skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m forced to learn rails at a new job — and I really dislike it. There’s so much magic and things are built in an obscure/extremely inefficient way to work around/“take advantage” of frameworks limitations/features.

There is so much code that is not part of the codebase driving the behavior of the system — and that third party code is very tightly coupled to the actual behavior that will be observed by running the code. Figuring how anything actually works is made massively harder than required and developers are encouraged towards designs that will require ridiculously inefficient database interactions.

Rails is terrible I think for experienced developers because there are no mechanisms in the codebase — instead there are layers and layers of “conventions” which often only exist to try to avoid bugs that would’ve been much better to catch or prevent with a combination of a type system, high level tests, and less mutation.
Yeah. I especially love 1hr 35min ad on a 5min video. /Sarcasm

But search ads are ok. Since you can both ignore them easily and are often the thing you look for.

Video ads are annoying interuptions I hate with passion of a burning sun.

Most site ads are just sleazy shit, that serves as vector for malicious actors. I hate that with passion of an exploding supernova.
Didn't the British do something similar in the Desert Campaign during WW2, burying supplies to be recovered later. The Long Range Desert Group perhaps?
I wouldn't recommend Colemak to programmers suffering from RSI. It favors the right hand way too much. For writing English this is fine, but when you have to type programming symbols and use Vi keys it really does a number to your right hand.

Qwerty is inefficient as all get-out, but it's more balanced for programming with how the most used letters are on the left hand.
It's a pretty big leap from someone not sharing your exact principles to them not having principles at all.
It's smooth as butter on my early 2015 macbook air too. I suspect the issue is related to "retina" screens, which I don't have. (a 2009 mbp doesn't either iirc, right?)
That they’re actually fanatics?
Multiple-profile still has its advantage. Unfortunately it is pretty inconvenient to do so on Firefox now after the revamp (pre-57 there are plenty of extensions for that). It is much easier on Chrome, ironically.
Couple that with geographic constraints and I guarantee you that's true somewhere in the world.
I made the conscious decision to buy one since it was a good deal. But you bet I’m never hooking this thing up to WiFi.
1. Why would I want my store to accept payment with someone else’s gift card?

2. What consumers want this?

3. How do you make money?

4. Balance verification seems a bit easier than balance transfer. The stores issuing gift cards make a fair amount of money in interest on those card balances. Cooperating with you and other stores might result in a loss of net interest income.
"You’re saying it’s laughable to think people would not switch to a web app over an iOS app if the iOS app is no longer available?"

No, I'm saying if there is a application that solves a real-world problem (like keeping track of where to protest about the future of your home or communication with people are not reachable elsewhere), people don't care if you open Safari and click on a bookmark or if they open a native application. As long as it works, people will use it in the way they can access it with their current device.

"Losing iOS users would be more than just losing their small percent of the overall iOS/Android market share"

Not sure how much that would actually effect the global market share.
You could just not hook it up to the internet
Why not take a simplified, but beneficial view of climate change which will work well for both conservatives and liberals alike?

"It is likely that we are experiencing some global warming which is likely to get worse in the future, and it is likely to be man-made by emitting some greenhouse gases, mainly CO2 and methane, into the atmosphere, and if so we should curb these emissions to avoid some bad long term consequences, but even if that is a mistake, it is a good idea to scare people with because curbing these emissions also makes life of those damn Commies, that pesky Middle East, and many other sthole countries that hate us, worse, and limit their resources which they use to harm us, so good idea to do even the theory behind it proves wrong. Those liberals aren't going to go for that to fight Commies, but they will if you scare them with some made up stuff like dying corals or flooding islands, well enough".
Just tried installing Firefox on my mac and pinch-to-zoom doesn't even seem to be enabled by default. I had to insert 4 obscure config values in the right place [1] to get it to even start working, and as you say it's very jerky. It jumps in 10% increments, rather than being a smooth transition.

[1] http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2011032210281240...
There is a destinct possibility of an astroid hitting earth wiping out most humans. Yet we still dont monitor 100% and put all our effort into making sure that doesent happen. If you think thats a tenable position you are on the denier side.

Seems to be a very counterproductive way of discussing this.
Open Document Format 1.3 Ready for Ratification by Oasis
My issue with FF is that it doesn't batch load the favicons after importing bookmarks from Chrome. The globe icon is fugly. The items in bookmarks are too closely spaced and look bad. It just looks like amateur hour.
Correct. But those who just talk bullshit should still be ignored.
> surprise bills from AWS

Surprise bills from AWS means it is time for refactoring ( and thus optimization time ;)
I'm not in the Apple ecosystem so I've not previously heard of this product, nor Sidecar or the amusing verb "sherlocked."

I don't have a lot to add except to say that the blog entry was substantially more insightful, honest, introspective, and valuable to the reader than I would have expected given the circumstances. The author and the company deserve a lot of credit for dealing with setbacks so graciously. Meanwhile, Apple deserves another helping of skepticism.

I look forward to seeing what kinds of creative display tricks Astropad comes up with in their multi-platform adventures on Rust.
Norilsk: Otherworldly Photos of an Arctic City
> I wonder if it's been on purpose or just, as always, their automatic algorithms being imposible to contest when they're wrong.

Further down the github issue, another person attempts to submit the same build recieving the same response. But then asks for clarification on the applicability to uBlock only to receive an excerpt from ToC bundling advice...

Pretty sure this is not algorithmic. As the dev said they are being stone walled.
Did they use any antiplagarism system?
I personally find significant whitespace to be even more annoying than superfluous parens, so no thank you.
Safari’s blocking isn’t limited to a small number of blocks like Chrome’s
I prefer to purchase. I like to go back and re-read sections that are relevant to the current thoughts I'm having. I read 99% non-fiction

I do super miss my college library
The founders are male, but the author of the post isn't one of the founders. I edited my previous comment to reflect the authorship.
Amazon Prime Air VP touts environmental, safety benefits of drone delivery
I had suggested that possibility in a recent thread about a niche of businesses that dont continue in perpetuity and the consensus here was nobody walks away from a money making business so therefore we have to assume the businesses were financial disasters for the founders and equity holders
Well, we have arbitrary rules, that produce a result close to an arbitrary timespan. Then you change the rules in a way that breaks the timespan, in a way that is compatible with an ill defined cultural expectation what is essential and what is incidential of the original rules.

I mean, of course to I realize that a fan would violate some expectation of long distance running more severly than pacemakers and a specially prepared course, I just say that to call it sports, other teams of runners should be allowed to compete according to the same rules.
How many Apple employees are involved in these advertisements and who defines the messages?
Also:

LMARV-1 (Tangible RISC-V) Part 2: Redesigning and testing the register file
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-B32C_jKbA

LMARV-1 (Tangible RISC-V) Part 3: Designing the ALU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGBUtKRBKZs

LMARV-1 (Tangible RISC-V) Part 4.1: Designing the shifter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuUChAF3gaw

LMARV-1 (Tangible RISC-V) Part 5: A horrible mistake, and memory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uerjjKOmO94

LMARV-1 (Tangible RISC-V) Part 6: ALU, testing, instruction controller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uzxi_MFtP0

LMARV-1 (Tangible RISC-V) Part 7: Testing the tester boards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbKT-WX8Pmc

LMARV-1 (Tangible RISC-V) Part 8: Testing the revision D ALU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeYNixZqgko
I’ve done Colemak and came back to Qwerty for two reasons that are really compelling, I feel.

One, I program so I make lots of weird motions anyway. When writing long prose, Colemak felt nicer but for coding typing it wasn’t a big change. In both cases, I’m regularly typing symbols and making weird patterns. Additionally, you usually are never reaching high speed during coding so your hands often have time to rest.

Two, other people’s keyboards aren’t Colemak. Other people using your keyboard is also a problem. For better or worse the non-standard choice tax is really high with keyboards, especially if you experience difficulty with Qwerty after making the switch.
The latest OS update has all kinds of breakage that would negatively impact anybody who uses the first party applications extensively (e.g. a "power user".) People have had the Mail app lose their mail, the postcast app lose their podcasts, etc. It's simply a mess for anybody who actually uses their computer instead of looking at it as a fashion accessory. There is no way in hell I'm upgrading for at least a few months and that has nothing to do with the fact that I program.
> … acknowledged to be unrealistic and not actually suitable for comparing language performance …

By whom?

Maybe there are situations for which it is "realistic" — the point is that we don't know.

What would actually be suitable for comparing language performance?
Switched some short time ago. And could not be happier. Love the UI, the addon ecosystem, the bookmark manager. And the philosophy behind it.
Well a brisk walk (from memory) is about 15 minutes a mile.

So people under the age of 10 and over 60 probably start having a non-negligible numbers of people who can't complete a mile in 15 mins.

And then you have an obesity + overweight rating of 57.6% in the USA according to Wikipedia (and this may not cover people who are not overweight but physically fit) and you can start seeing how maybe not everyone can do even a 15 minute mile walk.

For the record I know BMI is a bit of a weak metric for covering obesity given that anyone "swole" will have a very high BMI...
Using Sanity.io with React Dashboard Auth Functions
For twitch.tv I highly recommend the 'Alternate Player for Twitch.tv'[0] extension for both Firefox and Chrome. It runs a million times better in both browsers.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitch_5/
And then there’s PTO, which is sometimes “paid time off,” and sometimes “personal time off,” which is also paid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paid_time_off

Perhaps it’s best, as another comment suggests, to always include the adjectives “paid” or “unpaid.”
I'm a proponent of this mentality of investing in your people. I'm a huge Louis Rossmann fan because I feel he builds his business in a way that puts his people first. Recently this was clear when one of his board repair specialists got hurt in a hit-and-run accident (was literally ran over by a truck).

The way that Louis is taking care of his employee is nothing short of inspiring to me. As I understand from the videos, he's covering his salary during recovery, has supported him in the legal case, is accommodating his injuries by sourcing very expensive special equipment (microscope), and has visited him multiple times in the hospital.

He'll sit on camera saying "I'm a tough boss, I'm hard to work for" etc. While I'm certain that's true I just see it as high expectations + wanting to retain top performers. Nothing wrong with that when you put your money where your mouth is and treat your team like family IMO. I'd kill to have a boss like that because that's a person I'd be happy to get behind and support!
" the quality of those candidates is just as good as anyone else's comparable funnel."

This is an irrational statement and empty claim. You can't analyze something you can't see nor have data on.

- Do you have a view into "anyone else's comparable funnel?"

I doubt it. Therefore your claim is dubious and empty.
I dunno, when you re-read Heretics and Chapter House after knowing how it ends, you can see some set-ups for the ultimate big-bad. And Sonia's vision in God emperor does also link up.

So, maybe? I lean towards thinking there were notes myself, as I can't see anyone making up that ending de-novo.
That’s not what this article claims:

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?colemak#colemak_detailed_stat...

“Colemak is more balanced in hand use, with a 6% preference for the right hand (Dvorak has 14% for the right and QWERTY 15% for the left).“
That's not what they said, but also, what is your point?
I wish it was possible to configure Firefox for Android to automatically launch the native app instead of showing an Android head. It's one additional step that annoys me and slows me down, as it will needlessly load the page in Firefox instead of loading the content in the app.
These are both tools for professional artists.

Astropad lets you use your iPad as a second display for your Mac, with an emphasis on functioning as a tool for artists. It used to support multiple iPad styluses but moved to only supporting the Apple Pencil.

Sidecar lets you use your iOS13 iPad as a second display for your Catalina Mac, with an emphasis on functioning as a tool for artists. I have not used it but I am pretty sure it only supports the Apple Pencil.

Both of these are sort of functioning as an alternative to buying an external monitor with pressure-sensitive stylus support, which is generally going to be more expensive than a tablet - Wacom's Cintiq line, for instance, runs from $700 for a 13-inch screen to $3300 for a 32-inch screen.

They are also in competition with the growing power of tablet apps; there's a lot of former Photoshop painters who have switched to Procreate or the tablet version of Manga Studio to get their work done.
"if you look at their advertisements you'll see them invoking humanistic values constantly"

The reason companies do this is not to be a friendly company in general and care about the world and it's people. If that was the point, they would have created a non-profit or similar. The criticism of hypocrisy should come when they make those ads instead.

Look at the Activision/Blizzard situation where a player was banned for speaking for a cause they believe in, they release different statements in different countries (one pro-China in China and one not pro-China in the US), and applies different rules in different cases where it makes sense for the market. In China, shouldn't speak about freedom for Hong-Kong and in the US, it's important you support LGBT. The company will reflect that in their advertisement, where they want people to buy their products.
I'd say that's a pretty uncharitable reading of my comment! That wasn't intended, to be clear.
But Bel obviously has a numeric type if arithmetic works...
IRS where is my Refund
This is actually brilliant. I've been playing with contentful, but sanity seems like the way to go with React projects
What Jeff Bezos Wants
Manifest v3 supports adblocking.
And when they're caught lying, they should be criticized and penalized in the marketplace.
It's a misconception that layout switchers are relearning to type, especially if they were proficient qwerty touch typists. The better typists in qwerty have a significantly easier time learning a new keyboard layout. Most of the typing skills positively transfer over, even though there's still an initial hurdle.

Furthermore, I think there's significant bias when typists learn a new more ergonomic layout. For example, they may have incidentally fixed their typing posture when learning Colemak, they want to justify their investment, or they overestimate the efficiency/comfort gains in respect to how much they need to type daily. Performing frequent typing tests (something alternative layout typists like to do!) is furthest away from reality for most people. Many switchers also forget how to type in qwerty well; improving typing speed while learning feels "really nice" and it's easy to wrongly associate this with "qwerty is uncomfortable."

They also downplay the importance of living in a qwerty world, having to share a computer with another, or being able to proficiently type in qwerty (which many of them do not retain), or dealing with software not accounting for other layouts.

I type in Colemak in Qwerty proficiently.
This is truly unfortunate. So much of life today involves using the web, it's disheartening that there are so few usable web browsers anymore (and before someone chimes in, Firefox broke their PKI functionality sometime in the last two years or so, so it's a non-starter).
I wish it was configurable per app. For example, having YouTube links stays in Firefox, but have links to the Play Store apps open within the app.
Regarding your earlier citations, the consensus for anthropogenic climate change is much more recent than you seem to assume. The IPCC was not formed until 1988. Even as of the 1995 report, the conclusions regarding the anthropogenic nature of observed warming was tepid:

> An introductory preface to the SAR written by IPCC chairman Bolin and his co-chairs John T. Houghton and L. Gylvan Meira Filho highlighted "that observations suggest 'a discernible human influence on global climate', one of the key findings of this report, adds an important new dimension to discussion of the climate issue."[12]

It wasn’t until 2001 that IPCC took a definitive position that human influence would be the dominant effect on warming going forward: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/07/WG1_TAR_SPM.... (pages 9-11). In that same report, the IPCC took a much milder view on whether human influence had been the dominant contributor to date. They assert that a human “signal” is detectable, but do not assert that the warming to date had primarily resulted from human activity. They also note no impact on, for example, the extent of sea ice. The 2001 Heritage article you posted is probably an optimistic reading of the 2001 IPCC report, but not an unreasonable one.

Of course they’re not going to be out front embracing the impact of climate change. But being slow to accept the evidence as it rolls in is not denialism.
You believe this, despite them just announcing a tower Mac Pro. I'd say the very fact that they are even producing it precludes that they have 'abandoned' the pro market and customers doing high end design. If they had truly abandoned the segment they wouldn't bother.
Does anyone actually use touchscreens on laptops? They've always seemed pretty awkward to me. OTOH, being able to use a tablet as an extension to a desktop seems as if it would let you have effectively a couple different interaction mechanisms. I'm looking forward to checking it out.
Unison Language
Thanks! Your personal site (https://mdub.dev/) is gorgeous, by the way! But there's a small bug: When I try to click the first post (Github OAuth 2 in Go) nothing happens. All the others work.

Edit: Actually, I noticed another bug too. When I go to the sidebar, only part of the little circle icon above your name shows up. If I zoom out I can see it. Interestingly, zooming out also makes that first link work! So maybe you tested everything on a bigger screen than I'm using? (I'm on a MacBook)
Giant Floating Solar Farms Could Make Fuel and Help Solve the Climate Crisis
I'd be really worried about low-lying areas. Storm surge followed by massive river outflows of 400-1,000mm rain. Most of that will channel out through Tokyo harbour itself.
Eyeball all the red in the Result column on this page. It's an unscientific method for sure but it would give me pause as a potential revolutionary. Of course the ccp arguably arose as a peasant revolt so there's that

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_peasant_revolts
You're right. It changes from time to time and currently we're in the state of trying maximize capitalism and then you get companies trying to optimize for those variables.

Regulation usually is used for help controlling that (and regulation is normally set by representatives of the people in that state)

You're outlining a healthy perspective on change, which I thank you for. Also means we can continue to push for more better changes.
Winnie is a Canadian-British treasure and it makes me a little disappointed that he gets to be associated with someone like Xi. I do understand that it undermines the strong-arm image, but still...
My thoughts: If you like Ken Shirriff -- you'll love this guy and his YouTube channel!

Well worth visiting and revisiting, in my opinion!
Of course you can deposit cash in accounts that you have authority. If you aren't on the account, you can deposit a personal check, cashier's check or money order instead. This has been the case for years.
I think the author is missing the most vital point and that is why you should develop web applications and not native applications, if possible. With native, you have big companies that is in control of the platform and can easily make it hard for you any time. Besides, with a web app, you can reach customers on many different platforms making it harder for one company to kill your business.

The web on the other hand is open and no single company can just change it in a whim.

Always believe in the web.
Both of these features are available in YouTube on chrome if you pay for YouTube. I know paying for web services isn't something people like, but there it is.
> I do personally think this lends some plausibility to Google's assertions that they're doing it for performance reasons rather than to make adblockers worse.

I don’t know that I buy this.

Chrome has a bunch of restrictions that Safari doesn’t, which make ad-blocking in particular impractical.

Safari has, iirc, a hard 100,000 rule limit per blocker rule list. 1Blocker splits itself into 7 such lists to have enough room for all of the rules needed to be effective.

Chrome has a hard global limit of 150,000 across all extensions. Multiple adblock authors have indicated that’s probably too tight.

Safari also lets content blockers reconfigure rules on the fly, so I can add a rule or make an exception for a site as I browse as a user.

Chrome requires the lists to be totally static and pre-approved by reviewers. Change a rule requires resubmitting the extension for reapproval.

All-in-all it looks to me like Chrome’s changes are designed to look like what Safari does on the surface, while actually adding onerous new conditions that effectively cripple the effectiveness and usefulness of adblockers.
The sibling comments aren't wrong. However, Perl 6 was originally intended to be the next version of Perl. For a long time it was vapourware, however, and development restarted on Perl 5.

When Perl 6 finally arrived, it was too much of a step change from Perl 5 to convince many people (myself included). Meanwhile, Perl 5 had continued to develop and was, in no way, in need of a replacement.