skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both JPEG XL and AVIF support is already there in Chrome and Firefox, and can be enabled with about:config or command-line flags. AVIF will become supported by default in the very next version of Firefox and is already supported by Chrome.

Edge mysteriously does not yet support AVIF despite building on the same Chromium base that does support it, which means the AVIF code is deliberately compiled out by MS for some reason.

Safari is a different kettle of fish. It supports neither format yet, but there seem to be vague indications on the issue tracker that one day they may land AVIF support. For that matter even Webp support is confined to only Safari on Big Sur and later, according to caniuse. It truly is shaping up to take over IE soon, as the browser for which one has to go to great lengths to code fallbacks.
Don't you mean WikiWikiWeb? Because World Wide Web is a bit more than a linked library of notes. Especially today when we have youtube, social networks and webapps.

But what you are missing is the cargo-cult of the youth which strife for a guide to imprison their thoughts. This method is really nothing new, not even innovativ. It originates from the same ideas which created the html and wikis later. But the last hype around hypertext was 20 years ago when wikis were new and hyped, and that didn't last long for technical reasons.

And now we have a new generation who rethinks the same methods again and create new software from them, which can finally fullfill the wishes which where 20 years not possible because of limitations in hard- and software. This is good in it's own, but the hype and ignorance is really funny in it's own. Especially if you are german and know the background better than those people who throw around words which they barly understand correctly, nor know it's history.
> Have you heard of invasive species?

Of course. But they reach a limit. Only one species is able to exploit resources, and the biosphere, to its own ends. Agriculture, mining, and technological advancement are peculiar to humans. All of these permit us to live longer, with fewer setbacks, and in environments no other animals can survive (space, and soon other planets). Are these not exceptional traits?

We can also engineer a virus, or deploy strategic weapons that could wipe out our entire species (and a bunch of others). Is that not exceptional?
HTML over DoH maybe; i imagine other providers also have an open CORS policy.
They changed after 2011 earthquake when several factories couldn’t continue production because parts were not coming from factories impacted by earthquake.
>Has anyone actually done a double-blind trial comparing "good" and "bad" high-ambiguity works?

Peak HN comment right here.
That changed after 2011 earthquake
This is the winner!
As far as I know not in a central place, but almost every popular home computer has extensive test suites which test emulator behaviour down to the clock cycle against how the real hardware behaves.

For instance the Wolfgang Lorenz test suite for the C64 is almost legendary and quite hard to completely pass (this reproduces the behaviour of Wolfgang Lorenz's C64, but not necessarily of other C64s with different chip revisions):

https://github.com/floooh/chips-test/tree/master/tests/tests...

Most of those tests have been written in the 90's, so they are now historic artefacts themselves which need to be carefully preserved.
For those without linkedin accounts, archive sites not working for linkedin so screencap here:

https://imgur.com/a/UYWfl0p
And then they invented that maybe they should keep poorly sourceable parts at hand. And chips are those. Unlike nuts, bolts, metal and plastics. Which you can easily find replacements for.
> Sure, I can also cherry-pick articles on how meat consumption is unhealthy as well.

Go ahead, but those are irrelevant if they're about eating meat. The studies I linked to suggest that not eating meat can cause B12 deficiencies. They say more things that might be interesting but you'll have to read them for that.

And of course it's not a "solved problem" if people actually suffer from it. That's just wilful ignorance.

> There are some vegans that refuse to supplement due to being on fad diets, but that does not mean vegans cannot get the nutrients they need.

And that's a classic No True Scottsman, I believe.

I use an alt for conversations like this because I genuinely feel soiled afterwards, the level of debate is so low, almost without fail. Dishonesty and politicking all the way down.
My current employer is a juggernaut (10k+ employees worldwide). I've had that discussion, and among answers I've received, the most prominent were:

* compatibility with external docs (incoming) and external
systems (outgoing)

* the whole Office365 suite provides sharing out of the box

* preexisting knowledge of the Office suite

* Excel is just better

It looks like the most unfair advantage of Office is that it is already everywhere.
More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open....
>if he had made noise about the slaves he would've been sent home

A world we want to live in right? At least he can safe taxes.

>but ok if I read your comment right, it's fine if they live in foreign countries?

Not you don't read it right...read again.
Isn’t one of the benefits of presoaking is that it releases certain gases that can wreck havoc on your gastrointestinal system? Does the same thing happen if you use a pressure cooker?
Ok it’s a bit of a stretch as it’s a speech, but “This Is Water” by David Foster Wallace is simply amazing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI
I love this, but I think it's one of those ideas, where people dismiss it as impractical at the time, but then it comes back in force a couple of years down the line.

IF video conferencing is here to stay, then we would expect to see more larger screen consumer[1] devices appear with it built in. This has started to happen - Facebook has Portal and Amazon have Echo Show. Scale that up to a on-wall TV of 50"+ and you've got your room-size video conferencing setup, at which point gesture control will be a very nice add-on.

Right now though, people are still wrestling with how to do video calls, whist at their desks or with laptops on their laps.

---

[1] Yes I know, that corporations have 'video conferencing ROOMS' with massive screens and multiple cameras but those are mega bucks, and not deployed en-mass.
I once had an entire podcast dedicated to sharing blog posts that had influenced my life. I recorded almost 50 episodes, it was a really rewarding experience. You can see the whole list at https://aaronfrancis.com/musicmakers
I'm surprised not more replies say this.

So what if it's inefficient? It's happening anyway and it's not like you can siphon the hydrogen off and do anything else with it.

What kind of purism is it to not tap the largest energy sources in existence because you bristle at their inefficiency.
China’s Baidu launches second chip and a ‘robocar’ as it sets up future in AI
iOS is open source now?
The point is that until devices and all their software/firmware become fully auditable, there's no way to be 100% safe, and we must resort to trust.

That wouldn't be a problem in an ideal world, but the one in which we live is far from even resembling one. Mining data is already a huge business, and governments everywhere would love tools to use to get advantage over people they don't like.
There's huge motivation and demand for those tools at all levels, and at least governments have the resources to buy them and the power to force whoever implements them to stay silent.
I'm not implying that spyware tools exist in any phone, PC, smart TV, car, etc. because we can't prove they don't; that's the argument used for UFOs, witches and unicorns, no thanks, but we better think like they do because technology, resources and demand for their adoption are real, and the rest is probability.
I'm aiming to analyze all the BI queries in my organization, some of them are quite complicated and most of them are hundreds lines of sql.
Thanks for the direction, I'll dive into it
I'm sure someone's trying to spin up a fab right now, but that's inherently not a quick process.
Setting new expectations for open source maintainers
> and you can't make crispy foods

Probably for the better, since baking/frying to crispiness is usually tied to "advanced glycation endproducts".

https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/advanced-glycation-end-pro...
Actually Toyota's manufacturing process was changed after Fukushima and was one of the only companies that plans for situations like this: https://www.autoblog.com/2021/03/09/toyota-how-it-avoided-se...

Edit, what the other poster said.
CFC ban bought us time to fight climate change, say scientists
Yes, they more or less invented the concept of just in time delivery, but they also suffered supply chain issues after the Fukushima earth quake. After the latter incident they made the risk calculation that inventory of some parts was worth the expense.
Great tool! Keep it going!
I would love not to, but I just can’t think positively about anything Oculus does.
In this case, applying VR to the most boring and misused of all corporate tools: the meeting.
R/HobbyDrama: How to win a videogame forum dispute by leaking military secrets
Yes that's right. The backing up of the private key and its passphrase is done out of this application.

So if an authority loses access to its private key then they need to generate a new key pair and start over. Of course they will lose access to all the files that are stored in the server and have been encrypted with that key's pair (unless they have already downloaded them and saved then in a different place).
It's amazing people keep using Facebook amidst such torrents of bullshit. Why do you?
Does anyone know the particulars of the shortage? Talking more about the commodity chips. Very hard to get anything from TI, ST or Microchip. Which fabs and nodes are specifically overloaded?
You do realize that the internet has this thing called hyperlinks that you can use to send people to another website? Just in case, let me show you: https://twitter.com

Boom! You were on HN, now if you click that link you're on twitter! Magic!
How do you bootstrap the ATS compiler from source if you don't have binaries?
Agreed.

But some animals have agriculture (ants?) and some plants exploit metals in the soil (phytomining)! Still, Sapiens are the champs.
I believe that driving an old car for longer has a smaller environmental impact than consistently driving newer cars as the bulk of emissions is during the manufacturing process. I have no data to support my statement, it's just my hunch. I'd be very keen if someone with the right knowledge can approve or disprove my statement.
FallBalls – Game for Twitch Streams
Streamclub is a platform to engage stream viewers with games, giveways and another cool stuff.

The first part of this project is "Fall Balls".
To use it, the streamer must open the game when streaming on twitch, and ask to chatters type "!play" to join the game.
> To my understanding, the argument made by autistic rights advocates is that people with the condition could usually live like anyone else, if society open-mindedly accommodated for them.

I wonder what's appropriate "accommodation" for a very low functioning kid whose idea of a good time is banging their head against the wall over and over again. A padded room, most likely? Many "autistic rights" advocates simply ignore and dehumanize these kids.
they’ll play it to benefit themselves any way they can, why wouldn’t they
Sounds like a waste of good honey.
What? I would argue that unordered_map is nearly always a reasonable choice when in need of an unordered associative container. There is nothing particular wrong with it.

Not sure what your rationale is for saying it’s only useful for extremely niche use cases. I would be curious to know why you think so.
I respect the knowledge and capabilities of the First Nations. I believe their is truth to their methods based on experience.

That being said, I’m skeptical of the capability of their wisdom to combat industrial scale climate change and modern population density. Managing a forest isn’t going to compensate for the world’s industrial processes and millions of people living in a small space. Industrial scale problems require industrial scale solutions.
There is also international perspective: once this mechanism is in place, forced by US, it will become normalized in several years. Then China will have much better leverage to implement their own scans. Once China does it, every powerful state does it. And after that every third world hole will scan for everything.
My problem is every chat app now interprets :) as an emoji.
There is really three types of inflation:
1. Demand driving higher prices
2. Increased cost driving higher prices
3. Expectation of inflation driving higher prices and this inflation itself
Joel Spolsky's The Perils of JavaSchools really popped my bubble when I first read it. It was part of a suggested reading list from the Software Engineering MA program I was taking (hidden away on a dark corner of a syllabus). Reading it felt like a refutation of almost everything I knew about software at that point. He introduced to me new topics I had never heard about from my compsci classes like Lisp and SICP.

Reading the post, it became clear to me that it was not about how quick or deep you can learn a language, but rather what are all the ideas and abstractions that enable such a language to exist. Computer science really was more than just computers. After reading that post I looked around and discovered the youtube videos of SICP, which have done more for my love and knowledge of programming than the entire MA program I took.

Link: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/12/29/the-perils-of-java...
The noscript tag is a thing.
I admit that I never really understood this speech. Could you explain why it was significant to you and what it means?
Maybe you’re right. As the general population uses less and less of their creative brains at some point they will be incapable of coming up with an alternative to gps (today someone would most likely have the cognitive capability to erect positioning beacons on their farm).
Inflation has to do with purchasing power of a dollar decreasing. I would argue that inflation is something measured at the scale of the entire economy, and you can't say much about inflation looking at a single commodity, or even a single sector.
The most interesting new feature of LibreOffice 7.2 is the heads-up display, which can quickly search for any menu option. It resembles the command palette in Visual Studio Code. The keyboard shortcut to activate the HUD is Shift + Esc.

GIF demo: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/08/libreoffice-7-2-release-...
If they had focused on true interop with Office a decade ago, then they'd have more traction (and credibility) here.

Back when Office was absurdly expensive, the need for a free/Free option was pretty huge. I don't see that need now -- I mean, I get that there are free-as-in-freedom types who will always choose LO over MS Office, and good on them for it, but that's an uncommon position. In every collaborative business context I've ever been in, using something OTHER than true-blue MS Office was a recipe for sadness. This-or-that formatting wouldn't work. Macros wouldn't work. Templates and styles wouldn't work. It's always been a nightmare.

We'd put up with it if there was literally no other way, but now that Office is both affordable and much, much more broadly available, I don't see any reason to experiment with LO at all.
Kind of both? If I were to come up with a formula, I'd say 'prices = GDP / SupplyOfGoods', where GDP is just 'MoneySupply * MoneyVelocity'.

If supply goes down, prices go up. If money supply grows, prices go up. If money velocity (number of times money changes hands in a given period) goes down, prices go down, etc.

(It's worth noting that in 2020 when money supply exploded, money velocity fell by a lot, which is why GDP fell, and why there wasn't that much inflation)

edit: s/inflation/prices/
Maybe the "Lists" page needs a Zettlekasten entry ;-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

Hrm .... Actually, a "perennials" listing might have some value. I'm not entirely sure how to execute that, but listing keywords / topics / posts that occur with 1) some frequency and 2) high levels of engagement, limited to say, the top 30--100 entries, might be of use.

There's the past related threads "past related threads" search:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> Aren't B12 deficiencies widespread everywhere though?

I genuinely don't know but it doesn't matter. It stands to reason that if even meat-eaters are B12 deficient, vegans will be even more so.
This is just a Prusa i3 clone assembled the most wrong way possible
Thanks, see you on demo!
So true! This has bugged me enough to create a introduction to Zettelkasten myself - just one page - https://binnyva.com/zettelkasten/ (wanted to keep it under 500 - but it went to 700 words).

Too many my friends are getting the idea Zettelkasten is complicated. When anyone express interest, I make it a point to tell them its a very simple concept. The complication is more in creating the behavior of taking notes rather than in using the system.
There is more than one compiler: http://www.ats-lang.org/Implements.html
Richard just posted:

>It occurred to me that if people are allowed to reformat the text of Designing Virtual Worlds, then perhaps I ought to provide it in a form more amenable to reformatting than .pdf is. I've therefore uploaded a .docx version to https://mud.co.uk/richard/DesigningVirtualWorlds.docx , for those readers who want to put it in a form that works on their phone, Kindle or US Letter paper (the .pdf is set up for A4).

>The news that I released the book for free seems to have made the first page of Hacker News. There are about 35 comments on it, many of which I'd love to reply to but know how much of my life replying to the resulting counter-comments would take up.
I don't agree with the author's thesis, but you're wrong.

1. It is a very common use-case to load CSV data generated by an opaque system which did not specify the format exactly to you.

2. CSV files are _difficult_ to process I: Fields are of variable width, which is not specified elsewhere. So you can't start processing different records in parallel, since you have to process previous lines to figure out where they end. You can't even go by some clear line termination pattern, since the quoting and escaping rules, and the inconsistencies the author mentions, make it so that you may not be able to determine with certainty that what you're reading is an actual end-of-record or end-of-field. Maybe it's all just a dream^H^H^H^H^H quoted string?

3. CSV files are _difficult_ to process II: For the same reasons as the above, it is non-trivial and time consuming to recover from CSV generation mistakes, corruptions during transmission, or missing parts of the data.

However - if you get some guarantees and abot field width and about the non-use of field and record separators in quoted strings, then your life becomes much easier.
Take care with dried legumes, many contain poisonous lectins and they should be soaked overnight first, with the soaking water disposed of and thoroughly rinsed before cooking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectin#Dietary_lectin
The changelog lists a lot of compatibility bug fixes with ms office files in the recent updates including this one so one might say they are going in the right direction.

I have around a dozen bugs open on their bugs page which gets some attention but I suggest everyone to do bug reporting. Heck, I often write bug reports for lazy people which would get picked up.
Knowing the Elder Scrolls games it's going to be in the lore going forward, never fear.
Yes, this. I honestly don't know if I see things vividly or not well at all because there is no baseline for comparison, such as a traditional vision and color test.
When I was 13 I read ESR’s how to become a hacker and it changed my life.. I followed the instructions starting with c++ then linux and that’s basically how I got into coding!

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
Maybe? It seems to me the overheads of establishing a fab process anywhere near the incumbents are astronomical. I would guess that even this bottleneck in supply would represent a minuscule fraction of that overhead. What are the actual numbers?
That's what I thought you stupid piece of shit.
What will we do with all those solar panels when their useful life is over?-2018
I think you and likely most people reading this discussion are missing the point. Wgpu is fine and even great as a general purpose API but it’s inappropriate as an application-specific abstraction for a graphics backend. It should absolutely be used to implement the latter.

Compare this to the Rust compiler. Rust uses MIR as its intermediate compiler IR for Rust-specific optimizations, because it retains Rust-specific semantics, before it compiles down to LLVM bitcode. If it used LLVM bitcode as its native IR then it would be difficult to implement Rust-specific optimization passes. In this case an application specific graphics API is analogous to MIR and wgpu is analogous to LLVM.
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That's very interesting and the term "aphantasia" only got coined in 2015, so it looks like a fresh area of research.

Do you think that there are some advantages to being this way? For example, being able to live more "in the moment"?
> so I don't see why this series is on the front page every day when the discussion is so stale

People submit it and upvote it.
I wish I could find an archive of Jason Pargin's old writings back from when he ran PointlessWasteOfTime.com under the David Wong handle. The Monkeysphere was a brilliant essay.

https://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
How I sold my app for +$100k via email (and why I regret it)
You might want to rethink aligning your life to a Cracked listicle, in particular this one. For example:

> For instance, some people want to respond to that speech with Tyler Durden's line from Fight Club: "You are not your job." But, well, actually, you totally are.

Well, actually, you totally aren't. The next part is even worse and downright dehumanizing:

> you are nothing more than the sum total of your useful skills [...] Your "job" -- the useful thing you do for other people -- is all you are.

It's not a good idea to view yourself as purely a means to an end for other people. I'm strongly in favor of being a useful and productive part of society, but not to the point where nothing remains of your person except for an exploitable resource for others.
We already can't work together to avoid catastrophic Earth problems like climate change, why would we start cooperating in space?
> Excel's version of CSV is the de-facto standard.

If you're working someplace that uses Excel, then maybe. Otherwise, it isn't.

Anyway, if more tools, including Excel, properly implemented RFC4180, we'd at least have something.

Another option is some sort of meta-data file alongside a large CSV describing its format somehow - which, if missing, you have to fall back on RFC4180 or your parser's "try to figure out the quirks" mode.
> Didn't you notice that multiplying and expanding is the quality of all life, as a phenomenon?

That's just what species are selected for. If you have two competing populations and one multiplies and expands just slightly better than the other, everything else equal, then that one will eventually outcompete the slower one.

But it does not have to be that way. Humans are the top predator, so no competition here. We could make do with limiting expansion if we chose to. It's still life, but without this "quality" that you seem to consider a necessity.
Toyota is not "sabotaging clean cars", only trying to delay regulations.
https://twitter.com/sososazesh/status/1427496287620911106?s=...