skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know too little about agriculture to quantify it more exactly, but at least to some extent the overproduction of food is because these days, we never ever ever ever never ever want to end up with a food shortage if at all possible. So to guarantee enough supplies even in case of a bad harvest, you need to overproduce.
Could humans have contaminated Mars with life? – BBC Future
DIY overlay networking: Going multi-cloud with Nginx sidecars
Really glad to see people opening up about this. I've been saying for a long time that lockdowns were a green light for some people to stop trying to resolve their various neuroses and to just accept them. As long as they aren't trying to impose it on the rest of us anymore, I don't have an issue with it. Though, if the author was a friend or family member of mine, I would suggest that they seek help.
As a non-math person, I've thought a lot about quaternions and why they need 4 dimensions, and why there aren't 3d complex numbers. It's because if you think about it, on the complex plane, the imaginary number i just represents a rotation of 90 degrees. Now if you think about a 3d space, i represents a rotation across one dimension, and j represents a rotation across another dimension. But how do you rotate from i to j? You can't without another number k.
They're making you agitated, apparently:

"Cohesive, calmer visuals: Lighter iconography, a refined color palette, and more consistent styling throughout."
Multi-tasking isn't the only argument for a windowed or tiled layout. There are many tasks which involve working with information from (or to) multiple sources.

If I'm writing, I may be referencing material, or excerpting what I'm writing into another document or communication, or reading a source and a manual at the same time.

A long-ago development environment I used had three principle windows. One was the program source code, another was the generated report output, and the third was a set of runtime messages --- notes, warnings, and errors --- from the run. Roughly equivalent to stdin, stdout, and stderr, in a Unix context (and presented as same on Unix).

Mind that this is not the same as having chat, email, stock and weather tickers, etc., all visible at all times, a mode I find exceptionally annoying and utterly hostile to focus and concentration. That's not the only possible usage, though.

(Mobile devices' presumption that owner's attention is interruptable at any time is its own crime against humanity.)
Also could be less frequent as you are exposed to less germs from people forced to go into the office when they are feeling a little under the weather.

Sort of like how flu cases went down during the pandemic — with less interaction from abroad less germs are transmitted.
Truth.

My CPAP machine is the best thing that ever happened to me!
> I am also surprised that the culture you describe seems to be tolerated at best and even encouraged at worst. Sure, it would happen anywhere, but it is surprising to me that it is not strongly discouraged in society overall and at top academic institutions in particular.

You’d think so, but the whole culture has this problem. Western societies have replaced Christianity with the religion of hedonism and “self actualization.” It’s aspirational—most people don’t even live or want to live that way. But it would be taboo to condemn it or at least mark you as someone who wasn’t with the times.
Colors in Firefox on macOS will no longer be saturated on wide gamut displays, untagged images are properly treated as sRGB, and colors in images tagged as sRGB will now match CSS colors.

Finally, red is red again. PITA since FF3.5 — Thanks
Bipzap
A young nigeria boy spent 1 and half years building a social media similar to instagram and pinterest.SO COOL with some unique functions called "zap outz"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27354396
I personally often need the output from one service as input for another. With the new input often requiring a transformation. Auxl can function as a low friction environment to organise that without it getting cluttered.

I also think a lot of API clients tend to obfuscate flows like, for example, an OAuth authentication. Making each step visible and having that extra granularity can help with customisation and debugging.

Other than that, purely from a usability perspective, I think it’s fun to use.
Why do human scientists force mice to find their way through strange mazes ?
Yeah, I'm finding it impossible to pull that one off, even after inheriting money: I simply do not have the socialization to get into or maintain a romantic relationship. That's improving but it may never get there and there's nothing I can do about it but be patient and try to improve as a person, in the absence of feedback or reward. Nobody is going to get down into the hole with me and dig me out, I've got to dig myself out and may never get there.

However, this is the same problem I faced as an entrepreneur, so naturally I am doing my best with it. One thing I am, is stubborn :D
Yet here I am as a Linux user actually hoping the competition can even catch up on the hardware side of things, since it's all so locked down when Apple does it.

But I have no illusion about a future for the x86 arch on mobile devices, like laptops. There is none. You can bury yourself next to its dead corpse of course.

I don't know what you think the competition is, but you don't need a new computer to run old programs. And your new computer won't be better than your old one, if it still compatible in the way you seem to care about.

All the competition is moving in the same direction. That you can not run your old legacy programs from 15 years ago on a dual boot with a competing OS. Nobody wants you as a customer with these terms, why would they? You sound needy, difficult and cheap. If you don't even intend to replace your existing software with new software from their store, they wouldn't even want to waste an ad view on you.

And the direction of a trillion dollar industry isn't going to be influenced by your lack of being able to run Office '98 on a dual boot.

That's actually not how capitalism works. I don't always like it either, but these threats of I'm going to with hold this pocket change money. It's a such a misunderstanding of capitalism. It's like a 15 year old gamers threatening to not buy EA games.
>Production output has gone up over the past few decades and we’re expected to work the same amount of hours

My hypothesis is that Americans cashed in on their increased productivity by socializing at work or browsing the internet at work. In Germany, it's extremely frowned upon to talk about non-work stuff at work, so they could cash in on this increased productivity by shortening working hours.
It has been renamed to DCC now :-)

The apps and integration server are here: https://github.com/eu-digital-green-certificates

The schema and business rules are here:
https://github.com/ehn-digital-green-development

Come join us if you're interested in taking a look, it's quite interesting :)
A lot of us don't miss any of that. I can do all that on my own time and have been for several years now. I'm not going back in until I've exhausted every possibility.
Range anxiety is a thing, but usually overstated by a lot.

It's really hard to unlearn the ICE way of "drive until the light turns on and then fill up to 100%", which is in no way relevant for EV drivers.

With an EV you drive to the supermarket, plug in your car to the destination charger (22kW), do your shopping, disconnect and drive home. In my case I have more charge when I get back than I did when I left.

As for recycling, it's a hard industry to gauge. There just aren't enough car batteries at end-of-life to actually have any kind of process down. Most manufacturers are preparing for it though. VW already has a factory running that can recycle up to 96% of materials from their batteries at a rate of 3000 batteries per year
How much research was done on the UI changes improving useability? I can't determine this...
Last major Firefox UI overhaul was... Firefox 57, the first Quantum release, in November 2017.

It's had various tweaks since, but my day to day experience has been the same since then. This is not an absurd pace of UI change in my opinion.

And yes it is a conceptually simple UI, but with the whole stuff around the web with security, permissions, tab and window management and how an awful lot of modern computer use by an awful lot of people is conducted entirely inside a web browser it's a UI that is worth improving where improvements can be found.
For me WFH is not the key but rather having the freedom and flexibility. I've been going to the office for the last few months, about 2-3 times a week. It's been great. First, I bike or walk to the office, so my commute is part of my weekly exercise. The office is empty, so I have all the freedom that I want. I can come and leave whenever I want. The benefit of the office is pretty significant for me - I'm not stuck at home all day, it's quiet unlike my home (my wife is WFH and my kids are sometimes around) so I can concentrate better, etc. I still like WFH at least twice a week, since I like mixing things up and it fits my schedule better on days that I have other activities during the day or early evening.

Now, obviously my current situation is not going to last. Sooner or later others will come back to the office and it's not going to be that quiet anymore, my boss might be around, etc. However, I actually look forward to that. Going out for lunch with co-workers etc. I'm still planning to keep things as they are now. Coming and leaving whenever I want, mixing it between WFH and from the office. Meetings are going to continue to be fully remote anyway, since we have people all over the world. I see the office as a place people can come to have a quiet time, enjoy the office perks, and socialize. Different than what the office used to be pre-covid (at least at some places). Since we have a large office with many areas to connect your laptop and work, I'm not even planning to sit together with my team.

The one thing I'm not looking forward to is rush hour. I'm really enjoying my commute these days, much more than pre-covid. I hope that things will never go back to pre-covid levels. (most likely given that WFH has become much more common)
That isn't true. Houston has okay transit, and could have much better with some small investment. It won't be ask brilliant as Manhattan, but it can be a lot better. And Houston unlike most cities will allow you to build transit friendly (though they do need to get rid of their excessive parking requirement to really make transit useful)
If people really hated HOAs that much, that would be an amazing opportunity to make a buck. People in an HOA just vote together to dissolve it. Boom, property value skyrocket as anyone who doesn't want HOAs now can buy one of these elusive properties.
>> most of them never appearing in the media for preventing witness testimony contamination

That prevents post-event witness contamination. One really confounding aspect is pre-event contamination. There are links between media depictions and later witness testimonies.
Your Product Is Not Their Problem – Steve Blank
If you're putting blind trust into an institution that's open to lots of manipulation and bias then you might want to wake up a little more to understand outside the GIN (gated institutional narrative; a term coined by Eric Weinstein) there may be very valuable if not critical information to be learned.
> My company wants to go 2 days home and 3 days office. I've said I'd do it the other way around.

Mine is pushing some similar nonsense. I don't think anyone thought about it too hard:

1. I still have to live within a reasonable driving distance of the main office.

2. I still have to maintain a home office, sacrificing valuable square footage without being reimbursed for its use.

3. I still have to furnish this home office, without being reimbursed for anything except computer accessories.
I can't stand this new UI. Removing icons that which ends up making navigating menus more difficult, these new "floating" tabs are ugly as sin, you can barely see them in light mode...just...awful. Making the browser harder to use to follow "design trends" is ruining Mozilla. That Alpenglow theme was a completely asinine waste of resources, just make your browser match the system theme - we have theme extensions for a reason. They claim they are removing unused features but give us useless garbage like that built-in rainbow theme.

The only reason I use Firefox is because it's the only decent FOSS option that I can use on all my devices. My patience is wearing thin and this is not going to be a good enough reason for much longer.

Make your browser competitive with Google instead of trying to impress your inner circle of designer hipster friends. The CEO gave themselves a fat raise and gutted staff for _this_?!
> A dam focuses externalities on the same communities that benefit from the dam (jobs and revenue)

Baffling. I don't believe for a second that the amount of jobs a dam brings is in any way close to worth the cost of having to move an entire town or village, and the revenue is just laughable - that goes to random pension funds and banks thousands of kms away if its a public company or to some investor's pockets if its not, neither of which benefit locals
The biggest perk for me is the ability to hit that bong in a middle of work day, while watching weird ass japanese hentai with my surround sound home cinema.
> Perhaps by these SAR satellites China has been launching? SAR satellites have AFAIU been fairly effectively miniaturized recently, enabling a wannabe-superpower like China to send up hundreds or even thousands of them if they want to, making it infeasible to destroy them all cost-effectively at least with today's technology.

Sure it's possible. I think it's challenging overall but it seems neither of us are completely sure.

> Considerably more difficult for ballistic missiles.

Kind of. Ballistic missiles follow a predictable trajectory - the difference is these hypersonic missiles while mostly following predictable trajectories they can adjust a little bit more at the last second to hit a target.

> I would also imagine that missiles in principle could be relatively affordable if they were mass-produced; today they are expensive because they are expensive to develop and there's no demand for a huge number of them. So you could saturate the defenses with enough missiles that even if many were shot down, at some point a sufficient number of them are going to get through.

Potentially, but then the U.S. may have its own counter-measures. As I think about the costs, the cheapest the cruise missile got to was around $1,000,000. So I wonder how cheap you can make hypersonic missiles in order to create enough of them? They'd have to be hypersonic too b/c the U.S. is likely shooting down others that get too close to the CSG.

But also, what if China goes and builds all these missiles for a war that never comes? Or rather, what if the U.S. just keeps the fleet out of range and just chokes off Chinese supply lines from the sea?

> Of course not. Then again, China probably doesn't build those missiles because they think US carrier groups will easily shoot them down. Both sides certainly have smart people, as well as ossified bureaucracies gunning for the last war.

I agree.

> Note I'm not saying the time of carriers is gone. But it's been 80 years since carriers became the kingmakers of naval force projection, and technology has developed quite a bit since, and there (luckily!) has been no major conflict testing out these new developments. I just think it's foolish to be very certain one way or another.

My bias here is not so much with carriers or the U.S. Navy but by overestimating these missiles and their effectiveness. Whenever I hear all of the armchair generals talking about something (myself included) I immediately have to wonder how we're wrong and why we're wrong. It's like everyone predicting the next market bubble - they latch on to a relatable idea (China has so many missiles they can blow up all of our ships) and stick to it and then barely question that assumption.
I think most people assume the U in UFO stands for alien, but I think it's more likely it stands for "top secret military aircraft (manned or unmanned) of human origin that the overwhelming majority of military pilots and air traffic controllers aren't going to have clearance to know about".
> Package managers aren't designed with this in mind. They're from an old-school development/operations model which doesn't necessarily fit with modern best practices (where app devs are expected to own more of the product lifecycle).

Package managers were designed with update in mind. Which apt version has no "apt update"?

>For example, say Firefox is the only package you want to automatically update itself (because I do want those updates), via the package manager. AFAIK, there is no simple generic UI to configure this. You have to be a computer nerd that's familiar with shell scripting and consoles to configure such functionality, or hope that your one package manager has a UI that's both friendly and functional enough to easily configure this. Versus Firefox doing it itself, which is more user-friendly.

Gnome software allows me to update a single package. It comes installed by default on most current major linux distros. It has a very simple and intuitive UI.

>On top of that, if you have to wait for a package update, this means new security fixes + functionality have to wait for all distributions to update their packages and push updates, and then for users to adopt the updates. If you need to patch a 0day, it's much faster to simply push the update to the users. And new functionality can be tested and rolled out much faster if you don't have to wait for all systems to get an updated package. One of the most annoying things about Debian is how old their software is, unless you're on -testing, where you basically expect your system to break often.

Not if you're using flatpaks or snaps. Even if you are only using your distros' repos, Ubuntu is now maintained for a reasonably long time, 0days on a browser will reach you very soon. It is nowhere near as long as microsoft does with windows support, but long enough that at least 2 other LTS releases are available before support is dropped.

It seems, from your comment, that you have not used any linux desktop distro for a long time.
Seems like it would be better to have a pool (or other common amenities) via voluntary contributions, leaving out the rules forced on homeowners' properties.

And a voluntarily financed pool makes a certain amount of sense. Why should someone who doesn't want to be involved be forced to contribute against their will? That's not easy to justify.
How do you know your super-quiet sub is undetectable by the most likely adversary?

You send in the super-quiet sub on a series of probes, each time getting closer, until there's contact and possibly an incident. Now you know how good the adversary is!
It's open sourced : https://github.com/kapicorp/kapitan
maybe the sweet spot between helm , which is more a package manager for kubernetes applications;
and kustomize which is a castrated and language specific but limited templating-engine , biggest limitation I've found is the lack of loop for files definition, and also is insufficient for everything that is not included by the language ( because it's very specific to kubernetes definition types )
Totally agree with this. I’ve not seen one of these things that isn’t seriously dangerous to run.

As with all these things, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, apparently by tinfoil hatted nut jobs who don’t understand the problem domain well enough to be making decisions for people who know even less than they do.
The Reagan, Bush and Trump era tax cuts make no sense of we assume the government has any responsibility to common people, unless you invoke 'Trickle-down economics', the disparaging term for 'supply-side economics'.
Old-school computing: when your lab PC is ancient
> billions of embedded systems implementing safety critical functions

I realize that there is a pattern: when high-level programmers talk about security and reliability, they basically mean "hackers breaking your system to steal your passwords". To the point that memory bugs = security vulnerabilities, and nothing else.

This, of course, has another meaning for embedded.
You can fix Ubuntu by using Debian 10. Worked for me :)
A well-organised archive with document adjacency also affords this capability.

As examples, you'll find library patron waxing eloquently over the joys of card-catalogue search and shelf-browsing. (Clifford Stoll being an example of the former.)

Digital browsing is possible, though of course the dynamics differ.
Oh Lord, Please Don’t Let Contracts Be Misunderstood [pdf]
Mozilla decided they’re visual noise.

> We've reduced visual noise by removing unnecessary iconography and provided clearer labels.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/89.0beta/releasenotes/
Start by reading http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/OerstedMedalLecture.pdf
> How much empathy do you have for a voice on the phone versus a human being you interact with in person on a daily basis?

Judging by the toxic office culture at some traditional (non-WFH) companies, lack of empathy has little to do with only hearing "a voice on the phone" vs interacting with "in person".
I'm not familiar with the option, but that doesn't sound like it garauntees that Tesla won't still use it for their own purposes.
This is good, thanks. But a much more interesting problem I haven't seen a good writeup for is how to interpolate smoothly between quaternions at different times. Quaternion slerp has jerks (C_0 but not C_1 or C_2) at the keyframes.
IME it depends on the video. I've encountered videos where the embed workaround didn't work, although I was using the youtube domain not the youtube-nocookie domain.
Of course this is a youtube-dl matter. It could easily circumvent this by pretending to embed the video.
Its ok for me if the changes are incremental.

When Chrome first came out, the lightweight, clean and out of your field of view tab bar was a welcome change.

FF did pretty good with small changes that, in my view, have made it look better over the years.

edit : Ok, checked the new design. Definitely don't like the tab buttons, mainly because when there are multiple open, there are no discernable borders among them. So a tad bit confusing.
I'm not sure why you're trying to say here. Pretty much every German and most definitely every merchant has a bank account. Personally I've never had an account that wasn't free either, although some banks are changing this in light of the low/negative interest rates.
You've basically re-invented capricious elves and pixies.

It's an exercise in medievalist superstition dressed up in a cheap sci-fi veneer. Waste of time.
I’ve seen a number of trend pieces along these lines.

This is not my experience so far. Nor my friends’. If anything, I feel like we need trend pieces along the lines of “whoa, slow down, don’t dive in nose-first”.
Take away covid itself and reinstate travel, and this quieter, commute-free existence is perfect for me.
They haven't fired enough UI/UX designers yet /s
If you are dealing with a sphere, is much easier to work with pure vector methods than with classical spherical trigonometry.

If you are dealing with an ellipsoid of revolution, then vector methods can also get tricky.
Why drive, at that point? Isn't it easier to use BART + a scooter?
My understanding with toit vm you have can have multiple programmes running and if one crashes, the others continues. The vm, etc, allows live update and or to deploy something new.

If you're interested in hearing Kasper talk about toit, he did a long livestream the other day, the toit bit is at the 1hr 34min mark.
https://youtu.be/k7YITNpvcaY?t=5640