skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And Apple UI designers (IMO rightfully) were against exactly these hidden context menus. You can see in the older versions of Pages/Keynote/Numbers how UI was meant to work: Instead of right-click menus there was the Info button (promimently found in the shortcut list), which opened a non-modal context menu that could be placed anywhere on screen in a persistent way. This then allowed manipulating all the detail object settings with minimal mouse travel and clicks.

I'd say the one thing that MS Office always did really well in comparison is the format paster. Cmd-alt-c/v just isn't as intuitive and discoverable.
The research may be oversold, but I don't think you can conclude that (all) the research is flawed.

From that SSC article ..

> We, the authors, conclude that the evidence as it stands weakly supports the conclusion that CR modestly extends human life
Avoid purines
I'm a cash guy. It certainly easier to be more conscious of how much you're spending. I withdraw $200 from the bank roughly every 2 weeks so when I'm going to the bank sooner then I'm obviously aware I'm spending more. Since I've moved my bank is also further away which helps because as my cash on hand lessens I become more critical of the things I'm spending my money on because it'll mean I'll need to make a trip soon and many times it's just not convenient.
http://archive.md/7qbSb

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/24/uniqlo-heads-tow...
I'm the total opposite: I have no music or TV in the background as I like my environment to be as silent as possible so I can hear my own thoughts. But when people are over, I play music and turn the TV on so they don't figure out right away I'm a boring weirdo (to them; I don't bore myself).
Dark mode is a single Boolean flag, which is much easier for application developers to follow.

The whole point is that application developers don't even have to care about it if they do things right, by using the OS's UI controls they will automatically be drawn with whatever colour the user has set.
This is just called skipping breakfast. But I guess there was a need for a new fancy term for an old thing.
As with anything with a pre-existing fan base, the initial reviews are the pre-existing fans. The reviews will normalize when more people watch and review.
No, but it will go away once they drive out all competitors that don't have a separate cash cow.
Facebook Messenger now requires a Facebook account to sign up
Having “hits” doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is whether they can produce those hits profitably. They are borrowing billions of dollars to both produce and license content with the only real way to cover the cost and to make a profit is subscription revenue.

Most content on Disney+ has already made a sizable profit before it even gets to the channel and afterwards between theaters, video on demand, dvd rentals and sales etc.

Also there is the “flywheel”. Comic tie ins, theme parks and merchandise. Both Apple and Amazon have money to burn they don’t really need their streaming service to be profitable.

Hulu is also for all intents and purposes owned by Disney and it makes more from people who watch the ad supported tier than those who subscribe to the No Commercial options. It is also the successful over the top “cable provider”.
I don't think Googling is the fastest way to learn things in general.

But I was mostly thinking of stuff that can't be found on Google, e.g. the last time I said I needed training was when I was going to do maintenance at some company, on some internal application that I had never seen. I didn't know the domain either. But I had heard that a two-day training course for users existed (also given by internal people). So I said I wanted that training (developers before me hadn't), people thought that was a good idea and it turned out to be very helpful.
The problem of software piracy in Kenya
Interesting. I did an "animal-product only" diet for about six months, and I began to feel sorry for everyone else and their inability to think deeply. I was in an almost constant state of enlightenment. Then my buds convinced me to go on a 2000 mile road trip, and after the first stop at Wendy's I lost it, and haven't had the will to go back. It's been like 4 years now.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a better, more economically reasonable printing service than Zazzle? The sheer cost of it is prohibitively expensive, and makes it tough to imagine small businesses or artists being able to afford using their service.
Explained: South African government's mass surveillance of citizens
>One has to wonder why even the author states specifically that loneliness is a problem in the "western world". Isn't it a problem elsewhere and if so, why?

Because other places have stronger social and family bonds (Africa, Asia, Latin America). Exceptions is the West and very westernized societies in Asia (e.g. Japan).

It's partly cultural (e.g. protestant cultures being more impersonal), partly because of necessity (you need more family/friend support in less developed countries), and partly because of the development model chosen (or imposed onto people) which sacrifices personal and social time and binds for productivity and consumption. Where western style productivity has not been applied (e.g. in vast expanses of global rural areas, non-factory cities, slower economies, etc), even the poor have plenty of social time. When that has been eroded and people are forced to factory work, sweatshops, or worse (mines etc), that drops closer to zero.

Quite a lot of social time was the norm in the west too, both in the pre-industrial past, and when a middle class emerged that overcame the Dickensian working conditions (e.g. sometime before WWII, up until some point in the 70s - late 80s or so. Thank neoliberalism/globalization for the changes...).
I do get your point but people are just making the same gamble with airpods as they would with any other device if they buy without researching. For example a great many people have issues with airpods even just staying put in their ears (unfortunately earphones aren’t something you’re allowed to try before you buy - at least not in the U.K.).

Though at least with Apple, their brand is more visible and generally more consistent so I can see why people might consider it less of a gamble than buying a comparatively priced audio brand.
That would definitely help. I understand you though: writing is hard and it makes sense to want as little friction as possible.
When a company builds a certification system around its thing, you can be sure that simplicity and ease-of-use has stopped being a problem for them.
I use Windows 98 quite often and it's sad how crappy modern UIs have become and how we just got used to it.. really feels like a huge step backwards and it only gets worse
Same here. I was doing an amazing work and my manager really feared me leaving the team. He'd do anything to keep me there. 2 months fast forward, the team has been canceled, and 20 people were searching for a new position.
Yeah and everything now is so disjointed. It shits me. Eg not only can’t you customise Spotify or Discord visually, but they don’t even respect the OS controls. You can’t resize them properly to fit windows 10 tiling, the menus are a broken mess, etc.

They insist on doing everything themselves and ignoring all standards which just ends up looking ugly and broken.

One of my main passions in theming is making your entire system look cohesively styled. Hell, I’d rather have standard Windows look but every program using the system UI so at least it all looks the same. I despise Spotify, Discord, and all Electron apps for this reason. They look so amateurish.
The willingness to risk your own life in an ultralight is enough to satisfy the FAA that you followed some minimal due diligence; however, you're not risking anything by flying a drone except a few dollars.
>Finally, none of this is even slightly new. A presentation from Def Con in 2016 covered this, demonstrating that Nest cameras could be blocked in the same way. The industry doesn't seem to have learned from this.

Well that's a kind of fundamental flaw of Wifi networks, so you're kinda stuck with this if you use Wifi, nope ?
In the most reasonable civilian use, you couldn't run away. It wouldn't be free either, but it might be covered by health insurance.

The V-22 Osprey is ideal for getting you to a trauma center. It could pick you up from the highway, just like a helicopter, but then it has the speed and range to get you where you need to be before it is too late.
When reading this keep in mind that the job market & work culture in France is quite insane, so a cashier job there is way more important than in your typical first-world country because it's very hard to switch jobs.

I still disagree with them of course, but given the situation there where unemployment is high (side-side effect of draconian employment laws, and the culture as well), "cashier" is unfortunately a viable profession a lot of people will spend years in instead of just using it to bootstrap themselves at the beginning of their real career.

Here are some posts that shed some light on the work situation there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17169504
> forced to have sex

The word you're looking for is rape.
Except it isn’t. It also involves not eating or snacking after early evening. It is, what it says.
I strongly agree! I'd actually quite like a sort of end-notes equivalent for TV shows, but it would have to be tailored to me. Maybe an app that I can tell what I'm watching, that will let me just click a button to store a 'point of interest'. Then, when the show is over (or maybe during the next ad break), I can review the list; each point would tell me actors in the scene, last 10 seconds of dialogue, maybe geographical location - those sort of details.
> No,

I think you mean "Yes, but also ..."
What's next? Any guesses as to future meteorically rising stocks?
The article you link to suggests that people with these doorbells probably have nothing to worry about ("Unless you are deliberately using a recording for exploitive or commercial purposes, you face little risk of facing charges for violating wiretapping laws through your everyday use of a doorbell camera."); not sure why you're using it as evidence to the contrary.
I haven’t used Apple’s news app in years. It just seems like another awkward, tone-deaf, mediocre content, overpriced cash-grab.
I think the title should be changed to something like "how to protect your privacy with Wifi deauthentication".

Incidentally, I was considering one of these devices as an addition to my home automation setup, then I realized that it would not be cool to monitor every person getting out of the elevators on my floor.
Hey - author here, that price does seem high - I don't remember it being that much... the only reason I linked to Zazzle at all was that they were the only printer at the time offering a simple API for single-button forwarding of image data. I'm sure there are cheaper services out there, which is why you can download the 'tile' image that should work with any decent printing service, or SVG for more customization, etc.
How would you explain Reed's Law to a fifth grader?
Additionally, after installing the extension, the http scheme will still never be displayed.
> However, you may want to reconsider the bevels, since the graphics tend to be a bit too heavy on a flat screen.

They looked "heavy" on pixelated, low-res flat screens (lacking the natural Gaussian blur that a CRT gives you) but it's not like there was an alternative back then. OTOH nowadays, with resolutions, DPIs etc. varying so much, pixel perfect design is not the sensible choice that it was back then.

Flat design is just a bad choice, though. You can have softened bevels/3d effects in a modern design such as Adwaita in GNOME/Linux, and that looks quite good - perhaps the best feasible iteration on a Windows 95-like design, all things considered.
Any other bets you've made that turned out well?

What are you bullish about now?
You can turn this around; why implement complicated cardinality constraints to reduce a problem to SAT when a different solver can handle them directly.

I think it’s a shame that there is a general lack of high-quality open source IP/MIP solvers. Formulating Minesweeper as an integer program is trivial. SMT solvers might work well, too.

There’s another twist. The right thing to do here is probably to divide the board into connected components (where two squares have an edge if they have a common neighbor), then solve each component with no constraints on the number of mines, and then to match up the solutions. This would improve the game, since the concept of “a guess is needed” could take into account that revealing more numbers might not help solve a given component.
Ring just got rang
Using GoAccess for self-hosted web analytics
Setting Up a Jenkins Home Lab
Instagram like photo filters available inside Pixelixe Studio
I wanted to keep 2020 goals succinct because last year I struggled to meet most of them.

- Finish the distant learning program which I'm currently undertaking

- Get into the best shape possible and drop body fat percentage by 3-4% (already lost 22lbs/10kgs this year, so this seems achievable)

- Move to a different country and get a better job working with Flutter or Native App Development

- Focus on my mental health

- Figure out my future with my girlfriend

- Learn to invest wisely
Looks like overview to me. Guys like Francois Chollet aren't going to spend their time doing an in-depth tutorial, and even if he spent the whole 90-minute lecture walking you through the specific thing he invented (Keras), it probably wouldn't be enough time to get a naive programmer up to competency. Each week is a different lecturer.
Hypothesis generation is definitely also a common goal of scientific work. There are many situations in which you don't have a good prior to base an experiment on.
You might be interested in http://nandgame.com/ . It's sort of like the game they are already playing, and teaches them about CPU architecture.
The way one person described how much better apple airpods ($160) are is exactly the way I describe how my $20 non-apple non-white bluetooth airpods are better.
I don't really. If you only wanted to control your first-level dependencies, you would simply not use caret and tilde ranges in your package.json, no lockfile needed (except for cryptographic verification).
It is unfortunate that “NextGen ATC” hit its scalability limit just a few days before it became mandatory.

Maybe ADS-B-v6 will save us ;)
Python Type Hints
What's the point of working so much if you don't take the time to actually enjoy your life?

How does your family tolerate you basically spending no time with them? I can't imagine that you have a healthy relationship with them.

For me, it's the opposite: my time is precious, and if I'm going to be spending it in the service of others, I need to be well-compensated for it. And even then, there are limits.
Many people probably didn't notice that Microsoft Office at that time used custom controls and was a little off from this design.

The design was very nice, but a bit over complicated. Things looked like a control panel, which maybe makes us feel like pilots, but intimidates most users. The open dialog is a good example. Drop down elements, lists, directory list, label for selected directory. Later iterations fixed this and nowadays apps try to avoid selecting files altogether if possible. Overall, design has improved a lot since then, maybe except for the touch additions.
Having a hard time seeing this as anything other than an attack on wyze with the guise of a helpful report. Similar things were reported against AMD after Intel's security issues that were rather dubious claims
This paper revealed me some of the things than modern designs have adopted, which the regular uninformed coder would never notice (which he may not need to most of the times). But recently I have been looking into HFT computers and I see that these things are running C code (a friend works at a small startup who said they use C programs for most of the orders) on regular computers with most even using off the shelf hardware (intels 9900KS and 9990XE are hot targets and anandtech and servethehome have shown off some hardware). HFTs are highly sensitive to optimizations and it is my understanding that the lower they go to the hardware, the better returns given how competitive it can get.

With so much in the middle from a high level C program to low level instructions on a CPU, I wonder if we will see companies like JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley (big ones with money and time to invest) enter the chip business heavily. This could then bring back some of those optimizations to the consumer space and startups in the area of fast and efficient C code then might get into trouble. As of now this area seems to be open to compete.
The group with the highest rate of dementia was those who abstained from alcohol completely though.
Unlikely. Devices installed for security purposes cannot trigger wiretapping charges since there's no reasonable expectation of privacy in a public place and no intent to record confidential conversations in the first place.

Either way, it's not a well written post. I'd shred it here but the comments below it already cover what I would have said.
And so the only test is to analyse all known knowledge for any method that is capable of predicting some portion of the random numbers. If none exists, the process is "random".
We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines. Would you mind reading them and sticking to the rules when posting here?

That would include not posting personal attacks, not insinuating shillage, and not creating accounts for every few comments you post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You overthink it. Just take the goddamn break because quite frankly you need it! If I was you I’d never take less than at least two weeks holidays at once. Personally I’ve taken in total more than 3 months holiday in my last financial year and I’ve achieved more than when I was only having 5 weeks a year vacation many years ago. Don’t worry about competition. Presuming you’re doing a highly skilled job from home nobody will be able to replace you in a cost effective way if you take a few weeks off for vacation. Just the process of finding someone, the time cost of other people having to deal with finding a substitute and the onboarding, etc. all cost more than just wait for you to come back. Also they already know you and if they are happy with your output then there’s absolutely no way that you have to fear anything.
Does it care about casing? I doubt it does...so I could for example point ABCmagical to ABCmagicaI. (The last letter in the latter being an uppercase i) You would have to update the package too, or something else to red herring the colorized diff.
I suggest to start with self-acceptance and reflection - you cannot just force everything via pure self-discipline.
I'm wondering if your job is worthwhile, the rule I always go for is that self-employed one should make twice as much per hour / or per month if working full time as one would if employed by a company.

If you are making twice as much you should be able to afford a vacation and just do it. If your family is anything like mine they would like to go on a vacation as well.
It certainly doesn't help that the NPM's and Yarn's lockfiles are hard to read. Compared them to Gemfile.lock which bundler generates.

NPM's package-lock.json https://github.com/search?q=filename%3Apackage-lock.json&typ...

Yarn's yarn.lock https://github.com/search?q=filename%3AGemfile.lock&type=Cod...

Bundler's Gemfile.lock https://github.com/search?q=filename%3AGemfile.lock&type=Cod...
As someone who considers himself a scientist, though definitely not in the medical field, this is my take:

Alcohol (i.e. ethanol) is essentially a poison, but so are many other things that we regularly consume. Our bodies have evolved to handle small to moderate amounts of these naturally occurring poisons, so small to moderate amounts aren't really a problem.

It has been shown that there are side benefits to alcohol and/or other compounds commonly found in alcoholic drinks. From the articles I've seen, I believe these benefits to be real, but I'm less convinced that they are significant in the context of safe amounts of alcohol. It's all a trade off. I think this is why it remains controversial; there is not a clear answer.

So, it's almost certainly safe to consume small amounts of alcohol, but you are probably not losing anything if you don't. Consuming large amounts of alcohol, of course, is known to be bad.
how many keys to your home have you got? if you rent, how many keys does your landlord have?

home keys and yubikeys are both hardware keys and same rules apply - you absolutely should have more than one.
The slime mould is a thing whose "brain" [0] is the thing itself?

Also, it's not a fruit [1].

[0] I know "brain" is probably the wrong word to use here. Not sure what is.

[1] https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Slime_mold
>You are an elitist that believes “dirty jobs” are shameful and something to feel bad about.

Well, you are conveniently not a garbage man.
This is really nice, good work!

I once made a similar thing, but it was more of a creative-play-thing for children (so no way to create tiled graphics, but hopefully easy to use and fun to play with). It is at: http://kaleidopaint.com/
Bitcoin’s Real Benefits for Populations Can Be Watched in Emerging Countries
Not sure if DoSing a device that's not yours is much more legal.
I guess, these application were oriented at single developers and small teams, which is also, why these found favorable access and controls in them. But this meant also that businesses had to own the technology, the know how, and the technology stack that come with it. Now, it's all about teams, favorably with interchangeable staff, who is hired on the fly, without a need to own localized know how, as anything is incorporated into the specific stack. (Owning technology is even a bit frowned on nowadays, as in the "not invented here syndrome" meme.) This is really, what facilitated the startup culture, we may observe today. On the other hand, this is also, why the stack is king and developers are to serve (insert Git, the JS framework of the day, etc).
fair enough, I haven't read the books. I purchased them as ebooks, but for whatever reason I can't seem to get into the first book. Love the series though.
Did I read the article correctly in that it is possible to disrupt WiFi networks to make devices disconnect from it, without breaking its encryption? Wow.
Not to forget the i860 and Pentium 4. Intel really has a great track record of total failures.
It's not clear that a corridor inside an access controlled building is a public place.
Unless the devices and AP support 802.11w, yes.
Of course you don’t worry about the future you’re a rich tech worker. My neighbors are 60-80 years old. They never benefited from the salary gains. House prices have doubled in 6 years in the Peninsula. How the hell can retirees afford to pay for property taxes that go to over $2000/month? They just want to live in peace and sell their house when they are ready to sell, not when they are forced to because employees at Netflix made 500k+ and their stock went up 43x in 10 years. No one can compete against that when you’re lucky like that. Prop 13 is great for creating stability. As a home owner myself I don’t care that I’m paying 20x, I care that my future property taxes won’t drive me out of my house.
could be an area thing, but I certainly never had a show or movie interrupted in order to play a commercial. They would do the small commercials in between programs to let you know some show or movie was available to watch, but that's not my understanding of commercials as they exist today on cable.
> There is no useful errno variable to load in your own language's runtime after a call to, say, the open() function

FWIW, in rust there is std::io::last_os_error().

libc::perror works too.
That looks very interesting. Thanks!