skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are right. It is good. They call it satire, but still I think the stuff they mention is right; yes it should look like this and shouldn't need pictures and CSS and whatever else they add too much. Also, it works with "http:" and with "https:", so that is also good. Another benefit is that I do not have to override or disable the CSS to make it even partially good, because it does not have CSS. It works how it is, unlike most.

However:

- The <meta charset> command should not be needed, if the text is only ASCII anyways.

- The <meta name="viewport"> command should not be needed, if they use the simple HTML as this anyways (without CSS); the client should ought to set it automatically according to the user-defined window size.

- They even have a <script> command (with Google Analytics), which also should not be needed. They have a comment if you wanna fight about it. (I have scripts disabled.)
Some people still hang on to the flawed science and xenophobic belief that MSG is bad.
I registered the domain modernfuckingwebsite.com a few years ago with the intent of building the evolution of this where you don't forego niceties because someone hates JavaScript.

I haven't built it yet because all the frontend frameworks suck still.

Maybe Astro? I don't know yet. I continue to renew the domain in hopes that something will come along.
Most people who object to roundabouts are drivers who don't know how to drive on them, which leads to hand-wavy dismissals of all criticisms of roundabouts as "you'll learn, look at these stats, they're safer!"

But for a pedestrian in a populated area, roundabouts are not an improvement.

Quick, how does a pedestrian safely cross a lane of traffic? Is it while dodging moving traffic, or does it involve traffic coming to a stop?

If you said the first, I hereby revoke your license to design public infrastructure. For pedestrians to safely cross a lane of traffic, cars need to come a stop, period.

And the whole selling point of a roundabout is that cars don't come to a stop. This is fine for rural areas or large interchanges. But for anywhere that pedestrians are expected to be, roundabouts make the environment more hostile.

And this is before we consider that to cross a roundabout requires setting the pedestrian crossings back from the intersection, forcing pedestrians to zig-zag in order to use them.

And this is also before we consider that we know for a fact that shallower turns (which allow cars to retain more speed) are less safe than sharper turns (which require cars to shed speed), which further exacerbates the pedestrian safety issue.

To say nothing of the fact that roundabouts preclude implementing pedestrian scrambles, which are the safest and most efficient form of pedestrian crossing.

Roundabouts are a solution to a problem of making roads safer for cars, at the expense of pedestrians and cyclists. They exacerbate the problem of our depressingly car-oriented infrastructure. "But the stats say they're safer!" Yeah, and when Google reduced page sizes they saw their average latencies increase. This is a fun way of lying with statistics. Sure, fatalities from roundabouts go down when you create such a human-hostile environment that every pedestrian and cyclist goes out of their way to avoid it, or just throws their hands up in despair and buys a car, since it's a signal that car owners are the only thing people worth optimizing for.
Number of hours per week would be nice. I think we'll see a lot more demand and supply of 30 and 20 hour per week jobs.
Thanks! And thanks for sharing the pointer - I think I've seen `mltrace` at some point in the past. The tool has some similarities, but seems different from `mandala` on a philosophical level - `mltrace` seems more opinionated and domain-specific to ML. `mandala`'s goal is to make persistence logic a more generic part of Python semantics, and there's much more emphasis on composing `@op`s freely in whatever complex ways you want. Python functions are great and everyone knows what they do - let's give them more superpowers!

If this is something you're interested in, I can probably give a more detailed comparison if I find the time.
Dark side of API-based access to everything on SaaS where companies have no control.

I can’t guard the front door effectively.

Nor, I can easily guard the back doors.

Will data breaches like these: AT&T, Ticketmaster, and now Disney—-a nail in Security coffins for SaaS?
Yes, a grid system like H3 https://www.uber.com/en-NL/blog/h3/ is is closer to a circle in shape. One of the reasons for Uber to use H3 is bacause density maps look more natural in hexagonal shapes. It would be interesting to see the answer for H3 hexes.
So your solution to see YT without ads is route it through Russia, where it will be monitored by Russian authorities?

And while on that VPN the rest of your traffic will also be routed through Russia? That's next level masochism :)
Yep, whether the leadership recognizes it or not this is an organizational failure. No access controls for destroying prod data, no backups, no recovery plan, told to do testing in prod, whatever horrible process they have that required engineers regularly directly accessing the database.
RailsConf 2024 – Keynote: Startups on Rails in 2024 by Irina Nazarova [video]
Lmao no what a clown show company.
BYD, XPeng, and even Huawei say 'Hi'
Oh I’m sure it occurred. The CEO was just repeating it from the countless number of management books where the quote appears.

My point was that it’s a story that gets overlaid on top of the real decision making process
So there is no theory exam in order to obtain a license?
Hi, author here! Agh I was intending for the project to fly under the radar for a few more days before making the announcement and blog post (please look/upvote that when you see it haha :)

But since this is starting I'm happy to chat. Nice to see the interest here!
It depends where you are. In the UK you can add interest to outstanding debt.
This argument would be more convincing if Houston didn't have any underground infrastructure.
I have not worked at entertainment, so maybe that's the reason why I don't understand how an NDA could affect my ability to read something someone else wrote.
It is worse. If I disable CSS then it is better. The defaults are not trash, but the desired fonts, colours, etc should be set up by the user so that the author does not need to know what size is appropriate for that user and for that user's computer and display (or if the user wishes to make a print out, etc).
'Emperor: Battle for Dune', a 2001 RTS game by Westwood Studios, essentially a Dune-themed 'Command & Conquer'.

Play as one of the three main factions: House Atreides, Harkonnen, or the (non-canon) Ordos.

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Emperor:_Battle_for_Dune
Then you could even buy a separate digital camera…
I love it. It is everything I have ever wanted to say.

You can probably see that website on Lynx or Dillo and it will look the same.
Great site!

If you want to improve its looks, you can just remove all the css styling.

Also, since you are using mathjax, it's better to use the dollar signs as in LaTeX, and not all these ugly tags with classes. As a rule of thumb, going from latex to html involves little more than replacing empty lines by <p>, \sections by <h2>, and \includegraphics by <img>.
Like hanafuda cards isnt this just going to cause people to “hide” the policy violating speech behind new slang?

> In 1648, Tenshō Karuta were banned by the Tokugawa shogunate.[13] During prohibition, gambling with cards remained highly popular which led to disguised card designs. Each time gambling with a card deck of a particular design became too popular, the government banned it, which then prompted the creation of a new design. This cat-and-mouse game between the government and rebellious gamblers resulted in the creation of increasingly abstract and minimalist regional patterns (地方札). These designs were initially called Yomi Karuta after the popular Poch-like game of Yomi which was known by the 1680s.[14]

Via https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanafuda
Due to occasional failures we should now throw our hands up and label systemic undercutting, and poor governance as unfixable.

Because things are bad sometimes let's excuse unlimited incompetence when expected situations are ignored and cause inevitable catastrophic failure.

Sometimes plans fail so let's excuse failure to plan.

When a huge storm blows through with minimal fuss because preparation and regulation was taken seriously let's downplay the risk and deregulate and dismantle safety apperatus as they are clearly unneeded....

It goes on and on... why did we hire these security guys we never have breaches, why did we hire these sys and network admins everything always works, why do we have all these pesky earthquake codes no buildings have fallen recently...

After nearly 40 years I still can't understand the mental gymnastics required to be so obdurate. It's just nihilistic slash and burn thinking isn't it.
the ear is a lucky shot, and survivors of assassination attempts get a boost

but this just conjecture
This one completely misses the point? At this point, why doesn't it use a full fledged CSS framework?
I'm not a lawyer, but I would assume that good lawyers would advise their clients against suing random people on the internet.
https://www.youtube.com/live/1RgEu4Lzcts?t=510
>the upcoming Jelly Max

From a quick search it looks like it's gonna have a 5" screen and be 15mm thick.
I think it is better to put that energy into improving things and building a better future for everyone. As a country it feels like we have forgotten that we can work together to do big things. I still think we can.
Like everything else in this article and thread, it probably used to be. Now it’s mostly natural and artificial flavors held together by food chemistry from New Jersey.
As @hagbard_c pointed out earlier, LegacyOS runs well on it, so you can continue using it when updates cease to appear.
> yes it should look like this and shouldn't need pictures and CSS and whatever else it might need

Isn’t this entirely dependent on what the purpose of the website is? If i am visiting a website to learn about different types of flowers, for example, I sure hope there are some pictures of flowers on it.
"on a MacBook Air cost Apple less than $10"

I don't think $200 is justified nor do I want to defend Apple... but where do you get 8GB with 100 GB/s bandwidth for $10?
From the article:

"In fact, Intel’s future hardware will offer upgradeable RAM. Jim Johnson, Senior Vice President at Intel, explicitly said about user-upgradeable RAM: “We will offer those options in the future.” He also said that the “next turn of the roadmaps will offer more traditional options.”"
A bookmark organizer powered by language models, demo coming soon at https://www.undopamine.com?src=hn
I can just about, with surprising difficulty, select the text of those mathematical formulae; but if I copy them to the clipboard, I get only blank lines.

Are you sure pre-rendering images of the formulae wouldn't be just as effective?
“3.5 mm Audio Jack”

Shut up and take my money.
I used LineageOS on a number of devices for a number of years, and had to upgrade to a new device every year due to either performance, bugs, or official support being dropped. Can't tell you the number of various bugs I ran into that completely made it unusable, until the point I just started getting two of every device to be able to have a backup, and be able to do clean version updates.

Being able to just get one device and use it for 5+ years is such a relief, and gives me a lot less to worry about day to day. Custom roms are best left to tinkerers who are okay with their device randomly breaking with no rhyme or reason, and spending hours either trying to fix it or reflash/restore to stock and set everything back up again.
It’s only a bad model if he didn’t love what he did for a living. Otherwise I find it quite inspiring.
This application of AI is the one I'm most terrified by. Even in the benign use it's training a bunch of people into censoring themselves into a specific way of speaking.

The only way I can think of this being justified is if it's run and controlled by the user themself so they can control what they hear. Not to control how others speak.
Why not just get a 3.5mm to lightning adaptor? They have knock-off/generic versions at gas stations that cost like 5 dollars and it beats lugging around a whole extra device just to use your headphones
Also being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40957344
I'd written my own variant on this theme (based on the original and the Better Motherfucking Website), which applies some but generally minimal styling (14 CSS rules) to achieve a balance of minimalism, legibility, and functionality:

<https://www.theregister.com/2018/07/12/broadcom_ca_technolog...>

(Let me know if you're having issues reading that, I myself get a message "Referred from Pen Edward Morbius's motherfucking website" viewing under Firefox.)

What most strikes me is that with ever so slightly more advanced browser defaults the Web could be ever so much more readable. What I'd like to see is a standard set of default page layouts ("article", "overview", "lighttable", "catalogue", "discussion", say) along with a few more primitive elements (notes, equations, interactive tables with some basic spreadsheet functionality,[1] and threaded discussions most principally) which could address a huge chunk of what's now highly-styled, and often unreadable, Web designs.

The one thing I find not entirely universally suitable from my design is that the off-white / off-black background/text are not ideal for e-ink devices, though the overall effect remains generally readable.

Gwern's own website (<https://gwern.net/>) strikes me as one of the absolute best highly-styled websites, and absolutely stands out amongst that class.

________________________________

Notes:

1. The ability to sort by specific columns, summarize quantitative columns by total and some univariate statistics (min, max, mean, median, mode, standard deviation), principally. Perhaps the ability to drive a graph based on selected columns as well.
There are various levels of offline. For example you can have an S3 bucket with write-only access. No, it's not perfectly offline. But it's isolated from both vulnerabilities and from hacked employees, which covers most common types of breaches. You can solve 99% of the offline storage features without having an actual physical location with tapes.
I don't want to downplay how remarkable of a person she was, but I think it's worth keeping in mind that this was very much a reflection of the time (ca. mid-1940s). Many Jews who were not classic "military types" (academics, engineers, businessmen, artists, etc.) were radicalized by the Holocaust into emigrating to Mandatory Palestine and joining Zionist militias, because there was a widespread and freshly palpable fear that the world at large scarcely had any interest in allowing Jews to exist, let alone thrive.

The actual process and legacy of this is complicated, to say the least. But I don't think one can accuse Dr. Ruth herself of coming by it dishonestly. Her family had her smuggled from Germany to Switzerland so that she might escape what eventually became the Holocaust, and she never saw them again because the Nazis killed them (her father in Auschwitz; the rest "disappeared").
It's easy enough to tell someone to click on https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ, but how do you transfer that URL verbally, over a phone call or some other voice-only medium like podcasts with out resorting to an equally hard to memorize url shortener?
I remember in the 90's we used the prefix case to differentiate between SI (kB) and powers of 1024 (KB). Not sure how widespread it was though; no Internet to poll at the time :)
Art and style is information. You (and I) just have a preference for factual information that can be transmitted via concise text and numbers and no bloat.
You don't - that's the point.
Yes, if you are trying to view pictures of flowers, then you are right. They should not add the pictures merely for decorations, but if you want to view a document explaining flowers then it is helpful to include the pictures of the flowers being described. (Similar thing is valid for other kind of documents that might have pictures of whatever is being described, but many documents should not need as many pictures as they too often have.)
I'm curious if people actually use the IR in place of their TV remote as in the promo. For me personally, I think the friction of having to fire up an app first would preclude me from ever using it in earnest.
European tax rates are not very different to American tax rates, they certainly aren't 20pp higher on income tax presuming that's what you mean.

> they project this tendency of theirs onto left-wingists to whom it doesn't actually apply.

Mmmm really. Here's an embarrassing article the Guardian had to write when just days after attacking Tesco for reducing its tax bill, it was discovered that the Guardian Media Group was doing exactly the same thing:

https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2008/mar/06/...

Excuses offered included "The leader was written before journalists knew of the structure of the Emap purchase", "The relationship between the Guardian and GMG is a complicated one" and "the [Scott] trust was established in 1936 to avoid paying double death duties and ensure the continued existence of the paper".

Even Labour controlled local councils have been caught finding clever ways to reduce their tax bill, and they're a part of the government:

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/embarrassment-for-...

Doesn't get more left wingist than the Guardian and Labour.
The amortized per person cost is obviously not going to be constant when the demographic density and line mileage changes. That’s why it’s a foolish standard

There’s NEVER 1M customers per mile in a distribution system. There’s only going to be a few thousand per substation. Half of the line miles will have customer counts in the tens or ones.
> One of the negatives of SSD's is you don't get the information, so they fail without warning

The ones I have here count how much data they have written. This is a reasonable baseline for telling me when to get a replacement.
There are. They just don’t feature roundabouts.
why not LPCAMM?
Try their Tank Mini. Double the pixels, double the battery and still tiny enough: https://www.unihertz.com/products/tank-mini

We have it here in the house, it is a really good phone too.
I’m only including distribution numbers in my figures here. Transmission does not make sense to underground.
They must be doping them with something because I’ve encountered chicken bones that aren’t even fully formed inside of chicken thighs that are above average in size.

My MIL used to be a food scientist and spent a few years working with Tyson. She hosted a party once with chicken wings twice the size of my hand. I refused to partake of them especially since she wasn’t allowed to tell me how they got so big.
Now that would be an impressive waste of time.
It has Maddox vibes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddox_(writer)
Could you generate MathML server side to avoid JS?
Probably, a more recent example would be the language developed to evade (possibly imagined) censorship in the TikTok algorithm, which conditioned users to start saying "unalived" instead of "killed" and so on.
Yeah, def not arguing my paycheck is thin air -- its that there's a surface level-only respect for it. "Eyewash", in baseball parlance.
All their APIs are rate limited. Disney would have a Grid and with Grids you get data dumps. The feature is normally used for litigation and you need pretty high admin access to get a dump. They either found an exploit or they compromised an Admins account.
Eh...as long as it's used in environments where people want to have a good time, I don't care. I know a lot will stomp their feet and talk about precedents and dangerous steps but having played games on euw servers for 25 years now. I am all for it.
I can only imagine that the typing experience on such a tiny phone
is sub optimal.
When you say WhatsApp are you actually typing in messages ?
Yes. Cables are fine submerged and all the rest of the installation is above ground.
> My guess on what you actually mean "I'm an authoritarian shitlib and my arguments can't actually win in a free society so I need to label everything that disagrees with me using the made up and entirely subective concept of "hate speech"

I couldn't not give 2 shits about "free speech" or "free society" when that "free society" validates people activly trying to make lives of other people significantly worse.

A truly free "society" would be literal anarchy and that just isn't how a society works. Freedoms are limited so that we don't tear eachother apart.

> using the made up and entirely subective concept of "hate speech"

If you require an objective definition of "hate speech" you might not be such a nice person to be around IMO, but then again its just a subjective feeling I have so I guess you can disregard it.
Very interesting and in depth article. I really appreciate the amount of detail and knowledge shared about how to go about reverse enginnering and patching abandonware like this. Thank you. Saw the game in a local thrift store, but left it be, since I only played Dune II rts. I will pick it up for sure now.
I would suspect it is at least partly because of a filter that triggers with the f word. Only if someone vouches for it, it has a chance. Or someone really hates that site. I think it is not deep enough to warrant so much emotion.
> I think the problem is more that the trend over the last 5-7 decades has been to privatise things.

The private/public border is volatile and heavily contested and by all accounts will forever be a topic of political debate.

But notice how unusual the context of web technologies: Its not that a private monopoly is controlling and selling some piece of web infrastructure (that might, instead, be opened to more competition, turned into a public good etc).

No, what is happening is that a very specific business sector (advertising) is controlling universal communications infrastructure.

A loose analogy would be if a single private oil company would manufacture and distribute all automobiles in circulation - for free, but securing that they can run on nobody else's energy.

The conjectured "public-good" browser is not crowding out any private interests as there is no market for selling browsers. There is a market for advertising but its not competing for surfaces, it owns all surfaces.

Guess what, in this terminally conflicted arrangement you would never see an electric vehicle.

The highjacking of central infrastructure to serve narrow private interests will inevitably reduce innovation and welfare and any techie that is worth their title knows thats already the case.
I'm not sure if you read it till the end but I thought this observation was pretty astute.

>Websites aren't broken by default, they are functional, high-performing, and accessible. You break them.
This is cool as an option. But, why oh why mustn't we have any 5 inch Android phone on the market? It's not as if there's no demand, as evidenced by iPhone SE on the iOS side. The last real Android choice was the Pixel 4a and beyond that, everything has been mega huge.