skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> many governments will be tempted to raise/introduce taxes on foreign income [...] Which in turn would make local jobs more attractive in comparison.

That's a double edged sword. Because your top performers are now seeing the local government trying to fleece them and it just makes coming to the US even more attractive.

It would also be a red flag for anyone in the country, to be fair. Instead of looking at what's wrong with the countries' tech ecosystem and fixing it to help local companies innovate and compete, they just rent-seek successful companies.
An EV Maverick would be excellent, despite the short bed.
As the bank of the world's reserve currency the Fed is always implicitly running a world bank. The transmission mechanism is for foreign currency to depreciate against USD which causes US domestic financial conditions to tighten, and the Fed would then have to loosen.
Then there are the democratic socialists, who are actually socialist (unlike the social democrats) but who disavow Marxism-Leninism. Problem is, assuming you set up a democratic socialist regime, if you want to keep the democratic bit, you risk losing the socialist bit (and vice versa). A lot of demsocs don't realize this; many believe that democracy and socialism are completely coterminous with each other.
It's clearly a mistake - either the article was downloaded onto the author's network (and internal link provided) or simply the wrong URL.
Related: pixz – a variant of xz that works with tar and enables (semi)efficient random access: https://github.com/vasi/pixz
So I haven't completely thought this through as my kids are still too young, but I'm leaning towards doing both.

Some level of controls feels like a way to encourage exploration and learning and the "hacker" mindset. If they escape the controls, great! We also have the conversations about what's out there, how to handle it, etc.
Not sure if sarcastic. Immigration to US is incredibly difficult.
>His thesis is that the US is a world power on the decline and China will soon rise to take its place.

Something I've found interesting about these kinds of theses (although I'm sure there's more to his) is that just believing that a company/country/whatever is going to be successful doesn't make it a good investment. It's all about the pricing of the asset and ultimately, for assets priced by a market mechanism, about what other people think. So a thesis for investing more in China could be "US is in decline and China will take its place faster/more fully than the market thinks."

Of course even if you don't have any special knowledge about China's future, the default position should still be to invest a part of your portfolio according to it's market weight, which in the FTSE All-World Index [1] is 3.9% currently.

[1]: https://research.ftserussell.com/Analytics/Factsheets/Home/D...
Agreed. This is trash opinion journalism that should be marked an opinion piece but isn't. Zero actually useful information.
> To follow your analogy, they robbed a bank for a million dollars and got fined 2 million. Then keyboard warriors shouted that they should have been fined 10 million because of unrelated crimes which are still being litigated.

Well, more accurately they robbed a bank for a million dollars and got fined a million dollars.
falcond is CrowdStrike’s endpoint antivirus thingy, not device management.

As usual, antivirus is an exercise in trading performance for increased attack surface (and compliance).
I should also point out that mozjpeg is considerably better than jpeg compressors that were around when JPEG2000 was introduced. I don't know if openjpeg is similarly improved.
I appreciate that response and link. Maybe Lowenstein's Theory of Mealy-Mouthism will be on there someday, after 3 or 4 pariah years.
I'm sure I don't understand your logic. They raised prices which improves their margins. They can use that money to build more factories (which they are already building) and pay down debt, putting them in a stronger position.

The backlog gets cleared by these new factories which can try to take up the excess demand.

What competitor is overtaking them? My understanding is that you can get any electric car you want, except a Tesla. That means people aren't buying the competitors vehicles. The competitors don't have demand, Tesla does.
https://insideevs.com/news/530606/us-ford-mache-sales-august...
This is maybe one of the mechanistic cause of cancer progression, but let's take a step back and see what would cause an excess PA concentration in our bodies [1], that is, other than force feeding mice with an enormous amount of dietary PA.

>>> in presence of other factors such as positive energy balance, excessive intake of carbohydrates (in particular mono and disaccharides), and a sedentary lifestyle, the mechanisms to maintain a steady state of PA concentration may be disrupted leading to an over accumulation of tissue PA ...

Business as usual.

[1] Palmitic Acid: Physiological Role, Metabolism and Nutritional Implications (https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2017.00902)
Like others were saying just try to organize your project into atomic independent tasks that you can finish in a day or two, keep doing that consistently day after day and results will compound. Talking from personal experience.
> But if it was true, wouldn't it be a good thing that creators no longer feel as much pressure to conform to fan expectations, eg in pursuit of bigger opportunities/audiences?

I'm not sold on that idea personally. The videos I create are based on what I'm doing in my day to day as a developer or if someone comments with a video suggestion since that's almost always in my wheel house of video topics which I greatly appreciate when this happens. I don't really make videos with intent to optimize for views / upvotes or get upset when a video gets a few downvotes. Lots of them have 100% upvote ratios and almost all have 95%+.

YouTube does let video creators disable voting but whenever I see that on any video I almost always think the channel owner is trying to do something nefarious. Maybe they're trying to avoid transparency by hiding downvotes or they are super self conscious about making videos and my internal bias suggests the video will be worse quality when compared to others. That's not always the case but it's true more often than not, at least for my own subjective take on video preference (mainly tech and hardware, no news).

I always strive for maximum transparency and let the results figure themselves out naturally.

In the end, this is mainly a huge downgrade for consumers of videos. It sounds like the algorithm will still take downvotes into account and video creators can still see the downvotes. It's the viewers who can no longer use this as a metric to quickly gauge a video's quality. In a world with so many amazing videos to watch, losing this quick filter hurts a bit.
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to imply that you should leave, and should not have been provocative by including that on the list. In that way you're quite right.

FWIW, the option I would personally like you to choose (not that you should particularly care what I want) is #2. That is, I would like you stay, and also to follow the site guidelines. The problem is that your comments have been frequently and seriously breaking them, and we need you to fix that if you want to keep commenting here (which I hope you will). We've already had to ask you to fix this numerous times, and to judge by your commenting history, it's gotten worse recently. At the same time, your reply here made me realize that I overreacted to that, which I shouldn't have. I'm also mindful that it wasn't always this way, and you've posted good things in the past.

As for "how people generally perceive HN", it's not that we/I don't care about that (we definitely do), but you have to understand that we're inundated with all kinds of generally-perceive-HNs, and these "general" perceptions are all over the place and profoundly contradictory. In fact, they're a statistical distribution that covers the entire spectrum. It's difficult to extract much signal from that—especially because people tend to express their personal feelings and complaints and views and experiences in the form of strong general claims. That doesn't mean we're not open to criticism and questions—it just means that criticisms and questions are best communicated in the form of specific points with specific links, and without a lot of the rhetoric that people (I'm speaking generally, not about you) often pour into these things.
What did you hope to add to the discussion with this comment?
Housing (rent specifically) rised and most likely won't fall back. In Houston rent went up by around 25% in the past 6 months alone.

This is extremely serious, considering that housing is one of the most important product people pay for.
Two Interviews: Clearer Thinking, the Bayesian Conspiracy
I was never sure why MNG failed so spectacularly. Eventually it had to be replaced by full up H.264 videos and a lot of places are still using old fashioned animated GIFs because firing up a full fat video codec for a 32x16 animation with a dozen frames is silly.

Was it really just the lack of interest from browser makers preventing people from using it?
Inner Ring
Something to keep in mind is interviewers basically never receive any kind of training, and even experienced technical interviewers do it maybe once a week or so. These people are doing their best to gauge technical aptitude and culture fit from a one hour conversation.

It's not easy either. If I mess up once while giving advice on a place where the candidate is stuck, I can really confuse the candidate. Plus the time cost of reviewing a person's resume to determine what questions are appropriate for them. Lastly, I can't be expected to know all the tech on someone's resume at a level that I can gauge their capabilities, I use other means to determine if what a COBOL person is telling me is accurate.

So you have to kind of plan that interviewers take shortcuts (like judging confidence) and take advantage of that fact. If someone asks what are some benefits or drawbacks to a tech stack you use, have at the ready a good story about a shitty/hilarious/intersting experience you had while developing it. The experience doesn't need to be a 1-to-1 mapping either, it's a-okay to kind of nudge a question towards an answer you prepared.

This is better advice than you're really appreciating. If you feel like you are doing this, but still am having trouble, it's likely that you need work in some other non-obvious aspect of interviewing. I highly suggest finding a coach or someone who can take you through mock interviews and help you find out exactly what you can do to improve your chances!
Was going to say the same thing; GeoTIFFs are common. But they are a "specialist" format in the way the article is talking about.

Why is GeoPNG not a thing? PNG is based on TIFF's design with various chunks allowing all sorts of metadata storage. It'd be pretty easy to translate GeoTIFF's GIS stuff into PNG. Has that been done?
Ive run into two people this week with deposits on cyber trucks. I don’t meet many people!
I was under the impression that iMessage does its own scanning as well. I could be wrong; I don't use an iphone.
Did you describe your child using weight instead of age?
> ...as we don’t yet have $1b in the bank like they do

Sounds a bit like sour grapes: getting a big model for another language like French is great, and it would do you well not to compare yourself to others on... non-technical merit.
A quick dip in Presidential rhetoric, or a permanent plunge? (2018)
I wouldn't worry too much about this stuff. Even if you get stuck somewhere for an year, it's not the end of the world. Once you make the transition and gain some skills, you'd have more options and be free to explore them.
Greater fool theory for sure. Once they have dumped the stock on retail investors, who cares what happens? Tesla was lucky that they had a maniac like Musk who just willed the company to success but there are not many people like this.
Which hardware does it run on anyway? Can I install it on a PC? An old Android phone? reMarkable? RaspberryPi? PocketBook? Kindle? Perhaps VirtualBox?
Ignoring pathways for refugees, it is really hard (impossible?) to do this without a degree.
You can. I've worked at a few startups and participated in interviews, witnessing the variety of questions asked. For most companies its a limited pool of questions and well trodden ground.
Plain Org has joined the chat (iOS)
Data-driven LaTeX templates (jtex)
> I don't even buy YouTube's claim that "brigading" or "dislike attacks" is a real thing or a problem. If they have a minimum number of minutes that a video needs to be watched before a vote is counted, then that vote is legitimate, full stop.

I've seen dislike attacks happen. And if it takes a non-trivial procedure to make them count, people will document that procedure. For instance, hypothetically:

"Alright everybody, here's the link. Remember, mute the tab right away but don't mute the video itself; wait 2 minutes (the timer that starts when you click the link will go green to let you know), then click the dislike button."

I've seen much more complex instructions offered as part of gaming a poll, as well as sites built to help semi-automate or simplify the process.

The key distinction that would be useful for YouTube to measure: did you encounter the video and then dislike it, or did you visit a video you were referred to for the sole purpose of disliking it? I don't think hiding dislike counts serves that purpose, though.
>Just look at Musk, it was either PayPal or military service during Apartheid...

weren't his parent relatively rich, which makes going to the other country, especially US kinda easier?
Fragility’s Triumph
Maybe they were trying to do a little something for the creators, so they stop complaining about the rampant abuse of Youtube's automated copyright systems. Seeing as YT is completely unwilling to curb copyright strike trolling, or if a queef accidentally sounds like a Danny Elfman score, the good people at YT can stuff that thumb button and call it a day's work. Yay.
I'd say that there are two categories of reasons.

First, the iteration cycle is much longer than for software.

Second, Moravec's Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

Both of these make robotics really expensive to research and develop.
The US Infrastructure Bill Has Passed. What Now?
Yeah, that's actually a pretty good point. Personally, I don't really pay that much attention to profitability of individual verticals because I hold similar opinions on cost attribution, but then again, I'm no accounting expert, so I don't know if my opinions are actually correct.

I think the narrative people are pushing about bleeding money on every ride is too simplistic though. I could definitely get behind an argument that, for example, driver incentives ought to be bucketed under mobility, but on the other hand, attributing a Didi valuation fluctuation to a business vertical is obviously silly. Personally, I'm not convinced that there are enough "hidden" losses in misc categories that are "rightfully" attributable to mobility to offset the Q3 performance, and my understanding is that many analysts are bullish on Uber right now because they see the trend in these metrics, adjusted as the metrics may be. I guess we'll see what happens next year.
> If people got encouraged to not get vaccinated, that would be bad?

Yea of course, and thats my point. I think banning these videos and the ability to show discontent makes the problem worse and further divides us on political lines. What exactly is your argument here?

> You that that it is barbaric that a dislike button is not available on one platform?

The removal of the dislike button is another step in an undeniable trend toward censorship against anything mega corps and governments decide is not moral or truthful.

People can tell when they are being herded around and silenced, and they dislike it.
When I participated back in 2015, it was 5500$. It seems they have reduced it to 3300$.
> Speaking of utopia: It would be fantastic to see the worlds nuclear arsenals being converted to nuclear energy generation. From destroying humanity to improving life all over the planet. Not sure that kind of leadership exists anywhere.

Ahem...

May I introduce you to the

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-800_reactor ?

( singing voice: "It started with a hiss...never thought it would come to this..." )
My current employer (long term contract work) and many other company policies simply require e.g. ms authenticator... Can't find any alternative to that. Is there a way to use company issued ms 2fa without a mobile phone (Android/iOS)?
> I really don't understand this move... this will seriously limit our ability to filter bad content.

I think that is entirely the point.
IMO, they are closer than in other comparisons except you can still see some of the usual problems: e.g. in the "Cecret [sic] Lake" image on Medium: with JPEG there is a hint of ripple on the lake and most of the raggedness of the edges of the clouds is still there. With JPEG2000, the reflections on the lake turn into blotches and clouds have soft edges, even missing some large and obvious details. For some reason, it's quite disturbing to me. OTOH, JPEG2000 does a surprisingly very good job on the bushes. Maybe JPEG2000 could be actually good by allocating a little more bitrate to low contrast areas.
Designing solutions with state machines in Elixir
For at least a couple years now, there is no "Share To" option for Standard Notes on Android. So basically, of you want to put something in a note, your only option is text-based copy & paste. Inconvenient, especially compared to competing solutions.
>They are talking about actual attacks

This is a fallacy known as "begging the question".
You plan on keeping track of your own counter for each unique video id?
I'm trying to get rid of a 2007 Civic as I'm moving, and can't really seem to get a very good price for it anywhere...
I asked you for an alternative and you didn't provide one. Are you interested in solving problems or just throwing stones?
Gen Z/Gen Alpha grew up in a world with social media being already established and so they are aware of the pitfalls.

Millenials are screwed because they starting using social media before fully understanding the ramifications(because most people did not know how this was going to play out in the early days).
It should be fine to broadcast SSN, the blame really falls to credit reporting companies and lenders treating it as a private and secure identifier.

SSN's weren't designed to be secure, and after decades of leaks they certainly aren't now. Lenders have attempted to brand losses based on this as "identity theft" (putting onus on the person) rather than just "we failed to properly authenticate before handing this person our money". Time to stop subsidizing usurers by letting them get away with this. SSNs are effectively public, and are not secure identifiers.
I very rarely hit dislike; I mainly do it for misinformation or clear manipulation.
Agreed. Sometimes you know within a couple of seconds that a video isn't what the title and thumbnail claims it is, and that's a great reason to hit "dislike".

For instance, an hour-long video claiming to be what you're looking for, but actually consisting of a still image and a URL to a scam/spam site.
File names not being normalized across platforms is sometimes beneficial. Ignoring symlinks is also sometimes beneficial. However, sometimes these are undesirable features. The same is true of solid compression, concatenatability, etc. Also, being able to effiently update an archive means that some other things may be lacked, so there is advantage and disadvantage of it.

I dislike the command-line format of Hop; it seems to missing many features. Also, 64-bit timestamps and 64-bit data lengths (and offsets) would be helpful, as some other people mention; I agree with them, to improve it in this way. (You could use variable length numbers if you want to save space.)

My own opinion for the general case is that I like to have concatenable format with separate compression (although this is not suitable for all applications). One way to allow additional features might be having an extensible set of fields, so you can include/exclude file modes, modifications times, numeric or named user IDs, IBM code pages, resource forks, cryptographic hashes, multi-volumes, etc. (I also designed a compression format with a optional key frame index; this way the same format supports both solid and non-solid compression, whichever way you want to do, and this can work independently from the archive format being used.)

For making backups I use tar with a specific set of options (do not cross file systems, use numeric user IDs, etc); this is then piped to the program to compress it, stored in a separate partition, and then recorded on DVDs.

For some simple uses I like the Hamster archive format. However, it also limits each individual file inside to 4 GB (although the entire archive is not limited in this way), and no metadata is possible. Still, for many applications, this simplicity is very helpful, and I sometimes use it. I wrote a program to deal with these files, and has a good number of options (which I have found useful) without being too complicated. Options that belong in external programs (such as compression) are not included, since you can use separate programs for that.
> There is always bias in the userbase, people usually watch content on their side of the political agenda for example.

I agree, but as a user I am used to assuming a baseline of support for a video coming from the channel's subscribers. So even if the pie-in-the-sky random sampling is biased, I can usually account for that. What I would like to be able to assume is that likes and dislikes come from the "usual" traffic a video receives.

> Also are we talking about global opinion?

No. I think it can be assumed (like you said) that videos typically receive views from certain people. My point is more that brigades disrupt the helpfulness of ratings for viewers like myself. I think we should not offend the sensibilities of the homophobes in this world (lmao) by asking them to watch LGBT-friendly videos. Conversely, I think said homophobes should refrain from brigading such a video just because they dislike LGBT people.

I also will reiterate my claim that it is rude for the hypothetical homophobe to exercise targeted downvotes on LGBT videos.

As for myself, I'm not all too pleased with downvotes being straight up removed from Google (edit: YT). But acting like brigades are constructive and normal use of the platform is silly to me.

Edit: clarified some points
you yourself may have had a purl – a warming mixture of beer, gin, nutmeg and sugar before the journey

trying to imagine how that tastes
But seen another way: Hookers are, in my mind, the epitome of suspects of spying… I suppose a third of the world is driven by pillow discussions, whether actual spying, just influence, mere affinity, or rape accusations to get rid of a political person.
JAMF is the leader here, but I found it to be too expensive and unfriendly. I eventually settled on mosyle. When I originally learned about MDM I was quite surprised they had this third-party architecture.
From my side, I knew about both `ripgrep` and `the_silver_searcher` but I will openly admit I've lost faith in C and C++'s abilities to protect against memory safety errors.

Thus, Rust tools get a priority, at least for myself. There are probably other memory-safe languages but I haven't had the chance to give them a spin like I did with Rust. If I found out about them then I'll also prefer tools written in them if there's no Rust port and if the alternatives are C/C++ tools.
I feel like family is more willing to assist with basic monthly living expenses than covering a $40k/semester tuition.

It's a lot easier to stomach covering a grand a month (shared housing, student works for spending money) by comparison.