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I use optipng and advdef from advancecomp.

# Linux People
find -iname *.png | xargs optipng -o7
find -iname *.png | xargs advdef -z4i50

# PowerShell People
gci -include *.png | % { optipng -o7 $_ ; advdef -z4i50 $_ }

advdef uses the zopfli or 7-zip compressor for png's deflate compression. If you want to be fancy you can use gnu parallel on linux to parallelize the compression and make the script a one-liner. (I know xargs can do it but I stopped using xargs after adopting gnu parallel). If you're powershell 7+ you add -parallel after %.

If you want to do quantization you can use imagemagick's -colors to reduce to as many as you need. It doesn't even have to be <= 256. You can do say 300, 500, or even 1000 colors. This doesn't allow you to use a palette but fewer colors in a png often make things easier for the compressor to compress well. This is not lossless compression but can work well for simple artwork.
The economic sanctions against Russia really do seem to be creating quite a lot of internal pressure to stop the war in Ukraine which is not going so well.

Without those sanctions, it is quite conceivable that a troubled war effort would not be nearly so much of a problem, but because of the trade dependency Russia feels quite threatened by the consequences of war. Not enough to have prevented it in the first place, but they overreaced.
Have had this happen to me from city and town ordinances. They send a lawnmowing company and bill you for it.
> It's because Chinese define democracy by whether they believe their government works for their interest and whether they yield good results, not by how their government is elected.

And here is the crux of China's zero-covid policy. Follow the Western lead and run covid run its course? That would be millions of deaths even with Omicron being not as deadly, simply because Sinovax is nowhere near as effective as the mRNA vaccines are. It's too late (and politically unwise, given how CCP propaganda praised its selfmade vaccine) to mass-rollout mRNA vaccines, so the only option that prevents millions of deaths (and so, keeps the "social contract" of freedoms vs. wealth) is to brutally suppress Covid.

The interesting thing will be when the Chinese public deems the zero-covid policy "not good enough"...
No, a pregnancy does not meter any commercial exchange of goods.
Entering war in 1914, one of the French traditional soldier costume included bright red pants (that made them easy to spot and shoot into on the field). The dye came from Germany. And it was very cheap!
Doesn't feel to me like microchips are in such short supply that any more would significantly contribute to the economy. Am I just unaware of the crisis going on all around me?
Factories don't shut down on the weekends, they just have different groups of people come in for different shifts. A 4-day work week would just mean that they have to hire more people to fill the hours. Productivity wouldn't fall, unless they wanted it to fall.
I tend to solve that problem with either:

<img alt={"Hello, " + place}/>

Or, for more complex interpolation:

<img alt={`Hello, ${place}`}/>
I have the same issue with my Wahoo Elemnt Bolt v2. It has USB-C charger, but doesn't work with Apple's USB-C cable or my M1 30W brick. I need to use the cable that came with the Bolt (amusing is USB-A -> USB-C).
I also know it as 'janitor', but maybe thats not a known term or something different?
No, passwords on their own are never "enough" for you to be secure as you only control your side of the equation. You don't know if the place you are storing it is doing so in plain text, storing a decryption key right next to it, etc. Even if you are careful (I know what you said above), the network you are on could be compromised despite your best efforts/knowledge. Or any number of other things that could make it trivial for someone to gain access to your account in the event they gain access to simply the password.

I don't claim 2FA is perfect, it has its own host of issues as is being discussed. But it isn't just for "the masses that don't understand how to make strong passwords or how to be secure". Certs are good, but they need to be made simpler than they are now for the very people you claim 2FA is for or they won't be adopted (one of the reasons they aren't more ubiquitous, IMO). And some certs implementations have issues with account recovery as well if you lose access to them.

It's a really hard problem that you do a bit of disservice to when you dismiss it as "just a problem of the plebes".
It might surprise you but I want both. I want civil rights and I want a strong and partecipated democratic process. The democratic process will always win tho. Any right that is "imposed" rather than conquered will not last.

> that goes against the democratic majority in the US and Cuba

Maybe in the progressive US, not in Cuba, where 54% of the voters are in support of the proposal. The contrarians are not the communist by the way, but the Cuban catholics.
and probably birds. the die-off is all-encompassing.

except crows. somehow crows endure.
I tried out an M1 Pro, but returned and went back to Linux on a Thinkpad. Docker is unstable, and tensorflow is officially supported but painful.
I don't remember that, but Apple have actively made changes to support Asahi Linux (I wouldn't go so far as to say they support Asahi Linux) and not backtracked on not-blocking other OSs.
To me, the ideal solution is something that Apple had for ages, and now them and Microsoft both have. Magsafe. Use a nice, robust, safe laptop charger for most of your workdays, when things are routine and you have control over the environment. Then, if you're going to travel, and need to be ultralight, you carry your GaN compact, high-power travel power adapter with USB-C so you have one charger and one cable for all the things. I don't see why we have to give up magsafe for USB-C when we can have both.
So the 50 billions euros fund which is supposed to be used to build a EU own top-notch chip foundry will be own and built by the US?

Is this a joke?
Other studies and simulations suggest a more substantial rise in temperature will occur even if we were to stop all emissions today. Already there are reports of local hot spots where the temperature rise is on the order of 5 degrees Celsius.

Expressing temperature rise in terms of a probability or likelihood to an accuracy of 1% seems a little strange.

Finally, the hypothesis is poorly stated. Rather than using "hit" it would be better to say "reached or exceeded".
If you are in the business of returning a video to a client by a deadline, chances are you aren't working on it with this computer placed at the bottom of the lineup with two ports.
https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/synapse_ynh

you do have stuff like yonohost that make it much easier, maybe try that?
Interesting how similar JS.ORG's approach is to EU.ORG (which I learned about today), in that they both provide subdomains for free.
It seems that USB-C for _Lenovo_ laptop power ports seems to be incredibly flaky. I have 2 year-old HP Spectre x360 and a new Framework and I've had no problems with charging either of them from a number of different USB-C cables, wall adapters, and even a power delivery monitor (Dell U2520D).
Try Microsoft Authenticator, it can backup to cloud.
If those doctors were to gain from scams then that's an example that corroborates the GP's argument, not a counter example as you seem to make of it.

GP did not say "against their profession's interests", just their own.
and it's gallium, known to dissolve a lot of other metals as well. Copper and stainless steel are no go - for gallium alloys are even more corrosive (than pure Ga). Nickel is likely ok - I suppose the properties of the Ga/Pt are rather unknown.
Standards bodies work like other technical teams. They actually produce useful output if they're fed sufficient requirements and stakeholder input.
That's a plausible story for drugs which already exist. The problem, though, is that they wouldn't bother researching new drugs in the first place if it weren't for the prospect of those "absurd profits" in the USA, because that research would never pay off.

Once they have the drug developed it makes sense to sell it wherever they can, at whatever price they can get (above COGS and overhead, of course), as profit is profit—so long as it doesn't cannibalize their much more profitable sales in the USA.

If the USA were to suddenly allow retailers to import drugs at scale from other countries to reduce costs then those countries would find their supply of cheaper drugs drying up. They could either accept prices on par with those in the USA, thus eliminating the arbitrage, or simply go without.
For those really not familiar with the history - German's global dominance ran from roughly the early 1800's to ~1930. We're talking the era of the German Customs Union - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_customs_union That Union was mostly driven by the Kingdom of Prussia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia
I'm not a big fan of NLP, personally, as I think its kind of creepy how easily it is to deepfake a voice these days given a very moderate amount of content that can be scraped online: but I like the 'disrupt the giant' attitude you have.

> Yo! Let’s at least chat and brainstorm about it. Would you want to ping me on twitter? @automationism

But honestly, THIS is why I keep coming back to HN, rather than take an adversarial route and needlessly bicker entrepreneurs should be collaborating and utilizing each others strengths.

Well done, I know want to see your progress as your product matures! Who knows, I (a AI/ML student) might have a need for your services yet.
Fun for who? You? The people around you getting off on it? The HR employee who didn’t elect the name of the organization and who is just trying to get through a day like you are, and apparently has to put up with meme confrontations in the workplace?

There is not much that is more cringe than overhearing someone do this within earshot; it’s almost as bad as a joke everyone has heard and can predict while someone loudly stumbles through it a few cubes over. As described, you’re not funny, you’re just an asshole.

What form does this confrontation take, exactly? That might help clarify.

(I’m not in HR)
Of course it is dontchaknow
Oh yeah, that's totally fair. With a standard USB-C DC plug, however, the charger could negotiate a lower current and even provide power fairness across all seats to support the entire plane's load.

My point was really that even the most entrenched "standards" are all just leaky abstractions.
We can't vote on human rights, we can't vote on economic policy, we can't vote on foreign policy, then what is left to vote? How can you call this democracy?
Found the headline quite odd. "Could be declining" If there's any ambiguity at all, they're doing better than most species, particularly amongst flying insects.
Chats are encrypted. The question who can decrypt them by default.

It is a trade-off between security and usability. By default, you get usability (e.g., you can chat across devices easily). But you think it is worth the cost, you can make encryption keys unavailable without corresponding devices (create secret chat).

My guess, most telegram users prefer usability or don't care/ignorant. It would be a mistake to make the experience worse (that people would notice ignorant or not).
Yes, ludicrously so, platinum is one of the most expensive metals.

Edit: For actual values (per gram), Gallium ~0.50 USD, Platinum ~33.22 USD
If you haven't, you might want to try carefully "cleaning out" the lightning port with a toothpick or other small tool. I've seen multiple iPhones collect enough lint and dust in the lightning port over the years to make the connection still work sometimes but be unreliable until you clean it out

https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-clean-iphone-chargin...
Thank you! This single comment explained why Emacs had buffers much more concisely than the article did (although I still liked the article).
Business hierarchies are wired to advance those who sacrifice more and more of their life for the business. Those people then perpetuate the status quo by promoting those who are like them in that regard.

This is regarded as a feature, not a bug.
> Human rights is more than just political rights or speech.

> When you're poor, you're not free.

I appreciate someone 'qualified' making this point. Whenever I tried to argue this in the past, I inherently got dismissed as being in a privileged European position not knowing what I am talking about, (even as an Eastern European), so thanks for your post.
Or the oligopolies that are allowed to operate unfettered in the USA.
I don't think Microsoft sees a future in Windows. Their current strategy seems to be one of extracting as much value from it as possible until it dies.
Well, most meetings are phone calls. Over time, I've seen more and more things default to 30 minutes whether meetings, presentations, or whatever. That's not to say that an hour isn't the right length for certain things, but it's reasonable to default to 30 minutes unless people think more time is needed.
What’s going to push the electrons anywhere?
"First the buses, then the taxes, and then the passenger cars"

The joke is funnier if you say taxis instead, though.
Either approach would be an improvement to current format. My only issue, and I'm rather layman on this, is I don't think academia creates solutions. They generate ideas and the pharma has to figure out all the parts to manufacture/commercialize it. I'd think that process could be more seamless. Right now, I think academia may touch on Z but if there's no $ it just dies in academia and that's a shame.

I also tend to agree that we should be solving problems that affect folks the most and factoring for the magnitude of the issue which is what QALY seems to do to gauge impact, so I like that idea. However, in doing so, I expect you're casting a larger net and bound to stumble on something that serves a smaller market as a byproduct of the R&D. In the current reality, the byproduct would get shelved and never commercialized because it had no ROI, which is also a shame.
That's not a direct means of manipulation.
more impressive that they had to assassinate someone three times! who was victim, Grigori Rasputin??
“The regulation actually says that cables can no longer be bundled with the devices themselves”

I don’t think anyone’s mentioned that. Oh my god, tech social media is going to melt down when that kicks in if the reaction to chargers being excluded is any indication (not to mention a repeat of the shift from 30-pin to Lightning in Apple’s case, except now without a cable).
Apple and Google won when EU countries tried the centralized covid control tracing, and they both went "you're not going to get this". Some countries were furious, yelled they're going to force Apple, that the EU is going to force Apple, yadda yadda.

Nothing prevailed. Apple and Google dictated the API and the EU countries submitted, because they did not have time to enforce their will.

It is not Apple's, Google's, or America's fault that the EU has become so little innovative, rather hostile towards software developers and entrepreneurs, that they have no power in the digital world. And for the EU it is easier to blame american companies, instead of admitting failure and working towards creating an more enterprise-friendly hub in Europe.

I mean, as others have noted, why isn't the EU regulating the other side of the connector? Why are there 3+ power plugs in the EU? Shouldn't this be regulated first, if the EU's argument of reducing electronic waste be considered? No, those aren't created by american companies.

I'm sick of the EU, its constant attempts to circumvent privacy (such as the current legislation of ending end to end encryption for chats), while obviously lacking in the democracy department (why is the comission not elected?).
> I think it's going to be a long time before humans can responsibly do mind-altering chemicals at scale.

I'm in that age range and among those people, and my observation is that we already do (and have for a while) mind-altering chemicals at scale. Alcohol is ancient, mind-altering, and very widely used. Caffeine is ubiquitous. Something like 1 in 6 Americans is on an antidepressant. Birth control is popular and has mood-altering effects. I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone that doesn't consume some form of mind/mood altering substance with regularity.

I would personally put alcohol and psychedelics in roughly the same ballpark of altered mental state. The effects are different, but the degree of difference between one's "normal" self and the altered self are roughly equivalent.

I don't think they're some panacea, but I would wager that if we replaced alcohol with psychedelics, we'd probably be in a better place. Not because psychedelics are some kind of fairy dust, but because alcohol is damaging in almost every sense you can imagine. It's hard on the body, it causes people to make poor decisions, and it leads to a lot of deaths due to the prior.
Yeah they're basically a lubricant for competition.
I think you misunderstand pizza; the article compares JPEG XL, but it doesn't compare the new lossless coder implementation (fjxl/fast_lossless), which is a separate tool/binary from cjxl.
That's only true up to a certain point. ARM is a very weird target, because a lot of standardized stuff we take for granted in x86/PC land aren't standardized on ARM. In particular, take the Interrupt Controller: x86 has a standard for it (well, technically has two, the PIC and APIC). The "standard" in ARM-land is the GICv3 or GICv4, but many different CPU vendors have their own. Apple has the "Apple Interrupt Controller", or AIC.

The thing is, AFAIK, how to talk to the interrupt controller isn't part of the drivers, but part of the kernel. So you can't just "write a driver" for it. So if Windows doesn't support apple's interrupt controllers, I guess a lot of shenanigans will be needed.
I thought so too, that this may be Lenovo-specific. But the Lenovo technician claimed: "this is not Lenovo-specific, it happens with other laptops too". I just naively took his word. Good to know that it works reliably with other vendors.
> sending their old phone back

What does it mean? Where back?

Why do you need to log into a password manager on other device (desktop)?
How long before we get something like this quality (SOTA?) at the prices your offering ?

https://speechresearch.github.io/naturalspeech/
With new developments, you can use much smaller magnets.
I live there now and I have, in recent years, had a significant number of fireflies in my yard.

I also end up with a decent amount of leaf litter in my yard over the winter because of a large pin-oak which drops its leaves much later than the rest of the trees.
Rosetta 2 on AWS Graviton2
Luxury and corporate jets to receive exemptions from EU aviation fuel tax
Parallels in operating in a legal gray area and using Insider builds of Windows on ARM that are not licensed for M1 hardware. There is currently no legal way, from a licensing standpoint, to have an ARM build running on a device that Microsoft does not have an existing agreement with.

If you're running an M1 with Parallels in any type of business or money-making environment then you're putting yourself at risk.
If it glows and it's a bug that flies, it's a lightning bug/firefly interchangeably where I grew up. I don't care if it has 8 legs, 6 legs, 3 body parts, or whatever. If it blinks in the dark and I could run around and catch it, maybe sometimes squish it and rub the glowy stuff on like war paint, then that's all that mattered. You sciencey types that like to argue on the interwebs are just weird no fun having fuddyduddies. =)
What about Go, or even Tcl, and Ocaml? Do you have pointers to docs that'd help OSS efforts in this department?
They actually have these confluence events where they mate and likely this is what you saw (if the counts were that high). I've seen their numbers wax and wane in my yard and beyond. That said, I don't denounce the research; just feel that these bugs don't always have the same population size year over year that someone could casually notice their decline.
There are plenty of boneheaded policies in CA, but I'm not sure what's so "progressive" about cutting tax just because you've owned the house for longer.
Installing mission-critical equipment on a peak of eternal light could be risky.
Just joined a company that self hosts Gitlab (and everything else, there's zero cloud) but is 100% remote. So far everything has been seamless and there's a large enough infra team to solve these issues if they arise :)
I spent about 20 or 25 hours building a website to republish some county data that people frequently check. It's been a big hit with my local friends.

Another one I will probably do soon is a script to check weather & water conditions in my area to tell me if it's a good day to go fishing. Namely, I'm going to check the water level of the local river via the USGS, and see if it's within a certain range that are ideal conditions.

I think a good value add for me would be some home-automation style voice commands, but with [whatever I dream up] types of outcomes. Like an actually-useful set of commands added to Alexa, let's say.
I currently own several USB-C devices (Laptop, phone, Remarkable, Switch, portable monitor) and I can't tell you how nice it is to only have to bring a single charger with me when I travel. The biggest thing holding me back from getting an iPhone is breaking this pattern.
The question is not how it is classified, but how it is prosecuted. From what I can see in CA, "misdemeanor" means "no prosecution, and likely not even a brief arrest" (not that thieves care much about brief arrests - they just go back to business after the fun ride is done).
yes like 60-70times cheaper
If anyone is interested in lossy PNG compression, please check out my project at https://github.com/foobaz/pngloss

It doesn't compress as well as JPEG or other formats that are designed to be lossy. But if you need PNG for some reason like alpha channel or application requirements, or if your image is particularly well-suited to my compression algorithm, it might be a good choice. For many images it does compare favorably to an 8-bit indexed PNG.
I have contradicting info: the US requires biometric passport on entry, that with significant biometric data.
Pricing and supply can cause strange results during shortages - if bulbs from China are even a fraction of a penny cheaper in normal times they’ll be picked, but if they’re not available the closest could be mexico or even the US.

I’ve noticed the local “free range fancy chicken eggs” have remained $4 since two years ago but the cheap eggs have gone from a Buck (sometimes 50 cents on sale) to almost the same $4.
Efficiently irrational: deciphering the riddle of human choice [pdf]