skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I followed his unusual email instructions to order something and got no response.

So a week later, I called twice a day for three days and he didn't answer the phone. His answering machine says he'll return the call, but he never did.

The next week I got him on the phone and he wouldn't sell me the item I wanted unless I also bought some other things I don't need. It's not like I was trying to get a deal, or free shipping, or something. I just didn't want to feel cheated.

I ended up buying a cheap Chinese knock-off part online.
I used abine and then created my own, because I wanted it simple, and their offering got a bit bloated with those other services.
Check it out with your own eyes with the most recent comparison site for WebP, AVIF and JPEG XL:

https://storage.googleapis.com/demos.webmproject.org/webp/cm...

Most comparison links posted here are to older (almost a year old) versions that don't reflect the current state of encoding. Both JPEG XL and AVIF have improved tremendously.
Cities offer many opportunities to socialize outside of work. Especially when you’re wfh and can go out and mingle with people as needed.
HEIC is in general better than JPEG (as a codec; not in terms of interoperability), but the way Apple does HEIC, I strongly suspect that JPEG is actually a better choice. Your files will of course be larger, but the HEIC will be a bit overcompressed compared to the JPEG: it will have some blurring/smearing artifacts that the JPEG will not have.

The reason is that they do fast hardware HEIC encoding at relatively aggressive quality settings in order to get the file size savings they want to boast about. They claim the quality to be the same, but that's not actually true. It is a lower quality.

One advantage of HEIC though is that it can also contain the depth map (in 'Portrait mode'), which I assume gets lost when you use JPEG. This is the information that gives a rough separation of foreground and background, so you can later do effects like applying bokeh to the background only.
i don't think your memory is playing tricks. from all these new formats, only PNG has really caught on yet. i don't think jpegxl will be adopted any faster.
It makes some sense that you want to have pedestrians crossing as fast as possible.

It's not an offense in my country. It is also not a term you learn in school. So when I was in the US for the first time, and had a policeman shouting "No Jaywalking", I had no idea what he meant.
I remember a similar rationale for why Neanderthals died it. Their larger size meant they needed to stay closer to sources of fresh water which prevented them from traveling to the most favorable environments.
My understanding of insurance was that they don’t double the premium vs risk as per the article.

Traditionally it’s much closer to money in equals payouts. But because they have hundreds of billions in funds sitting in a float (required by regulations), they earn interest on the float by putting it in low interest (safe) markets such as bonds. And only a few percent premium on the actual insurance delta.
Visualizing the Cost of Team Building with the Tuckman Model
The World Wildlife Fund for Nature’s Poaching War Is Killing Innocent People
The World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) works directly with paramilitary forces to fight poaching across Africa and Asia.
OSMAnd doesn’t always have routing limited to a few hundred kilometers. If one is cycle-touring, then the Brouter engine plugin for OSMAnd can be installed and that generates pretty quickly very long-distance routes.

But with regard to planning long car journeys, there is always the option of generating the route using one of the several OSM-based routing engines on the web, then downloading a GPX file, opening it in OSMAnd, and telling OSMAnd that is the route you want to follow.
As a developer I don't care how you implement your API. What I want is.

- Great documentation

- A library I can import i.e. cargo install, npm install etc etc.
Most people will want visual feedback on the thing they write on, e.g. tablet or whiteboard.
...that must be the delivery of ufoporno I ordered in good'ol devonian times :)
I was thinking this; pottery is one of the oldest recognisable technologies, at approximately thirty thousand years old.
Automated Data Lineage Simplifies FRTB Regulatory Compliance
There is a big difference between carrying weight on or back and carrying it inside your body.
Should motorways be shown first at zoom level 3 or 4? Some countries will look cluttered with them at zoom 3, but they're useful for very long route planning.

Should railways be feint and almost invisible (like Google Maps) or dark (like the OpenStreetMap default theme)? In many countries, they're very useful even for pedestrian navigation, "turn right after the railway bridge" etc, but I assume in the USA they're considered clutter.

What points of interest should be shown first, major tourist attractions or landmarks, or large shops?

Should gardens be green (almost everyone), or do we just ignore them and leave them grey (Google Maps)?

There are a lot of decisions that go into designing a map, even using Open Street Map data.
Yes. This is how feudalism works.
Towing a Tesla at 70 MPH replenishes battery at fast charger rates
Sure. Also you hydrate your whole body so all the processes that need water have water. And then you can last some time without water(without perceived negative effect), but I do prefer to always have water around.
Basically you'll get your stuff when you get it, and not before.

Maybe don't sell things to people until you have them in your hands? Seems like basic inventory management.
Not sure why you're downvoted. This is a good point.

Perhaps they are hiking for extended distances without water where no matter how much you chug, it won't be enough?
In the U.S. we have an emerging cultural convention that someone who believes that they are a different gender should be treated as if they were that gender. I believe that is generally a positive thing, though it can be taken too far with biological males competing as females, and the removal of true female-only spaces.

Should we do the same with people who have the puppy pregnancy delusion? Accept their viewpoint and wish them luck, rather than attempting to dissuade them? I suppose in both situations it should be case by case, offering help where the psychological stresses become unmanageable.
Ex-NASA scientist imprisoned for ‘long-running deception’ working in China
Good list. I think that I own all published Common Lisp books, and most Prolog and Smalltalk books. I prefer reading books to excess time browsing the web and social media. Including non-technical books, I would be embarrassed to admit how much time I spend reading every week.

A self plug: you can get free PDF/ePub/Kindle versions of my Common Lisp book on my personal web site (https://markwatson.com)
With pleasure! Although my main recommendations are "analog" musicians, which is of course is a misnomer since most of the tone generation chain is digital, except for some vibrating strings and vocal cords!

There's ortopilot who is perhaps the best musician I have found on twitch. His studio setup is absolutely stunning, both for its audio quality and the visual appeal.

Another one I've discovered recently is EmmaMcGann whose studio is also visually stunning. Definitely worth a look and listen, too!

I also like SydHeresy although that stream is more focused on repairing digital music gear, with the occasional modular synth live show.

Then there is TheTangerineClub. Absolutely amazing music skills with a decent studio setup.

German-speaking folk might hop over to SvenDorau who has a nice studio, too.

Happy watching! and don't blame me for the hours spent listening to those guys play ;)
Why? If you don't make any money you wouldn't pay any taxes. If you make a fortune you pay some taxes.
What would be even more amazing, is that browsers would compress / convert formats on upload. Especially video. It's stupid to upload gigabytes of raw video to a server which then compresses it to a few megabytes.
Put some vaseline [or similar] on the lens and, if anyone complains they can't see you properly, say it must be scratched.

Alternately. Go billy-bollock naked and say you never wear clothes at home. They'll soon ask you to turn your camera off again.
The principle behind why the writing glows (i.e., totally internally reflected light from the LEDs in the plexiglass getting scattered by the ink) is also how some of the earlier multi-touch systems worked (like the one in Jeff Han's 2006 TED talk). So, with the right software, it might be possible to convert one of these DIY lightboards to support input (maybe to change slides or something).
Cells contain less salt than sea water, and cell membranes are semi-permeable. That leads to osmosis drawing water out of the cells, drying out the fish.

Sea-dwelling creatures have different ways to deal with this. Most fish can "pump" salt from their blood into the water in their gills, in addition to their kidneys filtering salt.

The other strategy is to eat fish that have already done all that work, after all most animals are mostly water of compatible salt content.

(Freshwater fish have the opposite problem, without active salt management they would explode from osmosis drawing water into their cells).
When I lived with Saudis during Ramadan in college, their fasting strategy was mostly to just sleep all day and wake up a little before sundown. I ate some really delicious food during that month!
and dogs like people.

People have emotional needs that they might get from other people or might get from animals.

I think the post though is talking about a syndrome that happens in India.

I have seen many people get bit by a dog in the US and never heard anybody say they thought they were pregnant.
> However, I have seen too many cases when the introduction of taxes on wealth was justified as "tax for the rich", but in the actual law the taxation thresholds were so low that the taxes affected mostly the lower end of the middle class, not the really rich.

Don't be deluded. These taxes are targeting the middle-class and the upper-middle-class (which is considered the "rich").

The "very rich" like Bezos have most of their wealth in stocks. These stocks will considerably go down if you had a wealth tax, and as a result bring little tax income.
I'm from the Czech Republic, but I live elsewhere and use Mapy.cz everywhere - in particular the "outdoor" version, which shows the contour lines, colours hiking trails, and contains a lot of interesting detail from OSM.

There are two things for which I still use Google Maps - finding businesses and getting car directions.
Hi this is really cool! Looks like you roll your own UI system? That's impressive~~
Plus you get the fun of defining income.

Gross sales of some product? or do you get to deduct it's cost?

Is trading labor (for instance, two independent farmers helping each other) considered income?
Vivaldi for school, Chrome for google stuff, and Firefox for everything else.
Hi,

Thanks for the thoughtful response.

Disclaimer: I work at scite.

I want to clarify one point in your comment because I know a lot of people read HN comments before clicking through: we do NOT offer AI summaries!

scite is fundamentally built on the idea that not all citations are equal. We offer disambiguation into citations by extracting the in-text contexts when citations happen between two papers. With that, you can qualitatively see how a paper has been cited by others by seeing the citation contexts from each citing paper.

As someone who used to be in research before at the National Cancer Institute, I certainly agree that scientists who are advanced in their field should know the literature inside out.

But the utility of scite is I think quite a bit more than that:

- If you're an expert scientist, you can configure alerts to know when new citations happen to papers that you care about (e.g. ones you published, or that are important in your field, etc). Except unlike Google Scholar alerts and such, you can now immediately see the citation contexts (as opposed to opening up each paper, and trying to locate the reference(s) and the in-text citations).

- If you're a student or an experienced researcher trying to ramp up in a new field (which is increasingly important given how interdisciplinary science is these days), this is a useful tool in your arsenal to digest and discover new papers.

- That last comment also applies if you are in the industry! e.g. someone in pharma doing drug discovery or evaluation and you're working on different drugs every <X> months.

We do have a preprint we published if you'd like to read more about how scite works: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.15.435418v1

I hope that was clear. I'm happy to answer any other questions. I'll try to come back and check periodically.

- Ashish
> I also feel that many of the people that argue that they need the socialization that comes from being in the offive just really need to spend time outside of work finding a way to socialize and they could meet that need.

On this bit, some people find spending the day alone difficult, even if they have social outlets outside work. This shouldn't be surprising; historically the vast majority of people see other people during the working day. Being completely alone for minimum eight hours a day (and in practice more; the evidence is that people tend to work longer hours when WFH) is not a particularly normal human behavior and many people don't deal well with it.

Again, it works for some people, and that's fine. What irritates me is people (rather dishonestly IMO; they don't really believe this generally) pushing the line that it works for everyone.
The Precautionary Principle: Better Safe Than Sorry?
Make the limit linked to income levels. Say 100 times the median income.
Depends on what that country does in respect to certification. Many countries do a me-too certification where they'll certify something certified by the US or EU.
the presumption there is that the pain is caused by not taxing enough, instead of, say, subsidies for the rich, stealing the value out of people's income through inflation, etc.
Surprised no one has made the Seinfeld Soup Nazi comparison yet.
Thanks for your perceptive remarks!

The following article has more information:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021

Also, there are further articles linked here:

https://professorhewitt.blogspot.com/

If interested, you can follow @ProfCarlHewitt on Twitter.

For the really dedicated, there are few tickets left for sale

at the upcoming "Theory and Practice of Actors" workshop at

StrangeLoop 2021:

https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2021/theory-and-practice-of-a...
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It has certainly prevented me from acquiring an expensive shoe wear hobby because nobody has the size :)
Self-control problems cause 31 percent of social media use
NBER version: https://www.nber.org/papers/w28936
This reminds me of anonaddy.com. It's free for some basic features which I've used and I'd highly suggest it. You can use fake emails to avoid spam and turn them on, off, or eliminate them entirely.

Great for a particular watch store that LOVES to sell your data.
Yeah, I live in a one bedroom, one kitchen-office-living room. I don't have a choice but to have most of my flat "on display".

This made me realize, that I have some book by some prominent anarchist author on my book shelves in clear view of my webcam. I guess my employer know where I stand now haha.
Co-founder of Replicated here, a bit late to the party but happy to answer questions. Also, very important to highlight the unique aspect of this program... we now reimburse a MONTHLY home office expense (using the IRS calculation % of square footage of home). We're paying a portion of your rent or your mortgage (as much as the IRS allows), plus other cool benefits.
>>I generally like abrasive style and his calling out of intellectual class.
That’s strictly accurate but kinda misleading. It doesn’t have multiple optimization passes it does just for hot code paths, it fully compiled per function. They call it Just Ahead Of Time compiled.
Personally, I think if we're going to have a discussion on this, it ought to include some element of "why does the federal government keep getting more expensive at such an amazing rate?"

It's astonishing to me that (in constant dollar terms), the tax receipts of the federal government have doubled since the height of the Cold War in the 1980s and are three times what they were during the Apollo program. They are estimated to increase by another third in the next five years.
It sounds like OP's in possession of an uninventoried stack of specific customer data that they're working their way through, and more out of kindness than profitability.
This is correct in the sense of peering, however hosts behind a NAT can simply connect to any other host on the network such as a pubic peer and then they can accept incoming connections over the yggdrasil network.

I use yggdrasil for NAT hole punching my VPN, for example.
Additional fun occurs when a government official stops by every year to take an inventory of household items.

Of course, there's always the problem that a lot of nominal asset appreciation is due to inflation.
Check out defillama.com It has all projects across all chains sorted by total value locked. The ones at the top of TVL are the most solid projects.
Why Teaching People to Code Helps Level Up Your Skills
This is funny. I sit in front of a bookshelf to work so that’s where I video from.

I’m not (consciously) manipulating, I’m just dropping the video feed into wherever I am.

Perhaps it’s not manipulative and different people do things for different reasons.

I don’t turn on blur or backgrounds because I find the edge detection not matching offsetting and seems cheesy to me.
For finding cycle paths and quiet roads, I can highly recommend https://cycle.travel/map - it doesn't find "scenic" routes yet, but I think the author has been planning to add that :)
I personally don’t understand what collecting more taxes will even do for us. We are unable to agree on what to spend it on, so what’s the point. There won’t be universal healthcare or free college, and we mostly just send the money to social security, Medicare and defense, and our albatross education system. Stop collecting more taxes until we know what we want to spend it on.
Thank you for posting a relevant poem! I realize my day would be improved if that occurred more frequently. It's a good way to stretch the mind in a sea of artless information.
When I think to all those LEGO bricks that get destroyed every year instead of reaching kids (or adults) hands...
Don't forget to live your life now as well. All fine and dandy to save for 'later', but if you keep going until you burn out you won't be enjoying your later that much. That or if you get run over by a bus tomorrow it was all for nothing.
Writing people off in general might be not the best life strategy.

From the point of view of a sound engineer: book shelves are probably the best background surface one could have in a typical living environment due to good sound diffusion characteristics.
Code for the large parts of the modem's OS running on the hexagon DSP cores are available on github, if you search long enough. A few mil. lines of code. Not everything though.
Pee bottles, constant monitoring and ignoring stop signs: Driving for Amazon
Nice, I’ve seen a lot of open stuff out there for building GSM networks, it’s cool to see some more recent stuff as well. I have a limesdr sitting at home I haven’t had the chance to play with much, so I may have to try this out.

I’m not too familiar with cellular networks, but I’ve been curious about 5G networks as well. I wonder how long it will take for us to see similar projects for those.
The Leading Causes of Death in the US for 2020
I’m not sure this is necessary.

I wonder if a future advanced society will support women who want to have large families during their college/educational years.

Our family had 2 children in the dorms while I was getting my doctorate, and they were a joy for the floor (e.g. we didn’t require the emotional support animals they were sending to every floor). Also, having the communal environment was ideal for finding child care here and there.

A situation like this would help such women reach their (per Pew research) goal of ~3.

Imagine if you had free tuition if you had a child while in college? Raising children while young is also super helpful activity wise…
Huge - because religion should be bucketed in the same realm of mediums, psychics, and general hucksters.
I just completed the xv6 projects for that course and they were damn difficult, but taught me a lot. I highly recommend it.

The only thing I missed was support for when I really ran into a wall, but perhaps I just don't know the right irc channel.
I'm over all of this "free" stuff.

When the service transitions to being 10 dollars per month without notice (looking at you, Trello) how many times can you say "just add it to my tab"?

I'm only using self hosted, open source solutions from now on. Been burned too many times in the past, and yes, I do pay for some services - but that doesn't stop the providers from increasing the price or even discontinuing the service (Google) at any time
I also should have linked to Google's page about tamper-evident logs[0] (which they specifically mention can be used by package managers), and Rekor[1] (which describes itself as a "Secure Supply Chain - Transparency Log").

[0] https://transparency.dev/

[1] https://github.com/sigstore/rekor
I’m finding the idea of taxing wealth less strange the more I think about it. At this point I find it almost equivalently strange to taxing income. Assuming there were no income tax I feel like your second paragraph could be rephrased:

I’m all for taxing the rich more, but I personally don’t want to pay taxes yearly on wages I’m saving every year until I retire, at which point I will spend the savings and pay taxes on consumption.

Objectively, I’m not sure one is much better/worse than the other. One is just more familiar.
UBI isn't a solution to poverty. Anyone who thinks that hasn't understood the underlying problems the "free market" and hence capitalism suffers from.

I have come to the realization that a perfectly free market is impossible as human nature and psychology dictates its self destruction.
What is needed is a free market without the self destructive behavior. The five biggest candidates: export/import surpluses, excessive cash hoarding, rent seeking and cash inheritance [0]. The solution to these problems can involve a UBI but the UBI is never meant to achieve poverty reduction or provide bargaining power or whatever specific goal UBI proponents have in mind. It is merely a fair distribution mechanism.

Think of a speeding ticket whose payment is then used for a UBI. The point isn't that suddenly everyone can afford more things. The point is that a fine is a good punishment for a minor offense but the proceeds should not be used to fund the government lest it starts enforcing the law for the sake of government funding.

You can solve these 5 problems with taxation and fines and then redistribute the proceeds to everyone. The benefit will not come from the UBI, it will come from the fact that we cease self destructive behavior. Without the self destructive behavior we will be richer in real terms without engaging in a single hour of work. In other words, UBI is a good idea but not as a replacement for unemployment benefits.

[0] Cash represents a debt that society owes to the holder of the cash. Such a thing should never be inherited or held onto for long periods of time. If someone were to decide to spend all their money on stocks or gold and let their children inherit these tangibles, they would be acting in an exemplary manner as property should not be touched. As money represents the future property of others (it is not your property yet), it must not pass on.