skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any hiring process will result in some good employees being rejected and bad employees being accepted. If your candidate pool is very large compared to the open positions, as is the case for the Fashionable BigCos, it makes sense to "tighten the mesh" in order to avoid the false positives better.
Yes and no. Design (as I think you're using it) is not UI / UX.

Ultimately, both code and aesthetics easy when building product. The hardest part is getting people to the product, signed up, onboarded, using, __and__ coming back for more...is very very hard.
The security model seems to be quite different. For example, the proposed file access API for a PWA is sandboxed to a file or directory tree.

Also, the platform for a PWA gets upgraded more regularly, which can be good (security patches or bad (breakage).
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GNOME on Wayland is nice on my hidpi screens. Wayland even got mixed DPI working better that most of my co-workers windows or Mac machines.
Can anyone tell which low calorie sweeteners the study is talking about? Certain artificial sweeteners elicit a large insulin response even if they are "low-calorie". Did they use any of the sweeteners listed in https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-drinks/...?
Agreed. I think tech valuations for single-product start-ups underestimate the competition and risk if substitution. I mean valuations imply too much top line growth and margins on businesses that might see their revenues drop or fail to grow and have poor cash flow. For example: Twitter, Snap. I also know first hand that valuations for urban mobility and real estate tech companies are really wild.
It may be that it's of interest, as an early Perl 6 implementation was written in Haskell (Pugs)
> negative effects on its health

I had an indoor cat growing up, came from a family of barn cats.

He outlived three generations of relatives.

This doesn't seem out of line with the averages:

https://www.catster.com/lifestyle/how-long-do-cats-live-cat-...
Only a small fraction of IPO shares are allocated to retail investors. If anyone is selling a story it's to the institutional investors who buy most of the shares.
Oh yeah, as far as I remember, Google (and Facebook) said right away that they would not support DNT, before it became default in IE.

With most webpages shipping code from Google/Facebook, that was also already pretty bad for DNT.
I think the author's advice is more aligned with moving away from Google products in general. See step 10 of his list. Although he does contradict himself by admitting he will stick with Maps and Docs.

His article is basically an ad for Fastmail. Whether he intended that or not, it's the impression I get. Fastmail costs about the same as G-Suite, but with less features, so it will take some will power for people to adopt his 10 step program.
Yes, exactly what I meant. It seems a lot easier to get an experiment into orbit than onto the moon. If you connect two halves of the satellite with a long tether, you could reduce the coriolis effects, if that's really an issue.
Also range, especially in winter. I have to drive about 180 miles every couple of weeks, and have another trip for a vacation that is about 580 miles (and no, flying would be impractical), which I usually do in one shot or with a single overnight.

There are very few electric cars on the market that make the 180 mile trip without a long charging stop on the way in good weather, the Tesla and the Bolt are the only that I know of (though it has been a while since I've checked), and I'm not sure how I'd trust them for that rage in sub-zero temperatures.

And the longer trip would probably require at least two or three charges. While it requires stopping for gas in a gasoline car, that's a 5 minute stop, not the 30 minutes to an hour for even a fast-charge to 80% you get on an EV.
Right. This is like saying "Hello most elite gamers, here is an entry level tutorial to Duke Nukem Forever..."
I wonder if inside the black hole the singularity behaves more like past than it behaves like future.
This is the best way anyways. 50 experiments will lead to a better outcome.
Where did you find this out? My quick search for how to sign a progressive web app didn't find anything.
From what I read in Matt Levine's bloomberg column - not really. Bankers make money by being middle men, not predicting the market.
Agreed.

FAANGMAN is down 22.4% from ATH, and probably in much better shape than Lyft or Uber. I'm probably going to wait for a pop in both prices of these (if they manage to go IPO anytime soon) and then short.
FWIW, the civilization you’re referring to has been a continuous thing for roughly 3,500 years.
What’s the app do?
Global markets have been in a downward spiral since the beginning of this year, esp ex US (where most of the growth has been), and if you look at the divergence between the growth this year between US companies, fewer and fewer companies have been holding up the market.
it's a flawed, but workable solution to the problem of having to support too many platforms on a limited budget.

If that’s the case, then why aren’t we collectively here on Hacker News celebrating Microsoft’s decision to ditch Edge in favor of (some flavor of) Chrome?

Monoculture is unambiguously bad, so anything that contributes to the destruction of the Tower of Babel is good.

We should all boycot Electon in favor of native solutions specific to each platform. Budget be damned.
The new editor looks slick, but it's kind of confusing when you start using it. It works for simple sites that you can build with things like the ones you see on Squarespace, but to use Wordpress like a real CMS you still need metaboxes.
Perl 6 feels a bit "ad hoc" to me... It looks like it has very interesting features but it lacks the uniformity present in most languages...
I'd add Apple's Human Interface Guideline document and annual WWDC sessions on user interfaces. Even if you don't use a Mac or iOS device, or even if you hate Apple, taking the time to understand why they think their user interfaces are the best on the planet goes a long way to being able to understand why other companies also think their user interfaces are the best on the planet. The ideal result isn't a happy medium, though; it's whatever suits each platform best, something you only understand when you know what each platform's designers are going for.

Don't look into Microsoft's design documentation though; even they can't decide what their design principles are. The only time they did, and stuck with it to the end, was Windows Phone.
First of all you have to be incredibly wealthy to study at the AA as a foreign student in the first place.

I'm not sure where you get your info that she was a star student - by all accounts I know of she struggled at times at the AA, and often didn't get great grades. She was quite headstrong (which is kind of what they teach you) and got on with some people and not with others.

There's other great women in the world of Architecture too like Sejima or Carme Pigem (both themselves Pritzker prize winners) who get much less attention by non-architects. And run their practices in a much less exploitative way
Try copying a short message someone sends you in teams without a Like button popping up and blocking your cursor and then come back here and say that.
Sometimes the best solution is to turn to chance rather than reason
I wonder why they needed the laser pre-heater. I can't imagine it is that dramatically more effective than resistive heating. Even if it is, just having a longer pre-heater to make up for it would have to be cheaper.

EDIT: Did a bit of research, a major benefit of laser heating is direct control of energy transfer so you can be sure your heating the plastic to the right temperature regardless of how fast its moving through the heater. Still, aren't all these advantages eliminated by the traditional primary heater immediately after?
Fast and loud! Holy hell! I thought dot matrix printers were loud.
If there was anything that scared the US Navy in 1944-45, it was the kamikazes. The only way to stop them was an effective hit causing destruction. They weren't able to be frightened off.

We have kamikazes in today's world that should, but don't appear to, frighten the US Navy. An anti-ship missile is a kamikaze with a man's brain replaced by a few ounces of electronics.
Uber’s PR team probably rushed the news out right after Lyft’s IPO announcement to make sure that investors would spend as much time to consider its prospectus as they do Lyft’s.

The possible market crash in 2019/2020 predicted by quite a few prominent economists and approximately $1 billion a quarter burn rate [1] have for a while been major reasons for their upcoming IPO.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-14/uber-reve...
Slack actually uses the term “Direct Message”, so there’s no textual expectation of privacy.
Of course. But what I'm not used to is seeing something like this:

cin >> foo(x);
An IPO is not something you do just at one day out of the blue. It needs a lot of planning and paperwork. Uber has been planning this for for something like a year, since their new CEO came on board. They even started showing their finances and earnings since a while ago, which is not something a private company has to do.
Hangouts Chat is a different product than the one you linked.

https://www.blog.google/products/messages/latest-messages-al...

Disclaimer: I work at Google.
This is practically the same question as asking if you woke up tomorrow and an EMP had gone off, effectively putting us back to 1718, what would you do? The first thing would be to try to survive the 95% die off of population that would occur because the number of people would be completely unsustainable at that technology level.

The 2nd thing I'd do is kick myself for not doing everything I could to get the government to finally harden the electrical grid and other infrastructure before catastrophe struck.
https://hnify.com, for an offline 1 pager of all the top stories/comments over last 2 days, is mainly based off this Algolia api,an excellent tool.
The Ford family has 40% voting rights regardless of how many common shares are sold. No buyer would ever accept that - and the family would never give up their preferred shares.

Your scenario may happen with another car company, but not Ford. They would have to go bankrupt first.
It's not a random selection of stories, it's a list compiled by someone who used to work at Twitter, and presumably hit up friends and colleagues for stories.

In general, best not to draw inferences from data that wasn't randomly selected.
Agreed. I've always thought, however, that D would be the perfect language for a new Python implementation.
> Monoculture is unambiguously bad

No, it’s not. Like all things, it’s a trade off. In this case, the benefit is that monocultures are efficient by way of economies of scale.
In my lived, anecdotal experience:

I grew up eating “normal” foods and drinking non-diet soda.

I am an average-sized guy. I fell in love with a sweetheart of a woman that was around 300lbs. I married her. She’s now less than half that.

I eat what she eats. Diet, sugar-free everything. After a few years of tolerating it, I prefer it. Normal soda tastes like cough syrup, to me. Cake and donuts make me nauseated. I don’t crave sugar, at all.

Also, ketchup has a shit ton of sugar in it, for the record. (I know this, because we use sugar-free ketchup.)

Do with this anecdotal informaton what you will; but as someone who has fully transitioned to artificial sweeteners - I can’t say that my lived experience lines up with your claims.
It would be a serious enterprise play.. oh wait..
How is paid for by taxes "free"? Even if you don't use it, you're still paying for it.
Or just pay humans?
This will probably wind up going way to far and becoming overrestrictive, but at another level seems like natural reflexive response to oversexualization of the last couple of decades.

There is an interesting trend in society where gender roles and norms converge (so become more similar) alongside sex becoming more free and open.

When gender roles diverge, sex becomes more restricted and the differences between men and women are more enforced by society and communicated through culture.

Part of it is economic. In times that are very good (for the working class), usually there is enough for 1 partner (usually the woman) to stay home. When times are bad, both partners need to work, thus overlapping their spheres of living.

Peter Turchin is an academic who has written about this the last few years with data from the GFC of 2008. Interesting stuff.
That is almost steampunk, we need cyberpunk :-P
see above. it doesn't work if there are no comments
> Preventing side-effects from leaking between processes (and ring levels) entirely at the hardware level is definitely going to happen. Within a process, though? That's not going to happen without multiple major players demanding it. Since nearly all the major CPU consumers are currently happy with process boundaries being the security enforcement zones, there's no particular reason to believe that in-process sandboxing will ever have hardware fixes to prevent spectre attacks.

I do not think there is the degree of distinction between "processes" and "threads" that you think there is. If tools exist to isolate speculation state between processes, those tools can probably also isolate threads in a process.
Facebook is down for obvious reasons. Apple struggles with sales and innovation. Amazon just made no sense to be rising like that. Some of the others have done fairly well in the recent shake up, like Microsoft for instance.
This should be the top comment in this thread.
Nobody has email or chat search right, not google nor slack.
The only way to ensure your wordpress sites don't break is to reduce reliance on plugins. A decent host like DigitalOcean doesn't hurt either. Squarespace is ok for simple sites, but once clients start requesting additional features it becomes a nightmare.
Well, if you truly have that talent, you can probably be a highly successful consultant. Just start charging people for advice. You could start by offering advice for reviews to targeted high profile clients who need it, then seek referrals.

However, the first question to ask yourself is whether you really have that talent. If no one at all offers to pay, you likely don't. I don't mean you're bad at advice, rather instead that you're just not earth shatteringly good at it. Lots of people are good at advice without being able to build a career specifically around that.

Oh also, to be a highly effective consultant other skills would be required too of course. Empathy, business thinking, etc.

Jobs was only able to build a career around it by building companies around him. That's one way, but not easy, and also he had other talents and compulsions and vices that made his path what it was.
Yeah, even if the value and markets drop by 50%, it's still crazy. But long term Uber has potential due to their network and diversity now with other offerings.
Well then I guess it's objectively not a good Electron app, in that case.
>He's trying to bootstrap a programming environment from the basic tools provided with a default MS-DOS install

Wasn’t some version of BASIC provided with every version of MSDOS?
If you can't prove a communication channel is private by encryption you put in place yourself, you should consider it compromised. Expecting any amount of privacy from Slack is laughable.
To be fair, they have been talking of a 2019 IPO since more then a year ago.
> I do not have the time or the money to personally develop a secure web browser for the rest of the world, nor does any other individual. Your demand is unreasonable.

Apparently some people do, that's why we have Firefox derivatives like the Tor browser and GNUZilla, among others. Also, I made a recommendation not a demand. I continue to recommend that you consider what software freedom grants you in light of what you say you want other programmers to do for you.
The number of liquid millionaires in the Bay Area will be astounding come next year...
Imagine a cone with a fixed diameter for the base. That represents the black hole’s external event horizon. Now stretch the point of the cone away from the base... forever, as the singularity warps space time more and more. The volume of the cone (inside the event horizon) will grow as the point moves further away from the base.
Thanks hacker news for using up all my limited article passes on the first day of the month.

Has anybody else found the web button largely useless these days?
In terms of product organisations, the top ones on the list is Mozilla, AWS, Cloudflare then Apple ... wouldn’t have guessed that (part from maybe apple)
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We are talking about a startup that sold to Facebook for $19 billion dollars whose founder was rejected by Facebook when he interviewed for a job there before he started what's app. I know this is make believe world but had Facebook hired him and had he worked on messaging I bet he would have beget a similar product (in make believe land). The problem most of us Americans didn't understand was that SMS cost money (in the rest of the world) and not in the USA. Most American text plans were free and unlimited in the beginning... that was until the US mobile networks caught on to the Europeans and realized they could charge per text. So that what made what's app. And FB could have saved themselves $19B.. still.. if you are right then he probably would have left FB and started What's app on his own.
Something similar might happen here with Uber... we will see.
Your mobile phone OS?
Yeah, I simplified there. I remembered it being a really insignificant amount that they're limited to, and then more importantly, it's still a non-profit. If they take the money, they're just as well forced to reinvest it into their mission statement.
As a counter-example, I registered interest in the Jaguar i-Pace and someone from my local dealer immediately called me about it. They let me know when they'd have demo models to drive, and followed up with me several times. I ended up ordering a Tesla, but the Jag dealer was definitely out to sell some EVs!
> That said I have seen a few games(indie scale projects) do something like run an instance of Pure Data rather than code up their own custom audio system.

Spore used Pure Data to do algorithmic music. IIRC somebody there went through Fux's Gradus Ad Parnassum and reduced it to a set of branches to automatically generate common practice harmonic treatment of pseudo-randomly generated melodies. :)

> but the same browser can't play Amiga tracker music without stuttering and popping.

You're on a much tighter schedule for the Amiga audio emulator, and the failures are more glaring.

A video stream that moshes for awhile is kind of beautiful as long as the audio remains pristine IMO. On the other hand, pristine video with stuttering audio starts a countdown for canceling the streaming service.

But even given that, yes-- the webaudio interface has been quite lacking.
There is probably a lot of that going on everywhere.

There are some studies done to demonstrate that such possible bias exists even in America -- eg, "Xenophobia in American Courts" KA Moore.

I noticed some oddities during the epic Samsung vs Apple trials years back. There were some lopsided procedural rulings against Samsung, a foreign business entity, that crippled their defense; when Samsung prevailed in ITC, Obama reversed Samsung's ITC win against Apple that would have banned import of iPhones (or would have forced Apple to settle with Samsung) on some nebulous "public interest" ground; and, finally, absurd infringements and equally silly huge monetary damage unseen elsewhere by American court jury and judge.

But who cares. Trump, like its predecessor Obama, ought to be able to do whatever necessary to protect successful domestic businesses against foreign competitors. I think we just need to stop thinking it's all about fairness.

China likewise should be able to do whatever it sees necessary to protect and promote their domestic economy.
Dismissiveness and indignation routinely get upvoted. It's so reliable a pattern that I think it's hard-wired in people. Part of the task of moderating HN is to find ways to moderate that.
I think the main point of the article is to shift type systems from being necessarily a part of the language itself to something that can exist outside the language and used to analyze it. For instance I once wrote a program which would infer types on a subset of Python and identify simple type errors without running it. That said there are languages which are more amendable to type checking. For example type checking a Ruby program which dynamically adds methods to a class.
A country willing to destroy it's hard currency would have absolutely no problem seizing the bank accounts of it's citizens. So these types of events are not really arguments for or against cash, it's all dumb luck if you get to keep one or the other.

In stable countries with a functional rule of law however, bank credit is seriously inferior to cash for all purposes except convenience and security.
Check out OctoberCMS

https://octobercms.com/

Very nice simple but powerful system.

Open source as well.
Travelling to Mars (2005)
I enjoyed Becoming Steve Jobs. Covered the period of Jobs' return to Apple and also his growth of Pixar. His more mature phase, where he was able to nurturr organizations and had less of the unhinged asshole side about him.

https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Steve-Jobs-Evolution-Visiona...

Haven't read it, but I've heard there is a section of Creativity Inc where Ed Catmull talks about working with Steve and how they operated.

Finally, there's a site that occasionally surfaces here which had stories from the original Mac team. Folklore.org I think? That was a more raw period with more of a mix of immaturity in there.

But all of those have a variety of firsthand accounts.
Microsoft is by far, the cleanest dirty shirt of those. Netflix, Google (Alphabet), AMD, Nvidia… yeah, no.
Well, you put yourself out there and explained your situation pretty well. You must have (in person) social skills, maybe they are just a little rusty?

I would try to be friendly outside work as it could be less intimidating. I think you will find that a lot of people have the same interests as you do.

To be blunt, you are actively refusing to socialize, just start talking to people. Tell people about your life and hobbies. Find out who plays the games you do and what they think about them.

A conversation starts so simply, "Play any good video games lately?", the worst you can get is 'no' and that is still a opportunity to tell the person what you've been into. Maybe they will keep the conversation going, maybe not. But it's still a conversation.
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It's arguably necessary complexity for Amazon. I would argue that the necessity of the complexity arises from the way that Amazon treats its teams as individual standalone business units, which prompts teams to treat their part of the website as a standalone application which communicates with other parts of the website as if the were third parties. This has advantages and disadvantages, which have been outlined elsewhere.

However, even assuming that this is necessary complexity for Amazon, it does not mean that this is necessary complexity for your organization. In fact, I would argue that this is very likely unnecessary complexity for the vast majority of organizations. I concur with others in this thread who say that this framework is the result of an assumption that splitting everything into tiny components communicating via API is a good idea for user interfaces. The main problem I have with this approach is that it encourages divergence in user experience for different parts of the web site or web application. This is definitely a problem that Amazon has, and it's a factor that should be kept in mind before moving to a UI pattern that's modeled off microservices.