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Wouldn't something like snapshot testing from a scheduled probe be more effective and reliable than using an LLM?

Every X hours test the endpoints and validate the types and field names are consistent... If they change then trigger some kind of alerting mechanism to the user.

I recently learned mobile browsers (safari and chrome) in iOS have made it pretty much impossible to disable JS on the iPhone… what the actual

Agreed...Another gripe... the amount of people on HN complaining that a web-app doesn't 'work without JS, when the number of user's who disable JS inside their browser is well under 1%. HN users don't even consider they are not in anyway typical web users.

My whole family uses iMessage because it is the default client on their iphones. I'd love to partake in the family group chat.

For those technically savvy enough to download an additional client like Meta's Whatsapp or Messenger... it's no problem, but for the less technically inclined (like my mother) they will just use the default client.

"It was half past midnight on March 17th, 1968. Keith Smart, the director of epidemiology and ecology at Utah’s Dugway Proving Grounds, was awakened by the ringing of a phone. On the other end was Dr. Bode, a professor at the University of Utah, and the director of the school’s contract with Dugway. There was a problem. Calls had been coming in. About 27 miles outside of the base, in the aptly-named Skull Valley, thousands of sheep had suddenly died. There were some survivors among the flocks, but it was clear that their hours were numbered. Veterinarians were dispatched to euthanize the few remaining animals.

Army officials began drafting their official denial

"

Reads like a Michael Crichton novel... Got Andromeda Strain vibes from this

"brilliant"

I think "predictable" is more apt.

Yes, I remember when Microsoft FrontPage was the go to wysiwyg editor for web development along with Dreamweaver most styles were added inline.

At some point wysiwyg editors fell out of favor as they generated both unmaintainable styles and markup.

Style sheets took hold and the insanity that was inline styles were dropped in favor of external style sheets.

Today we have tailwinds.css and inline styles are coming back in vogue.

Wysiwyg editors are coming back in the form of code generators that convert designs into react components.

This author is even a proponent of inline event handlers which were the standard way of doing things before JavaScript really became a powerful language and added "addEventlistener".

Flat circle repeated over and over again.

Part of me wonders if these authors are just too young to remember those days. Otherwise why wouldn't they mention the historical context when writing these kind of articles?

It's funny when younger people espouse these new ideas as new and revolutionary when really they are a return to older patterns that fell out of style for whatever reason and are now being resold with different packaging.

This chrome extension was written 90% by ChatGPT. including the creation of the logo (with Dalle-3). This extension removes Youtube Shorts from Youtube.com

One weird issue I had with next 13 was radio button groups did not work. The suggested fix from a core next contributor and fb employee was to "Upgrade to a canary release"...

I get that you are building all these new cool features, but that cannot put basic functionality and backwards compatibility at risk. Radio buttons have been around forever, I'd assume that they are being used by tons of websites all ove the place. Yet hydration of SSR radio buttons was not being done properly and so you could not set a default value for your radio button...

This kinda shit is just basic. You can't add new features at the expense of basic functionality.

There is also https://wormhole.app

Which looking at your link I guess is unrelated

Logo is both mesmerizing and distracting.

This is interesting, and not to criticize, but I wonder if transformer model's accuracy in interpreting law will obviate the need for something like this.

It would be interesting to train Large Language Transformer Models to generate this code for you based on the text in the laws. This way you have a deterministic testable output, without risk of hallucinations.

It's not sriracha... There is a reason why there is a Hoy Fong Sriracha shortage but not a shortage with off-brand variants. People want the particular recipe of the rooster sauce... It's a specific flavor. Same reason to me Heinz ketchup is the only ketchup I want for my fries.

I get the feeling Sixto Rodriguez preferred somewhat of an ascetic lifestyle. He seemed totally unfazed by the prospect of stardom. He also seems not to have really made an attempt to capitalize on his modest success. He must have known he had some level of success since he toured in Australia in the late '70s.

I get the feeling he is the type of person who chose a modest lifestyle of hard work as a more honest way to live.

It would fit in just fine if we lived in a Minecraft world.

For 3 letter intelligence agencies I think it was 10 year statute of limitations... This may have changed

You could probably use gpt to build a deterministic parser based off the markup of a page though... Like ask it to "create the script/selectors needed to scrape X page"

Then you just run that script whenever you want to get data.

Is data encrypted in such a way so that your company cannot read conversations?

StayFocusd an app to help people with focus issues block distracting websites has updated it's privacy policy. It now defaults to collecting user browsing data.

From the new privacy policy:

  =Collected Data=
  
  The App extracts the below-listed [...]:
  
  - your IP address;
  - the Generic ID;
  - your device type;
  - your browser version;
  - ads displayed in your feed;
  - your country;
  - your birth year;
  - usage data (collectively the “Collected Data”).

  [...]

  =Purposes of Processing=
  
  We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
  
  - to operate, maintain, debug, and improve the App;
  - to send you technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages;
  - to respond to your comments, questions and requests and provide customer service;
  - to monitor and analyze trends and usage of the App;
  - to monitor and analyze ads;
  - to power Sensor Tower products available at app.sensortower.com;
  - to use in training of neural networks and artificial intelligence;
  - for scientific and academic research purposes; and
  - for any other purposes indicated in this Privacy Policy.

P.S. I'm currently looking for a comparable product that doesn't use my browsing data for ad targeting. If you have an alternative product please let me know.

This debate has nothing to do with racism.

What if instead of Tencent the parent company of TikTok, a state-sponsored social media app created by the CCP was the most popular social media app used by the future American generation. Would you still feel comfortable with this?

It's important to understand that in China the government has complete control of the private sector... If you want to have a business in China you have to jump when they say jump.

Maybe I am an outlier... but I really don't like nested style documents like those founds with SASS, LESS, PostCSS. When the number of nested selectors becomes too great it can become very difficult to reason about. I would never use this without some kind of lint rule enforcing a maximum depth of selector nesting. I agree with the other commenters ITT taking the position flat CSS looks cleaner than nested documents.

Disagree with "Don't teach during code reviews."

I've found them to be invaluable opportunities for knowledge exchange

Say I want to plug historical data into a predictive model?

Or a probably another common potential use-case... I want to create an alert if a value is above/below a certain threshold.

Any plans to actually scrape the data instead of just the images? Having the actual data saved in a tabular format would really make this a killer product... You could probably do this by finding the elements within your selection and parsing the rendered HTML.

Images are great but for doing anything more complex than just viewing charts scraping the data would be a huge plus

What is the modern equivalent of Napster/limewire/bittorrent today anyway, out of curiosity

Everyone is cheering this on... But as far as I can tell Apple did not win the Document Editor and business computing war vs MS.

Microsoft clearly won with the Microsoft Office Suite and Microsoft Word... I'm not sure about this specific tech or if OpenDoc would have made any difference... But is it an impossibility that open standards could have been a strong weapon against MS market dominance?

Either way the man is undeniably a legendary public speaker.

I'm surprised they are implementing this as it will reduce the ability to do Google Inbox-esque classification of emails for things outside of spam like smart labeling of emails or highlighting important emails, emails prompting an urgent response. It just significantly reduces the amount of NLP processing they can do.

Interesting how will Gmail handle spam classification with e2e encryption?

How will this impact googles ad business?

I thought Google was targeting using email content... Also this will impact their ability to use AI for things like spam filtering and smart labeling

"You upload a user’s S/MIME certificate and wrapped private key using the Gmail API, with the service account private key file. For each user"

If this is end to end encryption why are you uploading a private key to Google? Am I confused?

How about we fix the existing support systems. Popular media constantly exalts things like the suicide hotline/chat, or mental health services. But those services often don't even work when people need them, they are either unavailable (where people are put on hold indefinitely) or the applications and websites have bugs that make them totally unusable.

Also the way healthcare is tied to employment in the US is a huge health risk for anyone changing jobs or at risk of termination.