skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say javascript serves a useful purpose anymore as it's being used to generate entire UIs. It's more a requirement, and performance is taking the heat.
> Derailleur systems receiving a similar lack of maintenance are what turns people into short distance drivers.

Funny, I thought it was my three young kids that did that.

I always had a mountain bike growing up. Having now transitioned to more of a road bike, the difference in rideability is pretty stark.

I guess it could be the derailleur, but I assumed it was the tires and gearset that made it a pain to get places. I also have noticed a night and day difference when my tires are properly inflated. I just replaced the tubes and tires so maybe I'll have better luck now, but previously I needed to refill the tires basically daily to keep them in the right range.
I generally visit web pages with JavaScript disabled and them immediately click "reader view". But there are certainly a lot of sites where content is loaded with script, and for those pages I must enabled JS. Q: Does anyone know of a Safari iOS add-in that allows for whitelisting of specific sites to run JS?
>If it's something like get access to shows on Netflix or the BBC iPlayer, then this is a good technique.

Not very true anymore, at least Netflix outright blocks streaming to most ip blocks owned by VPS providers/datacenters.
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I have seem quite a bit of echo chamber on HN as well, it's not limited to reddit. For instance your post is getting more gray because people here don't like an opinion like yours that is strong but not necessarily in line with "community standards" aka "echo chamber resonance". almost all online platforms have become echo chambers on anything that is just pure technology or science articles.
Can't you create an LLC and obfuscate your name that way?
Beware, this is only one of my new years resolutions that really worked, haha.

But good luck!
> Industry. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.[1]

One of the projects I've long procrastinated on is building a Benjamin Franklin 13 Virtues trackers, to help log/quantify myself regularly, & hopefully see/spot procrastination/low-points, & apply myself better. The commitment device of having a window in to the past.

[1] http://www.thirteenvirtues.com/
The complaints raised in this article are mostly irrelevant to the typical consumer.

Rosetta 2, from all reports, works well enough that I’d argue they’ve already succeeded in making the transition smooth enough to call it a success.

The main non-developer concern raised in this piece is extraneous dialog messages, which sadly we’ve pretty well all been trained to ignore. I agree they’re unfortunate, but they’re hardly a show-stopper.

The real risks Apple faces, as far as I can see:

* Will developers do the needful for universal apps? That seems to be well underway, even among the giants.

* Will a lack of x86-64 Windows emulation prove to be a deal-breaker for too many users? I’d say that’s impossible to know, but I’m optimistic. (And if Apple once again is setting a trend for the industry, Windows itself may fully make this transition someday.)

* Will Apple be able to keep up with AMD and Intel in the chip race? Obviously early signs are promising.

Big risks, but mostly ones Apple can control, or at least influence. What other dangers am I missing?

Adding: the dependence on TSMC is obviously a risk, but I imagine Apple has some notion of what they can do if they lose that option.
Not too far from : http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/TEXTS/Nightfall.h...
You can't do any kind of ecommerce or media without Javascript (or something like flash). Do we really want to limit those sorts of things solely to apps? This whole movement is insane. Lets get rid of cars while we are at it, they run people over after all.
> Linda Barnes and her husband had to visit six charging stations as one after another they were either out of order, already had a queue or were the slow, older versions that would never be able to provide a fast enough charge in the time.

I’ve been watching a few EV road tests on uk based YouTube channels. It seems the road tests which where positive of the vehicles had similar issues. The reviewers showed there was a surprising amount of charging infrastructure displaying apps with charger locations, however when they got to the chargers they may of been several at the site but only one/two working etc with the rest out of order.

The article seems the opposite of a EV fud job, the couple come across as pro EV, they say they love their EV and where incredibly unlucky with the set of circumstances
. The article seems to be highlighting some real issues that need to be resolved. Charger infrastructure in the UK looks to be progressing well but probably due to low usage state of repair is probably low after installation and if only ev vehicles can be sold after 2030 the scaling up problem needs to be resolved.
Around Mac OS 9, they changed some types of errors from modal dialogs to floating palettes in the corner of the screen.
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Am I the only one that doesn't get the point? I understand what the comic is saying, but I don't understand why it matters. There's nothing wrong with writing 500 posts about blogging setups if that's what interests you. There's nothing wrong with spending many hours putting together an elaborate blogging setup if that's what interests you.
Use a hidden checkbox. No js necessary.

Eg. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31506684/expand-collapse...
> Make does support multiple outputs, though the syntax sucks.

No, it doesn’t. There’s NO syntax for multiple outputs. If you can show me what the syntax is and prove me wrong, I’d love to see it. At best, there are workarounds for the lack of multiple output support, with various tradeoffs.

> Make is a programming language with a built-in dependency mechanism, and as such you can use it to build whatever you want...

Make is NOT a programming language. End of story. You can… kind of… build things with it, given that variables in Make can be used like functions, but it’s goddamn horrible and you shouldn’t do it because nobody will want to use it and nobody will maintain it.

At most, you can build something on top of Make, but you’re still facing the limitations of Make and working around them. If you are interested in building something on top of a low-level build system, you want Ninja instead of Make, because Ninja is good at that. Make isn’t.

Make is, at best, something you would want to use for a small C program where all the files are in one directory. Once you grow past that use case, my rule is that you shouldn't be using Make any more, because there are just too many things that Make does wrong.

Make is successful because eh, it’s good enough for small things, you can suffer through the pain if you need to use it for big things, and it was the first tool to solve this problem. We have better tools now. We had better have better tools now! Make is in its fifth decade… if we didn’t improve on Make in that many years, that would be a damning indictment of the entire field.
Can't say I'm surprised to hear petrol service stations are neglecting to keep their EV chargers operational...

How much longer before home owners start offering public EV charging from their driveways? Do any charging infra companies market units to this demo? I have plenty of space to install something on my land, and electricity is on hand, just give me a turnkey solution to make money from it and get it registered in all the nav/location apps.
I totally agree. I actively try other sources and unless you end up ordere $75+ at a site you're not going to get free shipping most of the time, and certainly not 2 day shipping which is almost always "true" to being 2 days.
You are not wrong, buy it is an easy fix, just install Linux and take back your computer! You might loose a little comfort initially but that will soon come back.
Yes, that's almost 5 years ago now. But please note that since then, it has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). You can check out the Rakudo Weekly News (https://rakudoweekly.blog/blog-feed/) if you want to stay up-to-date on developments.
I don't mind renaming it. It didn't cross my mind initially that it would be a problem.

I want developers to have quick and frictionless tools when trying to hack out ideas. That was the main idea behind Teex anyways!

If it makes someone's life easier, I've happily ctrl-f'd my code, retired the old Hex package, and published the new one.
I automated going through the 100 most popular websites, disabling JavaScript, and taking a screenshot to see what they look like

https://github.com/umaar/offline-website-scripts/tree/master...

- Lots of Google products don't work

- Wikipedia looks the same

- GitHub works pretty well, including lots of functionality I thought was JS only

- Amazon seems to work just fine
This is too funny. I just made a custom static site generator last week because I was tired of hosting my WordPress and having to deal with multiple resolving site names, backup plugin spam, and constant updates which 9/10 times have me restarting to get it back up....so far I have made 6 websites and transfered all my WordPress content to my generator and I feel so much freer. it doesn't take PHP, it doesn't take a database and I can theme it and I am building a couple plugins. I have 120+ posts and I plan on expediting now that it's easy to publish this to multiple sites with a single publishing event.
This article would seem to generate “more heat than light”
Except finances. :-)
I was under the impression that web assembly did not provide utilities for interacting with the page/DOM without a JS glue layer. Am I mistaken there?
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Well, yeah. Important things like tethering would never have made it into iOS if Apple hadn't been dragged there by the jailbreakers.
His point is easily seen if you go to the post office/fecex and try to mail 2 bulbs for $3 and see how far you get.
This release integrates most of the GSoC contributions from our 3 students. It is also the last feature release supporting Python 2.7.

We will be removing all the compatibility code as we go from now on.

One of the reasons for having continued to support Python 2 for an extra year, albeit all the problems it created on the Continuous Integration end is the VFX Industry which is still heavily relying on Python 2.7.

Updating and changing the pipelines while being middle of movie production is challenging and takes a lot of time.
Yes, but notification center, added in Mountain Lion, was an exact clone of the iOS 5 notification center. Which at the time was argued to be stolen(!) from Android's notification center design. So did Android steal Growls implementation, as well? That is what is being implied.
Tony Hsieh has died at the age of 46. He died of injuries sustained during a house fire in Connecticut. Tony Hsieh is most well-known for his work as the former CEO of Zappos, a company that sells shoes on the web. His family, friends and co-workers mourn his loss.
Interestingly my Amazon purchases have gone down. I'm down to 25 this year, from 116 in 2016. I can't really explain it beyond I got tired of (and maybe a little guilty for) buying so much junk online.
These effects are all intertwined. It used to be easy to go to college because it was cheap. It was cheap largely (not entirely) because it was government funded. As more people caught on to how great a deal it was, funding simultaneously dropped while enrollment exploded.

The cost crises led to our crazy loan system.

All speculative, but individual pieces of evidence I've found point to this being likely
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I was personally amazed by Amazon. Sadly it seems the websites that work best without JavaScript are those where I really don't feel like it's a hindrance to begin with.
I know it's more verbose, but I'm deeply fond of Applescript's syntax for assigning variables:

set x to 5
> A toxic relationship that Gust tolerated for 18 months, which turned him toxic too. Fine, so he was just treading water till his own bonuses cleared, but that was his choice.

You're desperately trying to blame the victim for some reason.

Your desperation is such that somehow you've tried to spin the victim getting paid for his work according to his contract as somehow a failing.

> (...) That was his choice.

Victim blaming aside, it's rather odd that you're trying to bash the victim for "choices" like doing his job and getting paid for his work and not being subjected to abuse.

It sounds like somehow you believe people don't have the right to think for themselves, to not tolerate abuse and disrespect, and have their best-interests in mind.

I'm done with your comment, frankly. I won't read any more of it. I don't believe anything of value can come out of this absurd line of reason that sounds like a sociopath bashing his victims for the inconvenience they created by stopping being abused. This is not a reasonable conversation that reasonable adults have, and for this reason I'm out.
If you want to add a site but don't use github, feel free to email me.
That sounds like an amazing idea that they should implement!
That's not the case at all. Ecommerce is mainly a serverside application. At most, doing everything serverside would introduce some extra lag.
"The universal experience is that Hacker News is incredibly biased against whatever you happen to favor."
If I understand the argument in TFA, JavaScript is unnecessary and often misused and that makes JavaScript bad.

Allow me to introduce you to fire, and the wheel. ARM has a JS specific instruction.

If you want to homestead off the grid without JS I think that’s cool bro, but don’t act like you’re better for it.
Not very similar. If you wanted a message, the OS put up a modal dialogue blocking everything else. The whole point of Growl was that it didn't interrupt you, and you could have its messages go away on their own.
How do you send a notification now without Growl? Each time I try to google for a tutorial, they all say “just use growl.” Ultimately I gave up and installed growl, and it works quite nicely.

I’d just like to pop up a notification programmatically via a bash script. :)
You sure? Up to the platform, but generally it is not the case I think. I mean sure, I paid and downloaded albums from Bandcamp before, but I use YouTube the most for music. I do not use Spotify, or Apple Music. No idea if you can download songs from those platforms. I do use SoundCloud and YouTube. I must use youtube-dl to download music from those two places. SoundCloud gives the uploader the ability to allow the downloading of the uploaded song, but in many cases it is not allowed, so youtube-dl it is. Then you can also find torrents and download your favourite bands' music in FLAC format.

youtube-dl is amazing. It supports a lot of platforms, and you can download entire playlists by just using the URL to the playlist itself.
Thank you for explaining.

The chain of associations here was a bit longer than usual: Image Meme > Song Title > Prominent Death > Political Figure > Recent Dramatization > Actor in Role

That's about as complex as your average bilingual pun!
Cables have been that way when I worked as a bestbuy black shirt 20 years ago
I'm not sure what is currently beeing used, and I guess that really depends on what exactly you are doing. But I know that often infected Computers are used as a VPN or Shadowsocket to cover ones tracks. Combine that with several layers of protection and it gets harder and harder to track one down
> Apple is the worst of the lot, by far the most culpable, as they're directly attacking the notion of ownership and computing freedom.

How are they worse than Microsoft?
Good if you need a lot of cables, if you just need one or two then amazon is still cheaper and you get it faster.
It’s much cheaper for society to be just generally quite trusting, and then shoot any spies it finds.
So the end host calculates the entire path in advance, and embeds it in the packet…

Imagine if this were augmented with onion routing capabilities, like Tor. Each address in the path would be encrypted such that only the immediately preceding router can read it. That way, if an attacker intercepts a packet in transit, they can only determine the next hop address, not the final destination.

Yes, yes, this would add a massive amount of overhead and complexity, and it would probably take decades to get implemented.

But I've been wondering what the next step is after encrypted DNS. Encrypted DNS prevents an attacker from knowing which domain name you're connecting to, but they can still see the IP address, and if there's only one site hosted at a given address, that's all they need. So to achieve privacy you need many unrelated sites to be hosted at the same IP, i.e. you need a big CDN. But that risks overcentralization, and it means you have to trust the CDN. What if there was a way to hide the IP address itself?
> The researchers have also found reindeer antlers and bones and other biological matter but have been surprised by how few of them have been revealed as the ice melts.

Sites like this can be a "kill zone" where animals tend to naturally gather like say a watering hole or a cluster of exceptionally tempting edible plants. No need to create a lure or decoys, just wait for them to come.

Lack of bones may indicate that kills were moved before they were dissected.
When I have parts in my MacBook Air die, I guess I'll find out. It's 10 years old now and doesn't show any sign of breakage. I'm pretty sure it's paid itself off several times over.

Since the new Air lacks even a fan, it seems even less likely to need service.
This is exactly what i feel. I discovered qbasic shortly after I played with super mario on NES and I thought that qbasic could be my gateway to create games.

Funny I ended up developing LOB apps instead of games because eventually my interests led to databases and dynamic apps.

I guess if tools like unity or real engine existed back then I might have been a games developer. Maybe. Now i still play around with unity but not as much as i want to because of several side projects.
My plan is to get a min spec M1 air as a personal laptop and then get the real 14"/16" M2 version with touch, more cores and more RAM later on. As one apple employee told me, you never really want to get a v1 with apple anything if you can.

With the 'touchification' of big sur, it seems pretty likely apple is going to release some sort of convertible macbook or maybe something iPad style. Or maybe iPads can start running macos?

Work laptop will get upgraded to an M1 one way or another anyway.
Platform traffic and discoverability. ECom volume lives or dies by traffic and Amazon has the bulk of it in Western markets. This is only going up as people take their product search directly to eCom vs. generic search (this BTW is also why Baidu began losing market power vs. Ali in China and Ali has also been a lot more innovative than Amazon in terms of attracting content creators on site)
Fear and trust are not the same.
You can make an AppleScript thing and call it from bash. I think this is the sort of documentation I used at one point: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/La...
To me the interesting internet architecture research is content-centric.
I think most people are not interested in this at all. The truth is that people love JS and want more of it.
Wow, everyone is so fucking combative and contrarian the last few days. Chill out, that's not what I was saying.
Challenging yourself out of your comfort zone is whiteness, and toxic white culture.
My friend sent me a screen shot from `powercfg /batteryreport` on his Asus Zephyrus G14 (Ryzen 9 4900HS) and it had consumed 16,704 Wh of battery in 1:47:27 of active use. That tracks to about 8.5 hours (capacity showed just under 80 Wh).
Is it a craze? Or is it fashion? Today it's jeans with cuts on the knees, tomorrow it's polkadots. Yesterday it was self esteem, today it is he/him, she/her.

I like trends. I enjoy fashion. There are many trends to choose from. Delightful.

Self esteem was innocuous light reading that soothed my teenage and young adult anxiety. I found it beneficial at the time.
what could they have done to improve the thermals?

is it just a matter of making a thicker laptop?
Reads like a /r/nosleep title, or writing prompt
It depends how optimistic you are. It could be a message from a civilisation wiped out ages ago, because they knew at what point they crossed the line when the changes were irreversible. (ignore the continent drift and the placement of the sign for a bit :) ) Devices left behind kept working for some time, speeding up the recovery enough that we can't see that period clearly in any usual natural markers.
Perennial Philosophy
So they are reinventing source routing? There’s a reason we don’t use source routing.
I've been maintaining my own blog engines for 15 years. I basically use it as my todo app or "hello world" for learning new technology.

For the longest time I always wanted my blog to have a database and everything because then I had to work with the DB tools in the new language and everything (C# -> Python -> JS -> Rust) and write migration tools in the new language and everything.

Wordpress would be better / easier if the end goal was blogging, but for me the end goal is to have a side project that is built and maintained the way I want :)
Yes, it is normal - and that's because sites quickly become useless for archaeology when the souvenir-hunters and traders in artifacts come a-calling. It's not just about what is there, but where everything is in relation to everything else.
> Windows is a hard requirement, ones where Macs are utterly dominant

I think you got it reversed. One can develop Android apps on macOS because there's no lockin like XCode. The same is not true for iOS apps which require XCode.

So if anything macOS is a hard requirement.
It's hard to imagine living in a world where the same ground produces food hunted with bow and arrow for 5200 years.

I mean... what constitutes a generation gap in that world?
Notably absent from this analysis is a new tool called Nicepage. Took me years to find anything like it.

https://nicepage.com/
Oh, for Cod's hake, can't you do any betta than that?
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Same genre, sort of:

I love the concept of this game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Summer_Car

> My Summer Car is set in rural Finland during the summer of 1995, where the 18-year-old player character has the family home to himself while his parents are on holiday in Tenerife. The player has to assemble, restore and upgrade his father's dilapidated Satsuma AMP (modeled after the Datsun 100A) using the car parts scattered inside the garage, as well as by purchasing new parts.

> To earn money for parts, the player can perform various countryside chores for neighbours such as delivering firewood on a tractor-pulled trailer, using a vacuum truck to empty their septic tanks, making kilju (Finnish homebrew sugar wine) and selling it to an alcoholic neighbor, and picking up the aforementioned neighbor from the town pub in the early morning in exchange for a small sum of money.

>After passing the Satsuma at the vehicle inspection office and installing the appropriate aftermarket parts (which can be obtained by mailing an order form to a parts dealer), the player's car is eligible to enter a weekly amateur rallying event for a chance to win a trophy and prize money.

..

Writing for Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Brendan Caldwell called the game "Funny, detailed and thoroughly confusing"; while writing for Kotaku, Nathan Grayson called the game "Janky and weird as fuck, but fun".

:-)

Having grown up in the Swedish countryside - all of this seems very authentic.