skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YES. We spent years training our muscle-memory to understand this interface, and it's gone. It's like someone flipped gravity because they thought it was cool, and if your stomach isn't okay with that, well that's your stomach's problem.

Fuck those people.

The top 2 evils on my list right now:

Buttons that don't appear until you wave the mouse near them. I spent way too long, and had to Google, how to zoom a PDF in Chrome. Turns out there are buttons for that, they're just hidden unless you wander over into a corner where there are no other controls so you'd never go there.

Borderless windows. It's confusing enough that we seem to eschew background patterns now, but borderless windows (or like, 1px-wide borders on a high-dpi screen) make it so much harder to figure out what's going on at a glance. I've found myself trying to figure out where the title bar is, then grabbing it and wiggling the window, just to make sure I understand which UI elements are part of the thing I'm currently interacting with.

What's worse is, I can't imagine anything that was actually gained from either of these changes, other than "Sam in Widgets thinks think it looks cool". They certainly don't help accessibility. They're the worst for usability.

And they're a giant up-yours to anyone loyal to a single platform for a few years because they trusted that platform to reward their learning and muscle memory.
omg that website is freakin' terrible!
As I recall history, using icons was a main way the rest of the industry tried to copy the usability of the MAc UI, as it conquered a lot of mindshare in the 80s and 90s.

But the Mac almost never had just icons in the ui. There would usually be an icon and a text. With little space you'd revert to text only.

Apple had a team of expert Usability experts. Others... did not. So they just copied something that looked cool and was easy to implement.

That it cut down on internationalizion efforts surely didn't hurt either.
Mark Rober (who is linked elsewhere in this thread for a dart board that does the same this as this backboard, but with active compensation) also did a video on how carnival games are rigged.

Dart Board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTizZ_XcUM

Rigged Carnival Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk_ZlWJ3qJI

(Bonus, in the theme of sports equipment that wins for you) Auto bowling ball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM5NHC97JBw
.rich seems like a great idea to earn shit ton of money.
It wasn't only the mainstream view in the US, it was the leading medical advice by the World Health Organisation. This isn't a matter of questioning politicians, but of trusting reputed experts and expert authorities on technical matters.
This looks very interesting.

Saved.
My business account is with Chase.

Applied on the first day they opened their portal, which was a few days after the program started.

Got an error on the second page of the app when I told them I am C Corp, was told the portal wasn't ready for C Corps yet.

Got an email the next day to try again, and did so and it worked.

Got a promissory note automatically at the end of the application which just needed a few bits of info and my payroll worksheet from Gusto.

Was informed this morning that the program was out of money and they would let me know if/when the program had more money to fund the loan.

Oh and through the entire process Chase has stressed that my local banker has no information, no access to the system, and no way to help me, so not even bother trying to talk to them.
I think I gave a fair representation of what he was saying, if you disagree, you're welcome to actually point at something specific I said that you think doesn't represent him fairly but I can't address just general gripes.

So let's take your specific tweet here:

He claims recode said :

> "cases...have been contained to those who have recently traveled to Wuhan and their direct family members"

What recode actually said:

> "Public Health officials in the area have said there's currently a low risk to public health; the cases they say, have been contained to those who have recently traveled to Wuhan and their direct family members"

I don't want to accuse you of being disingenuous or what-not,but really? Pretending something is a direct claim of Vox, when actually it's a claim that they're reporting from public health officials in Silicon Valley is a dramatic mis-representation.

Ok, so let's lay aside what I think is mis-representation. The things that this tweeter seems to be claiming are counter points:

>"We're probably going to see human-to-human cases within the united states" Dr Robert Redfield said in an interview with stat.

A claim about the current situation within Silicon Valley cannot be countered with a forward looking statement about the entire US. It just can't. I just don't think this criticism is serious.
Didn't even get the chance for a re-Captcha with me. It outright blocks me because I'm using a proxy.
Love the Adam Curtis reference. Definitely applies to the way in which social media content moderation has evolved. Pre pandemic it was contentious. Now it is treated as if it has been the norm all along.
Please, no. Hackers have no problem getting through the Great Firewall of China, it's to keep the average person away from certain information.

Use security in depth, and zero trust networks, not just perimeter defense.
The missing menu bars are really the most egregious; resulting in totally mystery meat navigation (props if you know what that's a reference to!)
Y'all need to watch Sorry To Bother You. No spoilers.
I was just thinking this. It sort of gives you a home base to return to, regardless of how weird/spiffy the rest of application is. Additionally "Help" is always to the right of the other menu items. And there's a search box under
"Help" that you can use to search menu items. Which can be extraordinarily useful, especially in applications like Photoshop that have complex menus and panel systems.
Exactly, just cut the undersea cables.
It actually does. For example, for things that cannot be produced locally in sufficient quantities (such as oil prior to the fracking boom), the US did maintain a strategic reserve. Even to this day, it still has a strategic oil reserve.

Lack of institutional IQ/leadership manifests in myriad of ways, such as the dismantling of California's emergency medical supply reserve in 2011 [0], defunding of organizations that address the current risks [1], and so on.

Addressing potential systemic risks through domestic production is only one potential way that leadership can handle them. Creating reserves and funding preparedness are some of the other ways to handle such risks.

[0] https://revealnews.org/article/california-created-a-massive-...
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...
You're very optimistic.
In my experience the hardest part is finding a good youtube video for a background. Roller coaster videos are certainly fun though
New Data Suggest the Coronavirus Isn’t as Deadly as We Thought (Op-Ed)
Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
Privacy certainly seems like it is the main reason people would switch. Also second time someone mentioned not requiring all search terms to be present. Quotes around each term definitely helps, but Google doesn't always respect that. Google also has a "verbatim" search option as well.

Correct on the search engines, below are the search indexes used by each:

Qwant = Bing

Startpage = Google

Ecosia = Bing
Honest question, are there many people out there who find wearing a mask "silly"? Yes, they can be sometimes uncomfortable in terms of ease of breathing but to be honest I don't find them silly at all, they serve a purpose, just like an umbrella serves a purpose, it would be stupid of me to laugh of someone holding an umbrella while it's raining outside.
>any of the reporters sparring with him

This is rather telling of the way you view things; perhaps it may be part of the problem? "Sparring"?
That's the "intro price", the regular price is $79!
I don't fault the dev for trying to make money on this, but I don't see this making much money, especially for editors like Vim.

And what's to stop someone from knocking this off? Can you copyright a color theme?
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Building Software, Sharing Knowledge
Nothing's a perfect record, but a thing's purpose can be to serve as a record. Like if you stick seismometer readings into an academic paper, everyone will know there's noise, but that's okay. You did your best. But there are some changes we can agree are bad there. Now, if you stuck your seismometer into an autotuner and sync'd it with led zeppelin, that's okay. Just not if you're putting that into your paper.

For a long time, photographs were typically used as records. Even when they were art, they were typically records of something. Soon, we'll be typically doing so much more with them and will have to accept that photos can, but frequently won't serve as records.
Wells Fargo. Did not accept applications until a week in. Ran out of money after 10 Billion since they were still under an asset cap because of their past frauds. To this day I have no idea if I will be approved or not. 0/10 would not recommend.
Incredibly judgmental.
Wouldn't you rather want an ellipsoid with the thrower at one focus and the hoop at the other?
That's not a justification for frequent resubmits. In fact, it's a good indication that it didn't warrant being resubmitted at all.
Just a c compiler.
About the docs.

They are better than most docs, but sometimes they have gaps in their sample apps.

The WASM book, for example, goes from "hello world" straight to "game of life".

It's certainly an interesting algorithim and probably hits a sweetspot because its computation heavy(?), but at least for me it was too much noise around actually learning Rust and WASM.
You report things that happen, e.g. crash happened on X road. You can report that "CDC says mask don't work" but if you write it as truth, which Vox stated in January, you are either a parrot or inept.

If journalism is just reporting what others say, and not questioning what they say and the underlying assumptions, then it is at best just a weak form of Wikipedia, and at worst a propaganda mechanism.

Journalists need to get some teeth back and challenge authorities rather than relying on what is said as gospel. Jounalists should have led the charge on all of this, starting with questioning Chinese numbers through to Masks and the assumptions of the modelling, rather than playing, to be kind, catch up and to be mean interference on people doing their job for them.
What is the barrier of entry for an individual or company to obtain a public ASN and theoretically announce a nefarious route?

Would it come down to an irresponsible ISP blindly trusting the bad router?

It does seem important for not putting this burden on each ISP, just trying to understand the scope of all this.
'It's positively alpine ': Disbelief in big cities as air pollution falls
the for profit business has deep relationship with the government and is perhaps like its virtual arm, and it benefits the government by providing deeper access to people's activities.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22899272
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply it required diff eq to solve these parabolic equations. I merely meant to give an anecdote about one of the first times I felt truly betrayed by mathematics. A subject I'd previously held in the highest regard.
> I think the general population has not yet appreciated the possible severity of the ensuing economic downturn.

I think the general public has not yet appreciated the current severity of the present economic downturn, much less the future possibility.
You would never consider eating.
This has been my experience, and to my mind it supports the need for electric car charging infrastructure, congestion pricing, and true cost of parking pricing.
Don't forget about Tory Bruno's sniper
Great job shipping and thanks for open sourcing!
Learnings from writers, the original WFH profession
I'm not sure everybody wins. What happens if a malicious country buys the tld and then appropriates the domains and/or redirects traffic?
Thanks for your concern.

I'm fine. The systemic consequences of the cultural norms we choose are very real. We do it all the time without noticing and it's really unhealthy for us and others.
I'm using partitioning in Pathfinder and it works quite well. It's not hard to beat the CPU. The forerunner of these approaches is the "Massively Parallel Vector Graphics" paper, if you're interested.

It's interesting to note the parallels (no pun intended) with raytracing, in which everyone said it was impossible to improve over the CPU right up until people discovered how to effectively partition with acceleration structures and now raytracers are doing more and more on GPU.
It's all still there in Win32 Apps microcosm, available for anyone to use. I'm currently working on a pure Win32 application and Microsoft's tips are delightfully helpful for establishing a consistent design language across the whole platform. They call it "powerful and simple" in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/uxguide/how-t... Win32 Guidelines are also very illuminating: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/uxguide/guide...

My favourite aspect of Win32 is built-in behaviour. Things like keyboard-based navigation and screen readers work without needing any dedicated effort on my part. Visual elements are drawn by the operating system and remain consistent with system theme colors, font size, contrast and other user preferences. I always think about that when I see "Now supports dark mode" in a changelog... why don't they just use standard controls and leave all the finer details to the OS to deal with. Windows has supported system-wide theming for decades.
I'm a sole prop, and followed almost exactly this timeline, along with resubmitting the same information. Bank of America for me, but they're using an external service to manage the process https://services.intralinks.com/, it seems strange it can't be managed thru their own online banking.

Haven't heard anything, not expecting anything, it's pretty discouraging...
Aircraft range is defined with various safety reserved and takeoff/landing taken into account.

It should be able to fly much further if they planned to run out of fuel and ditch.
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The industry desperately needs an https://www.ecomdash.com/ for both ends of the equation. A way for restaurants to consolidate all their orders into one panel. And a way for delivery drivers to be accessible to multiple apps in one route. Even better would be the companies working together to trade orders to reduce overlapping traffic and more efficiently create routes.

This wont happen because its not in each apps best interest, but they should be relegated to what they actually are. A yellow pages. A middle man that connects a driver and a restaurant, and collects a referral and connection/dispatch fee.

This is one of the places where government intervention could benefit restaurants and drivers. Force all the companies to speak a single protocol that can be received by any compatible pos and dispatch app. Enforce some level of interoperability. Enforced swaps of food runs might be pushing it, but it really would benefit just about everybody except the food delivery apps. If banks can credit default swap, why cant food delivery apps be more efficient on the roads?

Even for the customer, I don't care which delivery app something is on, and its a pita to check them all and compare prices. I would much rather give loyalty to one that listed runs only their competitors have deals with. These food delivery service companies should exist more as a single technical contact a restaurant can call with issues. Outsourced IT, payment processing, service maintenance, troubleshooting, and ad hoc support. Restaurants having to support them all or lose business is ludicrous.

As a side note, I find the Virtual Restaurant concept to be another pollution. One kitchen being able to show up in the results three times because they list themselves as three kitchens. I get why, from a marketing perspective, that it helps to brand yourself as a specific niche, but its really a cheat of the system and limited screen real estate more than anything else.
I miss gopher support on kolibriOS, it's the brother "simple" protocol for hypermedia. No TLS support as IRC, but you can either:
- use TOR over a gopher client.
- use and promote Gemini in paralell.

With Bitlbee and sacc(1) I can access even HN via Gopher and comment it on Telegram via sic(1). Magical and my setup could work even under a 286 with Minix2.
One issue with Ti: Tooling costs, particularly for manufacturing skins. Tooling for shaping metallic skins to the required dimensions is fantastically expensive, which can be prohibitive for prototypes. Carbon fiber can be shaped much more inexpensively.

BTW, "scaling for production" in aerospace doesn't mean a tremendous amount of units, most of the time. Lotsa carbon aircraft running around have been built in a manner not too differently from this one. So those labor costs tend to work out okay.

For a while I did repair design and analysis for engine nacelles made out of carbon fiber. These were new parts, right off the production line, with various flaws that commonly happen when you make an airplane out of cloth and glue. I was amazed by how much manual labor can go into declaring a particular part flight-ready, and the financials still penciled out, apparently. We must have been well into the six figures on one particular nacelle in post-fabrication engineering analysis work, just to show that the flaws had been repaired adequately for entry into service.
Is a war supplies act different from the Defense Production Act that has been invoked?
Note that both DX11 and DX12 do have the WARP CPU rasterizer to fall back on. WARP is quite capable; it can't compete with native hardware but is actually reasonably fast.
> you're guaranteed to have some bugs when implementing BM. Writing your own string search function seems nearly on the same level as implementing your own cryptographic functions, though.

And that’s the Curse Of The Standard Library Implementers: we’re the ones that have to implement Boyer-Moore, floating-point string conversions, etc. so everyone else can use them :-)
I thought with Tile they could use your bluetooth to find other people's tiles. So its all cloud-based.
Then you should start with Senior Management and especially the C levels. What was that quote from the office? "There's only one person in charge in every office and his name is Charles Darwin"
Absolutely. Bank of America pretty much stated that explicitly, they prioritized exactly the customers who had outstanding credit debt with BofA. How this stuff passes ethical muster is beyond me.
His personal blog is at jwz.org.
Sunlight destroys virus quickly, new DHS tests find
Are you sure that WHO is run by reputed experts and not by career bureaucrats whose motivation is mostly political, not medical? Because after the whole thing unfolded, it seems to be exactly the case.
That's the plan9 port edition, maybe the forked one works better. Use "sam -d" for the cli version. You won't miss a lot in the end.
Iranian teen shocks chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen
Is India in danger of being made an ex-country like Yugoslavia?
I'm genuinely curious how it came about that user-experience is now "try clicking, tapping, swiping, hitting a key" until something happens.
The highlighted sentence gives the minimum version of gcc which folly broadly supports.

One motivation for this is so that a user may know whether folly supports the version of the gcc c++ compiler which is preinstalled on their system, since many systems ship with a preinstalled gcc. Likewise for systems which ship with a blessed package repo.

But folly also supports recent versions of clang and msvc, as other commenters here note.
You may want to try this one: https://simpl.fyi/
I understand your question. You want to know a solid dodecahedron can be chopped into pieces and folded like that animation and leave behind a solid cube (no empty gaps inside)

Assume the cube has volume 1 and thus each side is length 1. In the animation we start with a dodecahedron, we remove a cube from the interior, we fold it over along the cuts and end up (hopefully) with a solid cube again. Thus the volume of the dodecahedron must be 2.

Two opposite corners of the pentagon faces make up the edges of the cube, which we know are length 1. A regular pentagon's ratio of a diagonal to a side is the golden ratio (!) so we know the pentagons have sides equal to 2/(1+sqrt5)

Volume of a dodecahedron is the constant (15 + 7sqrt(5))/4 multiplied by the cube of the sides.

Wolfram Alpha says https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28%282%2F%281%2Bsqrt%... that the volume of the dodecahedron is only about 1.8. We needed it to be 2 so there will in fact be gaps inside the cube as folded in that animation.
Great find, thanks.

That review of the paper makes the distinction between protection and transmission. I admit I was only thinking about protection.

Since I'm immunocompromised, I will continue to wear N95 respirators whenever I'm around other people.

But per this paper, surgical masks are useful for "source control", at least partially thwarting infected people from spreading the virus. I'm super skeptical, because of old habits, but science is science.

So the rest of you should start wearing surgical (or cloth) masks. Thanks.
I mean that a soup of loose nucleic acids can't be sequenced even if we wanted to, we can't learn anything about their genome unless there's actual intact lengths of DNA.

That quote implied the former to me, so- there's not much to be learned from just nucleic acid soup
I think it depends on perspective. There is not evidence that surgical masks useful in preventing someone from contracting covid [0]. Which makes sense because droplets can still be inhaled because air flows around the mask (unlike n95 respirators).

Masks are very useful in preventing spread, thus useful for overall slowing the spread of the disease.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7118603/
Potentially, but then surely a Cost/benefit analysis would strongly encourage the CDC to stockpile them in advance too? Perhaps nations need strategic PPE reserves.
Idea behind the brick is to add thermal mass -- it stays hot once it gets hot in the same way a freight train stays in motion once it gets going.

This is often done on north-facing walls in greenhouses. In winter when the sun is low, the thermal mass gets a lot of light and absorbs it as heat. Then at night it releases it to balance out nighttime lows. In summer when the sun is high up, because it's a wall there's less surface area that absorbs the radiation, so it's self-regulating to a degree.

Same idea is even used for seasonal thermal storage. Look up "earth batteries" on youtube, usually it's permaculture folks. Basically, put air circulation pipes a couple feet below a greenhouse. In the summer, you flush your (too hot) hot air through it, the ground absorbs the heat, and you cool off your greenhouse. In the winter, the same process absorbs some of the heat out of the ground. Some numbers I've heard is a greenhouse can stay at 50 degrees when it's -20 outside. Basically same idea as a geothermal heat pump, but much simpler because all you need is a blower fan and some pvc.