skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Checking to see if something scrolls is way easier than looking at a design, calculating in your head if the margins look equidistant from one another thus deducing that it must be the bottom of the screen.

I disagree, because you're not calculating anything. You just see the existence of a scrollbar and know immediately that the content exceeds the viewport and you can scroll. That's it. It's at least an order of magnitude faster than the alternative of "checking" because it happens instinctively without the slightest motor movement.

"Checking to see if something scrolls" means some form of finger or hand movement.

I know what you're saying though, because I do see people do it all the time. There is an awkward, to me, pattern of "I just started reading, so let's shake the content up and down to get oriented." It's just as foreign to me as people who highlight text as they're reading. Not my thing, but whatever. (On the highlighting behavior, I always figured it's both a visual cue and at least partially a matter of highlighted text becoming light-on-blue, which is easier to read than most web pages' black-on-white.)

> I always thought 'below the fold' was so overused or at least only for people who never use a computer, but I guess that's definitely wrong.

That advice was commonly head in web design and it wasn't really about people not knowing whether they can scroll or not. But rather, that visitors might just decide not to scroll before they leave your content because the first page is so uninteresting to them. It's because scrolling requires interaction that you're motivated to make the "above the fold" content grab their attention.

A behavior of "let's see if this scrolls by actually scrolling" is, in my opinion, an anti-pattern of bad UX.
There's an equally useful conversation around unsustainable use of resources - for instance overuse of water which would seem to be particularly precious in a region known for frequent droughts. Climate warming may worsen those, or they may happen more frequently, yet there's a whole world of potential human stupidity and short-sightedness to consider before that rates a single mention.
The Windows 95/98 scroll bars were vastly superior to those in Win10. No matter the size of the window or the scrollable content, you can tell what is the scroll bar and what isn't. On Win 10 it's sometimes ambiguous. Removing the scroll bar when you're not scrolling is the worst design decision.
This is a perfect example of an attempt at Kafkatrapping, specifically I'd say it is a "model S" Kafkatrap: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2122

> Skepticism about any particular anecdotal account of {sin,racism,sexism,homophobia,oppression,…}, or any attempt to deny that the particular anecdote implies a systemic problem in which you are one of the guilty parties, is itself sufficient to establish your guilt.
I mean, isn't incremental observations how science works? We got to the theory of evolution built on finch beaks in the galapagos.
The practical difference between this ideal and our own lives is so minute that the entire idea of shunning modern technology past an arbitrary date still doesn't end up making any sense. We sometimes hold up the Amish and similar communities as "more pure" versions of ourselves, when in reality they are families just like our own - just with (IMO oppressive and patriarchal) orthodox beliefs applied.

Any digital household can attest to maintaining rules like:

"No phones at the dinner table"

"No TV until after dinner and homework"

Is it also not possible to interrupt attentive family time with books and toys, or any other non-digital distractions? Maintaining rules and family time in a household isn't unique to these communities.
To where and how? Electricity is not something you can export when your main grid is 5000km from your nearest neighbour
This has been obvious for a very long time, but denied by mainstream media and "modern science" cheerleaders, including here on HN. It's insanity to undergo chemo where so many highly effective alternative options exist. The fact that those often get shut down in a conversation actually kills people.
Definitely, it has its problems. The documentation also seems to lag behind the product (and there are duplicated pages for CE and EE, very confusing).

Personally it was easy for me to switch from travis because all my CI scripts are actually bash scripts, so the .yml CI file is just a few lines pointing to those scripts. All I had to do with gitlab was make a base image to be the "CI image" with all the tooling necessary + docker-in-docker.
As someone that has spent years in consultancies and agencies, this one stings a lot.

A slightly different scenario I see all the time, even today, is when a company takes on a fixed-cost job to build something. We come up with a basic MVP feature set, run it through the standard MoSCoW process, and then estimate how long each feature will take.

We end up with a final figure, and it's over budget. We strip things out, and it's still over budget. Rather than cut out features the client wants, estimates are cut down to fit the budget, or planning time is stripped out and we're expected to go straight into a build.

Funny enough, these projects always run over, and we always end up missing a ton of stuff the client wanted, because in the process of being lean we forgot to do any kind of documentation of changes, or to explicitly get in writing what the feature is supposed to do.
Alternate on same:

How SoftBank made WeWork an offer it had to accept

https://in.reuters.com/article/us-wework-m-a-softbank-group/...
> Is working at a coffee shop "surveillance"?

Also, not even close. You notice when a creep is staring at you nonstop in person. Let me redirect you to the dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surveillance
Without a compass, it seems like this would cumulate error in less than a mile that would make it useless for navigation. A turn or two of one wheel would make the doll point in the opposite direction, yet driving over rough terrain for a mile would cumulate at least a few turns difference. It seems like this is its true purpose instead:

>If the real purposes of the chariot and the accounts of it were amusement and impressing visiting foreigners, rather than actual long-distance navigation, then its inaccuracy might not have been important.
Semi related question: Did you pick up the word "grok" from reading Stranger in a Strange Land or from somewhere else?

That book was so much about the importance of the martian language and how language shapes perception.
Multi-Lingual Notebook with Inter-Cell Dependency Tracking
The natural state of the ecosystem is a desert. We could try to plant trees to help control the moisture in the soil and evaporation, but it would be an artificial ecosystem, propped up by human intervention.
I was just trying to select all before giving up and manually moving the edges of the selection bar. Eventually I found out you can only select all when you have nothing selected and hold the cursor and release. And I'm 20...
KDAB helped unu build the UI for their next generation electric scooter
1. Thank you!

2. It’s a challenge because someone would need to approve submitted content, but I hope we’ll figure something out
After I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, I went and bought myself a ‘71 Honda CB350, almost the exact bike Pirsig rode in his book. I found that fixing this motorcycle, taking it apart, fixing internal component, figuring out how everything ties together, and upgrading worn out or otherwise non-functional components, and putting it all back together, felt extraordinarily similar to my day job as a software engineer. There’s even the same “loop”: fix one thing, turn it on to test, then turn it off again and fix the next thing. The turnaround time is waaaaayy slower, and there’s a lot more opportunity to hurt yourself, but the skills as a programmer translate very well to motorcycle maintenance. Interesting to see that I’m not the only one who sees these similarities.
I mean, I'm 33 so being considered "young" is a matter of perspective I suppose.

I don't really care about stickers, but I do care about being able to back up my conversations, being able to use any device I have at hand, and being able to do so with Siri voice activation if I'm driving.
I always thought mining equipment intentionally runs on hydraulic power (and pneumatic back in the day) to avoid sparks that could set off possible gas or dust particle explosion. With brushless motors etc I can imagine how electric can match the safety of hydraulic power, but lithium-ion batteries in a mine? That is a horrible accident waiting to happen. What if the battery is pierced by something? What if it shorts internally when due to an accident? I wouldn't want to be anywhere near it when that happens. We limit the size of lithium-ion batteries we can fly with precisely for the same reason.
At least Android allows me to use different apps as default. That lets me pick and choose my UI.

On iOS, if I want to use Siri, I'm stuck with Apple Maps, etc.
That has similar drawbacks of hiding the subtlety behind how Monty is being modeled. The tree you've drawn will tend to lead people to the wrong answer if you ask whether switching improves your odds when Monty doesn't know which door has the car.
I have heard complaints about this too in the form of "Whatever you do, don't upgrade to iOS 13." (Me: "I've been running 13 since July..")
Why are you against collective action? Because it could ... make a difference or something?
« the French language police of Québec » = the institution who defines the institutionnal use of the official language in the state, like all countries in the world do. France have almost the same laws as Law 101.
Or the "shake to undo" in Notes on iOS that is totally undiscoverable. Also, three fingers gestures, 4 key keyboard shortcuts and ton of UI that changes when alt is pressed, Apple OS are actually harder to use than Windows in some respect.
That didn't work for me. Because if you had been choosing randomly (i.e., did not know which door had the prize), my understand is that the last two doors are still 50/50?

It's only when the person opening the door knows where the prize is, that I should always switch?
We've all seen incredible things built in spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are plenty powerful. I haven't met a clever+motivated person yet that couldn't build something incredible in a spreadsheet.

What I think is missing is a way to help the author (and other team members) make sense of the artifact as it gets more complex.

Much of the development in computer languages and toolsets in the last 50 years have helped us make sense of ever-increasingly complex programs.

With spreadsheets for example, you are basically forced to find a cell that seems to have data you like. Then you have to back-track formula references + check for macros/scripts and hope that no references have broken.

I humbly submit this is a problem that a team like the Coda team should be solving.
Because the people who built Facebook or Twitter don’t do that, right? Let’s be serious.
Using Deep Learning to Predict the Olfactory Properties of Molecules
> Apparently the largest electric mining trucks on earth never have to charge.

Well that can't be true.
Typically power is exported by smelting aluminum from bauxite. A big advantage of doing it this way is you can run the smelters only when there is an overproduction of power to help even out demand on the grid.
Ironic? I think one of the main reasons English has become such an international language is how bastardized it is and how easily words & phrases are borrowed from other languages.
This tutorial helped me to step away from the Fixed Function pipeline and finally grok the shader based programmable pipeline. (I am a hobbyist).

Glumpy, which is used in this tutorial -https://glumpy.github.io/, is IMO the best way to work through https://thebookofshaders.com/ in python for a deeper understanding of fragment shaders.
Hey there! Hacker News guidelines specifically ask that you not imply a commenter has not read the article.

Your point (which is a good one) can be made even more strongly by saying

“From the article ...”
Wow what was the asshole company that did this?
It took me a few rounds to detect this trick. I had a boss who would pick up on clues from upper management on where they may be headed. He would come back to our team, and throw everyone at a problem. "This is a priority for management.", he'd tell us. We'd solve the problem. About half the time, the solution would die right there, because management never requested it.

What he was actually doing was trying to guess what upper management wanted before they requested it. This way, when the request did come through, he'd have the solution on the spot. It made him look great. It wasted about half our team's time. One thing it did do for us is give us more experience in solving new problems, but at the expense of getting our day-to-day work done on time.

But I did get to the point of not being so eager to jump on his "call to action" meetings unless I had outside verification that it was an actual call to action by management.

He ended up being the head guy in charge of IT.
Is it untrue? For example, traffic waves cause traffic jams. Traffic waves could be avoided, or significantly lessened, if people left more room while driving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_wave
General employment tricks:

- Asking you your current pay. Not answering when you ask them their budget. A good answer is to discuss the other offers you have on the table.

- Getting private info by asking you to correct something false. "So you made 80,000" will get an answer better than "How much were you paid?"

- Repeatedly asking you the same question because they don't trust you and have read they'll "get the real answer" if they ask three times.
I seem to recall an article many years ago about with the advent of fire, humans were able to cook meat which allowed their brains to develop better which made us more intelligent. I can see that correlation with decreased use of meat causing something like that to happen.
An air leak usually doesn't cause damage.
cmake is mediocre. Bazel is the future.
Buying a billion dollar product for $1 is a funny kind of aid. But yes, Boeing was the aggressor here.
The "How it Works" section should be at the very top of the page, because it's the part that tells you wtf this service does.
Belenarnau7
Aesop Brand Fable
"how seemingly small niches can add up to billion dollar markets"
Monoid homomorphisms for the win. I discussed a very similar approach for computing the length of the longest line in a "rope science" article[1], as well as unquoting strings[2]. In this case, it was very nice to see actual code, and Futhark looks like a good language. For the string unescaping, I used Nvidia's Thrust, which is a templated C++ library; generally pretty similar to the Futhark code, and generally similar results.

[1]: https://xi-editor.io/docs/rope_science_01.html

[2]: https://raphlinus.github.io/personal/2018/04/25/gpu-unescapi...
Oslo is planing to go zero emission on all it's construction sites. [1]

This charger could be handy for them too :)

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https%3...
Manager: When can you have this task done?

Employee: I'll shoot for <day>.

Mgr: Why can't we do <day-2>?

This was common in my team meetings at my last company. The boss was an asshole in general. He would always reframe things to put tons of pressure on you to get things done in unreasonable timelines, but he insisted this was normal and the onus is now on you to explain why we can't get this done in a "normal" timeframe. In front of the rest of the team.

Needless to say, if you're shy (or too nice), you'll buckle and try to get it done, and work yourself too hard.
Is this true for same-sex couples, too? (Meaning, for example, that two gay men will on average have more positive attitudes towards ex-partners than two women, on average?)
Australia has plentiful uranium reserves, relatively dry climate, a well-educated population, and huge amounts of empty space. Seems tailor made for nuclear powered desalinization.
Wow! Sorry about that. This must have hurt a lot. It's funny how sometimes it's all about appearances,
- Leaving slack on
- Taking your laptop home with you even if you don't work
- Randomly send message on the week-end.
I've not done it, but I've seen people do this
the ticket exists and has been reviewed by a Product Owner, however, the other dev doesn't accept it because it's not submitted by a customer
Southwest U.S. – over 20 interesting key facts
To be fair, low interest rates all over the world are leaving zombie companies alive everywhere.

In Japan, the problem is particularly absurd -- with the BoJ owning like 77.5% of their ETF market, and days passing where not a single Japanese bond sells (of which there are USD $10 Trillion outstanding, and the BoJ owns 43%!)
Speaking of RA, I thoroughly enjoyed the latest podcast with a mix from Aïsha Devi.

https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=699
Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

Yes, the text on that page can be interpreted as supporting your position. Still, "Offer a password manager..." is not quite the same thing as "silently read all of your passwords and do whatever the extension wants with them..." I have a very hard time believing that the latter is the case and that no one has sounded the alarm on this yet.

Also, add-ons have been deprecated in favor of extensions.
Thank you! This is like therapy for me. The slack one especially is so bad. How does that happen?
End of the day, an Oauth2 user is just an user admin that creates a child user account for each app, with restricted permissions. Then the app logins with "their" username (client ID) and password (client secret).
I'm in the market for the same type of service.

The pricing of Auth0 would never work out (our accounts are free and no one is paying us per account directly) for us.
True.

Thing is, they already talk about these men before they are exes.

I get the whole story, from first meeting to breakup.
> Do you actually think anti-car people are actually that stupid or inconsiderate?

Yes, I see a lot of abelism on NUMTOTs and the like. And I already get a ton of vitriol because my disability isn't very visible.
My mistake - I had overlooked the AX-* scores being expressly omitted from these benchmarks. Maybe it is possible, then, that they could provide the additional headroom for further research?

Regardless of the status of the AX-* tests, I am very impressed by your results on the SuperGLUE benchmark.
Note that "a lot of spammers" isn't really a lot in laymen terms. It varies by provider, but last I worked on this if anywhere from 2-5% of all emails you send are clicked as spam the provider will start blocking you.

We got blocked once because we got a single spam click: the ISP said they have a zero tolerance policy. We had years of sending hundreds of email per week without a spam click.
Management in IT was big on chain of command at that time. If the director of IT was insecure and wanted to filter bad news through him before going further up. Because this person went to the director’s boss, it angered the director.
They sort of do, if you opt into Gmail's tabs feature.
No, it's definitely a Linux thing too. Linux Desktop community in general doesn't care what anyone's experience is except their own, and if you're not a C programmer who's willing to fork the code to make the change you want (because they almost certainly won't accept your patch), then screw you.

Common phrases heard on Linux Desktop software issue trackers and forums:

"Why would you want that?"
"You don't want to do that, do it <the way I do it>."
"Works on my machine."
"PRs are welcome."
"We've rejected your PR because there isn't any demand for this."

This is the community that thinks .desktop files are a good idea and largely uses the GUI as a really fancy tmux. They're hopeless.
No, most of them just got huge ego problems.

And I can't blame them, I got them too. Society just forced them on me and now we all try to cope, some better than others...
Cities require relatively little water for the economic output they produce, compared to farmers.

If you require farmers to pay full price for the water they consume, they will never be able to afford it.
I can't even count how many person-hours we have paid to create virtually unsupportable duplicated Jenkins instances and jobs, most of which are one-offs and nowhere in code. Maintenance isn't even a question; if the old instance is buggy, somebody else just makes a different one-off and you move your job there. Jenkins is a fantastic way to waste time and money.
For the medical equivalent, see: https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice
My personal favorite are the bosses that poll the group and pick the lowest estimate
> What in your opinion would be the best way to counter climate denial PR?

With education. And with a factual description of the problem and the available solutions. With outright rejection of denialism. With rejection of feelgood non-activism like plastic straw bans and tree-planting measures. Don't get me wrong, those things are good and a step in the right direction, but they're far too little far too late compared to what must be done, and so they're inactivism that wastes public energy on measures that don't move the needle in addressing the problem.

This doesn't even fly with 'enlightened' crowds like HN out of the box because they'll tend to kneejerk about things like nuclear power + electrochemical CO2 sequestration despite it being the only realistic option to dig ourselves out of the hole we're in. Worth noting that the mainstream crowds in China/Russia are a lot more pragmatic about this than AU/UK/US.

I'm pretty sure this comment is going to be downvoted just for mentioning it, but I'll drop it anyway to genuinely answer your question. A lot of the folk I know in the field have basically given up hope to avert this and become gloom and doom in the last 5 years, including people you would've seen on TV at the Paris Accords. They are probably right. It's pretty depressing info to handle. I'm sorry I don't have a better answer, but people much smarter than me don't seem to have one either.

tl;dr: Like Bill Gates puts it, misdirected climate activists are actually a bigger problem than climate deniers at this point.
> It makes the best fake chicken nuggets.

If you're not allergic to them. I don't know that you'd really be able to sell them commercially. I don't even see them sold at farmers markets.
All the things we are discovering and inventing are only result of how we fundamentally see the Universe (which is strongly connected to how our perception organs work), not other way around.

I would say they might understand anything we understand on a basis that we do so it is possible and it is equally possible that they might not understand us at all :)
With solar penetration increasing fast, and so much wind potential, it’s almost impossible not to transition off of fossil fuels rapidly. The economics are just too good to ignore. Storage isn't even an issue; we'll overbuild renewables and curtail as needed, which is cheap now (under 2 cents/kwh) and works until batteries come down in cost (which will happen).
If you want to aim for the epic feel of, say, Tolkien, try the New English Bible (“NEB”) from the dynamic equivalence school, which reads like literature and formats poetry as poetry.

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

Tolkien was at Oxford in 1925 - 1959, and wrote The Hobbit and LOTR during that time frame.

NEB was kicked off in Oxford and Cambridge in 1946.
Hold finger over the "space" button - you'll switch whole keyboard into the mode where you can move cursor by moving your finger.

"Select all" disappears for 36 y.o. too, and I have no idea why and how to fix it.
Designers gotta design, I guess. How to justify that $300,000 annual compensation when there's no work left to do?