skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for clarifying. I'm right there with you.
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Engineers will figure out how to make mistakes like this whether its in the browser or in a native app
Its a bootstrapped startup :)

Your point is well taken. We will upgrade in the future.
It means that if a server on your LAN advertises a substitute for a derivation that is bit-identical with one that is signed by an authorized substitute server (such as ci.guix.gnu.org), the build output will be downloaded from your network neighbor instead of over the internet.

Of course this requires that ci.guix.gnu.org has already built the same derivation.
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Pretty cool how you offer this as a widget. 18 years ago I built a handy importer for CSV and tab-delimited files in a logistics company’s traditional Java web app with no JavaScript/AJAX, and it enabled the users to map columns in a multi-page workflow. CSV was new to me and of course all the edge cases were surprising, but on top of that all the data consisted of shipping addresses, and I was amazed at how many different ways address fields would be presented! So it definitely felt like a double whammy of CSV inconsistencies and address inconsistencies!
I guess you are right on that one, my thoughts were drifting more towards a corporate environment.

I also love your Facebook maners, but, unfortunately I haven't met anybody who does that.
You're at least half-right, CPI did go up...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27129927
Yes, then you will need a unified approach to text editing, and another markup language inside.
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Would be disgusting chaos but also would be cool to let anyone edit the page so it is forever changing -- obviously working out the issues of blocking/hiding texts.

Or social, imagine how much fun it would be to leave stickers/stamps on approved friend's websites.
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We're just one more concession away from getting the performance we had 20 years ago with native applications.

Edit:

The path we're on just seems so obvious I kind of just want to skip ahead and get it over with.

- Developers and content publishers love the ergonomics and control of just shipping WASM binaries that paint to a canvas and it becomes the de facto standard.

- After 2-3 years of everyone's computer being used to surreptitiously mine crypto everywhere they go we re-learn the lessons of Java applets.

- In comes browsers that require signed WASM binaries for your protection.

The world is an app store. Curtains.
I think some people like to compare Deno’s package management to go’s. I think that is a good comparison since dependencies live (sort of) on a URL in both cases. However I think Deno has improved significantly on the go approach.

When I look for a better ecosystem though, I like to look towards Rust’s Cargo. However that is bit of an unfair comparison since Cargo was heavily inspired by npm, had learned from npm’s past mistakes and were able to improve on it significantly.
Ad blockers could still "scroll" through a website, run an AI model on it to discover the ad sections, and cut them out. Even a simple model that filters out visual animations and replaces them with a static would be useful as a large annoying component of online ads is the movement and blinking etc. that make it hard to focus on the content.

Dark mode etc can, too, be implemented to work in terms of framebuffers only.

But yes, unless there is a serious need, canvas rendering is a severe regression.
> That market is just nothing but developers who love their toolset and just want to write and learn amazing code.

The risk with this type of developer is they often prioritize their toolset and amazing code over the actual businesses needs. I’ve seen it lead to the wrong tool being used for the job.

A couple years later when these devs move on the business has a harder time maintaining the code they leave behind.

There are always drifters to be hired, which has some value.
I am also wondering about this. Having recently built a production app in Flutter Web used by millions of people, I am very eager to hear about other people's experiences with Flutter Web in real life applications.
My comment had absolutely nothing to do with Trump or previous CDC policy. I thought he was a terrible president and a horrifically inept manager.

But his presidency broke so many people's brains that folks like yourself immediately read into any criticism of Biden as being motivated due to somebody being 'on the other side'.

I really don't care for the childish game of red blue sectarianism.

Complex topics require nuanced discussion. But instead it turns into the most base instinct form of information filtering, where folks look at who you are friends with or who you follow on Twitter and immediately dismiss any opinion you have based on that. It's incredibly low brow and anti-intellectual and I can't believe it's become such a popular form of debate on the left, like it already was on the right.
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Ads can work without needing your personalised data ,

What’s wrong with going back to keyword data and affiliate marketing ?

Duckduckgo is pretty profitable just based on that according to them.

Sure not super profitable like google , but do we want this world in hands of a search engine giants ?

Did people not advertise or buy things without the new internet’s atrocious crimes under the name of personalised targeting ?

They did.
So if now somebody uses this to upload illegal material somewhere from my IP I am fucked?
Also, they are listening to your microphone.
That's amazing, the IDE itself and the shader preview running on a WebGL canvas. Thanks for sharing!
Is this going to make it faster? It's so slow and I use Chrome.
Well it also breaks all context menu functionality. No more right click -> copy text unless the website specifically implements it. Any custom context menu you use is now useless.

Personally I always use 'Right click -> Search..'
Time to patch against FragAttacks but good luck with home routers and IoT
There are lots of reasons.
I think this is just the beginning and I don’t think there’s anything they can do...

Current issues:

1. Illegal immigrants driving down wages

2. Paying citizens to stay home

3. Remove the need to pay rent

4. To get workers companies hire illegals or pay higher wages

5. Oil / energy prices increase -> higher delivery costs and prices

5. Wages increase leading to price increases

7. Biden proposed expanding federal debt by 50%, people don't want to buy our bonds

8. Pushing students home for the year, keeping more people out of the work place (further creating scarcity of workers)
Not to mention that the demographic of "grandparents whose grandchildren are old enough to explain computer issues to them" had mainstream access to computers much earlier in their lives than the same demographic ~20 years ago when access to computers hit its inflection point between "enthusiasts" and "everybody".
Aside:

I'm reminded of this law:

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. - jwz's Law of Software Envelopment

How true it is even years later
Maybe an heresy around here, Microsoft Office with SharePoint backed server.
I had read both of those before.

The first one primarily just says "we use Scheme instead of Nix lang".

There are some differences that emerge from that, but most of what is described is also common or possible with Nix.

The analogy of clang vs Julia does not fit for me.

Nothing I've seen has yet described any significant difference, but rather affirmed that both are very similar in most regards.
That's interesting, so it's really an encrypted APRS replacement over bluetooth then?
Google docs is worth it for the coorporation, but if you are writting for yourself, or anything seriously it is simply not good enough, but I don't think the performance is the issue.
It's not about the web being more or less open, it's about the browser playing the role of a distributed application run time. I'd argue that Google Docs is basically not a part of the web, it just incidentally happens to run in the same browser as the web does for logistic reasons.
Ask HN: Amazon Clouddrive Down?
It's been about 17-hrs now, and Amazon Clouddrive seems inaccessible. Opening https://amazon.com/clouddrive shows up an empty drive devoid of all files. Clicking on "Manage Storage" throws up a bunch of errors with a popup saying "Something went wrong."

Support did not give a timeline for the fix, and it doesn't seem like it's very high on their list of priorities. Anyone from Amazon here knows what went wrong and when we're likely to see this resolved?
I found some premises compelling, but the ones necessary to reach the conclusions were missing.
I was told that in politics "never write what you can just say, and never say when you can just nod" .. in other words, many deals are certainly and purposefully not what they appear to be from written records. Its like a "first week on the job intro" fact, among political people it seems.
Babel doesn't necessarily need to transpile all the way to ES5, you can specify targets. It's a useful tool for using newer features even without supporting IE
OMG, YES! The JIT is here... and holy crap, if you haven't tried it yet... it's awesome (everything feels snappier). I'm particularly stoked for the receive optimizations and process aliases.

BEAM just gets better and better. It's a good time to be an Erlanger/Elixirist...
This is an extremely important point, and I find it weird to see so few people mentioning it.

I run my own mail server and have been for years. My e-mails use SPF, DKIM, DMARC, I have a reverse DNS record set up, a score of 100/100 on mail-tester.com... yet Microsoft refuses to accept my emails. They are sent to the spam folder of my recipients.

I tried contacting their support about it, I'll let you guess how well it went. A man from a warm country told me to join some sort of Microsoft partner program, for which I would have to pay.

This is a disgrace. E-mail is behind closed gates now, because of bullies such as Microsoft.
Another version of this story discussed earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27123086 (102 points/175 comments)
I could reframe your statement like so:

~~ = strikethrough, italic = my inserts

"I worked in the commercial ~~trucking~~ EV space for a little bit and I don't know anyone in the commercial ~trucking~ industry that genuinely thinks batteries will be the solution for ~~long-haul, class 7 & 8 trucks~~ practical, affordable, long-range cars. At least not in the next decade or so, if ever. Elon and Tesla will tell you otherwise but there's a reason their ~~Semi~~ Model 3 has been delayed for 3 years now...

More often than not, innovation comes from industry outsiders. You can think whatever you want of Musk, but I think he has more than proven that he eventually gets the shit done he has talked about.
> Of the need to build the infrastructure at the same time as the trucks, Lundstedt said: “It can be seen as a chicken and egg. But we have said we will go for it. We will deliver the chicken. Someone else can deliver the egg.”

Is it just me or does this sound incredibly naive?
This blog post actually demonstrates the opposite of the point you are trying to make.
What to expect from your emotion recognition software
It was not long ago when on a meeting you could use a finger to shoot yourself in the head or act as if you were hanging on a noose to visualize how bored you are with the meeting.

There never was any harmful thoughts attached to it.

Can you, just for the sake of curiosity, state your age?
> The primary reason web apps are slow is because the business logic is typically un-optimized.

This crops up a lot, shifting the blame from the web technologies to the developers who target those technologies, but where are the exceptions? What's the best example of a large, complex, efficient and responsive web-based application? It's easy to give examples of tragically inefficient and unresponsive web-based applications (Teams, Slack), but no one ever seems able to give a counterexample.

Pinboard and Hacker News are fast and efficient precisely because they make minimal 'application-like' use of the web platform.

Visual Studio Code is generally pretty responsive, but if I understand correctly there's little question that it uses vastly more computational resources than if it had been built using a 'conventional' (non-web-based) GUI toolkit.
> [...] rendering to canvas allows programmers to have pixel perfect control over the look of their applications across all devices.

Canvas-based fingerprinting due to rendering differences is a thing, so using the canvas is not pixel-perfect either.

Creating an UI library atop of that is a lot of work, though to be fair certainly manageable by Google. Remember, a UI library is not just about putting things on the screen, but sanely defining layouts, interactions, accessibility...

> Specifically, lots of specialized applications have UI components which do not have a corresponding HTML standard

I think that is the entire point behind Web Components [0], and if one really really don't want more DOM elements for their visuals, then the CSS Paint API and in fact the whole Houdini initiative [1] should be pursued instead, at least at the Google scale.

Besides these technical points, interoperability should be considered. Web browsers do a lot of work to match user expectations in behaviour to their native operating systems, as well as web conventions. (The classic example infractions being: links that cannot be control-clicked or middle-clicked to open on new tabs because they are not actual links but elements with click handlers; or not being able to scroll with page up/down, arrows, or middle-click, because the page reimplements scrolling in an unsemantic way)

Making your own UI toolkit is bound to all those problems, and those are user-facing problems that will affect the often-ignored long tail of users with unconventional setups.

Look at Flutter for Web, for example [2], it definitely feels entirely different from a regular website, even if it were to look the same. The scrolling does not respect my system settings, interaction is limited to only the most-common method, image scaling is subtly different.

And as Google observed themselves, extensibility and the user-agent should be considered before making such a decision, but it appears they consider it a liability in detriment of the user.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Houdini
[2]: https://gallery.flutter.dev/
One wonders how prisoners deal with this then.
Basically yes, for example

https://platform.uno/
for a technical work, you would hope the publisher assigned some people to check the work

That's what technical reviewers do. I did it back in the early 2000s. You get sent a copy of a few chapters, and it's your job to review the code and explanations to find errors. It doesn't pay very well though - you get your name in the front, and a free copy of the book, but nothing much else.
In Nigeria, when the annual rains brought out hordes of large termites flying into the air, people would knock them down to collect and fry. They tasted ok to me although I felt squeamish. My brother always said they are “like popcorn” and happily munched on them.
Are ya'll trying to invent the dumbest sounding scenarios or is that inadvertent?
"waves of unprocessed shit"

I totally agree.

I also agree that the disputes about language choices is tribalisitic. There's nothing wrong in principle with Java. But Java nuts do love creating factory-factory-factories. Layer upon layer of abstractions really doesn't confer simplicity.

Most recently, I've been a PHP developer. It's objectively an awful language, that has grown by accretion, and was never designed. But it's quick to write, reasonably easy to read, and there's pretty good documentation online, and a million tons of chunks of example code.

So my choice of language is essentially tribal; the details of the language aren't really important, as long as it's not getting in the way. It's the kinds of people that use the language that matters to me.

Java's reputation as a corporate language is well-deserved; and (with exceptions) the type of people that use it seem to be corporate drones, that don't mind spending a week writing a factory-factory-factory that nobody needs.
Sure, but that’s the Fed. It’s odd to pin this in the Biden administration when it’s a Trump appointee running the Fed while a Biden Treasurer (and former Obama Fed chairwoman) raises and retracts the spectre of rate increases.
This is disingenuous. Using appstore buying behavior to target search ads in the appstore is not something many people would find creepy.

Facebook advertisers being able to target people for being sick, pregnant, poor and similar, based on photos you liked on instagram or even browsing non-facebook sites, is an entirely different level of privacy breech.
I have published three books (with a publisher), and I can confirm that Credibility was one of the bigger motivations both for writing them, and for going with an established publisher.

For some of them, I started self-publishing with leanpub and was later shepherded into the publisher, and I got the impression I could make at least the same amount of money on leanpub.
Or through scripting
> For example, until very recently, just using emojis could have been a firing offense.

Worked for two dozen companies over past two decades, never heard of it.

I mean, watching porn in the office was firing offense but I have seen people getting away with just a reprimand.
It’s funny you mention that because I personally have sympathy for the “nice” insects like bees and butterflies. I’ve even gone out of my way to help a few bugs for no reason other than I wanted to be kind to them. But that being said I have no issues culling an entire hive of wasps, laying down fire ant poison, and stomping cockroaches. It’s not logically consistent but then again what facet of humanity is?
Its Elons World and were just living in it.
Thanks! I wasn't thinking of opposition to gentrification/displacement.

We hear similar arguments in DC, but they tend to come from current residents, who are often Black or other PoC, and not traditional (young, white) liberals.

Related anecdote: After gentrification, DC gets some interesting side-effects... there are several "neighborhood" churches where most of the congregants live 30+ minutes away in the suburbs, due to being priced out of the local rental market. And these church-goers do everything in their power to block bicycle lanes downtown, because they need the street-side parking for the church.
There's no such thing as a "monopoly agreement." Monopoly franchise agreements are banned under federal law. If you read one you'll see a provision that makes clear it's "non-exclusive."

Providers end up with de facto monopolies for two reasons:

1) Many places (like the one here) are marginal in terms of whether it's worth building anything at all. A second provider coming in is unattractive.

2) What's legal is build-out requirements, which force a provider to serve every (or nearly every) home in a town. That torpedos competition except in the largest cities, because a second provider can't just wire up the areas where it makes sense to overbuild.
In almost 30 years of experience, I only had one project where that was actually a requirement, as it was a government agency.

Sadly most don't really care, and unless it is something like government it isn't enforced.

Also here in Europe we aren't as happy to go to court like in US.
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I hope so. Some telecoms deserve to be put out of business and solely exist/continue due to government corruption.
That's... not true. Privacy is definitely shades of grey, as everything is.
> But there's nothing stopping someone from creating a complex web application that's performant.

Google--the folks who make V8--seem to disagree with you here. If they find canvas rendering to be more performant, then I'm going to believe them absent more information.
Just look at a larger timescale. All of this is consistent with average inflation targeting of 2%, ie. The fed mandate.

Prices now are entirely consistent with average 2% inflation during the course of the last two years, it only increased so much due to prior sharp decreases in inflation.
I would appreciate more information on how the various kinds of vaccines impact chances of getting a cytokine storm.
Apple’s empire grows. I wonder what they would have to do to generate anti trust concerns.

They just sherlocked Tile and Facebook Ads in the last month alone.
Analogies have to be consistent in their relationships between the objects of the analogies. I broke down the inconsistencies.

The utility of an analogy that compares every business offering a better product to consumers as a thief robbing another thief is pretty useless to me.

I guess the internet came in and robbed all the travel agents, secretaries, map makers, and other obviated middlemen too. And Facebook and Google robbed all the ad agencies. And then “fled the scene”.
It's like going back in time with Flash Player, There were many WYSIWYG flash based editors around 2010. The problem was it required a browser plugin but it did work much better then HTML4 at that time. For canvas rendering no plugin is needed. Even there was a feature to export SWF file to canvas.

There are some issues like accessibility, browser features like search or text highlighting, lazy loading etc. What HTML provides out of the box must be implemented from scratch.
How does this differ from Fastlane?
Ah yes, just like the vaccine passports they will be implementing because they value "privacy". Sure.
Does -fdiagnostics-plain-output not do what you want?
In-Person vs. On-Screen
I was only clarifying the difference between mailing someone a tag versus attaching a tag to someone or something they own.

Sure if you already know the person's car then just follow them.
I, for one, welcome our new canvas based overlords.
Very good point, users do not care that a padding is rounded up or down when they switch from their laptop to their desktop, as long as the application is usable, understandable and visually competent.

But mindspace is much more important for interaction, so if their laptop is a Mac, their brain will be in "Mac mode", and "Linux" or "Windows" mode when on their other device. Respecting the platform's conventions will allow them to keep their cognitive load due to "fiddling" to a minimum.
I'm the same and it's not like I do it on purpose. I simply cannot enjoy the style, I like the important information up front. If I felt like reading a children's book I'd go grab a children's book. If I'm reading an informational article I want it to read like an informational article.