skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Defaults to some stupid instagram wall-like view where every link takes half the page

Which is changed with a single click in the top right of the feed and it never defaulted back for me. (At least not the last 2+ years.)

> The whole thing is now centered in a tiny slice of the screen

If you're talking about the feed, it's not. At least not in classic or compact mode. Besides that, depends on your screen / windows size of course.

> Threads open in some weird modal mode where accidentally clicking outside of the content takes you to the previous page

Guess that's a matter of taste? I like it, I know there are people who force similar behaviour on old with plugins, so... - The implementation is still wonky though and the overall still existing, at least at times, slowness of the redesign (/api) fucks with it.

Last two points are less of an UI more of an UX thing and Reddit pushing their app. Still sucks of course. For mobile I can only recommend using third party apps - better than the mobile view and the official app.
"The episode highlights how highly concentrated the formula industry is — thanks in part to government policies — and the risks that can result."

The sad irony is, the "solution" is certainly going to be throwing more Fed government at it.

As long as were willing to put more eggs in Uncle Sam's basket (read: pocket), we're going to be subject to these "catastrophic failures."

Yes, governing is difficult, central governing even more so. Yet we insist on continuing to play to its weaknesses. And we keep adding more eggs.
For dealing with the bottles Germany has a bottle deposit, (up to 0.25€ depending on bottle and kind of drink, for partially weird reasons)

Aside from many people returning bottles, that makes it "lucrative" for some people to collect thrown away bottles and returning them. (while I find it questionable to have a situation where people search through trash for that little money ...)
Thars like saying r/poker player/gambler

Financial instrument trading is always gambling. Imvesting is what it's not.
The Mammoth Potato, the First Ever Viral Photo from 1894
From 2007 but most of the contents of the article are still true today.
I’ve been watching these guys for years, they’re great. Perfectly approachable deep dives into things I know very little about… I love it.
Why not allocate blame & cheer to the individual & corporation as appropriate.

So in this case.. littering = bad individual, anti-littering product changes = good corporation.
That’s true, but you also can’t discount the fact that people choose to live in expensive urban areas like New York, after only sure fire way to get away from the problem would be to move.
QR code creation: Dynamic, step by step guide
How do I get such a linter into Visual Studio, I've never added anything like that to C#, my personal strategy is to just make tickets, but also with stuff like JetBrains different IDEs you can fetch all the TODO's in a list. I opt for tickets so they dont get lost.
It takes 30 minutes to figure out the tmux arguments to run commands in paraellel without leaving the terminal you know well.

A limited GUI certainly causes more pain than the shell everyone uses.
The Hacker News crowd should be developing a 'red light camera' system for excessively noisy vehicles. Inspiration already lies in the 360 degree conference room camera systems.

This is a problem throughout America, rural and urban. Certainly more frequent and loud in city areas, however easier to legislate in cities. I wish states would start rolling out some basic rules. OTOH, eventually EV will take over, and gas will become prohibitively expensive for the hold outs. I predict that will happen first.
Are there any legal chess positions that cannot be arrived at by a legal move from a legal position?
Probably yes if you have learned programming starting with procedural languages. There is a steep learning curve in the beginning but even if you will not use APL for "normal" projects, the way an array programming language makes you think about data transformations is worth the effort. And it is also quite practical for smaller to medium tasks involving mainly mathematical operations, e.g. data analytics. Not so for mainstream / web / systems etc.

After having a grip on the notation, I would say the time/effort to put an algorithm or idea into code is probably comparable to other languages (if not less).
At my old job we used to get Friday’s off if we worked 9 hrs the first 4 days.

People just worked 8 hours and didn’t come in Friday’s.
Lightweight compression with encryption based on Asymmetric Numeral Systems
That has less to do with the user interface though :) But in general, and for many subs, I agree.
I agree if you have technical requirements needing it to support (x transactions)/second coming in, optimize your ingress architecture. If these transactions/messages are based on UI interaction in a single offline application, I can't imagine this being too complicated to begin with.
I only really use it for the VM features and for occasionally doing software updates, but those work reliably for me on Bullseye at least.

edit: (it was fine on buster too)

I've not tried it on Ubuntu at all - I've not used ubuntu personally since 6.06 or so!
What's your UI framework? This question is difficult to answer without knowing that.

In general it sounds like you're working too hard to introduce a strict process separation between the UI and the backend. A desktop application won't have multiple clients connecting to the backend, so you can run everything in one process. That's the use case for which SQLite is designed.

Your UI framework may introduce some level of process separation anyway: if the UI is a WebView or Electron, then it's going to run the renderer in its own process. So there's no need to go crazy with splitting up into tiny little services.
A test article form the cold war proves nothing about what's going on today. And a test does not mean there is an operational weapon. The US has been testing scramjets for years very publicly but I know you will be the first to jump up and say they don't have an operational weapon.

Russia cannot afford to field these wunderwaffe. Its simple economics.
This is not a good argument. Of course companies can optimize for multiple objectives and to pretend that any company doesn’t is willfully blinding oneself to reality.
I live in Brooklyn and noticed this kind of thing before the pandemic - I'd say 2018 or so. I suspect (but I can't confirm) that there was recently a glut of aftermarket mufflers and exhaust systems that were able to amp up a cheap car to make it sounds cool on the BQE. As a technologist it's been interesting to see the growth of this stuff as more and more people figured out what to order on Wish to make their Nissan sound like a tractor.
The quality of the story, yes, but the filmmaking (and each episode _was_ a film by the end) got better. Someday I can hope that they do a writer’s cut, right after Martin’s contracted writer finishes the books. That was a damn good show for the most part.
What happens to tech acquisitions of startups in a market like this?
Do recessions increase activity of M&A but at lower prices or does the M&A market freeze up?
Unhealthy content wrapped in plastic. But now I can feel good again about consuming it, because “attached cap”.

That’s how marketing works.
Compact and Classic mode aren't less dense - you can switch to those in the top right of the feed.

But I do agree with the infinite scroll point, or at least the way they implemented it.
Source: https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-...

Exposing the battery to high temperature and dwelling in a full state-of-charge for an extended time can be more stressful than cycling.

Most Li-ions charge to 4.20V/cell, and every reduction in peak charge voltage of 0.10V/cell is said to double the cycle life. For example, a lithium-ion cell charged to 4.20V/cell typically delivers 300–500 cycles. If charged to only 4.10V/cell, the life can be prolonged to 600–1,000 cycles; 4.0V/cell should deliver 1,200–2,000 and 3.90V/cell should provide 2,400–4,000 cycles.

On the negative side, a lower peak charge voltage reduces the capacity the battery stores. As a simple guideline, every 70mV reduction in charge voltage lowers the overall capacity by 10 percent. Applying the peak charge voltage on a subsequent charge will restore the full capacity.
Oh yes. I am ukrainian and I strongly evangelize against using PayPal for fundraising because there is literally no recourse. I have this experience.
> Are you american by chance?

That was unneccessary. _Microft shared several German news articles in the past.
The confusion is that this is mostly a British usage. Americans don't typically use "antisocial" in this way.
It felt pretty clear to me the intention was saying it "to themselves" and following up with actual action. Nobody cares if they say things aloud.
That's not that easy and depends on many factors. Glass bottles are heavy and have to be transported around. If they have to travel "long" distance, between filling, customer, cleaning and refilling it can be better, energy-wise, to use light plastic bottle which is "disposed" properly (maybe burning in power plant) For the local brewery reusable glass bottles usually win, though, on environmental perspective.
You can't buy the dip during a peak. PP got a loan at 50 which is a bearish trade, halfway to shorting.
This is a problem across most industries. the "free market" rewards concentration and exploitive labor practices naturally and cost shifts externalities like the environment away from the producers.

so what do you do? any regulations etc will raise prices which would be bore onto poorest parts of the population.
Idk where you live, but Dutch public transport is very much subsidized, about 2/3rds, I believe.
The guy who did that just remembered and Freudian slip told everyone in a speech.
There's actually a book that studies this by measuring readability of print articles by seeing how far readers got: Type and Layout by Colin Wheildon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1875750223/

The research upheld the "any color as long as its black" popular wisdom for text, but found that black text on a ~15% tinted background (any color) did not impede readability. (Deeper background tints impeded readability.)

> Why is your monitor's maximum contrast the right value?

Please give me maximum contrast and let me adjust my monitor.
Outside any major construction site in Tokyo, you will find a noise meter. I assume it is required by law and penalties are steep. The basis for my assumptions? Each time that I saw an enormous lorry approach a work site, the whole "welcoming" crew was very tense. Literally, the driver attempts to coach the lorry with the bare minimum amount of sound -- no revving the engine or changing gears. Also, I rarely heard the "back up beeps" because they will surround the truck with people in yellow safety vests. Plus, one or more people might be spraying tyres to reduce dust. It is quite a ballet to watch!
No matter how much currency you give the poor in society, there won't be an incentive to reward people which provide zero value.

Prices will just go up.

How much free time you have could very well be a function of how valuable / hard to automate your work is.
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Why settle for either when you could have both?

A four day week, six hours a day sounds like bliss to me!

I do get the feeling of wanting way more flexibility but I also think that maybe contracting is the way to get that?
It's indeed socially unideal to have people rummage in trash, but it's because it's not "little money" to them. It's what they need to get by. Searching in other people's waste makes the difference of enough money to buy a fruit and a bread roll.
I used to wear earplugs, but I find that the bose sleepbuds are more effective at blocking out sound. The problem I found was that earplugs let in deep, bass sounds - like the thud of the floorboards in the flat above me as my neighbour jumps up from bed in the depth of the night. Apparently because low frequency sounds travel well through bone, reaching your inner ear sideways. See here:

https://earplugstore.typepad.com/got_ears_get_informed/2020/...

Which earplugs do you use though?
Some what true for comments - that is if you always just go with reddit's old theme and not custom sub ones. But also way nicer to read, that might of course be personal choice.

Not true for the feed though. If you switch to the compact feed on the redesign you'll even see more posts than you'd see on default old.
Running the blockade doesn't necessarily require Russian cooperation in advance. All that's required is a minesweeper, and some commanders and captains with giant balls.

Run some ships under a NATO flag to Odessa, fill them up and run them back. Russia will bluster and threaten, but I doubt they'll actually do anything. Russia is not in a strong enough position to be able to escalate. I'm not anywhere close to sure of that, Putin is definitely not completely rational. I do think it's a risk worth taking.
Town Seized Building, Offered to Return It If Owners Bought Two Cars for Police
Some folks may have "Use new Reddit as my default experience" unchecked under Preferences (waaaaay at the bottom, under "beta options"):

* https://old.reddit.com/prefs/
As I understand it, this is a forced reminder for scenario 1; to ensure the other change is also made before merge.
Or a feeling of self-worth, for the kinds of narcissist who loathe themselves (the "victim" type).

They need to set a higher goal in order to bring meaning into their life because they are unable to nourish healthy relationships and enjoy the small things in life.
I really like the wash/reuse glass bottle systems in Germany and other European countries. In addition to the environmental benefits, the bottles themselves are nicer in my opinion.

We used to have similar setups in the US since forever, but they were discontinued with the introduction of disposable plastic bottles.
If you're setting your preferred language in English on the website, all further on interaction should be in English. (BTW they have multiple language dropdowns that I didn't even highlight because I'm sure old generations do not know how to use those). Lack of English translated terms isn't something I've personally encountered, and for the reviews it's true I scroll a bit further down the page to see the English reviews from .com

I've used .de very often in the past, and when I stopped using Amazon, as said in reply to someone else https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31445473 , quality dropped (among other downsides) when they allowed third party sellers and those flood the product listing pages.

With those specific suppliers (and anything that isn't fulfilled by Amazon), I expect to be possible to have the issues you're referring to. But I wouldn't clump that together with Amazon not being available in some EU countries.
I think this is one of my favorite Ask HN's. Just, yay.

Unfortunately, I have to write my thoughts quickly, because otherwise I will not be able to write them at all. Got some things to do :)

When I get to this stage, I can get self destructive. It sounds like you're heading down that path with the negative framing.

I don't know if any of what I say will make sense.

First: negative framing. Commit to positivity. Commit - spiritually, if that makes sense to you - fully, to the idea that everyone is contributing, and can contribute at your level.

Second: communicate (positively). Figure out a way to communicate your concerns to your colleagues in a non-judgemental way. (shit, this is inadequate)

Third: challenge. It sounds like you're not being challenged anymore. Same framework, same issues. This is actually a really bad thing. It means that once this context is obsolete, your finely-honed abilities might be obsolete. Take it from a guy who got his start as a Flash developer, you need some challenge. This could be something else than development, though: start a business, move to a different country, throw massive parties (what I did). Find a challenge that's hard and meet it.

Good luck! I'd love to chat about it more. Contact info in bio. Sorry I could not write a longer letter.
Do it like Finland and scale the fines based on income: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/in-finland-speeding-t...
Given how important your meta-research is, it's actually negligent of you to be wasting time arguing on this site.

Please link us to your website and to your research so we can help you in your mission to save millions of lives.
I have never understood how these cars and bikes are allowed to roam the streets like they do openly all day and all night while police used to be so quick to arrest youngsters who jumped turnstiles or smoked weed

Because giving chase to vehicles presents a huge public safety danger on city streets. Unless you're talking about a suspect of a major violent crime, especially when the infraction suggests drag racing tendencies, the police in many jurisdictions are very limited from pursuit.
Something that I've been doing lately is programming as a hobby. Now, even though it sounds odd since programming is what I do for my profession I've come to realize that at the end of the day I still enjoy tons the thrill of exploring and "hacking" and learning!

Now, I've tried this in the past and failed, i.e. my hobby would become stressful, but what I've been doing differently this time is banning anything that looks even remotely related to work or professional growth or anything like that. This has lead me to some really fun and esoteric languages and technical areas that the only criteria is me enjoying myself and playing around :-)

I've playing with Smalltalk and Pharo, OCaml, Janet, Godot, and a couple of other things that I find interesting, and it's been great! Thinking about how to do "x", how to design it and run it in smalltalk to do "y" it's super fun, and the moment that it isn't I can just drop it and explore the next thing (analog electronics in spice? FPGAs? building my own CPU/language? SerenityOS? HaikoOS/BeOS?)

I think that many of us join tech with a deep passion for technology and tend to along the way lose it, but for me, "rediscovering" tech as a hobby has been incredibly satisfying, and doesn't have a big price tag as a few other hobbies I've tried!
Is this kosher/halal? - there's an untapped market right there.
The structural problems that I imagine are at play here:

- apparently people buy bottles without the intent of resealing them, maybe offering cups as an alternative would fit them better?

- maybe some people litter due to a lack of conveniently accessible bins

- maybe littering can be reduced by educational programs

- why are people buying cola at all? Drinking from the tap or a drinking fountain would be much more environmentally friendly and healthier.

-- Drinking fountains are rare in most countries

-- In some countries tap water isn't great for consumption

-- Coca Cola spends a lot of money convincing us to buy it

-- Sugary drinks have a certain appeal to our senses

I probably missed a couple. But while Coca-Cola is responsible for some of them, at least as many of them are about public infrastructure driving the choices of individuals.
I think a significant point in the 996 is also to ensure people are available, not only productive. Most probably are extremely productive few hours per day (let's assume 4) and few days per week (let's also assume 4). We could all be performing almost all our weekly tasks in about 16 - extremely targeted and focused - hours. SO it might be easy to think we should only be working 16 hours per week and that would be enough.

Yet, if people were only working 16 hour per week, the company would stop to a crawl. Because during my extremely productive, I might need a few non productive hours from you. Maybe it's answering a quick question, maybe is giving me a pointer to something, on inviting me to a document, enough that I can keep progressing without being blocked and getting those golden 16 hours interrupted and wasted.

The point is that, even tho these are not productive hours for you, they are creating a massive value for the company because you can be supporting other people productive hours. And maybe those are happening on a Saturday from 6 to 9 PM. In fact it might even be OK for the company to tire you a bit, to get that availability, even if that means you won't have 16 hours of quality work anymore.

This is not in defense on the 996, but it is to balance the whole point that people should only be working when they really are productive/focused/.... Availability, even non productive does matter as well.
I suspect because mathematics has a longer history and although the specific notation has evolved for things, going against the grain in a single paper is going to be hard.

Using computers more and more to prove things might change this though?
PBS SpaceTime has been running for quite some time already. Beyond the obvious space/time and physics aspect, it's also a good example of a fact-based show that shows scientific method and critical thinking in action, without unnecessary drama or exaggerated sensationalist style; it strikes a perfect balance between science and narrative, serious and not-so-serious, in-depth and manageable chunk size. The graphics help to understand some of the material for us non-physicists or math geniuses, and Matt O'Dowd calm voice and wit create an environment suitable both for deep learning and deep relaxation, occasionally battling insomnia.

This is one of the gems of Youtube for sure.
How do you deal with taxes in your birth country and abroad?
Bluetooth, to me, is representative of the current state of mainstream tech in general.

We have a lot of things that are build well enough to work, but few things built well enough to work well.
Or you know glass bottles which can be returned and re-used. Like they used to do. This is just them again pretending to care about the environment
True magenta (#f0f) and true cyan (#0ff) are the worst if you ask me...
"Found a very suspicious process in htop. Paniced. Later straced it and it was looking for wallet.dat. The OS itself was fairly fresh (q3 ish?).
Sorry i dont think i have any logs or anything that isnt deleted. As you may see from my history, i paniced fairly hard. "

Well, it seems the maintainer panicked hard really quickly, assumed NoiseTorch was compromised, and deleted everything on his computer that could help knowing if it was actually the case...
Mito – Excel-like interface for Pandas dataframes in Jupyter notebook
No, due to its runtime.

You can write a database with it but that makes it an application language, not system.

Otherwise you could call every language a "system language" and the distinction would lose all meaning.
Yes, billion to one. Or at least like 1000:1, which todays monitor easily achieves.
Whatever maximum contrast value of whatever monitor I look atm is OK, anything lower is not (including OLEDs).
I don't get why we should be "forced" to look at #aaa text on #eee background "contrasting" text.
For me, even #222 is "too much", to the point I usually notice something is off and then Imma mess with inspector and fix colors, which is annoying, takes my time, and wastes CPU cycles, especially when one tries to use some plugin to fix this automatically. The extension is usually CPU hog, so the "low contrasting text websites" are actually harmful to society much like needlessly JSheavy sites.
> while I find it questionable to have a situation where people search through trash for that little money ...

Living in a post-soviet country... Yeah, I don't see that often today (but I do), but 10+ years ago I would constantly see (poor) people collecting glass bottles and depositing for up to 0.06€, to get another drink... Nowdays plastic bottles go for 0.1€.

And it is not littered where I live - but they would get out that stuff from bins too. Anyway, it still is a thing.
As can plastic bottles.