skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For notifications, here[1] is a pretty good overview of the problem.

A collection of comments on reformatted alert messages: [2].

Comment on icons, translucency and other quirks: [3].

[1] https://tyler.io/240-invisible-pixels/

[2] https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/03/big-surs-narrow-alerts/

[3] https://medium.com/macoclock/why-apple-has-broken-some-basic...

Not to mention posts on Reddit, Twitter, blogs, etc. about lots of these UI quirks.
I’m honored. But if it was intentional:

Gar(b)age tech.

Or GARbAGE tech.

Or garBage tech.
Yeah, it's looking at mental illness suicide.

The terminally ill ones are more like the people who jump from a burning building--life has legitimately become more painful than death. That's not something a psychiatrist can change.
Get an apartment. Apartments are designed to best utilize space for those who need cheap and temporary housing. Houses take up far more space and unnecessarily contribute to sprawl when unchecked renting is allowed.
Emacs. Emacs will autosave every 300 keystrokes or 30 seconds of idle time. You can also configure it because well its Emacs. Has saved my butt on numerous occasions.

It will not reload your session by default but you can do that if you want.
I had that issue when upgrading from 3.x->4 -- I was so cocky from years of ST's insane consistency that it honestly didn't even occur to me that my unsaved documents might be lost.

I wasn't even mad; just a little surprised
I'm sorry, what?

> AWS's unknowable policy for the cost of errors represents a huge risk for individuals and small businesses.

Assume you're paying for your own mistakes, and be thankful when you don't have to? That's a pretty easy policy.
I made a mistake with glacier (old transfer pricing model was horribly unobvious, I think that they changed it since then) which costed me few hundred bucks instead of expected few pennies. I asked for refund, because I read about people in the same situation being refunded but all I got from support is pricing page and FAQ link. I don't expect any goodwill from Amazon, I'm not the kind of person who would fight over refund, so I just paid and forgot about it, but had some bad taste in my mouth.
My nephew and I were pondering the following question: what will the real world downsides of fusion be after it has been widely deployed for a few decades? Every time humans have developed a new technology, we have failed to foresee some of the inevitable downsides (in hindsight) of that new technology that only arise and become known after it is widely deployed. I'm curious if I'll be around long enough to see what the answer turns out to be.
'Magic-angle' trilayer graphene may be a rare, magnet-proof superconductor
I like this idea. Five seems like a lot, but I like the general gist of it. One of my friends keeps a web page open called "Mori Clock" or something along those lines. You input your birthday and it shows you how many weeks, on average, you have left remaining. I'm not sure how useful it's been for his day-to-day experience, but it's an interesting idea, like yours.
>To be unimpressed with their achievements seems like sour grapes.

Carlin says something similar to what I was going to say, but he's better at saying it.

" The phrase sour grapes does not refer to jealousy or envy. Nor is it related to being a sore loser. It deals with the rationalization of failure to attain a desired end. In the original fable by Aesop, "The Fox and the Grapes," when the fox realizes he cannot leap high enough to reach the grapes, he rationalizes that even if he had gotten them, they would probably have been sour anyway. Rationalization, that’s all sour grapes means. It doesn’t mean deal with jealousy or sore losing. Yeah, I know you say, "Well many people are using it that way, so the meaning is changing." And I say, "Well many people are really fuckin’ stupid too, shall we just adopt all their standards?" " [0]

- George Carlin

[0]: https://www.sense.net/~blaine/funstuff/carlin.html
I'm one of those users. Actually I think I abandoned Firefox last year.

I want to like Firefox. But every single update for several years has reduced it's utility. Development is no longer focused on the user. Who knows what it's focused on at this point, they say the user, but looking at the design decisions it is easy to see that that isn't true. I don't like being bullshitted.

I think generally the idea of "web browsers" is a negative thing. The internet is supposed to be protocols, the web is supposed to be documents. Having a window that you open that runs more stuff than your operating system unless you're writing code is strange, it is a UX entirely driven by massive technical debt as a result of bad decisions piling on top of one another for decades.

These days as far as browsers go, I use ungoogled chromium, bromite, and gnome web. I've tried pale moon and a few others and they're generally not what they're pitched as. It's hard to build a browser from scratch because of what I mentioned above, and I get that, and the main problem with web browsers is that the web is broken, but I live in a world where I need one and Firefox doesn't deliver.
I think it is a perception issue primarily and I think pretty hard to quantify though I can share my own experience: some time back neighbors sold and new owners came in and turned it into an airbnb.

Seeing constant different groups of people come and go has definitely made neighbors on the block uneasy. Who is to say someone staying in an airbnb is not scoping out the surrounding area for example?
> I'm not sure why people feel this need to draw this weird line in the sand and say that SpaceX is okay because

It's because they know exactly what it really means if they cut SpaceX off at the knees and include them. It reveals what they're really saying they want to do. And that's just too far in polite company.

With Blue Origin they think they can chop them down and use them as an example and it's ok, because it doesn't imply a desire to return to the stone age and the crushing of technological progress. Blue Origin is a convenient example in other words, for now. If they use SpaceX, it would go too far in making them look like a luddite, lusting to dial back centuries of progress.

They apparently think it's possible to preordain from the word go which company will be the successful one. It's a product of centrally planned thinking, centrally planned fantasy. Such that it was okay for Musk to be doing what he was with his great wealth back when he had $100 million, and not if he crossed some arbitrary wealth line. It was ok for SpaceX to fail over and over and over again, and to burn through a large sum of money trying to get the Falcon 9 flying. It's just not ok for anybody else to fail trying. It's ok to take N time to succeed at $N money, but not ok if it takes more time and more money. Funny little needle the central planners want threaded.

When Bezos had $20 billion, nobody cared much about him. You'd very rarely see his name eg on Reddit or HN or Imgur or anywhere else outside of the business press. He'd occasionally pop up on HN in an Amazon story, it was rare though. Few people actually knew his name or who he was. That's ~2012, he had been a billionaire for about 14 years by that point and had been working on Blue Origin for around 12 years. So now he's worth $200 billion, everybody knows his name, zillions of people apparently hate him, people post vicious shit about him 24/7. They're all lying. They don't know Bezos anymore today than they did in 2012, what they know is his name is at the top of the rich list now, and the mob loves nothing more than to chop people down. The exact same thing happened to Gates once he took the rich list title.

What you're witnessing is mimic-based mob behavior in action. That's why it's so irrational, so emotional, so very much not thought-out. It's very predictable, most people that join in likely struggle to control their urge to mimic and join the rage mobs, and it goes after anybody that pops their head up too far. It's what social media is largely filled with today, ignorance and rage mobs. It's probably genetically wired in behavior for some people and then amplified depending on the culture and context.
Huh, cool history, but I was mostly just poking fun at the idea of calling the Everglades "just a swamp" which is a great way to upset Everglades-enthusiasts hahah
Hotels exist for largely the same capacity as AirBNB and tourists wouldn’t likely see much of a difference other than drastically reduced prices.

I mean houses shouldn’t be available to rent. Apartments are another matter entirely because they use space much more efficiently in a city.
It's the editor equivalent of Word 5.1 for the Mac; the thing that people think of as being "just right".
Well said, especially the part about being intentional. I try to maintain perspective now and then, but I find that it goes away pretty quickly at the first sign of something frustrating. I guess that means I have to practice it a little more.
Knowing whether it was 5% or 40% makes no difference- either one could be enough to cause the negative consequences listed in the article. More studies would be needed to draw further conclusions.

You are beginning to create arguments that do not exist to justify your position. It is unfortunate that you resort to circular reasoning and logic to support a non-existant claim.
Communities - especially urban, should only allow short-term rentals if hosts stay onsite.
Behavior has been horrible as well. Dumbing down Firefox, ignoring power users and dismissing any criticisms to changes. I was a hardcore fan but they alienated me so I left it over a year ago and don't regret it at all.
Yes. Definately some overlap. Just as you stated, the number 3. It's similar color as letter E. A Purple-maroon shade. Also S and 5 are somewhat similar. Both are blue-ish. No overlap on number 6. Its always light blue. Same for 7, its always green.

Finally 8 and H are both brown and oddly exact same color. Not sure if its because H is also the 8th letter in the alphabet.
It's a snow-pack reservoir, I think.

The intended use of the water is for power generation, but I think dams are clear model of how to build rain water reservoirs going forward.
Training is a great point, and I think that's why major clouds are going to be stickiest (in terms of using them vs migrating to new things).

The central problem of most companies has been finding / affording people who can maintain their stuff.

If Amazon / MS / Google can make it simple enough that skilled people can be quickly cross trained, and then have enough architecture knowledge to be productive, that's a huge win over "require everyone to spend 6 months muddling through and learning our stack we built ourselves and partially documented."
One way to deal with it is by being a producer instead of a consumer. That way you are forced to curate what you consume based on what benefits your "production".

For me that has been to start a blog, build an app etc.

Another approach is to go deep instead of wide. By that I mean, as you read, capture and take notes, start spending more time with your notes instead of capturing more.
>but in the US, listing are "gross"

oh shit

so they don't pay 100k after tax to junior devs?

mamma mia, american dream is ded
> Amazon e-commerce is not all that profitable. Most of Amazon's value comes from AWS.

AWS represents 43% of net profit, per the most recently posted quarter. It used to be on the order of 75%, but pandemic-related demand for physical products changed all that.

Retail is back, baby.
It's likely they just haven't paid raises or made cost of living adjustments. Even with low inflation, a lack of COL adjustment would be substantial over 5 years.
There is an argument that advancing orbital launch capacity can help with the scientific research and geo-engineering needed to control global warming. There is even an argument that the technology needed to make living on Mars feasible could be beneficial in combating the adverse effecta of global warming and the resulting ecological collapses.

I don't think that working to towards colonization of mars and working to counteract global warming are antithetical or even orthogonal.
> He lost his eyes and face, had both of his hands amputated, and was forcibly given agonizing treatments for 14 months.

I bet this was because doctors and surgeons saw him as challenge and a career/resume builder.
AFAIK, it neiher was nor is common to serve the USPS with subpoenas or warrants in order to read someone's snail mail. In fact, I am not even sure there is an analogy with snail mail. How many people expected their mail to be read before the internet. Whereas it is well-known that third parties holding email routinely receive such requests.

We have no control over what "tech" companies do with the data they collect. As you point out, this is not part of any enforceable agreement. "Tech" companies make statements in marketing and "privacy policies", which they are free to violate unbeknownst to their users, but they generally do not enter into agreements that limit what they can do. It should not matter that the price is "free" because in the agreements they provide ("ToS") you are almost always promising to do (or not do) something.

The whole arrangement, the foundation on which the "tech industry" rests, is incredibly one-sided and I am not sure how much longer we can continue down this path with a straight face. IMO, we are living in a "reality distortion field" as Jobs would call it. However there are still some intelligent people around who (let's hope) are not on the take. Check out Lina Khan and Tim Wu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Wu
You can do probabilistic inserts which should ensure the # of levels scales appropriately with the quantity of data. The probability factor can be a simple constant or some linear function of the quantity and/or index #.
> useless complexity

Which items fall in this category?
Cannabis clubs have not been "nuked"; I'm writing this comment from one of more than a thousand across the country. Also growing plants on your balcony is forbidden; they can't be visible from outside.
I think the fundamental issue comes down to whether the cause of the desire is fixable. If there's a fixable problem, fix it. If there isn't I think they should be allowed to (and even provided painless means to do so--say, a mask connected to a nitrogen tank.) Whether we agree with the reason or not I don't think enters into the picture.
Useful details on fab side: the material is indium-gallium-zinc oxide deposited onto a flexible polyimide substrate using the fab-in-a-box manufacturing system (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9A2yYZ-NAI)

>Thin-film material deposition is achieved through a combination of physical-vapour deposition, atomic-layer deposition and solution-processing (for example, spin-coating). Substrate processing conditions have been carefully optimized to minimise film stress and substrate bow. Feature patterning is achieved using a photolithographic 5× stepper tool.
Is Berlin a market where 5 YOE is plausibly "senior" in the same way it is for Silicon Valley?
I don't think it's an extraordinary claim but some evidence would be nice because the comment made me paranoid
Also pushing political agendas through push notifications.
China Can Lock Up a Million Muslims in Xinjiang at Once
Do replicas count? I recently got a fully functional PDP-11 replica, running RSTS. This is currently my favorite vintage computer, because the PDP-11 happens to be the very first computer I ever programmed on.
I spent some time in the late 90s struggling with picking up perl for ye olde cgi-bin. It was definitely harder to grok then most, I think if you come up from the shell at that time with a large familiarity with awk and sed it was easier to grok.

I think it quickly fell down when it became the way to do dynamic web applications for which it wasn’t really suited. As horrible as php was (then) from a language perspective it’s purpose built nature, made it way easier for early web uses. It did a good job of solving one problem and stayed in its lane.

It’s interesting that it seems, for the most part, that Ruby was mostly relegated to it’s use in Rails. It was probably one of the easiest and most intuitive languages I’ve picked up (I never got into python) and it quickly became my defacto scripting language though now I pretty much just use node since JavaScript is my day to day and I'm so familiar with the ecosystem.
It's close to my story, I learned html and js using my mobile - Nokia N70. There was no ide or syntax highlighting and very little multitasking, but I was able to build websites and publish them. Was such a great moment when people saw my website! Got PC with the internet 3 years after my first website went public
I like those kinds of services for personal projects. I don't always have enough money on my bank card and I'm lazy to go to ATM to fill my card with cash, so those monthly payments could be missed very easily. If that leads to service disruption, it's very annoying. It's much easier to load a balance for year and forget about it until next year.
Set up servers at linode and use the linode node balancer?

> Being able to define the whole architecture in a declarative way

With k8s (and other 'cloud' stuff) you seem to need to know a whole mess of a lot of the tool's stuff up front, vs a "progressive enhancement" way of doing one thing, getting it working, doing something else, getting it working, etc.
Are we drawing a parallel between this and the presently popular practice of getting injected with the "covid vaccine"?
FROM python:3.8
RUN apt install libsomething
ENV RELEASE=production
COPY . .
RUN poetry install
CMD ["poetry", "run", "server"]

What would be the rpm/deb equivalent of those 6 lines? Would it work on MacOS?
We’re way of from the subject at hand, but driving at the left is not that rare. A couple of former British colonies drive at the left, too (e.g. Australia, India, and South Africa) plus a few countries such as Indonesia, Suriname and Thailand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic)

I guess that’s 15% to 20% of the world’s population.
I would have expected more. They reap what they sow.
In my opinion, absolutely.
I would like to see a strict occupancy tax, or ban the amount of real estate a company/person can own.

Oh yea, require all real estate purchases to be American, or have legitimate relitaves residing here. We are selling our land with an to anyone in the world with money. I don't know of any country that makes it so easy for the wealthy to buy land.

I would love to know which countries allow real estate purchases like we do?

(I am against regulations, and more laws, but only for the little guys. Regulate big corporations like Blackrock, Facebook, Google. Regulate the big boys, so the little guys can begin to get ahead. Yes-I conflated two different industries.)
So says the PR companies that the hotel industry hired to write this story.
Seems like there's a structural issue at play here: the team is accountable for building a specific set of features at a specific time. High-level functionality is fixed and the timeline is fixed. If the estimate is off or something unexpected comes up, what's going to give?

Answer: everything else. Anything that the planners and executives didn't consider ahead of time. Other aspects of the work: code quality, product design, accessibility, performance, robustness, edge-case-handling... Team learning, culture and satisfaction. At the limit, the team will compromise on anything that you don't need to claim a feature is "done" with a reasonably straight face.

It's simply not a good system even when the estimates work out reasonably well—and, empirically, they usually don't.

To be fair, this isn't entirely the fault of estimates in general or this estimation approach in particular; I believe those contribute, but it's primarily a reflection of how the company and culture are structured. If you're already in a system like that and you can't change it, trying to do estimates well might be the best option forwards, but only because you're already in a corner.
I would like to prove you otherwise with shameless plug of my tweet [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/sergueyz/status/1365041519154061315

The amount of illicit transactioins is higher in bitcoin than in regular cash ($100 bills to be precise). I guess the same is for money laundering - amounts spent in legal transaactions going through current financial institutions will be much higher than money laundering there. And ratio between amounts of legal and possibly money laundering transactions will be higher for regular institutions than for bitcoin.

Precisely because of regulations and their absence.
As a user I love renting on these platforms, specially big city rentals. I'm sure airbnb style rentals contribute positively to the host city besides the sheer number of tourists. That includes the services economy surrounding rentals, which produce jobs in otherwise run-down places. Also newer tourist profiles, including long-haulers that engage differently with the city, from educational, to remote workers to health services patients. The whole change of dynamics has had a positive impact on tourism never seen before in places like Madrid, Oslo or Buenos Aires. It brings a fresh appeal to the old "life in the city" that is ephemeral yet profound and exciting.

As a resident I despise rentals. I want them away from my neighborhood. I'm glad cities like Barcelona limit them, but I believe they should be, instead, completely eradicated from central or dense neighborhoods and be taken, if anywhere, to specific, well researched into, suburbs that could actually get a boost from the rental economy. That is, given such "suburban rental benefit" concept even exists...

Otherwise, this fantastic hack into the hotel industry just rips too deep too fast into the delicate, slowly threaded fabric of our tightly knit neighborhoods.
I think most people, given access to a single global log of the activity related to their personal information, would be deeply disturbed at the quantity of their data that is stored, shared, and the frequency and places it is used.

But we are far from a society with transparency like that.

The surveillers are not being surveilled.
Tax rates differ between individuals, based on other income, membership in a religion (specific to Germany), marital status, etc.

It’s the same reason retail prices I’m the US are often stated without sales taxes, a practice that is rare or even illegal in other jurisdictions: taxes sometimes differ even between cities, and it is impossible to state a single value for anything but a specific store.
I knew someone would say this!

They are not factually correct, and I have done several wise.com transactions to people in other countries last year. The transfer fee was in the order of whole dollars per transaction.
It is also a percent of the send, which, you may not be aware is not how Bitcoin works, rather, Bitcoin is based on the transaction size in (v)bytes.

A bitcoin transaction currently cost 1sat/byte, or $0.04USD for a standard transaction.

You don't get what Bitcoin is about. Wise does not need to exist in a bitcoin standard world!
Twice I've booked airbnb's in buildings where it was not allowed, and I didn't find out until picking up the keys. It's incredibly frustrating (one of building had concierge who gave us hard time). Next time, I'll just go with a traditional hotel to avoid the stress.

Both times, I saw other groups of people with luggage coming in and out. So it likely was impacting multiple units in both buildings.
I have the 3’s and adore them. Can’t imagine life without them. I got my dad a set for his birthday and he also feels the same.

Only gripe is that if they are Bluetooth connected they will remain on forever. So it’s easy to forget they are on and they stay on all night and then are dead or low battery.