skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UI, the user interface, is the part of a system that you directly interact with. The UX, the user experience, is what it's actually like to use it, which is affected not only by the UI but also by other parts of the software.

"When I press this button, nothing happens for five seconds and then it displays the results." Bad UX. Probably partly the UI (if something might take a while, the UI should at least show some sign that something is happening, preferably in a way that gives some clue how long you're likely to be waiting). Probably partly not the UI (maybe the reason it's five seconds rather than 0.1 seconds is that the internals of the program are doing something time-consuming; maybe that's unavoidable, maybe a better algorithm would fix it. Or maybe it's waiting for a server somewhere else, and maybe smarter cacheing would help. All of that is UX, none of it is UI.)

"When I open the app, the first thing I see every time is an annoying popup inviting me to buy the premium version. I have to close it every time." Bad UX, at least from the user's point of view (it might be exactly the experience the business folks want users to have). I suppose the popup is part of the user interface, but the actual problem here is a business decision (advertise at users in the hope that they will be convinced and/or pay just to make the advertisement go away) that's contrary to users' interests. The best UI designers and implementers in the world won't change this.

"This thing is incredibly confusing to use". Bad UX. Might be the result of bad UI (e.g., no one has thought through how the menus should be organized). Might be because the underlying software is designed in a way that doesn't fit this user's brain, and changing this would need deep changes to the insides and not just UI changes.
Reminds me of the Bootstrappable Builds project, who aim to go from an MBR of binary code plus a ton of source all the way up to a Linux distro.

https://bootstrappable.org/
This is awesome. How did you manage to convince your employers, of 4 day work week? I was just thinking about it, I don't think there is any chance that I can convince my own employer of it :(
thank you for that kind words, means a lot. i am not selling a lot and the whole development process was part of the journey for me. i also think that one should just try to build stuff, even if it is only helping a small amount of people.
Insightful. On the plus side OTOH, more Prolog implementations means more focus on standardization and shared Prolog code bases, when the dominance of certain commercial and F/OSS implementations might have pushed Prolog IMO too much into the CLP magic and/or procedural niche.
the problem is that battery consumption. of course there are alterantives, but all of them need WAY more power than LORA
Comparing medium income with GDP may be a moderately interesting measure of income inequality. Pretty moderately, because GDP is not income: see the famous example of a gentleman marrying his maid and decreasing GDP by that.
I just bought 10 off digikey last week, to have some prototyping stock. Looks like they still got some: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/stmicroelectronic...

Octopart, etc haven't been able to accurately track inventory through this disruption.
Being on call is a burden, even if you’re not called in.

When my spouse was on call for a hospital, they had to sit with their phone in their lap when we went to the movies. I had to be prepared to Uber home because they’d need the car. It’s not fun!
I think this is wrong.

A user interface needn't be all visual (e.g., in a device with physical buttons, the buttons are part of the UI).

Some visual things might not be best thought of as part of the UI (e.g., if you have a piece of software for making publication-quality graphs, and when you ask it to plot a smooth curve through some points it does a lousy job of picking the smooth curve you actually wanted, arguably that's a visual matter but it isn't really part of the user interface, it's about the algorithms underneath).
While I get the idea that prepping can become an unnecessary use of resources and result in people thinking you're crazy, I still think of the simple fact that all civilizations end eventually. Certainly they collapse for different reasons and at different rates. But the lights will go off eventually for our generation, or the next, or the next... Nothing lasts forever so it's probably worth planning for some level of catastrophe.
Agree, I've never had bad experiences with Mouser.
I didn’t interpret “show up” as having purchased tickets and planned to enter, rather unintentionally get let in as was their implication.
Regarding SQL, we find for example in the Oracle SQL documentation https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/SQLRF/intro002.htm#SQLR...:

"Oracle strives to comply with industry-accepted standards and participates actively in SQL standards committees."

and also https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/1...:

"This appendix declares Oracle's conformance to the SQL standards established by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)."

A similar notion of intent and self-assessment is highly desirable in Prolog systems, for warranty reasons alone already.

The Prolog standard defines the minimum (not the maximum) of features that must be present in conforming implementations: Prolog implementations are free to provide extensions to the standard, as in SQL implementations. However, to still comply with the standard, all such extensions must be conforming extensions, i.e., they cannot render existing conforming Prolog code invalid or differently interpreted than the standard demands. Also, it must be possible to run the system without all such extensions. For example, in Scryer Prolog, this is achieved by not loading any modules.

Valid candidates for conforming extensions are for example Prolog programs that would yield a syntax error without that extension.
>Did they decide that "Evil, Inc." wasn't subtle enough

I believe Monsanto already owns that one?
Key Russian official confirms his country’s commitment to the space station
the problem under discussion is large email servers blocking all other email servers, not "online shopping"

That has been a problem for a long time too, but it's been a progression. I remember att.com and aol.com blocking mail from legit but small mail servers of my customers since decades ago. It was only a few hosts doing blocking, and they were blocking more selectively like only blocking Road Runner cable modem ip's not all small mail servers. And today it's just a lot worse in both dimensions.

If you never encountered this problem in 20 years, for 15 of those years it just means you didn't happen to encounter one of the few examples, now there are more examples but many of those are new and so you've only had to be lucky not to encounter them for a short time.

This is how a lot of experience gives a false indication. Not encountering a progressing problem like this for 20 years is not like "I've cooked spaghetti this way for 20 years"
Overexploitation is a very real dynamic in colonial and post-colonial countries. As shown by the resource curse (aka "Dutch Disease"), countries with the largest, most valuable natural resource endowments tend to be the ones where average folks are worst off.
yes i thought about that. Interestingly there are a lot of customers who are buying gateways and extend the coverage in their neighbourhood. It takes around 5 minutes to set one up.

There are gateways who are more complicated and more for developers, but of course i don't want to offer these.
This mirrors my experience a couple of weeks back. Having come across many others with the same problem I almost wondered if it was a case of pretend to have a feature to gauge interest (I'm sure it wasn't - I hate those things!)

I also ended up using starling instead - perfect really.

While I like the Monzo travel bits when travelling I find bank accounts much of a muchness really for my basic needs so don't have any real loyalty.
Generally one of three reasons, I think.

1- Either because that's the source the submitting person first saw and didn't think of chasing down the root source before submitting;

2- or because the non-root source has added context and/or better writing explaining the situation;

3- or because (least common imo) submitter has a vested interest in promoting the specific site they link to.

Dang / other mods (are there others? I can't remember) are generally good at updating submission links to either the root or to a better write-up, when it doesn't seem that the one submitted does have a good claim to be the best site chosen for a story. (Of course they're more likely to do it if people helpfully provide the suggestion to flag that it could be improved, and suggesting a better link - as you did.)

But perhaps it would be worth having a small note on the submission form asking people to briefly reflect on whether the link they are submitting is indeed the best form of the story, or whether they could spend another minute following a couple of links (or doing a quick search) to find a possible better one?
Yes. It is accurate. I just used it today.
I agree you are about as smart as you will ever be. However that does not apply to me thank you very much.
> Have you considered an info box where the comments would be to push anyone interested to mail?

Not a bad idea, thanks. Maybe I'll try that. I suspect the "problem" is I just have approx. zero readers :)

> If you just want to cut down on non-targeted spam then it might be enough to have your comments work even slightly differently from the standard word-press solution, e.g. by adding a simple text field with a question that real human visitors of your site should be able to answer.

Yeah, I'd like to do that, but I don't have the time/interest in figuring out how to make Wordpress do that. I tried googling for plugins or whatever a while back, but never found anything pre-made.

> Is your site supposed to have a default WordPress favicon?

Never thought of changing it!
At 5 minutes you were really quick! For me it was probably like 20-30, but like I said: it's not necessarily something I'm skilled at. Either way, repairs are fairly quick and easy!
> The created team at the beginning was composed by: 1 developer ( myself ), 1 product owner, 1 scrum master and 1 manager.

Good grief. That's not a normal team breakdown, especially for a new project.
If you had pets and an EV, it might be useful, at least on startup.
Lisp/Clojure allows you to solve/think about problems at a higher level, do a hacker rank puzzle in java/C++ and then do the same using clojure.
Psychomorph – Facial morphing, texture prototyping, feature detection (2013)
GDP is a measure of all exchanged values.

Income is a measure of retained value after all exchanges have had place.

If I buy a truckload of ice cream for $1000, sell it for $2000, and pay the trucker $200, the GDP is increased by $1000 + $2000 + $200 = $3200, while my income is merely $1000, and the trucker's, $200. Our profits are even lower; mine is $800, and the trucker's is $200 minus fuel costs and road tolls.
Points for keeping one day meeting-free and batching meetings together. Deep work is the only useful kind of work, so getting one day of that is something! I'd be radical and suggest another of those deep work days to double productivity, but refering to your last point, organizational changes initiated by the team members are rare.

Generally, good changes would require scrum masters and tech leads to work harder, to really get to the bottom of a wide range of issues outside of superficial meetings, to actually understand how developers, testers and devops struggle, and to solve those problems. But it's easier to put the burden of articulating problems through public speaking on generally introvert developers who then risk incriminating themselves in the process.

> 2) In the beginning of the stand-up, I make space for some minutes of casual chatting and joking around.

In a work environment it is extremely hard for people to truly enjoy jokes and chats when everyone, including soft leadership, is present. People are very much concerned with their standing within the organization and if they are good enough to remain, or advance. If that is not an issue, frustrations with many work-related disappointments and sometimes colleagues are main concerns for software people. It would take a truly remarkable individual to lead such a casual time of cracking jokes in everyone's second language in multicultural teams over video call, when their livelihood or sanity is on the line, rather than it being a stressful performative act for half the team.
Sounds like you need a server that can run OpenBMC or similar. Or just run a regular Linux distro on the BMC, some of the vendor BMCs are running Linux under the hood.
You haven't contradicted my statement. Maybe if you elaborate, you will. But "inflation is sectoral" has no bearing on the fact that rising grocery prices are a part of real wage computation.
Hmm, the button doesn't seem to do anything in Firefox 91. Maybe it's interacting badly with another extension?
That'd be a very good feature. Most of the time you're going to be near the microwave anyways. And 10 second delay wouldn't matter at all if you weren't.
No More “Insight Porn”
NAD supplementation is a contested area of research, and there are many studies showing that it doesn't achieve anything useful. Further, NAD supplementation puts stress on the methylation cycle and given that you have a 10-25% chance of an MTHFR mutation (depending on your demographic) you should be very careful with NAD supplementation.
Maybe you can develop it, if you want. The models and the source code for running it are all there, someone just have to wrap it in a standalone binary instead of a WebExtension.

- https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations

- https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models

- https://github.com/mozilla/bergamot-translator

Note that most of the heavy NLP code used (MarianMMT, fasttext) were originally written as C++ libraries but were compiled to WebAssembly to make a WebExtension out of it. So if you want to make a command line / GUI desktop app there are two choices: use C++ directly if you want to make an app with minimal dependencies, or use JS/WebAssembly to make a NodeJS / Electron based app (which might be heavier but more accessible for JS devleopers.)
So you used to build wisdom, but now that you are older you don't feel like you need to become wiser so you just take the easy route.

There is a reason all education depends on students trying and failing to solve problems, that is how we learn things properly. When you stop doing that you stop learning new things at a deeper level.
John Bardos grew a newsletter of curated links to 2100 subscribers
Very nice. Does anyone remember Moveable Type?
Meta doesn't have any oncall compensation; it's like Amazon.
I can understand being cynical given that experience.

Personally I trust them on privacy more than any other tech company, and I think would give them the benefit of the doubt that what you experienced was a settings bug (or a well-intentioned firewall exception) - but I'm sure I would feel differently if it was my settings that had been reset, and I know that once that trust is shaken it's nearly impossible to rebuild it.
A basic guide: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Clare-Sutherland/public...
> Assuming you can stay mentally and physically healthy during that time, what is the downside

First, this is a comically huge assumption. Second, it’s expensive to live. Third, it might be boring and sad to see friends/family die. Fourth, depending on age now, climate change might exacerbate the cost and misery of existing within the next 100 years.
"Quiet quitting" = doing what's expected and competently carrying out your job, but not going above-and-beyond for a company who is undoubtedly massively underpaying you. What a load of shit.
The first releases of CollapseOS where developed in Z80 assembler, because Z80 is one of the more common CPU used worldwide (in 80's computers, Ti calculators, game consoles, printers, music synthesisers and many more). It's only recently than it was rewritten in Forth. The author explain it here http://collapseos.org/forth.html This history is nice to read.

In the same family of OS in Forth with low tech devices, there is also KnightOS:
https://knightos.org/
How about for an extremely occasional woodworker? I run my saw maybe twice a year. I use hand tools when I can. Am I OK with a N95 mask and venting the workspace (garage) when I'm done?
I guess I’m one of those weirdos who took that to mean “people can’t afford to live” and not so much a statistical analysis on the price of gas and groceries.
They're what I have access to (for free; I don't buy this stuff), and what I grew up with. I used Pentium IIs and Pentium 4s (and some PowerPC Macs) in my early days. Exploring the limitations of older software or trying to cram newer software on to these machines is fun.

I don't get nostalgic feelings from a C64 or Apple 2 or TRS-80 because I've never even seen one IRL before. For my leisure time I want to play with something I'm mostly familiar with, because that's relaxing. I would jump at the chance to score a free Amiga or other hardware older than I've ever used, but just haven't had any presented to me.
I would say doing without thinking is better than thinking without doing. I know plenty of successful people in the first group, and plenty of unsuccessful people in the second. But opinions might differ.
My favorite is American Apparel Flex Fleece. Very comfy, affordable, multiple colors. Got one from my company, liked it so much that I bought 3 more!
Guy Kawasaki, The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Start-2-0-Time-Tested-Battle-Hard...
> A large starfish rolls along the sea floor, leaving the dashed line

Sounds like they found Bikini Bottom.
This is spot on.

They were cheap vs a phone plan.

They did have long battery life and ran on AAs.

They had clear notifications. Two devices going off? Better check.

Way simpler than ringtones for select users, or the “was that a simultaneous email and text?” game.

Mostly they were cheap. We promised we’d always have redundant providers. I’m sure this seemed like a good idea at the time but didn’t scale well.

They’re no longer in use.
link without paywall: https://archive.ph/q43yg
I would think we should call ejector seats that fire through the floor "rejector seats".
Holy moly, I don't know anything about the content, but this is straight up data science porn. Those visuals are stunning.
Off topic: I see folks in the comments talk about async communication.

What I don’t understand about the async crowd is why then do you get mad when I email at 9pm at night, or I email on the weekend.

I’m not asking for an immediate reply, that’s the entire point of async (for you to reply on your own terms/time).
Concur. (HN(actual Citroen experience)) has got to be quite a small subset versus (HN(identify with Citroen experience)).
maybe it's just me but it seems like an introduction is missing. Not sure what the secret you're talking about is.
> An actual UX decision I cannot wrap my head around is that it cannot be turned off once it you used it on a page/language.

More likely because it's harder to implement. Listening to change and translating one-way is relatively easy, but keeping track of the original state and making sure you don't leak memory doing it is a bit more involved.

Perfectly doable, but maybe they just went with "we'll do it later".
What about the consideration of proving you were there? Or another way to phrase it, being able to “show, not tell”.

With social media to take account for, it seems that many of our interactions online are very similar to the story of Narcissus but from the perspective of the nymph Echo who couldn’t speak up while watching Narcissus fall in love with himself more and more.

There’s definitely a difference of your average Instagram selfie in a unique location vs. an “influencer” taking professional photos at a unique location. The latter tends to be more focused on the obsession of the physical appearance. A selfie just happens to be convenient. You watch influencers fall in love with themselves and as they become bigger and more famous, your voice becomes muted in the sea of comments, likes, and sponsorships they obtain.
What exactly are these guys getting out of it?
> Even views such as 'people ought to be treated for who they are and not their intersecting identities' is oddly 'conservative' in 2022.

Claiming to do this while doing the opposite is a popular "conservative" position in 2022.
I had the bylaws in hand within 48 hours of putting in an offer. It was also one of the first things I had to sing post escrow and whatnot.
Run your own DALL-E-like image generator
Gdp in your case is $2000, and so is aggregate net income if you account for the person who put the ice-cream in the truck.
The whole purpose of prepping is to prepare the necessary amount of resources for an emergency.

If you stock too much food or water it will expire, you have to rotate it, so you eat it and restock.

If you stock too many non-perishables of something you don't need you won't have enough room for more useful things.

Prepping and looking crazy aren't coupled. Prepared people can be normal, it's not just what you see on TV.

Generally the fun is seeing how long you can prepare for, most likely you won't need to last past a month, but certain natural disasters like a hurricane can hit that easily.

I'd definitely recommend everyone have at least a 1 week supply and plan for emergencies (usually specific to your area).
I have a 2006 Subaru Forester with the turbo engine. I've replaced the exhaust, radiator, fixed numerous oil leaks, and the steering fluid is leaking now. I feel 0 love for it and see it as a weight around my neck, but I feel beholden to keep it going for some reason. Maybe it's the sunk cost concept.

Oh it gets shitty gas mileage too and the AC cuts out after 25 minutes.

I don't think it's turning into obsession (god, I hope not), but when I look to sell it the market is flooded with similar makes and models and nothing is selling. It's like "what's the point if I can't get my money back out?"

When I do drive it though and I stomp on the gas pedal it feels like a rocket ship and my love for it is reaffirmed just a little bit.
Wood-cased pencils have lead that is darker and less smudgy than MP lead, because wood-cased use a graphite+clay mix while MPs use graphite+polymer. Some people even prefer the feel of wood-cased pencils in hand, but I personally prefer the convenience of MPs.

The all-round best line of wood-cased pencils is the Mitsubishi Hi-Uni. The Tombow Mono 100 series was a consistent second, but I heard quality changed after moving production out of Japan. Some people like the Faber-Castell 9000 series because its hardest grades are smoother than other brands. The Staedtler Mars Lumograph series is known to give a particularly rich black with the softest grades. That may not be relevant to you if you just want them for writing, because I find it practically impossible to write with a wood-cased softer than 4B.

Some fanatics claim that the discontinued Sanford Blackwing 602 was the greatest pencil ever. The lead hardness was about 4B and was unusual for including wax with the graphite and clay. The point wore down quickly, but the lead was particularly resistant to crumbling and it was very slippery on the paper. The line on paper was not as dark as you would expect from a 4B. I would say that the best current pencils give a better line but aren't as slippery. There have been a couple attempts at reproducing the Blackwing, but I've heard mixed reports of how successful they were.

My philosophy of buying pencils is that since there is so little absolute difference in cost between the best and the mediocre, there is no sense in trying to economize there.