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> semantic web forcing everything into a single schema

I don't think "forcing" is the right word here, I think the right one would be "expects it to converge under practical incentives". That's a more gentle statement that reflects the fact, that it doesn't have to for SW tech to work.

Also, the term "schema" is a bit off, bc there's really no such thing in there. You can have the same graph described differently using different ontologies at the same moment without changing underlying data model, accessible via the same interface. It's a very different approach.

> never the way computers or humans structure data in order to work with it

If you haven't mentioned that you had an experience, I would say you confuse different layers of technology, because graph data model is a natural representation of many complex problems. But because you have, can I ask you to clarify what you mean here?

> Academia sells the straight jacked of the semantic web as a life long free lunch at an all-you-can eat-buffet

I disagree, bc I in fact think that academia doesn't sell shit, and that's the problem. There's no clear marketing proposal and I don't think they really bother or equipped to make it. There's a lack of human-readable specs and docs, it's insane how much time you need to invest in this topic even just to be able estimate whenever it's a reasonable to consider using SW in a first place. Also, lack of conceptual framework, "walkthroughs", tools, outdated information, incorrect information drops survival chance of a SW-based project by at least x100. But it can really shine in some use-cases, that unfortunately have little to do with the "web" itself.
No, Russia would have to appease the West to see sanctions lifted. If the sanctions were lifted first to please Russia, what motivation would Russia have to leave Ukraine?
A good question to ask when considering Harbor Freight is "when this thing breaks, am I driving back to Harbor Freight or to the hospital?". They do have some decent quality tools nowadays, not to mention the heaps of consumables where quality isn't exactly a critical factor. Their Icon tools come with a lifetime warranty and they seem to be similarly uncaring about "misuse" in an effort to mirror SnapOn's reputation. They will even accept the phone number alone for proof of purchase instead of having to keep track of a thermal printer receipt that will fade away over time like how Lowe's handles warranty exchanges if you don't have the same credit card it was purchased on.

I love Harbor Freight but you'll never find me using one of their chainsaws.
Unless I actually have substantive impact — like truly meaningful like people not one bacon distance away from me really feel it you’re getting the bare minimum.

This is the downside of trying to make knowledge workers a commodity and replaceable — work gets coasting and my side projects get my real creativity.
Yeah true, but this coming from the likes of Facebook and Google, two companies well known for warehousing talent... it mostly just comes across as tone deaf and naive.

For years they've literally hired very smart and capable people, and then shoehorned them into working on some ad-tech engine that an intern could do, just so they didn't work for a competitor. And now they're angry that their employees "don't work hard?"

Holy fuck, for being Google, they sure have some idiots in leadership.
E.g. Samsung spies on paying users of their TVs.
> Is degrowth incompatible with improved middle class and poor living standards if the rich didn't take so much?

No, but it's antithetical to everything we think and believe for Capital to not take its profits before everyone else.
GM Makes $1,500 OnStar Subscription Mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cadillac Models
I specifically use /e/ because of its seamless microG integration. Even banking apps work great on it.
I’ve got several years of experience of webscraping, mainly in python.
Scrapy is the first choice for “basic websites” while playwright is used then things get difficult.
I’m collecting my experience in using these tools in this “web scraping open knowledge project” on github (https://github.com/reanalytics-databoutique/webscraping-open...) and on my substack (http://thewebscraping.club/) for longer free content
It does seem like the author got asked to shoehorn as many different potential downsides of doing fairly sensible things as possible into an article

If items are sufficient quality to be resellable to remote US buyers on Depop but mailing them out individually is too much work, you really, really don't have to worry that if donated in bulk to a network of charity shops they're all going straight to African landfill...
In principle you've got spatial diversity at both ends - on the ground and in space. I don't mean full duplex - I mean that the same area on the ground can in principle be covered by multiple Starlink satellites simultaneously using the same frequencies, so long as the satellites are not close together. The receiving phased array can separate the multiple signals just as it could if you used a steerable parabolic dish, but in software. Of course there may not be enough satellites launched yet to take advantage of this, but eventually there should be.
Yes, the inflation is eating the wages of my employees, now they are asking for raises to maintain their standard of living. Let's call them slackers so I won't decrease my now extra profits. A shitty report of a enterprise magazine will take my words in face value and publish.
Sort of reminds me of the original idea behind REST. IMO automated system-to-system is a dead end... you're always going to need humans in the loop for any useful non-trivial data.
This type of "Digital Therapeutics" might be paid for by German health insurance companies. For example, https://gaia-group.com/en/ appears to be a successful provider of medical apps.

If you don't mind, please email me at moin@deutscheki.de and explain in a bit more detail what the needs of that deaf community are. Maybe I can forward that to the right people to get my government to pay for the app that you wish to see developed.

I mean I agree with you, it certainly would increase life satisfaction for deaf people if they could "listen in" into conversations to know what others are gossiping about.
But threads do release GIL on IO.
There's a slight overhead of course, but if you're not running hundreds of servers and thousands of threads, the overhead can be negligible.

I've seen more than once people rewriting thread-based code to coroutines, despite not having any noticeable benefits other than being more sexy. In fact I was one of those people almost a decade ago, rewriting the whole networking portion of the app only to achieve ~5% performance improvement. One should always measure the overhead instead assuming how big it is.
They do, but there's a different level of importance in tracking for just any link and a link you click.
> It comes off as cheap and unoriginal.

To me it comes off as Apple fans doing Apple-type shit. I'm not an Apple UI fan, but if someone is, they should imitate what they like instead of trying to invent some entirely new garbage paradigm, without any particular inspiration, when they really just wanted to make a nice distro that they would enjoy using.
Ray Dalio. LinkedIn. Super obvious take.

"Hey! Its not cool when super powers escalate stuff and shake their sabres."
Merino wool is great for this.
Impact is hard to define, I’m just talking about sprawling code bases, decades of reorgs, title changes, corporate priorities, and the very important little bits that just kinda make it all run.
Having a trained monkey try to chase you down (presumably with a weapon) sounds terrifying, yet somehow I'm not convinced it would be all together worse than what we have now
Of course they wanted to , they could have denied such requests and let matters go to courts of law, where such matters should be resolved anyway. But it would put a slight dent on quarterly profits so , in the words of Sheryl Sandberg , "I am fine with this"[1]

1. https://www.propublica.org/article/sheryl-sandberg-and-top-f...
A lot of pizza joints in Italy might be a 2 person job (father and son, brother and brother, that kind of thing). They are quite common. But, they wouldn't deliver because there are only two of them. So, once food delivery apps starting providing that service, the amount of pizza places that would delivery to any given area went from 2 to 20. So it makes sense that a big edge dominos had (a fleet of scooter drivers) was no longer an edge, and people decided that they would prefer non-dominos pizza if they had a choice.

Notably though, this operation was alive for 7 years. It seems that people didn't hate Dominos pizza. They thought it was acceptable if they wanted delivery. But now they can get any kind of pizza delivered and that is the preference.
What's working is that they have basically monopolies. Hard not to make money when there's no competition.
I have a feeling that Starlink will end up being an indirect recipient despite the rejection.

Starlink might just end up making deals with the companies that won their bids and sell their services/hardware as rebranded solutions. It's probably cheaper for these companies to do this instead of setting up their own infrastructure.

Of course the real question is probably whether not following through on their obligations and getting fined is less than the amount they were awarded.
Risky share -- the statute of limitations is not up on that one!
I assumed most will not understand.

this is not a fetish, its just a reality: Cover a carpeted space in high quality leather. Walk on it.

Seriously. its the best walking experience.

(Source: Leather over carpet in my room.)

Best leather source ever:

https://www.yelp.com/biz/s-h-frank-and-company-san-francisco

>>>Folks, if you find yourself frustrated when you come to SH Frank, you might just be struggling with entitlement, and you may just be intolerant of different types of personalities. Larry is excellent at what he does, but he's super neurotic, and probably on the spectrum

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Larry is like larry david, but not funny. He is the neurotic jew Larry David wished he was....

Anyway, this guy is amazingly cool - but, and I am not joking, Walk into the shop with a wrinkled $100 bill in your hand. LITERALLY A $100 BILL

And flag it around asking about prices...

I swear this is how I bought all my leather from him and its kind of an art.
> socially acceptable in upper middle class west coast

Buy Uniqlo and save 80% of your budget.
> Free speech doesn't mean you only get to hear what you want to hear.

(I'm assuming you're speaking of US 1st Amendment free speech) I don't think it means anything about what I hear. I choose what I hear: I take in a bit of TV news, and some radio. I follow a few blogs. Nobody is obliged to consume Faceache and Twaddle.

Your question: No, being ostracised isn't violence. Boycotts are not violence. If I prefer not to meet you or deal with you, that isn't violence. Violence would be forcing me to deal with an anti-gay bigot when I don't want to. Does that help?
FTC Probes BitMart Exchange Breach, Marking Agency’s First Crypto Case
I'm with you. If you're navigating to a website, you should open the web browser. The app shouldn't monitor or inject crap when I'm going to an unaffiliated site. The worst offenders are the ones that force you to enter credentials for a 3p account with an in-app browser.

That said, it's a huge UX failure that navigating between the web and an app is so broken. That doesn't mean that it's motivated to break the fundamental models of the web. Long term it does much more harm than good. How do you teach non-technical users good practices if developers circumvent these barriers anyway? "Trust us, we won't steal your Google account" is not exactly reassuring, but ok say that you trust a reputable app to do that. What happens when the user normalizes this behavior and a less reputable app does the same thing? Obviously many users will have no idea of the risk.
chrome is still buggy, the search bar moves my plugins a little after loading and I end up favoriting an empty page by clicking the star on the search bar. I think Google engineers are highly overrated for such a simple problem to still exist
There are a lot of people that have written about this, here's one for instance.

http://www.satmagazine.com/story.php?number=1026762698
Why? I'd think the opposite.

Smart people will on average probably be better of financially, but that doesn't transfer directly to happiness.

A characteristic of "smart people" is the ability to identify and solve problems across a range of domains. That works well when the problem is some programming task, drawing a new house, gathering data for a report you write or whatever.

But what if you identify problems you cannot solve? E.g. a smart person might realize, that the "American democracy" is fundamentally broken, but there's no way to solve this (vote all you want, the top of both parties gets their way anyway, so unless you're 100% aligned with Pelosi or Trump you're shafted). A smart person will identify the challenges their children have and will try to solve it by choosing the right school, but will fret forever that it wasn't the right choice.

A not-so-smart person will believe, that as long as his party wins the next election everything will be better. A not-so-smart person will send their children to the default school for the district where they live.

So a smart person will every day identify problems there are out of their realm to solve. They know their actions only have very limited - and perhaps even detrimental - impact on solving these things. All the while the not-so-smart people goes with the flow, doesn't worry too much, because they don't realize there was a problem to begin with.

(I'm doing "averages" here. Of course a not-so-smart and poor person might be acutely aware of their dire financial situation which reflects negatively on their happiness, but at least they're being told they have the power to change that)
This brought back many fond memories of using this hack to play Soldier of Fortune 2 on the school network.
Among my thoughts as I read this, one which has recurred from time to time: it might be interesting to attempt some kind of reading club on HN in which an article or book is selected for future discussion.

This piece runs about 10 pages printed, or roughly 5,000 words, which seems to challenge HN. And that's before considering that it's further discussing not one but four books, totalling over 1,000 pages.

I'd be quite interested in hearing from those who've read one or all of these, and if there were some way to invoke MacBeth's weird sisters, and agree when we three (or however many) should meet again to discuss them ... would be of interest.

There actually was a proposal for an HN book club ... 14 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=407067

Any interest now, and suggestions on how to structure this, would be appreciated.
Sure, but, unfortunately, a lot of apps require Google Play Services to work at all, so microG is the only sane alternative. The fact /e/OS includes it pre-configured OOB is a positive for my use case.

My primary device runs GrapheneOS, but a secondary device with /e/OS is the next best thing for apps that refuse to work without Google Play Services. Or those that I just want to keep off my main device.
Yeah, we have dumpsters where I've lived, too.
I don’t really see those that often where I live. I understand that they might feel “usual” to you. I’m just telling you that mine is different. I live in a city with millions of cars, drive every day, and I still remember the EVs I see, because they are so few amongst the sea of ICEVs.

But granted, I meant Hacker News. Slip of the mind.
We should normalize stains on clothing. Visual cleanliness is overrated, as long as hygiene is sufficient.
> That should also be left up to the engineers themselves to decide.

I agree with the rest, but I don't agree with this part. Engineers should have a lot of input into the hiring process, but fundamentally management is accountable for business performance and one of the biggest drivers of success is getting the right people in the door rather than just more people like the ones you already have (which is what happens almost always if you don't deliberately shape the hiring process).
The idiots were a distraction so those plotting with T's cronies could move freely in the Capitol with the disruptive cover of an unruly crowd.
Personally, I think disallowing other work should be illegal. Having said that: What was the policy at your workplace for other work? In my company it's clearly allowed if it's in a different industry - although they've not given clear guidance on whether I need to disclose it in those cases.
Yup, else they might try to decide to wait it out and build their own bomb. They were so much against surrendering many committed seppuku or regular suicide when it happened and those were regular people.

It's very interesting how until recently I grew up and believed the bombings should not have happened. Modern ICBMs and hydrogen bombs are much more scary as is nuclear powers going to war but MAD aside there are situations where a single nuke at a strategic location will save many more lives on both sides of a conflict.but it still doesn't feel right saying it.
People will do whatever is nice and economical. If you want people to make certain choices, the easiest way is to make the "wrong" choice uneconomical.

> I wasn't but I'd think yes it's better. Collectively more 'efficient' w/ infra & logistic scaling.

I completely disagree. People used to live on the country side and take care of both earth and tools. Today, labor is expensive and materials are cheap so people will toss away stuff. City life is all about just consuming and it will automatically lead to people getting disconnected from the stuff that truly matters.

What bothers me most is when I travel outside my country and realize there is practically no recycling, even if it is very easy to do so.
I've reported many strange bugs to jcupitt and I can speak to his really helpful and patient nature.

My favorite one was when JPEG2000s that had an even width was being shown in greyscale on any mac app: Preview, Safari, Pixelmator, etc: https://github.com/libvips/ruby-vips/issues/345

All images with an odd width was working fine.

However the real bug was to do with chroma subsampling (and a lot of other technical stuff that I don't really understand): https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/2965
No, you 100% don't understand what you are talking about.
I feel like that when I finish the week's grocery shopping
With 80% of the desktop market, most IT shops work on Windows desktops before submitting their work into a Linux cluster.
> I have met a few of those people, but every single one of them needed a justification.

Nah man. They just want to chillax. I know because i was one of them at some of my jobs. I don't get any satisfaction from crud/etl type jobs at all. I just want to a paycheck to fund my lifestyle and hobbies. I know tons of people like me , like 50% of my friend circle. Ppl just don't give a shit.
The parent commenter lied (most likely due to them having no clue wtf they are talking about, what a surprise on HN).
I don't think that's the best way to put it. Just because a solution can be simple doesn't mean the procedures in the way to enact it inherently are. Not that I agree with either side here, just dislike that way of thinking of “do it then.” In most governments, even if someone wants a change, it doesn't mean it's easy to enact even if that change is simple itself. Due to democracy requiring you to get people into agreement, you can't just waltz in and go yeah I want this changed and have it done.
Not necessarily. If they’re using a WKWebView, they can’t see what you’re doing, which is why Safari Autofill remains enabled in some but not all app-embedded web views.
As I'm trying to tell you, assuming malice instead of disagreement isn't productive. It's always been green, even when it was the only option. Perhaps they feel that green is still the best choice!

As others point out, there are accessibility options for people who want more contrast (and which benefit users with trouble reading these outbound messages in far more useful places).
Harder does not mean impossible. There's more scrutiny and more recourse when the government does it, but you're right it doesn't always stop them.
https://january6th.house.gov/

Sorry, this isn't new info at this point.
US Supreme Court Refuses to Fast Track Coinbase Arbitration Dispute
This seems to conflate the ideas of growth and value. Labor creates some growth but is mostly value. Value is the reallocation of existing wealth. Growth is the creation of new wealth. Both happen when we do (productive) work. Capital needs to get comfortable with the idea that they must "spend money to make money".
Self-host vaultwarden, it's free, and it syncs to all your devices so you have a bunch of backups.
co-founder of Coder (the company behind code-server) here…

We found that the biggest inhibitor to remote development was the lack of environmental flexibility. For example, Codespaces confines you to an ephemeral Linux container running on Azure, and our old product confined users to semi-stateful Kubernetes pods.

With coder/coder, you can use any operating system on any kind of compute on any cloud and change every single configuration knob. You can also mix and match cloud resources. An early user has hundreds of cloud resources in each workspace, including IAM roles, secrets, and network rules.

Early users are running stateful VMs running on GCP, Docker containers on big servers, Kubernetes Pods, and Windows VMs on Azure. We’re stoked to watch people adopt remote development in their own ways.
Apple has deprecated but not yet removed the legacy web embeds that app developers use to spy on and track their users.