skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Traffic jams are an extremely variable issue

Variable? A single line of rail moves more people per hour that 6 lanes of highway - that's just physics.

Average speed of London traffic is 10 km/h while the new Elizabeth Line wooshes past at 90 km/h. It can cross London before your car gets 1/3 of the way.

A crowded train still moves at 90 km/h. Your car in a jam is personally comfortable (unless you need to take a piss), but doesnt move anywhere.

The idea that cars are comparable to public transport in situations of gridlock is preposterous.
I guess the sarcasm was too thick.

My point was that yes, VDOM has overhead. But we accept it as a tradeoff for app development in the name of DevX.
That's a little disingenuous. A lot of people are pushing for trans rights that goes well beyond being recognized as an equal member of society. There are 100% legitimate discussions to be had which get shouted down with accusations of bigotry.
This argument would be somewhat more compelling in a world where little bits of silicon were not on the order of quadrillions of times faster than we are at arithmetic, whereas those bits of silicon struggle to do at all things we casually do every waking second.

The calculation is theoretically unimportant. Practically, it is of great importance.
There are many countercultures that are alive and well.

One example: People who deliberately avoid social media, tape over webcams, use non-android, non-ios phones, who value their privacy. These people scrub the internet of their info, make aggressive use of GDPR/CCPA deletion requests. They do not want to be part of mainstream society for whatever reason. They are routinely marginalized by people around them, labelled as "weird", unjustly suspected (and accused) of all sorts of criminal activity under the premise that "privacy is for people with something to hide" - a train of thought that is concerningly common among younger generations.

Another example is anticonsumerism. People who do not use any streaming services nor purchase media. They don't blow money like there's no tomorrow on fast fashion, pointless trinkets from Amazon, exorbitant vacations that will be forgotten as quickly as they happened, or routinely eating out. These are the people with high 6 and low 7 figure net worths in their 30's driving cars that they paid $5k cash for that look like trash. These people avoid conspicuous consumption like the plague - why throw away so much money while painting a target on your back for criminals just for the approval of others, most of whom you don't even know? Screw a gym membership, exercise is free. These people are relentlessly mocked as cheapskates in spite of the fact that it's more about values than financial concerns.

Look for the hated, the despised, the mocked, and the belittled in mainstream culture to find counterculture. The counterculture movements of the 1960s went with those labels like peanut butter goes with jelly when described by the prevailing culture of the time.
They actually have a CORONA satellite on display and will tell you all about how it worked. So you know we're three or four generations beyond that technology now.

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact...
Why would they need to pay the premium when there are literally tens of thousands very skilled devs out of work right now?
Note that by that measure, hippies were not counterculture.
Looks like they forgot to add the following (copied from their previous submission):

If you're interested in joining the team, email global-hiring@uscis.dhs.gov with your resume.
> Wearing rosary beads sounds like a counter culture move against the church if you ask me.

Wearing a rosary around the neck is common and accepted in some Catholic cultures and frowned upon in others. There is no general Catholic religious objection to it, it is just a matter of local cultural practice. (Publicly flaunting it while engaging in scandalous behavior is more generally frowned upon, of course, as heaping hypocrisy on top of the already-bad behavior.)

Wearing a 15-decade rosary on the hip, in the same place a soldier would wear a sword, is traditional for the Dominican order.
Netlify lost my trust a year ago when they tried to increase our company's pricing more than 10x. (We were paying ~$200/mo, then they tried to force us into a $2,500+ plan because we were 1 seat over their self-serve threshold.)

From my perspective, they were adding features just to find ways to grow revenue. (I get it, you don't have a huge moat by simply hosting static sites.) But their features seemed very out of touch with our needs, and I can't imagine we were the only ones.

As a Gatsby user on a large-scale website, I'm disappointed to see this acquisition because I'll now constantly be worried they'll try to pull a similar stunt with Gatsby.

Since then, I've been using Next.js + Vercel on side projects, and now with this acquisition, I don't see that changing going forward.

Trust and loyalty is everything in the developer community. It's hard to gain and easy to break. Hopefully other developer-focused alternatives will keep this first and foremost in their head so we don't end up in this situation with other platforms down the road.
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IMO this whole nonsense argument stems from poor high school economics education and not teaching Schumpeter in high school.

Per Schumpeter a 100 years ago, the economy is an ever changing process from technological change and entrepreneurship.

Of course remote work is going to have good and bad aspects that come with the change.

Practically the golden rule of economics is that everything is a trade off.
You should be very careful applying Chesterton’s Fence to software engineering. Oftentimes the knowledge why fence exists is more valuable than the fence itself. And the best way to (re-)obtain this knowledge is to remove the fence and see what breaks.

I've seen people get stuck for months being afraid to change a complex piece of code because nobody understands how it works anymore. The best course of action was to admit that knowledge is lost forever and the fastest way to gain it again is to repeat past mistakes.

Of course, don't do this if your software is responsible for landing airplanes. But most of us are not landing airplanes here.
in my opinion as far as learning programming is involved Brian Harvey's SICP lectures are superior
And even harder (nearly impossible) for anything else than work or study, e.g. if you are a consultant or want to start a company.
I think you're misunderstanding something. Our underlying facts we're basing our opinions on appear to be different.
If you use dom fragments, in recent browsers, it's up to par.
In this post I feed GPT-3 a bunch of high-school level CTF problems to see how well it handles basic security and cryptography tasks.
The hippies weren't tiny and they were the quintessential counter culture. You can have millions of followers and the average cat on the street wouldn't know who you are.
I used to be able to do that on my 25MHz Amiga with 10MB of RAM. Static absolute task priority scheduling is actually a very good way to ensure your MP3 will play without stuttering.
Which, humorously, isn't compatible with Javascript object notation. { foo: "bar" } is a valid Javascript object, but not valid JSON.

Regardless, I don't get what you are trying to say. Pretty much every language still in existence is able to work with JSON (even SQL!). JSON is not Javascript. It's not clear why moving code from the Javascript runtime to the WASM runtime would magically make JSON+LD inoperable or whatever it is you are trying to say.
> So it's not monolithic, I've definitely been at "BLM"-y protests against police violence where non-Black victims were mentioned.

Yes, I'm generalizing. It's not possible to make meaningful statements about a millions-strong movement that apply universally, so I'm generalizing just like we generalize about "liberals", "conservatives", "progressives", "Trump supporters", etc. And I stand by my generalization--any mention of white victims of police violence was an aberration, an outlier.

> I think the level of violence and aggression that police enact on certain communities would probably not be tolerated if it affected people with more political power -- they target people with less political power, which has racial components in the USA is why race matters, but is not exclusively "black and white", sure.

I mean, I think virtually everyone agrees that police killings are classist. Of course, BLM wouldn't have been controversial if the message was merely "police target poor people (who are disproportionately black)". Something like 90% of Americans in 2020 (per Gallup or Pew--I forget which--but think about how big this number is particularly in light of the polarization of American politics) agreed that police brutality was a problem and police reform was needed--this was extremely uncontroversial. But the claim wasn't "classism", it was "racism"--police target ("hunt" was even commonly invoked) black Americans because of their race.
> You don't have to be in NY, SF, or wherever to experience the trendy culture. It is pervasive everywhere.

You don’t, which is why I said:

> or even different parts of the same city

But while it is present almost everywhere, it is not pervasive everywhere. Surely at your private Christian university there are many who hold traditional views — just as there are some at Berkeley, near me — and I’d be pretty surprised to learn that the kids painting your school’s mascot represent a majority perspective there.
I agree. It’s a privilege to be able to make a living without the internet.
Yes. There are few measurements that also correlate with various outcomes. But I don't think anything is as broad as IQ which is just the speed at which you can do logic puzzles. Isn't it interesting? That something so silly correlates so strongly with so many things? The metrics you mention are kind of obvious in comparison and about as interesting as the hypothesis that "it's better to be healthy and rich than sick and poor".

As for comparing humans with each other I agree it's totally stupid. Personally I blame religions and their simplistic concept of good and evil for this eagerness of comparing humans and putting them on a spectrum of quality.
Great, well-researched write-up with practical examples. Well done - Alexey Ivanov!
> global shortcuts and push-to-talk

I think we are just 1 tiny browser API away from this one being solved too.

If we can agree on a way to capture the pointer device, I'm sure we could figure out a reasonable way to capture certain user-defined keys. The actual key that is subscribed to can be abstracted away by using some registration API. I think this would eliminate key logger concerns (you'd have to ask the user for every key on their keyboard) E.g.:

RequestGlobalHotkey('my-hotkey-id', 'Discord Push to Talk');

and then if the user presses it, we call something like OnGlobalHotkey(e) where the arg contains 'my-hotkey-id' and keypress state.
Yeah, how can it know what part of the meeting I want to remember? Plus sometimes what I write is thoughts / action items that occur to me because of the meeting, but were not mentioned during the meeting.

I would like a tool like this that made a summary/notes and included the full transcript, so they could be searched. This would be good for people who attended and those who didn't, or for seeing if something was discussed a while ago.

Ideally the same system would work on zoom calls, in person meetings, and in meetings with both (some in person, some on zoom). For me the hybrid workplace is one that has the advantages of both, not one that is either/or.
Remember the guy who wrote this? https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you...

Basically what we're watching is Elon slow-running his education about Twitter infra publicly, while re-learning known obvious lessons (privacy in social media is NP-hard). And he's doing it in prod with one of if not the most popular account on Twitter.

That's so far beyond dumb it's amazing.
If you are unsure of what he meant, try and explicitly advocate for "majority white, straight, Christian(ish)" people in the same way every other group gets to do in america and see how it goes. And if your knee jerk reaction is to say "well only a racist white nationalist would do that", you have proved my point, and you are using the same fallacious reasoning that leads to people thinking that all gay rights advocates are pedophiles or all criminal justice reform advocates are thugs.
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I can't think of a counter culture that wasn't somehow absorbed by the economy and sold back to the masses. It all ends up getting commodified which makes it part of "culture" without the "counter".

I've watched the trend accelerate in my life and I wonder if we're reaching some sort of point (because of social media?) where there is very nearly no culture (counter or otherwise) unless it is commodified. Everything has been reproduced and divorced from it's meaning so we have this neutered insipid idea of culture that inspires nothing.
An abstraction of the old "follow the money" argument is to figure out who politically benefits from dogma, then decide if you want to align with them, then determine if you'll be permitted not to obey.

Tends to be a lot of "convert at the point of a sword" from the authoritarians, as usual for them.
Ask HN: Would this ChatGPT app work to replace FE devs?
Have an app that wraps ChatGPT. You supply it with a Figma with well defined and styled components. ChatGPT then write the code for each of the components and each of the pages. All that's needed is something to define behavior and how that manipulates state and UI, and Im sure some smart cookie will cone up with that soon, if they havent already. Does that sound about right?
Is there a “back to the basics” company or offering for hosting static sites that is essentially what Netlify was when it launched?
This may be changing with rapid extension of satellite size towards the small end of the spectrum. Small size is now significant.

For example, a radar imaging constellation might consist of multiple transmit/receive satellites, each of which could be quite small (say, 1 - 5 cu. ft.). The X37B could accommodate that - especially after it snipped the solar panels off.
Sounds like they behaved exactly how you expected them to. You can't get upset because the threshold was passed.
What Became of the Oscar Streaker?
Correlations in the math domain get weird. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest that those slight distortions you see in the "memorized" image versus the original ones, while small to humans, turn out to be staggeringly large to your perceptual hash. See the things like the little stickers you can stick to stop signs to make some neural nets decide they are people and such.

And it could go the other way too; it could be that the perceptual hashes are even "better" than humans at seeing past those distortions.

My point is that this all gets more complicated than you may think when you're trying to apply a hash designed for real images against the output of an algorithm.

And even if the hash worked perfectly, the false positive and false negative landscape would still be very likely to contain very surprising things.
Moreover, familiarity with Greek and Latin is very helpful even when reading English-language texts, in part due to the influence of those languages on English, and in part (I admit this is a bit circular) because English-language authors—especially the more academic-leaning ones—up until quite recently assumed they could toss in some Greek or Latin and their readers would understand it, especially if it was just a quote from some familiar text the reader surely encountered in school.

I could see loosening the requirement, but if the loosening isn't simply to permit French and German (also hugely important in academics, some fields more than others, very influential on English, and also often untranslated in otherwise English texts, so, justifiable for similar reasons) as substitutes, yeah, I'd regard it as likely a step backwards.
Can you give a few examples?

The 30 under 30 sure doesn't look like what you suggest, and I'm not sure where else you'd look for a list of examples
> The web has tracking everywhere and often uses a lot of CPU, memory, battery, and bandwidth.

The alternative to using something like Discord on the web is not a well-optimized desktop app that is somehow more respectful w.r.t. tracking than the web version. Same goes for Slack, Zoom, etc. It will still use lots of CPU and memory, and now in addition to tracking you with the techniques available to it in the browser sandbox, it will gleefully list the processes running on your machine, rifle through your files, try to get itself to start up automatically on login, try to get it so that when you "close" it it's still running in the system tray, and generally just make itself at home.

Desktop apps written by devs who first learned to write desktop apps are better than web apps. Desktop apps written by web developers are like demons that have broken through the summoning circle. The browser sandbox doesn't protect you from fingerprinting techniques and the ensuing tracking, but it protects you from a whole lot of other stuff. Take away the sandbox and the shameless data vampires get anything they want.
Webapps have better privacy protections than native. Battery/cpu is a tossup depending on the app. With the example above of chat apps I've found that the webapps use less cpu/memory.

I think you're correct that desktop operating systems are in sore need of a permissions model for non-free apps. It should be possible to build one, and then shame vendors into using it.
The corp I work for and their clients uses "body lending" as a term. Why would we leave only suits to have some fun with dystopian wording ?

Not the corp in question but here is another one: https://www.thewealthmosaic.com/vendors/geissbuhler-weber-pa...
are you guys only sticking to Ethereum? Any plans for Algorand support?
> How would you know? Are you privy to all conversations between the Finnish and the U.S. government?

It's usually on the person proposing the existence of something to prove that it exists rather than on the person saying it doesn't exist to prove that it doesn't. I can't prove the lack of existence of bigfoot nor can I prove the lack of existence of aliens having visited earth.

> Right from the article itself:

> <snip>

> Pretty much all buyers of the F-35 have been offered different sorts of kick-back deals, where they get to produce parts of the plane or handle maintenance, so the deal props up the national arms industry in some way or another. A nice boon for the politicians who can then brag about how they’re securing Finnish/Danish/Italian/whatever jobs.

That's not an incentive from the US though. That's an incentive from Lockheed Martin. Which is something businesses do when they're trying to close sales with a skeptical customer and can afford to do so.
Now that AWS App Composer is a thing is this still an issue though? I felt that pain in the beginning, but once you get the hang of Step Functions it doesn't seem so bad. I never found a good alternative. My company is using Workato and it's a nightmare.
I can see why media folks are afraid of ChatGPT taking their job.
Maybe the way to think about this isn't so much from the perspective of Netflifys leadership, but Gatsby and their founders/investors.

Had Gatsby found a scalable business model?

Maybe this is more of a saving-face/acquihire for Gatsby. Granted, there is potentially some strategic benefit for Netlify, but not enough to justify a large acquisition price (the price is not mentioned in the press-release).