skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
scrolling, or generally anything that mutates the viewport, vastly reduces my reading speed

maybe this is just my training and gen Z can handle it fine? but scrolling feels like mandatory vertical layout jank to get to page 2

enlightened UX archaeologists from the future will look back with humane pity on a web with increasingly prevalent sticky headers that destroy keyboard-based paging
Especially considering that 95% of Firefox's users voted with their feet.
The NYTimes mobile app has a section at the very bottom of the scroll with 5(+1) games. The +1 is for the crossword puzzle, which is included in mini form whole the full chonker requires its own subscription. I image they are going to give wordle top billing in the section. Maybe there'll be a page anyone can visit, but I think they'll use it to keep subscribers returning to the app daily, having to scroll past something they'll want to read on their way, seeing some adds and giving them one more reason not to stop the renewal charges.
It's weird to me to see that stuff in Twitter screenshots. Because, Twitter seems so public to me. Don't they risk getting banned immediately just saying things like that? Or does Twitter only really police people who harass celebrities?

4chan.. I mean, it seems like the only reason 4chan would still be allowed to exist is to make it easier for the FBI etc. to monitor the kind of garbage that goes on in 4chan in one place.
Overall the market will win, but volatility around retirement is the issue.

EDIT TO ADD: Sincerely, thank you for your comment (and the replies providing additional context). It's given me some much needed information to go research (ala Boglehead investing).
In Discord, yes. Unfortunately not in Slack, though.
If that means the supervision actually works, then it doesn't sound like there's a problem?
It's not really done by accountants either. It's done by executives.
I think this is also an interesting observation for physical objects too.

I wouldn’t say I like to muck with the settings, but I’d consider it a critical design flaw if my desk chair didn’t let me.

Same with my car’s seat, steering wheel, and so on.

It does make one wonder though to what extent automating that customization optimally might be possible. It would be cool if every time a different driver sat in the car the mirrors, seat, wheel, and whatever else automatically adjusted for maximum comfort and safety.
I came across this because I learned that the ampersand logogram "&" originated from concatenating the letters "et" together, which itself is an abbreviation of "et cetera". I never knew of the connection between & and "et cetera" or "etc" until today!
I don’t think so, at least not universally. If your app is a journal, editor, photo library, or a video player it’s not in your interest to have the user diving into other programs or multitasking. In those cases what they’re comfortable with and what works best for them is more important. Since you’ll come back to the program again and again or for deep work, the long term payoff can be worth messing around with the ui.
The text is maybe confusing but how it works is that the setting is either "Native" or "Web" style.

Native means that interactive elements like toolbar items, nav or icons are just show the regular cursor and links in text use the pointer (Mail app)

Web style is what is common with many web apps and sites where every interactive element uses the pointer (Slack).

The reason for the setting that people seem to be one way or the other on which they are used to.
I think accessibility is critical for websites, but whether or not it makes business sense depends on the organization and its audience.

I've worked for municipal government in the US and federal in Canada. In the US, following Section 508 and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) was a requirement for all our projects. As a team, we also committed to writing at a Grade 5 or less reading level, as for many constituents of the city, English may not be their first language, and government services should be accessible to everyone. Having a website that people could use, interact with, complete tasks on, etc, meant that they were fewer phone calls, emails, and support requests for things like translation support, checking where the snowplows were, or renewing a dog license.

If you have a broad audience and a global audience, having an accessible website makes it possible for everyone to get the information or have the interaction you're looking for. In my experience sometimes that can be mean losing out on cutting-edge or super interactive features, but you get to ensure a baseline pleasant experience for everyone.
Show HN: Bulls and Cows: if Wordle was ugly and numeric
This is a game I used to play a lot with my friend during classes at university.

The rules are trivial (as well as the implementation), just see the README, but I personally get captivated by the possible mind games when guessing :)
Need a map editor now :)
Bonus points for using the same tooling and languages from then too. 6502 assembly, then a bit of 16 bit x86 assembly, and finally some C with Borland's 1992 tooling.
That version of Garamond is gorgeous! My favorite, hands down.
It's 250 GB uncompressed.

$ df -h /var/lib/archlinux-mirror
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb 89G 70G 15G 84% /var/lib/archlinux-mirror

Some of that is ISOs and the `testing` repo, so the actual download size will be in the ballpark of 50-60 GB, which would put it at more like 2%.
These days, it's POFMA [1] and FICA [2], two laws that put a lot of power into the hands of the cabinet, especially our Home Affairs Minister [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_from_Online_Falseho...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Interference_(Counterm...

[3] https://newnaratif.com/shanmugams-stealth-coup-in-singapore/
https://httpie.io/about says they've had a seed round already. Looked it up because that sounds… well it is what it is.
It doesn’t even have to add friction. Optimize away for the common use case, that’s great and benefits the power user just as much. Just let people make changes if they really feel the need.
> Lawrence of Arabia from 1962 looks so much more real than Dune, even when just comparing the shots of people in Bedouin costumes hanging out in a desert

I don't quite feel that's a like-for-like comparison. All of the Denis Villeneuve's films I have watched have a surreal/unreal quality to them: from the top of my head Sicario, Arrival, and especially the one with the weird deer, whose name escapes me. That's just his "style" - I suppose it's how scenes are framed, color grading, and how his shots tend to linger; there's a dream-like quality to it, even for the "grittier" scenes - Sicario has a lot of those.
Most non-fantasy, non-sci-fi is CGI and has been for over a decade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clnozSXyF4k
That doesn't make sense. The Schwartzian Transform is linear time and cheap time-wise.

Btw, I'm surprised nobody has objections about constants. The constants for the type of stuff 'discrimination' does are (apparently) really bad. Like really bad.

^ The above was a bit sarcastic. I know you're talking about straight up performance, but the problem there wouldn't be the Schwartzian Transform.
Facebook shares plunge on weaker-than-expected earnings
The music was originally created for the Paramount Superman cartoons of the 40s.
https://youtu.be/_djxH-q0e48
I’ve been bugging https://fly.io/ and https://render.com to pay closer attention to making it as easy to spin up applications as Heroku makes it. Thread at https://twitter.com/bradgessler/status/1482045147625918467

Fly has been the most responsive. They have a PR open at GitHub and are working towards “just run flyctl launch and you’ll have a rails app running”. Check that out at https://twitter.com/bradgessler/status/1488786188882178053 or comment on the PR at https://github.com/superfly/flyctl/pull/783#issuecomment-102...

If I was a betting man, I think they’ll be there in the next few weeks for Rails + pg. They said full auto-Redis provisioning could come later.

If you build Phoenix apps, fly is going to be your bet. The creator of Phoenix works there and he made deploying Phoenix apps super easy.

Render said “they have some ideas”, but I haven’t heard back from them.

I really hope more companies pay attention to making deployments as easy as Heroku. Most stop short of that and think it’s OK to ship basic building blocks with huge README files for “Setting up your first ____ App”. That’s fine for a first step, but hosting companies should seriously look at their setup docs as manual steps that they should automate.

I still recommend Heroku because it’s just so damn easy. Developers can focus on shipping their apps and worry much less about DevOps. It’s amazing for proof-of-concepts, but they are stupidly expensive when your app starts scaling based on how they price. I’m really hoping Fly, Render, and lots of other hosting companies up their game and compete so we have more choice and ultimately lower prices.
Can we have Self-driving Formula 1 before we get these cars on the street please?
You have mentioned it in the past here.
Why didn't you restore the original comment? It doesn't seem to break any rules. The most frustrating aspect of HN is that there is no easy way to have meta discussion about the rules or the actions of users.
Especially this one.
> haters had their anonymity also revoked then I think it'd have a chilling effect on how much hate speech people are willing to put out there.

This is empirically falsified. Look at the stuff people write on Facebook - lack of anonymity is no barrier. There are of course people who are expected to "keep up appearances", but they're a rare and self-selected bunch.
Same for the Green Lantern Corps. They are always needed but there's far too few of them so 99.999% of the time the heroes in these stories kind of hold the front until a GL shows up and beats the threat relatively easily.

I quite enjoyed that universe for a bit of time but the ever-inflating (and absurd) power levels and lack of actual stakes eventually ruined it for me. As it did with most mainstream superhero movies.
All I'm asking for is for some kind of confirmation that he thought the kids were actually trying hard, which we all know (without documentation, yes) isn't universally true of students.

It's also often true that instructors don't know what's going on in all the students' personal lives. People who are pressed in other ways don't always make it known, so you could easily see how you might mistake someone who didn't learn it with someone who couldn't learn it.
It is an interesting idea, but with a physical book you have to turn the page.

And that has to be more distracting, because you can't read any part of the page while it is turning.

But I also had the experience once (and I think most readers has had it more than once) of reading a book and having to stop because somebody turned the lights off - then realizing that I had been so engrossed in a book that several hours had gone by and the sun had gone down by then.
Seems like an imperfect analogy. If you find malware running on your computing systems, it is legal to disable and delete it. But it’s not like the bad guys are physically present within your computer, like in a real life home invasion.
Yes, you need to maintain cadence, because of reasons, like saving your knees from wearing off. But if you want to win Tour de France, then you need to learn how to maintain constant speed also. Not just visually constant, not just as your computer shows, but even more constant. Speed deviates, it depends on a phase of your pedaling, but it means excessive watts lost due to visually undetectable accelerations.

Constant cadence and constant speed are different goals, the first one is about biology (how to get your body to do more), the second one is pure physics. Maybe it is even "anti-biological" thing, because human's legs are designed to push, not to pull and not to create force perpendicular to a leg. I even heard something about using gears that are not exactly circular, to help an athlete to maintain constant tension of a chain.

Amateurs (me for example) do not train for constant speed, though to some extent it comes naturally with practice. But world class athletes measure energy conversion inefficiencies in tenths of a watt, so they get a special training for this.
That would be the biggest business opportunity in human history if major tech companies simultaneously decided to surrender access to one-sixth of the world's economy.
PXL2000 Toy Camcorder
Police responding to the actual crash scene, useful. Police report filed after the fact, only if there's some need for said report. And not all injuries are immediately apparent. 3 1/2 years ago I got a first-person view of what it would be like to be on the receiving end of a PIT maneuver courtesy of a woman who didn't look adequately. (Yes, when you looked left the road was empty--I saw that also and turned into that empty spot the block before you!) At the time the only injury I was aware of was a very minor scrape, not even worthy of a bandaid. Later I discovered a pulled muscle--it only hurt when I did certain things.

I also used to know a woman who thought it was nothing more than a fender-bender, went to the doc a couple of days later because her neck was bothering her. Doc sent her straight to the hospital--incomplete cervical fracture, one wrong move and she could have dropped dead.
If you find yourself looking for a game in the future, just get "Vampire Survivors". Trust me. It's the pinnacle of casual gaming. $3 and as simple as it is plain fun. Can easily spend 10 hours on it if you want to, or 10 minutes if you don't have any more time.
You're missing a `.. include :: ./arc-admin-credentials.json`
Well with respect to Go the fundamental difference afaict is that you can apply self-supervised learning, which is an incredibly powerful approach (But note e.g. that even this approach wasn't successful in "solving" Starcraft). Unfortunately it's extremely difficult to frame real-world problems in that setting. I don't know anything about protein-folding and don't know what Deepmind uses to try to solve that problem, so I cannot comment on that.
Not sure how to respond to a comparison of 0.2 miles of Santana Row to Singapore. It feels we are grasping at the straws here.
The wormhole network is down for maintenance as we look into a potential exploit
Something I've been saying a lot around the office is the age old joke... I have solid reason every week to bust this out because we're tripping over one of them. [Edit:Spelling]

There are only 2 difficult things in software engineering:
1. Cache Invalidation
2. Naming Things
3. Off by one errors
Tesla has done this before and it's an easy way to raise a lot of money quickly without doing any stock dilution or loans. The only thing that separates it from Fyre Fest who did the same trick to get money is so far Musk has eventually delivered.
If FSD is expected to perform poorly on those roads then it shouldn't be available on said roads and it certainly shouldn't be legal to use it there.
> And this is who we are...

This is what we became after being optimized for engagement.
If you're technically not at war then you can't at the same time be technically still at war. Neither side declared war against the other or is currently acting like they are at war, thus they aren't at war.
I'm under the impression that some sites have created an especially annoying cookie wall for the EU, while serving their baseline annoying cookie wall to the rest of the world. Most of the sites can't be bother to make the distinction though.
These things are there so that investor's money are safe. In my case the ethics hotline is above the company, in the owning company (Berkshire). They don't want massive lawsuits, or tarnished brands because of things like VW dieselgate or things like that. And I think a lot of times even minor things can get pretty big consequences if it's actually illegal and not just "well it's a matter if interpretation".
> . Comparing the scene the subway crash to say, the train crash in Silver Streak (1976)[1] or Speed subway crash (1994)[2], I thought Knowing[3] was inferior and just looks terribly fake to me.

Speed probably looks best of the three. Knowing's train doesn't look real - maybe too fast, over blurred, missing reflections, whatever. Silver Streak looks terrible though, and is poorly directed.
This makes no sense to me that they did that. If I am looking for an alternative to JS, I don't want it to look like JS. https://jchavarri.github.io/melange-docs/intro/ makes sense to me.
how is "Today at x pm" an absolute timestamp?
You seem to be missing the point though. If this were significant, then human tesla drivers should be shown as performing much worse than other car drivers, because you're claiming they have a disproportionately large riding time in "tricky roads".

A non tesla driver should be doing way better because they get to pad their score with the easy roads the autopilot supposedly gets.
Yes, and some response times too. It was actually useful.
NK's capabilities are vastly overblown. Calling it a "bear" is part of their disinformation strategy, just like Russia.

Calling it a "bear" is utilizing the common expression "Don't poke the bear," not an assessment of North Korea's abilities.
It is available today in a limited area: https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/03/cruise-launches-driverless...
Nice one, thanks! Bookmarked.
Even when you're going uphill or downhill? Or when the driver ahead of you slows down without using his brakes?
Apple earnings can grow even if iPhone growth goes to zero
The math department at my university tried to read through the proof of Fermat's last theorem, as a for-fun activity. They eventually gave up because they realized it would take too much time.
Well capitalism isn’t just private ownership of tools, it’s also division of labor, wage labor, and market exchange. Possibly some other things that are escaping me at the moment.

The critique ultimately traces back to Marx, who asserted that social relations within a society are dictated by the “mode of production”.

I don’t necessarily alway agree with people when they say “capitalism caused this” but this is by best attempt at relaying the reasoning.

Ultimately the critique that socialists are making, to bring it back to your analogy, is that most people don’t own their own hammer, capitalists do, they just do all the work with it to build houses while the capitalists take the lions share of the profits.
Having good defaults are a benefit and if done well most people don't need to fiddle with settings. For those who are not satisfied with the defaults you have chosen, having settings to customize things can defuse what would otherwise turn into frustration. Even if your defaults are 90% right for 90% of the people, they are likely to each have a different 10% that they are dissatisfied with.
Ask HN: I regret my marriage. What to do?
I'm a software developer, 32 years old, no children. I married last year after a 5 year relationship with my girlfriend. I deeply regret it but I don't know what to do.

One strategy I used was to tell her that I don't want to have kids, and I told her it was ok if she left me. She said she was never sure about having kids either and wants to stay married.

I don't want to hurt my partner, but I also don't want to stay in the marriage. I am sure I want to break up and be single again - and very likely remain single forever, I can't understand how many men can marry twice.

But how to do it? We look like the perfect couple for everyone including our in-laws.

Main problem is that she still depends on me financially. Am I a bad person if I keep pretending for a couple of years until she finishes her studies, gets a good job and then break up? (she is also a software dev, she is already working but earns a pretty low salary)
Where? Singapore? It's not illegal per se, but public criticism (not private; I know many civil servants who'll be happy to criticise some of our government's execution in person) is highly discouraged if they value a career in the civil service or any of the many organisations the PAP has their tentacles in.
How do you do version control with your postman scripts? That was the biggest issue on my last project.

Plus, if the API moves, we had to (manually) find and fix dozens of Postman tests.

I'd appreciate it, if you have some insights that can move my team forward.
It would have been, Musk didn't think so and felt the need to embellish/exaggerate - his habit of exaggerating/lying I think is more on trial than the actual Tesla vehicles here.
The intent of the standard /48 end user size was to prevent residential ISP's from being stingy and only assigning one IP. They wanted homes to have as many publicly routable subnets as the would ever need or want.

This was later revised to "/56 by default, /48 if you ask with no justification needed"
The law that you linked says that drivers aren't allowed to drive at an unreasonably slow speed, and defines that to be (for highways, with good weather, and just on the leftmost lane) 80 km/h.

It doesn't say that the speed limit is a target, or that you're supposed to drive at or near it.
What happened to the famed intelligence level of Hacker News? Every single person (almost) in this thread is blaming telemetry while it was clear even when the bug was ongoing that it was unrelated to telemetry. I for example had had telemetry disabled and still hit the bug through other traffic and had to temporarily disable HTTP3 from about:config.
Not related to the 3.0 release, just an example of a recent cut of an actual feature while spyware is apparently essential. IIRC 3.0 (might have been one of the 2 series?) was when the browser suddenly got a lot fatter and the UI less responsive, and never made meaningful progress back the other direction, contrary to its feather-weight beginnings which were a big part of why I loved it so much. I kept using it for quite a while longer but never loved it again.
Has someone tried classical program synthesis techniques on competitive programming problems? I wonder what would have been possible with tech from more than 2 years ago.