skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally disagree this is true for most sites today.

Usability these days is not just about what a single user will do. We build multi user apps. So the following things are an emergent phenomenon of actions MANY people take:

Engagement

Retention

Viral Spread

Collaboration

Notifications

Real time updates

Chicken and Egg problems

To test these things, you often need tons of real or fake accounts. You get some people trying interest X, and others interest Y. Sometimes things with the exact same interface usability take off in one country and not another. Like Orkut in Brazil!

Sites sometimes arrive at breakthroughs by A/B testing many things automatically across millions of sessions. That’s far more efficient but requires a large enough sample.

In fact, most of the reasons famous sites are famous is because they successfully got a lot of people to keep coming back and doing something. They probably got them to invite friends. And so on.
Also unrelated question....

Are you the Master whom runs http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ ?

I'm Ld Vincent O'Cosnachain of Mynydd Seren (Urraca Yriarte's shire)

I'd just like to thank you for running one of the best and most amazing SCA music archives in the Known Worlde!
AFAICT the risk/reward for this change (and others along the same line) is poor, because like it or not, as a factual matter, there are many tens or hundreds of millions of notionally "open source" devices that will never get an updated Linux/BSD/... kernel. Most of them are probably Android phones but there is also a giant tail of consumer routers, EOL'd network equipment, etc. A lot of this stuff will stay in use until total HW failure, which may be a decade, two decades or more.

There are of course also many closed-source products that will never get a TCP/IP stack update. I haven't tested it but I doubt Win7 will ever be able to reach 0.1.2.3 over the public internet. Even if that's a bogus example, you get the idea: millions of dollars worth of old closed source gear out there where it's impossible for the owner to patch the TCP/IP stack.

As a result, to prevent strange connectivity problems on 0.X% of their connections, almost everyone will pay (and, if needed, significantly bid up) the ~$20/yr "normal" IPv4 address cost to get an existing "non-reclaimed" IPv4 address instead of taking a gamble on one of these new ones that will definitely have problems with many other hosts. In short I don't see a voluntary rational buyer or user until the IPv4 market rises 10X+ and probably more like 100X+; until then they seem like more of a liability than an asset given how annoyingly long it will take to retire (or somehow otherwise ensure that you'll never need to talk with) non-updatable IPv4 hosts.

Not that I like this, or am trying to defend or justify it, but I think it is an accurate assessment.

TLDR: pretty much everyone will actively avoid these addrs given that millions of hosts will never be able to reach them.
Why? Is that quote bad advice?
Children can foster climate change concern among their parents
The Madness of Modern Economics
Having more information isn't always better. Imagine if our language had pronouns that told you the race of the person, or whether they had a beard or not. A culture that primarily used pronouns like these would probably develop very strong arbitrary associations related to race or beards. If people were familiar with alternatives, plenty would be uncomfortable with one of these details always being packed in to references to them.
In most cases, you probably have no real idea what is involved in their so-called success.

Sometimes it's mostly hype and hot air. Theranos was valued at $10 billion. It dropped to basically zero overnight. Now the founder is set to be prosecuted on criminal charges.

Other times, sure, their success is real -- and comes at the cost of divorce, chronic drug use to manage consequent health issues etc. Rich and famous people are sometimes privately pretty miserable. We sometimes get insight into their personal misery during headline making personal drama, like bankruptcy, ugly divorces or death due to drug overdose.

I like to say "Sometimes, the grass is greener because of all the crap."
90% of college students aren't stem majors and so what you're saying is almost tautology. for stem there is literally no branch that doesn't use calculus in at least some way.
Having more horsepower under the hood is almost always helpful, but driving in the right direction tends to be more important.
Compared to what? And with what assumptions about battery life and recycling?
Was the New Deal redlining out-and-out discrimination or a matter of accidentally creating conditions, i.e. based on bad intelligence, that resulted in discrimination. I always understood it to be the former.
Funny, a personal servant makes us uneasy, but a personal/executive assistant does not. What’s the difference? They’re both employees and both are being paid to do tasks that need to get done but aren’t worth their boss’s time.

Is it the extra indirection of the salary coming from company instead of personal coffers that does it? What if the person hiring the assistant has 100% ownership of the company like in the case of a small business?
This isn't a guide for identifying 10x developers. This is a guide to identify suckers. Something which is in the interest of a VC.

> They rarely job hunt or move out of a company (and all the other bullet points)

means

> Exploitable human being that is socially unadept, impatient, unsecure about their own self-worth and so difficult to manage that competitors won't recognize their business value so you can lowball them easily
Vertical Farming Heavyweight AeroFarms Raises $100M in Fresh Funding
This is a standard term in video production, despite the fact that the parent never heard of it.
Actually, would you please ban me? I'm not sure i agree with you about ideology vs. curiosity, I'd say rather that ideology is one of the primary things I am curious about and something I appreciate about HN is that there are smart people here willing to discuss it.

But I do think my comments suffer from a meanness I'd like to avoid, and that my use of this site is something like a nicotine habit; I'd appreciate the nudge towards quitting.
Generally the executive assistant is paid for by the company and he or she works for the company, just like the executive does. In fact there are lots of management types who don’t make significantly more that their assistants do.
Rogan’s interviews are largely a thinly-veiled excuse to push right-wing BS to the impressionable young men that comprise his audience.

As someone who’s had to talk people out of racist and misogynistic ideology that they were pipelined into through Rogan/his guests, I really wish he didn’t have so much purchase. I know he has a very polished “chill” veneer, but his long-time friendship with Alex Jones should clue people in to what he’s actually after. He even appeared on Jones’ show a week after one of the Sandy Hook parents who had been targeted by Jones’ listeners killed himself.

https://slate.com/culture/2019/03/joe-rogans-podcast-is-an-e...
Thanks, economist.com is terrible
Can you point out anywhere that's made all of 1..3 work successfully? I'd think that most places have 0 of the 3.
historically they were called the differential calculus and the integral calculus
This is the iPhone 11
I still wouldn't call anyone who eventually completes a task given indefinite time to an unspecified level of qualify to be 1x.
A more interesting list might be an <ol> with the first few languages to learn to cover the most good concepts.

But such a list would be a lot more decisive.
So AFAIK Electron is built on V8 JS engine. Last I looked that has a JIT compiler, then I’d expect performance to increase as that ‘warms up’
this feels so dystopian to me. not only can the media be engineered to push whatever agenda but so can the perceived social reaction to it - like the mind control machine choking up its grip. of course it happens in China first
I bombed a job interview by writing a piece of demo software that failed all of your "throw it garbage" tests. I couldn't have hired a professor to teach me a more useful lesson!
Intel donated thunderbolt to the usb-if. Usb4 will be thunderbolt.
Here is one of the top google scholar links I found.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.2165/00007256-200939060...
The 10x engineer uses no users for the test, but instead microdoses during testing for an altered subjective experience.
But there was nationalism at play,
and the race to compete with the USSR.

Oh, nationalism is for sure at play here, and proving itself as a country that can get to space is definitely demonstrating that they are just as good as any other nuclear superpower.
Having "Product Manager" or "Product Designer" from Reddit on your resume would probably a hindrance more than a benefit right now.

Insane how they had managed to mess it up so badly. I can't comprehend how anyone from any part of Reddit, outside of the marketing department, would spend some time on the redesign and say "nice!"
How the Biggest Decentralized Social Network Is Dealing with Its Nazi Problem
Yes, it would lead to more defaults, but it would also lead to fewer false negatives (people denied loans who would have paid back).
iPhone is already overshadowing the iPhone 11
On a tall desk with a low chair, a “backward” tilt to the keyboard almost inevitably causes some uncomfortable hand/arm positioning.

If you have a high desk and low chair and you can’t change the furniture, you want the keyboard to be tilted (sometimes very aggressively) “forward” so that the plane of the keyboard is parallel to the plane of the forearms.

The keyboard should be kept close to the torso so that the upper arms can hang loosely down with relaxed shoulders. A bent elbow isn’t generally too big a problem.

You’ll notice that typewriters from the middle of the 20th century have a very aggressive tilt to them, to compensate for the standard high desks and low chairs (which were optimized for a middle-sized male to write with a pen, but made quite poor furniture for typically female typists.)

> wrists stay straight while the fingers drop downwards a bit

I have observed people doing this; usually their wrists are not actually straight, but are extended (i.e. bent downward), which is also a bad idea.

Resting palms, wrists, or forearms on a surface is generally undesirable during active typing in my opinion. It’s fine when the hands are not being used but are just sitting there.

Also, the fingers should not “drop downward”. The primary joint which flexes to type a key on a keyboard is the near knuckle where the finger attaches to the palm. You want these first knuckles to be straight when the finger is on the top of the unpressed key, and then flex downward to press the key; this is the strong and efficient part of that joint’s range of motion.

When reaching the near rows of keys, the further knuckles will be bent. When reaching the far rows of keys (which should ideally have tall keycaps) the further knuckles will straighten to reach the keytops.

My personal opinion is that the Kinesis Advantage is not the most biomechanically sound design; it was more or less a cheaper-to-produce ripoff of the Maltron, made by people who had done less thinking about typing than Malt. With careful attention it is IMO possible to significantly improve on both of those designs.

YMMV.
Thanks for taking the time to explain this in such clear language.
I don't get what you're trying to say. Even if this person followed one of your paths there is still a real opportunity cost that remains. There is almost by definition always a better way to spend your time than what you are currently doing. If you want to be a cog there are better ways to be a cog. Especially in an age of extreme centralization, where you are matters far more than who you are.
I would be more interested in the the other way around: if financial companies were barred from doing business with social media and data analytics companies. I made sure to opt out of every data sharing option for my bank and they still share my purchase history with 3rd parties.
Is it that hard to see? Bird, at a minimum, is going to have to replace the destroyed scooter, at least if they want to maintain the same capacity to serve that area/market.
> There solved your moral dilemma.

Recycling has built up such inertia as the "moral" path, regardless of its inefficiencies for most materials, that it's become an unsustainable clusterfuck that we can't move away.

Where I live, it's been codified- municipalities must recycle, and also must discourage landfill-bound waste. The result is that I've been issued a 64-gallon mixed-recycling bin that is picked up once a week, and a small 36-gallon trash can that's picked up every two weeks. There's two people in my household and we both are very conscience of being wasteful- not as some kind of environmental whatever, but it's just in our moral framework. A 36-gallon trash can holds about 2.5 full kitchen garbage bags in it, so if we produce more than 2.5 garbage bags of waste in a 2-week period, we have to hold on to it for another garbage pickup (reducing our available volume for that period then). Anything out there then sits in the sun for 2 weeks stinking and attracting raccoons/rodents until the next pickup.

The result? Anything remotely resembling "recyclable" gets tossed in the recycling bin. Food/grease on it? Put it in the bin. You know where the stuff in that bin goes now? It goes to the recycling facilities and then sits there in huge piles because no one will buy it anymore because the whole system was propped up on bullshit the entire time.

To top all that off, the law also prevents these now-inundated recycling facilities from moving their material to a landfill for proper disposal. So it literally just sits there and we have absolutely no solution for it. It would be political suicide to advocate the loosening of recycling laws, no matter how broken they are, so you'll never have a representatives willing to fix this problem.
I absolutely hate the new design, not because it is slow (it's not on my end), but because it is such a pain to use.

User friendliness has gone out the window and I cannot fathom how such a poor redesign could ever be implemented on such a high traffic site.

If the old design gets removed, I will stop using Reddit permanently.
Show HN: Go-term-text – A collection of helpers to format text for the terminal
To the naysayers, I only have one thing to say.

If in future (say 20 years down the line), a research agency needs to send their rover to the moon and they have two options: Pay $1bn to NASA, or $200mn to ISRO, who would you think they'd choose?

Private companies have already started using ISRO for launching mini satellites, and it may not be long before it becomes a cashflow positive company in the global market.
> On average, U.S. medical schools offer only 19.6 hours of nutrition education across four years of medical school

https://health.usnews.com/wellness/food/articles/2016-12-07/...
"fewer words are better"
I've just quit my job at Stripe and founded a startup to tackle K8S hard multi-tenancy, particularly for companies who want to "build a cloud" for their customers but aren't sure where to start. If anyone is interested please feel free to drop me an email! https://kubesail.com
It applies to other countries proportional to the extent that they have a bureaucratic apparatus to fight a "war on drugs" employing manpower and technology to arrest people and put them in prison.

Which is to say, there is a bias everywhere in favor of the status quo.
I thought the "i" was for "insert" and f for "find" (that i use a lot to move quickly in a line in vi/spacemacs). But i am wrong, and realising made me smile a bit.

This is BS though. I used to work with "10" devs (more like 2 tbh) and the only way to be at their level is to:
- Have a lot of creativity and nerves (because sometime you have to "hack" something in a really short time). They can be 10 in this case.
- Know your tools and your product really, really well.
- Be on point on everything surrounding your product: basics on GUI, network, hardware, security and crypto (even if your basic on crypto is "do not run your own crypto", its enough).

Also the 2 10 i met were not jerks, and one i only talked to via skype was just a bit arrogant but nothing unsufferable, so to me it is a urban legend.
When I had a corporate job, the administrative assistant to the big boss in my department had real power as de facto gatekeeper and seemed to be quite well compensated.

It's a role that would have been called secretary at one time. The title change was intended to show more respect and try ditch some historical social baggage for such jobs.
NeXT’s Fall 1989 Catalog
Not "income inequality", but inequality in the marginal disutility of labor. Someone who works many hours per week in high-effort jobs will be eager to outsource even trivial tasks to a "gig economy" worker who is in a sharply different position. That worker may have f!!k-you money of their own and be working at an "easy" job to make some extra change, for all we know - the exchange works all the same, and leaves both better off.
'What individualism has bought us is not the end of servitude, but merely the cloaking of masters.'

A really provocative and intriguing article. I'm not sure if I agree with all of it, but I do notice that some Americans are myopic to any description of freedom that cannot be expressed as an arrangement between two supposedly free economic actors. For example, some Americans are particularly resistant to describing the relationship between a boss and his or her subordinates as inequitable and potentially exploitative, even though a boss can sometimes exert more control over an employee's life than the state can.
what's the paradign shift you are thinking might happen?
At the very least I would hope open source password managers have some design docs that you could look at.
The level of plausible deniability regarding The New Deal is mostly a matter of opinion, but personally I think it was pretty transparent in how it intentionally discriminated.

It’s the modern examples that I think are much more questionable. For example, there are more liquor stores in black neighbourhoods. Is this because:

a) A conspiracy to use alcohol to suppress the black population?

b) Those neighbourhoods have a greater demand for liquor stores?
The same Jordan B Peterson who asked "Is it possible that young women are so outraged because they are craving infant contact in a society that makes that very difficult?" -Jordan Peterson, infant craver

Who denies women have been systematically oppressed: "The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory." -Jordan Peterson, history understander

Who claims to be a champion free speech, yet has sued and threatened several of his critics?

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson

>Peterson additionally threatened to file a defamation lawsuit against Kate Manne, who accused him of misogyny in a critical book review of 12 Rules for Life. [212] Following a negative book review of 12 Rules for Life in the New York Times by Pankaj Mishra, Peterson called Mishra an "arrogant racist son of a bitch" and threatened to "slap" Mishra should they ever meet in person.[213]

[212] https://www.thecut.com/2018/09/jordan-peterson-threatened-to...

[213] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/23/jordan...
The High Price of Multitasking
Consider a friend. Now imagine if the friend won a professional lottery of some sorts - one example could be that the startup they slaved at had a huge exit and their stock became worth a couple of million $.

How would you want to respond to the friend?

Personally, I would congratulate the friend on his/her success. I want good things to happen to my friends. It doesn’t take away from my own successes, or change anything about what is going on in my own life, so there is no value in tearing people down.

Hopefully this perspective helps in reorienting one’s mindset.
Hack any Instagram account ($30k Bug bounty)
This puts the challenge in Verne's Around the World in 80 Days into context. The story mimicked and exaggerated contemporary popular entertainment.
In part it might be where the salary is coming from, but even when someone personally hires a personal assistant, it doesn't have the same connotation as personal servant.

I think the main implication is that a personal assistant is a qualified, educated person who is well positioned to find another job, while a personal servant evokes images of someone less well off and more at the mercy of the employer. There is a second implication as well: you hire a personal assistant to help you with your job, to be more productive and get more done, but you hire a personal servant to help you with your personal life, so you can get more leisure time and be more lazy.

In some ways, there might not be much practical difference between a personal assistant and a personal servant, but the words have different connotations. There are some questions that I think are relevant to ask oneself: Do you have the same reaction to the word "personal servant" and the words "butler," "housekeeper," "majordomo," etc? When you think of the word "personal servant," is the first image that comes to your mind that of a maid, a footman, a housekeeper or a butler, or something else?

Also, I'm not American so I can't comment on this point, but it may also be that the word "servant" is uncomfortably close to the word "slave".
I think you're misunderstanding the intent of the post. An unsafe block is absolutely meant to ensure everything is safe outside of that block. However it's up to the unsafe programmer to do that. Using `unsafe` is telling Rust "I'm going to break some rules now but don't worry, I known what I'm doing".

So if the programmer doesn't in fact know what they're doing then they can cause bad things to happen outside the `unsafe` block, as this post shows.
Yeah, so it's basically emacs in the browser!

Changing editor capabilities on-the-fly!
OK but which one has the most efficient backdoors? When the hidden TCP/IP stack sends all your data to the mothership, you don't want your connection to get too sluggish.
Aging population
Really it is abundantly clear that the conflation is deliberate because their job dependa on it.

They are nakedly scapegoating tech and spreading bullshit to support their agenda. Which is why they actually are in decline - they just aren't any good or professional. The only one they like is Twitter which allows them to produce stories very lazily and cheaply as the replacement to "man on the street" interviews instead of any actual substance.

What angers me the most really is that they could do so much better yet they decided this has to be their hill to die on.
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