skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> apply public posturing to appease the mob, and highlight the queer/LGBT-positive stance of the company

I'm not suggesting public posturing. I'm suggesting sincerity.

> given that Mozilaa is a tech company first, not a social justice company

I don't accept that premise. ~20 years ago, Mozilla was primarily about empowering all ordinary people to make full use of the web.

They talked about their mission rather than products; they used slogans like “Take back the web” [from big corporations] and “This technology could fall into the right hands”; and they unironically used revolutionary socialist imagery.

If they were just a tech company I wouldn't care about them.

> Since when have a "good fraction of their user base", i.e. of Mozilla's, been the queer and LGBT community?

Always. Depending on where you get your numbers from, around 15% to 25% of people are LGBTQ+. The fraction appears higher among people born since about 1990, for the same reason that the number of left-handed people appeared to increase in the 1950s.

And the proportion of people who believe that LGBTQ+ people are worthy of dignity (which is the group Mozilla would be alienating) is even higher than that.
Worst case is a junior who has read all the books but done none of the work so they end up parroting the talking points without being able to back them up or explain why.
These things are tourist attractions. People who reside in a place don't usually habitually visit tourist attractions.
I've been Synergy user years ago but then I got fed up with amount of issues that simply couldn't be resolved (third mouse button issues, wrong key mappings, special keys pressed during crossing the boundary could mess things up on the new computer). So in the end I just put two keyboard and mice for two computers on the table.

Synergy left the impression as something opposite of "it just works".
I was always fond of that muted sun faded looking purple.
Could be nice for mobile devs though, you don't really have to switch devices to test apps anymore. Just have a nice iPad stand next to your desktop and you'd be good to go.
I won't work anymore for a company than ask me to work without being able to install the tools I need to work.

Current work sent tech employees a blank computer and any licenses we ask. So basically, you'll have sudo if you install it.

On the other hand, we are often reminded to upgrade our stack / to check if we have been compromised, etc.
Photographs are funny like that. We can replicate once-unique information.
I get a little suspicious. Are we comparing both solutions at scale, or just one at scale and the other at a smaller scale?

The question boils down to: how many people are both systems currently moving. What would it take to build up the other system to operate at the first system's scale?
As far as I know there currently exists no bigger rocket cargo bay than that of Ariane V which also had to be modified for JWST.
The rumour going around is that the real use case for this feature is Apple Reality.

In AR it will allow you to control devices you physically pickup.

In VR it will create a fake-device and the real screen will be translated and superimposed.
The endless dots as entire galaxies in that photo is just beyond mind-blowing.

I wonder if the public can really grasp it, not just grains of sands on a beach but each one a beach with 100-MILLION grains of sand.

If we can't have FTL travel in my lifetime sure would be nice if they figure out FTL communication.
Are all these cats real? Or, are they generated by some sort of deep generative model?
Being truthful in the sense that yes, sure, more countries are joining NATO.

But that's the same countries that used to be under the USSR sphere of influence, that Russia didn't manage to attract after 1991 (remember the Commonwealth of Independent States?), and that are now voluntarily choosing to join NATO, presumably because Russia is a scary neighbor to have (Crimea and all).

Just to cross some t's and dot some i's...
This is a very complicated answer when the reason is very simple - monopoly power.

Would have been nice to know at the beginning of the article that this guy has something to sell with his own search product.
If you’re into JavaScript, this is the one:

Cristian Salcescu, Functional Programming in JavaScript

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Functional-Programming-JavaScript-R...
I at least make sure all my work mails are numbered lists:

1. Easy for replies to refer to a certain portion of my mail (just mention the number)

2. Lists result in shorter emails with less fluff - always an advantage for work related communication

3. Especially for people with less writing skills, lists make it clearer what the priorities are. “Item 4” is of more importance than “Item 2b”. If you’re only using words, you need mastery of language to convey that.
MobileMe didn't work for anyone in the world (parts of the service) in the first month after the launch.
> But do Synergy and Barrier Just Work? It has to Just Work, otherwise it's a defective product.

I don't own any apple products so correct me if I'm wrong, but if there was a way to make a program to "just work" will Apple allow it? From what I've heard devs complain apple's walled garden is pretty restrictive when it comes to things you can and cannot do especially when mobile devices are involved.
Files drag n drop
I bought a mouse specifically for this. It was a Genius and came with a holder which you could stick to the side of your monitor or to a wall.

So you could store your mouse when not in use. I am not making this up.
It’s worse than that. You can verify `curl <url>` and still get pwned, because it’s possible to detect if you pipe it into anything[1].

[1] https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...
> I can’t understand how anyone has any confidence in crypto after the current Ukraine/Russia situation. I thought that crypto was decentralized and no-one could place restrictions on who could own it, and what they could do with it.

You do realize that their are capital controls self-imposed by the Ukrainian National Bank, right? And that Bitcoin has been legalized in Ukraine [0] after the influx of Bitcoin donations (and other alts) which were used to fund supplies, logistics, military efforts, as well as the formal Ukrainian Government to continue the war effort.

If anything I'd say it proves that what we have said all along was the case, Bitcoin isn't going to matter to functional economies in the developed World, but will excel most in crisis situations in mainly developed nations.

Lastly, the only one to 'restrict' accounts was the YC-backed Coinbase [1] (the bane of the Bitcoin community as they hold so much BTC despite being vocal opponents of it since Segwit).

So, all I have been able to gather from all of this is that YC/HN remains incredibly ignorant of what Bitcoin and crypto avails, and will draw conclusions based more on that ignorance then take the time to actually look into what is actually taking place.

0: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ukraine-legalises-bitcoi...

1: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/coinbase-bloc...
There is no company behind Polylith, just me (Joakim Tengstrand), Furkan Bayraktar and James Trunk.
Ask HN: How do I log all my browser searches
I'd like to log everything I search for in the browser and the URLs that I click on from the results.l presented to me.

Bonus points if I can save the first page of results I was offered so I can view the options I skipped over.

Does such a browser extension exist? I'm not sure what terms I would use to find such a thing, but it feels like something that someone has probably already done.
I wasn't aware of this paper before now and am excited to read it.

The 15 properties of life were, I believe, his attempt to find the universal rules underlying the design patterns he described in A Pattern Language. I've long thought that most of those properties could be described algorithmically and was curious what sort of system they would converge to. I suppose nature is one easy answer, but it's not a very useful one.

For those who are interested, there's a nice summary of the properties and analysis of how they relate to each other at http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~iba/papers/PURPLSOC14_Properties.... and a more architecturally-focused take at https://www.archdaily.com/626429/unified-architectural-theor....
From my experience of easier European background living in London most of the kids who are indoctrinated will just stay in London completely cutting off their parents in the end. But they will not change that country for the better.
This incident makes me feel good in my decision to start using Qubes OS (https://www.qubes-os.org) as a day-to-day development OS. Had I been hit by this, it would've considerably limited the blast radius.
> What is the incentive to remove it and replace it with a needlessly more complex almost literal but still fuzzy search?

Control. They've moved from helping you find what you asked for, to trying to influence you to changingnwhat you ask for to the thing that paid them the most.

Similarly they're they're forcing creators to alter content to match their metrics or fall into obscurity.
I enjoyed the short (30 minute) documentary about him and two of his projects: _Places For The Soul_. It used to be free on amazon but sadly no longer is. https://www.amazon.com/Places-Soul-Tries-World-Transforming/...
> Emphasis is on the _C_ ABI. The alternative is something that at least tries to be designed as a universal ABI.

That's not an either-or. E.g. WinRT is an ABI that is specifically designed as cross-language, but it can be reduced to the C ABI (e.g. vtables are basically structs of function pointers etc).
> > Landlords have chosen to enter an inherently adversarial relationship with the goal of profiting from the other party.

> There isn't any reason for it to be adversarial, it's certainly not inherently so. Only if one or both sides want to make it adversarial.

Landlords compete with their potential tenants for houses to buy. When landlord driven price increase, it prices out people from buying a home/flat, but they still need a roof over their heads. So they rent. This gives landlords cash needed to buy more houses/flats. This also keep rents up as landlords pay more for buildings. So tenants are less likely to accumulate cash for loans/something else. From small owners to big corporations it is a vicious cycle.
Carta Marina
This stopped working reliably some time before last year.
> I'll also add that outsourcing isn't without challenges, and the employees are often worse off. (I don't remember as many specifics right now: My father, who died 9 or 10 years ago, generally worked with custodial and cafeteria outsourcing.)

(In the following post I use "you" rhetorically, not talking about Broken_Hippo directly.)

Yeah. The body rental place makes it look like the killerest deal imaginable, like you get all the benefits of having human workers, minus actually having to deal with any human problems. No unions or strikes, if the body rental you're using gets organized it dies without the collateral damage to the renter, you just switch outsourcing unit. And there's tons of other human problems, and those human problems require other humans's help. They ought to get real, people are expensive, life is expensive, if something is more expensive than life we replace it with life.

There is this deal you can get where you pay about half market wages, almost exactly half, and there's no unionization or anything. Just have to worry about emigration. Called slavery, these days people focus on the whipping and the coercion, they forget if you're a slave your master will be disgustingly cheap with the things you need he must provide for you, because he knows it's literally painful to ask.

If you want something cheap and rather your money ends up spent on electricity than food, like who cares a joule's a joule, go, go and fire 100% of your workers and replace them all with machines. Sure to make a lot of money!

What will you spend it on, alternating current or direct current? What voltage are you compatible with?
I do not live in the USA so I'm woefully ignorant of US legal matters but how does a lawyer, having identified a breach of a federal law, then get a payment from the miscreant ? I mean the only way that comes to mind is to write to the offender saying "You're breaking the law but if you send me a cheque I won't tell anyone". For a lawyer in particular that doesn't strike me as a sustainable business activity !

So there's obviously something I'm missing here ... would you care to explain ?
Maybe if the kids still remembered how to write html in a text editor without needing frameworks and fucking transpilers and bundlers. My first site was written with Notepad. Back then we just uploaded stuff to the server with FTP and we liked it! :-D
This is exactly what Apple have done again and again and yet people are still surprised when it happens.

Touch screens, FaceTime, AirDrop, Handoff, Sidecar. These are generally polished and reliable iterations of existing ideas that don’t require a bunch of other apps and configuration. They are usually marketed and smartly named, unlike Windows where they can’t seem to name anything or features are locked behind different tiers of the OS.

Even the PC Master Race brigade who love to shout that they could build a better machine for less than whatever desktop Apple releases miss the point. Macs are appliances. They work reliably and do so for a long time and you know what you’re getting in terms of functionality.
Bitcoin has an infinitely increasing energy demand. Surplus would not be enough to sustain it. There are better uses for clean energy, like making steel, hydrogen or ammonia.

Bitcoin offers little back to society. A few people make a boatload of cash with it. The infamous trickle-down economic theory unfortunately doesn't work.
In a sense, some of it could be adapted, but with relaxing the idea of "components are pure functionsnindependant of a base" to "components are pure functions producing data usable by a given base using a given UI framework".

For example, in a react / redux app, you would have "pure" components representing the business logic of your app, either a component or a base that actually stuff them in a redux store ; a
multiple "react-components" that returns jsx ; and at least one "react base" (or react/redux base) that ties everything.

Different projects would be "your real application", "your dev server connected to local stub services", "your storybook execution", etc...
It's not about avoiding risk completely. That's impossible. It's about considering trade-offs, looking at statistics, and deciding what a life is worth.

Your odds of dying from a bicycle accident are much higher than dying from a car accident. In fact, you're twice as likely to die from a bicycle. The CDC did a study on this and a rather thorough one at that. The only activity more dangerous was riding a motorcycle.[1]

This is because engineers have spent a lot of time trying to minimize the amount of energy a human absorbs during a car collision. It's not perfect, but it's superior to the lack of protection offered when bicycling.

I'm not saying you have to stop riding a bicycle. I'm saying, you should know it is a dangerous activity and consider life insurance if you have a family.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2016/05/12/how-saf...
macOS Monterey 12.3 reportedly bricking Macs with replacement logic boards
It is their fault when they've actively pressured real content into being indistinguishable from spam sites.

If you don't write like a drunk two year old and fill everything with key phrases now you simply don't appear in results, so any site that can become known has to be rewritten by gpt into barely intelligible garbage that dances around the point for four paragraphs when it could be communicated in four words..
With the articles reference to second had car sales it interesting to compare to British Car Auctions (BCA) here in the UK. They have something like a 60% market share on second had sales, they are completely dominant as the central “trading house” for second hand sales. Most second hand car forecourts are buying a significant portion of their cars from a BCA auction.

The other thing they have which compares to what Zillow were doing is webuyanycar.com. It is literally what it says, you get a quote from their site to value it, go to their location and they buy your car. When I did it I was there for just 7 minutes, easiest car sale ever! And they payed be nearly 1k more than anyone else.

They are truly the market makers with this system, ensuring a steady stream of cars into their auctions. Have full visibility in real time of the pricing on both sides and are only holding the cars for about one week.

Some argue that they were a major contributing factor to the used car price inflation last year (on top of the issues with new car availability).
Try this: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/s...
I saw that paragraph and clearly it's intended as some sort of advertence to the correlation/causation thing, but the thing is - if they're coming out and saying that there's merely an association here, so what? No shit? That's like somebody coming out with a study that says that there's a correlation between being alive and dying - of course there is, but it isn't an interesting question nor is it an interesting scientific relationship (in my opinion at least).

I can remember taking a neuroscience unit in my first year of uni and spending a few weeks on how important sleep is for both acute cognitive function, and longer term maintenance that is needed to deal with all the metabolites and waste products that result from such an energetic organ like the brain. This was more than 5 years ago, and yet even then it had been demonstrated that if you take mice and subject them to sleep deprivation, they will develop neurodegenerative diseases at much higher rates, and much earlier, than controls. So what exactly is this study doing? Taking longitudinal data that shows a relationship between poor sleep and neurodegenerative diseases. 2015 called and it wants its conclusions back.

Basically I'd want to see an actual experimental study where they aren't asking participants qualitative questions about their sleep quality, quantity, etc, as if individuals in the early throes of Alzheimer's could even be expected to give accurate answers. I mean honestly: Imagine asking a person with dementia to rate the previous night's sleep amount and quality on a scale of 1-10. It's laughable.

Most longitudinal studies are lazy, and to me this paper is just publishing something to publish it (welcome to modern academic life) - I cannot see how this furthers our understanding of anything.
https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2022/happiness-benevolence-...
https://archive.is/Ek4LH
I can recommend https://github.com/SimonBrazell/nitter-redirect
You are an extreme minority, and often any other visitor to a website who "looks like" you are malicious.

Why would anyone invest significant engineering time to placate a userbase that's far far smaller than Internet Explorer 10 usage?
At least Startpage has been serving Google results (via paid API access) for years. There is nothing new about Kagi paying for access to it.
We wouldn't have cloud applications without open source software: FOSS software underpins everything and the reason for its success is that there is no fee, it's just free and easy to use. It's as if sugar and flour was free for the food industry.
"Reference requirements: 3-5 letters of reference required"

"Qualified candidates will have a Ph.D. in chemistry, biochemistry, or equivalent discipline and have significant experience and strong record in teaching chemistry or biochemistry at the college level."

All those requirements so that you'll be allowed to work for free. I wonder why anyone would apply for that? Is there some sort of hidden benefit that I'm missing?
> our coordination server and fleet of DERP (Detour Encrypted Routing Protocol) servers act as our side channel.

I love the creative acronym
Honestly, I don't know enough Clojure to understand the proposal, and all the explanations are centered around it. My current understanding is that what you propose is an ascribed way of doing things by mixing several pre-existing concepts, like mono-repo, convention over configuration, and some generic dev principles that are universally desirable, like components "ensure encapsulation and composability but at the same time they are simple, easy to reason about, and flexible" - nothing wrong in that, all good principles, but I fail to understand how you enforce it. Because usually every monolith or micro-service out there starts with that in mind, and ends with spaghetti, because dev happens. At least that's my experience with Elixir/Phoenix umbrella apps, which, as per my current understanding, is the closest thing I see to Polylith.
However, I would be very curious about your traffic lights evaluation. Generally, I would consider a "large" app something like 200+ microservices (yes, I'm biased towards that). In your FAQ, you describe and app that needs 4 services. Sorry, that doesn't qualify as a large distributed system.
First, I would really doubt you can find a monorepo which is one language only (sorry, I didn't understood how Polylith would work if I have a codebase that's Scala, Elixir, Rust and Python, by example). Second, I don't understand how you handle builds. Third, I don't understand how you handle deployments and other operational concerns.
I usually connect to Google Meet calls using my iPad, so I can carry it around if I need to. If I'm working on my computer, the iPad is placed a bit out of reach to make the camera angle work a bit better.

Universal Control means I can now control my mic and hang up using my mouse, instead of having to awkwardly reach to the screen. It's a stupid and basic use case, but hey, it works!

There's no need to have this enable complex new workflows. Sometimes it's about those simple things.
Eliminating cars would not reduce the risk of falling from a bicycle due to imperfection in the road, delayed reaction time, other bicyclists, etc. The flaw is in the design itself.

I'm not saying we need to eliminate bicycling. People can skydive if they want to and they can ride their bicycles outdoor as well if they desire.
I drive on our roads. I drink our water. As anyone who does these things can tell you: our infrastructure is a god damn trainwreck.
Huh? What counter moves? You buy Reddit, Google buys X? Why would that be inevitable, and why, if there is a counter move, would it function as a stopper or defeater rather than just as some separate thing that also exists? What even is the other reddit? Why wouldn't google's prospective counter acquisition just say no to their offer? And is it an acquisition, right, or does Google build something to compete? And why would that work, given googles history of abandoning it's own projects to the Google graveyard? And where even is the precedent for this kind of reactionary behavior as a strategic actor? Wouldn't Google just ignore it, focus on it's core products like it always does? This just sounds like a kid playing with action figures.

And that's just the first sentence!

It's also just kind of frustrating because it's the kind of response that comes from a place of refusing to engage with a hypothetical exercise. Failing to meet these exercises with the spirit of open-ended curiosity, as they loosen suspension of disbelief just enough to make it possible to canvas the space of strategic possibilities, is a misunderstanding of the exercise, and it's just the kind of sleepwalking response that turns potentially fruitful conversations into dreary dead ends.
The alternative being to ask above market the house so it sits on the market for longer ? I don't understand what Zillow changes in this story ? (I'm genuinely curious - not from US)