skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really confused. I'm reading the spec[0], which seems to explicitly state that it's not possible (modulo some possible vulnerabilities with mitigations that they later list) to track a user across the web using these tokens. Yet many of the comments I read here are talking about this being a way for websites to track users?

This spec document also doesn't really list use cases for this. Why would I want this? The linked article seems to suggest it's so Google can reduce ad fraud, which of course I don't give a damn about, and don't want my user agent doing anything that helps advertisers, ever.

Hopefully Firefox does not implement this, and hopefully if they don't, websites don't somehow penalize browsers that don't support it.

[0] https://github.com/WICG/trust-token-api#overview
I bought a new laptop a few months ago that does not do 5GHz. It's a Dell Inspiron 3195, with a Qualcomm Atheros 9565 wireless card. The laptop is still available for purchase. When I purchased it it was on sale for $200. (not sure if the link is my exact model, but all the specs are the same, and this particular model does say 2.4GHz with no mention of 5GHz)

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/2-in-1-laptops/inspiron-11-3...
How else do you propose sites combat spam and bots? As someone who has had many of my free services completely ruined by spammers, Captcha was the only way I could save them.
I have been saying this again and again, but not every artists is a rock band. There are countless releases that are best enjoyed in a home-listening environment and attract a mature audience that couldn't care less about t-shirts and merch. Thankfully the album still seems to be the primary product in those circles, but obviously even those artists will be affected by the expectation of having their discography available on Spotify.

> Maybe they can work for a living.

> Not playing the song one time and then trying to sell copies of it.

As in writing a few lines of code and selling copies of it? What a condescending and out of touch take on the issue. Those albums and songs aren't made of thin air - it's actual work that goes into them.
Well done for taking the effort to create this site, it contains some impressive stylistic elements. Keep building things!

I prefer reading the original HN site because it loads fast, allows you to quickly scan topic titles, doesnt waste space in the layout, and has no animated elements that detract from the content.
So how exactly were people doing these crimes before 2009?

>>And I'm willing to bet that, since its inception till now, the number of transactions that was used for crime is greater than the number of transactions that weren't.

Nice bet, but if you are wrong can I send you my bitcoin address?
I can 100% believe that Autodesk isn't great at responding to customer requests, but presumably these firms would have enough budget to pay for devs to write a solution that works for them. Including making an open file format, EU specific data centers, etc. It would probably even take less time and money than trying to lobby the EU to legislate what they want.
Happened to me at the start of the year, I chose macbook because reviews on 16" keyboard said not horrible and the rest of the team where already on it (and I had juniors to support).

I resolved from day one to not fight the machine into behaving like Fedora instead learning the actual shortcuts (and I installed Rectangle).

It took about a week before I was comfortable and a lot of that was remapping my IDE since I have extensive altered keybindings and shortcut keywords for that on linux.

Once I accept it was just a unix with a different DE it wasn't so bad, messes me up more the other way I keep hitting alt+C etc on linux now.
The project is no longer maintained but Oversec had a cool concept of hiding your own encrypted text as non-printing chars in Android text fields in any other app, like e.g. WhatsApp.

https://github.com/oversecio/oversec
How to build great products (2013)
That's helpful, thanks.

The recent syntax switch[1] does feel like it will further fragment the community.

And TypeScript has some pretty attractive functional projects:

https://github.com/gcanti/fp-ts

https://github.com/Matechs-Garage/matechs-effect

[1]: https://reasonml.org/blog/bucklescript-8-1-new-syntax
One of the best things about Tailwind in my opinion, is that it makes a load of decisions for you.

Spacing, button styling, border radius, shadows, font sizing - basically the things its easy to get wrong - are already decided for you so its easy to make something that looks decent pretty instantly.

I have also been using Tailwind Builder[1] which is pretty helpful for learning Tailwind and also generating things like menus and basic page layouts pretty quickly.

[1] https://tailwind.build/
Why is that relevant here?

Other than igniting the inevitable firestorm.
If you disagree, you can run a server that doesn't follow consensus. The most common outcome is that you'll be blacklisted or atleast silenced by other instances (silenced meaning only people that deliberately follow see your posts).

People who agree with you and don't blacklist your instance can talk and interact with you.

That is basically as close to proper free speech as you get. I get my corner of the internet, where I will blacklist nazis and racism, you get yours were you don't.
What about Cole’s Law?
I'd be down for Big G. I'd expect some kind of plugin either user-side (I choose) or server-side (the instance chooses), though.
With the right cooling setup I've been able to get Xeons to run permanently in turbo mode, kind of a back door overclock. You would have to experiment.

For lowest latency applications I void avoid using RT priorities. Better to run each core 100% with busy waiting and if you do so with RT prio you can prevent the kernel from running tasks such as vmstat leading to lockup issues. Out of the box there is currently no way to 100% isolate cores in Linux. There is some ongoing work on that: https://lwn.net/Articles/816298/

Oh yeah, the whole NUMA page migration stuff is not well documented. You'll also proactive compaction to deal with in the future: https://nitingupta.dev/post/proactive-compaction/
There is a great spanish saying (I got this from historical fiction) "let no new thing arise"

Vonnegut wrote a course for eng. lit creative writing on the 7 canonical plotlines of all stories. ever. I thought "goodness whats the point in writing now" but it hasn't stopped people making good entertaining fiction

All code is variations over abstraction, synthesis, loops, decision forks, recursion (tail or not) and all data structures iterate back over lists and arrays, over trees and DAGs.

"never been done before" is pretty rare anywhere.
As long as the system isn't written such that only the hash is necessary to log in, it should be fine to just compare hashes normally.
how much does a person like him earn in a normal month? and what is the expenditure? can someone give a breakdown
Attempts like these are really valuable to show how efficient the original HN site design is. No distractions. Just the content.
It was a great invention, sure. And he was very smart. But wouldn’t a computer mouse be independently invented by... basically everyone after computers started gaining traction?
I’ve always been curious about the “on-ramp” here

How does a legit company purchase $4.5M of BitCoin in 24 hours?

I would assume using a “K&R” style broker but, without one of those how would you do it?
Just because the barrier to entry is lower today doesn’t mean complexity is also lower.

An app doesn’t have to be cutting edge in order to clear some arbitrary bar of what constitutes “tech”.
Depends if it really does end up being one time or not, I'd say
Cryptocurrency can’t really get a fair shake at being legitimate until it’s treated by governments as currency, which means not taxing its capital gains.

Criminals don’t care about filing tax returns for digital assets, which is why we see them use it as currency. When you or I try to use it as a currency, we’d have to file a tax return if the value of it changes (at least in the US)

If we saw governments ease up on this a bit, we might see some interesting currency applications come if it, but I don’t see them letting go of that control.
You can build a hackintosh using a modern Thinkpad.
Singapore is known for being an authoritarian nanny state and now we are calling them a "western liberal democracy" and taking credit for their success.

Also, Hong Kong never had democracy under British rule. All 28 Hong Kong governors were British residents who were picked by London and parachuted into their jobs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Hong_Kong
Here's the Google cache of the page, as I think the site is dealing with the traffic spike right now: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2OQV-Q6...

I tried grabbing the site using archive.is, but the site is using something called Imunify360, which threw up a Captcha, which was promptly archived instead of the site.

Although the Internet Archive has a cache entry (https://web.archive.org/web/20200802064000/http://extranetev...), it's returning a 503 (I don't know if the 503 is what it got from the site, or if it's the Internet Archive returning the 503).
I have kids now too. So I just move the 8 PM thing to 4 AM, and play with the kids at night until they pass out.
This is the same way of thinking many politicians subscribe to: "There has been one terrorist attack, which killed 20 people, quickly now, surveilance everyone and everything! Think of the dangers!"

Throwing out the baby with the bathing water (does this proverb exist in English?) is not going to do society much good. Just because there some bad actors, one does not need to discard the whole idea of encryption.

Also the dehumanized way of checking for bad content will not help. Bad actors can pre-encrypt or disguise content, whatever you do. Furthermore when the bots have the key to decryption, then the backdoor is built into the system. Bad actors and politicians will try to make use of that.
HN users, on the whole, are terrible UX critics who have no idea what they're talking about on the subject.

The average HN user probably:

- knows their way around a terminal

- understands default browser behavior in depth

- has the programmer's mentality of 'everything should be governed by universal logical rules that apply equally everywhere'

The truth is, this is not how most users think. Good UX for a cli application is not the same as good UX for a website. If you think of websites in terms of what programmers think good UX is, you get... HN and Craigslist and all the other things that HN users typically think are fantastic user experiences, because they meet their expectations. These applications are also almost uniformly ugly. This actually makes perfect sense, and for these users, this is fantastic UX.

But what makes UX good is that the target audience can easily use the software. That's it. There's no such thing as an 'intuitive user interface'. Clicking on stuff in computers is not natively intuitive to humans. There are only familiar and unfamiliar interfaces. Every interface we haven't seen before is unfamiliar and 'terrible' at first glance. People will train themselves to use and love extremely bad interfaces, or refuse to use very good interfaces that are difficult to learn. The HN user is someone who has typically put a lot of effort into learning how computers work and how web browsers work by default, so they develop intuitions like, "If a website breaks the default browser behavior, it's bad UX." And for them, that's true, but what makes the default browser UX better than an alternative, other than that you already know it? Now maybe it actually is better, and I can think of many examples of websites that change default behavior in ways that are absolutely worse. But I've also seen websites do cool things with scrolljacking that aren't inherently wrong because they defied expectations for 3 seconds.

Every application has to be learned by the user. How easy it is to learn it depends on the background knowledge and experiences of the user, so it's very very hard, if not completely impossible, to develop a UX that will be good for every possible user. But if some UX isn't good FOR YOU, that doesn't mean that it's bad, it might just mean you aren't the target audience.
The flaw with the golden rule is that what is hateful varies by person, and what people like also varies.

A better rule is to treat people like they want to be treated. But this rule also has issues with people wanting something that isn't healthy for them.
I Sold My Entire Investment Portfolio One Hour Ago
Trade retaliation is generally executed on commodities that are already unfairly subsidized by the opposing nation. I'm thinking of disputes over tires, steel, pork, beef, corn. Banning a service company that seems to have done nothing wrong as a means of tit-for-tat retaliation is different.
I'm not sold on the idea, but there is one major difference: you constraint yourself to a set of values. This attains two goals:

(1) You have to think less. Try "margin-top medium", look at the result, "oh it's too much", try "margin-top small", look at the result, ok fine. No px-fiddling.

(2) It produces more consistent results (i.e.: things tend to look nicer).

What doesn't win me is that, while I see the increase in development speed this brings, I don't see how would you handle maintainability (i.e.: what happens when the design needs to change?). I suspect the trade-off here is that you just renounce to such redesigns and commit to the idea that you'll rebuild the entire thing if/when the time comes (tech advances so quickly in this space that you may want to do it anyway).
I agree with you that the use of CIFIUS as a broader strategy should be debated by Congress rather than just using executive action.

The sandboxing by Google and Apple is not relevant given users are willingly giving TikTok access to the camera, GPS etc. The sensitive information includes the ability to build detailed user profiles (including psych evaluations) of every TikTok user in the world. At least that's my impression from my research into this so far.
I was so surprised when I watched "The Mother of All Demos" from 50+ years ago (1968) and saw what they predicted and actually implemented.

They demonstrated what's happening in 2020, video conferencing, real time collaborative word processing, and etc. Truly amazing.

[1] https://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
Oh god, not this trite BS again.
Mike Lesk on UUCP: "i occupied a vacuum. UUCP was hard to replace because they had to push me aside"
Yup. It’s not intentional or malicious, but it’s the end result.

You have teams that grow because the manager find work to do and no project is ever closed as finished or mature so tons of engineers are wasting time making incremental improvements to systems that already fulfill all requirements.

You also have these engineers see this and decide they can reinvent the system better because they’re so immersed and knowledgeable about it and boom you have huge numbers of worthless initiatives the size of which depends on how persuasive the lead is.
How many times would you need to do a security audit before this paid for itself?
Even if the ransomware perpetrators aren't selling the data, do you think there is any real chance that a company that just paid millions of dollars in ransom would next go and invest more money into security?

More likely, other criminals will come knocking on the same company's systems and get that data for other purposes.
From it's own definitions this article is patently false.
Quote: "applying scientific knowledge for practical purposes"
You're doing that when you try to reduce time to display from 1 second to 1000ms, when trying to chose algorithms that better match your users real usage of the site, to just plain moving a button a few pixels so people see it better. It doesn't have to be the new shiny to make an actual impact.
For some history, see my Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Effects_of_the_2007-2008...
There are a whole bunch of others. See https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/watchlist-fo...
There's easily a multi-billion dollar opportunity for anyone who can unseat Autodesk from the building design industry.

Revit is the standard, and while it's improved a lot over the years it's still so ridiculously far from where it could be.

I don't think people in software realize how incredibly far behind software tooling is in other industries. Take an idea like "version control for X" or "package manager for X" to almost anything outside software and you'd be hailed as a revolutionary genius.

For Revit specifically, version control for construction drawings or a package manager for Revit families would both be huge.
There was a post on here a few days back about why it's not that simple. Basically, by the time your stuff is ransomed, they've potentially been in your network for a long time. There's no telling how far you have to go in your backups to make sure they are gone. Who knows, maybe they wait on your computers for several months just so restoring from backups isn't a realistic option, and punish you for trying.
It really is one of those "you gotta try it" things.

Once you get over the small learning curve, it gets to be VERY productive. Think of it as writing CSS at a slightly higher level of abstraction. That abstraction being in not having to edit two separate files or areas of your HTML document (unless you want to abstract further with @apply).

Not having to go through the 'define identifier in element, then define in StyleSheet' workflow. With Tailwind you get the most commonly used style definitions pre-defined. But not so high level that it LOOKS pre-defined. Giving you room to customize greatly. How could it not be faster?

I recently completed a theme in Tailwind, mostly to get the hang of it: https://planflow.dev/free-themes/. And managed to go from idea to finished theme in about 4-5 days. That's the fastest I've ever done it.
Its an expression in (American) English that means that the amount of change (or number of significant events) in the week was equivalent to a decade in other times.
I think the most satisfying part for is the elimination of the constant context switch between my jsx/html and css file.
We use CSS modules and it drives me crazy to keep switching back and forth to add styles.
Plus is think <div className="mx-12 lg:mx-24 md:mx-12 bg:white dark-mode-bg:black />
looks just outright readable and tells me everything i need to know about that div in one glance.
I for one absolutely love it, but have team members little on the backfoot. Preferences i guess
I'm trying to create an Android recovery for a peloton, which is similar
https://github.com/Goayandi/mediatek_mt8176_development/issu...
SnapChat still isn't profitable. After these years they still haven't figured out how to best monetize their platform are are sustained by their IPO money.

Vine was absurdly popular but couldn't figure out how to monetize short-form video content. I don't see how TikTok is going to overcome these same challenges.

Even YouTube had a long and slow road to profitability. Video is hard.
Idk if you consider Twitter a big tech company, but they do: https://developer.twitter.com/en/pricing. I don't believe Google or FB does though.
I'm surprised nobody in the Eurozone has raised similar issues about Adobe.
Maybe I'm woefully out of touch on the scale of the BTC flowing through mixers on a daily and weekly basis, but if they can earn more than 4M USD in a year by just skimming off the 1%, that's a lot of BTC moving...
>share my Google/Github account

sign in with google/github doesnt expose any info that you wouldnt through a traditional signup.

however, it's extremely frustrating that the pricing isn't up front or even indicated that'll be an issue
> If these disparities are attributable to culture, we'd expect different cultures to produce different outcomes. This is not the case.

This isn't good evidence. We don't have cultures where birth control was invented hundreds of years ago and then they evolved independently. Or where a knowledge economy mattered more than raw strength for any reasonable time. Biology mattered so much more across cultures for most of history, so the fact that they all have patterns like this isn't really evidence that it must not be culture.
I 100% agree with you, and to dismiss web apps in this way is to devalue making thinking easier for people. However, I'm also amused by the Freudian slip of 1 second to 1000 ms, which would of course be "tech" instead of tech.
I thought it was supposed to be more like a mastodon tooting with it’s trunk?
To be snarky: A page titled "Laws of UX" probably shouldn't have black text on a dark grey background (the law numbers)
https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform

I found the description here more informative. I would prefer a 17 inch version with more memory and batteries.
Ah this explains the disconnect. I see the "Web 2.0" era as closer to the frontier than Quake 3 (as cutting-edge as it was in its day). In the era of Flickr, a young group of devs with no resources would have had a tough go at it in 3D gaming and would have been better off making Flash games.

I can't say much about if and when we're worse at everything than AI, but we're not there yet. At least for now, there are still new opportunities just as open to aspiring techies now as web apps were 15 years ago or PC games were 30 years ago.
Discussions leading to this comment might be useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24007390

Basically a real translation require a conscious machine or at least one closely resembling it.
It's the same reason I change my icons and desktop theme. I'm gonna stare at this screen for 10+ hours a day, I want it to be beautiful.
As far as I know, nearly everyone uses Western Union (Transferwise etc. etc.) for that. Bitcoin is too costly* and complicated for most people.

* Two set of fees to exchange crypto to fiat + transfer fee compared to one set of fiat currency exchange + transfer fee.
So unless you are building a strong AI or a full-dive VR set you are not building `tech`?
From what I can see, cryptocurrency is technologically frozen right now because any change results in some people making less money so there can never be a consensus on anything.
This transcription of the website into a single quickly and easily readable comment is the best criticism possible of the source.
Tumble it in small amounts at a time. Maybe the tumbler runs away with a few hundred thousand but you are still left with millions.
And I continue to not deny that the federal government has continually failed. Instead, I've been saying that they're not the only ones to have failed, and that they're not always the ones with the most control. (Federalism is still a thing)

Further, impeachment only requires the House - conviction takes the Senate. And honestly, if Trump was enacting martial law, or anything similar, I don't think it would be too hard to get a few Republican senators to flip.

Really though, I brought up "what could he do without being impeached again" as a decent metric for "how much could he do before some cities and states told him to fuck off and stopped enforcing things". Incidentally, this would have almost certainly have gotten him reelected. Can you imagine the optics of "the states that followed Trump's lockdown orders were fine, while the ones that told him to fuck off have hundreds of thousands of dead"? (But this still wouldn't satisfy the hypothetical of "as good as Taiwan/SK", despite being better for the country and better for Trump personally)
If you think it will take less time and money for a firm of architects to build an equivalent to the most powerful architecture CAD system in the world, even for their specific use case, and that they wouldn't run afoul of Autodesk patents when doing so, then you have probably not played around with CAD software to much.
Related is this excellent talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU