skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welp, you're downplaying IBM too much. IBM got the product direction right earlier than anyone. Watson is a querying system w/ advanced NLP/IR/KRR capability running on dedicated compute chips, and large corps are more or less following this path. It's just that IBM did it too early and used rather old approaches, which doesn't grow well (thus "spaghetti").

Still, Watson is pretty much the only one in its class. There are good alternatives out there that worked well for many people, but they offer only a subset of Watson's feature set. If an organization need some real bang, Watson is the only option.
This looks great! I really like the idea of using tagged template literals for queries.
Copilot can already write your boilerplate for you once it has a single example of how to do it.
It does not look like a button. It's just a label floating around.

When designing user interfaces, use the mantra: "Don't make me think!" Don't make the user think about whether something is a button or not. Don't make them have to infer that the label is in fact a button due to context.

Just make it look like a button!
A British former TV writer who became a very prominent transphobe years ago was just interviewed and claims to have had his life ruined as a consequence of publicly vilifying a vulnerable segment of society. Be prepared for a new wave of anti-trans sentiment wherever you get your content as new people take up his ridiculous crusade.
Anonymous claims it hacked Russia's central bank and will release files
Y'know, people always cite Chesterton's Fence, but they never talk about ways to figure out why the fence was there... that's the blog post I wanna read.
But if there is no universal definition, then why would anyone get upset about being called a women or a man?
Fun and a brilliant little marketing campaign too.
You can get pretty far with one simple principle:

Things that are the same should look the same. Things that are different should look different.
Some song from Kajiura Yuki started playing in my head as I read this headline.
Moving the goalposts, but the decline button in your example looks significantly harder to engage than the join button, and engaging with it would cause at least a twinge of anxiety in anticipation of having to essentially coerce the interface to accept that I do not wish to travel the gilded path.

It frustrates me that this sort of design has become not just acceptable but celebrated as 'correct', and I long for the days when interfaces did their best to seek my enthusiastic consent to my chosen course of action.
Agreed. I put thought into the photo that I'm taking so that one or two is sufficient to capture what I want, and I have image review disabled so I rarely see the image afterwards. I do occasionally check it manually if I'm not sure that I nailed what I was after, but that's not a regular occurrence.
I love french press, but don't often make it because it's a little messy. I tend to do filtered pour overs more often. If you're interested in getting a bit of both worlds, you might want to try the Clever Dripper, which uses immersion brewing like the french press, and a paper filter like a pour over. Haven't tried it myself, but I hear it's great.
How about:

“Actors in this geopolitical region are killing people and destroying infrastructure, and I am going to do everything in my power to disrupt them”

“If more people stood up like this, then either bad actors would have to abandon open-source and pay a dramatic penalty in cost and speed of IT, or they would have to pay open-source maintainers to ensure the . Either way is a win”

“People who don’t like this don’t share my values - they can prioritize the lives of Ukrainians and get on board, or they can maintain a project and provide an alternative, or they can get out of my way while I do something I think is very important”
China sees 'unprecedented' capital outflow since Russia invaded Ukraine
‘I want a beer’: Paralysed man forms one word per hour using brain implant
You could already ask it to do this.
Part of the discussion is that user interface is now a conduit for branding, probably the major conduit for software focused companies. You can't have consistent UI branding across devices unless you replace the UI to suit your branding. So rather than user interface being refined over the years into a consistent usable tool for each platform, by people specifically interested in UI and the paradigms of that platform, it's re-implemented year-over-year, with UX playing second fiddle to branding and design.
Exceptions to a rule are just that - exceptions. They don't refute the general rule.

I might draw a hand with a thumb and four fingers. The fact that some people are born with more or fewer fingers doesn't change the fact I drew a hand.
>You shouldn't be allowed to take money from the public coffers

It's hard to get people to understand how it is "taking money from the public coffers".

Because they think that if the public schools have one fewer student, they should have proportionally less in expenses.

Advocates for the public schools have tried to explain why this isn't true or reasonable for many, many years and it doesn't seem to have accomplished anything.

It might be good to reflect on why.
Fascinating. Care to share any puzzles?
I think one important thing it brings is one-click joining of ad-hoc nodes to the global network.

Also a suite of utilities for concocting your own p2p applications though standardized APIs. But that's more libp2p.
Not really no-code. Let's be honest. The OP is taking steps just like how an experienced SW developer would. Copilot simply cut the need for reading through documentations. This doesn't really say that Copilot can replace programmers.

p.s. Does anyone know when Copilot will update the insecure example on their website? Or are they just trying to be honest with the possible quality issues with the generated code?
I am but an ignorant user, but making you think to do complete one action but not another seems to be a significant part of the point. I find it deeply coercive, and hope to see the other side of this trend sooner rather than later.
> we've been saved from this flat design trend so far

That's false, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26582009

Also in System Settings 5.24:

• switch to sidebar view and examine the buttons at the top of the sidebar

• go Workspace → Workspace Behaviour → Desktop Effects and examine the buttons at the right

• go Workspace → Workspace Behaviour → Virtual Desktops and examine the buttons at the right

• go Workspace → Workspace Behaviour → Activities → Activities and examine the buttons at the right

• go Workspace → Window Management → Window Rules and examine the buttons at the right

• go Workspace → Startup and Shutdown → Autostart and examine the buttons at the right

• the most egregious example: go Personalisation → Regional Settings → Formats and examine the whole dialogue, it is entirely made of frobable regions

• go Network → Connections and examine the buttons at the bottom of the connections list

• go Hardware → Printers and examine the buttons at the top of the dialogue

I do not understand what goes on in the responsible programmers' heads. Why does the implementer reinvent buttons badly, instead of using a standard button? Is there no one reviewing? Is there no one saying "no, we cannot burden a KDE user with this bad usability, I will not merge this code"?
Isn't it about clashing rights?
Thanks :)! I had a blast building this!
> something that remains impossible to this day due to payment providers' transaction fees.

I wonder if you've looked at the Bitcoin transaction fees for a $0.05 payment lately...
Why aren't you making math videos? (2021)
Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring a VP Product Marketing in Video Tech
> This is just anecdata from a random guy on the internet.

You actually have some experience. Thank you.
This is why building software is hard. If people can't classify food in a simple manner who does one expect a software developer to classify it correctly?
> Maybe, maybe not. There's a larger variety of business model behind record labels than what people usually mean when they refer to record labels. They're not all middlemen trying to take a cut out of artists. Those exist, and artists have always railed against the model... and then start their own label.

It's a nice theory, but it doesn't really play out like that. For example, back in the 90s and 00s, indie record labels were all the rage, particularly in the metal world. You had all of these companies like Relapse, Metal Blade and Century Media operating "outside" of the major label system, and you'd think that would protect the artists from middlemen, but it didn't. Those companies absorbed massive amounts of money with relatively small staffs, and much to the detriment of the artists who would often go home with nothing after a tour. I watched it happen so many times that it became pointless to keep count. And don't even get me started on how little they actually supported the artists in any capacity -- they wouldn't even send singles to radio stations when the stations themselves were asking in order to put them into rotation.

There are certainly "good" independent labels, as well as good people working at "bad" major labels. I think almost everyone gets into the business because they love music and want to participate in finding and producing the best talent. However, much like every industry, once the revenue reaches some threshold and the employee counts grow, those altruistic motivations become much more difficult to maintain. Unless the person at the top of the company is wholly dedicated to music and that attitude is able to trickle down to every employee, then labels have a proven tendency to devolve into middlemanning and nickle/diming and worse.

> Labels are mainly a house for all of the logistics behind an artist. No artist wants to spend 90% of their time marketing, merchandizing, booking, etc, etc, etc. They want to create and perform. The label is supposed to enable that. As long as the label does so, then it's worth it.

That's an oversimplification and the last bit is definitely not true. A label is not actually a manager or booking agent or publicist. Labels pay people to do all of those things, in the same way that any musician can. In fact, the biggest function that an indie label provides these days beyond some physical distribution (which is also a third party service), is maintain a list of those managers and booking agents who may be willing to take a meeting with a no-name startup band just because the label vouches for them. That's about it.

More importantly, managers and booking agents still aren't going to do all of the work for you. One of the biggest shocks that bands face when getting signed, is just how much of the business and marketing work they need to do themselves. So at the end of the day, anyone is more than welcome to give away 80% of their gross to a label if they want, but they have to do so understanding that more than 50% of the effort is still going to fall on the band members' shoulders.
I want doctors to not treat studies like “science sez” and instead recognize that “Science is messy”. They should use their training and experience to heal, not the latest publication.
Your definition of capitalism also seems confused, or insufficiently nuanced -- if markets == capitalism, then what is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism?
Only about fifty bands on the list make Rome a key lyrical focus, too. I've listened to metal since I was a kid, and I can count the Rome related songs on one hand.

I'd wager there are more songs about Jesus, for or against, than any emperor.
I don’t think anyone thought decentralized architecture was faster. There are other benefits people think outweighs the trade offs.
Raw video on M magic lantern looks absolutely stunning unless you explicitly need 4K to my eye and manipulation beats hands down droll quality of compressed video.
Again, my list of alternatives: https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/1password

KeePass is looking better with every release, but I have switched to Secrets since I like the UX and don’t want to run any kind of sync service myself.
Wow, that's amazing, thanks for the insight :-)
Could you share your style? I'd like to use it too.
Thank you, good idea!
Additionally, dietary cholesterol doesn't increase blood cholesterol levels for the most part
Making this work for e2e encryption will be fun ...
Even though it is based on mostly human written code, Copilot makes mistakes that are different from the type human coders typically make. It will take a different skill set to detect and correct the errors made by systems like Copilot. The same is true for self-driving cars. This doesn't mean that we shouldn't use these technologies, just that there will be adaptations to our behavior we'll need to make if we want to make use of them.
Probably not; he was just using rdtsc to try to figure out why there was so much variability in the absolute timeouts he was specifying with timerfd_settime, and my impression was that he gave up and just accepted the 30% hit rate --- which is absurdly high for such a tight race.
> You seem to be implicitly assuming that the human on the phone has more power than the one behind a ticket system, but there's no reason to believe that.

It is not necessarily about power, it is about judgement. However clever or 'smart' the systems we design, there is still a vast gap between what automation can understand and what a human can understand. There are countless examples of a system only doing what it was told to do, where any human with an IQ higher than 80 would immediately recognize that the system is being incredibly dumb and wrong in this particular case.

There needs to be some last resort for the victims of those errors when there are real consequences to these mistakes.
Also doesn’t mean it isn’t.
I do something similar with any recipe I get. I go through the list of ingredients and draw brackets around things that go together, then indicate which order the "buckets" join together.

That way, I can prepare things directly into bowls (or directly into pans) together.

I also call out which one needs to go first if there is one. For example, softening butter in the microwave needs to happen first, because it's a combi microwave and oven and I'll need it as an oven later.
> scientist comes along, saying we should change how we do it

That doesn’t sound like science. An example or pointer would be helpful.
It's not very clear to me it's clickable.. Is it an action, or a link to a different page/view? If it's an action (accept/decline invite), make it a button. If it's navigation, make it a text link. You are giving totally disparate cues to the user when the actions taken upon clicking are of the exact same type.

My initial reaction to a piece of text directly next to a button is "why is there random unrelated text there?" and then the sensation of anger as I come to the realization someone consciously decided to make me think about the UI more than I needed to. It's purely a distraction.

Just make it look like a button. There is literally zero reason not to, and you can eliminate the chance of confusion. Why increase the possibility of uncertainty at all? What value does that provide to anyone?

Every UI or design element that causes me to think about it wastes precious moments I could have been thinking about something I actually cared about, for example the actual task I was in the middle of. On top of that, when you use unconventional design, even after someone learns the seemingly-arbitrary, specific quirks of the design you've used, you will cause them to think about it all again later when you redesign the application.
EU negotiators agree landmark law to reign in US tech giants
There is definitely a hoarding part, the saving grace being that taking and storing dozens of thousands of pictures doesn't cost much nor incur severe penalties compared to the IRL counterpart.

On looking back at pictures, people have wildly different relations with the pics they take, for me it's in lieu of a diary and I'll look at series from a specific time frame, and not individual "favorited" photos like some people do. In that respect it's hard to tell beforehand which pictures will be meaningful after 10 years, but it still feels worth to have the whole complete stream.

> Why is this so?

If I was asked for a photo of some place for a middle school handmade newspaper, I'd hate to have to check what's the licenses on the photos from the net and read 20 pages of legalese in the case it falls under a commercial use because they sell the paper 50 cents a unit. Or if I were to use one on a freelance blog, etc.

It's not a rational calculation, just the comfort of not having to care at all about who took the shot, for what purpose and audience etc. and just use pictures I like for whatever, wherever I want.
Content I find interesting, fair but firm moderation keeping the vibe in check, constructive conversations by and large. I never really notice the UI personally.
Right, but my point is "not DNSSEC-signed" does not seem to be the same as "free of configuration errors that prevent resolution of the name with DNSSEC enabled".
What does global maximum even mean? The best animal of all? Evolution did at least create the most powerful animal, us.
>If we take that argument to the extreme then people without kids shouldn’t pay school taxes at all

I don't see that as an argument or related. That is, it's obviously wrong, but doesn't reflect on the other thing, I don't think.

People already got the benefit of schooling, whether or not they have kids, so it's just a matter of paying it back through taxes.
>The benefits of distributes systems becomes bigger the larger the network. Replicate the same results with 100 nodes and we'll see.

That's true. I would be interested in an experiment to show how many IPFS host would be needed to reach parity to FTP and other protocols.

I'm also wondering if IPFS can't be integrated in CDNs.
For us older folks, that feature is “dead people of the day” and honestly, I could do without it.
Of course there are ancient, rarely updated guidelines that almost all applications ignore. Microsoft indeed has that great guide, and yet their own applications implement it inconsistently, and often incorrectly according to the guidelines. Apple is a tad bit better, but third party apps rarely get it right. The best thing Apple has going for it is specifically on the question of where Settings is: there is a dedicated app menu, so it just makes logical sense to put Settings there. Or was it Preferences? Options.

> On Linux, it should be under the "Edit" menu, and called "Preferences".

This one is a stretch, there are no such consistent and agreed-upon guidelines.

My point here is that just because things can be abused (or even, in the case of desktop applications, are almost _always_ abused), doesn't mean the general concept is useless or should be removed from applications. I would recommend instead of trying to cram a hundred possible actions into a tiny icon bar at the bottom of your iPhone, or removing 97 of those actions from the app itself and leaving just the most basic three down there, to maybe consider building a sensible and well-arranged menu layout _if and when_ you need more than those three that you can fit at the bottom.
Schechter Letter
A lot of artists don't perform. I rely on streaming income. It nets a lot more than digital sales.
And at one point it was lightning and everything else was micro-usb. Some
of lightning cables from back then still work. Changing connectors is ewaste.
Not so much. I am not asking those that claim, "God does not exist," to disprove their claim. Regardless of whether the claim is negative or affirmative, the burden of proof is upon the claimant, which is not me.
Indeed, you are right, those buttons have no border and no background.
The hotkey you want is ⌘⌥F. (But I just checked, and ⌘F now also works in Postico 2.)
> And there are a lot of behaviors that are not functioning well.

The worst of which are dropdowns, lists or menus that inserts new items right over where your mouse is so that you accidentally click on the wrong thing.

All browsers do this for the dropdown that appears when typing in the URL bar. I type a few letters, see the site I want is 3 down in the dropdown, hit the down arrow three times and press enter, only to find that the item changed as I was hitting the down arrow.

And don't get me started on user elements that have a new position in the menu system for every release, if they even have a decent menu system.
> Qt 6 […] there are no visual changes so far

That's false, examine Strawberry 1.0.2 running in KDE 5. The menus have the wrong background colour. The font size is wrong.
> Any plans for Knex support?

That question doesn't really make sense. I'm not familiar with this library, but the developer interface is very similar to slonik. The whole point of this is that SQL tagged template literals replace the need for a query builder like Knex.

Here is a good blog post from the author of slonik explaining: https://gajus.medium.com/stop-using-knex-js-and-earn-30-bf41...
> For example, on Mac: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

> And on Windows: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/uxguide/cmd-m...

Both links return 404.
TablePlus (https://tableplus.com/) is better.

Or Sequel Ace (https://github.com/Sequel-Ace/Sequel-Ace) if you need to interact with MySQL databases, or similar, like MariaDB.

Also, the poster should have linked to Postico 2 — https://eggerapps.at/postico2/
> never ending stream of terrible research

When I was in elementary school, I saw the same thing. People forced to write essays on things they were not necessarily good at, just in order to advance to the next year. The result, of course, was a crapton of half-assed essays, many of which were bullshitted together not long before the deadline. I sincerely doubt even half of them where in any way useful whatsoever.

At least in my school, few people improved their essay skills over time. Maybe they learned more technically impressive ways to bullshit, but their writing did not improve. (Some people's writing improved, but often they turned out to be writing things on their own interest in their spare time.)

I know at the time I said to myself, "This is dumb, but it's just school. It's not like this for adults, of course. They have their shit together."

Turns out many adults still do that!

This is bad on so many levels it's bordering on unintentional evil. Someone should start a revolution.
It is just a menu.

But instead of being an ordinary honest menu where half the items has their defined places on each OS and the rest can be found easily it is a jumbled mess.

And since there are no standards as for where to put things in a hamburger menu they can move around between each release of the application.

And the only reason to use it instead of an honest menu is because Chrome does it so therefore it must be a good idea. Period.

It is somewhat ironic that even as desktop screens get larger and larger applications has to "maximize real screen estate" by removing menus, while simultaneously working to remove real screen space improvements like the option of Tree Style Tabs on Firefox (yes, it kind of works and it is still awesome but it get harder and harder by the year).
How about an example, please.
Actually, forums like EZBoard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezboard) and I think Proboards had a SSO solution (EZBoard Gold).

Forums, for reasons we could go into, just never were as compelling to most people as Reddit's solution, though they are good for other things.
I wonder if it would be possible to store the lights in a 4d spatial data structure with the fourth dimension being intensity, and then find the k nearest neighbors as defined by something akin to the minkowski metric?
> On the FAIRTIQ side, we do not support this authorisation model yet as we don’t provide an open API

So I guess the message from the article is "we love that others provide open APIs but we can't bother".