skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until or unless something equivalent to those platform frameworks becomes part of the browser, the situation won’t change significantly. The fact is that the current interface between web app and browser, that is, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (and WASM), is highly inadequate for productivity applications.
The problem with panpsychism is not that it is unnecessary or not anthropocentric, but that it is provably false. If everything was conscious then full anesthetic (removal of consciousness with neurotoxic chemicals) wouldn't work.

It does work though, which makes it clear that consciousness is a property produced by a mechanism in the brain.
counter-examples: all of FANG/MAGA, even when you exclude founders

Satya: 1992, CEO in in 2014
Tim: 1998, CEO in ~2009
Sundar: 2004, CEO in 2015
Andy: 1997, CEO in 2021
Ted: 2000, CEO in 2020

They were all senior executives well before assuming their CEO roles.
(Note: I work on Lighthouse).

> Lighthouse measures that first second or first few seconds after you visit a site at position 0/0. It doesn't care about how much bloat comes after you scroll. It discourages you to pre-load resources (including JS and CSS) which you don't _immediately_ need for that first hit.

This is true - or rather, was true. We're making lots of progress on a mode to measure performance beyond the initial cold load. Check out https://web.dev/lighthouse-user-flows/

> It is really about content and marketing websites with low interaction.

Well, that isn't our intention at all, but I can see how to might come to that conclusion. We've only recently started investing in how to measure interaction. See https://web.dev/inp/
We can tackle so-called "essential" problems forever & make no progress actually making the web better though.

This post impacted me & resonated strongly: it's a great notice to be more alert as to whether we're talking about details or something core & significant. Devs can have these discussions deep in the weeds, but it's kind of a farce & disservice when the petty implementation details flood & overrun the topics of what we're making & how we've enriched the media-form.
Amateur watchmaker here. Its half life is ~1600 years, so it's still plenty hot. Hot enough, in fact, to burn out the phosphor in the radium paint, so it stops glowing, but flakes off as radium dust as the binders in the paint break down. Radium produces mostly alpha radiation, which is blocked by glass or your skin, but if you inhale or ingest the particles, it's not good for you, as the alpha particles will go directly into the surrounding tissue. The people exposed to the worst of it would be the ones stripping the radium paint off the dials and refinishing them, as that generates a lot of dust that you might inhale.
UK government website remind me of the golden age of Web 1.0 (minus the scrolling blinking Javascript)

- content dense pages

- accessibility

- using the browser defaults with only minor styling (Eg links are blue underlines, proper use of H1-H3, etc)

- works without JavaScript
My favorite stat from a previous drought was that the water used for _exported almonds alone_ is equivalent to the water used for Los Angeles and San Francisco.

It's ludicrous to me that people use the drought to claim that CA is in the process of hitting the limits of its population carrying capacity when we have such a pants-on-head idiotic allocation of water. As a spherical-cow thought experiment, if _banning the export of almonds_ would allow building another LA and SF, "does CA have enough water for its population" is not the right question to be asking.
Do you notice if being signed in affects this? Just set out to try it (not signed in) from the first video that came up when I searched "Linux" and kept clicking the third video wondering how long until I get to Hitler.

Never got there. After a brief detour in some Greek channels I can't comment on, I ended up in a seemingly endless loop of mindfully woke TEDx talks (as in, no political or inflammatory stuff, just different variations of "how to live your life to the fullest", "this is how your brain works", "the secret to to happiness/productivity/communication...", etc.
Huh. Okay. Why? What do you mean by ‘worse’?
Well, are you saying that an org needs expertise to inspect faulty cars, like, by calling a mechanic?

Is that like too much these days for companies that owb fleets of cars? is opening a server harder than checking whars wrong with a car? like a cable comes loose and that's gane over?
"Wrong" is different to "fraudulent"

If they are wrong then you publish a paper with conflicting results. If there is fraud (which is different to "I can't replicate the results") then you deal with the publisher of the paper.
I've got a strong suspicion that there would be more productivity if the bottom half of developer (or more) left the industry. Control for seniority, of course. The majority of 1Xers produce outright bad code, contribute disproportionately to tech debt, don't read user stories thoroughly, don't test their code properly, and generally get in everyone else's way.

The most productive thing our industry could do is create an anonymous blacklist of devs to avoid and code samples of their shit work.
The problem is that comment is totally correct. It took a school board recall to undo hugely dumb (national news) decisions that were hurtful. Sf has a history of dysfunctional goverment, take a walk around civic center or any bart station.

I see the point of trying to keep comment quality high but points like the parent are quite correct and not really starting flamewars.
4K high bitrate HDR / dolby vision + dolby atmos is surprisingly a pain to find in general.
Online play is increasingly important in the chess world iiuc
Redis commander is a node.js web application used to view, edit, and manage a Redis Database.

Let's make authentication a life
> sizable community where you can discuss and share ideas on different topics without abusive mods, groupthink downvoting

Twitter is the closest thing I can think of.
"Big fines?" Seriously? How are you going to wring "big fines" out of piddly-ass hacks troweling out junk apps?
Don't want to give another extension access to read my screen though. Why do extensions require such broad access? Can't think of this needing anything outside the YouTube domain
You're not wrong, but OpenSSL represents "API/ABI" dependency. People coded to this. OpenSSL is also "s/w by accretion" as people added and removed things over time.

The original core, SSLEAY, Was an exemplary instance of somebody outside the core cryptographic community (Eric was, IIRC working as a systems programmer in a psychology department at UQ) -And was hand coded to be both algorithmically faithful to export restrictions (ITAR) and machine code optimisations: it was FAST. The code had to implement both the export restricted brainded reduced keylength and the "illegal to export" algorithms.

Peter Guttmans library was known in some ways to be "cleaner" -But didn't gain traction.

A lot of OpenSSL is history.

Recoding in a type safe language, and with a mind to risks is good. But remember, another attack pattern is differential analysis: Code in crypto has to do some things like present equal cost CPU burden across different paths, to defeat attacks including the side=channel of finding hotspots in the VLSI mask and working out what it does from the leakage of information there.

Its complicated. Rust or Haskell Alone, won't make something like OpenSSL inherently risk-free, it may introduce new risks in closing off these ones.

Still worth discussing. Just not necessarily a no-brainer.
To Heal Anxiety, Stop Thinking of It as a Disease
Princes fight other princes. This activity dominates their lives and fills their entire perspective.

Which makes sense. Because if you let up for a moment, your competition surely won't.

So to tell the princes, "hey, put that furious game aside for a sec. We have something more important to attend to" isn't gonna do it.

I think that the princes, these people who control the world, are psychologically incapable of quitting the prince-game.
I disagree.
Web devs aren't discussing characters and plots but instead argue which typewriter to use.

Better tools don't make better apps just like word processors don't make better books.
The best web dev tools are worthless if the UX is bad.
I'm not sure the ratio is that different. In 1994 how many different browsers, connection speeds, phishing scams, competitors shipping fast forcing you to do similar to stay competitive, accessibility considerations, etc. If memory serves, it was dramatically less than now.

This thread of comments is kinda weird to me, there's like a romanticized view of old timers or something, and the problem must be the young, money hungry and unenthused. It feels like boring old internet gatekeeping and is not insightful.

There is a totally different world in tech now than in 1994. Tons of stuff and often optimized for mean time to recovery. I crave quality too (believe me) but I think shipping fast and breaking a few eggs (not directly but that's essentially what you're left with) is what is asked of engineers in 2022.

All of my peers seem to care about quality and we do our best but even in the days of buying software on floppy disks, bugs existed.
How many times have you flown somewhere in the last 10 years? How many commutes have you made?

Travel is the most inefficient, wasteful, and anti-climate activity I can think of because for many cases it is simply unnecessary or discretionary. Beyond having some 100,000 flights per day pumping greenhouse gases directly into the atmosphere think of the infrastructure and workforce involved in running airports, hotels, car rentals, shuttles, parking lots, restaurants, uber/taxis, etc.

I think air travel should be rare and expensive especially for business and vacations. Perhaps a heavy tax on business and pleasure travel would be good place to start.

While we are at it work should be done remotely whenever possible and empty office buildings should be renovated into affordable housing.
Their CEO (https://twitter.com/Nithin0dha) actively talks about the dangers of stock trading and attempts to educate their users at every step.

There's one feature in their app - "Nudge" - that warns users about a myriad of things, one of which is if they are buying penny stocks or stocks with low liquidity under the influence of a sham marketing scheme.

It's not so much as people shouldn't use their product - it's more about people should use their product wisely and not fall into traps.
Clubhouse too, but I'm not a fan of it being completely synchronous.
This is basically what I would do with exposing Velocity templates to translation users. Technically it's coding but the scope is limited to text rendering.
> if A made B and B made C, who made A?

All right. So if god made A, who made god?
It's rather the opposite. They control the supply by creating artificial scarcity in order to profit from inflated prices. It's the absolute opposite of a service.

Example: 1000 Decks available at the distributor at €100 each (random numbers just to show the point) and 1000 people willing to buy one. Fine, each user orders one at that price and bingo: everyone is satisfied. Now put in there a scalper, that is, a middleman who buys almost all Decks at the price (or rather at a discount), then keeps them in storage for a while. Users start buying normally from official sources, then the stocks deplete and scalpers become the only supplier in town. Now everyone wants a Deck but they're unobtanium everywhere, so their scarcity inflates their perceived value and soon or later users are willing to pay twice their retail price to own the thing, rather than wait for the supply to return normal. The scalper slowly sells them one or very few at a time at inflated price and profit is guaranteed.

Now, if the product was built on Mars and the middleman added some value, for example using his cargo spaceship to bring them on Earth a thousand at a time, that would be fine, but the way they operate they're completely useless middlemen adding nothing of value and rather inflating prices for their own profit.
uBlock Origin stops blocking ads on Youtube for at least a day every time Chrome is updated, unlike on Firefox, which is consistently blocking ads.
What does the price of a stadium or the LHC have to do with the price of tea in China? You've taken the conversation in a direction nobody else was discussing.
you may feel they are unnecessary, other people like it, and it definitely isn't from the age of punch cards. I like to watch people code on twitch, and the amount of times I see people get confused about what a particular closing bracket is closing is pretty regular. The other thing it allows is you can jump to all the closing tokens for IF statements in a file really easily. Way easier to write tools to extract certain things out of code files as well. While I don't mind curly brace blocks, I can definitely see the advantages of distinct tokens for different types of blocks
> Up until this current supreme court, a right has never been removed.

Dred Scott v. Sandford removed citizenship.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
> This is the reality that has been grinding me down of late. Nor do I find it limited to only web stuff. I see it in embedded and other market areas.

sigh We have hardware doing billions of instructions per second, capable of transporting at least 500Mb/s within my computer, 120+Hz screens and yet:

- Windows 10 desktop -> opening Start menu = 5 seconds wait.

A trite example but once you look it is everywhere.
This stuff grinds my gears every damn day.
It's not binary, one company can be worse than another.
Parts of GDPR (cookie law++, 100 people organization expectations for random one man software operations in japan, etc) and the current efforts to effectively remove end to end encryption from people's chat programs are two good examples.

The EU is not the lone offender in this of course, many other countries have similar issues, such as the USA's FATCA.
It varies - usually product oriented companies have a good work life balance - comparable to that of US and EU. Service oriented companies are sweat shops through and through. There are exceptions on both sides.
internet is over. everything is filled with BS.
When all three founders wear turtlenecks on PR photos, you know there’s something amiss…
No, all countries with large science programs use similar processes for total fund size and suballocations (dunno about zh but jp and eu are quite similar, with some non important details)
The scope of problems being solved is much higher. Adding a two or three libraries- jquery and a plugin or two- and not giving a toss about performance was indeed easy. Few auxiliary tools were required.

Back then, we all could have a pretty strong hand on the wheel of our websites & how they functioned, at a detailed level. It was feasible, for the scope was small. But now, we all use package managers, we all use bundlers, we all use minifiers, we all use production builds, we all use tree shakers. Any one of these concerns is a significant realm that tends to have significant people-years worth of work poured into it. The need for these capabilities distances the practitioner from the core truth of the media: we no longer see clearly what we are doing, we no longer have personal stake or control in the processes.

There's still a strong latent desire to re-simplify, to de-configure the web, to de-build it. We had hopes that EcmaScript Modules would help, we had hope HTTP2 Push would be a viable delivery platform, for un-tooling, but we never really made an earnest go at tackling the optimization problems that all brought in; works like Cache-Digest never de-facto materialized or got made-available. Front-end architecture similarly has been dominated by high-abstraction top-down frameworks, namely React, which complects in a wide host of assumptions/abstractions that distance the practitioner from the actual media-form. Just as ESM was a hope that we might get back to understandable, without lots of framework/tools, WebComponents too presents a hope that we can strip away a lot of the specific complexity & find a more inter-modular, general & understandable grounding. The web can & should be at a similar power level to where it is, more so, but in more honest, accessible, direct manners than the crafted-of-necessity deep layering we cobble with today.
> This legislation is the result of democratic process - i.e. decided by the "common people", if indirectly.

Do you know that for a fact? The EU is famously opaque to its voters. What is being done in the name of the voters is likely for the most part entirely unknown to said voters. Very likely many more EU citizens have “voted” on this issue in a more direct fashion by buying Apple products. Should we disregard their opinion in favour of the opinion of a few bureaucrats four levels removed from the common people?

> shall we also decide to only buy from companies that don't use child labor, and don't put toxic chemicals in food, and don't pollute, or are those areas something where legislation is legitimate, while reigning in anti-competitive practices for some reason is not okay?

Ehr, yes? Shouldn’t we decide to avoid bad companies? Reminder that this subthread is about not infantilising people. I do believe people make such choices all the time, to avoid child labour and what not. What’s more democratic than a vast majority of people making such choices without coercion?
Often it's for smaller values of "the entire world" though.
I would love to see proof of this, if it’s so rampant where is the hard evidence? He said she said isn’t all that convincing coming from fired employees
It's fortunate if "private cloud" is actually like a cloud.
> cratered

Quit working. One or more critical modules would fail beyond my ability/interest to repair in a foreign container-manager based application. Or the thing would quit booting. I guess I could try different SD cards but the ones I had were serving fine with raspbian before.

The first time it failed, I tried to join the community but found it exceptionally hostile before I even had a chance to seek regular support.
I guess it's also about distance.

Monitors are right in front of our eyes. I probably wouldn't hurt looking a tree or hill, or anything that is outside because they are at a distance. And of course you aren't going to stare at them for long periods of time.

Staring at monitors/screens is different.
IMO your 170km/h example is a sanity limit you could put into most computer programs. Similarly with GPS assisted general limits and monitoring. (Ex: your in belgium, and the national max speed limit is XXXkm/h, etc)
> No, I don't want "related results" that are completely unrelated to my query,

This, but with LinkedIn and jobs
Even outside of VC companies. I worked briefly for a large, old tech giant you've heard of, and was told to hire two teams of contractors. I didn't have -work- for two teams of contractors; it was all green field development and I already had a team of devs champing at the bit for any requirement product (which was -extremely- slow) actually defined, and they were sitting idle half the time as it was, and I was basically told "the roadmap says we need these two extra teams starting in a month, so hire them". So I did, reiterating my caveats. Cue two months later when leadership was asking me why the contractors weren't doing anything; isn't there -something- they could be doing?
My take would be: Apps that do the job they’re supposed to do in service of the user, without friction for the user. The pleasantness for the user doesn’t come from the app proper, it comes from the user being able to achieve what they want without friction. It’s a bit like what is often said about film music: The best is the one you don’t notice is there.
> I predict Chrome will come to iOS with working uBlock extension on day one

> … I loathe the browser experience, with its lack of working ad blocking, on iOS.

Well, chrome is castrating ublock on chrome desktop with Manifest v3 quite soon. What makes you think it will be any different on iOS?

Pretty soon chrome Adblock capabilities will be quite similar to that of safari on iOS which I find quite ironic.
Mars Exploration Using Sailplanes
Any way to use `.gitattributes` to specify a file is _not_ generated? I work on a repo with a build/ directory with build scripts, which is unfortunately excluded by default from GitHub's file search or quick-file selection (T).
This is true, I started with Java ME too with Eclipse IDE then proceeded to integrating Blackberry SDK and then it started from there. Mobile development's phase right Blackberry disappeared never recovered, it went 0 to 100 real quick from that very moment.

I was still hacking some J2ME for a Nokia app then Samsung released an Android phone and I was like wtf is an Android.
If this comes to the US I'll finally make the switch to iPhone. I don't care if it's optional.
Strange Loop is the holy grail imho but I’ve not attended (yet). Lots of very bright minds.
That's honestly a lot of devs lol

Every company I've seen with more than that (startup or BigCo) is basically a salary slush fund ^.^
X-Plane has had a great write-up on winged flight on Mars since 2000. Everytime I hear about Mars flight I think about this. https://www.x-plane.com/adventures/mars.html

The idea that Mars might have complex enough atmosphere for finding updrafts is interesting, not something I'd heard before. The pitch of building something super lightweight is definitely interesting. I tend to think we don't have a lot of experience building AI powered soaring systems, but that's probably not a huge barrier. From the intro of their pitch:

> The absence of a propulsion system, allowing for a compact form factor, means the sailplanes can be packaged into CubeSats and deployed as secondary payloads at a relatively low cost; providing scientific data over locations inaccessible by current landers and rovers.
Yeah... the top response to that tweet is pretty spot on.

https://twitter.com/threepointone/status/1543237413190901760
Off topic but I can't tell you how reassuring this is. This approach was essentially what we had come up with as a proposal for a Navy HR migration away from mainframes, though we never even got close to being able to actually attempt it. But at least it sounds like it could have worked had we tried it.
I have a hunch that this concern can be alleviated with proven usage and broader community acceptance
The word they are looking for is "tallest".
Classic misdirection:

"It used to be thought that a university campus was a place where you'd be exposed to a lot of different ideas," DeSantis said at a press conference following the bill signing. "Unfortunately, now the norm is, these are more intellectually repressive environments. You have orthodoxies that are promoted, and other viewpoints are shunned or even suppressed."
DSL was near-exactly 50MB (since that's the size of a "business card" CD-R). And yeah, somehow that thing managed to ship with multiple web browsers and a full office suite.

DSL was my first distro (really second, but it was the first I actually installed on a machine - specifically, the Compaq Presario 1210 my mom handed down to me), and I remember it fondly.
We could have had wings on the bus already, but the same group of people who are most vocal about the cliff have an older and more pronounced fear of flying.
Approved Cameras – Behind the Scenes
There is no way that Apple is paying 5% on credit card fees. Average fees paid by merchants are 1.3% to 3.5%[1].

You can bet Apple negotiates hard on that fee. It wouldn't surprise me to learn they are paying 0.1%.

[1] https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/research/average-credit-card...