skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, that's been a huge problem for me too. I've put lots of time into thinking deeply about interaction design issues, and implementing solutions to them (mostly in the context of developing new kinds of programming tools). I've studied a good bit of psychology, and learned some from my dad who worked in HCI for > 30 years.

However, whenever I try describing to folks the kind of design where I have some ability and accomplishments, they seem unable to disentangle the problems I'm talking about from visual design. I've even regularly ended up falling into rolls at work where I'm consulted on interaction design issues—but no one knows the name for this or anything, just that when a problem comes up about, "how can we make this easy for people to do?" I tend to have useful ideas. But I won't be hired for it initially, and there won't be anything once I leave the job or work with new people there which says that's something I contributed.
You can already demand this data from McDonalds, if they retain it.

You've been able to for about 20 years, in some form with the previous laws.

(More commonly, you could demand the paper records your employer has about you.)
The PBR tutorial series on LearnOpenGL.com covers a lot of the concepts implemented here like physically based BRDFs and HDR lighting, if anyone is looking for more resources like this.

https://learnopengl.com/PBR/Theory
Yeah, this strikes me as a bit of FUD. And also fairly low on the totem pole of "things the DNC should be warning candidates about".

I'd rank any or all of these higher:

- Don't open email attachments

- Use a strong password + 2FA

- Turn on automatic updates

- Don't run your own email/web server, contract it out to the pros

- Vet your donors, especially if they're dropping big bucks in return for "access"

- If you ain't comfy with it being on the front page of the Times/WSJ/CNN/Fox/Breitbart/HuffPo/NPR/InfoWars/RT/Youtube, don't (1) send it in an email, (2) say it at a campaign event, (3) include it in an SMS, (4) really consider it at all.

Same goes for the RNC and any aspiring politician, to be honest. But worrying that the Chinese or Russians have installed backdoors in a ZTE or Huawai phone? Eh, they've got easier and more precise ways to hack your stuff.
the author of TFA probably thought the desire for correct shape in a map is implied and wasn’t trying to defend against map pedantry. of what use is a map if the shapes are wrong?
I missed this joke when I read it as a young lad: "the destruction of everything that wasn't Krikkit"
on what basis are we culpable for anything? if you can answer that I question I'll try to answer yours. not trying to be flippant (we've had a good discussion so far), but I don't really have an answer, except to say that I don't know on what basis we might distinguish the two cases. if you can answer me what makes someone morally culpable of anything, maybe I'd have a clue.
There’s an inherent dichotomy in UI in that the most “efficient” interfaces generally have the steepest learning curve. You can be really efficient in a terminal or VIM. But figuring those out take a lot of work.

When we design interfaces we try to make them have a short learning curve but expose greater ability as you use them but it’s still hard.
>zh is very similar to the English j.

I strongly disagree... what makes you say that, Nick Garvey?
It sounds to me like you need to hire an employee. If you don't have enough revenue to support another person, but your company requires the work of two people, you are going to have a bad time.

The hard part about having your own business is that you have to figure out if your work/income ratio is appropriate... if you have to do the work of three people just to make what you would as an employee of someone else, you might need a new business model or it might be time to be an employee.
Broken Time: “Nardis” and the Curious History of a Jazz Obsession
I keenly remember how 80% of websites wouldn't render properly in Firefox because they were all designed for IE6. You had no choice but to replicate the rendering bugs in IE6 if you wanted webpages to look good. But Firefox refused. They just focused on making an awesome browser, even if it wasn't appreciated. Even if users mistakenly blamed Firefox for webpages not rendering properly.

10 years ago Firefox flagrantly disregarded the "standards" of the day set out by Microsoft and Adobe, and instead made their own vision of what they thought the web should be, even if it was obscure and "unpopular". And even if it never caught on, and Microsoft had dominated, Firefox (then Firebird) would STILL have been awesome.

They quietly introduced RSS support, because it was a good feature for the browser to have, regardless of how many people use it. That's how I first learned about RSS. I loved Firefox and thought it was awesome that they were giving me access to this new feature.

That was back when adding new features was considered progress, instead of what we have now.
Here's a couple views on Peters and his map projection.

An article from "The Map Room" [1] on the argument about Boston public schools having adopted that map, which really dominates Google results right now I guess, but even within the lens of that topic it hits the major points.

And here's a "New Internationalist" article about Arno Peters [2] -- it sounds like he was fine as a historian, and I even agree with his motivation for not wanting to plot historical events on a Mercator map, but it sure would have been great if he had learned about the equal-area alternatives to Mercator that Gall and Mollweide and Eckert and other geographers had already made.

It's not that I'm against making a map projection to "question Western imperalism". I take more issue with Peters' questioning of basic geometry -- he claimed his map preserves angles, which is clearly false (imagine a NW-SE road meeting a NE-SW road in Ecuador and what that right angle would look like in Gall-Peters), and he claimed that it was the "only" equal-area projection.

And I don't think it actually advances the conversation about equality to make a map that looks right in Europe and stretches Africa and South America like taffy.

EDIT: left out the links

[1] https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/03/the-peters-map-is-fighti...

[2] https://newint.org/features/2003/01/05/arno/
Sorry, I misread your comment. My bad.
As the creator of the infamous Popurls, I can assure you that RSS is anything but dead since I launched a successor at hvper.com a while ago and the site is alive and kicking. Obviously a lot more is coming from APIs these days but no major site has removed support for it.
Wow, this is really something! Too early to tell how this will go, but I really hope this thing takes off!
yeah, you should have seen computer shopper magazine in its hayday.
- Account transfer out: $25 (Vanguard: $0)

- Reorganization fee (?): $39 (Vanguard: $0)

- Late Settlement Fee: $25 (Vanguard: 0)

So that's how they make money off of this. It's index funds, the payday loan edition.
They are a Swedish company.

The British regulator considers the rules to apply to all people, not just European citizens, so I think the Swedish would have the same opinion.

In general, Europe has rights that apply to everyone, regardless of citizenship. This makes a difference when it comes to searches at the border, drone strikes, refugees and so on under the European Convention on Human Rights.

This should become a selling point for EU businesses.
Always happy to see BEAM get faster but it won't match a NIF where you can control memory layout, mutate anything, use raw vector instructions. It's a killer combo though. Networking, memory management, high level application control in Elixir. Hot spots in NIFs. Kind of gets you the best of both worlds in terms of performance vs maintainability.
>Is there a way to convince and persuade without alienating people?

In my opinion? No. Shame, humiliation, and ostracizing are the way to go. If they refuse to think dynamically or critically, they need to feel rejected from functioning society. In civil society, you follow certain normative rules and laws. If you don't, you get ejected on way or another. This is good.

Insanity transfer theory: (I made it up, could be specious, buyer beware.) Every person naturally generates a certain amount of insanity. To prevent unhealthy build up, you need to transfer your insanity onto other people. Basically the deniers are doing this to you, and it's making you nutty. So do it back to them. I suggest ad hominem attacks in this case because a.) the problem isn't about facts or arguments, these are flawed individuals actively denying reality and trying to spread lies. b.) name calling in such a case is fun, even if shaming them fails to change their behavior. Just make sure you have fun doing it. And if not, dump them. If you can't make fun of their stupidity, it's unhealthy to keep them around, they'll drive you crazy.
I literally sat alone for most of 8th grade. I went to that school system two more years after that, and still heard stuff whispered behind my back. I can have half a sense of humor over it now, but it all makes me angry as well. I'd rather laugh than have rage about it all. The next school, I didn't tell anyone. Of course, this also meant that I didn't sleep with a woman until I was out of high school - oddly enough, it was girl I knew from school. I knew of a school official that didn't want gay teachers because he blamed a teacher for "making his son gay". I know this sort of thinking still goes around today. I can only imagine what folks in the 50's, 60's, and 70's went through.

It was weirdly easier being in a mixed "race" relationship back then. I got harassed by cops at times, slurs when out in public, and remember churches stating it was against god. But at least everyone didn't avoid me.

It was pretty normal to be minimally ignored and still find that I'm cautious of who I tell - women sometimes avoid me and men will sometimes make me an object. I truly think gay men have it worse simply because men are more likely to get beaten up by some groups. I think that it sometimes depends on where folks live as well on the severity of it all now.

Edit: I just came back to say thank you so much for asking about it :)
-o, for the newer key format. Or use -t ed25519 to generate ed25519 (elliptic curve) keys.

I do recollect that using RSA keys of 4096 bits slows down SSH more than the gain in security might be worth.
A good animation should be barely perceptible. If it’s too slow, the application feels sluggish. Too fast, you may not know what happened. It reminds a UX talk from Airbnb, where they have this one guy that focus only on animations.
It’s a good idea to provide the ability to skip the transition with the press of a button. It’s reminds me how one can skip the dialogues in video games.
I don’t think we actually disagree; I said “a lot less fucked” not “great” :) you can get real AEADs with Ed25529 in SSH easily; and some of the dumb options problems may still apply with Oxy, depending on what you’re taking about.
If like me you actually enjoy tech talk videos, "SIGGRAPH University - Introduction to Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice" is great. PDF version is linked at the bottom of your learnopengl page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-A0mwsJRmk
Funny people credit AWS or Apple... Neither really convinced people unix was worth it in such a way that Sun Solaris did. Too bad they collapsed and oracle of all places snagged 'em.
> One of the things that helped me a lot during my studies was the ability to mentally vizualize complex topological situations. I don't think that's a skill you get from

I'm not convinced that's a skill you get from anything, as opposed to an inate talent (or set of talents). I'd want to see pretty strong evidence that it could be taught to someone without the inate talent.

I'm pretty sure I'm someone with that talent, since I was never taught how to do it.
Show HN: Bentogo – Save money and time for food delivery
>So the effective interest rate on cash is somewhere between 1.55% and 1.9%, depending on which money market fund you choose.

Wait, so are you saying you can get up to 1.65% interest on a withdrawable cash fund? Perhaps I'm confused - are you including a penalty for liquidating the shares in that, or just assuming you never liquidate?

I'm getting slightly better than that, but that's in a 5 year CD with a large minimum deposit. The penalty for liquidating is the previous 6 months of interest.
I know that the magazine (The Rainbow Magazine) that was dedicated to the computer I had (the Tandy Color Computer) was easily over 250 pages during its heyday (mid-80s). And it's not like the Color Computer was one of the more popular computers like the Atari 400/800, Apple ][ or Commodore-64.
Japanese would be scared too if they watched what Boston Dynamics is working on.
Google Docs & Apple’s ICloud both have cloud based excel sheet equivalents that can allow multiple people to edit simultaneously and also track who made what changes.

If you did this with git, it’d have to be text based so a CSV textile that could be exported to an excel doc whenever needed, would be the closest you could get. Good luck teaching your team how to use the command line though :)

You might be better to redirect your effort into lobbying your boss to use software that’s actually designed for project management such as Trello?
Holy Shit! I just youtube'd some videos about that and it looks amazing! This is the first thing that has really made me want to get VR.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCrkZOx5Q1M
Happy to help.
Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused
The best line ever from a friend about cooking eggs.

'The pan must surprise the eggs'

I use butter mostly, and wait for the water to boil off before adding the eggs. Works fine.
CCleaner v5.45 Pulled Due to Anger Over Usage Data Collection
Check out Fish Shell.
Love it. I grew up reading these. Somehow, they made their way to Hyderabad, India, and were sold on the roadside [1] for mere rupees, but had the top 20% of the front cover torn off. I never got that...Maybe a way to prevent re-sale in the US? Anyway, 13-year old me absolutely loved BYTE and PC Magazine from the US and a bunch of Sinclair ZX Spectrum assembler and BASIC books from the UK ("Shiva's friendly micro series"). I used to wait for Sunday to go a-book hunting: a couple of MAD magazines and a BYTE magazine made for a perfect weekend in 1988 :-)

I remember my grandfather's chagrin when he heard that I wanted to spend money on an IBM PC-XT clone rather than a Panasonic VCR (Video Cassette Recorder) [2]. What IS a computer, anyway?? A foolish, expensive toy, pah! He wasn't entirely wrong, of course :-)

I went nuts authoring an Editor in raw machine code, writing TSRs, and trying to hack the higher levels of Montezuma's revenge's by fiddling with it's machine code for a couple of years.

1. https://www.whatshot.in/hyderabad/forgotten-book-bazaars-of-...

2. "The price of Christmas past: £599 for a VHS recorder": https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/19/price-c...
To be fair, they probably had telemetry on the RSS icon before its removal that told them almost nobody clicked on it. That said, I definitely see this as abandoning an important web principle that Mozilla could have pushed instead. With a good RSS experience that would sync with Firefox mobile, I think they could have gained traction.
Classic Mac interface (one of best interfaces of all time, IMHO) actually had special animation to show how a folder opens from a small icon into a larger window with contents. The whole interface was very economical, they just could not afford extra cruft those days, yet they decided that this animation was crucial for understanding.
Thanks for this. I think my current feeling is definitely a bit "grass is greener", and I'm overestimating how much help a larger company structure would provide. But I can't help thinking: running a company requires about nine different skill-sets/areas of expertise, and who has all those? If the job also involves time spent deep-diving into particular work (and literature is even more absorbing than coding), I don't see how one individual could balance the two.

But it's nice to see someone (presumably at a similar stage of life) heading in my direction from the other side. :)
Perhaps this will help https://idmprogram.com/tag/body-set-weight/
> Japan process of modernization much more recently and revolved more around technology companies. In the US, it happened earlier, and around other industries: it could be the case the admiration for technology has died out more.

I'd argue there's a subtler reading here. What makes a "technology company" changes over time.

Railroad companies were very much technology companies. Consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_in_the_Garden : "The title of the book refers to a trope in American literature representing the interruption of pastoral scenery by technology due to the industrialization of America during the 19th and 20th century." We don't consider railroads to be tech anymore, but they absolutely were at the time.

Later on, cable companies were technology companies. Hugely innovative and disruptive to the existing TV market, yet forty years later they're already has-been dinosaurs.

So I would definitely agree with the idea that the US has seen this cycle a few times, and has done the enchanted->cynical cycle a few times.
I do think trans women and men definitely have the hardest time. Assault, murder, and freaking rape. And depending on the area, a male being raped might not be eligible for a rape charge if the police will even do anything about it.
I would start off looking at things to do with the mozilla project, even if you don't do c++ there are a lot of things to work on with them, its going to start improving your ranking on github. You also want to make sure you're on linkedin even if you're going for your first job linkedin is a good way to connect with recruiters.
The Devil's Party: On Milton's Lucifer
All code has a cost, and all code needs to be maintained. It is not as simple as you might think to just leave something in.
> while fasting a whole day isn't that difficult for me, restricting calories while eating seems to only work when my body has met a magical internal quota.

One dirty trick to try is, just after eating, to drink about two tablespoons of staight "extra-light" olive oil. It's a bit foul, but makes for a effective way of ruining your appetite. Other "bland food diet" tricks might also work.

(I'd like to mention that I do not support healthy diets, but my design to work against anything nature intends takes priority.)

Edit: two tablespoons, not eight, and apparently they make low-fat olive oil now.
I have a Meta and program little games for it in C. It's a lot of fun to code for, especially if you like optimizing your code and pushing what you can achieve within the system's limits. A lot of what you learn doing this applies to general programming too (reworking calculations to avoid expensive operations, judicious use of memory, etc.), which is a nice bonus.
Let's Put Taj Mahal on Sale  an ERC721 Fullstack Dapp Tutorial
I have tons of scripts that use RSS feeds, I don't know what you are talking about. I even use Feed43[0] to generate RSS feeds for sites with no RSS.

[0]: https://feed43.com/
> How do you fix this? OpenSSH has a new key format that you should use. “New” means 2013. This format uses bcrypt_pbkdf, which is essentially bcrypt with fixed difficulty, operated in a PBKDF2 construction. Conveniently, you always get the new format when generating Ed25519 keys, because the old SSH key format doesn’t support newer key types.
Mozilla has been corrupted by advertisers.
> What's your point? do you think mozilla should continue including un-used features[?]

YES. Yes even if not a single person uses it. If it makes sense and might be useful, and especially if it is already there, then it should stay.

I haven't used POP3 in about a decade, and only used FTP a few times in ten years, but I would be miffed if they were deprecated. I want the option to use them if I must. That availability is itself a feature. And RSS is a hell of a lot more useful and common.

And I know that if they remove it that there almost certainly wasn't a sound technical reason for it, it was just someone being judgmental about what features should be available.

Or, what about a spare tire? Isn't it wasteful that our cars are burdened with carrying around all this extra weight in the trunk? How many time in your life have you actually needed to use a spare tire? I wouldn't be surprised to find out that <5% of drivers ever even touch the thing, and yet every car has one! In this day and age, you should just call a tow truck. Spare tires a relic of the time before cellphones.

By your logic, the only features that are worthwhile are popular features. Nearly everything starts out with 0 users. Why bother making anything? Should something get axed the moment it dips in popularity? I know that these days the answer of course is yes.

FYI, the only reason that companies like Apple and Google are so aggressive with feature culling and deprecation is to protect their platforms and help dominate the market. That is it. When OSS copies the decisions of for profit companies then that is just a cargo cult mentality.
> the meme of "Frankenstein" being about the perils of science or technology -- is totally at odds with the book itself.

But not with many of the movies based (loosely) on the book, which is probably where the popular perception of “Frankenstein” and the usage at issue come from.

OTOH, I think a good argument can be made that, whether or not it was Shelley's intent (though I think it very clearly is part of that intent), the book itself is a powerful message about the perils of science and technology, specifically, the perils when science and technology, no matter how moral the application would be in the ideal context, outpace the what society is prepared to deal with. It is exactly, that is, about the dangers of technological action from an ivory tower that doesn't consider the real context in which the action takes place.

> It warns against the fear of the unknown

It does, but it warns just as much about disregarding the existence of such fear and, by extension, other aspects of the existing society which would turn your neat technical innovation into a catalyst of horrors.
I build websites for a living, and providing an RSS feed for my clients (from their perspective) is incredibly low priority.

Why? Because their clients don't ask for them. RSS feeds are used for social media content sharing, but not for regular users.

Also, most blog content these days (for my clients) tends to be pretty canned stuff only used for SEO and content-bling to make some site look important.

I think sites that are serious about followers may use RSS, but not the majority of sites out there. Which leads us to why RSS support isn't needed anymore and can be relegated to an extension... popularity.
> if you have to do the work of three people just to make what you would as an employee of someone else, you might need a new business model or it might be time to be an employee

And that's precisely the realization I've (finally) come to.
If Spotify invented a device that could read my thoughts, and stored them all in a file, who would own them? Me or Spotify?
What's new? Unless you are manipulating logic gates directly you are working at some layer of abstraction, and there is no way to tell how many layers are below you. Modern CPUs long ago ceased being directly manipulated gate machines where instructions mapped straight into logic. Instead they are basically VMs that execute microcode.
Your whole hypothesis is nonsense.

The intent of those cigarette laws is to stop minors from getting their hands on cigarettes. It’s not intended to make criminals of kids.
Btw, Apple has owned CUPS since 2002 - 3 years after it was released in beta.