skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you were working in e-commerce you'd know why millions of merchant use them, it's a good and easy software to use. They have tons of problems, like any company, but people are migrating TOWARDS shopify, not the other way around, in huge majority.

Etsy, amazon, eBay, all missed earnings due to lower ecom growth after covid. People are cheering the product, not the stock price. Clearly those 2 are not always correlated (even if clearly they could do better)
That's awesome thanks, I didn't know about this:

> Out of the box, AppDaemon has support for the following automation products:

> Home Assistant home automation software.
> MQTT event broker.
I enjoyed this book https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Spy-Thriller-David-Ignatius/d...
Belief in something without evidence. This encompasses religion/spirituality, but so much more. Which is my point.

If dnub cares to explicitly call out religion, as a specific subset and distinct from faith, the arguments I'd make are largely the same. I see very little difference in the evidence between "I believe there is a knowable God(s) who would have me be kind", "I believe there is a concept of 'god' that would have me be kind", and "I believe being kind is the 'right' thing to do"; none of them rely on refutable claims.
Pffft, it's not a real panic until you weigh the pros and cons of leaving the country with nothing but the clothes on your back and becoming a illegal immigrant shepherd in a nation with too many consonants in its name.

(Your description is so, so, spot on.)
Microsoft, Apple, and Google to support FIDO passwordless logins
This is great.

Agree. SPAs for everything is ridiculous.

My opinion below.

1. The web was designed for content. Thus...

2. If a site is content focused, no need for a SPA. The web already works for it as is.

3. If a web app is a forms based application, still probably no need for a SPA. (The web was designed to support forms almost from the beginning.)

4. If a web app has complex user interactions (e.g. drag and drop, etc. Think, word processor, photo editing, etc.) on a "Single Page". Or jumping between different views of the same data from a single page. Then, logically, that is a real single page application! And a SPA fits the use case.

Otherwise, a SPA is too much engineering to solve a trivial software engineering problem.
Some discussions are serious and follow the core competency of the site (technical ones for example). For these discussions, it is best to avoid sarcasm and non-obvious forms of communication.

Some discussions are not serious, and are destined not to be really productive anyway. Dating advice falls into that category.

Is ignoring context like this your idea of being a "helpful contributor to discussions?" Because I don't see who's being helped by this.
Snopes disagrees with the plague theory: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ring-around-rosie/
I think Apple prepares for a lot of eventualities internally and only some things end up being released. Eg. they built macOS X on Intel years before they announced the switch.

It's quite possible someone is working on making macOS touch-screen capable, even when they don't have concrete plans for releasing a touch screen Mac.
Wearing a balaclava would bump the wearer to the highest priority.
To steal someone else's comment...

The game I'm playing is "read articles that HN users found interesting, and then see what other HN users had to say about that topic".

I guess I can conclude that imwillofficial is playing is some other game. They're probably very good at it, or at least having fun.
I do remember the whole debacle that happened at DEFCON and people got fired for presenting something on stage.

Agreed, there's a lot of interesting stuff that came out of the Security (or related orgs) at Salesforce. Red team tools, chaos tools and JA3 which we use at my current work as well for SSL/TLS fingerprinting.
Why oligarchs love European data-protection laws
This is a curious reply for me. I would think that there are very few parts in pandas that could be sped-up by reimplementing them with a compiled language. Pandas is plenty fast for the built-in methods, it only gets slow when you start interfacing with Python, e.g. by doing an `.apply` with your custom Python method. Obviously this interfacing part is impossible to speed up by reimplementing parts of pandas (you'd need a different API instead).
The point of the subjective and individualized scores is to avoid that, but fair enough, if we could get academia to switch to an open funding scheme without the current paper mill incentives more power to that.

I fear that the scientific community is not mature enough to do this properly and truthfully without some gamification though sadly, and funding commitees will want some kind of metric for "non-technical" people.

But maybe the only solution is to pass out funding based on random lottery tickets.
I have the default font size boosted slightly. A large percentage of web sites and applications don't work with it, the text is cut off. Even ones from Microsoft.

The irony is you have to work to get this to not work. HTML by default will render just fine. Developers just can't resist customizing it so it doesn't work.

My web sites use plain HTML as much as possible. They're derided for being "Web 1.0", but they work, load in a flash, can be resized by the user, are legible, etc.

Even Apple went with pages that were light grey text on white with a tiny font. My eyeballs would just hurt trying to read it. This was a few years ago, maybe they fixed it, but I grew to avoid reading Apple's online docs because it was literally painful.
It was always my banking apps that caused me problems.
Some problems are worse than others.

I don't think anyone would choose to live during World War 2 or the great depression. The idea that all generations are the same and there problems are the same is just a worthless platitude. Never before in history has humanity had the knowledge or capability of ending itself like it does now. That can't be ignored.
Very true. In a way, CEOs and dictators are in a similar position from an institutional perspective - authoritarian, centralized power structures.
It's convenient that GitHub Markdown supports graphs natively, and I've used Mermaid there successfully. However, I was fairly disappointed with Mermaid itself; I found the syntax irregular and non-intuitive (the syntax for every different graph type feels like it was designed by different people working independently), the documentation was sparse (though it exists at all, so I'll give it points for that), and worst of all the error messages were atrociously cryptic and entirely unhelpful.

That said, I also found the default styling and layout of the generated graphs to be far more attractive than Graphviz/dot, though I'm not sure if that's attributable to Mermaid or GitHub.

Which is to say, altogether probably a step forward, but still lots of room for improvement. Please, start with the error messages!
1000% agree, one of my biggest pet peeves. Glad the article shares the (user-side) solution: force enable zoom in accessibility.

One of my other pet peeves is web sites that shrink the default text size. Why??? I set my browser and OS to a text size that is useable for me, please defer to me, your user.

Thanks muchly.
It's about 10% now of my trading portfolio right now. I've been selling options on SHOP for the past few years since the premiums are high, but admittedly I got caught flat footed on this one. My cost basis in SHOP is much lower given the huge premiums I've collected over the past 2 years.

Never forget though, the premiums are/were high for a reason.
But to be fair, in your country (looks like NL) the square mileage is 16,040. The US has a sq mileage of the US is 3,797,000.
Most of those make sense but why McDonalds?
Achtung! How Wolfenstein 3D Shocked the World, 30 Years Later
- We very much need better methane and N2O monitoring satellites.

- Work on space-based solar power.

- Work on satellites that monitor CO2 emissions at a more granular level than current systems.

- Work on systems for detecting deforestation and monitoring coastlines and oceans.

- Use EO data to optimize solar panel placement. And maybe wind farms if there is a way to get surface wind speed using SAR, occultation, or other techniques like you can get ocean wave height with smallsat radar.

- Figure out how to use space-based data to monitor stratospheric aerosol levels.

- Measure snow depth: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3170/nasa-scientist-discovers-...

- Use EO data to predict severe weather events and save lives.

Edit: we often write about climate + space in https://orbitalindex.com.
> Until browsers stop trying to pretend that they know better than both the developer and the user

I don't think browsers or users are really the problem. Browsers are paving cattle paths. Users are stuck with what they get.

Developers on the other hand. They're the ones who insist on using a document markup language to describe and build user interfaces.
> I would send my kids to Baden-Powell scouting if that was an option.

What's the difference?
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> There really is no greater love than that of a mother for her child.

You don't really know the intensity and unconditionality of the love your own mother has/had for you until you have kids yourself and see how your wife loves your child. I always appreciated my mother, but I was only able to fully appreciate her after I had kids myself.
And a special salute to the person who decided to go to my website and try to leave the following anonymous comment (along with a racist fake email):

>Apple would never have considered any copyright or legal issues with that ancient forgotten software until they saw your comment and you reminded them. You're just manifesting the very problem you claim to be concerned about you stupid imperceptive autistic asshole. Delete your comment immediately.

Gotta love the self-righteousness here (and the assumption that if the claim were true that Apple issued a take-down order which I see no sign of) that they would do so because of a comment on the post and not the post itself). Anyway, anonymous commenter, I salute your linguistic creativity, your willingness to use others’ disabilities as an insult, your racism and your courage!
Do you have a source to claim the opposite?
> 2. This is certainly true, but it's a complete joke to my kids. They aren't confused. They just wonder why all the adults are. Teenagers already think adults are incompetent.

I was going to give the same pushback. My father-in-law is a teacher approaching retirement. He says that the only people confused by this are the parents. The kids are not confused at all except about what is so confusing.

It'd be interesting to know how OP is "seeing" this problem, whether the kids are relaying it literally or if OP is interpreting or what.
Too bad about the earlier drama.
It could be evolution - insects with traits that kept them from cars were selected for. Perhaps changes to the license plates? Changes in the design of cars? Or a general decline of insect population?
That's not true. User count is still going up.
Nobody really needs red, do they?
still no topological charts though:(
> It says the Steele dossier is largely discredited - I wasn't aware of any discrediting, let alone total. I don't know why the author thought this spin was necessary for the article.

This was a political football during the last US election, since then it's been more thoroughly investigated and the majority of the content has either been proven false, or has yet to be verified as true. There was some truthful information within the dossier, but generally speaking it was mostly hearsay and unverified allegations and not completed when it was leaked. The leaking was clearly politically motivated and it was used as the basis of starting Congressional investigations which ultimately resulted in only minimal parts of the content being verified. There are many people who are politically aligned with the leaker of the dossier that believe the dossier is true because the general thrust of the allegations was true, but the actual specifics were mostly false, and the truth of what did occur mostly was found in the later investigation, which did not corroborate the dossier.
For me using scripting languages like Javascript and Python for everything they were not intended for like backend, desktop apps, mobile apps is just a crazy train.

I do believe scripting languages are terribly useful for scripting the browser, a game, a tool, for writing glue code, small tools and use once code. But not for everything.

People should try to learn and use more than one programming language.
Why is it better to consider obvious bullshit when you can just read a few history books to find out what doesn't work?
Honest question: why not swiftly ban 3rd party merchants who do anything that is clearly unethical (e.g., changing product listed while keeping reviews from old product, or buying reviewers off to change their review). If it’s an issue of whack-a-mole, ask new 3rd party sellers to post a modest bond. The bond earns interest, and gets returned after N months of good behavior, but gets forfeited if there is a clear ethics violation. Bond amount is proportional to number of items listed, and is set as small as possible to make bad behavior unprofitable.

Also, Amazon customer service continues to be amazing for me. Refund basically anytime for any reason, instantly and fast.
If you're copying passwords out of a password manager and pasting them into password fields, then yes, you're getting a significant improvement to phishing protection with a hardware key. If you're using the password manager's autofill feature, and that autofill feature is bug-free, then you're not getting any additional phishing protection.

Your passwords can still be stolen, however. Any hardware authentication mechanism is going to ensure that no matter how compromised your local machine is, the worst an attacker can do is steal one active session. They can't steal the secret required to initiate any future session.
> Users do not warm up programs before use.

Which users? Those using the tools to make and bake apps onto servers, or those using the apps on the servers?

> Most developers are not … most developers will be … Most developers are not…

How do you know?
Hmm, what opportunities? Genuinely curious what you mean here.
Who else read "zoom" and thought "Zoom"?
No I'm just sad that treating someone like a human being is considered a positive and not... you know... the absolute bare minimum someone could do.
Competition for partners is a thing but still not zero sum. The number of people in relationships is not fixed. You can increase the sum by starting a relationship that wouldn't otherwise exist.

Satisfaction you get out of it is obviously not zero sum as well.

If this is how teens think, it is no wonder they are miserable. Happiness is not zero sum, it can be created. In fact, it must be created
Being left handed is a mild version of this.

I think it cultivates a healthy mindset though: At an early age, you learn that all assymetric tools were designed by idiots, so by kindergarten, you're already questioning everything.

I suspect this is why lefties are drastically overrepresented in leadership positions, NASA, etc.
How to Prevent Founder Burnout Using Pattern Interrupts
Meta reviews.
Fun fact: the reason why browsers sometimes zoom in on an input is because the input's font size is too small, less than 16px, which is considered not accessible. So it's ironic that to counter that behaviour some people make the page even less accessible by disabling use zoom.
I think its perfect because you could assume the hug of death is what causes it to get stuck in loading
Is that how most credentials are stolen these days?
Within the DoD, it's ubiquitous. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Access_Card
Salesforce has been holding heroku further and further out over a ledge they're definitely not planning on supporting it for much longer.

Edit: I only had one project left on heroku and I migrated it to Render a few months ago.
I tried hacking on ghc years ago when it was still around 6.8. Everyone was helpful and friendly. But I just couldn't get any kind of dev env setup. Hopefully this work makes everything better for newbies, etc.

I still love haskell and call it my favorite language to this day, even though I barely use it as much as I had before. It's just to pleasing to use.
> how is it priviliged if my University proffesor makes less than some of his graduates with 3 years of experience?

Tenure and pensions have significant off-book value. There is also social capital to consider
WGS-84 has angular coordinates, you can't measure distances like they need for construction without projecting to Cartesian coords, hence the local CRS they developed.
>If we want a free and open internet, why is the current web designed to let server owners control our experience?

Because server owners have the freedom to publish whatever they like (within the bounds of the law) and design their sites however they wish. An internet on which servers are only allowed to provide "structured content" would be significantly less free and open.

You may be interested in the Gemini Protocol[0], on which sites are built according to that general principle.

[0]https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
Nit pick, but I wanted to point out that backing up your cloud data (github) to another cloud (gitlab) is increasing (approximately doubling) your attack surface. Good for data retention though.
not sure I qualify for hidpi - 1900x1200 on a 24".
Also I never had issues regarding different shades. Hah just goes to show - hard to please everybody!
And people say HN can't appreciate things for comedic value.

The best thing about this is that it's entirely statically rendered and works with JS disabled.
Don't they already offer a 2FA option now? Why not just let people use it who want to, and leave everyone else alone?

I am an adult. If I want to sacrifice some security in the name of convenience, I should have that option. All this is doing, is pissing me off, and giving me one more reason to move to another platform.
It is not moral puritanism to say that when I am interviewing candidates, it is a hard requirement that they be willing and able to communicate with their coworkers - yes, even the women.
Children aren't being directly told these things.

They are seeing it every day on blast from every source of media. It's not just kids. Its young adults choosing not to get married or have kids. The reality is grim.

Progress is relative. Even if the young generation isn't that bad compared to the 1700s, it's bad compared to what it could directly be related to, which is the previous generation and the era of good and plenty and western hegemony.
> no longer companies will make their app addictive to teens

are you sure? why not leave these things out, make them addicted, and cash in once they turn 18
None of them make sense. Remember that if it were really about security, then phones vulnerable to Dirty Pipe wouldn't pass, but they do. It's just about control.
True, but the workaround is to render the Mermaid in the browser.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31275371
At the end of the day, satisfying the customer is what matters. And customers are satisfied when their packages arrive quickly. $SHOP can’t compete with that because it has taken $AMZN two decades to build out the logistical infrastructure to support fast delivery times. And now with Buy With Prime program, sellers can use $AMZN logistics as a service.
Kubernetes Goat is designed to be intentionally vulnerable cluster environment
> Elon is 100% a nerd

According to what metrics?
That is a really excellent question. That's why I said "something like Page Rank" and not just Page Rank. This is an unsolved problem, but I don't think it's an unsolvable problem.
I can draw a line between Southpark and (the old) Stephen Colbert
Krypton (https://krypt.co), now owned by Akamai (https://akamai.com/mfa) who removed one of the best features, IMO (SSH key on a phone...) does this to an extent... Akamai says it's FIDO2... have not used it in a while... It is free though until Akamai decides not to give it away...
I agree to all your observations. I don't have a solution though. I don't think simply replacing journals/peer review with "the internet" would help. Somewhere, academic track (or track of excellence) should count, which it doesn't on the internet, where everybody gets attention who yells loudest or is most click-bait.
Worst case you'd have to download new one time codes every tenth login or something like that.