skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It losslessy compresses images to a similar size of PNG

It's worth pointing out that in cases where PNG is still the most reasonable format to use, compression gains are frequently left on the table. I frequently see 20-30% additional compression with tools like ect ("efficient compression tool"), oxipng, and zopflipng, and that's starting with images that are already pretty well compressed (using the strongest settings available from traditional PNG libraries). In other words, even PNG compresses better than PNG. :-)

Case in point: I downloaded the sample images in the zip on the page and recompressed them with ect. It took only a few seconds, but 4 of the 7 sample images could be further compressed by more than 33%! After compressing them as much as I could achieve, the resulting PNG images were only 77% the size of the QOI images. Compression gains of 23% are nothing to sneeze at when it comes to lossless compression.

Of course, that's not to say that something like QOI wouldn't be useful. Even if it wasn't, I do love seeing tiny but effective implementations of algorithms like this - well done.
With i3 it works well. I agree that with a windows like environment it is a bit annoying.
No from me just because of the size (typing)/power constraint.

It would be interesting if it was spec'd out/ (able to) connect to full size keyboard/external monitor.
I just love the new name: a bit like haikus can be read, I choose to read it as Open Mind every time
Have a look at Zim: https://zim-wiki.org
Really nice! I've been thinking of habit gamification like this for a long time but never got too far as.. well, procrastination. Hopefully I can stick with using this instead.

As you don't have mobile apps yet I have one far out suggestion that is easy to implement and in my tests worked much better than I ever though it would. It's possible to create two kind of menus in Telegram chats[0]. For my start of a habit tracker my bot sent me possible actions (as in habits) to our chat, and I could just click what I'd done and that's it. Works on both on mobile and desktop and just takes a second. It's possible to keep a permanent menu below the typing area and attach an inline menu on a message, so I kept my habits in permanent menu and possible follow-up actions (leave a note, cancel the action, stop taking time) in the reply to a confirmation of selected action. I know it's strange suggestion but I've been thinking and implementing different ways to make use of that menu system as I was blown away how it worked and with just a few lines of code.

[0] https://hetzger.ohmycron.xyz/web/telegram_menu.png
One area I think that this article doesn't touch upon is that with a globalized economy it's a lot harder to have a unified "strong" and "assertive" democracy when we buy oil from Russia and cheap electronics from China.

They are correct by pointing out our continuous excuse loop to autocratic regimes, however the article doesn't show much new ideals.

Instead it pushes quite old ideals/strategies from as far back as the cold War to the neopolitics of the 2000s.

I think we need a new framework of democracy if we are serious about it, that are aware of and take into consideration global trade and future mishaps and not just do lip service like "never again".
I wonder if we have enough computing power to assign blame to shareholders in proportion?

Probably tracing ownership would be the hard bit.

How much of your investments/pension would need to be in cigarettes and oil before you would be considered a bad person?
> You absolutely can have both

It's a sliding scale between security and freedom. Every bit of security you want means giving up a corresponding freedom.

Also, most people do not include "freedom to harm others" when they're talking about freedom. I've never heard of anyone carrying a sign saying "FREEDOM" and meaning they want to be free to hurt others.
Kenshi has an isometric gameplay vibe
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Sure. And people who were talking about Russia becoming imperial last dozen years were predicting the exact same thing. The people who warned about Russia turning back to USSR legacy were super correct.

Except that, they don't atribute Russian actions to America, as if Russian leadership could not have own ambitions.

If there was something about Russia that would suggest them staying peaceful absent NATO expansion, then maybe. But it is not and all he does is trying to make Russian politics all about USA.
My brother killed himself when he was 25, and I was 23. I've never really known how to talk about it/him with people. I sometimes wonder what he would be like now if he hadn't done it, but mostly I don't think about him - unless I'm talking with my mum.
I don't think I'll ever really get over it. But yeah, it's not really something to talk about. Life can be hard, and sadly there is suffering and tragedy in every family.
I had a pocket 1 as daily driver from gpd and it was great but they dropped support and the pocket 2 I really do not like. I have a few others of them but they miss the wow factor of the pocket 1. And no eInk indeed.
Spotted it in the morning as well. Fixed, thanks!
Thank god I don't use Chrome then.
$9 (or $6 if paid annually) per month is very expensive, especially for an app that should be a one time payment. I'll stick with my green square grid inside OneNote.
I only used a MacBook cause it was faster to ask IT for one than to have my ticket processed and approved by the cloud and security team which both required a write up on why I need a vm and what justification I have for needing it. Meanwhile IT is like "here you go".
"I'll never get over it."

I certainly will not tell you, how you are supposed to handle loss - that is entirely up to you.
But are you aware of the concept of self fulfilling prophecy?

Meaning if you are so sure of the future, that you will never get over it, than you are cementing this future.

I only know about the now, how I grief or rejoice today. It certainly feels sometimes, that this will be forever. But nothing is. It is your right to hold onto the grief, but personally I did better with not cementing my future.

I did get over the loss of my brother this way, despite having a way closer relationship to him, than other people who did not deal well with it (in my eyes), by accepting the grief and the reality of it. And then life went on. The grief is not over, maybe never will be. But it is not holding me to the past.
I don't remember who said it, but there's two things you can't really accept from a brother, their glory and their death.

Not 100% relevant with the original post, but reading it reminded me of it.
I enjoy using gov.uk services and it is due to this cohesive clean style. It is not perfect, example: I’ve encountered long questionnaires that show just one question per page so it feels endless and unrelenting, however it is reassuring to know that my parents and other demographics could comfortably access the same services.
I explained my position and explicitly said I'm trying to understand yours – claiming a textbook example of evolution is not evolution is just weird.

You come back with ad-hominems.

And then add new wrong assumptions into the mix – why should I abhore religion? You can do better.
Still haven't fully launched it yet. It's only me, and it's not the only thing I do.
Nothing happens when i hover over the squares.
Even ancient JavaScript is a safer language for integer programming than C
The documentation is pretty much useless to make it a target for developing your own setting
I don't agree. It's extremely obvious when a listing on Amazon.de is sketchy because the German used is quite bad compared to normal listings.

I'm also quite skeptical of most positive reviews, because it's a known problem in Germany too. I don't think most people are aware of that though and still believe high ratings still mean anything.
I have to say my Red Hat interview was pleasant.

There were no coding challenges, personality assessments etc. I just spoke with engineers and once with the hiring manager. They would start off with a simple question of 'what have you been working on recently', to then start to delve deeper, asking more questions 'why did you choose that approach?', but it was also two way, if I had experience in something they were interested in, they would genuinely ask more to learn themselves. There was no poker face play going on. I ended up really enjoying it as it was engineers chatting tech. In hindsight though it was a smart move. The people who interviewed me were bright folks and would have spotted any BS a mile off. Also by making me feel relaxed and letting my guard down, they got to see if I was the right cultural fit for the company.
Some examples: they could get rid of that pointless bootstrap on their website, they are shoving almost 1.5 MBs for a single font alone on their main page and their HTML semantics are nowhere to be found. This will all impact their bounce rate, accessibility and SEO.

I just don't believe the tale of "such skilled engineering teams" which don't show that in their products but blogposts.
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I believe the fact that you propose renting cloud resources just for compilation shows that something aint right

Im able to compile c# compiler way faster and with less resources
Maybe a surface 10inch with rlcd or eInk would work well indeed. I do need some type of attachable keyboard though that is also the screen protector. It is fairly annoying as some tablets have to bring all kinds of crap with you to make prop it up and set up a ble keyboard. It is possible but not very nice as daily driver.
Meta: this isn’t a Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html).
What's not to like, if Firefox and Skype are the only apps they are using?
You should hover over the list items, not the individual rectangles. Also, it doesn't work on mobile devices, and I'm not sure what could be done about this.
Ask HN: Is there a free flights API?
I'm wondering if there is a free API that I can use to figure out when planes are flying around my home and give me some metadata like plane type, destination, altitude, speed etc. I guess I could come up with some scraper for flightradar24, but I was wondering of there is a proper free API that can do that for me?
Transflective is awesome if you need it. They are expensive though. I have a 7" Lowrance fish finder bought in 2020, and the display works really well in bright sunlight and pitch darkness. The resolution is pretty low, like 720p, but I don't have the most expensive model.
My eyes are easily irritated by looking at a monitor / screen, and one of the fixes I tried was e-ink. This was a few years ago, I got a large tablet running android. I found that it refreshed too slowly and e.g. scrolling was no good on it. This was just a cheap one I found on amazon. Are there e-ink tablets or monitors that work as well as a regular screen in terms of refresh speed?
I love gruvbox, it's a piece of art. Code looks beautiful.
Maybe someone can make an eInk and rlcd assembly for the frame.work laptop; seems to be a nice niche market.
Knowing that I'm a solo-founder with 0 employee, I'm very proud!

Thank you, Mister Sandman :)
Absolutely not. I'm specifically looking at 17" laptops nowadays and while 75% keyboards are still kind of nice, I'd not want to bother myself with keyboards with even fewer keys, unless this is meant as a vacation laptop? Additionally I'd rather not have to deal with closed source graphics on such a device, I don't have to worry about software updates on my Intel Linux laptop or my Nvidia Windows console, I don't want to have to start thinking about kernel versions on a vacation laptop - this is probably not an issue for people who use Red Hat or Ubuntu with their backports kernels. As for the eink I think it's great for watches and reading devices, but for me low input lag is important in laptops.

But if disaster strikes and I have to code and email in the middle of a wilderness not too disconnected from cellular and that's not too cold or too humid I'll be glad if such a device exists.
A few months before covid, a little girl from my kid's school died of cancer. I went to the funeral and felt sadder than ever, despite not knowing the family. It felt so awkward shaking hands with the father at the wake. I was imagining my own kids dying.

Around this time, I also learned of the death of some schoolmates, kids that I knew growing up but wasn't close with. A suicide and two murdered, seemed quite unlikely but it happened.

This turned out to be the prelude to a number of deaths in my family.

My uncle got a brain tumor. I flew to the bay area to see him for the last time. It seemed bad, but he could still walk.

My father passed away, slowly and suddenly. He'd been in and out of hospital with "the everything": COPD, IHD, diabetes, just everything that happens to you when you don't watch what you eat and don't exercise. It was never going to end well, but it also doesn't have to end at any particular visit to the hospital. I literally have a photo of the last thing he ate, which turned out to be the thing that killed him.

A few months later, the family chat lit up. I have this massive set of cousins, and when something happens they write. I started reading the "With great sadness..." message, thinking this will be uncle having passed. I screamed. It wasn't my uncle. It was my 36 year old cousin. He died of a heart attack overnight. We ended up doing the funeral on zoom. I still remember the last shot of him in the coffin, he looked like me, same haircut (bald) and same face.

Not long after, my mom's sister phoned her. She wanted to cheer her up by having her come visit. She'd been locked up in the flat since the lockdown, but now things were easing. She went to see her sister and they both caught the virus. It's weird when someone goes to hospital with covid. To start with, chances are you just need some oxygen and then you'll get better. That seemed to be the case, but they kept her there a bit because they weren't sure. Then they put her in intensive. At this stage, there's a significant chance of dying, but probably not huge. Then they put her on a ventilator, where I think it's a coin toss. Then she flipped tails.

I talked to a grief guy, which I think helped. He'd sort of seen it all before, in terms of how your relationship with your loved ones might have been. It's also useful to remember the highs and lows. I've been lucky, it's mostly been positive, can't really think of anything terrible in my childhood.

Several friends lost a parent in the months after my mom passed. It was good to be able to talk them through things. Both on a practical level ("this is how you do a funeral, this is how you do the paperwork"), but also on an emotional level, particularly reliving memories about the person. We've all met the parents of our friends and like our own parents you more or less assume they'll be around forever, until they aren't.
There are more robust solutions out there for this architectural pattern. Look into dolt(dolthub) and noms.
Find 3d modeling forums, identify the super productive and helpful people (= 3D skills and experience + teaching skills), recruit them.
Facebook fails to label 80% of posts promoting bioweapons conspiracy theory
There's https://www.fifengine.net/ for "Fallout 2 like" rpgs
That's not my understanding, no. IIRC there was specific legislation that a union has to represent every worker in the shop, and that legislation was specifically introduced to misalign the incentives between workers and unions.
The Habit Tracker is (and will always be) 100% free.

Thanks for your feedback :)
That was a fun read but I'm missing something here. I've never worked on large scale systems and I don't understand why they didn't choose My or Postgre SQL.

Some comments say that it's because they're complicated but what exactly is complicated about them?

Can someone with more experience explain to me what would have happened if, for example, they used PostgreSQL from the beginning?

P.S Apologies if this is a stupid question.

Edit: Looks like I hurt someone's feelings in this comment.
I didnt see this before I posted the same thing above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30886812

I came to the same conclusion a few years ago, sounds like it hasn't improved (I think I may have tried the same one as you)
I came across the themer.dev the other day. It's comes close to this, but I struggled to get a theme to be consistent across apps. There are still some apps it doesn't support.
I'm looking to collaborate with a game developer. I have an idea for a special kind of EdTech game for a niche audience and would like to build a business out of bringing such games to market.

I'm a software engineer in the data science and web backend space myself, but would like to be involved in this more from a business angle. I would take care of marketing and would front a marketing budget.

The developer would get no cash compensation, but a majority share in the profits generated. The total amount of time investment required would probably measure in the 100s (rather than 1000s) of person-hours and the timescale is very flexible.

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Making a mobile app is in to the to-do list.

Meanwhile, you add it to your Home Screen so it behaves like an app.

Quick tuto: https://habitsgarden.com/homescreen

Thanks for trying it!
I used dracula for a while, but I just can't deal with it during the day. So I've been looking for a uniform light theme for day time coding. I hope nord theme can fill in the gaps there, but it looks like it's still early days for it.
How is that related to testing OS responsiveness of the time or.. at all?
YouTube cancelled my Nextcloud installation how-to
Love the aesthetics of your app.

> I feel like tools like this are extremely valuable to those with time blindness from ADHD, Autism, etc...

I'll read up on this, thanks for bringing it up!
Too little gamification on
- the habit tracker
- the garden game

Do I get your point correctly?
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Yes. What I did is try to choose default (common) scopes that have a high chance of being coloured the way I want, e.g. for the `[x]` token I use `markup.inserted` which is for markup diffs, so it should be green. Or `markup.underline` for the headlines. But the options are pretty limited.
Visualizing political data :)

I've done various 'pet projects' over the years in this realm, from exploring political bias in word embeddings to simple voting maps showing regional shifts, to comparisons of actual crime vs fear of crime across various demographics. I've even gotten to partner up with actual journalism outlets.

I love doing this stuff but I'd like to collaborate with others (either with technical or promotional capacity) to make these kinds of tools more useful, relevant, and ultimately actually inform people better.
You mean rotating between examples every X seconds?
> Reverse in the bottom right is the “normal” 5-speed reverse spot no?

I've driven a lot of 5-speed manual transmission rental cars over the decades, and my impression is that reverse in the top left is (or certainly was) the far more common layout:

R 1 3 5
2 4

Our previous car, also a VW, had this layout too.
Your ad blocker is badly misconfigured. I don't see any ads in Google search.
Exactly, however, the parent post also tried to expand this to a more general concept of evolutionary pressure and competitive behavioural patterns as I understood. If that is true we can solve a lot of 'problems' in the world by simply having the men doing at least most of the child care for the first few month of a toddlers life to compensate for the for the month before.
"Outward changes comes after we change from within"

Definitely! Sometimes, starting a workout for just a few day is enough to change your inner motivation :)
Well, with the battery breakthrough of 2034 old Tesla's will run on two double-A's for 1000 miles.
I feel I am still mourning the sudden death of my father, over 10 years ago now.

I don't really see what is wrong with that, it slowly fades, sure, but it does not go away and I am o.k. with that.

There is supposedly a Jewish saying "Someone is only really gone when nobody talks about them anymore".

Here, I did it again.
Exactly. For primary school children, it's really useful to have a printed font that looks like the letters they're actually going to be writing, otherwise you end up making things more complicated than it needs to be. Remember at this sort of age, children are reading letter-by-letter, and not whole words, so they need to be able to recognise the letters easily. The key features are:

* An "a" that looks like the "a" you actually write

* Differentiation between I/l/1

* Differentiation between 0 and O

* As few fancy flourishes as possible (i.e. sans serif)
This might be a spoiler - do read the article first - but this line is brilliant:

> The final synthesis of the revelations of the prophets into a true temple OS will come with great fury against this commercial adulteration of the sacred software stack, and sweep in a new era of user-empowering general-purpose computing.

Amen!
This is like saying a 'backdoor' isn't a backdoor because the hacker who put it there intended it to be used for nefarious purposes.
I was working with a partner in our company closely for a long time. To the point of being friends/talking on the phone a lot. So his face/data is really integrated into our app/marketing. Couple days ago he died and it's so weird... my unanswered text asking why he's not at our weekly meeting/if he's alright. And every time I see his face in our database/marketing material it's so odd like this guy was alive a couple days ago now gone.

My nephew in law/brother (we're roughly same age, grow up together as kids) killed himself one night (self inflicted gunshot). Again so weird, I was talking to him on snapchat, no indication of anything being wrong. Never told me he was having problems.

Anwyay it's weird when someone is suddenly just gone. Not sure if I should digitally purge them from my sights to not be reminded of them or what.
With Comic Sans a close second, surely.