skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The original, native code is extremely fast. Way faster than most applications need.

Faster than any one application needs. But virtually anything I do nowadays uses crypto on some level, and wasm isn't only proposed to be used for crypto either. Suddenly, my CPU has to do 2x to 7x the work for the same code, because we collectively decided that using electron and web stuff if the way to go for nearly every mainstream application? I don't think so, really.

WASM seems to me like some people are simply longing for the old days of flash. I don't see why I'd want it.
I wouldn't be surprised if they would, if only there still were nonsovereign territories (in the sense of "having a flag" [1]) around for taking.

[1] https://youtu.be/uEx5G-GOS1k
You are assuming the eveyone has your /our skills here.
VAX/VMS implement "vfork()" which is an implementation of the most common use-cases of fork.

VAX and VMS are not POSIX or UNIX-like.
No, he links to one of those as well for good measure.
no response from PM, amazing!
I've been MVP for (just) 6y, 2012-2016, and probably replaced that many community PMs, and few categories also, that I didn't know where I belong any more.
And last year, when I thought I did my biggest contribution by organizing workshops and meetup talks, writing OSS, and finally got great feedback from real people, not just page views of blog or twitter reach, they called me and said its not enough. And that I can apply next year when I do more of the things they measure, whatever that is this year! I just don't care any more.
I'm aphantasic, and I read that book during psychology studies. I actually used the method of loci for a social psychology exam where we got 320 total questions + answers and a random set of those questions would be on the exam. I used my parents farm as the location. It worked surprisingly well for me, considering I couldn't actually 'see' any of it, but rather used my inner spatial sense, combined with alliterations/rhymes for some connections, to form the memory.

I have very vague memories from childhood (and in general). It's all quite abstract, with the spatial sense substituting for real imagery, and perceiving 'silent' voices when recalling conversations. There's no smell, taste or physical sensation. If I remember an embarrassing situation, there is the an emotional component (cringe), but even the emotional component is usually quite weak

Daydreaming: Not in the way that I think people mean when they talk about daydreaming. I'll close my eyes and think sometimes. I usually get bored with that pretty quickly though, since it's just inner monologue/dialogue without any real sonic component
This is excellent. Thank you for working on this.
I sometimes think drafting laws badly is a feature not a bug - after all think of all that lucrative legal work for other lawyers.
> WASM seems to me like some people are simply longing for the old days of flash

In what way is WASM like Flash? One is a proprietary IDE with a VM to run it and the other is an open bytecode standard.
That wouldn't go well with the font I was using. Fira Light is very thin as it is. A lighter shade of black would affect readability on certain screens.
Better than ironically disgusting.
I can understand why site owners resort to such services. They need a a strong CAPTCHA system. The problem is really Google for abusing it.
I'd add the standard "system-ui" before all of that.
I have aphantasia. But I do have a good "visual" mind.
I'm a super recognizer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_recogniser). I can see someone and KNOW that I've seen them before. I can recognize people I haven't seen in 25 years. Even if they've become adults in the interim. I immediately notice if someone changes their hair. But, I cannot visualize at all. Particularly not faces. I cannot see family members without looking at them. When I look at them I can notice deltas of things I haven't seen before. A change in hairstyle, new glasses etc. But I cannot 'see' what it was before, I cannot 'see' the old hairstyle or glasses. I can notice the anomalies. I can recognize faces really well. But only actually using my eyes. I think a lot in terms of how things relate to each other. My brain seems to work by attributes and relations, and then make analogies and predictions based on those. There's more an understanding of the relationships of the facial features to each other, and as a whole, than the exact qualia of the feature.
She was promoted to project manager/leader a few months later.

Must have been a horrible experience: you put in all that efforts to learn PHP and soon you get a job that requires a different skill set. Poor woman.
>Data about you is not your data.

Stop thinking about data ownership. Ownership is irrelevant.

It's illegal to process any data about an identified or identifiable person unless you have a lawful basis to do so, and there are only a half dozen of those. "Because I own the data" is not one of them.
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I didn't check the math but it doesn't surprise me. These guilds were quite often in the business of war making and colonisation, selling ads seem paltry in comparison.
A friend was in the same situation as you, with the difference that he always in his life had fear of flying (and he moved abroad so he couldn't visit family or go on holiday without spending half the time on the road!!). He went to a training course that British Airways runs in the UK: https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/travel-assi... and since then he's even flown across the Atlantic a number of times.

I'm guessing you're not in the UK, so probably flying across the Atlantic to go on this course would sound as a sick joke, however you might want to check if in the US there's anything similar ran by other companies (or even BA!).

For me the fear comes and goes. At some points flying feels like catching the bus. At other times I am 100% confident I won't make it to the other side! so I don't think it is rare to be scared of flying even if you fly often (I do). In my case there's also the problem that I fly a lot with my family, so I'm also scared for them.
Geopolitics of Game of Thrones
Seems intuitively obvious to me to the point of being a fluff piece.

The article is effectively saying that if your job needs to not be pointless in order for you to do it.

If you go to work every day, don't achieve anything in the wider world, don't save for the future, don't have any plans in general, then you're going to have a bad time.

That's a completely natural response to, well, wasting your entire life if left unchecked.

You can be paid very little but if it allows you to support your family that can be fulfilling.
Scaffold: An open Hardware motherboard for Hardware security
I plan to shift away from class based css frameworks myself over the next few weeks as I update my website.

Of all the people who over use css frameworks like bootstrap, I'm one of them as well and this is an attempt to start correcting that mistake.
This is fairly subjective, since we do not know what would have happened without them. It’s easy to speculate, but if you find a way to accurately benchmark C-level performance, there is a whole lot of investors that want to talk with you.
I'm not sure you understand what circular reasoning is. And anyways, i can show you an industry with enormous redundant costs that also has high margins - hollywood - but of course they achieve that through clever use of corporate law; the median hollywood company loses money but the wins all go to the margins of the major holding companies.
> to this day the names of those who were responsible for the worst atrocities are proudly on display in the streets of various Dutch cities.

Last Week Tonight discussed this from US Civil War PoV: https://youtu.be/J5b_-TZwQ0I
But several states could band together and fund a non-profit to write the code, so that uniformity is ensured across borders.
I get far fewer than 100 submissions, and just the time it saves me getting the backend settings configured is already worth it, never mind setting up email, honeypots, etc.
Anti-virus software makes process and file operations a lot slower.
I assume continuously changing lanes on a 4+ lane road, such that you don't rear bump fellow drivers. This must be done if you're driving at 130 mph, while the rest go at 70. At those relative speed differences, the rest of the cars look stationary. (note the sarcasm)
Default fonts are certainly the best thing to have. I am a sucker for "Fira", so included that!
Author makes several good points. I don't think this should be flagged, HN mods :'( >(
Termice – A simple terminal icecast and web radio player
339 was a more interesting number than 336. I like odd numbers. I'm odd.
There's an advice that I tend to give to my younger colleagues who ask about this stuff: love your profession, not your job.

I love my profession -- I wanted to be an engineer for as long as I can remember. But that doesn't mean I loved every engineering job I've ever held. If a job makes you dislike what you do to the point where you stop cultivating your abilities, I think you should leave it as soon as you can.
To be fair, the 256 byte stack can essentially be used in assembly as 256 registers, which is also one of the features (along with indirect addressing) that make assembly on it awesome.

My relatively poorly researched impression of it is that it's half-way to portable C, with a proto-stack and pointers, essentially.
Here is something similar: https://github.com/vladocar/Basic-CSS-Typography-Reset
This seems like a very cheap way to make spam look legitimate at least for a while. It now costs me $1 more to spam until I get caught and banned. But until that point I don't have to worry about any kind of filter, I'm a legitimate user.
Sometimes I think the same thing about what I do. Then I work with a junior and appreciate the difference that a decade+ of accumulated knowledge, instincts, and intuition makes. Yes, most of us don't gain ability the way a surgeon or aerospace engineer might, it's not that palpable, but don't undervalue yourself nevertheless. It takes a lot of work and dedication to get to "I can reliably and predictably snap stuff together like legos and make a functional system."
How often does that break the internet with our "modern" always-build-spa's world?
Metadata = Surveillance

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/metadata_surv...

Quote:

"An easy thought experiment demonstrates this. Imagine that you hired a private detective to eavesdrop on a subject. That detective would plant a bug in that subject's home, office, and car. He would eavesdrop on his computer. He would listen in on that subject's conversations, both face to face and remotely, and you would get a report on what was said in those conversations. Now imagine that you asked that same private detective to put a subject under constant surveillance. You would get a different report, one that included things like where he went, what he did, who he spoke to -- and for how long -- who he wrote to, what he read, and what he purchased. This is all metadata, data we know the NSA is collecting. So when the president says that it's only metadata, what you should really hear is that we're all under constant and ubiquitous surveillance."
Fonts are not like photos, they have hinting and kerning and conditional code that distinguishes a high quality font from crap. The glyph substitution table in OpenType fonts is of such complexity that it's been shown to be Turing complete. [https://litherum.blogspot.com/2019/03/addition-font.html]
> "Now ICC has made its codes available online for free. All you need is a phone in your hand or internet access to know what the codes say,” says Fee.

> Its codes

But they aren't the ICCs codes, they are laws. If they were non-legal industry standards a builder agreed to uphold as part of guild membership, then sure, they're ICCs property. But they're not.

Is a lawyer allowed to copy-paste or take screenshots "ICC laws" for use as evidence? One doesn't need private party permission to cite other sections of the law, and it's a damn slippery slope to start treating sections of the law differently.
How Is Google's GPay Operating Without Authorisation: Delhi High Court Asks RBI
I agree. My experience with asciidoc is that it's much more comprehensive and straightforward than trying to manage all the competing markdown implementations while still maintaining legible syntax and a full feature set
> I'd recommend against putting the linked site on a projector at work

Is it because of the linked site?
> I don't understand this obsession with attempting to force the idea that men and women are/should be interchangeable.

This is not the focus though: reading through, it's more about women having difficulties in a specific task, which then impacted how they did in other courses. The university found a way to help get better at it, and it partly bridged a gap between them and their male counterpart.

At no point is it a question of interchangeability or becoming undifferentiable, it's a matter of improving skills.
it's obvious satire and a lighthearted joke with a kernel of truth. chill :)
All this CSS minimalism reminds me of Dan Luu's post about Web Bloat: https://danluu.com/web-bloat/

His website is refreshingly light and fast, but that's still no excuse for Times New Roman. Maybe it's a retro irreverence thing.
339 bytes which load an additional 241 bytes of CSS to load a 53k custom font...

What is the point people are trying to make with titles like this? It's like claiming "50 bytes to make a website" after you figure out that you can just iframe Google.
It's because of the linked example in OP's link: https://blog.koley.in/baserock/
>Frankly, it helps explain a lot about my life. The inability to picture the face of friends, family, places I've visited, all contribute to a sense of isolation and distance that I feel daily.

Maybe, or maybe not. It could be a post-fact explanation.

What I'm getting at is a huge numbers of us feel "isolation" and "distance" (perhaps close to a majority), with or without aphantasia, so it might not be it at all that's the cause...
I've got this. Keep telling this story often. Pictures in my mind are exceptionally rare. Even dreams are mostly just feelings and emotions or something. But I can "visualize" sound. On couple occasions have even managed to "replay" well known music in my mind near indistinguishable from the real thing (phantom of the opera in case you were wondering). And I got an ability to pinpoint loudest frequencies in a sound spectrum. Think a lot of it has to do with the way we individually interpret the world.
Your comment seems to be written as if it's a counterargument to something I said, but it doesn't contradict anything in my comment and I completely agree with your point.
What about SSDs? I think they put fewer chips on the same PCB boards instead of "deactivating" some of them to sell lower cost versions of the same disc.
Didn't know Catmull had this - really interesting that someone with no mind's eye became obsessed with visualising things externally by creating 3D worlds.

I have aphantasia too and I really like Photoshop or other graphics software because it can be my temporary mind's eye

Do any other people here with aphantasia do this too?
Yes, definitely. He's talking about [0]. It's really unprofessional (which is a pity because it's impressive!)

[0] - https://blog.koley.in/baserock/
> The argument is that Markdown is bad because there is no standard for those implementations to adhere to, so they end up being wildly incompatible.

This argument is valid, but…

> An example is that in Reddit's markdown; this text: [snipped] will all end up as inline code, with all the newlines and extra whitespace stripped out.

This does not validate the argument. Implementations defer to John Gruber’s Markdown Syntax Documentation.[1] It is insufficient to be used as a standard (hence your argument being valid), but does (in some cases) provide a common subset of features compatible everywhere. The “fenced” code block is not included in Gruber’s original Markdown, but became so popular due to GitHub that people come to expect it. It is still not part of “Standard Markdown” though.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
Perhaps in situations when dealing with an entity that’s equally (or more) cold-blooded or cut-throat and doesn’t have any personal skin in the game. Such as in a negotiation with a corporation that’s never going to care nearly as much about me as a person as they do about what they can get out of me; or perhaps a similar entity like a VC firm.

But I agree that it’s shitty to take more than you give to individual people.
I think the main takeaway is they found an efficient way to improve spacial awareness.

It was known there was a difference, and here they expose an experiment that effectively helped improve that specific skill.
> Apparently doing interesting stuff comes with a pretty hard penalty in terms of compensation.

Yup, I'm trying to transition to web development strongly because of the much higher compensation and the ability to work remotely.

I admit developing nonlinear curve fitting frameworks, working with laser physics and doing biomedical algorithms engineering was much more fun and fulfilling. However, it's far more appealing to enjoy more time with my family, work from a peaceful location and never have to deal with traffic.

Though this transition to web development isn't at all helped by the fact that Javascript feels like it was a failed experiment in hell where it was probably deemed to be far too tortuous to be used as punishment; only god knows how Mr. Eich got his hands on it.

(I've professionally written code in Java, Python, Matlab, Fortran, C, Go and assembly and none of those languages come within two orders of magnitude of the disdain I have for Javascript)
>I'm not sure I connect either of those side effects. I discovered I have aphantasia a couple of years ago from a chance encounter with a previous news discussion of it.

Don't people misdiagnose things all the time? Unless not diagnosed, you could just not have it, and e.g. expect something super special/realistic when people talk about "seeing images" in their minds eye, which is not the case, and comparing with that.

E.g. even for us, without aphantasia it's not like what we envision with our "mind's eye" has the same richness, texture, reality etc to it as things we actually see (else, I guess, we'd had trouble knowing if we really did something or just imagined it).
@purerandomnesss OP here. Copied that from http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

I think, I should probably change the text.
It depends how deep you want to go into the web archiving rabbit-hole, but using something like `archivenow`[0] would probably be the local optimum in terms of convenience, robustness, and permanence.

It's "a tool to push web resources into web archives", which basically entails making requests of archiving services (like the Wayback machine, for example).
Using `archivenow --all <url>`, you can back up <url> to a whole bunch of different services, and get links to snapshots of that page at the time of access.

This is mostly sufficient, so long as at least one service is trustworthy and doesn't shut down unexpectedly.
One issue that might come up is that the archives might miss content if the user has to interact with the page a bunch in order to reveal it, but that's unlikely to be an issue for the sorts of things an academic would be archiving.

As another poster mentioned, some bibliography managers have this capability baked in, or can acquire it with a plugin.

However, if you want more control, you might consider using something like `pywb`[1] to make your own web archive, and then host it yourself (e.g., on S3 or something).
For more robustness, you could also publish those WARC files as torrents, or on IPFS, or if you're really cool, as part of the transaction messages on some blockchain (provided that you can stomach the transaction fees and don't anticipate having a large audience in China).

The above will probably suffice so long as the Internet continues to function as a going concern.
To accommodate concerns about what happens in the case of total societal collapse, I've been backing up the papers that I cite by converting to binary[2] and preserving the result via aluminum punchcards, which I then mail to Sam Altman since he's got a way better game plan for the end times than I do[3].

I'm not sure if aluminum is optimal for this purpose though, both for material science reasons and because I've been informed that I am under investigation for my role in some sort of aluminum smuggling ring.
If that fails, my last backup plan entails constructing an allegorical representation of the papers in question (which is surprisingly easy-- the Hero's Journey from Joseph Campbell[4]'s exegesis is basically about differential equations anyways), which I will then craft into a compelling mythology and teach to the local youths.
Hopefully this will ensure that the citations are preserved via oral tradition even in the wake of cataclysmic change.
Figuring out the BibTeX for this archival format will be pretty tricky, though.

But yeah, unless you have some extra aluminum lying around, `archivenow` or whatever's built-in to your reference manager should do the trick.

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0. github.com/oduwsdl/archivenow

1. github.com/webrecorder/pywb

2. After stripping most of the markup removing images using `pandoc`, as aluminum is expensive.

3. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-rich-new-zealand-doo...

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell
Correlation is not causation though.
Unconvincing. Markdown surely has way better tool support.

The lack of standardisation is probably the best argument, but I suspect that is mostly not a problem for Org mode simply because barely anyone uses it. If it were as popular as Markdown you'd find plenty of non-standard extensions and slightly different implementations.
Have you seen irccloud?
Most positions I've worked sit somewhere between 1 and 2, involving quite a bit of glue but a good chunk of design work as well. Had there been no design component (glue alone) the produced software probably would have been functional in the strictest sense but would also have been a slow buggy mess.
i still have not. "pseudo-masculine tough guy" aesthetic are efficient, especially for learning/reading space (80% of my time spent on the net). It does not have to be as ugly as "better fing website", but still.
I read somewhere that aphantasia can be changed if one practises visualizing things by sitting with closed eyes, describing aloud to either a partner or a recorder what you want to see in more and more detail until an image actually develops. It shouldn't take more than a month with a similar time investment like meditation (i.e. like 20 minutes a day).

Speaking out loud what you want to see seemed to be important from what I remember.