skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what? Next thing you know, people are gonna be crying for "accessibility features", like "being able to use computers if you have a disability". Or even worse, normal people asking for changes, just because they want a different (they say "better", but whatever) experience as a user! Who cares if a few million people have a hard time using my app? Works fine for me! And that's what matters.
I suggest checking out https://tarrasque.io/ it might just be exactly what you are looking for.
Flash invented tiny scroll bars
You’ll need a ZWave stick plugged into the machine running Home Assistant.
> because the people who actually give a fuck about the risk NEED to have granular detail of what data, readable by whom, is stored exactly where and for how long, and how can you make sure, and how do you know that access is scoped to the absolute minimum number of people, and is there a paper trail for that?

You realize that Microsoft is a publicly traded company that has multiple privacy certifications? They have to subject to detailed data ownership and consumption audits. They most definitely have data ownership and retention logs and you can request for copies of their certification audits to understand how they log/track this. I think the parent is being too optimistic but your answer is so comically simplistic it's silly. I highly suggest you read about the world of HIPAA, PCI, and FedRAMP instead of just thinking "omg the data".
What OS do you think you were running in 1996?
If you were willing to do that, why not just start there in the first place?
The unprecedented success of the iPhone is mostly to blame for all of this madness. Too much success can lead to missteps. When you’re selling gazillions of hammers, everything starts to look like nails.

Hiding most of the UI was genius for such a tiny screen with a simple and very limited OS. People loved it. It’s was tremendously empowering, they could finally own a computing device they can understand or at least not screw up.

But a computer has a much larger display and does a lot more. It’s OK for it to show more UI because there are simply more features.

macOS these days is full of tiny things that only appear on hover that would have brought Mr Fitts or even the original Apple Human Interface Guidelines team to tears.

An airplane dashboard doesn’t need to look clean, it should be useful to trained professionals.

We need to swing the pendulum back.
Uh, Hatsune Miku?
reddit is the worst for this right now

whenever you try to view an image in the browser it no longer allows you to go to the image link and instead redirects you to their wonky image viewer (why???)

i can't scroll horizontally, i can't use the arrow keys to scroll at all, nor page up/down or home/end

i can only scroll using my mouse, and if you need to scroll horizontally you have to manage to find their microscopic scroll bar that sits above an aesthetically displeasing footer to scroll sideways

which is infuriating for large images

and its zooming dysfunctional. on normal websites where you can view large images you can click to the location you want to zoom in, and it ballpark brings you to the right place.

not reddit though. wherever you click zoom it always zooms to the top of the image and its up to you to scroll the entire image on your own
Here’s a fun project I hacked together last weekend — https://github.com/spillai/agi-pack

TL;DR agi-pack is a Dockerfile generator for machine learning (ML) developers that is simple, hackable and extensible.

Fun fact: More than 75% of the original implementation was generated by conversations with GPT-4 + Github Co-pilot.
Most of those are fine-tunes of the base model. The fine-tuning data is 'aligned'. The uncensored fine-tune training data is edited to remove the "I can't help you with that" responses.
Isn’t the deck tilted so much in Israel’s favour (economically and militarily) right now, that Palestine doesn’t need to be oppressed in the manner that it is? Isn’t oppressing the Palestinian people what allows groups like Hamas to thrive?

(These are honest questions, from someone with essentially no understanding of the current conflict but is trying desperately to make sense of it and is struggling with obviously biased reporting everywhere I look)
Imgur link to the problem:

https://imgur.com/a/y8EBjWE
Racial segregation was literally in law for a long time. When it became illegal, none of the underlying things that had become inherent disappeared overnight.

As an example, banks refused to lend in minority neighborhoods, so unlike for white Americans who used loans to bid up houses owned by white Americans and got wealth that way, Black Americans actually experienced negative housing wealth growth. Those areas are still poor, but now banks don’t lend in them because they’re not profitable, even though the reason they are not profitable is that they were never lent to in the first place.

When Black people managed to build parallel financial systems and economies to provide them wealth, usually they got their properties burned down or firebombed for their trouble. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
You can get way more than half a million dollars per year making something that touches half a million people by working at a FAANG. In the end you're likely to be much wealthier by working there than at a failing startup. It's pretty exploitive of YC to pimp the startup so hard; the only one making money consistently with that lottery ticket approach is them.
When Lions Were King
The point of an OS is to facilitate the applications; there's an old law of project management that improvement happens mainly at the interfaces. The idea of making an OS that will run the same applications with the same interfaces but somehow be better is fundamentally incoherent.
For those looking to accessibly scroll webpages: if not visually impaired, could I introduce you to the powerful combination of hitting spacebar to scroll down webpages and (in Firefox, at least) hitting the / (forward slash) key to bring up the "quick search" window? From there, you can type in whatever you want to select or bring into focus that you see on the screen. It's a great way to quickly move the focus to another part of the webpage. (If you just hit tab without quick searching first, you'll scroll back up to the last link that was in focus, but by using the / key quick search, you can basically navigate with just your keyboard and the tab key.) While this doesn't help if scrollbars are embedded in a site, if it's a traditional webpage such as the parent article, it works great :)

As a result, while I do have and use a trackpad, I rarely feel like I'm missing scroll bars because I can just hit spacebar (or page down) to scroll down most times. If you need to page up or down on a Mac, it's fn key + up to go up a page, and fn + down to go down a page. Meanwhile cmd + up is like the Home key and cmd + down is the End key, so you can quickly scroll to the top or bottom of a page (or text entry box).

Not to say this isn't a valid article, but there /are/ workarounds to missing visual scrollbars if you absolutely need this functionality.

Admittedly, these workarounds do not work that well on mobile, where I sometimes wish the iOS Contacts app A-Z scroll helper had somehow "caught on" within webpages, to scroll them. We're missing an IDE-style control that helps us "quick scroll" and jump between headings and sections of longer webpages, that's for sure. As the article mentions, I'd be in support of minimaps, but my version of them would look a bit more like the contacts UI, small icons to represent each section that I could click on to navigate to it, and maybe if I swiped left on the right side of the screen it would show me the table of contents in full, with a search box? (Just spit-balling here, but we need more UI innovation and standardization, not less. I really don't think we've found the "perfect" UI, I think we just forget what made old UIs great when we build new UIs... And sometimes we invent greatness: see the Alfred-like Spotlight search box that you can even get on Windows via power tools that lets you quick switch to any application just by typing its name... literally genius, but not something easily available before OS X Lion.)
Honestly I stopped reading the article when he had the audacity to skip over modded Qetzl hub solutions
This is true. I have yet to see an accounting web service go under this hard, though. I am thinking that Xero (and Hubdoc) will be around for decades at least, and probably outlast my own company.
> A native ABI doesn't mean you have to use C++ though. I can use Qt from Python if I like, or even from the JVM (slightly fiddlier, but doable). I can't do that with the browser.

wasm is that ABI for browser. Yes it would make everything bit slower, but I am fine given a lot more added security.
I did like XFCE at one point, but it never really did quite nail the UX for me. A lot of the problem is more on GTK+2 than it was anything else. (Obligatory mention of no thumbnails in file dialog; I used to patch GTK by hand for this!) Now with newer versions of GTK, this problem has unfortunately gotten worse for me, and I don't really prefer XFCE very much. Worseyet, I've gotten used to wlroots giving me good support for things that never really worked well in X11, and XFCE's plan regarding X11 and Wayland going into the future is still somewhat unclear.

I also tried LXDE and LXQt as well. I actually thought LXQt might be the one for me, but it was a bit buggy and lacked a lot of much-needed maintenance.

Also, although I'm glad Linux developers don't always make a habit of just simply throwing out ideas and code that works fine, it does bother me how antiquated some things have gotten. DBus is the best desktop IPC option on Linux, and that's not really a great thing in my opinion. Likewise, it sucks that most file archivers still work by popening some command and parsing its output, occasionally breaking on edge cases, usually having limited support for the kinds of advanced functionality you'd get in Windows archive tools. I do understand that making actually-good applications takes time, but over the course of the past couple decades it doesn't feel like much progress has been made here. I mean hell, speaking of archive tools... FreeBSD has been working on libarchive for ages and it'll likely be integrated with fucking Windows before it's integrated with common Linux desktops, which will probably mostly farm out to CLI tools like unar and zip directly. This is the same approach, with the same exact problems, that I remember being used as far back as when I started using Linux, in programs like Xfe.

Needless to say... my feelings are complicated.
You could just get a clapper, and say that to yourself as you clap your hands.
Squid games: 35 security holes still unpatched in proxy after 2 years
Never used Squid, but it seems the project is dead, no?
Ah thank you. I’m assuming the product offering will be aimed at less frequent but more high value use cases such as remote navigation or sporadic messaging and infrequent short calls. Similar to other current satellite offerings for mobile devices, but hopefully enlarging the envelope of utility at least marginally.
True, but not relevant and not a contradiction of the comment. Pannoniae says that the empirical decline in usability of software is attributable to changes in the UI and not attributable to changes in his eyes. The fact that changes in his eyes exist is not a refutation.
It says a lot about how our data is weaponized against our attention span.
It doesn't share your cookies, that probably stops almost any leak. Then probably rules to filter out legacy ?sessid= ?sID=.

Other than that I imagine it leaks things like /bank/account/id/75795 but the crawler will drop it when it returns a 40X.
Just FYI: manifest v3 extensions are already cross-browser. They are all based on the WebExtensions API. However, browsers have very specific constraints that require complex alternative solutions (e.g. Safari does not allow reading httpOnly cookies, so auth can't be handled easily).
In what universe is ESR the founder of the open source movement? He wrote that book, and… fetchmail. Do you have him confused with RMS?
Asianometry is one of the most interesting channels on YouTube. Highly recommend to anyone interested in semi-conductors, general economics and historical technological advancement.
i wonder, what list of things need to be done for creating a new lang? do you guys have reference for creating new lang? it is interesting for me
Other processes running as the same user can be blocked from reading /var/run/secrets via the likes of SELinux/AppArmor whereas they can't be blocked from reading /proc/environ.

It's a pretty fine distinction and I don't know how many people actually bother doing SELinux etc. in practice, but theoretically it's marginally better.
Uber's surge pricing is dumb in places where they're competing with traditional taxi ranks. I usually pay $35-$45 for an Uber to/from the airport, but if a couple of flights land at once, suddenly Uber is $85+ and the taxis are only $55.
Is anyone else having trouble with the singing?

I was able to get through the mic portion of Rhythm, but I've failed every attempt at the mic questions in Ear Training.

All I need to do is sing 2 descending notes - am I really that tone deaf? Thank God (or maybe Him thank me) that it's been decades since I was singing from the pews.

Maybe it's a known bug or an issue with my phone? Moto G 2022.
Please take a look at the homepage on an iPhone. Way too much whitespace IMO and not obvious what’s going on in places
When things get relicensed, the companies give their reasons for doing what they're doing, and often come in HN to make their case. FAQs are added, and people are reminded that they can still view the source and use the software for free, provided they aren't a direct competitor to their cloud offering. Despite all that, the communities doesn't celebrate when it happens. This post tries to put it in different terms, but I think we already understand it. Yes, they're "exploring a search space", but that doesn't make it a pleasant experience to have the structure of the projects people depend on and contribute to turned upside down.
From nonfructose carbs.
Windows XP couldn't search the start menu.
Actually, the article in detail sets is scope for calorie surplus situations.
Laws to mandate accessibility, laws to mandate provable correctness, laws to mandate fairness, and laws to break up the big, for only the big could satisfy all the other laws.
I think, it's also, instead of just approximating the position in the document, we now feel compelled to translate our mental image to a visual one and to match this with the rendering in the minimap. Which introduces an additional step of dis-abstraction, and what is essentially abstract (text) now has to be treated like a material object, as well. Moreover, if the overall structure isn't as varied as it may be the case with code, it doesn't provide much significance, anyways.

(It may depend on where you're located on the aphantasia to photographic memory continuum, though. I'm definitely closer to the former than to the latter extreme.)
Please point out the specific fallacy
What was worse in Windows 98? Or Windows 2000?
Oh for sure, I'm with you. Old graphics work has this mindset of avoiding transparency passes stuck in my head. Certainly a small part of the bigger problem.
using KDE Plasma, which isn't bad, and is configurable enough :)
The Matrix/gitter is rather lively. The core team is pretty active there and good about answering questions
I think I would be satisfied if we could at least prove we're not living in a dissimulation.
Recently changed from a 2012 imac to a m1 air and was similarly blown away by the improvement.
Yes. XP == SP2 :)
Thank you, nine_k, I shall! if I expand my version control horizons, I will be sure to check out those little gems! :)
I will not be strong-armed into silence!
gitPlay: I am working on a desktop application to learn about the structure and evolution of a software project from its git history. Helpful for developers and PMs in onboarding new members, seeing how a project evolved and decision making.

As a mentor/engineering leader, I have always resorted to recording videos about how a project is structured, what decisions led to the current status and thought process behind this. I felt that much of this information is already there in the git commit log and perhaps project management software like JIRA.

gitPlay starts at the first commit instead of the head of the log. And you see a video player like interface. When you hit play, you see the folder structure evolve. I am adding file viewers, support for multiple folder browsers.

Future ideas:

- Show hot spots across the entire file structure in the whole timeline

- Visualize folder/file chances over time as a tree (instead of explorers at the moment)

- Integrate with project management to overlay tickets with correspond to pull/merge requests

- Overlay a video with a file documenting sections of the video related to commits so gitplay will show contents as you play the video

How I wish to maintain/monetize:

- Keep core software open source, free for anyone, runs locally on your git repo

- Pay to tap into private project management data or explainer videos (point 4 above)

https://github.com/brainless/gitplay
Hmm, if you have been working for 20 years and you're at FAANG making $350k/yr, how come you aren't close to financial independence? Sure, the bay area is expensive, but not that expensive. Have you joined your current company only very recently?

IMHO, financial independence does not mean "Having a fuck-you money to do whatever I want, whenever I do." It's more about managing your own expectation.
> With the page up and page down keys, mostly,

There is NO way that most people used page up down rather than drag the scrollbar in the late 90s.
Cars do have to ask - there are sensors in the pavement to manipulate the signal. Some lights have no sensors and merely time it for each group. Some one way streets are designed to use the same light as the cars to signal parallel foot traffic as well.

How can you explain pedestrians as second class users if they have the right of way and do not have to wait at non-signaled crosswalks?

There seems to be a mix of who gets priority based on things like volume and efficiency, demonstrating that neither pedestrians nor cars are a lower class than the other.
true, this might be on me for not specifying that in Firefox
Thanks, I'm definitely not saying you can count on something being gone. But you also can't count on being able to recover it.
PR concerns about what puritans will think. Puritans love a nanny state with the entire modicum of affection their shrivelled black hearts can muster.

No, I'm not defending CSAM or AI simulacra of it. Fusing the medium with the censor is an abomination. It's Cocreator wagging the finger today, tomorrow it's Clippy popping up to tell me that what it thinks I might be making is too objectional for me to continue making it.
I believe the biggest obstacle is dealing with different toolkits, since gtk3 and later are constantly breaking theme compatibility with new versions, and nobody have the time to maintain good alternative themes in these conditions.

XFCE with Chicago95 already exists (and so does Q4OS with XPQ4) as proof of concept that the window manager and toolbar side can be replicated.

The problem is that important pieces of software are not relying on any toolkit directly, but implementing their own version, so even if you support qt, gtk2 and gtk3+ applications with 3 different themes, there will be software running under electron or implementing their own client side decorations and breaking all the rules.

I think the easiest way to start would be to simply collect and maintain existing themes with a unified look and make a distro based on Ubuntu LTS or even RHEL to avoid breaking changes at maximum. This distro would have pre-selected software that behaves well with the selected themes, and need to have at absolute minimum a working browser with extensions following that theme.

If implementing from the bottom up, then something similar to helloSystem could also be a way, but I do not see it working in practice due to the time it would take.
Thanks Kiro, I really appreciate it. What's your twitter handle? (If you care to share).

BTW - There's a mobile version of the game too now https://nonzerosum.games/tetrings_mobile.html

It was really cool seeing all those comments about the terrible font, and the game of course.
It wouldn't surprise me. Dell and others gets away with selling some truly over priced terrible laptops to enterprise customers. Why can’t Microsoft?
It's also fast!
https://vyzo.github.io/lisp-benchmarks-game/
My pet peeve is Azure Log Analytics. The query results window has a completely non-standard scrollbar setup, even compared to the rest of Azure.

The default result set shows 100% useless columns, all of which have the same constant values repeated for each row. E.g.: "subcription id", "location", etc...

The useful values are invariably off-to-the-right somewhere, so you have to scroll horizontally. Which you can. With a 2-pixel thick horizontal scrollbar that fades out and disappears permanently after about a second.

You have to be quick, otherwise you miss your chance to see your data.

It would be hilarious if it didn't cost me 50 cents each time I had to re-run a query so I can have another try at clicking the vanishing scrollbar before it's too late.
If we reach the point where a WASM-only app is a first-class citizen and I can write an app that doesn't have to touch HTML/CSS/JS (doing the UI with canvas or whatever), I'll be happy. We're not there yet though.
Tomorrow we're going to "Use the sauce, Luke!"
He made $40,000 without needing a large data set. No proprietary, corporate LLM needed.
That title is a very hard to parse sentence.
Behold, StoryScroll, the interactive reading aid for kids K-3!
https://hopeful-jaunty-classroom.anvil.app/

Let your creativity run wild as the AI generates simple, 7-page stories based on your (child's) input prompt. Practice reading by pressing the "Record" button and recording yourself reading the page, then press "Stop". StoryScroll transcribes your voice, and compares it to the original text, giving a points rating. Any mistakes are noted and added to your profile (for teacher review or further practice).

Keep a daily streak going! How long can you go for?
Have a read in our virtual "library"!
Earn points and dress up your virtual avatar! (Not currently available)
Log in and try one of our hilarious minigames!
Create a "Teacher" account and monitor your students' progress!

(Some features not currently working on iOS)
Edit: Also, we turned off the image generation feature for now, because it was too expensive. It just shows a random placeholder image.
Same time frame: GNUStep/Windowmaker on the Linux side of things, also something of a high water mark. It's really weird to me how much interfaces have degraded in the past two decades.
Accessibility here refers to RSI and fine motor control problems. Common disabilities. And studied for computer use already.
I mean it's been basically one change to the scrollbar in 40 years. And you can turn them on again if you care.
Laptop stickers, and don't let your belongings out of your sight at the airport.
You can find my book summaries of popular nonfiction at https://littlerbooks.com
"Real Programmers don't play tennis, or any other sport which requires you to change clothes. Mountain climbing is OK, and Real Programmers wear their climbing boots to work in case a mountain should suddenly spring up in the middle of the computer room."

https://multicians.org/thvv/realprogs.html
Flexport CEO's Note to Employees
yeah ppl nowadays say "send me a Loom". It's a billion-dollar brand.
I didn't say it was perfect ;) Just better than everything that came after it
Israeli Military Says Northern Gaza Has 24 Hours to Evacuate