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> I don't see how toast is different from the countless proposals for new declarative UI HTML elements that have been submitted over the years

The difference is that if Google introduces a new tag and starts using it, then every other vendor must implement the tag, or the [potentially popular] applications that use it [made by Google] will simply not work.

That's not a power that "countless proposals for new declarative UI HTML elements" have.

> I think this incident should make it very clear to everyone that HTML as seen by "browser vendors" (Google) is a very different thing from HTML the markup language as used all over the world for personal, business, medical, legal, and cultural documents, and which demands community representation and participation.

Google is not a browser vendor; they do not sell web browsers. Google sell advertising, and it's absolutely critical to Google's future to get everyone on the only web browser that has crippled ad blocking and privacy capabilities.
They will start getting experience with arbitrary, petty, random and chaotic behavior as soon as you start sending them to public school.
> imagine a world with a single browser

I have a better idea: imagine a world where the specification for how to render websites is simple, clear, unambiguous, and infrequently changed.

Do you hear people saying the world would be better off if there were only one PNG viewer?
That clarifies it, thanks. I missed a lot, I must have not read the article entirely.
Why not fix your bugs in 180 days?
A person should say "excited" when they are in the same state a 5yo is when taken to ice cream.

You can be excited about a new drug you created. But I don't know many adults that would feel 5yo-excitement about anything. They may be proud. They may feel happy. But genuine excitation is rare, not a ten times a week event, even if your life is great.

So they should keep "excited" for those rare occasions when they are, indeed, excited.

We don't communicate anymore. We do PR. PR is fake, fake is depressing.

It's like with sugar. We figured that adding a fake excitement to something sells it better. So we added it everywhere. And now we need enormous doses of it, nuances are lost and it's not healthy.
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There are shops in the big cities that are starting to refuse cash now (apparently, this is not illegal in China) and only accept the two big payment apps.
Can't speak for parent, but birth control pills artificially boost estrogen levels.

My wife just emerged from a multiyear battle with aggressive HER2/ER/PR positive breast cancer after taking decades of birth control pills.

Correlation is not causation, but NHS are extremely strict about chemically induced menopause via Tamoxifen now, to suppress her natural estrogen production.
From memory they used to restrict all warranty claims to USD$5, but it appears it's been increased to USD$50 (or the sales price). I would wager it's probably because offering a maximum relief of less than 5% the cost of the product was found to be illegal somewhere.
Your second sentence should end with a period so I'm not taking your feedback seriously.
I guess Microsoft's attempt to use their superior marketshare to kill web standards back in the 90s is too long ago for the irony of this to resonate.
On the timescales evolution operates over, humans being technological creatures in a civilization is essentially a blip. Not relevant whatsoever.

In a few more thousand years, we'll either have transcended biology altogether, be extinct, or be back to the kind of pre-civilization environment where the slow work of evolution matters again.
Timeouts did not work for our oldest. He would constantly try to sneak or wrestle out of timeout and it turned into a game for him. We tried to stick with it but looking back I think it was a huge mistake and the contributed to behavioral problems he has today, basically full blown ODD.

If it seems like something is not working for you, don't try to force it.

If in doubt, love over punishment. Don't lose your temper.
Nothing appears to have been hacked. Radiohead sent a bunch of their old minidisc off to be digitized and someone at the company doing the digitizing appears to just have made a copy of the files for themselves. What we don't know is if that was the person that also released the files or if they handed them off to someone else who then released them.
Due to the nature of the goods they sell a surprising amount of Walmart's supply chain is domestic. Basically anything that doesn't benefit from dirt cheap assembly labor or lax environmental regulations is produced domestically or in Canada/Mexico.
I've found a few different options. The best was Koken but unfortunately it's abandonware

http://koken.me/

http://piwigo.org/

https://lychee.electerious.com/

https://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/fgallery/

https://coppermine-gallery.net/

http://sigal.saimon.org/en/latest/

https://www.zenphoto.org/

http://bpatrik.github.io/pigallery2/

https://photoprism.org/
This is one of those results that are not particularly surprising, but important to have. I'm glad that it got published.
It's hilarious but I'm sure some people will think it's a compilation of good pratices.
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With the exception of cancers where checkpoint inhibitor and engineered T cells work (i.e. 60% of melanomas) I agree that others, like solid tumor which are hard to reach and slow to detect, haven’t had the same attention.
Really? Throughout the 80s, it was all Sinclairs, Commodores and Amstrads (certainly in the home) and even before the ZX Spectrum was the ZX81 which at £100 (or thereabouts) was the first home computer of choice for many, many people. I knew a number of people with CBM VIC-20s, a handful of people with Acorn Electrons.

Of course these were after the Apple 2 so maybe you're correct but I don't think even I saw my first Apple computer until 1989, and that wasn't even in the UK (I emigrated to the US for a short while that year).

My secondary school had a bunch of Research Machines, until they were replaced by BBC micros.
So he basically posted the same last year (https://medium.com/s/silicon-satire/how-to-design-for-the-mo...) without the Brave links.
This can be solved in the same way other applications that can save to multiple formats solve it: if you only use the functionality the target format supports, saving works transparently (so, e.g., you can create an image, draw an arrow and save it as a PNG). If you try to use functionality that the target format doesn't support (e.g. layers on PNG) then GIMP should display a warning dialog about it, perhaps with an option to save as a XCF instead (but not default on it).

This has two additional benefits: 1. the beginner will stop be a beginner at some point, will be informed about the target format they are trying to use and will know how to save, save as, etc so this issue will stop be a problem for them and 2. it will get rid of the useless and annoying "do you want to save" warning whenever you want to create a non-XCF image file (because you already saved with "Export", you just didn't save the image as an XCF).

The current approach makes the (wrong) assumption that everyone works with XCF files and only exports to other formats. This might be true for some cases, but a lot of people want to work with other formats directly.
My grandad luckily fell, broke his hips, and become hospitalised until his death before he managed to drive over any innocent pedestrians or crash into other cars besides when parking.

I'd venture to suggest retaking the standard driving test at 65, 70, and 75, and then every two years if an elder wishes to retain his license. You can only figure out if someone is fit for driving by observing how he drives. A doctor can't do it from his office, and relatives are too close. An independent, objective driving test examiner would fail or pass elder people by the same criteria he fails or passes young new drivers straight from the driving school.

Basically, anyone on the public roads should be fit for passing a driving test at any time, the elderly people included.
I'm just starting to get used to it... (I still think about it every time I save/export, not sure why)
My experience with AMD's supply problem is across more than just their embedded product line, but the supply problem is worst for me in their embedded product line. I'm sorry, I appear to have had some sort of mind frame shift recently, which is causing me to add layers of abstraction where inappropriate, resulting in communication errors.
I have a vague memory that there were also problems with the Sea Wolf based defence system on the ships. The controlling software apparently recognised the incoming Exocets as friendly. I don't know if there is any credibility to this but I am sure it would have been fixed pretty rapidly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Wolf_(missile)
Fubo is $55 and Sling is $35-55. Disney+ will soon start charging...

And it starts to add up and we're back to where we started.

Also, I believe Disney+ will fail because there are not enough Disney diehards who want a subscription specifically for Disney shows. Disney shows get watched because "oh, cool, they have Disney."

Ergo, they don't go looking for it.
>I would love to see a future where we can again run a webserver from a folder to serve a frontend in development.

But you can, if you build the project and then serve the "build" directory.

If that's the step that's bothering you, you can just not use Webpack, that's completely possible for all major libraries I encountered.
And how long, if not already - likely once their people are acclimatized to the idea of 'social rating' system - before they start subtly or aggressively warning people, swaying their behaviour, of potential for their rating to go down if associating with X who isn't using apps.

A digitized version of Nazi Germany with mass censorship capabilities really is terrifying.
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Pack it up everyone, we can talk about it so therefore end of argument
The person who talks about shunting in their own authority to make value judgments in place of existing ones.
>just a blog post on Harvard.edu

Which is more authoritative than a comment on HN. I believe it’s on you to find a more authoritative source that contradicts the above.
Unlike the author, I do not think <toast> is a good idea. Elements are supposed to express semantics, but this just suggests behaviour. Not very descriptive behaviour either - since when does actual real-life toast smoothly rise and fall again? Possibly from the ceiling or coming in from the side?

Why not just call it <notification>?

Or even better, don’t add anything - it’s surely just a <div> that needs styling and animating with existing CSS and JS?
1. It is being maintained (albeit less active), version 1.9 is in the works. Communication could improve a lot though.

2. What's so hard about maintaining the Meteor project? It's been mostly backwards compatible since versions before 1.0 (released over 5 years ago, when the JS ecosystem was a very different universe). What other JS framework has a comparible track record towards backwards compatability?

3. Third party packages may break and become unmaintained, but this is just as much true on NPM. In the end Meteor is mostly a build-tool (and a pretty good one, with zero-configuration, code splitting, ...) creating a Node application with full NPM compatability.
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I've worked with lots of Harvard graduates over the years. They all seemed to be cloned with some kind of "group-think" about Economics. Essentially, they were all convinced that markets solved big problems, and anything vaguely Keynesian or Socialist or Marxist was doomed to failure.

So I guess I view Harvard Economics as a tool of those with power, and probably something which has contributed to creating a worse world. (Hey, I believe markets have benefits too, but not to the point of dismissing moderating policies.)
The blog post highlights specifically usability improvements so they do pay attention to the usability.

Rather that state vague generic complaints, please be more constructive and be specific by highlighting the most important usability issues you encountered in your own experience and see if other users agree with your analysis by reporting it to the issue tracker.
BIY: Believe It Yourself
This is the only practical definition to use, as cryptography commonly deals with arbitrarily sized inputs, which can of course not all run in O(1).

It doesn't necessarily follow that any algorithm on a arbitrarily-sized input can't run in O(1) - for a trivial example there is an algorithm for "determine if the input number is odd" which is O(1).
they are under stating the value of this release (because it also comes with a few improvements)
Just trying to be snarky. GTK is awesome of course. I just like the story about how GTK was crafted for GIMP and since then spread to many other places. I still often hear about it being referred to as Gnome Tool Kit for example.
But it never ends at two weeks. Time and time again the vendors will put it off for years if you let them.
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>Any cancer research conducted aboard the ISS is naked opportunism.

Um, there are experiments you can do in microgravity that you absolutely can not do on earth.

For one there's no convection due to different relative densities, virtually no no hydrostatic pressure exists, crystals grow larger and more pure which allows for all sorts of things (like far more efficient semiconductors), alloys made in microgravity are more uniform and perform better, etc etc so on and so forth.

We get it, you hate space, that doesn't mean it isn't a gold mine of future innovation.
What does close ally mean?

Germany was supposed to be a closed ally, but Merkel wasn't that happy when she realized that the USA is spying on her.

It looks like the governments are starting to be less friendly towards eachother as the currencies in the world are collapsing.
It is difficult, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be an interesting 10 min discussion as part of an interview.
What about beginners?
Assuming you're ironic - do you really think Radiohead needs elaborate ruse to release their junk tapes? I had the feeling they're doing fine in their own trippy world. (RH fan, btw)
Teaching a cheap Ethernet switch new tricks
It depends on age, they have to be able to understand what’s happening. So for toddlers we’d redirect to something else, then timeouts, then around 5 is when we started delaying them. Seems to work really well. But you’re right, in public is different. Usually taking them out of the situation worked for us. Like tantrum at a restaurant, take them outside till they cool off.
Not that is makes much difference, but the Stasi were DDR socialist East Germany.
Once you add in valves to let air in and out you run into the exact same fouling problems. Snow, small pebbles, road grit, any one of a number of things is at some point going to get sucked into that cavity. Normal stem valves avoid the problem by having a screw-on cap, which'd hardly work for a valve that needs to be passing air all the time.
just starting to read this. It reminds me of meiosis networks + stochastic delta rule where the weights were drawn from a random distribution (normal I think).
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There are loads of coffee shops and cafes in the UK that don't take cash any more.
How do you differentiate between suggesting and demanding?
I mean, you don't have to use it, right?

I think the reason it is like that is because there were many problems with JS "back in the day", and so people felt they had to come up with solutions.

Just look at Svelte. It's a library about compiling JS to get back to the "just JS" days. I mean, it's more than that, but it's about reducing runtime complexity. So another way to think about it is that writing "old style simple JS" is so convoluted that the author felt the need to write a translation layer from modern frameworks to old style JS. Sort of a mindblower to me haha (though, I love and agree with Svelte, to be clear).

The great thing though is that you can still use plain old JS, right? Nothing has changed for you if you don't want it. So is there really a problem?

This "modern web" stuff is just people solving problems. Some of these problems are the fault of old JS/web. Some of them are problems of our own making. Remember how amazing modern UI frameworks were? It's because we had PTSD from horrible jQuery codebases. A problem of our own making.

So stick with what you like, and other people can use the more complex stuff. It's a win win, no?
> I don't believe that this matters

You're free to believe what you want. A slime of chicken skin, fat and ligaments isn't digested the same way as a chunk of chicken breast. The nutritional values are just a small part of a big equation.

> Another thing that doesn't matter. What exactly do you think magically happens

Many things happen and none of them are magical.
The glycemic index of a raw fruit isn't the same as a juice from the same fruit for example, you don't get the fibers, &c.

> The inuit did perfectly well on an all-meat diet.

That's another side of my point, they evolved on that diet, most people didn't. Do you think the lifestyle of the average first worlder has anything to do with inuit lifestyle?
i've lost count of the amount of times i've been refused a coffee or beer because they don't except cash or visa card.

It's only going to get worse.
Bittorrent has a P2P streaming protocol called Bittorrent Live which was used to operate a TV service for several years but I have no idea how efficient it is compared to IPTV multicasting or central servers+CDN.
I'm baffled that the largest airforce in the world is so desperate for a jack-of-all-trades aircraft. It makes a lot of sense for a small airforce. The F-16 was incredibly popular with smaller airforces because it could do everything. Never the best at anything, but good enough for a small airforce.

But the US can afford specialised aircraft. Betting the house on a jack-of-all-trades means you end up with a master of none. The US should be master of everything, and that means more specialised fighters, bombers, CAS, etc.

If the A-10 isn't good enough anymore, by all means design a replacement. But don't expect it to also take of vertically and perform air superiority. Everything comes at a trade-off. Having an airframe designed for VTOL and then use it for planes that don't VTOL is just wasteful.
Another thing that scares me is how few people are involved in these standards. You will always see the same two or three people in the discussion of every standard.
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yes but only WeChat is tied to an authoritarian government's surveillance network
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Spot on. However, rather than a parody, this is quite orwellian.

Even more so when people who don't adopt this communication style are shunned for being "negative".
A few things worth being aware of Alibaba does not own WeChat but rather's it's competition Alipay. It does not have any access to WeChat data.

So far the "social credit" on seems to be mostly based on how much you buy and it only seems to give you discounts to massively overpriced products (similar to a credit card reward system).

You don't really download apps in Wechat but rather add a link more like a Facebook App (JavaScript & HTML).

Chinese people tend to like one app that does everything. Most of the services talked about in the article as separate services that you can open in WeChat but you can also open most of them in AliPay or Taobao or access them directly on their own websites. This is what Facebook tried to do but failed...

What I find fascinating is that a lot of older people that use WeChat in China are illiterate apart from numbers. They do everything by remembering the pictures and other people help them to set up their account. That is part of the reason why they want a single app that does everything. You don't need to read since you can just send messages, look at pictures and iconography.

Also, everyone in China still accepts cash but you generally need correct change.

If you have any questions feel free to ask. I just found out my sesame-credit score is 622 (not that it does anything...)
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They still take Visa, and don't insist on an authoritarian government's surveillance app.
I'm curious to learn more about your setup! Would you be willing to share more here? Cheers!
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There is no "future of warfare" in terms of just being one thing.

When guns came out, they said it would be the end of warfare. Instead of spending years training archers, you could pull farmers from the fields, put together huge armies almost overnight. When machine guns came out, it was the end of warfare. How could massed formations fight against so many rounds going downrange at the same time?

This continued on with aircraft, aircraft carriers, nuclear weapons, missiles, and so forth. Nuclear weapons are especially interesting because instead of eliminating war, it looks like they eliminated formal war, pushing all that conflict down into police actions and non-state actors.

All those other things stuck around. What became really tough is that you had to integrate all of those other things together so that you use that right tools in the right way, almost like putting together a symphony. Cyber is the same way. What we're seeing now -- and I'm a firm believer we are currently in a cyber war -- are a lot of different actors seeing how hard they can push things. It's a war without any conventions about what "fighting fair" means. Bad place for us to be.

I think the F-35 has been a giant disaster, but that's part of a different discussion about military priorities versus strategic planning.
Its difficult. Everyone's in favour of arresting black people for smoking crack. But the law is supposed to be equal. You have to arrest college kids doing XTC or gays who snort cocaine too. And that will create massive public outrage and a waste of prosecution's time.
> At 9:27, once I’ve brushed my teeth, answered a few messages, and wiped the sleep from my eyes, I order a coffee through WeChat. There’s a payments window on the app, and when you click on it you see various options, some proprietary to WeChat and some which are independent apps that run on WeChat’s platform. I open the Meituan delivery app and scroll through all the coffee options around me. I order an Americano. I have my WeChat linked with the facial recognition scanner on my iPhone; when I pay, I just hold my phone up to my face and a green tick flicks across the screen. Seven minutes later, I get a message telling me the coffee is on the way, with the name and number of the delivery driver. It arrives at 9:53.

Is it too much effort to just make your own coffee in your own apartment? Does that now also have to be delivered to you? The amount of waste involved in this just boggles my mind.
'It knows my biometric information; it knows the very contours of my face.'

The iPhone does, WeChat doesn't.
Just more anticompetitive behavior from Google.
If the guys on the ground are having a no good very bad day then having fewer aircraft that can loiter longer is likely going to be better because every time an aircraft shows up there's a ramp up period while the pilot figures out WTF is going on down there and that ramp up period comes with reduced effectiveness and increased risk to the guys on the ground.

Also, time to target is very important. An F15 with the wrong munitions that's seconds away at mach 2 is much more helpful than an A10 that can put the hurt on an entire tank company but is minutes away.