skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can apply this to everything. No one is trying to raise the age of candy and soda purchase to 16. Although we know that having access to these things drastically impacts children's health. Fast food too.

Like it's the literal job of a parent to tell their kids no. Over and over and over again. So instead of parents teaching healthy habits easy with something a child will not be a le to avoid as an adult, we'll just unleash them on them right when failure is high impact because some parents are lazy and we're not willing to have public service campaigns anymore.

Or really want this is is one more step to a de-anon'd internet, where everyone's speech can be controlled.
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The issue is the “just works” philosophy. Most defaults are insecure and require technical expertise and hardening.
Watched the first episode of the Chinese version. Way closer to the books. Very slow, but it's also giving me the same feelings I got from the books.
I really didn't like the strong hollywood feeling in the netflix one.
Not saying is good though, 30 episodes for just the first book are too many
>debts, public and private

And yet, I can't pay my mortgage off with a briefcase of cash.

I think this has a lot of caveats too. Not least of which hide behind "KYC" and anti money laundering laws
*Unless emancipated, which also often can happen at 16.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare#Research_and_career

>Speaking at a software conference in 2009, Tony Hoare apologized for inventing the null reference:

>"I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. At that time, I was designing the first comprehensive type system for references in an object oriented language (ALGOL W). My goal was to ensure that all use of references should be absolutely safe, with checking performed automatically by the compiler. But I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years." -Tony Hoare

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19568378

>"My favorite is always the Billion-Dollar Mistake of having null in the language. And since JavaScript has both null and undefined, it's the Two-Billion-Dollar Mistake." -Anders Hejlsberg

>"It is by far the most problematic part of language design. And it's a single value that -- ha ha ha ha -- that if only that wasn't there, imagine all the problems we wouldn't have, right? If type systems were designed that way. And some type systems are, and some type systems are getting there, but boy, trying to retrofit that on top of a type system that has null in the first place is quite an undertaking." -Anders Hejlsberg
Consciousness in Humans and in Other Things
Yeah. I was out of town hiking in Wyoming at the time and was told it was the 35E bridge by a passing hiker who relayed the news to me. My mom drove the 35E bridge twice a day. I couldn’t hike out and call home fast enough. I didn’t know anyone who was on the bridge when it fell but I do know many who missed being on it by minutes. Scary stuff.
but then that wasn't the only thing you mentioned. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39829237
The pilot is employed by the port/government, not the ship. They drive to just outside the entrance, then they get off onto a tugboat or some other small utility vessel.
Neat. Thanks for sharing!

Interestingly, may-minihttp is faring very well in the TechEmpower benchmark [1], for whatever those benchmarks are worth. The code is also surprisingly straightforward [2].

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

[2] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
Show HN: Phoenix – Shell and Terminal in the Browser
You have a point. I guess Adobe lowering the subscription prices is probably more wishful thinking on my part ;)
Ask HN: Considering Android after 1 decade of iOS, recommendations?
I though no company could be as sh* as Google, but Apple managed to pull it off.

A customary Google search didn't reveal much I didn't know, so I wanted to ask here about the experience of anyone who did that same move.

For reference, I expect my M1 to last a few years, but do not own any other Apple device.
Good point here - and a lot is just left off the list if it doesn’t agree with the editors “beliefs” even if it’s really a bestseller in terms of sales.
They could also just format that column explicitly, it's not really an issue of how much friction there is so much as that there is friction, it seems to me.
I believe the parent comment is referring to the harbor pilot job specifically.
Assange is a russian agent. He's not a journalist.
I'm not a particularly big fan of YAML either I'm afraid, so I would probably choose some other way-to-learn-rust...
This exactly.

If you always pay down your credit card debt every billing period, you're considered a "deadbeat" because you're using the benefits of the credit card's payment processing but not paying in interest.

The best customers of financial institutions aren't those whom are financially responsible or flush with cash, but those regularly incurring 14+% interest on every purchase and paying overdraft fees.

For airlines in particular, the deals they allow through credit cards are more like loss leaders. They need to fill up seats because that's the nature of their business model. If you don't fill up enough seats to make up for the operating cost, the plane doesn't fly, and if the plane doesn't fly then that's one fewer route you'll have paying customers for. Airlines need to keep routes going, so they create incentives to keep people flying, which hopefully gets them into the habit of flying again even when they've used up all their rewards points.
That raises the question: what is the current etiquette around deciding whether to pester a dependency's author to include your fixes or just fork it, especially if it looks like you will be the biggest user of that dependency? I'm dealing with that question for a dependency that I want to introduce in one of my crates, but ideally not until at least one of my own fixes is merged.
This seems like what they have

https://github.com/nvim-neorg/neorg/wiki
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> The quads weren't even that big of a problem. Even if the industry did standardise on triangles for 3D hardware, a lot of the artist pipelines sick with quads as much as possible.

> The first missing feature is texture mapping. Basically the ability to pass in uv coordinates for each vertex.

These two situations are fundamentally related. Most 3D rasterizers including the Playstation use inverse texture mapping, iterating over framebuffer pixels to find texels to sample. The Saturn uses forward texture mapping, iterating over the texels and drawing them to their corresponding framebuffer pixels.

The choice to use forward mapping has some key design consequences. It isn't practical to implement UV mapping using forward mapping, and quads are also become a more natural primitive to use.

> The second missing feature is alpha blending, or semitransparent quads. The Saturn did support half-transparency, but it only worked for non-distorted sprites, and you really want more options than just 50% or 100%.

I don't consider this to be a significant problem. The checkerboard mesh feature provides a workable pseudo-half-transparent effect, especially with the blurry analog video signals used at the time.

Side note but forward mapping is also the reason why half-transparency does not work for distorted sprites. Forward mapping means that the same pixel may be overdrawn. If a half-transparent pixel is blended twice, the result is a corrupt pixel.

VDP2 can also provide half-transparent effects in various circumstances - this video provides a comprehensive look at various methods which were used to deliver this effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_OchOV_WDg
In my experience every time I've actively tried to change my world and achieve my goals it has just not worked.

But every time I've been clear about my goals but allowed the methods to be shaped by serendipity, it's been successful. This is what I mean by "luck". It works, but I don't know why.

It's very like the Personal Values thing that I learned in therapy: make decisions based on whether they align with my values above all other considerations. Again, it works - I end up getting what I wanted - but I don't know why.
36MB! That's a lot of cassette tapes.
Mostly the same as it would work on a car with a brake shoe applied to the steel wheel.

The only major difference is that they often use a safety air brake system shared across an entire consist (train) that requires “charged” pressure (above atmosphere) to disengage the brake (although I think they have moved to an electronic system that now monitors air pressure in each car individually).
You can restrict which countries your app is available in the App Store. Is there something in the policy that states your app can't be outside the App Store in EU but in the App Store elsewhere?
Instead, it's targeted at replacing graphics artists and software developers...

It would be nice if we would not stigmatize manual labor. There's nothing wrong with manual labor. For some people, it's ideal.

In a city where I used to live, I'd frequently come home on red eye flights. Over time I started to recognize a couple of older gentlemen mopping the floors in the early morning hours.

Then one day, they were gone. Instead, there was a slow-moving robot mopping the floors. One clearly too large to get into all the places where the dirt accumulates, but... Automation!

A couple of years later, I learned that the airport was part of a municipal program employing intellectually challenged adults, and that the cleaning guys I saw were probably part of that.

Now when I travel through that airport, I always wonder what happened to them. Did they find another mopping job? Are they homeless now? Do they have to live under a bridge because society fetishizes technology and robots? Because budget spreadsheets always have a line for "money saved," but never a line for "lives improved?"

Mopping the floors at the airport is not a great job for a tech bro who wants to make seven figures. But it's a good, honest job for a lot of people.
JPEG XL exceeds 20% of served images
This is very true and I agree with the core points. I also think that there is more to be said for the skills/advantages that aren't easily quantifiable (e.g., habits passed down from parents, mentors, etc) and have a tremendous impact on upward mobility. Those habits are usually reinforced by the culture and if you are unlucky—more unlucky than just being born poor—then that can have an even larger impact on your odds (think of people who are born black, poor, with one parent, and in certain areas in the US).

I am not an expert but I do expect the epigenetics field of study to help us build a better understanding of the things touched on in this paper.

P.S. you do have a "point". Someone saying that you don't is a cop-out so they don't have to think about how to engage in a conversation, debate, or discourse.
I don't think I fully agree with the premise that blowback is completely unpredictable. I think there are plenty of examples where people can predict the directionality of future developments, even if they can't predict the exact specifics.

We can certainly predict that when automation happens people will lose jobs. In a country where productivity is king and self-worth is tied to employment, we can predict this may lead to a crisis in society. And we also know people tend to turn to vices like drugs during those times. So I don't think things like the opioid epidemic that hit the former manufacturing centers of the country are unrelated nor completely unpredictable. They just sometimes take decades to play out.

I'm not making a Luddite case that technology needs to be stalled. But I'm also not making the techno-optimist case that everything will eventually work out if we just plow forward with reckless technological abandon. The latter runs the risk of a lot of increased human suffering in the short term at the very least.
So this is, say, for people who invest for pension schemes that the billionaire happens to have a pension with, for example?
We agree totally; voice only can be ridiculous, for example, if you're spelling out a username or something.

The sandbox doesn't have typing, but the full app does - you can switch between typing and talking seamlessly there.

(written with Aqua)
I would've failed the Marshmallow Test as a child. I failed it this morning grabbing breakfast; I got 2 muffins instead of a single bagel. I'm not exactly hurting for money.
There were tiny bumpers, two for each pylon, one on each side, but looks like they were place too far out, you can see them here...

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/1c/6e/f8/1c6ef8db981c77b1bd7809827...

Ironically there are power lines running in parallel that have much more substantial protection, here you can see the powerline protection and the tiny bumpers...

https://patabook.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/cbsn-fu...
From discussion https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/99659945/jpeg-xl-won

Recent benchmarks (crushing JPEG, WebP, AVIF): https://cloudinary.com/blog/jpeg-xl-and-the-pareto-front
Personally, I think we should set the voting age to 35 and cut off everyone above 37. It’s too risky to let the old or young vote. We can raise both thresholds by one per year to account for inflation.
I began migrating stuff away as soon as I got their email announcement today.
Here in Canada I wish local merchants just told people they prefer debit given how much cheaper it's for them.

Big corporations, thank you for those points. Even if everyone used debit they wouldn't lower the prices anyway.
See https://twitframe.com/
or debit vs credit
What they're saying is that the geometrical interpretation of an outwardly expanding spherical shell of power shouldn't depend on frequency. In this respect they are correct and they have a good intuition for the problem.

Now here's the catch:
If the receive area were not changing as a function of frequency when the receive antenna gain is kept constant (it does), this would break physics (it doesn't). However, the effective area of an antenna with fixed gain varies as 1/lambda^2. In effect the geometric interpretation is still correct, but the variation of antenna area with gain resolves the seeming paradox and saves physics.
That “static number” can also be changed if stolen and my money returned. I dont even need to catch the fraud immediately. Most institutions give you 30 days and some higher end options give you 90 days to contest a charge.

Can’t do that if someone steals your crypto wallet or simply doesn’t deliver the goods/services you payed for.
""…all methods of modulating a wave can be recontextualized as frequency modulation!"

That's the classic way to think about it. Another way is to view the input as simply a sequence of voltage readings."

Right. And modulation of any type produces sidebands as per Fourier! Do anything whatsoever to disturb a pure sine wave then math and physics dictates it so.
Sharing anything is better than sharing nothing, but it is worth keeping in mind that how useful other people will find it is directly based on how quickly they can figure it out and use it.
Affinity is the competitor I think.
Getting married is a really good way to get new culture in your life. Getting married really helped me move out of the povery mindset I grew up with.
So what you are saying is all the options are bad?
I don’t see why you need an engineer to manage engineers. You need someone who can synthesize high level requirements across many domains.

What we need are laws and regulations that force all companies to make products that don’t harm their customers or the rest of the world. An engineer can make a product that kills people. A financeer can hire engineers that won’t kill people. You need good people doing good things either way.
Agreed, .jar is an underrated deployment mechanism.

Or, you know, make the darned thing a web app.
I originally copied the title "Nix at SCALE", seems HN auto capitalized SCALE as a word.
This is indeed expected. I specified in the "Caveats" section in README.md that the exploit does not work on Ubuntu v6.5 (because it enables a certain kernel config value that indirectly mitigates the exploit starting from v6.4), and may not work on other kernels above v6.4 depending on the config.
Everything has a meaning but I cannot spoil anything.

The big deal about the ship, which the show failed miserably to deliver, was that nobody could have noticed what was happening.
It was meant to be a stealth action and they took particular effort to measure where the hdd would be so that it wouldn't be affected. Nobody noticed anything because people did not "explode" like in the show, no alarm rang, nothing. It was an incredibly stealth action, way better than a missile.

But yeah, Hollywood and all that
not really. goldman sachs found out those customers cost them a lot of money with the apple card. the best customers are the wealthy who have $100k+ in their checking/savings accounts and million+ in their brokerage accounts and clear 10k+ monthly on their credit cards.
Many (most?) car rental companies don't accept debit cards, only credit cards. When they do they have special requirements for people who pay with debit. I was behind a guy at Enterprise who didn't have a credit card so they required something else (don't remember what) and he couldn't provide it and he argued for 10 minutes and then left. When I told a friend who works at another car rental place this she said "oh we don't even accept debit cards at all."
I was incredibly worried about my dad, he's a truck driver and drove that bridge just an hour prior to this happening.

I'm hearing there were at least 20 cars and a truck on the bridge, plus construction workers, at the time; my heart goes out to those families
I typed "Nix at SCALE" as the title. Seems HN decided SCALE wasn't an acronym.
It's also a tax on the people that pay cash (assuming the store charges the same rate for cash or card).
Exactly: they thought that holding land over several generations was indicative of good "blood" (what we would call genetic traits).

Just because they turned out to be in error about the value of their selections doesn't mean they hadn't been selectively breeding.

(an example in cattle: we had local bulls who had been bred for conformation for a long time, and luckily the breeders in the US instead were breeding for "liters of milk produced by the bulls' daughters", so now many [most?] locals inseminate with straws from the US lines)
Text of regulation is in docx/pdf links on the right side:
https://unece.org/transport/documents/2021/03/standards/un-r...

See also: UN extends its cyber security management regulation to motorcycles and scooters

26 January 2024
UNECE’s Working Party on Automated/Autonomous
and Connected Vehicles today decided to include
motorcycles, scooters and electric bicycles
with speed exceeding 25 km/h in the scope of
the UN Regulation No. 155 on cyber security and
cyber security management.

https://unece.org/media/transport/Vehicle-Regulations/press/...
Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat
> Don't criticize a title based on a barely-15-seconds-examination of something.

Suggest removing this, it's overly-reproachful and GP comment be explained by being less knowledgeable, busy, under-caffeinated, etc.

Your comment is highly informative for those who had similar thoughts - no reason to make it negative in nature.
It wouldn't help with this accident, but you would think that the electronics would be on batteries. It wouldn't be too hard to have rack of batteries that would power the lights, instruments, radios, and sensors. Doesn't help if the propulsion or steering go out, but does make easier to know whats going on.
Do you think that implication is correct? If so, how do we fix it? Of course, companies should pay for what they use, but how do we practically implement that?
Having said that, even though I complain about Teams sitting there with 100% CPU while doing nothing that appears useful, at least it does actually manage to do video conferencing full screen (3200x1800) within the limits of the Intel Atom in my current laptop, which is more than I can say for Google Meet, which was jittering all over the place until I made the window really small and switched off my camera.
A Lenovo subsidiary designed this dual-screen E-Ink book, notebook, laptop thing
I loved my Pixel devices. They were far better than my current iPhone.

I haven't used a non-Pixel Android phone in a long time, but my experience with any device with a customized (non-vanilla) Android OS was bad. Lots of bugs and bloat. Stick with vanilla.
The overhead is much lower for software to begin with. We can consider the ratio of hardware manufacturers to even the hobbyist developer who makes a few bucks on YouTube.

Either way, multinationals are running out of ink signing their seats on spaceship AI and they pay in stacks. The critical test is achieving escape velocity for each individual GenAI "solution" (call it what you want...). Software giants with compute access are windmilling free models every day, hardware is racing to capture that compute, and those GenAI companies are entrenching their contracts while the competition is still hot.

Once they have the contracts it's just build build build until another AI winter or possibly a nuclear winter.
That’s because of Ralph Nader and the FDIC, obviously.
> For some reason, for some people, it's very important to insist that "no, you can't change your own stickiness" - if you are poor, you are poor.

Commies want everybody to think that class warfare is the only solution to their problems. They lose their composure whenever somebody points out that individual determination and responsibility have proven effectiveness. I almost fell for their ruse and but pulled myself out of it and have turned my life around. Screw their crab bucket hell.
Title slightly changed to fit character limit. Original title: Look back on the history of Tree Style Tab until the performance improvement at version 4.0
I hope Apple could further increase the use of JPEG XL inside iOS, if they could recompress all the JPEG inside my Photo Album it would instantly saves a lot of space.

For those who dont know JPEG XL can losslessly compress JPEG with 10-20% reduction in size depending on images.
According to ubuntu -- It hits all LTS releases, and is fixed in current patched kernels: (https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-1086)

* Focal: 5.4.0-174.193
* Jammy: 5.15.0-101.111
* Mantic: 6.5.0-26.26

As well as Xenial and Bionic for those of you with extended support
Isn't this what they say about all new technology? I wouldn't be shocked if someone were to discover that it was thought that the introduction of the blackboard to the classroom was the harbinger of the fall of man!