skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the real answer right here. Any product that doesn't see rapid user growth already has one foot in the graveyard of Killed By Google.

That website is a showcase of amazing ideas that needed time and nurture to come to fruition, but were executed like a poor earning Mafioso having a bad week.
Some Garmin watches can play music too. Garmin 245 Music for example.
Any governmental rules restricting who can talk to whom or to how many others will run into first amendment issues, at least in the USA.
What you are describing isn't the problem for Slack, is the problem of requiring a green status icon: https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-presence-prison/
Oh wow. Fascinating. These things always seem incredibly rosy in theory, but immediately take on dark undertones when you realize it's the big bad tech companies (/s - kind of) actually building it. I'll definitely check it out though, thanks for sharing.
I guess we are in the minority. Slack has been awesome for boosting communication and collaboration in our department. It's effectively killed awful e-mail communication on issues.

Instead, we carry on live, highly-interactive communications. Everyone pretty much understands if you are busy, however, and don't respond immediately.

Work without Slack would be awful.
Google Maps stutters often on the latest iPhone Pro, which has the best mobile processor. It's not necessary to change the UI to make it work better. Is it an organizational difficulty in getting performance work prioritized? Or does it simply not matter since people don't have a better option available.
~13 years ago (!) I worked with the Amazon Seller API and left this comment in my own source code:

// the XML returned from this request is *mind-bogglingly* bad. Terrifyingly bad.
// a completed batch looks like this:
// <Batch>batchid=363777811 status=Done dateandtime=09/18/2007 09:53:10 PDT activateditems=335 numberofwarnings=0 itemsnotacivated=17 </Batch>
// and an incomplete batch like:
// <Batch>batchid=363778361 status=In Progress </Batch>
// so we'll just parse each item as a regex. Thanks Amazon.

The documentation at the time was just a post on a forum, that later got removed, so it no longer exists at all but this was just one of many horrors.
it's a great site. They also advertise on certain category pages (e.g. on the page for all TVs: https://geizhals.de/?o=36 "featured brand" or "featured merchant"), e.g. with amazon links but only for products where amazon has the lowest prices. Additionally, they probably get some money from their regular ref links (there are even webpages that only have good prices when going directly through the geizhals link; but that's no secret since it says so on the product listing on geizhals, so that's fair by me also).
Often baked into SaaS pricing models as well. At “call us” pricing tier $Company includes 24/7 support with guaranteed response time SLA

Oh you want the 30min SLA? Add 2 zeroes

The company then institutes the right on-call practices, ensures support staff is trained, triage is correct, etc
Don't get me wrong, I think advertising is responsible for a lot of evil in the world, and SEO in particular is a cancer.

But if anyone reacts to an ad with this degree of paranoia and self-loathing, it speaks more to their own fragility than it does than the nature of advertising.
If you've read the research properly behind the Innovators Dilemma - I'd argue it's not such a case. CCs theory on disruption might be the most misused and overhyped stuff I've ever come to research. (did my MSc thesis on it, with support from a professor whose main research area was disruption...) - unless there are underlying new technological paradigm shifts underpinning those UX changes, but I doubt that.

This is a case of Google not seeing the cost/benefit equation being positive between changing the UX from it's current UXs to some other ones (within the same technological paradigm).

Sure, it might be a case of resource dependence and a lack of will to "start over". But that doesn't imply disruption as described by CC (at least not originally)
the fact that i am still alive, the fact that people survive infection and produce antibodies are salient.

you are wrong, and its right in front of you.

please tell me about KNO3

please tell me about priming and boosting.

please tell me about innate humoral response, and cell mediated response.

i see you are still a student.

once again vaccines are not obligated to adjuvents

adjuvents increase the response to a signal allowing a weaker signal to evoke a response of threshold level.

the economic and practical bounds incurred by the expense of the immunogenic product are offset by thus exploiting, the biological property of amplification we can spread out the materials to make many more doses of vaccine requireing fewer "boost" dosages.

the big angle to work is the lack of cytoplasmic Vir-mRNA of immunogenic character. the current S protien production system is a get it shipping now product, with more work we can produce a sequence that stimulates cytoplasmic processes also involved in the induction of primary immune response.

the current sequence doesnt do that.

have a look here and see where this is heading :

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27252702/

Interferon production at scale is tedious to say the least, it is superior to induce in vivo interferon dynamics, along with immunogenic antigen translation.
I remember playing a lot or Warcraft 2, Stunts, Dune 2 etc when I was young. However, what I "wasted" even more time on is writing cheats (Warcraft) and map editors (Stunts) for those games so...

On a side note I tend to think kids have a lot of self regulating abilities but that might not matter anymore since it seems that the brightest minds of this generation are focused on "increasing engagement" and fucking ads...
FTC investigating 9 social media and video streaming services
I don't really agree with the premise. I have the newer iPhone SE and I get two to three days out of a full charge, sometimes more. It's very different having to charge a device two or three times a week as opposed to daily. For me, the crux of the issue is that Apple Watch has more or less been standing still in the battery life department for years at this point, and the benefits don't outweigh the chore.
Having coded with MWS, I can confirm. I don't remember the details but there was a typo in one of the PHP examples leading all API calls to fail. Easily fixed but should I really have to edit the provided example code to get something working?
Camus was a leftist who was against Stalinism, I am pretty sure he would have abhorred the Cultural Revolution in China and the woke brigade now.
Why HTML is still more “Metaverse” than 3D
Hi HN,

I wrote "The Read Aloud Cloud" [1], 160+ pages of cartoon-filled cloud computing explainers, so my non-technical friends and family would finally understand what I do for a living.

Just for HN, I've uploaded a sneak peek of Chapter 2: "Evolution of the Cloud (A Prehistory)" [2]

Happy to answer questions about:

- How to write a nonfiction book proposal that sells

- The traditional publishing process (and why I went that route instead of self-pub)

- Cloud or tech careers in general

- Cartooning

- Whatever else!

[1] https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Read-Aloud-Cloud/97811196...

[2] https://www.dropbox.com/s/izyele6p60dfb68/Ch2.pdf?dl=0
Just an FYI. This is about Amazon's MWS API, which is Merchant Web Services, used to interact with the Amazon part of Amazon not the AWS side of Amazon.

Also having working on an OSS Ruby library for it, and having to had work with it quite a bit, I can confirm. The MWS APIs leave a lot to be desired of, but they are an absolute gem compared to the Ebay APIs.

My take on the problem is that these APIs were developed in the early to mid 2000's when e-commerce was taking off, so they are architected using the tech and philosophies from back then (XML, SOAP, SOA, etc) however we are no in 2020 and people expect up to date modern interfaces and APIs, and communication protocols; but these API's can't be shut down or risk major breaking changes because so much other stuff is built on top of them.

Really at the core of the day the problem is that so much crap on the Web is considered ephemeral and so many business come and go so quickly that the question of what to do about legacy tech on the web isn't much of an issue because things don't last long enough to be legacy. The exceptions are some of the e-commerce APIs of these big tech companies such as Ebay, and Amazon that managed to thrive, but now are faced with a challenge most people never are of how to migrate legacy web services.

EDIT: Updated appearantly I was not reading closely enough, this is not for the MWS API but the new REST version of their Seller APIs. That being said I'd still be willing to wager a pretty penny they slapped together a REST-to-XML translation layer on top of the MWS APIs and called it a day.
> There's absolutely no reason to assume it's true.

I think that's backwards. There's no reason to assume an experience like love can't be replicated by reproducing the same events in the brain. Unless you believe in the supernatural like souls, in which case the conversation is no longer based on scientific analysis.

> BTW, love/affection/contact is one of those aspects of life where you're not a brain in a jar.

This is a non sequitur. The point of the brain in a jar idea is that you have no way to tell that you're a brain in a jar if all the chemicals, electrical impulses, etc are properly manipulated.
No I agree with that statement. American society is about condemning things you don't use.
The only thing missing for me is transfer to a new Android phone, just like how its implemented for iOS. At that point I can really be comfortable suggesting this to family.

Also cross OS transfer. I use Android & and an iPad for example and would like to be able to move messages between them vs right now its ios only
This is why I prefer to link to actual code in the repo, in an examples directory, which gets compiled during every build.
The guys at 37signals/Basecamp said it well here: https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-presence-prison/

The problem isn't the tool, it's the mindset that often goes with it.
This right here is the issue. Something like this happening is so unthinkable because you, presumably a good levelheaded kind coworker, can't even fathom why anyone would do this and you've been lucky enough to not have experienced it first hand. And because of your priors the only logical conclusion is that the victim must be lying or overreacting or too sensitive. It's a frustrating situation because at it's core it's totally logical but to me and others like me who've experienced these kinds of threats first-hand it's not outlandish and an uphill battle to get people to believe that this stuff really happens.

Now to be fair I'm not totally free of bias because I can't fathom why anyone would lie about something so serious and have experienced first hand the struggle of getting higher-ups to take you seriously.
There’s a pretty good community associated with 1bitsquared, a vendor for a whole bunch of embedded/fpga hardware tools: https://1bitsquared.com/pages/community
ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railways), who are slowly taking over night train service all over Europe, have single or double Deluxe cabins [1]. You can have your privacy and your own bathroom with shower. It can be pretty private and comfortable.

[1]: https://www.nightjet.com/en/komfortkategorien/schlafwagen
Mostly making a fool of himself.
If they just kept inbox as Gmail beta it would have been so much better. Like have a core and a new app. Sunset the old UI a after a few years.

We should have a fast track and a slow and steady track.
Here's a 2019 Google blog post about Google's user studies to redesign their Material Design text field. They ran three separate studies testing over 140 combinations of 7 text field characteristics with 600 participants. The end result is better but they basically just discovered that users couldn't identify text fields that had only subtle visual affordances (like a light gray underline instead of a black rectangle). The exercise reminded me of the Google designer story about testing "63 shades of blue links".

https://medium.com/google-design/the-evolution-of-material-d...
The best proof that the United States went to the Moon is that there was extensive Russian spying going on at the time, but Russia never claimed that the US was lying about the Apollo program.
Interestingly the commissioner that dissented is a Trump appointee.
Ha!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Dylan_controversy

http://communityvoices.post-gazette.com/arts-entertainment-l...

> The Cliff Notes version is Dylan, whose latest album Bringing It All Back Home had upset many folk purists with its amplified accompaniment, performed at Newport on July 25 with amplified backing by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, who played the festival on their own. As an offended audience booed Dylan performing with Butterfield's band (minus Butterfield himself), an incensed Seeger, outraged at his friend's apostasy, wanted the audio shut off and sought an axe to cut the cables as Dylan and the band ripped through "Maggie's Farm" and "Like A Rolling Stone," Dylan's just-released single.
I wonder if this is an American phenomena and might be different in a place with a stronger social safety net?

Frankly, losing your job IS an actual physical danger and a real mental danger. No income, no insurance, have to play the interview game again... Time running out, savings getting gutted (too bad COBRA costs are so high). If you can't find work, well homelessness is a very real possibility (there goes years or decades of equity). There isn't a 'limit' to how far we let people fall, and that's a shame.

I would absolutely expect people in this environment to fight tooth-and-nail for their jobs, and that might result in this kind of resistance to suggestions. Gotta keep yourself and family healthy first and foremost.
I won't touch any of amazon's products with a 10ft pole because of the way they treat their warehouse workers. Making their warehouse employees pee in bottles to make their metrics or risk being fired, that's just on a whole new level of extracting every joule of work out of a human being.
Life isn't arbitrary. People seek out suffering. "If the Plague Was Today" would make a great comedy. Against the backdrop of imagining black holes, mining asteroids, maneuvering instruments inside the Sun, and developing neurological medicine with genetics, a plague starts a block away from a communist bioweapons lab by a bat, no wait, a armadillo. Why? Communists eat them for supernatural powers.

Leading into a heated national election, go on and explain Marxism is just not a lie, but an error that even school children don't make. They translated Hegel wrong.

Rich need to get richer. Poor, who actually consume more than the rich, loot and burn because of too many or not enough drugs.

How do you stop the Plague? Wash your hands. Sneeze into your sleeve. And stop picking up the cheapest piece of ass from your local dive bar. A day after the compromised president is elected, the Plague is cured by a controlled auto-immune deficiency to the entire world.

What are the morals of the story, boys and girls?

1. Politics does nothing except make people angry, briefly ruining their lives and those directly around them.

2. Life isn't arbitrary. If anything, our ambition is so great we turned our existence into our origin.

3. A command economy is much like running an engine with no back pressure or shooting a cannon off a canoe.

4. For whatever reason, the future belongs to one Earvin "Magic" Johnson. Guy's unstoppable, like the friggin' Terminator.
Slack has a better ecosystem of work related add-ons, but to be honest I've never found those to be useful. I agree I'd prefer Discord.
Just use the reference implementation that is linked in the post. We would much appreciate feedback from users at this point.
>Google has very good UX designers, UX researchers, product managers, and engineers.

Google has great engineers/employees that their hiring process has naturally selected for a particular types of people. This doesn't necessarily mean good.
From what I've seen, Google engineers are amazing at solving hard system/foundational problems but absolutely terrible at making good products.

If you were to create a JIRA ticket asking to solve the traveling salesman problem or the like, you'll probably get a decent implementation by the end of the month before you can get a good well rounded product from Google.

Almost all Google products have regressed substantially since inception in just a few years. Gmail was snappy, quick and and had possibly the best UX in any mail client. Now it takes >20 secs on a broadband connection to give me a white-washed mess of a page with no real discerning advantage over the plain html version.

Google has the same problems and challenges you mentioned as any high scale, widely used large corp like Microsoft, Facebook, etc. has. The only difference is that the others go through periods of good-bad UX due to fast pivots, experimentation and luck.

What's the point of having these immensely talented employees if the culture/system can't actually leverage them to design something good?

The reality is that Google was a ground breaking company that rocketed to the moon, made a ton of money due to ads and now hoping to get lucky again by throwing things at a wall to see what sticks.

Google culture is now a highly risk-averse decision process system. It's the new IBM.
This is exactly my point. It's like the common saying, "it's real to me". Same as religion. Many religious people are less interested with whether or not something is true, and more motivated by the impact belief has on their life. There are enough mutually exclusive religions out there that we know at least one has to be untrue.

If believing in a religion that isn't real can improve someone's life, why would love be any different?
The Purpose of Communication Is Connection
I don't even know if I like factorio. All that matters is that the factory must grow.
Yeah, I think game dev is perhaps on one extreme of a scale. One can be highly intrinsically motivated but at the same time externally demotivated. I originally wanted to be in 8/16 bit game dev and it might have been alright at that time but glad not to be in it now, except as a recreational activity.
The 'k' spelling is American. Look at the ports on the BBC and you'll find British spellings of 'analogue', 'disc'.

https://oldcomputers.net/bbc-micro.html

The User manual contains more language. For example, 'program' for computer program (vs 'programme' which would be used for TV)

http://bbc.nvg.org/doc/BBCUserGuide-1.00.pdf
If TSMC buys its lithography machines, why should it even get any credit for 5nm at all?
Algolia Places to Sunset: OpenStreetMap data quality is not high enough
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415895
Yeah, that's my point though. You can't expect your employees to be permanently on call, watch them burn out, then blame Slack.
I thought it sounded familiar - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15538638
obligatory "Rust docs can do this"[0] (quite a nice feature tbh).

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustdoc/documentation-tests.html
YouTube is there.
And the thing is, Google UI/UX is not all that awful in many ways. Compared to some other corporate websites it looks and functions pretty well. But it could be so much better and which we would expect for a company of Google's caliber.

Having no way to do self-reflection to treat this problem is a bad sign that people inside Google are perhaps getting out of touch with what is really going out there. Or that there is enough inertia to block good design changes to pass through. Whatever it is, I would hope they would start stepping out of their own bubbles to actually understand what type of interfaces people like to use. Visit the factories with the machine consoles where there is only simple buttons and easy-to-understand menus for everything. And then try to retrace their path to the current interfaces and think why they have to be like what they are right now.

It's like relationships, you probably get attracted at first by the appearance of things but it is when that wears off you get the sense of what the other person really is. With UIs, that novelty can wear off pretty quick if it feels like pulling out teeth to use it (Google Analytics is one horror show).
I am for one shocked that is the case.
Thanks for the thorough correction.
This is so off topic and/but (currently) still the top comment.

Since when would anyone remember how to properly write something, when the representation he has is the phonetics in his head?

Nobody thinks "It's disk, because it comes from diskette."

Why do people argue as if anyone would think like that? - Though I don't doubt that it's the origin. Are we supposed to know the origin of (every)thing(s)? - We mostly don't.

To then write it "disc" makes sense, except you are from Germany.

To then pseudo-intellectually pretend that people know whatever and what not and don't rather go by guts feel (what it sounds like) is blatantly dishonest.
The 'longest-ever photo exposure' has been found – inside a drink can
Needs 2015. Linked previously in a comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15538638
That's just a specific element of your workplace's culture then. At jobs I've worked at it would have been much more reasonable to say "I didn't see that email" than "I didn't see that Slack message." Like all communication methods, the standards that are set around them are more important than the mechanism itself.
uintptr_t ip = (uintptr_t)(p+1);

Is perfectly defined. What is undefined is converting ip back to a pointer and writing to it, which the original program never does.
MBAs discover companies desperately need MBAs!
As noted in the HN thread, the Ferrari was disabled due to an anti-theft device and couldn't be unlocked remotely due to connectivity. Lack of connectivity is not responsible for the car being disabled; an attempted "theft" (from the device's perspective) was, and a stuck car is exactly what the owner asked for.

Even if there have been a few historical software bugs that caused some Nests to change temperature, it did not "become completely unresponsive in the middle of winter". Worst case is you walk up to the device and turn the temperature back up. Also, there's nothing in that bug report that suggests it has anything to do with internet connectivity.

A quick google search shows plenty of people getting locked in non-internet-connected cars.

The modern world is complex. Even before I replaced my thermostat with a Nest, my furnace was already way more fragile than my fireplace.
>I've got a Intel Macbook Pro, and a Ryzen desktop.

Read the title. It's Apple M1, these are apple arm chips NOT intel chips. Your "real-world experience" doesn't correlate because you're comparing Apple Intel macbooks with Intel desktops.

You need to compare the new Apple M1 macbooks with ARM chips to feel the difference.
This actual exists in some places! Check out moduledocs and "doctests" for languages like Elixir. Was something really cool I liked while I have been learning Elixir.
Quite a few of the night trains I've taken have had showers. Sometimes shared per car, but in the more modern ones usually in the cabin.

Night trains really are the closest to teleportation that humans have come up with yet.
DVD or CD protections had this type of protection where they read a part of the disk most DVD writers can’t write to
Which makes sense; both of them are pleasurable experiences unto themselves. However, pretty much anything addictive does something weird to dopamine in the brain, so it would seem to be the common factor.