skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, I see this in both directions. People are still of the mindset that "desktop" means a single resolution and aspect ratio that everyone uses. That wasn't really the case in the past, but it's really not the case today.

- On Linux, the assumption is that everyone has a 1920x1080 monitor, so if you get a high resolution 13-inch device like a Surface suddenly half of the apps are unusable because everything is scaled so tiny, and the apps literally just do not know how to handle the aspect ratio.

- On Web and in popular design studios, the assumption is that everyone has a full 4K mac and so everything becomes larger and spread apart; you load them up on a normal monitor and everything becomes cluttered and the interface of the app starts taking up more room than the content you're looking at.

Test your apps on multiple resolutions y'all, and for the love of everything that is holy if you're designing a desktop app, please add button density and font size controls to your settings. Some weirdos like me even use multiple monitors of different resolutions and pixel densities hooked up to the same computer at the same time, so being able to adjust on the fly or handle fractional scaling is kind of a big deal for apps that I use. Standard resolutions are a myth.
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>I think the motivations for why people would want to own their own are probably a mix of financial (at a certain scale there's a tipping point and it gets cheaper), and regulatory/compliance/whatever, like if it's healthcare data, or defense, etc.

Yea, there's definitely a market in defense here. Because even though Azure/AWS offer Govcloud, its inadequate for non-civilian connected infrastructure. This offers benefits of writing "modern software" and deploying it in similar modern fashion while keeping it completely running isolated. Imagine being able to make your command and control operations actually decentralized and not vulnerable to a missile strike on a single datacenter.
No cloud provider is immune to this, Azure dropping support for MariaDB is going to cost us a lot of money in migrations. It's a pretty terrible migration at that.
I must be missing something. This kind of treatment is called lithotripsy and it is used already since the 80's. What is new here?
Rents around me are going down. Gas is under $3/gal here. I filled up my ICE about a week ago for ~$2.75. Lots of staple foods have dropped closer to pre-pandemic price levels but many do remain high but have seemed to stabilize.

I'm obviously only looking at a small part of the overall US, but if we're going to go by what we as individuals see the numbers I'm personally seeing largely match the trends I see from the BLS.
Then don’t say it. Simplistic and one-sided commentary on history are best left out of a conversation.
If I want to see sex, I'll just go watch porn (which is also mentioned at the bottom of the article).

Whenever my wife and I start watching a new show, if it's riddled with sex scenes beyond the first couple of episodes, we stop watching and find something else. In 99.9% of cases, the sex scenes are useless filler, signaling lack of creativity. I don't particularly mind if they build up characters towards the beginning of a sex scene, but once they initiate it, maybe show the first few seconds then please move on. I don't need to see 2+ minutes of people fucking or having wild orgies.
Bryan Cantrill is famously against vendor lock-in. He wrote a[n in]famous blog about the "FYO point" while at Sun. Oxide may be going for customers that also have the same aversion to vendor lock-in.

One thing that Bryan understands is that you can "lock" the customer in with great products and services, as well as continuing development, while also making the customer feel secure in having a way out should you turn into a company that treats locked-in customers as cash cows. The open source strategy (it is a strategy for Bryan and Oxide) is there precisely to do this: make the customer feel they can leave you, but then not.

For your deeply technical staff, having source code access is a big deal too, since it enables them to better understand the products they use.

How big is the market of sufficiently-vendor-lock-in-averse customers? I don't know -- that's not my remit. But there's the size of that market right now, and whether Oxide (and any other companies with similar visions) can grow that market by sheer willpower. I make no predictions.

What if Oxide can get the next Netflix to use their stuff instead of a public cloud?
No wifi. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
Ask HN: Best, profitable 'greyzone' areas for a developer?
What are some areas where one can make interesting money as a developer but that aren't (too) publicly advertised, because they're frowned upon (but not illegal) or are simply overly hard problems?

One example I have some experience on is scraping. I also know there's bug bounty hunting. And perhaps anything related to bets, stocks.

Are there other similar areas, where very sharp skills are accordingly compensated?

Do you have an interesting experience to share?
Netflix states that the target demo for the show is 16+. That's firmly zoomers.
50kB hello worlds? Uhm.. thats still big.

15k May 3 2019 quickrun.exe*

Win32 GUI Application that spawns Window and ask for alias to run.
Pure Win32 API, written in C (Mingw).

I literaly looled at 11MB hello world of .net or 1.2MB Go..
Reddit seemingly learned. It is why old.reddit.com is still around.
Fish is an easy alternative. Thanks.
In my experience, modern entertainment takes too much cognitive load to get up and running. With streaming/on demand, I have to make pointed decisions on what show I'm watching. I don't always want to make a decision right now of what to watch, I just want to watch something that's good enough or fits a certain theme. TV Channel creation programs, like DizqueTV[0] or ErsatzTV[1] have taken the load off, or at least lets me do that cognitive work in advance when making the channels.

You still need some way to get input to swap between these digital channels (I use Plex to surface my shows and schedule), but if you have existing local content it really feels like the "old" way of doing TV. You can even add commercials between episodes if you wanted!

I'm not sure if I'd call this foolproof for a 94-year-old, especially since sometimes the software needs to restart, but it's a step above modern streaming IMO.

[0] https://github.com/vexorian/dizquetv
[1] https://github.com/ErsatzTV/ErsatzTV
> Roland Piquepaille

Wow! I haven't heard that name in nearly 20 years, but the instant I saw it I had a negative reaction. I didn't even know why at first until I read the rest of your sentence.
Good. I've finally gotten over my nightmares where I'm chopping photoshop designs and literally using <img src=""> to add a rounded edge on a <td>
^ This.

We should teach users to put their passwords into very few, limited, and trusted places. The cool new social app is NOT trusted. That random app on your phone is NOT trusted.

There's even an xkcd on this one: https://xkcd.com/792/
X usage plummets in Musk's first year
This is the part where you answer the follow-up question of, "so what?".
College educated adults have a higher earning potential than non-college-educated adults. They also come from higher socio-economic backgrounds.

I have opinions about this policy but I’ll leave them for another forum
They mean no intra-rack cables, which are the overwhelming majority of cables on a typical rack.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like these guys just reinvented mainframes.
By "exclusive" is apparently meant high-priced. Those of us who are excluded, or object to becoming complicit in denuding forests, will build our decks out of pressure-treated pine and Trex.
Pro-Palestinian Instagram account locked by Meta for 'security reasons'
Mimeograph Machines
The DOJ Is Sued for Records on FBI Payments to Twitter
How does Cloudflare offer it for free?
Hamas just learned a brutal lesson about Bitcoin. Can senators also learn it?
I'm not sure about black locust rot resistance. That's pretty heavily informed on when you harvest it. If you harvest in the spring, it won't last five years. It's only good if harvested in the dead of winter when there is no sap.

Also, it doesn't grow large, often because it's so susceptible to disease. So there's that, too.
I totally believe this. Living in Seattle, I have twice taken jobs on the east side of Lake Washington, and each time that long commute made me miserable. I have sometimes wondered how much of a premium an eastside company would have to offer before I could be tempted to put up with it again; $40k sounds like a minimum. I'd probably have to be desperate for a job, regardless of the financial incentive; I'm not sure you can buy enough happiness to make up for the grind of a bad commute.
so some of your own websites are the best websites i see no bias here!

poster is involved w. startups.fyi and a bunch of others on this site. seems like just another marketing growth hack ninja trick. tired of these
Right. Social systems and the effects various interventions have are very complicated. The idea that some intervention is proven or disproven is, in all but the simplest cases, ridiculous.

Even with research, the results are going to be hard to understand and apply without unintended consequences, and whatever intervention is going to have mixed results even if the overall effect is positive.
I was reading until I saw green and some type of rack looking thing, wait I thought it was not a rack!
seriously, great job. let me own it first.
> Why? What purpose does a human presence on Mars have?

I bet some people said the same about america in 1400s.

You never know what can come from this in the future.

If we can we should.

> So what policy decisions could possibly make Mars attractive as a living space, or a "backup planet"?

Large asteroid impact might destroy us entirely like this: https://youtu.be/02S3_DEaQWA?si=urqC47r14cFxbNjD
Oh, I've complained upthread about sex scenes that don't contribute to the plot; but I liked GoT, sex scenes and all. GoT is like Marmite, though.
The chickens are going to come home to roost soon enough wrt America's population growth. Lots of talk about what happens when the Boomers have fully exited the workforce, but 30+ years down the road when Millennials follow them we're going to be in a similar situation as Europe/China. My hope is that we open ourselves up more.
>>which has an overwhelmingly right wing/neoliberal bias

Apart from small pieces of media like the Guardian and the BBC which you have forgotten about.
I've mostly fell out of listening to Sonic Youth, but it was the first band to ever open my eyes to the idea of 'weird' music. I think a lot of who I am today began with that first experience, when I first listened to Evol.

While I don't listen to them much anymore, I still put on Washing Machine from time to time. I'd argue that is their best work.
The cost need not be huge. Most of the costs should be content, and just the theme is different. However even ignoring that, two themes can be hard if you do them independently. However often only a few changes to one theme are needed to become acceptable, and that is good enough. This in turns means you can limit costs: spend 1 week on making a good desktop theme will already make a big difference as you get the worst offenders fixed.
If they were even semi-decent, people would use them. They don't as they aren't. Very simple market dynamics.
Consumer debt to disposable income is low vs. average. It may trend up but my take is that bigger thing at play here is historically low unemployment. Good news, in other words.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TDSP
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I split my laptop screen vertical with usually a browser on either side. Occasionally a web page will render itself as if on mobile because it thinks I'm on a narrower screen.

I agree with comment above that it is very hard to make one website responsive to multiple screen sizes.
I’d question even the interest among geeks. Recall the observation that the rationalist or new-atheist community of the early millennium declined just as social-justice rhetoric rose: people were shifting their interest en masse from one thing to another. I think geeky Westerners are so focused right now on social and political battle within Earth society that space exploration would draw no more than a "that’s neat" response before the discussion in their bubbles went right back to the usual.
I'm using it as a daily driver. And it's getting better every month. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38002089
Fixing this might also be related to the defect where kiosk mode for win32 apps in W11 doesn't work yet but was fine in W10.

Seems to be an Explorer.exe issue also.
1989 and 1991 seem to be on the wrong tabs. It looks like they traded places.
Shock or burst wave lithotripsy is not new either, but it is being improved all the time. So I guess that's what this article is about, just another recent improvement.
The EC has generally been harsher on MS on this issue than US regulators; mandatory browser choice, when it was a thing, was an EU-only thing, for instance. Do you have examples of the EC accepting bribes to ignore corruption issues, or is this just the usual aimless "eurocrats BAD" stuff?
> and often with people I don't really want to watch it with (teenage and adult children)

This is the true reason why violence is allowed on TV, whereas sex is always problematic and often censored. You can watch violence with just about anybody (kids, parents, etc.) and it doesn't feel awkward.
Torrenting is I2P's foot in the door for much wider adoption, which would help drive other types of usage. I really hope it takes off, especially since qBitTorrent 4.6 just integrated support; the current stagnation of filesharing, especially w.r.t. needing a VPN for everything, needs some shaking up.
Perhaps it's a good thing. If they can figure out how to launch next to protected lands without damaging them, then they can set up launch facilities virtually anywhere.
I remember this interview so well. It was a common reference for a friend and I in highschool. "Xanadu, I'm sure all the listeners will be able to relate to that"
I rewatched Black Mirror not too long ago, and it must be one of the worst offenders. Almost every episode had at least one sex scene!
This is incorrect.

At least until the end of 2024, insurance premiums are capped via subsidies (either paid directly, or as tax credits). The computation of the cap is extremely complex, but basically: you do not pay more than 8.3% of your household AGI for your state's 2nd most expensive silver-level insurance plan.

This is not widely talked about. It was a part of the ACA, but there was a salary cap somewhere near 100k/yr. The cap was removed during the COVID19 pandemic, and this currently runs to the end of 2024.

I used to pay $1300/month for my wife and I (in our late 50s); I currently pay $440/month (annual income approx $120k).
What is your issue with this claim?

If a government takes out a loan to build a $100 million bridge, is that bridge any different from a $100 million bridge that was funded by taking money out of the coffers?
There's a strong bias toward AI in this showcase. My favorite websites are ones that have a lot of hand-made love built into them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PureSystems
It’s be expected in a period of >0% inflation, most of that debt is going to be valued less in 100 years so it’s best to take it on now before the economy booms again and inflation gets back up to 70s-80s levels.
There are also a lot of headlines about the average car payment being at a record high, well over $700 per month:

https://money.com/average-car-payment-record-high/
https://twitter.com/ratheejaisal is one of the creators of the linked site who also apparently owns startups.fyi which is literally the first website haha
These days we're actually lucky to get any desktop experience at all. Look at e.g. Instagram Threads. The response to "desktop is hard" and "most users use mobile" is often now "only weirdos use desktop, don't even bother".
If any and all security is a "minor concern" then I'm happy to pass.
I think egress would benefit from some regulation. This would enable other companies to compete with specific AWS services, without competing with AWS as a whole. Though I probably wouldn't price cap egress itself, but rather force amazon to offer cheap peering.
> redirect to guessed site

I always wondered about that. What's the point of redirecting instead of serving a different template on the same URL?
My experience with folks proudly proclaiming "100% coverage" is that it's typically "just" line coverage, even if you're obviously right.
Probably. I think a year of interest free payments is smart, but not if you have several maxed out cards, and high overall debt to income ratio.

Debt to income would probably be a better metric?
The saying is in General Elections that Parties don't win them, Governments lose them.

That being the case, sitting back and doing very little could be a sensible strategy.
Law scholars disagree. "Citizen, national security requires you to give us all computer files you have access to regarding X technology. It also requires you to keep quiet about this".

> I don't know how it will be interpreted by a judge

You realize that in China judges do what the government says in national security cases.

And this is just what is written in the law. There is no written law that the police is allowed to harass your family, yet it happens all the time.
My phone often does tell remote sites it is a desktop because as bad as the desktop experience is, often that is the only way to get at something. (I don't want an app for my doctors office - I check it after my yearly physical and the rest of the time it takes up space I could use for another picture)
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BannerGPT is an AI agent that can auto-generate banner images for any blog post.

The premise is pretty simple. You paste your article into BannerGPT, it analyzes the text and generates a banner image that can complement your article.

Under the hood, the raw post is sent to GPT 3.5 with a prompt to describe a scene that illustrates the main ideas in the text. The description is then sent as a prompt to Stable Diffusion (hosted on Replicate). Finally the title is framed on the image with a nice gradient overlay and turned into a downloadable image.

If you have a personal or company blog, BannerGPT is a nifty little tool that can help add some color to your posts.

Here’s a hosted version to play with:
https://bannergpt.dabble.so

I’m curious to see this tested in the wild, so if you share any generated banners in the comments or on twitter I can add them as examples on the site.

My twitter/X handle is @neilxm
It's not just web design. Desktop software is being ruined by mobile-only app design.
No need for a subdomain.
Just design one for mobile and one for desktop.

Could be purely CSS, could be JS or SSR
And 33 seconds is boiling molten lava.

I love how microwaves work, there’s a real art to it. 25 seconds , everything is cold but 40 seconds is boiling.

25x2 seconds , with a very short break in between the two, is not equal to 50 seconds.

Making these numbers “up” but anyone who has used a microwave with skill and attention will understand me.

Also, free tips: 1- put a moist paper towel over pizza and bread to keep it from hardening like a rock later on. 2 - microwave stale bread for a second life.
I firmly believe the benefits and negatives of Cannabis are highly individualistic. Perhaps more so than some medications.

Anecdotes are of little value in these discussions, but I have seen Cannabis help and harm plenty of people. I have a few friends that quit excessive, long-term Cannabis habits due to it increasing their anxiety. I've seen some people leave psychiatric medications because Cannabis worked better. Hell, I know plenty that use both.

However, I must admit that from an outside point of view, however flawed said view may be, those that went the psychiatric route are not doing really all that better than the Cannabis users either. Again, sheerly anecdotal, and I would never attempt to persuade someone in one direction or the other.

Based on my personal experiences as someone who has dabbled in both realms a bit, I would say that Cannabis is better all around. I do believe SSRIs and the like work to some degree, but I find the sacrifices in other areas of one's life to be far worse.

Honestly, while I do allegedly have General Anxiety Disorder, I have come to the conclusion that I do not think I truly have a "disorder." It's quite the opposite. My body is trying to tell me something is wrong, and the best treatment I have found is to listen to it when I can.

As bad as it may sound and as bad as anxiety may feel at times, it's honestly saved my ass more times than I can count.
> given how soviet-like the direction EU has started taking looks

Then they should have left in twenty years. Britain has managed one of the more drastic peacetime reductions in wealth, influence and stability of any rich country post WWII.
Don't care for the guy but I believe bad people should be allowed to make money. I have an issue with advertisers bullying platforms to remove bad guys, but that's the way it works.
I wonder if uBlock Origin will one day filter markdown files on GitHub.
The above comment is owned by The Poster.
Because the point of huge monitors in the WIMP paradigm is to display multiple windows simultaneously.
The success of Chrome and their shady ways of delivery on PC (bundled with Shareware and Freeware) shows them that people will use it if you push it onto them. They just have to push harder...
I certainly wouldn't want to limit it to "SaaS apps," but I feel excited enough about the web to be making web sites for 38+ years.
> Americans don't plan for a rainy day.

This sentiment scares the crap out of me, and explains a lot of frustrations I felt through the pandemic. I've complained [0] before about feeling like I was getting screwed by making "reasonable" or even fiscally conservative choices throughout the pandemic and it's recovery. It's a topic I have complicated feelings on: I don't want my fellow citizens to be "punished" for being reckless, both because I don't like the idea of punitive reformation and because punishing basically everyone would do Bad Things to the economy, but the feeling of "something's got to give" has been hanging over me for years.

Everyone seems over-extended, but anyone who "plays it safe" just gets taken advantage of by everyone else. It feels like a microcosm of peoples' reaction to climate change in a lot of ways; we see older generations reveling in the spoils of just not caring and know that if we're going to do anything about it _we_ will have to give up luxuries they've enjoyed for years--and that there will be plenty of others who will just take up the "slack" we're creating by cutting our emissions.

Maybe I'm just projecting my own FOMO, but I see a _lot_ of the sentiment of "they got theirs, why shouldn't I get mine?" when it comes to saving money or climate change or even just post-COVID travel. There's no sense of communal responsibility or "we're all in this together."

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35265201
Appreciate your comments. Those sites actually don't belong to me, they belong to the previous owner from whom I have acquired this project. I have changed the domain and done some rebranding already, in addition to some changes to the content style. I am adding 2 new sections to the issues and creating a hashtag community on twitter as well. However, it's worth noting that even the previous owner never promoted his own websites on the issues, that link is merely the landing page and those are placeholders. Regardless, thanks a lot for your comment! I will actually take those down and replace them with our most recent mentions.