skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks so much to everyone for all the feedback and great comments. It's been really great reading through them all

If anyone's interested in following along as I keep building Diceright, I just set up a discord server: https://discord.gg/UpNn7yz6. I'll keep my roadmap updated there and would love to continue chatting with anyone who's interested
Apple started the trend and the web picked it up. But as usual, web had no underlying mechanisms to retain the UX integrity.

Thin scrollbars work by being transparently overlaid over text and grow in size on hover, without bothering the main layout. Browsers can’t do that universally. So what you get is a windows/linux-style static scrollbar of an annoyingly small width. Or a js abomination that partially simulates it and stops working randomly on some mobile devices.

Sure, you may blame designers. But these original Apple scrollbars are actually fine and they look good. The problem is where it was for the last 20+ years: we are using slow and clumsy 40MLoCs as an applications and media platform. They need TENS of years to add support for primitive things like flexible boxing or grid layouts or linear layout constraints (oh wait, no). So there’s a chance we’ll get these overlay scrollbars in 2040+.
> It's blatant how UI designers don't give a damn about the users' needs, not even in FOSSland.

Especially with this new "don't theme my app" movement. It's really unfortunate. The issues with CSS stylesheets in GTK should be solved with replacing CSS with a better way to describe styles, not with just throwing it all away and not letting the user set their own themes.
Fastbootstrap
I think you're being really wasteful with that kind of context window which is why it's a bit apples and oranges. I keep stats on this, my average message is around 50 tokens, the average individual response is around 200 tokens, and my average conversion length is 1.2 (only counting my messages). 50/convos/day * 30 days is $21 and I don't come close to that usage. Hell most of the time I don't even turn on GPT-4 because 3.5-instruct is plenty good.
totally. not saying you shouldn't use your experience. but you should use that to really paint a picture of how it can go sidewise instead of just claiming authority. the former really moves everyones understanding forward.
The problem is economics: plastic is too cheap.

Perhaps we should consider taxing plastic on the producer side until renewable, durable, and recyclable materials are substituted.
In an age of information overload, perhaps the mystery is exactly what we need.

We know the exact temperature and humidity outside, we have logs of the exact times that our smart lights turned on and off. Our watches tell us our heart rate throughout the day and even its variability. Our phones monitor how much we use them, and in which apps, and report back weekly. When I had outlook in the office, it would summarize how much time I spent in meetings, seemingly to increase my stress level one more notch.

The lack of a scroll bar returns mystery, but even more, it brings us back to a simpler time when we weren't overloaded by information such as "how much is left of this text?" or "is there a button hidden somewhere on this page that allows me to complete my task, or is the app just broken?"

These are the sorts of small joys that we miss in the Information Age.
Similar boat, but more that the industry I’m in has low pay, so even with advancing career I don’t make much.

But I do have work life balance which has been valuable for my family, and a series of health crisis that I weathered over the last decade. Hopefully your dead end job has stability and gives you some other solace?

I would focus on a side gig, building a portfolio project in something that interests you and maybe eventually could be used as a business or to showcase your skills in applying for a job. Getting time for that can be a challenge with existing job and other life demands, but then you have to realize that just hopping onto the Bay Area tech scene would likely have required a similar grind so maybe it wasn’t all that for you?
That's horrible and dastardly, but at least it's far easier for users to bypass SmartScreen on Windows than the block on Macs. I wonder how many Mac users actually know how to.

If you just get a regular (cheaper) code signing certificate I realise SmartScreen will still block you anyway until enough people have installed it, but how many is "enough"?

Also, previously: "Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23392404
True. I use my screen with 0% brightness during the day and I have to reduce contrast during the night (which leads to reduced colour depth). Using dark mode is unavoidable for this reason.

Display manufacturers should really not just look at the maximum brightness but also the minimum.
You can't compare if they are new strings.
Trying to build the world's largest encyclopedia of magazines, fanzines, journals and newsletters. Most of the world's magazines are dead and buried, languishing as copyright orphans with no known owner. Yet, they contain far more knowledge than probably all the books combined?

We should probably think about training the next LLM on all the world's magazines as well as all the books.

It is less than half-baked. I asked GPT and it said the project was "barely even kneaded", which is perfect.

I hack on it every day. I have hundreds of thousands of magazines to upload and there are many millions more hiding in obscure parts of the Internet, already scanned and waiting to be found. Plus all the amazing ones which haven't even been scanned. I intend to set up a non-profit to scan all the ones I can get my hands on.

https://en.magazedia.wiki/byte-volume-1-issue-1-september-19...

(registration is broken, so don't try that lol)

If there's a specific magazine from days of yore that you're looking for, I might have it nestled away somewhere, so just drop me a line here and I'll try to find it for you:
hello@magazedia.wiki
How does the sound / speaker system compare to a MacBook Pro? In my experience Apple just blows every other manufacturer out of the water with sound quality.
Ask HN: What's a marketable and lucrative skill I can learn online in 6 months?
I think I am interested in the convergence between healthcare and AI but I basically have no experience in either unless you count my time in biotech which I am not especially interested in continuing in. I see this as the future and I would like to find a skill that I can perform remotely and make a good salary.
The Intel Frameworks on Linux have been plug and play for about six months, especially on Fedora 38. Any laptop, and most hardware, is like this.

The mess here has been pretty AMD-specific.
What happens to a failing public school? It keeps the same name, but adds “now Title I with an even larger budget”.

It’s not clear that that’s in any way better and I think is worse.
Yes, but that's not on false advertising grounds, its on California state common law right of personality grounds.

The question about whether it was a false advertising violation, not whether it might be actionable under state law on some other grounds.
Fair enough, the fact that you've been trying here and there suggests that it's possible things would be better at a startup. That's a tough decision to make, I certainly wouldn't feel confident telling you one way or the other is the "right" choice. But I would suggest a few other possibilities that you may not have considered yet:

- If your current role is in a non-growth area and you're a good performer, maybe see what your options are in terms of transferring to a team that better matches what you're looking for?

- You've mentioned side projects in the context of financial independence; have you considered side projects or hobbies as a way of finding meaning that you're lacking at work?

- If you haven't already, consider seriously discussing career growth with your manager -- any decent manager should be interested in helping you find opportunities.

Also keep in mind differences in work-life balance.
I've bookmarked this post and have had this frustration for a long time. I implemented the Firefox fixes and have a nice, rectangular scrollbar that my old eyes can actually see.

Only thing it took a while to figure out was setting the "Always On" part. I struggled to find that within Firefox and then realized it was an OS setting. I found it in Preferences on my Macbook and now, my FF life is markedly better.

Chalk me up as preferring the older 3D style interfaces with the skeuomorphic features. I have to use Windows 10 at work and the new flat interfaces with thin or invisible elements are hell.
The same is the case with islands between lanes. The lanes aren’t actually smaller, but they feel smaller because the space looks like it’s contracting.

And they’re much nicer in a neighborhood than speed humps
This is my professional account, but in my professional experience, cannabis miscalculations can lead to time travel lmao
100% agree. At this price point who has the time to debug wifi?!
Does the suggestion in the article not work? There are few options in about:config for scrollbars so I'd look at the others too. If that doesn't work I'd bet https://old.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/ has a solution.

edit: https://old.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/15kk98z/how_can... looks promising
Maybe a little more than half-baked, but I wrote https://thetortoise.io

It's a monte-carlo powered retirement simulator. I use it from time to time to do my own planning. I thought people would like it, but I think it's a little too complicated for most people.

I think it's pretty neat though - the best part is that it lets you do what-ifs and compare different scenarios, so you can see how financing that addition to your house compares to paying cash, for example.

I haven't worked on it in a while, but might circle back around to it in the next few months.
It's not worth comparing. The Frameworks are functional but that's about it.
The cost is peanuts compared to the potential profit. Apple/Google/Facebook could absolutely eat the costs for a skunkworks project to do that training and just sit quietly waiting on the yes/no from legal.
I am taking that you've absorbed the larger wisdom of the post and can't resist being dense on the analogy, so I'll call it a success for both of us :)
That will mean a lot more when cars are self driving, I imagine our future family room on wheels as our cars drive themselves cross country 24/7
I have a small project in this approximate area:

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/safepath/about/

safepath is a function which tries to analyze whether a path is safe to use. Roughly that means that it doesn't resolve in some way that can be controlled by another (non-root) user.

A something similar to this is in TXR Lisp under the name path-components-safe:

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/stdlib/path-test.tl?hl...
There's also the consideration that a decent style sheet can be ~100 - 200 lines long. Yet I see ~5000 line css files that have so much custom formatting for JS frameworks that build everything with divs, rather than using semantic HTML5 which has accessibility baked in.
There’s no doubt in anyone’s mind which laptop is better value for money. People that buy framework laptops buy it out of principle.

Repairability, upgradability, openness, Linux support. Etc
A related option to allow entry based on a code, if you don't want to replace your lock, is to put a combination key lock box (sometimes called a "realtor box") somewhere near the door. We have one of these and have been very happy with it. And no batteries that can die!
> Why would anyone hire 20K people for a movie today?

To make better art. I've seen most of the films in that list are they're incredible films that stick with me and give me a sense of awe today. Watching 1000s of real life people in a scene just creates a sense of spectacle that is just not achievable with current CGI - the brain is just not fooled or impressed like it is when you watch those old films and see the amount of work and effort that must have gone into them. Sergio Morricone hired the Spanish army to build the cemetery at the end of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and it took them several days to make. Nowadays it just takes someone a few clicks of a mouse but it fucking shows as well. Maybe with AI we'll actually get to a point where the brain can be tricked because it gets the lighting right, but at the minute it just doesn't and the films are worse because of it.

Just look at how incredible this location is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpVaoA8RfIk

It's even more awesome when you watch the film in it's totality because it builds up slowly, with bigger and bigger scenarios until it culminates with this.

And even in potato cam resolution, how impressive is this scene from Cleopatra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_rLwuVP9Zw

They just hit different when they're actually real.

What's hilarious is that the execs still don't fucking see it. Christopher Nolan is one of the only ones out there still pushing for practical effects and he rakes in the money at the box office more consistently than just about any other director other than Cameron or Spielberg. It's because the films are actually worth watching. Before Oppenheimer, what was the last big film? Top Gun, which also used a ton of real life flight footage.

If I want to watch an animation, I'll watch an actual, awesome animation that takes full advantage of the medium like Into The Spiderverse or something from Studio Ghibli. If I want to watch a movie, I want to watch a real flesh and guts movie. Yet 99% of the stuff Hollywood puts out is some weird hybrid shit that is the worst of all worlds.

If Hollywood starts making better art, people will start going back to the movies. But they've got greedy. In any other industry, if you made a product, and you got 100% more for it than what it cost to produce you'd consider that a success. But these arseholes don't. They want 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x and they want to milk it for all it's worth and turn it into a fucking "universe" until it just collapses into a heap of shit and no-one even remembers why they liked the original.
Well I think part of the problem is that our education system results in many people thinking mathematics is anything other than a language. Most often people think that math is something we are uncovering about the universe. The OP's critique makes perfect sense from the perspective that physicists (and other sciences) utilize mathematical language. The "causal" relationship is as interesting as "English linguists discover new insights about colors by learning Russian." Similarly I would say physics is a language, though much more grounded in the observable world (since this is explicitly what physicists are trying to do: model our world/universe/reality).

> and he regretted wasting his time learning about mathematical systems that were not applicable to physics research.

Which shows the above claim about language. Though I'm a bit surprised since these ideas often connect due to the abstractions. 3 PhDs is a bit insane. 2 is even odd. Why go back to school when you already know how to research?
Thanks for the article, I thought it was very helpful! You mentioned it a little bit, but is the trackpad better on wayland? How does it compare to a MBP?

And finally, can you dock the framework laptop to a USB-C docking station for external monitor support? I haven’t seen a lot of reviews mention this and I’m curious what that looks like today.
I actually love having a small scrollbar. On Firefox, I have it as a tiny sliver that only shows up when scrolling.

:root{
scrollbar-width: thin;
}

And:

user_pref("widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style", 3);
user_pref("ui.scrollbarDisplayOnMouseMove", 0);

in about:config

You can have minimaps enabled in Emacs and Firefox, but I don't see a use for them, to be honest.
De Novo Lipogenesis: Why People Don't Get Fat from Carbs
Yup. GNOME/GTK is a lost cause in my eyes. Literally worse UX than Windows.

The developers basically say "fuck you" if your use case does not perfectly align with their "vision".
I've found most macOS software is actually pretty good at respecting the scrollbar visibility preference, not that we should expect anything less given how often we are told that the Mac is where you go for good UX, and that software developers for it know what they're doing.

(Acrobat recently got this wrong, and I was hearted to discover there's a fairly active thread an the Adobe forums about how much of a fuckup this is. I am not alone! I added a comment or two, of course)
Climate researchers like Bjorn Lomborg are worth a hundred The Guardian Climate researchers
learn to code. this is a skill that will last a lifetime and can be lucrative. chasing the latest fad will not .
Yeah, I mean, they're quoting a politician to get the term. Ergo my stance that it's heavy spin.
I am about as entrenched to OpenAI as I am to Uber.

I like Uber; it’s convenient and fairly reliable. Five milliseconds after Lyft creates a better experience, I can switch.
The few rolling coal around here are midlife crisis types -- I don't think high school kids can afford diesel pickups anymore :P
>> Maybe scroll bars are kind of obsolete except for visual clues.

On mobile maybe. On desktop absolutely not. And in that case it's detrimental for them to be small.
It's a longstanding abbreviation for "accessibility", along the same lines of i18n being an abbreviation for internationalisation. There's the first letter, and the last letter, and between them a count of the number of letters elidded.
Sure, but not sure how that’s relevant to my point that Apple does not actually move US profits offshore. The major controversies around Apple’s tax practices are from:

1. Apple not paying US tax rates on products sold outside of the US because that money is kept offshore instead of being repatriated, and

2. Apple paying low Irish tax rates on products sold outside the US instead of the specific tax rate of the country where the product was sold.

(1) I don’t find all that controversial because they would technically owe US taxes on the money if it was ever brought home, but (2) is understandably more controversial. Nonetheless given that Apple won their appeal against the European Commission it might not actually be illegal under EU law to do what they did.
I'm not yet 40 but it's the other way round for me. I have bad floaters so a white background makes them stand out.

One really good thing in the last five years has been most major user interfaces now having both a dark mode and a light mode.
The puritanical snowflake nanny state needs to die.
> because they're not really meant to be used that way

...how do you think people scrolled documents in Word before mice had scroll-wheels?
> After 9/11, Christian zealots who longed for a crusade against the Muslim world and secular intellectuals who longed to overthrow Arab dictatorships and remake them in America’s image were free to say so in public without apology, and to see their ideas put into bloody practice. More sober voices, meanwhile, struggled with how to calibrate their words. It wasn’t that American elites were unaware that the United States had committed injustices around the world, or that 9/11 could plausibly be construed as blowback; it was that 9/11 had given them permission not to care. US support for Israeli apartheid, Saudi theocracy, and Pakistani covert operations across the Khyber Pass might all have been hard to defend, but it was distasteful to bring any of that up while Lower Manhattan smoldered and the faces of the missing were posted on every corner. No one could rationally assert the premise of American innocence, but rationality was beside the point. These were the conditions in which it was possible to sell the public, including leading liberal outlets, on a destructive imperial adventure in Iraq that virtually everyone now acknowledges was premised on false intelligence and wildly hubristic ambitions.

> As Spencer Ackerman recalls in Reign of Terror, his grim accounting of the disastrous twenty years that followed 9/11, Susan Sontag was the rare public intellectual who tried to express a degree of nuance and historical context in the days following the attacks; for this, she was accused of “moral obtuseness” by the Washington Post’s Charles Krauthammer and “self-flagellation” by the New Republic’s Lawrence F. Kaplan. Andrew Sullivan named a snarky “award” for moral equivalence after Sontag and continued handing it out long after her death in 2004. It took years for Sontag’s posthumous reputation to fully recover and for her warnings to seem like retroactive common sense—years during which America launched two catastrophic full-scale invasions, established ongoing secret wars spanning a dozen countries, set up a transnational network of torture camps and a prison in Cuba that exists outside the reach of the Constitution, built a dystopian digital panopticon to spy on literally everyone, and killed orders of magnitude more civilians than died on 9/11 itself.

This right here captures very well why I do not take contemporary right-wing complaints re: free speech seriously.
Of course I'm open to feedback, thank you for giving it.

Yeah, the visuals are super bad, right? lol. It's easy for me to forget when I've looked at them for a while. I'll see what I can do to make them look a little nicer. I'm just hesitant about making them look good and then going a different direction with the game / changing the perspective and needing to throw stuff out.

Yeah, so ants do have a chance to slip/fall when vertical/upside down and that allows gravity to pull them off of islands they get stuck on. I still need to introduce a mechanism for making those islands able to be accessed in larger nests, but I don't have any easy/simple ideas right now.

I do like the idea of seeds and watching them grow into the dirt. The worms are cool, too, my mom grows worms for fun :) I'll keep those ideas on the list, but I can think of a lot of stuff I want to take higher priority for now.
Mandatory related xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/
Some places in the USA banned single use plastic bags, so the end result is you get these hardware-store thickness plastic bags now.

At least you can use them to store nails, I guess.
Interesting $5 one time is high enough bar for Chrome extensions store, but $5/mo. is not for bots on certain blue social media. Not disputing facts, just... weird.
Scrollbars are terrible, but it's crazy that instead of improving them they just got rid of them, like saying "well let's pretend this problem doesn't exist".

When you have a huge page, the drag island becomes miniscule. They at least set a minimum height for it, but you still need to carefully hunt for it.

When you have a huge page, dragging the island jumps a huge amount, sometimes multiple pages.

Scrolling gradually requires keeping your finger firmly on the mouse button which screws up your hand muscles.

When infinite scrolling the cursor keeps smacking into the bottom of the screen, or loading new content causes the absolute scroll to suddenly jump pages.

Removing the island, having scroll non-linear based on movement distance, double clicking for absolute movement, an interaction for continuous scrolling (right click?), etc. Or maybe doing something like youtube does with the video scrollbar, pulling up for zoom in etc. There's a million things to try here... and what they do try is sweeping it under the rug.
RTX 4090 Meltgate
I would love a way to force a large scroll bar to always be active on Android. (Any browser that can do this would be fine)
Talking about scolling alone, the PgUp and PgDwn keys on my big honking external keyboard are life savers.
By that time they will graduate and it won't matter anymore. It's school, not a society consisting of adults.
If the average wild mouse lives a much shorter life does that help with the moral calculus? Nature is pretty brutal. I've seen crows get into a burrow of baby rabbits and it didn't end well for the bunnies. I'm guessing your average wild mouse has a pretty short life.