skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can keep on raising awareness for this serious problem, and it's beginning to show results, at least there's some consideration now when years ago every CSS "invention" was naively cheered at as our web docs became impossible to render unless you kiss the ring of an ad company. We have to be realistic here, though; the ad/spam "industry" has ruined every digital communication medium so far: email, usenet, irc, ...

What W3C should be doing IMO is start a formal semantics for CSS. Or alternatively, layer as much as possible on top of a primitive JS rendering or layout plugin API (a la Houdini API), and ship a portable JS layout implementation (for float, table, flex, grid/subgrid, etc. layout) on top of it.

We should also call CSS wizardry what it is: a self-serving show off, and a weakness, considering the web was once envisioned as a platform for easy self-publishing.
I fear Meta's AI chatbots are just uncanny valley totems. Just a publicity stunt or is there a market in GPT bots with personalities? The ones I've tried on poe.com lacked any interest or grit. Maybe they are useful as a gaming character or dungeon master?

I can see rowdy, unruly or perverse chatbots, bots that know who you are and act as your "bff", or anything that gives their unhinged opinion having a huge following, but that would be a product for companies which, for the time being, are behind a huge barrier to entry.
I would like to see this lead to corporate manslaughter charges. I swear I've seen reports of this for years for multiple Pixel phones and the fact it's still ongoing is incredibly negligent.
> they are not related

Are we sure about that? The corporate structure of Telegram is fairly opaque.
This is why a regular unpowered popsicle skateboard with some big fat soft wheels (60mm 79a ish is good) is the king of urban commuting in my experience. I ride it over torn up asphault that would have stopped a hard wheeled skateboard in its tracks. I pick the occasional glass piece out of the wheel and its none worse for the wear. I can take it with me anywhere. On a crowded train I can put it in between my legs. The board is very easy to stash out of the way indoors. The board probably weighs 1/5th the one wheel and I never have to worry about charging it or very much maintenance. It also has its own skill progression with tricks that has been really fun and satisfying to get into. ollies are downright useful to learn. I have seen better skateboarders than myself ollie up ~1ft tall curbs commuting through town; I don't think any other micromobility device can take a 1ft curb.
If you're only recording lines, why isn't Audacity a lot more convenient?
It's like the saying about game engines. You should either set out to develop a database or you should develop an app that needs a database. If you try and do both at once you will never finish or you will end up with a half baked database.
Without risking poisoning the well against a powerful organization that more or less shapes my industry, it rhymes with "Thai Escrow'". The cert business has gotten extremely hinky last decade or so, with an explosion of "print your own spec" services, that give you a paper trail to rack up charges, like with these bogus *#$! training packages that get sent out.

Hold up a sec. How do these certs stay active? Weeeelllll . . that's linked to how Thai Escrow governance works. It's pretty bad. W3C seems like a hothouse of benevolence in comparison.
The Domestic Labour of Reading in Milton’s Areopagitica
Well most of all because their papers are focused on dishonesty and how to nudge people towards being honest.

“It takes one to recognize one…” or however that saying goes. Or another one is how people study their own affliction: a common occurrence in psychology from what I hear.
> I mean, go ahead, wear one, they aren't going to hurt for sure

Is "they don't hurt" really the best you'll say in defense of helmets?

Correct me if I'm way off the mark, but from what I understand the argument against mandatory helmet laws goes something like this: Helmets aren't stylish/comfortable/convenient, therefore people don't like to wear them, therefore people are less inclined to bike if doing so would require a helmet, therefore people are more likely to die from being fat or in a car accident.

This argument seems rational to me. It may or may not be correct, the devil is in the numbers, but at the very least there's a rational chain of argument here. Let's suppose that argument is correct, the rational response is to simultaneously oppose mandatory helmet laws and wear a helmet anyway. Helmets break so your skull doesn't, on an individual basis you are safer if you choose to wear a helmet. Helmets aren't designed to solve "macro, systemic" problems with society, they address the problem of you getting your skull cracked open and they do that very effectively. You should be willing to admit that wearing a helmet not only doesn't hurt, it absolutely helps you. If you're not willing to concede that helmets help on an individual level even if systemic social issues remain, that's madness.

I see room for debate over the value of mandatory helmet laws, but there's no rational debate about helmets on an individual level. Biking with a helmet is safer than biking without one.
Why can't you keep your bike outside like a normal person?

Attach it to a pole or whatever.
You’re right. I gave up after getting nowhere. The UX was not as nice but it was ok.
Nothing matters aside from just money and the monkey sphere of one to some people
> "But which rivals are we talking about? This is where the lawsuit runs into trouble."

All 3rd party vendors/competitors.
They’ve only been out for six weeks. We’ve just done so many migrations in the last few years that it’s pretty simple for us to upgrade things. Figuring out how many nodes to run is the only part that takes brain cells.
If the last sentence wasn't enough to tell you the GP is being sarcastic, then the "infantilization" you mention might not be completely baseless...
Banks use other people's money... but, yes, actually at the leading places people are quite thorough.
Atlassian Marketplace does this for all their 3rd-party apps, e.g. https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1229877/ilograph-inte...

You can put in any number from 1 to 50,000 users and get an exact quote. This is possible because there's zero additional setup for an app already in an ecosystem like this. Compare that to onboarding an enterprise to a SaaS solution, or an on-prem solution, which could be a significant amount of work depending on many factors.
Cyber Resilience Act
I suggest:

Property: auto-resize

Values:

none: No auto-resizing.

horizontal: Auto-resizes horizontally based on content.

vertical: Auto-resizes vertically based on content.

both: Auto-resizes both horizontally and vertically based on content.

Usage:

textarea {
auto-resize: vertical;
}

input {
auto-resize: both;
}
> if you start talking to a coworker and then say “let’s talk about this <on a none work recorded communication channel>, you may very well be questioned about what you wanted to talk about

Sure? This is how investigations work? There is no automatic assumption of guilt, which is what you said.

I’m sceptical of government overreach. But asking what was discussed in a meeting is incredibly standard investigative fare.

> government is forcing Google to retain all internal messaging communications

This is wrong. It’s forcing them inasmuch as my asking what you had for lunch forces] you to wear a wire.
With help from the internet and a little effort, you can remove those popups, McAfee ads, etc. When I set up a PC for somebody, I always take care of that stuff. After you get rid of the crap, it's a fairly usable OS. And, of course, the apps -- much larger selection, plus titles that have never been written for Linux or Mac, due to the size of the user base.
Yeah, it would be pretty bad for my wallet. Would make me reconsider posting low quality comments going forward, potentially increasing the quality of the forum long term.
From trading the other comments, it seems the Onewheel is just glitchy. They certainly must also have a low-battery cutoff, but I bet it's not accurate in all ranges of temperature and with aged batteries.
In 1970, when this poem was written, 1.92% of the federal budget went to NASA [1]. This was $28 billion/year. Welfare spending was $133 bn/year (not including education or healthcare), and would more than double till 1975 [2]. The entire 11-year Apollo program cost $177 bn, or $16 bn/year [3].

[0] All figures given in 2022 dollars, converted with https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA - peaked at 4.41% in 1966, below 1% up to 1961, and from 1975, inclusive.

[2] http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1950_2010...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program#Costs
You may enjoy the Klim Type Foundry Blog (especially the "design information" posts):

https://klim.co.nz/blog/
This is exactly the result when you have a large power differential. The people in authority may not be intrinsically mean or evil, but they're not getting the proper amount of feedback about their own behavior, and the reason is that they have too much power and the people they're dealing with have too little. Everything about the grad school (esp. Ph.D.) power structure is wrong, giving the student virtually not recourse and the advisor way too much authority.
> Interesting to see how companies adapted to the changes in noncompete laws. What will be the next fallback position?

a friend of mine just left a quantitative hedge fund recently that, in anxious anticipation of noncompetes possibly being banned in new york, asked all of its employees to sign new "nonassociation agreements" as a fallback... these basically say you're not allowed to work with your current colleagues at future employers... which is arguably more draconian than a noncompete... it would be ironic if this became the replacement.

[edited for punctuation]
Bad for whom?
No, the article gives one case where someone had reported success, do we get the words of the person who had the spike in their brain? I would caution you against assuming best intent in this context because describing her as being at peace.. it describes some one as going from difficult to control to compliant. We don't have reason to believe it was a miracle cure, except possibly from the perspective of her caregivers.
The House of Kissinger says we should be afraid of China, and the best way to assuage those fears is to spend money on the military? Quelle surprise.
I definitely remember some people throwing shade in my direction in a couple of game playing friend face to face conversations for my opinions about Unity in this time period… despite the fact my criticism was entirely based on my own subjective personal experiences as someone playing games on multiple platforms combined with my experience as a cross platform software developer…

It was seen as fashionable to hate Unity and there was some pushback from fans of games built with Unity… which since it corresponds to my first developer experiences with unity, was actually about the same time I started to ask Unity developers how much of their games used the Unity provided components for various things as opposed to writing replacements…

I learned a few tricks about arguing with gamers but for the most part stopped mentioning my dislike for Unity in any face to face contexts until someone else mentioned a dislike first… I didn’t care enough to argue over it… I have opinions but I’m not trying to change anyone’s mind, it’s not like there’s financial benefits steering people away from Unity … I’ve got no short positions on Unity stock or stock in Epic, etc…

Doesn’t mean I won’t bitch in the appropriate professional context… like this thread. ;-)
I've been trying to follow this case, and I'd love for someone with actual legal background to correct me if I'm wrong. But as far I can tell from reading the rulings and PIPEDA is that technically all the courts have said so far is that commercial search engines are not blanket exempt from PIPEDA, and that they are not exempt from PIPEDA in the context of the original complaint (the actual guy complaining that his name is giving untrue and damaging results on google).

Google has been trying to argue that the Privacy Commissioner needs to consider charter implications of PIPEDA applying (and allowing right to be forgotten), while the Commissioner and the courts have been stating that they will first rule on if google search engine results are in scope of PIPEDA before considering if delisting would unduly limit Charter rights.

Finally, as I understand it, PIPEDA effectively grants the Privacy Commissioner investigatory powers, and that enforcement and remedies are supposed to be enforced by courts (ie, another lawsuit). That said, the Privacy Commissioner has published a draft position on online reputation that says it does believe that delisting/deindexing can sometimes be an appropriate remedy, so the obvious follow up steps would be the Privacy Comissioner/original complaint proceeding.

In other words, even if Google fails to win an appeal on this set of rulings, there will almost certainly be another round of court cases on if delisting ("right to be forgotten") is actually Charter compliant.
"renewable energy sources accounting for 54% of its energy consumption in 2019. This is higher than the EU average of 18%"

"higher": quite an understatement.

Go, Portugal!
mostly adverts. but i did like it!
Not sure which point you think I'd disagree with here, I guess the core thing I didn't add is that yes, the design space changes over time as computers get more powerful. The original paradigms have proved to be remarkably durable though, hence the note in the piece about many pieces of software being the first ever in their category continue to be the market leader:

> I started thinking about this question, of whether software transitions ever really happen, when I noticed just how common it was for the most popular application in a category to still be the very first application that was ever released in that category, or, they became the market leader so long ago that they might as well have been. The Adobe Creative Cloud is a hotbed of the former: After Effects (1993, Mac), Illustrator (1987, Mac), Photoshop (1990, Mac), Premiere (1991, Mac), and Lightroom (2007, Mac/Windows) are all market leaders that were also first in their category. Microsoft Excel (1987, Mac) and Word (1983, Windows) are examples of the latter, applications that weren’t first but became market leaders so long ago they might as well be (PowerPoint [1987, Mac] is another example of the former).
See it by yourself

https://globalnews.ca/news/8045796/canada-wildfires-yearly-t...
Small skateboard with big soft wheels. 6-7lbs or so. Can shove it between your legs on the train.
I think e-scooter like xiaomi ones works better for majority of population and is also foldable
But “backed his Segway off a cliff” is very different from Segway bucked him into the concrete.
A lot of those same people seem to treat indigenous people as outside of being touched by the "original sin" that the rest of us are.
Considering it still needs javascript, this trick seems massively overcomplicated compared to the following:

<textarea oninput="this.style.height = 0; this.style.height = this.scrollHeight + 'px'"></textarea>

(Yes this forces an extra reflow but it likely won't matter)
I wonder if this is industrializable as cloud seeding tech?
Right now it's a calm night, so ~25% comes from hydro storage[0], 22% from hydro, 18% imported from Spain [1], and 16% from gas.

I find these "x % is now renewable" useless without looking at actual numbers, and how they work not just in the best of cases.

[0] Didn't know Portugal had this much hydro storage

[1] Spain right now is 37% gas, 23% nuclear, 17% solar, 12% wind

Edit: data from https://app.electricitymaps.com/map
I loved PCW -- I ended up writing for it in the early nineties, and was ridiculously proud that I had that chance.
Yup. The cheap 'heavy' ones are forged. Safe.
Wasn't justifying anything. I ad block to block ads, I don't think about it beyond that.
I think we're describing aspects of the same problem. The Waterloo core of the company was generally very successful with what it was focused on, so if you never got your head out of that bubble, you might assume things were going just as well elsewhere. There was definitely a lot of cockiness in the executives at the time, but it takes more than that to sink a company, as modern times have emphasized heavily.

I can promise you that internally there was a ton of energy directed at competing with the iPhone. But RIM would have floundered against Android in the same way, because the company culture never scaled out of Waterloo.
You can turn in place on a skateboard too by kick turning.
Both for society and the company. You want more small companies to succeed in your society, they are the engine of growth after all. One way to help out is by reducing their bureaucratic burden. This is all well researched and well documented.
> but the success of Obj C is directly tied to iOS

That doesn't explain the massive gap between objective-c's invention and the invention of ios/iphone. There's clearly more to the narrative than that.
> A higher likelihood of sales isn’t something a buyer is looking for, though.

It's what the sellers are looking for though. And the sellers generally are the ones making these sites.

If you want to put up a website describing what you want to buy, and put a very explicit chart about what you're willing to pay, you're more than free to do so.
'Open access' currently translates to 'pay the publisher $5000 upfront'. I think they're making even more money with this scheme than the previous pay-to-read one. Keep in mind that most papers are never cited, and who's going to pay to read an old and never cited paper? So, I feel like open access is not a significant improvement, really. It allows laypeople to access papers, but how much of that is really useful?
I'm disappointed in the lack of I/O in consumer chips these days. I've had 3930k 4930k and now 1680v2 Xeon and I have memory channels and PCIe lanes coming out of my ears. Current consumer chips give you maybe 20 lanes.
I have zero doubt we will look back at the current medication pushing for "results" in the future, as we do at the physical implementations of the past.

AFAIK, we are pretty unsure how many medications actually work in the mental health field instead only seeing if they return 'results' similar to what we are originally aiming for.
That’s wild, super cool that you guys were trying to make that work so long ago. I can see how people unfamiliar with that way of thinking would be completely lost. Especially in the context of a daw which is basically a wall of buttons and switches.

As a very entrenched Reaper user, I haven’t tried Ardour, but I’m glad it exists and continues to exist. Thank you for your work :)
If you follow the link you'll see the procedure is you call the non-emergency number to ask for a time and location slot where you're allowed to call the real 911 number for test purposes. This let's them schedule you for a time where they predict lower demand. Seems sensible to me.
This link is currently broken for whatever reason
What would happen if Russia invaded Finland? A war game in London to find out
I use my iPad Pro mostly as a remote terminal for coding, either through SSH or Jump Desktop.

Unfortunately on device coding is still pretty limited.
We provide a GPU visual graph AI platform that gets used by folks looking at relationships & correlations in their data (think cyber, fraud, social, supply chain, genomics), and came to this: https://www.graphistry.com/get-started

Many folks are individuals, or highly technical and do not want to engage, so they want to just try for themselves. Imagine a Splunk or Databricks analyst who likes to do notebooks on the side. On the other end, we'll have architects planning say a $1M or $20M data project for the next few years of their dept's data arch, and want to really think through scaling.

So we split between free/cheap self-serve SaaS, where people can just go without thinking about any infra etc, to the more enterprise self-hosting tier where they can run in their own cloud, and decide whether they like to do on their own (ex: very clear & immediate task), and when they want to talk about GPUs, graphs, AI, LLMs, etc., and how that can accelerate or solve some of the harder problems they're ultimately tackling, they have a way to reach out and we can share our experiences from similar orgs.

For louie.ai, we're basically preparing to do the same. It's possible to optimize on this stuff for enterprise teams, but we don't see much of a need: when we're solving a real enterprise problem, and are speaking our users language via our public talks, blogposts, etc, they'll check the page to make sure the form factor can make sense and it's indeed in their problem area, and then they want to talk. When something is a top 3 priority for a dept, they'll be getting on zoom calls with multiple vendors, so just need to make it easy for them to do that.
> But know that making a real production database tends to be harder than it looks, and so tends to be all-consuming, and a team that depends on a custom database tends to become a database team rather than an anything else team.

The original statement does not include any caveat or constraint, and is an absolute statement that does not depend on specifics. The statement is not "Never write a custom database as a subproject of any other project". The original statement is "Never write a database." Like in any conceivable scenario, including a project whose main goal is to write a database.

I also feel that this sort of clickbait advice contrasts heavily with the history of SQLite.
It's only because capacitors let you use fewer transistors. Any effort to shrink memory cells as much as possible inevitably leads to a capacitor-transistor hybrid solution.

In logic circuits class they don't talk about areal constraints, but IC designers have to think about such things.
It makes sense in my case where I want strong single threaded performance, but it doesn't seem compelling to switch from Graviton if single threaded latency isn't important.
The number of medical researchers who sell their hot prospect to a corporation that is unable to replicate the initial exciting results, is clearly more than the statistics of small sample sizes vs. large would indicate. This suggests that this problem exists anywhere that the incentives are in favor of it.
It would be great to see more innovation like AI in DAW tools, but there are some challenges. The main constraint is it needs to process in real time, allowing just a few ms to process a sample. Very few neural methods can work with that constraint, without it, they can't fit into the standard DAW workflow where you string together many plugins, each processing the signal in real time.

There are some AI tools that work outside the main workflow, like for mastering after you're done with the DAW. But it's quite difficult to improve and bring new ideas beyond the typical signal processing modules without completely revamping the current workflow.
>or is there a market in GPT bots with personalities?

Character.ai is pretty (/very) popular.
The problem with all existing pay as you go vendors is that the overall price is exceptionally high if you use any decent amount of compute. That and cold start.

It's often cheaper and far more powerful in quality and latency to pay for a full server funnily enough.
War games by miltary/political professionals and interested parties have come and gone over time, fallen in and out of fashion with the rise of computer simulation. This guardian article discusses one instance in their current resurgence.

The full title is:

What would happen if Russia invaded Finland? I went to a giant war game in London to find out
As they say, "research is me-search".
AI safety is just a thing to keep the advertisers happy