skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big Pharma derives its oligopoly from the barriers to entry that the FDA imposes. Presumably they take every opportunity to lobby for more rigorous extensive testing. Not because they want to pay more to run tests, but because they want their smaller competitors to pay more to run studies for drugs that might compete.

This is, of course, not an explanation for how they have variously captured the components of the FDA, but it does explain how such a capture is an explanation for foot-dragging.
> I wish I had instead learned Go and Rust.

>

> The tooling around C++ was phenomenal, with Turbo C++, Borland C++, and C++ Builder. But the tooling around Rust is just as good or better now, in my opinion.

I know you say it's just your opinion, but that's an extraordinary claim, don't you think?
They're probably referring to the functional regressions it made with it's first official release, and how it furthers the idea of GNOME/GTK lock-in. libadwaita has made it extremely difficult to package cross-platform desktop apps, especially while appearing native on different desktops (eg. adopting the native Breeze look on KDE while retaining the native Adwaita look on GNOME). The lack of this functionality at launch (and subsequent empty promises of a replacement) have rightfully left a bad taste in some people's mouth, particularly now that much of the GNOME leadership denies that this is a problem in the first place.
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These are businesses that operate on single digit profit margins. And are easily replaced by eating meals at home. They either find a way to procure cheap labor, or shut down, because Applebees clientele do not really have the will or ability to spend more at Applebees.
This is why I have reverted to the CLI whenever possible.

There's something deeply assuring knowing that I don't have to relearn my whole workflow every few months when the trends change. ls, grep, find, ps, htop will always be what they are. Even the Windows CLI is thankfully consistent.

All I want is to get work done the way I want, and I've found the CLI is increasingly the path of least resistance.
To be fair, it's not just HTML, "Touch Up Inside" is the usual button press event to subscribe to on iOS/macOS, and to my personal knowledge this has been true on iOS from day 1 (unsure about macOS or at least NeXTSTeP), so there is an argument that it is at least somewhat normalized, though your point about it not matching up with most IRL buttons makes sense.

However it's also worth noting that IRL buttons tend to require more than a feather's touch to detect a press, whereas there is no such margin on monitors/pointing devices.
Also "Web" by John Wyndham.
perhaps it is a perception encouraged by shrill and repeated exaggeration by partisans, more than reality ?
As much as I am not a fan of Applebee's, the article title on HN should probably be fixed. The executive who sent the email works for Apple Central, a mid-sized franchisee with less than fifty locations. They do not work for Applebee's itself, nor do they represent a major franchisee. (Though in this case, it sounds like their views aren't even representative of their own franchise.)
From memory I believe the reason he got the visit was because he made a joke about creating a fusion reactor - something like "until I get my fusion reactor running I'll need to use the sun"
Definitely. Keep on trucking, I'm developing GTK3 apps right alongside you!
Inflation, probably followed by corruption. Minimum wage would rise to the point where a person could afford a 1BR apartment within a 1 hour drive without traffic. Then the rents of those 1BR apartments would rise to capture that new minimum wage. Then minimum wage would rise to afford the new rent, and so on. Eventually someone's going to say "Hey, I own an apartment block downtown, I'm supposed to rent it out to the hoi polloi, but I'll let you live there rent free if you work for me and do exactly as I say, wink wink".

This is a very common situation in much of Latin America - both inflation being transmitted through CoL-indexed social goods, and the corruption that comes from trying to bypass that.

Any durable solution needs to address the questions of "How do we ensure that there are enough 1BR apartments within a 1 hour drive for everyone who wants one to get one?", "How do we incentivize the construction of these 1BR apartments?", "How do we maintain the desirability of these apartments once they're built?", and "How do we prevent one firm from owning all of the desirable 1BR apartments and setting whatever price they want?"
Oh, sweet. Let me check!
Good luck enforcing this in an EU court lol
yes you can, it's known as css custom properties
A walkout at one franchise, though I suppose the press value is helpful.
Because you could put the warehouse in the middle of nowhere, hire a fraction as many employees, and leave everything in shipping containers.
It's basically taking the "Thoughts and prayers" under a Facebook post to the next level.

It would be fine if the banner was close-able or displayed once a day or something along the lines of that. The problem isn't that they're showing support. It's doing it a completely obnoxious way that's the issue.

If you are one of the people doing this, look around you. Literally everyone slapped a BLM banner on their website, when everyone has done that yours literally adds nothing. Sure, put that message up there, but make it close-able. Not something that takes up valuable screen real-estate permanently.
Hmmmm, how could a business possibly compensate for increased costs including labor costs?
There's also an accessibility setting (under the "Display" section) for "Show toolbar button shapes".
Outside narrative driven / sports / blue planet level stuff, isn’t a huge part of TV just YouTube/Podcasts/etc now? Curation and everything built in.

I was led to a oddly human travel show and watched it go from a few thousand to millions of subscribers over the past couple years, they were recently on the Ukrainian / Russian border the day before the invasion talking to locals and ended up leaving on a refugee train in 1080p60, 3+ million views.

Questionable character I don’t want to promote and some of the episodes I don’t want to be associated with, but that’s tvesque isn’t it?

Repeat for true crime, history, cooking, children, educational, political commentary, informercials…
Umm, there might have been a FEW confounding factors during the pandemic that makes the conclusion not as clear as that.
> countless new YouTube channels finding success in the same markets

This is seeing the survivors. Even if there are 100 new big YouTube channels per year for some saturated niche. That number might practically speaking basically mean zero if 10 million people every year earnestly try to succeed in that niche. The hit rate on this example is 1 in 100K.
Title is wrong, wasn’t a corporate executive but instead “Wayne Pankratz, executive director of operations for Applebee’s franchisee Apple Central LLC”, from franchisee that has 47 locations, out of 1787 total. In conclusion, this was corporate sabotage by Chili’s.
> And since that specific issue is not related to tech at all

Black Lives Matter is heavily interwoven with the sousveillance effect... As cameras have moved from a luxury to a ubiquity, control of the narrative of how policing works has fallen out of the hands of the people who do it. It doesn't matter why multiple black men and women were shot to death... People have seen it happen, and they feel in their guts it was wrong. It's hard to get to that gut-level effect without visual stimulus; people have been writing for decades about the negative effects of violent-response-authorized policing.

Now that we know this, how will things change? Will people try to make the cameras go away, will procedures change to account for everyone having a camera, will we all adapt to being seen more often in public? And at present people generally know when they're being filmed... What of the near future, where the tech to film something could be attached to a drone flying too high or too quietly to see?

It's very, very hard to slice a clean cut between technology and its effect on societies.

https://www.wtkr.com/news/technologys-role-in-the-black-live...
> ls, grep, find, ps, htop will always be what they are. Even the Windows CLI is thankfully consistent.

Those command-line tools don't have any "engagement" opportunities nor are there bloated teams of product managers & designers having to justify their salaries by reworking them for no good reason.
I think the article said it was from a regional manager. That counts as an Applebees corporate exec.
> I'm not quite sure what's going on and why someone would do this

I read somewhere (here on HN?) that hackers would do this when stealing your credit card info and using it to make a purchase.

Like, they didn't break into your email account, so their best bet for making the purchase is you not seeing the order confirmation email. So they flood you with a ton of crap newsletters. (Otherwise if they had access to your account, they'd just delete that order confirmation email)

It's not quite clear why they would need to associate the purchase with your real account - maybe they took control of one of your accounts where your payment method is saved. But be on lookout for weird charges
Look at "modal share".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_share

https://cityclock.org/blogs/cycling-mode-share-data-700-citi...
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> I've used the Lazarus IDE to make a small productivity application, and it was by far much easier than to make a web-based GUI.

> It was also instant startup, never used more than around 30MB of RAM and ran insanely fast compared to the web-based "native" applications we have now.

Silly things like ease of development, lower resource usage, and responsiveness/execution speed are unimportant to real Electron developers.

There are only three things that matter:

1. Sharing code between the web app and desktop "app"

2. Easy integration with web-based backend services

3. Being able to tell management that you use Electron

Microsoft Teams is a perfect example. The backend is so slow, buggy, and frequently down that any time spent improving or optimizing the client app is not going to provide any meaningful benefit. In fact it might have the perverse effect of raising user expectations and decreasing overall satisfaction with the product.
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. (You can't break the back of modularity-induced fragmentation and make a consistent GUI without making a few people unhappy with the UI design that the majority chose).

That is Gnome. Gnome has become a top-down project that values consistency/coherency over modularity/theming. It's an extreme, and I suspect that they went too far, but with it comes a number of benefits, such as a unified visual style across all apps, and an easy to use internationalization/localization subsystem.
As someone who recently complained to the UK Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and got palmed off because the UK legislation doesnt quantify "reasonable care", the whole system is one giant authoritarian money making scam.

I dont know what professionals are being taught in med/vet/law school now a days, but technology is increasingly demonstrating that professionals could be out of date by the end of their course!

So that problem of trying to stay current in IT is spreading out into other professions and I dont see them tackling this problem like the IT sector has/does.
Why do folks like this always end up with a sleazy-sounding name? It can’t be a coincidence.
>work backwards to try to determine what the cause is/was, and possible solutions.

Saving journalism is a large task.

There's always this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws
Don’t go in trying to implement process or standards from your BigCo/FAANG. Just ship product, listen to customers, and be a good coworker.
https://archive.ph/XPXci
This is sorta true. But it turns out there that there are always targets, even if they aren't explicit (is there a name for this law?).

So whether you have a recommendation system or a chronological feed or whatever other way you want to display info—there is always that implicit Goodhartish: measure → target → behavior change.

You can't escape it.

The only question is how you want to harness it—how you can bring out the best in people (with their consent ideally!) and mitigate the negative impacts of Goodharting.

(Shameless plug, I'm working on this, e.g. https://techpolicy.press/can-algorithmic-recommendation-syst... )
I don't think adwaita is that bad, but rather feel like they _yet_ have to polish some small details.

Like the interline spacing on things, sometimes it feels inconsistent. KDE menus, for example, have a nice spacing - but GTK ones feel cramped. And those submenus that they place on things like the top-right menu on the panel have different line heights.

Some other third party apps, for example that mail client I tried the other day (it wasn't evolution, but I can't remember its name) had serious layout issues. libadwaita was supposed to fix those inconsistencies and make devs lifes happier, but...

And speaking of buttons and top right corners, I will never, ever get why they place the open/save/select dialog buttons in the top right corner of the dialog. Where you are used to find the 'close' button. Why?
Unfortunately, adding complexity to legislation often makes it impassable. This is especially true now, with the increased polarization in our politics.

Some variation of your suggesting is better than what we currently have for minimum wage. However, getting that through congress seems impossible, IMO.
Now that you’ve brought them in: I don’t think it should illegal to contract for work however you like and think that cannabis being an FDA Schedule 1 drug is a ludicrous overreach far out of proportion to the facts or what I think the proper mandate of government is, so yeah, I do think the individuals in a market often have a better answer than government bans on individual freedoms.
I'm also really not sold on those new "tabs" which are just text with an underlined colour. It's low effort and dreadfully unclear. I can only vaguely guess what they are based on their upper placement, but what's to really distinguish that from a menu? or just a descriptive label?

I don't like saying this because I want Linux desktop apps to have every success, but these small and pointless frustrations kill my enthusiasm.
Hosting a web server to manage an RSS feed.
Nice.

Here's another idea: a "scare quotes" guesser on user comments. Also, if the user needs a hint, other sentences are offered with the same quoted word or catch-phrase (but blanked out.)
What are some examples of wrong opinions?
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FFI lib call:
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Scripts/CallJ and
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Guides/DLLs/Calling_the_J_DL...
database: odbc, jd, sqlite, mysql, [arrow bindings]
network services: sockets, websockets, zmq, & http 1.1
text: unicode support, names limited to asci
https://wiki.jsoftware.com/wiki/Guides/UnicodeGettingStarted
If things in life were directly proportional to effort and similar things. We’d be living in a meritocracy. Society doesn’t work that way. There are most certainly people who failed while putting in more and better effort than others who succeeded.
Total Commander!
Well thank Reagan for ruining the honest living wage forcing your lazy ass to go to college instead of wasting your talent as an Arby's fry chef.
Wait ten years. New people will start working, old people will move on to other things. The new people will change stuff, mostly for the sake of it as it always happens, and one of the results will be less flat interfaces. Old people will be infuriated by the change. Very old people will rejoice but also complain that those UIs are not as good as the really old ones. New people will shrug them away and keep changing stuff mostly for the sake of it as it always happens.
Image editing can be fast enough on a Pentium 3/4 up to 1280x800 and imagemagick.

For audio/video, a Pentium 3 or similar would be enough with a good video card, some mplayer/mpv settings to skip the loop filter on decoding and video should be good enough up to 720p on Pentium 4 with SSE2 or pre 2010 Celerons. Celerons from 2010 and beyond can play 108p at 30FPS without sweating.

EDIT: I use Slackware and OpenBSD too :D.

Fluxbox, Rox, XTerm, Mocp, Djview, MuPDF, Groff+MS, Bitlbee+sic... you don't need a high end machine, for sure.

For Rox:

mkdir ~/lib
cd ~/lib
git clone https://github.com/jun7/VideoThumbnail
mkdir -p ~/tmp
cd ~/tmp
git clone https://repo.or.cz/rox-lib.git
cd rox-lib
cp -r ROX-Lib2 ~/lib

Done. Add Zukitre for GTK2/3 themes, the Zukitre theme for Fluxbox (I have a fork for the theme with better settings),
lxappearance and maybe Elementary/Tango2+Tango icons as a base
for Tango2 icons, and you'll have an elegant and blazing fast desktop.

If any, you can install fbmenugen and config it to set some automatic XDG menu entries and some of them to suspend/hibernate your laptop.
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But why Qt/KDE developers don't lose their minds ? Either GTK theming is broken or the GTK app developers are not using it correctly or GNOME devs are assholes and really.really want to force their branding and vision. The above OR is not exclusive so it could be all 3 things.
Has anyone done a MITM analysis of 3rd party clients like Apollo? I assume that using them affords a significant level of protection from any client-based Reddit tracking measures, but that’s only assuming Apollo doesn’t do something like add a unique User-Agent to each user’s request (and of course, Reddit can still collect the server-side IP/networking fingerprints).
Yes, I've been appalled by the pervasivness of the self-interest mentality throughout big healthcare. An unfortunate side-effect of capitalism and top-down management structures. Even if the workers want to do better things, they don't have the power to enact meaningful change within the organization. The health insurance companies are even moreso this way.

Anecdotally, Kaiser is easily the worst offender, not even trying to hide it.
Examples and screenshots are my favorite. I don't like it when there are too many distracting emojis.
1) UBI is not UBI unless everyone gets it.

2) Any income surplus generated by UBI is rapidly consumed by middle people and rent-seekers. That’s how we get inflation.
Also, you'd think the people with 'traditional values' or whatever would be really excited if a single worker could support a couple.
It is very tempting to draw a straight line between something you don't like and some other event that is negative and declare causation.

Do you really think this is what is causing inflation? Perhaps there are other facts, such as trillions of dollars of almost zero interest money injected since 2008, massive tax cuts for highly profitable companies (eg AAPL) that result in great payouts to people who are already paying low taxes (long term capital gains), complex interacting forces that moved the cost of a barrel of oil from a low of $20 to over $100?
Interesting, I always disliked Windows font rendering and much prefer the was MacOS renders fonts. I couldn’t explain why, but I know many graphic designers who say the same. I guess it’s a matter of taste!
Photonicinduction's videos fulfill the wild mad electrical engineering fantasies I never had the guts to try as an undergrad.
Not when it’s a franchise that affects a small portion of their stores.
TIL about doxbin [0], the site allegedly maintained by the author. apparently doxbin hacked The Hidden Wiki and deleted the links there to child porn, in a surprisingly wholesome bit of hacking.

I'd love to play around with like, a CTF where one side sets up a hidden service and the other side has state-level access to try to uncloak it. something that simulates what powers the US has, e.g. red team has a limited number of raids it can do, ability to patch things into network cables or hack routers, while the blue team has several fake cloud providers in fake countries, a Monero testnet etc.

would anyone else be down?

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxbin
That's because their work has so much value and they get paid none of it.

EDIT: That's what Henry George said. The reason San Francisco land has so much value and the land in an undeveloped part of California has nearly none is the development, meaning the work of developing it, what human hands do to the land to transform it, the construction. You can sprinkle gold on it and nothing, put a bulldozer there (capital) and nothing, send an entrepreneur or economist to look at it and nothing. It's when people work that it becomes worth something.
Who's we? In many countries Metaverse is the Internet by your definition. Lots of PR money has been spent making that the social truth for probably billions of humans. I'm sure everyone over in those continents who likes to use the actual technology that underpins the buzzwords is being force teamed too into thinking they're a dinosaur for not accepting Facebook's dominion.
In South Florida there is a way of life known as Salt Life, I describe them the rednecks of the ocean.

It doesn’t matter if they are young or old, even if they primarily listen to hip hop, they probably have fond memories of going down to the Keyes and having the time of their lives at some point listening to some Jimmy Buffet. I can liken it to Christmas music, it’s not going to be your go to or even your favorite, but it has it’s time and place when nothing can be better.
This sounds like an amazing tech lament poem.
Just a few weeks ago, I had multiple of my 15 year accounts permanently suspended from reddit, for no apparent reason*, with no recourse. A few days later I tried to create an account, and it was immediately permanently suspended as well.

Then, I cleared all of my cookies/autofill/local storage data, connected to my phone's hotspot (which I had never done before), and made another account, and it still got banned shortly thereafter. I have to guess this is why they are fingerprinting.

* They said it was for ban evasion, but I wasn't banned anywhere as far as I knew. The only thing I can guess is that their systems grouped my accounts with someone else's accounts(maybe we connected via the same coffee shop hotspot at one point, or something), they got banned, and then it looked like they were evading the ban with my accounts.
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