skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The point being the current parent expects more than may make sense and appears willing to devalue what they have to get there.

The people in charge may absolutely expect more return than makes sense and may be willing to devalue what they have to get there -- but those very same people were literally there at the beginning. What I was getting is that there is no "current parent". Reddit is, as of this writing, an independent company whose current CEO is one of its original founders, and whose executive chairman until recently was one of its other original founders.

So I guess I just think this is a more complicated case than the usual story of "great thing ruined by new owners." If Reddit is being ruined by executives who don't understand the the product, it's not because the original founders sold out to uncaring corporate overlords -- it's because they chose to become uncaring corporate overlords themselves. It's not at all impossible that former corporate overlords at Condé Nast may have understood the value of Reddit better than Reddit's creators do.
latency is still UI. It is the way it operates, you're confounding two things: 1) How does something operate 2) How does something visually look in 2D space

They're both the same when we talk about UI including a bunch of other things - smell (stores?), haptics (button response), sound (beep when you autofocus on the camera), texture and a whole bunch more.

There is no need for this bullshit term - UX. It is designer woo woo. "Experiential value" - oh you mean, the way user interfaces with the world? It is still an interface.

User Interface. An interface to the user. What more do you need to define?
Google Tsunami vulnerability scanner is now open-source
If you could somehow automate this and provide a tool that did analysis of a companies aws stack usage over a month and suggest configuration changes that would be a big thing.
Oklahoma was originally all Indian territory, and reserved for future allotment of reservations. The western half of Oklahoma was (mostly) never assigned, and instead opened up to white settlers in a variety of land rushes, relegating Indian territory to the land already allotted to reservations in the eastern half.

That rump Indian territory applied to be a state as the Sequoyah, but it was turned down, so it was merged with Oklahoma territory to become the State of Oklahoma.
I don't follow him, but many of his early blog posts were posted under his full name. He changed that eventually, but it was the case for a while (I say third hand).

I'm unsure if that was before or after the slatestarcodex domain name.
Eh, better learn you some history, and not just the "history" written by the conquerors.

Your argument is the standard, and ignorant, response. "They were violent TOO!".

The nature of Native American "War" was generally of a completely different nature than the white man take.
Yes, it's called a life sentence. Nobody is expected to live a thousand years, and they're not going to keep them in prison after they die.
While in effect it is abdicating, in reality, Congress is spinlocked by indecision.

There are deep divides between the branches of the electorate that have brought the representatives to office, as the United States faces a number of divisive issues. Those divides, and a preference for combat over compromise, leave us deadlocked. The center is there for the first party that chooses to leave its entrenchement.

When Congress reaches approximate agreement on an issue, particularly an emerging one, it can move fast. See the passage of the PATRIOT Act or the recent move to spend more than $1,000,000,000,000 on COVID-19 economic relief.
I think one of the problems of the web imo is that we are trying to solve two quite different problems with one tool.

I.e. publishing documents for reading and making applications for interactions.

I think the browser is a pretty good tool for browsing information (think wikis, blogs, news, etc) but we are shoehorning applications (think project management tools, calendars, mail..) into them.

I would like to have them separated so one tool can be optimised for documents and one for making applications.
I wonder if those that disagree with you have taken a look into the speaker drivers that this MEMS speaker targets (smartphones and earbuds).

These devices are many times more complex to manufacture than the large scale dynamic drivers you might find in a pair of desktop speakers, and are definitely not possible to wind by hand. The armature is made with incredibly fine guage wire around a form of precise (non circular) geometry, and needs to be coated with epoxy to stay together. The diaphragm, reed and driver body are also precise parts with their own manufacturing difficulties.

In short, I absolutely agree with the article's assertion that replacing these manufacturing methods with lithography is indeed a simplification. Just because the concept of a wound electromagnet has been around for longer does not mean that it is simpler in practice.
Wouldn’t last long.
Perhaps if most energy was removed first.

Then local depots could store them in thermal insulators.

Not sure if anyone would ever eat a pizza that has stored below freezing point
I feel like that's implied by the "balance" part of "checks and balances."

It's also simply the fact that politics abhors a power vacuum. If one branch of government abdicates its power, that slack has to be taken up elsewhere.
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> "Simply put, UX means “User Experience”: it’s the experience that a user has while interacting with a product."

I believe it's broader than that. The experience is a lasting effect. It starts while interacting with the product, but can continue after that moment is over. Like a sip of wine has a post-swallow finish, so does an experience.

For example, I ordered some things for my car this morning from Advanced Auto Parts. I can walk to a B&M location but have sworn off going there after a sloppy clerk over-charged me.

In any case the web experience worse and took far too long. I'm still regretting it. I'll never shop there - online or in store again. I'll even go so far to say I have some ill will for Amex, as it was their perk that go me there.

The product is long gone but my experience lives on.
It seems weird that a designer would focus on "brand values" over a good user experience. I guess they are answering in the context of a working for a company and not just being a designer. I assumed "enhancing the user experience" meant making the user experience better, but clearly that's not what it means.
Each branch needs to be moving for this to work - even the gutters on a bowling lane require someone to start the ball rolling.
Or alternatively, that the federal government, as it currently operates, is simply no longer up to the task of modern governance.

Too slow, too reliant on voluntary compliance, and most importantly, too difficult to make decisions with long term time horizons.
I would definitely like to see such an explainer, if you want to write it.
Thank you for this phrasing; it puts to words exactly how I feel about the tact used in this article.
Interesting. There's been decades of research on Derivative-Free Optimization (DFO) and stochastic/evolutionary algorithms (most of which are derivative-free). They're used in practical applications, but have been hard to reliably perf benchmark because solution paths are so dependent on initial guess and random chance.

This one focuses on maximizing sample efficiency. That's an interesting (and important) metric to benchmark, especially for functions that are computationally expensive to evaluate, like full-on simulations. Sounds like the algorithm would need to be able to efficiently come up with an accurate surrogate model for the expensive function -- which is hard to do in the general case, but if something is known about the underlying function, some specialization is possible.
He was pointing to the appropriate channel for reporting such an issue. How else do you think people can signal objections? At least not by writing in their own diaries for sure.
Acme must be very useful in a Plan9 system. But on UNIX, I don't see any single thing it does that cannot be done by vim, with some configuration. And of course vim can do more.
That is an alternative, if you are using git you probably are well versed in Linux.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_clinic

programs that take cases for free, typically while using them as training material.
Even if I had standing, it would never make it up courts because the oligarchy (judges) decide whether it is worthy or not. Just look at all the split decisions that SCOTUS leaves in place by declining to hear. Logically one of those two plaintiffs is being screwed.
I said I was lazy, didn't I? :)

Feel free to ignore that item.

…

But actually… that sheet also says that $51 million of their revenue is from digital advertising, down from $55.5 million a year ago. It's 11.5% of their total revenue, down from 12.7%. Not a huge problem but… it's still a business consideration.

And let's not forget zest and sensationalism can sell subscriptions and print media too. (Publishing the full name would at least have counted as "zest" IMHO, if not full-on sensationalism.)
I'm using it as my day to day tui (with an scratch buffer).
I have a index file where I store "shortcuts" to lot of fs places.
Also I store action logs of whatever related to shell.
For example, a file rabbit.md, it starts with the snippet to portforward the k8 service.. but I also have there some curls to clean or manage things.
Files are more or less like a notebook (but everything can be executed or it's just a mix...
I can live without it..
"What is UX?"

<five paragraphs that don't answer the question, interspersed with unnecessary banner images>

"We don't know what UX is, everyone who's asked has a different answer, and it ultimately depends on your product and its users."

Sounds about right.
Or as Mark Manson put it, people give so many fucks about petty things because they have nothing more important to give a fuck about.

https://www.amazon.com/Subtle-Art-Not-Giving-Counterintuitiv...
Oh geez.... welp. Guess I can say goodbye to delivery..
The article doesn’t elaborate, is this thought to be an accident while hiking or is there a chance it was more sinister? He was found in the mountains, but there’s no other details. The political details about his likeliness of being a force for change in the upcoming presidential election certainly implies funny business would be worth considering.
Well, they are still part of a hierarchy serving the goals of the owners (which for a public company means profit) of course that boils down to different things in different groups and I listed different goals for different projects they are involved in. But on a first assumption I, as an external, don't care much about internal structures. (Maybe I care a bit about Google vs. Alphabet, but not by much)
It sounds like Ford's assets were essentially nationalized by the Germans during that period, which makes sense. Seems very foolish to let an American company directly control factories in Nazi Germany.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ford-motor-company-nbsp...
I see what you mean. This is a reality in a regular savings account too, though. Accounts with higher balances earn more interest. With us, you earn more tickets. Hopefully the incentive to get more tickets helps people start building savings and they save more than they otherwise would have with a vanilla savings account.

Someone else having more tickets than you doesn't really affect you other than the potentially splitting the bigger prizes, but having more depositors also helps us offer bigger prizes in the first place, so it's somewhat circular.
> Most of them, especially the early ones, are rich beyond any imagination.

Doesn't seem like they sleep on the street either. :)
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> Ask them "What makes you think you could contribute around here?" and then listen to them.

I think the author didn't lead msny interviews and only imagines themselves as the applicant. I had so many people apply for programming positions who couldn't even type the most basic for loop. The reality is, you need to find out the "level" of the applicant - are they a complete beginner, can they contribute basics, can they design medium sized projects themselves or can they be solely responsible for a larger one. That quoted approach doesn't help with that at all because many people will just tell you what you want to hear. Live coding and whiteboarding can give you good insights.
My disagreement with this paragraph was with the implication that "these supposed inconsistencies were [intended as] dispositive proof of the paper’s secret agenda", as opposed to the more obvious accusation that there simply was no hard and fast real name policy: perhaps the reporter was mistaken that there were no exceptions allowed, or was not willing to make the case to his editor that anonymity was justified, or had already made the case and had explicitly been denied. Only the last two of these might fall under "secret agenda", and even then it's still more likely to be the opinion of one editor or one reporter than the agenda of the paper as a whole.
It does take more than a little investigation (or, at least, used to).
What's your definition of smart? Left wing?
It's complicated. Tribes, much like (capital S) States, are semi-sovereign, sovereign in some things but not in others. Much like States, reservations are still part of the United States.
That might work with bears, but hardly with viri ;-}
Assuming you are planning to work in the US your income will still be taxed. And based on the rules from the Eduardo Saverin case you won't be able to escape taxes on what you earned before you left.

So it doesn't really work.
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>> In computer chess, the methods that defeated the world champion, Kasparov, in
1997, were based on massive, deep search.

"Massive, deep search" that started from a book of opening moves and the
combined expert knowledge of several chess Grandmasters. And that was an
instance of the minimax algorithm with alpha-beta cutoff, i.e. a search
algorithm specifically designed for two-player, deterministic games like
chess. And with a hand-crafted evaluation function, whose parameters were
filled-in by self-play. But still, an evaluation function; because the minimax
algorithm requires one and blind search alone did not, could not, come up with
minimax, or with the concept of an evaluation function in a million years.
Essentially, human
expertise about what matters in the game was baked-in to Deep Blue's design
from the very beginning and permeated every aspect of its design.

Of course, ultimately, search was what allowed Deep Blue to beat Kasparov
(3½–2½; Kasparov won two games and drew another). That, in the sense that the
alpha-beta minimax algorithm itself is a search algorithm and it goes without
saying that a longer, deeper, better search will inevitably eventually
outperform whatever a human player is doing, which clearly is not search.

But, rather than an irrelevant "bitter" lesson about how big machines can
perfom more computations than a human, a really useful lesson -and one that we
haven't yet learned, as a field- is why humans can do so well without
search. It is clear to anyone who has played any board game that humans can't
search ahead more than a scant few ply, even for the simplest games. And yet,
it took 30 years (counting from the Dartmouth workshop) for a computer chess
player to beat an expert human player. And almost 60 to beat one in Go.

No, no. The biggest question in the field is not one that is answered by "a
deeper search". The biggest question is "how can we do that without a search"?

Also see Rodney Brook's "better lesson" [2] addressing the other successes of
big search discussed in the article.

_____________

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer)#Des...

[2] https://rodneybrooks.com/a-better-lesson/
Don't know if you'd qualify it as a "major" city, but over 10% of Palm Springs CA is on an Indian reservation. For interesting historical reasons, though, the reservation is basically shaped like a checkerboard, where every other 640-acre square is reservation land. This obviously has huge implications on real estate - none of the reservation land is sold, just leased, and there were some recent cases where the tribe made the tenants leave after their (like 50 year or so) lease was up.

Google "palm springs indian reservation map" and it will show you the checkerboard.
Good job! Nice explanation and visualization to guide user.
Doesn't want to be a party pooper here, but what prevents people from pranking others?
Portland already has them. Started infesting the city last year: https://www.wweek.com/restaurants/2019/11/12/at-delivery-onl...
Happy to answer questions on this.
I got the same impression. Even though it's couched in "respectful language", they really went out of their way to cover the half-dozen or so most cringe-worthy controversies to ever come out of SSC or SSC-adjacent spaces, whether it's relevant at all or not to the (very tenuous) point of the article.

Like, you really have to bring up Roko's basilisk? What is the point, besides "look at how silly these Silicon Valley types are"? They present it like a central example of "Grey Tribe" discourse, when it's pretty fringe, even by LessWrong standards.
I'm learning German at a fairly low level so I ask this from the perspective of wanting to learn, not as a challenge.

Wouldn't "have to" be "müssen"? In what cases would you use "sollen" to have a similar meaning?

And "sollten" is either Präteritum or Konjunctive II, which as I understand it would both mean "should have", though in different senses. Why is that a more proper translation of "should"?
I’m not sure that a fraud committed against the universities that the universities did not know about counts as a rigged system.

Or are you talking about something else?
> Until recently, I was a writer for the Times Magazine, and the idea that anyone on the organization’s masthead would direct a reporter to take down a niche blogger because he didn’t like paywalls, or he promoted a petition about a professor, or, really, for any other reason, is ludicrous;

Niche? A blog that get's 600K page views a month and is highly regarded (aruably even moreso than the NYT) by numerous intellectuals and public figures?

I will concede that perhaps no one would direct a reporter to take down Scott. However, that leaves open the possibility that they tend to hire the kind of people who would take on that initiative themselves. As Noam Chomsky once told a reporter "I'm sure you actually say what you believe, but you would not have your job if you believed differently".

> For one thing, the S.S.C. code prioritizes semantic precision, but Metz—if Alexander’s account is to be taken at its word—had proposed not to “doxx” Alexander but to de-anonymize him

What, pray tell, is the difference?

> as if these supposed inconsistencies were dispositive proof of the paper’s secret agenda, rather than an ad-hoc and perhaps clumsy application of a flexible policy.

They also have previously given anonymity to a psychiatrist political blogger for the exact reasons Scott asked for anonymity. I think there was really very little differences between Scott and this other blogger, but I'm sure we can all guess what those differences might be.

> They have given safe harbor to some genuinely egregious ideas, and controversial opinions have not been limited to the comments.

Merely arguing against neo-reactionaries (rather than banning the outright/deplatforming them) is considered providing "safe-harbor"? This is why the re-assurances of benign intent don't hold much water.

> in which Alexander explored and upheld research into innate biological differences between men and women. (As it turned out, the Damore memo was written before the post, but there was a noticeable overlap between them.)

If I recall correcty, that post was actually a sort of defense of Damore (or at least a response to Damore's detractors).

> Many technologists and their investors believe that media coverage of their domain has become histrionic and punitive, scapegoating tech companies for their inability to solve extremely difficult problems, such as political polarization, that are neither of their own devising nor within their ability to solve.

Not that I don't share skepticism of SV, but I see no self-reflection here on whether skepticism of corporate media is ever justified.

--

At the very least the author didn't doxx Scott.
This has been my experience as well. I live in a city now, but I love the times I have spent traveling through or to rural areas. They have a bad reputation that is based on false notions of urban superiority and stereotypes that feel as baseless and unhinged as claims of other types of superiority (e.g. racial).

The reality is when you visit these rural places, talk to the people there, take part in their culture, take in the land...there is a lot these areas and those lifestyles have to offer. I was also surprised to find the people so charming, warm, and welcoming - and it dispelled my fears of expecting discrimination, which in retrospect I've only experienced in bigger American cities. It does feel comforting, raw, grounded, and yes like home.
Yes, but here you can't get the annuity. You can only the lesser lump sum, which after taxes won't be enough to get the annuity.
I get the impression that feature for feature, ES6 is identical because AS3 and AS4 were build on ES. I remember reading performance is better today, but can’t find the stats on that.

It’s the “creation experience” that has never been matched.

Of course, it depends on who you are - For true coders, the current systems are fine and in many ways better, but for wholistic visual first creatives, who may also code well, the current tool sets are totally lacking.
I'm not sure if it means that. I'm just sure that for each purpose, we can find someone that relies on it.
The young generally aren’t considered unfit. In the cases where they actually unfit (say a lame leg) they certainly aren’t kept around as a sacrificial offering to predators as in your example.
Yes, you are right, but the current title is just 2 chars under the limit and I couldn't think of a shorter one. Sorry for the somewhat misleading "will".

My somewhat lame excuse: The law will most probably pass, current govt is a coalition of the two largest parties with overwhelming majority and absolutely no clue about anything digital.

Edit: would "shall" work instead of "will"?
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.NET has the problem if being a MS product. It's only relatively recently that they've decided to be fully cross platform and open source. I'm not sure if it's all the way there yet, but it could be a viable option.

Java is fine as a programming language. Java as a web app more or less means Spring. And Spring means XML files and annotations which come with their own problems. Kind of an out of the pan and into the fire thing.
Suppose I have a big following. Suppose I know that some of those followers are prone to exaggerating some things that I "suggest". If you know those two facts, would you have written the same letter?

I'm not saying your interpretation is incorrect. I'm saying, knowing what I know about SSC, I know that certain people would interpret his letter differently and cause problems for the editor and the original jouranlist and that seems to be exactly what happened. A vocal minority took up his cause and shaped the discourse around him being a victim and the editor and journalist being evil.

Even in this thread, any kind of actual discussion is almost impossible. The general opinion is very skewed by very specific interpretations of Scott's persona.
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