skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once WASM becomes popular almost no website will work without JavaScript.
for ux or data? i've always found bloom has more of the long tail obscure data than anything else.
Trying to understand what a “heat echo chamber” is. Maybe the thermal mass is enclosed in a metal box?
I don’t think people worry about websafe colors anymore, as displays have moved beyond 256 colors
Why would people use WASM for their HTML content?
"I Turned Off JavaScript for a Whole Week and It Was Glorious - Wired 2015"

It's not 2015 or 2016 anymore, not even close. We're the better part of a decade moved on. This is not a valid argument any longer. JavaScript is a critical part of the modern web experience. You may not like it, but that doesn't change the fact.
Everyone will think the album art is just an elaborate illustration.
I agree 100% with your first comment. The best developers care about the impact their work has above all else. Sure, they might prefer Ruby, or Golang, or whatever, but at the end of the day the results are what they are after.

However, somehow we’ve created a world where the tools and techniques matter more than the output. I have no idea why this is, but I see it every day where engineers want to refactor code and try every new trick or tool they can.

Keeping track of what is going on is generally good. Trying to apply every hot new thing to a production codebase is a recipe for disaster!
As a counterpoint: I find the implicit imprecision caused by having poor/no divisibility a constant frustration in my day-to-day life.

For volume: US based recipes very often resort to "1 cup", and I generally find they're rounding a long way from... say... 3/4 cup. In metric, people don't tend to round more than 10ml at a time, so you'll see 120ml, not 100ml when they mean 120ml.

For distance: "About an inch" is the most useless instruction in DIY or crafting.

People seem to be very reluctant to use the awkward and 3 fifths or w/e you end up with in imperial.

When you say "people are better at estimating", are you adjusting for the reduced precision?
Soon? It’s been there for a while.

PayPal and traditional banks have been closing accounts for having wrong opinions for years.
Forms and meta refresh can be pretty great.
HN is for information that might be new to enough of its readers, even if the information itself was not published in the last few days.
Where? And is it filled with people coming from the local P&R?
I think you’re confusing Boomers with GenX. GenX is notorious for not caring and for slacking and for cynicism. It’s why there’s so many great comedians from that generation working today. Not much was taken too seriously. I’m sure some tied themselves to trees though but not group strikes.

GenX has very suspicious of group identity and “selling out”. A corporation pandering to their values would be mortifying. Very much the opposite of todays kids. Which makes sense as it’s their kids.
Dennett's argument is that consciousness is an illusion. Where would such illusion take place? I'm genuinely convinced that Dennett is a troll.
Yes, anyone can easily track inflation by buying and holding a cheap broad market index fund like VOO or VTI. In fact, it has never been easier for people to ensure they keep up with inflation. As you get close to retirement, you can transition to cheap bond index funds like VCSH.

There are even cheap target date funds where all you need to know is what year you want to retire.

The people who feel the need to gamble on the things listed below are those who are not earning enough, not saving enough, or want to gamble:

> even ordinary people are forced to consider investments like crypto, SPACs, and high growth tech stocks just to maintain their wealth. Monetary policy has made us all into gamblers.
PySimpleGUI – Python GUI for Humans
"the encouragement of anything unfavorable towards a minority is grounds for getting yourself on the fast track to the banlist"

Why would you want to encourage something that hurts other people?
I gather that you never used public transport in Tokyo.
The built up areas of the US have almost the same population density as the EU ones.

Nobody cares about the Rockies or farm fields or Death Valley.
The problem is that JavaScript is used for tons of garbage purposes too. I wish for more control in my browser over what is running
When there’s an open letter signed by lots of people who are guaranteed to be woke (documentary filmmakers!!), few of which have actually seen the film, how is that not a woke mob?
> Almost every "cancellation" I've seen has been accountability

How do you know, exactly? Did you personally verify the facts underlying each and every case?
I’ve found Little’s law to be a pretty deep observation.
Bilingual Reading App
Having some trolls make bad comments that no one respects is not cancellation.
In the US 2/3rds of industrial heat demand is at temperature <= 300 C, and various kinds of heat pumps would be very useful for those applications.
> The usual problem with free tiers is that you get low qualify leads through it.

Any B2B2C business could write a book on sourcing 1000s of low quality leads. It seems all the literature out there is geared towards sourcing B2C leads.
Not much. A transformer trained on multiple senses can learn the sound that an animal makes and associate it with seeing that animal. It can also learn how another agent reacts after it says a word.

The huge difference is actually between animal reflexes and learned behavior. Reflex is built-in. I didn't learn to kick my leg in response to a tap on the patellar tendon.
Or look into TFA - it (person, distribution, unit) appears ten times :-)
The data is all publicly available, what we are offering you is the time you'd save, and the analysis for example we offer industry averages, that is we calculated averages of industries and different sectors we you can do by your your but would take so much of your valuable, you can in the same way look up macro economic data, but you can look them up one by one, its painful and you can't really compare them and see the relationship between them to understand what'd going on
Faulting a technology for its malicious uses is a common fallacy, but a fallacy nonetheless. Not saying you're wrong (you're not), but it's not a valid argument against JavaScript.
My first time as a team lead I saw value in little side experiments on non-core parts. Now I think that's only OK if there is time and budget to roll them back if they prove to be a bad fit. Otherwise they accrete and become a drag on velocity.
Ever hear the phrase “that’s news to me?”
I would assume most programmers have heard of queueing theory, and I thought most HN readers were programmers. The comments look interesting and it's not against the guidelines, I was just surprised to see it on the front page.
The FDA is filled with extremely qualified and public-spirited doctors and PhDs who are in a constant battle to keep poor medicines and snake oil from damaging public health. It's absurd that someone such as Thiel (who does not even want to be an American anymore, he is pursuing Maltese citizenship and was born in Germany) gets to impact OUR democracy just because he has wealth. He should go start his own country because he clearly does not believe in what America stands for, and good riddance.
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Similar story for me. The first compiler I bought with my own money was Benchmark Modula-2 for the Amiga. There weren't any (that I was aware of) free compilers for the Amiga at the time and I couldn't afford the C compiler.

It was quite the adventure learning how to program an Amiga with, effectively, a pile of header files, but I had a great time.

The manual for Benchmark Modula-2 (which, IIRC, is all it came with) is in Archive.org.[0]

[0] https://archive.org/details/benchmark-modula-2-manual-1988/m...
Means infrared radiation is reflecting multiple times inside the walls of the structure, analogous to an echo chamber. (I think).

Since it's a very high temperature device, much of the heat transfer going on is through thermal radiation.
The Original Tiger Kings (Siegfried and Roy Exposé)
As someone who thrives on tracking down rare but annoying bugs in a debugger, I love stories like this. It is not just bugs that cause real failures which can be headaches; but also bugs that just slow things down unexpectantly. They can sometimes go undetected for decades like this one.

I wrote an article this past year that talks about silent bugs that slowly eat resources and collectively can be very expensive in terms of wasted time and energy: https://didgets.substack.com/p/finding-and-fixing-a-billion-...
Although you answered the question, and you answered it correctly by stating the obvious, it reminds me that this sort of answer is no longer appreciated by large segments of the population because it lacks "empathy".

What a strange world we live in. And it happened so quickly.
> You can't cancel a dead person.

You can certainly cancel his memory, which, for the people closed to said dead person, might matter a lot.
It's strange, isn't it? In the span of a year or two, the zeitgeist shifted from "online stranger danger" to "you don't exist if you're not active on [website]".

Even stranger, few people seem willing to re-evaluate their place in mass-scale social sites, even after 20 years of spam, scams and shams.

Maybe it's a tragedy of the commons. People might enjoy the effortless positive reinforcement provided by their worldwide in-groups, which makes it easy to ignore the huge negative externalities?

Or could people be addicted to the feeling of righteously fighting a great evil, such as their [adjective-of-the-month] neighbors?
Why don't you read user names?
I have come to learned that there’s no answer to this “problem”.

Even if you stick with tried and true framework, eventually that framework aged, and then developers start complaining that the framework is arcane. For example, how many HN readers here know WebObjects?

But the flip side is equally problematic. How many times do we have to change frontend frameworks? Just to render some divs on a web application?

Somewhere in the middle seemed to be the right answer. Just build the web application with new-ish technology like Go or Rust or Elixir, and then sprinkle some JS like HTMX for interactivity.
That would be rather logical now, wouldn't it? However, I'm afraid that when someone says that we must reduce our dependence on petrochemicals I must mention that there are things for which we have no replacement for petrochemicals. I must argue that eliminating petrochemical use is impossible any time you ask to reduce use. I don't make the rules.

Would you like to hear about how some Americans need a truck to do work too? Just go ahead and mention that we should aim to use smaller vehicles.
Funding is not binary though. The police are still funded if you allocate some of their budget to something that is not the police. Most police budgets increase every year.
Yea government work is full of that.

Kickbacks galore, my brother works in ed-tech. He said one state rewrites their public school report card system every two years like clockwork because of that.
I am all for sensitivity, trans rights, and being inclusive and professional in the workplace. But this kind of chilling effect makes me angry.
https://en.wind-turbine-models.com/turbines/2338-mingyang-my...

Last I checked 1840 was not 20,000 times 16. And an ancient leaking nuclear plant barely has a higher capacity factor than current gen offshore wind.
I find these people repulsive and frankly I'm glad they're gone. It was not tiger love that killed Roy but tiger retribution for decades of animal abuse. Given what this story reveals, it's remarkable in light of today's animal (and human!) welfare standards that their rise to fame would ever have been permitted, much less celebrated and embraced.
I guess it depends if your website does something valuable or substantial.

If it's just your hobby site... great, develop it without JS.

But if it's a site people pay to access (or requires ads) and they expect some functionality - like Youtube or Netflix say - I don't think this is possible.
Technically they are opt in. If you pay for everything in cash you won't have much data for them to use against you.
Perhaps, however I find decent value in some of these kinds of submissions - it is in the comments. The book recommendations and benefits of queueing theory mentioned here have already been worth it for me. I love going down technical rabbit holes.
In fact, it’s specifically called out in the US Constitution. Article I, Section VIII authorizes the government to “fix the standard of weights and measures”.
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>The mob can only influence these powers that be.

Fully agree - except for the word "only". That's the argument. "Powers that be" are never absolute. Your own quote fully applies to them as well:

>They have no power outside that which is given to them is the point.

I mean, the Peelian Principles for example are based on this central notion.
What stopping you from taking a screenshot of the qr code and send it to the buyer? The timestamp can be bypassed by sending the screenshot when the buyer is already at the ticket-checking gate.
Peter Thiel Is Said to Pursue Maltese Citizenship
That's power against some random netizen who has made themselves a target somehow, which is really not that much power at all. It's more of a Dark Forest pattern, where the optimal response is to lay low and/or conceal yourself if you're going to do anything remotely controversial.
That's not how the Economist works. And making arguments like this 100% discredits your position. If I were on the fence, I would definitely come down on the opposite side based solely on this silly argument.
I’ve found that the best browsing for me has been a result of disabling HTML and CSS as well. No errors, 0 load time, accessible to anyone even if they don’t have a computer or internet connection. Websites built without JS is cute but if you’re serious about fast, accessible, error-free browsing then using HTML and CSS is really just bloat.
Trump isn't far right. If you think he is you likely have very little knowledge of politics.
Yeah, I got things a little twisted. But the point stands: Boomers were originally lambasted for being soft and idealistic, as the first post-war generation. They’re now the ones, if we’re painting broad strokes, posting reactionary screeds about the younger generations.

> GenX has very suspicious of group identity and “selling out”.

The Pepsi Generation is suspicious of selling out?
This article has a blind spot large enough to drive a truck through, related to the author's apparent belief that we all live in some kind of bucolic pre-industrial society. Take this claim:

> "People who grow up on farms are generally less likely to develop asthma, allergies, or auto-immune disorders like Crohn's disease – thanks, apparently, to their childhood exposure to a more diverse range of organisms in the rural environment that had encouraged more effective regulation of the immune system."

The vast majority of farming in the USA and Britain is industrialized and relies heavily on regular application of pesticides and herbicides in the fields. Animal farming is centered on factory farms where animals are kept in close quarters and given antibiotics and hormones to prevent disease outbreaks and increase growth rates. The fecese and urine from these operations stink for miles around.

Childhood exposure to such environments results in everything from asthma to neurological damage - see Parkinsons relationship to organophosphorous pesticides, say. Another concrete example: methyl bromide in the strawberry fields of California:

https://www.ewg.org/research/heavy-methyl-bromide-use-near-c...

That's the industrial agriculture reality, so packing your kids off to such farms to get their dose of 'good natural microbes' is inadvisable. It's just half the equation, however, as other kinds of industrial activity have loaded up soils with all kinds of chemical contaminants, from heavy metals (sometimes radioactive) to persistent organics with negative health effects. For example, anyone living downwind of an oil refinery or coal power plant, or around a uranium mine etc., should thing twice about galavanting through the local mudholes. Richmond, in California downwind from Chevron and other refineries, is a case example:

https://www.ehn.org/pollution-poverty-richmond-2645503359.ht...

Even without the modern industrial-related issues, historically animal farming has been linked to all kinds of parasite issues, such as the hookworm pandemic that afflicted the American South for many decades (linked to pig farms). The 'get in touch with nature on a nice organic farm' theme should be tempered by such realities, i.e.:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-so...

However, direct interactions with relatively pristine natural environments are likely great for kids (and adults), and the notion that ultra-sterile equals ultra-healthy doesn't make any sense either.
Matt Yglesias’s new podcast “Bad Takes” did an episode about this, covering some of the meta-issues (as you might imagine).

https://www.grid.news/story/podcasts/2022/09/30/bad-takes-ep...
> An iPhone gets updated certificates every time iOS is updated.

No you get updated certs from cert-authorities (the one's trusted by apple/google/mozilla etc), the ones who "signed" the received certs from website X. Otherwise you would have to download gigabytes of certificates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86cQJ0MMses

>>TLS Handshake Explained - Computerphile
It’s lock on data as well. On the one hand I hear all the 20-30 year olds complaining about BB on a daily basis and on the other hand we have million dollar models (in cost, billion dollar in value) locked-in on BB data sources. Just changing a data source is a major model change with god knows what hoops the regulator puts you through. So I just kindly explain to the youngsters there is a lot we can do for their happiness, but switching from BB is not one. Writing this I think some consultancy could specialize in the BB API. That’s all we need.
India wants to know if they should ask Pakistan to get the band back together. Also, returning to fractional sovereigns, pounds, crowns, guineas, florins, shillings, pennies, and farthings would be extremely simple.

(It's the sad and cynical exploitation of tribal, nativist nationalism containing aggressive, neofascist, pining-for-the-past-more-than-usual, and anti-intellectual sentiments.)
You forgot Georgia. They are way ahead of Russia when it comes to phages
> The point of her work isn't to explain why the Nazis are bad.

I didn't say it was. But whether the comparison is Hitler or Stalin, it's absurd, because both cases involved mass murder, and nothing even remotely comparable is happening with social media.
Is it real? Probably not, but that is how organization perceives it. An angry mob on twitter sure does make it look like you'd lose a lot a business by not capitulating, even though chances are 90% of those people probably never were customers in the first place. It doesn't have to be a real threat for it to be perceived as a real threat.
It's pretty simple. If you're doing it for profit, use whatever is cheapest/fastest (ie, JS devs and their transient frameworks). If you're making a website for human people meant to last more than 3 years, use HTML.
Eh, right, many bugs we have don't really matter.

Oh what is that you say, security vulnerabilities are also just bugs that get exploited? Oh well...
The infinitely-fast web! LMAO well played.
Based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList and http://ggwiki.deepfreeze.it/index.php/GameJournoPros I doubt it’s a power broker, just a group of moderators from different companies who work together.

Google Groups aren’t as popular nowadays. My guess is a private Discord.
Nice site but would look more pro if the spelling errors were corrected.
The power is in the medium. If the "mobs" didn't have the megaphone, then they would be the tree that fell in a remote forest where no-one was present to hear it. If Twitter et all did not magnify agitators, this would be much less of an issue.

It's a power with useful idiots doing the heavy lifting and those in power with a ready excuse to do the will of the people. Yes, on occasion, some of those in who think they are in power have to be thrown under the bus.
Show HN: I built a shortcut monitoring and reminder tool
After getting fed up of always forgetting shortcuts, or to use the latest snippets I just installed in VS Code, I dediced to scratch my own itch and build a tool that allows you to -

- Track a shortcut (or key combination)
- Be reminded when you haven't used it in X time (E.G 10 minutes)
- Graph your reminders, versus usage over time to see if you're improving.

I'd love to know if there are any tools that do this already, or whether you think it's of any use to you.

Apologies the build in Windows only right now, whilst I try and resolve some compilation issues with some native modules (exaplained in the repo).
Do you happen to have a source/reference for that?
I guess in real world scenarios, progressive enhancement is the way to go for many sites (like embedded web interfaces).

Offer the minimum core functionality without js.
Add js for better UX and additional functionality.
I got ones you can play forward that are basically that.
Anytime someone say "useful", "good", "bad" etc MUST precise for who.

McKinsey sure and certainly do something useful for it's shareholders, for the rest of the world.............
Since we're on HN, search for computer programmers/IT people who got cancelled in the last, I don't know, 4-5 years for saying things that they shouldn't have said. We're not talking about "famous" IT people, just regular persons who, some of them, lost their employment status because of said cancelation.

Later edit: From here [1], I was too optimistic of the 4-5 year estimation, this shit started 10 years ago. I guess we, programmers/IT people, were just the canaries in the coal-mine:

> Hi, I'm the guy who made a comment about big dongles. (...)

> My second comment is this, Adria has an audience and is a successful person of the media. Just check out her web page linked in her twitter account, her hard work and social activism speaks for itself. With that great power and reach comes responsibility. As a result of the picture she took I was let go from my job today. Which sucks because I have 3 kids and I really liked that job.

Later later edit: Also, that Adria Richards lady got canceled and fired by her employer in return [2]. That reddit thread I linked to is a good example of how fast (relatively speaking) things change, nowadays there's no way in hell for a person to include a pr0n-related remark in a conference talk that is not related to the pr0n industry, but back in 2013 saying that that was not ok (and it wasn't and it isn't) was reason enough for ridicule.

All this to say that cancelling someone for his/her opinions, as long as they're not inciting to violence, is not ok.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5391667

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1aqyc7/adria_ri...
That's the point. People in these discussions act like the majority are unenlightened bigots trying to return things to the 19th century. That's not true, and practice shows it.
> And all Putin does is sign decrees and drop a few hints. Perhaps press a button.

Putin is the President of Russia. You can't seriously compare him to anonymous people on Twitter.

If Twitter was so powerful, then Putin would have resigned by now.