skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think you realize that web search is the largest computational problem in existence.
> You are an extreme minority, and often any other visitor to a website who "looks like" you are malicious.

Not really, a significant amount of the world browse the internet with a bandwidth marginally better than dial-up. A significant amount of the world browses the internet via something barely passable as a smartphone. A significant amount of the world do not have < 200ms ping.

> Why would anyone invest significant engineering time to placate a userbase that's far far smaller than Internet Explorer 10 usage?

The sort of person that can run a website and use a JS framework should not find static HTML a 'significant' effort. It could most definitely be automated.

Other points:

1. Increase accessibility. JS users will not be affected by not having JS. Your random JS will not always render the same. That CDN you link to might not be accessible everywhere.

2. Decrease bandwidth. Instead of just the content (and a little markup), you now have to load content + JS.

3. Decrease computation. The majority of the world accesses the internet through some device running on a battery. Instead of forcing all of those people to render your site individually, it makes tonnes more sense to render it once on the server end.
> Some argue that they were a major contributing factor to the used car price inflation last year (on top of the issues with new cad availability).

And they would be wrong. Market makers do not get to set prices, supply and demand does.
I was an avid user of outliner apps myself (Netmanage's ECCO Pro some twenty years ago, later OmniOutliner on my Mac, and recently Emacs/Org or Roam Research), until I realized that trying to distill my ideas down to the core structure, the narrative of what I am trying to tell get's lost. This is something that Jeff Bezos laments about PowerPoint [1]:

/quote/

Anytime an Amazon worker has an idea to discuss, they’re asked to structure their pitch in the form of a 4-6 page memo, which the company calls a “narrative.”

Well structured, narrative text is what we’re after rather than just text. If someone builds a list of bullet points in word, that would be just as bad as powerpoint.

The reason writing a 4 page memo is harder than “writing” a 20 page powerpoint is because the narrative structure of a good memo forces better thought and better understanding of what’s more important than what, and how things are related.

Powerpoint-style presentations somehow give permission to gloss over ideas, flatten out any sense of relative importance, and ignore the innerconnectedness of ideas.

/unquote/

I value outliners a lot, but when I started writing down my ideas in full sentences, I was forced to create arguments more clearly and explicitly, and that helps me get clearer about my problem domain.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/jeff-bezos-email-against-...
War has started in 2014, RF has occupied parts of the Ukraine, used special forces for proxy war in Ukrainan Donbass, 15,000 killed, 30,000 wounded, about 1,000,000 displaced.

RF specifically bombs civilians, kills womans and children.
Exactly! Components are an attempt at scaling-up functions to a system-level building block, whilst maintaining as many of the benefits as possible.
The internet grew up. I want to hate Google as much as the next guy but it is not their fault that money has corrupted it.

In that sense Google's monopoly is actually preferable for marketeers. It would be a lot harder to manipulate search engine results if the public was split among 20 of them.
Russian disinfo came to HN?
I have sympathy for the plight of businesses who are suffering from lack of foot traffic. There’s no conceivable way that would extend to “Welp, I better summon all my employees back to the office then…”
I hate magic spells like this but option+click on “Scaled” and you might get lucky.

Make sure you are using a good cable. Nothing made me hate cables like USB-C
Good HiDPI scaling on my external Monitor is one of the reasons i switched back to os x. For me that works very good independent of the monitor manufacturer.
Technical Debt’s Hidden Cousin: Dark Debt
Site Reliability Engineering and I meant that I'm acting more like an outside contractor than part of a company ("<insert brand> family"). Making friends etc, just not giving in to corporate cultism.
No, that train has left the station. We can’t agree to go back to riding horses to work instead of cars or churning our own butter either.

I have the same reaction you describe — why does a site site use so much Javascript to display a page that could be plain HTML? But try pushing that idea to customers and bosses and their marketing teams and advertisers.

Even sadder is I talk to more and more people calling themselves front-end developers who can’t write plain HTML and CSS and have no clue how HTTP works. For them web front-end means React (or whatever the flavor is this month).
I politely disagree: today usage of js should be considered criminal not only because of privacy but because of IT {e,in}volution at a whole. In the past all desktop OSes are document-based and work in peer to peer networks (starting from Xerox workstations) since them we only have made crap to copycat those historical systems in buggy, limited and limiting ways just to avoid leaving end users any control of the system they use.

Such move is harmful for the society and must end before it's too late. We must came back to classic desktop computing and punishing all evolution that try to lock users. Modern web(cr)apps fall in this very category.

It's very asinine for instance forcing people's on crappy bloated banking portals instead of agree around a common and standard API (like SEPA OpenBank) leaving users using their favorite local app where all transactions are locally stored, digitally signed by the bank so source of truth in user hand, always available, with as many banks as users want under a common user-chosen UI. No need for crappy monsters WebVM, no need for gazillion of resources just to keep pushing around garbage mostly used for surveillance. The same apply to taxes and pretty anything else.

Personally I like reading post with Firefox reader just to avoid being distracted by the crap added to most websites, if a website does not render in Reader or without js I simply avoid it.
I thought even spanner only relied on sync in the 100us-1ms range. Maybe I’m out of date or it’s more about having clocks advancing at a very reliable rate? Usually ‘atomic clocks’ means ‘gps appliance gets time from atomic clocks in gps satellites’ but maybe not in this case.
> I also haven't seen any work of his using ML, that may just be a buzzword thrown in the PR release.

The first article you reference includes something about Support Vector Machines (SVMs).
This startup genuinely sounds awesome.

I played a lot with an asynchronous chip, meaning it didn't have cores, it had computers, and they didn't have a frequency. Then I connected it to an oscillator (it's easy, just lay one wire) and was getting sub-nanosecond overall measurements with no jitter.

And it's like, why can't you hard-code that in? Like in your test suite, test the code and see if it's as fast as it's supposed to be, or so fast it's clearly not doing the work.
>One of the most wasteful (and expensive) things about school busses is that they are only used for school, which means they sit idle for much of the day.

In my country's capital there is a plan of using a fleet of school mini-buses (as "taking kids to school" is among the top reasons why people say they still use a car for their daily commute), but also of putting these to work outside the narrow band of school start/end in other uses: taking old people to their doctors appointments, and commercial on-demand uberpool type transport.
I've always felt that it's easier to handle older browsers with, if JS is an optional feature. Luddites must be the wrong word here, since it's mostly highly technical people that disable JS and cookies, old farts doesn't work either since there are more young people around me that does it.
When I saw the title, I was hoping if fact, there is some useful application of Web3 as a way to build a better search engine for the web.

Of course not, this is just an app that searches within a showcase of other bait-and-switch scams and their like.
I go further - if you want me to interact with your content regularly, add an RSS feed (or some other notifications system). I will _not_ remember to check your website on a regular basis, no matter how good the content is. Almost all of these JS websites do not have an RSS feed.

This all reminds me of the days when a whole website was an Adobe Flash application. It wasn't good then and it isn't good now.
Because that was the important part of my post?
It showed me a recommended video featuring a Russian Nikocado Avocado. Full circle.
"Most of the moving parts in an engine are well lubricated and thus don't fail very often."

For all our family cars over last 30 years, 90% of repair cost was engine. Those oarts are under temperature, pressure and massive friction.
Not everyone is still using it. It's been a few years now since the quality of Google search had fallen to the point where I just stopped using it entirely.
Making Up Movies
We used to have a colony of bats at our house (rural eastern Ontario) but the P. destructans infection ("white nose syndrome") has wiped them out completely in most of eastern North America. Like wolves, bats are now extinct in this region with all the entailing ecological changes.
And commensurately there's a tight relationship between the percentage of income spent on rent (often cited as a third, it used to be less than half that), and the percentage of people on the street.
No, FIDL is optimized for IPC, not in process communication. That said I think it can be used quite well for use cases where you can stomach the overhead of an in process channel such as go channels or rust mpsc. Personally, I think channel based communication is one of the more viable cross language communication strategies.
Interesting to see this here, I'm guessing submitted due to it being 90 year anniversary since opening.
That's begging the question. Clearly someone thought that Britain would be better off in the ERM at that rate, and clearly some economists thought the rate could be maintained
Regarding the Bluetooth thing, it's indeed very annoying. I've found this utility that helps: https://github.com/odlp/bluesnooze
Can Open Source Sustain Itself Without Losing Its Soul?
>Temporary disruptions will be handled by the market in the long term

This is the sort of gospel/dogma that free market absolutists like to propagate, but plainly reality proves this wrong. Markets are a tool, but not a universally useful one.
Do you really trust the average individual to install apps that with zero configuration can read your screen from any of your devices?

This walled garden is 100% a feature.
You could say that about all of taxes.
I believe they parent reply is referring to 16GB of RAM
That's why you start hearing FLOSS talking from governments: these days FLOSS does not means FLOSS but being able to grab free code to serve jails to end users... Proprietary development model is not sustainable anymore, and IT giants have found the way to sell mainframe-alike systems where the users just get dumb terminals, than they push FLOSS.

Today we not only need mandatory FLOSS in the public administration: we need a public IT development that push back the classic desktop model against the worst-than-classic-mainframes cloud model, starting forbidding certain web services for the public administration and reaching the point of forbidding modern web at a whole.
It doesn't have to appeal to every internet user. Not even most internet users. It just has to appeal to enough to make money, which is a substantially smaller number than the total number of internet users.
> Hundreds of millions more people

It's a pretty niche feature. I have used both Barrier and Synergy in the past but as a workflow, visually manipulating multiple computers like this sucks. Few people need to do it and life is better if you can avoid needing to do it at all. Multiplatform development is the greatest win but still, the more you can minimise on-target testing, the better. A fast test harness on your dev machine is much nicer.

IMHO remoting into a machine is much less hassle than having a dedicated screen. Most use cases typically involve poking it now and again and having an occasional window on your main display is nicer than giving up desk space and properly aligning another display. If it's not part of your permanent setup then this extra display is often an ergonomic pest. You may be able to share peripherals but if you have to contort your neck to see it then ugh, it's not fun. It can be ergonomically nicer to use their own dedicated peripherals on a side table rather than sharing them.

If it's about sharing data then obviously network accessible storage (cloud, NAS or mount a remote machine's drive) is better.
> why would machine learning be good in this problem domain?

it doesn't have to be, market will decide.
- Lists are appealing
- Lists promise value quickly
- Lists promise different types of value
- Lists promise limited complexity
- Lists promise many entrance points
- A list is a contract between the writer and reader
- A list promises “list-tractability”
- How to stop worrying

Also:

- I only had to read those headings and check the images to read this article in under a minute.
- I'll never know if something was lost.
- Youtube also has lists nowadays.
- I'm a skimmer and I feel bad.
- I opened a book yesterday and it was very relaxing.
> The allowable space for proprietary software has shrunk significantly.

Not really. It has just shifted.

All the proprietary software we use today are through various SaaS offerings. And that these are built on an OSS base and freeloading off all the work and effort invested by volunteers into OSS software-components is not something that you as a user get to benefit from.

While not illegal or a license-violation in itself, it does strike me as somewhat immoral.
When someone insists on redefining your position before they'll argue with it, it's a sure sign they have a position they'd like to attribute to you and argue with instead. You've done that twice. I'm not interested.
Using 0x55 to synchronize baud rate is fairly common. E.g. by coincidence just yesterday I was working with the ESP bootloader. The initialization sequence contains a SYNCH command with a bunch of 0x55s the processor uses to determine the baud rate.

There should be a "Glossary of Common Byte Patterns" :)
These have been implemented starting in version 0.1.0.
What incentives do they have to promote affiliate links to Amazon ?

It's a bit more complicated than that. Even useful sites in commercially related niches use affiliate links as a source of revenue.
I still have a convertor from memory stick to 5.25inch floppy that I am happy to give to anyone with a genuine use.

eg you put the stick in the thing that looks like a 5.25 inch floppy and then you can ready the memory stick likes its a floppy drive.
Scarcity doesn't go away just because we wish it would.
well, it is evolving... a dying art - for sure, the "golden" days are long over, however that does not mean its not a viable job anymore..
Are there any numbers for what accuracy they are hoping to achieve?

If you don’t try hard you are likely to end up with something accurate to a few ms. AWS has some service which can get you synced to around 300 mics in normal conditions. But 300mics is pretty bad.

Doesn’t this company basically require their customers to not use cloud providers or have they figured out how to get good clock sync despite cloud provider networks? It seems limiting if they don’t work in the cloud.

I think the most common problem we have with clock sync (at least the most common problem I see) come from overloaded network cards slowing down timekeeping packets. I wonder if that’s much of a problem with this company’s solution.
Any notebook with Windows and multiple Linux distros work with HiDPI scaling on any combination of my various docks, monitors, and cables.

Apple definitely does not "just work" in this case. They really "think different" as in different standards to ensure consumer lock-in in their walled garden.
Is "deniers" a reserved slur, or can any affinity group make use of it? "Crypto Deniers must be re-educated!" has a nice ring to it.
This happens all the time every day. Those rich people are pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens. They buy the medicine, stock it in smaller doses at an elevated price. It's really not that different from investors buying a property and offering it for short term rental so that people can enjoy it in small doses.
Because the first time was about money, and the second time was about ethics?
Is technology like the webb telescope design , or curiosity design open and public ? I mean eg CAD , components used , other details ?
Not so plain to the rest of us. Can you explain what makes this so evident?
All companies that left Russia or stopped investing in it [video]
For some reason companies that care a lot about clock sync don’t seem to do this so perhaps there is some other reason.
Damn. Props to you but i would rather be 400k poorer instead of doing that.
it may grow, however isnt it because of lot of BS work like maintain our webpage or ancient billing SW, glue stuff together for our "startup"?
They work really well for city buses also, although they need some charging at the ends. Still have a sweet spot in regards to range though even though the latest generation allows for high capacity buses. They needed to rework a bunch of lines to fit in the envelope.

https://www.electricitygoteborg.se/en/news/improved-urban-en...

Also helps that Volvo is headquartered in Goteborg, so always eager to try new things. The first "prototype" style BEV bus line opened early 2015.
I’ve seen that happen a few times, but not in a war of territorial expansion.

Barring, you know, the current suspect.
tbf NTP did solve this already, but then came variable clockspeeds & powersaving and bam back to the stoneage and clocks regularly skew in the order of multiple seconds.
Turbo Vision is odd. It's a backport of a graphical UI (Windows 3.0) to text mode. It was exceptionally well done in both end user and developer ease of use and caught on.

But I doubt it's the optimum for a text based UI, at least for most applications. Keep evolving!
> French being the French

That's racist. And a deny of history about the anti-french sentiment in the USA consequently of the opposition of French to to participate in a war that later you want you never make.
> Now we just need to build condos that are appropriate for all stages of life -- not just young singlehood and coupledom.

Can you share some ideas about what this would look like?
Right now, DDG gives me the best search results of anything that I've tried. I know people who don't get the same quality results from it as I do, though.

I'm 100% convinced that the difference comes down to how searches are formulated. At least, the people who I know that experience poor quality searches seem to enter their queries as natural-language questions rather than search terms.
This line of thinking leads to bombing schools and hospitals. This is how we get war crimes. I'm glad most people don't think the way you do.
The problem with reddit is that the comments there could also be ads, and it's harder to tell.
Lots of NICs do hardware timestamping of incoming/outgoing packets these days.
Worse, Google used to allow you to block sites but removed the feature a long while back: https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-discontinue... .
How can we protect against people like RIAEvnagelist and whole node-ipc fiasco who undermine whole point of OSS? Imagine if public admin app uses some library written by lunatic? Whole goverment system can be target of such terrorist attack.
Any facts will be buried in layers of historian's justifications and prejudices. See for example "When did the USA know about German Death Camps in ww2?" ... People were disregarded when they tried to tell others what was happening, and they're still called conspiracy theorists and spies for having done so.
Thx! Also this:
https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/20605/instead-...
It also had a ball that you had to remove every third day or so and then clean the friction rollers inside the mouse which the ball was turning. All the dust the ball picked up transferred onto those rollers and coagulated into dense felt around them until they stopped turning.

Mine had three buttons though!
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Which people, in particular, do you feel are excluded by codes of conduct?

The goal of these things is indeed to exclude people, but what you are missing is that the people it they seek to exclude is those whose behavior in the community excludes others - the goal is fewer people excluded overall.

How, exactly, is this a bad thing?

Surly you must have been exposed to "The Paradox of Tolerance" by now?
This is covered in the last issue of Private Eye Issue 1568. There is no online version, only in print.

From memory, the owner set up multiple other business used to secure COVID loans from UK Gov and also had the candy store business buy those business from him. The business was/is a front for these other activities.

If you are interested then I can maybe scan the article.
I agree that it’s important to understand the risks and ride accordingly. I do wish the US would prioritize cyclists and pedestrian safety more though

> 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.

This is aimed at protecting the occupants of the vehicle, but some of the more recent design trends (thicker a frame pillars, higher center of gravity) make collisions even more dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists. I’m not saying those features of cars are a bad thing, but I feel like compensating for the extra risk to pedestrians and cyclists has not gotten as much engineering attention as it should. It’s tough because it’s a broader problem that has to do with how we design roads, and the attitudes people have when they get behind the wheel
I think it’s a bit counterproductive when you can probably safely assume that most of the people affected by this were probably already on your side.

But putting pressure on people to make them do what you want is a fairly accepted strategy. Hell, Russia is following the same strategy, except they’re dropping bombs and missiles on cities, which also (even mostly) impacts civilians that have nothing to do with the war.

As much as it sucks, it’s the only way to retaliate.
I'm so old I payed for shareware and demoware.
I'm going to pull out the last paragraph, because I feel the comments up to this point haven't given it enough love:

> So, say you’ve written something that feels ranty and disorganized. It’s often useful to retrospectively turn it into a list. If this takes a lot of reorganization, that’s good—it means you’re untangling your ideas. And you don’t need to write a “pure” list—use other sections if you need them. If you still feel lame after all this, just give the piece a non-list title and leave the list items unnumbered. No one will even notice what you’ve done.
I'm from Poland. I stood in the breadlines for hours as a kid. I remember rationing basic foodstufs like sugar, sweets, meat, flour, eggs.

And trust me, democaracy that we got out of discontent stemming from economic devastation is worth every hardship we endured.
The USA still has military bases in Germany and Japan.

Those nations were conquered!
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