skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think many of those proprietary wavelet compression formats seem to be missing. I remember that at around 2000 I recompressed my images every other week after finding yet another file format that could save me some disk space. Cannot even remember their names...
Yes.

I've used Rails extensively before writing some larger sites in Go. Quick comparison of Go vs Rails:

Pros: More performance, multi-threaded extremely capable web server built-in, culture of simplicity and low-dependencies, no breaking changes, goroutines, ideal for small services, static binaries (all deps included) so no need for rbenv, docker etc etc, no included JS, great stdlib (far better than Ruby's IMO), NO INHERITANCE.

Cons: No standard structure others are familiar with, you'll need to find/write code for things like migrations, auth, rendering views, skeleton code generation.

For things you need to find/write this may seem intimidating but it's an opportunity to explore the bits you liked about rails and jettison the bits you didn't like or need, and the stdlib includes a lot of what you need at a low level (e.g. html templating, crypto libs). I cannot emphasise the importance of no breaking changes, it's so refreshing compared to other language ecosystems like Ruby or JS.

Overall I'm really happy with Go for web apps and would choose it again in a heartbeat, particularly over Ruby and Rails (which I also like, but has performance issues and cultural issues IMO).
Here's how you make a vacuum tube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzyXMEpq4qw
As someone who was born and raised in the UK but since moved to the US, to my eyes there's a different general idea about what "good" customer service is.

In the UK I generally saw good customer service is "I had a problem, that problem was solved quickly and efficiently". The time spent solving that problem is likely unpleasant, so get it over with as soon as possible.

In the US it feels more "The person trying to handle the problem is personable and friendly". The time it takes doesn't matter so much, as there's a focus on trying to make my time during it as enjoyable as possible.

I get super frustrated waiting at a bank or similar and the person in front is having a chat with the teller, I don't want to be in the bank, I don't want to have a chat, I have some specific goal (like getting change) that I want achieved and leave as soon as possible. That is what I consider "good" service.
> driving a motorcycle made everyone around them unsafe

Not totally untrue

> We're talking about preventing the spread of a lethal contagious disease

Getting vaccinated doesn't stop the spread... if you believe everything you hear our government officials say then I have a war in Iraq and a truck-load of cloth masks to sell you.
so there is a phone that allows you to direct install
why not buy a phone that fits your need then

and since your breaking the law installing a illegal app why not just jail break the iphone for side loads
> The only way to accomplish this without wiping out those with mortgages is to have a large spike of inflation.

This doesn't make much sense when rent/imputed rent are primary drivers of inflation.
If it were to happen, hoo boy. Think the Intel ME is bad? Wait until the NSA has folks involved in the clean-sheet design and build out of chips.
That just sounds like an inferior version of ZIP. IMO, unless you can only work with the tar format (which is a perfectly valid explanation, some programs are long-lived), ZIP is a better option for seekable archives because it supports even LZMA compression.
In this thread, a number of posts seem to be some people hyperventilating at the thought of "hate speech" and "misinformation" being allowed on the Internet.

Short of building a time machine and going back and heeding Senator McCarthy's warning, the solutions are very simple in my opinion.

1) Really teach people that words have no power over you unless you let them.

> Sticks and stones may break my bones

> But words shall never hurt me.

Internalize this and voila: any "hate speech" that exists is de facto powerless to harm you.

Society has unfortunately taken the opposite approach and acts as if the existence of hate is harmful by itself and magnifies it to an extreme.

2) Teach people that everything you read online should be considered fake news until you verify it.

Voila. You're immune to fake news, medical misinformation, authoritarian government propaganda, and anything else that's not real.

Society has unfortunately taken the opposite approach and wants to have the political establishment "fact check" and decide what's true for you.
I remember when Blizzard made their announcement of Diablo 4 youtube was erasing dislikes, but couldn't keep up.
That might tell you something, but it’s not always clear what. Could be brigading, sock-puppets, tribalism, or lots of other causes.

In the end, pretty much all such voting mechanisms are flawed in some way or another. More interesting are the comments left by known experts in the field.
> As usual, HN users are making lots of interesting assumptions (some comments to a conspiracy level) on the intention here...

> But in the reality, there are many smaller creators who is frequently being harassed by trolls (have you heard about those young Chinese patriots trolling over Korean and Japanese channels?) and one of their tool is the dislike button. And creators have been complaining about this for many years, so I would say in fact YT was super lazy on this particular issue, but at least better late than never...

That would be an escuse.

The solution to that problem is not changing that option for the whole platform

Make targeted changes but not just change everywhere.

Removing the ability to assess how other people think of all the videos is big
Now we will know which US and European banks are exposed and how big..
Honestly, this is a rather common opinion: that New Yorkers are rude and honest and Californians are nice and dishonest. Like real people are rude and it's just a question of whether they want to express that or not.

In practice, thinking about myself, I'm definitely Cali-school-of-thought and I do think your dog is cute, I do think that's a cool haircut, and I do think that's a snazzy dress. And when people compliment me or talk to me I'm pretty sure they're being genuine. One thing, though, is that it's nice when people are aware of where they are and the people around them. It's definitely unreasonable to expect to have a conversation when there's a long line behind you. And perhaps we in California could learn to do that less.

But I do like the article itself because it's kind of tough love: be honest to yourself that you don't like what you're thinking. But isn't that what writer's block is? That you can't come up with something you think is worthwhile? It isn't that you literally can't write. It's that what you do write seems lame, and maybe that's because you're thinking lame things, but that's the problem and you already know that.
If you are adversely affected by price changes, then price changes ridiculous, absurd, and ripoffs.

If you are beneficially affected by price changes, then price changes are a result of supply and demand.
I have no strong feelings one way or the other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxK_nA2iVXw
It's unclear if they paid or not, even last time the creditors received the Money the day after the 30 days had passed.

It seems they didn't but we won't know until tomorrow or so.
You right-clicker! /s
WebP hasn't shown any significant advantage in real world test, and AVIF only wins in low bpp usage with a huge trade off on encode and decode speed. It is listed in the JPEG XL comparison table.
Speaking of misleading headlines:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/business/evergrande-bond-...

https://archive.md/cPsjv

"China Evergrande meets a Wednesday payment deadline for two of its bonds."

On multiple levels, too.

"It was not immediately clear whether it had made payment on the third bond, which matures in 2024, or if all of the investors in the other two bonds had received payment."

So basically they MIGHT have made payments on 2 of the 3 bonds. How is this being treated as anything other than a default? Is the financial press just afraid of upsetting China here?
>But you should keep things wide and shallow. No matter what technology you use.

This is literally the exact opposite of what I believe, and the bane of my existence at work. Wide and shallow code is spaghetti. Too many APIs = continuous confusion and relearning.
This should honestly just be table stakes. The idea that these tools DONT know what sensitive information they are transacting is ridiculous.
You can put your money where your mouth is by setting up a divergent-pairs position for T-bills and TIPS.

The markets still believe the FED knows better than you. But hey, the great thing about our system is that you're always allowed to bet against it.
Knowing these thing exist is a great first step, and glad to hear you are helping out.

But, it doesn't become a concrete, visceral thing until you inspect a no-script menu while browsing a news site. Or run Little Snitch on a freshly unboxed Mac. Or going to a "white pages" site and see the last four addresses of your family members. Salary info, current whereabouts, criminal history, are a fee away.

It's a different world.
I never purported that fossil fuels are a good thing. In fact, I never mentioned them at all and was only discussing the concept of "ideas being cheap." Honestly, it's rather troll-ish and shameful that you've concocted this arrogant rant against an imaginary argument that nobody was making.

You also just bolstered my point about the OC's ideas being bad, because you admitted that the utility providers aren't motivated to do such a thing, which was the entire foundation of his argument -- that some imaginarily ethical regulatory organization is going to force utilities to be equally ethical, efficient and technologically progressive.

And just to be perfectly clear, using a pile of heated rocks as primary energy storage is beyond ridiculous and entirely ignorant of thermodynamics and physics in general.

So, yes, the ideas were both bad and ignorant.
I'm going to use that now. My age is hexadecimal 30, if anyone asks.
It's a bit obvious that removing the visible effects of an interaction will discourage that interaction.

Would you write a comment if it was only visible to the creator?
I don't think the ratio of likes to dislikes is a reliable indicator of quality. It probably will be for certain categories of video, but not for anything polarizing like a review of an Apple product or anything even remotely politics-adjacent.
“Building a Virtual Machine” full course is available
In Mexico last week an Uber was twice the cost of using inDriver. Our driver reported Uber taking 50% of the fare which is why so many users and drivers had switched to inDriver.
When I lived in Czech Republic the local sites for maps (maybe mapy.cz??) and email (seznam.cz) were still quite strong. Is it still the case?
Thank you, that’s an excellent point.
> JavaScript, Ruby, and Perl either don't have this abstraction at all, or they have much weaker versions of it, and many fewer scientific libraries.

I don't know that Numo for Ruby is “much weaker” than NumPy. It looks like installation is rougher since it doesn't bundle dependencies, and its newer and thus there is less downstream ecosystem.

> JavaScript doesn't have operator overloading; I'm pretty sure Perl doesn't, but not sure about Ruby

Ruby and Perl both have operator overloading. (Perl has “use overload”, and in Ruby operators are defined via overridable methods.)
You don't even need to suffer through "new Reddit" long enough to hit the downvote - you can just disable custom CSS on old Reddit (to be clear this is an account-level setting on Reddit, not some browser hack you need to do yourself).
A bunch of greedy US investors dumped money into quixotic Chinese companies and we should bail them out? Sounds politically toxic to me.
> Details of our interview and assessment process is at the bottom of each job listing: https://www.level12.io/careers/

I clicked the first job listing and didn't find anything about the interview or assessment.

They do have a weird note about the company's "Biblical principles" though:

> Level 12 was founded on biblical principles and has biblically informed Values.

Can you please write out your process here instead of making us search for it on your website?
Really quite dystopian. Just another move to blatantly try and shape/control the national narrative.
Problem is, in the context of their disastorous (and likely fraudulent) balance sheet, they really need billions of dollars more. It really isnt about $148m, this is just the tip of the iceberg - its just an incremental interest obligation, with a wall of debt lurking behind it. So while they may get another month or two leniancy from the markets if they pay this, it still doesnt resolve the near inevitability of default.
The Greater Seattle area has plenty of "park-n-ride" areas with huge parking lots. For 2 months after taking a new job in Downtown Seattle, I simply drove to a park-n-ride in Bellevue and took the bus to work. The bus was slow but frequent, and for the most part had its dedicated lane so not quite affected by traffic. Plus, you can simply read, listen to music, or just relax on the bus. After that I was able to move into an apartment right next to the bus stop ;)
Also DICOM for medical imaging is afaik based on TIFF
True story: an embedded target that was loaded over the network (I think TFTP) would boot slowly and then crash when loaded from Workstation 1, but not Workstation 2.

Turns out there was a bad port on the Ethernet hub, but 1/65536 corrupted packets would get through because of the 16-bit checksum.
The vitriol thrown at Gnome devs has always been a needed reminder that engineers are just as capable of falling for a surface-level and biased narrative as the average American. The fact that many of the Gnome maintainers still continue to develop the Gnome ecosystem is a bonafide miracle.

The one grain of truth in this mess is that many diehard desktop users don't want innovation, they want the traditional 00s style desktop. MATE, Cinnamon and XFCE serve that crowd swimmingly so can we stop with the hate?
That's odd, I figured they would only send that invitation to people who buy a lot of games.
I think they're a great way to tell which two minute "how to remove [x] from your computer" video actually works.
Impressive. This sums up Hacker News in 3 words.
My girlfriend has a visual impairment. When it's dark outside, it can take awhile for her to locate the Uber and get to it. A number of times she's been unable to locate the Uber and the driver has just left. I'll have to look and see if she's been charged wait fees.

There was another incident which was caused by a very poor UI decision by Uber (or maybe just a bug). She scheduled a ride in advance from her work to a doctor's office. Then when she went to get a ride home (this time in real time, not scheduling in advance), the origin was set by default to the last place she scheduled a ride from - her workplace, NOT her current location at the doctor's office. She didn't realize that Uber wasn't doing its usual thing of setting the origin to your current location, so the driver showed up at her workplace. She ended up paying the driver cash to come to the doctor's office and pick her up from there.
When I was doing imaging, tiff was my go-to. It's uncompressed so huge images would pop open quickly (compared to loss-less png). I could store 16-bit CMYK images in tiff which no other format (except maybe PSD) would do.

Several years ago, I attended a talk at an imaging.org conference where the presenter, an archivist from the Smithsonian, described how they used tiff in their work.
Bought a new Subaru Impreza this spring. We had been saving for a couple years for my (close enough) dream car (wanted the WRX STI, but that maintenance is a real bitch).

We have now had 4 calls from the dealership where we bought it offering to buy it back for thousands of dollars more than we paid this spring. So far their best offer was $6500 more than what we paid.

It's outrageous.
How much mangrove deforestation happens in Tuvalu?
I do believe that this is one facet of a much larger and deeper subject which is to live your life with authenticity.
ZIP as a standard is no longer ancient. It has support for modern encryption and compression, including LZMA. This is sometimes referred to as the ZIPX archive, but it's part of the standard in its later revisions.
You can't see the ratio, but if a comment has a negative score you'll see it, which I would count as downvotes being "visible" -- certainly better than YouTube's terrible choice here. Downvotes are also surfaced when the ratio is ~50% with a "controversial" marker.
They can set that number to whatever they want anyway. Many users have reported cleaned up numbers and censored downvotes.

Not to mention they delete entire subreddits, like r/nonewnormal that was going against the narrative about covid from the start.

We now have an online social media where you will never see anyone disagreeing with you, because the mods take care of that.
There will always be more demand for customer service jobs than people who "enjoy" them, That is why they have to pay them.

I think saying "Don't enjoy it? Don't do it!" is misunderstanding the gulf between those two counts. The entire service industry would likely grind to a halt if people actually took that advice.
They have reoccurring interest and sometimes principal payments well into the future - overall their debt is over $300 billion. So no, it's not a drop in the bucket for any one person.

https://www.ft.com/content/e0a447f9-b4c2-45dc-bfc8-755b284d1...

As to how you've jumped from "rich individuals don't want to pay corporate debts" to "government bailouts clearly work" I have no idea.
dont forget the amount of times google had to remove malware infected apps from the play store cause they barely screen them
Is the dislike button "dissident voices"?

That seems like an absurd idea.

If your idea of being a dissident is a dislike button ... I don't know what to tell those folks.

Those dislikes are pretty irrelevant.
> Why should the US do anything?

If private investors want to invest in China, that's fine. But pensions and banks should not, and should not be investing in funds that do. Their risks are shared, and China trashing their balance sheets is a public policy concern.
These are usually quite obviously parents with a newly licensed kid anxiously watching the interaction from the back seat.

But yeah, occasionally it's a gearhead who wants to do something like that - it's the exception though. Those instances we end up talking shop, and that's kind of always been a thing (I've driven Miatas for over a decade, this is my third).

The ~recent thing is the parents harassing me, it's like they can't find cheap first cars for their newly licensed children.
>How is this any different than users targeting a video with lots of likes to drive up its count, though?

Perhaps, it's hard to fake enough ups to really make a difference to the ranking, but it was easy to bury things?
And even then, HN's guidelines say the downvote button is for comments that don't add to the discussion. Even a comment with incorrect information can add to the discussion (though admittedly much less often than an accurate comment), so it's not really about accuracy, either.

(But I will admit that I often downvote things simply because they are inaccurate.)
If someone seeks out content that they wouldn't ordinarily interact with just so that they can dislike/downvote it or post nasty comments - that's an attack.

If someone gets recommended a video and they don't like it, disliking is then constructive criticism.

But there are groups out there that actively look for particular types of content to dislike - without even watching it.
Zip can also use LZMA, assuming the recipient can interoperate with that.
If you invested $666.66 (original price) in 1976 into the S&P500, you would have about $22k today. $87k if you invested it in the NASDAQ. In conclusion I will be putting all of my money into weird first-generation devices from now on.
My mom lived there for years when I was in high school and college. My wife (girlfriend at the time) and I visited my Mom in Antofagasta. We took a bus from Antofagasta to San Pedro de Atacama for a few days. At some point before arriving in San Pedro, we were the last people on the bus. The driver pulled over on the side of the road in the middle of this desert. No other people or cars or anything in sight. He motioned for us to get off the bus. He was increasingly loud and insistent. My wife speaks Spanish but his accent was thick and the bus's engine was loud so she had a hard time understanding him. I was certain we were going to be robbed and potentially murdered. But, he got off first and walked over to a big rock and went around it on a small ledge. I peeked around the edge of this boulder and he was making the universal camera/photo gesture. Ahead of us was the Valle de la Luna [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_de_la_Luna_(Chile)]. The sun was setting and it was one of the most beautiful sights I've seen in my life. After we arrived at San Pedro, he made sure we got to the hostel and we shared an ice cream in the central plaza with his children.
This seems like a crime through lack of thought not a willful middle finger to the disabled to make a few percent more in late fees.
Hayek got a Nobel for decidely non-Austrian work. His Austrian work was widely panned, and he moved away from it later in life. His co-winner was displeased to win a Nobel on a topic shared with someone like Hayek who early in his career pushed a lot of stuff that didn't pan out.

Hayek also never embraced all the stuff Austrians taught, such as Mises claiming neoclassical was completely flawed, whereas Hayek accepted the majority of neoclassical as correct. Hayek does not take Mises a priori approach to economics whatsoever. There's plenty more. So if your claim is that Austrian is reasonable because a big person believes it, this is not that person.

Whenever someone points out that Mises and Austrian economics is not very relevant to modern economics, and someone invariable pulls out the lone closest thing they can find, know that this is not quite true.

>The main reason why the Austrians tend to be snubbed is that their insights are primarily qualitative

There's entire subfields of well published and researched economics that do this that are not Austrian.

If you simply google "why is Austrian economics snubbed" you get a whole host of decent sources showing how it fails to match empirical evidence. That is the reason it's snubbed. It sounds pretty, appeals to Libertarians, but does not match observed evidence. That's good enough reason to stop any line of thought from being accepted science.

(Of course, when you build your entire field on rejecting empirical evidence, of course you end up with beliefs and theories that do not match empirical evidence, so no surprise there).
Tell HN: Copy/pasting CSS code from dev console is broken in the new Chrome
Whenever I open the dev console and copy CSS, pasting it in another application mangles the entire code. I have no idea what happened with the new update. Generally, working with size units (px,...) has also become way harder because now the cursor change when you hover over them.
> They don't care how many abortions people have in New York...

> every single leftist friend I have is absolutely committed to making sure girls in Alabama can also have abortions

I find it so curious how much you claim that people on the right just want to be left alone, and then bring up the issue of abortion as an example. If what you really wanted was for people to live and let live, then why would you care about women in Alabama having abortions? Don't they have just as much of a right to be "left alone"?