skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, and I bend over backwards to support every browser, including beloved classics like Netscape3, Mosaic, IE3, Opera3, Netscape4, Opera12, IE4, IE6, and current IE11. Not to mention text-based Lynx, Links, w3m, curl, and wget.

If there is one person out there still using one of these browsers, for whatever reason, I want them to still be able to access my site, rather than telling them to take a hike.

I think it's rude, ablist, exclusionist, arrogant, just plain bad to demand the user switch browsers just to access my resource, akin to telling a wheelchair user to take a hike, or making a road incompatible with a certain car.

I don't think that for low-interest pages with text and information, HTTPS has more disadvantages than advantages.

I think the Web has taken a turn for the worse, but it's not too late to turn it around and make it free and accessible again.

I'm committed to put in work and research to bring about this turnaround. Honestly speaking, it's not that hard once you start trying. It's just a matter of keeping your HTML simple and light, feature-checking all your JavaScript, making fallbacks for nojs, favoring older tags over newer, ignoring some bullshit standards, and a bit of tweaking here and there.

If a near-idiot like myself working alone can build a web-based forum software which does all this, then I find it hard to believe that a company like Google couldn't do it.

And, in fact, while tricking everyone else to drop HTTP support and ignore non-Chrome browsers, Google continues to offer at least rudimentary support for Search for just about every browser I mentioned above.
>> This isn't even scratching the surface on how they treat many of their employees. Who is working in an amazon warehouse right now and actually having a good time of it? Amazon could easily automate away many jobs they never wanted in the first place, but sacrificing lower-skilled humans do the last mile of messy pick & place turns out to be more friendly to margins.
<<

So how much would you pay warehouse workers and why do you think warehouse job in Amazon requires so kind of special treatment or salary?
We are still in the process of setting up the Rust Foundation, and so you'll see who's sponsoring at that point.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25197967

The answer is there
(1) How is this not editorializing and a violation of Section 230, (2) who, precisely, is making the determination of what is true, false, or misleading, and (3) what's the recourse for contesting whether something labeled as misleading really is?

And what is wrong with letting people figure things out by themselves? We know that content on Social Media is produced by the users and is fallible. Why does Twitter feel the need to take this step?
An Immersive VR Journey into the Pandemic
Yes, just pointing out the trade offs here. Btw many functional languages have quite good interactive experiences, (ocaml, f sharp, Haskell , clojure all have decent repl's). Usually they work instantly for small sized projects.
I enjoyed Garfield as a kid. It has definitely run out of ideas for a few decades now and is extremely milquetoast. But there are some classics. This was my favorite: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0f/9d/fa/0f9dfab0251ed0356321...
With AliSuppliers gone, many vendors like me won't be able to get new business and with AliExpress gone, many tinkerers like me won't have access to components.

Good bye innovation by many and welcome monopoly by crony.
It's not true that if you are poor in a third world country, you cannot afford a vehucle. A lot of poor people in third world countries instead use and indeed share incredibly old cars from the 60s-70s, or motorcycles. It is often literally a matter of life and death - if you get stung by a scorpion in the Atlas mountains, unless your family or village have a car and fuel for it, you're just not getting medical care, which is why you'll see many such very old cars there. This is a real issue - the micro-village in the mountains where part of my family lives had one of my aunts die as a baby because a scorpion bit her and she couldn't be brought to a hospital due to a lack of transportation. They bought a Citroën 2CV after, and it's still used up to this day.

Now, of course, like all non-progressive subsidies, they benefit the wealthy disproportionately, because they make disproportionate amounts of money. But for the bottom 20%, those 7% of the subsidies are a lot, because they often make less than 7% of the income.

So a workable solution would be to make these subsidies progressive, tied to income and consumption, but unless you've lived there it's difficult to understand just how bad removing them altogether would be. It could literally lead to revolts.

Also, that study is hugely problematic because it takes the entirety of the world together, instead of operating at national scales. I already agreed that for richer countries this should be phased out, and subsidies are likely to be much higher in richer, often non-producing countries, than in poor countries.

Also, before they got solar panels and batteries around 8 years ago, they were still reliant on kerosene for lighting.
AFAICT WebAssembly is in the continuum of HTML/CSS/JS, and is intended to "make things faster", so there is no reason to separate things that are essentially text and medias from things that are essentially programs.

In other words, WebAssembly won't cut the Gordian knot, in my opinion.
Oh, kids think he's a scream. But the humor wears thin as you get older. I've noticed the same about Mad Magazine. When I was 11 and 12, it was hilarious. But as I got older I realized that half the reason I found it so funny is because I was a kid. The nonstop puns, pop-culture parodies, and low-key raunchy humor pushed the envelope for me. But as an adult I realized that whatever wasn't forced obvious humor, was boomers who haven't moved on, didn't understand new phenomena like video games at ALL (certainky not enough to competently make fun of them), and were fighting 60s and 70s ideological battles in the 80s and 90s. They dedicated an entire section of one issue to moralizing about smoking, for instance.

That said, some of the art -- especially Al Jaffee's -- was excellent. I can't say the same about Garfield.
This is excellent, frankly almost unbelievably good news. On the one hand, I'm still bummed at Mozilla's recent decisions re: layoffs. But with these 3 companies picking up the torch and increasing their investments, that is a ringing endorsement of Rust's viability for greenfield projects (and that compiler checks > coders conventions in improving software memory safety)

Having maybe kicked off a small flamewar with my above comment, I will admit to being curious to contribute to deferring the eternal september of rusts community and how welcoming it is with all the influx of new developers, myself incuded in em.

Theres probably a netiquette equivalent somewhere, but beyond "don't act like the rust evangelism strike force" of n-gate fame, I'm fuzzy as to its details.
It definitely is a significant increase in support, all I'm saying is that it's a difference of intensity, not of kind, that is, it's not going from "no support" to "support" but from "support" to "lots of support."

Very happy to see this happening, for all the reasons you cite.
In my small Texas town there is the list of "ordinances" at over 11 pages long, over 1,600 different violations with fines ranging from $200 all the way to almost $600. This is just a way to screw people out of their hard earned money. Some Choice Examples:
NO MUD FLAPS - $142
NO HOUSE NUMBERS AFFIXED TO FRONT OF HOME - Hearing Required in Court
LIT CHARCOAL OR WOOD IN A CITY PARK - $571
CUTTING ACROSS PARKING LOT - $271
USING BBQ GRILL/PIT AT APARTMENT COMPLEX - $500
PUBLIC INTOXICATION ‐ ALCOHOL, OR OTHER SUBSTANCE - $571
GAMING ‐ DOMINOES $275.00
GAMING ‐ CARDS $275.00
GAMING ‐ DICE $275.00
DISCHARGE SLINGSHOT IN CITY LIMITS - $225
HUNTING,FISHING AND CAMPING IN CITY PARKS:GATHERING FIREWOOD - $180
USE OF LASER POINTER - $271 (Does not state how used, as in presentation)
RIDING BICYCLE ON DOWNTOWN STREET - $100
ANIMALS: NOT STERILIZED - $130
BEGGING OR SOLICITING - $271
BEE KEEPING: VIOLATE REQUIRED DISTANCE FROM PROPERTY LINE - $321
And yet, you can't buy anti-tank or anti-aircraft weapons.
Once an entire government worth of people led the US into war that cost millions of lives over fake reports of nukes.

It would be interesting to compare the damage caused by open, crowd-sourced investigative efforts against the damage caused of closed "authoritative" investigative efforts.
He shall know our ways, as if born to us.
Well, I'll be damn, it worked. Two years an iPhone user and never managed to hide the damn icon until now, maybe it was too intuitive for me.
This seems to be the article that Twitter blocked:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/do-masks-stop-the-spread...

Archived at: https://archive.is/QeaLj

Small discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25150029

Discussion of another article about that study: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25159583
> ... and then it keeps you swimming in the same pool.

This is a consequence of the metrics that are being optimized, it's not a fault of the algorithm per se.
In cases like this and many other cases i feel like the purpose of the machine learning algorithm should be to find a simplified polynomial function. I remember reading a paper in which an “AI physicist” was created and it would reduce complex machine learning models into simple equations that would explain the physics of a simulation. It would reduce the complex simulation into human readable and potentially more useful and predictive “laws” of physics.
Amazon Will Conduct Counterfeit Inspections with U.S. Agency
Wrong dimensions. Supposed to be 1:4:9. Wrong color as well.
Hah what?

The US hated Shinzo Abe for the longest damn time, didn't stop him from being re-elected multiple times.

Also, its not appropriate to call the forces still in Japan an "occupying army". There is a joint forces treaty in place, and Japan has multiple times refused to amend Article 9 of their constitution

In South Korea, they've deposed the previous President. Seems like the US is doing a bad job installing leaders there.
Amazon’s $3k Signing Bonuses Irk Workers Who Got $10 Coupons
Especially considering there's multiple games out there now that are 60+ gigs. My guess based on the unifi graphs of my connection for 7 people is that our biggest consumers are Netflix, and game downloads. One roommate alone ate over 150 gigs in game downloads in the last month.
I would bet it is just metal sheets cut to size and then riveted or screwed together on site, then filled with rocks for stability. Metal sheets could be carried there, hole dug out and then assembled by 1 person basically.
The new generation of biotech seed funds
don't forget peer to peer viruses! with access to microphones, smart power sockets, smart water meters, and smart sprinklers!
Well, the good news is they rarely deliver their advertised speeds, so at least you have longer to hit the cap.

At my current speed I could exhaust the data cap in 0.6% of a month if they gave me full speed down. (not to mention up).
A simple tool to create beautiful CSS backgrounds
For certain jobs like in finance, compliance has to spy on people to check they aren't manipulating the market.
> But I, for example, have my Echo configured to automatically delete voice recordings, and to disallow manual review.

Let me see if I understand correctly.

You bought a device from a third-party (Amazon in this case), which intentionally listens to audio in your home and sends that data elsewhere - literally a promoted "feature".

You obviously don't trust said "third-party" with your audio, as shown by you admitting that you toggled a couple checkboxes to delete your voice recordings and disallow manual review.

And you trust that these settings that you clicked on, on a settings page designed by said third-party, actually do what they say they do?

I mean, your trust has some really odd boundaries.

"I trust Amazon! Except not entirely... But I trust them when they give me the option to make them more trustworthy! Kinda..."

OP has a point. It's literally a spy device designed to help you control music and order toilet paper. Cool, yes. But it's still what it is... People have a justifiable reason to not trust anything about these devices and go with the roll-your-own-sollution route. It's nowhere near a "dumb argument".
How the Nazis Stole a Cookbook
Show HN: Built a classic Menubar that turns into sidebar on Drag n Drop
I'm not sure if even lead acid batteries could provide balance for that tipping moment. Maybe a brick of pure lead.

Doesn't look as k-rad if it was more practical. Of all the "no compromise" design goals I don't think sane or practical was among them.
Computation for work and energy, yes. No one is arguing against that.

The problem is arguing a correlation between computation and work for price of BTC and/or cost of energy. That is the mistake from OP.
Typescript is perfectly capable of telling you what the return type is without needing you to manually specify it.
I have a Monolisp.

I have a lisp - but I am very monotonous.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasicrystal

^ Pretty interesting, for those of us who haven't heard about these yet. I at first assumed this was a joke like Unobtanium.
The last time people felt that way, the police responded by creating police unions that used contract law to protect police from outside investigations into their abuses.
Maybe its the plan I inherited or something like that, but I didn't have to sign a 2 year agreement and honestly 170 for 300 mbps isn't terrible (for Comcast) with the reliability I've been getting it'll be super consistent, at least, which isn't something to shake your fist at per say.

Not sure why it is that I didn't have to sign a 2 year agreement (I did originally get this via my employer, though I transitioned out of that years ago). Maybe I'm on a legacy plan?

I pay for 75/30, which maybe they don't offer in your area for some reason (I pay the low end of the spectrum here, 70 a month). Its always worked well for my household so I haven't thought to change it. Surprisingly, I'm tempted to see if I can get more speed for the dollars I'm paying.
Oh, also, I liked this: https://imgur.com/noUdCET
I've only used the first for personal home use, and the second just a little bit working with a local nonprofit, but I really love Notion and Airtable.
I think the number one fix for autocorrect is adding an "I'm an adult, no I never mean duck" toggle
"Down went Shia's white flag of defiance, up went a red Trump hat..."
I bought a Dell Mini 7 refurbished in high school to play with and it was an interesting device. I actually dusted it off just last week while talking to a coworker about how he got into iOS development on a hackintosh and I remembered that I had loaded OS X (now macOS) onto my Dell Mini. It still boots and is a trip to play with. My parents used it for a year or two to iChat video chat (this was before facetime) with me when I went to college (with a real Macbook).
> has anyone formalized the idea that the second law can be interpreted as a general inability of computer programs to predict one another?

This sounds like the halting problem.
As indicated by `enctype`, and the resulting Content-Type on the request, you're POSTing plain text, not JSON. A server needs to verify the Content-Type of the incoming data to ensure it doesn't fall victim to this sort of thing, or just misinterprets other data. In this case, the server is mis-interpreting plain text as if it were JSON.

(A good HTTP framework, IMO, should come with this built into its API, on requesting the payload as a JSON object. Some frameworks … try. A lot do leave it up to the user, which is hideously error prone. Also, this isn't to defend that cross-origin POST is sort-of allowed. I wish we could remove that historical wart.)
> not much protest has been done

> surveillance is close to the bottom of the priority list...

These are directly related. Surveillance causes chilling effects.
Friends of mine that are contract programmers have been ramping on Rust for the past 2-3 years claiming the number of requests for it has been increasing exponentially. I installed it two weeks ago and have been getting a feel for it. It's like if C++, C#, and npm had an offspring. I always hoped Java would make a comeback, but Rust is looking like the real deal.
Excellent analysis, and one I hadn’t considered.

I wouldn’t have made the connection between strong religious liberty and reducing the likelihood of islamic separatism.
Thanks! I will start a poll separately. It’s interesting to hear about stick vs autonomous experiences and the poll doesn’t offer that discussion aspect.
Yeah, like those Gos, Javas, Kotlins, C Sharps and so on.
A lot of fanciness rolling across companies.
What type of living hell doesn't have version control?

Git is the first thing I set up when I start a new side project, every job aside from one which let me set it up, have used version control.
I will say Plastic SCM sucks and no one should use it though. One of my side projects ran into massive issues with my contractor due to no one, including myself understanding how plastic works. GitHub for life
Host your website with GitHub Pages
Created a concise video/presentation for hosting a website on GitHub Pages, setting up a custom domain, and a basic Git workflow for updating the site.
Distributed Systems with Node.js: Building Enterprise-Ready Back End Services
After a year of writing, my book Distributed Systems with Node.js was finally published today! The book is available here:

Paperback from O'Reilly (use code DSWN20 for 20% off):
https://shop.aer.io/oreilly/p/distributed-systems-with/9781492077299-9149

Paperback from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Systems-Node-js-Building-Enterprise-Ready/dp/1492077291

Kindle from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Systems-Node-js-Building-Enterprise-Ready-ebook/dp/B08MTJ4H6L

My intent with this book is to prove that Node.js is just as capable as traditional enterprise platforms (like Java or .NET) for building services that are observable, scalable, and resilient. It's very hands-on and readers will write application code and integrate it with tooling from various layers of a modern service stack.

For example, readers will encapsulate two applications using Docker, run a private container registry to host images, deploy to Kubernetes, configure health checks, scale the instance count, and allow the apps to communicate with each other. Readers will send logs to Elasticsearch, build a dashboard with Kibana, send metrics to StatsD/Graphite, build another dashboard with Graphite, transmit request spans and visualize request hierarchies with Zipkin. They'll even configure a CI pipeline, run unit tests, enforce code coverage, and deploy to a production server. And that isn't even half of it!

I wrote this book as a Node.js developer who loves writing code that runs on the server but who doesn't have much interest in frontend development. Node.js developers often get stereotyped into being frontend developers and I hope that this book can help bring an end to that.

Let me know if you have any questions!
Adam Sandler basically ceased trying soon after leaving SNL. Like Jim Davis, he puts no effort into trying to be funny to a wide audience. He makes his movies as an excuse to goof off and hang out with his friends, while trading his name for cash from studios like Netflix.
Given the supposed police statements in the article elsethread, it’s more the membership card than the license plate frame these days.
Same place all the previous cost reductions came from: a few percent heee, a few percent there.

We are not close to really any sort of physical limitations. We can continue to use less and less material, and come up with designs that require less and less labor per watt.

And there are entire directions we haven't really explored yet to reduce costs even further. For example, panel lifetime. If we can extend panel lifetime by 5 years, that's a 20%-25% reduction in costs. Yet lifetime has stayed fairly constant and unoptimized up until now. 10 years from now we will have a ton of new lifetime data from existing panels that can help us guide the next generation of panels.
Show HN: Slyde – A new social network, private by design
Social media hasn't changed in over a decade but the way we live our lives, especially digitally, has. We've grown up but our social media hasn't. Slyde isn't meant to be an idealogical anti-facebook. Slyde is meant to help us connect more meaningfully and privately with the people we know. Privacy doesn't have to be an idealogical decision, it can be a design decision from the beginning that could still result in a viable model.

Myself -- an ex lead architect and senior engineer at Vacasa and Nike -- and a few of my non-engineering friends got together and decided to build the next social media platform. We just made it public late last week and have received overwhelmingly positive feedback both from our closed testing (with just friends and family) and our single post about it the day we went public on Reddit. We had more people check it out and get accounts than we anticipated; it feels like we've hit the right nerve. We made something we wanted to use and we already have a lot of people who have never had social media who now have a Slyde. We hope you all on HN will like it too.

There is a video on the front page you can watch that is only 2 minutes long but explains the basics of how it works.
Bill Gates’ high-stakes quest to vaccinate the world against Covid-19
Developers say App Store Small Business Program is good for business
"Don’t think you need Amazon Sidewalk? No worries. You can update this anytime from the Ring or Alexa mobile apps." Really makes it sound like this is going to be on by default...
Wow. That was ridiculously rude.

>Maybe we need to think about whether modern capitalist economies are higher-order lifeforms that have produced many systems, including systems of economic rationalization and "consent manufacture", that directly optimize their... ecomass.

Economies behave like organisms working to increase their "ecomass", or in this case, GDP

> It's no longer really about class and the means of production -- we're seeing how an organism that is larger than us has learned how to reprogram us to better serve its need.

We are acting like microorganisms inside of the organism that is the economy.

> The paper clip optimizer is already here, folks!

Reference to the traditional story about an AI optimizing paperclip production over everything else, including human life.

EDIT: For the record, I both downvoted and flagged. It was not that hard of a paragraph to parse, and you attacked it in a rude manner, and made unfounded accusations.
Thanks for link.

If it’s a US specific question..not necessarily! Altho I think there is a sandwich generation here too who grew up learning stick and now used to automatic.
For precedent on this, see the case Anderson v. Stallone, in which Timothy Anderson sued Stallone/MGM for allegedly ripping off his fan script for Rocky 4. Courts ruled that his fan script, as a derivative work of Rocky, had no copyright protection, and so MGM was free to rip it off if they wanted to.

I happen to disagree, in that I think the law should say that derivative works are co-owned by the owners of the original work and the creator of the derivative; but that does not seem to be what the law currently says.
You can vote with a resident visa in NZ.
Please tell me more! How come the calls to the old code went to nothing? It does not surprise me but I wonder how it happened in this specific instance.

Who did the 900 modules rewrite?