skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it seems to me that Paul's reasoning makes this mix up at this point:

> So if you want to discard the concept of good taste, you also have to discard the concept of good art. And that means you have to discard the possibility of people being good at making it.

People can be measurably good at realising specific criteria, even if you can't absolutely compare these criteria.
Havana syndrome: the misconception about a mystery illness
Curious about what the space usage would be if the dithered image was stored in a format actually suited to dithering, e.g. GIF, rather than the ones here which aren't.
This is true and a good point, but: It is hopefully only a matter of time until belts can also be joined and opened. Veers split belt [1] system already does this, hopefully this becomes more common, so the need for a belt specific bike-frame disappears.

- [1] https://www.veercycle.com/products/split-belt-pro

Edit: As pointed out in another comment, the fixed size of a belt remains though, unlike with a chain.
OMG yes, being able to share jpgs, mp3s and even java apps from one phone to another via Irda then Bluetooth felt mind blowing in the early to mid 00's, considering that most people didn't have internet on their phones (2G/3G data plans were eye-watering at the time, hell, even texts were expensive) but their phones had this short range wireless sort-of-WiFi-ish capability on their phones for sending and receiving files from other phones or even desktop computers. For FREE!

I remember I would spend hours after school in Photoshop to turn an image I like into the perfect wallpaper for my phone, tuning the resolution and color gradient until it looked perfect on the phone's low resolution display, and using bluetooth to upload them.

Same with mp3s. Due to the low amount of storage on the early phones amounting to only a few MB, I spent a lot of time experimenting with aggressive compression to make sure I could fit as many songs on my phone as possible. Therefore they sounded pretty bad on the cheapo wired hands-free earphones that came in the box, but I didn't care or didn't bother to notice as I now had my favorite bands always with me in my pocket before MP3 players became affordable and I would just get lost in the lyrics on the bus to school.

On an old Symbian Nokia I had, once you paired it to your PC via Bluetooth, you could send and read SMS texts off it directly from windows just like I can now use Signal/Telegram/Whatsapp desktop clients. I didn't think this would be so mind blowing until I found that Android had no similar functionality built in at the time for SMS on desktop via Bluetooth (and still doesn't AFAIK) which really bummed me out that such a powerful OS with such powerful HW was so lacking in features compared to the dying Symbian.

Another fun anecdote, digging around my parents house this year, I found my ancient 2003 vintage NEC phone which had some VGA photos I took with it of me and my old school mates on it. When I saw that I could pull the photos off it in a pinch to my modern Android phone using Bluetooth, and immediately share them online with my former schoolmates from the photos, it was pretty mind blowing to say the least. Bluetooth gets a lot of hate today for connectivity issues some people face, but seeing it work reliably between vastly different devices almost 20 years apart is an amazing feat in my book and should at least deserve some praise.
But as I also understand it, Goedel's incompleteness theorem also implies that for any given axiomatic system, if you have any finite number of theorems/proofs, you can never know if these are all theorems/proofs possible in that system. Hence it isn't possible to "finish" any axiomatic system, in the sense that no number of theorems/proofs will ever "complete" it. I might be wrong though.

But if I understand it correctly, that's not a bad thing at all. It means that there might always be more out there to discover. Some dub Goedel's incompleteness a 'bug' of mathematics, I think it's actually a feature.
BLIS/COBOL has entered the chat.
Zero HP Lovecraft, the Author whose NFT sold out in 24 hours
The point about “LeetCode isn’t enough” is extremely relevant. The Reddit forums are especially bad at making hiring sound like a matter of doing a couple LeetCode problems and getting hired. I’ve interviewed a lot of junior candidates who couldn’t really do anything other than silently solve specific LeetCode problems that they had memorized.

> There were a few occurrences where I received a technical screen and successfully passed all the presented test cases, but then would summarily receive a rejection the following day. Since the norm as I understand it from my experience is that one receives a first round interview or phone screening after a passing an automated technical screening, the only explanation I can imagine is a resume screening occuring after the technical screening instead of vice versa as usual.

From my experience on the hiring side: I would assume they hired someone else. Unfortunately the hiring process is unpredictable right up until someone accepts an offer and has a start date. Until then, you have to continue funneling new candidates into the pipeline.
I always thought "taste" as the skill to recognize patterns in trends.

That's why something that is considered "good taste" in 1950s can be seen as horrible taste nowadays.
Can anyone explain why my genuine question below -- "When will BTC move to an energy efficient protocol?" -- was flagged? Seems a bit gratuitous?
Hmmf, my college roommate was on this team. I'm not surprised. They were pretty serious.
Hello.

Thanks for responding!

To be clear. I wanted to use builds.sr.ht on a self hosted server.

I opened https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/configuration.md and that, at a start, starts with QEMU and KVM. I got too lost in reading that.

Drone, by comparison, is much more easier to set up. (It has some negatives, which I won't get into here. But it is much more easy to set up.)

https://docs.drone.io/server/provider/github/

https://docs.drone.io/runner/docker/installation/linux/

Maybe I opened a wrong markdown file?
Depending on active and storage temperature could be anywhere from few weeks to a few years.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data...
That 6 kB WebP looks awful. This seems a bit apples-to-oranges.

To make the argument that WebP is better than dithering, the author should compare the 30 kB dithered image to a 30 kB WebP. Or even compare to a smaller WebP that lacks obvious compression artifacts.

In the comparison as given, I would not say that the WebP is a better image.
This seems overly cynical. Did you read the post? The anxiety there seems genuine to me.

If it really was intentional, then either the author is a sociopath, or I'm an easy mark. But I'd prefer to believe neither of those are the case.
> I wish I could say I've learned my lesson, but I'll probably continue to make enjoyable mistakes like this for the rest of my life.

There's really no better way to learn, in my experience.
Software evolves. This means that new software needs new libraries. Will be interesting if someone tries new exploits on old software.
Very sleek. Do you use click through rate as a metric for ranking? If yes, then I fear it is going to promote click bait kind of title/summary/cover picture. If not, why are you redirecting for every links?
And its always 5pm in Ireland!
It's not that increasing the supply "hasn't worked"- we straight up don't do it at all. It's been illegal to build anything besides single-family homes in most of the USA since the ~1950s. See SF, LA, Seattle... hugely popular metro areas where most of the city can only legally be a house.

Single family homes are inefficient! Compare us to Japan or China where density is legal, the difference is night and day.

In addition, it's very exclusionary to tell the less well-off to move away. Why embrace exclusivity when we can build more housing?
"to have affordable housing built" presupposes a statist solution. I am not willing to have affordable housing built as presently defined, due to the amount of tax dollar waste, and actual results that I can see (in Seattle); but I'm totally willing for 90% of all zoning and related (parking minimums/environmental/etc) rules to be abolished, and having the amount of housing increase dramatically via market forces.
Same. The quality is just not there.

Even a cassette adapter beats BT.

When I rent newer cars, which I do frequently, I am amazed at the diversity of general conbobtwinkulating required to connect, looking hard at you Dodge, and quality, latency is never worth the hassle.

End up just using earbuds every time.
It is definitely not the ultimate form factor.

We know that people will sacrifice power and medium-term convenience for portability and always on connections that work in the real world, so if we maximize those:

I am thinking of an Apple glass with AR holographic display that is hooked up to a controller you can keep in your pocket for when you can't use Siri as much closer to the ultimate interface. You want access to all the information, but at the same time have your hands free and the privacy required when you are out and about.

Eventually there will be a direct neural interface to your pocket terminal with POTS compatibility and you won't need either voice Siri on a hand based input.
Ain't it funny how these programming exercise websites are essentially the adult versions of busywork?
I believe OP is implicitly saying "Most value systems [held by people you interact with on a daily basis] are equally valid". That's very different from the set of all conceivable value systems, and it's a lot easier to imagine the mechanisms by which the limited case holds (i.e.: people are pretty good at selecting valid value systems).
And it shows.
That username is :chef’s kiss: .
https://archive.md/5HldC
Making connections with TCP and Sockets for Workers
> Edit: Not sure how to do single spaced newline here.

If you prepend each line with 4 spaces it'll format as code.
Maternity/parental leave is typically paid by the state, not by the employers. If both parents can take a leave, then it does not discourage hiring women.
Few changes that have helped me greatly towards a happier life are:

1. Cutting out alcohol

2. 15 minute meditation before sleeping

3. Regular exercise - e.g from YouTube

4. Eating less…sort of intermittent fasting

5. Reminding myself to do actions/thoughts that my soul would approve of. Others can do what their soul approves of or not. This has been especially useful. For example I am no longer hurt if someone is being mean. Ultimately they have to be a witness to their soul and are probably just having a bad day. I can’t get inside them and fix it for them.

Edit:

These steps have essentially made me more alert - more capable if you will. I am able to deal better with good and bad.
I disagree. While it's possible to use them separately, in my experience virtual desktops don't make sense without tiling, and tiling doesn't make sense without virtual desktops.
You have the absolute best possible nickname for this post as well. Why bother doing things based on good premises when bad premises can feel this good?
So your math answers the question if I take a random American, what's the likelihood they're a person aged 50-64 and they're known to have had Covid by November 10, 2021 and then BP (0.0016%) and you're comparing that to if I get the vaccine, what's the likelihood I get BP within 8 weeks (0.019%). I'm not sure how much sense it makes to compare those two figures. That's ignoring errors in the underlying numbers (US population is wrong).
You're not as wrong as you think.

Dithering allows you to display images with a limited color palette, thus reducing the file size.

However the image formats chosen here don't really benefit from that.

Dithering is particularly effective in bitmap formats that use a palette (GIF, for instance). Just make sure your gif is actually saved with less bits-per-pixel than your original image.

It's however true that these formats that benefit aren't exactly modern, and there would be better ways of saving the same image.

At the end of the day, dithering can still be aesthetically pleasing. There might yet be a use for your app.
My life would be better in general if I were more willing to make mistakes in public.
Great comment... I would also like to ask for a book recommendation. Thanks!
They mentioned that they built a project. Where is it?
Facebook AI Says Masked Autoencoders Are Scalable Vision Learners
Wow! I've heard of players in sport getting into the "zone" where they no longer hear anything around them, they're just charging down the field, 100% focused. When the coach said that "deaf players have heightened visual senses that make them more alert to movement," I thought of that. Because one sense is cut off, their focus is less distracted.
I've always found this site to be useful for speedtesting https://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?nav=2
Also, small java feature phone games! Was always a highlight when someone was "traded" a brand new feature phone game from another school, and it spread through ours within a day.
I do wish prices would come down, but even at equivalent pricing, I think it's a net win. I think a lot of people have forgotten how god awful cable was.

* I can watch what I want whenever. No more sitting down because I have a half hour to kill and there's nothing better than Pet Police on.

* No more screwing with DVR settings if you want to watch something while you're gone.

* No more dealing with needing to watch things before they get purged from your DVR.

* No more dealing with someone else in your house deleting your show off the DVR.

* No more dealing with wanting to watch your show in the bedroom, but you recorded it on the DVR in the living room.

* No more ads (largely).

* If your wages are keeping up with inflation, static pricing is actually a decrease in cost over time. Cable was $100/month like a decade ago; $100 is less money today. Similar situation to video games.

I would have to flip through a lot of apps before the apps were more annoying than trying to configure the DVR through a remote with no keyboard that only reads my keypresses a third of the time.

Cable sucks. Streaming is better. I do think piracy is more convenient than streaming in the current layout, though.

> No wonder piracy is in a resurgence.

The media portrayal of this has been bad. That reporting is based on a report that showed Bittorrent is the #1 source of traffic in EMEA and APAC, and #2 in the Americas in 2018.

The first problem is granularity. The US is only about a third the population of the Americas, and Sandvine never published more granular data that I can see (presumably they charge for that?). Any effect on the US is going to be muddled by effects in other countries.

The second is that they're measuring it as a % of total internet traffic. That makes sense for the segment they seem to be in (advising ISPs and the like), but it's hard to translate that into the amount of stuff people are pirating. File sizes are variable; 4k content making it's way into pirating might have an effect. VPNs and seedboxes will also cause traffic to be misattributed. It's entirely possible that the amount of stuff people pirate in the US never changed, it just started to be tunneled to Europe when ISPs got stricter.

Fourth, they're equating Bittorrent traffic and piracy. The common use of the Bittorrent client is undeniably piracy, but P2P apps have become more common (for video streaming and game update distribution for example) and I'm curious whether they actually differentiate between the two. Again, the target market for this report is interested in how to handle the traffic, not whether it's illegal. There would be no reason for the author of the report to bother with that.

As an inverse of the above, it does not count piracy via sites like Mega, or watching/downloading movies on YouTube, etc.

Lastly, the media reporting completely ignored that internet access is still spreading in developing nations. Due to the granularity, it's impossible to say if people in the US are pirating more, or if more people in South America have gotten internet access and are torrenting stuff.
They had many deaths at first but I think the Swedish strategy can hold up quite well.
I love this, and the comment you made about getting up in 10 mins with any size team.

e.g. we are just 2 of us - yet need this.

Also, apologies - but I litereally hear in my head "Meatplane" every time I read 'Metaplane' (but I do like the name - Suckit Zuck, metaplane is just way more meta-ier than 'Meta'
what happens if "they" find this on your phone?

Not trying to be an asshole just wondering is there anything that can be done to help disguise it or something.
On top of that, the associated pollution kills far more people, contributes to climate change, and causes tons of respiratory illness.
>"Americans are so concerned with accidentally helping someone who doesn't deserve it that they'd rather sacrifice the well being of millions who do"

This reads like hyperbole and cynicism. Americans as a whole donate a large amount to charity each year and the United States already has wide-ranging social welfare programs. I challenge the use of the word "accidentally", because there are legitimate concerns about dependency, freeloading, and quite frankly, fairness. It is easy to declare that some population is being "underserved" but the funds for that service need to come from somewhere. Why is it such a negative thing for I, as a contributor, to look at the system critically and with reservations?
> it also tends to break down for large projects

You also end up spending a lot of time and resources in the later stages of the project trying to work around the problems: hire more people to work on the code base, spend a lot of time investigating optimization strategies, hire a devops team to turn the program into a distributed system with maybe hundreds of instances running on CloudProvider (TM)
You can buy them directly from any electronics shop. It's not as if your device maker is rolling their own packs.

I would avoid buying sketchy batteries.
Lovely. My 2yo child really enjoys correctly identifying the Bar-tailed godwit (along with all the other birds) in this wonderfully illustrated book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-its-like-to-be-a-bird-978...

So, this title made me smile and think of him :)
My father had one of those bikes when he was 20. He told me that he never managed to switch gear uphill like pros. He always had to stop, switch gear and start again. So it was not easy to master.
Start with removing corn subsidy. There is so much corn ovrrproduction that it gets processed into a bit of sweet and blended in to packaged foods like ketchup. And blended into gasoline. Corn subsidy is massive economic distortion which leads to monocrop farming and lack of diversity.
Also my first coding was a raspberry pi connected to a relay and a lamp and an infrared sensor. If you walked in front of the sensor the lamp blinked SOS in Morse code then it emailed me saying motion detected in your room. The project really had little use to me as I don’t need to guard my room but the reward when it actually worked was something I can’t really explain other then to say super satisfying.
I don't necessarily agree with Peter Thiel but overall his record of accurate predictions is higher than most other pundits and business leaders. He's plugged into a lot of high level conversations that most of us don't have access to.
Not that I'm a Java proponent, but have you tried doing the same rewrite effort on modern Java and with modern tools?

With newer tools and most important of all: your rewrite being a second iteration with the benefit of hindsight, you may notice that the language choice makes less of an impact than expected. IME language differences tend to shine the most when writing something the first time around and its expression capabilities shape the design.
Amazing that the article doesn't contain some (IMO) important and interesting historical context: The football huddle was invented at Gallaudet, so that other teams couldn't read sign language pre-play discussions.
Art students, yes. But not the average guy off the street as compare to a single dot on a canvas.
corporate process - more of a problem in mid size companies, but: installing execs / VPs from large tech companies. they replace all the managers down the chain and stir a bunch of crap up, and usually only the poor performing ICs are left at the end.
And for touring as well -- nothing like completely eliminating chain lube and cleaning equipment from your panniers. Plus, drive belts last something like 10-20k miles, so the price difference quickly pays off. Plus you don't have to worry about anything snagging on and breaking a derailleur, and belts work better in cold conditions, too.

I see them as the drivetrain equivalent of disc brakes -- sure, rim brakes are still around. But the tradeoffs are so worthwhile that you effectively can't buy a high-end bike with rim brakes any more (disclaimer: I know that certain touring bikes come with cantis by default, but they're rarer and rarer each year).

The only difference I see is that internal shifter hubs can cost 5-10% efficiency compared to derailleurs. In the commuting and touring communities, that's no big deal -- it's comparable to dynamo loss, which is considered a totally acceptable tradeoff for always-on lights in those communities.

But in the racing community, chains will probably stick around for a long time, at least until internal hubs lose that efficiency loss. There's just too much to lose in that 5-10% for racers, even if it's totally worth it for me.
The app is still cool and useful, just not for its original purpose.

(Interesting choice of username!)
Even accepting the tradeoff you posit, the basis of this argument seems to be that given the choice between guaranteed maternity leave and marginally higher expected pay, women should prefer the latter, or at least not be forced to chose the former.

Have you asked any actual women about that?
Nice places are also artificially limited by policy supported by people who don't want to see their more-exclusive control over those nice places diminished.
It feels like taste and expertise are mixed in the essay.
Once the expertise variable is added to the mix, the reductio ad absurdum examples no longer work.

Given that good taste is usually measured by people with expertise, can you really develop good taste without expertise?
Modern python (used in production) should be used in conjunction with static type checking apps. Your argument is no longer relevant for modern python.

def div(x: Int, y: Int) -> Optional[Int]:
return x // y if y != 0 else None

The above should be what production level python should look like nowadays.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3575079/4-python-type-chec...

That is not to say the type checking situation for python is perfect, far from it, but the situation is good enough that arguments against python that utilize the dynamic nature of the language are mostly no longer relevant.
I still say relocate. There’s literally not another option and that’s what I would do.

The alternative is what? Struggle and live in your car for years hoping that state legislation will magically build enough affordable units?

You can’t always legislate every problem away. Life is hard and filled with struggle. I do not buy the idea that anyone is entitled to live anywhere and be able to afford rent and have a short commute. We may as well just ask for a utopia.
No one speaks in true reasoning because we don't have a compressed communication ability to do so.

Everyone always talks in false reasoning, even to an extent.

Still, I think implicit trust of each other is warranted in order to move forward, especially in lieu of how "lazily" we communicate day to day.

i.e Given the lazy determination of our intellect we surely must think some things as true that are in fact not.