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There's a point where a device's insane amount of computational capability has to be balanced with usability given its available inputs.

I definitely agree with the general idea of the article, but, on the other hand, a typical non-technical user doesn't have to know every little nuance of the system to use it effectively.

The original iPhone didn't do 10% of what smartphones are capable of now. It couldn't install apps. It couldn't copy and paste. A massive amount of functionality has been added since 2007.

In the end we are limited to a small screen that can fit in our pockets. Adding buttons to the phone really isn't an option. Adding a plethora of menus and buttons to the screen UI to make everything infinitely discoverable isn't really an option, either: again, you're working with a relatively small screen here.

Since the article was written some improvements have been made. I find that the new pop-up long-press menus you can find around iOS 13, like on the home screen icons, are an improvement. Removing 3D Touch is an improvement.

Things like the three-finger copy, cut, and paste gestures sound completely ridiculous, but they aren't for non-technical users. They are for power users who will absolutely remember those gestures. macOS is praised for its extremely smooth, useful trackpad gestures but it isn't like my parents are using any of them.

I see a lot of comments complaining about things like the multitasking gestures in iPadOS, the app switching gestures on iPhone X and above, or those aforementioned undo/copy/cut/paste gestures, but on a smartphone or tablet, very few people actually end up needing them. Remember, there are still copy/cut/paste context menus when you select text.

Not only that, when you look at the competition, I don't think Android has a standardized Undo function at all? I could be wrong about that. If you Google that sort of thing you are met with a good amount of confusion, or suggestions to install add-on apps.

Is Alt-Tab (Command-Tab) discoverable? How about Command-`? Or any keyboard shortcuts that power users insist on during their daily lives? No, they're not discoverable outside of a manual or keyboard shortcut screen. But we wouldn't live without them. And the fact that non-technical users may never learn those shortcuts doesn't make the rest of the system unusable or unintuitive.
The NYT article relies mostly on named sources, not anonymous sources. So it doesn't seem to be intentionally leaked information.

And the board looks horrible, slow to act, behind the curve, reacting to external pressure instead of leading. So it would not be in the board's interest to do a "coordinated PR push" and fire Muilenburg after the stories were published.
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>this win is a marker of a broader social movement around gender and gender equality

Nah it's not. It's someone winning at a sport.
Documentaries are interesting to watch but by design they are one sided and are typically slanted toward a particular point of view in a big way. This doesn't make them wrong but it's not like they are some rigorous presentation of facts.
The uses are endless. Telecom, survey, mining, weather, agriculture etc.
I think it's gesturing towards the ideas in section 5 of https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf
I don't get the nuclear fetish. Wind and solar are already far cheaper. I'm sure you're immediately thinking "but they don't work all the time!". That's true but we're still pretty far from having enough wind/solar to turn all other power plants off even when it is windy and sunny.

Also the cost estimates of nuclear don't include decomissioning because nobody has actually decomissioned a nuclear power station yet so who knows how much it costs.
Corporate accountability would mean finding the people who value profit above quality and removing them from positions of power. I doubt the engineer with a 34 year career at Boeing falls into that camp. He's a fall guy for the board who put him into an impossible position.

The problems with Boeing are systemic problems with the way corporations work and the economy is structured.
It's a reasonably well reported statement of fact, brought in IIRC at the suggestion of Dominic Cummings. Why should discussions by party members and researchers be less susceptible to all the ills claimed for Facebook? Why should different rules apply? Are they immune from illegality? So it speaks to the hypocrisy of those calling for the change. It would be no different if it were another party calling for same, whilst at the same time switching from Whatsapp to Signal.

It would be reasonable for police investigating such possible crimes to have more secure channels.

Edit: Someone else -- johnnycab -- already posted links further down to some of the reports: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21863326
"The Ainu have historically suffered from economic and social discrimination throughout Japan that continues to this day. The Japanese Government as well as people since contact with the Ainu, have in large part regarded them as a dirty, backwards and a primitive people."

Reminds you of anything or anyone?
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"Controlling for Confounders Is Harder than You Think" https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
The Tylenol crisis is basically the case study for how to handle a corporate crisis. If you get an MBA without having come across it, you should ask for your money back.

> Why can't today's leaders think a little bigger, and optimize for the long term even if that has an immediate cost?

I'm not sure it's so simple. At the head of the Boeing bureaucracy, Dennis Muilenberg likely was being fed a diet of wrong and horrible information from lower executives keen on deflecting blame so that they could keep their jobs. He was ineffective because he accepted it and pushed it outward - to the board and the wider public - rather than challenging it and getting to the bottom of the crisis. Internally challenging the members of your organization during a crisis is incredibly politically difficult to pull off and has little to do with short-term vs. long-term perspectives. Of course, someone with his experience and compensation, working at his level, should be able to pull it off. He didn't.
The point was moving their production out of an area controlled by corrupt whites allowed them to create a more inclusive workforce. The unfortunate tragedies due to poor pilot training in the developing world are orthogonal.
I might have read too much into it, but it’s easy for readers to extrapolate to “if you become more optimistic you’ll live longer”. A parallel would be to read “people who wear XXL are more likely to be fat”, where forcing to wear a smaller size won’t make them thinner.
As per the article

>On Thursday, Google removed the app from its Play store after determining ToTok violated unspecified policies.
I think it entirely depends on how you use tools. Where I currently work people decided that it would be a great idea to extend waf (another niche build system) with all kinds of features. If you ever worked with waf you can probably imagine how bad that can turn out. As long as you stick to bazel’s default features and don’t start to extend it, I’ve found it really pleasant to use especially for C++ and python projects (where you want to expose C++ libraries to python as well). If you start to extend it it can probably become horrible really quickly. The only experience I have with that are abortive attempts at integrating system verilog tools (turned out to be hard) and integrating a custom GCC toolchain (worked fairly well)
You're right. I apologize. I'm just absolutely terrified about the inevitable hack -- when intelligence establishment gets their hands on everyone's private messages on Telegram servers, or when some hacker leaks them.
China’s model seems to be build infrastructure and the rest of society will come along as opposed to providing aid for the least fortunate.
Archimedes dealt with much bigger numbers in The Sand Reckoner (he worked through his numbering system up to 10^(8*10^16)). He certainly wouldn't flinch at those.
In normal operation almost all laws before parliament are drafted by the government of the day. Parliament could in principle do whatever it wants, but ordinarily in the UK the governing party has a majority (often a sizeable one) in parliament like this present Tory government, which it can whip to support its measures, so it would be futile to resist. The remarkable thing about Brexit was that a majority of members were sure that any particular plan was so bad as to be worth overturning the government position, and so Parliamentary sovereignty mattered.

By convention governments set aside a small amount of time for measures from individual MPs, most of which will be debated but proceed no further if they're at all controversial. A lot of such business will be scheduled for Friday, this way almost everybody can go home. The Speaker (or whichever deputy has to stay on Friday) will claim to hear dissent after a bill is discussed before it can pass, and because there seems to be dissent the house must be divided in order to count supporters for each side of the matter. In doing so it will be "discovered" that it is inquorate (ie there aren't enough members present) and nothing is done.
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> First of all, smaller planes such as the A320

I was going to go all "what do you mean, smaller??? ... surely you mean the A220", but had to good sense to look it up and you are right, the A320 Neo is actually a tad smaller than, for example, the 737-800. Also lighter.

Just carries more passengers a longer distance faster with slightly wider seats.

Hmm..
> Turns out trying to squash the unions by moving to a different state helps show why the unions existed...

Could you point out where you see a link between unions and the poor quality control that was observed in the plant?
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I’ve had an idea for a while now, of writing a tutorial that works similar to this one, but backwards. I have no time to write the tutorial, but here’s the idea:

Behind the scenes, write a short C program, and compile it into LLVM IR through Clang. Present the code first as its LLVM IR representation, then work through how you’d manually decompile it back into C, hopefully giving a result that will compile back to the same LLVM IR.

(You’d be teaching some of the fundamentals of compiler theory here, in “reverse order”, but IMHO that’s exactly what you need if you’re to understand where C and Rust really diverge.)

Then, walk through the decompilation process again, except this time with Rust semantics, to end up with unsafe Rust that compiles to identical LLVM IR as the C code does.

And then, finally, treating the unsafe Rust as the new IR, walk through how you’d decompile that unsafe Rust into safe Rust, introducing each static-analysis compiler pass that Rust does in reverse, adding one feature at a time, until the code is all safe Rust, but can be theoretically partial-compiled into the earlier unsafe-Rust code†, and from there into the same LLVM IR as the other two examples.

The idea here is that this tutorial would be a way of “reading history backwards” (ala https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/11/read-history-of-philos...). I.e., rather than coming into a world with a fully-formed Rust and a fully-formed C, you’d start with a world that only has ASM; and then introduce C into it; and then introduce Rust into it, seeing how each introduction changes what you can do.

† It’d be helpful if rustc had a mode where it could emit some sort of “core Rust” IR, that was all unsafe{} and had only the barest types, in the vein of early C++ compilers that emit C, or how the Erlang compiler works. Sadly, I don’t think rustc is architected in a way that’d allow this. (Though, paging steveklabnik to correct me.)
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I would say the approach should be more economical than political focused. Donation is very socialistic way needs no accountability from donation receptors, while business deals require responsibilities from both side and have risks attached. In fact China doesn't care about the political system. Ethiopia Happened to be a democratic country.
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Thank you. It is too late to edit now.
Another vote for low-latency here.

It’s tempting to create a YouTube channel dedicated to showing input latencies for common tasks. Question is: how do you make sure no one is cheating?
The 2010s were supposed to bring the eBook revolution. It never quite came
It will be hard to stop the leaks regardless of the platform, as screenshots are a common way to save and share conversations in this community. The reason provided by the Party, as stated in the article, suggests that it is due to group size limits. All other reasons for the switch are open to conjecture.

A Conservative spokesperson said the real justification for their MPs to use Signal was operational, rather than for security reasons. With so many Tory MPs elected at the last election, it had become impossible to fit them all in a single WhatsApp group, because they are currently capped at 256 members.
I fail to see how "providing decent work conditions and pay" is a cause or solution to the problem of employees leaving "objects" around a plane after it was delivered to customers.
And Nielson. And GE... (aka, old struggling companies that are failing to keep up with the times)
> ...single-aisle monoculture makes flying miserable.

What is it that people expect when they say flying is miserable? I expect safety, which is why I'll never get on a 737 MAX. Other than that, I just put sandwiches and snacks in my pocket, fill my water bottle, and in X hours I'm thousands of miles away. Air travel is actually pretty amazing.
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Yes, but a different one (they tend to be different despite of having the same degree).

Whatever made this one to deviate from the engineering focus the apparent story is still the suffering of engineering focus against business management focus.

For restoring confidence in engineering the act is not to fire engineers but to use good ones....
Sounds like a surviving version of Victorian "blame the victim" thinking. It was a popular and heavily flawed idea that the people the British invaded and robbed (of food in many cases), if faced with food shortages, should have just "had less kids".

When a parasite finds a good host, the logic can get really warped.
Many spiritual gurus don't get married, have kids, run companies or live in violent areas. These are some of the most challenging (and potentially rewarding) social structures we have. They test you in deeper, more unexpected ways.

While "appreciating what is" is a great general rule, like any world-view it can be limiting.

I can imagine it's much easier to follow these concepts when you're safely surrounded by admirers. It's probably much harder to walk into a hostile / life-threatening situation and "appreciate what is".
I never understood the fascination with these gurus. They repackage old ideas and dress them up a bit before using them to lure in weak-willed and gullible devotees. Most, and Ram Dass was no exception, were incredibly flawed people, albeit intelligent and charismatic, with clear psychogical issues.

Dass bounced around between gurus that exploited women and men before returning to the US to do much the same. That, the drugs, and the lies over the years just makes whatever he says unpalatable.
> Literacy rate data is from 1994 onwards, steadily up

Supporting the argument, since progress keeps following the trend.

> life expectancy growth accelerated from ~2000 and is slowing down a bit again

Slight waviness superimposed on the overall trend.

> how is GDP per capita, an important metric, “a bit of a exception”

GDP per capita had a trend reversal in 2000, unlike the other metrics.

> annual GDP growth rate does seem a lot more steady since 2004

Most likely a change in methodology that gives less noisy estimates.
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I feel this would be a whole lot more impressive if we were talking about javelin and not darts...
> Maybe my experience was "lucky" compared to most others here?

I can't speak for anyone else, but this is definitely the polar opposite of the experience I had.

School was a huge opportunity cost for me. When I think about the skills that make me successful today, 90% of them were self taught or I picked them up in the industry (programming, sales, marketing, management). I was always a prolific reader and learned so much more in my independent studies during my school years than through the education system.

Socially, it was even more dire. I was fairly popular, but I've since had to cut off contact with everyone I went to school with. A lot of them are toxic but most are just very different from me in a way that doesn't make sense for them to be part of my life.

People I've met through shared interests are the ones that become a part of my life in a significant way.

For me, school was a prison like environment that I'd wish on no one. I'm really happy to see students standing and questioning the fundamental necessity of our antiquated school system. 12 years is a lot of time to waste and I'm excited to see a shift toward actually taking advantage of that time instead of just "keeping kids off the streets" and "training cogs".
The West will never step aggressively to the plate. We aren’t allowed to by our own domestic politics. One of the major reasons China can become so directly and aggressively involved is they aren’t white. They don’t have a history of African colonialism, Apartheid, or slavery in Africa. They’ve done all these (or similar) and worse, but not in Africa and not in a way which found domestic disapproval.

If the West ever entered Africa the way China has the politicians leading it would destroyed at home. It’s more domestic politics and history than geopolitics.
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While I am being downvoted here happily , unfortunately I know it was a waste of money. On my extensive travels I met charitiy workers who were proud to discuss which of them agencies had the latest Toyota Landcruser , Range Rover , the best air condition in their flown-in prefabricated buildings etc. etc.,last time in Sri Lanka . While I agree with you that achievements should be lauded but the billions of donations by people who could least afford it need to be mentioned too. Several members of my extended family gave to charities mostly to African countries in the 70 and 80ties , the children of the recipients are now drowning in the Mediterranean Sea or visiting Europe for handouts.
How do you make any judgment about historical events when you can't run concurrent A/B tests?

If America stayed home in World War 2, how do you know the Allies wouldn't have won anyway?
I think this raises the question: will governments eventually ask the Go authors to remove these tools from the language/ecosystem?
There's integration in Unreal Engine for Nim.

I'm not saying it's widespread, but the language features put it in that field.
My understanding is that global variables in Go are not garbage collected. Is that true? If so then is this not creating the cache struct as a global var and therefore this cache will never be garbage collected? https://github.com/allegro/bigcache/blob/master/server/serve...

I ask this because I’ve run into a problem with this in the past.
Because darts takes significant body strength and muscle mass that is much easier for men to obtain.
That is not true. "Open source" specifically implies certain rights beyond simply allowing people to view the source code (which is known as "shared source").

Many companies like Microsoft allow people to view the source code to their closed-source products under restrictive licenses, but nobody would claim that these products are "open source" as a result.

"Open" doesn't just mean "viewable."
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I have days where I submit 0 PRs, and I have days where I submit 10+ PRs. It just depends a lot of things. Focus, Well defined small tickets, etc
What does that mean for all the Max units currently out there and grounded, though? Obviously there's going to be a huge and drawn-out lawsuit over this, but it seems like at the end of the day, the airlines involved will still end up having to train their pilots on those planes in order to get them back in the air, and at that point, they might as well have a bunch more of them anyway.

And if they're doing the new-plane certification and training anyway, the MCAS no longer has any point and could perhaps just be turned off?

Edit: Perhaps not— this comment asserts that the handling of the airframe sans MCAS is non-compliant with FAA requirements: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21864584
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Does anybody know implementations of TTS or STT by using XNOR tricks? It would be great to apply XNOR to Tacotron or DeepSpeech, wouldn't it?
It did! ..from an early prototype.
Thanks for checking it out.
Mostly by writing a blog posts and driving SEO traffic. But this takes a long time and may not succeed unless your blog posts are discoverable. You solve this problem by writing guests on other people's blogs (usually blogs that are in your product's niche).
Have Blue was the POC for the F-117, it wasn't used in actual operations. It was a test platform to demonstrate the concept's stealth capabilities and its ability to fly despite its non-conventional shape.
I never knew about that link, thank you for posting this. It's sad that it took that many lives to solve something so simple, it likely wasn't the first such explosion either but the others may not have been serious enough to warrant countermeasures.
I would not recommend home schooling unless you are trained, certified and experienced as teacher. For one thing, kids will miss out on social interactions that I feel are the 50% of the learning experience. When you have 20 kids class you start to develop notions of how different people are, how they think, behave and share. Learning to deal with all these is major part of the school system.

Other important thing is how to teach. On surface it might feel trivial to teach division to 7 years old but in reality different kids understand in different ways. An experienced teacher has came in contact with all idiosyncrasies and knows different approaches to make student successful. Person doing something professionally all day long is often way ahead of the game than parents who are busy doing chores or make a leaving.
There's actually five now!

1. manual string concatenation
2. the old, printf-style. Still heavily used in e.g. stdlib logging module.
3. .format()
4. f-strings
5. string.Template in the stdlib

Yup, I definitely see this as one of the bigger failures in Python's design.
> since one way or another the NSA is going to get in

This is not even remotely a foregone conclusion.

> but in the short run it will damage our ability to track how extremism is spreading

If the only way the intelligence community can "track how extremism is spreading" is by violating the privacy of everyone on the planet, then so be it. Liberty trumps security.
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