skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is stupid. I don't think foldable phones are likely for a long time - foldable screen technology is just way off (sure you can have demos but try folding and unfolding it 10,000 times and see how it holds up). We much get foldable phones with multiple displays but there's no real technical challenge there and still nobody has done it because it's not really what people want.

But aspect ratio is just not even remotely close to being a problem.
I've come across dozens of copies Siddhartha in thrift shops and garage sales, bought them all and given them to friends and colleagues to read.

I am surprised nobody mentions Hesse's book of short stories[1] which i highly recommend. They are quite different from his novels and offer a different insight into his world. It's the one book that I am going to to take with me wherever I move.

[0] The Fairy Tales of Herman Hesse
https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tales-Herman-Hesse/dp/B0000544O...
It's not a cargo-cult mentality. It's the convergence on a set of best practices "illuminated" by analysis of user-behavior data, as well as the application of basic graphic design principles (like the use of white space to create a visual hierarchy).
Don't forget about letterboxing.
So you're saying the Universe is Lazy-Evaluated[0]?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_evaluation
Lets take it a step further. Your news feed will know who is watching it, will have a loads of data on your interests, beliefs and opinions and will cater the same news event specifically optimized for your consumption. Instead of having a handful of news organizations which have obvious biases one way or another to attract that particular audience, we'll have a unique experience for every individual.

I'm actually a bit surprised that print news hasn't gotten to this step yet. Just the injection, removal, or substitution of certain words can completely change the meta-message of the news article.

Add a central authority and reprogramming people is as easy, as you've mentioned, as a few config variables.
One of them is pink. It's quite distinctive, but has not spawned a flock of imitators in blue, yellow, etc.

The USA Today was the first to use color in the masthead (and on every daily paper's front page), and that has been copied by some.
Physical violence against strangers is not a solution.
> It would be very hard for anyone to watch most of Fox News and not see it as some form of state-controlled media in this administration.

I'm glad Americans have other, independent news sources. The problem with state-controlled media is not so much that it exists, but that when it does other options are often suppressed or eliminated in its favor.
I predict people will less likely watch as a result them knowing the human isn’t real. Subconsciously some people want to see how the news anchor reacts, now this guy only has a single set of emotions and cannot give you the occasional off comment
Now the website seems to work again... but the discovery I made about the "social" and news part makes me nervous.
I didn't get anything at all on the page until I disabled uBlock. Then I refreshed and got the same message you got.

I'm curious if these types of firms use other data (browser profile? IP address?) to link data into a single profile across multiple browser sessions.

For example, if I wasn't blocking ads/scripts but I still had cookies set to clear on browser exit, would their gathered data only apply to that session or get added to some overarching profile of me as a user?

I'm less concerned about ads being tailored to things I did in the current session and more concerned about the longer-lasting profiles built up over time by credit card use, browsing history, and other data points. Seems like more potential for abuse than if they're depending on something as short-lived as a tracking cookie.
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Its not the presense of the thing or the ability to decline, its the impact on those not taking part. If colleagues consuming alcohol exclude non-drinkers by their intentional or unintentional actions or make them feel like less of a team member (by say getting real drunk which is always annoying to non-drinkers), and drinking is not in the job description, then companies should not make it a part of a work event (IMO).
Chrome is my social app. I use it to browse FB and Hacker News and exchange mail. Can I get it zero rated for 3 bucks? I expect not.
huh?? You have an 18:9 phone, you "unfold" it and you get 18:18.

Why would both the phone and tablet mode need to be 18:9, I don't get it?
How do you prevent any communication satellite from being hacked? What makes you think that those satellites are easier to hack than others?
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As I mentioned a 1:1 screen (if you want to watch your content in an assumed 18:9 native content) will at most take up half of the tablet screen. Meaning your content will be shown at exactly the same size as the phone screen, just rotated. Under the assumption that the tablet screen is just for media consumption this gives no benefit.
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Phones weren't made taller to accommodate media consumption. For mass-media consumption 16:9 is still the best size. Certainly there are movies at 2:1 or even wider but they are the exception rather than the rule. They were made taller so that they could have a bigger screen without being too big to hand hold.
Anytime I've read about foldable screens, I've been hoping for something closer to the Microsoft Courier rather than a phone that folds out.

Phones are fine the way they are, but I think there's still a lot of innovation waiting in the tablet space.
> I believe what it is is that it seems to try to connect ideas that have no logical connection, but simply an emotional association.

I see why you feel that. While it may sound like emotional associations, I find the topics still thought provoking.

For example:

> if it were efficient then most of us likely wouldn't have jobs.

This is exactly what I was thinking of this. I wonder to what extent does industry complexities are embraced as job creators.
I often feel something is fundamentally wrong in how society views job "market".
I said it before, I believe technology is meant to free us. To make jobs unnecessary. It may sound weird but I always wish to find one day my job is automated or becomes unnecessary.

I think true engineers keep things ridiculously simple for everyone. For the team and for the customers.
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This!

It's related to the assertion that fewer than 1 in 100 programmers is unable to write "FizzBuz" in the programming language of their choice.

The rate may be statistically insignificant amongst all programmers, but what is the rate amongst programmers looking for a job?

Different question :-)
From what I can find, the original survivor had a child and seems to have a functional adult life. Not to say there weren't side effects (and it seems like she was in therapy for several months), but she seems to have a normal enough life.
Does that mean you need a screen reader that knows about whatever programming language you use?
If you really don't care about unauthorized access, just write the password in sharpie on the box. I have a bunch of machines hooked up to test equipment that sit on their own network. I just write the username and password on the box and no one ever needs to worry about trying to find the sticky note or find me and ask or waste time guessing. The name of the computer, the username, and password are all the same and reflect what the box setup for.
What tablet is 18:9?

From a quick google search to https://www.cnet.com/topics/tablets/best-tablets/large-table..., I see no such thing.
As a matter of fact, it will be your own TV who makes the "anchor", no need to broadcast the whole thing.
Poland is in EU since 2004, you would still be wrong :)

Also AFAIK Germany isn't free of rabies, either.
I've seen people comment on these articles asking why the aspect ratios were so weird, and why not 18:9 for both? Perhaps, they were just joking, who knows?

Regardless, an 18:18 screen can only show 18:9 content at the same size as an 18:9 screen can.
According to a source I've found, it seems there are at least 5 known survivors thanks to the Milwaukee protocol: http://outbreaknewstoday.com/rabies-survivor-milwaukee-proto...

An NCBI article claims 13: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4947331/
Minor nit: it's important to take the vaccine even if 24 hours has passed, and you're most likely going to be fine. The vaccine takes 10 to 22 days to produce antibodies, but the disease gives you more time than that (weeks to months).

So to summarize, the protocol is to vaccinate even if late.
FWIW, from what i remember facebook's redesigns were never just a visual thing. they always added and pushed some functionality, made some things much harder to find, or quietly removed things entirely.

A similar thing happened when Last.fm did their huge redesign. The new website was all js now, and they quit all support on the forums, messaging, pretty much all the old ways of communication between users. And for me, that was awful, since i was a part of a music collective that communicated primarily on those forums. After that everybody dispersed.

So outrage at a redesign is not always unfounded or silly. Web companies tend to hide things in them.
It only matters if you're redistributing it. So, libraries not tools.

Given the choice between two otherwise similar frameworks/libraries, I would expect most to gravitate towards the non-GPL'd one since there is less friction. i.e. you don't even have to consider things like the GPL linking rules.
I run a front-end agency that specializes in helping top-league branding agencies and designers code their websites.

Designers try to make sth fresh and out of the box all the time. The problem with these solutions are:

1. UX sucks

2. Don't scale to other resolutions (especially mobile / tablet).

3. EXTREMELY expensive to code comparing to "boring" web solutions (multipliers might be as big as 5-10x)

So most of the work we do is to try to make designers think with patterns ("boring" but the only way to fit in budget) and try to get as much as they can from STATIC design. Play with typography, key visuals, content etc. This is where their work brings most value for reasonable money.

The author of the article is a professor, so wouldn't expect realistic business thinking from him. He might be sad because web is boring, but usually no one wants to spend huge amount of money for prototypes where there's 95% probability that UX and stability will be worse than standard.

And there's a HUGE value in familiarity for users. That's why most of "creative projects" end up looking pretty similar at the end. I've seen many e-commerce sites which had "fancy design" and after months/years ended up with standard e-comm layout.

Also, web today is super hard comparing to 10 years ago. Number of things to think about multiplied by A LOT. Coding great static website with all things stable and looking great is a big task already.

It's like asking for a car with steering wheel in the back or with 3 wheels and paying for it 5x more. Do you want one?

EDIT:

Not saying "creative projects" are bad or sth, they sometimes are super coool. But I treat them more like "web art installation". Nice if you like them but not really practical.
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Ryan is actively looking to work for companies that can say they are making the world a better place with a straight face.
This NCBI article claims 13: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4947331/
I'm saying I hope this sort of microoptimization is not worth it.

NLL itself definitely worth it, no disagreement there.
We use datadog for monitoring our cluster. Shardonnay also produces lots of custom metrics that you don't get from the vanilla elasticsearch datadog integration.
Funny, I tried .NET Core with EF at a Hackathon and thought EF really went a long way. Had no idea about the restrictions, thanks for the heads up.

Btw, we use .NET core in prod, but we have weird DB access through a third party API, so I didn't need to think about data mapping.
> What the hell are USPS smoking?

Well, at least a court could likely construe it as Theft or receipt of stolen mail matter generally, which is a felony and carries a fine and not more than five years imprisonment. Unlike the address change scams, which are kinda harder to classify, there are good legal reasons not to abuse this service.
Yeah, but for a NAS it’s overkill in my opinion.

You’re more likely to run into on disk than in RAM issues with silent bitrot depending on OS and FS even then pretty rare but if your NAS is huge becomes more likely just law of averages.
I know there isn't a typical size, but the trend has been towards taller phones. The desire to keep to the aspect ratio isn't about conforming to old phones but conforming to the aspect ratio that films/TV shows are in.
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I’m amazed that your comment isn’t higher. That was my first thought as well. They may be great design wise but if they don’t covert at all it means very little. Many tv commercials than win awards are terrible at converting for example.
I'm sitting here in Vietnam. For two years now, I get pictures every day of my friends mail emailed to me because I switched my address to her house when I left the US. I was not asked a single question about it, they just started appearing after I filed a change of address notice, which cost me like $1 or something. Something seems so wrong with that.
Not justifying anything...but back when Steve was alive I had a conversation with him on this topic. I was at NeXT writing drivers (NeXTStep) and I had tested a few disk drives on my cube. When I suggested that we might certify them, Steve said that he wanted simplicity, and only wanted to provide a few well-tested and working choices - so he didn't want more than a few basic choices. He also said (disparagingly) that more sophisticated users would figure out how to change things. From his tone I got the impression that it was ok if they did that, but we weren't going to support them at all. Such users weren't our target market, since all my interactions with Steve were focused on beauty and simplicity (Steve wasn't technical at all, as has been well documented - and I can certainly confirm.)
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Federal laws, oversight. Local administration.

https://www.eac.gov

Cue the fever dreams whenever anyone merely suggests we harmonize, normalize the details. As if predictable standards for signature verification will inevitably lead to a military coup.
Still sounds stilted. Try Google's: https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/ (https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/27/17167200/google-ai-speech...)
I have done this for 6 years, mini with two drobos connected to it running plex 24x7. No issues without ECC ram. I have since switched to a synology because it's easier to manage and won't have bit rot.
It never says, its all of them (Sort of LEM is working in all of them). It just says, thats all you can work with.
Sources? Anything I've found seems to indicate survivors have gone to have kids and reasonably functional lives - not side effect free, but not by any means worse than death.
"worse is better" is worse
Yes, totally agree- I worked on a project that wasn't Core but regular MVC + EF and Dapper which surprisingly worked out well. Actually so well I started mentioning it as a feature but really was just too lazy to redo all the dapper stuff since it worked so well.
And the cold war has resumed.
Regarding 'Pegasus' spyware, does anyone have more information on that? Could it target any phone remotely like MINIX does for any PC? Serious question
> I'm actually debating keeping our vaccinations up-to-date going forward - I think the booster vaccine, while still uncovered by my medical insurance plan, is relatively low cost and incidences of rabid animal encounters seems to be steadily rising in my home state.

You can get a rabies titer to see if you need the vaccine booster.

https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/specific_groups/doctors/serology....
There are lots of ways other than Twitter to show those signals you talk about. Your own product blog would be a good place, for example. If I had market research that showed a significant portion of my target audience were active Twitter users and cared to see me active on Twitter, sure, I would meet my audience where they are.
Matthew Butterick wrote about this 5 years ago:

https://unitscale.com/mb/bomb-in-the-garden/

Even publications that produce a beautiful paper product seem to be willing to accept a garbage design when they post it online.
Sure this problem can be addressed at the language layer, but as you've alluded to, I think it would be more applicable to address this issue at the text-editor / IDE layer or even the build tools.

There's tons of IDEs that make developers better at coding, with things like automatic syntax checking, refactoring, inline debugging, autocomplete, etc. Would it make more sense to develop a developing environment that makes disabled developers better at coding, with whatever features would make their experience better?

It would probably be easier to get a disabled developer to use your editor than to get a disabled developer to use your language. From what I can gather, it's hard enough to get employment as it is for them (maybe they can only work remote, or maybe they can be physically in the office but they're blind). I'm not sure if they have the luxury of being able to choose what language they get to use. But I'm sure their employers would allow them to use the IDE & tooling that works for them so long as they output code that fits the company stack.
> By the time you've excluded all the possible activities that someone could find isolating, you've got a pretty boring work environment.

Or you could list the attributes that you expect people to have during the hiring process and then decline to hire those that don't fit the company's culture.
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Most frameworks are built around readability and a few standard layout configurations based on the principles of magazine page design and typography.

What do customers need that modern web frameworks don't provide, and why is it wrong for customers to want the web to be familiar and unobtrusive?
To add onto this there's an old gold mine in Canada that has literally over two hundred thousand tonnes of water soluble arsenic dust just lying about the bottom, and the remediation process for the area is going just fine. We are capable of storing dangerous materials without collapsing civilization, it just requires more work is all
Using .net core, or even framework on other cloud providers is easy enough. .NET Framework is tied to a Windows environment, but core isn't.

I don't get all this hate against Microsoft because they suggest or prefer things they worked on as solutions, without actually tieing you to them. Do you work on software for years and then tell everyone to use something else?

If it was actually tied to their other services then I could see the reason to avoid it, but if using .net core without windows, azure, or sql server then I dony see how you are actually tied to it
They mentioned they included some cellular machinery involved in transcription and translation, and were able to show that "cells" produced fluorescent protein in response to an environmental trigger
All the article claims is that you can't have a device with one hinge and an 18:9 aspect ratio both folded and unfolded, because 2*9/18 != 18/9. It never says that no other workable ratios exist. In fact it specifically says the opposite. I'm not sure why so many people are misreading it.
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We’re still running 1.6 and 0.90 for a couple production workloads. Thankfully the 0.90 cluster requires no maintenance, because pre-1.0 things are pretty different.
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How painful of a series was it? What was the time between injections?
The social data are fairly small documents, but we index lots of other things as well that is larger in size. Another factor is our large replica count, especially for the hot data.

We also have quite a lot of metadata.
Props as in...screws?
Propeller shafts that drive...screws?
Bootstrap is doing some work in this space:
https://www.bootstrapworld.org/blog/accessibility/User-Inter...
They also shot one of their cars into space... i wonder what SpaceX would charge other car makers for such an add. They do marketing and are great at it, just in unconventional ways.
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I've been using mailbox services (UPS Store) for almost 15 years. It costs extra money but pays for itself many times over.

I never have packages stolen, never have to wait around to sign for things, my mail is locked up, I don't have to put a mail hold or have a friend get my mail when I travel, and never have to deal with changing addresses. It also improves my privacy since fewer people have my street address. I don't worry about someone doxing me.

It's not foolproof. Someone could social engineer access to my box or packages. Doing so requires significantly more effort and risk than grabbing something off a porch so it's much less likely. It would have to be highly targeted too.
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USA is one of those locations, but bats have approximately 0.5% infected rate estimated. 6% measured, but when you take into account that most of the tested bats were sickly, injured, easily captured, etc. Overall, it is very hard to measure, so it is pretty safe to assume around 0.5%[0]

[0]: https://batworld.org/rabies-info/
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The number is probably way below 10%, but yes obviously getting the shot is still a very good idea.

Though the other nasty thing is that getting rabies shots cost thousands or in some cases tens of thousands of dollars in the US, which leaves a lot of people with the choice between bankruptcy or some unknown probability of getting rabies and the subsequent guaranteed death.
Tangentially related, I've been listening to The Blind Side, a podcast about technology made by a blind person. It's interesting to learn tricks that don't require vision to interact with tech.
Yes, Tehuti Networks[1], which is used by some Thunderbolt 3 Ethernet adapters, like the Akitio Thunder3 10G [2].

(OK, not quite <$100, but <$200)

[1] http://www.tehutinetworks.net/?t=LV&L1=3&L2=0&L3=0&L7=156
[2] https://www.akitio.com/adapters/thunder3-10g-network-adapter
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This is a good point, but note blindness is just one of many disabilities.