skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, let's challenge ourselves: what is the best designed (digital) interface with the deepest usability? Or some outstanding interfaces that square that circle?

I'm familiar with 3d software suites, and they're (mostly) all highly-configurable, permitting custom layouts, panels, toolbars, and even enabling intermediate users to create UI tools.

To your point, they're also ferociously complicated for novices.

Bloomberg is a funny example. It's a well-indexed reference, rather than an expressive tool, so mastering its shortcut-dense interface is an affordable cost to professionals of modest technical sophistication.

I wonder if TurboTax is in the running; for all its blandness, in 2019 it's exceedingly transparent and clear guide to doing an extremely complicated task. I hasten to acknowledge that's hardly going to be a universal belief.

Maybe Gmail? But again the functionality is fairly shallow...
Publishers on Apple's terms in new subscription service: 'a shitty deal'
my guess is that many people/orgs they don't use LDAP directly: it's used as the backend to manage permissions, groups, metadata, etc. They prob use their own system that relies on LDAP to manage the details of their org.
Its built on top of electron, so when you download slack you're actually downloading a complete copy of Google Chrome. Chrome, at the time of writing is 15 million non-comment lines. When you download slack, 99% of the code is 'below the water'.

And chrome is a hog. Its huge and complicated. It uses ram and CPU like nobody's business, and it totally thrashes your battery life.

I remember when Chrome was the shiny, nimbler, new kid on the block.
Another modern web design pattern that I hate is when a website uses an excessive amount of AJAX requests. The practical effect of this behavior is that you see the UI update many, many times before the data you're looking for is actually shown. While the data is being loaded, you just see placeholders and you don't feel like you should do anything until the entire page finishes loading.

For instance, when I log into the Chase website, there's 8 UI updates (i.e. 8 sets of loading bars/HTTP requests; see below) that have to load before I can see the recent transactions on my account. Each chunk of requests must finish before the following chunk can start. All in all, it takes ~7.1 seconds for the page/recent transactions to load.

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The 8 UI updates the Chase website goes through before it finishes loading/you can see your recent transactions:

1. Initial blue loading screen with a spinning loading icon

2. Tan colored background color replaces screen #1

3. Header loads

4. The blank outlines of the main UI components loads (without any data in them/with placeholder loading bars)

5. All of my Chase account metadata (account type, current balance, and last four digits of the account number) loads

6. More in-depth data of the first account on the list loads (available credit, payment due date, minimum payment due, etc.)

7. Recent transactions panel starts to load (with no data/with only a placeholder loading bar)

8. Recent transactions are shown

At this point, the page is finished loading.
You said: "If certain groups shy away from STEM careers, why not try to do something about it?"

You didn't say "If certain groups are blocked by obstacles...", you said "If certain groups shy away from".

We should respect all peoples' rights to choose their own destinies. As someone who enjoys sitting behind a computer monitor more than half my waking life, I'm solidly in the minority.

No amount of derogatory school treatment, opportunity gaps, lack of prestigious work, or any of the other alleged obstacles in your link, would change my mind that I enjoy sitting behind a monitor listening to music through my headphones all day every day!
Reddit Transparency Report 2018
Mine did a circle game on me but when I tried to download it I got another image.
Male interest in the field exploded when people realized that you could build things with computers and not just crunch numbers while female interest progressed in the same rate as before. After that the gender ratio in computer science aligns very well with what they have in other engineering fields, data which that article very conveniently left out.
Was there any usability testing done on this throughout the entire design process? I don’t see the word “test” in the article mentioned once.

Seems like the process is what failed here. Maybe there was zero feedback loop between the creator and the consumer?
Intrinsic Rowhammer PUFs:Leveraging the Rowhammer Effectfor Improved Security
Not OP, but I share their sentiment that sometimes I also "prefer having the option of a dedicated app". Reasons for me: isolation, access to system tray and other desktop APIs, existence as a separate window which allows for windowmanager-level activation/minimization (I use my own https://github.com/ronjouch/marathon for that), versioning / releases / archival through regular OS packages (e.g. with AUR in Arch Linux land).

Also, people love stuff that will look like an "app" in their macOS dock. I maintain https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier , which will make regular websites into "native desktop applications" based, obviously, on Electron. Yup, we've come full circle :D

I'd offer a counterpoint to folks asking that question: if you love webpages so much, why don't you do write all your code in Cloud9 in your browser? See, sometimes, a separate window brings a different feel and lots of nuances that matter :) . Maybe you don't feel those nuances, so you prioritize other axes (like resource usage), but some people do.
Spotify didn't/doesn't use Electron, it uses something very similar called Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)
Umh, this article is dubious.

1. If your WAF can be fooled by adding a X-Forwarded-For header, trouble ahead.

2. If your security strategy is about mitigating attacks where the payload matches some regular expressions, trouble ahead. Machine learning? Double trouble ahead.

3. If you don't write only completely static queries[1] to then use as prepared statements or use a proper ORM[2] when using a SQL database, trouble ahead.

[1] https://www.akadia.com/services/dyn_modify_where_clause.html

[2] Like linq, jOOQ...
Buy a J5005 NUC and be done with it. There's your computer.
Apple is targeting April to launch its new video service
I think even more helpful would be framing how this actually translates into the real world - what does this sort of thing enable in the real world.

I loved the show Numbers because it was a show about how math helped detectives solve crimes. Way more interesting than just doing algebra about speeding trains.

I think sometimes there is an idea that everyone has the same problem and your problem is universal.

For example I heard about a hackathon for black and latino kids. And the ideas that came out of it were really different. One app was a social networking platform for private school kids to connect with other black private school kids to talk about their experiences and vent. Another idea was a payment app to send money to Mexico without having to go to Western Union or whatever.

There is a startup in Oakland that has an app to help people who are caught up in the criminal justice system to keep track of court appearances and hearings and stuff so they don't need to go to jail for bogus stuff like missing a court appearance.

Technology has the opportunity to enable and transform - if we make sure everyone has access.
Just like 'everyone' that hates PHP. Trying to look like they're ahead of the average by thinking the good old stable tools are obsolete.
How to make your ex want you back After breakup Even when you royally screwed up
Software-Defined FPGA Accelerator Design ForMobile Deep Learning Applications
This is news to me. I thought Google’s Atlanta office was closed a while back. So there are software engineers and data scientists currently working at Google in the southeast?
So something like X-Windows, but with a VM.
Can a web app running in a web browser even do push-to-talk voice communication when the browser doesn't have focus, like Discord's Electron app can?
> we can make judgements on the specs alone

Can we? The vehicles we've seen are concepts. We know nothing of the build quality, reliability, safety, or a multitude of other characteristics of a mass-production version of these vehicles. A hand-built concept vehicle built in extremely low volumes for press outings (what they have now) would be expected to be impressive, but the real test is whether all of those wonderful specs make it to mass production in a safe, reliable, high-build-quality package (...that doesn't bankrupt the company in the process).

The automotive industry is littered with the corpses of companies who touted killer concepts w/ insane specs but couldn't make it happen, or did, and the production vehicle was but a shadow of the concept. Tesla is amazing in that it didn't become one of these companies. That Rivian can mass produce these vehicles to the touted specs for the given prices should not be assumed, and to look at a few concept vehicles and company-provided specs and say "Rivian makes superb trucks" brings to mind George W Bush's premature "Mission Accomplished" banner from way back when. I hope for their success, but they're pretty far from the finish line right now, and getting there will be a real challenge; just ask Elon Musk.
Thanks! The wait on training is killing me, though. I've been doing large minibatch training to try to fix the remaining issues in the anime face StyleGAN and it's frustrating having to wait days to see clear improvement. Checking GAN samples is so addictive and undermines my ability to focus & get anything else done. I'm also eager to get started on full Danbooru image training, which I intend to initialize from skylion's model - whenever that finishes training...

(Who says we aren't compute-limited these days?!)
I do indeed have my license. Only a Tech but even that level gets you access to the VHF/UHF birds.

Are you saying we shouldn't expect a military satellite to have some semblance of simple authentication?

It sounds like what they built was literally a simple repeater. If that's the case, they shouldn't have a problem with this "unauthorized use," because by design, there is no such thing.

(The preceding assumes the pirate is licensed to transmit in the 1.25m band that the article noted as the uplink.)
We're still nowhere near we were before the lumber boom of the mid to late-1800's. Tens of thousands of square miles were clearcut for lumber and cities are in their place now.
This isn't in regards to punishing humans, it's the effect of wiping something out of existence that plays an un/known role on Earth's ecosystem
> For the $77 billion price tag, you could buy a Toyota Prius for every single resident of the entire area served by HSR (including children), and still have ~$8 billion left over.

How much do the roadways cost?

I mean, the Prius isn't an all-terrain vehicle. You need nice roads to run, and freeways to go somewhere fast. Without them you can't go anywhere in your Prius.

So how much do the roads you need to exist to drive around in those Prius cost?
Ring Oscillator and Its App as PUF for Password Management
And it meets all of my needs hauling stuff around on less-than-ideal road conditions (or no road at all). It's expensive and fancy-looking, but it still looks to be quite usable.

My issues with it boil down more to the exclusively-touchscreen interface (it's the exact opposite of what I want to use while driving) and the high pricetag compared to, say, a Tacoma.
As someone with a similarly retro web framework ( https://fortran.io ), as far as I know, no one has switched to it. I have gotten a few serious inquiries from coders in the sciences or who are making use of their old Fortran skills... but only a very few in two years.
> Cancer presents differently for different races for example.

Ok, but ... you've been talking about Latino as if it is a race. Does the word Latino describe a race or a culture?
No, you don't. You just need to provide a way to replace or relink Qt libraries. Unless of course you modify Qt itself, but then you only have to publish those modifications. Absolutely nothing requires you to "keep you business code separate from the Qt code".
I agree, a vaccine would be one way to accomplish that
A quick question for everyone: Is remote that big? Most indie projects I read about these days are something related to remote.
> Wouldn't the license cost more than the hardware?

That's an odd argument. Software has to cost less than the hardware that runs it? When you can get computers for $35 or less, that doesn't leave much of a margin.
If we're doing anecdotal, I have been in many hiring processes and have been told to favor diversity.

If you want the most recent one from memory:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/youtube-hiring-for-some-positio...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/2/17070624/google-youtube-wi...

http://fortune.com/2018/09/25/brainstorm-reinvent-mellody-ho...

Blind/anonymized hiring (which I am in favor of and would love to see advocated) has examples going in either direction. The orchestra one you referenced is the go to example of it doing its job well, but if it generally produced the results they were looking for, it would be a noncontroversial strategy being pushed, which it is not.

http://behaviouraleconomics.pmc.gov.au/projects/going-blind-...
> Because it is a status symbol only because it is scarce, it is overrated.

Ah thats where we are going to disagree. That logic path isn't a leap I would make.

You are undervaluing the utility of scarcity.
Detroit Free Press Call for Treasurer to Step Down
There is also Sturgeon farming in the Sacramento area[1]. NOt sure about the quality, but looks like a Belgian multinational is now the owner.

[1]http://www.sactownmag.com/December-January-2010/The-Incredib...
The CPU and memory overhead isn't wasted; it's a tradeoff of computational resources for development resources.

So the users are using more electricity and creating more carbon emissions so the development team can do more with fewer people. In a way, it's a way for a company to outsource a part of its development expense to its users and the environment.
Western Digital putting one Billion RISC-V cores per year into the marketplace
On the one hand, private academic institutions use their colossal endowments to buy real estate throughout their entire history. The economics of the specific transactions are just as sensitive to bull/bear runs in equity markets as Google is sensitive. But you'd have a hard time looking at a specific building and say, "Oh, they should have spent it on something else," even though we have the privilege of seeing academic real estate on timelines of a hundred years or longer.

On the other hand, if you step away from the economics, you'll have a better idea of why it's a bad sign for the company if they're blowing huge cash on buildings. The best secular reason this is a bad move is that it signals a change in the organization's ego. People build these things under the premise that (1) it's important to have glossy buildings to attract junior talent, and (2) it's important to have glossy buildings to retain senior talent. That's definitely the case with academia too.

But Google ain't Harvard, its brand can turn on a dime, and I can guarantee you that 22 year old compsci grads and 50 year old product management vice presidents who think the glossiness of the building is important are much bigger shitbags than 18 year old college applicants and 70 year old professors who might think so too.
Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology
The Strange Experience of Being Australia’s First Tech Billionaires
You could have JavaFX apps on iOS - but you had to deal with the security model not allowing a JIT to run. The only JIT on iOS is the javascript engine (which runs out-of-process).
WAF's are never good enough. They're a weak band-aid used by companies who lack the expertise to find and fix security bugs in their own code.
> Government-controlled is only a positive if it means the government can control the thing better than private organizations

I don't agree with that. There are a lot of reason why government-controlled things can be a positive, even if they aren't better than private versions of those things. Sometimes simply having access for all, even if the access isn't as high quality as private access is useful. Having access for people with disabilities when it's not in the financial interest of private companies to serve those people is useful, for example.
You realize the "diversity" problem is also impacted by the funding problems. It is really hard for people of color and women to get funding - from any source. Banks, VCs, Angel investors and so on. Combine that with the wealth gap and it makes it a lot harder to get started.
Pakistan and China have been the strongest of allies since 1970s, Iran and the Middle East heavily trades with China, I've lived in the Middle East for 10+ years, money doesn't lie. More and more "dragon malls" from China are being opened up and local Muslims sometimes go to Chinese universities.
> That month, he sold about $10 million of Apple stock -- virtually all of his holdings -- to avoid losing about $345,000, the SEC said.

Saving over $300k is sizable, but selling $10M in stock seems pretty risky. Wouldn't this be a huge red flag, especially for someone who works at the company? Seems to be lots of risk and not that much (comparatively) saved.

Or perhaps this was his strategy in flying under the radar, since it didn't net him that much on a percentage basis?

But most importantly, if you have ten million dollars in AAPL (and a job that pays you more besides) why on earth are you taking risks like this?
No, it's not an "AI-complete problem". It's just hard. With GPS for coarse position, inertial sensors for movement, depth sensing, and SLAM for fine position, it can work.[1] The drone industry and DARPA are working hard on this.[2] Right now, you can do it, but not with cell phone grade hardware.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ1psxcMvrQ
[2] https://www.spar3d.com/blogs/the-other-dimension/nanomap-sla...
For all of these “this is a simulated face”-claims I wish they would show the 2-3 most similar faces in their training set. For all you know, it could just be spitting out a random training image. How would you know the difference?
Survey of FPGA Based Deep Learning Accelerators: Challenges and Opportunities
> Electron is the only decent solution for building a cross OS app in 2019.

It's not decent.

> I challenge you to give me a stack that It's fairly simple to maintain on multiple desktop platforms

C++ core library, thin UI layer on each platform.

> The default set of Widgets available will make you waste months building your own widgets versus downloading a js plugin and it's done in 30 minutes.

Why would you build your own widgets? The ones the OS provided have had years put into them.
Using Anchore to scan for CVEs and vulnerabilities in docker images
They mention they got the students for the study from past studies/mailing list, but I wonder how they got the rest (80%) of the study group.

I'd definitely take much less than $1000 to deactivate facebook, and I feel like most of my friends would as well. The main reason I use facebook is to use messenger (if you consider that the same thing) and even then I'm been slowly convincing people to migrate to signal.
yes, and the companies that do it well have a major competitive advantage
>> Java runs everywhere and is at least an order of magnitude more efficient than Electron.

I don't think people are choosing Electron for efficiency. They're choosing it for getting results sooner.

Electron lets you pump out a reasonably nice looking cross-platform app that does what it's supposed to do, using a lot of your existing code, in a short period of time.

That convenience to developers can easily outweigh the trade-offs related to Electron's many flaws, especially when time and resources are very limited.
Yeah, of course. Bacteria, insects, fungi, and any animal break down plant matter (fruits, salads, wood), releasing CO2 in the process. Fire does the same, only the energy is emitted as heat and light, not movement and wasting time on HN.

CO2 + sunlight is again converted into organic material by plants (and some bacteria). It really doesn’t matter if it’s the „same“.

This is the basic carbon cycle.
Amazon puts profits over patriotism. Amazon puts profits over people. When companies stop working for the good of democracy/government and for the good of the people/employees, then it is going to be on the receiving end of......many consequences.
Actually orange is the oldest. The story goes that when the Bloomberg terminal was created in the early 80s all the consoles where monochrome, and the only choices were green or orange (on black in both cases, of course). Everyone else used green so they went with orange to be distinctive.
Good for Amazon and Netflix for helping to draw attention to broken tax law by taking full advantage of it. I hope this pushes more people to engage with the government to close ridiculous loopholes and simplify the tax code.
It landed fine, it just didn't unfurl completely.
I'm really sick of articles like this. Amazon or $insertCompany that isn't paying taxes didn't do _anything_ illegal. Don't hate the player, hate the game. If shit like this bothers you, write your local representatives and ask them to change it.
Testing Infinite Loop in Ruby
Saw that the other day, not bad... Finally a market based approach to measuring the value (many) users get from FB and quite refreshing compared to the usual "I know what's best for you" approach.

Edit: I don't use FB, but understand that it can be valuable to many users, just like any other platform or app out there.
Apparently the target starting price (for baseline) is at the mid-80k range for the large battery model and closer to 60k for the medium and small battery models: https://www.motortrend.com/news/2020-rivian-r1t-ev-first-loo...

That might very well be ambitious, though, and even if they do meet those targets, that's still considerably more expensive than a Tacoma.
Looks like they have sizeable DCs in Moncks Corner, SC. https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/be...
Newer ones have authentication right?
Hi Tyler, this is amazing! Going through the FAQ it seems, you're not investing in India right now! Would love to know if and when you do!
How much would it cost to increase highway capacity to support all the traffic?
I've also found (anecdotally) that the resource usage between a browser tab an the same electron app has been inconsequential.
> you are actively exploited and data is stolen

Not even close, you are liable for keeping the data you collect as a data processor or controller safe.
There needs to be more talk about biochar...
From my experience vipassana meditation is outside, above, below, or maybe right in between (depending on your conceptual map) both anxious mind-wandering and dreaming.

The goal being to learn to observe all sensations and thoughts without reacting to them (which seems to require or result in a certain amount of detachment)

I remember more of my dreams when I'm meditating regularly, and I also notice more of my waking thought loops.
the UX is unbearable.
> Except users lie all the time...

OK, observation is certainly important, but if they tell you something LISTEN.

Users who have "skin the game", who actually have to use the application usually have valuable observations and suggestions. Does it mean that you should uncritically implement what they ask for verbatim? No, but sometimes the insight is right in front of you if you're receptive to it.
I had a teach who once was reviewing the history of computing. She explained how time sharing was invented in the 1960s. The ability for a computer to do more than one thing at a time, was a HUGE improvement.
Data Subject Access Study (2018)