skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, on the subject of hypermedia: I recently saw your talk when you showed hyperview.org as an alternative to HTML for mobile use case.

As someone who is very interested in the space, are there other hypermedia implementation (if is the right word) that you found interesting? Or do you have some pointer for those who want to explore this space?

Personally I really want some kind of hypermedia framework for terminal application, since I often need to work with hardware (or bandwidth) where the only interface is a terminal, and I never feel productive with manually writing the application code, having to reimplement a new client every time.

Also thank you for htmx, I started using for a couple of project, and it really is refreshing. Especially kudos for the various example, that really helped making it "click".
Interest snippet from the expert:

> When I speak to people, they say, "Do we need to see something really bad happen?" I'm like, worse than Russia blowing up its satellite in this orbit, which clearly has an impact on the United States through Starlink? When you talk to SpaceX, it's very clear that the destruction of this Russian satellite likely had the intent of harmfully interfering with the Starlink satellites. They've already had to maneuver several thousand times out of the way of the debris. It's an impact to their operations. That was not random. That was not haphazard.
It’s also possible they weren’t able to see benefits given the processors that were available to them at the time.

It’s also possible that they were so far behind Waymo in the journey to FSD that they weren’t yet at a point where multiple sensors would make a significant difference.
I fail to understand how would anyone at the top of any serious company would think bailing out at the last second would absolve them of anything.
Amazing answer thank you so much!
> Anecdote but I have a 2019 Audi E-tron and the software is insanely bad.

Sounds like a typical Audi. It’s crazy how bad their software is. Had a 2022 A4 rental earlier in the year, it was worse than 2014 golf 7. Crazy.
> Doesn’t surface mining also do that?

No, surface mining doesn't "suck up and kill seabottom creatures". :)

More sympathetically: yes, surface mining can have habitat loss issues (i.e. land use changes), but the bigger issue erosion and sediment control, the management of which is a major component of any modern mine in a well regulated country. Maybe there are ways to mitigate subsea sediment migration, but they definitely haven't been studied to nearly the same extent as surface issues and mitigations
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No one thinks people buy Tesla's because of Elon.

But people absolutely will not buy Tesla's because of Elon.

Brands work hard to avoid negative sentiment for a reason.
I've been working on a HTMX Playground!

https://lassebomh.github.io/htmx-sandbox/

It runs a small mock server inside the browser which is very Django inspired, so it should be very familiar if you have experience with it.

The mock server runs using PollyJS and Nunjucks as the templating engine. There is sadly no mobile support or the ability to save yet, but it's still a great place to start tinkering without needing a full setup.

Repo: https://github.com/lassebomh/htmx-sandbox
There hasn't been anything stopping Apple from releasing Siri on Android. Amazon's Alexa already available on Google Play Store, and Samsung Bixby is on Samsung devices. I'm sure there's plenty of alternatives on Chinese phones that do not have Google too.
I'm not really a c programmer, but in terms of weird c behaviour, this doesn't sound that insane (relative to usual c craziness).

So if i understand, a char type is allowed to be bigger than a "character", but it will still get truncated to be a character when written. Sounds reasonable enough to me
if you have some weird architecture .
I always thought it came down to two reason, costs and looks. Telsa has to sell a car people want to drive daily. They can't have a bunch of lidar sensors on their cars no one would buy them even if they could drive themselves. Also they would most likely cost a lot more due to lidar sensors not being cheap compared to normal cameras.

Unlike Waymo who doesn't care about selling cars to people to drive daily. No one going to care that the taxi they are taking looks ugly as long as it get them to the place they are going for cheaper. The cost is also a less of a factor due to them being able to produce an income by charging people to ride in them.
I agree that the text above maybe was not so well put, but also I do think there is a point indeed: the Fed cannot strictly control what will happen. What I currently see everywhere still is that the psychology of buyers hasn’t changed yet. Tesla/ASML/Twilio etc are trading at ridiculous P/E ratios, house prices are still high, some people are earning money on selling their second hand electric car to a third buyer for a higher price and everyone knows that basically everything is too expensive. Once people stop looking in the rear view mirror and expect that some things might actually be cheaper next year, then that should help a lot
That is because it does not actually take control away from you with any sticky/magnetic spots. A lot of scrolljack presentations have a really laggy pagination that is somehow about as precise as fast rewinding your DVR was back in 2011.
Missing from this conversation:

- other browsers exist for iOS, and users seem not to care that much for the alternatives, but…

- if other engines are permitted, then user-facing differentiators like extensions will make their way to competing browsers on iOS.

Outside of PWAs, I can’t think of many other features other than maybe arbitrary file upload that requires more hooks into the OS (as opposed to greater control of the browser engine). Genuinely interested in hearing/thinking of more, if you have any.
I never understand for RawTherapee, how/where to use the sliders. Or anything really, I get super confused. Lightroom 6 is clunky, but I understand what happens.
why the downvotes? Both Safari and Chrome are based on KHTML. There's literally no difference between them.

They might have diverged technically but they're still both not really FOSS software.
For me, the measure of whether an engineer counts as "real" is if they're empowered to say no.

You can have hundreds of qualified people who are called "engineers" and would be excellent in another environment, but if the culture is "If I say jump, you ask how high" you don't have an engineering culture, you have an autocracy.
Nice work!

Two questions.

1) Do you have any thoughts or insights having now made both a low level graphics library (D3) and now a higher level library with “Plot”, on the nature and utilities of such tools it even data vis in general?

For instance, I remember when Plot first came out, I noticed many popular D3 users were enamoured with how quick and easy it was to use, to realise it seemed many of them might have been using exclusively D3 for so long, they didn’t really know about these sorts of tools that us “plebs” use (not that “Plot” didn’t look good, it did!). Having used both D3 and higher level tools (not Plot, yet, I haven’t been working in JS land lately), I felt like the nature of the technologies is rather discrete such that they’re different worlds and you kind of have to choose which one you’re in and stay there.

Which leads to my second question…

2) The documentation indicates that Plot is built on D3 (which makes sense!). Is there any capacity to manipulate a Plot graph with D3 once it has been constructed? I’m not sure what this would look like exactly, but blurring the lines between higher and lower level graphic manipulation would be interesting.

Otherwise, thanks for all your work!
You're hitting the nail spot on with this one for me. As a blind pedestrian, I very much feel I am in danger of falling into exactly that group of potential victims you are hinting at. Right now, I have the illusive comfort of the "Vertrauensgrundsaatz" which basically tells every driver obtaining a drivers licence that they need to take special care when it comes to disabled pedestrians. Sure, one might say these new self driving systems will "just" have to follow that same rule as well, but I am very much doubtful this is technically possible. So currently, I feel like the drive to put innovation on the streets and pull money out of pockets is actually actively endangering me in the future. Not very bright outlook I must say.
And such a spec can be

1) a reference implementation,

2) written in natural language, or

3) written as formal semantics

#1 is the same as the current situation. With #2, you might get a bit closer but natural language has many ambiguities and idiosyncrasies that can render it useless in various situations.

You can try to define formal semantics, but that is not only hard to create, it's also hard to translate into an implementation, adding significant overhead in both parts of the process. And there can still be bugs, and there can still be edge cases with undefined behavior.
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Getting a refusal to connect... anyone else getting that issue?

https://carta.com/
You’re right, it’s not, so why are you bringing up?
Oh yes this is the incident I was referring to, actually. I thought it was the same. Somehow I remembered the troop buildup of Able Archer confirmed the invasion fear for the Soviets. But it sounds like that played no part in it. I must have remembered it wrong.
PCI-Express 16x 4.0 has 31,5 GByte/s. The fastest fiber ETH has 50 GB/s. So it "could" be useful if you have datacenter grade equipment ;)
My biggest wish would be proper sum types. The current way of manually creating tagged unions is really awkward.

But that won't be added because there is no native JavaScript equivalent.
This hits the nail on the head so hard that reading it feels like waking up from a bad dream.

> Browsers are built to understand HTML. Whereas in the modern world we largely ignore that and write double the code we'd have to write otherwise passing arbitrary messages and it introduces a whole new set of problems making sure those codebases line up properly.

This belongs in a manifesto. Put it on a shirt and I'll gladly wear it
The maximum efficiency of a steam turbine is just shy of 50%, by the time you have integrated the whole plant, 23-35% is typical. (so says wikipedia)

The sort of solar panels one would use in a large installation are around 23% efficient.

So they are close in "power/hectare". From there it is capital costs and cost of operation that will make the decision.
Oceans are great at sequestering carbon, but that's via dissolved CO2 and ecosystems near the surface (which are not impacted by deep sea mining). The seabed ecosystem plays an ancillary role.

Meanwhile, I'm not aware of any proposals to sequester carbon in seabed ecosystems.

I'm certainly not qualified to analyze the accuracy of a soil science study or the field as a whole. As someone not in that specialty, the figure that jumps out at me is the 40x difference between the impact from ecosystem damage vs. other impacts. Generally that tells me that the potential for ecosystem impacts to nix the climate benefits of deep sea mining is low - it would require that soil science be so wrong that they missed over 90% of the carbon content of the seabed.
It's been this way for decades, I've seen old film clips of Iacocca talking about it, I think in the early 80s not long after the Chrysler bailout. Probably even predates that.
> Anything in the middle (like what Tesla is doing) is IMO more dangerous than useful.

Even if a hypothetical, future Tesla FSD sometimes crashes in ways that could be prevented had the driver payed attention, it could still be statistically safer than a fully human driver (ie the number of FSD crashes even if left unattended < the number of crashes by humans driving).

To clarify, I'm not talking about the current state of FSD, I'm talking about a hypothetical, future Level 3.
I'm in your age range, but totally different trade, worked in two contexts, one with my parents, one with coworkers younger than me, in both places I was the one who had to solve everyday tech issues. I think the comparison with mechanics is very fitting. My dad and other guys of his gen used to disassemble and reassemble their scooters, while me as a kid felt was useless and too much difficult doing that. Probably there's a golden age when a technology is mature enough to be accessible but still open to personal contribution of the amateur and a point when it reaches a level of industrialization, complexity and is perfected enough that you don't feel the necessity to spend time tinkering with it.
> You either don’t have permission to view this notebook, or it doesn’t exist.

Forgot to hit that share button? ;)

And hey, wasn't there research showing that the bad reputation of pie charts is kinda undeserved, as in that they don't actually perform any worse than bar charts when viewers were asked to estimate relative quantities? Meaning they're like the Comic Sans of data viz: their horribleness is vastly overrated because people abuse them
Perhaps there should not be professional artists? Maybe they are landlords, but instead of hogging land, they are hogging time for self improvement, but both are produced by the same inheritance?
I've seen it many times before. I got people bunching up behind me, riding my bumper, cutting me off, swerving around me, causing near misses in other lanes as they cut other people off trying to pass. It causes backups near ramps to get on and off highways, backups which often result in rear end collisions, partially because...ding ding ding speed differentials.

Also, acting in capacity to react in an emergency is more about following distance than speed. And yeah, as speed increases a driver needs to increase their follow distance. Something that I agree loads of people fail at doing and then complain about their ADAS systems always slamming on the brakes suddenly.

> where going slower is always manifestly better.

Just tell that to all the cyclists going < 20mph in 40-50MPH roads. They're way safer going that speed than those fools driving their cars near the speed limit. It's often not safe for them, partially because...speed differentials. To solve this, we shouldn't just restrict cars to only go cycling speeds, we should build infrastructure so similar speed traffic is grouped together and separate, reducing...speed differentials.

If I started driving my car 5mph in a 40mph road, I'd probably cause more accidents than if I just went along with traffic at 43mph.

Speed differentials kill.
Sounds like this piece was written by someone who doesn't really know the space and follows along with Nest marketing.

> These leaf springs allowed for the self-configuration of the unit, saving the time and troubleshooting that would have prevented a regular person from tackling installation. And it worked! It was so simple that grandparents were making YouTube videos of themselves installing it.

Did Nest sponsor this article? It's a Google property and they managed to reference another Google property.
I've been background searching for one forever, and never found anything I think I'd want to work on until I retire. Instead, I'm devoted to adding a bajillion little fixes and tweaks all over the place:

- Speeding up a third party app

- Productionising tools

- Simplifying, testing, linting & formatting all the things

- Reporting issues when I don't know how or what to fix

- Generally just having a dialogue with communities, avoiding the jerks and cheering/actively supporting the nice people
See https://code.tvl.fyi/tree/nix/buildGo as an alternative.

"Most language-specific Nix tooling outsources the build to existing language-specific build tooling, which essentially means that Nix ends up being a wrapper around all sorts of external build systems.

However, systems like Bazel take an alternative approach in which the compiler is invoked directly and the composition of programs and libraries stays within a single homogeneous build system.

Users don't need to learn per-language build systems and especially for companies with large monorepo-setups (like Google) this has huge productivity impact.

This project is an attempt to prove that Nix can be used in a similar style to build software directly, rather than shelling out to other build systems.
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I appreciate being principled about ends not justifying the means. But in my experience this principle is not applied universally by people. It's cherry-picked as what amounts to a non-sequitur when deployed in a discussion. Don't get me wrong, I wish it were a universally held and enforced moral principle, but it's not.

Anyway, the reality is that Teslas are safer than any other car on the market right now, despite the scary voodoo tech. So it seems in this case the means are also justified. If auto-pilot and FSD were causing more accidents than humans, we'd be having a different conversation about ends justifying means, I surely agree.
You have the math right, but the product wrong. They are looking for specific types of steel that are currently unavailable at almost any price. Their order size is too small to warrant returning a phone call from normal steel producers. Certain types of tool steel that are currently available sell for upwards of $3000/ton, but the type of steel they need is no longer a commodity, so the price is likely even higher.

They have 50 tons of scrap steel that is exactly what they need, but need a spot to melt it down for reuse. You can't (partially guessing here) just throw it in an existing smeltery while maintaining its purity. They have been collecting this scrap by talking to other users that also use the same material.

The article mentions they are in the Jura Arc. I didn't know this, but that is a reference to the watchmakers valley in Switzerland. If you're selling a $60k watch, it better be made from 99.999999% pure unobtanium.

I have seen similar situations before where when you start making a niche product, suddenly demand pops out of the background that wasn't there before because the product simply wasn't available. Even if it isn't profitable from day 1 it might eventually become profitable.
What policies are being leaked?
I'm a huge proponent of Tailwind. What I tell people is to ignore their gut impression and just try it out.

Equivalently, my first impression of HTMX is that I kind of hate it. But I could see it being similar to Tailwind, where you just need to try it out and then it'll click. Is that fair to say?
Yes. Are you sure, sir. Bless you.
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This language isn't an attempt to solve Python's problems. At best it's an attempt to get around some minor speed bumps I personally experience when writing short Python scripts. I did not create this language with the expectation or hope that even a single other person in the world would want to learn it, much less become proficient. Clojure is a great language! It's just that I, personally, need more mental effort to translate thoughts to code using prefix notation and other aspects of Lisp syntax, and decided that reducing that kind of mental effort for myself was a goal of this language.
Here's a better analogy:

A group of fraudsters goes into dealerships with stolen identities and attempts to finance $0 down cars so they can export them to West Africa and make a fortune because they are not ever going to pay for the cars. Only some dealers have "kill switches" (look it up) that they use to remotely brick cars they stop receiving payment on. So someone like Khudaverdyan comes along and offers a kill switch disabling service so the cars will still work after the fraudsters have moved them out of the country. I think most people would agree that is wrong.
Kind of baffling. Why? Is it because:

- From the perspective of the very top of centralized social media, "all the other players" look like niche, "decentralized" in the sense of many small companies, small fries--regardless of how decentralized their tech actually is?

- Because Signal is a alternative already in the fold so to speak (promoted/accepted 'alternative')?

- Because Signal is not quite a household name but and makes for better...PR?

- Because he thinks Signal is positioned to do something useful with it?

Seriously, Jack comes off as seems super genuine, all considered--is that naive or correct? Am I missing something obvious? I'm asking because in a technical sense, the mismatch is an interesting and astute observation.
Musk has no class. He will stoop to anything, no matter how low. Even a child would feel some guilt at committing an act of petulance.
Lol. Not returning the call of the guy who built a multi-billion dollar business from scratch even after he says he has an investor willing to invest billions is shady as fuck.

As a FTX.us user with funds held by them, I'm deeply suspicious of John Ray
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Ray_III.

Can I demand he speak to SBF?

He's a corrupt coward if he won't even speak to him.

Somebody is a crook here, and I'm thinking it's John Ray.

- Breck Yunits
(I'm no anon coward, unlike the others talking a lot of trash)
The analogy is pretty weak here.

People commit crimes inside businesses all the time, and under most circumstances the owner of a business is not liable for damages resulting from a third-party committing a crime on their property. People also use various communication tools to advocate and plan crimes, and the operators of those tools are almost never liable.

What's different here is that Facebook makes decisions about what content to show to people. It uses an algorithm to do so, and it is aware that the algorithm has a tendency to promote violent content. While I'm broadly for platform immunity, that seems like a good situation to add an exception.
No; the “PS” in “EPS” stands for “per share.”
I would say yes, but perhaps not as visible.

Before the internet arrived and provided anyone to become an 'expert' in anything, it was still their job to manage the monetary system and employment.

I'd say the issue now is that many popular haunts on the internet are designed to incite rage, and the Fed is always going to be unpopular when they have to cool things off in the economy.
Not really as far as I understand? It's a deterrent?
To me, self-driving seems like a band-aid fix for terrible car infrastructure. Driving a car is already one of the most dangerous things the average American can do. Due in part to larger, heavier vehicles, high speeds in residential areas, etc. Even if you had a "perfect" driver that doesn't prevent someone from ramming into you.
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You need to start merchandising. Complexity very, very, bad.
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I was thinking about the full power of JavaScript while still being perfectly typesafe.

I edited the comment to hopefully better reflect that.
Assume best intentions. Don't attribute anything to an immutable aspect of one's character.
I worked as a security guard in various locations and same thing, people would speak unfiltered and candid around me to others.
They do. It’s shitty. For a number of works, they don’t even have the rights.
Most Fed chairs who're around for a recession become a household name, at least for a little while. Which ends up being an awful lot of them since they tend to serve a while. See also: Ben "helicopter" Bernanke; Paul Volcker.

And yeah, it's because they do tend to be similarly active, or at least very much in the public eye, when recessions hit.
I think y’all are talking about different things; the parent comment seems to be talking about injecting additional keys into the tailnet (basically, letting other devices communicate inside your Wireguard VPN).