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Yes, tech companies do not get to hide behind “we can’t do it because with humans.” Apple spends a significant amount of resources on human evaluation, and Twitter should not be allowed to shrug its shoulders and say “we are trying, but detection is hard.”

It is not unreasonable to take the top 5k accounts/hash tags and manually evaluate the top replies and retweets. Human evaluation can be very streamlined with clean evaluation rules, and these human evaluations get fed back to machine learning models.
Ask HN: What data or features would you like to see added to a visual sitemap?
We've just launched VisualSitemaps.com [1][2] and are very curious to learn what you would love to see where we can go with this. We have tons of ideas compiled from 100's of user interviews.. but we're curious what HN folks here think, especially those of you who have embarked on web research for UX, content, marketing, or technical planning use-cases.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21180279

[2] demo visual sitemap: https://app.visualsitemaps.com/share/7b4fd8556b102ed739cc308efdf78c9f
What about all other thechnological controversy ? Everything is not about Screen-Time.
Redwoods do not require forest fires for reproduction, and no native species require large forest fires.

There are plenty of native plants that need fire to reproduce, but they do better with smaller fires that produce heat to open seeds but don't damage topsoils.

The large fires we have now are the result of climate change, long-term fire suppression, and unsustainable forest management. It's not normal for California, even though there are fire-dependent habitats here.
My statement is this: I've used a sub-2kW blower that could dry hands in below 10 seconds, was loud but not painful, and if you somehow made it portable, it could double as a leaf blower in a pinch. 1 meter from the nozzle the stream was still powerful enough to dry hands faster than ambient air. So the numbers people throw around this thread are weird, they imply unrealisticly wet hands, or ridiculously inefficient dryers.
This is very true but also very well understood. Marc Benioff is selling to C-level execs who will probably never use the Salesforce software themselves. Same reason why Phil Mickleson is the spokesman for Workday. The people making multimillion dollar purchase decisions are playing golf and watching CNBC not sitting in a cubicle wondering why the software sucks.

This is the exact reason why I'm skeptical about Slack's future and why I think the stock is going to be troubled for a while. It's a rare enterprise software product that's beloved by the people who use it and to my knowledge doesn't do the same kind of lengthy multi-month/year "take clients out for steak" sales cycle. It seems to rely heavily on upward pressure from employees to gain traction. I'm not convinced that that strategy is going to be super effective, especially competing with Microsoft who already has massive enterprise sales teams with well-developed relationships with the types of people who make purchasing decisions.

Ben Thompson wrote a great piece a few months ago on why GCP is facing similar difficulties gaining traction in the enterprise.
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In your opinion what differentiates the two?
Is "legally drunk" (also used in the article) some American term? What does it mean and how is it different from "illegally drunk"?
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I think the problem is social mobility, that there is a chance as long as people have the opportunity to better their condition in life

everyone starts off with 0 wealth
Sure, this is true, but it's a totally unoriginal thought:

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/669-why-enterprise-software-s...

https://medium.com/@jeffbrydon/why-most-enterprise-software-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1v9y55/do_you_...

It took me three seconds to find those by Googling "Why enterprise software sucks". I worked in enterprise software for a decade, and I've heard a thousand versions of this.

It's easy to complain about stuff. It's even easier to repeat complaints that have been made hundreds of times already. It's hard to find solutions. This guy doesn't deserve any credit for reiterating old complaints without any hint of how to fix the stuff he's complaining about.
Yeah that's the dev who pushed a purposefully broken version of their library to npm because he was upset that they wouldn't let him delete it.
The first few responses to that:

"The unfamiliar cases, rather than trolls, could be troublesome."

"@CesarM How does one know if something is requested in bad faith, especially if it's a "neopronoun" they've never seen before? Who says that one pronoun is any less legitimate than another?"

"@CesarM How do we determine what is requested in bad faith? What, exactly, is a pronoun? If a user requests "qwfg" and "poiu" as pronouns are those bad faith or just new neo-pronouns? I know that's kind of a trolling question but as a moderator I need to know how to respond when a troll tries that."

"@CesarM but how in the world would you moderate if someone is doing it in bad faith or not? Wouldn't simply saying 'no one would choose a pronoun like attack-helicopter' be invalidating an individual's feelings, especially if they're being genuine."

"I've actually seen a case, in general discussion around neopronouns, where someone mentioned an example and someone else said "please keep this discussion to real pronouns, it's not helpful to use made-up ones as an example" only to realise that those were actually real (accepted) neopronouns."

"@CesarM that's a whole can of worms you're opening there. The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the embodiment of this. Court cases by members of them have been won in lots of (Western) countries, precisely because a judge cannot determine whether something is bad-faith or a religion. If I state my religion requires you to address me as "attack-helicopter", you have to. Who are you to judge my religion? This is why pastafarians have managed to go on passport photos in most Western countries with a sieve on their heads."

"This could easily be weaponized by trolls. VERY easily."

"@CesarM I think many people would like to hear an answer on what your definition of "bad faith" is. How do you determine this, and is your definition the same as all the other mods? How do you know someone's intentions and feelings over the internet? Are you going to question the person about it? Do you grill them until they break and have them use whatever pronouns you deem "acceptable"? Do you have a master list of "accepted" pronouns and rejected ones? Although the intentions are good, I think policing language in this way is a slippery slope."
> somewhere else

Typically the ocean.
His full name is Salvatore Cezar Pais, and supposedly he works for Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division.
I was surprised that a Marxist was quoted in the article
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It is very easy to do a post hoc accusation, “look it’s obvious, they experienced a failure in their new product therefore it was rushed to market” and then make everybody feel good about putting the bad guys away.

But that doesn’t get you safety or improvements. You can’t test anything infinitely, you can’t predict the future, all you can do is have standards and processes and a willingness to learn from mistakes.

Putting the “bad guys” away doesn’t help anybody decide when ready is ready. Turning collections of mistakes into crimes doesn’t prevent future mistakes.

Fear doesn’t prevent mistakes it encourages them.

Looking at everything that goes wrong as a crime makes more go wrong not less.
Yeah! I've often dreamed about a pill with a tiny adjustable wheel or button that you can set to knock you out for X hours and Y minutes.

The problem would be finding a non-narcotic method (modified hypnogogic headset? Slightly raise CO2/CO levels?) that works reliably. Things like doxylamine succinate, melatonin, valerian affect everyone differently, and you're opening a whole nother can of worms with the allergies/dosage/legal angle. Cool idea OP
I think the characterization is a side effect when students ask "What do I do next?" After about four years pursuing a non-vocational degree, a lot of students have job prospects inconsistent with a meritocratic opportunity worldview. But not just students, their professors also recognize that barista is a median outcome for many new graduates without connections...the people who most depend on meritocracy to provide access to good jobs.

The Phd as a route to professorship is a way of maintaining the idea of meritocratic access to stable and fulfilling careers. The belief meets everyone's need to believe that people will just give money to the deserving intellect.
Oh, this hurts so hard. I'm going to go cry now.
This already happens. It's actually bureaucracy, but it's rarely called that.

Try dealing with YouTube after a fraudulent copyright strike, or getting money from Amazon or PayPal after your account has been suspended for an arbitrary reason.

AI has the potential to automate bureaucratic corporate hostility and indifference to weaponised levels.
That's because the recruiters are the users, and professionals are just the product that LinkedIn sells.
While I was at university, they installed a system called It's learning. It gave you basically a forum per class and a way of handing in assignments. It was basic, but broken in many ways (like a rich text editor that only worked on IE - meaning I couldn't actually send messages from my Mac; in 2006), and everyone agreed that the only thing it had over the custom system that came before was looks. I think for a long while part of the old system even had to be embedded, because It's learning didn't provide all the features.

What it did have, though, was a lot of nice videos presenting it. This was extremely high tech at the time, and quite likely to woo the people buying it... maybe they felt they didn't even have to try it, because they'd seen video demos.

AFAIK it's been replaced twice in 15 years. So yeah.
The cross of a campus power plant and squirrel incident makes me feel like this is Kent State...
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Enterprise software sucks because enterprises suck and the people willing and able to sell to them suck.
If you want to hide it, filing a patent application is a pretty dumb move.
Well, my argument is that we need a positive vision without considering how exactly we will fix our social, economic and environmental issues. That's my point. We can't wait till we figure that out to have a guiding optimistic vision of the future. We simply have to assume we will figure it out.

Second, and with respect, I would suggest that your rhetoric, which is quite common (and, by the way, represents vested interests in status quo intelligensia), is doing a lot of silencing. It's quite pervasive.

I'd argue that contemporary liberal group norms are much more silencing than, say, the oil industry.
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> telling me how screwed I am because I don't sleep 8-9 h/day

I think, more accurately, 7-8. For many of us, 9 hours is just too much time and will erode sleep efficiency, such that we develop maintenance or onset problems.

I've had long struggles and generally sleep consistently well now. Largest contributors to my improvement, through experimentation, have been: consistent waking time, strongly alleviating anxiety through CBT and activities such as yoga and exercise, vitamin d3+k2 & sunshine during the day, restricting coffee consumption to 1 cup (don't underestimate this it as caffeine boosts cortisol), and not least of which, eliminating porn consumption. I'm not sure why the latter has been so impactful but it has had a strong, predictable impact on onset latency. The rest is just the usual good practices, keep your room dark and comfortable and have a wind-down routine away from electronics.
User-design indirection is a tremendous problem. It's a form of the principle-agent problem, or of what I've been noodling at under the general category of "manifestation", which is the idea that there are problems which are obvious and evident because they are manifest: immediately apparent, visible, obvious, observed, experienced, felt. And those which are not: nonapparent, invisible, non-obvious, unobserved, not experienced (in the future, by others, elsewhere), unperceived.

Nonmanifest problems are a substantial class of hard or big problems. Things which are outside your own experience, or the experience of administrators, managers, judges, or executives (in the broadest senses of the words) are really, really hard to understand, grasp, or appreciate.

(This is a key argument for diversity, real diversity, of experience and background on your team(s).)

Two specific examples, both trivial, though illustrative, come to mind. One was a flyover-state hotel I'd stayed at recently during a road trip. There were numerous obvious design flaws of the building, ranging from the entrance (no way to get a wheeled luggage trolly up the steps) to the interior layout (lack of lifts, floor plan) which strongly suggested some architect and design committee who'd never visited the site having designed the facility.

Another was a pool party years ago at which a guest suddently exclaimed that something had touched them, under the water. Nothing was visible. Then a second and third made the same comment. The culprit? A clear plastic drinks tumbler, which would oscilate when touched, given the mass of the water it moved against, giving a lifelike contact response, but being all but invisible in the pool itself. Until directly experienced, and ultimately revealed, the effect was difficult to credit.
... would a ship carrying trailers get hit by tornados twice as much, too?
> Supporting political organisation is the form of political activity.

White power may be a tenant of many different political factions, but it is not a political ideology in itself.

White power is a racist belief. That's it.

> He was bullied and fired for these actions only, I don't see any mentions that he was annoying people any way other than expressing his views.

I don't see any evidence that Kevin was bullied in any way.

Did you not read my last reply to you, before making this reply? Kevin was fund raising, using Google resources, for white supremacy groups.
I would say yes and no.

It's true that enterprises have complex and unique workflows, and that this drives the complexity of enterprise software. What I doubt is that this complexity is actually adding value in most cases.

There is a nice equilibrium where companies adopt simple best practice workflows for non-core competencies, and vendors compete on how effectively they can implement those simple workflows.

In reality, we're stuck in the equilibrium where companies cling to baroque workflows for everything, and vendors compete to support those workflows, sacrificing ease of use, implementation time, and agility.
I thought the recruiters were the end users and the rest of us were the product.
Slack is not enterprise software.
They seem to have a github https://github.com/blackboard
People love excel and Photoshop. I’ve never met any heavy excel user that prefers any other spreadsheet software or even has anything negative to say about it.
Give it 15-20 years.
To add to this; Turkey has had a very turbulent past when it came to internet censorship. Politicians have been baffled at (and as such scared by) the speeds at which information spreads online, and have been actively attempting since then to include the internet in their crusade for media censorship.

Also, Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey for two years now (see the logo at https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anasayfa - "being missed for two years"). It's just a miserable status quo... Savvier users can circumvent these censors just like anywhere else, but the peoples are powerless whether they can access information or not.
To add to what others have said, you can build a fusor [0] that sits on a tabletop. It just consumes energy, rather than producing it.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
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Fibers aren’t useful for much any more
That's the trend these days.

Tomorrow everyone on Hacker News and Twitter will go back to chiding IT departments that want the ability to test software changes before they get deployed, or have the ability to roll back.
> Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey

It's kind of incredible how that head line are so terrifying. The only explanation for this is that people don't want information getting out of that area. It's so fucked up.

Maybe this is a bit naive to say but I really hate that this is just how things are. We all know what's going to happen and there's nothing that can be done about it. It doesn't really seem like it'll ever change either.
You rebuild the system using the same inputs and initial conditions and observe the outcome. Thank you, next.
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Charleston is over the Florida aquifer system, which is one of the largest aquifer systems in the world since the peninsula is essentially a huge sedimentary filter that's saturated by really aggressive storms on a seasonal basis
This existed much more in the old world of legacy software and perpetual licences but is bad business in a SaaS model.

You end up in a situation where higher ups notice they’re not getting the best use out of it so the customer ends up churning. Happy customers with happy end users end up buying more of your software and are much more profitable.
There's a subtle insidious effect of professors being childless. Like it or not, for practical intents and purposes, academia serves as arbiter of truth for our society. If most of the professors are childless, they will be subconsciously incentivized to arbitrate truth in ways that are biased accordingly.
> "OK, back to Blackboard! It’s actually designed to look extremely attractive to the administrators (not professors and definitely not students) who make purchase decisions. Since they can't easily test usability, they instead make comparisons based on… checklists of features.
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Former Blackboarder here with +50 implementations in 4 years.

Blackboard and its main competitors -- specially the best ones -- are extremely focused on building atractive UX to instructors because that is where you find most of the critical success factors for a good implementation and ongoing operations. If you have a well thought implementation and operational model, work for administrators can be reduced to a minimum, specially if they have purchased the "managed hosting" pack.

Back to instructors, they are the ones who need to adopt the platform in the first place and then either conform to the type of online course they will be delivering -- in case it is a cookie cutter model -- or be trained and prepared to create and maintain their own courses. Some institutions still opt for a blended model in which professors have more or less liberty to shape the course to their needs, and that would depend mostly on the program structure.

So what the student ultimately sees and uses is the resulting product of a lot of people working behind the scenes. It's hard to generalize and blame Bb, or admins, or even instructors. Blackboard offers a full set of services for "Adoption", and they are delivered by EDU consultants who know very little about Blackboard Learn, the LMS. They know about EDU processes, student motivation and online learning approaches that are LMS agnostic. With that, instructors could be taking a leading role in driving student UX experience through the platform and learning objects it delivers.

IMHO, enterprise software sucks (to everyone) because it is really large, complex and depends on the dedication of an army of people with different skills and viewpoints. Well, that's the glass half empty. You can also say enterprise software is the coolest thing because it exercises and uses the very best of us all the time, a real tech challenge. That's the glass half full.
Considering Trump made the decision not to attack Iran and start WWIII after Iran downed a US drone (despite immense pressure from neocons like Bolton), Trump actually deserves a little credit for being a relatively peaceful president.

He hasn't started any new conflicts and just recently started pulling US troops out of Syria. Can't say that for his predicessors. I understand that people don't like Trump due to his pompous and abrasive personality, but his foreign policy has been suprisingly sane (ignoring all his other policy).
No. There is absolutely no empirical evidence that consciousness is just a series of numbers.

There's an assumption that consciousness is just a series of numbers, and some more or less credible philosophical arguments for/against this point of view.

But believing there's more than that is faith-based, not empirical.
> NodeJS performance is hampered by its single-threaded architecture, but given that fact it performs very well. The NodeJS server was the smallest overall in lines of code and extremely quick and easy to write. Javascript is the lingua franca for web development, so NodeJS is probably the easiest platform for which to hire or train developers.

Do you actually read the blog post before making the claim ? The author is not using "Cluster" module to scale connections across CPUs with "Sticky-session" library. Also, neither he mentioned the runtime flags with which the launched all VMs in comparison nor he mentioned the optimization at OS level.
Playing devil's advocate, it can be a major problem if these USB-C to USB-A adapters can't be found anywhere. Around here, I've looked at several physical stores, and nowhere seems to sell an adapter from USB-C plug to USB-A socket. Or even a straight USB-C to USB-C cable; what these stores call "USB-C cable" is always an USB-A plug to USB-C plug cable.
Except MS Teams suuuuucks compared to Slack. The interface just isn't intuitive and you can't just use it. The number of times I miss things because I didn't realize my input was needed, or I'm still getting notified on threads that only needed a single comment from me way back at the start of the conversation that I no longer need to be a part of is ridiculous. My tools should get out of the way and let me do my job. Unfortunately, most enterprise tools quite clearly stand between me and my objectives and they're frustrating AF.

It's 2019, our software should have gotten to a point where the computer is working for us, not the other way around for God sake. Nobody should still be working a job where their entire purpose is to make the computer do what you need it to. No wonder so many people feel like they've lost their sense of purpose.
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