skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You lost me at this:

> officially sanctioned by the school

You interpret the anecdote as involving something official? I interpreted it as pertaining to social norms being enforced by only the students themselves. Kids hassling each other for "playing nonexistent white/straight/male cards" or "playing a card they don't have" is quite different from authority figures imposing equivalent policies. I mean, on some level the subject of the enforcement is in a similar position regardless of the nature of the enforcement, but we should at least agree on what we're dealing with here.
An additional "sad-but-true" aspect is that people can disassociate atrocities because the people look different than they do. The people in Ukraine, in general, look Caucasian.

It shouldn't make a difference, of course, but for some people this makes it all the more real.
Classic Hanlon's razor "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by ignorance"

Copy-pasting a template and just not being aware of accessibility and functionality requirements is most likely explanation here. Or devs being given 4k UHD monitors and never looking at their work on a small laptop.
Digitalizing Water Monitoring
HR: "Hey Santa can you please disable Zoom, don't want you getting distracted with meetings"

Me: "ABSOLUTLEY!"
Yep. Ayres, amusingly, got the win because he allowed two goals after coming in with a 3-1 scoreline. (It was 4-1 by the time he allowed a goal.) Foster, holding a lead, never allowed a goal, and thus didn't become the goalie of record.
It's funny, I sent them an email long long long time ago asking if there was some way to source all products on Shopify so I could build just this. Maybe they noted it and turned it into a product.
And they're using the very latest macbook pro with a fast and reliable internet connection, on which the site/app seems to work just fine and must therefore be ok.
There's now a specific CSS property for this which I believes disables specifically double tap to zoom (while leaving pinch-to-zoom working).
This is nice, added. At some point I will move the list to gist.github which will keep this page upto date.
about 70 comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31247296
Implementation in Racket: https://github.com/mfelleisen/7GUI
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It seems that Musk believes a few anecdotes are more informative than data.

Would he say that Teslas are unsafe because of the occasional stories about fires and crashes, despite the data that shows they are exceedingly safe compared with other cars?
Elon Musk expected to serve as temporary Twitter CEO after deal closes
Aw yeah, BBSes are back baby!

One question, who is going to pay for all the long distance calls?
The knowledge may be inevitable, but the eugenics isn't. It's perfectly plausible that as a society we are not ready for knowledge yet. Look, for example at the plague of sex-selective abortion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-selective_abortion

It's perfectly possible that knowledge of and tests for, say, genes related to homosexuality would currently result in a huge eugenics campaign in many places. The same could well be true of all sorts of cognitive "deviance", which could be not only a moral horror, but cause long-term damage to the fate of the species.
I draw boxes and arrows. Sometimes the boxes are rounded.

There was a study on this, UML in practice by Marian Petre. http://oro.open.ac.uk/35805/8/UML%20in%20practice%208.pdf where she interviewed 50 developers across 50 companies. Here's what she found.

- 50 interviews.

- 35 people don't use it.

- 11 use it selectively, just whatever is useful.

- 3 use it just once in a project, to generate code.

- 1 uses it to comply with customer or management requirements.

- 0 use it fully.
Yes and no. It's not targeted at massive monoculture farms such as corn farms in the Midwest. Rather it is targeted at operations where a smaller tractor with a few hours runtime is useful. That includes not only hobby farmers but also vineyards, etc.
Are you confusing syntax with semantics? Your hesitance seems to come from
intuition and it's not uncommon for intuition to make mistakes like that.

Having a single syntax with multiple semantic meanings would indeed be a foot
gun.

I can't think of a way how different syntax translating to a single semantic
meaning could cause any concern. It's not like the wrong thing can happen, it
just might look differently depending on codebase.
" Lots of traditional companies" here in California and USA got the outsourcing memo, for the last two decades. Cheerful "it's getting better" does not pay bills for people who build things. Executive management coasting and stalling for years, while on-commission intermediaries are more than happy to bring hapless workers for low, low wages.
Once you put the infrastructure (airplanes capacity, delivery cars, processing centers, etc) to do next-day deliveries in place, in a lot of places you don't have enough scale to saturate it, so it's more efficient to run everything over it than to use something else.

This is a very normal thing in logistics. I imagine on the places where there is enough scale, they do offer discounts for slower options.
Is social media the inevitable manifestation of computing technology evolving at an exponentially faster rate than our biology?

I feel like we are we going to remember these days as the 'Wild Wild West' of unregulated social media, and the impact it's having on kids is tragic.
I'm the author of rui, in case anyone has questions :)
The same gruesome scene begins the Babar odyssey, though unlike Bambi, it’s all on the page.
Tell the services you interact with that they're basically going against the spec.

"Relying Parties SHOULD allow and encourage users to register multiple credentials to the same account. Relying Parties SHOULD make use of the excludeCredentials and user.id options to ensure that these different credentials are bound to different authenticators."
Me. I use eBay a few times a month, but never, ever touch Amazon.

*shrug
they aren't impossible to replicate tho
Has anyone tried a Ledger or Trezor device for something like this? Your FIDO U2F private key is deterministically generated [0] based upon your seed phrase, which you can backup, and restore on other devices.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ledgerwallet/comments/udzx1c/ledger...
More info I put there, more difficult it will be to keep it updated. There are tags/words below each to describe what that tool is for.
>... the "Silicon Valley" world ...

To rebillionizing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGy5SGTuAGI&t=369s

...yeah, the Tres Commas bottle was on the DELETE key. The corner of it was just, it juuuust got on there...
Thank you! As a visually impaired user, disabling zoom is just incredibly stupid, except for a few edge cases such as games.

As per theories in this thread why this meta tag is so popular. I know a few UX designers who explicitly asked the web developers (also me) to disable zoom so that there precious design could not be broken by users. I simply refuse to do so.
Many websites have this problem with their main navigation bar.
While we are at it: please stop changing the right mouse button in my browser. I‘m looking at you MS Teams. If you want to have context menus in your app, that’s ok, but please don’t put them in the browser. You break important use cases for me and other people.
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That’s not what I’m talking about.

It’s pretty easy to observe - when parents use a Skinner box (ie Youtube) to keep the kids quiet, the kids don’t develop the same social/coping/etc skills.

There’s lots of study on the topic. The decline of toys and play is another related thing.
> The web was not designed with accessibility as default. Instead it is a significant amount of work to make things accessible. Every project incurs huge cost in order to achieve it.

This has got to be satire right? HTML is accessible by default, it's your horrible JS SPA frameworks that break thid. See [0]

[0]: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
dqpb, lostcolony, I believe you two are operating with different meanings of the word "faith". Let's ban the word for the sake of the argument. Care to reformulate your arguments without using it?

Lostcolony, I believe you are using a far more nebulous and encompassing definition for the word compared to dqpb who I think operates with a more concrete and narrow definition.
I dunno. This article is like a 2 minute read. Starting with a solution nobody asked for sounds like an unreasonable request, while I did like hearing about these options after realizing how big the problem is.
I actually prefer it when sites have zoom disabled on mobile. It's very jarring having the entire viewport zoom in on input elements on focus.
Wind fall taxes are the remedy to price gouging, excessive profits, runaway exec compensation, etc.

Let the belligerents have their fun in the "free market". Publicly recognize all the "winners" with Presidential Medals of Awesomeness, karma, and ambassadorships. (Bravo, well done. Now please go away.)

Then claw it all back with repeated radical cashectomies.

"The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done." -- Honoré de Balzac
We used to disable zoom, out of a sense of "our site doesn't need you to zoom", and partially because of cargo culting. Everybody just pasted the same meta tag everywhere.

In the end, it's nobody's business but their own whether they zoom or not, so why would I disable it?

We re-enabled zoom.
I guess it can’t avoid that trap but time will tell. Funnily a big selling point of Amazon over EBay was SDP. Where as EBay would throw up hundreds of pages for a product Amazon would have just one. Ironically Amazon is now where EBay was 25 years ago. As someone commented above, it’s all circle of life.
No, it exposed how low their salary offerings were.

If you were a top engineer, had a family, wanted to maybe travel a bit, I don't understand why you would apply with them.

Clearly they were exploiting the "cost of labor" adjustment.

Every time they approached me I thought to myself "why does any engineer take an offer from them?"
Interesting. I've seen the meta tag for the viewport for PWAs, but they don't usually prevent zooming. Most commonly I've seen:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

Do you have links to examples of the major templates?
> It's the only protest I know of that seems to have been planned two weeks before

Who are you trying to convince with this weak argument? Is the fact that it was anticipated in advance somehow invalidating? Nothing you assert follows from what you’ve proffered (separate from the fact that what you assert is wrong).

> Last year people were talking about state's rights to prevent from being forced to take a medical treatment they didn't want.

Oh, so you mean another thing that most people agree with (compulsory vaccination to participate in society) being made into an issue so an rejectionist core can throw a tantrum and get lots of people killed along the way?
"1. Kids have little or no slack in their schedule. This means very little freedom, and very little time to work things out mentally. School, practice, volunteer, homework, bed, do it all again. This builds up to a very difficult to unwind ball of stress, anger, fear and despair."

By "kids" you mean upper middle class suburban kids. Working class kids aren't overscheduled in this way. The bulk of kids in the US don't live the life you describe, and for the most part are under supervised. Your anecdotal information is tainted by the bubble you live in.
That's true, but that shouldn't stop you from being able to pass judgement.

Just in case you're wondering, that is NOT a hypothetical example for me.
That is a great summary. Social media isn’t the source but it is a multiplier of mental issues for kids.

They are also manipulated purposely by our enemies. Take TikTok (owned by China). In China it promotes being a scientist and athlete to kids, off at 10pm. In USA it promotes how to set your farts on fire and drink your own piss.
The "pipeline" metaphor is used to explain why the gender balance at the tenured level is so different from what it is at the undergrad level, and it has its basis on the reality that most people with tenure got it by following basically the same overall career progression.

Here they point out that "most" doesn't mean all, some people do get into PhD programs or tenure track without necessarily going the conventional route of undergrad in subject, grad in subject, post docs in subject, etc. And they raise an interesting point that the talk of a rigid pipeline risks constraining the mindset of candidates and reviewers such that it excludes many potential applicants with more diverse backgrounds from applying. Instead they suggest using a "lattice" metaphor to emphasise that there are more than one path open.

At the same time, they report that women aren't actually leaving academia at a higher rate than men but are instead more likely to end up in non-tenure track positions, so the pipeline metaphor ends up being fairly useful anyway from the perspective of its use to summarise why there is so few female tenured professors.

So I get this vague sense that much of this interview, and possibly the work itself, was really about boosting the respect of academic work done outside universities and is not really that interested in why there are representation imbalances at the tenured level.
Thank you for taking the time to check it out tacotime :-)

I'm looking into why sign up didn't work for you, the UX where I allow people to sign up and sign in with the same UI might be at fault here (I don't see any failed signups in the backend). I will simplify it and update the FAQ. Grateful for your feedback.
If you had cancer you might try both surgery and chemotherapy.

If I had mental health issues I would try drugs AND exercise AND depth psychotherapy AND cognitive-behavioral interventions.

I would point to

https://www.amazon.com/Characterological-Transformation-Hard...

as an approach that has the 'requisite variety' to attack the problem.
I use iOS Firefox, because I love desktop Firefox and I have Firefo set up with account sync across all my devices. But there's a feature of desktop Firefox which isn't available on the iOS version: remember zoom setting for a domain.

iOS Firefox does have pinch-to-zoom, but having to use it every time I navigate to a page is tiresome.

iOS Firefox is a small niche choice and not the same codebase as desktop Firefox because Apple requires that you use their rendering engine. So I'm not sure it makes sense for Mozilla to dedicate the kind of resources to it to implement all the features I might want, and I don't have a lot of gripes. But as a datapoint in this thread, zoom is really important to me, and I miss it when it's not available. I shake my head every time I visit Google search results on my iPad because the text is so tiny.
Anyone that uses Github day to day at work and for side projects should have already enabled it.

When I think of what the "most important" account is to me, my Github page is pretty damn close to the top. Mine is currently 2FA with an automated script that will scan my Github and back everything up to GitLab (at least the "important" projects), which is also 2FA'd.

Insane setup to protect data in one account but if I loose access it would be beyond a bad day for me.
Or we could all just start wearing JNCO now, and one of us will eventually become successful, fulfilling The Prophecy of Big Pants On MSNBC

(i was too poor for JNCOs so i got some 40x pants at a thrift store and a cheap belt)
And you don't see HN as that kind of place?
I think most people would have guessed elements of saudi, israeli, british and american governments/agencies were involved in 9/11. Doubt anything would happen unless the saudis, israelis or british decide to do switch teams and join the russian or chinese bloc.
I just tested with two banks' apps. They both allow touch ID with fallback to a bank-account-specific PIN - not the phone passcode.

Of course, if you've enrolled your kid's fingerprints they'd have access.
I was curious and went looking for it. That's pretty hilarious oversight!

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-28-core-cpu-5ghz,372...
As this post mentions at the bottom, Safari ignores this and allows zoom on all websites, and Firefox and Chrome have opt-in settings to ignore this.
So I’m still not sold on SwiftUI, and I’m beginning to think I’m learning the wrong paradigms to “get it.”

What would you say are the core concepts that make it click for you? Do you have any resources to recommend?
I've had a neighbour which had her computer destroyed by lightning. She bought a new one and disconnected it during all thunderstorms from power. But she didn't disconnect her modem from phone line (it was in 1997). After another thunderstorm, modem stopped working. When I pulled it out, the main modem chip had a nice hole with some copper vapourised near it. So, unplugging telephone in some areas is a good idea. Now my whole town has proper protectors and I didn't have any problems with electric equipment since years.
Increase at OS level, instead of having to repeat this step manually for every app and website.
> I'm seriously considering moving elsewhere.

I recently moved my family's legacy GSuite service over to Fastmail, and it seems like they've carefully planned for this exact scenario. Account setup on each device is as simple as downloading a configuration profile with a QR code. And Fastmail has a built-in option to authenticate to your old Google account and pull all your mail over to the new account, preserving all the details, and then keep sync'ing until you're ready to turn the old account off. I thought I was going to have to sync things myself. Nope! Took all of five minutes to set up my account and sync. Couple weeks later I deactivated the old GSuite accounts.

And now I'm a customer again, which feels good, even though it means spending actual money.
This is why I like to always write any sort of user-script batch-job tools (backfills, purges, scrapers) with a "porcelain and plumbing" approach: The first step generates a fully declarative manifest of files/uris/commands (usually just json) and the second step actually executes them. I've used a --dry-run flag to just output the manifest, but I just read some folks use a --live-run flag to enable, with dry-run being the default, and I like that much better so I'll be using that going forward.

This pattern has the added benefit that it makes it really easy to write unit tests, which is something often sorely lacking in these sorts of batch scripts. It also makes full automation down the line a breeze, since you have nice shearing layers between your components.

http://www.laputan.org/mud/mud.html#ShearingLayers
I have an 11 and 9 year old. They don't have phones. They do have devices, mostly for Minecraft. They are restricted with parental controls and time limits. They do not have unrestrained internet access and YouTube is completely blocked.

As a parent I find myself frustrated at the filtering options and conflicted by my close-fistedness. They moan every day that they are the only one in their class that doesn't have a phone, can't be on TikTok, can't watch Squid Games, etc.

Parents are just throwing the entirety of the internet at their children and I'm left trying to explain to two kids why I don't think it's a good idea.

Am I wrong? Am I just creating an environment of anxiety?

God, being a kid in 2020 is different than it was in the 80s/90s
What?

It seems to me the web is accessible by default. Write a plain old HTML page and everybody should be able to read it (assuming they have a computer to open it or a printed version).

People go out of their ways to mess this up by using fancy colors, fancy web fonts, messed up JS (frameworks), non standard components because it's cooler, disabling outlines, and so on.

Do you have examples where the Web is not accessible by default, apart from the by default unlimited line width which is easily fixable with one line of CSS?

Sure you need to use the right markup for the right things (and, no, <div> is usually not the right element for building a button or writing a paragraph, there are dedicated tags for those) but I can't see a way to avoid this.
It doesn't go into a lot of detail but the article does say:

> Notice that when we turn the minute wheel only the cannon pinion turns. That pinion fits tightly inside its driving gear – it usually turns with that gear. However, when the driving gear can’t rotate because it’s blocked by the rest of the gear train, the cannon pinion can overpower the friction of that tight fit and rotate on its own. This lets us set time without interfering with the gear train, which could break the delicate parts.

Personally, I was wondering how one can wind the watch from the crown without engaging the weight of the autowinding mechanism. I'm guessing that winding with the crown causes the ratchet to slip on both pairs of blue/yellow gears.
this is a great answer.

2 thoughts.

you mentioned anecdotally that you [noted a distinct lack of 'skeeters' in the 1st yr]. have you come up with a more rigerous test to validate the results?

also are you using native fish? it's generally not a great idea to introduce foreign animals to an ecosystem??
It means different things coming from different people for very clear historical and cultural reasons.

Pretending not to understand this is being willfully ignorant at this point.
obviously it't not for you.

perhaps there is another end user in mind (like groups/organizations)
I think cooking, and food in general, is a great one. There's endless creativity and depth in it.

Exploring tastes from a cuisine/culture you're not that familiar with; figuring out what combinations of flavours do and don't work together; using new "tools" with stuff you're already used to eating (wok versus slow cooker versus pressure cooker versus grill versus barbecue...); experimenting with fermenting; pairing dishes with wine or cheese or whatever. The list goes on.

It's one of my favourite ways to get away from a screen and keyboard.
You agree that there should be a military and a defense industry, but anyone working on weapons R&D is a malevolent actor (ie “making the world a much worse place)? This seems illogical.

The effectiveness of a military is tightly bound to its long term R&D armaments. Without highly effective arms, and proper training and tactics, casualties suffered by our armed forces in combat would be far higher (as the Russians are discovering).

If you accept that the military exists at least in part to protect you, then investment in arms development follows as an obligation to those sent into harms way on your behalf.
The goal isn't to help the readers though, it's to convince web developers to fix their websites.

Anyone can find the secret override setting if they're motivated, but that's not a solution to the problem.

I know web developers don't care, but they're still the ones that can actually solve the problem. It's possible that like many other abused web features, Google will eventually change the setting for this feature from "override website zoom settings" to "respect website preferences for zooming" with "off" as a default.
I am not debating the merits of writing your business logic in whatever language that you want.

Flux, the Julia framework that we are discussing, is in English. Its classes, function names, optimizers, everything is in English. Keeping parameters as Greek letters and arguing that it's easier to understand is insanity.