skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It just force-updated for me. I had clicked the "wait two weeks" (or however many weeks) prompts, delaying the inevitable, but had thought I would at least still be able to click the "revert" button as soon as the change occurred. There was no button this time.

So I clicked through to the "simple HTML" version as soon as the link presented itself at the bottom of the fancy new splash screen and have been a little less unhappy ever since.

Now I just need to quit talking about it and finally finish my move out of Google's house. Everything else is out except for the email. The damn email.
Browsable History of Philosophy
*Diesel
Games are risky. Only very few people are competent enough to create an entertaining game that is viable from a technical, creative and financial perspective in a sustainable manner.

Hundreds of quality games are released every day. You could be releasing your game, and simultaneously, a similar and superior game is released and claims all of the user base.

A studio can produce a hit game, have a large hiring push, then fail to follow up with another hit and go under.
> Equifax would presumably look at your social media habits or phone usage and

... and exercise and driving telemetry data and family medical and criminal history and...

At a certain threshold the distinction with the Chinese system becomes irrelevant given the impact on an individual.
Primary care is a pretty low overall component of healthcare spend, but a direct primary care model could have an indirect effect that is much more substantial -- reducing hospital costs

Hospital care is the biggest component of US healthcare spend at 30% and costs per hospital bed are dramatically higher in the US than other OECD countries

Much of this is due to local hospital monopolies, which are extending to include primary care. When a big hospital buys a primary care clinic the cost of care at the primary care clinic immediately increases, sometimes dramatically, bc the primary care clinic now bills using the hospital systems insurance contracts. Huge hospital systems can basically dictate price to payers in many geographies. These payers then squeeze independent docs even harder to try and make up for getting pushed around by large hospitals. Hospital employment of primary care docs is at an all time high, despite many physicians (even hospital employed ones) thinking that this trend hurts patients and costs more

Plus, the primary care clinics now direct all patients to the big expensive hospitals, and the hospitals can even dictate patient flow within the system ("steerage") beyond just passively capturing the primary care practices patient volume
Ask HN: What are some Vue components you always use?
I hat websites like this: after reading for 3 minutes I learned that Solid is revolutionary, game changing and whatnot, but I have aboslutely no idea what it is. Very frustrating experience.
Does that mean Spice, or does that entail breeding higher potency strains with new smells and various levels of CBD or whatever?

As a non-pot user, Spice seems to lack the 'fun' of marijuana- the herbology, aesthetics, and equipment.

Very few people enjoy beer or whisky and decide they will start drinking isopropanol or Everclear to satisfy their interest. They dive deeper, going for IPAs and single malts and tend to be pretty single-minded about their preference.

It's a strange argument, and goes back to the question of how Spice/legalization correlate.

People mostly do research chemicals as a stand-in for their drug of interest. I sincerely doubt legalization would cause "considerably more" than prohibition, and I'd like to see any evidence that it does.

This is the 'gateway drug' canard repackaged.
Here’s Why You Should Prefer iPhone XR Over iPhone XS
The major part of it is about controlling what happens on the bands. Which to a degree is a useful function, because the FCC is useful as a sort of arbiter between various users of those bands. Commercial, public sector, amateur, etc.

However, the recent explosion in popularity of "transmit on whatever band you please, right out of the box" radios has created a lot of opportunities for idiots to cause limited havoc on one end, and for the FCC to apparently extrapolate that to "omg unlimited havoc" on the other.

We'll see how it goes, but there is clearly a lot of B&W (i.e. uneducated or just non-analytical) thinking on the matter currently.
Frankly, I'd be pulled out of the experience because of just how meta it is. It would be like holding up a mirror at you, causing you to evaluate why they choose to advertise to you _like that_, and which products it targets you with.
Stripe – Gradual Typing of Ruby at Scale
Never seen Shiny, I will give it a look. thank you
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/09/carmack-oculus-quests... has a quote from CTO John Carmack,

"Expecting Rift-level performance from a self-contained mobile headset like the quest isn't realistic, Carmack said, partly for simple electrical reasons. While a high-end gaming PC often draws up to 500 watts of power, Carmack said the Quest only uses about 5W, a tidbit that should be of benefit to the Quest's still unconfirmed battery-life statistics."
you are welcome :D
My biggest problem with the new UI is the font. Roboto, or whatever font they are using, is terrible to read a lot of small text. I wish the font could be set to Helvetica or disable web fonts for Gmail.
I'm surprised and disappointed by this stance. Other people in this thread have mentioned that such a clause isn't even legally enforceable, so I'm curious if you have any perspective on that.

Ultimately, though I appreciate you sharing your perspective, I personally will be steering clear of caddy and your other work.
No IMAP support for free plan any more. [1]

[1] https://help.zoho.com/portal/community/topic/zoho-free-tier-...
Hunza tour
I just switched to Outlook.com and basic HTML mode for when I HAVE to use my old email.
Gmail's user base = billions of people.

A few hundred upset users can be misleading.
Such a system, once in place, is really easy to change to filter for any kind of criteria. One must prevent the infrastructure for large scale surveillance. It's not okay just because you agree with its planned mode of use.
LOL, no. I want to be able to have internet access anytime anywhere without identity checks, verification, or even anyone knowing exactly who I am. What is legal speech today is heretical "call the death squad" speech tomorrow.
SMTP-time rejection, with a mechanism for specifying workaround ... doesn't exist, but if it did could address this failure mode of challenge-response.
It's refreshing to see people refer to reddit in the past tense, maybe its finally dying.
Everyone hates UI changes. Wait 6 months and it will be the new normal.
You need to plan. Merely having sprints will not make your days shorter!

Think what's your 1 day, 3day, 5 day, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, and 5 year goals for yourself, team, product and company. What unknowns may influence decisions or are strategies? What assumptions need to be confirmed? How often are we checking ourselves on our progress?
When do we get to change our mind?Do these things and how much should you with in a day becomes very clear.
I use,

No ssr
V lazy image
For me it's not about look but speed: Gmail simply can't put text in the compose box as fast as I can type it.

Gmail is the slowest web app I use.

From what I've read Google, for whatever reason, don't care about Gmail perf and use slow deprecated APIs in Firefox and Edge even when faster ones are available. The DOM looks like garbage with massive amounts of unnecessary elements.

It's basically the opposite pf everything every Chrome Developer Advocate says about web performance.
Best thing in my opinion is to have something external that limits your schedule.

For me and few it of my coworkers it definitely were our children. I know I want to be at home by 18:00, so that I can have dinner with my family. One colleague was starting at 7:00 and and finished by 15:00, because he was pisking up his kid from preschool at 15:30 most days :)

I am not suggesting for you to get a kid :P but knowing that every day I want to end by $HOUR because I have a $THING does wonders :-)
It's so sloooooooooow
I have been using Yandex Mail [1]. It's free for unlimited users and 10GB/user storage. Yandex is a Russian company. Unless you have a problem with that, I think it's a pretty good solution.

[1] https://domain.yandex.com/domains_add/
This is like a college student, coffee version of time-share vacation promotion things.
I don’t mind it. What are the biggest issues?
"it is an iterator (like a range or list also are)"

No, range is not an iterator. Try this in either python 2 or 3:

a = range(10)
a.next()

It will fail. Now try this:

a = range(10)
my_iterator = a.__iter__()
my_iterator.next()

"Iterators are anything that has a __next__() method"

Right, and range(10) does not have a __next__() method, so it's not an iterator. It's an iterable, which is anything which has a __iter__() method that returns an iterable.

In python 3, range(10) returns a range object (not a list). Because it's an iterable and not an iterator, it doesn't get 'used up'. For example, try this (in Python 3 only):

a = range(1000000000) # returns instantly, as it's not building a list
a[3] # returns 3
a[3] # returns 3 again
Racism and stereotypes in colonial India’s 'Instagram’
I work far away from that sort of thing now.
The textbook of the draft can be accessed at:

https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-6-011-the-art-of-insight-i...
He is still getting something out of that transaction. That's like saying buying food at a restaurant is a donation.
ublock/umatrix can disable web fonts for a domain.
That’s what the article says:

> Everything here is an internal implementation detail.
Or, representative.
I looked for a link to the study mentioned in the article. There was a link to the company which conducted the study, but it was just the root URL. Couldn't find much at quick glance on that company's site regarding the study, either.

I'm interested in reading about their methods and the sample group, but couldn't find a thing about it beyond the praises sung from this article.

Did I miss it? I'm trying really hard to avoid exerting the relatively low amount of energy likely required to find it in the stacks. It's [too] early Sunday morning.
#FBI #IC3 Warns of Cyber Attacks Exploiting Remote Desktop Protocol (#RDP)
Whats the evidence for this being a pump and dump or boiler room operation? They are legitimate companies in China and Asia that have a huge userbase. I would doubt other companies but a simple search on Youtube for TikTok shows that an average video has millions of views. They could be just IPOing like other tech companies and raising capital through an IPO.
You're talking about an attack against the agent this is designed to download, or you don't understand what a UEFI attack is. This is an attack against the UEFI part, not the agent. This isn't firmware, but it is pre-bootloader. UEFI is the bootloader that loads your bootloader and is stored not on your hard drive.

If software at this level is malicious, it has equal privileges as your BIOS before any kernel gets loaded. It doesn't matter what the operating system is, it just has to be designed for it. It can return TPM approved checksums to your kernel and continue a secure boot as long as it knew what those checksums were before it modified them. Oh you use an external drive for your unencrypted boot partition? That can be modified as it is read off disk, before you're ever prompted for a disk passphrase, and it will report the correct checksum before it gets loaded.

This is a vicious level of access for malicious software, and it is OS agnostic as far as the attack goes. THIS instance is Windows only because that is what it was targeted at.
Great piece, but I was struck with a thought about the researcher’s name.

Maurice Temerlin - that last name is so close to “Tamerlane”, the mongol ruler that I wonder if there’s any correlation at all or would it just be a coincidence that the names seem similar?
I have had zero problems with Tiny Tiny RSS staying updated via Git. Love seeing people using RSS no matter what you prefer. The demo install did not seem as seem as smooth at Tiny Tiny RSS.
September 11th White House Attack – 1994
It's de rigeur for bad businesses. Especially considering many gsuite users are paying customers.
> I'd be interested in an overview article about Mirror's features to compare. This article only talks about values. Does it include/support function info? Inheritance? Can it be used to generate code like Reflection.Emit?

The compiler emits some metadata for each class, enum and struct with field types and other information, such as the superclass, protocol conformances, and virtual methods.

The standard library's Mirror type is a thin wrapper around some runtime functions that just lets you introspect the fields of a value. It's pretty limited in what it can do, but there is more metadata there for future use.
A Challenging Response to Challenge-Response
MAY 19, 2003 BY ED FELTEN

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2003/05/19/challenging-respons...
Seriously, every time big company does large UX change, there is a post like this asking how to revert.

Sources:

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=1020032...

Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/redesign/comments/8w03ms/is_it_poss...
What I’d love to see is an email-like system where each message is accompanied by a small sum of money (1¢ or so). If the message is not useful to the recipient, they are free to take the 1¢, otherwise, if the message is useful, they wouldn’t (and it will return to the sender either when the email is replied to, or, say, in a week). This would very quickly kill all spam-type business models, and would be unlikely to cost anything for legitimate users.
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Yup, the 5s+ delay difference with the new version was the exact kick in the butt I needed to finish my migration to fastmail.
It has already committed $65 billion to acquire big stakes in Uber, WeWork, Slack, and GM Cruise.

Uber and WeWork[1] are money drains buying market share. GM Cruise is a "fake it til you make it" operation. Is Softbank the biggest dumb money operation of all time?

(WeWork is strange. Most real estate businesses buy property and rent it out. WeWork rents property long term and rents it out short term.)

[1] https://news.crunchbase.com/news/wework-details-run-rate-rev...
Yes indeed. Marketing buzzwords before any kind of substance.
> The Chinese social credit system looks at your social media and phone usage and says, "Sorry, we're denying you a loan because you were critical of the government."

That's a common misconception of how Chinese social credit works. China doesn't really care if you're criticizing the government as long as if they don't think of you as a threat. If they do, they'll simply imprison you. If the government is only a little suspicious, they wouldn't want to send you on guard by lowering your credit score.
I got in a bad car accident. Neck back hurt. I can't remember what it felt like before. Not sure I'm better off now.
It will be the normal, but this has been a disaster. The fact that I get a loading indicator in an email is ridiculously annoying.
Maybe recognize that what you care about isn’t what others care about.
I switched to using the macOS mail app for the first time in years, and was kind of blown away by how fast it was. Native apps still have their place.
A few colleagues use a Visual Studio extension, although that seems to be mostly handy for time-tracking and limited interaction with issues. It's also stuck in a UI that goes back to 2008, so perhaps rather fitting ;)
From my own experience, burnout is primarily emotional. Time spent is a side-effect.

It's not how many hours you work, it's how much of your experience involves despair, frustration, and resentment. That might either be towards your employer ("stupid schedules, I'm not valued"), towards yourself ("this should be easy but I'm failing"), or towards the universe for simply not being the way it "should" be.
You don't like up to seven toolbars on a single page?
Load speed. It adds ~5sec per action in the interface.
Please Google, let us keep Inbox
Crazy Ball Turns: Will It End?
I remember blizzard using this ~7 years ago for at least some of their downloads. Not sure if it still does.
I prefer email clients to web-mail. I have multiple email addresses so I use email clients to manage my accounts; contacts, calendar, meeting schedule lookups, view multiple mail accounts, reply from multiple mail accounts, less passwords to remember etc.

Even though I'm using something else, Eudora still rocks by the way. http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-eudora-email-client...
Same thing happened with Google maps a couple of years ago. They changed the UI to one a lot less functional, gave users an option to use the old UI for a while, then took it away. Now we're stuck with gmaps that are much worse than they used to be.

Product managers at Google (and everywhere else) don't get promoted for leaving good products alone.
Yes, I have to agree that the analysts (Gartner in particular) are confused about this entire segment. The term "citizen developer" is a terrible one. "Citizen" is the wrong term as you realized and "developer" is also a poor term if you're really talking about enabling non-developers to build apps.

I'm CEO at AppSheet, a true no-code app platform. We have had this debate a lot within our company. We do have a very diverse set of app creators --- from all over the world and from all sorts of different backgrounds. That said, I understand why Gartner and Forrester focus on enterprise use cases. That's where the money is for most platforms. Our company tries to balance the broader missions (enabling anyone to create apps) with the practical realities of generating revenue and growing as a startup. It is not an easy balance to maintain.
They used it for WoW patches.
It's sometimes used in game downloaders/updaters. But some people could be potentially mad that their upload data is being used when they don't want it used. Or depending on implementation, that uploading is going on in the background when they expect nothing to be happening. There might also be problems with firewalls or NAT.
The mail part might be fine, but they completely broke the editing functionality of the task list. No more merging/splitting items.
I may be over generalizing but this is so true. The same People will yearn for the existing UI when you Google updates it six months down the line.
“Everything is round”

The only way to settle this one, is to wait for one of the following groups of people to go extinct:

- those who like round things
- those who like rectangles
There is already a fix for it. P2P over the I2P network.

https://geti2p.net/
One response I have is that it was vaguely perfect approx 6 years ago. And it's just clinkier feeling in terms of responsiveness and visual apace efficiently . . And probably a better point is to say: I might be wrong at the analysis level/efficiency numbers. . But if my brain is stressed out from the change enough that I'm laying here on a Saturday ranting and getting worked up on this apparently along with others here, prioritising this over normal leisure & conversing /entertaining out of town guests... There may be some unnamed metric here that isn't measured and represents a negative impact on users?
It had 49 seeders when I downloaded it just now.
Why not use a desktop/mobile mail client of your choice to access gmail over open protocols? Then they can clown up the web UI all they want and it won't matter to you.
What makes you say Cruise is faking? The disengagement data would suggest they're the most viable self-driving car venture behind Waymo.
Relevance? Completely different country.
This only means many users are upset.

But even if they were 100,000, that would be a small fraction of the user base and you could still say the user base is either indifferent or satisfied with the change.
I don’t understand why gmail ties their functionality to skins so much in gmail. This is the third time they’ve forced a UI change for no functional reason, just that they wanted easier maintenance.

I really got bugged in 2011 when they got rid of their terminal theme [0].

I don’t think this is a UI issue, I think it’s just poor design where a skin would somehow not perform well. It seems pretty easy to maintain different simple skins or to provide an API.

[0] https://productforums.google.com/forum/?noredirect=true#!top...
Don't get me started about the compose box (really any text box with their "rich text" implementation). It is terrible.

Like you said, the input alone has crazy latency. But the logic built into their formatting sends me through the roof most of the time.

Don't want bold text? Too bad, you're getting bold text because you enabled bold text one time about 10 minutes ago. Even though you disabled bold text, like, a second after you enabled it, you just now hit the enter key so you get bold text! And don't you even think about returning to non-formatted typing after you just pasted-in some text which may or may not have had formatting applied even though you did the very special kind of paste where plain, non-formatted text is supposed to be rendered!

Clearly, it has affected me.
Old reddit is still available and still better.
Another trick is that when you're near the end of the day, deliberately stop partway through a problem and write down something about the next steps for yourself to read when you get back in.

This can help short-circuit some obsessive "just one more X" behaviors in night-owls, and makes it easier to get back into the groove the next day.
The best twin studies look at pairs of identical twins who were separated at birth and raised in different households. If they still end up more similar to each other than to their adopted siblings on some trait, we conclude that trait has a significant genetic component, and more sophisticated analysis can measure how significant it is. Note that the technique I described is not strictly able to determine whether the effect is from genetics or some other pre-birth shared environment, like maternal alcohol consumption. For many practical purposes, that distinction doesn't really matter.
Sometimes yes and sometimes no.
Recent preferences are for clean dry bare hands for old books: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_890...
Why can't it continue loading in the background after it shows the first screen?
"Son tells Bloomberg Businessweek that he plans to raise a new $100 billion fund every two or three years and will spend around $50 billion a year. For perspective, in 2016, the entire U.S. venture capital industry invested $75.3 billion, according to the National Venture Capital Association."

This is an absurd statistic. If that's actually true, startups have a long and potentially exhilarating road ahead of them.

I wonder what this would do to the startup landscape in the long term though. Will this make startups look more like big incumbents more than a sprawling landscape?
You can use an app to reduce the brightness further. I've been using Twilight on Android, and it does indeed get much dimmer. You will certainly lose some image quality/performance, but it's very nice for viewing in a dark room.
Scrolling the list of emails is very choppy on Safari, and works on Chrome and Firefox. How annoying. We're entering a new browser monoculture where something only has to work on Chrome :/

I think it's a good time to test out a few self-hosted email clients, perhaps storing emails on a mail server that retrieves incoming mail from gmail, and sends out via gmail as well to avoid the authentication/blacklisting/spam filtering hassles.

RainLoop looks pretty good for a web client. Any suggestions on clients or mail servers (only to fetch mail from gmail or outlook)?
>But even if they were 100,000

That would still be representative. A sample. I don't understand your argument.
I hope no one here finds this a shocking revelation.