skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's mostly like working for any other large European business in my experience. Lots of the FAANG status in the US seems to come from the high wage premiums and the isolated SV culture which doesn't really exist in Europe where FAANG is just located where everyone else is.
>>political goals associated with BLM have been achieved.

Perhaps financing the successful Democrat campaign by laundering BLM donations through the ActBlue portal? I don't think all the reports for the last election cycle are in yet. If not that, at least capturing data about progressive donators who could be solicited for contributions...?
Why is that direct indexing and not just buying stocks? What index are you tracking?
I've lived in Taiwan for a short period of time. I absolutely love it there and I encourage everyone here to go check it out. Furthermore, the Taiwanese people deserve the right to self-determination, and our support if they decide to go their own way. That being said, considering the enormously strategic role that Taiwan plays in electronics supply chains (e.g. TSMC, Wistron...etc), it's always been odd to me that the U.S. chooses to placate Beijing, at the risk of losing a reliable partner (Taiwan) in a strategic industry.
I think your point was made and those who are actually listening have understood it ;) I think your analogy does a good job in conveying the point that deflationary =/= valuable.

Almost ironically, having a deflationary system is something one would really like to avoid if you thought about it. It only rewards hoarding. The king, with his hoard of gold, only grow's richer by the year. As long as he is cash flow positive, the supply upon which the peasants rely on to trade shrinks and therefore the value of each grain increases.

I, for one, don't think this system is one we should be rushing to return to.
I've been listening to both sides and I dont even think people understand where this stems from and why some people want answers.

Phil Waldron's testimony is one of them https://youtu.be/rri6flxaXww?t=4924
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” When, as the capitol is being ransacked, you double down on the lie and continue to say the election was stolen, and to say you love them, you are continuing the riot and you are trying incite nationwide unrest.”

You conveniently leave out the fact that he explicitly and clearly told them to stop doing it ”go home”. Yet this was again censored by the big tech.

I don’t like Trump either, but let’s stop lying about ”doubling down” etc.
Orwell's less well-known works are some of his very best. Homage to Catalonia is superb, as are some of his essays -- Politics and the English Language I remember as an essential piece. He's a wonderful writer, especially at his more thoughtful or subtle (as compared to 1984 and Animal Farm, which are good but ultimately very on-the-nose).
If exercise hurts, and I mean the bad kind of hurt, go see a doctor. I thought I was lazy and if I just did it more I would push through, that isn't necessarily the case. A doctor can help you find exercise that works for you.
So what? One choice gives you what you want.
China's automotive industry isn't exactly considered world class.

It took Japan and South Korea several decades to develop a reputation for automotive quality, and many still swear off the quality of South Korean cars in particular.
Nice. Maybe it plays some role in the benefits of direct contact between human skin and soil.
If presidency was an asset that could be split, then yes, she could get half by divorce.
If it fails it was just a joke, but if it succeeds it was serious...

We were a few fuckups away from a pile of dead congressional representatives. Don't kid yourself.
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Overwhelmingly peaceful, massive, justified protests with scattered violence, versus highly targeted political violence instigated by the highest-ranking public official and based on an unvarnished lie. These things are the same to you?
Like it, nice and simple and useful too :-)
unrelated: I love your website design!
https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/637944-737-500-missing-i... is the thread related to this
Yeah. Linux will end up splitting the requests down to typically 128kB blocks, but they're submitted to the SSD as a batch rather than one at a time, so there's sufficient work to keep the drive properly busy. But only do this if you actually need all 100MB. If you're randomly accessing only bits and pieces of the file, it's usually better to stick with 4kB requests (or larger if your file format and access patterns make that appropriate).
I'm similar - really don't enjoy lifting (but still do it), but absolutely look forward to and enjoy running.

I've noticed a trend / correlation between people who are naturally thick / muscular tend to have that opposite disposition- they love lifting, and hate running.
Our only FAANG here is the state, and yes, this was always a big deal. Low effort, protected job, high income.

We do have the same amount of tech cartels (and other cartels), but working for one is not a big deal here. Here managers do hate engineers, so it's not high profile. And managers working for a FAANG don't have the highest respect neither. They could as well try to get into politics.
One of the most basic processes in all of nature — a subatomic particle’s transition between discrete energy states — is surprisingly complex and sometimes predictable, recent work shows

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-views-of-quan...
What is a good way to generate AVIF from PNG on Debian?

I'm trying to use avifenc (Debian testing) and getting this:

avifenc test.png test.avif
...
Encoding with AV1 codec '(null)' speed [8], color QP [0 (Lossless) <-> 10 (High)], alpha QP [0 (Lossless) <-> 0 (Lossless)], tileRowsLog2 [0], tileColsLog2 [0], 1 worker thread(s), please wait...
ERROR: Failed to encode image: No codec available
Hacker News definitely should
Great novel.
That may hurt JPEG XL adoption, which is a shame, because it's a much better format.
They weren't armed, they had to pass the secret service checks to get to the Trump rally area. Then marched straight from there to the capitol. Maybe there were some guns from others that didn't come from the rally, I don't know. I only know the only one that used a gun was the capitol police on an unarmed protestor. She was shot without warning while trying to climb through a door window.

We don't know if the bombs were planted by Trump supporters or Antifa.

This wasn't an assassination attempt but a rally that got out of hand. I watched the livestream. Did you know what most of them did when they were inside? They were in awe of the building and started taking selfies. Then most of them just stood there, unsure what to do. They even stayed inside the velvet ropes in Statuary Hall, like a bunch of tourists. Does that sounds like an armed insurrection?
Because there is absolutely no way I will be dropping $800 for a phone that has half the features of an Android device with a mature ecosystem. Raspberry Pi made many things possible because of its cost. The fact is that not many makers (or just dabblers) will spend a lot of money on e-waste.
This is a question I had been asking for several years until I came across Twtxt (the spec/format originally created by Felix, @buckket, read about it at https://twtxt.readthedocs.org) -- When I came across it I saw a bit more potential so I created (what is effectively) a multi-user client also called Twtxt over at https://twtxt.net (launched in Aug 2020). Since then we've also created a Mobile App (Goryon) available in the App Store (iOS) and Play Store (Android), we also offer free (at this time) hosting of pods (individual instances) at https://twt.social/ -- Today we have a dozen pods/instances and some ~300 users. My own pod (twtxt.net) sees around ~4M hits/month :O
Then just present the ideas as ideas about society, economics, and technology and forego the damaged title branding associated with the deaths of tens of millions and suffering of hundreds of millions more.

Why are you choosing to dilute your message by attaching it to (what a substantial chunk of the audience would see as) a repulsive logo? What would you have to gain by doing that? Puzzling...
Private companies engage in censorship only when they have a controlling interest on a form of communication, and that is the sole purview of monopolies.
Sure and when you have results of a RCT of zinc plus HCQ in prophylactic patients and publish it I will read it with great interest and if the data looks good I will be giving it to all my patients.

If, however, you want to tell me that I should be using it now, because of a proposed mechanism and theoretical benefit, by using that logic why shouldn't I be giving my patients all other vitamins/supplements/medications that have been variously proposed and have their own believers?

Aside from HCQ+zinc, what other cheap, low risk interventions do you propose be given and studied?

(edit: additional thoughts)
If you don't have any others, than I suggest you reevaluate why you think HCQ+zinc is unique (it's not). If you do, then you'll have a list of them and probably a list of reasons for each and a ranking of which are the most promising and which are the least. When you do this, it forces you to critically think about how best to rank these and how that ranking might change with evidence. Then it forces you to study the evidence.

In an above post I mentioned that I did give HCQ to patients in the hospital back in March when it was the only thing that had ANY evidence (and the evidence was poor, but it was all they had). It made no difference, and it may have caused some deaths due to QTc prolongation (personally I believe it is very safe and I've taken it for malarial prophylaxis before).

edit: (I removed a snarky line, apologies)
Just Pompeo spiking options for next admin. Taiwan has about 5-10 years of strategic space left due to semiconductor dominance. Think Pompeo hopes to setup enough friction points for hotwar in the 10-15 years, when enough semi divests from Taiwan and before Chinese military fully modernizes. 15-30 years and China will be in a position to take over Taiwan with relatively little US containment options.
Absolutely spoiled. My team does a lot of testing in production. We can find real world faults quickly and easily, roll back, and save ourselves time and effort by failing in production intentionally. It’s about as easy as it gets, haha.
Great for you!! I am considerably younger, but I am currently learning Forth, essentially based on the same principle. However, I don't have a lifetime of earnings to provide for my family yet, so I have to pretend to care about boring things for at least 25 years more.
Could you explain how/why?
https://ulysses.sonnet.io -- It's a "text input" tool I built to develop a daily writing habit and reduce stress. It makes editing text really hard so you can focus on writing first: https://sonnet.io/posts/ulysses/

So far I'm doing 800-1000 words per day on average so I'm pretty happy with it! My fluency has improved drastically.

TODO:

- I need to change the name because Ulysses is a well known writing app. (I think I'll go for homer.sonnet.io--Homer was blind, I did like the stream of consciousness aspect as it describes the UX well...)
- privacy-aware analytics (or a button you can tap if you enjoy the app). I have no idea how many people are using the app at the moment.
- package as a Vercel app/docker image (so you can host your own instance easily)

I'm also working on a small indie game called Mannerbomb. It's the opposite of Bomberman--you're a bomb trying to exit the level before exploding.
If you’ll pardon me... It’s about time..
Bitcoin boom threatens to turn it into pure gold
I used ImageMagick [0] just now to create a couple test images.

magick testimage.png testimage.avif
magick testimage.png -quality 60 testimage60.avif

[0] https://imagemagick.org/script/magick.php
You've lost me. They'd be impeaching because he incited a violent mob to raid the Capitol, which didn't happen on day 1 of his term.
Imagemagick that's packaged in Debian doesn't have avif support unfortunately. They somehow split between version 6 and version 7 which is confusing, because both are progressing in parallel but they don't have feature parity.

I can try getting version 7.
Yes, but you would not care about the information the Chinese government collects about you. Neither do they, unless you start doing political business with them. Very unlikely.
I'm not watching any more debunked conspiracy theories, thanks. They've had their numerous days in court.
I made a thing the other weekend that returns a "canonical" image for whatever you put in the subdomain, for example: https://welcome.gif.so/ or https://goat.jpg.so/

I use it to quickly put an image of a thing in slack.
> It's that the quality is worse than many other brands while being valued like they are.

It's an interesting situation certainly. You hear a lot of people comparing Teslas to Audis and BMWs to point out how poor their paint is, awful panel gaps, and how lacking their interiors are, but I've never heard anyone compare powertrain reliability or quality.

The value of a Tesla comes form the advanced telematics and EV powertrain, the later of which is more expensive to produce than what's found in an Audi or BMW.

In terms of how well the interiors hold up over time, I don't think that any of them hold up any better or worse. My 2+ year old Model 3 looks just as nice inside as the day I got it, I'd say the same of my friend's BMW 5 Series that was about 2 years old when she sold it.

In terms of maintenance costs, a Tesla requires maintenance ever 2 years at around $150 a visit. BMWs typically get free service for the first 3 years, but after that you're looking at something like $250 every 5000. So if you're expecting to keep your car for more than 3 years there's certainly value in that respect. The high reliability and low maintenance costs of Teslas also increase their resale value compared to other vehicles.

Personally, I find the interiors or Audis and BMWs to be a lot of pomp and circumstance to help their owners justify the price. There's a lot of lights, noise, and different material finishes to make them look impressive but is that better? I don't think so.
All of that fantastical story could have happened and still would not have had a diff government. You need consent from a number of powerful stakeholders including the armed forces Supreme Court and all kinds of ancillary players [banks, heavy industry, etc.]

Forcing people under duress doesn’t hold. If you walk up to a bank teller and force them to transfer a million dollars to your account while you brandish a gun, will not be a legitimate transfer and will be reversed when order is restored.

Real life is not like playing cops and robbers. It’s slightly more sophisticated than that but the media is frothing at the mouth with wild exaggeration when it fits their narrative. The CHAZ was hip and cool for all I know.

I cannot fathom how people would think a rag tag coup is realistic in any way. It does not happen that way. Successful coups have powerful interests in the background willing to bite it if it comes to that.
>> I have to admit that society works better when the gatekeepers decide what the truth is

There are people out there who know exactly what to use you for.
I've made a web editor that you can add to a web page via iframe, or link to and add parameters to the query-string, like "fork" this website or repo, send diff to email/http-post-url. And then the user can edit the web site via source or WYSIWYG or both or with live preview.

I'm not however happy about the workflow (non technical users found it too difficult). So I wonder what workflow you had in mind...
I see it's graduated from "mostly peaceful" to "overwhelmingly peaceful". The craziest part of your spin is that by applying it, you're greatly increasing the odds of actually getting it.
If Trump said one sentence that "be peaceful go home" but wrapped it in two sentences "the election was stolen" why shouldn't we assume he means the thing he says more often and ignore stuff he says less often? And he repeated "it was stolen" many times before, too. To point that out is not a censorship.
For what it's worth Apple (through Foxconn) are moving some production of iPhones to India. Samsung smartphones are all Made in Vietnam and have very good build quality.

The reason China has electronics supply chain skills is that for decades they've had massive foreign investment as companies outsource productions and do knowledge transfer through JVs (joint ventures).

For future industries this won't be the case (as its politically unpalatable and China is ageing quickly). The primacy China has in the electronics supply chain is already diminishing.
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>cannot really conceptualize tens of millions of people.

That's tens of millions of armed and angry people.
The founder's shares are an asset that can be split, but the founder's status as founder is not. The founder's ex-spouse can claim a share of their ownership in the company they founded, but not a share of the status of founder, nor corporate offices. (The CEO's ex-spouse will likely end up with a decent percentage of the stock the CEO owns, but 0% of the actual corporate office and job title of CEO.)
> The republicans have espoused a dangerous ideology that not just allows but welcomes factual untruths and a worrying disconnect from rational thought.

As if the dems didn't do the same? Let's be honest with ourselves, both extremes are very dangerous, and polarization is continuing. The far left will kill people if left to their accord: https://cdn.cnsnews.com/styles/article_big/s3/2021-01/Arthur...
> Hadza individuals are about 12 times more active than the average American or European.

I find it hard to believe that these people make 60k steps daily, on average. Even if they make 2 steps a second, thats solid 8+ hours of rather brisk walking. If they walk more leisurely (not to mention gather something), it can easily be 10-12 hours of walking, unless I'm missing something.
Nobody in the history of crypto has ever demonstrated this. Not a single person.
Sure, but if he was allowed to continue, there would be no justice system.
Tailor - Chrome Extension that give you direct access to style DevTools with your own fully custom vanilla CSS.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tailor/cigchnpekef...

When I say fully custom, I mean it: https://twitter.com/ronvoluted/status/1344629519638937602

The idea came from the fact that when you zoom into DevTools, the entire thing gets enlarged including Panel tabs, setting icons, etc. It would be great if you could just zoom the source code under Elements or the input under Console. Well now you can!

It's obviously out there for people to use already but it's half-baked because I want to improve the UI+UX, and I suppose this counts as DX too haha.
"AVIF is currently better at low image quality. JPEG XL is currently better at medium and high image qualities, including the range of image quality used in the internet and the cameras today." https://encode.su/threads/3397-JPEG-XL-vs-AVIF#:~:text=AVIF%....
But you’re allowed to be ok with one thing of poor quality and be annoyed by a different thing of poor quality.
The far left is equally bad: https://cdn.cnsnews.com/styles/article_big/s3/2021-01/Arthur...
> But I believe that Trump/Parler bans have nothing to do with economical benefits.

This doesn’t make sense to me, companies are obligated to make the most possible money for their shareholders. Otherwise their shareholders withdraw investments and invest elsewhere. Deplatforming is a money making strategy (it might succeed or it might fail but the goal is to make money).

To add more data, in Nov 2020 7 MM more “potential customers” voted for Biden compared to Trump. Additionally, the “potential customers” that voted for Biden were predominantly younger i.e. more time to purchase good and services from company X. It seems clear to me deplatforming is a medium-term and long-term financial numbers game.

> The 1964 Civil Rights Act didn't mandate equal access because of Big Restaurant or Big Bus Stop--it was because segregation was an exceedingly immoral ...

The way I see this is:

Historically we thought free market economics only applied to the monetary aspect of socio-economics. “deplatforming”/“cancel culture” seems to be the free market “solution” to social issues. It is basically the “popular vote” weighted by capital, forcing social change.

Historically social issues were dictated by one person one vote and required government regulation, and moved very slow (for many reasons, one of them being a disproportionate voting power to low population states). Perhaps we are now witnessing the efficiency of the free market to solve social issues?

Which is an interesting/ironic result, given historic Republican policy about free markets.

P.S. FWIW, I’d be happy with more regulation in this area, even though the free market “solution” is in my favor.
Doesn’t sound like Twitter at all.
> What happens if they actually take Taiwan? Or try?

A serious military alliance of countries in that don’t want to be dominated by China (again) but have been happy to take Chinese money until now.
There isn't, fact is US can contain China without Taiwan / first island chain for the foreseeable future. China can trivially take Taiwan anytime but not break through US containment until military modernization is complete. Taiwan semi advancements will only serve as security guarantor for so long. Realistically, China will take Taiwan as soon as she is able to mitigate US containment. And US needs war to contain China long term and Pompeo is setting up the conditions for one. Wait until his presidential run.
If you think it was scattered and not organized you haven't been paying attention.
95 % of black lives matter protests were peaceful. There were 10600 demonstration events which leaves us with 500 riots. A massive number.

Results:

- Worsening of race relations

- Billions of dollars in damage

- Numerous stores and businesses, predominantly owned by black and latino Americans, destroyed. Those people, the very same we were told the riots were for, had their lives ruined in the name of social justice. Or do you think insurance reimburses all the damage and in a timely fashion? Years of hard work ruined. We know from past riots it takes decades for neighborhoods to recover.

- Almost 50 people died, can't recall the exact number. I think 47

- 9 million extra Trump votes and a doubling of his latino and black vote
Ah, I didn't realize that! Looking at this [0] issue thread, it seems like the minimum version with AVIF support is v7.0.25. The suggestion to use Docker in that thread might be useful for you as well, if you are interested in a couple quick tests and are already set up for containers.

[0] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1432#issue...
Https://github.com/nelsonenzo/Tolocal - self hosted ngrok automated with terraform and wrapped in an nodejs cli to make it easy to configure and run (without knowing much about terraform)
Exactly, and both sides are guilty of that: https://cdn.cnsnews.com/styles/article_big/s3/2021-01/Arthur...
For starters, a right-wing coup that kicked off by taking outgoing-VP Pence hostage would be beyond ridiculous. Instead of own goals we'd all be using "Pence-d" as an idiom.

If they'd taken Congresspeople hostage that would have been terrorism not a coup. The mob was totally unprepared, unimaginative, achieved no strategic outcomes and half of them are going to be in jail from now to forever. This is a coup in the same way that the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone was a succession. It is clueless protestors playing around.