skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got into superconductors shortly after the Fukushima disaster, and it was the poster child for superconductors in transmission lines. One of the perks back then was that you could put these reactors that are sensitive to earthquakes and the like out where they are relatively safe from such things. You can also have fewer, higher output power stations, so fewer municipalities have to operate smaller power plants (which tend to be coal or natural gas).
Dynamic tiling window managers like dwm and xmonad can do this. They default to a 'master/stack' layout but you can change the layout algorithm. You esentially have a 'master' window and a stack of secondary windows. You can promote a window with super+enter and it gets swapped into the master area.

There are some autotiling scripts for i3 that can emulate this behavior as well.
One of the things I like about Windows 11 is when you tile 2 windows, they form a group in the alt-tab menu. That way you can keep using your regular workflow with the group without the need for another workspace.
There's no market. Private manned launches have been on Space-X's price list for years. Anybody buy one yet?
Instead of flaming about "open source" vs "free software" why don't we talk about how whichever terminology you prefer, organizations like EleutherAI, Hugging Face, and LAION (the AI orgs on this letter) release software that is licensed in a way you approve of.
It’s amazing how many people are easily manipulated by cynical word games. Amazing and extraordinarily depressing.
> That's not to say we shouldn't oppose this feature, I just wouldn't be up in arms about an implementation existing.

People aren’t up in arms about the process by which web standards become accepted; they are up in arms about this standard moving forward at all because of its dangerous implications for the web and it’s outright user-hostility.
A painful reminder how better life was before covid
I graduated from university with a computer engineering degree. There was heavy overlap with computer science so if I never got a job in that field, I could still potentially have a career.

I ended up going down the software route over time. There were little to no recruitment for us at all of the career fairs. I assume that the concentration of jobs in the US were on the West Coast.

Had I taken the one job offered to me in that field, I might have ended up setting my career back because of the little pay and startup nature of it.

It's sad because the actual computer engineering part of my studies were by far the most fun and interesting to me.
> Unfortunately people who have rooted phones, who use nonstandard browsers are not more than 1% of users

Depends on what you count as "nonstandard", but various estimates put non-top 6 browser usage at between 3-12% (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Su...) and non-Windows/macOS/iOS/Android usage at ~4% (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste....) These also don't take into account traffic on older operating systems or hardware that would be incompatible with these attestations, or clients that spoof their user agent for anonymity.

In an ideal world, we would see this number grow, not shrink. It's not good for consumers if our choices dwindle to just one or two options.
From the explainer:

> However, a holdback also has significant drawbacks. In our use cases and capabilities survey, we have identified a number of critical use cases for deterministic platform integrity attestation. These use cases currently rely on client fingerprinting. A deterministic but limited-entropy attestation would obviate the need for invasive fingerprinting here, and has the potential to usher in more privacy-positive practices in the long-term.

I think any holdback will eventually go away because of the "critical use cases for deterministic platform integrity attestation"
Guy looking for help getting unreleased S3 Chrome 460 to work
(Read the video's description if listening to the video isn't your thing.)

Basically this guy ended up with a late prototype of an unreleased graphics card but is having hardware issues.

Not sure if anyone here cares about such things but I guess if anywhere then here's one of the best places to get the attention of someone who might know someone who in a previous life worked on this card, or somehow knows something... You know :-)
Chhang generally reaches around 4-6%, but it is also a generic word for that fermented barley drink, so maybe other regions brew it at a lower ABV.
> We can not let a tyranny of 1% of users steer the ship.

Far less than 1% of my users use the accessibility features. In fact, it is closer to 1% of 1%. Does that justify the far, far easier development and bug testing that I would enjoy if I were to stop providing accessibility features?
Just one misstep in the 100s that have already occurred. At this point what was the point in buying Twitter to begin with? Whatever Musk had originally bought is no longer of any value. 44 Billion would have given a brand new startup a very long runway. 1 billion would have been plenty.
> you should be responding to instead is the quality of the comments.

But that's the thing, isn't it? I'm not an expert in climate science, I can't judge what's quality and what's FUD reasonably phrased. Neither the vast majority on HN. There is no way for us to determine if this anonymous guy makes some good points or just wants to spread some doubt towards the study. Just because climate science seems more approachable than maths, doesn't mean people are equipped to determine what's true, what's manipulation or what's plausible.

Blows my mind some guy made an account, said he was a physical oceanographer, made some grammatically correct comments and everyone believed it. Just like that!

> internet users are far too quick to assume that they're encountering manipulative stealth behavior.

It's 2023 and it's about climate change, dang...
The explicit goals are thus:

* Allow web servers to evaluate the authenticity of the device and honest representation of the software stack and the traffic from the device.

* Offer an adversarially robust and long-term sustainable anti-abuse solution.

* Don't enable new cross-site user tracking capabilities through attestation.
Continue to allow web browsers to browse the Web without attestation.

From:
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

If it actually won't do any of those things, then that should be debated first.
MATE still exists
As someone who used to smoke an Oz a day and excel, the issue isn't That he smokes weed, it's the Why and How that is problematic.
They have a very similar system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Pad_Abort_Test
Thank you for providing an excellent example of what sort of comments contributed to our current situation.
Owning a domain doesn't preclude others having ip priority.

It's about 'Extant Use', not existence.
I see them all the time. Firefox on Ubuntu.
From the post I replied to:

"Using GPT-4 is optional"

Yeah, if you opt in to using a cloud service, you'll be using a cloud service.
Clearly not tracking respiratory CO2, let alone agricultural CO2, which effectively nullifies its value regarding _actual_ CO2 production.

This is a 'Feul Byproduct' data set, not a CO2 production dataset.
Why should sites be obligated to let anyone in? Do you let anyone into your house? I'm surprised WEI wasn't implemented long ago.

This notion of destroying the open web is so nonsensical. WEI is not obligatory. If it's being implemented it's because it solves a real problem. Think about it. There will still be sites that don't use it.

People's real issue is that the big sites will use WEI because the problem it solves is legitimate but they don't want to identify themselves, which makes sense, but they were never obligated to let you visit their site to begin with.
Atlas V is also a ULA rather than a Boeing rocket. I'd be much more eager to trust my life to a ULA space vehicle than a Boeing one.
Reddit recently accused subreddit mods of being landed gentry, so yeah that pretty much makes the users serfs.
> do-gooder

Hmm..... so we don't want people in governance positions trying governance to do good?

Is that your position?

Because if not I question why you included that term....
Until we hear someone with real power in political leadership threaten to cut funding to dark programs if the truth isn't revealed in full, I personally don't think any of this is worth paying attention to.

It's increasingly clear that "disclosure" is either yet another sensationalist ruse to keep the public distracted from substantive issues that could interrupt the flow of power and money, so deeply disruptive to the global order or cultural id that the military-industrial complex won't allow it to be disclosed, actually do have supra-governmental one-world government roots that put it outside of the reach of any political inquiry beyond funding, or hide critical advanced weapons platforms and would disrupt seemingly colossal efforts of cloak and dagger efforts and potentially destroy critical advantage.

I for one do hope we have communication lasers, anti-gravity ships, and that Jesus himself is piloting a mothership back to save the planet and raise the frequency because... goddamn it... space lasers.

But until the main funding comes under threat, I don't think anything with meaningful utility will be released. I have enjoyed the hell out of the crazy shit popping up on Youtube however. Good Lord, that navy seal podcast about the ship in the jungle that came out last week was a great story.
It's "Online Harms (to the UK royalty) Bill". The lords and dukes are very worried.
I get them often, especially with more privacy features turned on. But usually a VPN is enough to trigger it when visiting Google domains.
It's also a neurotoxin in humans: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9101768/
If it was just software they sold it would still exist. It's only a saas and abusive license.verififcation that means if they go out of business they remove all benefits from previously paid amounts, and that's not in my interest either.
Well at some point in our evolution we had to be less intelligent, or were arguing every primate and in fact every species is equal to humans, no?

And if so.... well our food system is evil beyond measure....
You post this type of message in nearly every crypto thread yet every time you are pressed you don’t name a single company, project, or thought leader.

Personally I’ve worked at both coinbase and a blockchain company called avalanche. I think crypto is scams all the way down.
It becomes easier when science can be millions of years ahead.
Show me someone that questions the scientific method. You would be hard-pressed to find a reasonable person who does. When people criticize "science" they are almost always criticizing academia. Getting pedantic isn't very helpful.
Looks like he wasn't openly anti-slavery until the late 1780s, and he did own slaves before the 1780s, so he might still have had some in the 1780s.

https://benjaminfranklinhouse.org/education/benjamin-frankli...
We're on a quest to remove a billion tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide by 2030. Join us!

https://airminers.org/
For bland stock photos and other "general-purpose" image generation, DALLE-2/Bing/Adobe etc are... the okayest. SD (with just standard model weights) is particularly weak here because of the small model size.

If you want to get arty, then state of the art for out-of-the-box typing in a prompt and clicking "generate" is probably MidJourney.

But if you're willing to spend some more time playing around with the open-source tooling, community finetunes, model augmentations (LyCORIS, etc), SD is probably going to get you the farthest.

> Also what are the most common use cases for image generation?

By sheer number of image generations? Take a guess...
What privacy are you giving up by storing an encrypted blob on their servers (other than any info required by law for them to accept digital payments from you)?
Jesus was a carpenter, not a programmer. And anyway programming in Aramaic limited what IDEs could do.
"This website is not compatible with your device"

I can see this show up on Youtube (why not - under Google's control, and they want you to watch the ads on their official browser) and on banking apps. Initially. In the longer run, it either withers and dies, or it leads to antitrust action. I really can't see another way.
Those are all things everyone is paying attention to. A small 2 hour meeting on UFOs are not allowed?

There were 138 congressional hearings on climate change in 2022 alone.

https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/on-the-hill-in-2022-a-bre...

https://www.eesi.org/files/EESI_s_2022_Climate,_Environmenta...
There is zero point debating this in technical detail because the proposal itself is evil. Don't get distracted by tone policing and how they scream you must be civil and whatnot.

Our best hope is kicking up a huge fuss so legislators and media will notice, so Google will be under pressure. It won't make them cancel the feature but don't forget to remember that they aren't above anti-trust law. There is a significant chance that some competition authority will step in if the issue doesn't die down. Our job is to make sure it won't be forgotten really quickly.
It's part of the KHTML monoculture that has been harming our industry and holding us back from real progress.
Pretty sure it's doable with i3 although needs some tinkering.
Don't forget about computer chips that do not emit heat. So much wasted power at the datacenter scale simply to keep things cool. At a personal computer level things get way more efficient, too, resulting in cheaper, smaller, quieter computing devices.
> Choosing not to implement it means your users will sometimes be presented with a worse UX if a website's developers decide to require that feature.

I think this makes a category error. Most browser features/APIs are indeed treated as progressive enhancements by web developers, at least until an overwhelming number of the users have access to that feature. And even then, even if the developer makes assumptions that the feature/API is present, often the result is a degraded experience rather than an all-out broken experience.

The same is not true of web attestation. If a website requires it and a browser refuses to implement it, in at least some cases (probably a concerningly high number of cases though) the result will be that the user is entirely locked out of using that website.

It's also worth noting that _even if_ Vivaldi implements WEI, there's a solid chance that the attestation authority (Google, Microsoft, Apple) or possibly the website itself[1] will not accept it as a valid environment at all! After all, what makes Vivaldi not a "malicious or automated environment" in their eyes? What if Vivaldi allows full ad blocking extensions? User automation/scripting? Or any example of too much freedom to the user. Will the attestation authority decide that it is not worthy of being an acceptable environment?

[1] if this ends up spiralling out of control by allowing the full attestation chain to be inspected by the website
but where? which websites? I haven't seen a CAPTCHA on the reg since I stopped posting to 4chan some years back.
AppHarvest bankruptcy: A look at the rise and fall of the Eastern KY startup
"We" already waged a grassroot browser-war campaign in the late '90s-early '00s, when Mozilla was born and eventually birthed Firefox. It was successful enough to seriously dent the Microsoft monopoly, creating the political conditions for antitrust authorities to deliver significant hits to their power.

It can be done again. Just drop the fucking Chromium bullshit now.
The first time I heard the song -- and saw the video -- to "Nothing Compares 2 U" and the screen is nothing but her face and at one point there are tears, and she blares that unreal voice, I think I stopped breathing.

She will be missed.
I think the point is there is no such thing as "neutral default". There has to be some weighing to define the market and distribution of your investments. Any act to prune the whole world economy into an actionable list is, in effect, a kind of weighing.

Existing indexes represent tried-and-true weighing methods that have are considered to summarize a market in some useful way. Index funds leverage that on purpose to not do a bunch of bespoke analysis. Not using one of these indexes puts you back in the realm of a managed fund with its own active research and forecasting...?
Technically they don't. They incur a debt to you when you give them your money. The money at the bank is not your money.
When I was first out of college I stayed at Green Tortoise Hostel for a week on about $250. Definitely not glamorous - the rooms are pretty packed and stuffy. But it was a lot of fun hanging out with a bunch of poor young travelers from around the world. Lots of wandering the city in the day and staying out late in North Beach.

Hacker Houses can be kind of intense - people are usually in grind mode. And also they aren’t as good of a deal as you’d think, because anything “tech” in SF gets a markup. You can find short term HH sublets on Craigslist sometimes but they’re usually meh.

Meetup and Eventbrite would be my go-tos for finding networking events.
Much of it goes to policy issues like this very one, and to government education about these kinds of things, and to other important efforts closely aligned with this exact issue. Mozilla does both "advocacy" and "product" and that two pronged fork exists to serve people and the web, not massive ad companies.
Captchas are intended to stop bots. WEI is intended to vet that the hardware and browser has been validated. That doesn't impact bots, because you can implement bots on top of a valid hardware and browser so it will pass the WEI check.
I do not know. However, we can take care of 90% of the problems in this context without having an answer to your question, because most cases are far from the dividing line.
This is especially rich coming from google's, who's 'safetynet' for android results in a significant reduction in security (contrary to its stated purpose): it locks out 3rd-party up-to-date and secure ROMs while allowing horrificly insecure manufacturer-provided ROMs to still pass, because to disable those would cause a massive user outcry. So it functions as a vendor lock-in but no meaningful increase in security for the average user, while preventing more advanced users from improving their security without needing to buy more hardware. This needs to be called out more to push back against the claim that this kind of attestation somehow has a legitimate benefit for the users.
They could have always injected code to migrate your passwords to a new system when you unlock your account, no matter how secure the settings are.

Wealthsimple actually did something like that when they purchased SimpleTax. Logging into your account after the acquisition resulted in them in decrypting and migrating data (I think it was opt-out by default, it's been a few years).

Any system running inside your password manager's process can in theory be used to extract your data. Ideally the surface area stays small.
>But as a software creator, it's up to you to determine what is best for your customers.

Absolutely zero large web properties do anything based on what's best for users. If this gains traction, Google will simply deny adsense payments for impressions from an "untrusted" page, and thus all the large players that show ads for revenue will immediately implement WEI without giving a single flying shit about the users, as they always have and always will.
SetApp is amazing, I'm using it on all my devices. It macOS, some apps are also available on iOS.
You’re skipping over the bit where “After analysis and corrective actions it was launched on May 19, 2022, and completed a successful mission to the ISS, clearing the way for the crewed flight test.”

They had an initial failure, and 1 delayed but successful mission. The 3rd mission is again delayed, that’s fairly normal for manned spacecraft. Rocket science is hard, news at 11…
To be fair it's only a matter of time until CV and NNs replace Webdriver/Selenium as the goto for scraping. First using accessibility APIs and later on imagine something you plug into USB C that emulates DisplayPort and HID devices.
One of the effects of the invasion was that the Antares rocket stopped being viable.

Antares used a pair of Russian RD-181 engines. The first stage was built in Ukraine (Dnipro). This sort of cooperation is basically dead.
> And Mozilla is long past dead.

I have been using Netscape/Mozilla, in terms of heritage, ideology, and codebase, for almost a third of a century now.

I was there 30 years ago using NCSA Mosaic when it was first released for the VMS Vax system. The only break of any kind I had was with Opera as a secondary browser in the few short years between Netscape 4 and Phoenix (original Firefox). And I was still using Netscape 6, just not exclusively.

They can tear Mozilla (or any one of its forked variants) out of my cold, dead hands.
The only way to oppose this is via regulators and antitrust legislation. You will not beat the Googlers in the marketplace or with some clever technical argument.
How many of those are actually relevant?

The DOM is largely abstracted over by JS frameworks and component libraries.

XML, XPath, XHTML, SOAP, etc gave way to haphazard JSON that's easier to use.

JSON-LD is a tiny niche and mostly unknown.

SVG is used only trivially as a PNG replacement or for vector graphics interchange, while Canvas is more common whenever performance matters.

Aria is mostly an afterthought, put in at the last minute with alt tags and roles on random elements.

Maybe MathML is still used on Wikipedia?

Can't comment on the other ones I've never heard of, but the web ones all seem either dead or niche.

I think this illustrates what I meant by irrelevance. It's not that they make bad standards or have bad ideas, it's just that companies have always preferred their own implementations of these ideas rather than some standard. Over the last two decades, the W3C has been at times a strong suggestion, at times a weak consideration, but never an actual standard. It was always the big tech companies making the actual standards. We were lucky when a W3C spec actually reflected real world implementations.

And this isn't just my opinion... the WHATWG was created specifically to bypass the W3C on purpose.