skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone struggle to stay on top of their product/website user flow?
I hate that kanban boards don't give me a sense of the overall user journey i'm working towards.

So I'm working on a product that brings ux, ia and devs together into a single flow for everyone to get on the same page. Would that solve a real problem for you?

Keen to hear thoughts.
I had the same thought. Everyone on an air assault team knew where the TH3's were, and when to use them. That was the whole point...if at some point there is even the remote possibility of the craft being disabled or captured, thermite grenades are used to prevent that.

I have no idea why those assets were not destroyed. From the outside looking in, it makes no sense at all.
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Go on, keep the jokes coming. I'm interested to see how far you can go before you, wait for it ...run out of steam! :P
Saying it would be "unpopular" is an understatement. If someone has never spent time around football fans or lived in an area of the country where football is king, it's hard to explain exactly how ingrained it is in American culture. Trying to offramp a large amount of the population into a less violent sport would likely immediately be highly politicized and, I would assume, an almost impossible task without a significant, voluntary change in peoples' willingness to sacrifice their thrilling weekend of violence for the good of all these kids that grow up trying to be the next NFL pro.
"Mother Fugger'?

How canst thous speak thus?
Correct. And the unwritten rule (inside the unwritten rule, lol) about the CMU computer science culture is it's hyper-exclusive.

It's a lot easier to assume reasonableness if there's a giant gate in front labeled Everyone Who Passes Through Here Has Gone Through The Admissions Process... and a giant slide in the back labeled That's A Nice Academic Career You Have, It'd Be A Shame If You Violated The Institution's Code of Conduct

Similarly, the reasonable person principle tends to work in practice on this forum thanks to moderation, votes, and the extremely occasional ban. The parent of the comment you replied to is getting harder and harder to read as the day goes on.
The arguments in this campaign feel poorly made, and with poor justifications. Some feel like they are made in bad faith.

The problem is, maybe this is the best that can be done for a general audience? The media fails to get the nuance right, and it's clear that general audiences are unable to understand most nuanced arguments, so maybe something incorrect/bad-faith, but that argues in vaguely the right direction is better than not challenging these companies at all?
I'm not sure how easily they could have struck Afghan bases when they maybe weren't sure who was or wasn't there anymore.... while at the same time securing assurances to get people out / with the Taliban's cooperation.

They probably prioritized getting people out.
> every screen

Not every screen. You know how to turn it away. Help your friends and family do the same.
Are there any ad blockers for iOS that can block ads in google search results? Or is that kind of thing essentially impossible?
Yes, I was comparing

class Foo;

to

#include "Foo.h"

and I would not consider using a void pointer for anything other than an allocator.
Great name for an NGO though, "Legos for Lagos".
https://www.discovery.com/science/Body-Tired-When-Your-Brain...
That thread really degraded fast. I think maybe elementary needs to graduate to middle school before more people come to the playground.

(bad puns, seeing myself out)
On one hand, you think: your work is good/great. You put so much effort into creating the product, why not promote it? It's unlikely to get any traction if you don't promote it. Doing zero promotion seems like a disservice to all the work you did in creating the art.

But then on the other hand, as you demonstrate, the more work you do promoting in relation to creating, the more chance you'll start to resent creating.

There's also the heartbreak of realizing that maybe your work isn't good enough, or at least appealing to a large enough audience. I make music and I'm struggling with this now. I've learned how to do promotion and have gotten some traction but it doesn't feel like enough and doesn't feel like it's catching on enough.

It's much easier for self-doubt to creep in when you put yourself out there then when you do zero self-promotion and allow yourself the self-delusion that you are great and the only reason nobody knows it is because the world sucks.
How, as a consumer goods manufacturer, do you continue to lose money? My background is in a different manufacturing sector, beer, but even as a journeyman brewer I was doing COGS analyses and knew exactly how much each bottle/keg cost us for each brew so that we could be profitable.
Developers will avoid Apple libraries. Native apps already are not so popular with Cordova, Flutter, React Native and other options.
To be fair to the original paper by Peter Fenwick, it is quite a clear and accessible paper by academic standards (but this article is still very welcome and even easier to follow).

I especially liked the technique for isolating the least significant set bit, and have sometimes wondered if there are any other places one might use it. Has anyone here ever used that trick in a different context?
On Twitter, where literally everything is a political shibboleth.

If you're security conscious, it's entirely possible to know there's no reason to believe anyone successfully tampered with voting machines, AND know that it's something that could happen one day if we don't take it seriously.
The end game is probably going to be a mixture of storage and moving energy intensive processes (e.g. aluminium smelting, hydrogen production, car charging) to when electricity is most abundant.
Yes, I meant large format relative to phones and layusers and as a marketing gimmick, like Nikon's 'DX' line which sounds premiumly large but is actually APS-C. The filmic 'large format' needed 'medium format' to become 'large.'
Ah, could be. But I was not really referring to how good the browser is, but the extent to which I trust Samsung to protect my privacy. They are particularly greedy for your PII on their mobile phones. For instance, after I minimised permissions for my apps, the Samsung Gallery app suddenly popped an "Allow location data" dialog coming from Foursquare.

Edit:

Here's a video showing the Foursquare dialog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_e-P0hy5QY and also:

"For Korean phone giants Samsung and LG, Foursquare's API will be used in some of their default apps. If you take a picture using a Samsung Galaxy S8 or S8+, the phone will tag your location based on Foursquare's Places database."

https://mashable.com/article/foursquare-asia-tencent-samsung
at the moment, strong arguments can be made that what have seen for the last 20 years is a combo of "psychopaths ruling the roost" and "the system is trapped in its logic".

sara chayes has some observations on this:

How competently have our own leaders been governing for the past twenty years? Meanwhile, how successful have they been at achieving that other objective: adding zeroes to their bank accounts? Which of those was in fact their primary objective?
https://www.sarahchayes.org/post/failing-states
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Have you seen Asahi’s documentation?

https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Developer-Quickstart
I am not pretending anything, I am merely pointing out that shelter, like food an water, is a basic human right (although judging by HNs donwvotes, they'd be fine with starving and dehydrating people as long as someone is making a massive profit).
The same system exists in Switzerland. While living there, and after registering, a priest visited my home to investigate our nonbeliever status. My spouse inadvertently mentioned her Jewish ancestry, at which point the priest offered to send a Rabbi instead, before she could say that she wasn’t then and had never been observant.
I’m honestly more compelled to invest because of this vision than the financials. We need products like this to succeed in the world.
Docker is updating and extending our product subscriptions
We can actually store energy from the grid. Not as inexpensive as generating it, but not unreasonable either. Most new solar/wind installs are now coming online with approximately 4 hours of battery backup.

Currently the shortfall is dispatched with conventional sources (mostly gas, coal and nuclear similar amounts). Battery prices continue to fall. Also new large storage facilities are coming online, such as compressed air which promise tens of Gigawatt-hours of storage at prices below battery. So that's the long term plan.
Right, and as long as you're not heating it to like 300 deg. C, it's completely inert and won't cause you any trouble.
The whole show is being run by an insane level of computational power whose main purpose is to addict, distract, and coerce. Advertising, persuasion, the siren-song that hits your brain right in its dopamine loop.

It's everywhere, on every screen, all the time. Little interruptions and nuggets to get you back into the cycle of addiction so the machine can pump more impressions past your eyeballs into your brain and make you a good little consumer.
Analyzing data from usage would be like how Mozilla analyzes data from telemetry, where all the power users have telemetry turned off. Similarly, users using these kind of websites are not expected to be a part of online surveys or research.

Treat this as an accessability issue. Having this option will simply make your site more accessible.
PC sales were dying out, but they shot back up in 2020 as people needed them for working or learning from home.
I don't think he's saying that it'd be good if Apple and Google did that. He's saying they should have done that if they had had their strategic thinking caps on.
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I've never heard of no-bidding. One of the nice things about bidding is that it allows you to infer information about the hands that are being held by the various people at the table. If you don't have any bidding, then you are playing a weird version of the card game War.
> Nobody uses the native input elements

This is definitely not true. Not even close.
Do you have an example where rationing is occurring without price controls? I don't have experience outside of the US, but in the two US markets with probably the biggest housing shortages (SF, NYC, maybe Austin nowadays?), if you give me 8k a month I'll find an apartment tomorrow.
> Don't modern internet-connected TV boxes snitch on what people are watching?

Yes, which is why I will never own one.
From a non US outsiders perspective I do have to say that it looks like the US civil war never really ended. The country is still largely divided along the same lines (with maybe California as a third entity) and I don't really see it reconciling any time soon.

Kind of like Belgium over here in Europe, which is usually say is not so much a country as it is a cold civil war :)
You may want to read the CFAA and report back.

Spoiler alert, it doesn’t involve your intentions or money.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
> Most homes still cook

That's a good thing, it's not a problem to be solved.
A lot of times when people say they've had no issues whatsoever what's really happened is that they've become so used to all the issues that crop up and have so much practice dealing with them that they aren't even conscious of them anymore. Same thing happens to Windows and Mac users.

It's a bit like how people who browse without an adblocker aren't even consciously aware of them anymore, but you use their computer for a second and want to rip your eyes out.
I've had a lot of hardware over ten years, including workstations issued by my employer that were engineered for first-class Linux support. The problem is never ubiquitous - sometimes it's just one browser and not another. Further, this is just one example of dozens of rough edges that may-or-may-not be present on any given setup. Lots of people aren't visually sensitive enough to even notice. I've had to point to specific regions of the screen and describe the shape of the tear to get observers to be able to recognize them.

But your comment sort of makes the point for me. Hardware support and drivers (especially in-kernel ones) are absolutely a reason to judge an OS for suitability for desktop use. I run Arch on all my servers and it's great. But I struggle to get an acceptable user experience on the desktop.

There are, of course, tons of other rough edges. Inconsistent input grabbing behavior across desktop environments (KDE not working properly with Remmina, for example), volume controls being difficult to use or having strange response curves, compositors hanging on monitor reconnect, infinite audio and video decoding issues, etc etc etc. Sure, each of these is individually surmountable at the cost of some hours of searching the intertubes and fussing at the command line. But then you end up with a magic snowflake installation that is brittle and you're down a bunch of time. Not worth it.
Github link for Nebulo appears wrong: is this the correct one?

https://github.com/Ch4t4r/Nebulo
>The underlying factor is that the Private sphere has been eroded, and there are generations of people who have no concept of it.

Monsters from the Id.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2BYyeS-fIU
As I said, not defending Scientology here at all, but from the wikipedia article found this case interesting:

"In 2019, the Munich Labor court sided with the director of personnel of Haus der Kunst, a well-known artistic museum. He had been removed from his position after working for 22 years because it was discovered that he was a Scientologist. The case was settled and the director of personnel was paid 110,000 euro as severance and received a full pension. Many Germany courts also ruled the legitimacy of Scientology as a religion. In 2019, Ahmed Shaheed and Fernand de Varennes who were UN Special Rapporteurs on freedom of religion and on minority issues wrote to Germany that, "discriminating against those who profess a certain belief is illegal under international human rights law, irrespective of whether the belief is religious or merely philosophical or cultural."
Hold on, that is very much the opposite of my interpretation.

HEPA filters are typically designed with 0.3μm pores this is mostly a legacy of medical applications (i.e. to guarantee they catch bacteria).

Submicron performance (< 0.3μm) is kind of down to luck. You need the submicron particle to travel on a larger liquid particule for it to adhere to the filter lattice.

The PFAS is a group of substances, the article is specifically talking about 6:2 FTOH (one of many PFAS substances) that is found in carpets etc.

6:2 FTOH specifically is a sub-micron compound, from the GP article the closest particle to it is PFOA which is <0.14 μm. So unless your 6:2 FTOH compound is travelling on a moisture particle it is unlikely it would be filtered.

To answer GGP question, a high MERV rating filter will probably catch some of these compounds but not the totality. Open your windows frequently (if outside air pollution allows wherever you live) and make sure you understand what products you have in your house.
So there's only "private conversation" and "full karen"?

There's only the option for "full bureaucratic hell" as the 3rd party involvement?

Most attempts to work together are just complaints about misunderstanings?

Nothing about this seems right. I've experienced nothing but middle grounds for each of your extreme positions. For example, going to your direct supervisor to mediate is not bureaucratic hell, nor is it "full karen". Asking the mediation team for $workplace to help out isn't usually a bureaucratic hell, nor is it "involving an authority" in the way you suggest, since they usually do not have termination powers (or police powers or whatever else you're imagining), its the step before going to those authorities.

Also, you seem to completely ignore the basic truth that sometimes when people have hard feelings towards each other a third party can serve as a catalyst for productive communication.
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The problem is the EU's process which requires all countries to vote unanimous on this. Ireland is vetoing any change to keep being allowed to set their own tax rates and underbid anybody else while still keeping access to the EU market. In that regard The Netherlands aren't any better by the way.
> Could be more popular? The APIs are already there, literally nothing stops you from writing a pure js lib that supports 3d models in a way that you want and can be reused on any site that needs it.

The APIs are there, but not the renderer or a way to interact with it. I'm looking at it as a consumer, not a web developer. I don't want to have to write a library or use someones else's, that's the point. Browsers have native video controls when embedding mp4 files with the video tag, you could argue that could be done just fine with html and javascript instead.

> video needed 3rd party plugins to even run. Video still managed to attract a sizeable user based before that.

Of course video attracts lots of users, that one of the main use of internet for many. Besides Netflix and similar streaming, looking at short clips on Facebook and Reddit is why a lot of users open their browser in the first place. Should everything that's not as popular then be dismissed? Should we not have svg support in browsers? Should video decoders be shipped as webassembly blobs? Should we do like Google docs and render the whole page in a canvas tag?

> Of course I am all in favor of dropping Chrome for Unreal I think the later doesn't call home half as much.

Unreal uses Chromium Embedded Framework, so all you need to browse the web is the Unreal Engine and a build environment, and you can make your own web client. No need for extra browsers.
I once had a conversation that went like this:

> Well that's problematic

How is it problematic?

> I don't know, it just is

Can you describe it without using the word problematic?

> No, it simply is problematic

Do you maybe mean you simply disagree with it?

> No, it's PROBLEMATIC

--

I've taken to ignoring any phrase with the word problematic, unless it's followed with a meaningful description of what is the problem.
He was better prepared for Facebook and Google because he explicitly did the LeetCode algo puzzles that are for their companies. Also, he interviewed these companies last because he used the other interviews as "training" steps. Also, he had multiple interviews at amazon (and failed his first one at Amazon Munich). So, to sum up: No, it's not easier to get into FAANG than elsewhere.
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Emacs takes serious, concerted, and prolonged effort to make headway in. Nothing a new user knows about other software is helpful in working in emacs, so yeah, it's a really daunting and offputting barrier in 2021 when the overwhelming RULE is that tools honor conventions and work similarly.

This is why emacs is a niche application in a niche world, and is likely to remain so.

It's crazy powerful, and I have made OrgMode my organizational home for a long time, but I don't pretend it's a good fit for people who aren't already very nerdy. (Honestly, at this point, if a person with no development background expresses curiosity, I send them to Obsidian.)
Nobody's obligated to grow thicker skin to use Facebook. In fact, Facebook would prefer to not put that obligation on their users; it decreases adoption and retention numbers.
Note that this method of installation takes a couple shortcuts regarding disk partitioning:

- It requires cannibalizing an existing macOS installation, replacing its kernel with the u-boot. Assuming you don’t want to replace your primary macOS installation, you’ll have to partition your disk and install another macOS, which takes a couple hours and wastes about 70GB of disk space.

- It can only boot from USB, since no Linux partition is set up. (This isn’t much of an issue right now because the M1 SSD controller has not yet been reverse-engineered, but it will be soon.)

The Asahi Linux project has a more detailed set of instructions for project developers to set up a debugging environment, following roughly the same steps. [0] However, they are in the process of replace this with a ‘curl | sh’-style install script [1] in order to simplify the process for end users. The install script will create and setup the boot partition itself instead of requiring a secondary macOS installation, so it will be much faster and not waste disk space. Doing this requires manually creating several disk partitions for the macOS bootloader,
downloading a firmware image from Apple, and copying a bunch of firmware blobs into the right places across those partitions, so it’s not really suited for a manual install.

Note also that Corellium’s implementation was more of a proof-of-concept than something designed for long-term use. If you want to see “how Linux does things” you should be looking at the Asahi project, which is being upstreamed into mainline Linux and is already much further along in development than Corellium’s demo.

[0]: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Developer-Quickstart...

[1]: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/asahi-installer
Yes, by any measure - infant mortality, safety from war, education, access to culture, etc - we have never been better but all evidence suggests that our lifestyles are not sustainable.
IPCC says that there will be an environmental collapse in the next years if we do not change and green Growth is not enough [1].
It’s like if we are in a modern, comfortable and fast car. We can argue that we have never been better but it’s not the case if there is no road ahead of us.
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Microsoft Visual Studio was not free in the past. And even now free version is limited. I don’t see it different from hypothetical paid Apple library as long as there are other ways to write software for the given platform.
Failing states. How Afghanistan holds a mirror to the West
the public policies (Western) executives have influenced or authored. They include two lost wars, a financial meltdown that nearly brought down the world economy, an addiction crisis and a bungled response to a global pandemic, both of which killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. And the destruction of the irreplaceable habitat upon which we depend for our very survival, which has reached runaway speed in the same two decades. As I write, heaven — meaning the earth — is burning. Or flooded out.

This is what I mean by “Afghanistan holds up a mirror to us.” How competently have our own leaders been governing for the past twenty years? Meanwhile, how successful have they been at achieving that other objective: adding zeroes to their bank accounts? Which of those was in fact their primary objective?
>What makes dollars unique is that if you inject more dollars into the free market for a good, then ceteris paribus, you will cause more of that good to be produced.

If the video card shortage has taught us anything, it's that this is not always true.
Only if ownership of the stock was substantially affected by the outcome of the case. Which gets back to OP's point of needing to know more specifics of the judge's holdings.
Well, that is basically it :) Being able to order and group blocks of text as I would on paper.
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It looks like it's built with the Distill framework. Distill.pub has some other really neat work.