skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ignore them because I'm typically trying to do something like right now and those get in my way. How about something more discoverable to begin with? When you hide all of the damn controls behind silly gestures this is what happens.
> the kingdom of capitalism has restrictions on right to repair

There are no such restrictions. There simply isn’t a mandate for repair. Consumers have shown limited preference for repairability over other factors.
A similar product, that I think I found on HN actually, is https://complice.co - though it's more like you hang out in chat rooms with people doing pomodoros together combined with a GTD task manager. So, same sort of idea but less.. intrusive?
Maybe this is a result of optimizing for most of the population, which probably decreases performance for tiny minority who search for niche things that are hard to optimize for because of lower amount of data.
Yes, unfortunately they were very successful in doing so. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Wind

Repealing environmental and permitting laws that allow powerful and wealthy beachfront property landowners to block wind installations is critical toward converting to a green economy.
I'm glad to see that they are finally focusing some serious attention on these performance problems. I found the default gnome shell to be so poorly performing as to be unusable in Ubuntu 18.04 on a core i7-2600 system with dedicated nVidia 710 video card. So, back to Unity I went.
It could also be dismissal of their importance like not capitalizing "god" when referring to the entity known as such. Capitalization may allow a reader expecting it to infer which god is being referred to by name vs the description like Zeus is a Greek god, God is the christian god. I'd prefer it if variables weren't reused though.
An example has been added!
Senate passes legislation to combat deep fake videos
If you can't even figure out how to switch Input Methods I don't think you're going to have good luck programming either.

I also think you're conflating ASCII with the Latin Script. ASCII is easy to type and read, but anything outside of that range probably presents just as many burdens as say Tamil or Korean. The majority of Latin script languages however, are not limited to ASCII (for example é，ü, or €, which I ironically had to switch to a CJK Input method to type) making your "~70%" closer to whatever the population of native English speakers is.

The "let's make things marginally easy for the majority at the expense robustness in a way where the benefits don't even approach the drawbacks" attitude is how we get things like NodeJS where we have people writing desktop apps in JS b/c the webdevs are more familiar with it at the expense of everyone running massive, slow, and vulnerable apps with 900 different libraries all downloaded from shady sources.
The slow-n-steady method really only works with a critical mass of participation. Unfortunately most people either don't know that it helps or don't care and are happy to just keep stomping the gas and breaks repeatedly.
Actually really interesting to think about how self driving cars would be impacted. In a world where 100% of cars are self-driving, but algorithms are manufacturer-specific, how much more efficient would driving really be? It would seem like if all cars were operated by the same algorithm then you'd be able to build something that was more "ant colony" like that would similarly improve driving efficiency?
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I am 30 and I find this hidden scrollbar fad (aka try-to-swipe-every-screen) really frustrating, am I already so old that UX designers should build special accessibility settings for me?

Sure, when I see younger people trying some new GUI they basically touch and swipe everything to discover hidden options and functionalities, because someone decided that a flat rectangle looked "cooler" than a button, or that a greyed out textbox looked more "modern" than a standard white one... but isn't this just bad design? what happened with make things as simple as possible, but not simpler and don't make me think?
> SoftBank being SoftBank

Somehow everyone forgot that Son lost $70bn in the dot-com crash, gave him the money to do it all over again, and he's still relying on the reputation of prior (and a few current) winners.

Son's track record should be a cautionary tale -- not markers of success.
Jes! Kaj se oni ne povas kompreni , tiam ni cxiuj povas lerni la lingvo universala, Esperanto. Nun ni povas skribi malbone en du o plus lingvoj! Tio estas plejbona de el plejbona.
Correct. Very thin margins on fuel (a few cents per gallon).
An example has been added to the homepage to see what the output looks like!
What do you detest about iMessage?
I'm not one of those aging parents, but it definitely bothered me when I could not find the other actions besides copy and share on my phone, then realized one must scroll to reveal additional options. WTF, the first is "flat UI", then this. Our UX is totally dictated by those no-talent ass clown designers. Seriosuly why do they keep changing the UI when it is perfectly fine?
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> the literal opposite of democracy since it allows people with no understanding to vote.

I would need to know the definition of democracy you're using to fully appreciate the meaning of this comment.
> Or 1950s segregation to imprisonment and torture of political dissidents in general, in which case no, in the 1950s the US was not rounding up every Black activist and executing him or throwing him in jail for decades?

Not on home soil perhaps. But from the 50s to at least the 80s, that was the general policy in Latin Amercia. Then for more recent you can look to the middle east for the mass round up of civilians, torture and decades long imprisonment without charge.

Not exactly the same, but correlations exist, as they do for the parent comment you are replying to
When you do that, you write pretty much the equivalent of platform specific assembly code (not exactly, but the differences don't matter for what I want to say). What I am saying is that modern compilers also take your "dumb" code that is not SIMD, but just a pedestrian implementation of something and they still turn it into SIMD or do other very drastic rewrites to it that are hard to reason about. And these optimizations and transformations tend to stack. Something that had inlining, tail recursion optimizations and autovectorization applies to it may end up retaining absolutely no resemblance to what was actually written as C code. Most of the nice properties of C as a low level language come from the fact that you can map the code to assembler in your head - as long as the compiler is not trying to get too clever. Then the intuition becomes merely an illusion and the whole thing becomes harder to use. For example, strict requirements like strict ordering requirements for accesses to hardware registers in a device driver. C has come to a point where you have to pull stunts to prevent the compiler from reordering your memory accesses.
Is OS X / iOS trying to be more like Windows? In mobile Safari, the icon in the address bar used to go straight to Reader view, now it goes to a menu with four items. It's a running theme; formerly concise, direct functions are replaced with overloaded menus like the Microsoft world.
That list includes, US, UK, France, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel. Further, many EU countries accept EU citizenship rather than limit things to their own countries citizens.

So, it’s reasonably common among western countries.
In the linked post, the author tests Futhark running on the CPU without any parallelism or low-level optimizations, and it still beat GNU wc.

Fair enough about apples to oranges, but it was really distasteful to me that the top comment on this post was about how C is “unbeatable”, when the article clearly showed that Futhark was faster. And since we’re at the dawn of a new age of parallel computing, statements like that are absurd in general.
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No.

The barrier is the time it takes people to start to move, not how fast they do once they do move. Therefore start up immediately, but there is no point in zooming ahead. In fact it is counter-productive!

What really matters is reducing how many cars are stopped. Once that gets to zero, the jam can evaporate. Therefore when you see a jam ahead, slow down. Create space. And then try to just barely not have to stop. And when you come away, if there is any sign of a second jam create space and do the same.

The result is you save on brakes, create immediate frustration for any stupid drivers who happen to be behind you, and make life a lot better for cars 20+ behind you.
Yeah... this isn't exactly an upgrade. Tapes can last 50+ years, which is what floppy disks are made from.

SSDs might last 10 if you are lucky?
Go to Settings, scroll to the very top (beyond what shows as the top when you first open it). There's a search field (this is in a lot of other "list" styled interfaces like contacts as well). Type "undo" into the field. It'll bring up the location in settings to disable "shake to undo".

It's under the Accessibility settings if you want to just browse around for it.
Interesting that you chose a modern translation (1973). I just randomly scrolled to another (the orthodox jewish bible) and it says no such thing: "If an ish also lie with zachar, as he lieth with an isha..." So I don't think you can say "just to be clear"

I am neither gay nor part of any religion so I don't have a dog in this fight. But I am interested in hermeneutic philosophy, translation, and, separately, the nature of disagreement.
You come across as somebody who doesn't have an answer to the actual hard question. Yes - it's faster now than 150 years ago.

What should the rate of change be at? What should we be aiming for?

Give me a bounded interval.
yep completely forgot about that dark humor of the period. Thanks guys for the throwback.
My phone was $7 / month during the two years that I was paying for it. That was a small fraction of the amount that the carrier is charging me for service. People who buy more expensive phones also tend to buy more expensive service plans. So the phone turns out not to be the significant cost component of cell service.
I've struggled with the update to the iOS Music app in iOS 13. Mainly the shuffle button. I'll leave it on quite often but then want to turn it off sometimes when I want to listen to a complete album. Couldn't find the location for the longest time. It was easy before. Now it's 2 clicks away,
>It is very unlikely that people are changing things just for fun.

Why is that very unlikely? Many of these changes are not objectively better: they're just different and sometimes arguably worse. If you and your team decide you don't have anything to do for the next release, guess what happens next.
It didn't prohibit innovation and optimisation on PC. You just have a few form factors and the motherboard has to have the appropriate dimensions. None of the connectors on a motherboard today fit any of the hardware that was current when the ATX standard came to be except maybe a ps/2 port and a headphone jack. Having half a dozen standard phone sizes seems reasonable, along with standard sockets for CPU, GPU, memory etc. At the small sizes of a cellphone it's quite possible you'll need a special device to actually replace components, but that would be acceptable. You should also have a standard battery connector so you could e.g. buy a super thick case and a 6Ah battery.
I have verified it by helping people sign up for the small service I run and seeing the e-mails pop in their primary inbox. I guess I might be lucky then shrug.
One of the hazards of working in this space is that as you develop sympathy for others, trying to “think like a normal user” you eventually succeed. Your own thinking starts to shift and pretty soon you suffer from the same class of problems.

I overheard several people talking about this when I first started thinking about UX and sure enough within a couple years I was making some of the same sorts of “mistakes”.
The author of this article seems to anticipate that the growth China has experienced during the past few decades will continue for the foreseeable future. I am doubtful. International corporations continue moving manufacturing to other countries. China's total debt / GDP ratio keeps rising and will eventually be unsustainable. Population is aging. Automation will displace many manufacturing jobs. I don't think China's future is totally bleak, but it isn't rosy either.
To clarify it, the GP is claiming that Google is acting in bad faith, not that you are doing anything wrong.
I'm no traffic jam expert, but driving manuals in west coast traffic (Highway/Interstate) has taught me its best to find a large semi-truck, ideally with an empty flatbed trailer, and just follow it. The semi driver doesn't want to ever completely stop (if they can avoid it), they have a much better view since they're somewhat higher up, and they accelerate/decelerate much slower, so its easier to predict their movements.

The result is they tend to continue moving forward without the stop/start of normal cars. I just sit behind them in 1st gear or whatever and since no one wants to "get stuck behind a semi" people don't usually care if you leave the larger gap, so you don't have to deal with drivers sliding in front of you and eating up your cushion of space. My left leg isn't exactly going to atrophy from the lack of clutching, but it certainly does save it a fair bit of work.
The AU senate is STV, no? And even then, the largest polity is NSW with only 8M people. 12 US states are more populous than this.

But, I'm with you that IRV is workable (there's ample evidence) and better than the abomination that FPTP is. I guess my point is that AV/SV address these concerns through their simplicity (I find both of them less complex than IRV in both voter UX and result computation) and also that they avoid the unintuitive problems mentioned in the OP ncase link, which can potentially be even worse than the problems of FPTP simply because they are hard for even educated voters to wrap their heads around, whereas the problems of FPTP (vote splitting) are easier to explain (but still bad. this isn't a defense of fptp).
You're free to not use the product, but to character assassinate a small, indie Dev house because you disagree with the price point, is just not OK. BTW - this rant you went on, is the quintessential indicator of you not being there target customer, you will generally be ignored by makers.

You should also read patio11's essay on pricing: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/saas_pric...
I don't know how someone technical could think the FBI cares about some random IP addresses visiting dark.fail. Do you also think the FBI uses their VB.NET GUI to cyberhack-backtrace this IP address list to arrest people for the pre-crime of looking for DDG's/BBC's .onion site?
I do have used telegram. It's unfortunately the only way to get in touch with my local openstreetmap community. I didn't see anything there I would miss on my Signal app. I also don't see the phone number thing being an issue as the people I communicate with on Signal do already have my phone number. I also have the Signal Desktop program on my PC. Nothing to be desired there too. Works flawless. Haven't seen a single bot doing something I'd require from an app I use to communicate. What bots would you miss in Signal?

I brought up the stickers issue because this is what I heard in complaints before.
> it reverts me back to hunt and peck mode for a long time

I don't see how that's a problem with Arabic specifically. The same would happen if you switched to typing English in Dvorak.
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“Nits Will Be Lice”
The proper way to help the poor afford utilities is to just give them cash, or pay for the utilities on their behalf with cash. Obfuscating prices distorts the market, and that leads to opportunities for corruption and inefficient allocation of resources.
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Cherry-picking? Some of the objections are reasonably reflected back at the Western world, but most are nowhere to the degree perfected in China. War on Muslims (systematic destruction of Mosques etc); military conflict with Tibet (their own people?); the astonishing 'social credit score' system.

Sure there may be an American Dream in China, if you line up with the acceptable profile of citizen. But the Dream is supposed to be for everybody; that's foundational to the idea.
> And since iOS (and in some places now macOS, too) doesn’t offer visual affordances like scroll indicators, she had no idea there was any content further below.

> I’m a developer with an eye for design, but I’m certainly not a designer. So I don’t know what the solution is to these types of accidental UI bugs.

Isn't it obvious? The solution is to not get rid of visual affordances like scroll indicators just because some designer thinks it looks "cleaner" that way. It may surprise some, but they actually serve a purpose.
Floppies are just tape in a disc. It can last for 50 plus years.

The reason people think floppies are unreliable is because they don't clean their drive heads.

I'd bet the disks themselves are totally fine.
What can you do with Jenkins and not GitLab CI that made you go back to Jenkins?
Because it's like email: It's guaranteed that 99.9% of people meet can send/receive it, for free. It's far easier to establish communication instead of playing the platform-negotiation game then trying to remember where to message who.

Out of the examples you listed, personally, I don't use FB properties (so no WhatsApp or Messenger), nobody here uses WeChat/Line, Telegram is gross (hard pass on closed source faux-secure messaging), and I've never even heard of Viber. But I use Signal, and it's integrated with SMS (in the Signal app, it'll use Signal to talk with other Signal users automatically, and fallback to SMS otherwise).

And yeah, SMS is basically free (read: unlimited usage included in pretty much every phone plan on every carrier) in North America.
The iCloud authentication issues are the real nightmare for me. I can't tell you how many times I've been rejected using the correct email and password, and how many times I've had to use the reset function only to have it mess up again immediately after.

Now, on one machine I just habitually click to dismiss the iCloud window. On another, I've just moved it as far into the bottom corner of the screen as I can get it tucked away to just ignore it.

I'm also working on moving my web development setup over to Windows (with their new Linux support, which is excellent) so my next machine won't have this problem.
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GPU supremacy
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I strongly disagree. I think it would be hard to articulate why an iPhone 6s (released in 2014) which is the phone my partner has, is not usable today.

Many of my friends have phones that are currently 2-3 years old, and they work just fine.

I assume this has to do with relative income: either $1000 per year is a lot of money for you, or it’s not.
I'm glad you're here too.
You're way overstating that. The important part of that article is in the first paragraph:

boosted by a special profit from selling part of its stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

After they sold 11.1B of Alibaba shares[0] (virtually all booked as profit because of when they bought them), they ended the quarter with $10.6B in profits. So excluding that, they actually had a loss of 500m in one quarter.

Softbank owned over $100B in alibaba shares... all derived from a single purchase of $20m of alibaba shares in 1999.

Softbank's market cap is currently $77B. They're worth less than their Alibaba stake.

0. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-04/softbank-...
sound's like a plan.
Indian and Chinese GDP were both ~$100 billion around 1970. In 2018, Indian GDP is $2.7 trillion whereas Chinese GDP is $13.6 trillion, five times the former (World Bank, nominal). The populations of the two are very close, so per capita GDP is also roughly 1:5. The PPP difference is smaller.

No offense to the Indian people, but I always find it amusing when people use India as the counterexample to China to show "you don't need Socialism to achieve the same results." When it almost tells the exact opposite story.

There's also this.[3]

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/country/india

[2] https://data.worldbank.org/country/china

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20160921084037/http://www.spectr...
The warranty should be optional, though, since otherwise people who properly care for their phones will be paying to repair/replace phones of people who abuse them.
Apple, it would seem.
You learn those things the same whether you will get an engineering license in the future or not. The engineer exams don't actually test this kind of knowledge.
A Word document? Are you kidding me? Would a truly cyber-security conscious (i.e.: slightly paranoid) citizen download and open that, from the open internet, with a nation-state actor behind it?
In other words, it's a big money play to scam the government for Military-Industrial Complex pork, bankrolled by foreign investors because it's the 21st Century and nothing has to make sense anymore.
What would happen if someone left a machine learning program running for years?
Like, what if someone created an incredible complex scenario and then left it running on a supercomputer for years?
My take (and preference) is that it would be preferable if we could find some mutually agreeable way where we could each sacrifice a bit of autonomy for some collective benefit.
10kw? You will either need top tier, liquid cooled IGBTs or magnetics — both are not an option on a car. Maximum what FETs your money can buy can handle is 1500V.

It's not them being that heavy, it's them being very stiff.
One could just use a Gmail account for contacting people with Gmail addresses. If there's extended conversation, then migrate to ones preferred email account.
I don't think it's magic, but okay, I don't have a reasonable way without doxing myself to have you test it out yourself.
I'm not sure the repairability of many types of electronic devices will be able to meaningfully survive into the future. The general trend in computing is to bring all the components together into a single module, as this improves power efficiency, latency, and bandwidth (e.g. going from DDR memory chips to stacked HBM chiplets connected to the processor by an interposer). Portability, and the aesthetics of thinner / lighter devices also creates a push towards more extensive integration. Repair increasingly means replacement.

Maybe the legislative solution we should be pursuing is longer mandatory warranties.

That said, in many cases a device fails due to a low value discrete component -- a resistor; a capacitor. This repair legislation would help here.
It's not correct grammar but it has meaning. "Can I pick up medicine for someone else at the pharmacy?" is a proper way to ask but that's not how a lot of people end up searching (with correct grammar)
Windows Phone's aesthetic was certainly a welcome, effective change compared to iPhone's dominant paradigm. I suspect you'll pry rounded corners from Jony Ive's cold, dead hands.

I agree that iOS's "discoverability" is awful. I wish Apple had some head of UX like Android has with Matias Duarte. Instead, they put Ive in charge of software UX and it's clearly not something he cared about.
I too found that horizontal scrolling as a bit of an unintuitive change from previous versions of iOS.

But the new feature above that is my favorite feature in years. Quickly iMessage your most frequent contacts.

No more typing the first 2 letters of your spouse's name tens of times throughout the day. Just tap their face to iMessage them.