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Tell HN: Setting reader view as default will vastly improve your web experience
A lot has been said about the shabby state of the modern web - especially the user-hostile design and littering of advertisements.

But there is a solution built into the browser, that's called reader view. Maybe some of you use it sometimes, but I'm here to say that it should be set as standard in your browser for all websites. Every article loads with the article right there, in a font and format that's suitable to read and no distractions. If an article has images, they're perfectly inserted in the reader view. If an article has YouTube videos, they're perfectly inserted in the reader view. Bright or dark mode under your control, as well as font and font size.

If you feel like you're missing anything by using reader mode - you're not missing anything. It's like switching from watching movies with ad-breaks to using streaming. The first few days you might feel like you're missing something when there's only content and no distractions, but you quickly get used. Yes, you will have to except a few sites who are not suitable for reader view. It's easy and seamless.

Especially on mobile, reader view is a must-have. The modern internet is almost unusable on phones due to bad design and sticky headers. Reader view makes the web a first class experience on mobile again.

Now, I'd also like to ask: Is there any movement to continue this kind of branch and make a web browser a true user agent instead of an agent for the pages you visit? If you have reader mode, pretty much all that's missing is standardized navigation, and you cover the needs of most users. I've seen the Gemini protocol and browsers such as Kristall and Spacewalk as something interesting in this direction, but why change the protocol instead of just taking back control of the HTML?
Wild FTX allegations include plan to buy private island
NDST1 metabolizes glucosamine.

I’m wondering, if taking glucosamine supplements could increase the risk of dementia then.
Technically, preventing famines harms the environment in the “best way to not produce carbon is to die” sense, although I don’t think this was what the poster meant originally!
This is a micro example of why planned economies are hard and will usually fail. There are many such examples over centuries:

https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/systems-thinking-and-the-cobra-e...
I would argue it SHOULD be allowed to happen, maybe even encourage it. An EV that needs a gas powered generator for 0-1% of its life is many times better than an ICE that needs a gas powered generator for 100% of its life.

If you allow gas powered generators to complement EV stations, you will have more EV charging stations in remote areas or otherwise areas that wouldn't see EV chargers. Every extra EV charger will drive up the adoption.
It won't matter because in 8 to 10 years (even sooner) we're all going to be conditioned into seeing our personal cars as enablers of the climate apocalypse (yes, even the EVs) and as such we'll be kindly asked to travel less.

Because, of course, public transportation won't be able to compensate for the sudden and very big demand caused by people being forced to give up personal transportation en masse.
The GPS I have in my car has similar functionality including traffic alerts that it gets over radio, but it's a bit large to be carrying around. No idea if any of the handheld ones have the same capabilities.
There are good (or at least sincere) actors talking about AI regulation. I don't agree with all of them, but I believe they're trying to help solve problems that they do believe actually exist.

OpenAI is not in that group. OpenAI is looking for regulatory capture and propaganda about their AI capabilities, that's it. It is not worth taking them at their word when they talk about AI safeguards. Same with companies like Meta/Facebook, same with Google.

It makes no sense to ask these companies to be in charge of safeguards. Not only are the safeguards they propose likely to be ineffective; in some cases (watermarks, limits on what is and isn't "too powerful") they're likely to be actively harmful, entrenching corporate power and making it even easier for those companies to abuse AI to harm ordinary people.
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Like I alluded to before China’s actions speak louder than words. If speeches aren’t good enough an indicator for you, actions surely should be. China absolutely wants to be a hegemon and is an imperialist power as its actions since the early 1900s depict. Invasion and occupation of Tibet, SCS disputes, routine clashes with Vietnam, Philippines and India. US isn’t even the only aggrieved party here, hell you can even keep Taiwan out if it. It takes staggering amount of stupidity to ignore this reality and parrot tankie nonsense.
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This video shows the issue with AI "safety": it kills functionality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqcNqyd13Kw

The JSON example is the most damning. The model refuses to generate basic code because it refuses to "store personal information", which is not allowed due to laws such-and-such. This is FICTIONAL personal information (name + address).

But virtually every example is a lot better without safety measures.

If this is what AI safety means we may as well call it quits right now.
That's not really the salient point. The article is about subjects of psychological studies being English speakers.
Amazon is spending $120M on a building for its internet satellites
Most folks don't realize it runs arbitrary user-submitted code by default, well-crafted or malicious, and does a variety of things that should be checked.

Crucial: https://www.imagemagick.org/script/security-policy.php
Not sure what the situation is in the UK, but in France (which is really a developing country when it comes to EVs, similar to Italy), high-holiday season in 2022 brought very little charging delays. Autoroutes (toll roads) have very few EV chargers to begin with (although that's starting to change), but having to wait more than 20 minutes or so for a plug-in spot was a rare occasion. (In Holland, Belgium and Germany, fast-charge spots were available literally everywhere along major road networks).

Source: have not driven a combustion-powered vehicle in the EU since 2019, despite very frequent road trips.
> Will you release any information about the vulnerability?

> Yes, we’ll be releasing the patch publicly, as well as a CVE and an explanation in two weeks. We’re delaying release to give our install base a bit of extra time before this is widely exploited.

From their blog.
I wonder if a fair trade style label would help with this problem, allowing farms that provide higher wages to charge more for their products and consumers to have the option to support that or to purchase other cheaper options as their budget and preferences dictate. I know that I have adjusted my purchasing based on organic/grass-fed, etc. labels. I know those aren't perfect, but I hope that they lead to increasingly sustainable/ethical options in the future.
Correct - there's an efficiency benefit, although it's very marginal in the case of coal generation. That's mostly gone in Western Europe with the sore exception of Germany.
ok. We don’t support this options rn. I understand that end users might prefer to have different funding options. But for now it’s either your checking or savings.
Huch?

The Swiss don't care. Really. My son sees the sharp s everyday in school and nobody has explained to him what it is and nobody is asking him to replicate that letter.

No need to warn the Swiss.
All your financial transactions are already reported by the other parties (including most foreign ones: I have an offshore account that reports to FATCA).

Your personal data (age, dependents, marriage) is also in databases recording births and status changes.

For most filers, that's all you need.
desktop password managers without browser integration, like keepass.
This is the first time I've seen a WorldsAway reference outside of my friend group of former CompuServe employees.

I remember during that time first switching over to cable internet, and how my provider was adamant that you not run a web server, and their tech support would drop you like a hot potato if you mentioned that you used a router. Such a different world.

That was a fun article, thanks for posting!
Please try not to misinterpret what my views are - I’m not your enemy.

Yes, _Dubai_(not UAE) is a good example of a functioning multi cultural society - bear in mind UAE consists of 7 different Emirates, all very different places, independently governed.
Hardly perfect, but it’s one of the best examples of multi cultural societies I’ve witnessed.

And you hardly have to be a right winger to like Switzerland - and I find it interesting you think direct democracy is a right wing virtue - wasn’t power to the people what the left used to fight for?

And what’s your best example of a multi cultural country?
I’m fairly certain those reviews are fake, considering the punny names and “(totally legit) reviews” being the title.
At the same time, I think it's pretty clear that a no fly zone could have been done with few American casualties, and Putin would still have no ability to respond because they physically cannot. Putin, and more importantly all the rich assholes under him who like being rich assholes, don't like the idea of being rich assholes in a post nuclear exchange Russia, will likely not hit the button. Add to that the likelihood that most of the Nukes would not go off, or blow up on the launch pad even (Most of Russia's nukes are liquid fueled ICBMs, which are terrible in terms of staying reliable for cheap, and Russia spends less on it's entire military than the US spends on just it's solid fueled missiles). Russia has had at least one nuclear test fail since the war started.

We have been holding back equipment because "what if we need it" (to fight who?), or "but they'll retaliate!" (with the one tank they could afford to spare for the parade?) or "but it costs so much money" (only when you calculate it with the price we paid in 1980 instead of the negative value these old machines that need to be sold or decommissioned currently have) or "We can't send cluster munitions because the UXO risk!" while every day Russia is still in Ukrainian territory is actual Russians purposely shooting at Ukrainians and RUSSIANS HAVE LITERALLY USED CLUSTER MUNITIONS ON CIVILIAN POPULATIONS!

The actual insanity is sending Ukraine 100 Bradleys instead of 500 and then bitching when their offensive is mediocre.
We currently use them as our main PSP. It's ok.

Unfortunately they seem to have stopped working on their main payment product for years and it stagnated.

I asked a sales rep years ago if they have plans to integrate Amazon Pay. He said yes. It is still not available. They have Apple Pay, but not Google Pay. After PayPal, these wallets are the most important payment methods in e-commerce here, yet they don't seem to know this and/or refuse to add them for whatever reason.

Instead they now offer loans that are repaid with a percentage of sales. The conditions are horrible. Probably related to selling a good amount of shares to Blackstone PE in 2021.

So the enshittification has started. I guess they are working towards an IPO, so price hikes will probably come, too. Hope they prove me wrong and turn it around.
I like to bitch about SPAs, maybe working on one gives me some cred.

I was in on a call today and we were talking about some open source software from CERN which got me looking at their library catalog which is SPA-based and boy is it sweet...

https://catalogue.library.cern/

It is interesting in many respects in that it deviates from the standards of American librarianship that I've been involved in. (Seemingly no MARC records, no Dewey or LoC classifications...) Note that many LMS are derived from telnet-based systems so when you "start a session" it opens up a long-running process in the back end system which is linked to your browser with a cookie which can introduce all sorts of wonkiness as opposed to the more usual "stateless" approach you see in commercial web IR systems.

That particular product though strikes me as a real improvement over the status quo in that field.
in a collaborative environment, it's rarely 30 seconds to make such a change though. usually you have to make a commit with message, make a PR, submit the PR and get someone to review it (many orgs require code review for every change), then merge it. And each of those steps usually require you to context switch from whatever else you were actually trying to get done.

Now, if you're already changing that part of the code/file, then sure it's pretty low overhead. But for something as simple as that function, I'd probably delete the comment entirely.
> Except when the tests verify what the code was designed to do, but other systems have grown dependencies on what the code actually does.

Assuming you mean systems in terms of actually separate systems communicating via some type of messaging, isn't that where strong enforcement of a contract comes into play so that downstream doesn't have to care about what the code actually does as long as it produces a correct message?

> Or when your change fails tests, but only because the tests are brittle so you fix the test to match the new situation. Except it turns out something had grown a dependency on the old behavior.

I think this supports GPs point about tests being second-class and not receiving the same level of upkeep or care that the application code receives and one can argue that you should try to prevent being in a position where tests become so brittle you end up with transient dependencies on behavior that was not clear.
The “pressure fron the White House” was a direct result of them talking fairly exclusively to those companies and no one else in the space; this is pure show.
Except the cost of a worker isn’t just their hourly wage. It’s hiring + scheduling, should include benefits and retirement savings (but probably doesn’t), and in this case I believe the workers live on the farm during harvest, so you now need 2x the beds, 2x the food, etc.
I don’t think you understand the comment you’re replying to at all. Either that or you’re trying to deflect even further
Call me cynical but its hard to see this as anything but a way to create a moat for the incumbent leaders in the field.
This akin to parking anxiety, where you never know how long it will take to find a parking in the city. Still, we have cars in the city.

I've had an ev for over five years now and I have so far waited on a charger once, for twenty minutes. And that was at peak hours of the spring break mountain rush (when every swede packs their cars and heads from the populated south to the mountaneous north-west).

On the other hand, I have spent accumulated hours on driving from broken charger to charger that is only for customers to one that I'm not sure if it's in operation yet.

Also hours on just installing different charging apps with the usual registration flow (email, password, verify email, register card, etc).

More chargers and standardized experience (why not just chip and pin?) would be highly appreciated.
It would indeed, you clearly worked long, and hard on this as such I'd like to ask (since you've used Svelte). What is something you wish you knew earlier (a feature or an approach) with Svelte that you've found invaluable?
Most governments deserve a good helping of scorn including my own, despite our best efforts to persuade them otherwise. I find most people in the UK quite agreeable. I recommend not taking criticism against your government personally.
- Consistent output, less variability due to seasonal concerns like drought. Also output is constant year round. Less concerns about financial instruments (futures) to manage risk.

- More water efficiency which is becoming more of a concern with changing climes.

- Less need for fertilizer and pesticides, resulting in less potential toxicity for consumers.

- Precise control over growth conditions allows for perfection of individual crops when it comes to taste and nutrient density.

- Less biodiversity impact of traditional land based farming, more forest area available land.

- Transport is still a huge environmental impact, especially when it has to be transported internationally.

Edit: Also less concern of agriculture contamination, e.g. cattle farm upriver causing bacterial infection like salmonella.
The O°C lower limit sounds optimistic for a li-po battery, unless you don't care about how many minutes it operates.
>One could argue that failure to become a parent signals that you deeply, fundamentally, don't get biology

This is complete and utter nonsense.
Python documentation is written by morons who don't understand well the subject they are discussing. Yes, it may be surprising, but it's very possible and happens all the time that a person can do something proficiently, but not know what or how they are doing.

Python documentation is full of nonsense, contradictions, bad definitions etc.

There's no such thing as "expression statement", it doesn't matter that they say so or write it in documentation. It's like saying "fraction integer" -- it has to be one or the other.
> he won't give more than 48 hours, but he's still requiring a 7-day schedule

My read is that the workers want more, and the workers want 7-day schedules.

They want to work 7 days when there is full work, to store up for winter. But the economics don't make sense when they can't commit fully during that week.

I don't like how it sounds, but if the worker from the article if believed to be representative, then I think that's what's going on.

> and what prevents him exactly from changing the hourly

that's a good idea. a bit weird that it means everyone makes less (and is underpaid by industry standards) if they don't work through the harvest season though... seems like a tough situation all-around

Disclaimer: I'm a socialist and cofounder of a tech worker co-operative, so I favour workers rights. I'm just admitting that this situation is confusing :)
I did dial-up ISP support in the late 1990s. We did regularly end connections for those who were on long hours, but didn't stop them from reconnecting.
I was taught that in the subject position it would be "my sister and I" but that in the object position it would be "me and my sister", not vice-versa.
Major problem on HN too. You can't even mention expertise, experience, or credentials here without someone screeching "fallacy! appeal to authority!!"
> If you allow gas powered generators to complement EV stations, you will have more EV charging stations in remote areas

But you don't have to do this! You can just put them on the grid. There are very few places that are truly off grid in Europe, mostly on islands, and absolutely zero on motorways.
it's not DK, it's sales. It exploits substitution bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_substitution

"Thinking Fast and Slow" has a whole chapter on this with ample evidence
I'm just reply to your statements with questions and you refuse to answer by creating new conclusions.
>Skinny and bombshell are different. Even a bombshell model that is skinny is curvy and not the kind of neotenous androgynous ideal I referred to. You missed the point and clearly don't understand the significance of the difference.

Doesn't even matter, that's not the point. There are cultures in Africa that value obesity as beauty and those definitions are valid. https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12937... You think I'm fixated on a western style definition of beauty. I am not fixated on it. I am simply saying that the western definition of beauty is a VALID definition. It is not a "misunderstanding", your initial post claimed it is a "misunderstanding."

You're emphasizing too much on specific examples with your preconceived notions.

>You don't actually grapple with divergent local evolutionary pressures creating different, competing and often conflicting ideals of feminine beauty each of which make sense for a given evolutionary context, because it's easier to be intellectually lazy than to actually build a model that accounts for that evidence.

Except I never said anything on the contrary. When did I say that there aren't competing ideals of beauty? I'm glad there's a word for intellectual laziness because I clearly don't fit it.

Is there a word for making stuff up? Imagining that someone meant something when that person never said anything to that effect? What's the word for that? Delusional? No you are not delusional, but you need to understand that I never said anything to contradict your statement here.

>Who's the ignorant one? The one who continues to ignore full evolutionary context, so still you.

Except you haven't given any arguments to contradict my stance. Your arguments here are in full agreement with my point. I really don't understand what you're getting at here.
You're saying a single server failure is going to to cost your business half a million dollars?

This was a server with local NVMe storage. The simplest thing to do would have been to just get rid of it, but we have quite a few free users with data they care about running on single node Postgres (because it's cheaper). It seemed like a better idea to recover this thing.
It's a joke. A pretty good one, it fits HN.
If it's such a problem then use another language. Nobody is stopping you.
Tesla's claims are their to make, they can say whatever they want and what incentive they have to say something against the whole category of their main and only product. They have been saying bunch of stuff about automated driving, Tesla truck which isn't even possible under current laws of physics.

The real world mileage depletes with every usage and depletes faster. Having more charging stations along the way isn't very helpful because charging isn't instantaneous. If your battery lasts barely 50 miles, a charging station every 40 miles isn't helpful because you'd be sitting ducks there every 80 miles or so waiting your battery to have enough energy to catapult you to the next charging station.

About costs - I did inquire it myself for a German EV, battery had to be imported and I was quoted around 20,000 USD. Tesla has been quoting this much as well [0]

Whereas a full ICE engine rebuild would be 1/10th of that, easily.

https://electrek.co/2021/09/13/tesla-battery-pack-replacemen...
Bummer. Those are the best parties, even if you have to die in battle to get there.
Can you explain why you're between those, when you well know that without government intention the latter would, without question, occur?

It seems like the earlier is ideological in nature, whereas the latter is actually based on what you want reality to be like.
The campaign to dislodge the main stream media and replace it with propaganda has been very successful. It remains to be seen if we can recover from this. Personally, I think we do, but I think it's going to get worse before it gets better.
You are implicitly assuming zero progress on battery and or car technology. This is not entirely unfounded as the combustion engine has stopped progressing much for decades. As for Electric Cars, this is a whole different ballgame. The battery you are going to get in 15-25 years when you replace yours, will be a significant upgrade.

Also, an n=1 story: My girlfriend's parents bought an electric car in the mid 2000's with a range of 120km for short trips. 15ish years later, it still works perfectly.

Finally, Air Pollution is easily one of the most lethal (can it be THE most lethal?) thing in the world depending on how you measure. A significant part of this comes from cars. My guess is that for most of us, the gains in air pollution are personally significantly more important than those in climate change
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