skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Developers wrote and tested their sites for and with IE6, and were then surprised they rendered (in)correctly on Firefox and looked wrong

But that's the point: rendering shouldn't really matter. For things that are important like government systems, we should treat web "apps" much like TeX encourages: you specify the semantics, and let the rendering engine do what it will. Don't try to precisely control it. You can and should assume that users can totally override rendering with a custom agent, that browsers will disagree on default rendering, and that they may ignore your CSS instructions.

Like if someone wants to use a browser that always renders h1, h2, p, etc. with specific fonts and colors, totally ignores any CSS, and adds buttons to each table column header to sort on that column, that should all just work. Or if you want to use a braille output or screen reader.

For important tools and information, not entertainment/shopping, functionality should trump all other concerns.

My bank and now my power company have issues where I need to use chromium to fill out a form, and I don't understand it. I know Firefox supports forms. For whatever reason, javascript is loading the thing and screwing up somehow. I don't see why js is even involved, but frankly it screams incompetence to me. The easiest thing in the world to build, and they've broken it trying to make it look nice.

I don't go to my power company website for fun. I'm there to pay a bill. I need a form with 5 inputs and a submit button, and that's it. The rest of the screen can be plain white for all I care. Literally something I could put together in 2 minutes when I was 11, and it does not work. Paper should not have a better UI than a website.

Incidentally, this is why I'm not too worried about AI. If companies wanted cheap/easy/reliable systems, that's been doable on the web the whole time. People can't resist making things difficult for themselves, and they'll pay very good money to do it.
The author makes one mistake. He said that Google stopped spying on gmail.

- they started spying on user's gmail

- there was blowback, they reverted

- after some time they introduced "smart features", with ads again

Link https://www.askvg.com/gmail-showing-ads-inside-email-message...

I do not even want to check if "smart features" are opt-in, or opt-out.
> on r/selfhosted

If you're not participating in https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted from your selfhosted Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon/etc... instance, I question your commitment.
Let's say the inconvenient truth: Our ship is sinking.

Let's party as long it's going good. Let's party like there's no tomorrow.
> In fact, arguments could be made as to why it happens less in free markets

Arguments "can be made" for anything. That is the worst possible justification for any position.

Corruption cannot be stopped without effort. The rules and institutions that regulate and control the market are that "effort".
My wife has been using Beeper for a while (6+ months? not sure), think i should give it a try.
No they do not. They have a duty to act in the interest of shareholders which basically means- don't abuse your position to enrich yourself.
Shouldn't have anything to do with Enhanced Tracking Protection, but my server is buckling under the traffic pressure! I'm working on it, maybe check back in 40m or so (SORRY!)
The infrastructure for setting up and running a business in the US is significantly easier than most places. Not all places, but the combination of a huge English-speaking market and the ease of doing business makes it more attractive than many of the other places mentioned.
The article fails to note how soaring need for (and use of) AC's (Air Conditioners) obviously means soaring need for (and use of) AC (Alternating Current).

Hopefully India's electrical utilities are paragons of efficiency, reliability, and safety margins. Vs. the future bearing an uncomfortable resemblance to The Ministry for the Future.
I prefer not to use JavaScript unless forced to do so. It's burdensome and almost always unnecessarily complicates the stack. With the rise of tools such as Turbo[1] and HTMX[2] the need for JS frameworks like React and Angular are greatly reduced, to the point that they are (almost?) unnecessary.

[1] https://turbo.hotwired.dev

[2] https://htmx.org
And the 40% of the city that are Desi immigrants also enjoy that improvement? There were very nice things in the city 20 years ago (and all of the cities I listed); they just weren't available to a major chunk of the population. I'm skeptical that that part has changed in Riyadh?
The software that already exists along these lines already exhibit bias against marginalized groups. I have no trouble foreseeing a filter put on the end of the spigot that exempts certain people from the inconvenience of such surveillance. Might need a new law (it'll get passed).
Reminds me of my experience with Stackoverflow. I tried to solve a very specific problem with Windows installers. I only got some responses from oldtimers that basically said “why would you do such a thing?”and similar. It felt extremely unwelcoming. It’s ok to not answer but why be so dismissive? I guess the only questions they like are things like “how do I calculate 2+2 in python?”. Anything more complicated is not acceptable.
ZachBussey (a popular streamer in the category of streamer news) listed the issues wrong with this campaign on Reddit.

Notably the false positive rates and the fact that the method used is basically spam, except Twitch got paid to allow it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/188of4y/com...

Any other bots doing what the mtn dew bot is doing would likely catch a sitewide ban..

E: There's a more structured argument on X, with screenshots of the bot's messaging too https://twitter.com/zachbussey/status/1730742056899805377
I literally could not switch away even if I wanted to because no other browser has anything close to container tabs. My workflow is built around it
Philadelphia

Pros: Original capital (history!), world class art museum, 17/18th century architecture, amazing food scene and groceries. Affordable compared to most major metros in center and close neighborhoods, as in you can own a house here and the carrying costs aren't high. Philly rowhomes are plentiful! If you're making NYC money you will live like a king.

Transit system, the el (subway) and regional rail are decent. Tech scene small, easy to network. Amtrak goes to NYC, Lancaster, DC, big station. Healthcare very good, several world class hospitals in the area (Jefferson, Penn, etc). Starting to get protected bike lanes in some areas, if you asked me 5y ago if it would happen I would have said not in my lifetime. Traffic can be a little nuts on 76, but in general fine if you stay away from center city.

Music venues are great, many and small. Most things don't require several months in advance to get a ticket. If you like live music you can see things from your local noise band up to Arcade Fire easily. Fun art scene, lots of things going on.

Very close to nature, the original green city! Airport is very accessible, though not the best. You have some choices, I have gone to Newark for things like Porter to go to Toronto.

Cons: Crime a little high, rep as opioid Disneyland, can be very dirty. Typical US city stuff: stolen packages, certain areas very bad (Philly is good block bad block), some things can't be bought in stores without a key assist because of shoplifting. Carjacking at a new high recently.

City wage tax ends up creating a higher than expected tax setup. Property taxes are low for a city, and services are reflected by that. Schools are not great, there are some good academies but I don't know the system.

Tech jobs are ok here, but definitely small and does not have the critical mass of a tech hub. Comcast, Blue Cross, Oracle are here, but pay slightly lower than major tech hubs.

Personal bias: I work in NYC, live in Philly. The savings resulted in me being able to buy in a top 3 neighborhood, and seems like it was a good decision. YMMV.

In short, come visit, climb the Art Museum steps, and look at the possibilities!
It's possible the price pop is happening because of people trying to find spare parts.

I can't speak to these specific devices because I haven't been doing infrastructure work since before 2015, but I recall the price of certain enterprise products would routinely skyrocket a few years after it became hard to find them. I recall having to source a replacement drive for a server at my Dad's company and discovering that finding any drive at least 4.5GB in capacity for this 15 year old server was challenging. I ended up having to buy a much larger drive at about twice the cost of a modern (at the time) enterprise-grade SAS drive.

I doubt my specific example is all that similar to what might be happening. In my case, it was a confluence of the usual suspects: RAID controllers that are very particular about the specific drive models/firmware versions that they work reliably with (which everyone else needs to replace their drives, too!) coupled with the server using a no-longer-common interface (SCA) and a drive tray specific to the vendor which was no longer a popular (and went Bankrupt)[0].

I suspect it's too soon for it to be that simple but I wonder if there are specific circumstances where "My Optane drive failed and replacing this drive at any cost is the only fix that gets me access to my data, again".

[0] Not important, but it was a Gateway brand server if you can believe it. And I ended up kludging the tray situation, anyway.
The EU could have a privacy-friendly browser if it funded Mozilla or a Mozilla fork.
Seems like the local implementation may be durable, but the system for backend polling (BPN) they built appears to ping Apple servers server side. I imagine that creates a block of homogeneous traffic for Apple to spot.
There is a reason I didn't draw a hard parallel.

I use AI day to day. I see what it can do and can't.

But when you see pages, and pages, and pages of GPT spam all over the place. Finding the nuggets of wisdom will be much harder than before, the "bomb" was dropped.

Thus actually leading to the whole FO4 main plot.

Yes, life will always find a way. And yes humanity can not put the genie in a bottle, we are much more likely to put it on a Fat Man catapult.

But it means, that in a sense... that we will all have to accept this background radiation of AI shit, as part of our new norm.

And this isn't the first time I've thought in similar ways. I remember reading older math texts (way pre-computer works in things like diffeq and PDE) and often thinking the explanations were clearer. Probably because of the increased effort to actually print something.

Who knows... maybe I'm just an old coot seeing patterns where there are none.
> Cambridge is full of harvard, mit, bio and tech employees

Are their kids in public school? In some areas, the rich and educated have completed separated from public education, which leaves poor, overworked parents prey to well-meaning but clueless activists.
This seems really scummy, like they're trying to circumvent the FTC rules on the disclosure of paid product placements by doing this in a automated way (even with the chat message opt-in). Seems to me like the company promoting someone and sending more viewers their way (by featuring the streamer "on the MTN DEW Gaming Twitch Channel") constitutes the product placement being an "advertisement" that should be disclosed by streamers.
> If the combos are sequential and the Elf has to commit to a certain number of life before the Goblin commits to a certain number of damage, then the Goblin would win.

I agree that in formal tournaments this would happen, but the comment I was responding to was about a "casual tournament." I was assuming the 1000 life was with a sorcery (e.g. infinite mana combo + stream of life). In casual play, shortcuts are only when both sides agree, so it would be a jerk move to not agree to one that benefits your opponent after your opponent has agreed to one that benefited you.
Well, the Vue team aren't friendly to criticism of Vue. See the 2->3 migration for starters.
Dont put people inside mental asylums when they are not ill?
Yes, several.

• https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.14742.pdf

• https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/met.2...

• https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9671442

Also non-transformer models, because of the scaling complexity on input: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.12794.pdf
I tend to think the surveillance/spying distinction is a little fragile and this more a continuation of what Bruce has previously written insightfully about, i.e. the blurring of lines between private/public surveillance and, as the Snowden leaks have revealed, it's hard to keep what has been collected by private industry out of the hands of the state.

However, a more recent trend is companies that sell technologies to the state directly. For every reputable one like Palantir or Anduril or even NSO Group, there are probably many more funded in the shadows by In-Q-Tel, not to mention the Chinese companies doing the same in a parallel geopolitcal orbit. Insofar as AI is a sustaining innovation that benefits incumbents, the state is surely the biggest incumbent of all.

Finally, an under-appreciated point is Apple's App Tracking Transparency policy, which forbids third-party data sharing, naturally makes first-party data collection more valuable. So even if Meta or Google might suffer in the short-term, their positions are ultimately entrenched on a relative basis.
Turso leaked a different users database
For B2B contracts of this kind of size a solution is to insist on clauses with very steep damages in the event of evidence of specific measures to prevent third party service or similar, coupled with never again dealing with a manufacturer like this.

The bigger problem is when manufacturers pull stunts like this on customers who can't afford and/or don't have sufficient financial incentive to figure out the underlying problem.
How would copyright be in-scope at all? At worst this infringes EULA.
It's noticeable that they're working with a much much smaller team than their competitors, and they occasionally roll out new bugs. On the other hand, they seem really dedicated and listen to the users. I've switched to Qobuz about five years ago and while I've had the occasional issue, I don't plan to move away from it. I usually get a personal reply to my bug reports (usually from the same guy -> small team! :D) and that tends to make me much more willing to support a company.
Excerpt from an Onet article[1] about this:

>Until a few years ago, rolling stock manufacturers such as Newag from Nowy Sącz and PESA from Bydgoszcz were able to dominate the maintenance market. It was mainly them who entered tenders for compulsory maintenance of their vehicles, because other companies knew they were at a disadvantage. At the time, the dominant narrative of the manufacturers was that the "Maintenance System Documentation," a kind of manual for a given vehicle, was the manufacturer's secret, its intellectual property, and under no circumstances could this be passed on to other service companies. This led to a situation in which railroad companies across the country were forced to use the manufacturer's expensive service. And the latter, having a monopoly on repairing its trains, dictated outlandish prices, even tens of percent higher than another company would have given, the rail safety expert points out.

>Our source adds that later, thanks to the European Union Agency for Railways, the interpretation of regulations changed, allowing other companies access to service trains. This led to the opening of the market to other companies in the industry.

[1] - https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/awarie-pociagow-newagu-haker...
-wake up feeling sick after a late night of playing video games
-excited to play some halo 2k19
-"xbox on"
-...
-"XBOX ON"
-"Please verify that you are "annon332" by saying "Doritos™ Dew™ it right!"
-"Doritos™ Dew™ it right"
-"ERROR! Please drink a verification can"
-reach into my Doritos™ Mountain Dew™ Halo 2k19™ War Chest
-only a few cans left, needed to verify 14 times last night
-still feeling sick from the 14
-force it down and grumble out "mmmm that really hit the spot"
-xbox does nothing
-i attempt to smile
-"Connecting to verification server"
-...
-"Verification complete!"
-finally
-boot up halo 2k19
-finding multiplayer match...
-"ERROR! User attempting to steal online gameplay!"
-my mother just walked in the room
-"Adding another user to your pass, this will be charged to your credit card. Do you accept?"
-"NO!"
-"Console entering lock state!"
-"to unlock drink verification can"
-last can
-"WARNING, OUT OF VERIFICATION CANS, an order has been shipped and charged to your credit card"
-drink half the can, oh god im going to be sick
-pour the last half out the window
-"PIRACY DETECTED! PLEASE COMPLETE THIS ADVERTISEMENT TO CONTINUE"
-the mountain dew ad plays
-i have to dance for it
-feeling so sick
-makes me sing along
-dancing and singing
-"mountain dew is for me and you"
-throw up on my self
-throw up on my tv and entertainment system
-router shorts
-"ERROR NO CONNECTION! XBOX SHUTTING OFF"
-"PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE"

Text for context, source:4chan
Google is just to integrated in my life. Gmail, Drive, YouTube

I use these all day too and they work perfectly on FF for me.

I know there was the recent "5 second YT delay on FF" debacle. But, I actually have a paid YT subscription, so I never saw/see it.

Now, I just launched Firefox (on Windows), and the fonts look
absolutely atrocious compared to Chrome.

Something I've noticed is that when you spend enough time looking at one style of font rendering, the others look "wrong" and I think that's what you're experiencing.

Used to see this a lot with Mac and Windows in the pre retina/hidpi days. Users switching from one to the other would be shocked at how "wrong" the fonts were. In reality, neither one was "right" or "wrong" but they sure were different.

FWIW FF and Chrome's fonts both look fine to me on Windows 10 but again, that's just my purely subjective view.
I don’t yet know all the answers to these things, but I understand how important they are and that the solution is not as simple as “just do it” or similar advice.

If you ever want to talk to a fellow HN’er my email is ideal.sand2735@fastmail.com
>> You still have the title "scientist"

> You seem to be completely obsessed by titles for no apparent reason.

You seem to be an overconfident Naive Realist.

> I don't care what your title is, if you fake data to validate false hypotheses you aren't doing science. It's very simple.

I doubt it. You don't take the opinions of scientists more seriously than non-scientists? Shall I go through your comment history to find instances?

And this is the problem: "science" (which is copposed at least in part by scientists) CANNOT make an error according to this reasoning.

>>You still have the title "scientist", and still get your paycheque. Like baking, there is the recipe one is supposed to follow, but there is also the how the baking is actually done. If a baker failed to follow the recipe in an instance of baking, would you also believe that they are not a baker, or are not baking?

> If you purchase a cake from Walmart and tell people you baked it from scratch you are not a baker. If you 3d print a cake look alike made of plastic and tell people it is a cake you are not a baker.

As the saying goes: Reality is perception (as demonstrated by your very comment!).

> You seem to be in the midst of a mental break so good luck to you.

Do you have any interest in whether the reality your mind generates and projects into the "you" service's experience (as "reality") is actually correct?

For example, take your prior comment:

>> Maybe ChatGPT can explain that to you instead of listening to Alex Jones.

By what means could you acquire knowledge of my interests? Feel free to peruse my comment history, you'll find no praise or likely even mention of Alex Jones (I think he's a dummy, though I do like him). And if you're going to suggest you have mind reading capabilities, I am happy to have that argument.

Could it be, perhaps, that an idea popped into your mind, and you accidentally forgot to apply any(!) epistemological rigour to it before streaming it out onto the page, like an LLM? I mean, come on man.
Ouch, that sounds lousy. Any obvious examples you can point out?
We'll see what happens after Manifest V3 becomes mandatory in Chrome. That might trigger an influx of users?
Open Source AI: Establishing a common ground
Would have been neat to see some animations since it is video frames in many cases.
Maybe, maybe not. But there's nothing "only" about creating a massively popular way to browse the web. That Safari chunk will still be an iOS chunk. Device matters much more than browser for making web interfaces.
> dependent largely on the labor of the owners

The modern farm, even small family farms, relies on capital to do the work. The farm owner's input is into the management of the operation. If management is considered labour then there is no such thing as upper-class. You can't own land and capital without some management.
Just a helpful resume tip. If you work on something in Brainfuck, put it on your resume as BF. And don't mention the name of your multi-threaded BF environment.
If it increases ticket issuance for passenger vehicle noise violations (eg - "sport" exhausts, booming stereo system, motorcycles), I'm down.
I can say assuredly that toxicity and politicization (IRL, not just on wiki) also makes the vast majority (>99%) of science experts refrain from trying to engage with the public. The experts that do engage tend to be outliers, which sometimes exacerbates the public’s distorted impressions of science questions.
Its more a commentary on how amateur it is in my respectful view. iMessage is a fundamentally unserious "product" in search of enough collateral flaws to harm those foolish enough to depend on it for anything.
"Fair" and "what you can make someone do" and "what you are entitled to" are very different concepts.

Turn this around to an employer "“Fair” is whatever work you can negotiate from the employee. You’re not entitled to any more work than you can make them do for you." - 1) if you can't make the employee do much work, you aren't entitled to much work, and that's fair. 2) if you can exploit the hell out of the employee, then you are entitled to do so, and that's fair.
Sure but it could be raised.
just checked, full black+colors is 50euros. Jeez
Im fine not printing
Reminds me of this paper[1]

> An illusion of predictability in scientific results: Even experts confuse inferential uncertainty and outcome variability

> Traditionally, scientists have placed more emphasis on communicating inferential uncertainty (i.e., the precision of statistical estimates) compared to outcome variability (i.e., the predictability of individual outcomes). Here, we show that this can lead to sizable misperceptions about the implications of scientific results. Specifically, we present three preregistered, randomized experiments where participants saw the same scientific findings visualized as showing only inferential uncertainty, only outcome variability, or both and answered questions about the size and importance of findings they were shown. Our results, composed of responses from medical professionals, professional data scientists, and tenure-track faculty, show that the prevalent form of visualizing only inferential uncertainty can lead to significant overestimates of treatment effects, even among highly trained experts. In contrast, we find that depicting both inferential uncertainty and outcome variability leads to more accurate perceptions of results while appearing to leave other subjective impressions of the results unchanged, on average.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/an-illu...
I'll just add.

As we are in the holidays and reflecting on things we are grateful for - Thank God for Linus!