skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How I wish the problem were only breaking the "web" - these days, blocking tracking scripts on my router ends up breaking my desktop applications...

(Example of the day, Parsec; example from yesterday, NVidia's driver-update software :( )
And thanks to ubiquitous HTTPS, there's no way to analyze what information is leaving your device (especially on a mobile device).
> Those languages that choose to use options or results with ?. instead of null or exceptions are already choosing to avoid impure functions and use static typing.

An impure "function" is any procedure which may have side-effects or produce different results for the same formal arguments depending on the runtime environment or evaluation order. Most languages with option or result types (e.g. Rust) still make extensive use of impure procedures. Haskell and its close relatives are pretty much the only well-known exceptions with first-class pure functions enforced through the type system.
Constitutional rights don't matter for people if parties with vast economic power can render the exercise of those rights pointless. Most people absolutely will trade freedom for security, because most people aren't late 1700's frontiersman that hunt for food, defend land from intruders, huddle together in a rickety log cabin built with their own two hands, and die before they're 40. Most people that aren't the elite-very-rich depend on things like stores, roads, cars, jobs, and paychecks to survive comfortably, which is always going to be supported by some balance of corporatism and government.
You do know you’re suggesting that sites not be able to load assets from other sites right?
This already happens. See Figma: https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...

To be honest, it's a unique property of the web for you to be able to easily read the source; however, users of other platforms such as Qt are not expected to read the source. The web is simply moving in the direction of all other UI platforms, so I don't quite understand the outrage. Yes, it sucks, but it'll make apps faster than the Electron mess we have now.
I really liked applets. It was Flash more than security concerns that killed them I think
How do "open source maintainers" know they also don't contribute to ICE? Do their license prohibit ICE from using software they've written?
Unless I'm completely missing something the "text version" you're talking about is just WASM and there's quite a difference between that and minified JS.

ex:

end $label121
get_local $var7
get_local $var9
call $func3444
get_local $var7
call $func1500
It's funny that Marsha Blackburn is completely in the pocket of telecom companies and her state has about the same broadband availability as Vermont.
>Show me some. If you are able to find examples, they will most likely be famous billionaires or actors.

Are you saying this seriously? Go to a local club for blind people, or some club for people with some other disability, and you'll find many living perfectly normal lives, in relationships, etc. You will also find several who don't have a relationship (which also true in abled people). But it's in no way like you need to be a famous artist/billionaire etc to be blind/disabled/etc and have a relationship. Not even close.

>You cannot discount my experiences and observations unless you have gone through this yourself.

You can, if they are not accurate.
The profile manager is annoying, but at least for me, Containers do about 95% of what I used profiles for, and they are much more manageable: you can right-click a link and use "Open in new container".
Hey, thanks for the link! Good to see concrete examples.
and block all the anonymous unaccountable Tor users.

A single fediverse instance blocking TOR users doesn't make much of a difference: my instance still allows them, and I know of many that do.
"The enemy's gate is down" is a subtle Ender's Game reference, and it's beautiful in this post. This person's life expectancy is not oriented in the usual way, so the phrase becomes a call to re-establish norms and consider life in a way that suits the present reality. This isn't just a lesson to be learned by the dying, either.
How do you "deal" with another country developing economically?
> Horrible, horrible things; all legal things, but nonetheless horrible. But, frankly, if its legal...

Not sure where the conditional is coming from, its right in the second paragraph with sources:

> This government agency is actively committing numerous crimes and human rights violations, in contravention of both US and international law.
To be fair, they already get significant subsidies and various preferential tax arrangements to compensate for this, at least in the US and many other western countries.
That page generates no response for me, https://archive.is/I1WO6 does.
Denmark Raises Antibiotic-Free Pigs. Why Can’t the U.S.?
> This OP's writeup is just about the simplest exposition that doesn't miss the point, and it misses the major transition when you go to layers with nonlinearities between them.

Well - the activation function appears to be linear, and thus close to RELU - and so (maybe?) there wouldn't be any issue with the so-called "vanishing gradients" problem? But I am just a hobbyist who dabbles in this topic, so my opinion doesn't carry much weight...
The wat format seems decently readable. You can convert between the two easily unless there’s obfuscation tools already.
Accepting external contributions is not a requirement of either Open Source or Free Software, and enforcing such a requirement is explicitly contra to the spirit of Free Software. The entire movement is about freedom, which includes the freedom not to accept downstream code.
Maybe it's just an irrational, emotion-based response, but I really prefer to order delivery from bricks and mortar restaurants I know and can walk into, and where it feels like they have a strong stake in their long-term reputation.
The Constitution literally has a Postal Clause for the expressed purpose of creating interstate communication through "Postal Roads". Despite their small-government bona-fides, a reliable communication network was something so important they thought fit to put it right in there from the very beginning.
~10 across various panels and the new profiler.firefox.com.
Looks like the plan caching is only per session which is a big bummer if you call the same statements over and over from multiple sessions.

Plus you have manually deal with this which is weird coming from MSSQL where it just does it with a global cache based on statement text hash all the time.

Brings me back to early 2000's when it was recommended to always use stored procedures because either MSSQL 7 or 2000 can't remember didn't cache ad-hoc statements only sprocs.
Probably whatever Cloudflare uses, like JavaScript challenges.
Sounds like you selected the "nightmare" option
I find "very pleasant" to be the best description of Elementary I can think. Every other distro I've used have these little annoyances which put I up with, but the folks at Elementary seem to iron them out. For example, weird font and menu issues in KDE, space hogging title bars and weird workflow in Pop, occasional screen flickering in Mint.
Doesn’t that lead to the cow birds being wiped out too?
Legally protected status? The current removal of that legal protection is currently being fought in courts, once that gets cleared expect the minor violations that we have now to be expanded rapidly.
Virtual boyfriends a match for China's single women
> Even that won’t be enough.

It looks like you're right that just covering the store and parking lot in panels wouldn't be enough. But then you've got two possibilities. One is the store is in the city, and then it can be on the grid, because there is always going to be a grid in the city. The other is the store isn't in the city and then you've got cheap land next to the store to fill with panels and turbines.

> Grid is also useful for time shifting power demand/production to smooth out the morning/evening dips, for space-shifting production to deal with clouds etc., and (assuming wind is part of the solution) the best wind resources aren’t where you actually want to build houses.

But batteries (especially when they're in cars) do the same thing. Your house may not be on the grid, but it's got panels on it that power it during the day, meanwhile your car is out getting charged up somewhere else, and you use that power at night.

Electric car typically has a >50kWh battery, which will power a typical household for about two days on its own, call it twice that if the house runs on its own panels during the day. So as long as you get the equivalent of a full charge twice a week, that's all you need, right?
Also happy with my move to Firefox, it surpassed my expectations. Two (small) pain points have been:

- customizing userChrome.css .. It was a bit time consuming to figure out first (I wanted to remove the top bar and use vertical tabs). Happy to be able to do it, but it's not exactly user-friendly.

- Rejection of Windows local certificates store that requires fiddling with a setting to enable. If my certificate store is compromised Firefox is not going to save me. I don't recommend it over Chrome at work since we have one of these for a local server and I'd rather not generate support tickets.

Both of these are not part of Firefox Sync and require manual handling on each PC.
What happens when your 1G FTTP is plugged into a 48 port switch with a 10G uplink and you're throttled to 200M?
Franchising is also a contractual process. If McDonald's Corp decided to, they could dictate a wage floor to their franchisees.
Oh yeah.

I used to cycle or drive quite a lot because the public transport system is full of shit like advertising, silly announcements, etc.

Just announce relevant information like departures and stop acting like you're my Mum.
>I personally know someone who is an wheelchair and was abandoned by their SO ( can't really blame her ) after his condition and has ever since been unable to find someone.

Yeah, so? And I know people who stick to their spouses.
That's almost too clever for AT&T
We don't allow users to pick passwords so we don't store your information
> My goal isn't to start a company, it's to do good work and gain experience in this world, work with new people, etc, and if the company goes under that is a very different kind of failure. Really, the only failure scenario, for me personally, would be to give up.

I never said anything about letting a failure define you - in fact I said the opposite and that you should learn from your mistakes.

You seem to think the only person that matters when your company fails is you. Your investors certainly won't be happy about it. I also don't think many of your employees who just lost their jobs will want to celebrate your learning experience with you. Your company's failure doesn't just impact you, which is why "what a remarkable journey!" blog posts can come across as tone deaf.

I think you're viewing this from the eyes of an employee, and not a founder. There are very different rules for founders and employees.
"Keep that shit out of code", you say, while software services take millions of dollars in government contracts, and spend millions more lobbying.

Like ???????????
The Value of a Good Software Development Team
That is correct, a minified JS will preserve most of the semantics of the original program.
And since the original source can come from any language, how would one know which decompiler to use.
I would think the Postal Clause in the Constitution would provide enough authority to the Post Office to create and run an ISP.
Thanks for the downvote whoever. Honestly, I want an example of how it "can be viewed and debugged with exactly the same tools (and ease) as minified JS".

I see nothing that states that is the case.
I live in the pnw and have lots of really good friends. Only moved here a few years ago but have found more acceptance and deep connections here than the south.

It's taken those years to break through the shells but people repeatedly tell me they like hanging out with me because I listen. I empathize. I'm genuine. I'm authentic.

You have to be real. Be committed to your fellow human beings. There's a dearth of that up here. A lot of judgemental people. Closed minds. Antagonism.

But if you are patient and keep letting people show you who they are and be who they are they'll cine to love you.

We need more people like that up here. They are here. Keep the good ones close and more will collect.

I am so happy I found my place. The weather is gross right now. People are staying inside shivering and will be until May next year. Try the library. Ask people questions.

I hear the same things repeatedly. No one says hi. No one smiles. No one approaches me. Do those things. People long for that.

As much as you want people to do that for you, they want it too. Be kind. reach out. Continue with the responsive ones.

Would you like to get coffee sometime? One on one works well with introverts.
How about funding GitHub so it has the ability to be picky and choosey about its contracts? It’s really easy to voice concern. But github can’t fund itself on concern.
I always wondered why there is no "is" in this phrase. Why is it not "This page is intentionally left blank". I hoped this article would answer it, but no. It does show the is in [] to mark that's it's kinda missing. Anyone knows why there's no "is"? Does it ring wrong to you without "is"?
In the US, salaries are not usually described including tax, are they?

When someone in the US says they make $100,000 per year, that is usually exclusive of any tax paid by the company. It is also exclusive of other benefits paid, with health insurance commonly being $10-20k paid by the company, if provided. The employee is responsible for their own income tax.

There’s confusion because in the gig/entrepreneur/consultant world, people will say they “make” $200,000 in business income. But then they bear taxes and benefits out of that amount. So you may “make” more, but do worse than someone who is an employee of a bigger company. That is why it takes a substantial increase in income in the US to justify leaving a stable employer.
Unless McDonalds has done an incredible job of increasing their margins threefold since I worked there (left in 1995), there's no way their net margins are so high. Our best store made 10% net, and that paid for a lot of the crappier stores.
When something personal is shared, it becomes something to discuss. Especially when its a larger observation concerning what others, not the person, do.
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I think the point was that the work also was immediately gratifying to the worker.
Yes this is what I am talking about. Once you know the instruction, I fail to see how it is more difficult to understand than javascript.
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95% of the time, if you can't represent your app state as pure text, you're overcomplicating your design and haven't thought enough about your UX.

Of course HTML for interfaces is more complicated than something like canvas, because it forces you to think about your UX on a deeper level than "this component should be on the left". The point of HTML is that it forces you to build a universal interface that works for everyone -- it forces you to sit down and build a human-digestible, pure-text tree that communicates your current application state to users.

HTML on its own is a render target. CSS is a completely optional secondary display modifier that you put on top of that render target.

This is why adblockers work, it's why stuff like Reader View works in Firefox. Because it turns out that forcing interfaces to be pure-text has substantial benefits for end-users. Try building something like a UI-level adblocker for a native app. You can't do it -- it's impossible.
keybase has no idea what their goals are, wants to turn into social media/chat/slack platform
I guess it mostly depends on how much the politicians greening the project takes into it's own pockets in most of the world anyway lol
Right, but the traffic is coming from users in China is past the point that HTTPS would help. The requests are already in flight from people in China who've been served malicious JavaScript.
Unfortunately there's a giant category of devices that can't serve TLS. Like pretty much every consumer router in existence that you connect to through a webpage. Someone needs to come up with a solution for that. Ideally one that works with free and open source projects and not just well funded companies.
Considering its size and popularity, why exactly can GitHub not be picky and choosey?
Mastodon is FEDERATED, not decentralized.

Federated systems, like email, have used these anti-spam techniques for a long time.

Federated systems always evolve into an Oligarchy, like Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo, etc. or like banks, JPMorganChase/GoldmanSachs/etc.

If you want decentralization, you should more go for something like https://notabug.io/ (P2P Reddit), which uses the GUN protocol (mine). Or any WebTorrent-based approach.
Ask California how that’s working.
What latency? 100ms is fine for pretty much every internet use there is.
My mistake. I thought you were answering bronco21016's question of "Where else can you get a home/transportation combo for that price?"
Myself and my colleagues do exactly this every day.

Relevant to current story: https://twitter.com/chronic/status/1202386593387966464

I am sure many companies in the information security field are doing the same.

It would be nice if there was a simple way to allow anyone with a phone to easily analyze all of their own traffic.
It's only a matter of time before the only places that wildlife can really thrive, is true wildernesses. National forests, big state parks, dedicated wildernesses, and the like. Little community forests are just not good environments and there's little hope for small, isolated ecosystems to have much diversity.
Compromising the PCBA is not reasonable attack, if you trust the company you're buying the hardware from. Their engineers will review the delivered hardware and ensure that the delivered design is identical to the one ordered. Realistically, the kind of bad actor this is marketed to prevent have no trouble getting into a chip fab in China (where the chips going onto the PCBA are produced) and inserting hardware backdoors there, which couldn't necessarily be detected by the engineers.
New Linux Vulnerability Lets Attackers Hijack VPN Connections
GDP Doesn’t Include Proceeds of Crime. Should It?
Half the people do Lisp development, half stay mostly within Chromium
It such a weird thing to classify some things as natural and some things as not. Humans and everything we do is of course natural and a direct result of nature taking its course.
The behavior isn't new, just the reach and visibility.

Conformist social pressure has always been intense. Previously, it was just very local and not visible outside the social context in which it happened. People didn't notice it (or if they did, would tend to approve of it) unless it was focused on them.
Gyro-stabilized 2-wheel car
Discussion from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6129148
I would also be curious about the impact of the divergence of branches. Like in git forks or branches diverging

This would be the perfect research testbed for human psychology and intelligence. Do something, compare with exact but unmodified state.
Github is owned by Microsoft, and was purchased for ~8 billion dollars.
While not Scandinavian that is about what Germany pays per house hold.
I'm new to Linux (switched from macOS) and I ended up on Debian Gnome after testing many including Elementary. I don't know why but somehow the same DE works better on Debian (as long as I select non-free and testing) than on the other distros that I tested. At least in my case.
The reason behind 'the Web' resembling the mess unfortunately best exemplified by 'the Net' has a much simpler and trivial reason:

We have globally networked local Networks of locally networkable Networks and most of us naively think that this Global Network of Local Networks networking Local Networks actually functions as a universally internetworking Internetwork of universally internetworkable Internetworks internetworking internetworkable Internetworks internetworking internetworkable Networks[([¹]1)], because we trust the people who've labeled both IPv4 and IPv6 as the "Internet Protocol" despite it not in any way, shape or form having the ability to perform what the people who came up with the concept of internetworking (no, NOT the ARPA people.) actually meant by the term.[2]

As the simplest proof of this fact:
We've almost reached 2020 and all of our 'solutions' for multi homing don't ACTUALLY work in a not-pants-on-head-dysfunctional despite the fact that we've faced that issue since, to quote Wikipedia, "In 1972, Tinker Air Force Base wanted connections to two different IMPs for redundancy. ARPANET designers realized that they couldn't support this feature because host addresses were the addresses of the IMP port number the host was connected to (borrowing from telephony)."

Our 'Inter'net at the moment still resembles just a global network, aka just plain old phone calls, with extra steps. Which explains both the mess we call the WWW, and the global dominance of large telcos.Can't give an AS number and BGP access to just anyone[([²]4)] , as we know ever since L0pht Heavy Industries testified before the US Senate, over 2 decades ago, back in 1998.[3] NOTHING has fundamentally changed about this since. We've just written bigger and bigger macros ignorant of why we keep having to fight windmills & having to reinvent the wheel over and over again.

[1 (¹ yes, I did intentionally phrase that in & as a reference to a certain Cisco exam question.)]

[2 see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21108796, but also see http://ict-arcfire.eu/index.php/rina/ & http://ict-arcfire.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/OCARINA-ind... ]

[3 https://youtu.be/VVJldn_MmMY]

[4 (² Of course, I don't advocate that we should. No. I do however argue that each of these situations shouldn't exist in the first place.)]
Why do you find this stance ridiculous ?

Yes, one could say that the Web has "jumped the shark" sometimes after 1997 (took some years), remember the mess when Flash and Java applets were everywhere ? (WebAssembly might be more sleek, but the issue is likely to be the same...)

I guess that multimedia could be part of the Web, but support for basic features like audio/video search is (still!) sorely lacking... (Though I'm pretty sure that the capability has been here for more than a decade.)

With the ability to run arbitrary code comes the loss of a common standard, and therefore the inability to communicate, especially for machines - you might have noticed that you hardly see search engines pulling up results for supposedly "Web"Sites like Facebook or Discord or Twitter ?
RPC will never die
> Hong Kong is not a society where senior public figures and family members are purged for stepping out of line.

China is, and Hong Kong is part of China. This is the root of the entire problem.
While I would love to get coffee, I live in New Orleans now. You mention weather right now being gross up there, which I remember clearly. Today it will be 72 and sunny here. I wonder if the weather causes social issues, unknowingly?
"page intentionally left blank" seems kosher to me
I'm pretty sure all of NYT is paywalled, they just keep track of how many pages you visit and throw up the pay wall after a certain number.
How do you propose to perform calculations without data storage (think registers)?
Create a Serverless AWS EKS Cluster
We subsidize the cheap food, but whatever, I'm fine with that.

Let the market incorporate the costs of broadband access into the price of food. The extra cost will almost certainly amount to fractions of a cent on the dollar.
but we can afford multi-billionaires and imperialism...