skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem is to figure out what the best practices actually are.

What we are observing here is „the market fixing it“.

The process is messy and redundant, but effective.
Lots of developers believe that if they think hard enough and choose the right side project, it will succeed.

I think the takeaway here is that chance plays a big role. So increase your chances by shippings lots of projects. And a tip to ship several projects is to stay emotionally, physically, and financially healthy.
I've seen many stewards of FOSS projects treat non-blocking but ugly interface bugs as high priority issues, but terrible interfaces, workflows, wording, etc. as documentation problems or back burner issues that stay open forever.

I think it's a "when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail" problem. Devs understand interface bugs because there's a logical difference between bug-free and buggy code. Design isn't that cut-and-dried. No matter how many times people try to quantify terrible workflow to get some sort of Big O metric— number of clicks/screens, amount of scrolling, et. al. it crumbles in opposition to empirical research. Justifying your design decisions with user research is much more difficult with open source projects, so you've really got to take the word of someone with that domain-specific interface design knowledge.

But it's important not to let these problems languish. People love the familiar— when maintainers and core users imbue their workflows with mitigation strategies, they view fixes with skepticism or even hostility. Once significant functionality gets piled on that flawed base, the chance of ever having a good, usable interface is pretty much nil.
The news coverage is decent but the opinion columns are deranged. A bit like the Wall Street Journal in that regard.
this is how a stale meta looks like
I just tried to plug in my most recent search from Google: UnsafeVarint, where I was looking for the protobuf method. Google gets me a direct hit to the source code. Perhaps "unfair" because Google knows this result is relevant to that search for me.

I put the same search into DDG and it gives me two mainsteam media articles about COVID as #1 and #2. Useless. People who defend Bing are just out of their minds.

Imagine defending a search engine by microsoft that top-ranks irrelevant articles from its own wholly-owned subsidiary, MSN. Just absolutely the worst search results anyone can imagine.
You will get put up for adoption

https://youtu.be/Jr6tMinjE2M
Slow communication is the crux of burnout
> Every news source has a bias, you just have to acknowledge it.

I'd go further, and say that all corporate news is literally propaganda. It's not done by lying; it's a question of what you include and what you omit, and how you juxtapose unrelated stories. So I read the Guardian online, and I watch BBC main evening news, but I can't help questioning everything I see or read to work out what the angle is. It feels a bit like I imagine OCD must feel.

El Reg is good for a lighthearted approach to tech news.

You can't get fair coverage of the Middle East from the mainstream, AFAICS. Jonathan Cook is good.

On Scottish politics, Craig Murray was superb, until they locked him up.

I'm a leftie, but for British politics I like Peter Oborne and Peter Hitchens from the Daily Mail, a right-wing red-top.

I like Media Lens. They've not been publishing a lot lately, and their aim is unwavering: their entire purpose is exposing bias and propaganda in the british media, especially the BBC and The Guardian. So it can seem rather repetitive. But their articles are effectively closely-argued critiques of the mainstream coverage of important events, so it forms a kind of press-review. They write long-form, thoughtful articles.

I voted-up the question, because to tell the truth, I would also like to know where I can read daily general reporting, in English, that doesn't have a hidden agenda. I'm consuming less and less news recently. It makes me bilious.
True, but your last hop to you is usually the most important one. It’s all about a risk analysis on how likely and cheap it would be to use it vs the cost to you if someone does. And keeping in mind that a lot of these agencies have to burn their budget or risk losing it.
Don't underestimate the inginuity of accountants. There are ways to realize cash flow but show no total compensation.
Doesn't https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor work on MacOS? I don't really see how development has fizzed out. There have been quite a few commits the last couple of months.
It's not just "not perfect", it's extremely flawed. You didn't "go on" at all about its flaws or failures at measuring merit, and only provided a toy example of a superfluous mega-rich celebrity deserving his wealth while ignoring Hollywood's underhanded exploitation and accounting issues.
On the day that Apple takes their next step forward, this announcement is effusive over a 2560x1600 screen? Am I reading this right?
Then perhaps you should be writing the article, not Robert Frank. As written, the article is worthless except as a way to generate uninformed outrage.

If you have information to share, I have an open mind. I suspect it will be less outragous than the 10%/89% headline, though.
You must never use PDFs then. On a MacBook, it's amazing to see what a difference HiDPI makes.
This is why the high resolution screen options were so important. The extra features are almost always available on the smaller OEMs, such a Asus, Acer, MSI, etc., but rarely from the tier-1 vendors (if that is the appropriate term). Hopefully Lenovo doing this will encourage all the rest of the vendors to start making more sensible design changes as well.

That's also the main motivation for me to call this out in such a detailed article – people should have all the choices available to them and not have them artificially directed to "Intel -> quality, AMD -> value/compromise".
As a quick answer because it popped into my head, The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman is an obvious first stop on that trip.

Introductory courses on LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com) are an excellent place to get a foothold for how it's done today. I believe many public libraries will give you remote access to LinkedIn Learning!

I think "Don't Make Me Think" is a bit overrated, but many people find it very useful.
cadquery is great! I had been a Fusion 360 user for 3D printing, but then Autodesk started getting weird with hobbyist licensing. And Fusion's insistence on being cloud-based was frustrating. Anyway, I went hunting for something else and found cadquery and haven't looked back.

Modelling via code in cadquery is definitely a different approach in a lot of ways, but it is extremely powerful too: you get all the goodies like parameter-based, non-destructive history but also things that might not be obvious up front, like being able to "comment out" sections of your model (not just hide them - but skip generating them) temporarily, building up reusable helper routines, easily swapping out rough prototype vs thoroughly designed parts that are depended upon downstream in the model, and being able to organize complex models into separate modules.

I don't think I'd necessarily recommend this approach to modelling to a non-developer, but if you're already a developer, it is tough to beat (for 3D printing at least).
Not quite a truism. Given that wealth varies over each lifespan, you should expect somewhat more than 10% of Americans reach the top 10% at some age.
I agree with you that PhysX is definitely easier to exploit, and you will lose time because of that.

But on the other hand, for many problems, the gain in training time using PhysX is just so massive (2 or 3 orders of magnitude), that you can then train with a much more aggressive sim2real policy to mitigate that to some extent, or even spend time debugging manually and still ending up more productive.
The CS world has certainly been geared towards the hobbyist budget for some time now. Would be good to keep it that way, even if it meant sacrificing a supposed 1% extra accuracy in the latest "top conference" (sure if their sponsors are the companies publishing huge models it won't happen even if it should).
Shock statistic, 50% of students have below average scores in math!
Sadly, I have not figured out how to allow JS on a per-site basis in Firefox 66, nor how to allow a bookmarklet on a site with JS turned off.

I like the little JS-driven niceties my own sites (and HN) provide.

My solution has been to block the offending sites at the /etc/hosts level, which works marvelously.

This goes along my philosophy that "the medium is the message", and a site with shoddy markup is unlikely to have any content worth my time either.

Something something AOL.
There is no reason not to use dd. Yes, its option syntax is weird; yes, it has its dangers. But all the GUI tool does is show you the danger with a confirmation dialog.
No, you would also need to slice by top net worth percentage inside of each age group. You need to compare the percentage of people in each percentile because average/median are going to obscure the disparity. I'd bet that half the people under 35 have a negative net worth.
Paywalled.

alternative link: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/198332/1/ZampettiEMSE2020....
> So they have $1 per Tether sitting in a bank somewhere?

You can get your Tethers back if you're moving 10-figure sums. Let's leave it at that.
They have never been available for AMD laptops before this and there are also, for the first time, 4k screens available on AMD laptops. The title really does hit all the important points I was trying to make, I believe. 2560x1600 is on the smallest of the 3 laptops featured in the article.
Yes, I was suggesting a right: The right not to be effected by decisions you're not involved in making and the right to be involved in all decisions that effect you. I see that as necessary for freedom and thus any alternative infringing on that right.
Great thing about using DDG is you can have both.

In my experience DDG is fine for general information but Google is better for very specific information.

But DDG supports !Bang. So you can do "!g" in your search bar for you specific query and it uses Google. Or "!w" to go directly to wikipedia or "!a" to search Amazon.

There's over 10,000 of them https://duckduckgo.com/bang so it's great for whatever sites you frequently look for information on.

And can even do things like complex math equations with "!wa" (Wolfram Alpha).

Point being, using DuckDuckGo as your default search engine doesn't mean you are limited to its' results. Personally I get the best of a lot of worlds by using it.
Seeing them promote another subscription is kind of sad.

Would have been nice to see them announce a new ipod nano so that I could stop having to strap a tablet sized phone to my arm when I go to exercise.
The next generation of AirPods
Cloudflare is definitely not the world's leading CDN provider. Akamai has 7x the revenue.
Stanford Researchers Build $400 Self-Navigating Smart Cane
most American have a fair chance at reaching the top 10% by age at some point in the future. not sure of the numbers but I would guess at least 50% of the population is expected to reach am age where 90% of the other people are younger
The market in which T series ThinkPads are normally sold value screen quality at the bottom. We order them by the truckload it seems and we always opt for the cheapest, crappiest screen they have.

Why? because these are business computers that spend all day looking displaying boring business applications. The most interesting thing they do is Zoom meetings.

We even get sub 1080p displays because, no shit, they are a waste on many of our users who have less than stellar eyesight. You may wonder why we don't just use the desktop sclaing feature in Windows 10. And thats because more than one of our niche industry specific core applications is completely incompatible with it. And if you try to use it the interface will become horribly mangled with missing text and interface elements that are impossible to click.

T series are great business computers but they aren't always the best choice for everyone. The best display they offer is just OK. Not great. But this isn't a given across the line. Lenovo does have models with great screens. Just not the T series.
>>If they wired me 6 billion dollars, I would not get to keep it.

And this is why Crypto is unlikely to see wide use for large, legitimate transactions.

The legal concept of ownership is based on the intent and understandings of real humans amongst each other, and with each other's consent. It is technology independent. There are legal remedies to fix mistakes and unwind transactions. This is critically important for people feeling comfortable engaging in these transactions. If a typo can cost you your life savings, you're going to have a tough time moving forward.

Crypto does not have this. It would be like paying for something with a briefcase full of cash that you leave behind the third trashcan on the right. Or was it the second one on the left?
hey author here! thanks for posting this, i guess my original title wasn't HNbait enough huh :)

happy to take any questions, and yes acknowledged that I dont follow pro chess at all, keeping it in there as a reverse shibboleth and a reminder that i'm just a rando guy on the internet who can be wrong
> I guess my main argument is, I could make a RetroPi in a few hours with every emulator, and every rom, and meet all of the marketing criteria with better settings. Including better compatibility.

> Assuming they're trying to advertise to my market, why would I pay 50x the cost for an inferior product? Why wouldn't they start from where emulation enthusiasts currently are instead of way behind?

If you're happy with RetroPi then Analogue's products simply aren't for you.

Being able to use my original controllers, accessories, cartridges directly (not just dumping the rom) is important to me. Having a big Street Fighter II cartridge sticking out, two controllers right there, and simply pushing the power button to immediately get into that game is important to me. It strikes up conversations and leads to impromptu gameplay in a way that a RetroPi or something similar likely doesn't.
Apple Announces M1 Pro and M1 Max Chips Designed for New MacBook Pro
I am the exact opposite. If a laptop isnt 4k it isn't even a contender. 4k really makes a huge difference to me because the image quality is that much better. Battery life is generally shit on all laptops whether it has 4k or not.

So this is good news from amd because I like them much more than Intel
> It's also true that a child born poor in this country is far more likely to stay as such than they are to become part of the top 10%.

how many of them get to the top 20%, how many more get to the top 30%? in other words, there's no need to be the best basketball player to succeed in life.

> but considering that our current wealth inequality is worst than 1774 France, then I believe it's a fairly accurate picture being painted.

wealth inequality is a meaningless measure, as J. K. Rowling increased it the moment she published her first book, and made it even larger with subsequent releases. If you look at the statistics of it, it might look as if she took advantage of her readers by making them financially poorer by the cost of books they bought. Obviously, the stats have no concern of non-monetary value exchanged here, and proclaim wealth inequality instead.
Computational Approach to Predict Molten Droplet Solidification on Solid Surface
YouTube: filmmakers presumed guilty until maybe proven innocent
https://restofworld.org/

> Rest of World is an international nonprofit journalism organization. We document what happens when technology, culture and the human experience collide, in places that are typically overlooked and underestimated. We believe the story about technology is as big as the world that’s using it, and that everyone — from those building technology to those using it — can benefit from a broader global perspective.
A Smarter Dotenv for Node.js
For quick reference on my AMD T14 with the 500nit display:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/knsjnbw6875buwo/PXL_20211018_17194...

(I do not have similar complaints about the color accuracy, personally, but I'm not especially sensitive to them.)
Yeah, the personal income elasticity with respect to those taxes doesn’t seem appreciable.
New fibers can make breath-regulating garments
A scenario:

Daddy Warbucks learns that the government is raising corporate taxes. He goes and tells his workers the government has cut their pay. He has no choice. Business necessity.

Daddy Warbucks learns that the government has cut corporate taxes. He pockets the windfall.

There is some business logic behind this: if the windfall is temporary, he doesn't want to raise salaries. That would be difficult to undo if the tax rates go back up. And whether this is the logic that actually motivates his decision hardly matters. Who can know what is in his heart? Even he doesn't. This helps him sleep at night. When he harms others his hand has been forced. When he helps other it proves his essential goodness. Fundamental attribution error FTW!
Are you saying that DuckDuckGo passes the client ip address to Bing?
New computational approach to predict autism spectrum disorder in children
After seeing Chamaileon drop their free tier earlier this year for charges that begin at $150/mo, your pricing model is a breath of sanity. Cheers to your success!
It is kind of ridiculous not to have types. I think in the old days handling types felt to heavy for scripting languages, but now with type inference and stuff I don't think it is any longer.
Does Rust not fit your criteria?
Someone has to pay for it. You are getting paid less money as your employer pays the high premiums, so it is not working out so well for you either.
The difficult portion of quality of life to quantify and even describe is volatility and possibility to move up the ladder.
> A relatively small but innovative compan

Cloud flare is massive in internet impact and is a publicly traded corporation worth billions. There is nothing small here.

> … and you cringe?

Of course, the end game is exactly the same for cloudflare. A proprietary solution that locks you into their platform instead of AWS’s or GCP’s.

Oh how people have forgotten was open source was about in the 90s and 00s.
i have a small side project in clojure [1] and i always miss type checking when working on it. not by much because it's a small project but i am tired of iseq is not a function error.

[1] https://dactyl.siskam.link
What kind of exploits are you talking about? Cheating in games for example?
Hey everyone, I wrote this tool because I wanted to be able to access ports running on peers in my WireGuard network from any computer/server; without having to install WireGuard locally and without having root access (no iptables configs).

So as long as you have a private key & peer IP dedicated for your roaming needs, you'll be able to forward a local port to a port on a secured peer.

This can be useful for a few other use-cases, like exposing services to the Internet from a separate server that doesn't have root access (like a non-privileged container).

I've also gotten feedback to enable reverse-tunneling (making a port accessible on a peer that forwards to a port running locally), which enables a few more use-cases. I'm looking for any more ideas or feedback that would fit in this tool!

I've described how the internals work in the README. It's still a proof-of-concept right now but I listed my little roadmap in the issues: reverse-tunneling, UDP support, multi-port-forwarding, etc. Happy to answer any questions.
I have to agree, I've done over 5 years of C# and then went to ruby and never looked back. Static type checking raises the floor on incompetence, but also lowers the ceiling on excellence. I have to admit I don't have experience with the extremes which would be Haskell and Clojure.

The amount of cruft I had to type in C# just to get shit done... It's all implicit in ruby thank god for that.

I never EVER have to check the type of a variable at runtime. I always know its type just by looking at its name. Is it enforced in ruby? Of course not. Ruby assumes I'm an adult and I know that I'm doing.
It's not a truism given that the original comment is implying that the wealth distribution discussed in the article title is a result of people having more wealth toward the end of their life. Theoretically the 10% of oldest Americans could be the wealthiest 10% as well, although this is certainly not actually the case.
> Fukushima weathered the worst earthquake AND tsunami in decades at the same time.

To also elaborate, all the reactors at Fukushima were designed to be able to handle any earthquake and tsunami that they thought could possibly happen in the region. Problem is that there was an earthquake larger than any in recorded history and larger than they thought the fault was capable of making. Some people are surprised that we've learned a lot about earthquakes and faults within the last 40 years.
Can the median 30 year old grow their net worth by $500 a month plus inflation over the next 3 decades?

People with stocks have undergone a massive boom in the last 20 years, that boom is not sustainable.
You just explained the meaning of the “meaningless” quote. Thanks, I guess.
This is really good! So good that it ought to be implemented in browsers in my opinion, probably as a set of additional `aria-*` attributes.

In line with other common conventions, I'd also like to see Ctrl+Arrow to move between areas, home/end to move to the beginning/end of the current area, etc.
This is going to be a long live/learn, refine process.

In this particular case, we should also pass it through another ML system that answers "are there any vehicles in this photo?", perhaps with a number plate in view (but without trying to read it).
Oh, sorry— I read too quickly. I was specifically thinking of Human Factors Engineering, though I'm sure Human factors and ergonomics is quite related.
Sure, middlemen make profit, but nobody makes that kind of profit. Nobody pays these prices. Drug prices in the US system may be elevated, but in the grand scheme of things it's a modest part of the total cost.

Furthermore, the reason that these prices can be charged is the regulatory moat, courtesy of the government. Suppose that same government would enact a single-payer system, what makes you believe it wouldn't pay outrageous drug prices, courtesy of the taxpayer? The mechanism that gives the pharma lobby free reign won't just disappear over night.
Don't trust scientists, got it.
Yeah, and the midwest will be next. Agriculture at scale has really destroyed our aquafiers.
People fall in and out of the categories all the time due to job loss or raises or selling a bunch of stock to make the down payment on a house.

Some people are stuck in the lower quintiles, and some people "stuck" in the higher ones. Other people float around or jump due to life events.
It is true though that the wealthiest politicians are also in very powerful positions in our government. The recent tax law was passed by multimillionaires in congress and signed by a billionaire president. As soon as he signed the bill into law he went to his private resort in Florida and told all of his wealthy members “You all just got a lot richer”.

Does this happen because of infighting? Or because wealthy people are deliberately using the government they control to make themselves wealthier? These things don’t just happen.
Pretty sure this was just a reaction to losing so much mindshare to Brax since that came out.