skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good questions. I will offer my grumpy old opinion as I often do. Some may not like these answers.

What would you keep?

TCP/IP, OSPF, maybe improve BGP security. Those things mostly kinda work OK.

What would you throw away?

This is tricky because if I get rid of all the machine learning dopamine manipulation systems, that will just create a void and new companies will fill that void. I don't have a good answer. FAANG has me at check-mate.

What would you bring back? and What would you like to see more of?

Bits of web 1.0. This is predicated on the previous question and dilemma but all things remaining the same, I would bring back the popularity of self hosted forums and chat servers. Not super useful if people keep using the machine learning dopamine manipulation platforms.

What real world things has the internet replaced that you would like to have back?

More variety of products at local stores. Local stores feel the pressure of Amazon so they have a less diverse selection of products.

What real world things would you like to see cyber-ized?

Nothing more. There are already too many silly IoT's and too much intrusion into peoples lives. People are already physically unwell and the internet is making people psychologically unwell too. Augmented Reality is very likely to cause traffic accidents and drama IRL.

Are you generally optimistic or pessimistic about the future of the internet?

I am optipessimistic. There is always tomorrow but some new scammy fad-like shiny object will find its way into peoples lives. I claim the NFT rights to my reply. /s

That is probably a negative sounding answer but that is the best I can do.
Art of Living faculty teach it.
That’s how it works with more conventional camera set ups. I guess it just boils down to how they program it but there’s no reason that shouldn’t be the case.
Anyone have experience with western esotericism or neoplatonism?
> Are they using Javascript to improve experience and development speed?

Some, yes. This was in the spec sheet for a large ecommerce website I helped rebuild with modern(er) technologies.

> If a Twitter textbox is lagging while someone types

That's an implementation issue.

re Youtube, I haven't had the experience you describe, but having had to develop the framework side of SPA navigation into something robust and useable, keeping the current page on screen after the a new url was history.push'ed while preloading the data necessary for the next render and managing the scroll position, I can confirm it is a pain. I expect Youtube has the right kind of resources for the task but it happens, probably at a higher rate of bug incidence than regular frontend button-broke-the-site issues.

Implementation issues are going to happen whether you use JS or not, but I find building with JS and with modern frameworks a joy (although a lot of things can be improved) compared to server side alternatives. As with everything though, this is a matter of preference.
One of the coolest tricks during gaming's golden age!

I even remember Nintendo power running an article telling people NOT to buy these.
write shorter blocks so you can see the else? If the ifs get too nested, encapsulate them in functions? Buy an extra monitor and mount it vertically (or diagonally)?
When the title said "supermassive black hole eruption" instead of "Sag A* eruption" it was pretty clear the supermassive black hole was not our own supermassive black hole, but some other galaxy's. I was curious whether it could be Andromeda's SMBH flaring, but very certain it wouldn't be our own.
> the data sent back would be sitting on an FTP server somewhere for anyone to download and use

I'm sure they could actually do that without too much fuss. But it would require significant amounts of scientist time to document those datasets to enable others to use them for any arbitrary dataset. I'm sure we'll see fully open data sets from JWST appear, but lots of the stuff it collects isn't going to be interesting enough that it's reasonable to spend scientist time documenting it.
For me an my partner, we don't like the idea of the government regulating our relationship, and many years later, we still don't like the idea of it too. There is a difference between the relationship and the government paperwork.

Similarly you would couch it to your spouse the same way. If you both treat it like the corporation paperwork it is (and if you think about how the government treats it, it's actually similar to a business partnership structure in many ways), then getting paperwork married and then paperwork divorced as planned doesn't have to be an issue.
he deals with this question at the end of the interview, when he says marketing costs have gone through the roof as all other UK (ex)exporters now are forced to focus on (much smaller) domestic UK market
Atheist here and I've been pretty impressed with the work of the Satanic Temple over the last few years.

What's membership actually look like?

I'd consider joining in a secular/political sense, but I have no interest in hanging out with people who believe in and actually praise a "Satan" deity.
Anyone have experience with psychedelic spirituality?
> What "Debug options" are you imagining will provide runtime checks for overflow and underflow in C and C++ - languages where this behaviour is deliberately allowed as an optimisation?

-fsanitize=undefined.

> In C it's simply a fact that incrementing the unsigned 8-bit integer 255 gets you 0 even though this defies what your arithmetic teacher taught you about the number line it's just how C works, so a "Debug Option" that says no, now that's an error isn't so much a "Debug Option" as a different programming language.

Yes, but this happens to be defined behavior, even if it’s what you don’t want most of the time. (Amusingly, a lot of so-called “safe” languages adopt this behavior in their release builds, and sometimes even their debug builds. You’re not getting direct memory corruption out of it, sure, but it’s a great way to create bugs.)
Awesome Secret Scanning!
Hence, photos of the infamous and proliferous vending machines.
IPv6 everywhere.

Multiple overlapping DNS systems in use. The protocol supports this. I see now reason why we couldn't have it as thing.
I am yet to play with Proton. Truth is there isn't much, if any, Windows software I want to run.
No, it's just simple logic.

If you hate something that doesn't exist, your are either making no sense or must imply the existence (in some form).

Think about it deeply.
Assuming it’s 1080p not UHD I’ll often keep the MKV with how cheap storage is.
It’s useful when working with bits and bytes and stuff. Aside from that, I fully agree.
Yes, indeed. I should have specified my geographical region: Western Europe. It's a very different situation compared to the USA.
The impression I get is he specialises more around the philsophy of AI and cybernetics.
Indeed in German law a partially void contract becomes completely void unless it is protected by a severability clause (which means in practice all contracts have them and they usually state that the void part is to be replaced by something with the same or similar economic consequences).

Standard form contracts (take it or leave it rules that are distributed to everyone) are exempt from this though (here the void part falls back to default rules).
If I were to design a language to fill this role, it would be roughly like Python with static types and compiled to a binary. And opensource backed/developed by a major enterprise software provider, MS, IBM, etc.
Maybe he doesn't want to create a permanent record of the router/AP hardware that they are using, that could easily be found by someone Googling their username?
The whole point of this submission is that Windows 2000/XP were the last versions before Windows jumped the shark.
The legal court reactions to prenups is usually a lot more hand wavy and malleable than a typical contract between two people, and people get surprised what is actually enforceable in a prenup vs the reality when the rubber hits the road. This is what is usually referenced.
"Our constructed definition of 'good' comes from religion."

I am wondering what makes you think that?
I'm very into Occult topics. I grew up Christian and have come to believe a bit of everything.

I believe that everything is both true and false at the same time and it is important to experience different viewpoints in your world. Currently I believe that we are all essentially God, or facets of God, separated by the concept of ego. The entire purpose to life is, therefore, to have a unique experience. I try to incorporate this by embracing chaos and choosing to do random or spontaneous activities outside of my comfort zone.

I resonate with this belief the most out of those that I have tried, but I love hearing what others believe in or practice. I'd be interested in hearing more about the public rituals that you attend, or any groups that you are aware of.
My problem with it is that combat slows to an absolute crawl and becomes a slog with that system. In BG a fight with a few rats takes 2 seconds. In Divinity OS and BG3 it's more like a few minutes for even the simplest battle, and much longer for larger ones. Multiply that by the length of the game and combat becomes a dreaded chore, at least for the impatient like myself
Greetings! Thanks a lot for taking the time to look at Bingo.

1: re: copy-paste install script: I'll definitely grind on this and see what we can do. Bingo requires my Run[1] package, which itself is written in go and can be installed via `go install github.com/TekWizely/run` -- Additionally, once you have Bingo installed, you can use IT to re-install Run and then manage your Run installation via Bingo itself ! A self-running install script for Bingo that installs a temporary version of Run, then installs Bingo, then uses Bingo to install a permanent version of Run would actually be quite clever !

2: re: metapackages: Bingo's goal is to be a useful wrapper on top of Go's built-in, and highly useful, install feature. Go's auto compile+install features are already getting pretty complex (ie code generation, specifying tags, etc)... The fact that you can download and install hugo with `--tags extended` from the command line is pretty sweet. That said, I would say any additional support (ie metapackages) might first start as a request against go install proper -- That said, it might be a nice addition to maybe fetch some kind of `go.install` file that contains basic steps for installing a complex package. If it was going to be a non-sanctioned idea, I would still want the format of the file/spec to stand on its own and be useful outside of Bingo.

3: re: shell/path setup script: PRs always appreciated ;)

4: Graci ! I am quite pleased with myself for the name - BTW: The idea for the tool came first. I then brainstormed the name ...

Thanks again and please lemme know if you have any further comments/questions! If nothing else please consider opening Issues for these ideas to help me keep track of them :)

-TW

[1]https://github.com/TekWizely/run
The person you linked (Sam Harris) is actually one of the leading voices advocating for spirituality without religion. He wrote about it in his book Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion.
Agree on all counts except instant loading, you can still do server-side rendering (from the same codebase as the client) and have the client library bootstrap/hydrate its state from it.
I don't believe in an afterlife but I do believe in consciousness and mental health. Just because there's no pit of fire, paradise, or next reincarnation doesn't mean that my actions don't influence both me and those around me either positively or negatively.

If I've hurt someone or done something wrong, I will dwell on it and think about the mistake I've made. Forgiving one's self is the process of figuring out A. how can I fix the wrong I've done and B. How can I let go of that and move on, realizing I can't change the past.

Why should I care about how I treat those around me? Because I, like most humans, am social and care about society in general. I want future generations of humanity to live in a kind world. I don't need religion to threaten me with eternal torture to know that hurting others is bad.

Morality, to me, is both not harming others and helping others that are hurting. This form of morality is superior to bronze age texts which endorsed slavery and genocide.
> is that the way these companies are using it?

Since when do large companies do anything that isn't user-hostile and abusive? Of course FAANGs are trying to keep their walled garden more walled by reducing outgoing links, and Twitter's incompetence is legendary

The real question should be if this type of thing is improving the web at large or the capabilities we can develop "efficiently" on it, and while I would be willing to hear arguments either way, I can tell you I use JS/HTML/CSS in combination to introduce capabilities that would not be palatable without the JS component of that, putting aside whether I would be able to develop them as a bunch of standalone capabilities. Model editors, graph layouts, plugin architectures; we can leverage client machines to do more and more, and in a business setting delivering internal tools this is a great method of reducing costs across the stack - the laptops were already going to be purchased.
Lately I’ve been limiting my JS usage only been use vanilla JavaScript for tertiary functionality and server-side rendering for everything else.
I bought a “cheap” ($100 at the time) USB3 bluray player and it ripped discs fine - even on Linux. I believe MakeMKV has you install the necessary libraries for decrypting.
I just googled Kanazawa and it happens to be snowing there right now. I was curious about the latitude and it looks to be at about the same latitude as the SF Bay area where it rarely snows. And it's right on the coast as well. Is snow more common on the west coast of Japan than on the east coast due to the Japanese current which passes on the east?
I updated this piece on the past, present and future of digital nomadism. I wanted to outline some of the context I see for an exciting new trend that I think is even bigger than we understand:

Until the 2020s, labor could not move as easily as capital around the world. It's still not even close, but a confluence of trends emerging are making it more of a fair fight.
Not in the Kessel Sector.
Google Chrome is a great example "developers in the hamster wheel" of metrics.

Keeps getting constantly redesigned for seemingly no reason, and certainly not all for the better.
Sure, but that doesn't really help anything. e.g. the AW609 mentioned in the video that has been stuck in certification for 20 years is built in Italy under that agreement.
Will be giving a rC3 talk about a new collaboration project: Frisson Waves tonight 22:00 CET (6:00+1 JST)

Talk info:
https://pretalx.c3voc.de/rc3-2021-fem/talk/RXUW8B/
Stream Link:
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/fem

Work was also presented at Siggraph Asia the last weeks,
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3476122.3484847
Heh, well sort of, the blackhole is the engine that converts matter into energy, which results in the observed jets.

No blackhole, no jets. Seems a bit pedantic to mention that the observed jets aren't crossing the event horizon.
Says who? Most atheists I've met are humanists.
All it needs to be actually useful is destructors. And, constructors.

I am always amazed when a new language omits destructors. Sure, CS assignments don't need them, but out here we have real resources, not just memory, to manage.
This blog loads 2mb of scripts, and if you disable JS you can't leave a comment or even read any comments. Personally, I don't have a problem with this, but I'd have expected a blog hosting an anti-js essay to be less dependent on JS. The author notes in the noscript block that using disqus is part of hosting a static blog, but that definition of "static" is an implementation detail - i.e. a convenience for the developer - but from a user's perspective the result is identical to rolling your own js comment system, the site doesn't work if you disable JS, thus calling into question the value of building a "static" website, especially in the context of an anti-js essay. The author could have instead supported non-js comments, but when the rubber hits the road they appeal to the same developer convenience and UX benefits that typical js developers espouse.
Pretty much all early episodes of https://hubermanlab.com — Though it's become a bit lengthy and repetitive lately.
You might like vidangel, never used them though.

https://www.vidangel.com/
Metrics-driven product development sounds like a good idea but in practice ends up being Cargo Culting.

That's usually because people rarely reflect on the metrics they're deriving meaning from, rarely abandoning ambiguous metrics as misleading, and rarely imagining new metrics to find utility. Those are very hard tasks that take time and deep thought.
Did you really just tell a blind person they're wrong about the effect JavaScript has on web accessibility for the blind? Holy crap man.
I think most people are capable. It’s whether it’s worth it. I loved learning more about Linux and networking with it, and loved having automatic cell failover, but at the end of the day, it was too unreliable.

So, forgive me for how this sounds, but the general HN user probably needs a reliable as possible internet link.
There's a placard in downtown Oakland that features this Nina Simone quote in big block font: "I'll tell you what Freedom is to me. No fear."

She's an artist, so that's more of a poetic quote than a prosaic philosophical claim (sort of like how everyone quotes Einstein for the definition of insanity), but it does speak to the limits of a Nozickian conception of freedom.
Or terrorist organizations with tech skills
> I had been taught I could simply confess whatever and it would be forgiven

I personally agree that this is nonsense but there are kernels of good ideas in religious ideologies even if they are warped beyond recognition and usefulness.

For example, the concept of confessing sins is practical actually. Not for the purpose of "being forgiven", but one has to acknowledge and admit that one did something bad before it is possible to try to change that behavior for good. Without admitting or seeing an act was bad, there is no hope in fixing it.

So yeah, if we could undo all the "warping" of concepts, regardless of where they came from, "religion" wouldn't be so bad but it seems beyond fixing at this point. It's wrapped up in emotions like guilt and fear, and that makes it hard to separate the manipulators from those who are truly trying to help.
> I strongly upvote Mikrotik with its open-source RouterOS software (which you can run on nearly any computer).

Unless I have missed a few recent development, the RouterOS is open source only in the sense that it is build on a foundation of open source software. The source of the GPL parts is available upon request.

Running RouterOS on non-Mikrotik hardware requires the purchase of a separate license. Mikrotik hardware usually comes with a license already on the device.
Hacking a platform puts you at odds with the platform vendor, with the consequence that any hacks are likely to be incompatible with subsequent releases of the platform.

Platform vendors want to shunt you down very specific paths. The interests of platform vendors and developers are not always aligned, and are often diametrically opposed — especially with regards to creating portable code that runs on multiple platforms.
It's so odd to me that since the dawn of time, humans
find this innate need to live in slave morality

Is this really true, though?

Or does it simply look that way to us, as we look back through history -- which was of course largely written by those who benefitted from this sort of slave morality?
Great advice! I think I may have been a little too flippant in saying 'use whatever framework' because perspective is incredibly important. I'd say it's a continual process and engagement; if your philosophy or religion or sect doesn't answer it, and you don't feel good about it, it's okay to expand your horizons.

I think what I wanted to emphasise is having nothing at all can leave you in a bad position. Hitting these dreary spiritual states without any philosophic or religious framework that can provide perspective is like being lost out in the sea without even a life preserver, much less a boat.
This is an important point. Being atheist doesn't say anything about your beliefs in ethics or the nature of the universe. It's just the absence of some set of other beliefs.
Ubisoft or any other company for that matter doesn't want people to trade their games, DLC or accounts.
They killed the used market they aren't going to bring it back.
Not that much. I especially hate youtube and will read over watch a video any time of the day, I do not have instagram, I do not own cable tv, I do not watch sports.

But to give more insight into what motivates me in life, I have been blessed with the love of nature and animals especially, own pets, taking care of which is a daily time and money sink, but also without fail gets me outside each day of the year and in a good mood and shape, and allows me some peaceful moments where I do not think about anything else than the present moment and some kind of nature "communion" of sorts, around pets and nature.

And I sincerely think it is a blessing, as I think I have a rather simple and happy life, and haven't been distraught durably for years. I feel for all the stressed people out there that do not have such an easy way to relax.
Not really hope, but this is one of the biggest value propositions. If your NFTs give more rights/power to the owner they are going to be more attractive and thus more valuable.

On the other hand being able to have more restrictive tokens enables smart contracts to comply with regulations. But for gaming NFTs it really destroys any added value/utility which is something i should have expected of Ubisoft.
What the Russians thought of James Bond in the 1960s
This text may be interesting to some: Letter to a Brazilian Mason, by Marcelo Ramos Motta.
https://www.parareligion.ch/dplanet/motta/moma2.htm
The problem is, as always when talking about cross-platform development, is that you can have consistent widgets OR native widgets, because the native platforms have different look, feel, and interaction standards.

Would it be great if everyone on the frontend could get together and agree what the native-to-browser widgets should look like and how they might be customized? Yes. Would the three warring browser manufacturers change their platforms to make web development easier and lighter for everyone, at the cost of platform uniqueness? No.
east west distinction does make as much sense in Japan since the main island runs at a sort of diagonal but from my experience, in the northern half, the west is snowier. the islands as a whole are immensely wetter than California.
The nearest star is about 4 light years. So outside of the solar system, that should be "near." This thing is 3 million times that far.
That’s insane. Where did you read that?