skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, getting the visual editor back once you say no thanks doesn't seem trivial. I had to look up how.

My guess is that regular contributors hardly use it, and its purpose is mostly symbolic rather than practical.
I wonder how such a list would look like for other jobs. I guess pretty similar?
I’ve upvoted you - this sort of feedback is invaluable! Do you have an example spreadsheet? If you could log a bug and upload it, that would be helpful.
Can either be purchased online by customers outside of those countries?
State actors and the EU are not reliable actors insofar as security that goes beyond their own needs is concerned. They will put backdoors and key escrow into the systems.

That's the real problem with an open platform, whether it's about hardware or about software. To get enough funding, support, and manpower an open secure platform initiative would have to get entangled with global players that simply do not have the ultimate privacy and security of all citizens in mind. It's primarily a political issue.
Been using Figma for a while now for prototyping, drawing etc. It's really easy to learn and use and has great features. e.g. multiplayer mode.
That's an over simplification. Sure Medicare and Medicaid don't negotiate directly. Instead they impose discounts by fiat (no discount, no gov't business).

Look up the 340B program and mandatory Medicaid rebates. They add up to huge discounts.

In most cases Medicaid pays the lowest price of any customer and Medicare often pays the same as private insurers.

It's a fallacy to say the gov't is getting screwed over by not negotiating over drug prices.
Who is we though?

I mean the problem in other fields were solved by a brutal trade off toward a draconian prohibition. You can't practice medicine/law/civil-engineering without a license in a lot of states/countries.

But of course you can give CPR, you can help your relatives sort out their pills. You can talk about laws/statutes/regulations with anyone.

So where would we draw the line? Maybe official/public procurement projects must have a process requirement clause, describing good engineering discipline (clear problem statement, analysis of the problem, analysis of aspects by the relevant domain experts [such as UI/UX, security, network, hardware, etc.], general specification, implementation plan with risks identified and testing methodology outlined, used development methodology [SCRUM, KanBan, whatever])?

This doesn't require setting up big and bureaucratic a trade guild, but if something bad happens we can look at the [pre]filed papers and determine who fucked up. The procurers, the experts, or the dev team.
Why not use VNC?
Seems a broad law considering

* Expectation is subjective and this forum are the minority

* History-jacking done badly is not a reason to throw out a technology

Random JavaScript hate is so last year
You can still be a developer, a farmer, or a doctor even if you find that you don't require those activities in order to eat.
Implying that he finds somebody elses complaint "whiny" is a personal attack? Ok.
And MacOS. It was reviewed by Dr Dobbs magazine, wish I had the original library source code! I’m a bit of a Libreoffice code historian, but there is no source code history before the year 2000...
This is very similar to a famous study. Where door-to-door canvassing was shown to be very powerful to change people‘s mind. I believe it was California’s prop 8.

Unfortunately, that study turned out to be completely falsified.

But, in anotothef twist, the underlying hypothesis may indeed appear to have some merit—there are a few studies now underway.

(Sorry for not including links—on mobile right nowk
Show HN: Triangulart – Isometric graphic editor, like pixel art with triangles
I don't understand why people feel the need to downvote comments, only because they don't agree or they don't want to hear any critical thoughts about something they like.

Anyway, your points are certainly valid. However, they are not a "will happen", but rather a "may happen". In FOSS, it took some time too, to find a working governing structure for large projects. A respected BDFL seems to help. Who knows what would be the best set-up for hardware.

But it should certainly be tried.
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Driving a Car in Manhattan Could Cost $11 Under Congestion Plan
DigitalOcean doubles all plan memory for free, and provides more plan options
Thats because ur the product of your generation.

your son and son's will not have the same perspective
Unanswered in article:

How long does the power unit lasts until you have to replace the paper-towel-roll-sized U-235 core? Where are they going to put the old ones?

What's the plug interface? Can I charge my iPhone? What about my electric razor?

Are they going to test burying one in red sand for 15+ years and see if it can be dug up to phone home in an emergency?
The navigation on this site is so bad I created an account on HN just to mention it.
Well, I kind of prefer VHDL.
You do realize that this "UX" thing was for decades called "ergonomics" and
had a large body of research behind, do you?
Since this is a screening test, I don't think that 15 million number is correct for prevalence.

You are using % of population diagnosed with cancer. The correct value would be the % of population with undiagnosed cancer.
I've seen some DRM that can detect if you're running within a virtual machine and prevent screenshots.

The future will be raspberry pi clusters connected to HDMI capture cards.
There have been a lot of rumors about Amazon buying Target and although I do like Amazon, I hope it never happens. IMHO Target was the only online/b&m business that was competitive with Amazon prices and deals over the holidays.
This is fantastic. Especially the line-by-line explanations on separate pages. Thank you @jsandler18!
For sure! looking forward to becoming a customer. I guess the journey I went through was missing some intermediate step between playing at the repl with an in memory db (which I believe you’ve mentioned before as being a good way to get hands dirty from zero), to having something in dev which was backed by storage, to a toy service, to production.

Jumping into AWS, at least in my work environment, is a big jump requiring lots of supporting infrastructure etc. We’ll get there if it works out, but the dockerized setup is really helping in learning and evaluation.

Officially supported ways of doing this is something i’m sure you’ve considered before, it would be nice if cognitect could reconsider this.
History. Check the Wikipedia article.
Safari Reader mode compatibility should be mandated by law
In general, I think this world will benefit from more radical humanistic ideas, even if they aren't ever realized.

Let's not leave the radical alternatives to the racists and nationalists.
Welcome to this website about UX that took all of 2 seconds to annoy the shit out of me by giving me the impression that I am in some sort of foreground mode that I possibly might want to get out of to access the site...
The suggestion to simply try and notice more detail seems tantamount to advising "just do it better".

Why not ask someone who has done it before, or who does it for a living. There are many domains of human endeavour, but few with no experts. Experience is not necessarily expertise, but the experienced know what details to look for even if they don't know how to fix them.

That to me is another problem of capitalism - people reserve knowledge in order to attract finance with its value; whilst the greatest good is to share that knowledge.
I think you could get pretty far just by simply scrambling the CSS classes and ids.
I didn't expect anything interesting to come up as replies, but here we are - thanks for those insights.
Great essay. Basically, they say that surprise doesn't tell us so much about the world but more about our model of the world. The degree of surprise can essentially be seen as a measure of our ignorance about some aspect of the world. As such surprise can serve as a guide for improving our understanding. However, it would be a mistake to see ignorance necessarily as a shortcoming. A simplifying model of the world is preferable if it gets the job done. In contrast to that, a perfectly accurate model of the world would render decision-making computationally intractable and is therefore not desirable.
I find it frustrating NASA talking about putting people on Mars but if you look at reality, it can't even put astronauts in the orbit anymore. What about solving that problem first, and when it's done, then we can dream about Mars...

Or are we going to outsource such mundane tasks like manned orbital space flight to the Russians and Chinese forever, while we are proudly preparing the colonization of Mars? /s
There is an excellent example of this type of fiddly detail in Liz England's 2014 blog post about the problems of doors in video games [0]. She identifies about 20 questions you can ask about as a door (as a game designer) and then about 30 different roles (from sound designers [1] to monetization director[2]) who might be involved. Her post works really well because the example is so mundane but the questions are very valid.

[0] http://www.lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-problem/

[1] "I made the sounds the door creates when it opens and closes."

[2] "We could charge the player $.99 to open the door now, or wait 24 hours for it to open automatically"
> Random JavaScript hate is so last year

It may well be, and with good reason. However, I still encounter people who think that JavaScript is only used for things like onMouseOver and find it difficult to accept that actually, their favourite app or site is entirely powered by JavaScript.
this is assuming that new industries shall not develop once complete automation (of those possible) is achieved. engineering jobs - for example - should branch out to many more folds of specializations compared to where they are now.
Oh the irony, this site has terrible UX.
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Don't most SPAs have some kind of internal API that is easier to work with than the HTML?
Maybe more like “use JavaScript to enhance the experience, not define it”. At least unless you're prepared to actually get it right, which still in 2018, seems to be tricky given the amount of weird sites like this.

This site breaks so many conventions of the web and normal navigation I don't even want to start listing them.

Bad SPA sites are the full page Flash sites of today.
And in 15 years, do you need to import a new core from Earth or what - have a uranium mining and refining operation up and running by then?
>We base so much of human progress on these little wafers of silicon, it shouldn't be extreme to want to know what they do.

Well said. I'll add that security is a threshold, and that computer systems are extremely complex. Every bit of openness -and the verifiability such openness affords- brings us closer to that ideal secure system.
Did you just skip over the entire article to get a shallow dig in at communism?
I cancelled my Prime subscription, but the last time I ordered from Amazon, I chose the free option which was estimated to take 5 days, and it got to me overnight, which was nice.

My current complaint about Amazon is that when I order a grocery item, it's because I can't find it in a local store and Amazon charges double or triple the normal price.

Oddly enough, I ordered something once in bulk for an exorbitant price, and immediately it appeared in my local grocery store for the normal price (50% less). I'm not sure what's going on, but it feels like algorithms run amuck.
All of them quite portable, with enough abstraction libraries available to make it a moot point, unless I really want to dive into details.

The only programming language I actually do have care about the underlying OS is C, due to its dependency on POSIX as an extension of ANSI libc.
This tiny robot moves so fast on camera it’s just a blur – The Verge
> It would be too easy to split into "alternative facts" if people could successfully establish alternative Wikipedias.

Bear in mind that Wikipedia isn't the only website out there! But you make an interesting point about how authoritative it is perceived.

> I also think it could benefit from larger number of pages about less important topics, not being that strict on what can and can't be a page topic. Extended Wikipedia of sorts.

I agree, that's why I'm doing WikiFork.
How I would love to see the data on how many edits submitted from the WYSIWYG tool are/aren't reverted.
"Work is badly distributed. People have too much, or too little, or both in the same month. And away from our unpredictable, all-consuming workplaces, vital human activities are increasingly neglected. Workers lack the time or energy to raise children attentively, or to look after elderly relations. “The crisis of work is also a crisis of home,” ... This neglect will only get worse as the population grows and ages."

This is the real message of the article. Its not about giving everybody a robot butler, its about reorganising society to allow us to do all of the things that need to be done. We don't need to have lots of people working long poorly paid shifts at Wallmart, but we do need people to look after the young and the elderly. At the moment we have a tendency to look at working class people who dont work as morally lacking, when often they have quite a lot of useful (non-paid) things to be getting on with. We need to change the way we think about what makes somebody a useful member of society
In Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series, set in the 2400's, most people work 20 hour weeks with the rest of their time spent on hobbies. A minority of people, whose jobs are their passions, work significantly more than 20 hours, this is termed Voking (as in, to be a vocateur) and is considered kinda unusual.

Reading between the lines, I think full automation is entirely possible in the setting but the world naturally settled on a 20 hour week to give everyone the benefits of purpose etc.
Amazon reviews allow consumer brands (e.g. Anker) to be built without Procter & Gamble's style of packaged goods advertising.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/technology/cheap-consumer...
You get some surplus, because it is not possible to write a non-linear pricing scheme that extracts everything from all customers.
That is basically, depending on your willingness to pay, you may get a pretty good deal.

The underlying reason for this is that the producer basically has to pay you a bit of surplus to reveal your willingness to pay.

So, there is consumer surplus.
I supposed limited to owns imagination. While I agree it will be a fundamental shift in thinking, especially for current and older generations, kids who are born and grow with this mindset will have no problem finding something else to do. How about doing science for fun - trying to discover new things. The drive for money and power can be replaced with the drive of prestige and recognition? It is not so hard to imagine.

I am by all means as capitalist as I would imagine are the majority of the audience on this forum but I cannot deny the fact that there are disadvantages to our way of life and without exploring other ways it is hard to conclude which one is better.

Here is another provoking thought. Imagine that we expand the human lifespan well over 500 years. Would you be still doing what you are doing today at the same age? While there will be certainly wealthy people if we live in a capitalistic society, we can also imagine that some people may decide to do a lot of different things in their first 100 years and many other things in the second 100 years and so on. But that system may not be viable. What if 1 in 5 people get to be rich and live wealthy? I would not say that this will work but in your 500 years, you will have 100 that the society will allow you just "because" to be very wealthy and live a wealthy lifestyle. These ideas sound crazy for sure but who knows.
> What I'm wondering is: if I don't care about being a Wine "purist", and I have a legitimate copy of Windows laying around, is there any way to dissect that copy of Windows for its files (drivers, helper executables, etc.) and wrap them around a Windows EXE, such that Wine will be using as few Wine implementations of DLLs as possible, rather than just the minimum required to get the individual EXE vaguely working? Is there a way to start off a Wine install with "maximum compatibility" like this?

the majority of problematic DLLs are officially redistributable by MS. the vast majority of the remainder depend on undocumented kernel APIs, which are... also unimplemented in wine, and usually the reason the builtin wine DLL doesn't work properly. you'd have an easier time importing your legitimate windows drivers to Linux, through ndiswrapper!
Hawking uses the phrase "model dependent realism" for the small subatomic world.

But of course it's perfectly valid for our highly complex human scale world too. And then why do we think the Sun is what we see in pictures? Of course it's that, but it's much more too, and since we don't capture a lot of that in our models (be them photos in various EM gamuts or neutrino counts or whatever numbers), but we only see the surface, we will never experience it up close.

And the same goes for our experience of others' experiences, be it scholarly undertaking in unraveling the mysteries of Earth or simple carpentry/masonry/woodworking/sports.

Even though hundreds of millions of people watch and tens of millions play soccer, no one really has the correct model about playing it on the professional (world cup, UK Premier League) level. Yet every one has a model of soccer, and of course that's their day to day reality. (And they of course do some imperfect subconscious belief update on their models as they go through life, but that's not much compared to an actual rational inquiry using the scientific method - but who has time for that for everything in the world?)
You are not contradicting the parent at all.
Apple to release software update to resolve iPhone slowdown
You really need more evidence before smearing a respected name such as NPR.

Especially if the benign explanation is as believable as it is here: Skype has simply become a word of common usage.

Journalists operate in the real world. They will use brand names to the same extend that evreryone does. Artificially avoiding them would limit their ability to tell stories as much as avoiding words that start with the letter H would.
I am amazed that apparently, a lot of bigger project formats are not VCS friendly, even in domains where everyone should (?) know how to use git.
For electronics, I liked this talk, also from 34C3:

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8818-designing_pcbs_with_code
In light of some memorable software design failures (which includes not just code but UX design, usage scenarios, compliance etc) I would kindly disagree. And the people of Hawaii would too I am sure.

It really depends what the software is used for. Software is just peoples thoughts and intentions codified for quick access/evaluation.

If they are used for a game it might not be important, if they are used for something important it also becomes important and exactly because the complexity of real life is difficult to account for ahead of time.
Not sure if applicable here; but where I come from they say "the fearful won't have kids"
Great photos. The description next each photos is intriguing too, although I wish they had closure. In Bloodlust, the child dies. How? Due to a shark attack? What happened.
IBM returns to growth after six years, but dour forecast hits shares
Moritz: talking about paternity leave a sign that society's becoming 'unhinged'
Assembler is too high level these days. This would be translator from higher languages to hardware.

http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories/

https://icfp17.sigplan.org/event/icfp-2017-papers-kami-a-pla...
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<li><strong>{{ law.name }}</strong> - {{ law.summary }}
<a href="{{ law.wikipedia_url }}">{{ law.name }} on Wikipedia</a>
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Direct debit doesn't work with all companies, it certainly would not work with ours. It gives too much control to outside parties.
I'm with you on the majority of your comment, but I'd contend that VPNs are definitely accessible for your average person, assuming they're are actually aware of them and how they help. Sure you don't get the same guarantee regarding logs etc. if you use a commercial option instead of rolling your own, but that's a different threat to the one described in the article.

In terms of trust, I'm happy going with bigger names which have more to lose if they turn out to not be doing what they say. Private internet access (no affiliation) for me ticks this box, is a really simple install on my phone + laptop, and has anonymous payment methods as well if that's something that's important to you.
You just have one.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/PrimarySelection
I'd be interested as well. Certainly being DRM-free GOG.com's content typically ends up on torrent sites, but I haven't heard of it the other way around—though there are of course various examples of pirated content appearing in officially published downloads elsewhere I've read about and even experienced first-hand. One that comes to mind was 90s hip-hop act De La Soul generously releasing their discography for free during Valentines Day a few years back to promote a new record, which from some ID3 tags mentioned the source were pirated copies.

You have to wonder when an artist finds it easier to copy the albums from such sources than from the collection of their own.
I've been wondering this for years. What's with all the "...gate" business? Is"gate" an American suffix or something?
Same. My main reason is Verilog does not make a distinction between variables and other objects. Verilog treats almost everything as if it were an assignment type. Furthermore, variables in verilog are shared by default. VHDL shows how it should be done. There is a clear distinction between signals and variables. Additionally, variables are local by default.

My opinion of course. Although VHDL can be bit more wordy. However, that's least of my worries (wordiness) when designing something. I would rather have clear semantics for me and other people on what the heck is going on.
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Programmable droplets
I'm sorry but this is utter stupidity.

Punishing consumers for ordering a product for which the supplier/supply chain sent a counterfeit which was flagged by customs is just dumb.

Importing and selling counterfeit products is already illegal. If the person has a 20' shipping container full of counterfeit product, maybe investigate it and level penalties.

But to disqualify someone from an entry program because of one counterfeit product, when clearly no one from Amazon, CBP, or the manufacturer put in any effort whatsoever to investigate, is just wrong IMHO. The article states the manufacturer took the lazy route and punished the innocent customer because going after Amazon and someone in China would be more effort/expense.

Guilty until proven innocent. Ridiculous.
that's nothing like self-modifying code. It would probably be much more like CUDA kernels being uploaded to the GPU. More complex than "single cpu with global memory" but hardly "mr president, the virus is a self-mutating hydra" level.