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Some applications especially heavily customized and complex ones profit from consistent UI across platforms.

I created many apps with React-Native that could also be built with web technology and would mostly look and feel the same.

But you're right with Google tech being abandoned; I prefer Revery to Flutter.
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"U.S. Vice President Mike Pence criticized it in October as 'an Orwellian system premised on controlling virtually every facet of human life.'"

Americans forget we have our own "social credit" system, and I'm not convinced China's is any worse than ours. Want to sign up for TSA Pre-check? Certify you're not a convicted felon, otherwise you're ineligible.

Want to coach little league? Background check. Rent an apartment? Background check. Get a job? Background check.

Want to vote? Depending on the state, you can be imprisoned if you've been convicted of something (i.e. low social credit score).

And, finally, if you're a defendant, if the other side wants to dig out every little secret they can find and trot it out before the judge, jury, and/or public, expect a ding to your social credit for every matter they bring up, in terms of the outcome you receive.

Before we point out the sawdust in China's eye, we should acknowledge the plank in our own.
I didn't delete anything. Quit the drama.
If that were true (I have no info either way), wouldn't that mean most drivers have no clue the true cost of working for Lyft/Uber? All they see if free money, but aren't factoring in repairs.
Convoluted explanation only to cite the epic wikipedia gif

Fouri-ous there's no mention of Fourier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution_theorem
Distinguishing between badly chosen ideas and randomly chosen ones may be impossible if the authority figure provides no context.
In his defense, he tied kpis to bonuses.
This is a weird article. It mentions in passing that implementation of a nationwide system is only planned for 2020 without concrete details yet, but otherwise pretends as if the blacklists, the experimental credit scores and the internment camps in Xinjiang are all part of a single "social credit system".

But the government doesn't need to know someone's credit history to determine whether they are Uyghur, and forcing people to pay their outstanding fines before they can buy plane tickets doesn't need a complex score either. Those factors would probably influence the social credit score once it gets implemented, but so far they're really separate systems.

Edited to add: a lot of people here are hung up on the idea that if your friends have a low score, you'll be pulled down with them and end up unable to buy a plane ticket. But to include someone on the travel blacklist, a judge needs to order it. That judge is still required to do the Party's bidding, so don't expect a fair trial; but it's not like there's an automatic system doling out travel bans for minor violations.
I didn't say I'm neutral - I simply said I'm not arguing for against it with the statement to follow; I didn't want to put a weight one way or the other of my thoughts/feelings relating to the "social credit" system, in part because I'm not familiar enough with it.

Also, wasn't me who downvoted you.
This is true for everyone from janitors to CEOs. The big question is, what jobs are harmless, which cause improvements being “over-worked”, and which have the greatest odds of causing substantial destruction?

UI / UX redesigns should be tested with small amounts of users, with all key metrics measured, and see what happens to those metrics and user retention after a few months. Otherwise, UI redesigns has a chance of causing a lot of destruction both by loss of users and bugs. Fortunately for software this isn’t that difficult to do. Other tasks, less so or impossible.
> as people start to actually use the site, I think they care a lot less about a lot of cosmetic things

That's definitely true, _if_ they start to actually use the site. You need something to hook them in the first few seconds.
That is not a paradox. It's just the fact that a theory about something might not hold when you take a closer look at that something.

In the articles example, the admission rates of a university seemed to indicate that there is a bias against women.

Zooming in and looking at the admission rates of the individual departments seem to indicate that there is a bias against men.

The article makes it sound like the first theory was wrong. And the second theory - the bias against men - is the real truth.

Zooming in further might indicate the opposite again.

Take two boxers. So far, one of them has won 86% of his fights and the other one has won 100%. According to the article, "The data is clear".

Now we add more data:

One fighter is Mike Tyson. He won 50 of his 58 fights. The other one is me. I did one fight in kindergarden and won it. But to be honest: I would not want to fight Tyson. As paradox as it sounds.
UI !== UX, without the research side it is kinda pointless. I'm not sure if the point of the article was to say that but it's what I read
I consider somebody spitting in my face to be much worse than somebody grabbing my ass or giving me an unsolicited backrub. I think it would be useful to break that statistic down into further categories based on how egregious something is. Somebody giving me an unsolicited backrub in my mind is a lot less wrong than somebody grabbing my ass. Lumping all of these together might provide for a big statistical number, but it also makes it more likely that people won't take the statistic seriously.
> uses some beautiful sounding Machine Learning AI models to convert articles to Audio

This sounds great. I'm a big fan of audiobooks and podcasts, and would love an app like Pocket but that narrates the articles for me. However, downloading & trying a new app is a big friction point. Your landing page would be a lot more persuasive if it provided an example of the unique value proposition - e.g. several example of audios as generated by the app, or ability to take a URL and provide a narrated version of it.
That's just how it is. If you care about stuff like this, buy a pixel. If you are short on cash, wait for a year for prices to drop. There is little meaningful difference these days between a new mid/low device and last year's pixel.
I don't think so, there is aws and then there is "host super cheap"

Rackspace might have had a chance, but it is gone now..
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Well, that’s a pretty good reason, for him.
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Those chemicals are not typically made in cities but either outskirts or in far flung towns outside cities.
> restriction of the right of movement on "unsocial behavior/associations"

denying someone's access to tax funded public transport (airports/train stations in this case) as a result of his/her refusal to pay tax is now considered as "restriction of the right of movement"?
The “run” button is however you run your CL code. Are you seriously disputing my experience because I said “run” in quotes? Would it please you more if I had instead said I used SLIME with SWANK with emacs and I pressed C-c C-e or whatever?

As I sais, I have programmed CL professional. And yes, Racket doesn’t have a real REPL. And yes, CL with emacs and SLIME and SWANK is nice or whatever, but personally, I’ve found that a REPL provides much more value with a dynamic language vs a static language.

Why? Because with CL you need to be running each function because you have no faith in your code. The most trivial errors that could have been caught by a simple type checker will crash your program. I’ve almost never had the experience of writing say 300 lines of CL and having it work on the first run. Because of this, you have to use the REPL as a crutch.

In contrast, with haskell or scala even though those languages provide a REPL, I rarely find myself using it. In fact, I very rarely run my code at all. With a functional and monadic style and heavy use of type parameters, chances are that if it type-checks, it is correct.

One area in which CL is pretty cool is modifying a running image on the fly. I once fixed a bug mid-meeting with CL and everyone thought that was pretty cool.
Great UI is extremely valuable. The challenge is that one of the qualities of a great UI is that it's stable.

The UI is the interface between your app and the customer. It's like an API. No one arbitrarily changes APIs and expects it to go well. But, perhaps because people are slightly more adaptable than code, UI gets changed without warning or choice all the time. This is a unilateral break in the implicit contract that we make with users. Of course people complain!
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I think I agree with you, but how are you supposed to assess designers to choose the right person?

The main difference I've found between bad/good designers is flexibility and willingness to ask for help. There's typically a lot of organizational knowledge about where pain points are. If a designer addresses those, then people are generally happy.

Maybe splitting the job is a good idea, but it seems like you shouldn't need a split if the designer is listening to the whole team.

Also, sometimes the designer is fine, but they've been explicitly told by management what to do, so no designer would have been able to fill the position and do a good job. Even on my failed projects, I really couldn't tell you if it was the management or the designer that caused the resulting design issues.
Honestly I hate how dystopian and alien Western publications make China’s social credit system when our actual credit system (Equifax/Experian/Transunion) bars millions of people from getting a cell phone, renting apartments, even getting a job (why is it even legal or useful for an employer to check your credit?!).

Point is, preventing people from access to communication, housing, and employment because of nonexistent or bad credit is much more dystopian than not being able to buy a plane ticket.
I do tend to avoid sites that look too old. But I also avoid sites that are too slow. I'm no longer a Gmail user for this reason, for example, and I'm only a Reddit user because (thank God) there's still old.reddit.com. Can I just advocate for one thing? Make performance the #1 priority of any redesign (or at least a very, very high priority).
The white borders was a gimmick to support some new transparency feature, but since Android half-does everything, it doesn't quite work. Android's openness saves the day, you can install 3rd party launcher with icon pack plugins
Okay how would you feel if your score went down because someone you knew was "sketchy" (may just be the beliefs) to this system. Like this has made people cut ties with other people.
It's going to be interesting over the next 10 years to see the outcomes of these experiments in terms of long term behavior change in the population. It's a good time to be a social psychologist in China.
When considering UI changes, it's worth thinking how people use your app. Some apps are used only occasionally, so that effectively everyone is a beginner every time. In this case, there's room for rapid UI evolution and improvement.

Other apps are deeper and more feature rich and will be used by a given person for hours each day. You'll have to be very careful in changing these apps if you don't want irate users.
Indeed - this is where we will combine the Federated Learning implementation with tricks from Differential Privacy and Secure Aggregation - which can help give formal guarantees on the amount of information present about any individual person within a gradient.
> I actually don't use Google Maps -- because it's a crazy mess of buttons and menus that get in my way of trying to navigate.

I've found the actual map part of Google Maps to be the best designed online map. Compared to Bing or Mapquest, I find it much easier to get a sense of an area using Google Maps.
Here is CodePen's justification for requiring a referrer:

https://blog.codepen.io/2017/10/05/regarding-referer-headers...

They don't say why exactly though.
I have run into the same situation that you described so many times. It's one of the most off-putting points about discussing the world with people. I wish people understood that basing an argument on bad facts makes it easy to "disprove" the argument in the mind if the person you're trying to convince.
Explain why the hamburger menu is bad but the floppy disk icon is good.
The score takes more into account than just taxes. Plus usually tax problems in the US only become criminal if you refuse to rectify them.

Also while it is china we are talking about, the bulk of those are plane ticket, and the some of it probably privatized with government over site. Not exactly public funded. caveat being I don't entirely know how this structured in china and could entirely be publicly funded.

Like this is government literally saying you can't purchase the means to travel. I am not sure how that is not interfering with freedom of movement.

if it was you can't use public funded plains and trains that might be little different.

Still a lot the things this score considers should never be in the purview of any government.
Also, depending on your jurisdiction, you pay taxes on dividends. So, it makes sense (while you earn) to invest in shares or funds that don't give you income (they pay dividends that you have to pay tax on), but capital gains (they increase in value, but you don't have to pay tax on that until you realise the gain, ie sell).

Once you're retired, you can switch from a capital growth portfolio to an income providing portfolio.
Because as a lender I don't want to give someone money to buy xyz when they have a history of not making their payments. I don't think this analogy works.
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Preventing people from buying a plane ticket sounds worse IMO. At least some argument could be made to support preventing people with bad credit from buying on that credit. Preventing people from leaving is scary.

I do agree that there’s almost no justification for credit score being used to determine employment.
There’s no way to guarantee forward secrecy to a client. If regular TLS promises that, the committee is lying and they know it.
Yes,but both languages share some important structural similarities. Rich morphology, extreme agglutination and vowel harmony.
The internment camps thing is not an outright lie but it is propaganda: https://off-guardian.org/2018/09/19/no-the-un-did-not-report...

Your other points are very well made though.I'm sure your figures are accurate but it'd be great if you could provide sources for them.
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While not conclusive, it would appear that light and subsequent circadian disruption may increase chances of things such as breast cancer. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3002207/

From an evolutionary biology standpoint, I would expect being able to sleep through light and noise a negative for survival.
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I've found MathOverflow [1] to be the best high-level math discussion forum out there right now. Many prominent mathematicians are regular posters, and I think the question-and-answer format suits mathematical discussion very well.

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There is a speck of truth to what you say but I think you are conflating things. There is a difference between keeping convicted pedophiles away from children and suspecting terrorists off airplanes and the other checks you list. A lot of the things you cite aren't even government checks but financial risk assessments of businesses.

Having a friend that tweets anti-government thoughts shouldn't mean you can't take the train. Drinking alcohol shouldn't prohibit you from applying for a government job. Playing too much video games shouldn't mean you can't leave leave your town. A lot of the information about this system and its rollout is hard to get accurate facts about since everyone on both sides is most interested in sensationalism. I've never seen any information about if you can ever improve your social score. Even people who commit crimes have the about to do their time and work to start over. People need 2nd chances.
Managing risk is important for business owners. It is extremely expensive to remove a tenant who stops paying. For a small landlord, it can be devastating. Also, for an employer that has a significant investment of capital in physical inventory, intellectual property, public reputation, etc., a poor hire can destroy a business.
What does China have to lose by preventing someone from flying? It sounds like it is used for social engineering and stemming political dissent, which is creepy.
Quoting the quotes: “Full Self Driving” [...] “imminently,” [...] “drive automatically on city streets.”

Meaning you can pay now to get later this little self-driving feature multiple huge companies have been struggling to implement for ten years. That they haven't yet been able to demonstrate even with superior sensory equipment. I'd say it's not fraud if you've deluded yourselves into thinking you can deliver. But this is not legal advice.
Better tools are also going to shift the frontier.

To use Neural Networks as a poor analogy. Given identical training data and different random starting weights you end up with different end results. Thus, even with identical potential at conception people would end up with different strengths naturally.

Better training clearly shifts the median, but when you start talking about populations of extreme outliers from a billon+ people that’s going to be meaningful. Especially as differences compound over time.

Currently their is a trickledown effect where useful techniques end up shifting the landscape. RSA encryption pushing little bits of what would otherwise be abstract number theory into a few high school classrooms etc.
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Yes, that makes sense. It's less about healthy and more about not having obvious things like Cheetos on the shelves.
On my first long trip to the US in 2001 I couldn't buy a simcard because I didn't have a credit history. A prepaid plan btw.

"How do I get a credit history if I just landed?"

"Well here's a free credit card application. We'll give you a credit card immediately. Run around the mall and buy some stuff."

Which I had to do.

Weird country.
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They were incredible. In fact, so good that it was educational. Whenever we had a problem, I'd ask for full technical details and I'd come away with something. A big portion of my admittedly limited knowledge of sysadmin work came simply from working with their admins to fix problems that'd come up with growth.

That's not the case anymore and it's clear nobody gives a hoot. We are getting a DDoS a few months ago. Their solution: null route our server. Wanted DDoS mitigation options. They wanted me to speak to a sales rep, who insisted it wasn't a sales call, and refused to put their possible options in writing. As a rule, I only make decisions or open discussions if and only if I have something to discuss in writing. That never used to be a problem. Everything was transparent. It's become a nightmare driven by sales reps that want to "customise" a solution - the same kind of solution that they deployed a few years ago that worked for the exact same problem.
Well ... that'd be just like the f@ckers moderating HN

Hope you're listening.
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For Linux... Inmotion Hosting

Reasonably priced, but UNBELIEVABLE support.

Seems like everyone working at these two companies is a wizard that put on their robe and hat before work. When you pay for hosting you want someone on call and smarter than you for when things go south.
Ribbon may have been a bad idea, but MS claimed they did a bunch of UX research around it. Why is the standard menu metaphor better? Hunting through a hundred menu items whose names I don't need is a pain, especially if I don't have years of experience learning the options.
The fundamental challenge I have with UX and UX people is that there's clearly a lot of really important, useful stuff in the discipline, mixed with a lot of nonsense. And I've been burned a few times by those who tell a good story to susceptible executives and utterly waste time and resources to justify their own existence.

I wish there were better resources for non UX people like me to learn how to tell the difference.
There's a world of difference between "this person has a track record of not paying their bills, so exercise caution before lending" and "this person was observed reading subversive literature, so don't let him leave the country".

I agree that pre-employment credit checks seem unhelpful for most lines of work (but consider: do you think a bank should be happy to employ a sysadmin with massive gambling debts?), but I have my doubts that every employer does them as you imply.
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I'd be surprised if they were able to be human flight certified without all the redundancy and hardening that any other manned spacecraft has, though.
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In simples case at least, such as with the kidney stones, can we reduce our risk of reaching wrong conclusions by increasing our sample size of patients and randomizing which receive each treatment?
Yes but no.

The article has a narrow view of why folks buy more clothing - including things like weight gain/loss, growing (children), differences in body chemistry (blood thinners make you feel chilly, hormones hot), money available, new job, cheap clothing falling apart quickly, ill fit after washing, and so on.

Government regulation can help with some of this. Making sure consumers can afford better items, regulations on unused inventory, quality (though I don't know how you'd figure this out). You could encourage sewing and try to change people's minds about the sorts of clothes necessary.

But a lot of these are difficult to solve without rationing things out.