skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Opening can of worms: did you serve them with any of the available XML MIME types? If not they worked simply because of the bug in the browsers (SHORTTAG means a different thing in HTML compared to XML) and all XHTML code served with HTML MIME type would be littered with ">" if browser treated it right ;)
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EDIT: Reposted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20284404
"There is an idea of a Boris Johnson, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there."
Can Neurodiversity Defeat Doublethink?
So far fish seem to be doing fine, though. Humans, too. I haven't heard of any mass extinction events because of plastic consumption.

There actually lots of other toxic and non-digestible things floating in the sea, not the least life forms who defend against predators by producing toxins. Therefore it seems unlikely that plastic will be that much worse.
Then block it with an extension? Mozilla has a specific contract against this. It's not just a "promise", it's a legal document. Why would Google care to violate that contract and risk a big shitstorm just to use the data from one company?
that makes me doubt him as he obviously doesn't factor in the enormous difficulty of nuclear waste. nuclear energy is not green at all.
EDIT: Also that was in 2004 and things have moved on massively since then
Can you say more what you mean by 'doesn't suffice'? There are certainly some forms of typographic initial I know it can't do. But if it worked consistently, it would be sufficient to achieve the effect that the article is attempting, wouldn't it?

Thanks for the link. I had no idea it was an active proposal.
> you still have a (usually wrong) feeling that you can continue as if they were younger, and they see all the young hacks doing the same mistakes.. So if the society could support these people in giving up, I think it would be helpful for everybody.

I think many retiring people in this situation would be okay with having a period of companionship where they would work together with a younger professional until they feel they are able to work on their own, and then retire. It used to be a common practice in the past.

But it would be less economical (from a short-sighted point of view) as two persons would have to be paid (even if not a full pay maybe) for the work of just one for some period, and of course there is no obvious way to prevent all kinds of loopholes and bad incentives, so it's just easier to do it like we do now, a local minimum caused by individual-centric policies.
> Every time my young daughter is watching youtube, I can see how what it is recommending and how easy it is to manipulate her.

I hear you. While it may be impossible to stop the tracking or the fingerprinting, I follow the steps below to somewhat limit the damage from the cesspool that is Youtube.

- No Youtube Kids app
- I use the iPhone app on which I have a setting to "Pause Watch History" and "Pause Search History"
- Clear the watch history once my son is finished viewing( this is weird I know considering the above setting but I've found it helps )
- I stream the video to the TV so that my kid doesn't keep swiping on random crap
- I and my wife have a plan to wean him off Youtube by making him watch something like NatGeo on TV.

Edit: formatting.
No, "chronic Lyme" and PTLDS are not the same. The CDC recognizes only one of them as a condition.

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/chronic-lyme-d...
> Russia is insignificant

You must be very naive. I do not say that in an adversarial way, but because Russia always has been (and will likely continue to be) a major world power. It is the world's largest country, with a population of roughly one-hundred-fifty million. More importantly, Russia is, along with America, one of two potentially autarchic nations. They are the only two who can not only grow food but mine their own metal, drill their own oil, etc. without importing (at least, conceivably). Isolation would of course slow either significantly, but not halt.

Consider the pressure that was on the Soviet Union, consider the inherent instability of communism, and then reconsider how long it bore up under that pressure. Russia is and has always been remarkably stable under strong, authoritarian rule (i.e. Stalin, Ivan, etc.), and any nation in a similar situation would have collapsed much sooner.
TL,DR: systemd is evil, and there is a Debian distro with good old system5.
Appreciate it. So the towels are good for compost and they can't be recycled any longer.
That was published 2004, I'd be interested to hear if that's still the case given the 10x cost decrease in photovoltaic panels since then.
I see posts like that all the time on Meetup
>I thought the health effects of e-cigs were relatively benign?

As far as we know. However, I've got a gut instinct that coating your lungs with flavor additives and propylene glycol or glycerin probably isn't the healthiest thing to do.

Then the atomizer, cheaper ones basically use a piece of steel wool. If you let that variety get mostly dry and still puff away (this was more of an issue a decade ago when they were newer and people had 'drip tips' before all these tanks and battery mods caught on) you absolutely start to get metal fumes which are often quite hazardous to your health.

We have zero long term studies on coating your lungs with this stuff, it may be relatively benign or we may see in 5, 10, 20 years people developing some crazy sort of lung disease.

It's also far more easier to give yourself nicotine poisoning vaping than it is via cigarettes as you can sit there and just constantly puff away because you've got blueberry soda, brownie, super duper wacky fun fruity pebbles bubble gum, etc flavors.

I know people that will vape through ten plus ml a day because they are just constantly puffing away due to the flavor and the nicotine. His 'rig' is effectively permanently attached to his hand and he carries around multiple large batteries in a man-clutch with a few extra tanks. I'm betting he's not alone, in the minority sure but there are likely a lot like him and having your lungs saturated 18 hours a day in nicotine, dye and flavoring agent can not be good.
Watching some random Youtube video probably consumes much more resources.
Multiple Angular Apps on a Single Page: A Walkthrough
Because the person who did it found it fun to do? I believe the site is called 'Hacker News' not 'Sensible and Useful Engineering News'
>We need false positives for such lists to become better, to make the developers up their game.

Because this has worked so well for the US No-Fly List.
> one of the main functions of a nation-state is to put up defence against other nation-states

This is the synergystic existense between so-called leaders. They keep each-other in power, both using the threat of the other.
But did he specifically axe regulations of fire safety? Or did he mean to abandon all ALL regulations? Just because some regulations may be good, does not mean all regulations are good.
Very interesting take on this in the novel Death's End by cixin lu
I support legal medical marijuana, and decriminalization of recreational.

When vaping is discovered to have medical benefits, I'll happily change my stance on it. (I'd be happy to have vaping be prescription-only for smoking cessation, in a similar regulatory regime as many states' medical marijuana programs.)
That's a great point. A much better argument, I think, than the other ones I've heard against student debt forgiveness. Thanks!
I would not consider knowing "a bit of CSS" as knowing and understanding frontend-est of frontend technologies.
Alas, there are more than enough cluches available in the form of variouos frameworks so throwing enough stuff at the wall fill finally make some of it stick hence replacing the need of knowledge and understanding.
That doesn't make sense. You think Google is handing off data about all of these searches to the government?
Russia and China are natural allies for the time being, but in the event that the US loses it's global position as a leader that is subject to change. China is aggressive in it's dealings with Russia and there's a huge Chinese population in Siberia which might be used as an excuse to incite unrest and possible annexation of some territories in the not so far future.
Nation states are a thing that is now so prevalent it's hard to even think about them. Nations, nation states & nationalism are such core political institutions that we think of them today as synonyms to "polity." Obviously the nation's is the polity and the polity is a nation state.

The whole world is carved into nation states politically today. It's so prevalent that we forget that it's new. Less than 100 years ago it was less than half the world. Before that it was rare.

In any case, I disagree that war is what made nation states. War always existed and nation states haven't always been the dominant type of state. I think democracy/liberalism/republicanism is a more likely culprit. The timing lines up, and so does the political group psychology.
I Got to the Top of the Slack New and Noteworthy List After a Month
I had a lot of reasons to not build my app Link Reminder (https://r.labfortysix.com/PJp0MXNoCp): wanted to play games, hang out with friends, binge-watch the newest thing on Netflix.

At a certain point, I was so frustrated with my full-time that I had to just start.

I took a long weekend to build out an MVP and slowly refined it over the weeks until I got approved.

After a month, I made Slack's New & Noteworthy list (https://r.labfortysix.com/uQmPUeQsF5)!

There were a lot of times I didn't know what was in the future, and there were a lot of nights where I was getting 4 hours of sleep, but being able to get on this list, even though it's a small win, really brings a bit of hope in my life, and right now I go through every day thinking "why do I have to go to work when I could be building this thing?".

Just want to let people know that if you just started, keep going. Always keep going. There's a light at the end of the tunnel.

There's a nice article I keep going back to: https://www.indiehackers.com/article/how-to-build-a-startup-without-quitting-your-day-job-f7697df2d7

This article showcases the companies that started off as random side hustles and grew to something more as people used it.

Would love to help others or swap tips with people, let me know if you have any questions, or feedback on the app.
This is definitely true for a lot of the major consumer facing software companies.

"Sean Parker, the 38-year-old founding president of Facebook, recently admitted that the social network was founded not to unite us, but to distract us. “The thought process was: ‘How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?’” he said at an event in Philadelphia in November. To achieve this goal, Facebook’s architects exploited a “vulnerability in human psychology”, explained Parker, who resigned from the company in 2005. Whenever someone likes or comments on a post or photograph, he said, “we… give you a little dopamine hit”. Facebook is an empire of empires, then, built upon a molecule."

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/04/has-dopam...
In 1913, French author Marcel Proust highlighted the link between smell and memory in a very eloquent-if-wordy way in his famous (and lengthy) work, Remembrances of Things Past. Here's a good snippet:

http://ww3.haverford.edu/psychology/ddavis/p109g/proust.html
They are compostable, not recyclable.
Deploying Django to Heroku with Docker
Other than a completely new approach for producing value such as the 'Freeism' one described in the article suggested in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20282851 (which I hadn't time to read yet and hence I'm neither in favour of or against) this simply boils down to the questions of who will pay for relevant content and what the business model will be.

By and large, people don't seem to be willing to pay for content on the web. Hence, advertising became the dominant business model for content on the web.

Find another way for someone to pay for relevant content and you can do away with advertising. It's as simple as that.
I think you need to take into context the history of browsers vs. operating systems... operating systems were always a platform, while browsers started as consumers of an electronic document standard.

That being said - I agree with your ideal, and I don't think it's far off. HTML as a view engine combined with WASM as a cross-platform runtime can enable truly cross-platform, industry-standard native applications. I think it's only a matter of time until Electron apps morph into cross-platform native apps running off of a thin WASM layer. Once those are available, then the OS vendors will have a huge competitive advantage if they develop fast native WASM runtimes.
Nothing says 'fuck capitalism' like buying a shirt from a company who uses sweatshop child labor in a third world country to spew out product so bad that it will end up in a landfill in six months.
"""
Rust is the first programming language I've used where I feel like the language itself, the compiler, the tools around it (cargo, rustfmt, clippy, rustup, etc), and the community surrounding it all actually care about and assist me with writing high quality software. Nothing else I've used comes even close.
"""

I've been hearing nice words about Rust for a while now but it doesn't seem to catch up in popularity which I find weird.
I'm not sure how you managed to do that. I ran a few exit VPSes and they were shut down in less than two weeks for hacking complaints.
Retrogaming
I tried using tusk to follow the blogs using my mastodon.social account... I can see the profiles, but I can't see any post.
How do you install SSL certificates on IIS?
As they say, get your facts straight ;)

29 September 1938 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement

23 August 1939 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...
Are there really people out there who know and understand Vue or React, but not HTML?

I always found Vue and React to be not good enough abstraction layers - you still need to tweak and fiddle with the layer below from time to time to make anything work properly.
If this is true, this is very bad news. You can criticize the government in America; you take quite a risk by doing so in china (particularly depending on in which you are). This extends to most other freedoms of religion, association, etc.

I have no doubt that as usual, some one will come running to point out something America did wrong. I claim not that she is perfect, but that she is better than china. This is obviously true.

There are also cultural issues: china is based on the Confucian philosophy that power flows from the top down; from the father to the son. Western philosophy is based on the idea that the individual is sovereign over himself, and delegates power up into local->state->federal gov'ts. One is inherently equipped to protect freedom and foster innovation; the other is not.
Hack PUBG
Linux Package Managers Compared – AppImage vs. Snap vs. Flatpak
The article is more about a clever phone answering machine, kind of a personal secretary which passed the caller.

Seems to be useful for people getting a lot of phone spam or super many calls. I would rather require anybody to write a mail. Looks less overhead and is much nicer to other humans who then don't have to waste their time to speaking with a machine.
>how does the brokerage make money from me?

Interest on any balance. Commission on sell orders, bonds, GICs, options, MFs. Order flow. Currency exchange. ECN fees when you buy in odd lots.

I mean, if you're really diligent and restrictive in your usage, you can avoid your broker "making money off you". But as long as fees are transparent and fair, what's the problem with them making some money providing a service you like?
Without knowledge of the fonts used, you can't get both ascender line and baseline aligned with respective lines of content, which is the traditional way of doing drop caps.

Sure, with web fonts and assumptions that the font always successfully loads and covers all graphemes in the text you can hardcode lengths to achieve proper alignment, but that's still a bit fragile.
As a very senior developer by some measures, I always put a strong emphasis on what's not going well. What's broken can be fixed, as long as it's known. I also believe that it's better to undercommit than overcommit. The delta between committing to and then achieving X+Y vs. committing to and then achieving X alone is fairly small compared to the other alternatives. Commit to X and achieve X+Y? Big positive reaction. Commit to X+Y and achieve only X? Even bigger negative reaction. Why put yourself in a neutral/negative space when you can put yourself in a neutral/positive one? It kind of feels like sandbagging, but I've seen it work well for all concerned too many times to do otherwise.
It is truly astonishing how much people believe that they need frameworks.

Your site looks nice, but one comment I'll make about your coding style is that you (or anyone getting inspired from your code) should probably switch away from innerHTML as the default choice for DOM modification. In a lot of otherwise useful contexts it is an HTML injection hole. (For the record it doesn't seem to be a security issue for the kind of content you have made, but better kill the habit before it becomes a problem.)

For a while I used document.createElement and friends to generate injection-free DOM, but that style takes a lot more typing than innerHTML usually does. Eventually I made a tiny library for easing the job, and I haven't looked back since. I don't think anyone else uses it, but so far it is definitely worth it for the one happy user. https://github.com/NoHatCoder/DOM_Maker
I deliberately wasn't specific when I said "So if the society could support these people in giving up". Support can mean many things, for example support them having other hobbies (that do not contribute direct economic value, but rather only enjoyment).
The N+M dimensions notation from physics refers to N spatial and M time dimensions, in this case N = 2 and M = 1.

The title should be changed to "Can Life Exist in 2+1 Dimensions?"
It's always nice to get a good healthy dose of paranoia in the morning. This makes me think back to how my sec professor had a separate system that he'd use to access his online banking.
This post appears to be inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20281414

I said I would only upvote it if that user posted it.
You're telling someone to add a browser extension to block some privacy invasion that a privacy-touting browser vendor is willfully doing? What about the interests of the users who don't even know they have to do that silliness?

Also, threat of poo-storm is not always sufficient incentive to respect privacy or even agreements with governments (after you're caught brazenly violating privacy): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/9432518/Google...
For the oh-so-dangerous drug called Nicotine.

I've first-hand seen the effects this Killer Drug has on the poor people caught in its grasp. One time, we were at dinner, and my friend stepped outside for five minutes for a vape. I've seen lost souls on so much nicotine, their focus is heightened significantly and they get this almost imperceptible shake in their hands, someone not even looking for it might not notice it but it must be devastating for them. Have you ever been so wasted drunk, then used nicotine to level out and pivot back toward functionality? I haven't, thank the lord.

All of this, and these poor people are also forced into paying Big Juul dozens of dollars a month. I mean, a Juul pod costs about $3, imagine if a coffee from Starbucks or a soda were to cost that much!
There are 8 billion people. If half of them were awake, and 10 percent of that half are actually typing at 40 words/minute, that would be about 13Gbit/s. I couldn't receive that feed today at home, but my work could. A satellite feed could work today too. And I wasn't really talking about today, but 10-20 years from now. Storage will be a problem for a lot longer than network capacity.
Did floppy drives all have the same interface? I know there were different data formats but were the physical drives all compatible?
>2. Going to so much contortions to rationalize a third-party surveillance facility that you didn't need to use.

That does seem rather strange to me too. Is GA that critical to Mozilla that it justified crafted a special agreement with Google to keep using it? Why not re-implement the key functionalities themselves, surely they have the internal resources to do something like that. It seems like a weird decision, especially now that they're getting very aggressive with the "we respect your privacy (unlike Google)" angle.
The average dictator was terrible for Rome, and the successful dictators achieved their success through the conquest of local countries. Rome's economy was basically an engine that ran on slaves and resources brought back from conquest. The majority of Rome's rulers weren't very good at conquest. It may be a little excessive to suggest that Xi will double the size of China through war in the next few decades.
My point was that PoE, especially with the recent revision, allows for very useful levels of power to be drawn, so if you're going to have an 'embedded' system with an Ethernet port, I would think it'd be useful to use it.

Why plug in two cables (USB-C (power) and Ethernet (comms)) when you can just plug in one?
.ac.uk emails get spam filtered pretty harshly.
> It’s about usability and accessibility. If you don’t think the semantic structure of your Web page or app is important then you’re essentially saying “Well, it works for me in my browser, ship it”.

I'm interested, how close to reality is this view of front end devs?

In my day job, it's difficult to get through a project without encountering WCAG 2.x or some other accessibility criteria. Which usually forces you to be more semantic in order to avoid having to be more explicit using aria to tell screen readers etc what your special version of HTML means. Is this so uncommon? This comes up as a contractual obligation all the time in educational products, is this not the case in most other sectors?
The question was about search engines, not about content.

But I think the combination of advertising+search engines is particularly bad, so paying for search would be a great first step.
This happens when Software is forked and rebranded: People obviously don't understand any more the same origin. Both For browser and IceCat are Firefox, just with another name. They suffer from the same security problems. The switch is pointless.
Cash is King and Reputation is Queen. How trust can make or break a startup
Consortium of Tech Firms Sets AI Benchmarks
This is a long shot, but some years back Robert X. Cringley had a column talking about a company (possibly out of Israel) who did training for a business optimization technique. At at some point one of the owners decided to try it on chocolate chip recipes, and it worked out really well. Does that ring a bell for anyone?
I would suggest to forget about it and continue your search.
Some countries in Europe had a good relationship with Russia. I would like to go back to it. Western operations in Eastern Europe were plain stupid and Ukraine had to pay for it.

A relation to Russia doesn't mean a divorce from the US. But any way for a more secure Europe has to get Russia to the table.

And frankly, Americans should get some therapy for their issues with Russia. You cannot blame everything on age here...

> its showdown with China didn't spark from an ideological or military rivalry, but an economic one

An ideological conflict would at least be understandable. But the best way for everyone seems to be to push China through its current development phase. A strong and independent China could help everyone.