skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
did I read that wrong or does it say I can get a 50% code quality improvement by just sleeping what ever is considered normal?
> vanilla CSS

Is there another kind of CSS?
The word “Addressing” has a connotation in this usage context that the subject is focusing their attention on what they see as broken or deficient. The trick is that it’s relative to the subject or speaker’s point of view.
The AQI for Shanghai is double that of NYC currently. I've found I'm pretty sensitive to air quality.
I don't use gmail so I'm surprised at how low the (useful) information density is, in either version.

Extrapolating from that screenshot, it looks like that window could hold about a dozen emails. I use the no-frills Mail.app on macOS and a window that's takes about half or two thirds of my screen, and fits 40 emails. In my case I also get to see the "To" address in the list, helping me quickly triage the emails that are not sent to me alone.

Do people really prefer low density interfaces these days?

Removing the visual clutter is certainly an improvement but desktop apps have the menu bar where they can put all the actions, whereas a web app is more limited: it's either a mess of buttons or hamburger buttons which often end up a bit clumsy.
Apple doesn't do the sort of in depth R&D into things like displays that Samsung does. They do it with their A series chips, but for displays, modems etc. they source from the likes of Samsung etc.
Did the backup codes not work either?
I once read a really good book about discrete RF circuits (made from transistors/diodes/...). It was composed of ~100 different circuits and explained what each part did. (you could not always easily split the design, because of numerous feedback loops) It was a lot of fun studying it. You'd learn to find oscillating circuits, circuits that used non-linear elements to shift signals between frequency bands, to identify buffers and amplifiers, LP,HP,BG,BP filters, etc.

Similar thing in digital world is trying to understand simple ICs like, operation amplifiers, TTL logic, SMPS control circuits at the low level.
All mostly made of plastic.
I just want to say thank you for bulma, it is a top notch project and I recommend it to everyone.
How is this any different to one of the many gig economy workforce companies like Uber, Lyft, Postmates, etc? How much human interaction do these employees have before they are fired? Do humans tell these people if they are performing badly and offer training to improve?
"the minimum ratio of positive-to-negative emotions humans need over time to “flourish” to be 2.9013"

"It reflects the highest positivity ratio (observed ratio = 5.6) and the broadest range of inquiry and advocacy. It is also the most generative and flexible. Mathematically, its trajectory in phase space never duplicates itself, representing maximal degrees of freedom and behavioral flexibility. In the terms of physics and mathematics, this is a chaotic attractor.”"

They needed someone to write a paper to point out this was pseudoscientific BS? Not only that, but the paper was cited over 1000 times?!

Absolutely terrifying.
Less time in the absolute sense, as in "you die sooner so you have fewer minutes alive remaining". Not "you choose to spend your time differently.
They specifically provide 10 one use codes for this type of situation that should be saved somewhere. Also, email should be backed up locally if it’s important, just like anything else.

I’m not sure what else people want from a secure email service you don’t have to pay for. Also, any work around the 2FA by a human simply means less security for everyone.
It still amazes me that they're persisting with the fat-belly logo. It looks like a fat dude with his belly hanging out. It's not something that, once seen, can ever be unseen, even years later. Makes me chuckle on the inside, every time, and plays its part in reminding me of dangers of pop over-consumption.
Wouldn't that be like being against the concept of vaccines because of horrible medical lobbies?
Obvious questions first: How does it compare to Yew?
They do quarantine people for the flu. Happened during my undergrad; they kept a few students with the swine flu in their rooms. Had meals and supplies brought to them and asked them to not leave.
Lol welcome to weird Twitter I hope you enjoy
No, but it's a really fucking good way to make money.

Apple has managed to convince a huge number of people to pay premium prices for average hardware and software that often loses features with each new release. Any company on the planet would be thrilled to be in that position.
"Not looking to get around country-blocks" - yep, as found it does not work in China
I just want to note that the technical causes you list here are, arguably, totally beside the point.

All technical systems have strengths and weaknesses. When systems are conceived and developed their goals are set through a culturally-created understanding of what the system "should" do. The lack of attention to darker faces (from chemical process selection to selection of people depicted in kodak's system calibration cards) explains how we got this particular set of technical limitations instead of one that, say, tended to over-expose easily.

> Dark-skinned faces are inherently more difficult to photograph

I would say that dark-skinned faces are inherently poorly captured by the photographic technology we have developed, which has focused on detail rather than dynamic range.
Well, measles is extremely contagious and nowadays you can't expect that everybody else is vaccinated, so...

I'd call a single case of smallpox "Smallpox Outbreak". Too bad this recent outbreak of sheer ignorance and prejudice is going to delay a meaningful comparison between both viral diseases.
There's a David Foster Wallace short story on this subject. It's called "Mister Squishy". Here's an especially relevant excerpt from an overview/interpretation of it that I wrote[1]:

Now it seems that the purpose of the focus group, rather than gathering information about consumer response to the snack-cake, is to improve the design of future focus groups. Schmidt, however, informs the reader through glimpses we are given to his thoughts during the session, that the focus groups have no material impact: rather than using the collected data to make inferences about consumer preferences, it is desirable to end with a nebulous analysis which could conclude one outcome or another based on which direction the client company is already planning on moving in: the focus groups can only confirm a decision which has already been made: a deviation on this will result in the termination of the marketing firm.

[1] http://westoncb.blogspot.com/2012/12/interpretation-of-david...
It’s a zero sum game.

That electricity could have been used to replace polluting power-sources.
Just the name indicates perfectly well what you are going to be working on.

But really, it seems fairly benign compared to some of the other options.
Recent release from Tether:

"The New York Attorney General’s court filings were written in bad faith and are riddled with false assertions, including as to a purported $850 million ‘loss’ at Crypto Capital. On the contrary, we have been informed that these Crypto Capital amounts are not lost but have been, in fact, seized and safeguarded. We are and have been actively working to exercise our rights and remedies and get those funds released.” https://cointelegraph.com/news/tether-hits-back-at-claims-it...

So basically they are saying Ivan didn't nick it - the authorities froze it.
This article can't be recommended enough. It goes into a lot of the theory behind hexagonal grid systems. Other articles on that site are well worth reading, too.
Where are you getting death rate from for measles and flu please?

Also, we're not just interested in death rates (about 2 children out of every 1000 who get measles will die from it) but also long term harm, which can include deafness or brain damage.

Since the US had eradicated measles in about 2000 that's a lot of preventable harm that's happening because people fear vaccines.
I worked in a warehouse and it is as mindless as you can imagine. You receive a slip, pick things on slip, place in box, tape close and repeat.
Some people will read this and say to themselves: "I'm in the wrong field". Others will say to themselves: "I'm sure glad I'm not in that field".
To compare, FastMail has no such logo. Just a big giant menu button that is easy to find and click, unlike the five different tiny menu buttons, only some of which are actually menus, hidden behind obscure icons and littered about GMail's interface.
Not everybody can be vaccinated and measles spreads like crazy. If there's one confirmed infection, that person likely already spread the virus for a couple of days before symptoms occur.

Besides, it's a disease that shouldn't be around anymore at all.

This is why it's a big deal.
Amazon's sales are in the billions of items annually [1]

If you can save two cents on each of 5 billion packages, you save $100 million per year. Most employers will give raises and promotions to people who deliver operational expense savings that large.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312518... Five billion items to prime users
Why do you think it is "illegal" to quarantine people for measles? https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantin...
A lot of the kids of anti-vax parents become strident pro-vaccination people. I would too if my parents had wilfully left me susceptible to deadly illness
As someone who runs their own personal mail server, this annoys me to no end.

I set up DKIM, SPF, and reverse-DNS records and resented every moment of it. Even after all that, there's some chance that an email from my server will be marked as insecure/spam or otherwise just not be delivered because Google has come up with some new brilliant mail security/auth/permission scheme that the world has to adopt tomorrow or be cut off from all Gmail users.
I haven’t looked at the material yet, but I did try to read Deborah Nolan’s book Data Science in R, and it was a confounding experience. I remember thinking “the material in this book is so far from anything that I’ve ever heard described as ‘Data Science’ that it renders the phrase useless”
Uber sets terms for IPO, posts $1B first-quarter loss
Firefox admits they will eventually be sending all of your DNS to Cloudflare
Heinlein stuff is generally not to be recommended. "I will fear no evil" is especially bad.

A bunch of rich old dudes and hot women.
Getting a 404 here.
how do you fix climate change with fucking blockchain?
Companies like this give whores a bad name.
https://www.utne.com/arts/new-pepsi-logo-is-a-joke
You are incorrect and denying science as well. Trump uses the same logic to deny climate change. He says many experts disagree.

Your opinion is not equal to fact. I'm sorry.

Please stop being a science denier.
A while back I'd explored trying to own my data, especially with email, and found that the efforts involved in hosting your own email server were tantamount to a full-time job.

The amount of fighting you have to do to stay on everyone's whitelists is absurd.
You had to give them your email password when you signed up...
Oops, I misread page 15 and confused the Respondents for the OAG. I was skimming. My bad.

> To me, the whole thing looks like this: "Hey Bitfinex, you can't keep running your operations when you're missing 800M. We know that, because we're the one who seized that money from you"

This sounds right. Pretty interesting stuff
There are trade-offs involved with any paradigm, be it squares, hexes, even with continuous movement. The question is rather: what fits your design intent best? The player's experience is what counts in the end.

Squares and hexes are discretized environments. Again, this brings benefits and drawbacks. The advantage of hexes in this scenario lies in the fact that they often provide a richer medium for quantized movement in games. There is nothing inherently complicated about simulating movement and areas of effect in hex maps, neither for computers nor for humans.

If your game requires straight lines to be modeled perfectly, both hexes and squares provide two "clean" axes for that. Realism is a relative goal in a war game. It's all a set of models in the end.

Moving in straight lines using arbitrary angles is also not something that can realistically happen on battlefields.
Google has no incentive to fix these kinds of problems.

It's big enough that when someone complains that a message sent wasn't received, the intended recipient will say, "I never have problems with my Gmail account. It must be you." And the sender has to switch to Gmail to reliably communicate with the outside world.

I wish this was just paranoia, but we've seen multiple discussions on HN about Google programs and policies that alter the internet in ways that only benefit Big G. It's like we're heading back to the days when people didn't know the difference between AOL and "the internet."
I have an interesting Yakuza story that I want to share:

One of my Japanese friends used to work for the Yakuza (without being a member). His job was to play Pachinko at rigged machines. The way Pachinko works is that every day some machines are randomly selected to be winning machines. The Yakuza somehow had intel on what machines were winners and relayed the info to their crew of seemingly normal gamblers.

They had to play for the whole day and in the night gave the winnings to their Yakuza contact. The sad thing is that most of his "colleagues" instantly went back to the Pachinko hall to gamble away their cut.
Yeah, it's only what 99% of doctors in the US would recommend but I'm the extremist...
I'd assume that it comes from land acquisition, lawsuits, and general underestimation as to how much this would actually cost.
How do you ever give useful feedback with that attitude?
> This is aiming for emerging markets

Agreed

> India and China

India[1] and China are the two largest phone manufacturers in the world right now. I would not consider them emerging markets in terms of smartphones.

1: https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/india-is-now-world...
I imagine this company exists solely to trap VCs and harvest their organs.
I've (probably) had a ministroke (TIA). What surprised me is that typing was affected in the same way for me. In my mind I made a coherent sentence with words, but when I read back what I wrote, I understood that it was a garbled mess. I tried again, failed, and became frustrated.

The crazy part to me was that I realized something was wrong, but it never occurred to me to ask for help. I tried to stubbornly keep working. I was trying to set up IIS at the time. I knew what I was roughly doing, but I kept forgetting what I was specifically doing. Reading those chat logs reminds me that even my own brain can fail me.
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It's based on Yew itself and since Yew is React/Elm like, but this is more Elm inspired I assume it compares like Elm vs React.
> I'm sure there is no malicious intent behind this

How can anyone be sure of this? This is only one of Google’s practices that seems to follow a pervasive pattern of eroding open internet standards while presenting Google’s own proprietary implementation as somehow superior. Eventually, the open standard loses all meaning because the most popular implementation does not actually adhere to it. Meanwhile, Google reaps enormous benefits in the form of additional signals for its advertising business. How can this not be grounded in malicious intent?

> and that there are some very smart people working on spam prevention at Google.

There are some very smart people working on advertising at Google. The rush to forget the primary nature of Google - it’s an adtech firm - is why they’ve been allowed to skate for so long. Gmail’s spam filtering is just a pretext for passing all email through a machine learning system. Sure, one possible signal emitted by that system is whether a message is spam or not. Perhaps this determination is conflated with wether the message is useful for ad targeting: after all, when viewed from Google’s own perspective certain e-mail messages contain no information which can be used for ad targeting, so they must be spam. The user’s interests are clearly secondary to this.

So, back to the “smart people” working on this: at what point do we begin judging engineers for working at Google? There’s a lot of highly vitriolic criticism that emanates from Google’s workforce on a variety of subjects, but how many of them would actually pull the pin and leave their employer? I don’t have any statistics to offer, but it seems to me that we still have a ways to go before Google has become completely drained of engineering mindshare.
https://github.com/ivanceras/sauron#performance-is-not-too-b...
I had a fright last time I changed phones. After restoring my backup onto the new phone, I was about to wipe the old one; I did a final pass through my apps just in case... and saw that Google Authenticator configuration did not carry over to the new phone (which makes sens from a security perspective but is a PITA to manage). I had to re-enroll my device with all the services on which I use MFA.

After this episode I made damn sure I had recovery codes stored in a safe place.
Actually, I think that's an excellent point for hiding usernames, since they skew the perception of the actual comment.
It might be interesting to be forced to consider what is written entirely on its own merit, and not be biased by who has written it.
I find it ironic that out of all cities to give sentiment in China, they took the "sick man of coastal China."

When I lived in Shanghai, the thing I heard the most were locals complaining of city's dysfunction.

Line 2 is a deathtrap in rush hour. There are people who get broken ribs there every month or so.

Historic lilongs are in more disrepair one can imagine. Sevage is a huuuge problem, with some lilongs very close to city centre still dumping it to ditches.

Century old city's servers can't keep up with population density. It's not uncommon to see them overflowing in much of older districts.

Social services are quite poor, even for registered residents.

Shanghai's household registration is harder to get than to immigrate to a more well of country on a professional visa...

I can continue this list for a few a4 pages.

Even with all those troubles, people keep coming to Shanghai for god knows what reason.

A lot of social status connotation is attached to person's place of residence in China, and I think this is the only reason why people keep moving in there.
> If Russia and China were sane, reasonable states that cared for any semblance of human rights

America holding internet standards hostage can't be the answer to that, arrogant selfishness comes across as the motivation.

Telephony interoperability standards are managed just fine by an international committee; this can serve as a role model how to govern control of internet standards. http://ITU.int/ITU-T
> Not only that, but the paper was cited over 1000 times?!

With a bit of mining, you could probably identify other likely BS papers by looking at what they cite. Has that been done before?
That's totally inaccurate and doesn't reflect the linked message: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/doh/po6GCAJ52BAKuyL-dZ...
Actually, I think the returning affulent people only caused the rate of home invasions to shoot up, which although only anecdotally, have risen sharply since 2010 - which also coincedes with Ecuador being rated the #1 place to retire so also saw an influx of rich (actual and relative) foreigners coming in, buying land and building (actual and relative) mansions.

Having lived in Ecuador for 10 years, I have not heard any anecdotal evidence of this report (in fact the counter). But that is mostly from middle class inlaws. Perhaps the reduction is in the barrios, which would not be felt / known nor reported
Someone makes the data, someone collects the data, someone formats the data, and someone shares the data. Each step can be, and often is, corrupted. There is no path to 'truth' through only 'data'. Hence the news being the shitshow it is.
What makes you dehydrate so severely so often? I've never had this happen, and I'm not that on-the-ball about hydration.
I have run a private mailserver for over 20 years, and I have the same problem. There's no telling what Google will let through. I have a second account at a medium-sized email provider, basically paying them for access to the email deliverability cartel.
Ports are an easy problem to fix. I was talking in general about their build quality and engineering which, by all accounts, is excellent.

Apple still beats them easily but MS is catching up.
Same. Not even a noticed reduction in murder rates, unless it is happening in areas that don't get much reporting
My parents didn’t tell me they skipped my vaccines. Then I got sick
Having worked with Accenture on a number of projects, big and small, and for several different industries, I can agree 100%. It might have been a difference in approach, but I always found them to be more focused on following a process than actually achieving results. "But we need to complete these three forms and go through this workflow first, then we can actually install the software".
Switched to plain HTML version after the redesign was rolled out and have no regrets about it.
One thing I can think of is making it faster and easier, maybe even for people who are less skilled in music to generate music that sound good.

That is valuable to me.
Consultants get paid to do what you want them to do.

If the government contracts for some consultants and lets them "take over", then it's their fault. They were either unclear in their direction, providing incorrect direction, or incompetent at managing the contract.

If they do not have the expertise to act as their own general contractor, they should hire one.

Really, since federal funds went into this, the agencies managing this should be investigated by the federal government and the state should have to pay back the funds that they mismanaged.
Not illegal and definitely necessary for deadly virulent diseases. How do you think we're supposed to handle a deadly outbreak, wishful thinking?
Yeah, that's probably true. My family member is often billed as a "senior python engineer" at 2k GBP per day, yet they've only been using python for 6 months, have no programming background, and are just not very technical. I've seen a few of their solutions, and terrible would be an understatement.

They're simply ripping people off, and I don't understand why people keep giving them business.
That's why I thought you should see it, so you can reply to the thread directly, and also here in case anyone had seen it. I know you monitor HN for CF mentions, and it gives you a platform for comprehensive rebuttal.