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Sadly, it isn't strictly true. maybe the article should have said "applied" not "created".

Even the wikipedia page for "Usability" points to a 1982 BYTE article advocating "Usable" for software tools.

The existing word "usability" was being applied in human computer interface texts/papers around the time (1987, 1988) as computer UIs made advances.

The best summary of history I could find was in this article (section 5.1), claiming the first usage was in 1971, or 1979, or perhaps 1981, depending on interpretation.

https://www.elsevier.es/en-revista-journal-applied-research-...

If you want a single example it is untrue, a good example is "IBM makes usability as important as functionality" from 1986. I found a copy online but hate deeplinking to such things.

It's possible that Cachet was unaware of all that academia and independently "created" the term.

Of course the actual word is much, much older in the world of meatspace.

I was using xcopy at the time as a kid and still play with a physical Amiga. Nostalgia.

No mention of the Amiga? Amiga Guide is a hypertext format, first released around 1992 with Workbench 2.1 I think, with Blue highlighting, again if memory serves, inherited from the OS theme.

Is there data behind that or is it just anecdata?

A year ago someone on HN said “I can confirm that iMessage is extremely common in Australia. WhatsApp is very uncommon, outside of people with European (and maybe South American?) friends or family to keep in touch with.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39365562

My guess is you’re both expressing truths of your individual social circles but making unjustified extrapolations to an entire nation.

Personally, I think magic and miracle are terrible words to describe astounding technological achievements. The avoidance of the words in no way devalues the achievement. If anything, I feel their use devalues the achievement, assigning progress to luck or providence.

> appreciate the technological miracle

What part of the solution is a technological miracle?

> But who is going to question these decisions, then? Can we trust the elected leaders to do so? I don't think so (not being partisan here, this goes for Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush, whomever);

That was exactly the point of the article. Not that the operation was planned or executed, not that it went south and failed, not even that civilians were killed. The point is that there ARE more tiers of “who is going to question” those involved, but it was kept from them.

“The Trump administration did not notify key members of Congress who oversee intelligence operations, before or after the mission.” and “SEALs have an uneven track record that for decades has largely been concealed by secrecy.” And that “ the episode worried some experienced military officials with knowledge of the mission”.

The story is that the some officials (elected and unelected) may keep details from other officials (elected and unelected) who on paper have responsibility in the area, and that experts (military) are concerned enough to whistleblow specifics about one op as an example.

“he became known for launching a website seeking to document every reported Eucharistic miracle, which was launched days before his death.”

This may be an archive of his miraculous website shortly before he died https://web.archive.org/web/20060621085442/http://www.miraco... found by a Redditor https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/s/RIiuLSSaqP

Agreed. I saw no flunk at all, let alone an interview flunk.

Yes I have read the book and agree with the signatories to the letter. I respect that you have read the book and do not.

I highly recommend that people who read the book also read criticism addressing the authors understanding of race and genetics in said book, such as https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bfopinion/race-genetics... quote: ‘Reich’s understanding of "race" … is seriously flawed.’

O5-pro is available through the ChatGPT UI with a “Pro” plan. I understand that like o3 pro it is a high compute large context invocation of underlying models.

This week’s episode of the BBC podcast The Infinite Monkey Cage was 42 minutes of Science Comedy dedicated to the spud, featuring the same expert as the OP.

Most interesting fact I learned was the effort going toward making potato seeds (not seed potatoes).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002fxn7

I’ve been using Orion as my daily driver on iOS for a year. I’ve never encountered these bugs. It’s possible I’m just not sensitive to them.

> The only thing I’m missing is multi-account containers, or a way to isolate google or meta products for example into its own profile. But I can live with that for now.

Hmm, “profiles” work fine for me in Orion. A bit different to how Firefox and others achieve MAC, and less full featured maybe, but total separation is possible. You can’t assign sites to profiles but you can open separate profile windows.

They sound like an “Offy”.

This claim, and study which underpins the claims, was covered on the BBC More or Less Podcast last year. One of the main problems with the stat is that in ultramarathons there are very few women, but those that do enter are typically professional ultra-athletes, not "have a go" females. Whereas the field contains many "have a go" men who are less professional and less fit than the professional ultra-athlete men.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0hg2764 (9 minute episode).

TL;DR

In the Women’s 3-set match, where there are 735 possibilities, these scores have never eventuated:

6-0 0-6 7-5, 6-0 0-6 6-0, 0-6 6-0 7-5

Meanwhile, in the 5-set format of Men’s matches, only 8.5% of the more than 100k result possibilities have occurred.

Then add on a huge UI.

The posted article isn’t as good as the better, longer web page by the actual researchers at https://www.mola.org.uk/discoveries/news/worlds-most-difficu...

Anyway, let’s see them tackle Eternity II next.

https://eu.woodtrick.com/blogs/news/eternity-ii-puzzle-the-h...

A co-author of the study you refer to was recently on the UK BBC podcast More or Less, debunking much of the press coverage of his study, specifically the headline of vast global underestimation. Rather, the study found rural distribution estimates may be inaccurate, not total population.

Link to the 9 minute episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0lgv5vf

Explains the hallucinations.

Who? The Beliebers or the non-Beliebers?

I feel a semicolon is more appropriate; I would not declare misuse.

Prescriptive grammar brings the drama; that’s why I love it. The second clause is more a continuation than an explanation.

This works, though. There is one reason I love prescriptive grammar: it brings the drama.

its 1 supernova per century per galaxy. there are many galaxies: more than 10 stars go supernova every second across the universe. tens of thousands have gone supernova since the article was posted to HN. tiny percentages in a large sample are huge numbers, you might even say 'astronomical'.

A star "lasts" about 10 billion years, so you'd expect about 1 in 10 billion stars to 'die' each year, but only a tiny proportion (the very largest) go supernova.

Numbers are huge. Even tiny ratios mean something like 10-100 stars go supernova every single second somewhere in the universe.

Sounds a lot? Only about 1 star per galaxy goes supernova per century. A lot of galaxies.

Mindblowing.

Probably spends another $600 on takeout.

Seems fair. They charge for online collaboration through NSO. This is another online feature.

While the framing has been reciprocal tariffs, the WH has published the formula and it’s essentially based on reciprocal trade surpluses, not tariffs. If one country sells more to the US than the US sells back then that’s seen as bad. Even if the other country has no tariff.

And consumers will pay the $12. It won’t make it viable to make the bike in the US for < $40.

> Family Plan … We strive to provide a search engine that prioritizes the well-being of your loved ones, particularly the most vulnerable ones like children, by offering an ad-free and safe browsing experience. We offer two different group plans based on your specific needs.

I read it a few times and saw only one plan. What’s the second one? If it’s the Team plan, that seems like poor copy.

(Kagi Ultimate subscriber here)

What’s the old adage, is it “I don’t know how WW3 will end, but WW4 will end with rock paper scissors”?

Right now, my money’s on scissors.