skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you might be missing the point the article was trying to make when you took the negative emotion which the author was describing (“annoyances”) and turned it into a positive one (“delight”). I don’t think you can simply say delight is the absence of annoyance, and that good applications are ones which delight their users.

Because while delightful interactions can wow your users and get them to tweet about your application, the mark of a great user experience is that it goes largely unnoticed by the user. You don’t notice a door when you walk through it; you’d only notice it if you couldn’t get through it. We only pay attention to tools when things go wrong; as developers we are keenly aware of this fact whenever we have to debug code which stops working.

A seamless user experience should actually be imperceptible to the user, and I’m not sure this has anything to do with delightfulness or juiciness or any of the other stretch goals UI people come up with. The fact of the matter is, not annoying the user isn’t as sexy, and boils down to competence (writing bug-free code) and consent (not using dark patterns to get the user to do shit they don’t want to do).
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Standard behavior of a person suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-...
Compare the 911 attacks and airport security. It was not regarded as a joke generally (although I thought it a joke well before the attack), but in hindsight, it was "security theater" not security at all. It's common for our actions and conscious thoughts to contradict: that's what unconscious minds are for according to the Selfish Gene introduction's hypothesis.
Or compare how unprepared Austrohungaria actually was for WWI, which it started. The examples are endless.
I was thinking in terms of less travel induced stress, both physical and mental.
I liked this article. Is a prime example of how a shameless asskissing article should look like, this should be on top of every campaign manager as a must read for upcoming election battle.
It was worse than that.[1] One can was opened by cabin staff on an American Airlines flight. They weren't sure what it was, so they assumed the worst, a bomb. The plane made an emergency landing.

They'd succeeded in angering a customer who bought millions of cans a year.

[1] http://archive.is/gsl4f
But "focusing on users" != "focus on delighting their users". The former is the process of discovering what delights their users, the latter is the actual "delighting" process.

Also, +1 to the parent comment. I worked at a startup where we made exactly that mistake - we delayed releases until it met a high standard of UX - took us more than couple of years. By this time, competitors that built a _much_ crappier product got userbase, and hence funding, and then used that to get their UX up to par (sometimes they wouldn't even have the features, they just faked it). We realized our mistake, adapted and stayed in business - but it was a difficult and painful process.

So basically - first get things up and running FAST, then worry about polish and laser-cut UX.
> "GCHQ has a program called ROYALCONCIERGE, where they hack the reservation systems of hotels to watch for targets renting rooms"

Your own source makes it clear that this system works/worked by intercepting emails.

> "then GCHQ sends teams ahead of time to [...] assassinate them"

Unless Snowden buried the lede quite spectacularly, I think this is not true.
Ender’s Game is good, but Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide are one of my favourite Sci-Fi books and totally underrated. Though I admit I don’t remember which I liked better.
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The only solution to that is to raise the minimum standards by making building codes more strict. But that raises the cost of the housing, and then you have people claiming the government is restricting housing development and pricing people out.

It's all a very delicate balance that gets thrown way off especially due to the securitization of the asset for 30+ years at artificially low future taxpayer subsidized interest rates.

A lot of the calculations about value of fixtures and finishes in a house in a high demand area get de-valued by buyers because the land value (and the land value's increase) is worth so much more than the structure that sits on it, that as a buyer, you can't afford to value things like proper fit and finish and materials unless you're looking at very high value homes, otherwise another buyer will come in and take it.
I think the most likely event that could decimate one of the FAANG would be increased competition from another. For example, what happens to Amazon if Google decides to get deadly serious about e-commerce? What happens to Google if Apple & Microsoft decide to make Bing a joint venture? What happens to Facebook if Apple launch a social network?
Well to cite some examples from the recent past by the US:

You may be drummed out as CEO of a major corp on trumped up charges (almost any high level exec could be found guilty of this):

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/qwest-ceo-nsa-punished...

You may be assassinated without trial or explanation anywhere in the world:

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/opinion/the-drone-that-ki...

You may be kidnapped in any country and tortured at a black site in Syria:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar

You may be arbitrarily pulled off the streets and detained by unidentified paramilitary forces:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/20/trump-...

It's extremely unlikely if you are white, non-muslim and do exactly as they ask, which may give you some comfort, but the US or other Western states do engage in the things you listed too.

I agree China is a much worse state at present than the US say, but I wouldn't be too comfortable about defying the US government on something they care about - they have murdered, coerced and ruined lives too in the recent past.
You just have to compute the expected value. Let's say we play a game where you have to invest $10.

If you have a 65% chance to win and winning means you get $2 on top of your $10, then abort the plan. The expected value is $12×65% = $7.80 which is less than your investment.

If you have a 35% chance to win and winning means you get $30 on top of your 10$, then continue. An expected value of $40×35% = $14 is worth it.

In reality, the tricky part is often to assign numbers (How much does it cost to switch to Rust? How much errors does the stricter type system catch?) but the framework is available.

Ok, also look up the Kelly criterion because you can go bankrupt even with a high expected value.
NTT is talking about cyber physical fusion, where people are turned into information.
> 6G then will focus on solving social issues and a closer fusing of the physical and the cyber-worlds, enabled by an expanded set of higher-bandwidth communications options and by more sophisticated fusion between the physical and cyber realms.
Points 2 and 3 seem like mischaracterizations of what they wrote. I'll try to paraphrase based on my interpretation. They seem to implicitly claim that Americans can change things in practice, but that the system can be changed to be made more representative. If someone doesn't believe in that future, they can leave because it's a defeatist view in which nothing they see as possible would really satisfy them. Neither of these points imply Americans can't in practice change things, or that people who don't like the present system should just leave.
He means database transactions. I.e. the ability to do a series of operations atomically.
Southwest is Amadeus too now :)
I haven't really worked with PayPal, so I can't really compare. I did some payments years ago with ... I forgot, so I can't really compare it to other competitors.

With transactions I mean that if I send two or more API requests to complete a single action (e.g. "create customer and subscribe to plan", but there are many more advanced workflows like accepting multiple currencies etc.) then I'd like to have all of them succeed, or none of them succeed, similar to "BEGIN [..] COMMIT" in SQL.

Right now, a network error, programming error, wrong data, or whatnot on the second request means I'll be left with a "dangling" customer. As far as I know, there isn't any good way to solve this other than either deleting the customer on errors or changing the first request to a "create if not exists"-type request. It works, but it's a lot less smooth than it could be.

There are also some other concern with this; what if I send the same series of requests at the same time? The first might create object A, the second "create or get" might get the object created in the first series, and it all becomes messy and complicated.

The only things Stripe offers now is "Idempotency-Key", which is not even a "poor man's transactions".
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Bosnianbill's YouTube channel has featured some nifty "unpickable" designs:

* Inaccessible keyhole: https://invidio.us/watch?v=OLsJDELd4lo

Sounds related to the lock you describe, except this one is purely mechanical.

* Serpentine keyhole: https://invidio.us/watch?v=1ey2SFHbZV8
Same thing for free bags, it’s because their system couldn’t handle chargeable bags
Haven't done anything wrong? It's all public info.[1]

The Portland Police are arresting people for disturbing the peace. So are the federal police, the only difference is the people they are arresting are being release because the Portland DA chooses not to press charges.

It's all political. I don't know about you, but I'd be more concerned about the Portland justice system being perverted just to stick it to Trump.

[1]https://www.mcso.us/PAID/Home/Booking/1506008/1517573
Enterprise architects usually do not work at large enterprises, but consult to them. In consulting you typically would have risen through the dev stages (junior 1st year, medior 2nd-3rd, senior from 2nd or 3rd onwards (ikr), then onto solution architect (tech lead on small projects ~300k), a few technical analyst team roles on large projects (several M$), experience in a key role in such a project such as Lead Integration Architect, en then onto Enterprise Architect jobs. Note that for anything beyond the solution architect stage your political and managerial skills will become as or even more important than your technical progression.

Alternatively you could be the tech person in a 2 man startup that lucks onto success and grab onto your seat in a wild ride and just never let go.
Andy Ngo is not a good source for anything.
It's almost funny that somebody named 'fearing reprisal' is posting in support of the federal government making secret arrests of people who they suspect may have done some graffiti.

I say almost, because in fact it is just sad that pathetic, weak, authoritarian, anti-libertarian bootlickers like yourself are a clear and present danger to all society. But you can't see it, because you hate black people and hipsters.
The last call (to a function or operator) is in the tail position. In this case, it is tuple packing.

Why wouldn't the tuple packing be in tail position in the Python code?
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I can see comment and review farms wanting their hands on GPT really bad. Imagine being able to generate 1000s if Human like reviews with positive sentiment. Businesses pay real money for this.

Right now AI is only available to mega tech corps. Even OpenAI is a closed research lab. So one can infer that AI will always be the divider.
> Take the death of Jeffrey Epstein: I place myself squarely on the side of the conspiracy theorists. How would you "talk to me"?

I wouldn't because I think your belief is not bad.

I think the problem with Epstein is the moronic centrist public who can't differentiate between the legal definition of Human Trafficking and the Hollywood definition.

But, I would say to you if you want me to try, you are correct, something happened. But I think it was the complex emergence from a system, conspiracies like this are not people sitting around tables, it's subtle behaviours amongst large groups of people that cause things to happen.
And I don't think the worst part is failing to give credit necessarily. People legitimately forget things, and they independently come up with the same ideas. The problem is when it's wrapped in egotism and inability to see that the person who suggested it earlier did so with good intentions, and might be worth listening to in past, present and future.
Looks like my retail brokerage didn’t get the memo. I get 15 minutes delayed data unless I subscribe to the exchange AND OPRA on top of my trading and holding fee.
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Maybe.
Look at Crash Course Computer Science on YouTube and Khan Academy's programming course

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> Why then, the continued obsession with building single-media models?

I think it's literally just working with available data. With some back of the envelope math, GPT-3's training corpus is thousands of lifetimes of language heard. All else equal, I'm sure the ML community would almost unanimously agree that thousands of lifetimes of other data with many modes of interaction and different media would be better. It would take forever to do and would cost insane amounts of money. But some kinds of labels are relatively cheap, and some data don't need labels at all, like this internet text corpus. I think that explains the obsession with single-media models. There's a lot more work to do and this is, believe it or not, still the low hanging fruit.
Did the NSDAP even bother to encrypt their little lists[1]? I'd thought they kept them in the clear, on IBM punched cards.

For an interesting Paperclip-like connection to the founding of the BND, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Scherhorn#Aftermath

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWo_3CIcTBQ
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I bet this is what Donald Norman has in his nightmares
Joe Armstrong's PhD thesis 'Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors' is good reading.

http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
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> You are not supposed to dicslose you are in such a clinical trial.

They never asked that or made us sign anything to that effect.

In this Phase 3 trial, they are measuring prevention of disease across ~10,000 people. They just want to see who tests positive for COVID and how sick they get. In this Phase, they aren't asking most groups about side effects or any subjective questions about symptom severity or anything like that where reading that someone was in a study would influence our opinion.
Ever since I switched to a functional style of writing production code, I immediately see my abstractions are a lot better.
I've had many instances before where I used to do
function do_something(param1, param2, booleanParam1, booleanParam2) and in turn have spaghetti code based on those booleans.
Composibility blew that out of the park for me personally.
It's not like trying to find the Fountain of Youth or something. It's a company with billions of dollars making it impossible for certain people with disabilities to access the Internet. Let's not pretend that it just has to be this way. A world where half the Internet can't be broken by one company should be the baseline.
CS Unplugged[0] is a collection of activities, games, and projects which teach introductory Computer Science concepts without requiring computers. Many of these would be great for homeschool or a video-sharing "virtual classroom".

Processing[1] is a Java-like programming language and environment which makes it easy to write games and digital art. Good performance, excellent documentation, a lean but powerful standard library, and skills that are transferrable to many other "mainstream" languages.

If you're working with a very small group, try to build your curriculum around their interests. Do they enjoy storytelling? Perhaps you could introduce interactive fiction and build some text-based adventure games. Computers can also be used for music, drawing, composing poetry, and so on. The classic "Twenty Things to Do with a Computer"[2] still offers many good ideas.

[0] https://www.csunplugged.org/en/

[1] https://processing.org

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/37596692_Twenty_Thi...
What is the mentality here? SV investors are quite accomodating of people investing in building a decent product even if it's not making any revenue or isn't being adopted fast. Why lie?
There couldn’t be one because one of his partners would have a descendant alive at 2020
from the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23897577
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Yes, hopefully it will become so abhorrent that it will be obvious even to teenagers that race “jokes” aren’t acceptable.
Yes. It’s taken half a decade and many increasingly forceful nudges to get about half of the customers over to the new UI.

This despite the fact that new features haven’t been released to the classic version for at least 3 years. Not only are they on a dated UI, they’re missing every single new feature that’s been released for several years (and that’s actually a shit load of features).
Elon Musk talking live about bidet for toilets :)
Not sure what you're getting at here, but this sounds like a rare occurrence i.e. difficult
People do complain about that. But people usually concerns themselves with the actions of people closest to them. Meeting someone and calling them an asshole about a vacation they took once 3 years ago is a different level than telling a good friend or family that they’re wasting gas or buying shitty, harmful coffee.

The one thing I hate more than anything is whataboutism that aims to stall any sort of progress. The “we can’t criticize anything because we still have another problem and only self-righteous people want to better things and appropriately handle things on a per-case basis” crowd is really just pure tedium to deal with.
Never heard of him but I read this article in one sitting (extremely hard thing for me) and I felt some unexplained connections with this story. A Beautiful Mind is another book which I very often go back to and go through similar emotions.

In all, it was a captivating read.
I think in the context of the original statement it was a heuristic for searching for truth, i.e. "to know, form hypotheses then subject them to falsification tests".

So yes, in the meaning of SOWH, all WO are ones that leave you unable to progress. Your reading of 'categorical implying strong' is reasonable, imho, in just the meaning of the word 'strong'. It's just not what I believe was the intended meaning in the statement of SOWH.
Don't think about making anything remotely real time as the full display refresh takes around 15s and there is no partial refresh available.
when the Snowden leaks came out, i was horrified. our worst nightmares about an Orwellian Dystopia far in the future had already happened 20 years ago in secret and we were only finding out.

but then i did some research into Starwood hotels.

when Snowden ran to HK in May/June 2013, he stayed at the Mira hotel, paying with his personal credit card.

guess who owns Mira?

Mira is a Starwood hotel.

i guess that ROYALCONCIERGE program didnt work too well LOL.

i now no longer fear NSA and the FVEYs the same way i did back in 2013.

NSA/FVEYs are not 1984 meets Skynet. NSA is the Cyber DMV. govt clerks punching a clock and squabbling with each other over internal turf wars. they are morons, just with a bigger budget and an invisibility cloak of TOP SECRET.

NSA/FVEYs have already crippled themselves by their spectacular success. they hacked everyone, they exfiltrated all data on Earth, but what good is it? they couldnt even find Snowden in their own hotel spy program?

i bet more sand falls through the cracks in NSA's hands than any finite number of grains they do manage to catch. there simply is no way to scale putting a human eyeball on every piece of SIGINT. the more SIGINT you collect, the more blind you become.

these days i am NSA's #1 cheerleader. i fervently hope they intercept and wiretap and collect everything. because one day poetic justice will knock NSA on their asses and blindside their hubris and they will never see it coming.
If we are taking about Stripe, we should mention the silent competitor barely anyone talks or knows about outside the payments industry: Adyen.

Stripe’s current, (private) valuation is $36B. Developers love them. Adyen’s current, public valuation is $43B (they IPO’d amongst little press coverage). Most developers don’t know about them.

So what is the difference? Market strategy. Adyen only goes after large businesses and has something many others, including Stripe cannot compete with efficiently: (far) lower pricing, higher market coverage.

The developer experience for Adyen is decent - no complaints, perhaps a bit less “magical”. They will definitely have a fraction of the customers, but those customers are huge. They get and seek little to no publicity compared to Stripe, yet have built a similarly sized business from the Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which is remarkable.

It’s a completely different market strategy, and company strategy. Read the Adyen values to see how different the two companies are[1] - Adyen putting “merchants” first, with a mention of support, while Stripe prioritizing developers and small businesses. And company culture could not be more different either - saying this as someone who knows both Adyen and Stripe employees. Both are companies to admire, and show that there is no “one” good way to build immense value.

It will be fascinating to see what happens as these two companies expand to compete with each other (meaning Adyen starting to go after small businesses, and Stripe after the largest merchants, with a differentiated pricing model).

[1] https://www.adyen.com/about
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Off course.
Cuz that’s what totalitarians do.
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