skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment makes me think of the distinction Simon Wardley[1] makes between Pioneers, Settlers and City Planners. The former are the ones who get excited by making something new (and not solving the problem), the latter are the ones who get excited by making sure things keep running flawlessly.

I do believe there are programmers for every category though.

[1] https://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/on-pioneers-settlers-to...
> but it should only exist to cover administrative costs of distributing the information

and that is what created the current situation.
Some really old toy songs on my sound cloud: https://soundcloud.com/nxpnsv
I'd rather have a difficult ui than one that won't load at all.
Tesla's aren't self driving. They are helping humans drive. For a Tesla to not drive the speed limit it would have to either be told to do so or fail.
XMPP-E2E-extensions seems to be pretty popular song the eastern underground.
There are many, many more people who don't want you to have that computer than there are yous. So you have to want it more at least as many times over as they don't.

There certainly are other people who also want that computer. (E.g. me.) Maybe there are as many or more who do than don't want any of you, or us, to have them.

We have the advantage that what we want is just like the computers everybody else has, except with things taken out.

The software is doable. The CPUs have "management engines" that, at least in some cases seem possible to disable. The wi-fi chips are a problem; we might need SDR to bypass those.

But the cell phone system is going to be a problem.
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Current thread on the predecessor post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26381768
Having consulted a graph [0] of coal production in the UK, it seems a difficult sell to argue that there have been any policy changes in the last century.

It seems likely oil will follow the same trajectory. We've been due to hit the global peak sometime soon, more oil has been consumed than discovered for a while now.

If people persist in using the stuff until it runs out, it is hard to see what the effect of all the pressure was.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/death-uk-coal
Current thread on the successor post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26395951
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The link goes off to another paper on another topic.
I feel like the archive one is easy to fix.

This is MS Outlook's and MacOS's archive button - https://i.imgur.com/Csjpgth.png - if you can't see that, it's a filing cardboard box with it's oversized lid fit on top.

I use MS Outlook web UI and exchange on MacOS with an Apple mail client.

Also then by 'fixing' the archive one to this better one, you sort of also fix the 'Move to Inbox' icon because it's not so similar. The 'Move to Inbox' isn't to bad if it's by itself, what makes it bad as the author says is it's context. I'm not sure what a better 'Move to Inbox' icon would be, I'm not a skilled icon designer.
> Well, DOS was not free of Microsoft.

Probably he meant that Microsoft was not the same Microsoft as it is now. In the same way as having @gmail.com account let us feel "special" 15 years ago and Google was operating under "Don't be evil" flag. Things are changing.
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should", Ian Malcolm, Jurrasic Park

This reminds me of a comment someone posted recently here. A situation was described that started with a virtual agent that was generally considered beautiful which was then optimized into a amorphous shape of colours that was the most attractive for this particular user.

Edit: user "tablespoon" mentioned the same comment already, go check theirs for a link.
even the BBC is pushing RISC-V: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/17596
> Its all relative, the most important is if one is happy with whatever one has and doesn't have unrealistic expectations.

That sums it pretty well. I don't have anything to counter, but wanted to just say thanks for the frank comment and another perspective.
> iOS takes all of these away. Complete backups are built-in (I know android has it, but I don't know how bulletproof is this)

Not to burn you down, but to burn Android down: no, Android does not allow you to take complete backups. Let alone "built-in". The only backups that are made are forced to Google cloud and only backs-up apps that where downloaded through Google Play and app settings for Google stuff. It is an extremely limiting almost non-backup if you're used to going around Google. When switching phones it's still a process of hours / days to get everything set-up the way you had it on a previous phone. Especially if it was rooted.

The only way I know to take a full backup image of an Android phone involves unlocking (not possible on all phones), rooting (not possible on all phones), installing Nandroid and pulling an image over USB. To restore to a "fresh" phone, you need to go through all of those steps again.

This would take hours to weeks depending on who does it and the puzzle your phone manufacturer sets up for you to unlock your phone.

This to me is one of the many absolutely mind-blowing facts about the trash Android OS (disclaimer: I'm still an Android user, because I can't accept a phone without a physical keyboard. Never used Apple products in my life).

Want to wipe your phone and restore an image after you travel into a "spy-state"? Nope. You simply can't with an Android phone.

You know a phone that was able to do this out of the box? My 2013 Blackberry Passport. No rooting or fiddling around required. Just install a desktop app, plug the phone into USB and press "full system backup".
Couldn’t you just put up a stripe payment page and flip a flag on your user when the webhook fires?

I’ve built very basic payment flows like this in an afternoon.
> Academia is no longer sheltered from the shitty labor politics of finance capitalism.

It never was. And politics in general, not just labor.
That was in reference to their Australian installation, not this new Texas one.
There are no matrix multiplications in linear solvers in general. There are Matrix vector multiplications, typically far fewer than the size of the matrix. This confusion hides that solving linear systems was already far faster than matrixmatrix multiplication, and makes it seem like a stronger result than it is. I would like to see this compared to e.g. sparse cg, for any non random datamatrix.
That's another way to look at it. This is why we have choices and other mobile OSs.
> There is no unified plan and guidance but states doing well can't shut borders to continue doing well.

Can't or won't? If California can get away with its agricultural checkpoints without running afoul of e.g. the Commerce Clause, then it seems like restricting interstate border crossings is at least hypothetically possible.

In practice, it's pretty trivial to bypass those checkpoints if you really want to smuggle produce into the state (e.g. the I-80 checkpoint, where you can take the Hirschdale Road exit and follow Glenshire Drive to 287, then get right back on I-80). I highly doubt COVID checkpoints would be any harder to bypass.
Counter anecdote: South Australia had almost 100% of its energy from coal burning just a few years ago... Today, it's nearly entirely solar-powered: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-25/all-sa-power-from-sol...

Another one: in Norway, most cars being sold right now are electric: https://www.voanews.com/europe/norway-says-more-50-new-cars-...

These are huge local achievements, but it shows that at least in some parts of the world, things have changed very rapidly in the right direction.
I think it is incompetence of product managers. They ought to know how to use their own products, have a keen eye for design and functionality.

You can’t A/B test your way through UX/UI in a product like GMail. Sure, it works for a e-commerce front end but just because of UI problems, people aren’t going to ditch the entire GSuite like they would if it was a shopping website. They’d just close it and A/B tests would produce a strong signal.

At Apple, when Steve was around, he had such a keen eye to details. He cared. So if PMs are getting fat checks and not getting scrutinized by their management, I blame the entire ladder upto Pichai for growing such a culture. Engineering at Google is top notch and lots of great things come out of there. Obviously, very smart people for there. I don’t think there are 9 people who don’t get it.

You need a strong dictator at top. Google is becoming a snowflake like organization where it would be impossible to criticize products in favor of not offending anyone - at least that’s what it appears to me. And management doesn’t give a shit about their own products - you're right that the incentives just aren't there.

I’m truly convinced that in order to produce top notch products, you need a military type dictatorship and harsh rejection of bad design - personalities such as Steve Jobs or Elon to make better products. Whether we want to work in such environments is orthogonal and up for debate.
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I think partly it is because UX is measurable (“A is less usable than B and thusly bad”), whereas aesthetics are not (“different tastes”). A kind of means to escape personal emotional accountability.
From his related article…

> So you'd have a bunch of form widgets, and then, at the bottom, a Submit button, and next to it, a Reset button.

> Even as an innocent youth, I realized this was a bad design. It is just setting people up for failure… Obviously, the Submit button should be over on the left, just under the main form, where the user will visit it in due course after dealing with the other widgets, and the Reset button should be way over on the right

Dead wrong. Most people are right-handed. The mouse cursor spends most of its time on the right side of the screen. That’s why the scroll bar is always on the right and why the HIG says the confirmation button is on the right. Cancel/reset/destructive button is on the left.
Reminds me of playing PUBG: while in a moving vehicle, press R to reload, or press F to jump out and instantly die.
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Does onedrive/sharepoint or some other offboard solution show diffs between versions and have merge capabilities?

(I have not been using excel as anything but a scratchpad in years, so I may have missed some cool new features)
As someone who both designs and programs for the better part of his life, nobody is really safe from that phenomena. If programming and designing is communication this is akin to go "let me say something", sprouting an interesting point, leaving the inplied punchline hanging and exiting the room while ignoring the reaction. If it happens once, okay — if it happens all the time, maybe you should do something about it.

The thing is: both design and programming are more often than not messy when things get real, but every programmer wants to create clean and beautiful code and every designer wants to create aesthetical designs. Many intuitively perceive this "beauty" to be in tension with the complexity of the problem that needs solving. The goal of programming and design is however not to create beauty, but to solve problems and do so beautifully and clearly communicate these solutions, because it doesn't matter how beautiful your code/design is if nobody understands it. Beauty is the cherry on top that you get to achieve once the cake below is done, tastes well and puts a smile on the faces of all the party guests. If you are good you might already plan the cherry into the shape of the cake at the very beginning — but confusing the cherry for the cake IMO means you are either not there yet in terms of your profession or the thing is a toy project to try things out specifically — which is totally acceptable if everybody involved agrees and totally egoistic and shitty if they don't. Don't agree to serious projects you are not willing to commit to once the initial interest fades.

Really good designers are about integrating both usabilty and aesthetics in an iterative process, and do so in such a way the problem is solved, and solved beautifully, all while reducing the cognitive overhead needed by users.

And this cognitive overhead is really what should drive us. The work of programmers and designers is so beautiful/dangerous because it multiplies to a thousand people for a thousand hours. Our decision affect people on a daily basis. Removing a papercut might seem like nothing, but if it avoids irritating even ten other people who use that thing 10 times a day, isn't it the obvious thing to not half-ass on, not to toy around with?

Btw. Design that is only about aesthetics is something that I call "styling" maybe we need a similar word for programmers who toy around?
Unfortunately you can't even make the FHE produce unencrypted output at all currently, doing so would give you you secure obfuscation -- but AFAIK all candidates for that seem to be badly broken.
off topic : you seem to be working at sifive. Do you know if swift programming language is being used at all inside the company ?
It also needs to be this way. Radical simple tax systems are usually considered unfair by the people. Like 10% of all you income needs to go to the state. Then people ask why do I have to pay 10% when the rich also only have to pay 10%, thats unfair. (Well you can say progression is ok, so this is then solved).

Here the more difficult one: if you tax income of companies, most will close down, so you need to allow tax deductions. Then what about tax deduction for IP fees? Of course nobody wants them, but IP is a big part of the US economy (worldwide) so should IP be protected, and expenses on IP be tax deductible?

After a while you probably end up with a similiar system as of today.
By "worked well" I mean that x3 is the "about right" factor. As software engineers we tend to be optimisitic and so when I think "it'll take about a week", that's assuming no unforseen complications. I'm afraid I haven't conducted a detailed a statisical analysis, however. The pi method is in truth just a joke between myself and a former project manager. There's nothing magic about pi exactly. I imagine each person ought really to come up with their own mental multiplier based on their own tendency to underestimate. But 3 isn't a bad starting point for iteration.
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> That's better performance than most humans

I don't know how you can blindly assert that with the limited details in the accident report. I agree that type of intersection is a bit of a free for all, but that doesn't really inform judgement of how Waymo handles it.

My overall point is that city driving necessarily involves a bit of assuming that cars coming at you that are supposed to stop are going to stop. And I can completely see an autonomous vehicle company programming their cars to be overly cautious, and not being tolerant of others cars with just a little too much velocity for comfort (the kind that give your passenger white knuckles, but you have to tolerate as a driver) - as you said, making worst case assumptions rather than average assumptions.

I don't have any personal experience being around self driving vehicles, but in this very thread are people referencing the idea that a self driving car would stop, accelerate to move forward a few feet, and then come to a quick stop again - that's liable to be completely antisocial and unintuitive for other road users. A following driver should be able to handle that and even foresee it based on the car's movement pattern (the car they're following could just as easily be someone looking down at their phone), but continually putting this to the test is questionable.

If we could look at a video of that accident I referenced, it's possible we would see the Waymo doing something absolutely boneheaded like suddenly slamming on its brakes for no reason. It's also possible we would see the Waymo behaving completely reasonably, and the following driver spacing out. My point is that it's impossible to know from such limited reports, and it's a mistake to assume that being hit from behind automatically absolves the autonomous vehicle.

Your original comment did not directly claim that, but it did sort of imply it while stating the solution is for other cars to develop automatic braking, even though that's a long ways off for most cars on the road.
Thank you! I wasn't aware of this keyword! Yeah, discoverability is a problem.
Wow, I can’t imagine going to HR to demand an investigation over a comment about my skin color.

Central Americans have a wide range of color, from very white to black on account of the European and slavery influence. My own skin is of course influenced by those factors.

I’ve been (at work) told I don’t look like I’m from where I say I’m from. To be insulted when there was no obvious intent to insult would show an extreme lack of maturity.

This is the equivalent of calling the cops on your neighbor because they don’t act and talk like you.
Presumably the 15 digits thing is because Excel stored numbers as IEEE binary64 doubles?

It's amusing because real world JSON has exactly the same contraint, and that's arguably the most common data exchange format in the world now.
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Halitosis is absolutely a wellness indication that we eventually plan to report on as we gain more insight to the pathways involved. A number of studies have suggested that sulfate reducing bacteria may be a culprit for bad breath, and we eventually may be able to target those specific microbes and limit halitosis in the near future.
Then what have I been using on iOS for the past 4 years?
(as long as I've been using iOS)
Something like this already happen with c. Difficile taking over the gut and causing all sorts of troubles during antibiotic treatments.
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I had the same feeling, I clicked on a tab and was logged out. Immediately thought someone had logged me out.
This shows (sort of) that the computer does better in situations where humans are known to fail. It's entirely likely that the computers will have new and unexpected failure modes that humans would never run into.
A Firefox shell running on iOS Safari Engine. I also use it and love it for its syncing capabilities, but the underlying engine is not Gecko.
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I don't intend to downplay either Stata or SPSS for exactly that reason - they're very good at what they do. However, they have a limited scope (which isn't a bad thing), and if you want to go beyond it, you have to turn towards other options (e.g., R for extensibility, or Julia (or C, or whatever) for performance).
I specialize in .net too, but in a general way. i'm bad at everything. People who i work with who don't know anything about programming thinks i'm a specialist for some reason. luckily i'm the only programmer in my company. I feel like a fake, because I work for a really good company.
For those that aren't aware: Because only safari is allowed in iOS every other browser is basically just a skin.
All of the recent home routers are ARM based. Maybe yours are at least a few years old?
I see we have all caught on to Apple's "Silicon" buzzword.
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Probably because then most potential buyers would be purchasing low-end windows laptops, I guess.
I started my career in digital media on interactive installations and I think that is the most influential position I’ve ever had. Every application was different and designed to the clients creative needs; wrote graphics engines, networking engines, transparent h264 format, hardware/software device integration, etc.
A skinned Safari.
Oh, FFS. Would it be that hard for them to have an option of displaying both icons and text?

In fact, I think that's how it worked before.
You're right in theory, but in practice, being in favor of retributive "justice" tends to go hand in hand with an acceptance of arbitrary application of said "justice", for reasons typically along the lines of "if you wanted humane treatment then you should've thought about that before being a hard-bitten criminal scumbag" (exaggerating, obviously, but not by much).
Worth pointing out with the Norwegian one as well that almost all of their electricity is renewable. So those cars aren’t just going from oil to coal but oil to renewables.
My feeling was just the opposite. I was constantly thinking "stop acting like I'm 12 and have 0 knowledge about linear algebra." As usual, it just depends what your context is, and the author will be happy to know there's an audience that finds it excellent.
> Almost all the Waymo reports are "vehicle was entering intersection, detected cross traffic, stopped, was rear-ended by human driver". There's one Waymo report where someone ran a stop sign and hit them.

I've driven some some recent cars with a lot of safety systems and more advanced cruise control and they always felt like a bad human driver. They seem to be unpredictable and abuse the breaks, especially when driving on highways where you should just drive with the flow and look in front of you to see what's going on at least 2 or 3 cars ahead of you. I don't know why I have the feeling that technically the Waymo cars are behaving like they should, but some of their actions are just too unpredictable or come all of the sudden, surprising the drivers behind them with sudden breaks and actions that a human driver wouldn't do, or would be more predictable at it.
It sounds like you've had a very different PhD experience than I did. Perhaps a difference in fields? My PhD in physics was probably the most humbling experience I've had in my professional life. I went from thinking I knew everything to learning that I knew nothing. To me that's one of the most important parts of a research education, to become aware of what you don't know and be provided tools to try figuring it out.

The most disconcerting part for me was coming back to society, realizing that no one actually knows what's going on most of the time, even when they think they do. I wish more people had the same humbling experience I did (not saying, by the way, that we need more PhD students, just the similar experience).

It's curious why you'd think that the only reason for doing a PhD is to contribute faster. Contribute faster to what? The author says he's having a lot of fun with his PhD because he gets to work on topics that are not immediately tied in with Googles business model.

This is exactly why we need PhD students doing fundamental research, because no one can see the immediate benefit. Because on the surface it has no value at all - so who else would look at it if not curious PhD students with little to no financial incentives.

Constraining possible research breakthroughs to what someone thinks is valuable a-priori, seems very naive and counter productive to me.
I have to look again, but I don't think C++ and Rust were available from there...
I do this and I agree. It's bad enough that you lose any emails or other media you didn't back up, but it's even worse if you went around for the past X years passing around Google's domain for your email, because that's power.
Actually I couldn't find any reliable source to attribute this quote (or something similar) to neither Beria, Andriey Wyszynski, Cardinal Richelieu, nor Quintilian.
> Android does not allow you to take complete backups

Can't you enable developer mode, open a terminal and just run `dd`?
The best looking documents from MS Word are the ones where the author hasn't put any effort into formatting except using the built in styles for headings and paragraphs etc. The only difference is LaTeX makes it obvious that this is the way whereas Word makes it easy to do the wrong thing and use ad hoc formatting.