skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some examples of search results from Facebook / Discord / Twitter ? And on the same level as other pages, not in some separate field ?

What does a "separate field" have to do with anything? Now a site is or isn't part of the web based on how Google formats them in their search listings? These sites serve media meta-tags specifically so that Google will index them, they depend on SEO. Find someone famous with a Twitter or Facebook presence and search their username and whatever public information they have, including excerpts of recent posts, will probably show up.

>Browsers can do a lot of things these days that are not part of the Web : display pdfs, ftp folders, rtsp streams...

But your assertion was that websites which use javascript to render text, applets or flash weren't part of the web, but somehow just part of "the internet," despite everything on the web also being on the internet.

We seem to fundamentally disagree on what the web is - it seems like your definition is more aesthetic than technical, and that you believe only static HTML pages should be considered part of the web.

But according to at least the w3C's Help and FAQ page[0], the difference between the internet and the web is:

The Web, on the other hand, is defined in W3C's
Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume I as
follows: "The World Wide Web (WWW, or simply Web)
is an information space in which the items of interest,
referred to as resources, are identified by global
identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)."

And in the Architecture of the World Wide Web[1] page we see a lot of information about URIs, HTTP requests, XML etc.

But nothing supporting the claim that "If your "web"site can execute arbitrary code, and/or violates HTML guidelines (...) then it might be part of the Internet, but it's certainly not part of the World Wide Web!"

I mean, the <SCRIPT> and <APPLET> tags were added in HTML 3.2, and the reason <SCRIPT> had a "type" attribute was that the intent was for browsers to support multiple languages. It seems kind of absurd to argue that somehow embedded code was never intended to be a part of the world wide web, when it was considered so early.

No one who was actually involved in the architecture of the web appears to have ever had such a rigid definition of it, or such a limited vision of what it should or shouldn't be. Here's a thread from the www mailing list from 1995 about web scripting languages[2], I don't see anyone arguing that the concept is fundamentally hostile or antithetical to the web or HTML. Rather, as hackers tend to do, they discuss the ramifications and pros and cons and possible implementation.

You may not like that this is the web, you may not agree that this should be the web, but this is the web.

[0]https://www.w3.org/Help/#webinternet

[1]https://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/

[2]https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/msg00099.html
I see no way this article will lead to a useful comment section on HN, but I'd like to throw in my 0.02 that "human nature" is not fixed - we are social mammals that are made of stories and shaped by complex webs of inter-dependencies and cultural learnings among other things.

In short humans are made, not born, and the socioeconomic systems they live within can create different humans.
I don't think that's quite the argument.

The argument is that the US justice system uses pressure of plea bargains to put millions of innocent people in prison, financial pressure to keep millions of people from getting justice, etc.

The level of injustice seems at least similar.

You're right the reasons are different. But until we fix our courts, we don't quite have the moral high ground here.

Plus gitmo.
I've been with them for my private mailserver VPS for ~7 years now and the support in IRC and via the ticketing system has always been fast and friendly. The author talks about the KVM/slice setup in the post but they're still dilligently running all the openvz from legacy contracts. You can count on them being around years from now.
One problem: when I hear "quiet atmosphere" I suspect that they're probably good at one or two banal dishes and seriously deficient at anything else. There are multiple "quiet atmosphere" restaurants in my area where I will never again order anything but the fried pork tenderloin sandwich. That's not because I particularly like fried pork tenderloin sandwiches, but rather because these places have either disgusted or sickened (or both!) me when I've ordered more "exotic" fare like salad, vegetables, pasta, or steak.
I think one large motivator for me has been organizational theory: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

I am either a bargainer, a clueless, or a sociopath (in the context of organization). I will never be a bargainer, life is too short! I'm not clueless and middle management is not for me. Only one path left.

I reached this decision through information like this. Perhaps Ms. Brown needed something similar.
Is this the commentary we bring to HN now? A snide remark followed by baseless claims, without evidence, nuance or anything to add to the discussion? All precipitated by a piece of flamebait which claims that an entire political philosophy is bunk because one instance of it isn't working to the author's satisfaction?

We can do better.
What is "GA"?
page loads slow, so i cancelled trying to open this link.
As a "millennial" (urgh), that has already been using the Web in the previous millennium, I agree.
I use it currently but do not care about rewards and other nonsense features, just about ads getting blocked.
TFA says that they've shipped around 6000 units so far, how come nobody has made an independent video of the product yet? Surely some of these early adopters have a Youtube channel?
I haven't found a way to block canvas fingerprinting. For some reason, I haven't been able to default to block in firefox.

Even with CanvasBlocker the "check your fingerprint" sites still show a unique fingerprint (but canvasblocker has a ton of really obscure options that I don't understand)
I'd say most of the chemical energy on the surface of the planet is derived from solar power, in contrast to nuclear (fusion or fission) power.

Of course, solar is nuclear too. So we're actually 100% nuclear powered.
> with the rails literally 20ft below the street.

Some nice pictures about this: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterpflasterbahn

Note that not all U trains in Berlin are like that, some are deeper (with a mezzazine) and some are partly on elevated tracks or outside the city they go overground just like normal trains.
> I'm close to completing Single Variable Calculus on the OCW website on MIT.

It's probably too late for that course, but IMO MIT's courses on edx are much better structured than on MIT OCW or whatever it's called.
Not nuclear or geothermal power
I think the lesson that people forget is that legal drugs are often just as dangerous as street drugs.

In some cases, they can be more dangerous because far too many people are unaware that the drugs they take are dangerous.
I keep my phone at home all the time, and only turn it on for online banking and app development
Deep Java Library: AWS's Deep Learning Lib for Java
Well, I need to try the FF dev tools again, it's been about a year since I did and they were missing some critical things.

Looking good, will give it another go.
Any details from verified creators or Brave directly regarding revenue? Even if it's tiny right now, it would be great to hear some data from anyone giving it a real go.
1. We're well past websites into web apps. You are not entitled to the source code of these apps, like Gmail/GSuite - that are client heavy web apps, with logic, state, custom-IPs & algorithms.

2. The underlying code of the web's infrastructure is available on a royalty-free basis, and shall remain as such!! There's immense benefit in maintaining this equal-opportunity status-quo.
What part of Google is the only one that preloads AMP content don't you understand?
It's the same in the U.S. except you have to qualify and jump through a bunch of hoops to get assistance. And the pay is shit that you can't live off of.

i.e. in the u.s. you get fucked from both ends.
Not if the justice system refuses to act.

The thief in this article has been caught multiple times and still continues to this day.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/steal...
(Disclaimer: I work at Cliqz)

Just saw this one. It is an old comment, but let me try to answer as I find the question interesting.

The post on Human Web (https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-03/human-web-collecting-data-i...) has a brief section regarding differential privacy. Maybe check that one out first.

My take on it: although we do see value in differential privacy, we do not believe it fits well in our particular case. The critical moment is to decide what data should be sent by the client. Once data it is out, it is out. It is not possible to apply anonymization once it is on the server. If someone knows how it can be done safely, I would be highly interested.

We consider our chosen approach - breaking record linkage before sending - safer for our use-case and simpler. Do not underestimate the simplicity argument. Differential privacy is a powerful technique, but it is also very complex; there are lots of pitfalls and it is crucial to make good choices for the parameters.

Would be a good topic for another blog post. ;-)
Tor browser works for me.
I'd recommend James Burnham's "The Managerial Revolution"

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.17923/page/n3

The gist being that the capitalist/socialist arguments--the ones we continue to wear into the ground--ceased to describe reality a very long time ago, and that real power is now concentrated in the hands of high-leverage organizational men: technicians, managers, bureaucrats, executives, etc.

I've seen his thesis play out so many times in business--where the owner is terrified of what his top salesman, or best engineer might or might not do. Imagine what would happen to Google if their top search guys just walked out one day. Basically, we have a participant who is technically a wage-laborer, yet has more power than an owner. This is even reflected in the share rights (or lack thereof) for many companies.

Outside of local restaurants and developing countries, long gone are the days of the "bourgeois capitalist"--who knew his business from top to bottom--managing unskilled laborers who were as interchangeable as nuts and bolts.
First they came for the Uighurs: China’s abuse of technology and justification
Put screenshots in the README!
i wouldn't really call this programming FPGAs with .NET languages. it's more just converting .NET code to run on FPGAs. those are two different things.

also, i don't really understand how moving something that is compute bound down to an FPGA is what you do. FPGAs are slow compared to CPUs. where they help is if you have something that can be parallelized and/or you want it to happen in a real-time manner.

it would be a big win if there was a more modern HDL language. VHDL actually has a lot of nice features. however, i think a cross with it and an ML language (like F# or OCaml) would be a wonderful fit for programming FPGAs, that is designing (or at least dictating) hardware with software.
>He still personally signs off on new hires, who are told that it’s harder to get a job at Magic Leap than it is to be accepted into Harvard

I doubt that. South Florida isn't crawling with engineering talent, we all left. Having known, studied, and worked with several people who work(ed) there, I sincerely doubt they can claim to have such a deep bench of talent.
I've come to accept the notion of no privacy in public spaces, as long as individuals retain the right to surveil everything too, and to publicly release our videos about police misbehavior and everything else we catch on camera.

The balance of surveillance power between government, corporations, and the public must be maintained.
I very much disagree with the fact that any kind of political and economic system could be "compatible with human nature", which is a popular argument in supporting the currently dominant liberal democracy.

Firstly, politics and economics are extremely complex high-level concepts that can't be directly tied to primal, genetic properties. If they were - why did we go through so much history and different socioeconomic structures before we got here? Wouldn't it make sense that the further back you go, the more "compatible with human nature" the social structures are?

Secondly - being in line with human nature is not a good metric. Being violent, sexual and emotional are all natural instincts, but we don't encourage people to follow them. Quite the opposite - we consider it a virtue to be able to control them and instead act rationally.
If you feel like contributing Rust support to https://github.com/piku, it would be great. ;)
Same, I couldn't get used to Firefox, it just felt too slow, even the new version. Brave feels just like Chrome, but with less Google. I love it.
Baidu could be doing it only to http traffic to make people think it's the government... But I can't imagine that they would want to seem as if they're putting words in the government's mouth.
That's possibly plausible, but it's a lot more complicated a claim than just those industries being bad. To take the example of tobacco, you'd need to quantify the enjoyment smokers get from it, the harm to their lives, the harm to other's lives, the benefit to everyone in the supply chain (from farm workers to farmers to advertisers to executives), the harm to everyone in the supply chain (especially the exploitation of those who are do the actually picking of the tobacco and assembly of the cigarettes), all the politicians who get benefits from, all the harm they cause, and so much more.

It's also the wrong question to ask. It's asking if sum(negatives) > sum(positives). But not all those harms and benefits should be equally important under any rational more framework. For example, I don't think any reasonable person would count the benefit corrupt politicians get from tobacco companies slush funds to be an argument in favor of keeping tobacco legal.

In other words determining if what you said is true is extremely difficult and extremely pointless.
I haven't gotten a chance to try Magic Leap myself, but if you think that Magic Leap doesn't hold a candle to the original Hololens, then in it is dead in the water imo. I was somewhat annoyed with how small the field of view was on Hololens, and overall it was a pretty janky experience that I wouldn't recommend to anyone except those who just want to try the first "real" AR headset product out here and attempt writing code for it.

Hololens 2 is already publicly available, and I had a chance to play with it for a bit. All I am going to say is, if you thought the original Hololens was decent enough, you will be blown away by Hololens 2. It is leaps ahead of the first version, both in terms of the UX and the tech. Even everything auxiliary about it just feels "right", stuff like the flippable visor, easier head mount, etc. It is the kind of a device that I would legitimately consider using occasionally at home to read news and do other stuff while lazying around doing other things.

It isn't at the original iPhone levels of "whoa, we are entering a new era of how people use their personal computing devices" yet, but the overall experience is such a large step up from the original Hololens, it is clear as day to me that AR is quickly getting closer to the point where it will be dominating personal computing niche currently occupied by smartphones.
Web developer with a background in Chemistry here! Hit me up if you want to discuss Chemistry-related software development :)
Crime isn't automated. Someone has to write the script that commits the crime (or I guess ultimately design the AI framework that generates criminal bots). At the end of the line there's still a human.
Maybe we're just supposed (in the sense of evolutionary/mimetic/entropic fitness) to be in conversation with all forms of structure; between order and disorder... like a devil's advocate or a high-confident grey [1] -- maybe we're supposed to stake the middle ground: build when it's rubble and tear it down when it's cathedral :)

[1]: https://www.ted.com/talks/mariano_sigman_and_dan_ariely_how_...
I’ve had mine for 2 years now and had zero issues.

Should I be worried?
How about eliminating snowflakes like you?
>He then told employees to “stay the course” and “protect the company” by keeping confidential information “under lock and key.”

Classic. Instruction to team to not leak info get leaked.
Proximityai, give me the names of people who were in the x blocks between y and z time using WiFi and cell connectivity.
General Aviation; the same people that lobby to keep using leaded fuels.
There's a push towards more server-side rendering, though it's generally a pain in the butt at the moment.

Also, executing JavaScript when scraping isn't that difficult, depending on what you're using to scrape. Node.js has Puppeteer: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer
AR for games is an even harder sell IMHO because it's very hard for the game developer to make use of your space in a compelling way since they have no idea what it might look like, at least for home use.

I could see it as a carnival or arcade attraction where the AR application is tightly coupled with the space it is in, but this is a niche application.
Same. For me it combines the best of Chrome (speed) with the best of Firefox (privacy). In fact I'd argue it's like having "privacy.resistfingerprinting" on, but without as many sites breaking.
Hydrocephalus and Intelligence: The Hollow Men
There are plenty of independent videos available. Here's Tested's in-depth review from last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrq2akzdFq8
Bill Atkinson is the humblest, sweetest, most astronomically talented guy -- practically the opposite of Rony Abovitz! I think they're on very different drugs.

The Psychedelic Inspiration For Hypercard,
by Bill Atkinson, as told to Leo Laporte.

"In 1985 I swallowed a tiny fleck of gelatin containing a medium dose of LSD, and I spent most of the night sitting on a concrete park bench outside my home in Los Gatos, California." ...

https://www.mondo2000.com/2018/06/18/the-inspiration-for-hyp...

Full interview with lots more details about the development of HyperCard:

https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation/episodes/247?autostart=f...

Bill Atkinson's guest lecture in Brad Meyer's CMU 05-640 Interaction Techniques class, Spring 2019, Feb 4, 2019:

https://scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=...

Including polaroids of early Lisa development.

About PhotoCard:

http://www.billatkinson.com/aboutPhotoCard.html

PhotoCard by Bill Atkinson is a free app available from the iTunes App store, that allows you to create custom postcards using Bill's nature photos or your own personal photos, then send them by email or postal mail from your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.

Bill Atkinson, Mac software legend and world renowned nature photographer, has created an innovative application that redefines how people create and send postcards.

With PhotoCard you can make dazzling, high resolution postcards on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, and send them on-the-spot, through email or the US Postal Service. The app is amazingly easy to use. To create a PhotoCard, select one of Bill's nature photos or one of your own personal photos. Then, flip the card over to type your message. For a fun touch, jazz up your PhotoCard with decorative stickers and stamps. If you're emailing your card, it can even include an audible greeting. When you've finished your creation, send it off to any email or postal address in the world!
Aren't they censoring all political content, not only the china based political content? At least that is what i was told/remembered not sure which source it was.
Seriously can you think of any tech product that doesn't get new features every couple years?
JP: “As a lab, our objective is to match human intelligence.”

Also JP: AGI is a “bogus concept”.

??? How can you possibly square these comments?
Is anything else expected out of it? I mean, the way the company has rolled on, starting with a lot of in fighting, then releasing a bunch CGI videos about experience and never actually releasing any real use cases. They ended up launching the product without really showing anyone what the experience will be. People want to see what it is before spending an obscene amount on it. I fully expected it to fail.
I posted the following to /r/ but it was removed... (hmmm)

There was a statement that was made that China has been seeking to build the largest face recognition db... (obv FB has that embedded not only in their name, but their userbase -- and what China wants to do is compete with FB on this front for their own means...)

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TikTok is a face recognition harvesting platform WITH sentiment!

Hear me out.

So TikTok is literally focused (on multiple levels) of the users face being in a very contrived space and detail - its largely wide with younger ppl... however

IT ALREADY HAS 50% of the FB population:

https://www.oberlo.com/blog/tiktok-statistics

https://futurism.com/the-byte/tiktok-facial-recognition

'500 MM users'

in less than a 3rd of the time....

TikTok vs FB combined is the new Digital Cold War.

--

I have recently disabled my phone. But obv - I post to HN and .r. and I will not be able to off-grid without significant effort.

Conclusion: Privacy is not only dead, it has both necromancers and necrophiliacs fucking you in the shadows forever without recourse.
Ask HN: Anyone has built there own file file-format?
Please take a look at clash[1]. You can design digital circuits using Haskell and all the fancy language features Haskell has. It doesn't have a story for interop between the software world though. I love using it!

[1] https://clash-lang.org/
General aviation.
The Chinese Roots of Italy’s Far-Right Rage
How the McKinsey-fied Astros cheated their way to a championship
Isn't that even more expensive? DO advertises it as "as little as $10 per month".
I have some VC friends tangentially related to the deal. Apparently the original demo was wild, like real magic bonkers. Everyone who tried became a believer. The projected light streams onto the user's eyes so instead of seeing an image overlayed in an intermediate layer as in most AR, the image was projected onto your retinas through this very advanced technology and optics. The issue is that the advanced technology demo used an entire room of computers and sensors for a single user, and it didn't allow the user to move around at all, just sit in a chair and have this thing projected onto your eyes. The goal was to scale this working crazy but impractacle thing into a consumer experience but they just weren't able to, so they pivoted to being another "smart glass" maker. Their tech and patents still actually work, they just aren't able to make a product out of it.
This primer misses the point that elections should be easy to participate in. The voters should need the ability or knowledge about encryption to participate. Otherwise it discriminated against voters from many historically underprivileged backgrounds.

And the same goes for the people helping conduct the election. The ones who have to help with counting. I would rather have anyone above the age of 18 be able to count the votes without trusting corporations or complex open source programs. Let the community leaders and volunteers in under privileged parts of the country be able to simply count the votes. Otherwise we shut them out.

Just my two cents. Well written post though.
The numbers don't exaggerate.
On the other hand, marriage is the grand adventure. To achieve success don't give up - put in the work. Try harder, maybe by growing wings.
Have you tried running Dokku[0] on a VPS?

[0] https://github.com/dokku/dokku