skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no mention of 'kowtowing', twitter or anything of the sort anywhere in the article. You can look up who the organizers of the boycott are, they have a web page. Makes you wonder who the 'loudest and angriest scolds' actually are.
There is also the security angle; keeping a Windows laptop safe if you're someone who struggles with basic usage is pretty much down to luck, and that's how it is for a huge lot of people.

It's much harder to shoot yourself in the foot with iOS (and Android, I guess), and I'd say a considerable part of this stems from a relatively clean app store and few (or no) easy options to bypass that.

Of course, keeping app stores clean doesn't require the current predatory conditions, but for me it's a strong counter-argument to abolishing walled gardens completely, even though some, as power users, professionals, developers might desire the most open platform imaginable. I think especially app stores and the large walled gardens in general should be regulated a lot more strongly, though.
Really? What makes you say that? It’s not a funny joke coming from someone in a position to fund a coup for lithium... It’s a super insensitive thing to say if nothing else. The right wing government that took over Bolivia murdered innocent civilians.
Yeah. No one should generally be forced to put their video on but it should usually be the default for smaller meetings.
Can't you install unsigned apps on macs?
In other news, roads without intersections have fewer accidents.
It feels like you're saying just make things fair, and the we won't need symbolic acts of equality. Which I agree with.

But I have no idea what concrete actions you're imagining might get us there. We are a long way from eliminating overt bigotry, let alone subconcious. And even if we did, children born today still have to deal with the after effects like generational wealth and equal access to good education.
In non-lazy languages you would need to implement laziness to manage composing functions and have good performance.
An example being take 5 . filter ...
If evaluation wasn't lazy you would run take 5, return the result to filter and so on.
Or stolen or discarded. To vote by mail is to trust the letter carriers, a union that has typically heavily favored one party over the other. The solution is to open more voting locations - which is a state responsibility, not to trust it to some third party.
Typically you will gain deep, rather than broad, AWS experience from your job because only certain stacks and configurations are used repeatedly.

Self-study and experimentation are viable routes to augment professional experience but some prefer to learn from curricula.
>Uhh what about European or the Middle east or any other part of the world
That was a list of top 10 anthropogenic disasters for the whole world. Europe and the Middle East's disasters are listed.
The whole blog seems fun to read and informative!
I think simplicity doesn't necessarily mean having less widgets on the screen.

If, by removing widgets, those interfaces are making you to perform more steps and to think more to find and execute the functionality you need, then I'd say those interfaces are getting more complex actually.

Besides, this is another common mistake in current UX trends, IMO. They seem to assume that interfaces can always be simpler, as if there weren't fundamental bottom limits to complexity; and, to make things even worse, they remove widgets, replace text with icons etc., seeming to believe in a positive correlation between complexity and amount of stuff in the screen
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Maybe you missed the part where the program tells the user it's running in "CPU Mode" and may be slower, "Try running on a GPU" is another message that would make it clear.

So many comments here make it seem like we're dealing with people with a negative IQ.

Just show an appropriate message and let the user run the software. It's GREAT that there is a simple CPU fallback and it's enabled by default.

It's really an edge-case where a user would want to run the code and have it fail if there isn't a GPU - that is mostly an edge case of 1 user, the developer, except in very specialized situations where nobody would want to run it without a GPU, again an edge-case.
Or toss it?
I hope that high-horse you are on gets covid.
I'm one of the weirdos who likes OCaml syntax, but in my eyes ReasonML is unfortunate. It fractures the community for (ironically) no real reason - not only is it a new syntax, they're now writing a new standard library for it (Belt), as though the three existing ones (plus the JS one!) weren't enough! I don't think the new syntax is particularly nice either.

I don't think js_of_ocaml supports any kind of JSX. That's the only real reason to use Reason over OCaml that I know of, and it's a good one. But if I'm being frank, even if OCaml/Reason is a nicer language overall, TypeScript is a statically-typed frontend development story that has way more community buy-in and way fewer rough edges in the ecosystem. Just use it.
> We know that because we at Telegram host and review more public content than the App Store ever will.

This reads funny since Telegram, after being banned by Russian authorities with a demand to disclose the E2E keys, got that ban lifted this June with Durov reportedly saying they can “catch and delete extremist and terrorist content”. In light of that I find it reckless not to presume that E2E chat content is among the “public content” Telegram “reviews”.
On HN the majority opinion is to "defund the police", at least from what I've seen. Overwhelmingly so. The majority opinion on this thread seems to be that the people in boats who went to see the splashdown up close were idiots, and military intervention is the way to fix it next time.

My point is that the majority opinion on HN in regards to police/military engagement is at odds with the majority opinion on this thread.
The twitter mob can boycott Facebook all they want, for a month or a year, but the vast majority of people and businesses will go on using it because that makes no difference to them.

Boycotts are always limited in time and scope because if the product wasn't useful you wouldn't need to boycott it, you'd just ignore it in perpetuity. Like, I'm not "boycotting" natural fur clothing for the 20th year, I'm just not interested.

Facebook is useful to both people and businesses and will continue to be useful regardless of any boycotts. Maybe not to some tiny minority of people, but to everyone else.

There are tons of companies that survive with shitty business practices that have much weaker market position than Facebook.
The problem with Spotify is that they pool all payments, and then portion it out based on how big of a part of the total amount of plays per month that artist gets.

That means basically all of my $10 subscription would go to huge popular artists, instead of to the artists I actually listen to.

By buying on Bandcamp, I make sure my money goes to the artists I actually listen to.
Every administration does this, to advance their own agenda. Are you surprised?
Can’t really trust UX advice from a site with such annoying UX.
I upvoted this but want to add that a good a diet is also a strong component. Exercise will not make much of an impact if one is eating tons of transfats, excessively drinking, abusing many drugs, etc. Mental and emotional health make a difference too. Prolonged periods of depression change the physiological and anatomical aspects of the brain.
It's often journalists the ones blowing dumb stuff out of proportion because an article about a couple people saying outrageous stuff (even if it's the ~0.0001% of the population that you state) brings eyeballs and keeps the addictive outrageous cycle up. It's the sad state of social networks and most of the journalism nowadays. Luckily you're not forced to read any of those if you don't want.
Looks like the issue is that the element below it has a negative top margin of -22vw and is overlapping the button. Removing that fixes it for me ;)
I made the same comment in another thread, but if you check the stream you can see they debugged an issue with an auxiliary app running on an actual iPad mini, not an issue with the apps running on the main screens mounted in front of the seats.
there is such a thing as minimal infective dose. they do not know what the minimal infective dose is yet though. there is no you get one virus particle and now you have the virus... rather, you have a worked out average dose of the virus particles that if you gave a population of people that much of the virus 50% of them would become ill.
Spot on, America, and West such, wouldn't have a reason to worry in the first place if it managed to maintain the integrity of the Western bloc after the cold war.

By letting its foreign policy wonder into grey area by playing overtures with regimes of all kind without any reservations, it allowed for norms, and boundaries to be blurred, and resolve of its camp blunted.

What is happening now, is that the whole Western camp have descended into whataboutism with relation to what rogue regime each bloc member is playing ball with, without no authority left in the bloc "clean enough" to police it.

What rogue regimes made to the West in the last 20 years, is nothing, but a gang initiation in reverse.

First they lured the West into playing their dirty games, and when Western countries thoroughly dirtied their hands, then come and say "your hands are as dirty as mine, what's the point fighting now?"
You're right,cuda is only officially supported to run on an nvidia gpu, not cpu or anywhere else.
Ouch, interface should be consistent across platforms
The fact that you're not familiar with the ballot authentication and verification mechanisms used in mail-in voting suggests a starting point for your research.
Proper backup does data independently from code, and proper devops is to always do an install from trusted source.

It is unfortunately very rare to find this in practice - everyone seems to be happy with just snapshotting live systems as a backup these days; and it works well enough as long as there is no lingering systemic corruption of data.

(And .... Excel, by mixing data with potentially malicious code, is beyond redemption. But good luck quarantining that in a modern suit controlled company)
Yep. I like iOS, and the value of iPhones is excellent. But I have an enormous problem with the App Store being the sole means of installing software. Especially since it's curated in step with Apple's puritanical corporate moralism.

How many stories have we seen about social networking apps being suspended from the app store because it's possible to view nude images? That's not really any concern of Apple's. How about when they started kicking out apps for controlling vaping devices? I detest people smoking/vaping around me as much as anyone, but I don't think Apple should be able to wield their vendor lock-in inflict their views on others.

This isn't even about markets or Apple choosing what they want to sell or other fluff. Apple has made themselves the gatekeeper of an expensive device tightly integrated into peoples' day-to-day lives, and is actively abusing that position to control individuals and profiteer egregiously by controlling what software is allowed in. It's as if the company that made your car blocked you from listening to metal or rap inside it, and took 30% of the cost of every gallon of fuel.
> "Designing Data-Intensive Applications” by Martin Kleppman:
https://dataintensive.net/
https://g.co/kgs/xJ73FS
Listening to Beethoven before a test is also known to induce a small cognitive gain for 15 minutes after listening.
Thank you! I was thinking that the site should offer a simple list as an option.

Ironically, in the strict (and best) sense of the notion "user interface" (i.e. being an effective, efficient, easy conveyance of information to/from computer and user), yours is better than the fancy site.
It's more fair to say that F# originated as a heavily OCaml-influenced Caml implementation. It was originally called Caml.net [1], after all:

"The early conception of F# was simple: to bring the benefits of OCaml to .NET and .NET to OCaml: a marriage between strongly typed functional programming and .NET. Here 'OCaml' meant both the core of the language itself, and the pragmatic approach to strongly-typed functional programming it represented. The initial task was relatively well-defined: the author would re-implement the core of the OCaml language and a portion of its base library to target the .NET Common Language Runtime. The implementation would be fresh, i.e. not using any of the OCaml codebase, for legal clarity. The first lines of the F# implementation were written in December 2001, a front-end for a re-implementation of the core Caml syntax targeting ILX as a back end, and thus to .NET. The initial compiler was written using OCaml."

The initial version of F# was very much OCaml without functorial modules or object extensions.

[1] https://fsharp.org/history/hopl-draft-1.pdf
Yes, of course — that's not the point. The quantities absorbed by using hand sanitizer normally are pretty small. Abnormal use is higher risk.
Common Lisp doesn’t just have LOOP, it also has Series [1]. I think the actual philosophical difference may be that Haskell does this with compiler support for stream function composition, whereas Common Lisp does it with a set of language-level macros any user could write (if they were as smart as Richard Waters).

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node347.html
There is a strange... kind of poetry with Haskell. It is like math on wheels, math applied to procedures, math with... time.

Its appeal to me is like the appeal of math to me, not like real analysis math but abstract algebra math. The beauty, the purity of mathematics of younger days that once became lost after encountering the sad complexities of the world. Understanding every little aspect and being able to prove every part is now a luxury, and interfacing without real understanding is the more practical approach in the turbulent waters of poorly connected technological and social systems.

But still there is hope and there are dreams. We like to drench ourselves in dream qualia sometimes, and Haskell and pure math are that medium. The abstractions of it, the consistency of it, the purity of it... When Haskell is called a pure language, it almost goes beyond the static definition of functions being pure, and describes the general feeling that occurs when writing Haskell. You feel pure. You feel like you are taking these small parts and creating greater parts in an elegant buildup of abstractions, traversing one level higher and one level lower at your whim.

Lisp... maybe it’s the parentheses, maybe it’s something else... it never really caught onto me like Haskell did. Haskell feels pure and dream-like and perhaps unsuited to the world where (if you really get down to it) abstractions and types are just useful ‘human’ inventions and unfit for every usage. The world is for getting down and dirty, and mathematics, or at least the pure side of it, really isn’t. The representative mathematics of Haskell is Category Theory, and it is just as far from the level of “real” as it can be. More abstract than abstract algebra, if you will.

Abstraction itself is an intellectual operation that is also rooted in emotional detachment. Perhaps Haskell represents that kind of ideal in a modern world where practicality pays before purity.
I'll just add this to the long list of reasons I won't buy a Tesla. Don't put out misleading statistics about safety. It's unforgivable.
> My biggest concern when I read this—perhaps unnecessarily—is how do I know if the sanitizer dispenser at $random_grocery_store is safe? A lot of stores require that you use those upon entry (for perfectly well-intentioned reasons).

I haven't personally encountered a store where hand-sanitizer use is required, but I usually wear a pair of nitrile gloves anyway, so I guess this is another reason to continue to do that.
This is another fallacy as proven by the fact your comment, while downvoted, still exists. But even if it were true, I wouldn't know the reason and neither would you.
How often have you seen people pay their coffee (or something bigger like airtravel) with a Nintendo device?

Many governments around the world are relying on apps to address the pandemic: how many of those government apps are released for Tesla or Sony?

Do you still think the importance of those companies/brands you listed are the same as iOS devices?
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With respect, I don’t think that means what you think it means. We should work to remove ambiguity and threats to voting, not adding, and entrusting your ballot which is your most sacred right as an American citizen, to the Postal Service considering it’s history over the past 30 years, is far too dangerous for my taste.
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Thanks a lot, this is a link to hand to aspiring FP programmers for the content is well presented.

This one made me laugh out loud: "This is sometimes called parametric polymorphism. It’s also called having your cake and eating it too."
yeah $50 is still not a lot for the service you provide, if shneider electric, weework, ... are really your customer, you could probably 10x your price. You have to think on the value your bring to them instead of the the complexity of your service.

Actually for your product I would expect the price to be around $200 per month for a <300 people company

But the price has a big impact on what people expect from you, so if this is a side project, you may prefer keep it low
It's a phenomenon to be aware of, but it doesn't seem to be happening here. Democratic leaders have generally been in reasonably open favor of anti-China measures, even ones as controversial as the TikTok ban.
When I was first getting in web design (mainly for fun, but also a bit of profit), I read 'Don't Make Me Think'[1] it really helped me understand the difference between good and bad web usability design.

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[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability...

(Non-affiliate link. I'm just recommending a book I found helpful...)
How can you seriously argue that iPhones are "subsidized by AppStore profit", when one division pulls in 40%+ of Apple profits and the other barely 15% (and not even alone - appstore profits get added with iCloud and others under "Services" in Apple reports; realistically, it's probably 10% at best)...?

It's iPhones that subsidize everything else, including the AppStore. For all their talk of "going services", Apple is still first and foremost a hardware company.
> Nobody's willing to defend them? I think you mean you can't be bothered.

You are asking people to be bothered, when their own Western governments were asking them not to for the last 20 years.

These people got very well habituated to the injustice their own countries perpetuate.
Don't buy a new record player. I just bought a used Technics SL2000 for ~120€. Maybe you've heard of the Technics 1200, which is quite famous. The 2000 is a cheaper model in that series. It's from the late 70's, but unlike me it still works perfectly.

120€ is triple the cost of what OP paid, but you get a TT that's actually more than a gimmick. And you also get a far better product than what you could buy new at the same price.

There's a lot of audiophile insanity in this field, and trying to find actual concrete information about pickups and turntables is made difficult by the amount of nonsense you have to wade through. But I think the appeal of records and turntables, is something similar to retro computing. It's slow and impractical, and it can be expensive, but the act of putting on a record and listening to a whole album, is just a different experience that streaming cannot replicate.

Just don't go full hipster about it.
Ah, yes. I forgot that social engagement is a factor in prolonging cognitive function.
That tweet was a very typical Muskian joke, goading the supporters of what he sees as an obviously crazy conspiracy theory. (See "Tesla bankwupt" for a more developed version.) It's probably the best indication he doesn't have anything to do with anything in Bolivia.

Besides the fact that even proponents of the theory can't come up with any better connection than "one of his products uses lithium", of course.
> And then, Cass thinks, Republicans will face a choice: to return to a “pre-Trump” consensus, or to build a “post-Trump future” — one that, he hopes, will prevent more Trump-like politicians from rising.

There's also a third option: double down on Trumpism / Tea Party politics and voter suppression/manipulation. Even with the current crisis and Trump being essentially a proto-fascist, he has a 41% approval rating. More than many Western conservative or outright alt-right/fascist parties enjoy.
What democracy? The USA? You must be pulling my leg, no?

A "democracy" would somehow have policies that align with the needs of their constituents, and by "constituents" I'm not referring to the so called "elite".
Hi, I'm a modest weboob contributor, I will speak for myself here, not for the project.

While I think those slurs are a bad thing and I certainly do NOT share the political views of those who wrote them, I still contribute to the project occasionally.
Why? First, because I think the project is very useful (to me and to many users) and also because the more people a project has, the more divergent opinions. You can't agree with everybody. Not every contributor agrees with the views of random other contributors.

Yes, I do think it's sad some of the contributors expressed their (despicable, IMHO) opinions in the code. But at least, it occurred rarely over the history of the project (the project exists since 10 years now), and it's mostly in very few of the site-backends, not in the base library. Also, the contributors who did this are a very small fraction of all contributors.
> Jakob’s Law

I have a problem with that law.

EDIT: TL;DR/Clarification: What matters is what users believe as "intuitive and easily usable" which is not implied by something being familiar nor by what most other sites or apps do.

People don't want your site to work like other sites at all.

They want your site to work "intuitive and easily usable" for them.

As such they only want your site to behave like other sites if what they perceive as "intuitive and easily usable" was coined bye such "other" sites.

But in reality what user perceive as "intuitive and easily usable" is often largely coined bey the UX patterns around which they "learned" to use tech initially.

Which means what is "intuitive and easily usable" is often displaced in time and depending on your audience might MAJORLY differ from what most other sites you can find today in the internet do!!

A good example is sourcehut (e.g. look at `https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc`).

It's visually completely different from what most other github like sites do and probably for some people it might look bad.

But for their target audience it's supper appealing as it appeals to what that audience originally learned to be "intuitive and easily usable".

So I would strongly argue that Jakob’s Law is a harmful over simplification of the actual effect which might be ok for some target audiences but literally might brake your business if applied blindly.
It goes both ways.

There have been times that the control plane blew up in one zone of one cloud provider.

I had a least-complexity system which lived in that zone so it kept functioning as if nothing happened.

Other people panicked or had their automation freak out for them, they tried to restore their multi-AZ systems, overloading the control plane for the whole region.

It's a stressful experience if you feel you can't do anything about it, and sooner or later you will feel it with cloud computing: periods of 8-12 hours where your environment is FUBAR and you are best having some faith they will stitch it back together and walk away from it for a while.