skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India is a big enough country that no one statement can truly apply to all of it, but the media blows such concerns out of proportion.

Yes, the rise of Hindu supremacism does exist and is a very real thing we have to grapple with. But in my experience it doesn't apply to most of India. Most people don't partake in or support communal riots, they are perfectly fine being acquainted with members of different faiths.

In a country as big as India, some incidents are bound to happen. That is a terribe way to phrase it but I can't think up of anything better. I am not trying to be a BJP apologist, but you simply can't point to such incidents and try to say that India is becoming a fascist country.

Sorry, the first sentence of the last paragraph is a truly bad way to describe my feelings on the matter. I was thinking of removing it because it is such a terrible take (if you isolate it from the rest of the comment) but I am trying to illustrate how in a country as massive as India the likelihood of some types of events occuring is much higher.

India has many problems, and I believe Hindutva to be one of them. I just don't think it is as big of an issue as the media sometimes makes it out to be, and that it is harmful to focus on it when there are far more pressing issues at hand (some of which relate to members of the ruling party).

Note: Upon reading through my comment I realized that some people might come to the conclusion that I happen to live in a region with few interfaith fights (that feels like a crude way to describe them). That is not the case, just a couple days back a mob was responsible for some disturbing events at Mira road in the same city I live in. However, I believe such events to be the exception rather than the norm. I am not trying to justify any such events in any way whatsoever.
Not sure. In Germany there's an ongoing debate for extending conprehensive schools [1] across all ages. It's a complex topic but the general gist of supporters is, that pupils profit from each other. (e.g. Bad ones get help from the good while those practice how to cooperate and explain etc.).

I don't think it's that complex. My personal premises are

* if the kid doesn't like to get up and go to school or is too tired over longer periods, the school is doing something wrong, not the kid.
* if there are A LOT of kids like this, the school authority is doing something wrong (and so on, up to government)
* an older kid needs support on every topic at any time when interest arises. It's the kids' choice not the schools'.
* learning at school must be fun, at least 90% of the time.

That way whizzkids are easily detected, will be less frustrated and thus perform better.

I got some good example anecdotes but better won't "textwall" here :-)

Just imagine a world, where Einstein would get optimum support from young age so he would start professional physics years earlier.

Or one where he didn't go to the patent office but one where he worked in some factory or other place, not finding the spare time he needed to do physics.

Way too much luck involved if you ask me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_school
Ha! I used to hav a chrome extension that popped up Shia screaming Just do it! But it was hijacked and put with malware or something like that.

This brings me memories...

BTW it doesn't seem to work on Safari.
Holy cow, thank you! I read this once, a year or two back, and have been trying to find it again but without luck. What a cool text.
Straight example: I use Android with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Both are amazing tech, cuts down LOC by a third, reduces complexity for large codebases massively.

ChatGPT is familiar with all of these techs. It has read the fucking manuals and oh god most people don't read them because they're not written for humans. This is the perfect environment for AI to thrive.

But it'll write code based on similar code around 2019 or so. A lot of code out there is terrible. Much of it was written by contractors who don't want to get the work done. These guys are happy to see complexity go up exponentially. Many people work as contractors and in agencies, quit, do their own thing, adopt shitty architectures that were worse than no architecture.

So we see applicants submitting this crappy code that they do understand, but we ask them why they picked this over the fancy new stuff. Most of the time they didn't pick anything. They told AI to do it, and AI went to where the puck was.

I mean I train AI to write the fancy new code. But you have to know what it should look like.
US society for one - Los Angeles for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_HthCCRF2U
DHTML means Dynamic HTML, not distributed html
I used this for all my early edge AI work starting in 2016 after benchmarking against it the competition. Surprised that so few people seem to know of it.
I'm not sure what you mean by "necessarily must be persistent" here, but (under my interpretation which means only persistent implementations of this data structure are possible) that's not true.

The IntMap paper by Chris Okasaki acknowledges that the data structure is not a new one (it's a PATRICIA tree), but one that was around 30 years old at the date his paper was published and deserved to be better known. The functional/persistent implementation is what's novel about Okasaki's paper.

Edit: The data structure this submission is about looks like great work! Excited to see it and will probably attempt my own ports of it to other languages.
At the time it was more about being able to load more content without having to do a whole-page fetch.

This was around when XHR first debuted and devs could stop relying on hacks or Flash to do it.
I think that in about 20 years there will be enough demand for vintage computing that someone will be able to start up a new CRT plant. Getting all of the materials and specialized equipment will be hell even then.
Not clear, we might have ended up building industrial machines of roughly the same size. Elephants are soft compared to metal no matter how tiny the driver.
The Prisoner had a scary good finale, if you downplay the feeling of surreal circus. The hero came full circle.

(btw ignore the movie of the same name, it was unrelated generic sci-fi)
If you yearn for “the good old days,” consider that we’re living through “the good old days” of AI. In 30 years a blog post like this will poke fun at prompts, chatGPT, chat-with-docs apps, dealing with hallucinations, and what else?
It's not just uncreative, I find it offensively patronizing. If I had no home, and someone told me "no, you're just unhoused!" I'd tell them to F off. A street corner (or car or whatever) is not my home (and if it really was my desired home then I'd not be in need of attention then). It's just trying to verbally paper over a problem and then claim you're in fact helping somehow
Musk: Chinese EV firms will 'demolish' rivals without trade barriers
distributed word did not existed in the dictionary back then
Archive.org has some old copies, maybe you remember this one? Still loads slowly :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20011202145112/http://linkinpark...
Fascism is an ideology. While the BJP has strong ethnonationalist tendencies, it is no way facist. Statist authoritarianism and larger than life political personas have been very much the default in India since independence.
> It only seeks to elicit the same angry rants

... Goes on to submit the angriest rant of all.
https://archive.is/YnevD
Don't forget that tables could be used for rounded corners. Or maybe I'm an early 00s web developer with that? The trick is that we created 3×3 tables, and aside of the middle cell, it would contain <img>s, so that the creation was a website element with rounded edges, the pinnacle of human expressiveness.

Since HTML emails were also the rage, and email clients updated much slower than browsers, this technique was used well into the 2010s, if you wanted your thing to be displayed correctly.
This was also a time when vacuum tube electronics were still ubiquitous, so there were probably a lot of things that were common back then that aren't available today. Not to mention domain expertise and workforce.
> P.S. For comparison, the text of this article contains around 21,000 characters, so it would take 21kB.

That's exactly what I was thinking about while reading the article!
I actually moved over to Linode because of similar anomalies. I had a container I was running my personal site from. Paid my bill on time every month. Got distracted with work and hadn't updated it in a while. One day I go to check on it and the site is down. Head to DO to restart it... and it is just gone. Like it never existed. Didn't even bother trying to communicate with them I was so angry. Been really happy with Linode.
Generally a good idea, but it’s implementation is not fully thought through.

It’s supposed to be a secure place where secrets are shared, but it comes with Remote Code Executions that are out of the users control. Multiple JavaScript files are loaded from third party hosts to display the page, that would offer a significant attack vectors to your users secrets.

You should both reduce the code dependency on large, external frameworks, as well as verify the necessary files and deliver them from the same host, that already serves the rest of the page (because you‘re going to have to trust that host anyway).
at this point im proposing a new law. In any thread about the ills of big tech company, there will always be someone to make it about google.
Human translation quality varies a lot but even good fiction translation is not always staying close to the original. If you would translate fiction true to the original, like you would translate a legal document it unlikely would not be an enjoyable read and that’s the main point for majority of fiction books. So translators often make some changes like using idioms from the destination language which rarely map 1:1 to idioms from the source language or make other changes to keep the style/mood of the original even if they have to sacrifice minor facts.
git add -p

Aside from being a super useful way to only stage some of your changes, it will also serve as a useful proofreading step.
I remember using FrontPage quite a bit too. It had some... interesting quirks when it came to outputting HTML, but it seemed fine enough for me at the time.

Which also reminds me; did anyone actually use the FrontPage Server Extensions they had for it? I remember the tool having a bunch of dynamic features like counters and guestbooks that relied on them being installed, and web hosts sometimes having these extensions listed in their features, but I never saw any sites actually using them.
But the whole problem with homelessness is that these people don't have an adequate home. Few people actually feel safe and want to live in a tent in a park. And if someone really does, well then they're not in need of assistance so not really part of the relevant category then
No mention of the hacks for transparent pngs :P
An Apple Notes heavy user here. To the wish list, I'd add:

- unlimited capacity
- undiminished performance with large collection of notes
- a high level of confidence that the app and the app's owner will be in business in the decades to come.
it is limited to smaller militaries. Mainly because the "bigger military" I'm referring to doesn't purchase commercial products. They purchase from specially vetted and procedure following "defense contractors" that charge a 100x premium.

They'll never be using such a product. Russia is not a "big military" not when China spends 4x as much as them. And China is a small military too, they spend around 4x less then the next biggest military. You'll have to guess what I mean by "smaller militaries" from these details I've provided.
We went to the science museum in London recently with our youngish children. It has some very fancy galleries, with swish modern graphics.

But the bit that really caught their attention was the secret life of the home[1] gallery in the basement - which I believe was done with Tim Hunkin. It had some great interactive mockups of how various things in the home work, and really got the ideas across.

[1] https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/secret-life-home
I also mostly give 5 star reviews, but haven’t experienced this.

For me Google Reviews are a top make or breakpoint when deciding a hotel.
I can imagine other people doing the same
Hence there is an incentive for hotels to game the system

I recently moved to Phuket and many very mediocre hotels (or plain shabby hotels) get very high ratings (4.5+) and very positive reviews. Hotel competition is cut throat here so hotels definitely have an incentive to game the system.

TLDR Maybe Google notices fraud and is trying to solve in a clunky way
For all the goodies in this article, I can't forgive the author for not disabling his default round corner css for the icon image!

https://i.imgur.com/CJGcSeb.png
I am willing to pay for this translation plug-in I use. For example, if I type this word and click the space three times, you can see it in English.
The conservatives are the one true exception these rules. Its right there in the first 3 letters of their party name.
It's a problem. You can't talk it away. That's why every serious news coverage outside Ukraine put a 'we can't verify, as that news is of one of the sides. Read with caution"

Each of the Ukrainian people is emotionally immersed in the war. Here in Germany, quite a lot of people immersed too emotionally.

That's the problem. If one is immersed, he she it will tell only what supports his thinking. But also, he she it will criticize what is against his thinking. So if one is full into fighting, each moderate one is an enemy in the eyes of the one who wants to fight.

In Germany we had news coverage in the beginning of the war, they showed explosions and chaos. Later on, it came out it was the explosion of the Harbor in China 2018. Or, translation has been done wrongly. I've had the feeling, there is s war wanted and it's on purpose. They want the people to have fear in Germany.

So why is this done by the guys who should be neutral and objective?

I would say, each Ukraine reporter and journalist is biased right now.

It isn't a problem for me though, as biased truth is still a truth and worth to be known by everybody. As long it is truth.

So keep working guys. We're try to help where we can. Be biased, but please do not lie
I don't understand. I'm interested what this means.
Let's not forget frames, the original 'solution' to the problem of having to edit the navigation bar on every page.

Unfortunately, you then had to figure out what to do if someone accessed the frame page directly, since search engines could still index these parts of the page seperately. And they always felt jarring and awkward too, since the cutoff between sections was always obvious...
That depends, I think, entirely on the debt collector being sold to.

I've had medical debt sold to debt collectors that was there for years as I went through back and forth figuring out whether it was valid, and it never showed up on my credit report, nor did various others where a couple of medical providers I used for a while had a bad habit of selling my bills to them before my insurance paid them in full for it.
there allegedly is some electronics in the ink assembly that may interfere with using non-brother branded refills, but it is possible to swap the electronics from an old toner cart into the off-brand and it will work fine. I didn't have to do it with mine.

Be aware that at least some brother lasers you have to replace another part every 10,000 sheets, which is the duration of two to five toner replacements. I am unsure if it's the heater or the laser or what.
who remembers when the hip thing to do was to sign your webpages with a horizonal rule, followed by your name and your email address with a nice blue (on grey) mailto link, all in italics.
In this reply box, I just need to press space three times
"All intelligence is really collective intelligence, because every cognitive system is made of some kind of parts" - that's exactly the basis for the popularity theory of consciousness, which deduces that not only humans are conscious (and plants and other animals, etc), but also the global human society can have a sort of consciousness.

https://consciousness.social
wwww - Wet World Wide Web
To be fair HN is less a cesspool compared to Reddit or 4chan. But for how long?
Will never forget having to create collections of tl.gif, tr.gif, bl.gif etc. images for those 3x3 tables, not to mention the 1x1.gif the article mentioned that was needed for the left/right cell backgrounds to show since browsers at the time didn't render background images of empty cells. Good times.
i used a cat litter box and a hot knife, once upon a time
It's a whole spectrum. But almost everyone on the face of the earth has some bias towards their own country.

The percentage of impartiality among ethnic minorities born in the US like ABCs have a tendency to be much higher then normal. I wouldn't say it's the majority but it's definitely much higher then normal.
Nowadays I just ask ChatGPT to write the CSS for me for that, and amusingly, it seems to be able to produce at least a dozen of solutions (often came with redundant rules, too: like having 5+ rules when 2 or 3 of them are enough).

It's hilariously stupid.
> It's almost certainly a joke but not obvious exactly what the joke is.

That's the conclusion I've come to from all the responses. (Thanks everyone.)

The reason I asked is because I remember web development in the 90's, and the article while irreverent in tone misses the mark for me.

I think it's aiming for "The Register" style irreverence but their style is to have a cynical mocking and sarcastic tone while still being factually accurate, while this article changes facts in a way that feels like a joke, but stops short of actually making the joke or point it wants to make.

It's as if "This joke is left as an Exercise to the reader". Given the range of different explanations of "the joke" that have followed, I've come to the conclusion that the author has nailed the tone of being funny while not actually being funny.
I think it's popular because of the publicity it's earned because of the alleged copyright violation, which they sure are enjoying. idgaf about the whole ordeal and I don't follow any videogame communities but I've seen it mentioned on the internet a couple times the last days. It's almost impossible not to know about it.
I assume it was a joke since he then goes on to talk about Dynamic Drive and would for sure know what DHTML stood for.
I don't think the author was commenting on the word. I think the author was commenting on the trait that was attributed to the people:

Orientals can be very provoking
This seems to confuse intelligence with consciousness?
AI-Powered Smart Binoculars Can Identify over 9k Species
A roadmap for building Turbo Native apps
Pictures or demonstrations would make this easier to digest.
>The YouTube guy Linus Sebastian has a net worth of 85 million apparently.

Any source on this? I know he said in a video he was offered 100 million to sell Linus Media Group, but I don't remember ever hear him talk about his net worth since he usually keeps this stuff private, as he's always playing poverty and acting cheap everywhere, even though you should drop this act when you own a multi million dollar McMansion with pool and a drive a Porsche Taycan.
How to Deploy Your Node.js Back End Project to Vercel: A Step-by-Step Guide
Brains are for complex tasks linked by a series of simple problems handled by simple cells. It is a network.
also they make hybrid water heaters that will cool whatever space they are in while they heat the water using a heat pump on top
The bad good old days, I sure don't miss writing pages with byzantine structures of tables within tables.

I do miss web pages that weren't +10MB that load hundreds of JS and CSS files that clog up your computer and may or may not contain malware. I hate that having uMatrix and uBlock Origin installed is pretty much a requirement to use the web nowadays.
It doesn't seem that close to the metal, and not enough to justify the lack of convenience and readability.

It's like using C++ instead of C#. Still pretty removed.
Remember the <map> tag?!?

Also I know someone whose company’s website still runs on coldfusion
Japan's SLIM moon lander photographed on the lunar surface
I'm also a cocktail philosopher, but isn't consciousness different to just having a model of the world and self within it? Consciousness is the lived experience. The world model and feeling of self appear in consciousness. I think a complex system could plausibly be conscious without having a belief of a self within it. Not sure if consciousness is possible without any world model though.

My impressions about this were strongly influenced by Sam Harris's Waking Up book and app.
I'd be curious how your apps stand up to a WAPT.
And SHTML for Server Side Includes.
I love those cursor trail effects. Your geocities page won't be complete without them. Too bad those cursor trails on geocities pages archived at various places doesn't seem to work anymore so we can't experience them again.
David Lloyd in the UK is like Hotel California: "You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!"

the 3-month contract is actually 4 months
the 12-month contract is actually 15 months

Impossible to get out of the contract unless a you have doctor's letter for injury or you move further than 20 miles from a branch. There's no point signing up on a contract either as they raise prices mid-contract.
Ah. So you're not writing the SQL, ChatGPT is.

Yeah, no thanks. I'll stick with Django.
That was incredible! Reminds me of that fully 3d game in 96kb.
Luxury is entirely relative - to you perhaps, wherever you are, this all sounds like luxury.

For us it's a continuation of exactly what my father (still alive) did during WWII when his father and most older males were away overseas, trade was greatly diminished, many people were on the verge of starving, and he (primary school age) fended for his three younger siblings and his mother.

Today we no longer cart water from wells many miles away, we still use windmills (corregated iron sails, Australian not Dutch) to draw up bore water, etc.

As Luxury goes it's zero cost other than literal sweat equity, uses materials about the place (all the water that runs through the house goes to the garden), and has little in the way of fossil fuel usage (we do use a car to fetch manure from nearby stables as needed .. but that's optional in the sense that we can go back to hauling sans car).

The only we're not still doing is shooting | trapping rabbits.
No, but if it's in the records like the anonymous whistleblower said, those records could've also been leaked, and there would be hard proof.

It's academic anyway, though, because the FAA will have those records and then the information will be either verified or debunked.
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This was useful. I understand why gpt summaries are frowned upon, but this is a fine TLDR for anyone looking for one. And you’ve properly attributed it.