-3 days - why bother?
Check out Raph's retrospective on his xi editor project [1], particularly the section "There is no such thing as native GUI", for his take on why using platform-provided ("native") controls isn't always practical, at least for the applications he's developing. Anyway, cross-platform wrappers over native controls have been done in other languages, e.g. wxWidgets in C++ and SWT in Java, and that approach has enough limitations that AFAIK most developers of complex applications avoid it now.

[1]: https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.h...
Why compare sweden only to it's neighbors? That makes no sense and it sounds like selective biais. Take Quebec for example, we have had pretty strict lockdown rules and we are overall pretty similar to sweden in terms of population/density. Yet we have had a higher mortality per capita and we are going back into lockdowns due to a second wave, when sweden isn't.

Also, sweden hasn't put in place extremely expensive employment subsidies like the rest of europe and north america did. So while yes, if you take let's say the netherlands, sweden apparently has more unemployment but that's only because the dutch government basically paid out the salaries of everyone who wouldve been otherwise fired. That support can't keep going forever though, so we will soon see what economies fared better once that artficial lifesupport runs out.

Yes, Sweden suffered economically, but as far as I'm aware, they at least didn't already use up most of their financial ammo like locked down countries did. Keep in mind, printing money is fine, but printing money forever isn't. If they aren't faring much worst than countries who spent trillions and basically put their economies on cash fueled life support, that's a win.

Remember, it looks like sweden won't have a substantial second wave unlike the rest of the western world. And a second lockdown would be even more economically crippling than the first one. It would absolutely shatter economic/investment confidence.
Thanks, 'twas a typo: both Telegram and Signal numbers are monthly active users (400 vs ~20 MAU)[1].

That article also compares privacy/e2e encryption features.

[1] https://beebom.com/whatsapp-vs-telegram-vs-signal/
I don't disagree, and the same conversation happened when helicopters were first considered for SAR operations. My reading of your comment was that you dismissed as unlikely any application of the jet suits in a SAR role and I don't agree that there is no place or situation where these things make more sense than a helicopter. I was hoping to describe the parameters around where they would make sense.
The key soundbite: "33% higher than in 2016 and nearly double the most recent industry standard."

Double the industry standard begs a real response and action plan.
Insects are animals too.