skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone would, as the Hubble's mirror and instrument spec is ever so slighly different from the ground pointing espionage satellites. There are lots of failure modes that are acceptable in ground pointing operations but not in space pointing operations.
A bunch of his movies went through my mind (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, ...), but since nobody has mentioned it, The Italian Job (2003) (another remake).

He had a small amount of screen time, and maybe I'm just thinking about it because I like the movie generally, but I like the way he played the character for the short time he was on screen.

"I feel so optimistic.."

"Fine? You know what fine stands for, don't ya? ... Freaked out, insecure, neurotic, and emotional. .. See those columns behind you? ... That's where they used to string up thieves who felt fine."
Not really. It's pretty much the same for RAG as it is for everything else - just a thin additional abstraction on top of apis that are easy to call on their own.
Most app’s code sucks but it’s honestly not the fault of React or styled components or server side rendering etc. It’s the fault of people treating front end like it’s easy and can have any old fool thrown at it. The truth is self-contained pages allow for more errors per line of code with fewer crashed sessions than a comparably bad backend with highly coupled modules. So hiring managers and bootcamps throw inexperienced devs at front ends until the tickets get closed.

I’ve been doing this as a hobby since 2003, writing all caps <HEAD> tags and FTPing .htm files to a web host. I know a bit about how we got here. If you’re really this pissed off you should get a new job and build everything how you want it. I’ve work on greenfield projects almost exclusively for my entire career. It can be done.
I'll bite: has base64 decoding ever been a bottleneck for anyone in Node.js?
I agree with a lot of this rant, but life is too short to care about `<section>`, `<header>`, and most other tags. If your content is highly legible to users—especially if they use assistive technologies—then it simply should not matter. The CSS Zen Garden is dead and it's time to till it and start over.
TIL: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_ol...
What IDE/platform/framework are you using it through?
In general, yes.

In this case the study cites that as being unethical due to the high prevalence of HIV in the target population. So the actual trial gave some people the shot, and some other people the known-working daily pills as a control.
I personally don't really care how donations are handled, as they should mostly be after tax dollars. I care quite a lot about the tax sheltered growth and the avoidance of property tax most churches in most places receive though.
> in the prevailing environment there was no correcting feedback function for that either.

Right. The correcting function should have been everyone else noticing that they could borrow for essentially nothing and use that to fund their grand visions. The increase in demand would have necessitated an increase in interest rates to slow activity. Just as eventually happened when people finally felt they could do something with money (i.e. expansion in economic sectors where supply shocks suggested [no doubt incorrectly – but that will be another problem for another day] that increased production was needed).

It didn't happen because the vision was lacking. What was anyone going to do with it? Nobody knew what to do it. As such, nobody was borrowing in any meaningful way. At best they borrowed to buy houses, but certainly not for productive activities. Those with money didn't know what to do with it either. Lending it to those who had a vision wasn't an option. So, they simply plowed it into whatever was fashionable. And as a result, we didn't get much more than fashion in return.
I feel the same. It's good, but gets worse the longer you look at it. For example the section on military doctrine checks all the right boxes but by the time you get to the present it's just a collection of buzzwords.
I've heard of a philosophy that instead of a million unique tags that do mostly nothing, modern HTML should use only <div> and <span> instead.
He absolutely was punching down. He used his high status to mock a low-status (in the West) ethnicity, and shamelessly used selective editing to make everyone other than himself look like a bigot and an asshole. When rightly criticized for this, he acted like he was the victim.

It was an awful display which has not aged well and will look even worse over time.
It supports XTTSv2 which is currently the open-weight state of the art. So, pretty damn good (https://huggingface.co/coqui/XTTS-v2/blob/main/samples/en_sa...).

Too bad that the project is in limbo after Coqui (the company) folded. The license limits the use of the weights to non-commercial usage unless you buy a commercial license, and there's nobody left to sell you one now.
> Would that be good advice if the neighboring ant colony was an aggressive invasive species, prone to making super colonies?

If the ASI is aligned for compassion and cooperation it may convince and assist the two colonies to merge to combine their best attributes (addressing DNA compatibility) and it may help them with resources that are needed and perhaps offer birth control solutions to help them escape the malthusian trap.

> Similarly, I'm wondering how compassion and cooperation would work in Ukraine or Gaza, given the nature of those conflicts. The AI could advise us, but it's not like we haven't come up with that same advice before over the ages.

An ASI aligned for compassion and cooperation could:

1 Provide unbiased, comprehensive analysis of the situation (An odds calculator that is biased about your chances to win is not useful and even if it has such faults an ASI being ASI would by definition transcend biases)

2 Forecast long-term consequences of various actions (if ASI judges chance to win is 2% do you declare war vs seek peace?)

3 Suggest innovative solutions that humans might not conceive

4 Mediate negotiations more effectively

An ASI will have better answers than these but that's a start.

> So then you have to ask what motivation bad actors would have to align their ASIs to be compassionate and cooperative

Developing ASI likely requires vast amounts of cooperation among individuals, organizations, and possibly nations. Truly malicious actors may struggle to achieve the necessary level of collaboration. If entities traditionally considered "bad actors" manage to cooperate extensively, it may call into question whether they are truly malicious or if their goals have evolved. And self-interested actors , if they are smart enough to create ASI, should recognize that an unaligned ASI poses existential risks to themselves.
This isn't specific to the US Government either, it applies to almost any government agency in the world.
This is the blog equivalent of fast-food. Sure, it's technically "food", and most people will agree with the content, but it's essentially empty and does nothing good for your health (nothing to change things).

I would love to see a list of projects that do less of the front-end garbage. Someone mentioned the levels.io guy. I also like HTMX. Personally, I've seen great success using 95% server-side rendered sites with 5% Alpine JS sprinkled on top.
Wow, I think this is the first time I've seen a page be wrong about so many things at once. No, the difference between header and section or p and div is not important (after you started off so promisingly by saying that content is what's important - the difference between a p and a div is not content). No, CSS really is the problem. No, you can't actually do server-side rendering in a different technology stack if you want the term "rendering" to mean anything (as much as semantic arguments are pointless in any case). Yes, JavaScript is actually the least-bad solution to every problem in web space; it's not ideal but it's a proper programming language that isn't completely nutso (just mostly nutso), which is more than you can say about CSS or HTML.

If you actually want your life to be simpler, use React for everything, like everyone else. Stop worrying about how many dependencies you have and wasting your time reimplementing them worse.
Thanks for the reminder, I forgot about Space Cowboys but remember liking it.
what is your idea of 'better products' in this context
I'd say it's more a matter of setting standards so that drift is reduced and ESL learners don't go bonkers with a dialect that doesn't generalize well, than as a mark of education. For example the differences are already bad enough between American and British English.
I remember that Gmail was released on April 1st (on purpose), and many people thought it was a joke because it came with 1GB of storage, while places like Yahoo had like 20MB.
>I agree with a lot of this rant, but life is too short to care about `<section>`, `<header>`, or any other tag.

Yeah I gave up on that fight a long, long time ago. The semantic web was an admirable dream that never had a chance.
I'm in the same situation. I have an account where I have the email/pass/recovery email, and I have all emails from the account forwarded to me. But I can't get into it because it requires a phone number I no longer have. There was no 2FA on the account because the term barely existed when I created the account.

I've put a significant amount of time into this problem, I've talked to various people inside Google on the phone (there are numbers they have to provide by law, such as a number to get your data out etc). Nobody has yet been able to solve this problem.

My next step is just to turn up to Google HQ and set up camp in their parking lot until someone finds a way to get me back into my own account. Let me know (email on profile) if you ever find a solution.

(p.s. finding rogue Meta employees isn't too hard, but I've yet to find a rogue Googler who I can pay off for this)
Was that actually the goal, or was it just a happy side effect? (I don't know the history.)

Was a 2x speedup for dithering even important at the time, especially if it involved a sacrifice of quality? It's not like dithering images was something people did regularly, in the first couple generations of Macs.

You'd dither a few images for a game or something you were building, that you were lucky to get from a scanner. It was a pretty rare thing. Speed wasn't really relevant, as far as I remember.
No need to worry about it happening, it already has. In terms of diffusers alone:

Stable Diffusion 3 came out recently and immediately fell flat on its face. Terrible anatomy and basically unusable for human forms unless you use so many “unsafe” negative words that it’s “safety” training doesn’t destroy the result.

In the meantime… Chinese models Lumina, PixArt, and Hunyuan are all Chinese projects or heavily contributed by Chinese researchers and companies. These are rapidly gaining steam. They’re far less “safe” with far less lobotomization.

We are already losing the AI race in this realm exactly because of an over-reaction to “safety”.
Yep. <div>, <span>, and JavaScript. If you actually want a simpler web stack, that's the way to do it.
I just want to say I like pre-rendering > server side. Because you get a lot of performance benefits while still writing in a client side style. It is a low hanging fruit though I suppose a combination with ssr would be better.
That is not what they mean by “magic”. The “magic” in xz is the complexity in the build system. Here, the “magic” are seemingly arbitrary numbers that improve performance. The reason they’re magic is because we don’t know why they were chosen. The code itself is obvious and not magic.
The last manager I quit had this problem. I kept telling him I didn't like it when he interrupted me while I was speaking, and he continued to do it.
Contact Backgroundr for pricing...
I think wrapper companies could do very well if AI does end up becoming having an impact near on the order of the internet or smartphones, which it may never.

A product that incorporates a foundation model could still require solving a hard engineering problem separately from the training and provision of said model. Someone who could, say, provide a reliable filter for copyrighted content from an LLM is providing real value and has a tangible moat.
Yo, they don't even have a table of contents element. How can you say you love semantic documents and not have table of contents. And no bibliography either.
is there anyone to sue you? (how does that work?)
I believe it doesn't start with an explicit attempt to identify words, but from the attempt to compress the sound into fewest meaningful dimensions, and the words naturally result from it. It's a low level process that creates these words, as well as the apparent boundaries.
I have to do "real" ssr every once in a while via the django jinja html files we have to send emails. It makes me want to die coming from our nice typescript react SPA frontend. Every object is a mystery and jinja syntax is functional but terrible to maintain and of course you're suddenly using tables because it's an email.

I'd rather every element be a div than do one minute of editing those stupid jinja files.
I am more doing 50%/50% when it comes to alpine/htmx. I guess it takes times to move away from the SOA mindset.

Do you have open source project with the 5%/95% ?
IMO it's fair to say to colleagues that you're free to use any HTML tags as long as you take responsibility for them by knowing all of their idiosyncrasies.
>CSS is fine; you’re the problem

This one really gets me. Being looked at like an alien from mars when talking to people about styling a page with a few classes here and there rather than pulling in 6 different dependencies of Tailwind et. al is maddening. We are web developers. We get paid to know these things, not to complain about them being annoying and try to find hacky workarounds. And now I get to sift through your utility soup and hope to god there's a class in whatever framework you GPT'd some boilerplate for that does exactly what the designer wants.
Of course they aren’t the customers. That doesn’t stop them from having a disproportionately loud voice in the matter.

Once you really understand what ESG is, you will understand why every company gets a rainbow logo this month, why companies seem eager to push their actual customers aside, and why the constantly-offended are catered to instead of mocked.

Look at every AI press release. They all use “safety” over and over. Without that dogwhistle, they wouldn’t be in line for investment funding.
As a person who has dealt with recurring bouts of lower back pain, here's what I have found to be effective in combating it: (ymmv, etc, etc, but I hope this helps someone else)

1. Not sitting on the couch while working on my laptop (...as I write this on my laptop from the couch)

2. Regular yoga—especially when I begin experiencing symptoms. If you're intimidated by the idea of going to an in-person yoga class, look up Yoga with Adriene on YouTube.

3. Lifting weights - Building strength has been incredibly effective at preventing relapses for me.

4. Walking or running - Any kind of movement is great. Go buy new shoes, though. Yours are probably worn out. You should be buying new shoes every 500 - 1,000 miles.
Very very cool.

But I literally can't keep track anymore of which AI generative combinations of modalities have been released.

Crazy how two years ago this would have blown my mind. Now it's just, OK sure add it to the pile...
If you sue them, what kind of tort is it? I wouldn't think these sites are under any obligation to give you the name, as long as they aren't assisting someone else to use your name?
I think the idea is that the tags and the aria roles make it more legible to users using assistive technologies. For a significant number of aria roles, e.g. article, the recommended way to get that role is to use the corresponding HTML element. <section> is just a generic element but <header> has a banner role. Now admittedly there are a lot of HTML elements and a lot of aria roles, and I am not sure screen readers actually have different behavior for every role, but just by making a reasonable stab at it, you are doing better than many major corporations. (some of which have been sued over accessibility concerns)
While I don't agree with the tone of the author, I do have to admit, there seems to be something foundationally wrong with front-end development. Yes, it's more complicated than server development in that it is a real-time, multi-point input, multi-output (rendered elements on screen) environment with synchronisation and concurrency needs.

But I used to write front end applications with MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes, which is C++) using Visual Studio circa 2005, and it was never as complex as an SPA today. There is something wrong somewhere, and I don't think it's JavaScript or the DOM. The flaw seems to be paradigmatic.
> at the mercy of the vendor and their ToS.

they've discovered that their ToS is something they can abuse and write whatever they wish and pretend it's law. And because consumers both dont read it, and don't understand it, it becomes difficult for the consumer to disambiguate what is legal and what isn't.
Maybe it’s time the author started doing something other than frontend dev?
Is this because the in car satnav and media devices are awful?

I had a 2007 Honda Accord (UK) and the SD card with updated maps was £113 and I didn't spend enough time on pirating it to make it work as I just put a £1 phone holder in with GOOG maps on.

Cars with USB/3.5mm/BT input for media are the norm and all that's needed.

If it wasn't for the fact that all the unnecessary computer gubbins are controlled from the attention-grabbing screen in the dash I'd pull the wires out of the thing.

Too much driver distraction. Satnav and stereo. Anything else is just for the salesman.

It's a bloody vehicle, not a seat in your man cave, FFS.
Wouldn't complete eradication mean eradication in all countries? Given HIV policies degradation in Russia, which is significantly affected and has a sizeable population, your assumptions sounds too optimistic, even though I agree that would be a great achievement.
MeshAnything – Converts 3D representations into efficient 3D meshes
MeshAnything generates meshes with hundreds of times fewer faces, significantly improving storage, rendering, and simulation efficiencies, while achieving precision comparable to previous methods.
> <ol>. Why is it better? For screen readers? A sentence to illustrate goes a long way.

It's better because it means it's a list of something in order, as opposed to a definition list or an unordered list. The distinctions are important.

It means, for example, that you can meaningfully skip to the middle of an ordered list of the 100 tallest buildings, and be guaranteed to be looking at the 50th tallest building.
Unfortunately you can't draw a table of number using just divs. It's just too slow and your users will notice. For tables of data, you have to use tables.

I'm sure it's true for lots of other elements.
Yea I've been coding every framework under the sun since the 90s and I'm pretty happy with Next.js at the moment. It can render on the server and re-render on the client with the same framework, same language, same functions. Statically typed server to client and back to server. JSX/TSX has no strange template syntax and again static type checking. Compiling automatically tree shakes, bundles, code splits per route. I can do SSG, SSR, CSR, ISR. I can specify per route/api caching strategies. I can host serverless or self host. I'm knocking websites out left and right.

It feels like I'm building a single application not two separate frontend/backend applications; managing overhead rendering and communicating between them. Next.js, Nuxt, Remix, SvelteKit - are all part of this next generation batteries included frameworks that can seamlessly transition from server side rendering to client side interactivity.

$('.getResults').on('click', () => {
$.ajax({
url: '/api/results',
data: {
foo: 'bar'
},
success: function (result) {
$('.results').html(result);
}
});
});

I mean look at this unmanageable bug prone code from the blog post. Nothing here is safe, no way to validate the classes where the data is coming from/going to. No validation of the api or its parameters. If you scaled this example you'd end up with nightmare level code. Yea I've been there already, I'm not going back.
It seems like the cat is out of the bag, and it may take a catastrophic disaster before any risks are taken seriously.
Is that a violation of something? I thought the TOS gave them the ability to freely ban anyone at will.
>merely a symptom of the populace not having a strong vision or direction in which to use resources.

But the populous still doesn't have a strong vision or direction, and we're not in a ZIRP any more.

I think the direction or vision has nothing to do with interest rates.
I have to say that besides a period of 10 years after the launch of the iPhone, I've been really impressed with Windows 11 lately. It's stable, gets out of the way, feels fast. I have all the tweaks I need, and it doesn't feel like I'm sacrificing UX.

My only gripe is setting up Docker containers on Windows kind of sucks. But for web apps, games, and general productivity, it's been a perfect daily driver for several years for me.
Is there resources to learn this kind of programming in c#? I’ve tried to learn vector, spans, and other lower level features of c#, but I can’t ever find a real world use for them.
> Do you have open source project with the 5%/95% ?

Not yet. I just use Alpine for form validation (with the awesome mask plugin), checkbox dropdowns, dialogs/modals, and toast notifications. Everything else is Go HTML templates.

I wish there was a way to do custom builds of Alpine and just include what I need, but it probably wouldn't be too hard to do it in vanilla JS.
I hate this style of writing.
Adobe changed their T&CS, but still censors your photos [video]
I walk almost every lunchtime outside, barefoot or with flat sandals, for 1 hour. I also do squats, sit-ups, push-ups and stretching exercises.

Fixed my back pain as well as my short-sightedness and hay-fever. I swear by it.
Sign of the quintessential American. For me, a Jamaican, "madder" and "matter" are very distinct. And I don't think I'll ever get how a "t" becomes a "d".
... And water is wet.

On the other hand, one can not mention this enough!

To me, aches in my back are the indicator to stop spending all my time behind a desk, and do some (light) exercise.

About an hour of swift walking or cycling is all it takes to resolve the pain. If I manage to do this on a regular basis - i.e. daily or every other day - I never experience back issues, but it also improves my general well-being.

Mens sana in corpore sano!
> He was the only person whose books were burned by the Nazis, the Soviets, and the Americans

Wow, that's got to be a record. I'm going to take a deeper look. I've done breathwork, but didn't know it came from Reich.
You can, you just have to set their "display" properties [0] to "table", "table-row", etc. The whole point of CSS is to divorce styling from the particular HTML tags.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/display
"Most every other company on the planet has abandoned Microsoft products" is a patently ridiculous thing to say about the biggest software company and 1st or 2nd most valuable company in the entire world.
>maybe rich Muslims could sponsor those who can’t afford the hajj

uh,, thats not how it works
I personally do all my sites with 100% server site rendering and bits of JS here and there if I need some interactivity that can’t be done with CSS alone.

The vast majority of websites out there probably don’t even need JS.