skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like there's a movement to try to reel that in while keeping many of the advantages, via server-side DOM diffing over websockets (LiveView, Blazor, Stimulus Reflex, etc)
A lot of people are criticizing Russia and Putin for this action. I see this differently: Russia is a militaristic country, and it has been one for about a thousand years or so. Putin is its current czar. Putin and the rest of Russia's leadership perceive that the country is at war. Not an open, declared war with the West, but a war nonetheless. This is a war action. Putin talked with his advisors and weighed the pros and the cons. Cons: some people might die. Pros: if this thing works, Russia opens up the economy half a year ahead of the rest of the world. They also end up exporting this vaccine, and this in itself could be profitable. They gain prestige. In war time you risk people's lives. But overall, if the pros outweigh the cons, as a war-time leader you simply say "Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead".
Fair enough. In my understanding "smut" is typically a synonym for pornography, and pornography is generally only valued for its ability to arouse or titillate.
Does YouTube get favorable placement in search? I see video results from other sites like Vimeo. I just did a search for a recent sporting event and 6/12 video results were YT. The only "problem" is that YT has such a large share of the online video market.

wrt #3, no, I don't want businesses to control the information I get when I search for them, because I want neutral and true-ish information, not ad copy.
Yes, the situation even improved with the latest releases:

podman run -ti --security-opt label=disable --security-opt seccomp=unconfined --cap-add SYS_ADMIN --env STORAGE_DRIVER=vfs quay.io/podman/stable sh -c "dnf update -y; podman run hello-world"
IMO, this thread is a great example of why Mozilla and Firefox are becoming irrelevant.

Potential users are saying, "Here are things I want in Firefox," and a Firefox/Mozilla advocate is telling them that's not what they really want, and Mozilla is going to work on something else.

It's been this way for years, and at the end of the day users realize it's pointless to argue and switch to Chrome.
In the case you are talking about, the Great Filter is that technology advancing to Star Trek levels that allow colonizing star systems is unlikely or impossible (ie step 9 here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter).
> That is a good idea, but by yourself you can not go and yank the power cable out of an AWS box.

Sure you can. Simulate an Ec2 outage? Turn off your VMs. Lambda down? Turn off your serving version. Etc...

I think the only things that difficult to simulate would be control plane outages for testing CI/CD pipelines--though CI/CD pipelines generally are not production critical and probably aren't worth testing directly. If you want to test recovery/repair operations when CI/CD is down you can just prohibit the victim from using it to fix things.

For non-automated API calls, you could just say that X API is down for the duration of the test
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24117743
One issue with the way Bostrom and others frame the Fermi paradox is that they assume the teleological end of any intelligent civilization will be the maximisation of its exploitation of natural resources through the creation of self-replicating probes that will slowly populate the universe. That's why they think the Fermi paradox is a paradox - if there is life, it should be everywhere. That may well be a reflection of ourselves, however, rather than a universal motivation of intelligent life.
Switching from JS to Rust will not give you a noticeable improvement in runtime speed, especially since V8 is absurdly well-tuned. If your JS logic was the bottleneck it's a good sign that the code was poorly architected and Rust cannot help you with that.
> So you feel that it is better to do many things and fail at all of them than it would be to do one thing and succeed at that because that one thing has no meaning in the world that would result?

I feel it is better to do many things in the hopes that one or more of them succeed, than it is to succeed at a meaningless task. The former takes courage, the latter can be interpreted as cowardice.

> All those other things that Mozilla has done to date have not moved the needle for me even a little bit.

I don't pretend to speak for you, but I choose to believe something different: that Mozilla's other work may not have moved the needle in a way you care to notice, but that without their advocacy and legal work the Internet would be a worse shape today than it currently is. I think that if you were to choose to care about that (and you're well within your rights to not care), you would notice a difference.

> Maybe this is just my personal perspective but all this activism has not brought Mozilla much other than a bunch of controversy and in the end a browser that is not quite top notch, when it very well could have been.

In the end I mostly agree with this. But I still think trying to make the world a better place and failing is better than not trying at all.
I really doubt global warming will lead to human extinction. Life might get harder in lots of ways, but it seems extremely unlikely to be an existential problem.
But AdWords is only one advertising model.

https://www.singlegrain.com/blog-posts/pay-per-click/alterna...
This is incorrect see:

https://www.fscs.org.uk/check-your-money-is-protected/

Type in revolut.

The money is ring fenced usually in a too big to fail bank.

Edit:

Though they have a banking licence in Lithuania and may be insured there?
Intangibles = Monopoly
Introductory economics usually frames the purpose of money as being threefold:

1. Medium of exchange; this is what you're referring to as "the whole point of currency". But don't forget about:

2. Unit of account; Something that allows you to compare "apples to oranges" so to speak, a common denominator.

3. Store of value; Some people choose to consume what's due to them up front, others choose to "hoard" for later (nothing wrong with that, IMO), most spread their consumption evenly over their life more or less. If we were all trading chicken eggs and babysitting hours amongst ourselves this would be a lot harder.
the 3-5% number is just a reference to the total “tax” merchants pay for payment processing as a whole - I get that most of that is the interchange fee that is paid out to issuers. but Visa and MC are the ones who dictate the interchange fee rates that issuers receive outside of the Durbin Amendment which capped debit interchange for large banks.
there are vendors these days that ship new laptops with coreboot firmware (and presumably cleaned with ME cleaner).
You could have substituted email for its encrypted, P2P, open-source counterpart for almost 30 years now. It's called PGP / GnuPG. What more do we really need? It actually has more legal protection and formality, and way more clarity, than any centrally managed "E2EE" chat platform.

We just need a really good app that uses SMTP as the underlying protocol to send messages that aren't MIME / HTML email, but rather are a simple new format for chat, and then start using email as a chat mechanism. There's no real reason why it can't be fast enough.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336
How do I pay for Firefox directly? Donating to the foundation seems noble, but like other commentators have mentioned it all gets absorbed into the foundation or is part of a 'bonus product' bundle that (in my mind) overvalues a service I don't want (VPN, Pocket, whatever.)

I don't think Mozilla/Firefox is failing because no one will pay for it, but, because it won't take money for Firefox directly.
Someone in their C Suite just came.
These are great answers. Thank you. - Ben, 1Password
People complain that the JavaScript ecosystem changes too frequently.

It is perfectly logical to believe that this is true, while simultaneously believing that allowing new language ecosystems to target the browser, could result in a new ecosystem that is much more conservative and changes at a slower pace than the JS ecosystem for whatever reason (a language with a larger standard library, a language with a different culture etc...).

A one time change to another ecosystem and then a slower pace of changes.

Who knows if this is will be the case, but it is a logically consistent position to hold, and there's nothing ironic about it.
I created a site intended for family photo/video sharing and it did not take long for people to start uploading penis pics. The weird thing is they don't even have a reason or recipient. They just want their penis out there on the internet in the hopes someone might stumble upon it.
I don't think it necessarily means the whole company will fail, but over time, large companies become more risk-averse which opens up room for smaller, nimble companies to gain market share. Tesla being a great example of this. Hell, Google itself came up this way.

There is also another factor that isn't discussed as much and that's when companies become spread too thin. When a large company attempts to compete in every market, it will be increasingly difficult to be competitive in any of them. Yahoo is a great example of this, they spread themselves too thin, they didn't do any one thing better than others, and over time they were overtaken by competitors.
If that is so then the whole discourse borders on the US government deceiving the American people by stating that TikTok is some data security threat.. whereas real reasons seems to be geo-politics..
> If it were me, I'd prefer rails to django any day of the week, that's a personal preference

This is totally not what the parent is getting into. It seems like your comment reads much more like "my personal preferences are good" than the parent
There are also four national wireless carriers, which offer home service, satellite Internet (including, soon, Starlink...)
OK. Off the top of my head, some reasons I loathe Captchas:

1: You're working to train for free to train $megacorp's image recognition or OCR algorithms.

2: Even after [what seems like] eleventy billion Captchas and eleventy billion people pointing it out to them, they STILL don't tell you how to do the damned things properly. ie. If you ask me to click on any image with traffic lights, am I supposed to only click the lights?.. or the posts as well?.. what about a square that only has a wee part of one in? Does that count, or not?

3: As above with text based Captchas. Is it case sensitive? Do I have to include spaces between the words? What about the punctuation? Or the fragment of the previous or following word, peeping in at the side?

4: The Captchas never make allowances for the end user's language settings, so I'll often get American terms used, where the thing I'm meant to be identifying isn't called the same in real English. So I'm not 100% sure what I'm looking for.

5: If you have an ad-blocker, you'll usually be asked to solve about three Captchas in a row, thus cubing the annoyance.

Thank god for 'Buster' is all I'm going to say!

[I'm not going to link to it because the less people know about it the longer it'll keep working].
You should read more about how the Bitcoin consensus protocol works.
Do you consider a judge trying to deliver a fair ruling biased towards justice?
I trust Signal's end-to-end encryption promise, but I have a problem with the application not offering anonymity or privacy. By demanding users to provide a cell phone number to enable their accounts, they are connecting actual people to the Signal accounts and consequently also allowing them (or someone else) to visualize social networks; in intelligence gathering, data such as who speaks to whom, at what hours, with what message frequency etc. is highly valuable. It's also important that users ask themselves how Signal manages to finance all the SMS costs and the infrastructure when the application is gratis and free from ads.
(301 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24122250)
This seems like it would be a lot of maintenance effort to get right, considering Windows shuffles their syscall table every release, including releases within the Windows 10 family.

https://j00ru.vexillium.org/syscalls/nt/64/ Has an excellent table of syscalls by version.
It's but an apparent fact that we do not have full control over our actions. Just think of the popular game Sims, how you can control your sim to do whatever you want it to do.

Now compare that to your own experiences of attempting to control hunks of flesh on disintegrating bones.

Thus any simplification in the form of "just do it, it's your choice" motto fails to account for these very real biological constraints.
I am hopeful that Rust can achieve what Elm did not.

I really fell in love with Elm early on, back when it was an experimental language for functional reactive programming that just happened to compile to JavaScript. It was an outgrowth of failed experiments in FRP from the Haskell world. I thought it got so many things right -- and it totally did. But then, just as soon as it started gaining real traction, development on Elm went silent and became siloed, staggeringly slow, locked-down, and unresponsive to users. I understand why this happened and I don't even hold it against the Elm team, but it certainly stunted the language's growth and adoption.

Rust has a much more expressive type system than Elm. The Rust world is much more open, responsive, and caring about user concerns. Rust isn't afraid to offer unsafe escape hatches even if they're not pretty or elegant. With Rust you have the added advantage of being able to use the language for the entire stack, both front- and back-end. That's especially compelling because Rust is on its way to being one of the strongest languages for back-end development due to its combination of type safety, expressiveness, and performance.
This is why it's important to vote in primaries and to cultivate leaders at the local level. The Republicans became a lock-step far right party by building up infrastructure and candidates at the lowest levels and building from there. Too many progressives don't seem to pay attention to any elections below the presidential election (and then whine that things are rigged when their candidate gets less votes than someone they don't like).
Only way I see something like that working is AI/ML and you'd need to vastly expand voice bandwidth past what PSTN is in order to have enough information for it to work. And even then who's to say people's voices, verbal idiosyncrasies, accents aren't still too similar to differentiate?
Yes, Chrome has reader mode.

chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode
Can't tell from the docs, but how do you deal with "stubbed" events that are triggered before segment/GA loads? Are you able to do anything to make sure your snippet loads fully before other third party scripts that might "do work"?

I guess put more simply, do you need to do work when implementing to make sure you don't miss any of the existing events being captured, or does this rely on the same developer implementing all three?
For sure! I find WASM to be quite readable, its actually an impressive feat of bytecode design.
So excited Known Med is part of this!
Hm. So there was a bucklescript language/syntax - in addition to ocaml and reasonml?

I'm not sure what to make of:

https://rescript-lang.org/

> This has no impact on the development of the ReasonML language. In contrary, ReasonML can now focus on their goals, as much as we can focus on ours.

Does this mean that ReScript is/will be a language that compiles to js, but not machine code?

And that ReasonML will continue as an ocaml dialect that supports both compiling to machine code (eg for back-end services, native apps) - and to js - using the ReScript compiler? But only interop with ReScript when targeting js?
Ya I was thinking that too. We've been watching The Last Kingdom and Vikings (set around 800 AD), and the main thing that's changed today vs then is that they had little mechanization or automation, so everything was made by hand. A suit of armor required so much time to make that it took a lifetime to acquire one.

Contrast that with today, where we can buy computers for $1000 that took millions of worker-hours to design and build. So in away, our $15 is worth something like $15,000 to them. Or more precisely, their day's work on the farm would produce 1/1000 of today's wages, maybe 30 cents or something comparable. Enough to buy some eggs or beer if they were lucky.

What gets me though is that most of us have a quality of life higher than royalty enjoyed then. Yet most of us spend our entire lives underemployed, doing work of little importance, still making someone else rich. The sacrifice of our daily life should cost us 1/1000 what it did then, but it still costs us the same. What good is more buying power if you hate your job, today is the worst day of your life, and tomorrow will be even worse? But hey, at least you have a flat screen.

I think that's why the concept of barter can feel attractive, because if everyone has a relatively comparable work output, then an hour spent doing something we enjoy (say baking or whatnot) can be exchanged for something we might find miserable but someone else might enjoy (like giving a massage). Whereas with cash, an hour baking might be worth $7, but an hour massage is worth $60.

The divergence between the free market value of something, and its toll in human suffering, is the primary cause of most conflict in the world today IMHO. That gap is why some of us are punished so much more for the work we do, and why so many of us don't get to do the work we'd like to do. We all just run the rat race and compete with the joneses until we're put out to pasture. I've found no solution to this yet in my own life, so I'm curious to hear others' experiences.
There is/was Scala.js too, and other similar things that "transpile" to JS.
These schemes always remind of Paddy’s Bucks from Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

They are a monetary solution sent in to fight financial problems. The solution to those problems usually lies outside issuing your own money; it instead compounds your problems. There’s probably a case to be made for them if you could find and administer an optimal currency area, which is a monumental challenge.
Can anyone please tell me how the author able to use html syntax in rust?

I get that there are macros, but how are html tags valid syntax? Is rust just interpreting the html content as strings?

I've only ever seen C macros, and I don't remember seeing
this kind of wizardry happening there.
AI Creates Detailed 3D Renderings from Thousands of Tourist Photos
I've always found these Fermi paradox arguments silly. Just by posing the problem in this way you are making lots of implicit assumptions which you pretend aren't there by dressing up the rest of your argument in faux rigor.
Existential problem by itself? No.

Existential threat multiplier? Probably yes.
What if Facebook goes down? Considerations for the demise of big tech
Can you point to a specific treaty? Radio Free Europe has been doing it for decades. Photons don't stop at national borders, and the footprint of a satellite is likely going to mean that Belarus will have transmissions from satellites, even if no one wants that to happen.
Gay Zee is a faggot so who likes Ethereum-Ass-Rammerino? Vitalik and Gay Z are faggots; so; who cares? Faggots. So who cares. Us un-faggots are exclued from this gay shit.
This is one thing that I think is underestimated: just how big of a hurdle it is to travel between solar systems. It took the Voyager probes almost 40 years to leave our solar system, which is like taking 40 years to get out your front door on your planned walk across all of Europe and Asia.

By the time we have the technology to do so, we will necessarily have the technology that makes it unnecessary. The primary thing you need is something that can survive effectively indefinitely in deep space where there are no resources available. But if you have that you can build stellar colonies that have unlimited access to solar power and can survive indefinitely just as easily.

It's not like we are short on mass in the solar system either. It will be a long long time until we've used up Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, the belt, etc...
Does the comparison to Standard Oil stand scrutiny? The case against Standard Oil wasn't merely that they were popular. After all, kerosene is an undifferentiated commodity where consumers have no preference other than price. The case against Standard Oil was that they held such a breadth of natural resources (which are exclusive; no two parties can pump oil the same barrel of crude oil), and capital-intensive assets such as pipelines and railroads where Standard Oil was bribing the operators to get them to charge higher rates to their competitors.

So what's the comparable unfair practice? You believe Google is paying Level3 under the table to make sure all its competitors pay more for network transit?
With Stimulus Reflex we are getting pretty close.

https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/
Jobs had a long-term vision in the future of Apple as a consumer electronics company, as opposed to a techie company. The explosive growth of Apple in the 2000s and 2010s would never have happened if Apple hadn't matured out of being the company that made the Apple II line.
Obviously, we are diverse group of people with equally diverse opinions on matter. But from what I've seen, there's a healthy amount of comments around in support of TikTok and against the CCP and USG's seemingly coordinated attempts to dismantle them.

In fact, it was from HN that I learned of ByteDance's desire to distance themselves from the CCP and that the war on TikTok in both countries is likely in response to their refusal to play ball with the CCP. The American media's barrage of anti-TT reporting never really made sense until that revelation. After all, there are plenty of more significant Chinese tech companies whose apps are more pervasive, yet are rarely mentioned in the news, i.e., Tencent.
It's Time to Stop Fantasizing About Being a Software Developer
Who wouldn't want to live forever?
Their "Protection Checker" has this to say about Revolut:

Revolut Ltd (FRN:900562)

...

None of your money is protected by FSCS

https://www.fscs.org.uk/check-your-money-is-protected/
The Passion Economy: Why Now?
children havent gone to school since 5 august 2019 in kashmir. while the world is enjoying the benefits of zoom and stuff, everyone is stuck with 2G. that means no zoom parties, no conference calls, recorded classes are sent via voice notes on whatsapp groups for each class and children write simple exams on paper and photo a picture.
things are THAT DEPLORABLE and the narrative "stopping terrorism" is given as an excuse to prevent 8 million people from internet? what gives?
Wasn't really familiar with Meshnet, but it seems to me that Libremesh[0] can also be a viable alternative

0: https://libremesh.org/
what an odd hill to die on...
> never underestimate the amount of money the FAANGs have to poach your talent.

I really wish we'd stop using the word "poach". It's a loaded word with negative connotations, but what it really means here is "offer someone a better situation than you offered them". Employees have agency, they aren't wild elephants who need your "protection" from "predators" who just want to pay them more.