skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a theory that almost every UX/UI developer today is an avid player of twitch video games. And this is clear from the way they design the UI. Every page, every screen, every window, is constantly and dynamically reflowing. Buttons and other elements are moving before your eyes. Popups come and go without much rhyme or reason. "Undo" opportunities are often on short timers in a little notification window that disappears in five seconds. Web pages are often designed to surprise and inveigle the visitor with dialogs that appear when we least expect it, triggered by things like how long we've viewed a page, or our attempts to move the mouse away from the viewport, etc.

It's like the UX/UI designers have taken twitch video games as the gold standard for a UI, and therefore the visual acuity and reaction times of a twentysomething are baked-in as prerequisites for operating a simple thing like a mobile phone with your banking application, or a desktop computer viewing a normal news article.

In these cases, it's not sufficient to simply learn the UI, it's necessary to anticipate it, and lead your target so that you're prepared to click it when the opportune moment presents itself and before that moment disappears again.
The animated movie Megamind.

Many reviews state something like 'Why even bother, The Incredibles, Despicable Me, etc did it already, and are way better, etc, etc', but I think they're completely wrong. The other movies are rather blunt in that Hollywood way, whereas Megamind is full of subtle humour.
The ones that are willing make a choice to use an iPhone despite the limitations, e.g. no ad blocking.

I can't see any tech savvy user for who ad blocking is a priority using an iPhone.
There is an amazing trick that I now use almost every time I want to sleep: the 4-7-8 breathing method. I don't remember using it and not falling asleep in less than 5 minutes, whatever the stress I was in.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/16/health/4-7-8-breathing-te...
That's strange because xeyes (not a snap app) worked just fine, so $DISPLAY was certainly set.
But it is hard to proof, if someone just wants to make more money (which is legitimate), or if they genuinly want to keep the land. And government Intervention in those cases seem just recipe for corruption.
No, this is nonsense. You cannot force someone to watch ads. Is it robbing video creators to mute an ad while it's playing? Is it robbing video creators to get up and grab a drink during an ad? If YouTube wants to monetize, then they can paywall their content, and more power to them. If I want to support a creator, I'll subscribe to their Patreon (and I do!). But my browser is a user agent operating on my behalf, running on a computer whose software I control, on a network whose traffic I control.

Suffering corporate brainwashing via ads is not some moral imperative, and I wish people would stop trying to pretend otherwise, especially on Hacker News, of all places.
And in other countries full premium is already cheaper than premium lite.
Don't bother, you are so convinced that man-made global warming is real that you couldn't enter into a genuine discussion on the matter (i.e., one where you might change your mind), and if you won't, why an Earth should they. It's as pointless as a Christian and a Muslim arguing about who has the better God.
Because ads don't work on me, they just annoy me. Besides, my own devices should not act in someone else's interests. And, moreover, I'm an egoist. You want reliable income? Charge for your stuff then instead of relying on other people's empathy they may or may not have.
Because I already support my favorite creators in other ways. Because I'll still see ads when I use other devices. Because videos have extra ads in the form of sponsor segments.

Because ads are a parasite on society. Because their lying and psychological manipulation should be illegal. Because most of this tracking and privacy invasion mania is the ad industry's fault.

If there's a new product useful for me that I should know about, I'll find out here, in review sites, or when I visit a store, thank you very much.
Yeah yeah yeah...just give me the pill.
Likewise "Equilibrium" which also got heavily overshadowed by "The Matrix"
Will that allow me to ask about certain files? and imports?
> Taking a break from the problem can sometimes be the faster way to a solution, illogical for modern bosses who believe only working on the problem will solve it.

Yep this is the most important part. If you go on a walk or shower but think about how to solve the problem you're not going to get this benefit.

Sleeping is ideal because you have no opportunity to consciously think about it but it can be done while awake if you find yourself truly disengaged from thinking about your problem.
I mean I hate Chromebook, or more like any crappy Laptop Which is what 99% of Chromebooks are. But

> Google imposes expiration dates, even if the hardware still works.

The article doesn't even say what does it mean by expiration. The link [1] which expiration points to talks about Auto Update Expiration.

> “I hit the update button and found out it couldn’t update,” Mr. Nielsen said.

Well yes. That is like every MacBook or Windows 8 - 10 Laptop etc. Software update isn't free. Your iPhone dont get infinite iOS update, the same with Android.

So what exactly is the expiration, which the submitted article takes about, it turns out as listed in the second article [1] it meant,

> Immediately after a Chromebook’s expiration date, you won’t experience much of a difference. In fact, you’ll likely be able to use the device normally for months. But some sites might start to act funny.

It turns out Chrome inside Chromebook don't get updated like the original browser. So Chrome ( browsers ) may get outdated. And some shitty website will act funny. How the heck is that a Chromebook expiration? You could install Firefox on your Chromebook and it would still work. Complaining about Website not working on your expired Chromebook? That is a website problem.

Again I hate Chromebooks, they are shit, just like pretty much every Google product ever existed apart from early days Gmail and Google Reader. But you know what is even worst than Google, modern mainstream media reporting.

[1] https://archive.is/RqE36
I don't like that either, but I get it, it breaks the privacy of the sent message as messages have permissions attached to them.

Honestly, bugged me a few times before I just switched to using the snippet tool. I use it all the time anyways and this felt natural.
What do you think are some challenges that an eyetracker in this specific context has to face? What is your friend mostly struggling with the current solutions? Are there tracking specific challenges related to ALS? Is it mostly a UI/"better prediction" interface issue?

With my group we are developing an eyetracker for studying developmental and clinical populations, which typically present challenges to conventional eyetrackers. It is a spin off from our academic work with infants, and we already have a study almost done that uses it. We are still into the very beginning phase in terms of where this may lead us, but we are interested in looking into contexts where eyetracking for different reasons may be more challenging.
Is it not possible to inspect that without having a running Manjaro install?
Webview and Chrome on Safari over Comcast.
Tetsuo is the nastiest film I've ever had the misfortune of watching. Pure gore shock horror which seemed rather pointless to me. I don't think it's underrated. I think it's massively overrated.
Oobabooga and fastchat support openai compatible APIs so we can use cody with open source local LLMs?
Overthewire.org
Came across this site which was suggested by a friend of mine. After solving few of the problems, I have reached the moment of "wow I did not know about this at all" and it's exciting to learn more about Linux ecosystem in general.

Would highly recommend anyone who is keen to learn and explore Linux.

Shoot me a DM [1] if you wish to form a small group to solve and discuss these questions together once in a while.

[1] https://twitter.com/akashwhocodes
I believe due to Digital Services Act: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/safer-onli...
Gratitude – David Steindl-Rast [video]
Yeah this is pretty standard. Note that if the damages are high enough they’ll absolutely come after you for breach of contract.
That’s the one. I forgot I had 1.1.1.1 set (and 8.8.8.8 as a fallback).
They made it addictive and it's not possible to uninstall on Android. You can only deactivate the application.
I stopped paying for YT premium and figured out how to work ReVanced becuase YT premium doesn't actually block the minute-plus ads that creators put in their videos to ensure they actually get paid when YT stiffs them and ReVanced/Sponsorblock does.
Been there many years ago, the android ecosystem is as good and intuitive as the languages used to develop apps (poo emoji here).
Make a good web version of your site/app and use a webview, no more endless hours debugging shit.
Wow, a permit is 300 EUR + 120 EUR / year. There's no way this can really cover a single person asking for donations on their website, can it? That's insane.

It also looks like you need to specify information about your "organisation", including specifying a treasurer? How could a single person even fill this out if they wanted to?

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It appears permits aren't given to individuals and there is simply no legal way for a given person to ask for donations in Finland.
Some amazing music that never seemed to go mainstream:

The Cinematic Orchestra, great modern jazz with a beat. Try the album Everyday. If you're into film there's a version of the 1929 Dziga Vertov film "Man With a Motion Picture Camera" that has a score performed by them, also excellent.

Patrick Watson - Close to Paradise. An ecclectic concept album, one of my all time favorites.

Jaga Jazzist - Starfire. Their early albums are great also. Hectic, energetic ensemble jazz with lots of overlapping time scales and patterns. Sounds a bit chaotic at first but once you recognise the patterns it just clicks and is super fun!
Interesting, I’d never seen comparisons between Megamind and The Incredibles, but it definitely did suffer from being released so soon after Despicable Me.

My favorite overlooked animated film is Iron Giant. People didn’t yet generally appreciate that an animated film could be as much for adults as kids, and WB seemed to have no idea how to market it.
Sometimes people simply repeat what they've heard, while others stay silent. Active critical thinking in your conversations with your friend would be best. Introspect each point in excruciating detail.
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The distinction between macroevolution and microevolution sounds like nonsense.

Even from a biological perspective this distinction is not nonsense: couldn't there exist an additional mechanism that is not arbitrary mutation and survival/selection of the fittest, which could be an additionally important for the formation of species and macroevolution?

Candidates for such possible additional mechanisms have been proposed from biologists, such as Lamarckism or epigenetics (though the mainstream view in biology is these either could not be observed (Lamarckism) or are not considered to be important for macroevolution (epigenetics)).
“Consume” ads? That is a quaint 1960’s take that is long dead.

Ad companies have been tilting the agreement attention for content ever more in their favor in aggressive and privacy harming ways. They long ago broke any moral standing.

The content creators need to seek a better deal, they’re getting screwed by Google too.
You mean to tell me vi from the 1970s doesn't support LSP? This is an outrage!
The best kind of parody: the one you almost can’t tell is parody.

My sense is that the core issue with people who actually think this way is that they lack empathy. They assume that their context is shared by everyone. So if one simple trick worked for them, it surely must work for everyone else.
This is on point. I work on small-ish embedded Linux systems and I would really like to use Rust there, but a single Rust binary takes up enough space for 10 C programs, so it's prohibitive. You can dynamically link your libraries (especially since these systems are usually built as full images, so ABI compatibility does not really matter) and it helps a little, but nowhere close to the order of magnitude you need.

Alas, there is little interest in/awareness of the middle ground between the no_std world and the "size doesn't matter" world in the Rust community right now. I've asked a bunch of people for pointers as to where to start working towards supporting those cases but I mainly got shrugs. There were attempts at more lightweight stdlibs and so on, but they all seem to have fizzled out.

I wonder how much of this is inherent in the language design. Rust heavily leans on monomorphization, so as a first approximation, you will always generate more code (before maybe optimizing that away again). Famously, the Swift people went to great lengths to avoid these problems: https://faultlore.com/blah/swift-abi/. But while running Swift on Linux is possible, this is even more niche.
Google has opened a second cloud region in Germany – Berlin Europe-west10
Yes Iron Giant is definitely another good one. And there's also Treasure Planet.
Ukraine’s Trains Are Adapting to War
It also might be a response to the apparent chaos of generative AI.
It certainly seems to be the trend currently. There’s money and brands to be made convincing people to stop distracting themselves with all the trends you made money and brands convincing them to do.
If they were really obvious they wouldn't be listed. I think "aphorisms" is probably the right word.
The setup looks like it would take a week to setup right.
So am I, sans the paying part.
No. The eye data is used to prevent people from claiming the sign-up bonus twice. It is independent from the key you'd use to sign transactions. Worldcoin claim that the data from the eye scan is hashed, and then thrown away.
Rent controls and more section 8 housing will make it a better place?

We've tried that enough already, no?
>Whole‐body MRI for preventive health screening: A systematic review of the literature (2019)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6850647/
Only that this is already being done for "nefarious" (read advertising) purposes. You do not need any "good excuse" to do just that, just money. And, essentially, being in the commons or not is consequential in how it is to be used. There are a million of topics and cases one is warranted to be suspicious and argumentative against, than when talking about dealing with medical conditions.
Edward Kmett has a great explanation[1] of the considerations around this space. It's not that alternatives to the orphan rule are hard to implement, it's that they lead to things being much harder to reason about for the programmer.

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hIZxTQP1ifo
Side note but I really love my Kobo and its hackability. For example, you can create your own sync mechanisms [0]. And when I say hackable, I mean it: I improved the Dropbox features to use the actual API and not a "public folder" (without JS, it only allows to retrieve a few files).

[0]: https://github.com/fsantini/KoboCloud
+1, I didn't think of my upbringing as "underprivileged" in any way until I got to college and later did a math-adjacent PhD and was increasingly surrounded by people who had been doing math circle-type enrichment throughout their childhoods. I was OK at math but not especially precocious. I represented my middle school at a couple of local math competitions and didn't do very well, but looking back, it's kind of weird that I didn't have any help preparing at all.

Thinking about this more in the last year or two has led me to shift a lot of my charitable giving to math circle-type programs, even though I know they're less verifiable than a lot of the (pre-longtermist) effective altruism causes -- I think that kind of mathematical thinking is a very valuable tool that is not so easy to come by without these kinds of programs.
I would assume you would act as your own treasurer, no?
Not at all. I think it's not about work (earning), but rather on spending. Gottorf nailed it with:

>it's impossible to own a home in a highly desirable, relatively low-density area, with many high income earners and lots of inbound migration both internal and external, unless you inherit one

Of course it would be nice if everyone got what they wanted, but when it comes to housing it seems to me that everybody wants to live in the same places. This drives up the prices in those areas because only a limited amount of people can live in a given area.

I don't see how you can fix that with any policy. As long as everyone wants to live in the same place the cost of living is going to be expensive there.
I dunno, they seem like pretty different domains to me, despite both looking at the eye. Generating an image of the eye that's consistent across different scans in different environments but different from person to person, is one challenging problem. Figuring out where two pupils are in tandem while handling saccades and different focal depths is a different challenging problem. The former is a detailed static view of an eye. The latter is a less detailed picture of the eye itself (probably pretty easy to look at an eye and identify the pupil) but a complex dynamic algorithmic problem.
Using ANSI Escape Sequences in PowerShell
Creator gets 55% of ad revenue, and 70% of direct contributions like superchats. Premium revenue is shared as well. Ad-blocked views count for analytics but not in ad impressions.
Me too. Also, the author of TFA ends the (crazy long) post by saying he just subscribed to YouTube Premium in the end lol
Margaret Atwood: My Voice and Mind Are Not Replicable
Justice, fair­ness and why Rawls still mat­ters today
There's no reason to allow arbitrary traffic in either direction other than convenience. If you want a more secure network, you block everything by default and narrowly open as needed.
The important lead paragraphs:

> Giving young children the world’s first malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01E alongside antimalarial drugs before the rainy season has led to a significant reduction in life-threatening malaria cases and deaths for over five years, according to a landmark study.

> Results published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases show the vaccine-drug combination reduced clinical malaria episodes, including cases of severe malaria in children and deaths, by nearly two-thirds compared with either method given alone in settings of highly seasonal transmission.

> The study began in 2017 in Burkina Faso and Mali, two countries with a very high burden of malaria, and followed more than 5,000 children over a total of five years.

Like pretty much anything involving malaria, I'd say this is a temporary victory at best. Malaria has a long history of developing drug resistance. And vaccine resistance could well prove similar.
Why are they estranged?
I don’t know if that matters unless you think about things that require action.

My own experience is that if I think something needs to be acted on, and it’s very quick or very urgent, I just do it and go back to bed. If it’s neither, I write it down. I find either of those to be easier than trying to sleep with the endless nagging by the back of my brain.
I think that's a feature, not a bug. Money collection permits are really meant for non-profits, not individuals.
Many cultures have a ritual of cleansing a place with smoke; see smudging (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smudging).

It is believed to ward off evil spirits. Is some sense, it is true, as the smoke has antiseptic and repellant properties - especially from plants such as woodworm.
I'm familiar with the cell architecture promoted by the WSO2 papers (and other resources). I like it and I've used it in client projects.

However, this article uses "cell" in a completely different way. It is not the cell-based architecture that you are promoting here without reading the article.
"Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation" -Feynman

That said, I'm not sure that he actually held contempt for math. It's fairly essential for theoretical physics.
Show HN: Magickimg – AI Image Enhancement That Sparks Endless Creativity
Mentioned in another comment, but if you like Baraka, seek out the film Man With a Motion Picture Camera (or Man With a Movie Camera), it's the progenitor of both Baraka and the qatsi trilogy. There's a version with a score performed by Cinematic Orchestra that is just amazing!
https://archive.ph/ziaaE
Ask HN: Covid Severity Decrease Expected?
My understanding is that covid became / evolved to be less severe over time and is now comparable to typical colds or the flue in terms of risk of death. Q: is this what one should expect from most viruses over time, or did we just get lucky?
I dislike Elixir’s syntax for two reasons: it seems unnecessarily verbose, and it’s too much like Ruby/Python.

When I see Erlang syntax, it helps me think in Erlang.

Anyway, I haven’t given Elixir a fair chance, but it’s hard to get past my knee-jerk dislike of all the extra verbiage. I’d rather use LFE if I wanted an alternative syntax with more powerful macros.
It includes a “core” version of the software that is open source and a commercial version that includes additional features and functionality that are proprietary and source-available.

In other words, the open source "core" is really demoware.
I recommend changing to a keto diet

I had been on a keto diet years before it became popular.

One of my clients had terminal cancer and at the time I knew nothing about cancer.

I am not a scientist but a nearly 70 years old retired psychotherapist. So I started reading about what cancer was and I read a question that asked "What does cancer eat?"

Unknown to me at the time, cancer cells need sugar to survive. So it got me thinking about my diet and the ever increasing weight of people in the western world. The world is getting fatter. My mum says she did not see fat people prior to, during and after world war
2.

I started off with the atkins diet which was far too strict for me then I changed to keto and I felt great.

However, In December 2021 I had a left side hemicolectomy, the left side of my bowel removed, old age strikes again. The surgeon recommended that I change from my keto diet to a vegetarian diet for two years until my bowel had repaired and settled back to normal. If having half a bowel removed can ever be normal.

Since being on the vegetarian diet my weight has sky rocketed to 90kg. I have put on 9kg of weight in 20 months. Incredible what carbohydrates can do to your weight. After all Carbohydrates are sugar.

I have never been over weight so weight for me was not the issue.

My exercise regime has not changed in that time. I still walk 30 miles each week.

I cannot wait to go bck on my keto diet.

I maintained a weight of 81kg on keto for over 12 years and now I'm 90kg after changing to a vegetarian diet, that is not good.
There's work ongoing in Wine that will allow 32-bit applications and libraries to be able to call 64-bit host libraries. Hopefully this means that we won't have to mess around with multilib for much longer :)

https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.0
There is a band named From Indian Lakes and their 2nd and 3rd albums (Able Bodies and Absent Sounds) are masterpieces of indie rock.
This is my case, my trick is to imagine pleasurable fantasy scenarios and go over the smallest details.

I go a little bit more meta, and start imagining myself sleeping.

Kind of… say I’m part of the Start Trek crew. I imagine how would it be to sleep in the Enterprise. How is the room? What furniture is there? Is there a window/screen showing the outside? Etc…

For me, works wonderfully.
Oh, here we go. Somebody always has to stir something up. Can we not enjoy anything without someone writing up something like this?