skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You still have to do extra processing to know whether the end user has the right libraries installed, and to deal with fallbacks if necessary, that's going to involve at least an extra round trip.

Also, all of this has to occur before the page starts rendering, which may not be an issue if the user has the necessary libraries, but if they don't, you still have to send them anyway. They could have them cached from a previous visit, but that's how browsers already work. The fact is, most JS libraries are small enough that they download almost immediately, it's what they actually run that's slow.

All that said, I do think something like this would work great for Webassembly dependencies. What's being described is basically a dependency or package manager type of thing. I can see browsers in the future shipping with JS, Python, C or whatever runtimes as WASM blobs. All of the same issues still apply (including latency issues when downloading as a fallback,) but programming language runtimes and libraries tend not to move as fast as javascript frameworks.

But imagine the possibilities if you could essentially embed the source code of any application in any language and have it interpreted or compiled and run in the browser, maybe with little more work than some script tags?
A fascinating era in weird powertrain choices for cars; similar takes include the ZF manual (I think it as a ZF...) that Volvo used with the 4+1 pushbutton overdrive, and the Doug Nash 4+3 manual, where you could push a button to get overdrive in any of the top three gears of your '80s Corvette.
> This means we will soon enough have a situation where a corporation controls the primary medium of communication of the citizens.

Wow. Crazy! This has literally never happened before.
In other news, water is wet :)
I'm in Palermo right now. As FAANG engineer I'm making so much more money than average Argentine. Life is good! Beer in a bar is $200 peso now. Still less than $1!
It amuses me how much of an anti-crypto sentiment HN has. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a more nefarious agenda behind it. It's kind of a joke at this point.
From what I know puppeter works only with chromium, this could be deal breaker for microsoft
Europe has a concept for copyright that is not recognized in the U.S.: moral rights.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2020/08/04/10-ways-eu-copyri...

> 2: Moral Rights

> Moral rights are the rights of an artist to claim authorship in their work (IE: Right to attribution), object to offensive or derogatory treatment of the work, including destroying it.

> Though moral rights are a part of the Berne Convention, of which the U.S. is a signatory, the U.S. never fully implemented moral rights into their code. Instead, it passed the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) a law that extended moral rights to an extremely limited subset of visual works.

> As with fair use, this limited view on moral rights is another uniquely American element. Copyright holders in the EU enjoy much broader more rights. However, this is true in much of the rest of the world as well.
You don't want to be a lame-o green bubble, do you, loser?
What are the demographics of each of your identified cohorts? For example, if the south side is under vaccinated (whatever that means) and doing poorly then it seems a little disingenuous to act like their medical care wasn’t subpar prior to Covid.
Yep. I use Firefox when my laptop is docked and Safari the rest of the time. It might not matter for the M1 laptops, but with Intel, the difference in battery life is extremely noticeable.
Playwright is great, especially if you are dealing with test cases that span multiple domains/contexts. I had to test some user flows which involved logging into two apps, each with three different users to perform and validate various actions. Playwright's context switching made it a breeze. Also, it offers a nice separation of browser automation and test runner API, so it can be used outside of E2E testing as well.
Ballistic parachutes exist for light aircraft. Seems like they'd work here as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_parachute
Do the same rules apply to slot machines and carnival games? Should we make those illegal also because people fall for them? Is it victim blaming to say "you know what you're getting into when you walk into a casino"?
I use a cloud storage provider to back up via Arq https://arqbackup.com

But I don't expect to restore more than a few gigabytes at a time from that.

It would take me a week or more to download a terabyte of data. I have very little power over internet connection speed, and there are very few alternatives here. I believe there are two different vendors providing connectivity to our town, and you can pick between four retail resellers.

With those limitations, I have tested a full restore process exactly once. That's not good enough.

Data at rest on LTO or offline hard disk is something I can control. Distributed offsite storage, too. Restore within 12 hours, I can do that.

The downside to tape or cold disk is more in the management of hourly/daily/weekly backups: you have to provision a media rotation schedule, whereas that's sort of built into an online cloud storage service.
Electric bikes are also significantly slower than cars and expose you to a lot of ground-based hazards, even on the days with the best weather.
The checkly folk recently published this

https://blog.checklyhq.com/cypress-vs-selenium-vs-playwright...

Cypress vs Selenium vs Playwright vs Puppeteer speed comparison
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The original description was most likely “hmmm… that’s funny”.
when you put a thing over your nose and mouth, it negatively affects how well you can breathe. depending on the material and how much you're currently breathing (exerting yourself or not, healthy or not), it may be a little, it may be a lot. this is basic common sense intuition, and propaganda about the effectiveness and/or necessity of masks of any description should not preclude you from continuing to hold these basic observable truths in your mind.

> presumably, most of us just add the extra 20-30% effort to keep the airflow up and/or were nowhere near close to requiring the full breath

how can this be considered negligible under any circumstances? even if the observed difference in effort required seems negligible for you personally, why would it be the same for everyone? I can think of many, many reasons why 20–30% additional effort to breathe can be extremely impactful for many different people with different personal circumstances.
You could just use Steam, afaik they’re still using WebKit and you probably have it installed anyway ;)

Or another WebKit based browser (ok, not so many): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#WebKit-ba...
Is this the setup for regulation?
Not a New Yorker writer, I see....
While they fight over which opinion to cancel half the youtube comments on any investment video is scams, half the promoted tweets on twitter are scams, half the facebook ads are some type of scam. Imagine a traditional news paper publishing a single one of those and what consequences they would face.
Are you saying that you want to hit people with a wrench until they stop littering? Is there a petition I can sign?
Saw your response just now, sorry! Yeah, something's not working with emails.. I'll check it out, thanks!
It has been bugging me off and on for years that I couldn't remember this song! Saw this HN article and hoped somebody would mention it. Thank you!
The style looks clean and simple - I like it. It seems to have a good set of presentation tools already.

I would recommend to emphasise less on the drawbacks (i.e. not being completely ready, not documented well enough, etc.). The initial warning should be enough for anyone interested in the project to know it's in its early stages.

Why not host the source on Github for example?
Cool. Thanks for the write. Always interested in hearing other peoples' experiences.
Come on. The problem is the studies aren't conclusive, not that they show nothing.

Jesus.

Sorry, but yes, arguing that away is dumb. Not just dumb, but it gets people dead. So... good for you?

Look at the way the article hand-waves away the Bangladesh study... that only makes sense if children transmit covid in a substantially different way than adults. What's the justification for that? Our model for covid transmission is by droplets, particularly from the mouth, such as when exclaiming, shouting, etc. and that masks inhibit such transmission by catching the droplets. Without some evidence it's hard to conceive of how children would be less prone to this, making mask-wearing more important for them to reduce transmission.

> unfounded inferences

What's your argument? That children probably cannot be educated to do anything whatsoever? Hey, schools are pointless in their entirety, so we can cancel all that and the mask issue goes away naturally. Dumb.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119 is a good reference, although those precise definitions may or many not be in effect in any particular situation (including this one).

See also https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6919
Did you try to work with your/estonia bank? Police can do something, but usually for small values is too much trouble, but with the police report, most banks are very accommodating (Estonia is in the EU and has to follow EU banking laws, so it isn't like the money went to some backwater, no law country)
This is snark that does not contribute to the discussion and I would like to see less of this on HN. There is a difference between an investment doomed to failure and a scam that was never meant to even try to succeed. Regardless of your views on crypto, there exist projects that are not fraud and you know this.
> That's only if you want to take advantage of the hydration and client side routing.

I feel it would be doable for a framework to determine which links should be client-side routed versus not. Or, failing that (or in conjunction with it), provide a way for developers to indicate that information, without reinventing a cornerstone of the web and HTML mark-up from scratch.
Your comment

“Rogan literally said "This doctor was saying ivermectin is 99 percent effective intreating Covid" to millions of millions of his listeners.”

was really valuable to me. Because it's so incredibly stupid that if one can string together a bunch of such comments from JR, it can actually persuade some people to not believe him. We have a type of Godman quack around here who spouts nonsense on TV. Some people string together all the outright nonsensy parts and make a single video, while referencing where they came from. Those are really helpful.

Edit: also it's a problem with only some message boards. There are message boards where a comment such as 'raynier made will be outright dismissed. And they are also places where 'thoughtful conversations' happen. Also I don't think it's 'badgering' when you quote something incredibly stupid and dangerous JR said.

Edit2: also there is an order of more people that just read comments than comment. A concrete comment of yours like the one I quoted above can really convince some people. It's a good thing.
Apple’s Face ID to unlock the phone even when wearing a mask
CTF is to hacking what fencing is to actual swashbuckling.
Kinetic energy. Potential energy is perfectly safe. :)
How so many people overlook this, I'm surprised by. Everyone at every level has been distracted by cryptocurrency being either a way to make money or an investment scheme. It'd be nice if it could be those things, but there are already other systems of actual investment. On the other hand, cryptocurrency, whether or not you hate them for their energy consumption, provide a means of independent economies being created outside of whatever regimes are in control. But that's boring.

Then again, hopefully we'll never need to see a future where everyone values the decentralized nature of crypto more than its monetary value at any given moment. If that happens, it might be under a regime where sneezing in public or looking in the wrong direction would lose you enough social credit that your bank account gets terminated.
Amazon faces another union vote, this time at a Staten Island warehouse
For the vast majority of projects it certainly means faster development and far lower production cost.
The virus is endemic, we are all going to get it sooner or later.
This is true about any asset that's not undergoing hyperinflation itself including stocks, bonds, commodities, real-estate, and foreign currencies. What's special about cryptocurrencies in this regard?
This is, as others have commented, a much better explanation than the article at the top of this thread.

But I'm not sure it's quite as simple as Joel makes it seem here:

> If you work on any kind of editor—be it a blogging tool, a note-taking app, a content management system, or anything like that—you should allow your users to embed blocks that conform to the Block Protocol. This way you can write the embedding code once and immediately make your editor able to embed a rich variety of block types with no extra work on your part.

I don't see how this would work. Sure, the data would be embeddable anywhere, but how does the editor know how to display it to the user and let the user interact with it? That's not just "embedding code". And later on:

> Want to create a block that shows the Great Circle routing for a flight between two airports? Write the code for the block once and it can be embedded anywhere.

Again, how does the application it's being embedded in know how to display it to the user? That seems like it requires more than just "embedding code". Each new kind of block requires each application to add code to use the block.

I agree the data exchange interoperability part is nice, but I'm not sure about the code reduction that seems to be implied here.
We can already use pulsars for that, but this one being so unique would be very convenient. OTOH, you won’t be able to make multiple observations in a short period.
Let me get this straight. Y Combinator claims the right to assemble a compendium of all of my comments, change 20% of them to include offhand remarks about how much I despise gays and Muslims and adore poor grammar and Microsoft, title it "The Wisdom and Folly of dTal", bind it in hardback, and sell it? Movie rights too?
> condemning everyone as sick with zero evidence isn't how a free society works.

That is like saying that seatbelts and speed limits condemn you as a bad driver.

A free society protects everyone's rights. What people tend to forget is that every right has a price, in the form of an obligation. For example: You have the right to private property, and the price is that you must respect other's private property.

One of the things that is difficult to get about Covid is that you can simultaneously be infectious (able to transmit it to others) and asymptomatic (no headhache, no fever, not even sore throat). That is not something we are used to deal with, our other infectious illnesses aren't that stealthy. There are other things that are atypical about this virus (the kind of vaccine we used is new, the amount of infected is unusually high, it transmits via air...). Treating this illness with the knowledge and techniques that we have learned from other illnesses is simply not enough, there are too many differences.

The free society is protecting your rights. In particular, your right to not be infected by another person might have no other chance but to get into close contact with. The price of that right is that both of you wear a mask.

Even if the mask is terribly uncomfortable for you, you must endure it because other people also have rights. The same way that just because you are hot, you are not allowed to take off all your clothes in front of everyone.

> being strangled

You might just need a better mask.

My head is big compared to the heads in China. Most of the masks I have access to locally for cheap are made there. They tend to be quite uncomfortable for me.

I splurged ~60 bucks into buying several from different makers and found a model that works for me (Adidas Made For Sport, I wear it at the gym and do cardio with it. Comfortable and makes you look like Bane). When I'm going to use the public transport or visit a hospital I wear an FP2 mask with an ear protector. It is not comfortable, but at least my ears don't hurt a the end.

You could also try inventing a better mask.
You won’t find much support for individual responsibility here.
South Africa is on my watch list for a failing state. Not sure if Argentinians situation could be improved by emulating it. This is what happens 'when money dies'. I worry that there is now a false nostalgia,a simulacrum, for communism without an understanding of the damage it does. In Eastern Europe I unexpectedly bore witness to the scars left on the human psyche from those who lived it. Even long removed from it they are still very damaged by it. There is no analog in the west so it is hard to explain, it's like chunks of their soul were removed. Their specter has haunted me ever since. What's happening in Argentina was entirely predictable and unfortunate.
Don't think I ever expected to see that reference here!!
I am torn on this. On the one hand I believe very strongly in the value that the semantic web can provide, and I applaud any effort to move us towards a future where we can more reliably interop between different applications on the web. I hope this pushes the needle in that direction.

On the other hand, there is a very crowded graveyard of spiritual ancestors to this project, all of which were aspiring to similar goals. I am not seeing much direct acknowledgement here of why those other projects failed, or measures to prevent that from happening with the Block protocol.

One common problem in semantic web projects, which Block doesn't seem immune to, is that the authors of those projects seem to get stuck thinking about how to model the presentational components on a given web page (lists, forms, images, calendar widgets) instead of the actual real-world stuff that these things represent (the books on my shelf, my allergies, a picture of my dog, my birthday). Don't get me wrong, richly-typed presentational components would be a big improvement. But I don't think they should be the end goal (unless perhaps you're in the blog-writing software business).

Web pages are just one of many vehicles that we use for shuttling around information about the real world. We should try to come up with a system that is capable of representing real-world semantic information regardless of how that information ends up getting turned into pixels. It may be a web page, it may be Siri reading it to me, it may be AR.

But when modeling real-world data, we always seem to walk into traps such as this (from the Block FAQ):

> On other occasions you’ll want to store information differently than how it’s set out in the schema.org definition. For example, schema.org/Person defines a person as having a givenName and a familyName and yet in various cultures this isn’t guaranteed. HASH uses preferredName and legalName instead - in communications and billing contexts respectively.

How do we design a semantic typing system for real-world data that is amenable to the inevitable need to evolve or amend the schema, or leave off certain fields from a type instance, or tack on a few extra fields? Should our applications eschew canonical types (like schema.org's Person) in favor of a ducktyping approach (I don't care if you give me a schema.org Person, or a blockprotocol.org Person, or a notpachet.org Dog, as long as the blob has a numeric field for the "age" key?
In most of Europe masks for schoolchildren aren't mandatory.

https://www.newsweek.com/cdc-school-mask-guidelines-fuel-cul...
There were big quality issues in that era too, we just don't remember them so well. Antenna-gate, the PowerBooks that basically barbecued your legs,...
Presumably because it requires a ton of energy, so shutting every other system down is the most effective way? (well, at least when our next energy fix wasn’t so easy to acquire)
DarkNet 101 – A Guide to the online frontier
Cursory understanding of physics and chemistry.

Fighting against gravity by exhausting anything is energy inefficient. And there isn't really anything to fix that. It is just fact of universe.
the machine that message was typed on did not cost 15$.
They’re already heavily regulated, the machines inspected, odds posted and support available. You can’t do it online due to the increased risk. And casinos are few, far between, outside of most population centers, and broadly not easy to get to for most people.

If publicly traded companies started putting their treasuries into Caesar’s chips, you bet we’d see more regulation.
Firefox is sometime a good tool to have for webdev, in some case Firefox(desktop)(i think i need to us a camera) work more similar than chrome(desktop) in comparison too chrome(android), i will totally pay money for a tool-set web development of quality but as browser most advance things use some quirks of chromium to work, isnt as secure as other people say you need to twist thing here and there and download extensions, in general is more worth use brave, if you really want to have control use librewolf.net is a fork of Firefox focus on privacy and work out of the box
There are a couple of things happening.

This 'they don't 100% work so we shouldn't even bother' bullshit .. is just that. Bullshit.

What is the cost of masked students, it's the cost of the masks. Now granted our schools are, frankly, criminally underfunded. However that PPE could be supplied from outside the school's budget for those students that don't take care of the costs themselves.

The other problem that i've been hearing from my public school teacher friends is that there are so many staff absences due to covid that more and more students are stuffed into the classrooms of those teachers that are there. So if you, as a teacher, have a class that is down 50% of students due to an outbreak but somehow you managed to avoid it. Well your 50% empty class that allows for better distancing will not last, you will be at 100% or grater capacity simply because another teacher is out, there are no available substitutes and you can't leave kids unsupervised.
There was an article on HN recently about how science is moving past the scientific method by using models rather than testing hypotheses with experiments. I'm not sure I consider this "science", but still.

There was no evidence for plate tectonics either, until they started looking for it. And, obviously, the burden was on the new hypothesis to prove itself.

I'm not saying we should encourage Flat Earthers to present at Astronomy conferences. I'm saying we should not try to shut them up. That "safety" you're talking about has to be boundless, because if there are bounds then they will shrink. Are shrinking.
not to mention facial expressions transmit an incredible amount of non-verbal information that transcends language itself (which the article touches upon). not taking this, and all the other variables that we now have a better understanding of, into account is highly negligent.
I agree with most of the comments here on falsely accusing the actual technology for the surge. Gift card scams are about triple of 2018 in 2021.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/data-spotlight/2021/12...

Should we start blaming gift cards too?
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I'd argue it in a more adult way than just punishing those who are different from you. Just do away with the masking and social distancing regardless. As soon as we were throwing out the first doses of expired vaccine, the choice by every american to get vaccinated or not had been made. If the hospitals are overrun, it will be the unvaccinated, so they'll be punished anyway - no need to legally do it.

Also you need to update your Sam Harris stats, its not 40% unvaccinated anymore like some outlets continue to harp on, check CDC numbers, its closer to only 20% of the population remaining.
Oh, they absolutely do, like 90% of the funding for Mozilla comes from Google.