skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> many of them are just a variation of the final reason: Terrible user experience.

If we're playing Architecture Astronaut, that's true of every possible issue. Compiler crash? Security hole? Deleted all user data? All merely variations of "terrible user experience".

> several very successful websites that use infinite scrolling in one way or another. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit just to name a few.

Yes, all sites which first took several years to build up a massive user base and benefit greatly from network effects. Most websites are not Facebook. 20 years ago, it was "But Microsoft does it!" -- and the response was "But you're not Microsoft."

I'd love to find out how many people use "old.reddit.com" specifically to avoid infinite scrolling.

> Is infinite scrolling on these sites disorienting the user? hard to navigate? rendering a "terrible user experience"? One could certainly argue that the data says otherwise.

What data, exactly? Yes, I do think it's disorienting, hard, and terrible, and I hear similar complaints all the time. If I had a nickel for every time I clicked something by mistake in Facebook, or clicked "back" and wasn't taken back to what I was looking at before, I'd have ... a big ol' jar of nickels, anyway.

> The article doesn't even suggest that there might be situations where infinite scrolling might befit the site.

You're right. These are 10 reasons it's bad for users. There's one obvious one that benefits the site: because there's no obvious stopping point, it's great for sites that want to be addictive. People eat more if they have a infinite bowl [1], too. If there's any user benefit to infinite scrolling, I have not heard it.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15761167
There is one major big patent troll entity that goes around and sues anything UWB.

It was the reason why UWB PHY was dropped from bluetooth
Note also the response from José Valim.
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The current employee model as codified in our tax and legal system definitely has lots of assumptions around only having a single W2 employer. Certaintly not impossible, but definitely not a good fit.

I agree with the OP, and I am not just "repeating the Uber party line". I believe 3 categories of work are needed:

1. Employee (e.g. current W2), where you have a single full-time employer who is primarily responsible for your wages and benefits.

2. Independent Contractor, where the IC has full control over their rates, where they do the work, their tools, etc.

3. "Flexible" employee, where the employee has full control over their hours and availability, and to work for multiple employers, but doesn't have control over rates or how the work is done.
> whatever is going on with $__anon

The "lambda$__anon$" identifer is just the name of the local function, it could just as well have been "elephant" or anything else. The first line defines the nested function:

{
double elephant (double x){ return x/3; }

And the second line references that same identifer:

&elephant;
}

Normally an expression that didn't include an assignment call or a function call is legal but doesn't do anything. But as the article mentions, GCC uses it as the return value of the block.

The commenters seem to have identified the undefined behaviour here: the resulting value is a pointer to a function that's only valid within the block but is being used outside it.
> The Great Recession officially ended in June of 2009

As a "millennial" who graduated in 2008, I seriously hate reading shit like this. Maybe it recovered for the Boomer's pension funds and 401k's, but it took many of my friends over a decade to find work equal to their qualifications. They're only JUST NOW starting to get payed what they deserve (PHDs, MBAs, and Masters degree holders).
currently we have no known materials that would actually be strong enough to support their own weight at the length of a space elevator on earth. double the gravity and the length will also at least double (possibly quadruple? not sure on the math here) so it may also be impossible to build a space elevator on one of these planets, at least without the use of active suspension (possible? theoretically.)
Anyone interested in this subject would be extremely well-served by picking up a copy of the late, great Joe Armstrong's "Programming Erlang." Putting together a minimal "server" and then slowly evolving it into a GenServer is incredibly fun and rewarding. And then the kicker is you get hot-swapping for (almost) free! Learning about Erlang hot-swapping was probably one of my most favorite moments in my brief time using Erlang before moving onto Elixir, where you get it all right out of the box.

BEAM is truly a modern engineering marvel.
I totally agree. I'm neutral on Uber, but their advertising is that you book an Uber ride. You don't use Uber to find a driver you like and then hire that driver from now on. Basically, the drivers are treated as the fungible part of providing service to the passengers. Contrast with Airbnb where owners can treat it like an advertising network to market their rental room, and it's totally reasonable to expect that a good experience will lead to more business for that homeowner specifically, not just the app in general.
Old Android versions do get some security updates.

Android 4.4 still gets the latest version of Chrome (6 years later), and the Play Services is updated too.

In comparison when an Apple device stops getting updates, you are stuck with an insecure Safari version, so the device becomes unsafe to use for browsing.

Edit: Nokia phones are providing 2 years of version update (from release), followed by 3 years of security updates (and presumably browser updates for many years after that). Not bad for say the more expensive Nokia 7.2 at USD350. Disclaimer: I'm a Nokia 7+ owner (very happy with it too).
There is some chance that a modified live vaccine can mutate into a superpathogen that becomes immediately widespread and deadly. There is a theory that this happened with the feline panleukopenia vaccine and that this became canine parvovirus, with rapid, worldwide distribution of the new pathogen. Something to think about when we put 250,000 human lives on one side of the balance and a big question mark on the other, and telling people that there's no good reason to be cautious.
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AKA "Eating at restaurants every day and spending hundreds of dollars on new clothes every month while employing someone else full time to watch your kids gets expensive."

Spending $70/day on food is not normal middle class living. Go to the grocery store once in a while.

> The parents’ ultimate plan is to send both children to private grade school

Are you kidding me?
Okay, let's agree to disagree on the terminology. What exact solution do you propose? Do people stop accepting this money? Do they thank their cashiers extra generously because they make 10x more? What is the actionable step here that would make it all okay in your eyes?
The government gets the exact same amount of payrolls taxes regardless of classification. The only difference is that employees split the cost 50/50 with their employer while contractors pay the whole amount out of their own pocket.

Contractors don't pay into unemployment, but they're also not eligible to receive unemployment benefits.
It blows my mind that deathbed divorces are a thing here, for fear of burdening families with medical bills. And that that is socially, in any way, acceptable, or even tolerable.
>It is entirely possible to build a useful AR/MR/VR map of any indoor space using the Apple U1 chip in just a few minutes few minutes.

I'd love to see the fidelity of this. It seems unbelievable...
Nurses do okay. Teachers and researchers don't actually provide that much value. It's a market. The money flows where it provides most value + discounted future value. Just because you have a soft spot for teachers doesn't mean we should command economy the whole thing. This is right. It is fair.

EDIT: Can't respond to below, but private school teacher salaries are lower than SF USD salaries (when you include health, pension, housing).
I remember reading a thread about this issue on Discourse's own board, and it was clear the continuous scrolling was non-negotiable "because modish", regardless of user preferences or experience.

> I'm curious how much worse the performance would be if they did not apply this specific optimization.

Pages without continuous scrolling that can have large numbers of posts or entries don't typically show all by default. There are all the usual options - paging, allowing the user to choose the number per page, etc. They're all imperfect workarounds, and all better (for me) than continuous scrolling.
Honestly, would the, "three important points" have even been a remote consideration of Uber, Lyft, etc., if this legislation was was not even proposed (let alone passed) in the first place?

This sounds a lot like someone apologizing and saying they are deeply sorry, only after they are caught doing something wrong.
Throw one of these into the Apple Watch (or a gamepad) and you have something that works like the Oculus Touch Controller. Put one in your AirPods and you have head tracking.

Could be a powerful addition to their future AR hardware.
I didn't let that dissuade me, but I felt a little unsure about what I'd just read when I scrolled to the bottom and saw the person who wrote it describes themselves as an "alchemist and metaphysician".
It is important to understand that those salaries aren't normal.

300k for a new grad is not something I've heard of, that's a tad high even for phds. For an undergrad, that would be something approaching an acquihire. That person is being hired for a specific and rare skill, not as a back bencher. A lot to live up to.

Even 200k is very high for new grads. Think "strong student at MIT/Stanford/CMU with proven track record of performing very well during internships, maybe some research publications, and multiple internal stakeholders vouching for them". In other words, perceived as "potential deadly weapon to a competitor and/or a possible founder", not "model employee". That is why they're being paid well.

Below 200, keep in mind that 150% of 80 is 120. SF sucks. NYC isn't much better.

Teachers are underpaid. Not sure how that's relevant to whether some other group of people is overpaid. It's not zero sum.

As for researchers, in CS they do well for themselves. Don't worry.

I think you are conflating what is possible with what is normal, and in the process under-estimate the amount of time and effort some people choose to invest into themselves during their 4 years of access to the best and brightest minds in their field. Speaking of, MIT gets disturbingly close to 6 figures all in these days...
They are using a technical definition of recession.
When I took LSD for the first time I was surprised how sober my consciousness became (despite how intense my perception was rendered), how easy it was to maintain adequateness. I still believe I actually could communicate without letting people notice I'm high (perhaps they could think I' slightly drunk or something). And this sobriety has never left me since then. Now I am much more adequate than I used to be even when I get heavily drunk.

I had no desire to do weird things under LSD. I in fact realized there is absolutely nothing wrong in being naked and I have no actual shyness since then yet I never forgot the simple fact running around naked (which I didn't even wanted) is going to make normal people uncomfortable (which I certainly don't want) and possibly cause other kinds of undesired consequences like being put in a jail, getting pneumonia or destroying my career (which would make my family suffer).
clearly it's all being hidden in area 51...
> This is more like "how will we know when a recession has already started without waiting for a down GDP for two quarters." That's 6 months in.

It's at least 6 months in: NBER recession dating even for recessions that include at least two down quarters (which, while a popular conception is not the official definition, though I don't think any two-quarter consecutive downturn has failed to be included within a declared recession) is often before the first down quarter in a consecutive pair. (E.g., the Great Recession is timed from the Q4 2007 peak, even though there was only one quarter of decline immediately following, then a dead-cat bounce quarter, then a four quarter consecutive decline. If you looked for a pair of down quarters, you'd detect the Great Recession a year after it started; 4-5 months moves that up a lot.)
Update: eccentricity closer to 3.0 (still hyperbolic). https://twitter.com/AscendingNode/status/1171845027099795456
gimp uses [tinyscheme](http://tinyscheme.sourceforge.net/home.html) internally; not sure if gambit would be any easier to integrate with it than D or rust would.
22 and 23 year olds making $200k+ a year? For doing what, exactly? Contributing 0.001% of the codebase to an app that sells advertisements?

It may not have been your intent, but your comment has (at least on my read) an accusatory tone. You ask a number of rhetorical questions which indicate that you have low-regard for the work of the engineers in question.

You appear to be doubling down on this with your recent comment.

Why so defensive

Calling someone defensive because they disagree with you is uncivil and a great way to start an argument. In the most literal sense of the word, my comment offers some justification for these salaries because yours appears to discredit them.
I believe the freedom of movement being mentioned here is between US states, not countries, so immigration laws aren't relevant.
The one sentence below the article makes me sceptical:

> Daily Maverick will formally launch Declassified – a new UK-focused investigation and analysis organisation run by the authors of this article – in November 2019.

This would give them a strong motivation to write a biased or even non-factual article to a) generate attention and b) paint themselves as more credible, or at least a direct competitor as less credible.
That's Apple's Tile, actually. Having something like this on a Phone may and will bring up cool ideas. I see the random games easily but just give it some time for it to be the foundation for a location intelligence startup.
> I suspect that software consultants have a reasonable argument that they control their own work, while their clients have control over the acceptance of the final deliverable, so the above points are not fulfilled.

What if the consultant is forced to attend every single meeting the client (via PM/other manager) decides to schedule? That seems to violate the spirit of "control over performance" part of it.

Curious because it is recently relevant to me..
My understanding of your comments is influenced strongly by this statement:

> Thus, any analysis that averages across market participants' P&L will conclude that futures trading is unprofitable[0], except for the market makers. This is true regardless of the savvy of market participants.

By virtue of offering various services to market participants, savvy market operators can consistently generate profit. In the context of this article, I took your statement to mean that any given participant cannot consistently do so.

At the same time, the end users entering into these transactions understand they will be paying these fees, just as a firm expects to pay a fee to borrow money from a bank. If we describe this process as a zero-sum game, it gives the impression that trading is a speculative casino, reallocating money to participants at random (the misconception). If we describe it instead as negative-sum, where participants are paying/paid for services, it better reflects the economic value of the transactions.

> ignoring/averaging across trades with non-daytraders

I didn't see this bit for some reason when originally responding to your comment. Had I, my comment would have been stated differently.
It’s also because I think we are more actively looking for them now since we discovered one kinda by accident.

Overall I think we’ll discover that they are more common than we think which makes me wonder if we could use them to piggy back probes on them to the outer solar system and beyond since they move quite darn fast.
But that's assuming you're traveling at the speed of light, right? In reality it would take much much longer than 111 years.
No, in a particle model there could be no interference pattern. That is the whole point. You can do the experiment - and it has been done - with a single photon and you still get interference.
Given the published figures for size and mass, it will be closer to 1.5 - 1.6 g. Still tricksy to walk for unmodified people, but not impossible, especially given how long it will take to reach it. Plenty of time to work out how to change people.
It allows family and former employees, so it is actually A LOT of people. Kind of hard to keep a conspiracy with 100+ people for 30+ years. Why would all these people lie?
> and that it just takes a commission from each trip as payment

They don't just take a commission, they set the entire price.

They set the rules, about the types of vehicles, about cleanliness, about myriad other things. The route. "Lead generation" is obtuse.
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What a weird comment. My politics really align closely with Monbiot. But I’m sorry, his pieces seriously are just a knock off Krugman from NYT.
3 of my friends got this, all at Facebook. Not to say this is standard, but this is not outlier. Some hedge funds pay more.

AFAIK only Facebook gives 100k signing, and it's usually for returning interns and after negotiation with competing offers (usually other FANG or hedge fund offers).
This short notation for differential operators is very common in physics since decades. Even better, for instance, while some folks in differential geometry (ie. General relativity, especially the astronomy community) dont write out the operator "any more" but indicates it with a notation like X_{,i} which means \partial_i X.

I don't like that notation, but I always would abbreviate a differential operator :)
Personally iOS due to it being my platform of choice. SwiftUI seems killer to work with!
Another way of looking at it is: “wealth is being redistributed”.

Obviously there’s still disparity but it looks like a new middle class is forming and we want that, no? Also keep in mind that anything less than 200k means you can’t even buy a decent sized house where you work.
Not to mention you'd go from years and years of near 0G gravity to twice the gravity of earth. You wouldn't even be able to walk.
They continue to use the term "rideshare", which just boggles my mind. So, I guess "share" in this case means that Uber is "sharing" a "cut" of the proceeds with the driver. Maybe they should call it, "fareshare" (but then that would be a play on words that turns out to be an oxymoron).
There's quite a few I can think of, but most of them I'd rather not mention so the eye of Sauron passes them over.
You've piqued my interest. What are they?
It's alarming to compliment a dictatorship that keeps its people in chains, has millions of minorities in "re-education camps" and kills anyone who becomes too vocal against the party.

Just because Trump has tried to normalise just that (ref: Russia and North Korea) doesn't make it acceptable.
It was Quora - are you sure they didn't put "expert"?
Atmospheric density it a little more complicated: Venus has the same gravity as Earth but a thicker atmosphere, while Titan is a lot smaller and still has a surface pressure 50% more than we do at sea level.
If you live with roommates there are some luxury apartments nearish to Caltrain where you can get by fine. Usually lots of shopping around there
It's not just "Hey I should be making $X". There are other baggage that comes along with it: Company X pays more than company Y therefore programmer in Company X is better than Company Y. (X=Facebook, Y=Amazon).

Or things like "your TC is low, you must be suck".
That's not how it worked at the companies I've been at. Your stock grants were determined at the time you join, and your refreshers are determined in January or February. You are granted $X worth of stock, so in that sense the stock units are based on monetary value.

But if you are granted $100k worth of stock in February, and the stock price drops by half in March you're only getting $50k worth of stock. Come next February, your stock grant will probably have a higher number of units to account for the drop in price, but you still earned less than $100k in stock the previous year.
Isn't it odd to think that one day, there will be a top post on Hacker News: "Alien Life Discovered on Nearby Planet (430 points)".
> Maybe the CIA has an island somewhere?

Where they invite prominent figures and then record them doing nefarious things in order to ‘mind’ control them later? Nah, this is conspiracy theories territory.
I "downgraded" from a 256GB iPhone X to a 64GB iPhone XS with iCloud subscription. The initial sync to iCloud Photos will take a few days, but after that one can consider the iCloud library to be the source of truth.

The iPhone XS is currently at 55.3GB filled, and I have over 400 apps installed.
>Okay, let's agree to disagree on the terminology.

No, let's not. If we're going to have a discussion, we're at least going to agree on the actual meaning of words, otherwise attempting to discuss them is going to be fruitless.

To blame means to assign responsibility for a fault or wrong. At no point in my comment above did I assign responsibility to anyone for any fault or wrong. In this case, the "fault or wrong" would be being paid too high. Again, nowhere in my comment did I say, or even imply that the new grads are responsible for their high pay. That fault would (obviously) lie with the people willing to give them such high pay.

Based on this, you can now see why the rest of your comment doesn't make sense. The new grads aren't responsible for doing anything (they don't have to not accept the money or whatever) because it isn't their fault in the first place.
I've already given a literal life-or-death example above, which didn't involve guns.

But it was far too specific (and frankly too obscure) to serve as a general basis for argument. Pacemakers used to run on plutonium. Should that influence the larger debate over nuclear power versus fossil fuels?

If someone has to use a pacemaker or insulin pump that runs proprietary software, that's unfortunate as far as it goes, but the patient himself/herself is fundamentally fortunate to have that option. It would perhaps be better to focus on developing open-source alternatives than to rail against a particular manufacturer's policy... except the (captive) regulators will have something to say about that, won't they? Specifically, what they will have to say about the idea of an open-source pacemaker is "No."

What you are complaining about in this specific instance isn't corporate policy, but government policy. I'm actually very sympathetic to your argument, personally. I've made the point many times that any sufficiently-dominant corporation is indistinguishable from a government. But you need to be careful to identify the party who is actually forcing or denying choice.
A probe would have to crash pretty hard into one to easily absorb that much kinetic energy, I imagine, otherwise it's the same old problem of delta-V.