skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a autodidact with a focus on analogue circuits and experience in microcontroller stuff the thing that always threw me off aboit FPGAs is that there was never a real oh-don’t-mind-I-am-just-looking kind of FPGA environment.

When I started with MCUs I started with an arduino. The thing it did for me was to give me a feeling when to use a microcontroller and when to use something else entirely.

Of course the level of control I had with an arduino was far from optimal, but it worked out of the box and guided me into the subject (a bit like a childrens bicycle: neither fast nor special, but helps in avoiding pain and frustration for the learner).

I wished I had this kind of thing in an affordable fpga way. Simple enough to get me hooked, with examples and good sane defaults etc.

This is what mainstream means: idiots like me who didn’t get a formal education on the subject but want to try things out.
I think this is the most important sentence from that article:

does not make it a crime to access information in a manner that the website doesn’t like if you are otherwise entitled to access that same information.
Are you one of the hundreds of millions of people who browses the internet primarily on a 3g or slower mobile connection in Asia?
Reminds me of the signs everywhere in Singapore when I was a kid: "Males with long hair will be served last", including example artwork.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_hair_in_Singapore

https://boingboing.net/2013/04/26/males-with-long-hair-will-...
When they killed pentadactyl, they killed Firefox for me. I will never look back. I don’t use and never will use Chrome either.
Shock: loosening environmental laws and the enforcement thereof results in degradation of the environment. Who could have imagined?
British Empire
[...]VBX components ecosystem. Lots of programmers would buy add-on VBX widgets from various companies to enhance the UI such as calendar date picker, datagrids, charts & graphs, etc

There was a lot of optimism at the time about how much of the more mundane software development would become the assembly pre-defined components and there'd be marketplaces of components. That's mostly not how things worked out but they did, for a while, for VBX. Seems like a bigger, more startling achievement than 'Edit & Continue' to me as well.
SEO is essentially voodoo bullshit right? The people I’ve met who hawk it are the same people who in the same breath refer to themselves as UX professionals, interaction designers, or some other nebulous term. It’s yet another thing that requires little to no training but gives these people clout in their organization and a role to play.
This is a great demonstration of the inadequacies of anecdata. No, I am pretty sure the _majority_ of MBP users do not in fact use it with the screen closed, connected to external devices, in cubicles. If you're going to do that, why even have a laptop?

I don't doubt your observation - I merely point out that you are in a bubble. The vast majority of MBP users I have observed use it open. As you would expect.
Latin has the hortative too.
"Safari" is a proprietary browser that uses WebKit, which is open source. Safari Technology Preview (purple Safari) and WebKit.app (black Safari) are just Safari, but with the WebKit swapped out through various methods. Oh, and MiniBrowser works on macOS as well.
I would believe it's a tie to exploration.

Quite literally "Age of Sail"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Sail
P2P it is then!
Could you share a little about the difference between the small whiteboard and a letter-sized paper notebook?
For about:config, I put all my rules in a user.js file. Make that file in a synced folder (Dropbox, Nextcloud, Syncthing, etc.), go to your FF profile folder, and in there make a symlink to the actual synced user.js.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file

Alternatively every about:config option has a corresponding option that enables sync for it. But that gets messy with many options.

https://superuser.com/questions/466291/firefox-sync-aboutcon...
You can build a site of your own without using a single framework.

But, the thing is even if you don't use one, you end up writing one for yourself, maybe even a tiny one to better manage your code.

I don't know that if you can call this little piece of code "a framework", but maybe something like a "micro framework" (something like preact, hyperHTML, lit-html).
Did you really mean to link to "Milkweed Pollination for the Lewd & Crude"? I can't say I understand the connection.
Make it an easy-to-click report button and pretty much every site whose politics I disagree with will get a downvote... every article by a person I disagree with as well. The question is: how useful is that to the search engine, or indeed to myself?
Yes, the main goal of this new edition is a 24/7 up site with the same content :)
We have in mind posting some old content since it can be recovered.
Huh. Well, he was mostly known in my ethics class for never forgetting a students name or birthday. Passed him in the street 5 years after graduating and he said, “happy birthday for last week!”. I was speechless.
> I would pay a massive amount of money for a search engine with a “no commercial results” switch.

Yeah but what does that even mean. How do you define commercial? Who is going to go through all of the pages and categorizing them into commercial and non-commercial? And how do you keep shills and “influencers” from littering your results with seemingly innocent but actually commercial content?
I'm inclined to thinking the article is actually a great marketing technique for this product.

I mean, it's peddling a way of sending marketing emails via AWS... Nothing spammy there!
While I agree, it's impossible for us to tell who might be responsible, I wouldn't dismiss foreign subs as easily detected. AIP diesel-electrics are the quietest things out there, and Sweden has one of the best.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/21662/swedens-notoriou...
> "trying to create an illusion of creativity with randomness"

I doubt that's why authors use this technique, though. I think it's part humble-brag ("hey I'm so smart I don't take complexity seriously!") and part an expression of nervousness ("it's scary to write things and publish on the internet, because haters"). A less serious style also allows you to take criticism more easily, perhaps.

That's an explanation, not an excuse! I like dense, solid prose more.
Why People Procrastinate - The Psychology and Causes of Procrastination
Chromium is a pretty functional browser in and of itself; WebKit does not ship with this. Pretty much all of Safari's UI is not open source.
Howdy, a3camero!

Indeed, we're currently working on a version 2.0.0. The new release will implement a few small, general improvements, and well as feedback from counsel from a few common-law jurisdictions.

beefhash, if you know lawyers from other jurisdictions, please put them in touch with me at kyle@kemitchell.com. I'd love to provide them the latest working draft of 2.0.0 and read their thoughts.
I find some of my top 'competitor' blogs are worse quality, but somehow perform better due to having tons of links/content.

Something like 'Save Money on Food', I am positive I am best-in-class, but I am only front page google, on occasion. Without a doubt, I should be the number 1 result, and instead, well SEO'd mom-science wins.

Btw, does this mean google should be looking for crappy code/design=genuine website?
He says three of his ten suggestions are crap, but he's lying. All ten are gold.
"Useful" is very much context-dependent. A post that does not catch the reader's attention is not useful. If you write in a style that is indistinguishable from a thousand other authors writing about the same topic, your writing is equally useless.

It is a mistake to think that an "audience" is one uniform set of people with identical needs, tastes, and interests. And therefore it is a mistake to suggest that there is something inherently "less useful" about one style of writing over another.

Less useful for whom? Under what circumstances?

I agree 100% that if you define your audience as "person trying to solve a problem and googling for help," my writing is terribly useless.

But I don't write for that person under those circumstances, and I assure you that the pictures in my blog posts do not bleed over to obscure any of the text.

I personally think that analogy doesn't really fit. A different take might be to consider Raymond Smullyan writing about combinatory logic.

If you just want to solve a homework problem, reading "To Mock a Mockingbird" is going to be an exercise in frustration. What's all this faffing about with birds and forests? Or locks and vaults?

Nevertheless, a great many people have found the book both useful and entertaining, which is a kind of useful in its own right. Smullyan also knew that there were other ways to write, and he wrote textbooks that eschewed the metaphors and entertainment while focusing on the utility.

---

I am not fooling myself that my writing is helping some people, some of the time. I know that it does, and I have the data to prove it. But, I am also not fooling myself that what I write is the best thing for all people under all circumstances.

I regularly endorse buying books like Eloquent JavaScript or You Don't Know JavaScript precisely because they are written in a manner that is useful in a different way than my own writing is useful.

But getting back to the subject of the post... I think that ultimately, search should be sure to highlight StackOverflow and MDN results or similar. Reference works designed to answer questions simply and directly are what you need when you're in the middle of a problem.

Blog posts serve a different purpose, such as motivating you to want to solve the problem in the first place.
Could it be anything otherwise? For any given search term there may be millions of results but only 50 or so will make the first page. No matter what you do, you can't expect to be one of those 50.

We've reached an era when you can't simply rely on the search engine to do your marketing for you. You'll have to do the traditional route of marketing where you take the responsibility of getting the word out on your product.

This is similar to YouTubers complaining when their traffic takes a nose-dive because YouTube tweaked some recommendation algorithm.

In other words, this is what the long-tail looks like.
Yes, Search could use some Bittorrent-like disruption.
Loving it because you're making money and working at your own convenience.

Hate it because your clients or mostly shitbags and you sometimes end up working on projects you don't like.
Does this mean Photos, and using those photos?
I just wonder which article you read. Because it wasn't this one.
> Can Safari be 100% rebuilt from source?

No. WebKit (the browser engine that Safari uses) is open but the browser UI is not.
"However, it appears to work."

Wow. I don't remember reading such blasphemy in other Haskell docs. And I like it, no joke. Though it's likely about the performance characteristics; memoize probably behaves (and not just appears to behave) like identity modulo performance, that's just not documented clearly enough.
The distinction is usually based on implied consent. The general legal principle is that if you own property and you grant consent for people to use it for one purpose, they are free to use it for that purpose, but you haven't necessarily granted consent for other purposes. Offering an API is a strong indication that you actually intend to allow people to consume the data with software, because otherwise you wouldn't have bothered. Offering an HTML interface is usually an indication that you intend for people to consume the data with a web browser.

Offering an HTML interface may be an indication that you also consent to allowing machines to read the data through the HTML - that's the idea behind search engines. But that's where it gets complicated, and that's why there's all sorts of other considerations to the legal question. Things like did you include the pages in question in robots.txt, did you say anything explicitly about scrapers in the ToS, does the scraper offer a way to contact its owner about abuse, has the website actually contacted them, has an IP ban been issued, is the scraping for commercial purposes, does it compete directly with the site, does it interfere with legitimate human use, etc.
Astrobe is certainly bare metal, just like some of the Java deployment options, with AOT compilation to target boards, like Aicas and PTC are capable of.
Is there a chance of getting the following chances now? www.shopping.amazon, www.webservices.amazon etc.?
I switched to Flow water recently, highly recommended and a nice alternative to sport drinks if you are in need a good source of electrolytes. I drink a 33 oz bottle during each of my 3-4 skates (hockey) a week. My wife loves the flavored versions too, and often have that with our dinners.

https://flowhydration.com
Alternate title: Corporation wins '.amazon' domain name, aggravating the Amazon.
> We're garbage creating garbage

There I disagree. I think intelligent life capable of reflecting on it's being here is not garbage. We want to live in harmony with nature, but seeing us as the disease, and just trying to save nature for the sake of nature is equally idiotic imo.

If there is no one there to witness it, that would be pretty pointless.
The greenhouse isn't 100% sealed and the top would regularly open during the warm months to regulate the heat inside. On top of that the regular vents could easily be extended slightly to just reach the outside of the greenhouse.
A container doesn't really care much about what runs it, as long as the runtime provides the right endpoints.

A serverless environment cares even less.
I think this can be done a little more intelligently. Up/downvotes should be based on the structure of the site and more so than the meaning of the content.

An downvote should not mean "I disagree with this author" but rather "this site was useless spam" or "I derived no information from this site because it threw 5 popups in my face". Or if I downvote a bunch of paywall sites it should stop showing me paywall sites.

We're looking for a spam filter, basically.
Perhaps, having had no say in their own conception, it's reasonable to allow them as much a chance of a life as anyone else?

Overpopulation is clearly a problem, probably the problem, but you don't solve it by guilt induced suicide, mandated death or shipping people off to camps (not in the "civilised" world anyway). You discourage excess procreation. Tax after the first child, free birth control, and advertising campaigns should reduce numbers. After all many nations did all that in reverse to encourage more children, but they didn't make breeding compulsory. There is no hypocrisy in the stance. I'm sure there's other non-dystopian possible approaches that stay safely away from holocaust and eugenics.

The hypocrisy is pretending a finite planet has infinite space for expansion where we keep expanding until there is a catastrophic crash. Perhaps some wildlife will remain, perhaps not. Far better to have a controlled stop and seek to find a sustainable population - where earth can regenerate what we use, and we still have sustainable wildlife, insect, sea and plant populations and some wilderness.

Humanity keeps on demonstrating they can't do self-controlled, so your worldview wins. Future crash it will be then.
High end equipment makers have a vested interest in promoting pseudo science because it duped people into spending $5k for a DAC (e.g., PS Audio). Audio frequency range electrical engineering is very well understood and rigorously defined. The only extent to which there is an ‘x’ factor not covered by the legit engineering is that human perception does play a role in, well, human perception. So if you tell someone that this piece of equipment cost more than a car, people will genuinely believe it does sound better. Not too dissimilar from the very real placebo effect in medicine.
Protagonist shames people who work in marketing, calls them bottom feeders, low skill workers and spammers. Protagonist’s product offers ‘marketing emails’ service
Several comments suggest you ask a lawyer. AFAIK, a lawyer can’t answer the question without doing the work same as a doctor can’t tell if your sick, without examination.

I know this isn’t the answer you are seeking, but it might help you find more examples— the area of copyright and fair use has a longer history with digital images. Here’s an example legal court case showing, as others have noted, the ruling judge has great impact on the outcome:
“Court Rules Images That Are Found and Used From the Internet Are 'Fair Use'”
By Jack Alexander, 2018-07-02
[1]

Maybe your educational institution has already done some legal work related to issues of copyright and educational use?

Here is an example from a university where they have done the legal work and constructed further guidelines to determine safe harbor guidelines.

“The use of copyright protected images in student assignments and presentations for university courses is covered by Copyright Act exceptions for fair dealing and educational institution users.
[...]
In certain circumstances you may be able to use more than a "short excerpt" (e.g. 10%) of a work under fair dealing. SFU's Fair Dealing Policy sets out "safe harbour" limits for working under fair dealing at SFU, but the Copyright Act does not impose specific limits.”

[1]: https://fstoppers.com/business/court-rules-images-are-found-...

[2]: I want to use another person's images and materials in my assignment or class presentation. What am I able to do under copyright](https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/academic-integrity/copyright/stu...)
uBlock Origin will not work in Safari 13, just FYI.
Yes, it's one of the Silicon Valley, clichés: "what problem does it solve"?

A common answer is that an existing product is great but it can be made even better or cheaper. It's weird to frame it as solving a "problem".
I wonder though - is too much of the P2P universe now mobile devices instead of regular computers that it wouldn’t be feasible?
You can check citizenship within that zone (possibly depending on reasonable belief of a proximate border crossing) but are not automatically subject to border search.

But, really, read the opinions. They’re quite well written.
I'm glad to hear it :)

A few other things that made the experience better for me:

- Disable "one-click search engines" (which is where the cruft in the address bar dropdown comes from)
- Move as many extensions as you can into the overflow menu
(I don't interact with them much, with the exceptions of Multi-Account Containers and maybe uBlock)
- Right click on the Bookmark star in the address bar to remove it
Muse[1] is their[2] more recent similar effort.

[1] https://www.inkandswitch.com/muse-studio-for-ideas.html
[2] https://www.inkandswitch.com/
Communication with the User: Some Examples from the Lisa
because maybe later in the program you will deicide that that computation does not need to be executed at all.
Once the curated list gains critical mass, it sells out, the list turns into garbage, and the cycle repeats itself.

It's happened over and over and over.
Lots of fields in western Kansas lying fallow this year. The few wheat fields are just now turning yellowish.
Radix DLT – Decentralized Ledger Technology
I think a better equivalent of a meme-laden blogpost would be a sea-shanty with changing time signatures and atonal riffs with a rabid scene kid at the vocals - kind of bizzare, kind of crass, fully useless for pulling a rope on a galleon.

To my great delight, this phrase illustrates the value of writing with feeling and metaphor. It captures my imagination and motivates me to think about your argument carefully.
> I'm easily able to reason through any task and resolve any bug.

This is 80% of my code, but I only spend 20% of my time doing it.

Its that obscure bug that really requires reading.

I find if I am spending lots of time Googling/Stack Overflow, its for the quick lookup of parameters and a real world example.
Here's an idea : do the 0.1 version by crawling and indexing the web in a perfectly standard way, apply the usual, run-of-the-mill search algorithms, then diff it against the Bing/Google/etc first results which will be biased towards commercial stuff. The higher a page is among their results, the higher the probability that it's commercial in some sense.
Agreed. Much like a spam-filter. Seems straightforward enough. What am I missing?
There’s a reason that works (sorta, mostly, and when it does).

The infrastructure of web navigation and search is foundationally built on textual, first party published content that enjoys some presumptions of good faith authorship: that it was written to be read, by a reader, and meant to be informative, persuasive/argumentative, or recreational/entertaining.

Think: journal articles, Usenet debates, faq compilations, RFCs, product spec sheets, forum postings, IRC logs, ur-blogs, even the original social media content types (tweets, wall posts, comments).

The cycles and epicycles of architecting atop this “real” content gives us mechanisms that reward and incentivize content produced neither for the ends of the writer writing nor any reader reading, but rather in service of manipulating search and driving ux patterns of various darkness.

All the good stuff on the internet is reborn in a spasm of returning to people creating content they care about for other people who care. Then eventually with success it gets polluted into shit with bots, seo, mass media and agencies, influencers, etc.

One silly rubric I use is: could this page / app / venue have been there in 1999? If so it’s probably worth reading. If not, who knows.

(Of course there are cesspools that qualify too, like the chan world and certain subreddits, but there were cesspools in the early days of the web as well.)
I append "reddit" to any query not meant for a productive task. Except now the internet is mostly reddit for me, which kinda bums me out. Especially given the new js-heavy design. In 2019, if I want reliable search about something I know nothing about I must first search on google, then try again with "reddit" appended, then change www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com, then parse through what are often questionable answers from anon users, possibly still influenced by marketers, and then maybe, I get the answer or next lead that I was looking for.
It's the Mac equivalent of Windows' old-style "hourglass" or more modern "spinning blue circle".

Basically means "become unresponsive, perhaps eventually needs process killed"
Check this out:
http://cognitivefun.net/
You don't, actually, most sites are discovered organically through links on other sites. Submitting links hasn't been common since the days of Yahoo and DMOZ.

You're right that "consent" is the important legal issue, but it's usually implied based on what your site requires re: authentication/authorization, robots.txt, and the controls Google has provided to let you tell them not to index a site.
I've added a second edit which hopefully answers that question.