skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was able to squeeze some more optimisation out of it:

For example: 600px-A20-OLinuXino-LIME2.png is 34,689 bytes as served by the site.

Running it through PNGOUT, OxiPNG, AdvPNG and PNGCrush (all set to lossless) reduces the filesize by 6.8% down to 32,322 bytes with no visible diff to the image.

I guess you'd need to weigh up the energy cost of compressing the image versus the cost of serving them all ~6% larger every time.
Just like the Amazon Prime strategy then
Would you trade me a dollar for 12 cents? If it implodes who’s going to trade you the other coins for something of questionable value?

Additionally, say you hold 50% tether and the rest in a mix of coins. Your portfolio would be cut in half. How does that result in other coins being purchased if people are uncertain of tethers true value and unwilling to trade for it.

Then there’s the whole using tether as margin for leverage or if your margin is based on tether, and that disappears, your position will be liquidated. Now add the layers of derivatives that are quoted and settled in tether. Additionally what exchanges can you trust that will let you cash out in an event like this? People will run to the doors and liquidity will disappear creating a larger sell off as people seek shelter in liquid assets.
If the image has indexed colours (which SVG's often have as well, unless you use gradients), using indexed .png's gives you huge savings.

I have an image on my blog (1920x1080), which, as .jpg uses 272kb, but as indexed .png only 76kb, which is 27% the size. I'm using ~16 different colors, I believe. And the .jpg in this comparison is pretty hard compressed already (quality level 60 or 75, iirc).

To generate this .png I use Krita, but PS should be able to do so as well. GIMP can do it too, but if you start with a 24bit graphics and need to reduce colors as first step, I got bad results with GIMP (may have been me, though). Krita did a better ootb-job for me here.
This might be a simplified generalization but: every good product manager I've had focused on people, every bad one on processes and "simple tricks".

Let's take the automation point for example. Some workers deliver the "theory" graph from the article, some deliver the second. And it's pretty consistent. A good worker knows when automation will pay off and when it's a waste of time. Let everyone try the first time you work with them and only intervene and adjust when necessary. With time you will learn who knows what the hell they're talking about and who doesn't. Who delivers and who just wastes time playing. You have NO way to know before.

And even if the investment does not clearly pay for itself for that task: a year ago they let me (linux sysadmin) take time to learn Go for a small thing. I could have done it in python in 1 day, it took me 3 weeks to deliver a Go version. Totally not worth it. But since then I've dived into multiple Go tools we use and significantly reduced our servers hardware requirements. I've even submitted some patches upstream.
Hello! I’ve been a heavy user of SuperMemo for almost 16 years (January 23 is my SuperMemo anniversary!). Initially I thought SuperMemo was going to “think for me,” but the more I used it, I realized that it’s actually just augmenting my memory, enhancing it like a fancy robot arm would help a victim of a lost limb (Think Metal Gear Solid 5).
I linked a wikipedia article that clearly states the history of the ROC, you linked a rambling conspiratorial HN comment from the exact person I was replying to.

Would you say the Republic of China does not claim dominion over what we in the west call mainland China? Yes or No? It's a very simple question that I doubt you will answer.
4.6 million people in a poll? That's a HUGE number.

Note that the EU parliament actually did pass a law to abolish changing the clocks, but I think it didn't pass the other branches of EU government, so probably got lost. Hopefully it can be revived in future.

The accuracy of a sample, as long as it's representative, doesn't depend that much on the population size, just on the size of the sample. Once you get past a few thousand samples you are accurate to a couple of percent no matter how big the population is.

The question here is was the poll representative? That depends on how those 4.6 million people were selected.
Similar situation here - I’m slowly starting to look to get up and do something other than focus on therapy and healing. I’ve taken a bit of time off, and I’m struggling still to change my mindset from survival towards more self actualization.
Because it makes EVs a closed system of kinds. Compared to ICEs, where I can get fuel at any station just using my credit or debit card, no subscription needed. All there exists, where I live at least, are bonus programs and cooperations that give you some price reductions. Subscriptions like those for EV charging a only there to create a kind of lock in, a lock in that has the potential to slow down EV sales.
> If you want to code in Pascal, you know where it is. Pascal was designed for fast, one-pass compilation, and its compilers don't have to do nearly as much work as Haskell compilers or even C compilers.

OCaml is at a good spot between Pascal and Haskell for that. Compared to Haskell, I find the tooling easier to understand but maybe not easier to use at first.
JEP 421: Deprecate Finalization for Removal
Which is fine. Buy (electric) fuel like you'd buy a bread. Good news, looking forward to that as it will simplify electric mobility furthermore.
Trie in JavaScript: The data structure behind autocomplete
> There is no equivalent of this today.

And even if there were, the alternatives are numerous. It's not a choice between playing the same old game for the 100th time and writing your own (from a magazine), it's a choice between a world of information carefully crafted by millions of experts to take your attention and provide you with those quick-win endorphinns in exchange for showing you adverts for things you don't want.

Computing in the 80s and 90s was a much more personal thing, today it's a war.
It is not the first time I have seen this article pop up here. It is always interesting to see the opposite stances rush to the frontline to defend their point of view.

Regardless; a fool and his money are soon parted
And realistically 2020 or 2021 would have been perfect times to change this as everything was a mess anyway. So must wasted potential.
I guess a lot of the cloud costs are due to not having to really manage anything yourself - you are essentially paying for a team of people to keep the 'server' up and running and make sure that things 'Just Work' (largely, anyway)
Would using GIF help? Then a 4-level image would use only a single byte for each pixel, and the entire file can be compressed if necessary.

For example, here is the comparison of the first image on their page (file sizes in bytes), converted to gif with 4-level:

25700 sps_close.gif

43415 sps_close.png

[EDIT]
Interestingly enough, converting their image to a 7-level (1 for alpha) gif image gives you double the colors while reducing the image size by 17,715 bytes (~17.2kB)
Art gallery is super complimentary, art galleries are generally curated. Whatever the modern web is is the opposite of taste.

It kind of makes me want to get a giant ink jet plotter and set it up at an art gallery printing tweets / tiktoks / etc and instead of a catch bin for the prints it just goes directly into a shredder.
It's very nice to know that people with the right attitude are in the Haskell Foundation.
The entertainment value is insignificant compared to the cost of the piece. To me it looks like Bitcoin just put an uncomfortable fact in plain light: humans are irrational and sometimes like to arbitrarily give value to some things and not to others, for a variable amount of time. That's why these discussions about intrinsic value usually go nowhere, but it's hard to bear because for it clashes with common fundamental economic assumptions/beliefs. I'm an engineer, so sure I would find a rational and efficient free market beautiful, but let's face it, it's wishful thinking and is not the reality.
I’ve been indie hacking since I left my FAANG job 2 years ago.

I’ve never been happier but it’s hard work.

Revenue is growing steadily and I have a few projects down the pipeline.

I don’t want to shill them in the comments section but you can find some in my profile.
Those are foreign designed but not necessarily foreign made. If you buy Honda Accord in the US, it is likely to com from a factory in Ohio. If you buy Toyota Corolla in EU, it is likely to come from factory in Turkey (or UK, but probably not anymore due to Brexit).
NAFTA/USMCA allows some manufacturing in Mexico/Canada (Which has largely equivalent labor costs), but if these manufacturers pulled out of the US, it would be repealed before you could blink.
> it's rather unfair to say that it does not teach any employable skills. Even PhDs who go on to work in completely unrelated fields learn how to make progress on poorly defined problems and to advance the frontier of human knowledge.

Depressingly, about 0.001% of employers care about these skills.
Or you find it stolen

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29077334
My econ teacher always said to keep the money invested you want to lose. Couldn’t you take out a sum, but keep investing a sum you dare to lose?
Another valuable lesson I got from that rabbit hole is that a "segmented" night's sleep is actually nothing to get upset over. If you wake up in the middle of the night, it doesn't indicate anything is wrong, and you can spend an hour reading by candlelight before returning to sleep, and it won't affect your restedness in the morning. Unscientific source: https://www.polyphasic.net/segmented-sleep/
And how does he prove he's the owner to get into that safe space?
I have advocated getting to root of the problem. That is having days in first place... Just get rid off the planet and so many problems are solved. We could make sensible second based calendar as we don't need to care about days, months or years anymore. Win, win, win I say...
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As someone who works on an email system, it's a bit of a shame that this didn't win over HTML at least for email between humans. HTML is a bit of nightmare to sanitize. It's also expensive to layout compared to something like text/enriched which wouldn't need a full WebView on mobile - you'd be able to easily layout using native view widgets.
Especially when you consider HTML in emails is stuck on a mostly old school table based layout system for highly styled emails, and a lot of these emails are not responsive.
There is no need to stick to your strawmen when we have real world actual examples. If you demand others only address your strawmen then you have recognized the weakness of your argument
The first section ("Console is much more than `log()`!") applies to Firefox and Safari as well.
There are problems with that system aside from that. The UK specifically will always have to content the case when they put a fine on someone making a pup doing an unfavorable gesture as a joke. It wasn't a good joke in itself, but it really lived by the reaction.
So they took the livelihood etc from somebody else too?
On all Linux architectures, "unsigned long" and "long" are always register-sized. For 32-bit architectures, "long" is 32 bits (the same as "int" which is always 32 bits), and for 64-bit architectures, "long" is 64 bits (the same as "long long" which is always 64 bits). This is different from Windows, in which "long" is always 32 bits, even on 64-bit architectures (and you have to use "long long" if you want 64 bits).

Therefore, Linux-only code (including the Linux kernel itself) commonly uses "long" or "unsigned long" to mean "register-sized" and "large enough to fit a pointer"; portable code normally uses "size_t" or "uintptr_t" for that.
I think bigness is everywhere though. At least I felt dwarved both in Vegas and Nashville, which are the only two places I have experience with so far.
Positive cash-flows effects are always needed. Feeling you don't is dangerous, positive cash-flow is what keeps a company in default alive territory.
Nothing like that. There are a large number of wealthy people in India who are into exercise and keeping fit. But there are also a a huge number who are overweight because they can afford to stuff themselves with a lot of food.

Poorer people in India end up getting more exercise and being either undernourished or eating just about enough calories to not get fat. As a general rule, poorer people will not be using cars or other forms of mechanised transport for shorter trips and will be more into manual work than the richer people. Also, the average poor person in India can not afford junk food or aereated sugary drinks.
> in most EU you can do your PhD while working.

You really can't at good universities in the UK. At Cambridge we had to get special permission to live more than 10 miles from Great St Mary's. My advisor's advice was that it was near impossible to finish up while working.

Had enough of Americans telling me about their excruciatingly long PhD programmes when half of that time is spent teaching and doing exams which we'd probably call an MSc. Or half of a post-doc position.

3-4 years is a great length of time for a contract where you're subject to such a power imbalance.
> I'm sorry the hear that, and I think it's mostly worng.

I think there is just a large variance between countries and/or fields. I've worked in CS/EE in three top EU universities, and in every case I've seen, PhD students working in a research group had a heavy load of both teaching and project work on top of their PhD research.
It's mentioned in the 2014/94/EU directive on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure [0], see (26) and (33). It is not a law but it is a guideline for EU countries to implement it as law. And the countries that make up the majority of the EU's charging infrastructure plan on doing exactly that, so any delay would have put Tesla in non-compliance.

Furthermore, this 2021 European Court of Auditors special report pushed for the same [1].

A Supercharger station gives access to private users with an authorisation or a subscription so it's considered accessible to the public. All charging stations accessible to the public should to allow multistandard recharging.

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...

[1] https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/SR21_05/SR_Elec...
Also it is very dark in areas with winter when there is no snow. Specially if it is raining. Having sun actually up helps quite a bit.
In the Scandinavian countries "mongo" is used as both a slur and a general insult. However, since it manages the feat of being both ableist and racist at the same time, its popularity has waned quite a bit over the years.
> Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.

Sounds like hell. I am not a robot. And how am I going to do it. Take an hour before work to plan 48 10 Minute sessions for the day. What if something important comes up?
Or take a 1 minute block every 10 minutes to figure out what to do for the next session?
God forbid I have to take a call, take a p*ss, or my noodle pot boils over while I wfh.
You paint a very utopian picture, but that's just not how it works in the real world. Throw a dart at a map of both startups and large companies, and you'll find full dependencies included in otherwise small scripts. Sometimes those dependencies will even get included in multiple files, because Google convinced a generation of developers that "above the fold" was the most important thing in the history of the web -- even though Google themselves abandoned the concept almost immediately.

The focus these days is on tooling instead of code, and that has resulted in fragile infrastructures serving massive amounts of code in order to provide relatively little functionality for the end user -- all because we'd rather use some extra cheap electricity than actually learn how to write highly-performant code. I'm really not sure why you view that as a positive.
Certainly better than Memphis Corporate...
Nicely done. Subscription pricing a commodity. That's a nice way to lock users.
I find the use of dithering fairly ingenious, even though the result looks like a printed newspaper.

Essentially the goal for him was to achieve the best possible energy efficiency (CPU, bandwidth) and he came up with this idea. I'm pretty sure WebP would be much more CPU intensive.
My econ teacher taught me nothing about personal finance. Is this normal?
York University (UK) will let you do a part time distance PhD in computer science: https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd/...
What if instead of redefining time, "Daylight saving" was the part of the year when most businesses, schools etc. started work at 8am instead of 9am? The government could mandate that schools and many other institutions change their start times, businesses could be encouraged to mostly follow (although some may choose not to if they want).

Changing the definition of time is an absurd way to fix the issue. Why not have "winter miles per hour", where because more car accidents happen in winter, everyone has to adjust their car's speedometer to read 10MPH more, so that you then drive slower on the road - Roads with a 70 limit become 60, etc.
Still the acting Minister of Transportation in the biggest EU member state. That hair splitting is showing some lack of understanding how this stuff works.

I think Tesla saw the writing on the wall in the EU, which is that the EU doesn't want closed eco-systems, including payment, for EV charging. Now you can do it when forced or leap-frog that and get some positive PR from it. Plus you might be able to do it on our own terms. I highly doubt Tesla would have done it yet without some pushing from the EU.
The patent examination process is not well understood by most people.
Once a patent is received, the patent examiner carefully places the application into a room full of other patent applications.

Then kittens are released into the room with PATENT GRANTED stamps affixed to their feet.

The kittens are then returned to their holding area to await the next round of patent examination.

The patent examiners collect the applications from the floor and look to see which patent applications were granted.

This is from an old HN post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21000034
Thanks, yeah. Any idea why they still do this instead of switching to `uintptr_t`?
Just get rid of the planet in general. Would make everything so much easier. No more messy months or non integer year lengths. And even no more leap seconds. So many problems would be solved, just think of the efficiency.
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It's forcing them to boldly go where no man has gone before.
I've been rather impressed with Villeneuve's Dune. It's not perfect, I feel that there's not enough backstory and context for those not familiar with the novel (not explaining CHOAM and the landsraad makes the emperor's actions confusing), Jessica is a bit too wimpy for a Bene Geserit who is supposed to be in control and I reserve judgement about the changes with Lyet Kynes. That said as someone who loved the books, it feels mostly faithful and was very enjoyable.

Not so for Foundation, there are some interesting ideas, I actually like the idea of the Cleon's genetic dynasty but overall it feels like a second rate star trek show where regularly I have to suspense my disbelief at how unbelievably stupid some of the plot points or character decisions are. It's nice eye candy and not awful. I'll watch it while doing something else and try to ignore the fact that it carries and betray the name of novels I revered in my childhood. But it's not a great show and it doesn't even compare to The Expanse, For all mankind and any number of nice Sci Fi shows.
The bit about road names borrowing from other places is true in the UK, but it has a function: London Road will, eventually, lead to London, as will most any road with another city for it's name. I imagine this couldn't be possible in the states due to the absolute vastness of it all, so unless New York Street grows four extra lanes and magically becomes an interstate, it's surely just named in homage to New York.
That's a very technologist perspective. But what about a more philosophical take? Life is not about technology or work. Life is about living. A bit of downtime and slowdown can be very refreshing.
> Eat lentils and beans

Absolutely. Legumes are the healthiest sources of protein. While it takes a week or two for the gut to adjust (and be the butt of gas jokes), it extends your healthy lifespan, so it's worth it.

Here is what a non-profit that I follow has to say:

https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/legumes/
That's the point of ultra processed food. They taste incredible.
> Which is fine. Buy (electric) fuel like you'd buy a bread.

Are you implying you are able to can use a card to pay in a German bakery?
Tesla converted their chargers to use the standard charging connector in Europe (CCS) several years ago.

But while any CCS vehicle was technically capable of plugging in to Tesla's CCS superchargers, until now only Tesla vehicles could charge there because the supercharger's software would recognise a non-Tesla vehicle and not allow it to charge.

There isn't a mandate that requires charging stations must be public and available to all vehicles. However, by converting the supercharger network into an open charging network, Tesla should be eligible to bid for government funding for charger network expansion, which was not available to a Tesla-exclusive charging network.
I long believed that Tesla should test out concept of charging stations, modeled after gas stations. Once they figure out the best design, structure and business, they should then franchise it to small operators.

It’s going to be good business for operators as Tesla owners are in the high earn/spend bracket and it will allow Tesla to significantly expand its brand’s footprint (not that they need it) while reinforcing the perception that driving Tesla is more superior to other experiences (even if it might not be true).

The incremental revenue from franchises is also nice. And it would allow Tesla to deploy more batteries and solar panels.
The idea isn't meant to appeal to us, as neither you nor I consume fastfood enough for it to matter.

But plenty of people do, and it drives the meat markets whose over abundance of meat related products drive other markets that keep this horrible cycle of slaughter going.

Weaning people off meat at the fast food level is great way to start IMO.
This isn't the case in England. Most master's degrees are 1 year and a master's isn't a requirement for many PhD programmes. So it's possible to do your entire higher education, including a PhD, in 6 years (3 years of undergrad + 3 years full-time PhD).