skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even official numbers from Socialstyrelsen over the last 10-20 years showed that weekly excess deaths were only significant certain weeks, with other weeks even being lower than other years.
When a Critic Met Facebook: ‘What They’re Doing Is Gaslighting’
There is no public interest rationale for exposing Scott Alexander's identity.
> Take a pencil, for example. There’s the way that the wood, plastic or metal feels on your hand, the way it falls on your fingers, the feel of the graphite against the paper ... it’s all been thoroughly thought out and designed, each component a part of the experience of writing with a pencil.

To attempt to parallel the ergonomics of a pencil, good or otherwise, with some grand UX narrative feels inappropriate. If the 'interaction of graphite on paper' is to your liking that is very much an accident of design rather than a result of any pencil designer's intention. 3b, HB, or 3H madam? Methinks that the primary driver of the pencil factory of both yesteryear and today would be maximisation of production vs units of wood, lead, or rubber. The 'way it falls on your fingers' a consequence of resource constraints nothing more.

The experience of writing with a pencil is perhaps the better for not being messed with.

The pencil survives and has survived by being always useful, value for money, and fit for purpose.

Model those attributes and users will accommodate and grow to love your products UX regardless of its failings.
Zombie Universities and the Fate of Public Intellectuals
And the "UX people" you describe were doing important work right? Maybe stuff like testing/QA, building domain knowledge, analyzing feedback, building trust with clients/users, writing specs, mockups, documentation, designing UI components etc.

The thing that is useful here is this: the company you refer to understood that there needs to be people, who understand the whole process and talk to each other.

The slightly annoying part is that we call them "UX people". The term doesn't acknowledge at all that they are doing important, challenging, specific things.

And I get that this is about "experience" somehow, but everything is. We are so bad with terms in our industry.
The unstated assumption in this article is that only college graduates deserve to have a decent life.
At that point, it sounds like this is essentially about maintaining SEO for his name rather than what I would consider "doxxing".
> They are supposed to be the most powerful branch of government, but instead they have deadlocked themselves into uselessness.

They were always intended to be both. Since there had to be such a powerful entity within the government (the power exists, so it has to be put somewhere), the best course of action to prevent any whim of politics doing irreparable damage is to pit congress against itself so that any actions it takes are generally too slow for transient whims to affect it.

Better that the powerful are inefficient.
This isn’t meant to last. GitHub has been proxying markdown images for years to avoid exactly this. Probably they haven’t gotten around to fixing that here yet… but this surprises me.
Taking a position that gets noticed feels "well thought out" to me.

Individually we all can't solve it all, but if they're able to take this stand and make it uncomfortable enough for management, they've done something that may contribute to the changes they're looking for.

Like, say, Amazon de-listing Washington Redskins merch. I personally love that move. Maybe, collectively, these things lead to the changes.

If police departments feel pressure in many different ways, they may start allowing for leadership and changes that have a material impact in the way they operate.
The difference is whether or not that business has network effects that reduce the viability of competitors.

For example, in the Uber-or-Lyft 'battle', sure, there are and have always been private car companies and private drivers, but when you want a car you're likely to open one or maybe two apps on your phone and call the quickest/cheapest option. Similarly, Facebook competitors have a hard time getting off the ground because when you're the only one in your friend group on a new social network, there's no one to talk to.

Meanwhile, a new email provider has a small amount of work to do to catch up with all the security regulations, but then can just provide value to its customers without having to worry about 'defensibility'. A single app aggregating Uber, Lyft, taxi, and 3rd-party car services on one screen would open those up for competition. Similarly, a federated Facebook that provided various social networks in one client would let you pick your hosting provider, configure your own feed, and communicate with people on other platforms.
Is the Trojan based on magic? How will redirecting target computer infect it. What about out tipping off the suspect when it fails to implant?

This idea is fantasy.
Education in Germany is a bit special, i.e. there are three different "tiers" of schools. The school to be able to go to university (and to which I went) is called Gymnasium and is not and in my experience (I went to a US high-school for a year as a Senior) is less vocationally oriented than US high-schools at least. While teachers being largely female is also true in Germany, the distribution depends on schools, elementary school (grade 1-4) teachers are by vast majority women, but when it comes to the Gymnasium the distribution is somewhat more even (maybe 60/40 in my time). However teachers for STEM subjects (math, physics, chemistry) are still mainly men.

Moreover, I know several women who were told by women, e.g. their mothers, that girls are not good at STEM. Just to say the discouragement doesn't just come from men.
This is absolutely not true for the miniaturized balanced armature drivers that this MEMS speaker design is competing with.

The coil must be wound in-situ and is usually epoxy potted due to fragility.

https://navcomm.eu/img/cms/BA%20opis.jpg
Timestamps are damn trivial. When people use dates, that's all they want 90% of the time. The remaining 10% is where all the hard problems are.

For example, lets say I have a store that opens from 8:00-17:00 every day, and it's currently 22:00. How long is it till it opens next?
I… find it rather difficult to believe that a sufficient number of Americans coordinated and voted strategically over decades in order to intentionally bring to existence the current two-party deadlock situation.
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> Too slow, too reliant on voluntary compliance, and most importantly, too difficult to make decisions with long term time horizons.

Not sure you want an efficient, consolidated government if the wrong party is leading it.
Reflections on Turning 27
I guess you don't have much experience with Android development.
Tracks with my experience; I remember having an amd 486 notebook, and it was about 50/50 back then.
> Not sure if anyone would ever eat a pizza that has stored below freezing point

DiGiorno would like a word.
Tracking the movement of an individual cell in a lab mouse using PET
If Ford stops making custom police vehicles and products, it will not prevent current police fleets from rolling nor will it prevent police from buying regular production vehicles.

If that's your concern, consider it allayed.
Perhaps they're discovered stochastically, so the number of known recent ones is much lower than the number of known unrecent ones.
Learn how to touch type. Honestly, it's worth it.
What motivates technological and scientific development?
I believe the claim is that the Roman emperors came about because the Roman senate became so mired in infighting that it was incapable of governing. I'm not a historian, but from what I understand, there is at least an element of truth in the claim.
How does a Ford employee prosecute a police officer?
>> The police aren't universally bad

Millions of people in defund the police / abolish the police, and the entire African American community, along with many other marginalized communities; may consider that a very privileged perspective.

The police, with the broken laws and systems in place, could very well be universally bad. I think that’s an obvious point of contention at the moment and is a long standing belief that we are reconsidering.
If you don't like the country you live in. Go live somewhere else. The viewpoint does nothing except defend the status quo. People have more power to affect change in their company than just resigning their post and being replaced by someone who doesn't care.

Protestors who are literally being beaten senseless in the streets or say, being hit by Ford police cars being used as "crowd control" aren't hysterical. Please watch some of the protest videos -- they're absolutely fucking terrifying. I watched a 120 lb unarmed white woman get picked up and slammed to the concrete by her neck. I watched a police officer pepper spray another unarmed woman point blank in the face when she came up to him asking for help. I watched police "enforce" curfew by spraying rubber bullets on unarmed kids standing on their porches. At the protests in my city I watched police purposefully destroy tables set up by volunteers to give protesters food, water, and medical supplies -- I watched the police bulldoze an old man with a cane -- I watched a disabled man get dragged on the concrete by police after they stole his prosthetic legs.
By no means. The Stasi was active in the GDR (German Democratic Republic, "East Germany"), and it is not as if those from the east are particularly watchful for state-instigated surveillance.

This predates the wall, but the wall only confirmed what was going on beforehand.
No it's really quite simple.

Annoying = Bad UX.

What does a USER experience when interacting with your product/company.

So yes, everything is a part of UX. The UI, the software, hell even customer support.
Ad revenue is down but subscriptions and total revenue are up -- so doesn't that go counter to the "did it for clicks" narrative? My (admittedly simple) model of the media industry is that clickbait drives ad revenue, quality journalism drives subscriptions.
Interview with Radia Perlman known for STP network protocol [audio]
Amazon is a marketplace not a delivery service. It is expected that you might pay different prices in different marketplaces, it's not expected that a delivery service would charge you a delivery fee and a markup on the cost of the product that you're buying - that is not normal.
When I bought my first computer it had a 200MB hard disk drive. One of my former professors told me I was nuts, that I would never fill that much disk space.
I'm not sure I understand your comment. If the genocide happened due to diseases imported from the Old World, how is it "heinous"? It happened at a time where people had no clue what diseases and immune systems were.
> A UI designer has no say about responsiveness (latency). A UX designer does

That is definitely not true. UI design encompasses usability, including interactivity, feedback, animations, etc. Otherwise it's just graphic design.

I think the term UX was defined to go way beyond those concerns, and into areas from marketing, branding, copywriting, all the way to what the actual product is, how it is offered, even pricing. Some simple examples: timing and content of emails, purchasing options and how they are displayed, how multiple platforms (mobile, desktop, snailmail, phone) are tied together, content strategy.

You can see that aspiration reflected in the designer responses in the beginning of the article: they are the ones mentioning the business side, and not the managers.
Wait a bit, then you can edit the original.
> In this case, either way, half of Oklahoma belongs to the tribe.

If I am not mistaken, this ruling only pertains to the Major Crimes Act[0]. It doesn't mean half of Oklahoma "belongs to the tribe", it just means half of Oklahoma doesn't have criminal jurisdiction for a short list of crimes when they are committed by tribal citizens.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Crimes_Act
"You are a bad person, therefore you are argument is wrong" is an ad-hominem.

"Your argument is wrong, therefore you are a bad person" is not.
Billionaire Bill Ackman is using the proven appeal of a Tontine to raise $6.25BN
While I’m not so sure all of the universities were as blissfully ignorant as they claim, what does it matter? The system was still rigged in favor of wealthier applicants with or without the schools’ knowledge and awareness of the scheme.
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But if Arizona implements a different healthcare system than New York, even if each hates the other system, they don't get to have a war, because neither of them has a military. (OK, they each have their own National Guard elements...)
And people used to complain about Java development being slow and behind other languages...

Regarding JavaScript temporals - better late than never I guess.
How exactly do you arrive at this conclusion?
Word processors use up/down keys to move up/down one line, at the same index, or the beginning or the end of the previous ‘ next line, if they exist. It can work.

Acme is opinionated and it’s a good thing if it fits its userbase. I am actually quite fond of many design decisions and maintain patches to workaround defaults that could drive me insane.

My personal feeling is negative on this matter, just as if I would need to reach to the mouse to delete a character. Up and down mapped to something like page up / page down feels as infuriating as those website that hijack scroll and back button.
Changing habits is hard. Monumentally hard, for most people. For most folks "just do it" has't "done it" for them. Will most people who buy a Mirror or a Peloton or download Strava make a lifelong change? Probably not, but they already weren't likely to have done it on their own. And you don't know what the gateway will be for any given person.

For me, as a longtime occasional cyclist (get into it for a few years, stop, restart, etc), once upon a time (1 year) competitive college athlete, but mostly lazy slob.. it involved my wife buying the Peloton bike .... then 6 or 8 months later when I was regularly biking to work, but still gaining weight... started seeing a personal trainer.. he encouraged me to track what I eat, and I've now been using myfitnesspal for 3 years. You could point to any one of these things as being what did it for me; obviously the structure and advice from seeing a trainer was crucial, but #1 on that list for me was MFP, so yes, an app (and a free one at that!) The feedback loop of what I inputted there showing up on the scale the next week was addictive. It was the first time anything really "worked" for me. #2 on that list is the Peloton, in particular once I started doing Power Zone training, where I could join a team, stick to a schedule, and quantify performance gains that I can now see when I set personal records up local climbs on my road bike. I'm also in a running club and compete on the road and cross-country.

Again, everyone's path is different, and I absolutely could have done any of this on my own, but I'm 39 years old, and the reality is, I didn't until I started using an iPhone app. And the data and quantifiable results of my various forms of training are what keeps me going, and reinforces those habits.
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Yes, you are right, I'm sorry for the somewhat misleading translation. But I felt "should" instead of "must" would be more confusing, because that would sound somewhat like "the author would like that". Which he definitely doesn't. Anything longer wouldn't have fit the limit.
Early access to pension funds associated with better health status
I do not follow. The paper seems to be basically the same as it has been for almost a century, an institution which essentially does the work of the news from the perspectives and prejudices of its North Eastern upper middle class constituency and which gives wide deference to institutions which it deems qualified such as the military, civil service and certain NGOs.

But I am open to the idea that my interpretation is missing something.
> Even when a subject's legal name is known, the NYT regularly uses a pen name or pseudonym to protect their identity. Here are some examples:

I don't think using the examples of performing artists is a good one. Vermin and the Drag queens don't use pseudonyms to protect their identities any more than Beyonce (a stage name that is a part of her legal name, as in SSC's case) or Lady Gaga (a stage name) use those names for "protection" or privacy. They aren't really, they're branding.

In fact, from the draq queen article you cite:

> “I started a big fuss,” said Sister Roma, whose legal name is Michael Williams. “Then Facebook called me and offered to organize a meeting.”

It's a direct counterexample.
Two Weeks with iPadOS 14: Redefining the Modern iPad Experience
You think the American dream is dead? 🇺🇸
Just don't fall into the trap of creating a database schema per customer. Having different databases is better (as TXID is not shared)
Why not go for an AMD GPU out of curiosity?
Five reasons to start releasing your software for ARM64
True but I think thats the most skeptical viewpoint possible.

1. Those orgs succeed when redis succeeds. So they want to see it used more which means more features.

2. Developers think for themselves and aren't always "double agents".

3. The redis community still exists and open source communities are often very vocal about directing products
Thanks this is a helpful reference point for us
Drinking coffee coffee can kill you?How much caffeine in a cup of coffee
This is by far one of the pieces a lot of people seem to miss. The system was set up for gridlock in hopes that it will temper some of the more dangerous tendencies of powerful and ambitious men.
“Nearly 600 police officers and firefighters, along with three rescue dogs, were deployed to search for the mayor.”

This looks like a typo or a very surprising number of rescue dogs.
No, it's not both, it's not forced by any conceivable definition of the word. Anyone claiming that society is forcing them to own a smart-phone is just making excuses for not wanting to give up the convenience, but nothing is actually stopping them from doing it.
You're thinking of laches:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laches_(equity)

"Laches refers to a lack of diligence and activity in making a legal claim, or moving forward with legal enforcement of a right, particularly in regard to equity"

It doesn't apply because nobody is claiming tribal groups failed to protect their interests. They haven't just been blowing off and watching TV all this time.
You still have to deal with the fact that existing APIs use a broader range of types; using Rc everywhere in your own code doesn't save you from dealing with library interfaces.

Also "stuff like" is kind of the problem; all of the smart pointer types have differences that matter, and none of them is general enough to cover all use cases. Arc<Mutex<Box<T>>> comes the closest to a "general" solution, but the boilerplate is rather a lot just for the sake of not having to think about this stuff, and you still can't use it if T isn't Send.

You're really picking a fight with the language if you insist on avoiding making these decisions, and in the end it will just slow you down even more than going with the grain. And to add insult to injury, if you write all your code like that it'll likely be slower than OCaml or Haskell anyway. Rust can't keep up with a good GC on allocation throughput; the performance advantages come from managing things yourself (and avoiding heavy allocation in the first place).

Rc and friends are useful, but they don't make the problem go away.

As I said, it's not that it's even really all that hard. But it is time consuming.
This headline is just not true. They retracted their study because its central claims were wrong due the authors' failure to understand Bayes' theorem:

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/3/1261

Basically, the question everybody is interested in is P(shot|attributes). The database of shootings they used only lets them estimate P(attributes|shot). But because they don't have data on the rate of police/attribute encounters, they can't support any claims about P(shot|attributes).
Both can be true at the same time :)
I think Toyota, Hyundai, Honda are happy to build cars for police if Ford doesn't want to.
A slightly more recent post, that really opened my eyes to this insight (and references The Bitter Lesson) is this piece by Gwern on the scaling hypothesis: https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2020/05#gpt-3
I'm no fan of Amazon, but it's the third most valuable company on the planet. Whatever they're doing is obviously working for them, even if I personally wouldn't want to work there.
> Want to switch majors? Gotta drop out, take the exam again and restart your university life.

Damn.
Google's Fitbit deal will face EU antitrust probe if no concessions are made
Three days and an hour more than you think, because it's the weekend, and an extra day because the public holiday for tomorrow may or not be a working day. Oh and there was a timezone change.
Yes, I agree and anticipated responses like this. It's good people are brainstorming I suppose.

However, I feel like there are much more direct ways of getting there. The marches on city halls, for example.
No.

It was designed for desktops, as Jobs stated in his thoughts, it really requires a keyboard and a mouse for most SWF's to work properly. It also became feature rich and power hungry at a time when Mobile devices were taking off, so it was never going to run on the mobile devices of the day. This is all besides the fact that its custom networking features were proprietary, highly exploitable and notoriously buggy.

It was great for it's day, and still has features and advantages in animation and networking that JS Canvas or Node can't equal today; but it had to go. I loved Flash and worked as an AS3 dev professionally, so i wanted it to succeed as much as anyone, but it did not adapt or fix its issues so it had to die. Good riddance.
Probably rubber-stamped. But you are right, my translation is confusing. I'm very sorry.
One solution I thought of in an alternative history universe where the US doesn't genocide Native Americans is a tricameral legislature, where the third house is effectively ethnically-based instead of geographically based.

Although given the actual histories of countries that do have strict ethnic quotas for allotting political power, I doubt it would work quite so well in practice.
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Ah, there are two ways to understand what I meant. I wasn't talking about human efficiency (which it does sound like I might have been), but about the unused mechanical energy.

In most exercise machinery, there is an energy output that isn't being harnessed as much as it could be. Some stationary bikes and rowing machines use the person's pedaling or rowing to power the controls, so there is an example of where it is being used. But the majority of other pieces of equipment are not harnessing the energy output.

For example, every one of the pulley machines could have a magnetic shield around a segment of the (metallic) cable, which would produce a current both on the pull and on the release from the person exercising, without adding any noticeable tension.

Another example of where potentially harvestable energy isn't being used: although the chain on the rowing machine is often used to power the screen, the seat could also be used to generate electricity as it glides back and forth, using the same magnet concept.
Espousing the idea that you can't love where you work while also asking them to change something, that we should not question our superiors, is a massive yikes.