skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly this. To give you a datapoint from our properties: Our web site attracts 90% of the users, but only 60% of the actual traffic. In all metrics like retention, frequency and time on site, mobile leads by factors of 2-5.

Part of that is definitely self-selection, but as some people already said, other notable effects are push notifications, mindshare, loss aversion (you're on somebody's device already, so they can just as well use it) and partly better performance.

So much about the users, but Monetization is much better as well, mostly due to mobile ad-IDs, which especially on iOS lets you extract double the revenue per user due to targeting. Ad blockers are harder to bypass.

In the end, a mobile app will get you anywhere between 2-10x the revenue per user you attracted to your property, so that's why Reddit is pushing so hard.

To stay in Reddit's lingo though:

`LPT: https://old.reddit.com`
Thanks for that, I'll check it out! Not afraid to self-host my entire cloud, makes sense.
Honestly, I'd completely avoid sleeps. I think it always comes back to bite you. In the end you need to learn and understand the context of the page to determine when the page has loaded.

When you say "wait for some DOM element", not sure what that refers to exactly, but how about using: `page.waitForSelector` and in addition, using the `visible: true` option?

It really depends on the page you're testing, feels like when I'm automating Wikipedia, I very rarely have to wait for stuff, whereas with JavaScript heavy sites, I use a custom wait function, or the waitForSelector with visible: true.
>Answer: the higher on the hierarchy you are the less the rules apply to you.

Yes and + the more you break/ignore the rules successfully, the less they apply to you.

But who gets to decide and on what basis is an organisation-specific question. Trying to answer it for "everyone" also gets you into lowest common denominator bucket where you can only give an answer that covers all cases. That is why a huge chunk of organisational/managerial advice is just a "how not to shoot yourself with that gun in your hand for idiots" guide.
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I tried the app, but it doesn’t work for me at all. As a platform, Reddit is very flexible and can be used in many different ways. Their app has been designed for (or to create) social media crack babies that can’t stop swiping and infinite feed of SMC (Social Media Crack). It isn’t designed to be useful to users, so I assume it is designed to improve engagement metrics with an Instagram effect.

In my simple case, I follow specific subreddits, but I check other ones from time to time. The web browser is much easier to work with URLs on my phone. I can go to specific reddit’s very easily by just typing in the URL on my phone browser. Even better, there is still old.reddit.com which is much faster and less glitchy (media not loading, complicated UI frames appearing resulting in unexpected scrolling/zooming issues) than their new website for tablet and desktop usage. Further, the new site constantly loses my place and resets to the beginning of the subreddit losing my place.

The constant ads for the mobile app, and the automatic switching back to the new app on browsers are a massive hurdle, so I do seek out alternatives. However, there are some great communities and information on Reddit, so I will keep using it until critical mass moves on.
We can also go up and down abstraction levels at will.

We can see a forest, then a tree, then a leaf. All different "objects", yet related. The ability to not distinguish each blade of grass in my yard and just see it all as "grass" is very useful for noticing and not stepping on what the dog left behind.
9 month ago there was first ground test of Aeroprakt-8e.[0]

This month Aeroprakt-8e (r/n UR-PAPQ) officially registered in Ukraine.

More details & photos on conversion Aeroprakt-8 (build in 1987) to Aeroprakt-8e from Yuri Yakovlev (aircraft designer & founder of «AEROPRAKT» company[1]) could be found in related forum thread.[2]

There is interview with Yuri Yakovlev about original Aeroprakt-8 (Aeroprakt A-8 Quikie inspired by Rutan Quickie) recorded in 2017.[3]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5AH1AcGrNM

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroprakt

[2] http://forum.privat.aero/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1783

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en4AlHJbku0
The "handwriting" data for this model is basically the coordinates of a pen. The length of the string representation of the text is very different from the length of the coordinate representation of the text, therefore the model "learns" a window corresponding to when it is drawing the current letter, and when to start the next letter. For these letters, as the model doesn't learn how long this window should be, nor how to transition from it to the next letter, it gets stuck and outputs nonsense.
I suppose this can be compared to standardising SQL. However that has ended up with a least common denominator of simple operations and dozens of specialised dialects. Better than before the standard but certainly not great and tons of engineering has gone into cross dialect facades.

Granted I haven't thought as long or as hard as the authors but I wonder if there are easier ways to go about this:

a) something akin to slf4j or one of the many unifying facades in java
b) standardising the data structures/formats. eg Arrow has done quite a good job positioning itself as a data lingua franca and has compute primitives.

Regardless, I will be watching with interest!
It increases engagement metrics, which is the most important thing for an ad company looking to raise more money in the future.
Cubesat is (10cm)^3, 1000 fit in 1m^3.
I don’t really disagree with most of your points, but what you describe does not sound like it should be a committee with governance rules and member libraries tied to an RFC process.

What you describe sounds like you could just create your own single library like a Swiss army knife that contains adapters to rationalize the semantics if you want, even at the ABI level if truly needed.

Member libraries can do a best effort support for not breaking that adapter library’s way of wrapping them, and/or contribute patches that keeps the adapter in sync with new releases of the library.

This makes the adapter layer become totally opt-in and backported rather than required via consortium membership & RFC governance, and even leaves room for competitor adapter tools to coexist that might do things differently.

Ultimately my concern with a governance model is that it creates political power to compel the member libraries to do things that might go against the needs of their users for the sake of the consortium.

I just don’t see a reason why that’s more valuable than letting all the libraries do their own thing and let users choose or make their own custom adapters.

This example of array APIs is nothing like say overall HTTP protocol or IEEE floating point protocol, which are cases where a governing standard makes sense. This is nothing like that in my opinion.
I want to echo what you are saying a little bit. I have never learned something from a man page. Maybe it is because they provide full documentation but that is very rarely actually useful when using commands.

That is what excited me about this. Maybe cli apps will see this example and try to document how to use it in this way. Infinitely more usable in my opinion.
Yup. RSS is the way to go for browsing Reddit without all the dark patterns.

Self plug - you can try my app Plenary on Android (no ads/trackers) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spians.ple... that has Reddit as one of the RSS Assistant option. It basically creates RSS feed for subreddits, users, search terms etc for you.
I think the point is that if a large number of galaxies had Type III civilizations, we would notice, because the definition is that they use most of the available energy in their galaxy making the galaxy radiate more infrared than visible light. But that doesn’t mean life isn’t common, it may just mean that a Type III civilization is either physically impossible or very unlikely.
Honestly even with the tiny text, even with having to pan and zoom around the page. The old.reddit experience is superior on mobile to the modern idea how to design of a "mobile app" for a site like reddit.
The desktop site version also became unimaginably slow. I didn't even know it's possible to make it so for something simple like the message board.
Ok, replace advertiser with company that wants to display ads. Because that is how you are using it. The ad company is the original advertiser.. this gets even funnier, more please!
I get that but when you brought up TypeScript and React, these tools are pretty indifferent to the underlying frameworks and are primarily used to simulate web browser interactions. I suppose you could integrate them into your e2e testing automatically, but every site is different so it would likely be difficult to do anything useful.
This is most likely to do with the ability to access your storage, and constantly feed you with notifications. Those little annoying reminders to visit the website and instill a fake fear of missing out on something.

If at all you wish to have a smoother experience and no notifications though, I suggest Relay for Reddit on Android.
Unfortunately seconds & minutes & hours aren't metric
Their redesign combined with the incessant harassing app crap turned me from an hours-a-day-and-modding-some-decently-big-subs redditor to visiting for 15 minutes a couple times a week when on the dunny. Their entire site is so user hostile now it’s actually bordering on funny. They’ve become a parody of everything they set out to defeat.
Wait, really? I haven't watched the show, but aren't there like six different habitable planets involved?

You can't have that all in a single star system.
At least in my understanding, the reason why governments have in interest in this kind of model is that companies in return provide employment and pay taxes (if you're lucky).

In the EU, there is a really strong focus these days on exploitation of the results that come out of the research projects they fund (Horizon 2020) that you sometimes almost feel a bit out of place as a researcher. As in: why should a researcher at a university care deeply about how their findings can be turned into products by some companies? I mean, not only are they usually not really qualified for such questions, but also if they were interested in product development, they'd probably work in industry (perhaps even for a higher salary).
>This accomplishes the same goal without upholding relics of white supremacy

Modern 'murica for you. Can't help but make everything about some BS ideology...

Not to mention the condescension (by the white dev who changed this) that writing "standard english" somehow implies it is for whites only. Perhaps the person thinks people of colour are not up to such a task?

And let's not get that this person only has a single commit (and it's this one).

Of course in the current climate anybody saying anything about the inanity of this would be quickly labeled a racist... (and no, I'm not a WASP, or even American, and not even 100% white).
Oh, that's true, I didn't think about that.
For external people likely not, usually Sharepoint would be behind some VPN and Firewall. Some cloud service like Dropbox might work if allowed (which it often isn't). And then there will often be the resulting sprawl of various services: this for secret internal stuff, that for external people, yet another thing for marketing, etc.
What would my freedom to step outside the walled garden on my iOS device take away from your curated experience?
I'd argue even their old design is better than a native app.

Loads lightning fast, can load thousands of comments on a page without loading bars or context switch. Don't even care if I have to pan and zoom it still works better than the mobile app.

Starting to feel like the idea of a mobile app being a universally better experience is a software industry mass hallucination. A handful of things apps work way better, modern banking comes to mind but sites styled like reddit and HN are just better in a browser with desktop view and high information density.
It's something of a UX question too.

One could design a page that visually loaded, then jumped to a redirect after 10 seconds on the page. But who would?

The primary approach is always event-based, because most pages do that sanely.

If not... the best approach I've found is looking for sentinel elements.

Essentially, something that only matches once the website is de facto loaded (regardless of events). Sometimes it's a "search results found" bit of text, sometimes a first element. But more or less, "How do I (a human) know when the page is ready?"
That's a pretty big claim, do you have anything to back it up?

How many athletes have caught Covid19 and then dropped dead afterwards when exercising?
> In BigCorps, if there's a stupid requirement, there's usually a reason for the stupid requirement to be there in the first place

Sometimes, this is to be able to hire the exactly one person they want to hire, but HR policies or some law requires it be an "open bid" system. So the tailor the requirements such that only the one person can qualify, and they can justify the hiring and the letter of the law.
Rel v0.6.0 Released – Golang SQL Database Layer for Layered Architecture
Don't get me wrong. I totally get it. But my professor is saying:

"So this is precision? 0 to 1? 1 being totally accurate? And you got 96.5? I assume it is percentage?"
Do you think tracking outside the app is done?

Meaning collecting data even if the app is not opened?
I would suspect so.
> beige and grey Windows Vista era software and shitty enterprise software

That's not my image of Oracle at all. I think of a shark feeding frenzy.
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I really don’t understand your confusion over this:

Ad companies sell ads.

Advertisers purchase ads.

Users see ads.

That’s it.
When Polaroid Workers Fought Apartheid
تحميل برنامج اكشن AMirillis Action لتسجيل الشاشة من سطح المكتب
I truly love reading about situations where unreachable code became reachable, much to the astonishment of many. Thanks for that!
Another thing about reddit is that it is one of the only site that reloads everything when I hit the back button instead of using the cache (I'm using Firefox). Do they do this to be able to claim that they get more users then they are actually getting? It's been like this for years, not sure when it started.
"But let's get real -- the idea of a green future is not gonna happen because people need fossil energy & to pollute to do business"

Sure business-wise & cost-wise it might be better, but should we accept it ?

Also none of this is "essential" at all. It is only needed in a world where the competition does it too because they think it will give them a competitive advantage.

If we could decide that those kind of tracking becomes illegal, then all those big companies will be totally fine. We'll still be buying them the products we need
Sometimes they are not just there out of fear, but also not for your benefit. For instance at one corporation I worked for they made a policy against communicating with other departments outside of jira tickets, in order to clamp down on any union organizing that might take place. And also to prevent us from spreading rumors about an imminent wave of layoffs. Of course they said it was for “security reasons”.

So I would assume malice rather than just fear of risk for any seemingly strange policy measures. The management is not your friend.
It isn't "big picture" rational, but it is rational in a myopic way. Most managers in a company are only responsible for their own little kingdom and will care little about the rest or any overall whole-company picture. Only the highest-ups are responsible, accountable and incentivized to care about the whole.
But most users do not know that.
Rails 6 added Array#including/excluding and Enumerable#including/excluding
Can't wait to see how they spin it as some overpriced enterprise software while it fades into irrelevancy! /s
Be careful. It's unlikely that you remembered what happened during your second day in university without me bumping your neurons a bit.

What I am saying is, that often we need an access trigger first even if the memory is technically there. Mindmapping is a way to rewalk the thoughts you once had and reenter a specific state of memory and mind.
What do they mean by this?

> Using a VR profile that is backed by a Facebook account and authentic identity helps us protect our community and makes it possible to offer additional integrity tools. For example, instead of having a separate Oculus Code of Conduct, we will adopt Facebook’s Community Standards as well as a new additional VR-focused policy. This will allow us to continue to take the unique considerations of VR into account while offering a more consistent way to report bad behavior, hold people accountable, and help create a more welcoming environment across our platforms. And as Facebook adds new privacy and safety tools, Oculus can adopt and benefit from them too.

Isn't oculus just some kind of display device? Last time I've checked LG and Samsung doesn't really policy what kind of content I'm using their monitors for.
Unique error messages are ALWAYS my best friend when debugging issues.
Interesting people are still dining out. How effective are the measures taken in dine-out places there? Someone can shed light on this?
I felt the same. I've tried to quit reddit several times without success but since these changes the constant annoyances were just too much that I completely stopped using the site.
This doesn't answer the question, but with Firefox on Android + uBlock, just block the element from being displayed with the element zapper.
Employees of Reddit must have a very low opinion of their users if they think they're going to fall for "This community is available in the app".
Why the extensive questioning? It's really just an example of how to do a graph in a pixel shader using the https://fofpx.com platform. It seems to be similar to ShaderToy but with a different language (JS).
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I love these requirements at work! Yes, I need to buy my own computer, but now I can leave my work laptop in the office.

Which helps avoiding working late as partner expects you to be on time for dinner, and as you don’t need the work laptop at home as it’s not shared also as a personal laptop :)

I swear that’s main reason employers allow you to use your work laptop for personal use too. As you will have your work laptop with you at home so they can let you easier work weekends etc
If there's a choice between web and app, I'd take web any day: Works on multiple devices, doesn't need updates or dependencies from an app store.

And agree on one person show / bootstrap vs bloated VC money.
This design is just so damn weird. I only rarely find myself at reddit e.g. when some obscure search query lands me there and I am always extremely confused trying to find the actual content of posts and relevant comments. I still don’t even understand how it works and half the time I just give up and leave because I can’t figure out what to do to get at whatever I’m searching for.
Thorium produces just as much fission product waste as uranium.

And any thorium reactor is going to have to include 238U in it, or else the effectively high enriched 233U it DOES contain would be an unacceptable diversion risk (even with 232U contamination). That means it's going to produce more plutonium than you are letting on.
Ask HN: Anyone used Svelte with Unpoly? What is the experience like?
What are the pros and cons of using both for front-end development?
Yes, apparently that has been done.

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/05/history-and-future-o...
Thanks for those links. Seems there have been some developments since I last checked into rss clients. Are you aware of any good browser plug-ins in that field? I've been using brief:

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/brief/
I'm not familiar with the space. Could someone explain why uoylj's (sibling) comment is [dead]? Here is the comment's text, for reference:

"The Replace-By-Fee flag in Bitcoin is effectively a built-in paid accelerator that covers all miners. I think the reason inefficiencies like this exist is because a lot of wallets either don't implement it or don't have it on by default."
Why? Are you not missing the “interior”?
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Thorium reactors are breeders. The Th gets converted to 233U. But breeders of any kind are uneconomical.
tiktok is better for memes anyways
They’re paying for the negligence against software developers. Those two incidents come down to the design flaws after all.
The CEOs of Canon Inc and Canon USA are too old to admit the fact that software is more powerful than what it used to be when the hardware was selling well simply owing to its pure performance and features and the software was just a driver.
You would be surprised if I tell you how many skilled software engineers have left the companies in the last three years. What makes things worse is that the old men aren’t aware of why they left.
A recent gigawatt scale PV bid in UAE came in at $0.0135/kWh.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominicdudley/2020/04/28/abu-dh...

"solar PV and onshore wind are now the cheapest sources of electricity generation for at least two-thirds of the world’s population"
My family has a collection of home-made jigsaw puzzles (literally made by a guy cutting up a wood-backed picture with a jigsaw) which look similar in terms of shape to that (but more pieces, 500 or so). I think they are much more interesting to solve, especially since the contours often follow the shapes in the image, which adds some twists in the difficulty. I would also be interested in finding a way to buy such puzzles nowadays (especially since they would in priciple be easy to produce through laser-cutting).
> but I'm not aware of any high-resolution ultrasonic sensors for land robots.

Sound cameras are very cool- passive sonar, but they're audio frequency and not usually depth-sensing. There's a lot of room for improvement there, but its a relatively unknown area and definitely hasn't found its niche.

High resolution air sonar is necessarily fairly large, which makes it decidedly unsexy. It also puts a lot of strain on the potential for a low cost BOM when the pcb and chassis are ~>12" wide.

> One minor challenge with ultrasonic sensors in real products is ensuring that they are inaudible to people and pets - when they are almost-audible they are extremely annoying or even painful.

One thing that really surprised me when I got into it was that this isnt a trivial problem. Part of it is practical- the cheapest and most common sensors are around 60-80 kHz (mechanical size makes them easy to produce, with the drawback of a high-ish time constant).

Getting above the range of domestic animals isn't too hard or inconvenient, but it's surprising how extensively evolution has adapted for sound in bats. If you want to avoid harming them you need to keep above ~150 kHz, which gives you a fairly uncomfortably small bandwidth before you're into the highly-attenuating frequency ranges. Underwater it's a different story (biological structures have difficulty resonating at MHz+) but the frequencies that would give you sub-millimeter precision (350 kHz) are way more inconvenient than 40 or 60 kHz. You need totally different types of piezos and the range is sharply limited unless you're projecting volumes that would deafen at audio ranges.

Im still very optimistic about the role of sonar even as cheap lidar and depth cameras crowd the space, but its pretty difficult today to make a truly good sensor.
Show HN: VeryPreciseTimeFormat (Stupid idea a friend and me came up with drunk)
space below the debris shell* is unusable for satellites*

You can still launch through a Kessler shell. It's not very dense in absolute terms.