skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would agree with you if Chromium were the project of a nonprofit, but it’s not. A Chromium-dominated web is a Google-controlled web, and Chromium being open source does nothing to change that because nobody but Google has the same level of manpower, plus it’s ultimately Google holding the reigns. It’s a massive conflict of interest.

And once Chromium dominance has been achieved, there will be no party that can mount a meaningful opposition due to the velocity of Google’s Chrome/Chromium team stacked with the ever-taller demands of web engines. With every feature added Google builds the moat more deep and wide, further ensuring their monopoly will never be unseated.

With all that considered, the only real winners are web devs who only need to care about testing against a single engine (once Safari is out of the picture, Firefox’s ~2.5% marketshare will not be large enough for most to bother with).
Paranoids attack
You don't need anything close to something that complicated.
Chris Evans: RIP iPhone 6s
Same, from a battery perspective I'd say it's the best browser. I have all the plugins I had on chrome, pages seem to load faster, and my battery life and resources seem far more protected. I'm also not being tracked at every level or being mined for ad data.
Music in Austin is 7/10? Compared to what?
I wouldn't say that I hate Atlassian but I didn't get on with either Confluence or Jira. I think now that web applications have become so advanced, we are starting to suffer from subtle UX issues that are not necessarily easy to pin-down.

Some issues are oobvious like too many clicks; not putting common operations in the same part of the screen; general latency, especially when you need to use too many clicks.

But the ones I am talking about are more like how does this UI representation match the way I see these things in my head. Trello works because tasks to most people are post-it notes or index cards, as soon as you end up adding a lot of fluff to contain the extra options, it feels jarring even if it is conceptually the same thing. Lots of tools offer the "quick add" function and this can help but unless I feel that I can quickly achieve what I need with a tool, I won't use it even if I can't say exactly why.
I use a terminal app called newsboat to subscribe to blogs and youtube channels.
I’m myself traded over 1M regularly the last year. We even developed a decentralized exchange for Chinese customer (although with nasdaq traded parent) that made over billion dollars in stabelcoins in just about 12 weeks. DEXs usage is big.
Perhaps you mixed two different thighs: fiat on ramp, and exchange ? If so, as far as I concerned even at the beginning of defi summer 2020 bestchange ramps in Moscow city alone had around $30m a day against fiat. I can’t verify this numbers but given the level of crypto adoption in eastern Europe these numbers don’t seem very off really.
> It's been plenty long enough to find a use case that isn't breaking laws.

It's impressive... Like clockwork, there will always be one coming to throw the "only use-case is illegal stuff!" line. It's like people can't wait to throw their opinions about a topic while displaying their complete ignorance of it.

Tell me how you can do the use-case for Brave - ie, sharing revenue from the ads with millions of users from anywhere in the world - within the traditional payment networks.

You can't. There is no Paypal or any other financial institution interested in making monthly transactions that can go as low as a few dollar cents. And somehow Brave does it, legally, and it all works out.
I was once a moderator at /r/ApplyingToCollege and other college related subreddits. When I started, there were about 20,000 subscribers, and when I left it was in the hundreds of thousands; now it's one of the largest college admissions forums in the world. It was worth it for me to help underprivileged students get high quality information about college and financial aid options, and then see those same students get into excellent colleges. It was quite a lot of work and most moderators on that subreddit did not last more than a year.
It doesn't look so bad to me. It's telling you that a list type was expected but you passed it a function that returns a list instead.

You're right though that OCaml isn't the kind of language you can pick up in an afternoon.
Yes, daily for many years. Feedbin plus NetNewsWire.
Nothing happens with out squabbling about government policy. Government policy literally defines the rules of the market. It is government policy that allows investors to ask for equity ownership. Government policy defines the legal shapes organizations and business can take. Government policy defines the very existence of property (personal and otherwise).

You cannot remove government policy from the equation. It's like trying to solve a problem with code while removing the computer. The code runs on the computer, with out it, it's meaningless.
There is something like a 90% return rate on lost wallets in Japan. Failure to attempt to return a lost item of value is an actual crime... so if the bag was not sitting on the street next to him when he woke up and not returned by a kind soul it was by Japanese definition stolen

Edit: An eye opening video on how well this works https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/9999897/
Thanks for sharing the info - I appreciate it.
I do not see what your conclusion has to do with your premise.

Subreddits have topics and rules. Moderators curate posts to suit those topics and rules. This has value.
If you follow the links in the original post you will see that OP is talking about a Brother colour laser printer.
The US has legitimately gotten worse for the past 50 years. If you talk about why you'll get flagged/banned though. People don't like reality.
Regulated, perhaps. But regulation shouldn't entail handing vast amounts of personal details, and the ability of intermediates to be able to track you fully afterwards. I want to be able to buy stuff without centralized entities following me everywhere.
Is it unambiguously good to forcibly take from someone to give to someone else merely because the first party has more than the second? That's an essential element of any wealth redistribution scheme that seeks to reduce inequality.

If you imagine a scale from [0, 1] where 0 is no redistributive mechanisms at all and 1 is perfect, daily rebalancing to exact equality of outcome, it's fairly obvious to me that neither extreme of 0 nor 1 is "the very idea of goodness itself".
Ooh, ooh: how about SF before the HN crowd moved into it?

:)
They did it to themselves. It’s one of the leading reasons I left the region after grad school for the ancestral planes of my parents: Suburban Illinois, heh.

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/boomtown-yesterday-d...
Youtrack, from jetbrains https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/

I'd say the biggest thing I'm missing in it is a chrono.
We track our time worked per tasks and I've been told Jira provides a chrono to do that for you.

I'm using clocking in org-mode anyway, so it's easy to report. But it would be nice if it was provided by the tool itself.
Technical Preview: Programming Apple M1 GPUs in Julia with Metal.jl
Ask HN: What interesting things can I do with an old iPhone?
Several months ago, I replaced my iPhone 7 Plus with a newer model and the old device has been collecting dust in a drawer - what are some interesting ways that it can be repurposed?
It seems like it is true and accurate to say that Rust prevents “whole classes of bugs”. It is obvious that other bugs can still exist. Otherwise people would say Rust prevents “all bugs”.

Are you disappointed that Rust evangelists don’t spend time talking about the fact that bugs can exist in Rust programs? Did you see the two articles posted in the last week alone about bugs that were found in Rust code? They reached the front page of HN

- https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/06/everything-is-broken-shipp...

- https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/06/fuzzing-rust-minidump-for-...

If you want to see criticism of Rust, I’ve found that the most informed criticism comes from people who use Rust a lot. Example - https://matklad.github.io/2020/09/20/why-not-rust.html
Why Beauty Matters (and how it has been destroyed by “usability”)
I'm not sure if it's considered bad form to link to Twitter threads here, but I found this commentary via Twitter particularly moving and thought provoking. The comment about many schools looking indistinguishable from prisons, as well as the observation that many megacities all seem to aspire to look exactly the same with no local flavor are particularly noteworthy.
That's like saying we should be writing all our applications in assembly.

No. Developer productivity is important, and it does impact the end user in quality and amount of features.
Not really. Just because somewhere is a good place to live doesn't mean its a good place to visit.
Zendesk sold for $10B and going private
Cerebras Slays GPUs, Breaks Record for Largest Models Trained on a Single Device
Moderating content is not equivalent to posting.
Any sort of plugin architecture, e.g. VST audio plugins. Often there's an interface which you could implement directly, or you could inherit from an abstract class which provides some common functionality. I like this because it stresses that deep hierarchies aren't necessary to be useful. Also, if you're refactoring and see a "switch on type" then a little bit of inheritance is probably OK.

I admit I taught intro to C++ and used shapes as an example. I spent a few weeks building a little "ASCII render" thingy with a 80x30 "canvas" where each character is a pixel. Then you could place Shapes on the canvas and the shape would decide whether a given pixel was contained() inside of it.

I remember my first OO class where the car analogy was proven to be bad using the existence of the El Camino.
Artificial photosynthesis can produce food without sunshine
I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams! Thank you, both from me and on behalf of my daughter.
They have essentially tripled their profits at the expense of everyone else

This is what unbridled capitalism and profit seeking gets us
Lol yes because preventing the murder of unborn children and being allowed to own guns are "wacky right wing laws".
Apple should clearly open for other engines and stop handicapping the web.

I've had so many users complaining about Safari on iOS over the years that it's insane.

On one of my web apps I've had so insanely many people who tries to get push notifications to work. Despite it being clearly stated in extremely visible red text that push notifications are not supported on iPhones, many users are still contacting me complaining that they can't get it to work, even after installing other browsers.

Even more technical users are tricked by Apple into thinking that they have a choice. Users don't understand that Apple is the problem and instead blames the web sites they are using for the lack of iOS features. This clearly needs to stop.

Safari is also insane when it comes to bugs. Everything from the keyboard not wanting to open sometimes when a text input is focused, to scrolling sometimes not working without reloading the page, to having to quit safari to be able to press the address bar and even a shorter period where some users had to actually reboot the phone to make the browser work again.

These issues seems to be fixed now, but some of them persisted for quite some time(years for some of them). Scrolling is still an absolute shitshow(momentum scrolling animations, switching scroll targets and so on), and that is the most used feature on any browser.

Safari is definetly the new IE, at least on mobile.
Specifically, taking actions to evade AML regulations also gets you in trouble.

Withdrawing money from the bank for your own purposes is fine; withdrawing $9500 multiple times is fine. Making multiple withdrawals of $9500 to avoid reporting a transaction of $10,000 or more gets you in trouble, once someone notices.

Making withdrawals to yourself from Coinbase is analogously fine (to this non-lawyer), but doing so to avoid reporting transactions you are otherwise obligated to will eventually get you in trouble.
Either you are trolling, or you are that singular kind of user site marketers dream about, who actually want to enable push notification and receive their spam.
We have someone deaf on my team too. Text chat is the best way to do it. Often we'll screen share in addition to chatting on a client like Slack and that works well in my experience. We find live captions a bit hit and miss, but it helps when there's no alternative. Normally in addition to live captions we'll have someone add notes in chat too.

I've never been diagnosed with anything officially but I have a stutter problem and I struggle to convert my thoughts to words in real-time. So even for someone like myself I find text preferable to voice/video meetings most of the time anyway. I suspect a lot of non-native speakers probably feel similar too.

Video / voice meetings can be nice to do from time to time for casual meetings such as retrospectives, but when I need to explain something technical I'd rather have time to compile my thoughts and write them down in a way that's clear and easy to understand. Plus if I write it down it's stored on Slack for later reference and it's more accessible for those who struggle with audible communication.
> because they don’t have a lot of great content actually imo.

At the rate I watch new TV/Web series, there are enough in Netflix right now to last me 2-3 years.

The recsys is shit.

After I search and manually add shows to my watchlist, I see them as recced and with 98% match.

I never see shows I would really like recced to me by the recsys.

I always find shows by word-of-mouth and by searching You.com (prev Google). I just search what I want. I see many lists appear on the results.

I take a mental note of series appearing in multiple lists and synopsis liked by me. This is how I discovered Broadchurch, Bosch, and Mozart in the Jungle.

I used to browse Reddit a lot (had to cut it due to lack of time) and watched shows and movies that came up a lot during free discussion or viral askreddits or some weekly threads.

This is how I discovered Clue (1982), Superbad, etc.
I'm sympathetic to this perspective, but the other side of this is that the most enjoyable time in my job is headphones on listening to music in a flow state. I've been accused of being a lone wolf on projects. It comes from the selfish place that it's simply more enjoyable. Architecture conversations and code reviews can be fun, but collaborating on a project I could do myself (and especially pairing) often makes my job less enjoyable.
People willing to do this for free remind me just a bit too much of all those angry Christian moms in the 80s-90s policing music and video games for “society’s own good.”
I'd wager this is an extremely low estimate about the value of that labor. From the paper it seems like they compared with freelance moderators on upwork.

I'm a part of a couple of super niche subreddits where there are moderators with deep expertise in the area. I know that IRL some of these mods are often billing $100s/hour for their work but on reddit they do it free, and they freely dispense the same advice.
All linuxen should be able to do that with overlayfs, I think.
Yes, it’s where I get news, follow blogs, and read Hacker News among many other things. I’m a big fan of Reeder on my Mac and iOS, too.

https://reederapp.com
On the dangers of cryptocurrencies and the uselessness of blockchain
Chill. Yes, I'm being snarky. But I did spend quite a bit of time there for work at one point--albeit quite a while ago. And it's sort of a sprawling mess for the most part. If I lived in Austin, I'd probably go to Houston now and then for cultural activities but, no, by and large Houston is not a city I'd go out of my way to visit. Sorry.
Thing you started doing with your kid when they were little and are still doing?
kids are 5 and 3. i wanted to started doing "things" with them that i want to keep until they are old. we play puzzles, for context.
wondering what people did and are still doing?
oh cool. hey quick question, how do i do a hanging quote in chrome?
I've been using RSS more lately, with Liferea. It's nice, because I can a) remember the sources of information of which I'm interested in keeping track; b) read it in a readable format without a lot of the tracking and Javascript running; and c) not rely on social media to carry news to me with all the imposed biases and tracking that implies.
Wipr works for me iOS-I never see ads, including on Youtube. How can uBlock origin work better than that? What am I giving up?
I don't really agree with that. I have family in both Nashville and Raleigh. By both their estimations and mine, both cities have gotten quite a bit better over the last ~20 years.
I agree that the weather is terrible, and as a person who likes birding and exploring outdoors it really sucks to live here for that, Cedar Fever is miserable.

My main disagreement is that there's great Mexican food to be found if you skip the TexMex places and stick to interior Mexican places and small family-run taquerias.
Kudos for building Codetree! I used it about 2017-2018. It helped meto manage a roadmap of GitHub issues.
I would recommend people who are looking for not only printers, but most kinds of equipment (except for cases where new stuff is unambiguously better than old stuff, but this is rare) to buy used professional/industrial hardware instead of new consumer equipment. And if this is difficult try to look for old consumer hardware still in good shape. These are often of much better quality and also it is much less wasteful to something used than new.

Professional equipment is usually in another league than consumer stuff when it comes to quality and reliability and also usually has very low resale value so you can get it for quite cheap. Personally I just picked up an old Sharp color laser printer for about 90$. This is a great machine that prints 2 sided A3 (very hard to find for laser printers) and with toners that should last about 10000 pages which is way better than anything you can buy as a consumer. The only backside is that it is quite big and heavy.

Old consumer equipment that is in good shape is often a good deal with the main reasoning being that something that has lasted for a long time has a higher probability of continuing to last a long time compared to something new where it is hard to say how long it will last.
If they were paid they could be asked to maintain certain standards as conditions of employment that you can't really expect from a volunteer.
Unpaid labor is worth what you're paid for it if other people will do it for free. Reddit no more owes a debt to these moderators than you owe the guy who cleans your windshield without permission.
Huh? No they make more money by restricting supply, that's what I'm saying.

Not drilling and not refining let's them jack up prices while blaming inflation
Apologies for self-promotion, but I’m building the exact product you describe:

- project focused

- GitHub style discussion threads

- slightly more powerful tasks than Basecamp

- simple/minimal design

Currently in closed beta (macroapp.io) however you can drop me an email james@macroapp.io and I can give you access.
That’s be fun when you Exchange scripts with non-danes ;-))
A vaccine created to target a specific protein and years of virology experience in predicting where that would lead. I'm not one of those virologists, but it's not an unreasonable issue to foresee, with OAS a known effect.
Austin, and a few other places, has a chance to handle tech growth better than SF did, and set an example.

I don't expect miracles, but SF sets a low bar to clear, and some place will do it.
Moderating is a part of community building and growing, however.
this is right. I ran a fairly technical b2b SaaS product with hundreds of paid users and we had ~10 hours of support a month, most of which was driven by new features. If you keep the product simple and build your docs into the product, you can get by with a few hours of support a week.
Ive lived in Austin and San Francisco. Austin has amazing Mexican food if you know where to get it (Chuys etc. I forget the names because its been so lokg but I can look it up).

Tex-Mex is imo Americanised mexican food which doesn’t suck lol. Again, good restaurants will serve you excellent food.

Austin definitely has the best Breakfast tacos, and just tacos in general. SF has terrible tacos (burritos are different).

Every time someone mentions City X has terrible food without mentioning what restaurants they tried, Im immediately suspicious.
For non-whites? Austin is the only fast-growing major city that has lost Black population (https://www.kut.org/austin/2014-05-16/austins-the-only-fast-...).

For the poor? See https://itep.org/whopays/ -- we have the second most inequitable tax system in the nation, where the poor pay the highest effective rate. We also have no expanded Medicaid, so the rate of uninsured is twice the national average. The State of Texas blocked Austin's sick leave ordinance (https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/05/texas-supreme-court-...). All this affects women and minorities disproportionately -- we're above the national average for maternal mortality, and non-white women are at disproportionate risk above that.
If websites were downloadable like a (versioned) document you could create your own offline bookmark web (archive), which would be neat. I guess scraping could help with getting the contents to disk, but it would probably be kinda broken.

If you can then direct your search engine to discover content from this archive I would perhaps more often (re)stumble upon this neat discontinued blog that's stuck 5 levels deep in my folder structure.
For better or worse, US law extends to anything that touches our financial network. Even a whiff of a connection to a US financial institution can get you prosecuted by the US. The Bank of Somewhereelse really wants to be able to continue doing business with the Bank of America, so they accept regulation.
I for one, like being able to print content in the privacy of my own home without letting private companies like Fedex/Kinkos see it, and potentially filter/share it with third parties.

We're already shifting towards a society where things that offer a traditional offline, anonymous way of transacting information or currency is being construed as a threat because "terrorism", aka it cannot be monitored and controlled. Easily justifiable to still have one.

My dad still uses a Laserjet 4L daily to print ebay stuff and refuses to replace it because it works, and my 14 year old brother mfc, with an ipv6 stack(!) still works as good as the day I bought it. These things last generations.
Can you give me an example? I use Wipr and I don't see ads when I browse the web. Safari Content Blockers supports CSS queries and URL matching. For where those don't work, extensions can still interact and modify the DOM.
Truly politicians have no idea what they want w.r.t. tech.
Isn't that Japan?
Because the browser market is not a free market; both Apple and Google leverage their existing positions in other markets to promote their browsers.
This isn't true! I've encountered many bugs in safari (fullscreen pointer lock not working on most html elements comes to mind), and they certainly do not value quality.