skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) They do give feedback, on forums and tech support etc.
2) you do testing and extensive QA. You don't outsource your testing onto users, but instead hire people to do it.
The College Board is an absurd monopoly. Students have no other option than to pay them egregious fees for taking/sending tests. Of course it's going to be run poorly.
Imperial Britain is still not China of today. There are some cultures that will simply read your nonviolence as weakness and stomp over you.

Our modern tendency to compete on who can most hyperbolically denounce Western Imperialism strips us of any ability to calibrate between cultures. Do you know what Imperial Rome would have done to the nonviolent Indian revolt? They'd have executed it at its infancy and it would be a historical footnote. They wouldn't have even waited for it to become a big movement; the death penalty would have been used early and often. To some degree, even as entertainment.

My read on China is closer to first-century Rome than 20th century Britain. YMMV.
This was somewhat predictable.
I will be really interested in another piece of data.
When we re-open fully (whatever that means) and people get back on the roads perhaps even more than they used to will it reset the waiting times because of excess collisions and more fatalities?
Finding representative portions of your userbase that will actually talk to you is pretty difficult. I've worked on a couple different products with millions of end users and we frequently discovered a subset of our userbase was having big problems and we simply weren't hearing from them.
>>> "messaging should quickly cover what the product is, what problem it solves, and why it solves that problem better than all the other existing solutions.

This is much easier to do by being reactive instead of proactive with the messaging. In other words, stop telling customers what you are, and start addressing who they are, what their problems are, and why those problems aren’t being solved. "
FWIW, if you airdrop files from phone to desktop, they come as HEIC, and it isn't always easy to convert them once you've got an HEIC file in my filesystem instead of my app.
I remember reading a book years ago where news would switch and rewrite stories and headlines every day.
The transplant list works on a point based system. What if those who previously agreed to be organ donors get a bonus point on the list to reduce wait times?
> Why not keep salaries the same and get the absolute best talent in every market across the world?

Because people living in those other markets will be more than happy to take a "reduced pay" for SF standards, since that's way higher than any other local wage.
All (most?) big companies already set pay based on local market conditions. This is actually based on what pay levels are in the market, not cost of living.
This is absolute nonsense.
Corporate labs do fund very long term research. Google was interested in and working on AI more or less from the early years (anyone remember Google Sets?), it's still funding fundamental AI research more than 20 years later. Now they've been funding self driving cars for more than 10 years and still do so.

The reason it appears rare is because funding research on the assumption it might be useful in more than 20 years from now is extremely wasteful. Companies don't work so far ahead because the risk of just going down a dead-end for half a lifetime is very, very high. In academia that doesn't matter because people are rewarded merely for researching novel things, in the real world people are rewarded for doing things that are useful.

It matters. For every DNA you can cite, others can cite dead end branches that despite decades of research have gone nowhere and probably never will. In CS, how many programmers are using Haskell every day? It's been in development for 35 years yet virtually nobody uses it - the new languages that gain traction (Rust, Swift, Go, Kotlin etc) invariably come from corporate R&D labs, and outside of a few bits of useful syntax borrow little from academic research languages. Even Haskellers have admitted now that lazyness was a dead end, new FP langs like Idris don't have it. Practically the entire field of PL research was swallowed up by FP and continues to be dominated by that paradigm (e.g. dependent types), despite the vast majority of PL users being disinterested in them.

Computational epidemiology. It's been researched for >20 years yet the models are always wrong. There are private sector epi models, but not surprisingly little work is done on them because there's obviously a missing piece, and developing huge and insanely complex simulations (e.g. the 15,000 LOC monster Ferguson produced) is obviously a dead end.

String theory. How much time has been sunk into that? Not a single testable prediction.

And in biology. You know, one biotech firm found 9 in 10 papers don't replicate. Papers professional labs can't replicate is not "useful in 20 years". That's "not useful today and never". People were selectively breeding for many centuries. Agritech firms would have eventually figured out the structure of DNA if Watson and Crick hadn't.

Meanwhile we tend to take for granted all the long term R&D projects the private sector does because it's much better at finding useful outcomes quicker. It doesn't need to wait 20 years to find products out of the research it does, and that's good!
That's a header the client sends to a server to indicate which formats it would like in the response to it's requests, and not relevant to the problem.
Irony here is that College Board's core business is testing.
This seems to be highly subjective as I'm the exact opposite.

I guess perhaps I have an overly critical mindset, but when I see this, my feeling is more of relief that this is someone who considers the purpose and need of their projects carefully before starting, and is reluctant to "create more stuff" for the sake of it rather than leveraging idiomatic approaches.

There's also the added confirmation bias of reading a rant of frustrations you share.

NOTE:

This is a comment on the sentiment of your comment, not on the original article, the author of which I must say seems to be experiencing frustrations I do not share.
3 is still reasonable. They went to 5.3 parking spots per apartment.
This is a great resource, thank you for sharing!
Yeah, exactly. Because they have to compete with a behemoth subsidized by an invasive advertising company..
Downvoting for being blatantly inaccurate or blatantly anti-community seems a worthwhile community-sourced signal for the posts of bad actors (whether temporary or permanently bad actors). This should absolutely factor into the sorting and eventual hiding of sufficiently negative posts.

For people who think of themselves as good actors, I will reflect on posts that attract downvotes and try to figure out if I should have been more constructive on a given post. (I don't "care" about the score per-se, but I do care about the community that I'm part of and if people are telling me that I'm being an asshole on a given post, I should reflect on that, decide if I agree with them, and if I do, to change next time. (Often, I think my content was fine and someone just disagreed and used a downvote to express that. That's not how I use downvotes, but if they do, so be it...))
Ross Anderson's Blackhat talk, "How Smartcard Payment Systems Fail", has some awesome details about this. See e.g. 26 minutes in for the No-Pin attack.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET0MFkRorbo
'One-way' electronic devices enter the mainstream
Worked in the US and France as I recall.
This was done in my elementary school... most kids arrived 10-15 minutes early and milled around outside of the building. Teachers would open the doors at a set time to let us in...
When Civ 3 came out I had to install windows on a new partition, lasted about 2 years -- that was last time I had windows at home
What is "the next stage," exactly? Does the nod to China mean that it's disappearing those who dissent from the state, turning ethnic minorities into organ donors + fertilizer and remarrying their wives over to the ethnic majority, building dragnet panopticons that lock you out of social existence entirely if its algorithmic eye deems you a problem?

The US wasn't founded on perfection and it certainly hasn't taken only correct steps since then. WWII wasn't the high water mark for freedom, either - Americans have stronger freedom of speech now compared to then for example.

This law is clearly a misstep but I hardly think it means it's time to stick a fork in the West.
Even people like Richard Thaler who favor "nudges" to drive behaviors, have been somewhat skeptical of opt-out [1] in this case. One of the problems is that defaults are so powerful. Therefore, in the case of an emotional decision like organ donation, it's easy for a distraught family to argue that the deceased never made an informed decision. (In the referenced column, Thaler argues for mandated choice, e.g. you have to make a choice when you renew your drivers license.)

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/business/economy/27view.h...
Ask HN: Why would Netflix make it easier for people to cancel?
I just wish these large organizations would be held accountable for failing to perform the single task we rely on them to do. The College Board has one job -- to administer exams. Experian has one job -- to keep financial data. But when they screw up this single job in a fundamental way, nothing seems to happen to them.
They want to have their cake and eat it too. The interesting thing is that I know of several smaller companies that don’t do this, so it’ll be interesting to see how this decision impacts their attrition.
An inside look at how Figma ships product
Thanks for that explanation, I was wondering how it worked.
iPhone's Face ID now unlocks faster when you wear a face mask. Here's what to do
great way to game the system. probably even worth it to pay someone a few hundred a month to let you send mail to their house.
Yeah, they never intended a full democracy. Initially only white men who owned property could vote (6% of the population when the United States was founded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_voting_rights_in_t...), so I think that's a fair statement.

All of the rights gained by different oppressed groups (right to vote, labor laws, tenant laws) came through struggle and direct action, not because those in power suddenly decided to grant those rights out of the kindness of their hearts.
China itself is a colonial relic, it just happens to be a relic of a much older and much more cruel empire. In a more lucky timeline, it would have crumbled similar to Roman empire, and now, instead of one mega-dictatorship, there would be an alliance of multiple independent countries.
Why Netherlands is the world's second largest agricultural exporter?
This is an amazingly ignorant viewpoint, and I'd bet the farmers in Vietnam of the 1960's and Afghanistan of the 2000's would likely care to differ. Insurgencies undermine the advantages of expensive weaponry.

And if we're talking about a civil war or insurgency within US borders: An army fighting on its own soil and against its own citizens is surrounded on all sides and can't maintain secure supply lines.
It's a bit of an unsolvable tension. Too little to do per city and the early game where you have few cities is boring, too much per city and the lategame is overwhelming. Add a way to delegate tasks to AI, and the question arises of why those tasks are in the game at all if you lose nothing by automating them. And if you discourage wide play (which is my main complaint of the prior game, Civ 5) then you're barely interacting with the broader world at all, and the rest of the map seems pointless.
Background Info: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/21/21266318/netflix-cancel-s...
Question wording drastically changes the results on polling whether people support the Patriot Act, but broadly speaking, it appears most Americans support its existence and most Americans believe it is in need of moderation. I don't think it's as simple as "Public opinion has no effect on policy;" it's that the policy response to "most people aren't happy, but nobody can gel behind a concrete changelist" is "stay the course."

I agree on the education question, but that's going to be a regular pattern in public polls. General public savvy on privacy issues and the power of technology to consolidate information has not kept up with technology. And, TBH, if the situation at hand is actually "Most Americans don't understand the problem well enough to articulate their wants in the context of the issue," that's a scenario where public opinion shouldn't drive policy. A democracy of the uneducated doesn't work.
>cancel culture

The only people I see using this phrase in the way you're using it are people who have consistently behaved in such a way to be "canceled" from multiple social groups after being asked to modify their behavior that adheres to a low bar of social norms and etiquette. Do you fall into this category?
Telemetry is generally a key component for quality assurance. While a paid tester can file bugs about "it crashes" or "it takes 10 seconds to load", a regression taking load times from 100ms to 200ms will be very hard (if not impossible) for a tester to notice and file a bug about. It will only show up in your telemetry.

You could argue that telemetry should then only exist in your beta channel or testing builds, and some developers do that. It's silly to argue everything can be caught by your QA team, that is simply not true for online services. In the past projects I've worked on have had long-standing bugs that took weeks of ongoing effort between both our paid QA staff and customers to finally identify reproduction steps, at which point we were able to examine telemetry for those reproductions and fix the problem.
There is definitely an anomalous uptick with reddit harassment these days. I posted a positive article to /r/Coronavirus and I was immediately harassed in the dumbest way possible (someone trying to counter an article I posted but their argument was actually restating the article thesis). He ended up getting a ton of traction because he probably sounded confident. It left me confused and saddened- I owe a lot of what I learned in the last few years through great discussions on reddit and hn, hopefully reddit's deterioration by bored/malicious actors is stopped.
How does AMD deal with this on their server discrete GPUs that support SR-IOV?
I don't think this is a fair conclusion at all. Dolphin behaviour has been well studied and it's clear that they seek out mental stimulation for its own sake.
A lot of subreddits end up being snakes telling their tail how it's the best tail. A lot of those can turn into ads as people start making whatever brands to get in on the circle jerk. Some subreddits I suspect go further and have companies working with moderators to do very potent marketing without anyone drawing attention to it. /r/mechanicalkeyboards, /r/gadgets, etc, the list goes on.
Heh, the dressing like a homeless logger/fisherman trend wasn't a show or a fashion statement.

In my area, people complain that there are homeless people 'now', when I was a kid, fishermem would come home from Alaska with thousands of dollars of cash in their pockets, buy a tent and a sleeping bag and just camp right next to the bar. Lots of couch surfing. People had bars on their windows.

These PNW cities have always had a lot of drugs and poverty and depression. Cities built on logging, fishing, lumber mills, paper plants, shipping ports and airplane factory work.

The tech hub vibe and the people who moved to here from the suburbs see this as new. And in a way, it's been exacerbated by skyrocketing rent, but part of what we're seeing is a lack of places where these people could hide in plane sight.

They've always been here. This is a subculture that has always existed.
OK. It's not on MPN yet.
> Tree editors that only create grammatically correct code [...] should have been the norm decades ago.

idk... i like the idea in principle. but consider a task like turning a big list-of-pairs literal into a dict literal¹ – the code spends quite a while² being completely syntactically invalid. if the edits can only be AST -> AST transformations, the editor would need a super-powerful way of describing them, or a mind-reading autosuggest... because you're pretty much interactively writing a lisp macro

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¹ or anything where most of the line stays the same, but you need to reparenthesize things a bit

² even if you're using something like multiple cursors to batch-edit
Housing seems to me to be one of the most government-planned markets due to the strict zoning laws, but I've only seen fairly lefty orgs advocating for relaxed regulation. I'm surprised there isn't more movement from libertarians along the lines that property owners should have more rights for what they can build on their land.
The original Xbox had 64MB of RAM, with no dedicated graphics memory.

The Microsoft Teams chat application uses 200MB to 550MB of RAM when idle.

My all-time favourite example of high-density software is Super Mario 64, which weighs in at 8MB.
Is this quote from the WSJ article? I cannot find it.
US Tax code.

For example:
https://www.palmspringstaxandtrustlawyers.com/nonresidents-w...
The local market rates are correlated with, if not caused by, the cost of living in that market.
> We'd only hear about the disrespecting software.

You won't hear about it because nobody will respect that setting in any meaningful way, so everyone will disrespect it.
RabbitMQ, even a single-node RabbitMQ, has a hard time going down. You are more likely to have your server/container go down long before RabbitMQ node goes down. That being said, if you want to have a clustered solution with nodes being in different DCs, configure shoveling (https://www.rabbitmq.com/shovel.html) or for a simpler solution, use a private VPN to interconnect the RabbitMQ nodes. I would go for the latter.
What principle? Mistaking "money supply vs interest rates" for something else?
Is there a way to get a partial match on factoring an RSA key, so you can use it as proof of work?
The privacy benefit is there's no centralized logs. If you're using your ISP's / CF's / Google's resolvers[1], there's a single place the bad guys have to log to get all of your DNS requests. Locally, your resolver talks to each authoritative server in the chain independently.. to find out who you're talking to, it's not a matter of just requesting logs anymore, they'd have to actively tap your connection and sniff traffic on DNS ports.

[1]Someone will start shouting about how 8.8.8.8/1.1.1.1 doesn't store logs. Yes they do[2][3]. They store full logs for "24 to 48 hours", so the bad guys can happily request your DNS logs (without a warrant now), as long as they request them once a day for the previous day.

[2]https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy

[3]https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-1.1.1.1/
Most places with boilers are too cold for air to air heat pumps to be viable during heating season. Geo-thermal heat pumps have a wider range but they involve significant site work and require a non-trivial lot size. In terms of expense a typical geothermal heat pump will have a very long payback period. An open loop geothermal heat pump might be practical if there’s a source and sink for the water running through it. Most people don’t have those. But it’s a simple system with a water pump and fan as the only moving parts.
Thank you for sharing your experience! It is a boon to hear directly from people about what they are going through. Good luck with your health!
Why would it be "morally questionable" to donate plasma during lockdown?
Yes 1997, you're right I got my dates wrong. I was living in Vancouver so the date was ingrained in our heads because of so many immigrants from HK coming to Vancouver, but I forgot entirely.
Truth may not be the answer to lies (in any straightforward way), but bureaucratic committees deciding what's true is hella not the answer to lies. This is so obvious that the weird part is smart people acting otherwise. I'm surprised it has happened so easily. It seems that all that is needed are the right labels (words like 'science', 'public health', 'misinformation', and 'disinformation') to generate a high level of conformity. That this is a time of mass fear must be making a difference too.
This is just the reality of remote work which people are ignoring. Facebook (or any other company) has zero reason to pay Bay Area salaries if they can hire anywhere.

Salaries WILL be the same everywhere in the world. They will just be a lot lower than you are used to.
Can they give it away? Can they let it go unmaintained?
> (Consider trying to read something like ancient Hebrew in the original, written without spaces, consonants, punctuation, or lower vs uppercase - never mind italics or bolds!

Semitic languages are legible without vowels. Modern Hebrew... not so much, due to its great influence from Standard Average European. This is a major problem in Israel today (people often depend on the English [really I should say Latin] transliteration to read Hebrew place names) and many Israeli linguists are advocating just switching to the Latin script. Which as a former student of Hebrew I support.
The entire idea behind monopoly for legal reasons is that it harms consumers and it takes away choice. How does Youtube dominating stop anyone else from distributing video?

Heck, I can set up a bandwidth adaptive video stream and put it behind a CDN.
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 Linux Performance On The AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
Pop-up bike lanes and grassroots playgrounds
As a remote worker I've seen it done well and I've seen it done poorly. I think you have to go remote first, with all meetings and communicating being inclusive for the whole team. If you decide something face to face, send a summary via slack or email.

Anyway details aside, it can be done, it's just it has to be a deliberate effort from everyone in the office.
https://www.legacytree.com/blog/dutch-surnames
Maybe Texas is the problem and not NextDoor :)
IMO, people should be allowed to donate organs for payment.

Would fix the long waiting list issue.
> the developers provide you with a better product based on that data

I think that it's incorrect to believe that telemetry allows developers to build "better" software. Web pages have had intrusive telemetry for over a decade now, and they still broadly suck. We're able to navigate the world of hamburger menus, text with poor contrast, and scrolljacking because we're adaptable humans, not because these kinds of changes actually improve the websites.

The problem is that telemetry can only tell you the "what" and "how", but not the "why".

> If you trust the developer

It's not just the developers who gain access to that data. It's everybody at the company. It's 3rd parties who contract with that company. It's everybody who hacks into the data set at the company. And it's every governmental agency from (almost) any country with an overly broad warrant who has access to that data.

See my upstream comments about China and Hong Kong

> No one is making you use that software.

Just as nobody is making an effort to make it simple (or even possible) to make an informed choice about whether I should use that software. Homebrew is a great example. I know that it's sending telemetry to Google only because someone raised a ruckus and used social pressure to make the homebrew devs add in a reasonable amount of consent into the install and update process.

Thankfully, laws are catching up with technology, and I should soon be able to rely upon simply saying "data collection not directly tied to software functionality legally requires my explicit consent, and that consent is not required to run the software".