skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not proposing anything, just noting that Youtube ads are not providing a relevant direct incentive to a lot of creators. Obviously "keeping Youtube running" also matters to anyone using the platform as a part of making a living, but at least personally I feel like that is a different problem that needs to be approached from other angles.

Some amount of reinvention seems necessary, the cost model of video hosting (without just making it a public service) changes the maths a fair bit.
Brave is an ad company with weird crypto stuff sprinkled in. Not to mention that their past actions have shown that privacy to them is a marketing thing, not something that is at the core of how they operate.
There have been a few too many new things they introduced that run counter to a user centric privacy minded approach where they only did backpedal after enough negative publicity.
This is exactly what I mean by "market until you think it's too much, and then some" - if it was truly too much, the average forum member would know (imo).
The expectations of apps have skyrocketed too which is why everyone is using Electron to cope. If GUI development were still as easy as the drag and drop builders in Delphi 7 and VB6 with a bunch of static 800x600 monitors and double-click to edit component code-behind, we’d be shoehorning fewer apps into HTML and making more desktop apps.

I remember how big of a pain in the ass Windows distribution (alone) was in the 2000s with entire businesses like InstallShield built around it. Tack compatibility testing on top of that and a desktop app for a single OS because a massive effort. With the web you could just upload PHP and off to the race. That slowly evolved into what we had today via jquery and electron and friends but what won was distribution and ease of development, despite all the handwringing people do about frontend. The grass isn’t greener on the other side and hasn’t been for decades.

It’s not even remotely competitive anymore. My favorite example is GoldenLayout: it takes me less than a few hours to read the docs and implement a full blown tabbed and split screen interface using a third party library and combine it with any framework I want like React, Svelte, or just vanilla JS. Each desktop framework have their own solutions to the problem usually in the form of commercial components but even in the best case, they take lots more time to wire together.
Cancers are pure “Mother Nature’s” badbots. They are bad because they take but do not give. And taking means proliferating and dispersing and ultimately killing themselves and all the well behaved cells. Echos of politics.

Xenobots, anthrobots, and the inevitably musbots (mousebots) could be designed like CAR-T cells and go after the evil-doer cancers.

Mike and team: I hope you are working with NK cells too,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAR_T_cell
I really want to keep http but replace html and js with something more strict, lighter, secure and safe by design, that would prevent the use of targeted ads like it's possible in HTML.

I understand that companies might probably not use something else if it's harder to put ads because they could not make money, but there are still a lot of use cases where companies will prefer having a technology that's safe.

The law is evolving which means targeted ads will not be viable anymore.

Also, maybe a lot of internet media companies, including reddit, instagram, etc need to rethink their business model, why don't they try to sell news article through a platform like netflix?

I still don't understand why media companies are able to make money over content they never make on internet infrastructure they did not build, this baffles logic.

HTML is way too permissive.
>There are some reasons you'd want to process faces differently

Yes and then you have applied a filter.
GCP is the ugly stepchild of Google. They prioritize their own infra which unlike Aws doesn’t even run on gcp! It’s a joke. They don’t dogfood anything. All Google infra runs on separate systems (both) or dedicated deployment like their own spanner clusters. Google employees look down on gcp employees like second class citizens
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not. But the answer to the first question has been known in the forestry community to be yes for quite some time.

For instance - there are certain species that require the heat of a fire for their seeds to explode and grow new plants.
You can still use Chrom* for those crappy sites and Firefox for everything else.
>data interoperability and open protocols.

We just need to mandate the basic / baseline technology. External File System that is supported everywhere ( ExFAT ? ), PDF, Word, Excel / Spreadsheet, Archive Files, Photo/ Graphics, Audio and Video.

Unfortunately I dont it will ever happen. One being goverement doesn't think like that. Two even if they do they dont know which one to pick. And three since they cant pick anyone they will decide to make their own.......

Right now I really wish we could create something on top of the soon patent free AAC-LC and H.264 Video Codec.
If Professor Layton itself has a French translation then you're more than half of the way there! Existing games are already quite good for language learning. But indeed they're missing the "realistic" element that you're after.
Well HN is probably in the top 1% of forums
There's no API to intercept web requests in a blocking fashion in MV3, so extensions can no longer offer the ability to do custom request blocking. The entire list is static.
Tener un negocio al aire libre exitoso depende en gran parte de que los clientes se sientan cómodos y protegidos del sol y el calor. Es por esto que contar con los parasoles para negocio o sombrillas adecuados para tu emprendimiento es indispensable.
Maybe the app sends requests with some timing tied to the user id? With spyware on the telephone, it should be possible to do some scheme to circumvent mac address hopping.
Same question for Firefox. Because Firefox is both not privacy respecting (has telemetry by default) and not privacy protecting by default (does not block ads). Both are paid by the world's largest advertising company, not their users.

A browser that cares about privacy would be both zero telemetry and ship with an ad/tracking blocker by default. Ideally you would also be able to pay for it to align incentives (vs a third party paying for your browser on your behalf).
There are probably hundreds of macOS specific bugs that Mozilla will never fix.

Firefox is probably the worst browser in the terms of feeling native to macOS.

These aren’t minor, cosmetic issues but glaring omissions in functionality.

Here’s one on the missing support for the macOS password autofill api. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1650212

Safari and Orion are much better options.
They can and they do. Look at the history - they routinely kidnap, torture, assassinate, spy on citizens, support all kinds of illegal activity and make unscrupulous deals with terrorists and tyrants. Every now and then they slip up and the government has to pretend to give a damn and they go through a show of righteous anger and then once the heat is off and constituents are satisfied the intelligence agencies go right back to doing what they were doing anyway.

The government doesn't want intelligence agencies reined in by anything but American interests. They want those agencies to be free do commit whatever evil is deemed necessary to further those interests, laws and Constitution be damned. The NSA is still spying on everyone. The CIA still runs torture camps around the world. Nothing changes. Snowden didn't change anything. Assange didn't change anything. Wyden isn't going to change anything.

The ability of the American people to hold their government to account in any meaningful way is a facade. Americans live under the oligarchy of corporations and the military industrial complex, not any kind of functional democracy. The American people, despite their guns and breathless evocations of the Founding Fathers, are not in control.
Writing app iA Writer tracks what you or ChatGPT wrote
The theory isn’t that it’s caused by the brain alone, but rather it’s like the fandom limb pain sensation after an amputation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_limb

The difference is your auditory nerve doesn’t directly carry touch signals so you hear sounds instead of say an itch.
An oxide rack has a minimum cost of something like 600k not including all the infra you need to run a rack, maintenance, and then needing to upgrade
Believe it or not: the forestry community is not that big

Edit: and judging from the gratuitous downvotes, pretty petty as well
It costs time and efford to come up with detailed-enough specification :)

I once wanted to take a project with BigCorp, my first offer was dead cheap since their requirements were consisting of two lines of text. So I gave them a feel of what I'd build for them within their tiny budget. 4 years later they still try to get somebody to build that thing for them, but specs are now 40 pages long and budget is still tiny. I dropped out 2 years ago (after providing n-th offer quoting 15x more than original quote), at the time I was already smelling a trap project, now I'm glad it went that way, I feel sorry I spent time preparing those offers.
Convenience - that’s how they get you to give up stuff.
Oh, for goddamn sure. Half the services on AWS, probably, are very poorly designed or very poorly run (or both). CloudWatch stands out to me as one that is mind-bogglingly buggy and slow. To the point of basically being a "newbie trap" - when I see companies using it for all their logging, I assume it's due to inexperience with the many alternatives.

At least the compute services are reliable.
> If what you need is a configuration language, please don't express it in Python

Oh god please express it in Python more so than anything else. The configuration language file -> templating the configuration language file -> scripting the templates to the configuration language file pipeline has to die.

If you're going to use the simplest thing possible make it easy to throw away when the nerds get more complex instead of having to build the complexity on top. Regex is a great example -- if used internally when you need something more you just throw it away. But if you make a single static regex part of your configuration your users are stuck with it.
Yes, and every employee reading here should be aware that they’re complicit in enabling that horrible organization and that they never have any moral authority to engage in any argument whatsoever.
Gathering information on friendly democracies, or watching what all the parties are doing in civil wars, is not a violation of US law. Espionage between states is rarely a violation of the law of the state that is doing the espionage. The “friendly democracies” on which the US spies, are in turn gathering information on the states they consider friendly democracies.
This isn't a novel point of view this is the point of view repeated over and over on HN every time this comes up, including today. I have considered it and I still think we should not have child labor!
The base map needed to be changed to have less contrast and less information to make more attention space for paid ads.
And they are terrible for ops and security. People also used incandescent lights not that long ago
I guess they are feeding us different models then?
PSA: I thought I had tinnitus but it was just ear wax sitting against my eardrum. A doctor cleared it up in 15 minutes.
Investigation Exposes yet Another Small Town That Is Law Enforcement Honeypot
Even if someone gives you a link, you’ll still face that loop.
I am actually using it to submit my solutions without leaving the editor (out of lazyness).

I just need to run `aoc submit <my-solution>` and immediately get feedback if I am correct. If that it the case, it automatically downloads the second problem so I can immediately continue.

As explained in another comment I'm not participating competitively. I just really like automating things.

I also think that AI assisted program solving if against the spirit of AoC, so I will add a note to the readme to discourage it.
AoC 2023 Day 1 solution with Vim keystrokes
The reducer takes objects representing mutations and applies the appropriate changes to the state.

It's called a reducer because it operates like a reduce/fold operation, in that if you take a given state and an ordered list of mutations, you'll end up with a new state out the other side, much like 'let newState = list.reduce(reducer, initialState)' would in JS.

The reducer model is how Elm's state management works, and Redux's, and is what allow replaying of subsequent changes against a previous state to get to a current state (which enables, amongst other things, some the features of those systems' respective dev tools).

The article links to the (nearly trivial) reducer for the todo example, which is on github here: https://github.com/orbitinghail/sqlsync/blob/ba762ce2a10afbb...
Doroni's all-electric flying car gets flight certified in the US
They get the data either way and it's all taxpayer funded.
You do great work!
Great article! Very clear. Nice examples.

I have some complaints about how Firefox handles these features, though. Closing modal dialogs with the escape key doesn't seem to work, even though it's described in the docs on MDN [0]. It does work in Chromium.

Also, the native color picker in Firefox is really weird: The Custom/+ button triggers on mousedown, which feels surprising and disconcerting as a user.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/di...
My understanding is that fires in forests are not only quite common and have been long before humans were around, but that naturally-occurring fires are a critical part of forest's natural lifecycle and evolution.
Yes but “takes money from” is fundamentally different from “shares the ideology of”. Do you think Google agrees with everything their advertising customers promote there and on YouTube?
Catholicism is known for recognizing of value in bringing beauty into the world, but AFAIK it's agnostic (see what I did here?) about using hand vs tech in achieving this goal. Also, it's not replica, it's a new thing following old tradition.
SidecarT – Atari ST/STE/Mega Cartridge Emulator on Raspberry Pi Pico Steroids
It is sad indeed that the development of clients relies on the volunteer work of a very limited group of individuals, mostly explainable by the lack of "hype" around Jabber/XMPP.

FWIW it's been smooth-sailing for me and my non-tech family and friends for many years now. BTW, OTR is deprecated, and OMEMO just works.

This project looks promising too: https://prose.org/

> Windows, where most people live

Most people live on their smartphone for IM these days, at least in my circles. I have been surprised by how few people are actually interested in getting a chat app on their "real computer".
I have never made that to work. With Akamai we are resorting to lower ttl for cache expiry. The tag based cache architecture in practice is not helping with constraints from CDN providers
Moreover, unlike dialogs they are immediately accessible.

Dialog was rushed in without fixing many problems it has because Chrome (and apparently other browser, too) want to remove prompt/confirm/alert.
British Library Hit by Ransomware
Where are Europe's last primary forests? (2018)
Reads very weird, also, scientists don't prove anything
The website looks super clean. Loved its design. Do you also offer pure CSS components?
Fun read, thanks. Puting this in my "See, humans generally suck and are stupid" file. Look around, we are still burning 'roosters' at the stake over blind fear.
IIRC, FBI get a lot of their domestic surveillance data from the NSA.
Good questions. I may be wrong to use the word "offensive", but I'm equally bothered by the treatment of the questions on crime. Sometimes people are simply wrong, and sometimes they are answering the question they think you are asking, or even the question they want you to be asking. So if you were to narrow it down to "According to official statistics has the US murder rate increased or decreased on a national level" you might get a different answer than "Is violent crime increasing?" even if you think the questions are the same.

It's not that I think that survey answers are always right, it's that I think the interesting story is about where and why the answers differ from the statistics. My offense is that the the author seems uninterested in this angle, and just keeps bludgeoning the reader with the claim that the respondees are wrong.

On the crime question, someone recently pointed out this interesting article from a decade ago regarding the drop in the murder rate in Chicago: https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/chicago-crime-st.... No, I don't think this means the "feels" are always right, but I do think this shows the degree of depth at which we should be talking about the issues.

Edit: So I'm not totally negative, here's an example of an article parallel to the submission that I think does a better job: https://apnews.com/article/economy-inflation-prices-jobs-inc...
I have a tankless, too, and after reading the article and these comments had the same thoughts...
The INSANE thing to me about naming your company Palantir after the artifact from Middle Earth is the story behind the seeing stones.

By the Third Age - when the events of the Lord of the Rings take place - several of the Palantiri (plural) are lost. The danger of using the stones was twofold: 1) not all the stones were accounted for, you couldn’t know who was listening in and 2) Sauron had one of the stones.

A dark lord who wanted to rule the world in fire and ash and darkness had this surveillance tool and used it to corrupt the other known users of the seeing stones, Denethor and Sauroman. That was the plot structure of these stones. Aragon and Merry/Pippin were able to use them against Sauron, who thought the hobbits with Aragorn might be Frodo. But again, to me this shows the danger of making decisions based on spying technology. Sauron committed his forces against Gondor because his intel told him and it led to his eye being distracted from Frodo/Sam/Gollum sneaking over the mountains and into Mt. Doom.

Why you would name your surveillance company after that is beyond me. To me it would be like getting aboard a plane run by Icarus airlines or naming the next big boat/plane/rocketship Titanic.
Pentagon Scientists Discuss Cybernetic Super Soldiers in Dystopian Presentation
> Are they also disabling manual install of extensions from outside the extension “store”?

This has already been the case for years unless you enable developer mode and load the extension as an unpacked extension (directory full of files rather than normal extension file) in which case chrome will complain every time you start it.
fyi, "another" is a single word
Clicking on the link received by email, I get:

> Your invitation to the test has been cancelled.Please contact Evaluator for further queries.
This is tight. Presently working on a list of uses.

Need one the size of a 5gal bucket.

As it is, I'd stick one on my gimcrack cabinet.
Fire has been a major force in the evolution of land-based life. Even more so in the distant past. In the Cretaceous (70 - 140 million years ago) both temperatures and the oxygen ratio in the atmosphere appear to have been higher than now. The whole planet was covered in a thick tropical forest -- and it burned easily. The dinosaurs had to contend with continent-wide forest fires, and their bones are often found in the middle of a layer of charcoal.
I’m in the US, many US cities banned lead pipes in the 1920’s. We banned lead paint in 1978, pipes just took a lot longer than I was expecting.

Europe varies quite a bit. In 1999: “Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Portugal, and Belgium all had higher percentages of lead lines ranging between 15% and 51%. Germany, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands had between 3% and 9%, while Denmark and Greece had less than 1%”
Title is a little off - I was expecting something like a micro controlling the serial ports on some receiver to tie into a smart home but this is pretty neat. Honestly I think I'd rather just setup a Spotify compatible casting endpoint though.
You should let people explore the app before requiring login
Some may be able to calibrate their hearing in this regard with something called Auditory Integration Training. I have done it. It worked. You might also want to read more about CAPD (Central Auditory Processing Disorder).
Can one book explain it all?
The interesting stuff tends to be webapps, that people pay for and are often internal to a company.

If you just care about sites that are document based, of course you’d prefer the static content stuff! But he wouldn’t be working on a project you’d be visiting anyway, so who cares if you stop visiting?
> Especially when you’re not providing any actual reasons why “carousels are still a bad idea”.

It’s widely understood and documented that carousels are a bad idea, and plenty has been written about it.

(I should clarify that the problems are with carousels as a way of presenting diverse widgets; as a way of presenting a collection of pictures about a single item, it can be acceptable.)
> The Germans were forcefully re-educated after WW2, do you also disagree with that?

No. But that wasn't under gunpoint, was it? The Allies left quickly, at least in the West, and local authorities enforced the re-education. Similarly, Japan got a new constitution, and the occupation there ended quickly. The DDR/East Germany was different - the occupation there ended basically in 1991, after the fall of the USSR. I'd favor the Marshal plan-like solution rather than the Soviet model.

> The russian leadership and war criminals will have to be killed, and they fully deserve it.

Maybe they deserve it, but killing them is still beyond what I'd consider moral. Make them work in a mine for the rest of their lives, make sure they get no special treatment, and let them die when their time comes.

War criminals are OK to be killed, but only if captured during the war. I'm not too fond of it, but I understand that martial law must be different from peacetime law. If you catch them after the war is won, I'm against killing them. Again, a lifetime of hard labor in a mine would be better than spilling even more blood.
The United States is this limited government, with strict limits on what it's allowed to do.

Yeah, I know. It hasn't worked out that way. But do you think other governments, starting with fewer restraints, are doing less than the US? Or more?

I could see saying that the US is doing it in higher volume, because it's got more money to spend on government excess.