skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is all good in principle, and it'll be interesting to see how it works out.

The profile portability story is good, save that as far as I can tell, Bluesky server operators don't actually do much save for provide storage and a place for clients to connect to, specifically because the algorithms and curation are being treated as a separate layer. So ironically I see far less reason for identity portability in that ecosystem since (to my knowledge) the server you're using doesn't have much of an impact on your experience.

Additionally, this layered functional architecture creates new kinds of problems.

For example, with Mastodon, if I'm helping fund my instance (which I do) I'm also helping fund the moderation staff, because the instance architecture and the moderation story are tightly coupled.

With BS, moderation is a separate service which has to be funded... how?

Same goes with curation.

So I still have a lot of questions about the Bluesky model.

And this is all assuming they actually pull off what they claim, and it's still waaaay too early to say if this'll all work in practice.
>Bed, Bath, and Beyond

RIP strangely named store that carried emergency mothers day gifts for all these years.
There are two things that engineers tend to neglect about validation experiences:

1) When you run the validation has a huge impact on UX. A field should not be marked as invalid until a blur event, and after that it should be revalidated on every keystroke. It drives people crazy when we show them a red input with an error message simply because they haven't finished typing their email address yet, or when we continue to show the error after the problem has been fixed because they haven't resubmitted the form yet.

2) Client side validation rules do occasionally diverge from server side validation rules. Requiring a phone number can be A/B tested, for example.
Sure, there's always "room" for speculation, and someone will always speculate. But that doesn't give this speculation any basis nor should it excuse irresponsible dialogue that seeks to generate answers for the sake of answers instead of accuracy and real information. There's a time during which such speculation is straight up irresponsible. It fuels narratives and feeds anger for reasons that can't be justified with data.

Layoffs are happening across industries. Are you suggesting that there is something specific about the way Google did theirs?

Suicides are higher across all demographics right now, and there's a pretty clear emerging consensus that there's a growing mental health crisis, and that it's not tied to a single employer.

Does this mean that Google had nothing to do with it? We don't know. But for anyone suggesting a connection, at least provide a plausible reason the connection exists, how it explains this scenario, and why that explanation is specific to Google. Otherwise why would such speculation provide any value?

The HN community is pretty good about demanding evidence and eschewing simplistic narratives that have no evidence to back them. Suicide is a tragic subject that evokes emotional responses, but that does not excuse baseless speculation.
I sort of think if I had easy access to swings maybe I would not have picked up smoking.
I am red/green colorblind

I did a carnivore diet 2 years ago that I swore changed my perception of colors and had an increased ability to differentiate between red/green. I wrote it off as maybe just me being overly enthusiastic about the benefits of the diet and just a placebo effect but seeing this headline now makes me wonder if maybe there is a 'software' component related to colorblindness and not just hardware..?
I remember writing high complexity rich internet applications (knowledge graph editors, tools to align sales territories for companies with 1000+ salespeople, etc.) circa 2005. It was challenging to do because I had to figure out how to update the whole UI when data came in from asynchronous requests, I had to write frameworks a bit like MobX or redux to handle the situation.

Even before that I was making Java applets to do things you couldn't do with HTML, like draw a finite element model and send it to a FORTRAN back end to see what it does under stress, or replace Apple's Quicktime VR plugin, or simulate the Ising model with the Monte Carlo methods.)

What happened around 2015 is that people gave up writing HTML forms and felt that they had to use React to make very simple things like newsletter signups so now you see many SPAs that don't need to be SPAs.

Today we have things like Figma that approach the complex UI you'd expect from a high-end desktop app, but in many ways our horizons have shrunk thanks to "phoneishness" and the idea that everything should be done with a very "simple" (in terms of what the user sees) mobile app that is actually very hard to develop -- who cares about how fast your build cycle is if the app store can hang up your releases as long they like?
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question - which parts of htmx would be better from an end-user-perspective if they were built into the browser? i assume "all features" might be a bit faster, but is there anything which would be night and day better if it wasn't a js library?

the browser vendors have been more than happy to use experimental features to chart their own course, which I think can be a good thing to spawn innovation and healthy competition. (given the standards bodies will be slower and more prudent - similar to how python doesn't want "pedantic" to be part of python core, because that would hurt pedantic's innovation, not improve it)

Maybe the way someone from the chrome team could tap into "business value" of "let's build these htmx features in chrome" would be that it allows developers to write "internal/developer/crud apps" where a "only supported in chrome" is acceptable.....
Bullshit implies active intent to deceive about your level of knowledge/understanding. In other words, it's even more anthropomorphic.
I'd agree with both takes on that it depends on the meter. Ones which truly approximate password entropy work like you say, however, for some reason, the most common use of such meters is to show how many dartboard requirements you've met while ignoring the actual complexity. When this common approach is used you combine "password must be 8 characters or more" with things like "password must have a number, symbol of ${group}, and capital letter" and the average password complexity is actually made worse for a given length due to pigeonholing.

In the full picture though, in terms of UI/UX, the meter seems like only a downside. In the dartboard use case it's great because it displays what's still needed in terms users work and think with signalling e.g. "you still need a number, otherwise you're all set". People don't really think in bits of entropy though so ll that really is being signaled by either a meter or a normal failed validation hint is "more complexity and/or length needed".

There may be good cases for using a meter while simultaneously implementing good password requirement policy I'm not thinking of though.
We barely get adequate perspective when people live in the country, I can't imagine trying to read some reporter talk about what's going on in Arizona as they write from Argentina.
Throw'm a bone. Click on gmail ads, keep gmail alive as long as possible. Yes issues, yes privacy, yes a lot, but gmail is one of the best things on the internet. So good at spam, especially the real nasties. Worth a few clicks.
> Music enhances the experience: Simply put, music makes everything better

Actually, some think the radical opposite.

Music is put everywhere "in some territories", but some people refuse radically to try and focus on content while other stimula are present. Some people find it distracting and senseless.

(In fact, some of us consider the use of ML to remove it from content that bewilderingly decided that you should "be helped to feel" during the fruition of intellectual material like documentaries.)
It's a glorified golf cart, but there's no reason to need more than a glorified golf cart for local trips where I live, given the two-lane streets and city speed limits of 20-25 mph.

As with a lot of vehicles I've seen like this it seems wildly overpriced, though. It's listed as €9300 ($10,260 USD). I could get a used Miata for less than that, and it would be about as practical, only a little harder to park, and be usable on the highway.
You keep posting this same point over and over in this thread. This “oops he tripped” variant is in really bad taste.

You pan the article for going beyond the facts we know at this time and then come up with your own unfounded speculation…
You joke but even Google with all its resources struggles to create proper SPAs.

I dread using the Google Cloud console for example.
If you run a business, visit or know someone from China you will be targeted. If you try to publish an article against China and have a high profile your secrets will come out.

But if you are nobody why worry about the NSA, FBI, etc they have better people to target
No we are not. Because players like Amazon literally just spend like 5 billion on launches for SpaceX competitors. And many other constellation will do the same.

The government already is forced to have at least 2 providers and they want more not less.

Other governments, Europe, India and China will not simply give up.

And while talking about entities with absurd money, Bezos has spend a decade now funding Blue origin he will not just give up.

Venture capitalist are still funding many new rocket companies.
ASML is the obvious answer, but the list drops off sharply IMO after this, especially in comparison to the US. Also, around half of ASML's headcount is located outside of Europe.
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I find myself getting pretty immediately turned off by IMO kind of silly and unverifiable catch phrases languages use as marketing tools. Crystal uses "a programming language for humans", much like EmberJS's "for _ambitious_ web developers". As I skim the Crystal page, it's not clear to me what is supposed to stand out as a language that makes it "for humans" any more than any other language? It just seems silly.
I mean, I would argue you're not making a rational argument here.

> Allowing kids to work for construction is going to improve lives more than blindly pushing everyone regardless of desire or aptitude in college and graduating them with a worthless degree and a half mil in debt.

That's pretty vivid imagery for someone who doesn't want an appeal to emotion. It even has "won't someone think of the children" vibes.

The arguments against this are that we've litigated it in the 1920s and discovered that child labor = exploited labor. Children have less volition than adults and so we're putting them into a vulnerable position by including them in an adversarial relationship of negotiating for pay/work. I'm not saying kids have to go to college to make a living (at the moment that seems clearly unnecessary). But why shouldn't kids go to a trade school to learn in a safer environment, instead of being at risk in on-the-job learning in dangerous environments?

Also there are other pieces of school that are more fundamental to day-to-day life than college. I learned a significant portion of my communication skills in high school. Are you okay with kids missing out on high school in order to take a job? That feels like it is likely to severely limit their ability to get other work later in life if they should ever lose that one skill they learned. "Jack of all trades, master of none, but better than a master of one." The whole point of school is to get a broad base of skills that you can apply to multiple situations. Any work kids would do in their formative years has the potential to undermine this by competing for their time.
A big SSD is 30 TB now: https://www.newegg.com/micron-30-72-tb-9400/p/N82E1682036315...

So that kind of dataset fits on a small SSD. :-)
Good for you, but we need to be considerate to the 99% that dont have that option.
It's "out of favor" because it completely failed as a research program. Let's not equivocate about this; it's nice to understand heuristic search, and there was a time when things like compilation were poorly understood enough to seem like AI. But as a path towards machines that succeed at cognitive tasks, these approaches are like climbing taller and taller trees in the hopes of getting to the moon.
Taking an opportunity here for a completely shameless plug for an enterprise-y wg based corporate VPN. Uses mTLS for device auth, wg (obvs), OIDC to authenticate users/set up firewall access (Azure AD and Keycloak tested). Runs as a redundant cluster and can be hooked in via BGP.

Very early and no docs to speak of yet, but raise an issue if interested. Works with standard WireGuard app on computers/phones, but an integrated app using the API might be in the works …

https://github.com/davidcoles/gpn
Yup. Fastmail is very no-hassle email experience.

I don't even how they stack up to the competition, but they're good enough that I'm much happier to just pay them $50/year than go out and comparison shop for email providers.
I somewhat blame this on the way jobs are set up now. There’s so much focus on hustle hustle hustle there isn’t any time to be looking for a date or any social activity that isn’t directly profitable. It also means dates are also treated like hustles, cost centers that don’t make you money. All the people I know who spend more time in their communities (adoption groups, food banks, mutual aid funds, churches, etc) are all happily in at least one relationship (several are poly!) while the career focused people I know are miserably alone.
Show HN: Ethereum address reviews, similar to Yelp
Hi HN,
Excuse me if the formatting sucks, this is a first time post.

I want to introduce to you vrfd.info. A place where you can openly view and influence the reputation of any Ethereum address. Think of it as Yelp but for Eth.

Addresses are classified as either verified or flagged on-chain through soulbound NFTs. A type of NFT that has no trade value as it cannot be sold. Once minted, it is stuck to the given address. The metadata of the NFT contains either information to verify the address with, this could be a social account for example. Or in the case of flagged addresses, the metadata contains proof of wrong-doing.

Users can search the classification status of any address on the web app. Additionally, users can apply to either verify or report an address, provided proof. In the case of reports, users stand a chance to be rewarded. Finally, users can up or down vote other addresses.

I made this tool after suffering one to many scam without having an open source library where addresses can be reported or their credentials verified.

It's still a bit clunky, but the core concept works fully integrated on the Testnet. I'm shipping a big update this week to make it more responsive.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. Please give me any feedback as I am looking to improve everywhere I can.
LMQL dev here :) Can you specify what you mean "constrains its utility". Are you looking to use LMQL from different languages? We are currently thinking about expanding to other ecosystems, so it would be interesting hear your thoughts.
There are fanless mini PCs too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35831087
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They aren't living with a romantic significant other, not without roommates or parents.
Second this. If you’re on iOS you can also do NextDNS + 1Blocker to block ads both at the browser and network level.
"The other side" didn't mean your side, it meant the other side of the political divide.

The blue side: 15-year-olds can choose to change their genders, but they can't work.

The red side: 15-year-olds can work (and own guns), but they can't decide to change their genders.

Your side may not match either of those, and that's fine. I wasn't trying to speak for you. All I was saying is, both sides of the red/blue divide have this particular hypocrisy.
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Since September 2022 the current owners of the game IPR are finally allowed to sell it in Germany:

https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/wolfenstein-3d-available-...

... interestingly, its legal text has also been changed on Steam. Per the Wolfenstein 3D SteamDB page, we can see that lines suggesting the game's story "should not be construed" as glorifying the Nazi regime's beliefs or actions have been added. It's difficult to see how a game that's all about shooting Nazis in the face and then killing Hitler could be seen as glorifying Nazism, but hey.
Perhaps my choice of terminology was wrong… when I said "cathedral style" I was intending to reference extremely expensive long-tail projects that aim for perfection on the first go, similar to SLS — a generational masterpiece, much like a cathedral, as opposed to a cheaper, quicker, more iterative approach that aims to be useful while growing out of its early stage limitations.
I think it's strongly indicative of ritual when people greet others with "hi, how are you?" and are annoyed with any answer other than "fine, and you?".
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I have always held multiple answers to "what is my life's purpose".

On a universal level, there is no purpose.

On a global level, there is probably no purpose.

On a societal level, maybe you can do something to help <insert whoever you want to help without harming others>, if that makes you happy.

On a familial level, people usually feel good interacting with family/friends, so the purpose could be to keep those feelings going.

Up to the individual to play the game or not play the game, no right or wrong answer. But if you are tying your happiness to expectations of being able to cause grand changes at the universal/global/even societal level, then you will probably be disappointed. Everyone's existence is almost certainly meaningless in the "big" picture.
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There is some reason why things in the universe are incentivized to replicate. The earliest life forms are all about replication, up to now. It’s about more, everything we do is also about more. Maybe it’s a way to create order, because if something is random chaos, you cannot count it. Maybe the math laws in our universe, especially addition is the basis for a lot of why things happen
The group behind the complaint is Egale.

The website for which couldn't be bothered with even basic accessibility requirements. None of which are difficult.

The statement in question is also not entirely inaccurate. My entire friend group is LGBTQIA2+ and consistently makes comments against Christianity that would satisfy Carlson's statement. Frankly however, a lot of Christian's deserve it and the LGBTQIA2S+ community has been the target by a large sum of Christian's for long enough to warrant such a view in my opinion.

With all of that being said, and with understanding of what the article is about, the CRTC should not be doing this. It doesn't serve anyone in the long run except some extremely well off, probably straight, probably white, and probably lifelong male persons. As well as the group. The same group that doesn't care about other disadvantaged people enough to comply with simple legislation enabling technology to assist those with differing ability to read and navigate the web.
I recently put together https://github.com/PyHAT-stack/awesome-python-htmx at PyCon.

If anyone is looking to discuss making Hypermedia Driven Applications with HTMX in Python, head over to the discussions there!
SpaceX also does a lot of simulation. They are known to have really good simulation team. And were very early on doing simulation on GPUs and such. And that was 10 years ago. By now they are likely far further along.

> so a year or two from how, they might have New Glenn rockets in regular operation and for most, that will seemingly come out from nowhere.

They will be lucky to have launched their rocket more then once in the next 2 years.
define "solved."
100% agreed. I enjoy games which are "easy to learn, hard to master". I think Counter-Strike, Left4Dead and TF2 are great examples of that. COD to an extend, but they added a lot of other overhead which I don't like. (Weapon customization, and general microtransactions)
> Additionally, the workers have proposed bringing a tipping system into the store. Specifically, they’re looking to add the option for customers to tip 3%, 5%, or a custom amount at check-out with credit card transactions. The union’s Twitter account acknowledges the proposal is likely to be “a little controversial.” However, the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (CORE)—as the union is named—notes that customers regularly try to tip already, without any recourse to do so.

I'm all for unions, workers' rights and sticking it to the bad megacorps. But somehow I doubt that "customers regularly try to tip already".
I'm not mad. But if your goal is to open source code and software developed with taxpayer money, its not as straightforward as this initiative makes it out to be.
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There sort of is, at least in Europe with Google's CSS providers. IIRC there's a few dozen aggregators and aggregators must have at least 50 merchants in order to be a CSS partner. The products are shown as a carousel and can undercut Google by 20% due to tax/competition reasons. I'm not fluent on the underlying reasons- the results are also on Google shopping.
Good questions, for another time perhaps.
> They mention, but don't really endorse, liability law models. But today's adversarial legal model in the US is also slow, expensive, and results in tons of cover-your-ass legalese at large places.

They allude to no-fault workman's compensation laws, discussed at greater length in this excellent article:

https://rootsofprogress.org/history-of-factory-safety

The trick there was to take the liability out of the adversarial court system, by not requiring the injured party to prove that the employer was at fault -- only that they got injured somehow. And it worked much more reliably, with less ass-covering and less overhead, than the previous tort-based model.
> So ironically I see far less reason for identity portability in that ecosystem since (to my knowledge) the server you're using doesn't have much of an impact on your experience

To an extent, though I still think it's valuable for situations where eg. a host might decide they don't want to host you if you post certain content. In the same way: a website host doesn't normally have much of an impact on your experience, unless they decide to kick you off or otherwise exert control over you

> moderation as a separate service, which has to be funded... how?

It's an interesting question; I think some of it will be answered with algorithmic/AI-based filtering (false-positives are more tolerable if users have the ability to opt out!). People have also talked about a model where you can just share (or subscribe to) communal block-lists. So maybe your circle of friends does its own internal "moderation" just by using the site (blocking people is already a normal part of my day today usage of both bsky and twitter)

With a platform this open and flexible, there are tons of options to be explored!

> And this is all assuming they actually pull off what they claim, and it's still waaaay too early to say if this'll all work in practice.

It definitely is! But I'm excited and hopeful