skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't track, imo. What helps me through life is managing my expectations of people and raising the bar when I chose to. In the beginning I set pretty low expectations for people. Some people may exceed those expectations consistently, but that doesn't mean that I want them to, or that at higher expectations they'd be nearly as consistent. Some people will eventually supercede expectations, but they must be met with a challenge to do so. Managing my bar gives me freedom from disappointment in a way.
This is probably the best article on energy I've ever read.

Instead of just buying wind/solar, these companies are basically trying to build a microcosm of the grid we actually need to solve climate change, so that when everyone else gets on board, we can point and say "do this, but bigger."
Graph Embeddings and PyTorch-BigGraph
A dithered image tends to produce very short runs of pixels so is likely to get poor compression with RLE.

Ordered dithering with a compression algorithm that can compress "words" (repeated patterns) (like the LZW in GIF) will perform better if the image has large areas of flat colour (not photos).
> I was genuinely shocked a few years ago when I realised how much my cultural interests had been shaped by that kind of social programming. I still enjoy art and music, but I'm little more circumspect about them now.

I had similar realization, but it did not made me more circumspect about art, music etc. It made me to be more willing to try stuff I assumed I wont like. More likely to look at the context at which something odd to me appeared and then more likely to understand/like it.

> cultural taste is an aspirational social marker.

I agree. It is also identity. It also explains why aesthetic culture wars appears. It is not so much about what it is or liking or disliking it. It is about who is assumed to like the thing and performative acceptance/rejection.
I don't get this article. Dithering is generally for limited palettes. JPG, PNG do not have limited palettes. This feels like a strawman.
> We recorded the keynote in early/mid-October

I'm not sure when the presentation was actually made, but if it's a pre-recorded video then it makes sense they couldn't change it on the morning for either the slides or presentation. In that situation, I'm honestly not sure how I would have handled it.
Some social programs? Don’t be a jerk.

I currently live in a country where covid caused a shutdown and the government said they’d help and completely failed to do so.

We’re talking barely subsistence wages going to zero and the government promising relief but failing forcing people to beg and rely on charity.

The US social program for Covid were fucking generous.
Since "Facebook bad" is on the front-page of HN every day, I thought some might be interested in a nuanced and contrary view:

"Reviews and meta-analyses on social media social comparisons, envy, and well-being present a complex set of findings. Earlier research finds social comparison and envy to be common and linked to lower well-being. Yet, increasingly, newer studies contradict this conclusion, finding positive links to well-being as well as heterogeneous, person-specific, conditional, and reverse or reciprocal effects. For instance, two experiments and three surveys observe benign envy to be more common than malicious envy.
They also find inspiration, a positive motivational outcome of assimilative upward comparison, to be frequently associated with social media. The positive side was also apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall and consistent with some earlier research, recent studies indicate that positive reactions to passive social media are plausible and not uncommon. Given contradictory findings and limitations, we cannot conclude that
social media are indeed "worse" we simply do not know yet."
Maybe we should look at why three sectors of the economy have had insane cost growth for three plus decades (housing, healthcare, education) and fix that instead of trying to band aid the negative consequences?
Peer to Peer data transfer via computing devices is something I wish was be more mainstream. It's not, because the commercial cloud storage mafia has invested heavily in telling people that your data has to traverse their toll roads first.

I recently discovered Syncthing Fork which was customizable in a way Google Drive or alternatives were not. And it's entirely P2P, transmitting files between my laptop and my phone, in either direction pretty seamlessly.

I'm now interested in learning about Bluetooth transfer as well as it works without Internet access. I've heard transfer speeds are slow though.
How much of these differences could be attributed to our gut flora?

Would a gut flora transplant help change our diet?
Low Tech Magazine Article on the whole site...which mentions dithering: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowte...

"""Compressed through this dithering plugin, images featured in the articles add much less load to the content: compared to the old website, the images are roughly ten times less resource-intensive."""

There's an assertion which implies data, but no data.

But accepting that there was SOME comparison to specifically their "old" image method, the takeaway could be "re-evaluate your optimizations"

Another take with low-tech mag is an aim of describing and utilizing old techniques that did the job just fine (a sentiment I take from a lot of their articles). So, using the latest compression algorithm literally doesn't tick as many of their boxes as dithering.
what if the AI is racist?
IFTTT / Reddit Alerts Filling Up with Porn Spam? Here’s What to Do
Being a dynamic website vs a static slide from a presentation happened at a specific point in time, I think you are comparing apples (err..) to oranges.
I am on Firefox and can still see the dislike count is this AB testing?
PNAS retracts paper that contributed to lung cancer trial
Be(a)ware – AWS Amplify does not have migrations
idk find another job maybe
The CIA backed American abstract expressionists, which is a different, more visually complex style of abstract painting that is distinct from minimalist abstract painting.
I use this as part of an ssh ProxyCommand. It's wonderful.
Is the premise unreasonable? Of course, it depends on what you're doing--there are certainly use cases where you know Python or a similar language wouldn't be appropriate (for performance or other reasons)--but it seems to me that there are plenty of scenarios where using a "faster" language up front isn't warranted, and you may never need to switch.
Arguably that's what happened in France in 2018 and that resulted in riots across the nation highlighting their apparent classism.
No. Their hobby is to create things. To code. This is a cool project if not for you then for those who do miss the dislike button. Personally I do a lot of diy repairs. I want to know if I am wasting my time with a video.
I strongly disagree with the hypothesis proposed.

Instead

1) most people are kind and want to help others

2) most people are not experts in most things, but do know a lot about a few things.

3) most people have different values which comes through in their priorities. Most value systems are equally valid.
It boggles me how angry I get when that happens to me with earbuds. It's so jarring. You feel like u been attacked by the earbuds.
Let's make it sustainaible instead of giving up.
Graham has always had a huge blind spot in understanding where the value in art originates
There is also a very real possibility that someone knows a subject, but has trouble describing it in layperson terms.
Oh interesting. I only had two contacts on Signal.
That wouldn't make the arguments disappear. The author is a DevRel for Chrome, for better or worse they have to go where the audience is. It's literally their job.
I agree with your first sentence but there are many other possible reasons. When I read the very explicit message "Your browser is not supported, consider downloading Chrome" I assume that this service works only with Chrome and not with Firefox, at least not on Android. Then I come to the comments in HN to complain about that and read that it works with Firefox if WebRTC is enabled, and I remember I disable it. I insist that it's the wrong error message because it hints to the wrong cause. I guess it's possible to disable WebRTC in Chrome too maybe with this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webrtc-control/fjk...
As a parent who got 6 months that barely fucking scratches the surface of the time it take to raise a human.

Subsidize me until they are in public school and I’ll high five you.
If you're going to cherry pick irrelevant metrics you can also say that higher gun deaths are related to lower unemployment. Just shoot your way into a job promotion.
The point is to show how absurd the left has become with their xenophobia towards Russians.
I agree that it is a problem and should be addressed.
I generally agree with you but signaling membership is far from the sole reason people like art - for example: the existence of hidden "guilty pleasures" indicates purely aesthetic enjoyment! I personally like fountain pens and riding a one wheel despite really hating the cultures around both of them

But the key point you're making - that good art only exists in a specific context - I totally agree with. Good taste/art exist only in relation to a specific culture, and depends on what that culture values (technique, creativity, bold ideas, traditional ideas (for example: pre-romantic period, good composers were seen as empty vessels "pure music" divinely flowed through rather than as geniuses with bold new ideas)). Shostakovich wouldn't have had a chance 100 years prior.
The whole thing is further complicated, by significant differences, being- unimportant. As in- differences of the sweat glands do not make for real differentiation. Different coloured skin is a superficial- unimportant difference.

What would be a differentiator - aka different brain-chemistrys and neuro-types - are non-existent or omnipresent.

Taking neuro-types as adapted to circumstances, the characteristika usually fielded by racists, are almost always a expression of "percentages" of neuro-types thriving due to different historic circumstances.

If you spend several generations enslaved and waged war upon, those neuro-typus adapted to the circumstances - will make up a large part of the surviving population.

Racism causes history, and history causes perceivable "Race" because humanity adapts to whatever it goes through. Given enough "good time" generations, the "adapted survivors" retreat percentage wise and are replaced once again with peaceful neuro-types. Unless, the stressful conditions are artificially prolonged.
This is from the same poster who, when confronted with data refuting his position, said "I'm not interested in studies that show something", which says quite a lot about the value of discussion here.
Doing that ends up requiring expensive equipment. And even then, it is common to seed chocolate. It's the same thing as using a yeast starter.
iOS Developer – Privacy
We Prefer Candidates from US or EU Time Zones - 100% Remote

Brave is on a mission to save privacy on the web. We make a web browser which protects privacy by blocking tracking by default, right out of the box. We offer completely private ads (opt-in!) as an alternative to the invasive surveillance online so that you can directly contribute to the sites you visit and appreciate.

Our roughly 100-person team orbits a “main” office of about 30 in San Francisco with smaller clusters or individual contributors spread around the world. Our work style combines an in-person culture in the SF office with remote-inclusive practices emphasizing live conversations by video call and fast and slow chat on Slack. Brave’s technical life is centered around GitHub, where we design, deliver, and document our work.

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The immediate tasks of this position will be to improve the privacy protections available Brave’s iOS browser. This includes both implementing privacy protections already available in Brave’s desktop and Android browsers, and implementing iOS specific features to work around the capabilities and limitations of the platform.

Representative projects include implementing fingerprint randomization and cosmetic filtering on iOS. Other possible projects include building or incorporating crawlers to build lists consumed by the client, and working with WebKit upstream to implement fixes and features that would benefit Brave.

This position would report to the privacy team in Brave, but would work closely with the iOS team.

Position Background

Brave on iOS currently lags behind the privacy & security protections we’re able to offer on other platforms like Android and desktop. The iOS team is always seeking to improve the situation, but in many cases we’re limited by the constrained set of capabilities available to WKWebView. The WebKit team is aware of these limits and they’re actively amenable to working with us to expose and develop these capabilities for Brave.

Candidate Expectations

A successful candidate should:

have experience with iOS development, Swift, & C/C++, and
possess a privacy and security mindset with empathy for the needs of the people who use Brave.
have an understanding of how websites and web applications work and are deployed. Experience with JavaScript is a strong plus as well.
Good thing is that if you run they would have to run behind you as they are also drunk. So it equals out
And pay all those expenses to have the note bought up by one of the same large banks? Selling debt is a very common practice.
Well, if you do go to 13, you are not taking into account any front derailleur. True for both the wire-operated tredici as well as the hydraulic trece.
I'm always leery of posts from right-leaning outlets regarding "cancel culture", but after reading more about this, it is as bad as it sounds.

It's a disgrace that they reprimanded him. The moderator was laughing along that night, then shortly after put out a notice of groveling apology and finger-wagging. I wonder what horrid administrator or donor was offended by someone making fun of a fascist.
feel free to keep writing c, as long as you prove all your code memory safe. i'm gonna take a stab and say writing rust is easier.
The Mailgun support also says DMARC records prevent this, when the reject policy is set to deny.
Its misuse is a smaller deficiency over the larger overall benefit of it though. For every oppressed and brigaded youtuber there's dozens if not hundreds of smaller channels that make crap content that don't deserve the algorithm boost because they gamed a certain keyword.
I used life in the same meaning as "start a new life" it's metaphorical. Sometimes you just need to reset everything.
Smalltalk failed because at your typical enterprise there rarely is any incentive to do better than doing pseudo procedural code in java/c#/python/whatever which in smalltalk is possible but hard.

The next step for enterprise programmers is being a PM or an analyst or nowadays an Scrum Master.
It has not been well covered in the media until recently; which is odd compared to how much coverage anything else that can be marginally tied to COVID gets.
YouTube started with a star system, right? 1-2 stars is basically a dislike, 3 stars would be "meh", and 4-5 stars would be a like.

Then they changed it to just like/dislike, because the star rating is too granular? Either way, like with Amazon, like/dislike can have as much fraud as Google/YouTube wants. Their best partners are obviously going to have more likes to help lead to more views to help lead to more advertising.
Blender 3.0: Next level support for AMD GPUs
> The model could be that employers are altruistic. Or that employers are dumb and don't realize this.

It's telling that your only conclusion for why companies could possibly continue to hire women is that they must be stupid or chivalrous.
Dozens of Shipwreck Discoveries Anticipated in New Marine Sanctuary
Investors will buy out everything, and outbid anyone else in the process.
> Who is forcing women back to work?

A modern Western lifestyle. Almost every Western country without fail requires dual incomes to afford a basic lifestyle.

The working-dad stay-at-home mum has long gone.
Word to Write By: Writing Lessons Distilled into Tidy Principles
Scientology: To Be Perfectly Clear
Quite honestly, Twitter makes anyone and everyone look bad at some point.
Tried Visual Studio 22 Preview. It couldn't run a debugger because "property program isn't defined". Apparently you need to specify some launch.json file god knows where, and god knows why.

VSCode kinda works (but also creates a launch.json file somewhere).

Rider just works. If it creates something somewhere, I couldn't care less (as I couldn't care less for any other IntelliJ product which tend to just work).

Also. Obligatory rant by Casey Muratori on Visual Studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-0tCy4P1U
Has anybody tried this and can share their experiences? It sounds really cool, but it's usually the edge cases that determine whether something like this is actually good or not. Thanks!
Loss aversion explains everything but is it true?
Intel: Sapphire Rapids with 64 GB of HBM2e, Ponte Vecchio with 408 MB L2 Cache
Everything is relative...

The nanopillar silicon coating was made using the same commercial lithography tools as industrial semiconductors, making it easy to quickly apply these coatings to existing optical components and expand the applicability of femtosecond laser pulses.

Using existing manufacturing equipment from a well-established field is surely a lot simpler than developing ground-breaking new manufacturing devices.
Actually the goal is to have no medium lived isotopes. Long lived isotopes are simply not a problem, as their level of radioactivity can easily be low enough to be safer than the original uranium ore. Short lived half lives, will decay down to nothing in more manageable time frames.

Like if we had no medium half life isotopes, we may only need to keep waste safe for a few hundred years, perhaps 1000 at most, before remaining short lived isotopes contribute negligible radiation, leaving just the long half life isotopes. If those are long enough we have waste not meaningfully more dangerous than the original uranium ore, and can simply bury it.

A lot of this does depend on the specifics of input fuel and breeding cycles used, but there have been designs that would be able to reprocess any medium lived half-life outputs, leaving only reasonably short lived, and very long lived outputs.

The real question is what is the overall effect of such reprocessing on the cost efficiency. Presumably, breeder reprocessing entails some level of cost (additional equipment, additional monitoring, etc), and we may end up with some not completely optimal components in the fuel after reprocessing, which would mean lower operating efficiency. But by how much? How much less cost efficient doing the right thing here makes the plants is a critically important concern.
I'm only talking analytics-quality data here, at the very least you would look at the major players and see where they are based. You would at least want to include anyone capable of doing setting up their own power plant specifically for mining, like these guys https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-58020010
The fallacy of premature optimization rears its ugly head again.

When Knuth wrote that quote, he meant something very specific with the word optimization: low level micro optimizations. Spending a lot of time trying to get every little ounce of performance from every little CPU instruction.

High level reasonable design decisions are not "optimizations" in this sense at all. You should think of them as non-pessimization.

Choosing Python or another slow language is premature pessimization. You just make your program slower for no reason.

So choosing a language based on how programs written in it perform is simply non-pessimization.

If you are interested in an expansion on this idea, checkout Casey Muratori's lecture about philosophies of optimization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgoetgxecw8

The article makes claims about software being "fast enough" and not needing further optimization. But what you call "fast enough" is probably 10000 times slower than what it could be.

I'm not joking.

People who program in slow languages have a really skewed perception about performance.

If a page takes 5 seconds to load, they don't see that as a problem.

If a server takes 500ms to respond to a request, they don't see that as a problem.

This is simply unacceptable.
It could be the case that a lot of the momentary, solo reaction is driven by your brain's anticipation of those future social situations.
If added noise is the aesthetic effect you are going for, it's probably better to ship a low quality (<50) JPEG of the original image and add the "dithering" in the client by overlaying noise there.
He says Modern Javascript but what he really means is Modern JS Frameworks (React and others). Don't use a framework if you don't need it, or use a framework and pre-render.

Frameworks being large and taking a long time to parse isn't the fault of JavaScript or NPM.
With termux it is pretty simple to run sshd and rsync on android phone.
This is the "extension of yourself" part I opened with. You're still talking about the car likes it's an extension of youself. It isn't. It's just a tool. And it doesn't limit your freedom in any way that we require this particular tool to meet certain operational standards in order to be allowed on a public road. I reject the notion that there's even a freedom component here at all.

We already regulate practically every aspect of driving. You're just used to those things, so they seem invisible.
Great discussion of some FTC data about tech acquisitions by the FAANG cos.
I find this odd assumption. Of course it is possible to have novel ideas and still have horrible dialog and shots. And no, I am not in habit of watching IMDB under 5.

Like, the reason people dont know imdb under 5 that satisfy your condition is that people avoid watching movies with low score. They dont recommend them to others either.
Apart from the very obvious argument that parental leave should be a human right and is essential to women's rights, the HN crowd might appreciate that there are significant individual and societal long-term benefits to mothers being able to care for their newborns.

Such as an estimated 2.6 point boost in IQ from breastfeeding [1] (95% CI: 1.25; 3.98)

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26211556/
No, but that's what their conclusion sounds like.

They made a specific action less rewarding, so that (obviously) resulted in the action being done less often.

It would happen exactly the same if they did this for the "like" button.