skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go on just about any cave tour in the US, and there’ll be at least one chamber filled with graffiti from sometime before the cave was protected/commercialized(1) as it will have been a popular youth spot. It’s never cleaned up because it’s now historical and gives the guides a good opportunity to lecture against vandalism.

(1) choose your preferred description
> or you find a novel way to make a neutral search engine

Just because nobody's said it in this thread yet: blockchain? I never bought into the whole bitcoin buzz, but using a blockchain as an internet index could be interesting.
Can we have dogs as well?
A Secular Shift Is Underway in Monetary Policy
I'm already maintaining the libc security extensions, which are in the standard but all libc's refuse to implement.
I also added the missing string API's for the wrong wide API, but thinking about adding the proper u8 api instead. Nobody really should use the wide (UTF-32/UTF-16) api.

But the C standard committee is somewhere completely else. There are not even aware of the problems, even if I'm getting interviewed from time to time, so that they will change their attitudes towards insecurity and functionality. searching for strings should be a pretty common usage pattern, but it's still not implemented. coreutils or grep or sed would like to use it, I'm sure. But not 10x slower as the current multibyte patches. Which I'm also maintaining btw. for coreutils.

Non-blocking IO into the standard? I only know about libuv which was fine before the drama. Despised it since then, but I'm still using it. The standard mostly needs to provide a namespace to block blocking IO if someone needs a concurrency-safe subset. Then the unhealthy need for POSIX compat can be circumvented somewhat. And gets() can be finally.
> Doing nothing takes us from having "a less than ideal solution" to having "no solution at all".

No, doing nothing takes us from having a completely harmful and destructive solution that's very difficult to change to having no solution at all.

Sometimes, you need to be willing to accept no solution at all is the least harmful choice.
even better, have something like git for the web - effectively working as an archive.
It made it possible not to need one.

That doesn't mean it can't ever be beneficial to have support for one.
Aging has surely been pathologized. Childhood is an inevitable stage of development but the prevalence of ADHD and learning disabilities indicate how we have defined our priorities.
Taking a step back to before search engines were the main driver for finding content online, who remembers webrings?

Is there a way to update that idea of websites deliberately recommending each other, but without having it be an upvote/like based popularity contest driven by an enormous anonymous mob? It needs to avoid both easy to manipulate crowd voting like reddit and the SEO spam attacks that PageRank has been targeted by.

Some way to say "I value recommendations by X person," or even give individual people weight in particular types of content and not others?
Online Sex Crimes Against Children in the UK Have Doubled in Four Years
Webrings are still there, they're just implicit. People link within their content to the same resources over-again, or have more explicit footer blocks or aside link stacks.

Search engines use this structure for domain authority.

A search for "link:example.com -site:example.com" would have found that webring in the past.
“The relatively new trouble with mass society is perhaps even more serious, but not because of the masses themselves, but because this society is essentially a consumers’ society where leisure time is used no longer for self-perfection or acquisition of more social status, but for more and more consumption and more and more entertainment… To believe that such a society will become more “cultured” as time goes on and education has done its work, is, I think, a fatal mistake. The point is that a consumers’ society cannot possibly know how to take care of a world and the things which belong exclusively to the space of worldly appearances, because its central attitude toward all objects, the attitude of consumption, spells ruin to everything it touches.”

Hannah Arendt
> It can’t be understated how much impact Wolfenstein 3D and Doom had. Commander Keen was already quite the tech demo, with scrolling on a PC without dedicated hardware

But ... the PC did have hardware supported scrolling? CGA, EGA, VGA and the various SVGAs all had a register for "address of beginning of screen". It was not well documented, and nontrivial to use especially because of the banked memory setup -- but it WAS there even on the first ever CGA, Hercules and Monochrome adapter which were all based on the 6845 - and also available on EGA, VGA etc - the latter made things even less usable by practically requiring Mode-X plane memory addressing to use.

And IIRC, that's what commander keen had used.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_6845#Tricks
> In a world of fully general app sandboxes, you can switch out your hardware and OS at any time without disrupting your life or business. Therefore those are commoditized, and their price drops to the marginal cost of production - which for software is zero.

I think software's marginal cost of production is zero only if no updates/fixes are ever needed. I know it sounds like nitpicking but just think of all the vulnerabilities discovered, specially the closer software gets to the lower end of the stack. Even if an OS could suddenly stop adding features and still be viable in the market, the cost of patching it as holes are discovered is certainly not zero.
A few years ago there was that blogs thing, with rss... all things that favoured federation, independent content generation, etc. Now it's all about platforms. I understand that "regular people" are more comfortable with Facebook but, other than that, why are blogs and forums less popular now?
That's good. I've been using jsonip but I think I'll switch to yours, because it's still nice and minimal! It's good to have the geoip even though it's inaccurate. Right now geoip thinks I'm in Ft Lauderdale when I'm actually in Miami.
> The biggest takeaway is that HTML was originally designed to degrade gracefully. ... These days, none of that occurs.

This can be directly attributed to the fact that the purpose of the average webpage is no longer to convey information, but to display ads.

I frequently see people say that if a site doesn't allow people with an ad blocker to read their content, they immediately bounce off the site, and that site loses a visitor. What I don't think people get is that this is what those sites want.

They don't care about pageviews or impressions. They care about ad views. Someone with an ad blocker uses their bandwidth, but doesn't increase revenue.

To an extent, the more important conveying information is, the more likely the page is to gracefully degrade. Of course, even that is mitigated by the fact that most people throwing up a web page are either hosted by a commercial platform (Medium, et al), or at the very least using a popular framework that is designed with commercial usage in mind.
whatever wikimedia organisation does :)
Indian population growth surpassing China
You are absolutely right, but do check out Greg Egan's "Diaspora" for a hard scifi that tries to get around that constraint.

More seriously, and slightly less scifi, you can have more than 3 spacial dimensions and still have stable gravity/electromagnetism if the topology of these dimensions is a bit weirder (very small periodic dimensions for instance).
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Perhaps. But in the 80's many thought that Japan would overtake the US so that dominated sci-fi and popular fiction. (see the cyberpunk tropes of Zaibatsus etc.)

Didn't turn out that way though.
"me too"
You may!
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How competent was he as mayor? Most memorably he stood up for bankers, brought in Boris bikes, and most famously got stuck on a zipline. His primary talent is taking limited damage from scandals that should have ended his career.
For paper producers who replant the trees they log, they're actually sinking carbon so that's good. If they don't replace the trees, no bueno.
This is called drip pricing. It's illegal in many countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drip_pricing
I once toyed with the idea of serving XHTML page as application/xhtml+xml, but the fact the browser (back then, not sure about now) will just display XHTML error and doesn't render anything was a deal breaker for me.
When an instagrammer dies, where go all the likes and the pictures?

At least, with paper-printed photos, you have|had material stuff to inherit with some context and history.
Ah, the good old RMS / ESR debate.

Open Source means just that: that the source is open and available. You are thinking about "free software"

> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Because there are people who buy more than one of something.

Buy a widget - you might be purchasing for a company and will buy a the same widget next month for the next employee. If you advertise your widget to everybody 99.999% won't buy it, so that 99.9% that won't buy another widget is a much larger margin of those who will buy another. (the ad is about either keeping you a loyal customer or getting to to switch to a different brand). Most of us are more valuable as a possibly purchaser of more than one than as a potential customer of something new we didn't even know we needed.
Out of interest, do you have a high sensitivity to noise around you?

I don't live in a particularly big city and when I visit bigger ones I do feel they are noisy. But not noisy enough to wear protection. I do wear protection when I'm on my motorcycle or at a concert or festival.
> It's not

Are you going to back up your argument or just state it like it's a fact?
In importance yes, but in analogy it's pretty close.
> Traction control can be applied to each individual motor

This is not a feature of in-wheel motors, but individual motors. And not even much of that, because you can apply the brakes to shift power through the differential to the other wheel (a technique modern all-wheel drive cars including Teslas use for traction control). Is having a motor for each wheel really a huge improvement over that? Maybe latency can be improved a little?
If and when I go somewhere, I try to go in off season. And if there is no such thing as off season for a place, I just avoid it.
If Icelanders aren’t happy with their current level of sovereignty, then perhaps they should do that. Otherwise they may consider directing some of the 10% of their GDP they generate through tourism to solving some of these problems.
Have you ever written anything in Qt?
What the hell is an extinction vortex? The article refuses to define it, despite scare-quoting the term itself..

>“Individual lions face horrible deaths from car collisions or rat poison, while their populations become increasingly isolated and inbred in ever-shrinking islands of habitat hemmed by freeways and sprawl.”

Is this it? It doesn't really fit the name that well..
I'm seeking.. but not looking for a stranger :-)
We used to carry around a pack of post-it notes to cover the sensors for this reason. My kids would refuse outright to use them otherwise.
Can a Font Improve Your Memory?
The New Graveyards of Free Speech
Telegram, that's where the pump and dumps are organized.
Perhaps it’s the ambiguity when I read the parents post about not allowing doctors to charge different rates. Does that mean not allowing me to charge more than you, or not allowing a doctor to charge one patient more than the former.

When I originally read it, it seemed like the former, but given everyone’s responses it must be the latter.
Can you cite a source that defines the “bloodbath on the streets” of London?
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Though the web is made of documents, not the objects within.

There's no native way to link to specific objects in the DOM that are not identified as part of the document through an ID; the anonymous objects in the DOM can only be accessed programmatically, URLs have no syntax to traverse the tree like there is an "#anchor" section for accessing chapters.
The 1995 view is superior. It loads fast, doesn't hog CPU, never does anything unexpected, and has limited tracking capacity. I cringe whenever I browse without NoScript. If your pages can't render in my sandbox I just go somewhere more sensible.
Until recently, I worked at a company that sends these people to Iceland, among other places.

Influencers end up in that career for a reason. They are, in general, everything you'd expect them to be: flaky and privileged almost as a rule. They're not bad people per se (no tantrums that I've seen), and are often well-meaning, but most are desperate to be famous. These are the same people who competed to be on The Bachelor or Dancing with the Stars as a means to improve their marketability. They have no real marketable skills other than marketing themselves.

Thus it should surprise no one that they are terrible tourists. If I could speculate, it's a combination of cluelessness, lack of interest in researching anything about their destination (other than good photo spots), and a low-key sense of privilege that "it's not that big of a deal" if they do something that might be harmful. In other words, they are a lot like average tourists but with bigger egos.
> large enough to sustain a product this critical down the road?

This may not be a 'product' per se.

also, these libraries tend to be small and self contained and little changing over time. See also:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/12.0.0/lib/libc/db/c...

for a view into the original berkeley db as still incorporated in freebsd base (BSD Berkeley DB v1; not the later lineage by same authors which led to sleepycat / oracle Berkeley DB).

> Why not make an extension or fork postgres to demonstrate your concept?

this isn't that kind of database.

this is a k/v store optimized around a particular use case,
k/v stores being what is more traditionally considered 'database' before
the term 'database' colloquially implied 'relational database managment system' (RDBMS - e.g. a system to manage your k/v database files relationally..)

well, techincally 'database' is any 'base of data'. but.. yes. 'base of data' -> 'k/v store' -> 'rdbms'

See also:

isam,dbm,bdb,cdb,gdbm,tdb,tokyo cabinet,kyoto cabinet,etc.

concievably, if desired, one would take this library and integrate it into a higher level application, whether that be a custom application datastore, or a new backend for something like postgres.
I've had this idea floating in my head for a while, that one thing that might make the world better is some kind of distributed database, and a gravitation back to open protocols (though instead of RFC's... maybe we could maintain an open source library for the important bits) I was thinking the architecture of DNS is a good starting point. From there we can create public indexes of data. This includes searchable data, but also private data you want to share (which could be encrypted, and controlled by you (think PGP). I'd modify browsers so that I don't have to trust a 3rd party service)

Centralization happens because the company owns the data, which becomes aggregated under one roof. If you distribute the data it will remove the walled gardens, multiple competitors should be able to pop up. Whole ecosystems could be built to give us 100 googles.... or 100 facebooks, where YOU control your data, and they may never even see your data. And because we're moving back to a world of open protocols, they all work with each other.

These companies aren't going to be worth billions of dollars any more.... but the world would be better.
Micron has begun to supply a “subset” of DRAM to Huawei
that seems kind of oxy-moronic? aren't toasters horribly energy hungry?
> But I found that a photo never does justice to the moment.

Pics or it didn't happen.
I hate to sound cynical but the reason it seems like everyone knows someone who's gone to Iceland in the past 5 years is because the government has been heavily subsidizing flights and hotels to this exact end. There really was no other outcome :(

Also the government only needs to levy a 1000 USD fine on a few people in order to stop a lot of this because the American press will seize on it immediately.
Some kind of targeted honeypot perhaps? But that is inverted from its typical use.

Edit: Maybe a trojan honeypot but I'm literally just stringing words together here.
I think it's an analogy, not a comparison. "Eternal September" being a time when there is a ceaseless influx of those who are unaware / uncaring of the rules.
Hater alert.
Another inspiration: DNS for searching.

What if we implement DNS-like protocol for searching. Think of recursive DNS. Do you have "articles about pistachio coloured usb-c chargers"? Home router says nope, ISP says nope, Cloudflare says nope, let's scan A to Z. Eventually someone gives an answer. This of course can (must?) be cached, just like DNS. And just like DNS, it can be influenced by your not-so-neutral browser or ISP.
> Authoritarianism, no. I don't see how that's related. You can have a cohesive group without being a dick to everyone who doesn't conform to the exact letter of every little thing.

I might have used a poor word. I certainly didn't mean for authoritarianism to mean "being a dick to everyone." I suppose I meant hierarchical structure, pressure, and control.

As a corollary, imagine the sort of social cohesion you see in the military. With regard to the values the military cares about, there's a high degree of coercion and authoritarianism. So, counterpoints about how you can be whatever religion, creed, political party etc aren't really valid in my mind. You can Muslim or Christian, but you can't ignore a salute, or a command, etc. The values the military wishes to coerce are nonnegotiable.

There can be no doubt that the military is good at systematically building cohesion in troops. I'm just wondering how well social cohesion can work without any of these aspects. In other words, does strict individualism harm social cohesion.
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I've also seen High School used in Scotland
The Linux Foundation’s Staff Uses Windows
Since my full reply was flagged, I'll highlight its main point, which is to object to aantthony's statement "without any argument at all".

The linked-to document gives a pointer to its "citations/references", which is hosted on RPG.net. I then quoted those citations.

While many disagree with those arguments, that's quite different than saying they gave no arguments at all.
the problem is multiple actually:
a) most internet-connected devices these days favor content consumption vs content creation (blogs vs instagram),

b) mainstream culture > closely-knit communities (facebook > forums)

c) big-player takeovers (facebook for groups, google for search) over previously somewhat niche areas and, actually, internet infrastructure

d) if you're not a big player, you don't exist... and back to c)
Pointed out by another user, but the site has a Catalan translation

https://http.cat/?lang=cat
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Subscription. It is only viable for content that well off people use a lot of though, even then only when you are much better than the free competition.
> Let's hope the future learns people that most of these instagram shots are basically digital waste.

That's very condescending of you. Lots of people like having real visual memories of places they've been.
So which US state do you live in, out of interest?
> Mountain lions can pose a real threat to small children, so literally, pick up your kids with you if you see a mountain close by.

While not awful advice, it's also vastly overblowing the true (nonexistent) danger mountain lions pose.

Mountain lions are one of the smallest threats imaginable to anyone, small children included. 99.99% of people will never ever ever even be fortunate enough to see a mountain lion in the wild.

If you do see a mountain lion up close, it's because either you surprised it (extremely unlikely) or because it wants you to see it (slightly less likely). If you and a kid are being hunted by a mountain lion (unbelievably unlikely) you'll likely never see it until it's too late.

Do not let anyone ever tell you that mountain lions pose any kind of real threat to humans. Mountain lions are responsible for ones of attacks on humans over a period of years, if not decades. It'd be like saying to watch out for the threat of getting hit by lightning while winning the lottery.
Russia isn't really a global power. It's regional, and its global reach is only based on whatever legacy assets they held onto after the Soviet Union collapsed.
I took it as a scary-sounding version of "downward spiral".
Save one species and countless others benefit
>The idea that corrupt dictatorships don't work out in the long run is not based on the average American's favorite flavor of ice cream, it's based on the vast majority of countries in history.

What "vast majority of countries"? There were empires that lasted millennia far more corrupt or dictatorship like than modern China.

And those "corrupt dictatorships" that didn't last were more like Latin America "Banana Republics" or African rogue warlord dictatorships in backwards places, than a huge sophisticated state with a top-tier economy, an ancient culture, and its own way of doing things for millennia...
i really like that idea.
> better handling than typical on a non-battery car

Is that their main competition, though?
That is not my position. I do believe that BTC would also go for $3. But the only reason is that holders of BTC have so far managed to convince holders of other currencies that BTC has some intrinsic worth when, in fact, it has none (other than money laundering, frankly, which is no small thing, but not something people should be investing in). That's why I believe it doesn't belong in the same category as commodities or currencies. It's a huge bubble, and it will be very, very bad when it bursts.
Vulnerability in AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization for EPYC: Update to v22
Keep in mind that to Apple, this is for accessibility. The mouse pointer and associated protocols are very important for some assisted computing devices.
The Algorists
Couldn't help but think of the book Flatland and the parts about two-dimensions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
They are also a spam filter. It's not just an index of whats relevant, but removal of what maliciously appears to be relevant at first glance.
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Ok, but that isn't "the web."

You are completely free to write and launch a new app that does this today. Just don't try and shoehorn it into my web browser.
I use it regularly as a quick way to look up status codes. If some log just shows http 418, typing http.cat/418 is the fastest way I've found to get the corresponding message.
While tracking is uncommon, using it for language / geolocation is not.
The United States is still going to be a global power even if it loses its current hegemony.

If anything, Russia is the one trapped between China, Europe, and the United States, as it tries to maintain its EE sphere of influence despite declining resources to do so successfully.
Great job at side stepping the question!

I’ll answer for myself - if I had to choose between a Chinese or US Blackfoot, I’d choose the US every, single, time.
Never seen the "meat chart" for folks injured in the US have you ?

You are priced per body part based on your income. Your health is most certainly defined in dollars.
Solution: put a Pokemon Go character inside the crater of a volcano.