skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, Tailwind isn't inline styles. Fine. That doesn't make it good.
And yes, most CSS is average or below average in implementation. Most software is too. That's just statistics. Tailwind is an attempt to prevent people from recognizing that, like software, CSS requires design and modeling.

It's perfectly possible to have a CSS system that is completely maintainable. It takes skill. That skill can be learned, but it cannot be learned if a person is tricked into relying on rapid-application-development tooling like Tailwind and not taking the time to understand the real problems with their CSS (which is very often special cause variation and/or not taking it seriously enough).

Tailwind doesn't solve anything, it just trades one bad thing (poorly written CSS) for another. I won't list the problems with Tailwind as that's been done plenty. I'm just pointing out the fundamental mistake here.

My experience: The first version of our app used React + Tailwind. When we started to ditch React and use server rendered HTML our React components and their embedded Tailwind were useless. When we wanted to share styles with our emails, they were useless. We had to start from scratch. We now have a plain CSS system (well, SASS) that is very well maintained, has only essential variation, and is used across 20+ web apps (that are all served on the same domain -- the user thinks they are one app).
The article, especially in its second half, confuses the City of Melbourne municipality with the city of Melbourne.

The former is the central business district and surrounding area, the one with 33,000 open air car parks of which the local academic they interviewed appears to be proposing 11,000 be replaced by greenery. It is a nice thought, but the City of Melbourne (think Westminster or City of London in a London context) is notoriously reliant on revenue from those car parks and isn’t about kill that goose yet. Their policy [0] is to “support the conversion of car parking spaces to be used for another function where there is a strategic need to do so” - and the list of functions doesn’t include greenery for its own sake. In fairness, there are already a lot of parks within the municipality.

The latter is the metro area of 5 million people 100km across, and most of it has plenty of green space. For example, most residential streets have a wide grassed verge with street trees. There is definitely a problem with gardens disappearing under apartments and McMansions, but it’s mostly not car parking that’s driving habitat loss.

[0] https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/SiteCollectionDocuments/par...
As demonstrated at the end... no positive or negative incentive gave one of the best answers in the grid. Whoop dee.
I like to state this in the inverse, as the engineer's paradox: "A good engineer believes their purpose is to solve their problem so effectively that their position is no longer relevant to the organization".

Which leads to the corollary that, over time, all good engineers are eliminated from an organization (or are re-homed to a new position where they aren't as effective, until they do become effective, in which case they are re-homed again).

An alternative resolution of the paradox is that if every engineer solved their problem such that there were less problems than when they started, there would eventually be no more need for engineers.
"Proportion of wealth" - What does that even mean for finance?
Telecommunications (e.g. the FCC) is a general commerce regulator.
Not selfish enough, sorry. Empower the human, regardless of total fertility rate decline trajectory (~40% of global annual pregnancies are unintended; assuming reproductive wishes are affirmed [less or no children], extrapolate future total fertility rate accordingly [points down]).

> bigger societies are better for everyone.

This does not appear to be the case based on the evidence. Bigger societies are better for those in political power, with economic control, and anyone who is a beneficiary of excess/surplus. We should do what is best for the human, not the machine. We already do not properly provide for hundreds of millions of people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_impact_on_the_environmen... ("Wikipedia: Human impact on the environment")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_impact_on_the_environmen... ("Wikipedia: Climate Change Flowchart")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries ("Wikipedia: Planetary boundaries")

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... ("HN: Planetary boundaries search")

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#empowerment-of-wom... ("Our World in Data: Fertility Rate - Empowerment of Women")

https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/unintended-pregnancy-u... ("Guttmacher Institute: Unintended Pregnancy in the United States")

https://www.unfpa.org/press/nearly-half-all-pregnancies-are-... ("UNFPA: Nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended—a global crisis, says new UNFPA report")

https://www.worldvision.org/sponsorship-news-stories/global-... ("Fast facts: Global poverty")

(thesis arrived at by a preponderance of all available information)
Is there any discussion of how we would do this in the article, or is it entirely fantastical discussions of what is possible, and how great the world could be?
The population growth rate needs to be controlled, even reduced, to reduce the pressure on natural resources and slow down the climate change.

John Baez, mathematician at UCR, talks about this approach among a number of others, such as, reducing air travel for conferences.
Cli is fine when cli is fine, and not when it's not.

Web is fine when web is fine, and not when it's not.

When is a gui app better than either cli or web? Sometimes.
I'm pretty sure there's too many people on this rock already
> socially badgering

> pressure is not real.

> real consequences that I'm aware of (as in legal, regulatory, etc)

So if I understand correctly, the argument is that social pressure isn't real pressure and can be dismissed as inconsequential? If that's the case, then yeah, I think this is played out and we can call it here.

(Not because I strongly agree or disagree with such a notion, I just kind of think it would be getting off into the weeds a bit much to continue at that point.)
What my wife did was quit her engineering job to take care of her mother (and the kids) full time. But mostly the mother; we can hire babysitters but not afford senior care.

I believe an economist called it an external dependency. The family structure is designed for this kind of thing. But we started outsourcing senior care, which led to retirement plans, etc. It fixes a lot of things, but it may not be sustainable with longer life spans etc.

I expect us to eventually cold turkey and go around back to family-based care, even if we as a society have to take a productivity hit.
> Economies of scale. In particular, often total costs are a combination of fixed and variable costs. The more output, the more the fixed costs can be amortized, lowering average cost.

Except that after a certain point total costs increase again as the raw inputs become more scarce and expensive to obtain.
I doubt things scale this way. There are only so many opportunities to have impact. I don't think increasing the random generation of geniuses would have that much of an impact compared to an increase in quality of life for a smaller number of people.
So AI is unoriginal and thick as pigshit and is therefore an accurate simulation of a human, neat argument.
> and there are basically no major examples of catastrophic resource shortages in the industrial age

is this really true? there were tons of supply-line problems during covid for example

I feel like to make this point you would have to define "catastrophic" and "resource" and "shortage" extremely narrowly.
The arguments in the linked article all seem rooted in a traditional Western weltanschauung.

This worldview is increasingly characterized (not without basis) as racist, sexist and fascist, mostly by critics whose personal positive contributions to human improvement are unclear.

I'm not driving this bus; I just seem to be going under it.

Maybe after the societal collapse the survivors can agree that the Critical Theory folks were mistaken?
This is a good example of a very narrow human centric view that captures why its bad to try to maximize for particular made up metrics, such as human utility. It also a wonderfully hare brained view of technolocial innovation that disregards the dark sides, material input, or externalities at all.

Is this person an economist or something?
But also biological neurological systems;

Coping strategies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coping

Defense Mechanisms > Vaillant's categorization > Level 4: mature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_mechanism#Level_4:_mat...

"From Comfort Zone to Performance Management" suggests that the Carnall coping cycle coincides with the TPR curve (Transforming, Performing, Reforming, adjourning); that coping with change in systems is linked with performance.

And Consensus; social with nonlinear feedback and technological.

What are the systems thinking advantages in such fields of study?

Systems theory > See also > Glossary,: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory#See_also
Would all this matter in an era of super-AI?
Instead of letting our tools lead us by the nose, what if we let design principles lead us? Why would a styling tool lead me to model my markup? That's the complete inverse of how one should be thinking about it. You model the markup first, you create reusable bits if you need them first. Then you style them. If the CSS forces your hand to change the markup, then you must, but that's becoming more and more rare with modern CSS.

I have no doubt that people that don't know the fundamentals at play have an easier time with Tailwind. That's how it goes with hacks. They're usually easier to apply than proper design and implementation. We're throwing in the towel with Tailwind, plain and simple.
Color me suspicious. I ran a MUD back in 2005 that we opted not to add features to because of how CPU intensive they were.

Obviously if you took gamma diku and tossed it on an rpi, yeah, because that was built in the '80s with that hardware in mind. But muds evolve and get features and people come up with stuff that can't be ran on ancient hardware.

For example, most MUDs turn(ed) off mobile AI when players weren't in the zone. It wasn't strictly necessary to have it on, but it would be nice to have NPCs that did stuff when PCs weren't around so when they revisit something happened.
What do you suggest? Gas chambers?
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39449272
>Why should apps have to force that?

it's not clear that they do, or that this functionality is necessary or helpful in any way. "cache-clearing" apps have always been popular on android, and they range in effectiveness from being useless to being actual scams. but people like to push buttons to feel as though they're optimizing performance somehow.
> when you love someone you build up these circuits that care about the other person and you cannot break them down, it seems.

Ha! My experience as well. Even after many years when you see that person again those circuits turn back on (and are very strong).

That is a bigger more important thing. But also, on the topic at hand, an interesting and probably strong analogy!
InetSim: Internet Services Simulation
He was told he had reduced his life expectancy, but refused to get testing that would give him the details.

Amongst a host of other problems, did he maybe have reason to suspect cancer or some other generative disease - hence the drug use?
No, but we already do. Huge amounts of public money is spent by government on consulting firms, private contractors and industry grants/incentives.

Yet the public doesn't generally consider these firms to be publicly funded organizations, despite taxpayer money being the primary revenue source for many of them.
Oh I don’t have faith in journals to be flawless, and I think the peer review system implies a lot more than it delivers. However it is the system, and there are well intentioned reasons behind a lot of it. But the replication crisis isn’t a flaw to me it’s a feature. Peer review isn’t a substitute for replication and the fact things are being discovered in replication as fraudulent sounds like the way science is supposed to work.
Probably people are using adb to disable ads or something?

Amazon has indicated that they are creating their own TV OS in Rust running ReactNative Apps and going away from Android although it might take a few years.
Jason Crawford...
There has not been a single country so far whose GDP and overall wellness decreased with increase in population.
TIL Melbourne is like London, where the "City of London" should not be confused with "London".
Is this the same "naked festival" that finally allowed women to participate (instead of being male-only)?
There a GitHub page for this?
Amazon broke customizing branded buttons, took away Prime Video, and now this.

Dumped FireTV for Apple TV. Much nicer experience overall except for a lack of related content in major apps.
After about 10 minutes of experimenting with Automatic1111 using freedomRedmond (I'm completely green at this btw) I got this image for ya.. https://ibb.co/Ch73gLm

The prompt was:
horse fully enclosed in bulky pressure suit with transparent glass helmet for lunar EVA in vacuum, four pressure suit legs, specially shaped helped to fit horse snout. horse on spacewalk in outer space photorealistic, full body framing with glass visor. horse is on a EVA on the lunar surface. horse head must be fully enclosed in glass.

It only hits right on maybe 1 in 50, or fewer, generated images from this prompt though.
I'm confused—it very obviously is regulated, hence why we're discussing this at all. What do you mean?
Honestly it's one of the better systems for dealing with the "we aren't going to comply with the law, we'll just leave" (for some definition of leave) problem. If you try to pull this trick without pulling all of your business out of SK (i.e. Amazon) they can still collect the fine.

Probably cuts down on the performative exits >.> Facebook in the EU, in an attempt to bully regulators.

Sender pays clearly has backfired but I don't know if there's a solution that satisfies everyone outside of gov't footing the bill a la public roads and calling it an economic multiplier. Because yes internet is a series of tubes and all but video sites are sending couches to everyone, making it FedEx's problem, and then acting shocked when FedEx wants paid for large item delivery.
With web searches the reputation of sources can at least be discriminated. (Which seems to even help GPT-4 ?)
More ambitious projects need a certain critical mass of resources behind them. Ancient Egyptian civilization built a large irrigation system to make the best use of the Nile floodwaters for agriculture, a feat that would not have been possible to a small tribe or chiefdom.

This doesn't mean people, we're no longer bound by labour intensive solutions.

I live in a single state with a tiny population that mines and ships 16x more raw iron ore, almost a billion tonnes per annum, than peak annual iron ore mining in the entire USofA ever. We also mine a millions of tonnes of other resources. This is entirely down to bigger machines, smarter technology, and factors that don't require more people.

The arguments presented here for even more people on the globe are sketchy at best, no weight at all is given to the downsides of truly challenging levels of resource extraction currently at play to meet the high consumption demands of a small proportion of the large population we already have on the planet.
We need more time to deal with finite resources and pollution. A larger population would decrease the time we would have to find solutions. Even if most of the current world population lived sustainably, we would still need 2.5 earths to support the current population size indefinitely. I believe that we need about 6.5 earths at the moment.

Maybe if we had off world colonies this would be a good opinion, but this blog post is just a bad argument
In the words "mindless consumption" the problem is not with "consumption" but with "mindless".

If you ask people in the third world, they badly want and need higher levels of consumption. And they will attain it, barring some global catastrophe.
RSS can be considered a syndication protocol, or a 'standard' if you want to be strict with the term protocol, but nothing about those distinctions is pertinent to the point I was making.

Podcast can refer both to individual episodes or to the series of episodes, neither usage is more correct than the other, it's your responsibility to interpret words in good faith in the context in which they're used. And again, nothing about this distinction is pertinent to the point I was making.

RSS is not the same thing as podcasts, because while generally all podcast feeds are distributed via RSS/Atom, they aren't necessarily, and moreover not all RSS feeds are podcasts.

And again, nothing about this distinction is pertinent to the point I was making. To reiterate, Apple, with the iPod, was instrumental in elevating podcasts to a mainstream medium of content distribution. It's by analogy to this that I make the point that Google could have played a similar role in facilitating the mass adoption of RSS.

I'm not interested in any further exploration of the conceptual differences between RSS and podcasts unless you believe it has an upshot that's relevant to the original point I was making.
I'm surprised contract law allows you to obscure your own operations from the state. That doesn't sound right.
This made me laugh! My point is that there are 18 year olds, rare as they are, that are ready to start companies and navigate that level of complexity.
Without a piece of paper to take notes on? ;)
I still play https://mume.org/ from time to time. It's been running (almost) continuously since 1991. I started it in 1992.
Wrong.

You want the largest viable population. That is, a population below carrying capacity.

A population over carrying capacity just consumes the environment that sustains it and dies off collectively.

Today we are over carrying capacity at a global level, and many regions are also over carrying capacity at a local level.

The population centers built around groundwater aquifers pumped aggresively, overfishing, or dying topsoil, which are most of them, are doomed.

Unless there is an innovation that unlocks rapid topsoil regeneration, freshwater replenishment, and plentiful food sources covering the growing global demand for fish, at scale and meeting market demand at low prices, humanity is bound to have a conflict over the remaining resources.
The problem is that infrastructure doesn't scale nearly as quickly as birth rates, let alone immigration. Cities are getting overcrowded, and many, many attempts by many different countries have proven the difficulty of bootstrapping new cities in the middle of otherwise economically underperforming land, like agricultural fields or even desert. Pretty much every existing major city is bursting at the seams: insufficient housing, insufficient transportation infrastructure, insufficient utility infrastructure.
Parkinson's Disease Is Predominantly an Environmental Disease
I tried even the latest Fire TV 4K Max and the Echo Show 15 but they're laggy, unresponsive, and full of ads. Apple TV is smooth and reliable.
Real gentlemen start with themselves. Not having children is one such choice.
tell us more!
http://www.eotl.org/ was great in the 80s and was still great when I played a few years ago.
We can prove that transformers can do computation beyond memorization, and that they can learn it from examples, unless you think learning an algorithm is memorization.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05217

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16028
Especially considering Alabama is on the cutting edge of execution methods in the US

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/us/execution-alabama-kenn...
I wonder if you'll see higher hallucinations with a prompt like that. Or technically not hallucinations since you asked for make believe.
It’s either labor or capital (to buy/dev those machines). Frankly, if it’s capital and we haven’t transitioned to something closer to socialism or even communism, it isn’t going to end very well for us workers.
The rate of the growth can be reduced. After a generation or two, so does the total size.
Don’t you guys also do a pledge of allegiance and other weird stuff?

Also, in most every other country, the national anthem is only ever sung when the country is playing an outside country not for internal competition.
You know what they say: plan to throw the first one away
In 1967 it was [occupied by Israel] and Jordan renounced it's rights to this territory in 1980 or 1988.

Which by no means conveys any rights to Israel, as Jordan's occupation of the territory was also illegal and unrecognized from the very beginning.

*So, you say, that you oppose "universal right of self-determination"?*

No one has a right to "self-determine" themselves on land to which they hold no legal claim.
Unfortunately I don't remember the exact reason, but with some squinting at the past I believe it would've come down to two things - resources and how we thought about the role of developers:

Chrome was a no-crunch 50-person project, which sounds like a lot until you think about how we were porting webkit to windows, adding a sandbox, creating a new javascript engine, a new windows UI toolkit, etc and we were ruthless about prioritization - any engineer who could've spent on an RSS renderer would've been taken away from valuable webkit windows compatibility work (omg ACID tests), and weeks mattered.

Second, we had an extremely strong belief in letting developers own as much as they could - our impossible ideal was that the Chrome UI wouldn't exist and developers would just create content you could access emphemerally through your operating system. At the time, we had seen that it was possible for developers to use various trickery (XSLT or CSS?) to style RSS feeds so they would show up somewhat like how you described (IIRC Feedburner did this)

So if you take those two things together (and again I may be misremembering) you see it being a "developers can do it so if they care they can do it, we should not spend time making something that overrules them"

It's not possible for me to know whether that was the right idea in hindsight because I don't know what we would've sacrificed (I think I would've preferred using that time to make the standalone image renderer have better zooming/panning controls)
I’ve looked for the same in executive roles as well (though I’m not really interested in a promotion at this point). It always makes sense to work with people to learn from and respect.
Television and education appear to do the job well enough thank you.

There's no need to posit the only choice involves genocide.
i.e. the key shouldn’t answer unless it’s moving or has recently moved. A cheap little accelerometer in the key fob would basically fix this whole problem.
If there were only two people both of you would be living in a cave and foraging for berries because you can't sustain technological civilization with two people. You wouldn't even be capable of creating pollution.
Neither were an example of the shirky effect though. Both were examples of misaligned incentives, or if you like the law of unintended consequences.

The lesson though is clear and useful. Be careful what you -measure- because people will optimize to improve the measure. When the measurement is a proxy for what you actually want, you won't necessarily get the outcomes you were hoping for.

For example what makes a good driver? I'd suggest patience and consideration. How many driving incidents are fueled by impatience or inconsiderate? Yet those are impossible to test for, so despite passing the driving test (operate the machine, know the rules) we end up with roads full of terrible drivers.