skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is funny that you are using the existence of a segment of the population that I am a part of, to make your claim but aren't willing to listen when a member of the segment is trying to explain how non-ASCII characters and coding do not mix well.

Sure, you could make a fix for this specific case, but the problem mentioned in the blog post is not even close to the only problem of non-ASCII characters. In theory, yes, we could make a language and a full suite of tooling that would play nice with non-ASCII characters. But it's not like the whole non English speaking world is waiting for this to happen. People code in English even in teams where everyone speaks Finnish. Nobody even questions it, because it's so obvious that all code should be in English and ASCII. Everyone has shot their foot, putting in non-ASCII characters in the source code at some point of their career, if they have ever dared to try. That's how the reality is, and at the same time I hear people saying that the existence of those Finnish programmers means we have to have Unicode in source code.

>That's not what I said at all. I don't see how you came to this conclusion.

I didn't say you said it. I said that's how it (probably accidentally) comes across when you talk about something so carelessly. Non English speakers care about compatibility and security and take those seriously, therefore we pretty much always write code in English and ASCII.
What is mrcal for anyone who hasn't used it? The line from the website is not making it clearer: "mrcal is a general-purpose toolkit that is useful in solving a variety of problems." What tools? What problems? Image problems?

The mentions of stereo and triangulation intrigued me, but some kind of overview or list of applications at the top of the site would really help.
One thing you might want to check out is https://juliapackages.com/p/unitful which is a package that allows you to add a unit system to numbers that will error if the units don't match in a way that makes sense.
This is somewhat why i dont mind having done a lot of purchasing online etc.

Normally just printing out an invoice from even 10 years ago from a site like Newegg (and i have had to for a claim) is accepted just fine.
Training them for a career in tech/security ;) Parent is playing the career long game.
Benchmarking symmetric encryption (AEAD) in Rust
TGA was very popular in 3d games for a time, I do recall seeing lots and lots of textures and the like encoded as TGA.
The technology is very different. Both translate the image into a representation where it's easier to remove "unimportant" data. JPEG is based on discrete cosine transform (DCT), JPEG2000 on wavelet transform.

Visually, where JPEG produces ringing artifacts, JPEG2000 produces blurriness. JPEG artifacts look "sparkly" and are often a reasonable replacement for the original texture, JPEG2000 artifacts look offensively dull (my opinion). I think, in theoretical speak, it's called "JPEG better preserves high frequency energy". You should be able to find side by side comparisons using your favorite image search engine.
Heh. Fair. Didn't think of that!
I thought you were talking about FLIC[1] at first. Now there's a name I've not heard in a long time.

[1] https://www.compuphase.com/flic.htm
I think this is the premise of 1995 Sci-Fi channel classic CARVER'S GATE -- in a grim future where the planet's ecosystem is ruined and its remaining inhabitants struggle to survive, anybody who can afford spends all their time inside their VR helmets living out escapist fantasies.

The motivating issue in that film is that a bunch of people play video games, a scientist invents a tool that allows the Doom monsters to come back to earth, and a QA engineer has to hunt them down before they destroy the remaining shreds of humanity. That part is of course unrealistic but otherwise the Metaverse narrative plausibly matches this Michael Parée classic.
>All you are doing is teaching your kids to hack into their own device (speaking from experence)

That doesn't seem like a bad skill to foster.
AMD Server Vulnerabilities – November 2021
Slightly off topic, check out the HTML code next to the "Onsite repairs" box; the formatting uses strikethrough, but there is a hidden element with "Not" text before each crossed out line. I assume this is for accessibility or copy-paste compatibility; as a result the raw text still reads:

> Onsite repairs: Not someday Not next week Not soon
ASAP.

I find this kind of attention to detail very cool.

(Too bad "ASAP" is not very specific either and can mean "someday", "next week", or "soon" too...)
idealo.de
tweakers.net/pricewatch
.. in my corner of this earth.

There were / are plenty. Google's idea of being the only game in town is mostly marketing for almost all of their products.
PriceRunner is big in Denmark.
Look at the 25 year view. 2014-2019 was an anomaly where us GDP grew 22% while the money supply contracted by 25%, we are currently back to the straight line we've been on since 2008.
Observation and experience over years has led me to avoid discrete video cards in laptops entirely. They seem to be the cause of a solid 50% of all major problems, across all vendors, including Apple. They were an endless headache on my Windows and Linux laptops of old.

Sucks if you need one, though.
Democrats are the Charlie Brown’s of politics. And Republicans are Lucy.
Or they do what pirates have been doing since at least the '90s, when registration codes and IDs of this sort were already common: They crack the algorithm that generates the IDs, and create as many as they want.
Are you recommending the world spend a bit of it's hoarded wealth, to allow less money to be printed?

You're a monster.
Brittany: IIRC, it was still part of the Roman Empire when Cadwalldr and his followers migrated there.

Galicia: the local king.
How African refugees used Bitcoin to build their own grassroots economy
If you can’t build your own tech industry you just rob the other guys’ one.
I can see that being an issue as most hosts don't change their lockbox codes between every guest.
I remember enjoying virtual walk on the ISS using VRML ~2001. Worked great on 512kbit link and with quite low resource usage :)
But fortunately they can buy smartphones with better specs than before for the same price so they’ll be good /s
Now it's not sorted so you're going to end up having to do a linear scan of the entire pile if you do this regularly.
Listing a couple of the ideas from the Twitter feed https://twitter.com/octopyweb so people can get an idea before giving away their email address

4. A news website, just delivering positive news except one day a year where it publishes only the biggest failures, biggest disappointments of the year.

5. A shared office space that only exists in the digital world. Like slack, but more visual and it exists in cyberspace. This can be done AR.

6. A website that helps people make better investing decisions by using artificial intelligence to analyze financial charts.

7. An app where you can hire house cleaners in minutes for cheap prices. (Fiverr but only for cleaners.)

8. A social network for introverts.

9. A website that allows you to upload a .txt file of a project idea you have and a bot generates a detailed project plan.

10. A dating app where you can only chat with people near you.
> Also, what weak economy? Economic growth is up, wages are up, unemployment is down, personal debt is down. The only thing that is currently "weak" in the US economy is our JIT supply lines, and that will work itself out eventually.

Agree with this take. The GDPNow estimate for Q4 growth is 8.5%. A lot of this seems to be getting lost in the politically obsessed back-and-forth.

https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow
Veterans use Apple technology to revolutionize trauma medicine
Keybase Proof
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/bhaskarvilles; my proof: https://keybase.io/bhaskarvilles/sigs/fyEqAIEO1TpVLBiAX8Uyd5rri1DBY_TNQcDkp2Gnea8 ]
My truck is worth more today then when I bought it 4 years ago... Crazy that automobiles are now an appreciating asset...
TIFF is not dead, still used heavily in bio sciences, imaging, etc. VRML is still a lowest common denominator for transfering 3D
You're right - I think this is the only real way out of the dilemma. There are still some challenges with this approach, though:

* stakeholders often need or think they need a whole estimate up front. A developer may explain MVPs, sprints, agile, etc. and still get blank stares and "ok, that sounds good, but just give us a rough estimate how long will it take/how much will it cost. We promise not to hold you to it (yeah right)". In some examples, like governmental budgeting, etc. it can be hard to even proceed through purchasing without a whole-product estimate.

* developers can be seen as over simplifying by stakeholders who don't understand the approach. When presented with a MVP, they start complaining about the fonts, etc. and loose faith in proceeding.

* developers can be seen as over complicating by stakeholders who don't understand the approach. When a stakeholder's simple request for "just an app to capture urls" balloons into a major project with bells and whistles over 10 weeks of dev cycles, management steps in and says "I thought this was just supposed to be a simple app to capture urls".

The later two come down to developers communicating effectively and stakeholders truly understanding their staff and processes. The first, I honestly haven't found a great fix for. No matter how I explain, many customers generally want an estimate and budget I stick to.
Why does it have to be commercialized?

Personally, I think the best option is it gets mainstreamed by knowledgeble guides working with individuals through the process, the mushroom growing is done by small-scale growers who do it with the passion and love this Medicine deserves, and the pill-makers are kept far and away from it.
Looking at the insider transactions listings for either company I'd say capitalism is treating them quite well:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DASH/insider-transactions?p=...

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UBER/insider-transactions?p=...
> I suspect it has more to do with justifying austerity in order to curb labor's demand for more money

The problem with blowing off inflation because you think it empowers workers is that the latest round of inflation more than erased all the wage increases that were provided. In real terms, workers have been falling behind.

So perhaps to make those labor demands more real, it might be a good idea if the government wasn't competing with the private sector for goods and services.
Joe Biden
> All you are doing is teaching your kids to hack into their own device

Ha! Lock down everything and casually leave a printout on the kitchen table titled "How to bypass home network security" with a bunch of Python exercises that lead up to disabling the filters. Presto, now they know Python :-)
If pervious economies were so well functioning, why couldn't I easily order pretty much any food from any restaurant within a 50 mile radius with a click of a button before Uber and DoorDash came along?
I mean, I know enough numbers by heart to get myself out of a rough situation and my phone is unusable.

Generally, I would recommend most people at least commit one or two to memory. Enough to pass a message along to your wider network or to get assistance.
Economic war? Why can't the US simply allow the corporations to face the consequences of their actions? They probably aren't even going to jail or anything. They're free to either pay or get out of the country that's imposing the fine. Why does Google get to exploit foreign citizens and violate their rights while under the protection of the US government?

Huge fines are the only thing that will work. Corporations these days are richer than nations and these little 2 billion dollar fines do nothing.
Insurance companies are regulated for a reason..... AirBNB's non-insurance insurance is the worst of both worlds
In Michael Pollan's fascinating history of psychedelics, "How to Change Your Mind", he explores this. It was interesting to see how governments appeared to have no issue with psychedelics until Timothy Leary came on the scene.
Renting has gotten a lot worse lately.

I’m also seeing my health plan options are a lot worse. High deductibles me co insurance with prices staying the same.

On the plus side all the restaurants around us are terrible now due to lack of workers, so we cook at home much more.
They even had a tremendous airforce..
Making the dislike count private across YouTube
What we had in the 90s wasn't that high - check out the early 80s. 15-16%+ mortgage rates iirc, think about those payments on a $1 million dollar 3 bedroom.
What do you think should be done? What methods are there, besides harsh economic sanctions, to control entities which break regulations and detriment free society? Clearly something needs to happen, something with impact. Pray to the invisible hand?
I just installed fedora and I agree. Why would I want my whole screen to shrink everything every time I want to do something?

I can’t even open an app without all the stuff shuffling around and back.
Why can’t I see the dock when I bring my cursor to the bottom of the screen? Oh wait I have to go all the way up there to activities to see it.

What windows do I have open? Oh wait I gotta go to activities again.

How do I minimize something? Idk, no button. Double click? No that’s just maximize. I guess I can only close stuff.

It’s almost like someone decided that we needed yet another “way “ of doing things instead of conforming to what people are used to.
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make. Pretty much 100% of games today aren’t trying to push for decentralization, and we haven’t abandoned them for an NFT based MMO because the concept for gaming is extremely new, but there’s a reason people want MMOs backed by a blockchain, so to basically say it’s useless because nearly 100% of games are part of the status quo, therefore such changes are useless (or unwanted) is not a valid reason in my opinion. Just because a status quo exists, doesn’t mean the status quo shouldn’t be changed.
A blockchain doesn’t stop devs from spawning objects — that’s not a concept that blockchain is trying to stop or intends to stop, but at least we’ll be able to audit exactly how many exist in the world to determine actual rarity and freely trade the items outside of the ecosystem.
EDIT (new comment because edit-period is long gone):

It's not too severe an issue, maybe not one at all(?), at least in this concrete example, because after removing the first occurrence of the hidden variable it now becomes a "not defined" real error and not just a warning in the second location.
So they can exist forth on the metaverse.
Anecdotally, I've also noticed the most profound lasting positive effects on my mood after the worst trip I ever had- an absolute nightmare for no good reason (same people I'd tripped with before, familiar places, etc), but the following couple weeks I was on cloud 9. There are so many confounding factors, but at the time I was completely convinced the trip was responsible for the following positive period.

The experience was sort of like an extremely intense workout, or emerging from a sweat lodge- it was painful, but led to a sort of rebirth. It may be simply, when you're already in good spirits prior to tripping, the results are just less noticeable afterward.
But you’re mistaking inflation for the rate of inflation growth. The rate of inflation growth is horrible right now.
For quite some time TIFF was the default format for screenshots on OS X, which was probably one of its more prominent uses by the general public. During that period it was also pretty common for developers to use TIFF for application assets like toolbar icons and splash screens.

At some point that all shifted over to PNG, but macOS support for TIFF remains good to this day.
I remember watching parts of this before from other sources. Thanks for linking the whole thing, my husband has never seen it so we're gonna watch it together later.

Thank you for reading my post.
I used to use shopbot.ca but it became fully useless around 2 or 3 years ago.
??? Brittany and Galicia were the destination for some Briton migrations during the Roman and Anglo-Saxon eras...

Calling the Britons "British" and Anglo-Saxons "English" is confusing... Usually those terms are used for modern Great Britain and modern English.
The point remains the same for benzene or other containments as well, there is not much regulatory requirements in most countries for what you should do with these effluents, so today dumping it is acceptable, if safe handling/disposal is mandatory then it would factor in the actual financial costs analysis/model.
The Turing Test Is Bad for Business
Perhaps someday. It seems the way this experiment worked was by "imagining writing the words by hand", which would indicate that this kind of transmission was dependent on an explicit act of will.
Taking advantage of a long-lost HTML tag (<plaintext>) that tells the parser to switch the tokenizer to "PLAINTEXT" state[0] with no escape:

javascript:document.body.innerHTML="<plaintext>"+document.body.innerHTML

From MDN[1]:

> The <plaintext> HTML element renders everything following the start tag as raw text, ignoring any following HTML. There is no closing tag, since everything after it is considered raw text.

You could use the <pre> tag, but that can be "escaped" from if a </pre> tag exists on the page. Escaping the angle brackets with &lt; and &gt; would fix it, but <plaintext> is more elegant IMO.

[0]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#plaintext-state

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/pl...
No, that's pretty much MacOS Classic and classic windows line before 9x (9x added /some/ level of protection and preemption)
Dell does already ship a laptop with Ubuntu installed. No I don't think Best Buy and Walmart carry it, because the only target market for it is developers. I remember seeing lots of cheap netbooks that had a Linux option but no stores carried them because nobody besides developers and geeks actually wants that.
One could always just call
> I don't see how it relates to peoples' general displeasure with policing.

It doesn't. It relates to the post I was replying to, which said that

> I’d hope police chiefs have thicker skin enough to make the right choice despite the (agenda pushing) flak they might receive.

Having thick skin doesn't help when you're out of a job and can't pay your bills; because you did the right thing.
The concept is terrible, whether it was done "as benign as it gets" or not. The idea that this kind of bullshit content (that's obviously only written to be a marketing channel) is accepted as normal is exactly why it's a problem. Your comments only highlights it even more.
You are a hero without a cape.
Thanks
@picdit, if you're the author, this is pretty cool. Especially the Hex tool
Interferometry has a long history in experimental physics. The Michelson–Morley experimental design scaled up to large distances and using modern technology, like lasers and computers, gets you LIGO.
Ultimately you can NOT "magically" negate "Last Mile Costs" in cities and towns where the Last Mile path distance is enormous.

Did my MBA thesis on this subject with the benefit of 20 years of engineering experience. The numbers simply do not work unless you change how cities and residences are built, which would cost far more than you'd ever gain from solving Last Mile costs - the breakeven time is of the order of 100-200 years!

The VERY WORST are US-style suburbs. The best would be Asian-style urban - which NO US CITY is other than some parts of Manhattan.
Steins Law strikes again…

“If something can’t go on forever, it won’t.”
geizhals.de might also qualify.
Poor people, which is a large majority of the United States, can only afford processed food. You neoliberals in your whole foods crap make me nauseous.
> kids that they are being watched

They already are though. Usually by tech companies without the kid's best interests at heart.

Tailor it to the kid. Certain amounts of anxiety in developing minors around surveillance seem healthy, especially given the risks associated with unfettered access to the dangerous fire-hose that is the internet which itself has tracking at every corner.
Here's the flip side of that from auto lenders. They are seeing a huge recovery benefit from repossession of vehicle after chargeoff. Lenders portfolios are seeing a net benefit in chargeoffs which has hardly ever happened in recent history. Even more bizarre.

https://www.yahoo.com/now/ally-financial-ally-beats-q3-12451...
I mean. I'd buy a ticket.
Exactly as the gentleman above me said it. I generate ideas in bulk, but hand pick those that are interesting enough to include in the newsletter.
Tesla is profitable. The profit is propped up a bit by subsidies, but it seems strange to include the company in a discussion about service providers that are battling in a war of attrition.
In an even larger number of high-value cases, they traded to themselves to transfer ill-gotten crypto from "anonymous bidder" wallets to their "real" wallets.
Same here. For just 10k euros more I got a current year new model vs a used 2016.

Used car market is crazy.
Previous HN threads, if anyone wants to follow the history:

Show HN: Dendron – fast open-source note-taking in VSCode - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26491764 - March 2021 (84 comments)

Show HN: Dendron – A Hierarchical Tool for Thought - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24898373 - Oct 2020 (168 comments)

Show HN: Dendron – open-source, local first, anti-roam note-taking tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24517701 - Sept 2020 (9 comments)

Show HN: Dendron – a roam like open source markdown note taking app - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23890035 - July 2020 (39 comments)

Show HN: Dendron – a local-first, markdown based, hierarchical note taking tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23824988 - July 2020 (2 comments)
At that point, why not just put a new (junkyard from a wrecked one) engine in?
"FLIF development has stopped since FLIF is superseded by FUIF and then again by JPEG XL, "

Smells very dead to me.
COVID, climate change, and near-term high inflation in the dollar are all system shocks that will unravel the petrodollar in pretty short order. We’re following the Argentina school of monetary policy, so it shouldn’t surprise us if we get the same hyperinflation here.
This is for the visually impaired! Screen readers will announce the hidden element
I was talking about the giant multinational corporations that are basically unstoppable in whatever they do. The scenario I painted was about the never ending growth and its results.

The more I think about it.. if the company is traded at the stock market and controlled by shareholders it cannot be good anymore because the optimization of revenue is the core of everything now.

And with good I mean that it doesn't have interests that improve anything for the human race or the people of some country as long as these interests don't also align with optimizing profits.
In Norway it's relatively normal.

Plenty of used cars at normal prices and if you want a new car you can buy a Tesla and get it next month.
Flutter provides its own widget implementations and does not rely on those provided by the underlying OS. This gives us the ability to give you complete control over scrolling, animation, theming, etc. while still running at native speeds across multiple platforms.
Just noticed mostly all laptops got a bios update today, including Dell and HP.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_5031100-5031212-16...

Whats going on? These arent to Atom CPUs alone it seems.
Probably referring to this: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/crypto-punk-500-million-sa...