skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quantizing to <= 256 colors will let you use a single byte per pixel, but there are other techniques like Block Truncation Coding that work well with 8bit images to go down to 2 bits per pixel or lower. Even at 2 bits per pixel, this is still quite big as raw data, so you typically will want to use compression on top such as RLE, DEFLATE, etc.

I’m currently exploring this for my own applications, compressing large 8bit sprite sheet images, and it’s producing much smaller images than most palette based image formats (GIF, WebP, PNG, etc). Follow my progress here:
https://twitter.com/mattdesl/status/1346048282494177280?s=21
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All of that 4chan meme stuff is literal nonsense though if you read any of the follow ups to those ideas. The only thing they’re getting right is the rioting aspect.
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The last sentence sounds like many politicians in my state if Oregon. Voters are to dumb to be able to vote. Point in case the voters of Oregon have multiple times voted (overwhelmingly) to not issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. The legislature this year voted to give illegal aliens driver’s licenses. Is this not a prime example of tyranny?
The unfortunate truth is that many people do successfully commit suicide in federal penitentiary. The Epstein "truthers" are firmly in the same group as the JFK truthers, moon landing denialists, and flat earthers.
Sadly asset inflation is not part of the inflation calculation.

Also there's a reason besides the technology's deflationary effect - it's the wealth inequality. If the printed money doesn't end up in the hands of the majority of people (i keep hearing real wages are stagnant), then there won't be inflation in the common goods that make the large chunk of CPI.
Except the "working" part of it was already done in the UK here. It's literally stated in the first part of the article.

And again, Italy has mass-imported Chinese immigrants to perform its textiles (and other industries') labor. Just because Italy is the "center for X" doesn't mean Italians are the ones doing X.
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We know that having a dedicated sleeping space contributes to the quality of sleep, but there are no studies on the size and boundaries required to create that space.

Using the bed as a workspace means you're bringing your work with you to bed. You completely erase any possibility of separation between workspace and sleep space.

With only one bedroom available, your only way to assign a dedicated sleeping space is to use your bed to sleep and a desk to work.

Throwing in some anecdotal opinion, I live in a studio style open apartment and have no issue sleeping well in my bed even if I can see my workspace. I however had issues sleeping back when I lived in a smaller apartment and used the bed as my main computer space.

Is it objectively better or worst? There's no study backing either theories. However, I believe that even working on a small desk next to your bed would be better than working directly from the bed. Otherwise you'd be effectively training yourself to think about work while lying down in the comfort of your sleeping area, instead of training yourself to fall asleep and relax.
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Pretty spot on. I do wish there was some suggestions from the author.

There are some cool gyms that are pretty well known in bodybuilding that stand out from the LA Fitness types such as Muscle Beach in Venice. Absolutely iconic gym, along with Gold's Venice. Das Gym in Austria is a body builders dream, along with the O2 gyms in Kuwait.
This is actually the use case I've been trying to get to for some time. Unfortunately, I need it to "just work" to get my non-techy friends interested, otherwise they'll go right back to Discord.

Like I said, it's close, I just don't think it's there yet.
Aye, and while still not the whole picture, the Steam Hardware Survey[1] reports AMD as down from August.

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/processormfg/
Ugh. Uuuggghhhh. Another "this is huge, if true" speculation article.

So we know nothing about his motives, but "anti-5g" fits the bill, so let's write a long thought provoking piece assuming that is fact.

Eventually, it won't matter what his motives were. If we keep writing speculative pieces like these, they simply become fact in the public eye.

> ... If true, it shines a light on the longstanding need for [buzzword buzzword blah blah legislation blah]

You don't need to understand this guy's motives to shine a light on this. Heck, if his motives were, "I really enjoyed Breaking Bad, and thought it was a cool way to go out", we already have enough justification to shore up infrastructure.

Speculating on the motive only serves to spread FUD about "far right extremists". That's really not something we need in today's political atmosphere. Let's investigate, sure, but until then, we don't need to know what it was too build more resilient infrastructure.
The "few wealthy executives" are the ones ensuring that the work of the bus drivers, programmers, salespeople, and janitors is rewarded with cold, hard cash instead of empty promises and platitudes. How many $250k+ TC employees can be sustained by a company that refuses to do the "dirty work" of the DoD, that takes an ethical stance against the very anti-privacy technology that drives the profitability behind their inflated salaries?

"Having your cake and eating it, too" barely fits here, it's more like showing up to a fancy steakhouse and demanding that their best cut stop coming from poor innocent cows. If you want to be a vegan, you're free to go do that; yelling at the evil chefs, butchers, and farmers to stop hurting cows while they prepare the sirloin you're paying them for is just absurd.

If you want to work in a mission-focused environment, you can join the rest of us who took a pay cut to work on projects that let us go to sleep at night with that warm and fuzzy feeling. If you're not willing to give up the blood money, then it goes without saying that There Will Be Blood
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I would agree if the lighting settings were stored on device across the board. I went the route of not paying more for hardware without RGB and am regretting it 6 months later. Disabling the RGB on my GPU persists across OS re-installs as well as driver updates, but my RAM and motherboard's lights require their own program each constantly running in the background in order to NOT have a light show on at all times. Furthermore, when turning on the computer all of the lights are on in full rainbow until these programs launch and ultimately turn off the lights.

Because of the additional friction involved I do not agree with the just turn off rgb mentality many in the hobby push
No matter what revenue they generate, I find it hard to argue that a janitor at Google deserves more than a janitor somewhere else. Presumably they are all doing the same kind of work. Doesn't mean Google shouldn't pay their janitors more, just that they shouldn't have to.

True about Google creating that culture themselves, I don't pity them. I just reject the sentiment in general.
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Metal Zone? Come on, have some decency. Make it a tube screamer next time.
lol. no. no way. I would guess that about 2/3 of our nurses could give you the 8th grade explanation of dna - "a sperm and an egg each contribute half of each chromosome and that is the instruction book on how to make every cell blah blah blah". rna, translation and transcription. I don't think a single one would know. They need to know the common drugs in their field, how to take vitals, when to raise the red flag to a physician. That's it. That is all still super important, if they don't use it at least once a year, they're not going know.
I’ve thought some more about this, and I think their platform is coherent if you assume their goal is power.

Economic trouble and poverty help the left by making them the savior upon whom everyone is dependent. After all, it was the Great Depression that gave FDR’s New Deal a free pass in the first place — and that really was the beginning of the modern Democratic Party’s economic platform.

They want people to be poor. That’s how they get the majority of their votes.
That should be pretty obvious to you.

Someone you hire to redo your kitchen isn't employed by you, they're employed by their employer, where everything we talked about makes sense. That's why there's a distinction between an employer-employee relationship and a contracting relationship.

They of course get a say in how your kitchen is done: if it's not up to code, or dangerous, they absolutely have a say. And frequently. When I redid my kitchen my GC pointed out all these things to me and modified I my plans.

> If you work for a company and you feel they are making bad decisions and perhaps your job is in peril (because the company may go down), it is high time to look for a new job.

You're re-stating how it is today, but there's no reason it need to be this way, and it fails to meet the fiduciary duty to the company and its shareholders.

> And again, who then decides what is or is not a bad decision? Courts will get to decide on economic decisions. But lawyers have studied law, not economics. How does that make sense?

You don't need a law degree to know harassment is wrong. In fact mandatory training is part of your, wait for it, fiduciary duty. You don't need a degree to recognize bad management.
How was classifying homosexuality as disease supposed to be good for patient? That particular change seems to be good for them.
I imagine there are no upper bounds to the growth of satellite communication capabilities other than physical limits. Extrapolating a few decades at current growth rates out the network be enormous.
>Very few people actually "play".

I don't think I've ever met anyone who collects but doesn't actively play these games. However I've met tons of people who play casually and don't really collect.
Interesting, I "dither" (shift the telescope around between photos) my astrophotos to go from noise to less noise - funny seeing it go from image to noise. Does anyone have any papers on dithering + image integration to go in this direction? always been interested in knowing more about it.
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My Mother is being sucked into this whole QAnon, Covid, 5G conspiracy universe. I dont know what to do about it. She is sounding more and more unhinged every time I talk to her. I am thinking about somehow getting her IP blocked by YouTube, but I am not entirely sure about how the best way would be. Maybe I could run LOIC against YouTube from my laptop next time I visit her, but I am not sure it is enough to get one blocked.
What are the reasons why we can’t have a very hard 4-week long Chinese style total shutdown?
In Europe, EUROPASS is not uncommon: https://europa.eu/europass/en/create-europass-cv
Slack and the others have different contractual guarantees and different regulatory environments. Comparing them is not really fair because the reality is that these other services probably just lose tons of messages and slack/teams can't do that! They have to have better guarantees.
>plenty of brilliant Chinese people who might not like that

And a almighty Party who exactly wants that.
This made me chuckle. Having been an outsourced technical partner for a number of marketing agencies, I completely feel your pain.
It’s a prime example of a republic instead of a true democracy.

Tyranny would be if you couldn’t vote them out of office.
I disagree on the Electoral College -- it's a system designed so that votes aren't equal in value. If you live in California, your presidential vote is worth less than a vote in Wyoming[0]. Similarly, the cap on the size of the House of Representatives also means that larger states will generally see less representation per capita than smaller states. (Note: I'm leaving the Senate out, given that it's designed to assign two votes per state without regard to population).

A referendum is great at giving legislators or executives a priority -- my home state of New Jersey has been working on marijuana legalization for years, but it's largely stalled in the statehouse. The 2020 election featured a ballot question on legalization, and the overwhelming "yes" (more than 2/3 of the electorate supports the move) helped kick off another round of legislation (that, in a sadly predictable pattern, seems to be stuck once again).

[0] https://www.axios.com/electoral-college-by-vote-per-capita-4...
This could be a good submission but right now it's a follow-up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632892, which is already on the front page. In such cases it's best for the auxiliary link to appear in the comments, not as a second submission on the front page. This is because frontpage space is the scarcest resource we have, and because trying to avoid repetition is a key aspect of optimizing for curiosity.

Here's a thwack of links to past explanations:

On follow-up posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Frontpage scarcity: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Curiosity withers under repetition: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Optimizing for one thing: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Can't be predicted from any sequence: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
The whole point of unions is that no one is subject to the vagaries of summary termination. But don't worry, I'm not holding my breath on this.

But the left/right pendulum swings both ways. It would also protect people from the next kerfuffle over Cancel Culture.

People should have the right to not be threatened with the removal of their livelihood for arbitrary reasons. I mean, there's nothing unreasonable in that position, and its merits can be examined outside of the left/right lens.
Can someone elaborate on the differences between the numbers reported by the gov.uk website NOIDS[1] (notifications of infectious diseases) versus the numbers reported another gov.uk website[2] ? Looking at NOIDS's weekly reported COVID-19 cases from Week 52[3], I only see 85 new COVID-19 cases. Whereas when I look at the coronavirus.data.gov.uk website, the numbers soar and continue shoot through the roof.

What's going here? What's the NOIDS UK government website even reporting and why are the numbers significantly lower?

[1] NOIDS - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/notifiable-diseas...
[2] https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
[3] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Well, we only need to look at the last time there was a mass vaccination drive. New York City had a smallpox outbreak and administered millions of doses in record time.

https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1345407042769580032

The city was able to mobilize hundreds to thousands of distribution points, call up city workers (who the Fed has no power over) and run vaccine administration 24/7.

The state knows more about their interior, they have more resources on the ground and more control over schools and other public buildings (libraries, community centers, etc), more ability to use private businesses if needed, and control the local health infrastructure.
> but one meme describes how to sabotage phone and fiber lines in ways that are the most difficult to detect and costly to repair

You don't even need a shitty meme. In countries with pole fiber, take a chainsaw and a motorcycle. In countries without, the telco manhole covers are marked and not secured at all against intruders.
I imagine it's cheaper if you do most of your sales in continental Europe and just sell some units in the UK. Would make more sense to just have one logistics center even if it results in some items being shipped back and forth.
> the field does not fully understand itself

> This sounds crazy but they should really be looking back to the roles/practices of priests, even shamans, just to try and get some semblance of an idea of what works and what doesn't

These things are exactly what psychoanalysis did and has always done. That kind of historical and reflexive investigation appears in plenty of Freud's writings (as well as later theorists, like Lacan, who drew heavily on Levi-Strauss's anthropological work).

Too bad that psychoanalysis takes shit for being "unverifiable" and "unfalsifiable" (as if what we currently have doesn't suffer from the exact same flaws, which I believe are inherent to any study of mental phenomena).
And you have about as much leverage in shaping the union contract as you do in negotiating your individual employment contract, so where's the win?
That's like asking "what's south of the south pole?"
Bitcoin is first and foremost about power and control. You can receive and spend it without anyone's permission and even without anyone knowing that you have it. It's value increases as those in power are trying to impose greater and greater controls over our lives.