skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And which is better? It all depends on context!

I long considered myself a generalist because I typically work with early stage startups to get them going and growing, and that requires being competent at many things, wearing many hats. I now position myself as a specialist at growing early stage startups, because that wide of a skillset is exactly what you need to be successful in that context.

In many cases, its about how you frame it.
This is more of a problem caused by emissive displays replacing traditional gauge clusters. There is no longer any feedback in low light conditions from illegible gauges forcing you to turn on the lights. Automatic headlights (without needing a selectable auto mode) should be mandatory on every vehicle with such a display.
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LaTeX is more of a typesetting application, where Scrivener provides much more tooling around story telling. Scrivener provides you with tools like corkboard and outliner, which lets you have a place to store ideas and todo lists for what you are working on. You can rearange a chapter in your book by clicking and dragging it to the new location. The formatting is similar to Word or OpenOffice, in that, what you see is what you get.

LaTeX on the other hand (or more specifically, TeX) is a set of macros that will generate formatting for you. Usually, the output is a DVI file, but can also be a PostScript or PDF file.

LaTeX is all plain text. It only handles document processing, turning the LaTeX document into an outputted formatted document.

Edit: You can still include images etc. Pandoc allows you to convert between LaTeX and many other formats. What you can do with LaTeX is almost limited only by your imagination: https://www.latex-project.org/publications/2020-egreg-TUB-tb...
I understand that the answer is no here. Because this method is only suitable for the class of linear system thats the equivalent of sparse matrices. GPUs on the other hand are more optimized for the general purpose matrix multiplication here. Unless it can be shown that there are certain economically high-usage scenarios of this class of problems (e.g. the usage magnitude of bitcoin mining), the investment into this specific research does not seem warranted.
Contra Wikipedia's definition of car:

> A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation. Most definitions of cars say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than goods.

An RV would seat more than 1-8 people, and a truck is designed to transport goods rather than people (despite what they may actually be used for).
I read that as Elon saying they won't connect Teslas to Starlink until the terminal is smaller, not that they won't connect them ever. I don't know much about the tech though. Maybe they're already as small as they can be.
Get a VM and s VPN.
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." -Thomas Huxley
True. I think every team needs both generalists and specialists to complement each others qualities. For example, my manager is kinda specialists and he is great at solving problems in his domains. But then I put my generalist ideas and solution is sometimes way simpler than what a specialists was trying. The reverse is also true. So a balance in team is needed.
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There should be just a phone for hackers and hardware/open source enthusiasts. They would have a toy to play with without a need to bash other “walled garden” platforms which isn’t for them apparently. As ordinary consumers don’t want to or do not have a knowledge on how to do those advanced tasks most HN users want.

And, that’s great! They shouldn’t know that, maybe there will be some cultural shift in the future, where everyone will be tech-savvy, and companies like Apple starts changing their approach. Until then HN users need to accept that most of those solutions are made for ordinary consumers, and embrace the niche for them. :-)
Sessions != Users. I have two or three active sessions at any point, Multiple browsers + mobile. Since the issue seems to be with cookies, we can probably discard mobile.

Also each time you login/ token refreshes is probably a new session. So they easily have million's of sessions daily.
So in the one month period between 6th Feb and 5 March, you have

**(DAU) * 35* (average sessions / user)** .

So in the ballpark of 10M * 35 * 5 sessions ~ so anywhere between 700-1500 M sessions conservatively . That is in the ballpark of 15,000 users.

Also 0.001% is their belief of the impact. I don't see any evidence or statistical model or details supporting the statement.

I am deeply skeptical of this number without knowing the methodology , as you say it would quite impressive to narrow down a race condition to that level.
At fundamentals, two classic approaches:

1. The heuristics by Nielsen
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=heuristics+using+Nielsen&t=iphone&...

2. Learn to do usability testing. Fundamentally it's the only way to know what's comprehensible for your target group in a given usage context.

Then there are the HIG human interface guidelines for platforms. There seemed to be a lot to learn from the one of Apple's the last time I checked.
Google sheets also has some large limitations and doesn’t contain anywhere near the feature richness of Excel, so it’s a little tit for tat.

For Power Users of excel, google sheets misses the following:

* Inability to import large datasets - number of cells limit is much smaller and there is no ability to support larger datasets (eg powerquery in excel). This means while sheets can typically handle 100k rows (with 10 columns), excel can handle well over 10 million (with hundreds of columns).

* No dynamic array formulas - in google sheets they are all “drag down” while in excel formulas can be created which expand/shrink according to the data

* No ability to handle relationships and measures - Excel has the capability to define relationships between data similar to a relational DB allowing for more powerful querying.

* You can’t send a google sheet on email - important for big companies!

In terms of a JavaScript API - excel has one for their web app (also called app script!), it’s just not supported on their desktop app yet (although this is being planned).
If really recommend the book that the article is about. I'm a few chapters in (started it a few weeks) and it's a fun read so far with some interesting stories and data.
Well T-shaped individuals have greatest chance of success.

What rubs me the wrong way is the false dichotomy like one can only be a specialist or a generalist. It is always presented as if for example chess players would not even know how to eat. There was a joke in the "Top Gear" about "Stig" racing driver that would fall to the ground if taken out of a car.

There is also much more to it because world is complex. For example I am software developer so for business people I am a specialist. But I am also a "full stack developer" where for my fellow developers I am a generalist. Then I mostly specialize in .NET and Angular.
I can’t imagine many circumstances where Japan would be willing to ally with China.
I had never seen polyominoes used professionally for mathematics.

However, I was reminded of seeing them in the teen novel Chasing Vermeer [0].

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomino#Literature
>Hydropower is not geographically unique

Yes, many places have hydropower. Some have more than others. There are also population, consumption concerns relative to the supply. The Wikipedia article notes that the Quebecois authorities subsidize aluminum smelters with a goal of job creation. Perhaps the market price could be even cheaper without this subsidy?

Electricity markets are generally highly regulated, public-private partnerships or outright nationalized. I don't see a dispute here or an argument.

Observing that something is commonplace isn't a rationalization of the efficiency or morality of the practice.

>you are arguing against reality.

This isn't helpful. Different individuals have different observations, experiences, perceptions and thus opinions. That's healthy. It is the source of discussion. Would it be helpful if I characterized this turn of phrase as you arguing for an exclusive license on "reality"?

No, I don't think that would advance the discussion at all, but it would be equivalent to what you've offered in my view.
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I feel this way whenever I watch YouTube streams with live chat. It’s unwatchable. Unlike Twitch, the chat is an overlay on the video (not sure if that’s true everywhere or not). I’m positive some designer made a really beautiful looking still image without thinking of what it might be like to follow a chat (or watch a video) in this way.

I’m quite positive this is a byproduct of the product->design->engineering waterfall, because while we say we are agile, nothing really gets iterated on once an engineer starts coding. If it isn’t caught in the wireframe phase, it’ll take a redesign to address.
This would be standard Type c.
Anybody here remember Beyond the Mind's Eye etc? (Some of the same clips were used in Lawnmower Man). I found a VHS of it at a Good Will. Made a music video chopping it up (2011):

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrR6kCikmwc

Here's my other music video, way better track and video:

- https://vimeo.com/19813642 "Ferns", music video by Steph D.

Two free albums -- psychedelic beats (Sea Things) and ambient (Tunnel Visions). They're both on Bandcamp:

- https://seathings.bandcamp.com (2010)

- https://tunnelvisionsmusic.bandcamp.com

Both albums are mostly instrumental.

- http://sunbather.biz ← old music portfolio site, links to everything mentioned in this comment.

Other retro nostalgia things: I did a lil track w/ Julian Wass where we sampled MIDI and speech from Dark Seed (old point and click DOS game that oddly had art direction by H.R. Geiger). We had more planned but I'm glad we made this one. https://cyberdreams.bandcamp.com/

Also, the last track on that Tunnel Visions album is based on a sample from Star Tropics, if anyone remembers that game :)

I've been stealthy since ~2015. I'm still making stuff, so I have a big backlog. Which is a fun problem to have. Once I get a business off the ground... then I'm gonna start releasing stuff again. (New project(s).)

I got into beatmaking in 7th grade with FL Studio FKA Fruity Loops. In college, it was actually a Max/MSP class that motivated me to learn code. </waxing-nostalgic>

p.s. I've always wanted to make soundtracks for indie games. If anybody's looking, LMK. I have a lot of stuff in the backlog that I could take in that direction.
So lognormal implies the total time is the product (not sum) of lots of little random tasks. Why would this be?
I think this is like asking "which batter will do better, the one who swings low and inside or the one who swings high and outside?". Ok, I don't really follow baseball so maybe the metaphor is broken but my point is - it depends on what the situation requires and there is no way to predict that in advance. For any tendency or trait an individual demonstrates there will be times when that trait results in success or failure.

It is silly to generalize about which is "better" or more likely to succeed because an "ecosystem" will by design contain both so that as a whole the ecosystem is robust to a variety of unforeseen situations (or nothing happening).

In humans you have people who are specialists or generalists, bold or conservative, jay walkers or rule followers, finicky eaters or people who eat pizza that's been on the counter for a week, gamblers or savers, etc, etc. In every case there will be specific examples that make you think "damn I really wish I'd sunk my life savings into BTC 10 years ago!" but that doesn't make you "right" or "wrong" except in hindsight.

Humans (and other populations) should be judged on the spectrum of behaviors they exhibit and how that allows them to succeed in the specific distribution of challenges they face. Judging individuals seems pretty pointless, I guess, unless you are judging yourself and feeling unhappy with the specific tendencies genetics and your upbringing have dealt you. Anyway, just an interesting thing to consider.
I have got auto-braking on my car and it has never once activated during the 5 years Ive owned it.

It has warned with a beep signal I think 2 times when it deemed the car too close to other traffic.
you just have to keep thundering herd of logins in mind though.

While the application components can handle the load, sometimes the authentication system may not do well when everyone tries to login at the same time

Slack learnt that the hard way recently
Happy to deflect your bursting! :)

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Does anyone else think paradigms are unnecessary codification?

"Paradigm" is something science historians talk about.

We can talk about objects, functions, data structures, abstractions, interfaces, complex compositions, etc. without mentioning paradigms. We can plan software that follows rules without involving a paradigm. We can teach a course just on functional programming and still not talk about it as a paradigm.

With all the words we have to describe the parts of programming, "paradigm" seems as generic and vague as "concept" or "thing". But "paradigm" does have a specific meaning, and it's not relevant in practice.
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I have been lucky with TextNow web-based phone number so far - all my banks (and the IRS) accept it. But it's probably only a matter of time until they force me to use a "real" phone.
https://files.catbox.moe/rswt9s.jpg

https://archive.org/details/et.iso.20541.2012/page/n7/mode/2...

I laughed when I saw pic above in my laboratory
That's on the client side, they obviously don't use jitsi on the client side, the question is if they use anything on the Backend...jvb? I would think not because it would be a lot of work to rename the whole api I would assume but do knows, might have been easier than writing the whole thing from scratch... Or can you see from the code they are using native webrtc?
Thanks, this is much more interesting.
I had an icon design for this that I created last month:

Archive (a box with a label tag on it, https://www.storagegiant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/a3-archive... from the frontside)
Unarchive (same box, but the lid is slightly tilted open)

You know why it works? Because the button also has the text on it that says 'Archive' or 'Retrieve' and the interface actions change accordingly on whether the resource is archived or not.

It's not about iconography, it's about ever increasing loss of context through simplification. It's the curse of the modern UI/UX designer.
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Is it just me or does the average engineer in most companies produce something like 150 lines of code per day when averaged over a year?
> But it is controversial to complain that the best stuff is more expensive than the cheap stuff.

Nah. Technically, and in terms of manufacturing cost, it would be even easier to make a simpler computer, without all those bells and whistles that can be turned against the user, without the Intel Management Engine, TPM, and what have you.

> That's the type of stuff they sacrificed to make it cheap.

No, it's economies of scale which make one expensive, and the other one cheap. And human greed, and the human need to control other humans.
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I always find i kinda sad when someone develops a cool new technique but then just uses it to produce versions of famous paintings like the Mona Lisa or the Notorious BIG image.I really like the outcomes, and exploring different media/techniques is always worthwhile. But if you're just rendering other people's images...Not Art.

I get why someone would do this. It's much easier for people to notice and appreciate what's going by incorporating a reference image that's widely familiar, and without his work would be much more likely to be overlooked. But still.
What baffles me since I first studied ecology in 1990-s and to this day is this inexplicable divide in certain someones' minds between "us" and "earth".

There is no such thing. We are the one, the unity.
There is no border, no difference between "ecosystems" and "us". The whole biosphere is a single, very complex, but undivisable system. Get rid of any tiny single part, like a single human being and it responds.

In this light, I see the notions like childfree or extinction rebellion as cancer. People doing this do not even attempt to understand the real consequences of their actions.
I had experience with both American schooling and European one where memorization was a big part of the learning. I was struggling to memorize things. The American way worked perfectly for me. I think that schools should not encourage memorization.

A learning process where you remember all the facts and recite them exactly, you get a good grade is bad. That doesn't mean you actually understand and can apply your knowledge. There was this article on HN a couple of days ago about the medical paper where the author had reinvented the integral. That's the result of too much memorization.
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How's your customer support?
Looks like someone is waiting for your team to reply after he/she gave them the requested id info.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cloudygamer/comments/m0kqpa/does_an...
Please tell me more about this "proper education of being observant." Do you believe such a thing exists? Does it reliably make people consistently observant? Would it work on me? I would pay a lot of money for such a thing.
Because you can create a Google account anonymously. The financial law requires KYC - Know Your Customer. So that every illegal transaction can be traced to a real person.
YouTube has its own non-DMCA takedown system. It is a private cooperation between YouTube and big media. There is no penalty for bad faith takedown.
crAssphage? Did someone have a bit of fun with vocabulary?
“pulled by the company in charge of the late authors work”. I’d say that is the copyright holder.
If that’s true why has nobody (who isn’t Microsoft) ever build anything large scale in C# before or after StackOverflow?
Besides, the more imminent threat to "our jobs" is not artificial intelligence but the brutal combination of globalization and the increasingly effortless ability to work remotely. If it doesn't matter anymore where the person behind Slack or Zoom is located, then why should they be in the same country. Before AI catches up to our jobs, the jobs will already have been taken away from us by the forces of globalization.
If I can drop in another, "The Humane Interface" by Raskin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface) gave me a lot of confidence to offer feedback about all sorts of interfaces.
most people have never heard of Tor, but by now most non-techies are suspicious of tech. They've noticed that they're not in control, that it does weird things they don't want, that it spies on them, that it sneaks advertising in, that they're never sure if something is private, that they can't tell if something is real or a scam, or if a service is fine now but is going to turn into something harmful in a a few years.

so let's keep on screwing them over, I'm sure there will never be any consequences as we poison society
> that does what the people actually want

A problem is, that there's no such thing. There's a common denominator (punishing killers, rapists, thiefs), but this is what punish all governments anyway.

When you go past this point, people's interests are atomized.
Elon should make Starlink free and complimentary for all his Tesla cars. This would probably be a big extra incentive to buy a Tesla.
ah thanks! i'll keep my error for posterity
The point is that you can calculate odds of success.

Yes, you cannot predict the future precisely, but if you can estimate, that there is an X chance that in the future 70% specialists and 30% generalists are required, and the population will be 50/50 generalist/specialist, then you can make an informed decision which path should you choose if your goal is money/job security.

You may proven to be wrong, you may turn out not to be a good fit at all in your chosen role, but at least you took a calculated risk, instead of gambling.
> Go-like performance, Java-like power, and Ruby-like simplicity

You massively overestimate C#. Microsoft devdiv marketing is working.
I've actually begun using iOS voice memo app more often. I just add to a weekly recording whenever I come across something interesting. Recording can't get easier than this. Easy to passively listen and read. If i have a hard time summarizing it into a couple of lines, i know I dont know it well enough right there. I move the interesting ones into relevant google docs when I get the time and clean up the recordings.
icons replaced text about 8-10 years ago for reasons:

- ui consistency across languages and devices

- some languages are longer than others. you can’t just translate the text, this might break the layout. more common at smaller companies without testing resources to cover all the languages available

- mobile has less screen space. going icon only might be necessary. this also goes back to the first point: icon only is easier if it’s icon only everywhere

i’m not saying it’s better. i prefer text
Of course it isn’t; it’s the exact opposite.
I suspect it will be able to drive as well as the best human drivers in snow. Why would it be any different? We use our eyes which are basically cameras.
I recently ditched Windows to run Ubuntu 100%. With proton I'm yet to find a game that doesn't run, which is pretty impressive compared to the situation a few years ago. There's been a couple of issues with full screen modes and multi monitor handling, and Steam Link occasionally fails, but I can live with the bugs to not to have to run Windows.
I started producing music during lockdown. This triphop track seems to be getting the most traction so far: https://soundcloud.com/deminimis/once-more
I've been wanting to cobble together a phone using a microcontroller hooked up to a 4g/5g module. Anyone have a module recommendation? I think everything currently available on sparkfun and adafruit won't work for me.
Thank you for showing it is “to whet your appetite”. I always thought it was “to wet your appetite”, which made no sense at all. This is the first time I’d read this phrase instead of heard it spoken.
I think there’s also this attitude of thinking through every piece of the UX/UI thoughtfully and asking questions like...

“What do I want the user to notice? Where am I trying to direct their attention? If I didn’t know what this button does, how do I find out?”

It’s like checking out what you know at the door.
Or very slow entry speed. My wife rear ended someone while parked because her foot wasn't fully engaged on the break and it creeped forward until it was touching the car in front. It's a tesla so it started beeping but not until it was too late. No visible damage but that didn't stop the other driver from collecting insurance info and reporting it.
Sure, the experiment failed everywhere / everyWHEN else, but we're special. /more sarcasm
That makes total sense. A more pragmatic and less technical interpretation. I don't condone it seems that's the way we're headed.

It does seem like a slippery slope, though. Someone could argue that your site facilitates bypassing copyright for merely letting users know a particular torrent even exists. They would simply look it up by name in a torrent index that does share magnet links.

Thanks for the insight, and good luck with the website!
google has so poor standards, but what is worse those standards become general and other companies are copying them because its the great google doing it