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Features like this desperately need to be an AI-curated but human-driven operation. i.e an AI can aggregate some headlines from the latest news but a human needs to be the one that says "good to go" or "pass" on each. It's not shiny, but it would work (presumably better).

This just proves (to me) for the umpteenth time that AI can help us with our work immensely but company after company refuses to hire people who work well with it and instead focus on trying to employ it in a myriad of different unsuitable functions.

Looks like it, it seems the 2% are mostly odd platform specific issues that the authors' did not deem very important (my assumption for the release happening anyway). AFAIK this[1] PR tries to fix them.

[1]: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/9729

The email to the VP of Content & Community is wonderful, it covers a lot of detail and explains plainly why the idea would work. A great example for people wanting to get into freelancing, it's not for every client but once in a while you want to solve most of the problem in the first email. Why are you here? Why is this beneficial? Don't just ask "let's talk" or "maybe you have a project"... hand them the project on a silver platter and make them want to pay you. Almost worked it seems!

I respect Chris' decision to part with CSS-Tricks, it is a shame they couldn't figure out a better agreement for making sure the website continues to thrive but that is no easy feat. Onward and upward.

Many[1][2][3] open-source projects use GitLab over GitHub in no small part due to the the fact you can host your own instance :)

[1]: https://gitlab.winehq.org

[2]: https://invent.kde.org

[3]: https://code.videolan.org

Another comment mentioned GIMP may have assumptions of bad UX within their codebase which makes me think about long-lived and large scale projects like this in general. The technical debt of GIMP has been slowly amassing (like all projects) since 1995 (wow!) and I assume that as every year goes by it gets increasingly difficult to do a large scale re-write of any part of the logic.

Tools like Photopea[1] come along and throw a fresh perspective at things all the time, these tools never have the breadth and depth of feature support that GIMP has but basically always manage to "one-up" it over something.

How long will it take before GIMP has usability on-par with Photoshop? How long until it attains the aesthetic coherence necessary to win people over visually? I love GIMP, but is the battle against 20 years of technical debt even winnable?

[1]: https://www.photopea.com/

Articles like this one really benefit from some references and footnotes. I had trouble finding sources for the skeletal remains being found with lead accumulation, for example.

It is interesting how the author describes lead poisoning as likely being more common amongst the elite. Comparing this to the current state of the world, it seems to affect areas of the world where infrastructure may be weaker[1].

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rate-lead-exposure

QA is a massively underappreciated position. A QA person that knows when to automate, when to manually test, and how to report and file issues relevant to the project can save a significant proportion of hours on a project overall. I wish many more companies included budget for QA, it saves developers a lot of time.

A bit of a side-note: this sort of analysis is a great answer to "I want to contribute to open source, how?". Some fairly simple wins for significantly better user experience, and no coding required!

To be fair to the original commenter I believe they were making a Mean Girls (2004) reference. The line in question is "Stop trying to make fetch happen. It's not going to happen.". Likely just a funny quip and nothing serious :)

JavaScript itself is not usually the problem (aside from certain fundemental issues). The computational gap between a developer on a M3 Macbook and a person on a used Dell from 2008 is already quite large, meaning what feels "snappy" and "responsive" to the former can feel "sluggish" and "annoying" to the latter.

The other factor between the two people can be network speed, many areas of the world have access to extremely limited bandwidth, very slow bandwidth, or a mixture of both!

Combining both the computational gap and the bandwidth gap means the issue of large JavaScript files blocking access to information on a global website is an accessibility concern. People who block JS are pushing for a more accessible web, either directly or indirectly.

I won't fight tooth and nail for all websites to _not_ have JavaScript, but I wish they would be progressively enhanced by that JS and still (at least in the core sense) usable without it.

The paragraph was my exact problem, hundreds of words but the entire world of AI interacting with the world physically is boiled down into an assumption that "by the time we get there, we'll get there". It just doesn't seem realistic? Especially with predictions/hunches like the ones found in the article.

Others seem to mention it is a sort of feedback look, once we get to 50% AGI I guess that AI itself can help us overcome the physical limitations. I'm sceptical that it is as simple as that, but at the same time can see it as very much possible.

How much do current AIs contribute to their own development? Likely quite a bit, but then again I don't know any AI researchers to ask.

I'm no AI expert, I don't have a lot of domain knowledge but what irks me about reading through this entire blog post is the idea that we are hinging on a definition of AGI that apparently accounts for 95% (!) of "economically valuable work" while basically not talking _at all_ about the trades. No mention of construction, manual labour, mechanics, welders, painters, nothing!

Is the author trying to say that all that work falls into the 5% left over after you replace the stock brokers, programmers, artists, etc.?

I understand no offence is meant, but this feels extremely naive. At best the work programmers do is in the minority of "economical valuable" work that we strongly rely on for our world economies to keep chugging along.

Quick and dirty searches show that some 12% of employed people are in healthcare in the USA, 9% in leisure and hospitality, and 2% in education. 23% of people in the USA are employed in economically valuable work that is very personal, and very difficult for technology to fully replace.

Sorry if I'm rambling, I think I just did not enjoy the complete lack of mention of blue-collar workers here. I don't think I'm yet in the camp betting on AGI coming out of the woodworks in the next few decades.

A part of me thinks that our weariness of spending "more" on architecture and beauty in cities is the same kind of weird frugality people experience with day to day goods.

My grandparents will endlessly complain about the lack of good quality products on the market (knives, power tools, clothing) but at the same time refuse to engage in locally-made albeit more expensive merchants.

Making buildings pretty may cost more (although, from my own understanding sourcing local tradespeople and using local materials ends up significantly cheaper over time) but the ROI is significantly better, both culturally and financially (pretty buildings age better, they become more appreciated over time in both financial and cultural value).

So is it the same with house goods? Are we just unwilling to accept that knives haven't got worse, it's just that we have mass-produced medium-quality low opportunity cost products that we can keep chucking out the window and complaining about? I rambled on, I totally agree that the efficiency of good/pretty architecture is completely understated.

How many minutes/hours a day do you spend curating your subscriptions? This sounds fairly exhausting looking at it throughout the day, every day. Surely you'd be able to achieve the same effect curating your subscriptions at the end of the day, or even end of the week.

Complaining about this as well, I think entering day/month with keyboard is fine but the website completely freezes upon entering year and skips some digits entirely after many seconds of waiting. I'm on an old thinkpad, I get it, but I think everyone should keep an older device around just to demo their projects on because it helps catch such simple bottlenecks.

Google, where shutdown dates get their own shutdown dates because they just love shutting things down. Meanwhile 37signals (creators of bandcamp, hey.com) is still maintaining 6 (maybe more) "dead" services for paying customers. How long will they do it? Who knows but the support is there and has been for a while. I know it's note exactly a novel idea but at this rate I'm reminded almost monthly why Google deserves zero trust for long-term solutions business (or personal) solutions.

It's so easy to use! Plug-n-play, CSS technical debt, "production-ready", easy to customise, a single button is ONLY 1932 bytes of information, lean! /s

I was _about_ to praise it for at least being tabbable, but the example of "Team members" does not work with keyboard-only navigation... great stuff.

I was also somehow aware of this acronym. Turns out the about page of Mozilla's add-ons page also uses it[1], so it's "official" so to speak.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/about

Is this meant to be convincing? If you slowly scroll down and read every tweet you will see a massive repetition of simplified statements and over-promising. "X is _only_ 2 years away" is not very interesting when it's mentioned several times a year... for 5 years.

According to the Bank of England's inflation calculator page [1] 50 GBP in 1875 would be worth around 4,766 in today's Sterling. Not sure how to calculate the true "worth" of the exchange from GBP to USD, though. 50 GBP in 1875 would be around 320 USD (according to the Wikipedia article), does this mean that the 4,766 Sterling should be represented as 21,663 USD (according to the 1875 exchange rate) OR as 6,015 USD (according to today's exchange rate)? Not sure.

[1]: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/in...

Just an FYI, all of those google play links are 404s. Seems HN cut off the query parameter after "netflix.NG" :)

If I understand correctly, it is not about "not emitting heat", they reduced the natural output of heat of the trains and gave the excess allowance to the new AC system.

Elon, crying on a podcast: AI will destroy the world and I'm afraid I can't do anything about it Also Elon: Meet Grok! It's sarcastic and isn't woke! :D

I wonder if the Easter egg of the VHS hyperlink to "Vancouver Hack Space" is intentional or not, I assume not but still gave me a chuckle.

I guess I'll add to the pile of thoughts by saying that I think the parent comment was making a snide remark about .jsx/.tsx files, i.e "no one writes HTML anymore"

All three of the mentioned CVEs are affecting 8.2.1. Even 8.3.0 is affected by 2 of them still. The latest version (8.4.0) is the only one that is not affected by these.

In the region of Austria I live in (Oberösterreich/Upper Austria), smoking is so commonplace I'm surprised that people aren't handing cigarettes to children. It is also very common to see people inebriated from morning farmer's markets before 9am!

I want to see a beer consumption graph by state/county of Austria. Wanted to chime in as my experience is so different from yours.

The words "simple" and "friendly" do not correlate with a website that needs to show me a loading indicator before accessing seemingly static content...

Absolutely, I don't entirely know what would be the best thing for students. In the end students should be taught to disrupt the industries they join not propel mainstream practices. So there is something to teaching them with more niche languages, that help them think differently to what is currently on the market! Thanks for sharing.

But as educational tooling is that not a fault in itself? Surely we should be preparing students to at least use some mainstream languages, rather than pouring their skills and time into something that has a niche market value?

I feel as if I am missing something here, some previous reading that would make this clearer? I do not understand how the code snippet he provides is "lyrical". Any more stuff I could read on this sort of topic?