skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Durability would hardly limit the applications, the vast majority of optical coatings are inside things like camera lenses. Glass is a sensitive thing after all anyway. They don't put any of the sensitive coatings on the front element, it's essentially a glass covering these days.

Eyeglasses are the only optics I can even think of that are regularly damaged and in contact with various hazards that can't really easily be shielded.
That depends upon a person's values. People do not only start businesses and organizations just to get rich. Although that is certainly a common reason among founders, along with other reasons.
> On the other hand, postmark is a bit more flaky - I track delivery RTT and had had a few cases in my first year with them where Postmark had > 30m delays

Postmark product manager here... I'd love to know more about this. We publish our Time To Inbox on our status page: https://status.postmarkapp.com/

The only time emails might sit for longer than a few seconds is if there is some issue with the account (such a accidental spam being sent due to form abuse). If you have specific examples, can you please email support@postmarkapp.com and we'll look into it for you?
> In part because we have used regulations to require you to be rich.

...

> Building codes and zoning regulations mean there’s a minimum price you have to pay for housing in the US that’s around a factor of 10 higher than in much of the world (less than $100/month for a single bedroom apartment in a city in India vs around $1000/month in the US in a city… median is currently around $1200/month).

That's a pretty incredible take. Somehow so many people live in an ideological bubble, that no matter how varied the situation their explanation of the cause of the problem is exactly the same.

In the US, where the minimum wage is 10x that of India, the real value is land likely more than 10x that of India the explanation for why housing is more expensive is because of building codes. The claim is that 90% of the cost of housing is due is building codes.

I really wish people on got out of their ideological bubble more frequently. Some mantras get repeated so much people start believing they are true no matter how contradictory the evidence. It's not good for long term outcomes.
How much closer toward the shade did society move when reddit removed dislike counts? Did we move away from the shade when YouTube introduced them in the first place? Is adding and then removing net neutral? So many questions about this hyperbole...
If irresponsibility becomes the norm, then it ceases to be an individual personal failing to be scolded for, and is instead a systemic societal issue that should be addressed.
> I'm not interested in studies that show something.

The study doesn't agree with how I believe the world works so therefore they must be wrong.
Outside of politics and other controversial topics, the dislike button is immensely useful in determining the quality of a video. If one has several thousand likes and just a few dislikes, you can be relatively certain that the video meets or surpasses expectations. If, on the other hand, it has a high number of dislikes, there's a good chance that the video will not meet the average user's expectations. If you play those videos, usually the issue will surface for you as well and you can save yourself the remaining time on the video looking for better content.
We'd need a dashboard indicator to indicate that it refused to start due to alcohol. After all, it might just be broken down independent of the driver's alcoholic state at that point.
GiveDirectly's studies in developing countries are quite compelling, but I don't believed they've published any studies about the US yet.
If you tune up your camera to "see what is there" people complain that their blemishes are too visible.

So generally the processing chain is tuned up to be more flattering.

I took a photo of my son who had acne at the time and did the opposite and made it look like he'd smoked 10,000 cigarettes. He and I thought it was a good photo artistically but I wouldn't show it to his grandmother.

What's flattering is going to depend on your skin type. People with very light skin have bad problems in this respect.

Auto-exposure is also an issue. It assumes the scene is middle gray and if the objects in the scene are unusually light or dark it will get it wrong.

I took a photo of a friend who was wearing a black gothic dress and the +2 ... -2 exposure dial was not enough to get her face right and make the dress really black and I had to go to full manual.

Now that I think about it, I haven't taken a lot of portraits of black people and I think I want to take some to learn how.
Wow its a 1999 paper on 1976 grads, not sure how well the lessons continue.
CNN worked hard to help create this dystopia.
> Whether an action is prejudicial is not a statistical question, but an ethical one.

I think this is kind of what we're talking about, though, isn't it? Does "prejudicial" mean "having preconceptions about a person based on a few observed characteristics"? Or does it mean "assuming things I think are unfair about a person"?

> My use of "immoral" here is to sign-post that something is missing: an ethical theory.

If that was the intent then it worked for me.
If your only advantage is that you will work after hours, then you might have a skills problem on the job market.
If objkt.com goes down, it is the same effect as Hicetnunc.xyz going down (as is now the case), i.e. nothing changes to the data/assets. Neither platform is "hosting" this data; it is more accurate to say that the community of artists and collectors bear the burden of its maintenance.

There are two facets to the data: one is the token (which holds provenance, ownership, pointers to IPFS hashes), and this is stored rather reliably by the distributed ledger of the blockchain, and likely to survive & continue to be usable as long as Tezos cryptocurrency continues to be used and validated. The other facet is the media (metadata JSON, PNG, etc), which is hosted in a distributed fashion, typically by the artist and/or their collectors.

Of course this system is not perfect, and within the next couple decades I have no doubt that most of the media will be lost. :) But some may survive, if it is deemed culturally relevant, as has been the case with traditional art continuing to find stewardship in public & private institutions many years later.
sports do not generally qualify for this argument as they most of the time have a metric that is more or less objective

You see arguments about aesthetics and taste all the time in sport. "Team A may have won the championship, but they have a very ugly style. Team B played a much more beautiful game" or "I love watching Team C play even if they lose almost all the time, because they have such a fun and interesting way of playing". In some sports like MMA you have fighters with near perfect records and impressive win streaks against the best in the league, but no one watches them because they're "boring".

Essentially there are two ways of viewing sport. From the player/teams point of view where it is all about winning, or from the spectators point of view where the primary goal is to be entertained.
That sounds like a great plan. We're planning to build our public API and CI/CD integrations early next year, so that developers can know what the downstream impact of their changes might be, and whether it could introduce unexpected results. We may be able to slot right in there with Pact.

Mitigating the impact with monitoring is where we're at right now, but we're with you that preventing errors can be even more important.

If it's interesting to you, we're happy to open up a shared slack channel to dig into the nuance as well! Just email me (guru@metaplane.dev) with the email you'd like to be added.
Python was Googles language of choice for a while, so people jumped at it to work at Google.

Popularity and expansive use may have nothing to do with quality, and a lot to do with financial influence on peoples agency.

Business wants people templating out directories of performant code, not generating syntactic art for the ages.
Lesson learned: test your optimizations.

I will admit I'm surprised by the results. I assume there's not really a rendering perf hit from WebP vs jpg?

Also, the preposition that lowering the file-size, and therefore transfer time, is the most important factor in environmental impact is, I think, a little under-supported.

That being said, the original Low Tech Magazine article's perf claim is back up from the data, but they also use very low resolution images.

I'd be curious if dithering could be optimized to a particular algorithm. For example, jpeg's quantization is based on the assumption that images are mostly made of low frequency data and higher frequency can be removed without changing the quality of the over all image too much. With dithering, this is almost the exact opposite and all low frequency information is replaced with high frequency information, meaning it won't be nearly as effective.
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> IMO the dislike count is useless for filtering out "bad" content

I don't know what kind of content you consume on youtube, but this does not reflect my experience at all. I'm regularly researching repair/modding manuals or enthusiast videos and the dislike count is a very, very good way of telling how good a video will be. Sometimes things are done in a really bad or even dangerous way, or the whole video is just someone describing the problem and then skipping the actual fix.

The only other place I've seen dislikes is at pr videos that went viral for their outright offensive hypocrisy or otherwise badly formulated message, which I wouldn't call a bad use either.
A friend and I are actually looking into the space and would love to have a chat if you're up for it?
Bless you magical wizards. I don't know why as I haven't analyze it much but for some reason this really frustrated me and made me feel powerless.
May I suggest these informative articles?

• 5 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Poor, May 27, 2011: https://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-nobody-tells-you-about...

• The 5 Stupidest Habits You Develop Growing Up Poor, January 19, 2012: https://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-habits-you-deve...

• 4 Things Politicians Will Never Understand About Poor People, February 21, 2013: https://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-politicians-will-never...
The polarized post-facts world was abusing a feature, so the owners of the platform took their toys away. This should come as a surprise to nobody.
Zen of Nim
just replying to the part about bad actors - he is talking specifically about narcissists and psychopaths. If you have to cut out your parent because of some inconvenience (and not because they are narcissists and severely affect your life), then that makes you not so empathetic, and that is absolutely not what he argues for in his book psychopath code.
> Why do we need a law against bosses demanding sex and blowjobs when you can simply say no?

So working after hours is similar to sexual harassment. What a shortcut your did there. Next time try a better analogy.
Bi-partisanship is alive and well when it comes to circumventing rules to enriching oneself.
> Are they able to live up to that promise?

Postmark product manager here, so I'm a little biased but... yes we are! You can see our Time To Inbox stats on our status page: https://status.postmarkapp.com/

We also have a handy migration guide here: https://postmarkapp.com/migration-guides/sendgrid
Yeah and dont underestimate party schools. Some of my happiest friends have a big network of good friends they met while having a good time in college.
Can someone explain why this matters so much to so many people? I'm genuinely perplexed. I'm not a regular YT user, let alone content creator, and basically treat YT like any other video hosting service. So I definitely leave open the possibility that I might be be missing something. But the extreme responses in some of these comment threads give me the distinct impression that there must be money on the line or something.
I really can not follow the logic of this thread here, especially the last sentence.

When the choice is between "living a life you can't afford" and "not living at all as they do not have any money to pay rent", I think it is clear that people should try to live.
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Ahh how I truly miss being super focused:

win2k pro
winamp 2.92 (and all its glorious plugins. still use it today!!!)
jasc paint shop pro 7
jcreator ide
ati TV wonder
firewire ethernet
that network activity icon
amd k-6 processor
384MB ram
a consistent UI
powertoys
gpedit tweaks
ms-word (and yes I rather enjoyed clipit)

Vs today where every piece of modern software fights with you to get work down. There are some exceptions but the list is rather small now.
Amateurs.

-- Perl
One thing I like about my Gameboy 3DS is that the display is consistent and artists can tune art up for it.

For some game series (say Hyperdimension Neptunia) fan art captures the essence of art in the game but for the big Nintendo games on the 3DS (say Fire Emblem Fates) fan art doesn't look like the game art at all because the game art is calibrated to the characteristics of the display in every way.
Some study said we try to avoid losses 2.5 times more than we value gains.

If these traits were balanced, then we could be better prepared for the modern world.

At the same time, it can be argued this bias would provide some protection against having nothing to eat for far too long in the wilderness, which could prove fatal.
YouTube was without a dislike button for most of it’s existence - why care now?
The metaverse is tech's way of creating and running a country
Because there are no articles about big companies having money transfer problems with their suppliers.

The complains are about the "buy now pay 90 days later" part, not about the actual money transfer.
I think it's the latter - you see the same thing with Naval too, as well as a slew of rationalists who seem to consider it their role in life to reinvent sociology from the perspective of a software developer without having read any of the existing academic works.
This might be overly reductive, but if you use Twitter or any social platform where people indirectly reference other posts, I think you can maybe understand how a dot on a white canvas can have impact. The "Loss" meme [1] borders on being that exact thing.

1. https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/heres-to-loss-the-interne...
well tbh they still do today. Every byte you can take off (very easily at that ...) makes websites:
. faster to the user, which does contribute to a general reduced level of stress :-)
. use less energy: less bandwidth/less CPU (cisco, nginx, your disk/memory cache.... you name it). Less $$ on your bandwidth/cpu bill @[insert cloud provider here] and less BW/CPU used up on your user's mobile metered connection (because nowadays it's mobile, dontcha know)
So even though if many instances over-optimisation is definitely overkill ...in nearly all cases a sane amount of optimisation is good.

my 2p
I wish I remembered the name of the astrophysicist in the early 20th century who made a correct conclusion but who was ignored because they were so generally disagreeable. It wasn't until at least a decade later that others reached the right conclusion.
Regarding the headline:
Oh I don’t need to assume, I have a lifetime of proof. Especially if the latter.
All kinds of ratings systems should just be removed.

I have had app at Play Store for a long time. It receives only low ratings, because there is one feature missing. App itself if free and has a lot of features. How does this encourage having app at Play Store at all?

It is similar at all other platforms. We need encouragement for all developers. Not dislikes.
As others have mentioned, Bourdieu would like a word with him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_(book)

Graham seems to be conflating skill with taste. The artists he mentions are skilled at art and he states that he is not. Distinguishing between skilled and unskilled work may be "good taste" but what is considered good art is more than just skill.
I know he said "Texas", that's my point. He didn't compare NYC to posh Austin or an upscale sector of Houston, he compared it to an entire state.

You could just as easily say "if the cost of living in Austin is too much for you, there are affordable places to live in New York" meaning North Tonawanda or Syracuse. Ridiculous.
This is overly dismissive - why not attack the ideas directly?

I find these ideas overly reductive since the essay presupposes that art should be judged in a vacuum outside of it's societal context, as if that's somehow more objective. The emotional impact of the art (PG's stated objective function to maximize) cannot be pulled out of its context. Said differently, the emotional impact of a piece of art often leans heavily on the story of the artist. PG seems to argue against this, but unconvincingly.
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All animals that survived to this day are the ultimate evolutionary optimisers that is why they still exists.
The gravel sub-genre has spawned a few frames built for the Pinion drive gearing solution (located in the bottom breaker area, like a central ebike motor, started by car gearbox engineers). Arguably that could be considered the next level of hub gears.
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The article brings this up, but I'd say that in general home "bean to bar" chocolate isn't worth it unless you have chocolate conche machine, which you can get for about $300-$500 online. Otherwise you're going to end up with something quite gritty with a bad mouthfeel.
Tesla didn't like paying banks to store its money in Europe via negative interest rates, so they moved in into Bitcoin.

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/263185/20210721/elon-musk...
I think in India iris scans are used in addition to fingerprint as biometric markers. Doesn't cover all cases but more robust than just relying on a finger or an eye.
Underdog no more, a deaf football team takes California by storm
Whether or not it is worth it depends on your priorities. Based on the pedigree of many of the leading political figures and business leaders, it does seem to have a measurable impact to have passed through the leading institutions. Who you know is of course more important than what you know.

But depending high high you are aiming, it may or may not be worth the tradeoffs for you.
"Nice places are limited, and will always be expensive."

But the thing is, housing isn't about 'nice places always being expensive' it's about reasonable places skyrocketing in value do the a lack of new or additional housing to accommodate a growing population.
And maybe I can trace my family back to the 1600's? Thanks for your "explanation". I know exactly how people see cars. My great-grandfather, a Boston driver if there ever was, raged against stop lights when they were introduced: "Ain't no machine going to tell me when to stop and go!" People love their "shortcuts" that go down neighborhood streets at 20 over and which aren't actually any faster.

That "freedom" comes at the cost of people's homes that made way for highways, fortunes spent on a car that became necessary to hold a job, and lives because "oh it was just an _accident_". It seems more like slavery to me.
Addendum: It's officially mentioned in the release notes [1]:

> We fixed an issue where OS functionality could be improperly redirected when microsoft-edge: links are invoked.

[1] https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/11/12/releasi...
In a couple of years I expect FE requirements to list "ChromeOS development in X years" instead of plain Web skills.
This is easily disproven by showing a child two paintings.
It sounds like it was pre-recorded.
I wonder how many humans have been "dealt with immediately" in the name of zero covid.
Comes down to individual vs. collective (organization) interests.

Think about what you're asking an employee to do: "spend a bunch of extra time articulating and internally publishing your knowledge so that you're more replaceable as an employee".

In an organization with low cohesion, this is a non-starter, no matter how shiny your "knowledge management" tools are. Job security is king in these environments.

If you have a knowledge silo problem, you probably have a deep management/HR problem.
So I read your comment expecting to be mad at Apple, but a quick look at the Wayback Machine [1] disproved almost everything you wrote.

> They just updated it

Last month would be a more accurate description [2].

> but it used to compare against a one-year old version

What actually happened is that they hadn't updated the data on their website for a year. That's very different from "comparing it against a one-year old version." They were at no point comparing the latest version of Safari against a year old version of Chrome.

> Apple is very willing to intentionally make skewed comparisons

It looks more like you're willing to make intentionally skewed projection of facts.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.apple.com/safari

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20211026001113/https://www.apple...
No whiteboarding, but there are questions on architecture and your standard set of coding problems. In lieu of the whiteboard, we encourage candidates to verbally walk us through their answers/solutions, and are free to use pseudo-code to illustrate.
Video of the debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5cXXE3jlpc
Yes applying and practicing the assumption that people are lazy, stupid and insane, does active damage to conversation.

The article is actively unhelpful, possibly doing harm. The section titled “What can you do to take advantage” answers it’s question with ‘Nothing, but it makes you feel good.’ That’s a pretty lazy take, and IMO pretty lazy writing. There are ways to take advantage of the negative sides of human nature, and we collectively agree they’re bad for us and sometimes should be illegal.

A friend once told me some advice that is a simple rule and can often do wonders in personal conversations, and even when commenting here on Hacker News. He said, “no matter what conclusions your brain tries to jump to about someone, always assume people have something brilliant to offer and that they are amazing in some way. Try to find it.” The article doesn’t disagree, but ironically chooses to focus on the worst. I can confirm from experience that this approach of assuming the best will statistically more often help you win friends and influence people, and that assuming the worst about people will not.
I have never worked in retail. I have only made money from programming.
Was the whole thing not pre-recorded?
The obvious example for me is the chapter on tape merging
That has nothing to do with transferring money.

Tesla also holds bonds and other stuff that pays a dividend.
I do agree with you! Repair guides (and similar how-to's) are one of the genres where the dislikes are actually an indication of the quality of the content.

I'm just making an assumption that most of Youtube content that's consumed, is in genres where the dislikes are more a signal of "I don't agree with you/your political view/taste of music/etc". I hope I'm wrong.
Seems to me like the core of the problem is that, despite its flaws, this is one more step away from any semblance of community "moderation" at a time when trust in platforms is low. It doesn't surprise me that the issue is polarizing. At its core, the world seems split on whether platforms should take a more active role in controlling content vs allowing the market to decide.