skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Consider funding work to make Gecko better suited to embedding

Mozilla seems to choose what to do with donations though. I don't think there's any way to target funding for Gecko, Rust, etc.
Excellent video.
> They are now using a fancy encoding on the wire to double the number of bits per symbol.

Wasn't there some network standard that used that trick as well?
Uh... if Electron really let a 2-year-old baby (or, hell, even an eight-year-old) write software as widely used as appreciated as Slack, Signal (Desktop), or VSCode... I'd say that whoever wrote Electron should actually get a Turing Award, because that would be society-shaking!

I mean, no joke, democratizing software production is huge, and important, and hugely beneficial -- when more and more of our lives involve software, being able to produce it is hugely empowering. I don't know how much Electron really does that (we know it doesn't really let 2-year-old babies produce software), but that the author would find it of no benefit whatsoever if it did, or even something to make fun of or disparage...

When in other discussions people are like "the reason there aren't good no-code development tools is because software engineers don't want there to be, they are threatened by them, they keep them from us!" I'm usually like, nah, that's not what's going on... but it turns out they're literally talking about THIS GUY!

So anyway, I stopped reading there. Near the beginning.
Experimentation Is a Major Focus of Data Science Across Netflix
I think you may also be overestimating the quantity of current data that will actually survive. Computer records are pretty ephemeral unless actively maintained and archived.
It's simple:

1. Companies use Electron because they don't want to spend money on the desktop. After all, desktop users are declining.

2. You'll only get much worse, or not even usable softwares if you use the same small budgets to build native apps on multiple platforms.

Building an excellent Electron alternative that is not web-based is not in corporations' interest. Hackers are all ranting about Electron, but the only way to defeat Electron is to get together and build a high-quality open-source alternative because not many will pay for it, or it would be just rants forever.
And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes
I'd forgotten about that era of my life! I used Adium on OS X and had customized so much about it, down to the individual sounds played when certain friends (and crushes) came online. And I was able to essentially ignore what platform I was using to talk on: AIM friends and GChat friends appeared side-by-side. What a dream.
The Newsroom said it best, "your house is burning to the ground, the situation is dire; your house has already burned to the ground, situation's over." [1]

I don't see a way that we plausibly reverse course, when nearly every government, the people running them, and the private sector leaders are all just doing an end-run to accumulate as much as they can, planet be damned. Every "climate target" gets re-evaluated and pushed back every five years, and nobody seems to be held accountable for it.

Barring moonshot tech breakthrough or militant scaling-down of consumption worldwide, how can we survive?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM0uZ9mfOUI
This is a great technique. I find it particularly useful if I'm stuck on writing some aspect of the implementation that I can't quite grok. Often pulling back and writing it from the point of view of a consumer of the implementation will help get me moving again on thinking about the problem.
> Schema.org exists, but all websites adopting it seems unlikely.

Schema.org has the backing of major search engines and other reusers of Web-served content. It's way more likely to be adopted compared to anything else in its general domain.
I find this argument odd. Is the electricity used by the business somehow different than the one used by grandma? Are these currents used by the business somehow more special? No. If anything, based on my dad's experience as a shop owner, businesses pay much higher rates than individuals. They are not subsidizing grandma. They are subsidizing bureaucrat lives. That is all the there is to it.

Still, let us say that I accept your argument, some miners actually bought various electricity producing entities. Now what? Are you going to argue they can't use the electricity they generate or are you going to argue that we can then force them out of business some other way. Either undermines some tenets of US society, but I am curious now.
It's wild to me that this is the case, but my observation is the same. So many people are employed just to keep team sizes up and prop up dead projects.

I spent all 2021 working on a project with 10 other developers plus management. Another team was building a replacement at the same time. The existing project was a non-starter for technical and political reasons.

The existing project didn't have many real deliverables. The majority of the work was refactoring that would only pay off if we had years of usage of the original product.

Maybe it makes sense that it was better to throw literally millions of dollars at that project to keep the developers busy until the new project was ready to scale up.
In Southern Africa, Success Against HIV Offers Hope for Beating Back Covid-19
I'm mostly seeing 18%, 23%, 27% or variations of that which clearly seems to be a nudge towards the higher amount, relying on the social pressure of the server standing right over you holding the screen out to you vs the old way of leaving the booklet at your table to fill out after they've left.

In a more brazen example I've been promoted to take my seat and use a qr code to order, it then requires me to pay up front on my phone (while providing my PII in the form of an email and phone number), and then asks me to tip before I've even had a server so much as introduce themselves or bring me water.

I'm all for servers making a living wage and paying higher prices to support it, but the current path this seems to be taking is really an unpleasant experience as a customer.
> It think this is attributed to fundamental rule of not breaking legacy language features.

Is this really all that unique to C++? Or are you saying that it's just particularly painful for C++ due to where it started from?
I am outside of the US and almost exclusively use iMessage. Rarely Facebook Messenger.
ccache can considerably cut down compile times. Simple to install and minimal config, no change to tooling or workflow...

https://ccache.dev/
The use case for this website has been solved via server side scripting and accessible for any user since before I was 5.

You don't need to use every js feature on every website.

I would go so far as to say it's irresponsible.
>How could someone higher up not say "this is the dumbest thing ever, merge the teams or reassign one to something else"???

Seriously! Executives at Google surely must be aware of the memes by now. Are they so delusional they don't believe them? They don't care? When they chat with each other, which app do they use? Steve Yegg's platform rant still rings true: Google's dogfood is all snouts and hooves.
Solar geoengineering could potentially stop further thawing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_geoengineering
Build Orbiter Addons in Rust
What bothers me about libraries like nlohmann/json isn't so much the style or the public interface (which is fine and I actually like, too).

It's the fact that a conforming and performant JSON parsing and serialisation library doesn't require 22kloc in C++. That's madness. I also struggle to call a library "modern" that uses goto-statements.
Especially if the library is even slower than smaller alternatives like [1].

But that's just my personal opinion, I understand that other people have different priorities and are fine with including 785kb of C++ template headers as long as the public interface suits their needs and taste.

This is just an example for the kind of freedom software allows for, because it doesn't cost you anything and there is no objectively "better" in this case.

[1] https://github.com/kazuho/picojson
For skin & a "sufficient tissue match", yes. See e.g. tissue scaffolds.
Feather Products Category on Adafruit Industries
Messenger Kids is really good for this: https://messengerkids.com/

It's made by a gross company, but they have ridiculously tight access controls.
I think you almost got the answer to your own question. For me, quality software is made by very small teams of very competent people improving the software for a long time. We don't know much about the vast amount of closed software, but, for opensource, the state-of-the-art follow these rules.
I live a couple blocks from CHOP/CHAZ. There was no destruction. I got my haircut every couple weeks at a business inside CHOP. Everything was and still is entirely normal.
I'd choose an app marketed as being for kids by a major company than one that isn't. Messenger Kids is 100% being used to "capture the next generation", but at least the controls are built with their safety in mind and it's not an after-thought.
At risk of displaying my ignorance of English history, were they not at one time the currencies of three different kingdoms?
The emails are actually unredacted [1], and the fact that they are released by the opposition party shouldn't be surprising. I'm not sure they tell us anything new though. We already knew that they were scientists who had this suspicion in the early days of the pandemic (some publicly stated that, e.g. David Baltimore [2]).

[1]: See the note in the beginning of Appendix I: https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2...

[2]: LA Times: A Nobel laureate backs off from claiming a ‘smoking gun’ for the COVID-19 lab-leak theory https://archive.fo/F440c
Ironically I am between my sleeps now. I’ve been casual about life for so long that I’ve fallen into medieval sleeping habits.
I think OP is glossing over how much of a leap it is from Hyperties to Berners-Lee. (I was curious because the story 'red is too strong!!!' is a good fit for my https://www.gwern.net/Red page.) As written, it sounds like the color research was reported in the _Hypertext on Hypertext_ package, and Berners-Lee had a copy and was deeply immersed in it. Neither is true.

The first paper from the Hyperties group cited (https://www.gwern.net/docs/design/1986-koved.pdf) does not cover color at all. It does mention some user-testing. I checked all the papers in _Hypertext on Hypertext_ and none mention Hyperties or color in any major way. (The keynote is a good read, incidentally: https://www.gwern.net/docs/design/1988-vandam.pdf ) If you look at the Berners-Lee document cited, the Hyperties mention is buried in the bibliography; it is not even cited in the main text nor is Hyperties or link coloring mentioned, so I'm not sure why it's there at all, but it sounds like one of those cites-just-to-be-comprehensive, which often mean the author has never read the citation in question - so based on that, I'm unsure that way over in Europe Berners-Lee read any of the papers, much less actually saw the disk in action. The historical Hyperties page includes videos which show that by the time of the disk, they had defaulted to blue for link coloring, and mentions testing 3 colors (red was also used in Hyperties for other interface parts, so obviously they tested red vs blue vs ???). But the Hyperties papers after that do not mention color anywhere either. In fact, I can't find any Hyperties publication at all which reports the color usertesting or even that the results favored blue. It seems you just had to look at _Hypertext on Hypertext_ and assume that they picked blue because it was good?

So, checking OP's references, I think Berners-Lee may never have seen _Hypertext on Hypertext_ (at least, in computer form); and if he had, he would not have known the blue was the result of user testing (because nothing in it says so); and if he had both seen & deduced that, he may not have both remembered & cared years later when setting up his own browser defaults for color monitors, and he doesn't say so anywhere.
Soil is not an essential piece to growing crops. Even now hydroponics is taking off in many places.
With Chrome or Edge, you can take any web page and turn it into a standalone "app" that lives in the start menu and can be pinned to the taskbar and Alt-Tabbed to, etc.

In the Chrome menu, select More Tools / Create Shortcut... and edit the title and check the Open as Window box.

In Edge, select Apps / Install this site as an app. Edge has a lot more options here than Chrome. You can pin it to the Taskbar or Start, create a desktop shortcut, and set it to auto-start. (You can do those manually with a Chrome shortcut if you know your way around the Start menu and Startup folder, but it's easier in Edge.)

I don't see a similar option in Firefox. No idea about Safari. If anyone knows about those browsers, please comment.

And having posted this comment, I am now wondering why I am still running the Slack app. I think I will try making it an Edge app!
I don't have exact numbers, but less common than the 70s and more common than today. Like I said, they peaked in the 60s and 70s. While the TSA didn't exist until after 9/11, TSA style screenings were introduced in response to those hijackings. That was at least part of what caused the numbers to drop through the 70s, 80s, and 90s. That is why I'm not willing to completely dismiss those screenings as security theater. Sure, taking off our shoes is almost certainly meaningless from a security perspective. But walking through a metal detector and putting our bags through x-ray machines likely does help. Basically the screenings that still happen for people with TSA Precheck show what security practices are likely the most valuable.
And how do these compare to the much less expensive tests from Lucira and Detect.com?
I agree the US coast don't have much to write home about, however Montana, Colorado & rockies, Yellowstone, there's so much nation park lands and accompanying towns in the US that really do match up to AU and NZ.
Saruman thinks Sauron is too powerful.
Yes, it's all about moving to a different place on the demand curve.

It's two things that regularly get missed with induced demand.

The first is the assumption of infinite demand. If two lanes isn't enough, and you add a third and that isn't enough, by induction (pun intended) you wouldn't have enough even with infinity lanes. But in practice it will be finite and might only be four.

The second is that you can "induce" demand by removing demand, and therefore reducing congestion and increasing demand. If your goal is to eliminate congestion then one way or another you have to satisfy the demand that exists without congestion.
What makes you think we deserve to survive?
> 200 years ago everyone had perfectly straight teeth

Wait what? Citation needed please, I googled this and couldn't find anything. Our teeth were definitely bad 100 years ago, since we have images and video from that far back. The bad teeth are something that really struck me in "They Shall Not Grow Old": https://youtu.be/IrabKK9Bhds?t=57

Edit: Okay I see a Scientific American article about this here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-we-have-so-ma... so that means in 100 years we went from perfect teeth to terrible? Dang
there is a theory that "modern" overbite lent itself to pronouncing f and v sounds, which are more tricky with perfectly lined up teeth

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ability-pronou...
Wow, okay then. I wonder if that sort of setup will be like the quad itanium motherboard setups that needed massive sustained airflow to keep running...
After the coming resource\migration wars, some of this will sort itself out. Don't worry.
Tipping is absolutely not expected for pickups. Delivery apps shamelessly try to get you to do so, but it is definitely not normal.
Is the new ceo on twitter too?
I suffered 30 minutes until I installed ccache - now the build time depends on what has been changed but it's a tiny fraction most of the time - unless I hit a template, but even then it's still a massive improvement.
I work for a Shopify company and we're a self-described "Google shop", meaning we use Gmail/docs/drive/meet but our messaging app is Slack. That shows you how much Google has failed with messaging.

My previous employer was UPS, a top to bottom Microsoft shop, and they were in the process of switching from Skype for Business (Lync) to Microsoft Teams when I left. Even Microsoft has done a better job with their messaging option.
A colleague (who is probably one of the smartest people I've met) made VectorFlow targeting D: https://github.com/Netflix/vectorflow

I've never had a chance to look at it much, but I think the magic is in the metaprogramming capabilities. It's more principled than C++ templates, more ergonomic than Scala macros, and more practical than Template Haskell. Somehow. (At least this was my impression from discussing it)
Once the permafrost starts melting off, there isn’t much time left for us. Hold your children tight, and comfort them for the rest of their short lives.
I just can't understand why Google has done what it has. They still could have reinvented messaging every year but they should have done it under the same name/app id so users would automatically get moved over to whatever the latest experience is. Rather than what they did which was introduce huge migration pain every time they redesign IM.
Yes, in the same way that the manufacturer of a physical product may be sued for damages. Suppose I buy a pair of scissors. Fancy new scissors, with some whiz-bang feature that makes them really cool scissors that can cut through anything. Now, the manufacturer is sued for violating a patent, and loses the case. The manufacturer may end up paying a fine to the patent holder. The manufacturer may no longer be allowed to sell those scissors, or to sell repair kits for those scissors. But the manufacturer may not break into my house, take the scissors out of my drawer, and modify them. I've bought them, and the manufacturer no longer has any right to change them.

The problem isn't just that Google removed a feature from an existing product. The problem is also that Google has the ability to do so in the first place.
No it won't. It will allow a bunch of people to skim-read detailed research publications and miss all the nuances that matter. No equation, no matter how many colours and arrows you cram into it, has any meaning on it's own. If you want to know what the author means by each of the symbols, read the damn paper.

Yes, in some fields certain symbols are known by tradition to mean something and older papers that were published with a limited audience in mind omitted some descriptions which is awfully annoying, but this is solved by having a section describing what your abbreviations and symbols refer to, not with highlighter spam.
> It's so bad that I haven't managed to find a single industry with the same massive amount of stupidity, with the exception of perhaps the fashion industry

Perhaps a bit too much hyperbole, but lots of industries have these cycles of increasing complexity. The necessity of such complexity is in the eye of the beholder.

- Agriculture. Herbicide -> GM plants to resist herbicides
- Automobiles. Manual -> Auto
- Finance. HFT anyone ?
- Construction.
- Medicine.
- Accounting. GAAP
- and finally... Quantum Physics !
I think you misunderstood. I'm not talking about driving around in a holding pattern. I'm saying that instead of interspersing valuable real estate with parking lots so that people can walk from their car to the shop/restaurant, you can put all the parking in one (realistically, a few) places.
> enter an RCS enabled cellphone number, in order to disable Chat features… including end-to-end encryption

This is _really_ misleadingly worded. The website asks for a confirmation code, which you presumably need access to the device in order to obtain, right?
At the very least, they are blocking/greylisting some domains. So they can't even submit an email to Gmail over SMTP, they get stopped at the protocol level.

They might be accepting mail that never shows up in your account as well, I don't know for sure.
I was thinking OAuth and SSO.
Static linking worked fine, there is a reason small apps shipped with the vb6 runtime dlls in their zip file.

And for locked down corporate machines life was even easier. Same base image, same libraries installed.

Also DLL hell had been solved by the Windows XP timeframe with side by side installs of multiple dll versions.
These were the exact scenes in the cartoon that made me briefly confused if this was an elaborate parody or real (the only thing that made me realize it must be real is that no one would foot the cost for such an elaborate parody video)
VP9/AV1 patent would be good example.
What I meant is that if there's a law that says that interop with F/OSS must be possible, it'd probably make more sense for government agencies to internally mandate the use of ODF for all outputs, than for them to test and fix every .docx that they produce for compatibility with LibreOffice. ODF might not be free from interop issues, but I'd expect the baseline to be much better.
I will note it took me some time to find the article (I knew it existed because I'd read it when it came out). Google very nearly refused to do anything but send me links about how important it is to get boosters.

I don't know a ton about the science behind it other than some teams in Israel seem to have pretty strong feelings about it (more pointed than what's in the NYT article), but in my quick search I didn't see them in the search results.

With regards to search shaping, it's pretty easy to see: just Google image search "black inventors" then "white inventors". Also try "black family" then "white family". I'm not claiming any kind of oppression here, just noting that one of the sets of results looks like a Benetton-style diversity ad, while the other just has black people. I find it difficult to believe this was an organic result that wasn't explicitly influenced behind the scenes.
When I discovered that Microsoft Teams lets you write your missed call voicemail message in text, I copied the first few paragraphs of this poem into it. Any coworkers that tried to start an uninvited voice call just got to listen to the TTS agent's attempt at a recital. They were very, very confused upon hearing it.
Bottle-to-Bottle Honey Production – Contactless Beekeeping
Is it possible to live in isolated sealed compounds that protect us from all that carbon? Can we build filtration systems?
One thing about Sheets vs. Excel: Appscript for automation is a lot easier to get set up with than VBA ever was to the point where my org has a ton of things that we just throw a small amount of Appscript at (E.G. generating performance reports) because it just works and it doesn't require a lot of processing power (yay, cloud!)
Out of the blue yesterday my phone asked me to rate Firefox. I think Google is trying to create a facade of competition where there is none by stuffing the Play Store review stats.