skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll plug another one: https://www.haptictouchbar.com/

This uses the trackpad haptic engine to (poorly) emulate a key click when pressing touchbar items.

I'm unsure how they overlooked putting a haptic engine in the touchbar itself but it feels way too late to attempt to salvage now. They need a new keyboard that people will fall in love with.
Slack usability has steadily been decreasing over time.

On desktop I am not getting the "unread" grouping but mobile I do.

The drafts feature is on both and can't be disabled.

Both of them break habits of where my channels are. It is terrible UX.

The "threads" feature on the sidebar allows you to reply to a thread but if you get a counterreply you need to click to see it. A better flow can be found if you click the channel name on top of the thread -- there's no indication like a timestamp or anything this jumps you to the thread in the channel -- and then click the thread link in-channel and then answer in the sidebar -- now the conversation flows without further clicks. Do I need to mention how terrible UX this is?
So given a required rate of return of 5% - $16B is how much you would pay for consistent risk free, net inbound cash flows of $800m per year, in perpetuity.

One way of getting that would be 800m users generating profit after expenses of $1 each every year.

This is a chat app that is completely and totally replaceable with irc. No really it is. $800m per year in clear profit.

Is that really feasible in any way? How? What's the bait and switch here? (With facebrick it was the surveillance nobody knowingly agreed to. Is there something like that here?) Can anyone do a back of the envelope calculation to make this price make sense?
How do you decide what to learn next?
As long as you are running the software yourself then you are the only responsible party. (assuming they don't just send your credential to their server :) )
I would consider "wargish" to be a word meaning "in the style of a warg", with warg being a word for wolf that appears in modern English works (Tolkien being the obvious one).
You also can’t disable this without disabling handoff entirely.
Going on intuition I figured that “boxthorn” and “razorbills” were undoubtedly English words but not knowing them I followed the rules and answered no. They both are, apparently, English words. 87%.
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Turns out it is: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steepy
But I think for that to work we'd need to know the size of _their_ pool of word, not the size of all known words (which is debated anyway)
Looking for the missing hole in the water is ignoring the lower level of water in the bucket and saying, "We've not lost anything!"
Huh, good to know that exists.
And percicely the metric being pushed for by those who should know better. You can't quantify viewpoint diversity in a spreadsheet or quarterly report.
I hope so. But for automation to make fiscal sense, necessarily there would be fewer jobs, fewer hours and net lower pay servicing and supervising the machines. (assuming annual phone purchases have essentially flattened of course)

I hope otherwise, but an unhappy alternative forecast would be "Perhaps you won't have Americans assembling phones, but for sure a few people will own all the machines that do so"
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That could have been said about many countries in the last 100 years. England, Germany, United States, Japan and now China. Capitalism seeks to reduce risk and maximize profit. We are in a cycle to reduce risk and preserve profit. How long it will last is up to the political landscape.
You can definitely drive my Model S with only the credentials. I have been in a situation where I had to install the app on a new phone then unlock it and drive away. Model 3 may be different but I don't think it is.
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Crazy. I can't stand the software.

Experiment for slack fans: Start talking about something in a channel with ~20 people. Then ask a friend to ask another question in the same channel. What happens? A mess. You now have 2 conversations modeled with a single stream of single-line messages, with no context. One someone starts a conversation in a channel every single other user in that channel now has to wait. (or risk being pushed up past the fold, which people never scroll to)

Chat just isn't how work gets done. Or how knowledge is transferred and, most importantly, retained.
This was a cute test, but it dinged me for not "knowing" the word "toreador". Except I do: it's a Spanish word, not an English one. I also don't consider it a loan word, because the English word for "toreador" is "bullfighter".
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I cant wait for a robot to deliver pizza into my mouth, while I watch porn on my oculus rift, then pop a few melatonin pills and fall asleep on my couch.
But is this real IQ or fudged Chinese numbers like their GDP growth? One must examine the source.
Regardless of any controversy, or hindsight badgering, one really can't look at Sullenberger and accuse him of not being a demonstrated exemplar of a sufficiently skilled pilot.

For those in the wings holding out hope that Boeing may be able to offload their central role in these tragedies under the guise of "properly trained pilots can recover this", this represents a significant blow to any attempt to play that card.

Glad to see him weigh in on it. That's for sure.
Took it once and was very conservative on words I didn’t “know”. Got 49% with no false positives. Upon inspection if I’d answered yes to everything I thought was a word, I’d have gotten much higher with no false positives. So I took it again and answered yes to everything I could guess the meaning of and got 89% with no false positives.

An example of something I said yes to on the second pass that I’d have said no to on the first: I guess superexcellent is a word, the meaning is very clear but I don’t know that I’ve ever seen it used before and would never consider using it myself.
> Capping H1B is classic Trump and threatening to cap it based on complaisance with a particular pro-US policy goal, doubly so.

I get this. But what Trump fails to grasp is that our own ecosystem in the US relies heavily on sucking MIT, Harvard, Stanford level people from other countries. Stopping that is a boon for other countries who not only have their own smart people starting companies locally but also have fewer American companies competing in general since America hemorrhaged that innovation ecosystem.
>I’m envisioning an outcome beyond the article.

Also known as speculative wishful thinking
Very true but not applicable to all. In fact the texts mention these sort of "sidetracks" as something to watch out for and avoided actively. It is one of the main reasons to only attempt such extreme practices strictly under the guidance of a "realized guru".
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Thailand and Vietnam are not replacements for China, though. They're simply too small. There are provinces in China with a larger population than Vietnam, and there are about 25 Chinese provinces with a larger GDP than Vietnam.
This looks like a great idea for all the games they'll never make.
No. It's a mess.
tptacek, you are the one with the colorful history. Great post. God bless.
Yes. I really like it. Since roughly 1998, I've done work chat on IRC, hipchat, MOOs, and a web-based chat app I built with a friend. Slack is the best of any of them.
RAND corporation found that the H1B program reduced tech worker's salary by 9%.
$16B on $400m of revenue? Is this high or not too bad?
Previously discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20161214
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Use frida(frida.re) with something like objection to disable certificate pining at runtime. You gotta have a rooted phone, or you'll have to patch the apk with Frida library.
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Thats an impossible way to live and get things done. Better to express yourself earnastly, and accept critisim. There is always an opprotunity to learn.
That’s sort of the point. What do you find funny ‘andyv?
I am experiencing quite a bit of the opposite from "let youtube babysit their children" in many different parents that treat video like some sort of poison which is a curiosity to me (I am not a parent).

I have been thinking more about dopamine or motivation and satisfaction in myself. I get it, satisfying that craving with any one thing too much is bad. Having satisfaction for that craving always on demand is bad. That satisfaction comes in many forms some which people say are "bad for you" some "good for you" some people disagree (in any category: exercising, eating, socializing, mind altering substances, television, youtube, social media, work, video games, reading, etc.)

Not very many people get a high from boredom, so a good measure of it probably fits in a good life, but that has its limits too.

Whenever I hear too many people have the same opinion about something "bad for you" that can't be explained without hand-waving I get very suspicious.
I groaned at this. Purchased a Chinese made lawn mower engine and the bolts for it weren't long enough to mount it in my mower. So, I went looking for longer bolts. Turned out that the Chinese bolts weren't Metric or SAE. Totally nonstandard junk.
Bringing back something that essentially matches the 2015 keyboard's characteristics would go a long way with most users, in my opinion.
My life changed when I remapped caps look to be Esc. You don't even need any third-party software or configs to do that.
If the same comment is relevant to a similar story posted twice, and this rule of yours is listed nowhere in the guidelines, how can you justify taking down my comment? I'm honestly curious? This wasn't a comment that was incorrect or that the community felt was inappropriate. They highly voted it up in both stories.
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I stand corrected thank you!
I also like the AI Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

It's the idea that "AI is anything that has not been done yet". Or as I like to say: "AI is any algorithm you haven't understood yet."

So you can go:

* "That's not AI, that's just a regex over a string!"
* "That's not AI, that's just a lookup over a dictionary!"
* "That's not AI, that's just a series of if statements!"
* "That's not AI, that's just a search for keywords in text!"
* "That's not AI, that's just an optimized brute force over a large search space!"
* "That's not AI, that's just a linear regression!"
* "That's not AI, that's just a neural network!"
* "That's not AI, that's just Bayesian Statistics!"
Is the whole escape key thing a joke that I'm not in on? Why don't you just use the part of the touchbar that is exactly the same as an escape key all the way down to saying "esc"? I don't get it man.
But why exactly are so many people determined to try to reproduce this particular bug in every permutation of device/os/browser known to man?
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Part of the 96% comes, I think, from the fact that I did doctoral work in English lit, which gives me a better “feel” for those sorts of archaisms. I can’t say that I knew all of the words that cropped up in the test, but many of them sounded plausible on the basis of having read quite a bit of pre-19thC stuff.
As I understand it, Tesla is building a factory in Shanghai because there's a massive market for Teslas in China, not because of tariffs. In fact, the original plan was to build the factory without a local partner, which would have meant that Tesla would have had to pay tariffs anyways. But after Tesla's decision, the Chinese government lifted joint-venture requirements in the auto industry, so Tesla won't have to pay tariffs after all.
I got around it by having do not disturb on 24 hours.
105-107 is probably a little high, but the real number is likely above 100. If mainland China is fudging the numbers, then Macau & Hong Kong are as well. Their PISA scores are all pretty close.[1]

1. http://www.unz.com/akarlin/world-map-of-pisa-2015-results/
A lot of the time it's easy to guess what real words are based on what appear to be structured correctly. I scored much higher guessing (even though I had a couple of false positives) then when I answered truly.

Also a lot of the complex words are medicine/medical which makes sense since there are an awful lot of them but isn't necessraily representive of 73% (my score) of the words I will encounter outside of medical literature.
73% with 0% false positive. Most of my false negatives were "Can you really stick that many suffixes on this word?"
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>nobody pays to read the news anymore

I pay for several, quite a few people do.
Tapatalk is pretty solid for forums on mobile.
Isn’t this what threads are for?
And I thought cooking and office sims were too close to real life to make a game about.
I love open source as much as the next person but thunderbird is bad, not evolution bad, but bad. If you have hundreds of thousands of email messages from a decade of email it just breaks.

I’m +1 on superhuman but I miss sparrow.
> There is no world in which the touch bar is good in any way. There are zero benefits to it.

Ok, I guess those of us who either aren't affected by it, or actually find it useful are just wrong?
Obviously it’s trying to detect left handedness
Attacking the merits of the idea, not the person.

Demanding the person to be fired is not fine, ad hominem attacks are not fine, sharing private information about the person is not fine. You get the idea.
You could probably write an integration to do this using the real-time messaging API.
Just because there is 'mobility', does not entice all to seek a different 'status'. Many are content to be a happy human, and think those terms are silly at best.
I don't, that was the idea I was arguing against. The comment I replied to put forward the hypothetical regarding every company wanting to hire 50% women in a world with only 20% of CS graduates being women. That would result in a world in which the demand for women is equal to men but the supply of women is much smaller than the supply of men. The natural result of that is that women have a higher salary than men. We know this isn't true so this is a modus tollens argument that disproves the original hypothetical.
It was kind of inevitable that this would happen as China moved up the value chain and ever more of the American industrial supply chain came to rely upon it - especially hi tech.

In a way, it's better that this decoupling (which will not be a quick process) happens sooner rather than later, before that reliance can be used as an effective weapon against the US (turning off the industrial goods tap/sanctions could be pretty devastating).
Typically companies add production in Brazil solely for selling to Brazil, due to their protectionist tariffs.
As others have pointed, there are very little technical reasons to use FreeBSD. Especially since Linux and Docker ate into the virtualization market. If you have a spare machine and are really that curious than by all means. Ports was a fun experience, and FreeBSD overall felt like a steady drop into real unix. Gentoo and Arch follow the same spirit, but were way too hands free for my interest.

I will warn, unless you do have technical reasons, you will unlikely gain anything professionally in a world of Linux servers. Maybe to make use of the most widely used OS under the BSD license. Apple, Nintendo, Sony, and others have proved this.
India is one of Facebook's biggest market. I am interested to understand how will they compete against India's own open wallet platform, UPI, which is already very popular and already surpassed overall Credit card transactions in the country. Wallet companies like PayTM, PhonePe, Google Pay have a strong presence throughout the country and are dealing directly with fiat currency
Apparently this is an obscure reference now. And it was an orbiter not a lander, but the point still stands.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
Apple will probably actually end up losing a significant amount of money over this. They're likely to lose a lot of their market share in China, not because of any explicit government measures against them, but because Chinese people are getting angry at the American government's trade war against China, and will avoid prominent American brands. China has a massive internal market, similar in scale to the US or Europe, so losing out there is a significant blow to a company like Apple.
How do you know that? At best, you can talk about yourself.
Same is true of music too. Once you learn the ins & outs of playing a certain song, you almost forget why you liked it. Or worse, you master the playing style of your favorite player and suddenly you've killed your god!
Meanwhile incredibly Detroit Bikes appears to be doing quite well. So well in fact that they're attracting multiple competitors in Detroit. Perhaps because they're not competing on price and some people still value American made?

https://detroitbikes.com/
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The Joys of the Craft

Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward?

First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God's delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and each snowflake.

Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child's first clay pencil holder "for Daddy's office."

Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning. The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate.

Fourth is the joy of always learning, which springs from the nonrepearing nature of the task. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something: sometimes practical, sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both.

Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. (As we shall see later, this very tractability has its own problems.)

Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself. It prints results, draws pictures, produces sounds, moves arms. The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.

Programming then is fun because it gratifies creative longings built deep within us and delights sensibilities we have in common with all men.
The key is really about detection, and having something capable of filling the space in front of the missile with stationary debris. The faster something goes, the more predictable the trajectory (due to the trumpet bell shape created by high velocity and constrained ability to accelerate), and the more vulnerable to damage from collisions with high relative velocity debris. There is a maximum speed that the missile can afford to shed if it uses either ramjet, scramjet, or ballistic via rocket based boosting + gliding to target, which further constrains the munitions evasive potential.

Definitely isn't something I'd want to defend against unprepared, but it isn't an unmitigable threat.
Its the notion that the local citizen is forced to pay the city $100 of their personal money in taxes, which can then be either "donated" to a candidate or "left" in the city coffers.
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The English word for "royal" and "regal" is "kingly"
3 rivers meet at Allahabad, not Varanasi
73% with 0% false positives, ESL

I am curious about how common is having a ~75% score
It's not the same. If you're used to typing without looking at your keyboard, a fake key on the touchbar does not compare to an actual key where you can feel without looking that your finger is in the right place, and can know by the key travel that you've actually pressed it.

It's pretty much the same as the difference between a car where the air conditioner and radio knobs are a touch screen vs. being real knobs that you can safely adjust while driving.
Another linguistics enthusiast checking in. To expand on this, a “plosive” is a sound made with the tongue stopping the airflow and then releasing it (think “t”, “p”, “k” sounds), while a fricative involves continuous airflow (think “s”, “f”, and so on). What that definition is saying is that an “affricative” is a sound that combines two of these made with the tongue in the same position. In English, an example is the “t-ch” sound at the beginning of the word “chat”. Other languages have different examples, like the “t-s” sound written as ц in Russian.
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>Unique today. But what about tomorrow? It's not like another country can't do the same thing.

It requires the willingness to throw public money at it and depreciate the currency, decades of patience and favourable trade conditions. Technically other countries could do it but most have neither the patience, capital, time or goodwill. This may well include the US.

>There's nothing inherently Chinese about opening a factory quickly.

It's the ecosystem of factories in close quarters that creates their non-replicable competitive advantage. That includes soft capital (lots of people with experience) with hard (container shipping).

For the time being (and at least for the next decade), that is uniquely Chinese, and only the US or EU are even capable of duplicating that (and it's unclear whether they have the will).
What counts as "English vocabulary"? I definitely don't count the name of the currency of Malaysia. It seems like they're relying on random selection from thefreedictionary and user feedback, but their take on "English word" vs "other language that happens to use the Latin alphabet" differs from mine.
Except in my experience they don't actually fix the bugs. For literally years the Slack app would get into a zombie state if your network changed in any way: switched WAPs, got on/off the VPN, switch from wifi to ethernet, etc. The app would still think it had a network connection but it actually didn't. The only way to fix it was with a hard refresh. To this day I still reflexively do a ctrl-r whenever my network changes. Because after reporting this bug to them over and over and over I got fed up and just moved on. I honestly have no idea if the bug has actually been fixed, ctrl-r has just become complete muscle memory for me now.
Maybe, just maybe, tariffs aren't such a bad idea. Yes, we realize it's really just a "tax on everything" but by making it a little less cost-effective to move manufacturing to China, we may bring more jobs and money back into the United States.