skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Telemetry" is not "sending the contents of your documents" (or at least, not necessarily so). This comment kind of demonstrates my point about the complete lack of nuance in these conversations.

And to reply to your reply:

> That’s exactly what telemetry is

The common understanding of telemetry is sending metadata about how people are using software. That is, things like "this button was clicked", "this feature was used", etc. That is my understanding of the word anyway.

Either way, this is a bit of a boring semantic discussion; my point is just that there is nuance to these things, and that this article doesn't really tell us anything concrete beyond "the network is used". Well, okay ... but for what, exactly? Because that does matter.
Agreed that YMMV, I have heard about these issues in that reddit thread about NVIDIA cards as well and have experienced the hardware acceleration bug for example.
You can just put that full name in the search bar on your own instance and follow them from it. You don't have to go to their instance at all.

I mean, I'm not saying that mastodon is super duper easy to use for everyone but in this particular example you seem to be going out of your way to make it more complicated than it is.

If the thing you found on hn was a link to their profile your flow would make sense, but if you have an id@domain the flow is really simple and basically the same as other similar things (ie. put it in your email client).
Dear Lazy OP,

Please use wireshark or something else to explain what those packages are. It might be downloading design features or some other data it requires.

100 word article really doesn't do it for me.
> This is some software engineer edgelording.

This is Chris Coyier, who launched css-tricks back in 2007 and codepen in 2012. He's worked in this field for over 15 years and is one of the most recognisable figures in the webdev community.
There is an excellent (very) short story by Ted Chiang called "What's expected of us" that I think you'll like.

https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a
Promoting these apps is the same thing as promoting software cracks

Why are you doing it?
> CSS is still a mess of random features that can't be cleanly composed or extended

The lack of orthogonality and composability has always been the core issue. It's definitely better now, and atomic CSS makes this pretty close to simple.
This comment comes off as malinformation. Malinformation isn't information that is incorrect, but correct information used in a way to create a misleading context. There's 2 problems here. 1) You're implicitly dismissive of a foreign government interfering in our elections. I think most of us here will agree that any interference from any entity is not okay. 2) It muddles the conversation with more noise. A more in depth version of this wouldn't, and could add more context, but this comment is not doing that.

I don't think this was done on purpose, but I'm noting it because it seems to be becoming the common way we speak these days and that isn't healthy to our abilities to solve these issues. We need to discuss the nuance and complexities of these events or else others will control the narratives and make us fight within ourselves instead of uniting to solve these issues.
> Personally I think we need a "scheme" for the web

Yes!

And since it's the web, perhaps put some training wheels for newcomers: easy global variables, more familiar syntax... let me time-travel and see how it goes:

time travels

Sorry, turns out those training wheels were a bad idea!

Other than that, please open up your devTools console and tell me: what do you think?

:)
+1 There is a lot of code that is easier to write in "push style" where the code runs blocking and "pushes" results (either to a queue, a callback or a result array that is returned at the end) but it is better for the consumer if it is "pull style" where they can process items as they receive them and can do streaming/incremental parsing. Language supported generation functions/courtesies make it very easy to write in a "push style" while being possible to call in the "pull style".
Mr Olds' Remarkable Elevator
You’re making a qualitative judgement by saying a sunny view of a situation might be “inaccurate”. That’s not for anybody to judge except the individual holding the sunny view. And if their perspective needs correction, again only they can say if that’s the case or not.
Tons of them, but I am most interested in the following for various reasons:

PureScript[1] — been around a long time. Looks a lot like Haskell to me.

Derw[2] — Elm-like, interesting integration with Typescript

Amber[3] — smalltalk for js

Rescript[4] — its been awhile since i last looked at this project (during a catastrophic rebrand) so I'm not sure where this project is at, but it did seem very promising to me at one point.

[1]: https://www.purescript.org/

[2]: https://github.com/eeue56/derw

[3]: https://amber-lang.net/

[4]: https://rescript-lang.org/
> wonder when electric power trains will get cheap enough to replace them.

You don't only need the power train, but also a power network capable of charging those.
iMessage for Android
> IIRC a similar study was done in Europe. The conclusion was that women are indeed more likely to die or sustain serious injuries, but that the cause of that was that woman, on average, drive smaller cars. So, they are more vulnerable in a collision.

Was the more to it? If they are aware of this fact, it feels like it would be trivial to control for it, to determine whether women are still more vulnerable in the same types of vehicles.
What you've described is none other than a Winston Privacy device (no longer available, alas).
A 38" waist would make someone about a foot or two wide (12.1 inches assuming a perfectly circular waist, but most folks' waists are wider than they're "long") - which is curvy, sure, but not severely so. Average waist size for European women is around 30", for reference - so only a couple inches less wide.

Then again, I'm an American male (who wears size 44 pants), so needless to say my perspective might be skewed.
I didn't get into the UC of my choice. So I appealed. This was in 2006, and the appeal process was not through an online application. You had to mail in a packet with your appeal letter, transcripts, etc. I sent one in by the postmark deadline (Friday), but it wasn't very good. So, come Monday morning, I overnighted a much better one. After a week or whatever, I got a message notifying me that my application status had changed, but I did not get in. Then a day or two later, I got another one, to which I _did_ get in.

Now, I don't know for sure, but I like to think two different reviewers got my packets in parallel and never knew it, and upon changing my status the second reviewer probably wouldn't have seen any evidence of the last status change having been from an appeal.
1 reason I can think is kinda the same thing with Vulkan. They both are so agnostic to what they run on that they have a minimal set of things that they function with.

In the case of Vulkan its: I interact with the graphics processor, and don't care if you have a display so windowing is an extension and has platform implementations if applicable.
And in the case of Wayland its: I am a protocol for managing and displaying windows, and I don't care what kinda inputs you have (example: VR doesn't have classical PC inputs).
Is there a way for you to interact with me without being insulting? I'm trying to learn something and it's getting in the way.

If the problem isn't about increasing costs for large players, then what about decreasing those for small players?
lol, after your last phrase I'm confused about what we are even arguing ?

(Also, I don't think that in that case the patent expired because its holder died, more likely it came to a term (after being renewed ?) after 35 years (which I agree is a tad long), otherwise my source wouldn't have put it in this way ?)
People "pick" an ISP based on price. They pick an email provider based on UI, or features, or price, or cachet. How should I pick an entry node?

I go to https://mastodon.social/ because that's where people say things are happening, and I click "Create Account." I'm told I can't sign up here, but I can "Find another server"

You've already lost a huge percentage of potential users, but let's say I press on. I click through to https://joinmastodon.org/servers and see things like glasgow.social and metalhead.club. I'm neither Glaswegian nor a metalhead, so what do I choose? On what basis do I make this choice? It's immediately overwhelming, with a very real fear of picking the "wrong" server and somehow missing out on, well, I don't know, because how would I?
The addresses aren’t the problem, most people see an email address as just a unique identifier for the other person. The problem is choosing an instance to sign up on.
The writer obviously doesn't know much about network traffic and technology. Wanna be hacker.
What Is a Software Developer?
Developers fall mainly into two categories: the ones that love to be told what to build and the ones that love building software, but also have at heart the impact on the final users and business.
I wrote about this in my first blog post "What is a software developer?"
Yeah, this is a strange take to me. Akin to catching the fox guarding your hen house eating the hens and reacting by having the fox install and monitor a security camera for the hen house. The problem is still the fox and he'll just turn the camera off when he wants the hens.
> Just saying that the intent is "archival" doesn't change anything

Well, it sort of does because copyright laws have carve outs for libraries and archiving.
Block /assets/book-bg.jpg or remove the background from body::before to make it readable. Article still probably about JS.
Yep, Prigozhin is a bullshitter on the level of Elon Musk.

The guy spent years publicly denying the existence of the Wagner group, then opened a patriotic co-working space literally called The Wagner Group Centre. (meanwhile, the group itself is still illegal under Russian law)

I'm not saying he didn't interfere in the elections, but whatever he says is no proof either way.
Three years before this Clinton, the US Congress and corporate media cheered as Yeltsin shelled the Russian parliament with the help of the Russian Army. The idea was to support a strongman Russian president with tight connections to Russia military and military intelligence against the elected parliament. He appointed Putin to take over for him when he left.

Nowadays the same US politicians and press bemoan Putin and the lack of democracy in Russia. It's a complete farce.
That's also just sort of blatantly incorrect. The early growth in phablet sales that eventually lead to them becoming the normal size for phones was disproportionally in _women_.
We deferred to switching to the new installer until 22.04 and kept using the legacy net boot image for as long as possible. The switchover wasn't as bad as I was afraid it would and took only a few days to make new internal app to drive our installations. The worst part of the new installer is it requires a minimum of 2GiB of RAM to run, so all of our new VMs have to start with at least that much and be scaled down later
The number 9 is considered an unlucky number in some Chinese cultures.

Same reason we never had an iPhone 9. Other companies skip the number 9 too for the same reason.

Companies will not admit this in public as to not offend the CCP or it's people. It's why their reasons when questioned tend to seem a little odd or incomplete.
I have witnessed this too. It always felt like. The contractors are our slack variable but this cut is permanent so better to chop the employees.
The documentation referenced from the mail is here:

https://github.com/MPACT-ORG/llvm-project/blob/work/llvm/doc...
Corporations respond to profit motives above all else, but there are still humans making those decisions within the corporations
This is Hacker News, different morality applies here
> Frankly getting your knickers in a knot is emotional - the people using C are doing so for pragmatic reasons, not emotion.

I think a lot of us using C would like to move away, but for whatever reason can’t. One example is that we hotpatch our binaries, but that sort of infrastructure doesn’t exist for Rust.

Beyond tooling issues, that certainly can be fixed, it’s also non trivial to move a large codebase to a safer language. Maybe incremental use of languages like Rust is still better?
Slowdowns, not shutdowns, luckily:)
The desktop (XFCE under Debian if that helps) just hung for a while like it was waiting for me to allow some rules, but didn't show the requester to do so, also the timings were random, could have been from 2 seconds to 5 or more.
You know that this only pertains to webapps and there is still a lot of software running on your machine that you have no idea what it does?
>So when the brain 'time stamps' these sounds (as they put it) it (probably) doesn't then need to ever put them back in the right order again. That bit of processing is done.

I'm not sure I buy it. It wont have a "homunculus", but it could very well have a pipeline of autonomous processing centers, where the second part needs to have them in order.

uniq is not a homunculus here either, but still needs its input in order:

cut -d, -f1 xxx.csv | sort | uniq | wc -l

(yeah, uniq is not needed here, but that's not the point)
I do wonder myself if there is some research on this, it is irrationally annoying when I hear an echo of myself while talking, so much so that I just can't proceed, it would be nice to know why that is.
> My entire point is that they were designed not to be incomprehensible.

It's frustrating that the documentation / announcement always seems to go for the most complicated way to explain just about everything, in what I assume is an attempt to ensure it's the most comprehensive explanation, in the smallest number of lines. It's fine to provide different levels of explanation/examples.

Numerous times I read stuff and think "Nope. Absolutely no idea why I'd use that, and I'm not entirely sure I have even half a clue what it's trying to do" until much much later when I see more simplistic practical applications of it and comprehension slowly dawns about what was being explained.
From my point of view they look quite similar from language type theory point of view, plus the machinery for affine types.
>Nobody I know has a problem with the concept of helping others. Nobody. Helping others might be to tack-on $100 per month to help cover the under-insured.

Apparently you do, if the help costs more than $100 per month.

>We do this with auto insurance already, everyone pays a little more for uninsured motorists.

Uninsured and underinsured auto insurance does not help anyone else, it only helps the premium payer.

>what we used to pay for a better product.

I do not see how this can be true when there were benefit maximums, as opposed to out of pocket maximums, and pre existing health condition exclusions existed.

>What's next? Pay for those who can't afford to buy a house? By that logic one can justify just-about anything.

Yes, that is the crux of politics today. How much wealth redistribution should the government perform?

Previously, a few tribes in society had it made in the shade. Old people, government employees, employees of large businesses, especially white collar or ones with large union presence. Then sufficient amount of Americans no longer belonged to those tribes, hence the political will to pass reform. Which I guess you characterize as “buying votes”.

>Sorry, that's not justification for any government to force people to buy a bad product that financially brutalizes them.

You are not buying a bad product, you are paying a tax since your premiums explicitly subsidize others, just not paid directly to the government. Also, there is no penalty for not purchasing health insurance since 2018, so the government has not been forcing anyone to pay the “tax”.
I think we agree, probably that what is and what should be are not the same. The tension is that voters will often reward politicians that are effective, rather than those whom are ethical. When it comes to the safety of your child, most humans go for effective over ethical.
This post is speculation at best. Likely written by a teenager learning about windows and task manager features recently.
these days the only two media I "trust" is apnews and reuters, all the rest are biased one way or another, I simply ignore all of them.

I read axios once a while because it's short, and, it seems more objective than all the rest(except for APNews and Reuters that is), so it's the 3rd site I visit.
d) attacks have been mitigated
Imagine if instead of using teslas where a person is driving you (lol), they could just do what cities have been doing for centuries and put in a super fast and high capacity metro. I've never understood this idea of "let's go underground, get into a car, buckle up, and let a guy drive me to a place not that far from me and not that fast"
The way NFT royalties were marketed was always highly misleading IMHO. A lot of the news articles made it sound like royalties were a property of NFTs themselves via some kind of smart contract. But it is in fact a feature of some NFT exchanges and you always had the option of trading the NFT via other means if you wanted to avoid the royalty payment. So royalties were always optional. The marketing just made it sound like they were not[1].

Given this, it must be asked how NFTs are in any way different from the traditional art markets for the artists themselves.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/02/whats-going-on-with-nft-ro...
None of the names you mention were indicted for anything related to russian collusion. Mostly for perjury and tax fraud.
CSS is also interpreted.

CSS is actually compiled. WebKit uses a Just In Time (JIT) compiler [1]; I suspect all modern web engines do something similar.

[1]: https://webkit.org/blog/3271/webkit-css-selector-jit-compile...
Agreed! We do this in Notion's public API library:

for await (const block of iteratePaginatedAPI(notion.blocks.children.list, {
block_id: parentBlockId,
})) {
// Do something with block.
}

Implemented here: https://github.com/makenotion/notion-sdk-js/blob/90418939a90...
I agree but it's noise and has nothing to do with the topic. Why do you want to encourage that instead of actually discussing the article?

I was glad to see it flagged and dead after my comment, but then someone even vouched for it. Like it's such an important comment that it needs to be heard. Even the premise is questionable (does quality presuppose it is moral?) but it's obvious what the parent means and commenting on it is just bait.
Archive.org should operate a peertube instance.
i assume the implication is that successful/desirable nfts also tend to have a well-thought-out implementation, the union of which being hqnft
Infinite Procedurally Generated Djent Music
"it's a collection of hand-crafted algorithms. No machine learning is involved."
"Dwitter" is taken, it's like Twitter but for JS demos: https://www.dwitter.net/
Discord, Reddit and Mastodon all feel very different to me.

- Discord's dominant model feels like IRC++ to me. Emphasis largely seems to be on real-time conversations.
- Reddit is like a slew of mini-Slashdots, where communities have a discussion prompt like a news story, a question, or something and then commentary.
- Mastodon is micro-blogging. You post a status update, commentary or question, and people can react and/or reshare. Y

Discord and Reddit are topic-based. Mastodon is more about following people than topics, though you can organize Mastodon instances by topic / domain / whatever.

Anyway... Mastodon feels more like Twitter, albeit a vision of a better Twitter (for certain values of "better") circa 2017. Longer content, RSS feeds, and federation + the micro blog format.
entirely depend on an individual's personal decision and be motivated by medical and individual risk considerations alone

The problem is that they are entirely unqualified to make medical risk considerations. If they were capable of making them, they would already know the answer.

They won't learn anything from asking us. Most of the people replying are themselves not qualified. Even for those who give the right answer, the asker isn't in a position to tell.

The best advice I could give is to ask their doctor, who knows both their specific case and the latest information on the state of the disease. They're not an epidemiological expert, but they're far more qualified in both the general case and this instance.

Except that you and I already know what their doctor is going to tell them: get the vaccine. It's the only answer that makes even the tiniest bit of sense: very low risk, very high reward, and no amount of "maybe I'm an edge case" is anywhere near enough to overcome that very basic answer.

And therefore my advice would automatically be dismissed by those who disagree. It would amount to saying "Don't believe me, believe that other person, who I happen to know will agree with me." Those who disagree will challenge me on that, and I don't really have a reply that they will accept.
Language Transformers, Fast and Slow
Not sure about consciousness, but some of its processing is a given, the gut is even called a "second brain" by scientists in related fields.
We are trying with a fully independent search engine from the ground-up. Unlike most we are also not a proxy for, or correlated to, Bing (Microsoft) and/or Google. Apple is actually the biggest problem - users cannot add us (Mojeek) or others to the Safari search choice list. More here: https://blog.mojeek.com/2022/05/gatekeepers-of-the-western-w...
"making sure your GPU driver fucking works"

Well I did notice how nVidia left out the part that the CUDA C API had a known bug that would crash on exit due to a de-allocation bug for years. Thus, C++ became the de facto interface for their GPU library.

All code is terrible, but some of it is useful (except rust and VB). ;)
Thanks for that insight! This fellow is most definitely an attention-hog.
iPads have a new way to multitask, but it's not intuitive
This is precisely what I feared when I decided to leave Twitter after the Musk acquisition. The new owner and CEO of Twitter is immediately using Twitter to publicly endorse a political party literally the day before an election.

Ask yourself why Larry Ellison, who has tweeted exactly once ever 10 years ago https://twitter.com/larryellison but is a well-known Republican activist and funder, was thrilled to give Musk practically a blank check, name your price, $1 billion, $2 billion, whatever, to help Musk buy Twitter. https://danluu.com/elon-twitter-texts/

A lot of Musk's acquisition funders and associates are well-known Republican activists.

"For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519415674111672325

Can anyone tell me with a straight face that the Twitter CEO saying "I recommend voting for a Republican Congress" on Twitter is keeping Twitter politically neutral?

There is practically no separation now between Musk's Twitter account and Twitter itself. There's no public/private distinction, because Twitter is now a private company. And Musk is announcing Twitter policy with his personal account. He's the top, official representative of the company.
Anecdata but I, a man, prefer small phones that easily fits in my pocket and I can easily use with one hand. But otherwise most women I know have very large phones and when I've asked them, they prefer them. I think one component may be purses, but another is how likely one is to treat their phone as their primary computer.
TV is moderated by the FCC's broadcast standards, delivers the same content to everyone and is finite in quantity. Tiktok is none of those things.
im still confused about The Terrible Time people are having here...

for example. if i want to search for @johnnydick@head.com... i do that, and click follow.

thats it. i click follow. like, where are you guys having so much trouble with this?