skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, having used smartphones since 2008 (Nokia N95, N900, then mostly Android since), I can confidently say that 4-5 inches is a sweet spot for usability/portability. Anything less than that becomes difficult to type on and larger than that obv improves readability but you can go up to 50 inches if you disregard portability and I haven't had a 5+ inch mobile that I haven't had problems with keeping put in my shorts pocket. And handling the phone with one hand gets increasingly more difficult when you go above 5. And I think I have slightly larger than average hands (good pianist fingers).

The idiocy is focusing on slim devices. Just make them a bit thicker if the chips/circuits don't fit otherwise (and increase battery life while at it).

And yeah this was more of a ramble, not directed at your post. But I agree. I already have an Amazfit Bip (~€60) with a 3-4 week battery life that I use solely to get notifications on my wrist instead of having to pick up my phone. A watch is completely usable for anything else than a passive reading device though (at least until speech-to-text or (some kind of) gestures makes leaps forward). If as you say the devices were more interconnected (Chromecast is a step in this direction, connecting screens/TV's) the form factor of one specific becomes less important.

But, since we don't have this now, why not give the consumer a choice? My main gripe is that everything is in the 5-6 range whereas a little while back (2-3 years?) you could find a broad range of smartphones between 4-6 inches. It's gone from 100/0 in <4" vs >4" to 0/100. I would be fine to even have 20/80.

/rant
TiVo merges with technology licensor Xperi in $3B deal
A guy named Christian complaining about Christmas being offensive to Jews and a Santa hat being comparable to a swastika?

Smells like a concern troll.
It's amazing that it's even possible for a government (in the name of "security", or "national security") to prevent someone from profiting off of their experiences in their own personal life.

Land of the free, home of the brave!
I'm a huge fan of persistent data structures such as those implemented by immutable.js. The "normal" way that I would update an immutable.js List is just:

numbers = numbers.push(numbers.length + 1);

Maybe it's just a coincidence, but Svelte seems awfully congruent with the pure FP way of doing things.
It's a rat race. You stop playing the game for a moment and it rolls right past you.
I don't see how any of this quoted comment or the organization he works for is indicative of someone being a NIMBY. A NIMBY wants rents to stay high, at least according to the strawman caricature definition of the NIMBY label that young people on internet forums assign to their neighbors.
Or the myriad of ways I struggle with my Apple products that are almost universally black boxes in which stuff goes and functionality comes out, without any way to change or debug behaviors.

Apple seems to get it right pretty consistently, which is why I keep their stuff. But when it does manage to go wrong, holy shit debugging it is an absolute nightmare.
> They're left with chaining themselves to a video camera to appease their machine god.

PewDiePie has tens of millions of dollars for vlogging and here you are making him sound like a peasant locked in serfdom.
I follow the format of the first line being a tag with a short one line description, followed by a new line, followed by further explaining of the what and why.

Example:

"Fix: router now asynchronous.

Our previously implementation of a synchronous router was causing a 30% slowdown when tested with `wrk` (hyperlink to utility used to test)."

with an additional link to a Jira ticket if the particular commit addresses one.

Seems to float well with everyone I've worked with.
That's very nice of you to say. For what it's worth we saw quite a bit of this coming, which is why we focused so much on shifting towards an audience support model. My biggest concern with the whole enterprise was making sure the editors had freedom. And there was no way to do that without removing the financial / ad obligation. So likely, thank you for letting those folks do their thing!
IPTV/Video cloud admin panel for your server
As a (perhaps overly cynical) outside observer it feels that "kubernetes X abound" for all X. There's just such a complex ecosystem of tooling evolving here.
Since 2010 San Francisco building permits have been on a sharp rise, with 95%+ of them being multifamily projects. See stats here: http://www.vitalsigns.mtc.ca.gov/housing-growth

I'm not a city planner so I don't know anything but what I see, and what I see is infrastructure at capacity -- gridlocked streets, BART completely full at commute times, etc
Fundamentally, about half as efficient.

You can compensate by cramming in seats closer or trying exotic designs. And there's some efficiency buy-back by operating at higher altitudes where the engine can expand to lower pressures (and thus increase the pressure ratio), but overall, roughly half as efficient is a decent guesstimate.

Then again, conventional aircraft are about double the efficiency they used to be, so supersonic aircraft today could conceivably be approximately the same efficiency as transonic aircraft of yesteryear.

I think exotic designs could enable decent range low supersonic electric flight (i.e. Mach 1.5 or something). Going to need good batteries, though, and extremely high aspect ratio wings.
Datapoint: We have 2 "DevOps guys" supporting a significant AWS infrastructure. We autoscale from 200 ec2 instances at night to 700 ec2 instances during the day. We run 60+ microservices, each of which has multiple processes that run, each of which is autoscaled (we use ECS). We use Aurora (with autoscaled readers) and DynamoDB (autoscaled IOPS). We manage all of that with 2 "Devops Guys".

Granted, we're a mature startup and have put a few years of investment (at the cost of 2-3 "Devops Guys") into our infra, but ultimately it doesn't take much to manage a ton of AWS infra once the tooling is in place.
Trickle: A Userland Bandwidth Shaper for Unix-Like Systems [pdf]
Have you tried RiotX https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.vector.riot...
Most efforts are going to this new android client. The issue you refer to has been properly handled on RiotX (soft logout)
Yep, thank you, on both counts.
Yeah, it sucks though that most tv providers supply the lowest-specced box they can provide. For my parents it was bad when they bought a 4k television, and the box "supports" that, though since some firmware update it starts lagging every 20secs. Dropped frames and the usual video-"smudge".
I hope they get a (FREE) update soon. Because this is just a broken promise.

And I'm not even talking about the Netflix "app" that's on there. Holy s#!t that's slow. Or the TV-guide. They now resort to teletext because that's much faster... I mean...
It would be great if there was world peace, happy families and spouses that stayed together forever, and no foreigners targeting your country.

People often forget that foreign governments are targeting USA and US persons abroad. There isn't another move left but to have surveillance tools and ingest a lot of data. If the advantage is lost, it will be someone else having it.

This also extends to military things. It'd be nice if we all cooperated as countries and built a space elevator. But that's a child's fantasy, in the end there's a power dilemma.

The thing with surveillance / war industry / etc. is there isn't a better alternative. It's not about being bullheaded and mean - it's about the very real threat of losing dominance and having foreign powers boss you around. This has happened to many countries throughout the history of civilization.

Instead of complaining about surveillance in intelligence, which likely doesn't relate to you, why not complain about "normal" civil liberties in a criminal law context - for instance, stricter rules around stored data. Other things include better social benefits, affordable housing, better representation as consumer (e.g. right to repair)?

I bet security will mean a lot more when the system being protected helps the common person more. :)
To add to that, probably at length:

Some information is a pre-requisite for understanding a specific block of code. This information is a great fit for comments, because everyone who's looking at the code will need to know it, and having it in a comment ensures that it's discoverable.

Other information is a pre-requisite for understanding the engineering or business decisions that motivated a design decision, but isn't necessary for understanding how the code works or how to interact with it. That makes it less appropriate for comments, because the comment would just be clutter (light pleasure reading at best) under the most typical use case. People who are engaging in those use cases should know how to use git blame to find what they need.

For still others, the unit to which the information applies is not a block of code; it's a set of changes. In those cases, comments are a terrible choice for conveying that information. Maybe a commit message is better. If it's not, you probably need to be looking to a project wiki or some separate documentation files, so that the information can be written and maintained in one place. You can still use comments, but they should merely cross-reference the centralized documentation. Today's copy/paste is tomorrow's outdated and misleading misinformation.
It's not that the record was broken once. It's that it keeps getting broken. Do you feel smart setting up strawmen just to knock them down?
I'm repeating myself a lot. Life, and especially adult life, is far from easy. The old world was slow, but it made people grow to their natural spot in a somehow stabler way.

internet 2.1 feels like lightning.
Or the action would be that the leaker of that information would be strung up as a perpetrator of an illegal act and have the book thrown at them. This would drown out the fact that the leaked information was accurate and true. It wouldn't be known if an illegal act hadn't been committed to release it in the first place.
I guess by abuse you mean ~black-hat SEO?

It seems likely (and perhaps obvious) that:

- people will try to abuse it

- abuse will keep it from supporting naive trust of semantic information published by untrusted third parties

But we're also already roughly in this scenario, and it seems like it might be easier to model and spot/discard abuse of semantic information.
The "things shifting around" may be very deliberate.

I've noticed that many advertising-supported pages (say trade publications such as 'FierceWireless') are a disaster on mobile with ads and other intrusive pop-ins causing page elements to move all around to the point where it isn't worth trying to click anything because it won't be there by the time your finger gets there -- but "oops!" you clicked on an ad so the cash register goes KA-CHING!
Well they did all the work, he just wrote the book about it...

If in the US, you'd better return the book and ask for a refund
I always find myself having layers of skepticism about this stuff.

Layer one: come on. Context matters. Do people really freak out about words in isolation that resemble words in unrelated sentences? That's silly.

Layer two: Do people really do that? I know a lot of very left-of-center "woke" people (of various kinds) and I never hear this kind of thing. I have never heard someone get offended at a "slave" database or "quantum supremacy" or even "male" vs "female" plugs. People I know seem capable of parsing context and know that if I talk about a male connector going into a female connector I am talking about plugs and not gender politics and there is no additional subtext intended.

Maybe I just don't know these over-reactive people who are incapable of parsing complete sentences, discerning context and subtext, and detecting social cues.

... or maybe these people are largely a figment of the reactionary right ...?

I can't tell whether that's the case because this is just not a thing I see in my slice of the real world. The whole "based" vs "woke" reactionary right vs histrionic left flame war seems like something from a parallel universe that I don't inhabit, a universe where the human brain never evolved the capacity to parse language in units larger than two words.

Huge shrug...

All I do know is that there are better things to do than care about any of this stuff.
The author says they’re waiting on Rust and Matrix features/documentation. There’s an open issue with more details

https://github.com/ruma/ruma/issues/189
As I sit here waiting for my new ultrawide alientware monitor, should have been here Wednesday, now its Friday. Somehow they thought that going from Whitefish, Montana, to Kennewick, WA, and then to Troutdale, OR, was faster than just stopping in Spokane, WA.
It is 3 of 9 today as well. (In 2017 it was higher!)
I do, it works. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re confident that you can actually manage it.

It’d probably be much easier to run the kubernetes cluster within some virtualization/container setup.
I don't think that's how probability works.

There are lots of things that are hypothesized, and later found to exist (sometimes after explicitly searching, sometimes not). Comparing to Santa Claus without taking into account things like laws of physics/magic/supernatural doesn't make a lot of sense.

Also, "zero ET" have been found because, although we are speaking of life, you have explicitly defined it as excluding the one example of life we know about, that on Earth. That seems a bit unfair. Given that we know of one example, hypothesizing another example isn't that extreme.
> 64-bit Windows has never supported 16-bit.

Don't believe I said otherwise.

> This has nothing to do with "whoever is running Windows development these days"

> Microsoft saw the opportunity to kill at least one backward compatibility burden by not even trying to support 16-bit for x64.

These two statements are at odds. Microsoft used to take compatibility extremely seriously. It would have been relatively trivial to allow 16-bit applications to run, and obviously there is desire to do so since WineVDM exists, they just arbitrarily decided not to.

I suspect this is because they've become infected with developers who use Linux a lot and think nothing of breaking compatibility every release, let alone in cases like this.
As a fully empowered adult I feel comfortable telling you to fuck off.
Wow, I forgot about these. And the smell of warm tube electronics in a wooden housing.

>Magic eye tubes were used as the recording level indicator for tape recorders

Pretty sure that's where I saw them, in old reel-to-reel tape decks.
> no clue what they're doing when you put a controller in their hands.

May I agree to that?

I am a power user by any measure (CS major and program for a living) but still fail to grasp the controls of the simplest video game, to the point that, after hours of play, I still confuse (say) jump and attack
Huh. I didn't know that.

But I've always disabled it, on general principles.
I wish everything was optimized for speed of interaction above all other metrics.

Make it so.
Postman 2019 State of the API Report
I try matrix on occasion (as in, I set up my own server from scratch). The last time I tried it, support for multi-participant audio and video calls (and screensharing) was still between terrible and nonexistant. Definitely much worse than Discord. Has it improved?
It is absolutely true. I don't know of any current computer that comes close to the low latency of the 8-bit Apple //e for example. Here's a survey:

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/261148-modern-computer...

That survey shows that the Apple //e latency from keypress to screen display of 30 milliseconds is something current computers don't even approach, even though their processors are far faster.

Here's another article:
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-latency-problem-why-modern-gamin...

Of course there are reasons for this. We demand a lot more functionality. But there are costs to the functionality. In addition, most systems are not designed to minimize latency or jitter.

I believe we could do a lot better, but it would require that more hardware and software developers care about it.
That's my fear. Just can't my hands on anything helpful from them or a human to speak to. Thanks for the reply!
All Mozilla employees working on Rust are under Moco, not Mofo, that's correct. Unless something extremely drastic that nobody has talked about has happened in the last year.

Almost all of Mozilla is under Moco.
"There's no reason for Twitter to use a mouse. There's nothing mousey about this website, not a damn thing
twitter: i need to navigate through a linear list and perform one of four actions on discrete items, almost all text-based"

He's apparently never bothered to learn Twitter's built-in keyboard shortcuts. You can do almost everything on Twitter without touching a mouse.
I looked at Restya board a few years ago for a similar use case:
https://restya.com/board
To be fair, Snowden was given access to a lot of stuff because he promised not to reveal them outside of the chain of command. He did, and claimed that the chain was broken and the people needed to know. Fine. The government didn't even try to ban the the book (it would have been impossible anyway.)

But, why should he profit ??
It shows a fiber cut in Bulgaria: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19...
I have a radical idea that I’d like to see put into practice. Hopefully do it myself at some point.

We tell a story about risk and innovation that justifies founders and early employees getting massively more value (equity) than later employees.

And the amount of equity given out falls off a cliff as the company grows. So you have some people with ownership that is 10x, 100x or even 1000x larger than others. That leads to radically different outcomes.

What if we rethought equity rewards to substantially flatten those ratios? And maybe 20:1 or something was the max ratio.

Then employees truly are owners.

Certainly lots of issues with this half baked idea. But my overall point is that I think the typical equity pyramid is deeply unfair. It could be more equitable.
I guess I was very forgiving back then... I loved Pacmac on my 2600. Or maybe it's because it was my first game purchase after "Combat!" (which came with the 2600)
D isn't really competing with anything, it never took off. It already has a smaller market share than Rust while being twice as old (almost 20 years).

I'd call D a dead language. Can a dead language compete with a growing one?
There are definitely cases where I am so zoomed in that only a couple of roads are visible on the entire screen, yet there is no name on a road and I have to drag the view down the road multiple screen widths until I can see the name. (This isn't a trade-off for advertising, it's just a flaw.)

Edit: In fact, I just confirmed it now. Opened up Google Maps and started looking at small roads. For the third road I checked, Maps wouldn't show a name no matter how far I zoomed in, and I had to drag the view as described above.
Society doesn't need everyone broadcasting.

Just like the brain doesn't need every neuron broadcasting its state to every other neuron.

That's the fundamental flaw of Social Media and Media in general - Many to Many Broadcast - is not as useful to society as thought.

And we are learning it at high cost.
Isn’t air pollution tightly correlated to living in large cities? How do these studies factor that in?
Do the team already have a consensus? Do they believe there’s a problem?
Doesn't that make the author even more wrong?
Email's the only social network outside the reach of a major corp. It's always a better idea.
It's really not about not having enough room. An example that I found immediately zooming at some random location on Google Maps: https://svkt.org/~simias/up/20191219-174804_map.png

Note that none of the larger roads leading to the roundabout at the top-left is named, while some (but not all) smaller streets names are here. Instead you have the "D509" label copy/pasted haphazardly but that's not the actual name of the boulevard that would be used on a post address so it's of very limited use (and even leaving those labels in there's plenty of room to add the actual street name).

Here's Open Street Map for the same map at a similar zoom level: https://svkt.org/~simias/up/20191219-175553_map-osm.png

OSM doesn't have all the bells and whistles of GMaps, but as far as the map itself it's vastly superior IMO.
This was actually taken seriously. How many Christians have actually died for Christmas as well? Have a fuckin' spine Microsoft.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
What do you need if you're managing a significant amount of metal? No devops guys?

Everything is a tradeoff.

You can manage things efficiently in AWS if you do it right. You can manage metal efficiently if you do it right.

You can kill your business if you do either one wrong.
Agreed, but it does not make sending him funds illegal by virtue of being enemy of the state ( although I will admit I struggle with parsing that phrase ), which is the question posed by the original poster.

Edit: brackets

edit2: also, the fact that he may be potentially indicted does not mean it is illegal to give him money. Those are two separate issues
> Other things include better social benefits, affordable housing, better representation as consumer (e.g. right to repair)?

Moving to china is a good way to ensure all those, and you get free and pervasive surveilance as a bonus. what's not to love
Laws (especially tax laws) are useless because.

> You're basically giving people a playbook for how to game your system.

You aren't wrong, but accepting secrecy for this reason is a flawed premise. As it assumes that giving YouTube arbitrary and oversight free power over what people view and what it's creators make is better than trying to prevent an open rule set from being gamed.

We learned this was a bad idea in government, food, construction, vehicle safety, etc a long long time ago. Software is just overdue for it's own set of transparency rules.
I had a lot of interest in the semantic web when I first started learning about it.

However, the efforts I've seen seem to be missing some critical factors for longer-term success. I think we've got a lot of work to do with regards to knowledge representation in general.

One of the big things for me is that the context for any fact is critical for it to be true or not.

You can have a fact like "Tim Cook is the CEO of Apple", represented in a graph like you would expect. However, that is only true today. Ten years ago it was Steve Jobs. Without explicit context encoded in the information graph, this web of data isn't as useful as it could be.

Context is important for reasoning in all kinds of situations. "What if Steve Ballmer was CEO of Apple?", is a hypothetical context, where it may be useful to do reasoning about. The context of "Who is the most distinguished captain of the Enterprise?" could be about the real world US Navy, or a fictional Star Trek universe (of which there are multiple).