skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, Mac (integer scaling) and web (with the takeover of 1px[*]) have driven this UI concept that everything has to be scaled up for High-DPI screens. And early Gtk+ 2.* versions would gladly take any font size and resize UI elements so the label fit.

[*] though in all honesty, 1px as a relative measure of angular size is fine, it's just very badly named — I was hoping web designers would switch to ems in early days of the web, allowing users to control everything through font size directly — but that would still require some smartness not to increase padding too much with large fonts: basically, we'd want something like flexible spacing a-la TeX's hskip/vskip/hglue/vglue but catering to the screen and nuances screens possess.

Almost no UI (including web pages) is designed to work well with custom font sizes today. It's a definite win of form over function, or at the very least, recognition that designers are unable to design truly fluid/responsive interfaces that they like the look of.

Gnome still allows you to make use of gnome-tweaks to adjust just the font sizes, but you still run into issues because spacing can be too small (thus I tend to run with 125% scaling and 1.4-1.5x font sizes on HighDPI screens).
What does AirBnb have to do with the overall standard of living for mountain residents?
> If you are working on-call and not making big bucks

Both of those are very relative. I've seen on-call which means daily events, and on-call which requires something once a year. There's a very different level of compensations I'd be happy with in each case.
Unless you wish to dissolve the local governments in these towns, there is no way to do this. It's a constant struggle between monied interests enacting ordinances that allow them to remain monied, and locals trying to keep them at bay.
How is it directly replacing the JS REPL in the console? I didn’t know that was possible.
I guess this is the biggest difference i observed between American and European colleagues. The latter are often concerned with how many days off they get and not so much about what they could achieve. No judgement (i love my 24 days min) but an observation
Actual residents may be concerned about pissing off the 2nd and 3rd home owners, who can be quite vocal even if they don’t have a vote. Locals depend on them for revenue, and might know them personally and like them. This is covered somewhat in the Outside article.
I've been reading a particular Science Fiction magazine for more than 50 years. When it first arrived on the Kindle I was delighted, no more lost subscriptions each time I moved, no more hunting newsagents to try and find a printed copy.

Everything went well for ten years, when suddenly my magazines stopped magically appearing on the Kindle each month. It turned out that the WiFi in my Kindle was broken. Not to worry, I'll just download the mag and sideload via USB.

But it is impossible to select recent editions on the Amazon website. It refuses to show any mags for this year.

Even if I bought a new Kindle, I still couldn't schedule my unread magazines for download.

So I tried to contact Amazon. It is now impossible to talk to Amazon by email. Only possibility is to talk via Chat. But after three very long sessions on Chat (last one being 8 hours long) I got absolutely nowhere.

The people on Chat simply couldn't understand what I was trying to tell them. And it was impossible to send them a screen shot which showed the problem (they no longer have email).

In the process they insisted on cancelling my account and starting a new one, which of course resulted in my losing ten years worth of magazines. However I persisted. After many times asking for the supervisor, they eventually agreed to send my report to "the technical people". And of course after a week or two I have I heard nothing back.

It's pretty obvious that this blocking of downloads is because various sites have managed to crack the Kindle DRM. But the infuriating thing is that the Amazon Web page (and the Chat operators) are not aware that it's been blocked.

Eventually I ran out of patience and cancelled all of my Amazon subscriptions.

In the past I spent a LOT of money on Amazon, but no more. Goodbye Amazon forever.
It's not. The output appears in the console but input is provided in the page.
That's the point:

Large system = difficult to change

Not only because of technical challenges, but also regulatory issues.

The Metaverse doesn't really have users, so you could progress faster - but I highly doubt it as well.
Highly improbable, but not impossible, particularly for beings with finite lifespans over the long term. Herd immunity is reached at HIT=1-1/R0, at which point the infection rate will slow, and some of the remaining uninfected and unvaccinated individuals will have avoided exposure, as the chain of transmission to them will be broken. Back at the start of COVID-19, that would have been a sizable percentage of the world, though now (due to the higher R0 for delta) it is a much smaller percentage of the population who can escape exposure in this way alone.

And note that R0 can be changed by altering some environmental factors in the formula above.
Ask Ajit Pai.
It may not be as non-sensical as it sounds.

Unlike Whatsapp, FB messenger is tied to a public profile, where people extensively share their life. This allows a predator to get contextual info like age, likes/dislikes, family problems and more which helps them in finding a victim and set a trap for the child.
Some people work their ass to make a living and even if ads are annoying, for a lot it is what's keep them moving forward.

Maybe Google makes money by selling other people content but they provide all the infrastructure to allow content creators to have their business first.

Bypassing the ads is hurting mainly content creators, not Google...
Now that they found the messaging to cause stem cells to produce insulin why can't they find a way to do it with ones own stem cells, that the body would hopefully not reject?
Climate scientist here. I have some bad news for you… Don’t expect open sharing of information to stop your disaster any time soon.
I lived in Park City, UT throughout much of the 1990s and early 2000s. My family had a home in Telluride, so I’m familiar with the situation there, as well. I have an idea for a solution that I’m surprised was not mentioned. It’s simple: impose a heavy tax on unoccupied vacation homes but offer an exemption for owners who house one local worker on the property year-round. The concept is that the owner of a big vacation home would build a small apartment, perhaps in a basement or in the rear of the home, or even detached, that could house 1-2 locals, and would rent it out for an affordable price. In exchange, the owner gets a break from the hefty tax and they have an on-site theft deterrent.

Back in my ski town days, I had several friends who lived in peoples’ vacation homes as on-site keepers for the absentee owners. They’d keep the property secure, shovel snow if needed, stock the fridge before the owner visited, etc. In exchange, they lived there for free, or at a much-reduced rent.
> even the most stringent border lockdowns fail

Except we never had a serious lockdown. Most businesses were still open because of loose terms of what is essential or finding loopholes like bars serving food with beer so they can be considered a restaurant and other ridiculous things.
Was there some kind of poll that shows that users don't want encryption? What reasons do those users have for not wanting encryption? What was would adding encryption break ux?
web assembly is making leaps. looks great
This could be TLDRd as-

- Before, there was the command line, where you had to type specific commands to get things done.

- That was complicated, and GUI made it simpler. First there was a small number of buttons.

- Then, GUIs fell prey to featurecreep, and included too much. Hence cometh the Command Palette where you can find anything.

I first felt the problem in my android Settings. After about 2017, there were simply too much stuff in Settings. I could not get anything done.

The search function really saved me there.

Now I use command palette wherever I can. In my Linux installed laptops- both at work and home- I get everything done through the palette.

I barely ever manually go to places.
"Massive amounts of preventable death"

Compare Australia vs UK.
I daily drove an N9 when it was current hardware, and it was reasonably good. Harmattan was buggy as hell, but it held promise.

However, I found it extremely disappointing that they didn't cater to the FOSS community by making it easy to reproduce and iterate on the OS. If Nokia with the N9 took an approach to the OS and community akin to what Pine64 has been doing with the Pinephone, we would be in a very different place today with Linux phones.
What useability tradeoffs?

If you don't care if your chats are in plain text, then you shouldn't care if they are encrypted.
By the time they switched to that logo, they may have been large enough and "focused" enough to do so.

But the initial amzn logo was picked merely on the whims of the founder and first two programmers. It was never focus-grouped or evaluated by anyone else.
Pts-tinype – A set of tiny hello-world Win32 PE .EXEs with assembly source code
I doubt touch screen BMW provide can be called modern :) Feels like the brand stuck in time. Especially knob to control a touch screen... All they did for the last 30-40 years was selling extra horse power. Luckily right now EV dramatically changed the price you can get a far better performance for far better price. That will finally force them to change.
Which major Canadian resorts are in parks besides Lake Louise/Sunshine? I know Mt. Tremblant is in a park, but only the mountain itself and not the town for example.
What is the novelty here?

E.g. we have https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide and other examples.

The cool part here is Emscripten, which has been around for a long time.
Special Forces Assessment training handbook (aimed at success in Army Special Forces, but lots of practical workouts and injury-prevention techniques): https://goarmysof.com/documents/sf/SFAS-PT-handbook.pdf

Special Operations Nutrition Guide: https://navyseals.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/special-ope...
Your team dynamic feels broken, and your manager isn't managing well. On-call is a shared responsibility, and so is ensuring that on-call isn't awful. That's one of the main arguments in this blog post.

There's lots of ways to fix this, but one of the more popular approaches is to make the on-call responsible for fixing this kind of stuff during normal working hours, and for that person to not have sprint-work during that period of time. The goal is to ensure the next person's on-call is better than yours, which leads to a continuous improvement mentality, with an end-goal of never being paged after-hours, and for all pages to be actionable.
I know there's a lot to be said about $POLITICIANS and $POLICY generally, but somehow I don't think there's any big-oil type conspiracy to prevent the FDA from checking for heavy metals in spices, specifically. Did they check for them in the more regulation-on environment of the Clinton administration? The Obama administration? Might there be more nuance than "regulations on!" "regulations off!?"
Is this really worth the hassle given the prevalence of resources that don't require membership? I've only ever joined one private tracker and it wasn't materially better than what could be found for free and it was run by raging assholes. Kind of colored my view of that scene.
My partner has lived in Crested Butte for 18 years and I just came back from a weekend there. Restaurant prices are already high and each one has "help wanted" signs out front because nobody can work for minimum wage and not even afford to live there. Raising prices of a $20 cocktail to $25 does not allow the restaurant to pay hourly, local workers enough money to afford a house that's over $800k or rent that's over $2k/mo. The numbers just plain don't add up.
Would it be possible to use Python directly in say Chrome, assuming someone pushed a PR for chromium to do this?
Sine waves are convenient, but aren't at all necessary for a fourier transformation. The requirements are that you have a set of functions which are all pairwise orthogonal which also form a complete basis set.

At least, that is what I recall from my EE classes 35 years ago.
Opinion: A must-have resource for anyone writing/porting compilers on/to any Windows OS...
i submitted an app to ios app store recently and they said something about certain encryption has to have some type of government ok before it can be on the app store, is this related to that or?
> WHO shall decide how long the US is made to wait for vaccine.

It seems to be that the intellectual property is more pertinent than the total export volume to "poorer nations."
I think this hits the nail on the head. That the academic space is not just dominated, but overtly hostile to right wingers probably worsens this. Why would they trust advice given by people who proclaim their hatred of them?
Lift ticket prices are designed to make you do the math over a multi-day trip and conclude that it's cheaper to buy the pass
Emergency powers from the Patriot Act are still in effect.

The problem this pandemic (and pandemics in general) is that there is no defined end and no one seems to be willing to create one. It is either a certain number of deaths per million or zero (eradication), which would put us in smallpox territory - about two centuries.
Thoughts on selling source code (Shopify and Quickbooks style web app)
I've been working on this product in various forms for 20 years. It's never been a commercial product. It's effectively site building (e.g. Wix or Squarespace) plus e-commerce (e.g. Shopify or BigCommerce) plus accounting (e.g. Xero or Quickbooks) in the one app. Whenever I've run a business that required e-commerce and accounting I've been frustrated by having to use 2 different platforms and subscriptions, so I intended to write my own. Unfortunately I have lost interest in coding (20 years as a working software engineer) and I'd like to either sell the code or give it to someone that has the means and motivation to take it to market. I have no interest in any ongoing royalty or ownership. If anyone has thoughts on this, people that may be interested, advice... I'm all ears. Thanks :)
Thanks for comment. Actually, if I had seen your project, I wouldn't have written my own.
That makes sense, but I didn't understand the point very well from the article because it seems to flip back and forth between unrelated criticisms of Facebook.

I don't know enough about the structure of predation to have an opinion on the merits of the point, but it sure seems like a reasonable excuse for delaying E2EE.
keys are from the past. But if you replace it with lets say your phone, yeah, great, that's where a modern car shines. Your phone key knows who you are , sets a correct profile. You still need a modern car with decent settings that supports deep customization for your profile. Subject of article , BMW, is not great with touch screen or without. Their approach to UX is super archaic
The unencrypted messaging didn't seem to stop Jefferey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, nor the many who participated in the activities with them.
I got COVID when I was in jail. There is almost no air circulation in some jails, and a lot, like the ones I was in, are hermetically-sealed boxes. 40 people stood in a box the size of your living room. Breathe that COVID in, baby.
Belarus, Russia, Turkey, Romania. There is a list under ‘Europe’ here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversial_electi...
I still have my Firewire to Thunderbolt adapter in my random adapter drawer... worked a charm for my Firewire external hard drives and mixing desk. It did take quite a while for stable USB 3 peripherals to come out, and by that time I was ready to upgrade those 1 TB hard drives to 4.

edit: forgot the Firewire-... sorry, ieee1394-connected MiniDV camcorder!
There is this: https://pyodide.org/en/stable/console.html
Not sure what you mean by python in chromium however, I assume, pyiodide may already be doing this.
Dunno about China, but Japan is a weird mix of two systems:

- Groups of 4 digits separated by the corresponding power-of-10000 kanji, e.g. 1億2345万6789. Makes sense, I would say it's actually better than just separating the digits, as it makes easier to recognize the size of the number.

- Groups of 3 digits separated by commas, e.g. 123,456,789. I asked around how they do to mentally regroup digits by four, and everybody told me that is quite difficult and don't understand why they don't group digits by four. Then again, they have the most difficult writing system in the world and a ridiculous calendar, maybe they just like challenges.
"Lift tickets are like 2x what they were 7 years ago. Prices are matching demand, I doubt it's vice versa."

No, there is an intentional shift from a pay-per-use revenue model to a flat-rate "subscription" revenue model.

You are correct - daily rates for walk-up ticket purchases have exploded.

This isn't due to relatively increased demand, however - it is to encourage consumers to adopt the new "pass" revenue model.
If my chats are encrypted and FB doesn't have the private key, I can't send messages from my desktop without either

1. my phone is on and does a secure key exchange each time I login on desktop, in which case I have to carefully audit complex novel crypto or trust that FB doesn't snoop the key during the exchange.

or

2. I have to scan some QR code or some other bullshit to make desktop chat work.

And more importantly, it's possible for me to lose my message history if I lose all my devices.

I don't want any of these.
My understanding is that they must offer a reasonable accommodation. For on call, I imagine that takes usually just takes the form of assigning some different responsibilities. Doesn’t seem too burdensome.

I worked with someone who had a sleep disorder. She would do twice as many on call shifts but only from like 8am to 8pm during the day. Someone else would take the night shift component, although that usually rotated too.

It wasn’t a bad trade because most of the on call work happened during the day. The night shifter only rarely got woken up to deal with something, so on the whole they dealt with less on call.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29372589

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29372490
Popularizing astroengineering means kids watching YouTube today are going to be making rockets in the future. It's exciting to see the enthusiasm for moonshot industries reach a wide audience. Enough people sharing a wild dream slowly turns the impossible into reality.
Half of this year’s big IPOs are trading below listing price
Envelope (Waves)
And even then it's controversial.

1st gen IoT devices used 2G, even when 3G was a thing. Things like emergency response in cars (eCall in Europe) and other types of infrastructure level "call home" technologies that were intended to work for decades but now must be upgraded before their 2G networks go dark.

There's a bunch of hard to access industrial sensors that have worked fine for 20 years but now crews have to be sent out to service and replace them because the network is going offline. Yes, that does sound like an expensive pain in the ass, you're right.
It's still interesting to note that we assume "nothing to do with each other" with some cases, "obscured" relationships on other like the OP's second point.

Where it falls relies on the viewer's knowledge of the problem space, which can also be limited enough to lure them into false causations.

My point would be that a single graph showing two trends without any further info should never be taken as more information than "there is two trends". You'll still be free to decide there is true causality based on other information you believe.
I'm not so sure about that. I think that it's just kind of taboo to admit that property value is important.

Granted, I don't think it's their only motivation. Obviously, lifestyle is a big factor for these people too.
The combination of constantly running long distances and constantly walking long distances with ridiculously heavy loads is one aspect that I find totally obnoxious about military training, and particularly the Western/NATO approach to small unit tactics.

It injures people in training (degrading readiness), and often leaves veterans with debilitating life-long lower-body problems that also cost the government a fortune in disability payments.

I've watched several Green Berets on YouTube state fitness goals for SF training of "You should be able to run a 7-minute mile pace, INDEFINITELY, with no preparation." No. That's DUMB. If your leadership puts you in a situation where that is necessary, your leadership is DUMB too.
Would you consider paying for YouTube and Spotify instead? Both are available ad-free.
The small stuff bioaccumulates and fucks with your endocrine system.

If you have kids, one of the best things you can do for them is work towards the dismantling of Western civilization and establishment of a permaculture-based society.
Facebook doesn't use the contents of messages for ads targeting (except link clicks).
It’s mentioned in the comments but is worth highlighting.

Quicksilver was so far ahead of it’s time that I would say that Spotlight, Alfred, Mac’s Help search, and a whole boatload of Windows/Linux apps were a direct result of it.

If you get an opportunity, run an early version coded by Merlin in an old version of OSX
The staff could work like oil rig workers - in month-long shifts. Get quarantined for a week on the way in, do your shift, go home to your family. Not pleasant, but doable and a lot simpler than placing everyone's life on hold.
It is a technical feature. It can be "flipped on", though that exaggerates the ease.

That they're delaying e2ee doesn't surprise me, but that they claim to want to implement it in the first place does. I think the intent to implement it is a effectively a farce to convince us that the "hard choice" FB will make to not give users privacy was all about protecting our children.

Child sex abuse could be brought to a practical minimum without reading everyone's communication, and reading comms is not going to stamp it out. Reading everyone's communication is the prize, not saving kids.
this is why i fear people judging others for their sicknesses. my uncle died of aids in the 90s, it was very upsetting losing him and i remember how horrible the stigmatization was, the thing i heard the most often was, “well they shouldn’t have been messing around” and “shoot them all so we can stop the spread of the virus” and “this is god’s judgement on america”.

there was a lot of fear and hatred towards people in the early days, not everyone but it was a real fear in a lot of people’s minds.

it’s hard for me when i see similar things happening today, i really wish we could approach these rogue viruses in a different way, at least from the public relations perspective. i get the fear part but we gotta realize that these are humans who ended up in a terrible unfortunate situation.

this photo almost made me cry because it hurts me to remember what happened with him.
I've begun using E2EE on FB Messenger and these are the tradeoffs I've noticed:

- Photos don't pinch-to-zoom

- No read-receipt indicators

- No reactions besides the primary emoji

- Primary emoji can't be changed

- No nicknames or other frills

...none of which have anything to do with E2EE itself. Feels like MVP issues, to be honest.
Existing research on change blindness would be a good starting point.

http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/#CB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_blindness
You can't set aside business hours if you don't set aside weekends and nights?

Professionalism, natural empathy, and performance evaluations motivate people enough in my experience.

Team exchanges are great. Why would it have to be 6 months abroad though?