skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Successful SaaS companies are always testing their pricing
If we were to do a poll you're probably right. The majority of HN is left leaning. Personally I don't want to defund the police (especially since i'm not from the US which would make my opinion invalid.) I'm going to make an assumtion and tell me if I'm right. You have been on Twitter for at least 2 hours in the last week. Is this the case? let me know if possible.
Unix pipes don't do stream fusion, which is the optimisation to which he was referring.
Small nit, but TEATEB isn't hypergolic, it's pyrophoric.

Hypergolic indicates when when two propellants (a fuel and an oxidizer) come in contact with each other, they ignite spontaneously.

Pyrophoric indicates that the fuel ignites when it contacts air (no oxidizer needed in a normal Earth atmosphere).
Downvoters: Rogozin is a head of Roskosmos, and this event shows just how much he failed to develop Russian space program . Fuck this fat asshole . Apologies to everyone offended .
> create divisive content

I'll quote a paragraph of http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

> We have such labels today, of course, quite a lot of them, from the all-purpose "inappropriate" to the dreaded "divisive." In any period, it should be easy to figure out what such labels are, simply by looking at what people call ideas they disagree with besides untrue. When a politician says his opponent is mistaken, that's a straightforward criticism, but when he attacks a statement as "divisive" or "racially insensitive" instead of arguing that it's false, we should start paying attention.

The most interesting part is that the content that was classified as "divisive" when that essay was wrote is not the same that is classified as "divisive" now.
Case against OOP is understated, not overstated
I love the design on this site.
How would a vote 4 years ago invalidate the very real and observable means of voter suppression we see today?
Our [1] UX/UI design service with a monthly retainer had similar results when raising prices for new customers (old ones are locked in at previous rates). same conversation rates, more revenue, zero complaints, bigger customers. Big difference is that we charge $xxxx/mo. So raising our 4-figure prices resulted in a huge revenue increase. We’re probably going to double prices in a few weeks to see what happens.

[1] https://fairpixels.pro
You mean like the CDC publishing a statement that they are considering the likelihood of surface transmission 'low', in the same time that there were no new studies to support a change, they cited no research or reasoning, but we had multiple independent government sources contemporaneously complain that their monitoring efforts were being interfered with to downplay the seriousness of the outbreak?

I somehow failed to take that statement to heart.

There have been repeated claims that we haven't detected surface transmission - but ruling out fomite transmission in a droplet-transmitted disease such as this is a joke. The best you can do is rule out fomite transmission after long periods of time. Which is fine for something like "do I have to worry about my amazon package's contents, which hasn't been touched by human hands in at least 24 hours?" but not in a scenario like the OP's, where a high traffic area like a store means you can have surface contact within minutes of contamination.

The most conservative papers I've seen regarding surface transmission consider the safe period 'after a couple of hours', which is not the threat model of OP's post.
Democrats like to play nice ("by the rules"), Republicans (and Trump in particular) do not.

As a consequence, it'll take a lot more than one term to undo everything that Trump has done in one term, and the way things were before Trump wasn't really peachy either.

One Trump term is going to require at least a decade to undo, and that's if it remains at just one term. Now add climate change on top of that and the future looks pretty grim.
"Straw man"? This is a top comment in a previous thread:

As a consumer, I am 100% in favor of the way run the app store. I don't want to give random apps my credit card. I don't want to have 18 accounts to keep track of. I don't want to have to call telephone support to cancel my account. I don't want malware in my apps. I don't want apps to have my email if they don't need it. I don't need another middleman for content companies license and distribute. Everything Apple is doing is helping make a better app store for me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24013658

I can add that he also doesn't want Chinese dissidents to run Signal or XMPP app to bypass wiretapping by the oppressive government.
And "too much" is measured in a relatively small parts per million.
I'd say that the author missed the chance to add sales copy and/or message the trial users with "Our prices are going up on [date], act now to lock in this rate!"

It seems like you could squeeze at least a temporary bump in conversions out of that.
Found the short summaries sufficient for everything except Law of Prägnanz, which I can't see how to apply. Much preferred the name+blurb style over a bigger description.
It's well-known that the real money in apps is in iOS, which dominates the top-end of the market. The AppStore makes much more profit than the Play Store despite being on 1 device for every 4 Android ones. In that situation, if you have no access to the most lucrative audience, it makes sense not to invest into apps at all.

It's also not trivial to install Android apps outside the Play Store, for non-geeks.
Consider, for example, how oversized loads on highways are frequently escorted by police (dependent on local laws).

This seems less common recently. Those giant tubes that I assume are the bottom section of wind masts are all over the road recently, and I never see any police. Someone ought to write some tickets on the people who are afraid to pass with a 7.5' car in a 12'-wide lane when a load is hanging 1' over the lane, 7.5' off the ground...
Slashdot: Is Work Easier for 'Digital Nomads'?
Yes, that was my point. The 2016 election was roughly evenly split on the popular vote, with a slight advantage to the democrats. Meanwhile the media believed that the democrats a >90% chance of winning.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?gbv=1&tbm=nws&q=%22governmen...

Seems like it's there.
BangleJS open source smartwatches – experience of usage
I think `&` is this function. In Data.Function.
Covid-19 research: Anti-viral strategy with double effect
I don't really think ReasonML provides much value, and would personally stay away from it.
darksky.net the web site still works on Android
It borrows from both Swiss style and constructivism.
As an phone user, I don’t care about your app being available or not - there are three other alternatives and they all at equally good. I’m pretty sure the same situation holds for Android.

All your arguments apply equally to the US federal income tax. Try to sue the government on that and see where you end up. We all hate taxes as much as the next guy. Picking a stupid fight instead of focussing on your product will be detrimental to you and you will lose users. Just because you are part of a loud crowd doesn’t make you right or have the moral high ground.
It absolutely does force you to wait though. If I click Learn More, then try pressing the PREV or NEXT buttons at the top, they do not respond to user input until the CSS animation is finished. I'm fairly certain this is exactly what rule #2 is talking about, trying to quickly go to the end or front of the list this way is extremely frustrating.

CSS transitions can be fine, but they shouldn't block user input or force the user to wait until they finish before moving on.

For this particular instance it might not matter a ton that they broke rule 2. But imagine if this was a table of paginated data, having to wait up to an extra second each time you go to the next or previous page just so the data could animate in would be rage inducing after a long period of time.
I don't follow you.

Sunken costs fallacy would apply if someone said "well, I spent so much time learning it, I might as well keep using it even though the environment is so hostile."

So, that's exactly the path I'm not taking. I'm disregarding any sunken costs. The sunken costs fallacy applies to those who would cling on to a path, not those who leave it.

But maybe you're using it from a different perspective.
I worry you haven't thought through the full implications of this stance. You're proposing a rule that some grocery stores are specifically white grocery stores and shouldn't sell my culture's food; I can't think of many things that would make me feel more excluded.
This is a risk of volunteerism in general. I think this is why you often see age gaps in organizations. You have a lot of young people who can’t pace themselves, and 3/4 of those who decide to stick around are gone in 2 years. I suspect that it’s a small but not insignificant contribution to young people moving somewhere else and starting over. I just need a change of pace...

Someone just a couple years ago wrote up an opinion piece in which they asserted that the standard oath for volunteers should be “I promise not to burn out”.
> The capsule is not that dangerous

You have no idea what you are talking about.
This is a gross misrepresentation of the Antarctic treaty. The treaty effectively removed the relevance of any claim from any entity.
Do people here really think the Kindle is a mediocre product? This feels to me like another case of HN's 'no one will ever need Dropbox, you can just hook up the open-source libraries'.
Surprised to not see swappiness as a part of this guide.
Cat poops, cat buries poop with hind feet, cat gets picked up, cat hears a scary noise and digs back claws into your chest shoulders and head as it climbs over you to escape
The ground control explained that the problem was with Timeline app on Cmdr. Behnken's iPad. Somehow it was displaying wrong time point after disconnecting from wifi. Interim analysis suggested that the problem was related to bad cache and .. for some reason would be only addressed once landed. Apparently, this was due to mis-sync before switching wifi off. Meanwhile, the recommendation was to take the timeline snapshots from Cmdr. Hurley's iPad and AirDrop them over.

A funny moment was when ground control asked the astronauts to turn off wifi and switch to the Airplane mode. Shouldn't it be renamed to Spaceship mode? :)
> Consoles are single-purpose entertainment devices

How do we determine what is single-purpose and what isn't? Consoles have been used as everything from media servers (such as XBMC-turned-Kodi) to supercomputers (such as the Condor Cluster for the US Air Force). I'm certain there are more non-standard uses I haven't heard of, too.

There are dozens of choices for open smartphones in the market, just like there are multiple choices for open gaming solutions. However, only one choice runs iOS - just like only one choice runs the Playstation's OS.

I whole-heartedly agree that iPhones should be more open, I'm just curious why you're so quick to dismiss easier access to all consoles.
When the execs in a company that cuts its ads spending makes that decision,

Do they say to each other: "let's pretend we're doing this for a good cause and that it's not just to save money. Let's say this: ... to the public and our customers"

Or do they tend to keep pretending, also when talking with each other in private meetings?
The site is completely broken on my mobile.

Paulie law: make a website you would like to use

The other 25 are irrelevant
> I would have thought the opposite. More senior people, used to working independently, who have nice houses in the suburbs or exurbs like ditching the commute in many cases and don't care about the office socializing. People in their 20s, in many cases, really miss being with their "team" in the office.

Good point.

Most of that type of younger folks are dead weight anyway, imo, and my comment was related to the nature of high-performing, disruptive companies moving forward.

Maybe a clearer way of saying that is that I think a disproportionate percentage of the people who flock to high-performing remote workplace environments will be younger in general.

I definitely have seen an anecdotal correlation between age and effective use of typical WFH media. 60+ typically struggles, 50-60 slightly less. 40-50 seems to be natural if they are tech-oriented people, but closer to 50-60 if not. 30-40 (millennials) mostly get it. Folks in their teens and 20s seem to thrive in it more often than not.

Thanks for the comment. It will be interesting to see how the workplace ecology develops.
I remember a RadioLab podcast episode related to this.
Edited to take into account the laws of UX:

LAWS OF UX

01. Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable.

02. Productivity soars when a computer and its users interact at a pace (<400ms) that ensures that neither has to wait on the other.

03. The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target.

04. The time it takes to make a decision increases with the number and complexity of choices.

05. Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.

06. Elements tend to be perceived into groups if they are sharing an area with a clearly defined boundary.

07. People will perceive and interpret ambiguous or complex images as the simplest form possible, because it is the interpretation that requires the least cognitive effort.

08. Objects that are near, or proximate to each other, tend to be grouped together.

09. The human eye tends to perceive similar elements in a design as a complete picture, shape, or group, even if those elements are separated.

10. Elements that are visually connected are perceived as more related than elements with no connection.

11. The average person can only keep 7 items in their working memory.

12. Among competing hypotheses that predict equally well, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.

13. For many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.

14. Any task will inflate until all of the available time is spent.

15. People judge an experience largely based on how they felt at its peak and at its end, rather than the total sum or average of every moment of the experience.

16. Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.

17. Users have a propensity to best remember the first and last items in a series.

18. For any system there is a certain amount of complexity which cannot be reduced.

19. When multiple similar objects are present, the one that differs from the rest is most likely to be remembered.

20. People remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks.
> I'd probably prefer 400ms of a static screen to 400ms of animation.

The alternative here is no visual response to a click at all. I'm not okay with that, and I seriously doubt you'd be okay with it in general. Most people aren't (this has been shown). A 400ms delay after button clicks and scrolling and other interactions is an indication that your input was not received, and it feels intolerable to people today. The 400ms standard here was set 40 years ago. Today software feels completely broken if it doesn't respond with something in under 100ms, and desktop browsers typically do something within 33ms.

> the author had complete control over how much information they wanted to show

That's irrelevant. The browser does respond to your page load request instantly, with a blank page and a spinner. It doesn't break the rule.

Again, you can criticize the choices with your own opinion at a subjective level, this doesn't mean the authors aren't following their own advice. It feels like you're looking for reasons to justify not liking the page. You're free to not like the page, I won't disagree with that. What I disagree with is the reason given.

> Sure, it doesn't break rule #2 specifically, but it does break #3.

It seems like you're moving on to misunderstanding rule #3. Scrolling and clicking does not apply to Fitts' Law.

EDIT: I said scrolling doesn't apply to Fitts' law, and I meant that specifically as a reponse to, and in the context of the suggestion being made here by the parent: scrolling to find a new unknown target plus acquiring a new target, plus moving to click on the new target.

Fitts' Law has been studied on scrolling alone, for example: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

Extending the law to include the number of interactions is going to be tautological in the sense that if number of manual interactions is your "distance" then of course more will take longer. Including targets that are unknown is just beyond the scope of what has been studied and shown, I'm saying it is not really in the spirit of Fitts' law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law
Fuck you and your shitty title, NY times. Congrats NASA & SpaceX and everyone else involved.
The Problem of Preference Falsification in Online Dating
On number 4, if all you need to do is go in one day per week, wouldn’t the radius increase to how far you can get in a roughly two hour flight? This opens up Seattle, Boise, Salt Lake, Las Vegas, Phoenix, LA, San Diego...
Pretty impressive. And by that I mean boring return to earth, which is impressive in that it is made to seem so "easy."

Yes. Can we cancel the NASA Space Launch System now?
11.30 out up at 6 csharp
It's a tough problem.

Imagine going out to a bar and some nazi walks in and starts screaming about this or that group that they hate. At the top of his lungs.

Most places would kick his ass right out.

Those that didn't, the customers would probably leave.

Social media is a bit more complex than all that, but in some cases, it really is like that bar where the guy stays, and invites his buddies, and no one normal wants to go there.
You know why this is better than your name brand Open Source license? Because this forces people to be closer to their software, to share in the learning of using Open Source software. What good is MIT to give somebody the right to MISUSE my software on somebody? Because they can make a buck? My license prevents abuse directly, and automatically. You can't use this spell on somebody else.
Who are the enemies of Russia? (2017)
ExtraTerm – Slice and dice command output like a text editor
>On the plus side

I didn't see where you had mentioned a negative side here. I can't think of one. And congrats on the dinner!
We are talking about porn. Do you know the lengths that people will go to see it? That would be a killer app. Heck Pornhub could sell a custom Android device just for that one killer product. Anyone who has a modicum of capital can get a run of customized AOSP based devices to resell.
> What baffles me about people attacking Apple is that they basically saying this: You first had to choose an Apple product with its restrictions over all other available devices.

not necessarily - I don't have an iPhone right now and I'd still attack Apple on that. Negating me this right would be the same that saying that as a french I couldn't go to protests against Guantanamo.
Workdays:

9:00 - first alarm goes off

10:00 - hopefully awake now, open laptop to appear online, shower

10:30 - try to eat something light

11:30 - first standup for 30+ minutes

2:00 - lunch

4:30 - second standup for another 30+ minutes, this meeting has lasted for 3 hours though

5:30-6 - keep laptop open to appear online but work has stopped

6 - watch youtube, read articles, play a game

7 - dinner

7:30 - games, exercise, leetcode, mock interviews, cleaning, whatever... lately mostly gaming but trying to get on that leetcode+exercise+mock interview train

1:00 - realize it's far too late and get ready for bed

2-3 - finally fall asleep in bed watching various videos because I can't fall asleep easily while under stress
Free Market Capitalism vs. Socialism
Against Time Inequality: A Framework for Progress
Yeah. I've been strongly thinking it's time to sell my house in the peninsula.
Being judgmental about the UX is fair in this case since it is a site about UX.

Quite frankly, it has a terrible UX. It took me three visits to understand what you meant by access to the explanation. I could only find a bunch of uninformative slides and a blurb promoting a book on the first visit two visits. On visit number three, I found the explanations.

Why?

I originally interpreted the scrolling indicator as an advance to next slide button. When I clicked on the button it presented the new slide and the advance button disappeared, so I further explored the site by clicking on the learn more button. That presented another uninformative slide so I ignored the advance button. After all, why would I want to repeat an action that failed to produce the desired result the last time I did it? Noticing the next link, I clicked on that in hopes that it would produce a more desirable result. Unfortunately, it produced the same sort of result as the advance button. At that point, I just gave up and clicked on the Info button and saw the blurb promoting the book. I tried clicking on the links to the left, saw the uninformative slides, and concluded that it was a gawd awful promotion for a book that included nothing but chapter headings.

Those were my first two visits. On visit three, convinced that there must be something more, I actually tried the advance button on the right slide and discovered that it was a scroll indicator. By that point, I was already so frustrated with the experience that I just gave up on the site without seeing what the creator had to say.

As for the graphics style, sure it's great. On the other hand, taking the minimalist presentation too far produced a site that was more difficult to interpret.

Edit: trying to keep terminology consistent as my understanding of the site evolved.
So, I just spent 2 hours checking this (tracy) out and I must say I am impressed. Here's a good video [1] from two years ago that shows its capabilities, and it's had 5 releases since then (check his YouTube channel for more recent vids of new features added).
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB5B46lbapc

ps I once had a different username, but don't login often and forgot my pwd (with no email addr on file) :( I've been on HN for years. Not affiliated in any way with the tracy project or its author.
Thanks, I never made the connection between the plumbum(lead is called plumb in my native language) and plumbing. Anyway to confirm this I done some searching and yes, romans)and others) had plumbing and running water and used lead pipes too(though the lead in wine gives you much more poisoning where pipes are toxic only in certain circumstances)

https://www.quora.com/Did-Roman-Byzantine-plumbing-extend-to...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_lead_pipe_inscription
Whatever you want to label it, surely I'm not the only one who has observed that the best way to get an article shared on social media is to amp up how controversial it is. Then people who agree share it to agree with it, and people who are enraged by it share it because they are enraged by it.

Whether you want to call this “divisive content” (which definition fits it pretty neatly, in spite of PG's good essay) or “scissor statements” or something else is up to you, but it's a real phenomenon.
I see, hard to believe it was not just a PR and budget move then.
I'm fairly certain this process will be entirely automated by QB in the next 5 - 10 years, QB Cloud almost already is, paying a nominal fee for that software is well worth not having to do it oneself. I think you will find there's a limited market for such technology in a mature market.
a comment just a bit below yours is (unironically, sadly) :

> I'm very happy in my locked platform, I'm happy that my family are on a locked platform.

> If they (or I) want to be on a more open platform then that exists, just not for apple devcies; but for now I trust random developers less than I trust Apple.
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