skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fairness, iOS these days is wildly unintuitive, and I'm not yet thirty. It's positively littered with hidden gestures and features that you'd never discover during normal usage. Many of them are really slick once you learn about them! But discoverability is worse not only compared to previous Apple software, but even to other systems like Android. And from what I've read, iPadOS is even worse.
Access is not, nor was it ever, FoxPro
This simple concept leads to some really wacky concepts.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain
> have you really never heard someone complaining about non-native speaker's use of English, using it to say they aren't qualified for a job, etc.?

Yes, that's true, but I think it's important to make a distinction.

What you are referring to is, more often than not, just plain racism. It's sad, and unfortunately (at least in the US) more people are feeling emboldened to spout their racist views.

However, that shouldn't cloud the fact that in general English speakers are much more able to understand sentences with tons of grammatical or structural errors if the gist is right. I contrast that with French - when I was in France and would make a small error in verb conjugation or intonation people would just respond with blank stares. And they weren't looking down on me, they just really didn't understand what I was saying.
Desktop software has never recovered from Office adopting the terrible Ribbon element instead of proper menus and toolbars.
I will continue to change myself to be the way I would like others to be. I will continue to behave in ways I would like to see repeated by others.

Bottom up change, it's the only thing that scale nicely and works sustainably in the long term.
this make me chuckle https://github.com/nasser/---/blob/master/public/qlb/parser....
They give you an intro to everything you asked them to show you, it takes 20 seconds, it’s featured front and center after every upgrade. And if you ignored it because you are trying to do something like right now, you can even go back and look at it again. It’s really pretty handy and nicely produced.
i recently got a hyundai maxima hand me down and man it is a gas guzzler. I notice it every time I go to the pump and pay $80 to fill the tank.

i'm not sure what i'm adding to this convo...i'm just complaining about the hyundai maxima really...
A lambda calculus of two variables requires the law of the excluded middle, or it won’t work. The alphabet of the calculus has to be distinguishable and unambiguous.
I'm on the board of directors for the Free State Project (https://fsp.org) mentioned in the article, which aims to concentrate those who support liberty in one place (NH) for greater effectiveness.

If anyone has questions about the Free State Project, you can ask them here or email me personally at kauffj@gmail.com. I'm always happy to assist fellow hackers that are interested in the FSP.
RFC 1149 disagrees.
For one, I remember a Google talk where they mentioned how the completion rate of e-books were higher than physical ones. One of the theories which stuck with me was that the reader not being aware of the end of the book could have been* a driver.
I have a strong feeling this will "fix itself" like it's currently doing for smaller cars as electric SUVs become more practical and affordable. Right now the electric-automotive industry leans heavily toward smaller cars, which means for those of us who have practical reasons to prefer an SUV (I'd like to be able to comfortably haul passengers and comfortably haul cargo without having to own/maintain/park two separate vehicles) there are fewer options.

An alternative path would be to convert existing SUVs to electric powertrains. I'm at least mildly considering doing so for my SUV (and will probably do so in the event its engine kicks the bucket), even if the automatic transmission makes that less-than-ideal (most electric conversions stick with manual transmissions; no need to shift out of 2nd gear).
I spend a huge amount of time making sure that my users get to experience fully-functioning UI on desktop, while not being overly limited on mobile. It's a HUGE part of my workflow, but honestly it's the only way. I can't stand visiting an 'app' website on my desktop only to find that it's 600px wide because it IS the app.
I am curious on what you mean by adversarial examples/triggers for humans in the domain of natural language.

Off the top of my head, I can think of:

* garden path sentences

* highly recursive sentences

Could you or anyone provide some other classes?

The two classes above however can generally be understood by a large number of educated native speakers with time to think carefully.

Humans also do not get derailed so badly as in the examples in this link. http://www.ericswallace.com/triggers
> I swear heads have to roll. Literally.

Author had some good points, but that escalated quickly.
I was pretty blown away to see that Dropbox's hamburger menu opens to take over the entire screen, including on desktop. In other words, they only considered mobile in their design. You can try it even if you don't have an account, just go to dropbox.com and click the hamburger in the upper right.
Air-breathing engine precooler achieves record-breaking Mach 5 performance
As mentioned in the top comment on this article, this is why the software community avoids fractures by programming entirely in FORTRAN. /s

Your comment is an argument against any new programming language.
Yes! This is a super common search pattern for me that works really well even before the change.

<query> [context words]

usually returns better results than without the context.
Idiots removed the triangles at top & bottom that you could use to scroll without dragging. I think they did it because they are stupid and evil.
Even if they had your IP address, they would not be able to track which sites you are visiting on the onion network anyway. You could just be visiting the CIA's Official Onion Site.
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Not air pressure-driven, the pot-in-pot fridge works on evaporation.
Slow and steady only works up to a certain vehicle density. Once that has been exceeded, slow and steady simply serves to cause congestion further back in the road than necessary.

There is no way around stop and go traffic once the maximum capacity of flowing cars has been exceeded. After this, leaving extra space is just waste, which is why in more densely populated areas, people "cut" into the space in front, because the only optimization left is to use as much road as possible.
I can see why they did it. Now that screens are ~universally 16:9, vertical space is at a premium. It would be nice if the hamburger menu actually replicated the same functionality though.
Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (1999)
Comparing the EU to China's government isn't exactly an apples to apples comparison.
This is pretty absurd when framed this way.

As a long time critic of military spending, at least I would call it. A plus that most of that spending is receipts to some other US business no matter how regressive those transfers may be.

But once it can be arbitraged by international capital, and leeching of foreign governments who can't control their own spending becomes a business we have hit full insanity.
Looks very good. Thanks for the suggestion.
Weird — on my SE the "copy" row is only half-visible at the bottom so it's clear that I can scroll.
The Kafkaesque Reality of Selling on Amazon
Someone always responds with this, but the reality is that it doesn’t matter. Will you arrive later if one car jumps ahead, or ten? Might delay you an extra minute. If that is a problem simply leave one minute earlier, haha.
This sounds in part like a classic case of wealthy, indifferent elected politicians being out of touch with the "riff-raff" they purportedly represent and act in the best interests off. (This "riff-raff" would include people who want to repair phones due to cost-effectiveness, responsibility with natural resources, and/or a desire to tinker. Also, because they have less throwaway money than these entitled, bought-by-corporate-lobbyists politicians.)

On a related note... come on, phone manufacturers! That's enough with sealed phones and a lack of microSD card slots for added storage.

Also, come on, app programmers! Let users store data in a microSD card, instead of in limited, expensive built-in storage! If you can't find the data when the card is removed, just deal with it! (I'm looking at you WhatsApp, given your insistence on storing photos and videos on internal memory.)
Options for .NET’s Versioning Issues
Now that is the House of Saud.
I think he meant heads will have to scroll.
Babylon 5
This is silly, as I stated "under normal usage" can perfectly well be a condition of protection (and already is). Fall damage, water, and so on are not manufacturing defects. Signs of abuse (and it's generally quite clear) are grounds for being made ineligible. Furthermore, all mass manufactured products always have a defect rate, period. Quite a few 9s can be chased in manufacturing and QA, but 100% doesn't happen, and when we're talking millions of devices a small rate still adds up to a lot. Gambling that you won't be the one to roll snake eyes and thus subtracting in from the upfront price is simply letting the manufacturer improperly externalize that failure rate cost onto its customers.
Another episode of hackernews is socially inept.

Good work!
Email in profile. I am happy to discuss at length the path forward, but this thread is not the forum. Boils down to market forces and public policy. We are awash in clean energy.
Totally agree.

Verizon 5G just moved into my neigbhorhood. It was a Spectrum/Brighthouse monopoly until then.

As a response, Spectrum cuts price by 65% to compete. Amazing what a little competition can do.
Squawroot is another oddly beautiful parasitic plant. It relies on the roots of living trees for sustenance.
Who knows, but it's possible that this invention was originally meant kind of tongue-in-cheek. I think any mechanical designer who could understand how differential gears produce this result would also be aware that small errors (skidding of one wheel or whatever) would accumulate. Also it really invites comparison to a magnetic compass, which is much simpler, cheaper, more foolproof, and probably also invented in China.

But the Chariot does work as a sort of pastiche of people or organizations who don't listen or look around them.
One question: How exactly did you test it works?
It mentions that at the bottom actually.
I did not know this. Another way to quickly get to the top of tables in iOS, assuming you're in an app, is to double tap the button of whatever page you're in in the navigation bar at the bottom. Some apps somehow disable this but it's the default behavior built into the OS.
If DDoS traffic is aimed at domain1.onion, changing your site to donain2.onion would avoid that, wouldn't it?
In the popular browsers, how do we kill this misfeature?
I agree that Russia is generally not considered a western country. But Australia and New Zealand are generally on such lists. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world
I blame the flat design trend, it is not intuitive.
>The safe distance not also is a safety measurement but also a good way to at least help to declutter the jam.

After a certain point, frequently exceeded in most cities, using more road capacity can't possibly declutter the jam. It will push the jam further back.
Sad that the "live free or die" state can't pass simple regulation that gives consumers the freedom/right to repair.
Funny that you mention Google's grouping and related SO posts ... I still regularly run into that annoyance that SO hasn't figured out how to do canonical URLs and Google then proceeds to put the identical content from SO on two consecutive spots in the results page. SO does not want to fix it (it has been an issue for years and has been pointed out on meta many times), but I'm confused by Google's fail to consider them duplicates when their content is nearly identical (the difference would be just "hot network questions" in the sidebar etc which depend on the time of the page request).
Search and a lot of the AI based systems these days feels like talking to a hard of hearing grandparent; as long as you’re saying about what they expect then it’s fine, but if there’s any nuances or homonyms it turns into a comedy routine.
When people talk about non-renewable resources, the biggest of all is the workers' time that went into engineering and manufacturing the thing. You'll never get that back. You can always find more rare-earth atoms, at the worst they'll be sitting in some landfill.
Or get a quick fix now (probably not complete) ttps://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Call-A.P.P.L.E.%22el
This is my GF's article. It's her first blog post ever. Sadly everything in this article is true.
With both of us working from home I almost experienced all her struggles first hand.
Especially as solar and wind are not consistent (clouds and windless nights etc), so you need to overbuild by large factor, and considering that there is no viable way to store energy, that requires insane overcapacity, on the order of 10-20x of current electricity use.
Genetic correlates of social stratification in Great Britain
Surely this is related to a concurrent thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21353920

It's the flat design trend. It is unintuitive by design.
It's not that. It just makes the thing harder to do. If someone cuts in front of you, they frequently will brake too, and your previous speed will bring you up to them.
If we come upon the aftermath of such a weapon that launched meteors at a planet, would there be any signs that it wasn't a natural event?
Which format would you have preferred?
2019 GitHub Education Classroom Report
The link is a transcript of this NPR Planet Money podcast: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/18/771371881/episode-945-the-lib...

TL;DR: A rural city was afraid of being taken over by San Antonio, they decided to become a city to defend against this. They wanted to keep city taxes low, and the plan was to attract big chains, to monetize the traffic on the Interstate via sales taxes. None of the chains would build because there was no sewer system. Residents generally feel the "liberty city" experiment is failing them, but the guy behind it feels it is succeeding because they have very low taxes. Now, however, they are starting to make money off speeding tickets.

(from memory, listened to it yesterday or the day before)

I highly recommend Planet Money, it's one of my favorite podcasts.
Also worth noting that people with vision difficulties/problems quite possibly can't see it at all unless it's super strong.
same as aurora 4x you can use the mass driver both to transfer minerals if the other end has one of equal strength to capture them or bombardment. heck it even simulates the bombardment dust cloud triggering a runaway cooling and subsequent ice age of you send enough mineral packets in short time!
Yes, usually it's because there's maybe 4 documents which match the search query. But if there are only 4 documents which match what I asked for then I want to see a page with those 4 documents! I don't want to see a page with 10 results which I have to manually scan through to see that actually more than half of them are irrelevant rubbish because they aren't hits for what I was searching for.
Demand for drinking water is inelastic. That's a tiny fraction of a fraction of usage. The majority of fresh water is used for farming, as coolants, solvents, reagents in industrial processes. These uses certainly do have alternatives, whether switching to alternative crops, developing more efficient manufacturing methods, building desalination plants. If that happened there would be more water available for essential use cases like drinking.
CUDA is proprietary to NVidia, and is pretty much the standard for GPU computing. AMD's been chipping away with OpenCL, Vulkan/GLSL, https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/hcc/wiki, etc. but not much luck so far. I wouldn't say AMD's been "sticking with" OpenCL, if anything it seems like they will deprecate it in a few years, as the plan is to fold OpenCL into Vulkan.

I guess it is possible to use OpenCL on the CPU as well, but it seems to be intended mostly for testing purposes. The Crysis software renderer uses threads: https://github.com/google/swiftshader/blob/master/src/Common...
An interesting snippet from TFA - "..with this release, anyone in the world can train their own state-of-the-art question answering system (or a variety of other models) in about 30 minutes on a single Cloud TPU, or in a few hours using a single GPU." https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/11/open-sourcing-bert-state-o...
you're correct. it doesn't help a lot with predicting psychedelic activity other than to act as a negative filter for unlikely compounds.
"Everything is disposable, even my constituents."
It's impossible to do this as each and every car has different acceleration and deceleration. The stop and go flow is inevitable. Trying to keep your car rolling is good, especially for wear and tear, but leaving excess space in front is also bad due to increasing the length of the congestion behind. The only solution is for cars to enter the congestion at a lower rate than they exit the congestion.
Task-Based Effectiveness of Basic Visualizations [pdf]
I'm a different hollerith.
Predicting Social Media Influence in the NBA
I find the texts in the comics not very readable. I understand it is meant to show the text as if written by someone on a whiteboard fast, so its a bit like intentionally made less readable, than it could be.

I'd like to see your response to
rendaw's comment: "None of these guides really get to the critical difference and relation between OAuth and OpenID."
There are other benefits, enjoyment and reducing wear and tear. Increasing delay by a few % in a huge jam is not material.
Why is GLUT deprecated? This and just about every other tutorial I've seen uses it.

Since it's deprecated, is there something else I should be using?
For me the worst example is Google Play Music on my phone. The scroll bar is there, but when you first open the app it's hidden underneath the pane at the top of the screen - you have to scroll down by dragging the window before you can even see it. Then if the window contents are long enough, as in when you're looking at the entire song list, you can't actually grab the scroll indicator unless you get really lucky - the sensitive part of the bar is much smaller than the visual indicator.

It flipping drives me mad.
Thanks for the first hand China knowledge. The patch cable price is about a fifth of what I last paid for locally made and large qty (>100), but that was a couple of year ago. You can buy probably the same cable for US$5 here:
https://www.fs.com/products/40220.html?currency=USD

But most US retailers (BlackBox, Amazon, many others) seem to be price gouging massively, US$30 range.

I just read https://baike.baidu.com/tashuo/browse/content?id=82a3cad5ed1... which is hilarious in the Google translate version, containing many strange wrong takes on Western culture. It seems partially inspired by https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mods_and_rockers but not a straight copy, more like a content for hire piece with extra moralising. Makes China seem very like the West in the late 50s. The site seems very much about product placement too. IDK if it's because I'm from outside but I didn't see any edit links (not that I can write anything except the most basic Chinese, and by hand because it was a long time ago).
google silently replacing "interesting" with "cool" brings up advice on cooling things (temperature) instead of keeping things "interesting" as in "interesting"
> I'm struggling to imagine how you think leaving out "in the near future" changes the meaning of that sentence in any way.

You're really struggling to understand how a prediction about the future is different than the state of affairs today?
Its always nice to see where my petrol money went.
I agree that there are many negative things that has done and still do. Including the things you name.

As an American, though I think my country might be even more shameful, We have Gitmo. We have a country that lied into a war that killed at least 100.000s of people.

Our treatment of asylum seekers now is certainly worth a dystopian movie or two.

As far as the 1950s you are defining the ruling class as the ruling class and the middle class? I dont disagree with you about diversity but the middle class was much better off than it is today.

Our ever-shrinking middle class and our ever getting richer oligarchs and the political class is contrasted to China's increasing middle class.

But you go from zero it is easy to improve, and in the US we used to have a large middle class so it is easier to lose.
Golden rule is if you exercise sell enough immediately to pay off the tax burden. If you have a lockout get it written into your contract that you can sell them to another private holder (e.g another employee, investor). It's legitimate for a private company to want a lockout, they don't want external influence in a company but most will allow internal if you get it in contract.
I used to do my bit for this but now my car has adaptive cruise so I let it stop and go as it likes with my foot on the floor.
If Stormfront linked to HN, then HN is a Stormfront front? This kind of logic is asinine. It's on the level of Nazis wear pants. You wear pants. You're a Nazi??
Anyone worth their grain of salt would download and analyze in a vm before executing on their own personal machine... I know I would. Didier Stevens[0] has a ton of tools for static analysis of these file types.

[0] https://blog.didierstevens.com/
And I don't want anyone to be able to "repair" or modify certain classes of hardware that I own (though I do want to be able to have root keys for the software side). I don't see why hackability shouldn't be a feature that people can pay for. I can see a solid argument I could get behind for a very minimal requirement that you may request a device-specific bypass for any cryptographic restrictions. Ie., Apple entangles aspects of the hardware for security, but I'd be fine with requiring them to offer owners at time of purchase the choice to have a root hardware signing key for that device only themselves or not.

But I would strongly oppose anything further than that, such as changes to the physical hardware itself. "It works for the expected lifetime" should be required, but features within that should be up to creators and customers.
Whoops, yeah. I meant linear, not 1:1.
I know it sounds crazy, but what if there were an ubiquitous solution that everyone was already familiar with and had used many times in the past, a solution that required little thought from developers and behaved consistently everywhere?

Something like... well, a scroll bar, at least before devs started being cute and hiding them for the sole purpose of aesthetics.
The density of water is so much higher than that of air (if you are comparing subsea potential energy storage with compressed air storage onshore). And there is a lot of unused space at the bottom of the sea.
Yes. Any new programming language needs to offer something more than just different syntax if it wants to be used by more than just a handful of people.
For me I was always struggled to get the phone to do what I wanted. Either selecting or moving the cursor. It works better for me now. You drag to select, tap to place a cursor, or “pick up” the cursor for more precise placement. i still use the long touch on the spacebar though out of habit. And it’s where my fingers are naturally most of the time when I’m doing stuff with text.

The gestures became more single purpose.

I get it that we like the way things work and when they get changed it’s annoying.

But unless you think the phone has reached the perfect interface with no room for improvement, you should continue to expect things to change.

If you do think it’s perfect, well, good for you. Stop upgrading, and you will at least have a few years of stability.