skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some things are common no matter where you are and how you perceive the reality.

You have objects which interact. Find a type of interaction which works at macroscopic distances and does not depend on inertial mass. You can call it "electromagnetic interaction". Note that some objects interact stronger, and some weaker. Call this property "charge". Find the smallest unit of "charge" and try to split it further, until you cannot split it anymore. Choose the smallest particle of this kind. Congratulations, you found "electron"!

Note nowhere in the previous paragraph I have specified how you perceive the reality. Maybe you were looking at the charged oil film on the water surface with human eyes, or maybe you were using your telekinetic senses to feel zorks on the bazzer, or maybe you were sentient gas cloud observing startdust falling in the black hole. It does not matter, once your culture starts exploring interaction of atoms, they will the same physical law, that there is a minimum charge unit, and arrive to the same physics.

(or they might not discover that branch of physics at all -- but then they are unlikely to be an interstellar civilization)
You're right! Most of what I described is common to the Pomodoro technique. I was never able to stick to the Pomodoro technique. The accountability of the timer being a person is huge.

It's weird (but true) that disappointing a random person is more motivating to me than doing what I told myself I would do.
As a former hard-core Bible reader, but never a fan of the KJV, I found the first easier. But I think that could be because it follows closely to the patterns of the Zen Buddhist literature I'm reading lately. 'cuz it does read kind of like a Zen koan.
I personally believe that the proliferation of infinite scrolling/pagination has a strong correlation with the disappearance of the scrollbar.

In a world before infinite scroll, the bottom of the page was indeed the last bit of content on the page. In today's world, scrolling to the bottom of a page typically loads more content.

In this new world, I can imagine designers and engineers deciding to do the simple thing which is to remove the scroll bar since it's no longer usually an accurate depiction of where the users position is in relation to all the content available.

Of course all of this solely applies to feeds and not standalone pieces of content like articles. In the latter cases I'm unsure beyond minimal aesthetics why the scroll bar would be removed.
This blog post is much more interesting than the (ambiguous) title might suggest. The blog post is really all about comparing the funding models of Blender with other OSS projects - and aiming to demonstrate that the Blender funding model is successfully creating a valuable piece of OSS. Wrestling with funding is a major challenge for OSS projects, even if they don't believe they require funding.
What really made globalization work was containers and faxes. Before containerization, shipping was kind of an iffy business. Sometimes it showed up, sometimes it got lost or stolen, and sometimes it got broken. After containers, if you ordered a container load, it usually showed up intact.

The importance of faxes to trade is underestimated. Not only was it faster, faxes work well across language barriers. An invoice still looks like an invoice, a purchase order still looks like a purchase order, and a bill of lading still looks like a bill of lading. For the normal cases, the info in the blanks, the info that matters, matches up, and that's all you need most of the time. Especially since everybody uses the same number symbols. Business forms became an international language. You've almost certainly received some package that came with a bill of lading in a foreign language, recognized it as a bill of lading, and could probably make out the list of items. Even if the descriptions were unreadable, the part numbers matched.

Economists did not get that these rather banal mechanical improvements had a far bigger effect than their economic theory. This is embarrassing, since everybody in shipping, and then everyone in business, had figured out how to deal across borders thirty years ago.
It also breaks... the scrollbar. I'm using Firefox on a Mac and expect my mousewheel to work anywhere on the page.

On this page it only works while you're hovered over their (I'm assuming) custom hacked scrollbar that lives in the middle of the page for some reason.
Maybe that isn't such a bad thing, you can get a receipt for your charitable contribution that you can write-off.
Do you have a source for this? I have a friend who is a farmer in Australia, they trade water rights, so these two concepts seem opposed.

[updated] As per a comment below, Australia and the Darling in particular have a water market https://www.mdba.gov.au/managing-water/water-markets-and-tra...
Blender is an example of a project that is laser focused on their users. Every aspect of their development is guided by that focus. The Open Movie projects are a way of ensuring that what they work on is something that professionals need. You can what you want about blender but their continuing growth in industry demonstrates that their focus is paying off. They are quite literally closing the gap with tools like Maya at ridiculous speeds.
I worked at Microsoft during the Gates/Ballmer era and my recollection is that the culture was toxic and definitely needed to change. But AFAIK this was a common thing about companies even in SV at the time. I knew contemporaries at companies like Cisco and SGI who complained about exactly the same sort of behavior (Know-it-all assholes who would berate anyone they thought was inferior, self above company, etc.).

Interesting read anyway.
PV Sounds: How Does PV Grid-Tie Generation Sound in Time-Lapse?
Huh, that's the first time I've encountered a 451 (Unavailable For Legal Reasons) in the wild.
Show HN: The Ballad of TurboChair
Enormous amounts for people on the coasts. Should the people inland pay a premium on water just because they can't afford to live on the coast? I personally don't think so which is why a capitalism driven water supply is a terrible idea.
The very first example is wrong. It tries to debunk a WCAG standard for text contrast using a survey of normal people. The point of the WCAG standard is to accommodate non-normal people, so any survey of normals is entirely meaningless to the discussion.
I don't believe any of these problems are unique to this state of technology. If you dig into the history you'll find that politics is frequently a very dirty and irrational business.
The Twitter screengrab is only showing part of the PDF. Be sure to click the link in the tweet for the full email chain.
I doubt that there was ever any illusion that if financiers could arbitrage labor rates between nations that they would. Hence the expectation always was that living standards among nations would tend to equalize.

Post WW II the US had about 50% of the global GDP. The situation was huge inequality between nations. That was politically untenable and the solution was seen to be development of other nations' economies. Some of this was accomplished with things like the Marshall Plan and some with programs of foreign aid to underdeveloped countries.

However, the US taxpayer would never support a large enough foreign aid budget to really solve the problem. On the other hand, free trade could be sold politically, companies would export capital and know how to lesser developed countries, and the problem of inequality between nations could be ameliorated. Of course, it was at the expense of the US worker whose standard of living stagnated from the '70s onward. But the bet was that other nations would develop slowly enough, US consumers would enjoy cheap goods, business would make lots of money, and that US standard of living wouldn't actually decrease significantly for a politically potent group.

Of course, there aren't enough resources in the world for all 7.5 billion people to enjoy US standard of living. Therefore, the implication of greater equality of standards of living between nations is less equality of standards of living within nations. Less inequality internationally implies greater inequality intra-nationally.

And that is exactly what has happened. The world, including the US, will tend towards the situation in India where there is extreme wealth and extreme poverty side by side.
Well, it is just displacing the problem. It does not solve anything, just hide it. Beside, wasn't the red light district precisely that, a zoning ?
Introducing PyGEOS
I think this is an example of where books are powerful. A (good) book on a subject is far superior than pages of different articles that anyone could write. With a book you know that time and effort has gone into it. If you want to learn about something, invest in the right book.
Good thing Bill Nye is making sure we're all using the correct newspeak. Still, I can't imagine we will be encountering any indigenous Martians when we get there.
> I hate that desktop designs are imitating the nonexistent information density of phones.

I think a lot of mobile designs underestimate the natural information density of phones too.
Anyone can sell the future.
“that money got lost somewhere”

It’s a mystery.
I'm not sure about the long gun registry, but the core issues around the failure of the Phoenix pay system are much more complicated that the above suggests.
I'm sympathetic to that idea, to some extent. Foreign workers would indeed be happy to get a marginal increase in their income, even if those wages and working conditions are well below developed-country standards.

But, then, aren't we just making a trade at that point? I will fire 100 local blue collar workers, and hire 100 foreign workers who will do their job for less. I hurt 100 people, help 100 people, and along the way pocket some extra cash for myself. I think most moral systems would have a problem with this. It is generally thought of as immoral to rend one person in order to help one other.

(Yes, things get complicated when you hurt N people to help more than N people, depending on the number of extra people helped and the kind of hurt. For example, sacrificing soldiers in order to save an entire country. Generally speaking though, most moral systems have a problem with hurting people against their will except in extraordinary situations involving very large numbers. Does this trade situation qualify as that? I'm skeptical that is does.)

There has to be a better way. Some way where we aren't harming local blue collar workers, but are still helping foreign nations develop, while giving those foreign nations on the path of strong worker protections and wages that we have here.
Fed Ups Its Wall Street Bailout to $690B a Week as Media Snoozes
I said "a well informed friend". Certainly it is a tautology that a 'well informed friend' can be expected to be 'well informed', no?
China is more than 4x
Your angry because you think that he fires those that are unwilling to play along with what he thinks is "right", and you think the solution is to "Fire those unwilling to play along" with what you think is "right".

If you don't see the irony in that your an idiot.
ah I misread OP, thought we were discussing something else.
It lists your mom first too?

Honestly I rarely ever use any button in the "share sheet" except for Copy or Copy Link. Every time I open it I'm just searching for those Copy buttons. I'll "share" it myself with Paste. Idk how "sharing" ended up like this.
> I'm super curious--how often do you actually use the menu and what do you use it for?

I use the menu really frequently -- for pretty much anything that isn't a toolbar button.

I tend not to use keyboard shortcuts generally, but particularly if I'm just reading a website -- in that situation, my hands are on the mouse, not the keyboard, and moving to the keyboard to type a shortcut is more inconvenient than just being able to use two clicks on a menu.
I see all of these things as reasons to invest in Microsoft long term. As the author states: "Microsoft is killing it. Revenue is up. Stock is up. Industry stature is up. The places where Microsoft finds itself thriving all have one thing in common: key made-men were pushed aside for better people."

The fact that there are so many terrible managers still hanging around is like sludge in a jet engine. Once cleaned out (and that seems the direction they're moving), the company will hopefully skyrocket even further.
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> If users prefer to forgo personalization we respect these privacy settings and allow users to opt-out.

Could you point out where this is in your privacy policy? My admittedly-basic reading seems to show the opposite. https://www.mutinyhq.com/privacy says this:

"“Do Not Track”. Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. Please note that we do respond to or honor DNT signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers."

If, as you note, you respect users' privacy settings, why don't you honor Do Not Track? Forgoing personalization is the whole reason that DNT exists.

If this was an oversight, how about updating your service's behavior and the privacy policy?
Peruvian Inca Wind Instruments
Super funny post.

It's like... do development like we used to do development in 2007... before we learned all those lessons about "corporate agile"
> A non-technical person CAN indeed make software... he just can't make maintainable software, and eventually his incompetence backfires.

Sure, and then they just pass it off to a competent technical person. It sure would be convenient if these people used the same language! Right now, when a non-programmer starts a project in Excel, and then hands it to a programmer to make into a good, maintainable version (perhaps as a native application, or a web application), the programmer has to start from scratch. That's an awkward discontinuity.

There's no reason I see it always has to be that way. We just haven't prioritized the ability for a non-technical person to make something, and also for a technical person to be able to pick it up and turn it into a full system.
Right. So about your bank, you're sure none of the owners speak Hebrew?

What I'm saying is, is that your head is up your ass if you believe bits on a computer are more significant than the words we speak.

By proxy and according to my measurements, human language is a larger factor than programming language.

Re.: antisemitism: Jews are pretty good. Plenty of groupings I like less. I know Hebrew should be all over the place according to your (exoteric) religion so as a Dutchman I'll hold you to your word. Produce that Moshiach already?
I'm still able to download the PDF. (USA here)
"Your design is supposed to satisfy what people see, not computational algorithms. It’s why the designer’s eye should always play a part in the equation."

Or....fix the algorithm.

Their example seems like a perfect example of a broken algorithm.
Once you create a system in which assumptions of available and continuous services are built in, the withdrawal of those services or their predictability has major impacts.

The way people farmed before power was that 90%+ of the population were directly engaged in agriculture. The rate in the US is now about 1.4%:

https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/employment-by-major-industry-...
Freelancers fear California’s new gig worker law will wipe them out
Because you have to pay sales taxes on the full value of the car, not on the fraction of the value that you got use out of.

Sales taxes are the #1 reason for why people who constantly lease do not just buy and resell cars.
The article doesn't contain that phrase.
Libra Is Not Dead Yet
If someone hasn't come up with a Laffer curve type concept for Streaming/Torrenting already, I'd be amazed.

If you take all the "costs" associated with piracy (legal, accessibility, quality, etc, etc) and compare those to the "costs" of acquiring the content via streaming services, I suspect it would be pretty obvious where the lines cross.
It took three years of planning to accomplish. Plus it was in the 1960s when there were fewer and slower cars, fewer motorways and generally fewer explicit markings.
Surface book was just the first time ever for me. (Original iPhone was before I cared)

The original Surface Pro was decent, but generally slow and bulky. The first Surface Book, on the other hand, is still a great, versatile piece of hardware several years later.

Of course, YMMV - a tablet alone doesn't cover everything for me, but for some people needing a keyboard/base for connections may not work out.
While speculative in parts, here is one description I found of the background and basic functioning of these instruments:

https://whyyouhearwhatyouhear.com/chapterfiles/chpt13/other/...
Actually you make a great point (thank you!), but honestly I wouldn't want it to have anything to do with VBA.

For a feature like this to be successful imo it needs zero sandbox concerns; a user should never be prompted to downgrade to a lower security configuration, it has to be built in and available by default in every sheet. I don't see VBA ever being safe enough to enable by default everywhere. VBA is just an escape-hatch to a 'real' programming environment; my claim is that excel sheets & formulas alone could be a 'real' programming environment in its own right, no escape hatches necessary. All just by adding one feature to the existing formula language. The reason why excel is so popular today is its simple and understandable expression language and a unified spatially-oriented layout for code and data. Just shoehorning VBA into a cell loses all of the understandability of the simple excel formula and brings with it all the baggage of the old way of needing to manage source code. I think we can do better than that for normal everyday excel documents and normal users.
Which system/application is this for? Unless I'm missing something (which is entirely possible) it doesn't map to anything I use.
Citizen complaint of the day: Who made Methadone Mile a landmark?
I know that in some cases that's the best solution to a problem, but I try hard to stay away from generative processes. There's a raft of complexity issues that arises from the need to reproduce exactly the same behavior and results, and usually you're introducing several new layers of complexity (a DSL, a job to process it, jobs generated from it, actions taken by those jobs, the input and output of each process... versus one giant static job with minimal variability).
The reason why scrollbars are not a first class UI widget in mobile UIs is because they are finger based, which means every manipulable widget needs to be finger sized. Making scroll bars finger sized takes up way too much screen space in mobile UI, so they were regulated to a passive progress bar indicator and the scrollbar actions were moved into swipe gestures instead. With that change you lose the ability to precisely skip around your location, probably because a desktop usage study showed that most people didn't use the the scroll bar much once scroll wheel mice were available.

Scroll bars only work with precision mice actions, and now desktop UX is legacy UX, mobile UX concepts enroach onto desktop UX, because developers do not like to create special cases, because that is more work and thus more $$$.
That sounds like a big quality of life improvement to me, not a disadvantage. Search engines make it much easier to know where to begin with things - including non-tech things.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar, and especially please don't cross into personal attack. We ban accounts that do those things. If you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site to heart, we'd be grateful.
Do you have a non-standard font size? If not, maybe OP does.
Yes -- if the sentence had been "grounded the aircraft", then the meaning is obvious. But even though "land" is a synonym for "ground" I don't think there's an equivalence of meaning here. I'm struggling to find a sense in which "landing and enemy aircraft" is a meaningful concept short of jumping out of one plane to land on another one, removing the pilot, and landing the plane, which is a bit much for the single word "landed" to carry.
Hmmm... With which filesystems?
This is the fun thing. If person X thinks the fair price for something is $1, person Y thinks it’s $10, and the government has to set the price, both of them can yell “Socialism” at the other and never actually address anything.
> Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy

> Fascists believe that liberal democracy is obsolete and regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties. Such a state is led by a strong leader—such as a dictator and a martial government composed of the members of the governing fascist party—to forge national unity and maintain a stable and orderly society.

Using a word exactly correctly is not "random".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
How do you get your employer to hear you? I don't think these problems are isolated to women. I think women just don't understand that there's an "old boys club" that attacks other men too. I know lots of men who say the same things.

Pitting employees against each other. The masters recruiting spies from among the ranks to report dissenting comments from the servants. Cutting back on coffee breaks. Not being allowed to report actual time worked because you're an exempt employee so your boss can say, "I'm not aware of any overtime being worked." Uh that's because you won't allow me to enter more than the minimum.

This happens to more than just women. Instead of pitting one bullied group against another, bullied people need to rise up against a system that rewards bullies at the expense of the employees with integrity!

Companies are losing SO much value from their greatest employees because they are afraid to be noticed. You do something great for your employer and everyone else says, "Show off." or "You're making the rest of us look bad." or "Overachiever".

They force great employees to be mediocre. Even managers do the same thing. If you find a problem with your boss's code -- watch out!

This is not a problem women experience. It's a problem people experience.
How about just a simple personal project I want to only give access to myself and a few friends access to on browser and phone app? User X can access only documents ABC. Users must be logged in. I'm not looking to make a career shift to web dev, but I'd like to be able to build my own cheap toys, basically. While learning interesting and not terrible skills along the way.
Wow. What a horrorshow.

Humans operating lie detecting machines with personal interviews has yet to rise above the standard of 'Mostly used to bullshit and intimidate suspects', but these clowns think they can use facial recognition to detect lying?

What a huge scam. I don't know what conman dreamt this up, but to convince multiple governments to go along with it he has to be good.

Maybe it's time to resurrect the Canadian Fruit machine project and get some idiot in the EU government to finance it. Except instead of detecting 'gayness' it detects 'Terrorist thoughts'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_machine_(homosexuality_t...
Huh? It's pretty common even in basic college math courses to use language like "for every p in Q". It's not like programming invented this usage.
Military Algorithm Can Predict Illness 48 Hours Before Symptoms Show
Well, I didn't want to post click-bait on my blog :-)
The 2010s Have Broken Our Sense of Time
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You got my point :-)