skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can try to push your own idea through a political party, or create a new one. Or you protest in the street to express your position and try to attract others. By definition a democratic system isn’t stable, rules you don’t like can be changed and can evolve, but given the number of “stakeholders” (citizens) that takes a while to reach decisions.
... And this is why college lasts 4 years
I kinda see this as the next step after self checkout - conventional wisdom was that there would be too much theft and I think there is slightly more (intentional or accidental) but it is more than offset by the fact that you can pay just one employee and run 8 checkout lines
None of the income from the sale of standards gets back to their creators. The model is no different really to that of how publishers control access to academic journals, you don't get paid directly for writing a standard or for reviewing and writing ballot comments on ones written by other people.

For the TC22/SC31 work I was just being paid by my employer and they provided the travel costs to meetings.

The scope of TC184/SC4 is much bigger, the core people work on it pretty much full time and get paid by industry consortia to deliver something that will meet their needs. Some parts have been written by postgraduate students who got their PhD out of the work.
>so far

Since alphabet's invention put ancient egyptian hieroglyph writers out of jobs, we as a society has put up with it just fine.
machines implement stupid broken ux patterns which make shopping hell.

on edit: evidently people would like their supermarket checkout experience to be as pleasing as the typical online shopping experience, thus a quick downvote.
Do the employees enjoy the interaction with you, I wonder?
I thought the US does not consider Russia superpower anymore. They call it regional power.
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This is not how things happen, I have yet to see any large organization that let itself or its procedures changed by new hires. And telling someone that was mistreated by a company that they should have accepted and then tried to change the things from the inside is insensitivity at its best. Now if they hire you specifically for that purpose that's different, but it abaolutely doesnt sound like it here.
I’ve just never really used word by sticking to a theme, and tend to end up using custom formatting quite a bit e.g. I use heading 2 where I shouldn’t and should be using heading 1, use paragraphs in the wrong place etc.

Use some custom formatting in a paragraph when I should be using a preset default etc
The NY Times ran a horrendous article last weekend declaring "BMI" nonsense and saying that while people should take advantage of their vaccine early-eligibility, there's no "science" behind allowing obese and overweight people to the front of the line. That, of course, is harmful misinformation.
Hm do we need to bring male adulthood ritual back?
Ah, so this is a thing just because mimblewimble's private transactions are interactive. Regular blockchain transactions are already non-interactive.
Republicans' new favorite study trashes Biden's climate plans – who's behind it?
True. But the intention of writing

int three = 3;

is insane.

I would never ascribe to previous programmer (unless he just learned what variables are) the intention of creating variable (not even constant, which wouldn't make it any better) named 'three' and assigning actual value 3 to it.
I've created two email startups (https://ohmysmtp.com and https://idbloc.co) - email is hard, thanks in no small part to these issues which are basically undocumented or at least not specified.

To avoid this, the Hanami team could add a reply-to header that routes back to the original sender, update the from header to come from them (to pass DKIM and SPF), and instead of forwarding on directly, re-build the email and resend it as a fresh, DKIM signed-one. This is how we do it at IdBloc (we add the via bit):

from: Original Sender via IdBloc.co <sender-at-domain.com@users.idbloc.co>
reply-to: "Original Sender" <sender@domain.com>

If they want to act as a complete firewall in between, they can change the reply-to address as well and completely rebuild the email each time.
I agree that a singular focus on efficiency without regard for unintended side effects or negative externalities is crazy too. "Sustainability" should be right up there with efficiency as a main tool - doing something efficiently in an unsustainable way (societally, economically or ecologically) will by definition not be efficient in the long term anyway - but our society is often organized in a way where those who benefit from short term profits are not the same as those who must bear the long term costs, so they don't balance out like ideally they should. So the effort should be put into aligning those incentives, make it unprofitable to chase short-term profits in ways that harm society - not to fight efficiency as a concept.
You can solve `-rHInE` with just an alias though.
It must be more of those demon hackers according to the nutty CEO.
> Which are those "free countries"? What makes them more free than others?

Did you bother clicking on the actual link?
> The professional class generally have great care and don't pay much for it.

Wealthy people in the US are over-tested, which leads to over-diagnosis and over-treatment, and these things cause harm.
My hope is that as smartphone hardware gets commoditized we'll see a meaningful third-party alternative. Linux on desktop, for example, may not have the marketshare that matches commercial offerings (like MacOS, Win, ChromeOS) but it is viable, and it is there for people who want it. I want to see something like that for phones.
Zoom Fatigue: The Differing Impact on Introverts and Extroverts
Net Neutrality: Evidence from OECD Countries [pdf]
This is the most pleasantly written spelling correction I have ever seen.
It's been a while since I took my geopolitics class, but I think most people that study geopolitics would claim that the USA is in fact an empire, and that China and Russia are considered "great powers" and not superpowers. While China is still on the rise, it exerts dominating influence over a very large region and not quite globally.
I would enjoy learning more about these countries. It’s likely not enough of an economic gain.
I enjoyed interacting with customers when i worked as a cashier. But i was also a young person with lots of energy.

they seem (or pretend) in: costco, whole foods, trader joes

not so much in: walmart, target
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The Energy Consumption of Blockchain Technology: Beyond Myth
I have a feeling this will be used in the future to select candidates for something like a job, beauty pageant, or simply for a " beauty ranking". The latter will probably be how they get test data (if they don't buy it from Facebook)
Even if you pay annual maintenance fee with 4 or 5 zeros at the end, your bugs are going to be ignored, especially if they are feature requests.

If they are critical bugs, they might or might not be addressed.
One of the most germane aspects of The Humane Interface is that everything should be undoable.

That mitigates some of the damage done by unclear icons. You push the button... oops, that didn't do what I thought it did. Well, now I know, and the Undo button fixed it, so we're all good.

That's not perfect, but it does let regular users and power users coexist without separate modes. The former become the latter smoothly, without having to decide one day "OK, I don't need the screen real estate for labels, so turn them off".

In this case the Undo mode is also very imperfect: GMail has it inconsistently, and it's modal. It exists only in a toast, and not as a general Undo button in one consistent place. It's not a full stack, another thing that Raskin strongly encouraged. That indicates a significant re-think is necessary, not just tweaking the labels.

Anyway... really good book. It's not just UI tips and tricks, but a new way to think about what a UI is.
Ableton Live is at least making movements toward supporting more traditional music-making. 11 lets you pick between flats and sharps.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ableton/comments/jsqfvx/a_small_det...
Ouch, you're right. Thanks for the heads up!

Indeed, on fast connections the request to Plausible gets cancelled before it can be completed. I've updated my code to use that `setTimeout` trick.

`navigator.sendBeacon` support would be amazing! I really like how simple Plausible has been to set up (having never really used analytics before) so removing even more pitfalls/hurdles would be cool
Exactly, thats my point, too. You brought up a very nice example (which i actually experienced first hand as well).

I feel forced to circumvent this so called 'protection'.
“De-anonymize and correlate images that was stripped of metadata by uploader”
Many succesful startup had this model. I think even Slack had all the design managed by an agency and that's what made it succesfull
US is FAR scarier than China. Just try to ask in Europe who the (educated) people there consider to be the primary threat to the world. I am not talking about european "mainstream media", these are eventually on the US food chain.
> I enjoy the interaction with the employees.

If you want to pay for someone to be social with you why not do that separately to shopping? Seems funny to try to mix the two.
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T-Mobile to Step Up Ad Targeting of Cellphone Customers
Another tool that we use in the online mapping world that specifically supports color blindness that generates palettes is ColorBrewer:

https://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&scheme=BuGn&n=3
This article made me look into Intel ME and AMD PSP. Kind of concerning to have a black box in my PC that could be doing pretty much anything.
The article also speaks of "fresh fruit and vegetables" though. I don't think visiting once a week would be enough for many fruits and vegetables.
Someone at my work created a tool (windows hook? Not sure how they did it) which shows a warning when moving network folders and files. (Just a simple confirmation box). So much time saved by now needing to request the backup be restored because files couldn't be found.
> Quite surprisingly, even the far-right movement is going "full nuclear" those days.

Just to clarify, it's "surprising" because they can be quite sceptical about science (the leader of the "main" far-right party has made comments about covid vaccines that borders on conspiratism ; the "smaller" far right parties are crossed the border a long time ago. )

They're trying something that is being more "anti-wind" than "pro-nuclear", which makes sense as they want to gather votes from the southern countryside with is heavily biased against wind turbines.

We'll see how that fares next year when they have won the election.
>And then you have the weird gestures that are completely undiscoverable. [...] I mean, yeah, I know it's there, but I never would have actually discovered that on my own

I noticed a lot of UI problems like this when my parents changed from Windows Phone to Android and I had to help them. There are a lot of small actions that make sense if you used Android in the past (since they've been slowly introduced) but are completely bonkers to anyone picking it up now:

- To reject a call, swipe the "Accept call" icon down (this one is particularly horrible);
- To enable Wi-Fi, bluetooth, etc. swipe from the top;
- To dismiss a notification, swipe it to the side.
Some people pay for Google apps on a custom domain ($12/month exactly), but I don't expect Google to even answer the phone since that's small change for you.

At a certain scale (much smaller than Google's, probably already at about 100 customers) it's impossible to please _all_ users of your software, so you try to please the majority. And whatever you change, there will always be that 'one guy' whose workflow will break.
> lack of the big picture

This is why the dealines are missed too. If/when i don't get the big picture, i spread all over the subject/don't know what i should focus on, and miss deadline.

I would say: better communication at the beginning of the project. What i like is first: know the general direction, then research abit on my own, then have an open discussion with the PO (on the wednesday if the project started on a Monday), about all the caveats i see.

Also, responsibility. If the business (not usually PO in this case) agree to send me a mail/sign a paper saying that they take full responsibility if the upgrade either doesn't fully respect the law or isn't secure (security is like 50% of the time spend in research/in integration), i assure you the deadline will be met.
Correct, my bad. I would edit my original comment but it's too late.
That's why I actually like the "split pill" style toggle for a binary choice like that, where one side is clearly pressed and engaged, and the other side is clearly up and not engaged and waiting for a user to click it.
Then my point still stands, why the need to send Excel files via mail? :)
Do you not have road-side produce honesty stands where you live? It's no different to that.
I’ve heard people recommend https://colorbrewer2.org/ and https://gka.github.io/palettes/ for color palettes.

I also recommend Color Oracle for testing:

http://www.colororacle.org/
Covid has already accelerated a cashless society, whereby you are incentivized to have a digital means of paying; GPay, Apple pay, Contactless card (and payment limits have increased as a result). You also have various testing and tracing schemes, perhaps using QR codes to scan as you enter a place, an "app" to monitor closeness to people who might have Covid.

Those who cannot, do not or will not have a smartphone will become marginalized and excluded from society. The expectation and norm will be to obtain and fully use your digital extension (and there are many smartphones that are very cheap).

Eventually, smartphoneless people will become a percentile point of the population that are easily discarded and hidden, and from my perspective that's becoming more and more obvious as time goes on.

To me this is simply an observation, not a commentary as to whether it's good, bad, but it seems this is the direction society is accepting since I don't see any movements against smartphones or this type of future.
> Is 1 in ~3500 the prevalence of mental illnesses in the general population?

No. It's much, much higher. 20% of American adults suffer from some form of mental illness at any given moment.

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness.sh...

It's not reasonable to assume that mental illness = delusions of persecution, of course, but it is reasonable in my opinion to expect that at least one person in the ~120K people at Google mistakenly believe they are being persecuted for their race when they are not, and I think it's not reasonable to assume there is only one, given today's climate.

If it's a slow news day, journalists seek out the mentally ill - say, those who believe that the world will end on some specific day or those who believe their blood is full of spiders - and make a story out of it.

I believe this happened with this story. Whatever personnel problems Google has, harboring closet racists is not it. Google HR reasonably and compassionately tells some people who are over-stressed about racism in their lives to take a medical leave - and BBC / NBC spins this into a story about Google harboring racists, which exacerbates the initial mental health issue.

It's reprehensible, and BBC should be ashamed. NBC News should be too, but they are shameless and it's too much to ask.
Hmm, so they do. I just found a couple of WMO bunkers near-ish to me that have been for sale recent(ish)ly. £20k guide prices seem strangely cheap.

http://www.upfs.co.uk/property/ukwmo-ashwell-hertfodshire/

http://www.upfs.co.uk/property/ukwmo-brundall-norfolk-2/

Edit: Those links will probably break if you have https-everywhere installed.
This is a principled approach.

And of course it does depend on the nature of the contractual relationship with your client.

However, even if we charitably assume that the developers are accurately estimating the mean, that means that out of 100 projects, 50 of them will be delivered late. It is likely that you'd want to do better than that, and to do so in a principled manner, you're going to need to adjust the estimates that come out of the estimation process.
Wikipedia doesn't really prove anything, and I already mentioned that there are many claims of 6 to 9 months. Your paper seems to suggest 12 months (assuming a lifetime of 20 years).
I never use the hang up button in Google meet because it just irritates me to figure out where to click. So I just close the tab.
Some banks in Scotland do traveling bank, essentially a small bank office built into a lorry, serving areas with no other means of banking.
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Why China Worries About Losing Manufacturing
Spot on. I remember trying to get petrol in Belgium at night sometime in the late 90s. The country had its own smart debit card programme (very leading edge) and garages there had unattended pumps that would accept these cards to cater for out-of-hours customers. But, being a UK tourist without a local payment card, I was stuffed. Stopped at every garage along the way, getting increasingly concerned, before coasting in on fumes to one that was actually open all night and would accept my Visa or MC.
It needs a less portable compiler and uses MIT instead of GPL.

Otherwise that would be pretty exciting.
Efficiency. Chat and shop. It’s a twofer. And if you like interaction but not having to get to close, it’s great.
> As organizational complexity increases, design debt and responsibility becomes diffused among larger and larger groups of people. Leading to the bizarre situation where no individual has power or responsibility over anything specifically.

This is extremely true in my experience, but how can you fight against this as an organization scales? Just simplify the org structure and define strict definitions for what each level is responsible for?
This is addressed in the questions in the aforementioned video[1] and it's actually not that much of a blocker at this point. There's plenty of arch-specific stuff in the kernel (drivers, but not only), so Rust can (and will) be used there. And there's no point waiting for complete architecture compatibility before starting to deploy some Rust in the kernel.

Of course it means that they aren't going to rewrite the core kernel logic in Rust tomorrow, but they wouldn't do it anyway even if GCC supported Rust.

[1]: https://youtu.be/FFjV9f_Ub9o?t=2930
The value the self-scan systems have for the shop owners is not in automation but the fact the work is reported on customer, with of course no price reduction. That should be forbidden. I boycott those systems and wait for the human clerk to do his job, this way a little of the money made by the shop is redistributed.
> Just want to point out that the same people who say "sorry if you don't have a phone you can't shop" are probably the same who claim requiring ID to vote is "voter disenfranchisement" and that disabled people should have special exceptions made for them.

What makes you think that those are the same people? At first blush it seems like people in favour of easier access to vote and easier access for the disabled would be the same people that advocate for more inclusive access to shops.
But it's not efficient, is it? These people could be doing something more productive with their time than staffing a checkout in order to make small talk.
In our case tampering with the sealed parts of the hardware by the user would be illegal. I'm not sure if providing an illegal method to load the firmware fulfills the GPLv3 requirements.

EDIT: So, I don't think this is actually a technical question. It's a legal question that boils down to the fact that a premise and its inverse can not both be true at the same time.
Lost Art Press is worth a follow in general. If you’re ever near Cincinnati, I highly recommend checking out their store front. They focus on keeping traditional woodworking books in print, but they also do a lot of woodworking (chair making especially) in their shop.
> simpler for the regular users to provide input regarding the features they need changed

Don't get me wrong, a good interface needs to take user feedback into account. But trying to accommodate the union of all features needed by all users is a recipe for madness. Somewhere you need an engineer, PM, designer, CxO, or someone who can make judgement calls and decide which user needs are more important than others.
Really looking forward to the C256 Foenix U

https://c256foenix.com/
I've stubbornly stayed on Sibelius 6 for years, but it no longer works on OS X Catalina, so I was pondering biting the bullet and upgrading to 8. But after seeing this...

Does anyone have any recommendations for a _real_ alternative they've used?* I took a look at MuseScore a couple of years ago and the impression I got was that it was fine for casual usage and for producing fairly simple scores, but lacked a lot of features. (I found that to be the case LillyPond as well.) Dorico looks more promising, but I'm curious what people who've used it heavily think.

I didn't even know that Finale was still around, but that was the first notation software I learned. Ironic that the reason Sibelius was able to trounce Finale in the marketplace so many years ago was mainly because the UI was so much easier to use and more intuitive. And now it's succumbed to the same problems.

*Features I'd like to see: parts generation, graphical score options, midi-based entry, and something that offers good default engraving behavior out-of-the-box but also lets you tweak everything to your liking. I typically sketch things out on on paper first, so I care less about "composition features" and more about being able to produce scores that are correct and that allow me to notate everything I would want.
I've given up and just run older x11 software on my phone now because the UI is more sane.

No one builds good UIs anymore.
“ Governments including the U.S. have denounced the treatment of the people inside the camps as "genocide" and "crimes against humanity."

Yet the question remains: What else can any nation do about it? I lament to say that unless it starts hurting the flow of iPhones and cheap products from China, no government or corporation has an incentive to speak up and take action
What do you say to a person who cites Soviet statistics in earnest?

What do you say to a person who, in one comment, rails against incarceration in the United States, only to say that in the Soviet Union the GULAG wasn't so bad because... "87% of them were ordinary non-political criminals like thieves, cons, etc."
I cannot imagine the level of cynisme required to arrive to this conclusion. A free country isn’t a place where everything works great and everything is fine. It’s a place where you’re quasi-free to live as you would like, with limited government control. You’re free to have and express your religious views, free to do business, free to criticize your government, etc. Lot of places in the world do not have this.

You have corrupt oligarchs everywhere, even in free countries. That’s a problem of course but that’s not a reason to ignore that some countries guarantee way more individual freedoms than others.
This is probably the only way that anything gets done though. Someone has to keep the legacy system running, warts and all, while someone else has the free space to work on something better. The only thing that's misguided is comparing the two as if they were tasked with the same goal (they were not).

But, one can speculate that if the situation was reversed, and the interns and newbies were forced to maintain the old system and the old hands were given carte blanche to write a new system, that maybe they wouldn't have been as creative or open-minded about it. Or maybe they'd have deeper insights based on their experience? Who knows?