skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came here to echo this since Firefox Focus is my main browser on iOS. When I turn off protection, it shows a hamburger menu and some sliding menus. I still don’t see any content (except for a heading).
It's not actually my site. I just guest posted there. But try refreshing and see if it helps.
They want to establish a steady income for a stable and feature complete tool. They want to fund a bunch of developers to maintain the features customers enjoy, or catch up with breaking Windows changes they should be paid to fix anyway, as reasons why subscriptions cost the price they charge.
FYI, URL routing is broken on that site: if you navigate to /free-themes directly (such as following a link), you end up at /, and can only access the right page by clicking the link in the navigation in a JS-enabled browser.
Yes, exactly. I use 3ds Max occasionally and there's no other piece of software I've ever used that crashes so often. Every time I perform an action that I haven't tried before, I fully expect the program to crash and then I'll have to spend a few hours searching for workarounds. Working with large models or scenes takes so long to reload that every crash represents around 10 minutes of lost time, and I've easily had twenty - thirty crashes on a bad day.
it never really worked though.
for animated stuff I had good results with setting mpv as background. though yours looks like it uses even less CPU, super nice :) will work wonders with https://1041uuu.tumblr.com stuff !

... or at least it would, if I was seeing my desktop background once in a while
...if you're carrying a satellite dish with you?
Estimating Superspreading of SARS-CoV-2 in the USA from COVID Statistics
> I'm still confused about how this could have happened. Did anybody ever ask how his work was going? Did he just lie and say it was great?

Yes and yes. I suppose he also lied to get his previous job as a 'programmer', or made the whole thing up.

> Did the person have a manager? Shouldn't the two of them have set some kind of goals and milestones for their first project?

He'd been given time to 'get comfortable' and familiar with the codebase, and was left with some really minor tasks. I think management just forgot to check in with him after a week or so, and everyone else around assumed he was busy working on something. Quite a few freelancers in the department who sort of just did their own thing.

> It seems like there must have been some serious culture/management problems at this company.

Maybe. I remember that particular time being really busy because of some big feature that was about to be deployed and, as I mentioned, it was quite common for freelancers to come and go and work on things that didn't really involve the rest of the team.

I think it wasn't really a serious culture/management problem, but more a consequence of the fact that he came from another department after someone discovered that he was a 'programmer', bypassing the usual process.

When I started at this company I got some time to get comfortable too, but I was hired to work on something specific, so the manager in charge of that came up to me pretty soon.
No. Read it carefully;

- Golden Rule: treat others in the way you would like to be treated

- Silver Rule: don't treat others in a way you would not like to be treated.

The difference is subtle, but important.
I don't know if I can smell folks who don't use soap, but I can tell which of my friends like to wear clothes multiple times before washing them. Body oils oxidize, and that makes them smell. It's not a typical 'BO' smell like onions or cumin. It's just a musty, off putting odor that doesn't smell clean.

I've gone years without using soap to wash my face and it worked fairly well. I don't know if I'd try it with the rest of my body though. BO is a funny thing. It varies with climate, clothing, hormones, diet, etc. It isn't just one smell. I have no doubt that you can avoid many components of BO by showering only with water every day, but I don't know if you can avoid all BO that way.
Show HN: I built a fast PDF email scraper with C++
Fitts's law taken to the extreme.
I sincerely hope the creators avoid falling into the VC honey pot. At their current scale they're on pace to build a sustainable business around the core open source library. Growing beyond their UI component library toward an open marketplace (a la Noun Project) should be easily doable in the low 7-figure revenue range.
They are in the database and need to be added as users the regular way. It's just 'marking' them as superadmins that is done through a config file.
The name always just sounds like some kinda "steriods" :/
Good point in the difference between a software engineering (SE) team and engineers within a ship.

I've worked as a software engineer myself and indeed SE's usually have a clear view on helping shape the product. Though, depending on how big the org is, engineers may not have much of an influence on the vision (why a product gets made for the user).

So yes it depends. I could certainly highlight where the analogy doesn't work (though at the moment of writing it felt I'd take away from the main point).

Cheers!
Depends on the firm, but it's definitely used. Specifically Rhino/Grasshopper get used a lot for concept, schematic design, and then Revit gets used for design development and onward, especially at companies that work a lot with complex geometry (Zaha, SHoP).
most of those are pre satya. i think his biggest acquisition has been linkedin. which has mostly been left alone. and github
Looks nice, I would just make animations faster.
It's almost like there should be some national security agency whose sole purpose would be to uncover this kind of activity and help those impacted. I wonder what I'd call it?
Are you aware what sort of businesses Global Foundries, TSMC, and even the fabs of Samsung and TI are? Every part of the process has its own engineers. Some of them design the chip. Some of them design the fab. Some design the equipment in the fab. Some tweak the settings. All are willing, or should be, to take feedback on possible improvements and do small test runs between large batches. Anything that raises yields is a welcome improvement if it works.
I can't speak for Revit but people are looking to switch to Blender from 3dsMax.

The problem is not that Blender can't do what 3ds can but it lacks industry standard tooling compatibility.

But still a lot of people in the industry are starting the switch to Blender. So change is coming.
So many config failures!

As an aside -- do you know of any good forensics / incident response books/resources for learning the fundamentals?

Seen some books/courses but they're often the "download this open source library and run these commands" ilk.

Spotted this, but no reviews:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/183864900X/
That doesn't really have any impact on the situation being discussed, though. Criminals are still more than happy to accept bitcoin.
You talk about large models or scenes; I'm under the impression that in the film industry, they'd have workstations with hundreds GBs of RAM and double graphics.

I'm just wondering, could the issue lie in 3ds Max being optimized for a different beast of a machine..?
The co-author summarizes the method in Twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/gravity_levity/status/129008970071631462...

The title of the paper ("Superspreading of SARS-CoV-2 in the USA") was slightly edited to better describe the content of the paper.
Wow, a huge success from Tailwind UI project. I would never imagine that Tailwind UI could bring in so much revenue. I think Tailwind CSS is a niche CSS framework that's why I am working on project similar to Tailwind UI. More competition is good for customers. Still invite only tho.
Exactly, this is the main reason you don't see a lot of successful start-ups tackling problems for architects. Most end up pivoting to real-estate development.
does anyone know if all the music on tiktok is properly following copyright law etc? and will microsoft be in the hook for removing all this content with dmca?
This gets very apparent when you take a peek at ruleset of many instances. For example my instance mastodon.technology just added a rule:

* No unsolicited advice to strangers.

when someone asked what's wrong with recommending alternative software to people who complain about software the reply was:

> sometimes people just want to scream into the void

Which summarizes this micro-blog screamverse perfectly. The fact that this sort of behavior is _encouraged_ is actually quite disgusting in my honest opinion.

I've never used much Twitter but to me it already seems that Mastodon is just as toxic as Twitter and it seems to be by design.
I wish I were a farmer.
$100k in revenue is a lot less than $100k in gross salary (let alone net) - probably more like $65k/year which is less than you can earn as a developer as an employee or freelancer (depending on where you are of course, but even here in Berlin you'd earn more than that and in US tech hubs you could earn 3x what you'd earn for the same job in Berlin).

If they are really senior & in a US tech hubs total comp from a FAANG could be almost 10x that.
In the theory you might be right, but any company with a defined budget will simply ask for timelines and see it nicely displayed (often as gantt). Why do you think most Product Manager still use excel? Simply: Management wants this and you are not the boss... just my experience.
You got very good marks.
As opposed to what? It being “really there” ?
The stats are being misrepresented horribly - for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS5Gfbu0lWQ
neongreen, you should really test how it works on Firefox. For example sing in with Github bricked (pun intended ;) ) my tab with your site, even refresh button and address bar stopped working. I had to close it and open again to see the dashboard.

Steps:

- click on "get started"

- I choose option to sing in with google.

- it opens google api in separate modal window and this does not work if you have Firefox extension to keep google in container

- so I clicked github option, and authorized your app

- after that, brick.do page has been frozen completely
They deserved it, and I'm pleased with their results.

When I started my paid online editor for Tailwind CSS ( https://tailwind.build ) in November 2019, and someone posted a link to my Show HN on Discord, Adam replied:

"bums me out when other people get stuff released using my tools before me because i have to invest so much time into building the actual OSS its all built on :/"

And this ruined my happy launch day :)

When I read that they make much more money, I am again in an emotionally neutral state ;)

Congratulations!
I would add that the Golden Rule is more on a personal (one on one) level. For that I agree it is universal. For one vs a population / a community vs an individual it may not apply.
As an structural engineer and former Autodesk user, I completely agree with the letter. I always saw Autodesk as a company where software goes to die a slowly painful death.

It started with Autodesk Structural Detaling. They bought the software from a small company, renamed the product... and that was it. It had the same bugs release after release... we as customers tried our best to report the bugs, but nobody listened.

We stopped using ASD and moved to Graitec Advance Steel and Advance Concrete, for a couple of years everything was great, quick support, remote sessions in case you struggled with something, new features, bugs fixed... and then... Autodesk bought it. I still remember the morning when I read the news... I was horrified. I remember talking with some guys at Graitec and they were shocked also.

After this... was Autodesk Structural Detailing story all over again. Just a product rename... and that was it. No more bug fixing.. no more new features.. they killed Advance Concrete in favor of Revit (which is one of the dumbest thing ever... because Revit was years behind Advance Concrete as a concrete detailing sw).

For concrete detailing we switched to Allplan. I think Allplan and Graphisoft's Arhicad have a bright future together.
Blender has had actually a revamp of the UX exactly because of this sentiment... Might be worth trying again..?
CAD software is hard. That's why it is expensive and has lots of bugs. It is super easy to make something that is 5% or so of a CAD program that will look impressive, will be super fast and feels like a huge improvement.

And then you add the other 95%. By that time it will be just as slow as the incumbent, even more buggy and the interface will look like crap and will be hard to learn.

As the author of a CAD/CAM package I remember clearly that the only way to stay out of that trap was to make it a niche thing. Of which there are 1000's none of them interoperable with the rest.
> They want to fund a bunch of developers to maintain the features customers enjoy or catch up with breaking Windows changes they should be paid to fix anyway

That's what $$$ upgrades are for. No need for a subscription if I'm happy without the new features and happy using it on an old OS. I'm happy to pay for new features I might actually use. I'm happy to pay for upgrades for a new OS. As an example though, I used to get by upgrading Adobe Photoshop at most about once every 4 years at a cost of about $200 or $50 a year. Now they extract out of me $480 ($120 a year) for features I don't actually use. In fact I'm pretty sure I use zero features past CS2 (2003) and like I said was fine paying them $200 every 4 years for the OS upgrades but now I just feel taken advantage off.

Unfortunately yes, I've tried the alternatives and PS is still the best by many measures so I'm stuck paying for nothing but permission to use the software.
Here's the straightforward plaintext version:

1. UI > UX.

2. Respond in less than 400 ms.

3. Make buttons clickable.

4. Make it simpler.

5. Copy functionality and UX off other sites.

6. Draw borders around similar functionality.

7. Simpler imagery is better.

8. Users think objects next to each other do similar things.

9. Similar items close together look like one big thing.

10. Things that look the same (color, font, etc) will look like they do the same thing.

11. The average person can remember 5-9 things at once.

12. Remove all unnecessary elements.

13. Focus on the 20% that does 80% of things.

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

15. People judge the experience by its beginning and end.

16. Be tolerant to whatever actions the user may take.

17. People remember the first and last items in a series.

18. You can't reduce all the complexity.

19. When one thing stands out from others in a group, it will be remembered.

20. People remember incomplete tasks, i.e. use progress bars.

4 and 12 are identical. 14 has nothing to do with UX or UI. 15, 11, and 17 are the same. 18 is an excuse masquerading as a Law. From 11-18, it feels a lot of these are pulled in from some Tim Ferriss book or some generic self-help Seven Secrets of Highly Influential People. Perhaps it believes its 15th and 17th law so much that it thinks it can hide fluff in the middle of the list.

It establishes credibility with a lawsofux.com domain them then proceeds to wreck it by violating its 7th law. It does solidly prove its first law, that if you have a pretty enough site, everyone will believe it.
How to Start a Tech Startup?
Well I only invoked the quote as a response to universalism, not necessarily as a reference to Nietzsche’s ideas in general.

But sure, I don’t agree with him on everything, and while I think his diagnosis of Christianity is in many ways correct, it also is flawed in others. Of course we have to differentiate between what Nietzsche actually wrote and what the popular culture notion of his ideas is.

Otherwise, I don’t think I’d agree that his high expectations come from a Freudian read of his childhood. For the most part they are pre-Socratic Ancient Greek cultural values, especially agon, which was a sort of competition.
They've already employed a few people
I personally use Feedly as my RSS reader and I followed my blog to see how many followers I get. Currently, I have 367 Feedly subscribers and it still continues to grow. Also, looking at my analytics, I can see people coming in from Feedly, so it shows that they are definitely active subs[0].

[0] https://feedly.com/i/subscription/feed%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fmicha...
Tech as in technology is literally anything that makes a task easier...

If you're working on something that makes a task easier, congratulations you're working in tech!
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This sounds crazy, but /r/sino on reddit is pretty much as close as you'll get to mainstream Chinese political thought in English. There's a very good chance many of the people there are legitimate shills for the government, but I mean, those are the state-sponsored and permitted opinions that they're presenting. People going against the grain either don't talk or get silenced.

From an American perspective, the stuff said there is absolutely bizarre and contradictory to virtually every talking point you'll hear from everybody else, but it aligns very closely with what people I know who live in China/still have strong ties to China say. Expect lots of cherry picked data and extreme reaching just to prove a point. Though to be frank, that's politics everywhere.

If you're frequently caught up in American/European politics, a few minutes of reading discussions there might frustrate you, but it'll also make you think because the viewpoints are so contrary to what most Westerners regard as the norm.
Middle class people can still be part of the oppressed ,and them being able to get money out or use it to fund resistance or activism is a good outcome.
Nutters. Perfect support for a sociopathic narcicist like Trump who can never do any wrong (in his mind).
Side Note: I'm not an UX Expert and won't comment, my sites usually looks like Xmass trees !

What IS interesting is how many times this site(https://lawsofux.com/) has been submitted and not received ANY comments and now about the 10th time it got submitted, it has 226 comments :) ? lol HackerNews can be so weird at times.
Being an "early adopter" when it comes to non-essential medicine is not too smart either.

Referring to IQ as a stand-in for intelligence is yet another blind alley.
> By 2006, Apple had transitioned away from IBM’s processor designs.

Wasn’t the initial PowerPC architecture and designs done by Apple, IBM and Motorola, with Motorola and IBM also working the fabs for processors used by Apple during that time (before the switch to Intel)? When did Apple stop being involved in the design of specific processors used in its systems?
Wordstar was genuinely good. It is a strange accident of history that WordPerfect and lotus and Microsoft supplanted it so easily.
I think this is a different approach to FHE that concedes to timing based side channels to get this speedup.
lol - the recording and reporting of stats is all over the place with many in the media slanting things because fear sells.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS5Gfbu0lWQ

Sweden didn't kill their economy and they didn't all die either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-YkFyH701Q

At this point it's more about fear and power than "science!" :p
Have just edited the link for now. It seems that adding a closing '/' seems to fix the issue. But will look into the cause on the site.

Thanks for the heads up!
Yes that's what I meant (not sure why you were down-voted).

Banning banks from doing business with bitcoin exchanges is not banning bitcoin. Banning use of bitcoin entirely is legally plausible, but technically impossible to implement without draconian internet censorship on the scale of China. It's a 100x harder to ban bitcoin than, say, bittorrent, and banning that in a free society ended up not being possible.
Countries without functioning currencies just use (or at least peg) all transactions to Dollar/Euro, etc

Yes, bitcoin can play a role but it's not like you're paying for your groceries in bitcoin. Cash under the mattress > blockchain
Yes, which of course re-inforces their position. Note that it was acquired and then tied hand-and-feet to the whole suite. Essentially, if you want 100% interop you're going to have to buy in to the whole eco-system. This is the crux of the anti-trust angle but I don't see what remedy they will want to make things better. Complaining is easy. Short of breaking up Autodesk it will remain the way it is and that is something that the EU will not be able to effect anyway since Autodesk is an American company.

Most people in the industry see it as the equivalent of the Microsoft tax: it's a license to do business.
A couple of years ago slack used synchronous requests to fetch the history when scrolling up on the main chat window. Page/browse freezing included. I think it even used a full CPU core spinning instead of blocking on IO.
Well, if your logical system defines "not P" as "assuming P, you can derive falsity", then "uncountable" precisely means "if you assume it is countable then you can derive falsity". That's exactly what the proof did. If you particularly care then you can just replace the final word "contradiction" with "QED"; it doesn't change the structure or content of the proof.
If anyone is interested, I wrote a python script to track where transactions from this address lead. It constructs a tree with this address being the base node, and addresses it has sent bitcoin to being the leaves.

https://github.com/lukabuz/BlockView

It didn't really lead anywhere substantial, but it was interesting to see how many addresses got involved after the depth of the tree exceeded 4.

As another commenter pointed out, some of these addresses have obscene amounts of money going through them. Really makes you think about the scale of these tumblers. 1NDyJtNTjmwk5xPNhjgAMu4HDHigtobu1s is an example, with about $108,081,555,724 having gone through it, and a current balance of $51,644,803
Love this example!

Fog of war is very applicable to product development. And a roadmap is never a 100% correct representation of course. One can strive.
One benefit that isn't often mentioned is better developer ergonomics. Styling with utility classes saves you from having to open a CSS and html document side by side (e.g. if you do layouts where it's helpful to see the html structure while writing css), which can make a huge difference if you also need a browser window for visual feedback.
What are the all cause mortality figures?

Howany dead bodies are there, and how did those people die if not from covid?
I am one such mathematician.
I feel like this is one of those places where open source probably doesn't work. Maybe it would require a change in culture.

I don't know CAD but in 3D software for movies/games most studios use expensive software (Maya, 3DSMax, Houdini, etc). The market for that software is relatively small and the effort to create and maintain it larger than many many other projects. So, the price is high. But, if they didn't make it hard to copy most companies would arguably not pay because they see it as a large expense. Especially for smaller companies if it was easy to copy and they could they would (and often do).

My point is getting that same money out of them instead for an open source solution (because the open source solution will require just as much income to maintain) is unlikely.

Blender is eeking by so maybe the tide is turning.
It already is illegal, actually. Evil Corp, for example, is a listed entity that US persons can't send money (including bitcoin) to.
Patreon as a Platform Is in Trouble
How do you explain such a high case rate and yet deaths are similar to other countries with far fewer cases?

The case rate is easy to manipulate with changes in testing rate. The death rate is hard to manipulate.
YouTube tracks you regardless, if I understand correctly. For instance, if you search on DuckDuckGo and there's a YouTube video in the results, you can play it right there. However, DuckDuckGo warns you that you'll be tracked.