skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s unclear to me that highly trained professionals are any better at this than a/b tests. Usually it’s the professionals themselves telling us that they’re better.

I guess it depends on where any individual places the task on the skill/luck or simple/complex scale. If the task (in this case, a design) is very simple — how many users who want to complete their voter registration form are able to — then experts may have an advantage.

OTOH, if it’s a complex space like facebooks news feed, I don’t think experts are the way to go. They simply think that they are.

FWIW, I’ve run hundreds of multivariate tests in my career. Every place I go, the design team is upset by the process, for the same reasons argued here. Every time, I challenge them to come up with 1 winning variation and 3 losers. If the designer-identified “winner” performs best, i pay them $10. If any of the losers wins, I get $10.

I have yet to meet a designer that can, a priori, pick the winning variation better than random chance would suggest.

Expertise is not valuable in an unpredictable context. Complex user facing systems like the news feed are impossible to predict.

I’m channeling Kahneman and Mauboussin here, but their theory explains my experience very well.
> Christians by and large make up every pillar of Western society

... except Hollywood, academia, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, K Street, much of the publishing industry, and the mainstream media. Fixed that for you.

And Merry Christmas!
The paradox is that the more the government cracks down on Christianity, the more it will likely flourish.
My use of English isn't very good, I apologize.

Let me give a thought experiment.

Let's say: one religion believes that the person who leaves that religion should be killed

Should I be ok with the person with this religion? Should I do something about this?

I want to say there are good practices and bad practices. But our ideology is to accept all of them. That's not good.
reminds me of freezeframe.js, you can grab an a slice of a gif and draw a canvas image on top

https://github.com/ctrl-freaks/freezeframe.js

except this is just any regular div element
For myself at least, saving food for the next day is rather difficult. Mainly because nowadays I very seldom cook food for myself, a lot of my food consumption is through ready made meals that I can just put in the oven or microwave. The packaging almost always warns that this type of food cannot be reheated so I don't save it. I think a lot of people do this.

Even if I do cook for myself I am often unsure whether it is safe to reheat the food, and for how long.
Why so much ibuprofen?
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I learned to swim breaststroke and freestyle and realised swimming in open water and learned that nothing can be perfect the first time, discovered the value of repeating drills and hard worrk and learning from my mistakes.
My point is simple: If the US had not severed ties with Cuba and instead engaged with Fidel (as he initially tried to do with the US), chances are Cuba wouldn't have alienated itself with the Soviet Union, and Christians (and everybody else) would have been much better off.

Repression of the Church didn't happen until years after the revolution and the Soviet Union had become its main ally.

Cuba is worse off today than it was 60 years ago by the way, so in that sense, they aren't "stuck in the 60s".

What did the US lose? An ally and a potentially strong economy to trade with a few miles from US shore. Cuban music had quite some influence on the music of New Orleans, particularly jazz. Cuban musicians would regularly travel back and forth from Havana to New Orleans before the revolution (and the other way around).
That’s not true. In Montgomery County MD recently there was a case where parents got in trouble for letting their kids (like 5 and 7) walk to school less than a mile. (One reason we don’t live in Montgomery County.)
That’s exactly how it panned out in Korea, Vietnam etc.

China is an outlier because of several reasons but size is perhaps the biggest. Chinese market is so huge it can support China specific versions of everything; the State realized this and used it to effectively control all the new sources of information (mostly internet stuff). No one thought they could do that effectively but hats off to them they did.
Show HN: Preserve your YouTube annotations by converting them to subtitles
Ask HN: Do you like the Gmail web interface? Or do you just tolerate it?
I ask because when you're viewing an email the amount of screen space dedicated to the actual text of the email (which is in a tiny font btw) is minuscule compared to the amount of whitespace and other detritus in the browser window.

Do we like this? Or do we dislike it but tolerate it?

What is the alternative? I'm on MacOS and iOS and the interface between native email apps and Gmail is horrible (slow, no push email, etc).

Chromebook and just suck it up?
Maybe, but according to the article until they are 12 it's not legal.

In some countries, you need to drive you kid to school until they are 14.
Somehow it is easier to be ignorant and believe something happens to you you can't do anything about. There's no problem in that, everyone has a right to live his/her way as long as it doesn't disturb other peoples right to do so.

The problem are the troublemakers that set themselves at the head of those sects and mess things up for those who happen to choose a different mindset.
Merry Christmas to you too, fellow citizen.
Does China have a state religion? Seems like the government clamps down on all of the major religions, is it a secular culture?
Works just as well now as it did back when it was the only choice. I like the simplicity; it can be less distracting.
What’s the issue with multi-select in Blender 2.8?
Yikes, during the holidays, too....
Sure, if it's just about broadening your mind picking a language that's far away from yours is the best choice. But considering China's importance as a potential market it's probably not relevant for you as a tech person, but rather for your company's sales people and decision makers. And even then, China's English skills are probably only getting better over time.

My experience regarding English in Asia was similar to yours. Actually I feel like China is doing slightly better regarding English. The average college student there is able to have simple conversation. In Japan, most struggled to express the most basic things. Obviously, outside of these circles you're completely lost in both counties. Except this odd experience in one McDonald's in Beijing where they had one lady on staff that spoke perfect English. I don't know if China is putting more emphasis on teaching English, or it's because more Chinese students spend time abroad (not just in absolute numbers obviously).
My 3 year old never ran into the road, and as a six year old she would keep a tight leash on her little brother if he ever tried to do that. I’d for sure let them walk down a residential street by themselves.
I wonder how we got to this. I'm all for parents being protective over children that aren't theirs, but when did we develop the entitlement that we should police the parents of other children?

Obligatory "When I grew up...": When I grew up (I'm 32), there were still murderers, kidnappers, drug dealers, gangs, etc. My parents and the parents of all my friends let us roam free from the minute we finished our chores until dark. They often let us decide for ourselves how we wanted to get our lunch, dinner, snacks, etc. We could choose our own transportation, our own paths. I treasured that freedom.

What's crazy is that it's my same generation of parents that now seem to be doing the policing. I had "heard" of this happening around me, but I was still dumbfounded when it first happened to me. One Summer, my 6 year old was playing in the front yard. My wife was sitting inside on the couch in front of the window so she could keep an eye on her when suddenly the neighbor walks up to my daughter, grabs her hand and brings her to the front door. "Did you know your daughter was playing outside alone?" in a very accusatory tone. This isn't a call to CPS, but it still made us feel both angry and ashamed.

As a Utah resident, one thing I'm happy to see is the new "Free Range Parenting" law [1]. I still think it's crazy that it was needed, but I think in today's parenting culture it really, really is.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/utahs-free-range-parenting...
The busy body who was "following closely behind them" sounds like she could have been a kidnapper. The parent should have called the police on that person.
Christians persecute Muslins. Muslins persecute Christians. Buddhists persecute Muslins. Christians persecute Jews. Muslins persecute Hinduism.

It is not a Christian thing, it is a religion tradition all over the world to persecute other religions. Christians have done this for millennia and sometimes they are victims themselves. I think the solution is to stop with the craziness altogether.
In Poland during Communism people would ask each other in church: "oh, I didn't know you were Catholic?", "I'm not. I'm against Communism".
In that case you may enjoy Blender 2.8 more than when you previously tried it.
It's not implemented like that and couldn't be. They aren't arrays unless you consider them arrays of pointers but this isn't a useful definition in Python.

An array contains a number of elements of the same size. That means you can find the memory address of any element by simple arithmetic: array_loc + index * element_size.

Python lists can contain objects of any type and the objects can't be found using arithmetic like that.
I've used Syncthing and it's excellent. But for me, the lack of a mobile app was a dealbreaker. Even though it's not open source, I switched to Resilio Sync[1] (formerly known as btsync). It ticks all the other boxes, and just works amazingly well. I want to support them so I sprang for the $20 one time Pro license which adds selective sync and a few other nice features.

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You can see the social erosion when you compare to a more coherent society like say japan. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/09/why-are-littl...
China? These days it is largely not suffering the problem of starving people. There are new countries who joined this "club" though. Not to mention Venezuela and Yemen where everyone is on brink of death from starvation.
The almond experiment sounds ridiculous! Asking people to imagine eating ten chocololate-covered almonds then to guess how much they’d like to eat another after their hypothetical consumption? Does this produce results as reliable as actually eating the almonds in the first place?
This landed in my twitter feed last week: https://twitter.com/kibblesmith/status/1076219616735780870

There's "frustrating", and then "are you fucking kidding me" with regards to cutesy copywriting.
You also had William Wilberforce and Oliver Cromwell. Co-option can only go so far: they have state run churches, but those don't appeal to people. See also Dissenters in England during the industrial revolution.
Severing economic ties at whose expense? Christians in China? Poor people in the US? It’s easy to claim moral superiority if someone else has to foot the bill.

What is even more dangerous is to link religion freedom to the ongoing trade war. It makes good people who are fighting for a just cause look like pawns of the US.

You may have underestimated the value of engagement. The spread of Christianity in China could not happen without the economic ties with China in the past forty years.
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When you work in PR, a PR gaffe can get you fired, that comes with the territory.

If she wasn’t in PR and didn’t log in to Twitter she wouldn’t have any problems.

So my question is whether you can get serious problem from twitter if you’re not in PR?
These gripes of yours seem to be based on using old versions of Blender. Did you try Blender 2.8? It has an all-new UI.
I used to listen to people like Ron Paul, and he would say something like... The stronger our economic ties and dependencies, the less likely we are to commit aggression against each other. I believe he supports the non-intervention policy. [0]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_non-interventi...
And people say that Moore’s Law has broken down! Sure, processor speeds aren’t increasing as fast, but that’s more than made up for by the incredibly rapid increase in the number of Internet addresses per device.
Merry Christmas from Seattle.
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Pretty sure they're in all of those.

I'd say Merry Christmas back, but you said it in bad faith, and I really don't appreciate that. You really ought to be ashamed.
China has party-authorized Christian churches with exactly your goal in mind. This crackdown is on unauthorized churches.

For an example of how they frame it in propaganda: http://en.people.cn/n/2014/0807/c90882-8766262.html
Sure, in a calm environment. But when kids start having fun together - they lose control of the boundaries and can inadvertently run on the road without even noticing it.
I started in rust but switched over to C (just because I get to apply NIH and have fun writing out things I wouldn't have any reason to otherwise) – currently doing 15; will try to wrap up before the year ends.

This is my first time trying and I'm enjoying it a lot.
Just to clarify: by accepting it, I mean "not practicing it, but be okay with the fact that the person next to you is practicing it."
I biked all over my Midwest USA neighborhood, to and from school, and beyond from the time I was about 8, maybe even younger. This was in the 1970s. It would have been unthinkable for anyone to be overly worried about it, much less report it to the authorities, because that's what almost all the kids did.
The lack of awareness on display right now is astounding and borderline offensive, people just don't hold the "opinion" that Christians are persecuted around the world, they are pointing to actual current events of Christian persecution.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/egyptian-church-hit-by-bomb-bla...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/29-coptic-christians-mu...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/06/18/mosuls-christians-say-g...

http://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/10032018
One of the demos fails: https://codesandbox.io/s/23rk7j098j

"SecurityError
Permission denied to access property "dispatchEvent" on cross-origin object"
Cristians are always thinking about persecution, even when they are there persecuting literally everyone who disagrees with their beliefs. Just consider the evangelicals in the US for a good example of how "inclusive" they are.
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I don’t like keeping my users in the dark, no matter how “untechnical” they are; it makes me feel like I don’t respect them enough to understand, even at a high level, what’s going on. In your case, usually I’d say something like “We’re having issues with our database right now; please try refreshing or going to the home page. If this happens again, you can contact support at support@”. So they have a general idea of what went wrong, which they can mention when contacting support (if I get a bunch of these, maybe the database migration isn’t going well?) and they don’t feel like I’m treating them like a child. More technical users can try to stay away from operations that will touch the database, or optionally take a look at the logs that I hide behind a “details” button.
You have a grave misreading of the history of Christianity. It was used as a control device when it was centrally controlled and delivered (like all religions)...the invention of the printing press changed all of that with the Reformation. Once the knowledge was spread through the people and open to interpretations, the general direction of Christianity (despite all the faults of modern movements) has trended towards equality and freedom, which is much in line with the Gospels. Martin Luther and John Calvin had a profound impact, and once you saw those movements you began to see all the modern western values emerge, from economics to political freedom.
> A person's beliefs are up to them not their government

Even democracies have rules against false advertising. We've chosen to give religion a free pass here, though the evidence to back any of its claims is quite flimsy.

This subject is somewhat tough to debate. I had a wonderful Christmas day, though I'm not a believer.
This is exactly the way capitalism is supposed to work. Companies correctly prioritizing their long-term wellbeing over short term gains. Netflix is watching what's happening to Facebook, and deciding that that's not the path they want to take, even though it would likely be good for their profits in the near term.
Trying to remember the items in the list of enumerated mental models described is a feat in itself. This does not seem like a very practical approach for an MM 'n00b' ...
DNS prefetch explained
Increasingly, the opportunity to use an emoji is the only reason I bother to communicate online at all ‍️
The ripple actually looks good though
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Learnable, intuitive UI’s are not inherently polar opposite to fast interfaces. It’s not an either or. If you are thoughtful and careful, it’s possible to make something intuitive and speedy.

This was the design goal for Blender 2.8. Both of your comments seem to be based on using earlier versions of Blender.
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I am terrified of you and your monopoly on truth.
Sure...I’m assuming you mean equipment along with the software? I need to ask the videographer the specifics.
You're correct that it is whatever people need it to be.

But it is also its own thing, not so much ideologically, but that it is a social grouping and and alternate hierarchy of power separate from the state. Every ruler from Constantine on has had trouble with the Church to some degree, as the Church has always laid claim to various social and political powers that rulers would have wanted for themselves.

In this sense, maybe the Chinese Communists are right to be worried, after all many of the functions churches perform in the west are the exclusive domain of the Chinese State. Coopting it would require them to become Christian themselves, which is what happened in the Roman Empire, but only after Christians had become entrenched in the upper levels of society.
Somewhat ironically, when loading that page Twitter asked me to reload because an error occurred, but wouldn’t tell me what the error was or if there was anything I could do to prevent it…
These bans and suspensions shaft both the creators and the supporters since neither seem to be notified and yet they often charge supporters. It's shady. Corporations that handle peoples' money should be bulletproof.

I would very much prefer if companies just flat out came out and said they don't want someone on their platform instead of trying to twist both their rules and past events to create some kind of coherent narrative. I wouldn't be happier but if I had to choose between being lied to or not being lied to, I prefer honesty.
>>Christianity became one of the Top Two religions on earth, precisely because of how malleable it is

Christianity i one the top ten religions on earth--or the most popular, depending on how you look at it. :)

But you are right, its interpretation depends on the Pope. While they are Orthodox and Protestants (fragmented), the Vatican sucks the oxygen out of them when it comes to the media and reputation.

What China is doing is very logical: any religion is a threat to their ideology and if you're a leader in China you don't want that. Who needs the Bible when you have the Chinese version of the Manifesto? Or the Pope when you have Xi Jinping?
The Christian church has traditionally supported all kinds of regime upheavals that support their theocratic views. Especially the ones backed by the US and allies. Then in the same breath they claim to be unjustly persecuted when they are not allowed to freely spouse these views in another country.
please read the Bible before you make such foolish claims

>Christianity has a leader, which is Pope

Christianity has one leader, and savior (Jesus) who's birth the world is celebrating today. Everyone else is merely a messenger of Christ, although there is an increasing number of false messengers looking to profit off Christ[mas].
Thank you for commenting this!

I was playing Sandspiel and it was bringing back vaguely positive memories of a similar game but I couldn't remember what it was or when I played it, then I saw your comment, opened falling sand game and instantly remembered the game. I must have spent so much time playing this when I was younger, it's great to have a working version again.
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You have significantly misunderstood the context of the conversation.

No one has said that Christians aren't persecuted around the world. No one has even implied this was the case. Because people don't hold such opinions.

He is implying that people hold these opinions. I am asking for some kind of substantial material validating the frequency of such opinions.

It helps to respond to the actual conversation instead of contrived strawmans. You are very much proving my point.

+1 For self-awareness, it would have saved you writing out that post.
while there is some interpretive leeway, malleability isn’t a feature of christianity, it’s the effect of coercive power attracted to the centralized conduit of control that religion provides.

if christians actually followed christ’s teachings, we’d see a lot more generosity and a lot less wealth disparity and homelessness.
Coffeescript would like to have a word with you.
There were some people here in HN trying to solve this problem.
Have a look at this one https://github.com/marcelinollano/mental-models
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but some things are crudely objective.

Symmetry for one thing.

Visible signs of bad health are fairly universally negative.

A little stronger/fitter/taller than the norm (but not too much) as well.

Nice, bright, white, straight teeth.

And these things exist in tech as well, just not quite as much as in banking or consulting.
According the article it does not say it’s illegal, it says you have to make reasonable provisions for their supervision and safety if they’re unattended. That strongly implies that it is ok under certain circumstances to let children under 12 do things alone, else it would just say that it’s illegal to leave children under 12 unattended, period.

I think a lot of people would argue that watching the kids until they’re practically in the door of the bakery constitutes a reasonable provision of safety and supervision.
I've generally found that thread-local storage is easily misused. My general rule of thumb is to avoid thread-locals wherever possible, but if they are required keep thread-local state constant sized, not one per object. The memory usage can grow rapidly when your library is used with many objects and many threads. In places where you would want one thread-local per object, instead try core-locals.
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