skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not claiming that ruby isn't productive, but I could as well rephrase that into "these companies got very far despite the lack of productivity of ruby before this became a concern". It's not really giving any new insight.
Mumble fits 2/4 of those. Chat with emoji/better drag-and-drop file sharing would be trivial I expect, with full-time developers paid to make it happen.

Seamless video streaming is harder. And like others said, Discord is pretty much spyware freemium software. Your incredible experience is being subsidized by investors and your own data.
Launching a competitor to Google that is the default search engine on all iphones for $15B and 10 years of dev time sounds like a massive win to me.

I think with billions of dollars in funding they could accomplish a "good enough product" in 5 years personally. They don't need to be as good as google.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywal...

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
Rent control doesn't typically restrict the prices they can set on new housing, only on existing units. Therefore the ROI is there to be had, just not in forcing people out of their homes.
Surely the genius software developers can just do away with the stupid and pointless project managers with their self inflated egos and release the great software ourselves? Why don't we do that? Surely there must be some reason if these useless business people only provide negative value!
Ah sorry, I was thinking of the "tenant-after-30-days-in-a-hotel-room" laws and some other examples in Europe that are different.

Thanks for the correction.
I don't believe "it's bing results with added extras around them" is hyperbolical, given how similar DDG and Bing results look everytime I try it. If it's wrong, DDG would IMHO do themselves a favor by sharing more details here.
seems like a combination of /some/ people being rendered homeless by high rents, and /some/ criminals making a living off extorting landlords. I have every sympathy for the former, and none for the latter. Seems like they have a similar issue to SF - lack of building new homes leading to insane house and rent prices.
I feel that terra preta is the way to go.

You use plants to concentrate carbon. You make biochar. And then you put it back in the soil, so you're not depleting it of nitrogen, phosphates, and minerals.

The waste heat that you get from making the biochar is useful energy -- solar energy, really -- that you can use to heat homes, make hot water, and run heat engines.

Maybe even the Haber process too?

The chief challenge I see is how to reduce human labor requirements without increasing capital requirements too much.

I'm also a little concerned about eventually diluting the soil with too much biochar. Because you're sucking carbon out of the atmosphere, but the amount of phosphates and such is remaining constant.
Have you ever heard of Fedora? They have a base container image.
A different conversation, but if you want to talk about "oughts" vs the reality, squatters ought to be removed by the police.
It was working as designed. If you already visited that page, you don't need to go there again. Time was precious on dial-uo connections, better go visit some new page instead!
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/CnIQM
I don't understand why you would cite Covid lockdowns (a centrally-coordinated government policy) as evidence of individual impact. Is this not an argument against your own point?
Why is Control Center on Monterey taking up ports 5000 and 7000?
UBI and carbon taxes synergize in making your country woefully uncompetitive with other nations in international trade, fwiw.
It seems like there is an emerging western world trend of people being unable to afford their home, landlords being unable to enforce their property rights, and housing activists opposing new construction and rent increases.

Generally all these issues seem to be made worse by restrictions on new housing development, land use restrictions and a large indigent population who cannot afford housing with their current wage earning ability.

For now it seems like the government’s preferred solution is to not address the root causes and let landlords slowly incur losses and wealthier renters pay through the nose. I believe governments should be doing the exact opposite, they should have landlord and development friendly laws. The alternative seems to be mass homelessness and general societal decay. No one will invest in real estate if property rights cannot be enforced. However, indigent voters are a large vote bank. In California, 60% of adults paid no income tax in 2020.
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They dont preach the proper Doctrine of Eris, neither; so far as I know. shameless.

The Proper Doctrine must be spread to every corner of the Earth, and every manner of Mind, with Fire and Sword and spray cheese as needed.
Man what a weirdly speculative article. Is this what Mozilla employees are being paid to do these days?

It's basically a tour of old hyperlink and windowing systems... with lots of guessing and maybes. I'm not sure why it's relevant that Win 3.1 had blue titlebars, for instance. The author never actually answers her question but I imagine the obvious guess is the correct one:

Black text on a white background was the predominant GUI style at the time (probably due to Mac OS and Windows) and the software designers needed a visual cue that the hyperlink was clickable. Just underlined wouldn't have worked because underline was already a popular style in text processing. So they decided to give it a different color too. Blue is the most logical choice as it has good contrast against a white background, and has a neutral meaning (compared to say, red). There weren't really a lot of color choices back then, the largest palette you could count on at the time was 16 colors.

This was what Mosaic did and most browsers that came after it (including the most influential: Netscape) did what Mosaic did.

And there certainly were browsers of the era that didn't use blue underline for links, the next most common paradigm was some kind of bordered box around the text (usually the same color as the text).
There's a major difference in fairness and safety when going through the law. In fact, that's the entire point.
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They had no understanding of the phone industry, the music industry, photography, etc, etc but that didn't stop them learning about them and eventually dominating.

I don't think it's a technology issue, it's a business one. They have built a position on customer privacy and moving into the search/ad business is inconsistent with that. Take Google's money and let the Goog take the flak on privacy.
I've spent much of the past few years trying to work out if this means I should stop relying on pull requests to catch problems, and put something in place ahead of writing code instead, but so far I've not figured out an alternative that works. If anyone has any ideas, please share them.
My concern being, once GPs start seeing this media, they are less likely to be referred to a neurologist at all. Another example: a hospital near me is denying my neuropsych referral despite a valid reason because my doctor isn't in their network. Getting to a specialist is getting harder and harder even when you do have a sympathetic GP.
> ubuntu - Increasingly hostile to container usage (I tried to install a package recently, the install "succeeded" but at runtime the installed binary simply printed 'oh actually this is a stub, use snap instead' and exited)

Was it chromium?
The problem is not only that it could be a local Maxima. It might also measure the wrong metric all together.

Is the platform widely used and the business successful because content makes users happy and improves their lives?

Or is engagement high, because users have become accustomed to whatever a company is feeding them and look for something shallow to fill up their time.

If you only measure engagement as metric, without any deeper reflection and judgment, then heroin is a perfect product in terms of A/B testing.
Excellent.
There is a silver lining:

It will lead to the end of Facebook and hopefully these practices you’ve described... once the lesson is learned.

The end of Facebook, Snap, and other scientifically-designed-to-be-attention-exploiting apps/sites would be very positive.
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Biden was laughing about American citizens left behind yesterday.
> I don't think it's crazy to say that rent control helps those in it and hurts those that aren't in it.

Hard disagree, it's crazy to claim that rent control hurts affordability. Rent control does not "hurt" anyone not in it. The lack of humane regulation on housing is hurting those people, and rent control is just getting slandered in the cross fire. What most people interpret as "rent control causing" is in reality "the lack of enough rent control causing".

It's like looking at a car crash, and saying "see, seat belts didn't protect the non-wearers, those seat belts just selfishly protected only their own wearer, and even created more empty space for the non-belted to get extra physical damage. Seat belts hurt all those not belted, the policy itself of offering seatbelts 'causes' damage to others."
what you are saying is not contradictory to the commentor you reply to.

Rents go up, because price ceiling is removed. Idea is that in the future supply increases and you don't have to wear a suit when looking for a flat
Yes.

I use DDG as my default. The bang syntax is great for quick pivots and for wikipedia-like information. However, digging deep into a topic or doing certain technical searches brings up SEO hell/malicious PDFs worse than Google ever does.
Yes, people did use the hex codes back then. You just had to take care that the ones you used were on the list of 216 (not 256) web safe colors. The VGA palette was programmable and supported up to 262,144 colors, but a standard set of 216 was used in browsers to allow Windows, Mac OS, and other programs color table slots with which to draw their standard colors.

I think some browsers understood X11 color names like "blue" or "DarkSlateGray", but there are more than 216 of those, so same caveat applies.
The difference is that landlords pocket the excess and whoever isn’t subsidized gets fucked over.
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Why do you need to wear a safety belt in a car? If a man doesn't want to use them and knows the risks he should be able to. Same with any belt I guess.
It was actually only 216 web safe colors.

You could use names, or you could use colors whose RGB components were each multiples of 0x33. (00, 33, 66, 99, cc, ff)
Immigrants. They are watching for illegal immigrants. Many of them work on farms.
Don't you think it could be aggressively regulated against? I doubt it could be completely stopped, but demand could be sharply reduced if using and mining cryptocurrency carried sharp legal penalties.
I think it's pretty easy to make circuitry to shift a radio's frequency. If you did that with LimeSDR you'd still get the same bandwidth but it would be shifted into a different range.
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It already has. Which is why it's important to highlight the remaining few iconoclasts that stick to the tried and true method of "I provide a product, you buy that product". Not rent the product as you would with Spotify, but be able to buy it permanently.
Better than burying wood:

Make charcoal. Use the waste heat. Put the charcoal back in the soil, so you're not depleting it of phosphates, minerals, or nitrogen. Repeat.

Maybe you can even use the waste heat to run the Haber process.
I worked in the oil & gas industry about a decade ago. I recall a conversation with our CEO directly talking about renewables and the environment. He said, very clearly, that this entire industry is about money, and they will do whatever makes them the most money. If renewable ever paid more than oil, they'd go there. But direct from his mouth - it is 100% about money.

If anyone doubts that they are greed-driven, just ask. They don't hide it.
Their business is 100% dependent on our demand for their product.

Who here has made a significant lifestyle change in order to reduce their personal contribution to oil consumption?
Easy snark on the headline contribute nothing positive to this site. Explain what fault you find in the Guardian premise and I will listen. For e.g., the sister comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28315019 perhaps share your view?
Biden needs to be removed immediately.

He has murdered dozens of American citizens and was laughing about them yesterday.

Fucking evil piece of shit.
Microsoft did something like this almost a decade ago.

https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/06/bing-it-on-microsoft-claim...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bing#Bing_It_On

It was marginal, in favor of Bing, though I don't think they did extended experiments with individuals.
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Can we say "Bitcoin" when we're talking about Bitcoin and not lump all proof of stake and other very efficient systems in with proof of work coins?
Great to see someone influential framing it this way. At the end of the day, what it's there for doesn't matter and unfortunately way too many of us stumble on this mistake in reasoning.
You can gum up an eviction in the States for several months on very flimsy grounds. “We had an agreement” is sometimes enough to get the police to go away, requiring a lawsuit.

The real experts find a target and record fake deeds, almost guaranteeing a year or two.

Add in the federal “moratorium,” and landlords or sellers in this market will often pay for them to leave.
Discord music bot Groovy is going offline after YouTube crackdown:(
Eh, I don't like how much influence Chrom(e|ium) has but this is either missing information or intentionally misleading to paint a picture.

This is how the spec process works:

1. You find out if you want to implement something

2. You find out if others want to implement something

3. You implement your something (for simple things in a testbed for complex things as an experimental change over multiple development versions)

4. You demonstrate the something works

5. You demonstrate others are intending to ship as well (For complex things you may have to wait until others are comfortable with their working implementations)

6. If you had a bad experience and many discussion points in 4/5 you go back to 4 and refine until you had a good experience and your spec is merged.

You imply the Chromium authors went 1, 3, ship because you read about step 1 happening. In reality they consulted with Firefox and Safari prior to merging code into the codebase or simply lobbing a spec proposal over the fence. https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/6297
Ask HN: What are salary rates these days?
With inflation and tight job market, I would expect wages are increasing.

How much do developers, data professionals, managers, and/or architects run these days, either on the hiring side or seeking side?
As I see it, people have a right to receive justice. The deal we have with governments is simple: the government handles justice, and in return, we don't handle it ourselves. This is a good deal, it leads to better outcomes because courts are more capable and less hot headed than victims. Vigilante justice is inferior to the sort of justice a government can provide.

But when a government abdicates their side of the deal, what choice to people have? Does such a government really expect people to forego receiving justice at all when their government repeatedly and consistently refuses to provide it? When governments abdicate their duty to provide justice, vigilante justice becomes morally justifiable. This is not a good state of affairs, and is why a government must prioritize being an effective provider of justice. When a government abdicates their side of the bargain, the aftermath is blood on their hands.
The answer is "Mosaic", even if someone can find some other earlier use of blue. They chose it, and Netscape kept it, which meant that everyone was trained to expect it.
The casual brand is great, but those loading antics are dumb. Nobody actually likes them. This is great news, Discord really, badly, needs multi account support, screen-share and video in stage channels, an alternate pricing option/model where a server can be paid for by a company or organization instead of individuals (which would remove stream quality and upload file size limits), sso support, and possibly server DMs instead of global DMs (possibly addressing associated data segregation issues). Otherwise their product already works awesome for smaller more open minded businesses. We replaced Slack with it this week and I don’t see us going back.

Also I want to point out that nothing in the article indicates a shift to b2b. It sounds more like they are going after parteon, onlyfans, consoles, twitch, etc. I just kinda assume they will develop some more mature user management and server payment options along the way.
I haven't used a LimeSDR but I have used the mini version which is just about the same hardware minus the extra TX/RX channels. It's a great little device that covers a massive spectrum with a decent bandwidth as well. Comparable devices from Ettus are much more expensive. I'd love to own one for ham stuff but haven't had much time for that hobby lately. The Lime rep did give me a mini PCB on a keychain once, coolest trinket I've ever gotten at a conference.
Well, two thoughts. 1) long term sustainability matters more to stakeholders than it does to shareholders 2) you need an endgame because its compete or get out-competed, so a company that had better, more consumer focused practices holistically might close after a rough patch, leaving more competitively fit companies behind.

Tragedy of the commons. Its why we need government that isn't business controlled, to care for the common good and help steer against problems where local incentives drive everyone to a stable but sort of terrible state.
In the myriad of articles about this systems many issues there have been comments from people who have worked with the NCMEC upstream database and note that it's filled with mundane photos, empty rooms, etc - I think it was in one of the hackerfactor article discussions

This entire system is ripe for false positives AND adversarial attacks.
Nobody who travels ‘wants’ to burn oil. Capital decided oil is the most profitable way to deliver that. There was never a point where individual personal consumption habits could have changed this course.
Mods are downvoting and covering up the fact that Biden is a murderous piece of shit.

Multiple explosions in Kabul killing American citizens.
What happens to the water the plants use? Is it polluted and unusable, or just tied up temporarily and can be released [safely] back into wherever it was diverted from?
Hard to find much sympathy for the wealthy landowners who use violence to clear poor people out of their vacation homes. This is an obvious systemic breakdown where the solution will be either tougher laws against squatting or better public/affordable housing depending on your political ideology.
> (and from what we're able to tell, it is not, instead we see coal and natural gas plants being ramped up to power bitcoin farms)

like I said, advocate against those specific mining sites. those made headlines in your world, while others did not.

A lot of captured energy mining occurs at remote flare gas sites, where those sites are in the business of pumping oil and flaring off byproducts and not in the business of moving power a few hundred km. These are highly polluting places, and crypto mining is ironically (to you) their sustainability solution, as they provide a use for the energy that would have been flared into the atmosphere as hydrocarbons instead. As these are also fracking sites, the machines can use the polluted water for cooling. Those kinds of sites are only captured and not necessarily renewable, an important distinction because your example was limited to imagining uneconomical solar. There is much more energy like this able to be tapped while reducing hydrocarbons in the atmosphere, and if it was economical for other use cases that you respect more to tap into that energy, you and others had several decades to do so.
> I don't think its outlandish at all to imagine Apple rolls its own search engine

IMHO, that's the play behind Neeva[1], to be acquired by Apple. But will Apple give up the sweet, sweet $$$$$ it gets from Google, just to roll its own?

[1] https://www.neeva.com/
I recall a ping-pong table at an IBM branch office 55 years ago but it was only used at lunch hour. As a consultant at dozens of companies, I've seen a lot of neat perks especially in Silicon Valley but no beer taps.
I don't know why but for a moment I read this comment in horror imagining language developers implementing telemetry in the compilers and tooling themselves, then relying on them to "improve the experience" by changing the spec every six months.
My Aunt is a follower of a catholic sect whose leader says that the vaccine is a gateway to the “mark of the beast” which indicates the end times…
You’re maybe right, but does that mean the language should be hostile to those that don’t write well designed code?
Working on a little script that determines who the moderators are for the top X subreddits and auto bans all of them because /r/all is ruined for a couple days every single time these mods get uppity.

I’m vaccinated, btw.
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I've wanted to do this for Threes for years! Alas, I'm not aware of any API that makes it easy to do this programmatically.
Jason Swenk has a decent podcast where he frequently discusses client development and lead generation for Digital Agencies > https://jasonswenk.com/3-tips-generate-leads/
Ahh, so they sent the lock_version with the read. Now it all makes sense. Thank you!

And as you say, in this case you couldn't even reliably lock on read because you don't know whether or when a client sends a POST anyways.
Any permanent solution would require ending homelessness. That's actually a pretty easy goal, but not one our society is willing to pursue.
After the franchise wars, now all restaurants are Taco Bell.
This is the most important point. The EU is big enough that a large proportion of the world has put the cookie popups in. Whether they have done it right is a matter for a separate argument. The UK changing its laws isn't going to change any of this. The only thing it can do it give the bad consequences - the UK isn't big enough for this change to actually cause any good consequences.

The solution to the problem of loads of web sites making illegal cookie nag-screens isn't to relax the laws so that they can legally steal our data - it is instead to actually prosecute for the nag-screens.
Well "matter of when" would still suggest that more is better, within reasonable bounds.

But if they turn into tissue that gets in the way, that would be a big reason not to want more. Is that the main reason?
Zoning, not interest rates, is inhibiting residential building the most.
There is a third option in which we have market rate prices and don't dramatically restrict the ability to add new housing.

And I don't believe that is impossible to build more housing in Stockholm. It has a population density of 400 people/km^2. To put that in perspective, Chicago (in the US) has a population density of 4000 people/km^2. And Chicago (outside of a central business district which is very dense) is not some dystopian megalopolis. It is mostly neighborhoods of single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Seoul, SK has a population density four times higher than that at ~16000 people/km^2. Paris is even denser at 20000 people/km^2.
Even if a user pivots from Safari, keeping Google as the default is keeping it as the default in the minds of users as they move to a different browser.