skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable.

Figures that would be rule number one. Everywhere you go there are pretty UI's that are garbage, functionally.

Animation, transparent fading, no distracting scroll-bars or borders, wrapped around a 1-2-3 menu selection.

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

That is just nonsense. Productivity soars the faster the computer is. Ideally, the user should never waits for the computer; everything should be instant.

Whether the user waits for the computer is neither here nor there.

The ultimate computer-does-not-wait-for-the-user is to have the users prepare job specifications entirely outside of the computer and then submit them to a clerk at a job window. The computer never waits for a user because the job queue is busy from numerous users. It is not very good UI.

In an actual interactive UI, a needless delay could be caused by, for instance, collecting the necessary parameters for an operation through a cascade of multiple dialogs instead of batching them together. Though the computer waits more, too, that's irrelevant; the user's time is what was wasted.

I'm amazed anyone pretending to be a UI person would even feign being interested in how much time the machine spends waiting for the user.
SpaceX commentator: “I guess next time we shouldn’t publicize the landing coordinates...”
I can't install the apps I wish to install on my Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Tesla, VW etc.

Your argument that "every platform must allow open access" is an unprecedented one that would destroy many business models.

Consoles being an obvious one.
Honey, I Accidentally Became a Product Manager
The host hinted maybe they wouldn't announce it publicly next time either.
This is not the legal principal in the EU, where the case is raised.

Mere exclusive purchase would be a problem if Apple is defined as a monopoly, and you are forced to use Apple as your vendor to release on iOS.
I’m really trying to be respectful and being careful about the rabbit hole that this question could go down....

But by “porn” do you mean Playboy level nudity or more hard core?
Hehe same here but, the poster mentioned 2010 and total revenue. If it’s $100.000 in 1 year, then sure! That would probably have potential for growth as well. This didn’t read like that :)

A revenue of 100.000 spread over 2 years wouldn’t be enough to support me and my family. Living in a Western Europe country. I’d prefer freelancing (or a job) for income in that scenario, over making ends meet with a software product and battling off copycats and whatnot. It should grow month over month and if it stalls for a year+ at low revenue, that’s most likely bad and I’d kill it, considering it a mediocre success! Hope that makes sense :)
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How the Custom Ringtone Industry Paved the Way for the App Store Then Vanished
Great info, thanks
I can understand some random activists doing this. But Warren is a senate and former lawyer. Even she didn't want to go the legal route. It's pretty disappointing. Instead, she pulled a stunt with fake news facebook ads stuff.

> The problem is that the speech that these people want censored isn't illegal.

Please excuse my little legal knowledge. But I thought hate speech and fake news were illegal.
It depends on what you mean by a justice process, but there is one already. In the U.S. the right to free speech is pretty securely enshrined in law (knocks wood). There are definitely limits to the first amendment, but speaking very broadly, private institutions can do more to limit speech on their platforms, whereas the justice system's role is to protect speech. Taking it out of the hands of Facebook (et al.) probably would not get you what you're after.
The big difference is that Patreon/Memberful subscriptions are optional and not burdensome.
Imho the app store clearly hinders innovation.
In a recent project of ours (corona related) we had to wait over 1 month for Apple to approve our app - never knowing whether they would actually approve it. Google Play rejected it, saying it wouldn‘t allow any corona related apps from parties that are not government entities.
As a response we ported everything to a web based solution.
While I can understand their aim to keep scammers out (probably mainly to avoid PR issues) it was a real inhibitor to our legit project.
For future projects I will always build web first. With the app store/ google play you are at the whim of some person at the other end of a textarea.
Reading about how toxic thruster fuel is was a real eye opener for me, bunch of god damn idiots in those boats.

If I recall right the SR-71 used similar propellants to get the afterburners lit which made fueling... interesting.
Drunken Monkey Hypothesis
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24030654
That's what everyone thinks but I looked it up and it's mostly dog poop.
$1 is not enough to qualify for the extra content many of these services are offering.
> I'm sure you're about to get flagged, but you know ISIS is a decidedly right wing group, right?

The dividing line these days seems to be pro-western civilisation is right wing and anti-western civilisation is left wing.

So ISIS is far left.
Their lecture series was pretty good: https://www.callingbullshit.org/videos.html
Has the crew exited the module?
Sadly, it's being also produced on request, as "new material" to them has more resell value.
woops, that's a botched manual copy-pasta from the generated table here:

https://github.com/leeoniya/uPlot/blob/master/bench/table.md

i'll fix it soon.
> I don’t know what this means.

That means expanding these requirements to other departments will need sigificant political backing and will be very unpopular. I do view benefit funding requirements as necessary.

> politicians like to be able to pay current employees with future taxpayer money and advertise they are keeping taxes low now so they get elected

looks like you agree with me on that.

> Not letting USPS set it’s prices is what might make it non competitive with UPS/Fedex.

That is an entirely different discussion that would garner my interest.
Aha – Take On Me – but OpenAi Jukebox tries to complete the song
FYI cuda has that too, so they're probably talking about default behavior.
Some of them seem completely arbitrary. Others vaguely relate to the law involved - e.g. #6 where the circles share a common boundary.

I prefer the rules in my copy of Design Elements - A Graphic Style Manual. Its rule #2 make a comment that is apt here: communicate don't decorate.
> A lot of mathematicians would consider this a very limited view of the subject.

Maybe? A lot of mathematicians actually do describe it just like that.

In fact that's one of the most common ways the difference between mechanical arithmetic and research mathematics is described on forums like r/math. And a lot of posts on Math Overflow have precisely the flavor of defining things and then playing around with what consequences emerge.
I would agree if there were more post offices, but the USPS has been closing them over the last twenty years to cut costs. They serve wide geographic areas and it is easier to find a local credit union than a post office these days. The poor would be better served with Internet banking.
Apple actually goes out of it’s way to maintain compatibility with older devices much longer than most manufacturers. Even the ones that no longer get the most recent OS get security patches for some time after. Yes, it would be nice to have replaceable RAM and SSD in phones, but that would not benefit most users who would never replace anything. Making those things replaceable means they are bulkier and more complex to manufacture reliably. Apple seems to have made a trade-off there.
> Don't forget Tesla, Solar City, and Theranos.

What does Tesla have in common with Theranos, aside from starting with the letter 't'?
How about this: if Republicans were pushing voter ID laws plus a comprehensive plan to get IDs to every American who wishes to vote, I suspect no one would have any problem with such a proposal.

As it stands now, there are large groups of Americans for whom getting a photo ID is a non-trivial task. People without birth records, people who can’t take time off work to go to the DMV, people who don’t know that they go to the DMV to get an ID, people who live hours from the nearest DMV, so on and so forth.

Let’s make sure they all get a chance to vote. Any proposal that aims to do that, I believe, would not have the support of the Republican Party, because the Republican Party is uninterested in increasing voter turnout.
Agreed for PASemi and Android. They were hot, certainly they won in the short-mid term by being part of the bigger organizations. But by now, I think it severely limits their possible impact.

All the big app stores that are also part of another purchase (e.g. hardware in this case) will almost inevitably have monopoly problems (nobody can compete with Apple on speed of devices so Apple can raise the "prices" of apps). You are talking about the technical aspect that sideloading should be allowed (i.e. some competition), but this is not enough - eventually this competition should have some form of an "equal" start, probably by allowing them to install the market from the App Store, which is what Telegram wanted in their case.
>abysmal number of deaths/M compared to Sweden

Are you referring to a relatively low death rate as "abysmal"? This might make sense from a certain perspective but it's confusing in English.
I'm not familiar with this specific proof, but reading the description it sounds perfectly constructive.

A true proof by contradiction would be "Assume [0, 1] is not uncountable. That leads to a contradiction, so [0, 1] is not not uncountable. By the law of the excluded middle, [0, 1] is therefore uncountable."

This proof seems to be "Assume [0, 1] is countable. That leads to a contradiction, so [0, 1] is not countable." That's not a proof by contradiction - it's just how you prove a negative.

This is a nice blog post about the distinction: https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2017/03/04/a-proof-by-...
Because of the logo (and general quality of the site), I thought this was affiliated with Google and the Material project, but it doesn't appear to be.
I’m having a hard time imagining a reason that pot would need to be digitally controlled. It would be set at the factory and isn’t meant to be adjusted during use. It looks like its role is to be tuned to account for resistor tolerance in the motor’s circuit—-otherwise each board would have a slightly different current going to the motor, and different speed.

If the goal is to switch between 33 and 45 digitally, then I figure you’re better off finding that switch on the circuit board and replacing it with a relay or something.
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You throw a lot of unsubstantiated shade in the guise of "getting" the real message.

> Yes, the kindle itself is mediocre at best.

Which eReader is better than the Kindle in the same price range?

> Technically it’s got lot of issues

Like what? I also prefer real book, though when I've used the Kindle, I've had 0 problems. The delivery over cellular works, it has very good battery life, is light and the display does what it's suppose to do.

> You can be inspired working with someone who has the reputation of not being the best boss

Haven't heard Jeff Bezos isn't a good boss. The Twitter thread has little negative things about Jeff as a boss / executive, the contrary actually.
Yes.

https://jango-index.tk/?search=boyfriend+in+drawer
Is this also how they're going to have people come back from Mars? Seems like a very inefficient method, with the parachutes and all...
Well, for one you're not going to get a very wide coverage range or throughput with the ~1 watt of power you're limited to in the ISM bands. Your router will also have to accept interference from 802.11 routers, Bluetooth, etc devices. There is a lot of on going research into dynamic spectrum allocation and cooperative scheduling which this platform is actually supporting but that still requires federation which your use case seems to be against.
Every delivery service has horror stories. I’ve experienced bad deliveries with all of them. Turns out, there are still humans working at all of them.

Voting is accountability. You’ll have to find another time to discuss every other thing that’s wrong with our government, because right now we’re talking about a service being purposefully degraded in efforts to reduce the one of the only means we have for holding government accountable: voting.
>bad speech

Lol. Yeah, we should totally ban “bad speech”.
It believe it happened around 06:00-08:00 UTC earlier today.

I got the play-by-play from
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/hzbqwn/rspacex_demo... when I was waking up (european time) but it seems like you can't really view all of the comments of a 3000+ comment thread. :(

Hopefully someone who payed attention for real can chime in.
Nikon Fails Racial Equality Test Amidst Black Lives Matter Campaign
Regarding transparency, imagine the faces of the journalists who in 2018 went to check Telegram's offices in Dubai and the Aramex employees who share the floor with Telegram said they've never even seen anyone enter Telegram's office spaces. Apparently Telegram's registered in Dubai just to evade taxes.

Source? Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1chIByzDhsg

Telegram supposedly doesn't make a profit, but not having to pay corporate taxes also allows them to hide their profits. Where are they working from? How many employees are there? Also given that they had to return their ICO money and pay 18M USD in fines[1], how are they funding the supposedly free app when [2] estimates the running costs of the app are about 200M USD / year?

[1] https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/icos/sec-orde...

[2] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/telegram-statistics/
If the barrier to entry is "don't be a dick and sell data to whomever you like without telling your customers", it's kinda a good barrier, or not?

Regulation isnt a black and white/good or bad thing. It can be either.
If Apple allowed sideloading of apps it would mirror the Mac. Where apps are still approved by Apple in order to be signed. And unsigned apps are by default not allowed to be opened.

This would not change the situation in HK where China could simply force Apple not to sign the Telegram app and instead sign their fake Telegram app.
So they're not responsible for their own dumbassery?

They made a choice, and I really hope there are consequences for their decision.
Interesting. I am not so certain. Scratching tends to happen when you play fight with a cat. I would expect people who could be described as depressed would care less about being scratched by a cat than those that aren't and are therefore more likely to be scratched.

Also the conclusion of the study you linked is that toxoplasmosis isn't linked to depression but scratching is. I found this unexpected given the wording of your post.

Edit: also when you clip a cat's claws it can't really scratch you. I'd also assume someone who can be described as depressed is less likely to clip or get their cats claws clipped often enough to prevent scratches.
> But Warren is a senate and former lawyer. Even she didn't want to go the legal route. It's pretty disappointing.

She doesn't want to go the legal route because she knows she'd lose. Free speech protections in the United States are ironclad. In other jurisdictions, e.g., Germany, they're not so strong and activists in those countries have succeeded in making the state compel tech companies to censor. This approach will not work in the United States.

> Please excuse my little legal knowledge. But I thought hate speech and fake news were illegal.

One of the most infuriating habits of the authoritarian activist types is their way of pretending that whatever they don't like is de jure illegal. That they've convinced people that there's some law against "hate speech" is sad.

No, hate speech and fake news are not illegal, nor should they be: any prohibited category of ideas invariably expands to encompass whatever it is that the people defining the category dislike. The strict American prohibition of censorship is the product of centuries of experience in England with exactly this sort of creeping totalitarianism. Humanity has not changed since then. Power still corrupts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
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Why? The post office is a fantastic organization, and it being a non-profit actually helps society operate effectively (e.g. many government services rely on USPS as a backstop). The post office is a utility, just like water and electricity (and internet should be).

A lot of the reasons the post office is in the red are purely political (e.g. limiting what services they can offer, price caps, and financial mandates).

I already purchased two years worth of stamps to support it. I also spent all my coins because the US Treasury has a shortage. We can all do more, particularly the bare minimal.
5 Mondays a week:

- 07:30 Wake up, breakfast, read news, herd kids, shower etc.

- 08:30 Set up/clean up office space. If not taking kids someplace, check mail, take first calls.

(series of never-ending 30m calls with WE, occasional full hour of actual work)

- 11:00 20m Break (usually for chores, emptying dishwasher, etc.)

(next set of calls, usually MEA)

- 12:30 Figure out what to do for lunch, herd kids, set table, clean up afterwards

- 14:00 Back to calls or focus work

- 17:30 May or may not stop working, but won't take any more calls. Phase out by checking personal mail, unpacking any deliveries.

- 18:30 Second round of chores, herd kids some more (prep stuff, washing, etc.)

(occasional US calls)

- 19:30 Check news, help prep dinner, set table, eat, dishes,

- 21:00 Maybe YouTube or half a movie (PG-13 at most). Call relatives to check they're OK.

(more occasional US calls)

- 22:00 Kids go to bed. Depending on how tired I am, doomscrolling, TV series, books, or bed.

- 23:00 Occasional laundry (for drying overnight)

- 01:30 Go to bed (roughly 50% of evenings)

- 04:00 Occasional insomnia break, tea, fold socks

2 Sundays a week:

- 09:30 wake up, read The Economist, write a bit, clean the house (vacuum/washing/beds)

(Occasional calls with MEA because they work in Sundays)

- 14:00 eventually have lunch, maybe doze off an hour or so

- 16:00 get groceries delivered for the week, desinfect everything

- 18:00 read/write/post, fiddle with machines

Etc.
Here is some: https://www.oabpr.org.br/acesso-ao-inquerito-das-fake-news-d...

More here: https://www.oab.org.br/noticia/58247/defesa-da-democracia-e-...
> I always assumed that one day I'd be able to turn it into some side income and maybe eventually replace my full-time job.

That doesn't magically happen. Even in the cases where people do turn their work into side income or a job, there's a huge amount of outreach and effort behind the scenes.
That's an interesting technical phenomenon, do you do anything special for this kind of pulsed load?
Proofs that derive a contradiction are perfectly acceptable in constructive mathematics. Indeed, the real numbers are uncountable in constructive mathematics. What is not allowed is elimination of double negatives, which is not present in the above proof.
Mon-Thurs:
5am-3pm: work
3pm-5pm: nap & food
5pm-9pm: books, games, workout & hobby-coding

Fri:
5am-3pm: hobby coding
3pm-5pm: nap & food
5pm-11pm: hangout

Sat-Sun:
5am-3pm: Hobby coding
3pm-5pm: nap & food
5pm-9pm: books, games, workout & hobby-coding
I cannot even begin to fathom how a ux website that literally touts "don't make your users wait more than 400ms" as it's #2 rule also has

- 400ms css transition

- network load of new page

- scrolling down to view content

- another 400ms transition to go back to main content

as its primary mechanism of interaction... is the irony totally lost on them? Or did they drink the #1 kool aid to the extent that they believe their "design" will outweigh their myriad UX failures?
This is it. It was nothing but a PR explanation of an already planned budget cut.
For posterity, the CLUI is located at:

https://repl.it/~/cli
We know no such thing. There was a recent letter to the editor that claimed that the virion concentrations used in the surface contamination studies were orders of magnitude too high - but itself could not cite any study offering strong evidence of the correct concentration of virions per droplet. It’s on the basis of this letter that a recent Atlantic article was written, and the meme was born that we’ve been far too cautious about surface contamination.

This remains a known unknown, and asserting a conclusion in either direction at this time is a victory of emotion over knowledge.
Other tricks I have benefited from:
> if it were working with ArrayBuffers directly you would be so far away from usual JS and any convenience JS offers, you might as well not be writing JS

Or you might as well do, since it makes interop generally easy. In the library space I no longer have to worry where my web code begins, where my mobile code ends or where my backend code sits. All libraries can be used anywhere I feel necessary with zero interop pain.

The same arugment was applied to writing C in the late 70s (vs writing several types of assemblies for various types of hardware at the time)
Riding the giant: big-wave surfing in Nazaré
I remember those large teaching slide-rules, but haven't seen one in decades. Great to know they still exist, if only as mysterious artifacts from the dark ages.

Neither of my parents were mathematically inclined, but they were content to let me forage for information on my own, with lots of trips to the library. Amazing how clear are my 50-year-old memories of 10-year-old me sitting on the floor with a trig book, drawing random triangles on paper, measuring them as carefully as I could with ruler and protractor, and verifying the law of sines and cosines with paper and slide-rule. God, I was such a nerd. Paid off well in the end, though :-)

Now I'm retired, and for fun, I work my way through the problems at Project Euler. Four years in, and only two more problems to go to hit 90% complete! It'll probably take me another year+ to finish them all (hopefully).
I could be totally wrong but I didn’t think any part of the Gulf of Mexico was considered international waters? I thought the US (and maybe/hopefully Mexico) had approval over oil rigs and such in the Gulf.
It's more obvious on the second clip to me but both sound clearly off to my ear.
> OCaml is dead simple to learn

I would say, the core of OCaml is dead simple to learn. But the language and the libraries/tools that make it usable for real-world projects have evolved a lot. Some projects can be quite intimidating. Just like in C++, I think it takes some discipline from the programmers to keep things simple.
The complex numbers are also uncountable.
Not only that, but UPS and FedEx probably don’t offer pensions at all. USPS will never be able to compete, even if they raised their prices.
Nice comment. A succinct explanation of the difference between negation and contradiction can also be found in this r/math comment: https://reddit.com/r/math/comments/cu9gsk/_/exse1ps/?context...

The terminology gets abused a lot, even by professors. It's actually hard to find theorems which really require proof by contradiction.