skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The W3C is relevant in multiple critical areas of the Web. Just to name a few topics where W3C is the primary venue for all standardisation efforts:

- Accessibility

- Authentication

- CSS

- Self-Sovereign Identity

- Virtual Reality

- Linked Data

- XML

I wrote a comment about the W3C's relationship with WHATWG a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37052428

If you do nothing else, please pass your eyes over the list of W3C Recommendations and other publications on standards track: https://www.w3.org/TR/
> but if the WWDC keynote really is for enthusiasts, press, and analysts it’s disingenuous to say it’s part of a Developer Conference.

About every conference has an opening keynote that doesn’t get into nitty-gritty details, but that informs both the participants and the press what the conference will be about.

It typically follows on a part where the local mayor/minister/… will welcome the participants, saying how good it is for the city/region/country to have the conference in their city/region/country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynote: “At political or industrial conventions and expositions and at academic conferences, the keynote address or keynote speech is delivered to set the underlying tone and summarize the core message or most important revelation of the event”

I don’t see the WWDC keynotes as much different, except for the fact that Apple’s keynotes attract way more press than most other ones.
I guess that wouldn't have enticed me at all. The minimalism of networking is what interested me in it in the first place decades ago as a kid.
> Lots of employers like to delude themselves that their company is some big important, cutting-edge enterprise that's making a real impact in the world.

Pretty much. The only time I've considered going back to in-person work since the pandemic was for a FAANG. If you think your employees want to go back to the office, you are either a big tech company or you are deluded
It is trivial to ignore unused variables, early returns leaving dead code and so forth while editing and then check&reject them before applying to production. Fix whitespace in the same git hook.

This is one where faster local development (because you don't have to repeatedly, jarringly stop what you're doing and patch up something that doesn't matter) and clean source in a common repo are both possible and very easy to achieve.

But whatever. Yay go.
The RHCSA and RHCE certs are more to show you know Linux and Ansible, respectfully, rather than anything RedHat specifically. The reputation of RedHat as a company doesn't really matter in that regard. The certs still prove you are capable with Linux and Ansible, and since they're hands on practical exams they do a really good job of that.
So take your primary domain you use... and make subdomains...?
As a lawyer, I feel like the slightest bit of legal knowledge makes this even more baffling. The answer to most questions is "it depends", but the answer about doing anything concerning a witness against you in a trial is "heck no".

There's no logical reason to do this. I think the answer is that no matter how smart he may be in some areas, he has emotions like anyone else which sometimes lead him to do stupid things. I think many of his decisions are also rooted in a copious amount of pride which leads him to think he will get away with anything.
IP Address Blocking Banned After Anti-Piracy Court Order Hit Cloudflare
The W3C had their chance in the early 2000s and they hyperfixated on XML nonsense while browser and web evolution stagnated. I'm not saying that the status quo is perfect, but if we want W3C to try again then we should make sure we don't run into the same issues 20 years ago.
It was not a norm, until ubiquitous high speed networking and computing there was no choice but to be in the same place to work together.
You'll freeze to death in winter, but that's a minor thing. Living is overrated.
I hope you are aware of the multi-pronged smear campaign against Assange. The US government hired Palantir and HB Gary to infiltrate WikiLeaks and cause rifts, and put out negative press about him. This is just what leaked, let alone their entire strategy.

Even if he were guilty of some information crime, the level of persecution against him by the US government is way overboard and not in proportion to the supposed offense.

But it is clear to me and many others that what he was doing was journalism, even if you don't like his message and methods. He should be protected at all costs.
Well, I really hope that they don't hear about Skytube.

Google, close your eyes!

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/free.rm.skytube.oss/

Bad Google! No dividends for you!
Very cool.

Except I'm a bit concerned that it might have too many features. E.g. rendering of progress bars and such. This should really be in a separate package and not referenced from this package.

The multiprocessing module might not be great, but at least the maintainers have always been careful about feature creep.
They plan to use 2D + 3He -> 4He + 1H, so no neutrons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion#Candidate_re...

(I'm still not convinced of their explanations, but a fast proton may be easy to catch by the magnetic field and create the effect they want.)
> It's not irony, most of the cases NY started were pretty unreasonable and more than a stretch, and have not gone very far

You mean, like, the guilty on all counts result in the Trump Org tax fraud case or the abuse of charity funds for personal political interests case against Donald Trump, his children, and the Trunp Foundation that ended with millions in liability, various bans, and the disbanding of the Trump Foundation?

Or something else that was a stretch that didn't go far?
I'm not sure if I agree that Google's future intent is the bigger threat versus Apple already using it.

>So as long as they do not produce 50% of PCs or 50% of phones

Apple's market share in the US smartphone market is at almost 58%.

>It's like with Monopolies and Cartels

Yes, and I'm not saying Google shouldn't be looked into if necessary, but Apple has a 100% monopoly on iPhones unlike Google on Android and PC where you can switch browser.

If Apple is stopped, there are no reasons to go after Google, as it would also be illegal for them to do the same. Two birds with one stone – and Apple definitely also needs to be stopped.
Programming made easy by GPT-Synthesizer
Right on the money. Such moves are the ultimate sign of weakness and inability to execute.

I really do wonder if barring people from innovating around Terraform, such a strangle will just lead to the emergence of a Terraform replacement in the next years.

Instead of buying spacelift or the competition and moving ahead, this solves... nothing?
Rule #1 for effective management from any reputable ivy league executive MBA program is to have less self-awareness than any of your subordinates.
Correct, the only ones claiming YouTube's "rolling cipher" is an anti-piracy control are the RIAA. YouTube themselves have not claimed this to my knowledge.
This is a mischaracterization of the research. Recent research has indicated that Serotonin levels in depressed people are not lower than average. But SSRIs are effective for relieving depressive symptoms - either boosting serotonin levels above average works, or they work through some other pathway that hasn't been identified.

> Which in my book says depression is a software problem more than a hardware problem, even though the software problem can create reinforcing hardware problems.

A human isn't a computer. You can't separate psychology from the biology of the brain. This comment is really unhelpful in actually treating mental illness. Talk therapy helps depression, lifestyle changes help depression, and medication helps depression. Most people recover with some combination of all three.

I've never understood people who seem to take offense to the existence of antidepressants. If you don't want to take them, don't take them, but leave the people who benefit from them in peace.
I indeed mean PATs. They are not more limited than WEI in any meaningful way. Both could in principle attest anything. Both claim they are meant to attest only certain kinds of properties. They would be just as useful (or useless) for fingerprinting.
So, you found simple solution for very complicated dynamic and you actually believe you solved this problem?

I don't care about offices with doors.

Sure, they're better, but still it doesn't solve my issues - I care about commute - time and money, especially time.

I've been commuting like 3h / day before WFH and I don't want to go back unless you pay me at least 2.5x
I'd assume that many authors would not start with copyleft? So, as users of the OSS, we need to choose the ones that have a high chance of staying open.
HashiCorp Transitions to BSL
Very disappointing if you ask me.

I'll likely pin versions on Terraform and Vault to the last available MPL release, at least for a while and hold out for a fork or some sort of change.

Edit: dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37081306
How is Google's intent worse for an iPhone user? They can avoid Chrome, but not Apple's implementation. Anyways, both should be looked into.
Any rate limits apart from Google's? Looks very neat.
I don't think web standards work that way. Often times we'll see things get deployed and implemented before they become standards anyway. And it's not as if W3C has any authority. But even if W3C had any authority, Google and Apple would just pay off every seat.
Who enforces electrical and network standards? Those don't require world police.
Curious, what line of work are you in where your competitors are using such a tactic to target your online sales site? Because... wow.
Im not sure whether that example supports your point. The Oxford dictionary is essentially an authority on spelling, and their editors and councils definitely have weight in debates on the proper spelling of things.
Printer Ink, It's a Scam
"Hybrid" is just in office work with a fancy name. A company I worked for pushed heavy for RTO and said "Its part time Hybrid". But we already had 1+ days (at managers discretion) WFH a week before covid hit. Hybrid was In office Tuesday through Thursday with remote Monday and Friday. This was actually less flexible than 1 or maybe more as you need it WFH that we had it prior.
Side effect of introducing less noise into AV equipment is a nice bonus!
I wonder if its worth poisoning the replies for scrapers that don't obey robots.txt. Send back nonsense, lies, and noise. This would be an adversarial approach like https://adnauseam.io/ uses for ad tracking.
I haven’t had an office with a door in 20 years, but you’re absolutely right. Somehow a white noise generator isn’t quite the same.
I agree with the characterization of applications you've laid out and think everyone should consider whether they're working on a "tall" (most users use a narrow band of functionality) or a "wide" (most users use a mostly non-overlapping band of functionality) application.

I also agree with your take that tall applications are generally easier to build engineering-wise.

Where I disagree is that I think in general wide applications are failures in product design, even if profitable for a period of time. I've worked on a ton of wide applications, and each of them eventually became loathed by users and really hard to design features for. I think my advice would be to strive to build a tall application for as long as you can muster, because it means you understand your customers' problems better than anyone else.
How often are you moving your NAS?
> My guess is that most employers really have no way to measure if an employee is being productive or not so managers are just reporting what makes them look good...and now we are back to where managers will look better with lots of people running around the office.

My guess is that CEOs and VCs have some obscure reason to force people back into the office. Perhaps related to real estate, especially considering how hard to sell it is and how much higher the interest rates are. Middle management will typically eat up whatever narrative C-level feeds them.
It's disappointing that such an elaborate article omits that the "Like" was originated in FriendFeed which Facebook had bought. Upvoting was obviously a thing before FriendFeed too, but its specific form to signal the public with your opinion on a social feed had probably started with FriendFeed. Facebook had literally bought the Like button.
Every time I hear the name Rumsfeld, I am reminded of the time when, for over 10 minutes, he refused to deny being a lizard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH_34tqxAjA
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-47444297 "Villagers have been whipped with belts, attacked with machetes, beaten unconscious with bamboo sticks, sexually assaulted, shot, and murdered by WWF-supported anti-poaching units, according to reports and documents obtained by BuzzFeed News."
CUDA on Guix might be a challenge, I imagine.
I was wondering why SBF was not immediately jailed when he was caught communicating with ex-FTX employees with Signal earlier this year.

Also the news reported he was installing VPNs so that he could 'watch football online' or something about as stupid.
And as for some additional context: before multi-constellation GNSS receivers and such stuff, multilateriation from GSM timing advance was a somewhat good way to get precise position fix, especially with GSM PLMN that has additional support for using it for position fixes.
Its not on Google Play, so no worries about mass proliferation.
Maybe our desktops and laptops get taken away, and they leave us with our smartphones (which are locked down for our safety).

90% of people wouldn't give a shit as long as they have their smartphones
Photo Agencies Publish Open Letter Demanding AI Copyright Protection
I decided I will never again work in an office, for the rest of my life. It's a lifestyle choice. I refuse to put up with the B.S. anymore. I'm lucky that I've had a long career and my skills are very much in demand, so I will always be able to find a remote job somewhere.

People doing jobs with more qualified candidates in the pool will probably have a harder time, and that sucks. For them, I hope they can band together as a union and force companies to hire them remote. There is no excuse anymore about it not working, because the whole planet did it through a friggin' pandemic, and work actually improved. We just have to stick to our guns, because the suits will continue to try to ruin our lives as long as it benefits them.
There is certainly an API to inspect your query, you can just call print() on the object iirc.
Do you really want to use the tech IPO market pre 1999?
> excessive obeisance

Eh, it's not excessive or obeisant. It's simply a straightforward commentary on how the guy seems to think.

Written in earnest, mind, for other community members, some of whom are awkwardly attempting to Judge-Judy their way through the situation.

What does that really contribute, all the commentary on how evil this person is?

Is it supposed to _not_ look like projecting? Eh...I don't think that's working too well. And the news headlines do a way better job anyway.

> I'm advocating for not judging hundreds of thousands of people more harshly than you appear to judge SBF. Again: what makes him different?

This doesn't make sense.

Also, give me someone to compare him to if you are looking for comparative logic. Otherwise do the comparison yourself, it's clearly not that kind of comment.

If you think he's not different because you think just like he does, then you may have an everybody-thinks-like-me problem.
I guess I’m one of those easily misled sheep who has been cowed (sheeped?) by government propaganda.

Or maybe it’s possible to disapprove of Snowden not as “a plant or a terrorist” but as an unwitting accomplice or a useful idiot who chose to make classified information public in a way that was extraordinarily favorable to what were obviously (even in 2013) two of the most repressive regimes in the world.

Like, don’t flee to China after you supposedly blew the whistle to highlight abuses of government surveillance. And never ever transit through Russia! If Snowden had given 1% as much thought to factors like that as he had to stealing and disseminating classified information, maybe it would be easier for me to believe that his motives were completely pure and/or he hadn’t fallen under the sway of foreign intelligence services.

Instead, the most charitable assessment I can give him is that he’s a guy who’s not nearly as bright as he thinks he is who got in way, way over his head. I have a hell of a lot more respect for Chelsea Manning and Reality Winner than I do Snowden.
Lisp makes a spectacular high level assembler but you may have trouble using it in a team environment. Think writing assembly but with lisp as the macro layer.
Dynamo is quick for that, so long as you are picking good partition keys.

Instead, it'll throw you hot key throttling if you start querying one partition too much
Perhaps they meant prison. This jail time is just in-lieu of bail until the actual trial.

I think a lot of people still predict that he will be set free from any wrongdoing after the trial because of his massive donations and money laundering for the political class.
Don't SBCs have a lot of peripherals that aren't particularly useful for a generic compute cluster but balloon up the cost?

Anyway you can find A78s these days if you look hard:

https://www.ipi.wiki/pages/i-pi-smarc-1200

And Rockchip is pushing A76s in their rk3588. Bit of a joke, but it seems like that is the best we got.
not exactly.
This misinterpretation of what happened during the Dan White trial is all the fault of Paul Krassner

https://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Myth-of-the-Twinkie-de...

A better summary is the defense presented an argument that Dan White was massively depressed (Vietnam combat vet, just lost his job), and eating massive amounts of Twinkies was 1 of the symptoms of his depression.

Dan White's lawyer appeared on an episode of Star Trek
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/11/us/melvin-belli-dies-at-8...
AFAIK the people who pay RedHat money are F500, banks, other enterprise and government, i.e, "boring" organisations that absolutely could not care less how much RedHat does or does not give back to the community.

If you are looking for employment in those sorts of places in particular I think the certs remain valuable.

I do think what IBM/RH are doing is bad for the long term health of their products. Linux distros live and die by the size and strength of their communities.

Zero-sum thinking (hey, someone else is benefiting from my efforts! That should be MINE!) betrays a lack of understanding of the kinds of network and community effects that helped make RedHat so valuable.
hey thanks, loops is going well!
I wrote a simple implementation to do this in ChatGPT via local plugin [0]. Obviously it doesn’t hit the “fully private” requirement but I imagine it would be relatively straightforward to integrate into a local LLM. The question is whether a local LLM would be as good at grabbing enough context and nuance from the project to answer meaningfully as GPT-4 is able to do with plugins.

[0] https://github.com/samrawal/chatgpt-localfiles
As a person with such a degree, I can tell you that getting a PhD to teach is basically like getting a Lamborghini as a daily driver. Wildly impractical, a PhD is for teaching is primarily a gate-keeping methodology which finds it's true power in the, sometimes literal, indoctrination of the future generations.

For this purpose I feel as though it is justified, however there is also a ponzification of bestowed PhDs, where novelty and published research may become so tangential or new that the field literally doesn't exist and might never be useful. For this purpose, a PhD feels like the "other" bin, the world doesn't have a name for it or the PhD holder claims that no other label fits.
dammit, i cant spell :/
Yes, if you want to return to office... I better have an office. Not a desk in a "modern open collaboration space" or what every they used to call them
I get to have lunch with my partner every day and see them when I take breaks working from home. That’ll never happen at an office, and it’s more valuable than any comp to me. I would not entertain on site even at 500k/year (legit offer from a high frequency trading firm in downtown Chicago for an infosec cloud/iam engineer role). I can always make more money, and I only need so much to live well, but I have a finite amount of time and I’m spending the time I have left wisely.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
If you click on the 3 dots next to your email in the bottom left, you can set "custom instructions" now. Basically, you can tell ChatGPT who you are, as well as how you'd like it to respond.

It's not perfect but it's coming along.
There’s a playbook - it always focussed on the character. It’s probably the only way to deflect from the reality of the content of a leak… it’s amazing how influential narratives can be, I suppose is why media has such power.
My understanding for Xenon is that it's huge electron shell means that it has an induced dipole in the presence of other dipoles in the body. It then affects receptors with dipole-dipole bonds.

I was also confused by Xenon working as an anesthetic, and found it interesting that it can interact with the body without forming chemical bonds. Doesn't work for the lighter noble gasses.
I have personally witnessed the “let’s build microservices to get better performance” argument. I definitely want to nip that in the bud.

It’s easy to fall in love with complexity, especially since you see a lot of complexity in existing systems. But those systems became complex as they evolved to meet user needs, or for other reasons, over time. Complex systems are impressive, but you need to make sure that your team has people who recognize the heavy costs of complexity, and who can throw their engineering efforts directly against the most important problems your team faces.
Have you considered reading the words preceeding and following this quote ?

> The idea was to prevent communities downstream from being inundated by using a limited, controlled blast to release pressure on the dam.

> But that proposal was scrapped after water later broke through the structure, police spokesman Fredrik Thomson told reporters
> I find it funny that when people were required to be home, employers talked about what great productivity they were getting with people at home. Then when it isn't required anymore, they want everyone back in the office for...productivity

Whatever management’s current whim is represents not only a reasonable but the only effective way to serve shareholder interests, amd to do anything differently would be a irresponsible and anyone disagreeing is objectively working against the interest of the firm, and any prior contrary statements about what is best for the firm are nonoperational and any reference to them is a bad faith distraction.

Oceania, Inc., has always been at war with EastAsia, LLC.
Wow quite a character.
Can't wait for the FBI to bash in my door for running curl because it fails to meet established legal criteria for browser operation.
Acting like all humans will work equally as hard when they are supervised vs unsupervised is completely naïve
He’s Stanford special
I'd worry about heat issues doing that.
(As a guy who has fired legal counsel for huge and obvious ethical breaches, IDK if that first line does what you think it does :-))

> There's no logical reason to do this.

Given your experience IOW. Given his lack of it, there absolutely can be. Again, it's contextual, subjective logic he's working with. Not broad experience or broad knowledge of legal affairs. The comparative strengths are there in both cases, but completely different.