skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
# How to try it

Click the "Try right now" to start a browser in an iframe at the bottom of the page.

Unfortunately for those of us (myself included) living outside of North America, the server is in Newark, NJ. So lag will be network-based.

# Source code

This work is based on this project on GitHub:

https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder

Your demo version has many advanced features (listed in the comparison table[0]), including Flash.

# Using Flash

Just go to a page that (still) uses Flash, or click one of the SWF links on the homepage, or a SWF link anywhere.

The a flash integration is thanks to the wonderful Ruffle Flash emulator project, written in Rust[1].

# Project background

This was originally created as a delivery layer for a web-scraping app that was supposed to work on any device without download, but I broke it out into its own product as it just has too many interesting use cases, some ideas for which are here[2]

# Current tasks

I have some customers for the managed individual version (the 15, and 57 a month in the link above), as well as for the self-hosted licensed versions. Right now my focus should be on polish and improving styles and marketing, but I guess I just love building features and fixing bugs. But marketing is essential...

# What is this really?

You can say it's a "remote isolated browser" but really that's just one application that can be built with this browser-based application virtualization technology. I'm thinking about fully open-sourcing the regular version on GitHub above, but I'm worried about the risk where someone will just take it and make a well-marketed cloud service out of it and not have to pay me. I've got it on a Polyform non-commercial license now...I like it but I wish I knew a better option...Maybe tho as I get more successful with it, I won't worry about this so much.

# Easter egg (coming in like 10 minutes)

Finally, if you want to try to co-browsing feature, there's an easter egg. After you opened a browser, just double-tap or right-click or long-hold anywhere on the top of this landing page and it should try to share the cobrowsing session invite link, or copy it to the clipboard. You can send that to someone and when they open it you will both be driving the same browser session.

[0]: https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder/blob/boss/README.md#vf-pr...

[1]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

[2]: https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder/blob/boss/README.md#appli...
> How exactly is it luck to recognize the value in crypto and buy a bunch? Because that's not exactly luck.

that's what luck is - they didn't recognize the value, but speculated on the potential value when it originally was valueless.

It could've crashed and burned, and it was luck that it didn't.

It's like seeing a lotto ticket, and claiming that you recognized the value of it (after the ticket has been shown to be a winning one).
> I remember one project we had a fancy thing to generate a graphviz graph, and it was like neat, but we could just use find all references if we just called new.

Ha. Calling `new` would either be an absolute enterprise Java sin or an obscure aracana. Some people are quite proud of the fact of converting compile time errors to runtime exceptions. Because you know "best practices" and all.
It’ll be interesting to see whether converts can stop the decline of the Zoroastrian religion.

Currently, the Zoroastrian Parsi community in India is in danger of rapid decline due to abysmal fertility rates. It’s something that Hindu nationalists are rather concerned about, but it’s hard to reverse demographic decline even with government support. Increasing outmarriages by Parsis won’t help things either.
Awesome, pray for the middle east. My family traveled to America during the ottoman genocides in WW1 and given the history before and after that, it seems to me it will never find peace. I hope so
MTP sucks from the beginning to even now. It's too slow for small files and often stuck. I wish any improvement come in this area (file based wired transfer protocol).
> we stopped having major prophets because the Son of God Himself came to reveal the Father and to save us

Islam obviously disagrees.
Zoroastrianism does not limit conversions. If that were the case from inception the religion would have never flourished in the first place. Zoroastrians who claimed refuge in South Asia agreed not to proselytize as a condition for staying.

That Zoroastrianism is seeing a resurgence is good news for Zoroastrians everywhere. The religion is dying as we speak, due to a low birth rate.
Google was a hedge against Microsoft which was a hedge against IBM.

The tech world is always running from one monopoly to another.

People should think differently about Google because it is different and now has become the monopoly.
Oy, when I was starting we had it rough. Nexus filtering on every dependency repo, and that was if the proxy was up!

Luxury! When I were a youngun our devnet was airgapped and we had to sneakernet dependencies to it. Using vhs tape on a 9track spool. Because real tape was too expensive.

More seriously I've seen jenkins and gitlab pipelines with only access to sneakernet maintained mirrors.
- Get rid of comment downvotes. They only make people feel bad, aren’t a substitute for moderation, and aren’t necessary for comments to sort by votes.

- Double the number of entries on HN pages.
What about the geopolitical risk of China?
Yep, complete with a summer holiday job picking up tourist rubbish at the (duckduckgoable phrase) penguin parade. But I have now strayed to far from the original topic
Yes, there's a lot of baggage left over with a lot of regulations that were made at the beginning and which don't make much sense now. It annoys me. It's not the end of the world, and much in the same way that we had vaccine passports and quarantines throughout history when diseases came and went, once we get over with this I trust we work to get rid of the baggage.
Zoroastrism isnt strongly into conversion, which in fact is prohibited in India. But there are a growing number of secularized descendants who return to the old centers to learn the old knowledge. There was a story on such in major magazine recently. But I cant locate the reference.
Over the Waves – Chevrolet Suspension (1938)
There was a time when some used /etc/hosts whilst others used DNS. It was definitely a different time. Resolution issues with Handshake TLDs will easily be solved in time.

There are, however, other reasons why one might think Handshake isn't up to par just yet. Those reasons might be, for example, even though it completes the internet, making it significantly more secure and sovereign, the current implementations including DANE aren't as fast. Of course, this too [1] will be addressed with time.

There are highly technical people working on these problems with a heavy lean on making sure the experience is comparable if not better than today's expected experience. I think things will only get better from here.

[1] https://github.com/handshake-org/HIPs/discussions/44
Having owned a range of second hand junk laptops at the time I assure you they ran Linux just fine. As did new machines.

The rest is true enough and I'd add that there wasn't anything nearly as rugged at the price (used Toughbooks, or that style, were more expensive).
That's not really how vaccines work. No force fields are deployed, you'll still catch COVID, but, you're immune system is now got some training in how to handle the situation.

I don't remember the promise that, the vaccine would end COVID, I do remember seeing somewhere that if vaccination rates were high enough ( greater than 90%??, been quite awhile now since I read that article ) that herd immunity could be achievable and the spread would eventually end. At least in the US, vaccination rates never even got close.
Woah! It was listed as “sold out” on the Unbound website only hours ago. Thanks!
At that point, why not put up an option for paid tech support? It would make life costly for the spammers, and give an option for people with a critical and legitimate problem.
This article is not a defense of flat earthers, it's an explanation for why they exist (that the educational system failed to teach them critical thinking).

Even then, I still do not think that's really it. Flat earthers are proof that some people will just obstinately believe in complete and utter horseshit. I've seen dozens of flat earth videos. These people do not listen to reason; they didn't reason themselves into the position and you cannot reason them out of it. The flat earthers doing the "experiments" keep coming up with reasons to keep on believing, even when their experiments are so blinkered and janky they show either nothing at all or that they are, in fact, wrong. (I recommend "Behind the Curve" to see some of these people in action.) Some might just get bored and move on to something else, but mark my words, some people are just seriously stupid[1] and will keep right on believing absurd crap to their graves, on faith alone. The universe will keep smacking them in the face with being wrong, but they'll only get angrier. Hopefully they get tired before they get dangerous.

[1] I mean something specific about stupid. Not just wrong, not just ignorant, but actively and self-assuredly wrong, often to their own detriment. Beware stupid people in large numbers.
yet another alternate root DNS that has maybe 0.001% of install base on the global scale of client devices with browsers?

yeah okay

seen it for 20 years now...
Negroponte got on 60 Minutes. That was the whole point, wasn't it? "A committee of scholars -- what could possibly go wrong?"

Actually, I saw a OLPC laptop back in the day. It was pretty nice, but you had the feeling that there was nothing there that other vendors couldn't do, and probably would fairly soon.

Is anyone in the Third World saying "Damn! If only we had those OLPC laptops!" No, they're using cheap Android phones and WhatsApp.
Germany has not threatened to shoot down British aircraft
> how much longer until official sources are willing to acknowledge that these vaccines are not nearly as effective as claimed?

They'll never do that.

They didn't admit they were wrong about masks (they said the lie was for our own good). [0]

They didn't admit they were wrong to say it's not airborne. [1]

They didn't admit that a Wuhan lab leak was not only possible, but likely. [2]

There are other examples to pick and choose from - Pfizer's sneaky contracts [3], [4], their manufacturing concerns [5], women missing periods for months after taking mRNA vaccines [6].

Governments all around have lied about the duration of emergency powers, lied about lockdown lengths, lied about having parties while the rest of us were in lockdown. We've been lied to about vaccine passports, natural immunity, antigen tests, mortality rates, on and on.

And many, many good people have had their careers destroyed for taking principled stands, for telling the truth, for speaking up. Many have been vilified, smeared, threatened with death. Millions of posts were removed from Facebook, Twitter, Reddit [7].

And no, you are not the only one surround by double and triple vaccinated individuals testing positive. Omicron has *32* mutations on its spike protein, so it's not all that surprising. What's surprising is how rabid the "anti-vaxx" hate remains. If anything, it's more intense than ever.

For me, the worst part is that this has all played into the hands of far right extremists. They were happy to scoop up the ground that the left were scared to stand on, and keep growing stronger for it.

[0] - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fauci-said-masks-not-reall...
[1] - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/scientists-react-to-cdc-coron...
[2] - https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/01/12/why-did-scientists-...
[3] - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/05/wall-of-secr...
[4] - https://www.citizen.org/article/pfizers-power/
[5] - https://www.fiercepharma.com/manufacturing/pfizer-s-covid-19...
[6] - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/health/covid-vaccine-mens...
[7] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/may/27/facebook-...
It's pretty obvious we are indeed guessing given that this is a hypothetical. My guess is that if suddenly I own 100% of Tesla, the company will be worth a lot less after that. It is clearly not based on actual transactions or offers to need to specify that it was a guess.
I really hope trust in municipal water systems isn't so low that we have to advise people to participate in the environmentally destructive industry that peddles bottled water...
Confusing title, I thought this was to be an article about using signals on UNIX compatibles.
Zoroastrianism embraces dualism as part of its creation myth [1].

[1] https://academic.oup.com/jaar/article-abstract/XLVII/4/557/7...
Safari leaks very sensitive information (database names) and its on Google? That's bizarre.
> danger of rapid decline due to abysmal fertility rates.

The kid of a Zoroastrian mother and non-Zoroastrian father is also not considered to be Zoroastrian.
They do https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid... .
Paganism is old too. Just as modern pagans take inspiration from traditional pagan religions, but have a modern bend to their revival, the same thing appears to be happening here - the Zoroastrianism he adopted seems to be a modern adaptation rather than traditional Zoroastrianism practiced by surviving Zoroastrian communities.
> invest into promising long/medium term energy storage solutions (like various gravity storage solutions)

Since when is gravity storage a promising solution for powering the national grid?
They contacted me directly, likely because of my (admittedly small) feedback on their beta github.
I am interested. I have two young grandchildren who are trying to use my original OLPC but are frustrated because the track pad has gone wonky.
We didn't push to upstream now, we were invited to upstream in CRuby and we accepted the invitation. As for the Rust rewrite, we just started to work on the prototype, and no decision had been made. The ticket linked in this thread is me essentially asking the Ruby core devs for permission to do so. We wanted to give everyone an opportunity to chime in.

Not sure what to tell you. Things don't aways happen in the most optimal order in the real world, sometimes plans change, but I'm fairly confident that we can make this work well.
Personal Computer Graphics of the 70s and 80s
> The only people I know who've gotten COVID have all been vaxd.

So you didn’t know (or know someone that knows) anyone that got Covid before the vaccines started to be administered?
> Hopefully they get tired before they get dangerous.

Clearly, it is much too late for that.
> but over the long term (decades and centuries) an ounce of gold generally held its inflation-adjusted value.

You sure about that? You woulda been better off holding SPY for 50 years than gold.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/08/gold-as-an-inflation-hedge-h...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/gold-as-an-inflation-hedge-what...

Now if you're talking about centuries then sure, but thats a pretty much impossible comparison to make since the advent of alternative investing strategies.
NN Body Segmentation and OpenCV and Mozart (while using psilocybin mushroom)
Netflix has produced some good movies in recent years. Your big budget talk applies much more to disney marvel money milking the same cows with the same movie variation over and over and consistently riding the remake agenda of all their classics (which I liked tbh).
> The new pine e-ink thing gives me hope, with a keyboard, but bah

Give it some time, they've just about gotten started on the low-level graphics support for that particular device. The next step is coming up with meaningful UX, probably no easy task given how different e-paper is from other sorts of visual output.
We already know that T-cell immunity has a major role in reducing the severity of COVID-19. There is no real question about that. Antibody levels are transient and comparatively less important.

https://youtu.be/GklHGYY8vN8
To put this in perspective, the unvaccinated are 400% more likely to catch COVID than the vaccinated, and they're 1,200% more like to die from COVID than the vaccinated[1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
I’m impressed that you had X-ray diffraction equipment in your high school chemistry lab.

If not, then I’m pretty sure you were making some circular assumptions. The number was a purely theoretical unknown quantity to Avogadro himself, based only on the assumption that a fixed volume of gas should contain the same number of ‘molecules’ regardless of its composition.

Oh and then there’s history. Wow, you honestly believe that just because you were taught the trendy woke parts of history that you got the whole story. I’ll pick an innocuous example. How much do you know about the Salem witch trials, and how much of that was taught from primary source evidence?
Certainly an outdated rule that needs to change.
Most notable is that the compounds come from raw, non-dried cannabis. In other words, it's not the stuff prepared for smoking. The two acids in this study change to the more common, but not effective for this use, state when prepared in the usual manners.

So in other words, this has nothing to do with getting high.
Amazon should print the book in the correct order.
Visually it looks very cool, but I agree it's not very helpful.

At the very least each result and RC should be in a different colour.
Understanding Multi-Head Attention
Equity is mostly an identity politics thing. If you get true equity, it destroys identity politics. Unfortunately it will suffer from spontaneous symmetry breaking.
What's Driving Chronic Disease? (2020)
But viewing numbers clearly show the public cares much more for novelty than you think.
Hi, Artichoke author here. I feel very blessed to have Artichoke be mentioned in this ticket on Ruby's bug tracker. If y'all are interested to follow along, @artichokeruby on Twitter is the best spot to do it.

https://twitter.com/artichokeruby
The article was posted in September. Since then all analysis has validated the booster strategy, even in individuals who previously had COVID. The increase in incidence in pediatric COVID patients since the Omicron wave supports the assertion as well.

I'm sorry but new meta-analyses are coming up every week. It's been 4 months since that article and the conclusions in said opinion piece have been proven wrong.
Also "vast majority" refers to 90%, not 67%.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/126654/is-vast-m...
I've been told there are hundreds of crypto hedge funds operating now. I happen to have a connection to a friend who runs one. Since most of them can't actively advertise and only cater to accredited investors, I suspect it's harder to "find" them.
It could be illegal in the US, but not in all the jurisdictions where they overstepped their bounds.
A way to know if a submission is behind a paywalled site so I don't waste time clicking through only to find it's paywalled. It does get frustrating.
Schwarzenegger: We Put Solar Panels on 1M Roofs. That Win Is Now Under Threat
Does that mean people who say "the science is settled" are anti-science? What about people who insist they can't be wrong, and science can't be wrong, so you better do what they tell you, in the name of science, or else? Because we have a whole lot of that going on and it is celebrated like a holy edict. Science seems to be in constant flux between infallible religion and "we weren't wrong, the facts just have been updated". How you do you know today's fact of day won't be tomorrow's fact in need of being updated? When it comes to using government force and using infallible science to require people to give up their choice in the matter, maybe a bit more introspection and humility is in order and a lot less endless gaslighting and dictatorial commanding.

Remember, this won't be the last global pandemic, but it is the last one where science has any credibility. The next pandemic hopefully is as mild as this one because you'll never see this level of cooperation with the government and medical establishment ever again. Everyone now knows "two weeks to flatten the curve" means endless abridgement of civil rights. When that happens, remember that it was the actions during this pandemic that lead to the end of societal trust and cooperation.
I see the Lancet article is from Oct 2021, before the omicron variant. I haven't checked your other links, have you found that the perspective has changed in the last few months? Also, I haven't heard, at least in the US, much government pressure for mandatory boosting of all ages, but maybe I'm not reading the same things.
Every single parent I've known will, in honest private conversations, admit to the same thing. Loving your child doesn't mean that the repetitive mentally unstimulating parts of raising them magically become non-tedious. It means you do it anyway, because you care for them.
Any virtuous things non-Christians have ultimately come from God. Non-Christians' lives, like anyone else's, are dominated by whatever they choose or allow to. What they do lack (in varying degrees) is vision and faith acting like a compass to regularly re-direct their lives completely towards the source of all good. Willfully serving a passion for anything other than God is the archetype of any unjust practice, which necessarily self-inflict meaningless pain. Honesty, humility and love naturally act as pointers to better temperaments and a truer faith which in their fullness will bring one to accept Christ's sacrificial love which destroyed death for all human beings, and seek His Church. This choice begins a long, perilous struggle to be united with God.

For today, I pray that you and yours will not imagine nor try to imagine any worldview darker than the Gospel for the entire day, for there is none brighter.
That would break lots of copyright laws.
I feel like you're trying to argue that piracy is ethical, which is different than something not being piracy.
> Anyone who wants to "catch-up" is now stuck with the daunting prospect of spending ~100 billion dollars to re-create a commodity business.

Is this cause for concern given the risk of China taking Taiwan?
Vosk, is it "wax" in Russian ("воск")?

I think of wax recording rolls - old days CDs, aka Phonograph cylinder:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_cylinder
Just like we got rid of the Patriot Act and all of its tag alongs?
It has deities (yazatas) as manifestations of the supreme god. As such, it is much more akin to “polytheistic” Hinduism (which generally believes in an all pervasive god) than to religions like Judaism and Islam which have prohibitions against idolatry to prevent adherents from invoking individual deities.
This is super cool, next step - full autodiff support to train it in lisp too.
https://www.cell.com/trends/cancer/fulltext/S2405-8033(20)30...

Looks early on, inconclusive atm, but interesting ( this is specifically applied to cancer and not a viral infection )
Well, that was an easy impulse buy. I ordered it from Amazon to be delivered in a couple of weeks.
15% increase, way over inflation.

Pre-medicare people have the impression medicare is cheap. But I pay $615 a month because I make more than $91,000 a year, which triggers an income surcharge. My premiums increased $784 (whole year) since last year.
This seems way more sensational than “US government tells US company to remove entry from their own servers.”