skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah the majority of the websites seem like throw away projects that were made in 5 minutes. Whoever created this probably should have taken the time to find JavaScript free websites that are actually presentable.
> what about the chips in your system?

We need a way to manufacture our own hardware. Just like we can already write our own software.

Currently manufacturing processors costs billions of dollars. Consequently, the power to create computers is centralized in very few hands. They are easy targets for government regulation and compromise.

What if we had technology that would let individual users fabricate their own hardware cheaply? That would give the power to create computers to everyone. We would then be able to create chips we could trust. Nobody would be able to interfere.
Are you serious? The JIRA app is by far the worst native mac app I've ever used. If their website is anything to go by then it's not the underlying technologies fault, but I found the JIRA mac app to be just as slow as the website.
Network operators have a different view of the network than sources, and of course, they have real time information about the next hop, but that doesn't mean all of their information is better.

If a source had information on available paths, and was able to select the path taken, it could measure and estimate congestion and latency and pick the best paths.

As far as I know, most BGP routers are using least AS hops as the primary metric. Latency, link capacity, and utilization aren't generally considered.
Sorry here's what a build file looks like, which should hopefully clarify: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/mem/me... As you can see, it's just vanilla make. The package program is just a helper that checks to make sure DIRECTDEPS variables are correct. That's the part Google said was tricky back in 2006. Have you ever seen people talk online about how it's super difficult to have a single makefile build multiple library files? Particularly static ones? Like the pitfalls of making sure the linker arguments are the correct order, or removing a dependency from one will break all the others that needed it transitively? This is how it can be done. I found out it just requires following a highly specific convention, where it's a little toilsome to type, but so rewarding once it's done. It also means I don't need to ask users to install a cutting edge build system to build my code, since I've just seen too much drama in that space.
The JS is inline. Neither uM nor uBO static rules block that. The only way to block it is a uBO dynamic rule `no-scripting: $hostname true`, which you'll also need to be able to render the `<noscript>` content anyway.

BTW, you probably want to move off of uM given gorhill has abandoned it in favor of uBO. (I converted all my rules to a mix of uBO dynamic rules for JS and static rules for everything else, except for cookies which I still use uM for because uBO can't manage them.)
How do you suppose the Vikings reverted the climate during the Medieval Warm Period?

Interestingly, Norse Mythology centers around Frost Giants signalling the end of the world. They feared the ice returning.

Why do you think that is?
Oh, it would have made it, they just needed to figure out the best way to charge for it.
Some Onions do this.

I think it's a conflict between Tor trying to be mainstream as possible and Onions trying to reduce users attack vectors, JavaScript has been used against users on Tor.
It’s because no one (mainstream) uses Linux. Developers make these projects and still want lots of users and people to find use in the products.

Developing for Linux leaves you with a smaller range of users than Windows and Mac.
Wow, Growl was still around. This took me back to simpler times before notifications.
What is your point? Is Growl responsible for all notification implementations post 2003?
Yeah, it was definitely in 2012. I was there that year (was not in 2014), and remember briefly speaking with at least one of the Growl developers (might have been OP) about it. As I recall, they were (publicly) optimistic about the future of Growl, but of course it seemed clear to me that its days were numbered.
I tried it and it works. But that drawing window seems almost broken. It doesn't repaint properly when I resize it, and closing it seems impossible.
If you look at the point on the floor where the rays 'bounce', you'll see that the rays are casting shadows too, that can't be associated with anything else in the scene.

In any case, that's the only issue (however minor) I can see for the visual quality, and if that isn't what's being referred to, I have no idea what about the image 'looks bad'.
The problem is most of the websites that are being showcased are ugly and basic.
I believe people build their own blog setup mostly out of ideology and a need to tinker.

"How can something like blogging, something that thousands of boring food and travel bloggers do, be real work or even of value for anyone?"

You gotta read something other than tech docs and forums.
One of them is very small, and was only around for 2.7 years
Erm... I have no idea how to turn off JS, globally or for particular sites, in Firefox for iOS.
...In mice.
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Is carbon dating accurate? I mean is the part in arrow 6000 year old or the wood part? Does it work for today's items?
The iTunes Store still exists and has a decent selection as does Amazon Music MP3 downloads, not to mention a bunch of smaller players like Qobuz that have FLAC and other audiophile formats. If you want to buy legally and download, it’s still possible for like 90% of the artists and genres I care about.
I'm thinking about providing a simple web UI so that data can be shared even in environments where it is tough to install the pbgopy command, such as mobile devices. It's now on the roadmap: https://github.com/nakabonne/pbgopy/issues/7
None of the sites showcased are beautiful. They're just unstyled.

I think something like CSS Garden is a much better showcase.
I’ll add that I’m currently building a website, taking great care that it will be fully operational without JS, and progressively enhance components where there’s some interaction I want to provide to people who accept it. I wholeheartedly agree that there’s way too much JS trash on websites, and that it’s all sorts of vectors for abuse. But this kind of hamfisted response is really painfully unhelpful. You don’t have to browse with JS enabled, and you’re welcome to encourage people to make the web work without it again. But making content inaccessible without finding an obscure browser setting isn’t going to appeal to anyone except the people who are already locked and loaded.

My philosophy is: set a good example, make the benefit clear, and communicate with other devs who might not realize the horror show they’re sending down the wire/executing in their users’ browsers. But forcing people to figure out how to disable something increasingly hard to disable before they can even hear you is not good communication.

I only clicked the link because I was hoping there would be a regular site under default config and some special treat with JS disabled. Progressive enhancement. That would have been a clever and compelling execution.
The problem is no given retailer has the sort of market power Amazon does. There are at least a dozen grocery reatailers in my smallish city, and dozens nationwide. In fact, merging grocery store chains are frequently forced to divest of stores in order to ensure communities have multiple options.
For saving $1, you get extra trash from shipping, have to track a package. And there's the waste of ordering it and having it shipped, some bloke's going to double park with hazard lights and walk the thing to your door. On the other hand, you're already there in the store, and the bolt could be yours without that nonsense. What's the value of that dollar then?
"I'm TOTALLY gonna buck this trend and be that guy who writes his own static site generator AND posts a lot!"

--Me, looking at my list of.....1 draft, unpublished blog post.

sigh
I got interviewed in the latest round, I'm generally one of those people that tends to no pay attention to l33tc0d3 shit for interviews because I think my skills speak for themselves. Additionally no matter how well I do when coding at home or at work I have never passed a code interview. I knew it was going to be a problem with my interview for amazon, the truth is I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder, I was fully expecting to fail. I did so spectacularly. I don't understand why its necessary to do these stupid test, I have some serious accomplishments under my belt and I know I'm a real solid developer but these coding tests are fucking stupid, menial, and don't accurately depict my abilities. For example the position I was looking for was with the Identity product. I thought I would be a shew in. I have written OIDC and SAML providers from scratch by only observing how existing ones work via http calls. I thought that's got to be a unique skillset, I bet they'll give a test that fits in my wheel house. But the fucking question was about 3d geometry. What the fuck do I know about 3d geometry? I imploded, I couldn't think, I panicked, I failed. Fuck em.
Yeah, I forgot the proper word for reverse-transcription. Regardless, my actual point which you ignored was:

Voices.com: 300 words - From $250

Bunny Studio: 500 words - From $151

Poise: 500 words - From $11

Why would any reader work with you, when they are going to be paid at least 10x less than the competition?
> Something that used to take 3 minutes to compile + link for a debug build is now down to 40 seconds.

1990s me laughs remembering edit/compile/test cycles measured in hours.
I think I'll give it a try right after I'm finished playing with my "My Dinner with Andre" action figures!
The US was, per capita, the richest country in the world by 1820-30.
Since I just came across this[1].

"The moment the robots realize that the three laws of robotics are just socially constructed norms"

[1] https://twitter.com/Thinkwert/status/1325980944654856193
> We achieve this by making encryption easy, powerful and ubiquitous

Ubiquitous encryption will be pointless if the encryption itself is subverted, like it was for 50 years with the 2 leading Swiss encryption vendors. I imagine the CIA/NSA would target the PRNG hardware as the crown-jewel, and the next-best targets would be "enclaves", then back-dooring the algorithms themselves (or implementations thereof).

Remember - their aim isn't to break encryption (which would be simple to spot) - it's to make it easier for them to break, while remaining hard for everyone else.
I can't even load the page because it requires TLS 1.1, heh.
I'm sure it depends on where you are located and what you're buying. I routinely see the free shipping estimates at 2-3 weeks these days for some things, but other things have 2-3 day shipping still. The longer times have certainly become more common than before.
No two people ever have the same set of information. And very few cases are even as clean as the coin case.

A more typical example is using polls to predict elections. 538's model ended with Biden around 90% to win. Andrew Gelman's model at the Economist ended with Biden around 95%. Do either of those represent objective probabilities?

Or take weather predictions. Per https://www.metaculus.com/questions/4617/will-2020-be-the-wa..., Berkeley Earth gives a 16% chance to something that NOAA gives 29.2% to. Is either of those an objective probability?

I would say no, and I think that just because two people happen to agree on a number in a particular case doesn't make it objective. If you want to use the word objective, I don't have any particular objection. I'm not here to fight over words, and none of these words are really well defined enough to be worth fighting over. I don't think it's useful to think of probabilities as "real" in any sense.
> I don't understand the disable JS movement

Javascript is a privacy and security nightmare. It's almost equivalent to downloading and silently executing untrusted code on your machine. I say "almost" because Javascript code is virtualized and sandboxed. Though I have no doubt people have already discovered vulnerabilities that enable code to break out of the sandbox.
I was not thinking about the Viking times in this case, but honestly I love the frost giants version!
If you're in the US, could you contact your representative about your experience? The government is starting the wake up to abuses like this and you might find a receptive audience.

At the very least, Amazon might suddenly talk to you or reverse their decision to ban you with a Congress person breathing down their neck.
What do they make the cogs out of?
In my experience Brave Browser (chrome based) runs circles around uBlock origin FYI
Arguably consultants help clients (obviously not in this case), traders are just facilitators of capital and executing on behalf of higher ups. They make money on large volumes of flow but provide no great service aside from liquidity or to line their clients pockets.

iBankers on the buy side at least have to understand where the markets are going. Or have I missed what value the traders do? :)
Except, if you want to make proprietary software, you have to compile GNAT yourself and be picky about the libraries you use: Adacore’s own FOSS compiler has a GPL runtime library to prevent commercial usage.
Just for argument’s sake, does rotational weight really give a performance impact? I expect it marginally improves initial acceleration but I also expect top speed is unchanged. Heavier wheels would allow you to coast for longer without needing to pedal (conservation of momentum) but besides the initial acceleration performance is mostly unchanged. Unless you’re constantly stopping and starting idk if it makes much difference. Similarly, I’d expect the chain’s weight to have a minuscule impact on acceleration but the increased efficiency sounds like it is several orders of magnitude beyond whatever trade off there is to a slightly heavier chain.
Check out next.js. You can write vanilla React basically but fetch the props from an API prior to rendering on the server.
A REST API is purely a server-side issue, so you don't need JS for that (unless your server is Node of course).

You still need Ajax (at least) for truly dynamic content. The bad news is that Ajax requires client-side JS. The good news is minimal Ajax functionality only takes about 30 lines of pure Javascript. The bad news is you will need to write those 30 lines yourself because every JS library is at least 100x bigger than that and packed with cruft you don't need.

My advice is to pretend React doesn't exist, learn Javascript, and write just the Javascript you need and no more.
Software engineers are held responsible to plenty of things (HIPAA) when there is a will to do so.
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Same battery life here. :( Love the actual machine but the battery life is a disappointment.

Just got a 16MB 500GB M1 Air and so far everything is at least as snappy as the 16" Pro, and battery looks like a full 8 hour day + so far... it's a keeper I think. I also find the keyboard a bit nicer to type on personally than on the 16", so accuracy is up.
In the gif, the path intersected the disc representing the Earth's position a few times. What was the actual minimum distance between the object and the Earth's surface?
Yeah! After I install uBlock Origin, people seem to stop downloading malware for some reason. Funny how that works...
Auto-incremented integers encoded in base32.

You can also encode UUIDs in base32 instead of base16, which will make them about 20% smaller.
YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Apple Music are all streaming services, not places to buy music. However, you can buy digital music from Amazon, the iTunes Store, Bandcamp, and other places that give you DRM free audio files. I personally think this is a fair trade off because when you pay for a streaming service you are just renting access to their library while if you really want the music for keeps you can simply purchase the music.
This is a use-case for D, with a compiler flag to compile-and-run.
Geico is a BH company.

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/subs/sublinks.html
A small portion of it.
Can you say more? I’m a happy uBlock user — what am I missing by not using Brave?
This seems likely to be the initial cause of the Original Mandela effect.

Hearing about it second-hand, out of context, would imply he was _about_ to die, which would imply he died in prison in the '70s.
Interesting. Can any number gurus tell us what you make of it?

Get the PDF from this link:

https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2020/11/a-closer-look-...
Safari does this, at least on iOS. If you open a new tab, then hit back, it just closes the tab and takes you back to the origin tab. If you’ve closed the origin tab, it leaves the active tab open but goes back to what the origin tab was.
Tell me you had Extended Basic, the Editor / Assembler, the speech synthesizer, and the expansion box for the TI. :) I didn't have E / A or the expansion box, but I did have Extended Basic and the speech synthesizer, and just those were a lot of fun. Using a cassette tape as a storage device was kind of clunky, but it worked; I would have much rather had a floppy drive or 2. OTOH, I don't miss the primitive editing mechanisms. Line numbers suck.
Oh I didn’t mean to distract from the improvements to refcounting - it sounds very much like they’ve significantly improved the perf of uncontended atomic increment vs Intel which is obviously a win on iOS and OS X as objc and Swift both inline refcounting - I think on windows/COM it is through a virtual call? In which case improving the increment itself seems like it would not be a huge win.

As far as perf the general argument is that dropping the need for refcounting saves time, and that removal also helps caching due to reduced per-object size.

That said I’m not sure if those comparisons are comparing to generational or moving collectors (which are the low latency collectors) because those start needing write barriers.
Ah, memories!

I had some teeny, tiny contact list that took up hardly any space on screen. Something like: https://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=1473

Compare to Facebook Messenger for Mac, which is gigantic, but doesn’t actually present more information. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/messenger/id1480068668?mt=12
I'm not a fan of watches especially when typing, but Apple watch can help you with authentication.
wish belt drives would catch on more.

(yes, I realize the frame needs to be split to remove the wheel, but in the newest designs this doesn't seem like too big a deal)
Incompatible chains and parts harm end-users, too.
Not sure you are aware but there is a modern single board computer you can buy or build that boots to MMBasic which is a modern elegant and performant Basic heavily inspired by various Microsoft Basics.

The computer is called Colour Maximite 2 and has a small but devoted community that’s constantly improving the platform.

You can purchase CMM2 from a handful of vendors or make your own.

I highly recommend one for a kid that is starting to dabble with programming.

Kind of a homepage:

https://geoffg.net/maximite.html

8 bit guy review:

https://youtu.be/IA7REQxohV4
Stored Procedures as a Back End
This reads like something on /. fifteen years ago. The anti Apple crowd always was louder than the mythical Apple fanboys.

The argument is not “did Apple create a walled garden and rule it like the actual Chinese Communist Party” because yes it did. The question is, are they alone in doing it, or just successful?

I think the latter, you think the former it seems.
I recently moved back to Arch Linux after spending the last few years using a hackintosh full time. There shouldn't be any reason to need to keep installing an OS; if you're competent, you should be able to correct any issues.

For many peoples workflows including my own, Windows would pose a far greater headache to get to a productive state. macOS works great, up to the point where you want to enjoy freedom to use your computer as you see fit, certainly less hassle for development (in general) than Windows though imo :)
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I'm fascinated by an election of people to positions of responsibility that's done completely online.

I wonder what kind of issues this causes, or whether in my imagined world, this frees people from the political BS that accompanies our modern shill-for-the-camera election incentives?

For example, by the fact that the main place to compare candidates is a written summary and response to questions, you are forced to read and think, rather than watch TV? Does this cause a different type of candidate to be favored? Does it cause the voter to be different?

I don't know, do the candidates lobby outside of this format? Do they email around campaign materials and try to get people to vote for them? Do they rally supporters through Zoom? (maybe OSM is not quite that level)

Hard to get a sense of what it's really like to work with someone through written text, but maybe that's to certain people's advantage if they don't speak well in person. Does someone who responds well over text = suited to negotiating and managing a huge project? Do you have to ask more questions to figure out what kind of work/family/personal situation they're in, and how much time they really have to devote to your project? How confident can you be? How about if a decision about the project involves millions of $ later -- trustworthiness?

Can you imagine if the elected board gets together for their first Zoom call and a 60 year old retiree sees a 13 year old teenager?

Fascinating.
> The criteria for this "club" is so narrow, even Hacker News wouldn't even be eligible! Is that really what we should be striving for?

No, it's what this club is striving for. This club isn't advocating for 100% of websites to be a part of it. It's encouraging an idea that could use a bit of love, not demanding it.
Extra shiny stars if you know the 300 million USD secret... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_(2006_film) Koosh! you're special!
just add a prefix to your brand and/or use a more obscure tld

people are literally not typing in domain names anymore and have not been for a very long time

they click and tap what was shared to them
The cost-benefit analysis of JavaScript usage comes down on the side of enabling it for most people, because of how much of the web is completely broken without it. Sandbox escapes are rare but extremely valuable, and they absolutely exist: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3186686/google-patches...
Rust does not yet have a stable ABI, and there is not any such thing as a "binary crate" at the moment. So it's kind of hard to run into that problem as the entire exercise is impossible.
Yeah, the 250kb club had a couple users submit initial criticism for the same reason; it responded by mirroring on sr.ht and setting up mailing lists, giving others the choice to use either.
These sort of games are not really for the general public. They are made for streamers and content creators to do something funny while their audience watches. It’s a spectator game. Imagination not included. Guaranteed there will be some Let’s Play video called something like “Let’s do nothing in particular inside a Russian tower block.”

I always wanted someone to recreate my childhood game “Funeral” where you lay in a box being dead while people come pay their last respects.
Was it ever Apple who charged for tethering? I always thought it was in the hands of the networks and their various plans. Today it seems like it's not even a feature anymore, just something you can do with your phone (or, at least for me it is: I'm on one of the cheapest cellphone plans in my country and tethering just works)