skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. Use color and weight to create hierarchy instead of size

This article has a lot of great advice for the visuals. Using opacity to better mix colors is super handy.

But my main reaction is there is one bigger, better way to cheat at design in nearly all situations, and that's to avoid hierarchy. All the tips here can be taken as ways to cram more things together.

When I try harder to say one and only one thing in any page or dialog, my design has usually improved. It can be really very difficult to let go of some things I strongly feel the user needs to see, but when I do, it's surprising how often I find that "less is more".
For #26, we got chatroulette. Be careful what you ask for.
For it to become walkable, we would have to build buildings close together.
How New York’s wealthy parents try to raise ‘unentitled’ kids
> very-high-setting-realism RPG campaigns,

RPG miniatures are typically 1/64 (25mm) to 1/58 (28mm); these items are 1/12 scale. There are display miniatures around that scale, but they are way too big for RPG or wargame minis.
I/m not sure who downvoted you or why when you had the sentence about using Show HN, but I think that was a good idea. Of if not Show HN, Ask HN with the history and problems putting it in the appstore you outlined here, and asking people if they see a path to profitability.

I think the second would be more useful and interesting. More people likely to look at it if a good discussion ensues, so you still get exposure, and useful advice from people here.
Alt-right leaders can no longer spread disinformation on Medium
May as well send Matt some love :-)

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Employer here. I’ve never thought like this through the hiring process. I care about what people can build and not where/if they have a degree. The Github section of a CV is 10X more meaningful to me than the education section and I regularly hire people who don’t have degrees.

Ymmv but I’m sure I’m not alone.
Ember Community Survey 2018
> A few actors own most of the servers

OP is measuring on a graph where each node is a server. You are measuring on a graph where each node is a person. "De-centralisation" can usefully apply to both. The former measures resilience against technical risks. The latter against sociopolitical risks.
There's a pretty good overview here:

https://supermagnetman.com/blogs/news/understanding-magnet-g...

Neodymium-iron-boron magnets can have a higher energy product than samarium-cobalt, but require additions of expensive/rare heavy rare earth elements to work well at elevated temperatures. (Or require special microstructure modifications like Toyota has developed.) SmCo magnets have had good high temperature performance from the beginning, but a lower energy product.

Other issues that discourage widespread substitution of SmCo magnets for NIB:

- Samarium is significantly rarer than neodymium in economically exploitable rare earth resources (see table 1 here: https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1072/OFR2013-1072.pdf)

- The iron-boron balance of a neodymium-iron-boron magnet is cheap, whereas the cobalt in a SmCo magnet is relatively expensive.
“Fightsticks” - joysticks for fighting games - often have the ability to program macros into their buttons, so as to make it easier to pull off the lengthy input sequences these games are built around.
Yep, this is pretty much word for word what the article is laying out.
>“This is more like a bar or a club than a workspace,” said the local member of provincial parliament, taking in the scene.

Sounds like a scene from Brave New World. Is everyone on soma?
> I've found that any hobby that offers "casual regular events on a weekly basis, plus occasional group trips for the people who take it more seriously" is a great recipe for bonding

I used to be active in a ski club that would plan weekly trips to mountains. Made a lot of friends through that. I need to find another organization like that.
But who will automate the automator automators?
Movie Maven: How AI Is Helping Divine Viewer Behavior from Video Data
Multi-generational meritocracy sounds antithetical to post-enlightenment thinking. It sounds like someone sneezed while saying "aristocracy".
>All of the non-technological reasons, to me, boil down to globalization.

Union busting, the rise of monopoly power and capital accumulation aren't solely about globalization though.

Most of these reasons do share one salient feature that technology doesn't, however: you can single out individuals who are deliberately making the problem worse.
You may be stuck, but in many such societies you can do things to give your children a chance to get unstuck.
Couldn't you use plot "./out.csv" using 1:2 with lines to have the same line graph with gnuplot ?
Hacking an amazon count and buying cash isn't money laundering. You could just buy stuff on amazon and skip the cash middleman.
Would you consider a desktop client if it gave you that? I also want simplicity, but synced to my hard drive.
I would love to have a pet fox. I can't imagine the legal hurdles of getting one or two, but man would it be cool!
What is the effect size?
I think the problem is simply hard. Micro-payments imply more infrastructure costs (more transactions) but lower revenue (because the payment itself is tiny, so the fee has to be tiny as well).

But look at Bitcoin's Lightning Network, it may very well become a valid micro-payment system. As far as I know it's biggest scaling roadblock is getting efficient routing.
> Ignorance of this fact drives the lower than anticipated gross margins of many SaaS businesses.

It's intentional. Great margins don't matter if you don't have customers, and no VC is going to get excited about a few extra margin points on OpEx when should be focusing on growing.
>This post is ... pathological.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

>Hank Williams

Alcoholic, died age 29, sings about how he is lonely, like other alcoholics do.

British singer describes how he's afraid of Americans.

You see the difference, right? The current generation, the weak ones, they like to sing about how tough they are. "Heathens" or "Royals" is the typical sort of chest puffing bragging about their own prowess.

That's a lot different from outsiders describing their fear of your kind in song.
Oh, I don't blame him for trying for it. Anyone would. I just don't know if he should have been awarded money based on not attending private schools that most people wouldn't have been able to attend anyhow.
The Teens Will Save Us
If you can describe a dividing line for Western society which puts Japan on the outside and all of the Pope, Barack Obama, all members of Congress, Hawaii, Ireland, and France on the inside, you’d get a really good East Asian Studies paper out of it. If your definition of Western society excludes any group in that second set, it is clearly a useless definition.

(Ask a simple question, get a simple answer: yes. One has to be mendacious about definitions to come to any other result.)
Attempts to combat identity theft / money laundering seem to be aimed specifically at making it easier for someone to get hold of someone elses' personal details.

I'm currently in the process of trying to buy a house. In order to prevent money laundering my lawyer must verify original ID documents and take copies of these. The bank also needed similar. Those I can kind of understand, if you can't trust the lawyer or the bank who can you trust right?

But it doesn't end there. The estate agent dealing with the sale of the house also needed copies. That is 3 copies of our personal details (passport and bank statements) floating around on how many different computer systems? How safe are the access controls on those systems? How many people require access to those systems as part of their day to day work? More than I'd like.
"If I offer you $1 for your banana, and you agree and then we exchange the $1 and the banana, is that not fair?"

Not an apt comparison. We're in a world where one is forced to take employment in order to try to survive. Thus, people find them in the situation where they are forced to accept any deal or starve. There is no ethical world where you can call that fair.
Stability is a more appropriate term.

Japanese culture values stability very highly. People in this thread believe this kind of stability results in low economic mobility. In the US, people associate high economic mobility with meritocracy.

There's a couple leaps to be made in both associations, but I think that's what the gist is.
The state of Washington has a free tuition program as well.
I parenthesized it on purpose ... because _for me_, it's a small detail; personally, I really enjoy being in open office environments, even if it was full time ... and I feel fully productive there. The part time thing is more a mix of laziness and enjoying going to lunch with my wife ;)

But back to the point I was trying to make, this works _for me_; and I acknowledge that it doesn't work for others. I was only trying to balance the discussion such that it's not assumed that everyone despises open office plans, because it's not universal.
So weird to hear of folks here trying and rejecting gesture-keyboarding. It's orders of magnitude faster for me and so much less frustrating than thumb-pecking.

Honestly I'd like it to go further. Like a keyboard gesture to autofill my email address into a text area.

Anyway, I love it. Y'all crazy.
At some point.

The flattening of the CPU speed curve wasn’t matched by the GPU performance curve. The difference between linear computation and graphics cards is the latter is parallelizable, and the former is not. Flash is also trivially parallel.

Even with perfect materials, a 10 millimetre CPU couldn’t be faster than about 30 GHz because of the speed of light, but even current microSD cards have enough bits-per-unit-volume to put 1.2 petabytes in the largest current standard form factor of hard drive (at a cost of £704k/$982k/€798k). I don’t know how much of that volume is wasted on plastic casing or circits that would be redundant if you really wanted the highest possible density, but then again I also don’t know how much waste heat they produce either.

My claim is primarily that costs can and will fall, as to presume capacity will rise requires something that uses a lot more data than even high quality video currently uses. (Full mind backups would be one of those things, but IDK when to expect that).
Beware a pure meritocracy. In a meritocracy there will still be people at the bottom, and they will be told they deserve to be there.
We have not done that in North Korea.

The argument "food doesn't work, so we'll just kill them" is heinous. Not gonna bother with your other points for that reason.
Look at the price differential between apartments in similar geography that do and don’t have these things. I have not found “luxury” to command a significant premium, particularly since “luxury” buildings are sometimes the only ones offering small units where the older stock is all large. The crappiest old buildings are still exorbitant. The amenities and countertops are practically free next to the cost of the fixed costs of a “well built” building of any kind.
Especially if part of the fee you pay is ostensibly meant for cleaning staff.
This is absolutely untrue, I get cash of all denominations for my business at the bank all the time, including $2 bills. They usually have to pop into the vault to get some since there's not a lot of call for them, but they're by no means impossible or cost extra to get.
How many homeschooled adults do you know? As a successful homeschooled adult who knows a considerable number of other successful homeschooled adults, I have to respectfully disagree with your conclusions.

It's difficult to counter an argument about homeschooling having a negative effect on social interactions, since that observation is highly subjective. For what it's worth, I've never had any trouble grabbing beers with co-workers after work or meeting people in social settings. Some of my homeschooled friends definitely feel uncomfortable in social situations; I wouldn't say it happens with a higher frequency than my non-homeschooled friends.

That aside, when discussing education I prefer to compare quantifiable metrics, such as test scores, college GPA, employment rate, and median salary. A number of studies have compared these metrics, many of which indicate that homeschooling may provide better opportunities for children (after adjusting for income, location, ethnicity, number of parents at home, number of working parents, etc...). If you're interested, I can dig up these studies.

Homeschooling has prepared me, all of my siblings, and many of my childhood friends incredibly well for the "real world." I highly recommend it.
Is it not possible that you need people of an exceptional caliber to be at the head of a large corporation.
Here is one article that argues as such: https://hbr.org/2017/10/why-is-ceo-pay-rising-maybe-there-ar...

Now is that problematic?
It feels wrong they earn so much more than the average person.
Notably, these people earn so much more; not because they are proportionally better.
Instead, it is because people at their level are proportionally rarer (if we believe the article).

The question I have regards the value they add.
We need these rare people to head huge companies, but why do we get these huge companies?
Is it because they are just better economically (economies of scale), or is there some other force biasing companies to be larger.
It's not inevitable. It's just likely. If we're talking about a supply chain of "2" (banana example), it's not very likely. If we're talking about a supply chain with hundreds or thousands of actors (for example, smartphones), it's more likely.
I think you've overstating the efficiency in this investments economy, along with overlooking the negative externalities. How much was thrown away? 6 empty houses per homeless person. Why instead of updating AIM/ICQ for Android/iOS and business usage, they were abandoned and new investors replaced them with several Electron based permanent MVPs? There's entire industries dedicated to creating fake demand for high margin items, then there is also people buying things just on speculation that it could be worth more later. Its incredibly inefficient and wasteful. Who pays for the smog from coal? Our lungs do.
Only other city I've ridden is Stockholm, and I commute on Folsom which has a striped lane but basically:

a) Make sure you're visible. I always have lights and reflectors, and wear hi-vis jacket if it's dark out

b) Always assume there's an Uber about to do something dumb and dangerous - ride defensively, don't assume that drivers see you, seek eye contact, don't be afraid to take the lane

c) Relax, take it easy, it's a wonderful city to ride in.
But what are you going to charge them with? Where is the evidence? The wrongdoing is hidden in the gift card purchases which you can't actually tie to the faker seller.
I completely agree.

It seems like discussions about education always devolve to an unproductive argument about who should be blamed. Who’s failing? Can we assign blame to the student? Can we be angry at teachers? Etc..

Why does this matter at all? Is the goal to inflict shame on students, teachers or their parents? Society has all kinds of people. That means brilliant students who will succeed no matter what, and it also means students who are lazy, inconsistent, distracted, have bad home lives, etc. Our nation prospers when we can figure out how to educate even kids that are difficult to educate because of circumstances or even maybe factors intrinsic to the kid like disabilities.

Blame is useless. Kids become adults and if they are uneducated now it’s a real problem for everyone. Uneducated adults are more likely to be unemployed and more likely to commit crimes and less able to work and pay taxes to support the system. Now, are we going to figure out how to educate kids so that doesn’t happen or are we going to assign blame to them, then throw them into prison / welfare when they get older?
I only recently realized that he's also Lemon Demon, who wrote and performed The Ultimate Showdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WgT9gy4zQA
Applicate Functors for Fun and Parsing
It's hard to believe someone with that habit lives long enough to get dementia.
Folders that display their subfolders content. This problem is very inherently noticeable in Outlook while at work. There are 5 types of problems sent to 1 team distro. I filter these 5 types of problems, based on the Subject field, to a different subfolder of the team distro folder. When I view the team distro folder - I don't see any email. I need to click into the individual subfolders. If I create a Search Folder (which will let me see all search results from these 5 folders, effectively being what I want) it needs to be a Top Level folder and cannot, itself, be a Subfolder or reorganized. It will live under the Search Folders menu effectively thwarting my attempts at organization.

I would like to only be notified of new email that enters specific folders - rather than just an on/off where I am spammed with dozens if not hundreds of desktop notifications I do not care for. This way I don't need to keep my email always-visible to see when I get important email.

I would like extremely flexible organizational rules, again similar to Outlook.

All in a UI that gets out of my way and works well in portrait mode, as the few emails I get tend to be more longform and I like to reduce scrolling. I actually like Mailbird's [0] UI because I prefer icons over text labels for a tool I'm using frequently. Terrible UX (what do all these icons mean?) is something I'm willing to overcome as a power user. Using email/webmail clients reminds me of using IE6 with several toolbars installed to the point where I see more of IE's UI than I do the webpage I'm trying to browse. When I read emails I feel like I see more email client than I do email and that's aggravating.

[0] https://www.getmailbird.com
btw, the We3 product screenshot of the man calling the other men "ladies" and the video of Donny touching the crying girl are in poor taste.
I finish at 4 as well, but I get to office at 6:45 :)
Yea, there is a huge difference between “Beer Friday night after work is done” and “Second Bottle of Wine Tuesday morning.” I’ve seen both.
Why doesn't the universe doesn't follow something that might be described as an algorithm? Why don't humans? Why are 'trends' are not cut and dry, and algorithms are? Why will grafting biological machinery to artificial machinery be able to bridge this perceived gap? Is there something special about a cell that is not blueprintable and manufacturable?
Semi-automatic rifle. Automatic rifles manufactured after 1986 are illegal for private citizens to own.
Right so the grant is helpful and welcome, that’s why they accept it.
My own experience, returning from western Kentucky to the Chicago area, was interesting in the "may you live in interesting times" sense. From the outset I decided to take back roads where feasible. Traveling through rural southern Illinois, I noticed small parades of cars forming, and Google Maps wanted to put me on Route 1, which turned into a massive parade of cars.

Meanwhile, T-Mobile in southern Illinois leaves a lot to be desired, and so dynamic routing was iffy at best unless I was near an interstate. I decided to head off on county blacktops and secondary state routes, sans data coverage, and made good time in spite of storms. I got on I-57 near Effingham, and traffic went smoothly until I approached Champaign-Urbana, where my ETA steadily racked upward as I got closer. A quick peek showed lots of trouble ahead around Rantoul.

So, I stopped for dinner in Champaign, then Google Maps sent me out on back roads until I got around the bad construction backup near Rantoul, after I "primed the pump" by heading north out of town on Mattis Avenue. From then on it was trouble-free.

On the other hand, one of my best experiences with Google Maps occurred one Thanksgiving Eve, on my way to Midland, Michigan. Near Kalamazoo, it informed me of a faster route, and when I took it, it quickly put me on surface streets. I was thinking "WTF?" until I passed another I-94 on-ramp, where the tag said "58 minutes slower." Apparently, there was a wreck near Battle Creek. The new route put me on the designated I-94 emergency bypass once I left Kalamazoo, and past the wreck it returned me to the interstate.
You should definitely pursue this! Even if you stay in tech, at worst you pick up a hobby that you love, and at best you find your life's calling :) Nothing wrong with diversifying your interests ;)
> But it would be much better if a single language + hardware system emerged

There will, but it takes time. The world of scalar hardware in the 1970's was no less fragmented. Honestly most of the incompatibilities in the SIMD world at this point are bugs and not fundamental problems. The vector world has settled on a broad architecture at this point for most things.
Hi everyone, I'm Max and I run AI at Atrium. @birken's point is absolutely correct that having sold a previous startup for nearly 1B really is a big part of what makes this strategy viable.

But, on a completely unrelated note, if you're an experienced ML engineer and you want to help distrupt one of the most needing-to-be-disrupted-stodgy-old-industries there is as part of a very fast growing team, drop me a note: max <AT> atrium.co.
Why are you so hostile to human beings?

Employees are not merely selling time (actually that’s the most precious a living person has) but their ability to turn it - through the mastering of technology - into valuable goods.

That they’re not entitled to a fair share, but just to whatever was agreed back in the day, without demonstrable acts of servile devotion, reeks of... dunno, feudalism?
Equality vs equity.

Most people intend the latter when they mean the former (at least from usage).
For #8. Dating, it has progressed pretty significantly with the likes of OkCupid, swipe-based apps (Tinder, Bubmle, Hinge), CMB to name a few. Heck it has done so well that IAC spun off its dating group as a separate business entity with its own IPO of The Match Group.
> We're in a world where one is forced to take employment in order to try to survive.

That's very true. You must do something if you want to survive. Your chances of surviving probably go up if anyone else values that thing that you choose to do.

It seems like this argument has devolved into 'by existing, I should be able to survive at the status quo of the wealthiest nation on earth in human history.' If that's where we are at, I have nothing else to say.
What do y'all think of the effect of 'beer on tap' on this atmosphere at Wework?

Do any of you like to drink while working?
i _remember_ submitting this earlier, and sure enough : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13800862

but this was a while back :), so not marking it dupe.
It was advocating for more old Microsoft-style layout, with a few smallish private offices (2-4 people IIRC) and common spaces for debates/planning/socializing between them.
Why not? They're two different situations.
We do? Maybe here on HN but it’s pretty widely acknowledged in most places that it’s not.
China will soon have air power rivalling the West’s
There are definitely more optimizations planned in the future. The optimizations that happened in the last few weeks took it down from tens of seconds to open and deal with large notebooks.
When we talk about my personal ethics or morality as a developer, I do not need wide consensus over the issue. It is about what I personally will or will not do. Or under which circumstances would I do it. The discussion with others does help me to decide and they can bring arguments I did not considered, but decision is mine.

There is wide agreement about many ethical questions through. I also think that ignoring ethics question completely is easy cop out - yes one should do it no matter what job.

I don't think that law and ethics is the same. I think that following law is ethical where law species competition rules (accounting, regulation etc).
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Gotcha, I'm completely oblivious to Whatsapp.