skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends on the period. On Windows, Microsoft eventually unified menu bars and tool bars - the widget was called "cool bar" or "rebar", and it was basically a generic container for certain specific kinds of children that organized them into floatable and dockable "bands", with automatic layout: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/reba...

The widgets that can be placed on that are buttons with icon & text (either of which could be hidden) that can be regular, toggle, or drop-down; and text and combo boxes. Well, and custom widgets, of course, but the point is that they were different from regular widgets in that they were toolbar-aware. IIRC this all first came as part of IE "common controls" library, even before it was shipped as part of the OS.

So then a top-level menu is just a band with a bunch of buttons with drop-downs that have hideen icons. A regular Win9x-style toolbar is a band with a bunch of buttons with icons but hidden text, and an occasional text box or combo box. And so on.

But the real nifty thing about these is that they could be customized easily, and it was traditional for Win32 apps to expose that to the user. At first it was just about showing/hiding stuff, but Office especially gradually ramped things up to the point where the user could, essentially, construct arbitrary toolbars and menus out of all commands available in the app, assign arbitrary shortcuts to them etc. So if you wanted icons in your main menu, or text-only toolbars, you could have that, too! This wasn't something that regular users would do, but I do recall it not being uncommon for power users of a specific app to really tailor it to themselves.

Visual Studio has it to this day, and takes it to 11 by further allowing to customize context menus through the same UI: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/how-to-cus...
If nearly two dozen farms made a coalition, they could call it Goatvid-19.
So that's whose been buying all the toilet paper.

Ideal moisture absorption texture (tears of emotion).

A precious snowflake will also melt Perfectly into this texture (produced from the pulp of trees, see recent paper mill explosion in Maine).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AhKsmLS1cM
That was the last statehood act. The first one passed the House in the early 1950s but never made it through the Senate (because of the aforementioned racial issues).
The link was widely spread around via Nextdoor, email lists, other social networks. You could say it went viral.
I too am in that position right now.
To say I’m impressed by the video and more specifically the algorithm would be the understatement of the century. This is amazing. Please let me buy one :)
What's a good use for machines like this? Surely you see these in movies and inside game scenes.
A common trap in tech is to reach for the fanciest tool instead of the simplest. The best engineering often comes from mastery of the simple tools, and the most beautiful engineering is the one that makes you say 'that's so obvious, why didn't anyone ever come up with that before?'
None of that has anything to do with software bugs, it doesn't change the behavior of a program. People can understand that or not, it doesn't affect the correctness of the software.
I think the fact that there simply wasn't enough even for it being hard to ask means there wasn't enough.
Yup. Absolute insanity that people think this is OK.
There's an enormous opportunity cost. You could be doing somewhere. Yes, that 9 to 5 job at a megacorp sucks. But you are building your 401k. You can turn off after work. If the company has cashflow issues, the worst that could happen is that you might be let go. You are not really on the hook.

You are trading that for the chance to strike gold. Which you might do, but more often than not, you won't. And then you might end up on the very same 9 to 5 job you wanted to avoid in the first place. And retire even later because you could have been building your 401k in that time.
San Diego Comic-Con 2020 is officially canceled due to coronavirus
Hi,

If you want to target GPU in some form to increase performance (open source standards that currently fill this niche are OpenCL for compute, OpenGL/Vulkan for graphics) but you want to use the same code for CPU and GPU there is a solution!

There's a new standard called SYCL.

Currently it is based on C++11 and there are implementations that target OpenGL and CUDA.
Even if you had to, it's still a bad idea. Ctrl+Alt+Delete works, because no normal Win32 app can intercept this - so if you do it, and you see a login box, you know that this is the real thing.

But any app can go fullscreen and draw a fake login screen that you can swipe up to show a fake login form.
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What area are you in? Have you been able to renegotiate the rent with the landlord? Are you still paying rent while your employees are working from home?
When I read that bit about "No [hooks] are needed" I did a double-take. IMO once you get the hang of hooks, React suddenly starts to look somewhat sensible… but anyway the Crank sample code looks promising.
> That doesn't and didn't make the experience more bearable while I was undergoing it

Amen. Once you are through then, and provided you survived the experience unscathed, then that might build a thicker skin.

Or it might not, and you start having issues requiring psychological treatment. YMMV
> The extra sunlight also makes the produce sweeter. "People often try our carrots here, and they think we've put sugar on them," Brown says.

That's interesting. The few people I know that live in Alaska or who have purchased local produce have said the opposite. That the strawberries were very large and very bland.

I assume some things get sweeter and some are more bland depending on if they burn their own sugar to grow?
Here is an interview with the author cited in the article:

http://www.cadtm.org/The-coming-collapse
A little disappoint that it doesn't have message passing, one of the most powerful weapons of the Erlang family. But the language looks clean and neat. I can understand it within couple of minutes
On its face, this sounds great. However, there is nothing to prevent a later amendment then removing one of these requirements, as unreasonable or outdated because of the new way the law is being used.

To law makers, nothing about a law is immutable. Which is the crux of the problem, really. You can't prevent bad actors from messing things up unless you don't do it in the first place.

There are benefits, clear and strong, for several of these laws when they are first prepared. It's the fact you can't rely on anyone down the track not to abuse it that's the problem.
ExtFuse: Extension-Based FUSE Filesystem
The pre-emptive certification I mention would be a validation of due care. It doesn't matter how many theoretical arguments you want to throw up against this, once there's sufficient empirical evidence for its reliability (and there will be) it will be accepted as evidence.

Also, y'all need to think more like prosecutors. Say you are dragged you into court on the basis of photos showing your car in the dark, and you object that the photo is from the ML 9000 security camera and it might be just imaging your license plate. The police/prosecutors will just 'borrow' your car and leave it there for a night and leave it up to the jury.

Forensic evidence can be and is regularly abused, but it can also be quite easily validated and it's massively persuasive to juries.
Pumped to see this come to life! Enjoyed the initial tests and it looks great!
Does this only work if you’re exactly aligned in front of the hoop? (eg Free-Throw Line)
What you are saying is to provide an explanation why WeChat-like apps didn't and probably are not going to happen outside of China, but it still means there is NO WeChat alternatives outside China.

The reason is not that important however.

The Chinese market is unique, Western economy can't create something like WeChat doesn't mean that its existence is something abnormal.

Chinese companies create something more to the liking of Chinese consumers should get anyone surprised. When it comes to internet, and no one is enjoying natural advantage.
Sorta both - the hairdresser booking and other commerce is in the main messenger app.
If you like his themes, fine, but there are plenty high quality OSS themes out there.
My favourite being Nord (no affiliation).
https://www.nordtheme.com
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No it's optimized to work from anywhere in the court, although he didn't say what distribution he used.
Huh? https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...

>Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Haemophilus influenzae type b, Pneumococcal conjugate, Meningococcal, Meningococcal B, Pneumococcal polysaccharide

Of course that's not even relevant. Where are the Scarlet fever epidemics? Why did they go away at a time and pace similar to polio?
We have army of ux professionals these days. But I think engineers do better UX than most so called ux professionals and I say this as a ux professional myself.

we've invented a colossal industry with good intent in the beginning, but over past 10 years, I've seen it degenerate into desperation for relevancy by constantly introducing new things. (things aren't much better in SE)

Can we get back to just doing things? It is extremely frustrating working in software design space, from start to finish. Everything sucks. Process. Tools. Speed. Complexity. Politics. Pretending.

Is it just me?
1918 Spanish flu in Charlotte: Deaths vastly under-reported
That article title is absolutely awful. They did a tiny test in some under-tested area and extrapolated it to everywhere.

What we really need is random sampling tests from large areas, not tiny counties. And you don't even need that many of them to have a statistically significant result. I'd say 10-50 thousand random tests across the US will give you a very accurate figure of how many people have had the virus.

I also highly doubt the claims that the mortality of this virus is low. It's demonstrably not. We have hospitals that used to have a few deaths a week (from all causes), and now have multiple deaths per day (mostly corona). With only around 1% of the population infected.
Another benefit to thinking in probabilities is that you don’t get as attached to ideas. You don’t feel the need to defend your Opinion past it’s expiration date. People can have better discussions without getting offended.
1. The quality of service for RF vs a wire sucks big phat donkey balls.

2. For low power devices like Bluetooth, even worse than that.

3. Bluetooth is a frequency hopper. Frequency hoppers have all sorts of synchronization problems. That plays havoc with link maintenance algorithms.

3b. Distributed link maintenance with no central control is a hard problem.

4. The people that designed the original spec didn't know what they were doing.

5. The baseband spec is very complicated. And thus hard to get right on all cases. And there are multiple layers each with a different party responsible for implementation.

6. Bluetooth devices are designed by groups working for a large number of manufacturers none of whom have license to help each other.

Items 1-3 explains why Ethernet tends to just work and Wifi/Bluetooth kinda sucks.

Item 4 explains why Wifi works better than Bluetooth.

Items 5-6 explains why your cell phone generally just works even though it uses RF.
I've had the exact opposite experience with my mom - it took some time to explain things like icons, menus, toolbars, and context menus to her (in Windows) - but once she did, she felt empowered, because it all worked the same in every app. In many cases, this meant that she'd find a more tedious way to perform some task - e.g. using the main menu where a toolbar had the same action exposed more directly - but it was far more important for her to be confident that she could find it.

Then I got her an iPad - the very first one, back when they were released. She absolutely loves the form factor, but hates the UI, and finds it inconsistent, having to learn every app on its own. You could say that this is partly because of having to re-learn - except that it's been several years of nearly exclusively using iPad and iPhone for all her needs, and she still finds it terribly inconsistent.
Bafflingly absurd to suggest a permanent seat at the council could be forfeit over such a matter. These seats are occupied by the victors of the last world war, and will continue to be so until the results of the next one.
The uninformed public is pretty vocal about what is going on in most apps.

The UX propellerheads come back with statistics from user telemetry that always agree with them.

UX is the problem — designing “experiences” geared around an 80/20 approach is substituted for the harder task of building tools that work.
This doesn't make any sense. Issuers don't need to pre-fund acquisitions before making offers so BRK wouldn't need any JPY before acting and in the event of an acquisition closing, they would easily be able to issuer in any currency on earth. Don't know the name well at all but BRK issued in JPY last year as well so I'm guessing they have some recurring JPY liabilities.
Why would I pay for a theme that has been free for over 5 years now? Bundling your free and open source tools and selling them seem like the most crooked way of building a business. I just don't get the point at all.

> Got laptop stolen, had to reconfigure everything.
VSCode settings sync anyone? or pushing your .vimrc to a git repository? If you're a developer, you definitively know about a hundred different ways of backing up your settings.

> License for 3 computers
Just WHAT? Is this an April fools?

Don't get me wrong, I love the theme and been using it for years but that's not the proper way of asking for financial support. I'd pay for a Patreon, or any kind of other financial support instead, before buying this kind of unreasonably expensive package.
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Light and sound gets to ignore gravity.
When your color scheme costs as much as Sublime Text...maybe you should lay off whatever you're smoking.
The problem is that even Microsoft's own desktop apps often don't follow these guidelines. And then there's UWP...
Covid-19 could lead to the return of inflation–eventually
Hi,

A few months ago a friend of mine got a job in a big USA company. She suspected she was being paid less than their workmates because of her nationality (Uruguayan) and gender (female). After talking with some colleagues they created a spreadsheet where everyone from that company could share their salaries, sector, years of experience and gender. So everyone could see if they were being paid fairly.

I thought it was a really great idea, everyone should have that in their company, so I decided to build a site where everyone could easily share their salaries in an anonymous way.

Researching about this on the internet, I found some tools (like glassdoor, o levels) but there are mainly about salaries just from the USA, big companies and more complex than we would like. Also, I found this subreddit and I saw there was a survey to do exactly the same, therefore I decided to share it here, maybe some people will find it useful as I do.

If you are interested in seeing what other people in your similar situation are earning or you are happy with your salary but you want to support equality, you all are invited to visit https://knowyourworth.site . I'd appreciate any kind of feedback or support spreading the word. Thanks!
Wow, I had never watched one of his lectures before, that was a treat. Thank you!
Larger strawberry varieties do tend to be bland in my experience. Also carrots are root storage while strawberries are more temporary, so maybe they get prioritzed differently in plants that adapt to really long dark stretches.
Skynet – America's first neural net defense network super computer
> Glad to see this kind of stuff coming out into the mainstream.

I was debating saying the following, for fear that the HN crowd will not like to hear it:

This is not just "coming out into the mainstream". This is mainstream, and has been for longer than the tech industry has existed. Many adults have always known this - it's not something unique to founders or startups. When someone outside of the tech world reads this, it merely reinforces their view that tech folks are less emotionally mature.

Take a look at the comments on this thread (about NVC):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22746830

Search the comments for the words "emotion" and "feeling". Note how often the commentor pushes back on having a discussion about them.

And now note what this submission says:

> Regular peer-coaching sessions with other CEOs/founders (most helpful if both or one of the people has some knowledge of how emotional integration works, through NVC, therapy experience, etc.)
I work for an ecommerce business and can attest that orders are up in accordance with the headline.
Nutrition and fitness (actually biology and physiology). Especially keto/carnivore WOE and intermittent fasting. Tens of problems I thought it was me were just the poorly way I've been eating all my life.
> The first one passed the House in the early 1950s but never made it through the Senate (because of the aforementioned racial issues).

So it didn't pass congress ( house and senate )? "The statehood act passed congress in the early 1950s"

Also, it's my understanding that bills get considered by congress and once passed by congress, then it becomes an act ( law ). So as far as hawaii goes, there has been one and only one statehood act. But I may be wrong here.
When you picked WeWork out from the pool of many thousands of companies valued at 40 billion usd or more two years ago, you had the benefit of hindsight, which we don't have on the question of whether Tesla is currently overvalued by the stock market.
It's even worse than that. Not only testing is app-specific, it's often feature-specific, or even worse, problem-specific. Which is fine by itself - isolating a test case to get a more meaningful measure is a reasonable approach. But the results then have to be reintegrated to get the larger picture - and they are not. Instead, the takeaway for every UX A/B test is treated separately, and the "fix" for the problem that it exposes is also implemented separately. The result often looks like it was sewn together from patches of different color and shape - even within a single app.
It seems to me we are doing something really wrong if people have so very much emotional baggage from their success.

I saw some TV show where some guy said he flew more than a hundred missions in the Air Force and was shot at in all of them. He went into commercial real estate after he left the Air Force. He figured it would be less nerve wracking than that.

With nerves of steel, he made a killing.

I've spent plenty of time in therapy and journaling and what not to deal with serious trauma in my life. It's a valuable skill to have.

But I have some trouble imagining that business success is something I would deem to be some heavy emotional burden to bear.

I'm not trying to be dismissive. I'm trying hard to avoid saying something like "First World Problems." But I will suggest that if you are finding it hugely emotionally burdensome, you should make an effort to get some perspective because these really are good problems to have overall and many people live with much worse and absolutely didn't choose it.
C is easy, programming, hard.
org-element doesn't go far enough. Say I wanted to traverse my document in depth first order. Or in breadth first order. How do I do it? org-element does not let me choose.

I say this as there is another well known node based editor out there: Leo. Nonprogrammers manipulate their documents trivially with Python code in a way that's a huge pain in Org mode even for seasoned developers.
it's insane when it cost more than a complete IDE (eg: Webstorm is $59 a year)
And if you want a vision of the future on the desktop specifically, imagine the same, except without a touchscreen.
That exists? It's probably all furries, then.

Exit: I totally missed the GP post. OpenNic allows any TLD to be created.
So I gather in China you pay for retail purchases WeChat or Alipay and they are privately owned? It's not very different in Australia. We have Visa and Mastercard, both privately owned.

In Australia, the old rule "everyone must accept cash" has been swept away by covid-19. They've even upped limit you have at which you have to enter a PIN, so most purchases are contactless. Cash will be another casualty of covid-19 I guess. There are only two contactless platforms accepted everywhere - Visa and Master. Both are privately held. And they are head quartered in another country.

Is the USA so different?
What do you mean by fixed /32? A PPP link?
It is the web browsers fault, of course. It's amazing, it has been only a few years that web designers have discovered the concept of "components", but even today it's all a big laugh because nothing is actually properly composable. No guarantees, the web developers idea of a component is something equivalent to a "draw()" interface. Combined with the mess that CSS is this encourages people to just throw everything away with every project and redo it.
Data fetching with React Suspense that you can use today
Why are you considering k8s? What are you expecting k8s to make easier or better for you? Is your aim to learn k8s?

K8s comes with a lot more complexity for the benefits you get. There are setups, interactions, tradeoffs outside of k8s that might be considered. Depends on your goals.

Another question might be, how much DevOps do you want to do? Are you trying to launch a product or is this a learning project?
Can you elaborate on what exactly you don't like about Rust's syntax? I'm always surprised when I hear this, because a lot of the things that get pointed out tend to have good reasons for the way they are.
But why do I need to do that in the first place? There's nothing going on in that other 30%.
Rust takes inspiration from several disparate sources. There’s something for everyone to find a bit alien. (That’s my working theory at least)
Dupe.

If you google Luc Montagnier he defends ideas of the like of homeopathy, water memory and DNA comunicating with water via electromagnetism...
You don’t need native soil. Compost, manure, and off season ground cover crops that are mulched into native soil do just fine. Where I live in the South there’s lots of red clay but if you provide amendments you will do fine. Your county dump will probably provide compost for free. California provides food for a massive portion of the county but without us providing water it would be too arid for most corps.
Huh. Slack's MacOS UI is the first thing I thought of when reading this article. No titlebar with standard icons. Bizarre mechanisms for popping up dialogs. It could be a poster-child for inconsistency with every "normal" mac app.
Ls-fuse: FUSE module to mount `ls -lR` output
Loved it. I can keep up to date with all my people but with spatial audio. Better than anything on the market.
This looks really interesting. I love the use of generators! Currently using redux saga so something like this would tie in very nicely.
The bank's approval is the primary approval that matters, since the banks only submitted PPP loan applications that met their internal requirements.

Yes, I know that's not how the CARES Act was supposed to work, but that's how it actually ended up working at all of the major US banks.

Note: the SBA cutoff announcement on Wednesday was based on both the loans already approved and those in the queue for SBA approval. Loans submitted after the announcement Wednesday evening were SOL.