skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Aren’t the real figures more like $200 vs. $700?

No, not really. You can hardly find old used servers for less than 1000$, and you need to use beyond a a1.metal instance with 16vCPU and 32GB of RAM to even come close to that cost

> Cloud stuff only really makes sense when your resource requirements as super spiky.

No, not really. Cloud stuff makes all the sense in the world if all you need is a VM connected to the internet working 24h/day without problems. You can get that for less than 5$ a month, which would require 3 or 4 years to pay back if instead you waste your money on hardware.
>As for forcing people to work so they are not a burden on society - that's just slavery with extra steps. But oh wait, I forgot that US still does that. Nevermind then.

This is just a difference in our morality I guess. I don't think prison should be a great place to live. They should be incentivized to leave prison. And they aren't treated as slaves, they are learning a trade and applying those skills. They should be paid a lower wage, have the option to send money to their families, and fund the prisons themselves to some degree. We already this to a lesser degree. Prisons just aren't doing this enough.

>Because prisons should never ever ever be money making institutions in a functional society. I can't believe I actually have to say this.

I don't understand why prisons should not make money. Why does there be distinctions for things that should or shouldn't make money? For things to function well, they need to be decently funded. Whether that's from you and me or them funding themselves.

>Of course they do, what are you on about.

Okay, then I guess we live in different realities if you think black kids are doing well in inner city public schools.
Good question. I suppose it's because:

A) I don't want to create yet another account and give my CC number to yet another entity who can lose it

B) I guess I don't fully trust them to use the $$ for anything that I care about. Tying the revenue more directly to Firefox IMO would send a stronger signal that this is what matters.
> Also, I doubt this is a hnews concern, but for folks currently holding clearances just reading that story could put them in hot water.

How would that work for folks holding clearances that, following one of several paths other than directly reading the article discussion (like reading some random user's comments page), get exposed to significant bits of the article?

Come to think of it, how safe in general for folks with clearances is browsing HN, with its many discussions of military tech, intelligence topics, spycraft and security breaches news?
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That sounds super interesting, is there a link you can share?
It's really not. Like, really, really not. I won't try to make the case here, but just know that assertions like that aren't going to come across as credible. The systemic effects from NAT have actually made things worse.
This is something I really appreciate about Faker[1], a library that generates random data to seed your development DB with. It will throw you about as many curveballs than obvious 'happy path' names, addresses, phone numbers and whatnot.

[1]: https://fakerphp.github.com/
I don't know about that, I'll occasionally post lightly trolling comments out of whimsy and not malice and they generally don't get downvoted into oblivion.

I also really disagree that tone is a minor and unimportant factor, keeping the discussion civil manages to open up the door to a lot more discussion between people who disagree strongly. One of the users I recognize on here I recognize not because we agree - but because usually when we're talking in a thread it's an interesting conversation despite a really deep philosophical disagreement.
In the 80s a 20-32 year old who was "Doing Well" was on the path to being a Doctor or Lawyer, or Executive at a big company. Those things were high social status but also took years if not decades to accomplish. Now people in that age range compare themselves to YouTube millionaires and crypto millionaires. So it seems stupid to spend 10-30 years working towards "success" to these people.

I understand why you are worried, because it is hard to see how this plays out.
Then what's the rationale for Mozilla being extra strict on extensions to Firefox Mobile, which runs in the most sandboxed Firefox platform? On Android, it's not possible for malware to randomly install browser extensions. The actual observed behavior suggests that browser makers in actuality are more motivated by a desire for ecosystem control than they are by user safety.

As for evil maid attacks: that's just paternalism. It's the user's responsibility not to grant unauthorized humans access to his user account. Trying to protect against the scenario in which a user willingly grants account access to somebody he shouldn't trust through artificial feature limitations is an unacceptable infringement on user autonomy.
Conservatives love it too. At least the millionaires and billionaires do.
Jesus. This is not complicated. Just go to a country for as long as the tourist visa will let you (often 3 months or so), and work there, and enjoy it. Don't offer to pay tax to that country unless you want to. You only get one fucking life!
>they do it for free
I know :)

I just prefer not to presume when I link... .
No, they said the tax on capital gains was unconstitutional. An income tax itself was allowed, they only tossed out the whole law because it was obvious that the tax code they ruled unconstitutional wouldn't make sense without the capital gains tax parts.
Hoping the housing squeeze will be a trigger for gentle densification in more of the depopulated interior cities of the USA. My midwest city is a lot more pleasant place to be than it was only 10 years ago. Many more amenities in walking distance, more apartment conversions, more vacancy fill in. Would love to see this continue.
I share the common setiment from the comments: the avatars are hard to tell apart, which means they fail in their purpose as quick visual identifiers.

I've dabbled with this in the past, what I found very helpful was symmetry -- this works especially well with abstract shape ones. Generate a piece, then mirror it horizontally (or vertically, or both). I found this kind of visual redundancy made the glyphs more attractive to look at, and more distinct / easier to tell apart.
In the West, Shaw is getting sued by Telus for calling their service "Fiber+" even though the "last mile" is copper.

https://mobilesyrup.com/2020/06/12/telus-shaw-lawsuit-mislea...
Ehhh. Vi is already installed, and it is often not Vim.

Nano, on the other hand...
The flash cards are much worse, but it reminds me of the Strava data leak from military staff:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42853072
I agree, but I think that mostly happens in mainstream Reddit. I still feel like smaller subreddits are still a nice oasis in this current era of the internet.
The thing is you couldn't even work in the US as a non-resident even for a week, how do you stay a few months and get taxed? Are you talking about income from an overseas business while you are on vacation in the US?
What's your suggestion for changes to our god awful prison system then? Or might you even be okay with it?
Assets appreciating for investors should be good for creators too. It means the investors can give them more money.

I’d be curious to see some graphs exploring the correlation between startup funding round sizes and the various asset prices including crypto.
Oh wow, this was fascinating! I was vaguely made aware of some of these concepts by a friend who studies quantum physics, but on he's never been able to explain it so "simply" (that's not doing the explanation any justice, it's not simple and some of it still went over my head, but "it clicked").

I'm eager to check out more of their channel!
That is the DOM part yes. But it wouldn't solve the expected emphasized rendering of the supposed text after <p>.

The parser I know best would store a special pointer from the <em> element to where it ends, i.e. the text element between <p> and </em> and keep track of that state to end <em> rendering after passing the closing tag.
Facebook, WhatsApp, Google, other internet giants comply with India’s IT rules
Are deep packet inspection and modification boxes really that prevalent outside of the Great Firewall of China and its imitators (Russia has something similar now)?

If QUIC gets in the way of these countries they will simply set up a decrypt-and-recrypt TLS proxy and block connections that don't honor its certificate. Lots of banks and trading firms already do this to their employees for regulatory purposes; there is no technical hurdle.
Yes, crypto can operate in a temporarily trusted environment.

What I was describing here wasn't that, I am referring to onchain transfers in trade for goods and services. (Part C could also be hand to hand trusted transfer of a wallet/private key)

Chain analysis still assumes that its the same owner or related guilty beneficiary all the way to a centralized exchange.
Facebook monetizes that type of engagement on their platform just fine.
Don't know about SerenityOS' but Dillo (predating even NetSurf) is pretty nice minimal browser with independent layout engine and there's Abaco (for Plan 9) which supports most of HTML4. That said from your list you miss KHTML (WebKit's parent; have diverged significantly since), Trident, EdgeHTML, Presto, and of course, Servo. All without doubt advanced engines. It's disappointing that both Microsoft and Opera didn't open sourced their own after retiring them.

Edit: Oops, didn't see the "open source" clause. So Trident, EdgeHTML, and Presto don't count.
How depressing if true =(

Can you point to some example topics I should keep an eye out for?
1) many many many users on Twitter are bots / controlled propaganda

2) a reflection of something bad makes the bad thing more visible and twice as negative
> development of the chariot in southwest Asia and china

correction: horses and chariots where introduced to china, not developed there (as was likely early metallurgy)
Well our cancer cells can become biologically immortal. The rest of our bodies, not so much.
In the 80s a 20-32 year old blue collar worker could own a house and start a family on his salary alone.
Really we haven't been building enough since 1980.
Not to make it sound any less impressive (because it truly is an amazing effort) but it's basically first place there simply because the criteria excludes every other like engine better and there is no remaining option that's worse. Well technically (the now deprecated) KHTML is missing many of the things now supported but that spawned the "WebKit Family" so I don't think that counts (and it supports other things Serenity's doesn't). Well Lynx might actually be behind in compliance... but it's not exactly aiming for the same goalpost.
Don't know if I am hacker minded enough to take a look. But he has a point though... no-nonsense and a straight forward GUI back on the menu would be great. I hate how I am held hostage by shitty designer ideas. I am a power user.
Taxes can be increased to cover higher usage of benefits, and people can be trained. The same principles apply in the end. This doesn't happen over night so there's time to increase capacity.
It’s election time here in Iran, and this time, we have essentially a one-man election, which is sth rare here (there usually are at least two candidates who can possibly win, and even though both of them are inside people already vetted by the regime, they have some small differences. At least, they are supported by different demographics.). I went to see what people were saying about this on Twitter, and did some basic searches on an account that doesn’t follow almost anyone. The results were pretty much all (90%) pro-government, and pro-one-candidate-elections.

Makes me wonder how much power these state actors have now that cancel culture is a thing. They can just whip up a mob and character-terror anyone they want, without being detected at all.

PS: I am not even saying these are bots. They can just pay people some meager money to do this. It’s an easy job in a country with very high unemployment. Heck, even Amazon does this in a small scale.
Yes, the authors of that document did an great public service in letting us point to an "official government standard".
Unacceptable. Would you accept paying more than your neighbor for water or power? Why do we not regulate internet like water or power?
Did your family move around a lot as you were growing up? Anecdotally (sample size=2), people who lived in one home from birth to adulthood tend to be more "rooted" and more anxious about moving compared to "military brats" or others who moved a lot, who, when asked "What's your home town?" answer "It depends on what you mean by 'Home town'...".
You know what they say about economists, they've correctly predicted nine of the last five downturns.
As far as I'm aware there is zero financial incentive here in Canada, and that argument sounds a lot like they are knowingly faking the cases, which is a much different argument than the diagnostic doesn't work and implies malice.

Just to remove doubt, the ICU has been record setting[1]. As an aside, that article even discusses your claim about bad PCR tests.

And are you saying that people have delayed their care to the point where they are now in the ICU, just under half of who are sub 50, and all those happen to be because of a respiratory infection? In addition, those peaks of ICU numbers have started to come down. It must be a coincidence that case counts have been dropping for a while here - how does that make sense if it's just people delaying care? It really doesn't meet any sort of sense that the peaks are always linked.

Alberta has put together a great data portal[2], complete with tracking case counts and severe cases. It's easy to see, based upon the actual data, how the cases, hospitalizations, and ICU are related.

[1]https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/alberta-icus-treat...
[2]https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm...
I agree with this so much, in particular I want to highlight these tools from the list, just because I love them so much:

# `rg` / Ripgrep (`grep` replacement)

`rg` uses `ack`-semantics (i.e., automatically searches files recursively).

Here's what my search workflow looks like, this is the main way I program:

1. `rg something`

2. Too many hits? `rg -l something` to just list matching filenames

3. Hopefully based on that we can narrow enough using a glob: `rg something -g "*.m"`. Otherwise write a regular expression to get more specific matches.

4. After I have exactly the set of matches I'm interested in, I pipe the results to a text editor that can interpret grep-style output (e.g., quickly jump between results, I usually use Vim).

The key here is that the command-line excels at iteratively refining a command based on output, and that's exactly what we're looking for to use search effectively. `rg` provides a more ergonomic UI than `grep` (recursive, automatically ignoring version control files, including ignored), which is really important if this is the main command that you're running all-day, which it is for me.

# `fd` (`find` replacement)

This advantages here are the similar as for `rg`, quickly being able to recursively find a file by name, a problem that similarly benefits from iteratively refining a command.

# `bat` (`cat` replacement)

`bat` is just the best way I've found to quickly view a file from the command-line, it adds syntax highlighting and line numbers, which are both invaluable.*
I just updated the program to allow arbitrary arrays of words and factors for division, so now it is a fizz-buzz-jazz version of the program, and it gets even shorter once you go to table driven data.

var ss = ""
var color = ALICE_BLUE

loop across:WORDS index:wordx
if mod(b.cell_seq, PRIMES[wordx]) == 0
WORDS[wordx] &=> ss
color = COLORS[wordx]
if ss == ""
// plain cell
ss = to_str(b.cell_seq)
Just to clarify - why would we ever not want that to be the case? If someone is making a well reasoned argument that's clearly wrong then I'm happy to read it - I have faith in myself and those on this forum that they'll be able to comprehend the statement and read out the same conclusion - if it's hidden or using underhanded conversation techniques those will generally be called out but there might be a few interesting nuggets in an otherwise incorrect argument.
You might be right, but in some cases they've been "stuck" as junior for longer than they should, then.
Imagine dropping a few hundred hidden iframes of controversy on someone like that.
> In a sense we can print land--that just means building vertically. Building a 10 story building is essentially adding 9 layers of land.

That's a bit of a stretch, no?

The cost of the Fed printing money is effectively zero, there are substantial costs associated with building and maintaining such structures.
Israelis too. And New Yorkers. Certain fast-moving cultures seem to thrive on immediate, blunt, actionable responses.
I wonder when Rasengan will realize how much he messed up.
I just think the possibility of being fired for something I wrote over 10 years ago when everyone thought that thing was benign is enough to make me skip on it for work
> SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces

Indeed, the desktop theme looks very similar to Windows 95 or ReactOS.
I agree. I’ve also been curious if everyone gets far-left wing takes (and low quality ones at that) in their “what’s happening” section or if that’s an algorithm targeting me either because it thinks I’m very left-wing or else because it thinks low quality left-wing content will make me angry and thus engage?
It’s CNBC.
He's written his prescription here:

Twitter needs to move from an ad model to a subscription model, with subscription fees for accounts of a certain size. The platform would still be free for the majority of users, but accounts over 200K followers (or even 50K followers) should pay for the audience that Twitter provides them with. This would lead to better financial results because recurring revenue is reliable, profitable, and earns a higher multiple than transaction revenue.

5 Feb 2021

https://www.profgalloway.com/overhauling-twitter/
It warms my heart to see someone that is skilled, passionate and patient to pursue a project like this full time. True hacker spirit lives on.

The only other effort like that has been on my mind for a long time is bcachefs that is mostly churned on by a single developer slowly making progress and aiming high.

I could only wish the very best to people and projects like this!!
You might care more about your stuff but you also probably know less about how to do it well (like pretty much any other pro vs DIY decision). Plus it's a tremendous amount of work.
Unfortunately, most people do not know how to self-filter.

Twitter has always had a List function that makes it a lot easier to only follow tweets from a set list (or many lists) of people. Yeah, you'll still see retweets if they do happen to retweet something you're not in the mood to see. But you're more likely to be able to pick and choose people who won't do that. By self-curating, I rarely see toxic tweets unless I start drilling down into very political threads.
See also: Killer Queen (and Killer Queen Black)
It seems to me that you can contribute a lot of the toxic behavior on twitter to the lack of nested comments.

How can you ever have a healthier discussion when you can only ever reply directly to a tweet?
As long as you report a breach, you're fine.

Good luck figuring out who you're supposed to report to about that thing you aren't supposed to know about though.

Thus is the Catch 22 of Quality Controlling. Information classification systems.
I don't want to be a rancher and farms pay an income. Real estate has gone up ~20% in some markets and may be overvalued. This felt like a good price with inflation considerations.
He doesn't seem to make the connection to central bank policies? People are basically gambling on the speculation that central banks keep inflating the money supply. It's a ridiculous game and I hope that more people will realize that we need a predictable and immutable monetary policy, as in Bitcoin. It's better for the markets and it's better for the people.

It's inevitable that people will eventually choose Bitcoin, but maybe this is the event that makes people think and it will happen sooner.
Cox Appeals $1B Piracy Liability Verdict to ‘Save the Internet’
That might have been true when "Close Encounters" was made, but there are 100s of videos of car accidents on Youtube.
Plasmic shows more promise as a solution for designers on product teams to take over CSS styling on the product itself (eg. your SaaS app with a react frontend). But I think they still have a long way to go on the visual editor...last time I checked their editor didn't even work on Safari.

Using Plasmic + JAMstack on a marketing site would be the worst of both worlds IMO. All the static site hassles with none of the stuff that makes static sites fun for me.

It gives design and marketing the ability to edit landing pages, but they still have to bug the engineers for bigger changes to the site structure.

The biggest advantage to Webflow is its super versatile CMS, and separate simplified editor for content teams. Our engineering team literally never has to touch anything on our main domain. Marketing/Design completely owns it. Our engineers focus entirely on our product.

Like all developer-centric tools coming out of the JAMstack ecosystem, Plasmic seems to ignore the existence of content marketing and SEO (Wordpress's writing experience and friendliness for non-devs is why they won the internet), which is the entire point of having a marketing site in the first place.
Resiliency is the cost of efficiency. Latency is the cost of resiliency. - Homer Simpson
It's building-specific.

Also it's not like Verizon is your friend either; they just don't (yet) have any incentive to screw you.

These companies are apparently all run by greedy scum. I would much prefer if it were run by lazy greedy bureaucrats instead; at least then theoretically I can write a letter to my local legislators about it and complain at city hall.
Oh, thanks! That's surprising! And precisely the kind of question I was interested in.
Given the choice between someone with a license and someone without. The analogy isn't very hard to grasp here...
In far fewer words: https://heeris.id.au/trinkets/ProgrammerInterrupted.png
Those work and will reduce the system call overhead. But testing showed that it isn't actually the main culprit (e.g. you might gain 5% efficiency by going for it).

A far bigger bottleneck with the kernel stack is that e.g. the route lookup, iptable rules and similar things will be evaluated per packet - which is taking up most of the time. That will happen independent of you deliver one packet per system call or multiple of those.

UDP Generic segmentation offload (GSO - https://lwn.net/Articles/752184/) reduces that overhead by amortizing all in-kernel and driver operations over batches of datagrams. It makes a far bigger difference in efficiency than purely reducing syscalls (e.g. to +100% efficiency - but it will all depend on the other work the application and QUIC stack does and what drivers support).
I think that's a big chunk of it. It explains a question that's been nagging me: if we've been pumping money into the economy for over a decade, why isn't there inflation?

Answer: there is, it's just asset inflation, not consumer inflation.

Still, if real estate is one of those assets, that should have filtered down to the consumer level. Is it isolated away from most consumer real estate? Or has the real estate fraction of CPI actually been rising while something else is falling to compensate? (The latter should be easily testable, but I don't have time at the moment.)