skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate this sentiment so, so much.

Let's take it out of the realm of software for a moment. Let's use the motorcycle metaphor, since this is a ZATAOMM thread.

At the end of the day, the customer does not care if, for example, you fixed their bike sloppyily, quickly, or haphazardly; as long as it works. It is the craftsman in us that makes us care about the nature of our work. It is something we ultimately do for ourselves.

Bullshit!

It is true that no customer is going to care how we organize our tools in the mechanics garage. We should not be having long arguments about whether 2 storage cabinets or one make more sense for holding our screwdrivers. If at the end of the day, the radiator is replaced in the same way, and the coolant is cycling correctly, then both the slow and steady and the quick and haphazard mechanics did a good job, however they accomplished this fact.

But the ENTIRE POINT of the book, is that these two mechanics WILL NOT accomplish the same job. Sure, they may both deliver the same result in 7 out of every 10 jobs they are given, but those last 3 matter! And are almost certainly going to be the hardest of the 10.

More direct to your point, however, customers ABSOLUTELY DO care whether we replace the radiator with a cheap chinese knockoff that's likely to break in 1k miles, or the 5x more expensive overseas german version. And they ABSOLUTELY do care if the haphazard mechanic or the slow thoughtful tedious one does the job.

They just don't all care equally. Some customers want the cheap chinese knockoff (the giant if-then conditional). If it doesn't work, they'll just throw away the bike and buy a new one. Other customers want the german and thoughtful mechanic, and will pay accordingly.

Its about knowing who your client is and why.
Flood certain gates to ease monitoring of specific nodes.

Easy ROI
I believe that Shakespeare had more rhyme and meter than the bible. I also believe that text with more rhyme and meter is more difficult to edit without damaging these qualities, while text with less rhyme and meter has less to damage by these metrics and is therefore easier to edit. Do you agree with both of these statements? If so, do you think the bible has other complexities Shakespeare lacks which outweigh the complexity added by Shakespeare's rhyme and meter? If so, what are those qualities?
I switched from iOS to Android in the iPhone 4 days, and switched back last month.

The new iOS UI/UX is horrible and it's extremely difficult to understand how the hell to navigate anything. Part of this is the obsession over gestures in place of buttons, the size of the screens and distance of the swipes also makes it difficult to use with one hand (I can't use my thumb to unlock the device), apps are completely unintuitive, and there seems to be an obsession with presenting new data at you rather than keeping the same pathways to find previous data giving me a sense of always being lost in every app.

The Podcasts app might be the best example of a horribly designed product. I can't believe anyone at Apple is actually using that app.

I'm going to stick with Apple due to privacy concerns for the time being, but I'm really upset with my purchase.
Wind and solar is less then 1% of worlds energy today and not projected to be more than 3-4% in 2040.

My guess is that it won't even be 2% by 2040.
Agree, but I would add that another advantage of folders over tags is that folders are more discoverable.
It's nothing to do with the web experience. Turn on your operating system's scrollbars.
>Totally worth demolishing an ancient fort and levelling the hill it stood on to make room for it.

1780 CE isn't exactly ancient. As to whether it was "worth it," I imagine the intended benefits were more about providing somewhere to accommodate 8 million visitors to the city than the aesthetic preference of skyscrapers to forts. (Though personally, I don't see how it's 'ugly'.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajyad_Fortress
Personally I was surprised how good the "intention search" algorithm is, most times I do not know the right exact terms to search for, especially when looking up things in a domain and the algorithm figures out what I actually wanted quite well. For the cases where I do need exact word match, like you said, quotes work fine.
I wouldn't be so sure. This line of thought seems to reflect a bias towards modern-day societies and how they operate ("modern" being the last couple thousand years or more). In ancient hunter-gatherer societies, people most likely lived in small tribes, so this idea that women have to be skeptical or critical of men doesn't really hold up. Men who are a real problem would have been cast out of the tribe or killed, and marriage probably didn't exist back then at all. We've seen in other primitive societies that monogamy is not the norm for humans at all.
Hackernews: this title is clickbait and offends me!

Also Hackernews: Why would you expect this article's title to explain what it's about?!

My point: Unclear title is unclear and misleading, and striving for clarity of language isn't a bad thing. If you're going to talk about science, be more clear or expect to be called out on your bad titles.
> Electric SUVs are coming.

Do they change laws of physics? Otherwise larger mass still requires larger amounts of energy...
Recent Recode interview, mentioned 3500 house sales per month.
It isnt possibly India. There is circumstantial evidence that it could be due to Chinese influence. The blanket interpretation ignoring context is not compelling. GL
I didn’t try, to be honest i think the implementation of this might be beyond my elixir capabilities. But I’ll check it out - thanks for the link!
Moving to a different continent is a bigger chasm yet.
Reading this made me wonder a few physics questions.

- If you shoot a gun on the moon, will it return to your location from the behind, no matter what angle you shoot it?

- The escape velocity of the moon is 2.38km/s. Is this the velocity required for a bullet to leave orbit no matter what angle you shoot it? Or is the required velocity higher at smaller angles?
I figure mass drivers are for non-atmosphere situations. In atmosphere it seems more likely that other exotic ideas are more feasible. The longer ones seem to be for a civilization that has a construction pipeline so automated that building a multi-hundred-mile structure isn't as insane as the idea is today.

The atmosphere is nice in a lot of ways, but it is not helpful in getting to space today.
oh yeah. i get that with twitter. view a video, close it and you ve lost your page . i dont know why this even happens but it s more annoying than i could ever imagine. My solution is to switch to chronological-view-only, so at least i can tell whether i ve seen my whole feed
What will 5G mean for you? A reality check on the 5G hype
Documenting software for developers is fundamental
I can't help you on mobile but this is user configurable on macOS: https://imgur.com/kXDDjnF
Actually everyone I know of become super rich after their land/home is taken by the government, at least in some Suburban areas of tier 2 cities. Nowadays it’s a big deal for the local officials if something went wrong (eg someone injures) during the development process so they normally will negotiate
The screen real estate isn't particularly precious on a desktop / laptop with a large, high-resolution screen (much less precious than mobile, for sure), but I also like to get rid of menu bars, tool bars, etc. just because they're visual clutter, and like you say, a keyboard makes up for them.

Ironically, I do enable them on my tablet, because I don't always have a keyboard attached to it. Tablets generally have enough space for full menus / toolbars, and lacking a keyboard they're arguably the form factor most in need of them.
I like going the other way where as a "Programmer" I don't need to program so many things. Most "things" can be declared: text, html, lists, trees, tables, databases, ...

For example in XFCE, I can add an "Applications Menu" to the menubar (panel) and use a custom menu file with a list (or tree) of programs to run. The icons, labels and how to run the programs are declared in .desktop files -- no "programming" required.
Was that more due to gas thermodynamics or mechanical friction?

I use bike pumps a lot, but only on bikes, so I've never experienced this.
Suburban areas that become incorporated cities aren't unique. But AFAIK, Von Ormy is unique for its aversion to taxes. Here's another story about it from 2017: https://www.texasobserver.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-frees...
That link doesn't work
A steering wheel is not the optimal steering device since we have cars with power steering, but changing that would make necessary for everyone to adapt to their vehicles again and would result in many accidents and many deaths.

Evolution is good, but the right pace is not always the fastest one. It can of course be faster for phone UIs than car UIs, but every change is still a potential hassle for all your users and should be carefully considered even if it is, objectively speaking, an improvement.
I have run into this a few times when I've posted a link (where it seemed amusing and relevant to a discussion) to this classic video of Australian Senator Bob Collins discussing an environmental mishap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

Invariably, someone replies with a comment like "People should be aware that this is not actually an Australian senator, it is the comedian John Clarke impersonating one."

Every. Single. Time.

As if it wouldn't be obvious after watching the first few minutes of the video!

What ever happened to the fun of not realizing something is satire until you're partway into it?
> the cheapest Android they can find; those are definitely throwaways)

If you give a damn about the environment, I think it hardly matters how much it cost.
So if you believe this to be inaccurate, then spell out for precisely me what level of suffering and expense that people should have to endure for this system to continue? What are you comfortable with maintaining? How many people should be bankrupted, denied care or self-ration to the point of harm? We should only have 25000 people go bankrupt each year or 25 million uninsured? What level of damage to these people’s lives do you think needs to be “reformed” away vs preserved?
I often do.

I've been (occasionally) experimenting with slight bowderilisation. For better or worse, less swearing tends to go over slightly better. I can assure you the feeling was there in the original.

My general administrative announcement (NSFW langauge):

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/dlz9c2z6x-tvkd7rxtxwpw

https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/100521241625879766
> I guess removing self-interest is the only real way (which appears to be what the ants do).

This is, in my utopian imagination, the best argument for automated cars. Which works great until a manufacturer, or enthusiast, decides to make an "aggro" AI which takes advantage of the selfless AI...
Sure, but that doesn’t explain how you magically remember where you stored the file. I suppose it does help with making you unable to store files in the root directory and forcing you to store it somewhere with some meaning. This seems like it would just resolve into a documents directory and you’re back where you started with a flat bag of files that you need to organize arbitrarily.

Also, you can use hierarchies with tags too, it’s just a matter of interface. Example: click “photos”, and see all the other tags that are associated with photos, and in a separate view all the files with all the previously clicked tags. You can drill down this way. Order top level tags by number of files using it. I have never seen this implemented but it seems like it would be fun. I also imagine “photos” itself would be a special file type metadata tag.

EDIT: posted before fleshing out idea, it is fleshed out now.
I think my statistics prof would have said that they are dependent variables.

That was the part that always tripped me up, and I see it trip up plenty of others so I'm in good company, but it's definitely part of my mathematical heartbreak. I loved math in high school and a series of unfortunate events and terrible curricula ruined calculus for me. All I have to show for it is that I have more sympathy for people who 'hate' math (even though I think it's fear sublimated into frustration), and a deep and abiding hatred for Stephen fucking Wolfram.

Those italics on Mathematica became my proxy nemesis and I figured out how to break the autocorrect by editing the word just so.
Let's not dance around in a circle - Apple started this with their "minimalist design." First on desktop and later with mobile.

Fact of life is everyone copies Apple. Apple doesn't copy and paste things. They'll think deeply before copying. And will modify things to fit their unique needs and situation.

Unfortunately, those who copy Apple switch off their brains and pursue the "looks" ALONE, ignore the "feel" and just mess everything up.

The next big culprit is Google's Android with their let's just hide everything - hamburger.

Microsoft, the final boss, attempted to beat Apple in design. The result was Metro UI - a beautiful, text heavy, flat, design (they changed the name too many times to keep track off.)

Microsoft turned off their brains as well. The result:

They hid every thing - scroll bars, status bars and title bars. Wasted valuable screen real estate - empty spaces everywhere. Created a much hated start-screen with scroll bars that moved horizontally instead of vertically. And to make matters worse, moved in the opposite direction of scroll wheel. (Perfect if navigating with a finger but very confusing if using the mouse. It clashed with 20 years of mouse knowledge)

That's why people hated Windows 8.

Both Apple and Google riffed off Metro design. Google calls theirs material design, don't know what Apple named theirs.

If this article was titled, Who Killed Ports, 3.5mm audio jack, repairability, screws, or upgradable ram? The answer would still be Apple.

Summary: Prioritizing form over function is cancerous.
That would be quite the thing if the dinosaurs won the war with Mars.
Brave on iOS doesn’t do anything in response to clicking the test button, and I can’t decide if that’s encouraging or disappointing.
I can see the issues w/ Windows, but what's your beef with GNOME? It's the only UX I know of that actually makes a touchscreen usable for non-trivial tasks. (And many laptops feature touchscreens by now. Often with something like a fully-rotating hinge, to enable touch-only use.)
Don't know about the Dutch military, but the vast majority of US soldiers don't have any kind of security clearance, just a background check.
(I added "Pony.AI" in title)

Alternative source:

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/hyundai-kona-electric-sel...
...and hijacking scroll behavior. Please stop that and just use the defaults, like everyone expects. I'm tired of getting to a site and having it scroll pages at a time when it should just scroll a few lines. And then trying to get back to the correct spot is a pain. Who does this stuff and why do you think it's necessary? What problem do you think you are solving by doing this? I just hit the back button. I'm not going to struggle and fight the browser to digest whatever it is you thought was important enough to print, because you've made it unnecessarily difficult and complicated to consume.
A business that looks at what users want and can pay, and adjusts accordingly? Sounds like a competently run business!

Thank you Taylor for sharing your comments here as a founder. Some of us at HN still love hearing about actual new startups, business models, pricing strategies etc.
The long version is a lot harder to put on a coffee mug.
With wireless charging we are nearing the possibility of a waterproof, sealed phone. Not sure how you'd turn it on. Glass front and back bonded together could get there. Touch screen. Camera inside the glass?
Oh yeah, i was pressing all your buttons randomly because none of them were obvious what they do. I was surely engaging with your app very much, while swearing.
Ok, but now you have an airport that takes 2-4 times as much space as normal ones. Airports already consume an incredible amount of space; most places don't have that much space to spare.

This reminds me of someone's crazy proposal not too long ago (I think it showed up on this site) to make an airport with a big circular runway around it, with the idea that planes could be continuously taking off and landing. It didn't take long for some pilots to chime and and call the whole idea utterly insane and stupid because it's incredibly dangerous to take off or land while turning.
Yeah, this might be true, but that's a problem for the content provider I think -- or even not even for them (since you have already bought their book).
Something I still don't understand about the OAuth flow is how it's _not_ training users to be more easily phished for actual usernames and passwords. The very first step is "If you are not logged into the third-party, display a login-form from the third-party."

The thing is, you never really know off-hand if you're logged into the third-party (provider) or not without opening a second tab and going directly to the third-party's site, since you're always getting logged out after various timeouts, cookie-clearing, browser-closing, and computer-restarting events.

What prevents an OAuth client application from displaying an OAuth process that shows a fake login form, which looks identical to the provider's login form, to get the user to enter their provider username and password before they realize the URL is off? It seems like it trains users that it's normal for websites to launch a Gmail login form and this is perfectly safe.
I dont' see how it depends. You can take wind and solar energy out of the equastion and you will still be able to grow crops and distribute etc.

You can't take fossil fuels out and do the same.

Intermittency and capacity factor is always an issue also for offshore plus the actual loss of energy over large distances is a real issue too.
In Finland, prisoners are being taught crucial AI skills
Men with weapons are more dangerous than men without therefore weapons are dangerous.
> Maybe one can argue that knowing the length of a written word has resulted in less people engaging?

Maybe, but valuing "engagement" over pleasing customers is a big part of what's wrong with a lot of software today.
windows generally had better default keyboard shortcuts than macOS, because many multi-key shortcuts could still be done one-handed (e.g., mash 2 keys with thumb), and shortcuts were better grouped somehow. the specifics escape me now, but i still miss the higher efficiency of windows shortcuts (which i haven't used regularly in over 10 years).
Thai Govt rejects US opposition to farm chemicals ban
Out of curiosity, what would happen to you if you were swimming in the water nearby and a transmission cable was exposed to seawater? What path would the electricity take in the vastness of open sea?
Given that the average reading level of a US resident (a vast majority of whom speak English as their primary language) is around a 7th grade level, yes, you are still on par with most (US) native English speakers.

Even I, a native English speaker, have had issues getting through a number of textbooks. Mostly because it's not English that you have to be proficient with, but the industy-specific jargon and idioms.
Police departments exist to protect property. Every wealthy individual or large business sets the PD's agenda by design.

In order for less-wealthy people to effect the agenda, they can vote or protest but these are significantly less direct than the influence that property ownership provides.

I'm not saying this is good but that it's just the way it is.

I wish the article provided an analysis of different models for maintaining order but the article seems more about causing outrage than finding a solution.
Foxit PDF reader does it and it's annoying as hell.
I read Breitbart daily. Along with CNN, Fox, TheBlaze, the BBC, and RealClear Politics.

It's the best way I've found to get a balanced perspective. They all lean one way or the other, you have to look at them all and triangulate to find the middle ground.
PG&E is shutting off power in Northern California again
Hey Robot, a party game for smart speakers
Jenkins is bad. I have the displeasure of using it for the first time in my current role and I find that its too complicated and abstracted for the 90%. I am sure its great for complex pipelines but for just the 90% of CI/CD pipelines I just do not grok it well. Perhaps I was spoiled with managed solutions like CircleCI?
This article focuses on the crop issue, but there's another issue with the UI that is more important: broken hierarchy. Saving the image is almost as important as texting it, but texting is given 90% of the share sheet. Meanwhile emailing, airdropping, tasks(!) and copying(!) are all given more importance than saving.
I don't see why being water resistant needs to be mutually exclusive with replaceable batteries and sd cards. My S5 has survived being dropped in water, and it has both a replaceable battery and sd card. Maybe other phones can go deeper and longer, but I'm not scuba diving with the damn thing. When I drop it in water, I fish it out right away...
After the 5th "flipping" I stopped flipping reading the post.
The lack of a pricing page usually infuriates me, but you've articulated a pretty good reason (#3) for it to be missing under some specific circumstances. I'd not thought of that.

To be honest though, I usually just see it as a dark pattern and quickly back-button away from wherever I am.
And my R7 1700 pulls up to 230w at 4.1GHZ all core. Some things never change, except vastly more performance per watt.
I'm gonna be the jerk who says you really shouldn't be using your phone while cycling.
You can definitely make fresh water: desalination. You can do it with just electricity or heat, though reverse osmosis is more efficient. It's not even that expensive: all the water you can drink, for pennies a day.
Yeah, I forgot to schedule the cron-job to update the Let's Encrypt certificate. Thanks for the reminder, I'll go run the script right now.
Depends heavily on the market segment and type of product we're talking about. A lot of Americans really love their Japanese cars and electronics, for example, or even swear by European firearms (and luxury goods, of course). On the other hand, there's definitely a preference for "Made in the USA" products in things like tools and trucks.

On the software side it's kind of hard to say for certain because so much of the software world started in the US before being replicated elsewhere so is it nationalistic preference or just first-mover preference? I'm not sure. But I am pretty sure it's not even close to the same level as in China.
How did they determine this? Last I checked, physical books didn't have telemetry.
Similar story to mine! I started on System 7 at my first industry job back in 1999. Used Linux exclusively on servers, and needed a personal laptop with a usable command line. Mac was pretty much my only option, since I wasn't interested in fighting with Linux's weak hardware compatiblity back then. Bought my first MBP in 2000 or 2001 and I'm still on one now.

But since I also do a lot of VR development these days, I also have a PC both at work and home dedicated to that. VR obviously dictates my platform choice pretty heavily, so moving to Windows for web stuff makes everything simpler. WSL pretty much sealed the deal, although I wish there were more VR-capable laptops that didn't look like an army tank...
This is a totally pedantic meta comment but I think you mean motive here, not Motif. In English, motif typically means more like a design pattern or theme, which is confusing since it’s so similar to motief in Nederlands.
Deplorable? Deployable maybe?