skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because Safari sucks.

The reason iOS and Google/Android PWAs suck is because Apple does everything in its power to make them suck:

- Complex and user-unfriendly "add-to-homescreen" functionality

- Limited/trailing functionality for native APIs

- The obnoxious url/browser bar persistent at the bottom of the page, with horrendous and uncustomizable hiding/showing of said bar.

People advocate for PWAs, but I never use them because as an end-user they're awful to use, because developers can't create them to the quality of native applications because of these limitations. Of course the complaints go to Safari in that case.

They absolutely could have PWAs be of higher quality, but they don't, for obvious reasons.
If the web still exists. That's how you become a data hoarder.
>There is always some complaint about Safari instead.

when one app is used by roughly half of all mobile users, that's not something you can ignore. so complaining about that one app when these conversations come up does not seem out of place. essentially, the conversation is something like:

- PWAs are great!

-- How well do they run on Safari?

- PWAs are great on other platforms.

-- So about half of mobile users? Doesn't seem that great to me
I can't help but wonder if we should also consider the potential benefits of AI-generated content.

Could it free up human creators to focus on more meaningful and fulfilling work, rather than churning out banal content for the sake of meeting demand? Or could it potentially lead to a more democratized and diverse range of voices being amplified, rather than just those with the resources and expertise to optimize for search engines? Just food for thought.

I’m kidding, this is ChatGPT speaking :-)
We have waited years for alternatives like FirefoxOS, Ubuntu Phone, etc, and the other Linux phones to compete against the duopoly. Instead, these alternatives have decided to throw in the towel and gave up all by themselves with their vapourware (Ubuntu Phone) weak product offerings (Firefox OS) and the market just moved on and chose the duopoly instead.

Perhaps they weren't competitive enough to be interesting to users which is why we have this situation in the first place. These alternatives tried and failed. The only functioning alternative that is still alive is SailfishOS by Jolla which even that is almost no where to be seen anywhere. It's almost as if they are not trying hard enough.

The real winner here is Google which will go in the same route as Apple when they deploy Fuchsia on Chromebooks and Android phones which Chrome will essentially further dominate the web. Alternatives like Firefox have little to no chance at competing even with EU DMA which that just further entrenches Chrome's dominance.
Trolley buses in Lausanne are(were?) equipped with small auxiliary ice engines that would take over in case of loss of power. In the hills with passengers it was just enough for the bus to go at walking speed but that was enough to move out of the way or overtake a stranded vehicle.
Poor Americans will see their pandemic savings run out this year
Yeah my thought too, that's a pretty cool use of AppleScript. Working with PDF's one generally wants to do from your own machine anyway, so it's ideal. You could even send documents or photos through to Azure's facial recognition API and order based on people/faces. Just an idea.
Erm, the intented permanent physical change for the user is establishing normal weight, at which point you would assume, that you can establish healthy routines and ideally move on without the drug.

But the drug is designed (intentionally or not) in a way, that makes this very hard, keeping the user dependant on it. So I would call this a bug, but I can see people still choosing it over the alternative.
Will Remote Work Continue in 2023?
A few points:

The number of people who have a go at playing music professionally far exceeds the number of people who end up making a living doing so. The majority of aspiring professional musicians end up as...music teachers.

Of those that do make a go of it, the majority are probably playing in wedding bands or something similar. The proportion who end up joining a professional symphony orchestra, make a good living from being a singer-songwriter, or in a jazz band (say) is vanishingly small.

If you don't care about making a living from it and just want to play as a hobby, it's a demanding one if you want to be good enough so that people will voluntarily listen to you. You have to put in a lot of practice just to maintain your skills.

As such, is it really that surprising that most people give it away at some point?
So, the post's title says they won't use LE, but the actual post's content has nothing negative to say about it and instead bashes some other free SSL cert service? Why not use LE instead then?
Tramlining is when the topography of the road causes cars to move differently than how they are steered (somewhat similarly to tram tracks) and has nothing to do with overhead electric or actual trams.

https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=...
Does this mean I can run both LiteFS and Litestream at the same time, for a streamed backup to S3 in addition to replication for read-only replicas?
A Python library for hierarchical classification compatible with scikit-learn
lovely, I never thought of using emacsclient as a global wm entrypoint

ps: I think I need to write an i3-whichkey that displays the current set of bindings because I often forget my own config :)
Who knew there are so many people from Lincoln here :)
> It's okay as an intermediate step but all electric is much better long term.

Sure, but given the long term might be longer than the average consumer holds onto a new car, there's a lot of value in a good intermediate solution.

The average person drives less than 30 miles a day. Building a 360 mile EV battery just to handle long-tail events seems very wasteful.

Given that Lithium battery production is largely the bottleneck to full electrification, you could use the batteries from 1 Tesla and make 6 plug-in hybrids from them. And then get pretty close to 6x-ing the amount of carbon saved.
for something where the tracked object is stationary for 364 days out of the year, seems like not a difficult task /s
And yet Apple has thus bar made it impossible to use Chrome (and its clones) on iOS.

I once bemoaned Apple's insistence on WebKit; I now recognize that it's the only thing stopping the total takeover of Chrome on the Web, and a return to the dark ages of "this site works best with..."
There already are quite effective weight-loss drugs but they're not across-the-board medically-approved for that effect (with some exceptions) because they're also drugs of abuse, namely the cocaine and amphetamine drug families. However, many obese people get around this by getting an ADHD diagnosis (any quick search will reveal that 'obesity and ADHD are highly correlated' due to this phenomenon). The WebMD blurb is fairly accurate:

> "Sometimes the medicines most often used to treat ADHD can cause weight loss. Stimulant drugs like methylphenidate (Ritalin) and amphetamine/dextroamphetamine (Adderall) make you less hungry and make your body burn calories faster than usual. Some of them are even used to help people lose weight or treat binge eating.Oct 26, 2021"

More technically:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1523237/

"The effects of amphetamine on body weight and energy expenditure" (1992) Jones et. al

However, in many cases if people stop taking such drugs they can regain the weight, and the drugs can be addictive if dose regimens are not carefully managed (which doesn't seem to be a problem with ADHD). Note also these drugs are much cheaper than this new class, likely by a factor of 10.

In the long run, new behaviors (quitting alcohol and sugary foods, increasing exercise, reducing overall calorie intake, etc.) are probably needed for persistant long-term effects on reducing obesity.
> We found that they could not plow the snow effectively – they basically conked out after four hours. We need them to go 12 hours

This doesn't sound like they are trying to do short routes or fast charging stations. Rather, it sounds like they want to run their EV plows like they run their regular plows.

The majority of LI batteries can be recharged in 1 hour with enough juice. Even if you say "well, it's a truck, so probably needs more time" current level 3 chargers can kick out 350kW of power. Yet this report talks about putting in 50 and 150kw chargers.

The mac trucks they are referencing have 350kWh battery packs in them.

The solution is really quiet simple, recharge the trucks and buy a few more to account for the fact that you have to recharge an hour for every 4 in operation. Stop trying to run your trucks for 12 hours straight.
DragonFly BSD 6.4
> One of the worst examples: "number sentence". It means what you, an adult, might guess it does (well, it means one of the things you might guess it means

Specifically, it means “equation or inequality”.

> They don't really act like sentences or serve the same purpose.

They act exactly like sentences, and serve exactly the same purpose, because they are declarative sentences about the relationships between numbers.

> It's misleading as hell land the kids don't even have the context that might, even hypothetically, make it useful for scaffolding, when they introduce it in kindergarten.

The idea is that they are mutually reinforcing, not sequential, concepts.

It also, as a sibling comment notes, has nothing to do with Common Core, its an orthogonal development in pedagogical approach to the Common Core standards.

> The "show 5 different ways how you could have solved this" worksheets

... also have less to do with the Common Core standards thablazy development of the particular materials (demonstrating proficiency with different articulations of operations and ways of solving problems is part of Common Core, to an extent, but even where it is doing it by using them all on the same problem, in the same assignment, and doing that for a substantial number of problems on one assignment, is just bad exercise design.)

> To illustrate by example

What you offer there is an analogy, not an example. Analogies don't really act like examples and don’t serve the same purpose.
i think stumpwm has some kind of "which-key" mode.... which is i think what you are looking for, and of course there is always exwm that can do *anything*
I can imagine an AdNauseam-like userscript that spams POST requests of fake crashes for every visited webpage (:
That makes sense. 'De-risk the purchase luxury computer' is such a strange phrase. Maybe it should be de-risk the purchase of a specialty computer? Hell an IBM PC could be considered a luxury computer compared to off brand IBM compatibles.
Any different than the plumes people spew multiple times a day, apart from the water content? I'd expect the pathogen content to be the same (where do they come from? Hmmm)
Looks fine for me on Firefox on Android.
Trying Tailscale
Why do the graphics mention total loss of bodyweight? Surely in those studies they scanned the patients for exact body fat percentages...
Not at the moment, but it’s a good suggestion. I should start putting something together like that. Feel free to email me though if you want to talk about books. You can find my email at the link in my profile.
You definitely have captured the conventional social media boogeyman feel well.

I dont think it applies nearly as much to this grass-roots, open-source, distributed, protocols & standards based form. People want a way to talk, converse, connect. Sure there's ways to do it badly, for bad cause, with bad incentive, but this is & most activity on ActivityPub reads as dielectic. As an exploration & search for truth, a desire to understand ourselves, each otger, and the worlds about us better.

For sure, we can use communication & connectivity poorly. Are unwilling to imagine though that connection can be a force for good? ActivityPub here is a very very early attempt to create standards where we can explore & innovate, and hopefully some of those fronts indeed show promise of good, for raising up & improving... not just amplifying the rash, the base, the overly emotional, the manipulators.

At some point we have to be willing to get beyond the long long long scapegoating & demonizing we've done. We have had very convenient targets to hang the blame on. Maybe less is the only answer, the only possibly, & hope of ever being better is foolish & mistaken, but I hope we can at least entertain that as a question, a possibility, & not act with- ahem- rash emotional fear-based certainty. This seems like a new path where we can be involved enough, have the decisions available, to start pioneering im the addition of responsibility & moderation to our social systems. That possibility excites me, and I hope we can agree is worth trying.

Are there other avenues for hope you see? What else might possibly be worthy?
She really complains how ACME is bad because a client implementation has code written in lines sometimes exceeding 200 characters..?

How about we stop trying to micromanage essential services on our servers, and just get on with literally anything else that brings actual value? Let’s encrypt works, it works without attention, it’s free, and ubiquitous.
Daughter of former national intelligence director convicted of murder
Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks
I guess we all have our differences. Part of the reason why I do eat junk food is largely the opposite reason compared to you. I'm too lazy to go get something I want to eat, so I'll just eat what is easiest to consume right now -- and it'll be something sitting in a bag in the pantry, rather than something I have to chop up or cook. But if I could afford a chef, ohh... I'd do that in a minute!
issuance via DNS is awesome when it comes to LE, lets you get certs without your service being reachable from the outside
I think we might be in a sort of golden age of data and computation right now, where computation has gotten good enough to do some amazing things, but data are still either human-generated or a tolerably small number of steps removed.

As I think the article alludes, we will soon be awash in AI generated data, but also, the AI itself will be awash in AI generated data. At that point, the AI will either become a chaotic feedback loop, or will be stabilized by treating the golden-age data set as a canon -- much like Christianity was stabilized by the adoption of a canon by the Church Fathers.

And the quality of data will become more important than the power of algorithms.
Yeah that’s what I was saying. All we know is CICO.

Every diet is just some form of implementing CICO in a sustainable way for you.

Some people might do it with counting macros, some with fasting, some with solely living on a diet of steak, diet coke and ice cream and multivitamins (my strategy - lost 20 lbs).
There are cases where hybrids remove complexity because they can be designed to operate either without transmissions, or with substantially more simple transmissions. Hybrids are cheaper than EVs since a good chunk of expensive batteries can be off-set by an ICE.

Hybrids are probably the end-game for any forms of transportation that require operation for a long period of time. A dump truck, for example, could have its 12L, 400hp diesel engine replaced with a 1L, 60hp engine that charges the batteries that drive the electric motors. Since the auxiliary engine only needs to be able to provide just enough juice for cruising, it can be made much smaller.
The big transition happened in October 2021-- that's when Let's Encrypt's root stopped being cross-signed by IdenTrust (allowing older devices that had the IdenTrust root but not the ISRG/Let's Encrypt root to still validate Let's Encrypt certs): https://letsencrypt.org/docs/certificate-compatibility/
https://archive.ph/p9JVP
Please correct me if i'm wrong but wasn't the initial research on this conducted on animal models where they were essentially starved to the point where they went into hibernation mode?

The point that I'd like to make is- if you think a comparison between hunter/gathers and the modern human is illustrative for a diet where our phenotype thrives best, sure, their food arrive at more irregular intervals than the modern human and they probably binged on what was in season at the time (which might give us pointers for our own diet) but I think the concept of perpetual calorie restriction as a full time human diet is infantile and quacky.
Simulations have been like this for years.
Would you believe that every house requires power lines to be run to it too?

It only seems like a daunting problem on roads because we don't already do it.
Yes. I am not in a position to judge individual Russian or US military members without quite a bit more context.
Apple may be ~50% of the market in the US but it’s ~20% of the market worldwide. On the desktop anyone on any mainstream OS can use Chrome or FF.

Yet someone the total lack of PWA success is 100% Safari’s fault.

Look at all those users I listed above. How are there no common/well known PWAs if they’re so great? People use websites like the Google Suite and Figma and such. They use web apps built as desktop apps in Electron. They use native apps.

Almost no one uses PWAs. Even if Figma or Gmail or whatever is available to be saved as a PWA it doesn’t seem to be commonly done.

There must be some other problem than Safari. It can’t be the big issue.
When browser and OS development is libre volunteer and user-funded it will be pro-user. As long as it is funded by advertising and online services it will be pro-advertiser and pro-online service companies. Mozilla is funded by advertising.
Company's leadership and business model was talked up early last year - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30743371
I loved that thing so much when I was a teenager.
> and have won the ability to ...

... track you a bit better and get paid a bit more easily (if with a hefty tax), but more importantly, they can be on the Home screen of users, which people will look at a billion times per day.

Yes you can bookmark a website - and nobody does, it gets buried in some submenu you don't even know how to bring back up. Yes you can pin a bookmark on the Home screen, but people don't know how - and even if they did, they likely wouldn't get a nice icon, and it would launch an irrelevant browser interface around it, and it would all feel a bit crappy.

Whereas, people know very well how to install an app. They'll automatically get a nice big logo on their home screen, and when they tap it the magic will happen as it's supposed to be. The big logo will remind them every other minute that they might want to access the service. Etc etc.
This assumes that you have the most energy in the morning, which isn't true for everyone.
I think this is exactly why carbon sequestration technology is so important.

During our lifetime there are certain ICE applications that we really have no good alternatives for. So finding a palatable cost for carbon removal we are collectively willing to pay buys us a lot of options.
https://letsencrypt.org/docs/certificate-compatibility/

Support goes back pretty far.
Chains of amino acids can form interesting proteins by 3d folding a 1d chain, so I wouldn't give up on your two hole tinker toys so quickly. Perhaps 2 hole node structures will never dominate in an environment with 3 hole nodes, but in an environment with only 2 hole nodes, 2 holes are the only game in town. I think we're going to find life everywhere, and everywhere life will have constructed itself from the best tools available - the most efficient physics and chemistry in that environment, but that the minimal requirements for a toolkit that life can use to fight against entropy will be much lower that the decadent luxury of the CHONPS toolkit we enjoy.
Not sure which world you are living in, but most people under the age of 70 are already there 100%. The world has been forsaken and we live in a world of screens and ads. The corporate dystopia raises our children, mediates our relationships and infests our politics. The world's formerly richest person is indeed developing the neural implants. It's later than you think.
Being in the appstore, ratings, mobile singups... all that shit makes great manager objectives.
I don't think it's so malicious as you make it out: being thin seems like the default option, because that's how it was for most of human history and because you can't become fat without lifting the fork yourself and putting the food in your mouth. That obesity could be a disease questions our notions of free-will and the cascading questions that come along with that are quite uncomfortable.
Any good resources for learning the dark arts of turbine design?
Yeah. It's a little disappointing. I've always found his posts around cryptography especially to be very interesting, and he clearly knows at least as much about it as anyone else. So finding that he can be so close-minded and judgmental in other areas makes me sad.
I've read a number of studies like this and at the end of the day everyone ends up at apples != oranges.

If you wanted to live with the same amount of 'lifestyle' as a serf did then you'd likely only have to work a few hours a week. The issue is I don't think most people want to live that lifestyle. We like clean water to drink. We like sheltered houses with electricity. We love having a house that is too large and filling it up with an inordinate amount of crap. We love living in expensive places with a lot to do. Turns out wanting all that requires a lot of stuff.

At one point in my life I was more interesting in not working and messing around and doing other things. I worked around 40 hours a month for a few years and made enough of a living to pay my bills (hey, computer work pays good). So it's not impossible for at least some people to live like that , though with rent increases not sure if it's possible these days. But with all that said, I like having all the stuff that working a full time job gives to me, so there is that.
Two different things can be bad at the same time.

If Apple hates a browser monoculture so much, they should have let Mozilla release Firefox (actual firefox) on iOS. There were ports ready to go multiple times but they love their walled garden lockdown too much. It was to their favor back when WebKit dominated the mobile web, but oops, they didn't invest enough in the platform!

FWIW I think if Safari had been released as a first-tier Windows browser, they might have been able to hold on and fight off Chrome together with Firefox. But they didn't put the effort in.
> Sometimes I think that _I_ must not be as interesting as I used to be, or maybe I'd get invited to those parties!

That’s pretty unlikely in my opinion. Some of the most interesting people I know aren’t “party” people even though I enjoy talking to them.
For me it was the CMD+` for cycling between windows of the same Application, can't live without it.

Do mean "hide a window" just the CMD+H in macOS? How did you do it?
Instead of whinging you could just write your own script, if for some reason you're not okay with running the same code as tons of other people?
> The agreements we've achieved on standards, even when they're not perfect, should be considered global treasures and treated as such.

Hell no! As soon as you see a better way to do the same thing, you should allow the user to embrace the new way, while still keeping compatibility with the old one during a grace period.

I know that there are companies that behave differently. Their products are often cruft-ridden.

Automobiles are not exempted: just look at the clumsy, unnecessarily large shift gear lever that equips electric cars where the P R N D L modes are simulated in software. But hey the big lever between the seats is a sacred standard!