skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can check exactly which fraction of the results were fetched from Brave's index vs. third-parties using the "independence score" found in the setting drawers (opening can be done with the cog icon at the top right of any page on search.brave.com). There is there a global and personalized score of independence (respectively aggregated on all user's and for your queries only).

Explanation is also found here with screenshots: https://search.brave.com/help/independence
The point is vaccinating everyone, just like we did with Smallpox. Which is essentially dead because of vaccination.
No. I have precisely stated that «It [relation between sentences] also is a type of vocal intention». This was stated on the basis that if you listen to a normal, decent speaker, you can see that the musicality in language can follow semantics, precisely different relations of sentences including modalities. Different relations are implied in different rhythms and melodies. You sing colons, dashes etc. as you speak.

There is no assumption: it is an obstension. There is no conclusion: it remains an obstension. That I mentioned of Cleese's acting, is an example.

I fail to see how you could read that pseudo-logic in that post. Do not use that poor pattern as a universal key: it is not.
I've stopped using VSCode and have started using VSCodium instead. Also, I dropped Chrome and Firefox in favor of Brave. Microsoft and Google both are evil.
> EC2 M1 Mac instances are now available in preview in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon), with other AWS Regions coming at launch.

Pricing metrics are similar to the previous generation of EC2 Mac instances. You are charged per hour of reservation of the dedicated host, not for the time the instance is running, and there is a minimum charge of 24 hours for reserving a dedicated host.

In the two preview Regions, the on-demand price is $0.6498 per hour. You can save up to 42 percent over the on-demand price with Savings Plans. Check our Dedicated Host on-demand pricing page, as well as the Savings Plans page to learn the details.
This is not a problem with a simple solution or only a few dimensions.

"better designed regulation" is all that is needed in some cases, when it is possible at all. I also know of plenty of places where the only option people have, if at all, is to vote with their feet.

Some people can throw money and time at changing the system from within, and that's okay. But for those many cases where it is futile, if I had a bag of money of a pertinent size and wanted to throw it at philanthropy, I would think of ways for people who want to vote with their feet to be able to do so systematically.
Obviously I support these kind of movements - the housing crisis is no joke. But every time I see an article about multifamily homes, I think: ok, but we really need is are hundreds of tall high rises with 500+ units, like in New York or Boston, each of which uses land much more efficiently than LA (2x more residents per square mile).
This looks really cool, I can't tell if it is a sandbox environment or not.

Does it download the dependencies on the client side, and compile the JS on the client side as well?
I agree with you. It’s hard to imagine that this is good for learning. If you look at the course preview video it’s not as bad, still very gimmicky and ‘engaging’ though. Maybe this has to do with age - people who grew up with social media might perceive this differently.
At least in the UK, this is getting ever more cloud oriented. A lot of especially small-business accounting software is online.
It's pessimistic of me, but I suspect that once the current crop of tech is no longer appealing for large investments some other sector will be found for the long term pump and dump.

The method of Buffet/BH obviously works, but it also seems like it requires a lol it knowledge and skill and patience, otherwise it would be much more popular. Rolling a new mark (or the same marks with a game with a new name) is much easier and reliable for those with less skill.
I'm not so sure.

To work effectively and without friction, you want everything close at hand.

I think even the current rectangular workspaces that monitors provide are getting a little too big for this. As the workspace gets bigger, the organizational burden increases, as does the effort to navigate through it -- even if that effort is mostly non-physical.

I'm thinking we actually need better ways to focus, where the things we need for an extended activity -- and only those things -- are readily available in a simple workspace. I'm afraid a 3D VR/AR workspace will lead to me questing about, looking for that file or tool that is maybe 1440 degrees leftward.
Please excuse the new account, I don't work for them, but https://www.nxmlabs.com . Maybe the hit will cause one of them to chime in.

Their pitch deck was about flashing keys into a root of trust at the fab, then using those as a way to do different types of decentralized or federated firmware integrity attestation. They had some quiet traction with some chip manufacturers and in defense and aerospace and at the time, they were the only ones I thought were really bringing something new to the space.
Jumping the air gap: 15 years of nation-state effort [pdf]
Honestly, it's a very frustrating aspect of modern web development that developers still have to care about this client/server split for initial render.

JavaScript, via Node, threatens to consume server-side implementations of user-facing output for no other reason than this is an annoying problem that gets even more annoying if your client and server are talking two different scripting languages.
What's MERN?
There's a clearly obvious paygate for content access: Internet service providers, whether broadband or mobile.

These provide services to areas which themselves can be generally ranked in terms of wealth, leading to the opportunity for a progressive, unmetered, universal payment mechanism. In this system, various publishers (and notably local news and information sources) would be afforded compensation or revenue, and subscribers would have access to any available information.

Remote-but-locally-focused providers (e.g., the small-town paper across the state, or the country, or in another continent) would be compensated principally through their local service providers (with some balancing within states having widely-varying economic distributions, e.g., NYC / upstate New York, Chicago / downstate Illinois, coastal / inland California, etc.

National / general-interest content (national or international news, e.g.) might receive a share of local/regional revenues, say, for national TV and radio broadcast news organisations, nationally-distributed newspapers (WSJ, NYT, WaPo in the US as examples), and book and magazine publishers. (Other countries and regions could make similar allocations.)

Much of this would offset online advertising, which costs a typical household of four on the order of $1,800/year within North America and EU ($455 billion projected 2021 spend, ~1 billion population). This is what people *are already paying for "free" online content. Direct content spend is on the order of $100/person, or 1/4 the cost of advertising. Distributed across all households (pro-rated by wealth as noted), on an all-you-can-eat basis, would be a remarkable game-changer.

Earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27803591

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10077674

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20545446

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15683719
It probably helps selling a false narrative to shareholders. "Look at how many hours our hardware was rented for!" with no regard for how many hours were actually spent doing work.
Another problem is movies that race over important plot points so quickly that if you blink you can't understand what's going on. I hate it when I have to read the wikipedia article to get half the plot explained.
This looks incredible! Excited to try this!
So China has sanctioned EU goods?
Either the EU responds or the EU is no longer a common market.
It’s not really all that much more work. More like people who don’t know how to cook talking about how unreasonable making dinner instead of ordering it would be. Honestly the biggest benefit about the cloud is actually just hiding the details of how much things cost so that management can’t pinch pennies when it comes to the fine grained cost of operating tech and doesn’t have to spend the time making reports about it.

There are plenty of hosting options out there that just provide you with bare metal hardware and take care of the lower level maintenance.
On the other hand German TV/movie acting is heavily influenced by theater so you will have dialogues that are easy to understand but sound completely unnatural. This combined with bad cinematography makes German films unwatchable for me. (German dubs of foreign movies on the other hand are usually quite good)
> Big governments really do nonspecifically just suck a lot.

> We don't need deregulation. We need better designed regulation.

There is a major contradiction in this line of reasoning that the author never addresses.

The only way to have successful regulation is to have a powerful regulator, a powerful governing organ. The government needs to be the most powerful "firm" in the market.

Otherwise, there will be a more powerful private firm or "trade association" (read: cartel) that is the de facto "shadow government" of one or more economic domains, that the de jure government cannot hold accountable. We see this a lot in America since the 70s, mainly expressed through regulatory capture.
Be that as it may, search ranking is a zero sum game. The unfair advantage SEO gives this particular struggling business means another goes under. I'd rather punish the guy trying to game the system than the one with enough principles not to.
I do not understand why Apple hates developers. There are many developers that need Mac machines for CI/CD, but Apple doesn't provide any reasonable solution.
There was a YT video about a year ago when they first released the EC2 mac instances, and they showed a clip of someone unloading a truck full of mac minis on a forklift. It is really just a bunch of mac minis in a sled. Nothing special going on here.
> Then Microsoft started this aggressive, disruptive push to bring it to iOS Safari's level as the only browser people should use.

Counter-point: my dislike of Edge aside (especially since it uses Chromium instead of their own engine, which is lame), Google has made an aggressive, disruptive push to switch people to Chrome for many years now, which itself has made some aggressive, disruptive effects on the web. Is a little friendly "popup" from a competitor in a style all other browsers incorporate really such a bad thing to help keep Google's market dominance in check a bit? I don't think Microsoft or Firefox should just roll over and do nothing while Google pushes Chrome in everyone's face every chance it gets - it seems to have cooled off a bit recently (or maybe that's just due to me switching to DuckDuckGo permanently) but in the very recent past it was still doing so.

> I don't know any good operating systems for normal people anymore. Windows 10 and 11 are hostile

May I ask what makes you think this? Occasional oddities aside, I've found Win10/11 to make for an incredibly pain-free desktop experience. While the upgrade to Windows 11 was a bit of a pain due to all of the weird system requirements - I have the hardware required, but apparently not everything was enabled or set up properly and it took some effort to do so - and the start button location is still taking some getting used to, it mostly Just Works and gets out of my way. I've found it to be the opposite of hostile.
Poland's last foreign ministers (Waszczykowski and Rau) have been inane. Nature doesn't like vacuum. Poland more or less left the stage, and Lithuania is trying to fill the niche.
Only issue with portrait mode is that some monitors have bad vertical viewing angles so when they're in portrait it can be hard to see if you're off-center even by a little.
In practice, any distributed system that doesn't have an explicit hierarchy evolves to have an implicit hierarchy, because economies of scale and network effects favor the increasing concentration of resources and connectivity, respectively. The OP is right about that.

In any distributed system, those nodes that by luck or skill become more cost-efficient and inter-connected tend to become even more cost-efficient and inter-connected, because all other nodes want to connect via the most cost-efficient, most inter-connected nodes.

This dynamic is self-reinforcing. We are all familiar with it.

Without some form of regulation (historically centralized, and always imperfect), distributed systems like market-driven economies, modern financial markets, and information networks evolve to have growing inequality of resources and connectivity over time.

I'm not aware of any exception.
Oh yes, and there's Stipop docs on CometChat too. https://www.cometchat.com/docs/extensions/stickers-stipop
> Central planning works as well as unplanned markets work: That is, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't, and it mostly comes down to external factors.

I have first-hand, extended experience with a hard-core centrally planned economy. It most definitely doesn't come down to external factors. Everything I saw and experienced was self-inflicted. And things keep getting worse.
I'm not arguing. I'm just trying to explain my gut reaction. But it's really not important.
Yes, but why wasting energy on the burst? Yet another planet out of billions.
> The most reasonable daycare and public transit in the Bay Area is available only with your Big Tech Employee ID card.

What's this about?
The ones that measure the success of a society. WEF's Global Competitiveness Report and Amnesty International, for example.
Have you ever had your mail sent to Jamaica?
I don't believe the broader financial system ever tried out making transactions impossible to reverse. They might not have ever had the power to do it.

Another thing to bear in mind is that none of the participants in the financial system have ever been interested in designing a financial system. They have been interested in making money.
What happens when the lure of outdoor rec pulls people onto tribal lands?
True enlightenment is realizing that the Every OS Sucks song is, and always has been, right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPRvc2UMeMI
The author seems to be making the point that trying to work effectively and create a good software team can potentially make you better at relating with other people, and maybe even at imagining a better society or reality, and I do think that's possible though not limited to software.

(For example musical groups may offer a literally harmonious and potentially transcendent experience as well as working cooperatively toward shared goals. Schools, religious groups, clubs, and sports teams can also be positive, and so can non-tech workplaces and other non-work communities.)

I would also add that trying to be a good software developer, team, or company means, at least in part, that you should try to write good software that is well-designed, reliable, and user-friendly.

Which is to say, kind of the opposite of much of modern tech which seems to be designed by accretion, unpredictable and buggy, slow and inefficient, hard to use, and often in opposition to the user's goals and well-being and optimized for the extraction of money, time, and attention.
Great example.

JP isn't quite a suburb but I look to it as a fantastic example of how suburban development could be condensed without losing its character. With proper upzoning, suburbs could have denser cores of multi-family housing without impacting those that want less dense housing outside the core. These towns would be more walkable and prettier places to live.
Solving Advent of Code 2021 Day 1 using Ivy
> Anyone can mine gold

Bizarre comment - there's only a handful of places in the world where gold is located (most countries have close to zero), and they're probably controlled by some powerful private entity and probably under a gov license.
Its sort of a given to learned people that regulations are good. The fact you don't live in a factory town bartering cigarettes for Amazon Coin you use to buy your meals with is a testament to this. Or that your company isn't forcing you to work at gunpoint. The US allowed corporations to run free during industrialization for just 60 years and they managed to exploit people to such an extent that even the hands-off US government stepped in and started pushing regulations. When able to relentlessly pursue profits, companies will stop at no length to increase profits, and we have seen this all across the world. I believe your partisanship is clouding your judgment.

The author is also clearly not a leftist based on the contents of the article, and his allusions to centrally planned societies (aka their understanding of communism) as a fool's errand.
Projecting Africa: software growth, ecosystems and the future arriving
Because they want you to buy your own macs.
You know what makes a distributed system work? Failure.

Now and again, nature arranges for a catastrophe. An asteroid, too much oxygen, lignin building up, nature has cleaned up after and built on top of the rubble.

Over the last 20-odd years, we didn't let a real economic catastrophe happen. There are millions of people working the wrong job. Loads of people have a made a ton of money providing nothing useful at all. Without a periodic shakeup, the bullshit merchants take over the economy. People who talk a good game but are never held to account. Who is swimming naked? There is too much money to know.

Part of the reason is centralization. Unfortunately, we don't really have 200-odd governments. A lot of them think the same way about the issues that matter, and a very small group influence all the others.
Is it possible that DeFi is not a wave of emotions wrapped into tech?

I think the more likely explanation is that it's a way for people who own crypto to borrow and lend.

It's probably one of the first things to be built because there's a lot of people with crypto and banks don't want to accept it as collateral.
Just tried it and it worked for me.
New Dinosaur Species from Chile Had a Unique Slashing Tail
I don't understand, Firefox has this functionality. For example I have it set up so if I type 'y cats' it will search Youtube directly for cats. You can do the same with ebay. Similarly if I type 'yout<tab>cats' it will do the same search. Also, if you like it so much, you can configure Firefox to not put things like bookmarks and history before search results in tab-complete search suggestions. Firefox's address bar is strictly superior as far as I can see. The only thing it's missing vs Chrome is dark patterns.
They aren't just firing up a virtual machine on over-provisioned hardware, they're dedicating an entire bare metal machine to you. It is in their interests to make that worthwhile commercially.
That’s what XCode Cloud (now in beta for some users) is designed for.
I’m convinced that this is the reason behind SF housing problems as well. There’s just too much value for landlords.
I started on monochrome dark screens with white, green or orange phosphors. When I first started (briefly) using a Lisa in 1983 and then a Macintosh in 1984 I found that I really liked the paper-white look.

Eventually I decided that I preferred that the theme match the ambient lighting conditions. The recent operating system and browser features to provide adaptive behaviour is exactly what I sought. I now use light themes during the day–I am also a fan of natural light, and dark themes at night with reduced blue and lower colour saturation. I personally don't understand the preference for dark themes in bright ambient lighting. For me it seems to induce more eyestrain than relieving it.
What Is an API-First Company?
Show HN: A web based mobile app for wine tasting
Hi all, this is a work in progress that I wanted to share. The goal of this app is to store online in your app, which wine did you find good during a wine tasting session. I'm still working on new features. I just wanted to hear a feedback or criticism from you. Thanks in advance
There are more options than ‘lockdown for all’, but yes, it would be one of the things you could do if vaccinations were not available.
I use a 27” 4k monitor, in unscaled mode, but I use zoom heavily on macOS (Ctrl+Scroll Wheel) - with some extra scroll cruising setup with SteerMouse on my mouse. The lets me reduce the pixel to density to that if a much larger screen on-demand to help with my eyes a bit.
1. Call with an internal recruiter.

2. Phone screen with some technical questions.

3. In person, solving a couple of programming problems on a whiteboard, talking to the interviewers a bit more about my experience and about the position I'm interviewing for.

It sounds very standard and I prefer it by a mile compared to all the alternatives that I've seen. I find take-home assignments much worse than whiteboard interviews and often when companies try to be cool and casual it makes the process worse for the interviewee.
Big Tech’s Liability Shield Is Under Siege
Vista ran positively well on decent hardware.

On a relatively recent (at the time) processor and ideally more than 1GB of RAM and it was absolutely fine.

It's reputation for instability was heavily due to early NVIDIA WDDM drivers being utterly crashtastic - this is something that did eventually get resolved. At the time I had an ATI card and it was perfectly stable.
I did! At age 14 I used it to make newsletters for my church. It was a big step up for me from Newsroom, which could only layout in a 2x3 grid -- I could finally do WYSIWYG column-flows with embedded clip art!

GeOS felt like the future to me, because it was (or seemed to be) treating the screen as an arbitrary pixel grid, free from the constraints of a 40x24 char array and 8 sprites.
CFO of cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network arrested
There's truth to that, but Paris and Barcelona are some of the densest cities on the planet. People really underestimate how much you can get just with 5 stories or so if you do it consistently. As anyone who's been to those places knows there's no sacrifice of beauty, sun, or livability really.
I agree that gold and Bitcoin have some very key similarities, but gold and crypto in general are quite different. With regards to Bitcoin, yes they're both stores of value, but Bitcoin has the added ability to transact globally and be much more divisible. Bitcoin seems to have settled into two roles within the greater crypto ecosystem; store of value and reserve currency for the entire crypto economy. Now there are also things happening in the Bitcoin payments space using lightening, but I don't think there will ever be a large appetite for payments using a deflationary currency (It's your savings account, not your checking account).

But outside of Bitcoin there is a ton of cool stuff happening in the DeFi space which could have big implications for our financial systems. One example is stablecoins which has a much better chance of being used in payment systems than a store of value like Bitcoin. In general I don't see this stuff replacing the financial system so much as finance companies slowly adopting crypto on the backend. Just like companies adopted internet technology as it allowed them to run more efficiently.
Have they made a determined and good faith attempt to do so? Sending out emails and social media call outs isn't that serious of an effort. Can't WTA afford to send somebody to China and see for themselves? Have they made an attempt at that?

WTA seems to be looking for reasons to burn bridges, rather.

Point is WTA needs to make abundantly clear the steps they have taken of their own accord to address their concerns rather than focusing mostly on casting aspersions.
Windows 11's Edge is trying to dissuade users from downloading Chrome
Ah yes, Boston. No need to worry about what would happen to those 2, 3, and 4 story wood houses if they got a good shakeup at 5+ on the Richter scale.