skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How's that different from the US? Nominally left-leaning yoga moms are a huge part of the antivax moxement. It's the same thing - a lack of understanding, an unwillingness to think critical, a naive belief that "nature good, human-made bad" without any nuance, and the willingness to deify their prophets of "natural healing".
The only thing I can say is that I remember having quite a hard time when my buddy used all single letter variables and reading his code, back when we were learning C at uni. Not sure if after a while one can get used to it and have some "buffer memory" (sort of speak) in the brain for allocating single letter variables while reading or working with code (and if I ever had such thing for the time being), but I do remember writing in paper which variable was which when I got lost after 50 lines or so while reading - and helped me to "debug" because, a couple of times, things didn't work as expected because it seemed it was he who mixed vars when writing the code
Why don’t people just…?
> I am surprised that not all tools for thought have standardized on ActivityPub to enable their users to connect each other's notes.

Because most of my notes, and to-do lists are private. I don't want them to be shared, just available to me.
You are contrasting the Revolutionary War against a war a century later.

The ability to muster, transport, and support that many troops depends upon modern industrialization.

Maintaining war against the Americans in the late 1700s was brutally expensive for Britain--with minimal ability to recover the costs after they "won". And this isn't even considering the fact that being part of the British army and navy was horrifically terrible--deserting to the American side was almost always an improvement unless you were an officer.

If France and Spain hadn't been present in North America, Britain might have just told the colonies to sod off rather than fight a war.
Seems more like it was accounting for the knee-jerk reaction culture we have been building here. With a more aggressive title, the post may have been flagged or downvoted off of first impressions.
You can type the date in browser date pickers, including Safari's, even while the calendar is visible.

But the UI is not superfluous for many use cases. Often, you want to see the whole calendar for context -- eg, to see the associated day of week.
I’ll toss in my two cents as someone born in the mid nineties, and is not very connected by modern standards. I have a Discord, Reddit, HN, YouTube (?) and Steam. I’ve deleted or completely stopped using any other social media accounts.

That being said I can count on one hand the number of people who have a similar level of disconnect. Most people +/- 5 years of me that I know maintain on if not multiple other social media accounts. Mostly Instagram, from my experience.

I think the biggest thing I’ve noticed is that people I talk to are _aware_ of the risks and dangers of engaging with social media. But for some reason or another still choose to do so. But the level of awareness is up quite a bit from where it was half a decade ago.
Exactly.

Want to reduce the impact of anti-vax messaging? The government could stop lying and trying to suppress truthful information to start with.
That was never a requirement.
Later, the tragedy around Aaron Swartz included him stashing a machine much like that.

It's hard to explain to outsiders how MIT culture (including down from the top) celebrated having few rules, taking the initiative, and being open to a community of loosely/flexibly-affiliated people. The official MIT Museum even celebrated mischief that was possibly illegal.

I don't know whether the outside authorities understood that Swartz's activity was closer to normal/approved than it would seem to an outsider. Some activity had to stop, but I think the culture would've been to nudge the curious and energetic young person onto a better path.
We've been very satisfied with the 10gtek SFP+ transceivers and PCIe cards as well so far. Still around 50 each for RJ-45 Cat6a copper though.
date pickers are great for selecting recent dates such as this month or next month. this works very well for hotels and stuff like that where you select multiple dates. i would rather date picker than type it in
Now it seems the date picker, like the Safari one, is just meant to let you pick a recent date; for a faraway date like DOB, the weekday does not actually matter, so it is easier to ask the user to type. Just some quick thoughts after reading the article and comments.
You better write longer, more informative paragraphs LOL
I do the same. Obsidian is just a pretty editor with a fast search/switcher, and everything beyond that is gravy. I find many people try to make it much more than it's capable of, and that's where we're running into problems.
Yeah this quote doesn't really work if the metric is your actual goal. If I make daily revenue for my e-commerce company (or daily ad engagement for Meta) my goal, it does not cease to be useful.
> echo "yo mama" | cb

> cb > really_large_objects.txt

Did not expect that.
It's a real problem and there is no solution in sight I'm afraid. Typically it takes some kind of massive crisis to precipitate a change and then less than a century later all of that gain of insight will be lost again so we get to repeat history. 2019 was a re-run of (talk about being on-time) 1918.
Correct reasoning
I was a web developer when IE6 support was still a thing. Safari is the new IE, it may not be as bad yet, but it's right on track, cumulative regressions being the norm.
They're also caused by Covid infection. Which makes sense, if the spike proteins produced by the vaccine cause these issues, then so do the spike proteins produced by the virus.
the rolling wheel thing is terrible for another reason. your finger obscures the value when you roll back (up). it’s horrid
They live in this alternate universe where the COVID pandemic didn't involve Trump at all.
You also have to keep in mind that very little of online dating was real in the first place. You’re using pictures taken who knows when, in ideal situations, photoshopped to hell. Texting a person is not at all the same as talking to them, people can and already do use other resources (friends, the internet) to make themselves seem more interesting online. It’s a game. I’m in the get to the real date as quickly as possible camp as well.

Tinder might not like it, though, because they want you to swipe as much as possible. But we should understand that Tinder’s interests are not aligned with those of its users.
The most straightforward solution I can think of is to split date inputs by context. Create an `<input type="dob">` that is tailored for picking a date of birth from 1900-today. "date" is too vague of a context to create an UX that works well in all the different contexts. It'll always be bad in some contexts, if it's trying to solve all the use cases.
Date pickers are one of the worst interfaces on the web. Everyone seemingly has a wildly different design and they're almost always hard to use and unintuitive. And forget about if you're picking a date _range_
It's about refining the approximations it makes until those approximations are too tiny/negligible to create failures in code.
When I hear Internet explorer I don't hear about the monopoly Internet explorer 6, I hear about the Internet explorer 11 that had to be supported for years and constantly just had to be different from everything else in a way that was frustrating and infuriating whenever you were trying to develop a product.

Safari does not have the monopoly status, Chrome has that, but safari does have the IE 11 like constant fighting when you have to support it.

Also Safari has monopoly status for everyone using an iPhone. The people on iPhone simply can't pick another browser, because Apple won't let them.
It depends on the use case. For something like birthday, ID expiration date, etc., just being able to type in the correct values is the best UI. But for a use case like scheduling something in the near future (e.g. a flight, delivery, whatever), the calendar picker is superior because days of the week actually matter for this use case.
Key words there being “like usual”.
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Neither ls nor grep output color by default. Most distributions have a bashrc script that sets aliases like:

alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

Ls and grep are defined such that you can specify --color multiple times and the last one will take effect, allowing you to disable coloring while still using the alias that enables it. The FAQ at no-color.org states:

> User-level configuration files and per-instance command-line arguments should override $NO_COLOR

So, it looks like like ls and grep respect it fine with just their default behaviour.

As an aside, at least on my system, ls and grep do not recognize --no-color. I need to specify it with --color=never.
The craziness surrounding covid was somewhat predictable

Here in the US (and likely other places), you have a pharma industry shoving amphetamines and antidepressants in people's faces. You have a complacent government that's too lazy, corrupt, and incompetent to address this obvious wrong (among many others)

So because of this, people already don't trust the pharma industry or govt. Can I blame them? Not really. At the same time, you have elderly refusing vaccination and dying because of this lack of trust. You have parents refusing to vaccinate children for things like measles

So tl;dr you have a system that has systematically eroded trust over the years and has been unable to self correct, and people on some level know that they're getting screwed. And you have an incompetent government that refuses to take responsibility for this lack of trust and only knows how to redirect blame elsewhere. What could possibly go wrong here?

edit: I'm not saying that the government is irredeemably bad, I'm saying that as of right now the current generation of politicians have failed to do their due diligence regarding pharma screwing people over (e.g. price of insulin)
At first I thought you were arguing against the point I made, but after reading this fully I totally agree. The worst offenders that are hell bent on naming variables as sentences are java developers. For some reason the boiler plate required by Java is no long enough for them. Lol. Joking aside, I think anywhere where the code is an API for external functions or anything like that. Having a very descriptive name and consistent convention is good, also if the variable is being carried over in a nested code or is being passed around or is being used 50 lines down somewhere then it is useful to name it in a way that is recognizable

Ultimately, I think even the choice of naming something and using a single letter communicates your intentions. If you make something a single letter then you're telling the reader that do not even worry about this variable it is just passing through, but if you need something your communicating your intentions of using this variable in the future it is more permanent in a sense
HTML and CSS are built for web pages, which means they don't really have a strong concept of page size. If I want to build a table with headers that repeat on every page of a printed document, it's an absolute pain to do it with HTML and CSS.

You need something with constructs that can express pages, repeated tables, headers and footers, stuff like that in a much more native format.
> I chalked up the "New IE" stuff to annoying little CSS issues

Here, too, Safari is the cause of 2/3rds of the lines of exceptional UI code now that Edge switched to a compatible render engine. Or blocks features altogether. All major browsers settled on doing things a certain way and then you remember that you always need to check Safari and of course they want it another way, so you get to re-do the work and duplicate your code with a comment "//because safari wants x to be done this way". I had less trouble with MSIE6 back in the day, though I can't rule out that I did less fancy things back then.

These things are not like "oops we render it differently by chance", it's conscious choices like not supporting SVG or being able to read file names in JavaScript (can't have javascript-based upload progress bars or local file encryption if you want to keep the filename; need to encrypt on the server and have the server report progress back via another channel).
Is it any more unethical than asking a witty friend for a pickup line? Because people do that all the time.
"I developed this organic artisanal vaccine when my organic kombucha brewed entirely using my beard yeast took an unexpected turn..."
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> go all-in on Linux as an app server

I don’t think it was clear back then that Linux was going to be the winner it is today.
Credit-card security holograms ...not true holograms either. Right? They need no monochromatic illumination. And they don't employ any interference in order to produce their 3d images.

That's the whole trick, really. "Scratch holograms" employ exactly the same physics as Benton Rainbow holograms. Both store phase information, and both require coherent illumination, but neither one is based on diffraction (that's why they can still work, even with a white light source.) If you make a Benton white-light hologram, then instead make the "diffraction fringes" about 1mm apart, the hologram STILL WORKS. "Scratch holograms" are just Rainbow holograms where the fringe-spacing is enormous.

So, if credit-card Rainbow Holograms are real holograms, Benton white-light holograms are real holograms, then to be consistent, we're forced to admit that scratch-holograms are holograms. (Besides, they create unwanted pseudoscopic images, and required spatially-coherent illumination, same limits encountered with any true hologram.)
Oh well if Vanity Fair says it then it must be so
This is one of those basic UI things that are missing/bad in native HTML controls, and why we end up having to implement this stuff in JS.
Maybe in the US, but not worldwide. When you compare, countries where citizens trusted the government and generally followed the government's plans fared better than countries where individuals fought for their rights to choose what they think was best for them.

IMHO Covid demonstrated the importance of trust in the system. When people trust the system, and think of the society as something they need to work together to maintain, they tend to come out better. Even after their governments did make many bad decisions.
man, skip talking about the vaccines, what about the refusal to simply utilize MASKS???
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Yes, we could just all use Chrome and stop competing. That would be far easier for everyone.
> but safari does have the IE 11 like constant fighting when you have to support it.

Yes, and is also very IE like in that it's not evergreen, various iOS devices stuck on specific revisions that Apple has left in various states of broken.
I have heard they are improving in recent updates. I'm skeptical, very skeptical, but it's possible that Apple has heard all of this complaining and is trying to pivot to counter it.
Oops, we suppressed correct info, but it's not our fault, we didn't know it was correct!
Whoosh, you missed the satire.
> Ah simpler times... or were they :-)

No, definitely not simpler. Different problems for sure, but not simpler.
People have drowned. Lawsuits have extracted millions of dollars. That's the best explanation I can offer.

Yes, paddleboards are allowed. Kayaks too. No power boats. Don't ask, I don't have the answers.

I can tell you I have seen people do truly stupid things on the lake. Like load-up a canoe with people and ice chests and go into the lake when they obviously have no clue what they are doing. We've been kayaking this lake for 25 years. I wear a vest every time. And I am an excellent swimmer with open water experience. If you don't respect water, you die, it's that simple.

Once you get to the point where everyone is a victim despite their stupidity, the only option left is to restrict absolutely everyone to the extent possible. That's the way I see this may have evolved. I don't know.
I mean, relative to having to support safari, yeah, as much as I hate to say it, it's preferable.

Firefox is the browser I want to see be the competition.
The Therac-25 used a PDP-11 computer. So I assumed the software was written in C. It wasn't?

I would also assume that most embedded software (e.g. in cars, spaceships, weapons, etc.) is written in C. But I see now it's indeed hard to come up with definitive sources.

A few failures can be found here (and it's easy to google some more):

https://embeddedartistry.com/fieldatlas/historical-software-...

But sadly no reference to the used languages anywhere there.

So I forward the question as I'm now also unsure: Has anybody definitive sources that prove the absence of C code in the known fatal accidents?
Do you think that bot magically sprung itself into existence? Or is it more likely that it was written by a human, as ordered by a human, in response to well-documented (also in the article) pressure from the White House to prohibit the spread of what they considered "misinformation"?

Do you think the "support staff" were acting of their own volition, or did they have orders from above about how content should be handled? You don't need to answer this - the article shows they had a flow chart to follow, created by the same folks who were being pressured by the White House.
This is a pretty small distinction in my experience, and I think you'd find that most people would go with "if it goes into prod, it counts as a release".

Regardless of how confident you are on your feature-flagging functionality, everyone's going to be unimpressed if suddenly your "minor" deploy has caused a bunch of things to go haywire at 4:30pm on a Friday and now people have to stay back and fix things.
Or, stay with me here, my idea is crazy bonkers... they could just not censor alternate viewpoints that are accurate and factual?
I see absolutely nothing in that article that contradicts my point, what exactly are you seeing that I am missing?
“It's not fancy, but it works. In fact, it works because it's not fancy.” is a lesson I wish was drilled into designers.
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On iOS devices Safari (WebKit) has 100% market share.
Oh for sure, having to support IE 5.5/6/7/8 at the same time was a nightmare of conditional comments and css hacks, and testing as you typically could not run multiple versions side by side due to the deep integration into Windows.
The Internet as we know it today was empty when it first started!
The large language model would still need training data, which necessitates those high-quality support calls still be recorded for training data.
Yup, it's not like we have to support Safari 15,14,13 ... wait
It feels like SouthWest has been at the center of every scheduling disaster in the US over the past few years.

Even if it’s out of their control (many of the issues were within their control), it seems Southwest fails way worse than every other US airline.
I have a Southwest flight on Friday I am now very nervous about. For the first time ever I bought a fully refundable flight as a backup option through American Airlines. Looks like Southwest might allow free cancellations too so I might ditch that flight entirely to avoid undue travel headaches. Either way, I don’t ever remember a worst traveling season than this.
tl;dr elderly can’t find the year picker in the iOS version of the date picker pop-up.

I feel like the data is flawed. This is (supposedly) 1/3 of tech issues raised by customer support — how many of which are total?
Safari 7-8 years ago was potentially worse than IE in my opinion.

Totally broken indexedDB implementation. Random rendering issues, especially if you happen to ever use z-index. Hacks needed to get the most basic events to trigger. Idiotic scrolling behaviour. Choppy animations that didn't adhere to basic CSS standards (even the ones that weren't added by Google).

Honestly, it was a mess, and sometimes felt like a deliberate ploy to stop web apps from becoming viable. Things are better now. Just waiting for them to finally add web push notifications.
So much RAM:

- Every pointer is 8 bytes, and a lot of integers are also 8 bytes, and a ton of structs have padding here and there to the 64-bit boundary.

- All graphics are rendered on huge bitmaps which are later composited using advanced hardware, using double or sometimes triple buffering. This allows for nice effects like translucency, shadows, blurring, etc, while requiring simpler logic and producing basically no visual glitches.

- While at it, just one screenful at 4K / 32bop is slightly less that 32 megabytes.

- A bunch of fonts is pre-rasterized for the high resolution (effectively 3x the horizontal resolution for subpixel smoothing), including fancy emoji fonts.

- A ton of services start by default, from system-wide spell-checking to weather and news reporting. The OS's GUI shell strives to be rich and fancy, with nice large previews of images, documents, etc, and also voice output and input.

- But this all is nothing compared to the resource needs of an HTML5 browser.with a couple dozen graphically intense tabs running SPAs like Gmail or Slack, with all the state, and all the JIT'ed JS.

There's plenty to spend RAM on, compared to my fancy Linux desktop from 1999 which happily lived on 64 megabytes of RAM. Opening ten browser tabs was out of question: tabs mostly did not exist yet :)
That's dishonest, look at most of the interactions highlighted in the article, they were from the Biden administration.
> In 2021, Weiss compared her own professional travails to Galileo Galilei, an Italian scientist who was threatened with being burnt at the stake if he did not renounce his scientific views.

Oh, wow.
If people don't trust a system that raised them, there are inherent flaws with the system that it is either unable or unwilling to address
The claim that "Safari is the new IE" has nothing to do with perceived quality of Safari's implementation of things.

It's that Safari is the only browser allowed on iOS. Which means that we are stuck with the subset of the standards that Safari has chosen to implement.

So Safari has outsized influence over which standards are actually feasible to build an application around.

One example: I've lost count of how long I've been waiting to build web apps that can send (user requested) push notifications.
Hmm. It looks like it wasn't buried, but investigated by two different bodies and no ill intent was found.

The author of the content that was one of the allegations said:

>Bayor, who Magness had accused Kruse of plagiarizing, has previously told the ‘Prince’ that the accusations against Kruse were “politically motivated” and that “there is not a story here.”

It's from the article.
Now you understand why people use JS-based UI elements.
> Then everyone else can look like they're behind!

I’m not one to defend google, but in the matter of a datepicker… it’s 2023 for crying out loud! A datepicker standard should have been solved and implemented about 20 years ago.

Admittedly it’s non-trivial dealing with dates across regions, time zones, DST, etc, but c’mon, it’s been clearly solvable for decades.
It’s the same people, though. RFK Jr. pivoted and incorporated anti-Covid vax rhetoric into the rest of his platform, and that’s bringing the anti-Covid vax conspiracists into the autism myth fold. And the existing anti-vax community fed into QAnon, as well documented by Marc-André Argentino[1].

This is the tricky problem. Trusting the marketplace of ideas works if everyone who participates is interested in spending the time needed to evaluate claims.

[1] https://gnet-research.org/2021/03/17/pastel-qanon/
>Also Safari has monopoly status for everyone using an iPhone. The people on iPhone simply can't pick another browser, because Apple won't let them.

i have an iphone with safari, firefox, firefox focus and chrome, ...