skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BMP is quite complex and poorly documented (it's a bunch of random Microsoft structs and #defines), more so than PNG.

BMP has compression too (RLE and Huffman). PNG is simpler here since you can just drop a DEFLATE library straight in.

Images are usually stored in memory as RGBA in scanline order. You can dump this representation straight to a PNG file (edit: this is wrong, you can't). BMPs are typically written with pixels in packed BGR order, rows going bottom to top. But not always. I think they go top to bottom if you give a negative height, and you can supply masks defining which bits the RGBA come from.
Good point about (2), I think that's also overlooked.
This made me think of Sodom and Gomorrah. And, indeed, it looks like that's a published theory of the director of excavations there, Steven Collins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah#Possible_si...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Southwest_University#A...

EDIT: You think I would know to not read just the abstract... Sodom is explicitly mentioned in the linked Nature paper, but only in the sense that if the two are connected, it would be the second oldest known record of an airburst event.
Calling it now: Tether and a few other stablecoins explode.

Where other than China would you go to buy massive positions (face valued) of bonds, with continued room for expansion of your position, in private deals that you could keep quiet?
>Anarchism without considering the legacy humanity instincts inherited is not realistic and not worth considering.

Man, if only in the last 200 years of philosophical work done on Anarchism one of the anarchist philosophers would have stopped and considered human nature and history. Thanks random HN poster for completely dismantling the entire field by bringing up this one point that no one has ever thought of before!

>Anarchy has no buying and selling. The strong just take. Without a non-violence consent aka state, there are no rules and no syncdicalism survives that.

Man, if only there were like ways that Anarchists could organize and fight that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Insurrectionary_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Lib...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederaci%C3%B3n_Nacional_de...

What makes you think everyone would just sit by and let people just steal from them? It's almost like you aren't considering the legacy humanity instincts and history of the planet if you think that's how people would react.

edit: Also, warlords are absolutely rulers, so no. Not like mogadishu in the 90's.
Notwithstanding the concerns about inflation, I challenge the notion that helping people feed their families when they're poor, redistributing wealth from the tippity-top to the middle and down, providing more education, and providing more healthcare to the elderly are "ridiculous". "Handout" is a dogwhistle.
YouTube Rewind <--- an annual video event with some of the highest dislike counts in the history of the platform. I feel like the timing on YouTube's decision here is suspiciously convenient.
It's not that bad. Lower than decoding VP9 with a software decoder

https://singhkays.com/blog/apple-silicon-m1-video-power-cons...
I wonder how this format compares to SquashFS
Carmax was willing to pay a couple grand more than I paid brand new for my 6-speed manual Golf Alltrack (10k miles).
Historically, car values underwent significant depreciation over time and loans that went delinquent were for vehicles that were "underwater"- their value was less than the loan. Its pretty much unprecedented for the value of a vehicle to actually increase at any point in time over its life, and how long this anomaly will go on for is very uncertain- another way to put it is that you don't change all of your process and accounting norms because of a temporary (at least as we think for now) supply issue.
You can think of each individual detector producing a single-channel audio signal. By combining the signals from multiple detectors it's possible to determine where the signal is coming from. But the output is neither a picture nor a single pixel: it's a brief blip of a few seconds of audio-frequency time series.

A decent analogy is to think of each LIGO detector not as a camera but a microphone.
National Conversation on Higher Ed Has Nothng to Do with Higher Eds Real Problem
Often people will post comments which are inflamatory, off-topic, advertising, etc. and 'the community' can mark them down.

The parent poster saying "I've never hit a like or dislike button in my life" is a little bit like saying "I've never thrown litter or picked up litter in my life". Both understandable, one respectable, the other a bit weird - if you like the environment you are in but leave all the litter collecting to others and don't contribute to it, what's that saying about you and your one-sided use of the environment?

If you want HN or YouTube to have stuff you like, and not be overrun by the wild west of the internet, and there are no paid editors like the newspapers of old, not adding to the collective voting is like saying "everyone else, moderate this for me into a place I like, thank you".
AFAIK, there will be a never ending development, and new features would be added. The problem here is we don't know when it will exit its alpha/beta stage, and we don't know if it will even get to this position.

Meanwhile, there are a lot of people who are currently still supporting economically the project, a pretty surprising thing to me tbh.
In Denmark a weekly print magazine called “Donald Duck & Co” was (is?) really, really big. Like, everybody grew up reading it. For many people the stories in that magazine was the first stories they read by them selves by their own volition.

I remember watching a news segment about why the magazine contained car advertisements and the reason was basically the same as from your quote.

However, I’ve always felt that maybe the ads were aimed at parents reading the stories out loud to their children.
I think "wanting to want" is part of it, but there's something more fundamental: wanting to do something vs wanting to have done something in the future.

I want to stay in bed, binge Netflix, play video games and read books all day. One year from now, that's not what I want to have spent the past year doing. I don't know about everybody else, but this is an underlying tension in my life.
There are tons of "product review" videos that are little more than an automated voice reading scraped product descriptions along with a slideshow of images from a web search for the item. They have nearly no value but for products with few video reviews, view count is not a useful metric. These faux review videos get downvoted and it serves as a good signal that the video isn't worth watching.

The people who make these automated videos aren't looking for millions of hits per video, they're looking for a few hundred, which when multiplied by hundreds of thousands of this type of video, means millions of clicks for them. Since actual reviews of older products have a small number of views, the automated ones float to the top of search results. Dislikes was a way of separating the two. Few people click Like for the good videos but there were enough clicking Dislike on the shovelware videos to help filter them out. Expect to see an increase in these automated garbage videos as they're now allowed to drown out actual content.
Justice Department Sues Uber over Charging Wait-Time Fees for Disabled People
If you think cat videos are the most impactful videos on Youtube, you must have stopped paying attention to the website 15 years ago.
> It'll sting some emerging market investors, but I don't think you'll see a massive knock-on here.

China has basically been the single biggest driver of global growth over the past decade. Its highly overleveraged real estate market is a huge threat to its overall economy, and that has plenty of potential to create a massive knock-on.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-economy-global-kemp-colum...
Yes, the analogy they are intentionally trying to break...
I like that solution even more.
China has been waging economic warfare via equity markets for a while now. The U.S. hasn’t done anything to protect investors from billions in losses. Totally embarrassing.
It's not that surprising.

Most citations are to recent scientific papers. Biologists today aren't going to say "DNA is made of A, C, T and G base pairs wound in a spiral" anymore than physicists are going to cite Newtons' Principia.

On the other hand, everybody, their brother, sister and dog are trying hundreds of neural network architectures, hoping one scores 0.01% better than the best yet, and citing that attention paper. There are just so many more people doing science today.

I remember looking at the Physical Review from the 1950s and it seems like I knew a lot of the names of the authors.
vs exception based control flow which is way worse.
Home values are “included” in the form of rental equivalence, which is widely considered to address a number of flaws with just including house value. And contrary to popular belief, from 1983 when the switch was made until 2007, rental equivalence actually increased CPI compared to the old method.

Why would equities be included in inflation? That doesn’t make sense to me.
It will also help legitimate politicians look more popular than they really are. That's what brought us "Let's go Brandon".
This is what you're waiting for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_Ant...
I had a shocking realization one day that the incompetent PO I was dealing with had not bumbled his way into that position but been placed there on purpose by his manager.

There are certain brands of incompetence that get results, and you don't have to be the one that is aware of that fact to reap the rewards of manipulating people in that way.
> ... they still have dedicated hardware for sound decompression in their SoC packages

Do they?

Even if they do, it's typically useless for an application like a game, because the game will need to filter and/or mix that audio in ways that the hardware probably can't handle on its own. (Sure, maybe your hardware can decode one MP3 at a time, but can it decode two dozen MP3s at once, apply a bunch of environmental filters to them, and mix them down to a single stereo output? Probably not.)
The problem isn't our digital infrastructure, it's people who think our digital infrastructure is a handful of websites.
Justice Department sues Uber for overcharging people with disabilities
Employees cost money, as does buildings and storage. They can shutdown for periods when the energy cost is high but it hurts profitability and the economical viability.

The steel industry here try to build next to hydro, in areas where the price is relative low. The price point can differ by more than 100% when we compare the cheapest regions with the most expensive, for reason that has to do with transmissions. There is also experiments with hydrogen.

A few paper mills have cut down on employees, and in some cases shutdown the plants during periods of low wind.

Food production can't shutdown. A fish farm need to keep the water at a set temperature or the fish dies. Greenhouses that depend on artificial light can't just close down or the plants dies.

I would say that the answer is mostly a no. Short term some industries can adapt a little while waiting for the energy prices to stabilize, but long term it is a hard sell to have employees and building just sitting around.
> Goodbye old useful web... sigh

I did warn years ago that the gamification of the web would lead us here. The mere existence of voting systems on social media sites encourages the kind of behavior they claim to be addressing. In fact, I'm guessing they already know that.
> This post comes off as being sarcastic

Indeed. It is.

> and health misinformation is costing a lot of lives today

Thats a pretty cynical view of humanity - should we ban motorcycles because they are costing peoples lives? What is so bad about letting people make their own choices?

> are you OK with hate speech on social media

I believe in "free speech".

For example, is it even possible for you to tell me an objective definition of "hate" speech or "misinformation"? I bet you can't since it ends up being whatever Alphabet, or Meta's truth and morality departments agree on.

Without ways to express yourself the internet will just turn into TV - where people who agree with the megacorps get to hear their own echos all day.
Ah follow Facebook's path so you can better brainwash your masses.
> Would you prefer if executives were sent to prison

Actually that'd be great for serious transgressions. They're at the helm, they make decisions, they reap the rewards, why shouldn't they also be punished when the company fucks up seriously?
Maybe the reality is all those votes are purely random, but somehow the dislike button has half the chance of random click than like button. Which would be pretty interesting.
"They clearly don't want to be scanning your groceries or engaging in inane chit-chat with you. And they have almost no pretence about that fact."

Whilst true, and perhaps forgiveable, with regard to checkout persons I did hate it when the same general disdain for customers permeated the whole service sector. This is changing thankfully and going to a restaurant in the UK is now no longer (or at least, not always) a chore. Speaking as a native Brit.
Odysee is a great alternative.
I think you can still zip files without compression.
Also the experimentalists get very antsy when they/(we) can't touch the instrument. :-)
Would you mind pointing out my indefensible claims or where I moved the goalposts? The Lazard LCOE v15 analysis link I posted at top level of this thread specifically shows that solar paired with storage is cheaper than nuclear on a per kwh basis. My other links demonstrate that base load is unnecessary, and also substantiate that renewables and storage are cheaper than nuclear. Finally, if factcheck.org's conversation with various experts demonstrating that nuclear isn't necessary to decarbonize (and my willingness to put $1000 at stake, to demonstrate I'm arguing in good faith, that no new nuclear will be built successfully in the developed world), what evidence would be valid? I'm always happy to provide citations and references, but you can't discuss a topic in good faith with someone if every citation or reference is rejected as "fake news." Some objective observations and truth must be present and agreed upon.

To be frank, it sounds more like you are disgruntled and are unhappy when the facts presented (as well as the general consensus of the forum, as you mention in the comment I'm replying to) don't align with your belief system. I don't mean to be rude by any means, but I'm unable to come to any other conclusion based on my (imho, polite) interactions with you. I do believe my conclusions based on the data I present. Why would I comment and participate if I didn't? I don't take issue if you choose to not engage, but I'd appreciate if you'd tone down the libel and attacks on my character in a public forum if you choose to not bring facts and argue ideas.
unless the collateral appreciates past some threshold of expectation
Link to actual study: http://chrisparnin.me/pdf/stress_FSE_20.pdf

The study participants were split into two groups. One group solved the problem alone, in silence. The other group was instructed to narrate their thought process out loud to an interviewer who stood over their shoulder (literally, see the photo on page 3) while they solved it.

The flaw in this study is that the two groups weren't really assigned the same task. Solving a problem isn't the same as verbally narrating your solution to a problem. The authors attributed the differences not to the extra work narration work assigned to the second group, but to anxiety levels.

The participants even explained that their difficulty came from having to talk while solving:

> Participants also had difficulty with performing tasks that involved multiple simultaneous actions. Participants felt stressed by having to “talk while trying to write” (P44), “talking while writing” (P25), and “think and talk and do code at the same time” (P39). P41 found it difficult to “constantly speak during solving” and “lost breath at a few places during the task”.

There are other concerns with the study format such as many of a significant number of participants simply giving up well before the clock ran out, in both the private and public interview groups. They were given 30 minutes to solve 3 problems, but some of the participants (including in the private group) were giving up around the 10 minute mark without solving anything at all. This suggests a very high variance of the underlying abilities of their candidates, which necessitates a much larger sample size to draw conclusions.
Not one of those companies is profitable, so it seems it’s actually more correct than not..
I thought LIGO was the HST to Galileo's telescope.
Fonoster is the second most popular repo in Gh today for the JavaScript Category
> I face this all the time at work. "Can't you just make a single button to run this task so I don't have to figure out how to use this complicated script?"

"Just" is a four-letter word and its use is forbidden. Replace it with "in addition" and change how everyone thinks about the request.
Any factory wants to run full-speed 24/7. How are you going to manage their demand without reducing their production?

Same principle applies to most things. If electricity stops being readily available all the time, then you're introducing a new constraint that people have to optimize for. If that means they change their behavior, then they're doing something more expensive than whatever they were doing before, when they optimized without that constraint.

That extra cost generally isn't figured into the optimistic estimates of how cheap renewables are, but it's still a cost that society pays.

Building lots of charging stations at employer parking lots is also a new cost, that doesn't get counted against renewables.
I think this is the phenomenon behind people's mealy-mouthed inability to speak fluently these days, filling time with "like", "you know", etc. We now live in a world where anything you say is a potential landmine of violations of strict politically and morally correct thinking. It takes energy to evaluate what you are about to say, and self-censor before you step on one...energy that is subtracted from planning the expression of your next point.

Compare people's apologetic and noncommittal tech presentations now, to those from the old films with 1950s people in their lab coats and thick-rimmed glasses. They had utmost confidence and verbal fluency back then.
The U.S. shouldn't protect investors from the free market? That's the free market at work. Investors are not entitled to be paid. All investments carry risk.
To keep the instructions also means keeping the extra wide registers. Not sure how big a deal that is. I suspect the wider vector registers aren't such a big deal but there are also twice as many of them. The old AMD strategy of running a 4-element vector through 2 units of half size (or sequentially through one unit of half size) could work but the increased register set is still a burden to some extent.
If an opposition needs google videos dislike buttons to exist, it's already too late and already too silent.

What they can do is make opposition videos and get their own support, it'll be just as useless but it wont be brigaded visibly by the massive dictatorial support.
If that was truly their primary concern, why wouldn't they limit the scope of the change to smaller creators? Could it be that they were looking for a post-hoc justification for a desired policy change?
> If we're dealing with rural areas reliable internet isn't always a given

Yes, since my proposed solution is not 100% it's useless.
Is there anything like this for RAR files? I'm looking for an alternative to unrar, as I've recently learned that it's code is actually non-free.
>If the next view sees lots of downs, they can avoid it

the exact point is that this is terrible because the downvotes aren't representative of anything. two examples. Go to Youtube right now, pick a 5 minute daily covid update. I'm not talking about op-eds, just factual reporting about the stats. Chances are it has been downvoted 80% because there's a bunch of crazies on that site downvoting every news video.

another example, Thandiwe Newton years ago made some political comments 4chan didn't like, so they started to bombard every westworld video with her in it. I saw those ratios and decided to not watch the show for months. Turns out is actually great and it was just some right-wing internet mob being angry about her.

Nobody ever downvotes shitty tutorials, because the only people who passionately downvote youtube videos are crazy. I can't tell you how many crappy tutorials with wrong info in it i've seen, entirely upvoted.
If a person's $100k salary loses 20% of its value, but their $400k in mortgage and student loans also lose 20% of their value, it will be years before the lost value from their salary outweighs their 'gain' from the reduced value of their debt. They'll then have opportunities to increase their income, usually with the help of rising wages that accompany inflation, but that reduction in the value of their debt is permanent.
A) What do you propose the US do?

B) Why should the US do anything? If your risk profile when dealing with Chinese companies doesn't include the risk that the CPC will change the rules of the game later to benefit the domestic economy, you're a sucker.
Definitely suitable. Depends if you want to work within a framework or not.

If you want a framework, use Rails/Django/Node as they are very mature. Huge plugin ecosystems, great for prototyping non-trivial features like authn, because a plugin certainly exists for it.

If you want more control (fewer dependencies), roll everything yourself with Go. The built-in libraries are fantastic, you can spin up a CRUD app without any external libraries. There are also great third-party libraries, but I would stay away from framework-y stuff like GORM.
The successor to JPEG is going to be JPEG XL (.jxl)

https://jpegxl.info/
Can't make your own island and create a sovereign nation under current international law. It's been tried.
Aren't analogies a comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way?

Ok, I'm being disingenuous, that is the Webster definition.

Do you think Google is satisfied that people will readily associate dislikes with metaphorical bullets?
Better erections, better pumps in the gym, better chemotherapy. Now that's my holy trifecta!
Extensive computer modeling is used to predict the expected waveforms, and then we fit the observed waveforms to the expected ones.
I explored trading in my car a couple months ago and got lowballed by the dealership. I wonder if it's time to try again.
Nearly 13M users affected by NTT Docomo's October system failure
Brigading is a real thing that really happens.
We heard you - we no longer require an extension! Hope you give it a try, would love your feedback! :)
Worth noting it seems to have turned into a default in the hours since Reuters posted that. The editorialized title and actual title could come close to alignment if Reuters updates it.
Bridgewater suffered massive losses and laid off a ton of staff a year or two ago. The losses were something like $12 billion in 2020. If you are hiring in the northeast, you've probably run into ex-Bridgewater employees.