skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Many people can't tell you the difference between a modem, router, OS, browser, or website."

They don't care, nor should they. How many people know how many spark plugs are in their car?

You're correct. We, the more tech-literate, take too much for granted; and most experiences and learning curves are too far over the head of the "average" user.

It's not them. It's us.
Ah, yes, the widespread cancer of critical theory strikes Redis.
I haven't used it yet so I can't cite any actual concrete real world problems it solves either.

Are you claiming an attitude of hiding important technical details and creating dysfunctional smart systems in the name of usability doesn't exist? Or that these are unrelated things and the narrative arc isn't there?

There's numerous other examples, such as the gtk3 file-chooser dialog which hid a number of important controls in the name of usability.

What about mobile vendors, to make their devices friendly, remove a number of android customizations such as the ability to disable ambient display?

What about sites like reddit who removed a number of features such as the ability to edit a comment on their mobile site as a UX improvement?

Or what about the laptop vendors who remove keys such as Escape?

It appears that all technologies are slowly tending towards an aspirational goal of being designed for illiterate toddlers.

Luckily I know where this comes from.

Illiterate toddlers, as it turns out, use lots of software on tablets and smartphones. Looking at usage metrics and presuming that everyone is a competent adult, efforts at user-error reduction tend towards humans with diapers and pacifiers as they make the most errors and any demographics statistics of those errors will false positive as their parents, since the infants don't have their own devices.

Why do you think bright colors have better click thru rates for ads or using cartoon mascots or smiling men and women of child-rearing age increase inbound traffic and are seen as an important branding strategy for user engagement? Could it be toddlers tapping?

Maybe that solves the problem of why these boosting effects only appear on mobile devices since 3-year olds can't operate a mouse.

These trends give rise to design rules and "insights" which have a contagion effect on all software, just like the soft keyboard on the iphone led to the removal of physical keyboards from effectively all smartphones. Until every complex tool is dumbed down enough to be mastered by those who haven't learned primary colors or geometric shapes yet, this insanity will continue.

Look at Youtube's recent redesign moves for example. They recommend the video you watched yesterday again and do so for weeks. The only people that want that are under the age of 6 who watch videos on loops. I'm confident they have strong empirical data mixed with the failure to properly segment users to back this decision up. Toddlers are controlling the direction of software and it needs to stop.
Leonard Bernstein gave his answer on the question in a series of lectures titled "The Unanswered Question." Draws analogies to concepts in linguistics and CFGs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fHi36dvTdE
This thread contains many examples of professional technologists who don't know what a URL is. You, for example, don't seem to know what a URL is.

I guarantee you, most non-tech people don't know what a URL is. People know what links are, to the extent that they can click/tap on them to get to some thing, or copy them and share/email them. That's not the same as knowing what they are.

You're making a dangerous assumption about what people know, including yourself.
They are scummy in general. All the PEs near me stop cooking all their best entree items by 7PM on the theory that customers will accept whatever slop is left... yet they continue to offer all their items over mobile (they'll just happily tell you they "ran out" when you get there).
> And perhaps the culprit is that INPLACE_ADD requires more work than BINARY ADD

It would not surprise me if the culprit was instead:

98 STORE_FAST 2 (a2)
100 LOAD_FAST 3 (c)

Due to them being the same amalgamated memory location in practice, with the load hitting the in-flight store. But that's more typical of a POWER performance characteristic than an Intel one...
Twitter is not 'supposed to be all about [free speech]'. It's a microblogging platform, not a political stance.
> So yes, I do think this is the editor which is going to move a lot of old coders out of emacs/vi/vim.

That certainly seems a possibility, though I expect it may be somewhat dependent upon the language used, and whether the community around that language invests enough effort to develop vscode plugins for that language.
We're falling into pedantry here. I'm very well aware of that fact, which is why I referenced it in the original post.
Safeway also.
Certainly that's true today. I wonder how feasible it would be in the future to leverage deep learning and pattern recognition AI technologies to build a code editor plug-in that would act something like an experienced developer always watching over the junior developer's shoulder and pointing out common mistakes. We have a very limited form of that already in static analysis tools but I feel like it ought to be possible to take the concept much further?
I imagine the videos where he harasses the CNN reporter and the females protesting Kavanaugh were the last straw. This was from his Periscope live stream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dcSvuyZm-U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrZuQqtABUo
Yes, I admit it's hard to get something like this secure. It's in the same problem space like hash functions and might require some research.
The video that got him banned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne_wFdA-1oU
If someone is unproductive and can't/won't work, then people shouldn't be obligated to give him/her the fruits of their labor.
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I love the idea that typed languages create backpressure. I have very little confidence in peoples' ability to create well-designed (in software architecture terms) projects.
I'm new to ArangoDB but this release looks impressive just by the sheer number of new features. Congrats!

I was wondering if this release allows FULLTEXT indexes when the backend is RocksDB (now that it is the default storage engine)? The new ArangoSearch features look cool, but honestly a bit daunting vs the simple setup of a FULLTEXT index.

By the way, the ArangoSearch tutorial casually talks about "ArangoDB views of type 'arangosearch'", but I haven't come across the concept of views before in the documentation. Are there other types of views?
This is wrong. Is Twitter suppressing Jones' ability to say what he wants to? No. So they are not suppressing free speech. Twitter is banning a serial harasser from using their (privately owned) platform.

The analogy would be kicking someone out of your house for harassing your other guests.
Nobody's free speech rights were violated? I can't believe this has to be explained on hackernews... https://xkcd.com/1357/
<sarcasm> Yeah, that doesn't help Alex Jones' cause at all, does it? </sarcasm>

It also seems quite arbitrary when there are plenty of very abusive people on the other end of the spectrum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne_wFdA-1oU

This is where he compared a journalist eyes to a rats, which I believe is what caused the ban?
organic celery is healthier than regular celery. So in some cases yes.
maybe you haven’t noticed, but people have been going after hosting companies and payment processors lately to shut down people they find politically disagreeable. we are increasingly less and less free to host our own speech.
Read the linked bug report. Concrete examples were given. A super glaring one to me is that:

m.tumblr.com IS NOT a mobile version of tumblr.com

If I tried, I could likely come up with a ton more, but so could you if you tried.
Are you serious, have you ever run into one of his listeners?

If anybody listens to him thinking it's not real, they are a tiny and insignificant minority. What his lawyer admits in court means nothing to his audience.
These people do realize amazon owns and as is heavily invested in the most technological advance replacement for cashiers right?
This is circular reasoning, and it conveniently excuses any abuses or hypocrisy by the company by disappearing the evidence and not allowing anyone else to judge for themselves.

From an outside observer, there is no way to distinguish between the claim that the ban is for "good reasons", or that the ban is a result of bias on the part of the company.
Except in the case you're replying to.. which seems to indicate there's no difference in response from the employee.
What's your evidence of this? They've banned a variety of people who criticize the mainstream. I support the parent message - they are a platform, not a publisher. Twitter is the one making this political by deciding who is worth censoring and who is not. They would never censor pro-war NYT/Post folks...
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There's also a small percentage of people (maybe <10%) who experience musical frisson [1][2]. I'm one of them. It's a related, but entirely different phenomenon to ASMR.

In some people who experience it, it can be an absolutely overwhelming experience -- like strapping your brain to wings made out of lightning bolts.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson

2 - http://theconversation.com/why-do-only-some-people-get-skin-...
Been using Firefox on my desktop and its amazing. For some reason the mobile version is incredibly slow to load pages though.
Hopefully the banning of Alex Jones puts us on the path to breaking up the tech giants.
Just by the title I knew it had to be a Matt Levine story.
So the same thing the mainstream media said about Trump supporters before he got elected. Want to cite some evidence that Info Wars is actually tiny and has the abysmal following you're claiming?
Right; and this was my point in the first place. The police don't have to make it impossible to get away with stealing a car. They just need to make it difficult and awkward. Thats still enough to massively disincentivized car theft - which in turn has resulted in far fewer cars being stolen.

Likewise if they ban end-to-end encrypted chat apps from the app stores, I bet that would decimate the number of people who used them. Even if anyone could just get an android phone and sideload signal, in practice adoption would still fall low enough to make law enforcement happy. Even amongst criminals.
Look at this http://www.this.www.is.www.not.www.really.www.google.com :-D
Crossfire, Alex Jones and Gordon Ramsay need their own shouting as a service platform.

It sucks for free speech that he got banned because it gives him notoriety and "credibility" in wingnuttery circles.

There ought to be other remedies to manipulative behavior for ratings than simply banning.
One happening in an embedded language with its own GC. Unless you can switch all allocations to explicit management for the tests, it's almost impossible to differentiate between live objects, free lists, cycles with deferred collection, and arenas that are supposed to be freed on exit.
If you're not in Google's index, then it's likely you're not in Google's interest to use Google's product to visit your site, since the company prefers if you use their search rather than type links directly or follow links from other links, hence they want to kill the URL — https://www.wired.com/story/google-wants-to-kill-the-url/
His "How are you doing Alex?", gives me the impression he gets this a lot lol
I’m still waiting patiently for those to arrive so I can order a couple
Lol, and the video was all about how the left censors people!

Seriously, I never gave Alex Jones much credence before this, but this getting him banned makes him much more credible in my mind.
How are they suppressing free speech? They’re not the government, they get to control their service just like any business, because they are also free.
I hope you don’t suddenly become disabled or chronically ill without a support network, with that attitude.
I can’t see anything that says it’s all about free speech. I can see this though. “Freedom of expression means little if voices are silenced because people are afraid to speak up. We do not tolerate behavior that harasses, intimidates, or uses fear to silence another person’s voice. If you see something on Twitter that violates these rules, please report it to us.“

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hateful-condu...
That's true, and a good point.
Are you joking? This is Amazon, the company where warehouse workers have to pick an item with so little time, they have to jog around the warehouse. Workers urinating in bottles because using the bathroom during non breaks = termination. Oh, and those breaks last exactly 14 minutes and 59 seconds, because anything after is Bezos' time, and you will be reprimanded.

While he is one of the richest people in the world, can't figure out how to spend it all. Literally throwing it away into a corporatefascist space program before he increases wages.

Unions should quite obviously have formed by now.
A Prime membership does not automatically save anyone money. It costs money to have it. It's perceived value is entirely subjective, and based on how you value what it offers. It also requires you giving Amazon more money to realize some of the benefits (e.g. free shipping only with Amazon [and their prices aren't always the lowest]).
I completely agree with you. I'm just saying that it must be a hard decision because they've previously chosen what to censor in the past giving them a censorship bias. We now know twitter is not a place of free speech but a place with the slant of X.
My guess is they’re patiently trying to train users to prepare them for a post-url era. I don’t remember where but I recall hearing the google was trying to replace the standard. Sort of like how Apple has had to retrain people to not think so much in terms of files but in terms of apps.

Just a guess though.
I mean, didn't he call sandy hooks a false flag attack or something?
> and their housing costs were not 50-75% of their salary

But our grandparents did predominately live in rural areas. You can still live quite affordably in rural areas now. Most people just aren't happy with that lifestyle anymore.

Additionally, the majority of our grandparents didn't own their homes. If the majority of us were okay with renting like our grandparents were, you wouldn't see the irrational behaviour of buying at any cost that pushes the market beyond what is sensible (i.e. paying 75% of salary for no reason).
It's somehow "better" that he behaves that way to make a buck, than because he believes it?
What spectrum? he's a conspiracy theorist telling fabrications, he "fits" on the right wing, but no sane conservative would associate with him.
Modern websites use the screen width to show you mobile vs desktop view. But before CSS had good support for responsive web design everyone had to create a separate website for mobile and put it on m.website
That's like saying: Alex Jones is free to grow his own food on his land as much as he pleases. This supermarket has a policy not to sell food to people who violate our terms of service regarding hate speech.
This is the same reasoning that leads to people getting banned from a service for a reason, and then given a cold shoulder and absolutely no information about why.

Perhaps this is fine in situations where the banned entity is a malicious actor, but it presumes a zero false-positive rate. My opinion is, if even one person is wrongly punished without recourse (other than rolling the dice with social media) then the whole system is unjust and should be reworked.
> The real world is one where you do the job you're paid to do.

Actually the real world is the one where the FTC has largely given up on regulating monopolistic behaviour and The Department of Labor has abdicated its responsibility of protecting workers from abusive employers. In this real world the only moral principle that anyone cares about is profit.
> the profession was high on precision engineering based off modern finite element models

Two years ago, I organised a party for the 50th anniversary of one of Australia's first geodesic domes, which was designed and built by some undergrads in my university climbing club. It's a "hut" in a national park, and the rangers were skeptical about the structure. A 2nd year engineering student was in charge of the design: the story goes that he walked over to the parks office, showed off some printouts, and explained that the structural calculations had been done by computer. When the parks service heard that, they were sure that the structure had to be sound.
> housing costs were not 50-75% of their salary

75% is far above what any reasonable person would recommend to be the maximum portion of salary that should be spent on housing. Personally, my housing is around 25% of my posttax income, and I thought I was pushing it a bit.

This isn't a generations problem, this is a supreme-ignorance problem.
You're in good company. Tim Berners-Less said something similar when reflecting on what he would do differently if given the chance:

> Looking back on 15 years or so of development of the Web is there anything you would do differently given the chance?
> "I would have skipped on the double slash - there’s no need for it. Also I would have put the domain name in the reverse order - in order of size so, for example, the BCS address would read: http:/uk.org.bcs/members. The last two terms of this example could both be servers if necessary."

From http://www.impactlab.net/2006/03/25/interview-with-tim-berne...
yep this has google acquisition/aquiihire written all over it IMO
Sure. I think we're just working on slightly different meanings of what I said, which wasn't meant in the exact way it's often rolled out as a criticism. Part of the reason you do different, vague tests is the hope you'll catch some odd errors someone missed. So you are testing, vaguely and imperfectly but over a much wider area, in the hopes of finding things you can't specifically think of.

Sort of like if you are planning to drive some car you recently did a bunch of work yourself to on a long trip. You've probably already tested all the things you think might be wrong, but that doesn't mean it's not worth taking it for a drive for an hour around town and on the freeway to see if the unexpected happens, so you can deal with it close to home. You're testing the car, just in a vague "shake it and see what falls out" way. You are specifically testing for that, it's just not guaranteed to find any or all problems. It's still better than nothing most times.
No it's not, because Twitter itself has presumably reviewed the messages itself. As a service owner, and therefore an arbiter, it doesn't need to allow anyone to judge themselves.
> So they are not suppressing free speech. Twitter is banning a serial harasser from using their (privately owned) platform.

I’d argue Twitter is the modern day town square and it doesn’t matter if it is privately owned.
Since he was contracted to do the inspection, I presume they found his diagnostic method credible.
It's almost like saying "vulnerabilities in our code exist for decades before they are noticed by anyone (with a whitehat)".

Sure, that happens in open source projects too (openssl anyone?), but it seems like an exception rather than a rule. If there are so many of these multiple-version vulnerabilities in Windows that the author of the list had to specifically break Windows into individual versions, then that speaks for itself.
Oh I totally misread it (or read it the other way). If its a loss of 3/4 of their investment, thats a poor investment indeed.
Ah, I was confused by the parent post, I thought we were discussing 401k and "savings" as separate things.

I'm not sure what others have saved in theirs, but in my case, it was more like $200,000 in my 401k when I got divorced at age 40. I didn't always earn the same income as I do now, and also had times where I have needed to decrease my contributions, etc.
Same here. FB chokes FF every other time I open it. My CPU and RAM consumption spikes. I have to close FF and reopen. Sometimes that doesn't work either.

It's annoying and frustrating.
I would actively avoid donating in that case, because I don't like attention for that kind of thing.
The horrifying thing is how many people his antics resonate with.
I see it less about the left censoring people and more about a grown man harassing a journalist by hurling abuse at his face for 10 minutes straight (whilst invading his personal space with a camera), and topping it off with a racist anti semitic dog whistle comment about his eyes. The guy being, for lack of a better word, bullied in the video took it exceptionally well.

Different strokes for different folks I guess.
What a perfect example... I need to do this one day! Thanks for the link
In poor, rural counties? It's the entire social safety net: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2017/06/02/generatio...
And typically (always?) single-edged.
I'd always wondered if crypto exchanges actually bother to buy the crypto that you ask them to. For most people they wouldn't know the difference as eventually they'll withdraw in fiat money anyway
WWW was absolutely revolutionary.
Jack Dorsey frequently said in the hearing that he wanted Twitter to be like a "public square" or "public forum". In fact he used the word "public" quite a bit, which is weird if you don't want to be regulated.
> Twitter needs to be more transparent about this stuff.

Why? Unless being opaque harms their bottom line, I don't see the business case.
> If I asked any non-technical person under the age of 20 ...

Which is why technical specifications aren't written or maintained by non-technical people.
The supermarket is free to not sell to any particular person on the basis that they constantly engage in hate speech.

It gets murkier when they start banning classes of people or ban someone for something that puts them in a protected class, but any supermarket that banned Alex Jones for hate speech would be well within their rights.
That's not abusive behavior though. It's just a conspiracy theory.
What other mode would I be trying to access?
Other than a constitutional right, free speech is a principle in itself.
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It isn't unreasonable for a supermarket to forbid someone that is disturbing the peace from entering.
In the eyeball economy there seems to be no way I can personally reward Twitter for good behavior. I’d like to send them $100 for banning the creep.

If I feel Apple is doing well with social responsibility I can buy more Apple stuff. I certainly won’t click more ads on Twitter to reward them. So what incentive do they really have to foster good behavior?
If you go into a supermarket and start spewing hate-speech, yes they have every right to ban you.

If you make other customers uncomfortable, they have every right to expel you.

Alex Jones is spewing hate-speech on twitter, making other twitter users feel unwelcome, and so on.

I don't see how this analogy is favorable to him at all. If you're abusive in a space to the point of causing mental pain to others, yes, you should be removed from it.
> 75% is far above what I or any reasonable person would recommend to be the maximum portion of salary that should be spent on housing.

Two rules of thumb i've heard are: 1) Do not mortgage more than 4x your annual salary (household if double income) . 2) Do not pay more than 20x annual rent for a place (eg, $50k annualized rent == $1M house) .

Another way to rephrase an ignorance problem is a lack of education problem. On one hand we're all adults and ought to keep trying to learn whatever will benefit us best (ie "Financial education") , on the other hand those tasked with educating us have failed us (parents, school system) .
Then run your own hosting company and accept money via Bitcoin.

You can't just force third party companies to do whatever you want.