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Google is going outside the standard to prop you up on their phones. Apple can't do that and remain compliant with the standard.
> "Browser spec to eventually replace GDPR and cookie banners"

The HN title is nonsensical. A technical specification cannot replace a law.

From the linked document from w3c:

> GPC could potentially be used to indicate rights in other jurisdictions as well. For example, the GDPR potentially affords data subjects the right to limit the sharing of personal information under Articles 7 and 21.

So, this standard may help to better comply with GDPR. Nowhere in the document there is any indication of "replacing" GDPR being a goal or an effect of the proposed standard.

Thank you for sharing the link. I hope for a better title, thou.
(I replied to an earlier version of the parent whose text I don't have in my browser cache, oops.)

Ah but you see, I don't even identify as a member of that species at all :)

(I am used to people telling me essentially boo hoo.)

> I mean, whats the worse that can happen? You might develop schizophrenia?

I'd like the opportunity to try it at least. Along with like... most things. Even/especially the stuff that is most stereotyped.
- you assume this will turn America into a dystopia. more likely it contributes to restoring and maintaining uncontested American overmatch, especially in the long term, where effectively no other nation can challenge us.

- 1mmTC is enough to do this depending on how one allocates spending. land in many parts of the country is not that expensive.
yes you most definitely can apply these to government, what an insidious comment.

not only does it NEED to be done, people VOTED for it :)
It's probably because absolutely no one is using real sources in these articles.

I won't muddy the comments repeating myself - but I have been fascinated by how quickly people latched on to this, have been absolutely incapable of finding any first party sourcing, and asked CoPilot to analyze each of these stories (13 so far!) and every single one is 'trust me bro, I heard it in a convo'.

I really really hope this isn't true for all the same reasons as people are freaking out... but at this point it has as much merit as saying "the sky is always green, I heard a guy say it the other week who I won't name but it's true"

Ctrl-F 'astroid' or click my last post in this thread for the complete breakdown of every source referenced, and ask yourself if there is enough info to warrant entertaining this fantasy.

Honestly I am shocked at how little critical thinking is being applied here. I know this website hates these guys, but there is usually a facade of critical thinking at the least.
> $1000 or whatever an iPhone costs these days

Why do people always make up iPhone prices when the truth is readily available? You can buy a brand-new, unsubsidised iPhone for less than half that, and that’s not counting second-hand devices or phones on a contract, which are both incredibly common ways of getting a phone.
Trump says US will 'take over' Gaza
Yep. "Threaded" might be what the kids are callin' it nowadays. It's always been trees for me. I had a 'Tree-based' chat app for OpenAI (and as of now all other leading LLMs, via LangChain/LangGraph) within one week of them opening up their API. lol. Because my Tree-based CMS was already done, to build on.

OpenAI finally made it where you can go back and edit a prior response, in their chat view, but their GUI is jank, because it's not a tree.
I wasn't referring to potency strictly in the capacity of risk of overdose, but strongly addictive potential.
Not sure where the missiles came from, you said all offensive weapons so in my mind I was picturing basic firearms.
Drug trade might be their most profitable business but I think you're missing a whole lot of cultural context by saying the US's policy on drugs is their sole reason for existing. Plenty of cartels deal in sex trafficking, kidnapping, extortion, and even mining and logging today.
Unfortunately, Handmade Hero the project itself seems to have died or at least to have been put on indefinite and unannounced hiatus: it’s been a bit over two years since the last video.
USPS has suspended inbound parcel service from China and Hong Kong
> i very much dislike that anytime i see a comment on HN that isn't a wall of text arguing with someone, then the police arrive to tell them they're not allowed to participate in that way

You either did not read my comment, intentionally and maliciously lied about what it said, or accidentally responded to the wrong comment, because it's extremely clear that I never said anything remotely like "you're not allowed to post anything except a wall of text arguing with someone".

> i hate the wall of text on this site.

Then go somewhere else. Hacker News is explicitly for intellectual curiosity, which involves thinking, which involves writing[1][2]. If you don't want to think, then this is not the place for you.

> i hate how some people feel entitled to tell others their remarks aren't welcome.

Your remarks are not welcome if you're going to violate the guidelines and engage in political flamewars. Just like in real life, there are things you can't or shouldn't say. That shouldn't be a foreign concept.

> it truly takes away from this site to see the police show up on almost every single thread.

If the "police" are those calling out violations of the guidelines - you're factually incorrect. The guidelines add to the site, because they're crafted in a way to allow intellectual discussion. Comments such as yours, and the grandparent comment, take away from the discussion by pushing aside curious thought and replacing it with emotional outburst and base instinct.

Notice that you didn't make a single logical point in your comment, nor did you inform or enlighten me or satisfy my intellectual curiosity - you just spoke about your feelings and your hatred. Why would I go to HN when I can read that on Twitter or Bluesky?

[1] https://paulgraham.com/words.html
[2] https://paulgraham.com/writes.html
This is just a fancy UI on top of CalDAV.

You have probably seen CalDAV in action at work with Microsoft’s god awful version of it (via Exchange Server or MS365 or w/e they call it); or Google Workspace or Google Calendar invites.

Across domains, it tends to be a hit or miss (due to proprietary EEE bs) but within the same organizations/domain it works decently enough. Even works well beyond the 100 person limit in “Apple Invites”

Sigh, why do we keep re-creating the wheel.
Ask HN: A Better TypeScript?
Am I the only one who wants a better typescript?

Wishlist:

- Get rid of js footguns like == type coercion (and a bunch of legacy cruft, like maybe `switch`)
- The addition of `match` expressions with `Option` and `Result` ADTs
- No more any, null, or undefined
- A great FFI story for js-interop (like ts has)
- Support for JSX
- Compiles to JS (or maybe to JSX in "preserve" mode, which would allow something like the Solidjs compiler to work on it)

I am one of the dozens of people who actually liked Coffeescript. I know about Civet (it's not scratching my itch). I am enjoying using Rescript (couldn't get into Elm), and I've looked at Purescript, Fable... But I think there's something better out there.
There is a finite amount of money.

Given that the Navy claims it needs more ships, and god knows extended and double-pump deployments bear that out, it might be better served by having 2 less capable ships than 1 more capable ship.

In the same way that the M3 and M4 beat Germany, despite being individually inferior to mid and late war German tanks.

Furthermore, the clusterfuck that is the Constellation-class frigate procurement program proves that the Navy is objectively bad at understanding how shifting requirements interacts with build time and cost.

PS: You're not the only person with family in the Navy.
America is the only nation that currently has consolidated global power behind an even vaguely free nation.

and yes, America has done that for the "pax Americana" period. unfortunately we were short-sighted and allowed people too much free reign to be stupid and anti-American.
> west is not innately democratic

Of course not. But one of its fundamental advantages is its ability to build alliances and accept immigrants. Historically, those have been strengths of republics. That’s “innate” to the structure of the society.

> the world's largest democracy is in south Asia

India is a great example of Western culture hybridising with a local culture to produce a sum that’s greater than its parts. The British were dicks, particularly in India, and I’m not arguing that colonisation is okay. But I think it’s fair to say that a unified, democratic India very much flows from its exposure to Western systems of law and government. (India had indigenous democratic city-states. But in the south and never at scale.)
Market research and observational/UX research are not the same. Market research looks for trends in bulk; UX research looks for individual actions and preferences. The difference is important, and it’s lost on the article’s author.

In UX research you don’t ask people what they want or what they like, you (e.g.) put them in front of software/prototypes, give them tasks, and watch them work. What you learn in this context is _why_ people do things; it’s hard to get that from metrics.

You also don’t get new product ideas from customers. There are aphorisms 100 hundred years old about that which everyone should know: “If I asked my customers what they wanted they would have said, ‘A faster horse.’”
Sure, but abstractions have a cost.

5 lines of code written with just the core language and standard library are often much easier to read and digest than a new abstraction or call to some library.

And it’s just an unfortunate fact of life that many of the common programming languages are not terribly ergonomic; it’s not uncommon for even basic operations to require a few lines of boilerplate. That isn’t always bad as languages are balancing many different goals (expressiveness, performance, simplicity and so on).
all this just to say "prompt neatly" :)
The article mentions the availability of a case to use it like a single-board-computer.

If that's what your going for, get a STAR64 from Pine64 or a Mars from MilkV; they use the same processor in a form-factor much more suited as a single-board-computer.
Social security and Medicare are inexpugnable liabilities.
Think the majority of the technical crowd overestimates the value of the idea, building something and actually getting and talking to customers. 99% of folks will do nothing about this.
Daniel Penny acted like a coward in that situation. Anybody in that situation would be vigilant but not just go and kill a guy. If he was scared for himself, he could have left the train. If he was scared for the rest of the people in the train, he could have taken the guy out of the train at one of the 6 stops. He freaked out, acted out of control, and resulted in killing a human. Coward.
Risks vary based on the mitigation strategy and the time available for preparation. Only S&P can distantly resemble the volatility of a pure speculative asset which depends on psychology and the amount of extra money in the markets. But even S&P depends on a lot of factors which don't trigger overnight for a knowledgeable investor. It's a snowball but not an avalanche.

BTC has shown itself magically profitable indeed, but its value could only be kept by the ability of holders to keep the asset. Most marriages and some jobs will endure even in the toughest times.
Rather than rely on upvotes to organically populate the front pages with content users are interested in, there are a number of users censoring the site by flagging content they personally don't want to see. Lots of political stuff gets censored in minutes, and absolutely everything critical of Elon Musk. Nothing about Musk in particular lasted on the front page from this last weekend, despite the high profile actions. Lots of 'don't make me tap the sign' comments pointing to the guidelines, but flagging is just going to be weaponized like this unless its use is better defined and enforced somehow. Even the discussion on the bot-like flaggings got flagged. And it is all counter productive, because if users want to discuss a topic they are going to end up doing it in inappropriate places when the appropriate places have been taken down. Like we are here.
We built an LLM-based no-code "all-code" tool for non-developers to automate their daily tasks.

Counterintuitively, it's been picking up steam among student developers and professional devs due to how fast you can spin up API endpoints.

We're currently working to build on this momentum, and are now shifting focus to existing devs.

tl;dr - we use LLMs to create APIs that are run in Firecracker-based MicroVMs
It's interesting how AI for weapons topic immediately brought palinazis with their own agenda ( some bots I guess?). As if Israel is some sort of military AI superpower(it's not, read accounts of Oct 7th events) and the rest of armies are still using muskets and smoke signals.
It seems less odd when one realizes how common uranium actually is. Today, it is about as common as tin. Knowing that, there were probably lots of undiscovered places where the density got high enough to fission. Much of the earth's internal heat comes from fission. We only get interested when it happens near the surface.
I am moving all of my assets to cash. Maybe no one else cares, but I do, and I would rather invest in a functional democracy.

Never know, if enough people divest , people might give a shit.

But I'm not holding my breath.
This is JH7110, a chip from 2 years ago.

It was first seen in VisionFive 2, the first mass-produced RISC-V SBC. It's also available in other boards, such as MILK-V Mars, Star64 and the Roma laptop.

A bit old now, but has the advantage of having good upstream support, which is likely why its SoC was selected.

I use my VF2 as a small home server, with ZFS disks. It runs Debian trixie with Debian's generic RISC-V kernel package.
Uncontended CAS without carried dependendies on the result (almost always the case in this use case) are similar in performace to atomic add on most platforms.

The CAS is the price they pay for contention detection, though it would be interesting to consider solutions which usually use unconditional atomics with only the occasional CAS in order to check contention, or which relied on some other contention detection approach (e.g., doing a second read to detect when the value incremented by more than your own increment).

The solution looks reasonable to me given the constraints.
I nearly always use the algolia thing for top stories of the last 24 hours. It isn't affected by flagging, mods and the like https://hn.algolia.com/?q=&query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&p...
Sure, but I'd also say that the employee base has a line that is different than the government's, and that does matter for making profit. Creative and independent employees generally produce more than ones who are just following what the boss says

Actually, this reminds me of when Paul Graham came to Google, around 2005. Before that, I had read an essay or two, and thought he was kind of a blowhard.

But I actually thought he was a great speaker in person, and that lecture changed my opinion. He was talking about "Don't Be Evil", and he also said something very charming about how "Don't Be Evil" is conditional upon having the luxury to live up to that, which is true.

That applies to both companies and people:

- If Google wasn't a money-printing machine in 2005, then "don't be evil" would have been less appealing. And now in 2020, 2021, .... 2025, we can see that Google clearly thinks about its quarterly earning in a way that it didn't in 2005, so "don't be evil" is too constraining, and was discarded.

- For individuals, we may not pay much attention to "don't be evil" early in our careers. But it is more appealing when you're more established, and have had a couple decades to reflect on what you did with your time!
Because "not wanting" to do something that would make the company money due to moral considerations that aren't shared by your competitors is idiotic.
I feel that he got a lot of pressure from the FP community and wrote a bunch of nonsense instead of being straightforward with them.

The only relevant reason he lists is point-free, but he doesn't go far enough. Point-free very often turns into write-only balls of unmaintainable nastiness. Wanting to discourage this behavior is a perfectly reasonable position. Unfortunately, this one true argument is given the most tepid treatment of all the reasons.

Everything else doesn't hold water.

As he knows way better than most, Elm has auto-curry and has been the inspiration for several other languages getting better error messages.

Any language with higher-order functions can give a function as a result and if you haven't read the docs or checked the type, you won't expect it. He left higher-order function in, so even he doesn't really believe this complaint.

The argument about currying and pipe isn't really true. The pipe is static syntax known to the compiler at compile time. You could just decide that the left argument is applied/curried to the function before the right argument.

I particularly hate the learning curve argument. Lots of great and necessary things are hard to learn. The only question is a value judgement about if the learning is worth the payoff. I'd guess that most of the Roc users already learned about currying with a more popular FP language before every looking at Roc, so I don't think this argument really applies here (though I wouldn't really care if he still believed it wasn't worth the learning payoff for the fraction of remaining users).

To reiterate, I agree with his conclusion to exclude currying, but I wish he were more straightforward with his one good answer that would tick off a lot of FP users rather than resorting to a ton of strawman arguments.
I remember being told that the most important thing in a grant application after who you know is to get the margins and formatting right.
Are the non-alarmists alarmed yet? If not, when? What’s your red line?
bureaucracies essentially never reform or reduce themselves through their own processes and by their own hand. they have not the incentive, perspective, nor means to do so.
Could also just be an increase in symptoms the person already had but in minor form. We tend to think of people as being either schizophrenic or... "not," but it seems far more likely that it exists, like everything in humans, on a spectrum.
While I also have anecdotal experience that suggests early-life cannabis abuse can lead to short-term memory loss, I have not seen any evidence that it leads to much else. I would imagine that people with a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia would only not have it by chance, and that altering their brain with pretty much anything can risk upsetting that balance. Doesn't matter if it's weed, LSD, opioids... SSRIs, stimulants...
I would prefer at least an option to keep it on random mode. Both for the occasional exposure to cool stuff and to make it less rabbit-holey.
This may be a joke, but with the ultra-potent weed available nowadays, one time is really all it takes to cause serious psychological changes.
It's relevant to compare though because Google has done the same thing now.
Now all it needs is to have that robotic female voice (the one everyone on TikTok uses) read out the main prompt while trendy music is playing in the background
I also decided to ask CoPilot for a probability this is true, and to explain it's reasoning. I think it's being generous... but it's a lot less than a coinflip:

"
given everything you have ingested on this topic assisting me so far, if you had to assign a probability % to this being a true story what would you assign it? Answer only witha number from 0-100
35

Can you explain your reasoning?
Of course! Here’s the breakdown of my reasoning:

Lack of Named Sources: All the articles referenced rely heavily on unnamed and anonymous sources. Without concrete evidence or named individuals to corroborate the claims, it’s difficult to ascertain the accuracy of the information.

Extraordinary Claims: The claims being made are quite extraordinary, involving a 25-year-old with no prior experience having access to critical government systems and rewriting COBOL code on the fly. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, which seems to be lacking in this case.

Consistency Across Sources: While multiple sources report on the story, they all seem to echo similar details without providing additional or unique evidence. This repetition might indicate a reliance on the same set of unverified sources, rather than independent verification.

Skepticism from Lack of First-Party Evidence: The articles fail to provide first-party evidence or verifiable documentation to support the claims. This raises doubts about the overall credibility of the story.

Putting these factors together, I estimated a 35% probability that the story is true. While there is a possibility that elements of the story are accurate, the lack of solid evidence and reliance on anonymous sources make it difficult to fully trust the claims. Does that make sense?
"

Come on guys...
Nearly all are all symptoms of depression, delusions with manic depression. Nearly all are symptoms of being stoned too.

It's unlikely you were experiencing schizophrenia unless you were actually hearing voices, thinking that you were a "Targeted Invididual", things like that.
These Settings Aren't Real. But for Dementia Patients, What Is?
Every human brain is different, some smoke a lot of pot and develop serious mental issues— others smoke a ton for years and you don’t notice any change.

The problem imo with this kinds of studies is that people can’t take the nuance and rather see it as “weed = bad” or some other binary outcome.

Imo all drugs have a potential to be dangerous — all adults should have free agency what they do with their bodies.

Sure cannabis, alcohol or mushrooms are dangerous, but I would argue a society that makes their use completely illegal without nuance is not a free society
Is the USA flush with cash? Last I checked they were deep in debt and its getting worse
Lowering your standards will find guys who aren't just interested in sex. The problem is that most women want the same (small proportion of) men. He said that the more matches a man gets, the more likely he'll just want sex and not a relationship. So you go for the less desired men and you find better quality matches, if you are looking for more than casual relations.
https://archive.ph/RkVrV
A country that now threatens the annexation of Greenland and advocates for a complete resettlement of all Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt certainly needs weapons for crowd control.

These weapons could also come in handy domestically if people find out that both parties screw them all the time.

I wonder why people claim that China is a threat out side of economics. Has China tried to invade the US? Has Russia tried to invade the EU? The answer is no. The only current threats to the EU come from the orange man.

The same person who also revoked the INF treaty. The US now installs intermediate range nuclear missiles in Europe. Russia does so in Belarus.

So both great powers have convenient whipping boys to be nuked first, after which they will get second thoughts.

It is beyond ridiculous that both the US and Russia constantly claim that they are in danger, when all international crises in the last 40 years have been started by one of them.
A tacit but likely freudian slip regarding the fact meetings are not equal to work.
This sounds snarky but you just didn't do enough.