skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To have a great GUI, beyond looking nice and getting out of the way, it must be intuitive, and for that you need a metaphor that works.

I don't buy that there is "good" GUI design in any absolute sense. "intuitive" is thrown around with too little thought in GUI discussion even though it is ambiguous.

When disassembling the meaning of intuition is turns into familiarity - but there is a whole spectrum of familiarity. At the most fundamental there is _innate_ familiarity e.g direction, which is why arrow keys and cursor input are innateley intuitive. At the other end of the spectrum we have high level design mimicry or historical use, skeumoprhism, e.g the floppy disk save icon, checkboxes, 3D relief in UI elements as a reference to physical input devices.

This is why "good" and "efficient" GUI design is also highly subjective, not because we don't all share a history that can be tapped for familiarity, surfacing conventions which are hard to escape - but because it's possible to be more efficient, more effective if we abandon those short term shortcuts and only hold onto the innate intuitions.

For example I use a tiling window manager, I get to define my own shortcuts - all of them. I find it intuitive to alt+arrow-key to change window focus, and shift+alt+arrow-key to move a window - this comprises innate intuition + artificial almost contextless fabrication - i.e no normal user would be able to figure it out without reading a manual or defining it for themselves.

This would also not generally be considered good GUI design, because it's not discoverable by people who are already familiar with historical GUIs, you have to put in effort to learn it - as would an alien using windows UI. and yet it is more efficient...

In summary, "good" GUI design for the masses is highly constrained and dictated by history, not ability to conjure up good metaphors.
No dates on the post. Anyone know date range this applies to? Is it still happening today?

And does this happen to other fridges (I see Samsungs in a few stores, for example, are they similarly crippled)?
> If PHP is a rusty saw, what isn't? There are hundreds maybe thousands of languages.

I was curious, there's about 9000 according to a cursory google search.

> And when you measure all things (expressiveness, stdlib, productivity, ability to build a team, etc.) PHP would come up in TOP10 for any webapp.
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> Of course, it has its gotchas. So does Clojure, Ruby, Python, C#, etc. Honestly, once a person knows PHP very well, switching a language has almost no impact besides their "feeling".

Maybe PHP is in the top 10 for some of the things you mentioned, and you can definitely build a PHP team pretty easily, however:

Productivity:

I am sure that most people can get their PHP programs to a state where they at least seem to do what they want, the problem with PHP is the sheer number of gotchas and edge cases. Here's some I put together for another commenter: https://gist.github.com/wjessop/0923e0667d7dd53ae0503459894e.... It took me minutes to find these, there are many many more.

Sure, you might be able to get your e-commerce site off the ground really fast in PHP, but are you doing the job that you should be doing? Did you remember to check for every single edge case? Are you coding security flaws into your app? How sure are you that you didn't miss an edge case and you're tallying your basket wrong in some circumstances?

Unless you are very very good at PHP then you are going to miss this stuff and it's going to come back and bite you in the ass. There has even been a study into how bug-prone different languages are: https://www.i-programmer.info/news/98-languages/11184-which-...

A key phrase:

"The languages with the strongest positive coefficients - meaning associated with a greater number of defect fixes are C++, C, and Objective-C, also PHP and Python. On the other hand, Clojure, Haskell, Ruby and Scala all have significant negative coefficients implying that these languages are less likely than average to result in defect fixing commits."

All languages have flaws, but PHP has way more than most.

Building a team:

Most PHP developers are likely very average PHP programmers, just like most Ruby developers are likely very average Ruby developers. You would need to be a super-human to be able to program PHP correctly taking into account all the edge cases, and so yes, building a team is easy, but if you want to build a team that build software that isn't a liability, then you need to hire the absolute best PHP programmers, and that's going to be very hard.

So is it easy to build a PHP team? It depends.
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Worked out great for me, and I am quite astonished that you are telling consultants that linkedins value is not "immediately apparent"
I have a smart TV. I connected it to WiFi for setup and update and then I "forgot" the network. Two weeks later my wife is watching Netflix and I notice it's the TV not my Roku or Apple TV. She swears she didn't configure it.

I didn't mention the brand because I haven't gone back in to double check what's happening here.
This looks pretty dope
So it is like software license - different plans for individual, commercial, education, no ability to transfer ownership.

And it run on DRM hardware only...

oh my, we live in the future https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
I don’t get why WSL is better than a Linux VM in hyper-v or virtual box, until it’s way smoother than it currently is. You can full screen the VM to work entirely in dwm or i3 or whatever if that’s your thing, plus Xpra and SSH exist if you want to run Linux stuff alongside Windows (I assume there are free clients for both in Windows?). With that way of working you can even run Linux somewhere else to offload the resource use almost entirely, and if local it takes seconds to suspend the whole thing.

The last thing I’d want, working with Linux tools, is to have another thing I have to eliminate as a source of trouble when anything breaks.
what does this have to do about tech?
> Maybe you can provide your experience on why linkedin is of value to you and then there can be a discusion

Sure, let me think of a couple of reasons:

1) The network effect of the timeline is HUGE. If people share/like your post, you can have a reach of ten of thousands of people. I scored new customers this way.

2) I often post something about something I've done (new certification, new project I launched, whatever). This almost always leads to replies from connections from unexpected people in my network. The thing I posted might have struck a chord with them, they may see ways for us to collaborate, it might be a product that they need, they may have valuable feedback on it, etc.

3) I interacted with many people over the course of my career. I may have forgotten about those people, but having them all together in an easily searchable "address book" proves pretty valuable to me when I am looking for people with a particular skillset.

4) In the past I did find jobs through linkedin. Either by applying to the job posts or by simply asking around with recruiters.

5) I use LinkedIn a lot to find out who works where, what role they have and who to address when I need something from another company.

There are also counter points to be made:

- I have received a ridiculous amount of recruiter spam over the years. Taking all skills I don't use anymore (like PHP) off of my LinkedIn has certainly helped.

- Advertising on LinkedIn is garbage. We were looking for Dutch speaking candidates in Amsterdam. We got 0 Dutch applicants. All we got is 100+ Indian coders who barely speak proper English.
LinkedIn was and is mega-creepy. They still prompt me to "discover my network" by giving them my Gmail username and password. Based on the comments here, it seems that everyone has at this point accepted LinkedIn's creepy business practices and now we're just arguing about its relative utility. Great.
It seems this rally has now come to a crashing halt! The stock market is absurd right now. Apparently a lot of first-timers are investing via Robinhood. Some will make money, most will lose it all as they all seem to be trading options.

ZeroHedge is a pretty scummy website, but it occassionally has some good stuff: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/google-searches-day-tradin...
What's "unbalanced" about the 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 arrangement of numbers? And how is "primes" superior?
Trying again because basic boring hackers flag killed my post on the wikipedia article. This is the most interesting thing to happen in a while and should gratify your intellectual curiosity and is obviously worthy of discussion.
You think Wikipedia isn't already poisoned? I have sad news for you, my friend...
Last week I was getting weird crashes with games, probably something was wrong with my gpu. Weirdly my firefox was also crashing consistently when I open linkedin. Other websites seemed fine, only linkedin.
> The complaint is explicitly about providing a tool to work around technical restrictions,

That's their legal argument. Doesn't mean that's their actual grievance.
This strongly conflicts with my perception. I live and grew up in Europe and, to me, he looks like a black person. I really don't think people would ordinarily perceive him as white. Plus, he worked for the head of the NAACP at one point, and is a friendly, supportive and encouraging guy.
>You are killing the golden goose

There was never a golden goose, Reddit revenue numbers are not good and have never been good.
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I think this is actually a step in the wrong direction that is likely to result in us going in the right direction faster. The core of the problem we have is that there are a bunch of new jobs known as "gig economy" jobs and they don't neatly fit into the traditional idea of a 9-5 job.

The result is that currently you basically fall either into "Yes 9-5 job, employee protections, healthcare, regulation etc" or "Not an employee, no protections, no unemployment insurance etc.". The thing is, when these jobs were considered like the latter case, they worked great for gig economy companies since it makes their workforce weak, and gives the companies as much leverage as they could possibly want and shifts liabilities off their balance sheets. The problem is that it's very difficult to get that regulatory scheme changed by workers, because that's not who has power in this system.

Now that workers are in the "employee" camp we've now got a bunch of highly motivated companies that are going to lobby for reform, and if we're careful to do it right, we could actually see the reforms that should have been made earlier anyway where there's no longer this massive chasm around the term "employee".
> its such a shame so many video games still only support MS

This is very true. It's a shame, but the only way to help this change is to create the market for video games that support other platforms, for example Linux, as well. Help make it profitable to develop games for Linux

There are already quite a lot of games on Steam that support Linux, especially if you add Wine/Proton [1] to the mix, where 78% of the top 100 games have a score of "Gold" (runs perfectly after tweaks), "Platinum" (runs perfectly out of the box), or is running natively on Linux. This means that you are no longer missing out on the huge library of games you were missing out on just a few years ago.

[1] https://www.protondb.com/
Tesla stock soars above $1k as Musk vows to “go all out” for Semi
It's not a waste if I use it.
I will throw my hat in with you, I have never, ever, ever bought a Sony product after that incident. Had you or I done the same thing (hacking and exploiting that many computers) we would probably just be seeing the light of day now from our stint in prison. They got what amounted to a slap on the wrist and no one was criminally prosecuted. Therefore I will never purchase another of their products so long as I live.

As far as the main point of the thread, honestly, the older I get, the more of a Luddite I become when it comes to home electronics and appliances. I purchased and restored an older model Viking range due to it being mostly straight electronics, mechanics and pneumatic. I was able to rebuild the whole thing in 2 days. Anymore the appliance repair guys don't want to deal with repairs, unless the appliance is throwing a code and all they have to do is replace a logic board. Usually they just come out and tell you to buy a new one from them. So I have gotten to the point where, I just want simple stuff that I can repair myself. I have a commercial refrigerator and a commercial stand up freezer for this reason, they are built with repair in mind and generally use stock interchangeable parts that are simple and durable. If a person really wants to opt out of this appliance DRM game, buy used commercial equipment or boutique semi-pro home appliances. They really are better quality and most are built to be repaired and last a lifetime.
NTLite can theoretically be compromised just like an externally sourced .iso.
The good: I got good jobs from CEOs/VPs

The bad: I didn't really understand what to post there

The ugly: I got a bunch of messages by recruiters who didn't read my profile and offered me crap.
GraphQL is instant API to frontenders.

Their justification for needing it is that the API team takes too long to implement changes, and endpoints never give them the data shape they need.

The silent reason is that server-side code, databases, and security are a big scary unknown they are too lazy to learn.

A big project cannot afford to ask for high standards from frontenders. You need a hoard of cheap labor to crank out semi-disposable UIs.
Sweet! It was excactly this kind of advice I was hoping to get. Thank you.
Console makers tend to lose money on console sales [0], but they then are able to make it up in selling things like (but not limited to): Online Access (Nintendo Online, PSPlus, Xbox gold), Games, and possibly ads, should they choose to display any,

[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/080515/econo...
> Another (potential) advantage of GraphQL is the ability to compose many different APIs into a single, federated GraphQL schema.

If anyone else can share experiences of this sort of problems and solution, I'd be really interested to hear it. I've written non-GQL APIs before that back onto other internal and external services; what am I missing?
I've never had a LinkedIn, but I regularly receive emails from recruiters that start, "Hey, I found your profile on LinkedIn and...". These get a form response from me which says basically, "No you didn't, and given the first words you say to me are a lie, I have no interest in working with you. And if you feel guilty enough about how you actually got my email that you feel the need to lie about it, maybe you should consider whether you want to be the kind of person who gets people's emails via unethical means and then lies about it."

Some of these recruiters apparently work for Amazon, which isn't unsurprising given their track record on other ethical concerns.
Bumping this towards front page discussion, the Wikipedia link on this got flag killed from the front page.
This is precisely the sort of strategic, business-wide direction that is decided and set by boards of directors.
I don't think I've seen anything covered by NYT in the past few moths to a year or two that wasn't misrepresenting things. BLM coverage, before that epi coverage, before that many other things (remember how they portrayed Naomi Wu using pejoratives that edgelords use? I do.)
That’s not a very believable scenario. First, the precedent is not worth much as all it would say is when all libraries in the whole country are closed, they can give away books for free - how often do you see that happening? Second, that’s not how precedent is established: typically a single case is hand-picked to serve as the exception to the rule taking great care to make it as palatable, appealing, and free of recriminations as possible and you take that to the courts. You don’t make available millions of books to billions of people, you make available a book or a hundred books or whatever number that it takes to prove your point without making matters worse for you and opening you up to such a massive liability. Third, you are making my point for me: again, some other website or organization should gamble their entire existence that isn’t worth as much as the Archive to get this precedent: whatever the reason, it’s a massive and hugely irresponsible gamble.

It’s not like the Archive doesn’t know what kind of people they are dealing with. They know publishers are out to stop second hand sales, ebook lending, right of resellers to set prices, and a million other things. It’s like expecting the RIAA or the MPAA to settle for an injunction when they have the chance to kill Napster/TPB/IsoTorrent/whatever. If it’s really in order to set a precedent then that’s damn short-sighted.
Francis Fukuyama specifically talks about the necessity for WRITTEN laws and literacy in his book as one of the core foundations of political order.

Native populations around the world had no "transferable right of ownership" because they had no written laws.
The changing UIs are essentially a marketing sceme, not having to retrain how to use a UI is almost always significantly better. Mobile UIs on the other hand have really improved in the last decade.

When I first moved to Japan I was appalled by all the old GUIs used everywhere and the never renewing systems (still using fax for example), now I think that changing styles every few years without good reason should be a crime.
http://boringtechnology.club/ calls it "innovation tokens".
> So as you're putting it, it doesn't matter, it's all the same either way whether we or don't have a legal system.

No, I'm saying if we don't have free will, having a legal system or not isn't a choice either. If the actions a legal system might regulate are predetermined, so is whether or not we have a legal system, and what the nature of that system is.

> So why punish people if they don't have free will?

If we don't have free will, what does the question “Why?” even mean, other than asking for an explanation of the mechanical forces producing an outcome? Questions of purpose behind actions presuppose free will directing actions for a purpose.
Thanks for conversing in such a friendly and reasonable way. b^)
After seeing Damian Conway‘s training courses teach this, I’ve tried to shoot for this style ever since.

It definitely lowers cognitive load and “feels” better, but I still feel bad when adding function call overhead just for style (maybe the compiler is actually that smart and there’s no hit)
Name, picture, background enforces instant bias in recruiting. This is a known fact. LinkedIn enables our perceptive biases. The feed that is full of thought leaders shouting how to be successful is just pablum for the drones.
The history of dice is older than that. I would say around three times as long, since earliest dice were found in pyramids
The Ultimate Python Beginner's Handbook
Anyone can say they are police.
There are Mitch Peacock:
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCHNLNiFWZcy39ew7OskHdtw

And Matt Eastly:
https://mattestlea.com/
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCxWzA3ZlYEOLr1JkKH0ZMyg
Doesn’t Google censor it’s results in China?

Google seems like at best lateral step regarding moral computing.
Are you suggesting we take the land rights away from the Natives in order to... protect Native sovereignty?
My GE refrigerator is 2 years old. I’m fairly certain this is still happening as I see it mentioned on various forums related to DIY, home repair, etc pretty frequently.
I interviewed them, BTW. Some things looked fishy (e.g. impressive tech, but all of the repos they listed were cloned, with trivial changes).

It turned out that I knew their last CEO. It turned out that the candidate made-up the entry (exchanged emails, was given a task, never showed up, or emailed or anything) and claimed a 3-month internship experience. It is much worse than having a bad opinion on an employee (in the later, sure - maybe just the relationship, or the project, didn't work out).

Hand-picked references are always, ekhm, hand-picked.

I am not a judge so - I am interested in finding the best candidate, not to give anyone "a due process". And while many people are reasonably honest (sadly, there is some kind of social approval for soft-lies on interviews) some may totally invent their CV. And you never know with whom you talk.
I've never found a job through LinkedIn. I do like Easy Apply a lot, but it never resulted in anything. Every job I've ever had was found either through someone I know or by applying directly on a company website. I've had a few interviews resulting from LinkedIn, but it's not like LinkedIn gave me much of an advantage beyond Easy Apply. I didn't exactly get more interviews. In fact, I may have been getting fewer interviews on average, but it didn't seem like it because it was easy enough to apply to a lot of companies.

In terms of the actual social network... people use that sh? I've had my moments of Facebook addiction in the distant past, but there's nothing about LinkedIn that makes me look forward to logging in. My feed is mostly composed of inspirational quotes, people celebrating their anniversary at their current job, corporate brown-nosing, articles on productivity, articles about people quitting their job, etc. All generic, mostly low-effort junk. Let's not even get started on the recruiter spam!

Unfortunately, it we will have to wait for a serious decline of LinkedIn before a serious competitor can make headway.
Could you tell us more? Is this meant to be an alternative to parquet?

In fact, now that I think about it, parquet supports compression. Shouldn't this be just an option when saving to parquet format?
This is both correct and incorrect.

Boston Dynamics use control-systems style robotic control. This is different to ML-style control where the system learns to perform tasks.

But that's different to "pre-programmed sequence". They don't program the individual servo movements for each movement - instead they give it the motions to perform and the control-systems balance the robot automatically.

(This is what the OP implied by the word "algorithms" anyway right?)
I was recently thinking about this, but on a slightly bigger scale.

There’s a term “off-kilter”, which is easy to explain using vectors like this.

If we take the general vector of society, just sum up all personal vectors and normalise, we form a big vector for society. This is what’s “normal”.

Kilter refers to the concept of how aligned we are with society’s vector. So the concept of being off-kilter is how skewed you are wrt this normal vector essentially.

Of course valid for any of the eigenvectors corresponding to subfields again, and this also goes some way to help form the overton window, which has recently been up here in some posts...

It’s a fun sociomathematical formulation.
Android 11 may be the best texting platform if you use multiple chat apps
> From a professional standpoint LinkedIn gave me a lot of value for free

i'm curious what others see as value from the platform.

in my narrow view:

- i have a list of connections id most likely be able to contact off platform

- a feed full of virtue signaling and mostly useless content

- messages from random recruiters. usually the full extent of the interaction is: phonecall, redo resume and send over, ghost (40+ interactions like this last year with 2 interviews resulting)

i spoke with someone in career services and their #1 suggestion was to start messaging people i don't know on linkedin looking for "connections" to expand my network.

perhaps i don't get "it" but it seems like for some its incredibly valuable and for the rest its actually a net negative all things considered.
Google’s Covid-19 Response Includes Shutting Down In-Office Perks
Video games only support Windows because the market share is what it is.

Normal apps are usually easy to port. Native video games, not so much, since they tenf to be quite low-level.