skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there some other "efficient" way to read a website that involves some non-linear sequence of jumps around the page?

Yeah, it's called skimming and scanning [1].

This is why things like information hierarchy [2] and vertical rhythm [3] are emphasized in modern design.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_reading#Skimming_and_sca...

[2] https://zevendesign.com/designers-guide-to-visual-hierarchy/

[3] https://zellwk.com/blog/why-vertical-rhythms/
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How exactly would it be used? Presumably you're using it to mark someone you don't actually know, but then you need to actually go looking for the trail, but how do you do that if you don't know who the spy is?
I wasn't done, please don't jump to reply in the first few minutes of writing. ;-)
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So now you can run multiple memory instances of chromium, one per web site, instead of sharing the core. It’s not like chromium is a huge memory consumer anyway.
Thanks for your kind words Dru! This coming issue, which I’ll release on Friday 2pm covers how another maker who built landingfolio.com used some life hacks to increase the amount of money he makes from complementary products.

Also, upcoming ones in the pipeline include historysearch.com, treendly.com. They’re all successful makers with decent profits.
Can you see how it’s user-hostile to put a sticker on my laptop and tell me it’s my job to take it off?
Wow, that's a much easier way to convert from decimal to floating point than I had ever seen. He doesn't mention why biased notation is used (i.e. why the exponent is stored as 127+E): it's used so that if you sort positive numbers as if they were integers, they'll still end up in the right order.
I will try to overlook the sexism in your posting. In my company, its not umgingen that someone brings their kid to work. Be it to show the kids what they are doing all day, or because of some logistics thing, or daycare closed or whatnot. Never a problem. Also not uncommon to work from home for the same reason. And it's usually the men who do that (sorry if that doesn't fit into your stereotype).
Ability to reasonably avoid the complicity.

Obviously what’s reasonable is up for debate.

I’d say leaving one firm for another firm, in a decent job market is definitely doable.

Not using your car, on the other hand, for lots of people, isn’t reasonable.
Does this mean free virtual workshops, or is that just for people who bought tickets?
The average software engineer does not have a skiing holiday or a swimming pool. Even home ownership is down. The vast majority of people, even people making 100k+, do not have that luxury.

Grouping together millionaires with software developers working at Google doesn't make sense to me.

This whole debate is about drawing a line in the sand about morality that is convenient for the author. The same exact arguments could be made for any number of things anybody does every single day.
Koshkin wrote "if you are afraid of C" and IMO if you are writing assembly or Turbo Pascal you wont (or at least, shouldn't) be afraid of C. Turbo Pascal is pretty much at the same "level" as C with slightly more stronger typing and a few extra bells and whistles, but things that cause people to be afraid of C, like pointers and manual memory management, are still there.
I just physically unplug the touchpad and fingerprint reader on mine.
Absolutely. You have to make charisma work for you (and not try to be someone else and their manner of expressing charisma), in the sense that your unique personality will lend itself to a type/style of charisma and manner of expressing it (projecting it outward into the world, to the reception of others). You have to figure out how to best take advantage of your personality strengths.

Warren Buffett was awkward and shy, incapable of public speaking, when he was younger. He points out that public speaking would make him physically ill. He credits a Dale Carnegie public speaking course [1], for breaking him out of that.

Today he can sit in front of a packed arena of 18,000 people and hold the annual Berkshire Hathaway meeting, while giving long speeches with the spotlight focused squarely on him.

A lot of charisma is about getting your personality out of the box it's being held in. Figuring out the strategy that best enables you to do that. Typically people don't lack for personality, they lack for being able to outlet it properly, understanding the method of doing that. It's like having a car in your garage and not understanding how to drive it; it's sitting there waiting and it'll take you places, if you learn how to drive it.

Charisma is the pairing of your personality with the system/approach of how you get that personality out into the world where it meets other people in a highly effective, impactful manner. You likely have a personality, you need the delivery system.

Buffett has a different type of charisma and a different manner of unleashing it, than eg Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan, Tom Cruise or Will Smith. Buffett's style lends itself more to a kind of folksy story telling approach, and it works extremely well for him and matches his personality strengths (for example he liberally uses self-deprecation to disarm his audience of their preconceived notions of elite wealthy types; he learned a very long time ago that people like hearing stories they can relate to and he channels through that mechanism often).

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/billionaire-warren-buffett-s...
See also the F-secure timeline where the salt team's gpg key had been expired for years, salt had a lack of clear communication, and general sloth in response

https://labs.f-secure.com/advisories/saltstack-authorization...
You have made the false assumption that I'm talking about this particular situation (Amazon/Tim Bray) when I was simply responding to the more general comment about making judgements based on generalities and not on particulars.
Do you think this is the beginning of the golden age for home API traders due to market conditions or the tooling that enables home traders to operate getting better and better?
And this is if you're working for someone else. If you have a stake - if it's something you are an equal partner with your collaborators on, something you believe in and stand to draw immensely from and have true decision-making ability - then of course it's reasonable to push more. You've already placed your stake, you want to be able to hold onto it.

But if you've been broughton to a project and you're not offerd that kind of stake, if you're there just for your labor, it's unreasonable to be asked for more than what was initially agreed upon, and it's also unreasonable for that initial offer to have included some kind of expectation of open-ended practice when compensation was defined and finite.
A functional programmer's guide to homotopy type theory
Layout Shift is one of my biggest pet peeves.

Especially in search interfaces.
I understand. Maybe “no, no, no, the good kind of hackers” is part of the marketing problem. ‘Maker’ is the current zeitgeist. It also provides more to work towards and that’s helpful for sustaining an organization. Of course some of your current group is likely to rage quit for such a pivot. It’s a question of goals whether it’s the right thing.

But using “hacker” means you will always be boiling the ocean in your marketing.
Ask HN: How do you share internal tools inside a large company?
Large companies inevitably write a lot of internal tools and libraries. The problem is that a lot of things are simply created multiple times because there is no reasonable way to share them.

What solution do you have for this problem?

My idea would be a simple internal self-hosted AppStore where the developers could upload and present their tool. With categories, most downloaded, new releases etc.
But so far I haven't seen anything that is already available.
Of course. POTUS is a political position, and the process of choosing their appointees is politically motivated decision.

But political motivation does not necessarily follow the transitive property, which is part of the reason why a lifetime appointment is a good idea.
This is actually usually pretty configurable. You have to use the actual config file though and not the GUI to get the really tunable numeric settings of palm-size and whatnot.

Also, understand that there's libinput or touchpad synaptics and you can use the other one if one isn't working for you. I have had better luck with libinput myself but it probably depends on the hardware.
But I don’t need them! I just need USB-C! Nothing else! Get rid of the legacy junk and give me simpler, lighter, thinner, better sealed laptop.
Surely that PAAS will work only on MacOS, iOS and warchOS. All that amazing technology for just $50,000 license. Exactly like WebObjects!
How do you convince people to go to church? Provocative church ads
That's because Github doesn't have a different message for non-DMCA threats of lawsuits. If you look at one of the other top-level comments, you'll see that they didn't actually get a DMCA takedown - but a threatening lawyers letter.
I guess you are the arbiter of moral righteousness in the world, then. Are you writing this on a computer? Where did the materials come from that built it? Conflict free? How about the wages for the person who built it?

Hint hint.
SEO also has encouraged this.
Do you ever profile doctrine? I found its overhead to be 10x the actual time of my average query. Most of the time is spent hydrating. I wonder how people can put up with such a level of performance reduction and still claim they are using decent tools.
2015 15" if that makes any difference, but last models (2012 i think) had the same problem.

Maybe they optimize to the wrong finger size to the point you can't even if you try, and i trigger the bug too often.
Microsoft tried to compete with Apple by dictating to hardware vendors how they should write drivers for their touch input devices (the Microsoft HID guidelines). Of course, none of the hardware vendors could actually write drivers that fully conform to this standard, and the standard itself was not wholly adequate to compete with Apple. It causes problems.

Linux slavishly adheres to the published Microsoft HID guidelines. Since neither Microsoft nor any of the hardware vendors do, it causes problems.

The Microsoft HID guidelines dictate how packets of information are reported to userspace. That is information like touch id, touch size, velocity, and direction. The userspace then has to integrate the various data into touch and gesture recognition. A thousand different software developers do that a thousand different ways, mostly badly.

The end result in the Windows and Linux world is a thousand different developers produce touch and gesture recognition software a thousand different ways of hundreds of different devices that work in completely different ways. A sort of orchestrated chaos like an ant colony.

Apple dictated to its hardware vendors exactly how to write drivers that work with its software, and it has centralized software embedded in the OS to handle touch. A dozen expert developers do touch and gesture recognition for all apps using strictly controlled drivers from a select few vendors, all centrally controlled like a massive flock of starlings swooping and gliding and conducted by the ghost of Steve Jobs standing on the ground.
Good luck! I'd also recommend splitting the config into multiple files, like it has been best practice for the last decades [1] (link goes to Arch (which I also recommend using) but the advice is not Arch specific)

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nginx#Managing_server_e...
>> They could do this without the destroying hardware by linking serial numbers to people, making it trivial to look up who owns a serial number, and then enforcing receive stolen property a crime.

> Who is they? Apple? The state? The number of ways that could go wrong is endless.

Well, Apple, insurance and the state all have their part.

The government can enforce the crime of receiving stolen property. However on the other side, is whenever higher dollar merchandise is sold, to also record the owner. We already do this with vehicles and the VIN. Manufacturers already do this for warranty and recalls.

And Apple usually also knows who you are from the AppleID, which almost always has payment and addresses on file.

And, everything has endless ways it can go wrong. But there's a pretty well known finite ways of it going, with weird legal edge cases. Apple, Insurance, and the state can handle at least the more common cases.
What’s «large»? I’ve set up multi-TB analyses without issue, using dask. I don’t know of a more productive language for such analyses, either. What is even better?
The US is a federation of states. It has already fallen apart in some ways in this crisis. Power and decision making are shifting to local states. I think the trend will intensify. The biggest threat to the US is probably secession. That has not happened since the Civil War. Since then, it has become even more unified. It's hard to see how states can leave the Union now. Being able to shift power between local and federal is a strength of the US political system. At international level, the US alliance may fade away.

I guess China would fall apart next. It's a country that's stitched together by force and propaganda. It doesn't seem to have the ability to shift its internal borders. So its collapse would be more dramatic than the US.
> What if we think of design as not what something looks like, but rather how it works?

Wouldn't that be UX and not necessarily UI?
I've opened it 3-4 times now and still don't know what it does because it requires me to read it from top to bottom like an article. There's no intuitive way to quickly get a grasp of what it does.

I ignored the section you're describing since my eyes are looking for something tangible that draws my attention but since there is nothing I just ignore everything and don't read a single word.
On Thinkpads, there's also the thumb buttons below the space bar that act as mouse buttons. The middle one allows you to scroll with the trackpoint. It's very convenient.
I saw a very simple visualisation of floating point by simply plotting points along the number line and zooming out. That gets the idea across very quickly!
Kaczynski has come out and said it wasn't stressful, and that it was mostly multiple choice questions.

Other participants in the study and other researchers involved have come out and stated that it was benign.

No other students involved reported any lasting issues.

We have on record the actual transcripts of Kaczynski's participation and it conclusively shows that it was benign--in fact it shows a calm and relaxed Kaczynski make the interviewer appear silly.

It's easy to see why people cling to the idea that Kaczynski must somehow have been affected by this study: it distracts their own and others attention away from his ideas and on to his personality. The reasons for his violence are entirely consistent with his ideology. There have been terrorists and revolutionaries throughout history who have committed far worse "crimes" and yet we don't need to pathologize them or their motivations.
But when you push it in one direction too long, then let it go neutral, it'll have a bias into the other direction and move there by itself for a few seconds.
Care to name these "GDP draining states"?
I don't know about everyone else but with my eyesight, the text on that page is pretty much impossible to read.

Strange for a blog post url that begins with "accessible".
Transportation and meals come from that "other stuff" bucket, at least for 90% of jobs out there. You work for 8 hours and hopefully sleep for the full 8 hours. The edge cases all get taken out of your "free time" and what is left over is the time you get to spend on you. Which is way, way less than 8 hours.

I would say it's closer to 4 hours max. With kids, zero. It's hard to find meaning in those 4 hours when life is so complex. I would even argue that you need a dedicated entertainment bucket just to stay sane which further limits this other stuff bucket to merely a large handful of minutes. This handful of minutes is where you live your real life and it's really not enough.
> Shutting down the economy means that large numbers of people will die of suicide and other syndromes associated with economic deprivation.

I think that these arguments sounds empty, because to qualify them we would need to compare them to deaths from pandemic. That is not being done all that much and when being done, the numbers for pandemic unrealistically low.

I would also expect people whose care is well being of poor to promote social distancing measure that does not harm economy - masks, closed beaches, limit amount of people in store simultaneously, mandate hands disinfection upon entering store or other public area.

I would also expect them to support stay-at-home-if-sick policies for workers to protect others. Support people who are old or otherwise at risk and decide they dont want to come to work and replacing them by younger people willing to risk in exchange for more money.

I would expect promoting voting by mail too to avoid crowds to voting stations.

I dont see any of that, I see claims that threat is exaggerated.
There are functional aspects that go beyond those you consider though. For example, rounded corners are, from a functional perspective, unnecessary (and maybe even confusing! Are the corners clickable?), but it turns out there's actually a bit of psychology and evolutionary weirdness that make humans more comfortable with rounded corners than sharp ones.

Other sites have marketing needs. They might colors or motifs to evoke positive associations with related brands. Or avoid negative associations with others. Or just to avoid looking too much like a competitor.

A lot of this is hard to articulate for most. Heck, even some designers can't explain why another design feels right and another doesn't. It just comes across as "that one looks nicer". But there are often (though certainly not always) deeper, functional purposes behind what seems to just be an aesthetic.
"If anything's a conspiracy theory, it's that the entirety of your comment history on Hacker News, spanning 2 years is to post solely on the topic of the Unabomber, and that you do the same thing on Reddit."

How is that a "conspiracy theory"???
The German articles you're describing sound more like long-form journalism. I think their style differs heavily from short news reports.
Two Heads: A marriage devoted to the mind-body problem (2007)
Github didn't get a DMCA takedown. They just got a threatening lawyer's letter. See the other top-level comment about it.

Title of post is wrong.
I see it as a good thing. Russia waste less capital and valuable human resources on vanity projects. I know that HN crowd will dislike my view, since space is hot topic, but well, I would rather focus on something more tangible.

Germany has nothing to show in space industry prowess, but it is nice, wealthy country which focuses on problems at hand.
Unsafe Rust is at least as close to the hardware as C is, if not somewhat closer (C doesn't have 8- or 16-bit arithmetic operations, and I believe unsafe Rust doesn't have the strict aliasing rules of C).

Arguing that you specifically have to learn C to understand hardware is the gatekeeping I dislike the most, especially because it turns out that C itself can have a pretty bad view of hardware.
When you get a blood clot, Warfarin that they give you for it is literally a vitamin K blocker.
Yes. But I think this is because, any area of study in which such disagreements can happen are, are by definition excluded from pure mathematics.

What is surprising is that what remains to be studied is vast and beautiful and highly effective when borrowed by other disciplines.
The Zens Liberty is the AirPower wireless charger that Apple couldn’t make
Agreed.

If I somehow end up on a similar looking website, I'd often close it and move on to the next result on Google.

My brain automatically associate that UI with an archive website that probably hasn't been uploaded since 2005ish.
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Only about 50% of the HN community is in the US, and many of the users who are came from other countries. You shouldn't assume a poster is American.
Your first link confirms you can have locks in a multithreaded lock free algorithm - "The Lock-Free property guarantees that at least some thread is doing progress on its work" - I always thought this property should have been called deadlock free.
Modern Business 101!
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In response to your comment, I tested Microsoft Edge on my iPad and can confirm that yes, indeed, it does block the ads on youtube.com

-- mostly: out of about 7 videos, an ad was shown to me at the start of one of them, but that is much better than mobile Safari, on which and ad is shown to me at the start of every video I start.

Thanks for the tip.
Ask HN: Should documentation include sample code?
Should sample code be included in the documentation? I always find myself hitting up google after looking up the documentation just to see an example. Am I not grokking the documentation correctly? Are samples, even just one line, sacrilege? Any tips for understanding documentation like apple developer docs better?
Sorry, I misspoke. Those SPAs always have middleware to handle the authorization code, right?

It's really the implicit grant (where access tokens are available to the client) that should be avoided.
the VSCode SSH extension runs the editing process remotely so it doesn't need to transfer the entire file.
I'm on record in this very comment section of pointing out that the SARS-CoV-2 transmission paths is likely via a non-bat species traveling between Yunnan and Wuhan. That doesn't mean that WIV gets a cart blanche or that asking for transparency and independent verification of their activity is a 'rhetorical trick' or a 'conspiracy theory'. The impact is too large to leave stones unturned.

Your turn.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23072574

> As of your first point, there may be another natural virus, as of yet unidentified, possibly carried by a different species, that brought the disease to Wuhan. From the virologist chatter I hear, the genetic difference between RaTG13 is too large to have RaTG13 a recent direct precursor of SARS-CoV-2, either through genetic manipulation, or via culturing.