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I don't really disagree with you regarding the cause of the HTML stall as hypermedia, although I still claim that it was the stall that directly pushed people into JavaScript maximalism.

The JavaScript maximalist era didn't really come into existence until post 2010 with the release of Angular, which was two years after the release of HTML5. HTML5 included canvas as a reaction to flash (and the long-since-effectively-dead java applets.)

So HTML was making progress, but that progress was mainly in terms of front-end, thick-client style features, driven by, yes, the JavaScript (and flash) technologies. But what it wasn't doing was making progress as a hypermedia (e.g. adding new hypermedia controls or, as with htmx, making all elements hypermedia controls.)

As to the cause of this lack of progress as a hypermedia, I agree with you that it was due, at least in part, to the other front-end technologies, as well as a lack of appreciation for the hypermedia model (which is why I mention the thought leaders going down the webservices/JSON API rabbit hole.)
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Creating art is an enjoyable human activity. I totally agree. But "creating" is subjective. At pretty much every technological step for music in my memory and somewhat before, people have lobbed something like your objection against it.

- Recorded music is bad because it kills live performance.
- Effects are bad because it takes away from natural sound of music. Processing vocals is bad because it lets less skilled vocalists supplant better singers.
- Studio techniques like splicing multiple performances together to get one good one are bad. If a guitarist can't play a solo in one go, it's clearly bad. (IIRC Def Leppard, for example, got a lot of side-eye about the album Hysteria for this.)
- Synthesizers are bad because they're artificial and/or replace actual musicians. (Had a class with a guy who was unbearable about synths because he played horn and if a band could just program a horns track / play horns with synths, he was out of a job.)
- Sampling is bad because it just copy/pastes previous ideas and that's not really creating art... (Raging debate in the 80s about whether sampling was real music, etc.)

I see music as "more than a mere arrangement of sounds." I have spent quite a bit of money over the years to see live music, buy albums by artists I value, and there's still songs that send shivers up my spine every time I play them.

But I don't think an AI that could deliver on creating mashups or generative music is going to make living more miserable. Monetizing everything is what makes living more miserable. Maybe they're intertwined to a large extent. But if I had an AI that could create music that actually matches my descriptions, I don't think that would make life miserable or take away from actual muscians.

e.g. - I'd love to be able to get an AI to create something like a John Lennon song written with Khruangbin, or "what if Miles Davis played with John Entwistle from The Who?" That doesn't take away from any existing music or future music.
Why do you think it isn't?
The vast majority of industrial/embedded hardware is still on mPCIe. I have only started seeing M.2 in these applications in the last few years, believe it or not.
When it will be possible to feed the ai codebases of millions of lines and then feed it Jira tickets for new features and bug fixes, and then get the exact result you need.

Probably 50 years from now.
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If I drive a rental car to a restaurant, the rental car firm shouldn't demand a cut of my dinner tab, either.
That's not really true. These clients often reversed engineered other chat protocols and thus supported services that didn't support Jabber / XMPP. This was before e2e encryption was the norm so it was easier to do.
Maybe it depends on the Android vendor, but my OnePlus' "Messages" (the SMS app) automatically blocks a lot of spam messages automatically and it's quite good at it. On the contrary I have friends with iPhones who get spam/phishing messages.
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The good parts of SOA, the event and CQRS stuff, data administration (and curation recently), and BDD all reduce to the same set of ideas.

But then there are always people that look at those and keep exactly the bad parts. Like the links from the article, that all but define event-driven architectures as software that use Kafka.
I'd say the most ridiculous thing that has occurred in this space is something I'm personally dealing with in the workspace:

Governments (even well meaning, I mostly don't have a problem with this) sometimes get a say in promulgating teaching standards in higher ed, and now, not merely "programming," but "Object-oriented programming" is a required prerequisite in my college program. Sigh.
Sure but that's completely different from requiring the Signal app to allow exchanging messages with Facebook/WhatsApp/iMessage/…
> If you’re in a group and talking about something factual like when a movie came out or a directors name

Check your phone, but lay the phone flat on the table or hold it so everyone can see the screen—this makes it about the group doing a fact check, instead of about one person diving into their phone away from the group.
It'd be great if the mp4 used two audio channels, one for the track and one for the vocals. In lieu of that looks like you can just hit

storage.googleapis.com/
splash-services-prod-public/
generated/
YOUR_SONG_ID/track.mp3

^ no spaces though,

to get the audio without vocals.
Its probably not and OP is misquoting.
Maybe we will?
I wonder if an antimatter collector could be built in space. Collect antimatter in a magnetic bottle and put that in a missile. Launch small, fast, powerful antimatter missiles via maglev towards asteroids.

A triangular spaceship is not necessary.
That is interesting, please elaborate! BTW, I have watched both Solaris movies many times, and like the book. Awesome SF.
On new-ish playgrounds, the “ropes” are a sheathed in fiber/nylon, but there is typically steel cable in the center to reduce stretching (stretching being a common safety issue for various reasons). I learned this after making a poorly considered leap playing with my son and scraping the ever living hell out of my shins/causing a bone bruise. The sheath also increases grip relative to (painted) steel bars.
That's fantastic news, thank you!
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And they are loud. I can hear the mail person in my basement when they arrive each day. Their trucks sound like the mufflers fell off years ago.
Maybe I'm just paranoid but coupled to a GPS sensor, seems like a stalker's wet dream.
You do "need a recession".

Without one you cannot reduce inflation not the kind that we have right now. Inflation driven by an external price shock like the Arab oil embargo in 1970s is one example of one that can be alleviated without recession by bringing on supply.

This current state of inflation is direct result of a massive increase in the money supply caused by the government shoveling money out hand over fist. That money was printed. People were being paid without producing any goods. More money same amount of goods equals inflation.

A reduction in gross economic activity is the only way to halt the wage price spiral.

Every law passed by the federal government that increases spending including the IRA is actually making current inflation worse. (While there is something to be said for the IRA making investments that could ease inflation in the future there's absolutely nothing they are doing to help it now but plenty to make it worse.)

The belief that you can reduce inflation without a recession is based on wishful thinking with no examples in history. I studied applied economics in college and the first code I ever wrote outside of the class was inflation simulations in the early 2000s. At that time we thought that loose monetary policy was a thing of the past and we would never have such an irresponsible group of people advising economic policy. But unfortunately we did thanks to an obscure and unproven theory called MMT. It's the string theory of economics in the sense where a bunch of passionate people have dedicated their careers to it and nothing good has ever come of it.
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There is zero need to electrify dirt roads, just specific loans on ~1% all us roads due to that 100 mile range battery I just mentioned.

We had electric trollies 140 years ago and modern trains have surfaces in contact at 3x the speeds and much higher power draws. Trucks in comparison don’t need constant power, so you can maintain the line without interfering with traffic.

But you don’t need to trust me it’s a proven technology with the obvious revenue stream of charging for electricity.

PS: America has dirt roads because dirt roads work well when you have low traffic. Their old, cheap, and therefore proven technology just like electrified roads.
Some in the United States would be grateful that a large multinational regulatory agency would focus on an issue whereupon green bubble people identify as blue bubble people versus matters of more import.

They would call this a win.

Not arguing against your comment. Just adding a viewpoint that some have. I.e Big government should spend more time on these kind of things instead of “life saving” things.
> Due to their random nature they are also less useful to emergency services.

That's not my experience at all. They've been a revolution in address resolution at NEOC in my experience, and they're used for navigation on nearly every emergency call.
Stupidity is a human condition that is more dangerous than cancer.
That’s not as a contractor but as a master union electrician, and from what I gather it’s shift work on reactors so spending several months on site at that rate then having holiday until another gig comes up.
The food service industry in America is about as corrupt as it gets, They don't pay a fair wage, they rely on extortion tactics (tipping) to float the cost of wages to the customer and the customer must pay for his meal and half the staffs wages as well or be labeled a bad person or in the customers mind, maybe even face a retaliation of some sort by the staff, i.e spitting in food, added to a blacklist etc. and they are actively fighting any attempts at unionization to boot.
> Who are the we here

Yes, as a civilization is what I meant. But good question. Also maybe in any HN'ers home country.
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With rose-tinted glasses, we can and probably should go back to this. I fondly remember YIM from high school and eventually getting Pidgin/Adium to wrangle ICQ, MSN, AIM, and the mass of options Jabber-based options via libpurple. I'd chat with folks about what they were doing on the weekend and where to meet up--to get away from the computer. XMPP is still around and being worked on with decentralization and with OMEMO we can have the encrypted chats we didn't at the time. I've even seen some clients picking up "stickers" that some folks love. I also agree with the public persona of social media eroding the intimacy of conversation as well--just like in real life 1-on-1 conversation is always more intimate than going with a group (or hanging in the MUC). When you'd head to a MUC, it wasn't uncommon to add someone you thought was interesting to your roster and check in with a DM every once in a while.
> My question to HN is: what could be do better next time?

About everything. For a start weighting in more factors like quality of life, economy, health (everything else than the pandemic at hand & including mental health) than just just a few metrics.

Second graduating the response to the dangerosity of the disease. It was clear 3 months in that only a small subset of the population was really at risk so it made no sense to punish the whole population. Young people were affected proportionally harder than older folks: best of social and love life gone, poor education for a few years, difficulty to enter the job market, while the people most at risk already lived for more than a century, have a home, often kids, etc.

Third let citizens have basic human rights. I shouldn't have to right it, but if basic human rights like movement and commerce can be removed with a finger snap (they were) we are not living in a democracy.

Four, don't push untested pharmaceutical products made by firms with proven contempt for human life on millions of people. Don't put resistants in camp (Australia) and don't censor divergent opinions like an autocracy: public debate must be this, a debate and made publicly.

Five, base policies on real science, not the reverse around where "science" is twisted to fit a narrative.
Your predictions are in line with my predictions.

When you say "increase productivity", what do you think "productivity" means? It means dollars. Increased productivity is increased GDP.

Also, when you say "programmers". That's not just a tiny corner of the economy. It's quite a huge one. And I can see cases where the increase in productivity can be of a factor of 10 or more. I don't know about you, but I've been involved in many (too many) migration projects in my life. That's something a good GPT bot should be able to handle. How many migration projects don't take months or years? With a good GPT assistants one could envision weeks instead of months.

Or how about adding unit tests to a large codebase? Or pointing at security vulnerabilities? Or commenting on the code architecture and giving improvement suggestions? Or even maybe carrying out the improvements themselves.

All these things are dreams right now, but ChatGPT is just a baby. Literally 3 months old.

You mentioned lawyers. But how about CAD designers. I have some friends who design interior furniture. What if they could get a first draft in a few seconds instead of hours? What if the subsequent drafts could also take seconds instead of hours?

What about advertising? Here, I just asked ChatGPT to come up with ideas for a hypothetical home brew low carb beer, it gave me 10 answers in a matter of seconds. Here's a few:

"Drink up, buttercup - this low-carb brew won't give you a beer belly!"
"Because who needs carbs when you have beer?"
"Who says you can't have your beer and drink it too? Try our low-carb option today!"

As for create? Wow, sky is the limit there. I wrote a fairy tale for my 5 year old daughter a few days ago. Something with unicorns and pixies and an owl and some friendly talking trees. Of course, it was all ChatGPT. I won't bother you with some more quotes, but you can try an exercise like this on yourself, and then maybe you'll reconsider your question marks in the category "Create".
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There is no such thing as a free market without regulation. Governments create money, they regulate it. Without the regulation of how business is conducted and how things are transacted there would be no market, do you realize that?
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I really wonder when news about AI will cool off because it definitely will have some exciting improvements but all these AI startups cropping up are just following the Twitter wave.
There'll always be trends that lose their appeal (Web 3, Autonomous cars, etc.)
The speed of transmission hasn't really changed much since the beginning of the worldwide shipping trade. Whether the virus spreads in a few days or a few weeks hardly matters over the full course of a pandemic. We know that a virus (either influenza or another coronavirus) spread worldwide in 1889 fairly quickly.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lpm.2022.104111
Many here are saying to separate your work from your "life". I don't understand these comments. Our work *is* our life. By working for such a company, you are generating profit for them. If every employee would quit if their employer did something unethical, most employers would stop. This is what unions and strikes do.

Do you feel good with yourself for working at that company?

In my opinion, either 1) quit or 2) demand a substantial raise. You can use the money to do good if you're trying to be an altruist.
The 9,250 vehicles the article discusses are for local delivery.
Academic jobs are weird, right? I think trying to write down contract that specifies everything involved would be pretty challenging.

At any rate, the last time I was employed as astrophysics faculty, my offer letter told me that I should “engage in scholarly activities”. I certainly interpreted that as an invitation to review the odd paper on the university's dime.
> Well, I respectfully disagree, I'm a firm believer that regulations disproportionately hurt

Yeah you made the point very clear already in all your other posts, no need to repeat it everywhere. Other point errors in your arguments like this being for 75b corps completely nullifying your core arguments, lets just say most of the forum including me, EU and indeed world doesn't share your view at all.

In fact, some healthy dose of regulations makes society actual modern society, less people dying and suffering because money-first. Speed of progress at any costs, believe it or not, is not the ultimate measure of how 'good', moral or developed society is, despite very very few getting richer quicker that way.
> No one is pitting age groups against each other

Comment I was replying to: "we collectively decided in 2020 to trade young people's livelyhoods for old peoples lives"
Well it is an opinion piece, and one of the first things he mentions is that the government has released little to no data on the lockdowns.

Can you argue against any of the things he said?
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The TV industry and Hollywood treat workers horribly so it would make sense.
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Do you need that interface?
How does a consequence that's deliberately disproportionate to what they've done teach children anything? Are you trying to prepare your children for the world, or to ensure they correspond to some ideal you have imagined?
Thanks, can't wait to try it again with different vocals...
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The real problem is when they go from retirement-age-but-with-working-bodies to retirement-age-and-frail-elderly . That will be a real tragedy of poverty, suffering, and neglect.
Commercial rights have historically always been more curtailed than personal rights. There's a reason it's permitted to criminalize things like false advertising.
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Hey HN,

I am curious what you think about open sourcing a little tool I wrote. But before, let me give you some background: I was building two fintech companies before and we had several audits per year. As the financial industry is regulated, it wasn’t a “voluntary” audit like SOC2, ISO27001 or HIPAA. Hard findings posed the risk of not being able to do business anymore.

One of the high priority auditor items was having a proper access management process to ensure that user accounts of former employees are revoked and existing users follow least-privilege principle. Even when we used Okta, in many cases we couldn’t get the data in an automated way. Either tools were not covered or behind a (way too high) paywall. Thanks SSO Tax

Back then I wrote a little tool to download user lists with their permissions from our major SaaS tools. That helped us a lot to verify user lists. Later I even added functionality for some tools to create and delete user accounts as this was another pain we got.

However, I am thinking about making the tool open source with support for a bunch of applications that can be easily extended.

Would such a tool be useful for you? Are there any other information besides users and permissions you would find important? Would you see yourself contributing to a open source project like that?
For a brief period Facebook was the biggest XMPP server, it was fun using OTR[1] on Facebook messenger. I think Whatsapp is still using XMPP under the hood but the server is closed.

[1] https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/OTR
Does it actually say anything, besides diving events in two groups and naming them?

I admit that I couldn't focus very well on the article, my eyes wouldn't stop rolling. But I found nothing there.
Because COVID is insanely contagious. The non-specific measures we took (social distancing, masking, &c) absolutely crushed the flu, but only maintained partial control over COVID spread pre-vaccine.
Not big deal, we already correct for this problem in GPS
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>It's not as simple as SQUIRT JUICE INSIDE ME GET THINNER AND CURE DIABETES

It kind of is that simple. Tirzepatide has three main functions: Hunger suppression, slower digestion, and increased insulin sensitivity.

For a large portion of people who are overweight, this will get them thinner and in some cases reverse t2 diabetes.
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Apple and Google are both tech giants who take pride in UX and design but why are the products created by one so different from the other (besides the times when they actually copied from each other)?
>Instead, we're starting from a place of societal distrust, which is probably more helpful in preventing rogue AI than a lot of technical solutions would be.

A confounding factor for AI's success would be a scientific replication crisis occurring in the papers used to counter social distrust.

Once we get past the sensational headline phase, that's what you've really got to watch out for.