skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a side note for those who aren't on NixOS, but who would like 90% of snapshotting: use timeshift. Especially if your file system is BTRFS. It'll do daily snapshots of all your system files, going back 5 days by default. I've only had to use it once, but it was invaluable. Another nice thing is it's very much a set-and-forget program.
>Those costs get passed onto the consumer in the form of higher prices.

ALL taxes are like this, you are just arguing against corporate taxes at this point.

By your logic we should just make the corporate tax rate 0% so that we can lower the cost of goods even more.

It’s mind boggling because the same people who lambasted Trump for lowering the corporate tax rate in his first term are now lambasting him for wanting to raise tariffs in his second. But these two actions effectively do the opposite of each other, so if you don’t like one you should be happy about the other.

But somehow people are upset about both.

Tariffs are a tax which have the benefit of basically targeting rich mega corps and incentivizing people to build locally and pay their citizens better wages.

The current system makes it financially infeasible to make most things in our own country because companies are forced to compete with foreign slave labor.

Also think of the carbon impact of shipping everything you buy across the entire world just so that you can take advantage of slave labor on the other side of the planet.
It’s an addiction. They need their fix somehow.
I tried this (though with a different tool called aichat) for extremely simple stuff like just "convert this mov to mp4" and it generated overly complex commands that failed due to missing libraries. When I removed the "crap" from the commands, they worked.

So much like code assistance, they still need a fair amount of baby sitting. A good boost for experienced operators but might suck for beginners.
How do you deal with removing a package? For examplet the case where you have htop in your config, but no longer want it on your system or in your configs.
If you can get the messages, you can run a client-side algorithm - just download everything in the last 24 hours or whatever, and algorithmically choose what to display in what order.
Some Chernobyl radiation levels recorded in 2009, were not this high. (They were higher in the blast, though.)

https://www.chernobylgallery.com/chernobyl-disaster/radiatio...
I’m not 100% convinced by that as motorcycles are also permitted in some cases?
For the same reason that people visit North Korea or Pripyat, they encountered it in popular or social media and added it to their bucket list.

There will always be dedicated mountaineers who view it (or K2) as the ultimate personal achievement but that number is joined more and more by the "wealthy instagram crowd".

https://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2024/12/16/everest-by-the-n...
Except outsourcing has been a thing for almost two decades now and it invariably almost never works. Between security/privacy concerns, sometimes timezone issues (depends on where the team is located), and credential fraud (among many other issues) many companies end up reversing their decision.

Still, I think many would certainly advocate for tariffs for any kind of overseas contracting work in addition to reducing the H1B cap.

That both parties are against this sort of thing tells you quite a bit about their donors and motivations.
We live in HK where it's part of the culture to have restaurant meals with family from an early age. We started bringing him weekly around 4 months old. At least our son got quickly used to it and it's the same for a lot of our friends. They can handle 2 hours dinner without tablets...

I think it's culture dependent and maybe the fact that in most cases the food is in shared in the middle of the table makes it more engaging?
Pretty sure your source is wrong. And that helium is 10_$_ a liter not 10¢. As helium is much, much more expensive than argon.
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Why do people still visit a dealer for their next hit? Those reactionary pushers are clearly offensive to humans and we should collectively tell them to fuck off.
Not sure why you're being downvoted for saying something correct. Most of the "jobs reports" seem to be revised after the fact. I fully do not trust any government (Dem or Rep) to tell us the actual truth about the economy. Why would they tell us if things are bad? It doesn't benefit them politically.
Wait until you hear what C compilers try to do if you divide by a constant. Hint: they don't need to use a division instruction in most cases.
> I'm still looking for better/faster lossless YUV encoding.

Look no further: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/FFV1
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Wouldn't a higher speed turn up more dust and make things worse in general if your aim is to prevent the effects of radiation, given that inhaling alpha/beta is worse than the effects of gamma?
Let the user help solve their own problem
I write my website and blog directly and entirely in HTML using BBEdit. For me, this is just much easier than any other method. I don't have to rely on any external system.
I just want to point out that germany and US have a similar number when adjusted to it's respected population size (I think it's even a little bit higher).

I am kinda surprised to see it so far on the top
httpd, nginx, a number of other servers support SSI

https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_ssi_module.html

Caddy chose not to, I guess?

https://caddy.community/t/caddy-update-on-ssi-server-side-in...
Yeah, because scaling a mounting or exploring the ocean is exactly the same as "punch me in the kidney bro, it'll be funny".
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With i < 71, the compiler will just turn it into a constant value of 36. Switches to SIMD at 72, idk why.
That is the normal state of things in most countries. Yes their efforts should be remembered too.

There are currently 800+ "voluntary" prisoner who are working firefighters battling the wildfires in Southern California for less than $5-10/day risking higher injuries than professionals with limited healthcare.

Every country in times of need uses their prisoners as does Russia today for their war and they don't get treated the same as civilians in terms of rights.

Forced labor in high risk jobs is also true to every draft and conscription in every military ever, not just for soviet union or other oppressive regimes.

This is the social contract between a country and its citizens.

Nobody is dismissing the all firefighters in California as forced labor without choice in their sacrifice because some of them are prisoners who have limited choice as parent post was implying.

I think people who worked in Chernobyl deserve the same courtesy of considering all their sacrifices as voluntary independent of how they got there.

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On a side note we have the least standing to comment on forced work by prisoner in other countries, Slavery is still legal in the constitution for prisoners, we have the highest incarceration rates anywhere in the world even more than most regimes[1] in the world and for-profit prisons who charge prisoners from phone calls to soap a lot of money and also pay very little for the work they do while incarcerated .

[1] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2024.html
Society is really fine! I live among millions of people every day, and people are genuinely kind and nice on average. It's up to you how you want to perceive the world, but I wouldn't want my neighbours to ever think people around them are lunatics and etc.

I understand you're coming from a very American-specific point of view, which is very hard for me to comprehend. Growing up, I absolutely never had to worry (and now as well) about any of those topics. Even my nephews in public schools (US) are doing pretty decent maths stuff. I do think some of the things you've mentioned are mostly imaginary problems, but I can be wrong.

I'm not special. You're not special either. Nobody's really special. Yet we find ways to sit down, have a drink, go for a drive, or have sex from time to time. That being said, I have quite a few friends who had very restricted childhoods, and would never want my children to feel the same resentment as they do during our hang outs.
This seems to be the crux of it:

> But if you think about it for five minutes, equality of opportunity and equality of outcome lead to the same exact thing. Meaning: when the goal is equal opportunity there's no morally acceptable line until you get to total equality of outcome.

Well, that depends on what you consider "opportunity". For example (to divorce this from any politically sensitive groupings), does a lack of physical fitness count against one's "opportunity" to become an Olympic athlete?

If you accept that some people are more physically fit than others, and that this fact isn't encompassed by the concept of "opportunity", then you no longer conclude that "equality of opportunity" leads to "equality of outcome". (Never mind that an "equal outcome" here would require either everyone or no one to be an Olympic athlete.)

So the equity vs equality distinction is still valid. Where the thinking goes wrong is in taking the premise that an unequal (across groups) outcome somehow proves unequal opportunity, even under this definition of opportunity. To get there, you need to assume that all relevant traits either are equally distributed across groups, or would be in a condition where everyone is being treated fairly and morally. (I think the author ends up at the same ultimate conclusion as I do, but from a different angle - whereby the activists in question aren't treating the distinction as coherent; I see them as assuming it wouldn't matter. But it isn't clear to me whether the author means "Which is why there's no such thing as anti-woke, pro-equality of opportunity." as a direct claim, or as an attitude attributed to the activists.)

Which is a reasonable null hypothesis (and even if one could evidence an unequal distribution, it would be immoral to discriminate on that basis in the presence of any more accurate means of assessment). But hypotheses still need to be tested, and there can be an awful lot of "relevant traits" - including simple interest in the goal.

As a concrete example (and here we are pretty much forced to turn to politically sensitive groupings): imagine any hobby you like that is female-dominated. Would you take the dearth of men in those hobby spaces as evidence of some "unconscious bias" against men in those spaces? Or would you conclude that men are just statistically less likely to be interested in those activities, and that free people in a free society should be permitted to be interested or disinterested in whatever hobbies, and that there are fair reasons why we might see a gender bias in who has that interest? Would you accept that participating in the hobby could be seen as a valid expression or performance of femininity, and/or that vocally declaring disinterest in it could be seen as a valid expression or performance of masculinity? (Of course, not everyone would see things that way, and any men that are in the hobby are not necessarily rebelling against masculinity.)

Now, what if it's a male-dominated hobby, asking the question about women - why should the logic be any different?

P.S. Huh, it appears that actually is Yuri "Four Stages of Ideological Subversion" Bezmenov in the comments.
none of those were specifically engineered with the attention-economy in mind.
Yes. The reason is that there's many ways to encode a video, you can choose to spend a lot of compute in order to get the best quality, or the best size efficiency. Fixed function hardware encoders by nature have much less freedom in how they encode, and additionally are expected to be faster, or even real time.
A hit man is motivated by profit. Not personal dislike of the person, but it’s still a murder.

I have a hard time seeing “we can boost profits by fighting claims until sick people give up” as all that dissimilar.

The NHS admins aren’t getting bonuses for boosting share prices.
Recently redesigned my site [1] and used nextjs app router (moved from page router).

The new paradigm of adding “use server”, “use cache”, and “use client” felt too magical by default.

Server actions are easy to forget adding validation and proper access control on. You need an external library to avoid the common pit falls.

I’ve been contemplating whether to move to something simple. The complexity creep is real.

1] https://saksham.work
Even in the flood of terrible news about privacy and other things, this exposé stands out as especially disturbing. I was considering getting a new electric car to replace my combustion, but now I'm going to stretch it for as long as I can instead.
It is not the same. The Sikh culture almost mandates langar. In Hinduism it's seen as an optional extra.
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It’s crude, but you can overcome the degraded quality imparted by gpu accelerated encoding by specifying a higher video bitrate.

Find a complex short scene in your cpu encoded video, extract it, ffprobe it to get average video bitrate, and take the same clip in raw and try gpu accelerated encoding at +20% bitrate. From there, iterate.

For a friend’s use-case that I helped with, +30% video bitrate bump overcame the degraded vquality.

Edit: strangely enough, if memory serves, after the correcting +30% was applied the actual ffprobe bitrates between the videos were very similar, maybe a 10% or less difference. Someone smarter than me can work that logic out.
For those unable to find this, you can find it as a new model in the model drop-down menu.
At a young age, have strict rules. Example: they can watch stuff on a phone/tablet only at the doctors or at an airport (or on a plane.) That works for us.

Let them watch something in the car only ONCE, and they'll be sure to remind you that "watching in the car is ok."
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As people have pointed out, your work schedule is a problem.

More importantly I think the key to managing sleep is managing the night before. It's WAY too easy to be randomly distracted by Netflix, Insta, TikTok, dating apps, messenger, whatever else that keep your mind racing until the point where you're expected to put your device down and just fall asleep.

You gotta get proactive about managing this. For me, I go to bed at 9:30 to fall asleep at 10:30. I use an app called Jomo that bans me from using any apps that could distract me unless I enter a long random code, which is enough to dissuade me in 90% of cases. I also have room mates who stay up late and watch TV, so I set an alarm at 9:30 that acts as a circuit breaker otherwise I stay up chatting to them all night.
Oh interesting, only echoes of Roblox I've ever heard were pretty negative but I haven't tried it (my son is still a bit too young for that) so I'm curious to hear something positive about it. What do you like about Roblox?
You're going to need to do more than just link to the flake if you want to show why that's better than the Dockerfile equivalent, because the code itself isn't selling it.
Man its like we didnt see this shit from 2016-2020.....
The current government is going to weaken Western alliances. China is going to take Taiwan. Japan and South Korea are going to rapidly develop nuclear weapons programs. North Korea will increase the range of its missiles to reliably hit the entire US. The entire Middle East is going to nuclearize, with Iran first and then Saudi Arabia (the Trump white house was trying to arrange this last term, I suppose they'll succeed this time.) You cannot have a world where every single nation has nuclear weapons mounted on ICBMs and not have a war in the medium term.
My experience has been in complete agreement with yours: I love the theory, but the practice is so, so painful.

And yes, I also had to settle for your NVIDIA fix. I suspect I would have had a marginally better time on Arch as there are more people beating their heads against it and documenting how they made it work. NixOS documentation is piss-poor in comparison.
If you have a diet, say each week you eat X grams of meat, Y of vegetables, Z of cereals, and then next week (or for a number of weeks) you eat {X,Y,Z}1.1 or {X,Y,Z}0.9, that will have a net effect all else being equal.

There is nothing condescending about that. No-one is really claiming that all calories are equal e.g. you can replace 500 kcals of chicken with 450 kcals of olive oil and that be some sort of blockbuster great idea.

CICO does have an implicit "your diet isn't completely batshit insane" attached to it.
Sure, I get that, I guess my point is more that there are things like helicopter tours to the top of Mt. Everest if you really just want to go to the top and see it. I get the "bragging rights" to be able to say I "climbed" Mt. Everest, but again I think it's pretty suspect if you didn't even bother to acclimate your body before the climb.
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's grinding their gears with flakes.

I decided to migrate to flakes because a lot of the documentation for things I wanted to do with NixOS required flakes. It took me at least a few hours to understand what the purpose of them was though.

I just wish the documentation would be improved really, as an example https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Build_flags#Building_the_whole_syste... no longer works (gcc complains).
Taken to the extreme conclusion, governments can potentially charge different tax rates to different individuals based on their inability to sue or inability to fight back. They may completely forego the notion of income based tax brackets . /s
So you're telling me that by going against social media, I'm actually participating in some big witch hunt to delete it? That's even better, sign me up.
Same.

I think cultivating a sense of superiority is the wrong approach and could lead to other unhealthy behaviors. Cultivating a sense of self esteem and self acceptance is a better approach, IMO.

"I don't drink because I'm better than you" seems like a problematic mindset. "I don't drink because I don't want to and I'm comfortable with that choice, but it's okay if you want to do something different" seems like a much healthier mindset.
> I went to religious private school and too had teachers who taught some bullshit things... And yet by personal experience I'm more learned than the average public school peer I know.

Should that not give you pause about the general quality of the schools you're defending? Do you not see where parents might see you in fundie school learning about how man rode the dinosaurs alongside a public school kid that somehow knows even less than you about history or biology, and think "hmm maybe I'd like to find something else"?
That much is certain. My hope is that a narrow tailored action like this could show such strong nps support within the group, that the corp would have to have to look at its own internal metrics and conclude they should have taken a different course if only from a fiduciary perspective. I doubt such a thing will happen because the company already displays dystopian levels of cynicism and my friend has been there long enough to have observed bad behavior over long periods but has some strong personal incentives to remain (both reputations and financial).
sounds like a microphone is broken or clogged up with human skin goo
Nothing beats "othering" the out-group members to really pull the tribe together!
That the XVIII, with its love of symmetry: oft observed in contrast as well as in comparison, and with its love of ornament: ascending from initial observation; continuing through main example; and ending upon a final period, is well exemplified by Gibbon, who in this inimitable style filled not just one, nor yet three, but a full six volumes of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), is a fact to which all must acquiesce, yet, even so, the "short-form" was also present during this era, perhaps most memorably in the tricolon, as brief as it was lacking in invention, with which Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, greeted Gibbon's second volume: "Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh, Mr. Gibbon?"
<< No SIM: no SIM to put somewhere else. SIM subscriptions with monthly allowed data usage set to 0 bytes works darn well too (we've got one such SIM).

Can you elaborate on that one a little? I wasn't aware of that option in US.
You can usually find a couple of VPNs that work though. And even find a few holes to download the VPN software through. I was even able to watch YouTube during my last trip (one.....frame....at.....a......time....).

Though it's difficult for non-citizens to get many services, since ID seems to be required for everything from getting a phone to riding a train. Most places also don't take cash, so you have to have a working phone and one of the payment apps.
Focusing only on prevention at the bandwagon phase, and speaking from direct experience.

I was there when there was an internal thread trying to pressure management to effectively ban a book in a FAANG. I really wanted to expression my view: Censorship is more dangerous than the problem it's trying to solve. As long as it is legal publication, don't try to ban books. Let the readers decide, particularly when you strongly believe you are correct.

However there was only downside if I choose to speak up. In terms of game theory it is a 100% negative EV move. I can't say with authority whether a large number of colleagues felt the same, but given the strong filtering we tend to hire highly intelligent people, consciously choosing not to perform career ending move by saying the wrong thing isn't hard to imagine.

I don't have a concrete solution, perhaps abstractly it can be incentivized through some form of rewards and punishment tweak for the scenario above. Perhaps it can be established as a company tenant, that these speech won't affect your career (but it's not trivial since harasser attracted by those speech could hide their true intent, keep their moves subtle, it's particularly bad when these actions are usually emotionally charged). Or perhaps these ideas (truth seeking as a virtue? Be strict on yourself and forgiving on others? I can't pinpoint the most accurate words to describe it) can be reinforced stronger in education so it happens naturally.
I am talking about products and services where there is no local footprint, particularly digital goods.

The poster child for this was Adobe Creative Suite, which at one point in the 2010's, you were able to buy a return flight from sydney to LA, purchase the software, and fly home for less than it cost to buy domestically after exchange rates. They were hauled before a Senate committee and refused to give any answers.

https://delimiter.com.au/2013/02/14/farce-adobe-ceo-flatly-r...
I also decided to develop my personal website in plain HTML. I looked into a bunch of static site generators and found that direction to be too complicated and slow for me.

I still wanted the ability to have a common headers and footers and unique sections without repeating myself in every file. So I created a very small PHP application (just 5 files) and each page or blog post is a single PHP file in a directory. These PHP files have a small bit of metadata code at the top but are otherwise just plain HTML files. In each directory is layout file that wraps the content and these nest up the directory structure. So my site has a common header and footer and each section has their own subheader.

With the ability to publish by git push to the server, writing a blog post is as easy as creating a new file, git commit, and git push.
Don't learn the Perl influenced extensions. You just need POSIX EREs (and BREs for some older utilities) which are simple enough to keep in the head.