skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s available on desktop and not that annoying.

It’s pretty annoying.

- the dialog is model

- it’s small, and drops down from the top (a “reverse toast”?)

- I frequently use screen zoom
So am typically unable to see the top of any window because I’m reading content

- I click a link, the page loads, the “toast” drops down but I don’t see it, suddenly nothing on the page works

For 99% of sites which ask for permission the answer is “no”. So that’s a lot of annoying web sites.
Only commenting so I can see my avatar...
Its not profitable in current iteration of laws. If we had laws that forced manufacturers to create stuff that lasts two decades -> everything would look differently.
Every sale has a customer.
In Firefox press F9
With Chrome Desktop, and a fairly wide browser window (1475px in my case, required by many web applications), the text is small with minimal margins, and practically illegible. If I shrink the browser width considerably (to a minimum width) then the text does look good, like an ebook.

Typesetting matters.
I think about this more often than I probably should, and I've come to the same conclusion. We stand on mighty tall shoulders.
not the problem you're trying to solve but there's an additive called "humidifier bacteriostatic treatment" that could help with the smell
I use ridewithgps.com, but rely heavily on my own local knowledge to avoid problem areas.
Franchises care a lot about the experience so they're not gonna roll the dice with "lite" formats until they can guarantee consistency and quality befitting their brand at those small scales. You can just about fit an entire fast food restaurant worth of equipment in a semi truck. You can't fit it and have it be anywhere near reasonably operable though. Sufficient automation could change that.

If you reduce the foot print enough you can fit a store that can serve the whole menu into a food truck (or sea can, or construction trailer) format and do it with acceptable results that opens up options.

Imagine renting a McDonalds for your sporting event, concert, oil drilling rig or forward operating base the same way you rent a big genset, rock crusher or any other equipment that gets mobilized on a semi truck.

I don't see it happening in the next decade without some yet unforeseen change that makes the tech cheaper, the engineering cheaper or the recurring cost of labor for running a manual restaurant more expensive.
Taco Bell already has some concept art depicting a contactless lift system to deliver orders to waiting customers -

https://www.fox19.com/2021/08/14/taco-bell-future-new-4-lane...
This is great in principle, BUT.... it only works when the dev team are given the time and automony to prioritise the work.

While many organisations pay lip service to uptime and reliability, the reality is that those are not sexy or exciting and Bob in sales just snared this million dollar client that will sign as soon as we implement frobnication with Othr. So dev team can either work on fixing the reliabilty issue that means they don't get paged at 3am or implement the thing that get the company another $1m. Which do you think they get to do?
I wonder if the old 10% hydrogen peroxide trick would fix that.
It takes a lot of labor even just to maintain my few plants and keep up with pests/drought/storms/nutrient deficiencies. The pests are such an issue. Anytime you grow anything in quantity, you are entering this unbalanced thermodynamic state and the environment will respond by creating an equilibrium. In other words more pests find more food and more of their offspring survive and there are more pests overall.

The farmer has historically and even today solved this with scale. Suppose they manage to kill 95% of the pests and the remaining continue to eat out the crop all season, which is fine because there is enough crop where some loss from pests are tolerated. Meanwhile in my case and in the personal garden scale, one pest can ruin your entire crop. I've had one rat come over and eat all my produce in two nights. Then after that they marched right next door to my neighbor's garden and ate most of their produce.

Gardening is a fun and rewarding hobby, but make no mistake that it takes a ton of labor, and you are going to have a hard time turning a backyard garden or a community garden plot into a reliable enough food source to actually consistently feed yourself. Starving to death is not so uncommon even among the old fronteirspeople who knew a thing or two about what they were doing about homesteading.
The iOS feature for silence unknown callers has really been a blessing to my life. I have screenshots of me getting ~10 blocked calls per day. I turn it off when I'm expecting a call, but it saves me so much distraction and rage about my vehicle's extended warranty.
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FWIW, it's possible to bit-bang DVI at 640x480 on the 2040. Takes about half of the available resources:

https://github.com/Wren6991/PicoDVI
As usual its just how much money you put in to it. We spend a lot of money making sure building foundations and silicon manufacturing works because failing is expensive and dangerous. I don't want to pay double/triple price for a toaster to slightly reduce its risk of failing because I'm happy to accept that on average it lasts a long time but there is some chance it fails sooner. If I'm in charge of buying a $100M building, you bet I want to pay extra to assure it will not fall over.
There is one in Seattle at Caliburger in the Westlake Mall.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/camilo-buscaron-93739827_seat...
Before requesting an account "deletion" for an account you have anywhere, always go through every single field and enter fictitious data. This includes adding fictitious photos and the like. The service may keep the previous iterations of the data, sure, but that's less likely than them keeping the latest version of the data, which is almost a certainty.
They've put quite a bit of effort into it. That much text is a lot of work.

For what it's worth, their Patreon nets over 3000 / month, so quite a few people think they put in just the right amount of effort, or even above and beyond :)
Or through the erosion of real wages over the past 50 years, consumers have been more or less forced into buying lower priced items. And was this not the promise of free trade and globalization - cheap stuff?

Edit: why downvote?
Here is how I lost about 100 pounds of fat in a year, while putting on muscle and kept it off. There is no shortcut. You can loose about 2 lbs of fat per week if you follow the instructions below. Increasing weight loss beyond that is counter productive due to muscle loss.

Recommend following these steps in order. The biggest issue people face with weight loss is education. While this sounds simple, the amount of misinformation out there is extreme.

1.) Watch “that sugar film” << Available on prime. Think hard about what you learned. This is the truth about weight gain and loss. There are other documentaries like it, but I personally like this one.

2.) Read “eating clean” and follow the recommendations OR hire a good nutritionist, preferably one that bodybuilders use. Bodybuilders have mastered weight loss and a nutritionist targeting bodybuilders is probably competent.

3.) Exercise daily using a combination of resistance training and cardio. Start with reasonable intensity level. Hire a personal trainer or train with an experienced friend if you have not done resistance training before. Hire a personal trainer who trains bodybuilders using conventional methods. You don’t need to train like a bodybuilder, but these personal trainers are actual experts and not frauds. This advice applies to both men and women. They can help you get the most out of exercise without getting hurt.

4.) Don’t consume alcohol or consume very little as rarely as possible. Alcohol consumption can interrupt sleep and stunt human growth hormone, which slows down weight loss. Impact can last for several days and also causes a loss of motivation for some individuals.

5.) Drink at least a gallon of water per day.

6.) Stop eating 3 hours prior to bedtime to sleep better and increase HGH production.

7.) Eat small meals more frequently, like 5-6 times per day. I would recommend logging all food intake along with calories consumed / time of day each meal was consumed.

You might experience withdrawal like symptoms for at least a few days if you have been consuming enough high glycemic index foods on the daily. After withdrawal ends you can loose weight while never being hungry. Hunger caused by high glycemic index / sugar crash is a vicious cycle. If you want to know more, watch “that sugar film”.

Also, keep in mind that diets, which is IMO anything not like “eating clean” are just scams that tend to cause metabolic syndrome. Your body ends up consuming muscle to get the protein it needs on many of them. This lowers your BMR. To fix years of damage done from scam diets, resistance training is the solution.

This is the honest truth in a world full of misinformation. I hope this helps make the world a slightly better place!
Because more than a few people buy something because of it's (low) price. When something is inexpensive, it often has a shorter lifespan and you tend to replace it more frequently than you would a more expensive item.

Admittedly 1) not everyone can afford something pricier, and 2) higher cost doesn't always mean better quality. On top of that, if manufacturers made things that lasted forever, they'd go out of business quickly. Who'd buy a replacement, or something newer, if item X is still going strong after 10 years or more?
This article is long but excellent.
It is something of a rant rather than an article. Still excellent.
And they love 58-year old programmers in Serbia?

I've worked with many an offshore team, and have yet to find myself on a call with anyone over 40.
My favorite is the recursive PR.
Big PR gets split into 10 small parts.
PR X, someone notices that they should all have some change, because of some eventuality or commonality that is obvious in part X.

PR is now in 10 small parts again.

Repeat.
I bought the one he didn't like (the electrode boiler) after watching that video (and his tear-down video [1]). (I have hard water and have had trouble with ultrasonic humidifiers.) It works great! You do have to descale it regularly to keep it going.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC9-t47tKts
It’s only mission critical if someone is going to possibly die (as you mentioned life critical systems). Otherwise, you’re just burning up quality of life for someone else’s profits and arguably weak comp (compared to the family and health harm of SRE roles, and more broadly speaking, on call in general with absurdly short response and RTO SLAs). This isn’t doctor pay except perhaps at FAANG.

(general observations over a longish career)
There was a 2-minute advertisement on TV a few weeks back about a ladder. I did some quick spelunking and, as I suspected, the ladder is not very good according to many many people who have tried it. In theory it was a good idea, but part of me worries when I start to see very long advertisements for a product for the following reasons: I'd be paying for their advertising if I bought the product; if they have to market it so aggressively, then it can't be that good; I don't want something that's shoved down my throat (e.g. Microsoft Edge) and finally the testimonials are almost always biased, so they must be hiding something.
Haha, yeah, but actually it reminded me of old Web pages. Just text, format it however you want (make the product good yourself!), nothing in the way, just the content.

I'm surprised how much I've gotten used to fancy websites, colors and formatting.
Best rule ppl should remember when it comes to code review is that “ppl want to help you deliver something better if they took the time to give you a constructive feedback”.

But its ofcourse up to YOU how you are going to react on that.
Still No Preference to Opt Out of OCSP
Actually, most if not all the support for Ukraine looks awful a lot like they are trying to gain time to build up back some military strenght into EU.

I suspect if you start to peek behind the curtain, you'll find Reforger alike - or even the step-by-step actual Reforger - actions ongoing right now. At full speed.

Some other red flags would be the quick replacement of key - rather old, unfit for combat duty - officers across NATO forces, fleets of planes constantly being flown out of usual airbases (to prevent massive loses in a surprise attack), big bases in NATO countries emptied of troops (deploying troops in a very wide geographically distributed fashion, to protect them from being mass destroyed - soldiers + hardware - in a surprise attack), many trains and planes traveling / flying with closed windows at very unsual times, to fastly move troops across Europe to be ready for the probably coming war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_Reforger
You are probably right to an extent and I was probably over dramatizing it with the whole 100% part.

But having managed email across all three providers. Microsoft does just ignore rfc’s and basic standards pretty regularly and relies heavily on “AI”.

Google less so.

And when it works it works great. But once you get deliverability issues it’s a pain to resolve with them. Especially if you have to engage support.
And precisely for that reason many companies nowadays don't allow to edit/modify certain fields unless you request support and provide a proof of your identity.
> We have tests to give us confidence that whatever the change did

That's if your engineering leadership cares about testing. In my experience that is a big "if".
this is awesome, thanks for the link!
Sure but I would like to see something more integrated. Browsers are a good example actually, allowing extensions to add all kind of "missing" functionality on websites. We don't have that on mobile or desktop apps and would have been nice. It's one of the strengths of browser based apps.
I guess I can drop my test way down here, too!

Edit: A head thing, I guess? Or a flower?
BTW, solar panels may be bought by the pallet-load for 1/4 what (e.g.) Home Depot charges.

Any roofer can install brackets for them, reliably, and electricians nowadays know how to wire up a system from commodity parts. So there is no need to pay 4x to a solar specialist.

But, yes, battery prices are falling fast. Right now the best way to buy a battery is to buy a used Nissan Leaf and a box to connect it to your house.
Joke reply: sure, but we can pseudo-randomly allocate our time like that.

More seriously:

Many of us can… if it’s enough of a priority to us to accept the consequences. And we’re in such high demand that we often overestimate those consequences.

I’m saying this from experience. I had begged to address a serious security issue, and eventually I just refused to work on anything else until it was fixed. The only consequences were that I overworked myself to see it through.

All of management either supported me when I declared my intention, or let it happen without comment. I even received a substantial, non-routine pay raise in the same period. There was some pressure by one (IIRC, it’s been some time so details are fuzzy) PMish person to move on to feature work, but that pressure was just noise.

Granted communication is essential in this. I made absolutely sure that everyone knew as much as they could understand about the risk factor, and known business impacts (side effects of this issue were also affecting other operations, which wasn’t widely understood by any of us for some time). This knowledge had already been shared prior to my decision to, effectively, go rogue. But the decision had to be mine, because I was the one motivated to fix it without incentive to find more ways to kick that can down the road.

This isn’t meant as a story to glorify myself in any way, for what it’s worth. Just to say that we have more power to direct priorities on the job than most workers do, and more safety in choosing to exercise it than we may realize.
How dare you, you cyan flower vase on wheels :) I'm a spiky small yellow watchtower, yay.
Cheap stuff that used to be wood or metal and last for 100 years has turned into plastic cheap stuff that you write a nyt column about if it manages to survive the demands of regular expected usage for 1 year.
Op here: Any sort of feedback is welcome and deeply appreciated. I am mainly looking if this is a cryptographically sound way to link a wallet to an email. Don't hold back if you have other feedback like alternate use cases or a different user perspective.
The fact that a world famous scientist whose name is synonymous with “genius” was a staunch socialist seems an underplayed point.

Not that we should expect physics expertise to lend credibility to politics. It just seems like everyone knows Einstein and his work but very few know of his politics, which he held so strongly.
One thing I have found beneficial is for the developer making a big change like this to actually write a "human readable" explanation of the changes. Something the reviewer can read and use to understand the context for and purpose of the changes.
Charging that much money for specifically "non-premium" bandwidth is just insulting.
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I'm building productivity tools in public and this is my first one! Would love your feedback and any feature requests!
One reason deletion may not be technically absolute is that tombstone records may be needed to gradually cull the data from things like backups and 3P systems. Usually though these should just be surrogate keys with no human significance. Then ultimately they get purged too.
If I understand your situation correctly, you don't really need to do a migration. The status quo (if you don't pay for GSuite after the deadline) is that you won't be able to receive send new emails, set up videoconferences in Meet, upload new stuff to Drive, etc. However you'll still be able to sign into the account, track your subscriptions in Youtube, install apps you've bought on the Play Store, sign in via OAuth on non-Google websites, etc.

edit: however I'm not sure how storage quotas work and if you'll be able to upload new things on Photos
You have to add bleach or humidistat to evaporative ones or keep them running full time. You also have to replace the media once a month or so. The steam ones are better imho.
Yes, sometimes this requires sending a fictitious identification image to customer support.
Total population was much smaller, communities were smaller, communication was oral. I think all that results in restricted dissemination as well as technologies and techniques that died with the innovators in many instances.
Look up "Things seen this week during structural inspections!" on imgur. Some truly horrifying stuff from that person.

For some of these foundations to still be standing and building occupants not to notice anything's wrong ... I can't even imagine how much safety factor is built-in. If we built software with those margins, nothing would ever ship.

Here's a few:
https://imgur.com/gallery/Ko2jo4j

https://imgur.com/gallery/fD4jCdc

https://imgur.com/gallery/0JyOXy0

Sometimes they share pictures of foundations completely detached from anything. And it keeps working!
Someone blows up a Lamborghini to “criticize greed”, makes NFTs out of pieces
I notice they didn't mention camels during the last ice age in the article. When did they die off from the Arctic?
Well said, that's largely what I was getting at when discussing NASA and self driving vehicle type of applications.
Many of those things mentioned have changed very little in decades. Some have also been under continuous improvement for hundreds or thousands of years.
TIL, thanks! I've added that word.

(In my defense, even the support.mozilla.org docs themselves seem to avoid it; the one I linked only refers to it as "address bar").
You smoke that.
As I understand it, this is an open question, but one explanation has a few factors:

a) In the absence of many external pressures, hunting and gathering is actually a reasonably low-effort and flexible lifestyle. From a moment-to-moment perspective, agriculture (and our "technological" world) mostly doesn't seem like an improvement. Long-term, the quality-of-life improvements come about in resiliency and stability, but those aren't visible to the people making the decision.

b) The transition to agriculture (which triggered the technology explosion) took a long period of luck, including groups of people living in a floodplain for a long enough time to breed plants that were suitable for agriculture. Note that this was an extremely rare thing, in that it probably only happened ~4-5 times in human history and spread everywhere else.
Boil water on a stove - boom, humidity increased!
This is kind of retro - is there any particular reason you stick with VSS other than maybe the difficulty of migrating the file history to something more modern?

I used VSS myself back in the day, but things like git have a lot more features that make things like branching/merging much easier than fighting VSS.

Out of all the version control systems I've used (SCCS,PVCS,Envy/Developer,VSS,SVN and finally git/github), I found github to be the easiest to use whether building my own stuff or collaborating in larger groups. VSS was barely functional compared to even ancient things like sccs.
What phone are you using? This surprises me because most phones are using some sort of sensor fusion to deal with this exact issue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter
In our case, it's effectively "forever" storage. Which is to say, we are obliged to retain data for at least 10 years but targeting 20 years.

At this point we are doing this with on-premise tape backup but that is in part because I'm yet to be convinced that we can trust cloud providers with this, especially since our future retrieval needs are unclear (some outlier scenarios could see us needing to retrieve substantial fractions of the data). Not to mention that even the coldest cloud storage seems to still be substantially more expensive than DIY tape archival (admittedly, not taking into account things like internal IT staff costs etc).
> If you want to undercut an affilate referral, go to the restaurant ditrctlry instead of a third party leadgen site.

The whole issue is that the leadgen site is pretending to be the real restaurant to collect a fee. This isn’t just “why complain that DoorDash takes a fee when you use DoorDash”. It’s “company X is pretending to be restaurant Y in order to add a fee while providing no value added”.
Being on-call I have developed insomnia to the point I'm considering taking sleeping medication nightly...except, of course, the week-nights I'm on call. On-call is just not healthy.
> needs a very very good reason

reason:
https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/editorial-features/...

very good? Nah.

At least the pendulum is swinging away from flashy and more towards useful with the MBP for the moment.
WeChat is the internet for most people.
> It's refreshing to see that tech is now heading in a more socially responsible direction

what are examples of tech heading in a more socially responsible direction?
yeah strava (understandably) wants to upsell you on premium features in the app, they don’t just want to be some middleman for your Garmin app
It's not rational at all, but I'm much more likely to be satisfied at a job if they offer some token benefit, like free smoothies, than if they offer the equivalent smoothie per day price to my salary. Anyone else?
I've also had no luck getting Google to delete an unused Developer Account. They suggest I stop using my Google account and create a new one; abandoning all services in the process.
Apple could implement this with a default of "automatically decline all", allowing users to only manually opt-in when they feel the need without ever seeing a prompt.

If you mean html/css prompts rather than actual browser prompts: they already do that.
I would love to know how you built this! Is there an API to see which domain names are available?