skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. The major sin of modern UI/UX is the desire to create a one-size-fits-all experience that works for both touch devices and desktops, when in reality the work styles of touch devices and desktops are very different. Unfortunately Windows (since Windows 8), macOS (since Big Sur), and GNOME (since GNOME 3) have sought (and continue to seek) these unified designs that work okay on touch devices but are a downgrade on desktops. The desktop reached its zenith in the late 2000s with Windows 7, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, GNOME 2, and KDE 3, and today's desktops are a downgrade from these (though KDE Plasma is nice and is an improvement over KDE 3).

I'll go as far as to say that the desktop experience hasn't received much love by major software companies; since the late 2000s the money has gone toward smartphones, tablets, and the Web. Since those platforms get the attention, the desktop is increasingly getting populated with ports of smartphone and Web apps; hence, Windows Metro/UWP, Catalyst, Electron, and the like.
Curious. I run several profiles of Firefox, on macOS and Linux (Ubuntu derivative) and it works in all cases that I've tested.

I hope it eventually works for you -- I also prefer the old behaviour when doing multiple downloads in quick succession.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Performance-Evaluation... has the graphs showing just how bad IPFS is.

People should judge IPFS on this, not p2p file systems or DHTs generally. Bitorrtent for example would do a lot better on those large file tests.
That happens sometimes when you move up an abstraction level. I bet "self.count += 1" is a lot longer than the machine code it generates.
First time doing a Show HN. I learnt to build iOS apps over the pandemic and wanted to do something so I stop scrolling and control the content I consume. Took a while to put together different sources and would love any feedback on it!
> Putting aside cats, there are plenty of diseases that impact humans which don’t get researched enough due to very rare, e.g. <1 in 100 million people.

Sure, and is that a problem? Should we as a society not apportion medical research spend to the most impactful areas? I'm curious to what extent the misalignment of incentives is due to capitalism as opposed to the actual need being lopsided

> It’s certainly a very big need to the people who suffer from or are dying from rare problems.

I totally agree. At the same time society cannot put all of its resources in support of very rare cases at the expense of common issues of similar seriousness
Ah, so it's that. Audiences have no reason to care who does that job. It surely has no creative impact on the movie. It's just some weird culture of crediting everyone and his dog. A similar problem exists in academic papers. At least my builder doesn't write his name all over my walls.
Overall, I agree with this. Though there are some interesting cases that people bring up around certain translations, like certain translations referring to Joseph as Jesus's father, calling Jesus the "morning star", and ones that lend themselves more to the Trinity being real versus it not existing. Those cases are more interesting as deeper knowledge and whose debates shed a lot of insight on the history of the Bible and its translations. But overall, the teachings of Jesus and His disciples are not often debated between versions since they do not change significantly, as you've noted.
You'd think so, but history shows different. If everyone has the same extra money, prices go up to match. It's a type of inflation I guess.
Yeah, you can count on old.reddit.com sticking around. What are they going to do, deprecate it in favor of some new dark-pattern-filled UI?
Japanese gov/corporations have a natural aversion to directly dealing with customers at scale.

They’ll want a proxy layer of third party corporations, which can then deal with the minutia of exposing it to end customers. Canon/Nikon/Fuji/Olympus have SDKs and partnerships, they just don’t want to deal with the individual customers.
That's not really an impediment in the Zcash case you're mentioning. Upon making a withdrawal to a transparent address, you can immediately do another transfer to a shielded address. Some wallet apps explicitly include a feature to automate exactly this ("auto-shielding") [1].

Exchanges don't need to have this limitation, and some others don't have such a limitation. Gemini, to name probably the most prominent example, supports withdrawing to shielded addresses [2].

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nighthawkapps.wallet.android/
[2] https://www.gemini.com/blog/youre-one-step-closer-to-financial-freedom-with-shielded-zec-withdrawals
I'm so grateful for today's software diversity which allows me to so easily abandon and unsubscribe from non-consensual interface changes such as this one completely and switch to a different environment as many times as I need to until I find one which just maintains the interface which I want.

(Which is basically Windows 95 with a few minor additions.)
If I have coffee after 3-4pm I can’t bloody sleep until 2-3am. So it’s definitely a thing. What I’m trying to say is coffee does shit to your body. In my case it has happened so time that I know for sure now and sometimes actually use it - usually during long motorcycle rides (I tend to fall asleep pillion Or otherwise) :)

Fortunately I do not have daily tea or coffee habit. I consume them once in a while purely for taste in restaurants and cafes if they’re known for serving a good brew.

I know people who bring coffee in their lives explicitly. Buying those costly equipments, those branded beans. Feels like cigarette and liquor to me - developing a taste, forcefully.
Just to clarify, it's not really no-code: pseudocode is the new bytecode it would seem and this is just compiling that into usable code.

You still need to be able to code and understand what you're doing. You can't just ask simple questions and get complex answers. You still have to be capable of asking complex questions.

A common scenario I can think if is where I struggle to remember the name or API of the exact thing I want to do but I know exactly how it works - typing that in and getting a result would improve my workflow, but it's just saving a trip to Google, we're not talking the difference between doing and not doing, just a saving a minute.

I would rate the value of this more as interesting rather than useful, simply because as another commenter highlighted it's just easier to write code. It could be useful incrementally but not for everything.
Didn't I read somewhere that electrons flow in the opposite direction from electricity? So they probably aren't that important. Maybe getting rid of them would make the electricity go faster!
> I thought that file fragments are strewn across more nodes typically, with some redundancy.

In real world use, this is rarely the case on IPFS. Almost everyone who is trying to make files available via IPFS reliably is pinning the files themselves using a server they operate.
> knowing what is unused and what isn't

Or what I run into “Is this used …. and does it even ‘work’?!?!”
TLTR: The international laws on war are based on the fiction that only armies are fighting. The article is also quite gender-biased, even insulting.

I consider that the fight of Ukraine against Putin's invasion is fundamentally the defense of Human Rights and democracy.

However, the ban of leaving the country for men doesn't necessarily imply the obligation for all of them to carry a weapon.

Just consider the millions of men in Ukraine and the few hundreds thousands who are on the front.

In such a war, fighting is not only on the front. The nurse is fighting, even in an hospital hundreds of miles from the front. A cook who prepare meals for the drivers need to supply the front, he is fighting too.

The LGBT+ case is - in my opinion - very dubious and even insulting. As if a gay man could not be a warrior. Many other men are facing specific threats if captured, like elected officials who organize civil defense, Jewish people will probably be mistreated or worse etc.

Mothers and their children, aged people, and people who need it for various reasons should be evacuated. But I can't help feeling that the restriction on men only is nothing but a gender bias, like the LGBT+ already mentioned.

Women can fight, both in the front or wherever they are or feel more relevant to. Kurdish women have proved it quite enough, among many other examples. You don't need a pair to be a warrior. Women, gays, queers, transgenders, ..., can fight as hard as heterosexual men.

In the end, the whole article is based on the idea that only "army men" are supposed to fight in a war. That may be true according to international laws, but these laws are a pure fiction. During the XXth century, more than 80% of casualties were civilians.

A war is a fight of two countries, not two armies. Not that I like it, but just look at the facts. Ukraine is fighting back as a country, hence their incredible toughness and fortitude.
That seems like the least charitable interpretation of the facts I can imagine. Nonetheless if it’s true, Apple doesn’t just wing it when someone goes rogue on full design language redesigns.
I recommend testing Yerba Mate as an alternative to coffee. For me drinking even one or two cups of coffee can give a bad, anxious mood later in the day as caffeine withdraws. Meanwhile Mate seems to give similar energy, but the withdrawal feels more gradual, not giving me such bad mood.

Just get green, non smoke-dried version if you can.
Large parts of VSCode is implemented in C++ and running webassembly to avoid the problems with electron. An electron app that doesn't have parts in webassembly can't be as good as VSCode.
Why can’t users just sign up with email instead?
"Even $20 meals can sway doctors, study finds"

https://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Fancy-meals-can-sway-d...
Isn't matlab's everything java-based?
Apparently the Librem 5 has been making a lot of progress on being usable, but there's still a long delay between placing an order and getting it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30760883
I use Java and just scp a jar over followed up by a ssh to restart via systemd.
The irony is I'm amazed at the subreddits that exist and its a YC Top Company @ #10!

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reddit
XMonad has also escaped the visual design fads quite well.
Dynamic method dispatch done in an un-grep-able way. Gets me every time.
Deepmind Alphafold: A Gift to Humanity (twominutepapers)
It would be cool if you could do an analysis of the alternative medicine people.
Given that ribose is a carb inside larger non-carb structures such as RNA, it makes our genetic code, and us humans as a whole, a nacho by the cube rule. I'm ok with it.
> By the 2001 there was tons and tons of films available in DivX, but by that time it was definitely not '90s.

Yeah, well, early 00's were kinda like 90's. And, yes the PS2 was the cheapest DVD player ever. Still, I'd consider DivX the bridge between mid 90's multimedia PC concept and the modern MP4 and later MKV players.
Think of GitHub copilot as StackOverflow on steroids -- a quick way to write code when you're not sure how to achieve what you're trying to do.

After all, "How to parse a CSV file in Python" is longer than "csv.reader(file)" but without knowing that "csv.reader" exists, you have no other way but to tell Google what you need.
In theory high school algebra should be enough if you go through in order. Feynman introduces calculus in the chapter on motion (from first principles) and on it goes from there. The challenge is it's assumed that you're now familiar with these introduced concepts, and Feynman is very good at tricking you into thinking you understand what's going on.

A sibling comment mentions linear algebra. Vectors are introduced early on, and the chapter on tensor introduces matrices (eg second rank tensors). Multi variable calculus? I can't find where partial derivatives enter, but there's a chapter on vector calculus (to get ready for Maxwell). Really, it's all in there with no prior knowledge needed.

It's certainly a lot easier if you've seen the material before and read FLP as a second perspective. Hence why so many of the attendees were grad students and faculty. What it lacks as a teaching aide is the mind numbing exercises that all physics students do in their first year to practice using the mathematics. There's a reason the "University physics" books are doorstops.
Why wouldn't rent just increase to capture this new income for most people? If UBI is high enough to afford mortgage payments on an owned house, housing prices will skyrocket (even more than now) until those receiving the UBI are priced out of the market once again. Because once the mortgage is paid off, the value of the property is expected to grow, and that's a bet lots of people are taking, even now in this crazy market.
Is it possible to create an IPFS-based torrent network?
Europe says yes to messaging interoperability
UK Cops Arrest 7 Suspected Lapsus$ Gang Members
The general convention is that a cup of coffee represents 80-100mg of caffeine, usually in the form of 8oz drip coffee = 1 US cup
>I’m personally against open enrolment as I think it creates a prisoner’s dilemma race to the bottom where districts worsen their education system to provide tax relief knowing their students can enrol in neighbouring systems.

In my state with OE, I've seen district schools add phonics, world languages, Cambridge, IB, etc, to compete with neighboring districts.

> I emphasize with the idea of providing more broader access to good systems I just think the mechanism to do so has to protect the incentives to make the systems good.

When your child is finishing third grade and you finally realize the curriculum at your district school is lacking you might not have the luxury of waiting for the "good systems" to arrive.
I think Don't Make Me Think
Book by Steve Krug should be a required reading for anybody who is involved with designing UIs and websites. That old book has so much wisdom about what happens when we see something on the screen and why these little details matter so much.

This is right there in chapter 1:

As a user, I should never have to devote a millisecond of thought to whether things are clickable-or not.
Also smaller companies tend to come with an outsize support burden that can chip away their profitability to be a net loss that grows over time. That burden grows the more people you have using the product.
I used to go very deep on philosophical discussions about the nature of sandwiches with my friends. I’m still digesting the cube rule, but here’s what we came up with:

Every sandwich has an axis. The axis is through the filling. You can roughly divide all sandwiches based on whether you eat along the axis (what we called axially), or around it (what we called radially).

A burrito is consumed axially, while a crunchwrap supreme is consumed radially.

Hope this is interesting, we’ve found pretty much every sandwich can be classified as radial or axial, which seemed like an achievement.
GitHub probably _had_ deep levels of performance expertise, but getting acquired by a megacorporation comes with a big shift in culture. I’d bet that many tenured GitHubbers left, and that there are relatively few people remaining who understand the core systems deeply.

Medium-term, the more closely aligned with the rest of Microsoft’s technology they can become, the better - not many MSFT folks understand the ins and outs of sharded Percona, but many of them do understand SQL Server and .NET.
UI themes is the least of GTK's problems.
Do you have any evidence to back that up? I see no reason why students need to literally be in the same classroom all day with disabled people to learn empathy for them. There are many other ways they could interact with them without forcing students with vastly different needs into the same box (consider how home schoolers do it).
They still exist on BSD! But yes it has gone away on Linux.
> evaluate the real importance of keeping what I'm protecting secret

Excellent. This is often ignored by the security obsessed, those people yelling FIRE! as you say.

Securing access to my cloud-hosted cat photos does not demand the same energy as securing ICBM launch codes.
512×342 actually, at least for the compact macs with the built in screen.
Small typo on the page:

the tech that powers shot-scarper
Prioritized Task Scheduling
...yet here we are.

Ligotti repels me because, whether he acknowledges it or not, his is a counsel of despair. He's gotten so wrapped up in his own inability to find an answer to the simple question "why are we here?" that he has totally omitted to consider he may have a responsibility, in regard to his own person, to make an answer to it. Through that omission, he's inadvertently - I think inadvertently - made the purpose of at least his public life to tell everyone else how bad it is he can't come up with one.

Perhaps I'd have felt the same about Lovecraft, in his day.
As I get older, 9 hour time differences that I experience on trans pacific flights (eg between Beijing and Seattle) always result in a jet lag headache the following day, I take some ibuprofen and it all works out. I can’t imagine doing that between South Asia which is basically opposite of the USA in terms of time.
IPFS has very similar features as BitTorrent, you can remove torrent from that sentence and it would mean the same.

You may be interested in BTFS, which is elements of IPFS but using BitTorrent as the protocol.
You mean Jira? or other than Jira?
I find the SSC/ACX comments incredibly valuable. I rarely have time to read deeply, but the readership is so broad that usually somebody has detailed inside knowledge of the subject at hand (much like HN). The comments are so constructive that Scott often makes followup posts highlighting insightful comments - especially ones that challenge him.

I've given a lot of thought to why it works so well, and I think it boils down to three things:

1. Scott really embodies the "strong opinions, loosely held" philosophy and leads by example.

2. The community is big and diverse enough that it doesn't allow a single dogma to dominate. Everyone is a heretic.

3. The moderation is heavy handed, but emphasizes "be kind to each other" rather than "conform to conventional narratives".

It's nice to visit a repository of user-generated content that isn't a cesspool.
Doing stuff with science and technology is dangerous in non-obvious and unintuitive ways, and making experiments safe requires expert knowledge. So, the analogy doesn't hold. I don't know anyone who considers those other things you listed as not dangerous.
I mean, we have that. It's called an imei and you can't change it.

All that would be needed is for anyone selling a phone to provide the imei and some id to a govt service to assert that they are the current owner and intend to sell it for x price on y day. If you don't do this check and buy a phone, you're held liable if it is stolen. If you do, and it passes but later turns out to be stolen, automatically reimburse the buyer when you return it to the owner and make the seller liable to cover all associated costs in addition to the handling stolen property.

Most of this is already implemented for cars via vin, and doesn't require that an unelected central power has carte blanche to do whatever they want to it at any time.
Both of these anecdotes just made my day :)
> If you want more than that, the ball is in your court to follow up on it.

We don't have time to dig up evidence for other people's comments, and that claim, even if true, would not be evidence that they lied (delayed shipping are not lies), and not be evidence that they lied here.
Yeah sorry I should have said aside from Jira
>The teenager, who has autism …alleged to have amassed a $14m (£10.6m) fortune from hacking

> The boy's father told the BBC: "I had never heard about any of this until recently. He's never talked about any hacking, but he is very good on computers and spends a lot of time on the computer. I always thought he was playing games."

> We're going to try to stop him from going on computers."

>The BBC has also spoken to the boy's mother, who did not want to comment.

I saw a lot of comments on HN lately about how LAPSUS$ are bad people. But this kid sounds like he has absent, brainless parents who seem intent on defending themselves instead of answering why they reduced their child’s advanced skills into “playing computer games”. Seriously?

Maybe steer them in the right direction? Aka, be a parent?
So you're explicitly restricting yourself to simulators only?

If not, where in this shift register[1], when synthesized to an FPGA, is the loop waiting for posedge clk or posedge reset?

[1]: https://asic4u.wordpress.com/2016/03/28/verilog-1-delay-in-r...
To slighly go off on a tangent:

You note that visual and UI design in open source and in proprietary applications show some of the same idiosyncrasies.

You conclude that this makes open source designers more blameworthy.

I would suggest instead, that this is evidence that those evil management overlords in the corporate world are perhaps convenient scapegoats, but actually less to blame than we might think?
A job for ArchiveTeam?

https://archive.epa.gov

https://search.epa.gov/epasearch/?querytext=&inmeta=specialc...

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Can't the font renderer render a straight line? Like sans serif "I”?

The font rasterizer already exists (unless it is a bitmap font UI, but those aren't common any more).

How does adding additional mechanisms make for a simpler or cleaner rendering pipeline?
If your workers don't leave, enjoy their jobs, and do them well, how can you argue that's less valuable than Amazon worrying about running out of people to hire because they blow through workers like Patrick Bateman through homeless guys and coworkers?

My wife just left a manufacturing company because of the latter attitude, and they're fucked, because she was the only person left who could operate a 50s era prototype machine (that happens to make the only dry test slides in the world).

I'm fully aware this is anecdotal, but if that company had treated workers well, they wouldn't have to be asking people to come out of retirement to operate a machine. That's a loss of value for them.
I have a pine-phone and the virtual keyboard just refuses to pop up for some apps (like firefox!!). I keep looking in the settings for "force virtual keyboard on" or something but can't find it.
Quite a few big forums running xenforo
We could do what they do in Japan and deprecate housing as it ages. Very few people buy second hand properties, so a house is a liability that needs to be demolished vs land without one. It also helps if no one believes in property speculation because of a huge property bubble that burst in the 80s.
I’ve come to the same conclusion. Making hi(-ish)-DPI work would be possible with the right APIs. But it’s virtually impossible to also make it work for traditional low-DPI displays at the same time. The departure from pixel-art icons to vector icons alone has already degraded the low-DPI experience substantially. It doesn’t help that developers and designers tend to not use low-DPI displays anymore. But many regular users will, because it continues to be the cheaper option, also in GPU terms for gamers. Full-HD monitors won’t be going away anytime soon. Meanwhile, the mid-DPI space (e.g. 1440p) is in an uncanny valley, often requiring fractional scaling (more than 100%, less than 200%) unless you have excellent eyesight.
Or as my office mate always points out:

“Big likes big.”
Sony does have SDK: https://developer.sony.com/develop/cameras/

There is a third-party camera remote app made with it(I think): https://monitorplus.cc/
That would be surprising. Building small fusion reactors is neither illegal nor unheard of as a hobby: https://fusor.net/

Unsurprisingly, doing so is hazardous. The process involves high voltage, and if successful, emits X-rays and neutrons.