skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you. Low-density desktop applications cause me more unease because there's more need to scroll to make sure I didn't miss something. It's especially egregious when the designers make the scrollbars invisible (appearing only on hover or use), meaning there's often no indication of more content available via scrolling. It breeds the habit of ritualistically scrolling each pane to make sure you're not missing something.

There's something psychological about the appearance of a low-density display as well. I can't quite explain it, but it causes me a bit of displeasure because it feels wasteful. There are so many pixels available but they aren't doing anything for me. I don't know why this causes me discomfort, but it does.

Finally, it's important for an application like a mail client to not lose sight of the fact that the way people use email varies. I personally use dozens of folders, meaning the density of the folder list should be as compact as reasonably possible so that I don't need to scroll.
Boring helps trains too. Separate loop project from boring machine.
> Marriage is also the leading cause of divorce

Did you mean to say children instead of Marriage? You can't have divorce without marriage.
Seems to have stopped working on Windows as well. (Or was it shift+backspace? But neither works). However, hovering over the entry I get (...) I can press to remove. Not quick if wanting to do many.

That reminds me, ctrl+shift+delete to delete history gives you a setting for "last hour", "today" etc. I wish I could have the opposite choices. Let me easily delete history, cookies etc for domains or something I haven't visited in X months.
> at some point finding parts and people able to repair those will be hard or impossible.

Maybe, maybe not. If the machine uses the right "legacy" parts (a Z80 is a great example, but so is anything belt- or gear-driven, etc.), then it's a very good bet those parts and the people who are familiar with them will remain available for much longer than you or I will be alive.
2.5mbps are youtube's own recommendations: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en#zipp...

They will then transcode it to h265, or webm which uses even less bandwidth, but I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt here and assuming they target their transcoding setup to preserve as much quality as they recommend providing them.

And of course this is VBR not CBR, so some scenes will use less.

4mbps is the linked article description of where h264 matches DVD quality. Yes, 4mbps is more than most streaming sites will give for 480p. This does mean that most streaming sites are inferior to DVDs at 480p. The fact that most streaming sites use less bitrate than a DVD-equivalent quality is therefore not surprising, giving that people have noticed that exact fact.

Streaming sites do not pick their bitrate to maximise quality given a fixed maximum filesize, so it's not surprising that they choose a lower bitrate (and therefore lower quality) than DVDs. They're instead optimizing for things like their server costs, time to playback start, or the ability to perform uninterrupted playback over the internet connection of users resorting to these lower resolution settings.
What is AWS Nitro then?
And where people's activities don't involve carrying things. Public transit is great until you need to get groceries for the week from the store back home, or take more time every day to get that day's groceries instead of a weekly trip.

It's also more expensive to buy small quantities of many products than it is to buy in bulk and store the excess until it's used. It's yet another way our society punishes the poor.
KVM is a type-1 hypervisor [1]

[1]: https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/virtualization/what-is-KVM
I wasn't only referring to just people who are tied down to one place and one lifestyle. There's plenty of tech people who are in a stage of their lives when they are easily mobile and still live a frugal lifestyle, yet almost everyone chooses the same wealthy and least ethical companies, while complaining their jobs are boring and unethical.

Not judging people who take well paying jobs at unethical companies, but they should at least stop moaning about it. Some people I know would suck d*ck behind a Wendy's to get paid FAANG money and be bored for 8h/day instead of do backbreaking work for peanuts.
Buf can now prevent breaking Protobuf schema changes
> It’s hard to define exactly what a “classic game” is, but for the sake of this study, we looked at all games released before 2010, which is roughly the year when digital game distribution started to take off.

https://gamehistory.org/study-explainer/
Definitely agree, a dark pattern for deleting/unsubscribing would be to make the user call an 800 or email someone, or not writing all the rules about payments surrounding cancelling an account (for paid stuff).
Nothing for an engineer is more satisfying than seeing your code be used to solve real problems for customers. Positive (and negative) feedback from people actually using the product you built is the lifeblood of those who really care about making a difference.

Conversely, there is nothing more 'soul-sucking' than to realize that something you have devoted months or years of work, effort, and thought into is thrown in the dustbin because there was just no business support for it. This can happen when your company is bought out by a competitor just so they could kill your project. This can happen because a SVP decided on a whim to suddenly change the whole direction of the company. It can happen because someone in the management chain just doesn't have a clue what they are doing.
This only works if you put the special character in the beginning and not at the end e.g. if I type "hacker news %" it still only filters by open tabs, but it doesn't show the "Tabs x" label (whether I add a space or not). Which is how I use it 99% of the time, since I only need to add special characters if it wasn't already finding what I meant without them.

(Not that I mind personally, since I'm already familiar with the feature)
From the offices at Tech Square, you could also call the elevator to your floor (by pressing Terminal-D), and buzz the elevator lobby door open from the comfort of your Lisp Machine (by pressing Terminal-E), via the PDP 10/11 interface on AI.

Random tourists could just pound on the door, and somebody would usually buzz you in without checking who it was, just to get some peace and quiet.

Lars, do you know anything about the wire wrapping robot that was on the 9th floor? Henry Minsky says he thinks either Holloway or Knight built it (Tom Knight would know), and they used it to make the CADR lisp machine boards. Those were huge freaking wire wrap planes, the size of a tabletop.

Here's Marvin Minsky demonstrating the 2500:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4kMzrDr4jQ

Cynthia Solomon's got a lot more amazing historic videos from that time:

Atari Cambridge Research- parts 1-6:

Introduction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR2CwKculBU

Margaret Minsky demonstrates a gestural system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wq6SQTVM9M

It's 1984 and Ed Hardebeck shows a gestural system and Gary Drescher shows object-oriented Logo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClKQHgIoLPc

A force feedback joystick, a puppet machine and a program of dance and body movement are presented:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3qPCZ5z0UQ

David Levitt shows the music box:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocwsVkqEKys

Music box with Tom Trobaugh and drum machine with Jim Davis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhA0FGsin_s
We should really know better. The TV & film industry have already been through this.
And I hoped this is about chess end games.
This is absolutely true, but the thing is, SCO didn't have to be backwards compatible with a damned thing.

Also note that the base addition of Xenix didn't support graphics, or sound, or networking, or come with a C compiler or anything. It was basically a runtime, for text only apps, and most machines only ran a single app. I put in dozens of boxes running Xenix back then.

In my world, the bulk of them ran one binary: an accountancy application provided by Tetra Corporation, and we sold one called Tetraplan.

SCO Xenix was a wonderful little operating system, extremely resource efficient, and astonishingly stable in use. Some of those boxes had uptimes in years. But that's relatively easy when it's not connected to anything, not connected to the outside world in any way, and only runs a single program.

I am absolutely not denigrating Xenix.

Xenix was my first experience of UNIX of any kind, I supported it for years, right into the 21st-century for one exceptional customer, and it caused me remarkably little pain of any kind. It was great. But it was not a mass market, general-purpose product.
But what about how humans think? We make use of universals in our language all the time. And sometimes that fits a problem domain well, like making a GUI or running a simulation of things.
Does that mean "no"? I guess so.

Where does it say they scraped huge swathes of the internet and didn't look at the results?
Or Vietnam. If Russia's success in Ukraine compares to America's success in southeast Asia or in Afghanistan, I will not be at all surprised, myself.
Switching will accelerate this.
> the language is homoiconic

There's degrees of truth to this. For example, most production lisps will compile functions to native code instead of storing the literal list of expressions. It's easy to manipulate lisp code before that happens but there's certainly a point where the homoiconicity is sacrificed.
> because I know 4 skills that synergize and are scarce.

Those would be? (Asking sincerely.)
Corollary question: How many films and TV-shows are now not legally available?

Streaming and on-demand content delivery, rather than purchased physical copies, does the same damage to other content as to games. Per internet traditions, the porn industry is leading the way. No doubt the copyrights to millions of porn films belong to long-defunct studios, leaving no legal access. Today is it porn, tomorrow it will be the older Futurama episodes.

But industries want this state of affairs. Any time spent with old content is time not purchasing the new content. To keep the content creation industry going consumers need to forget past material. Want to watch old Simpsons episodes? Want to play the original Civilization? No. Those are dead. Here are some new versions.
Rad Reader: a simple RSS reader for your computer
Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness
How well are the schools in Baltimore doing with all that money thrown at them?

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/baltimorecityma...

How did the Chinese immigrants become so prosperous so quickly if not for their cultural values around hard work and education? It's not as if there was affirmative action for them at the time because they were disenfranchised or something.

Education matters. Black immigrants (from Africa, the Caribbeans, etc.) are doing pretty well. There may be some subconscious biases in hiring, but it's not significant.

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-ethnicity/2022/01/20/a-grow...

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-ethnicity/2022/01/20/househ...

I'm not ignoring history. I recognize that African-Americans have been heavily disenfranchised and discriminated against. I'm trying to find a way forward from here. If African-Americans achieve similar educational attainment, I think it's fair to say that we'll be on the path to achieving equality. As they become more successful, fewer people will have undue stereotypes about them. Now the problem becomes initiating the process of betterment. The government should pitch in, but that will do little good without a change in culture. Plants can't grow without light, even if there's plenty of water and nutrients.
Well world is about same as before. But it does remain tricky for people who think there is only one possible behavior for an entity all the time.
I too have worked in tech before, during, and after the hiring boom; but not for any of these companies. I have seen very much of the sort of make-work that is described in the article.

It seems our anecdotes might cancel each other out.
the bodybuilding.com forums from that time were something else.
Sounds performative rather than anything real at stake. Managers are expected to lay down rhetoric about accountability and contextualizing their team's failure.
This is great. I like the no-nonsense design, I especially like the inline-approach in the video, where it kind of just pops up. I was afraid it would be a link, but turned out to be very smoothly integrated video, only slightly interrupting flow.
> Maybe let’s not confuse Oracle undermining their competitor’s moat with their genuinely being on the side of the community.

Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons (Oracle) is better than doing the wrong thing for the wrong reasons (IBM).
This is a very interesting thing I´d never considered. But looking back, it does seem to make a lot of sense. Iĺl try it out!
Show HN: I made a tool for creating promo videos, no editing skills needed
Gay marriage wasn't legal back then
Can you expand on what you mean with regards to GrapheneOS? What is the relation?
How does search work if my mails are stored remotely, on a server?
> 100% of the responsibility goes to the people who knowingly falsified data to advance their careers.

I don't think anyone would argue otherwise. The issue is that if there's a culture that encourages (incentivizes, not advocates) cheating, then we should expect a culture where more people cheat. I think right now it is hard to argue that the current culture doesn't encourage cheating, and if we're being honest, doesn't have a good means of identifying it (publish or perish also decreases reviewing quality).
From the excecutive summary of the original study:

They analysed a dataset of ~4,000 video games released in the US before 2010.

https://zenodo.org/record/7996492
> dismisses the Japanese for using old tech - whether it’s fax machines or funny looking flip phones

I agree, but those are interesting examples because they're not unique to Japanese culture. Fax machines common enough in the US for them to be continue to be useful, and I see more and more people using flip phones as time goes by.
Interesting. What personal experiences or survey data are you drawing on for these conclusions? All of what you say sounds like solid, believable inferences but I doubt most people are exposed to enough data about the interaction of family life and work to draw meaningful generalizations. (If you turn out to be a professor of quantitative sociology, my face will be bright red :) ).
> Well, I suppose it depends on your definition of standard.

Of course :) I believe my distinction between validity and truth is the one generally used in the literature (I have listed four examples above), and the one that would be understood by most working mathematicians and analytic philosophers who care about mathematical logic.

We both agree that there is a clear distinction between formulae that are true in some model (specified, or inferred from context) and formulae that are true in all models; the latter are not particularly interesting to most mathematicians once one has agreed on the logic (e.g. classical, constructive, etc.) in which one operates, hence I think it’s reasonable to use “true” to refer to the former, as indeed many authors do.

> That's called satisfiability.

Many logicians say that a formula is true in a model (sometimes true in a structure) if it’s satisfied in that model under all assignments.

Can you find me a reference in the literature where “true” is used to mean “true in all models” consistently?
Yup, it's something of a dark pattern by many companies. They make it as hard as possible to see what the final cost will be until you're deep in the order process. Oops, if you're dealing with something that never has extra costs and thus doesn't have a final cost stage to ordering it wouldn't be hard to imagine someone actually ordering when they intended to get the final cost.

Likewise for shipping time. I need it by X and will not order if it's going to arrive later. That one isn't as much of a dark pattern as it's rarely done for deceptive reasons.
Ask HN: Is the AI tool market a too crowded now?
I see a lot of glorified weekend projects raising millions of dollars... pretty much anyone with little coding experience can put together a langchain + vector db backed app together so why would even small companies spend thousands of $ on a tool when they could easily build their own? Am I tripping lol would love to hear a different perspective
I've ordered from Dan a number of times. The service, recommendations, and packaging are remarkable. Each tin has a little tidbit about its strengths. Honestly, anyone who enjoys seafood should get a sample box.
You don't have to use __init__.py -- you can just create any python file and it will be a module.

And I'm not sure why you think that's unergonomic. If you want a bunch of functions to share the same namespace, just put them in the same file. The name of the file becomes your module name.
Except, in real terms, everyone is now vastly better off than in 1946?
What is the gestalt of middle management that makes things worse?

It seems like there's a negative synergy that develops whenever a company grows large enough to need 2-3 layers of middle management.

I expect that it has multiple causes, but several of them are various kinds of lack of accountability. Imbalances where risk of action or inaction rewards/punishes a manager individually, while the negative consequences socialize to the team or the company. Lack of accountability (both positive and negative) if something isn't changed. Lower rewards for positive synergy (i.e. cooperating with other teams) than for defecting (working on your own thing only).
I pretty fundamentally disagree, though of course I don't think your argument is unreasonable for a smaller product.

For companies where products are relatively small and largely disconnected from one another I think your approach can work - senior leadership is largely concerned about maintaining the organization while explicitly delegating product ownership to team leads below.

The problem is that this falls part really quickly once the products reach a certain feature scale, and in fact attempts to do this is IMO responsible for a lot of the product incoherency in a company like Google.

For example, when I was there, there were multiple features that launched on Android Maps but never on iOS Maps. This was an example of shipping the org chart - the Android Maps team came up with the feature and shipped it, and the iOS team was separate and uninvolved.

Of course shipping one's org chart is not an exclusively Google problem and is very common - but it's a fundamental consequence of delegating product ownership downwards. The ownership of the Android and iOS apps were necessarily separate because of the sheer size of these products and their teams, and there is no effective way to coordinate between them.

Sure, theoretically everyone can play nicely and talk to each other and sell each other on how great of a feature it is - but realistically that just doesn't work. The coordination overhead between teams when there is no high-level forcing function is extreme and grinds work to a halt. In reality what you need is a VP or Director-level to say "we need this on both OSes, prioritize shipping this feature on both ends".

And that... definitionally breaks the notion of downward product delegation.
Mass production isn't the main issue. Production is actually quite simple, the issue is that it doesn't pass the 25 year lifespan test yet, but they're close.
They prefer it this way.

Ultimately an intellectual property based economy leads to this without proactive measures limiting IP.
Building muscle happens in the kitchen more than the gym. For stuff like squats, I agree a barbell squat for beginners is just to aggressive. Holding the bar alone is just uncomfortable until you develop significant back muscles to hold it off your spine. Theres plenty of squat variations though that don’t require moving a disk slipping amount of weight to get a good burn in your legs.
We don’t know if they chose to share it on HN just yet or if this post was made by a fan of the project.
What is the original title of this video? It's weird that YouTube changes it from Japanese. Like, let me decide if I want it translated or indicate it has been translated??

And was this editorialized from the original?
On the pricing page, the paid plans are “production ready.” I wonder how they define an enterprise.
The YT channel seems to be run by a Japanese, so it's probably not malicious.
regarding (2) did this happen recently? or years ago? I've heard the culture or policy around this has "changed" but that could all be BS.
Chrome would auto install site specific search in its initial beta release in September 2008. The ability to set your own keywords came soon after. https://lifehacker.com/enable-chromes-best-features-in-firef...
Accidentally Superhuman Systems; making your customers wrestle a grizzly bear
> People don't want to play the job of a real detective (collect endless witness statements, construct extremely detailed timelines)

You underestimate how many people would be really into what you described. Lots of wildly popular games are work in a fun-looking package. Factorio is just programming. Football Manager, and every other sports manager game for that matter, is spreadsheet after spreadsheet with some cool graphics.
A bigger problem is that it breaks text rendering. Transforms turn off pixel snapping in the hinting engine so you’ll get blurry text or lines.

(At least if you applied it as a css transform you would. Maybe if you did it natively in svg you wouldn’t?)
Exactly. Take music, for example. Increased capitalist exploitation [1] is what allowed people to spread their creativity far and wide, rather ironically for genres like punk. There's still nothing stopping people from giving away stuff for free, and indeed I do that myself with both FOSS code and CC-BY media (not music), but I'm under no illusions that I'll ever make more than beer money from it, and I do not fault anyone else for going the all rights reserved route

[1] I use that term in the neutral, economic sense
The word "probably" there is completely meaningless.

There are many interpretations of QM and there is no compelling reason to choose one over the others. In particular the many worlds interpretation makes no testable predictions, it's just a story. There's absolutely nothing "elegant" about it. There's no math, no experiment, no explanation. A story like you read in some religious text or science fiction novel. It has nothing more going for it than that.

Practically, the most "likely" situation, if you want to define likely as what most researchers think and how they behave, is that most people are fans of "shut up and calculate". QM is what it is. That's it. We don't need crazy interpretations, particularly ones that don't contribute anything to our understanding.