skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The market decides what is popular, to a point. They don't get to decide what is launched. I don't think designers really get to decide that either though.

I'd disagree that change is slow and conservative. In the smartphone biz they're coming out with half baked ideas all the time. I'd agree progress is slow for certain things, but then its astonishingly fast in other ways.

Trying to identify what we actually disagree about here, it seems you see a lot more order in the process? I made the point in another reply in this subthread that I see it more like evolution. Its messy, with lots of dead ends, and as soon as you start trying to generalise, the Duck billed Platypus says hello.

For every product that has gone through user testing, we have Samsung coming out with one that evidently hasn't.
Employers use wellness programs, phones and free food to control your life
Small anecdote: The acceptance email to my universities study abroad program landed in my Gmail spam folder. An email that I had 5 days to react to or someone else gets the spot.

I thought it's great that I have so rarely stuff in my Gmail spam folder that I don't even have to check it regularly until I nearly missed a very important email. Apparently I was lucky that ot didn't get outright rejected.

I rather have to deal with some spam than to miss important, or even regular, emails.
It does nothing to the value of money because it doesn’t affect the amount of money, only its form.

If I have $10,000 in a bank account and you have $10,000 in dollar bills, we have the same amount of money.

Fiat currency is so useful because money and currency are not the same thing. It’s like the difference between water and buckets.
Have you compared to ska::flat_hash_map or khash? I’ve found the latter to be ideal if my keys/values were POD and the former otherwise. I’m not yet convinced that it’s actually better based on their website. std::unordered_map is infamously slow.
>I hope not. For what it's worth, I'm still at it and have no plans to stop hosting my own mail!

You misunderstand the point I'm trying to emphasize. I'm not trying to dissuade you from running your own email. There are real benefits to controlling your own email server and it's great you've configured something that works for you.

I'm saying I disagree with how some proponents communicate the drawbacks. They discount (or are blissfully unaware of) the real difficulties of running a personal email server for critical outgoing emails.

In the previous thread and this one, there are several of us with decades of email admin experience saying it is tricky to debug "sender reputation" while the opposing side insists Gmail/MSOutlook spamholes are easy to fix and not a big deal. Therefore, one of the sides misunderstands the realities. With these conflicting accounts, readers contemplating running their own email server will have to decide who is more accurately reporting the state of the email ecosystem for personal servers.

The author (Tomaž Šolc) of the article discussed in this thread had ~15 years experience administering his own email servers and tried to do all the "correct" things as an upstanding citizen of the email ecosystem and yet his emails still suddenly got rejected by Gmail. Readers will have to conclude if he got bit by forces out of his control -- or
-- he's incompetent and doesn't know what he's doing. (From my point of view, the author wasn't incompetent and his frustrations with Gmail's filter is a common reality. Maybe this time, he can update DMARC to fix Gmail rejections... for now. But eventually, a new Google AI spam algorithm will mysteriously reject his server's emails again.)
Hey this looks really cool. I could see this potentially being useful for communities that have guests do public office hours but might have issues getting the word out to interested people who don't regularly visit the forums for updates (thinking of IndieHackers).

Good work :)
> ED, Kiwifarms, do you really think it's mostly men who spend all that time concerned with social warfare, gossiping and reputational damage?

Yes, actually I really do think so. Never mind ED or Kiwifarms, what about B1FF and the Meow Wars? Internet trolling and flame-baiting very much dates back to the 1980s, when the Internet was truly a male domain; Twitter and Tumblr have simply made it mainstream. At most, we could say that some women with remarkably antisocial tendencies may have joined the fray with gusto, but I just don't buy the claim that they even account for anything close to a majority of that, erm, userbase.
Apps can use biometric authentication, which is somewhat more convenient.
Also, if you've studied human psychology in depth, you realize that the scientific method is a mirror of a very specific set of traits "owned" by a subset of humans.

If you're on the outside of that subset, it turns out that not only is it easier just to slap the label on, but your ideal customer (relative to your psychology) doesn't really care to do much more than a simple label check anyway.

From zero to 'rm -rf science-budget' in one marketing exercise.

A sad truth but coming around to it can help us understand why scientists need to work on social policy and outreach messaging as well. Scientific values simply will not sell themselves the way we think they should, outside of our little sphere.

Fortunately our cultural messaging has vastly improved in this domain recently. Bridge psychologies like that of Bill Nye are great examples of how this can work.
I'm downvoting you because this is an punching-down attempt at nitpicking somebody in an overwhelmingly imbalanced power dynamic. Even if it's not true, freelancer dot bleeping com does not need your cape-up. They can hue and cry about how unfair that is on their piles of middleman money, that's fine, but they do not need a rallied defense.

At best--at best--the founder you know can speak for himself.
Eloquent writing definitely helps explain my point better. Thanks.
Making deals with similar people at other companies.
The number of independent bookstores in the US has been consistently rising for the past 10 years.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/282808/number-of-indepen...
FreeCAD 0.18 released with Python 3/Qt 5 support and more
Zerocoin Exploited in the Wild on ZCoin Chain
More than 2500 commits. More than 100 contributors. More than 11 months in the making: https://www.freecadweb.org/downloads.php

0.18 is not a big change in terms of features but very important for the core. FreeCAD now supports Python 3 and QT5. Still, some important changes and convenience functions have been added in the user space as well: https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Release_notes_0.18
Pretty sure I've seen this in 2018.
My only issue is TS usage with extremely large/complex components/containers. For example, files around 500 lines of code, I've temporarily removed TS, done a few other optimizations (ternaries for obvious If/Else statements, etc) to reduce to ~200-230 lines total. The file is instantly easier to reason about and modify.

I wish there was a plugin that just did this automatically so you could toggle it back on when done. To clarify, it's mostly when working with 3rd party/other libs, where you don't have the background of the team.
The computer games Europa Universalis IV, Crusader Kings 2, Imperator: Rome, and others by Paradox Development use something like this by splitting up the map into irregularly-shaped provinces that can have a variable number of connections with other provinces (including tactical considerations such as penalties from river crossings) and have different travel speeds for armies based on the sizes of particular provinces.

A simple visual example of somebody looking at the diplomacy view of their country in EU4: https://i.imgur.com/hfI8NnM.jpg
I wouldn't really club Zoom in with the rest of the tech IPO's, they've shown a profit and seem to be able to stay that way.
There's either two possibilities for the self-driving future.

1) Hardly anybody owns cars anymore. When we want to get from point A to point B, we just call a driverless car from the network. But this type of service is a natural monopoly.

When people are ridesharing everywhere, the network with the biggest fleet, becomes the stochastically fastest and cheapest option. Plus add in the fact that they're collecting a lot more data to constantly improve algorithm. This is a winner-take-all market with fat monopoly margins for whoever wins. If Uber prevails, it's likely that their profits will be larger than the entire global auto market.

2) People still mostly own their own cars. They're driverless, but people like the convenience, customization and sense of personal ownership with having their own vehicle. Ridesharing is still an out-of-the-ordinary option for unconventional lifestyles or special occasions.

But in this world, Uber doesn't need to own their own fleet. The same crowdsourcing logic still works. Personal vehicle ownership means a huge number of idle vehicles sitting in people's driveways. Without the pain-in-the-ass factor of actually having to be the driver, expect a lot more people to put their car on Uber's network.
Blockchain’s Role in a Decentralized Wireless Network
> Google has no incentive to fix these kinds of problems.

You mean not to try to actively sabotage the internet that we once knew?
Neither assumption you describe is necessarily present in the position you are responding to. The US could have below average labor protections and still legitimately be worried about outsourcing labor to countries with even lower labor protections.

This is precisely what globalization agreements don't just say "ok, no tarrifs guys". Those low tarrifs are tied to mandated regulations to out a floor on "races to the bottom".

Thus globalization is necessarily a trade off between economic performance and regulatory autonomy.
Hacker news is fucked by google
This analysis doesn't make any sense, because it's not connected to the offense. I can laugh off a speeding ticket, but that same ticket could throw the monthly finances of a low-income person into disarray. But we don't scale the fine with offender income; we scale it with how fast we're driving.

It seems to me that what's important is that the fine is big relative to the offense. If Facebook generated $5B from the behavior they're being fined for, it's not a big fine. If they generated $100MM from it, it's a huge fine.
But tether isn’t claiming to be a bank account. A bank account is an unsecured loan, tether claimed to be taking secured loans.

With a bank, you are lending cash to them when you make a deposit. You are taking a risk that the bank’s credit won’t be good, and you will lose your money, so you should require interest to compensate for that. Deposit insurance changes this only a little. But it’s not like there are zero assets backing the accounts: there are still enough to cover expected liquidity needs. The credit risk mentioned early is that his expectation will fall short of reality.

But owning tether wasn’t supposed to invoke any credit risk at all. It was a secured loan: if you bought a tether, you had sole claim on a dollar in a bank account.

By the way, banks buy and sell secured loans all the time. Mortgages are a particularly common example in retail banking. Although usually, secured lending is used to convert a low liquidity asset, like a house, into a liquid one, like cash. Tether makes no sense economically because it converts one liquid asset into another.
What is the point of this article? If you're going to ask a question, do some work to actually find an answer.
How is not allowing US companies to exploit workers in developing countries "colonialism"? If anything, exporting work to cheaper countries with less worker protections is the modern day version of colonialism.

As another commentator said, the US can have fewer worker protections than Europe and still more than developing countries. I assume that the OP meant that US labor laws would be a minimum standard chosen because that's what US companies would have to follow if they didn't outsource, not because it's objectively the best labor standard.
I wouldn't assume that. In these echelons, people are generally aware that they're all bullshitting each other.
Their app has compicated and clumsy UI that looks like it was made by programmers rather than by a designer and very high memory usage. Here is an example of memory usage from a small team with little volume of messages, reported by smem on Linux:

- 5 processes

- over 850M in swap

- over 310M PSS (Proportional set size which is the only indicator showing true memory usage)

This is over 1 Gb total. Despite high memory usage, they don't provide 32-bit version for Linux. It is surprising how such product can become profitable.
I'd not considered that in a hot location with limited retail space that companies might occupy that space at a loss and treat it as a marketing expense. But upon further reflection, I have to assume that is the case for a lot of business in Times Square, for example.
The implication in the further context from what you quoted was sweet spot for price for new sales (not actual numbers of sales).
Neat, they're replacing the divs with html2canvas and animating that.
On the other hand, such corruption is locally contained in scope. Maybe the trade off is worth it, to have some small local corruption to avoid it at the larger, higher levels.
Amazon is planning to roll out one-day shipping for Prime members
I replied to a comment that started with "Rule #1 if you're applying for jobs or graduate school"
Why can't we shame both? :)
I don't use Windows.
Delivery performance is costing you money. Let us help you speed it up
So with squares you have 4 sides, and you typically go in 8 directions, the problem being that the diagonals cover 1.41 and change times as much distance.

With hexes you have 6 sides and you typically go in 6 directions... huh? Why are we suddenly leaving out the "diagonals?" Well if you did take them we're off by 1.15 and change.

If left the diagonals out of square movement you'd have the same "drunken walk" problem as hexes. If you allowed diagonal movement on hex grids you'd have the same problem as diagonal movement on square grids.

Every hexes vs. squares debate leaves out that most of the pros and cons are totally imaginary and only exist because we artificially restrict our available options on the hex grid or, on the other side of the coin, artificially inflate our options on square grids.
The building across the street isn’t ones “competitor”.
This is largely correct. Simple case: the local school district here in a suburb of Boston provides a school bus service. So did the one I attended in New York.

The one in NY owned a fleet of diesel buses, a central depot to put them in, a repair facility next to the depot, and paid administrators, mechanics and drivers. Every so often a wave of buses were replaced.

The one in MA pays a bus company that does all the same work. The bus company makes a profit. Interestingly, they aren't scaled -- this bus company serves this school district, period.

In theory, the MA school district could look for another vendor if the price got too high. In practice, every bus company is already at their capacity and could not expand to cover another district without a major capital infusion to fund another depot, repair shop, and more buses.

In any situation where one could reasonably argue that a private company could scale, one would have to also accept the argument that the government could scale at an advantage because they don't need to make a profit: depots and buses need to be fairly local, and while they can be consolidated to some extent, one might as well handle it as a multi-district service - a county or even state-wide.

Arguments based on a private company being more efficient because of competitive pressures don't work. There's no competitive pressure.

Arguments based on private companies being less corrupt don't work. Mismanagement happens everywhere.

When it comes to public services, privatization always means a handout to the owners.
The debate has lost sight of even 'how can we punish Facebook for CA' and moved into 'how can we punish Facebook simply for being Facebook'.

At that point, there's no need to tie the figure to anything - someone could (and probably will) come along and say 'make the fine 500bn instead' and it will have just as much basis in reality.

Which is fine - many do think that the world without Facebook in it would be a better place. But this is certainly not about ‘how can we coerce Facebook into being a more responsible actor’.
Car2Go is a subsidiary of Daimler, though. And I suppose that being able to produce a large number of cars (all identical models and setups, all the same colour etc.) is something that an automotive company can easily leverage.
> to work hard to achieve the will of the people

where do corporations fit into that ?
Make no mistake, it's a lot of work to get to the point where you get to be the one to charge Pepsi a million dollars for a logo.
It took me over a year of benching before I realized that my shoulders shouldn't feel anything from benching correctly. There are a ton of good youtube videos on scapular retraction, if you learn to do that and make it part of your routine you'll never have shoulder pain again. I'm not sure if it makes benching more or less efficient, but I'm able to recover significantly quicker and so I've made better progress since learning to retract.
I think it's important to mention that counting sort and radix sort are not "true" comparison-based sorts: they have additional requirements on the input data.
The USA can print as many dollar bills as needed, right? But Tether cannot.
> Western democracies have now overly partisan political system where most of the effort is spent in just cancelling out each other.

I would suggest almost the opposite. I think the West suffers from having too much similar politics. Overall the developments have been largely the same, roughly following the UK and the US. Very few countries stand out, especially not as a result of recent policies. And if they do it isn't a positive thing.
They quadrupled their revenue while keeping their losses flat in just 3 years, for a sticky high margin enterprise product.

With just modest revenue growth they'll be able to optimize towards profit whenever they choose.
And: I pretty much loathe Facebook, but that doesn't mean I like being pandered to by Kara Swisher.
FAR 25, perhaps specifically 25.171-25.181 related to stability but there are separate sections on stall behavior, controllability, maneuverability, performance, etc.

Those things must be demonstrated to get an airworthiness certificate under that part. Is this FAR all encompassing of that which makes an airplane safe or not? Because we have an airplane that was so certified, and yet we have two crashes that directly contradict their safety (hence they're grounded).

I'm less concerned that these planes are somehow, without computers, not complying with FAR 25. I'm more concerned that Boeing (and FAA) will accept a software only fix, and continue to avoid a type certificate for this derivative model aircraft, and thus avoid any additional training for pilots. Basically, I expect Boeing will take the full hit, i.e. the software was flawed and now it is fixed, so that airlines won't be dinged for any on-going training requirement.

Thus far the market isn't significantly dinging Boeing's value. Today's price is the same as it was in September of last year before either accident happened. The market is effectively saying those accidents don't matter that much, cost wise.

Unless more information comes out that suggests there was wrong doing by either Boeing or the FAA. That could change the whole calculus.
Renderless? What are these good for?
Illinois made me file in paper this year because I am an out of state student. Next I can file electronically.
Perhaps, but are these places like the magnificent but now gone St Mark's Books (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mark%27s_Bookshop) or are they just christian bookstores and comic book shops?
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Nature offer the letter because it is the standard way to respond in such situations?

Standard? Probably. Sufficient? Likely not.

Accepting a letter to the editor would give Cahill a platform to share his disagreement, without Nature having to actually admit error or fault. I think that an error like this probably should require some sort of acknowledgement from the original article's authors and/or the editorial staff.

> Don't make a deal with the devil. The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.

Quillette is hardly the devil.
Detroit: A personal story of economic segregation
The Astor Place Riot
Your comment implies the security of a pin code on your phone screen is equivalent to an air-gapped hardware token, which is obviously false.

I think at this point we have enough examples of mobile phone numbers being insecure and mobile app stores being full of malware to categorically state your smartphone is not a secure enough device for accessing substantial sums of money.
I pay for Fastmail and I get a relatively large amount of spam there. We self-host our email at work, and plenty of spam gets through there, too. I never see spam in the inbox on my gmail address, ever. Google's email is the best I've seen (though I admit I haven't used a lot). I use it because I want to use it, not because it is free.

I'm not sure what you mean by "buy email from google today." I don't want to "buy email," I want to pay them to not serve ads or track me when I use their services. That includes far more than email, I'm talking about the whole ecosystem like Android, Maps, Search and so on. Surely $120/year from me is worth far more than they're getting in ads, right? I dunno.
Interesting. I've never really had any of those issues with my surface book. I might not recommend it if the tablet mode won't see use, though.

I do have the original, so I suppose if you got the newer ones things may have changed, but... heat is high but not problematically so, wifi works without noticeable issues, trackpad works fine. I really can't figure out what you're talking about with the ports - 2 usb + sd card reader on one side, charger + mini display port on the other, all bog standard. Not a spectacular selection, but not poor design/layout from my experience.

Charging... the cable can have issues, especially with bending near the connection, but charging itself has always been fine (assuming no cable issues).

Battery life is spectacular when you set it to focus on that, and performance is good when you aim for that. I've never really liked 'balanced' settings, because then it's either not powerful enough (usually games, I think I've needed it in perf mode for data processing once or twice) or chewing through too much battery for what I'm doing (programming while on the go is not particularly demanding, but I want time, so I set it up for battery life). I do rarely use it without the base, because the battery life then is poor - being able to connect it backwards is very nice for managing that in some cases, but makes it quite heavy for handheld use.

Possibly connected, my experience with Windows 10 is great on my Surface Book, but it takes forever to boot on my desktop (with an admittedly rather old processor/hdd). Windows defender, on the other hand, is definitely bloated and can be a pain to keep under control if I haven't used the Book for a while.