skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I am somewhat engaged in crypto, this is so true. After listening to Kevin Rose's crypto podcast and hear his excitement about some NFT projects I yesterday took another dive into that world to see if I find something I like. Almost everything that's there is a devirative money grab. The few things that don't are spoiled by association. I really liked one video. Turned out that the creator had just taken someone else's images and turned them into video that chained them by morphing them into each other.

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Of all the things to doubt in the Bible the ability to cover yourself with a fig leaf is not a major one for me
> I’d expect MicroPython (or Lua/mruby/etc) could be an order of magnitude smaller. Still larger (and slower) than just using JavaScript, though.

Fengari [0], a Lua interpreter written in JS, is a little over 200Kb. (And was intentionally written in JS [1] because of a variety of reasons that made WASM not work that well.

200Kb isn't that bad of a price to pay to switch languages, on most websites. It'll be about the cost of a single image added to the page. And it's fairly performant.

For most sites, the costs in terms of requests and performance will be negligible compared to what you're trying to achieve.

And Fengari makes it nice and easy to interact with JS, too. Using React with Lua's syntax was what sold me on it. No ecosystem lockout, like I'd expect with most WASM ports.

[0] https://fengari.io/

[1] https://hackernoon.com/why-we-rewrote-lua-in-js-a66529a8278d
Funnily enough, Tiny is in an adjacent market to this via one of their companies, Supercast[1]

[1] https://www.supercast.com
Gopher is about meta indexing information in files. If the world gives me a news site with an index and links to nicely typeset articles in PDF I will be happy. That’s where we should be.

Instead we have 5MiB of marketing, tracking and manipulation JavaScript, infinite scrolling and useless content. It’s difficult to find gold in an ocean of shit.

Having written web apps for 20 years, I would pick native apps over anything www based now.
True, however, CPU pinning is not the same as reserving/isolating the CPU. This is often not made clear in articles about CPU pinning.
You skipped one word: store.
Because this is overly broad and paints Mozilla in an unfairly bad light compared to how inconsequential this event was, here are the actual facts: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74yo19/cliqz_and_m...

1% of german users had anonymised data sent over.
From this you can easily conclude the reverse. We recommend that the broader Rust community and the Core team exercise extreme scepticism of any statement by the past and future Mod team claiming to illuminate the situation. Death by CoC.
If memory serves, the latest unbloated version of WinAmp was called Winamp Classic, and its versions were in the 2.9x range.
+1

At Khan Academy, we adopted a policy around open sourcing projects that talks about the communication of the project's status. We want to open source stuff (we're a non-profit learning organization, after all!), but we don't want to have to spend a lot of time maintaining non-core open source. As long as we tell people the maintenance status of a project, I think we're fine.
Winamp (winamp)

It really whips your browser's ass.
Including the microcode version currently installed into the CPU and gone through the release notes, alongside a profile like V-Tune?
So I can't imagine that the clowns that made that awful new Winamp site would be cool enough to call the new one Winamp 8. Or release a version that anyone actually wants, for that matter.
If you enjoy reading about mega projects then I would recommend Engineers' Dreams by Willy Ley. It’s an older book on large scale civil engineering proposals such as draining the Mediterranean sea, creating an inland sea in the Sahara, and irrigating the Jordan valley.
Definitely true for American accents.
There's a middle ground between accepting and paranoia: secure to best effort.
You can make an ssh tunnel to it using http://sshreach.me and open it when you want to access it while you're away from home.
I forgot to mention on the posts what are my thoughts so far:

- License products such as Tableau, Qlikview or PowerBI are too big for us at the moment, both in size, pricing, complexity, etc.

- Scheduled exports to Excel/csv don't solve our use-case as it needs our interaction every time there is a new export or change in the queries.

- Accepting requests directly don't scale well either.

- Currently we are considering Metabase, Superset and Redash. Leaning towards Metabase based on better UI, runs well in AWS and connects to SQL databases, Mongo, Redshift and Clickhouse (Not that we use all of them but we may in the future)
DRAWN INTO THE BACKDROP HERE

YOU COULD FADE, YOU COULD FADE AWAY

BRIGHT LIGHTS ON A STARLESS NIGHT

BURN A HOLE IN THE DYING DAY

LOOKING AT LIFE THROUGH A LOADED GUN

TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT, AIM IT AT THE SUN

LOOKING AT LIFE THROUGH A LOADED GUN

YOU KNOW YOU'LL FIND
For STOL usually the vertical take off fan is running until enough transitional lift is acquired.
Personal websites, guestbooks, web rings, funky visuals, midis and personalities, people were never as connected ever and after.
Been using Caddy now for multiple years and will use it for all future projects. Highly recommended.
As a kid with plenty of time but without access to either a car or a credit card, and with plenty of experience with MIDI and a little with WAV, being about to download an mp3 was absolutely mind-blowing.
I'm excited to read that! Will you post it to HN? And maybe also reply here in case I miss it?
Like the dedicated bootloader mcus.
Eh, it’s partly marketing, but there are some neat tricks that make it more immersive.

Some groups put the rodent at the center of a translucent hemisphere, then reverse-project the scene onto it. This can completely fill its field of view, and looks pretty good if you get the transform right. It’s also not too hard to make walking on the ball control the camera, so that objects approach faster when the animal runs, or the scene swivels as the animal turns. This article has a few videos of the setup: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00791-w

I doubt the mouse is totally fooled (but neither are you with an Oculus). I think someone has done some cross-over experiments: mazes learned virtually transfer over to physical contraptions and vice versa. Unfortunately, I’m blanking on who might have done this.
Twitter is extremely toxic and divisive, and Dorsey is... the same. People are hoping his removal will allow the platform to mature.
Nah, it's not that - this is on Windows.

If some text is highlighted, the Ctrl-Shift-F dialog will populate with that text, and it will be focused and selected.

If nothing is highlighted in the editor, then it uses some random bit of text from the search history buffer, and does not focus the input.
After the activity is saved, you can edit and crop the activity to trim off the driving portion.
>If there is no responding honk, they will take the full width of the road (making the very tight turn easier and faster). Tourist drivers have to pick up on this :)

And self driving cars too, if they wish to reach full autonomy everywhere. But since currently they can barely keep themselves from crashing into obvious obstacles on the highway without human intervention, I think their prime-time is further into the distant future than pioneers like Elon would like to admit as I can't imagine they'd be able to handle the roads in Italy/Paris by themselves without an accident any time soon.
Signalling your presence for safety is pretty much the only legitimate use for a car horn, so that makes sense. Of course, the part where they take up the whole width of the road kind of then causes a bunch of added risk...
Trucks and some cars use their hazards as thanks here in Australia too (two blinks).
The new science of brain health
The chart legend says it represents the total value of exports to Vietnam from its trading partners, equivalent to Vietnam's imports.

In 2015 and 2016 Vietnam's imports of aluminum were much larger than previous years and later years. The excess value over $4B (the level of subsequent years' imports) totals over $6B. I took 2015-16 to represent the surge of imports.

The price of Al seems to have been around 80 cents a pound at the end of 2016, http://m.kitco.com/getChartPage?symbol=al&width=438&height=2... (then select 5 years). At $1,600 a ton, that's nearly 4 million tons.

This more than covers the 1.8 million tons in the GVA stockpile.
You're not the only one who built a configuration management system before Ansible; CFEngine's first release was in 1993, for example. Ansible's success was its appeal to people who did not think of themselves as traditional programmers.
Gemini is a fun alternative; it's not supposed to be an ideal to look towards. The nice thing about Gemini is not so much its aesthetic as its human focus. It leans away from automation.

It sounds to me (and I may be wrong and picking up on the wrong things) that what you'd really like is something like Project Xanadu? Which is, unlike Web3, a reasonable position to hold, though it's one I strongly disagree with (I consider a fully realized and mainstream Xanadu as a Grim Meathook Future, though one not as thoroughly inhuman and extinctionist as Web3).
Go is not memory safe, not sure where you got that idea. Go programs can absolutely succumb to nil pointer references, memory leaks, etc.
Yes, I remember feeling that awe as well. For giggles, I just went to YouTube and listened to "Higher" again, and man... that really took me back. Haven't listened to it in years. Still one of my favorite heavy metal songs of all time.

I also remember being so thrilled to be able to store several MP3's on my 64mb Sharp Zaurus SL-5600.
then someone will say what is lost, can never be saved.
Gopher isn't/wasn't part of the web. It was an alternative and it failed in part due to licensing.
You're not arguing in bad faith. You're being gaslit by someone who has already devolved to name calling in this thread.
How do you keep tabs on all this stuff? Are you reading press releases? I often wonder how some random person on HN seems to always know so much detail about some specific company. I am also trying to figure out the best way to do a deep dive on a company (any company).
African Countries Should Not Be Penalized for Omicron Covid-19 Variant – Adesina
The Safari/WebKit team has made a great deal of improvements over the last couple of versions. I think "compatible enough" has turned into a good "basically the same as Firefox" when it comes to web standards with the release of Safari 15 and 15.1.

I also support the stance that certain features should remain focused where they belong e.g. natively installed apps. But who can decide what should be a web standard and what shouldn't... it's hard to say. I think having a healthy governance and enforcement body is a prerequisite before we look at technical specifics.
Most manga/book servers support a protocol called OPDS that saves you from jockeying files around by hand, and there are good cbr/cbz readers for every tablet out there which integrate nicely with OPDS.
Does the SharedArrayBuffer approach offer any way to tell the OS scheduler to wait? Because the only waiting method I know of is busy waiting, aka wasting cycles at 100% of a CPU core. In normal processes you can call a sleep function, which saves CPU cycles, but there is no synchronous method for that available in javascript.
Arguably this is a much greater problem than it at first appears because it exposes a serious and fundamental problem with our materials development processes. Currently development of new products is going faster than we can understand the qualities and limitations of those products. How exactly this happened and what is the best response is not clear. Because of how these materials are made a failure of the exterior coating can potentially render that whole aircraft unfit for safe use similar to how metal fatigue can lead to progressive cracking. What kind of exterior would be best for such a radical carbon fiber structure being exposed to extremes of heat and cold and pressure is wide open question, and how best to patch a damaged structure is also difficult to asses.
"maximize ventilation", have you seen the gas prices lately ;)
Related: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2019/10/07/web-of-documents/
I'm not super familiar with this area, but from my vantage point, it seems like WebGL didn't really take off because of the awkward timing. Right around the time it was being developed, the industry started working on a replacement for OpenGL. Hopefully WebGPU fares better, because I think 3D web experiences are full of untapped potential.
Decentralization: Yes, but Distribution: No.

I was more talking about what's possible when your Browser can share resources with other Browsers in your local network, e.g. saving redundant downloads when one of your peers already downloaded the very same URL ... or long-term caching everything by default, and making the URLs and their content offline-readable when you have no internet connection.
Show HN: Binder Clip made with SolveSpace [video]
Honestly I care less about Mickey and more about nearly everything else Disney has made where they took stories from the Public Domain, remixed them and then lock them down and sue anyone else whose remixes are too close to theirs. There should be extra limitations for those things that have originally come from the public domain perhaps, or a block on extensions at least.
This is a great idea! Especially nice now that Safari extensions can be shared between iOS and Mac.

I do think it faces some competition from Mela[1], but Mela's approach is to be a whole recipe manager and you get stuff into it via the Share extension. I don't necessarily want all recipes in my own database. Sometimes I just want a recipe once. Mela is also more expensive (buy separately for Mac and iOS).

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mela-recipe-manager/id15689244...
This isn't really about what is technically possible but rather where the critical mass of thought/discussion is. There are a whole bunch of things you can do with crypto but the majority of what is being done, talked about and hyped up is a money grab.
I don't like these copyrights persisting forever just so that the extended family of the original creator can collect money for doing nothing.

I think an interesting side effect of copyright reform could be that original creators get a boost of street cred when they create new works even if the original is now public domain. They might even like some of the remixed ideas that new artists would be free to tinker with.

I'm a big believer in the mostly free market so I tend to side with whatever allows more competition. Copyright, as it stands right now, stifles innovation and competition and only benefits entities like Disney.
Some people are. Probably not folks who actually came up in the age of vinyl. The only plans I ever have for using my turntable again is to digitize some obscure stuff that I'll probably never find on more modern media.
While I greatly appreciate open source, I don't think I can generally "beware a little less" with open source. On the plus side, I can generally be confident that an open-source program will not disappear and become completely unavailable to society. On the minus side, for less popular open-source projects, the usual lack of a reliable software-development business model makes me wary of the likelihood that a the project will keep being reliably maintained in the near term and will stay alive in the long term. Personally, I place greater trust and hope in specialized, usually-closed-source programs sold by small companies that are financially invested in maintaining and improving those programs.

I doubt that it'd be easy for an abandoned, mildly popular open-source project to be revived by someone other than its creators. Whenever such a project is abandoned by its creators, I tend to lose hope that it will ever be revived, that new features will ever be added, or that existing bugs will ever be removed.
How would you like it to happen? Twitter schedules a formal press conference to announce it or otherwise?
Too bad Firefox doesn't fully support hangouts. in a work from home world, I cannot operate without the ability to blur background in video meetings. it's the only feature that is holding me back from using ff full time now
What are some cool holiday gifts for techies?
What are some things you'd like to get this holiday season? What are you getting for the techie/nerdy/hn people in your life?
JetBrains IDEs are commercial, proprietary software. In my opinion well worth the price.
The Omikron 3.01 Page
talking to them
Finally Wallpaper Engine Announce Their Android App
Uncontrolled HIV could “become a factory of variants for the whole world”
For all that lag, I was expecting a lot more than some simple animations. And that scrolljacking is by far the worst I've ever experienced. I have to scroll three times to switch to the next section. Can't even manually drag the little scrollspy thing. Atrocious.
I also switched to MusicBee. It has a very modern UI that "just works" as they say. Everything included out of the box no need to bother with plugins for me.
Then don't use it if you only want to use 100% OSS.

I'm making something that I want to use (essentially a compatible implementation for my plug-ins to run under) & if it's of use to others then that's a bonus.

At no point has WACUP claimed to be 100% OSS nor should I be expected to do that when I'm the only one working on my Winamp reimplementation. Aspects that need to be done that way are done so accordingly.

-dro
I feel this was a "leak", the timing of which was suspect.
> Patents last 20 years. Mickey Mouse has been copyrighted for nearly a century - more than most human lifetimes

My point is that Mickey Mouse is a trademark. An Apple patent expiring doesn't allow people to using Apple logos. Likewise a Disney copyright expiring shouldn't allow people to use Mickey Mouse.

The cartoons themselves and any characters that aren't still in regular use is fair game.

> how long is “fair” for a government granted monopoly to one of the worlds richest corporations? Especially one busily buying up IP after IP that it did not originally create?

I agree it sucks, but this is why we need to make sure we understand the difference between content and trademarks. eg anyone can make a movie about Thor since that folk story is public domain. And I agree the copyright on content like the Marvel Universe movies shouldn't be around 100 years (I forget the exact duration, but it's always being extended anyway -- which I also disagree with by the way).

> The natural conclusion of your principle here is eternal corporate copyright.

No, that's literally the exact opposite of what I'm saying!! I'm saying that the character "Mickey Mouse" should have different rules applied because he is more than just a creative figure. Because he is a trademark. And thus trademark rules should apply to him in addition to copyright rules. However any content with Mickey Mouse in should be public domain after a reasonable period and that period currently is not reasonable.

Music has similar distinctions. A song will have different copyrights on it, for the performance, for the writing, possibly any artwork (eg album cover).

> When would you be comfortable with Mickey Mouse (or anything else) going public domain? 200 years? 300? Should it ever?

Personally I think 20 years is reasonable for the cartoons. For the mascot, he should be trademarked (and is), so as long as Disney are using his likeness.
I think that's just poor phrasing in the article - seems like unique passwords that can be reset to are ok, just not a common default of <manufacturer>1234 for example.

I think they've mostly improved, but you used to be able to just search '<manufacturer/ISP> router default password' and get admin access assuming it hadn't been changed (and who here knows someone that doesn't read HN and would change a router password...)
Also if they didn't bother to test such relatively straight forward thing as paint for those conditions, what kind of confidence can one have that other parts have passed those kind of tests?
Thank you. This is what it took for me to realize why version 4 might be an issue. If I just saw "4 skin" I certainly would have gotten it. Somehow adding Winamp in front made it hard for me to interpret it the alternative way.
Elon is not CEO of SpaceX as many here have already pointed out. edit this is wrong, he is CEO. Ms. Shotwell is COO and President.

Outside of Tesla the other companies are not viable yet.
> Elon is just very good at hiring exceptionally good people to run stuff for him with a small amount of oversight and steering

Isn't this the major part of the definition of excellent manager?
This is extremely impressive research. I think if COVID has taught us anything though, even an array of available, safe, preventative medicine is not convincing for some people.
There's two common motorcyclist signals for police: Either tapping the top of the helmet, or pointing up at the sky while moving your arm in a circle (to mime spinning police lights).

Other motorcyclist signs are sticking the left leg out to say thanks, holding your hand out and rapidly opening/closing it to say "you've left your indicator on", and pointing at dangerous spots on the ground like potholes, gravel, or other unseen hazards.
no one mentioning that civil criminals would blaspheme just to have their cases moved to and heard in the much more fair inquisition courts, eh?
okay.
700 years of muslim conquest in Spain, led and facilitated by jewish communities literally opening the gates to cities like Toledo and encouraging the murder of christians.
but hey let's keep up the Anglo protestant and secular myths
There is another thread going on about bringing back web 1, but here is something I have been advocating for a while, make 2 different new web profiles, along the lines of:

1.) A subset of modern HTML / CSS, custom Javascript. Remove anything that isn't needed and especially anything that affects rendering negatively for no good reason.

1.1.) Possibly: Provide versioned, vendor neutral versions of js to allow for autocomplete.

2.) Same as 1, but with custom JS. All js must complete in a specified number of cycles. User interaction gives extra cycles.

The point of 1 is to:

- for companies: massively lower the barriers for new browsers (remove lots of backwards compatibility and the huge problem of JS)

- for security conscious users: provide a safer way to browse the web

- for users generally: provide a way to browse the web faster and more comfortably

- the point of 2.) is to provide an approximation of what we have today but in a way that automatically limits developers from abusing JS.
TFA argues that is not a safety issue.
Just worked for me after the redirection, but it's super slow. Still downloading, I am at 210 MB, at a rate of around 190 kB/s... Direct ZIP download link = https://web.archive.org/web/20210418214109if_/https://codelo...
but it never felt like it was being done for the benefit of the users of each platform.

The point of platforms is not to benefit the users, otherwise, every successful platform has failed.

The type of synergy you are describing, is what builds value for the only people which count... shareholders.
It seems that victim blaming is not something specific to just Boeing. Airbus blamed Qatar airways and the hot weather till similar issues emerged with planes of Finn Air and Air France in colder climates.

Whatever happened to the customer is always right?

Guess it is easier to victim blame when you operate in essence a duopoly. Competition is critical to solve these issues in the long run.