skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't think of a better example of this than JIRA. I remember installing it on-prem about twenty years ago. Pretty simple, easy to get around, pretty quick. Now, it is a towering behemoth of feature and I dread using it.

For example, when you load the kanban view, when you re-focus the window, the tasks jump and bounce around, even if there's no change. I think that when the window gets focused, the front-end requests the latest data and then repaints it. Why repaint if the data has not changed?

Another example is links. We add a lot of links in our tickets, and I'm always frustrated at how difficult it is to interact with them. When an issue page loads, it kicks off these async things which fetch the link data, and eventually renders them into some kind of first-class link div. The problem is that if you click on the link before the async call finishes and updates the link element, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. If the link does work, and you control click it, it will sometimes not open in a new tab, but instead in the current window. Which means that when you go Back,you have to wait again for the link to render.

I respect that a lot of people are big JIRA fans, but I can't help but wonder if my experience is unique, or if nobody at Atlassian really uses it in anger.
It isn't disrespectful to point out that choice and in fact helpful to us consumers who might chose not to bother with such software as all too often such became abondonware. I recall cases where the author had a disk crash, no back-up and then gave up out of frustration or another case where the author died untimely.
Same as experience here, i.e. it's not a popup but an icon in the address bar which needs manual user action to trigger (it also supports voucher codes).

I do not like the feature, but it's not as UI intrusive as the article suggests; it is however privacy invasive. Despite disabling multiple edge features related to telemetry, this is a new default-on option.

I like Edge enough that it's my default browser on Windows, Android and secondary to Firefox on Linux. However, one or two more features like this and I may use something else.
And on 27 February 2000, it became the one-millionth video they played.
This sort of thing used to be only seen in hostile "toolbars" installed via drive-by installs.
In my experience, bank software (customer facing) could use a development team.
Wouldn't an SCR be more like a flush toilet?
I’m also frustrated by this change. Very annoying that you can’t see all the songs by an artist.
> for short lived programs, it seems reasonable to include the startup time

but then one can say, if the whole problem is so trivial that startup time is a significant chunk of the execution then is it really a problem worth optimising in the first place? The only situation where it would matter is if you are putting this in a tight loop on the command line or something like that (which is a thing, but its a reasonably small thing).
The Cold War spy plane that's still the fastest airplane
The average two years turnover also means that devs don't maintain their own code, which is a crucial way to improve as a developer.

No wonder they don't want to work on someone else's code, they don't even want to work on their own old code :)
Linked and awesome

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OOCdIY_HKM4
I live in a Passive House[1] in the equally-humid Pacifc NW, without any kind of dehumidifier. I do have a Heat Recovery Ventilator (HRV) running 24/7, which pulls in fresh air from outside and exhausts indoor air, running them through a heat exchange as they pass each other to save some of the energy that went into the air while it was inside. As a plus it also runs the air through a MERV 13 air filter, which gets rid of pollen and some PM2.5 pollution.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house
No one cares about MBAs. The networks can be helpful, but, unlike JDs/PhamDs/etc., an MBA from a no-name college & weak alumni network isn't worth the paper isn't printed on.
It's one of the best Electron apps I've used in my life, honestly. But it still lags a little behind what I would expect from the same software written natively.
European companies and retailers are extremely sensitive to using Amazon and Google.

I have a long list of large customers that insist that none of their data is stored in AWS.
I hope there's some UI/UX designers that can explain this to me. It often appears that design changes are changed just to change. Doing things like changing the clock from right to left (Android). Moving a bar that's existed to another location (Spotify). Removing color hints (Signal). And so many other things. Things that basically your users have been trained to look at and then need to be retrained. Removing hintings that people have been relied on.

So, the big question is: why? Good design is hard and often underappreciated. I don't want to convey that idea. But why do things like this happen so often? Changes that don't actually provide any more utility. Changes that remove utility. It is just so common that there has to be some reason for it. Often backend people say that it is just done to justify their existence but I don't buy this because there are plenty of good design features that can be constantly worked on and improved. Is there some psychological effect this has on users because it is once again novel? So often we don't see good design improvements but things that just come off as "change because change." Why? Help me understand.
I'm an Android developer who despises Kotlin and all the other trendy stuff. I often get laughed at for my views. However, my apps are ridiculously slim and fast, so there's that. Oh and I don't have a job.

It really feels to me as if developers these days care much more about the development process itself, and how their code looks, than about the end product of their work that the users see. Same for designers — they want their UIs look "clean" and enjoyed like works of art, disregarding obvious, glaring UX issues that arise when any person at all tries to use the thing.
It's even worse when media apps are coupled with a store and the cloud. I'm using Apple's iBooks/Books.app as an ePub reader on Mac OS. Searching the library always lands you in the Store portion of the app. The app always forgets the sorting order of the library. And 90 % of the time my epubs are not on the device but uploaded into iCloud; even the placeholder entry is missing its thumbnails. The best way to use Books.app as an ePub reader is to store the books in the file system and delete them from Books.app after reading. But because Books.app is there and free there aren't quality alternative ePub reader for Mac OS anymore.
They changed the location of the "New playlist" button for no reason. The old location was perfect.
The only way to combat this mentality is that developers and product managers need to feel more ownership of the long term success of their projects. When your compensation is roughly similar no matter how successful your work is, you're going to optimize for yourself over that of the best interest of the company.

What is it in it for the developers to work on Object-C and other older technologies?
Which apps are you referring to?

I couldn't name a single open source desktop apps which has good UX or design.

It's natural, since these are built by developers, not designers, and they primarily care about functionality and don't have to entice users with good looks and UX.

I do know some Android apps that are pretty good, eg RedReader for Reddit.
This bit from Wikipedia is kind of amusing and suggests MTV may have been an MVP:

> ... Occasionally the screen went black when an employee at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR.[20] MTV's lower third graphics near the beginnings and ends of videos eventually used the recognizable Kabel typeface for about 25 years; but they varied on MTV's first day, speaking in a different typeface, and including details such as the song's year and record label.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV#Official_launch

None of that mattered though:

> MTV's effect was immediate. Within two months, record stores where MTV was available were selling music local radio stations were not playing, such as Men at Work, Bow Wow Wow and the Human League.[27] MTV also sparked the Second British Invasion, featuring existing videos by UK acts who had used the format for several years (for example, on BBC's Top of the Pops).
This is literally why I'm still not buying the "searching is better than organizing" line that so many companies, including Google, try to push down our throats.

Searching is only better than organizing if searches are exhaustive, and I can trust that they are exhaustive. My experience with variety of products, including Evernote, Google Drive and GMail, tells me I can't trust that. I had plenty of instances when I searched for a thing I knew I have stored, and search returned nothing.

It's because of this why organizing is still better than searching - if you're able to sort your stuff into some hierarchy ("groups", "folders") and then be able to browse that hierarchy, you can do a fully exhaustive check manually, by just going over everything.
It’s infinitely more insightful than the claim that it’s a solved problem, which rates as a zero on that scale.
There's nothing wrong with staying with the status quo if the only alternative proposed is to burn it all down because it'll figure itself out.
My understanding is that some schools in India teach it as the "Pythagorean theorem" and others as the "Baudhayan theorem" - the choice of which term to use is definitely a colonial issue.
I think the term you're looking for is "gish gallop" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
And drastically better connected. Connecting the village idiots maybe wasn't such a great idea after all.
Exactly, but banks aren't a good example.

Some people here mention feature plateaus and completeness of the app. Obvious question is, what should the employer then do? The software is complete, from now on there's only maintenance, which is relatively less work compared to building from scratch, so as a consequence I guess developers should be paid less then? Or like you said, fired?

Obviously the manpower could be just moved to the next project, but what if we look at the worst case scenario? What comes next?

Are there at all such mechanisms that could allow for, say, a team of engineers that maintains a bunch of projects in different companies. If such a team would take a maintenance of a few complete programs, the count of them would make up the difference in pay, e.g. a few mainted apps for a lower pay equal pay for building one app from scratch.
Lo2: Simple YouTube-dl web front end
Engineering and CS masters are 100% cash cows that no one cares about. I promise you.

I haven't even heard of a Masters in Law (law degrees are doctorates), but I can't imagine it's worth the paper it's printed on.

MBAs are worthless unless they're from a few good places, and even then the brand and networking does a lot of the lifting.
"There is also the possibility that there are just a lot of terrible writers out there. "

Surely they are and writing in a way that is easy to read and understand is an art in itself.

But I would agree, that the main reason is probably the intention to sound smarter, than they are. Whole scientific disciplines seem to live by that standard.

This is not limited to science though, I recall a german poet (I think Heinrich Heine) said about his fellow poets:

You only fly so high like the swallow, that no one can actually hear your singing.
NCMEC has essentially shows that they have zero regard for privacy and called all privacy activists "screeching voices of the minority". At the same time, they're at the center point of a highly opaque, entrenched (often legally mandated) censorhip infrastructure that can and will get accounts shut down irrecoverably and possibly people's homes raided, on questionable data:

In one of the previous discussions, I've seen claims about the NCMEC database containing a lot of harmless pictures misclassified as CSAM. This post confirms this again (ctrl-f "macaque")

It also seems like the PhotoDNA hash algorithm is problematic (to the point where it may be possible to trigger false matches).

Now NCMEC seem to be pushing for the development of a technology that would implant an informant in every single of our devices (mandating the inclusion of this technology is the logical next step that seems inevitable if Apple launches this).

I'm surprised, and honestly disappointed, that the author seems to still play nice, instead of releasing the whitepaper. The NCMEC seems to have decided to position itself directly alongside other Enemies of the Internet, and while I can imagine that they're also doing a lot of important and good work, at this point, I don't think they're salvageable would like to see them disbanded.

Really curious how this will play out. I expect attacks either sabotaging these scanning systems by flooding them with false positives, or exploiting them to get the accounts of your enemies shut down permanently by sending them a picture of a macaque.
I believe so, there are a few companies built around reselling brandable domains:

https://www.brandbucket.com
https://www.squadhelp.com
A Mister uses a more powerful FPGA + ARM CPU board along with extra SDRAM (I believe) to simulate known retro systems.

This was a personal project to make a custom video game console in this case using an FPGA, a couple of years back I finished one using microcontrollers and an actual CPU.

This project uses just enough SRAM and external components and a just enough powerful FPGA to be a retro-styled video game console.
I wanted to learn how to use FGPAs and continue to learn how video game consoles worked while building something unique.

So in a way, in terms of the technology, they're similar, except of course a Mister is something a lot more useful, I would say, as it simulates "real devices" and has a huge game library and this is just an educational project.
I think the clock moved to balance out icons on either side of the big center notch.

Then next year they moved to a left-side holepunch notch, but didn't move it back. Or even offer the option. :(
Yes, sort of. He mentions prompt criticality and then says "this was an explosion caused by nuclear things" https://youtu.be/YRPuO1RhbKo?t=2325

It sounds to me that as a nuclear industry professional he's avoiding committing specifically to that scenario, but mentioning "prompt criticality" puts him pretty close.
Not sure why you were DVd. You have mentioned many valid points related to timesync.
Well of course you wouldn’t pick such a remote locale for no reason. But with remote work, low latency satellite broadband, solar+battery+generator, now you can. It wasn’t a real option before unless you had a specific job at that site or were independently wealthy.
My Spotify home is filled with podcast suggestions. I hope
podcasts kill the company, sick of companies shoving their agenda down my throat.
It doesn't increase the demand. What it means is that if Glenfiddich needs more fuel to meet its own fuel demand, it will have to do so by creating more whiskey, even without demand for the additional whisky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIiAAhUeR6Y

This is the TED Talk you're talking about.
This is great. Your notebook notes are very helpful.
It's a playful jab at a category of people I am part of too, although I do not share that belief. The statement I made is wrong on purpose regardless (for light comedic effect): not only engineers hold that belief, nor are they the only ones who do.

There is a significant overlap (higher than a random person's picked from the population) between engineers and what I would call "fundamentalist rationalists". That is, people who believe in reason and science to the point they wrap the speedometer back around to religious belief again. Those people become unable to think outside that framework and consider nuanced solutions. Not everything worth solving has measurable or falsifiable solutions. The world can be very uncertain and work against all common sense at times. This doesn't mean one shouldn't attempt to make sense of it obviously, but science does not a god make. It may, hopefully, but pretending it is that way now is no good.
The name originates as a perforative for small tuition-dependent non-research teaching colleges. Those colleges mostly catered to pastors, teachers, etc. and were located in small towns. The historical reasons that these institutions are now "in the corn fields" provides an interesting topic for historical inquiry. Perhaps many are in old rail-road or factory towns that have since languished, but schools that were similar at time of founding and didn't die are in industrial and post-industrial hubs where they attracting the attention needed to thrive. Who knows. The point is that they are small, inconsequential institutions that are predominately located in rural and semi-rural towns.'

The name now includes small state schools -- usually branch campuses with lower enrollment and no major (R1) research output.

(NB: corn row colleges are also by definition non-elite, so small liberal arts colleges with billion dollar endowments which might otherwise count, don't).

Many such institutions have since started offering graduate (or at least non-bachelors) degrees and certificates that are somehow even more worthless than their undergraduate programs.

Apparently the name has a lot of different meanings these days -- see sibling comments -- but it has DEFINITELY never been meant as a racial pejorative. If anything, exactly the opposite, since most of those "crap-tier midwestern/southern colleges" cater to 99.99% WASP social networks (the P is even explicit).
"The problem was that the "docking success signal" was not properly recieved."

Then it's not docked and docking procedures should be observed by all personnel as a serious ongoing operational concern, right?

So, if there is integration, which there hopefully would be, that there wasn't proper integration would imply something bad.

Otherwise, while the crew obviously believed it to be docked, why wasn't the auto-correcting features etc. on the Russian module disabled while it's docked?

Again, as part of the docking procedure?
Safety on the trigger is standard for Glocks.

https://us.glock.com/en/learn/glock-pistols/safe-action-syst...
I don't see any problems. If your application only works on in utc then both types will behave the same. Regarding transformations, I'd argue that both types do a transformation just different ones. So if you are chasing a bug where a time zone was sent to the db, either type might be a problem depending on what you were expecting.
From BBC clickbait news. flagged.
I think it's much easier to like Chinese imperialism with things like Belt and Road, which actually helps little people despite all of the downsides, than it is to love American imperialism, which largely consists of coups against democratically elected governments, forced work on US companies' plantations, civilian infrastructure bombing, paying and training terrorists (the taliban, first and foremost), weapon sales to terrorist belligerent regimes (Israel, Saudi Arabia, historically Irak, Iran), forced kidnappings and interrogations, mining the harbors of Nicaragua and ignoring the International Criminal Court penalties for this proven war crime, and so many others.

Of course, it should go without saying that most people would much rather live in the US than China. But to most people who are not citizens, the US is much scarier than China. Exceptions such as Japan, Israel, South Korea, Republic of China (Taiwan), Federal Republic of Germany after WWII are just that - exceptions.

According to Gallup poles, the majority of the world fears the US more than any other country.
Same with the anti-maskers. They cry out for their "rights" (to not wear a mask) but won't accept their responsibility (to somehow otherwise prevent themselves from spewing viral particles on us).
Startup Wants to Launch Giant Glowing Ads into the Night Sky
Usually a bad bet to say that things can be experimentally proven don’t exist. Unless they argue that the agar plate needs to detox after being scratched or the milk when it’s a few too many days old. And I recall they proved the helicobacter pylori relation with ulcers by drinking them and then taking antibiotics. Wishing doesn’t usually make it so.
HP18 is pretty damn good.

Few other fine experiences from over the years

- Aberfeldy 12y

- Powers John's Lane 12y

- Glenfarclas 40y

- Glen Garioch 1994

- Old Pulteney 21y

- Old Pulteney 16y Bourbon Cask strength

- Imperial 16y (Signatory Vintage / Rare Auld Duncan Taylor bottling)

- Glen Moray 24y cask strength (Duncan Taylor bottling)

- Port Ellen 27y

- Bushmills 1988 14y (Cask strength, Rum Barrel)

- Ardbeg Uigeadail/Corryvreckan

- Laphroaig 18y (excellent; the 10yo tastes like exhaust fumes)

- Laphroaig 1989 Vintage 23y

- Royal Brackla 1976 (Mackillop's Choice bottling)

- Caol Ila 1990 Mackillop's Choice bottling, single cask sherry wood

- Evan Williams Single Barrel Vintage
You could simply ask for your salary to be denominated in gold/bitcoin.

/s?
I might be the Lone Ranger that agrees with you.

I have a windows machine and a Mac machine. The electron apps are the ones most most likely to function exactly the same on both machines.

Setting up vs code was a matter of copying and pasting config file.
In my opinion it's not just a PM who wants to get promoted, in many cases it's also misaligned interests of consumers and app makers. In the Economist example, the consumer might just want to resume that article they couldn't finish and later be done with it, but the app makers might want to "maximize engagement" by showing you all those daily news every single time you open the app.
What does a construction worker do when they complete a building?
This is such a gem indeed! Websites like these, with small, bloat free utilities, are gone with the wind it seems. Can anyone recommend other similar websites?
Good article, however-

"Due to how Apple handles cryptography (for your privacy), it is very hard (if not impossible) for them to access content in your iCloud account. Your content is encrypted in their cloud, and they don't have access. If Apple wants to crack down on CSAM, then they have to do it on your Apple device"

I do not believe this is true. Maybe one day it will be true and Apple is planning for it, but right now iCloud service data is encrypted in the sense that they are stored encrypted at rest and in transit, however Apple holds the keys. We know this given that iCloud backups have been surrendered to authorities, and of course you can log into the web variants to view your photos, calendar, etc. Not to mention that Apple has purportedly been doing the same hash checking on their side for a couple of years.

Thus far there has been no compelling answer as to why Apple needs to do this on device.
I think you missed this part of the comment to which you were replying:

> And no, I am not talking about cases where the author is writing in a non-native language.
I can’t figure it out on Premium either, but if it’s actually just removed for free listeners then maybe it’s a money thing. Perhaps hiding direct song access pushes people to listen to music with cheaper royalties or something.