skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there’s an interesting idea in here - not necessarily that ‘everyone should use dithering’, but more that if you are using an image and if that image is being used in a way that would not be harmed by stylizing the image in some way, that one of the things you can consider when thinking about how to stylize it might be the compressibility of the stylized image.

If you are coming up with a look for a site, dithering all the hero images, or running them through a cell-animation filter, or mosaicing them, or halftoning them, all are stylistic choices that might help your design stand out, and help reduce file size.

But… no, you probably shouldn’t just diffusion dither everything down to black and white.
>A major aspect of a healthy society is trust. We need to be able to trust most of the informations that are fed to us in order to get information.

You missed the root cause. The mainstream media lost the trust of the people with their biased reporting. This leads people to look for alternate resources, which are being manipulated like this.
Survivors guilt is a real thing, and it destroys people. There’s nothing logical about survivors guilt, but that doesn’t change the very real damage it does.

Why would you want to subject your friends and loves one to that type of phycological suffering?
This makes no sense. For photographs, a decent quality JPEG is smaller and better looking than a dithered PNG or GIF.
I'm fiercely welded and wedded to the definitions of words which I use to communicate with others. Changing definitions is like pulling the carpet from under everyone.

Since you write about freedom being rebalanced, it means you recognize it can be increased in one aspect or decreased in another aspect. (However increase never happened in neither of the two parallel universes, only this or that decrease; so the term "rebalancing" doesn't really fit.)

I'm not arguing in favor or against seat belts or constraining any other freedom. I can't help observing it happens.
You're right - good point! Confusing/wrong terminology on my part.
you can be against the law and still wear seatbelts 100% of the time?
6 billion doses administered and counting. 30 years of research on mRNA vaccines, 50 years of research on viral vector vaccines, and 20 years of research on coronaviridae. It’s about the best understood thing on the planet.

Perhaps it’s time to stop pretending there’s no long term data here.
This one point is misleading:

> while it doesn’t appear that [they] barred inspectors from those rooms, keeping the doors shut certainly made it less likely that they would ask to see what’s inside. Typically during inspections, company employees are supposed to “show inspectors what they asked for,” Rosendorff said.

This one point is unremarkable (at least as stated). When I was in the pharma business I was advised to have a conference room for visitors that was right off the waiting room, so we could have meetings with outsiders (i.e. inspectors) without them having to enter the facility in general. The point wasn’t to cover anything up but just avoid questions.

FWIW we didn’t bother with this —- we didn’t have an “outside” conference room. But that is apparently not that unusual.

State and federal inspectors get to look at anything part of the business. The federal ones can arrive armed! (Though I never saw this, only heard about it)

Everything else I’ve read coming from the trial has been alarming, though I’m not following closely.
> That line of reasoning doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Those who have good arguments against something can convince people with them.

Those without good arguments, need to ban it.
"When his head comes into view, hit it with the rock!"
> Also, I personally don't consider an app using temporary cache to store data to be an offline-first app. It must use a local database.

From the website (https://rxdb.info/adapters.html)

> react-native-sqlite

> Uses ReactNative SQLite as storage. Claims to be much faster than the asyncstorage adapter. To use it, you have to do some steps from this tutorial.
If we grant that the right kind of blog could make the aesthetics of this work I still think users with cheaper internet might like to be able to click to load the original full-res versions of the images.
Massive social media platforms are blurring the lines of what public communication means in context of the public square.

We need careful consideration on both sides, and it's disingenuous to pretend that they're simply a private business and that we can treat them as if they aren't effectively virtual public squares that dwarf anything in the real world in scale and reach.
Here's the video of a B-52 laying down two megaton-class B83 bombs on the same target at Tonopah:

https://youtu.be/G3zihbXKyxQ?t=253
>Because they're monopolies

McDonalds has more than 10X the revenue of its closest competitor (KFC). Should they be prohibited from kicking out a customer who is causing a nuisance?
It already has had a massive chilling effect, because anyone that even raises the slightest question about the situation is labeled as some kind of right wing Trump supporting radical. A lot of very normal, thoughtful people are not okay with what is happening.
What are you talking about? I've seen studies that suggest vaccination in addition to natural immunity can result in higher levels of antibodies, but I've seen nothing to suggest that vaccination results in "much better outcomes" as compared to natural immunity.

People with natural immunity aren't even getting infected in any meaningful numbers, while fully vaccinated individuals are getting infected left and right.
Hey, I really like cinetrii, I've wanted something like that for years.
No, that’s probably not the reason. The anti-COVID stuff preceded discussion of vaccine mandates. Europe has mandatory childhood vaccinations and not the same level of anti-vaccine sentiment.
I have to somewhat agree: the more of these services you upload the same file to, the greater the chances of at least one of these copies surviving over a prolonged period of time.

Now, i cannot recall what it was called, but there was this one app that could upload files to dozens of them at the same time, provided that you have the accounts - if the files aren't publicly listed and don't compromise your privacy, that's definitely a route to consider.
Firefox Mobile is in Google Play Store, and trivially has an ad blocker installed?
Institutional perversion of soft sciences can't even solve scientific disputes.
There’s a difference between dithering and halftoning, although with some techniques the results can end up similar.
It's highly debatable (bold face on that!!), but I'm not sure that Youtube counts as public debate. If you look at the comments sections on Youtube articles about vaccination, you will find a lot of manifestly false or misinterpreted information. If argued against, people will link to their evidence, which, unsurprisingly, is usually other Youtube videos. This is when you can go down a depressing rabbit hole. These are usually videos, slickly produced, making probably-intentionally bad faith arguments against vaccination. They will take public statements out of context, misinterpret public data, and use a combination of charisma and good (if scrappy) production values to give the viewer the sense that they are the ones telling you the truth. You will find these videos on pretty much any subject, and the makers are clearly monetizing them. You can then go down a rabbit hole, viewing video after video, each providing you with another nugget the confirms your growing suspicion that they're all out to get you.

While it's, again, highly debatable, increasingly to me these videos do not count as public debate, though they are certainly an exercise in free speech. They are not public debate because they do not subject themselves to any form of such debate and intentionally avoid it. If you want skeptical takes on left wing politics, you can see public debate on, say WSJ, Fox News, even OANN. Public in the sense that they put themselves out there in the public sphere and can be scrutinized thusly. These shadowy Youtube articles clearly bank themselves on A) not being found by people who will disagree, or B) have an audience who increasingly will not seek out or countenance opposing viewpoints.
So apparently natural immunity means nothing and total and unquestioning compliance is what is required?
Lol good luck with that companies are greed freeloaders
> elisp being an slow interpreted language

The issue isn't about the speed of the language, but the code not having access to information it needs from the extension API so having to go long ways around to work it out. The new version may be in a faster base language, but the majority of its speed boost comes from having access to information that the editor already knows without having to mess around re-deriving it.
> From Isaac’s perspective as an overemployed worker, and based on the activity on his website, one of the reasons people take on secret second jobs is because they feel disillusioned with the realities of corporate life. Some workers believe secret overemployment helps them break free of employers that haven’t given them that promotion or pay rise they’ve been chasing for years.

So the solution to being disillusioned with the realities of corporate life is to double up on your misery by working for more than one employer?

Even if you feel you're ultimately getting one over on your employer(s), unless you're in a totally unaccountable role for which there are no deliverables, deadlines, etc. and you don't have to even pretend to do any work, this seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
She defrauded investors out of so much money, she deserves at least 10 years in prison imo.
Cloudflare Access does Zero Trust, something like Tailscale provides a mesh network with SSO. Tailscale has cool ACL rules, but it's not really the best way to implement true Zero Trust, especially for web applications.

I personally use Tailscale for as its a lot easier to use when you're the only one on the network compared to configuring Access for everything, but CF's zero trust stuff is quite enticing if you're running a business.
There's an overwhelming tendency now to boil down all opinions to either "right side of history" or "wrong side of history", "anti-science" or "pro-science". This is especially true on social media, YouTube. etc.

Out in the real world there is so much nuance. There are actually black people who don't agree with BLM. There are intellectual people who don't think they need the vaccine. There are Democrats who are pro-life. There are Republicans who support gay marriage. There are bunch of undecided people on a bunch of topics.

We are not all on one side or the other. There is so much middle ground. I still believe most people are in the vast expanse of middle ground.

It just doesn't look that way on the Internet.
That's not conflicting research and they very clearly state that this is not peer reviewed yet. I'd hold off on using this as the basis for any claim until then.
The single most popular extension for VSCode - the one that adds Python support (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-pytho...) - is somewhat similar: it was originally written by Don Jayamanne, and later acquired by Microsoft. Although in that case, Don was hired by Microsoft as well, and continued working on it:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/don-jayamanne-joins-mi...

This can still be seen on GitHub - if you look closely, the official repo at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python is a fork!

Curiously, some bits of code went kinda full circle in the process - vscode-python reused the (open source) Python debugger written at Microsoft for Python Tools for Visual Studio.
Right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
> Once again YouTube is standing against free speech.

No, exercising it.

> Yes, most of you will cheer for it just as you did when Twitter banned Trump.

Well, I mean, its better than when Twitter rewrote its rule to officially privilege those in established positions of power to justify not taking actions against Trump's regular and egregious violations of their rules.

> Don't expect people like me to support you when you complain about YouTube banning e.g. Russian activists.

I don't expect that anyway. I expect people like you to continue to pursue the position that it is impermissible for YouTube to choose not to relay propaganda of your faction because it is somehow contrary to free speech rights for them to do so, while not taking that position for viewpoints you are less interested in, all while chanting the virtues of supporting speech you disagree with.

I, on the other hand, will continue to view it as within YouTube’s free speech rights to choose not to relay either kind of content, but undesirable for other reasons in certain cases (and, where it is bot a free choice by YouTube but compelled by a government seeking to suppress dissent, a violation of free speech by the government involved, not YouTube.)

> Part of supporting free speech is that you have to support the speech you don't agree with.

No, it isn't.

Part of supporting free speech is that you have to support the right of people to express viewpoints you disagree with, including by declining to relay the positions you do agree with.

(It also doesn't mean you have to support their choice to express those viewpoints, or the manner in which they do it, only their right to do it.)
dang is the public face of what's apparently a multi-member moderation team.

They can be reached at hn@ycombinator.com (the best way to report any major issue or one requiring intervention, e.g., bad links / title typos, etc.).

sctb is frequently remembered as "the other" moderator, though he left HN some time back.

(I've had multiple interactions, mostly positive, with dang. And, I presume, others on the team.)
Counterexample: Apache Software Foundation projects, and projects elsewhere which have adopted ASF style governance or something similar.

While there is surely a long tail of Open Source projects which don't have (and shouldn't have) such a governance structure, many of the most widely used projects do. The bargain that project founders make is giving newcomers a real governance stake and thus ceding some control over the project, in order to make it worthwhile for contributors (and their employers) to invest — with some contributors eventually becoming maintainers.

> The reality of the situation is almost nobody actually wants to maintain anything unless they are paid to do so

True. And that's perhaps why ASF-style governance has found a niche in Open Source: it provides one solution to a problem often seen as intractable.
> I can scarcely believe that any reasonable person would argue that blocking propaganda or misinformation that harms the war effort would be an egregious imposition on free speech.

Count me as one of the unreasonables, then. Anti-war protests are logically "propaganda that harms the war effort" and the idea that those would be censored is extremely frightening to me.

> Covid-19 has killed more people in the United States than US combat casualties every war since World War 2 combined. It is the the worst mass casualty event any living American has ever experienced.

This is an apples-to-oranges comparison. Heart disease also kills more people in the US every year than every war since WW2, but YouTube isn't banning fast food commercials. [EDIT: In fact, they accept money in exchange for forcing people to watch those!]
No, they're not licensed for that. They're still testing. And that's even forgiving how much work the word "similar" is doing there.

It is still the case that thousands of people are badgering their HCPs, trying to get off-licence scripts for something that's efficacy is contested and method isn't certain.

The Venn diagram between people who want wormer and those that refuse a vaccine is practically a circle. I stand by my original statement on what sort of people these are.

If you want to have a chat about the ongoing research into protease inhibitors, that's great, but anecdotes about curing it with an ill-gotten tube of horse medicine is as dangerous and virulent as covid in the first place.
LLVM 13's new pass manager improves Rust's compile times by up to 20%
The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory is a thing.

Some kid inevitably sees it on the internet with 12m views. He has been wanting to start a channel on his own and thinks "I'll punch my unsuspecting brother on camera, how funny!" now someone's in the hospital. Don't blame the bullets or the gun, blame the wielder who is a minor. Who is to blame for such an eventuality? I see a danger that Goog is potentially liable for.

Kids are on the internet.
There is a higher bar for moderation than people want now (partly because of it), but that's how it is.

I don't have a problem with this video being taken down.
Annnd that's how we got where we are folks.

I guess it depends how you view your obligations. If you don't want people to be able to read, vet, or reproduce your research because the citations are suspiciously tricky to follow up on, that is of course your prerogative. As a scientist free and fair access to accurate and easily verifiable information should, of course, be in the forefront of what you care about. It is completely doable as well -- I've done it with my research for years. Even when citing books, I always ensure the relevant passages are available in Google Book search or something like SciHub. If not, I won't cite that source, because I wouldn't have been able to access it in the first place anyway.
Okay then, how about:

Good companies fund, great companies maintain

The point is; contributions to the Open-Source ecosystem are usually much more valuable than paying random open-source projects a small donation.

An engineer submitting a bug fix might be worth hundreds/thousands of dollars of labour donated to the project.
Feed the maw that is a contract law justice system project.
Because it is an Apple-written browser, Safari is able to use privileged libraries and JIT functionality that it denies to third-party applications. (It is very difficult to verify the security and compliance of third-party applications that are allowed to perform runtime compilation of code.) This improves performance and battery life. Other browsers would not be able to have the same ability, and so it follows they would sacrifice performance and battery life.

As for the security argument, if Safari/WebKit has a problem, it is crucial for all users to apply the security fix anyway, even if a third party browser were installed - using the third-party browser might not be sufficient to avoid exploitation.

The last two paragraphs seem to contradict themselves. On the one hand, you are questioning privacy; on the other, you admit that Safari on iOS has exclusive privacy and security features. Nevertheless, forbidding third-party browsers guards against the possibility that such vendors who initially have strong privacy policies might change their minds later.
I went through a similar experience. Turns out the acquiring company knew it's audience well - all of the metrics were for sales pitches tailored to specific investors that they were raising money from, which they got shortly before finally closing our deal.

Turtles all the way down.
http://dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=allusio...
This won't end well. Suppression drives people to seek it more --and where they find it, they will have stronger investments in the ideas and it all will be harder to discuss to a rational conclusion.
My kidneys are failing as well. I am currently being evaluated to be on transplant list. Artificial kidney is an exciting development. It wont replace the need for transplant but will definitely improve quality of life for people on dialysis.
> By that standard, this entire website and most of the software industry is misinformation. In fact, most political speech is misinformation.

No, by that standard, this entire website is offering its oppinion. Which in fact it is.
1. Pay moms mortgage and help her retire.

2. Invest in my startup.
The rate of paralysis from polio was less than the death rate of covid.
The examples you’ve provided are very complex multi-dimensional topics.

The idea of harmfulness is indeed a spectrum, and my example is at one extreme end of the spectrum in order to illustrate that “content moderation should never ever occur” may not stand up to all examples.

Most developed nations have banned advertisements of cigarettes, so it’s totally a thing we have done previously. Why are there no folks outraged that we can’t advertise cigarettes to children?
https://gratipay.news/the-end-cbfba8f50981 "Gratipay is shutting down at the end of the year" "However, funding open source is almost entirely about marketing, and we spent most of the past year writing code instead."

https://liberapay.com/ a different team/company took over the assets.
I'm not sure if there is really any widespread acceptance in any democratic country that the government can just decide to send anyone to a foreign war. Every western soldier who died in Iraq, Afghanistan etc. volunteered. I think that if the US government just decided to reintroduce conscription back in 2003 it would had went down much worse than when they were sending conscripts to Vietnam and there'd probably be even much more resistance to that these days.
The alternative is to maintain the foreclosure moratorium and lockdowns indefinitely, correct? This will eventually have the long-term result of causing more human misery.

Whether we are actually reaching that tipping point as the author claims is a great question that deserves honest debate. But tarring one option as ghoulish in order to shut down debate makes it harder to have this discussion.

Objecting to the lesser of two evils because it is still evil doesn't result in better outcomes.
This isn't question of quantity (not enough) but quality.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure
and the intelligent full of doubt.
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With ImageMagick, you can use -colors to reduce the number of colors in the image. You don't even have to go down to 256 colors. This will usually make photos larger in size, but drawings/graphics can be smaller.
I have trouble understanding what you'd prefer. Should this analysis be more concerned with (non-financial) human impacts? More concerned with impacts on the most affected/least privileged? Should it have been written by someone else? Should it not have been written at all? Should there be no demand for it?
I know, it's a personal question, but: do you drink? If yes, how would you feel about new prohibition? How would you argue against it?

By the way, I've heard economical arguments against soft-banning smoking: after all, tobacco companies are a part of the economy, and if they'd go out of business, the economy will suffer. A lot. And I heard the arguments from the personal freedom. And the "there are bigger issues" kind of arguments too -- funnily enough, the most common example of a "bigger issue" is road traffic crashes.
In my view, it's often even simpler than difference in assumptions in the more general sense: typically it simply comes down to people using the same words but having different definitions in mind for those words.
Of course, in addition to being more convenient in some circumstances, Uber just offered rides below cost much of the time. For scheduled rides to the airport, many people don’t use Uber over a private car because it’s better but because it can be significantly cheaper.