skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"much more powerful" is not anything like "on par". So what if that beautiful and expensive chunk of metal and plastic was slower in games and such?
If anyone understands the 'risks' of giving an employee a platform to promote themselves, it would be Linus.
I'm not disagreeing with the author- water is being sold at a discount to agribusiness and with an extra price for normal consumers. And something must be done about it.

But, it's never just that simple.

Is that $800/foot-acre just the cost of the water? Or does the bill for the consumer household water use also include the incredibly expensive infrastructure to pipe water to each little suburban house across California? Low density housing (pervasive because NIMBYism) also means high infrastructure costs. Someone has to pay for all the work to build and maintain those water lines down each street. (And yet, people living in a condo where one pipe serves hundreds pay the same rates!)

Agricultural use often requires just dropping a hose into the river, and they business will handle those costs themselves.

In short, the water problem in California is more than just "blame China for stealing our water". It is that too, yes, but there isn't just one problem.

... Or I'm completely off base and that $800 figure is just the water and includes none of the other costs...
Child selectors I can understand. But won't media queries mostly be limited to containers and thus used sparsely and those cases would warrant having a class of their own even if one decides that named classes for each element is a hassle?
Most folks would agree with you that we can use what we like but that isn't the reason for the vitriol. I think most of the vitriol comes from the way the it is presented as "the winner" when a lot of people either actively dislike it or would never chose to use it.

I dislike Tailwind and would never choose it so seeing it presented as if it climbed to the top of some pile makes me laugh out loud and based on the comments there are a fair few people that agree. That said, use what works for you and I won't try to claim my choices as "winners" in some undeclared contest.
Technology choices, and life's choices in general are like a spectrogram of different wavelengths with positive and negative values... Like "this will help you today, but bite you in the rear tomorrow", or "this will help you tomorrow, but be annoying today". And it also varies by different conditional developments, if this happens, if that happens, can you implement a change, or the solution is "write-only" and so on.

One of the tests of intelligence is can you defer immediate gratification, so you can reap higher rewards in time that compound themselves, or you lack impulse control and therefore you essentially have the model behavior of a house fly.

This incessant focus on "here, now, me" that I see glorified, which doesn't consider at all anything outside a point in time and space that demands the impulse to be immediately satisfied... is not a good direction for tech, or for society at all. It's like choosing porn over a family.

Obviously, I'm describing a broader problem here, not just some CSS tool, but Tailwind and many of the "frameworks" we see pushed in the industry do also embody this philosophy, quite clearly. Many things do these days. Ship faster, do less, faster, faster, faster. To what end? Are your projects so worthless, that you need to ship them today and then leave hell to yourself and others few months down the line? Not to mention that all the claims Tailwind is "faster", somehow, are written in weasel language to hide the fact Tailwind adds tangible, often significant lag and load to people's devices when they use your site. Does this matter?

Of course, a fancy experiment is all good. You won't see me writing long posts about how Brainfuck is the end of humanity. But Tailwind has a good size community that actually believes their approach is superior, they're on a mission from God, and it's become viral, dragging in more and more people in, and influencing other projects into the same stupidity. What else does it mean to write a post called "Why Tailwind won". Won what? Was there a war going on? Won over what? Bootstrap? Bootstrap is a framework. Won over CSS? It runs on CSS, it's not an "alternative to" CSS, although it sure makes it impossible to use most of the benefits of CSS in a sane way. Yay, what a win.

If Brainfuck was totally serious, and you saw your company is starting to write critical projects in Brainfuck, wouldn't that give you a serious pause?
You're trying to sell me Web Components as a solution to over-engineered hacks?
Show HN: AI powered news site making headlines more informative and less biased
I made this prototype of a news site that takes in 10 articles per story from a wide spectrum of sources and aims to generate a more informative and impartial headline. The goal is to combat clickbait and misleading headlines, and to make it quicker to consume news by reducing the need to read full articles.

I would really appreciate any thoughts and feedback you have!
Must be weird how all those intermediate developers flocked to Powerbooks and Macbooks soon after, huh?
If you don't mind me going on a soapbox here for a minute, I want to highlight something that I suspect is hurting your cause and not helping it:

> In short—many people are dumber than the very animals they say “have no conscience.”

There's a phenomenon that I've observed over the last 20 years that seems to primarily effect progressive causes: an alienating sense of moral and intellectual superiority over the people who do not yet believe in your cause. That statement that you made there is going to do two things:

- Resonate with the people who already believe that eating meat is the epitome of evil and all that is wrong with the world

- Cause people who don't yet believe that to go "wow, those vegetarians are assholes." And... it won't be the first time they've had that thought :)

That being said, the question that has perpetually eluded me with vegetarianism is: what is a good way to promote it? If you do truly believe that people are dumb, but you still want them to start eating an animal-free diet, what's the tack for getting there? My suspicion is that one aspect of a positive approach is to just start cooking and sharing amazingly good animal-free meals. For people who are vegetarian for moral-superiority reasons, it's easy to justify sacrificing on amazing food because, well, morality; for your Uncle Joe, though, all you're telling him is "you can't have bacon on your burger, you can't even have the burger, but here's a soy-based alternative that's not nearly as good but is _moral_". I have had incredible vegetarian dishes, particularly from Middle Eastern restaurants. They are decidedly not the dishes that vegetarians bring to backyard barbecues.

> they’ve never worked in a slaughter house nor spent time with the animals

For the record, I am not a vegetarian but I do try to bias my cooking towards more sustainable ingredients. We buy our meat exclusively from local farms (which I realize is both unscalable and a privilege). I have not worked in a slaughterhouse, but I have raised and slaughtered cows and chickens with my own hands. Mostly I'm not a vegetarian because I'm not good enough at consistently cooking food that tastes nearly as good as beef or pork and I have not yet found the right combination of vegetarian dishes that doesn't leave me with a lack of energy after eating them for a week.
> I have had good success and a rewarding experience using htmx the past year. It has been so great in tandem with Clojure using hiccup for SSR.

What kind of app are you working on?
Writing Fewer Data Tests
You won't be put in a cage if you violate a patent. There are no criminal penalties for patent violations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKEkJAKlRM0

(This comes from a thread I started on a different submission, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37142315 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37143776)
AWS Chose Permit.io as an Official Authorization Provider for Cedar Language
And USA still hasn't ratified https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment
Ask HN: Alternative Jira UIs?
Especially on the “Backlog” view, eventually my M2 Mac starts to just crawl as I’m moving stuff around and trying to plan my team’s next sprint. I’m using Safari. Any workarounds or alternative frontends that are faster? Sadly using Jira was not my choice.
This is basically classic arbitrage. Water in the American West is badly mispriced, so ranchers in China, Japan and Saudi Arabia are essentially buying this water for a very low price because their own water price is very high.

I'm hoping there is eventually enough outrage in these areas to change policy. Especially in California, where they are forcing people to rip up their lawns and trying to guilt folks into feeling horrible if they take a shower a minute too long, meanwhile they're doing nothing about what is actually the biggest cause of the problem.
The iMac G3 was the very first computer I got to use. Our school district had several in every classroom and a couple computer labs. I distinctly remember using Scholastic software called Reading Counts, as well as KidPix on OS 9. Eventually, some of the older G3s got replaced with the eMac running OS X and then the district switched completely over to running Windows XP on Dell. That brief exposure to Apple and the creative colors makes me miss the times when using computers felt fun.

I think the closest I felt to that later on was around the time when Vista came out and everyone was using WindowBlinds to change their theme up.
The size of the wheels and tires doesn't matter as much as the weight of the wheels and tires. We should be optimizing for puncture resistant tires with lightweight wheels. Size doesn't matter, except for aesthetics.
Between this and the adjacent Tesla thread, it's pretty apparent that modern workers' rights need a facelift or more support or... something?
Mercedes-Benz disconnects Russian car dealers from servicing software
In terms of skillset, I’m mostly a backend guy (of 20 years or so). I know my way around HTML and CSS, and I have a decent eye for design, but it’s not my primary focus.

I recently started a writing project, and found myself unhappy with choosing a standard blog theme, and decided to build my own.

For this purpose, Tailwind has been incredible. I don’t have plans to become a front end dev, and investing significant time in improving my CSS skills is not a good use of time for what will be a fairly small project. It gives me more flexibility than frameworks like Bootstrap while still offering a lot of the productivity benefits. It lets me explore concepts and ideas that I otherwise wouldn’t have the skills to play around with.

This thread reads like most $language/$framework/$os holy wars. There is an awful lot of hatred over a perceived lack of “purity”, or because of the perceived superiority of other approaches. Like most of these technology debates, the extreme binary positions really miss the value that can be found in the middle. Tailwind has been great for getting ideas out of my head to see how they look, and for staying focused on the content that I’m planning to write instead of getting stuck learning about browser edge cases.

If I start focusing more of my time on building UIs, I’ll invest more deeply in CSS.

I’m also fairly convinced that many of the negative comments filled with disgust at the resulting syntax have never tried it. After about 10 minutes, the conventions start to become obvious, and I can write visual elements mostly at the speed of thought. This is really quite enjoyable.

I’m also not suggesting it’s the right tool for every job. But the lack of nuance in much of the discussion here is pretty disappointing for the HN community.

I personally feel that the future of the (useful) web depends on more people choosing to do their own thing. Tools that lower the barrier to entry and simplify content creation will always be important.
There is! Andy Glassman talked about this at Empex NYC (that I help organize btw!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c9kMmxeSA0

The tool Andy uses is called kaffy https://hexdocs.pm/kaffy/0.5.0/readme.html
In term of specific PFAS, the film Dark Waters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)) dramatizes DuPont's legal battle over PFOA/C8.

In the legal cases, it came to light that chemical companies had themselves documented a wide and significant amount of damages to humans and animals, including a large amount of assembly line workers involved in the production of Teflon, who died or suffered significant illnesses.
You disagreeing with something doesn't make it wrong. I'm sorry, but people in other parts of the world have a right to be forgotten, no matter how much you want to pretend they do not.
Chris Fix's videos are a wonderful. High signal to noise with a very pleasant presentation.

They are mostly car repair, maintenance, and modification. No real theme, just whatever he happens to be doing and find interesting.

My 11 year old has watched his oil change video at least a hundred times. We opened the hood on my truck and he was able to find various parts that Chris had mentioned in his videos. My older two (driving age) have no clue.
A a few weeks after I had COVID I started having panic attacks. I went up a couple of flights of stairs at work and felt immensely exhausted - way more than I should have, I use the stairs at work all the time. I started feeling like there might be something wrong with me and that turned into a panic attack. (Later, of course, that turned out to be a symptom of long COVID fatigue.)

I was 32 at the time. Never had a panic attack before. Sometimes felt something was wrong but clear thinking and a few deep breaths and I was okay. Not this time.

In the subsequent couple of months I had a few more random panic attacks - once on a highway; I had to pull over.

So I went and saw a therapist. I don't think they actually helped reduce the attacks - the frequency dropped with time, together with the fatigue. Now, two years later, I only have the mildest of attacks (and I'm at around 60-70% of energy). But they did help me calm down, gave me tools to deal with an attack when it happens and reduced my stress around the entire experience.

It was definitely money well spent, and as much as I can tell from being my own carer, clinically relevant.
Context: https://twitter.com/suuuoppp/status/1691693740254228741
How difficult is it to return to work life from an absence like this? I see many young people living and traveling in vans but I think about what they will return to. I see that they work on the road (planting trees to example) but I feel it will be difficult to return to a career, and fixed lifestyle.
Its the phase where llama.cpp processeses the input, as opposed to the phase where its generating the response.

Speed is particularly important. The response can be streamed word by word, so it doesn't have to be particularly fast, but slow input processing leads to very noticable latency.
Patents are terrible. They don't provide any real protection since you still have to litigate and they don't provide innovation. They are greed tools for evil people to use to stop other people from using a part of our rights.
Matt Parker video on the subject: https://youtu.be/zYkmIxS4ksA
Seems to be focused on formally managed cuddlies with chain-of-possession. Would be nice / arguably more modern and holistic to see some gardening related information whereby people are encouraged to restore and enhance habitats for all manner of creatures including but not limited to insects and invertebrates as such a strategy will be more self-sustaining and also tend to support native mammals and birds. Oh, and the sad reality is you need to kill or lock up any cats you see wandering around... a low-vis method is creating a tincture of true lilies in any ponds of water left lying around which will cause feline renal failure.

I am drawn to gardening and biology as a collection of complex and mutually interdependent black box systems with zero authoritative reference that constantly surprises.
I notice you left out my civil disobedience example.

> Just war theory isn't blanket justification to go to war based on whatever "threat" you think exists.

Yes, that's EXACTLY MY POINT. It's an example of a logical argument used to justify when violence can be used to prevent future violence.

It doesn't say that all war is just war. That's why it uses the word "just".

Your argument seems to be that no threat justifies violence. Ukraine shouldn't fight back against Russia. Those held as slaves shouldn't be violent to self-styled "owners." Thoreau, author of Civil Disobedience, famously supported John Brown's violent raid on Harper's Ferry, arguing Brown's commitment to justice required him to fight a government which enforced the injustice of slavery.

You would deny all of these cases of using violence to (at least try to) prevent future violence by characterizing them as equivalent to an un-just war with horrific genocides? Really?

It's actually a horrible analogy because by your logic the US should not have gotten involved in the European theater of WWII - why use violence to prevent future violence?

I agree with dgb23 - your view is incredibly naive. Simply say you are a pacifist and reject all violence. That's fine. But that's a moral argument, while you asserted there was invalid logic.

MLK Jr. commented that 'A riot is the language of the unheard'. I agree with King's characterization of the riots he was talking about.

dgb23's point is a direct parallel: "Violence is inevitable, in some form or another, if the climate effects are ignored to such a degree."

I also agree with dgb23.
Right. The history of Russia, as fascinating as it is, is the same story again and again for centuries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_from_St._Petersburg_...
The problem is, if you read the stories, Amazon is turning pharmaceutical work into basically another warehouse job of high quotas and speed. To the point that pharmacies just ignore Amazon's requests to transfer meds because Amazon would use autodialers to call pharmacies, and then put the called on pharmacy on hold until the single pharmacist on call at Amazon picks up that call after dealing with dozens of others at the same time. Meanwhile wasting the time of the other pharmacies.

This is just Amazon trying to grow their pharmacy business at all costs. What they are doing in this specific example is a good thing, but who knows what the fallout will be.
What has been lost can be gained again.

It's like C developers smirking and demeaning web developers because "kids these days don't know anything about computers or memory management" as if they truly believe that that's true because newer devs aren't smart enough to understand it, rather than the ground truth that it's just not relevant to those newer devs, and that they could easily learn everything the jaded C dev knows, if it became relevant/useful again.

I definitely believe that a devs exposure to various languages/frameworks is important though, even if they only work in one domain. Someone who is a React dev will try to apply a React spanner to everything they do, but then again someone who is a C dev will write C-like React code (or just outright refuse to engage in web dev).
Definitely not my intent.
Patents exist to protect small inventors from large companies. If I spend years of my personal time inventing something and I patent it it prevents another larger company from using their existing infrastructure to ramp up way faster on my idea.

One of the major issues with patents is that they take too long to expire. If the goal is for me to be able to get up and running before a big competitor takes the idea, I need a few years, not a lifetime.
Or just charge a fair rate for all water resources in the state, one that is representative of its scarcity and cost, without massively subsidizing inefficient agricultural use in the process.

The alfalfa situation would correct itself if the water being used was fairly priced and not heavily subsidized.
I've been lurking on HN since 2016, and actively contributing since 2019. I can safely say the discourse on here has definetly tanked.

These kind of passive aggressive comments are the equivalent of an ostrich putting their head in the sand.
my pet theory is that long covid is associated with an autoimmunity to the ACE hormone. If covid uses the ACE2 receptor to enter your cell, the spike protein must resemble a portion of the ACE hormone, and it's easy for your immune system to "miss" and attack the wrong thing. Once you are "allergic" to your own hormones, you have two problems: 1) chronic immune response and inflammation and 2) lack of effectiveness of ACE due to it being removed or disabled by your immune system
Sure. You're talking about two different things here. When you're saying "social democracy", you're talking about "capitalism with a safety net". When you're talking about "Communist" countries, you're talking about a system in which the government controls the means of production. These are related but distinct ideas.

The thing is, in the "government controls the means of production", you necessarily cede to the government sufficient control of everything - news media and everything else: that is, by definition, totalitarianism. The government can easily use this to prevent "bad views" from being aired. It doesn't even require evil intent. The gov't can think it's doing the right thing by protecting people from "misinformation" - you can see this debate today in America, and I understand there's a debate today in Germany about actually banning an overly-right-wing political party. And when a government comes to view itself as being truly good, the only legitimate defender of the people, it'll be very tempting for them to stomp on media and even voting freedom even with those good intentions.
again, that makes perfect sense.

What wouldn't make sense is if you repeat this 1000 times and a car is never in your lane.

That means that something is wrong about how you are modeling the road and cars.

The claim that people are confused by is (asteroids with a 3% chance of hitting get the change revised to 0% more than 97% of the time).
Personally I find the landing page confusing.

Some marketing text and I don't understand why this is better than just vanilla wireguard?
> Tesla employees would sleep on the floor after working upward of 12-hour-long shifts.

> “My supervisor called me the n-word right in front of other co-workers,” said Melvin Berry ...

This is what enabled Musk to become a hyper-billionaire. This is not something to be proud of.
Show HN: The Passkey Journey – tools to accelerate passkey deployments
Hey HN Ive been working on a set of tools to accelerate passkey adoption and deployment. Doing a soft launch today.

Background: For the past few years I have been working with organizations to deploy passkeys to their customers and employees. While passkeys provide frictionless and phishing-resistant authentication, the UX and functional support for passkeys is browser and OS dependent.

I wanted to get feedback on a set of tools I've been working on to address the challenges around passkey deployment:

1. Passkey Readiness Assessment - https://thepasskeyjourney.com this tool, after it's integrated on your site, generates a report revealing the types of passkeys your user base supports and displaying their experience will be like. Basically I built this so other developers, UX designers, and PMs can get answers to "What percentage of my users can actually use passkeys? What will it look like?"

2. Universal Passkeys - https://www.beyondidentity.com/developers/product/universal-... these are a set of native and web SDKs that enable passkey support for every user no matter what device, browser, and application type they're on. The idea is "Deploy once, have a unified passkey experience for all browser and device types".

Hope you like, and please share any feedback you might have in the comments!