skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true. I feel the urge to use new shiny stuff pretty often, but have no choice but to use old robust solutions, because new ones are just mostly proofs of concepts. This is also extremely true about the whole web-dev thing (the good ol' one JavaScript framework a day).

I guess it just comes down to working ethics. Doctors are a good example. Among them there are people who just do a job, who aren't passionate about the whole saving lives. And those are people that work directly with patients and heal people. Now imagine how bad a situation is when a person doesn't work directly with people and responsibility seems little. Among developers, there are people who are genuinely concerned about quality of the code they produce, but they are a minority. There are far more of those, who came in the field just because that's the next big thing and where the money's at. They just spend their whole day ramming that badly written code in a badly written codebase because manager told them to get it done by the end of the day. They don't see the consequences of their actions.

I read something like "a bunch of developers are controlling data of millions of people" some time ago. It feels relevant. Quite a lot of developers don't realize the scale of impact their software can have on people.
The engineers that did that have gone, replaced by newer folks...

As companies get larger, the engineering talent reverts to the mean. The first crop of engineers, that were passionate about it, and made it a success. After they move on, they are replaced with average corp. employee, that joins Spotify as safe/boring job. Hence anything interesting gets removed, and the most boring features survive.

Ps. I was one of the involved on that feature. I didn't write it (It was done in Sweden), but I created one of the earlier demos, (and patents), and that eventually became touch to preview.
Or just the fact that you need to constantly be on the market to get market compensation.
While not letting PMs off the hook - I think “PM culture” is a cancer on the tech industry, and companies have ceded far too much influence to them overall - I think the issue is something else. The way I’ve described it is: the goal of many apps, services and sites now is to get you to spend as much time as possible in/on them, not to make you happy while doing so. They’ve learned that FOMO increases engagement. That the more time a user spends fumbling around for what they want, the more time they hold your attention. That user re-education means more time, more attention, more eyeballs.

We are in a world being rapidly destroyed by metrics. Any sense of intuitiveness or even humanity is considered worthless, because no PowerPoint-driven argument can be made in favor of it, while the metrics faction has reams of “data” to back then up. A thousand times a day we’re subjected to things we don’t want to experience, nobody wants to experience, but they make a metric somewhere go in the right direction. Shittier, harder to use software is just one facet of it.
> This is what happens when white collar crime is institutionalised.

Do you know what share buybacks even are?
To counter your point, it's not just that product managers are easy to blame; it's that it's literally their job to change stuff.

Developers want to change stuff and do greenfield because it's fun, but that's a whole different beast to a career track whose job it is to change things. This goes beyond just poor incentives ["Googler gets a raise because shiny new thing"], into "upper management have created a construct whose purpose it is to disappoint existing customers who like what's already there".

There may be an argument that you'll draw in more people with shiny stuff, than you'll lose when you break old stuff. I only have anecdotes and personal experience that that's untrue [digg? reddit? metro?], and no examples of cases showing that argument to be right.

Also, personally I get my jollies working on other people's old code. I work with several FORTRAN codebases that pre-date my birth, and I enjoy it.
Yeah almost closed with a /pedantic tag for a lighter feel. I have enjoyed learning from you also!
not the op, but...

i find it pretty good, i use it for swift development (packages/libs) with a swift plugin (language server)

it works pretty well for that, its quite lightweight and smooth for the most part

my only concerns are

1. the swift plugin hasnt been updated in a long time, when will it stop working? (general issue of relying in plugins)

2. i think it uses its own text engine, so it "feels" different to other cocoa apps, not a big deal, just something i notice

3. if you wanna just open a file and get syntax highlighting, dont care about autocompletion/building, its maybe a little heavy for that (in the ui sense)

4. this may depend on plugin functionality, but error messages sometimes dont work as well as in xcode (click to fix, duplicate errors reported etc)
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its not as fully powered as jetbrains tho someday maybe it could!
FIFA experimented with that and rejected it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penalty_shoot-out_(association...?

”As part of a trial to reduce a potential first-mover advantage, the IFAB sanctioned in March 2017 to test a different sequence of taking penalties, known as "ABBA", that mirrors the serving sequence in a tennis tiebreak (team A kicks first, team B kicks second)

[…]

During the IFAB's 133rd Annual Business Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland on 22 November 2018, it was agreed that due to the lack of strong support mainly because of its complexity, the ABBA option would no longer be used in future competitions.”

I wouldn’t know whether that decision was the best possible, but guess that the popularity of football makes them more resisting to change than other sports (“Never change a winning team”)
I think this is the cause of some of these weird terms that this HN post is discussing. I have a PhD and found it incredibly frustrating to write research papers because there was an expectation in my field to add a ton of background. That meant I had to spend a lot of time to rephrase bits and pieces of other papers where the authors had worked hard to word something very well. The professors didn’t like me quoting from other papers. I had to come up with my own way to say something very specific.
Just because Wikipedia says it, doesn't mean it's widely known or accurate. Labeling things as denialism is itself a common trick in misinformation. It flattens whatever the original argument was.

There is a common conflation today where criticism of X policy is confused with being anti-X.

The medical censorship is getting so bad that organizations like this now seem pretty useful and on point. I don't need to agree with all their claims to have common ground with them.

Certainly more than the people who see covid as an endless license to control what others are allowed to read or hear.
> I wonder if the reluctance to support others earning money for quality work isn’t some form of cognitive dissonance.

It's about freedom, not about price.

I will not shape my life and habits around software that can be discontinued, or suddenly changed so much that it breaks my workflows. I will not use software with proprietary formats or which has dependencies on external "cloud" services that can go away at any moment. I don't need that kind of aggravation.

Happy to pay any reasonable (or even slightly unreasonable) money for software, not an issue. Sell me each version as a stand-alone application that I can run forever without any external dependencies and I'll pay for it.

Try to lock me into a subscription model and/or make the functionality dependent on an external server, that'll be a hard No. Even if free.
We have door levers, not knobs. Levers are easier to use, and look prettier. They’re also a lot easier for cats to use.

We have had to baby-proof all of the door levers to all of the rooms we don’t want our cats getting into.

One cat in particular is very long, and can easily just stand up on his hind legs and wrap his paws around the door lever, and then pull. I’ve watched him do it. He was looking at me through the glass door, and moving slowly and deliberately as he did it. As if to say “Hey, dad — you know this thing here above my head? It’s called a door lever. Let me show you how it works.” Yes, he was just a kitten at the time, and still long enough to pull down on door levers.

A cat we had a number of years ago realized that the doors we had in our house in Belgium usually didn’t close too well, and she could reach under the door and pull it open. She did the same thing with cabinets in the kitchen. She taught her daughters how to do the same thing. We had to get a lot better about fully closing and latching our doors, so that she didn’t just pull them open all the time.
The football (soccer) offside rule is often held up as an example of complication, so I doubt a reordering of penalty kicks will be too hard to follow.

Rugby union has several different offside rules - well one rule but it is quite involved. Also they are laws! https://www.world.rugby/the-game/laws/law/10
I don't see any new insights on the page that you linked. I personally signed copyright transfer forms that allowed for author's versions. There were some conditions that I don't remember in detail. But the gist is that a commercial publisher still allowed me to have a version of the article text online.
question.

Do peer reviewed papers make the reviewers public?

That would be an interesting angle if not. Allow anyone to publish, but they compete for high-status reviewers. Also, the reviewers have some skin in the game so far as correctness.
Idle-Tyme, the Original Rolling Ball Clock
A video playlist of quick accessibility tips. Each tip is just one minute.

Quick website accessibility tests:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTqm2yVMMUKWTr9XWdW5h...
>OSS has the best designs, at least on the desktop.

I guess you haven't used GIMP
MTV is a great example of the ability to adapt as a company. They changed with the market.

Also a great example of "old man yells at cloud"

Wiki Trivia - "A shortened version of the shuttle launch ID ran at the top of every hour in different forms, from MTV's first day until it was pulled in early 1986 in the wake of the Challenger disaster"
I mean those other places also don't have oxygen rich environments though either that consume and destroy hydrocarbons or life forms (that we know of) to catalyze and consume it. If they both existed in the same environment with any abundance they would quickly (geologically) destroy each other until one was nearly depleted. If hydrocarbons on earth weren't buried under tons of rock to keep oxygen and life away it wouldn't exist in meaningful amounts, and much of it got buried in oxygenless enviroments because of life itself. Keep in mind the Earth has had atleast a billion years of time just oxidizing all the elements and chemicals anywhere near or on the surface of the earth or oceans.
> If you don't trust the vendor, don't let them handle your passwords, obviously.

The problem is you not only have to trust your vendor today, but you also have to trust them tomorrow. Every vendor is one acquisition or compromised senior executive or engineer [1] away from becoming untrustworthy even if they started out being perfectly trustworthy. Assessing present trustworthiness is hard enough. Assessing future trustworthiness is obviously impossible.

[1] They don't even have to be compromised. All they have to do is make a bad decision. Apple, the company that built an entire marketing campaign on trust, is now installing spyware on its devices.
Official Elasticsearch Python library no longer works with open-source forks
It Took 400 Hours to Make This Super Accurate 3D Printed GTA V Map
Yes I think that is relevant. Mostly though it isn't about the specific recommendation, my beef is with the repurposing of what were formerly tools meant to be wielded by human intent into a conduit for big corp to implement its own schemes while ostensibly serving the user.
Click 'run benchmark', then 'sign up'. It seems to accept any email address and you're logged in immediately. You receive an email with username and password (plain-text).
Beautiful. I had a special chuckle over their diet fads. It all really stays the same.
I mean, the worst offender is Windows itself, and by far the most critical to everyday user experience.

The trend started with Windows 8 and continues to this day. And if someone brings up "improved security" as a benefit of more modern Windows systems, then they pretty much immediately concede the argument, because it's really not the job of the end-user machine to provide you with enterprise grade security.

Nor is it really true that older OSs simply aren't able to be made secure without releasing additional UI/UX changes alongside security patches.
Ex File Explorer Pro remains the best file manager for Android. It's the only one that treats network shares as seamlessly as local file folders and support tabbed folder windows. Unfortunately if you want to use it you have to get an APK from before the developer was bought out by a malware company.
>Spotify has pretty great radio/recommendations if you even bother to use those features.

The radio feature used to be a fantastic tool for exploration. Now it just feeds you your existing music preferences.
I can't really tell. Certainly jevon's paradox adjacent.
Neat! Is there something like this for IPA files?
Try defining humor. You can write a book about it and it would still be missing the point. Since irony is part of humor, any attempt to define it is probably similarly problematic. So my advice would be to either let it rest, or to be prepared for some unsatisfactory conclusions.
The issue with Algolia is that they have insane technology but it is mostly used only to search documentation.

They are struggling to sell their techno to people who need them deeply, for a lot of reasons. But one of them is that they are a tricky choice. It is not a database technology, so not a developer choice but also their technology is only useful to developers.

As a result they have to try to sell their product when you need a search but no developers are working on it. That's how you end up powering external and internal documentation portals. That's really a waste of resource
That's great to hear. Yes, both those crops were "canoe plants" that Polynesians took with them wherever they went.

Kava doesn't seed so has trouble growing in the wild unless conditions are perfect, in which case ancient stands of them might still be alive. In Hawaii, long after the missionaries tried to eradicate kava, some of the old cultivars were rediscovered in the 90's from old kava stands found growing deep in national park forests.

But yes if you did find kava growing there, it would be a rare cultivar and given its long shelf-life once dried and packaged, a great crop to commercialise on that island.
>The CO2 emitted is not a concern because it's carbon from the current environment.

Nope, it doesn't work like that.

Source: Business very related to this exact activity.
AI tool that responds to questions with human-like answers, not search results
Bad typo - I meant mid-1900s but I was sleepy. The 9s threw my brain for a loop.

Edit: spelling
Reminiscent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding
While I said all that, I don't know a single bit about what could be done against such a problem. I guess it's just our nature. It seems to shine in many other areas (politics f.e.) as well.

It's just your general mundane ignorance and wrong values.
Ha! It's only a shock to those who believed it couldn't happen here. I live 8 miles up Highway One in Fort Bragg and many shallow wells all along the coast have been going dry earlier every years since at least 2013.

I tried for years to no avail to convince the Fort Bragg City Council to mandate point of use hot water heaters at the main taps in every house, which would save hundreds of thousands of gallons of precious water every year.

People always seem to ignore early warnings until it's too late to deal with.
> To reiterate: scanning your device is not a privacy risk, but copying files from your device without any notice is definitely a privacy issue.

Not a lawyer, but I believe this part about legality is inaccurate, because they aren’t copying your photos without notice. The feature is not harvesting suspect photos from a device, it is attaching data to all photos before they are uploaded to Apple’s servers. If you’re not using iCloud Photos, the feature will not be activated. Furthermore, they’re not knowingly transferring CSAM, because the system is designed only to notify them when a certain “threshold” of suspect images has been crossed.

In this way it’s identical in practice to what Google and Facebook are already doing with photos that end up on their servers, they just run the check before the upload instead of after. I certainly have reservations about their technique here, but this argument doesn’t add up to me.
There are plenty of outdoor or indoor/outdoor cats that kill for reasons other than food. Some cats just have a strong sense of prey.
https://github.com/nextcloud/passman is the closest one to my needs

- self-hosted on docker

- mobile app and browser extension

- sharing secrets and storing files

- api
Despite vaccines, same cases/hospitalisation ratio as in first wave
> only engineers believe most of the important issues in the world actually have an objective answer to them.

Was this really necessary? How many engineers do you know, and how many of them actually ascribe to this belief?
I'm spitballing, but there is a small amount of energy stored in the field around the structure. Since there's no dissipation, it would not make for a decent dummy load.
Other companies: Omni Group (mentioned elsewhere), Bare Bones Software. There's also this page [0] which has a few names -- some unfortunately which don't exist anymore (Ambrosia! sigh)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Macintosh_software_co...
My recently favorite question to ask people: why do you need a development team at a company whose product has already been developed, is feature-complete, and everyone's fine with it? A bank doesn't need a full-time development team for example.
Sadly, the Apple Music app on macOS also has major issues. For example, I’ll open it and try to search, and the results view says “Showing results for ‘query’” followed by a bunch of unrelated songs and albums. Running the search again actually produces results.

Apple Music on iOS has its own major issues, but at least search works the first time.
So let's analyze this for a minute, first at a general level of incentives that every software-building org has, then at the specific level of Spotify's founding culture and present incentives.

Generally: ideally we imagine UX & product roles as creating a strong experience rewarding the user on for their engagement, by user standards. In practice, in order advance their career, these roles need a narrative of wins they can sell to higher management. That usually means change one can take credit for, if possible paired with a metric management is invested in. Sometimes this metric is even connected with a rewarding experience for users. Sometimes. The incentive for change is there, though, regardless, at least as long as there's money in the dev budget for it.

Spotify Specifically: was founded under the premise that consumers could be drawn into a product that acts like a record collection buffet in the cloud, but only pay broadcast prices! (ie, free or flat rate). This premise was correct, but also relied on the idea that Spotify was entitled to pay artists broadcast-royalties while effect occupying the space where recording royalties used to live, cannibalizing the market for recordings. And so you get execs telling artists that it's "entitled" to want rates as high as a penny a listen for their music and Spotify wasn't built to solve the problem of artists getting paid it was built to solve the problem of piracy (artists not being able to get paid or set their prices is indistinguishable from the problems of piracy). [0] This tells us that either Spotify isn't getting enough revenue to pay a penny a stream, or it feels entitled to keep what it is collecting.

And here's what else we know about Spotify: their revenue per user is essentially fixed. Their model doesn't have much in the way to collect more from a user based off the users own values/actions. They can increase ads, but that's probably not a user driven win. What else can they do?

Well, they can do what the rest of the social media companies do with their feeds. Randomize appearance of content, mix in known engaging user rewards with other things that let Spotify sell user attention -- to a label or individual trying to promote music/audio in a given space, to third parties wanting to advertise or place another content.

That degrades user experience? Sure. You think the company that is founded down to the core on exploitation cares even a little bit about that? Especially now that they're such a huge name in music they outshine Apple in a lot of markets?

Eventually, I suppose, other people will be dissatisfied in the same ways you are and maybe in a snowballing number of ways caused by the kind of bad-incentives driven rot. But it's likely to be a long slow ride down the curve, with an exodus as fast and complete as FB.

[0] https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2021/06/29/spotify-executiv...
The usual square law still applies. Of course if you are inside the beam cone, it look way brighter than an object of 10^35 W should look at the same distance, but if you move twice as far away, the brightness will still drop to one quarter. And inversely if you are NOT in the cone it will look dimmer than an object of this intrinsic brightness should look. But the gain you get from bundeling the radiation into a cone instead of emitting isotropically is fixed and the scaling with distance is thus unaffected. Look up "effective isotropic radiated power" (EIRP) if you want to know more.
How are dissertations getting to you like that? When I did my PhD, no one would have allowed a PhD student to start writing a dissertation without first having sufficient research questions and then completing appropriate statistical analyses.
I don't want new features. I do want cross platform, native apps (Linux, MacOS and Android for me). I've yet to find a good solution that "just works".
I'm reading the headline as from the article: "Too Many People Are Dying Right Now “It’s hard to look at these indicators and feel at all optimistic,” explains scientist Eric Topol."

It feels like someone editorialized the headline to an anti-vax POV... I will unfortunately flag this..
https://parentingscience.com/kids-need-daylight/

Especially children need significant time spent in bright daylight in order to develop normally. It's not beyond our technology, but nobody actually does it.
wrong or right? The internet was designed to be "decentralized" in the sense of robust communications, but ultimately the goal was to convey the commands of one, centralized US army
>I hope people will use Spotify as a case study in how to fuck up a UI over time.

My favorite regression is probably how the Windows client finally had type-to-search functionality for adding new songs to an existing playlist, and now it doesn't again. The Linux client still has it though!

This is to say nothing of their radio algorithm regression.
We can only blame ourselves for Spotify's bad UI! (jk) Spotify uses an internal experimentation platform that guides which features they determine are successful, based upon how our usage moves their metrics: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2020/10/29/spotifys-new-ex...

So, basically, the bad UI is improving their metrics. Or something. Maybe this is a case of experimentation gone wrong.
> iOS developers wanted to rewrite everything in Swift

Swift is hardly new anymore... are you going to maintain an ObjC codebase in perpetuity?
Blender 2.8+ has done a pretty good job. I think in general OSS UX is pretty bad, but there are some stand-out exceptions.