skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jeez, either they are high, or I am! What an unsubstantiated load claims.

> You hear a lot of talk about blockchains and proof of work but this is not what the Small Web is about. Having a billion copies of the same database is not decentralisation. That’s centralisation. If you have a billion people having [...] unique databases is decentralisation.

Really? This ignores the hard learned facts that, despite the claim that "on the Small Web, we distrust servers and trust clients", clients in reality can be malicious. Sitting in a circle and singing kumbaya does not prevent from attackers. Best case is, it slows them down, because they have to shake off the laughter first.

> Currently, all our developer tools and technical infrastructure comes from Big Tech and the Big Web.

Well, that is obviously not true! The foundation of the web stems from military and academic origins. The open source movement is strong, Linux is the most used OS for servers. The list goes on.

The list of claims on could debunk is too long for my cup of coffee!

If that's what they refer to as vision, then count me out. I must be miles away from that level of "enlightenment"!

Just to make clear: I am all for people hosting there blogs and webpages themselves. Medium is awful, blogger does not even load with the browser plugins that I use. I am all for distrusting servers, using uBlock Origin, uMatrix, a big hosts file and your brain are good first steps. But I also am all for distrusting the client. What I can't stand is blog posts like these, throwing around half-truths, claims, and unreflected ideology for the purpose of money (they want donations) and publicity (they want donations). \s
The timed release of the virus made it easier for hedge funds to buy at the lowest prices.
I don’t put PR bullshit in my vacancies and I write a lot of them. I respect my potential hires and expect them to respect me and at least read the damn thing. Unbelievable, right?
Coastal California sees rain from about the end of October through February, then tapers off to about nothing by May. It then does not rain again until Halloween. I used to think "doesn't rain" meant "half an inch every couple of weeks" but it does not rain in fact at all, it's totally bone dry for the hottest part of the year, until late fall. Getting three inches over the weekend is enough precipitation in the bay area to warrant flood warnings for several days. Compared to Dallas Texas where three inches in an afternoon might cause very localized flooding for an hour or two. It's quite bone dry here in the summers, the ground is literally "tinder dry" for months on end.

If you look at meso scale weather, there's a high pressure zone that develops between San Fransisco and Hawaii every summer which wards off low pressure (rain) systems. Generally develops by early June and lasts through August. Research "Pacific High" or "TransPac weather routing" or "Pac Cup weather routing" it's a major component of Pacific Ocean sailing races
Tractors are the most influential robots of the past century.
Segregation was outlawed in the 60s.

Black Americans were on an upward trajectory until the 60s despite living in a society with systemic racism.

That was until the government decided to pay cash to destroy family structure.

Welfare actually could have played a different role you from what you may imagine:
https://ifstudies.org/blog/family-breakdown-and-americas-wel...
“DeathStalker” hackers are (likely) older and more prolific than we thought
Different Levels of Async in Rust
Longer sentences are better and more efficient for conveying content when used appropriately. Short sentences mean you have to use too many conjunctions and other filler. Use whatever style you think will be the most effective for readers.
هل تريد ان تبيع او تشترى منتجات هاند ميد اون لاين ؟
It would be funny if so many didn't already wear their ignorance as a badge of pride.

Imagine an article on vaccinations--many who would be posting exactly the sort of nonsense you'd be hoping to prevent would wear their "understood 0% of the facts in the article" as a badge of pride, and others who agreed with them would interpret it as such.
C'mon, Aral Balkan is well known expert and activist, he's not just "some guy". He's been in and around web-standards development for decades, involved in W3C standards' groups, and very vocal pushing for better accessibility, privacy, worker and human rights in IT, etc. You can accuse him of being a lot of things (overzealous for one), but I don't think he's ever been "just for some more cash" type of person.
You think getting good students to go to crappy schools is a way to improve those schools? I'd say you don't know anything about schools then.

And you think randomly selecting students instead of selecting them on the basis of merit is a way to find gems?

This is all such wishful thinking without any evidence or even, I have to say, common sense.
Does this headline have a third derivative? Completely misleading.
It’s pretty obvious from the fact that people are routinely running jails with old userspace (eg 11.0) under newer kernels (eg 13.0). It doesn’t always work for management interfaces (so eg an old route(8) binary might be broken), but is guaranteed to work for normal user programs.
Or you could just use a writing app that yells at you for stuff like this.

Obligatory XKCD...

+ https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/
+ http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
Lawyer’s Tweets Put India’s Supreme Court on Trial
What’s the difference if it happens with a virtual “thing”?

Certification. Engineering is a protected profession, which means there are preconditions to working in that field and real consequences for failure. Software "engineering" has none of the preconditions.
> The carbon dioxide this process uses is captured directly from the atmosphere, so burning electrofuels doesn’t add to overall emissions.

The US Navy has a patent to scrub the CO2 from sea water [1]. They claim it is much more efficient than to scrub it from the atmosphere [2].

[1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...

[2] https://www.nrl.navy.mil/news/releases/nrl-receives-us-paten...
> Currently, all our developer tools and technical infrastructure comes from Big Tech and the Big Web.

> Well, that is obviously not true!

While I don't agree with the absolutist all, he's talking about the majority:

+ Tensorflow (Google)

+ Chrome Dev Tools (Google)

+ Pytorch (Facebook)

+ Kubernetes (Google)

+ Flutter (Google)

+ Xcode (Apple)

+ Visual Studio Code (Microsoft)

+ React (Facebook)

+ Angular

+ And so on.

All have room for embedding analytics and spying on it's 'users'.
Didn't read the paper, but I agree completely.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200825071539/https://techcrunc...
The 2020 Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity
Even Heartbeat was a stunning failure. I had high hopes for this guy but he had a contradictory exception towards accepting Apple and their stance on 'privacy' at the time.

Both him and his wife are all in on this utopian small-web privacy idea and they detest attending conferences with FAANMG sponsorship. However, his wife recently attended a design conference sponsored by Facebook, Twitter and Google. [0]

He'll probably instantly block you if you brought this up or spin the story.

[0] https://www.framer.com/loupe/2019/
The vast majority of median and higher income earners have been untouched by the economic damage from the pandemic. Those are the prime home buyers and they still have their jobs and purchasing power intact. The Covid recession is not a normal recession and it's nothing like the great recession (which widely hit jobs in every economic tier). Now they're being handed record low mortgage rates, which is prompting the buying.
If you read that "accessibility" is only helpful to specific groups, then you haven't understood accessibility.

(I'm not sure if I'm agreeing with you here)
Royole FlexPai 2(2nd generation foldable phone) specs leaked
> Most of the UK's biggest insurance companies produce policies that explain everything fully in plain English.

Is this an argument in favour of plain English? Insurance policy documents are incredibly hard to understand and full of bloat. They are a near-perfect example of how not to write an accessible, informative, and useful document for the intended audience.
Squatting atg is just not very common to start with.
your blog post assumes that the participants all engage in the communication with collegiality and those questions are just an unfortunate misunderstanding.

guess what - if somebody asks "are you there?" it's often deliberate power play with the intention to get from you a verbal commitment to be fully available as soon as you answer affirmative.
The intelligence agency involved here is the military intelligence as opposed to the police intelligence. Think CIA vs FBI.

The military intelligence are allowed to do whatever it takes to defend against foreign powers, but they are not allowed to gather intelligence on Danish citizens. If they uncover something that involved danish citizens or internal threats in the course of their work they are supposed to hand it over to the police intelligence service.
As I understand part of the scandal is that this has not happened, compounded by active measures to cover things up towards the oversight committee.
If you're refuting based on lack of evidence, I'm interested in counter-evidence, beyond the anecdotal.
A victory for sanity. Apple threatening developmental licenses and anyone who used the Unreal Engine was nothing short of mafia-esque, and just as obviously Fortnite being restored to the app store is a matter for Epic's lawsuit against apple.
How is that being forced on everyone? E. g. I do not use Steam, so they can do whatever they want, it would have zero effect on me.
I think the opposite, though I might be wrong.

The goal, in my view, of such research is to make discoveries. I'm dubious of academic research that targets scalable educational methods too closely.

In essence, I agree with Patrick. I want to know if "2-sigma" is true, replicable. Establish that watermark. At that point we'll have a high watermark for education, what a median student can achieve in a near ideal environment. Is there really a 2 sigma difference between normal school results and ideal?

If so, this difference represents potential.

Figuring out how to apply that IRL with resource constraints, scaling issues, etc... That may not be a job for academics. Either way, it comes later.
It's easy enough to use my thought experiment to make it a meritocracy. We watch their latest talks. Fred is a better speaker. Thanks to more experience because he has done more talks. Thanks to confidence because he has never heard "no thanks". He got more talks and experience thanks to sexism.
If I'm paying a 500% margin on a product, I want my money to go to the person that actually put the work in to create it so they can make more products, not to a counterfeiter?

But that's just my personal preference.

You've completely skipped over "90% of Apple products are counterfeit". They are not niche, are not easily discernible, and pose a safety hazard.
Programming is not about coding or knowing technical intricacies. It’s a two step process:

1) understand the universe
2) explain it to the three years old

Coding comes as a part of the second step, but domain knowledge is crucial for the first.
Another demonstration than ancien forests are fireproof whereas young forests aren't. This is the reason that makes centenary trees so valuable and so rare.

But each fire gnaw a little of this protection.

Arsonists should be more severely punished. Is the same as terrorism, just much more insidious, causing a bigger economical damage and a durable damage at long term. Not to mention that also kills people...

Why is so well accepted as unavoidable by the public opinion still amazes me
Since Linux came first (and was GPL licensed first), it's worth remembering that ZFS was intentionally made incompatible with the GPL via the "CDDL"
I feel a little bad about this post. It's not inaccurate but it reads too negative, or maybe bitter (I'm not).

Everyone says - well, you'll be unhappy either way wrt marriage. But it seems to me those who don't get married are much happier - some in relationships, some not. But I would still personally like to get married, I think... so I guess I want these stats to be untrue, or for there to be an escape - "people keep marrying unwisely" etc.
iOS is a major cost to develop that's given away for free, continually invested in, advanced, developed & updated. Apple is allowed to have more than one business model on the platform they built, which was their primary focus that reshaped the company at a great opportunity cost to their other businesses. Ultimately the Company bet paid off & became successful against a number of incumbents who lost fortunes trying to compete in Mobile OS's. The App Store is now one of their major sources of revenue for having built a successful platform (a category they helped pioneer).

The nominal annual fee is a cost for accessing the dev tools only, it's in no way a royalty-free cost to sell products on one of the most lucrative markets in the world - that's what their standard royalty % (unchanged from the outset) covers.
Google Recaptcha Beaten and Indiegogo Campaign for Virus Sim(see comment)
I beat Google's recaptcha (https://www.google.com/recaptcha/about/) using AWS Rekognition and AWS EC2 where I had one machine in each possible region (about 20) to keep their algorithm from giving me impossible puzzles. Seeing is believing, so I ran my system for 20 hours on THIS very website(each video is 10 hours long):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N16tjueYqg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alI13vlEJC4

Also the FunCaptcha(the one where you rotate some animals) but using Google Vision API:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5nL5P9FIqg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl6l-Ww5FSc

My channel(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkLdZAUsGiuQyT7Oq_0wz7Q) has videos of it running on S stackOverflow, Disqus, The Google Vision API website where I got a 0.7 score on V3 Captcha for 40 hours, reddit and this site(Hacker news).

Code:
https://bitbucket.org/Pirates-of-Silicon-Hills/voightkampff/...

The readme is not up-to-date, but the relevant files are main.sh and funCaptcha.sh

You have to beat two things:
-Click on the right images FAST ENOUGH
-Make sure they don't blacklist your network and IP

V3 Recaptcha, in fact, only does the later. IP is easy: restart the EC2 machine. Network is hard, you need to switch between them and attempt no more than one puzzle per try. More when I make the video explainer...

I am making videos on how to set it yourself, hopefully done today. It runs on a GCP VM with a VNC server as "screen" and uses AWS EC2 as proxies. It's all a giant shell script.

I designed a new Captcha and will launch a crowdfunding campaign for it based on the fact that I beat the 2 main captchas in the market, but because some people I knew died from Covid I made an Indiegogo campaign for an app that warns you about surfaces you should not touch and finds people who are not wearing masks around you. This is why I am here.

Please spread the word
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/virus-simulator/x/2451533...

Ozymandias
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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
People in their mid-30s who put off having kids and buying a house because they couldn't afford it until just now. Bunch of people born 1982-1986 are just now putting their lives together after riding out 2008. The 1984/5 years were an especially large class. People 1982/3 are just now starting to age out of their prime childbearing years ("biological clock").
Western Digital is using it on their hdd controllers. SiFive licenses IP for big cores and China apparently plans to work with it in the future.

Also I don't know why you count Ogg Vorbis as a fantasy kind of thing, it's used for pretty much any conference app and it has support on most consumer hardware and softwware for playback. Programs like EAC and dbpoweramp support it. I use it for my music collection on my phone, at half the size of mp3 it sounds completely transparent to me with my earbuds.
Two paragraphs down:

> Sadly, thanks to the bureaucrats of public service industries, local councils, banks, building societies, _insurance companies_ and government departments, we have learnt to accept an official style of writing that is inefficient and often unfriendly.

> But in the last few years, many of these offenders have started to put things right, either rewriting their documents clearly or training their staff in the art of plain English, or both.

So, it’s a work in progress. I agree that the order is confusing though.
The coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) [1]:

> In response to forest fires, the trees have developed various adaptations. The thick, fibrous bark of coast redwoods is extremely fire-resistant; it grows to at least a foot thick and protects mature trees from fire damage. In addition, the redwoods contain little flammable pitch or resin. If damaged by fire, a redwood readily sprouts new branches or even an entirely new crown, and if the parent tree is killed, new buds sprout from its base. Fires, moreover, appear to actually benefit redwoods by causing substantial mortality in competing species while having only minor effects on redwood. Burned areas are favorable to the successful germination of redwood seeds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_sempervirens
There is a find feature in the specs already. My users actually need to be able to interact with a lot of rows.

I can just bind ctrl-f to my search feature.

Also, it doesn't take 3 seconds to load but few ms as well.

See, you don't just pick a tech, you need to start from the specs and get what the user need.

Also, in pure HTML (because i tried it) ; the same rendering would be hanging anytime you try to act on something.
Draft of OCaml Scientific Computing book
Beautiful. The worst is that many of these ugly words come en masse to the lips of marketing droids speaking in other languages. They can't help but pepper their stupid speeches with bad English. God how I hate that.
For the love of god stop extending the prototype for no good reason. Just use a regular function.

element.xpath(abc) is in no way better than xpath(element, abc)
I also imagine Epic made these kinds of calculations before trying to take on Apple.
US politician only it seems.
Minimal Kubernetes Examples
You could play bingo with this entire list of words to avoid in most corporate meetings I've ever been to.

Agenda, advance, deliver, deploy, facilitate, empower - all such cringy words when used out of context.
If you use less with a filename, it will work. I normally pipe things to less which doesn't seem to work for me in nu. less shows an empty input.

This is possibly me just doing something wrong.
Have you ever been to a redwood Grove? Even on the coasts, All of the oldest trees have burnt out cores and are doing fine.
No it doesn’t. XPath works on the nodes. How you get to the nodes is irrelevant.
Aral is in this for the long term and I respect his principles. Those accusing him of his past 'failed' endeavours are part of the problem. He is self funding his goals and has been ever since, not taking money from surveillance and vulture capitalists.

He was critical on Mozilla taking money from Google, and calls out privacy conferences taking money from Google, Facebook and Palantir.

Aral is following in the very footsteps of another respected privacy advocate, Richard Stallman.

Please take the time to read (or even donate [0]) to the Small Technology Foundation [1]

[0] https://small-tech.org/fund-us/

[1] https://small-tech.org
That’s another fallacy...If one likes apples, it doesn’t automatically imply they hate oranges.
I asked because childhood sweethearts don't usually work out - people change too much in their 20s, I think.

The exceptions tend to be strongly devout Christians. I'm not sure why, but perhaps it's the support from their church community? There's a certain amount of peer pressure, but also genuine cheerleading going on there. I was brought up Christian and I do think the community side of church-going can be a net positive for many people.
Yeah at one job I worked, a smart but then-inexperienced guy had developed a language, implemented a transpiler, written a bunch of tooling in the language, and left the company. We'll call him "Steve". By the time I got there it had been largely replaced, but one still heard rumors about the dreaded "Stevecode".
It's only the best English essay of its kind — or maybe of any kind!
What is line hinting?
Because Evernote is too formal? Let me slap-on some ComicSans on my notes...
I'm never a fan of mixing runscripts that come with the package and runscripts written by the user. If rc.d is a libexec, it enables the perfect solution - /usr/local. It even allows one to potentially override a runscript in the most natural way, too bad it never gained the traction.
The meaning of the expression 'to be here' when applied to a technology has changed in recent years. consider the sentences:

The robotics revolution is here.

Self-driving cars are already here.

The expression 'to be here' no longer has any specific meaning.
Yes. I store them offline, in keepass or screenshots.
Twitter, social media, and now even regular media stories are a game of telephone, with slight misinterpretations snowballing as the minutes and hours go by. People lining up to fight on both sides of accidental straw man theses is a weekly occurrence.
Backspaces in String Challenge Using Java
> Due to the way iOS works (dynamic dispatch) private APIs can only be prevented through an App Store review process.

That's complete nonsense.

Dynamic dispatch has nothing to do with the ability or not of a program to access API. Dynamic dispatch is the selection at runtime of the correct version of a polymorphic function. Obviously, you can sandbox programs written in languages using dynamic dispatch.
One of my favourite books is "small giants, companies that chose to be great instead of Big".

I wish more companies were ok with just being really good at what they do and focused on that instead of how to get the big pay day and the fuck you money.
Road to Genius: Smart No.22
There is a great article that went uncommented on HN about Architectural Decision Records.

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/architecture_decision...

The simplest of them include "consequences" of architectural decision. For PWA these include the development of that kind of features.

Now to be absolutely honest. I prefer having a dedicated back-end that does one thing well and a front end that does one thing well. Even if I have to put in extra effort with few features just to have my source-code more dedicated and therefore cleaner to work with.

The thing is that PWA not only included the front-end dev, they also reduced the complexity of back-end. And that's a huge win I'd pay with these kind of features happily.

Stop crying around on HN and go dev your feature
मोटोरोला Moto G9 Play Moto G9 का ग्लोबल वेरिएंट है जो आज जबरदस्त फीचर
Draft of OCaml Scientific Computing Book
I don't know about sequoias but some species' seeds need to "feel the heat" before they can germinate. For example acacias in Australia, if you just sow the seeds the germination rate is very poor. The trick is to put the seeds under boiling water before sowing them...

I know that for some species of cycads people actually burn hay in the crown to induce fruition.
Brooklyn has many issues with the Gowanus canal, also a Superfund site. It flooded parts of Brooklyn in 2012 during hurricane Sandy.
The thing is, F22 has radar, it can see a swarm of 20000 drones. What do you do if it just turns around and comes back 3 hours later? How many times can you have 20000 drones take off and reach 50000 feet altitude? These drones don't burn any fuel at all?