skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never got why people confused democracy with open elections. Open elections are the literal opposite of democracy since it allows people with no understanding to vote.
> As a gmail user, I 100% appreciate keeping my inbox extremely clean.

That's a silly way to spin this. They can keep your inbox super clean by just not delivering any mail at all.

The way GMail is going, you'll soon only be able to get Google approved corporate spam using their email service. It took them longer, but they're pulling the same shit they did with XMPP. Open and standards compliant to begin with, and slowly converted to a bastardized Google only walled garden.

Maybe now's the time to fix it. If people don't get an email, suggest they use a better service.
I slogged through it. I appreciate the sentiments expressed in the book, but it was not a breezy read. I found it to be dry and long-winded.
This is an academic project. I like that it immediately explains difference to things like LLVM, which first arises in my head.

But a concrete example, probably based on webassembly, could help to get acknowledged in the developer world. Or probably show code, in comparison to LLVM assembler etc.
My conspiracy theory is that google intentionally has degraded the ability of spam to be detected.

Why? Google Inbox did it absolutely perfectly. They wrapped up every email, from every major source, into nearly perfect bundles.

You could receive hundreds of unsolicited ("sOlIcItEd") marketing emails a.k.a. spam and Inbox would perfectly roll them into one bundle with a 1 swipe gesture to archive.

Then they killed Inbox and Gmail has functionally no ability to collate spam into a bundle and hide it.

That's intentional. Email marketing is huge, and google has a massive vested interest in ensuring that gmail users can see advertisements.
There may be more R&D and UX testing. But there's a hell of a lot more design going on, much of it small and one-off. And the research doesn't seem to be filtering through.

Too, as noted, the UX metric is frequently "engagement", which is not the same as usability.

Also: Tyranny of the Minimum Viable User:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...
I cannot believe this is Fair’s business model. Any leasing company could duplicate this with a week’s planning.
I've gone the opposite direction (or just skipped ahead into second childhood?) - if I can't see the option I want I spend a minute or so monkey-slapping the screen in random directions with random numbers of fingers, because apparently this is what qualifies these days as "discoverable".

(A simple example I discovered before I devolved to this level - when looking at messages on an iphone, swipe and hold left to see the sent times. Did you know that? If so HOW DID YOU KNOW?)
If they're just looking to be in contact with each other, then I imagine they'd just walk over to their neighbour's house in person. I imagine the phones are more for situations where they might see the need to call a hospital, etc. (though I have no direct experience with the Amish on that part—only SW Ontario Mennonites)
Yeah, I must be pretty confused to post a comment about metaphysics in reply to a comment discussing the morality of chemistry.
They require $5000 down for a month-to-month lease? That seems significantly higher than it should be.
Yup, this is a huge problem with google search these days. It keeps trying to figure out what your intent was, and although it works about 70% of the time. the other 30% is a complete disaster.
I think it's partially due to stack ranking. You have to justify your position to your peers (most of whom don't even use the application) and show everyone metrics of people using your crap. If you don't make any "improvements" to the app, you can't get any promotions. If an app is already perfect, then these "improvements" can only ruin the application.

It should come as no surprise that if you ruin your UI, "engagement" goes up, because people are dicking around trying to figure out how the hell it works now. Unfortunately, statistics are hard, and nobody really knows what they're doing, so I don't think the organization is always aware of this kind of stuff.
It isn't unreasonable to have a battery which can reconfigure itself. It could switch from parallel to series just by opening and closing a few relays.
And that all while literally every single thing in Mac is stolen from Plasma. Whether it's design wise (rounded corner blur and countless other effects) or straight up entire applications/libraries (both Chrome and Safari are based on KDEs implementation)
The difference is that Brietbart isn’t just right leaning. It propaganda for fascists, and a machine of hate, targeting the mental inept.
Team 6502: The story of the team behind the chip that launched a revolution
There's no negative energy in the response quoted.
> with teen years in late 80s to early 00s got spoiled on PC repair ability.

Given that things in general used to be more repairable than they are now, and that planned obsolescence is absolutely a thing, I highly doubt it.
You can design the plant to handle intermittent power. It's a bit more expensive, but you're getting the savings from using cheaper power.

https://www.metalbulletin.com/events/download.ashx/document/...
This is truly a severe problem, and I've given up trying to fix it. I don't run my own mail servers anymore. I have an Outlook business account. Microsoft is big enough that google doesn't mess with their email.

I sort of understand why Google does this--probably 95% of email from random mail servers are spam! But that doesn't make it right.
It is near impossible to teach a mindset that is not desired.
Sometimes this is the only place to go when enough corporate speech zones push out speech they don't like (gab, 8chan, stormfront)
The attitude of complex, manufactured things that require extensive mining and refining infrastructure and include uncommon elements (literally, molecular elements) being single-use is awful. We need to hold ourselves to a higher standard.
Graph convolutional networks are really cool and widely applicable. The fastest intro to the field me was actually not a paper or blog post, but the docs of Pytorch Geometric. The definition of their message passing framework [0] gets you to the right frame of mind, after which there are well documented and cited implementations of various papers which you can reuse [1].

[0] https://pytorch-geometric.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notes/cre...

[1] https://pytorch-geometric.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/n...
The other alternative would be to set standards for recycling to make sure things get really recycled. This would probably drive up cost which then hopefully would make repairing more attractive.
Yeah, it actually does work. Didn't know about it either til now. The trick is to swipe from space button in GBoard, then selection cursor moves. If I just hold my finger on spacebar it triggers language selection, so it's a bit tricky
I see most people saying Google errs too much on the side of its spam," but it strikes me as better for everyone that spam never get through so as to incentivize people not to send spam, thereby destroying most spam before it even makes it to your spam box. You can always check your spam box, so its just a mild inconvenience mbst of the time. If you're expecting an email, you can whitelist the sender. If you're sending email to someone who isn't suspecting it, then maybe you need to take a moment out to think about whether you're spamming people's inboxes with emails they don't want.
If I disagree with the price of a potato, I can buy rice. Food is price elastic in so far as I have options in what food to buy for what purpose. That said, indeed in my country and a number of others there are certain food stuffs which may not be legally taxed via VAT as they are considered necessary for daily survival.

Water is completely price inelastic economically. There is no alternative to it and it is essential to the persistence of life. Should it be priced? If it requires labour or other external factors that bear cost, sure. Should its price be tweaked as an economic lever? Even if that worked (it wouldn't for something inelastic like water anyway) I would still say no.

Using water's price as a disincentive can only possibly work in non-essential use cases, which doesn't seem to be the case in this Australian example.
Good thing ISPs aren't classified as a utility now, huh.
This is such a good illustration of the disparity between our lives and theirs.

Because the answer is, you go over and talk to them.
The weird names and track titles that dominate electronic music has made this quite difficult for me.
> So I don’t know what the solution is to these types of accidental UI bugs.

Obviously a scroll bar should be an acceptable solution? Why do designers hate scroll bars these days?
The government has very deep pockets. And working for the biggest project of the century probably attracted decent talent, whereas there's no glory in writing supporting libs - you either did it right and nobody notices, or you messed up and get blame.
My wife had the same problem. I knew how to do it because the tips app showed me after I upgraded. Not sure if it didn’t show the same thing to everyone.

I think it works fine although I still generally prefer the haptic/long touch spacebar method.

I always had trouble with selection vs placing the cursor, and it irritated me to no end. The long touch spacebar works great though and I still prefer it.

If you aren’t familiar with the long touch spacebar, give it a try. It temporarily changes the keyboard to a touchpad for moving the cursor. It’s great.
Some solve that with an answering machine - leave a message and set up a time for a call. Pretty much the same method we used back in the old days to call a friend "Hi Mrs Johnson, is billy there? No, he's out. Ok tell him I'll call back at 7pm"

Telephones don't need to be real-time.
I edited my comment away because I didn't think it was useful. Sorry about that.
If it's all about the mindset, why is the creator of one of the Excel behemoths not a programmer? It has a concept of variables (named cells even allows Excel users to name variables), If-else statements (while important for imperative languages, not all programming languages necessarily have if-else), loops (using array functions), and functions (often using another sheet for separate scope). Why do so many want to gatekeep out Excel users who have reached that level as not being programmers? Because the IDE is a GUI, and we've all been taught (sometimes via trying to make one) that GUI programming will "never" work/catch on? Because sometimes it needs to be ported to a different language? (Done that from python to Golang as a 'real' programmer.) Because they sometimes ask for help? (Stack overflow, anybody?) Because Excel sheets don't have unit tests? (Be real - there's tons of code out there that doesn't have tests.) Because their software causes messes when it has a bug? (I'm not ashamed to admit I've written code that has bug in it; ones that managed to make it into production, even!)

I wouldn't consider someone who's new to Excel and doesn't use formulas to be a programmer. But having seen some truely bohemoth spreadsheets from finance (and being asked to port them), I'm having a hard time drawing a line between the two.
About half of user in the U.S. use an iphone and a large portion of the other half use pixel or samsungs all of which are easily $400+ phones do I think your experience is atypical. (I'm guessing your friends are either young or thrifty)
For me, I learned the word from the Jargon file first where it explains it was from the book, I then read the book later on in life. http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/grok.html
I wonder what the effect would be if they measured ants from different colonies on the same trail?
PostgreSQL example of self-contained stored procedures
I am not saying you're insane. I'm saying you are jumping to conclusions without evidence, that is, that you are making stuff up. So I keep asking for evidence that supports your conclusions, and your response is "there might be evidence in a few months". That's... not very convincing.
The scale, intensity and length are just not comparable. It's like comparing the Gulag to modern American prison labour.
I appreciate that this is a joke but I agree with the first paragraph. We should be above this kind of language. It's completely incomprehensible for the vast majority of those that can interpret code. Regardless of where you were educated, or if you were self-educated, why would you want this?
This is yet another product of magical thinking around scrum and agile. WE NEED TO SLOW DOWN. Bar none, business needs to totally readjust their velocity gauge, its totally broken.
If only you could blame the technology. It's humans all the way down.
Ah, I don't use Gboard, it's a shame SwiftKey doesn't have that...
Sorry to hear that, there's an updated video with text overlays https://youtu.be/VtZLlkpJuS8

The info section in the top right should give an idea of what's going on. The idea is to make a strong team of 3 units with best skills / specs possible to win each round.
The maximum (practical) speed depends on the cars per unit area, but drivers can voluntarily drive slower than this. By looking ahead at the conditions down the road, such as traffic jams and red lights, you will often notice situations where there are big benefits from slowing down more than you are forced to.

Still, a lot of people don't do this, and it makes life harder for those who do. I'm amazed by how people will race to be the first one stopped at a red light.

Doing a greedy optimization for maximum instantaneous speed can reduce the overall traffic speed, and sometimes even the average speed of the driver in question, increasing their own trip time. But the greedy optimization is still common to see.
How many offshore wind farms are there in the US? I heard a radio story a while back about some homeowners in New England pushing back against a proposed wind farm for aesthetic reasons -- not a surprising development but I must say I didn't consider it when thinking about proliferation of turbines.
It's nonsense, most of the time, but it's not Stormfront. This kind of hyperbole is not helpful.
> For CPUs, I'd like to introduce you to my good friend Fortran.

Fortran scares people because it is often identified with FORTRAN77. I find very unfortunate that the concept of F (a modern simplified Fortran without the legacy features [1]) never took off, although I understand the reasons.

[1] https://www.fortran.com/F/index.html
what a boring hill to choose to die on.
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X – A Consumer Processor That’s Expected to Debut at $749
You'd do the swap using machinery, not by hand.
In San Francisco, even opening a falafel shop is a bitter political fight
Fair isn’t either.
To summarize this thread (HN is still the best place to get IOS tips and tricks):

Three ways to move the cursor, from most reliable to least:

1. Hold down space bar and you'll enter a mode where moving your finger moves the cursor.

2. Drag it from its current location to a new location. This gets finicky, especially if you move your finger out of the text area; the cursor will move to the end of the text, but the highlighted bar that represents where you want to place the cursor will move around on the last line of the text. If there are non-text elements (images, etc.) in the block, then this will be unpredictable in where the cursor ends up. Also your finger blocks the text and there's no more magnifying glass.

3. Single tap in the text to place the cursor -- but if you tap on a misspelled word, it will go into "suggest replacements" mode. Double tap selects a word, and triple tap selects a paragraph.

To select all, you have to have a free cursor (nothing selected) and tap on the cursor itself. To avoid accidentally double-tapping (and thus selecting a word instead of bringing up the context menu) you have to make sure that you wait a beat before tapping again.

To paste (most to least reliable):

1. Do a three finger unpinch gesture, and it will paste at the cursor.

2. Enter the select all menu above and tap on the cursor (same caveats) and one of the options will be paste. But very often the second tap will either activate a double-tap (and thus select a word) or move the cursor a little bit, making a precise paste difficult.
Deep Learning Project Consulting
It's funny he mentioned this:

> "My wife typically only charges her phone when she’s at her desk during the day. She doesn’t leave it plugged in overnight, which means iOS’s software update never happens automatically for her. So, she just recently upgraded to iOS 13 a few days ago."

About 3 months ago, I _finally_ got rid of my landline at home. I had it just for emergencies, and I had a wired POTS phone on my nightstand.

So now I keep my iPhone on my nightstand. It's in the charger all day at work.

And I, too, stopped getting updates automatically! I just looked at my phone and saw that there's been an alert up for a few days that I need to update to the latest 13.1.3.
Where's all that negativity coming from? The founder is being transparent about his budding business and you're at him harder than hn was on Apple's stance on Hong Kong.
Fond memories of it. The offices were in Renton, WA down where Ikea now is.

They sold Apple ][ hardware also. First memory card with 256kb came from them...
I think intent matters. It can be argued that any media is biased, in the sense that you literally cannot cover every possible angle, every possible fact, etc. But that is very different IMO from intentional bias.
> I'm not defending gmail, but I will say that some users simply suck (unintentionally). I bet some of your peers are just hitting the spam button instead of simply deleting the email, generating a bad reputation for the sender.

Google does put some senders often into spam for me, but not always. I'm absolutely sure I've never reported them as spam, on the contrary: I've marked their emails as "Not Spam" when I caught them in the spam folder.

That had, so far, no influence on the filter. Those aren't "weird" emails either, they are in my language and individual communication, not mass mails.
Many of them might well have wound up programming anyway. And so this language has the potential to shunt them off into a likely dead-end language.

Although, yes, it might be a “gateway drug” kind of thing where they wind up learning more mainstream languages as well. I’m just saying it’s not an obvious and unalloyed win.
>It propaganda for fascists, and a machine of hate, targeting the mental inept.

Funny. I would have said the same about nearly every primary left-leaning media outlet.
Or they will vote for laws that encourage repairable devices. Why do you want to reduce citizens to consumers?
I submitted this video link by Louis Rossmann days ago but it was unfortunately mis-classified by HN as spam (and they did clear this up personally with me so don't worry).

https://youtu.be/Bt2KDtDt940

He made a clear concise point in 3 minutes why the right to repair is important. Now the good thing is that it doesn't matter how many states the bill has been shot down. As long as one state or one country has it, it will open the Pandora's box.
Hasn't blown up for my uncle and he's nearly 50
Recently I've heard/read the Softbank guru described as addicted to risk. He was backed by $45bil in Saudi money after a 45 minute meeting, so maybe he is convincing or knows what he's about, but the risk factor is clear. Maybe one of the investments takes off long term but there are billions gone already.
IMHO a better title would be "Peloton accidentally built a fitness cult. A business is a little more complicated"
My chemical intuition says that yes, it could be done. However, I imagine psychedelic states are much more neurologically complex and molecules more chemically complex than the analagous experiences vis-à-via scent (although we certainly do tie smells to memories and other secondary and tertiary experiences).
Summary:

- They created an entirely new dataset of ~5000 molecules, all hand-labeled by perfume experts.

- They held a competition (presumably Kaggle or a similar platform) to classify this dataset, and used the results as a strong baseline.

- Their GNNs get comparable (slightly better, but not statistically significant) results than the winning random forest model of the competition.

The embeddings show promise, but I'm curious why they omitted a simple "fully connected layer" on the Morgan bit descriptors as a baseline classifier. Seems like that would outperform the random forest.
I think change for the sake of a "fresh look" which is often advocated for by middle management and marketing yahoos with too much power over design would count as "just for fun".
Because ants are small... And lightweight, I can’t remember right now the term for volume vs mass when compared, but you can throw an ant from the Empire State Building, and it will land like dropped from 2 inch height.
"Who killed the scrollbar" was a rant I'd posted on this about three years ago:

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/0hgfswmoti3fi5zgftjecq
The Emergence of Modern Astronomy
A lot of people don't even know there is a spam folder
On a related note, There's no reason the "find on page" should burried in that share menu, and not in the "aA" menu on the url bar
There used to be a little magnifier, too, when I was moving the cursor around. I don't see it anymore, just the "caret" moves. I don't know if it's because I switched to the bigger size, or did they just drop that feature when moving the cursor.

At age 56, it's hard for me to see where the cursor/insertion point is, especially because it's blocked by my finger when I try to move it.
Honestly this was a great piece of insight and I think my own view that you replied to is probably closer to being offensive.

The patriarchy and sort of community oppression is the part of these communities that creeps me out, and I don't think those downsides are exactly advertised as part of the Amish "brand." The idea of your own nuclear family's life being so visible to the larger community isn't something that appeals to me.

But then again, neither do some of the more traditionalist family structures that have nothing to do with small religious groups. For example, I wouldn't want to live with my grandparents or parents, personally, but that's based on my own upbringing and experiences.
Whoah, awesome! I guess I was always searching with the wrong terms :/, I did search for "federation" though FWIW. Maybe that's what I should have gone with instead of OpenID with Oidle.
Sinclair Zx Spectrum: absolutely better than Commodore 64 (2005)
Interesting, thanks for sharing how you're doing it.

Is there any mileage in doing this with triggers? I have a _very_ legacy system which needs caching adding. Rather than dig through the code to invalidate the cache every time a record is updated/deleted in 20+ tables, I am thinking that being able to listen to the SQL executed and invalidate the cache based on the tables involved would be a clean approach.

But not found any way to make that possible - yet.
>My god. Would I even want to go 10 more years weighing 300 lbs?

As someone who's dropped from 430 to 330 (6'3" 31). This is always a difficult question. The struggle is real, but even trying to hit the "healthy" weight for my height according to BMI is another 140lb away.
Is it just our generation? My dad was born in the 40s and repaired all sorts of stuff himself. Our furnace, vacuum cleaners, computers, boat, cars, etc. I even helped him change the transmission on our Jeep when I was still in middle school. And take apart and reconstruct our boat's engine. I think its just that the 80s-90s were the last decades where things were repairable.
NASA Reveals ‘Breathtaking’ Selfie from Mars That Is Unlike Any Before