skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t the whole point to switch to a palleted image when you dither? If you are leaving it truecolor it just makes the image worse for no benefit as the article noted. Switching to a palleted PNG however can save a lot of bits in certain circumstances.

That said just pulling out a good lossy encoder makes a lot more sense most of the time. It is easier and it will look better. Dithering is lossy anyway.
Probably gradual optimizations in flying from Alaska, thru the Aleutian islands, to Kamchatka Russia, to Japan, to Korea, to China, to Taiwan, to the Philippines, to Indonesia, to Australia.

In fact, going directly over the Pacific is only maybe ~30% shorter.
We definitely need to build more houses, if you look at Topotijdreis and start from around the 50s-60s, increment by 10 years until now, you'll see that we haven't built anything to house my generation. The homes that were built, are large single family homes, not starter homes. The starter homes that we're meant to move into, are still occupied by the generation that grew old in them (born 30s-40s). Those 60s neighborhoods though are now slowly disappearing and replaced with more large single family homes bought by my parent's generation, with their starter homes being rented out to afford their mortgage. The system is completely broken and most of my parent's generation have been told not to pay off their mortgage, I'm curious what will happen when interest rates rise to 5%+ (or even 10%+ like in the 80s), so many of them will be forced to sell because so many are upside down in interest-only mortgages still.

Fortunately, people of my generation tend to earn better than their parents, so maybe in 10-20 years we'll see a situation it's completely turned around? Parents living with their children?

There's definitely enough houses if we take ageing into account (when people born in the 30s and 40s are starting to die off) but since COVID isn't the grim reaper my generation was silently hoping for, there's nowhere for us to go apart from staying with our parents or renting for insane prices.
I message almost everyone I know on Signal. I have WhatsApp installed (no permissions) for when I need to contact someone who doesn't have it.
Thanks Ian — our earlier conversations definitely helped shape our thinking about this space!
Thank you! appreciate your support :)
I believe that I addressed this sufficiently in the mailing list post you linked to:

https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3CfaFmBHWTBbMkA...

> I'm not going to ask anyone how they voted. But open support for fascism, or other behaviors indicative of his platform (racism, insurrection, etc), have always been against the terms of service, and will get you booted off the platform.

> There are not going to be political purges of SourceHut users, but we will not tolerate bigotry, and should we discover that any of our users are affiliated with organizations who do not uphold our values, we will ask them to leave.

> Note with all terms of use violations, our policy is not to vanish anyone's account overnight. We will reach out, discuss the issue, and if a resolution cannot be found, we will secure an archive of your data for you and you're free to take it to any other host.

> I'm going to shut down the discussion list for now, because I do not expect this to be productive. If you agree with the virtues we proclaimed today, then please spread the word to others. If you disagree, kindly show yourself the door.

I have nothing further to add.
> Which beliefs are objectively better?

I believe there can be answers here if one can clearly define what you are optimizing for.

That is the question on my mind these days.
Texteditors – listing almost 2000 editors
This is far FAR too melodramatic of a reaction
`dotnet new` gets you up and running in an editor like VSCode - my assumption is that if you're using a solution file you're using an IDE that creates it for you. You can also use `dotnet new sln` and then `dotnet sln add` to solve your sln problem. It's 3 lines, so it's a bit more typing, but it's still a pretty quick problem to solve.
These commenters will have their google accounts banned. That happened before

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/dtr6gi/youtube_susp...
Everything is on the margin.

All else being equal, providing a large benefit that's most likely to be exercised by one type of worker will discourage employers from hiring that type of worker.

This shouldn't be complicated or controversial. It's basic incentives.
I cancelled my youtube music subscription and had that as the main reason for cancelling. You gotta vote with the wallet. But I don't honestly think google cares about what their users cares about.

At least it doesn't feel that way.
The difference Togo has going for themselves is that they are like a startup country that has to be lean and resourceful because they just don’t have the money or - for lack of a better phrase - bureaucratic structures in place.

The article is calling Togo “poor” but that’s from the perspective of the West. Poverty is the norm, not the exception in such countries, which means that everybody is in the same boat trying to use what they have to make it work.

I think in the US, there’s much more hesitation to dive into new things with a willingness of accepting potential failure ahead of time and pivoting if needed.

Put another way, if Togo tried this and failed, they can just say “well we’re back to where we started, let’s try another way”, whereas if that happened in the US it would be seen as a major fault and carry a lot of political consequences.

Put into a tech perspective, a new tech startup might be willing to live with their business logic running cheaply off clever “hacks” that suffice, but if you approached a big company with that solution there would be like 10 levels of managers all critiquing it and running CBAs to assess the risks firsts.
> As a society, we do a shit job of ensuring everybody has access to quality education.

Is there any society that does a good job with that ?

The US richly rewards education in the most important aspect - great salaries for the jobs that come after the education. Almost no countries compete with US salaries. For the best tech salaries, it's fair to say none do.
Well you can do it if you have the money. They're slightly less efficient than a regular cassette and derailleur, but if you're not racing it probably doesn't make much difference.

https://www.rohloff.de/en/products/speedhub
They have a different extreme low-density advantage that they only need to stay up, and the wind blows them over.
You're saying you have less problems untangling C/C++/Fortran/etc. code left from previous folks who wanted to ship something and move on?
They won’t. However, it will get built as long as there’s a profit to be made. And it’s more profitable to build a 2/3/4/5/6-plex on a single lot than an single family unit. It’s just not legal in most places. Make it legal and the development will come. Every house replaced with a 6-plex is an excellent increase in density. The government can even optionally add a land value capture requirement to one or more of the units to make it permanently affordable to low income workers.
I've seen this, but while I muchly appreciate the creativity and engineering effort, it doesn't seem sturdy enough to be practical. Also, it's huge and still very exposed. It might even in its current incarnation be feasible on a road bike, but surely not on an MTB or gravel bike which may become dirty and muddy.
The website seems not to have been updated since 2019, so I assume development is at least on a hiatus, if it hasn't ceased at all: https://www.ceramicspeed.com/en/cycling/d3
Sure. Which is the most pallatable to the US legislature to actually make this happen?

It works in the UK and Europe because there is _some_ understanding that a prospering society at all levels can't be achieved by blind liberalism and some collective risk sharing is actually a good thing.
It's the usual trade-off of individual programmer freedom/expressiveness vs. rigid & predictable standards that enable productivity at scale.

Just because you can program a new feature quickly doesn't mean it is engineered well for the long-term & larger scales.
Biggest miss is tutorials etc.

Dislike ratio really useful to judge which ones are not worth the time.
ProtonMail now offers entire message content search
Sure, if you want to be the wimpy kid in the group that goes for a measly deer while the rest of the group goes after a wooly mammoth, go right ahead. You will rightly deserve all of the flack the rest of the group gives. Peer pressure, boy, I don't know.
Nice! A network tool I've always wanted is one that automates the investigation you have to do manually if you are experienceing "internet issues". I mean, the check list is quite straightforward but still a pretty manual process, stuff like:
- Do I have the expected IP?
- Is there large packet loss or latency issues hinting at connectivity issues?
- Can I ping the local gateway?
- Can I ping to outside network?
- Is my nearest DNS responding?
- Is another, remote DNS responding?
- What does Downdetector or similar say about the service I'm trying?

It would be nice with a one click tool that just went through this in order and gave a diagnosis.
They likely spend enough time on YouTube to feel that the removal of the dislike count will have a negative impact on their experience.
How the Midwest is becoming the leaders in climate tech
Chinese police execute corgi with crowbar for zero Covid
But in order to see that you would have to read YouTube comments, and nobody should be subjected to that. It is inhumane.
Paul Graham writing about good taste (and people actually reading this) looks to me like either good trolling on his side, or just the usual startup misery - an extrovert narcissist convinced that he has intellectual capacity to analyse absolutely everything (and that analysis is worth sharing) because he's running a VC. It's sad either way.
But its not an IDE /s
> That's because bitcoin is so centralized these days

Citation badly needed.

For taproot to rollout, you need wallet providers, exchanges, nodes and miners to agree. There are hundreds/thousands of different participants in each one of these categories across the world. Specifically, 90% of nodes need to signal for it.
there will be code or even memes, not an easy task. twitch still has problems with that, kids will always find a way around that
I commuted from the age of 11 until 21, when I had finally had enough of the BS to buy a bicycle and learn how to navigate the pot-hole-ridden roads of UK cities, figure out how to avoid getting killed by tired motorists and how to quickly fix a punctured tyre in -4c.

Those things build character. Sitting in a bus just breeds resentment.
I don't think so actually. Big tech is dystopian in nature these days.
The new MacBook Pro even has automatic phantom power
Dropouts without chain tensioning slot were simply unheard of at the time and if you happen to be the inventor of the quick release it's not really surprising that you make it a key element of the shifting process.

I was wondering for a while about the purpose of the teeth on the axle/dropout, because clearly with bearings between cogs and axle there's no way to force the wheel forwards pulling on the chain (you force the wheel backwards for higher tension by applying a little braking force), but the teeth on the axle are what makes the movement in the dropout symmetric, so your wheel will remain aligned to the frame center line. Really clever!
> The number one rule of parenting advice is that what worked for one kid may not work for another.

Surely there is some advice that applies to all kids. humans aren't that complicated after all.
Perhaps it is in part the process of making your own food that is also therapeutic.

I think we fill our days with positive and negative "karma" all the time and are unaware of it, losing clarity of even the bad karma as so much background noise.

Perhaps it is only in times of crisis that we are specifically tuned to see the accumulative effect of the negative karma, can see it for what it is. I feel that way myself anyway — and then try to redouble my efforts going forward of pushing away those detrimental influences.
Yes this the tradeoff we need to make more explicit in these discussions. Is it better to err on the side of feeding too many people? Or do we err on the side of extensively validating peoples' hunger status, knowing that for every inch of red tape added means another hungry person left in need.
>I'm suggesting (for cars anyway) that there is a point where the marginal systemic cost to save a life isn't worth the dollar amount for the safety technology used to save them.

As long as we're allowing regular humans to drive few ton machines freely on the public roads we're very far from this.
That sounds a lot like "Screw it. Insert me back in the matrix."
https://archive.md/u4Ael
You can't dictate a specific solution. It probably hasn't happened yet but someone who exclusively uses the FOSS software probably has grounds to request flat text. Flat text may be better with current hardware, who knows.

A business is going to have a hard time arguing that providing text is unreasonable.
I am not sure that is it reasonable or desirable (let alone possible) to treat "like" and "dislike" as signals of the quality of the video in some objective sense. It is certainly not what the everyday English usage of the words means.
Mi bad english played me bad here. I meant to write "Picks python... blabla"

Looked to me like a "Python isn't than bad for perf" article.
If you continued reading past the point where you didn't know things, you would know more things. :)
Even if I don't agree with his opinion, I really don't understand why so much people actually use cloudflare.

SSL is a solved problem since let's encrypt, cloudflare actually decreases performance (by adding an hop when serving dynamic content). For most websites, DDoS attacks are a non-issue.

It just feels like, unnecessary technology?
Ironically, the "white dot" type of art was popularized by CIA who poured money into cultural promotion following remarks by the USSR that the US was a culturally barren wasteland:

https://daily.jstor.org/was-modern-art-really-a-cia-psy-op/
Man, don't tell me Titanium Backup is abandoned... I've been using it for almost 10 years now!
The dislike button didn’t make YouTube democratic.
Their hobby and passion is to build something they could be used by thousands of people and put it out for free
>By the way, I live in Seattle, which raised it's minimum wage to $15 a few years ago to much doomsaying. It begins to seem to me like the style of laissez-faire economics that have dominated politics for decades (which I recognize may not have much to do with academic economics) is full of shit.

Well, in theory if raising the minimum wage did not result in unemployment it means that the real wage that these people deserve is higher than the old minimum wage and that employers abused their powers to pay people less. The abstraction of a free market lets people pretend that violence and coercion do not exist. Safety from those things only exists to a limited degree and only because the rule of law made it possible.
Largely because nobody has ever found Python to be dog slow. Put your unoptimized Python into production, you'll be fine.
Hold my beer.

-- Django
Marketing Week
This is great news, as mail without search is a hugely crippling situation.

Note that the feature is for premium (paid) users only.

There's no mention of whether or not this will also be available in iOS or Android apps as well. Information on this would be appreciated.
I am in same boat since a long time. I think you should consider hiring someone on fiverr. They do the design for you and then you go and implement it in html/css.
The argument of the YIMBY/"fix zoning" team is that our current regulatory environment restricts what the market is allowed to provide.

Based on what I've witnessed in my NEC metro neighborhood, this is correct: politicians gain favor with their constituents by fighting tooth and nail against anything that would add neighbors. I see two primary approaches: directly restrict the housing units allowed on a given property, or increase the minimum space allowed by requiring a dedicated parking spot. Since fewer units have to pay for the overall land and construction costs, unit prices go up.

The market is delivering exactly the results that the government requires of them.
you might get better results with a run-length encoding on a dithered image. I’m not aware of any modern image formats that use RLE though.
They do talk about being a part of a bigger thing — to me this implies serving a greater cause, serving others in need.
You will get this status message if

R = window.RTCPeerConnection || window.mozRTCPeerConnection || window.webkitRTCPeerConnection || window.msRTCPeerConnection;
U = window.RTCSessionDescription || window.mozRTCSessionDescription || window.webkitRTCSessionDescription || ["window.msRTCSessionDescription"];
R && U || (w.style.display = "none",

This is misleading, You can be using Mozilla/Chrome with WebRTC disabled.
I think they did have a freewheel however. Here's some footage from 1946:

https://youtu.be/k0AUknbBZ3U
> although I find their API a little too slow to move everything over to them

Postmark product manager here... I'd love to know more about this. We publish our API response times on our status page (https://status.postmarkapp.com/), so this is a surprising comment. Can you email support@postmarkapp.com with your account details and we'll look into this for you?
> A Michelangelo work will win even when the viewer doesn’t know it’s Michelangelo or even who that is.

This seems like a big assumption. Is there a study that tests this idea?
I see, so in principle, taproot would facilitate to set up custom scaling solutions for Bitcoin payment schemes.
> Getting productive and happy in the .NET ecosystem has a learning curve similar to that of Eve Online.

I'd be curious to know why you feel that way? I've been doing .NET development for ~20 years (since the original beta) so it's hard for me to see it through a newcomer's eyes.

ASP.NET Core doesn't seem more complex to start with than any other web framework I've tried (most recently actix-web (Rust), Phoenix (Elixir), Django, etc.)
So true. I have held myself back far more effectively than anyone else ever has.
I'd love to see your setup and how you attached the fin. I've thought of doing something similar, but instead of a fin, I figured the easiest way to steer the frisbee would be to bend the disc either up or down. Depending on spin direction this should, at least according to my theory, gently steer it left or right. A single actuator mounted to the center of the disc, pushing or pulling on two points on the bottom lip would be all it should take. Intuitively I think this might also eliminate the effects of the asymmetric lift torque since it could continually bias which side of the disc has more lift based on speed, rotation frequency, and angle to keep it balanced.
It's possible for a policy to result in an net positive even if it entails some individual negative examples.
> you have no idea if it's really a crap video or if it was just brigaded by people who live by "alternative facts" and don't like the specific video due to it having _actual_ facts

I feel like this would only apply to a few areas that are highly polarized (COVID stuff, political, etc.). But the vast majority of content I (and most people) watch does not fall into heavily polarized topics like that and the risk of brigading is zero.
Assuming that I was looking at the correct paper, it looks like they are depositing a substrate and the pillars on top, and that's it. Internet disclaimer that I'm not an expert, I don't know how you protect the pillars without having the same dispersive effects that they are fighting. For example, image sensors have glass in front of the sensor (for both protection and low pass), and the pixels are at least an order of magnitude larger, and 100x the area. But, maybe you can just compensate for that as well.

Looks like the pillars are 164nm tall, 610nm high, which is pretty big all things considered. So normal semiconductor cleaning methods are probably fine. But the ways you would clean a camera sensor for instance would be very not fine.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26920-6.pdf
It seems then I do not belong to any of these groups. Nothing is pink coloured, but at the same time nothing is truly depressing.

Some people say I am a party pooper, but I don't see that either. I just have reasonable expectations.

We all die. This ends both all pain and all joy.
For what it’s worth, Felix Gonzalez Torres’ work pushed me from “I don’t understand this modern stuff” to “oh I get it now.” Maybe it can do that for others?

I think there’s this notion that art has to be technically sophisticated to be of value. But really, all art has to do is communicate something interesting or meaningful. If a white dot does this then who cares how it was made?

Finally, people make a big deal about the price of art. Well, artists (the ones I like anyway…) don’t have much to do with what a piece of art will sell for. Ultimately the piece of art is just some interesting exchange between artist and viewer, the price has nothing to do with any of this exchange.

I’m just a guy that walked into a museum and thought this guy has communicated something profound and beautiful. When someone come up and says “but that must’ve taken 5 minutes to make!!” they look like assholes.
This is what I think of when the dithering articles show up. Way back in the day, dithering and reducing the color palette made a difference, when you were talking images loading over a 28.8k modem. For many widgets, you could shave kilobytes off, when kilobytes really, really meant something.
That sounds like the non-HNer way of doing something. An HN reader will want to try doing it with a RaspPi or Arduino to control the temps to ensure a perfect level of Type V crystals. Maybe right up some code in Rust with React Native UI. Then, come up with test units to show the Type V levels are within parameters. No HNer would ever do this by hand when a weekend of coding/building could solve the problem.
God. Even if you buy the "social experience" argument (which I don't really), removing it from the API for non-owners is just malicious.
Absolutely! For commuter bikes, a belt drive is fantastic in it being very clean and low maintenance. And it's amazing how smooth the ride feels compared to a chain drive.
But as you said, it's either single speed or has a gear hub with less efficiency.
Open the picture on the screen and let iphone scan it.
I Quit the Internet to Write My Next Book
I grabbed one of the dithered images off the article and saved it as an rgb png and as an indexed png with 255 colors.

rgb: 75kb

indexed: 35kb

So indexing does look like it could save a lot. I do wonder if it can still beat out say jpeg or webp though.
The button will still be there but only the creators will be able to see the numbers, so it won't affect companies' ability to be aware whether their campaign was successful or not.
I can not see how that argument could possibly follow. For the record, I do not think that Google Mail neither easily could, nor should, switch their domain.

Even if the argument is, and I do not think that it is, that domain validated TLS certificates for the .com top domain are the only CA signatures worth considering, it is important to note that it is comparably more straightforward for the government department in question to seize those domain names if needed.

A domain registry PKI where domain ownership is cryptograhically asserted can never be less secure than the heterogenous global CA directory we have today, in any possible sense, not for domain validated certificates.
Intel's Sapphire Rapids to Have 64GB of HBM2e Memory, More Ponte Vecchio Details
yea, or product reviews (especially for more esoteric things). you can immediately tell if its real or a bot generated slideshow with a TTS of amazon reviews