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I don't have professional experience in either desktop UIs or web UIs. When I tried making an app using the native macOS UI toolkit, I kept running into issues related to a lack of online discussion and books that were less complete than I expected. I think this is mostly just a symptom of there not being much native UI development happening in the west. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I don't hear about this often, but I've heard that native apps are still common in China. I bet they don't have this problem.

I bring this up because I notice a lot of the time on HN this gets attributed to web UI people being easier to hire and unwilling to learn native UI.
Considerations from Building a Platform for Observability
Well, I enjoyed using the “cached images only” mode in Opera as recently as 2007 on a pay-per-minute 56K dial-up connection that was more like 28K due to the crappy cheap modem. (It wasn’t impossible to get broadband, but nobody felt it was important enough to bother until the last couple of years, and then it took some time to actually get around to it.) The relief at seeing that the JPEG you just commanded to load turned out to be progressive (not that I knew how it worked) was visceral, and the hate towards people making GIF buttons with no alt-text practically unbounded. Uncompressed images were beyond the limit of practicality.
Consider creating a dedicated user account for guests
They have similar brains and experience basic feelings quite similarly to humans.
>First, people don't acquire the beliefs by considering and weighing evidence; they acquire them by being told them, usually at a young age, by people they trust, and making them part of their identity. That's why people are so resistant to changing such beliefs.

I've come across countless counter-examples to this in my life. A lot of the socialists/Marxists I've known come from relatively well of conservative families for example.

I've no real evidence for this except personal anecdotes, but I suspect gravitating towards an ideology is often as much motivated by what you are against as it is motivated by what you are for. If there's a hierarchy in power, political, religious, whatever, that you think is corrupt you're going to naturally gravitate towards an ideology that provides a narrative as to why it is corrupt and what can be done about it.

People fed up with corruption in catholicism gravitated to protestantism. People fed up with feudal or capitalist hierarchies gravitate towards Marxism. People in the Muslim world fed up with the economic and military domination of the West gravitate towards islamic fundamentalism. People fed up with Communist totalitarianism gravitate towards democracy. These counter-narratives provide a framework for opposition and an agenda that opposition can rally around and unify on.
Auto-deleting cookies means that you don’t need a filter list to block bad sites, every site will be wiped. There’s no chance that a missed site will sneak through.

The downside is that you will need to whitelist every site that you want to remember your login/settings for when revisiting them.
Spent my first money from designing Web sites on a Becker in-car MD player along with ~20 original MD releases. Added a 6-disc autochanger a year later. Class act.
So we can cut it along perceived ethnic lines too?

This is just more pernicious divisiveness. Those areas that are most Welsh also voted in significant numbers for Brexit.

The people of the UK, in various proportions in various places, voted to leave the EU. It may suck, but pretending it’s purely an English problem is delusion.

If you want someone to blame, blame the people that voted for Brexit everywhere. This exoneration of particular regions is bizarre. How can it be all about English Nationalism when a third of Scots voted that way too?
>There's no point to sentimentality. Zeitgeist is always missed. You can't go back without a time-machine.

the point of reminiscing is to steer the current time towards the good points of the past, while trying to navigate around the difficulties experienced previously.
Is it actually better to keep them alive after testing? I would think many studies could leave them with issues. Not to mention they would just be sitting in a cage somewhere.
Security was not the goal for software-isolated processes, but performance and getting rid of task-switches. Who knows, maybe this is what MS recently described as "next windows" (naive hope).
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Yeah, but they don't match the aesthetics of a miniDisc. The small size, more "modern" design (fully transparent materials, more colorful, ...) just looks more futuristic.

Ironically it also helps that self-recorded MDs were the more common option, so the discs aren't covered in labels/printing. (I have one modern prerecorded MD release, and while the printing is neat in some ways, it doesn't have that futuristic side as much)
That's the case for all technical arguments.

Arguments are seldom weak or strong based on their technical details.

Heck, the technical details about this were already known to many people including several involved in build setups, but nobody cared anyway.
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> Easy access to many high quality contents.

On the contrary, I would argue that the content quality is drastically lower because of optimisation for revenue and much less purer motivations.

The video quality is really much much better though. Original video scene is great as the business side of the things is a solved problem. Yet again, it suffers from optimisation for advertisers as less and less things are kosher.

Oh and the movie scene is terrible IMHO as a whole, despite having some amazing movies. Netflix is also optimising and the most optimum content for the business of Netflix is often not that optimum for many people. Not many tall poppies came out of it.

It's funny how a pop singer made a song about our optimised happy lives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um7pMggPnug
Sound and Music for Pen&Paper Sessions
The managers won for a while. A few dreamers are getting it done now, though.
It seems that the greedy ISPs would rather say "$60/mo or nothing" rather than sell a lower cost (at a reduced speed, of course) plan. They already have mechanisms in place to throttle and cap, so why not use them for such cases?
Content Artemis/Enables Your CustomersTo Constantly Bring in Top Quality Content
I built an online flashcard platform (memordo.com) which support live-rendering of latex and codeblocks, and custom study/repetition schedules. Memordo has totally replaced Anki for me, which is nice to build something you actually prefer to use.
Not necessarily that high with methane fuel. The exhaust is CO2 and water, and you can make it from water, CO2 in the air, and clean energy.
Do they circumcise boys without anesthetic under similar pretense?
What were they doing? Management.

Maybe not officially, quote possibly as an ad hoc manager due to deficiencies in the offical management.

I've been in that position before. If you have a good relationship with your coworkers, it's more efficient to diagnose problems yourself and then ask your coworkers to fix them (i.e. play the PM role). I don't enjoy being a manager, I'd rather write code. However, I'd rather put fires out quickly by working as a team instead of playing the martyr and trying to do it all myself, or singing the "it's not my job, I'm not a PM" song while the ship is sinking.
I once met a really good recruiter.

He was polite, urbane, efficient, well-informed and helpful. He got me an interview with a well-known company, and I got the job.

Two years later I was ready to move again; so naturally I went back to the same recruiter. But he had been promoted, and was now the managing director of the recruitment company; he no longer handled clients personally. His client-handling staff were run-of-the-mill.

Never before or since have I dealt with a recruiter that didn't seem like an ignorant, slimy salesman.

[Edit: I'm British. I worked for a year in the USA; I got the job through a local recruitment agency in Richmond, VA, who were pleasant, hard-working and well-connected. My remarks were about my UK experience.]
Better would be priv.
> I place far more value on the words between ordinary people

Ordinary people say really stupid things very often.
Indeed, tables are an essential a thing which should be there, but it should be implemented in a way which makes it impossible to abuse it for layout, it should only be used to represent actual tables. I would even add column data types so the browser would be able to let the user sort them in a meaningful way (e.g. I hate Wikipedia tables which have sorting but can only be sorted alphabetically or something like that).

As for multi-column layout - it's a work for the browser to do on the user demand. View should be decoupled from the content.

For cases when you want to control every aspect of how is the information displayed there is HTML.

Things like Gemini should not have formatting features besides those semantic which MarkDown has.
they will miss not having to use a browsing agent that logs everything you do to your identity/passport and sends it out to the government to keep you in check
“Taoism”, the religion, has, as I am given to understand, many of the normal trappings of religion, including formal dresses for priests, and, IIRC, quite a lot of alchemy.

This is probably not the “Taoism” which you read about in western pop-culture paperbacks or hippie-age TV.
No it wouldn't - it is literally government property already, and would remain so. Why would the government transfer it to a private citizen that does not own it?
Wuffs is not a Google project; it's a project whose code happens to be owned by Google. Most likely it's some engineer's side project and while I wouldn't be surprised if it was incorporated into a Google project, it's definitely not inevitable. It has probably the same odds as any other well-maintained open source project.
So your entire response boils down to sexist misandry combined with and appeal to authority fallacy and/or credentialism...

Awesome...

>>The whole reason the Framers wrote the Constitution was that the Articles of Confederation were based on the "governs least" principle, and that didn't work out too well.

Well had been alive in that time, I would have been an Anti-Federalist, The Anti-Federalist have been proven right in their fears of what the Federal Government would become, and Madison has been proven wrong time and time again.

However it is complete mischaracterization to proclaim that the Article of Confederation was either a "governs least" document, or collapsed because of it.

The Article of Confederation collapsed not because the federal government governed too little, but rather there was no actual separation of powers between the States and the Federal Government. The purpose of the Constitution was that the States (and the people) would enumerate limited powers to the exclusive domain of the new Federal Government (foreign Trade being one of them, and national defense) but all others would be reserved to the people and the States. Creating a Separate but Equal government, not a superior government

The Articles of Confederation the Confederacy could not enter in to any trade deals with other nations or pay any obligations because it had no actual authority to act on behalf of the states.

The idea that is because it need to "govern more" at that State level is simply false, and Historically ignorant.
I don’t believe in private variables/fields.

They shouldn’t be used or implemented.

A waste of time and effort.
People are stupid from watching TV news. TV told it's from the bats at Wuhan food market and all believed.
What animal was the chain link from bat still not clear but Chineese Pangolin got the fault for a two months was guilty until justified.
From the beginning Chineese lab was under sucspeccion. But World Wide media and politics with economics rejected the truth. To control the panic and to rull the masses.
Theres another thing, theory which is tru of tru about the chainlink from bats. It was Yeren he is guilty. He lives there in the Hubei caves he sleeps there he eats those bats. Someone needs to catch him, but nobody can. I have seen all X-Files seasons while sitting at home at my 1.5y quarantine.
Source link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeren
"we should use computer simulations"

As much as I like technology, I would be afraid to use a drug that was only tested this way or even in cultured tissue. The biological system is too complex with too many unknown factors for me to believe this is highly effective method for everything.
Thank you for your reply!

That’s an awesome experience and I am taking the same approach. I don’t have a front end yet either.

The thing that keeps me going is looking back and feeling comfortable now with things that a month ago I thought “I have no idea where to start, the quick start guide means nothing to me, how does this work? Why is it like this?” And now I’m like “oh yeah that makes sense” and I can read other people’s code better
ZIP was fairly successful until writable CDs came along. The biggest problem was the click of death. I remember collecting multiple drives in the late 1990’s trying to find one that didn’t have that issue.

I guess they could have done a more open standard, but I’m not sure it would have helped them. I recall Superdisk was a slightly more open standard around the same time (maybe a little later) and it went no where.
And then you have done validation of some of the proposition of modern science and technology.

But quite a lot "science" can not verified in the same manner as some physics, math, chemistry and biology can.

And to go from the fact that some science is verifiable and then conclude that everything which tries to take on the label science or follow similar rituals to the verifiable sciences, also deserves the same respect is quite a long jump.

In fact "science" or scientism seems to be one of the more dangerous religions nowadays, as the rituals of peer-review, papers and conferences, holy institutions like universities and sacraments of tenure and ph.d are very easy to adopt without being even remotely verifiable (or even slightly rational).
That’s the other direction, isn’t it? The point of UUCP, NNTP, and Echonet (and SMTP, for that matter) is message distribution between servers with intermittent connectivity by batching and relaying messages. Can I host an ActivityPub node that both publishes and receives (and, if we’re talking Echomail, relays) stuff if I only have an Internet connection for an hour per day? Can the whole federation function like that?

(An ActivityPub-NNTP interconnect sounds like something that public-inbox really should support, now that I think about it.)
In the western world I’d say it’s more about economic power, or the power behind the politicians. The 1% and large corporations are the real power, not whoever happens to be in office this week.
Indeed ethical systems have changed throughout the lifespan of a religion. Religions are not set in stone and change more than what most religious people are willing to admit.
> BTW, unlike US, USSR build roads, tunnels, power plants and hospitals in Afghanistan. Some of them are still used today.

The US and allies have done that, with varying results.

https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/1871/201...

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

https://www.wsp.com/en-US/projects/afghanistan-infrastructur...

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/in...
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Not that the Kindle has especially been a model of embracing open standards and user flexibility. But at least it’s popular.
As an academic who isn't directly involved in anything close to animal testing (I'm a physicist) I always find it strange that people working in biology have to jump through incredible hoops relating to how the animals they work with are treated, but then the lunch place in the biology department sells sandwiches with chicken, ham etc in with incredibly minimal oversight for how the animals are treated.

The difference in standards between "science animals" and "food animals" is quite stark. It is very similar to the difference in treatment people require between dogs and pigs. No one really cares if pigs suffer, even though they would be furious if dogs experienced the same treatment.
One of my favorite stories about New York is of the professor of linguistics who traveled to South America to study one of the native languages there, who upon his arrival found the language to be extinct, only to discover upon his return to New York that it was still being spoken in Queens.

I couldn’t find the original article, but the following describes half a dozen similar instances.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/nyregion/29lost.html
I think that's common through all of Europe, but a petty manager that's out for blood can call you next manager and 'tell' him how bad of hire you are and that getting rid of you if for the best.

if the new manager believes him you can be let go in your probation period, and end up with no job.

I heard of this done once or twice through friends.
Well, how many other humans would you murder to save your grandma's life? Or your wife, your children, someone you love?

What about terminally ill humans who have < 1 year to live (assuming the particular testing results won't get skewed by their particular ailments)? How about prisoners sentenced for heinous crimes?

What about humans who are "not productive"? People who have been sentenced to more than 10 years?

You might draw the line at other species. Someone else might draw it differently to not do experiments on intelligent species like whales, dolphins and primates (who are used in lab experiments too). Or someone might include the categories I mentioned above in the list of test subjects.

The big second question is the effectiveness of transferring the results of tests from animals to humans. Coldly speaking, while there are experiments that yield useful results on animals, there are also extremely pointless experiments that are done for the sake of doing.

I won't go on and on but to your statement about " I am willing to sacrifice an insane amount of animal lives in order to save anyone human", would you do it to save Hitler (who is a proxy for someone who, maybe, you should think twice about saving)?

I agree with you about replacing the meat industry but we can do multiple things as a species at the same time. We can work on replacing the meat industry, working on alternate ways of testing drugs, on understanding animal communications and language (and we keep finding new indicators of intelligence) and on reducing our footprint as we get technologically and hopefully culturally more sophisticated.
I highly recommend you check out ZeroTier. I've found WireGuard setup to be non-trivial and extremely error-prone, but with ZeroTier there's a web UI that you can add new services and machines from, all as one logical "network"

I believe that the free tier is capable of running clusters of up to 50 machines. Really nice to use + truly trivial to set up.
America: the best representative democracy money can buy.

And when the power of the second estate exceeds the king's, popular revolution or collapse is not far off.
In the programming language I’m working on, MethodScript, I’ve created a subclass of string, secure_string. The normal print value is “secure string”. Unlike somewhat equivalent classes in other languages, this is a subclass of string, which means it can be passed around opaquely to things that only accept strings, but then the functions that actually need to be aware of secrets can check for the subclass and call the special decryption method. The string is encrypted in memory, but this is really just obscurity, because the decryption key is there too. But it does prevent most logging from ever leaking the secret, including things like memory dumps. I wish mainstream languages had a feature like this, since MethodScript is still fairly far in the “toy” category for now.
SFW and NSFW content is like oil and water, they naturally want to be separate from each other.

When it comes to monetization, I am not aware of any platform, service or business that has been successful at both at the same time under the same brand.

I doubt OF will be the platform to change this (or Twitch for that matter, as they rub the line between SFW and NSFW it is clear the majority of their advertisers are seeking them to be a SFW platform. )
Just US has to prove that Russian hacker or that person is hacker but not a victim. Second thing US has to cooperate to show the proof how did they know that. It means share the knolegde still US has plenty of colledge. lol
better animal life means higher research cost, drives drug price up, delays research speed, end up "costing" human lives, so which is more important ?
Rupert Murdoch writes down value of Sun newspapers to zero
In windows I usually use enter to enter a folder and backspace to back out.

It’s not exactly up/down semantic as backspace will go back to the place you entered from (eg. search) rather than the logical parent directory. But this still makes much more sense to me than MacOS.

The alt tabbing and window switch/minimize/group behaviour in MacOS is quite confusing too!
I miss text. It seems now that whenever I search for 'how to do X?' there is a lot of video results for sometimes very trivial things.

A 10 minutes video with the usual 'subscribe and hit the bell icon', a word from the sponsor, a long winded introduction and then "click on menu, then click on this item, then select the size".
Regarding 1. When you say "no longer trivial", I would point out that if it isn't now, then it surely never was?

Not using a framework (by which I assume you mean the likes of wordpress or squarespace) is still as much possible today as it ever was. And, the knowledge on how to do so is ever more accessible.

I can see your point that when provided with easy ways to do things, you are limited to design decisions and choices of those frameworks. However, I think the progress of open source has lowered the bar significantly for creating a completely custom platform.
I didn’t see the tweet as gatekeeping, maybe just something stemming from survivorship bias.

What I got from it was that this is a challenge unlike other work related challenges. For one there’s no comp if things don’t work out, whereas anyone can find a job anywhere and get paid. You’re exchanging time and effort for something which may not turn out to be something people want to buy or use.