skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flat Design is really "Swiss Design" or "International Style", which came about mid-twentieth-century. The usability issues are typically around lack of affordances – e.g., how do I, as a user, know what's tappable if everything is flat. Using color very intentionally is one approach.

Dark mode is an accessibility issue. Yes, flat designs can exacerbate the issue – white space being a primary design pattern – but having a dark mode version of something would still be desirable, even if we went back to skeuomorphic design.
This same (identical?) content just appeared on the Atlantic. The HN topic for that is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21372003
I don't think you're correct to assume that the biggest problem is connectivity for reporting results.
>I find that I can't use them for phone calls because the other person always complains that my mic is terrible. Is this because of using an Android device?

Probably, never had any complaints and my own recordings work (airpods/iphone)
They are clearly a content moderator. You can tell that by trying to post a nude picture.
There has always been asymmetry and weaponization of information though and it probably used to be worse.

At least now there are options to verify and correct for those who care to do so.
This is super useful - thanks for making it!

Will you be adding additional insight for non-U.S. citizens as well?
There should be some punctuation in the title. The tool is named "Help". A quick skim doesn't make it seem like the author is in need of urgent assistance.
Terminals and IDEs predated flat design by decades, and yet darker themes have always been around for those. I really don't think dark mode is merely a response to flat design.
I always views TCL as closer to Lisp and Forth - almost no syntax, the tools to build new control structures, a simple underlying data model.
> It's one of the reasons why political ads are so bland and content-free: they don't want to make any claims that could be evaluated as true or false.

I keep getting mailings in Ohio indicating that if I sign a petition to put a certain issue on the ballot The Chinese Will Know Where I Live And Come Get Me. It's a completely idiotic campaign, and of course, it's all blatant lies. (similar ads appear on television)

This place you're living sounds relatively pleasant though.
you have to bend the truth because it would not work otherwise at all.

Your distribution is not normal - it almost never is, now you have to argue that the method is still robust - there is no proof that is indeed robust as you claim. Then your measurement is a bit biased, see on Tuesdays the measurements do turn out a little bit differently, but most often does not matter, so you skimp over that as well.

Statistics is the wrong approach because if you did everything correctly and stuck to the letter of it you only end up hurting yourself. You'll make fewer of the valid discoveries that you make when you bend it a bit.

This is the fundamentally wrong thing about it! Strictly sticking to the rules will make you weaker. Bending statistics a little leads to more valid results.
The Correct Answer is to restore the Fairness Doctrine, updated to include cable, social, etc.

Media companies rejoiced when Reagan sabotaged political discourse. Political ads are huge money and are almost pure profit.

Why would Facebook, Twitter, etc. behave any differently?

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
> Answering like that is conceding the point.

But they have conceded the point. I think that's why things like Cambridge Analytica were mentioned so many times during the hearing.
see [1]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21380167
This gets repeated a lot, but it directly contradicts another bit of common wisdom: security by obscurity isn't.

Not only are we vulnerable to a few key districts tipping elections, nation state actors should find it absolutely trivial to build a comprehensive program targeting the full spectrum of voting machines used in practice.
I agree about the headphones, but I got a full decade of use from my WM-D6 Walkman Pro and its (optional, removable) rechargeable battery pack. I replaced it with a WM-D6C which still worked the last time I tried it, a few years ago now.

High-quality gear was definitely available in the '80s, if you were willing to pay for it — and might have been cheaper in the long run.
But failure can also be a message that you're doing the wrong thing.
Really nice checkout experience, I'm excited to try this out! I'm actually in the market right now for an SUV, maybe car shoppers are a potential market to reach out to (e.g. rent the car out cheaply for a week and let the salesperson give their pitch when you go to give back the keys). I am sure there are a lot of dealerships that would jump at that opportunity.
In the abstract you’re correct. But as a practical matter, “underfunded” can be a fact or an opinion. If you say “schools are underfunded, and here is why” then that’s an opinion. If you say, “schools are underfunded, and that’s why we need to tax rich people more,” that’s mich closer to using it as a factual predicate. That implies that school funding has been measured against some standard (such as what other countries spend) and found deficient.

As to the Biden thing, according to fact-check.org the claim came from “a witness statement” filed in Austrian legal proceedings: https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/fact-trump-tv-ad-misleads-.... Assertions in legal proceedings are routinely cited as “facts” in the US media.
Good idea - I will edit the typography sizes and colors.
No. NYC isn't some reference point for what other cities should do. Making a city bike friendly is available to all cities, and has been for decades. There's no trickle down bike policy, as other cities in the US are already showing.
The Company That Branded Your Millennial Life Is Pivoting to Burnout
I get angry at some pedestrians for behaving poorly but I'm not terrified of them. I'm terrified of cars, and even more so of trucks.
It sounds like you are making a lot of rationalizations for not investing the time to practice live-coding and whiteboarding. Those are skills that can be learned, like any other.
I don’t know why Zuckerberg has so colossally failed to convince the world that Facebook, Inc. should not be an arbiter of what is true and what is false.
I was reading something recently, but I can't recall where, talking about one of the advantages of growing potatoes in feudal UK was that it was harder for the lord to steal them.

You never knew if the lord was a little short on money this month that he wouldn't show up with a wagon and cart off a bunch of your hay or vegetables (the fraction you were allowed to keep, not what you owed the lord) to sell.

Since you could leave root vegetables and tubers in the ground, there was a lot more friction in that process.
>If you want inexpensive, SE 215 is what you're looking for, for $99.

Shure has jumped the shark. I own these and have stopped endorsing them, the sound quality is utterly rubbish compared to some alternative wireless pairs, which might cost a little bit more, but even a punt on some of the cheaper pairs like Airdots et al. would be worth it.
Python's docs are infamously bad. And I say that as a Python fan.

PHP's docs are the minimum standard, IMO.
If you'd read the linked article, you'd realize its premise isn't that "it has a significant risk of collapse," but that it has indeed already collapsed.
> There are car rental companies, so I would assume that a car rental can cover the cost of a small deprecation on a car.

But can a rental that is simultaneously trying to undercut the incumbents on price while exceeding them in service? That's a harder question.

It seems like the big innovation this service is offering is (aside, presumably, from the standard startup initial subsidy of investor cash funding artificially low prices to build position) is leveraging a short-term market fluctuation that leaves dealers with unusual sunk unsaleable inventory costs that are, in effect, subsidizing the rentals from money that the dealer was going to lose anyway, but those go away if either sales pick up or dealers adjust to the new normal of sales levels.
The problem with this argument is the assumption that “smart people” with whom you agree will be the ones policing speech. This is rarely the case.

This is also why fascists themselves are the ones who tend to embrace violence and censorship; fascism isn’t typically capable of surviving in an otherwise free and peaceful society.
If that was written in 1994, it was 8 more years (2002) before Domino's had a visualization of your pizza online. I don't know when other chains did it.

If you really want to get a sense of how long ago that was, we coded the Dominos Pizza builder in both Flash and Javascript... because not all browsers had great Flash support.
There is a really good way!

Opt out of social media that shows stuff you don't want to see.
I always thought Java should have just used Tk rather than developing AWT, which never worked very well.
We do have restaurant washroom signs - "Handwashing Laws For All 50 States" - https://www.signs.com/blog/handwashing-laws-for-all-50-state...
What‘s nice to help with that are e-bikes, so that you don‘t necessarily have to exert all that much energy.
> that is a power they don't want to lose
What makes you think they want that power in the first place?
If you're not familiar with TCL this introduction from redis-author Antirez is worth a read:

http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html
I, just like the comic says, read a few of those blogs that say QC is like operations done in parallel and I really believed that.

Are there some good links out there for someone to understand the concept in a bit more depth.
Are you serious?
Google Keep?
I'm amazed at some of the places where there are no bike lanes. For example, on 7th avenue between 34th and 30th--going past MSG/Penn Station, the bike lanes simply disappear. It's a five lane road and one of the most heavily trafficked in the city. There's lanes North and South but not on the throughway. Who's idea was that?

Instead of putting rinky-dink unprotected lanes on all these minor roads, they should lay out fewer, uninterrupted, protected through-ways that travel the length of the city. There's a few that run up and downtown but hardly any that run east-west.
Facebook News is off to a rough start
Trickle down never works.
Its not the individual vote so much as the difference in effective power. Who cares how many votes he gets if he can spend billions of dollars to get what he wants. If he had the same sized speech as any average individual then who would care what he has to say about anything.
This is awesome! As an enthusiast of 3D graphics, I appreciate how clean and easy to read the source is. We have very few examples of how the graphics pipeline works in code, tinyrenderer [1] by ssloy being one of the most famous and easy to follow. This should enter the awesome-graphics list as a must read code!

[1] - https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer
I honestly didn't know there was an existing system for this, though it makes sense. And given that it does exist, it's an absolute no-brainer that the world's largest media platform should be subject to mass-media regulation.
At the very bottom of the article it says "This article originally appeared on The Atlantic", so seems to be identical.
json is a good file format, but the way that fitbit exports the data is strangely partitioned by file and object depth. Machine readable certainly, but most machines will need a lot of guidance to turn it into a useful dataset.
This. I’ve been hit 2x with major injuries, both times 100% the cars fault and one time I was in a very well identified bike lane. Cars are terrifying
A more common case for preserving wealth on emigration is actually South Africa. Many reasonably prosperous South Africans that emigrated used Bitcoin to bypass SA's strict capital flight restrictions.
How does the voter verify that their vote was counted correctly?

All electronic voting machines should output a paper human readable 'scantron' type ballot that is safely stored for verifying the internal digital tally.
New WORK – How we try to do it at our agency
I'm of the opinion that the headline is true, but only vacuously -- foreign agents are not a threat to our elections (except where they attempt to directly compromise voting infrastructure), and similarly the threat from bad voting machines is extremely small.

There are enough checks in the system (bipartisan counting and validation committees) that a pure digital compromise of an election that would not be flagged and detected is very small.

There are much more pressing matters, like access to voting stations (both distance and time), voter roll purging, ballot design flaws that make voting fundamentally error prone, and (controversially) a lack of identification requirements for elections that make certain classes of fraud difficult to detect.

I think on balance, all-remote elections, like Oregon has had for a while, and I think Washington now too, are the best balance here. There are certain vulnerabilities around buying, compelling, and selectively harvesting votes, but with universal cell phones, "proof of vote" is too easy to obtain anyway so those ships have mostly sailed, and it seems like a reasonable tradeoff to make.
This is not a good measurement, because one person on a bike takes up much less space than one person in a car. (Average car occupancy in the US is around 1.5.)
If you're doing anything ML related your best bet is to niche down and solve a very narrow problem for a specific industry / market segment. Building generic AI tooling sounds great but rarely solves anyones problems.
There are only two hard things in Computer Science:

0. cache invalidation

1. naming things

47. asynchronous callbacks

2. off by one errors
I don't bike for fear of ice patches unless weather has been above freezing for a few days straight. I bike maybe 10% of days in winter and 90% in summer(from UWS to Chelsea via Hudson river bike paths)
At the given rates, just go ahead and sign up - I did.

Support privacy. Support open source.

And for those like me outside the git-stream, support BitBucket support.
Great link! Were you able to get unit tests with `context` working? Last time I tried (I believe with @testing-library/svelte) it didn't work because each component is compiled separately and don't share a runtime.
Yes, I have a number of future topics.

(Note: Non-U.S. citizens can already form an LLC in the United States.)
As someone administering these kind of questions regularly, the majority of interviewers are aware of the shortcomings. There's a kind of 'it's the worst form of interviewing except for all those other forms that have been tried' attitude prevailing. Every other method has problems that are usually worse than those associated with doing abstract problems like implementing a BST.

From what I've seen, interviewing is evolving and focusing gradually more on realistic, practically-oriented coding, and less on Leetcode-style questions, especially as people are learning to game those.
But the Register article is from 2016, when the firm had recently been raided. The New Yorker article covers the years afterward, including how the firm managed to sell its assets to Kroll, a well-known private-eye/corporate-intel firm.

I can't speak for the average HN reader, but I honestly don't give a shit that a small cybersecurity firm I've never heard about got raided and shut down, whether it was in 2016 or 2019. I am much more interested in the story of the people who created the firm, how they managed to find success, and what led to their downfall. Such information is often not satisfactorily communicated in a news brief style.
North Carolina, Congressional District 9 - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/north-caro...

It sounds like there was a more-or-less professional election rigger involved:

"According to prosecutors, McCrae Dowless, a contractor for the Harris campaign, oversaw extensive election fraud in Bladen County, in the district’s rural east, affecting potentially hundreds of votes."

Details about McCrae Dowless: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/a...

He sounds extra sketchy.
You respond twice downthread that while Bitcoin may not be anonymous, Monero is. Do you then concede that anonymous payments are not a major use case for the non-anonymous Bitcoin protocol? Why then is Bitcoin so valuable?
This [1] is a good overview of the general costs and trade-offs of various kinds of bike lanes in the US. Some benchmarks to get a feel for ballpark numbers [2] for US cities to start an analysis in your area. Basically in built-up areas in the US, options are pretty limited without overwhelming public demand for ejecting car drivers from an area in favor of pedestrian and cycling traffic.

I'm still looking for what it looks like when a city design favors pedestrian, cycling, e-assisted human-powered/assisted mechanisms (e-bikes, scooters, Segways, skateboards, skates, etc.) traffic, then on-call PRT-to-GRT-scale people/cargo/freight movers within neighborhood-scale distances in dense (40-50,000 people per sq km) developments, subways for inter-neighborhood connections, and vehicles are restricted to the city borders (kind of like restricting specific traffic at the network border) for large-scale commercial cargo and passenger transport.

I'd like to see a breakdown of where the capex and opex expenses come from for elevated and subterranean bike lanes. Building up and down seems currently a significant cost barrier.

[1] https://peopleforbikes.org/blog/protected-bike-lanes-do-not-...

[2] https://activelivingresearch.org/sites/activelivingresearch....
I tend to call it "bash bitten by a radioactive lisp"
(Disclosure: I'm the CEO of Duffel) Totally agree with your point above re: IATA. They made it possible but for a different reason, they opened the door to competition.

Standardisation of communication protocol can only do so much, especially when the standard is built to accommodate the needs of 100s of airlines using 100s of different host systems.

Also, there is ton of red tape around airlines' APIs as well, I'd say probably as much as in banking.
The Last Question is better
Or you can design a system that’s the same for everyone because it actually works.

Like, you know, observable paper ballots.
This sounds like "...this scam works totally fine so long as you only intend to be in it for a short time, so you don't end up being the one holding the bag."
my two questions are

1) will they work well enough to use while riding a motorcycle

2) how long does it reduce the run time in truly loud environment
Sure, I won't argue with that. I've never used Haskell for that low-level of work, so I can't speak with any kind of expertise on that; I've never found Haskell's FFI to be terribly hard to use though, so you could conceivably get the best of both worlds.

Also, have you tried Liquid Haskell? It uses refinement types to let you use the "unsafe" and fast versions of functions to guarantee correctness while also increasing performance.
I mean, I'm not expecting them to pay a full $1 to get an RTC that keeps time up to 1s/month, but still, 45s/day is a lot, and it implies they really cheapened out on either design or components. I would mistrust even the relative measurements.
Thanks for the tip, now that you mention it I think I’ve seen that one a long time ago, thank you for reminding me. Looks very relevant!
Because they get to sell that power (advertising space) to others.
As evidenced by http://dayssinceacryptocurrencyexchangehaslostmorethan100mil...
You might be right, but I think banning political ads would probably lead to people doing even more massive political astroturfing campaigns within facebook using the funds they would've spent on facebook ads.

So facebook goes from having a political ad problem where at least they get paid, to having a political manipulation/content problem (well a bigger problem than they already have) that they still have to solve but don't get paid for.
Codex Roboticus – an interactive (eBook) experiment
"Setbacks are an integral part of a scientific career, yet little is known about their long-term effects. Here we examine junior scientists applying for National Institutes of Health R01 grants. By focusing on proposals fell just below and just above the funding threshold, we compare near-miss with narrow-win applicants, and find that an early-career setback has powerful, opposing effects. On the one hand, it significantly increases attrition, predicting more than a 10% chance of disappearing permanently from the NIH system. Yet, despite an early setback, individuals with near misses systematically outperform those with narrow wins in the longer run. Moreover, this performance advantage seems to go beyond a screening mechanism, suggesting early-career setback appears to cause a performance improvement among those who persevere. Overall, these findings are consistent with the concept that “what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger,” which may have broad implications for identifying, training and nurturing junior scientists."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12189-3
Personal Goals, Flexible working hours, Remote work, 50% or 75% Contract, Agility, Become a teacher...

what are you doing in your company ?
The fact that Zuckerberg is getting in trouble for having meetings in “his home over the summer with conservative figures, including talk show hosts, journalists and at least one Republican” proves the biased context within which Facebook and Zuckerberg must operate. Zuckerberg is surrounded by people who are so partisan that the fact that he had dinner with “at least one Republican” is casus belli.

Note that your own article discredits your premise that it is “nonsense” to suggest that Zuckerberg is in league with conservatives. Quoting a “normal“ Facebook user, it states:

> “I think that it would be leveling the playing field if he reaches out to Conservatives because he surely reached out to Liberals,” she said.
One of the things I've learned from many attempts to document internal processes at organizations, is that often the authors are least equipped to explain things.

They know too much, they often don't recognize how many pieces of assumed information they're injecting into their so-called explanations. You often get circular explanations in addition to circular reasoning and it can be off-putting.

A better use of time is to get someone who is just started to exhibit competence to write the docs. They won't assume the jargon, they can't assume deep knowledge, and because they're living right at the pain point they can be especially sympathetic. And if what they explain is dead wrong, this is your chance to correct a horrible misunderstanding before they get too far along. Pointing out the 'false friends' in a system early on can be pretty powerful. Educationally or as an opportunity for improving the system.

In other words, I'd encourage you to invite new people to contribute. Just keep an eye on what they do and be ready to jump in with corrections.
Facebook has major platform lock-in for me, though, since that's where all my friends are. The proper solution is to vote with your ad-blocker.
Hosting political ads is a political act, no matter the perspective. You want in the political game, take responsibility. You want out then don't host political content.
Your experience is entirely the opposite of mine. Cars are not only usually unaware of me (despite me being lit up like a Christmas tree day or night), even if they do see me they'll just cut me off or even run me off the road if I'm in their way (and in violation of local law).

Pedestrians pose no threat to me unless I'm breaking the law, i.e. bicycling on the sidewalk, running a red, running a stoplight, etc.