skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building a text editor across platform with exact the same behavior is somewhat a thing that you almost always to redo "everything" in different platforms.

It isn't very unseasonable to just relies on something that already do most hard works for you.

If you must use some "native" alternative. It is probably something like GTK/QT. But I doubt do they actually have the ability to do such complex edit behavior and layouts.
This must be tackled just as healthcare should be: supply side. It doesn't matter if prisons are public or private, there must be a lot of them for them to be cheap. Simplify regulations, build something like good old gulags, they are proven to work and dirt cheap.
Has someone taken an rc airplane and turned the wing upside down and flown it? It should be pretty easy to demonstrate.
Microsoft has 160,000.

Don't get me wrong, I loathe Teams and its laggish bullshit nature as much as the rest of the pitchfork wielding people in this thread, it's just that it's not apples-to-apples comparison with a pure chat/call client and the headcount needed to develop it because of how much extra junk is hiding in Teams.
Well the problem of Snaps is complex sandbox, lack of user control, forced updates and so on which is disliked on many non-Ubuntu distributions.

Flatpack attempts to solve the dependency hell problem by providing standard runtime, a set of libraries, Glib-C, Gtk or Qt with a fixed version which requires the developer to build an application linking against those runtime, which avoid binary compatibility problems and dependency hell. The trouble of Flatpacks is the integration with the desktop.

AppImage attempts to solve the dependency hell by bundling everything into a single launcher executable with a SquashFs file system image payload. The disadvantage of this approach is that it is only possible to use a single executable. AppImage are also not free from GlibC compatibility issues.

A MacOSx-like app bundle and a changing in Linux development culture to build and design applications as self-contained from inception would strength the Linux desktop and reduce the application packaging work duplication that still affects Linux distributions.
On digital devices it's not clear if you're taking notes or writing an unrelated email.

Paper notebooks can't send email, so if a person sees you interacting with it they'll think you're taking notes, which means you're taking them seriously.
"Died of lockdown" is attributing causation in a way that this paper does not attempt to justify.

Even if there is a causal relationship, there's not enough evidence to conclude that it's a direct causal relationship between lockdown and suicide, let alone between masks/testing and suicide (what?).

For instance, I'd bet that at least a few of the excess deaths are from harmful parents - whether physically abusive, intolerant of something about their kid's identity, etc. In my social circles I know a whole lot of people who have a strained if not nonexistent relationship with their parents and for whom leaving home for college quite literally saved their life. I can easily see a loss of hope for students in their final years of high school, and the study also includes 18-25-year-olds - which includes students who had already moved to dorms and were then sent home.

These kids probably could have survived lockdown just fine, were they living on their own or in a supportive household. They just didn't survive their parents. The causal relationship is that we instituted lockdown without any regard for harmful family situations.

It seems both possible and ethical to study statements made by people who died by suicide (suicide notes, public social media posts, statements to friends, etc.), and I think that would be a lot more scientifically useful for the cause of preventing suicide than assuming that the reason was that they didn't like lockdown per se.
But going back to the comment above, I don’t think that flat design is inherently to blame here. Flat design doesn’t require the removal of shadows etc. in order to favor aesthetics over usability. That removal of signal is just bad design. If the designers of flat systems did better at replacing the lost affordances and visual cues, flat design has the potential to be incredibly powerful at making clear, accessible user experiences.

Now that I’ve said that, I do want to make it clear that I haven’t seen an excellent exemplar of flat design. I remain optimistic though.
Eww, I hadn’t seen that. That’s a hard no for me, too.
Although the article is in Dutch I though would be worthwhile to post since online translators are not that bad. The story is credible and well researched. Corona Virus has been reported as producing changes visible in brain scans.
They came to right understanding that reduction of city income from property tax due to reduction of value of property if you move in ~1000 bums into city apartments, will be more than $15M a year...
The bible calls them the nephlim
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Ask HN: Large USB drives that don't get blazing hot?
I just transferred like 3mb of image data from a "256GB Sandisk Extreme PRO USB 3.1" and my goodness was it ever hot for transferring such a small amount of files over such a short period of time imho.

To the point that I started worrying about it's trustworthiness... surely that much wear and tear with heating up/cooling down over time can't be good?

Would gladly settle for a much "slower" USB drive if it did not as hot and would hopefully be a bit more reliable longterm?
You missed PaxosLease!
Microsoft easily has the resources to write 5 chat app UIs.
You might want to check Guilded (https://guilded.gg). Has most features of Discord, along with calendar and wiki channels.
I think that ultimately any paper task tracking method that cannot be summarized within one or two pages of text is turning into that thing you do to procrastinate on actually doing shit, instead of a useful tool to help you decide what you want to do. Once you pass the preamble of "other ways I used to track tasks and why they don't work for me", this method passes that test. :)

Her method looks a lot like the old Bullet Journal method from before it turned into a major part of its creator's business affairs and became the sprawling ecosystem of rules and templates and books and discounts on paper/pens and Instgram influencers sharing the layouts they spent several hours on painting that is "BuJo".

Personally I prefer my variant of the Pomodoro Method from before it underwent a similar transformation; breaking one to-do up by the number of half-hour time units I expect it to take works well for me. Whatever works though. A nice notebook and pen work for me, too. Especially since I persuaded a few who had been bemoaning the excessive sizes of their fountain pen collections to send me some very nice perfectly-functional-but-unloved pens.
As a product manager, here is what I would do if I was in Steve’s shoes. Instead of employing dark patterns that take advantage of casual user’s trust, I would actually listen to users and evolve the site in the direction users are asking for.

Reddit just killed their Santa Program, this year will be it’s last. The Secret Santa program was amazingly popular but perhaps complicated to manage so instead of improving it, they killed it - favoring dark patters to drive mobile adoption, lol.

Why not double down on the things the community has already indicated it wants. My analysis says they should evolve into a marketplace to drive more peer-to-peer activity between users while enabling monetization that could scale significantly.

Reddit seems to be mentally stuck in the Advertising model and lacks vision. Encourage more peer-to-peer interaction, make it a marketplace, drive real economic activity between users, adopt cryptocurrencies as well as conventional payment mechanisms to enable commerce between users. Think different.
That’s what I’m talking about! You don’t have to go all-immutable, only at the “commit and set in stone” level (you may have many). Obsessing yourself with a completely immutable state management at all levels does more damage to your workflow than the problems it solves. It’s yet another silver bullet that everyone tries to bite these days.
If the shoe fits...

Suggesting a link is one thing.

Providing evidence is another.
@dang, HN url parser for extracting domain is borked. This should have play.google.com
It feels like a lot of environmentalists are reluctant to acknowledge this as it could further reduce the public will to act. Carbon removal/geo-engineering (if possible) are the silver bullet(s) allowing us to never break our bad habits.
I wonder whether this will block Windows 11 on Apple devices running Bootcamp.
I can only recall that happening to me maybe once or twice. I play SWTOR now, which is very similar to (as in copied a lot of design elements from) WoW (it feels like WoW in space), and I've never encountered all the NPCs being dead, even though the opposing faction is perfectly capable of raiding it.

You don't need to be flippant about it, if you are so worried about others "ruining" your gaming fun, when why TF are you playing an MMO? That's just like setting yourself up for disappointment.
Going by comments here, I think most people find the Teams awful, then why are companies moving from Slack to MS Teams. Is the cost the main factor?
I was in the same boat a year ago and went to a mathematics professor teacher and he suggested this book:

Conceptual Mathematics by Lawvere[1]

The book teaches category theory to, smart, highschool students.

It's a great start.

After that I went with:

Category Theory for Programmers
by Bartosz Milewski [2]

Next I would go with anything by David Spivak.

Now I understand that:
A monad is not scary, it's just a monoid in the category of endofuctors" ;)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/-/es/F-William-Lawvere/dp/052171916X

[2]https://www.blurb.com/b/9621951-category-theory-for-programm...
this is too reductive. Usually stack space is faster because you will have fewer cache misses.

future languages will be able to suss this out at compile-time: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/2ac769eab9b7dba4cd38e5de...
Sounded familiar. Worked correctly the first time it was run, sans types.

https://www.python.org/about/success/esr/
I don't know much about STARKs, but I read that SNARKs has a problem with unbounded loops(variable number of iterations), also "break/continue" statements are problematic. Is it still true? Is there some research that will allow running code as is(no inefficient tricks like running maximum possible iterations)?
It's rather a non sequitur, as no one ever said immutability was enough.

You also need design, rigor, error handling, common sense, some caffeine, testing, and fast builds. All together... that's enough!
Between the emojis in the headings and the 2009 era memes, this was a bit of a cringy read. Also, the author seems to avoid at all costs going in depth about the actual implementation of OPE and I still don't quite understand how I would go about implementing it. Machine learning based on past A/B tests that finds similarities between the UI changes???
Oh you didn’t find the image captioned “An artist’s impression of a quantum microscope” of what appears to be an alien tractor beam sucking up small creatures helpful??
For Greenland to become fertile its ice sheet would have to melt, and that will leave major cities underwater. And climate change is not going to magically stop once that happens. Greenland might be fertile for a little while, a few decades maybe. Then what?
Everyday Activities to Become a Better Developer
I second that, but follow up reminders and warnings if you are to eager are really helpful, so reframing this app as helper and let people manually edit the messages is much better. I think particularly sentiment analysis on incoming and outgoing messages would be really helpful for many people not so good at casual communication. Maybe the app should start sending automatically if you really cannot decide for an option in order to not let you think too long. I think particularly positive response reinforcement is needed if one manages to keep up communication in symmetrical fashion.
When you said "idempotency mismatch" you were meaning impedance mismatch, right?
Brings to mind Stanislaw Lem's concept of Linguistic Futurology in The Futurological Congress.
Brilliant Ty.
I only use Reddit via third party apps because the website is so awful. First it was Narwhal now it’s Apollo, both for iOS. Apollo is fantastic and has a desktop client in the works…well worth the money.
You are not the only one. Site is rough.
Long term tasks and reminders need to be extracted from the scrawl/sprawl of day to day notes!

Your process of transcribing notes into markdown is good. I prefer to think of it as extracting and summarizing, but full transcription can work well.
Every local subreddit I have ever visited is a radioactive dumpster fire. I would like to single out r/Denver in particular, because I live there.

I genuinely cannot believe the comments people post there sometimes. It's like some sort of misanthropic, one-upmanship circle-jerk.
I can't be alone in just pretending Reddit doesn't exist on mobile. It's weird, I like Reddit a lot, on desktop I post and comment, but on mobile it is so shabby that I just ignore it instead of seeing if it can be made bearable by being logged in to an app.
‘Major error’ flagged in ‘18 inspection of collapsed building near Miami Beach
the reply-to address is likely not monitored if this is spam so they don't notice what you're doing. However, the bible verse folks are likely to have their deliverability hurt due to recipients not interacting with their emails. That and there could be extra costs passed onto the bible verse newsletter people.

If the mail is spammy you have two choices: ignore it or report spam. However, if this is something that you signed up for but just don't want any longer, click unsubscribe. By reporting it, the inbox system learns, and if there is a half-reasonable email sending provider under the hood, they will take action against the sender. Alternatively, the sender could be running their own mail server whereby interacting with the spam reporting may show that this email address is "active" -- but I'm not convinced that is a real risk anymore. It is too cheap for spammers to just keep spamming a given email address than to remove an email address for lack of response. TL;DR: just report spam or unsubscribe if that is more appropriate.
I think the idea is you would stop texting while driving, rather than keep getting shocked...
I just want to point out that this is really funny to see at the same time on hn.

This article, and one from 7 hours ago:

Immutability Changes Everything (2016) (acm.org): https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2884038

Posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27640308
The author is a library writer!
It's because they control the whole stack.

FWIW, I'm currently finishing up an ActiveX wrapper for WebView2 so that it can be consumed in a way similar to the old IE WebBrowser control and so far I'm pretty impressed.

To give you a basic idea. I'm running the control embedded and the WebView2 control consumes about 60MB after navigating to my own -mostly text- website. Browsing within that control to the page of the hacker news topic makes the RAM usage go up to 130MB. Navigating back to this hacker news comment page and the memory usage drops down to about 75MB.

So yes, I'm impressed by how well it works.

edit: Another huge advantage. Last week I upgraded MS Edge and WebView2 is also upgraded. So the control is kept up to date and not depending on an external dependency that might end up being a security nightmare.

The control itself continues to work fine.
I only begrudgingly got a smartphone last year - after watching everyone else get addicted to them "from the outside" and I've fallen right into the trap with them. Finally made an account to ask, can you be more specific about what qualifies as a bottomless well? I have Messenger for talking to my family but never use the rest of Facebook. Does that disqualify it? What about only using Youtube for channels like Techmoan or Mark Felton?
Pavlok founder here (wearable behavior trainer for humans with vibrate and electric zap)

I have considered designing something to prevent texting while driving. But a zap during a drive seems like less safe and problematic. We see a lot of people who fall asleep while driving too.

A curious problem to try and solve…
It's a bit ridiculous to complicate recursive algorithms just because the stack sizes haven't been increased in the past 3 decades.

Nowadays we have at least 48bit virtual address space available; what's the harm in giving each thread a full GB of stack?
No one uses Teams voluntarily anyway.
> There must be some huge incentive for Reddit to push users toward the mobile app.

From what we hear, the app isn't even that well designed. It seems that many users are still using unofficial clients because the app can feel heavy and sluggish, with only a barely acceptable UX.
I see a key difference: we choose to participate in a Ponzi scheme, whereas the central bank fiat system is one we are forced to participate in, just by means of being born in a particular country. There’s no choice involved, being backed by the full force and legal monopoly of the state. That’s a key difference many tend to gloss over when pursuing this characterization.
It's about pumping up engagement metrics, pure and simple, regardless of the quality of the user experience.

Any and all social media is poison.
> Personally, I'd rather be able to verify the collateral on-chain, which is why I think fully collateral-backed on-chain stablecoins like DAI make a lot of sense.

The problem with DAI is that it is backed in large part by other stablecoins such as USDC and BUSD that are not transparent in their holdings. For example, USDC has an unknown amount of their backing in unspecified "approved investments" (language copied from the latest attestation).

These investments could be boring, stable, liquid assets like US treasury bills, or they could be risky, unstable, illiquid assets, like loans to cryptocurrency exchanges. Without knowing what they are, its hard to determine how backed USDC truly is.
Is there a function for this to populate the clipboard with the predefined text and maybe open the messaging program (like Signal, Telegram, Wire, WhatsApp)? This way it could also be used relatively easily with these apps which probably can't be automated like SMS...
Or shut off your PayPal, or block your business from taking credit cards, because they personally find your business unsavory, and soon you won't be able to take cash because there's a worldwide push to get rid of it, and many other reasons.
Yes! I've noticed that as well lately. So incredibly dishonest.
There are probably still some minor mutations during the cloning (if they found a way to clone DNA perfectly 100% of the time that's a much bigger news).
LDE's – Very Long Ones!
I am familiar with tech co-ops, but they are small, and so not good evidence.
This doesn't introduce a new package manager to the world
Yeah, I could see that. Good point.

I deal with that in other contexts, like Zoom meetings, by narrating what I’m doing:

Coworker: Could you do X for me?

Me: OK. I’m writing a reminder to myself here… type type type

…which seems to get a positive response from people I’m talking to.
Thanks didn’t know this project exists.
> It is probably something like GTK/QT. But I doubt do they actually have the ability to do such complex edit behavior and layouts.

They actually can - QtCreator for example. Also, I really don't think that the web would be the panacea of UIs, on the contrary.

But I otherwise agree with you - text editors are surprisingly hard. But I still don't really get the why for teams. It could even just add a webview for the actual meeting part, but let the rest be something actually workable.
Googling "Jew" returns, or did in the past, some colorful results. Humans gonna human.
I grew up in the USSR. There were multiple layers of the system. I was somewhere in the middle with my father being a well known poetry translator and grandfather writing propaganda. We listened to the BBC and Voice of America without reprimand, because of our status. Neighbors would face serious consequences for this. At 12 I was sent to the US to understand how capitalism is harmful. I think North Korea is making the same bet of creating a system in which some know all the truth and still work for the regime.
Because there is not up or down for the wing when its cutting through a fluid. It is not that we have seen planes flying intercontinental flights upside down.

And those upside down events do not happen at 10 feet above ground. There is plenty of fluid (air) above and below the aircraft and power (fighters jet engines are the most powerful ones on aircrafts) to be able to correct any up-downward force with flaps (basically walls to air)
Strange if so because it's the "Object-relational impedance mismatch" not the "Static type-relational impedance mismatch".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93relational_impe...
From my personal experience people are moving from nothing to Teams.

Welcome to Germany.
When to Rewrite
I think it's a wrong kind of goal (or at least wrongly-worded). Trying to consume all interesting content will leave you with no time to use acquired knowledge, and overloaded mind won't be able to produce anything on top of it. Also, as other commenters said the amount of information constantly grows disproportinally faster than you can read.

That said if you want to increase your ability to get more X-related data through your brain, you have to reduce consumption of non-X-related data - usually the first candidates to sequester are social platforms, and news websites.
http://archive.today/4IN1k

(In case the content is behind the Miami Herald’s paywall.)
sure thing. we have invented something and now we are trying to apply it /s

how did the authorities and the chains of trust emerge in the first place? Is a system that uses a central authority more or less stable than a system that does not rely on the said authority?
Yes! There are definitely those that don’t see eye to eye with me on this!

Just told my girlfriend your opinion of her ;) !
This doesn't help you maintain connections with people, it's emotional forgery and anyone caught using something like this will find their "connections" evaporate instantly.

If you want to maintain connections with people put the effort in, that's the substance of the connection in the first place. If you don't, then don't.

People want to feel like they matter to you, so you contacting them shows that you care about them and fulfills that need. This app is a betrayal of that.

Is this connected to an article from The Onion or something? A joke?
Some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity
That's assuming it does not issue ATA Secure Erase to the drive - whilst WD drives of the era were using absolutely atrocious controllers for the most part, it would be enough to thwart testdisk.