skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On various apps, with Google Chrome/Android being the worst, it can take minutes to scroll through pages / tabs.

I tend to have a lot of browser tabs open (well over 1,000 on desktop Firefox, which actually is fairly managable), and on Android there's simply no way to deal with more than ~20 (which I can easily hit in a minute or so).

Firefox/Android is far better in this regard, but on my device is so slow (literally minutes for UI responses) as to be unusable. Yes, despite numerous touted "performance" improvements. I'd very much like to switch. I simply cannot.

On Pocket, which is mentioned in the article and with a longer linked Reddit post ("It gets worse the more you use it"), it takes several minutes to scroll through my Tags list, with absolutely no search or keyboard accelleration possible. This on a tablet with an attached Bluetooth keyboard.

Tablet/mobile usability is complete crap, which is disappointing as tablet form-factor is otherwise promising. (Subject of yet another rant, this also on Ello.)

OP, FWIW.
This is quite similar to a project that we did in college as part of a introduction to data science course. The professor built a sensor using an array of different smoke detectors, then pumped air over different liquids (coffee, Coke, OJ, etc) then through the sensor array, capturing the signal strength in a text document. We used different classification techniques to determine the composition of unknown liquids.
I'm mystified every time I try to find my contacts from Gmail. I understand that it's a separate app (I think), but did anyone stop and think that the two apps might warrant a bit tighter coupling (at least in menu placement)?
For Want of a Nail
After moving to Southern California I stumbled across these while hiking in the mountains. At first I was sure that they were a fungus. Turns out, they're a plant. Red, parasitic, plants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcodes

Edit: Another similar plant which grow all around where I grew up in Maine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora
Yes indeed, if only they would "inform end users of the change".

Unfortunately that would require that end users a) read such information (given the truism that "users don't read"), I would ouputr this at a vanishingly small likelihood, and b) summoned such information to mind when using their device.

The only people who would read this sort of information are techies it closer techies. It's certainly not my aged mother.

The real solution is to stick with some time proven UI techniques. As the author says, like scroll bars.

Instead, we have form over functionality writ large.
I always turn on the menu bar on the desktop. Screen real estate is valuable, but using some on a menu bar is a very worthwhile expenditure, in my opinion.

I know about the "Alt" key, but I find the need to press that to pop up the menu to be incredibly annoying.
Ransomware and hospital data breaches linked to uptick in fatal heart attacks
You misunderstand defined's post. He's not saying that ZATAOMM is a high quality book, because the author was obsessed with ensuring that his book was of high quality. If that was the case, you would be (mostly) right, as there is a subjective aspect to determining quality.

No.

ZATAOMM is a book about the philosophical concept of "Quality". What is "Quality"? What do we mean when we say the word "quality"? How does that understanding, or lack thereof, impact our life, sciences, and society?

That is what defined meant. Read with that understanding, defined's statement reads:

I believe ZATAOMM is a work of genius, that was only possible due to the author's obsession with learning everything he could about the topic of the book before writing it.
Yes, but that has it's own challenges with spam protection, privacy laws, users not spelling their email correctly etc, and you still need an email address to receive those messages (or check for new form entries regularly), so an email address is often used as a shortcut.
Hmmm, this is the best justification I've heard to replace cars with bionic ants.
Obviously that's not possible because Vice doesn't give any context. Your line of thinking has me worried-- finding context shouldn't be left as an exercise to the reader.
Money can't buy taste.
Yes?

Your point: >>The point of all of this, I feel is that to many people, the epiphany the article is making was quite obvious, although it is neat to see this quantified.

Their Point: >> A fourth study indicated that these findings are not intuitively obvious to most laypersons since only one in four laypeople (24%) anticipated these findings (and with most people predicting no gender difference).

Your point and their point are in conflict. You say "many people think this finding is quite obvious". I guess 24% is technically "many" people, but it's a clear minority. I wouldn't describe something that only 1:4 people expected as being something "many people" expected. Maybe "some" or "a minority of people".
Cool question actually. We don’t terminate SSH, the server is used to distribute trust, so while technically possible that this could change, or there is some attack vector we did not think of, the implementation is careful to avoid that.
One of the carrots is that your article is more likely to be recommended to people.
You have to really consider that in a country like the UK, a lot of people exist that aren't in poverty. I imagine the same is true globally.

People don't respond very elastically to small percentage differences in price for something they want unless they're at the margin.

They don't buy the literal cheapest thing available - they buy the thing they want. Zero hour workers might run on Tesco Value digestive biscuits, basic pasta, fruit and veg, etc, but there are tens of millions not in that situation.

If you have your basic needs taken care of and a buffer above that, then an SUV using 25% more fuel or whatever just doesn't really matter from a cost perspective.

https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tables

Want a 250g/km vehicle? Just pay 2 grand a year. Eminently affordable for like, the second most expensive thing most people buy.

If you want this sort of thing to reduce, you need to price it at a level that fewer people can afford to pay.
OTOH, we also have the problem where many a new feature launches a parade in its own honor, with notifcations and badges and and modal popups when the user is trying to do something else. Google/Android is much worse about this than iOS, though.
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Can Help the News Business
I don't know how much smooth talking that required. I don't see how Apple would have penetrated the Japanese market otherwise.

iPhones were a literal sea change compared to how folks used phones in Japan at the time. iMode _dominated_ the market there.
A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula
Exactly. A full fundamental attack on ownership. You must rent everything. This is applying all over the place, and copyright is the linchpin to preventing ownership.
> Jonny Ive

Ah, this would explain that. I seem to remember that he did not want to deal with software design, but pretty much had to to fill the gap after Jobs passed away. something along those lines. I'll cut him some slack for the monumental achievements in his career, but Apple as a company should re-think their UX strategy for the 2020's imho.

And thank you for a nice trip via MacOS 9 memory lane!
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> Wind and solar is only electricity. Electricity is 15-20 percent of our energy needs.

It depends on how you look at it. Solar and wind energy is absolutely used for growing crops for example. Oil also, of course, for creating fertilizers.

> Wind and solar needs backup sources from either gas, coal, nuclear or oil because of the intermittency issue and low capacity factor.

Not really. Availability might be an issue for onshore wind but not for offshore. 200 meters up in the air, out in the North sea it blows a lot! In addition, hydro power can be used to balance out the supply.

One can always conjure some "perfect storm" scenario in which it isn't windy so no wind power, cloudy so no solar power and not enough water so no hydro power and ask what happens then? But what is the probability of such a situation ever occurring? If it is incredibly low, then I don't think it makes sense to consider it.
Univac built a 4 bit computer that ran off of compressed air using fluidics[0]. Making a TV would be much more difficult though. It is very difficult to make mechanical systems that can interact with electromagnetic radiation or work at similar frequencies. However we can get pretty far. The Scophony television is almost entirely mechanical. We feed the TV signal into a piezoelectric crystal which creates an ultrasonic wave that propagates through a clear fluid filled cell. We can shine light through this and the propagating wave will cause changes in light intensity due to the density variations. We can then scan this line of changing intensities through a some rotating mirrors to make a picture. Perhaps with an intense enough signal we could drive the piezoelectric directly, or perhaps we can make a MEMS based mechanical amplifier to amplify the tiny vibrations produced by a piezoelectric element directly driven by RF.

[0]https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1464112
[1]http://www.bluehaze.com.au/modlight/UltrasoundMod.htm
I disagree, but I don't have time to elaborate this morning. FWIW:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-prime

Cheers.
I would have assumed the second used the term landed to mean acquired. But only after being told that it’s meaning is supposed to be different from the first. With no other context from those two sentences, I’d have guessed #2 Meant land the same way as #1

One other point: I’ve never heard the term “landed” to mean “grounded”, which is maybe the actual intent of #2, but maybe the ai sentence generation is off.....
Well no, the point of a file hierarchy is that it should be well, a hierarchy.

In other words each level should sub-divide your files into further obvious (whatever that means to you) subcategories.
> the institution who defines the institutionnal use of the official language in the state

... and forcing everyone to put up signs in French [1]. Compelled speech, if you will.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois_de_...
Satellite captures rare images of atmospheric gravity waves
> Heat lost to the water (maybe half of the energy input to compressed air) could be reclaimed as the pressure is released, with simple heat exchangers.

Heat lost to the water is lost. If you want to try to avoid that you need to save that heat energy after the compression stage.
The trick would have been to adjust the gas tax as the crude prices fell to keep the overall fall relatively modest. But of course that boat has sailed.
Sure, that's the incentive. But then why aren't their managers laying off or reassigning the staff who have nothing to do but fiddle with things that were already fine? The problem goes right to the top of product development leadership.
Would be good, trouble is, where would we ask such a thing? Nobody would be on HN unless they were fluent enough in English to find it interesting to browse English comments and discussions. Presumably there are some Arabic-only tech forums out there somewhere for people who want to talk about technical things but don't feel comfortable enough with English. But then I suppose there's probably a few of those, all with different cultures, and the result would depend on the culture of that board.
> That's enough with sealed phones...

People want IP ratings. What same people don't understand is that most phone makers tell you it is not permanent. And same people also don't understand that IP ratings are not ratings of waterproof-ness (which, by definition, would not need a rating).
Yeah, the correct term is civilian or more commonly known as civvy. Error, in translation? Or they may need to be a Dutch citizen for security clearance, which would make sense.

It does sound similar to the UK's version, and I'm sure most countries have some sort of cyber division by now. Plus there's suppliers and consultants, like traditional forensics and computer forensics/ data retrieval e.g.
Hyundai and Pony.ai Launching Southern California’s First Robotaxi Pilot Program
Yeah I also used triggers at the start. There are 2 things that this implementation achieve over triggers.

1. Triggers have an 8000 byte limit. I ran against these limits pretty quickly

2. You need to attach the trigger each time you create a new table. With this you can set and forget
Webdev Auto-Reload in 12 Kilobytes, Zero Dependencies
I thought it was OK, but I felt it was more a critique of philosophy as shoe-horned into a purely analytical method than something that would appeal to most folks.

From Wikipedia [0]:

> The narrator examines the modern pursuit of "Pure Truths", claiming it derives from the work of early Greek philosophers who were establishing the concept of truth in opposition to the force of "The Good". He argues that although rational thought may find a truth (or The Truth) it may never be fully and universally applicable to every individual's experience. Therefore, what is needed is an approach to life that is more inclusive and has a wider range of application. He makes a case that originally the Greeks did not distinguish between "Quality" and "Truth"—they were one and the same, arete—and that the divorce was, in fact, artificial (though needed at the time) and is now a source of much frustration and unhappiness in the world, particularly overall dissatisfaction with modern life.

Socrates in Plato's writing focused acutely on finding these capital-T Truths that were universal. The book argues that focusing exclusively on this can't fully inform you on how to live a good life.

Note that arete means both quality and skill. To simplify a bit a person's character was believed to be built on virtue, and someone who was a "skillful" (arete) at being a person was a virtuous person.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_...
Humans don't have gender and they cannot have. Now the word gender replaced my terms. Humans have fantasies, delusions, traumas, etc. but gender, it's not even close. A person who identifies as an attack helicopter is not an attack helicopter, cannot be. You cannot auto assign yourself a kind of identify you're not.
I was served terminal advertisements on a recent Javascript project because its auto-reload dev-dependency pulled in a compromised package. So in retaliation I made my own implementation in Java, with 0 dependencies and low memory usage, using NIO Buffers and FileChannels.

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I hear this a lot, but I see prices within one city varying by up to $0.80.
> There's no such thing as "native widgets" in a web app.

HTML form elements are essentially "native" widgets, if only native to the browser. The problem with them is that older browsers lack support for many desirable widgets (e.g. calendar date entry), so some "UI-building" work is still needed.
how does SAML fit into this? That one confuses me.
I don't get these arguments. Surely it's simply about picking out pattern in the world that surrounds you. Finding a mathematical system that is useful us akin to spotting a recurring pattern in a picture. Do we say the pattern in this or that picture is universal? Maybe. Maybe not. But to imagine that aliens will have trouble spotting the same patterns as us is not a question about the ultimate meaning of the patterns, it's only a question about the distribution of those patterns wrt their usefulness.
I'm be based in Paris and working on not the sexiest idea : a graphite/prometheus/influx Saas platform. The goal is to have a robust platform where companies and developers can throw their metrics and use a hosted or on-premise grafana to graph the data.
I have other Ideas much more sexy but want to make this work first

Anyone interested ?
> I prefer it to disappear when I don't need it.

My strong preference is the exact opposite of this. I want it to be there, full size, any time that scrolling is possible.

It seems that this is something that should be user configurable.
Yeah, and nobody would know about the new URL, effectively having the same result as a successful DDoS. On the other hand, notifying your users of the URL change will also notify the attackers.

I've seen the response to DDoS mostly be a multiple public URLs, but it seems the results varied greatly, and since these operations are typically very secretive, they won't publish a lot of information (is the ddos still active but they are mitigating it? has the ddos stopped because they mitigated it? have they paid the attackers? etc).
You are right that it's interesting to compare Futhark-on-GPU with X-on-GPU for various values of X. In most of our academic work, that is what we do.

However, in practice, X-on-GPU where X is not Futhark is rare, because GPU programming is notoriously difficult and time-consuming. Futhark's purpose is to make high-performance data-parallel programming more accessible, even if you could potentially write a faster program yourself.

There are no empirical measurements that I know of, but I would not be surprised if it is a hundred times faster to write a Futhark program than the corresponding OpenCL program. CUDA fares a little better, but not by much. So even if your hand-written program might be twice as fast as Futhark, do you really have the time to write it in the first place? And if you later want to make a small change to its logic (say, adding another parallel loop on top), you may need to rework all of your optimisations from scratch.
Did not catch that, thanks for pointing out. Also got a bit emotional..
This comment was typed on an iPhone 4s. It is ancient and is on its 4-5th screen, second ear microphone and second power button. I did all the repairs myself usually following ifixit website.
Taken from the Wikipedia page on terminal velocity, and quoted from the biologist J. B. S. Haldane:

"To the mouse and any smaller animal [gravity] presents practically no dangers. You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes. For the resistance presented to movement by the air is proportional to the surface of the moving object."
>None of the chains would build because there was no sewer system.

They also spent quite some time negotiating with San Antonio to connect them to their sewer network. The final deal would've had San Antonio covering most of the costs, but the mayor of Von Ormy refused to raise taxes or take a loan to cover the deal.
So turn on scrollbars at the OS level?
Great thanks for the reply, I'll check out the video!
If you want to have a good scrolling experience with quick navigation for long articles on mobile try Opera browser.

Opera double tap zoom is also the only one that can relayout non-mobile friendly desktop paragraphs to mobile format.
That's an incredible level of detail in that explanation.
Is that any less appropriate a name than "Python"?
I actually used Firebase at the start but this implementation is so that we can migrate 100% to Postgres. I agree though, Rethink is awesome
Can you share more about the private and mutable data functionality for Firebase? I used them a few years back, and never really understood how to do private data without building my own ACL inside Firebase.
KDE or plasma whatever its name, is basically unchanged from 1995 UI philosophy. The closest we can have today in 2019.
As Apple's first human-interface designer puts it, Apple optmizes for looks good in a demo.

Apple targets computer shoppers, not computer users.

https://asktog.com/atc/the-third-user/
Connecting Binance Data to Next-Gen DeFi Applications Using Chainlink Oracles
Yeah, Latin and Greek became somewhat more analytic during the time periods where a lot of foreign speakers were adopting them as their main languages. (That was during the Roman period, not the Middle Ages, for Latin; Latin in the Middle Ages was a dead language used only by learned people in non-everyday contexts, so its grammar was mostly preserved.) I don't know about Arabic.
It is.

I'd posted a link to the piece on that discussion and decided to toss it into the submission queue on a lark. This got more attention than I'd expected.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21356495
I don't think this is new. Many email providers will throttle / blackhole you if they decide you're sending too fast or see too many bounces.

Slow down your send rate, make sure your server is configured correctly, and prune your lists.
>but you still want to be able to repair that phone rather than throw it away

But I don't agree that this "want" should be a legal requirement. I think it's perfectly acceptable and reasonable that it's possible for someone to cause a level of damage to their property that will destroy said property, leaving it totaled/unsalvageable. In general, where it won't hurt anyone else, that's a matter for individuals. It can be dealt with via insurance, or by buying products that cater to it through higher durability (or conversely just plain being cheaper, spend 1/10 as much and expect to replace them more often).

But that involves tradeoffs and costs which are subjective in value, so I don't think it should be the subject of legislation. The principle I'm stating is fully generalizable, it's not an electronics thing it covers everything. Everything you buy should last under regular use for a reasonable lifetime given the price, no tricks with secret information that the manufacturer knows but that the customer does not. That's foundational to functioning markets. But think about what you're saying, how would it apply to the many beautiful but more fragile decorative things many of us like to buy? Many of those make use of hard but brittle materials like glass. It's reasonable to expect they'll perform as advertises in regular environmental conditions, and not just shatter from regular indoor temperature differentials for example. But if they are dropped and smash parts may not be repairable, and that's fine.

Also, I want to note that as I said in another reply I can fully see and support an exception for any purely soft restrictions like encrypted components. A company shouldn't be able to prevent you from attempting any repair or modification you like on a product you bought from them. I absolutely support a law requiring that at time of purchase you be offered root hardware keys, root software keys, or both (on some devices I'd want both, on some only software). But I'm not in favor of the more generalized arguments for "repairability" that I've seen, and I think it wastes a big opportunity to try to fix a major market failure in America at least. 90 day/1 year standard warranties are utter bullshit.
And that's the problem. I imagine those Mac users chose it because they like the OS' conventions. Photoshop seems to have gone the other way from using OS conventions to doing their own thing the same on each platform. iTunes, which didn't always follow macOS conventions, did port everything to Windows.
I do see a lot of Windows software and utilities that have tried to copy it; there's a set of Telerik controls implementing most of the pattern.

It's just unfortunate, because it started the trend of reducing and hiding functionality. With less examples of what high density software looked and worked like, people don't even know what they are missing.

Then they briefly tried to push the one interface for every device holy grail with Windows 8 and UWP. Thankfully that was abortove, but it's still poisoned things more and hurt information density in its fallout.
Many quarries are on mountains and this is not an uncommon scenario.