skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't compared all GUIs with the car; the car is more like a particular type of GUI, say, of word processors. Plus, the basics may be standard, but everything else (mainly the dashboard) is still quite a mess. I wouldn't say it's solved at all.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh - I will be DVd to death for this but:

I have a screen (it happens to be about 18" wide in this case). Why on earth is the text in a stupidly thin column in a small font? It looks like TeX's daemonic alter thingie got into the render process somewhere or perhaps someone forgot the other two columns or wanted to torture a webby reader with multiple columns (mmmm ArXiv scrolly uppy n downy pdf) and lost interest.

Anyway ... it looks crap in my browser unless I hit CTRL(num)+ a few times - 200% works.
Given how thoroughly the physicists who wrote the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisch–Peierls_memorandum anticipated the use of nuclear weapons as deterrence, I do not think the supposition that physicists were unable to identify the MAD potential is accurate.
To get a free Schwab checking account, you have to get a checking account paired with a brokerage account. They hard pull your credit before they approve you. If you have a low credit score, you won't be approved. Most Americans' credit scores are too low.
I think you're way over-estimating what a realistic ability to predict outcomes will be.

I'm reminded of back when I worked in agency land, and clients would ask us to build something to "go viral" back when going viral was a new concept. They assumed it was as easy as just saying "make it so".

Of course, it's never that easy to know that it will catch on.

How exactly do you make something that is fun, engaging, and rewarding enough to encourage regular use, but not fun, engaging or rewarding enough to abuse? Seriously, if you can answer that question, you're sitting on a gold mine of knowledge.
Gordon Bell and Engelbart were surprisingly spot-on regarding connectivity. It seems that for the people who are canonically regarded as visionaries, massive connectivity through tiny devices was obvious. For Bill Gates, not so much.

BYTE: Let's discuss the subject of porta­bility. Do you think we'll have notebook computers or pocket computers? How do you think the size will evolve?

Gordon Bell: The computer will disappear by another 10 years in [its present form]. There will be zero-cost notebook-size computers with one chip in them that will have about 32 megabytes. So people will be carrying around these sort of minicellular, really connected, computers that go into their own databases somewhere.

Doug Engelbart: Everyone’s going to have a computer-carried around, or surgically implanted, or sitting on your hat or your spectacles or what-and they’re all going to be connected into networks just totally, [and] those networks will be wireless.

BYTE: This sounds more like a portable office than a portable computer. Do you really think cellular phones and faxes will enter the notebook arena?

Bill Gates: That's a little radical. I don't think it's necessary. If you can connect up every few hours, that's good enough. The machine in the office will just have this op­tic fiber that will go off to the world net­ work out there. It will directly connect to some kind of server and will have a lot of storage.
Thanks for the article! I find it really surprising how difficult it is to deploy Elixir apps when it's so much more popular now and the Elixir team is so great at the developer experience.
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Looks like the following are equivalents:

numpy - https://github.com/gonum/gonum
matplotlib - https://github.com/gonum/plot
pandas - https://github.com/kniren/gota (API not finalized)
Everyday plastics emit greenhouse gases
Glad you like it. We found it hard to piece together all the information we needed and after reading hundreds of papers and presentations we figured that writing such a document would be helpful to beginners like us (in this field that is).
shader-toy-like fragment shader development assistant tool. blockchain.

Hilarious. I'm going to start doing this.
This Nordic company’s four secrets to hiring (and keeping) great talent
The article links to an entrepreneur.com article that talks about anti-troll alliances. I had my business join one of the mentioned organizations UnifiedPatents a while ago. It was free for me (smaller companies and startups) and the on-boarding process was pretty straightforward.
Hah - Surprising yep. And dissappointing too :)
Indeed, not a lot of people know the difference between UI and UX designer, even in tech. To add to the confusion, the profession title is now shifting to “Product Designer”.
One thing I found out the lazy way is that for single purpose UI as part of some overall process (Point of sale, Order picking and what not) TUI really works because the set of actions is constrained by what Fx key you can press and what barcode you can read. For convention front office (cash/voucher/pre-order converted into event ticket) I ended up with UI that mimicks IBM's ISPF built on top of Python's urwid. Previous versions were straight readline (which worked well for the happy path) and GUI thing which confused the operators.
I got a business coach, and took a small business course which connected me with other small businesses in my area. It was an invaluable lesson.

I was forced to read the book "E-Myth Revisited"[0] as my course material. It gave me incredible insight into delegating and many of the fundamental issues with running a small business.

Without my accountant and a few key, incredibly supportive clients, my business would have gone under a long time ago.

My business coach had started and sold a number of businesses, and was able to advise me on things that I would never have done on my own. Look for someone like this in your life, even if only temporarily.

My wife started helping with some aspects of the business as well, and I couldn't do it without her. You need help, period. I've trained 2 of my kids to build websites, one has moved on to college in some other industry and the other is interning at a bigger company (building websites). And I plan to teach my other kids as well, and have them help where possible.

What this taught me was that I can't do everything myself, and I don't want to anymore, it just sucks to do it on your own.

The best thing that happened recently is making friends with another local business owner, who also builds websites, but our business interests don't conflict, and we respect the others perspective a lot, so we get to hang out from time to time just to talk and have coffee. We understand the world in a way most others cannot. The struggle, the freedom and preasure, etc..

Keep looking for answers to your specific problems before giving up on your business.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-Abou...
Would you mind sharing a screenshot somewhere? I'm just using Markdeep's default CSS and the font size seems reasonable on all my screen. I'd be happy to try and tweak it though.
Kudos to Romain Guy on the Android Graphics team. Stunning WebGL demo here:

http://www.curious-creature.com/2017/08/14/physically-based-...

Good example of visual state-of-the-art on Android is probably the ARK dinosaur game. The Vulkan API is now included on latest Android. And with the compact gltf 2.0 format we can expect great experiences on mobile ;)

Vulkan glTF 2.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl7iN-vQCOs&list=PLy80eMh1-z...
Yes, I agree here and you would not be losing much with the added effort. power users are already more likely to dig into most software/s and tweak settings so it is a win-win
If you’re in the US, labor is dirt cheap these days so it might be worth looking into. If it’s not technical, you can pay people next to nothing. The real minimum wage has dropped a ton and as long as you don’t need a full time employee (you can always hire multiple part-time ones) you can hire people with virtually zero risk and not even pay them on time. There aren’t any hard and fast rules and if they’re working for a low wage, they’re helpless at hiring an attorney anyhow. There’s seriously nothing to lose. Always remember they need your reference for future jobs so you can get away with a lot. If it’s not entirely manual labor, make sure you plan the hours ahead of time and do all the communication outside of those hours; this way you won’t have to pay them for all the time they spend emailing and stuff like that. You can end up getting away with far below minimum wage if you do it smart, and at the end of the day, you can feel good about yourself becaue you are helping to fight unemployment!
> Not everyone thinks like you (seasoned terminal users) do. There are different kinds of intelligence. The only way to get good with a terminal is to RTFM and _play_ with it, until you're used to it and have constructed a mental model of its internal "types", their logic and composability.

Yes, and here's the point I would like to stress that is completely lacking to make the idea of user friendly terminals work:

GUI:s are more user friendly than Terminals because of discoverability and limiting affordances.

User friendly Terminals might just be possible if you allow users to explore what is possible with clever search and query completion. It should be able to recognize what entities you are likely typing about and suggest commands that use them. Let's call it "Semantic terminal"?
>The important thing about congestion pricing is that it makes mass transit competitive.

The other important thing about congestion pricing (as described in the article) is that it completely destroys privacy.
It was great when almost the entire industry was in one magazine.
As neat as this is, it's kinda a crummy experience in a few expectation-breaking ways :\ Most notably perhaps: if you put your cursor on a spot on the globe and scroll, you don't zoom there. You zoom somewhere in between.

Mostly things that can be fixed in the future (except perhaps "requires multiple click-drags to go to the opposite side", where before you could see most/all of the world at once). But it still seems a bit more shiny than useful.
Brings back fond memories! Have to dig out my cassette drive...
If you're asking what I'm using myself, I use 5 random words from the COED (240,000 words). If you want to stick to a 10,000 word list you can just up the word count. Every word you add makes it 10,000 times stronger.
I would argue that yes, there is.

On LSD (at least up to moderate doses), you don't hallucinate anything that doesn't exist. You don't see anything that isn't there, or hear voices, everything is just an altered version of reality.

Hallucinations from sleep deprivation (and certain drugs) are different though, you do start to see things that aren't there, often in the corner of your vision, and you do start to genuinely hear voices that don't exist. It's a surreal experience when you're suffering from severe sleep deprivation and you can hear your family talking to you, despite knowing that in reality they're 1000 miles away.
In Western culture, the animism in Greek philosophy and religion was eliminated as pagan by Christianity.
Cool idea; a kind of Batesian mimicry[1] to avoid legal predators.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batesian_mimicry
I see you downvoted my comment, but I think you do not understand the practical issues: there is a limit to the divisibility of Bitcoin : 1 Satoshi, or 0.00000001 which is easier to write as 1x10^-8

In Bitcoin, Dogecoin is priced in almost the smallest fraction you can divide a Bitcoin in: about 39 Satoshis, or 3.9x10^-7 BTC

You can indeed buy fractions of a bitcoin, but no smaller than 1 Satoshi. Even before you reach that hard limit, the issue with transaction costs make small amounts of Bitcoin "dust", that is not economically recoverable if the transaction cost is greater than the amount that could be recovered.

Most exchange are limited by their use of floating point precision: if the price of Bitcoin to another currency changes by less than 1 Satoshi, it will not be reflected in this crypto to Bitcoin price.

So Dogecoin/Bitcoin is more stable than another pair for which this division would be possible, simply because a 2% variation would mean less that a 1 Satoshi (0.02x39=0.78)
0.78<1 so Dogecoin/Bitcoin will not change for fluctuations of less than 2% around its current price.

Even better: there are something like 1.15x10^11 Dogecoins. If you buy in Dogecoins, you can buy things that would cost less than what you can price in Bitcoin.

So for sell/buy, Dogecoin brings you more arithmetic precision.

Simply because it is old (therefore ubiquitous on the exchanges) and also so cheap, I think the issues with floating point gives Dogecoin a bright future!

EDIT: and yes, many exchange seem to be using floating point to deal with monetary values. Maybe for database or frontend optimization? Anyway if you don't believe it, try to place 2 different order with the 2nd one different from the 1st one by 1 Satoshi, then see how it goes if they execute. Or look at their API and see what precision they advertise, and how by pure coincidence it seems to match limits that floating point would impose!
The WebGL demo was the initial prototype of Filament :)
Is it still a thing for patent trolls to have a 80 sq ft "business office" with no staff somewhere in east texas, and to file suits there?

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=eas...
Ah yes, I did forget about the more recent ones.
Does signing in really prove identity? What happens if I share accounts with someone else (against TOS potentially) and one person then abuses GDPR to dox the other person? GDPR seems so poorly thought out.
You mean in a country where police officers have gotten convicted for using violence against women for not going out with them ? Also officers have gotten convicted for intercepting phone calls of ex-lovers ? And, given the convictions, how many such officers got away with doing that ? Hundreds ? Thousands ?

That's the government that's supposed to change that normative behavior. Or at least, that's the part of the government that actually interacts with the majority and enforces the laws.
Robots might seem scarier in the US than in Japan because people seem scarier in the US than in Japan.
Just to be clear, you are looking for jobs outside of Craigslist right?
Can you give more details on why you think China's debt is a problem? I've been hearing about it for several years, but as far as I can tell from the numbers, it is about the same level as Japan (Japan's debt is 253% of GDP, China's is 260% of GDP), and Japan doesn't even look like it is beginning to fail. And China appears to be actively taking steps to curtail the debt.
Your Personal Broker – BRKR
What is the benefit of switching from Popurls to hvper? Honest question.
Stop focusing on the negative.

"Redesigning neighborhoods to be walkable." Full stop.

In my opinion this includes /planning/ for Parking to have it's own space, preferably /under/ everything. (You don't have to dig down, it's an option build up to begin with!)

Also, relegate /any/ smoking to only designated shelters with negative draw and scrubbed exhausts. It should be a 1 day's pay fine + 4 days of community service for a violation.
I think that's absolutely fair. The pace at which the industry is starting to solve really big, hairy problems in standard ways is ever accelerating; the devops space right now is undergoing massive solidification under the Cloud and Kubernetes. UI is one of those problems I hope we're humble enough to admit that we got horribly wrong with HTML/CSS, and maybe we need to go back to square one.

But at the same time, lets pick on Slack. There's no good reason that it needs to take more than 5 seconds per team to load. Maybe its Electron, HTML, and CSS. Maybe they're loading too much data at the start. Maybe their Ruby servers are a little slow.

All of that could be true, but one thing is definitely true: There's a Product Manager or an Engineering Lead somewhere in San Francisco who looked at what their engineers had built and said "Yup, this lives up to the quality our users expect, ship it."

Jira is the same way. Its dog slow. Its full of UI bugs and inconsistencies. But people still buy it, and someone at Atlassian has to have said "we'll worry about this UI bug later, we have more reports for middle management we want to add to the product."

Our best minds will solve the tremendously difficult UI problem one day. But today, the best thing most of us can focus on is the People problem. Expect and Pay for better. Reach out to leaders at these companies on Twitter. A core problem in the software purchasing process is that, often, the people who buy the software aren't the people who have to use it day-in day-out, and often there's obvious lost productivity between the feature bullets on the marketing page and an engineer on an old PC her company won't upgrade for another year.
Fortnite requires specialized graphics hardware only found in very, very few phones. It will not work on older devices.
They are keyboard-based ways to switch spaces too.

I do find that if you use the keyboard to switch spaces quickly, the animations become faster too. Unfortunately the app in the other space do not get new keyboard input during the animation.
Mine are ancient, one wonders what the chromium content of modern ones are though. Due to recycled scrap.
Massachusetts Is Set to Adopt the Uniform Trade Secrets Act . . . What Now?
Kinda cool for HN - wasn't HN one of the places where that original esssay on BS jobs (i think it was the same guy?) Found purchase? Sometimes I feel bad about HN but other times I feel like it's the only place where some of the most important things get discussed at large.
No need for silly hypotheticals, China is a WTO member that has been globally recognized and normalized, doing business there isn't taboo, at least not for everyone else.
Yes, sometimes explanations and reasonable arguments can just derail conversations completely. For preventing that, I find David Burns' disarming technique[0] really useful. It is about "finding truth in what the other person is saying, even if it seems blatantly wrong, or illogical, or exaggerated." His podcast is amazing.

Perhaps part of what your room mate is saying is that she is concerned about the well-being of her (future) children? Surely that's truly good. She's also interested in avoiding certain medical treatments that are excessive or unnecessary, which is also good.

Don't know about the Holocaust-denying colleague, but sometimes xenophones have a fear of losing their job to someone else, which could leave them unable to economically support themselves or their family, and maybe they really enjoy the job they have. If your colleague talks about you being indoctrinated, then he must have a high regard of the truth (which is good), and if he's interested in how indoctrination works, he may even be interested in reading about Chomsky's propaganda model[1].

Of course, this disarming stuff is only useful if you actually want to prevent conflict with other people, and it's totally legitimate to have a conflict with anti-vaxers and Holocaust deniers. But also, you live and work together, and constant conflicts may not get you nor them anywhere but down.

Also, Last Week Tonight has quite a good episode on vaccines[2] (but showing that to your roomie might not calm things down).

WTF indeed, though.

[0]: https://feelinggood.com/2017/12/11/066-five-secrets-training...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VG_s2PCH_c

[2]: https://chomsky.info/consent01/
We’re also now augmenting the problem with bluetooth earbuds becoming more ubiquitous, even if they’re not actively being used.

At least for me I find it a bit more difficult to approach someone if I think they’re listening to something or on a call.
Livestream Bait and Twitch: Are You Part of Someone Else’s Reality Show?
Sorry to hear that - "not quite failing" is perhaps an even worse outcome than failure.

One thing that may help is changing what you ask. "Would you buy this today?" And "why not" if they say no are the best way to figure out actual interest and get useful feedback.

Translating chinese literature to english sounds cool! Easy to get on board with. But, I also wouldn't pay, since I'm not in the market.

I got that tip from the four hour workweek btw. That book might just be a life changing revelation for the business. Or, it might affirm you should just leave. But, I would highly recommend it, since you've spent ten years at this. (I designed my business around that book, more or less)
So are you saying the article is misleading? In that case, give us some statistics.
You could apply to recurse: https://www.recurse.com/
and use that time to learn react

You could look for contract work to rebuild your skills
This is where the whole `sustainable` resources concept really tips the scales.

Taking oil out of "underground vaults" is taking long-sequestered CO2 and moving it into the atmosphere/"carbon cycle". It's plastic that has to be dealt with, or CO2 from burning, or it's carbon dissolved in he ocean, etc.

Growing plants takes energy from the sun to condense CO2 into complex higher-energy compounds. This can be converted, with use of (possibly clean) energy into useful goods. If these goods end up being burned, the CO2 is returned to the atmosphere. If buried, the CO2 is (at least temporarily) sequestered.

Either way, there's no net use of carbon. Yes, the input energy could be from carbon fuel sources, but energy will just get cleaner and cleaner until that's no longer necessary. Even the water needed to grow "biodegradable materials" is plentiful given you have the energy.
I see an article about this issue pop up every month or so. But what’s actually being done about it? Seems like the solutions are not catching up with the possible hurdles that get introduced.
But I suspect that outside of organizations dealing with classified data, printer security is fairly terrible, anyway.

You’d be surprised. One org I worked for had a Kyocera all kitted our for HIPAA compliance.

I looked through the manual for it once and it glossed over a number of very interesting data handling techniques. The only one I remember off the top of my head is that after a print job, the internal hard drive would scrub itself and repeatedly write garbage data over the location of the previous print job.

To the user it was seamless, except for the occasional tiny “Purging hard drive data” notice at the bottom of the printer’s screen.
Things I Hate About Roguelikes Part 4: Bog Standard Dungeons
> drink about half a cup of staight olive oil. It's a bit foul, but makes for a effective way of ruining your appetite

It's also a very effective way of getting 1000 kcal.
I'm very disappointed, Mozilla. This move completely hinders RSS discovery and use. RSS isn't dead yet. It's actually an important technology for the free and open web. Pocket? I doubt...
[EDIT:] Suggested correction...
Do you want to abolish the protagonist role of the channel abstraction like in CSP based languages and certain message brokers?

We can't have issues with channels if we're all actors and don't impedance mismatch the mixture when building our systems.
That makes sense, for example Reddit has a very simple concept with the upvote/downvote, but also more advanced features if you need them. But I would also argue that UIs also implicitly convey a preference for how data on the web should be organized, and that affects usage.

For example the feed, besides being a UI pattern, also claims that content on the web is for consumption and not exploration, and so we remain stationary on these aggregation platforms instead of 'browsing' the web as we used to. This is efficient but politically bad for society, and we would need to introspect on how we use the internet in tandem with the development of new tech like decentralized platforms.