skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OS gets the scrollbar wrong so often that as a user and developer I’ve found I need to take care of it.

It’s fine relying on the “platform” but the platforms are just criminal cartels holding users and apps hostage.

Two specific examples, just on scroll bars. I’ve found the platform failing to support dark mode and failing to support mixed high DPI scenarios. Both of these failings result in poor accessibility and real pain for real users.

As a lowly app developer I don’t have the resources to do it perfectly for my users. But the OS is failing badly enough that I end up having to do the work. It’s not out of vanity, which is the only reason TFA author can imagine.
Don't lurk! It wastes nearly as much time and mental energy as being an active participant. It took me ages to break my Reddit lurking habit, long after I'd deleted my account.
But he himself did not.
Although the US is a wealthy country, I believe for most people "following your dream" there could be much harder than in Europe. Especially in terms of an unexpected healthcare problem at the wrong time.

Of course some people are wealthy enough for this not to be a problem, and it is easier to get investors there. Still, I would not characterize it as risk-free in the US.
I know it’s dark but reading some of the comments calling out how much money he has created for charities etc brought to mind Jimmy Saville, the good friend of King Charles made millions for charity throughout his life. If people get an ‘icky’ feeling about this man’s so called altruism, it’s understandable in this world.
Show HN: Mu – A community-first app platform proposal
Hi HN

I'm Asim, an engineer and author of the open source project Micro (https://micro.dev). I've been on this forum in various forms since 2009. In that time I've seen a lot of shifts in the technology landscape, participated in a few and even tried to start a company myself (which ended up VC funded). In typical HN fashion, I drank the kool-aid and applied to YC around 8-10 times. I got so far as going to mountain view for an interview but never got in. I played right into the idea of starting a fast growing company and "changing the world" by solving my own problems in the developer ecosystem but somewhere along the way lost sight of the problem I was solving. I think it speaks to my own need to seek validation (in the wrong place) but also the general nature of the ecosystem that became all about the pursuit of more funding, growth, users, etc. It really feels like while there's 70-80% value created, the other 20-30% is doing us a lot of harm. Consumer software has become addictive, corporations are becoming huge profit seeking blackholes that mostly cater to their shareholders and we have yet to see any great alternative to the existing tools and services we're now beholden too.

A couple weeks ago I posted Micro Chat (https://micro.mu) on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36135683. This was my first effort in trying to solve the problems mentioned above. But I don't think it's enough. I think what we're talking about is something much bigger. And it's not going to be solved by open source, federation or a single tool. I'm starting to think we need to build something bigger, an entirely new community led app platform.

So here's my idea. Mu (pronounced mew) is a proposal to build a new community app platform from the ground up. It would address all the problems we seem to mention here about ownership of services, addictive scrolling, profit seeking agendas and do it by empowering a community to crowdfund the creation of an alternative system that focuses on being a utility for the people. It would generally be open source, potentially self hostable, but the larger goal would be to empower a handful of people to host and run the service for everyone else, a built like how Let's Encrypt is run today.

I've thrown this idea around a lot, started many discussions here and even tried to push a few things out but never really gotten anywhere with it. I think part of it is to just, build the smallest piece and see where it goes, hence Micro Chat, but the other part is to gauge the sentiment in the room and see whether we can actually fund something much bigger totally aligned with the community. I'm a huge fan of Google services and the utility they offer, but the nature of technology has veered so far into addiction with scrolling feeds, streaming and social media that I feel there's a need to do something now.

If there's interest, please comment and provide feedback.

Cheers
Asim

https://mu.xyz
>replacing it with another social network is not the solution

100% this. Find something better to do! And "lurking" is not it.
there's more than twenty years of examples of macOS apps using Cocoa and Carbon and being inconsistent with the rest of the OS, iTunes being the most egregious
I'm reasonably happy with current CSS for the most part, but...

Is there a modern replacement for the old ACID tests? It seems like you now just have to assume things will work, or look up / test for support in each browser individually.
https://archive.is/18Q7c
Bard, Google's AI chatbot, boosts math and coding skills with new technique
Absolutely this. I’ve only had a single Home Screen since Apple added the App Library. I’ve always had Apollo in the same position. I swapped it out with my grocery app. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve opened that grocery app without thinking.
I quit visiting Reddit daily 6-7 years ago. The reason is very simple: I asked myself what value Reddit provides in my life. What will I remember from yesterday's browsing? Or last week. Or last month. Am I really going to miss out on anything? I made the same exercise with several online newspapers. If I can't remember what I read yesterday, whatever I read was probably a waste of time. I stopped reading at least 3 low quality newspapers in roughly the same period.

Reddit isn't worth hours every week. You are not getting that time back. It isn't quality time spent on things that enrich you. You have to care for yourself and be more picky about what you spend your time and attention on.

Quitting stuff is good for you.
That's called foveated rendering, and it's exactly what the Apple headset does, they mention it here: https://developer.apple.com/visionos/
Because in this case the agency that enforces the rules is also charged with creating them, and how the rules this agency creates apply to novel instruments with no centralized issuer, centralized operator or investment contract, is not at all clear.
Here's the HST piece in question - "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" - http://brianb.freeshell.org/a/kddd.pdf

I agree with the parent, it's a great piece and iirc it's where Thompson and Steadman first met up. If you're looking for something interesting to read during lunch today, this is for you.
Does object detection, as of now, not rely on both broad translational variance and then temporal consistency of tracks?
Severe trauma? Really? Didn’t see any mention of violence, sexual assault, prison time, or the like. These seem like totally prosaic life choices that more or less worked out fine for him in the end. Maybe the language is a bit overwrought but that could just be to punch things up for the reader.
Even if the video itself is really interesting? You'll judge a book by its cover?
are blind users impacted by styling scrollbars with css or even hiding/showing them?
> But is the time spent on that channel worth it over doing other things?

Is that the standard by which you judge all leisure activities?
There is so much tension in this discussion. Not too much grey area. This feels like another "work from home" argument.

What do people think about YouTube's Pleasant Green and "The Story of Chikaordery"? Ref: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLeykLlB1Bftscawq_q1u...
So imagine going to someone who's blind, and say "we'll pay for your treatment, but you've got to let us film you... oh what's that ? you don't want to ?... ha.. i'm sorry, next !"

Is that really altruism ? It sounds more like a business deal to me.
When it comes to tech HN tends to be bearish on some useful things just because they also happen to be hyped up (Kubernetes, machine learning), and overvalue tech which is rarely used in the real world (obscure programming languages).

> the HN community stands as technology Gurus

It's a more polite reddit with some focus on tech, and maybe startups. It's nice but you don't need to put people on a pedestal, anyone can post here.
do you have any actual thoughts against web3 or is it just your bête noire?
The existence of algorithm confusion attacks shows that it's not nearly as simple as just saying "Reject 'null'". It's a complete minefield, and the fact that the JWT scheme punts that complexity and "make sure you hold it correctly!" onto the application is bad.

Had the algorithm been standardised to a single value out of band (ie. in the spec), that would have squashed a whole load of vulnerabilities.
For foveated rendering you still need good pixels everywhere in case you're looking to the sides.

I think what the OP means is that you'd have actually less physical resolution in the sides. Most headsets do this somewhat but not in a huge amount.
>>The wealthy and powerful in this country take it on themselves to personally ruin public servants who get in their way sometimes.

Oh poor Gensler, former banker turned regulator worth $100 million, getting push back when he robs people of their right to invest their money how they want.
The Importance of Ecodesign
It's not hard to connect it to economics. Social status = currency.
If you’re posting here, good chance you’re in a generational cohort that is entering prime midlife crisis years.
Don't worry about it: Secure Boot is (currently) 100% pointless on Linux because the initrd is not authenticated.

Once the work described at https://lwn.net/Articles/918909/ this will change, and , and kernel updates should no longer require will (hopefully?) no longer require re-initializing the TPM.
aria roles solve that problem easily for screen readers, so you can use buttons for navigation and text links for actions without big issues
Short version: AMD's software incompetence. Very few hardware companies have the competence to properly support their HW. You see this problem again and again, HW companies designing HW that's great on paper but can't be used properly because it's not properly supported with SW. Nvidia understands this and has 10 times as many SW engineers than HW engineers. AMD doesn't. Intel might too.
No, Congress creates the rules. The SEC decides how to enforce them. A court then decides who's right in any given action.
If this indeed the case it explains the true power these organizations and current legislature have, which I do find worrisome.

I believe that this situation may be a failure of that way of working.
localStorage is not async and it often causes problems because of that
It seems to me what you are suggesting is implicit async (or rather automatic await insertion) which I guess could work. However I fail to see how it would make code easier to write or understand while actively increasing problems due to unclear async vs sync calls. Especially now that typecheckers can detect non-awaited calls.

Explicit await in a sense is documentation, sure 90% of async functions just do things sequentially, but the awaits in there are clear signs that "hey things won't happen instantaneously here"
Agreed. Sorry if I gave the impression of being pro-nVidia. I am not.

But the reality is that when Tensorflow and Pytorch came to be there was no alternative. Now you need to jump through hoops to make it work with non CUDA hardware.

Additionally, while drivers play a role, I think the main difference is in the computing libraries (CUDA vs ROCm)
Apart from farming, there is an obvious source of income - tourism services for urban people who want to relax in a more peaceful environment. Lots of old and small farms in my country have moved to that after farming wasn't profitable anymore.

Also, there's something beetween between big city suburbs and middle of nowhere. Smaller towns can offer a healthy amount of jobs and services, especially ones that are within commute distance from larger ones. Moving from a village/town of 4000 people to one of 140 000 didn't really change my daily life much, apart from having more variety of food in supermarket, and much more expensive and worse housing.
On macOS, when you use Apple input devices, the scrollbars work like on iOS and Android. They appear on top of the scrollable content when you start scrolling and disappear shortly after you stop. You can make them visible all the time, but then they will take up space like they do in e.g. Windows.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/guide/mac-help/mchlp1225/mac
Making a custom scrollbar because it doesn't support dark mode is worse for accesibility overall. Your custom scrollbar likely won't work well with tools disabled used for scrolling that isn't the mouse.
When you're not Clueless but a Loser[1], work harder to solidify your position than to accomplish the tasks you've been given. Obviously in tech, the easier way is to just monetize your own idea. Getting $60K a year from something you do yourself is better than a $90K job.

[1]: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
>"community that surrounds you with love"
This hurts a bit for those who broke out of a toxic or at least not so loving community. I love your comment and I will add this citation to my favorites but it assumes that the ties and relationships are full of love, which I think is not the case for everyone.
Unpopular opinion, I respect him more than most channels for grownups that pretend to be “educational”.

Take LTT as an example. Their titles are extremely click bite-y. Linus and his team talk an awful bunch about their plans for YT but then their execution feels so cheap.

Mr. Beast instead uses titles that feel like click bites but then goes on explaining why that is true in the video, he doesn’t make a bunch of videos boasting about his media company and he is consistent in his production, at least on the main channel. I am not a fan of his content but wish there were more YouTubers with a solid vision on the platform.
'Dead' woman found breathing in coffin
You can play with Llama on your CPU. Depending on the model you use and the RAM you have available, the performance may be acceptable.
also don't forget pretty much all similar event-loop systems in other languages also have explicit await calls
>Essentially, I believe that finding the best solutions with the current technologies available is an engineering process in itself.

The comparison between software development and real world construction has been discussed by many folks. I think the consensus is that software development differs greatly due to the nature of each project being bespoke. Unlike construction where you can apply the same techniques and principles, each software solution is unique and requires. Or at least that's the argument.

To answer your question. I don't think such a book or resource exists. Maybe if or when software development stabilises we can formalise the craft. Until then it's very difficult to provide any hard empirical evidence.
Dehydration Evolved.
Have you tried the Quick start in the https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp README?
Kind of shit advice really. No real data just, "well it worked for me". How many people blow up their life and end up homeless? How many actually improve their situation? How many end up back with their parents? Nothing other than I think it's good and it worked for me.

Here another way to look at this advice:

Everyday I run across the road without looking. It's exhilarating! It makes me feel ALIVE! I know all you naysayers say that I should look before crossing the road. I just rip off the band aid and fucking yolo it. I haven't been ran over by a car yet!

Really stupid. My advice is don't listen to this advice. If you are getting itchy feet go on a fucking holiday for a few weeks.
I'm not a redditor, not even a lurker, but I'm going to repost my sub here from a few days ago, how I was banned from WSB in a matter of one post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36262192

And follow this up to say that in the days after that, I was subjected to a vast array of hate and abuse, including things like "groomers should die", etc. when I wasn't even beginning to an express a political opinion about what Target sells or who should sell what bathing suit, or anything like that.

I was super happy to see the (stupid, pointless, pathetically idiotic) "strike" go into effect the next day, because my fondest wish would be for that entire ecosystem to fall over and choke on its own vomit.
Nobody would describe Woodrow Wilson for instance as a 19th century politician
blackout reminded me of checking other websites which is nice change of pace. Probably reduce time in reddit in the future
I'm sorry, but I don't buy into this concept of "charity" myself[1].

It is wonderful that people can see, but how much money you have should have no bearing on whether you stay blind or not.

These people are victims of a system and charity is just painting over the cracks.

Perhaps he could devote his energy to start the change.

Charity (and alms) is what people did back in the day. Some societies moved on.

[1] Better said: I'm not against charitable acts. I'm against charity as a replacement for an humane and fair society. Sometimes it feels like having a water station next to workers being being whipped to build the pyramids. Perhaps stop the whipping?
*Trademark
Eh. Node / npm on its own is generally fine, especially if you use a private package repository for internally shared libraries. The problems show up when compiling javascript for the web as well as nodejs. If you stick to server side javascript using node and npm, it all works pretty well. It’s much nicer than venv / conda. And it handles transitive dependency conflicts and all sorts of wacky problems.

It’s just that almost nobody does that.

What we want instead is to combine typescript, js bundlers, wasm, es modules and node packages all together to make web apps. And that’s more than enough to bring seasoned engineers to tears. Let alone adding in svelte / solidjs compilation on top of all that. I have sweats just thinking about it.
Well said, I couldn't agree more, unfortunately... I also noticed the "MS is cool now"-cult, felt surreal and almost like deliberate misinformation. Classic counterpart to FUD, Honeypotting. However, more people seem to fall for that because it is less known, and games the "assume good intentions"-virus.
Nostr is not blockchain

Why don't people get educated first before having an opinion?

https://nostr.how/en/what-is-nostr
Why not get a used one?
Modern Java with its modern IDEs used with good coding patterns is a completely fine environment as well

I think he meant more in the sense of projects that weren't adapted to modern coding standards
This is it. Clean up your life. What you do in your 20s is not the same as 30s or 40s, etc. That might speak to the people you interact with as well. I was "searching" for something on reddit and other places like it. Spending time with friends, getting married, having kids, it changes all of that. Real people interaction pulls you away from the place where so much idle time is spent. There is no time for reddit when you're living your real life. But we all go through the phases. Its just not clear reddit is the place to have healthy discussions.
Exactly. Of course everyone used Reddit differently, but personally I basically never upvoted anything unless I really enjoyed it. The big question for me would be what happens to my funds if I don't upvote anyone in a given month, do they roll-over to the next month? Do they go to server management? Do they go into a separate pool to do something else fun with?

In a way Reddit did distinguish their usual "this content is better than the one below" upvote with "this is amazing content" by giving Reddit gold. A similar system could be used here. One thing that made Reddit great was that since people up (and maybe more importantly) downvoted content good stuff would float to the top. It would be pretty bad if upvotes where too meaningful as that would drive away engagement.
> Liebeck's attorneys argued that coffee should never be served hotter than 140 °F (60 °C), and that a number of other establishments served coffee at a substantially lower temperature than McDonald's. The attorneys presented evidence that coffee they had tested all over the city was served at a temperature at least 20 °F (11 °C) lower than McDonald's coffee. They also presented the jury with expert testimony that 190 °F (88 °C) coffee may produce third-degree burns (where skin grafting is necessary) in about three seconds and 180 °F (82 °C) coffee may produce such burns in about twelve to fifteen seconds.
Slow, expensive, complex, immature.
Done, thank you. Same for Twitter.
With 8gb of ram and 256gb of storage? Otherwise it is like $1000. So, yeah that buys you a decent home server, but at that price it is kinda underwhelming considering the limited OS compatibility, ports, size (much larger than a NUC), ...
What i like about reddit is the content, that would be very hard to "redirect" without cloning entire subreddits history.

Not very sure about the ethics or technical feasibility of that.
You mean another example of someone hurling abuse where it turns out they were not harmless and in fact fully intended to escalate?

i.e literally the exact same thing
If you can't remember what you read yesterday on the newspaper the problem might not lie with the newspaper.
Like Reddit gold you mean? (before they created all these silly other awards)
the OP mentioned apple's headaches with the "disappearing" scrollbar, yes I often experienced that in Apple's own site, iTunes Connect (manage App submissions, rejections/comments etc). Disappearing scrollbars on TextArea with large amounts of text made is very easy to miss whole paragraphs of text, can be very costly.

I'm for "Customizing the UI", as long as it helps the User get the most out of the site.
This looks like a trip report
The operation of a D-type flip-flop and NAND gates explains everything in computers upwards of digital logic. What else is there to explain or explore in software?
Implement face detection on RK3588 development board with OpenCV for video surveillance, achieving accurate results with efficient computing power.
Bitcoin is a true innovation

Web3 is a scam. There's nothing there. It's all completely centralized, rife with insider premines and intellectually dishonest snake oil gimmicks. Silicon valley start ups issuing shares on a blockchain to escape from silicon valley regulations.
So basically not even a temporary hobby?