skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm mostly referring to the younger generation(s) and the apps most widely used by them. Think of the simplicity of applications like Instagram and Snapchat. There isn't much to the interfaces for most user interaction - some images, videos, text, an input or two, and a few buttons. There may be some advanced touch interactions (pinching and swiping), but overall, applications these days tend to be relatively simple.

Older generations definitely struggle using software though, so I think they may be a good metric for how simple and easy to use software can be.

Anecdotal experiences could certainly play a role in my opinion here, but I do think I've recognized a pattern over the past couple of decades where winning software interfaces have made a transition from being overly designed and complex to much simpler designs with (usually) predictable interactive element positions and flows.

Think of what software was like when there were "shiny" buttons and small text everywhere with confusing visual flow, and then think about what it is now, usually composed of flat buttons (e.g., the "material-ui" standard) and easy to digest visual flow with predictable interactions. This transition is likely a natural result of figuring out over time what works best and what doesn't.

By tech savvy people, I mean the end users who interact with software on a regular basis. These people (i.e., most people in the modern world, a number steadily increasing) will naturally gravitate towards the easy-to-use, predictable design patterns to which they've become accustomed.
I don't think of this as a matter of politics in the traditional "left vs. right" sense. Merely that a lot of homeowners in SF have an "I got mine, screw you" attitude that extends into policy decisions in order to protect and increase the value of their property. It's conservative only in the literal meaning of the term, that they're resistant to any change that they fear could cause their home values to decrease. I expect this phenomenon is quite bipartisan in general, but yes, obviously there are more people on the left than right in SF, so likely many "liberal" people are "conservative on housing".
I didn't know that, but it doesn't surprise me (I suspected I wasn't the first person to come to the realization that there's no reason not to choose a giant number :) ).
DDG and Startpage are owned by data brokers. Use searx.me or if you run into trouble, an instance of it like search.privacytools.io.

It aggregates results from other engines including Google and DDG, and is FOSS. You can host an instance of it if you wish so.
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In finance, US dollars are generally stored to four decimal places, because you need to deal with stuff like compounding interest or stock splits.

COBOL has a built in fixed point integer type, which makes defining a 4 digit decimal and doing math on it easy. (IBM designed it from the ground up to cater to people with a lot of money, who spend a lot of money, to work with lots of money, ie banks) Java has the BigDecimal type, which is a class in the class library, which means you need to import it. And because Java lacks operator overloading, doing calculations is tedious.

In the 90s, there was a huge push to replace COBOL with <something else>, and Java was the Rust of its day, so that's what everyone got behind. However, 4 digit COBOL decimals apparently round differently than 4 digit Java BigDecimals, so all the tests failed. And all the stuff like a\x+b had to be written like BigDecimal.add(BigDecimal.multiply(a,x),b) so development was taking forever.

Eventually they said "fuck it" and 20 years later we're still stuck with COBOL and everyone who remembers the original death march says "never again".

I have a feeling a lot of the problems came down to computer science people thinking money has two decimal digits but domain knowledge people knowing it has four. We programmers, as a group, make a lot of assumptions about other peoples' domains and we're wrong a lot*.
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Thanks, 2017 was already quite useful for narrowing down search results.
Solar and wind took off when their prices became competitive, then more than competitive, against the alternatives. You would have us believe this didn't matter, and their growth is instead caused by the greens suddenly acquiring political power, and that the simultaneous drop in prices was just an irrelevant coincidence.
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It is like also what I thought of before that I thought the symbol for the sounds should be based on the combination of their properties (like they do in there), rather than making them alphabets of other languages (like done with IPA) which do not have shapes with these properties.
I kinda want the AWS keyboard just because I think it's funny.
I was a power user of those for awhile, but then I discovered that Firefox's One-Click Search Engines are more convenient, since they search the sites directly, and don't litter my Firefox search history with a remnant entries of DDG's intermediary links.
Okay. From your perspective you've already discredited my argument, and from mine I still believe what I said. Where do we go from here if we can't agree to disagree?

I'm sincerely trying to have a conversation here. I feel like you're frustrated because you're sure I'm wrong, and you're unable to convince me I'm wrong. But that's just the way the world works. In fact, it's a cornerstone of the very system you're so passionately arguing is superior (western democracy / capitalism - I realize these aren't the same but in this instance it seems relevant to blur the lines). Sometimes people are going to vote against you, even if they're "wrong."

Why not just accept that I'm wrong and move on? What makes you think it's even possible to change my mind at this point?

https://xkcd.com/386/

I can understand that you're frustrated, but at this point I'm not sure what your goal is unless you still think you can change my mind.
Nothing about this sounds like it is to protect people, and everything about it sounds to me that they are just trying to minimize the selected groups.
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The runner up for length is FORTRAN with: 0.300000000000000000000000000000000039

And the length (but not value) winner is GO with: 0.299999999999999988897769753748434595763683319091796875
>Companies aren't going to arrange themselves along moral lines, we've seen this failure too many times to think it's a possible or even desirable goal.

It is hard and even the best companies do it imperfectly, but those caveats don't make it any less valuable. I also think it's silly to say that trying to do less harm relies on a presumption that people cannot withstand any harm. Even if people can take it, it would be good to hurt them less.

This isn't a situation of mutual exclusion. Individuals decide if they want to keep using products and we should talk about if practices are harmful. The two practices inform each other - people can have well-meaning critiques that use reveals as wrong and people can discover, through critique, that the product they liked is actually harming their lives.
While square mileage is certainly a limiting factor, we've hardly scratched the surface in vertical height. SF's population density is embarrassingly low for a city with such demand.
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The point is that this site is literally about plain text files, i.e. not using a markup format or other adornments.
> Digital Halftones by Dot Diffusion

Is that the same dot diffusion that is also mentioned here?

http://caca.zoy.org/study/part3.html

If I understand the description that page correctly, dot diffusion visits pixels in Bayer order (instead of from left to right, top to bottom), and propagates error to all surrounding pixels that have not been visited yet. So yes, that does combine ordered dithering with error diffusion, but in a very different fashion than I do. The output (at least on the page that I've linked) is very half-tone ish.
Plain text is great when I am on my laptop, but not as well as soon as I want to, for example, check or update my todo list on OneDrive/Google Drive on my phone or on my work computer.

I have found myself moving back into proprietary formats like docx and xlsx because of the above.

All I want is a folder full of markdown files (and other files that need to stay in their original format), but I not could find a way to make it work on mobile.
Ya, could definitely see that being a cool vintage item in the future.
Decoupling the pieces that make up the editorial process brings modern practices to the table, for sure, but it also adds another level of management that the enterprise market as a whole just doesn't seem to enjoy. It's easier to sell them a solution that integrates everything into one marketable package.
Because you can also add "!b" for bing, "!w" for wikipedia, "!a" for Amazon, etc. Unless you think typing URLs in google's search box is easier.
"""Summary: The rumour mill may still be humming along; but against all odds — as Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project — Stallman keeps fighting the good fight"""

Calling the body of questionable posts by RMS a "rumor mill" seems rather disingenuous.

I have always been a great admirer of RMS, particularly of his no compromise stance in ethical matters. I hope he can learn from this and turn this episode into something more positive for all involved, but seeing this, I will not hold my breath.
My day job is high performance financial model implementation. Floats storing dollar amounts are the norm for predictions. Operating on values that are linear combinations of integer fractions multiplied by irrational constants (such as Euler’s number) is perfectly possible, but it’s much more performant to be aware of floating point epsilon when writing modeling code.
How the Economic MAchine Works
> people will look back and see that classical computing spread because it was made accessible and ubiquitous,

I don't know if that is true. I mean, it was true eventually, but in the beginning, it was quite limited to only well capitalized businesses.

I mean even in the "ubiquitous" period, it wasn't that accessible. In 1984, and IBM PC cost about $5,000 (in 1984 dollars). That would be about $12,300 in today's dollars. Not out of reach for all, but certainly only for the upper-middle-class at best.
What about that article makes it worth banning Latka?
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All of the University of California schools (except for Berkeley and Merced) are on the quarter system. I really liked the quarter system. It really felt like professors couldn't waste your time with busy work activities. Everything was very focused.
Yeah so if I didn't know that, I would go to a doctor. It's exactly the kind of thing where a YouTube search could make the difference between needing a doctor or not.
I began design and development with research on other projects with similar requirements and AGC was one of them, I remember.

The difference in my case was that I did not have simple non-volatile memory like AGC had, I had flash chip with no wear leveling. To protect the flash from premature death I had to design my own database to store data in form of deltas appended to the file. When it started it would scan from the beginning of the file until last complete record and start from there. When the data in the file reached preset size all live records would simply be rewritten to beginnig of another file.
It actually references the thing that the show is named after. If you click on the link, it's not about the show.
Apparently hyperinflation:
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Zimbabwean_dollar and https://currencyconvert.net/zimbabwe-dollar/dollar
Email Authentication: SPF, DKIM and Dmarc Out in the Wild
And XKL now seems to make switches, so I guess they've come full circle.
I have been using duckduckgo for years now and Im very satisfied. On google a lot of the search results are ads so they are most of the time useless for me. With ducduckgo I always find what Im looking for and the things I search for dont come back to haunt me in the form of ads.I feel like I have a more "clean" experience of the web. If I do a search for a smartphone I will not have ads trying to sell it to me on every other website I visit afterwards.
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No prob, I tried to refactor it in Vue and using Zeit Now serverless functions but moved onto other things. https://github.com/jake-101/Syte2-4-Zeit2.0
I didn't see any mention of in a quick look through the linked website, but the book "The Pragmatic Programmer" is one of the best resources you'll find for making the most out of text-based tools. PP goes a little beyond that, too, it's not the book's sole focus, but it's a major one, and the book is a classic:
https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-journey-mastery-...
You can do your job and type two extra characters, or you could just use it for personal use and not at work. DDG is actually better than google in many cases when it comes to searching for code related things. After a month or so you start to have a sense of what sort of searches need to fall back to using !g (which is pretty much only obscure questions/answers, I find).

If you don't care about your privacy and don't want to dealing with learning a new search engine to the level you've learned google, then this article probably isn't for you.

The idea you wouldn't be able to do your job or that it would be impacted in a nontrivial way by switching to a different search bar in your browser seems ridiculous, correct me if I'm wrong.
Markor works well on Android.
Confirmed, can run fully-headless or a mix of hybrid with mix-ins.
The UK's "Prevent" scheme is a good example of why school surveillance is a bad thing. It was setup to try and prevent religious radicalization, specifically Islamic. All it did was make Muslim student feel constantly spied upon and afraid to express opinions, lest they and their families find themselves under investigation... But then it spread beyond religion to includes political issues, for example stopping a 14 year old boy from helping out at anti-fracking protests. Truly Orwellian stuff.

As an aside my brother-in-law has been battling his childrens school for several years because he refuses to allow their school issued laptops to connect to his home network. The laptops use a proprietary WiFi setup dialog that states the network password will be saved to the cloud with no option to opt out. The school doesn't understand why he would be concerned with that.
It's funny you put it that way, because I've found that for certain technical questions, specifically with exploit related stuff, I'll get a watered down PG13 version with Google.

For example, if I'm looking for technical information on a bug Google will probably give me pages worth of Krebs On Security articles while DDG will give me POC repos on Github which I prefer.

The paranoid in me wants to believe this is deliberate by Google. That they selectively disseminate certain information and withhold others.
Perhaps they will call this curated content "YouTube Med"
Same thing with chewing tobacco, its a stimulant and used by people all over the world
> Do you really think people that are struggling to keep a roof over their head are driving a Tesla?

I mean - adding an outlet for electric cars is probably $100-200 in labor+parts when constructing a new home. It's trivial to add when everything is already exposed.

And, if you're in CA and buying a new home -> you can afford a Tesla or some other electric car. Alternatively - you have a 40-amp outlet. Run a washer/dryer there instead or maybe a table saw or something? The outlet will still be useful for things beyond a car.

The new ruling on requiring solar on new homes is actually more problematic in terms of cost. https://fortune.com/2018/12/06/california-solar-panels-new-h...
Improvising on top of a plan is much better than coming up with things on the spot.

Some creators achieved great success working like that, such as Fernando Meirelles, Larry David, and Woody Allen.

I'm much more of a planner myself - like Spielberg and Hitchcock. Not that I'm even close to them, of course. But I admire their method. It is not uncommon for most things to occur precisely as planned, sometimes to the second. But you gotta be prepared to think on your feet. I think that's the message behind those sayings.
I can type 'ama' + enter and get Amazon instantly. If I need something on wikipedia I can just search for it and the wiki page will generally be in the top 10 results from Google. As for bing... I have never knowingly or consciously used it to search for something.
Visual Studio does the same ("Task List")
That seems odd... at least on iOS, aren’t there a million markdown editors? What problem did you run in to?
How do you know these aren't bullshit videos?

By your own admission, you lack familiarity in what you're looking up- so how do you know they aren't BS?
Static vs. dynamic typed languages: an intentionally rigged experiment
Tips for Running Infra in China
Noticed on mobile when you click the menu button there is no way to return to the page.
Nice! I hadn't seen Fuse but it looks like a great option. I've used lunr.js on other projects and liked it but always open to explore new things.
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At this point, each has its strong points and weak points. For what you're doing right now, Google sounds like the better choice.

But my experience has been that it really depends on what you're doing. There are a number of projects I've researched where the duck has provided better information.

For now, it's worth trying both. That can be seen as a disadvantage because it's twice the work, or as progress because competition is a good thing.
I was always concerned that as more high schools taught programming, six-figure salaries would cease to exist because of an increase in programmer supply.