skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We are not angry about the lack of toys. We are angry about not having the possibility of using PWA as an app model.

I, on the other hand, am angry that PWA is even considered as an app model.

A regression, if I ever saw one...
Here's one I encountered while developing: Safari doesn't handle linear-gradient with transparency like all other browsers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38391457/linear-gradient...
Lamdera might be the best incarnation of "isomorphic" code I've had an experience with. Game logic shared in both frontend and backend (of course, backend has to validate everything as somebody could spoof the WebSocket connection), not going out of sync, types reused.

Also, one of two best experiences I've had with backends (I'm a frontend person): the second one was Dark language (http://darklang.com)
EU gives Google 2 months to improve hotel, flight search results
Google Desktop was just a cross-platform version of the macOS Spotlight feature.
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how do you know it was malware and not a hardware or sofrware failure?
And as another user I care. I don't want to install yet another app to clutter my phone just to access something once that could be a webapp.
The browser is an awesome delivery mechanism for stuff I'm going to use once/rarely: no install or uninstall needed.
Pretty sure FDAAA has mandated reporting results for a while now (although some sponsors choose to break the law).
Do you have an example of your scenario of an approved drug with many phase 3 trials pre-registered but only one with reported results?
This article gets a lot of things backwards.

1. The point of counterfactuals is not to "prove" causality; it's to help you detect possible causal routes, in the presence of given events under examination. E.g. if you know events X, Y and Z co-occurred, and you want to know if X or Y could have possibly caused Z to happen, the counterfactual formulation can answer that question. If not X implies not Z, whereas Y does not alter Z, then you have eliminated Y as a causal agent, and have identified X as a possible causal agent (in fact the only possible causal agent, if Z could not be influenced by another external, unidentified agent, or by itself).

Furthermore, in the presence of a number of counterfactual statements, you can allocate responsibility and blame, linked to expectations of events. So aliens is a silly example, unless for whatever reason the author has a very high prior expectation for their existence, which exceeds that of file purging errors.
Oh, that's fair. I guess you could still bring someone on site and just have them do the text based interview on site.

I suppose at some point, cheaters will find a way to cheat, and if they pass the interview but suck you just have to fire them.
> There's a reason that their mantra is חסד של אמת

It's simpler than you're making it out to be - "ḥesed shel emet" (true kindness) is based on the Talmudic idea that the truest kindness is that done for the dead, since they can't ever pay you back.

Also ZAKA is not related to the IDF or this mission.
Seems like most of the benefit could trivially be kept without much of the downside if we simply made in inadmissible as evidence which seems to be advisable as the system is designed to allow a human to rewrite history as part of normal operations. It seems irredeemably broken for evidentiary purposes nor would it be reasonable to ever in the future trust the work of any company who would so arrange matters.

All parties involved ought in present matter down to peons if they were aware of it and didn't come forward should go to jail.
https://archive.is/vIlvT
There's two premises I disagree with in this article, one subjective, one objective.

The subjective disagreement is that the trend/bubble towards more and more subscriptions is going to burst all of a sudden. From what I've seen in the mobile app world, it's now at least a 5-year trend towards more and more paid subscription apps being successful, more and more consumers willing to pay x$/month for things they wouldn't ever consider paying for before, etc. And yes, it's not billions of people, but you don't need billions of subscribers to run a successful business with subscriptions. And the same thing is happening with Patreon, Substack, even OnlyFans. And same as with mobile apps, so it is with creators, not all apps are worth the monthly fee, and not all creators are worth the monthly fee. The business model is not a revenue guarantee, it's a revenue possibility. And yes, as with any other solo business, it's extremely hard to stand out in blogging. You have to be a great writer, you have to know how to build an audience, and you have to consistently deliver that great writing to this audience. And there's about a few million other bloggers out there, with the same goal. There's no business model that's going to pay all of them well. But having the possibility of paying writers directly, simply and easily, is a very worthy evolution for the writer space. It's not going to save millions of bloggers/writers who believe the business model is the issue though.

The objective disagreement is that Substack is only successful due to having VC cash to throw at writers to come to their platform. Yes, they have VC cash, and they have offered great upfront deals to writers. But Scott Alexander wrote a good post on this subject, revealing the details of his deal (https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/adding-my-data-point-t...). Long story short, in basically all cases that he is aware of, his own and others, the deal that Substack offered was great, great enough to jump ship quickly, but in nearly all cases, the writer would have been better off not taking the deal, and just taking the usual Substack cut of the revenue offered to all writers, as the eventual subscriber revenue was bigger than the already big upfront deal.

That makes me think that even once the VC cash dries out, subscriber revenue is going to be a pretty good driver of the business going forward.
In a video ~month ago he showed setting up/moving into a new two storey garage, specifically to have space for small-scale production.
It is possible to think anything. But that would be a very strange position to take. Bitcoin is pretty clearly the least likely cryptocurrency to be a scam.
>You’re talking as if the W3C

The W3C doesn't exist, hasn't mattered for 15+ years, haven't you heard? It's not even the HTML WG that matters anymore (which took over from W3C in an ad-hoc way). It's basically Google, and that's that.
I just want it to open my default browser on the first click. There's a setting for that now.

Otherwise the history is lost, among other things.
I've had similar experiences. It's exhausting. Can't treat them the same way they treat us because of power differences. We're okay as long as we're accomodating them, if we try to do things differently we get excluded. Really easy to get frustrated and adversarial in situations like these.
I have the exact opposite view. I have tons of apps on my phone that really have no business being apps, they should just be websites but with push notifications.

For example, I'm not a huge traveler (obviously not in the past year), but even before the pandemic I'd use AirBnB like once a year maybe. I don't want to download an app for something I use once a year. But before and during my trip push notifications are important because it's basically a messaging app with the owner.

I'm not talking about things like games or something else with complicated UIs, I'm talking about basic CRUD functionality where I occasionally want a push - most of my banking apps fit this as well.
Nice effort. What's the state of this work? It would be amazing to have some way for Debian to be available in GSI form, even while relying on a compatibility layer.
The article concludes by suggesting that people will create more quasicrystals in labs, with various desired properties. That seems reasonable. What I didn’t understand is this line:

> And the more mathematically perfect they are, the less electrically conductive.

Anyone understand what “mathematically perfect” means here, or why that implies reduced conductivity?
Autopilot is autopilot in that it mostly maintains the course with minimal need for intervention. My real flight time is minimal but I’ve done a ton of flight simulator and Tesla autopilot matches the airplane definition of autopilot well.
Literally hundreds of millions of people are going to make calls through Teams/Slack/Zoom & WebRTC today alone, grandpa.
Yup. People complain about WebRTC support on Safari then continue to break products using it on Firefox all the time.
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I hope they never implement them on mobile Safari, those things are a pain in the backside on the desktop.
Safari is un-intuitively an anti-monopoly browser, and as long as it exists to that end, it will be a force for good in the browser space.
China moves to protect food delivery drivers from digital exploitation
same. oh well.
Substack cuts out the middlemen in opinion journalism and tolerates a wide spectrum of politics. Both is disruptive for entrenched businesses, and both induces anger from less paid and more dogmatic journalists.

Potential failures of Substack are elsewhere - no local coverage, little investigative journalism, a tendency to build bubbles - but as a vehicle to reduce the grip of the anointed "opinion makers" (how I hate this candid expression!) it is very useful.
We (<20p SaaS) use Intercom with great success. It's hooked up to our support email as well, so users who prefer email can use that, while giving us a central mailbox for it. Most customers really appreciate quick, low barrier chat. We all take turns as operator (we call it Empathy Day).

As you handle support for a while, certain recurring topics appear. We identify these and either use canned responses (macros), or (preferably) improve our product to prevent these questions in the first place. We also have a bot for some basic things like pointing at the docs for certain topics.

We sometimes are asked to jump on a call, but only do that for highly technical support requests and enterprise customers. Since we have customers worldwide and a globally distributed team, synchronous communication is tricky anyway.
Back then there were many browsers and many actors involved in developing web standards. It was justified to criticise laggards.

Nowadays the Microsoft browser, Opera and others are just Chrome skins. Google is pushing various drafts and essentially dictating web standards and then even when a browser like Firefox does support those Google flavoured standards, it still gets blocked outright on new Google products or gets a limited feature set on existing ones. Or it gets hobbled by Google oopsies.

Why would anyone want to play in such a rigged game...
That was going to be my suggestion.

I'm a fan of Zettlekasten for notetaking and knowledge management.

Filing passwords on index cards or business cards (3.5x2 in, ~9x5cm), with a sensible indexing system, scales up reasonably well. There's certainly extant physical infrastructure.

The typical person has on the order of about 100 online accounts. Managing even 1,000 accounts in an index card file is at least within reason.

Another alternative is a GPG-encrypted file, though keeping that synchronised between multiple locations might prove a challenge.
The best thing you can do to fight Covid-19 might be just to become less fat
I thought a big selling point for crypto was exactly this irreversibility. If we start building in crypto everything a fiat has, on one side we're reinventing the wheel and on the other neutralizing its (theoretical?) advantages.
The delta from 14.7 is ~ 100 MB. Are you updating from before 14.7? That would explain the download size.

And iOS wants a Wi-Fi connection to download an OS update. Without Wi-Fi you couldn't update, even if you wanted to.
> Yes, in Hebrew lovingkindess is a concept that is different than "loving kindness".

What's the difference?

Also, lovingkindness is an English word , not Hebrew. Chesed shel emet is three Hebrew words.
100% that, happens regularly. The most recent case being lack of `scrollIntoView` options[0], so smooth animations work everywhere but Safari. You have to go and hack/implement that manually just for Safari.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/scr...
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This was partially a PR move. Surfside is over 1/3 Jewish and a large number of Israelis lived in the building.

Not saying it's "bad" at all for Israel to send in experts. But it's important to realize that governments selectively help people in other countries for political reasons sometimes.

Would they have sent in their experts if the building was full of Palestinians?
...and replaces those associated costs with gas costs.
Yet I don't have a problem supporting Firefox, or honestly even desktop Safari for the most part. It is specifically iOS Safari that is being deliberately held back by Apple to protect their App Store monopoly.
Congratulations on the launch! I’ve hoped for a service like this to help with documentation related tasks, for simple things like delivering gifts and often timers to support friends and family in need.

One thing as a US immigrant I have to do pretty often is return to my home country for a visa renewal which includes various tasks including documentation collection, payments in home currency, transportation when I go back to the embassy, photocopies, printing etc. Supporting visa processes could be an good package to offer.

A few things I could not learn in my cursory look:

- How does pricing work? Given that being misuse of funds is one of the primary problems you’re solving I’d want to know how the payments process works, what is the platform cost, and how is misuse prevented.

- The top call to action on your website is “Post a request” which is great! The secondary action for me is “remember this website” for when I need it. Love the fact that I can install the app, but the ability to quickly add an email/WhatsApp number to my contacts is probably the best recall value for your service. Offering users a way to start a thread without needing to post a request would solve the same need.

Congratulations again! This is a great idea.
“ I am still dating and am at a point in my life where this is very important. At a cis male what is the scene like?”

Not bad but wayyyyy better in NYC.
Forget tech – consumer brands are all the rage with VCs
Thanks! Now I know what device I need to buy to test it.
I read the quoted passage to mean exactly what the previous poster said.
== != ===
If every analogy was held up to this level of scrutiny, we wouldn’t have analogies. Something can be similar in nature without being an exact equivalence.

Like many others have started- it’s common these days for devs to create modern apps that work on modern browsers but break in weird ways on Safari. That’s enough of a similarity for the analogy to convey the idea.

Web-P / WebGL support aside- Safari often fails to render complex SVG animations for obscure reasons. It can’t even render a hex-based CSS radial-gradient that looks the same as it does on Chromium or Gecko.

It’s really bad, and Apple benefits from that. They are holding the web back as IE once did in the past.
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> But the Autopilot record ballparks to 1.1M miles between accidents off freeway and 3.5M on-freeway.

> By comparison, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 479,000 miles.

So, Tesla numbers are better even in the article you link, but still not apples-to-apples comparison. Accident vs. crash.

And Tesla is adding pro forma camera driver monitoring.
> “If Substack is successful, it will remind news consumers that paying for good journalism is worth it,” wrote the University of Maine’s Michael Socolow for The Conversation. “But if Substack’s pricing precludes widespread distribution of its news and commentary, its value as a public service won’t be fully realized.”

Is this basically saying that authors need to keep their content freely accessible so that Substack provides a wider public good? If so then I would say that this is already the case. Most authors keep nearly all their content publicly visible. Those who subscribe do so to support good work, not to gain exclusivity. In that sense, the community/content model is more like Patreon than Only Fans.

In my opinion what makes Substack great is its lack of censorship (encouraging a diversity of thought), the fact that readers pay individual authors (unlike medium where you pay for access to the whole site), and the fact that making/collecting payments is easy for users/authors. Sure you can host your own Wordpress and hook up a payment mechanism and all that - but there’s a certain degree of trust and convenience that Substack offers eager subscribers. I feel its payments appeal is a lot like tipping via rewards in the Brave browser (https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021123971-How...) but more accessible and understandable to the layperson.
Betamax was not a failure, it just took second place to VHS in the consumer market where rental tapes was the dominant use case. Betamax still had moderate market share and found success in various professional niches.

Listing it alongside actual failures like HD-DVD is disingenuous.
Also, hydrogen has the funny habit of being much smaller molecule and diffusing through solids.
> Don’t get me wrong, Safari is very good web browser, delivering fast performance and solid privacy features.

> But at the same time, the lack of support for key web technologies and APIs has been both perplexing and annoying at the same time.

Funny that the author thinks that the two things are not connected. Lack of support for key web APIs (meaning WebRTC basically) is perhaps what's keeping Safari users' privacy.

Keeping up with the crazy pace of Web API evolution in a safe way and without introducing vulnerabilities is probably impossible even for the browsers pushing for all the craziness that's turning browsers into Operating Systems.
I had a similar experience. It should be drag and drop. Having to use something like itunes was a huge turnoff. The original iPhone was the only apple smartphone I've ever owned.
Which tracks: the higher in the food chain the more you’d be privy to strategic information and to-be-disclosed deals (e.g. bug contracts) allowing severely undermining or kneecapping the company.
That sucks. In modern touch-enabled UI, "display resolution scaling" and "touch element size scaling" should be fully independently adjustable, to the extent practicable. I don't think projects like GTK have that kind of support built in at present. Having responsive UI layouts for small sized screens is great but it just isn't the full story.
Samsung already sells a dock that you can (or could) use like that. Turns out it's not really so valuable once you get past the novelty factor.
Wow that video is crazy

https://abc7chicago.com/florida-collapse-video-miami-condo-t...
What I argued here is not that you cannot and will not negotiate quality. I argued that taking it below a certain quality level is not an option for most people. You wouldn't for example not escape the commas present within the fields of an incoming csv file simply based on the fact that this would be bad engineering and allow injections or make your program crash. And I am not sure any customer could negotiate me into doing that, it would just be silly.

I was working in VFX where you always had to talk about quality, yet I didn't take certain jobs, because below a certain quality level VFX make no sense anymore (unless bad FX are the point of the movie) — below a certain level you won't be happy, the customer won't be happy, it won't be work that you can show etc.

Granted: coming to this from "quality is not negotiable" is a far stretch, but that was the way I initially read it. Maybe a better heuristic would be "Below a certain quality level, don't bother"
> It's reasonable to make the argument that the manufacturer needs to secure the devices that they sell, even for users with low technical literacy.

We've been in this argument before and the most secure platform today is still the web, an open platform where the code is designed to run on demand.

There's a reason everybody asks to install their native app, there's much more data to gather there than in the web.
Germany, if the collective agreement for the metal and electrical industry applies to you [1]:

4.3 % pay increase for all employees in 2018,
2.0 % in 2017,
2.8 % in 2016,
2.2 % in 2014,
3.4 % in 2013,
etc.

In addition, there are individually agreed salary increases depending performance.

[1] https://www.igmetall.de/ueber-uns/geschichte/die-tariferfolg...
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Web standards stopped mattering in 2004, these days they are just whatever Chrome implements, and like Mozilla they are kept around so that Google can pretend they don't control the web.
Shouldn't that be == !== === if we're talking about our analogies with JavaScript?

Though maybe I just proved your point about missing the forest for the trees :-P
Or your half an hour bicycle ride changes to one hour on a crowded street. Totally depends.
Is Python a safe language? It doesn’t seem to have the sorts of problems other languages do. Why is that?
I still have to support IE11 and the fact that it doesn't support modern API its one of the reasons I hate it with passion. Something like not supporting css variables is seriously limiting. As second place I'll put the unusable dev tools. Spec compliance is more of a problem for css than js. I concede that with previous IE iteration the problem was much more worse.
This is false. There are multiple safe C implementations. compcert and https://staff.aist.go.jp/y.oiwa/FailSafeC/index-en.html are two such.
It’s around 30 seconds of this clip https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4808083/user-clip-rust-langua...

“I went ahead and did a GitHub search on who’s actually leading the development on the Libra core side and it looks like, I think it’s gonna be international because it looks like a native Nigerian that’s actually building the actual Libra core in front of the code development of Libra core” - congressman Denver Riggleman (R-VA)

He lost his seat in 2020
If an attacker could inject anything into the page, they may as well rewrite the form’s target URL, so I don’t see a real threat model for that.
I agree that many Apps don't have business being apps and they are just low effort attempts, however I still don't want to have websites asking me if I want to receive notifications on mobile.

Website installation process is very annoying already. I don't want more. Do I want you to track me? No. Do I want to sign up to your newsletter? No. Do I want to create account to see the links? Please no. Do I want to receive notifications? No.

I need to go through all that just to view a page on a website. Apps are much better, I don't have to install it before seeing what is it all about thanks to the App Store page that includes a description, screenshots and reviews.

If there's something that I need to be notified, websites will send me an e-mail and the mail client will show me a notification about that e-mail which will result in me being notified.
while I generally avoid Appstore as much as possible for Mac apps

Interesting, I do the opposite. When something is available in the Mac App Store or through other means, I will generally buy it in the App Store. Why? Application sandboxing is mandatory for Mac App Store apps and I strongly prefer that applications are sandboxed by default.

The second, less important, reason is that I can just install the applications with just one click and don't have to download them from different places, look up their serial numbers, etc.