skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that has always bothered me about advertising is that to work in that sphere you have to be more soulless than usual, even if it can have good outcomes or make many services possible. You have to spend 40+ hours a week coming up with ways to exploit human psychological weakness. You can dress it up in many other ways but that's the core unavoidable aspect of it. Only a tiny minority of the work goes into ads that simply state of a product's existence, and these often serve to make physical spaces uglier to live in.
Seems like the real problem is that somehow the powers that be, have been able to reshape the Internet which used to enable every person and or device connected to it, to communicate freely with any other person or device also connected to it at will, the powerful have now segmented it into so called platforms which take away these freedoms and infact coherence those connected to them into perceiving reality through their own construct. Simmilar to how media was controlled by the powerful few, pre-internet.

Why is anyone shocked that this has occured and will continue to, is it not the natural evolution of all past forms of mass communication?

Propeganda FTW, always!
Was this fellow a white haired gentleman in a velvet smoking jacket who travelled in a police box? He was always solving problems like that.
I was talking about the ones for Nintendo Switch. And they are pretty much complex games.

Back in 90's in order to survive game producers had to have sense of quality and knowledge of definition of "finished".
Both the data and my personal observations growing up in a conservative family in rural Oklahoma and Iowa back up my position. You say I'm in a bubble, but I've been surrounded by conservatives 31 out of the 37 years I've been alive. It's not that I don't understand their motivations, or arguments, or sentiments. My father believes every Muslim wants to kill or convert us. He has never met a Muslim. My mother believes welfare queens pick up their welfare checks in Cadillacs. My sister believes Donald Trump was delivered by God to save this country. My brother believes transwomen just want to molest his daughters. This is just my immediate family. My extended family gets even more colorful and overtly bigoted. Quite frankly, I'm tired of being told I just don't understand conservatives when I've been dealing with these people my entire life. Perhaps it's your perception of conservatives which needs to be adjusted.
It's not a problem at all - just go for it. They have a no questions asked 14-day return policy.

I usually charge in the morning when I'm getting ready / showering and that's usually enough to last the day.
I can't say anything about whether this is a good idea in general or not, but if they are going to do it, then why not just combine the allocation with the defered free into a single syntax ...

'void* x = defer_free_malloc (...);'
I believe that is the point. Google isn't updating for UI/UX reasons.
My major GDocs/Sheets frustration is that doing a paste-without-formatting in Mac/Firefox silently fails.

It works in Mac Chrome. No workaround that I can find.

This is a regression from say, 2 years ago. I used to be psyched that I could use GDocs for work but now I hate that I'm forced to use it for work.
This article is such a great opportunity for introspection ("what do we need in order to do better?"). It's too bad that the top comment has turned it into an opportunity for egotism ("they need us!").
Since this is a supply chain attack on software downloads, I think it's interesting to consider the implications for the security posture of a cloud-native organization.
While cloud-native is commonly recognized as less secure (because the cloud provider could be hacked!), there are a few categories of attacks exclusive to onprem software deployments:

1. You misconfigure the onprem software, making it more insecure than the alternatives. This does not occur with SaaS products.

2. The software delivery system is tampered with, and you download and run malicious code on your systems with high privileges. If you don't run it, this can't happen.

Cloud deployments aren't obviously safer, but they have clear advantages unless you are willing to pay top people to work on and secure each onprem deployment full-time.

NB: I don't actually believe "the cloud" is fundamentally more or less secure than onprem deployments.
Rather, I frequently hear people argue that a website being hacked - or the potential for it - justifies a movement to onprem, and I think this is (usually) false.
Exactly. The battery life of a Casio F-91W is roughly seven years, without recharging at all. Or think of those tritium markers that continously glow for more than ten years. Can't they power an Apple watch on tritium?
It also compares right out of the oven M1 with generation old Ryzen and 2 generations old Intel.
I'm not a specialist either but my understanding is that Apple has thrown a lot of resources (and hardware) at the problem (and have been doing so for a while, the M1 is simply the apotheosis), and it has paid off: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25257932

Nothing stops other ARM manufacturers from doing that, but it's expensive, and most manufacturers don't really have a reason to work this hard at it, they have a fairly low-margin biz and their clients aren't going to pay big bucks. For Apple however, these chips are completely structural, they already underlie huge amounts of their business and with the switch of Macs to ARM are slated to do so even more.

It may not be possible for x86 though, because of the architecture's complexity limits e.g. how wide you can decode, and more generally how much hardware you can keep fed concurrently.
> If the "casual exhibitionist" is harmed here, it's dwarfed by the harm already being done to subjects without consent.

If you look at the actual mechanisms by which harm happens in a revenge porn case, I think you'll find it isn't dependant on pornhub at all.

What do you think are the mechanisms by which revenge porn harms?
From the US 80-90's (c64/Amiga/DOS), I remember it as "disk". I always thought "disc" was European in origin.
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OK, I can kinda see that for the stuff at the top. However, most of the icons at the top correspond to a labeled item in the left sidebar, and each has a tooltip as well. I agree this isn't the best but I do not readily imagine a better way, either.

As for the stuff on the message level, left-pointing arrow has meant "reply" since the very first graphical MUA, the star is universal design language across Google properties including Chrome, and the three vertical dots for more actions is very common within and without Google.
> Not a problem in Covid times.

Covid times are just† ~2 years, not the lifetime of a person or a house.

†Knock on wood.
This notion that anybody criticizing one company must simultaneous criticize all companies is the worst sort of HN cancer.

Facebook is getting criticized? But what about Twitter?!?

Twitter? But what about Apple?!?

Apple? But what about Google?!?

Google? But what about Amazon?!?

Amazon? But what about Facebook?!?

Just stop. This is horse shit.
That only works when only a couple of governments are involved. Once (big if!) it becomes a free for all there is risk that you will send supplies and someone else will use them. Or maybe they just charge a ransom before you can get at your supplies - just send a robot out to where those supplies are going, "hide them", and ???. There are too many risks to trust that someone doesn't think of this.

I hope the rocket scientists are not caught as off guard as us computer people have been by ransomware and the like (note that viruses have been doing evil things for over 30 year and we still don't have a handle on it)
You can't implement the assertions at compile time since they are predicates evaluated at runtime. This is also why it is a performance hit on the code. I chose to use C-style macros because it is easier to debug than templates.
Now it makes sense why pornhub was so fearful and quickly deleted content.
1. That's impressive

2. My own knowledge of folk rock and subsequent visits to Google and Wikipedia have not helped me interpret this reference, in this context:

"Electric Dylan/Pete Seeger with the axe"

Help, please :-D
In the follow up article they describe how the Chinese are aggressively applying this technology during the last decades.
Another way to consider this issue is to ask whether we want to consume all of that content in the first place.
> Even Windows 10 interface looks better.

Whoah whoah whoah, let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

To start with, which part of the Windows 10 UI are you specifically referencing? It's quite the hodgepodge.
They underpay like crazy and don’t allow for any negotiations when it comes to comp.
Had a similar experience, “data” is used where it seems useful to explain an already made decision. Criticism is hostile and un-googley when it doesn’t fit the narrative. At the end of the day for the sake of the promo it’s not worth arguing.
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aaaaaaand the page is gone*

General reminder that your funny 404 page becomes instantly unfunny the second your tech department both publicly and catastrophically shits the bed: https://i.imgur.com/kNbScVH.png

* https://web.archive.org/web/20201213230906/https://www.solar...
I think his argument was that the person that controls the temperature is the "hot" person. In that case... you just let the others freeze? :-p
I assumed for weeks that the original Material Design launch video was parody. I'm a Brit, and sometimes American comedy just doesn't click with me.

I can still remember the feeling of surprise, followed by something more like horror, as I realised they were actually being serious, and that with their weight behind it, this mess of glaring flaws that numerous critics had picked up on from day one was likely to dominate a lot of UI work for the next several years. And sure enough, many of those flaws are still there today, hardly changed.
slack IS email.

corporate communication changed medium but remained the same.

paper/reports/memos > email clients > rich email clients > webmail+blackberry > webmail+email apps > slack (desktop email app)

it is just the first, crappy, desktop email app client. The incumbents will eat them soon, just like microsoft and oracle ate all other email clients in the 90s. I mean, slack is already in someone’s plate.
It’s been shocking to me how much Material Design has been worshipped in the design community and nobody has dared to pick out even the basic flaws in the design system, not even asking to go as far as saying that plain ‘boxes’ do not represent any ‘material’ and drop shadows are outdated.
Not round-tripping prefixes breaks other things, and this is around where I start more thoroughly agreeing that XML namespaces tried to do too much at once: mainly, there are XML-based definitions, I think including XPath and XSLT's use of it (or old XSLT's use of what might not have been XPath yet?), that use the ambient namespace prefix set as context for interpreting attribute values that contain XML names. If you might ever interchange some prefixes, you might even get similar “looks valid but means the wrong thing” problems.

And if you try to combine namespaces with DTDs (which is just an explosive mix to start with, and I think is just recommended to never do) you get other problems, because you're no longer allowed to add arbitrary namespace declarations in the middle, so anything that round-trips prefixes but might ever add redundant declarations of them won't reliably produce something that DTD-validates, and if you're transforming into a DTD from something that might have used other namespaces, you have to make sure to remove all the extra declarations, and…

Note that most of this is still “well-defined”, it's just awkwardly hairy. This is not to be taken as an excuse to implement the standard badly or incorrectly if you're going to handle it at all.
> We did a user study and they liked it, so it must be good.

I didn't see much of the first two, but I did see this one. I've worked for G as well as for a "fruity" FAANG company, and the difference between how they approach product and UI design is stark. At Pineapple, the HI lead, often working closely with the eng DRI, simply declares: "This design is best for users. We know this because we are professionals, have good taste, and [sometimes] there is research to support it." Maybe they'll measure it later as an afterthought. Unless a higher-up intervenes, the product is then designed that way, and often succeeds. If it is a failure, the responsibility lies on one or two (at most) leads.

The Google way is totally different. UX and product management works together to brainstorm potential designs, but there is a lot of uncertainty. All the alternatives go into a slide deck where comments pour in. The comments don't really resolve anything, they just add more uncertainty. Meetings are had where more people weigh in, including directors and VPs if it's a big enough project. Nobody can prove which design is best, and we cannot launch something that isn't backed by measurement, therefore we must conduct a thorough UX research study. This leads to a low-risk compromise design with a slate of minor unknowns still left that must be A/B tested with real users in order to know which way is correct. Oh, and Legal has to weigh in. Finally the product is launched but we're still nervous and don't know whether the design is right, so it's launched with dozens of flags to turn off various things in case we're wrong. In the end, nobody can point to any one person responsible, and nobody in the entire process had to stick their neck out and make a judgment call.
I think your argument is clear and justified. Our brains are not made for videogames - they are just too addicting for many people. I think our societies (as far as i see) haven't really coped enough with this addictive aspect of videogames - be it parents, teachers, politics or specific clinics (well, in some countries there are already clinics specialized for people who are addicted to video games). China is an interesting case study in that they heavily regulate what kind of games people are allowed to play and also how much and at which times. My personal pet peeve with casino [f2p] (including fifa cards) games is another aspect of gaming that has not been looked at nearly enough, so gaming - although doing more revenue than hollywood (might have something to do with addiction feeding...) - hasn't quite grown up.
> Where does the idea come that you're only "working" when you're coding?

When performance review time rolls around, it can be very hard to get credit for all of those other things. Coding, on the other hand, has products with direct business value that you can point to and say, "That's what I did this quarter."
Did you know you can run WebKit on Linux?
I am so glad that projects like this exist, and I'm impressed with the effort and commitment - including your apparently amazing marketing abilities in being able to network to good result and find pro bono talent. I also know that it's hard enough to generate revenue from podcasting, and audio drama podcast is harder still. I like though that these episodes are apparently build to age well (unlike most pop-culture podcast episodes), so hopefully it will build on itself over time. It's a hard thankless job to put significant creative effort into something that isn't profitable. I've been toying with an idea of a choose-your-own-adventure audio drama podcast - we have plenty of material written and it would mostly be a production challenge - but it feels overwhelming to figure out how to find pro bono voice talent, music/sound talent, not to mention the actual recording/editing.

If you ever have time, it would be interesting to read an in depth description of your production process - what you coordinate, what software you use, the editing steps, and what tricks you use to automate and save time (and save your sanity).
> Redhat is still managed as geeky project, where you have tech wars.

are you red hat employee to be able to tell that or is it just a speculation ?
> this is a byproduct of too-sensitive people allowing feelings to become what you get judged by

You know, a word of advice - I've never heard someone who calls others "sensitive" or "snowflakes" also be capable of a good faith argument about the offensiveness / professionalism / etc of a topic.
I'm wary of humanity's hedonic adaptation.

It seems to me that we would be in an eternal loop of these algos trying to optimize for our pleasure, succeeding for a time until that's just not enough, and then it's on to the next thing they create until we become abominations.

You can see this type of behavior already in the excesses the ultra wealthy exhibit.

I think it's good for humanity that we don't just live lives of pleasure.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25421648
You are right... WW2 and then the Cold War were major catalyst to a lot of modern innovations...

There have been 4 leaps during the industrial revolution. At the beginning the the new tech is just a toy, then it becomes useful and starts taking over previous/old tech, then it reaches a maturity point where improvements are very small/incremental:

1) Steam - 1800-1880s

2) Electricity and the Combustion Engine 1890 - 1940

3) Jet, rockets and Nuclear era 1941 - 1970

4) Digital Information 1970 - 2012-s

Now, AI/Green Tech/ or just stagnation? Who knows...
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Very important points

We are to a point where we could be forced to trade performances for openness
No, this is why section 230 exists. Sites are not liable for user generated content. Nobody would ever, ever risk of assuming liability for all of the of millions or even billions of users on a web platform.
Share benchmarks of your setup then.
> - We did a user study and they liked it, so it must be good.

My favorite is "We did a user study and they hated it, but a VP is pushing for it because Apple did it"
this is in critique of a primary publication, https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577

EXCERPT:
" If you read the paper, you might well have wondered about that 18,860 number and even checked Table 1 to make sure it’s accurate (it is), since the third paragraph of the Abstract, under the headline “Results,” has very different figures:

A total of 43,548 participants underwent randomization, of whom 43,448 received injections: 21,720 with BNT162b2 and 21,728 with placebo.

So how did the researchers get from 21,720 injected with the vaccine to the 18,860 in the “Main Safety Population”? This sort of thing confirms the impression that this is a very incomplete or sloppy study.

It is really not clear where the difference between the 37,706 and the 43,548, or for that matter, the 36,520 total subjects in the Tables 2 and 3 (Efficacy) come from. I used the 37,706 and hence the 18,860 that went with it from Table because it gave slightly smaller numbers than using the Table 2 and 3 figures, but they would be close to each other.

My concern here is the 6000ish discrepancy between the figures in the main text compared to the tables. Were they excluded? If so, why? I could not make heads or tails out of this, and accordingly kept it out of the body of this post. This kind of inconsistency really needs to be hashed out with the actual source data in hand, and should have been explained in the article, even if just in footnotes. "
So, what is your suggestion?
I read somewhere that the *gulf stream (orig jet stream, thanks!) makes similar latitudes more temperate in Britain/Europe than Canada/America. whether it's attributable to the jet stream or other effects, it seems to be true for many locations. Much of the UK lines up with Hudson bay in Canada, or Scandinavia vs northern Canada/mid Alaska. It's telling that most European colonizers moved south as they crossed the Atlantic.
Yeah, I don't think cell phones do fast-busy. They just timeout dialing without a carrier driven noise (mine have usually made the boop-boop noise like when the other party hangs up). Of course, with a cell phone, you can never tell if it's the network is busy or the tower is out of range, or the tower is broken. With a landline, you can tell if the line is dead (totally disconnected), really broken (voltage on the line, but no dialtone), or just pretty overloaded (dial tone, but fast busy for all numbers). And, if you made a habit of calling very busy numbers (like Netzero dial-ups), you could learn the tricks to get better priority; dialing the first N-1 digits, waiting a few seconds, and then the final digit would get me a waiting modem way better than just auto-redial on busy.
> He opened the disk drive, desoldered the power wires to the drive spindle motor, and reattached them with opposite polarity so the drive spun in reverse
In my experience of the last several years, the MacOS filesystem layer for lots of tiny files seems to be much slower than Linux. In our app, `rm -rf node_modules` (75,000 files, 1.1GB) takes about 10x longer on MacOS than it does on Linux (btrfs, zfs, ext4 all similar). `yarn install` has a similar difference between the two. I'd imagine most compiling tasks involving lots of tiny files would be impacted by the filesystem performance as well, hamstringing the performance of the M1.
Let's face it (no pun intended). It was a calculated lie designed to induce desired behavior and 'save masks for healthcare professionals'. It's a pity thousands of Chinese did not fall for the lie and bought yearly supplies of masks, N95 respirators, gloves and whatnot, and shipped them back to the mainland.
Some of these principles are applied by the permaculture and earth-ship movements. They are part of a trend to focus on sustainability, learning from and working with nature.
Well it's hacker news, how about a script that spawns a pop-up reminder instead! Still, it's a pretty effective experiment if you can commit to it.
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This line is UB, no? You are referencing some random, if adjacent, block of memory. Anything can happen.
Thanks now my skin's crawling again from the all too familiar cesspool feeling.

Salesmen (external or even worse internal) convincing inexperienced CTOs or VPs that they need <this exact software> regardless of any real world factors...

These are the people I would throw out with their own bathwater.
Their specialized audio/ video/ image/ machine learning cores aren't helping with general purpose tasks like building code.

It's also not much different from the PC world where you have video cards and Nvidia's CUDA.
and you really have to thank Slashdot for that one. They really put the pressure on Google to stay lean. It was a backlash at the time against search engines that looked like these:

https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/status/520631248826294272

This thread from 2001 is also an interesting read:
https://slashdot.org/story/01/06/25/1316227/google-plans-an-...
I thought my Garmin watch already did this and I thought Apple had differentiated itself with some sort of advanced ekg analysis. I feel like I'm missing something with this article? Is this truly different than the competition or just Apple catching up?
It's not free, but basically, after you use Fastmail to browse email, Gmail feels geriatric and broken. A loading bar to pull up your email account? Pages of emails? What on earth?

Gmail feels today like the web mail on my cPanel hosting felt like when I switched to Gmail.
Depends. These are only first steps and we will see how much they will invest and how the money will be spent. With a bit of luck it won't be the next muddled in bureaucracy and corporate interests initiative and will be a push for something substantial.
The problem with data driven is how do you get data without actually doing it. Sometimes you can prototype, but if they won't let you do anything you are stuck.

Then there is measurement. Even if you can prototype, you might be forced to collect the wrong data.