skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not skeptical at all. There are a lot of reusable bags like this, https://www.heb.com/product-detail/h-e-b-reduce-your-boot-pr..., which cost about a quarter (so not something that would really affect people's saving behavior).

My guess is it's something like that famous "daycare late fee" study that was widely discussed after Freakonomics reported on it, https://freakonomics.com/2013/10/what-makes-people-do-what-t.... Essentially, the fee wasn't high enough to cause parents to need to be on time, instead the fee was more like something to pay off their guilt, so adding the fee caused more lateness in parental pickups. I.e. before there was a late fee, parents would feel somewhat guilty if they were late. After the late fee, they didn't feel bad - after all, they were basically paying to be late.

My suspicion with these kinds of bags, which are very cheap and honestly feel just a bit sturdier than disposable baggs, is that the same dynamic is at play. People feel like "I'm a good environmentalist for reusing this bag once or twice" and then toss them.
Got rid of mine by going on keto/16-8 fasting by dropping 80lbs over about 9 months.
Yeah people here acting illogically like denying covid for eg
Right, and you dont have to be a pro stunt driver to make it to work every day without dying. I honestly dont know what hes getting at.

Actually I think most people are significantly safer driving in a way that completely removes opportunity for skill expression. Waiting for other drivers, going normal speeds, not doing something else while driving, etc. Driving should be pretty unskillfull and boring if safe.
I guess I'm not really surprised, if this came from the same group who gave us USB 3.2.78 Fast Version Gen Z Type S.
Isn't building PWAs building for the web?
That's getting better, for sure. The bad part: on mobile you don't have access to the whole API you have on desktop. For example, on mobile there's no access to your history. (I wanted to do an extension that cleaned older stuff from my history...)
controls applied to traders are very different

a common thread in these modern rogue trader scandals are that the perp worked on the controls or monitoring system in a role prior to becoming a trader

so they knew how to structure their trades in such a way to evade detection
IMHO XCode is both great and terrible. I miss it when I'm in vscode, but I also hate it when I'm in XCode, if that makes sense?

It's like a heavy IDE of yore, which means the more you comply with it, the more you'll enjoy it—but that also leaves a feeling that you're not really in control.

It's definitely worse than it could be if Apple cared enough to make it half as snappy as vscode feels. The shitty support for vim keybindings alone makes me furious (e.g you can't redo most actions like "c" or "r")

Finally, I'm not sure if you were using SwiftUI back then or if you were fighting with storyboards in UIKit. The latter is an ATROCIOUS experience I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy. SwiftUI in comparison feels like the future, even if it's still in its early days and some stuff needs to be ironed out
This is true, if it's basic app I'd certainly recommend web technology. But it's also true that clients many times don't know what they want and where they're heading. So, before we decide on tech, I do analyze with my clients what are their plans for the future with the app. It does pan out many of them would like to have notifications, storage, camera, offline..
Ash HN: Should early career SDEs focus on getting into FAANG+ or work startups?
Long term goal is wealth creation. No BS. 1yoe, frontend in a mid sized fin-tech comp. Non American. Risk profile: high. No name college.

What is the proven way to actually create wealth in a decade or so without trying to "retire a millionaire"?
Is there an equivalent of the FDA for plastic bags?
Does it? Has the browser extension landscape changed significantly since then?
The Economist - great news mag but kinda neoliberal

Foreign Affairs - essays on foreign politics

Woodsmith - woodworking tips and projects

Thrasher - skateboarding

Razorcake - punk rock, not very neoliberal
Both easier and harder than ever. Building has become extremely easy, almost trivial. But obtaining an audience to validate and sell has become extremely difficult due to channel saturation and competition. You either need to be an expert at audience acquisition or have a large amount of funding.
Perplexity's answer to this:

The Canadian government forced Inuit families to settle in towns primarily for administrative and political reasons. This policy, known as the High Arctic relocation, was implemented during the Cold War for sovereignty and security purposes, as well as to assert Canada's presence in the Arctic. The government believed that by relocating the Inuit, it could strengthen Canadian sovereignty in the North. However, this forced relocation had devastating consequences for the Inuit, leading to social, economic, and cultural disruptions. While the government has issued an apology and provided some compensation, the overall impact of the forced settlement on the Inuit community has been largely negative. The Inuit were separated from their traditional way of life, which had sustained them for centuries, and faced significant challenges in adapting to a more urban lifestyle. This has resulted in intergenerational trauma and loss of traditional knowledge and practices.

The Canadian government has since recognized the inherent right of Inuit to self-determination and has been working with Inuit organizations to address the impacts of the forced relocations. Various land claims agreements have been signed, granting title to certain blocks of land to the Inuit. Additionally, initiatives such as the Inuit Child First Initiative have been introduced to support Inuit communities. However, the long-term effects of the forced settlement policy continue to be felt, and efforts to address its legacy are ongoing.

In conclusion, while the forced settlement of Inuit families was driven by political and administrative motives, it has had detrimental effects on the Inuit community. The Canadian government has taken steps to acknowledge and address these impacts, but the overall outcome of the forced relocation policy has been largely negative for the Inuit. Ongoing efforts are being made to support Inuit self-determination and address the legacy of the forced relocations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Arctic_relocation
This is an interesting attempt by the industry most affected by the bans[1] to reframe the problem. Plastic bag bans address the nature of the system by applying a systemic solution, taking the responsibility off the individual.
Here we see the industry lobbying group trying to reframe it to put the responsibility – fault, really – back on the individual.
The report more-or-less is saying that the systemic solution doesn't work because individuals are irresponsible. The WSJ editorial doesn't even try to hid its bias. "Think of your own behavior", it says.

1 The ARPBA is connected to the Society of the Plastics Industry, an industry trade group.
The analogy doesn't work.

It's not like Apple provides their platform and then if you don't want to use it then fine, you're on your own. They are actively hostile towards you doing something else.

If I leap off your analogy, which again doesn't really work, it's as if they throw tomatoes from their steakhouse as you go towards the pancake house.
Your description is basically aggregation theory in practice.
You use the information to monitor and guide your training, for one thing. A lot has been made about how smart watches aren't particularly accurate when measuring things like sleep or HRV (as compared to laboratory equipment,) but there is a kind of stochastic reliability good personal monitors provide. When my garmin watch says I'm fatigued (because of low HRV) or haven't been sleeping well, I see a difference in my athletic performance and can adjust accordingly to avoid injury.

It may not be super accurate at monitoring HRV, and might not even really be monitoring HRV, but it is monitoring something that correlates highly to how I feel and am likely to perform.
I couldn't agree more. I've been using it as my go-to font for web development (which is its exact design purpose) for years. Nothing looks bad in Inter. It's an easy win.

The best features for web dev are great readability across its variety of weights (100-900 in CSS) from a single font file, along with a huge set of glyphs, ligatures, special numbers, etc. if you want them.

It also has the most beautiful and useful font specification page I have ever seen anywhere[0].

[0] https://rsms.me/inter/
This looks very restrained. Well done!
> Apple’s own music player was, and still is, unusably bad.

And here I thought it was just me. I really like Dolby Atmos in their airpods, and it seems that it only works with Apple Music. But Apple Music just doesn't click with me.
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What about open models that don't benefit a corporation?
Google and Apple, both of whom make web browsers as well as OSes and could therefore cheat loads with anything like that. Of all the places to find someone conflating the companies with the operating systems Android and iOS.

But even then…

> same functionality

> Honestly first-class web mobile installs without hoops and scare walls would be the thing to strive for.

Coming to a future near you: npm install rm_minus_rf_slash

What's the old quote?

"""

Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future!

Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it makes a strange noise.

"""

Except all the banks and railways require me to have a smartphone these days whether I want it or not.
The article on VLS is also quite nice

https://www.navalgazing.net/VLS
> only the hottest and coolest are allowed in, permitting anything less would tarnish the club's reputation

It's kind of a cult in other words, personally I'm not part of it and not afraid of blasphemy when I see stuff broken.
That article sources the same report commissioned by the plastic industry lobbying group, so take it with a large grain of salt.
> You'll figure out the allure of mpv over VLC

Can you explain what mpv offers over vlc ?

> cheapest hard drives are often the most expensive

What hard drives do you buy / recommend?
I feel sad that you feel like that, because it really isn't! Of course, different things work for different people, and you and I just might have different ideas of fun, but for me it's the opposite. I find great joy in writing web code.

I will give it to you though - the ecosystem is complex. It takes a while to figure out what works for oneself and what is just chaff. And there is a lot of needless complexity.

Anyways, my point here is - do try to give the web another try. Maybe it'll click, and you'll start having fun writing code knowing that you can send a link to anyone and they'll be able to enjoy what you've created irrespective of what device they're on, and instantly.
Apple's iOS and macOS have very similar dark patterns, but they go unmentioned. Yes, Windows has been making some really bad decisions with the Windows and Edge products, and it is really annoying. But at least their dev tooling is top notch, and you can easily interact with actual Microsoft employees in their repos. It's a nice experience.
This is why games have UI designers.
Billboards are what we all agree to be put there via a bunch of means, like electing local politicians who agree on laws and regulations about billboards. If you don't like them and find enough like-minded colleagues, very easy to get them banned. Sao Paulo managed that.
Importantly, you also cannot uninstall Apple Music on Mac OS, forcing people to resort to (brilliant) things like https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes
Super anecdotal but when i first moved to Austin Tx and went to a Walmart, they told me i had to pay for plastic or paper bags. I was completely thrown off and the cashier told me they did a "ban" on plastic bags, and that many people buy the "tougher" plastic bags and resuse them.

A week or so later i had bought resuable bags, like 2-3, and would always leave them in my car. It became 2nd nature to me almost instantly. Since them I've always used reusable tote bags until they break. I even have one from a party i threw more than 6 years ago that belonged to someone esle lol

Ive since move back home to a city that has no plastic ban and im literally the only person who brings tote bags into stores. The only downside now is i can sometimes look sketch as hell but yea idc i support resuable bags hopefully more people can minimize their plastic footprint in plastic bags or other ways
What country? Article does not say.
Huh? If you don't want to write bare HTML/CSS/JS you can use one of the many frameworks that make writing web apps easier. Even if you hate React or Vue you can use Alpine. If you really hate Javascript you can use HTMX.

The web has the best tooling out of any platform because it's the biggest platform. It also has the best documentation... because it's the biggest platform.

I don't know what your point is, that web development is hard or complicated? Writing web apps are way easier than writing iOS apps.
When the stars align and the mighty gods bless me, I am lucky to have Xcode download only 15GB to update. Once, the update got borked and consumed all free space in my Macbook when I kept retrying and almost bricked the laptop

It is utterly insane to me that this is the only way to build and sign apps for Apple devices locally. At one point, I almost burst into tears cause I was excited that they finally added an update that highlighted the line the cursor was on
> This author seems confused about something that he, himself explains... they have created such a walled garden cult w/ users that developers are forced to produce ...

In the presence of a cultish relationship, I think a persistent sense of puzzlement is reasonable.
and "nation-state" is the new "sophisticated sql injection"
> but the people who are forced to look at it

Those people have rights to vote for politicians, or run for local offices, who control such billboards. They should exercise those rights.
Having 2 people authorize a $25M USD transaction does seem like a prudent precaution.
Hey HN!

As a weekend project, I analyzed Hacker News posts to figure out what does best. Here are some of the most interesting things I found, let me know if you'd like me to add any others!

The best time to post on HN:
- Sundays are the best day to post with posts created between 11am-12pm getting the highest average upvotes

Most popular post of all time:
- Stephen Hawking has died (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008)

There are ~80k posts every 4 months
- About 20k posts per month on HN

Best keywords to use in the title:
- Any mention of a tech company (google, apple, facebook, etc) or open source seems to do the best

Best performing url to link to:
- github.com (not surprising given the strength of open source mentioned above)

Posts with negative titles tend to do better than posts with positive ones
- Posts that have negative titles get ~4 more upvotes on average than those that are more positive

The dataset I used for the analysis was: https://huggingface.co/datasets/julien040/hacker-news-posts. Would love to hear what you think and if there's anything else you'd like me to add!
This really speaks to me and is exactly what stopped me from my multiple attempts to get into native Mac/iOS development - the IDE. Your assertion of form over function has helped me articulate what I hated about xCode - so thank you for sharing.

I've been in the JetBrains ecosystem for over a decade now and while there are faults, I've never felt that JetBrains wasn't designing their IDEs to work how I wanted them to work.
Everyone feels this way about Xcode, right? It’s a relic of the 90’s.
To see how deep this is madness :

https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/430#iss...

And Microsoft seems to be interested and want to integrate it into Windows :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39163181
> 5GB for a movie is pretty normal.

So 200 movies per TB. So 6 000 movies on a 30 TB.

I know someone who has tens of thousands of movies and series. He's got 200 TB (with redundancy).
Lots of options on Android, and for iOS there's Orion.
"Well, my dear Pangloss," said Candide to him, "when You were hanged, dissected, whipped, and tugging at the oar, did you continue to think that everything in this world happens for the best?"

"I have always abided by my first opinion," answered Pangloss; "for, after all, I am a philosopher, and it would not become me to retract my sentiments; especially as Leibnitz could not be in the wrong: and that preestablished harmony is the finest thing in the world, as well as a plenum and the materia subtilis."
React/JSX is the easiest to read and comprehend. I find it a little more intuitive than Vue. If you want something simpler I would suggest Alpine. If you want something even simpler than Alpine I'd suggest HTMX.
Show HN: Open Source Batch Image Manipulation Toolkit in Browser
I had some pictures with varying resolutions (because of cropping/orientation) that I needed to get to the same aspect ratio. Cropping it in would work, but I didn't want to lose resolution. Instead I wanted to add white borders to pad images. Most existing tools (browser based) required the images to be uploaded and then processed on their server (heavy freemium shilling of course). The one local tool I found could not do it batch.

So I built bother over the course of mostly a weekend. I first used Sharp with Node and had great results, but I couldn't get sharp working on the browser. I wasn't very happy with other existing libraries, so I figured I could use the canvas directly, and it worked out great.

Although all of it is mostly basic, I did have fun figuring out the math required to get the canvas to scale from a specific origin, so that pinch-to-zoom and scroll wheel zoom felt natural. I have the basic idea diagrammed [1] and plan to write about it.

I wrote a small helper [2] that I might release standalone as a library after expanding the feature set.

I plan to add a feature to support slicing. I have polaroid pictures I want to scan, and phone apps don't work great. They also suck for scanning a large number of pictures. I would like to be able to use a flatbed scanner to scan multiple images at once, and then slice them into their own separate images.

I will be making WebGL implementations of canny edge detection, and probabilistic Hough line transforms, which I anticipate to be a lot of fun. This will probably take more than a weekend though.

I have some more ideas, like maybe using generative outpainting instead of white padding?
Would love more ideas for what I could add to bother, ideally mundane batch image processing tasks that can be automated.

[1] https://excalidraw.com/#json=VB-95wXb8mmw-WEIe2pNu,Abn9sV1Py...

[2] https://github.com/d4mr/bother/blob/main/src/lib/bother.ts
Look again...

'Cloudflare Hacked by Suspected State-Sponsored Threat Actor' ___Security Week

'Thanksgiving 2023 security incident' ___Cloudflare
I do not know, but I think such lies are best avoided.

They are also not scary lies.
Painting the Iliad as a modern-day LGBT story is missing the forest for the trees. It encompasses so much more than the single-minded focus on physical attraction of today allows for: kinship, loyalty, adoration, piety, and veneration were all expressions of love to the ancient Greeks, and most of them existed without any physical component.
I love that CNN has this lite view. I saw sometime ago someone used it to build a bridge to clients using Gopher for really low transfer rate access to news.
> Trials for covid vaccines were done by the manufacturers, who certainly have a profit motive in claiming they're safe and effective. Do you dismiss those trials for similar reasons?

One is a set of clinical trials, conducted with prepublished scientific methodology peer reviewed, independently evaluated by a regulatory agency, and subsequently independently studied by independent researchers. The other is a self-published press release.

Anyone who tries to draw an equivalence between the two either has no idea how the scientific method actually works, or is simply not arguing in good faith.
Apple is a vertically integrated company. They offer you (in theory) everything you need for computing
Rust compiler: code optimizations
It's always state sponsored:

https://youtu.be/UawS3_iuHoA?t=378
Hmm. I would argue addressing the root cause of our emotions requires the use of a more precise clinical analysis. Which is the opposite of extreme emotion.
Bags are big enough that they don't fit in my pants or jacket pocket. I don't understand your second question.
Firefox on iOS definitely does not support extensions. Switched to Orion and couldn't be happier.
At the time that video came out, I highly considered something like that, but honestly I'm already using that space, I just need more of it. :-)
Why not, maybe we can get the original meaning of the term hacker back at some point.
USC literally tells its students not to walk around alone at night and has a LiveSafe app which "has a useful SafeWalk function that allows friends to monitor each other when someone is en route to a destination" - https://safety.usc.edu/tips/

Being an institution with thousands of students, I'd trust their take more than your random anecdote.
That all makes sense to me, but I'd just add that another issue not discussed there is litter. I used to live downtown by a big grocery store, and close to the store there was a creek that ran by. Before the bag ban there were always tons of plastic grocery bags in the creek and along its banks. After the ban, I'm not saying the creek was pristine (it is an urban creek in a major American city, after all), but there was way, way less plastic bag litter after the ban, and it made the walkway that ran alongside the creek much nicer.
Firefox also sends it to DirectWrite, the native API.

https://github.com/servo/webrender/blob/master/wr_glyph_rast...