skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just from the screenshots:

- The same icons are recycled in multiple places, like queue and outbox. Why can't they get more icons? Why aren't they distinct?

- Why is it called "trash" AND "wastebin" in the same place, with two different styles of icon?

- Each of the "reply", "forward", etc buttons are all menu dropdowns. Each menu is a small click target. Why isn't this just an overflow menu? Why can't these be customized?

- The "connected" icon at the bottom appears to be stolen from an ancient Mozilla build (though I'm unsure of the origin). Is that truly the best visual indicator for connectivity in the year 2022?

- The inbox shows the file size of emails in two separate places, with a precision that goes down to tens of bytes. Why?

Your idea of good or bad UI doesn't consider that this UI already has things that could be net improved without actually removing or changing functionality. "Designed" implies that thought went into how it's used and looks. Nobody is advocating making it look like Material UI.
Yes, though most places in Seattle don't have AC because it's not hot enough often enough, so 90+ here can be more disruptive than 100+ in other places, and 100+ here is dangerous and debilitating.
As someone that's done remote work for a long time, I wouldn't live east of the Cascades because it's so far from any good airport. (Also because my family and I are big travelers). Post-2020 we don't visit the office much but once your company wants you to come into the office every quarter that 3 hour drive each way from Bend is going to be hell—or dealing with that postage stamp of an airport in Redmond.

Even if your office is close enough for a regional airport you might change jobs.

Of course Eugene basically has the same problem.
The xenon core was a slightly modified cell ppe, where there it was focused on saving gates for the cores needed for system management versus more spus.

The idea using it in xenon without the spus was that high perf code could be tailored specifically for this core's uarch being a console, so the in order nature wasn't the worst thing and the gate savings are pretty huge.
Is there something I can read about that, especially the population of books (number, content, etc.)?

> most people uninterested in history

No need to denigrate people who don't know some things that you do! Thanks for sharing it.
Intel MacBook supplies are decreasing which has actually caused them to go up in price. In a few years they will be difficult to get. Any company which uses MacBooks is going to have to make the switch at some point - better sooner than later.

Also, the post you linked is over a year old and the situation has changed since.
I'm glad you're happy in Dallas. I'm a Dallas native who moved - bc we couldn't stand it. Many folks I know also moved, it seems to be a city for a certain type. I'll relay my type for others who may read your version.

We moved due to the consumerism (I've called it the Los Angeles of the South) and utter boredom of the city if you're not into shopping, eating out, sports teams, and many are focused solely on their corporate j.o.b. However, after moving I've also found that places that don't care about their career - are on the opposite end of the annoying spectrum (ha!)

The people in Dallas are some of the best I've met, down to Earth, easy to talk with and get along. But hell if I'd ever move back.
> Texas is still overwhelmingly and overly conservative, so that might be a big drag.

Kind of, keep in mind ~50% of Texas votes Democrat, Republicans just squeeze wins. Also keep in mind that Texas Democrats are not like national Democrats, and I'd hardly call Austin something like "progressive". It marches to its own tune, which is just fine for Texas.
Expect more of the narrative of "encrypted messengers support pedophiles" to be pushed in the media now that there's some backlash to EU plans of introducing Chatcontrol[0], which Apple already built in advance [1] (though with a focus on pictures in messages, not chat messages that might be considered grooming) and is planning to enable[2] for phones in UK soon.

[0] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/messaging-and-chat-co...
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/10/22613225/apple-csam-scann...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/20/apple-say...
Here they are: https://www.coinbase.com/mission

Not sure what you are trying to mean.
Hopefully this will lead to global consequences, not just limited to the UK. I'd appreciate it if I could use a Chrome WebView in my apps - Safari just has some weird quirks sometimes.
On the one hand, Meta is dangerously addictive.

On the other hand, I despise opportunistic class action lawyers. These articles are always titled as if people are going after someone, when in reality the lawsuits are solely driven by the lawyers behind them who collect huge fees.
I went the lazy route and host a static website on Github pages. I don't advertise my blog but it's gets about 20-30k views a year through random searches.

Hosting on platforms like Medium is good for views (so I've heard) but I'd be concerned about relying on someone elses platform. What happens if the platform goes downhill and your stuck with them? What if they shut down? What if you're wrongfully banned?

Guess it just comes down to preference and what you find important.
“Code” 2nd Edition
Let me tell you something obvious. The credit system is doomed to fail, and it is not working. This blockchain thingy, defi, NFTs, now we might have a chance to build a better financial system. And yes, those two houses may be valued differently, but trust me, Some of the smart-ass people I know are working in crypto like there is no tomorrow. I'm sure we will solve this minor issue on the way.
I wonder if this applies to contractors working at their campuses. From what I've heard, here in Fargo most of the people working at the Microsoft campus work for Archway
"All genes have a function" <- this is a generalist statement that is wrong in its specifics, but also raises semantic question of what "function" actually means.
This is where federation matters. I can choose where I host a Matrix room or Mastodon account and other people using other service providers can interact. It's even possible to move a Mastodon account from one provider to another without losing contacts, though this looks to have some rough edges.

I don't think everyone should necessarily own their platform, but it's very valuable to have the option to migrate anything that's a critical part of your identity or business to a different provider.
I'm sorry, I don't see how this is the same. Will you explain why you think they are similar?
Yes but how about your cognitive performance?

Surprisingly, the children who were given the soup containing meat each day seemed to have a significant edge. By the end of the study, they outperformed all the other children on a test for non-verbal reasoning. Along with the children who received soup with added oil, they also did the best on a test of arithmetic ability

In fact, there are several important brain nutrients that simply do not exist in plants or fungi. Creatine, carnosine, taurine, EPA and DHA omega-3 (the third kind can be found in plants), haem iron and vitamins B12 and D3 generally only occur naturally in foods derived from animal products

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200127-how-a-vegan-diet...
I know that the Xenon was being simultaneously taped out with the Cell PPE, so it doesn't derive from another cell derived core.

The book "The Race for a New Game Machine" goes over the timing pretty well.
Reminds me of the episode of King of the Hill where Hank worried about if his obituary headline read "Hank Hill: Found Dead, Not Working" because it would be embarrassing
I host my blog on Vercel (Next.js app: dsebastien.net). I then crosspost on Medium (behind the paywall) and sometimes DEV.to and Hashnode. All the cross-posts use my own domain as canonical link (for SEO).

I also publish a weekly newsletter (newsletter.dsebastien.net hosted on Revue).

In the future, I intend to migrate my newsletter and blog to Ghost (SaaS, not self-hosted for convenience), but to continue cross-posting when it makes sense.
> if you want to segment the world into mutually exclusive "indigenous" areas

I think that's taking the conversation to an extreme, and then finding offense in the extreme you created.

> I find this kind of offensive to be honest

How does it offend you?
Each styled-component also increases your css payload size linearly
About 18-24months ago I went through a phase of listening to geneticists talks/conferences/podcasts for an hour or two a day during long runs, it’s so far outside my wheelhouse I’m probably mixing things up, but I thought I recalled cutting edge experiments using synthetic cells to create artificial life (a worm perhaps with a relatively simple DNA, maybe even a modified DNA further simplifying the genome to the furthest extent possible still resulting in life) with one of the goals of understanding the exact functions of all the genes in this “simple” DNA. Again I’m probably mixing up multiple discussions and studies into one, but I would have been very surprised if the function of every single gene in the human genome was known and understood, as suggested by the title.
Speaking from a totally selfish perspective, it really is incredible to have a downtown area in the 15-30 minute drive range away. They act like heatsinks to suck the riffraff out of the surroundings. If you're homeless, why stay in the unwalkable town where you see 1/10 the people? If you're a criminal, why stay where you might be recognized and have 1/10 the targets and no alleys to hide in? Let the people who want to live in a concrete anthill do it.

My personal target for living is a city of at least 50,000 people but less than 1,000 per square mile.
Surprising how people feel the need to respond to a post by someone with the handle "TedShiller".

Is that a real name?

Sorry if it is and I hurt your feelings.
Non-steam games.

Though technically I should be able to start them through steam, I would like to keep the setup simpler: copy over binary and resources, ./game.

That way I can set it up with a small shell script or Ansible playbook from scratch, and I don't have to rely on Amazon-specific file system images and such. (So I can quickly switch to a different provider if I find a cheaper/easier option.)
W3Schools is the prime example that Google does use site authority for its ranking approach. A lot of their content is thin one-liners that don’t explain the subject you’re looking an answer for.
Love, laugh, and wow aren't necessarily positive (and even hate can be positive in context). These are often used on clickbait posts that "dunk" on the other side, or uphold your controversial views, which then displays more of this content and helps contribute to society's political polarization.
I really liked the Claws UI. I stopped using it because I wanted something more portable with more features (Thunderbird), and the whole UI freeze single thread thing was a bit painful.

I am personally only interested in technogy that makes me productive, not tech that looks good. I want to be on the computer for as little time as possible.
> His claim is that Washington has written and passed a law that binds Microsoft's operations outside Washington state, which I'm pretty sure would violate the commerce clause.

The commerce clause does not prevent states from having laws which impact interstate commerce unless:

(1) They are preempted by federal exercise of commerce clause powers (though that's really a supremacy clause issue), or

(2) they discriminate against or excessively burden interstate commerce (the dormant commerce clause doctrine).
That assumes you can even get access to the documentation. Some vendors are very bad about not giving up the necessary documentation to develop drivers, especially if you don't speak Chinese. Or they demand you sign a NDA before you can read the docs, and aren't interested in even talking with you if you aren't about to buy at least 150k chips in your initial order.
the protein structure prediction problem was solved, not protein folding. Different field. Also, it wasn't really much "solved", so much as prediction got as good as the metric used to compare the predictions to reality, so we can't really say for sure whether the predictions are better than golden labels or not.
If the rules can be reinterpreted depending on the disposition of the player with more power at a given time, then there are no rules, it’s just a bog standard power game. The drift in disposition of the Supreme Court itself is plain proof of this.

And as for shibboleth:

> The term can also be used pejoratively, suggesting that the original meaning of a symbol has in effect been lost and that the symbol now serves merely to identify allegiance, being described as "nothing more than a shibboleth". In 1956, Nobel Prize-laureate economist Paul Samuelson applied the term "shibboleth" in works including Foundations of Economic Analysis to an idea for which "the means becomes the end, and the letter of the law takes precedence over the spirit."[14] Samuelson admitted that "shibboleth" is an imperfect term for this phenomenon.[15]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
Well, oauth support won't help. OAuth2 support is required. And OAuth2 is not so much a standard as a standard to make standards. So supporting OAuth2 for one megacorp does not mean supporting it for another.
offlineimap is what a used. But now i don't have time for the configuration of this. seems today pretty archaic.
Oh man, was excited to try this but then was prompted to login. Why do I need to sign in with my GitHub? Why can’t I just generate terraform like you claim? Why do I have to give you personal details to do so?
> What was the best argument that you can recall?

I mostly recall “layout belongs into CSS files” (so a matter of principle) and “layout tables are bad for accessibility”, which while in theory could be an important point, in practice screenreaders had already adapted, and had (still have) very practical heuristics to distinguish layout tables from data tables (see e.g. https://webaim.org/techniques/tables/).

The thing is, at the time, using CSS to achieve the equivalent of layout tables was an exercise in frustration and futility, in that the results were exceedingly brittle and very often broke when either the table content, the surrounding elements or the browser window size changed too much.

Nowadays we have CSS grid and flexbox of course, but I imagine that in some cases a layout table could still be the most straightforward solution today.

> Which dependencies?

The fantasy back then was that it would be possible to define the HTML content and structure completely independently from layout and styling considerations, and then a separate CSS file could be used to specify any conceivable styling and layout for that content. While that is true to a certain extent, it usually breaks down as soon as you need HTML elements to be in a different order or nesting relation, or when you need additional intermediate nesting DIVs, etc.

In reality the HTML structure and the CSS structure (bound to each other by IDs, class names, hierarchical selectors etc.) is so closely intertwined, and the mapping points (i.e. IDs, class name combinations, etc.) are so many that, for the most part, only superficial changes can be made to one side without having to also make some adjustment on the other side. Ideally, it would be possible for an HTML author and a CSS author for the same web page to mostly work independently from each other. In reality this is almost impossible, except for the case where the HTML remains basically unchanged and the CSS can change within the constraints of the existing HTML structure.

Banning layout tables was never going to be a major factor in coming substantially closer to the imagined ideal here.

> What would a structure/styling language combination look like that that lacked or had weak dependencies?

I think it’s inherently difficult, because you will always need to specify which styles/classes should apply to which element in a rather fine-grained manner, which just means there will always be a lot of dependencies between the two sides.

One thing you’d need in order to realize arbitrary layout is a way of mapping structured content into a different structure. That basically means having a functional programming language to define the mapping, if you want to have full flexibility.
I'm in the industry and this is more true than anyone wants to admit.

Googles entire business model depends on building enough "Cool Shit", and hiring the "Best and Brightest" to reputation wash the fact that most of their GDN / AdX / GAM revenue is click-tricking navigation/actions and misclicks.
???

I'm not making that comparison.

GP's post was in response to the complaint that Emacs/Vim are hard to exit. They said that "Or, you know, you could just click on the File menu and click on Quit."

And I'm just saying you can't do that in the terminal.

Not sure what you're going on about.
The same thing I use on my desktop. I run a CLI on my Android. Termux had to move more exclusively to F-droid because of some Play Store changes, but I was already using F-droid so that made exactly no difference to me.
This is pretty interesting. There are tons of small towns throughout the western US that are nice places in their own way. Will the remote work trend cause people to move there?

A few random ones the top of my head:

* Baker City, Oregon: near a small ski area, mountains, sunnier and nicer than western Oregon.

* Silver City, New Mexico: (very) small college town next to the national forest. Great climate because it's far south, but at enough altitude that it's not miserably hot in the summer compared, to, say, Phoenix.
>Netflix team that changed media delivery on the Internet forever.

Genuine question

Whats the diff between them and yt?
I agree, and unless someone has a better reason than the ones I have seen, (saving tiny amount of bytes, less keystrokes, dx) I am convinced it's a bad idea to omit the end tags.

It causes way more trouble than those benefits are worth
I was where you were and am glad I got over my reticence because it's genuinely feels like a pleasure to use now. Another good aspect is that while you're using tailwind's custom identifiers, you still have to write real CSS and so are quite likely to end up refining your own CSS skillset in the process.
i prefer hidden corners of the net, like the midnight pub. i describe it as a "lofi tech-zen microblogging collective".

https://midnight.pub/

or my blog on a shared tilde server, if i'm doing a project writeup rather than prose.

gemini://anachronauts.club/~voidstar/

(i'm a fan of the smolweb lately. text-only, content-first, no junkware.)
I'd say try wood-lathe work. make a box and it's easy for it to end up wonky is the measurements are off. But make a goblet and the curves are what you make it - not necessarily what you plan.. But it feels good to shave off that wood.
Krazam has a great satire video about this (only 2 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U
There's an interview with Ken Thompson from about 2008 where he says that most of the work in CS has already been done, and he's advising his son to go into biology.

I feel like CRISPR is the transistor of the 21st century.
Also a homophone of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants analog, Teragen, in Aberrant, a classic White Wolf superheroes tabletop game!
Startup Needs Microservices
By rebuked I don't mean actual disciplinary consequences. Instead, the university should (verbally/textually) condemn speech in favor of human rights abuse.
"My phone's dead."

A physical menu magically appears.
Tailwind has a lot of advantages if you read the documentation rather than conjecture about what you think it might do.
If you’re doing straight up war crime level things it’s much easier to just go the biological or chemical route with the added benefit of not making the land completely unusable for millennia.
> Most home owners have mortgages with 3-5 year terms.

As an American, this is easily misinterpreted to mean the mortgages are expected to be paid off in 3-5 years, which would be mind-blowing if true, because it would mean that either houses are super cheap, or only the rich are buying.

IMO, adjustable-rate mortgages are almost a scam. Are there any legal protections in place to disallow a bank from deciding "In the next period, we're going to raise your rate to 20% because fuck you the CEO wants another yacht"?
alpine user here. I can't imagine mouse-mousing around to deal with email.

Further, in 2022, I still find myself (albeit rarely) in low-bandwidth environments where an email client suitable for a 9600 baud modem comes in handy.

But perhaps most interesting:

When I send email to other rsync.net employees, it never traverses the Internet. They are logged in, via ssh, to our mailserver as am I. The content of the emails transmits only as (ephemeral) characters in a terminal and the data transfer over the Internet exists only as ssh.

This pleases me greatly ...
Not a good look when you start off your reply to a no confidence motion with "This is really dumb."
I'm 34 and feel the same way. You can feel the zeitgeist change every 8-10 years. Its like the world has a collective consciousness (even though I largely think that's just based on the media you consume.)
Have you seen the malware called "bpfdoor"?
They are not meaninglessly wide. These laws are of great benefit to those earning the least in society. They get to easily see which occupations and businesses pay more and where their labor should be allocated.
Even when you need to write actual HTML you still should use shorthand tools like emmet to write your markup faster and with less mistakes.
> It says that some genes result in the same outcome when knocked out as other genes

a very useful map to make, but I don't see that this contradicts my comment - both genes in this case are dependencies to the outcome, without either of them, the outcome fails

this does not sound to me like we know the "function" of these genes, only that they're nessary for each phenotype

not to knock the research, just trying to make sense of what they're really mapping, in my own language of computer code (i suppose "function" has a different connotation in genetics)
Are you suggesting a good way to quit vim/emacs is by exiting the terminal?
I think there is some miscommunication somewhere between our comments: I did not mean to comment on confirmation bias, I don't see how it's involved (what inherent bias would it be confirming?); I wasn't comparing HN to other sites; I'm not sure what publisher is involved here - HN didn't publish the studies, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_coupler
https://firstmicroprocessor.com/
Hey, I want to answer this one because I think it's important.

You might think of me as a privileged high paid tech worker driving prices up. Actually I come from a working class family in southern europe. I'd spare you the details but I spent all my live slowly crawling up my way to where I am. Nearing 40 my life savings are 5 figures, and I have never owned any property or anything of value. Had I been born in the US I would be held as a paragon of the American dream and social mobility.

So now I move and start in a new country all over again. We live in a visa that would kick us out of the country if I lost my job, and it will take years to achieve any kind of stability. We have to pay a good chunk of our inflated tech income to pay for rent.

I know complaining as a tech worker is playing the world smallest violin. I recognize and appreciate my privilege. But we aren't exactly the winners here. The winners are landlords and investment funds.

Blaming highly paid immigrants misses the point and just serves to tear us further apart. Instead we should look at the systems that have caused a systematic shortage of housing.
It's all relative. Atlanta is refreshingly cool compared to cities located closer to the gulf coast.