skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Title is misleading. The article is about ONE app being blocked.
Maybe it's less of an issue because your window manager doesn't need to connect to ssh servers or even do any kind of heavy lifting.
I think tech several pundits predicted Apple would shift significantly to more rent-seeking behavior after the last quarter decline in iPhone sales. This appears to be confirmation of that trend.
Apple reportedly planning a March 25th event for its subscription news service
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No criticism from me. Love the concept and I hope there are more ventures like yours. Quick question: what is your investment criteria? Is a revenue of around $500 but a growth of 5% weekly good enough?

If there was a checklist online that we could tick ourselves before we start talking to you, it would be awesome.
I know that now ;-) but it was about 5 minutes of panic until I found my answer on Google.
I had a similar one ... and yet, not quite enough to outright convince me it was a fake. Because some people do wear weird hats and toupees.
Consider it a blessing! You don't need Microsoft's supervision or approval to distribute a Windows app, even if it is Electron.

Who uses the Windows store, anyway?
Re: Everyone agreed it needed modernization—it looked like it was from the early 2000s, after all!

My goodness, Flintones even. The fashion chase is becoming obsessive and wasteful. As I've ranted about many times on HN, UI faddism is a huge time and resource drain and the industry should just say no or see a therapist.

It sounds strange, but desktop UI's around 2000 pretty much reached the pinnacle of business UI's. The web slid us downhill with its stateless ways, unpredictable layout results, and now wasting screen space while copying touch-screen-oriented design for mouse users who don't need swollen boundaries. Use 5-pixel lines to visually segregate panels, saving you about 20 pixels of width versus white space. ("Web" pixels, not nec. actual pixels.)

(The only exception is perhaps drill-down link-heavy lists/reports/charts. The web served these well.)
I was very excited by Tinyseed. However, I didn't quite like the model. I inquired about a model similar to this and it was declined. Fair enough I thought.

Now this comes along. Definitely sending out an email! Pretty excited to be honest.
I'm hoping so... I tweeted it and mentioned Microsoft and Electron so hopefully this is a confusion.

The issue might be that we render HTML but still seems heavy handed as why couldn't I just decide to build my own browser?

I mean I don't want to but I should be able to if I wanted.
Those are process elements, and the goal of them is primarily to produce a good result.

A better process may have reduced the likelihood of a bad design, but the bad process is the meta-problem, not the problem-problem.

Some design decisions really are bad in ways that are counterintuitive to a lot of designers. Reducing information density is often one of them.
I thought they were competitors?
I don't like the usage of 'impossible'. Impossible by what standard?

Laws of physics forbidding it is understandable. We may likely never see the development of FTL because our understanding as we know it would see it impossible to do due to its strange implication about cause and effect.
Snapd Flaw Lets Attackers Gain Root Access on Linux Systems
As only a casual fan, this was revealing on what makes a full-flow staged combustion engine so promising. Thanks for sharing
If you live in SoCal (or even if you're just visiting), definitely take a quick trip by the SpaceX facilities in Hawthorne [1] where they have a Falcon rocket sitting outside. From a distance it looks like and industrial chimney, but as you pull up, you can see it's an actual rocket. Standing next to it gives a great sense of scale the next time you're watching a SpaceX video.

1. https://www.google.com/maps/place/SpaceX,+Rocket+Rd,+Hawthor...
You did the work of a product manager, business analyst, and engineer all in one. This is what consulting is supposed to be but most companies are merely hiring contractors and are uninterested in any challenges to their requirements (that were never derived from the real world in any way, just an ivory tower of management / conceptual consultants). So you also had a good client as well that respected your proposal and were willing to re-assess their assumptions.
What will be the effect on humanity when we lose a constant source of stimulation for our immune systems? Perhaps it will actually set us up for a pandemic of apocalyptic proportions.
Over the years we've had many cross platform GUI frameworks. Both native (wxWindows, SWT) and non-native (Swing, Qt). Everyone was trying for "better".

There have always been questions of adoption, stability, fidelity of the user experience and others.

Meanwhile web apps have kept chugging along and browsers have gotten better and better.

> What the earth needs is a better cross platform native GUI framework.

I contend that "native" is irrelevant. People are "native" web users. They use web based interfaces daily. A browser based UI is the "cross platform native" (whatever that means) GUI.

It can be fast (if you do the work, which may involve firing up external processes) it can be beautiful it can look native and it can deliver great user experiences.

It's not the GUI framework we wanted, but it's the one we deserve :)
Yes. The arrest was for harassment and doxxing, not for misgendering.

paganel, when you say "Sorry for the Daily Mail link" it sounds like you know you're citing a source that will be extremely untrustworthy on this topic, and then did it anyway.
Every one of these pictures has something 'off' with them. But it takes a while to notice. My first three - the teeth were odd, there were small, regular rectangles out of the teeth. Then it was the eyes. Specifically the iris was the wrong shape and had too much glare from what I assume is a camera.

Every single picture, if you really look at it, is disturbing for reasons you can't pick out. It's definitely hitting the uncanny valley. It's juuuust human enough to blend, but not human enough to avoid the creeping feeling of dread.

But that being said, if I'm cruising forums and see this in a thumbnail size, I'm not going to be able to pick out that it's not a real person.
50% of app users discovery their apps on app stores.

I'm trying to work on growth and steady acquisition of users and I'm trying to test if this is true.
Hoax, considering that visual code is based on electron. Don't have to read the article to know this
> Users absolutely hated the new system. Sure, the old system was ugly, but it had everything they needed, right at their fingertips!

I'm not sure this is about whitespace or information density.

I think that users, especially users using something as part of their job on a regular basis ("enterprise"), hate change. Any change. If they know how to use the thing as part of their job now, it is very difficult to make a significant change that they won't (at least initially) say they hate and want the old thing back. Even if the change would have been liked better by more new users/customers. Even if they hated the old thing too!

And aside from just change-aversion, of course, there may have been lots of knowledge/decisions about what users actually needed to do to do their jobs "encoded" in the old UX, as a result of lots of changes over time, that can be lost when creating a brand-new-from-scratch UX -- especially if you aren't doing a lot of (or any? it wasn't mentioned in the post) UX research in advance of the re-design.

I think this story may be about change, without necessarily being able to conclude anything about the factors of the change/design, such as whitespace, or any other design elements.

If you're doing UX design, you should be doing UX research. And not assuming any universal principles about whitespace or information density from this blog post.
Of course... I have no way to measure other apps but I also link to the policies which would block them.

Other apps would also be blocked.

Title not misleading ;)
Computing capabilities inside this field. You can throw as much cpu time as you want at a bad model and it won’t mean anything. The value here is that it’s not just bruteforcing every concievable compound but instead goes through a sequence of potentially synthesisable drugs which are interesting according to docking simulations.

They could likely simulate tons more, but there is no guarentee that they are; Actually synthesizable, actually hit the target, aren’t toxic.

So at some point the current computing capabilites fall shot. But not because we can’t throw more cpu hours at the problem, simply because we don’t have the computational tools to cross those bery important barriers available at all.
Well, then it is not the forest itself. It is the humans managing the forest, if I've understood correctly.
i never miss an opportunity to link to this wonderful startup generator http://tiffzhang.com/startup/
Making the Building of Firefox Faster for You with Clever-Commit from Ubisoft
Semi-serious question: should a country have to account for volcanos in its territory as well?
Tech companies see health data as huge opportunity, but people don't trust them
I, on the other hand, found the article extremely interesting and well written, even so much so that I saved it to my meager list of articles I may want to reread later.
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Puzzled why you would mention this brand, as it's never mentioned in the article.
Stereotyping Appalachia: What Tech Gets Wrong [audio]
My intent had actually been to point that out in the first place when TFA concluded, as is often the case, it was the windows. See my brain fail comment somewhere downthread, as I only came back too late too edit the original:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19143911
This doesn't really make sense. GNSS is simply a reference to a receiver's ability to access any navigation constellation, that is, GPS, plus GLONASS, Beidou, and Galileo, operated by Russia, China, and the EU respectively.

Just about any modern GPS receiver in a dedicated device has this capability. This may not be the case for mobile devices for cost reasons. The Ublox NEO-M8N, for example can concurrently receive signals from 3 GNSS constellations and has a single unit price around $15.

The thing is, all those satellites don't necessarily help precision as they tend to cover different geographic regions. There aren't a lot of Beidou sats passing over the US, for example.

What does help are augmentation services like WAAS, SBAS, or EGNOS which provide regional GPS correction data originating from known, fixed points in the region.

Differential GPS works similarly and can offer greater precision, but requires a different receiver in a whole other part of the RF spectrum.

Finally, all this precision comes at a cost, that being time. If you want centimeter level accuracy it can take a fair bit of time to get a good fix. In my experience, a couple minutes with a good modern receiver.
biggest weakness of this system seems to be generating realistic backgrounds, the faces look amazing - but around the edges some photos appear to "swirl" with the background
Ha... dude. Are you calling me a liar?

https://i.imgur.com/DvE0fVh.png
Study Used Sensors to Show Men and Women Are Treated Different at Work (2017)
Yes, my goal (with transparency etc) is for there to be dozens of firms in this space. Confident it will happen. Thanks!
Yeah, I've heard that their architecture has really moved on. Good to know. Thanks for confirming!
NPR and PBS didn't invent anything, they used an established technology to be a not-for-profit public good. The National Public Internet wouldn't be breaking ground, it would be using social media for the public good.
Interesting that he also just did a podcast with Joe Rogan where he had to field questions but this time by someone who isn't in tech or a journalist. Elon Musk also did the same. It provides far more value and something to take away than an awkward rapid fire back and forth on twitter
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A painting is usually immediately recognizable as a work of art / fiction. Do you want to appear as a team member on an escort service site which uses automatically generated placeholder images to protect their employees? Do you want your face on a billboard ad for Viagra?

There is a huge difference between "hey, that painting looks like you" and "hey, that is a photograph of you".
fman (fman.io) for a dual pane file manager. Utilizing Qt, proprietary, cross platform, and follows the design philosophy of Sublime Text.
This is why user/usability/UX research is actually a _thing_. Like a discipline, a thing to learn, a thing where experience and skill matter.

Yes, you can't just "ask". But there are certainly ways to learn. Doing a major UX redesign without doing any UX research seems like asking for trouble -- and I don't trust the conclusions drawn from the outcome, still without being based on UX research, either.
FDA experts offer a big thumbs up for ketamine-based depression drug
Hell, China's flag is literally red.
I work there as a Janitor, the one u see is the fake rocket basically.
> I am going to start a NEW thread to make it easy for people to follow (@waltmossberg just texted me that it is a “chaotic hellpit”)

It is interesting that this discussion on Twitter about discussions on Twitter ended up being a disorganized mess. It illustrates the problem with Twitter so well.

I consider Twitter a major step back in online discussion and sharing of ideas. It not just made that worse but it changed it in a qualitative way and it infected how people interact in other online communities and maybe in real life as well.

I call this process "twitterification of discourse". Short phrases, sarcastic quips, thrown back and forth are terrible way to build consensus, digest information and participate in meaningful discussions. It can be entertaining and give the poster a false sense of "victory" in "beating" an opponent but mostly just leads to sowing resentment and dividing people rather than bringing them together. "Oh I am a stupid idiot, for thinking this way. Well thank you, I appreciate your thoughtful comment and I'll reconsider my position" said nobody ever. Heck people might be well meaning in posting their short retort but the medium itself brings a coldness and negativity to it by its very nature.

Before this process was mostly happening in the media with talking heads spewing their positions quickly between commercial breaks. But now that has spread and everyone can talk and interact that way. Isn't it great!

Another insidious aspect of "twitterification of discourse" is that it cements people's positions. Once they promote some cause or state some opinions for everyone to see, but then later find out they have been wrong or misled, it becomes much harder to change their position because well their posts were there for everyone to see and now they are judged as hypocrites for example.
I think that this is more of a tale of not doing proper user research. If they've done their homework, they would know what data users of the platform need at their fingertip, and they wouldn't have hide it behind clickable-collapsable UIs.

My take on this: work with a PM that's really good at doing (proper) user research.
Twitter needs a full time CEO.
Not to forget amazon.com. I am actually in awe of their boldness in completely ignoring UI design trends.
You say this like I made these cultural choices on how to name these things.

I'm not conflation "Persian" with "Arabic". I wouldn't call an Iranian a Saudi anymore than I'd call an Indian a Pakistani. But the widespread adoption of the numbers and their naming happened during times when people modern nomenclature hadn't taken hold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_s...

I didn't write this article, so I'm not the only person in the world making these assumptions. I understand that there are some weird problematic names that still exist for common objects, but this is genuinely something I'd just assumed most people accepted as the name, especially in the West.
I've never read any benchmarks around render time on sophisticated GANs, so maybe the answer to this is obvious, but: Is this showing a random selection from a set of offline-generated images, or is the GAN actually generating these on each request?
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But how synthetic are they? I.e., what does the "most similar", however you define it, sample in the training set look like?
I think the better analogy would be installing a whole new bathroom (it’s a redesign after all).

In that case the plumber could and should ask where the sink is going, even if he was only told to move the toilet.

Why? Because maybe the sewage line is over there and about to be covered over with concrete and they’ll have to tear up all of that to move it in two weeks, but the sink hadn’t arrived yet so no one told him that would move either.

The point is not that the plumber is asking his customer how he should do his job, but that he can be more valuable if told the whole scope and impact of his job.

Similarly you can’t just ask a user “how could this screen work better”, you need to watch them work so that you see that that screen isn’t even the problem - they’re clicking off of it 15 times every call - but you didn’t even know to ask about the other page.
Because we haven't fucked the environment enough.
Search for a copy of the DB2 SQL Cookbook. Lots of good explanations and examples. It's free and no longer updated as I guess it is just too darn useful...

One of the problems with advanced SQL is you get into how the vendors implement advanced features.
In Oracle you will get familiar with ORA-xxx and coding around those.
DB2 throws different error messages and so does SQL Server. I have had to rewrite SQL going from one implementation to another because of these differences.
>> Except users lie all the time. They don't know what they need or want. People are horrible at being logical about what will actually help them.

That's a bit harsh. IMHO people don't know what's even possible, so they can't tell you what the solution is. Sometimes they can tell you what bothers them about what they've got even if they don't know what would be better. The rest of your comment it good though. Watch them. Look for things that look hard or redundant. Ask if they ever get tired of X, what gets in the way, etc... But don't necessarily expect them to tell you how to make it better.

I like to say users don't have requirements. They have problems.
I see what he's getting at.

Last night I watched an episode of True Detectives. Tonight I'll look for a hockey game on TV. Tomorrow I might watch some Game of Thrones. I also have a couple episodes of Better Call Saul on my DVR. I watch (and read) the thing that appeals to me at the time I want it.
When I was a teenager I loved the series that started with sword of shanarra, but going back and reading those novels as an adult mostly makes me cringe. :)
This was true of every protocol. It's still true of every protocol. How many people use HTTP every day without ever hearing about it? Most people couldn't even tell you what a web browser is. They use it all the same. The ActivityPub standard is barely a year old.
Perhaps it'll be like buying the top search results in Google Ads: the AR space will be for sale to anyone and McDonalds will have to buy ads in their own stores to prevent Burger King from doing the same.
Can you provide more context about whatever you're talking about?
You mean fined, not imprisoned, for breaking well established limits on freedom of speech for racial hate speech?

He crowd funded a fortune yet barely offered any defence, beyond "it was a joke meant to annoy his girlfriend", even after the judge explicitly encouraged him to during the trial.

EDIT: The actual ruling appears to be far more reasonable and straightforward than I thought from the reporting at the time:

http://www.scotland-judiciary.org.uk/8/1962/PF-v-Mark-Meecha...

You had no need to make a video if all you wanted to do was to train the dog to react to offensive commands. You had no need to post the video on your unrestricted, publicly accessible, video channel if all you wanted to do was annoy your girlfriend. Your girlfriend was not even a subscriber to your channel.

Finally, before turning to sentence, I should note that although I invited both legal representatives to make legal submissions during the trial about the law on freedom of expression, that was done only to a very limited extent. In the absence of focused submissions on that topic by either the Crown or the defence, all I can say is that, while that right is very important, in all modern democratic countries the law necessarily places some limits on that right.
It's definitely not generating an image for each page load. If you refresh the page you get the same image more often than you get a new image.
Thank you! Yep, check https://earnestcapital.com/faq/ and let me know if anything needs to be added?
You say that, but that would mean that a dev in Indian should be making the same as in Silicon valley, and the projects should all the cost the same.
This reminds me of those older systems that had a learning curve, where employees were trained in them, but they were efficient to use. Navigation was all keyboard-based, making extensive use of the function keys. You'd be talking to an employee and while they were using the system, they'd be confident and hitting all kinds of memorized keys to jump around and look up parts or orders or whatever. As those systems get replaced with more "intuitive" web-based UIs, where navigation is done with a mouse, and they are sold with the prospect that there isn't much of a learning curve, it seems there are more folks that don't get to that level of confidence and efficiency. Maybe it's due to lack of training, or the software isn't designed for efficient use, or web-based UIs tending to change more frequently, or the backend systems being less responsive and reliable... I'm not sure. But it sure feels like I encounter more people saying "well the system isn't doing what I want it to do today" or "let me just figure this out I'm not seeing it here". I like seeing software empower people, not make them feel inferior, so hopefully it's a temporary trend. Or maybe my view is just skewed through the lens of nostalgia. I hope I never see the day when grocery store checkers have to fumble through an ill thought out web-based UI...
I don't think this should be too surprising. Forests don't destroy carbon, just store it in the form of trees. When the trees decompose, or burn down, it is released again. So for a mature forest you would expect it to have around net 0 emissions. As far as I know the main way a forest can be a carbon sink is if it is expanding, which I don't think Canada's forests are doing.
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