skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ultimate success or failure of our business depends on our ability to get our NLP to deliver high quality answers and minimize the time our own internal reviewers need to spend on each questionnaire. We are making progress here every day, but still need to get better.

It's totally fair to be skeptical that we can pull that off. I will say though that we are fanatical about NOT making this a business where we hire lots of humans to be reviewers. We'd rather fail than hire an army of low wage workers to do the soul sucking job of reviewing other people's questionnaires all day every day.
> What makes the work of the electricians, carpenters, plumbers, etc, any better or worse than that of a fine machinist?

You’re right that it’s a value judgement. A tradesman might be able to fix problems that impact essentials (electricity, water, shelter) for 100 people in a year while a fine machinist makes a single watch for a rich person.

I think it’s shameful to be spending resources on frivolous luxury goods when such a huge chunk of society lacks the essentials required for a reasonable standard of living.
I think what they should have is a salary cap. A maximum-wage, in addition to a minimum wage ... there would be less and less incentive to make an extra buck, fewer alpha males strutting about, and no chance of too-big-to-fail. Sorry, my cynicism talking.
So you want the Navy to filter out people who either aren't abusive or can't take abuse?

During the pandemic, my friends in medicine saw people go through absolutely grueling months of long hours, dangerous conditions, and sometimes isolation from their families. They did it because lots of people are strong when they have a reason to be and believe in what they're doing. No one hazed those people.

Your idea of strength is sad, narrow, misinformed, and honestly something I thought we had left behind in the last century. I am afraid for the mental health of our military.
Don't look at version string, bu think java version "LATEST“.
This will always have the bes support.
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For me that is a huge part of it - a combination of focus grouping while I'm refining my thoughts as well as getting people used to the idea. That way, even when things are presented as options, I'm confident that they'll choose the option I want.

The other key aspect is that it's just far more efficient. My last few jobs have espoused being highly collaborative, but in practice what that means is that everyone winds up in the proverbial room. Chaos ensues, nothing ever gets decided.
Annoying people intentionally does not sound too clever, is there some context I am missing?
I am personally kind-of-ok with the watch purchase you describe. What I'm not ok with is the extra ~100K tacked onto the watch price by the brand going exclusively towards status.

My problem with conspicuous consumption isn't the relative utility being bought, it's the values that it signals to waste money for the luxury of wasting it. Making it desirable as a society to set money on fire instead of using it to better your situation is the real damage.
What's the difference between LTS and LATEST?

Lack of features? Sorry they added shenandoah in JDK 11, AFTER release.

No code breaking changes? Sorry JDK 8 u2xx broke my code that worked on u6x.
Android already has that standard. Long press almost always brings up a tooltip.
I'm not sure how "well meaning" the non-scientist committees are that decide which group of people should get the vaccine.
I bet CD Projekt Red doesn't miss any
That was an incredibly interesting watch, I had no idea this was a thing.

Is there something special about where they're digging for it to be plagued with such a large amount of rats? It looks like it would take weeks to cover all of their land with this digging + dog method.
There is never justification for abusive treatment of others at work, but there are business reasons for the prevalence of overnight and weekend work by junior bankers.

This post has an insider’s perspective explaining how the daily flow of the business in corporate finance and M&A requires a lot of the work done by junior bankers to be completed at night or on weekends: http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-fine-disreg...
"it makes me wonder about the rest of their business"

Maybe the rest of the business is basically raping and pillaging society at large and the abuse is a form of training as in your military example?
This is an interesting result, and makes me wonder if there are things that can be done to strengthen the effect even further, like randomly varying each page's color, texture, weight, pattern (blank, lines, grid), etc.
It’s okay for submenus to expand on hover, because the user is already mentally in a menu context if they clicked to open the top-level menu. That is common desktop behavior too. However, it’s preferable for the submenu to stay open until some other menu navigation takes place (e.g. a sibling submenu opens), because it’s much too easy to accidentally leave the submenu area with the pointer.
If 99% of something is used by spam and not opened it makes a strong argument to remove said feature.
My experience is different. True 10x engineers are always well received by their peers because they make the problems go away. However 10x wannabes... That's a different story entirely. They voice their opinion when not asked, want to take credit for everything, make dubious decisions outside their capabilities... Worst of all, eventually they move to "inner emigration" and create some monstrosity that nobody asked for, let alone wants to maintain. :shrug:
Ok thanks, I'm glad it's not just me! :-)

This is the discussion you mean, I think: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26127165
AI will be racist for as long as the Internet is racist. were you to curate datasets, you'd just bias towards whoever curated it chose it to be. what's unbiased? nothing. no one.
CFTC Fines Coinbase $6.5M over 'Reckless' Reporting
This - email and text notifications go everywhere for me. Web ones don’t follow what device I’m using
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This isn't new. Back in 1992 you had two choices for DPI in Windows 3.1 but many applications couldn't cope with the larger setting.

I used it anyway because 1024x768 on a 14" CRT was unreadable with regular fonts.
The Wondrous History of Sewers
Similar here - I just went up to a 12 mini because the SE I had was... well - still worked, but I wanted to 'forward proof' myself a bit. I suspect it may not go past iOS 14 (I just upgraded - was on 12 for a long time). For things like banking, etc, I wanted to know my device will work for the next few years, and this is the smallest I can get that still is in the ios/apple world.

I somewhat regret this, as I miss the Touch ID. Rumors are the 13 models will have a Touch ID under the screen, which will be great, but, I don't know they'll have a 'mini' version either. Apparently the 12 mini is being discontinued? I can't tell if that rumor is true, or production is just being reduced in favor of the larger models. Either way, the "small form factor" just seems to be an afterthought.

Was reading a few viewpoints on this (perhaps it was even on HN?) some time ago, and ... one of the attractions of 'big screens' is that, for most people, that phone may be their only or primary internet access device. For me, I'm on laptops and large screens all day - I want small and conven ient and mobility in a phone, not large screens. If I want a large screen... I go to a large screen. I don't try to wrestle with getting a 7" device in to pockets to carry around with me. But people wanting 5" phones are apparently in a minority.
Lawmaker pressures FCC to rethink proposal affecting truck platooning
Accessibility is not just for people who use screen readers. It's for everyone, including you and me.
Priorities change, but you can influence those by paying more.

The ability to work 70+ hours week after week after week and keeping the quality reasonably high, that doesn't change as much. It's also something you can't convince people to be able to by offering more money.
I found it a little garden path. I think "African American Georgia newspapers from..." is slightly clearer.

That slightly alters the meaning by not using the demonym: newspapers published by African Americans from Georgia vs newspapers published in Georgia by African Americans.

I guess you could also go with African American Georgian Georgia newspapers to be explicit that it's newspapers published in Georgia by African Americans from Georgia.

Sorry, I guess I have Georgia on my mind now.
I've revisited SS2 several times (couldn't play it due to REALLY ENORMOUS stress level) and I was able to finish it some 10 years later. What an atmosphere. What a story. What an absolute gem...
I've also been working to do this but it's difficult. I still have friends and family who use Google Photos, for example, and you're pretty stuck once you start using shared albums.
Or you just send them a text?
Recently this was in news. There was a rumor that the plutonium device planted in Nanda Devi exploded and caused floods in India.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56102459
I vote for eradicating food insecurity in the USA. That would be pretty transformative IMO. How many ultra wealthy investors do you think will get on board?
Wow. That's beautiful. Have you found that your extended family generally follows the rule, or do some folks break it based on whether they immigrate to, say, western countries?
Are there any open-source tools in this space? Not necessarily full-featured meeting platforms, but tools that can share a screen/window with remote control and multiple cursors?
I may be wrong, but I think anbox is not an emulator per se, it is more similar to how wine works. So it should not have too extreme overhead.
As a related point, stop trying to shove the entire site navigation into a minimal top menu.

Your site is probably just leaving more than half of the screen of desktop users blank, and phone users can gain a lot from a top menu that actually does what it says and an expanded menu that takes the entire screen and lets them see what they are doing.

People keep reevaluating how they implement the top menu, keep finding their implementation harmful, and yet do not stop to question the menu itself... No, it must be the implementation details, it can't be that the menu is a bad idea!
Here's how Ford tests its car seats: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/1/11/18178402/ford-robot-...

Should we, as consumers, demand that Ford productize this robot and make it publicly available before we'll buy a Ford car?
Supercruise is not the same as Cruise self driving.
Nailed it - basically everyone here saying safari should do these things is app devs vs a ton of people going nope no thank you I don’t want that
Learn Who We Have to Thank for the Term Work-Life Balance
Radioactivity needs to be treated with proper respect. But what is that? Because of the intimate ties between plutonium and global military dominance there is little reason to trust any info that comes out of the military on face value in this area, where "calming the public" is likely more important than a few (hundreds?thousands?) natives dying from radiation poisoning. [0]

Statements like "the lost material poses 'a miniscule threat' because the plutonium amount was relatively small and the dilution factor—even if the stuff gets into the Ganges—is so great" does nothing for me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Atol...
> I mean sci-hub doesn't do that.

Not if you're just downloading papers, but where do you think they get those papers from? People giving them Shibboleth logins. Obviously they are very secretive about how they get those logins. There are claims they use phishing.

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/02/25/sci-hub-how-d...

> [logins] are apparently ‘donated’ by academics. It’s not clear whether the academics who have donated such information are aware of what they have done. According to Edward Sanchez, head of library information technology at Marquette University, academics there have been targeted by a phishing campaign specifically aimed at obtaining university access credentials. These have subsequently been used by Sci-Hub. Sci-Hub contests this.
> Sci-hub doesn't have any logins barring captchas so why would that be an issue?

They need Shibboleth logins to download the papers. There have been claims that they use phishing to obtain them.
> My take is: you get paid to get your work done.

Well, that's what managers think as well. They are being paid to organize such activities ;)

Sure, those activities don't make much sense (my opinion), but they think they do (their opinion)... Just let it be. Let them do their job (organize activities) while you do yours (not attend such activities while being in office hours): everyone get their job done and everyone wins.
Don’t be surprised by the MIT administration’s decision on Seth Lloyd
The Design of Forms in Government Departments (1962)
I don’t think this is a matter of getting lots of speculative work. I think the analysts in the survey knew they were getting in for crazy hours during crunch times. The problem is that there are a lot more deals than usual being done this year so there are no longer any non-crunch weeks.
Yeah my roommate right after college worked at a major investment bank and the “culture” struck me as purely abusive hazing...he worked 6-7 days a week and was out of the apartment before 8am and home after midnight most days. The working environment he described sounded godawful...cruel for the sake of being cruel. Assignments delivered at midnight and due at 7am. People using the strict hierarchy to make junior people suffer. Young people with serious stress-induced health problems. Heavy drinking on the occasional night off to dull the pain.
I've lived in Georgia (the U.S. state) my whole life, and when I read "Georgian" as an adjective, I usually assume it means Georgia the country. People here typically use "Georgian" only as a noun to refer to a resident of the state. In adjective form, you usually just hear "Georgia" (e.g., Georgia coast, Georgia pines).
Payment networks are being built on Ethereum that will allow much more than just sending / receiving in a peer to peer decentralized way at low cost

https://starkware.co/ https://optimism.io/ https://www.immutable.com/
I guess much like aria attributes it varies based on the quality of the product/motivation of the business.

I just tried one of my banking apps and a Reddit client and found neither provided tooltips - perhaps they thought those particular icons are too self explanatory or perhaps they didn't bother/used a cross platform tech that didn't make it easy.

Actually even on Google maps I don't seem to get tooltips for the fab icons for center map / directions.

I do remember this being a thing but it feels like it's fallen out of fashion.

Pixel 3a / android 11
Especially when the tree is deep and you have to trace a narrow path to your option. It's like the Polus Maze task.
You (and dralley) are missing the point: the dude made a wrong turn with Rust and didn't with Zig. You can blame the user all day long but at the end of the day what leverage Rust devs have is not in the user's head, eh?

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> I actually think that C is one of the most complex programming language ever written because you need to store too much invariants in your head otherwise it's UB, but ifdef and macros aren't at stake

Like I said, without metrics we're just trading subjective anecdotes.

Metrics for complexity of machines is a subject I find fascinating, ever since I read Ashby's "Introduction to Cybernetics" wherein he asks the question "How can we measure the complexity of a machine?" in the context of a formal system for describing machines (Cybernetics.)

There is also the concept of "Kolmogorov complexity"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

We could compare the sizes of compilers for C and Rust.

We could teach each to different randomized groups of students and see how quickly people learn to write (safe!) code in each.
Step-by-step guide to landing pages that convert
The 'cookie law' under discussion here predates GDPR by seven years, and mentions cookies repeatedly...
"...not hide links in an expandable menu at all"

On desktop screens, I agree, but how could this work on mobile? On a mobile viewport, presumably the navigation links collapse ino a menu. The only other mobile option I can see is to place all site links in the footer which feels clunky.
Allegory.
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Beyond the !Kung
The alternative to hamburger menus is to design your app navigation so you don’t need them.

Use the settings app for settings, so they don’t clutter your app. Have the user tap an ‘account’ control to do account related things like logout or change passwords.

The problem is (oversimplified) these developers start with 20 things they want to show, and then they pick 4 things they can cram in the toolbar and the rest is tucked away in the hamburger menu. It’s a lot easier of course but it also looks like the lazy alternative to thoughtful design.
I think, as with anything, it can be used in bad faith. By taking advantage of the fact that many of the stakeholders are only able to give an idea some basic consideration due to time constraints, it's often possible to build consensus around an idea that isn't actually the best one. And by the time someone with a better idea comes around, the idea that has already built consensus can use that power to squash it.

But that assumes the person using this process is acting in bad faith to begin with (they're not pursuing the best idea, but rather their idea). If this technique is used in good faith with an open mind, it's one of the most effective ways to deal with large organizations.
I have followed the brilliance of google maps from an ux perspective for decades now, and don’t fault them that much for their new changes: it has become much more common now that I actually don’t care much about where a place is, more only about if I found the right place, and how do I get there. If I use public transit then the map becomes even more irrelevant. Given how good Googles places info is, the only time the map becomes relevant is once I start turn by turn directions, at which point it again shows one of the best UIs out there for that purpose.
Japan’s Gun Laws Worked So Well They Need to Ban Crossbows
Securing my IRC (irssi, screen) session with dtach and systemd
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You could price out a desktop for your own comparison. I don't think it's fair to compare something explicitly designed to be a workstation to a desktop-class machine.
Got any evidence, tangible or otherwise, of (2)?
Not necessarily! One Chinese character = one English syllable, but just like in English, many (most?) Chinese¹ words have more than one syllable. The article itself mentions that most names are two syllables, for instance. Or here’s another example with six characters/syllables but four words:

你 叫 什么 名字？
Nǐ jiào shénme míngzi?

_____________

¹ I really shouldn’t be talking about ‘Chinese’ like this in a unified way, as the differences between Chinese languages are comparable to those between, say, English and German; however in this particular case, it’s fine to do so, since my specific comments here are applicable to all Chinese languages I’m aware of.
How do you hover on mobile?
That's an unfortunately common misconception supported by the wording in POSIX, probably because no one wants to codify ill-defined practices.

I remember back in the 00s, people would refer to the implementation of the write syscall in some old BSD to explain why short writes are expected to only happen in actual error conditions; IIRC, local disk I/O was considered "fast" and thus the syscall only checked for signals during setup, and while returning to userspace. Around that time, I came to realise that Linux doesn't cut write(2) short due to signals. antirez https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3790154 confirms that was still the case in 2012.

This expectation of no short write to local files outside real errors has spread to too many programs, so must be upheld by any useful POSIX-compatible OS (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/WritesNotShort...). However, there are no hard rules for when short writes to files can and cannot happen (e.g., I'm pretty sure NFS is a common exception), and programs can be portable enough as long without knowing them.

In contrast, it's easy to exceed reasonable limits for atomic pipe I/O, so it makes sense that POSIX would codify existing practices. Unfortunately, a vague agreement of "no shenanigans on regular file writes" doesn't fit anywhere in a specification, so people lacking the context end up thinking that only pipes can be expected to provide uninterrupted writes, while the reality is that only pipes broke writes regularly enough that it made sense to specify when and how that can happen.
I'm sure there's a Consent As A Service (CaaS) somewhere. If not then that's potential revenue right there.
Most modern datalogs, this one included, support negation, with some limitations.
Yeah, its more the chinese red-guard sort of mob-rule, directed barely by the system-provider.
Stable Hashing of Python Objects
EXACTLY! And for some businesses, you may never get me back to try a redesign. That can also be used as justification - "those people won't come back again anyway".

This was some of the same 'thinking' back in the 'designed for netscape / IE' wars of the late 90s. I would routinely hear that "we get more sales from IE users". And me saying "it's because we didn't test on netscape and the form submission is broken" didn't seem to register with anyone.

I actually worked with one client who 'got it', and they were very particular that we tested with all major browsers of the day - they had multiple millions of dollars riding on orders coming in every month, and even small delays meant big ramifications down the line. It was almost all Netscape/IE, but we had to deal with multiple versions, and test accordingly, which wasn't trivial because they were trying to also add new JS functionality. We had a lot of user-agent testing at that time. :)
I would also like to tackle Lolita again, possibly through an annotated text, but I have a particular focus: I am uneasy with narrator unreliability.

The difficulty I have with it is that you can use it almost anywhere to justify anything. Star Wars and Superman? Perhaps there are two Kansas farmboys named Luke and Clark next to one another in an asylum, living out their fantasies, and all we see is the fantasy they choose to relate. You can begin to cram all kinds of unlikely conclusions into places once you bring up the idea that the author is not being entirely faithful in relaying what has transpired to the text.

As such, I would love to see if anyone has covered Lolita pointing out "Oh, but over here he said something completely different," because the bulk of the N.U. focus I have seen approaches the topic from the axiomatically assumed lack of culpability of Lolita herself; Humbert must be lying because otherwise she is complicit in this part over here. I would rather see contradictions within the text, but I haven't found anything with that kind of focus.
You're talking security, he was talking official documentation and thus guarantees about it being there that way.

Your bank doesn't guarantee you that the lock model X45-b from company SUPERLOCK will protect your gold in their vault, even if that's what they use right now, and it's not specified in your contract with them, they just guarantee to protect your gold. This way they can change the lock without being in breach of contract.