skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And meanwhile designers that aims to do dark patterns are pretty consistent and good with their works. For example placement of "reject all non essential cookies" button always seems to be on incorrect position
AWS Glue, Athena, Aurora enabled us to replace a decade-old component
I had a cheapie 'smart' TV a while ago which was running Android on a MIPS CPU
Vegetarian Protein Is Just as 'Complete' as Meat, Despite What We've Been Taught
> it's unacceptable to criticize these passionate engineers

Sorry AN_ISO_Dude, but whatever merit someone/group has doesn't exempt them from valid criticism.

Show us the receipts, and how these standards couldn't exist without paywalls and I (we) would be a lot more sympathetic - the argument here is purely qualitative.
That video looks very interesting but how do I build some context on what any of these colored shapes are?
Skeuomorphism has the problem that everything looks like a photo - it doesn't advertise what's usable clearly either.

The problem with flat UIs is that they're also in the middle of abandoning any conventions on what's interactable as well.

Ironically Windows circa 3.1 and definitely by 95 had this nailed: is it greyed out? 3D? You can interact with it. Not 3D? You can't. 3D but greyed out? It is contextually disabled.

Simple and clear at a glance. What that interface got wrong was the MDI motif - multiple document interface never really worked as well as Microsoft wanted, although if they'd made the leap of making it tiling by default they would've got there.
Wouldn't a Thinkpad with Linux or BSD be what the writer wants?
It is a smaller camp but it is not a statistical outlier. It is a very repeatable and predictable outcome.
Wheat feeds the world, and has for millennia.
There is a huge difference between having to work from home and having the option to work from home.

I prefer the latter.
I really like going to the office and also loved my commute.
Being at home 24/7 feels like I am working all the time.
adding an extra zero to the face of the note costs nothing, and thus, it's never possible for the cost of the printed note to be higher than the face value!
I got sick, I lost 8 more kg (16lb) in weight in 5 days: when I got out of hospital I over-ate sugar and carbs for two weeks and got fitter, faster than anyone would believe. Sugar is good for you - thank goodness I learned a few tricks beforehand -
DR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ3VoOdZRMM
DJ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPVHGt3Nf9U
FC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxzFimnSfDk

All my fat friends avoid sugar.
And drink coffee...because they're tired.

It's not the sugar, it's the not using it, that is a problem. Especially when discussing an article that was published in (2013).
> ISO should be a division of the UN

Heeellll no!

An international co-op, fine, but please not part of political committees such as the UN!
Processed food is the problem. Period.

Try eating a totally 100% unprocessed diet (except you cooking or combining unprocessed ingredients into a meal) and see what happens. We would have maybe 2% obviously overweight people.

Combine that with a minimal physical exercise, compared to sitting all day, driving to work, even driving in stores, and you would put that percentage at <1%.
a) I feel like the quality of comments on HN decreased since Covid started. Possibly because of more people having too much time.

b) Funnily enough when looking at the old thread, I happened upon a comment of mine "The title is pure linkbait. What they are trying to hide behind their typical populist wording[…]" which made me feel ashamed (not only because it seems to make little sense, but also because of the hostility displayed).
Beijing gets a lot of care because that's where the rulers live and where a lot of tourists go. It got cleaned up a lot before the 2008 olympics because it was showcasing China.
Most people don't know the anti-features present, and even if they did, the price hike to get rid of them is so big they wouldn't buy. Some may call it the market working as intended, but I see it as a problem - this is very far from "voluntary transaction between informed parties", and there's little ability for customers to use money to voice their preferences. It's a purely vendor-driven market: vendors get to dictate features and anti-features, with little to no way of opting out.

I'd like to see this fixed, but I don't think there's an easy way to do it. The issue dovetails with intellectual property laws - situation could've been different if money could be made in gutting hardware, firmware and software and removing anti-features at scale. But we can't have that, because every single piece of a computer is its own IP minefield.
I've often wondered why this kind of confirmation couldn't be conditional on the confidence that the click / touch was intentional?

As an example, my favourite pet peeve was using Visual Studio with old-school, upfront locking source control (like TFS), and then accidentally drag and dropping a file or folder due to lag in remote desktop, or a failing mouse which sent two click events in 1 ms or something. VS duly pre-emptively locks the 10k files in the folder you just dragged, and begins a 5 minute operation you'll have to somehow undo later, even though it should be fairly obvious from the click events that it was non-intentional.

Going back to the meeting example, surely solid, accurate taps in the center of the hang-up icon could be taken as intentional, but a kind of glancing, less accurate one needing confirmation?
Having your own book in your hands feels awesome. I've done the same, but not with KDP. Unfortunately, I can't publish it as I had to give up my rights to it (screw you OUP/publishing requirements!).

On the technical side, it wasn't so straightforward to me to get a good result. In my case, I had to iterate a few times and order a new copy with adjustments to margins, etc. until it looked right.

One issue I didn't manage to solve back then was that the inner margin needs to slightly increase towards the end of the book. That's because the binding is eating up visual space since you can't open the book flat without destroying it. Professional publishing tools do this automatically, but Latex doesn't have an option for it. At least that's how I remember the issue. But maybe things have changed?
End call should ideally be on the right, since it matches with the usual calling button conventions of send on the left, end on the right.

Example: https://pixfeeds.com/images/technology/phones/1280-458994239...
Why would a mobile browser be different to a desktop one in this regard?
Somehow, 'feels like' and 'some skepticism' doesn't add up too much of a critique.

He says Evidence indicates the scenarios of the future to 2100 that are at the focus of much of climate research have already diverged from the real world and thus offer a poor basis for projecting policy-relevant variables like economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions.

The question is: is he right or wrong and if the latter, why? We're spending trillions of dollars & affecting people's lives on a massive scale - on betting he's wrong. The issue at least needs discussion.

One other point: How would atmospheric scientists be especially competent to assess 'key variables in climate scenarios compared with data from the real world'? Would they really want to skip their core science to put economic hats on to study how 'population, economic growth, energy intensity of economic growth and carbon intensity of energy consumption' relate to these key variables? Pielke's competence is in this field and climate policy generally. Some of his publications: https://rogerpielkejr.com/pielkeonclimatechange/
It's a leftover from windowed UI design. In an OS level window requestor, the "affirmative" button is traditionally on the left, and the "negative" button is on the right. Progressive UIs were not common, except in wizards.

When forms were implemented, it was important to keep the behavior consistent with what people experienced in their OS.

Now that we have touch phones, the situation has changed, but the best practices have not.
> most projects start with few people having a discussion over a beer about an interesting topic.

What city are you talking about?

SV doesn't have a beer culture, so it's not here.
Probably in 2005.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/limerick-pupil-s-web-languag...
Surprisingly the delay actually happened because of the structures. Not the landing. It took them way longer then anybody thought to produce the large tanks.

If you look at timeline when they started in Boca, they thought they could do hops way sooner.
> Just as a datapoint youtube or vlc seem to work well enough.

As another datapoint, when I installed Qubes about six months ago on a i6600k with 16GB RAM, in the default VM and browser, YouTube was basically unwatchable.
Your approach to electronics + heavy guitars is very very cool!
Rice is one of the main ingridients of various Asian cuisines, e.g. the Japanese one. And somehow Japan is one of the healthiest nations in the world. We've been eating bread for millenia, but, somehow, obesity has never been a major health problem until modern times. How do you explain all this?
I make heavy metal inspired synthwave under https://soundcloud.com/stackframe.
Excellent to see - thanks for sharing these!
I agree with you and the TFA. I also think that naming the book "Design Patterns" and calling the techniques "Patterns" is unfortunate and misleading.

But I think calling them like that is what made the book as famous and as is it. If the book were called "OOP Programming Techniques" it wouldn't have the same popularity. Of course that doesn't make it right.

As a book it has served its purpose at the time, but by portraying what are basically "band aids" to limited programming languages (Norvig 1996) as foundational CS knowledge, it ossified the development of OOP and CS itself by a few years IMO.
Do you have a comprehensive study on refined carbs then? Somehow I don't think they are all quite as bad as the sugar is. Let's start with fixing the low hanging fruit before we step up the efforts.
The one that amazes me is the "How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat" stuff (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12480733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26126183)

I mean it dates back to

>In 1965, Mr. Hickson enlisted the Harvard researchers to write a review that would debunk the anti-sugar studies. He paid them a total of $6,500, the equivalent of $49,000 today.

and before but I think the 50+ year old bad research still refuses to die
And no limit tables.
> Technically, and in terms of manufacturing cost, it would be even easier to make a simpler computer, without all those bells and whistles that can be turned against the user,

That's true. However, vendors don't look at manufacturing costs in isolation - they care about profit. All these user-hostile additions generate more in profit than they cost in manufacturing.

This way, the best stuff costs more, even if it has less - because "value-add" garbage has negative total cost.
Awesome!
Is a username/password or at least email/password login option in the pipeline for you? I don't really use FB, Twitter or Google stuff much
> Only when it failed to provide results

Actually, anti-lockdown worked fine in Sweden, Florida and SF.

So what are you talking about?
Firmware and embedded software always feels like it was built in a software sweatshop and not really a priority.
Oh I totally agree. I treat my phone as purely a consumption and communication device. It's a dumb brick that should do those things well, including being secure. The more walled garden the better, in my opinion, as long as it's doing those things well and maintaining my privacy.

On the other hand, it's useless for creation. But that's fine, the trade offs are worth it in my opinion. I have dedicated hardware running Linux/Windows for that purpose.
Sorry for being pedantic: s/nobel/noble
I agree with you about the tradeoffs and the importance of looking at the problem from all angles, but I would argues that this is clearly the case wher aesthetics won over usability, which should _never_ happen. It should be easy to visually separate the "hang up" button from other, much less destructive and more commonly uses buttons (especially "mute"), for example with some small amount of separating space. The only reason this is not done is that it "wouldn't look balanced" and designers would be unhappy.

In my experience designers are the worst people to hire for UX because they often sacrifice usability for aesthetics. Programmers fare a bit better (usable UI usually doesn't conflict with the code quality), still not perfect though. Casual users are probably best, with some education in usability of course.
> I find this "AI-first" branding to be really off-putting

Honestly my first reaction was a snarky "Well, your moderation and support channels certainly are" given all the horror stories we hear about people getting locked out of their entire google accounts with no recourse or access to humans to appeal / investigate.
Correct, it's called the Martingale strategy. Anyone who doesn't know the name of that strategy and why I doesn't work, shouldn't be gambling. And yet, if they knew that information, then they wouldn't be gambling. I guess nobody should be gambling, but the people who do are the people who don't do the math.
Another thing that would avoid fatal crashes is reducing the number of cars on the roads, making them smaller and making them slower. That's a lot cheaper than making them more complex.
Fits with my rule of thumb for estimation.

Come up with your most pessimistic estimate that feels right, then double it.
Very nice, indeed! Congrats for the release.
Given that's it's an absolutely critical state, I don't get why "You are muted" isn't in white text on a red background.

This and "Your video is OFF" are states I care about when video conferencing because the reason to enter them is important.
I have a half-baked still-gooey thought about this, but it's really around the time of the iphone (and the take off of the smartphone) that discoverability got thrown in the trash. Search bars instead of menus became the primary means of interaction, and ironically you can only find something with the search bar if you already know what you are looking for.

Of course menus don't translate well to touch devices, and menu systems can quickly become unorganized junk drawers for functionality, but it feels like discoverability was never fully solved on touch devices.
> Perhaps focus on why you live in a society where people feel like they need to steal low value things

There are antisocial and lazy people everywhere, even in places with a better welfare system than the US. The phone snatching and bike stealing gangs of London aren't doing it to pay for their mum's cancer treatment or to provide food for their kids, they do it because one fun night of robbery pays more than a boring week of work in a grocery or a building site.
I understand this was supposed to be sarcastic but I've been informally working on this for years. I have a technique which seems to work wonders with students but I haven't the resources to test it scientifically, so do with this information as you will.

The technique is simple: ritually venerate the thing you wish to be more observant of, and never denigrate its value. So in the case of traffic stopping, have a thing that you do whenever you notice it (e.g. tap your braking foot), even while you're not driving, and never ever look at your phone whilst driving. Another way of thinking about it (if you don't like the word ritual), is as a variant of the Alexander technique: whenever you notice that thing, consciously note that you noticed it, and emotionally reward yourself for doing so.

I'm not sure where this fits on the scale of "outrageous quackery" to "blindingly obvious" but it seems to be news, and also useful, to fifteen year olds.
Pointillism was the original pixel art.
Yep. I would claim analyzing statistics to predict the future is an integral component of being a good software engineer.
And in Europe, cookies / nag-popup-removers for all those GDPR compliance dialogs (though vanilla Firefox is becoming better in blocking trackers by default).
I'm naturally thin and so are both of my parents.
The Quirks of Gmail UI
Been writing/composing (or what do you call it when you "write" the music by figuring it out on the keyboard and never even writing it down? :D) some piano pieces. I feel I would need to up my production quality by a big factor, but I've made some simple recordings:

Rhapsody for piano (2011):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exB0I5igyuA

Summery winds (2020):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gicm_2eXqRI
You can tap on the clock to scroll to the top on iphone (not only in browser).
Angular vs. React – Comparisons for the Busy and the Curious Ones
The only difference between refined carbs and unrefined carbs is that the outer hull is milled off the grains. This makes refined carbs less nutritious, but it doesn't make them bad for you any more than unrefined carbs are.
EFF Outlines Plan to Fix the Broken Patent System (2015)
My favourite example of this is Sibelius. The 'Quit Sibelius' button is precisely where you'd expect to find the 'Next' button.

This video shows it at 6:33 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI&t=6m33s
> Psychopaths aren't that rare

Any evidence for that statement? Wikipedia and its sources suggest otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy#Frequency

> 1.2% of a US sample scored 13 or more out of 24, indicating "potential psychopathy"

Those 1.2% are only "potential psychopaths" so the real number might be even less. An illness that only affects <1% of a population can definitely be seen as rare.
And even if you do root your phone and dd the storage, you'll only be able to conveniently restore to an identical (or the same) phone. I generally prefer Android to iOS, but they're not even on the same planet in terms of backups.
Nope, nothing got cut. My post stands as I wrote it. It is not ad-hominem and not what-aboutery. It is very much a reasonable question to ask what they use their much-touted AI on and how this relates to the well documented privacy concerns around Google.
AdGuard works pretty well on iOS. I don’t think there is a way to do a ‘dark reader’ specifically though perhaps pages honour the OS’s ‘dark mode’ setting these days? I would guess support is spotty.
It’s frustrating to have to pay, but I think you can shell out something like a 100 bucks to get an Apple developer account and it allows you to install your own code on your own phone. I hope it’s a 100 bucks forever and not once per year…

Can someone confirm ?
> Or how about the fact that you can't get full file paths shown in the default file manager, I often know what directory I want to get to but have to figure out what maze of files I have to go through to get there.

Did you mean MacOS?
He obviously don't use macOS :) This utility have saved my ass more than once: https://commandqapp.com/
Made these 4 years ago in roughly one week (apart from 'Te Deum'). Quickly and without too much thinking, on purpose: https://soundcloud.com/sund0
Cabras
I have a doubt about XMPP, can someone please clarify?

If someone logs into my account on another device, how can I know it? In Signal, Telegram etc there is a place in settings that lists all the logged in sessions. But I can't find anything like that in the 'Conversations' android app. Am I missing something?
I didn't work on it long enough to be able to draw any conclusions, but I can speculate.

I had the gradients going through the soft life approximation (i.e. it was part of the model), rather than simply training a normal cnn with life boards as the inputs and outputs. But I think the approximation may not have good enough gradient signals.
"Processed" is just a buzzword. Any food put into a package can be considered 'processed'. There are thousands of chemicals used in food processing for different purposes. Are they all bad for you? Because that is what the statement suggests.

It's not very helpful in finding out why people are actually unhealthy
Definitely, the use of Linux kernel is a pyrrhic victory only celebrated by those without native Android development experience.

NDK's main purpose, from Android team point of view, is for writing native libraries.
I once visited a store in Dallas that sold nothing but beef jerky. Every kind of jerky you could imagine. The walls were lined with spikes upon were hung the bags of each variety.

I looked at a few, all were soaked in corn syrup. Finally, I asked the proprietor for beef jerky that didn't have added sugar. She was taken aback, apparently nobody had ever asked her that before. She thought for a minute, and said sorry, not a single variety of beef jerky was unsweetened.

I sadly left without buying any. I remember eating beef jerky in the 1960s and it didn't taste like candy.

P.S. I looked and looked on Amazon for protein powder that was not sweetened. Couldn't find any. If I wanted sugar in it, I'm perfectly capable of adding some myself. I wound up going to a supplement specialty shop, which did have what I wanted.

P.P.S. I was curious what unsweetened chocolate tasted like. I finally found some on Amazon, it's called cacao nibs. It's now my preferred chocolate!
I'm a bit dissatisfied with the phrase "Processed food". I mean, what does that mean? I guess it implies added sugar/salt etc, but does it need to?

By definition:

A processed food is any food that has been altered in some way during preparation.
Food processing can be as basic as: freezing. canning.

The problem, I guess, is how manufacturers choose to process (with cheap, unhealthy additives as possible); Such that you have to buy natural just to avoid these unbeneficial decisions.

In fact, I think we shouldn't even distinguish between processed/non-processed, but instead judge foods on their relevant aspects. An example of this is battery-farmed vs free-range cornfed chicken are both non-processed.
Grains are entirely different beasts from simple sugars (sucrose/corn syrup), and lumping them together (which is what the Paleo advocates) is pretty much scaremongering to me.

In practical terms, anybody who eats 100g of sugar, and 100g of pasta, will notice a huge difference.

Paleo is very fashionable, but I wonder how many people will actually follow through in the long term (years), since eating very large amounts of meat is not realistically sustainable, in different ways (I have firsthand experience on this).
Why though? They specifically suspect fructose of causing this, and starchy grains contain no fructose.
I write the music I remember hearing playing in UT and Quake mods in the 90s.

I've been producing and programming for over 15 years, previously electronic, but when the Synthwave hit, I got hooked!

My two most recent albums are:
https://soundcloud.com/namtao/sets/c0ast
and
https://soundcloud.com/namtao/sets/namtao-1986

I experimented with programming music in https://soundcloud.com/namtao/sets/supervised-learning
which is also the BGM for my scifi/mental health podcast, http://lostterminal.com.

I also tried my hand at a few videos:

Covers [Adapter Pattern]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1meeqQRR28&list=PL95NP4bDIT...

Originals [Factory Pattern]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKjTJ_TbLC4&list=PL95NP4bDIT...

love to know what you think, and I'm LOVING this thread!
It's once per year. Source: I have a paid developer account.
Is peanut butter that is nothing but blended peanuts considered processed?
Thank you for the writeup and don't be put off by all the snarky comments here :)
> How will they even know what their business plan is without knowing what standard they will be providing?

Are there no drafts available for most standards? For C++ the draft is often as good as the standard, and anybody can access the drafts. Is there nothing similar in other areas?
At least in KDE's default file manager, if you click on the right of the "prettied up" location view, it gives you a plain old text-based path field.