skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the general sentiment of the page, with one exception: It’s better to use WOFF webfonts for the fonts on the page instead of using what were “Web safe” fonts back in 2005 or so.

With the rise of Android phones which, by and large, do not have licenses for the old 1990s “Microsoft Core Fonts” (Verdana/Gerogia/Arial/etc.), doing something like “font-family: Georgia, Serif” no longer guarantees a consistent look from platform to platform. What I use is a heavily optimized and subsetted web font stack which is placed in a single 114KB CSS file separate from the web page; I use inline fonts instead of linking to individual font files to remove the number of pages needed to load to render my page. I use WOFF for maximum browser compatibility, although this is becoming a non-issue with Microsoft seriously sunsetting IE11.

This way, my webpage will look the same in any web browser with WOFF support, regardless of what fonts a given phone or OS use for “Georgia” or what not. In addition, with the exceptions of Arial and Georgia, the Microsoft Core fonts are quite dated looking; using Verdana here in 2021 gives the page a “made in the first 2000s decade” look to it.

I also, for browsers without WOFF, have a fairly long font stack, so that the web page looks reasonable even without a webfont.
Neat! If you don't mind sharing, what's the stack?
Two years old, but This is How You Lose the Time War is fantastic.
A library for tracking destruction of nested attributes in ActiveRecord
Next time you're doing production work on a TV show or movie and want to use a piece of media in your production without licensing it, try running "Hey, we can just right-click it" past the studio legal department. I'm fairly sure they'll have some objections.

I mean, I agree with the common snark you're making about NFTs here, but the part you quoted is the part the OP is correct on. :) The part they're getting wrong is conflating NFTs with copyright. An NFT could conceivably be a license itself, but that's not the same thing.
SMS sucks, but it's ubiquitous. The rest of the messaging market is heavily fragmented.
Congrats on this!
I've also though about this kind of app to a solution for the "app fatigue".
I really like the design, simple and fast.
Honestly, if I have to be logged in by default on a search page I'm not gonna use it.

Assuming that people don't clear their cookies is wrong nowadays. Even when your website is a little snowflake, the rest of the web isn't.

I honestly would recommend a Web Extension that adds your search as a search provider, or something like an Open Search Description.

Also: the landing page of GitHub annoys the shit out of me. Every damn time. I don't wanna register with three clicks if I already have an account.

Make a landing page easier for regular users to login, and prioritize login over signups...otherwise those regular users won't be happy. Any company should focus on keeping the regular users happy (UX wise) and not focus on one time trial registrations that will be a burden on infrastructure.
which are also where your only instruments are located

I think this is the most important fact to note here. If the primary instruments were on a separate display, this would not have been as severe of a concern.

It's another reason why having a single touchscreen as the interface of a car is a horrible idea.

I've seen a lot of newer cars where the instruments are all in the center instead of immediately behind the wheel, and I always thought that design was less usable and more distracting --- a glance downwards is easier than one sideways and down.
Oh, this been one of my favorite books for decades. I was introduced by Tony Wolk, an old hippie professor of English Lit at Portland State. I took a class from him nearly every term, in part because he was good friends with LeGuin and would have her guest lecture sometimes. She was astonishing, perhaps the best combination of intellect and humanity I’ve encountered.

Tony said that first and last sentences in her books were very important to her. To this day I remember that the book begins “There was a wall.” And at the end: “His hands were empty, as they had always been.”
Google and Microsoft had more to loose. Cloud is a profitable business but no where near as profitable as Ads or Office/Windows.

Google also had zero enterprise experience. Things like MySQL, RFC 1918, VMs were not native by their devs.

So of course boards of these companies held off. Making that move could have tanked the stock as profit went down while they re-invested in their business.

This is the genius of Amazon. Wall Street doesn’t expect growing profit. Instead it’s happy with growing revenues. Allowing Amazon to reinvest into business that have an initial low margin until economy of scale kicks in.
In what way are they monopoly on search? There are perfectly viable alternatives, some even from other trillion dollar companies (i.e bing).
That's pretty brilliant. I have the same problem, and I think the time gradations are a perfect solution.

I saw your other comment about down-selecting factories. How do you do quality checks? For example, as a wild hypothetical, how do you know the product isn't made in hazardous environments or isn't safe?
Open Computing Facility at UC Berkeley
Alberta MLA resigns after RCMP searches home after vulnerability report`
I mean, isn't that just working for free? If the only means towards contributing to society were through things like open-source, you would essentially be saying that society should be run off of volunteerism.
For anyone that isn't aware, she was also a very early Google employee (wikipedia says #20) and CEO of Yahoo for several years.
He's in Finland. Read.
More quotes from actual article:

> “Suppose there are people who say ‘it’s an attack on my liberty to make me stop at a red light. It’s government overreach.’ They don’t want the state to have that power ‘over my private life’ … Well, such people should have the decency to remove themselves from the community,’” he said.

Stopping at a red light is not a binary thing. It's simply unnecessary (I'll refrain from saying retarded) at certain times. You have a + junction where one side of the street has a stop sign just because the other one has one (because it has a bicycle lane crossing it, for example). I see zero moral qualm in ignoring that red light, especially at night. Promoting blind obedience is certainly not good for a free society.
https://danieltfh.substack.com/p/blockchain-is-awkward-becau...

NFT is made for digital entities not humans.
no, the owner reached out to the YouTube channel; the owner of the car is not otherwise affiliated with the channel.
From the article, some 20min into the reading:

"...The mere existence of a separate union for Black police officers rubs many in Little Rock the wrong way. White officers, some city officials, and many white residents see the Black union as unnecessary, a stubborn refusal to move beyond the city’s ugly racial history. Black officers said that sentiment reveals a misunderstanding of why the union exists: It isn’t to win special rights for Black officers, they said. It’s to demand they be treated equally."

This passage should have been earlier in the report. Before, the report emanated a stench of trying too hard to find racism behind every rock.

Instead, the reporter later describes a story of a bureaucractic racket - primarily driven by state powers and labor, to promote corruption & nepotism, which has disproportionately impacted black officers.
Thanks much for sharing your experience in detail
For the last 6 years Dorsey was CEO, with final say on all corporate priorities. He could have undone this "worst thing" from an earlier time when he "wasn't running the company" in fairly short order. He didn't.

Did he only come to the realization it was the "worst thing" after leaving the positono where he could've fixed it?

Dorsey's passing the buck here, both ways: blaming his predecessor for the error, then saddling his successor with the undone hairball task of fixing it.
They may not have a choice, because J1 has problems evolving and it takes a decade (or never) to make major improvements. Just leave it and support it for another 20 years on the side.

A lot of isolated Java could remain V1 no problem.

Allow new starts, separate modules, and those that want to port a J2.

Python 3 was a disaster because they never bothered to think about it, provided no facility for it, didn't care about collisions at the platform level.

Oracle could literally pay for the most important OSS modules to be ported, give architectural guidance scripts to transform old codebases, special test units, training.

Python and Javascript are ironically two of the biggest messed in all of tech, that gain popularity and drag everything into the mud with them.
"The Goal: A process of ongoing improvement" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

An amazing introduction to the theory of constraints and the value in doing things in small, incremental improvements

"A universe from nothing" was also amazing!
it's not even the Tesla owner's YouTube channel.

would someone please read the effing article before commenting on it?
ePub, as with PDF, is a container-file format. (A ZIP file with a specified structure.)

If you want to consider that single or multiple files ... quickly veers into semantics.
> It was insane how involved they were.

and yet, not insane enough to have a contract signed with them to allow the use of the api?
This is the sort of issue intended to be addressed by the Qlovatech Community Trademark License.
(https://qlova.tech/ctl/1.0)

Everyone should have the same rights to fairly & openly commercialise a shared-source/source-available project without treading on eachothers toes or restricting any user freedoms.

BTW not cool that commenting on jungu.me requires write access to your github account.
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Tasty TV: Japanese professor creates flavourful screen
The Fault in Our Stars

Okay, I know it's young adult, but it really effected me. I don't know that I've ever read a more honest discussion of death. I don't read much fiction though. Maybe I should read more.
ed25519 makes me feel like an idiot because I can never remember it. When I create new ssh keys I always forget:

1) (minor) The command to use a different encryption method to the default one
2) (major) how to remember more than the first two characters of ed25519

When I feel serious about not using RSA, I literally google "ssh ed" and pray it will autofill the rest of it. If I am not there within 15 seconds of opening my browser I am rolling with RSA256.
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Flow mihaly csikszentmihalyi
Psycho cybernetics by Dr. Maltz. Helped me grapple with my midlife crisis and gave me true purpose- to achieve my goals on my own terms. No something set by the society’s concept of achievement. Highly recommend reading it and not audible listening
Not exactly a book but just read the "The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness" and it's full of great quotes and entries by Naval who is an entrepreneur now turned philosopher. Gives sound logic on how to find wealth, contentment and purpose in todays busy world.

It's also free in ebook form. https://www.navalmanack.com
Except instead of being something cool like "diet coke and mentos" this is something basic that webdevs should be familiar with.
WTF - Why cant I reply to comments..
Creativity, Inc is also a great read if you're still left wanting some more Pixar stories!
I think The Goal is one of those books that has had a profound positive impact on my life. Another one is Freakonomics. There are no books that would teach us concepts such as Theory of constraints and economic incentives in the fun and simple way like these books.
I mean let's look into some of the claims on the "Facts" page and compare them to Messages, which all Apple users already have.

'Tact is a chat app for families, friends, coworkers, or any other small closed groups of humans. Tact is based on iCloud and works on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.' Messages.app does that.

'What can I do with Tact? Start private 1:1 and group chats with other people. Send long or short text messages. Send pictures and files. Like the messages and pictures that others have sent. See rich link previews. Communicate shared mood with chat emoji.' Messages.app does that.

'Values. The chat apps used in the western world today by most users are owned by Facebook, funded by advertising, and treating their users and their data as a product and resource to be harvested. We oppose that, and think there are other ways to enable our relations and communications that do not require compromising our integrity, harvesting our data, or funding the work from advertising.' Principles which are fully compatible with Messages.app

'Technology. Most communication apps are cross-platform, designed for the lowest common denominator in terms of both technology and privacy. We only have interest in the Apple platforms and ecosystem. We think there is a better way, and a higher bar.' Short sighted, and Messages.app does that.

'You are the customer. Unlike many apps that harvest user data for advertising and the advertiser pays, our real customer is you. There is no “advertiser” or anybody else in the model. You pay us for the product, and we are accountable only to you.' Messages.app does that.

I guess you get this one, partially:
'We don’t store or use your data. When you use Tact, your data moves from your device directly to Apple iCloud servers. We have no access to it, and thus no way or intent to use it to show you advertising, or do anything else with it.' Messages.app doesn't do that, but you never explain how I would get anyone I know to use this given the rest.

But you follow it with this:
'You say you store my content in Apple iCloud. Does that mean that I have to trust Apple? Yes.' Messages.app does that.

It probably sounds like I'm just being a negative jerk, but seriously, I cannot see anything about this that says "yes, try this". It feels like yet another "cool people whose podcasts you listen to are using this, you are missing out" kind of thing that will die, hard.
Cyberpunk 2077 for the Casual Gamer
Totally agree!

Have you done a 'View Source' on the HN page?
You can run React (and everything else) off a CDN.
> Shut down the site, or if someone wants to take over the server, it would be possible to upgrade the software with some help of an Invision Board expert

Legacy PHP forum software is a piece of work but I sure hope he could donate the site into caring hands or at least archive it for posterity.
I think he was saying that conda/mamba are much more language agnostic than poetry. It handles a lot of packages that have /nothing/ to do with python, and it handles them a reasonable way.

Poetry does seem much more tied to python (for better or worse).

Keep in mind at least in mamba's case, not being tied to the python interpreter is very much a feature, not a bug:
https://medium.com/@QuantStack/open-software-packaging-for-s...
Weird - the REPLY was missing fora time. disregard
> I wonder about this, do those airbags still work? What is the service life of these safety devices? Is there a service interval?

Well that is very relative, especially in the case of a 2001 Honda Accord that had(/was designed for) Takata ammonium nitrate based airbags. So those have had to have One or more recalls, IDK whether the replacements are 'fixed' or if they still have a service life.

Broadly speaking, check the owners manual. Older cars (i.e. 10+ years old) are likely going to be more conservative in estimates the further back you go as the tech was newer.

> My experience is that all safety related items like airbags are treated as radioactive by independent shops and you have to go to the dealer to get them replaced.

I think this is a fear of liability; I think it might? be difficult for non-dealers to get proper-channel replacements. Ironically, the Takata incident only reinforces this mindset, as the potential liability exposure vs perceived competence if something does happen will cause most small shops to avoid them.
Great, more siloed chat. Because iMessage isn't enough, I guess?
I’m not sure that Google Maps is the best example of something that should work well without JS.
Bankfeeds.io

We sync Stripe (and other payment processors) to Xero to automate bookkeeping for indies/small biz. Doing about $2.5k/month.
In my personal interactions with people in the e-commerce/drop shipping space, the odds of them telling you what they sell is extremely slim. The barrier to entry for anyone else is very low, so once someone has a winning product, they remain very tight lipped about what exactly it is.
one of the few existing books helping understand the world we live in and somewhat explains what we've been going through in the last 2 years. Understand the Empire: Towards Global Governance or the Uprising of Nations? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09B7QZG4C
I'm from Europe but I've heard there's a big difference between CA and NY in terms of jaywalking. Is one of the states right and the other wrong? Who should enforce their culture on the other one?
Not exactly at 500, but starting to slowly grow... Habit Zap - https://www.habitzap.com - basically a productivity app that's sort of like playlists of pomodoros.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29670168
The problem with IoT is that people in other countries can also theoretically open the door and turn on the lights from THEIR phone if the grandparents don’t keep everything updated.
Open-Source board for converting Jetson nano to Brain-computer interface
I'm also interested in this.
I suppose the article is well-intentioned but in terms of genetic diversity and skin color, the actual history of human evolution on the African continent is far more complex than that indicates. There's a fascinating paper using modern DNA methods about this, from 2017, published in Science. It's behind a paywall as is the associated perspective but this is a good discussion with the links:

> "Genes responsible for diversity of human skin colors identified"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171012143324.h...

> "Tishkoff noted that the work underscores the diversity of African populations and the lack of support for biological notions of race."

> "Many of the genes and new genetic variants we identified to be associated with skin color may never have been found outside of Africa, because they are not as highly variable," Tishkoff said. "There is so much diversity in Africa that's not often appreciated. There's no such thing as an African race. We show that skin color is extremely variable on the African continent and that it is still evolving. Further, in most cases the genetic variants associated with light skin arose in Africa."

Basically, in genetics today it's about phylogenetics, which "utilizes cladistic methods to construct phylogenetic trees based directly on morphological and molecular data." From this viewpoint 'African' is not a meaningful group relative to 'Asian' or 'European', which may themselves not be very meaningful groups either, in terms of biological descent and actual genetic relatedness within and without these supposed groups.

Another truly fascinating aspect of that study is this suggestion, pigment alteration:

> ""Our results suggest there must be some kind of as-yet-uncharacterized form of cross-talk between lysosomes and the melanosomes that make eumelanins," Marks said. "Figuring out how this works might provide new ideas for ways to manipulate skin pigmentation for therapeutic means."

Imagine the consternation and issues surrounding the introduction of something like retroviral gene therapy which altered an individual's pigmentation. People who suffered sunburn easily might benefit greatly, but I can imagine certain controversies arising from such technology.
> My biggest fear is an antivaxxer taking up an ER bed someone else might need for a real issue.

There is a lot of fear to go around.

Someone out there has as their biggest fear being forced to have a medical procedure that then gives them lifelong medical problems, problems that might be shrugged off by doctors/family/friends, and even if they can find someone to believe that their plight is real, they can't find anyone that can fix it.

Is that a likely outcome? It doesn't look like it to me or you. But someone out there has that fear just like you have yours. You may believe your fear to be more justified, and it may even be so. But that doesn't change that other people have their fears that they can't get away from, and that no proclamations like yours will cure them of.

Put aside for a second what all the talking heads and the bureaucrats and the internet commenters are saying, and remember that there are people, actual living and breathing people behind such a one dimensional label as "antivaxxer". Whatever cartoon character you dream up when you hear that word, you can bet that it misses more folks than it hits.
This was clearly a terrible idea from the beginning.

They presumable thinking was that autopilot/fsd would be driving the car so the driver could play games. At the same time they’re claiming that they aren’t responsible for autopilot crashes because the driver is always meant to be able to instantly be in control of the car.

You can’t really do both “the driver can be focused on non driving tasks” and also “the driver must be focused on driving”. That is obviously impossible.
As thread depth increases, the "reply" link is delayed for an increasing time. This is one of HN's behavioural hacks at cooling off flamewars.

You can click on a comment directly to reply to it immediately. Use this knowledge with care.
I wouldn’t be surprised if google serves different html based on location+ISP and browser agent etc. I.e if you’re on a modern browser with a high-speed isp you might get a heavier page than if you’re on dialup or mobile in 3rd world countries.
For example: DuckDuckGo.
This

And to be fair this also means that it's cheap enough to ship it to everybody then charge later. Hence, they're being ultra petty.
why in the blue blazes would you disable the page file?

seriously asking. if you're fiddling with that in the 21st century you are Doing It Wrong.
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb. Changed my life and my perspective on doing business, building company and understanding luck. Such a classic.
Also honourable mention: Super Pumped by Mike Isaac. Great read on the legendary Travis' journey.
You're making vague gestures about something that is a specific issue these days. JS delivers all kinds of straight up garbage, some of it meant to do very ugly things, it can be turned off, tada, I'm still on the internet.

If people (like me) want to offer resources requiring none of that, why not encourage them, insofar as it makes the internet more efficient, a more helpful resource, and just way cooler in terms of chilling with all the crazy wasteful and annoying JS activity.

It's valid, relevant, and worthwhile. There's really no need to talk about being scared, as if this is some issue that requires a good talking to from dad.
> I mean, what number of HN commenters who dismiss crypto out of hand have literally never made an effort to be curious about the guts of it all?

I think most people on HN don't dismiss the "guts of it". I don't think blockchain is technically deficient, though proof of work is an ecological disaster, and I don't think most other people do either.

But it seems to be a technology in search of a problem; the problems blockchain/crypto answer are often things like enabling Ponzi schemes, money laundering, ransomware and, rarely, currency in despotic regimes.

Whenever we ask crypto supporters WHY blockchain?, WHY NFTs?, WHY so many ICOs?, isn't this a ponzi scheme?, the answer is some form of "you don't understand" or "good luck, stay poor".
The joke was that Samsung already puts ads on peoples TVs despite them having paid for the TV.
I don't think you're being a crybaby, but you do seem to be deliberately misinterpreting the parent post.