skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the weird incentives that web stats create?

If you have a property like Reddit, people will fight through a bad experience to keep reading their stuff. So sluggish turns into "improved session duration" and shitty nav turns into "more pageviews / engagement". Deceptive content looking ads turn into "higher conversion".
Under Stalin, statisticians who collected the "wrong" values were likely to come to a very nasty end - I imagine something like that leaves a lingering fear in any society/profession:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Census_(1937)
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Apple can’t revoke Epic Games’ Unreal Engine developer tools, judge rules
Very misleading, the video on that tweet cuts off before the whole "we've given you 20 grand of real cash to see your invention come to life" part...

So yes, this is weird cos it's a "we've made a female version of the game", but it's also "here's a load of cash to make your invention exist cos we believe in you".
> Example: accounting, before you needed a team of accountants for a mid level enterprise, not sometimes even one is sufficient.

If The Office was made today, you'd just have Oscar in accounting and Jim closing deals alongside a robocaller
This study was not about observing infections or exposing people, it was about movement and interaction patterns. Every single participant was tested before the event, and only those with negative results were allowed to participate. Of course it's not risk free, but it seems to be highly unlikely that anyone of the volunteers will be harmed (especially since they are all younger than 50).
Is it? It seems like a qualified statement which emphasizes the unequal weights of two opposing views.

How about:

"There are multiple ways to solve this problem, but this is best one."

Isn't that better than:

"This is how we should solve it"?

I see no problem with qualifying an assertion with a lesser weight.
Exxon Booted from Dow Industrials in Major Embrace of Tech
It seems that 10 years ago the problem was on the server side, and now it's sluggish javascript on the new redesigned client side.
"It is not bout killing off long words" rings rather hollow when it is followed by a list of longer words to replace with shorter ones. It is not the fault of the innocent words that someone may have misused them to feel important.

But let us go deeper and ask: how did importance become associated with longer words? Was it perhaps because important and educated people used them, since they carried more precise and specific meanings?
> The CCP rules China top to bottom, in all aspects of culture and economy, without exception and without challenge. Their power is absolute over the nation.

Absolutist much? Have you ever even visited China? (I look forward to the response "Why would I visit such an evil dictatorship?".) A lot of the population of China are also just trying to get by.

I don't know if these scammers are independents, CCP members, sanctioned by CCP, or "rogue" members who would be punished if the higher-ups think the whole thing would make the country/the party look bad.

IMO the absolutism in your last paragraph is also how Al Qaeda justifies smashing planes into towers, equaling the controlling elite (and their actions in foreign countries) with the population, and saying "Killing the population is fair game.".
If you want the blazing fast site which is optimized for mobile add ".compact" onto any Reddit link such as https://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews/.compact
> How do you keep it clean?

Nobody buying a house like that does significant housework themselves. It usually starts with a paid landscaping service, then interior cleaning service (to clean furnishings picked out by an interior designer), then cooks, etc. I know families who pay photographers to take regular "candid" pictures to post on Instagram. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that at least one of my acquaintances has hired a house manager to deal with all the other hired help. And I don't know anybody in a 20,000sf home.

> nobody is appreciating them

Probably not the case. Or maybe day to day, but I'm sure they have plenty of visitors whenever they want. This is also the realm of people who have at least a 1/8 share of a private plane (including pilot) in their budget, and fly across the country on a whim.

It's a very different world up there, where there's never any serious question of needing to work and money is little more than a way to keep score. Anyone who doesn't realize we've already returned to Gilded Age levels of separation between the aristocracy and the rest of us hasn't been paying attention.
Which chemicals are those?
"Here's more evidence to support your idea" is perhaps the pettiest possible retort. Is agreeing with someone so hard?
It depends on what you need to achieve.

Les Cowboys Fringants display the full colours of Canadian french in their songs, but they're creating art.

The government needs to tell people of all backgrounds that they must do something or face serious consequences. They are not creating art, but communicating important information to busy, confused people.
> and since "inventories are bad!"

It's not that it's "bad" to hold inventory, it's just expensive and risky. Tastes change, there's shrinkage, some things degrade over time, rents are high, and you have to finance buying/holding things you aren't selling. Obviously, just-in-time inventory isn't super resilient, but it has a ton of advantages most of the time. Perhaps it doesn't make sense for NOTHING to be stored near the point of sale, but it's not clear to me at least how that should be decided.
What is the community experience with resistance bands? I see them more frequently now and wonder if they aren't a reasonable alternative
> The site lacks basic optimizations like virtual scrolling to keep the browser from crashing after a few pages of content.

I fucking hate virtual scrolling. Twitter is particularly bad at this - it breaks search. Twitter's built in search isn't the strongest, so I previously just went with some generic hashtag I knew I used and then used ctrl+f to find the Tweet from my archive. With the "redesign" this use case is totally shot.

For Reddit, I can go to "Saved posts", load as far as I reasonably need, ctrl+f and find what I need.
What's wrong with 'empower'?
You were perfectly making sense! ^^

I hope you are better now, I am sorry to hear that you had medical problems... Do not give up! Your contributions are helpful.
Less of a pollution issue, but a major earthquake hitting St. Louis would be absolutely devastating. I’ve seen estimates saying it would be the biggest natural disaster in US history.

https://www.kansas.com/news/nation-world/national/article223...
It's from haskell, which uses \ to define lambdas
The MQ-25 unmanned carrier launched tanker has a unit cost of about $180M. That's more expensive than many manned aircraft. It is in no way cheap.
There are browser extensions to do this automatically as well.
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Not an expert. Comparison to terraform?
Same here. Looking at the UI, I thought there were selling some devices
It was easier to learn than the alternatives (UDK, any of the Java engines) and consistently added clearly useful features.

Jump to 2019, their networking solution, UNet is abandoned. Multiplayer is a perhaps a top feature developers/players want. A great open source library called Mirror picks up the slack, but Mirror wasn't made by Unity.

As other commenters have mentioned, easily compiling to iOS made it a clear winning choice for game app development.
I've been using this Old Reddit Redirect extension for Chrome that does what it says on the tin. Works great for this. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
I"m pretty sure one could cut those expired turbine blades into short pieces if they were too large.
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> because they hate their users

I see stuff like this a lot and it bugs me.

Reddit doesn't hate their users, there's simply a financial incentive to convert them over to the new site, either because it's easier to serve ads, or they need to justify to management that millions of dollars of work was worth it. I'd be willing to bet most unpopular UX/redesign decisions can be traced back to some financial incentive.
My PCP tests my Vitamin D levels annually, and it doesn’t cost me anything; it’s just part of the standard bloodwork. It’s always
been fine in the past, but the most recent time I was told it was low and was prescribed Vitamin D.

I’m not a health nut, just someone who has annual physicals. Doesn’t it make more sense to encourage people to spend their time and money on annual checkups and tests, rather than encouraging them to buy supplements they might not need—or, worse, that might harm them? Supplements seem cheap at first, but the costs add up over time.

We should be encouraging people to see doctors, not to make uninformed health decisions that might not be right for them.
> They represent discovered problems in the text the author didn't foresee.

Indeed. If certain questions are asked frequently, likely the information is not presented with audience’s actual needs in mind. Content should be updated, possibly rewritten. Putting up a FAQ shows content editor washing their hands of that responsibility.

I also find it a little rude, like “Welcome to the group of people who, despite our best efforts, didn’t manage to understand what we wrote! Here are some questions you lot keep asking…” (Of course, usually it’s not that, but rather a half-hearted attempt to be helpful and/or reduce the amount of people getting in touch with questions.)
Not for a crime planned by one person alone.
In case someone's in the market for a fast, developer-first alternative to Asana, check out https://kitemaker.co

- list views of issues (if you prefer that over the board)

- can do everything without touching a mouse (if you're into that)

- integrations to GitHub, Slack, etc.

- reach editor with markdown shortcuts (similar to the Notion editor)
It is a bit surprising but at the same time Mintegral did go through a number of steps to obfuscate the code to make it harder to see that it was impacting standard iOS SDK methods.
> Have you never heard the phrase "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch"?

Yes, it's a meaningless cliche which is often untrue (I've had many free lunches myself). But "free/gratis" does have a definition to mean "without cost or payment", e.g. how much it costs to acquire/download every version of iOS going back a decade.

Have you ever heard of alternative business models? Try Googling Android, Tizen OS, Web OS, Firefox OS for alternative mobile OS's, it's nearly impossible to for a mobile OS to become mainstream if you had to pay for it.

> If the OS is free then why not let it run on very old models, it will run very slow but that should not matter since the OS is free, right?

Because Apple has to support the devices it says it supports & they don't run acceptably. This isn't new, a lot of commercial software wont support software that doesn't meet a minimum hardware requirement.
For anyone reading this, let me recommend an extremely easy alternative: sand packed into trash compactor bags and then duck taped into "bricks" of various weights. This plus a big canvas zippered duffle are plenty for some very excellent training. See https://www.goruck.com/equipment/sandbags/ for a commercial and readily available option.

These suckers can get up to 200# really easy, and are an excellent way to stay strong. Flipping one of these into a clean then front squatting it is PLENTY for 90% of people wanting to stay fit. Plus, overloaded progression is easy, just add more sand bags. Another classic is just to pick it up to one shoulder, then drop over your shoulder behind you, then repeat. Deadlifts are just picking it up to thigh height.

Add these homemade sandbags to a good rucking pack, and you're ready for an intense cardio session and strengthening routine. Just don't overdo it, rucking is really hard on tendons. Make sure to only ever increase weight or distance by no more than 10% a week.

I made a set of them for rucking, and it's amazing how fast a ruck pack gets mind alteringly heavy. At some point the brain just can't think any more. It's very enlightening.
"Ten hundred", "twenty hundred", etc. sound very weird in English, too, despite "eleven hundred", "twelve hundred", etc. being commonplace in at least the American dialect.

That said, "ten hundred"
is hardly the weirdest thing about English prose written in ten-hundred-mode...
Are you counting every kid that dies of cancer in Eastern Europe as caused by Chernobyl?

The reality is that only one kind of cancer rose noticeably because of Chernobyl, this is thyroid cancer. And note that the base rate is one per million per year, so even a "statistically significant increase" doesn't mean a lot of cases.
Even the basics of the redesign have issues. To the point that I would honestly quit reddit if they didn't have old.reddit.

Simple things like, not showing me the entire thread and forcing me to like "View Entire Discussion" and then sometimes that will jump to a totally different vertical position in the webpage resulting in confusion, frustration, and anger. Unbelievable that things could be this horrid. How can it be so difficult to consume content when the website's sole purpose is to consume content?

Although I do wonder how new users view the new design. Is it as bad as I made it out to be? I'd be curious to hear their thoughts. Am I simply an old, raggety, grumpy user shaking their fist at the clouds?
Thanks, in case anyone else is interested:

https://wiki.haskell.org/Anonymous_function
Is your better standard much better? It is unethical to cause harm in order to study the harm done but it is not unethical to cause harm in order to study something that is not the harm done? If not why even make the distinction to begin with?
Well, yes but I don't mean that. Even if you can do push ups or any other exercise with your body weight, there are some muscles that you can't exercise.

Legs are extremely complicated to work out without weight. They carry your whole weight around all day so in order to make it suffer a bit, you need to add something on top of that.

You can't do biceps or any other small muscle that needs to be isolated during the workout.
Just switch back to the old design in your setting.

But it is probably also time to look for something new - I am on that journey too. I was once a super heavy Reddit user but the environment has become so toxic and twitter. It followed a destiny similar to many conventional news sites. Even generic subs like 'news' or 'today I have learned' are infeced by personal agendas of a few monds.

Once a month I still check a few niche communities with mostly work based discussions. For the rest it has become completely unusable. I think astroturfing and political 'outreach-campaigns' have killed that site for me.
Maybe, I will wait for the result.

But if the topic is "dynamism", I can easily manage my expectations.

It just feels like someone is shitting on your plate and tells you, that it at least already looks like chocolate pudding.
Just to save a lot of time and cut through a lot of BS, apparently organizational rot. If you’re on iOS give Apollo a try (I’m sure there’s an equally good android app), it’s completely possible to build a fantastic Reddit app with the existing apis (most of the downsides come into play from user-hostile API administration). The team sizes and funding have to pale in comparison, and on occasion I wonder why this isn’t seen internally at Reddit as a mortal biz threat and dire signal to clean up the act. And then I remember — organizational rot.
I would argue that Russia very much has expansionist goals. I used to vacation in the Crimea as a kid with my family. Suddenly it wasn’t a part of Ukraine anymore a couple of decades later. Putin very much seems to want to put the USSR back together and I can’t see that stopping anytime soon.
Because body weight exercises are much harder for most people it also is harder to progress from zero to hero with them but hero to super hero is pretty easy.

For chest you have push-ups and their multiple variations which most people still can’t perform correctly (even “lifters”) as well as body weight rows.

The moment you’ll be able to do even one parallel wide grip pull up which at that point is an unsupported chest row so it’s essentially a bench press in reverse just 100 times harder I’ll concede that you might be done with body weight.

For biceps just do chin-up curls, row curls or towel curls.

For legs there are a ton of them and if you think they don’t overload you well then I want to see you do even a single pistol squat.

It’s also much easier to add progressive overload by a) changing the mechanics of the exercise so you isolate muscles more effectively and b) by adding a backpack with a few water bottles filled with water or sand.

So the real issue isn’t that they aren’t effective, but that most people lack the strength, stability and range of motion to start doing them and it’s very demotivating when it might take you 4 months to do even one rep correctly. And that is without doing really hard stuff like planche which might take 2 years for an average person to do unassisted.
But the same process can happen there. Then what?
The ones from German bureaucrats are simply horrible.
> HTML is the lamest UI toolkit going

I will die on this hill. HTML is not a UI toolkit or an SDK. It is a user-facing interface.

I know it gets presented as a toolkit, I know that on some level it overlaps with a toolkit/layout language. But the most important thing HTML does is it provides a plain-text user-facing interface for an app.

Complaints like this are kind of like arguing that the terminal is a bad layout tool. I guess? But many of the things that would make the terminal into a better layout tool would get in the way of forcing developers to provide a pure-text interface for their apps.

In the same way, many of the features people want to pull into HTML (data-bindings for tables, content reflow between arbitrary elements, arguably a lot of the custom element/template work that Google is doing) are kind of counterproductive once you start looking at HTML as an interface instead of as a programming tool.
I reckon that 3" of rain in a day would cause serious flooding here in southern Colorado. It'd certainly set a record! I don't think I've seen so much in my entire life, so it floors me to hear it's no big in Dallas
I'm struggling to read those as being different. UK English reader.
Grinding to a halt: the effects of the increasing regulatory burden on research [pdf]
It would be depressing if they were suggesting this style of language for literature, but they are absolutely not suggesting that. They are suggesting it for bureaucratic situations, like a utility company sending a bill or a goverrment body issuing notes about how to fill in a driving licence application form. A utility bill is never going to be a thrill to read, so if using simpler language means that some recipients understand they're exempt from a charge when they wouldn't have realised otherwise, or are simply able to read it a bit faster, then that's a clear win.

Frankly, it's more important to maximise the number of people that understand government advice than it is to maximise your enjoyment of application forms.

The advice is not even necessarily for situations that are partway between factual and pleasure, like a blog post or your example of a news article (or a HN comment!). In those cases it could still be helpful to bear the advice in mind, but without taking it too seriously.
there will be another one at 29.08 in Berlin! Its for free and everyone is invited :-)
Depends, as the article states the swizzling is only activated unless there is debuggers,etc or the app being in the "wrong" region.

Not entirely sure how Apple's review-process works but if a majority of it is done in Mountain View there's a large chance that most reviewer devices aren't well spread out w/r/t to setting them to other regions.
That makes no sence, many demands are not elastic. You are bot going to buy 10x mor macbooks, shoes, and baking powder if you are 10x wealthier.
> Other scientists should be building their own apparatus, writing and running their own code. That the experiment is actually different is what validates the hypothesis, which specifies the salient conditions leading to the outcome.

The problem here is a step before this: The results of these "identical" experiments are so wildly different there is nothing valid to propose, let alone for a recreation to compare against.
It's been two years and the site redesign is still slow, buggy and ugly. Continue this thread links don't work on comments. The inline video player UX is inconsistent, and placement on the page is bizarre. I use old.reddit.com but even that is broken. All self referential links redirect you the newer broken version of reddit, so you find yourself switching between new and old interfaces all the time.

I have so many questions for their engineering department.
Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data
Having other people operate servers for you is very convenient, even for very technical people.

For example you could host your own mail server for personal email but almost nobody does that. It's a lot of work and you can get better server for free.
Some people choose to live in the country, off the grid, and wonder why people would want the live in a city (under closer scrutiny of others and the government). For this “freedom” to work they run all their own infrastructure, need to manage their own defense (against fire and wild animals), and have little or no support if things go really wrong but they prefer it this way, it suits them.

Meanwhile the city dweller chooses the opposite for many reasons and makes different concessions, but it suits them.

Neither is these are strictly wrong but to claim one is better than the other _for everyone_ is misguided and is essentially what this argument is here. Pick your own path but don’t presume it’s the right one for everybody and don’t destroy the other’s ecosystem such that they can no longer choose it.
Bump. Yes, why the ominous copyright? It's plain silly.
Have they ever fallen off, spilled the sand, and then you find that you hate sand because it's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere?
You can do it with Resistance Bands which are super light.
Keybase Client Contributors Graph
Why is there an abundance of note taking apps? Why is it that this particular category of software/apps sees a new one every now and then?
> I fucking hate virtual scrolling. Twitter is particularly bad at this - it breaks search.

Not just twitter! Discourse has this "feature" too, breaking search as well. They "helpfully" provide overrides to the built-in search function, but it's a) restricted and b) not what I want. It's not what I want because it does NOT search inside the topic only but inside the whole website. It's restricted because I can't search for some word/phrase within a post. My browser also allows me to highlight searched phrases, but that requires the browser search to be triggered in the first place.

For a while you could circumvent it by pressing / which on Firefox triggers search, but guess what, Discourse "helpfully" redirected it to their broken search as well.

It's a disturbing trend that Discourse is being deployed so widely, replacing older, better working, alternatives.
What do you want them to say? ‘Yeah we really hoped this wouldn’t happen but I guess it did’

It’s not like you can stop a hurricane.
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