skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, but as a former freelancer: Sometimes your customer doesn't know what they want and instead of figuring it out together they sketched together an internet-research-fuled plan that they want you to follow to the point, even if the plan is inefficient, doesn't solve their problem etc.

I usually managed to convince those people to come up together with a new plan while making sure they still feel like their original work is somewhat in there — after all I was the expert they came to with their issue, would be a bit idiotic to not pay for my expertise..

Sometimes this does not work, then I usually just told them I won't take that project. And projects like these don't make any sense, the customer will complain about their own planning mistakes as if it was your fault, you get angry, they get angry, everybody loses.

The best customers are those who know the problem they want to solve very well, as well as having some idea how a potential solution could look, but who thank you if you have an even better solution.
Do you refuse to buy a drink or a pair of shoes or a travel ticket unless you can ensure that "not a single cent goes to execs" who get "absurdly high, grossly underserved salaries while they butcher the company all the way down"?

No, I'm normally not that picky (or actually not that well informed, which would be a prerequisite), I just avoid anything from Nestlé, I'm subscribed to /r/FuckNestle/ on Reddit to spot their many subsidiary brands I would not be aware of.

I indeed don't care at all about the MDN Plus perks, it would just be a donation to keep a browser alive. I would hate it if the money did NOT go into keeping the browser alive. Current execs are killing the company while pocketing insane (market competitive, sure, but incommensurate with the absolute lack of success in their leadership) salaries, while devs are being let go. I can't support this status quo with my money.
An idea is not an implementation, and I clearly mentioned it was an offhand comment in a casual conversation. My "idea" was exactly what I described above. Nothing more. I'm sure several had this idea, and Copilot was probably already in development. My comment was just a way to give a personal anecdote. I'm not sure what your point or complaint is. Did you somehow miss the reference to Office Space? It wasn't a serious claim. Just a segue to some thoughts I had.
Yes, wouldn’t want to try and design it myself! I think the datacentre providers I was looking at spend quite a while doing CFD simulations to get it right!
I’m not entirely sure there is a big difference between leasing and subscription.

We can split hairs, but you pay a monthly charge and you don’t own the item but get to use it.

The lease terms are different, but you are still effectively leasing it.

With phones most people buy them with a monthly charge anyway that’s embedded into the phone contract.
I second this opinion. It looks like a bad PowerPoint presentation but neither mousewheel, arrows or page-up/down consistently jumps between pages.
When I was in school we had 286 computers with windows on them. Some of them had input lag of about 7 seconds in the text editor we were using. Think it was Word but not sure any more. But at least they didn't miss keyboard input, every key stroke came out, just with more or less delay. I did most of my text editing at home on my Atari where there was no delay at all.
I was mistakenly telling people the "small window" for TikTok was closing over a year ago, but it's still open wide enough to fit a 747 through it. TikTok's algorithm, in particular, is actually extremely friendly toward user content, and that means there will always be room for organic growth on the platform, as is still true for every platform (even the dead ones like Facebook).
To be honest they all look terrible. The clearest design I've seen recently is in Haiku. https://www.haiku-os.org/slideshows/haiku-1/
I think the question of my GP is: Aren't better new kernels better for most people than slightly worse new kernels that are better for only very, very few people? :)
Curious question, if streaming services reach the point where they enable indy artists to actually become super stars (using TikTok for marketing), doesn't that move the role, and power, from label to those streaming services and social media (for marketing)?
What a strange way to critique a codebase.

Dev.to being open source - if you see issues with the code why not submit a patch or at least open an issue?
> Why do we need to remove unneeded clues, you ask? To make room for more important things. If Instagram was littered with gradient buttons and blue underlined links, they'd draw attention away from the real content, the pictures. If Figma had too much personality, it'd influence users' designs.

This is an oversimplification and not always correct in all situations. Take the original article as an example. How did 3D buttons take away from the "more important things"? Does making "New List" a flat button and thus barely distinguishable from the "To Do" title help to enhance, somehow, the "To Do" title? Does not the strong blue in the flat button ("Add Tasks...") draw user attention to it, distracting from the rest of the UI, rather than withdrawing from the rest of the screen to allow "more important things" to shine?

If flat design really succeeded at helping to direct users' attention to what is important, it wouldn't be subject to the criticism that it confuses users. Users would be helped, not hindered, by such design, no?
You're getting downvotes for saying it, but I had the same thought. If I'm getting my camera out it's because I want to take a photo of something I want to remember or see again. Never once have I thought of taking a photo of my pets at the vets, and most especially not when I took them to be put down.
The underlying logic for rendering "hinted" line borders and UI widgets is a lot simpler than for hinting arbitrary text. It's a matter of snapping a few key control points to the pixel grid, and making sure that key line widths take up integer numbers of pixels. Much of the complexity you point out only arises because we now insist on having physically sized rendering for "mixed-DPI" graphics, like a single window spanning both a low- and a high-resolution display. That's not necessarily a very sensible goal, and it's not something that would've been insisted on back when achieving "pixel perfect" rendering was in fact a major concern, regardless of display resolution.

A similar concern is the demand for arbitrary subpixel positioning of screen content, that basically only matters in the context of on-screen animations. Nobody really cares if an animation looks blurry, but it's somewhat more important for static content to look right. Trying to have one's cake and eat it too will always be harder than just focusing on what's actually important for good UX.
The two words are brutally honest in what they mean: a man is a creature with manas (i.e. intelligence), and a woman is a man with the "wo" body parts.
It might also be working today but not tomorrow, then you accidentally start "Archies terminologies dictionary" as a websearch instead.
No but I’m saying: computers are not turing machines because they are not infinite. So they must be finite automata.
Sorry if that's answered before, what's wrong is with pgadmin4? It works really good and have all the features of postgres.
Most people in the US are white. Adjusting for population sizes, the mean and median white family wealth was $188,200 and $983,400, respectively. For black and hispanic families those numbers were $24,100 and $142,500, respectively. It's disproportionately a problem for minorities, and if we're serious about tackling poverty and its roots we shouldn't ignore that disparity.
If you take 2015 15" and compare with 2021 16" M1 Pro - the difference is huge.

If they manage to keep same performance personally I might switch to smaller machine.

edit: ultimately I'd love to see screens that fold out... seems much more useful than folding phones.

edit2: I suspect there might be something about weight distribution where too big of a screen on an light ultrabook would easily loose balance on your lap
Originally the top menu was to have a way to access to all functions. Many still do (say LibreOffice)

The hamburger is kind of a weird breed of design signaling because of it. In some desktop apps it still is the original top menu, but not always. On websites and apps it can vary tremendously.

However, a top menu is not an expert level mode, it’s a beginners / proficient level mode. Expert level means using keyboard shortcuts.

Context driven display and modes are far more valuable when meeting spacial constraints. But that can be hard when you are dealing with many form factors and so the quick fix is the hamburger.
I like it! Themes are good, but I think they have to be golden, then devs will flock to it.

This is modern day Beamer, who remembers that? Those were the days :)
Then I would question what material they were learning, or how much effort they actually expended. I've watched even the worst songwriters and performers find success by grinding away at the right stones, so "I know a guy who tried Facebook ads and it didn't work" doesn't mean anything.
North Atlantic Council Extends Mandate of the Secretary General
> We are already past the point of anyone having a full picture of the system.

Why not split the team and each sub team is responsible for specific components and specific integrations ?

That's what's usually done when a projects starts to grow in complexity that no longer fits the brain of a single person, right?

Sure development will start to be slow because you'll need more people to sync with each other, but on the last 30 seconds I had for thinking, no other idea came up.
Yes you can. One vault at a time. Exporting other metadata apart from basic name, password, url is very clunky. Then you will also need to manually handle attachments for each entry. Some types of entries also have "special needs". Then sometimes there are errors. I've recently migrated from 1P and it was a lot of tedious manual work. It feels like the support for exporting data is kinda neglected, so I'm glad I did it while the feature is still there.

OTOH I've helped a relative to migrate from 1P to Bitwarden who had only a single vault for browser logins with name, password and url items and the process was quick and easy.
> Parliament also succeeded in convincing the Council of interoperability requirements for messaging services, meaning outfits such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger or iMessage will have to open up and interoperate with smaller messaging platforms. For group chats, this requirement will be rolled out over a period of four years.

This would be great. I remember using pidgin back in the day and it was really convenient to have every messaging app in one interface.
believing in things that aren't true makes a lot of arguments fall flat
150k streams p/month is absolutely nothing compared to the artists that the major labels are interested in.

Record labels that the likes of “Sub-Radio” are suited to have always be and will continue to act as taste makers and curators, and not large money making organisations (and for the better). Even the large indies like Sub Pop, Stones Throw, and K7 operate in completely different seperate financial and reach realms than Universal, Warner and the like.

If someone becomes “Tik Tok famous” overnight then they’re likely to seek management and guess who that manager is most likely to be aligned to? Major labels aren’t going anywhere.
> In a modern analogy, the prehistoric human may be likened to a young farmer still plowing his fields with his great-grandfather's rusty old tractor, replacing parts now and then, but preserving the good old machine as is, because it symbolizes his family's bond with the land.

Or maybe, instead of a symbol of a family bond with the land, the old tractor is something the owner can repair themself, not something controlled by the manufacturer. And maybe it is higher quality than what is available today. And it gets the job done.
Sorry but this does not look good. Never looked as good as macOS UI sadly.
> I instantly get shut down and disagreed with before I can even get the chance to give some feedback.

ouch. Diversity of opinion is hard to stand but crucial.
Lessons learnt the hard way in 30 years of Software Development
Except that this is not the only (or even the main reason) the big starvation happened. It was because Stalin had to pay the US for their technological knowledge and deliveries of factories and as the Ruble wasn't worth much the US demanded to be payed in natural resources, mainly agricultural products. As Stalin saw the writing on the wall in regards to the danger of a middle European nation trying to overtake Russia he made that deal and ferried most of the Russian produce towards the US.

So to be able to (at first) produce tractors and later switch that to tanks he sold his people to the US that knowingly and gladly accepted the cheap food.

So both nation's political and industrial leaders are responsible for the mass starvations. One can't just blame it on Stalin or on Lysenko.

But Lysenko might have made the problem even worse. That much we can agree on.

Source for further reading: https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1505247886908424195
Agree with desktop parts. But I think horrific UI on desktop is on purpose to drive people into the app for "a better user experience".

Mobile apps do provide better experiences in most cases for sure, of course, but crippling web-based one on purpose is a dark pattern IMO.
If you use Heroku with Postgres, I made a plug-in that works with Postico:

https://github.com/jemcode/heroku-postico

heroku postico:open --app <app_name>

Or

production postico:open (if you use the parity gem)

Not sure it works with v2 though…
It wasn't clear to me from the article whether that is still the case, or whether it has now transformed into a segment based on straight carrots. Would be interesting to know how the volume of discarded carrots has developed over the years.
Ring fencing funds could be a real issue for Mozilla. They desperately need new revenue streams to support their primary product (the Firefox browser) since it's non- revenue earning. I wouldn't mind these funds going towards Firefox, or even other products woth a little reluctance, but agree they shouldn't go towards other costs like bonuses or "operation costs".
Yeah, saw this and immediately thought of Pidgin. This is also great for smaller platforms -- If I could use something like Pidgin again then I'd probably log into ICQ again for the first time in... a very long time.
We are not claiming gods don't exist. You're claiming they might, and were asking why would you say such a thing.

If I said "It's possible there are teapots orbiting some distant planets", you would hopefully disregard the statement as being nonsense. It is possible, but so what? Putting the word "possible" before something doesn't by itself make it worth my time to think about.
It's curious how politics and activists tend to approach definitions backward. Anyone who aims to be rigorous (as politology and sociology should be) knows that you first must define clearly a term and then reason about it. Instead, we usually see attempts to redefine well-established terms, not by adding an additional meaning, but by replacing the original one. In a purely rational reasoning system, this change would be irrelevant because the important thing is the meaning, not the significant. But we humans are fallible beings, and we tend to transfer the perceptions and logical conclusions attached to the meaning to the significant itself. This way, when a redefinition is done in a society, the term will drag for a while the concepts related to the old meaning. This is a powerful manipulation weapon and I think it's the reason why it's so prevalent in those fields.

This is not saying that you shouldn't redefine anything. As you said in our daily lives there are a lot of terms that have lossy definitions that don't match perfectly with our mental models. But you should be cautious with the real intent of the redefinition, especially if it comes top-down.
I think they were taunting it. They're not just bastards but cruel bastards too.
A sort of reverse-caniuse scanner. I'd love that!
Right, but any existing package registry could do the same thing if they wanted to. You don't need a blockchain for this.
We are a post-scarcity civilization. We landfill most of our food, and produce enough calories to sustain many multiples of our population. For every homeless person in the US, we have over a dozen empty homes.

Poverty is a policy choice. The cruelty is the point. 20% of children on the wealthiest country in the history of the planet do not know where or when they'll get their next meal and that is entirely socially constructed.

Americans weren't joking when they said better dead than red. I wish they felt that statement in their bones the way they do in their heads.
Sure! I've cleaned up the CSS a little bit since it was originally only for private use, and published it under CC0 at https://userstyles.world/style/3825/hacker-news-underlines-c... . You should be able to use it with an extension like Stylus[0].

[0] https://github.com/openstyles/stylus/#readme
Today I learned that there is another type of pigs-in-blankets.

To me pigs-in-blanket are sausages wrapped in bacon, not in bread/pastry.
I have an alternative article title and maybe concept suggestion.

"Poverty shouldn't exist in America. Money is fake, the ultra wealthy need larger amounts of impoverished people to justify their gross wealth to scare the fairly wealthy into continuing to play the game. Everything is nonsense and it's going to get worse. We've been living in hell for a while but these are the good old days, enjoy what you can while you can maybe. It would be neat if writing about it on the internet could change any of that. Cry, get mad, do whatever. It's fucked."
That is one of the main reasons why I switched from XCode to CLion. XCode lost keystrokes, which drove me crazy. The other thing was that I could reliably type faster than XCode could display the letters, which made me feel like I'm drunk.

CLion seems to be quite excellent at recording and replaying everything, including stuff I type while the auto-completion is loading. Plus it has a really fast key to screen loop.
> Things like Fitt's Law and so on. It was not just opinion.

Here's another one: "users were roughly 37% faster at finding items when visual indicators varied both in color and icon compared to text alone"

Source: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/visual-indicators-different...

The whole point of the settings app shown in the OP's screenshots is to quickly find the relevant section in the sidebar. But even before the great design madness of 2012, designers have started to remove icon colors everywhere. (Except for app icons, where Google and Apple have now removed shapes instead, sigh.)

From the sidelines, it doesn't look like the trend is reversing in GNOME land. https://twitter.com/hadessuk/status/1506316793413087241
Not really. The fundamental problem of means-tested welfare programs that UBI addresses remain:

(1) Eliminates multiple sets of inefficient benefits/eligibility bureaucracy that duplicates functionality already performed as part of taxing authority.

(2) Eliminates a counterproductive incentives associated with typical means-tested benefit eligibility, which has clawbacks at low income levels and rapid marginal rate (sometimes exceeding 100% with marginal income when tallied across all means-tested programs; this effect creates a barrier to progress beyond a low income level. (While progressive income taxes may be raised from previous levels to fund it, when viewed as clawbacks these changes typically kick in at much higher income levels and lower marginal rates than typical means-tested benefit clawback.)
Not knowing the medical field but being involved in research in technical fields before I can confirm the problem with the "HAVE to publish" phenomenon. I came accross sooo much long but barren papers that it was a tiresome and most times fruitless excercise just to follow proper scentific methodology in terms of being informed of related works that I am actually glad I do not need to live in the academic reasearch world anymore (I still do in industrial settings, "improperly", tied to developments). I also hated that I had to make up a quota even if the research did not yield interesting enough (part) results yet, figuring out something that could go into a paper, for the sake of writing a paper alone, not for communicating new knowledge yet.

Formality not content ruled.

(I just hope other places/institutions/fields do it better)
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While in theory authorities could control everything obviously, if there are more real world apps that majority of the world starts using on those platforms, and more layers of protection something comparable to Tor, it will be inconvenient for state actors to block it all and they'll need to give up at some point or otherwise if they try to control they either lag behind by blocking it all or need to consume enormous resources to track people.

Oh BTW if you want people to take your comments more seriously you can stop deliberately misspelling names of technologies.
The sony cameras support a fair amount of external control, I’ve never written code for it directly but third-party apps have no issue other than the requirement that you connect to the camera as a wifi access point, which is a pain but understandable.
This isn't a charitable take, you have reinvented total war from the first principles. If all of the currently in war countries start engaging in total war, the world wouldn't be worth living in.
Win 10 tought me to type again at least CTRL+ALT if i want my password to be accepted from the first time. Clicking with the mouse sometimes works before entering the password. It seems that at MS and also in other areas (Android, Gnome) people want just to code new things but not debug or fix bugs. They also must be as simple as possible because: 1. code reuse sucks. 2. Thinking is hard.
Oh, don't get me started... MS Teams has been doing this recently at work. Everyone is pinning messages, because when you hover over the Edit menu item for a message and go to click it, two more menu items load asynchronously below it, and switch the Edit button out for a Pin Message button right when you go to click it. And it's not even consistently like that, just sometimes. It's infuriating...
Do we need language support for self-references?
It's a physical law, which is a heuristic so accurate that exceptions are almost unheard of. We don't say "the 3rd Newton heuristic" just because in some weird curcumstances it's not accurate.
okay yeah - I apologize. In the context of other comments it seemed a little more dismissive of the tech itself. I see now that you were quite clearly going for humility. Should have caught it on the first read however, sorry again.
I still remember the good old days where keyboards had Function keys and apps would prominently display a F2 next to the save button, an F10 next to quit. Even for computer illiterate people, that made using keyboard shortcuts a bliss. Save was ALWAYS on F2 no matter what you did, so people would put physical stickers on their keyboard to make the F2 button say "Save" on the keycap.