skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eventually I want to go to 4k but price was a non-starter for me. I wanted 3 monitors and I was able to grab 3x2k (1440p) screens on black Friday last year for around $200/ea. I have them arranged in a "Tie-fighter" orientation (1 horizontal in the middle and 2 vertical on the sides) with an older 1080p screen above the center monitor (it's just for security cams/monitoring).

I split the 2 vertical monitors into 3rds (top, middle, bottom) and I have keyboard shortcuts to move/resize windows as well as snap every window to it's designated space. I have been extremely happy with this setup so far.
It looks bad here because in this case the root cause is the quid-pro-quo/pay-to-play lobbying system.

The transparency SHOULD be good in that it should be able to show the electorate whether reps did what they said they would.

In reality it is, as mentioned above, instead used to appease a small but powerful body of the electorate.
I find text very hard to read on a 27" 4K monitor with no scaling. Not sure if it has something to do with me getting older and wearing glasses.
Yeah, to be clear, I'm not demanding it of you. If you just happen to know of something then I'm hoping you'll share.

And yes, but slightly more. I want to know that the carbon credits are real, i.e. that I'm actually offsetting.
That's about South Africa's Postbank, an entity unrelated to the German bank of the same name.
I've heard more than one woman observe something to the effect of: "oh, so this is why I was able to party 48 hours straight in college without sleep!"
> [...] too often that conservatives simply want to throw their hands up and either downplay or outright ignore the problem in order to say it's not solvable or not worth solving. That's just cowardice, and we can do better.

I think this is an uncharitable interpretation of conservatism. My perception is that conservatives disagree with me over the problem set, not the idea that we should solve problems.
But that turns into a ridiculous game of whack-a-mole, because there are always new PACs that can pop up. That is a huge difference from a one-and-done checkbox somewhere that lets me block all political adds, regardless of what new parties and organizations are created in the future.
I don't understand why do you miss the office?
>At least the Unabomber wrote his own deranged manifesto

To be fair he was given an elite education and was, by many accounts, an actual genius and math prodigy. Most people don't clear that bar.
>The ability to close yourself off in a bubble where you can't be reached by opposing viewpoints is relinquishing your duties as a democratic citizen.

This is only true if each side has a valid and reasonable difference of opinion. This is not true for hate speech and other propaganda. For example, it's not an "opposing viewpoint" to say that people with dark skin are subhuman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)
>though I do hope they're only a minority of Japanese people whose voices are amplified by Twitter echo chambers.

Why? There's a reason Dugout Doug was fired during the Korean War. Guy was a menace.
If you just don’t need the assurances, that seems true.

In my world, anything the type system doesn’t do for me, I must do myself in unit tests.

It’s actually possible to learn a type system and get good/fast at it. But typing out all those goddamn test cases never gets any easier, and updating them when the code changes is a nightmare.
It’s a good hunch. I think the biggest thing they do is that planning and zoning isn’t done at a local level, it’s done at a national level. So you can’t get your neighbors together to vote out your representative or throw massive amounts of effort at stymieing development. I think some of it is cultural, too. The Japanese are still dealing with the fallout of the real estate crash in 1992, the Nikkei 225 has still yet to reach the peak value from that time, and they just don’t look at real estate as an asset that will always go up in value indefinitely like we do here in the West, so there’s no political will to maintain that.
From the initial idea to testing to launch in 5 days – a Coronavirus help system
Interesting info, but overly opinionated. I tried turning off font smoothing just now but the lack of boldness made everything appear dimmer, and I had to strain my eyes a bit when reading my code. Also I use my MacBook without a separate screen, with no scaling, so I really have to disagree with this:

> This will make everything on the screen slightly bigger, leaving you (slightly!) less screen estate. This is expected. My opinion is, a notebook is a constrained environment by definition. Extra 15% won’t magically turn it into a huge comfortable desktop

For me a notebook is not a constrained environment, and screen scaling very much makes the difference between "a huge comfortable desktop" and not.
> In general people who never suffered from this kind of profiling have a hard time understanding what's the problem

I'm assuming you're directing this towards me since you mentioned my example. I am myself a minority. Do you realize that you just racially profiled me based on my opinion?
For me, I find 1440p + high refresh rate as the true sweet spot, the "affordable" monitor listed in this post is $900.

That's not a bad deal for a 4k high refresh rate monitor, but if you play any games you would need at least a 2080 or 2080ti which is another 700-1200, 1440p high refresh monitors go for around $300-400.
> NYT sits pretty much center left, but feel free to point towards a more comprehensive study.

It's sits center-left in that study because the study centers around the center of US media coverage, not any principled definition of political center; the NY Times viewpoint is, and has long been, neoliberal corporate capitalist, which is a center-right position (the same center-right position which was held by the dominant factions of both US political parties in the neoliberal consensus of the early 1990s, though the Republican Party has since shifted further Right, and the center-left faction has been gaining ground in the Democratic Party in the last several years.)
Yeah, this... though it'd be awesome if they updated their setup for working ZFS boot environments OOTB. Last I checked they were setting vfs.root.mountfrom explicitly in /boot/loader.conf.local, which is not stellar. =-(
I think you could benefit from laying out a few examples, because on my own I’m struggling to put your claim into more concrete terms that I can relate to.
Great theory. I'd definitely love to have 4k 120hz displays, but until I'm not broke, I'll stick with my old low-res monitors I picked up for $20 apiece. They suck, but not everyone has the money for $500 panels, let alone the insanely-priced four-figure ones the author recommends. I'll probably just suffer through another decade of garbage text until they get cheap.
Zuckerburg is really really good at the art of seeming like he is progressive but is empirically horrible for society.

Is he good at the art of seeming progressive?

He's hosted fundraisers for Chris Christie, his lobbying group FWD.us had created a GOP-led spin off called "Americans for a Conservative Direction" that supported the keystone XL pipeline, and the decidedly non-progressive politicians Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio.

So when I hear people say stuff like "Facebook has a liberal bias" or that Zuckerberg himself is progressive, I'm genuinely puzzled.
The filer is suing because they logged into things like GMail and third party services while in incognito mode. If you wear a mask, but still have your nametag on, that's not the mask makers fault.
People are playing CS:Global Offensive because its a smoother, less complex texture compared to other modern games (ie: Overwatch).

I'd dare say that the "serious" FPS players stick to Counterstrike, and other easier-to-render games with 200+ FPS. (even if the monitor doesn't support it, the higher FPS results in smoother gameplay and fewer hiccups).

There's of course a huge casual crowd playing Overwatch, PUBG and Fortnite. But CS tournaments remain a thing to this day.
I think the German and the South African Postbanks are not related.
Back when I was a younger, even more naive idiot, I ran a tor exit node on a server at home and one night had the idea to mirror that switch port and run software on another machine that would display all photos from a data stream.

Its one of the more regrettable decisions I've ever made.
There is no computer advice I'd give anyone that I'd more desperately implore they follow than to never ever fucking look into that abyss.
A small tweak of moderation policy shouldn't destroy them.
If you want something in between, i'd suggest Julia, which has taken a lot of array programming concepts and ported them into a functional language, so you can get the ideas without going so far down the rabbit hole that everything is an array.

The problem though might be that those ideas (like Julia's broadcast) are so seamlessly integrated into it's functional paradigm that you won't "really" know which parts are parts where you've been tricked into doing array programming.
>will that lead to a better world when Republicans can't reach Democrat voters or vice versa?

We've lived in this world since 2016, if not earlier. The question is how to proceed from here.
Bug bashes are a bit like cool down periods in my experience – if your focus is 100% on features all of the time then every now and then you need to catch up on open bugs or piled up tech debt. I'd argue these types of activities are not necessary at all when all stakeholders contribute to the scope of each iteration (see https://simplabs.com/blog/2020/06/17/failing-and-winning-at-...). Still, if a bug isn't taken on for x weeks or months, I'd say 99% of the time it never will be and can just as well be closed since it's ignored anyway.
In general? Probably a static page on GitHub pages. Or S3 static site hosting.
"other stakeholders that have legitimate needs with regards to predictability and insight into a project's progress are left in the cold"

Well, that's a bit dishonest, this is not really about coordination, this is about risk and money.

This is about helping people who are not working on the project to sleep better.

I believe that setting the budget and deadline from the start and then asking the team to scope the project is a reasonable way to manage risks, but not the other way around.
DOJ to recommend legislation holding tech companies liable for online content
It'd be impossible for Google Analytics to not collect data from a incognito tab without it knowing that it is incognito somehow (like if Chrome attached a header to all outgoing requests that said incognito=1 or something). But then websites would know you are in incognito, and find some other way to track you without leaving cookies on your box (like logging the IP address for the request and merging all incognito requests into one profile, which would be accurate enough).

What do they want Google to do? They warn you specifically of this anyway when you open an incognito tab:

"

You've gone incognito

Now you can browse privately, and other people who use this device won't see your activity. However, downloads and bookmarks will be saved. Learn more...

Chrome won't save the following information:

Your browsing history

Cookies and site data

Information entered in forms

Your activity might still be visible to:

Websites you visit

Your employer or school

Your internet service provider

"
Thanks for sharing, this is hitting to my situation "some" time. The world is full of rabbit hole if you will ...
The few places is everywhere in the EU at least. Signing card transactions is very last century in more advanced nations. ;)

Edit: also the pin is verified each Transaction unlike with receipt signatures, which as you say were rarely checked by anyone.
I got into Chess a couple years ago and Twitch and YouTube were a huge part of it. I had gotten started watching Ben Finegold's kids classes. Getting to see grandmasters play and hear their thoughts and ask them questions is an unbelievable resource. I was surprised how good Chess was as a spectator sport.
Should I be able to sue YC when Hackernews commenters say something objectionable? That Paul G money sounds nice.
Native Americans and pre-Christian pagan Europeans had a lot in common. Both cultures that honor seasonal cycles, animals, nature, ancestors, animism etc.

Unfortunately “western” is now seen as the Abrahamic judeo-Christian capitalistic worldview, even though the west sprang out of pagan Greece and Rome.
These monitors and most of the ones mentioned in the thread are tiny. Whatever happened to the dream of the full-wall display? I really like my 43" 4K LG monitor, but apparently this type of monitor is rarely produced these days. A quick Newegg search shows exactly 1 monitor with similar specs and it's more than twice the cost of what I paid for mine two years ago.
Easier said than done. Here's a specific scenario. You tell me what management should share and when.

Revenue is seriously down. If this trend continues for another quarter or so, we'll have to start layoffs of ~10% of the engineers.

Do you share the full news now, with no idea of whether there will be layoffs? Do you "lie by omission" by sharing that revenue is down, but not mention the potential consequences?

The CEO typically is hoping for one more deal to close, to turnaround the company and not have to go through the layoffs. Why scare people if it's not needed?
OpenGL 2D Facade (1): Window and basic drawing – Design Patterns and Video Games
The point is, there will always be something some people will find offensive. How long before "animal" or "robot" are found to have undesired connotations?
> I think this is the fundamental point of contention. Go aims at abstraction at the package level. ...

I think this is an excellent point. I have Go code which might make Rust fan apoplectic with its verbosity and basicness. But for me it is like magic every time it runs and get stuff done on any of my remote/local machine.

I made a similar point elsewhere about expression verbosity vs project verbosity. To me all the 3rd party dependencies, substantial number of outside tools and obscure setup files are a type of verbosity when I work on a project. Though I do not mind them if thats what is needed.
You must have super sharp vision
What's the point of 120Hz if your just programming?
It feels to me like the word 'partisan' is doing a lot of work in your argument. What if we replaced it with 'ethical'? Google's policy says they will not run ads against certain types of content that they find abhorrent (this is apparently enforced at the site level). Sure, enforcement of those standards is inevitably somewhat subjective, but, so what?

Calling those standards 'biased' or 'partisan' implies that Google's business practices are somehow unfair, or targeted at a particular group. But I don't see the evidence for that here. Just having ethical standards for who you will do business with is not in itself a bad thing!
Yes, but Republicans consistently use the term 'Democrat' instead of 'Democratic' because they don't want to imply that Democrats have a connection to the concept of Democracy.

It's a shibboleth; folks who instinctively say "Democrat" are reliably far-right.
Employers steal far more than employees: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Wage_the...

https://www.gq.com/story/wage-theft

https://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-fro...

https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-th...
At what distance? Do you have a picture of your setup?
It seems like you're simultaneously saying "sorting doesn't belong as a language function in JavaScript" and "we shouldn't ship a sorting routine to the client," which seems...odd. If the page view needs sorting, then isn't that the use case where we can most say that there is, in fact, a point to "shipping sort magic to the client"?

(Also, you can do an HTML table sort in about 10 pretty short lines of code[1], so this seems like a kind of weird hill to die on.)

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14267781/sorting-html-ta...
Hours after Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben's says they'll “evolve” brand
Was it quake by any chance?
I use my Instant Pot in pretty much exactly this way, but have never had lumpy yogurt, so maybe something else?
Sure, they tell you websites could be doing it, but they don’t tell you that the one of the biggest websites in the world, from the same company that created the browser, is doing it. The fact that they even point that out means they know it’s an invasion of privacy (bad), but yet they do it anyway.
> False, see Cambridge Analytica.

Um, elaborate? You literally cannot buy votes. If I'm a left wing progressive, no amount of money will convince me to vote for a right wing politician (and vice versa).

Also, by now Cambridge Analytica’s data has been shown to have been mostly useless at meaningful targeting. Even the New York Times reported that Cambridge Analytica’s impact on the election of Donald Trump as president was overrated.

https://stratechery.com/2018/the-facebook-brand/

From the article:

“But a dozen Republican consultants and former Trump campaign aides, along with current and former Cambridge employees, say the company’s ability to exploit personality profiles — “our secret sauce,” Mr. Nix once called it — is exaggerated. Cambridge executives now concede that the company never used psychographics in the Trump campaign. The technology — prominently featured in the firm’s sales materials and in media reports that cast Cambridge as a master of the dark campaign arts — remains unproved, according to former employees and Republicans familiar with the firm’s work.”

If you can come up with a system that can convince someone to do something against their will, please show me what that system is, and I'll try and use it to sell you a bridge in Brooklyn.
> A good monitor is essential for that. Not nice to have. A MUST. And in “good” I mean, as good as you can get.

The whole discussion starts from a what I would say is an incorrect assertion, and then goes on to describe lots of ways that letters can be made better. If, in fact, you don't need better, then a lot of the points go away.

1. There is a point of diminishing returns, past which you are spending a lot more money for very little benefit.

2. There exists a point beyond which "better letters" are unlikely to contribute much to daily work.

Both of those points are, to some extent, the same point. But either way, the idea that you MUST get as good of a monitor as you can" is, in my opinion, untrue and not worth basing an entire document on.

I'd rather see a discussion of which features of a monitor contribute the most (per $) to how well they function for daily work. For gaming, I want high refresh rate and high contrast. For TV, the contrast (real black) goes up in importance. For daily work, neither of those is a huge contributor to how well I can work.
Crackpot movements used to require you have personal contact with the core members or have access to a newsletter. Now, impressionable people can just find them on FB, Reddit, or *chan.
I adore my HP Z27. It’s 4K, usb-C, charges my 15” MBP and serves as a thunderbolt hub for other peripherals. The chrome or bezel around the screen is extremely minimal, and the only light that isn’t the backlight is a tiny little LED indicator dot that is very subtle and Apple-esque. From time to time I use it with an old PC and even RPi’s. Real intuitive mode switching and menus. Highly recommended along with a heavy duty monitor arm to keep it from shaking.

As much as I miss my 2012 MacBook Air and consider it the greatest computer I’ve ever owned... I definitely couldn’t go back to a non retina experience.
Forge by Inferno Systems wraps hashcat with a workflow more conducive to non-technical people. That currently requires on-site but I believe they have a cloud offering planned: https://inferno-systems.com/forge/index.html
Why the heck is it considered racist? I don't get it. She was never a racist stereotype to me.
>Lowercase letters only have 7 (seven!) vertical pixels to work with. That’s NOT MUCH. I have more fingers than that.

Quite an argument.
I used to long for the days of 200dpi monitors when I was younger and we lived with 72dpi or less on-screen. Now, my vision has deteriorated to the point where I honestly can't see the difference despite being a type nerd. I'm increasingly using the zoom feature in MacOS to read smaller UI elements. I suspect my days of driving my MacBook display at "more space" (2048x1280) instead of "default" (1792x1120) are numbered.
love the streak concept, also enjoyed it at pioneer on individual level

looking fwd to startup school & sharing with a few friends starting out!
For email, I agree some sort of spam filtering is necessary—but I wouldn't want an email client to alter the contents of messages depending on who the sender is. (By default at least—customization through plugins is great!)

> Sites treat browsers (or even user agents) very differently. Why should browsers not do the same?

But isn't that exactly why browsers are now phasing out user agents? I'm all for that—I shouldn't have to fake my user agent in order for Slack to work in a mobile browser.

If there's a certain browser feature that a website needs, and the website detects this feature isn't present and changes its behavior accordingly, that's quite different!
With twitter you can block the user that prompoted the tweet and you won't see any tweets, promoted or other wise from them.
Hiring the first head of marketing at your startup
Show HN: Trackiem – Custom trackers to track anything over any period of time
USSR existed for over 70 years and people there have seen a lot of varieties of oppression. “Silence is Violence” is one of them. “Kitchen Talks” too (you cannot say anything to random people and only to closest friends/relatives at home). Be ready for a new life, comrade.
I have the ultrafine 5k. 27 glorious inches @ 218ppi. Not only does this provide a colossal amount of real estate for crisp text (I run with no scaling, which requires good eyesight), but combined with a macbook pro, provides a near perfect computing solution. One cable provides video, audio, usb hub, webcam and power. Two monitors might be better, but I find leaving the laptop screen open on a stand works well. One quarter of the ultrafine provides 2560x1440 resolution, so side by side, or corner layouts work very well.

https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-27MD5KA-B-5k-uhd-led-monit...
"main key"
> Progress for the sake of progress is not progress

In our current moment, it's progress for the sake of not letting police get away with murder.

What part of the unprecedented peace we find ourselves in makes you uncomfortable?
I do the same, but with a 36" screen to match the pixel pitch of standard size 1080p monitors. I can't imagine giving up 75% of my work area in exchange for prettier fonts.
Similar. My last screen upgrade is a 32" unit at 2560x1440. It has more-or-less the same pitch as my previous 23.5" 1920x1080 devices. With no scaling everything is the same size but I can have more visible. Sometimes I use the larger one effectively as two portrait screens instead of one landscape. One of the older monitors rotates, I have that set portrait too.
Depends on the company culture. If they previously prided themselves on transparency and had a regular cadence of information (e.g. all-hands meetings), you keep getting the news regardless but it starts being, "this thing that looks bad was in the news, but ACKTUALLY this is exactly what we wanted to happen."

To quote Denzel Washington's character in Inside Man:

"I've got him right where I want him"

"Where's that?"

"Behind me with my pants around my ankles."