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They must not have heard about Composer. I'm currently migrating from Playwright to Composer. Will write a blog post about it soon but I can say that Composer is much nicer than either Puppeteer or Playwright.

Related: https://www.mintpressnews.com/ebay-founder-pierre-omidyar-is.... All billionaires do this. It's a common pattern because they know that media influences opinions and shapes the politics of large groups of people. There's nothing special about Bill in terms of donations to media outlets.

Vimium.

You should look into Esperanto. [1]

1: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/esther-schor/brid...

Once again I am in awe of how little this man says and how profound it all sounds.

> First, Congress should pass legislation compelling Facebook, Instagram, and all other social-media platforms to allow academic researchers access to their data. One such bill is the Platform Transparency and Accountability Act, proposed by the Stanford University researcher Nate Persily.

> Second, Congress should toughen the 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. An early version of the legislation proposed 16 as the age at which children should legally be allowed to give away their data and their privacy. Unfortunately, e-commerce companies lobbied successfully to have the age of “internet adulthood” set instead at 13. Now, more than two decades later, today’s 13-year-olds are not doing well. Federal law is outdated and inadequate. The age should be raised. More power should be given to parents, less to companies.

> Third, while Americans wait for lawmakers to act, parents can work with local schools to establish a norm: Delay entry to Instagram and other social platforms until high school.

None of these suggestions actually fix anything. The problem is the feedback loops on the application itself that encourage constant comparisons because they increase engagement. It turns out that constant comparisons with others leads to lower self-esteem and increased anxiety in teenagers. None of these solutions actually address the underlying mechanics of the application that leads to the negative outcomes for teenagers. [1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=29313367

I've tried js, ts, and dart and dart is a much more pleasant language with simpler tooling than the current js/ts web stack. We can continue going back and forth on this but I don't think we're getting anywhere. My suggestion was to someone that was looking to avoid the main hassles of web development and I suggested Flutter/Dart to simplify the toolchain and not worry about having to pick and choose frontend frameworks and build tools because all of that is baked into Flutter/Dart already.

In my brief experience, learning the language and framework only took a few days and it was much easier than making sense of all the issues with the current frontend web stack. Dart also has JavaScript interop so using libraries written in js is not an issue. [1]

1: https://dart.dev/web/js-interop

My point is the frontend web stack is already very complicated for no good reason so using Flutter/Dart instead of dealing with webpack or whatever the latest build tool is for frontend web projects isn't that big of a difference.

Dart is very easy to learn so whether a lot of people know it or not is not really an issue. Any competent programmer will be able to learn it in a few days.

The point is no one uses plain javascript anymore so if you're going to use some domain specific language with its own build pipeline to generate compiled assets for the browser then Dart/Flutter is no worse than any other javascript framework.

It reduces the effort of learning different frameworks for the frontend and the backend. You use one language that includes simple interoperatbility between the frontend and the backend. It will still obviously need to be compiled into a format that browsers can work with but if you're gonna use a framework anyway then Dart/Flutter is a reasonable choice (modulo performance issues as mentioned by others in this thread).

Not sure. Last time I was close to any HR software it seemed like all you needed to do was make sure to capture some identifiers like location and IP address before storing the signature. So presumably the regulatory barrier is very low, you just have to make reasonable effort to prevent scams like one person impersonating another.

I looked at the flutter gallery and it looks like they just compile everything to js files and paint the widgets on a canvas element. Would be interesting to know if they're investing any effort in different backends like WASM. Would probably solve their performance problems. Canvas is obviously a sensible option for rendering but it looks like it might be another reason why their performance isn't great.

I personally prefer keybase but to each their own. UX matters to most people and there is no obvious solution here that I could recommend to people that are less technically savvy than the typical HN commenter.

What's missing?

Because the internet has no real infrastructure for identity. If everyone could create a public/private key pair then signatures on the internet would be a non-issue. So these companies are filling a gap in the web stack. Do we need so many of them? Probably not.

The framing here is off. This has nothing to do with racism and all to do with profits. Political pundits don't understand that class and material conditions are primary and the rest is just window dressing to cover up the widening gap between the rich and the poor.

Racism obviously exists but making the case for racism on Facebook is nonsensical. Facebook doesn't determine school policies and working conditions at Amazon warehouses, politicians do and Facebook here is just a scapegoat. More generally, whenever there is some story about the tech giants being racist then it's safe to assume it has nothing to do with racism and the writer is just not versed enough in actual political and economic theory to properly frame the real issue.

Frontend is what will get you. The kids have decided everything now needs to be compiled and transpiled so you won't be able to avoid the hassle of frontend development. If you want to avoid all of that then Flutter/Dart might be a good option: https://dart.dev/web. But this is just me giving random advice. I tried Dart for a while and it's a nice language, no worse than all the other contenders when it comes to web development.

The difference is now there are more grifters on social media profiting from fear and paranoia.

Ya, I wasn't thinking about the death angle but you make a good point about tests in immunocompromised individuals. The article mentions the drug is basically a mutagen so in theory it is supposed to work in cases where the vaccine would be too risky but then I have to wonder how quickly a person is supposed to go on the regimen before the viral load is too great for the mutagen to make a difference. Basically this only works when you are already sick and in no other cases because then you're just dosing yourself with a mutagen.

That's very ambitious. Hopefully they make real progress towards that goal but there is no way they're gonna put a nuclear power plant on the moon within a decade.

That's news to me. I didn't know D had actors but I like it's meta-programming features because it cuts down on all sorts of boilerplate. I haven't used it that much, I just looked into it briefly for some low-level programming projects.

The best answer I can provide is this document: https://ziglang.org/learn/overview/. It covers the main features of the language and how they compare to other languages like C, C++, and D. I personally think it has enough features like option types instead of null pointers, array bounds checking, generics, compile-time code execution, etc. for writing safe code but others might disagree.

The data/research mentioned in the tweet: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/more-follow-up-hi....

The closest thing I can think of is recurse center: https://www.recurse.com/.

Zig and Nim are good bets. Both are pushing the state of the art forward on what is possible with system programming languages. D is probably another good bet.

As long as participation on social media is sponsored by advertising dollars the problem of misinformation will not go away. This project is gathering volunteers to do free work for Twitter and enrich its shareholders which makes sense from their perspective but not from the perspective of whoever is contributing to this project. So what's gonna happen over time is this will turn into another meta-layer for misinformation games because contributors will realize it is in their best interest to moderate content that seems to be against their own interests. Doing otherwise only enriches Twitter and its shareholders so there is no incentive for the contributors to be honest in their work.

The business model is the problem. There is no way to keep the advertising based business model and reduce misinformation because the underlying incentives are fundamentally adversarial. Twitter cares about keeping people engaged because that's how they make money. They have no incentives to propagate truthful information because the advertisers don't pay them for that, they pay for attention regardless of what it is directed towards. Eventually people realize this and that's why there is such a high prevalence of sociopathic behavior on social media, every person is acting in their own best interests to grab as much attention as possible in order to shill some weird but personally enriching ideological doctrine. There is no common cause uniting groups of people together other than going viral to maximize attention from other participants. All the other weird behaviors like doxxing and cancelations follow directly from this incentive structure, those behaviors get attention and so people internalize them because that's what the platform encourages.

Social media, instead of AI, is what Nick Bostrom should have been worried about. Encouraging sociopathic behavior is antithetical to maintaining stable societies and that's exactly what we're seeing.

Work on something that is personally meaningful instead of looking for the highest paying job.

I didn't see if it was possible to self-host. Is that a planned feature?

I was being sarcastic.

This treatment is after they get infected. Do you understand what that means? There is no causal chain of events where the pills are better than the vaccine. If the vaccine kills you then so will the virus. If the vaccine doesn't kill you then your chances of death are now significantly lower. You are more likely to die in a car crash than from the vaccine.

All the pills are going to do is convince some suckers to pay up for a treatment that they could have avoided if they'd gotten a free vaccine. There are no situations in which the pills are any better, all they do is lower the chances of death when people inevitably get infected because they refused to get the vaccine. At best the pills are a palliative measure which I guess is better than nothing but is not a substitute for a vaccine.

Anyway, I'm done with this thread. We're not getting anywhere.

These pills are not even a long term solution. Repeatedly using them introduces mutations in human DNA:

> A drug that’s so good at messing with viral RNA has led some to ask whether it messes with human DNA, too. (Merck’s trial excluded pregnant and breast-feeding women, and women of childbearing age had to be on contraceptives.) This is a long-standing concern about antiviral drugs that introduce genomic errors. A recent study suggests that molnupiravir, taken at high doses and for extended periods, can, in fact, introduce mutations into DNA.

So every dosing regiment of the pills means you are upping your chances of getting cancer. This is exactly the type of trade-off I would expect to be made by people who have no clue how vaccines work.