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posterboy··on Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?
This is still besides the point entirely. Somebody looking to learn web programming is not going to start running a bank.

html is on the representation layer, not a programming language. Modern web apps go much deeper and are using js as as a programming language for web programming that can go much deeper. As an extreme example, Quake Live implements an entire transfer protocol over TCP/IP. In the standard OSI model, there are a few layers between this and that. But there is a reason that purely representative documents still prefer PDF.

posterboy··on The importance of stupidity in scientific research (2008) [pdf]
> Second, we don’t do a good enough job of teaching our students how to be productively stupid – that is, if we don’t feel stupid it means we’re not really trying.

Great. Wrong use of"stupid", IMHO, because it's an oxymoron like feel numb and, while one may be ignorant of something, eg. of the memory architecture and the losses of firefox that frequently leads into crashes, you can't really be stupid of (or about) something, if to stupify rather implies loss (of brain cells).

And why was this published in cell research?

posterboy··on Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?
> items"` or `v-if="condition"` or `@click="doTheThing"` are superior to HTML templates

The html syntax as a matter of taste is horrible, but that doesn't need a whole turing complete language to fix

posterboy··on Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?
This is hilarious. Those web apps are single page applications, more application than page. The most of what face book does in the background has nothing to do with what the user can see, for example. A chat might require interactivity, but static designs with push and pull work well enough for many use cases, with sparse scripting. The bespoke tutorials might rather target a geocities homepage, admittedly.

It's funny to see how responses in this thread jump immediately to reactivity or "skills you can reuse across projects" but without making the case: why?

posterboy··on Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?
This is the source, the full article costs only $99 on a journal subscrption, all expenses paid by a university near you in case you have access
posterboy··on The quantum computing bubble
If the output side is saturated with work load but the input side keeps growing to blow up without significantly changing the output, or at worst affecting it negatively (quantum blockchain buzzword bingo), it may be fair to speak of a bubble.
posterboy··on A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD
Note: noted people would have made a better choice of words (not "notable")
posterboy··on DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
Ironically, "the cat is on the mat" is a conventional example sentence in linguistics of metonymy (semantics).

I have no examples but imagine things like at the top of his game are immensely problematic, albeit not very visual to begin with.

posterboy··on DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
Surely this too can be instrumentalized to evoke emotions, stylized to ease execution or faked to justify a result.
posterboy··on DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
It's not as if generative art is new. Nor is figurative painting relevant anymore since the invention of the camera. A basic Burger joint in Gerhard Richter kind of style transfer is very much derivative. This isn't bad in view of the classics, but it's more like art-work to me.

The true artists in this one are the coders, no doubt (corrolar to the inteligence debate).

On the other hand, you mention an important point with layout but you underestimate the progress these days. Surely there are companies who are working on automated design beyond CAD (computer aided design), eg. for specialized antenna.

> we'll all start to feel a bit disappointed that the average human's imagination is pretty limited and novel/original ideas remain somewhat rare as the patterns and tropes in all the generated art emerge

Well, one might argue that Richter's most highly priced piece looks a little like prehistoric art of the pleistocene. It's a little vain to mention it, because I can much better relate to the more basic form, of course. A more frequently sore point would be the pop music industry between professionals and the amateurish.

Anyway, this may be thinking too big. For the time being, the bunch of techniques is better understood as a toolbox, because it will be a long time before it trumps demo-scene productions, for instance. Here it is the technique that counts more often than not. The rest is an acquired taste.

posterboy··on Why 12 notes in Western music?
I think it's integral to the theorie seeing the fifth as 3 times, the octave as 4 times and the prime as 2 times an arbitrarily low root key. Trivially, the 2^n multiples form octave intervals but between C12 and C24 there's your twelve tones on a logarithmic scale. Naturally, it doesn't transpose in integer intervals if stepping down.
posterboy··on Why 12 notes in Western music?
I'm not comfortable with this first refering to a natural human tendency and then a western harmony, which is pretty much accquired, as if it were a natural consequence.

A simpler way to go about this is using the chromatic scale, drawing multiples of C0 upto C8 so that C7 to C8 spans an octave, and then fixing F according to a table of equal temperament.

posterboy··on Our brain is a prediction machine that is always active
minesimpler

a) Consciousness is. Period.

> b) [...] maybe you need more novelty.

I have a few heuristics. One is that man is egocentric (I too use indefinite "you" when I do not want to sound egoistic).

posterboy··on Our brain is a prediction machine that is always active
waif, I thought it was an hydraulic steam machine
posterboy··on Signal: You were the chosen one [video]
> Is it bad to quote yourself twice in the same thread?

pretty bad, actually.

The reported number of users does nit equate with number of securely e2e protected users

posterboy··on Signal: You were the chosen one [video]
Nowhere have you indicated how you measure the success. Number of users is no indicator for quality, for one. Code quality would be a rough guestimate because it is not open. Pick your poison.
posterboy··on TikTok Pedagogy: Teaching Philosophy in 60 Seconds or Less
Life lesson right there.

Pressumably the article works under the same premise like what the tile promises: (sometimes) less is more. But "sometimes" was redacted in spirit of the article. I'm notbsure if that's intentionally a form of sarcasm, which is the good kind of sarcasm if it doesn't need to be marked to be recognizable.

posterboy··on We are unable to refund mistaken purchases, and/or if you don't like the game
They are patently unable to
posterboy··on We are unable to refund mistaken purchases, and/or if you don't like the game
I eschew your flamebait. There was no need yo
posterboy··on A Chinese woman wrote millions of words of fake Wikipedia history
"You don't need to cite that the sky is blue" applies.

The thing is, in cz.WP they could do that if they want.

> Are we aware that in China, people mostly support Russia's invasion to Ukraine because of state level propaganda?

I cannot say that because of state propaganda I became aware of that. But I sense that you are low key shilling, no offence, so yeah

posterboy··on A Chinese woman wrote millions of words of fake Wikipedia history
Math as structural science is tangential in [[almost-all]] cases.

Maths inasmuch as WP can cover it surely didn't make heaps advances in the last decades, except perhaps in the pedagogy department (that I can source, but it is literally decades) and category theory to give the whole thing structure (also pretty much cut and dried as soon as Bourbaki, I believe, though reception may take a while).

posterboy··on A Chinese woman wrote millions of words of fake Wikipedia history
I didn't think reliable was gradable. Conversely, singular a + more usualy commanding plural agreement is two juxtaposed determiners selling one off as adverb.

Why not suggest instead to check more reliable sources. Would that sound too diminishing, and an indefinite determiner is added as buffer?

Well, if I tried learning linguistics only from Wikipedia I won't ever find out.

posterboy··on A Chinese woman wrote millions of words of fake Wikipedia history
That's an interesting take on balance. Although, the determination, not to speak of the will, would usually add to a sentence, the plain damage taken as base-line by some meassure, whereas the individu prospect of future damage is a priori limited by the hope that measurate judgement will deter, because you shan't condem future crimes before they happen.
posterboy··on A Chinese woman wrote millions of words of fake Wikipedia history
> Why isn't this destruction of essential information infrastructure

It may be deemed "vandalism" by seasoned editors, though Arb might chose more salient descriptors.

I don't recall right now what the legal opinion on destruction of data is, ie. irrecoverable erasure in the most trivial case, and I think they wouldn't introduce specific new laws around IT systems if it were that easy. But if it is, then analogies from destruction to somewhat impeding property is well precedented (in .de) even if it's entirely reversable in theory.

1mil words isn't that much work though, so I'd consider this a fairly quick end and not exactly news.

posterboy··on EU Commission says it cannot find messages with Pfizer CEO
> But was she not elected by EU members of parliment, who were elected by EU citizens?

Yeah but no. I guess there's an electorate, as much as there's active components in homeopathic snake oil.

> I think it is more related to what powers they can exercise.

Nothing of that changes the statement that Mrs., err, von der Leyen is not directly voted by citizens. The word mongering is immaterial to the metacommentary on power structures. Which you acknowledge and leave pretty much unspecified. If I understand the top comment correctly, there is fear of corruption or whatever, and it's simply disengineous to blame that on the electorate.

As a point of reference, Fukuyama (end of history, etc.) outlines how corruption is a normal tendency en route to regulated democracies. In this view, where local patriotism and consequent nepotism are concerned, it sounds to me very much like the electorate shares in the blame, and that the organized societies on the next level, the model democracies, must have grown out of this.

I rather doubt that this is the case. Sure, the aristratic family name may be a statistical fluke, especially where family names pass through paternal lineages. It is nevertheless part of the bigger picture.

TL;DR: Yeah comissioners to the parliament are voted but no they aren't. This is not debatable.

posterboy··on Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell?
> But CO2 doesn't work on baby mice and is considered inhumane.

> Instead they use scissors and [swiftly]

oh snap!

Mice must have a high nervous conductance rate and as small as they are, what do you reckon how quickly it had to go through for there to be no impulse to speak of? (ask her!)

posterboy··on TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
As a European I am ... not sure I see the truth in that argument. Not anyone who speaks some form of English is automatically western, mind.
posterboy··on The dark side of Graph Neural Networks
I have no idea to be honest but I think it relates to the idea of representing the computation in a reasonably comprehendable way.

Either that or networks that can solve specific problems on graph structures by more or less general and hence reusable methods. Which could go ways towards the former point, I guess, but that's also dealt eith elsewhere. Just give g-scholar a search and see

posterboy··on TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
Yah nuh, it's not as if youtube don't do the same. More to the point, ycombinator is infamous for being a neoliberal silicon valley poster child. Nobody forced me to come here, or to tik tok
posterboy··on TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
> I'm going to guess that the purpose is to use the data to eventually build life-like, AI-generated social media influencers.

You think?

> very soon it will be possible, with a little hand tweaking, to fake "cool" people

If your worst thread is being out-done by a bot in the ... what domain is "cool" in. And whom are you quoting from?

PS: What can I say, you got my goat. Vain people are very vulnerable in it (think that's the definition of "vain", but I still want to know what "it" is)

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