skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This result shouldn't be surprising to anyone who has thought about what the construct of money/debt actually does.

Every bubble in the history of finance has always been the overvaluing of one asset in exchange for the devaluing of other assets. By overvaluing houses today, we are screwing over every field that requires property/land, retail stores for example. And renters which are predominantly youth. Now, the overvalued houses don't actually consume value directly - they give money to the people who have these assets or are employed in their use - home owners, property management companies - construction companies - etc etc.

Money has always allowed for bias and inequality in resources and work allotted. One sector like housing in exchange for sacrificing other sectors. Or sacrificing one nation/locale's wealth in exchange for another - ie. many 3rd world countries/ exchange rates. Or sacrificing young peoples' prosperity in exchange for old peoples' - inflation / housing / medicare / social security / stock market inflation.

Money is a tool for giving value, and hence prosperity, unequally for any kind of sociological category of people by way of empirical categories of valuables.

I don't hate capitalism but it is unavoidably discriminatory.

The very act of a loan is essentially an exchange of value temporally - why shouldn't the natural consequence be to see money as a way of moving allotted value around both spatially, sociologically, and temporally?
None. IIRC, he wasn’t under oath.
I have had some nice results with swift. It’s still predominately Apple tech (macOS,iOS) but the packages manager is nice and it’s has nice “script” feel for a compiled language.
Sure, at zero :)

And I'm reminded of the various whip devices in Stephenson's Seveneves.
So far I've had a good experience with Kubuntu on an old Lenovo ideapad from ~7 years ago, after throwing a new SSD in to replace the old HDD. Everything so far has worked out of the box without any problems, I was able to get both MATLAB and Mendeley (the only two programs I was concerned would give me issues) up and running without any problem for my research, and I configured the desktop environment so it looks and functions almost identical to MacOS (at least for how I usually use MacOS, and with a few changes that I feel are more aesthetically pleasing).

I tried this because my main 2015 macbook pro somehow developed an swollen battery, which has caused the case to warp really badly (wobbles distractingly when typing). There are reports that this swelling can, predictably, lead to explosions [1]. The ETA for arrival+service of new battery was ~ a week, full cost to me, and no loaner program. Pretty ridiculous for a known hardware defect.

[1]https://medium.com/@dourvaris/my-2015-macbook-pro-retina-exp...
For anyone else interested, I'll save you five minutes:

sudo apt-get install gargoyle-free;
wget http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/tads/Rematch.gam;
gargoyle Rematch.gam
> It's ironic. The free market requires a form of socialism to actually work.

Its not ironic, the requirement is called rule of law, and its a foundational stone from the philosophers that brought that royalty and religion from the State.
The recognition of private property has been recognized as a necessity from the get go in classical philosophy and economics.
Microsoft intentionally broke compatibility with every major release of Windows Phone though, and then ultimately killed the entire platform?
Some actions aren’t undoable.
Feel free to email me with suggestions! courtland@indiehackers.com

EDIT: I should say that the navigation is a work in progress, and the interviews/podcast/etc will eventually be easier to get to.
Back when I used to build model aircraft dioramas, a veteran told me "When you arrange vehicles in a diorama setting, always have them facing towards the left side of the board for maximum impact.".

His reasoning was that most people's eyes move left to right when examining something - which mimics their eye movement when reading text (at least in Western societies. In R-L countries I guess the opposite would be true).

He said that by position the nose/cockpit of the aircraft on the left side, people's eyes would always go to where the 'little humans' would sit first, then move away towards the right. Similarly if you had scale model humans in a diorama setting - place them on the left hand side.

Placing the vehicles going against their eye movement would also make their attention 'catch' and stop at details of the object 'moving' in the opposite way (something about how people who drive cars are just more instinctually aware of something that is moving against their direction of travel). Whereas if they had to scan in the same direction the vehicle was moving, their attention would just slip past interesting points.

I've used those lessons in most of my UX design nowadays. Placing buttons and important items towards the right of a page, with lesser items further right. The only exception is if it is a destructive action call (deleting a record etc.), then I usually place the button all the way to the right so it isn't in visual way and too tempting.
> Its a claim about the performance of the system which you have claimed we can not characterize with the currently available statistics.

I claimed the feature they call "Autopilot" is unsafe because it has only limited capability (as per Tesla's documentation). But the naming of the feature and its marketing inspires false confidence in the drivers, leading to accidents. This is a very simple fact, and it should have been apparent to people a Tesla, and the fact that they went ahead and did this kind of marketing makes them "blatantly evil" in my books. Because, as you said, it is open and they are unashamed about it. Other safety features that are widely available in similar cars from other companies is irrelavant here. I am not even sure why you dragged it into this.

>If we think long-term, their actions are part of what allows the long term to exist in the first place.

What kind of circular logic is that? If they are not really interested (their real motivation) in the "long term", then their actions cease to be part of "what allows long term to exist".
Does it bother anyone else when the "k" is not capitalized in "Ok" on a button?
I keep seeing references to design/UX, and IMO they are way off the mark. The problem is far more fundamental than that. If the only problem were design/UX, then proper chatbots would've taken off by now.

Understanding natural language is much more than just a design problem. It's a grand challenge and core subfield of Computer Science. It's the original Turing Test.
Compound interest goes in both directions
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Its very important to understand that free is freedom from men. Freedom from nature is not something we know a way out of yet.

Who would say that someone using a gun to coerce you is free?
Have they fixed the problems with Firefox on Cinnamon? I ran it for quite a while, and was thoroughly frustrated by dropdowns showing up in the wrong place on Firefox (this on 16.04). Moving over to XFCE was an effective workaround, but other than the Firefox problem, I preferred Cinnamon.
Its amazing what billions in government subsidies do for a company.
> The idea is to take in the best

Is that really the purpose of the family-reunification program?
You have one of those no-escape-key macbooks, right? Yet another epic fail by that post-apple company.
> Linux it's OK-Cancel.

KDE yes, but GNOME and most GTK+ desktops and apps are definitely Cancel/OK.

Google used to be pretty mixed, but Android and the Material re-designed stuffs seems to be pretty much Cancel/OK too.
You're assuming there is no useful purpose for the dialog box other than asking the user to confirm their action.
I can second Subaru being great for tall people.

When I was shopping for our current vehicle, we excluded 50% of the list after trying the driver's seat even with adjustment, they aren't designed for tall people.

For example the Nissan Rogue is a fantastic vehicle by all accounts (and the trunk organizer I still miss), but we skipped on it due to the seat comfort.
>Did you see what I said about poverty traps? Once someone is stuck, it's very challenging to break out without outside help.

We need to agree on where the poverty traps come from first to then reason if government is the solution.
>Assuming your car came with what I believed to be sufficient hardware capabilities to pull this off...

You have said it yourself that no one know enough to make this assumption. How can Tesla then make this assumption?
1. Side effects may be permanently destructive, making Undo infeasible. How do you undo emptying the recycle bin? How do you undo posting a cert on the public internet?

2. Cancel is not just for “are you sure”. It’s often there for “never mind, let me go back”, as in the file open dialog example.
China hacked a Navy contractor and stole weapons plans
If employers were communist dictators, then the left would never find issue with them!
Those Human Interface Guidelines are incredible. There is also an Apple Style Guide that’s very awesome as well. For example, “don’t use ‘please’ as in “Please click yes to continue.” Instead, simply “click yes to continue.” I forget the rationale but it was pretty sound reasoning if I remember correctly.
Undo support can 5x the cost of a feature and in some cases is impossible (instructing some other entity to perform an action). It’s not feasible in all scenarios.
"Launch missiles" is the prototypical example, although in reality I hope there is some sort of undo functionality.
Why are people acting shocked? THIS IS THEIR BUSINESS MODEL. It's in their privacy policy! "Your data may be shared with ... our affiliates" or words to that effect.
What an interesting guy! I always loved watching Parts Unknown and living vicariously through him as he circled the planet, sampling one amazing thing after the next. Food ... the great uniter!

R.I.P. Anthony Bourdain.
a mechanism to undo the change. hmmmm. a button that takes you back. some sort of... back button?
You do know the sun is a tabloid right?
Well clearly a consumer in one context is usually an employee (or capital owner) in another.

In this particular case the consumers who are benefiting are generally a different group than the employees who are losing out, so I don't see why you bothered to point this out.
Quite amazing... why wasn't ULA able to leverage their billions in government subsidies so well?
I'd like to see an economist defending this assertion.
If there are no children or other complications, I would not hesitate to leave. The relationship could be part of why the depression persists, and I don't mean that in a "it's your fault" kind of way. Some people just mix like oil and water.

It is possible to leave in a nice way. My divorce followed telling him "I'm tired of hurting you. I'm tired of being hurt. I think we both really gave it our best. If we could do this dance, we would have figured it out by now. I want a divorce." He breathed a sigh of relief and agreed. We both cooperated in making it amicable and not a disaster for any involved party.

Leaving doesn't have to be a case of abandonment or rejection. It can be a case of gently setting both parties free.
It depends how you architect. Generally yes. Check out the Elm architecture (and Redux by extension) to see situations where undo is essentially free.
Please no. We like our culture just fine:

I have a coworker with a house at the edge of a swamp. He likes to go out in his airboat and shoot alligators. He likes to set off explosions. I have another coworker, from San Francisco actually, who has sheep and can shoot his AR-15 in his yard. Trump has dropped by twice, at the MLB airport. The lines of adoring fans went for miles, and there were only about 5 protesters total. My workplace has a giant (maybe 15x7 foot) US flag in the cafeteria, and every year we hold a military-style flag folding ceremony. Everywhere you go, there are engineers who work for defense contractors. There is a stand-your-ground law, and our wonderful Sheriff Wayne Ivey has some great videos on youtube about the need for armed citizens prepared to shoot all kinds of bad people.

For those of you who aren't horrified, we're hiring for low-level hacker stuff... but the rest of you need to stay right where you are. You'd be unhappy, and you'd make us unhappy.
Is there any concern regarding the damage these frequent and big rocket launches are doing to the upper atmosphere? Are people aware of such a thing? Because I have seen very few discussion around the same....
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> I'd certainly question trusting Torvalds in any high stakes situation that required tact under pressure...

Huh? When are kernel developers in high stakes situations that require tact? He doesn't host peace talks for a living. He manages Linux. He needs to be trusted for high stakes situations requiring technical clarity and technical decision making. And between our phones, our internet services and our banking infrastructure, basically everybody in modern society depends on the linux kernel working correctly.

> To my mind verbal abuse doesn't mean they're speaking their mind, it means they've lost control.

What? I just don't see it that way at all. If he'd lost control the criticism would be less technically grounded, and he wouldn't have merged the patch anyway. To me, Torvald's temper clearly expresses the value of "make the kernel good, don't make it be bad". Blowing up like this is an expensive social signal - it shows that to him the kernel being good is so important that he's willing to risk losing face and support to do so. I agree with other commenters that there are probably better ways he could get his point across; but how he expresses himself is completely authentic and aligned with his value of technical competence.

And that buys a lot of trust in my eyes.

And I don't think its just me. Trump does the same thing, and I suspect the "I can trust him because he gets angry" vibe helped him get elected. (For better or worse.)
Thats because Utility is a very hard thing to measure, being so subjective and individual.
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Really, 0 economic value. Nobody gets anything of value from using those services, its just wasted time.
The Korean paper 6 months ago look d promising as well.
http://fftw.org is optimized by doing massive parameter sweeps on each architecture (it only considers correct implementations).

There are also a few “software synthesis” and “sketching” approaches that use a constraint solver to find all correct implementations of a high level spec, subject to some implementation pattern. Then they either try them all with brute force or pick the one that optimizes some objective function.
But wait, 66% of tweets are reportedly generated by bots.[0] Maybe they aren't chatbots, in a strict sense, but it does seem like most Twitter "conversations" involve bots. There are lots of bots on Facebook too.[1] Automating typical social media behavior is laughably trivial.

0) https://www.vox.com/technology/2018/4/9/17214720/pew-study-b...

1) https://mashable.com/2017/11/02/facebook-phony-accounts-admi...
Can anyone qualify Lasseter's 'missteps'?

Is he an Al Franken? A Louis CK? A Spacey? A Cosby?

Is he a guy who just likes to hug too much when inappropriate, or is it more nefarious than that?
Yes, most of the books start off listing the studies and the results. I seem to remember the best seller one, Feeling Good, actually goes into the history and discovery, including the actual tests and results incrementally, although I don't have my copy immediately available.
When I say scientifically proven, I mean it. If it doesn't work, the researchers would honestly like to learn about your situation and why it didn't work.
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Rationale is probably primarily that it’s just less wordy and secondarily that it sounds like an option instead of a request.
>I think a lot of it just came down to performance.

Absolutely. I for one embrace (positive) change and had no problem adjusting to Unity. I liked it a lot, even more than Gnome 2, but the performance was just shockingly bad on every computer I used it on. From my Thinkpad T420s with the Intel graphics to my desktop with a GTX 970. Everything was noticeably slower than it was under any other desktop environment. I finally just quit using it. The real shame is they had a version based on Qt a while back that didn't require compositing. If they had continued with that, the performance would have been stellar. Oh well.
Assuming a patent issues with the claims as presented, all of the elements need to be present for there to be infringement. Claim 1 of the application you cited takes up almost an entire page of text and comprises more than a dozen limiting elements, of which you've paraphrased two. If there's a devil here, it's a lot smaller than you're implying it is.
Probably, a good AI could get me to the proper representative or solve my problem a lot faster than a tree menu... But I don't think we're really close to doing that.
I don't need Apple to be my friend. If it's doing something of benefit to me, I don't mind that it benefits Apple as well. We can both come out ahead.
Huh? It is a “cop out answer” to suggest reading the research literature as a general practice? It is an “unnecessary and infuriating UI change” to roughly follow UI guidelines written down by experts with decades of experience?

I am recommending that instead of just making something up based on the developer’s speculation and personal preference (which in your particular example happens to be terrible, as you would discover if you actually tested it in a real-world setting), it is a better idea as a general rule to go read actual user studies about what works and why, or if you are too lazy to do that go find some interface guidelines written by someone who did large-scale user studies and spent decades honing their interfaces in response to user feedback and copy it.

If you insist on rejecting those findings and past experience with a novel implementation, then I am recommending running your own mini studies (ideally something semi-formal, but at least test the two versions on a couple buddies at a coffee shop), to make sure you don’t shoot your foot off. To do anything less is in my opinion lazy and irresponsible.

Why do you think that will lead to “stupefying interfaces”?

You think that doing at least a tiny bit of user research before blindly rushing ahead based on personal preferences renders people unable to think or feel?

Or maybe you have a non-standard definition of “stupefy”? To be honest I don’t understand what you are trying to say.
Anything where your app state is modelled as a series of actions over immutable data, undo and replay will be essentially free to implement :)
>The same feature which adds danger at every update is one that also has the potential to add safety at every update...

You don't work in software, right?
How does Elm undo a charge to my credit card if I change my mind 2 minutes later? How does Elm un-print a document if I decide I didn't want to print it after all? How does Elm un-send the email telling a person they were fired if I decide I misspelled the recipient name? How does Elm help the Linux kernel undo a write operation to write-once media? How does Elm help a payroll system undo ACH transfers to thousands of employees?

I feel like you mostly missed the OP's point.
Does Optane in a DDR4 module count?
I think that is his whole point. He was responding to someone who basically said "When American parents commit crimes, they are also separated from their children in the penal system".

But I should point out that I don't really know how twitter works and have a very hard time following conversation there. Maybe something different went down.
Since you asked, TFA:

> The usually chummy and Hawaiian-shirt wearing Lasseter admitted late last year to giving “unwanted hugs” and behavior that others “felt crossed the line.” Interviews revealed uninvited kisses and touching and amorous displays at studio parties where alcohol was served.
Given all the recordings I hear when I call a customer service line, I suspect that most customer service calls are from the kind of people who can't help themselves.

I think customer service departments find them boring and want to automate them away.
In the very first example screenshot on that page, it would appear that the user is presented with three different ways to cancel the action: clicking NO, clicking CANCEL, or clicking the close box. I would presume they effectively do the same thing? As far as I know this is typical of a Windows dialog box. I'm a Mac user: can someone tell me how this could possibly be considered good UI?

BTW, Cancel-OK dates from both of OS X's parents: MacOS and NeXTSTEP.
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Ah, the spring bean scanning was working, but startup wasn't. The reason? Our app was apparently very brittle and the mere act of registering beans in the wrong act would cause a circular dependency error during startup.

To be more concrete, to the original spring bean scanner, we were passing in a set of package names, which it would scan. Spring registers those bran defininitions in yhe order that it scans the beans. My custom scanner (found and registered all the same beans), broke our app because it wouldn't startup anymore due to a circular dependency error. Once I sorted the bean definitions by the original pack path inputs, that startup error went away.

I think we are 4.x

Extra details: I used the fast -classpath-scanner library. I subclassed the annotation cand date componend scanner class (well, something like that), and rewrote a method to load the resources for the string specified, treating the path a a fqcn, not a package path. Then I could feed that class the output from the fast classpath scanner (which was the list of classes with the annotations). Until I sorted the input by the original package paths, my app wouldn't start. Mind you, the method I overwrote simply created bean definitions. But that ordering difference made all the difference.

I can dig up exact class names if you are curious. The scanner of course didn't replicate all spring bean sear check capabilities - just the ones we were using. But it cut the scan time by 60% (several seconds).
"automate" comes from "self" and "mating".
Does that negate the criminal act of crossing the border illegally? Maybe? But if you're planning on applying for asylum 11 months after you illegally cross the border, are you not a criminal in America until then?
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It would be between:

- search engine and combined family of backend and web services for search features (autocomplete, image search, machine translation, session-based personalization, etc.) at an online ecommerce site with a top 300 alexa rank

- legacy code base for large-scale integrated air defense system simulations at a research lab (code spanned from 80s to 00s)

Both projects well into the tens of millions of lines of source code, much of it old FORTRAN and C in the IADS codebase, requiring us to maintain old compiler toolchains, etc.

The defense simulation stuff was one centralized repo for security purposes, with lots of bespoke extra pieces of code on this researcher’s machine or that researcher’s machine. It was exceedingly hard to work with, but obviously is not a fair comparison to a large tech company which has 1-2 orders of magnitude more code and has customized tooling for it.

The search engine codebase was split into over a hundred different component-specific git repos, and despite the occasional CI headaches, was a joy to work with because component vcs history and project workflows were so well separated.