skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are perhaps since the whole complexity of css and dom and box models etc. is beyond me specially how the complexity actually multiplies. But I have always found the complexity of modern web not just unsustainable or risky but frustratingly wasteful.

Browsers are a universal medium both for content and UI for app and that's great. But they are kind of the most wasteful creation ever. The most obscene apps of yesteryears would do a lot more with a lot less. An example of that is gmail taking 600MB memory (according to chrome) far more than a desktop client that didn't depend of the server doing all the heavy lifting would have taken. It would have all my mails locally, would actually be much faster changing pages (if done correctly).

But I digress. I think the complexity comes from (apart from over engineering syndrome) trying to deny that there's two very distinct use cases of web. One is nicely formatted semi static content and fairy dynamic stateful applications. I think designing a set of features (even modes in browsers that a page needs to declare for) can simplify things a lot.

The second thought I had was a brand new layout model/engine that does away with all the crafts and define some powerful primitive that works in a more well defined way that doesn't take a Google to properly implemented. Now I was thinking of two options of how to get that accepted.

1. A page can declare itself using the new primitives (now there can be two primitives for doc/app or this simpler one might handle both?) and the engine is small enough that it's worth having two in the browser. And the saving from some pages specially as it grows over time specially for well maintained/popular pages use the faster version the overall browser efficiency increases even if you can't remove the old engine.

2. Can there be a translation layer that can take a old layout page and rewrite the css/layout into the new primitive. It's perhaps slower than the current engine and perhaps on changes to content/viewport/scroll retranslate a lot but perhaps allow one to drop the old layout engine a lot faster.

Complete bonkers? I am almost certain it is but I don't know enough to tell and I have been meaning to ask to a crowd who can answer.
The counter-case would be, "Do you also notice people from other companies who walk around with swagger?"

Not living in that area anymore, I can't say. I haven't lived there for 10 years.
It really seems like you're just trolling and aren't actually interested at all in what's true. Skepticalscience.com is a site created and maintained by a team of climate scientists. https://skepticalscience.com/about.shtml The article that diagram is from is here: https://www.skepticalscience.com/medieval-warm-period-interm...

While greenland was warmer during the medieval warm period than immediately afterwards, its ice sheet is 400,000 years old. Saying they had "receded" is a stretch, and it is warmer today than it was then. The effect of the medieval warm period was localized to the north atlantic, while the rest of the world was colder, and the north atlantic is already substantially hotter today than it was then.
Just because the relationship wasn't coerced (one form of abuse) doesn't make it appropriate. As noted, its a very bad idea to 'go there' because of the confusion of further favors (recommendations/appointments) with sexual favors. Its reasonable for an institution to discourage this kind of relationship. Just like many private corporations do.
I don’t find snide sub-commenting toward the queer community helpful in this discussion or appropriate for Hacker News.
I would highly encourage you to reassess where you are getting your information about the world if you genuinely believe this.

I’m seeing this sentiment expressed more and more, and it seriously concerns me. If you look at the data, almost any data which compares the US to other countries, you’ll see that the US is at or near the top.

This isn’t blind patriotism. Seriously if you are feeling like the US is becoming a “3rd world country” see if you can quantify it in some way. What is deteriorating, and how does that compare to other places in the world?
You should give nongaap(on twitter) and matt levine free accounts and let them tweet what they find interesting.

Working on similar things for the data tornado that is crypto.
you're right, I probably tried to find an excuse because I like the company and the team behind it.

I've been following him on Twitter for a while and he always seemed quick to dismiss people. Anyway, regardless of his, there is no reason for him to act this way with a customer.
I think it's valuable in the sense that it creates value. It gets things built that work well, and fit into the bigger picture needed by the company. It might even be one of the essential skills in building a successful tech company.

But I don't think it's valued much on the open market.

As in, it's hard to be recognised for that kind of skill. Established, larger companies tend to have a structure in place and, at least on the open market, try to fit people into narrower roles. Even if there's a laundry list "tech stack", it's usually a narrow role.

As ritchiea said, it can seem as if the only place where the range is a good fit is at early-stage startups, with plenty to do and good judgement needed, but limited earnings on offer.
I don't know about most but it's certainly not unheard of in places with similar climates. https://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/rolling-bla...
Why would you use NTFS on linux for anything other than occasional use?
I'm one of the co-founder of Digicoop, a worker cooperative based in France. We develop Kantree, a work management platform as SaaS or on-prem solution.

We are a small team, all employees are associates and we are remote first. New employees must become associate after 1 year.

The hardest part for us is funding as no investors are interested in worker coops.

We had quite a few hurdles on the way and the startup scene mostly rejects outliers like us as we have no true funding story to tell. But we really believe in this model and fight hard to keep going.

We have written about our company on kantree's blog if you want more details.
We started with software only and quickly realised that our idea that others could do the implementation and consulting around the tools just didn't work. So we gradually had to set up hubs where we could provide the knowledge locally. That took quite a lot of effort. It works quite well though.
For me, the ability to see that interconnectedness between good and bad largely results from a subdued reaction to how those things make me feel. I can think about it more, think about it differently than I normally would, rather than shut it out and carry on.
They had $500M in the bank. The whole "COVID affected our revenue" was a made up lie to save face. Every company has been using COVID as an excuse to do a lay off they've been meaning to do.

You can maintain a browser for that cash (or buy Instagram or Whatsapp). But you can't maintain a bunch of execs siphoning money into the pockets while the org runs like a headless chicken.
This is briliant. It means bundling Chromium. But it could work.
Healthcare costs are up, but you don’t have to worry about dying from a scraped knee.

This is by far the greatest era to be alive. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something.
I am scribd user. Recently, I discovered Libby -- free app from the public library (SFPL and NYPL for me). Libby is x10 better experience than scribd, is free and has all books you may find in the library.

The benefits of scribd is if you're an avid reader you can consume more than 3 books/audiobooks at a time, which is a restriction on Libby- requires you to return them etc.

For those interested:
https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby/

Just figured I would post as I have been incredibly impressed with Libby.
Habe a look at the World Summit Award (WSA) and its sister project the European Youth Award (EYA) - now known as WSA Young Innovators. There are a lot of cool projects going on!

* https://wsa-global.org/
* https://eu-youthaward.org/
* https://wsa-global.org/wsa_categories/wsa-young-innovators/
> Remember that this is the guy that created sockpuppet accounts on Reddit and Metafilter

I don't remember that. Could you link some supporting evidence to remind me?
Sounds like this mattress doesn't have much support on its own. Do kind of base do you put it on? Box spring? Slats? On the floor?
No difference except how much space I had on the diagram :-)
>has show his true colors as a racist, claiming he got his show pulled because he was white

You can claim/believe that without being a racist.

It's enough that those calling the shots (which show to pull) are racist or too pre-occupied about race...
The logic can be written in Rust with [1], it's exactly like he wants: rust[2] + css + html.

[1]: https://github.com/sciter-sdk/rust-sciter
[2]: https://github.com/sciter-sdk/rust-sciter/blob/master/exampl...
Most-wanted Wirecard exec reportedly owns significant sums of Bitcoin
Here’s two examples of power grid failures in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_European_blackout

https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-blackout-raises-questions-over-...
Sure, but not everyone can damage their ex’s academic career.
Does anyone think it would make sense to create a drastically simpler set of web standards, so that making web browsers would become much simpler?

Such a simpler web spec would be relatively fast moving, not focused on backwards compatibility, but instead on simplicity of implementation. HTML would have to be written correctly (eg. balanced tags), old styling mechanisms would be removed so that layout engines wouldn't have to accommodate them. Everything would be pared down.

I believe this would open the playing field for many people to create browsers, would breath life into the now basically empty browser space and the Web in general.

Of course adoption would be a big issue, but that's always a big issue. I wonder why this wouldn't make sense to try, given the current state of affairs. It doesn't make sense to just give up on the Web. Why not re-invent it a litte?
Agreed. I wouldn't say any of these astute points argue against commitment devices (as it sounds like you're implying but I could be misreading you).

A commitment device provides an incentive, including the incentive to eliminate distractions by going somewhere quiet or whatever else you need to do to follow through on what you've committed to.
Agreed. Instead of using cheap money to drive up asset prices it would be nice if it actually got used for something useful.
I have been forcing myself to use Firefox the last two months. Ignoring some performance issues on Google branded sites, I have yet to experience any incompatibilities.

The reason I am going back to Chrome is bookmark usability and Chromecast support.

Posts on the r/Firefox subreddit and official Firefox support pages mention that Chromecast uses proprietary API's, and can/will not be reverse engineered or implemented. I never noticed how often I use the ones at home or work until the ability to cast wasn't available.

As per bookmarks, I love not having my bookmarks visible in my main while browsing, and having them on the new tab page in Chrome is wonderful. I tried to pin my bookmarks to my Firefox top sites, but felt clunky using a hotkey or the menus to view all bookmarks.
Revenue had never dropped for Mozilla. COVID had zero affect on their revenue stream as they lied in their layoff post. They get all their money from Google ad money to $500M a year guaranteed, with $500M in the bank, and $500M/yr upcoming. The layoffs were just to secure the execs' lifetime pensions.
What prevents the controlled origin authority from registering a trademark? Why can't the Spanish government or the relevant consortium trademark jamón ibérico?
Yes, though it would be equivalent to a label or sticker on an item in a store (note: not a barcode). It wouldn't carry meaning from a technological perspective (though I guess Facebook could try to mine that).

The problem with Facebook's facial recognition features is that it has to recognize all faces, even faces that don't want to be recognized, to know which faces to legally not recognize. It's an all-or-nothing feature across its entire user base. It can't even be geofenced because users travel and upload from all sorts of parts of the world and wind up in the background of several photos.

Facial recognition is a "logical feature" in that it mimics how people recognize people, but is problematic when applied at scale.
America as an ideal has failed and anyone who wants to come here should think twice.

Every country has their problems, but years of neglect and backwards thinking on social, civic, and cultural “brick work” has led to this.

The civil rights movement was never carried through. The Cold War mentality of military spending on the ever present “boggieman” wasted tens of trillions of dollars of GDP. The vilification of taxes, civic and social programs while also the decades long trend of funneling money to the top. The dirty politics of special interests, limited access, lobbying and un-checked money in politics. The widening wealth gap in both fiscal and quality of living. The gutting and simplification of the educational system to focus on math and sciences instead of raising well-rounded emotionally intelligent young humans. The belief that shoehorning everyone into a college education and the crippling debt that comes with it. The complete lack of national infrastructural investment since the 1950s.

All of this leads to disillusionment. Especially when generations have grown up being fed this believe of “not in america”. Disillusionment leads to desperation, leads to anger, and hate, and scapegoating, to fake “christian” mega churches were people are scamed out of not only their money but the last tatters of their divinity.

Technology like the internet mixed with stunted critical thinking skills, emotional intelligence, and compassion form into a deadly cocktail that breeds and spreads conspiracy theories and delusions fed to us by our enemies directly into our living rooms, on cable television, on our computers, and into our cellphones. Very little of it vetted or touched by anyone. To be shared and re-shared on Facebook in fear to our friends.

And all of this wasted human potential at the cost of the only thing we all share. The Earth.

Donald Trump isn’t the problem. He’s a symptom.
Looks like ionic supports desktop apps now: https://ionicframework.com/docs/deployment/desktop-app

I have no idea whether it’s using electron under the hood or just a native webview (or something else?) but might be worth checking out.
> example.com as a six-letter domain

If we're being pedantic, "example" has seven letters!

:-)
Even if you had the plants I'm not sure how you'd run them - it's not exactly an unskilled task.
I'm not sure - the existing web ui is decent enough and simple -- more advanced users may end up in something with charting anyway - metabase, tableau, etc.

And in the mind of a lot of people now - self-hosted is more of an annoyance than a win if you don't have a hosted version of the app...
>Ironic that Scott Adams has basically tanked his own reputation outside the alt-right through a set of poor choices recently.

Or in other words, stated opinions that disagree with yours / polite Californian dinner talk.
For an official opinion of the mods, write to hn@ycombinator.com

The rules in the faq [1]are very fuzzy on purpose, so I will just share my interpretation/opinion:

I think up to three reposts are fine, but I usually don't complain until the 5th or 10th repost. One per week is fine, I think the upper limit of tolerability is one per day.

Don't repost if the previous post got traction, If I have to pull a number out of thin air, something between 20 and 50 upvotes/comments/upvotes+comments

Your previous two post got a minimal traction but not too much. I think it's fine to repost it, but I'd expect even less traction. Try to use a more dry title, like "Show HN: Pingr – Uptime monitor" or "Show HN: Pingr – Know when your site is down before your customers do" or something like that. The name in the title is not mandatory, but I like it. Perhaps add a comment with more details and a personal history.

Sometimes it is easier to get traction here writing about an interesting problem you solved while making the site, for example how do you detect that it's a problem in the site and not a problem in your site, how difficult is to coordinate the distributed network of monitors, problems with spam or dos with the free trial
If you meet an old friend and have to tell a funny/weird technical anecdote about your project, what would you tell?

Some feedback: The lifetime subscription is too long.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Absolutely awful process, very unconstitutional. The guy doesn't even know what the charges are, who the accuser is, can't face the accuser, and has to prove his innocence, instead of them proving his guilt.
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The former President of Zaire (now DRC), Mr. Mobutu is believed to have personally pocketed up to $15 billion which he stole from the country. He's widely believe to be the most corrupt leader of all time.

Recently Trump flatly refused to disclose where $511 BILLION was allocated in taxpayer-funded COVID loans.[1]

The scale of what's happening right now boggles the mind, and nothing is being done about it.

[1] https://www.newsbreak.com/news/1582350022360/trump-administr...
It's called a "conflict of interest" and is simply handled by recusal.
You were also downplaying the importance of a good team captain. This conversation can only take place earnestly if we are fair about our language and not selectively ignorant of all the moving pieces involved in a successful company.
Both examples feature large long-term negative externalities that are usually picked up in one way or another by the taxpayer.
I've used the Bitnami images to set up Wordpress a few times and won't again. It takes less time to do it from scratch once you know how, because of the exact issues you mention - you keep getting bitten by details that end up taking longer than just starting from scratch.

In fact at this point it's easier to use AWS Lightsail.
A lot of hybrids also (springs with a foam topper). There is also latex spring.
So you argument "cancel culture is based on someone's actions" and give not some action examples but unrelated achieved status - being a cop or a Democrat?

This stinks and the result is the Brandon Eich and Leni Riefenstahl who did not actually discriminate anyone are given same treatment as other people who were directly responsible for discrimination or genocide.
> to find a no frills rendering engine that I could package up like an Electron

Here it is:
Sciter (https://sciter.com) and Sciter.Quark (https://quark.sciter.com) in particular.
It is a MIDI application that is only useful when delivered via the web. I don't have much choice there. So yes, it is a hard path. But then again, if I can get it to work then it will be a very neat little project. So for now I'll just stoically plod through and try to eliminate each of the little gotcha's one-by-one.

But the ease with which apparent guarantees are tossed around by browser documentation (with regards to time) only to see them solidly trashed in real life is depressing.
Everyone’s doing physically based rendering, so now it’s base color, roughness, metallic, and specular. Plus the glow, decals, etc.
We sleep on the floor. It's a great place. You can't fall off of it.
That would be a career suicide to become a support engineer like this. 4 years later, when his stocks dry out, he'd have to switch the company and he'd need to tell a convincing story why the new company should pay him the new market rate. And "I supported legacy code" is not such a story. There's always an option to go to Microsoft and support legacy stuff for life, but beware that MS pays peanuts (relatively speaking) and with the MS pay you'd be priced out of the housing market.
Just don’t implement JS. Simpler!
Sad, but true. I've gotten better logo designs on Fiverr.
> Just wondering, how do you vet the people that apply?

No vetting process, it was first come first served. As long as a student kept showing up, I will do everything I can to help. I don't advertise paying students, I offer it after I've seen them make some progress.

> I can imagine a lot of people would love to "earn" a free 2k a month and would happily play along doing the bare minimum amount of work required.

This actually happened to a few students. But in their defense, I would do the same. If I had been struggling month to month and suddenly I get a chance to breath and relax, I would relax.

I've been trying to condition myself to be okay giving money to people and not expecting anything in return (in the spirit of basic income). It is a hard path to take emotionally but I am making progress.

> I contemplated doing something similar in London (not paying money per-se, but providing a location & good hardware for the students to use) but was kind of worried about ending up with an office full of freeloaders that just enjoy the amenities provided without caring about the curriculum itself.

This will happen. People will find a way to build a community with regular parties and alcohol and weed and other drugs will come in. Some students will start binge watching TV shows, start gaming, etc. You need to make sure to set some fundamental rules.

The way I plan to solve this (next year) could be very controversial, but I believe it based on my experiences so far: No internet until you finish the curriculum, no alcohol, no drugs. Maybe also no meat but that's still up in the air.

> I've experimented with a few people I know that are stuck in bullshit jobs and gave them hardware, software and any books/resources they'd need to learn programming, but while they are very grateful for it I haven't actually seen any progress or frankly even long-term motivation.

That's how I started and the reason why there is no long-term motivation is that there is nobody around them to help them manage their feelings. Once you help them manage their feelings, their drive is infinite.

If you want to talk more, shoot me a message in the chatroom on c0d3.com (my username is gnos), I'll be happy to share everything (curriculum, apps that powers the curriculum, vision, etc).
What does it take to hook up something like this with nodejs? This just renders the dom while you manipulate dom with js. Would this be a lot smaller and more customizable than electron?
No and possibly. I definitely hold that one as a trump card of sorts, I have a few other tricks up my sleeve that I can still use.
“Japanese Lindberghs” Made a 10k Mile-Flight in 1937
>. All we have to do is send up hella reflectors to block the sun and we can be cool

Ah, ok. Just a complete scifi fantasy plan will just happen to sprout out of nowhere in the future(tm). Guess we'll just do nothing now.
Do you really need to pay for house wiring that can handle a once every 20 year load? Pretty sure you would change your tune when the wiring melts in one of your walls.
If money is no object: https://www.hypnosbeds.com/us
Why should it matter?
Fair enough, but from the point of view of those just laid off it is probably a pretty clear cut case.
Not yet in Seattle, but maybe tomorrow? It is supposed to reach 97F.
Due process is important even in private organizations but a public university is not a private organization so, at least in that context, I think there is a Constitutional argument that due process and respect for other Constitutional rights is required.
>I have travelled across several of those countries, apparently people outside of software development still managed to get hold of their tools

You'd be surprised. Business owners or independent workers that need to own their tools, get into all kinds of debt to get them globally.

In fact a classic example is the loans needed by independent seamstresses to buy sewing machines in the developing countries (and which few banks would give)...