skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Interesting that fixing "how to center a div" is considered harmful, but WebSerialPort is actually very good?

It is certainly "interesting", but "true" nonetheless: one determined person--think Fabrice Ballard if you want an example--is in a great position to throw together a web browser and even implement ALL of the crazy API wrapper specs, but when if they aren't you simply don't need most of them to browse any given website.

But, as it stands, my only a-few-year-old copy of Safari can barely even browse the web anymore as it is missing some new corner case of CSS or web components or whatever and I just get blank screens a lot; the result: people have burned years of large teams into trying to maintain implementations of HTML/CSS and have given up.

The web should really just be a handful of really core specs for getting platform access--which of course have innovated over the years so you'd have all of canvas, WebGL 1/2, and WebGPU, which would take SOME effort but isn't like, INSANE--and then all of the layout should be done end-to-end in libraries.

The world NEEDED to be like this to prevent us from ending up with only a handful of web browsers that can only be maintained by giant companies: it needs to be sufficiently easy to build a web browser that we would end up with a ton of small implementations that would be difficult to move as a unit, forcing progressive enhancement as a permanent norm.
Ghost ship floating off Yemen with 1M barrels of oil
If 99.9% of humanity agrees that sex work is bad, then surely sex workers and their customers combined must make up at most 0.1% of the population, right? And yet there are an estimated 1 to 2 million prostitutes in the US, so about 0.2% of the population, and presumably the clients outnumber the sex workers... so your magic number seems very very unlikely. I doubt even 99.9% of your friends and family would share your opinion, though they may not feel comfortable admitting this to you (you seem rather judgemental and close-minded).
People like the superhero movies. Are they wrong?
The chart in this this article is very wrong to show only GPL as free software and MIT/Apache as open source but not free software licenses.

While the FSF side of things doesn't like the term "open source," even they say that "nearly all open source software is free software."
Specifically, the MIT and Apache (and LGPL) licenses are absolutely free software licenses--otherwise Debian, FSF-approved distros, etc. would have far less software to choose from.

What the chart probably meant to distinguish is copyleft vs free software or open source. And if you're ordering it from a permissiveness viewpoint, the subset relationship should be reversed--GPL is far more permissive than SSPL, etc., but still less permissive that MIT/Apache.
As someone who didn't understand math until I messed with programming, I absolutely agree academia goes about teaching math completely wrong.

The absolute lack of context and meaning to anything that was done in math education meant I never appreciated them, they were literally just wastes of time to me. Anything beyond simple arithmetic made no sense to me, because I was never taught how they made sense.

It was only once I started playing around with programming when everything suddenly clicked. All at once, concepts like variables and equations had meaning, I could sincerely understand what the numbers and letters stood for.

Math education in general really would benefit students of all ages more if they had more of the Hows and Whys before engaging in all the Whats.
I've heard very inconsistent things about this, which is interesting. Often people say Rust is less productive, as there's often "makework" involved with satisfying the borrow checker. I suspect a lot of it revolves around how you perceive that sort of thing: it can be cast as both productivity (satisfying it can potentially rule out bugs) or a loss of productivity (you were already satisfied the code was correct).

But I don't have enough experience with Rust to really have formed an opinion on that yet.
They'll need to create some sort of reputation system to make it work. Alternatively, move back to typewriters and not publishing online. AI reversing the internet again.
I can understand that the person's time might be limited, but what an awful, brusque answer. Definitely would feel dehumanized as the recipient
Make us inhale all the toxic fake news and ads.... They should print pictures of exhausted ad consumers on google packages.
Thin Flat Lenses Could Unleash a Revolution in Space Telescopes
I've had a slightly different experience of Dan Brown.

Some if it may due to my having read Foucault's Pendulum 5 years before Dan Brown, and part of the plot for Foucault's Pendulum is actually an algorithm for generating Dan Brown-style books. Written about 20 years before Dan Brown's novels. Of course, the fact that Umberto Eco writes much better (and with much greater humor) than Dan Brown didn't help me appreciate the latter.

Some of it may also be due to the fact that I actually love reading on religion, religious history and art history... and that Dan Brown's books very much felt to me like combinations of well-trodden clichés and combinations of barely half-understood history, art, religion, symbolism.

To each their own, I guess.
Yes, but that is fairly recent! Did anyone even notice? For years, you could siphon every song you listened to and save it locally. But did it affect anything? I did it for a little while, but then found it wasn't worth the trouble.
You could simply train on the output straight up and nobody would ever be able to tell anyway.
Why is Joe Manchin’s vote more powerful than the other Senators’ votes?

If you need 50 or 60 votes to do something, and you do not have it, then is the 50th or 60th vote more powerful than the other 49 and 59? And what about the other 49 and 39 votes that will not compromise?

Kind of ridiculous to pin this on a party that has not had enough votes to make a change. Especially when the states making the most progress towards reducing carbon emissions are Democrat led.
That's a good point, and the sales education process is definitely important. It's a fine line between "let's step back and look at your actual pain points" and "what else can I upsell you on while I have your attention?", that customers are very wary of crossing.
> Why do people keep saying this?

Because there's no reasonable argument against it. What I want to understand is why people have such a low opinion of the intelligence of the people around them. I can't imagine a person so stupid that they would be aware that they can make a 1-click deepfake, but also be totally convinced by every photo they see. This would be somebody who runs away screaming when they see a train coming towards them on television (which people actually did at the dawn of film, but they got used to the new situation.)

> People believe far less convincing things now. People see After Effects flares and badly animated CGI on Youtube and photoshopped images and think aliens are real and cities appear in the skies over China. People will believe whatever confirms their biases, regardless of its quality.

People believe it because it is harder to do now. They use a very sensible heuristic (often badly) that nobody would go through the trouble to fake X images for Y reason. The question is explicitly about what happens when you don't have to go through any trouble to create convincing fake images.
Most employees in the country are employed at will. The employer can fire them for almost any reason, or no reason. That reason may have nothing whatsoever to do with the employee's conduct. "There are rumors that you made amateur porn, and we believe that even this rumor may make parents uncomfortable, and also make it more difficult to maintain order in your classroom. Even if this rumor was fabricated about you in a malicious way, this may reflect that you have already attracted ire from at least some of the parents or pupils that we serve. Whether these rumors are true or not, we feel our academy is better off if we part ways." Public school teachers may have some protections on how they can be dismissed, but I think private school and charter school teachers typically have minimal protections. So long as the employer is open to firing a male employee for rumors of involvement in something reputation-decaying, they can at least make a plausible case that it's not matter of gender discrimination.

Also, _all actual evidence is in the past_. You're trying to write yourself a permission slip to predict anything while ignoring all actual lived experience.
It's not humans that need to adapt, right? It's all the other species we depend on. Their adaptation will not necessarily make our adaptation easier. We cannot manufacture a habitable environment for ourselves ex nihilo.

For example, fungal infections are on the rise because fungi prefer warmer temperatures. Mammalian species like bats, that hibernate, are the canaries in the coal-mine, succumbing to these infections before other mammalian species. We are engendering countless such changes in the adaptive strategies of other species. It will not end well for us if we can't get greenhouse gas emissions down quickly.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/17/1188101048/blight-warns-of-th...
Something also not caused by doom scrolling twitter.
There's really no reason to care about which of the two prevailing theories are right, because they have the exact same outcome: Whether it came from the chinese lab or the chinese wet market, china will not let anyone know, and they have no intention of letting anyone else tell them how to prevent it in the future. We cannot make them run their bio labs safer, and we cannot force them to prevent a natural source without something stupid like extreme sanctions or war.

So instead, we could look at the ways we utterly fucked up when presented with a novel pathogen that we absolutely could have handled better. But oddly nobody who is so gung ho about punishing china for covid seems to want to look at that. Wonder why
To say it's worth $10,000 quadrillion is to completely misunderstand how price formation works by supply and demand.

It should say "Asteroid found will make gold under $1 per ounce"
> big tech is driving many of the technological advancements that have brought a new era of economic prosperity and growth to the world.

Companies that actually do that are rarely big tech. And Big Tech as term colloquially refers to Facebook, Google etc.
Indeed, but it's not just an issue with some obtuse administrator. School boards are heavily politicized these days, and if complaining parents were told that there was no good legal basis to terminate someone, it's entirely possible that they'd crowd the school board meeting and make a big stink about it.

Factuality does not matter to a lot of people.
My first thought too. Its not going to do any LLM computing on your phone/tablet.
> It was as if someone wrapped a cheap crime template around "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" and my SO loved it.

This "cheap wrapping" makes me think of Atlas Shrugged. I read the book completely "blind" without foreknowledge of it or its author--recommended to me by a relative.

Partway through I felt the author was insulting my intelligence by trying to sneak a vapid manifesto (as an entire chapter, even) within a fiction novel, and I completed reading it out of pure spite, so that I could confidently denounce it.
You pretty much can with android devices since you can pull up a shell and install packages, and you have access to a filesystem.
If I recall correctly, the authors of The Holy Blood and he Holy Grail actually sued Dan Brown for plagiarism.
> I do care about it being called open source when it's not.

Yep. We don't need additional confusion on this term.
> Maybe critics don't like him for his formulaic writing - copying the plot over and over after Angels & Demons.

I think a big part of what makes this article funny and effective is that it shows you lots of what Brown does so poorly in his writing without even touching the subject of his recycled plots.
Academia has sold itself and the world that it is only scrutinizable unto itself. But this was not always the case.

If you read scientific papers from 50 or 100 years ago, they are surprisingly readable. There also used to be much more involvement from "lay-scientists" and hobbyists.
What you say you’d like is what I’m looking for, too, but what you say Primo is doesn’t sound far enough off that I understand your complaint. When you say “customize blocks” I guess that doesn’t include changing the text? Or perhaps it doesn’t constrict the possible actions enough for you to feel safe handing it over to a client?
Without it, it would pass the current location, that is the location inside that test function, rather than the original parent call.
When is 3-valued logic useful?
Is your concern with the fact that clients can lay out their sites with blocks? Note that they can't edit any of the visual aspects unless you create a field for those specifically (e.g. making an image a circle or square).

If it's with not being able to use a local IDE - that is something that's currently possible by bundling your Svelte components into vanilla JS and importing them into your Primo blocks & passing along data as fields - but I'd give it a couple weeks before using it in production until we smooth it out.

But what you've described is essentially how I do my client projects - I build it all with code (usually reusing blocks from other projects) and hand off a site that literally any of my clients can edit on day one with minimal training.
Right but you are on the sell side and not on the buy side. Growing your 100K followers requires work and requires you to stay up to date and follow the market.

But you are right, the buy side of it can be exhausting outside of your niche. Especially if it isn't giving you anything back.
be sure to upgrade the firmware, 980 pros are known to die after a while.

dunno why people keep paying this premium for them, there's other better options for less money, like HP FX900 or Team Cardea these days. And those companies have a track record of reliability and not... whatever Samsung is doing for the last 10 years.

Like honestly these days Samsung rates below stuff like Sabrent Rocket for me. You're better off picking a random other product from a big-name brand with equivalent specs as long as it's not a Samsung... the "SSD monty hall problem" if you will. Simply by switching, you improve your odds.
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I don't think it can actually -- I believe if you start your title with "How", HN will automatically delete it; editing it won't stop the deletion, AFAIK.
> it shifts open source from a community concept to something that a company lets you have with a bunch of conditions.

Because you think that Protobuf, Android, Chromium, and all the other open source projects by Big Tech are there for the community? It's about control.

Not saying it's fundamentally bad, but you can't deny that the fact that Android exists means that it is very difficult to get adoption for an alternative "open" mobile OS, and Google benefits greatly from it. Same for Chromium, and basically everything.

When Big Tech open sources something, it's a strategic decision. Not philanthropy.
Sure, Instagram though…
https://archive.is/990Qh
Probably — it’s just weird how much of an identifiable “voice” ChatGPT has
The only real problem is the problem of proof. People won't believe real images when deepfakes are common. How are you going to prove what you say is true? How are you going to convince people to act on what would be impossible to verify?

Not only is is a bigger problem than a bit of puritanism, but it's one that doesn't completely solve itself.
If I had the money I would. But don't worry other people (idiots apperently) are. China and India are both some of the leading countries in added solar and wind capacity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_by_country
> Are we suddenly against native mobile apps altogether?

Yeah, pretty much. The privacy controls on Android, at least, are very poor and you leak tons of private data to native apps that doesn't leak to web apps.
Why? How does the cost of microprocessors and metals decreasing make programming easier?
People believe whatever other people that they trust tell them. There will still be "reputable" sources to tell people what is real.
Prosperity does not equate to betterment of humanity. The prosperity of concentrated to a small section of the population, at the expense of the majority.

It is nowhere near the deliverer of hope you're making it out to be, it's an enabler of great negative paradigm shifts that is slowly starting to be recognised. Social media is starting to be recognised as a harm on society but slowly... It'll probably take a few decades for wide retrospective agreement (in other words when it's too late)
> Are we suddenly against native mobile apps altogether?

I personally am only against apps that give me zero utility or value over what a website can do. If I want to add you to my home screen, I will; if I care enough I'll certainly remember the website.
If this is seriously your level of supply chain scrutiny, being an Oxide early adopter probably isn't the best idea.
His formulaic writing is one thing (one of my favorite authors, Glynn Stewart, releases about 1 military scifi novel every three months, it's pretty formulaic), but my issue was how he made things up, and had them close enough to reality that is really hard to tell the difference. Maybe it's more of an issue I have with people, but it still made me stop reading him.
...and literally no one cares.
> Images are going to be just like text. Let's all just embrace that already. You can't lie any more or less with them than you can text, once we all (inevitably) stop trusting them as though they were difficult to fabricate

People trust text and that's clearly written by someone not a snapshot of reality. There's a reason libel is a thing.
Show HN: Guiding LLM outputs using Zod
The iOS version has whisper built in for voice to text and it's nearly flawless in my experience.
There are people I know where I try to remember how we met, and it’d be because of some obscure corner of the gamefaqs forum.
When they go down into the mine, everyone would still be alive. There would be no shocking memories, and the the prevailing emotion will be one of nostalgia for those left behind, combined with a spirit of bold curiosity for the adventure ahead! [involuntary Nazi salute with right arm while the left arm frantically pulls down the right arm]
> I don't think you could do that on PalmPilots either.

I wrote a couple of apps using Quartus Forth[1] entirely on the Palm IIIx. Admittedly fairly simple ones but done entirely locally.

[1] http://www.quartus.net/products/forth/
If you're after affordable, high-quality T-Shirts that are 100% cotton, I like to buy surplus Bundeswehr (German military) OD green shirts from various websites.

They used to be as cheap as $5 each.

If you don't want to wear military surplus, I've found Uniqlo to fill a similar niche.
The average American consumes 23% more calories per day in 2010 then in 1970[1] and does 100 calories less physical activity per day in their occupation since 1960[2].

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/12/13/whats-on-...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3102055/
I like paperclips. Should we maximize?
Benefit of centralized waste and pollution management tho.
https://archive.is/OM3Ej
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36800789

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36785516

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36800744

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36808231

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36791711

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36789691

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36816208

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35862886

By the HN guidelines this is a repost, but it would be a mistake IMO to delete it. This would mark the end of the open web, but for whatever reason this issue has never really bubbled to the surface here before. It feels like something is different this time.
When the hell are they going to open the gpt4-32k to everyone?
If we had the technology to turn all that grazing land into farmable land, we could support a global population in the tens of billions.

The whole point of livestock is that they can be raised on land that isn't farmable (i.e., cattle for meat or milk), or food that isn't otherwise edible (i.e., pigs and chickens). For most of their lives cattle in the U.S. are raised on land that isn't suitable for farming, and only get fed soy or corn-based feed in their last few weeks to fatten them prior to slaughter.
> China is never going to cooperate on giving more circumstantial evidence

> In my opinion, this is the real thing stalling this debate, not politics.

But isn’t that politics? (International politics to be precise.)
Yes, and that and other social engineering tactics have fucked people over plenty of times.

So why are we pretending that making it easier to make more visceral and convincing versions of that won't have any bad effects? We already know that there are people who will try to advance their own interests like that, in what world does giving them more tools make their job harder somehow? "A sucker is born every minute" was said pre-computers, after all.
Still better than ElectronJS, I would say
Most journalists aren't experts on the law, either. How do they report on court cases?

They aren't experts on aviation safety. How do they report on airplane crashes?

They aren't experts on economics. How do they report financial news?

They're supposed to be experts at reporting, which works out to mean experts at finding out about topics that they don't already know about.
I removed the instagram app on my phone to minimize my usage. It works. The experience of the mobile website makes it easy to use the platform much less. And I never need to re-login to the mobile website.
I'm willing to give it a try.

From time to time I've been chatting with hey pi [1] which you can add as a WhatsApp contact. It's pretty fun

1 - https://heypi.com/talk
Ah, we’ll also have to extract the key from chrome. It’s no worse than WideVine.
"Very much so, and especially since a scientific paper that was published (after peer review) means that it is of interest to other scientist, not that it is a fact."

This is leaving out important nuance. You are right that it doesn't mean it's fact. It does mean though that other qualified researchers in the same field didn't find important flaws in there study. They didn't reproduce it, but from what's in the paper itself, it looks solid. This is a big difference to plainly finding it "interesting". I'm not certain to what degree "interesting" is even part of the review process by the peers for most journals or to what degree that falls to a different role.
I don't think you are mistaken, looking at the screenshots this seems to be a slimmer version of the web version. The web version has more features.