skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not surprised. Operating one monitor requires the user to know and use the window manager features correctly if he wants efficiency.
for the down-voter: I ask a genuine question, not perfect for this thread but nothing offensive either, unless you're keen on voting up many posts, you probably do not need vote down so easily for things like this, as it irritates people _unnecessarily_ which is unwise if you're already an adult.

If you found you're policing this place by downvoting way more than you ever upvoted, then you probably have a mental disorder, and you may be more likely to suffer from depression, as you're simply too negative.
How so? The various “circle” alarms on the App Store all have very high ratings and millions of downloads. So it works great for countless people.

I have found a faster way to set both hour and minutes for an alarm than two short circular motions.

Do you have a better design?
Not sure I understand your question.

1. New results? Check Medline!

2. What the problem is? I vaguely remember that this might have been on hackernews recently:
https://www.statnews.com/2018/10/29/alzheimers-research-outs...
I know some parents who had a child with an extremely rare degenerative disorder that attacks the nervous system. They were wealthy enough to afford extremely good care and as such, kept their poor suffering child "alive" for 12 years longer than anyone else who had ever had the same disease. Life expectancy of newborns with this disorder is about 1-3 years.

At every turn, the doctors and nurses charged with the child's care encouraged the parents to end the kid's suffering. The parents were absolutely invested in using all of their resources to give the child "the best care". The last few years of the kid's life were basically vegetative, with frequent interruptions of how a human with an obliterated nervous system manifests pain.

I'm sorry if this reads all tragic and horrible, but that's what it is. There should be laws preventing family members from prolonging the suffering of their loved ones.
Afaik several projects replicated what Wave did, since IIRC it was open-sourced. E.g. Rizzoma. Nothing came of them apparently.
In SF planning meetings, I have seen buildings explicitly discouraged from accommodating pickup/dropoff on the theory that it would make traffic impacts worse (this is backwards) and undermine the “transit oriented” argument (harder to argue).
If I were a real estate investor, I'd be wondering about all sorts of variables. How cheap will car batteries get? How will that impact the range that EVs will have? What charge standard will people prefer? What rapid charging infrastructure will exist?

It could be that nearly every EV will have plenty of range from just charging at home, and for those few who need to charge to make the trip, they will be able to get enough charge with a 5-minute stop at one of the dozens of 350kW chargers nearby.

Given all this uncertainty, why would I, as a real estate investor, pay for the increased utility capacity, the installation of the electrical lines plus permitting, the charging hardware (plus unbounded maintenance), and the hassle of additional policing of which stalls customers are allowed to park in and for what reasons?
I don't know if I want to value your opinion on browsers of the top feature for you is custom font download.

Not the top feature, but one of the most glaring. At the time I was working on a site that used TypeKit and the only platform I was using that TypeKit didn't support was webOS. The whole thing seemed quite odd as they essentially yanked out a working feature of WebKit when making the browser. Flash, OTOH, was something that didn't die soon enough. I'd've much rather seen support for actual standards than Flash, but HP made a bunch of odd decisions with webOS and the Touchpad. There's some pretty delicious irony in a platform with web in the name having a mediocre web browser.

I also had a bear of a time getting email and WiFi set up for whatever reason, I relegated my Touchpad to paperweight status pretty quickly though. Even basic UI things like scrolling and copy-and-paste just didn't work all that well. Here's a review I found that highlights the distinct lack of polish that webOS had.

https://shawnblanc.net/2011/07/hp-touchpad-review/

Overall I thought RIMM/BlackBerry did a much better job with BB10 than Palm/HP did with webOS.
Every two to three years? The apartments I've lived in raise the rent by $100 every year without fail.
Agreed. Both at the end of a life, and the start of one. The rationale around abortion tends to follow the same warped logic in my experience :)

The subjects are very emotional ofcourse, which makes doing “the right thing” extra hard in the best of circumstances.
>The Epic Launcher was recently caught datamining everything from running processes to root certificates

seems to have originated from here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoenixPoint/comments/b0rxdq/epic_g...

and is alarmist at best. see: https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoenixPoint/comments/b0rxdq/epic_g...
El Grapho: High Performance WebGL Graph Data Visualization Engine
I can see a small niche for hybrids, a small, constant speed engine coupled to a charger to get you past dead spots with no chargers, but the handwriting is on the wall for IC passenger vehicles, and possibly for long haul trucks. While it is true that gas/diesel has a higher energy per tank as well as a faster tank 'fill' time, this does not make up for the far higher cost per mile for the liquid fuels, AND the complexity of thousands of small parts threshing and wearing away.
Electric motors are routinely made to run for 100,000 hours and upwards, because they have rotary bearings and only torque to contend with versus the 2500 rpm of IC engines with bearing impact bangs of the IC engine many times per revolution, and the timing belts, and the tappets hammering and the valves burning away, and the muffler and pollution control gizmos rotting and crumbling away. And brakes, with regenerative braking (which wears nothing) we have already seen brake linings on Teslas and others hit 500,000 miles - more? I can see an era of polyurethane(PU) tires also good for 500,000 miles. They cost more, but they run more and are a lot tougher against road damage than rubber. Sure, any fool can burn rubber and jam on the brakes and, in effect, burn $$ to kill them faster, but I am betting that regen braking as well as more AI in the control box that has the potential to avoid almost all friction based braking, because that AI knows your route (mostly - from experience), when to slow with regen for the turns and curves.
The moving hand writes, pauses, points it's thumbs down, and moves on. IC engines are in a downwards race to nowhere.

It looks like there is no lithium shortage at all. Cobalt looks like a scarcer element, which adds cost, but electrode design is improving almost monthly and less cobalt is needed. In addition, cobalt is a recyclable material and this will soon be almost 100% captured for re-use, as the growing shortage drives the reward for recycling it.
Leave all your stuff with a trusted friend. Buy a harness, a tent, sleeping bag, and TC Pro shoes. Put it in a backpack. Don't bring anything else. Pull out $500 cash from the bank, get on a bus and go to Yosemite. Live in Camp 4. Meet the dirtbags, learn to climb. When the rangers kick you out follow the migration and go to Index, or Squamish.
and... let's exacerbate the tangent, shall we?
Interestingly the Romans sometimes wrote on cards that were essentially wooden shavings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindolanda_tablets.
>...great,hearfelt...

Feck me, if that isn't the broad stroke of painting with imbellishment, deriving from what I presume to be too much personal investment.

The author, through their own admission, was detached as feck from the patient and the relative they talk with at the end; he even mentions judging them for keeping her in the hospital. You call that "heartfelt"?
I think urbit uses something like this for it's address space.
TL;DR : if you want to mount monitors vertically side-by-side, try before you buy.

One thing to watch out for if you install two vertical side by side monitors is that many monitors (especially gaming monitors) are optimized to be watched horizontally.

That sounds weird, so let me explain:

LCD's have a sort of a "field of view": if your watch them straight (at 90 degrees), the amount of light reaching your eyes is maximum. If you look at them sideways (eg 45 degrees), the amount of light that reaches your eyes decreases (this typically happens when you look at a co-worker screen while sitting next to them).

Good LCD's have a wide field of view: you can look at them from the side and still see a good image.

But the expectation is that you will watch them from the side, not from above or below, and manufacturers have taken advantage of that fact: they optimize for a wide horizontal field of view, but the vertical field of view is, on some monitors, terrible.

It does not matter unless you mount the monitors vertically, in which case the vertical FOV becomes your horizontal FOV, and you might not even see the image on the outer edges of the monitors.
Aren't patents usually just clever ways of doing things

One would hope, but from reading Groklaw back in the day and HN now, it doesn't seem so.
They aren't necessarily good design, but affordances are often useful in Human-Computer Interaction.
> Further, it has been observed that the Epic Launcher performs behaviors that behaviors they consider shady[1].

you mean behaviors entirely consistent with a browser process? https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoenixPoint/comments/b0rxdq/epic_g...
> Accept the impermanence

I think this is key no matter what formats you decide to go with. Don’t fool yourself into believing your Blu-Ray movies are going to bring you joy for the rest of your life just because you retain a physical copy.

My childhood VHS collection isn’t of any value to me. Even if VHS looked good on modern TVs the tapes have degraded. My DVD collection looked OK up until 4K TVs, but even they look pretty rough now and DVD players won’t be made forever. Surely we’ll see a shift where Blu-Ray doesn’t have a place in a modern entertainment center at some point.
I can see how it's flawed with a mouse, but why is it bad design on a touchscreen? I haven't seen a better time picker.
Maybe it depends on the input device quality and the task at hand, like for scrolling a huge file I will use dragging with the mouse then the left button or the wheel. Ideally your code is designed in such a way you can have an alternative input method for the clock like just typing in the vules and maybe up/down arrow spinners
My wife's Xiaomi phone has some woman speaking Chinese every morning (not sure what she's saying, we don't speak it), which reminds me, need to find a way to turn it off.
I hadn't considered that, although it shouldn't create waste, right? Presumably, unchanging properties with transitions enabled don't add any work to be done. If it's only the ones that change, and if I really do want all of those to transition, there's no problem.
Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old today
It should be noted that now ~45% of the UK population enter tertiary education vs <15% a thirty years ago [1]. This shift is necessary economically and yet politically unsustainable from general taxation. The shift to a debt driven system has been driven by this.

[1]http://www.lse.ac.uk/assets/richmedia/channels/publicLecture...
Why's it 'land'? Did they helicopter in or something? They make it sound like a special forces raid.

> Only the state can act like this under proper laws

Didn't they just go and knock on his door? Anyone can knock on a door. There's no law against this.
Market penetration by electric vehicle just isn't very high. It's in the very low single digits in the US as of 2018 and was far lower before. [1] Most parking structures were built well before it got near 1%. I doubt the availability will change very quickly without legislation to encourage retrofitting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_t...
The reason strong bad men don't rob us constantly us because other strong men are legally permitted to do violence unto them. I don't think that's a model that works for the Internet.

Instead I think we should take Mr McNealy's words as prescient. Even if you protect your privacy, people you know are still willing to tag you in photos or upload their contact lists.

Instead of pretending that we can remain private online perhaps we should be thinking about how to compartmentalise our online identities so that the whole 'us' can't be revealed by an inadvertent mouse click.

TLDR: Scott was right, so let's work out what to do next.
The Fake Strongmen of Instagram
I paid. It's worth the price :D
> It is noticeably less sweet and much more refreshing than Coke

BTW I like the taste of sugar-free stevia-sweeteed Kofola even better than ordinary Kofola with sugar. I don't really care about sugar in it as I'm very slim and don't drink it often anyway yet I still prefer to buy the diet version just because of the taste.
> Spotify has shown the right way to do it: just offer the stuff in a way that is convenient and let people pay for it.

I don't think Spotify are a great example really. They're almost a 14 year old company, and last wuartet was the first time they were profitable. They've already stated they're expecting a loss this year. Is it sustainable?

I would also expect that we'll see a rift a la Netflix, over time we'll see different companies start to hold exclusives to their own streaming platform.
Welcome to the future, the facebook gestapo.
The Memetic Tribes of Culture War 2.0
> [...] is it too late for gums to have any effect? Or is it more like a total bacterial load [...]

Probably the latter (from the article):

""" A prospective observational study of [Alzheimer Disease (AD)] patients with active [Chronic Periodontis (CP)] reported a notable decline in cognition (Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale—Cognitive and Mini Mental State Examination scales) over a 6-month period compared to AD patients without active CP """
For me, one issue is the forty-something percent stake tencent has. Both in that I don't trust their software and that I have serious ethical concerns about directly supporting china. I know it's essentially impossible to not buy anything from them, but I would say videogames are definitely something people can easily stop buying.
CentOS 6.10, Win7, Win10, AmigaOS 3.1, MorphOS 3.x, RPi..
I don't think we can assume meat based diet is better than plant based diet anymore.

And without this assumption the "own good vs. common good" argument doesn't hold. Because in reality, "own good" and "common good" align at a lower consumption of meat. (Ignoring taste, obviously. Meat is delicious!)
The job of gitstatusd is to put Git status in your shell prompt. See screenshot at the top of https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus. This is an amazingly convenient tool.

When you are working on chromium, on every command you type gitstatusd needs to list the contents of 25,000 directories. Low level optimizations like the ones described here are what makes gitstatusd 10 times faster than `git status`, which in turn makes prompt responsive when otherwise it would be sluggish.
Hey Google, sorry you lost your ethics council, so we made one for you
That's exactly what i said myself few days ago when i saw that article about facebook asking users' email password, until it was verified.
Rethinking the Value of Network Pruning
The Apple Newton. Tons of really interesting stuff under the hood (a scripting language inspired by Self, an object store with transactions, a micro-kernel inspired by Mach that supported threading, virtual memory and fine-grained permissions, etc., etc.). Pretty whizzy for 1992.

The hardware was too expensive and bulky, and the software tooling was never really there (I remember someone on the team comparing our dev tools with the newly released Visual Basic).

The first release of the Newton was plagued with bugs (it shipped maybe 4-6 months too early) and had a hardware issue -- noise in the digitizer -- that made its handwriting recognition system perform very badly. Early consumer experience with it wasn't great, and that painted the product with fail and derision; the Doonesbury cartoon was accurate at the time.
Isn't anyone worried that TypeScript will go the way of CoffeeScript?
The third option is a tight job market. This is undermined by mass immigration, criticism of which is fought by the establishment even harder than basic income.
FireWire failed for its patents from Apple. Intel didn't want to develop around a port with a $1/port royalty.

It took over another decade to move beyond 5V charging.
I wonder how this compares to filesystem traversal APIs like fts/ftw?
And what's to prevent insurance companies from exploiting those laws to reduce costs and increase profits?
> When it comes to careers I often see expressed on here the attitude that somehow if the interview process were better; if the interviewer were different; etc; then it'd all be different, they'd get the job and live happily ever after.

I agree that you shouldn't hire people who may not be the right fit and whom you have reason to believe may not succeed or thrive on your team. However, it seems apparent that most people (and I would include myself) may not really be good judges of that. There may be things that are "Red Flags" or "something's off" to us, simply because of the way we were brought up (cultural differences), the way we speak etc. I guess what I'm saying is that in an increasingly diverse world, the markers of success that we look for (or conversely the markers of failure) may not be accurate and we thus miss out on candidates who might actually be a great fit.

Personally, I used to judge interviewees pretty hard on the things I thought weren't appropriate, or things I considered unprofessional. But then I realized that isn't really my job as a technical interviewer. As long as the folks demonstrate the technical skills and a thirst for learning, that's good enough for me.

Which isn't to say there aren't red flags. Lying for instance; pathological liars will totally wreck your organization.
the correct way would be to still load images out of view and prioritize those in view.

but I'm also worried about the "unloading" of these resources. with a proper implementation you don't only load first images into view and preload the others, but also unload those out of view to ease the compositing load on older gpu - and older iphones that have most their ram eaten by the updated ios are really problematic, especially because when the gpu crashes with an out of memory error safari shows a "the website crashed" message that puts the blame on the page instead on its own shitty memory management.
You are right that the games I buy have an N year shelf life. I estimate N to be 'longer than I'm likely to care about a game'.

I don't want NES cartridges around my house despite growing up with one. Nor an SNES or PS2 discs. Every year there's more fantastic media produced than I have time to enjoy, why lock myself into the past when I can pick up a pile of cool indie games and the occasional AAA title every year and just enjoy those experiences?

Who knows, maybe I'll be eating my words someday. I've been buying games for the better part of 30 years and it hasn't happened yet, but maybe you'll be right in the end. I don't spend a lot of mental energy worrying about it.
This reminded me a lot of the excellent podcast "The End of the World with Josh Clark." Can't recommend that series enough.
Do you experience errors in Google Scholar?
Do you experience errors in Google Scholar? From what I see one of my articles (Molecular computers arXiv:1811.04960) has been replaced by a totally unrelated article (Defining Big Data Analytics Benchmarks for Next Generation Supercomputers, arXiv:1811.02287). If I search by title the mentioned article then Google Scholar can't find it. Google search can.
No, it has a great team and the powerful Microsoft behind it, and MS is dogfooding it enough to make me feel they are not going to pull the plug.
Because `git status` takes a really long time if the repository is large. And no, the linux kernel is not considered a large repository, there are far larger ones around, mostly private at companies, such as Microsoft and others.
As opposed to the doctors, nurses, hospitals, medical supply and pharmaceutical companies who profited for over a decade from the child's care?
The Sexualized Messages Dress Codes Are Sending to Students
I found both theories promising.

Your post reminded me of this pub:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3709085/
I ran into this a lot during in university at the end of terms. Lots of people moving out without a lot of time to get rid of their items - in particular international students that couldn't bring items home with them for the summer. Though I never took advantage of the situation, being a student that was also moving myself, I'm certain I lost count of the number of mini fridges, tables, lamps, etc. that were simply being tossed.
Better for you in what way? Why should removing the video component implicitly improve things?

If you're talking content; presumably a documentary can be just as enlightening as a podcast or an audiobook...
Is this something just chrome is implementing or is this actually part of the HTML standard now?
I didn't really read the whole paper but it seems to say that unless they are put into social services they are highly likely to engage into small/petty crime which confirms my assumptions.

What are you expecting people with no skill to do? Most likely they form their own "communities" with little to no integration in the host society. Maybe they will integrate after 1-2 generations or maybe never(see how gypsies communities "integrated" in Europe).

Why would you want mass immigration of unskilled people? What good can it bring? My opinion is that you either make sure you have the money and logistics to make them good citizens or reject them at the border.
>There should be laws preventing family members from prolonging the suffering of their loved ones.

I can't think of a way to implement a law like that which wouldn't be fraught with horrible problems. Just imagine the misery associated with doctors deciding to "kill people's children," which in fact in some cases would be unjustified. (Nobody can always get it right, not even doctors.)
Good idea, but it sounds plausible to me given their recent activities, like calling the cops on folks they think are suicidal.

Though maybe that just supports the comment about social engineering and identify theft:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19598105
I have the same (single) monitor and love it. $699 at MicroCenter.

I like to sum up this debate like this:

With multiple monitors, you're confined into smaller, "hard-coded" boxes that can't be changed. With a single large screen you have much more flexibility.
> seems to me like it's a cultural thing as well.

This is true. I think that it's also a religious thing as well, and almost Christians. Other religions are more accepting of death, but Christianity has taught many to sincerely believe that Jesus himself would step into the room and heal their loved one, therefore every attempt must be made to save them.

This is something I've seen first hand in my years as a Paramedic. Patients with absolutely zero quality of life, yet remain a full code, in a nursing home. Family hasn't visited them in months (maybe coming 2-3 times a year tops) but there's evidence of a direct deposited social security or retirement check going somewhere. It's sad and I wish that we had a huge cultural shift regarding end of life care.