skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought that there must be a middle ground after reading that part, too. But we, the people who know, run and support that cozy web, are actually a minority compared to the mass of internet users. It's not a good comparison, but my family and friends know absolutely nothing about all the things that make up the cozy web. Dozens of people and literally nobody knows what RSS, Mastodon or blogs are. When asked about privacy, nobody cares. Nobody except my brother uses ad blockers. Just a few examples.

From my experience and what I know about web users in general, this seem to scale to the whole internet. Like 90% of the people know nothing about "our cozy web" and don't care about anything else than the commercial web.
A Nordic revolt against 'ugly' modern architecture
Location: Budapest, Hungary & Medellin, Colombia (Nationality: Hungarian-American)

Remote: Yes, only remote

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Technologies:
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Hi, I'm Istvan! I’ve been doing iOS development for 6+ years and web development (mainly frontend with some backend) for 4+ years.
- I’ve worked on various web and iOS projects both as a full-time dev & as a freelancer or independent developer
- I’ve built online and mobile games, worked on an e-commerce website and a voice based digital assistant, developed a web based AI chat app, built many portfolio sites & landing pages
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Do you leave it plugged into the charger when it's running all night?
After using 3+ tools I often come to the conclusion that I don't really like any of them. I see the trade offs and choose something based on often superficial reasons.

I use Linux instead of Windows or macOS, because it allows me to tinker and I feel more free. But I do use ChromeOS, because machines are cheap, the experience is good and I get access to Linux thanks to Crostini.

While I use ChromeOS I don't really like Chrome and prefer Firefox. I've used Brave and Edge, but thinking how they are all Chromium with a twist is not that compelling for me. But Firefox has a killer feature for me with Simple Tab Groups, Containers and full uBlock Origin.

With editors I used many, but I'm mostly stuck with vim, because I invested in it in the past and it is almost always there or easily obtainable. Other than it VSCode is good, but I feel dirty using it.

From terminals I've used many, but find rxvt-unicode not getting in my way the most. Though often I just use xfce4-terminal, because it is there.

From Linux DEs I've used most. KDE/Plasma seems always buggy for me. GNOME is too strange. dwm and friends are very nice, but sometimes I don't feel like setting it up on a new machine/vm. Budgie was nice, but was too much tied to Solus at the time. Xfce4 is just there, reliable and pretty enough.
One point people don't tend to know, is that a lot of folks actually get drugs in jail, and often prefer them. There's quite a few opioid replacements that get offered to anyone who can show addiction withdrawl, and many folks say they're actually a better, longer high than the street stuff.

There's also some revolving door, and 'Shawshank' style issues, where folks rotate out for a couple months in the spring / summer, do whatever on the street, and then rotate back in the fall / winter with some dumb crime. Eat, rest, stay warm, get the opioid replacements, then head back out. Kind of a homeless shelter where you just have to do some 3-month misdemeanor stint to get room / board.

Although long incarceration can definitely be an issue, there are also some folks who've made it a lifestyle.
Why specifically them? The article mentions the NSA as well, which has done its fair share of domestic spying. As a taxpayer, it doesn't really matter to me how those lines are drawn, how budget/intel/personnel flow between them, what they call a mass surveillance program in any given decade, etc. In my short life, they've failed to prevent an attack, failed to prevent two major wars of false pretenses, failed to foresee, much less prevent, a major Russian invasion...

Has the intelligence community, regardless of agency, actually prevented any recent wars? Or why do you believe that "spying prevents war"?
This is a really amazing document. If you were to ask someone to come up with the most concise and context-free summary of every anti-American though out there, this would be it. It quotes everyone from Chomsky to the Heritage foundation.

This document is also INSANE.

It blames the US for the decline of things like the Native American population since 1492 but then says all claims about Uyghur human rights violations are fabricated. It quotes Covid numbers for itself that are clearly made up. China cannot be making fentanyl because all drugs are illegal in China (and even if they were, it's the US's fault for letting it in). Any alliances the US forms is an act of aggression, but we should also leave Russia alone. At one point they defend the "inseparable bond" that the CPC has with its people.

"Yes, we spy on all of our citizens all of the time. But you know how Facebook moved data from the EU to the US? Isn't that messed up?"

Anything that is deniable is denied. Anything the party does is justified. There is an official answer for anything, no matter how thin the connection is. They are reading all of our news and controversies and regurgitating them all without understanding any of it.

> The dysfunctional American-style democracy has triggered a trust crisis. Public commitments to the people come with behind-the-scene deals. Political infighting, money politics, and vetocracy make it virtually impossible for quality governance to be delivered as aspired by the general public. Americans are increasingly disillusioned with the US politics and pessimistic about the American-style democracy.

Let us not lose sight of the key thing here. The fact that we are free to openly discuss the faults of our own system is being used against us. We should not let anyone, ourselves included, be deluded into thinking that the side with the most bad/depressing news is losing. Totalitarian, oppressive governments always have the best news.
This was such a brilliantly polite way to make this point!

(And I’m not piling on to the parent because I’m certain I make similar missteps with language sometimes)
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I think "default" (Mercurial) is a way better name than anything else for the default branch, duh. But, I err on the side of the disadvantaged because it's impossible to fully empathize with their individual experience, so I try to use "main" whenever I can.

That said, I'm a Slav which is the origin of the word "slave" because in Europe, slaves were predominantly Slavs once. I don't really mind it because it feels irrelevant today. Connotations of "master" doesn't feel that ancient yet though, considering that black people weren't allowed to live in Palo Alto, CA (heart of Silicon Valley today) until 1950's.
> Do you guys think the non-commercial web will ever achieve critical mass

I don't know. I rather doubt it. Personally, I've given up on that as a goal -- the masses can do what they like. My goal is more about self-preservation: finding those spaces that are beneficial to me.

What I think is actually happening is that the web is balkanizing, as people who feel as I do build spaces that serve their needs.
No, it’s not. It’s the chemical reaction the limit.
In li-ion for example you will create dendrites when charging/discharging too fast or too deep. This is the cause of the relatively short cycle life.
That's what the web3 movement is about but everyone is too caught up in bias based on false narratives
Uber makes first operating profit after racking up $31.5B of losses
All: if you want to argue about what "USD" means, please do that at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962507, not here. But also consider: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. [...] name collisions [...]. They're too common to be interesting." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thankfully our land and sea borders only total about 312 yards or so, two squads of border control could keep eyes on it at all times, and shut that stuff down.

Oops, my bad. Nope, it's 2000 miles or so.
That demonstrates that California did a very bad job at legalization. The black market arises when the taxes on a good exceed the risk of getting caught. If California had legalized marijuana and treated it like liquor, there would be no black market.
https://archive.is/7oxgK
Booker Prize 2023 longlist announced
The dangers of getting hooked are greatly exacerbated by current "treatment" modalities and the culture the black market breeds.
Not free, but cheap. Latest bill was ~1 USD (for one month).
>Democracies shouldn't have giant unaccountable spy orgs.

They don't but there are definitely some bad, unaccountable people and parts to it though.

Individuals are generally accountable but it's going to look unaccountable when the nation also wants to do the things the spy org is doing.
Around may quality seemed to tank. I find 'free' gpt just as good or better since I cancelled my subscription. It was glaringly clear that they nerfed it for whatever reason. I'll keep my tinfoil thoughts to myself.
> would be better if the drugs were cheaper and safer.

Drugs are never going to be safer. If FDA approved painkillers can get you addicted, I am not sure how much safer can Fentanyl get. And making them cheaper is only going to create more problems.

Prohibition doesn’t prevent people from accessing drugs. But that doesn’t mean we make it easily accessible. Theft is illegal, but it doesn’t stop people from stealing. That doesn’t mean we legalize it. Because if we do, we’ll have a free for all like we have in SF and other parts of California.
This must be how they got me, I had a naive assumption that if you pick a chain, it picks the nearest one, but that clearly isn't the case.
This is repeated over and over again but that's only a very small fraction of the kind of power that a computer uses. By the time you're talking about reversible computing all the low hanging fruit has been plucked and there are much, much bigger sources of loss. The biggest one impacted by superconductivity if (and that's a really big if) it can be used for the interconnect layers ('metal') in a chip and for the circuit traces outside of the chip that you can cut the charge and discharge time for the gates of the transistors in the chip down to a minimum. This in turn changes the power consumption of the chip because the transistor is either 'on' or 'off' and spends much less time on the transition in between where it is more of a resistor than a switch.

So it isn't determined whether or not it will be changed but it could be.
Actually one thing I would be curious to try is to substitute ketamine for opiates. It might work out that some people prefer it and it’s far less harmful on the body. Problem is it’s super expensive compared to opiates.
Unity supports USD -- also Unity isn't technically a content creation tool (well...in the sense of what Adobe and Autodesk tools are). It is way bigger deal for the content creation tools to be aligning on an export format than consumers of said content (i.e. Unity) to align on importer.
From Abandoned AI Project to $300k in 90 Days: What inspired me to build Aiquare
A story on IndieHackers about transforming an abandoned AI project into a $300k success sparked the creation of Aiquare (link to post in my blog). Aiquare is a platform where developers and businesses can buy, sell, and collaborate on AI projects and tools. Serving as both a marketplace and a community for AI experts and enthusiasts, it's also a place for businesses and individuals to find Machine learning experts for consultation or hiring.

I've spent a few days building this as a proof of concept, and I'm eager to share it with the Hacker News community and learn from your feedback and insights. All suggestions and feedback will be highly appreciated.
Doesn’t make any sound on mobile Safari. Layout is pretty good though.
Being in rural New Zealand; I'd be amazed if we had the same product options for decaf.
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Flipping a bit from 1 to 0 releases heat (because you can't just drop the 1 onto the negative/ground)

Resistance in non-super- conductors wastes electricity as heat.

From "Thermodynamics of Computation Wiki" (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18146854 :

> "Quantum knowledge cools computers: New understanding of entropy" (2011) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110601134300.h...

>> The new study revisits Landauer's principle for cases when the values of the bits to be deleted may be known. (with QC)
> For people complaining about the name, USD has been already a thing publicly since at least 2013

As opposed to the United States dollar that became public after 2013?

I mean, seriously: OpenUSD sounds like a cryptocurrency "stablecoin" token name.
It might even all come fast enough to save us from climate change

(But I'm not getting my hopes up)
How about a web ring? A manifesto? A good name for it, or several? By that I mean things to make this distributed discontent more discoverable, and more importantly, all those neat little tools and protocols that achieve great things with a fraction of the resources while keeping the autonomy of the user intact.

We also need (more, discoverable) beginner level material that explains the beauty and potential of the web and many of its good parts (there are so many!). People who are as excited about the web and DIY as the Veritasium guy is about physics and math, and as talented at showing it. I certainly would tune in, and spread the word.

Wouldn't it be great if we could leave something to future generations, like people left us diaries and books? If we just keep shoving our "content" and personal musings into those silos, chances are very good they will get basically nothing. A big fat hole, compared to what could be have if we actually cared about our files and bytes, and got the average person to care about theirs too. I consider that literacy in the digital age. You don't stop at 20% literacy, that would be appalling.

And I posit it's not actually hard to become an adult, it's way harder not to. As long as you don't exercise autonomy it seems more and more daunting and hard, if you do, it becomes easier. I think the same applies here. There's just all these swarms of middlemen telling people it's all impossibly hard and dangerous (while they shovel on layers of complexity to make it so). They say don't bother walking, walking is hard, and offer to carry you. That goes well for a while, until you depend on them, until the idea of walking positively scares you. Then they start carrying you where it serves them.
Personally I think marijuana is a bit unique, more similar to alcohol in how it can fit into daily life for some people. Sure the use has probably gone up but that's just social norms changing, not necessarily for better or worse. (If it displaces alcohol or other drug use it's probably for the better). Every culture has different ideas about what drugs are acceptable.

Maybe legalizing cocaine would also see occasional recreational use go up - that's not necessarily a problem either.
The article is spot on about SIMD. Often, if you can write your code in exactly the specific form that you would if you were using intrinsics, the compiler will go ahead and SIMDify for you. But you have essentially a 0% chance of writing in that form unless you already have experience writing SIMD code!

Things like branches, loop termination not being regular, alignment, aliasing, function calls, etc all can and do stop your otherwise totally amenable code from vectorizing.

In the terminology of the article, I'm still at Phase 2. By the time I've worked out the dataflow and constraints needed to make a loop parallelize, I've more or less converted it into the form needed for intrinsics already, so why not write them and be sure.

More broadly, the biggest impact I've seen using MSVC (which most of my code is written in), is the function inliner makes absolutely terrible decisions, particularly with lambdas, which is really unfortunate because there's no way to force-inline the lambda. Combine that with the above - the presence of the lambda will prevent vectorization, even though if it was inlined it would then be trivially vectorizable. :(
From the AOUSD website: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/aousd-quotes

“Unity is committed to the continued adoption of USD standards. AOUSD is an important step forward to delivering a common foundation for content creation, collaboration and interoperability. We are excited to be involved in the alliance and to help shape the future of USD.” - Allan Poore, Senior Vice President, Unity Wētā Tools

"Epic Games recognizes the significance of USD in establishing standards for 3D content, virtual worlds, and the open metaverse. Pixar has demonstrated exceptional leadership in the open source community over the last decade, and we are excited to witness the formation of the Alliance for OpenUSD, which will propel the technology to new levels of standardization." - Marc Petit, VP Unreal Engine Ecosystem, Epic Games
> Most people who use drugs eventually end up not being able to live like normal adults.

Got a cite for that? I doubt it's true.

We're seeing the same problems with drug prohibition that we saw with alcohol prohibition. It's time for the government to stop destroying people's lives.
It happens enough that there are laws against it buddy.
Right, I found such changes silly as well, but this kind of anger is a bad sign. Sounds like someone watches too much corporate TV.

If you can't handle a little silliness from humanity, might as well bow out now.
Agreed.

If a policy requires nearly perfect implementation, and follow through, and good behavior of the people, in order to succeed, and you rarely achieve / sustain the follow through by the community or police, etc. then it is not a good policy. Even though the concept was nice.

A policy is everything, start to finish. You can't just say a policy was good except for the implementation. No matter how good it makes you feel that you got the idea right, it just wasn't carried out the way you thought.
This isn't something regular people care about though.

People working in computer graphics absolutely know what stable diffusion is.

I would also that at least a third of the US adult population doesn't know that USD is the abbreviation for symbol for US dollars. The average American never travels internationally.
Thank you, I have yet to see a workflow mentioned here that is not just as easy in jj (just conceptually different).

Also learning about progress git workflows though, so that's cool.
Ya, that's 90% of the country. If anything, California is one of the biggest current densifiers, as the major metros have hit the natural borders and need to densify to accomodate new people. Lots of multistory and transit going up; not enough, but more than most places.
The landing page appears a little sparse, I would recommend adding some more information and maybe an interactive demo.
Quite simply, any conclusion of this saga that doesn't end with 3M and fellow companies utterly erased and their assets sold off to more responsible stewards to pay for remediation and cleanup efforts, including piercing the corporate veil for a lot of the owners, is a miscarriage of justice. You cannot be allowed, as a private entity, to knowingly pollute.... everything, and still be allowed to conduct business. You have made it abundantly clear that you will harm others for profit, and we should be aggressively destroying any company that does so.

You have no natural right to a profit at other's expense, and we should stop pretending that these companies are following the rule of the law with these settlements. No part of any law says you have to let malicious companies continue to operate because they are big and have a lot of money. Bankruptcy is an important and necessary part of a healthy market.
Until GNUs is hit with the g command.
Let's call it Javascript!
I think you're providing evidence for their point? HN isn't exactly useful without a person to browse it. "A generic understanding of hypermedia" is easy to say, but may be much more complex in reality to encode into a set of rules that a program knows to follow.

And if we're going to compare "a REST client" as purely the requestor and not the interpreter of the data to something that does JSON RPC calls or graphql, which is often basically REST+, I'm not sure there's any real difference.
Exactly. It's phase I testing. All they know is it doesn't seem to kill mice or some healthy cells in a Petri dish. Despite this being apparently a highly-targeted molecule, there is always the potential for it to cause side-effects, injuries, or fatalities in whole humans. It shows promise but wake me up when it passes phase III.
Shooting in steep trajectory, howitzer style, would still be valuable.
You are correct that it’s strictly unnecessary as long as there’s some way to detect when the third address was omitted, e.g. by requiring a newline.

I left the requirement in to make it look more like typical assembly language and also as a reminder of what it’s doing (and making the distinction between “.data” a little more obvious). I also thought the tedium of typing “subleq” fit nicely into the theme of the game.

So I guess it was more of an aesthetic decision.
You’re ignoring the right of someone to do with their body as they see fit, in favor of giving power to governments over people’s bodies. Prohibition didn’t work for alcohol despite’s its negative effects. Doesn’t work for prostitution or gambling either.
It was this way when I first came to the Bay Area around 2008. Police simply ignore all of these criminal behaviors. They know the DA is not interested in prosecuting. It’s shocking at first. I came from a city where none of that is tolerated.