simongray

I think Danish and Dutch are much closer phonetically than Dutch is to any of the other two, so I'm not sure that overused meme applies in this case.

W3C standards basically always build on top of other existing W3C standards.

Semantic HTML and the Semantic Web are not really related, other than both of them having "semantic" in the name.

> I see someone has sneakily added ActivityPub to the end of the list on wikipedia in 2021, retroactively giving them a success.

Why retroactively...?

The point of these standards is that they all build on top of each other. ActivityPub builds on JSON-LD which is a variant of RDF which uses the existing RDF schemas to define its attributes.

The different bits of the stack are used in many different ways. RDF datasets are really common in many different academic fields and ontology composition (which has always been a thing) has pretty much been subsumed by the semweb standards.

Semweb standards are also the most common standard in graph databases.

New W3C standards, such as ActivityPub, appear all the time and usually build on the existing semweb standards.

Well, it's a pretty concrete tech stack these days even if the original vision didn't take off.

I actually use these technologies in my day job (and have been for several years), so it's not just a wikipedia look-up for me. Maybe that's why I think of it in more concrete terms.

I just wanted to point out that both you and the one you're replying to keep writing "semantic web", but I think what you really mean is "semantic HTML".

The semantic web is the umbrella term for the stack of technologies that include RDF, SPARQL, OWL, etc. — it doesn't really have anything to do with HTML, other than some special syntax for embedding RDF into HTML.

I think he's just referring to all his classic talks, e.g. this one, Are We There Yet, Hammock-driven development, etc.

Probably worth mentioning that triplestores/Datomic-like databases are relatively mainstream in Clojure: https://github.com/simongray/clojure-graph-resources#datalog

It's probably because the author keeps getting comments from other developers about his choice of language and he's tired of explaining why.

There was a HN submission yesterday about another project of his (also in Clojure) and many of the comments were "Why is this made in Clojure?".

Unfortunately, a large segment of developers think there is no value in venturing beyond C-style languages.

Another dimension in recent years is the static type checking cult, whose adherents must warn everyone else in the cult whenever they spot any kind of dynamically typed programming language, e.g. causing a separate thread about the lack of static type checking in any comment section about a Clojure project.

Your answer: https://aphyr.com/posts/367-why-is-jepsen-written-in-clojure

Why does this even matter to you? You're not forced to use Clojure to use this.

This was recently in the Danish news since it was done by a Danish astronaut on the ISS: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex...

It's GDPR.

It's a feature to only sell the bundled product at a much high cost?

Google only sells YouTube Premium bundled with a music subscription in my Spotify-dominated country, because they obviously want to use their large video platform to expand into music.

Classic monopolistic behaviour.

Borkdude is a misnomer. He should really be called the Borkcollective.

I don't think it's like pineapple/ananas, e.g. we call it gurkemeje in Denmark which is cognate, but not obviously so.

It's based on citizenship. The Danish national statistics agency has an official set of Western countries used when e.g. comparing Denmark to other Western countries. They also define 1st and 2nd generation immigrants

The Danish politicians just reuse these bureaucratic definitions (1st and 2nd gen from non-Western countries).

Zeihan's synthesis view of geopolitics is pretty interesting, but he does display glaring faults when he ventures beyond that niche, e.g. when he tries to summarise the economic systems of the world in his most recent book he says all of Europe is socialist, which is what I would consider a very basic American layman's take on economics, not really fitting for any kind of public intellectual in the social sciences. I try to look past it, though, since his demographics and culture-focused geopolitics analysis is still interesting to me.

Plenty of HN bots on Mastodon already, e.g. I follow this one: https://social.lansky.name/@hn500

I happen to think Mastodon is good enough as it is. To me it doesn't really need faster growth. It won me over and it won over the hundreds of people I'm following. I get a lot of value from it that I never got on Twitter, despite Mastodon's flaws.

The service itself is improving slowly and quite conservatively which is a really nice change of pace from the warp speed enshittification I have been used to for years now. On the other hand, there is also a wide range of high-quality third apps for it which Twitter now completely lacks (and basically every other walled garden platform, e.g. Reddit was the latest casualty) of you need a different experience.

I recommend installing the extension Streetpass for Mastodon to build up your followed accounts organically across time. A surprising number of interesting articles submitted to HN link back to the author's Mastodon account.

(Graze for Mastodon is another useful extension)

Mastodon is quite different. It really filters a lot of noise away (e.g. Xwitter always has ~20 pointless meme gif comments below every viral post) and it self-selects what I would consider interesting people. The algorithm-centred platforms tend to congregate around celebrities/influencers over time, while Mastodon is much more egalitarian and people-focused.

> Hope this passes the same way the USB-C thing passed. All these parasitic megacorps with more money than many countries need to be whipped into submission for their shenanigans

It has already passed and is active legislation as of this year, but there is some built-in grace period for making the changes.

Fair enough.

> NASA's Webb

I guess it may be technically owned and primarily operated by NASA, but it was developed from the start as an international project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Par...

Yes

> I love OSS products, especially OpenStreetMap, but I have a hard time believing it could be better than the big players. Apple and Google both use OSM data as well, but supplement it with massive internal mapping efforts.

Apple Maps doesn't even support bike directions. I live in Copenhagen, therefore making Apple Maps pretty useless. It's a classic Silicon Valley app made for the tech boomers in charge at Apple who presumably drive everywhere in electric cars.

Google Maps is better at bike directions, but when I use it for public transportation it's now trying to sell me on routes where I need to rent an e-scooter instead. I only use public transportation (as opposed to riding a bike) when I need to bring our baby somewhere with me. Since there is no way to turn this "feature" off, the directions are often useless to me. I now use a Danish app for all public transportation directions.

Just about the only thing Google Maps is clearly better at is satellite images and open/close times for shops.

Mac OS X

"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" takes place during the Prague Spring, which I found interesting enough in itself to read it.

Add this to the list of blog posts praising RDF without anyone realising it.

And the additional element added to the tuple is reminiscent of quads, also in heavy use in RDF implementations or similar graph databases.