skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually mind-boggling just how bad UI/UX in general has become. Like, there are things which are bad because it's hard to get right, but this trend to me sinks even lower than that, it's actually spectacularly bad.

Everywhere I look: Windows, Android, websites, mobile apps... it's all so terrible. Confusing interfaces (indecipherable icons with no text), ridiculously small or ridiculously large text (either I can't read it without zooming or so large that it fits 3 lines in a 15" screen), endless whitespace, no visual feedback about how to interact with the interface, such as what is clickable or not, etc.

I chalk this up to designers not giving a rat's ass about actually designing their interfaces carefully and thoughtfully, and simply optimising for one things: looking good on screenshots. If you think about it it explains everything about this.
This is the basis of the Android app sandbox. Each app runs as its own user.
Sounds like the foundation of something big. I am in.
It wasn't flagged, it was killed by software. That's what happens to comments posted by banned accounts.

If you see a [dead] post that shouldn't be dead, you can vouch for it by clicking on its timestamp, then clicking 'vouch' at the top of its page. There's a small karma threshold (> 30) before vouch links appear.
It's not "just" anything and it's definitely not just catchier. Toxic is a far more forceful word that is often used to convey more force than is deserved for the situation. It steals discussion territory without justifying its claims. It's a bit like a clickbaity headline.
I think it depends on the activity. It's impossible to build any medium to high complexity software by working on it for 5 mins a day. But you can make a lot of progress by practising every day for very little time. For example, I've improved on my tucked planche progression by just leaning forward while holding a plank for 5 seconds every day.
What good is owning land if there is no more rainfall? Or if your beach-front is now submerged?
What is fueling estrangement is not a shift in values but a shift in expectations. Failure is not an option these days.
All of those are transitory cultural issues, backed by the increasingly sensationalist media, except covid and global warming. Covid has already spent its wrath for the most part. Climate change (global warming, as a term, doesn't cover the multipronged destruction of ecosystems throughout the world) is legitimately catastrophic; if anything it's undersold. The only question is the exact timeline of its effects.
> Although we built Fleets to address some of the anxieties that hold people back from Tweeting, Fleets are mostly used by people who are already Tweeting...

That makes sense in retrospect. I have a twitter account but have only used it a handful of times when it was the only way to complain to a company (!). I read tweets only when someone links to them.

Perhaps something even more lightweight would have attracted me but I'd never even heard of this product.

It's a difficult problem to publicize an addition to a service to those non-users who aren't actively looking for features.
Subjective? What about the hundred flowers campaign?

> ... a period from 1956 to 1957 in the People's Republic of China during which the Communist Party of China (CPC) encouraged citizens to express openly their opinions of the communist party.

followed by

> Citizens were rounded up in waves by the hundred of thousands, publicly criticized, and condemned to prison camps for re-education through labor, or even execution.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
They tend to be some of the most helpful loyal people you’ll ever meet. Sounds like you should spend more time outside of the city.
It sounds like you had a decent family, but are you able to see that your experience isn't universal? Can you imagine that many other people have vastly worse families, with a wide range of abusive and predatory behaviors?
> the upload bandwidth of my text here is at least a quarter of a cent.

Only because it’s 1989 and you are using a v23 modem.
I think your view of the past is colored by 21-st century social norms.

In 1900, a husband beating his wife wasn't even illegal in most of the world. [1] Beating children and other animals would barely even register as unusual.

[1] It wasn't practically illegal in most of the US, both on the state & federal level until the late 20th century - https://www.cji.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/domestic_abus...
Nice try, Nostradamus!
That is the reason most of my colleagues and I have no account there, never had, never will. Same for FB, Instagram, etc., the only exception is LinkedIn where nobody is posting anything.
I agree with this and I would add that many people misunderstand history as a linear function of progress. History is filled with examples of things getting worse, sometimes for centuries. The future is not guaranteed to be bright.
You are arguing something completely different. I pointed out that before public schools, there were large networks of private schools. Public schooling started as a response to the success of catholic schools.

I am not arguing for superiority of one over the other.

I'm just pointing out that decentralized, distributed decision making led to people's educational needs being met before government got with the program.

Also, your articles are on public v generic private. Catholic schools are outliers in the private school space. They tend to be significantly cheaper, have a different set of outcomes, and tend to be more socioeconomically representative of society at large.
Twitter started off as a low-effort life blog, and is now almost entirely a platform for amplifying celebrities and politicians. It definitely needs more normal people tweeting about normal things.
I'm Eastern-European, not refrigerating eggs is weird to me. I spent ages looking for eggs in the fridges at the store in the UK, only to find them stuffed onto a shelf between sweets and Doritos.
yep, I use lists and it helps a lot with this. Twitter got a lot better for me when I put all the hot take tweeters into a list and unfollowed them, then only check that list when I feel like going there. Which is not often
Yes, people who get the vaccine can get covid, but the illness is heavily mitigated and death rate is reduced to almost zero. Anecdotally (and I'm not a doctor) it seems that with the vaccine, immune system reacts to the initial infection in your nose and prevents it from spreading to your lungs and blood vessels (which causes a lot of damage there e.g. for some relatives who got covid last year), but you still may get some local symptoms around nose and (AFAIK) can infect others because of that.
It would have been okay if the country had a good privacy protection law. And a not-so-broken justice system. The legal system wears you out starting right from the troubles of filing a police report (when needed).
Having worked with the govt, they are pretty lame on security and high on convoluted regulations and harassment. The rules are applied selectively. As a fact, the govt (unintentionally) leaks the citizen's data and then they absolutely deny and cover up stuff. And there is zero accountability. Their departments regularly access stuff without proper authorisation and then store/move it insecurely elsewhere.
Assertions like that made in the title of this article are completely ridiculous.

Imagine a person driving a car towards a concrete wall at 100 kph. If they keep driving 100 kph, they hit the wall in 2040. So do we predict that they hit the wall in 2040? NO. Any person in their right mind will hit the breaks, swerve, turn the car, etc. Not to mention, some clever entities may devise a way to destroy the wall or move it further down the road.

Many comments here talk about "at the current rate of consumption, XYZ will happen." The current rate will not be constant. As we approach the wall, the wall will push back on us with a force that is inversely proportional to our distance from it.

People, stop predicting the future with so much confidence. The smartest people have shown time and time again that they can't even predict trivial things. The balance of probabilities says that they'll be wrong again. Face it: in the grand scheme of things, we're not that smart.
Also their congregation creates the conditions for other similar types of thinking and cross pollination of other niche ideas which explains Q-like, super-conspiracy groups that are like a rotating prix fixe menu of paranoid nativist memes and fit neatly adjacent to neo-nazi, sovereign citizen, and even incel movements.
What you're saying is the OP is missing the torrent through the raindrops?
Are you guys open to hiring new grads? I am hunting for a startup to join when I graduate next summer, and Gitpod looks perfect.
Blackboard has to be the worst software I ever had the misfortune of having to interact with. How come universities spend millions of dollars every year on such a steaming pile of crap?
> It is often incredibly difficult to refute someone making a claim that something is toxic

Perhaps a lot of the "toxic things" are subjective based on someones experience, so there is not much to refute.

If someone says the way they were treated by another was toxic, who are you to refute its toxicity? People tend to be able to understand how some thing affects them and if it is good for them.
Sure, but if they’re systematically subsidizing the growth path of your competitors, giving them a massive advantage, withholding that approval becomes a tougher call.
I can't testify to my statement being 100% true without a lot of tedious searching on the UK FSA/SFA/FCA/whatever they are now's website. But that's what I have a vague recollection of.

It's similar to HMRC's "we can come after you for unpaid tax for 7 years", but you can only go after the HMRC for 5 years for overpaid tax.

The rules are ultimately for the benefit of long term investigations such as the LIBOR rigging, and Guinness trials.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/04/libor-riggi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_share-trading_fraud
> I'm less hopeful about new fuel taxes. We've seen how that's gone in France, and even Switzerland.

The problem with fuel taxes is that it's hard to tell whether the money is spent toward making everyone less reliant on fuel... or simply funding pensions for underperforming bureaucrats!

Collecting an extra tax on a single mother of two won't suddenly make her able to afford a Tesla.
I remember the TV show 24 where you could identify which of the counter-terrorism team members was betraying Kiefer Sutherland this hour by noticing which one was suddenly using a Dell instead of their usual Mac.
As the saying goes:

The apple never falls far from the tree.
Well part of the society. The other part, kept distance, helped those in need and found a vaccine in a record time and are rolling out this in an incredible speed. So maybe your negativism is anachronistic too?
If the average is low enough, then nothing. If the goal is to reduce consumption in high consumption developed countries, then you need it to drop low enough that the total population growth is at or below replacement (like birth rate + immigration).
Storing data encryped in north korea, with the capability to fetch and decrypt that data in Sweden, is approximately equivalent to storing the unencrypted data in Sweden

Not if there is rate limiting, or other means of preventing the entire set of data being dumped. That is to say, storing it encrypted makes it harder to get the full set of data. Though, I guess in practice the client application would likely be able to request all of the data from storage.
It would be interesting to see if you could incorporate a radio module like a DRA818U/V [1] and provide short-distance voice over MURS (VHF), FRS/GMRS (UHF), or similar bands.

[1] http://dorji.com/products.php?CateId=14
> I disagree with the J. Kenji Lopez-Alt suggestions. He is too extreme/OCD for beginners.

He's good for sous vide. You don't need much to do it at home (just an instant pot) and he's basically just telling you how to program it and leave it sitting for two hours. Not hard.

Most other cooking is imprecise and you have to learn to read the spirit and not the text of the recipe, or something. (Not baking though. You have to actually get that right.)
I was rather thinking we train specialized, educated teams to go into cryosleep in what we could call "boltholes" buried in specific secret locations. Then, when a collapse has occurred, these individuals could reemerge, unite, and help restore order and progress. They would be encapsulated along with vehicles and engineering supplies as well...

;-)
> By default, our libraries use Circular Pro, which isn’t an open font.

That's a big red flag for an open-source design system.

Design-wise, the Figma files look nice but are poorly built. Most of the text and colors don't use styles, and the few color styles they use are in a private library.

There's some documentation (good) but the components make a lot of mistakes. You're better off starting from scratch.
Self hosting how?
They have to change; their market cap is much lower than the other "majors" and actually the usage level (and subscriber base) is lower too.

It's like the inverse of reddit: reddit has a very high Alexa score yet is invisible in the public media; Twitter is discussed endlessly by the nattering nabobs, called before congress etc, yet has trouble monetizing their infamy.
Korean police adapt to Covid-19 era, introduce non-contact DUI testing
Actually, a lot changed since the launch of the VT100, but most of those features just haven't survived into modern terminals and/or people don't use them.

E.g. Sixel, ReGIS, html output, terminals treating the scrollback buffer as a live document where commands can be re-executed. AmigaOS let you auto-complete filenames using a file requester.

The hard part is becoming so seamless that it integrates into peoples workflow to the point of being something they're not willing to live without, and none of the above really succeeded at that.

The terminals I use have Sixel and ReGIS enabled, and I have a shortcut to output images to the terminal, but I still often forget and open a separate image viewer anyway, for example (but it is awesome to be able to display an image from a remote server directly over the ssh connection, but that depends on a utility script on said server).

Instead we revert to the lowest common denominator because it's good enough and other things, like latency and being ubiquitous across platforms matters more.
What is a baseline for tweets per day per regular user? One tweet per day means 365 per year, it looks huge to some people.
People are not “accused” of being mentally ill, but sometimes they are diagnosed as such. They are often not in a position to know whether the diagnosis is correct.

The employees are undesirable because they want to ban mainstream books while working for a bookseller.

Many people supportive of gay rights, and especially many lesbians, consider the rise of “gender affirming care” for young people (something that I’m guessing is discussed in this book) as a new, insidious form of the conversion therapy that you allude to.
OS is reproducible with artifact repositories for OS and library packages. Hardware perhaps less so, but I guess a custom deal could be worked out with the right supplier. That, or go with emulation.
What is sorely lacking today is an encryption solution for the intranet. When you are transferring confidential data (such as salary info) over the network in intranet situation we need to encrypt the information to prevent casual snooping using tools such as Wireshark. We don't need to verify the identity of the server because that's typically not a problem on the intranet.

Self-signed certificates used to be the solution in this situation. But browser makers have made it significantly harder, if not impossible to use self-signed certificates, by not allowing the user to visit sites that have self-signed certificates.

We need a simple solution for this -- a solution that works even for small businesses that do not have an IT department. (That means installing certificates on each end-user's machine is not a reasonable solution.)
The average person in the US lives better than a king did throughout most of history. You're free to go live in the wilderness if you think modernity has only brought about suffering, but capitalism brought you that device you typed this message on.
If I block you, I want it to prevent you from reading my tweets. Obviously you can use a logged-out browser window, but that extra step is supposed to be annoying enough to prevent most non-psycho people from reading your stuff.
I don't see the problem.
When in Rome...

It will create job in India. The government doesn't allow multinational companies to get away with having all the market access and data control while evading taxes.
Yoga and stretching exercises, specifically targeting the back, has helped me a lot with wrist pain. Ergonomics is crucial as well, especially monitor height so you can keep your back and neck straight.
In terms of exercises, squats and core exercises like planks, even just against a wall, sun salutation, and core building leg raises have all been really helpful.
From my experience all the wrist and arm pain I have had from computer/phone usage is very much linked to posture and back strength.
Hope that helps.
Leaks indicates it will be starting at $59.99/month

This way too expansive, I'm not sure that'll find a place in IT places, most professionals already know how to work with a VPS..

Unless some tech illiterates management makes decisions, I fail to see how this can be successful
You just keep talking straight past my points without even trying to understand them. Why bother writing answers at all?

I'm not advocating for installing a fresh OS on an exploited hardware and calling it a day, no matter how hard you try to present my words this way.

The point is to keep any single environment around only for a short period of time so that adversaries don't have enough time for replicating your systems and crafting a targeted exploit chain.

It is not meant to be the only line of defense. You would still harden every system you own, putting particular focus on tamper & intrusion detection (including retrospective analysis).

Couple that with strong compartmentalization (e.g. using different hardware for different purposes, Qubes OS style virtualization approaches) and defense in depth (exploit mitigations, traffic anonymization).

Here, I have spelled it out for you. Feel free to outline how you would approach attacking such individual adversary, even with NSA level team at your disposal. Silent assumptions being that 1) if person's physical location is known, CIA is a cheaper option than NSA and 2) failed offensive operation leaving attributable evidence is considered by NSA worse than missed opportunity.

Please, stop low effort ad hominem attacks.
>"'Cancel culture' is not an actual thing."

You may not believe it's an actual thing but society does. I sense all you are doing is changing around definitions because Cancel Culture has gotten a bad rap and you actually like the effect it's having on those you deem problematic.

>"'Wokeism' is not an actual thing, either. Sure, there's a few nutjobs on the internet but they don't have any actual influence; absolutely none compared to conspiracy theorists, anyway."

What is your basis for this?
Broken planes fall down, while satellites create space debris.
From what I found on MDN "a side effect to the block in one agent will eventually become visible in the other agent", what does the word eventually mean there, what's going on under the hood?
In a dooms-day scenario, you're best bet is to affiliate yourself with a local, ideologically coherent group whose identity is driven by a narrative of historical persecution and already practices pooling resources. In the event of government or institutional collapse, members of these groups would automatically switch to treating the group leaders as the main authority. And these leaders would be inclined get their community to take care of each other and pool resources.

Examples would be Jews in Israel and tribes of American natives. If you can assert membership in these groups, it would be a good investment to go through the process before hand.

If you don't have ethnic ties that are useful in that way, you could join a religious sect. The main example would be Mormons. They cluster in communities, have a persecution mentality, and encourage their members to store food and other emergency supplies. You'd have to at least pretend to believe their stuff though. I have trouble thinking of other examples. Perhaps Scientologists? Jahovah's Witnesses? I assume one doesn't just "join" the Amish. Mennonites?

If there are some survivalist groups that are already off-the-grid, that could be an option. Intentional communities, particularly of the survivalist strain, often care about ethnicity too though, particularly the ones in the US.

If you can't join a group, some countries might handle collapse better than others. One might invest in immigrating to a country that could tough out a collapse. Switzerland's canton-based political system seems pretty robust. Iceland has geothermal energy. The way the Japanese came together as a country during Fukushima was impressive (but you'd probably need to be ethnically Japanese to cash in on this). Rich folks seem to think New Zealand is a smart place to bug out.

New Zealand brings up another point. If a place, country or no, is a remote island has the ability to support itself without imports, it could also be a good option.
Case insensitivity might be fine on a language level, but the mandatory IDE makes it annoying. It tries to normalize the case of identifiers, which would be a nice feature except for the fact that it doesn't know about scopes and can't tell variables from properties.

The result is that if you declare a variable named "count" anywhere in your project, every property (and every unrelated variable) everywhere gets renamed from "Count" to "count". Makes for annoying diffs.
This is why I purge my old tweets automatically.

Nothing good has ever come from someone digging up old edgy tweets.
I somewhat miss the novelty of the 3d camera+screen on my old HTC android phone. It's a fun nice-to-have but there wasn't enough media that worked with it except what you recorded, which also wasn't the best thing to watch in 3D :)
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But the more that rich countries do, the easier it is for everyone to transition

That's a leap of faith. As of today, China is still building coal plants.
The pseudonymous alt is the way to go for this, unless you're mostly using twitter for things related to work. I bet some of your colleagues have alts :)