skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, it was still a play on the word, just being done by a legit company. Not that legit means mature.

I was doing a student event when I saw someone wear "K1SS MY 4RSE". I told him "What an obnoxious hoodie.". He meekly said "I thought it said 'Kiss my force'.". I later saw him in a corner praying. I should've asked him what Allah would've thought about him talking to him wearing that hoodie.
This isn't an activity many people have to do often (verbally classifying facial features), so it isn't that surprising to me that untrained people have difficulty with it. Obviously I don't know your specific experience, but I'd think your experience is the norm rather than the exception.

In my mind, it's similar to musicians training solfege or chemists training in verbally classifying a smell: it aids both their understanding and their skill. It absolutely blew my mind to have a perfumist friend of mine describe smells to me as we were walking through the city. I'd never have guessed the depth and complexity of olfactory sensations that us humans are capable of with the right training.
> If this is not desired behavior it should be enforced by requiring a reviewer to sign off on the changes before merging.

From what I've read about this specific incident, it seems this was enabled by the fact that this project had been moved to GitHub Enterprise without the maintainers' knowledge. One of the features of GitHub Enterprise is that some privileged users in the organization can bypass such restrictions. That may be what happened here.
I see you missing the point here. As a consumer, I don't want to be your customer.

When I buy stuff at the grocery store, I'm not the customer of the companies that produce food. Similarly, I just want to get your app, not become a marketing target for dozens of software vendors with varying privacy and data retention policies. I don't want you to upsell me on anything, it's literally the opposite of friendly to me as a consumer.
I can't help but think that this constant conflict of interest seemingly inherent in browsers has technological causes. If Web were simpler, its design better, there would be more implementations and they would be cheaper. Even though it upsets me that the Firefox we knew is doing itself in, Web becoming more dystopian is the most likely catalyst to a better alternative appearing. Darkest before the dawn type of scenario.
On an economical perspective, i wish we had more choice than between Google, Mozilla and Brave, all of which have shown to be corrupt and care little about users. I'm sure a popular browser could receive tons of donations if it was based on such model and stopped remunerating execs/managers (or did away with those vampires entirely).

On a technical perspective, i'd like a modern document browser, not a webapp engine. I can appreciate a cross-platform app runtime (WASI project sounds good), but running random code from every website i visit has only downsides for me. I feel like the useful aspects of the web are declarative (HTML/CSS) that the browser is free to ignore/override to provide better UX, and i'm sad innovation in declarative web seems to have entirely stopped after HTML5 shipped <audio> and <video> (and a few others).

Why can't login/logout, drag & drop, background polling for dynamic content updates, and content "tabs" in page (not based on :checked hack) be part of the HTML spec?

<section reload="2m" src="https://foobar/newarticles.rss" schema="https://foobar/template.html">

^ my browser would let me opt-in/opt-out of background updates and/or change the frequency... which i can't control with crappy JS applets that just make tons of background activity and break in the most unhelpful ways when wifi/VPN/tor looses connectivity

All in all, declarative formats empower users, whereas imperative formats (ECMAScript) empower content producers and advertisers. I wish we had a sort of web users union doing R&D on such topics and employing people to work on user-respecting tech.
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The only really horrid thing about awk is the way you declare local variables in a function ... by just adding more parameters (and letting them be default-initialised on calls). Otherwise it can act like a relatively conventional scripting language, aware of associative arrays (ahead of its time).
The reason is that Windows doesn’t have fork(), and therefore doesn’t have to promise huge multiples of the available memory only to be left holding the bag when that fiction failed. Look up “overcommit” if you’re interested.
One of many. Hope more will come, this space was abandoned after facebook platform faded and there are very few competitors.
> Do I have any serious alternative?

Vivaldi?

I'm using Firefox myself and have been using it almost exclusively since it was named Firebird back in the day, but I have considered Vivaldi as an alternative at one point.
> Access to customer data

And here goes one of the reasons Apple wanted control in the first place.

This is not a customer friendly change.
It's not about simplification, it's just the way language works and evolves. Like how "track" originally referred to the literal engraved track on a phonograph record, yet you claim that that's obviously the correct term for a musical piece. At one point someone argued like you do now about that word.
> I don't think such a system of accounts would need to be publically accessible. It could work similarly to income taxes - where the public is able to look at robust aggregate data, the IRS is able to collect taxes as necessary, and central banks are able to make good monetary policy based on real data.

OK, what will this do? Nothing.

> For the vast majority of wealth that the vast majority of people own (property and financial assets), nothing would be required because (as I mentioned above) there already exist reporting mechanisms for those types of assets.

Again, it sounds like you’ve changed nothing.

> Why do you think progressive taxes are a failure? Taxes used to be much more progressive during a period of much higher growth (1950-1980). Over the last 40 years we've gradually made the tax system more regressive by lowering rates and inserting more and more loopholes (which primarily benefit the wealthy)

For a few reasons, including the left constantly saying they’ve failed and they don’t have enough money. Another reason is income tax was originally meant for the wealthy, then inflation caught up. With an inflationary currency taxes implemented for the rich only will eventually apply to all, as income tax does today but didn’t before. Not to mention the massive overhead to process all of this data, we literally picked the most complicated way to do this.
Precisely. I saw that and was instantly glad Apple is a middleman for that particular point. For all their criticisms, they seem to be one of the companies that gets that.

If it's a service I use enough to possibly consider an upsell opportunity, I'll be aware of that opportunity through organically discovering it during my use of the service or through broader community discussion regarding the service. In all other cases, I don't want unsolicited contact.
Journalist quit his job and now earns half a million from a newsletter
> But you could (hypothetically) render at 120 Hz refresh rate with a 30 second rendering latency.

This is an important point. A 120Hz refresh rate causes _at least_ a worst-case latency of 8ms. People often drop the "at least" or ignore that latency compounds across the pipeline.
CloudFormation can be very flexible, especially with tools like sceptre, it can work very well. A huge issue is that WITHOUT tools like sceptre, you can't really use stacks except as dumb silos. You already need additional tooling (sceptre, CDK, SAM, ...) to make CF workable. I think that most people who despise CF haven't got good tooling.

The issue with CloudFormation is that it lags behind all other AWS services quite often. It seems to be maintained by another team. I realize that getting state management for complex inderdependent resources right requires time and diligence, BUT it's a factor in driving adoption.

- New EKS feature? Sorry, no knob in CF for MONTHS.

- New EBS gp3 volume type available? Sorry, our AWS::Another::Service resource does not accept gp3 values for months after feature release.

- A AWS API exposes information that you would like to use as an input to another resource or stack. SURPRISE, CloudFormation does not return that attribute to you, despite it being available. SORRY NOT FIXABLE.

- Try refactoring and moving resources in/out of stacks while preserving state? Welcome to a fresh hell.

- Quality of CloudFormation "modules" varies. AWS::ElasticSearch::Domain used to suck a whole lot, AWS::S3::Bucket as a core service was always very friendly.

- CloudFormation custom resources are a painful way of "extending" CF to suite your needs. So painful that I refuse to pay the cost of AWS not keeping their stuff up to date and well integrated.

These kinds of lag, this kind of incompleteness when it comes to making information from AWS APIs available have driven me to Terraform for things that are best done in Terraform and require flexibility and CloudFormation for things that work well with it.

At the end of the day CF is a closed-source flavour of Terraform + AWS provider. I would like have gone all in, but just doesn't work and costs hacks, time and flexibility.

That being said, if you have no idea how to work with TF, tell the devs to use CF.

The experience of AWS support is probably also very different when it comes to feature requests. An org that spends half a billion with AWS will get their requests implemented ASAP whereas small fish have to swim with the flow and hope it works for them.
Since this article was written in 2005, multiple attempts have been made to establish non-rectangular UIs.
The mentioned Daisy Disk delights in its hierarchical view.
Ça. 2010 there was an initiative for an entire phone UI based on this kind of concept. This went nowhere but Android 4 tried to incorporate as slide in from the side circular menu. [1]
Most recently HTC incorporated this kind of UI in their U11 phone launcher. [2]

Forgoing the entire concept of rows and columns of pixels to render a UI though is just asking for trouble as all assumptions about arrangement go out of the window. With sufficiently high resolutions screens (we've achieved that) an arbitrarily shaped UI can be displayed. Masterfully demonstrated here in Neil Sardesai s UI experiments [3]

As for having the menu separate from the content canvas, foldables are currently a great experiment platform for this, see Samsungs "flex mode" [4]

[1]https://www.androidauthority.com/is-google-aiming-for-a-ui-m...
[2]https://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-u11/howto/opening-edge-la...
[3] https://twitter.com/neilsardesai/status/1381241571895615491
[4] https://www.bgr.in/news/youtube-app-update-brings-improved-s...
It’s less that it’s toothless and more that Apple won the case - she ruled 9/10 counts in Apple’s favour.
We have a new leader of the pack: the Python programming language
An account is quite literally an account of all the data added by a user.
I have Aphantasia, thankfully I'm invulnerable to this.
Why would they put it in UK even before Brexit? Doesn't make any sense in the first place.
Great, so then require a parent to be actioned upon. And patents don’t last forever so eventually Boeing and Airbus will have, in great detail, explained how their thing worked so others can copy it.
Is that due to the subsidies the EU vs UK is willing to offer?
Then don't. Use it for producing hydrogen. Compress, liquify it, slush it. Use the surplus electricity by nuclear, fantastic fusion, whatever, to suck the carbon out of the air, and make zeolites out of it to mix it into agriculturally used grounds, cat litter, whatever.
Not OP but I've avoided Brave from the beginning because of its reliance on an ad-fueled crypto scam to generate revenue. If you're trying to avoid Mozilla's new ad-based revenue scheme, moving to a browser that is wholly funded by tracking your browsing and showing you ads while pretending to "pay" you with cryptocurrency that they never actually pay out, seems like a step backwards.
I agree that we should be rolling out as many modern, small scale fission reactors as possible, right now, in order to deal with CO2 output. But, at the same time, I think we should pursue fusion with the same gusto that we currently direct towards blowing up 3rd world countries. Also, recent advances might herald fusion in less time than you'd think: https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusio....
The pur is to further the mission of the nonprofit, i.e., an open interoperable web. All money earned stays within Mozilla.

In contrast to all other browser products, whose main purpose is increasing share holder value.
It's worth reading the BBC news article techpowerup's coverage is based upon, there's more detail.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58820599

"I have no idea whether we would have had a superior site from the UK," he said. "But we now have about 70 proposals for sites across Europe from maybe 10 different countries.

"We're hopeful that we'll get to agreement on a site, as well as support from the EU... before the end of this year."
How does that differ from terraform modules?
Facebook shapes our perception of the world by choosing the information we see. Even those who don’t use Facebook are impacted by the majority who do. A company with such frightening influence over so many people — over their deepest thoughts, feelings and behaviors — needs real oversight.

-- Frances Haugen, Opening Statement to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, October 5, 2021.

https://www.franceshaugen.com/blog/b9xlswihkike7639nn4ie23od...
this is a total non-sequitur given that London has always raised large amounts of VC money including pre-Brexit (quite naturally given that it's the largest city after Istanbul or Moscow in Europe, if you count those). if you want to judge the impact of Brexit you need to evaluate the UK's performance relative to its previous performance, it was always the largest single VC recipient in Europe.

The continent has actually very rapidly caught up in terms of share of money raised over recent years. In 2020, VC funding in the UK only grew by 1.7% compared to 70% in Ireland, 25% in France, 11% in Germany, Scandinavia and so on. European share of the market is actually very quickly accelerating

https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/hot-or-not-where-europea...

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/european-vc-funding-h1-2021...
> and eroding trust.

This is exactly the point why I left Google Chrome back then and considered FF as a good alternative. I didn't trust Google anymore. But now I face the same problem again, because I don't want these "features and trusted partners". I also don't want to have to justify over and over again why I don't want them. I just want a well-functioning and secure browser that people can trust.
The downside would be that much fewer people would be able to afford it in the first place. Cheap personal computers are a very powerful force for good, this is a very unpalatable but reasonable compromise.

Taking the other side of the compromise is of course also reasonable, but pretending it's somehow a free lunch is not realistic.
I'm not quite sure scripted dialogue in a fictional TV show about murderous superheroes is the correct comparison for Mozilla putting ads in search results...
They need to get taxed somehow (they still use public roads after all). Just build it in to registration costs. Yearly inspection takes the odometer, charge based off km at registration time. No need to over complicate it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-Q_transform
Paddle et al. can implement an email forwarder so the emails go to user3492@proxy.paddle.com if privacy is truly a concern. Plus paddle has arguably much less info on yourself to be worried. I don't think the situation with record labels is even remotely comparable -- apple & google do very little to help devs.
It's illegal under GDPR and european data protection rights anyway. You have a right to have your account and data deleted if there aren't any important reasons not to (like finance stuff).
I recalled OS/2 Warp in the mid 90's. Anyone knows why they called it OS/2 Warp in that era and not just OS/2?
How JavaScript works: the publisher-subscriber pattern
Pakistan earthquake: at least 20 dead after powerful 5.7 magnitude tremor
"When including box office and home entertainment revenue, the global film industry was worth $136 billion in 2018" [0]

plus

looking in [1] at Total United Kingdom, 2018 --> $2.74 billion

vs

"The industry's annual semiconductor sales revenue has since grown to over $481 billion, as of 2018" [2]

So all in all, value lost in this limited context (of 3 discussed industries) due to Brexit. (granted, two are global numbers (call it 'potential') and one is a purely UK number (of which you're guaranteed 100%)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_industry
[1]: https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=VC_INVEST#
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_industry

edit: i don't know how to read --> 274 billion to 2.74 billion, drop ratio in text.
> Perhaps in theory, but many countries around the world and across history (including the United States!) have had much more progressive taxation regimes and it hasn't "kill[ed] the incentive for starting companies and becoming wealthy."

Which countries? And what happens when another country becomes more competitive than the US from a tax perspective? Will it destroy the country? certainly not. Will the US continue to be the world reserve currency and lead the world? Again, no.
For some it is, for some it isn't. Because of the new relationship, you don't have one size fits all situation.

Just don't present it like as if it is "thanks to Brexit". Brexit made things harder but it didn't kill it for everyone, except maybe for Intel.
I did not assume no other proteins.
Twitch’s data leak could change live streaming as we know it
Hmm. I wonder how much revenue is Mozilla expecting from this deal? How much would a crowdfunding effort need to raise, month to month, to buy out 100% of the ad space?
Instanced Line Rendering Part II: Alpha Blending
Afterwards follow up with PROLOG and Brainfuck, please.
Well, you know, it’s hard to break into.
I like this ted talk that goes into detail about the gender imbalances in divorce law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlSwsE22nX0

The tender years doctrine is one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tender_years_doctrine
The AGPL was created so that for-profit, not-free software can get free QA and put an open-source blurb on their landing page, be honest.
> world-class leaders

‶Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up 400%″ -- https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html
Hello IPv6: a minimal tutorial for IPv4 users
Allowing 3rd party payments in apps is a net negative for consumers IMO. The current way of paying for in-app content is extraordinarily easy and privacy-preserving. Subscriptions are listed in one spot and can easily be cancelled from there.

Sure the fee is a bummer, but that’s not my problem as a consumer. If it makes the subscription more expensive I’ll just buy it on their website.

But I feel this change will produce all sorts of awful web-hybrid user experiences.
well except for the two sorts of registers
What consumer electronics actually have problems with finger ESD? Ram? My computers don't have any "warranty void" stickers.

Also, being worried about handling PCBs by direct touch is just silly.
> ...and it runs in the browser

That's not correct though, the game runs on a Linux box in Google's datacenters (granted, from a business perspective that's nitpicking - but not quite, see below, but it's a massive difference from a technical perspective).

Scaling to large audiences is much more expensive with the game streaming approach though (but we'll never really know because Stadia bombed, just as all other game streaming platforms before).
You don't think rental customers create an account on the app to make their initial reservation, then sign the paperwork once they pick up the car?
Ok now I’m inspired to use that nice oled display with my pi or esp32… I had been using adafruits gfx libraries while they are great they are pretty low level and require a lot of tweaking to position text… while this might not solve that problem the widget library looks really nice and maybe just need to see it on one of my displays just for fun
And adding human review completes it. The other measures are just to reduce the amount of spam.
(Still) Raising the most VC funding is not the same as raising the most or more because of Brexit.
My first big project was also done on a similar calculator.

A few years before the TI era there was a strong HP-48 scene in France and I believe that many of the early work and games on TI-8x and T-9x were inspired by what was already available on HP-48.

Here is my own contribution at the time:
https://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/apps/shell/

A multitasking alternative OS and a few apps, I learned a lot working on this.
And then there's Huxley's "Brave New World Revisited" published about 30 years afterwards, with twelve essays to look at the world in 1958. He concludes (iirc) that a lot of the changes he expected to appear in a hundred years after "Brave New World" took shape already.
> Need to have someone professional check the copy out.

Professional author here. It's a major, eye-rolling turn-off to see the grammar and punctuation errors, and to be honest, the breezy response is also a turn-off and screams amateurish effort.

If you are posting this on HN, accepting users, and (presumably) taking payments, then you have already publicly launched, and you should have done this already.

I understand that it's a side project, but if you want to have people take your business seriously -- and a business marketing to writers, of all people -- then you've got to make sure your homepage copy is beyond reproach.
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> Because raising taxes isn't going to keep someone who would already be considering starting a business from starting a business.

How can you say that? Have you polled everyone starting businesses? This very thing happened to me with a distribution business in which taxes, and the potential for them being raised, made the business unprofitable compared to the same business running in China.

> Do most people who start a business actually become wealthy?

Subjective and impossible to calculate but by all means because not everybody can find a way we should kill it for everyone right? Because not everyone is smart enough to become a medical Dr, we should ban the profession or implement pay caps right?
I like Vivaldi but the issue is that you're still locking yourself into Chromium's Blink rendering engine which just serves to strengthen Google's push to be the de-facto standards enforcer of the web.
Slimeball!
I wrote a TI89 version:
https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/340/34000.htm...
How can people still support Mozilla at this point?