skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To put it succinctly: technology used to be about tools that increase your (the user’s) agency on the world. Today’s technology (and “design paradigm”) are about providing services that maximize the service provider’s agency over the user — converted into a stream of monetization. Of course the latter feels exhausting, as a user.

The main point is that the balance between value creation and value capture got perverted.
This is like claiming "You downloaded and ran my executable from the internet, so the fact it starting keylogging you is ok! I had totally legitimate access provided by you!!"

Apple makes the computers available for the purposes of demonstration. No rational person would ever think this includes installing spyware on them, so you are exceeding the level of authorization Apple gave you. I strongly believe a court would see it the same way.
It used to be that you could rely on a piece of software to be good.

If it phoned home, we had a name for it - spyware. Almost everyone derided it.

Now, you can expect ~100% of closed source software to have surveillance built in. Open source is better, but there's still a lot around.

That extends not only to software. Cars, TVs, tractors, whatever.

I'm not even middle aged. The transition happened over around 10-15 years.
When you hear hooves, think horses not zebras.

All throughout history viruses have spread from close animal contact with humans. Including—and I cannot stress this enough—a novel coronavirus circa 2002 that spread from bat to intermediary host to humans in a wet market in the very same country.

In comparison, for the lab leak you’re assuming a lab accident (rare), that it wasn’t noticed and quarantined immediately (even rarer), and that the wet market still randomly became the epicenter of early cases despite at that point the transmission being human to human (rare, there’d be no reason for it to be any more significant than any other place people gather).

So when we’ve never seen a significant outbreak from a lab accident (zebras) and throughout all of human history we’ve seen viruses spread to humans from close contact with animals (horses)… yes when there is ambiguity to what the cause is, defaulting to what we’ve always seen before—including literally just 20 years ago—is simpler.
Damn, did I miss the memo on this forum to sell all stocks at the beginning of 2022?
The flying car that could turn into a biplane
I, a relatively solid 200LB male, was attacked twice in 8 years. I could hold my own fist to fist, but who knows what weapon they brought to the party? I cant imagine how terrifying the city must be for dainty females.
> 10 years ago people said the same about the CSS3 changes

In OP's defense, I still say those things about the CSS3 changes.
TF needs to Stop violating the principle of least surprise and spooky action at a distance.
History of the Teller–Ulam design, a secret known by only a handful of nations
Experts have been saying this every year for the past decade. It pays to just ignore these predictions, imho. Had you heeded these warnings 5 years ago , home prices have have up so much that even if prices do fall, you will likely still not be able to buy at the price you had originally planed to buy. Waiting too long means having to buy at a much higher price , even if there is another correction.
I've always said that our software is like a Tibetan sand painting. You may as well imagine yourself wiping it completely off the table the minute you look away.
Yeah it seemed like a prudent idea but I’m sure you missed out on a lot of potential value now
That can happen anywhere.
I used to have students who would write answers like that on in-class exams.

Every answer was at least one full, complete sentence, even for yes/no or true/false. And the “short answer” responses filled all available space when one sentence would do.

My only conclusion is that some undergraduate institutions around the world must be intentionally drilling it into their students to do this.
Elon constantly works on schemes. Taking him at his word is a fool's errand.
This is correct, but I'd like to add that at some point the errors from which frequency and code you use is no longer the dominant factor in the position error. Depending on where you are, either multipath errors (eg due to reflections from buildings or mountains) or athmospheric errors (ie due to the radio signal being distorted in the ionosphere) start to dominate.
Here’s one from scmp: https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3196553/us-...
That's somehow the time it's been taking me and I had the basics of coding.

Coding can be learnt more or less fast.

Programming takes much more time as it's a whole field of knowledge to acquire so that one can produce great, maintanable and effective code.
So much so that it is still a field in progress (hence new programming languages popping every other year)
It's interesting because he clearly has some vision, but he is also a master salesman and manipulator. He pretty adeptly dodges the question about "yea, this is good for Apple but what about developers", because he launches into a sales pitch that ropes you in but leads you to the time that we have today, where Apple uses its walled garden approach to bend and mold developers to their will. It's likely to me that, even at this time, Jobs probably had the whole 30% cream off the top model in his head. It also leads to where macOS and iOS-only developers are worn down by the siphoning and churn and sidelined by the prominence of cross-platform web and Electron apps.

https://youtu.be/qyd0tP0SK6o?t=1260

And god, Jobs just drips with a sort of icky confidence and condescension, and there's certainly a lot of cult of personality present in the audience members.
For a whole month‽
The idea is good, but I want a GUI.
Film Friday: Does Kodak hold the key to bringing affordable color film back?
Exactly. Thank you for saying this. The curmudgeonliness on HN is ridiculous.
Sure, but I think the point is that a perspective home buyer ultimately rationalizes the cost with monthly payments. It is harder to wrap your mind around paying, lets just say, $500,000 over 30 years as compared to paying $1,300 monthly. When your considering purchasing a home and how that relates to your budgeting, a flat $500,000 over 30 years is meaningless compared to, okay, this is how much money will be going out of my bank account each month.

When I buy a car, I don't think of it in terms of $20,000 over 5 years. I think of it in terms of $350/month over 5 years.
The TLS verification requirements laid on HTTP/3 are described in RFC 9114 §3.1 ¶2, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9114#section-3.1-2:

> The "https" scheme associates authority with possession of a certificate that the client considers to be trustworthy for the host identified by the authority component of the URI. Upon receiving a server certificate in the TLS handshake, the client MUST verify that the certificate is an acceptable match for the URI's origin server using the process described in Section 4.3.4 of [HTTP]. If the certificate cannot be verified with respect to the URI's origin server, the client MUST NOT consider the server authoritative for that origin.

This boils down to “this is HTTPS, so the same rules as ever apply for matching the certificate and origin”. I suspect you’ve misunderstood what authoritativity conveys. The last sentence is saying “… and if verification fails, don’t trust the connection”—and it’s up to each app to decide what to do about that; browsers put up a scary warning error page that you can normally click through (depending on server configuration). Note that it doesn’t even hardcode the CA model; I like the way RFC 9110 §4.3.3 ¶1 puts it: “The client usually relies upon a chain of trust, conveyed from some prearranged or configured trust anchor, to deem a certificate trustworthy.”

You can read more about the rules of HTTPS in https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110#section-4.3.3 (sections 4.3.3 and 4.3.4). Certificate verification is the same as ever, and the only difference between HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 is that HTTP/1 has connection-per-origin, where 2 and 3 can use a connection for multiple origins (§4.3.3 ¶2–3 spells it out).
Not for detecting nuclear blasts, but rather for directing them. The primary motivation for Transit/NNSS, the first satellite navigation system, was to provide location information to missile submarines so they could calculate firing solutions for SLBMs. The submarine needs to know where it is so it can tell the missile where to go.

Detecting nuclear blasts from space came shortly later with Project Vela. Those satellites didn't depend on something like GPS because the position of each satellite at any given time could be calculated from its known orbital parameters; no need for radio navigation.
You got it. It's some drone image processing. Read in data from S3, do analysis, write results.
> Without comparing to other high density cities for basic theft, I don't really find this that useful. :(

It's useful to also gather the sentiment. It doesnt matter if SF is the best city if they're all bad. At a certain point it doesnt matter if you're slightly better than unacceptable -- it's still unacceptable.
I get what you're saying, but robustness through complexity feels like an odd argument nonetheless.
“Send me a push notification for every novel face detected”

“Alarm if any face other than these 5 are detected on an indoor camera between the hours of 10pm and 8am”

“I want to review all footage of the nanny from the past week since they spend time alone with my children”

“Show me all footage of myself inside the house in the last 15 minutes because I have no idea where I set my keys down”

“I just heard a window break at 2am, which cameras are detecting motion so my wife can avoid them to get the kids out while I do the opposite to buy them some time”
> If you're vacationing there's no way you'll feel anywhere near a "sense of being a resident".

Some other residents will have broken plumbing, bad smells and cockroaches. You are living as they are?
But isn’t the drawn screen always two frames (32 ms) behind the game loop’s current frame?
It's become hard to not see how every single article has a position you are supposed to take implicitly encoded in it. Censorship obviously good, in this case.
hmm...profit in real terms or nominal?
wouldn't this basically be a state operated reverse mortgage? A financial instrument like that available under 62 would be interesting because as it is now it really feels like a "heads I win, tails you lose" situation. Any policy change that lowers prices gets a bunch of people upset about losing value and anything that raises them gets a bunch of people upset about having to pay taxes commensurate with the value they gained.

That said I could see how this would create a mini prop 13 situation where people don't want to move because they would have to eat a big jump in property taxes.
"* entirely too large fountain sodas"

The slipping hazard from a potential spill is just too high.
Could the other branches be our dark matter?
All true, but at the same time, the user didn't do herself any favors by waiting until weeks(?) into a long-term (by Airbnb standards) rental.
Those of us "of a certain age," will remember when live performances were loss leaders, to drive record sales.

I am not old enough to have attended, but I am told that Woodstock (1) tickets were about $15.
Yeah, of course the math makes sense but one can clearly find pockets of people it likely doesn't apply to. And for sure, trying to point to specific ancestors isn't really possible you don't even need to go back 12 generations in some cases if memory serves.

My main point is that its becoming clear that many supposedly very isolated populations have in fact had gene mixture with outside groups in the not distant past and that there were large pre-modern migrations and mixing events.
Does that already exist with shitty vs better seats/areas in concert venues?

Really the place where this happens, much to the hatred of everyone is things like VIP tables at Clubs/Music festivals. The ppl leaving a 50k tab for 1000$ worth of stuff eg.
Yeah the "medical" thing is just a hand-out to the doctors who get to act as gatekeepers, and the middlemen who've popped up to funnel customers to them. $100 or whatever for a 5-minute call, if it's even that long, name any of a few things that're true for basically everyone ("sometimes I have trouble sleeping" or "sometimes I'm anxious") and that's that. Nothing about it is treated seriously by anyone involved.
Surely if the prices are dynamic and too expensive, just wait until nearer the date of the show and the prices will come down. An artist can make prices cheaper by just adding more dates until everyone who wants to see them can see them.

When the prices are dynamic, the game is no longer about getting to the site the moment the tickets go on sale and buying them as soon as possible, as it used to be, the game is wait as long as you dare while the price decreases until just before it sells out. I think once fans get used to this new game, everyone will be happier (except scalpers).

If Live Nation-TicketMaster are screwing over bands by not paying them their fair share of ticket revenue, they can go to AXS or other venue owners instead and the Live Nation venues will lie empty. They might have to go to smaller venues, so it's a case of balancing the loss of revenue from that with the increase from getting a fairer share.
“Not for You”; Only for Ticketmaster: Does Ticketmaster Violate Law?
Nice breakdown. Maybe it works the other way too.. that a large percentage of the population alive today can count rulership/prominence in their ancestry.

I speculate that when times were hard for humans in the course of history, those who were better off were more likely to successfully raise kids to adulthood, who in turn had better chances of establishing their own families
A bad economy is also bad for companies, which should be glad that they have something to offer as an alternative to pay.
Yes, except it's more formal. Based on tone, it can mean "what?" or "yes" or indicate hesitation, etc. If you say it really sharply, it can mean agreement, but "ええ" (the sound the Fonz makes) is probably more equivalent to English's "yes."
I'm guessing that some of your AirBnB success is because you seem to choose fairly carefully and not just on price.

That said, you also seem to have had bad luck with hotels. I've stayed in many hundreds and the percentage of memorably bad experiences I've had is tiny. I'm not sure if I have had the kind of record you have had even if I go back decades. I can't remember the last time a hotel gave away my room.
No better clarification than the author! In my mind, I was thinking of just the web framework UI-for-CRUD comparison, where Next.js is supplanting what Rails is typically used for (like your Dashboard / GUI, and most of the core webapps for the previous 2010 Rails co's), but fair enough, you're probably leveraging a lot more of your own PostgREST, triggers, functions, & webhooks than a typical backend Next shop.
If you truly believe that this is a 10-yr+ journey, then learning Rust just for fun and exploration seems worth it.

Any language that forces me into a new domain, whether by the goal it wants to solve, its paradigms, or environment, seems highly worth it.

P.s. try OCaml
As a non-tenure track college instructor, I'm pretty much "good" on this as well.

I think perhaps obviously the bigger underlying difficulty is that very often "teachers" aren't seriously empowered to, nor really judged on their ability to, teach. In higher-ed of course, it's because publishing is king.

I have sympathy for the great number of people who teach in higher ed for whom this will make things harder -- but also it's gotta change.

(For what it's worth, I've seen that "writing" from college students has improved drastically over the last decade or so and I'm pretty sure the vast majority of them are not doing this. I just think they are more involved with the "written word," even if those "words" include emoji, etc. But grammar and even logic have improved tremendously; the only downside is that it all sounds like branding/advertising copy. But that's better than what we had before)
That the thing about his series: You can skip any topic.
:has() basically removes the need for us to use JS to attach classes to parent elements as we can essentially look ahead now, e.g. ".some-component:has(.input-select-all:checked) { background: blue }" whereas we would have to use JS to query the input, then query the parent and attach some css class as a styling hook.

Container queries will allow us to fine-tune the not-so-predictable gaps between our predictable breakpoints. Breakpoints will probably still be used for larger-picture layout, but container queries will help with the smaller parts especially in UI that have many moving dynamic parts.

The rest are just icing and honestly I wouldn't be surprised if it takes a while for many of them to become mainstream.
They do have a choice. They could not pay, and pretty soon said specific artist will have to lower their prices. This happens with dynamic pricing. If the market won't bear it, you won't sell tickets.
For whom?

Who does the CIA serve?

Surely toppling foreign governments that aren't US-friendly or even just making them unstable means opportunity for American companies. For that matter, what they've done for arms sales could be enough to justify their existence. And then there's all the profit to be made cleaning things up and rebuilding.

No. The CIA has not done more harm to its masters than good.
See my reply below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33289468

If you were able to style the element with "classic" CSS primitives like border/background/color would that not have also solved the problem without introducing new syntax with new quirks?
That's also just testing memory. I had a teacher do that to me in high school where they graded papers during winter break and when they asked me about it in January I could barely remember that I wrote the document let alone the specifics of the topic.

Of course, I have a exceptionally bad (37th percentile) long-term memory so maybe that's just me. Schooling in general seems to be geared towards tests of memory at the expense of understanding.

High school me: "Well I understood it at the time" hehe
Being a concert violinist is fun but playing scales isn't fun. I can't wait for the robots to learn how to play scales for me so I can focus on becoming a concert violinist.

;-)
Well... then they would have to give up that sweet, sweet power and money.

Chess.com on all fronts has been only acting in their own self interest ($) and not for the sport of the game.

And now, hilariously, Magnus is not only in bed with that but he can't get out / is part of it.
Changing the behavior of existing attributes isn't backwards compatible. Websites that currently use background-color & color assuming that it won't affect the accent color will suddenly look different when new browser versions make it affect the accent color.
I think dynamic pricing systems are going to come across a lot of scrutiny (even if they don't deserve it.)

Between this and the rental pricing thing, lots of bad press about them.
Yes, but in this environment, I'd probably try to buy something new without selling (but renting out instead).

Also, if lots of people are buying and selling, even if aggregate demand is the same, it's a more liquid market. If I'm a first-time homebuyer, I'd rather play in a market of musical chairs then try to buy in a theater where only the dead and divorced get up from their seats.
I thought the ratings were done blindly? If not, that's terrible and obviously leads to problems.
That's great for locals, but doesn't really work for people who have to travel several hours and book a hotel to get to somewhere where many of the bands I want to see play. For people like us having a guaranteed ticket far in advance is important.
Seattle area property tax is usually around 0.75% of market value. Although, I would guess some are near or above 1% due to very recent declines in market value.
...as many seem to believe

I've ever encountered anyone who thinks that.
no need to be a ᗪIᑕK about it
Good Lord, I remember all the grief many of us got here on HN and elsewhere for questioning Musk's ridiculous predictions in the past several years. When do we get our apology?
More and more our culture and arts become exclusively for the upper classes.

Less and less people will be able to see their favorite bands perform live.

Less and less people will be able to travel to see pieces of art/culture/history.

Less and less people will be able to afford tickets to sports games - Hockey, Football, Soccer, etc. - all reserved for the wealthy who can afford $200 a ticket, $15 a beer, and $12 for a slice of pizza.

Society is breaking down and nobody seems to notice or care.

Only the rich and the lucky will be able to experience real in-person concerts, events, shows, history. Leaving the poor and downtrodden left to experience their favorite band through a 7" phone screen and a tinny speaker.
I'm pretty sure Florida gas stations also sold "bath salts" for a while, which was a cover for research chemicals that were drugs sort-of similar to meth, cocaine, ecstasy, pcp; remember this story? https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/05/30/153989768...
That really doesn't clarify it for me... I'm a man. I'm not 40 yet but I don't know about any flab a man grows when reaching their 40s. Am I crazy?
i believe the problem with form elements like checkboxes is that they are 'replaced elements', which the browser defers to the underlying operating system, and that's why it requires a "hack" like accent-color rather than direct styling. this is also why you can't use ::before and ::after on form elements (to do things like add a 'required' indicator using css only).
The techincal term in German is "Rezeptionspartikel", a special kind of "Gesprächspartikel". Wikipedia describes them as follows:

"Sie werden parallel zur Äußerung eines anderen Sprechers oder direkt im Anschluss daran hervorgebracht. Sie stellen dabei das Rederecht des Sprechenden nicht infrage. Beispiele sind hm, hmhm, mhm, ja ..." ("They are uttered parallel to or directly following the statement of another speaker. They do not question the speaker's right to speak. Examples are hm, hmhm, mhm, ja ...")

Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partikel_(Grammatik)#Gespr%C3%... (in German)
It's bad news if you bought a home and the market falls.

It's good news for people who want to buy a home and have been waiting for prices to fall.

People who read the Economist probably fall in the former category by demographics.
Well, I was working for a mortgage company and got cut already. The mortgage industry is def not the place to be right now.
> There is an often-repeated statement that different quantum mechanical theories are equivalent.

Worse than that, I'd say that "physical collapse" is usually presented to the general public as established scientific fact, even by prominent scientists that know better.
In other industries, this is called "yield management".
Breeds There a Man...?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeds_There_a_Man...%3F
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