skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm, this article seems like a very Mac centered view of text editor history.

I was using jEdit long before TextMate was a thing and it had extensions and language customizations as well. If I remember correctly, TextMate mainly became popular because of all the Rails and Django developers promoting it at the same time developers were switching to Macs.
If someone asked me to critique the UX of Wikipedia, the first two things I’d point out would be that I almost never use the left hand side bar (and I have a feel almost no one does) and that when paragraphs are that wide they become harder to read (especially when they snake around floated images).

Not changing for 10 years, watching as some trends fade and others become law-of-the-land, and then making two changes that are backed by a fair amount of data strikes me as a great way for Wikipedia to operate.

I’ll also note that they definitely have changed some UX stuff over the past 10 years. The fullscreen expandable thing for images is pretty good, clean and JS-light (although this is HN so I have to note it would be better if it didn’t break the back button).
Readability is exactly why sites need to enforce a maximum chars/line. Don't ask your users to constantly resize their window just to read your content.
I think they were saying the challenge would be getting net positive energy from the metal for the reason they mentioned.
"How much a language is used" is a proxy for "how useful is the language for actually writing programs". And, really, what else do we mean by the "quality" of a programming language? If it's beautiful, but not as good for actually writing programs, then it has quality as a work of art, but less quality as a programming language.
There is quite a bit of difference between "it is the norm to be fired on the spot and without recourse for something that has nothing to do with your job" (a direct quote, I don't believe missing any context but open to counterarguments) and "a legal framework exists in which a thing could conceivably happen, even though it doesn't happen in any statistically significant numbers"
I think people miss the point of the article because the article itself doesn't make much sense.

The opening paragraph states that scientists have found Phosphine and what conclusions they have draw about it (aka possible life). The next paragraph starts with the author stating, I quote, "I'm skeptical". The reason given that a mars rock that got scientists all excited 90's turned out to be a dead end. Come on. Then the author rambles on about how unfeasible it would be to explore Venus compared to Mars as if that has anything to do with life on Venus.
Fair enough, at the time he was 'just' a co-founder of Mozilla and had not yet made the play to become CEO in 2014, but as recently as 2010 he made another such donation, and there is zero evidence that he had changed his mind at the time.
That depends on the battery chemistry and construction. Li-Ion and flooded lead-acid batteries can produce fairly high surge currents. Coin-cells on the other extreme cannot.
Ah good catch, the TS compiler can't as it types it as string that fails.

let door: DoorState = "open";

works though. :) I've updated the post and a link to the TS playground.
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Feels like the ideal solution would be coupled with lowering prices in other areas through upzoning or decreased regulatory costs in order to not negatively impact those currently making use of the sub-standard housing available.
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/auth.tesla.com?proto=htt...
Firstly pedophobe is somebody who dislikes children not some one who wants to have sex with them (pedophile). You are the one doing the dog whistle thing.
The point is that marriage as well as voting right is not something you can take away as it exists only as a social construct. The state decides who is entitled to a right to get married as well as at what age somebody gets to vote. The society could decide tomorrow that it doesn't care about marriage and that no special rights should be granted to married people straight or gay. And that doesn't make the people voting for it any kind of -phobes.
The post details why it's not fine...
I use it very often, just because i check articles in multiple languages.
I don't know anything about Rogan nor have I ever listened to his podcast (nor have any intention to), so I gotta ask: has he ever proclaimed himself an authority on, well, anything?

Because all of the criticism of him I read in here stems from what he chooses to talk about (which the critic dislikes or deems less important than other issues) or whom he chooses to talk with (whom the critic hates). Apparently, his deciding to focus on specific topics or talking to specific people somehow constitutes an "endorsement", but if he's no authority nor he has declared himself to be so, I don't see how that criticism is in any way apropos.

If his podcast really is as his fans/apologists describe, long conversation without specific goal. In that case nothing could possibly be an endorsement of, well, anything.
I am no expert in this area, but if the finding is implying that there is a surprising variation (even out of spec) of the lens-to-film-plane focal distance due to hardware differences, I thought that the actual focus is dynamically solved while shooting such that the variation is corrected for in fact. Is that how it works / should be interpreted?
Maybe "to build" means more specifically "to build the binary of". Then yes, you don't need data assets for that. It particularly doesn't say this is everything needed to "build and _play_ the game".
reducing their 2.5M a year salary would definitely be unfair for their family. Think of the children!!
I'm rather surprised that the Tesla app can't operate in offline mode directly with the car. Due to the nature of a car I would think it's a forgone conclusion that the owner might drive to where the app can't connect with the cloud but should still be an authenticated and trusted issuer of digital commands to the car.

Time to add some use cases to the acceptance testing script...
I read way too far into this article wondering when it would start talking about the topography of that giant cloud thing.
متن آهنگ لیلی حساس علی مهر
Admissions aren't about winning the race, they're about institutions deciding who has the most potential to win. In that way they are comparable to sporting drafts where people are absolutely chosen over better players because the team believes they have greater potential.
There's really plenty of reaction mass around though. Could probably get it done quicker by having a few large drone ships that harvest reaction mass from the planet or nearby asteroids.
Well a 'game' can be played, otherwise its not a 'game' its just a 'engine'.
happy != good
What does automated language translation have to do with the fact that they don't have a comments section or a "report abuse" button?
>> So why isn't there a cure for the common cold?

The "common cold" refers to a benign, self-limited upper respiratory viral infection by over 200 viral subtypes, including many strains of coronavirus (causing collectively 10-15% of colds), adenovirus, enteroviruses (echovirus, coxsackievirus) rhinovirus (over 100 serotypes, collectively causing 30-50% of colds), metapneumovirus, bocavirus, influenza and parainfluenza viruses (~5% of colds each), and respiratory syncytial virus (another 5%).

I think this is general lay knowledge. Certainly, any article that uses the words "glycoprotein" is aiming at the sort of audience that knows "common cold is a syndrome caused by a buncha different viruses."
I got a big screen specifically so that I can have multiple windows on my screen. Having a site decide to be in charge of sizing instead of allowing me to choose is user-hostile.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24568236

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24568802
I didn't get that. I think it's something they added in a second update after complaints from people who already updated
Activists trying to shut down power plants in the middle of a series of blackouts as a result of the lack of capacity kind of summarises California to me.
Why did his freedom to support a cause with his own money result in him having to resign

It used to be that it was OK to know and be friends with people who had different views than you. It was called "being an adult."

Now we're all in these ever-shrinking thought bubbles where if someone's views don't line up with yours 100%, they're the devil.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia couldn't be farther apart on most issues. But they were the best of friends.

We're all children by comparison.
You seem to be agreeing with the parent and Wikipedia and the research on the subject.
I have a slight stutter if I don't pay attention and slow myself down. Feels like I'm trying to speak faster than I can articulate the words.

Interestingly that only happens in my natural language. I have been living in the US for 8 years and that hasn't been a problem when I speak English.
Interesting viewpoint on melatonin. Any references?
Foundations of Distributed Consensus and Blockchains (Book)
which ideas do you consider "disgusting"?
Hmm. That sounds familiar. I guess we share a similar experience.
Over what period?

We're not at the end of this.
Maybe (given the timing), but Frictional is known for open-sourcing their older games. The Penumbra sources are on their Github, too!
The CEO is the Chairwoman and pretty much owns the Board. i.e. the CEO will not be laid-off. They can step down, if they want to.

I'm pretty sure they want to milk this to the end though, there's a reason their salary skyrocketed after the co-founder, Eich, left Mozilla...
Well and classism against more affluent students displaced when some poor kid of any color at some rural school gets an advantage. Or favoring kids that are first to attend college is displacing kids with better-educated families.

I don't have a moral problem with this. It's not a good strategy in life to voluntary switch to a poorer performing school to give yourself a leg up in UC admissions while taking the cost of having less academically competitive high school classmates. It is a reasonable metric to view students through the lens of "how much have they accomplished given the opportunities afforded to them" -- the issue with something like Prop 16 is that it engages in statistical racial discrimination (mostly against racial minorities for that matter) to make that consideration.
Arcgis online works really well and is easily customized. I haven't been able to get qgis mobile to work with county shapefile data. Infact I can't even get the desktop version to create it's start icon script, so it's effectively unusable.
How big a deal is this? It sounds like it might not be g-wave but it could be

> "So then the only things that the experiments are consistent with are these very, very weird things that nobody has ever seen before. One of which is g-wave, which means angular momentum 4"
It is not black and white, though (excuse the pun).

Imagine for example a piece of software with a settings menu which maybe gets used once per user, if ever, and it is only for technical stuff (think: assign more RAM and change V-Sync method). For that use case, a simple, subtle icon which is perfectly findable for the target group in the rare case it is needed is perfect. A colorful, detailed icon might disproportionally distract and thus diminish user experience.

Point is - use the right tool for the right job, and thanks to the author for providing a specific tool!
> How is an OS supposed to support that?

Theoretically, if you can share memory between cores of different architectures and are careful to compile everything so endianness is the same and padding lines up, shared state means you could hand control over to the other core.

Realistically, I bet this is more like the PS1 chip in the PS2, just on the same die.
My son (10) stutters. We thought we had gotten him help early enough so the problem would be "licked" just as so many others before him had done so but it helped some but the stuttering is still there. I don't know what else we could have done but this failure to help him cure his stuttering is one that left me feeling guilty and also angry (at no one in particular, just indiscriminate anger) and this spilled over into my marriage which is on its way to officially dissolving, sometime next year. Of course, it is a rich tapestry of reasons that has led my marriage's failure but the stuttering played its part.
I use it for the same thing. This allows me to learn what specific word is used for [obscure thing] in a different language. Eg computer hardware related words for my native language.
But if the sensor does not lie in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the lens then it will be "soft on one side" like the article says, and I guess due to the sensor mounts or other mechanical things being cracked on one side or with one screw loose, as depicted.
You think a few businesses volunteering to reduce emissions for the PR/warm-fuzzies is going to offset the rest of businesses who don’t volunteer?
Tesla Suffers Network Outage Disabling Car Owners’ Mobile App (bloomberg.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24568802
He wouldn't even say he wouldn't do it again.[1]

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-ceo-gay-marriage-firestorm...
Languages - yes, all the other links - almost never.
> since we can freely trade information over the public internet

No we can’t.
> So all documentation website should now have that max line widht to better retent the content?

Absolutely.
> I mean the only reason we know they can break RSA 50% of the time was because of Snownden and that was like 10 years ago or so.

Edward Snowden's revelations were about seven years ago, and did not include anything about the NSA breaking RSA encryption or signatures 50% of the time or any other amount. Who knows where you got that from, but not Edward Snowden.

> I remember reading books written in the late 80's that still said the first use of computers was calculating artillery tables, not codebreaking.

That would be because it was true. The purpose of the Difference Engine and of early mechanical calculating machines that were actually built at the time was construction of tables.

Colossus (which was used for breaking Lorenz) is an early electronic computer, but certainly not the first such computer and it isn't a stored program computer (to change what Colossus does it's necessary to physically disassemble it) so it's not actually part of the lineage of stored program computers we use today.

The Ultra Secret was published in 1974 - after that point the fact that Colossus existed and everything else about war work at Bletchley was not a secret. So Ultra was kept secret for just over thirty years.
I have to doubt that Amnesia would "work" on a smartphone. The tiny screen would remove a lot of the immersion. Amnesia is not (just) about finishing the game - it's about immersing yourself in the horror.
I'm not an expert, I just follow this topic out of interest.

My general understanding is that Hydrogen doesn't make much sense for cars because it won't compete at that scale with the qualities (and size and weight and infrastructure) of Lithium Ion batteries, but where Hydrogen has a lot of room to grow/"disrupt" is in the long-tail of "heavy/occaisional diesel applications". This is things like ships (and cruise ships), festivals/food-trucks and other sorts of "off-the-grid" mini-grids, grid-scale batteries for load timeshifting (though Li-Ion looks quite competitive there too), possibly aircraft, and a very long tail of so many other ways that diesel especially gets burnt to generate mostly electricity (or refrigeration).
Imho every time you access the next step of the ladder you'll have a few months of happiness and fall right back to where you were.

Money is important if you either don't have enough to meet your basic needs or have so much that you don't have to worry about it 1 second in your life (99.9% of people won't reach that state). Every steps in between is the same with extra distractions that won't do much, if anything at all, for you overall happiness.
What disadvantage do you see from being a LGBT minority in tech? For instance, what disadvantage do bisexuals suffer vs. straight people?

The disadvantage of having a minority political view is clear to me: You better hope someone does not pull it out of the closet for you, or you're going to get cancelled for undesirable diversity of thought.

The disadvantage of having a minority sexual preference is not clear to me at all. Especially, if like Eich, you keep it on the down-low (I posit nobody should be interested in who you sleep with on the weekends, nor what legal cause you donate to). It seems that, all things equal, you'll have a leg up over other candidates, if you are progressive-left, black, woman, and lesbian, if only so corporate and diversity initiatives can right some perceived disadvantaged wrong, which totally eludes me.
I must be confused. I didn't read his controversial opinion as a demand, I read it as an observation. It's as unreasonable to expect women to counter their nature as it would be to tell men to stop preferring youth and beauty.
And the corresponding HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24568236
I think you misunderstand. For such adversaries, Tor is good enough for what it does, but not sufficient. You probably want something like TAILS as part of a whole package of serious real-world OpSec.
I feel the same way. I wish interface designers would focus on ways to get people comfortable with experimentation instead of removing features entirely.
My wife grew up near a naval base and I always thought it was funny how regularly you’d hear stories about people buying houses under the flight path and then complaining to the base.

It seems useful to me to allow people to build houses in less desirable locations, and it also seems... not wrong(?) to expect people to deal with a “nuisance” that they knew existed when they purchased their house (especially if they got their house for way cheaper than they would have otherwise!)

I understand the impulse of people wanting to make their nuisances disappear, but I’m not sure this particular problem (zoning where people choose to build near industry) is one that needs solving.
It seems like the implication is that this is toxic pollution, but methane is safe to breathe even in large quantities. It's biologically inert, and not thought to be a carcinogen.

I'm not sure I understand the outrage. Methane is a very strong greenhouse gas, but it's not dangerous to residents in the area, unless the leak was so extremely large as to pose a fire hazard, or displace oxygen.
> Why are you assuming that policing is a video game where difficulty needs to be balanced?

But that's their argument. "Give up your rights because policing is getting harder", while staying quiet when policing gets easier. If policing, on the whole, isn't actually getting harder, their argument is invalid.

Look at your own example. Despite encryption, the police would still get a graph of connections (even without knowing the message contents), and since surveillance is so massively easier now, they could:

1) Monitor everyone involved, leading them to incriminating locations (surveillance cameras, drones, tracking devices, hidden microphones, facial recognition applied to pictures people post publicly...)

2) Plant targeted (as opposed to population-wide) backdoors on their devices, circumventing encryption

3) Watch them enter passwords on their devices with telescopic lenses

What you call a brick wall is barely a wet paper bag. We should not have to give up our rights and allow mass surveillance of all communication just because police are unwilling to use the targeted tools.
I agree, their line width has been atrocious since the early days. It was as bad in 2005 as it is now. The font size on their primary topic page text on desktop is also too small.

Checking a well filled out topic page, something like George Washington, a typical line might be 160-190 or more characters across in the top section. In some places on the page it can reach to 210+ characters across. It isn't a very good reading experience at their present font size and at that width.
The Case of the Phantom Caller [audio]
Oh the agony of not being able to say the next thing when everyone’s waiting for you to speak. Right in the middle of what was supposed to be a great point - in my mind, at least.

And yes it feels like the perception is going to be you’re thinking slowly or forgot what you were saying, but no, miles ahead in my brain here with a huge amount to say, busy processing it as I speak so I can get it across succinctly and appropriately for the audience - then ... blockage.
I remember they had something similar 15 years ago. It was called tagged PDFs. It was useful on low resolution devices like PocketPC as the full page view wasn't readable. You had to convert your PDFs before loading them onto the device. Probably went out of favour when the iPhone came along and screen resolution increased. Looks like it’s an upgraded version of this with added ML.
Having to learn how to use powerful tools is absolutely fine when the tool is a specific one designed to be used by power users. For something like Wikipedia for whom the bulk of the audience visits briefly and occasionally to grab information, it's not a good thing. I think a lot of us are scarred by changes like these to our "power tools," which can be incredibly frustrating, but Wikipedia is a different beast.

Your design should fit your audience, and I think it's a good change to have a sidebar with tools that are surely ignored by the _overwhelming_ majority of users not be presented in a persistent, important location.

Also worth mentioning that they aren't removing anything, just altering presentation to better suit the common use case.
Actually it is worse than that, have a look at most languages designed in the 70s, like CLU and Modula-2.
The correct answer to that is "build a frictionless transition feature so that when they cancel the product we can pick up all their paying customers with no acquisition costs."

Also, "send them flowers every product birthday to thank them for validating the product and growing my future customer base."
You haven't used a ultra widescreen monitor then. Reading Wikipedia (until today) on such screen was pretty hard, with sometimes a full paragraph on a single, long line. This change is much better.

As for the sidebar (which you don't talk about, I realize) it's very useful for non-English speakers: it's easy to switch from the local page to the English one, and I've used it quite a lot. For switching to other languages as well, when the local article is more knowledgeable than the English one
FWIW, Wikipedia allows you to add custom CSS and JS that are active as soon as you log in.
Why Grapes of Wrath? Like dont work in a field which changes rapidly and get pushed to the sidelines to die poor in misery?
I think part of the problem is that so many North American Chevettes (and their Pontiac equivalents, the 1000 and Acadian) where sold with a 3-speed automatic transmission that made them unbelievably slow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMsXLYFU0pU&feature=youtu.be...

I generally don't care too much about performance. I was completely happy with the performance of my '85 Toyota Tercel with 65hp. But I don't think I could handle 0-60 in 30 seconds...
Title is currently "QAnon Is Madness. But Believing In It Can Be Rational."

(Last I saw, "So Many" was only 3%. But I'm not tracking this irrationality.)
I mostly agree with you, but the claim was that Go's type system was 70s-era primitive. And I think that claim is probably correct. The type system of Go isn't all that sophisticated or "advanced".

But all that says is that the magic of Go isn't in the type system. The couldn't produce-it-until-the-2000s isn't in the type system. The thing that makes Go more used in the real world than Haskell isn't the sophistication of the type system.

I don't see much to argue with in those claims.