skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I'm glad you thought my argument was strong!

Yes, that is what I believe. I see a path where after Amazon creates something that becomes a de facto public good they hand it over to a highly competent government agency full of the world's best operational engineers. Those people turn it into a public works project, and it has legendary 25-nines uptime.

Amazon engineers are excited to see their work become part of the fabric of the Galactic Alliance of Good and Kind Beings and no one does oncall like a Quarkian, am I right, 700-hour sleep/wake cycles how cool is that, love working with them.

Do I see a path to get there from here? Uh, not at the moment. We're still working on "hitting each other is bad" so I'm feeling pretty depressed about our outlook.
Edge, Safari, Opera, Firefox, Chrome, and new upstarts like Brave seems like a reasonably competitive market to me.
17% is little to none?
I've thought about eastern TN as a place to move. I would prefer a slightly cooler climate though. Eastern KY would be good for me, but they don't have the same tax benefits. It's tough to find a place that checks all the right boxes. I guess it really doesn't matter for me because my wife won't move anyways.
It has happened. :(

I thought I had messed up a 'do not notify' setting. But it was just poor timing on my part.

Likewise, e-mail is my 'to-do' (or to-watch) queue. I mean, I have a day-job, and notifications on android are rather ephemeral and disorganized. One wrong swipe and everything is gone. I haven't tried those on desktop, I only get them when on YouTube, still doesn't feel useful.
> Apple still needs to pay credit card processors.

That's why I said 5%. They don't need to run it at-cost or take a loss from it, but considering it's a closed platform, it shouldn't be a massive profit center, either,
> I give them my data because I like the service.

They take your data and everyone's regardless of if you want them too. That you don't mind hardly makes that better.
Boyz N The Hood, especially as a female.
That's the problem. People like you don't care about standards so companies run amuck while you just accept it and degrade the ecosystem.
Would we? I am not convinced the amount of idiocy would be low enough to prevent problems. Most of the arguments I have seen have been "this is a hoax" type or other arguments not based in reality. I agree there is an arugement to be made over whether or not to close based on death rates and whatnot, but I do not hear those arguments that much.

The people screaming that it is a hoax and its their freedom I generally assume would react similarly to a even more severe crisis. Maybe I am over estimating their numbers based on the fact that they are loud, but assuming they will realize it is really serious in the cases you describe is a leap I am not willing to make.
Presumably that a number of users still don’t get it and the value to the remaining users is very small.
This is weird "When I blocked Google, the entire internet slowed down for me, because almost every site I visited was using Google to supply its fonts, run its ads, track its users, or determine if its users were humans or bots."

I think it should be opposite - all websites should speed up. Why am I wrong?
This is a really neat idea
Initialized Fund V
Still a lot.

* NEO's (asteroids) are really only detectable at twilight so this would severely hamper efforts here, and I hope most people would understand how important NEO detection is from a practical, human-survival standpoint.

* Depending on your latitude/day of the year, "twilight" can constitute the majority of the observable time...

* e.g. for LSST 30% of all images will have a StarLink trail. If Space-X can somehow manage to get their satellites down to 7th mag (15% of their current brightness, 50% of the brightness of their "DarkSat" version), then LSST can mitigate a lot of impact; it will come down to extra cost + observation time for many science cases, however a lot of science cases are still SOL even with these mitigations (precision cosmology, NEO detection, etc.).

The point I'm trying to make isn't that astronomy is "doomed" (though some subfields will be) it's that we should not be in a situation where we are scrambling to fix problems like this (i.e. Space X is now helping mitigate things voluntarily, thank god, and only after a huge outcry). There should be regulations that ensure everyone is on the same page and that prevent issues like this and ensure at least a bare minimum set of requirements are met.

Those regulations are not there only because when these laws were written, nobody even dreamed of a situation like StarLink or Kuiper. I don't think Space X or amazon are "evil" or anything, they're doing great work, but they have zero incentive (except maybe PR) not to trash billions of dollars in astronomy research, and that is neither good nor necessary.
What the hell, average mid-career software compensation for non-FAANG companies is ~$350k?!

Are you joking?
Once you get logistics bots you can monkey patch anything with a requester chest.
Paying for services is different from donating to a large entity where you have no guarantee of where your money goes. Paying Microsoft for Office products for example I know I'm getting Office, aka what I'm paying for. In the case of tech based non-profits you have no idea where your money ends up. Unless you're a billionaire funding a new "part" of a non-profit or donating specifically to MDN, other people who can only donate say $50 might not be so lucky.

Edit: This also makes me wonder if there's non-profits that work on tech that aren't throwing their money away beyond the scope of the project. The moment non-profits are doing more than just paying engineers and other essential employees / volunteers I begin to worry a bit.
Buying a service is quite different from an actual donation.
This is off-topic slippery-slope hysterics that have nothing to do with the story
>degenerate activism

What is degenerate activism?
This would just hasten the demise of the already broken US.

Lot's of silent downvotes - I'm happy to debate, do not be afraid to comment and tell me what you disagree with.
There's plenty of guys that go into the trades (thinking more like welding, machining, diesel repair) that quickly start running their own truck or shop, work for themselves, maybe hire a few employees and make bank. That's what it would likely look like I imagine.
> It reminds me of breaking into spontaneous applause for our courageous health workers instead of funding them properly so they can do their jobs.

> If not, this is all about making you feel better,...

These 2 statements here reflect this weird behavior I have seen in certain countries like the UK where everyone will say things like "we <3 the NHS" or "protect the NHS" during the pandemic, but on the other end either the government or the proletariat or both will be unhappy to expand funding of the NHS.

At times this behavior feels a bit cult-like and I also think that the dopamine-effects are meant more for those giving the applause.
I don't think the value in MDN is developers data so much as it's about controlling the defacto standards of Web Development.
I think you're right about that, but sometimes things are interesting enough based on the technical feat alone.
Off-topic hysterics
No I appreciate the advice, and at risk of turning HN into a bike forum, I have to ask, how long do you run a chain for? I was told that frequently replacing the chain prevents the cassette from wearing down because you replace the chain before it becomes too stretched and mismatched to the cassette.
Do you have diagrammatic details to share ? That will be easy to understand irrespective of language.
Hmm... how many people go oh let me check what the stats are for black pepper in 18th century?

Baseball metrics have value on its own to a vast number of people. Cookbook metadata has little value to most people beyond the academic researchers.

This is a poor analogy, no offense.
If a European country lets a hostile country like Russia earn trillions by running pipelines through their country, are they really that much of an ally? Tarrifs make perfect sense in response to actions like that
The difference is that Google likely has ulterior motives with this change, whereas in Safari, it's purely aesthetic.

Edit: I've just tried it in Chrome (enable [0] and [1] or [2]), and it's a disorienting user experience. As a matter of fact, I also just tried it in Safari, where I have similar complaints (but, again, it's easy to disable there).

[0]: chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-sometimes-elide-to-registrable-domain

[1]: chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-reveal-steady-state-url-path-query-and-ref-on-hover

[2]: chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-path-query-and-ref-on-interaction
> What does that mean? When I look it up I get results for some other game with a similar name.

I didn't mean to refer to any established term. I meant parallelization by breaking the game up into systems, e.g. I believe the electrical system can run completely separately to the main thread without losing the deterministic guarantees, while I would think of full parallelization as allowing each assembler or inserter to be simulated in its own thread.

Maybe there's a more established term for this? Parallelization through doing different types of things at the same time, rather than doing many copies of the same thing at the same time.
Actually a lot of things are usable even if they are askew. Like the Google logo on search is way to the left rather than center. On the other hand, Facebook is complete chaos and totally unusable, for example.
I worry about the effects on economic mobility, and eventually on overall per-capita productivity, in a world where we stop encouraging as many people to pursue higher education.

Yes, there are people today that wind up with college debt and don't have a correspondingly higher income to pay it off. But there are other solutions to address this problem, like lowering the costs of college to where they were just a couple of decades ago. Or perhaps changing the framework by which loans are made (e.g. if college loans were simply dismissible in bankruptcy, default rates would skyrocket and lenders would not be able to hand out such large sums of money so easily, and colleges would have to adapt by lowering their costs). And on average, people with degrees still earn more than those without, and enough more to pay off a loan over time. We should be wary of throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

In a world where college is no longer normalized as the default option for a moderately ambitious 18-year-old, aren't we just reverting to how things worked for hundreds of years until quite recently? The kids from upper class families will continue to go to Ivy League schools, but kids from middle class and poorer families will be told from a young age that their path is to go to a trade school, or get an apprenticeship. College is too expensive and not worth it for them, so they won't even try. It just seems like a step backwards.

Lastly, I will admit I'm somewhat personally invested in this topic, and I take some offense at the idea of useless degrees. My partner grew up lower-middle class, neither of their parents went to college, but they took out a lot of money in loans and got an English Literature degree (which I believe is a commonly-agreed useless degree). If it had not been for the encouragement of teachers, and basically society at large that college is a good idea, they could have very easily not gone and just gotten an entry level job in their home town instead. Now they have a great, high-paying career in tech working in sales and operations. One very successful founder I worked for in the past had a philosophy degree (as did many other famous people in tech, like Reid Hoffman). Every job, but especially a job in sales or management/leadership, requires working with, understanding, and motivating other people. Many liberal arts degrees focus on exactly this.

Dismissing any degree outside of science, technology, or medicine as being as useless as "underwater basket weaving" is just absurd.
How to write commit messages that will save you a lot of time
If that is the case , Stackoverflow should not be where it is now. In every field there is lot to learn. you learn everyday.you cannot find one who knows everything. If someone says it, don't hire him
Hence the recommendation. They’re presumably looking for work now.
> Yes, as long as there is a guarantee that my money will go towards actually paying people who update the documentation rather than CEO salary, degenerate activism or doomed web startups.

Interestingly, this same sentiment is a huge part of why charitable giving runs into problems.

A lot of people are willing to give, so long as they get to decide what is done with their funds. Of course, these same people have no idea what it actually takes to run a charity; they have no idea what on-the-ground problems need to be solved day-to-day; they have absolutely zero understanding of the organizational supports needed to make any organization function. They're basically in the worst possible position to decide how best to use those funds.

But they still want to decide how they're used.

This despite the fact that they're ostensibly donating to a charitable organization specifically because that organization possesses all that expertise; expertise that costs real money to attract and retain, since they're ultimately competing against the private sector.

It's one of the reasons why, when I donate to a charity, I never specify how I want those funds to be used; I recognize that the charity is in a far better position to make that decision than I am.

I feel like there's a connection to Dunning-Kreuger in here somewhere...
Based on the conversation here, it would seem like deleting data is an unsolved problem in CS, or some of you just make it overly complex. Every system I have built had deletes, because it is the right thing to do... No team I've been on got away with not doing the right thing because it was hard. We put our heads down and got it done. Smh.

Some of the engineers at these companies forgot their morals as soon as something got hard I guess.
I totally agree with this. I should have clarified that when I say "funding open source," I think of that differently from "paying for software/resources" - this would not involve paying for access, just paying for continued development and maintenance.

Of course, as other commenters have been pointed out, it's hard to sell companies on paying something they "have" for free. Which is why companies will shell out big money for the O'Reilly Learning Platform or MSDN ($500/year/seat for the former!) but not even think about spending money on a community resource.
Same way you strategically deprive someone from food and they reorient to a coffin user.

Explanation: Google undermined FireFox, both through ads, then through a series of incompatibilities.

And they did the same to Edge, which is using Chromium.
I made something similar for teaching shapes to walk [0]. It's actually a workshop to teach people at my job about how GAs work by having them implement the different parts themselves.

[0]: https://matsemann.github.io/walkingea/
> “Makes it harder to tell if the current site is legitimate" sounds like an excuse.

Why? To me, having helped elderly relatives with computers a lot, it is very plausible. Phishing URLs use all sorts of subdomain and querystring tricks to fool users, and it can work.
My life is much better with Firefox. I don't miss Chrome at all.
It's pretty good, albeit much less good since the old XPCOM extension support went away. (My position is that XPCOM compatibility could have been maintained in a multi-process world through better dynamic object proxying.) But as Mozilla's money dries up, so will Gecko, Servo, and a bunch of other fascinating projects. It's sad. But the web won't stop evolving, so we're going to end up a webkit-only world.
You should share how Safari and Firefox handle URLs, rather than feeding into everyone's reactions
NIH came from the military. The internet is also not military but came from the military via ARPANET.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health#...

I'm not saying there isn't a role for government in providing funding for or even management of large ambitious projects but for something like the post office I don't see the value. Even back when it was created, courier services were not some fantastical pie-in-the-sky endeavor like building a massive particle accelerator and research lab.

The author of the article has basically said he just wants the tax payer to subsidize ecommerce businesses.
As a physicist, this is such a great explanation that's actually correct for a change. Entropy must be one of the if not the most misunderstood physical concept out there (along with Planck metrics like Planck energy or Planck length). Entropy is commonly used and written about by so many people that clearly lack the understanding of it that this blog post is a refreshing change.
Not everyone, most classes are still online, and if you want you can not take any in person classes, even for lower tuition. Many of my friends are opting to stay home next semester.
Says the man that forced its students to buy his book, if you didn't he would fail your class while not using the book at all in class
Of course the whole thing will generate a lot of debate (and has been covered many times before), but I point out a situation that could be regarded as similar:

A court can compel you to give blood (or have blood taken from you) if you're suspected of drunk driving. That is not incriminating testimony, but the result may incriminate you.

I can see the logic being similar here. Fingerprint, passcode -- courts and law enforcement are clearly testing the limits of where the boundary is.
This is why older founders have higher success rates, people who are over 40 with the financial means to take a risk like starting a company are probably outliers already in their age group
As an example of semantic URLs, think of Wikipedia articles (ironically, featured in the article). The URL tells you directly what you're reading about. Why is it useful to show it in full? Because page titles are no longer visible during usual browsing sessions - they're shown in tab headers, which means in practice, you only get to see a favicon and maybe a word of the title if you're not a tab hoarder. So once you've scrolled halfway through a large article, the URL bar serves as the indicator of what you're actually reading.

The same applies to news sites, magazines, blogs, Reddit, social media sites - which is quite likely the majority of browsing done by normal people.
Vue3 and Malina.js: compilation in dev-time as a next step in web development
Yes. But AMP wouldn't have had much value if sites were fast enough, Google used that as an excuse or maybe a genuine strategy turned into a lock-in plan.

The hipster macbook pro webshit who doesn't know what O(n) means, and the jobsworth drone manager who couldn't see beyond quarterly profits don't have any rights to cry about AMP now. People like AMP pages as evident from many discussions, because they feel faster than the rest of the web.
Developers and Employers who are not ready to pay for these sites like MDN are part of the problem. No Argument here.
Ansible is one of those tools that is so general that it can just absorb whatever operational complexity you throw at it. It might not be pretty, and you might want to tattoo the Jinja and YAML specs on your arm but even in the world of hosted containers I still use it to act as the glue for the disparate systems I have to coordinate.

Having Ansible actually completely manage our hosted k8s environment has been really nice since Ansible has gone through the effort of gritting their teeth on templating and manipulating YAML in a semi-sane way. I've tried and tried to like Helm but you just hit the ceiling of what's possible so fast. Being able to add new filters, expose new/dynamic data to templates, pull data from outside sources, and have both Ansible-lang and Python as escape-hatches is something I don't want to give up.
Version Control for Distributed SQL Databases with Flyway
Bitcoin Success Lies in the Fact Everyone Can Form Their Opinion of the Truth
Explaining Consciousness with Color-Coded Cartoons
It already is a wiki. You can contribute right now if you wanted..
It looks usable for someone who knows about genetic algorithm. It would be catchy on your repo if you add gif version of a working demo for simple use case such as snake game or something similar.
I think the big issue was that they were tricky to take off and land in less than perfect sea conditions, their main advantage in efficiency getting mostly erased by cheap and abundant air travel infrastructure.
It looks pretty closed source.
Can't wait for it to be cloned and my bank providing me a new one!
> this guy was directly responsible for troop deaths and much more instability in the ME.

Should Trump then assassinate Bush and Obama?
Maybe, and if they succeed, what will the US do then? This is a terrifying path.
Is it, could easily be used by authoritarian states to check on if any of their citizens have forbidden literature on their computers...
Your father got a child, so he's clearly not obsessing enough about work.
Fuck. That means it ends my love affair with Chrome. I had such high hopes for us.
No, dictionary adds value for most users, billions of people. When you come across a word you don't know the meaning of, you can look it up.

Cookbook metadata DB provides value to a vanishingly small % of the people - primarily academic researchers.

I am not saying that this whole enterprise is useless, I am saying that your analogy doesn't hold up.
Not thinking about this too deeply, would Chromium become like Linux in this situation? Linux has heavily won the server market but many different flavors of Linux are being deployed still without a single, overwhelming winner. Maybe contributions like Stylo to Chromium could improve the web for a larger audience of people than Firefox could reach in its current state.
The BLM protests are all outdoors and have not been shown to be superspreader events. Church services held indoors have been shown many times to be superspreader events. Your argument that any government anywhere in the US tried to use the pandemic to suppress religion is not supported by the evidence.

https://www.click2houston.com/health/2020/05/29/what-are-cov...

https://www.businessinsider.com/church-oregon-largest-corona...

https://www.news4jax.com/i-team/2020/08/04/jacksonville-chur...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/health/ohio-church-coronaviru...
Learn marketing.

I have made several side projects but hit a roadblock when it came to market it. Building is easy, marketing is hard.

Being a disney fan, couple of weeks ago, I released
https://www.showsspot.com/

I am going to focus on how to get more visitors. If you have pointers to start, I am all ears.
What would you like to talk about under the original definition of sustainable, then? It seems to me like we're still discussing all this stuff just fine. In fact, this whole subthread seems to be a deliberate attempt to sidetrack discussion of important ecological policy with a pointless war about linguistics.

Even taking all that, I don't see how we're breaking with the spirit of the word anyway. If you have a fishery that preserves the population of one target species, but is steadily depleting that of another (the bycatch), why should we call that "sustainable", exactly?
Microsoft gates plenty of training content behind Visual Studio subscriptions. Also, who is the "provider" of the web platform?
What you mean by donation or contributing to the projects you are using. This site says that well.

https://sigil-ebook.com/donate/