skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you are saying, however I do not believe for one second that there is a measurable change in sales (for the company that places an ad) for an ad like the one I mentioned above vs the mega-targetted, data-mined tracked-to-hell-and-back ads that companies like FB and Google tell you about.

Sure, a scattergun approach would be pointless but someone in Minnesota searching for carburetors has provided enough data in that one search that I don't believe targetted, mined, tracked users will be more lucrative.

I've asked on here before if anyone had a link to research that wasn't commissioned by an ad company about targetted and mined data and no one has provided one.

I'd love to be proven wrong but I don't believe targetting, mining, whatever you want to call it, moves the needle enough except for the ones at the top of the tree selling the belief (Google, FB etc.)
I remember a time when Facebook would make a quite buggy appearance for a year or two. Must have been around 2015.

Docker and k8s are tools to make Linux cgroups more accessible for the user. In total they add more structure to files and processes. I cannot really say that about VPNs since OpenVPN for instance just overwrites all my network settings. But I guess it's possible to write bad code in every language.
Last time I tried you couldn't call block_on inside another call to block_on, so you can't always just "throw it on the executor".

But it's been a year since I tried so maybe executors are more likely to support arbitrarily-nested async -> sync -> async -> sync ... chains now.
I actually went through a phase after realising this of outputing strings of utility classes to named variables to essentially emultate the benfits of CSS class names. My next realisation was that I might as well just be writing plain CSS.
In the end I recognised that the things I actually liked about functional CSS were more or less the same things I liked about CSS-in-JS: colocating styles and markup (albeit with blocks of css rather than utility classes) and the approximate scoping of styles. I ended up writing a build tool that fascilitates this outside of React / JS.
>Do people normally measure spices?

If I'm working from a recipe, yes? I don't sweat extreme precision, but I do use measuring spoons. Especially in something like a cookbook, I assume the author has put some thought into the measurements.
I don't think so. It hasn't happened in Denmark at least.

Besides, just having a "domain squatting is illegal" rule would mean domain resale websites won't be possible as they will be a clear sign of bad intend.

It may not remove all the squatting, but if you can't easily set up a resale shop, it'll be a lot less economically attractive.
> The problem is that wikis can’t be globally editable without license events

What does this mean?

> If there was a decent wiki product

Like Mediawiki.
To me "stardard" ruby style is style used in the std-lib.

Whilst I can see the benefit of having an AST format code for you, e.g. if can you use it to fix language version changes like positional arguments and keyword arguments in Ruby 3,.0 I worry about how good/bad RuboCop is at formatting.

Last time I tried it, it was indenting in a different way to the std-lib.

At the time I found that prettier-ruby[1] did a much better job. Hopefully that's improved since.

1. https://github.com/prettier/plugin-ruby
Why Is It Worth to Write Custom Framework for ETL Processing
What about nonfree HTML and CSS? These are not programming languages, but they are still instructions that tell the browser how to display the page. JS code is also a set of instructions that determines how the website should behave. JS is sandboxed, so things that it can do on your computer are limited, just like HTML/CSS. Perhaps the issue with JS is that it's still too powerful and it would be great if browsers could let to limit what it can do even more by allowing to set individual permissions for Web APIs.
> Everything involved with email is pain.

Wish I'd seen this comment 4 years ago.
Yes they are. The Swastika is a religious symbol, the Hakenkreuz is not.
Well surely the author is the one pushing identity politics into his videos about technology, complete with an obsession about "modernist degenerate marxist egalitarian values" (I'm paraphrasing)
Jumping immediately in the bath when I’m the last one in is fine. Not so much when people come in after me.
The article ends with a stated goal of measuring the gravity of masses of the order of 10^-8 kg or about 10 micrograms. This reminded me of a calculation involving known fundamental constants - h, G, c - to derive dimensionless units for mass, length and time by setting these constants to unity. Setting c=1 is common among general relativists. When you do that for all three constants, you get (iirc) a unit of mass to be 10^-8kg = 1 and of time to be 10^-43secs = 1 and 10^-35m = 1 (only stating orders of magnitude). The latter two are Planck time and Planck length and the first is Planck mass ... and we may indeed expect quantum effects to manifest at that scale. I've also read on the occasion that 10micrograms is around the scale at which quantum superpositions may be sustainable before decoherence becomes unstoppable.
Bitcoin's greatest feature is also its existential threat
Does this mean Google wants to track you directly and not allow others to do the same? I heard on Seth Godin podcast, this is cunning move by Google so that advertiser will not know whether ads on google are actually working or not
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Nothing is "wrong" with it, the design is just something from the 90s/early 2000s.
Take nazi's money and give them a broken email system in return? Sounds win-win to me.
Jews?

edit: nevermind, I get it now.
KZ is the shorthand for Konzentrationslager, i.e. concentration camp.
The Atlatnic has a bunch of photos for the tenth anniversary:

* https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2021/03/photos-10-years-gr...
Detection of a particle shower at the Glashow resonance with IceCube
Oof, we’ve got be better than this by now.
Yes, let’s throw out all art, scientific advancements, technologies, inventions, books, anything with an author that we find problematic.
Notice that HN already does support unicode: α β γ é ö 本

It actively filters out a small part of it, mostly emojis (which I think that it is a good thing to do).
There are metacircular interpreters, like in Scheme (see SICP [1]). But this is rare, compared to bootstrapping compilers.

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...
This essay really sums up the greater problem and impact of the modern rent-seeking economy. It applies to domain parking, ticket scalping, mass property buying for holiday/airbnb renting, etc.

https://medium.com/swlh/the-economy-is-broken-rent-seeking-b...
How to Monetize a Two-Sided Marketplace
I've just checked - no ads on my 2020 LG CX(yet?).
EU lawmakers don't understand that. It makes too much sense.
PRISM and all of the problems described in "the right to read" essay. Many other are probably easily found with a bit of research.
25 email etiquette rules and tips every professional needs to know
> plans to unveil an ad-free, personalized search experience. Expect it to be on a paid subscription basis, likely with a free trial period.

Oh please gimme paid everything! But 100% ad-free, tracking-free, DRM-free, programmable and configurable!

I wish my ISP could just charge 3 times as much as it does for the broadband, distribute 2/3 (or a half - perhaps that would mean extra overhead so they should be given extra rewarded too) to the websites I visit and we could have no-bullshit web again...
That's a pretty interesting observation, I had not thought of that at all.
what "low COL European country" means? Some kind of local slang?
School isn't going to fix the broken justice system. I've seen a trooper knowingly hold a false charge resulting in loss of liberty and then lie to the court about why he was amending it - his supervisor didn't care, IAD didn't care, the magistrate wouldn't even let us present our argument. The stuff they would teach in school about the system would be a joke because it's basically an oligarchy.
The supply of any given car is finite. I'd like to have a Ford Focus RS but they never sold that many of them before canceling production.
My first hunch would be to answer "importing", but it's not always possible to check.

In the case of Scotland, is [1] giving a realistic view of Scotland (it mixes Scotland / England, so I can't really tell ?)

At the time of reading, the mix (again, for GB) of consummed electricity is about 40% wind+solar, 30% gas, 10% whatever, 10% domestic nuclear, and 10% "electricity imported from France", wich is usually 70% nuclear.

I'm writing this middle of the day, in March, so I assume the wind+solar part is working at a nice capacity (it would be much more unfair to compare it in the middle of the night.)

So on a very first approximation that I'm really ready to dismiss based on more data, it seems that Scotland produces a lot of electricity from renewables (a good thing !), and consumes electricy made from a bunch of sources, some of which are not renewables.
Is that fair ?

Follow-up questions: are there countries that managed to ditch fossil fuels for their electricity production and to not rely on imports / neighboors without renewables ?

The only examples I have in mind are those relying on hydro (Norway, Costa Rica, maybe ?) who were blessed with mountains.

[1]: https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/GB
Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape, dies aged 94
Feels like transported into 90s. Just honest content.

I wonder how lack of ads and SEO influences positioning in search.

I wonder why exactly that kind of content is vanishing from Internet:

1. Geeks stopped being interested into publishing honest content (I don't find it likely).

2. Geeks gave up on publishing honest content.

3. Honest content is still there but is just diluted by for profit sites.

4. Honest content is being punished in search results by not being nice to advertisers.

5. Honest content is being outgamed by sites that make it their main mission to game the system.
Amazon Vesta project seems to be ramping up for production
Can confirm. This bit me recently until I thought to use another account for testing.
I hate my job. I'm unmarketable because I became an expert in two obscure stacks.
Argh I'm so tired of this "technicality". Yes, technically C and C++ are different languages, and C is not a subset of C++ (which is a pretty big problem btw). But C++ has been derived from C, then forked its C subset into an incompatible dialect, while not fixing any of C's problems (which would've been an actually good reason to not call it "C/C++"). I think it's fair to call C++ "C/C++", because it will always be a confusing mishmash of C and the features that C++ added on top.

Sorry about the rant.
I co-founded Nameplanet. Back in '99 we registered ca. 60,000 domains to provide vanity e-mail addresses (not at full price - we negotiated steep bulk discounts for several TLDs). In the end we moved on to create the dot-name TLD, and sold the e-mail service. It took the purchaser less than a year to recoup a multi-million purchase price by converting a tiny proportion of the userbase to paid accounts.

So, yes, you'll need a lot of users, but there's been a market for paid vanity e-mail addresses for a very long time, and this seems to be an untapped niche... I doubt he'll get rich off it, but there's a good chance he can grow it to a size that makes it very worthwhile.
Screened out by a computer? What job interviews are like without human beings
You shouldn't use any vanity email address as your only address, unless you want your online life lost to inbound GMail and outbound corporate filters. So, if there's a situation where you need to write it down, use the 'serious' address.
as opposed to bloated 2020 minimalist designs that don't work
Is HN actually filtering these, or they use utf8 in mysql which is famously not full utf8mb4?
So I guess your take is that speculators help price goods optimally. And I'm assuming this can be construed as good for society, because value is created, and in most cases, appropriately taxed. Fine - I'll work with that model.

It seems to me nevertheless that for domains that system is suboptimal in itself. Although I take it that parkers are better than non-specialized agents at pricing domains, and that they may create more value than charging a $7 flat fee, I doubt that their pricing systems are dynamic and sophisticated enough, and therefore a lot of value goes uncaptured. I see a lot of them simply charge domains at ~$6,000, without accepting lower bids, so for all we know there is a few dozen million domains that could've gone for anywhere between $7 and $5,999.99 that will never see the light of day...
His blog is pretty crazy https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/vegan

> Long story short, a bugman is someone who rejects the purpose and role of humans in their natural environment. They reject tradition, religion, their family, gender roles.

Ah, I can smell the rank mold from here.

> you're given for your acceptance some inane religious platitudes like "equality" and "rights" along with vaguely Marxist notions of "exploitation" and "slavery" and "oppressed classes,"

Plus the usual inane stuff about vegans being fundamentalist skinny soybois who will die at 40 and become impotent from their diet. Oh, and also global warming is a myth. Lovely stuff.
> This might seem silly now, but in 10 years it might be what everyone is asking for.

You may be on to something. Initially I thought the concept was silly, but then I started thinking about Wasm binaries and it starts to become less silly.
A possible solution: .js files should be hashed and, html should indicate the hashes of the .js files it uses. The browser than could run only scripts from a allowed list.
Unsure why you’re being downvoted, IIRC the original C programmers reference spoke explicitly about how “int” meant the most efficient unit of storage on the target machine.

Admittedly I read that more than 30 years ago :-O
I created a Bot that will help you buy Doge or BTC based on Elon Musk’s tweet
To nitpick here: You need less than kilogram of electrons to screen a kilogram of protons (roughly 2 grams it seems)
Ok, and .kz is the ccTLD for Kazakhstan. You think people can't realize the difference?
Compiler Basics: LLVM (2019)
It works the same. What I like in sway is it's basically i3 AND i3-gaps together in an active codebase. The biggest difference you notice is when you get rid of picom the compositor, you'll get visibly snappier desktop... Without really needing any special xorg configuration or picom setup, you get composition, tear-free graphics and videos, all just working.

Be aware that to get there, you should make sure you run all your apps in wayland too, not in xwayland. Firefox requires an env var, same goes with GTK and QT apps. Emacs you get from the NixOS overlay; there's a branch that follows the pure gtk build, that doesn't need xwayland. Electron is still xwayland only for most apps. I'm eagerly waiting at least for slack and element to upgrade to Electron 12, which will bring native wayland support.

And there's a nice ecosystem building around wlroots and sway, great tools to choose from for your desktop needs, such as waybar, wofi, wf-recorder and greetd.

Of course you don't NEED any of this. But if I would think like this, I'd probably just used a macOS machine with default settings anyhoo.
It sounds like you're saying that the quality of some person or organisation's contribution to the web can be judged primarily based on how much money they have to throw at their domain name? That's clearly nonsense.

These people provide no benefit to the web at large, they just game the system for free money. It's a clear example of a tragedy of the commons.
Reminds me a bit of the person who glares at handicap parking spots or suspiciously eyes the seemingly able-bodied person who emerges from their car in the handicapped spot because they feel they could have had that spot when a lot is otherwise rather full. No, if the handicapped spot was available to everyone, someone else would already be parked there anyway and you would still be hunting for a parking spot.

That said, fuck domain parkers. Just speculators fucking up my ideas for no value add.
Interesting idea to help people grieve:

> The wind phone (風の電話, kaze no denwa) is a telephone booth in Ōtsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, where visitors can hold one-way conversations with deceased loved ones.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_phone

> An old, disconnected black telephone stands in a telephone booth in the town of Otsuchi — about 20 minutes’ drive from Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture. The phone has been visited by at least 25,000 people since the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, people who have come to convey their feelings to departed loved ones “through the wind.”

> The phone was set up by 72-year-old garden designer Itaru Sasaki in his garden, on a small hill with a commanding view of the calm sea in the Namiita area of Otsuchi. Calling it “Kaze no Denwa” (The phone of the wind), Sasaki set up the phone after the death of his cousin.

> The garden is open to all, and there is a notebook placed by the phone, the fourth such notebook to be used. Many people have left messages for their loved ones in the books.

* https://nationalpost.com/news/world/please-watch-over-us-fro...
Hmm.. How did Scotland solve storage?

From what I can read in the BBC article (1) there's still lots of work to do:

- cars still run on fossil fuels
- heating accounts for 15% of emissions and uses gas
- industries use fossil fuels to make materials

If that were all to become electric, would renewables be enough?

1: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-51088089
The Rise of Ecommerce in Custom Apparel: Things to Know in 2021
/r/buyitforlife
>That's why some people write that way, to conceal the fact that they have nothing to say.

That's a great point.
Cool logo
Thanks! I think be around HN helped me a lot to do it (and also to want to do it).
Ask HN: How do you collaborate on API design?
I'm looking for best practice on api design collaboration, like who is in charge of the api design of a new feature(the backend guy?), and when and how are mobile client developers involved? Is tools like swagger helpful?
Eh, you don't want the service to attract Jews or what? Star of David is a symbol within the Jewish community. What you are referring to is probably the "Yellow badge" that was used by Nazis for identifying Jews. Two very different things.

Let's not make all Jewish symbols Nazi-related, we have enough of that already.

Also, some soldiers wore the Star of David as a symbol of defiance against antisemitism. So if you see someone wearing that symbol (or using a domain with that symbol), assume they are Jews/supportive of Jews, not that they are Nazis.
Indeed, we have no idea what is the connection between time, space, mass and other forces.

We have some findings (hey! mass is intimately connected to curvature of spacetime!) and approximations in forms formulae we know, but that's just it.

I think our physics is akin to epicycles before we found actual place of Earth in solar system and shape of planet orbits.
I’m surprised it doesn’t support emoji in the name field.
No <emoji>@<emoji>.kz
It would be like every recipe site with a comments section. "Good start but I deleted $X, added $Y and $Z, and added more $A" except that each of those comments would be reflected in changes to the recipe.
Looking at [1]. I would say hydro-power and nuclear is a big reason. Some also have significant wind, but it is balanced by either gas, hydro or good interconnection with neighbours (who themselves are not always as "green".

[1] https://www.electricitymap.org/
Arms Race: Ampere Altra Takes on the AWS Graviton2
It would maybe help if the parkers would compete during these two weeks. This prices from the registrar would be higher and only domains with less speculative value would go into parking.

Still makes it a sleazy activity IMO.
There are many sites out there with enhancement extensions. Sites like the Steam store, reddit, imageboards and probably many others. These things are so useful they replace the default experience. It gets to the point the only thing the sites need to provide is a JSON API for these extensions to consume. The default HTML interface is a fallback for compatibility.

All GNU needs to make is a browser extension that collects custom javascripts for all kinds of sites. One person goes and fixes a popular site? All they need to do is contribute that to the GNU repository. The extension will automatically load the new code when users visit the site.
The emoji part is charming.

The name grabbing (netflix and facebook domains) - not so much!
there's the Fipsy Fpga project https://www.mocomakers.com/fipsy-fpga/ which started as a kickstarter in 2018
i.e. Nazi Death Camp
Note that OP is actually generating loss at this point - 300 domains at $8 equals $2400, which is in itself bigger than the income.

Can you maybe share what problems OP might have? I have toyed with an idea of starting something similar and would love to know what I'm getting into.
Depends. If he is actually running only a forwarder , it is much easier than running an full fledged service with mailboxes and other support.
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Fun idea! But It’s too bad that Kazakhstan’s decision to MITM all HTTPS traffic makes this a nonstarter for actual use

https://www.zdnet.com/article/kazakhstan-government-is-now-i...
Hah, you think HN would use something mainstream like mysql?! I don't blame you.

But HN is 100% custom software, and built with it's own programming language as well, Arc (on Racket). AFAIK, HN still runs on files-as-a-db. You could check out the source here: http://arclanguage.org/install
I’ve never really had much trouble finding a .com domain that I like for my ideas.

Latest idea it looks like I’ll have to buy from someone else. But that’ll be the first time ever.
There's a difference between "realising the difference" and "actively wanting it as my internet identity".
Associating the star of david with the .kz TLD (concentration camp) is not a good idea.
> I personally don't mind it much, as that explicitness is one of my favourite things about Rust.

Rust has operator overloading, so the + operator may call a function, I don't call that explicit.

For me the 2 first checkmarks of being coloured are what matter most, the author argues that you can work around the third point, but it seems like a huge pain to do routinely.

I'm still in the camp that non colored async runtimes are more useful.