skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but I don't know how interesting it is, it will soon be forgotten.

Basically I see a lot of observations like this, where people reminisce how things "used to be" based on the technological limitations of first gen tech. One guy was complaining on my Facebook about how the battery went dead on his car remote and he misses the day when you could start the car with a physical key. Well, from a UX perspective, the key was never intrinsically desired. What is actually desired is that "only authorized users can access the car and start the engine, and without any delay in doing so". Unfortunately for him, his new car didn't have as expensive of tech as mine. In my Lexus even if the battery is completely dead, you can hold the key fob close to the steering column and it can still read the chip. The ultimate version of the technology will have no flaws or caveats and just always work for authorized users without them needing to remember to carry an object or have batteries.

So yeah the first versions of phones had terrible UX, they sounded when the owner shouldn't have been disturbed. But what we must remember is that this state of affairs should have never come to exist in the first place. It's just at the time, no one knew how to remedy it.

This type of thing will soon be forgotten except for an obscure reference in history books explaining why some time period story makes sense (why the father got enraged at being woken up). Meanwhile, until then, bringing it up in conversation will be a good way to signal to young people that you are "really, really old". It is barely a blip no the radar once humans have had phones for 1000 years.
Incredible that it's cheaper now to physically travel across the Atlantic and deliver your 10 word message in person, all expenses paid, than it was to send it by wire.
I think “more efficient” is probably better phrasing: The amount of calendar time required to reach a given recall level will be longer, but the time spent actively developing that memory will be less and it will fade more slowly over time as compared to massed review (cramming).
>> You have to do something that sounds to most other people like a bad idea.

Any examples of this in B2B/Enterprise-Tech startups ? (likes of SnowFlake, Slack etc)
When I was young in NZ, they were zebra crossings. But then I noticed that they started more and more to be a pair of lines across the road than the zebra patterns, and the name seemed to gradually fall out of use.
But the author, presumably non-american, was able to solve the challenge, so obviously it didn't prove him american. But it did prove him human because humans have that innate flexibility (if they choose to!) to recognize stuff and understand the intent even when it's not completely unambiguous or immediate. And that's the point.
Even in the US things are different from state to state, in California every uncontrolled intersection has 'crosswalks' where pedestrians have right of way, even if they are not painted in. Pedestrians are not supposed to cross in the middle of a block, unless there's a marked crossing (which is the only place you're likely to see an actual zebra crossing)
Yes, even Android has this issue. It's definitely a legacy carried over from the US - data is still expensive there and carriers probably discourage phone makers from sending large data over their network.
Apple is making $435,000 profit per employee. There is clearly some slack there. Under your arguments, shouldn't that profit per employee be significantly smaller?
>Back in the day I got my weekly homeopathic dose of assembly language from a local home computer magazine.

I had the same experience, until I (we)found that the knowledge of those magazines were taken from books, so I(we) went to the source, the library of the University.

I was a kid at the time and had friends that shared the same interests as me. The library was magical.

Even today, when there is lots of amazing materials on the web, the real deep stuff is in books.

One of the great things of Internet, specially videos is that they introduce you to a topic so you can understand the book.
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (2007)
While I agree holding your own views and opinions help with doing something novel and different. I do feel like articles like this are mostly used to cover up and excuse hostility, bad work environments and Jobs esque management styles.

You can have groundbreaking ideas without "disrupting" every single part of your work life. Assuming large groups of people can't think for themselves is both short sighted and insulting. Not everyone is in the position to push their views on their environment without repercussions.

I'm pretty sure a janitor or administrator can think for themselves really well. It's their bosses that limit their subordinates, not the employees limiting themselves.
Rhetorical Flourishes Considered Harmful?
Hohmann transfer is for going between two bodies which are both orbiting a third, central body no?
If you wanna operate in some market you should at least try to speak the local language.

That's a well understood protocol too.
They will still have a faux "belisha ball" (just an orange disk) next to them
It seems to me that throughout the essay Paul Graham keeps undermining his own claims. Early on he states:

> Independent-mindedness seems to be more a matter of nature than nurture.

Subsequently he starts giving advice about how to make yourself more independently-minded:

> Can you make yourself more independent-minded? I think so. This quality may be largely inborn, but there seem to be ways to magnify it, or at least not to suppress it.

> But if you surround yourself with independent-minded people, you'll have the opposite experience: hearing other people say surprising things will encourage you to, and to think of more.

> You can also take more explicit measures to prevent yourself from automatically adopting conventional opinions. The most general is to cultivate an attitude of skepticism.

etc.

Only to come back to claims about the strength of certain natural tendencies:

> I don't think we can significantly increase our resistance to being told what to think. It seems the most innate of the three components of independent-mindedness; people who have this quality as adults usually showed all too visible signs of it as children.

> Everyone I know who's independent-minded is deeply curious, and everyone I know who's conventional-minded isn't. Except, curiously, children. All small children are curious. Perhaps the reason is that even the conventional-minded have to be curious in the beginning, in order to learn what the conventions are.

I guess the overall takeaway would be that intellectual independence is primarily innate, but can be cultivated with targeted effort.

Personally I find this view unconvincing, or at least not well specified. I suspect early care and environment play a much larger role than biology in developing one's intellectual attitudes, as well as personality.

To the extent to which there are genuinely biological factors involved, I would have been really curious to see more concrete evidence of what those factors might be.

Nevertheless, the article is sprinkled with nuggets of useful advice or insight, such as the following:

> If you later find yourself in a situation that makes you think "this is like high school," you know you should get out.

> try to meet as many different types of people as you can. It will decrease the influence of your immediate peers if you have several other groups of peers. Plus if you're part of several different worlds, you can often import ideas from one to another.

> You can expand the source of influences in time as well as space, by reading history.

> When you hear someone say something, stop and ask yourself "Is that true?"

> unfashionable ideas are disproportionately likely to lead somewhere interesting. The best place to find undiscovered ideas is where no one else is looking.
If you have an idea and nobody else is doing it, odds are not that you had a good idea; instead it is probably a bad idea that many others have had and failed at.

When you have a seemingly original idea figure out who else had it and ask why they failed. That will give you insight into what you need to do better. Sometimes you will realize that it was a bad idea, other times you will know what to change to make it work.
From my personal experience I'd say java is much more forgiving than c/cpp and things like debugging or dependency management make it a tempting option in a time-constrained environment.
A literal oldie but goodie:
https://wraabe.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/an-ocr-cliche-into-h...

Granted this is mostly a kerning issue.

Without wider textual context the correct answer is hard to determine.
While this looks cool, kinda like the UI from some 90ies SciFi movie come to live... what is it? As in, yeah, I can click around, but I don't see what it really does...
America says, among other things, "you may not import products form countries without suitable labour standards" and works to solve that problem.
It is not a fair comparison to mention SSN, since the US law enforcement and fraud prevention not even comparable. You can ruin someone's life by exploiting their SSN, but in Brazil, the damage that can be done by knowing your CPF is way lower, specially because it is supposed to be a public number and security is implemented in other ways.

That said, yeah, the CPF can be used to do cross company identification, BI/AI/Data science and all sorts of optimizations in the marketing and can be used to scam you. But lets be honest here: Software industry in Brazil is mostly incompetent and largely lacking the expertise to make it happen. A few companies might do well using this data, but the cost is so high, for so little gain, it is completely laughable in comparison of what US companies just with your email and phone paired together.
"I doubt there are leaderless organisations."

That's what I suspect as well. If you don't specify who the leaders are, some will emerge anyway. Perhaps there's some advantages there, but one obvious disadvantage is that the org structure is now undocumented.
I Discovered the Most Common Word in Queen Lyrics
An overview of this idea and how I turned it into a real Python API
How Apple might completely take over end users' computers
I'm not quite sure what is driving your passivity here.

The fear that other people might benefit in some way.
Personally, an appealing part of GA is clarifying that the magnetic field is best viewed as an "oriented area", instead of a pseudo-vector [1], which is a concept that is frequently ill-defined. Usually, lecturers say that the magnetic field is essentially a vector, but to be careful that it flips directions when you mirror space. But how then can you check this by just looking at the usual three coordinates of the vector?

With GA, you associate the magnetic field with an oriented plane element. Oriented planes have this flip-mirroring property. Because space is 3D, you have exactly one vector to which this plane element is perpendicular, so you can identify the field with a vector. This is called the Hodge duality, and this particular form is accidental to 3D space.

If you need more convincing, the magnitude of the magnetic field is given by the cross-product, which calculates the area spanned by two vectors.

You could argue that you don't need GA for this, only to use the exterior product instead of the cross product. But by using an algebra that contains both vectors and oriented areas, you can effectively sum the electric and magnetic fields. This will give you pretty compact and beautiful equations, which is the essence of this article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudovector
There may be a difference if you’re actively working in cold weather, where the CPU is generating heat that keep the internal battery temperatures up.
Before I discovered the Buster plugin, I used to try to be as unhelpful as possible in my forced Google AI training sessions.

I'd use the audio option in the reCraptcha and then see how little of what I heard I could get away with actually entering into the form. Often it sufficed to just type one word out of the entire audio clip or even enter a word which sounded similar [eg. audio clip says "tranced", I write "transit"]. The most satisfying ones of all where when, after listening to a complete sentence containing either word, I could pass the reCraptcha by simply typing "the" or "an" into the form.

One of the things that I find slightly disappointing about Buster is that it types in the entire sentence, when solving the reCraptcha. I hate to think Google are under the impression I've suddenly started trying harder!
Former Closed Town Next to One of Russia’s Largest Nuclear Power Plants
> Though I find that many Raven's progressive matrices-type questions are a lot easier if you know about symmetry groups and XOR.

Yes, at that point people who have already developed certain mindware have an advantage, but arguably that's the point of an IQ test. You're not testing the potential of a person to eventually be really smart, you're testing for the current problem-solving potential.
From my experience, and just a rule of thumb:

If you give a bug to a software developer to fix, the good software developer will probably rewrite some code and in the end the LOC count will be the same or less. The bad/lazy software developer will glue some fix on top of the bug and add additional LOCs.
Nah, discounts are on the 10% to 15% range, come on!
This signpost stealing seems to be a common thing. I know of a town in France called Condom which also suffered this fate a lot.
Use the Team, not the chat.
> Even Google has taken to occasionally popping up CAPTCHAs just so I can see search results!

The most annoying one for me recently has been stackoverflow. The most basic use of stackoverflow (other than arriving through a web search) is to use its own search bar to search for something. Every time I do so, it asks for a captcha. It would make some sense to ask for a captcha when asking or answering a question, but why ask for a captcha when searching? And it's always the first search after opening the browser (the browser is set up to clear cookies on close), so it's not some sort of rate limiting.
You should ask your carrier why they are charging for SMS. There is no reason to do that in 2020.

Though you are right Apple needs to deal with the reality of their customers.
This seems like baseless conjecture, unless you have an example of a union (literally any union in history) being busted by "identity politics".

Where I am from (the UK) unions are relatively commonplace, I have even been in one in the past (the university and colleges union), they seem like very stable organisation to me. I've never even heard of a union closing in the UK, although I guess it happens occasionally.
Microsoft invented AJAX. Google popularized it and developed V8 to make large scale JavaScript applications feasible. Both originally did what they did for email clients.
Did anyone find the article too long? Don't get me wrong - the first few paragraphs were engaging and thought-provoking. The rest of the article looked as if it could be condensed to two paragraphs.

This is not a criticism - I'm just curious to know if I was bored because I have a short attention span, or if the amount of novel/useful content in the article plummeted sharply beyond the first few paragraphs.
PC gaming is the spearhead of planned obsolescence. Everything else comes after the gaming market has paid the hefty markup.
For a mass-market client, yes. But in an ideal world there would be alternatives that don't aim for market domination catered to a more advanced user base. Those could include functionality that would be unsafe for users who don't know exactly how it works.
Johns Hopkins Newsletter deletes article re excess Covid-19 deaths
The author states:

>"It’s beyond our scope to explain why, but this readiness mechanism really works only for network sockets and pipes — to the point that epoll() doesn’t even accept storage files."

Could someone say here explain why this readiness mechanism really works only for network sockets and pipes and not for disk?
I don't need a laptop that works at 3 Celsius. I need a laptop that won't completely shut down if temporarily exposed to 3 Celsius.
“Accentism” is real, but impossible to end
It is surely a mere coincidence that every time PG makes up some category of elite people he finds himself right in the middle of it.
It's not a car. Legally anyway.
Show HN: I am giving 63% off for my upcoming 3D library just for today
I like it when you speak Deutsch to me.
At one point a vendor tried to claim that ReCAPTCHA was accessible because of the audio fallback. No-one in my team or at the vendor could actually pass it, so we blocked them from implementing it.
They probably didn't, otherwise they would've not done it. They had hundreds of years of data to base that decision on.
For that and privacy reasons i run my home automation with Home Assistant project
Boooyi, that was my imgur submission back in 2014 :)
Helles = Lager
> Why would indian carriers absorb the cost of an international SMS

Because SMS pricing is a scam and in practice is a rounding error to handle all of those activation messages. Both countries should just exclude that number from billing.

This is similar to how European carriers suddenly started competing on free international calls/data once EU enforced better rules. We've been told for decades it's really expensive, but now? Nah.
Mark Twain said, whenever you find yourself siding with the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.

I have found this saying to serve me well enough to memorize it.

I think the reason is that by the time an opinion has propagated to the majority, it is already outdated, and several years (sometimes decades) behind the newest available knowledge.
While I absolutely believe what you said is true--that developers often want to get away from these lindane of managerial activity--they do so at their own long term peril. FWIW, I would imagine most professors at research universities aren't excited by the idea of being on all of these same managerial committees, but outsourcing that to a tier of administrators sounds worse.
Well, that is what extensions are for in Thunderbird. As long as atleast one poweruser is willing, they can write the powertools.
If Apple had a clear path to make even more money by expanding and employing more people, I think they would. As it stands, they’ve got expansion opportunities fairly risk-free by having millions of devs 30% working for them, so that might be their focus.

I’m not saying companies will invest right up to break even, but that they will attempt to avoid going beyond that point.
I get about 8 frames per second on this site. I don't understand how websites are built so badly these days.
I don't know where you live but I've spent enough winters right next to Cupertino, 20 minutes walking distance from 1 Infinite Loop to be precise, and it's not warm at all, in fact it's cold as hell without heating (not as cold as some places apparently, but still cold enough to freeze your balls off, or cause your laptop to shutdown). So no, it's chemistry at work, not "Cupertino is warm enough to not have this problem."
Yep. I always say start with the "better C" part of C++ to get stronger type checking and then add in other features only as needed. All abstractions should be with minimal overhead with a strict pay only what you need policy.
Google's CAPTCHA is specifically engineered to gaslight you though.
Often it will ask you to identify fire hydrants or bicycles, and despite selecting all of them (and it being easy to recognise them as they are fairly unique objects), it will still give you an error, and give you a new set of images to try again. If it is feeling really malevolent it will even give you a third round.
Hell, it happens regularly on the second and especially the third try it will give you excruciatingly slowly crossfading images, and the last image routinely seems to need 2-4 clicks to finally make the object it wants you to identify go away.

Hcaptcha (Cloudflare's alternative) is an absolutely breeze by comparison, and it even allows you to pre-generate a bunch of tokens via an extension (PrivacyPass).
True, but I would argue this is not a problem only Apple seems to have.
That's the absolute best outcome for Google. Not that they get a couple more data points for self-driving cars, or make the website owner happy they protected the site from bots, but that you switched from Firefox to Chrome.
Can academics build software? Should they?
This is a talk I gave at virtual conference (SPLASH) about the incentive system in academia and how it is designed to prevent us from building any non-trivial software. I would love comments (yes, the talk was recorded while with covid)
That isn’t part of the relationship between an owner of capital and labor. And good luck getting votes by pushing a policy that will cause prices to rise causing people to be able to purchase less (even if it is in most voters’ long term interests). Voters will focus on the fact that they need to reduce consumption in the immediate future.
Author of the blog here. Thanks for posting. Feel free to drop me a line on the site if you want to chat about the project(s).
>" Unix was that, as well, compared to many of its contemporary OSes"

Which other OSes from the era are you referring to here?
In Colorado, pedestrians have right of way regardless of where they cross. Bikes and horses are treated as vehicles and entitled to the entire lane if they want. If the road is one lane, then uphill has right of way.
Rockchip RK3588 specifications revealed – 8K vid, 6 TOPS NPU, PCIe 3.0, 32GB RAM
Odds are, HRT is doing all the muscle work.

Low-dosage testosterone is already prescribed to despondent older adults in "cosmetic psychopharmacology" circles.
"Identify which country calls them vasistas because Germans used to ask "was ist das?" from a smaller aperture on the door before opening the actual door"
What exactly is amazing? I honestly do not get it.
Undersea explorer Victor Vescovo has piloted submersibles to the deepest depth
Wow - what a genious.

Plenty of places in the world charge for SMS. Ask all you want, doesn't mean things will change.

MY wife just applied for a mortgage in her home country, they won't approve it until they have a picture of her on file.. some places just do things differently hence the whole 'please test outside of the US' point of this post which appears to have gone over your head.
Building a User Research Team
The case of the missing dark matter: new suspect found in galactic mystery
Still, not everyone talks to users or has a user researcher to facilitate interviews and to support designers and product managers to get from insights to understanding what users want.

Building and running a great user research team takes much more than just a couple of surveys or talking to users. (Steve Bromley)

#prodmgmt #productleadership #userresearch #experimentation #interviewskills #researchmethods
Well, it didn’t break or anything, it just had to warm up, right? Was the battery discharged?

I am a little surprised it didn’t hibernate. That could potentially be a software issue.
“Spaced repetition” is a family of algorithms to determine what and when you should review. They’re optimized to minimize the amount of review time necessary to maintain a particular strength of memory over the long term.