skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Accessibility" has a special meaning in design/development. It's as you've said "The new GitHub website is less performant" because you cannot access the data as fast as before. It's confusing, and that's why you're facing "dictionary language policing".

From "web accessibility" perspective (which does not only focus on disabilities), none of your points are "valid". From UX perspective, it may be a totally different thing.

You answer(s) were rather condemning, hence noone seems to be willing to participate with you in a constructive debate. But let me give a try:

- "languages are not at the top anymore" - I almost never look for the project languages. If I'm opening a specific project, I usually already know what language it is using. If I'm searching for a project, I will use a filter. For me, the change is perfectly fine.

- "stars and tabs off-centered" - I agree, it looks strange. Not a huge thing for me, though.

As with _any_ redesign, there will _always_ be an initial pushback. But I personally mostly like the new redesign.
what does coming to a middle mean - I would take it to mean that if you will have a range of 2000 consecutive days of not wanting to visit the US you would be at day 1000.
It doesn't even have a mid-motor but rather a cheap-o hub motor. It's like the iPhone 1 of e-bikes.
Firefly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9ZgnVb5Q7I
there's a moment with the language where you go from trying to do things the way you would have done them in another language and instead, your brain adapts, and you learn to do them the functional way. because it's Haskell, you learn that you can quickly simplify things -- a little glue, a better understanding of the various functions you can pull out from the standard library, etc. -- and something that seemed incredibly complex reduces (like, for a very strong definition of like, algebra) to a few simple terms. many parts of the language come together and make it all click in this way: the syntax, the automatic currying of functions, the purity, and the type system. you start to look at all code differently. you start to see it as a bunch of puzzle pieces that can be fit together just so. and when you go back to try and use something else, you find yourself reflexively reaching for tools that aren't there, or that, removed from their original context, no longer have the support that made them quite so useful or so pleasant in Haskell. you even feel it going to other functional languages -- sticking all these parantheses into this lisp is obscuring the simple details, the puzzle pieces extended with decoration that makes them fit together less well.

i don't mean to suggest Haskell is without flaws. but i do think you'll experience the paradigm shift as something concrete. there are almost no languages like it, after all.
they can mod it and make their own version easier. the modding tools for these kind of games isn't the greatest. it worked for doom because it was a simpler game and there was a reference client provided, they are just trying to make the reference client.
That is something worth researching, but even then, it's still justifiable to count a death by fear as a death by pandemic, given that it wouldn't have happened without the pandemic.
I mean this guy was working in Venture Capital? Probably not hurting for cash. This seems like clear-cut profiling + law enforcement paranoia and inability to de-escalate things.
So the only cause they had to detain him was that he was the wrong colour. Reminds me of that that scene in Family Guy with the colour chart.
If the qualifying process is long and expensive, doing a one-off fix does seem more logical. This is assuming you can be sure the fix really is isolated.
I do feel like a lot of companies over-exaggerate the need for multiple supported releases.
Remember that design is about making choices that actually limit the possibilities in design space, rather than extending them.

Building something “generic” to anticipate “future use cases” is not design; it’s the postponement of design.

If you anticipate some unpredictable future feature, then either you do not understand the design space yet, or you are following the directive of a business which does not understand it.

Startups (prior to product/market fit) have a legit reason for not understanding their design space; they’re still exploring it. That makes design pretty hard. Instead of creating The One Generic System To Rule Them All, I’d recommend small, less-generic, low-risk prototypes, that can be easily replaced or refactored. Keep them uncoupled. Meanwhile, use those prototypes to build up your understanding, so that you will be able to make informed design choices at a more mature stage.

I’m speaking in broad strokes; reality may apply.
"Cheap" is not an adjective which people used to describe those acquisitions at the moment.
He is getting close to the end.
I'm not sure why you would get rid of the table lines.

Like "hey lets get rid of the eye guidance thingy, so it looks less like a table?!"
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At least the drive I accidentally tried the same had a mechanical stop. Although banging the head against it 170 times or so wasn't exactly beneficial for its alignment.

Even today, one is better off not to write undocumented values to registers. True story: I had to investigate a SW bug report concerning a modern, fairly popular microcontroller. (I won't name which.) Sometimes data in RAM changed without our code writing to it. Turns out that our startup code accidentally wrote to a 'reserved' bit in a register, activating some kind of internal RAM test mode. This was confirmed by the µC's manufacturer.
Tag manager too?
This is exactly what I'm thinking. I got the quest, and having played around with link, it's terrible going from fully wireless VR back to tethered.

It doesn't sound like much, but cable tangle as you move is an absolute nightmare. Looking behind you now has to come with remembering the direction you turned in so you can undo the coil after.
Hi dang. I was wondering why other people can downvote my comments anonymously, but I'm not afforded the same opportunity?

Habits formed on SO would lead me to comment on anything I was downvoting anyway, but it feels like something of an imbalance that deters me from active participation in some conversations -- see my comments on the recent thread about SSC deleting the blog.

Edit: I also can't edit my reply to the parent of this, and regret my reciprocation of the name-calling... I wouldn't editorialise this out, just identify that it's an example of unhelpful behaviour.
It's a joke from a TV series called Friefly[1]. It's just a funny way of saying "I didn't {x} before, and that hasn't changed."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9ZgnVb5Q7I
A state regulated and censored siloed system where you can't communicate across borders hardly seems like the thing to strive for if you want to displace FB.

edited to reword as to not assume intentions of op
Probably not, but those who are already willing to be criminals in situations where they won't be caught would now be able to act with wild abandon, or execute much grander schemes with relative impunity.

60% of murders go unsolved because a sane murderer does not commit a murder that would be easy to solve. I'm sure many tempting, high-reward murders do not happen because they can't be committed without an ensuing police investigation.

Suppose 1% of people are currently criminals (I don't know the real number). Without an authority investigating and punishing crimes, that number might increase to 1.1% or even 2%. But a small fraction of those would likely increase their criminal behavior by an order of magnitude.
Ugh, I thought I had tabs muted by default in my browser... Clearly I was mistaken. Turns out I need an extension for it. But now I have ugly mute symbols on every single tab which isn't "default" at all. What I want is sound symbols on tabs that I have expressly un-muted.
> If you have to choose between engineering and ML, choose engineering. It’s easier for great engineers to pick up ML knowledge, but it’s a lot harder for ML experts to become great engineers. If you become an engineer who builds great tools for ML, I’d forever be in your debt.

Is this true, or at least the majority view? Maybe it is because the comparison is unbalanced, because "great engineer" is on both sides but the ML part is "pick up ML knowledge" and "ML experts".

I'd choose engineering because the employment opportunities are so much more favourable, not because it's easy to 'pick up ML knowledge'. I'm in the beginning of many hours of mathematics and statistics study so that I can become competent at ML, and in comparison to say, becoming good at git and python and AWS, this feels harder.
How many of those were by Indian terrorists?
2nd part of title would be preferable to the 1st which you've used here.
But then we get to the question of whether those deaths were caused by COVID or other causes.

We know that traffic fatalities in some areas have risen drastically due to the lockdowns: https://abc7.com/traffic-fatalities-california-highway-patro...

We also know that doctor visits have gone down due to the coronavirus, leading to medical staff being laid off: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/02/8262324...

We also know that hospitals are financially incentivized to diagnose a patient as COVID positive: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fac...

And there are German serological studies that suggest a COVID death rate of 0.39%, in contrast with the NYC study that claims a death rate of 1%

Taking this altogether, and we have plenty of wiggle room to suggest that even the excess deaths don't necessarily imply that COVID is extremely deadly.
Just shows how much implicit (and in this case, explicit) bias there is
I think anatoly was in the right ballpark, to put it mildly.
I am interested to hear what you think in 6mo time. For me, it definitely lives up to your expectations. But it's not without its warts.
People are scared of exploding airplanes, but not of turning the whole world into prison from which there is no escape.
> I think most would agree that if there were a globally connected (meaning countries are not silos)

The best solution to this would be regional alternatives operating on a shared standard. This would avoid the problem of values not reflecting your culture's values, not having to moderate billions of people, etc.

> I'm personally not a huge fan of governments messing with competition

I'm not a fan of the US's bizarre mix of laissez-faire "fuck you" capitalism and systems of regulatory capture. If all you value is rewarding any one company with an entire market because "they're successful", then fine. But the point of markets isn't to enrich a single company to the detriment of everybody else. It's to benefit the population.

> While there are other monetisation paths many people are actually ok with the trade of their data for features and should have this choice

There is no choice being made here. People aren't aware of how much of their date is being collected by companies like Facebook.

> The larger tech companies probably have some of the most well organised and privacy aware advertising platforms

I can't take you seriously. You must be joking.
For me it is a bad and unnecessary rework.
Exactly the kind where they break a functional design that was refined for multiple years. And they break it just for a product management/ marketing reason to have 'something new'.

Both on desktop and mobile there are a lot of useful info lost and at the same time, low density and a lot of empty space.
But in addition there is no coherence.

For me, the mobile experience is illustrative. Look at the screenshot examples there:
https://twitter.com/greatgib42/status/1275703359283122183?s=...

If you had no knowledge, you could think that after was in fact before.

Issues that I can see:

- No part of the readme/description visible anymore.

- Stupidly lost space, like nothing anymore in the top bar to use additional line.

- stars count was smart before by being on the button itself. Now one big empty button and a separate counter.

- for commit, issues, project... Everything was directly visible before. Now, a horizontal scroll is needed. I hate having to horizontally scroll on mobile web. (But maybe it is just me)
What’s missing was the DOT complaint for compensation for JetBlue for Involuntarily Denied Boarding.
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This is actually one of the lessons I had to learn the hard way. Solving for the future makes things unnecessarily complicated and even if that future arrives it will have been code debt and not/poorly maintained because literally nobody cares if it works or not.

Don't do this and solve only for the problems you have now or are about to start in the next 2 sprints.

edit: and make refactoring acceptable and part of your engineering culture so you do it often
I vaguely remember C++ template crocodiles being white space sensitive some time ago when templates were nested at variable declaration.
The problem is that you want to have tests for your edge cases (e.g. a text field whose contents get stored to the database with specific validation will have a lot of different cases to test for), an end-to-end test will take a LOT longer than a unit test. Unit tests are for rapid feedback on a small section of your application.
How to Add Maps in React Native
Thank you for your response.
In the installation directory is a changelog.txt in which all the changes and additions in the program are documented.
> Also the whole mythology is directly based on christian mythology

That sounds like a pretty big stretch to me, could you elaborate? I agree there are most certainly elements from Christianity in it, but claiming the entire thing is based directly on it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, nor does that seem to be how Tolkien viewed it, at least as far as I can tell. For example, in one particular quote in the preface of the Silmarillion (as part of a letter Tolkien wrote to Milton Waldman), Tolkien says

"In the cosmogony there is a fall: a fall of Angels we should say. Though quite different in form, of course, to that of Christian myth. These tales are 'new', they are not directly derived from other myths and legends, but they must inevitably contain a large measure of ancient wide-spread motives or elements...There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we know them and have them."

I suspect the tendency to lump Tolkien's works together with Christianity may be more due to both his own association with Christianity as well as the general cultural knowledge of Christianity, whereas other myths he may be deriving from are not as widely known.
TSA looks like a govt. run molestation program in internet testimonials.
Tell HN: Predictions on the Future of Freelancing
1. Most companies will rely on freelance workforce and have several freelancers in each department.

2. There will be a huge rise of freelancing schools. Courses to learn about writing, sales, front-end design or no-code. Most of those programs will be project-based and online-first.

3. A large part of freelancing will move from custom project proposals to packaged services with a fixed scope and price.

4. Companies will start hiring "Head of Remote" or "Chief Freelance Officers"

5. No-code tools, platforms, and software will give rise to millions of new freelance jobs. Think about "Shopify experts", "Salesforce consultants" that already exist now.

6. Those freelancers will be "Super freelancers", augmented by AI and the tools they use.

7. A lot of companies will move from hiring in-house CFOs, CMOs, CTOs to fractional executives-as-a-service to be more cost-effective.

8. Countries will start creating freelancer visas, remote worker permits, and special economic zones to attract freelance talent. This is already happening in Estonia.

9. There will be a company similar in size to Amazon that will be the "Amazon of services"

10. The fastest growing category of service will be called "Service with a software" (SwaS): Tech-enabled services.

Thoughts?
Cool! I would love to play this natively on Linux.

I would also really like to easily read somewhere, website or github, what the status of the project is. Is Diablo II (with or without LoD) entirely playable?

Do they actually also target other games as well? Their choice of words seem to indicate so: "OpenDiablo2 is an ARPG game engine in the same vein of the 2000's games, and supports playing Diablo 2." If so, which?
I recognize your point of view. For me the Quest was a game changer. Just press the power button and you are ready to go. Even your previous boundary settings are retained. Just step into the circle and fly.
Sucks. Migrating to BitBucket.
You can't just data this stuff. There's so much nuance and context in the data that it's very hard to compare countries.

Singapore is militant on testing everyone. This presumably gives a high fidelity on the "true" spread of the virus.

What is also true is that Singapore has been extremely militant on isolating and controlling the virus. Their staff have ample PPE and their hospitals have very successfully isolated covid positive patients. For instance, anyone positive here is quarantined in a govt run facility and cannot return home until testing negative two days in a row. This may have recently relaxed but was true throughout circuit breaker/lockdown. I believe they are also trying to partition covid patients from non covid patients at the hospital level. (eg NCID)

Both anecdotally from frontline doctors, and from reading various news reports, a big problem about the first wave of covid was how the problems can snowball. Hospitals were very easily filled up with sick patients, but worse any existing patients could very easily catch covid. For example cancer patients who are immunocompromised.

So the lethality of the disease is actually a function of its local penetration as more people die if hospitals effectively experience cascading failure.

My understanding is that tipping point is quite fine, this is especially true back in March when everyone was still hoping it wouldn't reach their shores, and hospitals had very limited space for isolating covid patients and for treating patients that required ICU.

While hospitals have been empty I also know that hospitals have become extremely aggressive at not accepting patients. For example, my friend's mother was bedridden for a month but was never seen by a doctor. Meanwhile you have people dying at home and in care homes, so I think "hospitals are empty" doesn't tell the whole picture.
This is really cool. It's something I find hard to document at the moment so I'll try this out with my next project.
I did a ML/AI course in university in 2011 or 2012. After the course, I had a much greater appreciation for how clever and complex the decision making process in our brain is and how difficult it is to get a computer to even do basic decision making based on a set of inputs. There's human creativity as well which a machine cannot truely do.

I'm always cautious and a bit pessimistic when I hear companies advertising AI skills or functionality built into their product. Most of them are probably driven by people willing to be the next facebook and hype, rather than real technology.

That same part of me is rejoicing in seeing the industry pay for this hype train.

I personally think the AI revolution will come from a hardware innovation (quantum computing or something like that) rather than building these large datasets to train models. We don't fully understand how our brains work so trying to replicate this with a computer program is a tough ask.
Looking at the previous post:

"Climate Change- I don’t deny the reality of climate change, but I have a hard time picturing how it wipes out every last human. Most people when pressed on this issue say that the disruption it causes leads to Nuclear War, which just takes us back to the last item. "

It's a very anthropocentric way of looking at this, but I understand the reasoning
Ah yes, the TSA you spend more time stopping and searching 80 years old white females instead.

Makes lot of sense to waste your time with profiles that have historically not been involved.
Collision between black hole and 'mysterious object' puzzles astronomers
I've seen this tendency in other areas. There are travellers who plan everything, afraid of encountering a situation that they haven't planned for. And there are travellers who trust in their ability to cope with any situation.

As the GP says, this is about fear. Fear that if you don't plan for it now, you won't be able to deal with it if it happens. Or in architecture terms, fear that your system will be faced with a requirement that it can't cover.

Trying to plan for every eventuality is usually wasted effort. Better to build robustly, and trust in your ability to adapt.
Please read the actual bill for yourself. The earn it act does not ban encryption.
the certbot tools were made with the "default" experience in mind and no one tries them with more custom setups. the fact that they don't have easy guides on how to do it without certbot is worrying. you should be able to get a straightforward automated experience without having to use their convoluted tool that will choke and leave you hanging.

google certbot systemd or certbot openrc to see it fail. tack on that they had to invalidate all of their certs one day and gave little warning and you could easily have experienced revoked SSL certs if your system wasn't the default setup.
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Scientists create a pattern so complicated it's impossible to duplicate
And just plain over-resourcing. Doesn’t seem clear why so many different people from different agencies were required.
> try reading ‘Phantastes’ or ‘The Princess and the Goblin’ to appreciate just how freaking much he is indebted to him

You know, I did try to read The Princess and the Goblin. I think I got through it. There is a sequel, The Princess and Curdie. I tried, but failed, to read that. They aren't books I would recommend.

I do like the animated film.
beyond the obvious 'do it to show that i can' and similar reasons, one less obvious reason may be that often people want to mod these games and its easier than either making a reproduction or using hacks. Having the actual code the game runs (even if decompiled) allows you to both learn how things were done, as well as modify them and improve them.

Many people starting out in games development often want to make games like RPGs to emulate a favorite game they play, but want to experiment with their own rules/mechanics
its not a surprise at all
I don't think these technologies are related: Java Generics is based on subtyping, however Haskell doesn't support subtyping (afaik).
https://reposhub.com/rust/database/erikgrinaker-toydb.html
Right now absolutely everyone else is ahead of Intel in the NM race, with some currently shipping chips two process nodes ahead and several announced chips going so far as being twice as small as Intel's current process node. This is partially why AMD has been able to offer laptop CPUs that rival Intel's desktop offerings for less cost.
It would be truly strange for the NYT to dox a pseudonymous blogger against their directly expressed wishes in a puff piece about that pseudonymous blogger. I believe that Scott Alexander believes that’s what’s was going to happen, but the motives just don’t line up.
Google’s New Algorithm Increases Deployment Efficiency with Low Costs in RL
I think we have an unhealthy obsession with trying to achieve 100% original thoughts and ideas, to the point that people often hide their influences unless they feel people will understand that they didn't borrow too much. Feels like a psychological trap.
Thanks for the kind words. We are aware of the broken back button and we have a raised an issue for it.
US Senate committee aims to regulate UFO information