skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had success with Qt building an app that compiles on Android and iOS. I’m not in the app development business at $dayjob though.
it is "surveillance capitalism" -- they want names and contact info for "their customers" .. this is a serious sickness in the modern times IMHO
The government had multiple "relocation" ventures beyond the high arctic relocations and it's not much of a stretch to call it the standard policy from that period. HBC also did an experiment with the now-deserted town of Devon's harbour. Other examples include Nueltin lake and Banks Island.
That's what I meant by carrying by hand. In bags.

But a lot of people aren't stashing 2 or 4 reusable grocery bags in their laptop bag. And people often aren't carrying any bag at all.
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How American plastic bags ban affects Africa, Southeast Asia and South America?
This is about as biased a report as one can get! An opinion piece by a Rupert Murdoch editorial staff citing a threatened industry conducting research on itself.

I’m highly skeptical of the idea that people are throwing away their reusable bags after 2-3 uses.

They’re also hand-waving away the concept of alternative lower carbon disposable materials, because it’s a plastic bag industry association.
It's in the Lost island
You learn how to avoid that after it happens a couple times.
It's the 21st Century already. We just add processing modules into everything.
> However, unlike Google Glass, modern smartphones play a "camera shutter" sound to at least give some indication that they are capturing an image to the people around you.

I just tried with my modern smartphone: it's completely silent, both on photo and on video mode. The default might have been to play some sound, but I probably toggled the option off when I first got it, because I find these fake shutter sounds (unlike the real mechanical shutter sounds from DSLRs) to be annoying.

No, the real difference is the positioning. To take a photo or record a video with a smartphone, you have to hold it in a particular position (back or front pointing directly at the subject), which isn't usually the normal "relaxed" position to hold a smartphone, and this gives people around some indication that you're capturing an image. With Google Glass and similar, the normal position is the ideal one to record video.
I'm hoping the latest EU regulation enforcing alternate browser engines will make a dent in this.

...but when I see how petulantly defiant Apple's responses to other regulations which threaten their lock-in strategies have been, I'm not optimistic.
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> what concerns me is Google's and Apple's incentives to help them get better

I think that despite that, they did a decently good job. A few years ago, I created a voice-only social app: people can easily record and send voice memos.

I built it using fairly new tech at the time: the web audio api and native web components. (I refuse to touch react-style frameworks with a 20-foot pole.) It was 99% compatible with all major web browsers from the get-go, even with its fairly advanced "tech."

The only thing that wasn't cross-platform was the audio files themselves. I had to make a deep-dive into the world of encodings and codecs so that I can offer users audio files in the formats that work on their machines.

Obviously, there are areas where cross-platform-ity (??) is abysmal, but things will probably continue to evolve for the best ― hopefully.

And yes, PWAs with their offline capabilities are just awesome!
Reddit is a place where you get downvoted for linking something that proves what someone was saying is wrong just because it goes against the site’s overall narrative. Lies are encouraged if they’re the correct lies.
I really just want the end result :)
I would say "AWS unsuitable for real world business applications".

Every business application uses a database and AWS charges $3000 per month for the same database that could run on your MacBook, it's beyond ridicious.
Good old face-to-face works. 25M is worth of a business class flight.
> It's the exact opposite of .WEBP which can't open on Mac

I suppose it depends on what version of macOS you're running; on my Mac running Sonoma, WebP files open just like JPEGs, PNGs, etc. and have for the last 2 or 3 macOS versions.
Go ahead and write "code for the web" but be prepared to have to choose among a bunch of different JS libraries and CSS design systems depending on who the CTO is for your organization and who has their ear; writing bare-metal HTML/CSS and minimal Javascript won't get you far with the C-suite and you'll be pulling your hair out trying to get things to play nicely with each other (or wind up digging through five or ten <div> layers to find a DOM element you need to augment).
The Iliad is the greatest LGBT love story of all time and I will die on that hill - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles_and_Patroclus

If you read the Iliad as a man losing his childhood lover, everything makes sense. Many in the classical greek period took this interpretation.
I didn't move from Google because of this bug. I'm just using that bug as a (pretty symptomatic) example.
I've seen argued that this is deliberate when the tobacco industry is funding the anti-smoking ads, but I don't think that's the case here.
Is this something you are proud of?
At the end of the day it's "just" a display, a few sensors and cameras strapped to your face, it's not exactly rocket science. Quest 2 gets you 80% of the way there for 1/10th the cost, and if VR/AR become widespread, there's probably going to be a few dozen companies that will compete on hardware.

VR currently suffers from a chicken & egg problem. There isn't a ton of investment in software & hardware because the user base is relatively small and vice versa. Once that changes, other hardware manufacturers will follow.
So many great articles on this site. This rainy Sunday is in serious jeopardy of falling off the cliff and being sucked into the gravity well wormhole that is navalgazing.net.

https://www.navalgazing.net/Phalanx

I've always wondered how the Battleship guns with the white dome cylinder chamber above the gattling gun worked, but the background story is way more interesting than I expected. Apparently it's called a Phalanx, and no, a person doesn't sit in the white cylinder chamber*.

* Despite Battlefield 2 leading me to believe a person occupied the cylinder, anyone remember Wake Island with the USMC carrier, F-35B, and J-10? haha, good times.
Apple can make a new thing, while others (and the web) are playing catch-up. There are no open-standards for this VR road (yet (a-frame?)). These vendors will continue to "innovative" on their closed platforms.
Infrastructure does not have an algorithm or "recommendations" that decide what you see.

It's the same reason people don't criticize the power company for allowing people to use their products.
Oh you're right, Safari does show it. If I go to the URL directly it downloads the file, which is why I assumed it couldn't view it. But it does show on the page https://jpegxl.info/test-page/
https://www.freedoniagroup.com/press-releases/freedonia-repo...

Edit: Apparently this is commissioned by the plastic industry. It does match my anecdata of how many people I see buying "reusable" bags at the supermarket check out, combined with https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/grocery-bag-environmental...
> The whole thing takes 13GB to download

You're one of the lucky ones, eh?
I'd say it can be important. I'll also say that, having gone to a top-ish business school, other than getting a (fairly ordinary) job out of campus interviews, I never otherwise benefited from network/connections and mostly didn't stay in particularly close contact with most of my classmates.
Yeahm I should have left wine off there - my point was anything that uses municipal water as the primary input of water in said products. Which is likely any liquid that comes in something plastic.

It would be interesting to test various alcohols for fluoride though.
Do you have kids? What is keeping you up late? My kids are older and don’t go to sleep until 10 (I’m often out driving them around until 930).

Finally when everyone is asleep, I finally have “my time” — which is still intended for projects like planning home reno, fixing things, maybe some tidying, and then to procrastinate or take a break from this 3rd shift of work I’ll end up on phone (hacker news is a fave).

I’ve just made peace I won’t get proper sleep until empty nest.
You were doing it. Watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvuVhCIQgfQ.
Russian spies impersonating Western researchers in ongoing hacking campaign
If a developer pulls out of Apple, the developer loses half of their mobile market, and Apple loses a single customer. I guess if you got all developers to leave Apple, and then all iOS users switched to Android, then it could hurt Apple more than developers, but that's probably not happening.
If you have the sales skills and another marketable skill then it’s easier than ever.
Exactly. I think our cultural norm around thinking about things in terms of averages causes us to grossly misinterpret reality. Averages are rarely a meaningful way to summarize anything.
Hilarious. Wait until people think critically about what solar panels and lithium ion batteries (for their "green" EVs and homes) demand has done to the environment.
If like me you were unaware of the "x86-64-v.." classification, here is an overview: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/05/building-red-h...
I would second that. Frameworks are secondary. React + TypeScript was the key (for me at least). After that it is just learning web standards - starting with CSS, HTML, JS - and then moving on to Canvas, WebAudio etc if one desires.
I was driving quite a long time before Covid, and I drive about 50,000 miles a year. I’ve noticed a long, slow decrease in how well people drive, but I don’t think it has changed any more dramatically in the last three years. if you took the trendline prior to 2020 and drew it to 2023, it would get you to pretty much where we are today in terms of accidents and fatalities. They had already started increasing again before Covid.

And in any case, the plural of anecdote is not data. there’s just really no data to support the idea that everybody not driving for a month, and then driving less for a year or two, has made people worse at driving.
Unfortunately from a non-professional perspective, writing for the web is just soul crushingly boring and honestly depressing. I'd rather not be reminded that this is where the cross-platform development takes place. It genuinely makes me hate programming and I find negative joy in it
I don't know man, the website was first online on 2023-11-19, as reported by the first known https certificate, no information about who you are and what you're doing.
I'm supposed to give you my data and my money/payment information, but as others like @bluehatbrit pointed out i know nothing else about your infrastructure, my data safety or the process behind the scenes.
It takes time to save to LTO, how often is this done? Is my data going to be at risk for days?

The website looks and feels like it was made by some undergrad that's following django+bootstrap class and has to deliver an entirely made-by-hand project the next day.
Not that it would matter much normally, but there's really nothing inspiring confidence on it.

I see you're using Next+Tailwind+Supabase and the main Next instance is being diretly hosted on a bare metal server from Scaleway, https and all, which is a somewhat weird choice for a framework like Next that works very well with standard hosted/serverless options from your usual big providers.

Considering there's not much logic going on, since the DB and auth logic are being handled by a hosted version of supabase, the homepage links redirect to github and the storage request flow is akin to sending an email, this could explain the HN hug of death, since no proxy/cache/scalable option was used.

Furthermore, the email verification link was sent from a simple gmail alias, with no confirmation on the website part.

I wouldn't dox you publicly, but your full name, surname and YOB are visible in the email sender information (along with your private gmail address).
This confirms my undergrad project hunch.

All of the above makes me even more concerned about what could happen with any data uploaded here.

Ultimately I don't trust this, and I would advise anyone else not to.

There's nothing wrong with experimenting, learning and building cool stuff, especially while young, but I would have considered a whole lot more things before posting in a community such as HN
I wish you could control with arrows or `wasd`. Or if at least it showed a message explaining how controls work. Took me a bit to figure out controls on a laptop.
There is a character limit to be dealt with here.
> There are no open-standards for this VR road

There's a few, actually. WebXR is supported by Safari but coverage is supposedly really weak: https://www.roadtovr.com/apple-vision-pro-webxr-support-safa...

There's also OpenXR for native applications, which the Vision Pro does not cover. That's where the closed-platform "innovation" is happening, supposedly.
I've tested Binwalk on all the example files, and the BMP and TGA samples didn't show any zlib compressed data (https://ibb.co/3vqyhcv). Can you please confirm that you have used the files from the example folder (https://github.com/x011/SecretPixel/tree/main/examples)? Regarding PNG and TIFF, this is normal because they use DEFLATE compression, which is a variant of zlib compression, to compress the image data. This is part of the PNG/TIFF specifications and is used to reduce the file size of the image. Nevertheless, I've removed TIFF compression='tiff_deflate' option for TIFF images. Thanks for the paper :)
The Amiga had both chip and fast RAM, the latter was only accessed by the CPU. Not too different from GPU coprocessors today sharing unified access to some fraction of system memory. "Complicated caching architectures" use coherence protocols to ensure that things are kept consistent when required.

*nix-like systems would have come with a lot of overhead back then. Perhaps you could've had MMU-based sandboxing and virtual memory as an optional feature, so that old applications and games could still rely on bare-metal hardware access.
Bit serial made a lot of sense because the memory was often serial (drum memory or acoustic delay lines use in 1960s calculators).

>And yeah, I also wished DEC didn't kill the PDP-10 for the VAX, but that's another story.

The DEC-20 was 6x faster than VAX-11/780 on at least one benchmark (that I wrote when I had access to both in the 80s..). DEC-20 was a PDP-10 implemented in ECL, it was quite fast.
The nice thing about the web is that while it’s no company’s favoured platform, it’s valuable to all of them as a way into each other’s platforms. That’s why whoever is “winning” the platform war a particular point tends to neglect the web. See Microsoft in the 2000s, and Apple now. But all their competitors are incentivised to push the web forward, because it’s a useful fallback as a way to get their apps into the walled garden. Then, eventually things shift and the company that was dominating falls behind a bit, or is facing antitrust problems, and suddenly they care about the web again. In that way, the web is a perpetual underdog, but never goes away.
The problem* thanks auto correct.
One really good thing about native apps versus PWAs is that once the user installs a native app and learns the way it works they don't need to learn it again until they upgrade. With anything sourced from the web, the user is at the mercy of the wevdevs, who are at the mercy of the marketing and merchandising wizards who want to shake up the UI to try and goad users into buying more stuff. It's kind of like those round baskets that supermarkets like to clutter the aisles with; somehow they think it prompts you to buy things, but for me it adds one more product to my "no, not buying this ever again" list.
>what is exactly the anglospheres obsession with trying to make their life more like that of people who live in squalor and possess nothing?

I don't understand either.

We'll point to something like this and say, "look at what this culture does that's positive!"

But if you point out something negative of a specific culture, that's taboo.
Safari (finally) supports WebP.
No, that type of thin plastic is not recyclable.
Oh, well look at that that, it works now. Good to hear.
I'd rather go the other way and not require a prescription for a breathing machine. They're not habit forming and you won't OD on breathing.
is this really a problem? Being strictly open without monetization is a feature.

You can still open a Liberapay if you want
> They may be the third-party administrator charging back to an employer,

can you please elaborate on this? does this mean that some companies (employers) directly see and pay their employees medical stuff on their books?

> Ultimately for Anthem, this claim cost them a lot more to handle than if they had just paid out in the first place

... well, of course, but the whole middleman game costs the US many many many serious percents of each year's GDP. and probably the whole culture of reimbursement despair makes a lot of money to insurance companies, and even probably keeps rates a bit lower than they ought to be, and keeps people sick (and of course eventually leads to more serious problems that in turn cost a lot more, but if those are shifted to pensioner age then they might be covered federally, right? again a win for the insurers)
Buyout of local news makes this all possible.

Perhaps, there needs to be an anti-monopoly law for the fourth column.
Switching line voltage current is serious, I’ll take an enclosed relay with a UL listing over an aliexpress special.

This one is more suitable for use with an ESP8266, it has a pair of dry contact inputs and switches 120v-277v that could be triggered with GPIO: https://www.functionaldevices.com/product/rib01bdc/
A Spline Theory of Deep Learning
> You have an uncle with skin cancer. You bump into an oncologist at a party. You ask some technical questions. Annoying lady cuts in and starts talking about essential oils.

You know, you could have written that without the casual sexism. I also find it interesting how you feel this intense need to simultaneously claim that you already knew about all of the same details I mentioned but also dismiss them as irrelevant: if they’re grade school level, what does that say about your original question not indicating awareness of them? If they’re “essential oils”-level quackery, which is hard to reconcile with them being in grade school curriculum, why are you so concerned about saying you knew everything already?
I don’t believe people get significantly worse at driving after not driving for a month. I have gone on one month vacations where I did not drive, then I came back and gotten my car, and I don’t think I was any worse off, and even if I was, I was right back to where I started Very quickly.

I don’t think half as much for a year would make me any worse either. The average American is 40 years old and has been driving for 25 years. The average American who drives is even older. It’s hard to imagine them cutting their commute in half for a couple years. Will make them any worse than they had been before.

In instances, like this, there is neither nor logic, just subjective feeling, you can be pretty sure it is incorrect
I agree with the GP. I feel like you're trying to walk into a steakhouse and ask for pancakes KNOWING it was a steakhouse before you went in. Pancakes are great, but it says steakhouse right on the sign that says "We sell steak and nothing else"
Just go with react bro... Now seriously, React has been working fine for 10 years. If you need to chase something different every 6 months, I'm inclined to say you are doing something wrong.
Making things intuitive and easily usable was absolutely a priority of Microsoft back then, and they put a lot more thought in that than most modern "UX" design.

Making things pretty wasn't a priority for Microsoft the same way it was for Apple. But I wouldn't call that UX.
p(x1) is p(x_n|...) with n = 1 and ... empty. It's computed and optimized the same way, nothing special about it.
I'm in the middle of reading "Technostress: The Human Cost of the Computer Revolution", by psychologist Craig Brod.

I'm in my late 40s and the book reads to me as a nice time capsule of how computing has reshaped our society, and sets good context for considering the effects of AI, the pandemic and our more connected and increasingly-remote world overall, and looking to the future.

I see a lot of early criticisms of his research in book reviews, but I have a tough time dismissing the observations in the book, based on what I've seen
The deep-fakers were likely, at least at one point, an internal employee of this firm so that they knew how to pull this off.
> What ones would those be?

If you really don't know, I'm not your research assistant so I won't go look up things like universal health care and the social support strategies of various European countries for you. If you're just trying to bait me into some sort of pedantic argument, I'm far past the age where I felt compelled to interact with people who think being deliberately obtuse is a valid conversation tactic. Either way, I'm going to let you finish this one yourself. Have a fantastic sunday.
Same here. And when you make a point of it in conversation you’re considered the crazy one. Let alone mention it to coworkers, you’re instantly a kissass.
You're supposed to end your document with a newline. That's a POSIX standard.
If a "rebellious phase" in an Inuit population would entail falling into frigid water and dying, one angry teen per generation that falls in is probably enough to keep the rest out, if it's not cleared from the gene pool altogether. The latter might be bad armchair evolutionary psychology, but we're talking about a small population that's been in an extreme environment for a pretty long time.
Google is the one pushing them. Apple has the incentive to keep people on the device though because they don't have an advertising business

https://fugu-tracker.web.app/
> I hope my children will see the day when these kinds of software vulnerabilities only exist in "legacy" software.

The good news: the day will come when this kind of software vulnerability will only exist in legacy software.

The bad news: we’ll still be using legacy software at that time.
From the browser makers' point of view there's quite a bit of risk with introducing a new image format. libjxl is written in C++ so undoubtedly will be full of undiscovered security issues. I'm sure that someone will write a decoder in a safer language, but that work still needs to be done and/or finished, and then integrated with the browser. At the same time there are to 5 significant places probably 0% of websites that host .jxl files. So at the start it's all downside and almost no upside.

(Chicken and egg problem here of course which is no one will create the websites until there is wide browser support.)
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> the idea that they’re going to be buying these new bags ever other trip to the store because they’re piling up in a room at home for years is hard for me to believe.

One of the things that pushed me away from using Instacart was that they'd always bring groceries in the heavyweight bags.

I reuse them now that I stopped using Instacart, but I certainly collected a whole pile of them.
Rust is just C++ with lipstick. Same pig.

With Go, i believe people will eventually mean revert to C, appreciating the value of simplicity.
Wow, that's a great way of putting it! Thanks, I had never linked the dots that way before.