skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really dislike that kind of argument. It's not because it's wrong, but because it's not right either.

A monitor can easily be adjusted so that the contrast between #000 and #fff isn't too much. In fact, most displays have a setting named "contrast" just for that, but what actually makes things too bright is the "brightness" one, that is usually more prominent. People will have opinions all over the place about it, because they do get results all over the place.

Instead, yes, you should avoid using the extrema. But that's because if you use them in a normal situation, you won't have any more extreme values when you need them in a special situation. People should be able to change the color schema anyway, so you are better with a functional choice.
I've tried to keep a journal. I'm about to start again -- for the n-th time-- but i don't know how to use it, beyond writing my thoughts. How am i going to use the reflections i wrote nine days ago? Sometimes i re-read what i wrote, but i can connect with the words and thoughts that are written on the paper.
Is it time to buy the dip (crypto)?
and yet I'm pretty sure JS can inline just fine
Then it's going to be gamed, again. This time by businesses who would love to drown their competitors search results, or malicious players who want to attack an entity's web presence.
Quoting HN guidelines:

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
This happens even in physical books. Have any of you seen the last few iteration of PMI's "A Guide to The Project Management Body of Knowledge PMBOK Guide"?

The pages are gray with black text on it. at nearly 1000 pages, it is exhausting to the eyes.
I wondered if this was an international pattern, and the UK shows the opposite: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua...

People going out less => less crashes for us.
Why would I want to be engaged at work? I just want to do my job and get paid. I think that expecting emotional fulfillment or meaning from my job is a trap, a way to con me into working more while accepting less pay than I deserve.

Work won't love me back, so why should I love my work? I lost interest in unrequited love back in high school when I outgrew my Young Werther phase.
Transacting USD requires access to legacy payment systems, such as the Federal Reserve's ACH. This system is heavily permissioned and requires a bank partner, with layers of middle-persons in between you and the Fed. It also runs on 1970s mainframe technology and has substantial clearing delays. This is currently the closest thing to an inter-party settlement system. Other payment providers exist outside of this, but don't have a great alternative to ACH for transacting between platforms, so they are islands with a few point-to-point bridges (think Venmo). Stablecoins potentially provide a fast and relatively permissionless platform to move USD (or other currencies) from owner to owner, essentially instantly. I think there are huge benefits to this and so stablecoin settlment will slowly "eat" the alternative systems as a result.

This is not to say that the transition will be straightforward. There are still many issues around transaction reversibility (ACH is reversible for a short period of time, due to trust relationships between banks) and fraud and money-laundering: not to mention that stablecoin regulation is still a work in progress and funds aren't FDIC insured. But I expect that some of these issues will get solved, and the tech will gradually replace ACH etc.
Being politically neutral or not interested in politics is the equivalent of being an enemy in the world of "either with us or against us"
I've given up on google for search and I'm not going back. I've been beta-testing kagi search [1] for the last couple of months and it does 95% of what I need - accurate and low-distraction and it doesn't try to sell me stuff or sell me to anyone. They're about to go into public beta and announce their pricing, and I'm pretty sure I'm in.

[1] kagi.com
If you are interested in a C++ library that makes using integers a lot safer, take a look at Boost.SafeInt

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_79_0/libs/safe_numerics/doc...
Crypto -> chip shortage -> inflation

Seems like there may be other factors at play.
Indeed, Microsoft Xenix was implemented on 80286 processors, which allowed a maximum of 64k of program text per process.

The POSIX shell was designed to fit within that limit.
True, but at least it’s content written humans in good faith and not just SEO bait.
I thought this was an interesting topic, so I read a bit on Protestantism and Protestant work ethic and what makes things worth doing. [1, 2] The interpretation that something is only worth doing if profitable seems somewhat uncharitable but does seem to be possibly rooted in truth.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism#Protestant_cultu...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic
Yeah, this tracks with my experience. I get why people would rather just have one cord for everything, but in practice, I've never found having a lightning connector in the phone to be a problem.
At first sight it looks like Elixir's `with` expression.
PostgreSQL 15 Draft Release Notes
I'm not at all sympathetic to this viewpoint. The Deep Learning revolution has shown us time and time again that Deep Learning experts universally outperform SME on modelling performance. I an almost 100% certain that the teams building big Transformers which are now by far the best NLP models (OpenAI, Meta, Google Brain, Deepmind, etc) are not made up of linguistic experts but Deep Learning experts.
Lol I hadn't thought about that one!
Larry David admitted he didn't know anything about crypto before doing his ad[0]. The dismissive comments he makes in his usual character's style are actually the right response to most crypto projects!

But George Clooney does probably love Nespresso. :-)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5-rSxilxo
It’s almost unbelievable how every single external person who said anything in this article sounds like a disgusting scamming used-cars salesman.
> Gotta be real, Gimp's not that far off from just one guy (https://github.com/GNOME/gimp/graphs/contributors)

GitHub only shows people with an email address linked to a GitHub account in that chart; the last time I checked it was 4 or 5 people working on it regularly, which is still a very small team (none are working on it full-time) so your point still stands (it's a point I've made myself a few times before when people compare GIMP to Photoshop or the like).

The GitLab chart[1] also doesn't seem to be accurate; e.g. Mitch only has 986 commits on that one (and almost 14k on the GitHub chart).

[1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/graphs/master
I can't tell if your last sentence is sarcastic? But a Tesla doesn't call home to authenticate the kefob. Otherwise you'd never able to start the car outside of cellular reception.
OKR's without strategy or context (or OKR's substituting for a strategy or context) is a killer I've seen. Especially if I'm "laddering up" my product's OKRs.

This is where the bi-directional approach does work better than strictly top-down or bottom-up; my leadership probably doesn't see the opportunities or constraints for my product, but for my opportunities to be attainable, I need to be swimming the same direction as my organization. Strategy gives me context for where I should be playing.
Over 3 decades.

BBSs and Fidonet, Usenet, early web forums, ICQ, AIM, Jabber, Mailing Lists (so many!), IRC, Friendster, Orkut, FriendFeed, Blogs and their comments, Convore, Hacker News, LinkedIn, Twitter, Quora, Github, Goodreads, Gchat, Hangouts, Google+...

I probably forgot a few.

Notable absences (so far): MySpace, Facebook, Discord, Twitch, Tumblr, Instagram, Second Life, Snapchat, MUDs, Stackoverflow, MMORPGs & games in general.
Yes that is what we intend to try ($10/mo flat fee for unlimited). Most users told us they are more comfortable with this model vs pay-per-use which is why we removed the "Consumption" page as is not relevant in this model.

We do not yet know if the flat fee will be viable for the company and we hope to learn that very soon.
Someone needs to tell the mathematicians they are allowed to use variable names longer than a single character now.
Why the hell would they need to submit to that?! That's crazy.
I migrated from OS/2 directly to linux.
> The conventional wrong answer is to short USDT/USD on an exchange like Coinbase.

Is it because the crypto-exchanges tend to go in maintenance mode when a coin is going down?
Why Don’t Computers Work?
how did that project ever build on ci :)
Aside from optics, why doesn't a major central bank step in and create a stable-coin? A GBP/CAD/USD stable-coin collateralized by a central bank's reserves would be widely adopted at this point.
Why does web search need to have a business model at all? Why can't we just provide the Library of Congress funding to run something like it? Google got its start as a library project, after all, and it's the natural place for such a service.
The Midwest is capable of growing all the alfalfa we need. Ending alfalfa alone would solve the water shortage for at least a decade. And it's mostly just exported to China.
Things are definitely more complicated. At GitLab's scale though, it's probably worth the trade-off.
FYI Ruby does already run on the JVM since 2001 via JRuby.

There's no need to wait for TruffleRuby (unless you want to).

https://www.jruby.org/
> its not in your employment agreement

My employment agreement doesn’t say anything about murder or robbery on it. Does that mean I can kill that guy I don’t like and take his stuff?

No? Right, because my employment agreement doesn’t supersede federal laws about violence and theft. Nor, as it turns out, does it grant me immunity from prosecution for insider trading.

The legal team isn’t dick waving here. They’re trying to keep him out of jail and them from being subpoenaed, or worse.
In my use case I needed to support four x4 NVMe drives (actually eight NVMe across two x16 slots). The low temperatures in a very dense chassis by doing nothing other than mounting the drives is a nice bonus!
So what's the problem here: is it laws (DRM) or is it profit driven?

If it's law/DRM - then the law is broken, no? How then does the law/policy exist to allow "the most tinkerer-empowering times of humanity"?
If your mechanic looks like a doctors office they’re more than likely ripping you off. The best mechanics are smaller shops that don’t have time to make their waiting room look that nice.
Cheap sugar in every processed "food" product you buy at the supermarket, especially in the US.
Search is the only service that I would pay for no matter what. Google never considered this business model.
Aye but these lads are building a compiler. Probably shouldn't hide things like 'memory management' at the introduction stage as use of memory is inherent to all computing and programming.
I have been wondering who the holders of Tether are, I really hope you are wrong. If people really are confusing the stability guarantees of the USD with a scammy cryptocurrency token like Tether, then it makes Tether lies all the more morally irresponsible.
> Why do web applications have no sound?

Collective trauma in the current web application-building cohort from the dark days of the 90s/00s?
This was nothing to do with ruby. It was to do with how docker, k8s and shells interact when trying to shut down processes.
I don't think you wrote your comment thoroughly. ;) You mentioned RockPro64 and then that you have 5 Rock devices, and Pine64 doesn't have many Rock boards, just RockPro64 and Rock64. Pro one is maybe supported better.
Jobs cared about professional users but never cared much about enterprise.

There's a good quote in this 2010 article:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-steve-jobs-hates-about-th...

>"What I love about the consumer market, that I always hated about the enterprise market, is that we come up with a product, we try to tell everybody about it, and every person votes for themselves. They go 'yes' or 'no,' and if enough of them say 'yes,' we get to come to work tomorrow. That's how it works. It's really simple. With the enterprise market, it's not so simple. The people that use the products don't decide for themselves, and the people that make those decisions sometimes are confused. We love just trying to make the best products in the world for people and having them tell us by how they vote with their wallets whether we're on track or not."
99% of effort is wasted. (Naval)

This is especially true with code where the cost of replication is zero.

Most company goes out of business, most programming project don’t get completed or get unused by the actual customer.

In a large company it’s even worse as you are far from the user and the chance that what you work on is unused get through the roof.

But there is a tiny chance that what you do become massively useful (http, bitcoin, etc)
> Also books are kind of a special category as they contain a LOT of text

:) I assumed that the context was that of focused-reading material, long text. Even the movement at https://www.contrastrebellion.com/ does not use B/W everywhere... I assumed that we were discussing a context where «legibility really is the primary concern».

For an aside, a title etc., function prevails - it works in a context; optimal readability: "for the time I will spend on it"...

But the web is full of articles - long text - set as grey on grey.
If I am in desperate need I'll find a way to read. Otherwise I have very little desire for extra clicking
Thank you. Yep. It's all statically-generated pages using Next.js with a single Next.js API route for the subscription. All hosted on Netlify.
This has me thinking of how stovepiped Javascript + HTML + CSS apps are. Sure, you can do anything, but there are some things that are just easy. The current web feels like a progression of a few people figuring out a new trick, and then everyone adopting it at the same time.

I wonder what the web would have looked like if the web had been more like Hypercard. I think back to high school, with some students delivering their history projects as multimedia hypercard stacks on floppy disk. Weird times those were. And for as weird and unique as Geocities websites were, they all fit the page model.

The web feels like it's never been fully unconstrained in the way that something like Hypercard or Squeak were. We moved a lot of the analog world to the digital world in a hurry. At the start of it all, there was intense skepticism about the digital replacements for analog things because the digital thing more often than not sucked by comparison. I think Hypercard is evidence of a time when computer companies felt they were competing with a richer set of analog alternatives.
Yeah, my weight loss was around 1.3 lbs or 600 grams daily. I'm a large human though.
> IMO these videos seem fabricated, they're just too convenient.

Nah, under the right conditions you can elicit very dumb opinions from almost anybody in the world.

If this were a politician it would be called a "gaffe" and the defense would be that the comments were taken out of context.
Depends on how much time you plan on putting into it and if it sounds like fun. Most people have a bit of free time to spend on side projects, even if they're silly.
Of 700 different emoji domains, people love their cats, hearts, watermelon, rockets, smileys, etc ...
I'd imagine that most beachfront properties have basically unlimited water, but are instead throttled by electricity costs.

Output water vs input water efficiency (20% in this case? 1-liter output from 5-liters input saltwater) matters in some cases, but not others. Since we all live in different terrains and locations, some inventions will be useful in some areas, while other inventions are useful in others.
I've been using Kagi for a month or two now. Love it and very excited about your work. Unlike alternatives such as DuckDuckGo, it has easily and painlessly replaced Google Search for me. Can't wait to see more from yall
But fully audited and regulated stablecoins like USDC and BUSD exist and operate freely, so this doesn’t seem likely.
Yeah, when you get down to it the opinion really boils down to "the file system is broken iff it doesn't lose data for the use-cases I personally use it for."
Any speculations as to why? Can't find anything
I have been trying Kagi for a few months and have found it better than Google in most cases, though not a silver bullet.

Here are the queries from the original article in Kagi:

how to fix a flat tire

Top result:

https://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Flat-Tire

Also, it predicts a video is best to answer this question and gives 3 YouTube thumbnails listed at the top of the results. They all seem generally helpful based on the title.

how are pearls made?

Top result:

https://www.thepearlsource.com/blog/facts-about-pearls/how-a...
As it turns out, the author does cover the rank-decomposition (under the name "Rank-Revealing Factorization") in his blog as well:

https://nhigham.com/2021/05/19/what-is-a-rank-revealing-fact...
Yes and which definitely feels like the OS equivalent of “since you all can’t get along on your own you each will be given your own OS-like namespace and have no direct interaction with one another.”
They're about to move into public beta. But you'll still have to log in because they want you to pay. I think its worth it, and its more honest.
I thought that they removed the shuffle album button after Adele rose a stink [0]? It was cool to see them make that change - but its a mystery how they got in that state in the first place.

My biggest gripe with Spotify is around their implementation of Play Next and the Queue - which makes it difficult to navigate some of my most basic user journeys. The way it works is:

Current playing song -> Queue -> Play Next

My CUJs that go south with this are:

- I want to play a song after the current one, but there are already things in my queue. I can only add to the end of my queue, so I have to do that and drag it to the top.
- I press play on an album to listen to it (and it gets added to my Play Next). I then want to queue up another album after the one that I'm listening to, but the only option is to add it to my Queue. I then have to go and add all of the current songs in my Play Next to my Queue before adding the new album to my Queue.
- I open my app and press play on album. It will play the first song before starting to play the songs in my Queue from the last time I was using Spotify. I apparently needed to clear my Queue the first thing when getting on.

There are certain things in the UI that signal to me that the abstraction might be confusing them as well - such as when right clicking on songs to remove them from Play Next, the option reads "Remove from Queue". What the heck...

I feel like Google Play got this part of the UI right, with (IIRC) a single queue and treating it as double ended. They exposed both a "Play Next" and "Queue" options on their catalog - and the Play Next functionality would put the song/album at the _beginning_ of your Queue. Clicking play on an album wiped your Queue and filled it with just the single album. Maybe that's just where my expectations for how this sort of UX should work were made, but it made sense to me :)

[0] https://theconversation.com/adele-has-successfully-asked-spo...
Erlang/OTP but you are probably asking about the usability once you have 100+ developers working on a project so it doesn't quite fit in. Even Go is questionable here when compared to Java, C# and even C++.
To help verify whether the requests involved were legitimately from bingbot, you can check the guidance here: https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/how-to-verify-bingbot-3...
Have there been benchmarks of the JIT vs say JS or the JVM?
This bookmarklet is one way to fix it: https://www.locserendipity.com/Hyper.html
Is your manager just next level laid back? I feel like most places are going to notice and be bothered seeing the yellow circle on your Teams or Slack status consistently for long periods of time.
I meant tools like night shift and truetone on mac.

> For over 1000 years black text on white paper has been the best practice for printed texts worldwide

No it hasn't.. It's gray on yellow

Later the article reads:
> Join the Readability Revolution. Ideally make your text no less than 16 px, and 18 px or larger is preferred

No thank you. I'm on a hidpi/retina screen.

The article also tells us that body text should be black black. If he knew aboutvanta black, it'd probably be vantablack.

It's wrong. I'd advise the writer to do some DTP/Print/Prepress work.
Check out Joystick. It's full-stack JS, lightweight, and has a soft learning curve: https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick.
So your assertion is that racism was not common in, for example, the US? Or that, as a separate example, all Nazi scientists documented poorly?

There is a very strange modern trend, where if someone is racist, or a murderer, or some other horrid thing, that be interference everything they did was wrong, and incorrect, and has zero value.

The assessment of a person(eg racist) is a valid act and required, but this does not invalidate any positives. It merely means that said person is a racist, and that action/punishment on that front should occur.

Pretending otherwise is a lie, and true scientific fallacy.
> It's not a Google problem

Oh it is definitelt a Google problem.

I was in mood yesterday and I tried Google versus Kagi and You Code. Results of N out of N queries in other search engines were miles better in other search engines than Google.

I have now switched completely to code.you.com and Kagi from Google.

They are ready.
> This. Striking a tone of curiosity helps soften what you're saying, versus creating an accusation that they feel they have to defend against.

Spelling it out for the empathetically challenges ... it is possible to go one step further and recast your entire mind in a curious frame for better results. The reason a curious tone gets good results is because a curious mind gets productive results and tone is a hint at mental state. There is a conversational technique here, but being genuine in curiosity is more powerful.
Google says it's trying to help fix Android's background app issues
Generally it means something isn't working right, and your performance under the throttling can be quite bad. Sometimes a small undervolt is enough to avoid the issue, increasing overall performance.
OT, but Amazon is in the same boat. Their problems with counterfeit merchandise and fly-by-night Chinese junk manufacturers have been going on so long that it's become clear they don't want to fix the problem because it's now a major revenue source for them. Apparently someone at Amazon decided the Aliexpress marketplace was more lucrative than selling good products.
Better PGP integration
The current title is pure SEO bait
> But there could be a pre-diabetic state that we don't currently understand/measure which, when entered, leads to obesity.

"pre-diabetes" is a condition where insulin resistance is present but blood glucose levels don't meet the threshold for a type II diabetes diagnosis.
I've been relatively happy with Kagi so far. Happy to post some search results if you want to propose some queries to compare against Google.
For sure, and it’s only Safari that gets a bad reputation
Have you tried modifying the pages background color? I don't have the best web dev knowledge, but this medium page isn't very easy.
You should always optimize the screen for faithfulness and then filter in software for readability. That way you can easily turn the filter on/off.

Just like I've got to have filters that force websites not to use too contrasty colors.