skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the practical problems you run into is that not even China or Iran can efficiently suppress unwanted speech. Taboo topics still get discussed, only somewhere out of sight.

Anti-vax ideology needs to be fought with better arguments, not with sheer suppression, which will only drive some distrustful people towards the "hey, why are THEY trying to ban this information" position.

At the end of the day, the problem is one of trust, and you don't gain any trust by treating other people's opinions heavy-handedly.
Author here. I know it's a bit idealized (just three!), but that's the purpose, to provide a simple sense of direction as we try to create better abstractions or better exist with existing abstractions.

I'll update the essay if I learn anything striking while applying the principle in my life and work.
But he has a point.

There is definitely a layer of long-running processes queuing and distributing these requests. In this sense, "serverless" is a buzzword.
This is not a good comparison. The Neu implementation lacks a lot of styling and features from the Tailwind CSS implementation. It's not responsive, missing styles for a bunch of components, using much simpler styles for other components.
> whether or not such an analysis about western missile superiority could be true or not

I'll go with US military experts saying Russia has a clear edge in missile tech and the fact that 10k nukes kill the Earth 1000 times over. What you're saying is simply insane.

The fact you're completely omitting my points made, means you're one of the people one cannot reach with reason. You'll cheer for your team and kill the enemy, no matter what that means exactly.
What about a mix of them? Which is actually something Tailwind expects you to do at some point, AFAICT: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/reusing-styles
Just plug them into a corresponding MMORPG and let them continue from there?
That example with a million div for the nav with tailwind is so ridiculous.

I agree with the conclusion but that first example is so grotesque that it made me discard the whole article

One other advantage of tailwind is that it makes it easier to work collaboratively with people of different css level and it requires less review, less possible side effect. But it's clear to me that clean semantic well developed css is way better than tailwind.
It's probably not a fear of death, but a fear to cease to exist. And uploading your mind does mean that you continue to exist.
Thanks for the thought-provoking comparison! I have a few questions:

- Did you compare both versions of the page for feature parity across multiple browsers, devices, and breakpoints?

- what exactly accounted for so much bloat with the tailwind version of the site? Was it the CSS itself, or the classes that accounted for most of the difference? If it was the CSS, did you optimize it as per Tailwind's docs[1] so that unused styles weren't included in the final page styles?

- How much longer (if at all) did you take to design your selectors for the semantic version in order to reduce repetition, than you might have taken for creating the template with tailwind?

- How did the final sizes compare after brotli compression?

[1]: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/optimizing-for-production
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Yep ! This is the huge problem with css and «meaningful» selectors, no matter how much you try to make things clear, nuances and details fades and you end up going back end forth between css code, inspector and HTML to figure out what's happening.

Utility based css selectors that do one and single thing are clear and explicit, removing most (but not all) that hassle.
How you user LLM in daily life
I am curious how you use LLM such as bard or chatGpt in daily life?
> Governments asking or suggesting that media companies suppress a story, with the companies choosing to comply of their own free will, is nothing new.

What is new is that "media companies" now includes social media. I.e. what used to be real-life gossip has moved online, and been subjected to censorship. I should caution that it's not only government interference to fear - we don't want our public sphere to be moderated by giant corporations either.
Freshly printed money goes directly into the pockets of the mega-rich
> Worked for satellites,

Nice example!

> ... worked for 1984.

Another nice example, but ouch, that hurt.
Why would it be absurd? What exactly prevents an American from reading British English?
Certainly not black and white. The article merely states that you need less HTML/CSS code to do the same thing and the resulting site is leaner and faster.
So... 115.7 rps doesn't sound groundbreaking, right?
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choo choo! all aboaard!
An interesting thought experiment for me is to imagine a wealth tax in the 0.1 to 0.5% range and figure out if the difference is might make to the different groups.

I'm a firm believer in incremental changes and experiments which is of course hopelessly politically naive.
This is not mathematics, you can't expect a QED here.

Free speech is certainly pretty good against government-backed disinformation. Governments have a lot of power to push their POV anyway; add the ability to prosecute dissent to the mix and the system loses necessary feedback.
Elite disinformation is a far greater problem than fake news on Twitter
"The truth is not whatever we believe or perceive it to be. But the trouble with post-modernism is that it can become self-fulfilling. When those in positions of power decide the truth can be whatever they wish were the case, the floodgates open. Now it is not clear they can ever be closed, and that spells grave danger for all of us."
I wrote a new part of the website in tailwind to see what all the fuzz is about. Then I decided to rewrite the rest of it.

It's a small website, but it's complex with desktop and mobile layouts, audio players etc etc. There's a design system behind it, but many small exceptions to it to make it look really nice. Writing the new part of the website was so fast with Tailwind that I just thought I'd give the rewrite a go. It wasn't that painful, and while it definitely took longer than understanding the existing bits just to edit sth, it also allowed me to clean up the CSS mess that had accumulated over two years.

If I had just sat down and tried to clean up the CSS mess, it probably would've taken longer if I hadn't converted it to Tailwind at the same time. And I needed to do some cleanup as we were trying to tie different sub pages into a coherent experience.

Just to clarify: please don't take this as advice of "go and rewrite your code". Rewrites are almost always bad. But in my case here, it was a good decision. My personal learning is that a startup landing page just changes too much to be able to fit into semantic classes nicely.
How do you know the difference between stupidity and ambition unless you try?
Why are you defining server in that way? Do you have a reference?

A server is a physical machine with an operating system. It can run many processes.
Is this page ( https://nuejs.org/docs/nuejs/server-components.html and others) broken for anyone else?

I can't scroll horizontally and only half the text is visible.
Neat, I'm regularly impressed with what people come up with. I wish I'd have such smart ideas!
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HACF is probably the most criminally underrated show in recent television history. Yeah the basic premise might be a Mad Men tech rehash, and yeah you kind of have to endure season 1 before you get to the good part, but the characters are so wonderfully crafted that I still think about them >5 years after watching it.
Not to mention that nearly all of the atoms in your body are replaced every decade, meaning most of you went into sewage treatment long ago.
It depends on their kind of colorblindness.

I see green lights as white, which is fine most of the time because of the order.

The exception is when there's a lot of glare from the sun setting behind me, and I sometimes can't tell if it's green, or just the sun reflecting at the right angle. It also washes out the red and yellow, making it harder to see if they're lit.
wish the EU was half as focused on promoting economic growth as they are on taking things from people
You expect German institutions to accept electronic mail?
Tailwind is not pretty, perfect or the best. It's a pragmatic solution that works well for a lot of people.
I wouldn't put the fate of humanity as a potential price for testing a hypothesis. I prefer trying to test the theory that we can produce a (Micro) black hole at CERN (Because it will not do what you think it will). That is an old and safe theory.
Mind over machine? The psychological barriers to working effectively with AI
Was the US the first nation with a Bill of Rights, though? (I'm aware there are many medieval documents that could be construed as such, but I'm talking about universal rights in the modern sense).
You mean that you do see the 3d effect in the blue noise image???
Not just. Probably why big funds are pulling out.

Norway's 1.4 trillion pension fund is shutting its Shanghai office https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/08/investing/china-norway-fund-s...

Ark invest with 9B is entirely out of China https://www.news-journal.com/arena/thestreet/cathie-wood-pul...
More specifically (assuming we’re talking about the same thing), the issue is with reproducing a standard C++ inheritance hierarchy (used for both the AS2/3 native objects and for the „DOM” tree nodes), while keeping its overhead characteristics, devirtualisation opportunities, having it interact with our GC and borrow checker and still have a convenient, safe Rust API on top. Our current solution works, but has deficiencies in most of these aspects.
300mph is not trivial for trains, that's more in maglev range. In fact, the fastest maglev in operation (Shanghai's) tops at 286mph.
I'm not talking about importing transactions, that's not a feature I use because it'd take longer than entering manually if you did it daily. I'm talking about the scheduled transaction editor, where you enter e.g. your rent manually once then schedule the same transaction to happen monthly. This should still work if you also import the non-recurring ones.
Disabling most is insufficient. All it takes is a few ICBMs hitting NY, LA, etc., and the calculation already becomes nonsensical. It would be intriguing, however, if it becomes possible in the future to intercept ICBMs during the launch phase using some kind of new technology. Even then, though, you would need to ensure a 100% success rate.
> that first example is so grotesque

It's the actual HTML code in the sites that are compared
What Happened to IPv5?
> I think themgt is correct to say the creation of contracts like that in Europe could provide European rocket companies the same kind of opportunity

Europe has literally just spend 5 billion $ on a SINGLE rocket. Its not hard to understand why they don't have money for anything else.

SpaceX was saved by COTS because they were able to borrow money against that contract. And it really only included a couple 100 million to develop the initial Falcon 9. The waste majority of the money was for Dragon.

And they could do it that cheaply and fast because they had the legacy of the Falcon 1 and its infrastructure to build off. And that was mostly developed privately.

At the end of the day SpaceX underbid on COTS and actually didn't make money, it only helped them develop things that would make money other ways.
I think one thing that makes it even more challenging is that most of us in Tech become managers after having been great ICs with good communication skills, and the transition is not always managed (pun intended) amazingly, both in terms of personal and company expectation changes.

Most ICs I know used to know their system amazingly well, being "tech leads" and became team leads. Most of them struggle to have to "share their time with those annoying tasks that take their time" and "not having enough time to code any more" not realizing that it's simply not their job any more.

Your job is to grow your team to succeed today and be ready for tomorrow, create the business value that is expected from you as a team, and grow your people. That typically means letting go of what you were doing yesterday.

I've seen people complain that because they have to manage a team they don't get to "have enough time to take all decisions in the best way" any more.

I don't think it's a failure of those managers as much as the managers above them. Most folks I know have the right social skills, it's expectation management and coaching about those expectations that they need the most.
Reported crimes are falling while actual crimes are rising. Nobody wants to do the work of measuring ACTUAL crime rates. Only rates of filed crime reports.

Sort of disappointing.
Huh, AO reads fine in w3m. Like many apparent JS-only websites (e.g. Medium), they seem to serve JS-free content if you pass a user agent that doesn't suggest JS-compatibility.

https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/w3m-ao.png
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I used to wonder, as a kid, why most traffic lights in my region of Germany were red, orange-yellow and obviously turquoise. I remember drawing traffic lights (I loved drawing road layouts when I was young) without any use for the green pen.
Nowadays, they all seem to be very much green, at least the new LED ones.
TL;DR: The traditional Japanese language did not have separate words for green and blue; instead, it used a single term "青" (ao) to cover both colours. Over time, the language evolved, but the initial categorisation of green as a type of blue stuck around in certain contexts, like traffic signals. This linguistic trait led to the designation of traffic signals that are green in colour as "青信号" (ao shingou), which literally translates to "blue signal."
> Neurons are cultivated inside a nutrient rich solution, supplying them everything they need to be happy and healthy

Neurons are considered organic entities that are satisfied with an healthy environment. It is supposed that nothing suffers.
Taxation is not "taking things from people". Everyone benefits from the public services Taxes fund, even the super wealthy.
Also 'lend lease' was a big factor in Russia's victory (in addition to Russian bravery and their climate and geography).
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Did or can you publish a small snippet of how Nue-CSS would be implemented in or with Nue?

Can't wait to use Nue for my next project, currently wait for CSS implementation (even if it is not necessary for Nue). Project is currently in design phase, so i have luckily time.
Although the linked article is a rather nebulous advert for a company,
Juhani Hintikka names something important here, something we've been
teaching for years;

Cybersecurity is relational.

Things like "zero trust" are actually complex technical ideas about
protocols, and mainly about how machines talk to other machines. The
phrase "zero trust" should never touch the ears of normies (especially
managers). It is misheard and given a dangerous, counterproductive
interpretation.

In reality no business, organisation, society or even a simple
romantic relationship can function without trust.

Building verifiable and endlessly examinable trust relationships
within organisations is therefore vital. To do so there must be common
interest and a lack of opaque power. Organisations that contain
secretive tyrannical elements are always the most vulnerable (although
the tyrants who "lead" them believe the opposite).
Likewise, every pair of “wireless headphones” have many sets of wires inside them, if you cut them open.

“Vegan” products you buy at the store are made by humans, who are a type of animal, so you cannot say that vegan products contain no animal products. Plastic is an animal product because humans make it, and humans are animals.

If we go down this road, the only conclusions we get are absurd and useless ones. Language is a consensus process dominated by metaphor and shared context. It is not a mathematical process.
China does not need external (as in 'foreign') investment. They have huge amounts of cash.

The strategy seems more about decoupling and independence from foreign interference and potential sanctions. Likewise, when foreign investors leave it is also because they've seen what was done to Russia and thus don't want to repeat that with China, which would be massively more costly.

Edit with data:

In 2022 Chinese households accumulated $1tn in savings, just over that year (this is something typical in China because of lack of safety net and lack of investments avenues, hence also why everyone wants to buy property to invest their cash):
https://www.crugroup.com/knowledge-and-insights/spotlights-b...

China also has $3.2tn in foreign cash reserves:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-exchange_reserves_of_C...

They also use that cash as a tool of foreign policy with loans to foreign countries in excess of $240bn: https://www.reuters.com/markets/china-spent-240-bln-bailing-...
I hope this is the beginning of the pendulum swinging back towards a more sustainable tax regime. A lot of people forget - or pretend to forget - in the "golden age" of america's great works, the top tax rate was above 90%! And somehow all that innovation and wealth creation still managed to happen (and is now all beginning to fall apart).

I'm not advocating for a return to those levels, but right now the truly rich effectively pay no tax at all,basically a result of regulatory capture at the individual level. Hopefully, this is the first step in that finally beginning to swing back in the other direction.
From the examples the tailwindcss one works on android Firefox whereas the semantic one doesn't..
This site is a great resource not only for canners, but anyone storing food... which should be pretty much anyone. The tips for dry food are important if you don't want moths.

Side benefit of deposit jars for yogurt in Germany: basically free canning jars for jam, especially great for ones I'm giving away.

I do a stress test before getting underway by putting washed jars in the sink, then submerging them in boiling water. I leave them like that until the water is no longer scalding. In a decade of canning, I've only had one jar that cracked after filling, and less than one per batch that fails to seal (could safely be eaten, just needed to be refrigerated and used right away)
Ah, the billionaires. Boogeymen of our times. The scourge of all us crabs living here in this fine bucket.
Yes when I think of Putin's recent invasion of Ukraine I definitely think that it was well planned and prepared for.
No this article is flawed. It fails to recognize the fact that css and html are always coupled in one direction or another. With tailwind the css is fixed and the html is designed around it. With semantic the html is first created and then you write your css around it.

The fact is that updating css in a big project and a big team is very difficult. Rules are scoped globally. It only takes a junior making a few design mistakes
and now you don't what you are going to break if you update anything.

With tailwind the css is fixed and will never change. So you just change your html and you know what to check/what to test again. For any medium to large project this is a big QA & time boon.

"just use code review, naming convention, xxx best practice". This argument is similar to "just don't make mistakes". Mistakes will be made. With semantic css you will suffer.
As "promised" years ago in Birth & Death of Javascript [0], at some point we shall get a unikernel running a safe GC-collected runtime in kernel-space, at which point we could drop virtual memory mapping support from CPUs, making them faster. While in 2014 the author predicted this will be JS with asm.js, now WASM seems like the way to go. Can't wait (haha)!

[0]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Why do you need so much compute in your Plex server?

Wouldn't a cheap GPU be better for transcoding tasks?
I didn't say "good", I said "fair"; and by that, I mean fair to the majority of people. Whether that's "good" or not, depends largely on one's view of the world.
I wonder how much the super-rich pay for the protection of their assets? I don't mean the physical security around their property or the fees to whatever vault holds their art collection. I mean how much to the super-rich pay to national governments for security of the national borders, court systems, general policing, financial rules, auditing, banking systems, and all the education and infrastructure required to run that system. I wonder if measured by a percentage of wealth whether the ultra rich are actually getting subsidised by the rest of the population.
I’ve found myself wanting a Tailwind compiler that makes it easier to work like this. Iterate fast with maximum verbosity, but later extract common patterns to classes when things are more stable. Anyone aware of any tooling like this?
Exactly. This is a non-issue if you use @apply (as people should).
FWIW between Blue Orca Capital LLC and China I would choose China all the time.

They are simply trying to short China to profit, like they did before so many times.

This is not even news: in "Regulation of platform market access by the United States and China: Neo-mercantilism in digital services" published in 2022 you can read

Since 2009, both countries have progressively restricted access to each other's domestic information services markets. In both cases, the primary stated rationale involved national security claims rather than trade policy concerns

It's happening both ways.
You might not have meant it this way, but such phrasing is a dogwhistle for fervent capitalists.

Usually the saying is: "If the damned government would just get out of the way and we had unfettered capitalism we would have enormous growth".

The issue with Capitalism (as many economists will tell you) is that it causes monopolies, in fact the game monopoly was designed to teach exactly this.

Growth is not by-in-itself a good thing for most people, it typically is because wealth generally gets distributed a bit; however countries like the UK (which is a rich country by most metrics) has a lower QoL for a common person than Estonia does despite Estonia only having a fraction of GDP per capita relative to the UK.

Wealth naturally centralises in a closed capitalist system; regulation is the only force that stymies that.

If wealth is too concentrated then growth is meaningless to the majority.
I believe that Greek, too, lacks a word for blue. Modern Greek speakers just use the English word blue as "mple" where "mp" stands in for the B sound which has no distinct letter in modern Greek.
> Easy target, why not.

If the super-rich are such an easy target, how come the article states they also avoid any type of income tax?
Tax rates are meaningless signalling to low-information voters. The real devil is always in the loopholes. In practice, American tycoons never paid 90 per cent taxes, not even half of that.
They speak of this as if it was a Japan-only thing.

The blue-green distinction is a late feature of most languages.

Even Greek and Latin did not have as clear a distinction as we have today.