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 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.
It's crazy how critiques of commodification and consumerism almost always become commodified.

IMO Banksy's art loses it's meaning now that it's being sold and mass produced. A huge part of the art was it's form. The art is subversive and anti-establishment. It was best when it was graffiti - an illegal art form that was free for everyone to enjoy.

I suppose it's still possible this may end up being some elaborate art piece, but I'm not sure how.
More like 'Haupt.py'. ('Haut' is 'skin') But in German that alone would translate back to 'head.py', so you might want to give some more context to it like 'Hauptdatei.py' ('main file.py').
I think the title is a reference to the two previous articles that inspired it. Like the old 'X considered harmful' format.
So I suppose I should have heard of A24...
I use both and am now a current iPhone user. Certain things on iPhone (like muting all notifications with "Do Not Disturb" are much more unintuitive on the iPhone)
Yes, completely true - if it's 5'C and windy and damp, it's pretty miserable (I lived in Seattle for many years, so very familiar with this situation.)

But, given the same amount of wind, I'd still rather hike in 5'C vv -40'C.
Wow I stopped reading after the first paragraph and almost missed the joke. I have other things to do...
Im sure this has happened, but It isn't my experience. Oftentimes companies want to make their employees happy bc they know it helps retention and hiring, and they want to be happy themselves. Culture is important and mentioning it isn't some cynical scam.

The challenge for new employees is to get a picture of the parts of culture they aren't advertising. The way the company evaluates employees, pursues transparency, treats people fairly, respects boundaries, Cares about customers, cares about quality, communicates internally, etc. are the parts of culture that matter, but they're hard to determine from the website
Your last paragraph is important. At a minimum management needs to understand scrum and play their part.
Tires? Really?

Most work vehicles rarely go above 10 mph, and could probably get away with non-air-filled tyres made of steel if necessary. They'd last forever then.
Cheating towards the end of a relationship usually points to someone that was probably emotionally checked out of the relationship already. Basically, the cheating was just an effect of the relationship dying. So yeah, no point in being upset about it I think; the relationship was probably already doomed at that point. I think this happens a lot: someone really wants out of the relationship, but instead of just saying so, and initiating a break-up (because becoming single again is scary, after all), they take advantage of an opportunity to cheat and this ends up being the straw that broke the camel's back.
Yes, you could charge 10x more. You could charge N more (why stop at 10x, 1000x!), but would anyone pay?

You started at 5 USD and you're not publishing it because as you indicated earlier in the thread, you're price testing. I assume that means finding the price point the most people are willing to pay for the product. For a product with low marginal costs, getting data on what users want so you can keep expanding that pool is revenue maximizing.
For an English speaker, there's no problem. We visited about 10 years ago and the one person not speaking any English was an old lady keeping a convenience store somewhere in the north-western corner of the island.
Global map of earthworms reveals which places are chock-full of them and why
1. Please keep up the good work!
2. Please add a way for visitors to submit content. (Unfortunately) I have lots of content that I want to share...
It prevents the CDC from being weaponized like it was by Clinton admin.

Anyone pushing for policy is free to cite the CDC results of studies. As they have done.

But if you notice, the narrative has been CDC isn’t allowed to study guns which is a lie.

This was partially rolled back by an Obama EO (sorta, its complicated) and you know what ever CDC study since has found? No exact correlation to guns and crime. There have been some interesting results since 2013 like the fact that Assault Weapon Bans have not at all proven effective since less than 400 people have died per year in any recent time by rifles of all types let alone the subset of scary looking ones, that there are 500,000 to 3,000,000 successful defensive gun uses by citizens a year mostly where a shot isn’t needed compared to 10-15,000 homicides in the country of 330,000,000 are over 75% gang or drug related, and that rural areas of USA where the guns are have effectively the same homicide rates as rural Europe when you look at like for like causes of the violence.

Specifically the CDC was barred from having tax payer money used to remove citizens civil rights.

Last I checked there was no enumerated right to asbestos or nicotine.
Australia has a serious problem with water, and it would have a serious problem even without climate change. The water in the Darling, and in any river, can be extracted free of charge if your land includes the river. This produces permanent drought conditions in a country that exports oranges.

Australia has limited water resources and laws that treat it as unlimited. It will be incredibly hard to square that circle. Imagine being told your entire business is toast because Sydney has no drinking water and you’ll have some idea of how toxic it’s going to be _before_ it get politicised.
I'm 100% okay with this aspect of Google controlling mails, etc.

The level of spam I have received has dropped precipitously because of it. For that I'm grateful. Whatever they have done has worked, and people don't seem to remember how bad it was 10 years ago. Now my email is relatively clear of spam and that's a great thing for safety and security as well.
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Wow, this site is horrible to read on a desktop...
Might be a good time to mention a new development with Yahoo Mail. They now appear to use a form of shadow ban.

They will accept an email, with all outward symptoms being normal, but it will not appear anywhere in the user's mailbox. Not even in the Spam folder.

This started few months ago when we were sending out our (rather infrequent) newsletter. 5th or so message to ...@yahoo.com address failed with

421 4.7.0 [TSS04] Messages from xx.xx.xx.xx temporarily
deferred due to user complaints - 4.16.55.1; see
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/postmaster/SLN3434.html
(in reply to MAIL FROM command)

That's with just a couple of seconds in. They kept replying with 421 for a while, but later switched to just dropping connections. Then, in the course of the next few days, they would accept 1-2 emails and then go back to denying them again.

As I mentioned above, the "best" part is that none of these emails would actually make it into recipient's mailboxes. They disappear.

Better yet, all subsequent (non-bulk) emails have the same fate as do _replies_ to emails from Ymail users. This last bit is what makes this look like a shadow ban.

All attempts to contact Yahoo went unanswered, including those made through Gmail. Ditto for whitelisting requests through their web form.

If anyone has any ideas what the hell's going on, I'd be curious to hear them.
BiDirectional (Arabic, Hebrew) text for terminal programs
“C is not how the computer works” can lead to inefficient code
This is a common iOS design pattern now. I'm sure there are lots of search bars you are missing.
I dont consider anything bs unless its about money or equivalent. I Dont say anything at first or something like 'I think about it'. Think about My response, and finally Ask on something around these lines: "So your suggestion is X? And it would, unfairly, cause me Y?"
Reimplementing a Solaris C command in Python gained 17x performance improvement
> How much would it cost to train all your programmers to be productive Haskell programmers?

Dunno about Haskell, but OCaml is way more simple than C++ or even Java. OCaml manual is 100 pages on informal tutorial + 100 pages of formal language definition. Another 200 pages are dedicated to runtime and tooling, and 400 more for the whole standard library.

With Java, the language manual itself is 800 pages, and that's without the library or runtime.
As a home owner this intrigues me.

If your house were a barn, there's nothing much to go wrong. Add some fire for heat, and now your house can burn down. Add some water for indoor plumbing and now your house can rot, flood, or simply be more attractive to termites (who need water plus wood). Add electricity for lighting and whatnot, and you now have a second way your house can burn down, or kill you in other ways.

Pneumatics are interesting because their failure modes don't involve destroying the structure they inhabit.
Back in the '90s a cable company started to also provide phone service in the LA area. One little problem was that their billing software was unable to calculate the up to 6 different taxes applicable on an address by address basis.
I'm so surprised so many people think localized programming languages are useless.

Let's not forget there are still a lot of people don't speak English. I live in China, and I have seen a lot of kids with great talent in mathematical thinking -- needless to say, they have a great chance to have great computational thinking if they have proper environment. However, there are a lot of kids either having no multilinguistic talent or living in average developed zones that they can't access good English education[0], can miss the opportunity of being great programmers. As a comparison, mathematics symbols are decoupled with specific languages (like APL[1]), and the textbooks are well translated. English should not be a hard dependency to programming.

A lot of people believe in the future everyone should code more or less. I suppose if that's true, there must be nice localized programming languages to achieve that goal, which helps people scripting their day to day life, instead of just being pure GUI users. Or programming languages would still be only designed for minorities as least for non-English-speaking countries.

[0] For Chinese people, English could be not extremely hard (as English people learn Chinese) but still very hard to learn, it takes years of systematic training, just because the two languages are way too different.

[1] PS: I have some trouble for a very long time to understand what does Alan Perlis was referring to in his famous quote: "Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.", I guess it might refer to the symbols decoupled to natural languages.
> people that grew up with this system know to -- I guess just like try scrolling every interface and see if it scrolls or something? I dunno.

Yes, it seems like the younger generation is conditioned to a different form of UI "discoverability" than those of us who learned computing in the desktop era. I look for visual indicators, even on touch user interfaces, so I am always missing functionality that is hidden behind a non-visual interaction. "Pull down to refresh" is something I would have probably never found in many applications if it had not been pointed out to me. iOS is especially notorious for hiding features behind odd/innovative UI behaviors such as press-extra-hard or shake.

I almost feel as if "just show me visual indicators of all functionality because I am old-fashioned" needs to be a new accessibility concept or setting.
How to Turn Individual Contributors into Leaders
That or "we can't pay you now but we well... eventually."

Came across a ton of those when first starting out.

Like, dude, am I supposed to live on the streets of San Francisco or Los Angeles just to work for some no-name startup? lol
>What I wanted to say is, after what I heared from my partners about men they dated, I totally understand these results.

Ex-partners are not exactly a reliable source of "the whole truth" even before we consider the content of the article.

Edit: current partners are probably not the best source either, ask your local marriage counselor if you don't believe me.
I shared some thoughts on something that (in my experience) many startups are challenged with: turning individual contributors into leaders.
Hope that you can find some useful tips here. And it would be also great to learn from your experience within the transition and what are the common patterns you observed on this when working with startups.
Have a great Friday.
Conductive dust is evil. Even your phone will likley stop working if you get conductive dust into it. It's as bad as water, except gravity doesn't keep it pooled on the floor.
Not only is it much cheaper to maintain, but also a lot safer for the work site and workers to maintain as well.

Used motor oil is some nasty stuff, and spilt coolant is quite toxic (but attracts animals).
The first past the post two party systems lock that in.
So, you did not submit a bug or an enhancement request I take it. You unilaterally decided that your code change was more important than the work assigned to you by your company.

If it was/is that important then you can create a ticket right?
On Windows 10 this setting is in

Settings > Ease of Access > Automatically hide scroll bars in Windows > Off
Do you know that SSL certificate for www.fogbeam.com has expired? https://crt.sh/?q=www.fogbeam.com
> English is still the lingua franca

Ironic that in order to say this, you used a latin phrase that translates to "language of the Frankish people".
Given the recent issues they've had with other portfolio companies, I wonder if the C suite moves were based on family ties that Softbank didn't like. Seems like a lot of upper management at Fair were related to each other.
Ebook licensing like pretty much all IP licensing is used to manipulate (limit) the purchaser's rights. I don't know if kcls has enough market power to make a difference but I'd support attempts to compel publishers to offer reasonable rights. Of course an ebook should be able to be checked out repeatedly. Publishers would no doubt want to limit paper book checkouts if the could.

Could you actually scan purchased books and then allow one person at a time to borrow the copy?
Cyber.dic – Spellchecking for Tech Terms and Acronyms
Not every bit of research results in a simple conclusion. That doesn't mean it's irrelevant.
The article also mentions that CBT does little for this kind of trauma. There are more effective treatments. They're listed towards the end.
It's enough for the criterion to be real in order to be of interest. And this one is definitely real.
That's true, but once the ecosystem is established, we don't drain water, trees cause rain right?
But the fact that it is incompressible makes it more difficult to use it as a store of energy to be used on demand.

One of the advantages of compressed air is you can let a little out of the tank to power one thing for a bit, then a little more to power a different thing, and only need to run the generator when the tank is out of air.
The issue is not related to climate change, but a series of water policies that have favoured farming / agriculture over the environment / community use. In short, too much water being taken upstream.

As an Australian, it baffles me that we're trying to grow cotton and rice in the desert. I personally don't believe that farmers who make poor business decisions should be consistently bailed out by the government. I'd rather we pay for research into drought resistant crops, growing the right produce in the right climates, and failing that, retraining farmers and agri workers into new industries like solar. Lots of sun, not much water.
Same here. I also installed https://mailinabox.email on a server and can send email to gmail recipients without trouble. I had some trouble with one of my domains a couple of years ago but it was only related to misconfiguration on my side.
Yep, same for me. Even though I understand (and believe!) the explanation of why switching is advantageous, a little voice still says "there's a 50% chance it's in one of the two remaining doors, because there are two doors and one prize!".
I didn't even know there was a spam folder hiding in the collapse ui.
I think you're right. System thinking and abstraction are natural talents. Not everyone is good at them.

I used to know someone who didn't get basic algebra. She wasn't stupid in other ways, but she just couldn't make that leap from arithmetic to the first level of symbolic abstraction.

If you spend all of your time working with people who find abstraction easy, it's hard to understand that a lot of people really don't.
Ask HN: How do you navigate prioritization in mature software teams?
As a new senior software engineer to a team, I find it very frustrating to push for newer projects to be prioritised in the team's backlog. I often find that resistance comes in two forms:
1) This has been tried before, and need not be attempted (à la "historian's fallacy")

2) This is too strategic, and changes systems which are working fine today. We should look for low-hanging fruits.

How do you deal with this?
Title is actually:

"The Trump Administration Should End, Not Expand, the Ethanol Mandate"
I think there's an important, main point in OP's comment that you are missing.

Hong Kong has never really had much democratic process, in terms of direct elections, and universal suffrage. There are only some roles where this happens.

Hong Kong has a long history of protesting this, and of failed attempts of implementing more democratic process.

To say it was democratic under British rule is a reach.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_development_in_Ho...
> The recent dramatic shift towards heavier SUVs has offset both efficiency improvements in smaller cars and carbon savings from electric vehicles.

If somebody still believes in a technological free market based solution to the climate crisis - keep dreaming.
I've been ploy several times to the "Mr. Jorkins" effect: when you have several managers, an unpopular decision will be the brainchild of the manager you are not speak to at the time.
No, but I don't think this will happen and I don't send emails that I'm particularly concerned about others reading.

WWII letters were used as an example here. My grandfather was alive during WWII. I think it's reasonable to expect that there are people sending emails they'd much rather not have their grandchildren learn about after their death.
Nearest I can figure, all the tuning is based on "engagement", which is a metric of how long a user spends on a thing. That's a useful metric to tune for if you only care about shoving ads at people, but is pretty much exactly the opposite of what you want if you're trying to help people get shit done.
I guess I'm reading this wrong.

>Two studies revealed that men are more likely than women to evaluate their former romantic partners more favorably. A third, larger study replicated this finding. All three studies yielded medium effect sizes (Cohen, 1988). 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).

>In closing, the present research documents a new phenomenon that seems far from obvious to most people. Women tend to have more negative attitudes toward their former romantic partners than men do. While our studies document this stable gender difference, we do not know its specific origins. Even though both evolutionary and gender role theories provide some valuable insights, additional research is needed to pin down the key origins. The use of longitudinal studies in which individuals are followed across time and relationships to determine how and why ex-partner views develop will be particularly helpful in this regard.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/19485506198766...
I worked with a non-technical manager (banking background, somehow wormed his way into managing development) who never asked devs what they thought a task would take. I finally convinced him that this could not possibly work. I sat with him the first time he asked a dev how long the current task would take. The dev said "4 weeks". This guy said "I think it should take 2, so that is what I am putting in the schedule". Mind you, this guy had never written a line of code and had NO basis for his "thought" on the task length.
We can still question and criticise. They don't need to listen or act.
That's because cis men in general are trash. Since 90% of the audience here is cis male this comment will be downvoted into limbo, thus confirming the statement.
We have a new trick too, every task in the backlog is estimated as 1 day worth of work. Most of the times those tasks take 3-4 days tops,
Even when we say otherwise, they still force the 1 day story rule...
1. You need to reskill! Future is about x y or z technology

2. You have already learnt x technology? We can move you of your current project manger can release you.

3. Sighs reskilling isn't working as per our expectation
Okta at least can act as an SSO provider for Google accounts. I'm not sure how that's done, it seems a bit like black magic. As far as I'm aware Google Apps only allow you to log in with Google accounts otherwise.
"But I see them impact my aging parents all the time."

I've realized lately that I'm actually entering this zone. For the last 20 years I've been talking about how stuff like this is a nightmare for the "aging" community.

20 years is a long time, and now I'm falling into it.

The big one for me in this new version of iOS was that:

1) I couldn't figure out how to move my cursor around. It used to be perfect. I held my finger down, it let me move the cursor around in a word. Now you have to swipe the cursor to "grab" it and move it around under your finger. It feels like change for the sake of change when it worked perfectly before.

2) And I can't do a "select all" anymore. I don't even know where that option is and I used it all the time. Something tells me I have to swipe somewhere now.

We all become the "aging" population no matter how much we think we know tech, design, etc.

I think my biggest problem with all of this is that things worked. I liked that things worked, and I liked that I knew how to use things. I cannot figure out why things have to change. Or at least, put an option in settings to change back/forth from previous functionality. When I wake up one morning with nothing to worry about except work, and find out I now have to relearn how to use the same phone that has been in my pocket for 2 years.... this is irritating.
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>>Men [in their 20s] View Their Ex-Partners More Favorably Than Women[in their 20s] Do [in Graz, Austria, in the year 2019]

Fixed that for you. It's even more narrow in scope.
“Some people think the Amish are against technology which isn’t really accurate. It’s more that they’re intent on being self-sufficient and against unnecessary uses of technology.”

That’s not really accurate. They do have great respect for self sufficiency, but that’s not why they eschew technology.

They do it for religious reasons. They, much like the Jewish Hassids, have chosen a heyday from their past that they believe god wants them to adhere to the restrictions and customs of.

If they thought god was cool with iPhones, they’d get one tomorrow, self-sufficient or not.
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The 0.001% is a few magnitudes off. In 2018, there were ~15,500 murders in the US with spouses and family members in general being ~15% of those victims.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#Hom...
If a conjecture is true, but no-one has proved it yet, is it still true?