skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So an example of an application of Hick's Law is when you have a huge country list dropdown. Per Hick's Law we know that presenting users with many choices is bad because it'll take them forever to make their pick. But if there's going to be a small number of options that the vast majority of users will choose, such as with countries it might be the US and a few EU countries, you can improve this by putting those countries first and presenting an alphabetically sorted list of the rest after them.

You can see how this doesn't just boil down to "make it simpler". And many of your summaries similarly miss the point.

I do admit that the website doesn't elaborate on the concepts very much. For example, if I hadn't known about Hick's law beforehand, I might have arrived at the same conclusion as you. But they do link further reading which seems to do the job of explaining the laws in detail. So I think the website is a nice reference if you go the extra mile and look at the links.
Much better article: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-launches-chrome-extensi...

Trust Token Github page: https://github.com/WICG/trust-token-api

I'm glad to see it uses Privacy Pass as a basic mechanism.
Isn't one of the advantages of Mastodon that it has much better moderation tools? It's kinda hard to tell by the homepage.
/rant

For those that dont agree (downvoters), feel free to self host mozilla sync server and for added fun, try to do it on freebsd - then you will understand my point. For developers on mastadon - I hope you did get my point and will improve this as it might considerably increase your usage base.

My biggest problem with all "those" platforms is that I want to have it self hosted. I expect one directory/executable (no, not docker) with everything I need to run it, instead of fishing for different parts all over package managers etc. I will exclude database from this. Or nginx/apache proxy configuration.

Same issue as matrix - i would love to run it but what is too much is too much. Maybe once the golang engine is finished, if they dont blew it and make a huge dependency tree for nodejs.

I am so sorry but if I proceed with the philosophy that projects have for the deployment, I will run out of storage and spend my whole life just updating packages. Not to mention if I decide to not use it.

I think that all complex projects are doing the same mistake for last 20 years: they always ignore the "packing" or the end distribution form that their project will have at the end - a huge number of different blobs with 3rd party dependencies are created and it is just expected that this is trivial for end user to set up and maintain.

/rant off
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Visual guide to polling in Functional Programming (Scala)
Old games, old productivity software. If they were good when they were new, I've never understood how they become "bad" just because time passes.

It's a weird marketing and social undermining of comfort and control. Sure there is the 'security' argument, and an accretion of various quirks, but people were often happy dealing with these quirks in the day, and as OP says, making interoperability frictionful has an definite upside with all the media and IT giants trying to mine your attention span for money.
This is a long-ish article, as per usual for N Robinson, and I think people ITT are focusing only on the start. Yes free vs. subscription news media is an interesting and important issue, but this article goes on to make a more wide-reaching and incisive criticism of how Capitalism structures the production and distribution of information or knowledge (Current Affairs is a socialist magazine).

Information production is dominated by the super-rich and the state, and access to knowledge (not merely information) is carefully controlled for the benefit of and use by the highly educated, wealthy elite.

An aspect that I often think about is how the vast majority of truly top-tier multimedia (books, articles, movies) has been created decades ago. A person could, for example, spend multiple lifetimes reading the amazing academic and artistic literature in the public domain. But such an existence is terribly unprofitable, so it's heavily discouraged in favour of a content-diet full of pop-culture ephemera. Alan Kay said about Pop Culture, that it "is all about identity and feeling like you're participating, It has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future—it's living in the present." Such over-stimulating, disorienting, and fashionable multimedia, perhaps perfected by Buzzfeed, is making us energetic consumers, and idiots. Amused to death drinking from a firehose of 'free'.
I am generally confounded by the flatness of Window 10. The ability to see which window is on top is gone!
What could you possibly want to post that might get taken down by twitter? Unless you post actual nazi propaganda or violence or something, it's a pretty free place. Remembering that freedom means people get to tell you to shut up, of course.
Hum, interesting, but that's why I said that open source needs to pay more attention to branding, not to Ovid.
We have paid features, right.

I thought "freemium" nowadays referred more to practices like "we'll actively make your experience worse and annoy you unless you pay", but now I think I mistook that for "free-to-play" in the game industry. Alright then! It's freemium.
The Economist at least seems to be good at giving its opponents space within its pages (for those of us who still subscribe to the print edition).

So while they have a bias they acknowledge, it isn't a "beat them into submission" type of bias.
I think "UI>UX" is very clearly saying that user interface is more important than user experience.
http://www.airwindows,com

I continue to compile my Audio Unit plugins, to this day, on a 10.6.8 Snow Leopard machine specifically so I can release them as PPC/32/64 bit fat binaries. Far as I know that should continue to hold for everything I've done (not sure if it holds for the Mac VST plugins, though)

So that constitutes new audio DSP plugins for PowerPC Macs.

Though I don't use it day-to-day, I've got an old G3 (?) Mac laptop. It does indeed have a better keyboard than modern ones… and from an audio production standpoint, it may not be up to high sample rates but it's got digital optical in AND out, standard. Just plug an optical cable into the headphone or mic jacks.
Thank you, Adam, for developing Tailwind CSS. I've been using it exclusively for my side projects since the start of the year. The thought of going back to a less utility-based CSS system (and/or SASS/LESS) leaves me cold.
and how much you think journalists should earn? 10k/yr?
Left to their own devices they make some decisions that harm them. So you have to prevent them but they hate this at the time. What do you do?
This sounds interesting. Would you mind to elaborate on your workflow and what you do with it specifically? I'd love to see some screen shots.
You might be interested in something like Cabal[0] or Secure Scuttlebutt[1]... Take a look at least, if you haven't heard of them already. Even if you don't dive in, still super interesting regardless!

[0] https://cabal.chat/

[1] https://scuttlebutt.nz/
Interestingly, the US is not one of those countries. If you tally up the excess deaths for the year (as per the public CDC data), they match C19 fatalities nearly exactly.
I would prefer to err on the side of caution when looking at the actions of key strategic pieces of large corporations.

The burden of proof for not being corrupted lies with the people and organizations that wield tremendous power.

We can't just have blind faith and wait for proof of corruption first. Instead we should assume it, and look for proof that there isn't any and be thankful when that's the case.
is CNN really putting up anything except news - of which reuters/AP/UPI already give a pretty good overview for free? And while all the left/neoliberal (and clickbaity) things you noted are free, they are less concerned with news, but more opinion – to my knowledge they don't try to make the impression of a news outlet as much as the listed ones (which carry typical news-speak even in their name!)
I used to run Windows 95 on my Nokia S60-something (I don't even remember the model know). This was back in 2006, or at most early 2007.
Do you remember ring BACK tones? In some countries you could choose what your ring sounded like on someone else's phone. So I could force your phone to play the latest Britney Spears track or whatever. Complete violation of personal space.
Usually the good price is the price you are comfortable with. But most of the time, this is a cheaper price than customer are willing to pay.

In any case you have the good behavior, put a price, give it a few months, if after a few months you feel like you want to increase it, do it, if you want to decrease it, do it and contact people who pay more.

And don't forget that if you want to target bigger customers, you can, but you will have to make them pay much more than currently, but you will also have to change a lot of things in the way you operate your company (you can have more info on my blog, link in my bio)
I don't get this. Then no crisis is ever a black swan, as we're always expecting the next one. Financial crises, pandemics, meteorites, terror attacks? All expected.

A black swan must be an event that is unpredictable in the sense that it happens suddenly with little warning signs in the immediately preceding period.
>The standard way is to count how many deaths there were in excess of what would be expected in a normal year.

Might be the better, or more illuminating way, but it's a standard for whom?

Most western governments report covid deaths it in a totally different way - not by taking into any account excess deaths. So it's not like Iran is doing anything special in this regard...
No plans to let you use Notion as the source of truth. Once Notion opens up their API, I expect something like that will appear very soon anyway.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23141667
Yes, that's the point. Absent another explanation for unusual deaths, it seems likely they are due to COVID-19.
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I think the "carrier restrictions" of stuff mostly were a thing in the US? In Norway I bought most of my phones even back then outright. And if one didn't, the effect was mostly that the phone was locked to only accept sim cards from the same operator. Didn't have much impact on features of the phone itself.
Why do you assume that $20 is enough to support multiple newspapers?

That's nearly how much the New York Times ($17/month) alone costs and they lost money every year in recent history until 2018 and are only now turning the corner as a business.

On the surface I'd assume that actual journalism -- not just clickbait opinion pieces -- is going to cost you way more than $20 a month if you want access to multiple sources.
Look in the Affinity support forum and you’ll find myself and about three thousand of my closest friends crying out for Affinity Designer DXF export.

Inkscape has it and it’s free.

I’m stuck not using Affinity Designer because I can’t export to DXF.

I paid for Affinity Designer, just assuming it’s would have DXF export because why wouldn’t it.

So sad ),;
> Edit, save, refresh, visible.

Without the "save" step. This is I meant by saying "instant".
I think the Prelude answer would be to use `flip`[1], along with composition (`.`) or application (`$`) as usual.

flip :: (a -> b -> c) -> b -> a -> c

[1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.14.0.0/docs/Prelu...
The proof on this page has a small gap: it fails to take into account that some numbers don't have unique decimal expansion.

For example, if all digits on the diagonal were 8, then z = 0.(9) = 1, which is not between 0 and 1.
There are different aspects to this. The first and the easily verifiable one is that they default to client-server-client connections, not end-to-end encryption. If you want to have an end-to-end encrypted channel, you have to explicitly open a "secret chat". However, this removes the convenience of cross device syncing.

The second one is more difficult to evaluate. If you use the above mentioned "secret chat" feature, Telegram employs their own closed-source encryption scheme. That's usually an indicator to be cautious from the get-go. Since it's closed source, it can't really be trusted.

See [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)#Security) for a timeline in regards to the security.
Compared to just opening 'Ringtone' in settings and just choosing any file I want, I would hardly describe having to Google for 10 seconds and then having to go to iTunes (on a different device?) to push a ringtone, as trivial or convenient.
Have you identified which fodmap group you're sensitive to?
My girlfiend is a professional dietician, is suffering from IBS and has found a pill containing an enzyme that she swallows before eating a certain fodmap group.
It helped her a lot.
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Left and right are each many things; I think you have just as much a caricature of the other party as they have of you.
Lies are not free, they are paid by ads and a complete industry is built on keeping this going. The price of the ads are built into the price of the product/service you buy, so we are basically paying for the lies too, it’s just not as obvious as paying to get through the paywall.
Programação orientada a objetos na JavaScript
This has nothing to do with communication. The article makes the case that overemphasising English for NLP has produced approaches that are limited in what they can do and can only solve some of the problems of English language modelling. In short, they're "one trick ponies" that only work well in one kind of problem. Further progress requires the ability to tackle more diverse problems and that's what the article advocates for. So I'm sorry to say but your "vision" of a united world under English is a vision of a world united under technological stagnation, a world where our NLP (and possibly AI, in general) approaches can only handle a limited set of "low hanging fruit" problems associated with English.

The opinion expressed in your comment, that we should adjust ourselves to our technology, rather than improving our technology to suit our needs, is not entirely new. For example, Andrew Ng has said that rather than trying to make self-driving cars capable of dealing with an unexpected situation such as a pedestrian on a pogo stick, we should make sure that people don't engage in such unexpected behaviour that self-driving cars can't handle [1]. Obviously, this is a recipe not just for suppressing much of the diversity of human behaviour with unpredictable results for our own cognitive capacity, it's also backwards and antithetical to the motive of improving technology to make it capable of new applications.

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[1] Rodney Brooks, Bothersome Bystanders and Self Driving Cars:

https://rodneybrooks.com/bothersome-bystanders-and-self-driv...
> you also have a big discovery problem

I find it far easier than ever before to discover new music. Which leads me to:

> It's much, much harder to make it big as an independent artist these days

My (possibly naive and certainly not backed by any insider knowledge) thinking is, that this is because you have far more than there used to be as the barrier of entry is far lower. I’ve bought music from all kinds of artists than I probably would never even have found even just 10 years ago.
I'm sorry if I've misunderstood the term. I mean absolutely no offense. I understand freemium as proprietary service with both free and paid tiers.
Changes to the Python pip dependency resolver in 20.2 (2020)
> Yahoo made offers to buy Google

I think you have that backwards, Google kept asking Yahoo to buy them [1]

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/remember-yahoo-turned-down-1-...
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PartDesign chamfer/fillet are so much better in git master now. No longer limited to 45 degrees, and they can be duplicated with linear/polar patterns!
Yes, but the affected company is the one paying the ransom. Make that a felony and suddenly their choice is to invest in security or risk having their business halted for potentially months.
Definitely! There is a lot of low-hanging fruit in this area — what kind of widgets we support in the editor, what we can render, etc.

We prioritize feature requests from paying customers, so buying the $20/year plan is a good way to get MathJax significantly faster.
There is. As mentioned in the blog post it can't use the marketplace or the proprietary extensions though.
All that would do is massively incentivize clickbait headlines, if they could actually get paid $1 for each person who clicked on it.

Do you really want a world with even more clickbait headlines and articles artificially spread over 20 pages? Because that's what microtransactions would lead to.
This can happen anywhere in the world. In order to remove a CEO, you have to follow the proper process. Allen Wu claims that the process wasn't followed and, therefore, his dismissal was illegal and void in effect.

It's not like he was dismissed and he just didn't leave his office. He's challenging the legality of his dismissal.
Do you expect the developers to build twice the backend interfaces to satisfy a single use-case?

Now you could say it should be easy, but if it is easy then you could become a maintainer of the implementation.
The average man always wants cheaper goods and services, even if that is the result of misery/suffering of some people, few of which will be known to him.

In a resource-constrained, cut-throat competetive economy where everything is seen as a zero-sum deal, the average man will never hesitate to root for less-for-others if it guarantees more-for-me.

Where people's measure of worth is what one owns rather than what one does or how one lives, such a decadence is but a mere natural happenstance.

The eastern scriptures depict this in an allegorical way - a time in the world where there's no evil (satya yuga, pure and natural), followed by a time where the world is deviating towards order (treta yuga), followed by a time in the world where the balance of dharma (righteousness) tilts slightly towards adharma (wickedness or everything opposite of righteous) which was Dwaparayuga, followed by the age where righteousness is nowhere to be found (Kali yuga which is where we are now) This being a cycle and the cycle continues forever and ever. A refresh will happen - how soon or later, nobody seems to know!
Sure, sharing information, so other people can make their decisions as they please...

Is this the cancle culture apocalypse the right is talking about?

Weren't consumer decisions once held differently? Or is it because there is no money spend, it's not ethics anymore?
What was your hair routine once you stopped using shampoo? How long is your hair?

I have medium length hair and everytime I try to stop using shampoo/just use water my hair gets sticky and oily.
which is why centralized/peer-to-peer is a false dichotomy the solution to many of the problems of both of them is (forkable) federated networks
No, it was the insistence on avoiding ECJ jurisdiction and ending free movement that caused hard Brexit. Nothing more. There was no support from conservatives for the softer "indicative votes".
It may or may not be illegal, but including the ads is unlikely to make any difference.

It's generally not thought to be illegal, see for example: https://www.practicalecommerce.com/Search-Engines-Indexing-a...
>At some future date, assuming the GPT-3 adherents are right, nobody will "write code" because we will describe systems design goals to an intermediary which then writes the code.

Well, the fundamental problem with this is that you just made the programmer even more powerful. A single programmer is now as productive as a thousand programmers. You still want to have a programmer because you want someone who understands what the system is actually doing right now and keeps it running. You also need someone who understands the limitations of the software generator. You can't just say "please create software that solves the halting problem". You also need someone who understands how to optimize software. You can easily ask for something that is possible but it could cost you millions of AWS credits.

There will always be someone who has intimate knowledge of the tool he is using and can charge appropriately for it. The more powerful the tool the more attractive the employee. Compare an engineer drafting on paper vs one doing it in CAD.
Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories
https://www.visualarq.com/ adds BIM tools to Rhino (and the total price of perpetual licenses for Rhino+VisualARQ is still significantly less than a year's Revit subscription)
Companies should be liable for negligence depending on the kind of hack. If they were hacked through use of an old package - defined by regulations - then they should be liable.

If it was a zero-day or something newer - defined by regulations - then the company is not liable.

Your analogies are cute but I want new laws, further making your analogies moot.
They can also design their own ISA. An ISA is a document, they can write their own. Now, can you think of reasons why they wouldn't want to do it that don't also apply to MIPS?
Yeah, this discussion is merely about the word, not about it's meaning.
Relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/2272/
As a teenager at the time it was impressed on us how important it was to not use our real name on the internet. I didn't use my real name for anything on the internet for at least 10 years after I started using it.
Innovation through limitation. It can work wonders as the author is suggesting.

Working with old technology also gives you valuable insight into the worlds current latency-poor bloated software. You might be able to run the latest but with latency that is hidden on modern machines now painfully visible, you might think otherwise. This leads to choosing software that is fast, minimal, and effective.
> 57% in Bergamo province with antibodies.

Should actually read

57% of a "random" sample of 9965 people who were tested in Bergamo province have antibodies.
This has saved my hide a few times, on the occasion I remember to think of it.

Such an underrated / understated feature.
Italian lockdowns stopped COVID from turning every city a Bergamo.
Thanks, we are working to improve the quality of both our dictionaries and ML engine. Very hard to answer they the translation picked these and I have to look into each of these individually to answer your questions. The translations are not perfect but it is alive project and I am trying to improve it every hour that I find.

"I can't imagine how that would happen." : Just as a hint, click on "translations" here:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/with_friends_like_these_who_n...
Newsrooms probably pay for too many things.

You could probably get most opinion for free, lifestyle content for next to nothing, etc. The weekly jobless claims articles could be handled by cheap content mills. A lot of columns like personal finance and restaurants could easily be purchased freelance on the market.

The Huffington Post demonstrated that non-investigative content can be had for free.

So there should probably be far fewer middle skill journalists.
I believe it has the chance like Google buys Apple or vice versa, the Nemetschek consortium and Autodesk's AEC line are direct competitors.
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Competing Programs: Government Support for Microelectronics (2003)