skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ideologically tangled

I wish people being even that principled... I think the reactionaries in this debate are just the current generation of Apple "fanbois" who, for whatever reason, feel some need to "protect" a trillion-dollar company, or just good ol' fashioned elitism?

My pet theory is that the frothy bile in posts wanting to keep iMessage private is probably grounded in psychology/sociology: People with a quite genuine fondness for Apple's products and services, combined with their higher barriers to entry (monetary cost), forms the basis for their in-group identity, and they don't want an out-group seen as inferior (Android users, etc) from getting to join-in their, private, shared-experience. It's the same as with kids fighting over PlayStation vs Xbox.

Heh, it reminds me of when I was like that: I was a very visibly-on-the-spectrum kid who knew Photoshop, before anyone else at my school even knew what it was; when MSN Messenger 6.0 came out with support for custom user avatars/profile-pics: I thought this would lead to "normal" people learning Photoshop/digital-art and airbrushing and all getting their own Wacom tablets to make their own avatar-art and I'd lose my... special status as that one weird kid who knows Photoshop. Nah, turns out in the end everyone at school just used photos of themselves or the logos of rock bands (Radiohead's was popular) or sportswear brands. And in 2023, most people still don't know Photoshop.

So being an Apple user tends to makes someone protective of whatever they feel makes Apple... Apple. Fortunately those people aren't MEPs who get to vote on legislation with a demonstrable public benefit.
> "Isn't this going to kill features that only some apps have or offer?"

No, I don't think so. You can set a standard that defines a baseline of features that all interoperable messaging apps must support. But that doesn't preclude apps from offering additional functionality over and above the standard.
If anyone's organizing a movement to help do this to force Starbucks' hand, I'll donate a few bucks

(Unionize all the stores in an area, and if Starbucks shuts them all down, just open a new coffee shop)
My feelings are mixed about CSS.

In many cases, a small amount of CSS can give you a lot of control over formatting in a way that is easy to maintain. Over the long term CSS has gotten much better in every respect but one.

That one respect is insofar as there is a "CSS specification" it is this

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-2022/

which itself refers to roughly 50 documents which furthermore has the mind-melting structure of "Document 17 replaces clauses 13.5 and 15.11.9 in Document 3". On top of that you need to refer to

https://caniuse.com/

for browser variations and various cheat sheets

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/

which I'd usually advise against (you can consistently get the right answers if you look things up in the docs.)

Maintaining other people's CSS is also a bear and even maintaining my own is pretty bad for side projects that I work on sporadically for a few years (I wind up introducing a class to solve this problem and another to solve that problem and don't have much of a master plan.)

Then there are the various CSS frameworks which vary from useful to insane (the original Bootstrap which was about as easy to use as learning to paint with oils) and practices like BEM, which is the webs' answer to RAAI in C.
Too oversimplified ... no images (with captions), no other media (video, audio), no tables or grids, etc.
The quality of the initial submission doesn't matter.

You must to submit something before talking or showing your product in public. This apply even to patents used in the hidden parts of a product like a backend, when you only demoing a front-end.

I heard stories of conference speakers submitting their powerpoint presentations, before presenting in the conference.
I recommend the online courses (one of which is free) [1], and videos [2] on YouTube made by Anna Runkle, the "Crappy Childhood Fairy".

[1] https://courses.crappychildhoodfairy.com/daily-practice
[2] https://crappychildhoodfairy.com/videos/

Others in the thread have recommended "The Body Keeps the Score", which I also recommend. It is available on Audible as an audiobook as well.

Other books I recommend:

"Self-Parenting: The Complete Guide to Your Inner Conversations" by John K Pollard and Linda Nusbaum.

"How to be an Adult in Relationships" by David Richo

"The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture" by Gabor Mate

"When the Body Says No" by Gabor Mate

I practice Mindful Qi Gong (healing movement + meditation) once a week as a part of a 2-hour class, as well as independently on an irregular schedule. It has helped significantly to deal with stress.

I think that for people struggling with issues like CPTSD, ignorance is the first, and largest barrier to healing / recovery / improving. We grow up and enter the adult world and often in many ways "escape" our stressful / traumatic childhoods only to start the process of creating our own trauma and stress as young adults. As we enter adulthood, we may be consciously or subconsciously masking our feelings / hide our pain / run from dealing with our emotions and issues because we want desperately to leave all that behind us. This "running away" may actually compound our problems, leading to destructive behaviors such as substance abuse. Gabor Mate, among others, presents a compelling case that the majority of the people we see on the street struggling with addictions and mental health issues may not have ended up there if they had received proper care and healing, even as adults. If only they had, perhaps, in their more lucid, clearer-thinking, younger days come to understand that they had the need and possibility for healing. The pure ignorance we have about this topic in our society is staggering, considering the widespread impact childhood trauma has on our lives.

I certainly wish someone had sat me down in my 20s and told me directly: "You had a crappy childhood, that sucks. And the effects of the trauma on your physiology and psychology may limit you for the rest of your life. However, there is good news: Now you're an adult and healing is possible."
Then why are they banning R134A as the article says?
Yes, that graph is the same graph I looked at, which shows we are (as of the last data point) at the literal highest spot ever.

Spiking back up from a very good drop in the 90s/2000s.

Edit - to add, three of your 5 items in that list can be correlated pretty well with online activity (social pressure, school shootings, inactivity)
It would be so great if there were more built-in interactive elements like tabs, modals, and tooltips. How many times have these incredibly basic things been re-created?
> From the US minded POV [...] tax is theft.

Not really. That sort of thinking applies to a specific subgroup in the US, but isn't representative of majority thought.
You can make it work again! It's a one-liner in configuration.nix. Solutions and alternatives were covered in detail in a recent Discourse thread: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/which-package-provides-ifconfi...
Eh, I think that's a slightly different problem though.

First each of those problems was geographically limited and slow spreading. And yea, the king says dumb crap, but disagreeing with him will get your head chopped off. But at the same time people would do the things in the same way that ensured their continued survival in general.

We are a long damned way from that world now. If you told me tomorrow that farmers decided to stop grown corn and decided to grow 'bio-bitcoin' this year I would not immediately discount that statement. Between consolidation in the industry and Americas short term obsession with profits over long term consequences, yea, it has some plausibility. This extreme consolidation in almost every market presents risk to societies at a global scale. The world back then was far more 'anti-fragile' than what exists today.

And then you're not adding the constant firehose of bullshit and its effects. The bitrate of bullshit was far lower back then. Far back you didn't have books. To hear new and interesting bullshit you had to wait for travelers. Now there is a constant stream of bullshit from an unbound number of sources. It's not even like the older days where we stuck with a common bullshit narrative. We can each have our own custom made bullshit universe.
Oh I love that site! Very appropriate demonstration for what is possible and what is not preferable. I agree that distinctive designs are far better. For the W3C I think they could best serve to have multiple versions of their website to best demonstrate the variety of websites that would occur-- information/static, production/dynamic, non-production/update-able-- since they have reputation as the web standards body.
Too bad these are out of stock. I would love to get one.
Two decades ago I painted my apartment with artist grade titanium white acrylic. It still looks new.

A temperament that I share with everyone on HN is a suspicion of convention. So many common practices are dumb that it's hard to see each one coming in advance. One is always on edge waiting for the next shoe to drop. I'm supposed to spend days clearing my apartment, so the bottom rung of the construction trades can come in using paint that only lasts four years, dabbing hanging peels back in place with their brushes? Why did I actually have to go through this once to see this is the poster child for "stupid"?

I've also never understood the fashion choice of "off white". Titanium white is brighter, a better lit room day or night. It can become a color mirror, where a corner looks red because a red object is nearby.

For anyone tempted to try this, the student grades have less pigment, and the most expensive brands have the most pigment. It would also appear in an art supply store that there's only one kind of primer, and mediums vary only by gloss. Going to the manufacturer's sites, there are variations intended to survive the outside wall of a building. One could probably wind up someone on a phone call, and get excellent advice on which products to use. On the other hand, I used what I found at Pearl Paint in NYC, and it held up fine.
> Best case you get a almost as good outcome

Ah, so you have never heard of market failure, market manipulation, cartels, negative externalities, qash trading, self dealing, insider trading, wage supression agreements, and dozens of others?

You do realise that without government to keep fraud and manipulation in check 'free market' collapses into anarchy in one week?
I'm a biologist with a PhD in biophysics and work in optics, you don't need to explain the biology.

My complaint was with the way it was said, it looks immature and promoting stereotypes about color perception in daily life.

With the exception of color blindness, the difference in perception between women and men is much smaller than the variation across all humans. There are many things where we can measure a difference that is "significant" but in reality, insignificant (IE, passes a t-test with bonferroni or other multiple tests correction, but doesn't matter in any way at all during life).

Much more interesting than "seeing"/"perceiving" colors that most humans don't (example: tetrachromancy) is seeing polarization. I can see polarization but it was self-taught (see the page on Haidinger's brush and then go outside and look at the sky with polarized glasses on/off.... after a bit, you will realize you actualyl can "see" the polarization.
I don’t agree. You can assault an experience as much as you like. Nevertheless the experience still stands, thought or no thought.
Ask HN: Where can I share app ideas and others help refine it?
I assume a lot of folks here have app ideas once a week or more. Is there a site or forum where people can post ideas and have other folks help refine or beat it up?
Passive Daytime Radiative Cooling
A Gömböc perhaps?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18954373

Or a Klein bottle?

https://www.kleinbottle.com/
All you need is HTML if you have a tool which edits it properly.

I'm still using Dreamweaver 8 for some old sites. I have to run it under Wine emulation now, but it still works. It still does a good job of layout.

Is there a more modern round-trip HTML/CSS tool?
Most (all?) P.O. Boxes in the US have unique zip+4 addresses so you should, in theory, be able to send a letter to:

12345-6789

(assuming that actually corresponded to a P.O. Box) and have it delivered.

With automation, you might even be able to just put the bar code for a letter on the envelope and have it delivered. I say this based on the fact that I used to stamp mail for previous inhabitants with a not at this address and black out the address (but not the bar code), dump it in the mailbox and then have it show up in the email I get daily from the post office showing the day’s mail (fortunately, the human step of delivery usually pulled those letters out of the process).
Composable OLAP, Unbundling of the Datawarehouse
" People low in need for cognition are also more likely to rely on stereotypes alone in judging other people than those high in need for cognition."

You know, I could believe that, but I can't help wondering if the people who do research in psychology (or most people in academia really) are not more likely to be high-NFC types, and thus not exactly objective in deciding what potential advantages/disadvantages to research. For example, who is less likely to be swayed by empirical evidence?
In my country there is almost no downturn but we don't earn US level salaries.
Actually, I think these two issues are actually not the cause of the depressions. I think its mainly because people who are constantly on social media are:
Not productive
Not social
Not fun.

I think its mostly loneliness. I see groups af girls just watching their phones together. Parents looking at their phones while the child is trying to get attention. It's the fakeness of it all.

The things you name the reasons why the social media is addictive. Not why it is harmful.
If corporations are people, every one is a psychopath willing to lie and cheat to get what they want.
HBM requires a pretty expensive and dense silicon interposer, which should be sufficient to connect the IO dies. They're probably just using an infinity fabric network between the dies anyway so it's pretty high level.
So you'd write (presumably a big) admin web interface in straight XML + CSS by hand? I don't know the details, but that sounds like a very long and painful process which will end up being hellish to maintain, plus a huge amount of training time for new devs to get familiar with the system.

If you even find new devs who'd want to work on this. Who wants to acquire very niche domain knowledge that you can't apply anywhere else?
> Even the biggest fan of free markets agrees government need to prevent market failures, such as natural monopolies caused by network effects.

No, the biggest fans of “free markets” do not think that, in fact, they mock both the general idea of “market failure” and the specific places where people outside their faith identify such failures:

https://mises.org/library/market-failure

https://mises.org/library/market-failure-myth

https://mises.org/library/myth-market-failure

https://mises.org/wire/healthcare-and-market-failure

https://mises.org/library/response-market-failure-drones
Hiring very conservatively hurts GDP and increases long-term unemployment, especially for unproven entry level candidates.
Ah that’s what I’ve been doing wrong. I have some junk mail to my address but not my name that I’ve put “not at this address” on but they’re on a never ending circular journey. I didn’t mark out the bar code. (Because I’m following the USPS directions exactly)
I was thinking about this the other day in reference to how slow reddit is compared to HN even though they are essentially achieving the same function. I get that there are images, video & volume of posts/users served difference but I'd bet if they made just a pain text version of it it would be order of magnitude faster and browsable.
The problem is that "having a union" isn't a bad deal that you can just legally refuse, any more than following health and safety rules, or overtime rules, is a "bad deal" that Starbucks can refuse if they want. Having a union at the store costs Starbucks nothing, or maybe a little bit of the manager's time here and there.

An individual contract might not be financially viable for a given Starbucks location, but nobody is arguing that they will be forced to sign such a contract.
Seems to anticorrelate pretty well
Exactly. And I'd argue that the vast majority of conversations are of the second type, not the first type. And if all you want/have are the first type, I think you need to experience more of the second type.

But using the "true details" (who cares if it's Ethan Hawk or Tom Cruise or whoever in Gattaca when you're discussing the relevance of the genetic engineering aspects of it) as a measure of how trustworthy someone is? That's just ridiculous to me, especially because for most conversations it doesn't matter.
The Steam Deck is literally a PC, no doubts about that. It's even more "P" than many other "C"s, like most Apple hardware for instance. But I think that the notion that it somehow validates Wayland as mature tech is kinda weak.

It appears that the justification for switching to Wayland in many distros (just like systemd before it) was so that the devs could actually abstract away work on these components and invest time into their flagship features (WM, filesystems, shells, look & feel, the works). For what its worth, looks like this was achieved.
The dumbest thing about people building JavaScript to me is that you burn all of the energy and labor of building with almost none of the meaningful benefits.

No one is building and ending up with bundles that are reducing the bloat of the web, you can’t tree-shake your way out of bad practices. Articles and real lived experiences show us that the web is still bloated.

And why are we transpiling anything? If people want to flirt with building, I wish JavaScript engineers would just build an implementation that compiles to machine code intermediate representation.

Which is it? Do you want to be a scripting language or a programming language that compiles to something? It’s so gross to me.
Yes please! There's no point in having the image/illustration too. Yes it would be dead/white space but thats not an issue at all
> This approach resulted in varying reading experience depending on the OS. Windows browsers got Consolas, Linux users got DejaVu Sans Mono, and macOS people got Courier. Using a custom DejaVU makes the reading experience consistent.

I don’t get this argument. As a reader, I’m used to the monospace font of my OS because it’s the one I see everywhere. I don’t care at all about the fonts users of other OSes see. This custom font makes _your_ experience consistent, not the readers’.
I need for cognition on Need For Cognition.
Yeah, this is just some purist BS in my opinion.

Message / medium have always mixed together.

Even folks who say content needs to be figured out before presentation... it's not so cut and dry. Your medium shapes your message - they are not mutually exclusive and for the receiver of the message, the medium matters for their reception of the message.

I understand the sentiment that TONS of CSS is probably a bad use of time. But trying to demonize or otherwise attach aesthetics the label of "meaningless" is, in my opinion, just as much egocentric as they claim CSS to be.
> and the people around me did not notice or care.

This is such a transient thing.

If you're not primed to notice a self driving car (already thinking about it / having read it) you may miss it.

And once you've seen it a few times, the novelty decreases a lot.

I try to keep wonder for things that I have experienced already (Holy crap; I'm in a metal tube that's going close to the speed of sound 7 miles high!) But pretty soon other things win (How long do I have to sit in this little seat? And I'm hungry...).

Arguably the thing that is most extraordinary is that we've made these wonderful, bizarre things such a matter of routine. Look around you. Nearly every object in the civilized world is a constructed object, borne from human thought. Every street, every edifice, every artifice. Even almost all of the foods and raw ingredients have been crafted to meet our needs. Wow. But flour is a >30,000 year old technology and not something people get excited about...
At least they are an EU bureaucrat not an American actor. They are paid to make these decisions, whether I agree with them or not. A random American actor is just butting their head in where it doesn't belong. It's like as if Daniel Radcliffe was trying to influence the American congress - even if he had the best intentions in mind, he should still be told to piss off.
None of that seems at-all like the discussions I recollect from those decades.

Who were those "certain advocates"?
Ammonia (another dead simple molecule/process) is used in these services quite often, as far as I know.
So if I buy a counterfeit MFi cable it still has a solid chance to destroy my phone before the MFi validation logic kicks in.
Willing to murder too.
If the author believe the stigma against neurodivergence wasn't that bad or had some merit, then it's easy to see their perspective that something ruined our perfect society.
Some people are just natural philosophers. I was always one, and an un-analyzed life gets drab very quickly, for me at least. I like to entertain various ideas without taking them too seriously. I like Stoicism which I find very useful, and eastern philosophies like Buddhism. Too easy to become over-zealous about both of those philosophies.

A test of your own personal philosophy is when you encounter adversity. Do you apply what you've learned, or make up something on-the-fly?
Rock meet hard place. If history is anything to go by, the proletariat will suffer for these entirely preventable and repetitive acts of overt corruption.
Cool, I thought I remembered something like that but all I could find was the 10% number from a quick search. Really Happy to see it's higher.
> I agree with you, but also I think the section tag is one of the biggest leaps forward we've had. Putting an id on a whole section instead of a name= crap for references, and actually using nesting for hierarchy.

How does this differ from how <div> was being used before?

I've switched to using <section> simply because it's a better name, but I'm not sure it's made any meaningful difference in my code.

Another example of the pointlessness of this issue is <em> and <strong>. I've rarely seen code where these weren't used exactly the same as <i> and <b> were before. In rare cases, I've seen someone do something like make <em> a different color rather than italic, and that's almost always been a bad idea, because when HTML authors use <em> they almost always intend for it to be italic. In fact, I'd say we should just continue using <i> and <b> because those communicate intent better, but at this point I've worked in too many codebases that decided that <i> could be hacked to mean "icon" (i.e. using FontAwesome) which is a horrible, awful, no-good, bad, hack.

> All the HTML5 input types are also an example of semantics impriving. It could be way better, but it's not a total stalemate

That's true, but I think we'd be moving forward a lot more quickly if we weren't devoting most of standards development resources toward giving companies more fine-grained control of our browsers through CSS/JS.
Seems a weird decision given even Apple do not seem able to get a desktop app store to work.
> It's religious-based denialism, no different than what other major religions do when their beliefs conflict with reality.

Except it's no longer 1610.
I dream that one day American democratic voters will actually have a left-of-center candidate in the presidential race.
I think your rain landed here in California!