skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an ambidextrous and writing by hand tends to be a tedious experience for me. Where many in this thread are enthusiasts or writing professionals, I rather want to convey a more utilitarian mindset. My goals are to have people understand what I write and not be in pain. For whatever reason, ballpoint pens and I can't mix with legibility. I believe it's the pressure and dragging that kills it for me. Pencil is also not great when writing with my left (because it smudges, using a #2.5 pencil helps a bit, but then I'm using more pressure to get the lines dark).

I found I could write much more legibly using a fountain pen, so I've been using them since 1st or 2nd grade. There's a ton of drawbacks to using fountain pens for everything daily. First, while rare, I'd still get leaks and ink on my hands. For instance, if I dropped the pen. Second, there's a bit of a maintenance burden on fountain pens, the nibs need to be cleaned from time to time. Finally, pretty much all of these inks will wash out if the paper gets wet, so it's super bad for legal documents. I like the Pilot Metropolitan fountain pens as they strike the right balance of affordability and quality. The Fine nib for me (correlates to EF from American/European companies) seems to be the sweet spot, Medium feels imprecise for me. Noodler ink seems great, I was previously using Schaeffer ink and it was just ok.

The latest pens I've come enjoy using are Pilot's Frixxion line. I grabbed on a whim awhile back and feel like every student of mathematics should know of these pens. They are a gel pen with fine point options but they can be 'erased' by rubbing a plastic nub on the back against paper. This heats up the paper and causes the ink to disappear. The effect can be reversed by throwing the paper in the freezer if erasure was unintended (or if a notebook was left in an extremely hot cat). I wish I had known about these pens when I was in school. Gel-type pens seem a bit more practical than fountain for daily carry or occasional use, not as good as a fountain but the ink seems to flow better than ballpoint and the tips don't get messed up like a felt pen.

EDIT: More on topic though, I have tried rollerball pens and did not like them. They seemed even less precise than ballpoints for me and skipped more. Terrible writing experience all around, would not do again.
1. No data, based on work experience and principles. Needing data to evaluate a solid argument backed by specific reasoning is an appeal to authority bias.

2. It's not dishonest as floating labels typically are designed a certain way — with tiny text labels and crammed spacing. This is the standard for how they're designed. Can you make it bigger and give it more spacing? Yes, you can go out of your way to do that but most typically don't because of the way floating labels are designed — the label is center-aligned in the field from the start and then it shrinks and floats to the top because it's not thought of as important anymore. This is standard behavior for floating labels. To suggest, "oh, you can just make it bigger then and put more spacing" shows you don't understand how floating labels typically work.

3. You ignore the fact of how many normal-visioned users the color label differentiation would help, which is a lot since they make up the majority on most apps. Your complaint on accessibility doesn't really stand since it can be resolved by making the label color a higher contrast and greater luminance for disabled users. Many users want to check their fields before they press the submit button and get errors. The label differentiation makes it easier for them to spot incomplete fields. These are great things for the user.
> This is the designer’s nightmare:

Web designers are users' nightmares. Hiding a useful feature just because you don't like the color, to scratch your designer itch, isn't helpful to users.

The article says: "ideal if, for example, you want to keep an eye on that sports game while also getting some work done." This is only mentioning a single use-case, not enumerating all possible use cases. It's useful for a hell of a lot more than just sports. (Also, watching sports may be rare for you and I, but I don't think that qualifies as a rare usecase for the general population.)
“No but you don't get it, my son is really good at those things, he said he would speed up our Windows machines 10x if I gave him the codes and physical access to the servers during weekends!”

That would be a very bad, very cliche joke if it weren't a true war story (2005, good times). Turns out the 15 y.o. had convinced his father that I was "lame" at my job because I didn't tweak regedit. Important lessons were learned by the three of us that day!
Problem is Firefox PiP don’t move other desktops on macOS. It is only available at where your window is.
My family income was under 1/3 that and I left school to pay the bills
the first thing you should do is talk to customers, or potential customers. don't make the mistake of building something people don't want. I know your currently thinking: "this is a product people will definitely want because of X,Y,Z". But, you really need to test those assumptions. You'd be surprised how people might react.
Investors Bet Against Tesla–and Lost $8.4B in Five Weeks
The most spectacular single shot film I’ve ever watched is Russian Ark by Alexander Sokurov. I have the dvd but it’s worth seeking in any available format.
Interesting! But also from 2013, just worth noting
You form an LLC or you will most likely lose the client. No ridiculous law and force a client to keep you.
>Or, maybe y’all are looking forward to a civil war?

I think you've fallen sick with hatred - and that's not an insult, if you can find it in yourself to believe it's not.
I think it's a bad advice. If you only wait for investors to find you, you don't run competitive process, don't have enough options and you give up your shares at too low price.
This is why we have release management processes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_management
The biggest telescopes in the world are built on land that is special or sacred to various indigenous people, or where the land was “leased” with no intention of paying the rent.
> Several hours later, I guess I wandered by the monitor, and since nobody else had said anything, I decided to jump in.

> no, just no. post to (group) for a proper conversation, but I'll warn you right now: adding to stuff to [the entire frontend of the whole business] is rarely the answer.

Looks like a bit of seagull management to me.
Why? Are you not by The Bay anymore?
Also, combine ”NASA says contracts to build a lunar lander could be awarded in late February or March.” with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module#History.

For the LM, the contract was awarded in September 1962, and first flight (unmanned) was in January, 1968.

So, even Apollo’s aggressive schedule needed more time to first flight than what NASA would have now between awarding the contract and landing humans on the moon.
31 May (2019)

Much more recent would be:

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/c...

and

https://www.dw.com/en/un-rapporteur-on-torture-warns-of-mani...
Corn, Kernels, and AGI: Day 6 of Our AGI Kernel Adventure
Complete Elon Musk's story told by himself
What product are you launching tomorrow morning?
Here's a prediction of "back to the moon" by 2018 in 2005:

https://www.space.com/1567-nasa-moon-plans-apollo-steroids.h...

Face it lads; we, as in the US, ain't going back. Country will fall apart first. Humans might go back some day. The US won't.
A little bit of a non-standard sort of HN post, but it illustrates an interesting sort of system failure.

My speculation, never having set foot in an Amazon warehouse:

1) Amazon stockers are told to put the incoming inventory in a spot, and scan all visible barcodes on the product, which are all associated with that product in Amazon's DB henceforth. Normally extraneous barcodes are no problem because they aren't SKUs, so no one ever tries to pick them by the extra codes. Easier to tell the stockers to scan everything than to try to get them to pick the right one.

2) Company X, Y, Z ship their products to Amazon with their own barcodes and fail to remove the box company codes. Dozens of different random products around the warehouse end up with a secondary, identical barcode associated with them.

3) Someone orders boxes. Inventory system probably automatically sends pickers to the closest source of SKU 12345, of which there are - unusually - many scattered around the warehouse. So the product received is essentially random, out of whoever uses these boxes. Product roulette!

4) Customer service can't solve this problem. Maybe there's someone in Amazon's inventory team that can go in and fix it, but it occurred for good reasons! Everyone was behaving rationally. There are probably other similar problems in the database as well.
Hey thanks for the link! I always run headless so I guess I'm interested in knowing the "top 10 most relevant differences" that don't include the GUI, but that just caters to me, I guess.

Obviously if a group of users feel passionately enough to create a new distro, they do it for damn good reasons, I'd like to put those reasons side-by-side. Maybe all these years I've been using the wrong distro?! Over the past ~24 years of using Linux, I've moved from RedHat in the late 90's to SuSE to Ubuntu, but just because that's what was easiest. It only seemed like the package managers changed from my POV, so I guess there is no difference for my needs if that's the case.

Anyway, thanks for the link.
>I could easily see myself reaching a billion in a few decades

So your plan to "easily" become a billionaire is to "follow Warren Buffet" and make decades worth of out-performing private investments?

Wait until you learn that markets don't go up forever, and that paper profits on out-of-touch valuations aren't cash. As they say, "everyone's a genius in a bull market".
Is it a waste? I find my confidence and satisfaction levels in my understanding increase after I craft and polish a well-designed product for reading. It confirms that my logic isn't garbage.
How do you build a company on technology that nobody knows about?
Apparently you can generally assume x = x, which seems like a very nice feature and one that's perversely absent in all other programming languages I can think of.

https://bertrandmeyer.com/2010/02/06/reflexivity-and-other-p...
Anonymous answers: How honest and candid should high-profile people be?
Droplet-based electricity generator: A drop of water lights up 100 LED bulbs
I tried this because FF doesn't do hardware video decoding yet, and, on an older laptop, FF was taking up a whole core for watching YouTube vs. around 30% in mpv.

Unfortunately every "open with.." solution I tried though took 10-15 seconds to open the video in mpv, which turned out to be even more frustrating than the problem.
I hesitate to mention mpv a second time in the same thread, but using mpv should make this fairly easy. You can control mpv over a unix socket, which should allow you to implement nearly any custom control scheme you can think of.

https://mpv.io/manual/master/#json-ipc
I recently had a conversation with a friend regarding this and we came to the conclusion that there is a balance with wealth. For us, the more important factor was freedom, and having enough money to facilitate whatever that definition of freedom is for you.
That is very interesting.

> That means that 5% of the richest people in the world (24 of the richest 500) are so anonymous that there isn't a photo that even a dedicated team of reporters can find.

Either they can't find it or they were asked not to put it up? They have lawyers after all and might prefer to be anonymous.
Scientific Problem Solving with Psychedelics [video]
Okay, boss, this LTX-71 concealable mike is part of the same system that NASA used when they faked the Apollo Moon landings. They had the astronauts broadcast around the world from a sound stage at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernadino, California. So it worked for them, shouldn't give us too many problems.
so what are these manufacturers doing that allows a LiPo to keep power for that long with no maintenance charges? I have to remember to plug in my RC batteries periodically as well as my camera batteries to keep them from becoming useless.
> why do female dancers have a thing for male welders?

Are they exotic dancers?
Hundreds of practical ASP.NET Core samples to learn the fundamentals
Yes you can and should sue. Contact a lawyer and you can get a free consultation. Many will take your case for free if it is strong enough. Here are two data points:

When I worked for Kaplan test prep we "auditioned" teachers, asking them to teach any topic for 5 min. One candidate was great, but had a thick accent. One of the managers made the mistake of telling him we would not proceed because of the accent. He sued because of discrimination based on national origin and Kaplan settled for about $100k.

When I left my old company as director of engineering I recommended one of the team as my replacement but the CEO declined, saying there were "communication issues" (the team member is deaf). I told him what the CEO had said and recommended he sue. They also settled out of court.
Fancy hotels have decent security and will meet you at the airport (I mean some of the people we're talking about have private jets and own hotels -though they have security teams to take care of matters). They're probably also used to "Harrison Ford" tier famous people showing up. California allows for pseudonyms on government documents and credit cards, basically because of Hollywood.
I actually laughed.
I read this paper in undergrad in a course entitled "Science Fiction and Galactic Capital", which was honestly probably my favorite course in all of college. We would read Das Capital and then compare it with sections of Dune, Red Mars, and Schismatrix to tease apart how capitalism manifests in space. How are the fundamental rules of economics different in space?

Could (or should) society function differently?

This paper paired really nicely with the commonplace ideologies of Ian Bank's Culture series, or Peter F Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga. Drugs are readily available and can be secreted by your own brain. Why not use this power to secrete chemicals that help you gain more control over yourself?

Thanks for posting this! Haven't seen it in a while~
Ok this link is kinda "ick": the first page is a waifu anime and softcore lesbian graphic. WTF is this shit?
Folkd.com 2006
Addiction and mental illness can hit anyone, no matter their political ideology and bad luck, such as his wife's cancer diagnosis, doesn't descriminate.
Thank you for your input. I recall reading somewhere before about a chrome update that (accidentally?) wiped out data stored through indexeddb. Have you heard or experienced anything like this? That case is more concerning to me than when a user clears their own data, because any copies of the data across many machines would all be wiped out around the same time.
*insulated
For what it's worth, I personally thoroughly enjoy reading your articles. I wouldn't consider myself adept at operations by any means, but your articles are extremely approachable and I always enjoy reading them.

I always click on the article when I see it's from you.
I'm well aware of Fortran runtimes. The question was getting at whether the front end is completely independent of the middle(?) end.
Cool products man.
Ever done any closed loop with this system?
That would be great. My main use-case is watching youtube videos.

When watching a video, I often pause (space) to have a better look at what's on the screen [-> rewind (left)] -> play (space)

I absolutely loathe youtube's "suggested videos" that pop in my face when I try to focus on a specific frame. I never used that feature, it's just a way to shove ads in my face. Moreover, if I close it, the open/close button is now focused, and space brings it up again instead of resuming the video. This is tedious.

I thought that PiP would solve that, but it looks like I cannot pause the video with space if I haven't clicked the pause button already, and I can't seek.

I often just revert to pasting the URL for mpv to open it after getting frustrated and losing my time with both other methods.
This is largely unrelated, since nobody has actually expressed the forementioned attitude, but I keep running into the inexplicable belief that the UN “has power” or “can do things”.

The UN has no power. The UN can do nothing. When a state with power does something, you don’t find out about it from a press release. You find out about it from 48 point headlines from CNN or the New York Times, then one of their representatives issues a smirking nondenial, or tweets a picture of their country’s flag.

There is one single source of truth in the UN, and that’s Security Council resolutions, and nothing else matters. If the OHCHR had power, they would simply walk into the jail, then walk out with Assange. But they don’t, so they issue a press release instead, and nothing at all will change.

Remember when the UN HRW called the lead content in Flint's water a "human rights concern, that would not have happened if Flint was well-off or overwhelmingly white."? What are the lead levels in Flint water today? Anyone know? Remember when the UN CAT criticized police brutality in Ferguson? Any Ferguson cops get prosecuted in UN courts for that crackdown? No?
Funny to see this here on the front page of HN! I'm currently enrolled in a university level course in Software Design that uses Eiffel [0]. The Eiffel language makes sense for wanting to translate your design by contact (DbC) logic to code, but is very frustrating to work with. The tooling is quite old and outdated compared to modern IDEs. I will say that the course works very well fro demonstrating applications of EECS 3342 - System Specification and Refinement [1] that extends MATH 1090 - Introduction to Logic for Computer Science into the application world.

In regards to modern usage, it is hard to think how we can validate preconditions and post conditions in a cloud native world without additional development of libraries.

Overall though, the course has students struggling with learning the new tooling and syntax when the University has only taught Java and C thus far.

I do find DbC interesting and I think it would be interesting to see it given first class support (Go Contracts draft [2]), but the reality is that TDD can accomplish the same at a much faster development speed.

[0] - https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/course_archive/2019-20/W/3311/sta...

[1] - https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/course_archive/2019-20/W/3311/sta...

[2] - https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...
“Instead of a conventional linear power supply, Holt built one like those used in oscilloscopes. It switched the power on and off not sixty times per second, but thousands of times; this allowed it to store the power for far less time, and thus throw off less heat.”

Not exactly, the power is stored in an inductor and fed to the load, the inductor being topped-up by switching the unregulated rail on-and-off thousands of times a second.
It's interesting that a man will gladly marry a woman who makes less money that he does, while a woman tend not to.
I mean, we have already been exploring the solar system with machines, for a good while. Humans are much more capable today (and for the foreseeable future) at conducting a wide range of tasks in space than the machines we can currently send up.

It could be argued it would be faster to send humans up to build the infrastructure for more humans now (in the near future) than it would be to wait for robotics to get advanced enough to build that infrastructure for us in space environments.
> Occasionally missionaries might receive a request to locate an inactive member whose active family doesn't know where to find them

I've seen that too, though as I understand it, those only come from (standard membership) records that are moved from a previous ward (not removed) and the leadership doesn't know which new ward the person should geographically belong to (they might only have a rough geographic idea). The intention is one of trying to help provide assistance and support to people who are - at least in terms of the official records - still members of the church. That won't happen with people whose records have been officially removed from the church.

As for a "notebook of paper records", unfortunately there's very little that can be done to completely avoid inaccuracies in those, but the church has been working to make more of those things happen electronically (which would solve the issue of not being synchronized). It may not be in place everywhere, but that's the direction it's going, so it will definitely improve.
I suppose I've seen a number of senior developers (measured in years of experience, not skills) do wildly inappropriate things both in systems they should be familiar with and in systems where they should have an awareness of their familiarity-deficit.
Build a prototype and beta customer base, then email them.
They'll check your product if it's worth something.
Else, you're at the end tail of the bubble.
Differences in health care of two women recently told they may have cancer
Contrary to the sibling poster I believe (also cynically) that it's because of the sex of the author more than any other facet.

HN (and more broadly the tech industry at large) likes to believe that it is an egalitarian meritocracy but it is unfortunately not true.
Having preemption throughout the whole kernel helps with everything Low-Latency whether on desktop, mobile or server systems; it's not limited to the traditional real-time use case, although it might obviously help there as well to some extent.
Live by the word, die by the sword. I know short sellers play a vital role in the game, but they also play dirty tricks. Sometimes they win, sometimes they get slaughtered.
Funny that everyone leapt to the conclusion that it was a junior developer. I immediately thought of a senior developer who "gets things done" and gets rewarded for that, but leaves a flaming pile of rubble in their wake. I've seen bad bugs written by junior developers, but I've spent more time cleaning up issues introduced by experienced people for whom time had just reinforced bad habits. I don't know which is more common in general, that's just my personal history.

Who knows which it is. The article says they haven't touched the frontend servers yet, not that they haven't done anything substantial yet, so I don't think we can know unless Rachel decides to comment on that point.
> 'Evangelizing atheism is no more intolerant than evangelizing your religion.'

Once again: calling for the destruction of something is exactly the same as intolerance of that thing.

> 'liberal'

This word doesn't mean what you think it means.

You don't get to redefine the English language to suit your own personal whims.
What kind of dirty tricks?
how do you differentiate open-mindedness from a closed-minded preference in other direction (i.e. straight men who specifically want to out-earn their spouses)?
Websites often change their layout depending on the window size. If you simply make the window smaller, the website may switch into a different layout that makes the video even smaller. It doesn't solve the problem of showing just the video with nothing else.
What exactly in that logic in any way leads to turning off the site entirely? It's literally the opposite: narrowing down the bots by calculating probability of them not being real people using multiple signals and like Bayesian inference or something like that, it's pretty much a primitive machine learning.

I'm surprised there are so many trolling comments here.
PR fluffy piece for his new startup. Nothing to see here.
I think the honesty of this approach could be refreshing