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Ask HN: Why Htmx So Controversial?
It seems like people either hate it or love it? Personally I love it, so I can't really see why you would hate it. What are the great arguments against it?
Hmm I wasn't on the Internet but was active on BBSes since '87, and shortly after on the worldwide X25 network (tymnet, telenet, datapac etc), does it count?
Guidance needed for using AI to screen journal submissions for misconduct
Saying that we could make transformers 100 years ago is not the same as saying we would use 100 year old transformer tech. It simply points out that there is a scale of technology, and we can use whatever point is appropriate. Manufacturers know quite well which requirements are longevity- and cost- related, and which are must-have functionality.

As to the other objections, do we really think that manufacturing and transport would not be given top priority? The US military is the largest, most capable logistics operation on the planet. They specialize in black-start operations.
They can make sure manufacturers get materials, and products get delivered.

In any case the idea of a transformer massacre by GMD is a fading one because the cost-effective way to address the issue, by monitoring and mitigating the effects, are under way and improving over time.
I take it you haven't been following Telegram for iOS and macOS.
Mediocre success makes the world go round.
There may well be corruption in some of these processes, but these foreclosure options are generally a public courts process and occur only after vast sums of money have been lost by owner and lender.

Due to construction costs, interest rates, and skyrocketing vacancy (a triple peak), the math does not work by a long shot to restore these buildings, even with new office tenants. Lease terms too short to recapture improvement costs. The deal just would have a rely on massive increases in rents and occupancy that likely never returns.

Converting to a new use is far more expensive and similarly doesn’t work. High rises are very complex systems.

These lender-run foreclosure auctions would LOVE to see another buyer come along to take the asset off their hands. The lender-buyback is just a risk backstop, they still have to figure out what to do with the asset after the buyback, meanwhile the building is deteriorating and costing (in any cases) millions to operate annually.

My group knows how to do these conversion very well, we don’t see a path forward, even being willing to dive in on some major risk assumptions, the converted value end game is too weak to justify the risk.
Released my game on steam but people say it's creepy
> We reject the idea that there are wider security implications associated with promises or serialization, both of which are core features of the language.
Isn't this demonstrably false? I.e. run this [1]

>> This does not prove the concept of promises and/or serialization are inherently unsafe core features. It simply shows there's some implementation issues to address. You go further to talk about these implementation issues which is helpful and good, but it does nothing to prove unsafeness or unsoundness of the concepts of promises or serialization/deserialization etc.

How many languages have gotten and fixed such bugs. Are those languages unsafe/unsane or were their implementations simply buggy?

Though in practice the difference isn't there, as we use language implementations, not their ideal conceptual forms, but I do think its unfair to make such claims, and say that some exploit of a langauge implementation causes the concepts within the language to be inherently exploitable.

- might be missing something, but it seems there's 2 different streams being crossed? (you do make good points about implementation imho, nothing wrong there ofc! :))
There is more reason to be concerned about Telegram than most other similar services.

Partly because it’s insecure by default, which makes a large percentage of conversations vulnerable.

And also because the team behind it is very susceptible to pressure from the Russian government, which is especially bad when it comes to these things. Even if some of them are based out of Dubai now, it doesn’t mean that they aren’t still at risk of coercion, either directly or through for example threats against family members who remain in the country.

If you don’t trust Russia, which you shouldn’t, then don’t trust Telegram with anything sensitive.
Careful with the Ghostscript AGPL licensing if you plan to make a commercial product that uses it.
“Mediocre success”, as described by the author, is how great science starts out. You try an experiment, (eventually) get a slight indication that your hypothesis might be valid, and then keep iterating until it seems clear that the idea is real (or not).

Startup companies generally shouldn’t do science, but that same interactive process should guide you. Because when you start you never know enough.
This sunburn scare needs to go away already. Kids aren't getting skin cancer en masse from playing outside for a little bit each day.

Outdoor classes used to be pretty common, so being outdoors isn't even necessarily bad for learning maths...
This seems like a pretty strong claim. What do you mean by physical sensors?

How does the body "up there" manage itself without being able to sense and interact with the physical (and chemical) world?
I use threadreader app for this.
Can you critique my usage of ChatGPT?

How exactly is this rigging my "own foundations with explosives"?

https://chat.openai.com/share/927ac3b7-2b3c-46ea-a74b-d0dec5...
It can be caught and managed, or frozen and examined, but that branch of code has no way forward.
people often turn to make as a taskrunner, but i've never understood why. i've heard people say "i don't want to add another tool/language/dependency to my project, so i'll just use make" but, usually, `make` is a new dependency for the project. `make` (realistically) excludes Windows users, most Linux distros don't ship it by default, it is a unique syntax (no, it's not shell). even in a C project, it's not a given that Make is already a dependency. in languages like python or javascript, with rich package ecosystem, `make` makes even less sense; why limit your users to one OS, and why not write your tasks in your project's native language? as a taskrunner, `make` has so many limitations -- because that's not what it's designed for. `make` is good for tracking dependencies between files that are generated from other files, and that's about it.

a good taskrunner makes it easy to run a task while still exposing the tool's underlying flexibility. a good taskrunner lets me invoke the entire test suite with a short command, but also allows me to add custom options and arguments to, say, run a specific test case in an alternate environment.

`make` fails to expose the tools' underlying flexibility. sure, you can write a .PHONY target to run the full test suite, but `make` can't handle passing options or arguments (besides cumbersome Makefile variables).

a makefile tends to obscure the underlying tool, enshrining its launch arguments. anyone who has tried to cross-compile a makefile codebase authored by someone who didn't consider cross-compilation understands what i mean (you'll end up re-writing the Makefile 90% of the time).
>> It is possible that the "50+ hours" is not accurately counted.

Or we do not understand the definition of care. Perhaps "care" covers all those times where the child has custody or otherwise is the only person watching over a disabled person. That could therefore include nights when perhaps the kid is the only carer in the household even though all are asleep. Then 50+hours doesn't seem so huge.
West central FL has been losing winter. Anecdotally, I felt my lowest temps of the year go from teens (1990s) to high 30s & 40s.

Not sure if it was my perception, I looked up a chart and it confirmed the trend.

edit: I can't find the chart I saw for my region. The closest is this: Avg Jan temps but for whole state.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-gla...
I love granny smith, especially when paired with roquefort. Not sure what a B2/C is, though.

(Pink ladies are still my favorite.)
It's not the kind of book that would become irrelevant within our current economic system. It uses examples from the 19th through end of 20th centuries to illustrate its points, but they're just examples.
It really seemed like the grandparent commentator was chiding the mention that relationships aren't only held together by blood, and that children don't have a choice in who birthed them nor who raised them through childhood.

In many cases, perhaps more than most people are comfortable with, children are raised by malicious parents.
Why is MTProto considered "home-rolled" but the Signal Protocol isn't? Both are boutique and written from scratch to fit their respective systems.
The Harsh Crackdown on College Protests Is a Dangerous Mistake
A man who took on the coal industry to save a forest – and won
so that's the secret side hussle that all the senators and congressmen get rich off of. forget insider trading and shady political contributions, bushings are where the money is at lol
> U.S. interest rates will stay near zero for at least three years as the Federal Reserve enacts measures to prop up the economy.

Needs a (2020) in the title--a lot has changed since Oct 2020.

A much better source for this type of information is the Federal Reserve database itself (FRED) [0].

Contrary to the article's statement that "Fed Chairman Paul Volcker raised interest rates to record highs," the Federal Reserve does not raise or lower interest rates directly, nor does it set them. It sets a target for the federal funds rate, and attempts to achieve it through open market operations (buying and selling of government debt). It might seem pedantic but it is a crucial concept that sadly very few people either learned or remember, let alone communicate effectively, and it hampers the ability to discuss how the economy works in reality.

0: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DFF
If you actually want to view the map: https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/

The frame link goes to: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/b1d1fd9b284e46dcaa4...
I did not see any practical advice in the post. Did I miss something?
Which one would require the most explaining, according to you?
“The future is going to be boring.”
- J. G. Ballard
A lot of the world had hospitality rules and treated outsiders kindly. Lots of people were allowed to come and go as they pleased they actually provide interesting reads. Borders as we understand them today were invented in the 18/1900s. Mass slavery spanning multiple continents and racism on that magnitude hasn't happened since and hopefully won't happen again (except maybe Rome & Egypt but that wasn't trans continental)
I agree it would be an improvement for people
but a somewhat utopian one.
But how do you figure we will do it?

Are your factoring in a drastic population decrease?

If you flatten out all tall buildings that house XX or XXX apartments
you will a lot more space for the city.
Which means the cost of rail, trains and a lot of service will increase.

It may be a lot like the suburbs, but with the houses closer and
shared green space?

Is the garden meant to provide food for the people living there?
If so who is doing the farming?
A return to an agrarian society?

I would love to end factory farming, but is not a feasible option
to feed as many people as we do today.
Which again would be solved be a massiv reduction in the population.
That's a false dichotomy. Labor laws can be made more lax in regards to certain areas (which might very well create problems) without removing any and all requirements on businesses, which certainly does not apply to the US, which als has some, state dependent, labor laws.
With Signal you actually do. The APK gotten from their website isn't the same from GPlay. It has an auto updater (will prompt you with a notif when a new version comes out, which you can click to install), and doesn't come with a FCM push notification system.
Can't be copied and pasted.

It's your domain, why not just have "contact@example.com" for incoming mail instead?

(Novel approach, thanks for sharing!)
https://repology.org/project/telegram-desktop/versions
The part where they make up stories about the other side doing dumb shit in order to boost/maintain their team's morale.

It's especially critical to drip-feed feel good news when you losing.
Singapore Writers/publishers reject a government plan to train AI on their work
>I think the modern American super market would blow the minds of anyone born before 1900 more than any other marvel that exists

Mate, the 7-Eleven Big Gulp, the Walmart 5-gallon bucket of Snickers and the giant Costco bulk bag of peanut butter M&Ms blows my present day European mind, let alone someone from 1900.
Mediocre Success + VC Investment = failure worse than just failing to start a business. It means wasting many years of your life for a "small win" for a VC.
Then what is a good task runner?
> Light has infinite speed in its own reference frame.

Or alternatively, light doesn't have a reference frame.
In my experience, Canadian geese are never en route to anywhere. They stay next to the pond year round and crap everywhere you might want to step. EG: https://sanjosespotlight.com/going-to-santa-clara-central-pa...
Thank you. That website was an abomination. Scrolling to do anything but move the content up should be highly discouraged.
The selfish/selfless thing has never made much sense to me apropos of children; they seem to be about fulfilling some personal want. Is the woman who has 3 kids from 3 different dads being selfless? I've never heard anyone say they want to have kids to go onto work menial jobs and pay taxes; frankly that's my every day and I don't have much interest in inflicting it on some poor, unsuspecting child.
That might be correct when it comes to an strict monopoly where a state provides exclusive rights to one company. Thiel is talking more loosely about tech firms with large market shares such as Google or Microsoft. Such corporations typically maintain their market share through a mixture of mergers & acquisitions, product bundling, consumer manipulation, and government lobbying. Only the last of these requires a state. Similar arguments apply to other industries with a small number of large-market-share players, such as oil, airlines, music eventing etc... . A lot of these industries operate at a global level, without being dependent on regulations from any individual state. See for example: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/Opinion/2015/03/26/The-Kraft-He...
Yes, changing c would definitely lead to stuff like "reality does not exist as we know it".

c goes into many other constants and determines most of the laws, especially in e&m. Realistically, atoms would not be able to hold up against the pressure to collapse, pretty much all matter (if it still existed) would condense to very very very cold solids instantly. We'd be shut out of most light from the sun for potentially hundreds of thousands of years.

I'm just starting my big graduate theoretical physics journey so i really can't do all the relativistic quantum math yet, take what i say with a grain of salt!
There’s https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/ although it hasn’t been maintained for quite some time.
Your explanation is definitely better than mine. I just wanted to rebuke the notion that it was Signal who inspired Whatsapp to use e2e.
I don’t think anyone is asking Linus for permission to backport security fixes to their own kernels… that’s ridiculous.
Not only "protecting your email" is pointless like others have already pointed out, it's actively harmful.

There are a fair few sites, where most all content is perfectly readable without JS, except things like "1920x1080@60Hz" are displayed as literal "[email protected]" text.
I guess it's from newsletter's "share" link or something.
This article itself isn't paywalled.
https://stratechery.com/2024/the-great-flattening/
Speaking as a Canadian with no ties to down under, I loved Footrot Flats growing up (thanks Dad).
Also that doesn't mean that 15-20% of people of parenting age are disabled. It might skew elderly.
One million? On 55 million inhabitants that’s absurd.
> death of me is fine and just a question of time. I wish to still being able to end it myself, on my terms, somewhere not bothering anybody, causing as little problems as possible

I've heard this sentiment over and over again, from older people around me growing up, and then from my peers as I've aged. I think most of them were perfectly sincere when they said it, some said it regularly for years.

In the end though, zero of these people chose suicide in the end. Despite many of them ultimately having severe chronic illnesses and disability. I'm not saying you're wrong to say this, or even to believe it about yourself. But something I've noticed in working with disability work is that disabled people still generally find life worth living, still find the cost worth it. You want to end it "when the time comes" but probably the time will never come.
It really is amazing, that's why we really need to appreciate and protect what we have. The incredible abundance we currently have is not the norm. It was not even 100 years ago that people were starving in the US during the great depression.

Think about this every time someone promotes extremist violent rhetoric.
It's a license that hasn't been reviewed by legal, which is not the same as no license.
That's ahistorical. I'd say Martin Luther King seemed like a fairly decent fellow. Also Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers, Harry Belafonte, J Waties Waring, Andrew Goodman and so on.
> Making it worse is that we’re all heavily socialized to aim for mediocre success. Schools, universities, large organizations — they don’t want big swings and big misses; they want safety and consistency. A steady 7 is better than 10s interspersed with 0s. This might work well in structured, predictable environments, but in startup-land it’s anathema.

Correction: It's anathema for VC-funded startups whose backers need one or two to succeed to unicorn size to recoup their losses from the other 98 attempts. For self-funded or privately/bank financed startups, it's fine to stay low profile and grow slowly, as long as the investors get their money back and everyone gets paid fairly. You may not end up a billionaire, but hell, even a small trades shop can reasonably be worth a million dollars or two after a few decades.

It's after all how the many, many "hidden champions" of Germany's Mittelstand got to where they are: start small, focus on extremely high quality products/services, and dominate entire markets even though no one but experts of their respective fields have even heard of them. And that model working out isn't restricted to Germany either... Japanese YKK zippers are the best example there [1].

A side note: if you don't have VCs or, worse, the vipers of the public stock market breathing down your neck, you have so much more freedom as a founder. You can do what's best for the company long term.

[1] https://slate.com/business/2012/04/ykk-zippers-why-so-many-d...
That's right, you get rid of the requirement of its own clock, and instead accept that you need to "see" one more satellite than you'd need otherwise.

The (oversimplified) mental model is this:

If the receiver knows the exact time, and sees a signal from one satellite, it knows its position in one spatial dimension.

For each satellite signal you add, you can determine the position in one more dimension. Once you get to the 3rd satellite, you have no more dimensions to add. Instead, the 4th satellite lets you drop the requirement for your own (absolute) time keeping.

After that, each satellite you see improves the overall precision.
Oh whoa! That's pretty dope!
Indeed. It's almost like the original article is clickbait :) The problem is that we have a term for what he's describing already - diminishing returns. For some of these "mediocre successes" you may find that your business is already down the optimization curve on some choices, but, having done a test and found a signal to improve, why not?

After all, pretty much all of writing, music, product design, prototyping, etc. is iterative. It's a purely investor mindset that would have you think that small optimizations do not pay back. Having that mindset in creating something is a great way to give up after one draft of a good idea.
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Telegram has a similar feature I believe.
My favorite "one of these" is the idea of taking a Raspberry Pi, or ATtiny, or modern Macbook Pro back to the ENIAC guys. Can you imagine how they'd have reacted to see these tiny little devices which pack orders of magnitude more computational power than their warehouse-sized computer? The mind boggles.
Havent tried it yet, but it looks promising and the comments you are getting are all positive :D great job. Looks fun.

Also really happy it seems to run on 'any gpu' and basically my 15 year old potato can likely run it awesomely :D So many games, even simple ones, have such steep requirements. Not sure why, maybe calling specific APIs only supported on later devices, or bad memory management etc.

Wondering a bit where the 2GB of ram requirement comes from. Is this to run windows 7 alongside it? :D It seems this might be able to run with much less memory but i do know looks can be deceiving... (just the game's memory usage, not system-wide).

Did you make these metrics based on system-wide memory usage or usage of the game's process itself?
Autogenerated security audits that flag totally irellevant CVEs are another symptom of the same problem. Such scans usually only compare the version of the package in question, which breaks badly when distributions backport security patches and leads to complete irrelevant results when the "vulnerability" in question pertain to configuration that is not used (good example of that are CVEs for the mail-proxy component of nginx, which I assume most people do not even know exists, yet alone deploy). In the end the main effect is that if there was some real security issue, it would get buried deep in all that pointless busy-work that InfoSec comunity generates for everybody else.
> he thought _Germans_ weren't sufficiently white for america in his 50s

50s!

I repeat, 50s!

This was no teen edgelord.

This was a man in his 50s in a time when most people he grew up with didn't get any more life experience than that.
Anecdotally, I've seen at the SaaS companies I've worked at that the larger customers are often a way better ratio of revenue to support time and easier to work with.

Not that smaller customers are bad, but the ROI isn't as good. I've found that they're much more relaxed and easy to work with compared to working with other startups. The other startups I've worked with on deals often have shorter timelines and the person you're talking to is either a founder or early employee and has way more stake in this transaction that a manager at a larger company does.
I don't know what you are arguing. Do you believe that there will never be a situation where in a startup employers can spend more than 10+ hours of productive work in a day?

I don't know why you are talking as if I didn't completely agree, and already said so, that demand 8+ hours of high quality mental work is counterproductive over long periods of time.

My point remains that German labor laws make startups very hard to do. Not that I believe that you should work 10 hours a day over months, but in a startup there might very well be a situation where you can spend 12 hours effectively, which would be a violation of labor laws.