skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in Sainsbury's in Edinburgh this morning and there were yellow white and red onions, and shallots and spring onions too!
What problem does web3 solve? Give me a concrete problem not an abstract one.
It's hard to imagine that 20 years ago Delphi and Visual Basic had far superior IDEs and debugging experience running on my 100 MHz IBM PC with 512MB of RAM.

I'm not sure where the ecosystem went wrong, but it's strangely related to the web.
I agree. For another example, we have a whole period earlier on called the La Tène culture simply because that's where the people who named it first excavated. The same goes for Hallstatt culture etc.

As long as we teach people that viking was a "profession" not a demonym, we need a word to describe the time period so the viking age as "the age during which viking happened, even if not everyone took part" is good enough.

Also, this: https://acoup.blog/2020/11/20/miscellanea-my-thoughts-on-ass... mentions a much bigger problem, in my opinion, with how the period is treated in popular culture.
>If containerization is not security

Call it less secure than VMs if you prefer that wording.

>not running as root should be an absolutely critical first step for managing risk.

Kinda depends on what angle you come at it from risk management. You could take something less secure (containers) and try to tweak it to meet whatever level of residual risk you deem acceptable. Or you could just jump straight to VM and benefit from the inherent higher level of separation.

The fact that all the big players with their clever engineers have specifically opted for VM tech (e.g. AWS creating firecracker for lambda) tells me the later is probably the way to go.

That said I mostly do stick to containers when in a trusted environment.
Time, organization-improving of Gmail UI, basically UX, if I'm understanding correctly.
More of a point for the general phenomena.

I don't think it has anything to do with the EU or not. Rather I think there has been some industry wide "efficiency gain" in picking/harvesting/cutting stuff that make the product worse when you buy it.

Obviously the Christmas tree can be a fluke. But so was my mom's and my tree the year earlier. In my childhood they still had like moist resin and smelled alot. But the ones you buy nowadays are dull.
Time to hit up my gymrat brother for some testosterone I guess!
I would love this, I have an iPad Pro, unfortunately in trying the WorldWideWeb app in combination with the Runestone text editor app, I discovered that it is impossible to change a file’s extension on iOS. This is an iOS limitation. I made a home.txt file by mistake, and when I tried renaming it it became home.html.txt. I had no idea this was a thing until now and it’s really put a damper on my expectations for an iPad in its current state to become a portable dev environment.
I meant this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31420722

Oh, apparently they're completely blocking access now, yay.
So basically a SAN, using NVMe storage instead of SAS?

I can see the FPGA could be used for much more than that though.
I cancelled my subscription after the player regularly stopped emitting sound - the player would show it's playing a song and increment the progress bar but no sound was coming out. I have never had the same problem with any other player. Oh and sometimes any song would just keep buffering until I restarted the app.

As far as the slowness goes, I attribute that to the fact that the app is not native, it's just some sort of Electron-like mess. Then again so is Spotify (I think?) and it feels much snappier.
The term as used on Swedish rune stones was along the lines of a verb. Many of the stones herald some dead family member, "who died in/during viking".
My parents are in Ireland and they're saying the same thing as we are - shelf life for fresh produce has dropped. Anecdotally, we've noticed that all our seasonal produce (e.g. strawberries right now) seems to have a decent 4-5 day shelf life.
My understanding is that the cost of making things in the US is roughly the same as China. In China labor is cheap but energy is expensive, whereas in the US labor is expensive but energy is cheap.
It was declared deprecated in 2015, but was actually disabled/removed in May 2022.
Before the rise of "Web3", I never would have believed that so many people would look at that stupid name and conclude that it is somehow inevitable or even a meaningful successor to what we had already. Whoever started calling it that is either very lucky or an evil genius; they somehow got a bunch of otherwise reasonable people to switch off their critical thinking and see a bunch of cryptojunk as something other than cryptojunk.

Everyone building some "crypto", "blockchain", or "Web3" thing claims they're creating some kind of value, and yet in all I've seen so far, they don't actually solve the real world problems they claim to be solving, and if you were to remove the speculators from the game then the whole thing would collapse. I just see one pyramid-shaped casino after another.
If you combine their API with their web playback SDK, you don't need an official client running. That means my app is completely standalone whilst being built only using officially supported endpoints.
I did the yak shaving and I am glad I did. I only needed to inject my own CA into Firefox/Chrome and my self signed certificates now works like any other, no fiddling with about:config, no websocket mismatches or app complaining of not running on https. I can even curl and all that since I added this CA to my machine.

edit: I only self sign localhost subdomains (app1.localhost, www.site1.localhost, etc.) and each project has its own self signed certificate (by the same CA) with needed domains (usually traefik.localhost, www.site.localhost, api.site.localhost, etc.). localhost becomes basically my presonnal tld.
A guess: it takes a long time to get a reliable network of mirrors (mostly spent building relationships with institutions, like universities, with both the bandwidth/infrastructure you need and the willingness to lend it for free), and Docker is quite new.
Economic sanction are just saying we are not playing with you (in the game called trade) if you can't behave.

You are not doing anything to anybody. You are just withdrawing your participation from mutually beneficial activity because of your principles. You always have right to do that.
The only issue I have with "branded" stuff, like EA (which sounds awesome. Five Stars would eat there again), is that it often establishes a "metric," that is then used to "measure" others (and usually, find them wanting). This happens in pretty much every human endeavor. The urge to be better than others is powerful, and many people dedicate enormous resources to being "better than."

I've been involved with an outfit for my entire adult life, that has, as a Core Principle, "You must give it away to keep it."

It's kind of a "pass/fail" test. If we pass, we keep breathing. If we fail, we die twitching, so there's definitely a measure of self-interest, involved.

That said, some pretty amazing stuff gets done, with almost no fanfare, and we don't bother shaming each other with metrics.
It is actually a geometric progression, so https://rrrr-project.org would be the next one.
It is not suprising (at least to HN readers) but this is the kind of thing that can go in the evidence list if we ever want to push for more regulation in that area.
> nobody prefer autocracy to democracy but the autocrate

they've been a unified entity for over 3 thousand years, of course culture has a big part in it.

Besides, I'm not sure US (specifically) democracy is much better than Chinese system.

It's simply a different way of exercising power.

The average Chinese citizen is probably as content as the average American citizen.
I fear that even if AI is open, it will still be controlled by a few rich people, because only a few people will really understand it, and even fewer will have the resources to train brain-sized models.

Models like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2 are already out of the reach of most people, even researchers and entrepreneurs in the field.
> Whoever started calling it that is either very lucky or an evil genius

In a world that is currently dominated by the effects of misinformation, I'd bet on the latter.
> And they dont have democracy. They cant french revolution on their CCP thing. [...] Dont say culture please, nobody prefer autocracy to democracy but the autocrate

But it is mostly cultural. Individualism isn't nearly as important in China (and most of Asia) as it is in the West. And of course that translates to preferences and level of (un)happiness with the government and forms of governance. The west often operates under the false assumption that our way is the only right way and we easily dismiss these essential cultural differences.

> Im no expert but this is mostly due to surveillance right?

I don't think this is a logical conclusion. It certainly helps them in a way, but there was also no French revolution in China before modern surveillance was a thing. From a Chinese perspective many might be happy with their rise in importance and economic strength and the population grows wealthier each year.
There is also a commercial alternative, https://undo.io/solutions/products/udb/ though I have not used it myself and I don’t know what its overhead is. (I know some of the people who work on it.)
Ruby and R and both have amazing interactive debuggers: binding.pry and browser() respectively, and I use them all the time (never print statements). So I don't understand the significance of PG's tweet; do other languages have less-good debuggers, and hence people get stuck using print statements? Or have I missed his point entirely?
Not impossible; just foolish.
Ai can only ever be a mirror of our minds. It can't be more than what the programmer can feed it in training data made from other people's work from their minds.

Human creativity will diminish in value with or without AI, people are moving away from sweeping cultural changes and clever interpretations. People just want to look good and relate to ideas they like.

The tech is not in the drivers seat, it is just a facilitator made by our best minds. A moral movement "against" Dall E will be a futile attempt to call back horses bolted from the stables.
Similar feelings here. We use Docker without any issues beyond usual problems of a caliber that I guess any other tool would have.

I see some new live in docker desktop and I also have flawless experience on M! Mac with it. I even ignored all recent hype to ditch Docker because it became more transparent tool to my workflow, I forgot I use it.
Why? They seem quite distinct to me
Stuff like Pegasus is targeted espionage at least, not unapologetic, wanton mass surveillance.
> It's pretty uncontroversial that vaccines and mosquito nets are generally good; although one could argue about exactly how good they are, there's not much room left for fruitful discussion about them.

But one of the main focuses of EA is arguing about "exactly how good they are", and in particular the assumption that a cause whose general good was "fully decided years ago" shouldn't be seen as a good destination for philanthropic dollars without the organization focusing on providing metrics and RCTs to back up the idea that it's more beneficial than other definitely-has-some-positive-impact causes

Applying more scrutiny to aid organizations is fine and some of their scepticism of (e.g) microfinance is completely justified, but saying "but you can't prove that this money is spent as efficiently as they could have been" to sending stuff to poor people in South Asia or "you can't prove this will ever work" to funding African entrepreneurs isn't particularly compatible with recommending money is sent to more opaque organisations paying expensive developers to pursue passion projects on because it's theoretically possible the organization will have a non-zero and non-negative impact on a possible future harm which might theoretically be big.

Obviously not all EAs do this and many have very strong and consistent donation guidelines or are more interested in the maximise my personal potential to contribute side of EA than the demand more from aid agencies side, but it was the founder of GiveWell that recommended $30m of philanthropic cash was spent on buying a board seat at the non-profit subsidiary of extremly opaque and extremely well funded corporation OpenAI, which clashes quite hard with his earlier body of work. EAs who are interested in AI safety obviously aren't at all unusual in seeing moonshot research as a valid use of philanthropic dollars, but most people funding universities aren't simultaneously questioning the value of organizations for feeding people for not providing enough metrics to prove they're feeding the right people.

(It cuts both ways too: the arguments for investing in "AI safety" - diversification in the face of uncertainty - are arguments against the EA principle of maximising the efficiency of philanthropic dollar based on rigorous analysis of different organizations' return)
I have been using spotify-qt[1] lately. It's quite close to the original client from more than 10 years ago.

1. https://github.com/kraxarn/spotify-qt
This comment was mainly motivated by this comment of yours

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31607305

I gave it now complete answer.
I guess Vim with the built-in netrw plugin could qualify?
The cookie one is the only semi-legit one. And it would be kind of weird that setting the https only flag wouldnt mean what it says.

Everything else on that list is you can't test https without https. How could you possibly test mixed content without using https? Http/2 is so tied to TLS that the insecure version that nobody has implemented isn't really the same thing. Etc
That's not a backdoor. That's just a front door.
That's fair, but that issue is more common than you think. Some folks use Linux desktop systems with multiple users: shared computers (family or university--not all lab environments have sane workstation user management, unfortunately), or a personal computer with multiple accounts for separation (e.g. a home and work user) both come to mind.

And sure, UID remapping is available, but that's no longer in the realm of "just works".
Right after encryption is banned in the UK.
The success came from the fact that it was so much better than competitors (more storage, a better interface and better search. All that matters in email). The invites were just an irritating hurdle to get past to have something good.
It's a distinction that is completely irrelevant in my opinion.
I have a few production apps in the GIS/mapping space and I think the big area for growth is a truly cross-platform mapping solution that works across all platforms. Right now Mapbox's (and Maplibre's) options are the closest to this, but web and the two mobile platforms still differ quite a bit, and there's only support for macOS on the desktop.

Maplibre-rs is something to keep an eye on, but it's very much a proof of concept and early going. It's using wgpu (https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu), which is a rust-based "implementation" of the WebGPU api, so to speak, which of course would support running via wasm in the browser as well as having support for pretty much all the other platforms.
The final version reminds me of something that would have looked great on Gameboy Advance!
I would imagine it is just because it would require more complexity in the kernel. One would need to create a queue of tasks to be performed during cleanup and have the path through the exit system call know to push work onto that queue. It sounds like there is an opportunity for someone to submit a diff to the Linux kernel for improving exit userspace latency.
I’ve been trying to figure out since day one a real world problem it solves… nothing has come to mind yet.
Did they continue tracking health effects years after they study ? It’s possible the drugs reversed the body clock but will accelerate it after. Much like coffee gives you a temporary boost, then makes you crash later
>they also get a lot of imported watery taste from Spain etc.

A lot of this is just eating out of season fruit grown in greenhouses and picked early to be transported to be "ripe" on the shelves. Eating fresh Italian tomatoes in February is as poor an experience as eating UK tomatoes in February, but eating them in June is likely to be much better in both cases.
Paper Prototype CSS
It's not just Spotify that has this problem. All major, successful web applications have huge usability issues.

Software becomes successful not because of how it looks, but because of how it helps humans in their daily lives. The current fad is form over function to the nth degree.
For the same reason people like the hiss and pops of a record, film grain, or even VHS tracking artifacts. Yesterday's technical limitations become today's aesthetic.

But the real answer is they aren't inherently bad. People don't actually need it to conform to the past limitations. More that they want it to feel authentic to the nostalgic memory they have in their head.

For example, games like Shovel Knight go for an 8bit style, but they're not limited to an 8 bit color space, NES sprite limitations, etc.
Germany paid the war damages of WWI (1914-1918!) until the 1990ies. War damages hugely aggravated the economic crisis of 1932, leading to you-know-what; I’ve always been surprised that we didn’t take this as a lesson that punishing children for the faults of their parents was a double-edged idea. Imagine being 17 in 1934, having to pay and apologize for a war you never did, let alone a war that you could never have influenced or lobbied against.

I’m still torn about this approach. But OTOH, peace must be enforced and warmonging nations must be weakened until the lesson is learnt. And we equate citizen with their nation’s decisions.
Enjoyment of music linked to a specific physical item seems incredibly shallow to me.

If the music is worth listening to, the medium shouldn't matter at all.
What if you don't have access to the internet? it's not exactly trivial to download stuff if you're for example from a developing country or simply poor.

As a kid, I got a lot of mileage of whatever our computers came pre-installed with and I don't think it's a bad idea to bundle a scripting language with the machine, simply to have something to tinker and play with without the need to download anything.
Are you kidding? What about all the natural resources of Ukraine? And huge arable land?

If Russia managed to control Ukraine, even at terrible but temporary cost in 100 years Russia would be much better off with Ukraine than without. It would make Russia even more serious player on so many markets.

They never drew their economic power from people. They could exterminate all Ukrainians and still come on top economically in the long term if they controlled the land.
If Microsoft actually cared about improving their product to fit their users' needs, they would listen to feedback.
The privacy movement should really distance itself from criminals it always looks sketchy when the most vocal advocates are people that just got caught doing something illegal.
I can't disagree with any of that, but I only know about it from that song, so, anecdote two, I guess.
Spotify's algorithmic song selection seems pretty mediocre to me. I think it might get confused by multi-genre listening.
Fakes have existed forever, authenticity processes exist and chain of ownership technologies can be used to verify relationships to the original author.
Court Says Bees Are Fish
The fumes doesn’t decompose instantly. They stay for some time, travel and lower air quality around.

The best non wetting extinguisher gas, Novec needs a week to decompose completely, and it was the shortest time when we were building our data center.
Exactly my thought!

"part of what I enjoy about art is admiring craftsmanship - the skill and knowledge of the artist at work."

I'm a devrel person my art is writing tutorials and guides. And this one is a very naive approach at it.
Looks like we lost the ability to go through a list of songs from an album, episodes from a podcast, or podcasts from a collection, which is the subject of TFA.
The energy in nuclear waste could power the U.S. for 100 years
Jetbrains - yep.

Both edit variable and hot reload code.
> sites that were making duplicates of real forums

Horrible startup idea: silently syndicate groups of forums that use wildly different branding to achieve people with different viewpoints constantly engaging with each other in some potentially novel way to an outside observer.
Appear weak when you are strong. Appear strong when you are weak.
> What makes UB in C++ is spelled out in its International Standard

That's not true, the standard only specifies that some things are UB, it is not exhaustive, nor is it unambiguous. Furthermore, no current C++ compiler is compliant even with those parts of the standard which everyone agrees on (eg. see proposals to introduce a "bytes" type to LLVM to resolve known miscompilations). There is work to improve this, such as defining an explicit memory model, but Rust is ahead of C++ on this.

> In fact today C++ lifetimes are expressed in the type system, and this is an example of what C++ enables a library to provide.

Do you have an example of this, or are you talking about using smart pointers? Smart pointers are about ownership, not lifetimes.

> Your remarks suggest that libraries you delivered were closer to C than C++.

Most of my remarks were about consuming other libraries from my library, which is not something I have control over. Sure, I can use smart pointers and other modern C++ features in the API I expose... That doesn't change any of the points I mentioned.
this is a non sequitur.

Secret services are one thing, police operations and investigations are another, spying your own citizens for the sake of spying them and collecting their data is not allowed in EU, but it happened in US (we have proof) and when it happened in Europe it was US companies doing it (Cambridge Analytica data scandal, to name one, was made possible by Facebook).

There's that.
Yes I get a dystopic vibe, but for an entirely different reason. As for what we lost, I would say a gradual loss of the social element. Music used to be something that everyone did. Then become something that musicians did and other people listened to, but at least you got to see them perform and create a shared experience. Then we started recording music so you could listen to it at home, but there was still the social element of listening to the same music and sharing recommendations and forming subcultures based on listening to the same music. Now with dj spotify you don't even need to discuss music with other people.

Now don't get me wrong, of course there are still lots of people doing music for the fun of it, people still go to live performances, people still share recommendations. So it isn't fully lost by any means, just a question of degrees.
Asynchrony: A virtual community where members share ideas and form teams (2000)
There is not going to be any pivot to Web3.
They're conducting a Phase II trial now with 85 participants, the completion date is set to November 2022.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04375657
I find that the top result is the right one about 90% of the time, so it’s not really an issue. That said, the other 10% is pretty irritating.

Side note…I believe that all music apps are _fated_ to irritating mediocrity.

iTunes was once perfect, and grew unusable. Spotify was perfect in 2019 and is trending toward usability issues as well.