skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A great example of a slow-burn startup. They had a solid product & revenue stream pretty early meaning they could cover costs and just wait as things grew incrementally.

Of course that wouldn't work for every product model... some really need that huge capital-driven massive growth to get to some economy of scale. But if you can avoid that, you probably keep a heck of a lot more equity for both founder & early (and maybe not so early?) employees.
It's funny how "hash" sort of became a mainstream way to pronounce "#" but not quite.
I agree with a lot of what you say, but let's take a step back and acknowledge that, on the whole, desktop and mobile UI design has improved a lot in the last 20 years.

Interfaces are generally more standardized than they were back then. The type and layout hierarchies are clearer. There are better patterns (and better technologies) both for orienting and getting help when you're lost. There's better feedback from the UI when there's an error or a state change. And that's not even getting into accessibility improvements.

It's definitely not better across the board, and the MacOS scrollbars are a good example of that. But, on the whole, it's a lot better than it was, and I wouldn't want to go back and unlearn all the things we've learned in the last 20 years.
I finished my physics degree in the early 90's, and went straight into industry. At the time, we all knew about the problem of producing more PhDs than could possibly all get academic jobs. We called it "the lie" and "the birth control problem." My dad said it was the same in the 1950s when he got his degree.

We pursue the degree for deep personal reasons that are hard to discourage, even in the face of harsh economic reality.

I did a back of envelope calculation based on the number of grad students, the number of post-docs, their duration, etc., and concluded that I would need to be a superstar to ever get tenure. And I was not a superstar. On the other hand I've had a good career in industry, with no regrets. I live in a nice town, and rarely have to work long hours.

I was extremely lucky that both of my parents are industrial scientists, so I knew there was an honorable alternative to being a professor. The only hitch is that my own professors in physics could encourage my change of plan, but had no idea how to help me pursue it. I guessed correctly that computer programming would be important. ;-)

While I was not a research superstar, I was very good at making complicated machines work for other people. That's what I do today.
This is pretty interesting, but I've always thought that the sensationalist side of social media exacerbates this issue. Everyone is driven by clicks, so writing with a sense of urgency (not necessarily extremism) will drive your interaction up. It's part of what makes social media so exhausting these days: a billion users are all jockeying for your attention, and you need to trust that Facebook/Twitter/Reddit/$OTHER_SITE will direct your focus to the things that matter. And when everything "matters", nothing does. We've become desensitized to importance, and I imagine it will have a considerable impact on the future of journalism and how we interact with it.
The point is that saying "No one is presently making these" on one hand, and claiming that they're within existing industrial capacity is contradictory. Energy markets like Hawaii and California are already hitting situations where energy cost is near zero due to overproduction from intermittent sources. But the promise that entrepreneurs will store this energy and put it back on the grid later has yet to pan out - contrary to the insistence of storage evangelists, hydrogen storage, synthetic methane, thermal batteries, and whatnot are a lot harder to build than one might think.
Same thing with honest.
> When in silico life becomes reality and humans do their human thing of devaluing anything that's not like them

That is, again, begging the question.
Yes. The scroll bar is primarily for showing progress.
When I've seen founders try to keep investors at arms length it seems to result in mistrust, leaving investors feeling like they can't get the real story, and thus decreasing the likelihood they invest further. So rather than keeping insiders at arms length, I'd suggest being direct about wanting to meet other investors. I suggest uncomfortable candor over comfortable misdirection.
Possibility of crimes in dark hours in crime-prone regions? It's hard to imagine if you don't experience it where you live.
At the very least let states choose to use daylight or standard time. Federal law allows states to permanently adopt standard time, but prohibits the year-round adoption of daylight time. Washington passed a law to adopt permanent daylight savings in 2019 but it was contingent on changes to Federal law.

I'm not familiar with the federal laws governing timezones but I've wondered if Washington could have adopted Mountain Standard Time, which is the same as Pacific Daylight Time, without Federal approval.

EDIT: seems Department of Transportation can assign timezone based on petition from state government.

https://www.transportation.gov/regulations/procedure-moving-...
They're useful for at least knowing what IS scrollable and how much more distance there is left to scroll.
Trying to shoehorn proper security into X11 would be a formidable effort and still be quite disruptive to client software.

Back when Wayland was just being proposed there were not a lot of developers working on X. They almost-unanimously agreed that it was time to break with backward compatibility and eject a lot of cruft that had built up over the years, such as the horrible font handling. Modern toolkits had already started moving away from using many of these X11 facilities and were doing much more client side anyway. So the argument was that a relatively clean slate design was called for which should dispense with the cruft and better handle client-side rendering.

It's not perfect and I know it is disruptive for some people, but at least here it has led to a much better experience for some years now.
there are lots of uses for concentrated CO2. A few current uses include dry ice (shipping vaccines or other medical supplies), green houses, concrete, beverage carbonization, pumping it under ground into depleted oil wells for permanent storage, and refrigeration cycles.

There are also a lot of technologies in progress to use CO2, such as turning it right back into synthetic fuels!

The list goes on and seems to be growing by the day.
It's a bizarre "con": Pros: better health, less accidents fewer deaths during the switch, etc. Cons: it's "hard" on some kids and parents to wait for the bus in the dark which they already do anyway, just now it's for a few more weeks.

Seems a no brainer.
This has been bugging me about Disney+ ever since I subscribed to it. Unlike Youtube or Netflix, the space bar has no effect when streaming on a computer, which is just bonkers.
Same for me on Firefox. Bizzare.
Lol. So I'm not the only one!

I tell people, Daylight Savings in March is my favorite day of the year.

I hate that in the part of year we need daylight the most we give up more daylight?!?!?

We now have electricity and few of us need to milk cows or plow fields.

The 8-5 for us is stationary.

It is never enjoyable to leave the inside of a building (factory or office) in darkness. Unless you just finished the night shift, I guess
..

I'll let the politicians decide what they want to do, but I know I'll never fully understand why we take away evening sunlight with our stationary 8-5.
Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript?
FTA: "The Nazis introduced the Volksempfänger, a cheap wireless transistor set, to broadcast Hitler’s speeches ...."

Highly doubtful it was a transistor set, inasmuch as the first working transistor wasn't invented until 1947, at Bell Labs. [0]

(The underlying point is valid, though. [1])

[0] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Transistor

[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Volksempf%C3%A4nger
agreed! based on the amount of "time" i've wasted converting timezones in code, i tell everyone that'd listen we should just teach kids to memorize unix timestamps and these problems would all go away
I find the idea crazy.

I get DST, I understand its benefits. But I think it only makes sense because it's not the norm. Because it's not the norm, we get used to the time for half the year, stick with our long-established timetables, and then want more evening sunlight in the summer.

Making it permanent means we are saying that even 100 years from now, children will ask "why isn't the sun at the top of the sky at noon?" and we'll say "a hundred years ago people thought it was easier to permanently change the clocks because businesses would never, ever let people go home at 4:00."

I think that, if the pandemic and a year from remote work and school has taught us anything, it's that getting people to stop work or school an hour earlier is actually within our grasp.

(Speaking of which, it's 4:00. I'm going to get off the computer now.)
> let students (and parents) sleep for an additional hour

To complete the sensible set, elementary schools open first, high schools last.

In brutal southern climates, end the school year on Halloween when kids can play outside w/o heat stroke - with kids inside air conditioning during worthless summer months.
Here you go: https://archive.is/femP9

A bit disappointing, though. There's not much to the article.

Edited to add: There's more substance in this article in the Boston Globe:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/10/nation/think-daylight...
Title, links, short description and actual copy-paste go a long way. However, it won't dazzle execs.
The funniest thing is that not only icloud-content.com, pinterest.com, microsoft.com, blogspot.com, snapchat.com, googleusercontent.com were affected but also the website of the agency responsible for the blocking, www.rtcomm.ru.
That is because you use a compositor, which composites the screen in a separate buffer before presenting it. But in my experience, there were some edge cases where something like videos would tear.
I would say that the vast majority of users can adapt to anything you throw at them. Users are not delicate flowers which need to be coddled and babied.

Remember that the majority of the computer usage growth of the past 50 years was on home computers that booted to a command prompt when powered on. Certainly the earliest days, when adoption was most vulnerable and the most difficult.

Saying that users can't learn something complex or intricate is just not true, and if you look for it, you'll see that users almost always take pride in their ability to wield a complex piece of software.

I'm not saying that good design is wasted effort, mind you. I'm not saying that good UX is bad for anyone. I'm saying that a user will often (always?) opt for an option that they believe will make their lives easier, because people almost always underestimate what they are capable of.

Simplifying a UI so much that you decide to hide scrollbars is simplifying to the point that you think your users are boneheaded idiots who cannot learn and who are confused by slight movement or strange noises. It's insulting and denigrating, even if this is the outcome that UX/UI testing reveals.
Really didn't know how to submit this - US govt case cites entirety of a Signal message from phone of the accused. It does not state whether the message was encrypted or simply used the Signal app to send a clear text SMS.
There are services like Lido which is live, and RocketPool which is launching soon. You can essentially just buy lido staked ether (steth) on uniswap, steth is a token which represents staked ethereum and accrues interest via rebasing.

RocketPool would be the preferred method once it is live as it maintains the decentralised ethos letting people run rocketpool nodes and anyone pool any amount they want, like how mining pools work today (except running on a raspberry pi, rather than maxing out gpus).
I agree 100%.

Just wanted to point out that neither a floppy disk nor a Manila folder have been in public use for almost two decades. Still they survive as these icons and I hope they’ll continue on for the next 500 years.
| The toolbox in my garage would look better if I could only see the tools I needed at the time I need them, and I would return that toolbox

This comment has completely broken my brain. That's exactly what a toolbox with drawers does, hides tools. Until you, the user, pull a drawer out and select the tool you need. Because you probably put the tools in their place you also have a high likelihood of knowing where they are. Maybe that's the paradigm? Show everything and let the user hide?

The opposite of hiding tools in a toolbox is littering your workspace with tools that you can see, but you soon run out of real estate with any decent amount of tools.
Are they all doing that, or just the one URL in the link? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sunshine+Protection+Act&iar=news&i...
Even if it is a scam, the public is entirely justified in seeing it through, considered how the so-called Wall Street elites that you pointed out do it on the daily and space zero repercussions ever. Please stop worshiping billionaires
Are you arguing for adjusting clocks by an hour twice a year as natural time?
> https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreatinianow/2020/07/01/bitco...

1.4 billion dollars of Ransomware vs a private company using it as a way to shuffle money around.

I don't think you'll find it easy to convince me that Tesla playing games with their private assets has actually yielded any "good" in the world. The impetus is on the bitcoin apologists to show why the ransomware industry and environmental impact is worth all the damage. Where is the positive impact?
> The current size for an Ethereum full node is 690 GB on Geth, or 394 GB on OpenEthereum.

> You can buy a 1 TB SSD for about a hundred bucks.

And Ethereum is supposedly doing just over a million transactions a day [1] And it already requires a terabyte of data to support it.

That's 1% of Alipay [2]

That's 0.02% or thereabouts of Visa [3]

How... How many terabytes will it need for those kinds of volumes?

[1] https://etherscan.io/chart/tx

[2] https://www.adyen.com/payment-methods/alipay

[3] https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/corporate/media/visan...
Drag down to see the content below, up to see above. Total scroll height is 100% of the page and the bar will have an height equivalent to the portion of page you're seeing, allowing to predict from a simple glance how long a page is. I'd say it's quite beautiful in its functional simplicity.
Pretty much every interview I've had has been like that. Asking lots of exam style question about the language/platform.

In my experience most employers say they want good programmers, but in reality they want quick programmers. People who can get the product out the door ASAP. And that's why I wouldn't take a Java job without learning the ecosystem first. Even if they promise training, there's a high chance of them reneging. So I would end up in a stressful situation trying to learn as I go.

I'd rather stick with what I know and what I'm good at.
Clearview AI sued for facial recognition data collection in California [pdf]
IMHO if you are not employed and are looking for a job, you risk a 10 - 30% pay cut. Now some people have been able to quit a job before the next one is lined up and do better, but most do not. So the loss is not expected.

How is the difference in cost of living? Taxes? Benefits? It all adds to the value of the job. If your last working environment was toxic, then any change is a move up.

If your prior job was not toxic, have you looked at going back?

When you get your masters, then is a perfect time to move on if your salary has not risen enough. And because of your masters you would expect a significant raise, which companies give to the new person, but rarely reward the old employee.
It's easier to stay awake when it's getting dark than become awake if it's still dark in the morning
Perhaps exploiting an entropy gradient would be more accurate.
If elementary schools changed schedules by an hour, some parents of elementary school kids would need to change their schedule by an hour as well. When the whole society does this all at once, the individual parents/coworkers/bosses don’t have to negotiate or coordinate anything; it “just happens”.
The US wants to tax companies earning money in the US.
Montgomery County, Maryland, is quite prosperous, but wishes its school buses to make more than two runs per day. So the high school students are out at the curb early in the morning, since nobody wants the elementary school students out in half-light. The high school students--who would prefer to sleep in--are groggy from lack of sleep, the elementary school students--who wake early--have an extra hour at home to do nothing in particular. I don't know what the story is with the middle school kids.

I commuted to college long ago one winter with DST. I did not enjoy it. I'm not sure I'd have enjoyed it even living on campus.
Neither will an unlabeled grid with data values that you scrolled into and are lost in.

That MIGHT actually pass government scrutiny, but if anything that's a good metric for how bad government approval is of a metric.

Also we're not talking about 5 columns here, but about 50.

Good luck comparing 50 medicaid plans by continuously scrolling back and forth between them.

How does that not immediately evoke a cartoon-ish ridiculous scene in your mind?!
I wonder if Youtube doesn't run CI tests against other browsers than Chrome or if those test cases just aren't covered.

According to an analysis in the Firefox bugtracker (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1697551) it seems like the error occured because a non-standard attribute is used in the JS code that only Chromium implements.

Looks like the changes are being rolled back though. Geniunely happy to see that as Youtube hasn't such a good track record of fully suporting browsers not based on the Chromium engine. I think performance on Firefox is still pretty bad with the new UI because of some inperformant polyfills for Shadow DOM code?
It's hard to believe now how common it was for children to die in infancy before modern medicine. Parents didn't love their kids any less, though, so it was a source of great pain. As the article points out, "memento mori" stuff was a way to inoculate yourself emotionally for the inevitable incidence of one of your small children dying.
A recruiter called me out of the blue years ago when I was looking for a job, probably from LinkedIn. I didn't know much about contracting so I was just curious as to what he could do for me.

He called me once screaming at me because he thought I was not being exclusive to him with regards to a particular job. I told him quickly where to go, it was him who called me, grow up and stop wasting my time. To this day I have no idea what he was smoking that day cause I'm as bewildered now as I was then about what he was on about.
Oh hell no. The late day light is WAY better than early day light. I am not going to mow my lawn at 5 a.m. and piss off all my neighbors (plus the grass tends to have dew and be wet early). Mowing my lawn at 7 pm (if it is still light out), is not a problem.
Just take things to the logical conclusion - everyone should switch to UTC and quit all this screwing around with timezones and clock changes.
I love the character of cassette tapes. They aren't my primary medium for listening to music, but I'll be damned if they don't sound pleasant to the ear.
Have you got a link? I can't find anything for less than about US$1000. It doesn't help that I'm full Unifi, but a small 10gb switch that didn't break the bank would be so excellent.
Oh, if only you get error messages. My most common mode of failure in Spring is "nothing happened". Which there's no way to debug, or Google. At least error messages show up in Stack Overflow. You missed an annotation, or provided the wrong kind of annotation, and Spring just said, "Well, apparently that code doesn't matter."

Inversion of control means you have no control.

At least Spring has switched mostly to annotations, which are sorta like Java. The IDE can spot some errors.
Indeed, the method is not strictly followed in the US. For one thing, American teachers tend to teach reading a lot earlier. But I believe the emphasis on ear training, playing in groups, and starting out learning by imitation, are beneficial.

Teachers of my generation were afraid that if you learned by ear, you'd never learn to read.
I can't speak for OP, but I have a very similar experience:

I was introduced to ROBLOX in late 2008 -- my account was created September 26. I spent the first several months just exploring the platform. It was only a few years old at that point, and had just started the curve upwards on its hockystick graph.

The games were way simpler at the time, and they were genuinely made mostly by kids and young adults, and it showed.

One cool thing I discovered is that not only could you choose to open-source a world, you could publish individual models for anyone to make use of. I saw my first lines of code by grabbing a public model and looking through it to see how it worked.

My first forays into coding was pure "script kiddy": I'd take an existing script, stick it in a new model, and tweak it until I was happy with it. This was often things like taking a model of a sliding door, re-sizing it, and adjusting the script's `for` loop so it would slide the door the full amount I wanted.

I slowly figured out stuff like loops, variables, scope, and flow from that, without ever learning the term or reading a book. I was so engrossed that I asked for and received the Lua Reference Manual for my birthday.

I grew out of the platform's intended audience age early in High School, but I had already transitioned to writing python and making Java mods for Minecraft at that point.

I'm now almost 3 years out of college and doing embedded software engineering full-time. And it does really retain a part of that initial joy; I get the same rush when I write an ISO 8601 parser and see it spit out JSON to AWS, really!

Occasionally I'll log on and check things out. Games are a lot more polished, thanks mainly to the developer program that enables revenue sharing, so people can actually have an income from their creations. The studio and platform have also matured a lot as well. I remember when custom GUIs and dynamic lighting were mind-blowing features we sort of hacked together using tricks like a bunch of semi-transparent spheres anchored at a user's origin to simulate fog.
How about standard time instead of DST especially in winter
> "Countries" seem more of a stretch, as replicating would technically mean creating other countries like itself. Not just sustaining itself into the future.

The world is full of countries, nations and so forth. At some time in the distant past there was no nations. After that there was one. Now there is over a hundred, with the corpses of many more lying in our past.

All usable land on Earth has been claimed now so they have no space to grow in number without cannabilising one another. Their walls have grown hard and inflexible with the passage of time and laws and agreements, and the evolutionary pressures of conflict have subsided of late, as they cannot move against one another without incurring the wrath of alpha predators, and the alpha predators cannot attack one another without the assurity of mutual destruction.

But countries live a long time, and their frame of reference is different from our own. Their moods encompass entire generations of the lives of mankind. They will eventually again fight among themselves unless ordered into cells within a higher organism. They will fight and devour one another, birthing new border states or vassal states. To any greater being it would appear like an almost peaceful dance, the ebb and flow of lines on a map, the respiration of civilisation.

To us it would be every bit as savage and chaotic as it must be for the cells and bacteria which comprise us.