skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To answer that, you have to understand what cell phones came from.

Prior to the major smartphone push starting with Apple, cell phones were horrific devices that charged $5 per ringtone, apps were $30 or more and only per provider, no tethering, and basically were nasty little expensive locked down bricks.

Apple did change that, with the initial strong-arming AT&T. And Iphone compared to prior was amazingly open. Had no app store yet, but had a real full-featured web browser and lots of useful tools.

But, this was still very locked down to what the iPhone really is - a general purpose computer. The company still has say-so on everything on these devices. I'd argue that these are rentals, instead of a purchase.

Android is a different beast. Google never created Android. They *BOUGHT* android, as a back-way in to the smartphone ecosystem. And they marketed it as "free", to get all the i-clones to use it. Of course, as Google does, it starts free, but you slowly pay more (with your data) and the noose slowly tightens. Now, we have locked bootloaders and PlayProtect and other invasive "root detection" garbage. And the platform becomes less and less hospitable.

Forward? Im no fortune teller, but it seems that separating the actual physical interface from the compute would be a great start. And these *general purpose* computers need to be enforced as such. Tie-ins and cloudshit need to be unbundled or FTC enforced as rentals.

The platforms we currently have are locked down. The first big steps are actual device ownership.
Just to be clear, was Malwarebytes using AWS?
Everyone is decidedly not miserable, and even if they were, your choice of highlighting inflation, a number that has been steadily decreasing for some time now, is curious.

You act like people would finally be happy if inflation were just under some number. No. People will just find the next thing to be miserable about. That’s how people are now.
It's 2023, I don't think that's really the case any more. If anything, designing for print is now the part of the discipline that has to suffer through "web-isms".

The reality is just that designers gonna design - and designing is often an unscientific craft, pursuing aesthetic values before practical considerations. Google and Apple designers are well-paid and experienced web-heads, and still they led us into a land of well-padded desperation.
X > Youtube on this. Demonetizing on suspicion makes slander overpowered. This is an example of the quality of the signal being improved by politically diverse media ownership. Having media moguls who are ideologically disaligned with one another makes for less centrally controlled speech.
Very wide paragraphs is just bad accessibility. It's harder to read and there are studies on this. You can always just disable the page styles if you hate it.
Do you mean the greek and roman tradition of enslaving everyone, and the American and English tradition of enslaving everyone?
> got married and had kids, which slowed development

Story of my life!
> Hiring skilled job-hoppers often makes a lot of sense. They bring in knowledge and experience of things that worked (or didn't) in other organizations. It can be a great way to avoid getting stuck in local maximums, and avoid repeating mistakes others have already made.

Understandable. A counter would be that you can't expect to retain someone who's really good if this is your habit, but the counter to that would be that you can make it up if you're really cultivating a culture of hiring high quality job-hoppers.

It's the difference between taking one extended-release medication or taking a new pill every hour for the same effect. With the ER, if you get a dud, you're in trouble all day. With short-lived medication, duds can be a big problem in the short term but overall you can still be getting better.
I’ve never seen a lumberyard that doesn’t have sustainability certifications.

Anyway, much of the illegal harvesting is due to Brazil’s right wing government actively encouraging people to burn the amazon to the ground.

Though it would be hypocritical, we should treat that as an act of war. The greenhouse effect of that one action is going to cause trillions of damage to coastal cities alone.
Eloquently put! The "you should've saved more" advice is incredibly dismissive of the millions of people who realistically can't. You can't save for a rainy day when it's already raining everyday.
That must be the case. But I've seen it used online for a lot of years as well, so I don't think it's strongly geographical. It may have to do with what crowds you tend to run with.

This reminds me a lot of when my daughter was a teenager and started using terms like LOL, etc. She thought they were modern and was shocked to learn that they'd been in use from well before she was born.
Yeah, you can 100x growth, you just need to find someone to give you a $170 trillion loan, and then service the interest. That's a bit tough when world GDP is $95 trillion.
In 2019, the US economy grew by 2.3% and the federal deficit as percent of GDP was 4.6%.

So isn't the situation today exactly the same as four years ago, before Covid, under a Republican administration?

Yet somehow I never heard this argument that GDP growth is a function of the deficit back in 2019.
Perhaps they meant documentation about the city in Rhode Island?
Scary to think that it's been that long.
> Also self-reflection isn't a bad thing

Of course, but you can't call yourself a victim 24/7 while at the same time not acknowledging other countries/religions/whatever faults.

It's rarely black nor white, and the shade of grey varies depending on which side and which period you're born into
Yeah but it's a very fair take.

I don't have a horse in the race. I don't use Next, Remix, or even React.
Don't forget about the most insidious aspect of these retail cards. Once that promotional no-interest period expires, your balance gets hit with all the accrued interest from the promotional period.

So, anyone thinking of taking advantage of these promotions take heed: Pay off the entire balance before the promotion expires!
Te abrazo, hermano
I just watched this depressing video about the $130b dollars spent building a high speed rail in England (HS2). He actually mentions off-hand how many James Webb Space Telescopes that could buy. (the video is about the fact that the rail line will actually be 100% useless in the end, not just overpriced) https://youtu.be/rQ8mpBL07l8

So maybe it’s fine if we spend a bunch of money on getting to Mars. There are plenty of interesting arguments for doing it, and it would be a way better use of resources than just flushing it down the toilet on useless infrastructure. Could be much worse.
>overpriced homes, out of control rent

Plenty of that in London unfortunately and our salaries are half.

>Healthcare

And not so much of that... despite paying tax for it anyway.
hahah, if you think the 4k screen and $120 laser mouse user is what designers are aiming for, you're dreaming. And that won't change.

Mobile is king, second to 13-15 inch laptops.
you were 16 and coping with the death of your mother. nobody should be given that kind of responsibility to set up their finances. how much did they teach you about finances by 16? if that money was set up in a trust for you that dispersed income over time or directly paid rent then that probably would have been very helpful.
We just need to combine desalination for drinking water with sodium extraction for batteries. Solves some of the ecological problems from doing each in isolation.
Would love to see a chart of average car payments to income ratio.
I'd be curious to know if any US companies are working on such technology? Perhaps 3M?

[Update] Watched a CNBC video[1] and found one in Silicon Valley.

https://natron.energy/news-and-events/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQE56ksVBB4
Why can’t they just put a requirement to use Edge in Windows’ EULA? :)
It's a better product in many ways. It can read aloud documents, and it offers GPT features for free. Besides browser engines are similar.

But google has done a better job of locking-in users and, eventhough it is not that hard to switch passwords etc, people like me don't want to have multiple copies of their data so we don't switch. Google took advantage of the network lock-in features by adding profiles, all your passwords, your history etc etc. I want to use only 1 browser in all operating systems now, so I don't switch.

The switch might have happened with Firefox , but not with Edge
Does the AI wave and tech layoffs in the US tilt wave more in India’s favor long term?
That whole Infosys thing stinks. I'm sure that's why they made the changes to IR35 ultimately killing a lot of Infosys's competition.
How can you tell when your account was created? I know I was reading it pre 9/11 but can't find an "account created on" page.
Breakthrough? You could buy these machines on Alibaba years ago marketed for this purpose. I assume this means there was a cottage industry of private kidney stone treatment in Asia.
Spoiler: The "surprise" layer is (relatively) quite thin, and just outside Mars' molten core. That Mars has a molten interior is not a surprise at all, and evidence for very recent (relatively) volcanic activity on the Martian surface has been piling up for a century or more.
In general, ruins in the middle of the desert don't tend to be bombing targets. The vast majority of them will have been destroyed by construction or farms.
At one point I realized that Slashdot was reporting on stories that showed up on HN days earlier. It was a quick transition for me, despite daily usage of Slashdot since '99 or so.
Reminds me of Zeronet. It was quite popular for some time.
Yes both those things happened in the 1970s and they were such rare exceptions that they were a big deal and controversial and you're still citing them 50 years later.

Now it's just a thing that happens and doesn't stand out as rare or controversial or serious/groundbreaking, (to most) which again is an improvement.
Both Apple and Google disabled traffic information for the region not to give away IDF troop movements to the Palestinians. So there's that.
Frontier Risk and Preparedness
Note that the schematics, etc are freely available so something comparable could be assembled at home with the help of OshPark and Digikey: https://docs.flipper.net/development/hardware/schematic
> maybe its the curse of the oil.

There is no oil in the Eastern Mediterranean. Only in the past decade has offshore drilling started to explore natural gas.
The article suggests FSC certification is inadequate, and that consumers should establish the provenance of wood on a per-transaction basis.

What percentage of FSC-certified wood is illegally harvested?
Narayana Murthy: 'Youngsters should work 70 hours a week'
Well, many people are invested in them because of ETF/index funds. But you are right. They could do awesome stuff generally but they focus so much on a creepy metaverse that really few people want.
Come on. Even the BBC, which the Tories always say is against them, openly called Jeremy Corbyn "unelectable", right after he won the vote for party leadership. And those statements went unchallenged, while much smaller statements against Theresa May or Boris Johnson were vehemently debated and shouted down.
The tacit assumption being made in the article is that good design shouldn't frustrate the users.

I don't disagree with this, but it's none the less an assumption that went into the study, and likewise a conclusion that fell out of it.
He is busy at this time of year.
> the thing falls apart every 6 months.

Where do you get this? Microwaves do not fall apart every six months. I had one that we had to replace after 4 or 5 years because we didn't clean the spills enough. We liked the quality enough we replaced with the exact same model.

You mention you think I'm young even though I said I was a kid in the 80s. I think it's actually young people who tend to romanticize old stuff. Those old microwaves were not miraculously better quality. The ones still alive today are, this is survivor bias.

The old ones were generally fine, the new ones are generally fine. They break eventually, implements exposed to the mess of cooking (liquids, steam, caked on grime) tend to, unless you maintain them, which guess what, no one does. We don't really have the time.

The best evidence that the quality is fine today is that, by the article's own testimony, people stopped improving them. If they really sucked someone would go in and make a better one and make a bunch of money. There's a reason no one is doing that.

People love to complain, today as ever.
> A quick scan of the box office shows that they also love IP-based content

I think that says a lot more about what the industry is pushing than it does about what people want to watch.
Huh. Guess I misremembered that part. Or perhaps what I was told in a class back in high school was incorrect. Good to know the correct information.

Nevertheless, going back to my knife analogy, if she were pulled over using a large kitchen knife cutting up something over her legs I wouldn't blame the people who sold her the knife.

Maybe it was too hot, but we should be treating hot things as dangerous by default.
There's two things here.

One, not all Reddit users prefer old.reddit (I do).

Two, Reddit aren't designing for users, they're designing for advertiser's to push adverts at users.

Wrt the second point, this means designers aren't designing to the brief you would give them. Like when engineers design obsolescence into a product (it's purposefully inferior for the end user).

Any idiot can see it's bad user experience to keep forcing a user to a design they don't like, but it's not for UX reasons that they do it. The trick is keeping UX good enough.
Touche. Does this refute my claim that Apple can reconcile their current DRM scheme with users that want to repair their hardware themselves, though?
Ford, UAW reach a 'balanced' tentative deal after 6-week strike
I don't know why they're even responding to the request to be honest.

Whether or not you're a fan of Russell Brand, a government 'asking' media to stop paying/employing someone they don't like, without a legal mandate, is a very obvious contravention of a free society.
In the article it says Meta believes the account had been compromised and was working to communicate with the owners of the account. It doesn't say anything about individual posts being moderated.

Appropriate quote:

> Meta said: “These accounts were initially locked for security reasons after signs of compromise, and we’re working to make contact with the account owners to make sure they have access.”
GitHub blocked me and all of my libraries (2020)
Lots of new start ups are coming up in the area of defense and space. Some of them are making very good contribution to the countries GDP. There is very good scope for these companies in India.
The problem isn’t UX Designers figuring it out, it’s managers not wanting to spend time designing different breakpoints because they want the site delivered ASAP.

A lot of bad UX decisions come from bad management, not necessarily bad designers.
It's great. 3D world had a helpful out for the young 'uns in the White Tanooki suit that appeared when you died enough times. =)
I've had lithotripsy and it certainly wasn't done under general anaesthetic. They just gave me painkillers and the procedure was fine. I was in and out very quickly - something like an hour or so.
>Those formulas are not reversible. You can compute load bearing capacity of a design, and you can compute cost of a design, but you cannot start with load bearing capacity and cost, run those through a formula, and get a bridge. Or even a sketch of a bridge.

What goes on today is largely just a bunch of templates. See the requirements and pick a template and modify it accordingly. That template can definitely be plugged into a optimization equation.

ML models can be used to find the best templates if you want. It's a way to use compute to "design" things and sort of estimates the most optimal design given a set of other templates. These things can be modelled but sometimes they are not computationally tractable to find the best of the best optimal system.

>Design comes first, always, whether it is for real-world items or for software. The design is then validated using formal methods, and iterated until it meets the required goal.

The difference between software and real world engineering is that in software the primitives are well defined and few. You aren't dealing with thousands of variables so you don't need something like optimization theory or ML to estimate the optimum.

There can very much be a theory for software that is practical because software is basically trying to simulate mathematics. It's not so complicated that it can't be done.

>If you still want to maintain your position that you can compute a bridge, feel free to point out a source that describes the formula for bridges. Or any object that takes significant engineering, really.

I maintain that one exists. We just don't know it and may never know it because the theory would involve billions of primitives. I maintain that one exists for software design and while we don't know it right now I think it's possible to find one.

What I don't like about this question is the subtle sass of "maintaining your position to compute a bridge". It's a bit rude. Feel free to not be rude. thank you.
> I'm pretty sure people said things like that when talking about sending people to the moon.

Yep. And those reasons are why people touched it a few times and never came back.

> And people probably said things like that to Columbus about sending boats across the ocean.

Hum... Nope. People were already sending boats across that specific ocean for centuries.
Exactly, they were communicating in the russian language.
Life is full of handwaving. In almost any workplace, it's very simple to know who's doing the work (and it's usually a shockingly small number of people). It's the idea that we can reduce this to a mathematical formula (the opposite of handwaving) that's odd.

> The "estimate" you're talking about generally comes down to general "feelings" about who works hard, which have repeatedly been shown to be poor metrics for actual contributions.

How has this been "shown"? Anyway, you're begging the question that there's some way to determine "actual contributions" that we can compare to "feelings".

If you actually work with a group of people on a daily basis and can't rank order them in terms of usefulness, I find that astonishing. And remember, rankings don't have to be perfect, they just have to more accurate that random.
Could you point to the part of your link where the above claim is refuted? I don't see it.
You only managed to delete your comment - not the thread. Future readers are left with no context.
We had a commit that was like three orders of magnitude more and our price was 1-2c for cdn and 2c for tier1 cloud (but only “partner” networks, the rest was list). That was after us threatening to leave (and having capability to do so). So either you are mistaken or your am really really likes you.
Can't repro in FF with JS off (not exactly NoScript). Could it be an extension doing something weird? Curious if you see normal text when you view source on the page.
> Hacker News

The links are too close together on a small phone screen and I cannot tap them accurately half the time. This might mean the difference between upvoting/downvoting something, or flagging something instead of clicking on the context option, when I don't mean to.

HN is pretty great when it comes to desktop, though - simple design, no dark patterns, except for maybe the comments with lower score becoming unreadable, which is bad from an accessibility point of view and an odd design choice otherwise.

> old Reddit

Again - by far the best site when compared with the new version, which has bad performance on both desktop Firefox and mobile Firefox; in addition to lots of dark patterns, sometimes refusing you the ability to view a page if you don't sign in, in addition to nagging you to download their app.

It's still bad, though - too zoomed out, can't read anything without zooming in a lot with a phone and when you do, you need to scroll horizontally, which makes reading paragraphs of text a pain. Curiously, they do/did have a version that actually looked okay on phones (i.reddit.com, or something like that), but it doesn't seem to open anymore and redirects to the main site instead.

I think that once you go below ~400px of screen width, designing a decent UI becomes difficult regardless of what you do. It's so much easier to mess around with the meta viewport tag and offer a slightly zoomed out version, but even then you still have the challenge of making something usable across multiple platforms, input methods and so on.
Particle accelerator on a chip hits penny-size
Yes, I agree, Indian Government is also giving all around full support to these innovative start ups.
I think they're arguing that those tend to take their creators more time. I recall that a couple decades ago small teams could publish games in very short time frames, but I could be wrong.
The U.S. consumer is 'walking towards a cliff,'
The only immoral thing here is your countries'/states' labor laws, in my opinion.

In many EU countries they wouldn't be able to fire people "just because we want to", and also, in some countries companies have to offer you other positions if relevant.
I agree, TV has gotten more porny but compared to the 70s and 80s movies got much more tame in terms of nudity.
Bandwidth in a geographic location is certainly limited... there's only so many fiber strands available, and fiber transceivers only go up to a certain speed, +/- wave division; there's costs of transceivers and what not. But in most places where you'll find datacenters, the limit is rather high. It's also usually possible to run more fiber.

If you take a look at the Seattle Internet Exchange [1] which is pretty public about their operations, they've got a router with 2x 36-port 400gbe line cards; three member facing 400gbe connections, 163 member facing 100gbe connections. That's a huge amount of bandwidth available at the exchange, some (perhaps much) of which is then delivered by the member to fiber that goes elsewhere. And SIX isn't the only peering location in the Seattle metro.

SIX's traffic graph shows a peak of 2.8 Tbps; AMS-IX's graph shows a peak of 11.7 Tbps, AMS-IX doesn't offer 400 gbe though, but needing more than 100 gbps in one location is pretty rare.

[1] https://www.seattleix.net/
Well, you can buy your own hardware and set it up with OpenStack and use it as a private cloud. Companies like Canonical or Redhat make a lot of money by providing software (mostly open source) to support exactly that use case.

And Canonical played with a cluster-in-a-box all the way back in 2013-2014: https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonicals-cloud-in-a-box-unde...

You could turn it into an OpenStack cloud in ~20 mins with an automated Juju OpenStack install.
It takes maybe 2 hours for someone experienced to turn a desktop layout into a mobile responsive layout for all screen sizes using media queries. Longer than that usually means less experience.
Sure. The first listed project is aws/aws-cdk. :D
I won't announce it here, as the very last thing it needs, is thousands of curious geeks, registering one-time-use throwaway accounts. Like I said, each signup is vetted manually, by, like, two of us.

If you are truly interested in what it will be for, feel free to get to me, offline.
If you want bandwidth, vps are quite cheap. 100Mbps averages to a a little over 32TB/mo. There there's tons of low CPU low ram systems with 32TB/mo transfer for cheap. Now under $10/mo: https://lowendbox.com/blog/hosteons-they-survived-dedipath-a...

People should rack their own rpi5 or nucs, at least. There's various providers for both. And consider moving up from there. The remaining folks who will accept & rack a mid tower box for under $75 are saints.