skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, if one defined an XML or SGML DTD, you could inter-weave text and mark up seamlessly without having to create yet another markup language; another reason to standardize is not having to write readers/writers/converters again and again.

Buy @red pepper{2}.

versus

<recipe>
Buy <ingredient amount="2">red pepper</ingredient>.</recipe>

For the latter, standard tools like xmlwf or any good Web browsers built-in XML viewer already exist and work right away.

In any case, double maintenance of JSON and human-readable text will eventually lead to inconsistencies.
There are almost certainly more multi-core ARM chips than x86 chips around, too, tho.
IMO, it seems like a poor plan to rely on the revenue from excise taxes on particular luxuries (harmful or not). It's not a stable source of revenue, because increasing the tax will decrease use somewhat, and also acts as an indirect subsidy for alternative behaviors and grey markets (that you would also probably like to oppose if you are against the original one).

The only scenario that makes sense is to fund programs to help people deal with the negative effects of consumption (as, theoretically, such programs would not need to exist once consumption stops). However, unless you don't believe in addiction at all, it's clearly immoral to tie funding of treatment programs entirely to excise taxes.

So you have to weigh a revenue offset against the morality of, again, taxing people who may have compromised agency to one degree or another. I think our system does less ethical things all the time, but it's hard for me to feel these kinds of taxes are "well founded."

If we had real universal healthcare (or better cost sharing) then I think a much broader tax on things that have predictable health impacts might be sensible, but for it to work it would need to go far beyond "morally questionable" things and into, say, taxing companies that employ people to do labor that will reliably damage their bodies.
Uaparser.js NPM Package Supply Chain Attack: Impact and Response
From my understanding from watching the keynote earlier today, the reason that demo has JS is that repo opted in to have client side code to handle the upvote functionality. If it didn't require that interactivity it could be shipped with no client side JS. The client side js code is defined in the component files ending in .client.js

https://github.com/vercel/next-rsc-demo/tree/main/components
Peoples skunk weed habits rarely stick to their own house.
Meaning Texas has the highest speed limits in the country
hey there! sorry about that - you can check out what the end product looks like on our gallery: https://scribehow.com/gallery

the team has been building this product quietly over the past year and a half, and we launched last month on PH.
Discussed in a few past threads:

Photopea: A free alternative to Photoshop used by millions of people - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898836 - April 2021 (5 comments)

AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26768550 - April 2021 (267 comments)

AMA with the Creator of Photopea - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24143189 - Aug 2020 (6 comments)

Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop used by 1.5M people - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18397380 - Nov 2018 (179 comments)

My name is Ivan and I want to make the best photo editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15924402 - Dec 2017 (80 comments)

Surface Blur and Median - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12612720 - Sept 2016 (34 comments)

Photo Pea 0.3 – New features - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6624264 - Oct 2013 (7 comments)

HTML5 image editor wants to replace Photoshop and Gimp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6396474 - Sept 2013 (4 comments)
ah, maybe https://spinnaker.io/ is what you are looking for?
I drive my old motorcycle with the same big windshield since the 90ies. Insects are dramatically less on it now than 20 years ago.
Free, Open Source Notarization and Verification Service for Creating SBOMs
Things that are universally witnessed have low need of citation.

In this case it seems unlikely that >10% of smokers consistently transport their butts as long as it takes to find a receptacle. Outside of Scouting or military facilities, it's so rare that it commands attention.
Anybody in a VC Private Equity fund: can you tell me how capital calls work?

In a hedge fund, limited partners just gives the fund a certain amount of capital and you see what happens.

The way capital calls have been described to me is that limited partners just say they have a certain amount of capital available, and at any time the VC PE fund just requests/demands it from your bank account? Which seems a little odd and inconvenient to me.
Well, sure, this is trying to fix capitalism, which is something I'm all for. But one way or another, I think it's vital to have the shortcomings of a capitalist system understood. It's one thing to believe capitalism is the way to go, it's another to go defend that we should always act in self interest and this will only lead to good things.
My main worry with WebGPU is the dependence with Javascript. If I understand it correctly, you can't use web APIs nor stuff like WebGPU directly through web assembly anyway, so there's always a javascript glue layer involved.

Now, I know some languages like Rust have decent bindings that hide all that, but I wonder about the performance cost of that glue. Has someone measured it, or estimated how better we could go without it? Or am I completely wrong about this? Or are there clear plans to make this better/disappear? (Though in my brief research I didn't find anything like it).
I just realized that the button is impossible to interact with on Monterey. The only way to get the "options" drop down (something that used to be individual buttons on the notification) to appear is to hover over the "X" but if you move the mouse away from that the options drop down disappears. There's actually no way to do something like snooze a notification from the notification itself.

It's an astonishing regression in functionality, even for Apple. And with Apple's recent UI "improvements" I'm not sure if it is a bug or deliberate. I'm probably holding it wrong but I can't figure out the combination of interactions to get that button to persist.
I'm surprised some hyphen aficionado hasn't tried hyphenating that country's name because it's "too confusing".
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I loved electronics and had self taught myself before Uni, but the university material was mostly theory and maths, and I was put off the career for life. (Note: I had no trouble with the mathematics).

Other negative values:

Much of what was taught was useless knowledge. Some of it was harmful (the pet theories of wacko lecturers).

Anything useful was still rote learning with zero reality.

It is all channeled towards exams of well defined problems with correct answers - harmful at the meta level.

Note that Canterbury University engineering school is well respected in New Zealand.

I happily believed in the schooling system for the first two years (a simple continuation of high school), but the final year of uni then became an insane grind after I realised how pointless the material was (I am more academically inclined, so it took me a while to learn my stupidity). I still wanted to finish the degree - possibly due to sunk cost fallacy - although the piece of paper got me my first software job.

Opportunity cost of 3 years of life is insanely huge (I didn’t really get anything long term out of university socially: the first two years were fun at the time). It is normally a four year degree, but I skipped the first year (no academic consequences, although the decision probably had social repercussions due to my young age compared with majority of classmates).

I sadly still see the same issues happen with university these days: I have seen a nurse (University degree) and a early childhood teacher (University degree) get “taught” the most insane useless shit. The degrees cost years of life, lots of money, and a heavy cost to their egos (it is an extremely evil system at times: compulsory arselicking etcetera).
Pesticide use is down 40% since 1992 but it's complicated by a number of factors. The biggest being the chemical formulas, concentrations and dosages have not stayed constant over time.

zhttps://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/us-pesticide-use-...
Luckily I sold mine before this scam
I can't speak for everyone but I want to say it was valuable for me to be separated from my family at that age and put in another semi-structured environment like college. My family was incredibly supportive, well-roundeded, upper-middle-class, and therefore I lived in a neighbourhood surrounded mostly by other families from my background. Being able to be separated from that environment and exposed to a diverse background of wealth/privilege was incredibly helpful to my capacity for empathy and willingness to be wrong. (I went to a state college in a primarily working class city.)
ESBuild does not support any AST transforms directly

You can add it, via plugins, but its a serious limitation for a project like Next.js which require's these types of transforms

You also end up with diminishing returns with the more plugins in you add to esbuild, and I imagine its worse with js plugins than it is with go based ones, none the less, you have zero access to it directly
Oh I definitely agree that is the case for certain sites, which will ask you for an outrageous fee and they may not even fully disable ads and/or tracking.

But even in the fair payment scenario you're suggesting, how many people do you reckon would be able to afford paying per whatever metric ,e.g., video watched, article read, MB downloaded, search queried, etc. for all/most sites they currently use like facebook, google, youtube, reddit, tiktok...? And how many would be willing?

On top of that, how would the Internet change as a result of that?
Imagine in this hypothetical new setting someone who wants to make a decision about what film/series to watch: currently they may check all of imdb, letterbox, metacritic, rottentomatoes, justwatch, etc.
Would they still do that if all those sites required some sort of payment (let's assume they may be different, some may require subscription, another charges per query... the point is they would all cost money to use)? I'm not so sure, and I don't think I'd like that Internet any more than the one we currently have.
Your numbers are way off. The average cost is ~ $5.75 of which $1.41 is tax. That's revenues of about a billion per year. Pretty sure we can find a billion dollars in externalities related to smoking.
Solid domain generator
polite thank you -- not sure if I checked it out in the earlier days or something but hadn't been back and stunned at how GIMPy it is (in a good way). And totally jump-right-in useable. Impressive.
I imagine you apply the same hate (your word) to all people who use plastics, because some of them don't use the trash bin? Frankly, I see more plastic waste in the places you mentioned than cig butts, at least in 2021. Could be a regional thing too.
> Yes, but what if this is the only way to have a profitable business such as these? Are you okay losing them entirely?

But it isn't. We know it isn't - exchanging text, audio and video messages wasn't invented by adtech giants. Two prime examples:

1) Telephony and mobile telephony operators have strong businesses to this day, despite being made interoperable by law.

2) Non-adtech e-mail providers exist and make money, despite being interoperable and not subsidized by advertising and personal data misuse.

> Where is the demonstrative harm here, and who is it impacting? Having one friend on FB and another on MySpace, requiring the user to log into each platform separately isn't harm.

In my opinion, there is harm - creating unnecessary burden and confusion for everyone, especially non-tech-savvy people. It is tying people down to services via network effects, and then further harming them by exfiltrating their personal data and exposing them to advertising (either directly or indirectly, making the ads more potent thanks to aforementioned personal information).

> The effect is the same as having one friend call you on a phone to communicate and the other only use text.

No, it isn't. It's just having one friend text you, another friend write you a Messenger message, yet another a WhatsApp message, yet another a Telegram message...

> Every single person using these platforms makes a conscious decision to use them given their limitations. Nobody is forcing anyone to use these platforms.

But that's not true at all. People are coerced to use these services, and coerced to stay with them. That's the literal definition of network effect. I have to use WhatsApp/Facebook/whatever because my mom is there and doesn't want yet another chat app, and my local plumber only communicates through it. I have to stay, because neither my mom nor my plumber will move. The more people are trapped in the net, the stronger its hold.

Contrast that with phone and e-mail service: I can communicate with anyone regardless of the provider they use. I don't even need to know what provider they use. And I can switch my providers at any time, and nobody else has to know, or care.

> Instead of passing legislation to fix your problem, how about you just talk to your friends and get them to agree on using a single platform?

These platforms are as successful as they are exactly because your proposed solution is impossible to implement by most people. Again: network effect.
Stop subsidizing corn syrup, tax sugar, spend the money on
youth fitness and sports programs. Sugar and Corn haven't had their tobacco moment...yet.
It's not just about being "free" to do something. It's about not putting out the fake "I'm sorry you are offended" apology.
"treat all equal before the law" could easily mean a fine that has an equal impact. Is it really equal treatment to fine someone in a way that jeopardizes their ability to pay rent and fine someone else in a way that annoys them slightly?
It was more of a question than an accusation.

Allowing user ranking is a conscious choice, and crowd/outsourcing the control decision. Courts have the say rather than you or me obviously, but I believe in a healthy discussion.

A similar format site, Reddit has been caught manipulating its votes and has paid boosting content in the form of "gold". Would they fit your standard of monetary incentives being key to a publisher?

How does a nonprofit publisher fit with that model?
SWC uses napi-rs to talk to N-API. NAPI-RS's convention is to ship binaries as npm packages which should avoid a lot of the pain which came from having to download pre-compiled files from a file server. Compiling other platforms shouldn't be necessary, but if it is it will be slightly more difficult than using traditional gyp or cmake. You would have to setup a Rust toolchain, but after thats its relatively easy.
Cue CCP hissy fit in five, four, three...
In Northern California, Sacramento & other counties subsidized utility hookups for wealthy residents (lots of local tech and flight from SanFran) who wanted to live further out in the rural El Dorado Hills area. This had long term consequences of the city always being in debt and having to sprawl to stay ahead.

I see this as catering to the rich, who could have afforded it, simply because they wanted to live in palatial McMansions in the countryside and felt entitled to be accommodated.

I don't think it should be the obligation of the county to provide utilities if people want to live outside city limits.

If you want to live rural, you need to come up with the cash to get your utilities, otherwise too bad, live in the city limits.

There are very good reasons why there is a thing called "city limits", this is one of them.
Nhost.io does functions, database, Graphql API, rate-limiting, authentication. Basically everything you need.
The collapse of organized religion in the 20th century has left many people spiritually alone with the great difficulties of life. A caring god, and a church of fellowship can be great supports.

https://meaningness.com/nihilism
https://meaningness.com/nihilist-apocalypse
Let me just say that if you think you may not want to view the image, you don't want to view the image.
My friend was hoping to avoid blockchain-based technologies as they create the energy drain that they're hoping to prevent.
Huh is C0D3 brand new? I've been going through full stack open but this is the first time I'm hearing about the other one.
If there's a great depression and few people are noticing, then it isn't that great. The great ones aren't subtle. I live in the rural southwest. Business isn't booming here. But it isn't that bad either, yet. Maybe we're in the "so far so good" phase, but there's a big difference between the fall and arriving at the pavement.
This is a very all or nothing mentality. It's also kind of like saying you should put locks on your locks. Signal's core reason for existing is that it puts a focus on privacy. They say this all over their homepage [0].

One of the founders of WhatsApp donated $50M to Signal [1] out of regret for how WhatsApp shifted away from privacy after being acquired by Facebook.

The entire project is freely visible to anyone on github [2]. They've made it so even if you don't trust their servers, you can set up your own server and clone your own android/ios app, change some settings and have everything hosted yourself.

There's no reason not to expect Signal to maintain the focus on privacy that they've put in thus far.

[0] https://www.signal.org/
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/signal-foundation-whatsapp-brian...
[2] https://github.com/signalapp
So, they detected this variant half a year ago, and yet it didn't become prevalent. Delta rules the roost.

Is it possible that the heavy mutations detected on the A.30 variant also make it less contagious?
Re: audio, to add to the above comment, if you are going to watch the new Dune at home without a really good setup (or good headphones) I highly recommend turning on subtitles.
You know what's more than little depressing? That each time any similar topic comes up you don't have to scroll down very far to find someone in the comments that will bash GIMP for some random thing.

You're comparing an ad-supported/subscription web service making a good part of 6 figures per year with software maintained largely by volunteer work for the past 20+ years.
Moba supports bookmarks and SFTP among other features
This is either a Trojan horse or an exercise in self-aggrandizing pomposity.

What is this about “not breaking your NDAs” with Facebook? If you had integrity the NDAs wouldn’t matter, because no moral framework is constrained by respecting an arbitrary document drafted by a megacorporation to keep you silent. When your first move is to assuage any fears from your former employer that you might do something as drastic as break your NDA, it’s obvious your priorities are nowhere near where you claim them to be. So the question becomes, is this intentional dishonesty, or lack of self-awareness? I suspect a bit of both.

Don’t tell me what integrity means.

Edit: Apparently I read this wrong, and they haven’t actually quit their jobs? So this is just a cartel of self-righteous employees at tech corps with plans to maximize efficiency of collaborative deplatforming? Lol!!!
You know people that have the FB app installed. And all their messages and SMS running through the FB app. And you can't get all of them to stop this madness.
Does anyone in a larger company (say 100+ devs) have experience with supabase (or similar tool) real world projects to increase rate of experimentation before "graduating" services to more standard supported infrastructure that is using standardized monitoring etc?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29003279.
Pretty much nothing important depends on systemd, for the simple reason that it’s proprietary and non-portable. Thus, even if there is some code that depends on it, it’s optional.

Also, Linux binary compatibility - the capability to run unmodified Linux binaries - works much better now than ever before.
All printing money does is transfer wealth from savers (people long the currency) to debtors (people short the currency) without their consent. Large financial crises occur because this keeps happening. Bitcoin is a way out, as savers learn it's foolish to be long fiat currency.
What's the point of this? Matrix, Signal, and Telegram all have open source clients, so you could make a client that used the native protocols and not route your messages through this third party's servers. Like Pidgin, Miranda IM, Trillian, and others. But I guess a monthly fee and cloud services are the more modern approach.
This sounds great! I’ve wanted to create an open data portal for a while that lets you spin up a (ephemeral, read-only) Postgres database of a dataset and run queries on it, maybe with a notebook. Sounds like this might be perfect!
I guess you're also not OK with all of society bearing the cost of the 10% or whatever that doesn't work hard enough to get a job and stay off social welfare?

Disadvantaged people aren't some romantic struggling hard workers, they have all sorts of vices and emotional/mental health problems leading them voluntarily to those behaviors. Smokers aren't just selfish pleasure-seeking lazys.
As a gamer though, why would I want to play any of these developers' games through the browser instead of Steam?
Electric car charging cost vs. gas: (Flawed) Study shows EVs still cost more
To extend this somewhat, not only does paid and quasi-paid political speech(paying operatives/algorithms rather than a newspaper) not face the same accountability re content on Facebook (for example), Facebook does not face the same accountability for providing equal access to it's platform for all political points-of-view.
Reports on lung cancer became all the rage in the 50's:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22lung+cancer...
Not the OP, but this is a smug and not very helpful comment. The Roman empire era covered 1000 years in the West and 2000 years in the east. Can you be more concrete?
Not applicable here, as "Trinidad and Tobago" is a single name in a list of two items. But a comma following "Tobago", while not a serial comma sensu stricto, would still aid comprehension.
This idea is not new.
Everyone can become a GREAT programmer by doing this one thing
*Ask yourself*:
How much of your time do you spend developing someone else’s product? And how much developing yourself?
sort of? Many people study the final steps, it just needs to be an objective decision, and somehow it just isn't for most of the US college attending population.
Which market? If you take eg gaming consoles, then FreeBSD maintains steady 1/3 of the whole market, compared to Linux 0%.
Do you really disagree that there's way, way too much bad stuff on Facebook and it's had a hugely harmful impact on our society? Or, do you just think we shouldn't do anything about it?
I feel like the conclusion you are drawing from pushing to is weak here. Yes, those with chemical dependencies for smoking or drinking that also are poor would fall in this category of taxes but sugary drinks, fast food, and prepared food I would say do not fall in that category. I'm not sure how you are tying the other ones because they are primarily consumption taxes as being pushed exclusively on the poor. Even when I was less fortunate what was killing me were things like gas tax, having tolls be more expensive then electronic payments/ezpass, paying government fees and incurring service charges unless you do some crazy manual effort, or running into services that needed me to have a smartphone with data instead of the flip phone I had at the time. Yes, I ate fast food and bought prepared food but I just did it less than I am doing now and I was choosing options that matched my income so my total tax burden from those verticals were lower anyway.