skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iOS:

I almost never use it myself, but I get called upon to deal with it for some of my relatives. The fact that you can't just mount the file system on a non-crippled computer and transfer files to and from the device just drives me mad. Getting someone's music into the right place if they don't have access to a machine with iTunes is miserable. When the "files" app appeared a few years ago, I thought "finally, they'll let you manipulate files directly", but no - it's just another silo too restricted to be of any use.
My friends can never understand my excitement when I realize that I can use a non-trivial scanner or printer utility in Linux. For example, I was really impressed that I could scan without problems from my brother ADS-1100W through wifi(!), or when I could configure the printer at work that requires some login credentials. Ah, the little joys of life :P
Are the surgeons who aren't washing their hands today not doing so because they don't believe in bacteria?
That would be German mobile banking apps (websites are just slightly better).

My current bank just wrapped a mobile website in Android app. Logging-in with a fingerprint, though supported, takes 3 or 4 attempts.

The app is also very slow and fails miserably on slow mobile connection (very common in Germany).

Finally the app doesn't do the 2FA feature, it's offered by another, even worse app from the same bank. They're too cheap to offer SMS option.

The 2FA app can only be registered using snail mail confirmation.
The link for live example does not check for the rule between 3-5 characters for activity name.
The rule.js needs to return true for minLength.
Just posted it here instead of creating issue, hope it is fine.
> They might have some funny ideas about what they can do safely. But there isn't any room for debate

What are the ideas, and why isn't there any room for debate? It seems like a bit of an imaginative and wide-open perception to yield much traction for the purposes of this discussion.

> I can't come in with some creative new idea and implement it with out first learning the right way to build a bridge

Hmm, is there "a" right way? What size is the bridge? For what use? I can build a Lego bridge that's pretty strong. Did I just meet nature at its bridge-building rules while not knowing your right way, or are those rules perhaps more nuanced than expected? Also, are we sure that the imaginary creative idea in question is in total disagreement with nature? What if it's fitting observed perceptions? Perhaps it has leverage in this way or that. Again there's not much else to be said in the conceptual zone here. I'd also add that dichotomous model like "adapt or suffer" is in my experience a common sign of a mental model which may be in need of further adaptation :-)
I'm also using Mail.app right now and I've been having similar issues with search and stuff. Does anyone have any recommendations for good desktop email apps on macOS?
And they don’t seem to prefetch anything. Why aren’t they loading my labels, team members etc in the background as soon as the main data has loaded, so they’re ready to go when I want to edit a field?
CRDT's and operational transforms are most useful for live, online editing. Each client sees a nearly up-to-date version of the document and any differences due to network lag are relatively small.

The idea is that normally each user will see other users' edits as they happen. They are trying to cooperate, not stomp on each other's edits. So long as the merge is reasonably intuitive, it can be fixed manually if it's not exactly what the authors wanted.

CRDT's aren't very good for writing code asynchronously, since you probably want each version to compile and pass tests, and sometimes do code review as well. Git works better for that. But they could be sort-of-okay for pair programming, though it might be an overly-complicated solution and better to use some kind of remote desktop.
Agreed. Win 7 was the pinnacle in terms of stability, UI pleasantness, staying out of the user's way -- overall usability. Other than WSL, every new "addition" in Win 10 is a negative.
It depends on which "left" you're talking about - it's not quite so simple. Clinton's 90's administration is frequently (and I would say accurately) described as neoliberal. The democratic party has become much more business and corporate friendly over the past 40 years. I think you'd be right in describing modern-day progressives as the "left" that you are defining here in opposition to neoliberalism. Does that make neoliberalism itself right-wing? Are establishment democrats right-wing if they have adopted neoliberal policies, as many have? Is Clinton now considered to have been a right-wing president by that definition?

I think these are interesting questions to ask now as the left, broadly speaking, doesn't have a strong political identity, with many progressives further left of the democratic party and other disaffected voters leaning libertarian.
Give Singularity a look
"There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit."
Ha, it makes the same route planning mistake I did years ago when I was in Rome.

I was staying near the Colosseum and for one of my runs, thought I’d run on the Appia Antica, because oldest road in the world, into Parco della Caffarella because it looked like a really nice park with lots of trails.

Well, next thing I know I’m running down a one-way cobblestone road with cars coming toward me and there’s no entrance into the park because there’s a huge wall between the road and the park. The road had walls on both sides in fact. I didn't want to turn around because I’d have the cars to my back. So I hugged that wall as close as I could and trusted the shit out of Roman drivers. Eventually I found a way into the park.

Here’s the route Trail Router gave me:

• https://ibb.co/k8m18xq

Here's the run I did that day:

• https://ibb.co/pK6xqMX

The road starts out looking great:

• https://ibb.co/998GQk3 (my picture)

• https://ibb.co/DYXkBt5 (google maps)

But very soon you're on this:

• https://ibb.co/vJcCSXr (google maps)

Well, it was all worth it because eventually I got into the park and I'm still alive:

• https://ibb.co/52VgT1W

• https://ibb.co/dbvG6f5

• https://ibb.co/ZTPknP3

• https://ibb.co/VWxrwnB

I know you're at the mercy of map data. I don't know how unique this situation is. I always appreciate a new route planning tool. I usually use a combination of Footpath Route Planner, the heat maps from Strava, and Google Maps street view and satellite view. It's definitely a pain to do that for every trip. Maps are definitely not optimized for pedestrian safety, and things like sidewalks and shoulder-width are often inaccurate or just not there on the maps short of bringing up street view.
> The fact that you can't just mount the file system on a non-crippled computer

What do you mean, non-crippled computer?

I think one of the reasons iOS doesn't expose the device as a Plain Old Disk is so that it can continue to enforce content restrictions etc., i.e. such as those set by parents.
On mobile Firefox (at least for me) nothing appears below the intro message. The last line I see is "Made for you by ...".
I hate the tagging ux in gmail. I would consider it in Google drive but I doubt I'd like it there either
I've worked on some rules for this in my similarly motivated extension Disengaged[0].

Another thing it does which I think helps a lot is automatically collapses subreplies.

[0] https://github.com/a13o/disengaged
> Zoom - worst video conference product __EVER__. Can't say a single good word about it.

I was forced to use Skype in the early 2000s. Believe, it was much worse.
I moved my small team to phabricator after a couple years of using GitHub and Asana. We all loved phabricator from previous companies.

Not only was it really easy to set up, but I think we all enjoy our tools a lot more now too. I still contend that phabricator rules the code review world: nothing else is as good. The projects feature feels just as good as Asana but without the slowness.

We do still use GitHub just as a dumb master (phabricator imports from it), but I’ll likely invert that soon enough to use GitHub as a mirror.
Agreed, it would be better to stick to a low level language for this. It's made even worse by the fact that some operations will be internally delegated to C code while others are pure Python.
Yeah, lovely. Still, ConEmu is atm far better. If I have to install manually stuff, I will always chose ConEmu until Windows Terminal comes OTB.

You can get similar stuff only in powershell - this is what I use:

https://github.com/majkinetor/powershell_profile.d/blob/mast...

It isn't that artistic but functinality is the same without any dependency.
It is amazing how bad Confluence is, and it still seems like the best choice for an internal wiki. I have been close to building one myself, but for now I have withhold.
YouTube is between a rock and an hard place, on one side creators expect it to be a reasonable platform on the other side legacy media will attack it with a viciousness proportional to how much it is not a shitty place for creators.

Until they stop siding against the creators they will never escape from it.
I said why make up a test score instead of just using weighted coursework.

That's what they're doing. They're weighting someone's coursework by an estimate of how they'll do on the test, based on how well students at their school have done on the test in previous years relative to coursework in those years.

No, a student in the 90th (top 10th) percentile of coursework at a low performing school is the ones who are harmed

Of course, they are harmed by the fact that their school makes coursework too easy. The alternative, of course, is using unweighted coursework grades which harms the students at schools that make the coursework extra hard.

The problem is that the IBO doesn't actually know what a student's abilities are until they write the exam. They also don't know how hard the coursework is at their school, in an absolute sense. They only know how hard the coursework is relative to the exam, based on a comparison of previous years' course grades with exam grades. Schools that consistently make coursework too easy will inflate the grades of their students. If those students underperform on the exam, the IBO will know that those schools are practicing grade inflation and adjust accordingly. That's all there is to it.
Genuine question, what don't you understand about Git? I personally like it, but the learning curve is steep for some of the more complex operations. But then again, it is doing fairly complex things at that end of the spectrum...
Sadly no pictures of the insides. I'll give you a description though. I cut a trace on the camera module (should have cut the cable instead on second thought) and soldered in two bits of enamel wire that go to a slide switch. Clipped a little bit of plastic off the lid so the switch was accessible, blind-drilled two tiny holes in the lid for the alignment pegs of the switch to go into, and glued it in place. I then did the painting with a very fine brush under a microscope. The wires are routed around the camera module and the switch is to the left of the camera, in order not to interfere with the little LED on the right of the camera that illuminates the work area. The outside looks like this (I didn't bother cleaning up the cut-off plastic edge): https://imgur.com/a/UpB1dJn
Charlie Kaufman Says Old Hollywood, Not Netflix, Killed Movies
>> What stops you from just buying LTSB?

Microsoft -- it doesn't sell those versions to individuals (or even small companies without Volume Licenses).
FYI : )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory

"Critical theory is the reflective assessment and critique of society and culture in order to reveal and challenge power structures. With origins in sociology as well as in literary criticism, it argues that social problems are influenced and created more by societal structures and cultural assumptions than by individual and psychological factors. Maintaining that ideology is the principal obstacle to human liberation,[1] critical theory was established as a school of thought primarily by the Frankfurt School theoreticians Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, and Max Horkheimer. The latter sociologist described a theory as critical insofar as it seeks "to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them."[2]

In sociology and political philosophy, the term Critical Theory describes the Western-Marxist philosophy of the Frankfurt School, which was developed in Germany in the 1930s and draws on the ideas of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. Though a "critical theory" or a "critical social theory" may have similar elements of thought, the capitalization of Critical Theory as if it were a proper noun particularly stresses the intellectual lineage specific to the Frankfurt School"

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/
The T2 in the current MacBooks is an ARM chip, so it's possible, they just aren't using it to run the main OS.
Which version was that? I only played the Amstrad CPC version which was ok, but nowhere near as good as the arcade.
I'll give you the keyboard thing. But the original Apple Watch seemed fine. I use one even today.

All of the stock apps work, and many third party apps, too. The only disappointment I have is that the New York Times app stopped working last fall.
It’s a super competitive industry so everyone is bloating their product trying to shove as many features as they can in without thinking how that affects performance. AI/ML is public enemy number one here.
As an ardent git user who has converted multiple teams to using it, I could not agree more.

Git has an absolutely atrocious interface, at every level.

The power it gives you once you've mastered it is probably worth it, but I'm not sure of that, and I think a much better UI that still retains a lot of the power (and adds more horsepower, even) is very possible.
What’s wrong with honoring the language sent by the browser?
> I mean, its so popular that you get used to it eventually but the commands never make sense or map well to the mental model of what you're doing.

I don't really find that to be the case in normal use at all.
I never needed WSL. Almost all linux tools are already nativelly available.
How do you virtualize Linux on an Intel Mac without it being terrible? Docker has been essentially broken for years. I’m actually looking forward to the ARM Macs because Apple mentioned they’re cooperating with Docker which I suspect could mean Docker will actually be more usable for virtualizing x86 Linux than it is now.
Add UK mobile banking apps to that list as well.
What usage guidelines need to be put into place for it to be successful?
When it comes to passenger cars, most noise is generated by tires hitting the road. Especially at higher speeds the engine noise doesn’t really contribute anything meaningful to the noise you hear. So electric cars won’t solve this problem.
Any poor sole here using Google Jamboard? Half cooked product released out ever!
TrustArc cookie / GDPR / tracking popup. It is filled with all the possible dark patterns.
Couldn't you make exactly the same argument about trying to get someone killed? Getting someone fired isn't getting them killed, of course, but it's still significant harm. It is the sort of thing that not long ago would have been considered outrageous harassment and mob behavior. It's astonishing how much the goalposts have moved, and how people are pretending or not noticing that this is a major shift in standards.
Wasn't sure whether your comment was relevant, then I remembered I closed the article a third of the way through because of a deep annoyance with the background.

I'm all for individual expression, but here I think it subtracts from the reading experience.
KeePassXC https://keepassxc.org/
The EPA has noise abatement regulations. Your city and state may also be involved. A lot of things are exempted usually though, such as trains, planes and automobiles.
Don't. I mean it.
It's the same things with assuming patterns about names or addresses.
A lot of people work abroad.
Choosing the language yourself _is not a problem that needs 'solving'_
They will just emulate x86 which is the same result.
G. C. Lichtenberg: a “spy on humanity”
Show HN: Markdown Files – Flashcards and Spaced Repetition
I don't mind the Finder, but I do use Path Finder now and then:

https://cocoatech.com
You’d need a lot of speakers (one every 6.8cm) to get the same coverage with an array inside the room.
This is actually very very important in Singapore. There's multiple highways (sic!) going through the middle of the city. Even on higher floors (say 15 - 20) the constant noise is unbearable if you live on top of one.

I didn't notice many sound isolating walls there either. Guess people who were born there get used to it.
Actually existing Macs sort of have both, given they include the T2 chip which contains the same ARM cores that were in the iPhone 7.

It's actually not the cost, though having two functional CPUs would cost more. How would it work? How much time and effort would go into building the hardware so they could interoperate and the OS to make it usable?

Just a massive amount of complexity for very little gain. Apple's Rosetta2 will already run x86 code with very good performance on Apple Silicon, in MacOS as a MacOS app. Hundreds of dollars per Mac cheaper, and far less complex to integrate.
Some little British or US flag in the corner works well in my euro experience. I learned to look for that pretty quickly spending time in Austria/Germany.
Hi! Designer at ServiceNow. Would love to know a bit more about what you’re going through. Specifically what products you’re having a hard time with and maybe a perspective on what we could do to improve. I’d be more than happy to take it back to the team(s).
Dropbox. I've used it for a decade, but now it's slow, bloated, and takes over CPU and memory like there isn't a single other program I need to run... and I was paying $20 for the privilege.

But a few weeks ago I switched to Syncthing[0], and it's the best software transition I've ever made. Opposite of everything Dropbox is now: fast, simple, and I don't even notice it running in the background. Seamless setup, and FREE. (So good, you're gonna want to donate anyway.)

[0]: https://syncthing.net/
It seems to work well for my location. I have been living in my current home for six months and I’ve made an effort to plan out greener routes around me for various distances. Trail Router comes up with similar routes when I put those distances in. It’s not perfect – it seems to prefer joining up parks that are long distances away from one another as long as there’s a river along the route instead of joining up parks that are closer together. But it’s a lot better than I expected.
Google Chrome. (I use Chrome because all of the other browsers are even more annoying to me.)

Technically speaking most of the code that seriously annoys me runs inside my browser, but IMO it was never realistic to hope that the myriad creators of individual web pages or web sites would collectively create a good experience for me: my only hope was for the makers of browsers to make choices different from the choices they actually made.

Clarification: the web browser makes a pretty good framework for creating user interfaces, IMO, but it is a bad way for an end user with preferences sufficiently similar to mine to access writing on the internet. Sadly it is the only way to access most of the writings on the internet.

Written documents can be extremely simple: just a sequence of characters in some well-known encoding, but most of the actual documents of interest to me on the internet are essentially programs that require execution in what is essentially a "virtual machine" as complex as any general-purpose operating system.
Sorry @dang. Your right.

This is the best place to discuss about those same topics, BTW, even when from my perspective, some of them look to have a little more bias than others.
Not sure I agree, though maybe if we change ourselves enough we can no longer call ourselves mammals.
I got a slingshot just recently: the simpleshot from scout. It was really just an impulse buy on amazon. You wouldn't believe how much better it is from the old-school wrist rockets. There's simply no comparing them.

I started hitting plastic bottles from about 30 yards away in the first couple days I got it.

If I had this when I was a kid, I would have terrorized the neighborhood fauna and my mom would have definitely taken it away. Instead, I eventually got bored and moved on to other hobbies.

HN is so resistant to change they should just call it LN.
The question is, does showing the precise target matched ads profit the Google more? If not, Google has no incentive to improve in that regard. By showing you ads, Google has already been profiting. All Google need to do is showing you the ads from the highest bidder while it's also not annoying enough for you to leave the web site. The highest bidder's ads tend to be rather nasty. But if you don't stop using the web site because of the ads, Google win.
I'll offer a personal experience (that I've described on HN before) that is more or less related.

I have a history of migraine. One commonly-reported symptom of migraine--one that I also experience--is "scotoma": a vivid moving visual hallucination that obscures a large portion of the visual field.

I discovered a few years ago that I could read books that I couldn't see because of scotoma.

The details of my scotoma have changed over the years. In my late teens and early twenties they tended to be large, whirling pinwheels of light occupying about half my visual field, usually off-center to the lower left. In recent years they've moved around a little and more closely resemble vivid, shining triangular prisms with iridescent zebra stripes scrolling over and radiating from the surfaces.

Whatever their shape, they're extremely vivid--generally much more vivid than anything in the real world. They're also distracting, and when they occur, I can't see anything past them at all, except around the edges of my visual field where they don't appear. That's maybe less helpful than it might be, since the scotoma moves with my eyeballs, so I can't look around it effectively.

I discovered the peculiar interaction with reading one day when I was reading a book that I found engrossing tell-tale symptoms alerted me that a migraine with scotoma was incoming. I was vexed because I didn't want to stop reading, and I resolved to just continue until I couldn't read anymore.

That point never came.

The scotoma blossomed into its full glory, a vivid, scintillating prism that obscured most of the center of my visual field. I couldn't see the book at all, nor the hand holding it. I could still read, though.

I became preoccupied by the unexpected phenomenon of reading text that I couldn't see, and started reading aloud from the book.

Eventually, the scotoma faded, as it always does, and I was able to confirm that what I had been reading during its effects was in fact what was actually on the page.

I take my experience to mean that the process of reading and interpreting the text and the process of being subjectively aware that I'm doing it are two different processes, and it's possible for one to continue even when the other is prevented.

I had always before assumed that the two processes were one and the same. It never occurred to me that they could be different until the scotoma demonstrated it to me. On another occasion I discovered another crack in my naive model of reality, when exhaustion plus a stimulant offered me the chance to be both awake and asleep at the same time, but that's another story.
The contrast between the individual and group level is something I've been thinking about a lot lately.

Your point about the value system is intriguing. In my experience, debate has always been more fulfilling on the individual level, since it feels like the exchange of ideas comes more easily. Trying to expand this to a wider audience takes much more effort like you described.