skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think assuming that eventually the culture will "settle" on a definition as if it will suddenly reach a point of maturity and stop evolving is an inaccurate assessment. This strikes me as a non-answer.
Adjusted Gross Income? (Not meaning to be obtuse, but I'm not familiar with the acronym in this context.)
> 3: On-the-fly DPI adjustments. My mouse has buttons for cycling through a number of sensitivity presets. I set mine to have 400, 800, and 1600 DPI. When something requires high mouse precision (such as photo editing) I turn the sensitivity down.

Ahh, very interesting and very cool. That's the explanation I was looking for! Didn't realize mice had this feature or that OSes supported it.
I'm of two minds.

The Mac famously had User Interface Guidelines that tried to keep everything consistent. I loved it and, like you, miss it.

But then designers came along and we got drawers (and then we lost the drawers), editable toolbars, brushed metal (and then not), etc...

The point at which I called bullshit was when Safari combined the URL text field with the loading progress bar. I disagreed with the design and said so — it looked to me like the URL was being text-selected as the page loaded. (Ah well, it appears to be gone now anyway.)

But I digress. I had begun to consider that users are now more comfortable with inconsistent UI with the ubiquity of the Web. That has perhaps freed designers to try random stuff on a per-app basis and not adhere so religiously to User Interface Guidelines.

But, yeah, it made life easier for developers too.
Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant?
I'm currently going through Destroy All Software's screencasts [0]. They're heavily based on Ruby + Rails and TDD, although most of the concepts probably do do translate to other languages.

Since the screencasts are over 10 years old now, I'm wondering if Ruby on Rails is still going strong. What resources would you recommend to get into Ruby/Rails specifically? Same question for TDD? Thanks!

[0] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog
Yeah if the sources are in communication with one another :)
> All this drama but I really feel this is a huge waste of time, energy and money for Mr Musk.

Musk has talked on number of occasions, about how he shares his time between his various companies. I'm sure in a few months, we'll hear someone ask in an interview, how much time he spends on Twitter. I'd wager single digit percent. That's how much time he seems to spends on all of non Tesla and SpaceX combined (e.g. Neuralink, Boring company, etc.).
> Review every patch?

Yes. You are responsible for the code that you ship to production, whether you wrote it or it comes from open source. Fundamentally, there's no other way to solve this problem in a dynamic language like JavaScript.

You can use tools like https://socket.dev (disclosure: I'm the founder) to automate finding the dependency updates that are particularly suspicious/risky, i.e. they contain the tell-tale signs of a supply chain attack, including the introduction of install scripts, obfuscated code, high entropy strings, or usage of privileged APIs such as shell, filesystem, eval(), and environment variables.

In the far future, I have hope that efforts like ES Realms and LavaMoat will give us per-package permissions and true isolation, but at the moment they're not practical/performant enough to use. Even with code signing (an often suggested approach), you still have the problem of maintainers going rogue, or maintainers adding new malicious maintainers to formerly safe dependencies.

tldr; you need to 'review' every patch, though it doesn't necessarily need to be a human review for every patch.
If I understand correctly, NY law doesn't matter so long as you are on the secure side of the terminal and just passing through. I think I do remember someone getting hosed because the airline basically did an unexpected layover/cancelation to someone in NY and essentially forced them to take possession of something NY deemed illegal.
I think you should also consider tens of millions of people who lived under Russian boot in USSR itself and Warsaw pact countries. It appeared that wealth inequality is lower because there was no free press and thus no way to see it. People who waited years to be able to get a permission to buy a car or an apartment had no way to make their situation known.

A significant part of populations lived relatively well just because of their place in the society. The lack of free press caused them to think that everyone lives like them. However this was the exact consequence of the oppression of the rest of society.

This spanned countries: USSR extracted production from one set of countries and subsidized others. The populations of the latter group naturally saw the collapse of USSR as a bad thing since their standard of living became lower.

The fact that there were certain parts of the world that lived better under USSR does not make suffering of other people a good thing.
I guess there was a fear that all those former-Soviet republics would turn into rogue states or end up selling them to terrorists or something. But surely Russia itself would be responsible enough? That was a bit of a misjudgement.
Most NATO members from East Europe/ex communist countries held referendums on NATO membership. And I can't recall a single state that would join NATO against the will of general population. Happy to be proven wrong if my memory failed me.
Menus are supposed to have 7 +/- 2 items. Inside Macintosh Volume 1, if memory serves.
The political game is optimized for the current system. If the rules changed to something like popular vote, the strategies would shift drastically. You can't just take the popular vote from the current system and assume it would carry over with a new set of rules.

There's also tradeoffs to a purely direct democracy that have to be weighed. It's not a clear-cut win for governance
You could lay off half of the 7,000 employee Twitter workforce with absolutely no product impact.

It's not just about profitability, it's a bloated, ineffective, behemoth.
> Reverse mortgages don't prevent death

Except in this case:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-12-27-951228...
That all nice and well. Not to sound to much of a "doomer":

But, in the meantime, how are you going to manufacture all of the necessary inputs for the eco-transition if half of europe's manufacturing capacity is offline for lack of electricity ? How are you going to manufacture R2000 insulation without the necesarry petrochemical inputs ?

Nobody has alternate sources. It'll take the US 2 years to put offline a tenth of what Russia delivers, 5 for a quarter, and... that's it. Oh, and let's not forget how much coal Poland imported from Russia.

I think at this point it's time to accept it'd been smarter for the EU Nato members to arm themselves more, get Ukraine into the EU first, operate the eco-transition of the continent by 2030, and then play at extending nato.

Which ironically is basically what, except for the last part, Lavrov proposed last November...
No worries, it's what Klaus Schwab wants; by 2030 you will own nothing and be happy
Okay some portion of that may be Twitter but what does Twitter have to do with Lucid being down -8.4%, Rivian being down -9.3%, QuantumScape being down -8.6%, and Carvana being down -9.4%?
ohh, the maelstrom, this brings memories...
> now everything is fuzzy, antialiased, scalable, flat, hard to make out.

Use a high-DPI screen, for starters.
> However he unfortunately he later states "I would argue that there is only one kind of knowledge, at least about the real world, and that is empirical knowledge."

You ignored the important qualifier which is "about the real world" and by real I assert he means physical world. Your examples do not in fact contradict his statement because they are not about knowledge about the real (physical) world. I also don't understand your segway to Mcnamara. The above statement certainly does not state that data by itself is knowledge, and certainly any (naturally limited) set of data is not necessarily sufficient to predict the future. However this fact does not contradict the statement that we can only confirm how the world works (i.e. acquire knowledge about the physical world) through empirical means.
I feel you!

Before lockdown i shared my home with some music gear; now I more or less have a bed in a music studio and my actual, finished musical output has approached 0.
Lots of military action in modern times is worse than 1-to-1. Huge expense to destroy stability-enabling infrastructure, leaving the world a more dangerous place.
> and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols

"If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people - maybe there is, I don't know"
Back in the day, the fixed pixel density of the bitmaps was 1-to-1 aligned with the pixel density of the monitors. Every line was crisp and clean because there was no antialiasing across partial pixels.

The world in which we now live allows for a lot more crispness when it matters (because the pixel density approaches indistinguishable-by-the-human-eye-at-viewing-distance), but with the tradeoff that UIs designed to work at whatever scale on whatever monitor with whatever DPI do a lot of aliasing, and things tend to look, sometimes, just a tad muddier. Especially when vectorized icons get drawn in a rendering pipe that passes through the graphics accelerator.
> We can't let the laughable ineptitude of these people distract us

We definitely can. The whole world laughs at the US when they call it a coup. We've seen plenty of real coups in our lifetime, this ain't it.
For a recent personal project, I wanted to format the generated HTML. My first stab at it used Prettier. But, I was very underwhelmed with the processing speed. I then gave js-beautify[1] a try, which I found to be much, much faster.

[1] https://github.com/beautify-web/js-beautify
Thanks a lot man!
Install a custom rom such as MokeeOS which is derived from Lineage sans microg
> What if the USA had taken half its military budget over the last 20 or 30 years, a huge amount, and used that money to do good works around the world? Wouldn't that make it much harder for any state or non-state actor to organize an attack? (E.g. "You want us to hate America? But they just built the school my child attends... Maybe I'll support the guy who wants to open trade talks instead")

The easy rebuttal: they're using their schools to indoctrinate our kids into their culture. I mean... this is an argument that is already made today against similar programs instituted by several major global powers (e.g., China).

You can also easily make hay of the mere insinuation that much of the world is in a state where it "needs" to be helped by foreign powers--this is essentially one of the main justifications behind colonization.
The audio behavior is always a little funky on macOS, for the specific steps given I think the problem is that the 'play' button on the keyboard is more like a 'resume' button really, which can cause it to do seemingly bizarre things if you haven't been doing any audio recently. I would expect that if you clicked play in Spotify, then pause, then hit the key on the keyboard it should behave.
One of the things that would be fascinating to see come out is how the company was run. I truly wonder if some scandalous manipulations and collusion will come to light.
Don't forget the grinding/croaking of those old hard drives!
https://github.com/robots.txt

I don't see anything here about wiki specifically but maybe one of the rules hits wiki pages?
So what's the alternative? Move to a LCOL area, get a worse job, and watch as inflation turns it into a HCOL area?
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31169455
My suggestions for rocking the AWS Solution Architect Professional certification
Not sure what I’m missing here. I make Android and iOS apps and so I have access to both operating systems and various devices on a daily basis. What is iOS missing that Android has (when it comes to notification settings)?
So you know what they do? Are you Twitter management? Or just the run of the mill know it all?
The Warcraft startup options are reminiscent of the 'about to edit video" ritual of the time. Just need to disable all extensions and plug in a "certified" (i.e. heavily marked up) SCSI drive.

[] Quit other applications
[] Quit Finder also
[] Switch to 640x480
[] Hide desktop
[] Turn off File Sharing
[] Disable screen saver
[] Hide Control Strip
Right, plenty of early calendar systems formed the basis of early astronomy. It's fair to call that science.

But calling mythological creation stories science is not. Rangi and Papa are no more scientific than Cronus and Gaia. It's literally teaching creationism, just a different creation story than the Judeo-Christian one.
> What does one have to do to get as ... pretty of a UI

Are you being intentionally disingenuous? It is objectively not a pretty UI, it's a functional but quite ugly one.
I didn't try Howdy and so I'm not sure if and how it's enforced, but literally the second sentence in the README says it uses the IR camera too.
Stress hormone reduces altruistic behavior in empathetic people
This is exactly my point. Will he quit the paying job to work for free? How long could he maintain this for free with no other job, or with a job and additional free hours without running out of money or burning out?
It's a great idea but you'll encounter the same party poopers who changed the name of my example Lambda function in Java from λ to Lambda on the AWS support forums, or who think there is something wrong with writing

static double √(double x) { return Math.sqrt(x) }
To a large extent, I think this is the nigh-inevitable outcome of the corporate world's entire take on open source. Open source has been a hugely successful way of distributing code cost centers, which is how we got here. Yet as many have noted, there's no social or economic model for supporting that work much less paying down its tech debt. Beyond a few Major Frameworks with substantial corporate backing, it's pretty grim.

As an aside, I'm not about to blame folks who came up through bootcamps. I've known too many outstanding devs from those backgrounds, and it's clearly enabled many solid devs to enter the field who would otherwise have been excluded. (I've also met a lot of folks with CS degrees who could give fck all about critical code infrastructure concerns.)

Likewise, for decades we've been striving to build languages, platforms, and tools that support powerful abstraction and code reuse. Somewhat amazingly to me, we've realized some of those goals. So I think the problem also isn't devs working at "glue code" level – at some point we must* work at higher abstractions to get useful work done. Reinventing the wheel (or $datastructure) gets old. Again, I'd return to noting that the foundations are rotten, and the age-old bugbear of complexity management has only gotten worse.
Korg too with the volca mixer.

An electron take on a dedicated mixer would be very cool.
The minute Twitter starts sounding like Gab, /pol, etc., there will be an exodus.
>>>> 3: You need to find ways to force yourself to finish things. Arbitrary deadlines are actually sometimes good.

That's one of the joys of live performance. You show up, play, then it's gone forever. The other is not having to keep up with technology.
It's handy they have the tv show "Succession" to use for management training though.
>Relatively crappy homes in town that were 100k back when I was looking are now north of 250k.

We'd need to know more about your area to really assess this... $250K really isn't very much money. In my area, you could afford that house on our minimum wage, even as just a single-income household. In fact, the mortgage on it would be less than our typical area rent.

I hear a lot of stories like what you are sharing about the beautiful 60 acres back in the 80s... let's just say that baby boomers for all their complaining about 18% interest rates actually had a whole lot of things working for them that we don't today. Competition is different because capital moves around the world easily.
"Have a strong military and don't use it."

Is that possible?

Part of the reason the U.S. military is effective is because we are constantly involved in some conflict somewhere.

Russia's military is an embarassment right now and it's obvious they are out of practice.
How Much Garden You Would Need to 100% Survive On
Same colonial empire building, new branding
There is actually a long history of public and political activity from former presidents. Washington was recalled to lead the army (and thereby support the Federalists) in 1797. Taft was a supreme court justice, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Johnson and Tyler went to Congress. More recently Carter of course is a public figure for Habitat for Humanity and other causes, and negotiated with Hamas. Ford called for recognizing the PLO in 1981 and for removing Saddam Hussein in 1991, and support Carter on the Panama Canal treaty. I know both Clinton and Carter started public policy think tanks, not sure how they could be more overt at wanting to influence future politics. Prior to the current primary system, an endorsement at a party convention wasn't just pageantry, it did carry more political capital than it does today.
Yes.

According to Hired's State of Software engineers 2022, Rails is the 2nd most in demand skill.

https://hired.com/2022-state-of-software-engineers/
Thanks, I might do it for a revision in the future.
The climate argument against crypto is FUD. The entire crypto mining industry contributes less than 0.5% to global pollution. You can do more by getting rid of your refrigerator.
Low interest rates seem to have made housing more unaffordable. Instead of enabling low capital intensive personal loans, they have enabled high capital intensive investment banking. This is because the marginal cost of investment was budged a few tens of thousands of dollars for households, but millions or even billions of dollars for investment banks and private equity firms. Less capital was available for personal mortgages as a share of the total capital market.
Exactly. Take media with a grain of salt when it comes to the stock market, most news are manufactured and speculated for traders to profit from fluctuations.
More difficult, but if you can capture an IR image of the user, it can be fed in directly if you have a device designed to spoof a USB webcam. A really interesting writeup from last year: https://www.cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/bypa...
How did you acquire that knowledge? Are you saying we are born with that knowledge? That certainly requires emperical evidence to confirm, hence the only way we can confirm this knowledge is emperical.
Is this a number with a source? Or just pulled out of perceived superiority?
A lot of horror is experienced in a way that's most similar to comedy. That's not to say that it's explicitly supposed to be funny to the viewers (but sometimes it is! A significant portion of horror films include scenes of over-the-top violence that is absolutely intended, at least in part, to get a laugh through sheer shock and "OMG I can't believe they did that" value) but also that the tension-release cycle is pretty similar to comedy (and, sure, also porn, but it's much more similar to comedy for a bunch of reasons that should be pretty obvious, I think).

Horror may also have a larger-than-most-genres share of fans who are watching at a much lesser level of suspension-of-disbelief, remaining very aware most or all of the time that "it's just a movie" and appreciating the craft, daring, and skill of the filmmakers, as much as the experience of the film per se.

There's horror outside the comedy-esque thrill-zone, of course, and it tends to be really damn bleak and scarring, even without much gore (It Comes at Night, for instance). The gorey flicks are usually not among the "worst" the genre has to offer, IMO.
I'm painfully aware that a lot of weapon manufacturers are carefully paying attention to this real life test of their weapons.
the wokes will protest no matter what. even if he gives them 500k bonuses
> I enjoy academic papers more, but even in a highly rated conference proceedings, you have to watch out for academic clickbait.

Many ML papers are actually clickbait. If not, they're mostly suffering from robustness checks. See the ML section here:

https://medium.com/@parttimeben/how-not-to-read-scientific-p...
It is interesting to think about the history of technology in this way. For example, the Wright brothers seemed to make the most progress despite not being military funded, in contrast to the Smithsonian's Langley who failed despite (maybe because) of generous war department funding. Was the tech acceleration of aviation by military funding only to local minima that caused longer slowdowns?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Langley
I found some clue on the docs' TEXTS section.

> if the format is hardcoded, the name of the component in which the text resides would be the title

So it's component based tracking, though inside-component is hard to form context (e.g. line/column tracking won't work) even if you have AST of javascript. When code changes, AST changes (tree nodes tracking won't work either).

Interesting approach not to use hole like `{{ }}`.
This particular issue has been reported as https://github.com/mihaip/infinite-mac/issues/20
Okay, that explains it completely. I haven't have an audience when I started.
Getting your editor up and running is still a mixed bag. "Install VS Code + plugin" sort of works, but you're likely to have a ton of bugs with the plugin that need configuration tweaks to work around (e.g., "try the LSP backend"). Hopefully stuff will stabilize as workspaces and generics stabilize.
https://github.com/danstiner/rust-u2f/ comes to mind
Man, I’ll counter your counterpoint: people deserve to charge for their work/time/support.

Why on earth would I have an issue with a dev charging a few bucks for an app that does what I want? This is very normal behavior and Linux is the oddball.
On my friend's computer netlife throws up a WoT warning.
(it is mentioned in the article as where the auhtor is CTO)

>"This website has poor reputation according to Web of Trust.
>www.netlife.com
>Users have identified the following issues: Spam

I dont think most people here take WoT warnings that seriously
but it might be good for the author to be aware of it.
> I have never ever read that anywhere. One could argue that rich people provide more value to society and then should be prioritise in some circumstances but what you are writing seems very unfounded.

Nor have I. It's such a remarkably stupid statement that it strikes me as stupid in itself to think anyone should be so stupid as to believe it.

It's also nothing whatsoever to do with expected utility theory (I don't know where they did get it from). 'Utility monsters' - per Rawls - are a valid objection; 'money monsters' are not, for the very reason that marginal economic gain is not equivalent to marginal gain in happiness/utility, nor would anyone think it is.
SpaceX is not a public company. All public information indicates Musk has retained majority control. "Unethical conduct" and "illegal money shuffling" are undefined terms: it is his company, and he can spend its money however he chooses, subject only to whatever private terms he has arranged with private shareholders.
Very excited for this. My team is bringing Unreal Engine to the browser, and it works great on computers but not so much on iOS due to the restrictions that iOS brings. Being able to use a Chromium browser together with WebGPU will enable a whole new distribution path for game developers who don't want to fork over a 30% tax to Apple. The open web allows for direct online distribution with no middlemen, that's always been the beauty of it.

Video demo of our platform: https://youtu.be/WSIFyz-2PeY
It might've actually dipped for everyone born during the decades leaded fuel was used. But that's on a base/general level - education would outweigh that.