skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But trying to drill down into specific definitions or draw a clear line between them seems to fall apart quickly.

The only clear line I've seen is javascript. If it uses javascript for anything nontrivial, people believe it's a web app. This comes up all the time in threads about "the old web" or "how you would fix the web," in the context of what seems to be a prevalent belief on HN that the web should be split up between the two paradigms, with purely static, noninteractive "sites" in one place, and "apps" in the other.

Problem is, as mentioned upthread, the vast majority of sites using javascript, including SPAs, are still meant to be read as documents. If you include any form of interactivity, including backend processing and rendering, even more sites become apps.

In practice, it seems to me to be more of a religious taxonomy than a technical one, based on the belief that the modern web has become tainted by complexity and needs to be made pure again.
In Switzerland a lot of people play Jass[0]. It's almost like a national sport. I can't play it, but it feels like I'm part of a minority.

Jass games are even being broadcasted on national TV, it really is a huge part of our culture.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jass
You can, you just have to remove it from the list of admin apps first.
Tangential rant: Why are so many sites these days so Google-centric? All the world isn't a modern computer and/or running Chrome. webp is not a universal standard yet.

Are hosting services that allow serving different files based on user agent really that hard to find? Or has everyone just drank the Google Flavor Aid?
I'd suggest the Greaseweazle, which lets you use a PC and PC drive.

https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle

I haven't tested this, it's on my to do list.
I’d try getting someone to pay first.
Not necessarily (the coop I work for is one though). There are 3 possible types of coops in France: SCOP, SCIC and CAE. To make it short:

- SCOP: adheres to the international definition of coops

- CAE: a coop of freelancers. You are an employee of the structure (with a work contract) but you have to bring in your own revenue to pay your salary. A percentage of your revenue goes towards the coop budget for shared services (accounting, hr, ...) and cash reserve

- SCIC: a multi-party coop. A good use case would be platforms where you could have multiple groups of stakeholders: employees of the platform, users and service providers. (eg. with a Uber like coop: employees, users and drivers could all be separate groups of owners). Each group has a voting percentage. No group can have more than 50% ownership.

I see great potential for the 2 other types of coops that France has in the context of tech. I do not know of any equivalent elsewhere (but would be happy to learn it exists!)
The title this HN is post wrong, it should be "Evaluating FreeBSD CURRENT for Production Use" as used in the original article.

The capitalization is important, since it makes it very clear it's talking about the CURRENT branch.
> Apple is so anti-repair they have no provisions for a reasonable at home process.

Just because they don't prioritize their designs for at home repair, doesn't mean they're anti-repair. Clearly they're not anti-repair if they're voluntarily making their tooling available for repairs.

I can't really blame them for prioritizing design over repairability. At least for now, repairability doesn't sell a lot of phones -- the number of people who want to repair their own phone is so small, and I say that as someone who has repaired a couple iPhones in the past.
They may be more popular outside the US. Where I am a lot of big businesses still use facebook for their online presence, and use those very annoying chat bots as their support gateways. Really frustrating as a user, but that's the state of things where I am.
>Two player games do have an advantage as you only need two of you.

While not to encourage being antisocial, chess also has very good computer programs to play against--and even provide instruction. I assume there are good consumer accessible Go programs these days too although I haven't looked for a while. It's nice to have as a backup and, in general, I find computer card games are less capable or have annoying blind spots that you can suss out after a while. For example, I've found that computer Hearts programs are pretty vulnerable to shooting the moon against them.

Backgammon could be good--although I never really got into it. I suppose Checkers is another option but, of course, relatively simple.

Although I'm even worse at Go than I am at Chess, I agree with you. Chess probably has at least an easier learning curve to get to some minimal level of competence.
.01% of USD holders probably own 27% of USD
Seems to me there's not been much progress.
Moore's Law porn.

As to how far we have progressed, I'd rather see us talk about how we interact with technology and how it changes our lives.

Smart phones are powerful computers. They are ubiquitous. They're the computers we all have now. What have they accomplished? I can always contact someone, though loneliness seems to have increased. People can also contact me all the time, sometimes with video. Nobody wears watches because they carry phones, so we missed the Dick Tracy future. Nobody can be lost anymore because they (and many other entities) always know where on earth they are. All of those things are absent from the old ads.

Our "progress" is mostly about surveillance whereas the old ads were all about what individuals could accomplish. And there's definitely progress in how things are marketed to us. Aren't those old ads clunky?
When I read the poker article I too thought about bridge as a better alternative.
I've never been deep into bridge even though I dabbled but I honestly believe that Magic The Gathering is the to the present what Bridge was to the past
Marmite hard shelled tacos, with shrimp
WebP is a standard. And serving different files to different user agents makes the problem you're describing worse, not better.
What if I told you you could have the CEO elected by the workers, rather than randos whose only interest in the business is making money off of it?
I hate Facebook as much as the next guy, but this part is correct:

The things people say they don’t want to do and what they actually don’t do are often surprisingly different

When television ratings measurement started moving from people writing down their viewing habits in a diary to automated system measuring what they were actually watching, suddenly "PBS" ratings tanked, and have stayed down in automated measurements.

The same thing happened in radio. People would write down that they listen to whatever station was trendy, or cool, or advertised the most. But when Portable People Meters became a thing, we found out that people listen to a little bit from all different kinds of radio stations.

People are sometimes untruthful. Even when they're assured of anonymity.
Is VISA down everywhere in the US?
I was just told in the supermarket card payments are down in -all- supermarkets in my neighborhood. The internet doesn't seem to know much about it yet.
I have been seeing this issues also, very odd, workarounds I tried do not get around the issue.

>If this behavior gets adapted on more sites, we can expect even more users leaving Firefox

But I will just not go to the sites instead of using something other than Firefox.
It's not a getting old thing. Corporations ruin everything. Maximizing revenue at the expense of everything else has its cost.
With net you can accomplish the same with HTMX. And you can do the a SPA frontend fully in C# using Blazor.
Apart from everything else, isn’t this more complex machinery that you didn’t buy but have to service, just in case you might want it one day?
To stake your own node, and run your own hardware, you need 32 ETH.

If you don't have that, you can pool your ETH the same way you can pool compute for PoW.

e.g. https://rocketpool.net/
The last release of Ly was on 3 Feb 2020. More than two years ago. I would rather use your solution (which is also written in Rust).

The thing display/login managers have going for them is they allow certain configuration before logging in, or they show certain information before logging in. Whatever you want to configure or display depends (mostly on preference). Thinking about it, I am not sure I need anything. I mean, all I do is type sway.
Are you the only user? Do you always use i3?

If yes to both, you could have your bashrc (or you shell's equivalent) start X and i3 on a TTY login?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit#Autostart_X_at_login
I am 100% a crypto skeptic and don't own any coins, but it is incorrect to call them a Ponzi scheme[1], which is an investment fraud that uses funds from new investors to pay existing investors. You can make a very credible case that many coins were designed for pump and dump scams, but that is not a Ponzi scheme.

The crux of Bitcoins is that its value is derived from people's belief in its value. Lot's of assets and to an extent fiat moneys work this way. The "magic" of bitcoin et.al. is that they are finite, have clear chain of custody, and can be traded peer to peer. Those features can and do inspire confidence, but at the end of the day these coins have limited real world utility outside of money transfers and holding wealth. Those uses are directly tied to the faith of the market for those coins.

If someone asked me if they should buy and hold these coins, I would say no. However, speculation is somewhat in the eye of the beholder and turns on the risk of losing the investment. It's nearly impossible to predict future changes in asset prices, especially when an asset has been steadily increasing in value for years, but has a limited history.

TL;DR you're misusing the phrase "Ponzi scheme" which means something else.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
> It's just crazy that the NYT wrote a lengthy article about France's relationship with Haiti after the war, but left out the genocide of the French population of Haiti. That is the sort of thing that causes bad blood between nations for decades, if not centuries. Maybe France would have given up on enforcing the debt sooner if it hadn't been for that historical context? The NYT doesn't even explore the possibility.

Assuming that's true, it's good evidence that journalists should stick to journalism and stay out of writing history. I like the NYT, but it seems like they've lately been taking themselves too seriously and wading into activities where they are not competent. IMHO, if they want to do projects like this, they should commission actual historians to write them.

They say that journalism is the rough draft of history. There's not much good in creating a rough draft for something that happened 230 years ago, and more than likely has better coverage elsewhere.
Even so, the fact is that the more hierarchy there is, and the greater the bounty at the top, the more perverse incentives for managers and would-be managers there are. Good management is, by its nature, very minimal.
I am not sure what you mean by "it". Are you talking about the parent, or the alloy?
Don't forget to checkout the Show from time to time
Is there a medical specialist that one can go talk to about this approach? I am open to trying it, but would rather do so using someone with a medical license versus Internet wisdom
I actually like the YouTube recommendation system. It manages to pleasantly surprise me pretty often. I don't have significant privacy concerns about it - the stuff I enjoy on YT is quite aligned with my public persona, so to speak. I'm not disclosing anything that I don't already disclose to the outer world.
Looks like it:

https://twitter.com/search?q=visa+down&f=live

and

https://downdetector.com/status/visa/
For me it is reading vs doing.

When you first go to aws.amazon.com, you get a website with content about AWS.

Once you log in, you’re in the AWS web application, and it’s time to start doing things.

Forums like HN, I would consider websites because there is a lot of reading and not much doing.
Some people simply have no sense of community or civic duty. Everything is all about them, all the time. If they stand to profit from antisocial behavior, they won't hesitate.
Now is always the best time.
"While a house is a terrible investment, I own a house and recommend other people do so as well. Why? Not because the house is a great investment, but because the mortgage is a great way to borrow money due to all the government subsidies. Having a mortgage is a great way to short the US dollar because of the long maturity and low rates you can borrow at. I make sure to constantly take all of the equity out. If there was some way to borrow $400,000 at 3% for 30 years and buy stocks with the money I would much rather do that, but because our society has decided that homes are the “chosen” asset class and distorts the market by redirecting resources into mortgages it makes sense to buy a home. I would never even consider buy a home with my own money, but hey, if the US taxpayer and a bank is dumb enough to loan me several hundred grand a 3% for 30 years and give me a tax deduction sure why the hell not."
I’m not a fan of cheap construction especially for hotels.

Due to work polices I find myself in Hilton properties. Compare a circa 2008 Hampton Inn to a more recent Home2 suites. The newer building is an inferior guest experience by any metric.

5 over 1s are usually built by syndicated developers. You can rest assured that ever expense will be spared and every corner cut. With the prefab concrete corners were cut as well, but the nature of the building made sound less of a problem, although ventilation was probably worse, increasing operational cost.
My issue with design systems is that inevitably the team using the internal companies design system has to implement custom components (usually early on) and try to match the feel of the design system already in place.

I'd rather go custom for a project and semi match the already in place feel of the company's UI standards. Then we're only bottle necked by our internal team and not an external team.

Thinking more on this, I'd love the https://tailwindcomponents.com setup for internal design components? Seems like the best of both worlds but does move the base from React/Angular components to Tailwindcss
> were planning on attending a wedding and at the last minute decided to play Donkey Kong.

lol. sweet.
The only place I've seen kolatches (sp.) was fifty years ago in the little town of West, TX (and it's not really in West Texas, but more in between Fort Worth and Austin.) Those were pastries filled with various delicious things, including sausage and fruit.) I don't think I've ever seen kolatches anywhere else. I'd love to find more, and learn the difference. They are far from common in the USA sadly.
What I really loved about those magazines, living in a small town, was how they simultaneously showed you the variety of what was out there, mostly through the small ads, and the speculative future of the technology through the articles, while also giving a kid the ability to grow their skills Right Now in the form of printed-out programs.
I suggest teaching your children whichever game will enable them to think for themselves.
nullable pointers can take up the same amount of memory at runtime, vs optionals that can be nested, so you need to represent .none from .some(.none), which means you need at least another bit
(As a reference point)

I almost missed seeing a few gems like self-hosted wayback machine [0] and an interesting new pure-Python Graph database [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31458538 => https://hamsterbase.com/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31454541 => https://cogdb.io/
A very general western hatred (not merely US!) has been brewing over Russian social media for awhile now, and the conversation of whether to deny Russians their prerogative to hate the west is not really there. There isn't even much conversation on western media as to what the state of Russian social media is even like.
Apple used to have a per team interview process(don’t know if it has changed). While the interview experience can vary a lot, there are certain pockets/teams that are spectacularly brilliant and have the freedom to maintain the bar & conduct targeted hiring.
Definitely. But a lot of people have looked at the small depeg and said “it’s not big, and they’ve depegged in the past. What’s the issue?”

It’s seeing the redemptions that show it is significant
Since you have to wet it, I assume it's made of some kind of starch?
And furthermore, "bare" YouTube experience (what type of stuff they promote on their front page when it's not customized by my recommendations - basically what I see when I'm not logged in) is truly nauseating to me.
1: You can login and not start up a display (e.g. when you SSH into a box). The login manager is seperate from the display manager. You don't necessarily have to have a display attached.

2: The display manager starts up a window manager, which figures out where to draw your apps. X11 or Wayland is the underlying tech that KDE, Gnome, etc, uses to manage displays/windows.

Ly draws straight to the terminal, which I'm pretty sure is faster. And it allows some flexibility when running multiple window managers. I've found having multiple window managers installed can be a little unstable. SDDM didn't like it, but it works pretty good with Ly.
but the screen wasn't cracked though...
> perhaps Microsoft wasn't one of the good guys

That's the thing that tipped you off? After the 90s?...
By claiming certain entities can redeem 1:1. No one has ever documented a Tether redemption. They have a very tiny number of clients and the terms say they don’t have to redeem at all.
Ask HN: Preferred SQL Auto-Formatter?
Is there a good black-equivalent for SQL?
This just feels like it's a very debatable relative perspective.

Even as a professional software engineer, the value of being able to obtain and hack on "the rest of the software universe" would be far greater than the value I can obtain by being able to deny others that right on my relatively minor scope of work.

Copyright tends to enable one software business model above others: selling canned bits with no extra work. If you're not in that business, you have little to fear, and only free publicity to gain.

If we eliminated copyright tomorrow, you could torrent a copy of $work_monolith with no repercussions. There would probably be little demand, as it's in-house tooling for a niche industry that requires non-trivial infrastructure to use. I would still have a job, because I'm still among the best-qualified people to manage updates, bugfixes, and compliance needs. Hell, now I have multiple potential buyers for consultancy and development services!

I think you can also say that there is something inherently sad about squandered value. Nobody ends up better off in the current scenario.

Microsoft has little to no interest in selling Windows XP, but there is a cadre of users who are interested in it. I've seen a fair number of people who want to build "the dream gaming PC of their childhood" now that they have the disposable income to do so, or people with technical "we can't replace the extremely specific software/hardware that controls the $5 million industrial machine with anything newer" lock-in. They lose out on being able to legitimately build something they want, and it's not like Microsoft was going to convince these people to buy Windows 11 for that use case instead. There may be some Rube Goldberg chain of downgrade rights you can invoke, but I doubt it's as simple as "buy a Win11 key and enter it in the XP installer's prompt", nor is it the sort of thing that's widely communicated.

I always figured the compromise solution was a (likely state-mediated) mandatory licensing board. You want Windows XP and the vendor won't sell it? Buy a concession license at a negotiated price from the licensing authority instead, and your "acquired somehow" copy is now legally sanctioned. That would ensure permanent availability of "back-stock" content, and the concession funds could be funneled back to the original authors, providing an effortless trickle-source of revenue on otherwise unsaleable products.
Besides what the article goes into about auto-curation of social feeds reducing self-curation, the counterintuitive answer is that decentralized tagging requires strong centralization to work.

You need:

- agreement on what should be and what should not be tagged in a given domain

- standardized terminology (no multiple variants of tags)

- consistent grammar and formatting across all tags

- software support for tag editing that makes it easy to adhere to established tagging rules

- mechanisms to explain tagging rules to new users, at scale

- mechanisms to punish malicious/spam tagging (e.g. user history/reputation + bans)

Usually, all of these conditions together are only found in highly niche and specialized forums that care a lot about the quality of their content. While most large social platforms today do have some kind of tagging system (e.g. hash tags on Twitter/Instagram), the usefulness of these systems is generally limited due to the inherent difficulties of co-ordinating so many diverse users who have varying interests.
It’s the same thing as not marrying someone you just met / don’t know well.

Co-founding a startup is in essence like getting married. In fact you’ll spend more time with your co-founder than your spouse / partner plus plenty disagreements as well.

This is not to say co-founding with a “stranger” never works - it’s like getting married at first sight (see Married At First Sight, it’s fascinating show).

It’s simply better if you know the person well before making such commitment.
By this definition of ponzi scheme, isn’t USD also a ponzi scheme?
> There are bezels on the top and bottom because the S4 came out in 2013, not because of the waterproofing method.

There are bezels on the top and bottom because older phones were less volume efficient than they are today-- something that is enabled by the use of adhesive.

> IP67 is enough for me, and I will happily trade .3mm of thickness for a removable battery.

OK, but, I believe the penalty would be significantly more than .3mm, and most people won't.
Never.
Test Equipment goes to the Cal lab on a periodic basis. They keep the gear working. Test cables, probes, etc. are user replaced and don't cost much.

I have seen o'scopes and signal generators working well 40+ years old.
Worker owned co-ops are 100% compatible with capitalist regimes, since they're just people freely consenting to a work/ownership arrangement. I think they're cool experiments, if anything.

With that said: if they're so much better than traditional firms, they why haven't they taken over the world? That is, if they were so good, greedy shareholders and investors all over the world would demand that their firms restructure into Cooperatives, and firms that weren't Cooperatives would tend to lose out in the marketplace (being beaten by the more efficient Cooperatives). But we don't see this happening.

This seems like strong evidence to me that they don't offer a superior arrangement (at the firm/system level) for producing goods & services more efficiently.
Show HN: A fully automated podcast – actually 12 podcasts
"That Horoscope Podcast - Aquarius" and it's eleven siblings - are daily podcasts that are end-to-end programatically generated e.g. scripted, voiced, post-produced and uploaded.

Would love to get some first impression feed back and hear how others would achive the same thing!
Then use Discord to tell them to download an XMPP client and join a real IM platform that isn't some vendor's proprietary, inferior, walled-garden B.S.
I believe YCombinator was still very small in 2008. Otherwise, they would probably have said something similar.