skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a strategy for fixing the entire ecosystem, but for my little corner of the world, I guess I've constructed a mental venn diagram where I only browse at the overlap of "content I'm interested in" and "sites which are accessible to me", and leave the rest of it alone. There is more than enough for me to browse in that space, especially combined with my own websites, that I rarely even think about the horrors you mention.

One of the coolest things about it is that I have noticed over time that obnoxious frontend correlates very strongly with crappy content, so the average quality of what I read and watch has improved drastically. I try to practice a "mental diet", and it has helped tremendously with that.

In some ways, it's not unlike IRL, where there are places I would rather not be, and they have certain tells, and I'm OK with them being there, I just don't go inside if I can help it, and I leave as quickly as possible if I do.

I think the Web is still very young, and now that we have can have ML-assisted markup generation, accessibility will be coming around, just like wheelchair ramps became the norm. Pretty soon, we won't be dismissing a 0.01% browser as not worth supporting, because it will be so much easier to just tell the server, "please remove JS and all but the minimal markup from your pages".

If you want to see a PoC of what this may look like, here is a quick demo video. The NoJS bit is at about 2:30. https://vimeo.com/828698165
Yes, and interviewing in general. You think that’s a lot of work to get your foot in the door and $500k+ in a relatively cushy salaried position and top tech brand name on your resume?
EU: Twitter leaves voluntary pact on fighting disinformation
Steam has been much more than just a store-front for a while now. There's a few features that would take the Dolphin team a lot of effort to implement independently but can be integrated without much effort through Steam. A few examples would be:

- Steam Remote Play: Seamlessly playing your Wii games from your TV.

- Steam Workshop: Authoring, distribution, and management of modifications to the emulator.

- Steam Input: A powerful abstraction layer dealing with different controllers and the mapping of their inputs. Sharing and downloading input maps from the community is directly integrated.

- Steam cloud save: Share configuration and save data between computers.

- Steam's multiplayer API could potentially have made it much easier to use Dolphin for multiplayer games.

Most of these things can be achieved without Steam but they're less convenient, more difficult for non-technical users, and yet another thing to manage, update, and keep track of.
Here they talk about the why

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36095384
Anecdotal, of course, but: often the most elegant solutions I see in my job are from programmers coming from Ruby. It is interesting to see how different programming languages can shape our mindset.

A big part is those good solutions are those little lambda-receiving functions that do all the heavy lifting without imposing a lot of boilerplate. Not too many of them, of course.

IMO this kind of thing is where the “getting things done” and “good architecture” meet.
Since I heard twitter withdrew from the voluntary European Union's Code of Practice, it will probably get much worse.
China’s envoy to US Xie Feng congratulates Henry Kissinger on 100th birthday
>* The speedup in a one-off gain, the death of Moore's law is equally dead for "AI chips" and CPU's

This does not seem to be true in reality. The H100 is about 2.5x 'better' for AI than the A100 (obviously depends exactly what you are doing), and they released about 2 years apart. That is roughly in line with Moore's law.
The hopl paper on lua seems to indicate it came out of a Brazil university. https://www.lua.org/doc/hopl.pdf
I've worked in this space for the past five years. The chips are essentially highly parallel processors. There's no unifying architecture. You have the graph-based / hpc-simulator chips like Cerebras, Graphcore, etc which are basically a stick-as-many-cores-as-possible situation with a high-speed networking fabric. You have the 'tensor' cores like Groq where the chip operates as a whole and is just well suited for tensor processing (parallelizable, high-speed memory, etc).

At the end of the day, it's matrix multiplication acceleration mostly, and then IO optimization. Literally most of the optimization has nothing to do with compute. We can compute faster than we can ingest.
when it comes to technology issues, Ron Wyden is one of the best folks we have in congress.
The ones at Paris last year on Eurostar were so slow they were takeing at least 45, but with retries average of about 60 seconds to process someone. I think there were 5.

There was only 1 train an hour leaving, but the trains had 900 seats. You can see the problem.

With airports, I used to come in to Heathrow 50 times a year. There was a great system called Iris, you literally walked up and walked through, barely needed to stop. It never failed on me.

They got rid of it, partly because it wouldn't scale (as it was literally just your Iris pattern, not a pattern + passport), so they only offered it to frequent users.
“It's Time”: Ukraine’s Top Commander Signals Counteroffensive Could Be Imminent
https://archive.is/Aw6dD
Futher info

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36095384

About the Chatbot by the creators

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36095397

Money quote:

>Please note that Tessa does not replace therapy nor the NEDA Helpline, but is always available to provide additional support when needed. Tessa is not equipped to provide crisis support, but she will provide crisis resources when prompted.
This one? https://www.lua.org/doc/cacm2018.pdf
You are correct but some places are too big to migrate out/reengineer
Sadly Wikipedia has now lost all credibility, and is not a credible resource for anything even vaguely controversial.

Many people think 'global warming' (or 'climate change' as it now called) is 80% snake oil and that there are many alarmist evangelizing grifters making a fortune and changing the global balance of power in its name.

This is another failed example of 'trust me I'm a scientist' that has lost a large segment of our population.

Honesty and transparency would solve most of this, not just insulting people and accusing them of believing in heretic theories that have been cooked up by a secret cabal of 'non existent' conspirators. Yuo don't win hearts and minds that way.
‘No rush’: risk of imminent Taiwan conflict overhyped: heavyweight scholar
And price's supposed to be reason to move.

The whole industry's buzz about RISC-V is pretty much "yay, we don't need to pay ARM for license".
How does that compare to ladybird?

https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform...
Considering how much AB testing and so on tech industry does, from the crap usability of some things, you can only assume that while they're very good at solutions to problems. However, those problems are mostly "app needs to exceed quarterly revenue target" rather than "customer wants to be able to order a burrito without an aneurysm, submitting a photocopy of their passport and/or opting into 16 emails per day".
"Twitter leaves EU voluntary Code of Practice against disinformation. But obligations remain," EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton wrote on Twitter.

"You can run but you can't hide. Beyond voluntary commitments, fighting disinformation will be legal obligation under #DSA as of August 25. Our teams will be ready for enforcement," Breton added, referring to the EU's new Digital Services Act which takes effect in less than two months.
This reply could have been posted regardless of what the parent actually said, since you didn't respond to any of it. The chemtrails theory refers to many long lasting contrails being chemical agents actively and secretly dispersed, at massive scale over decades, for a variety of nefarious purposes. Cloud seeding refers to the currently rare and often publicised activity of coaxing out rain, using a very different set of chemicals. No amount of the latter developing makes the previous story any more true but people love to tie the two together as it makes for a story of validity in the form "see, people were attacking cloud seeding and it was real, what else is actually real!" when that never actually happened at scale.
"chemtrails", huh?!

It's too easy to use the "chemtrails" card when in reality it's only just cloud seeding, one of the different weather modification techniques https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding

There are no proof that it was used in Spain, but..

When Saudi Arabia abuses cloud seeding for their needs, it's water that's gonna be missing where the cloud were headed, could be Spain, could be Italy, could also be Egypt, Turkey or Kenya

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2091101/middle-east

https://www.arabianbusiness.com/culture-society/cloud-seedin...

Same problem in Mexico: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01038-5

Wich causes problems for its neighborhoods, whoever pretend this doesn't have an effect is not a scientist

Butterfly effect, their actions have consequences elsewhere on the planet
Not to mention their rapidly aging population. People forget: growth and economic power comes from demographics. China got old too fast. India and Africa are the remaining global youth, and I’m unsure there is appetite to invest in either market.
> laminate them and use them for years

and never change your menu?

(PDFs should've died at birth, though, that whole replicating paper on computers thing is just dumb design that's going to bite us for a long while)
I love the per table QR code system, you do that and have self-service drinks and you have a sit-down restaurant that doesn't need waitstaff.
It used to be covered in trees! Surely it can support forests again.
I've got an Instagram post titled with Zalgo and it is the only one that instaload can't backup because of the resultant filename. Which amuses me greatly.
used to run one but it's too messy...
if you can code a little I prefer https://mediasoup.org/
QEMU is probably the most used, most powerful non-embedded RISC-V platform today. If a customer really wants RISC-V for server applications, it's probably the fastest way to do this today- it seems we're still pretty far from server-grade RISC-V silicon.
It has been educational to watch the SerenityOS / Ladybird team implement browser features. As they make real websites work, you can see how the technologies for even simple brochure sites have changed. For example, logos may be SVG instead of simple images which makes sense given the range of screen sizes and resolutions that need to be supported.

You can also see that CSS continues to grow but in pragmatic ways that actually reduce the amount of JavaScript to do the kinds of things that users expect these days.

On the performance and capability front front, WASM is a game changer.

Regardless of what JS framework is in vogue, I do not think it is fair to say that we are doing the same thing on the web as we always have or even to say that the base technologies are getting more complex for no reason. At least, it is no more fair than any other programming domain. I mean, we can look at Excel and VisiCalc and say that we are creating the same apps that we always have with more complexity and bloat. I mean, people do say that but there is an awful lot left out of that analysis. Even more so if I compare VisiCalc and Excel via Office365 in a browser.

Regular people are routinely accomplishing far more with their computers than they have in the past. More and more of that is being done in web browsers.
>I think just a lot of the open source community and even ARM itself assumed there would be some inflection point at which point everyone would jump ship to RISC-V. I could be wrong, but at this point it seems more likely to be a gradual change unless there is some key gamechanger piece of hardware like the M1 chip

I don't know why. It's not inherently better than any of the current architectures in meaningful way, just doesn't require license.

IIRC royalty per ARM chip was somewhere in single digit percentages which is basically meaningless for everyone but the chip company, or few big companies making super low margin stuff.
The paper, which is linked from the article, demonstrates a browser "fingerprinting" attack, which is to say, stealing pixels from one iframe using another iframe (which is quite clearly a violation of the safety properties the browser is supposed to provide).

It's unfortunate that this article is poor, but the paper itself is clear and readable.
You are comparing the initial time of a startup with that of a long-running, successful open-source project which got there thanks to Micay’s work to the greatest degree.

He couldn’t have known that it would be successful alone with it.
>The attack requires data from the PC's internal power, temp, and frequency sensors, but this information can be accessed from user accounts that don't have administrator access

Looks like only a local user can do this, but the article is not to clear on that.

Anyway this seems very hard to do. Also I wonder if using OpenBSD's port obsdfreqd can prevent this. Based upon usage, it will adjust the frequency and CPU Temp on the fly.

https://tildegit.org/solene/obsdfreqd

edit: grammer
In hiring, part of the issue is that the person doing the hiring believes (often mistakenly) that they can inspire hard work, but talent is innate. Kind of like "you can't train height" in sports. Contrary to what some other commenters have immodestly said, interview processes are frequently designed around this assumption and select for talent/potential/whatever. Besides the more obvious problem with this, it tends to perpetuate disparity as the appearance of talent is often more closely tied to circumstance (and sheer luck) more than to actual talent.
ISA will not matter. Features and how well it works out of the box will.

rPi have hundreds of competitors and they still sell by far the most amount of SBCs, because "it just works" with many things supporting it out of the box
Their plant is in Iceland and runs on geothermal
Cloudflare R2 has free egress, cheap storage
It is perfectly normal that people are anxious. I am myself anxious.

But the problem, and what makes those people that the CNN article talk about despicable, is that those anxious people are attacking innocent scientists just because they choose to convince themselves that these scientists are the devil, based on nothing else than crazy logic and convenient extrapolation.

Being anxious is nothing bad, and nobody is being blamed for being anxious.

Being a toxic person that does counter-productive things and put innocent scientists in real danger with their bullying is not ok, and these persons merit to be treated fairly: they are adults, they have responsibility, their actions have consequences. Anxiety is one of the cause, but the fact that all anxious people are not bullying innocent scientists is the proof that there are other causes, including the fact that these people choose hatred instead of reason.
I'm assuming the limitation of 10K per month has more to do with their small cloud infrastructure budget than the actual database. Saying that, I can agree that intutively, a webserver can have slower performance than a traditional database but it would be interesting to see some benchmarks.
I've been around the web since document.write() and <font color=red> were cutting edge.

You're wrong.

There is no way, shape, or form where 2008 web technology is comparable to today. (IE6!!!) Not in styling. Not in consistency. Not in performance. Not in accessibility. Not in security. And certainly not in management of complex sites.

A cursory look at caniuse.com should disabuse you of any notion of stagnation or lack of capability.

Folks rewrite "every two years" because it gets better so quickly. Svelte/Solid/Qwik are clearly steps forward from React. Were you advocating for sticking with older stuff simply because you don't like change? Or did you think C, Unix, et al technologies were born fully formed as they exist today with no evolutionary steps (and missteps) in between?
I do not really understand that “misplacing of the blame”. It’s an ordinary Joe who buys a car and a fuel for it. It is an ordinary Joe who hunts for cheap airline tickets and buys all those tiny things that are shipped overseas. The same Joe votes for politicians that deregulate and offer tax reductions and binges Netflix instead of reading some good books. Ignorance is a choice of majority of population. Ten billionaires cannot spoil the climate by overconsumption. Ten million Joes can easily do that and capitalism just found the way to help them.
I did most of the exercices but not the CS19 assignments.
It's crazy how people like this just get to live, comfortably.
This a commercial operation with tiny pools, not a natural sanctuary with a giant habitat for them to freely roam.

It’s not a choice between likely death after five years or a cozy life. It’s a miserable existence in solitary confinement in a tiny cell.
That is, if you take the time to mend it.
>At one point I managed to convince KVM to work with Linode-style disks where /dev/vda is the actual filesystem, no partition table, but it took a fair amount of fiddling.

Just use LVM
Wasabi.com is usually a good bet when your primary cost is bandwidth.
I'm pretty sure 'chemtrail conspiracies' have their origin in the (quite real) large-scale biological & radiological warfare tests the US government conducted in the 1950s and 1960s:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/weapon-...

> "The first Large Area Concept experiment, in 1957, involved dispersing microorganisms over a swath from South Dakota to Minnesota; monitoring revealed that some of the particles eventually traveled some 1200 miles away. Further tests covered areas from Ohio to Texas and Michigan to Kansas. In the Army’s words, these experiments 'proved the feasibility of covering large areas of the country with [biological weapons] agents.'"

Well before airplane contrails were ever associated with a plot to alter the climate, it was all about a plot to control people's minds with toxic chemicals etc.

Of course, it is entirely true that a relatively small fleet of drones could disperse enough anthrax/smallpox powder over any large American city to cause mass casualties and initiate a pandemic-scale event, which is why development of such weapons is banned under the terms of the Biological Warfare Convention, although the Soviet Union violated that treaty on a massive scale in the 1970s and 1980s, and Israel and several other states have refused to sign it - and the US government has strongly opposed anything like an inspection / verification system, so...

Almost every 'conspiracy theory' has some seed of truth hidden inside it somewhere.
There is also a growing body of evidence that Toxoplasmas is linked to schizophrenia [0]. HN discussion [1]

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34021789
Well I basically used a a Linux distribution made precisely for this: it was called "RasPBX" back then, IIRC. The hardware was simple: a Pi 1, an external HDD hooked through USB to the Pi and Cisco VoIP phones. That Linux distro already took care of picking software components/versions all working fine together and it was tailor made for the Pi. It was pretty plug and play from what I remember.

I'm a software dev, not a sysadmin, but I can find my way around configure Linux machines.

I don't remember it as being particularly complicated. What I do remember for sure though is that once it worked, it worked flawlessly for years.
JS, Node.js, MySQL, AWS
3 Years After a Fateful Day in Central Park, Birding Continues to Change My Life
I question your definition of hard working, because to me hard working isn't just about being busy or looking busy. It's about getting the task done. For a task to be done, it has to be done correctly. It's like calling someone a hard working baker, but all they're doing is tossing flour into the oven. That's not hard working: that's just dumb.
I love this. Thanks for introducing me to so many things in make I didn’t know existed and doing so in a manner than is understandable. Kudos
Honestly the worst thing about non confrontational communication is that someone named a very useful communication technique after something - violence - that is not the thing being avoided.
Backblaze B2 + CDN on top of it
Medically speaking, your understanding is bit off in that while there are several factors that affect the resulting strength of scar tissue, the underlying disorganization in scar tissue will always leave it biomechanically weaker than than uninjured skin.

It is true that with early attention, proper wound care, etc scar can approach normal skin but even in the best of circumstances it will still be “slightly weaker” rather than as good or better.

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840475/
Cloudflare has free bandwidth up to a point and then they will charge you. That’s not really that surprising though.
https://archive.ph/zWpkg
Anecdotally, most people use SML as part of academic projects and when they do to use it for commercial projects end up going to Ocaml or Haskell. That is because of the wider ecosystem of projects to support practical things like talking to databases, networking, etc. Also larger communities for documentation and help debugging issues that only come up once you start scaling out.
Hetzner would work too.
VFX Reference Platform – Linux in VFX
Solid.js, React, and Vue – reactivity systems compared
Is there a way to make a cheapskate version using multiple mirrors and only one camera looking at all of them at once?

Then chopping the single capture into smaller frames one bit for each mirror, each with a different view of the subject, and stitch them into a video.

I can imagine a 3x1 layout but trying to arrange the mirrors in a curve so the camera sees a 3x3 or 4x4 or 5x5 arrangement might need some optical cleverness.
> Regular good old html without or with minimal amount of javascript.

You just described Svelte. All the JS minimalism and speed without sacrificing the power.
He should be in jail.
Behind the Bastards podcast has done a multipart series on how he is a war criminal https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...
I think your mistake is by considering a single person and not considering the comparison between two individuals.

Consider two athletes that can both achieve some specific result, e.g. run a quarter mile in some equal fixed time. The first athlete does so with almost no effort and with very little recovery time while the second athlete does so with clear strain, and significant exhaustion after the test.

My contention is that a coach who is forced to choose one of those athletes for advanced training (solely on the information I provided above) may favor the athlete that achieved the equal result with less effort. He can't differentiate them on performance (they got equal time after all) so he will use their perceived effort as a guide.

It may not be an accurate decision, but I am suggesting that the coach may reason that the athlete who appears less exhausted could be pushed harder through advanced coaching. It may be assumed (again, incorrectly but somewhat reasonably) that by pushing the first athlete to the same level of exhaustion as experienced by the second athlete, their performance (e.g. the time to finish a quarter mile) may be improved more drastically than pushing the second athlete. This is what I mean when I say "the first athlete appears to have more room to grow".

Remember, the article isn't about which athlete can actually improve more, the article is about how we reward and judge other people based on their effort. I'm suggesting we are making a prediction about possible future capabilities in a similar way as my fictional coach.
https://xcp-ng.org/blog/content/images/size/w2000/2023/05/ri...

the banner one is worse, just look at those sockets or nailbed radiators