skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of accessibility, there was a meeting about using a headless cms at my company, so the team involved in it presents the product, something like strapi or something like that, and I ask like "Does it support accessibility features like tts/aria? And they say like "Oh but I don't think we need accessibility for this internal tool"

But also at past companies there was never the idea that internal tools had to support accessibility features, as we give for granted that we would never hire people with some sort of disability and they are just users that stay at home, it's sad and upsetting, as a person who doesn't need any accessibility feature to operate now, I really feel sorry for others who do, and I hope that I will never need them, because like your situation with products at employers like control panels and similar is very sad
Also, things like collections have been on sites like docs.microsoft.com[0] for some time. I find it somewhat odd personally to gate documentation-related features behind a membership fee, but I do not have full context on MDN product decisions or roadmap.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/app-service/quickstart-node...
I read every single top-level comment, and not a single one seems "entitled" to me.
A Look at the Evolution of Benchling’s Search Architecture
Indeed! Well, great points made. Hope the OP gets something they can use from our chatter.

I am always a supporter of new media takes. It is not very good now. Maybe one of these takes off and we see an improvement.
I wholeheartedly agree.

For a MVP, it's hard to beat Phoenix Framework channels and Liveview, and if you want to completely decouple the UI from the backend with something like a native app, or separate webapp, it's absurdly easy to just add the resources to a route that goes through the :api pipeline instead of the :browser.

Once you are ready to outgrow a single machine deployment, the BEAM clusters so well in a way that works the same on your dev machine. Also if you want to get really complicated multi-service design, Umbrella apps are leagues better than docker-compose setups that I have had on dev machines that make a 16G Macbook pro instantly put everything into swap.
If "time to ship" is actually important, than why do most companies go to the work of making three separate codebases for their applications - Android, iOS, and web?

As to "availability", desktop app stores have become more prevalent over time, not less - which means that if this actually were a contributing factor, you would see more developers and people using desktop software, not less.

And as to "discoverability", there's no mutual exclusion between a webapp and a native application - in fact, the two values add. Making both makes your application strictly more discoverable.

All of these reasons seem somewhat disconnected from reality. I'm pretty sure the reason is simpler: companies want to get the highest ratio of revenue/users to development costs that they can (regardless of the negative externalities toward users e.g. performance and UX), and the trifecta of Android+iOS+webapp (combined with the fact that consumers now accept web applications in lieu of desktop ones) allows them to do that.
But why? People who know those individuals can easily know what they did and they're just meaningless names to everyone else. Credits in movies are ridiculous. What even is a "best boy grip" and why does everyone need to know his name? With actors, it makes sense and the audience gets value from that. But do people have favorite best boy grips that put some special touch on the movie to make it better than all those others?

Do you want names of engineers on physical products too? Brand names and compliance logos are bad enough.
where is a good place to discuss current and proposed Tails OPSEC

most of the stuff I find on Tor is very outdated, still enough relevant to piecemeal some decent OPSEC, but being able to bounce ideas of people objectively seems to be lacking - or I don't know the communities

there is the tor reddit page, but reddit is periodically hostile to tor connections. dread on tor is often down, so thats annoying, but I found onion services within tor often had the best information on using tor
Education is a fundamental human right. It needs to be provided to all, including those who can’t afford to pay for it. I view providing it as more important than maintaining some abstract right to non-taxation. Plenty of systems that are suboptimal can still nonetheless add value and I think public education is one of those.

On the funding point, for elementary and high school education the US has a rather poor funding record. It’s only when you include the costs of providing university education that the US is the most expensive. Many US states spend half of what Ontario does on K-12 education and Ontario has a much higher educational attainment.
This is great! I'm glad to have a way to directly support MDN for the work that they do. MDN is by far the most valuable part of the work Mozilla puts out.
OP was clearly specific: EXEC salaries, not engineers and developers. And I'm not sure I would want their current execs there even if they indeed worked for free, not to mention at their absurdly high, grossly underserved salaries while they butcher the company all the way down.

So yeah, find me a way to finance Firefox only, and not the funny projects, and to ensure that not a single cent goes to their execs (neither directly nor through some creative accounting, where they reduce engineer salaries to offset the cashflow from this new stream, and pocket the savings), and you have my 10 bucks a month for the next 8 years (and possibly longer, but let's see what they do in 8 years). I won't move the goalposts and I'll make good on my promise.
Hard disagree. Borland was successful before Microsoft's DOS was mainstream. They had their Turbo "everything" in 80's when DOS was struggling to kill DR, their direct competitor at the time.

What you remember is probably Turbo 7.0, which was the most used of their products and that was in 90's when Microsoft was king now for IMB compatible OS.

As for Windows, let's not forget that Microsoft had to kill OS/2 first and even after that, they had a full decade before XP unified gaming and NT under one roof. Up to that point you'd dual boot a W98 for gaming and a (W2K or W3.51)/NT for business
I think my post major car accident care (x-rays, ct, ambulance ride - had concussion) 10 years ago cost me $100 all said and done on my parents' kaiser plan in California.

When I walked into a kaiser urgent care last year for serious back pain I had chest X-rays and a CT and I paid $20.

The major issue is that you only get that kind of healthcare working for a decent company (and using an HMO plan). Not everyone has the access and that's the issue.
Yes. Blade + Razor.
To those building offline desktop apps today, what database do you use and how do you handle migrations and the like?

I had some ideas for desktop apps (with electron and nwjs), but that's where I got stuck (and lack of time of course).
Steam supports non-game software, but they haven’t managed to attract all that many sellers to their marketplace.
This comment is a bit ironic. Particularly your last sentence.
With the added joy that now all the different cables don't even look different any more. Same plug on everything. What an upgrade!
See also: the Ernest Becker quote featured in my profile.

The Denial of Death was a life-changing read for me.
>Second, the critiques themselves often have serious flaws, and then those have serious flaws, and it sort of goes on forever. I find this aspect of reality very frustrating, but most discussions seem to be an infinite regress carried on until someone gets exhausted and leaves.

There are two types of criticisms: criticism out of disagreement with the thesis, or a criticism that undermines the reasoning or conclusion of the thesis itself. The latter is much worse. Good journalists and writers try to keep the second to a minimum as it can come at a major cost to credibility.
Im not an expert here, but from what I have read - every one of those programs are not getting funding because of a larger disinterest in nuclear power per se.

Im fact US, China, Russia, etc have all a thorium reactor in some stage of late stage development.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor
Apple will reportedly sell the iPhone as a subscription service
This. How about an algorithm to predict aesthetic appeal?
All the things mentioned in other comments are valid - but for me easiest one and biggest:

SaaS gives you recurring revenue that one time install is not giving, because for desktop single install even if you release new version people might or might not buy it. So it is far easier to earn money with web-apps than desktop.
I remember manually migrating my Slackware install from a.out to ELF around that time. Maybe it was 1996.
Getting worked up enough about a random internet comment to go to that length to try to humiliate the person is immature. Especially with a fraudulent job application.

Here, let's try something out: Neatze, I think you're a big ol idiot.

Now, what is your response going to be? Will you just shake your head and move on with your life? Or will you try to e-stalk me, set up a fake job interview for me, just so you can get a one up on me?

Probably not, because I bet you're more mature than the dude in the video.
medical bills get sent to collections just like any other bill
> There hasn't been much of an effort to convert these to USB-C, so they all need dongles.

Not that they really improve the situation itself, but you can also get USB-A to USB-C adapters[1] (and vis versa[2]). Having a few of both on hand has come in handy as I find myself having the wrong port available for the cord/device I need to plug into it. Which seems to be happening more and more often (both for charging needs and peripherals like you mentioned). Can be useful in situations when a dongle is overkill for your needs, or where a dongle isn't really an option to use for the USB-A/USB-C conversion (such as a charger).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Anker-High-Speed-Transfer-Not...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Syntech-Compatible-Chargers-Standard-...
They do hire a lot of contractors for facility works. And keep in mind, all these jobs are usually very highly paid. These highly paid individuals will spend their money locally, want to buy a house. It's definitely good for the economy.

Having many data centers in one spot, attracts even more data centers. Look at Loudon County. One of the highest income counties in all the U.S.
No they need to pocket 8 million dollars and fire developers, absolutely
I don’t understand this comment. Would you mind explaining?
It's like MasterClass, but for people who are bad at expressing their feelings
I've always wanted to know more about spy tradecraft (e.g. dead drops, number stations, and the like), and this kind of has the same vibe as that.
Very interesting – thanks!

For reference, https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS720+ lokos like a representative model. Seems to offer competitors to Google Photos, Drive, Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and more…
I think the coalition of private school voters is incredibly small relative to public school ones. There is a much larger block of voters to oppose measures that cost the system money than there is to support measures that save private school users money. I think you do have to convince public school users they will save money to have the votes. Public school users only save money by the behaviour change I posited.
I don't think that with "standard databases" you get "stuck". But I do buy that they're harder to scale
Be careful about stopping there. You can often find devastating criticism of the criticism too!

I don't remember who -- maybe Scott Alexander -- brought this up in the context of saying that maybe intelligent people don't suffer enough from confirmation bias.

Intelligent people are so ready to drop their pre-existing beliefs in the face of good arguments that what determines their opinion in the end is not necessarily truth, but at which point they stopped reading criticisms of criticisms of criticisms of criticisms of the original thesis.

With a tiny bit more confirmation bias, intelligent people might be slightly more inclined to stick with popular opinion, and their accuracy might improve as a result.
I just don't know, svelte feels way too similar to the "magic" of knockout and angular 1.0 when looking at the output... Something I got burnt by with weird edge cases of update loops or desync.

Svelte might have that all reasoned out though, in which case the harder separation of logic and view is the only stickler for me, and transpiling JSX into svelte would be interesting to see.
I'd appreciate a pay-what-you-want option. (I still subscribed for $50 annual because you called me out, promise I'm not shilling!)
Great work, congrats! Another app Beeline Reader[0] seems a lot similar to this. It was launched many years ago I suppose. All the best with the product!

[0] https://www.beelinereader.com/
I think its about Missouri pretending that a journalist writing about publicly exposed information in HTML was a criminal violation
Just wanted to say that I love MacUpdater! It’s focus on usability and getting the app to function with so many types of updaters is what makes it a “classic macOS app” that is always a must-have for me.

I work exclusively on desktop apps nowadays, creating https://lowtechguys.com and https://lunar.fyi and I can say there are a few very annoying issues with this desktop ecosystem.

1. Auto-updating
2. Payments and licensing
3. Friction on trying the app

If you think about it, a web app can be instantly used by loading an URL, is automatically updated with a simple deployment, and you can just slap a Stripe Checkout on it and have payments.

On desktop, all those things have to be solved by hand with various combinations of frameworks/libraries.

The macOS App Store for example solves all the above issues, but its sandbox limitations can make an app impossible. Lunar for example is not allowed on the App Store, and my rcmd app switcher is still missing window switching because App Store restricts apps from fetching windows of other apps.

Of course, all those issues can be seen as advantages by other people:

1. Immutable code (no auto updating means the dev can't break or rip out features from a working app)
2. Free apps (licensing being so hard, a lot of small apps are released for free because the devs have capitulated on the payment front)
3. Works offline (installing apps is not that hard really)
Yeah. but the HTGR probably loses in the cost of the reactor what it could save in the powerset. The power density is low so the reactor vessel is big for its power output.
>But for me, it annoys me when people write long missives about some stuff they barely understand but feel good to them. They usually aren't trying to understand, they aren't trying to help other people understand, and certainly aren't helping out the authors whom they are criticizing.

This usually happens when people make a snap judgment based off the title and maybe the first few sentences of an article without reading further.
US nuclear war damage visualization using OPEN-RISOP targeting data
I think the less friction there is between the words on a screen and you having them in your head, the more readily you're going to absorb it. And attention is a demanding resource to expend, even if non-ADHD people don't notice it due to having ample supply.

But yes, this would be awesome to see as a browser extension. Maybe I'll get around to it at some distant point in the future.
What is the best way to make an offline copy?
Most of the comments here are incredibly dystopian - automation is bad, rehire the editor you've replaced at 75% of the salary, stop pushing engagement, what brings the company most money, megacorporation pushing slushy mass....

Jesus!! Man, didn't know recsys invokes such vitriol.

There are dozens of news apps on smart TVs these days. Under the covers, it's pretty much the same deal - in go the raw feeds. Editors always do a first pass. Recsys algos do the 2nd pass. Ranking algos come in next. Personalization is usually last. Out comes the news. Viewers then have their say with thumbs up & downvotes. Those get fed back into personalization. On & on it goes...

Its not magic. Its not perfect. But its how pretty much every smart tv news app works under the hood. There's dozens of them. Pick any one of them that works well on your TV for your temperament, I guess. Recsys is just a standard comp science discipline. We have our textbooks, our journals, our papers. We all read the same stuff, pretty much roll the same code with minor frills.

Nobody's out to get you.
Is fire a fhir pun? I chuckled at it for a second but then remembered the horrorshow that is my current workload.
I guess I don't see how this is better than using LDAP or AD authentication on each host?

Also, users tend to hate having to always relogin to SSO; maybe that's because the implementations have poor UX, and maybe there's no secure way around it.
It felt like such a missed opportunity. It was network capable, but that 'network' was dialup. The Dreamcast launched at the very beginning of the 'broadband' wave and had missed catching it.

It was also sadly (in the US at least) against PS2s which could play DVDs; which was also (IIRC) one of the less expensive DVD players of the era.
Just one exposure of the assistant is many orders of magnitude more exposure than this guy had for the entire experiment.

It's not really comparable.
While I agree with you on broad strokes, I'm sure, somewhere, someday, somebodies concerns over the security implications of a logging framework (e.g. Log4J) were brushed under the table by a statement like that.
The author seems to want more of this[0] kind of high-quality refutation. Here's another, this time a blog post[1] and a rebuttal[2]. Very different examples, one in medical science and the other just blogosphere musings, but both are public counters to public originals, rather than direct communications with the original's authors.

That said, I'm not clear on why the author thinks that we're at a "turning point" in deciding whether it's socially acceptable to just publish an argument against something else that was published. Maybe in the scientific community that's a strict norm? It certainly doesn't seem to be in the blogging community.

Maybe the author is worried that good arguments are lost in the semi-private twitter scuffle with the original authors of papers and articles? Maybe they hope that people will respond to broadcasted arguments intended for the general public with counter-arguments that are also broadcasted, instead of directed? I don't know. It feels like I'm missing the article's "prompt".

0. https://kylesheldrick.blogspot.com/2022/03/evidence-of-fabri...

1. https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/why-we-stopped-making-einste...

2. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/contra-hoel-on-aristoc...
West as in the US?
21yo here, I think Kerberos is bloody awesome, but then I was introduced to it by a somewhat old timer, who showed me its benefits when properly integrated in the company.
Afik, only Scott any maybe one of two other bloggers does this. It's so rare. Most bloggers write for major publications and do not see incoming traffic stats, nor do they care all that much what others say.
The person you replied to was specific as well. Execs are paid well industry wide. If you aren't willing to pay market rates then you aren't going to get competent leadership to manage organizations at that scale.
Just tried with Canon TS6340 (which claimed to be supported).
Doesn't work at all.

To be honestly, TS6340 is bad creature (as a scanner). I regret buying it.

Well, as a printer it is ok.
Firefox has easter eggs AND visible credits. The former I won’t tell. The latter is about:credits.
Yeah, this is pretty clear. They lost it within the first ten days into the war, if by 'lost' you mean much worse off than not having started the war in the first place.

They still may or may not end up with Ukraine as a vassal state; that's just a question of how much Russia lost, not whether they lost.
> This change does not apply to our other plans: ... GitLab for Open Source

Doesn't that solve the issue for those projects?
Your success will depend on some claims you are making. I really hope you are just brief here, and have it amply written up elsewhere with real data. It always a major let-down when I meet with the inventors/idea folks and I find out there is a lot of hand-waving about claims, facts, and data.

Good luck!
He's American, it probably costs him thousands just to book it.

I'm from a third world hellhole and it costs me just 8 bucks to do it.
Do not immediately assume that they do. Only those who have management that recognizes the need to have those experts even have a shot at getting them.

If they do have the required staff it still might not be readily available due to org chart boundaries.

Unclear if GitHub has the staff or if they are able to draw from the larger Microsoft pool.

If they keep having issues I expect Microsoft to push them to move everything to MSSQL
The only 3rd party requests I see on their pages are Google analytics and a CDN'd js lib. Hell yes I'll throw them some cash if they'll keep their core product free for folks who don't use it often/can't afford it. I'd love to see them get rid of google analytics even, but compared to most it's pretty clean.

What pisses me off is when someone like a newspaper will start charging AND keep 4 TB of tracking garbage every single page load. Get lost.
Qt is not nearly as easy to use as Electron, especially if you're a small company and need to hire front end devs for cheap.

Also Qt GUIs look like garbage, but it's hard to quantify why.
That would void your warranty. And $100 is more a rural fee. In a major city, it's gonna run you more than that. Or, get any other monitor and replacing the cable is about 6 bucks.
“There seems to be an inborn drive in all human beings not to live in a steady emotional state, which would suggest that such a state is not tolerable to most people. Why else would someone succumb to the attractions of romantic love more than once? Didn’t they learn their lesson the first time or the tenth time or the twentieth time? And it’s the same old lesson: everything in this life—I repeat, everything—is more trouble than it’s worth. And simply being alive is the basic trouble. This is something that is more recognized in Eastern societies than in the West. There’s a minor tradition in Greek philosophy that instructs us to seek a state of equanimity rather than one of ecstasy, but it never really caught on for obvious reasons. Buddhism advises its practitioners not to seek highs or lows but to follow a middle path to personal salvation from the painful cravings of the average sensual life, which is why it was pretty much reviled by the masses and mutated into forms more suited to human drives and desires. It seems evident that very few people can simply sit still. Children spin in circles until they collapse with dizziness.”
― Thomas Ligotti
Anyone have experience with using SSHFP records to avoid the so-called anti pattern of trust on first use?
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