skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ink&Switch have 6 papers out on their site in the last 9 months. Each is a thorough review of an interaction style through a product they develop. Since they are an independent research lab their papers are much more approachable and fun than other, say, CHI or UIST papers I've read. These papers come off the back of 2+ years of research. Each of the individuals on the team have awesome backgrounds and Ink&Switch serves as a great starting point to do some backwards internet research if you want to see some wonderful design work. I look forward to anything else they will put out, I've skimmed each paper and thoroughly read 2.

As to Capstone itself, it seems to me a wonderfully simple tablet interface. After rolling it around my head for a while I can't believe we ever ended up with grids of icons and widgets as the "desktop" of modern touch based devices. This nestable 2D canvas scheme (don't miss the jump links, no you aren't "trapped" by this scheme) feels intuitive and affords much power to the user that they can be fine to ignore or learn at their own pace. I find that reading these papers has influenced my desire for breadcrumbs on my tiling wm laptop setup in a way I can't currently figure out but I am making small progress.

I've long been interested in OneNote. None of the other major note software systems have seemed as good. I still, however, use vim and paper. This seems like a tool that could blow OneNote out of the water. A user could build OneNote's UI in Capstone in what looks like a little bit of minor fiddling. If OneNote is a modern take on paper, Capstone is a modern take on screens.
You use "post-modernism" like Jordan Peterson uses "post-modernism"... incorrectly, and likely without having read any of it.

If anything, reducing population (not through genocide obviously) for expedience is actually a very neoliberal idea
David Suzuki [1] the Canadian environmentalist talks about his time in concentration camps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2FD0DoHiK0

DS: I don't like to look in the mirror at myself.

BM: Why?

DS: When I look at myself I see the slit eyes, the face that was for four years during WW2 depicted as the enemy.

DS: And it was my enemy too! That face was my enemy because I was a Canadian. And we wanted to go out and kill Japs.

...

BM: Were you bitter or your parents bitter? [3]

DS: I think if one broods on this and becomes bitter and hateful, then ultimately the bigots win, you become them.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2FD0DoHiK0

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8TQTuMqM9g

[3] https://youtu.be/Y2FD0DoHiK0?t=117
> I think the reason why majority of people are using Chrome and Safari is not because of speed, it is because of synchronization,

I think most people use Chrome simply because they switched once and never looked back, especially when “lol other browsers use Chrome” is pretty much a meme.

Firefox Sync is great and I don't think it's lacking some key feature Google offers.
Most people here disagree with you, hence why you’ll be down voted. Would AMP be used if it wasn’t for the news carousel - nope - so Google is definitely using their position to embrace and extend open standards.
I really wish the email standard was markdown instead of HTML.

I only ever switch from text-only when I need to embed an image, and otherwise occasionally italics or whatever is useful. This could be taken care of with a basic markdown-like language, and avoid getting full HTML advertisements, etc. I really, really don't need your newsletter to be properly formatted in my mailbox, just send a link, I'll open it in the browser if I want to.
I was involve in trying to prove https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoclaved_aerated_concrete a viable alternate to concrete and red brick frequently used in household development. The only part I was unable to secure was seed capital. Does anyone know of program which invest in green/climate fighting `hard` start ups? Love to get in touch with them and revive my project.
> as the tech becomes more widespread and easier to use, to the point where teenagers start using it to punk one another, no one will believe anything they see, hear or read ever again without an extremely robust digital provenance system

People still believe grandma's easily Snope-able hoax E-mail forwards. We've had Photoshop for decades, yet people believe (and share/spread) doctored photos likely more today than ever. Pros can already make convincing doctored videos. I guarantee, in the 2024 election (maybe even as early as the 2020 one), we'll have professional-quality, flawless "video evidence" of one or more candidates saying or doing things they never said or did, produced by amateurs. Despite knowledge that this technology exists, most people will fall for it.
You might want to look again at 1973 or the Southern Lebanon wars. Israel has been very restrained compared to what the US would do if Mexico was shelling a border town now and again.
Light Field Saliency Detection with Deep Convolutional Networks
> Almost nobody uses lazy IO

... in anything large. If I'm writing something small of the form "read stuff from stdin", lazily consuming the results of getContents is a perfectly fine way of shipping data through the program. As soon as it starts getting complicated, though, it becomes important to refactor (which is often super easy in Haskell).

I actually treat unsafePerformIO pretty similar, though with more of a requirement that the project be expected to stay tiny. Worth noting that it's much more important you understand Haskell's evaluation model in that case. ... assuming what you're doing matters. If you're just having fun, it can be a good way to learn a little more about Haskell's evaluation model.
"I still think the decision to overthrow Saddam was correct." John Bolton four years ago. He's the guy who got the current POTUS to withdraw from JCPOA. And he's the guy who got DPRK to withdraw from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

He hates treaties. He believes in ordering countries what to do, and intimidating or bombing them if they don't comply, and treaties make that difficult.

He's delusional, not a credible person, and in no way has he been rehabilitated.
You can't achieve this without support from the free, mainline kernel, which I've also addressed in my comment; downstream kernels, by and large, depend on these proprietary blobs. Mainline kernel support is also hard; the LG Nexus 5, which is the "flagship" device for pmOS, still doesn't support mobile calls properly.

It just makes sense to split the job and work on the kernel vs. userspace bits independently. Compare with e.g. cyanogenMod or LineageOS; running a non-AOSP userspace gives you something that will run as smoothly as iOS does today, and that (barring kernel or driver bugs, of course) can be updated indefinitely.
Or you work on raising living standards, which naturally lowers fertility.

Warming is going to happen. Humanity will adapt. Modern spins on eugenics isn’t an answer and frankly is disgusting.
The transflective (direct sunlight readable) screens seem to be resolution limited. It’s an issue with industrial laptops too.
That last paragraph says a lot. If you have a company and you want employees that are “tech-natives”, whatever that may mean, that is not the same thing as discriminating based on age. No, not even if they are wrong, and don’t actually need a tech-native.

This is just as silly as complaining that a moving company only hires people that are strong enough to lift a piano and women complain about sex discrimination because women tend to be much weaker.

It must be allowed to discriminate based on ability, even if a certain ability correlates trongly with age, sex or something else.
I'm a huge fan of George Carlin and many of his observations are spot on but it should at all times be remembered that his main mission was to entertain, not to make political statements designed to impact future policy. Yes, there is some hypocrisy involved (people that vote green, drive Porsches and go on two airplane holidays per year) but at the same time he benefits from the caricature, and that is too broad a brush to paint very large swathes of the population with.

If the planet is overpopulated then that is a problem, regardless of whether people observing this fact or reaching that conclusion see themselves as part of that problem, and regardless of whether or not they take themselves out of the genepool to remove the hypocrisy.
As someone who has done a lot of work with .NET in a past life, I think the main reason that more startups aren't using it are for culture reasons. .NET's move into open source is fairly recent and I'd expect more startups to use it (if it fits) in the future.

Most startups are trying to build products with a low budget overhead and previously that was a lot harder to do in the .NET ecosystem.
I understand the point you’re making here, but having done webdev for about five years now this has just not been the experience of me or anyone I know. Admittedly, limited sample size and all.

The simple act of repetitively designing many hundreds of websites and then getting feedback from actual people as to how they work with those sites, that is mastery and it does take careful thought. So, yes, they're constantly looking up "recipes" to combine into code.

If I were at a party I would appreciate my job being described this way, but the reality is that webdev is mostly applied common sense + having a lot of the kind of knowledge that is googlable. Like, I’m successful career wise and I’m regarded as being quite good at my job, yet I don’t feel like I’ve mastered anything per se.

Whereas for my side project, an IDE for Golang, I feel I’ve actually had to learn difficult concepts that couldn’t be re-learned from a blog post.

I take back what I said about webdev not requiring thought, which was an exaggeration.
Firefox has way better privacy controls than Chrome, however, their track record on security is abysmal. In fact, a 0-day was just found last week targeting Coinbase employees.

I wish I could switch to Firefox for privacy reasons, but good security is table stakes and Firefox just doesn't have nearly the security credentials that Chrome does at the moment.

This definitely could change in the future, and I hope it does, but for now, I'm stuck in privacy hell because I can't compromise on security.
I read the article and it’s a great read. Nature never ceases to amaze us I guess. Cancer hijacking the body’s safety mechanisms is a scary scary thought.

The title is misleading,though.
Most argue to switch, because of Google's webRequest API changes in Chromium. Would like to remind you, that its not set in stone yet, especially whether Opera, Vivaldi and Microsoft will follow Google's plan.
Inconvenient... for English speakers. But more convenient for locals. Seriously l9n is still an important aspect of software.
> And this article comes out just after reports of a 0-day exploit of Firefox on macOS

Chrome also has regular zero-days.
I can't comprehend why national governments would engage in backroom deals to allow false flag attacks on themselves, knowing they'd be leaked immediately.
Apple Plans to Ship 16-Inch MacBook Pro This Year
AMP for email is targeting a completely different topic than the issues listed here and in the article. And i am shocked everybody is simply not seeing them with their amp4web hate.

Amp for email is completely different than amp for web and is a very good solution:
1. Coding emails is really really hard. Every client is rendering emails differently, and Outlook is a beast with every version rendering differently. Amp for email is standardizing a subset of email and css every client should support so email building will be easier.
2. Email is completely different than the web. You cant do more than basic html like displaying text and pictures. Embedding videos? Slideshows for products? Interactivity like forms? Display realtime information? EVERYTHING IS NOT POSSIBLE! But it will be with amp4email. You will get features in emails compared to the web so they will get usefully again.

And i am afraid nobody is seeing this and only hating amp4web‘s hiding if the real urls etc.
> Startup is a word reserved specifically for exponential growth businesses usually juiced up with VC cash.

What? Reserved? I’m not sure where you are getting your info. personally I like Steve Blank’s definition:

“a startup is a temporary organization used to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.”

Startup is just a word that means different things to different people. I do agree that not everything seems like a startup to me. Then again, what anyone else is calling whatever their endeavor is really is none of my business.
The “restore your session” shouldn't be regularly appearing when you start the browser and indicates it's crashing on shutdown or otherwise failing to save state. That is a bug.
It's not a weird focus, there is few more urgent topic than co2, because there is so much useful chemical reaction producing it that humans need or enjoy, and we don't see any reduction in those emissions.
There might be an interesting correlation between hair length and [some aspects of] human intelligence—but in the other direction than the one North Korea would like to imply.

Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, a chemical that is produced by the brain to modulate plasticity during learning, seems to potentiate the effects of androgens on hair loss (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21729031), i.e. accelerating balding in people who will eventually go bald. (This isn’t just theoretical, either—drugs which increase BDNF are reported to cause hair loss/balding in some people, presumably the ones who would eventually bald.)

So, in a very hand-wavy way, you could hypothesize that people who go bald earlier in life, are producing a lot of BDNF, and therefore are doing a lot of cognitive restructuring, and maybe therefore are getting “smarter” in some sense.
Oh I absolutely detested this as well.

Containers is one of my favourite add-ons, and I have it highly customized. But I have to set it up everytime from scratch on a different computer - there's no sync even though Containers is from Mozilla themselves!
> Do you agree, and if so, do you know that this has ever happened in a residential setting?

I agree, apart from the claim that the home network is necessarily in a private range. For one, it's not technically necessary, you can use NAT with globally unique and globally routable addresses on the "internal" side. Obviously, people rarely do that with IPv4, but those people who promote the idea that NAT is somehow a security mechanism also use that claim to promote the idea that either IPv6 is bad because it doesn't use NAT, or that you possibly should use NAT with IPv6 ... which is where these misconceptions lead to some pretty crazy results.

> Or do you mean an adversary who is or who compromises the ISP, possibly by tapping into the coax/fiber/etc in the last mile or by pwning the related nodes?

Well, those are obviously attack vectors, and certainly not ones you should ignore, given how often there are all kinds of vulnerabilities being found in network equipment, including but not limited to the regular hard-coded passwords in Cisco equipment.

But, yes, there absolutely have even been publicly known cases of where this kind of access would have been possible, from ISPs that forgot to disable RIP on the customer-facing side of their routers, thus propagating some customer's RFC1918 routes into their access network (obviously kindof a configuration fuckup on that customer's side as well) to other ISPs that put multiple customers into a common ethernet segment/VLAN, so you could talk to your neighbour's router's WAN interface if you were a customer of the same ISP.

In any case, if you are responsible for the security of your network, your security boundary most definitely should be in your router, not somewhere in the ISP's network, where nothing of that sort is even legally guaranteed.
There's a video documentary on YouTube, complete with starting with PM Thatcher and her concerns about the coal miners union and the Mideast oil kingdoms and through the present with sun spots, etc. There is a lot from MIT prof Lindzen. The 800 year lag in the graph Gore put up is made clear. The Medieval Warm period, the Little Ice Age, and the cooling from 1940 to 1970 are also clear.

The URL is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Mx0_8YEtg

Now where does this documentary go wrong?

I will mention one place: Their little cartoon has sun light hitting the surface of the earth, reflecting, and then heating the atmosphere. Well, it mostly isn't just reflection. Instead, the sunlight gets absorbed by the surface, the surface warms, and then the surface radiates, as in a Planck gray body in the infrared. CO2 absorbs, and warms, in three narrow bands out in the infrared, on band for each of bending, stretching, and twisting of the molecule. CO2 won't absorb visible light -- e.g., exhale and see if you can see the CO2 or its shadow from absorbing visible light! And, as in the cartoon, the visible light already traveled through the whole atmosphere to the ground without being absorbed so that any reflected light should just continue until it hits a cloud or just escapes into outer space. So, the main point is the Planck black body effect that in effect converts the visible light CO2 won't absorb to infrared light CO2 can absorb. But, as Lindzen explains, that all has to be a tiny effect, small potatoes.

Just as a question, does anyone have figures on tons per year of (i) CO2 from volcanoes and (ii) human activities?

For another, does anyone have (i) the number of tons of CO2 in the atmosphere and (ii) the number of tons of CO2 released into the atmosphere by human activities in, say, a year?

For one more, if the temperature of the top, say, 1000 feet, of all the oceans warmed by 1 F, how much CO2, in tons, would be released -- warmer water absorbs less CO2?

Last, what was the average temperature of the oceans (i) just before the Little Ice Age, (ii) at the end of the Little Ice Age (say, at the end of the Maunder Minimum and the return of usual sun spot activity), (iii) in year 1900, and (iv) now?
This is a great question the honest answer is I don't know. That said, I would be incredibly surprised if web pages had access to the settings in that file.
At the very least on HN, people are quick to point out the radioactive material released by coal plants - I do not remember a single relevant discussion where it wasn't.

Personally, I'm on board with getting rid of nuclear and fossil energy sources both, which appears technologically feasible to me (offshore windparks help with base load, flywheels can get you through the day and power-2-gas through the winter).
> Why is the US (and maybe Australia?) different?

I can't speak to Australia, but in the US I see two significant factors. The first is the news and the second is the evangelical christian movement. IMO, both are rooted in perverse interpretations of the first amendment.

My understanding is that Reagan struck down laws regarding truth in journalism, which really set the stage. Fox News is particularly egregious in climate denial (as well as fearmongering about Muslim folks, immigrants, etc.), and for many, that's just the start of a slippery slope. Smaller, especially local radio, talk-shows around the country are even more egregious. They use fear-based arguments to significant effect, and because politicians use these arguments, they're "political opinions."

The evangelical movement (which gets a lot of play on Fox and other platforms) has positioned itself as anti-science: anti-climate, anti-vax, anti-evolution, anti-lgbt. So these opinions are elevated beyond "political opinions," they're sitting on the lofty perch of "religious beliefs" and challenging them is an assault on religious liberty.
No, not serious. Just pointing out what the alternative seems to entail.
Check out ICF:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulating_concrete_form

There may be some copyright shenanigans w/ that page.

There have also been successfully constructed in-ground pools using this material, but appears to be controversial to traditional pool-builders.
This seems like the type of project I'd actually like to contribute code to.
Note that this is an orbital test and not the actual 'launch' to alpha centauri.
Earth will be the terraforming planet we will cut our teeth on.
I'm excited to see this and hope it means they recognize the importance of modern UX.
Neither can anybody assure that the carbon/oil will remain untouched for hundreds of thousands of years.
Iran has zero ability to win a regional war against the US, unless you consider bombing Israel to be critical damage to the US, or if the US has no stomt for Iranian casualties.
I've seen it before -- it involves blaming basically all war and all deaths under market economies on capitalism and doing serious gymnastics on deaths under non-market economies of the "it wasn't real socialism!" sort.
Firefox is investing into Lockwise (lockbox?) https://lockwise.firefox.com
I feel they are spreading themselves too thin. Instead they could do everything they can to push WebAuthn with support for on-device Secure Enclave (without needing an independent hardware key) so that everyone can benefit from having as close to a separate physical key as possible.

Besides the browser itself still has a lot of work to do. Apparently they had a known remote code execution vulnerability for 2 months waiting to be fixed. That is quite concerning and gives pause while deciding if we should make Firefox our primary browser.
Other options include q, used in a lot of banks and hedge funds, so plenty of opportunity to profit
I'm pretty sure Kim Jong Un has one of the approved hairstyles, isn't it the middle one here https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2018/08/17/TELE... ?
> The lack of adoption is a combo of a 1) network "dead-zone", 2) reversal risk, and 3) regulatory friction.

No, no, no. It’s the lack of a killer app, which the author bizarrely confuses as the lack of a phone app with a good UI. What does cryptocurrency (or a currency managed by a company) do that the fiat system doesn’t, /from the perspective of a consumer/? In other words, what am I currently using USD for that would be significantly easier or cheaper with crypto? Nothing. The majority of my money goes to taxes, loan payments on large assets, and food. Those are facilitated by... the government, banks, and a bunch of merchants who are not involved in this project. Good luck to Libra!
Just go ahead and do it here, with links. Looking to learn and see evidence.
When I was a young lad, the ink on my EE degree still wet, I worked with an older gentleman with a PhD, who used APL on an exotic computer with what looked to me like Sanskrit symbols (or space alien, for all I knew) on the keys. He gave me a couple tutorials but I never could wrap my brain around it. I lost interest and hadn't heard anything about APL for decades until now.

I am curious how the symbols used in the language are mapped onto a standard keyboard. Also, does anyone use APL in battle or is it mostly an academic toy?
> look the same on Edge Chrome and Safari

In other words: Blink, Blink, and WebKit (of which Blink is a fork) look the same. This is why people talk about supporting Firefox to avoid a monoculture.
The correlation is very very strong though.
> You cant do more than basic html like displaying text and pictures. Embedding videos? Slideshows for products? Interactivity like forms? Display realtime information? EVERYTHING IS NOT POSSIBLE! But it will be with amp4email.

Alright, you've convinced me: AMP for email needs to be killed.
Nexus 5 supports calls fine, that's neatly in mainline Linux and in ofono. The issue is that the audio codec in the soc isn't in mainline yet.

The solution for this isn't hybris, it's fixing mainline. Hybris is mainly useful for the impossible stuff like powervr graphics.
It's not a question of pulling strings, it's a question of being able and willing to maintain a complex piece of software and hardware after you get the terminaison.
KDE Usability and Productivity: Week 76