skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From a consumer perspective it does offer more comfort for a narrow sliver of affluent teenagers, and a possible service vehicle for companies, municipalities etc.

I like how you casually toss that. This is not a detail. This is the core market of the car and it has been perfectly designed to address it.

This is a clean, compact, two seaters with a size and performance profile perfectly suited for a city looking like Paris. It's probably going to make a killing as a ride sharing solution.

It's a very interesting new value proposition (small, slow, clean, quite cheap) and it does so using an extremely aggressive engineering proposition (only 250 parts, perfectly symmetrical, similar front and back).

This car is a design master
class. The fact that you fail to see that is on you. Meanwhile it is selling very well.
The iPad merely replicated the already known notebook and tablet workflow. The Apple watch originally tried to be a smaller iPhone (and failed at it), but Apple was smart and innovative enough to pivot to a new workflow which smartphones can't easily replicate.
Last I heard the coronavirus survives a lot longer in freezing conditions than at room temperature.
Here are the current grad student salaries at UC Davis [1].

A "Teaching Assistant" (AKA a grad student is TAing) is paid $45,138.00 per year, and a grad student who is currently paid out of grants earns between $42,729.00 for "Graduate Student Researcher - Step I" and $83,727.00 for "Graduate Student Researcher - Step X". I was slightly shocked, but this is the official salary scale. Granted, very few grad students are likely compensated at the upper end of that range, but still.

UC Berkeley [2] and UC San Diego [3] appear to be quite similar, so this is would seem to be somewhat representative of the UC system overall.

My own institution would seem to be actually lagging behind somewhat compared to this.

In any case, graduate student compensation has increased significantly in absolute terms over the past decade or two.

[1] https://grad.ucdavis.edu/resources/student-employment/salary...

[2] https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/1819...

[3] https://grad.ucsd.edu/financial/employment/student-pay-rates...
GR-> GPS ~50 years?

Superconductivity -> NMR ~60 years?

Do we have that long?
It was broken - very broken, so broken that you had to enter the exact text of the thing you wanted.

It was that way for years, but at some point recently they finally seem to have fixed it - I can now enter the start, end, or just part of anything I want to find, and it finds it! You know, the bare minimum you'd expect from a search function!

I'm actually a big fan of Windows 10, but it boggles the mind how long they left such a key part of the Windows experience in such a sorry state.
Your last point about career development is an interesting one that comes up. If you are remote but your co-workers are interacting in person I can see how there would be an informational advantage in favor of your co-workers that is unavoidable.

My preference is to WFH most of the time, but not all the time. When WFH for awhile, I can much more easily get into a zen-like state of concentration after an hour or so that is extremely difficult to get in an office. At the office I have to contend with constant sources of distractions and interruptions (people walking up on foot, phone ringing, non-work related discussion, ...) which has often made me feel like the only time I can push through a hard problem is during off-hours when no one is around. Most importantly, being in a zen-like state while working and getting stuff done is what makes work enjoyable for me.

That said, whenever there is a significant amount of collaboration or a need for a lot of round-trip communication with someone (new employee, need to bring someone up to speed, ...) it's better in person - but I find this to be only an occasional need.
My take is that China will eventually surpass the United States in terms of GDP but the USA will continue to lead in terms of per-capita.
I loved the UX on it too, but the crappy locked-down web browser killed it for me.. I don't even use apps, but since I couldn't load Firefox with uBlock on there, and there weren't any single-purpose apps, it was really rough
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I can't write dynamic languages because of this. I would often not know what type a function expects or returns if it wasn't for compile time suggestions (which in turns allows language servers).

Makes scripting languages really hard for me to use as a consequence.
I think it's very interesting to see publicly a back and forth dialogue of two sides discussing the merits and demerits of a scientific proposal.

It's a rare sight, and the contrarian view is necessary, we need red teams so that things don't become too one-sided and people can overcome their biases. I think the inherent structure in academia and in institutions like CERN make it difficult for dissenting voices to be heard, so I'm glad that the view that's going against the grain is getting more attention. In this era of censorship and punishing of whistleblowers I'm surprised she's freely critiquing their core arguments. Although I do see a lot of ad hominem attacks.
Also, under-engineering can sometimes mean writing more code, or take longer to implement.
He's got a fair bit of interstellar travel in what I've read but perhaps I've read an unrepresentative sample.
Thanks for the assist! I have one comment:

> The equivalent of `finally`/destructors is `unwind-protect`, which has to interoperate with the condition mechanism but doesn't deal with conditions itself.

It actually doesn't need to interoperate with the condition system; it has to interoperate with the stack-unwinding primitives - `go`/`tagbody`, `return-from`/`block`, and `throw`/`catch` - that are one of the foundations of the condition system.

If it works with those, then it works with a condition system, since all control flow that happens inside the condition system is a derivative of those primitive operators.
you read the links, thank you!
If you plan to leave Vietnam as soon as you are able to, then it’s the same.

If you don’t, it can be problematic to incorrectly believe that your visa has been extended. The law that was passed to enable the “automatic stay extension” refers to overstay fines being waived when the tourist subsequently leaves VN. If you instead don’t leave, you may face difficulties or costs to legalise your status. In the meantime, you can’t do many things like open a bank account or get a drivers license, since those things require valid visas and you don’t have one.

(I’m currently in VN, working closely with an immigration lawyer, and have seen first-hand the issues caused by people not understanding their status while they are on this “automatic stay extension”.)
You'd never know with Will the Chill.

In the meantime perl11.org went down.
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If, for example, there is no requirement to support multiple currencies then there is no need to spend time on designing for multiple currencies "just in case".

This is not choosing an easy solution, this is doing just what needed instead of wasting time and efforts on something that may never actually be needed.

Now, the design should be sound and follow good practices. This is how to limit the rework needed when new features are added because it is impossible to design to cover all possible future features: Do the minimum but do it cleanly.
Thanks for the suggestion. Songs are ranked and listened to only within a genre so I would expect each genre to end up with its own popular set of songs.

I am definitely open to further experimentation but so far users have enjoyed the ranking process and it is easier to say I like this song more than this song than it is to say this song is good vs bad.

Also the upvote downvote system is ripe for abuse comparatively. Because LaunchSong doesn't let you link to a song to rank it gives artists without an existing audience a level playing field (because people cannot say go upvote my songs). Furthermore the elo rating system lets newer songs climb more quickly
Let me get some more content on there haha! Right now it's a little sparse
Wildly inappropriate and an absolute dealbreaker. Expensify has been entrusted with employee contact information for the purpose of providing their contracted service. It's not available to them to send out any message they please.

I can't even imagine considering doing this myself.
I think you don’t understand how large the district of Columbia is. You can drive across it in about 15 minutes. The district of Columbia is tiny, there are not 19 states that are smaller, and I challenge you to list them
That’s fine as long as you have balance and remember to do other things for fun too and not live all your life doing projects like that, because ultimately at the longer term there is nothing and you may have huge regrets of not having truly lived.
I have never seen a reliable source for this anecdote. I strongly believe it's fictional. Most of the sources either don't cite anything, or go back to Art and Fear, and the presentation there doesn't say anything about where this happened.

Of course, the idea that you need practice to be good at things is obvious. But first, that's not quite the claim in the anecdote, which is about being told to aim for high quality. In any case, the vivid anecdote would be better off if people were clear that it's a hypothetical.
> I was thinking about switching over to Apple Music for a bit to see if I like the whole user experience a bit more even if apple music on its own is inferior.

I’m not sure what part of the service you consider ‘inferior’ to Spotify (I personally dislike Spotify’s UI/UX), but  Music’s iOS integration is really great. I can also use it in my android devices and Sonos stuff too.

I also find Music’s professionally-curated playlists (and radio stations now that there are a variety) to be far superior to any algorithm I’ve come across for music discovery.
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Understanding de Beauvoir requires more than an ideological commitment to feminism. It requires an education in the liberal arts, or at least being well read.

She isn’t Gloria Steinem. She’s an academic writer who uses a technical vocabulary, and assumes familiarity with lots of mid-20th century (and earlier) writers.

One can be a committed feminist, and reject quite a bit of de Beauvoir’s thought.

HN just isn’t the correct forum for a meaningful debate on existentialism.
It has been nearly impossible to find objective analysis of China. Most sources are either soft propaganda or irrational jingoism.

What are some good sources for a rational discussion about China's growing dominance?
Someone on HN recently said that was some kind of problem with the image viewer being. UWP app. Don't recall the details tho.

Definitely drives me nuts though - how hard is it to show a JPEG?!
I use middle mouse click, thumb mouse click, control click, and right mouse click + left click on "open in new tab".

Each method is dependent upon various things including, how I'm sitting, number of items I plan to open, number of comment sections vs just article link, and most importantly, how sore my hands are. Some methods are faster but strain my wrist more than I care to do, so I do those sparingly.

One of the reasons I love this site is the UI, it's very simple and gets out of the way for you. If you want to change the opening mechanism to only do new tabs, you are completely able to do so with code.

To answer your question, there are a variety of reasons why HN may choose to do it this way, other sites have different reasons so you see different site behavior.
I’m not saying it’s bad, it’s just grossly inferior to the native app on both macOS and Windows.
Exactly! Thanks for answering the question! We exist to help with music promotion for artists and music discovery for listeners but claim no rights to any of the songs!
I wish this allowed you to follow # instead of @. To me twitter is a way to follow topics and get an idea of what's the buzz in my communities.
Better Than JSON?
Technical debt starts to matter when the initial project changes focus or patches start mountig.

These days rewrites are popular. They make sense in some cases (when the project is smaller or introducing new framework). But in others where the original developer and business people have left and no one knows exactly how things work aside from they need to continue to do the same. In those cases fixing technical debt is extremely important.

A startup is more likely to fall into the above category if they ignore their technical debt because rewrites are hard and messy.
I would imagine it becomes the airline which you flew’s responsibility to put you on a plane to return you if they failed to verify you had valid entry documents for the EU.

I do not know this for certain but I believe this is the process followed if someone (somehow) manages to board an international flight without a valid passport
So basically there's three groups of countries:

- Developing countries where things are visibly getting better every year

- Developing countries where there is a crisis or war of some sort to stop things getting better every year

- Developed countries, that the TFA talks about, where there is improvement but it's slow and not apparent.

As a rough estimate, of the ~190 countries in the world, the first group is by far the largest, and the second group is by far the smallest. Am I wrong?
It is based on projections. You can tell because the tree isn't 50 layers deep. They're treating a lot of state outcomes as a foregone conclusion. The description specifically calls out Michigan, Minnesota and Texas as states that aren't really certain, but are treated as such by this visualization.
See also neutron diffraction- it's been used for decades to get fine structure info.
Did the math-y parts of Physics translate well to AI?
Why great design is timeless
The article mentions that:

- Framing tasks or items in pseudo-sets works by (a) conveying the notion of a larger group or entity, which (b) increases perceptions of incompleteness, and in turn (c) a
activates people’s desire for completeness.

- We naturally find complete, cohesive units to be symbolic and meaningful, so we strive to achieve them. Think of the slight annoyance you may feel when buying a ‘6 pack’ of sodas with 1 missing.

- If the goal is too high to achieve (e.g. workout 10 times this week), we expect we won’t reach a satisfying endpoint - so we won’t even start it.

The article also links this paper: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/37985562/barasz,...
no zoom feature at the moment.
I think data privacy protection is different than regulating speach and should be handled differently. This is not unlike how we regulate real world forums and doctors managing personal information differently.

Cant we have companies self regulate what gets posted on their platform while assuring that they are accountable for not abusing personal information.
> Why is [logging in via Google] more secure? When logging in with one of the buttons above, we can't store your password.

I'm ok with you storing my password, I'd create a unique one, this seems secure.

I don't want to log in via Google though, I see it as less privacy friendly.

It's also arguably less secure; if my Google account is compromised, the attacker gains access to other services.
I use a Windows 8.1 tablet for work and really like that while 8.1 has the same excruciatingly long load time for the default image viewer, the old one from 7 (or maybe going back to XP?) is still available to set as the default. As long as I avoid the fullscreen apps, I think I like 8.1 better than 10 for usability.
Under XJ, China is declining. One of the big reasons for China's meteoric rise was that stupid laws weren't being enforced properly or at all, and free speech was on the rise which in turn led to more creativity and economic freedom. Under that old reality, I was worried that China would inevitably surpass the West, but Zhou Enlai & Deng Xiaoping's golden egg laying goose is dead now in exchange for more centralized power. China's destiny is now to become a giant Galapagos copy machine courtesy of the new emperor.

Who knows; maybe the new social credit system will prove me wrong?
And on Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8918
> How are you working out "most successful"?

Sales. How else do you measure success of a consumer electronics product?

> Beats aren't rated particularly highly apart from by label-followers

While Beats haven't been highly rated by audiophiles, they are popular and sound quality and in particular Bluetooth performance has improved significantly under Apple.

AirPods... well they are AirPods. They are might well be the most universally loved product in Apple's product line right now. Maybe the most loved consumer electronics product on the market right now.
Which like all the projects other promises completely meaningless. All proposal I've seen for PoS are broken
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Visa runs are not really possible at present. No land borders in the region are open to foreigners (most aren’t even officially open to locals), no tourist visas or visas on arrival are being issued, and visa waivers are suspended.
Then read http://nautil.us/issue/45/power/what-quantum-gravity-needs-i... linked to from point 18.

In summary, the reason for quantum gravity experiments is that investigating contradictions in our theory has always been the best source of progress in science, and experiment has to lead theory. We know that QM and GR contradict each other, and therefore we should research that.

She gives a variety of experiments that can research that. The equipment for which is of use in a variety of other sciences. (Particularly astronomy.)
On self-tracking, exobrains and quantified self
If you do it yourself it's not service to service. You could have done that with the Spotify json takeout.
Which may be a great thing if it saves you time refactoring or modifying code down the line. The hardest thing about code is not writing it but reading it, and clever succinct code can be very hard to read.
$1T of filthy token scams
thank you. chronoflotimline is pretty sweet.
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Thanks for the feedback. I definitely agree with you on the design and information fronts and will be working a lot on this piece.

For functionality piece I would love more feedback. Do you have any suggestions of features you would love to see? I have received very positive feedback from musicians, but am only just starting to get listeners using the site!

I am also curious if you used the site on mobile or web. For now I'd say the experience is far superior on web!
After maybe 2,000 hrs in each of the first 3, I lean Steelcase but it's personal preference:

- Leap V2 at work, near perfect: I almost never think about it, can cross my legs any way possible, legs under me, sit however, never uncomfortable. Feels like I can "sit hard" into it, snug, backrest gently pushing no matter how I stretch

- Leap V1 at home, almost better: armrests are stronger, enough so I can do dips directly on them, and the backrest stops shorter and rolls more (can actually lean head all the way back)

- Humanscale Freedom w/ headrest, past work favorite: nice recline geometry, armrests barely strong enough for dips, but surface not flexible like Leaps

- Herman Miller Mirra: recline is very nice, and the seat itself has a very nice geometry, but I don't like how cold the mesh gets

- Herman Miller Aeron: pretty good when it fits, but recline is kinda binary, not as analog. My biggest complaint is how hard it is, if you ever happen to touch something not mesh

I'd like to try a Gesture (and an Embody, sure..) to replace my L1, or just get an L2. I'm not picky with desks (28-30") or keyboards. The only thing I adjust on my Leaps is the recline resist, from time to time.
cool, you know what I'm talking about then :)

and yes, I agree about the authoritarian mindset being bad for a lot of things. But that's the culture - you can't impose western values on a people that don't share the same underlying assumptions about humanity. That's the thing that got to me most: the people I talked to about it genuinely don't believe that "all people are created equal". If you don't believe that, then democracy makes no sense at all.
On a philosophical basis I do like the idea that no one person, nation, or corporation has control over the currency. And the irreversable nature of transactions is something I could accept, if I felt it was possible for me to have complete confidence in the security of my wallet.

But just the software-based ways that I could potentially be stolen from are too plausible to ignore. I have never felt that I could say with total certainty that my system is not compromised or vulnerable to compromise. Even a bug written with no malice could be my undoing. Working in the software industry has given me very little faith in the infallibility of software, both open and closed source.

Of course many people hold large quantities of crypto and are fine. But a few have it lost or stolen. Even super simple attacks sometimes work, like the malware that would poll the system clipboard waiting for it to contain for a BTC public key, and if found, swap it with one owned by the virus-writer -- so that you inadvertently paste the thief's key in as the destination for the transfer you're about to initiate. When I first heard about that attack, I thought it was clever and had to really think: hmm, would I have fallen for that? Usually I double check, but if they were smart enough to generate a large set of wallet public keys so they could replace the destination with one that starts with the same few characters, I probably could've been duped at some moment of carelessness.
The definition of "technical debt" is so pliable that we can easily regard all the parts of the system that are overengineered to be a form of technical debt.
Seems to me that technical debt needs to be dealt with as a function of the revenue the company/product is bringing in.

The wisdom comes from timing the investment so it’s not destroying the “mature” product due to entropy or strangling the new product due over engineering.

Startups do seem to have bigger issues than technical debt to deal with. Because relatively speaking, there are bigger mountains to climb early in the startup’s development.
Can you clarify what you mean by "obfuscating the dependency tree"?
I live in this state. I know these people better than the schmuck reporters. Just because the official numbers shrank doesn't mean the actual constituency did.

Do you also only think that crimes happen only if it gets reported? Meaning if 50 burglaries happen to 100 people but only 2 people reported it, does that mean the burglary rate is 2% or 50%? This is why I don't bother with these worthless metrics as I'll explain in the next paragraph regarding trump.

Did you ever wonder why a lot of people don't publicly come out as trump supporters? They have very liberal friends that they don't want to lose because they said they'd vote for trump. That sentiment still lingers here. Most leftist people who argue against trump vehemently do so in a way that these regular folk that end up voting for trump keep it under wraps because they're too scared to publicly say anything.

Just because the "numbers" shrank, doesn't me the actual voters did. There is a lot of societal pressure involving politics and only on the left is it worthy of breaking a friendship over. This is why many white liberals who voted trump keep their mouths shut.
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I think attractiveness confounds a comparison between Brad Pitt/Leonardo DiCaprio with Zuckerberg, Bezos and Gates. Is there an actor who isn't considered highly attractive that you think the average person would hold in significantly higher regard than successful tech entrepreneurs?