skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm seeing the same thing in Seattle. Private security has become MUCH more common all over the city in the past few years. I even see apartment buildings hiring 24/7 private security that patrols the building and the street around the building as an amenity.
So I create a thread with a custom stack which is an allocated buffer. At the top, I write a sequence of bytes in some order. Then I periodically read the top of the stack to see if the stack is getting close to overflow. Meanwhile, the thread code is also addressing the same store.
You probably can make software of unknown pedigree out of it.
That is a way better solution, although APNG didn't help much for my test in terms of data, a 1.8mb gif was converted to a 1.5mb apng, not even worth my time to google gif to apng converter.

Webp worked well though, resulting in a 300kb webp. Might try to start using it

edit: nevermind, webp doesn't work on whatsapp.
Any reason why you neglected to mention one particular incident in Washington DC?
Try to imagine the police were run as a business, and think about how things would be different.

Immense savings could be had just by realizing that you don’t need to send an officer (fully loaded cost $400k/yr) in a $75,000 car to drive to the scene of a non-violent crime to fill out a form.

Defunding the police could easily result in lower costs and better service to citizens, if (and only if) we can get the authoritarian right to stop aggressively defending waste, and we actually work to improve the situation.
Seems ignorant of currency-free or low-currency lifestyles, barter culture, gift culture, volunteerism, etc.
What the hell kind of argument is this? This sounds like what the mafia would say if they were in control of the smartphone ecosystem. The free market isn't setting the fees that Apple and Google are charging because consumers aren't aware of them (and developers are prohibited from making them aware). It's a racket.
Did you talk to your neighbor ever? Or did you just dream of intimidating them while fearing them without meeting them?

(And you weren't afraid of potential fallout from escalating things to intimidation either way? What if they hire a BIGGER person to go knock on your door?)
> Renting is a hassle, and its cheaper to buy if you need to rent more than a couple times a month.

... how expensive is renting a vehicle there ? here in france it's like 40-50€ for a day
I love me some SQLite but that post was worthless.

Edit: flagged for using "worthless"? It tells us that SQLite has WAL mode and that should be enabled if using it in production.

New version:

I love me some SQLite but that article merely points out that WAL mode is a thing and should be used. Is that really news or valuable to this community?
I took a 5 1/2 month break to recover from burnout and find a job I didn't hate. After a couple of months or so, my brain stopped associating my skills to my previous job, and I was able to learn some new stuff that paid off later on. They key to recovery for me was finding that sweet spot where I was being productive again without putting too much pressure on myself.
> Makes me wonder if eventually in the future there would be some moral prerogative to somehow tame the natural world

That would get at the core of the absolute vs relative morality debate and I don't think humanity will ever settle on that. It's far more likely that a "Prime Directive"-like non-interference law comes into effect instead. The natural world is cruel but heavily interdependent; as long as we assume that each creature or plant has a right to exist and reproduce, all we can do is eliminate our own effects on ecosystems. Humans are nature's worst transmission vector for pathogens, invasive species, habitat destruction, etc and there's little evidence we'd do anything but make the suffering a lot worse.
AT&T and Verizon should get a 30% cut.

The electric company should get a 50% cut.

UPS, FedEx, and DHL should get a 72% cut.

...

Oh my god, this is fucking stupid.

In this entire chain, the only innovation and service being provided is by the app creator. All the dues to the other companies are already paid. The fucking OS vendor has nothing to do with anything other than enforcing their draconian bloodsucking rules.
So if all it takes is 4 miners to pull together - and that's never happened - but it would take 70k individuals with Proof of Stake - wouldn't that make it much less likely to happen???
If you have the funds and you're certain you don't want to be at your current role, I couldn't recommend it more.
It was perhaps the best thing I've ever done for myself. I came out of that period not only with a plethora of new skills, but with a greater understanding of my resilience and capability, a more refined understanding of what I wanted out of life that enabled me to choose a job rather than take whatever would put food on my table, and I also ended up with a deepened relationship with my loved ones.

I left a job of roughly 5 years with nothing lined up because the workplace was abusive and devastated my mental and physical health, and I felt I couldn't wait any more.

I was overconfident at how quickly I'd find another role and anticipated a max of 3 months unemployed. I quit shortly before the economic impact of the pandemic, so I wound up being off for 9 months between my old job and my current job.

The downsides were that I had to worry about my finances more, that my self-confidence took a temporary hit (I realized I tied my sense of self-worth to my employment), and that I constantly felt like I should be doing more.

The best preparation I made for myself, which echoes other comments here, was imposing the discipline of structure on myself, and giving myself actionable, manageable weekly goals to keep my forward sense of momentum going, even if that was something like "cook a dish I've never cooked before."

Edit: I would also add that it's important to manage your expectations. If you have a role to return to after, or if you know with certainty you will, this is less of a factor. If you don't, even in a great tech labor market, you should anticipate the possibility of not immediately landing the role you want and plan for that accordingly.
I’ve used hue bulbs for 5+ years now and haven’t had a single one burn out yet. Granted I got them for the smart capabilities but they sure seem to last a very long time.
I do agree that the taxi and gas station ads suck. It’s very early days for this, so things are likely to change.
Jesus, that’s chilling.

> “Subscription law enforcement service” [0]

[0]: https://losangelesprofessionalsecurity.com/
The obvious solution to this is to eradicate all life. I don't think that's a viable option in the long run.

It can't and shouldn't be our responsibility to end all suffering, rather we should take responsibility for the suffering we cause.
... sure, but most french platforms / shops have media from everywhere
> every time I belched black smoke

If you've got visible smoke coming out of a diesel (in any color), something's wrong with the engine.
You're correct. It should be illegal to prevent apps from breaking down where the fees go. This is truly anti-consumer behavior.
But in the particular case, the discussion centers around a matter of opinion on "should trust be extended to this particular set of statements from a known deciever".

Throwing around accusations of spreading misinformation to further your opinion in an argument makes it harder to call out real misinformation.
Sounds like a tradeoff between processing time and image clarity / cost, same as computational photography in smartphones. That looks like a win to me, hopefully we will see innovations in this area so cheap microscopes with great resolving power becomes available to the masses.
Could humans really destroy all life on Earth?
I don’t follow these things at all, but it seems we may be in a bit of a bad romance with authority figures. These total strangers act in perfectly predictable ways given the positions we’ve handed them, and we call it betrayal.
I think the punishment system described elsewhere in this thread solves the issue of existing validators running both chains. If that’s correct you’d have to buy more coins to stake to “attack” the cheaper chain (which is much like renting hash power to attack a PoW chain).
Are you implying fiat can't coexist with Bitcoin? Why does it have to be one or the other?

The way I see it, Bitcoin's mission is to simply hold the fiat currencies of this world in check. Nothing less, nothing more.

If all of the sudden we stop debasing, Bitcoin's raison d'être is largely gone.
It ends up going to the OCR (Office of Civil Rights). They will independently verify whether or not there are problems. If there are, the organization who owns the site will be contacted and made aware of the concerns. They will get an opportunity to correct the problems.

And yes, you certainly could audit your competitors products and force them down this path. I'm not sure that is a winning move, though, as all you are doing is forcing them to build a stronger product.
> Note that Obama added comments to this fire this week. If this is disinformation and long con, e.g. by a spooked aerospace industry and military industrial complex looking for a new line of revenue, it is a very long con and one with a scale of duplicity, or complicity, inconsistent with the professionalism and careers and understood integrity of a lot of increasingly highly ranked people.

Perhaps its time to start doubting the integrity and/or professionalism of these people, rather than basic physics.

Even if conspiracy theories/government long-cons are not extremely likely (though the government, military and intelligence agencies have a huge documented record of intentionally bold-faced lying to the public, such as the fabricated WMD Irak claims), they are still far and away more likely than physics defying alien spacecraft.

Furthermore, even in the most captivating readings of these events, its obvious that these people have no clue what these phenomena actually are, so there is still no reason to actually follow the story other than morbid curiosity.
Presumably law enforcement did want to detain this man, given that they actually ended up locating him themselves and detaining him, and the article is just carefully glossing over this aspect to push a narrative about dangerous big tech companies hunting down innocent people because they've just randomly decided those people are criminals. Like, if they had any evidence that Citizen were responsible for the police's belief that he should be arrested rather than vice-versa, I have a feeling that would be really prominently mentioned in the article.
Understanding that:

(a) Freenode ltd had access to the domain

(b) Freenode ltd should have access to the domain

(c) Freenode ltd is the rightful owner of the domain

are three very different matters. How often do you whois your employer's domain?

Otherwise, if you've just been appointed leader of an operational staff and believe your organisation owns everything involved, it doesn't seem unreasonable to start introducing basic infosec practices around limiting access (or if it was caused by mandating security measures like 2fa, as mentioned elsewhere in thread)
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Wav2vec Unsupervised (wav2vec-U) is a framework for building speech recognition
1 in 200 Men Are Direct Descendants of Genghis Khan (2010)
I agree with you and the U-Haul idea makes loads of sense, but dear heavens are those unpleasant places. I wish there was a business that was like.... U-Haul, except nice although I'm sure it would cost 3x as much.

I'm sure the experience varies somewhat by location but it usually involves some combination of:

- very long lines, particularly on weekends. understandable, but adds hours and stress

- the vehicle you "reserved" online last week so you could do that job today? yeah, it's not really reserved. it may or may not be available; they "overbook" because they expect a certain number of cancellations. again this is understandable and something you see in a lot of industries, but yuck.

- lots of bogus-ish fees like "cleaning fees".

That all said, I own a home and have never felt the need for a pickup truck. I do fine with a hatchback and a roof rack.
Firewood in the boot will do this I’m sure. There are a lot of big trees near me that like to fall over. Putting large sections in the boot to process at home can easily overload the car so much that the wheels at the front start to lift. You turn and nothing happens.
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I doubt that will ever happen in America. America is way too organized and professional of a government to ever let things get that out of hand.

This sort of thing happens a lot in Latin America though. One situation sort of like what you're describing is Columbia in the 90s. The cartels throughly corrupted the government, so vigilante groups like Los Pepes[1] formed to attack the cartels, though they may have mostly just been fronts for other cartels. Los Pepes alumni went to form AUC, which was the semi-government endorsed death squad in Columbia at the time and became its own narcotrafficking syndicate over time[2]. AUC was eventually shut down and the leaders arrested for atrocities.

The main left-wing guerrilla movement (FARC) also eventually shut down its military activities[3]. The huge economic disaster of Venezuela right next door might have weakened the appeal of left-wing revolution. I've heard that Columbia is a pretty nice place to visit these days where in the 90s it was one of the most dangerous countries on earth.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Pepes

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Self-Defense_Forces_of_...

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Armed_Forces_of_...
From Peter Thiel, of course.
Imagine posting this in 2018 under an article about coronaviruses in bats.
And if you are looking for a simple way to make sure your sqlite database is replicated, check out litestream

https://litestream.io/

It continuously streams your changes to an an S3 compatible service.
I have done this 3 times previously (~1.5 years) and am 7 months into my current stint. It can be very monotonous and requires a great deal of self-discipline. I am fortunate that my spouse earns enough for our needs.

-- My Story --

For my first two times, I had my next role lined up but took 2-3 months before starting. I spent this time travelling and learning/researching.

For my third time, I took a year long sabbatical offered by my employer. I pursued my own research and spent a lot of time with my child.

Right now, I am 7 months into a 2? year stint to pursue my own research and augment my child's learning.

-- Some Advice --

0. Honestly ask yourself if this is for you. If you have issues with self-actualizing, budgeting, socializing, etc, then maybe this isn't the right time in your life for this.

1. Try to be clear about why you want to do this. The time goes by quickly and it can be helpful to periodically reorient towards what is meaningful.

2. Don't expect too much from yourself. The time goes by quickly and you will make yourself miserable if you have some perfect dream of what this time should look like.

3. Be prepared for boredom and loneliness. Your friends are likely still working and there is going to be a huge disparity between your free time versus theirs.
> You appreciate the wonderful world you do business and grow by innovating on top of the platform

And what happens when "the platform" demands 95% of the revenue? Just go to one of the hundreds of competing platforms? You can debate the empirics of a particular market intervention, but your statement makes sense only in a world of perfectly competitive platforms.
I've been privileged enough to take several extended times off between things and they've always been very important and meaningful for me. I wrote about one period like this when I switched from a technology to a psychotherapy career: http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/

I think having the time and space to decompress, heal, and explore is really important and our culture doesn't really appreciate that fully. Whenever I told people I was taking time off they'd always say "oh, are you going to travel? what are you going to do?" and I always had to tell them — no, I didn't have a plan but I knew it was what I needed.

In terms of advice I'd say you should expect a period of at least a few weeks of decompression — laying around, watching TV, socializing with friends, not doing much of anything. This is something that they talk about in the homeschooling/unschooling communities after a child leaves school — it seems to take a bit of doing "nothing" to shake off some of the conditioning of schooling, and I've found the same to be true for jobs and careers and other transitions.

After that initial decompression, I'd say that many people struggle structuring their time when not in a setting that structures their time for them. This makes a lot of sense since most people have almost never had unstructured time. So I'd start trying to find ways to structure your time.

Good luck!
This seems to be the ideal occasion to show off my latest pet project: https://icebergcharts.com
I am approaching one year off right now, and will probably take all of 2021 off. I really love it, but I'm also very introverted. I am working on a dream project, basically before I die I want to build something cool, that's important to me.

I think the most important thing is keep an eye on your runway, and if/when you need to get back into the work force, make sure you're still on top of whatever it is you do. For me, building this project has enabled me to stay in touch with tech trends in my field.

We are getting our health insurance through the US marketplace. If you are also American, the recent covid relief bill dropped the prices of plans by a good deal. Our premium is now 30% cheaper.
Making your website and apps usable to the highest number of people possible, and of course not opening yourself up to litigation. I've been on the receiving end and it is not fun!

A lot of accessibility best-practices also benefit practically all of your users; keyboard navigation, proper contrast, etc. are a net positive to everyone.
Cars go in for service. They can be updated then, with the mechanic pressing the "write enable" switch.
> human average body temperature has been declining in recent years

What? More details and citations are needed.
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The video is about effluents form the pharma industry. The scale dwarfs any abuse by both human patients and animal farming. I have modified my comment above because I had used the wrong word.
Here is my hypothesis. Our body temperature is expensive and evolutionary not 'stable'. In the past, it would make sense that in environments with lower bacterial threats, the group would select for lower body temperature in order to preserve energy.

In order to do that, individuals with too low a body temperature would be removed from the group due to infections. This would create a balanced system between body temperature (energy expenditure) and bacterial immunity.

With the development of antibiotics, this changed. The previous bottom of the group is not culled anymore, removing the barrier of the imbalance. Therefore, the group is 'safely' selecting for lower body temperatures.
Will bankers embrace sensors under their desks when they return to work?
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> And I love that it doubles as a Powerwall...

That is a really cool feature. I think for extended outages (which we do have) a propane generator fed by a big tank is great. But most outages are a day or less, so having that all ready to go in your truck is really cool.
I’m not saying that they can, or even should.

I’m simply making the point that property crime may not be going down.

Perhaps people have a valid concern about crime independent of trends that Spurs a desire for these types of services.

Maybe this isn’t the solution, but I think it is unfair to call people batshit because they are tired or scared of having their property broken into, even if it is less than the 90’s
Sweden Says PCR Tests: Cannot Be Used to Determine Whether Someone Is Contagious
I was surprised to read that Obama has even entertained these UAPs with a statement.

That really shows evidence for a completely different conspiracy theory going back at least 2000 years. Simple bread and circuses. And this is part of the latter.
The thing with PoS is that when you control >51%, you better not mess up, or you will soon own >51% of nothing.

With PoS the people who have the most control also have the most incentive to keep the value up for everyone involved.

PoW is not like that, since the one who has the most computational power doesn't necessarily own the most coins.

Multiple governments in the world, and multiple means of payment and value stores seems like the most robust to me.
I'm new to trucks and Ford always acts like their aluminum frame is superior to a steel one. Can you share details on the differences?
Both things can perfectly be true. I see no contradiction here.

It is just a matter of native nuances being difficult to understand for non-natives of any language...

And also the fact that English is the language most used for international meetings anywhere in the world.
My money is on the same endocrine disupters that are lowering testosterone levels, lowering sperm counts, and likely increasing obesity issues.
Don't think any acquisition is needed for that.
Same with Big Foot.
When comparing predictions from long-standing physics with the vague insinuations of intelligence officers, you have to be extraordinarily gullible to believe the insinuations rather than the physics.
This is the only explanation I've read so far that makes any sense, thanks!
I responded to this above but again just for you: land is ALREADY physically limited. the whole /point/ of cryptocurrencies was to provide the same type of scarcity artificially for the digital realm. my point is, the fact that you can create additional coins and split the liquidity between the two means that the task has failed. my further claim is that the even the attempt is futile. academically interesting, practically (for this given purpose) futile.
This should come with pre-trained templates to create new templates via voice commands ;)
This is what I got from that article:

>In other words, the regulations put in place to get better mileage out of vehicles also led to an increase in truck size. “There was kind of an incentive to maybe stretch the wheelbase a couple of inches and set the tires maybe an inch [farther] apart, because you get a bigger platform and slightly smaller target,” said Edmunds. “Now, the bigger vehicle would be heavier and might use more fuel, so it’s not as easy as just doing that. But certainly there was a feeling that if they did need to make it bigger to accommodate more passengers, the fuel economy target wouldn’t be onerous. They could do it.”

That statement is not very convincing that the regulations lead to bigger trucks.
Google translation:

The PCR technology used in tests to detect viruses cannot distinguish between viruses capable of infecting cells and viruses that have been neutralized by the immune system and therefore these tests cannot be used to determine whether someone is contagious or not. RNA from viruses can often be detected for weeks (sometimes months) after the illness but does not mean that you are still contagious.
The exception is RI's Andrew Szydlo. His lectures are… well, kind'a nuts. Too entertaining to be soporific.
That's the anarcho-capitalist security model, isn't it?
Ah yes the standard vacationed too long safety net.

There's unemployment and welfare for those who need it, not SWEs that don't want to work.

Don't work safety nets into your plans, they are for people in need, you are taking away finite resources from people who need them if you use social programs when you are able to work.