skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just tried this on iPadOS. It’s not quite as simple as you suggest; the steps are:

1. Hold down (long press? 3D Touch? I’ve never quite understood the difference) on the icon until a context menu appears. This is analogous to right-click.

2. Select “Rearrange Apps” from the menu - you need to know/guess that deleting is a sub-action of rearranging.

3. Click the familiar close icon that now appears.

Step 2. is the new one, and it introduces quite a lot of friction.

On the other side of the analogy, I think there was an easier (more discoverable) alternative to the right-click in win95 - certainly OSX - which was to drag the application to the recycle bin / trashcan.
I remember trying a linux desktop (same time frame I mentioned in my original comment, I had a department issued.. HP(?) and was sick of dealing with windows bullshit.

As a Novell shop I figured I'd give their desktop distro (effectively a customised SuSE from memory) a run a couple of times, and it used KDE. I seem to recall it was nicer than Gnome I'd used under RH a few years prior as a student, but felt much heavier on resource usage?
...uhm... what were those "sophisticated 3D games" on the ZX Spectrum?

There were a lot of "isometric top-down camera" games with a static non-scrolling background, but those were hardly taxing, as the background was "slowly" rendered upfront and didn't need to update each frame.
No, because India drives on the Left. That's a sixth of the world's population just in that country alone. Then Japan, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, etc.
The vast majority of people don't "choose" Windows any more than they "choose" the particular brand of tyres that comes on their car.
They do require you to restart the application. Same with Windows, it updates in background and requires a relaunch.
I'm with you on the disappointment. Devices like remarkable and onyx book do give me hope that we might be going somewhere (finally).

I remember there was a company that sold laptops with hybrid screens - that could do e-ink when used outside - but I think the screen manufacturer folded.

Good color would be nice - but it doesn't look like anything will beat oled in that department for the forseeable future.

If the remarkable or onyx devices were a bit more open - I would probably buy one. But as it is, both appear to be stubbornly making it difficult or impossible to install modified kernel/os :/
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> People claimed to "love" XP, but they are all rose tinted in memory.

I still boot an XP partition from time to time. To play old games that simply run with issues in more modern Windows. The issue is XP had the right APIs for game development, and then MS deprecated some great technologies in favour of XBox centered ones.

In new games I still miss the hardware accelerated positional audio XP has.
That. Is that really case? I mean honestly. I really suspect that a large part of the problem is the desire for people to have a house in the woods but I'm unclear as to how you could quantify that suspicion. Or who has.
They're back to 1750 after hours even after losing the JEDI contract and unimpressive earnings
> ...preventing devs/ops people to run tools like

This is because docker makes the fundamental mistake of conflating packaging with isolation. "Packaging" is achieved in docker by using the OS to do an amount of sandboxing and then letting the user perform whatever non-reproducible crap they like before balling the whole thing up and calling it a package.

If instead you make an app author actually figure out what their dependencies are and how to fetch/build them - in a system such as Nix, you not only get reproducible packages, you also get to decide to apply actual os-level isolation on a case by case basis - a developer doesn't necessarily need/want these barriers on their dev machine.
+1 In fact, I did this just last week. They both hang out after their shows until everyone that wants to meet them is able to. They also engaged in my attempts at conversation with far more grace than the attempts deserved. I look forward to the next opportunity I have to see their Vegas show again.
Politics is complex and deadlock preserves the current situation which some group considers preferable to change.

Consider, (53+25) = 78% of the US population believes Abortion should be legal in some or all situations. That’s why a total ban is rarely debated it’s a campaign issue, but making it illegal would quickly cost elections.

Restrictions on the other hand also have popular support (53 + 21) = 74%. Thus rather than a ban one party pushing for more restrictions. This is not a failure to achieve a ban, but rather a middle ground with significant popular support.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx
I think there's a big market out there for custom Web designs, but some part of it has been excluded (thanks to Web builders you've mentioned).

I think small companies that doesn't want an astonishing, unique website has gone to these, as in short term it's cheaper solution.

Most designers I know are no longer searching for I-need-simple-web-design but for clients that need complete design project/guidelines (that includes public facing website and internal admin panel etc.)
> and also a former independent state

All of America used to be independent. Especially Hawaii and Alaska. Should they secede?
You will most likely be partially liable for any accidents over 130kph because it is difficult for people to judge speeds over that amount.

This is why if you spend much time over that line, you will find that people will seemingly jump out from behind an LKW and cut you off. It's not because they're idiots or trying to intentionally crash, but rather they most likely completely misjudged your speed due to the innate human capacity for judging speed.

Therefore I've been told that while it's not against the StVO to drive over 130, doing so is a liability risk.
Was it something I said?
I was actually asked to play a board game during an interview. I was interviewing for a Big Financial Corp and in one of the sessions we were asked to play Pandemic [1]. The point was that Pandemic is a collaborative game, so it should reveal something about how we, well, collaborate. In a later session that I watched the interviewees were asked to play Forbidden Island, another cooperative game [2].

I don't know whether you can really get any insights into a person's mind from playing games with them, other than how they are when they play games. I mean, I really don't know. It's an attractive idea. And I've certainly formed general opinions about peoples' character based on how they behaved in games we played together.

By the way- I did get hired by Big Financial Corp. I ended up in the same team as one of the people who set up the Pandemic session and with that dude as a senior colleague. He was a keen gamer so we played Magic: the Gathering a few times. We stopped after a while because I kept kicking his ass and he didn't like it :|

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic_(board_game)

[2] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/65244/forbidden-island
First Impressions of 'Managed K3s'
Seriously? I can't tell if this is a joke or not.

But you do bring up an interesting point - I'd forgotten about ingestion via email. Worst case I suppose one might construct a pipeline that does conversion from epub to mobi and emails the result.

Is there a limit to the size of the library I wonder?
Yes, you are right. I believe that we software engineers should not dwell in such conservative states of mind and innovate and even break from standards when necessary. Bash and POSIX were good enough 30 years ago when they first appeared. Now they feel really dated.
The site uses Three for rendering and cannon for physics. It's open sourced at https://github.com/brunosimon/folio-2019 :)
Or you could just do this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Krugman&oldi...
No one really knows - there have been leaks saying multiple contradictory things over the years, which leads me to believe they're experimenting with a variety of storage technologies.
Ah, when someone questions your assertion, jump to what you perceive as an insult against them.

(a) no, I'm not saying everyone should use the same thing, or that my "definition" of worse is more valid than yours. But consider this context: The original linked email is about a list of glaring usability failures in Windows, experienced by someone who should at the very least be very familiar with the product. I commented and asked if it's really any different now, with some of my own perceptions and experiences, to which you replied and confirmed that it's not better, but that you somehow believe the alternatives are worse. This follows on as:

(b) no, I'm not a Linux Desktop evangelist. I mean, I'd definitely use it before I use fucking Windows, but I also don't recommend it to people. Servers? Absolutely. Desktops? I honestly don't have recent enough personal experience with it to recommend it.

So, somehow you've managed to agree with the premise that Windows is a dumpster fire of usability bullshit, but then also suggested every alternative is worse, and made a baseless claim about both what I believe, and my likelihood of pushing others to adopt the same viewpoint.

Great job.
Yeah. For example, Google pay also needs your location information and access to your contact lists in order to conduct any transaction. Unfortunately, the government (NPCI) owned BHIM app is plagued with all kinds of performance issues, and the transactions often fail. Otherwise, I wouldn't even have considered the Google or Flipkart owned payment apps.
His point was that it used to not be owned by the US.
I think you're mixing up "objective" with shared lived experience / perspective / values.

"Subjective" doesn't necessarily mean "highly varied" on a per-individual level. Mass appeal is about a group of people sharing perspective as a result of a common societal context.

Talk about being disrespectful to design as a profession: the psychology and context that informs such subjective views is a big part of design. Saying it's objective reduces something of deep complexity to a set of simplistic rules that can be blindly followed by anyone.
I bought a Kindle in 2012 and the thing just sits in a drawer now. The hardware's great but it's crippled by the software/DRM which now refuses any attempt to login. Can't work out whether it's due to the age of the device or the fact I've since moved to Japan (Amazon JP is "special" compared to virtually every other country). I won't be buying another one.
> move away from what we know and love

I didn't get the memo where we decided that we love JSON.
Tankers sail after U.S. allows sanctions-hit COSCO unit to wind down oil deals
This is an awesome simple idea. Might buy this. Brainstorming a bit and the concept of "notes" in relations to static hashes/urls/paths can probably be expanded or to other domains.
How come? The roads themselves certainly aren't the limiting factor, often you could go even faster.

> anything above 150-160kmh is pushing it for most of the highways I've traveled in Europe

Anything above 150-160kmh is certainly pushing it for most cars, the highways themselves tend to be fine for even faster speeds. There's a vast difference between speeding in a WV Polo and a BMW 7series, it's downright terrifying to go 160 in the Polo but the BMW won't start shaking like that even at 260.

I drive between Barcelona and Berlin pretty regularly, sometimes I go all the way to Bucharest. There are definitely stretches of road on those routes where you can't go fast in low traffic conditions, but they're in the minority.
If you have a model for which a jailbreak is available, this is possible:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=195474
Enjoy :-)
The TeX recreations are amazingly good quality. I would like to buy professional prints of some of them, but it does not seem that they are selling them.
China Tops World in Unicorns
And it was a completely different UI, forcing all the users to relearn most of the functionality. I suspect that such a user-hostile change was done in order to achieve a patentable UI, something that LibreOffice and others would not be able to copy.
Stop Storing Corporate Credentials in Google Docs or Slack
Sony's AIBO will be able to turn on microwaves, vacuum cleaners and more
It is now! Intel released the rights to USB-IF earlier this year, and it will be the basis of USB4: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/thunderbolt-3-become...
Why I'm using my own 3D game engine
Nah, I am in Europe and I have no problem viewing the PDF.
P2V a lot of legacy on-premises data centers and reap savings, much as many enterprises have been doing for a while.
Ant Financial(Ali PAY) is valued around $150B.
This would benefit from a comparison with current OpenMP/OpenACC (which supports offloading to attached processors in a standard way for C and Fortran, at least). Also, comparing with gcc 4.2 in the performance examples doesn't seem very useful; it didn't support AVX, regardless of auto-vectorization. (That's not meant to dismiss ISPC.)
First program I ever wrote on a Sinclair Spectrum was to spin a disk on the screen.

I was disappointed with the performance, so for the second program I precalculated the sin/cos values and stored them in an array (and learnt that all programming is an exercise in caching).

I was still disappointed with the performance, so the third program I wrote was a hex loader so I could poke machine code straight into it (had to run down to the local electronics store to pick up copy of the Z80 assembler manual). I then was happy with the speed.

That kickstarted a career in software development which I still derive immense enjoyment from.
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The diff algorithm/display is orthogonal to the data format; for example, I use the --color-words option to the git tools to use a word-oriented diff everywhere. I've even seen plugins floating around online for visual image diffs in git!

But again, all those tools are built for developers, and especially the ones used by git for internal purposes like for conflict resolution make some strong assumptions that don't hold for prose.
In e.g. Windows 95, there would often be a box around the text. Since the bottom of that box would not be visible, it would indicate that something is missing in that direction. Now that boxes (and other visual indicators) are gone, this kind of thing can happen.

I've always considered this a tradeoff, but I also get the feeling that some people did not even consider that the old designs had an actual reason in usability (for boxes, the second big reason is preattentive recognition in the human brain).
WikiLeaks: OPCW Whistleblower Panel on the Douma Attack
Really should of planned for.. over-the-air updates.
Thought this was a link to great reddit and youtube comments.
You sure you know what options the local carries does provide?
Ubisoft Plunges After Two Recent Games Fail to Deliver
Cool! How have you avoided being overshadowed by generalised tools like Squarespace or Wix though?

Personally i have had a few projects where "large competitors" suddenly overtook the market.

I guess you have some plugins that are very niche specific, or an interface geared towards creating designs for that sector?
I'm quite hopeful for the limited re-introduction of hypervisors to "containment", if only because I've become disappointed with the lack of power app authors have to specify fine-grained, strict security details. This is because most of the fun lockdown toys that linux has, selinux, seccomp et al aren't easily "stackable", and those toys have been used by the orchestrator to perform the containment. And that's great, but it means containers all end up with broad, generic policies (that only care about container breakout) which can't be further restricted by app/container authors.

My hope is that lightweight virtualisation will give back the ability for app authors to tighten their container's straight jackets. Personally I've got my eye on kata containers.
My points were more that:

- Sometimes the controversy is about the process, such as historical efforts for suffrage for women.

- Sometimes 90% vote benefits for themselves at the expense of 10%. Most unbalanced budgets fall in this category.

- Sometimes 10% people preserve benefits for themselves at the expense of everyone else.

Especially concerning about automatically hiding debates without consensus is that it hides things that are important or urgent but haven't reached consensus (yet).

Maybe there are other mechanisms to provide transparency there, but the article did not seem to describe any.
Yes, many people over-develop their sites. That doesn't mean a fast, small site is impossible. But most people are not trying to build the fastest most elegant site in the world - they are trying to solve a problem, and < 100ms isn't likely to be a requirement for most real-world solutions. Likewise, what does it matter how many DOM nodes there are, if it gets the job done?

If you are trying to argue that people should think about whether or not they need a framework, I'd agree. I'd also agree that framework-supported sites do make it difficult to use resources efficiently on mobile devices.

But this post feels analogous to criticizing a parent because their minivan isn't as cool as your convertible roadster. It isn't supposed to be. It just is supposed to get a job done.
Interactive Science Stories and AR = ARious
Explore, Interact and understand how legendary Scientist discovered/stumbled upon secrets of the Universe.
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Believe me, the corporate world that actually used Oracle database software (unlike the open-source friendly web company employees over represented in HN) hates Oracle even more with a passion, having actually experienced their racketeering license practices first hand.

Oracle and IBM are engaged in a race for irrelevance.
Runs at 1 FPS on my laptop. The web and browser truely is the future!
Using the new ribbon version of office I found out that document properties could only be inspected by clicking on a golden orb and going into a menu called "Publish". Similarly most other less-often used features became impossible to find. I've refused to use office for any substantial document ever since. I can only assume that this research was targeted at new users and not existing users.
Everyone Has JavaScript, Right?
Same deal with neo-liberalism actually. It wrecked New Zealand in the 80s and most politicians will at best admit it was flawed, yet it still continues to this very day because it's become institutionalised and utterly entrenched in our political system.
Come on operators, waive the bill for science!
Electric Vehicles Won’t Save the Planet or Survive Without Subsidies
Why? How much? Tell us the story of how it came about and how it is going. If it was going perfectly and growing, odds you you wouldn't be selling, so what problems would need to be fixed if someone were to buy it?
It's unfortunate that when they have migrated so many of these older Microsoft blogs around, so many of the images and links have rotted.
Except client A never crashed when receiving data from server A.

You can rightly argue that client A was irresponsible in not protecting itself more intelligently against invalid or unexpected inputs (dumping core is the crudest, bluntest protection there is; not the best choice in a distributed environment where transmission errors are a fact of life); but the system as a whole worked.

Had server B continued to supply client A with data in the format that client A expected to receive, no crash would have occurred and the entire rolling upgrade would have gone without a hitch. But no, the lazy irresponsible corner-cutting assholes couldn’t be arsed doing that; they just start pushing the new data to everyone, and then blame everyone but themselves when that goes sideways.

“The correct answer is to roll back.”

The correct answer is never to get into a state where rollback becomes necessary. Though having failed to do that, and so ended up in exactly this state, immediate rollback of B to A may well have been the next-best response, followed by system audit to determine what integrity/data loss has occurred and post-mortem of the procedures used, and subsequent corrections so that it doesn’t happen again.

But if you think a bunch of cowboys who were only too happy to shirk their responsibilities during the (private) development phase are suddenly going to own up and accept personal liability when it blows up in the (public) rollout phase, then boy, do I have an eight-figure Enterprise-y grade bridge to sell you.
I'm glad you're highlighting this. I see this happening all the time, with threads filled with generic comments about X just because X is in the title.
They did. It says so in the last paragraph of the article:

> Megafon's offer to bail out the team, reported by RIA Novosti news, means they can continue monitoring the eagles' routes, collecting vital data to help their survival.
Really awesome effort. My iPad heated up playing it for 5 mins. Fun game demo.
At the same time it's never been easier for producers of niche art to find their audience and capitalize on it, simply because the cost of production and distribution is nearing zero and there are basically no more gatekeepers (in the traditional sense).
I'd just like to be able to write apps for the remarkable. Even a free one.
Just because you're driving fast doesn't mean you have to be driving dangerously, but of course there's going to be a significant correlation as idiots also like to drive fast.

I have no problem slowing down from 200 to 130 whenever I approach an entry ramp or pass a big truck, and I certainly aggressively avoid situations where I'd have to do so frequently.

Also, while going over 130 might strictly be a liability risk it does not mean that you're going to automatically be liable. See this case of a guy going 150, he didn't do anything wrong and wasn't held liable https://www.verkehrsrundschau.de/nachrichten/urteil-schnelle...
Set up a Datascience Virtual Machine next time. Everything prepackaged (Visual Studio, SQL, Python, Julia, lots of other packages for Datascience) and low cost and no licensing problems to deal with.
Not really a fan of "fun" interviews.

Interviews are a test, and everything you do during an interview will be treated as such, even meals sometimes. That board game won't be the kind of fun game you have with your friends.

So unless board games, or whatever activity is related to the job, I would keep the interview to the point. If it is somehow related to the job as the article makes it to be, then the "fun" argument doesn't hold. In fact, to some candidates, it may end up being the most stressful part of the interview.
Please don't lecture me on antisemitism because my post went over your head. You're both wrong and obscuring the fact that Hebrew truly is a language conducive to accountancy and banking. That being widely known (+ the availability of language learning resources) is an antidote to antisemitism. As a matter of fact, the flagging of my post and your comment are both manifestations of antisemitism.

It's not "racist" or "immoral" or "divisive" to note that different languages have different properties. To claim otherwise is harmful at best, and evil at worst.

This reaction is exactly why I added the footnote. I truly dislike most people. Jews are better than average in my eyes. I've supported Israel in the past, and it's still a country I'd like to visit some day. Leave me alone with your politics. I don't give a shit about what groups of smelly meatsacks you want to attack or defend.
It’s hard to give a good answer as I’m not privy to what was going on within Apple when he worked there. If I had to guess, I would say that Apples future was safe after the release of the first iPhone, and that Jobs could have stepped down at that point and the company would have done just fine.