skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Everyone calls me out of touch, I'm downvoted to oblivion, everyone suggests that I'm a unique case and everyone wants JS, they say that they don't want fragmentation and want life to be easier for them.

If they sat down with real users, then they'd know that most people get very frustrated when web apps make their phones slow, which happens relatively often.

If they cared, they'd also be frustrated, because they have the background knowledge to understand just how unnecessary such poor user experiences are most of the time. I've seen simple mailing address forms slow phones down. That doesn't need to happen.

> I really really wish that I could convince Web Developers that not every website needs to be a web app.

I'd say it's more that not every website needs to be written in JavaScript from the bottom up. There are web apps that I use that are tasteful and reserved with their uses of JavaScript, if they even use it at all.

You don't need to make web apps using using dynamic code for every little thing, like even building static HTML elements with JavaScript.

And not everything needs to be a SPA, nor does everything need to be built using nine layers of frameworks and abstractions.
With Chromium and VSCode, there are 'pro-privacy' forks which which remove the telemetry from the codebase. With Windows, there isn't an equivalent ad-free option.

I think "freedom to manipulate the source code" may not be a popular point, but it seems foundational in that it restricts what the software can otherwise get away with.

e.g. I don't like the idea of buying 'smart' TVs which come bundled with adware.
I'm sure there are some managers at Google who are patting each other on the back reciting "fail fast fail often" boasting about how much they learned launching Stadia, and looking for the next thing because Google should not be bogged down with things that don't turn the world upside down.

I don't think Google should become a maintenance company and I understand what the sunk cost fallacy is but I must ask...

Did no one at Google find the grit to ask for more money and try new things? They understand that we have stopped believing in their new products because they display no belief in those themselves, right?
Agree. Still, this is horrible
Uhh, no, Altavista was the dominant player before Google and it had plenty of competition. Google's key innovations were leveraging PageRank to extract signal from what other webpages were saying, instead of relying on naive keyword search etc, and then figuring out a way to monetize search with targeted keyword ads when Yahoo and co were stuck with banner impressions.
Developer Superpowers:

* Learn to ask questions on stackoverflow that don't get deleted. Try, read feedback, try again.

* Learn to ask yourself questions. You'll be surprised how powerful how your own deductive powers can be.

* Be ready to be wrong. That's when you learn something new.

* Most companies have safeguards to prevent a newbie from breaking production. It's ok if you don't have 100% confidence in your code. If they don't, that's a lesson for them.
Youtube is not great by any objective measure, but they are the only worthwhile player in town.
His approach to implementing this feature would have been “if code completion needs data X from the code, we provide an API for that”, and repeat this for all other possible use cases. This, to protect the AST.

This is of course technically feasible, but a huge amount of effort, and will constantly have to be updated / changed. When people are effectively arguing “it’s a much more forward-compatible and scalable approach to let tools use the AST directly”, he rejects that as changing the discussion, not a concrete example, and/or pressuring.

This is super ironic coming from someone who made an editor entirely based on LISP, which is successful precisely because it is completely transparent and anything can be changed / inspected / done.

Given the success of LSP in the recent years, it’s super evident that RMS was wrong on this matter. It has created an ecosystem for LSP around clang, and the integration with emacs is great.
Clearly you haven't had much interaction with German PhDs. It's very common to include titles in your name (this also includes lower ones) there. Although it admittedly has become less common.

Let's not even talk about medical doctors everywhere, or formal engineering qualifications, both are very often used in letters.

The argument is that they make a direct difference to the perception of the individuals competence (and I know that for medical doctors there is a direct effect on earnings). While I don't think it would make a difference for RMS corresponding with software engineers he might be thinking it does make a difference because of his interaction with other stakeholders. Not really defending it, just offering a different perspective.
Vary has no effect on the cors preflight cache: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42848208/cors-preflight-...
> I think the idea is that while you still pay $60 for the game, you don’t pay $400 for the console.

But you own the console for life, whereas a game on Stadia is known to disappear at any moment (because we know google will drop it).
> With iOS you’re SOL. No extensions

I’m reading this using iCab Mobile on iOS, which is a browser apparently no-one on HN has ever heard of, as I need to mention it every time this tired old and inaccurate assertion is trotted-out again.

This browser allows you to define your own blocking lists, including filters for every conceivable combination of JS, CSS, cross-site, cookie-based and URL tracking.

So which part do you want to ban exactly?

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/icab-mobile-web-browser/id3081...
The energy of (one photon worth) of electromagnetic energy does indeed increase with frequency. So green is more problematic than the same number of red photons. But you're right that if there were few green photons coming in and a ton of red, red might be blocked, and green not.
I've always known it as the bulldozer phase.

Followed by the in-flight-engine-replacement phase.

Followed by the isolate-and-refactor phase.

Followed by the fuck-this-im-outta-here phase.
The way our brain is equipped to process concepts is an over-simplification and confusing of what some refer to as the deeper reality or simply the reality that our mind obfuscates. It's worse than Plato's Cave.

It's futile to opine on things that we don't yet fully comprehend in the greater scheme of things. We don't even know (yet we think we do) what we're opining about.

Good luck with all such feeble attempts at deciphering reality.

No, this was not written by a bot, and I am talking about Bitcoin.

But I mean in general...
> This is a legacy setup that can no longer be created

Thank goodness for that!

> However, your friend can get out of this scenario by following the instructions on this site

Thanks for the tip, will try and walk him through this next time I'm with him.

> hey'll end up with <whatever_they_can_find>@outlook.com for their Microsoft account

I doubt they actually need/want access to the Microsoft account. They don't use this work email address for any consumer services, as far as I'm aware -although how could one tell what services it could be associated with?
Yeah, but uMatrix still works. It's kind of a finished product. It still received a security update since support ended. I use it all the time and am fascinated at the amount of third party scripts so many websites use. I always appreciate a site that loads everything from their own domain, which is rare. As for social media tracking scripts, I block them all. Google/gstatic is the only one that gets a free pass, otherwise too many sites won't work.
He slapped back Jason C firmly enough, I was amused to see (though I listen to Jason's podcasts and am coming to like him); as for stuff going to one's head, it's really hard not to be influenced; still he's been through a lot, so maybe.
They do care what the competition is doing, but the company is such a large and slow machine that it takes them many years to change course even slightly. that means when they see their competition doing something new and innovative, it takes many years to even get to the same point.
I use this to subscribe to subreddit feeds (could really be any RSS reader though). Instead of doomscrolling all the time, I get the 25 hot posts and that's it.
A Look Inside the New CIA Spy Museum
> IIRC the rationale was that the personal account could persist beyond your employment, so you wouldn't lose any purchases if you switched jobs

Except if you lose access to the work email address by switching jobs, surely you're one forgotten password away from permantently losing access to the personal account too? It's linked to your _work_ email (only)...
I'm a huge fan of Reeder, as well, and have been using it for many years now.
RCS is a failed telco standard, not a Google invention, and Apple refusing to adopt it is probably the single biggest reason it never took off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
So now we’ll have another layer of an RPC API that under the hood calls the already existing REST API?
Note that Palantir doesn’t spy on anything. It’s a shiny dashboard placed on top of an organization’s database. That’s all it is. Palantir does not provide data. It is the customer’s data.
>I have a top 5% income but I will never own a house in my life

That's weird, really. I'm about 10% of income there and could easily buy a house in 3-5 years. Not on Vancouver, though, if that's what you mean.
No, they don't actually solve any of the problems.

They just provide syntactic sugar papering over them and, what's worse, exactly make you believe that the problems have been solved.
By sending yet more arms to Ukraine? Because this seems to be the current mindset of Western governments...

You can't have escalation and de-escalation of crisis at the same time...
TikTok proxy, no Javascript required

https://proxitok.pabloferreiro.es/
Is your gmail setup with your same outlook client?

Is your gmail available "on the web"?

Did you set a reply-to:?
Yeah, I remember it from way back. I can’t recall why I stopped using it, I’ve been using Feedly for RSS for 5 or 10 years now.
I'm in the Southern Hemisphere and even in my nearest "large" city, you can still see the Milky Way on a clear night. Not in all its glory, mind, but you can see it, and Crux Australis, such a definitive Southern Hemisphere constellation that it appears on five national flags. Although it can be hard to see Epsilon Crucis in a city, as it's a bit dimmer than the four main stars.

But then I travelled to far more densely populated Northern Hemisphere countries, and wow, I see what light pollution is, I really wanted to see Orion right side up, but wasn't able to get far enough away from populated areas when the sky was clear.

Another benefit of living on a sparsely populated island I guess, not sure if it offsets all of the downsides (island "tax" is real, small economy makes it hard to challenge incumbents who dominate a market, we get very few concerts from the top bands, often left off maps), but it did make appreciate what we have in terms of the night sky.

I'm a real big fan of dark sky reserves, it's a fantastic idea. [0]

[0]: https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/reserves/
The feature that didn’t make the jump into the rewrite for me was filters. Can you now make your own “smart feeds”? I subscribe to a lot of feeds but a bunch of predefined filters makes it quick to get to the good stuff.

Instead I use ReadKit but in its recent rewrite the filters (“Smart Folders”) didn’t make it either so I am stuck on the older version.
Yep, this is the traditional three-coat. What’s interesting is the framing need not be perfect. You can correct a quarter inch off true across a wall without too much trouble by varying the thickness of the brown and scratch coat. In my old house the framing way way out of wack and the drywall would have visible bends if forced to adhere to it.

Making the final wall true when dealing with imperfect framing is done with the dot and screed method. You can also add dyes into the finish coat and leave it unpainted. Shame plaster has died out for most construction.
> Escalating the proxy war to the point where Russia's only options are to nuke or retreat is a total failure of protecting regional security.

So your trying to tell me, letting Ukraine force Russia out of its territories and showing them and the world that they aren’t the military ““super power”” everyone thought is _bad_ for regional security?.

What is your solution? To let Russia annex whatever territories it wants?.
Love Feedbin! Best money I spend
What free or open source projects have had good governance?

The motivation for neovim being forked was a frustration with having a vim PR rejected over fear that something would break. The last few years neovim and vim have competed.

'BDFL' I'd most associate with Python, where Guido van Rossum recently stepped down from the role IIRC.
Some projects use 0.x to indicate that there are features they want that they haven't written yet, as opposed to being an indication of stability.
I think it is mostly resentment of the rabble.

They use morality to strike against powerful men and in turn feel a snippet of power themselves.

No need to contribute to free software to the same degree as him to prove him wrong, that's too much trouble. Their contribution shall be retribution. A destructive action, instead of a more commited creative one.

"but there is genius in their hatred

there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you

to kill anybody

not wanting solitude

not understanding solitude

they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own

not being able to create art

they will not understand art

they will consider their failure as creators

only as a failure of the world

not being able to love fully

they will believe your love incomplete

and then they will hate you

and their hatred will be perfect

like a shining diamond

like a knife

like a mountain

like a tiger

like hemlock

their finest art"- Charles Bukowski
> How hard is c:\users\username\whatever?

Not hard at all. But Windows really, really goes out of its way to fight me using that.

> You can enable showing hidden paths. You should just know where programdata is where appdata is...

Yeah, because the onboarding tutorial for new accounts explains all that. Not.

Some of us do know this stuff, and we can sort of understand why Microsoft made the decisions they did (they make sense, or at least less nonsense, in large corporate environments of Word users).

But they are still a nasty product of the "reach for abstraction" impulse of programmers with not enough experience to know that they're working outside their zone of mastery.
An honorary doctor is in general significantly harder to get than a regular PhD. If we want to talk about people undeservedly getting the Dr. title, let's talk about medical doctors. The thesis to get the title is often a joke even compared to a masters thesis.
Remember that LLVM almost became a FSF or GNU project. The only thing that prevented it from happening was RMS missing an email in his inbox. Imagine where LLVM would be today if he hadn't missed that email.
> Larry and Sergei

This may be part of the problem. Google was founded by algorithm nerds, and that's now part of the DNA of the company. Apple (Tesla/Starlink/etc) was founded upon vision - what could the future look like? How do I make that happen today? - and then, somehow, to pare that back to something that's economically viable in a reasonable time frame.

That said, taking existing problems and trying to better apply algorithms to make a better product is still a thing in AI space though - and even here plenty of start ups are taking the lead.
In many countries immigration accounts for over 100% of the growth even though their rates are lower than Canada's. Many countries would be shrinking without immigration.
A lot of people don’t know what Palantir does. Only what they’ve heard.
I just got all my favorite YouTube channels added to my RSS reader (although I use Feedbin directly instead of NNW). I hadn’t thought about doing the same for Reddit!
MS does it on Xbox. Not just released games, but they have a decent collection.
FWIW I think “comment quality” is a weird self-policing cargo cult thing here that reflects moderation attitudes more than it reflects basic decency, and I appreciate your candor and openness to critique more than anything else in this discussion. I’m sure you’ll find if you look further through my comments that I think basic decency extends beyond the politeness expected here when they conflict. Regardless thank you for a fruitful conversation!
There is significant evidence that MDMA, LSD and psilocybin, which are all psychedelic drugs but wildly different chemically, have a significant impact on depression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_therapy
What of the most simple of things require JavaScript or a third-party framework?

Modern CSS can handle a lot on the visual side, and modern HTML allows you to do form validation, dynamic lazy-loading and resizing of images, dialogs, collapsible elements, etc without JavaScript.
It's interesting how the authorities of the US and China have a different view of how to control its populace through information.

China is all about the controlling the logistics of the flow of information, where the authorities need to crack down dissent that can impede the structural stability of the CCP. (Not all social criticism is censored, but the ones that directly criticize the party are.) Therefore they have done many things to shut down access to foreign sites, and created one of the biggest bureaucracies in the history of the world to search through the deluge of information on the domestic net to pick out which users and posts are deemed censorable. And it kinda works, but also kinda doesn't (If you have seen the memes and lexicon circulating in the Chinese nets, you'll understand what I mean instantly.)

Whereas the US authorities plays a much more smarter game: is all about tactics. Instead of controlling the flow of information in a top-down way, it lets them free, and then actively participates in it. While China focuses on removing the opponent's pieces on the chessboard, US focuses on adding their own: through its numerous media conglomerates and NGOs (which if you ultimately trace back its funding, all leads to one of the alphabet-named agencies or neoliberal thinktanks like the Ford Foundation or the RAND Institute). When you search a dissident figure in the Chinese net, all traces will be erased and you will find nothing. When you search a dissident figure on Google, you will be spammed with all the numerous media sites that try to mislead you in some way. (And yes, this also kinda works, but also kinda doesn't. But I see this as a more sophisticated strategy than what China is doing.)
Hell, most of the people I know who have PhDs are at least mildly embarrassed if you call them "doctor". Or at the very least they roll their eyes and think the title is silly. This is in the US; I don't know about how people feel in other countries.

Granted, these are mostly (or even all?) people who received their doctorates in the past 10 or 15 years, and as such are a good 30 years younger than Stallman, so perhaps there is a generational thing at play here too, where the respect/desirability of titles like that has been dropping over time.
Maybe it's part of the "actual experience" that you don't feel depressed any more. The hallucinations, who needs those. Therapeutically what matters is the increased feeling of well-being that lasts for weeks if not longer.
A legal dispute that will test the limits of fair use
You're really not going to "view source" and understand anything when all the JS I ship is minified and uglified. Nowadays, JS is simply another compile target.
You need to reread the article. It’s not “signing a statement that he’s anti-racist.”
Probably an irrelevance thanks to the GPL. We should all be grateful RMS missed that email.
I’ve found that many sites these days have an RSS feed, but don’t advertise it. I’ll come across a site with no mention of it, and then just start trying urls to see if any work. For example:

/feed

/blog/rss

/rss.xml

I wager whatever content management system they’re using automatically creates it.
Don’t believe the propaganda.

“Anti-racism” is actually about racism against Asians.

“Equity” is actually about lowering the standards and destroying meritocracy.

“Inclusion” is actually about excluding people that have different political or moral opinions (e.g. that don’t want to be racist against Asians or that support meritocracy).
No that's bullshit. If you ask me to say "I hate hitler and bin laden" for no reason I would have a similar reaction as well.

How can people put up with this filth? It repulses and disgusts me so much when kindness, compassion and even justice are absorbed by this bureaucratic ideological machine where people say and do things out if insincerity, just as lip service to fall in line politically. How do people feel comfortable living lies and forcing others to live and practice falsehoods?

No matter how much I agree with the statement, when you force it, it becomes an insincere compelled speech.
Significantly enhanced sub-ambient passive cooling
> While I don't think it would make a difference for RMS corresponding with software engineers

I think it does make a difference: many software developers might take him less seriously because of it. And that has nothing to do with the fact that his doctorates are honorary; same goes for someone who has completed a PhD program.
Yeah Canada is racist as fuck because of these tensions. The best part is how the media and politicians have the citizens blaming the immigrants, while the politicians and developers welcome both cheap labor and rich trust fund kids. A quick tour of the govt stats and reports on immigration show they desperately need young people to pay taxes and prop up the aging population.
I think one solution to this would be to treat clicking and dragging files to the temp profile the same as clicking and dragging files to a USB drive: it copies instead of the normal move.
I switched from NNW to something else, I think something that synced with mobile perhaps, but was based on Google's RSS infrastructure.

And then Google killed their RSS infrastructure, and I stopped using RSS entirely.

I am mostly to blame in this, for trusting Google, but at least it was a lesson on something like RSS instead of something absolutely essential, like email. I soon transitioned away from Google for all essential internet services, and will never depend upon them again for anything.
He wasn’t asked to sign a statement that he was anti-racist. He was asked to sign a statement explaining how the academic work submitted to be presented “advanced… anti-racism goals.”

He’s quite right that not every academic paper need directly concern itself with the very specific set of ideologies contained within contemporary anti-rascist texts.
> newly adopted requirement that everybody presenting research at the group's conferences explain how their submission advances "equity, inclusion, and anti-racism goals."

Diversity is fine. But every single piece of research has to be related to diversity? Is it not possible to do research on anything else that maybe doesn’t have anything to do with identity issues?

This is not a statement about promoting diversity, this is a statement that identity issues are the only thing that matters and only research that has to do with identity will be considered (for presentation at this conference)

An ideological monoculture is not a healthy intellectual environment.