skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VW seems to have topped all of these suggestions. Their volume control in the latest car (ID 4, and latest Golf) is dumb as hell, and sheer dangerous.

Can't believe mature people in that company thought sliding your finger through to change the volume or temperature, when in a moving car, was a good idea. (even their steering wheel controls are touch sensitive).

The Germans are way behind in basic software/ui/ux design, to the point that having normal knob controls is considered a huge feature.
One past related thread:

The worst volume control user interfaces (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19407334 - March 2019 (19 comments)
I get your point - it's not a good signal! But I think it's important to add that from a student's perspective, it's reliable because it is COLUMBIA.
"Locally flat" means flat only very close to the point of consideration. That is the mathematical definition, the "practical" definition is "flat only as long as you do not stray further away than some characteristic measure of distance defining your problem and accuracy requirements". So as long as your circle is very small then the " experimentally measured" pi and the math pi are the same. The moment your circle becomes big enough to pass through interesting (measurable) gravitational effects, the experimental value will be different. If anything, experimentally measuring that difference is one way to experimentally measure spacetime curvature.
> 99.9% of volume controls scale the output linearly.

Wrong. Windows's volume output is the percentage squared, and Linux PulseAudio's volume output is the percentage cubed. Nonetheless I would prefer that the volume output was exponential (2^(slider position / constant)). This way, pressing the "volume up" key 3 times always increases the volume by a constant factor, regardless if you're on loud or quiet speaker/headphones. Additionally, on loud headphones, you won't have to fine-tune the volume in the very bottom of the slider (eg. 1 is too quiet, 2 is a bit loud, 3 is painfully loud).

On Windows, I hide the default volume control and instead use Volume2[1] set to exponential mode. On Linux, I haven't found a good solution for getting PulseAudio to use exponential volumes.

[1]: https://irzyxa.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html
As a hater of hidden UI like Apple has been obsessed with for several years (force touch, most of the touchbar, edge swiping (as convenient as it can be sometimes), etc): there is a way, but why would you ever try it:

Touch-and-drag on the volume buttons to immediately drop into a volume slider, relative to where your finger started.

It's a pretty nice interaction, honestly - better in most ways than the buttons alone I think, in part because you can be both more precise and make large changes faster. It's one of the VERY few places where I think the touchbar does something positive[1]. But the vast majority of people who would like to use it have no idea it exists.

[1]: ... except when the touchbar freezes while doing this, and continually sets "max volume! MAX VOLUME! MAAAX VOOOLLLUUUUUUUMMEEE!!!!" several times per second until you do a hard shutdown to stop it from blaring [whatever you were listening to] at you because it's also stealing focus from whatever's on screen so you can't even click the "yes please shut down" button. Then I'm somewhat less fond of it.
It might even make it affordable (cash wise) for many people like it used to be. Wouldn’t that be scary?
Sure but we also can't discount that some just enjoy being in school perpetually.

I had a dorm roommate who did go on to do very well in the end, but spent another 8 years getting a PHD.. anyway I'll always remember a couple years into my career we were having drinks and he said to me something to the effect of liking continuing his education due to the the lack of responsibility.

I have a neighbor who is 10+ years into getting a PHD in liberal arts. He gets a lot of feelings of prestige from being associated with very well regarded universities and he has no career intention when he finishes due to being funded.

However I think of all the BA/MA students for the classes he is the lecturer for and what debt they have taken on to go on their own fruitless journey. They aren't all funded the same ..
This makes sense, but I believe it’s incorrect. Overtraining is a fairly serious condition that can take months to recover from, not generic over-exertion of a specific muscle group that requires days of rest.
That's an interesting way to provide a free tier. I think starting a new product this way could go over well.
Errr, contradicting all the other responders: yes it does (or can) change the backlight colors per key. It still takes a ton of practice/trial and error, but you’d be surprised how much you can communicate with just lighting changes.
This is a rehash of this nonsense: https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1382839716748349442

The recent data is coded provisionally, the pattern is not unusual: https://twitter.com/piercedgeek/status/1382762602804211716
No "threat model" here, just a dissatisfaction with so-called "modern" browsers and TLS extensions that disproportionally benefit hosting companies over users (privacy in this case). Plus I genuinely prefer commandline TCP clients and text-only browser to read HTML for most web use. I like the speed, reliability and more uniform presentation I get across all web sites. I like text. Big browsers that do everything under the sun written by people working for "tech" companies funded by advertising are not interesting to me. In fact, I find them annoying.

Some folks write "browser extensions" to control graphical browsers to their liking. I generally do not use graphical javascript-enabled browsers; I prefer to use a different program, a proxy, to control the browser. It works with both graphical browsers and text-only ones.
> it certainly doesn't mean that you're somehow more intelligent or competent than the people for whom similar methods of family planning have failed.

I personally think it is a sign of modern hubris to assume that effective family planning didn't exist prior to 1960s and the advent of birth control.

All forms of family planning can fail. I don't think that's contentious.

Personally, the bigger issue I see among my peers is inability to conceive at all. They squandered their fertile years and are now going to enormous expense to start a family.
The goal of the government reducing these costs is to make sure poor people can use them.

A free market solution chooses to not serve poor people, so it can be cheaper for richer people.

Its not the same thing.

(Notably, government taxes in software are still 30% revenue, eg. The AppStore)
I've worked with one, hired right before I joined, I became lead 6 months later. He would ask for help and then when I gave him things to do or lookup he would just fail, and would subtly try and get others to do it for him. Total mooch. Multiple meetings and attempts about it. Couldn't fire him. Had him on a plan immediately after being lead. It was so bad at one point I had his desk moved to be next to mine and I had to tell him he can talk to me but stop interrupting other seniors. Eventually that became work in whatever you want so long as you don't need anyone. He sat there for 3 months and did nothing before he was finally payed off. Parent company transfered him to his own department essentially and then "restructured" it.

He had a mech engineer background, two years out of engineering school went to code camp.

Ceo was an idiot and payed him 90k starting which was a lot more than one of the other seniors who was an self taught English grad. He worked his ass of an was performing as a senior. Ceo stiffed him on the raise, he didn't know any better until he found out code campers salary and was gone in two weeks.

My director left shortly after and so did I. They haven't kept a lead for more than 6 months since, that was 3 years ago... Sorry I digress.
>"to get 200+k of debt from a 4 year degree takes massive loans from private companies"

So we are enabling private investment to profit from bad loans again? Have we learned nothing in 2008?
Nice update with the recent changes from Thunderbird!
No, I understand your algorithm, I’m just saying that you’ll start with n! permutations and halve that with each step. This will require log(n!) steps.
> The idea is that, under Chinese law, it is somewhere between “complicated” and “forbidden” for foreigners to own certain big important Chinese tech companies.

They don't allow foreign ownership of their companies, but they do buy ownership of big western companies (such as Volvo). That sounds a lot like trade war... but that can't be right, the media didn't say anything about a trade war until Trump's tariffs.
As an American, I have some distant hope that we will switch .. but no sooner than the year 2050
Crazy theorizing about hair loss
Steam doesn't let you sign up with 88 in your password
Best open source database for development?
Looking to contribute to some open source database and learn the internals. Any suggestions?
You mean modern iPhones?
I wonder if there is something else going on, as this sounds like an awfully good way to cover up a sinking ship, yet still take money out for the stakeholders.

In 5 years time when the company is bankrupt they can just come out and say the IPO was a bad idea, while the main stakeholders are sitting nicely in their gold plated Lamborghini's [0].

[0] I made that up, but turns out it is actually a thing: https://m.economictimes.com/nation-world/strange-things-saud...
How Do SpaceX's Starlink Satellites Actually Work?
But you can define an experimentally measured pi. Define an experimental circle (the set of points experimentally measured to be at a given distance from a center) and then experimentally measure its circumference. The fact that this experimental measurement is different from the pi defined through an l2 norm in Euclidean space is certainly cool and interesting. It is basically a way to measure gravitational curvature.
Resuscitation of Hamsters After Supercooling or Partial Crystallization
Chinese father reunited with kidnapped son after 24-year search
Precisely. I really don't understand the arts education industrial complex.

How many high level artists were taught their art in a prestigious university setting? And those that did.. how many actually finished their degree versus those that dropped out early because they were already on their way to success and didn't need the stamp of approval?
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27818667
Ever used Lotus Notes?

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/lotus.htm
Sorry, nope. There aren't n permutations you're searching through, but the factorial of n to search through. That's the heart of the information-theoretic proof that no comparison-based sorting algorithm can do better, on average, than needing a number of comparisons equal to the base-2 logarithm of the factorial of n. Which, as already said, is O(n log n).
The volume controls in Tuxguitar are legitimately worse than some posted here. To adjust the volume of a track, you choose "View > Show Instruments" and then the unlabeled first circle in each row is the volume "knob". It's a "knob" because it is basically a circle with a dot with the 6-o'clock position indicating 0 and the 3 o'clock position indicating maximum. To adjust it, you click and hold (with no visual feedback that you have clicked anything active) and then drag up and down. Not side-to-side or in a circle, up and down.

I'm sorry to whoever designed this control for this very useful Free OSS. But goddamn that is bad.
Not a priority for justice, but Ghosn is instead prime material for a house trade. Foreign loans in exchange for an extradition treaty, etc. It might not happen now, but Ghosn needs it not to happen for the rest of his natural life. Japan only needs one chance. Ghosn needs an unstable country to stay together and be not-desperate for a long time.
I'd just like to chime in to offer a different opinion - around 1.5 year in with my Ergodox EZ, and I have no issues with the thumb keys at all. I use them for space, shift and delete/layer switch on one side, and backspace, layer switch and return on the other. It's been working well for me. There's 3 more thumb cluster keys on each side, but they're unreachable from a typing position; I use them for stuff that isn't related to typing, like closing a window and setting/navigating through bookmarks in my IDE.

Overall I'm a very happy customer. Never had issues and my typing speed on it is by far the highest I have had (though admittedly I haven't tried many others). I also have much higher accuracy than I'd ever had with a standard keyboard. The first 2-4 weeks were pretty painful indeed, but now I wouldn't consider switching for anything else.
> The single most important number as it pertains to Saudi Arabia, is barrels of oil produced per capita

Wouldn't the important number be the barrels of oil exported per capita rather than produced?

Which actually makes things even worse, because the exploding population means an increasing amount of the oil production is consumed internally - this page suggests less than 60% of production is now exported (2016 data):

https://www.worldometers.info/oil/saudi-arabia-oil/

and the graph here (when switched to max date range) shows the dramatic increase in consumption over time, albeit with some slight falloff more recently:

https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/saudi-arabia/oil-consu...
I'm going to pre-emptively defend Tesla here, since they are usually the canonical touch screen example - Tesla cars have a volume thumbwheel on the steering wheel.
Most modern, low maintenance bug trap
I agree it was a stupid thing to say...sorry
SMTP used to be a lot more reliable than it is now. Now, with all the changes to help with blocking spam, you have to be very careful or have a lot of control over the receiving server to ensure you actually get delivery. Some anti-spam systems will just discard if the matching rules indicate the spam likelihood score is above a certain threshold, and mistakes in rules at system levels can and do happen.

But here's another way you could (ab)use the mail system for delivery, provide a mailbox for the client and just allow IMAP or POP access and throw the messages into that. The client can log in to access and process them (which they would likely be automating on their own mailboxes anyway). It does mean it's housed at the provider, but it's also pretty easy to scale. There's lots of info on how to set up load balanced dovecot clusters out there, and even specialized middleware modes (dovecot director) to make it work better so you can scale it to very very large systems.
> Is there any virus in the history of mankind that does this?

Yes. The common cold is a set of symptoms that are caused by many things, but a majority of instances are caused by rhinovirus. It is possible for people to be infected by the same strain multiple times, but more importantly there are over 100 variations they can catch, and previous infections from one variation do not protect against another. The worst case scenario for covid was exactly that.
>Peertube's UX could be better, but it doesn't present itself as a Youtube competitor, does it?

That's a pretty stupid question, isn't it? If we replace your word "competitor" with the word I used, "alternative", then yes, it does.

>But it's not Youtube and never will be. Pretending that it can be defeats the purpose.

What purpose?

>As does an overly simplified UX that hides the system capacity underpinning the technology (20GB limit). It will feel like a bait and switch when a newly converted user runs up against the limits of decentralized solutions, because they were not educated about that before.

99.9% of people will never care about "the system capacity underpinning the technology".
I love that they named it Ghidra and use a dragon for a logo. That endears me to the people who built it.
> The whole point is that even with material support, people still need to live with spouse and kids, and having a regular work (not necessarily work for someone else), to have a happy life.

I understood that was your point. The problem is that your point simply isn't true, and you've provided absolutely no evidence of your belief beyond your patronizing "some people realize this earlier than others".

I do think that intimacy is a necessary part of happiness for most people, but there are many ways to find intimacy besides a spouse. As for kids: people who don't ever want kids and end up happy are common enough that I'd consider it common knowledge. There are all sorts of families out there, and many of them don't involve marriages or children.
In the mid 1990s, Aerosmith released their Cloud 9 CD with enhanced content for windows when placed in a CDROM drive.

The application always turned the volume up, all the way to max, whenever it started.

This immediately resulted in me emailing the developers complaining. Surprisingly, they replied! (Although I don't remember what the reply was.)
This seems like a very clear case of the need for personal responsibility. In light of these facts, why in God’s name would anyone opt into this?
I totally understand that this is an unpleasant and long process, but I think you in turn come from a place of ignorance about what it means to live the best years of your life under hundreds of thousands of dollars of student debt. It eats at you, every time you spend money, for decades. It's soul-crushing.

I know people who would GLADLY throw away two years of their life in bankruptcy proceedings if it means they could be free of their crushing student debt.
What's your take on Catiline? I have just enough classical education to be a little dangerous, but my understanding is that he's sort of seen as a would-be Julius Caesar who showed up at the wrong time; Cicero was horrified by them both, but his conservative faction eventually lost so much power in the Senate that Caesar succeeded where Catiline failed.
It's expensive to collect, maintain and collate data yet they're making a profit on it. If they didn't want the data they wouldn't collect the data.
Most of their work probably doesn't even need to be technical. How many high-profile attacks have been based on social engineering?
IIRC from past studies, early morning exercise improves sleep the most. I prefer late night, but I'll go with the data.
That's hilariously bad design
"Middle and upper class Iranians absolutely love America."

So, as a generalization for most of the country, his statement is correct. Unless you dismiss the lower classes as disposable riffraff as the Shah did.
I’d much prefer it if everyone who sells stuff online would just spend that budget on making their product catalogs easier to search and discover products I’m looking for.

This is a really good idea.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any reason for sellers to do that. I recently tried searching Zappos for something, and the experience was awful. Hasn't hurt Amazon revenue!
Maybe the argument is similar to: Having a "School of Alchemy" is a poor choice for teaching the history of Chemistry.
I'm guessing this was just a calculated risk. From last year's Vanity Fair piece:

"Nothing got x-rayed, not even our backpacks”[1]

I have to believe someone involved had observed similar behavior at this location prior to this escape operation.

[1] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-carlos-ghosn-esc...
Because one is the POTUS, another is the Senate Majority leader, and the third was the Presidential candidate. So basically the first and third most powerful politicians in the US.
Okay, well I had the opposite experience, and found that my public high school had made me over-prepared for Yale, to the point that writing 20 page papers was easy. One individual, anecdotal experience proves nothing. That is why I pointed to the overall statistics on high school graduates. Perhaps some public high schools do not make some people fully ready for Caltech (I wouldn’t expect them to??) but that doesn’t mean they aren’t a net economic good. Public schools set a good floor that the best private schools can expensively surpass; public colleges should set a good floor that the best private colleges expensively surpass; public health care should set a good floor that private health care can expensively surpass, etc. that is a more effective system for balancing quality and cost than the current unchecked subsidies for private systems
Unprovoked serotonin syndrome presentation in SARS-CoV-2 infection
Sawtooth is similar to violins and other bowed instruments. (For convincing plucking, you kinda need Karpluss-Strong, though I’m still partial to very short decay times.) FM synthesis with enharmonic tones is bell-like.

I’d argue that Don Buchla pushed synthesizers further than Bob Moog did when it comes to being their own instrument vs imitating something else, but he was also pushing for a radical departure from 500 years of western music in general. (Read: “what is this godawful noise, and why are you subjecting me to it??”)

Why include a piano keyboard at all? Why think of “playing measures in a score” when you can wire up and interact with something that feels like a living system and see what happens? It’s the musical equivalent of “what is THAT thing!? What if I try to pet it, or poke it with a stick?” You might get bitten.

This gets close to the heart of the East Coast (Moog) vs West Coast (Buchla) styles of synthesis. I’m not dissing Bob Moog in the slightest here: I’d rather listen to more conventional western music the vast majority of the time, and he was integral in carving out synths as a legitimate instrument. You’re not wrong.

Sometimes I just gotta let go and let something like Silver Apples of the Moon [x] roll through my head. Not often, maybe not even all the way through, and I almost always skip the first two minutes. I love being reminded that synths have had this wild streak running through them since basically the beginning though.

One of the cool things that’s happened with the rise of Eurorack and the splintering of musical genres is that you can find much more music that ignores the East/West coast divide, taking elements of each and using them wisely to serve the purpose of song. Silver Apples around 23:00 could easily fit in a Nine Inch Nails track, for example. This has been going on for decades; the Eurorack standard just makes it more likely to continue, for which I am thankful.

[x] https://youtu.be/3G1hRNLlYpg
Chess puzzles.

Sometimes tidying up my office. I just like to make sure everything is straight, at 90 degrees or 45 or parallel to the wall. It's not some OCD thing, just a matter of style. 5S is usually used for workshops, but I think it applies very well to the office.
wow this article is amazingly stupid.

where to begin?

> historians have been unable to find any evidence that Columbus was genocidal, or had any particular ill-will towards the Native Americans that he encountered.

Even the Spanish thought Columbus was genocidal enough to arrested, chained, and shipped back to Spain for judgement.
Honestly the way the touchbar handles volume is about the only thing I like about it. It's also literally the only thing I use on it besides the software "ESC" button.
> The same thing happened with big government agencies if you see the Snowden leaks.

LOVEINT
I switched to a standing desk last year, a few months into work-from-home. Before I got it, I asked a friend who had been using a standing desk for advice. He suggested buying a foam mat to stand on. That seems to work well for me, too. (I work barefoot.)

I find that standing when working helps me concentrate better, though I make more typing mistakes because the position of my hands is different from what I had been used to. I didn’t have serious back problems before, but my back does feel better now that I am sitting less. I don’t stand up all day; I sit down occasionally to rest my legs.