skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think webp was ever meant to be an archival format, especially when used lossily. I wouldn't want a dithered blurred png to be the one archived image I have, either.

Typically I've seen webp served at the CDN or client, where a png or jpeg alternative is also available, and where (hopefully) the website owner has the original asset somewhere safe.

Between "now" and "nobody uses webp" anymore, it's still a super useful format to speed up pages for a majority of users. That doesn't mean you should rely on it to be a safe archival medium, but that's not the only consideration.

Of course nobody is going to force you to use that (or really notice if you don't). It's just one image format out of gazillions.
It’s played up. The simplest summary is “looking after future people is an overriding moral good”. The bit about digital people is just one extrapolation.
Always? I was under the impression it’s taking a lot longer for phones to get rooted.
This is a pretty bad summary of Bostrom's views at least.

It's not about an ethical obligation to create digital people, more a way to quantify what's at stake if humanity were to be destroyed. The point that he makes is that most people use 8B deaths as the "cost" when doing cost benefit analysis around a hypothetical apocalypse. Bostrom thinks the cost is much higher since it should also include all humans that will ever exist. When you try to quantify how large that could possibly be, you run into the possibility of far-future digital humans and he includes those in his calculation.
As the Agile manifesto asks, maximize work not done.
>They talk about Apple maps and I for one would like to be able to say I’m looking for a restaurant and see the logos pop up along my route.

How would you feel if only the logos of the highest paying corporations popped up? There might be the best Mom and Pop Restuarant that every existed on your route, but you're not going to see it for all the mcdonalds and subway logos they throw at you.
Still puritanism. Being an atheist doesn't mean you can't form bad beliefs.

We are talking an adults private photos, not a billboard on the freeway.
I agree it’s not perfect but what is your better solution? My email and some passwords have been collected at least 8 times according to https://haveibeenpwned.com/

A password manager with multiple factor authentication sounds better to me.
How dare I describe the network as it is, rather than in a fantasy world where people suddenly care about things they've shown no signs of caring about en masse in a decade? You'll excuse me if I keep doing that.
Can you play a YouTube video in the background with no ads with that, like Firefox mobile?
There is no competitor to their super expensive product.
> This means that more and more healthcare workers spend their time doing paperwork or customer service work that could be done by anyone

The obvious solution seems to be reducing the required paperwork rather than hiring more staff to handle the paperwork, and this seems to agree with your experience when you described "unintegrated time recording systems".

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if too much bureaucracy was also partly to blame, because that's what happened here in Canada.
Prices have been collapsing for at least a month, and it only seems to be getting better (or worse, depending on which side of the deal you are on). Retailers are having a very hard time unloading their 30xx stock because 40xx is right around the corner, and NV is likely slowing down the 40xx rollout to give their partners more time to get rid of stock before it becomes worth even less.
Got some paintings hanging on the walls
>Killing an industry isn’t anti-competitive per se

Using your dominance in one market (computers/phones) to muscle into another (ads) is about as anti-competitive as you can get.
It's at best a fringe interpretation, at worst a strawman.

The basic argument of a longtermist position is that, similar to how throughout history we extended the set of entities we give moral value to (some humans -> all humans -> all humans + non-human animals -> ...), we ought to further extend that set to include future (i.e. not yet born) humans.

I don't personally find the argument very convincing, but it's not as absurd on its face as Salon is trying to paint it.
I believe that’s Chrome’s decision - like on Android.

I’m using Firefox Focus with its native Content Blocker.
Do you have any suggestions for open-source Android backup solutions that can back up everything? Because I'm having a hard time finding any.
> In South Dakota and a number of states in the south and rural districts, yes it is another story, and it is bad.

I suspect this is because teaching is arguably the most stable job in rural areas.
Search Console Integration with Google Search
> whereas Apple primarily makes money from selling devices

I wonder if Apple is predicting that this wont be the case for much longer (lack of real innovation (excluding the M1) and market saturation), so they're being proactive to dominate another vertical. They will likely capitalize on their current image of being privacy kings.
Emacs Tramp tricks: Replacing terminals with Emacs (2020)
oh, indeed! at very least it weakens the PoW
The Dangers of TikTok Stardom for Children
Steam is successful because its advertising is rather low key, showing a popup with offers, and providing a search, directory plus suggestions. Their gain is from consumer analytics too. (They also take a cut for using their platform from the game developers or publishers.

It also provides some added value like achievements, basic social media in forms of forums and chat, some (somewhat broken at times) controller handling, some bug reporting, cloud save handling, voice communication handling, even some space to host game related content.
On the whole, more value added than taken by paltry ads. The bigger value minus is the "Steam DRM" - requirement for an online connection to use the downloaded application.
And providence help you if you post inflammatory comments under an account that owns game access licenses. You will lose that.

The other ones don't do it quite as effectively, esp. the suggestions part. Being a game library and download service is not what makes Steam in particular good, though it is an essential part.
As a counterpoint, this is the same graph, but with the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Norway chosen instead of Germany and France.

All nice developed rich northern European countries with reasonable life expectancy and life quality.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?end=2...

Their difference from the UK is negligible.
But why is picking an ideology to critique such texts from the professional way to do it? Sounds like the kind of pseudo intellectual bullshit you see on certain subreddits. How are you engaging with the text if you have to force it through the lens of Marxism, feminism, or whatever chosen ism?
An aside: On https://scotrail.datasette.io/scotrail/random_apology I see heavy use of:

order by random() limit 1

I understand that in more or less all databases this is quite inefficient: it runs `random()` for all rows, sorts those random values and then chooses the row corresponding to the first one. In tables with millions of values this could be rather expensive.

Is there any generic way in SQL to cheaply choose an arbitrary row from a collection in a way that is not deterministic? [1] I’m thinking about something that has the same characteristics as Ruby’s `Array#sample`.

Postgres has TABLESAMPLE but that only works across an entire table so it’s not flexible enough to be useful in real world situations (ie where the collection to choose a random element from is already filtered by WHERE)

Or are there any databases that know how to recognize this `order by random()` idiom and skip the extra work? Kind of like how `count(*)` usually has optimized semantics to not actually look at the distinct values of each row.

[1] I realize that SELECT without an order clause is technically arbitrary but in practice it’s usually pretty deterministic.
> It’s definitely about the money.

This. It's all about the money. I left the classroom and literally shed a tear in front of my principal. She asked what she could do for me to stay and I said "I need more money. I have bills to pay." You can't pay a mortgage with thank you notes, certificates of appreciation, and hugs.

I taught high school Computer Science, a needed subject area with countless CS training initiatives and resources, but the pay still wasn't (and still isn't) there. I have a family and can't afford to stay in the classroom if I want to stay in my house, own a car, have a cell phone and internet, and pay off student loans.

I clicked the article because it says nobody wants to teach; I want to teach, I just can't afford to.
Automating daily Google Takeout requests is exactly the sort of behaviour that I fear would trigger an account ban at some indeterminate future date. There are just too many unknown unknowns for me with Google now. Their ecosystem is, and has been for a while, personally relegated to burner account status.
Not to sound blunt, but answering your question on the downvotes (which you probably didn’t deserve, especially without reply).

The concept of an importance score feels very centralized and against the federated / free nature of the site. Towards what end?

If the “importance score” impacts curation, I am strongly against it. Not only is it icky, but how is it different than a function of popularity?
> I am able to use Firefox Focus to block ads in Safari on iOS

You think you are able to, but you just got lucky so far.

Focus code is very buggy and work for only a few sites. It's very hard to contribute fixes, so I expect it to stagnate even more. And since the sites we, the tech elite, read are similar to the ones the few maintainers do, those will be well served while all the rest of the internet will not see any improvement. IMO it will probably rot away like reader-mode.

Also, it is trivial for publishers to evade it :( just not a effort anyone even bothers with because of the low traffic.

Real firefox for android allows you to install uBlockOrigin. The only actively maintained adblocker that is being gasslighted everywhere. And that you was never allowed to install on IOS devices thanks to Apple the company.
Sorry I meant to type “vaccines other than mRNA ones”.
Anarchism is "no states", not "no rules".
Imagine a world where anyone who wants can set up his little torrent seedbox sharing with the whole globe some content they really like without worrying about getting a nice little letter in the mail. I'm pretty sure if people were free to do so (and cheap and easy commercial options sprung up) we would be able to find any content we desire and download it and (if it's popular enough) even stream it
Which would involve defending his case. The defense's budget has to be in 5he same league as the prosecution.
The US military uses Xbox controllers for some UAV's. Snobbery over input devices is counterproductive when someone is discussing accessibility.
For comedy gold, look through the DMCA notifications that Google links you to, and that's your index of helpful and current torrent sites. Many are very usable through machine translation too.
Schools are just a place for warehousing kids; even people who take no interest in education know this from personal experience back from when they were a kid.

Exactly 0 of 627 college students can answer simple questions like 'What is the name of the mountain range that separates Europe from Asia?' or 'What is the last name of the author of The Brothers Karamazov?'.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmarshallcrotty/2013/09/10/...

The striking thing is that the dismal career prospects hasn't stopped bright ambitious people trying to get into academia. Whereas In Australia you can just look at entry-scores for teaching degrees to see that only people who did poorly in school go into teaching nowadays.

So sure, pay and conditions have some influence but it's not a sufficient condition to explain what's happened in teaching. Pretty sure if researchers could get the job security and entitlements of teachers we'd have no problem finding bright people trying to get into research. But that's because research is more intrinsically rewarding and higher status.

Child-minding just fundamentally isn't a job which requires much talent, the job is steadily degrading to the status and pay which one would expect for a semi-skilled occupation. The teachers' unions are doing a valiant job fighting a rear-guard action to prevent that decline, through rampant credentialism to buttress the 'professional' status of the job. But it's an uphill fight, politicians aren't going to push for tax hikes to fund teacher salaries when every voter knows full-well that regardless they're still going to have to teach their kids themselves or get tutoring if they want their kid to actually learn anything.
And it could be because the good ones quit.

For all the reasons mentioned in the article.
I think the difference is that if you buy the cd, even second hand, and keep it, you're fine because you own it.

At least in Europe, there's the whole "personal copy tax" that's levied on all storage media as well as a "private copying exception" to copyright law.
Just because their primary revenue is from hardware, doesn't mean it isn't attractive to also add extra, uncorrelated revenue sources such as ads and data. Whether they have innovation or not is irrelevant to this.
Every time someone sends me an appreciation on the Namely feed I print it out and tape it to my wall. It’s nice to have a reminder that my work helps people do their jobs better.
All browsers on iOS are merely rebranded safari. No such thing as a subpar browser IMO, just subpar websites that require browser features no one should need.
Drugs and/or meditation are pretty potent "thought tools". (If only as a side effect). Popular with scientists, artists and engineers the world over.

Proven useful but maybe still under the shadow of taboo.

Much serious development could be done there

I imagine a class of specialized "thought workers", dosing up like Mentats. Or meditating in government-issue sensory-deprivation tanks.
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It’s been explicitly stated many times. It’s why Ive left. They are a “services” company now.
On the other hand, my ex worked for the NHS. To 'solve' the problem of long wait times after check in. They reduced staff at check-in to bottle neck the in flow of checked in patients.
This is a great outlook on learning. It brought back memories of being accepted in a highly selective school. Using this analogy, it was a fast lane. The curriculum would've taken 8 years instead of 4 if it had been designed for average student speed.
I think this applies to spirituality as a whole and not just religion. I have also heard experiences with ayahuasca and DMT also result in a reduction of ego and a realization that you're one piece of a vast connected consciousness.
Ask HN: Is the United Kingdom undergoing collapse?
The headlines on the /r/unitedkingdom subreddit are really bad.

"Anger as train firm boss awarded £1m share bonus amid strikes and railway chaos"

"'No 10 have completely checked out. It’s really bad': Inside Boris Johnson’s zombie Government"

"Cost of living: More pets being abandoned, dogs home says"

"Over-50s turn to house-shares to beat rising rents"

"Price cap seen to breach £6,000 for first time in grim new forecast"

"‘We are being abandoned’: when the energy bill goes up by £100,000 a day"

"Libraries and museums to be ‘warm havens’ for people struggling with energy bills"

"Price of a pint of of beer in London surging towards £14 [in 2025] as inflation rises, according to analysis"

"Fuel poverty: better-off urged to donate £400 energy grant to those who need it | Fuel poverty"

"London’s broken housing will destroy the economy – and the Conservative Party"
> I have YouTube premium

I do, too. And every month I spend a little bit more time fast-forwarding past people awkwardly dropping pitches for NordVPN into the middle of their videos.
frontendmasters[0] is really good for guided video tutorials and classes. They don't only focus on frontend but teach everything so the title is a little misleading.

[0] https://frontendmasters.com/
How to know when you’re trying too hard: the law of reversed effort
Unfortunately your downloads are either not actually legally owned by you, just licensed, and potentially subject to DRM in some cases.

Same with the books. The library asking permission is actually good and what may make it legal. However, that is called a license and may have serious limitations.
> "Logging in" typically refers to the situation where you don't have the cookie and need to get it.

Right, and after you click the link in your email to login then your back-end will set a cookie so that when you close your browser and come back again you will be logged in without needing to receive another link your email for however long you want "remember me" to be available.

The person I was replying to said the difference with magic links is you need to check your email every time you login. Especially with his "obvious" remark, it made it seem like he didn't realize you could use magic links and only login once a year just like you could use a password and only login once a year thanks to cookies working the same with both methods.
Chiapas would be a real world example of 300k+ people managing for 30+ years.
I don't think that being able to easily swap to new algorithms means negotiation. Signal e.g. can easily switch to other encryption schemes, just as Whatsapp shipped e2ee in a few weeks. After some time, you are forced to upgrade the app in order to be able to use it.
Yeah its ability to do texture, detail, and mood is on a different level.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CgxTBLkPem8/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
it's not like they haven't tried on macOS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24838816

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25109724

(this was reverted after backlash)
Please consider adding an optional 'roughness' column for the materials. You include them in the shader snippets. :)

How are roughness, specular, etc, measured?
This was executed nicely. The ability to include screenshots, a video or link is especially helpful to communicate a concept.

One idea that could be cool would be some kind of forced ranking of features/functionality that idea posters could include so that interested users could indicate what would be most important to them. That would take it beyond high-level elevator pitch and into feature-product fit insights.
Is History History? Identity Politics and Teleologies of the Present
>you need an Xbox controller

Is that true? The German page at least says PS controllers and others are also supported.
> The paradigm is just too wasteful for these kinds of interactive apps.

Nonsense.
Google isn’t the government, they are a third party who you provide data to. 4th amendment doesn’t apply.
Blending between materials of various roughness, e.g, rust / paint peeling, etc.
Price of FSD will rise to $15k in North America on September 5th
Routine investigations, operations and treatments for entire categories of disease were entirely cancelled in many hospitals. In the big one near me, most of the big equipment like CAT scanners and such were turned off and mothballed for well over a year, some more than two years. No investigation or treatment for many conditions during this time.

So I really don't buy the "seek treatment when needed" line. The public was both cajoled intensively into not using the NHS, and the NHS itself shut down a lot of its basic services. Not just reduced. Shut down entirely. For over two years.

I'm friends with one of the radiation safety officers who was responsible for overseeing the shutdown and then the restarting and recommissioning of the equipment. The NHS shut down! What we are seeing now is the consequence of that. And we were expected to both pay for it, and applaud this weekly.

I hope that if there is one outcome from this pandemic, it's that we never allow such a situation to cripple the whole economy and the health service in such a way again. The cost of closing it all down will be many times greater than the cost of the pandemic itself. It should never have been done, and we need to look long and hard at the pressures and the decision-making that led to this.
Paying a subscription for siloed content was never convenient, and the price increases for the ad free packages aren't that steep.

I don't have much of an opinion about delivery apps because they weren't ever viable here.
It may already be a thing, but simulating weather and feeding it something like Earthdata [1] would be extremely cool and potentially useful.

[1] https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/near-real-tim...
Isn't it possible that demographics have changed enough that funding requirements have changed enough that the 1940s-2000 or so system is no longer viable?

I know the demographics in the US has vastly changed some cost models over that time, making some earlier social program hit major funding problems through no evil from govt actors.
As divorce applications peaked during Covid, a surprising new profession emerged
If I were Apple, I'd try serving ads something like:

Send a randomized bundle of ads to each iPhone (the ads must come from my servers). From that bundle, select the ads that fit user interests most closely. Don't report which specific ad the user was served.

This would presumably be quite annoying for advertisers, but it would preserve user privacy and, hey, Apple basically has a monopoly on users who actually pay for apps so what are they going to do? Perhaps the advertiser could be provided with some artificial profiles with statistically representative taste profiles to see how often their ads come up.
You don’t need to invade privacy to show ads in a search result, based on that search. That’s how DuckDuckGo survives.

We’ve all heard the anti trust whining about the App Store for over a decade now. It’s not happening. Nintendo gets to decide what you put on a Nintendo Switch, Apple gets to decide what you put on an iPhone. That’s not monopoly abuse, if you don’t like it buy different console or an Android phone.

Phones have become an important generic computing platform, which is why in different jurisdictions there’s political action to force Apple to loosen control. That wouldn’t be happening if it was so obviously illegal monopoly abuse because then it wouldn’t be necessary. Yet it apparently is.
A basic HOTAS (T.Flight HOTAS One) is 65$ USD right now at Best Buy and works with PC as well. Makes a huge difference for such a small price, but it's very entry level. I assume you know this already, so it's more of a PSA for anyone else reading the thread.

The one annoyance I have with Xbox Cloud is that fact that it won't pass through any controller that's not a standard one. Works with third party controllers just fine, but not a friggin' joystick, which has the exact same inputs, just mapped differently. I hate arbitrary limitations.
It’s overloaded and has recently been made obsolete by splitting it into two new commands. There’s nothing wrong with personally continuing to use it, but adopting the new vocabulary might help make Git less confusing to others.
It is unlikely that both the email and 2FA will fail you at the same time, unless perhaps you are using gmail and Google authenticator (though I am not sure how much authenticator is tied to your Google identity as I don't use it).

Use email, phone and app 2FA plus printable 2FA codes, and you'll always have a way.

Frankly if all of these can be made inaccessible in one go then the setup was mighty flawed to begin with.
Of course there is.
Apple advantage is it's closed system not the iPhone.
If you only need to maintain compatibility to your own products it's easy.

If it wear MS not Apple they would already be fined for anti competitive behavior.

Where is the difference between MS bundling IE with Windows and Apple forcing Webkit in all iOS browsers?