skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But you cannot use text: not a lot, not up close, not comfortably, not with the current technology. What an opportunity! A dyslexic's paradise: an infinitely malleable world in which text is better left banished.

Say what now? You can use text, it just can't follow the headset around like a typical game HUD.
Yeah, I think the appeal for tech in US has been either on money/cutting edge stuff.

I think the cutting edge stuff is getting less pronounced now because of either global offices/remote or ease of access of resources anywhere.
You've probably seen https://zeptobars.com, but if not, there are lots of nice chip images there.
Parmesan didn't used to be protected over here either - only Parmigiano-Reggiano was. The trouble is that most people didn't actually care about whether the parmesan they tossed in their cooking was the expensive, geographically-controlled stuff or some cheaper local imitation. So cheese producers went on a legal battle to leverage their control over the Parmigiano-Reggiano name into a monopoly on parmesan itself, one which they succeeded in with the help of some political favours from the European Commission, and now there's no legally-usable generic name for this style of cheese in the EU. This whole thing was, of course, intensely political.
Why do people keep saying they got rid of XUL? It's just not true. It's still there to this very day. Just look at browser.xhtml (the main browser UI file); it's a mix of HTML and XUL and the body tag is particularly interesting.

<html:body xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul">

The first child element of that body is currently:

<popupset id="mainPopupSet">

That's not HTML ;)

They are trying to replace XUL with HTML and made some progress towards that. For starters they removed most or all of XBL.

From the perspective of an add-on dev it wouldn't have made much of a difference, it used to be manipulating a XUL DOM, now would have been manipulating a mixed XUL/HTML DOM, in the future it would have been manipulating an HTML DOM, not much difference except for tag names and attributes names really, and the rest was js and css.
Was my thoughts also.

Doing a dig, there are no A records for . but they do provide NS records obviously, for all the other TLDs to resolve.

Devilish detail is probably in the RFC and likely implementation specific also, as to whether they accept it is a valid request or fail before trying.

dig A .

; <<>> DiG 9.11.5-P4-5.1-Debian <<>> A .
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 26280
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;. IN A

;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.254#53(192.168.1.254)
;; WHEN: Sat Aug 15 18:19:41 BST 2020
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 17
There are resources out there to learn any tech skill with the necessary background—and resources to pick up the necessary background if you don't have it. At the same time, tech as a whole is not (fully) commoditized, at least in the sense that there is a wide range to the market and a lot of differentiation towards to top end of the skill distribution.

My impression is that ML is getting to the point where you can do useful ML for some businesses without needing particularly deep expertise or creativity so I could see a commoditized lower end to the market developing (just like you can get a generic mobile app from a random consultancy), but there will still be a lot of important business problems that are too hard to tackle that way, leaving a lot of room for experts in the market as well.
There are plenty of other interesting computing domains that are technically demanding and meet real needs.

But, web dev seems to suck up all the air in the room, making you think that all jobs are that.

I focused into compilers, systems programming, and security. It took awhile to shift, find like-minded people, and know where to look for work. But now I see multiple avenues forward. Before, it looked like I had to leave tech because I couldn't stand web dev.
I wonder how Rust will influence the outcome of this project? Will the Rust paradigm prevent memory leaks or somehow improve on the architecture of the big hitter browsers like Firefox and Chrome?

It's super exciting to see how Rust will fare with building new iterations of existing tech.
I ran a fully populated SPARCcenter 2000. It was a beast. Not like the E10K, but still a beast.
JS is too useful to ditch entirely. I think it would be interesting to design a language that deterministically uses compute resources, and then limit web pages to a certain amount of them.
Hey! If this is your app first of all congrats.

If you fancy a pivot - I’ve seen lots of similar apps for cloud architecture, but this engine would be perfect for logistics (warehousing in particular) which I think is underserved (and the industry I am in!). If this existed for a sensible price I would definitely be a customer!
This thread, paired with the Google/deprecation thread, feel ironically aligned.

Mozilla seems to be deprecating parts of their organization, and Google deprecates products constantly... except for Chrome. Chrome has had a fairly reliable and well maintained product path.

I used to use Firefox constantly, but between Safari being excellent on my Mac, and Chrome being preferable for work related things -- and their decent profile synchronization, I find myself a little mystified every time I go back to Firefox for a spell. Just little things, but they definitely feel like the 3rd wheel now.
Never used Vimperator, but I'm happily typing this message in an embedded Vim using SurfingKeys on Firefox 97.
Oooh, disk synchronization. Live migration but just for the block layer! Cool.

I wonder what sorts of scenarios would benefit from using this instead of any of the dozen distributed database architectures it seems are out there.

Incidentally while poking through https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/invocation.html I noticed that there are some COLO-related options in there, which is a bit exciting.
I very much enjoy the way you speak about this. Workers determining resource allocation is classical socialism, so the politics would derail the idea in many places. If no one ever points that out though, and you focus on a voucher system rather than ownership, it is actually capitalist but still trying to get at the gains of distributed leadership.
My (not quite serious) hope is that this will kill x86. After all every other architecture it ever supported died a mysterious death.
Declarative Memory Management (2019)
The battery/solar/storage costs are near material costs already. And the material costs are artificially low. If you wanted to scale up production to match demand, prices will have to increase so that mines can extract worse ores in harder to reach places.
Musk says Tesla two-factor authentication “embarrassingly late” but coming soon
Drugs to repress emotions

Drugs to accept emotions

Drugs to create emotions
This guy writes very well, I have read a few of his books. As an ad-hoc public speaker, not so well. He is intelligent and has good ideas and an understanding of the problem, so he should write it, or at least produce this as a scripted interview on youtube to make a far better case for his POV.
With the help of some friends, I started Sublime Fund (https://sublimefund.org/). It lets people donate to multiple charities on a monthly basis from one place, while maintaining their privacy. Sublime Fund is itself a 501(c)(3), and we don't keep any cut of the donations for ourselves (though we do deduct the cost of payment processing and distribution).

A lot of the motivation for building it came from my own desire to use it, so I've tried to make it as user-friendly as possible. For example, there are no attempts to add friction to the process of stopping donations to a charity. I can do it in seconds.

I've let development stagnate because I started a new job last year, but it requires very little maintenance to keep going, and I plan on getting back into it soon to build out new features.
A browser won't fully pass all of the Acid tests if it follows a few modern changes but it can be a good way of seeing general improvements take shape and show how close you're getting to the fiddly compliance bits. It obviously won't cover all of the newer stuff but it still takes quite a bit to cover everything in the tests.

awesomekling (who's on HN, shoutouts if you see this Andreas you're awesome!) used Acid 2 to help push the development of the SerenityOS browser in some coding streams.
If you think the article only attacked one side, you need to read more thoughtfully. There's plenty, on both sides, that fits what the article was talking about.
>The entitled attitude of open source users not to pay for software, examples abound on this site

That's not an argument for what the term means (either casually or by official and legal definition), just a commentary on an attitude.
Acid3 is 12 years old. Of course a lot of it still applies today, but I suspect it's more flashy than useful for browser developers.

Web Platform Tests are where it's at if you're developing a browser and want a test-suite.
What did me a lot of good was reading these two books by Alice Miller which describe how childhood trauma caused by parents causes issues and why many modern psychiatrists still overlook this crucial issue, perhaps it might help you, it definitely helped me:

Alice Miller: The Drama of the Gifted Child

Alice Miller: The Body Never Lies
Yes, we’re talking about the last mile
Because the "article" is a clickbait Youtube video from a channel with videos like "Is the world ending in 2020?" and "Ghost caught on tape in my apartment." It doesn't even name the scientists.

I went searching for "NASA Chernobyl fungus" and found a paper about using it as a shield on mars:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.16.205534v1

>Estimations based on linear attenuation coefficients indicated that a ~ 21 cm thick layer of this fungus could largely negate the annual dose-equivalent of the radiation environment on the surface of Mars, whereas only ~ 9 cm would be required with an equimolar mixture of melanin and Martian regolith.

It makes more sense in the Mars context, where you might not have lead available, and where growing a large amount of fungus from a small seed packet is a big bonus.
>It could spur a minimalist information driven trend.

it might if anybody would actually use it, but that seems unlikely if it doesn't have CSS or JS support. Chrome and Firefox are already really damn fast if you give them a simple site without much css or js. people just need to actually make sites like that.
Not quite. Look up structuring and smurfing. In the US (at least), making deposits in a pattern to avoid automatic triggers is itself something that can trigger investigations and holds.

This can be a huge problem for the “legal” marijuana trade in Colorado and Washington. It’s still illegal at the federal level, large sums of cash involved, so banking becomes difficult.
From the research article:

> We conducted a prospective cohort study utilizing an online convenience sample of individuals with plans to use a psychedelic. Participants were recruited via online advertisements shared through social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter), email newsletters, and online forums (e.g., Reddit).

> Based on when they planned to use a psychedelic, individuals were sent emails at three key time points [i.e., 1-week prior to psychedelic use (baseline), as well as 2-weeks and 4-weeks post-psychedelic use] reminding them to complete the online surveys.
For a great US alternative, try Prairie Breeze by Milton Creamery (in Iowa). Very tasty stuff.

https://miltoncreamery.com/prairie-breeze/
One of the good things to come out of Servo was the modular design, which allows other projects to reuse components, such as the CSS parser and the HTML parser. I’m glad that has proven to be worthwhile. I just wonder if there’s enough people in the community to keep those crates up to date.
I think as the parent comment says, it's hard to understand the impact of such exceptions until you've been on the other side of the fence.

I've witnessed other organizations go through this process in the past, where a new policy was initially lax with many exceptions granted, then as the consequences of the exceptions become more apparent over time (claims of unfairness, uneven enforcement, lower attendance, etc.), they eventually make the policy stricter and draw explicit lines in the sand, even if it makes a small minority of cases more painful when exceptions aren't granted.
Thanks for this! I'm going to refactor a PR I opened yesterday.
I concur, it’s quite insane. All their initiatives brought back tiny, tiny figures compared to the google search deal. And that deal is so profitable because Firefox still has a decent market share.

Torpedoing the technological future of their browser is bound to reduce that share, at which point Google will likely offer much less money.

They are basically shooting their one trick pony in a leg, deliberately. It’s.... not smart.
> Meat-heavy diets not only risk our health but that of the planet, as livestock farming on a massive scale destroys habitats and generates greenhouse gases.

Well that's a bit over the top...

Seems like they could have stuck with the "vegetables are good for you" line and had just as relevant of an article.
>soft real time piece of code for use in the browser

Maybe you should reconsider.

My definitions:

* hard real time: people will die or things will be destroyed if a certain block of code is not executed within N msecs of something happening

* soft real time: nobody will die but things only really work correctly if a certain block of code is not executed within N msecs of something happening

Why anyone would think that a web browser (equipped with whatever VM abstractions you care to name) is a suitable platform for even soft real time is completely beyond me.

I write soft real time for a living (a multiplatform DAW). We have to go to great lengths to ensure performance, and we do things that you will NEVER(1) be able to do in a browser.

(1) for any reasonable definition of NEVER
If renewables growth continues and expands (as in the multi Trillion Green Deal lol), different nuclear thrusts will probably not require any government assistance or support. The money making potential will completely outweigh any other concerns like high capital costs and risk. It's getting there. A carbon tax would be the cherry on top.
Working through personal issues with the help of psychedelic mushrooms will still be emotionally painful and tiring -- that's unavoidable with this kind of work -- but it's potentially not as long because you're communicating with parts of yourself at the speed of thought and shared context rather than with another person at the speed of speech.

As for legality, if you have the means to visit certain US cities¹, you can try psychedelic mushrooms with less risk, as they have been decriminalized in those cities. They are still not legal, but the risk of legal consequences is smaller.

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin_decriminalization_i...
For what this article is talking about, nobody would take our place. We just wouldn't be a representative democracy any longer. (If we really followed Rome, we would keep the facade for a while, but the reality would be otherwise.)
Chiming in: just did the same with Docu, HTML documentation generator from C# XML doc https://github.com/jagregory/docu

Project code did not change much since 2010. It even has bits of IE 9 support.
Even if it’s not directly edible it can be a source of amino acids and proteins that could be then processed into something edible or be a source of food for other things that provide better nutritional value to humans like yeast.

The question is it going to be more cost effective than hydroponics.
I wonder if this comes down to a personality conflict of someone with an organized mind vs someone with a disorganized mind. I've been very successful in life but I've had friends in my life repeatedly intervene and sort out organization aspects because I am that bad at it. I once missed a job interview because I didn't realize what day it was (they rescheduled me and I got the job and the consistent feedback there was they are glad they got me). My School and University timetables were memorized by my close friends who'd write it all down and give me a heads up on changes to the schedule that were happening.

Repeatedly I encounter people who witness my level of disorganization with shock that I could possibly be of value to society. I can see here that someone missed a meeting invite. I suspect someone organized saw this and couldn't fathom how someone so disorganized could possibly succeed.
HN doesn't really do satire and its pool of inhumane thinking is endless.
Does materialize.io have a trigger system yet though? One of the great things about Rethink was that client libraries made it easy to have application code stream live changes over websocket etc. to a client.
IE6 had major compatibility bugs that were never going to be fixed. For example:

* It considered width to include border and padding, when the spec and other browsers did not: https://www.jefftk.com/p/the-revenge-of-the-ie-box-model

* Floated block elements would get their margins doubled, so people would typically use padding instead.

* Its implementation of height was more like min-height.

While I'm sure Firefox and Chrome have open bugs that are older than that, I'd expect them to be much less important than these critical misinterpretations of CSS.
>Probably all the old stuff can be brought back easily.

Not anymore. They removed/replaced a ton of stuff that only was used by extensions at that point. That might lower their maintenance burden, but for the most part it really was interfaces and code that hadn't been touched since the 1990, so it wasn't like it was a huge maintenance burden before.

That means it wouldn't be that easy to bring back the extension system where the old extensions would be able just run unmodified. But it would be easy enough to bring back newly created old-type extensions or modify existing old-style extensions to use whatever is present now instead of the old stuff that got removed.

But then again, old-style extensions had to check anyway if a new major release broke anything, and usually it did break some stuff for some extensions. It was the cost of doing business. Jetpack/WebExtensions could help with that; if you extension was simple enough to fit within their APIs.

In fx60 (esr) the removal of these "old" interfaces and other things hadn't progressed much yet, so I was able to just git-revert most of the removals that affected the extensions I care about and that was enough to run those extensions again without obvious bugs.
How is this rent seeking and not just profit seeking?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
Absolutely. I will e-mail you.
The truth is over the top?
It’s an opt-in feature for improving the quality of Siri and your data is anonymized. Again, this feature is not on by default.
To grow fungus from CO2, don't you first have to grow a plant then let the fungus eat dead plant? Plants require (heavy) equipment to support them.
I'd argue when a developer moves toward the mid-career mark, some will discover that they no longer want to be gluing code together all the time at their job. That is expected and healthy for some. They're not better devs like the article implies. They just need something different.

We don't talk about this enough because it feels taboo to even imply that this overly "communal" form of development isn't cutting it for some. We're so hyper-focused on vague values of community and accessibility when career development is intensely personal.

I said no to webdev in 2012. And it has paid off significantly for me.
Technically they already have a flag dispute, over Taiwan, as I recall. Thankfully for the Unicode consortium they’ve managed to leave the implementation problems that causes to the vendors.
How did you test for computing skills 'outside' of the class though (you mention it was obvious, I don't see how this can be)? Or is it just your gut-feeling that he wasn't any good at extracurricular computing?
Most webpages, even simple ones that do not strictly need to be designed to require js, will entirely fail to render (blank page) without js. The situation has become a lot worse in the last 2 years or so.

It’s a requirement for a general purpose, modern browser, unfortunately, even one without a bunch of bells and whistles.

This is the case even for many municipal or government sites, to say nothing of business products/services/vendors. You can’t use the web as a private citizen for normal things like banking or civic participation without js.
Yes I also use the various attempts at vim emulation in the newer Firefox versions. The attempts are commendable given the limitations of the APIs. None of them are anywhere near as powerful in terms of vim like behaviour. If you never used any of the really powerful old style extensions you have no point of comparison.

But this is irrelevant. Previously extensions could do anything to alter Firefox. Webextensions are deliberately limited in scope - this is explicitly stated by the Firefox developers. So to say extensions as well supported as ever is factually wrong. The support is much more limited now.
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What do you mean by “best”? I’ve never tasted Texas beef that even comes close to the flavor of Argentinian or Brazilian beef.
On the other hand, Hadoop does have HBase, which is their version of Bigtable. It was, for a number of years, a very popular columnar K/V store.
C++ is a such a huge and sprawling language. Most people deliberately or accidentally choose a subset of the language to program in.
Apple Pay does not take 30% cuts, it's just a payment method. And it's by far the best purchasing experience on the web, IMO. When a vendor implements Apple Pay, I end up at least twice as likely to buy from them because so much friction is removed. (Luckily Shopify makes it easy for people so most small, boutique storefronts will support it.)
Because no vegetable farm ever caused habitat destruction or environmental damage...
I just started using it, and ARM template just silently ignores misplaced resources (wrong JSON section). Spent 2 days debugging it.
Is it? As a rule of thumb, each layer of indirection in the food chain retains only 10% of the energy from the previous layer.

If we eat the stuff we give to cows (which is what vegetarians do) then we would need only 10% of the land to farm it.
NH Supreme Court rejects FB/Instagram's use of CDA for deleting account
The case is Teatotaller vs Facebook. It is made even better by the fact that it appears Teatotaller went to small claims court and the owner appeared pro se.

https://www.courts.state.nh.us/supreme/opinions/2020/2020043...
> I doubt they can get it right, even here in Spain most jamón sold is not ibérico de bellota but just ibérico, or not even that.

The best producers in Spain have very little to worry about as long as they continue to produce a high-quality product. It's the others that have to worry - selling a mediocre product internationally at a high price. These farmers in the US are certainly aiming at them and their profit margin.

Someday, they may be able to produce a product on par with the best of Spain. But then they will just join the club rather than push the Spanish producers out of business.
The best way to exercise self-control is not to exercise it at all
I can't dispute whether or not Erik engaged in marketing, but I wouldn't be surprised if he did. However his voyage was well into the start of the Medieval Warm Period[1], so I'll stand by my claim that there was less glaciation when he named the place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period
That's great, I'll tell Firefox that,maybe it will pep up.
Specifically: https://wpt.fyi
dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24166468