skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SK Hynix to Make Intel's NAND Business a Separate Company
As an analytics guy, we deserve some blame, but also can and should be part of the solution. Anybody working on a public website in the last 12 months has had their senses sharpened about page speed issues thanks to Google’s carrot of AMP-free news placement for fast sites and a badge of shame and lower rankings for slow sites. Lighthouse has been instructive. Apps across platforms from mobile, desktop, smart TV, auto, and more could benefit from the same treatment.

- Analytics packages need to shrink. Most can be under 5kb, but rarely are.

- excessive event tracking and demanding items like scroll listeners need to die

- Ad tracking is completely nonchalant about speed, and oftentimes chains dozens of tags (or hundreds to thousands for header bidding)

Analysts can save the day by tracking the right metrics:

- time and clicks in navigation should be tracked and optimized for minimal use. Get users to content fast.

- rage buttons. No lengthy surveys, just allow users to indicate they are angry at a feature. Count the times it gets clicked per location.

- Optimize towards retention signals first. They matter far more than conversions. Look at the usage patterns of users that don’t return and/or churn. The top-line funnel will sing if users are pleased with the UX. This matters as much for desktop tools as it does for SaaS.

- Each deployment with UX implications deserves tagging and long-term measurements. Look for how long it takes users to adapt to changes, and not just when it’s brand new. More clicks is probably worse, don’t brag about that.

- Sometimes a longer session means more contented usage, but often it means more frustration.

- pay close attention to engagement with settings UX. That’s where people go when the UX isn’t right.

- Give users some access to the dashboards you look at, if feasible. I’m a firm believer that people being measured should be able to observe some form of what is derived from that data. If PMs exist to improve user engagement, engage them in the process. Two-way mirrors, whether virtual or physical, are creepy AF.
Absolutely true. Though when I was looking for a job 5 years ago I had "stale" classic skills and no one wanted to hire me because employers were looking for new skills, cloud etc. Now I make sure my work is new tech rather what is best.
This basic implementation fact has been misrepresented over and over and over again. Does anyone read anymore? I’m starting to get really concerned. The hacker community is where I’ve turned to be more informed, away from the clickbait. But I’m being let down.
Exactly.

I wonder though, whether b2b software also suffers from this, because such software isn't really made for public recognition and etc. in the first place.
> The US and Europe should study the case of Japan very closely these days.

but they do? bernanke was a scholar of japan's central bank policy.
Defcon: A Bad eBook Can Take over Your Kindle (Or Worse)
> We see Fauci removing his mask the moment the cameras stop rolling. We see AOC sitting amongst a fairly close knit crowd put one on for the express purpose of a photo op and then take it off again. But if you send an email to your own subscribers via Mailchimp wondering out loud if masks are nothing more than performative theatre, you’ll get shut down.

no, when you nitpick an _extremely complicated scientific matter_ to where you are actively going against CDC guidelines for the sake of pushing your own argument, you get shut down. imagine that. it's almost as if Mailchimp would rather you believe scientists than some tech bro with a podcast.
Web in general, yes just crazy now and then endless captchas, more than 2 or 3 I just leave it.
I breath when I see other captcha brands

On eBay when I check view sold items, I get a captcha, not many times endless.
Some months ago I was getting 2 different sets of captcha at login.

Annoyingly now when I click in some high level sub menus I am asked to login again on mobile web. Looks stupid
They keep trying to build their own social media sites and are confused as to why they all degenerate into cesspools.
Addiction is a brain disease, and it matters: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9311924/
Podcast Interview with Michael Good, the Inventor of MusicXML
This is a pretty hot take. INXS had no MTV visibility until around 4 or 5 years after the channel started, by which time, plenty of artists had done "creative work". AC/DC was popular, but they pretty much ONLY released straight performance videos. Contrast them with Van Halen, who also initially released concert videos, although they recognized the power of the medium and focused on David Lee Roth's crazy leg kicks and Eddie's solos to make extremely watchable videos... and later pivoted to classic studio videos like Hot For Teacher. Olivia Newton-John's enormous popularity was due to Grease, not MTV. If anything, despite her one big hit (Physical), her career under-performed, compared to other female solo acts of her era (Madonna, Cyndi Lauper).

And then you top it off by naming Dire Straits as an example of "just performing the song" when ultimately, that exact band released perhaps the most iconic and unforgettable video of all time.
1y for Earth and 0 time for the ship.
Tabs are the better bookmarks imho. They can also be directly searched in the address bar, but are treated consistently like every other tab and stay more visible than items in some hidden list.

They're also just as persistent as bookmarks; last time I reinstalled my system I just copy-pasted the Firefox profile over and instantly had the exact same session back. Of course that's based on the assumption I don't switch the browser. But Firefox is the last relevant non-Chromium browser and I dislike Chromium and its derivatives for various reasons.
I mean, even the simplified answer of coal coming from ancient plant matter and oil from ancient animal matter doesn't do much to dispel the myth.
+1. “Let’s distribute all our algorithms in tiny chunks everywhere” seems to be the goal of some code bases. It’s unnecessary, you can control data and algorithm differently in most cases.
How is it possible to show alternatives to the products you view without tracking those pages?
I am sorry but https://www.loop54.com/pricing is just totally snied. No monetary information whatsoever. Why even blag me to a pricing page with less than zero pricing honesty.
I think there are two categories: Counter arguments and sarcasm.

- It’s easy to filter counter-argument using vocabulary.

- And I think it would be possible to filter sarcasm by cutting off the little insidious nuances, because that’s the only ones which distinguish sarcasm from approval.
This seems very plausible, as an outsider looking in. There's also the problem of when new people get hired and out in charge of new sections of the product, and they feel that they either need to make a change to justify their existence, or that they have found something that really works well for the way that they use the product without realizing the variety of ways that the user base uses the product.
What's broken in node.js's design? Most new trading apps out there are also build on electron, or worse yet, some really gross java desktop ui thats even slower and eats up way more ram.

All of what you said is fud and unsubstantiated.
>do you really want a country with one party in the control of everything (Congress, presidency, governors...)

No, but if I have to choose one, I'm not choosing the one that believes in Satanic pedophile cults and Jewish space lasers, and that gathers neo-nazis like flies, so simple math says I have to choose the other one until my country gives me a viable option besides "lesser of two evils."

>Half of your country voted for Trump,

A popular bit of propaganda, but no, Trump never carried the mandate of half the country. In 2016, only about 56% of the voting-eligible population - already a subset of the entire population - voted. Between them, Trump and Clinton each got about 27% of the possible vote, and while Trump won the Electoral College, he lost the popular vote.

In 2020, 66.7% of eligible voters turned out to vote. Biden won with 51.8% of votes cast, against Trump's 46.8%.

>and you just hand-wave them away as "Trumpists" as if they were nutjobs who should be censored

It's common to refer to followers of a particular social, religious or political movement - particularly those associated with a cult of personality - by the name of their leader. I refer to the unique blend of populism, neo-reactionism, persecution complex and conspiracy theory that makes up Trump's politics, and that of his followers, as "Trumpism" and them as "Trumpists" in order to draw a distinction between them and the Republican and Conservative ideals they supplanted.

>Funny how no one mentions this in posts about China, North Korea, Iran, Syria or Daesh. They have just set their own rules, why should they be labeled as tyranical or authoritatian countries?

Well, for one thing, you're confusing the laws of those countries and extremist groups with the terms of service of social media platforms. Twitter isn't beheading anyone, and Facebook isn't sending anyone to concentration camps, so attempts to draw some kind of equivalence between them and totalitarian regimes don't really work.
I don’t know if that’s still the case as I haven’t used windows for 20 years, certainly sounds like windows 98.

However it’s your choice in this day and age to use windows.
What is the difference from a mister?
What does "manual review" mean then and how are those images reported?
Starship Is Stacked on the Super Heavy Booster. The Tallest Rocket Ever Built
Social dynamics. The kind of person who calls CSAM CSAM is unlikely to favor it, let alone distribute it, so people interested in it are unlikely to search for it by that name.
They already built ads into the operating system, so this doesn't seem like a huge leap to me.
Seems like that would just result in a lookup table of the twenty moves for white and whether you should swap for them
>Edit: it seems that it is not a spelling mistake. "Attitude" has only one meaning to me, but "attitude control" seems to be a technical term that I've never heard of.

Anyone not aware of the definition of "attitude" relative[1] to this discussion should shut up.

[1] Pun intended, not that ahofmann would know
Comparing ECMA6 sets for equality
Yes, Blender is one of the really good ones
Once the JVM is running, though, it's quite fast. The same cannot be said for python.
Related question, does anyone know of a tool to change the time speed of a program. Something like "make the program think an hour passed every minute"?
You know whats amusing to me - All of the complaints with regard to Electron, many of which could have been avoided if the application was just delivered as a simple website.

Most people have chrome/edge/firefox/whatever warmed up on their machine. Opening a new tab to spotify.com takes under a second, assuming you are using any caching at all. Opening an electron app cold is almost certainly going to take longer and hurt your system resources more.

I feel like Spotify is a case where native desktop app doesn't make as much sense as something like Discord, where you do need a lot of native hooks for the 2-way nature of the product.
Are you on the free tier? Free users can't even see individual songs anymore :(
> Frère Jacques as a default, nice touch

Out of I don't know how many users you're the first one that spotted that :)

Enjoy, if something doesn't work as it should or if I can help out with fixing midi files jam@modularcompany.com
It's always been hot garbage.

From breaking audio playback over bluetooth (who would possibly use spotify in the car while also using google maps! What a rare use case!) to incorrect song substitution on playlists, continuing to play audio after bt disconnect, etc. There's a 2 click guaranteed crasher in the version from a month ago on stock android on a pixel.

Clearly nobody at Spotify uses or cares about android. If I could figure out how to port ten thousand songs in a 150 playlists...
I'm not sure if this is still happening but years ago I started getting emails from sellers if I put a bad review, they were both to my direct email address and using amazon. One of the reviewers had a stalkery vibe and was messaging me monthly. I wasn't responding but I wanted it to stop so I finally reached out to amazon executive customer service. I have no idea why the sellers should have direct access to my email like that and could even tell it was me from a review, that's a disturbing amount of information to give a seller.
Sometimes it's hard to spot long term degradation of quality via short term experiments. Each little thing shows uplift, but overall it gets crapperier.
A web app cant take advantage of native desktop UI patterns (file dialogues, tray, system menus) and APIs (native file handling, win32 access, sockets, etc etc) like electron. Electron apps are desktop apps.

People have been embedding webuis in crap forever and this is nothing new, except that chrome is a way better target to do so instead of old unupdated things like Qt webview and the like. See for example, steam which is just a web browser with some native ui around it.
I can only assume one of their metrics is the classic "time on app" or "user engagement" which is a bullshit metric for a music player. If I'm spending more time on the app then that clearly means I'm not finding what I'm looking for.
...Rain Man, the Dark Knight trilogy... Forthcoming Dune...
In what way? Regulations that don't consider the source?
> and the execution speed of C

Which implementation of Lisp did you use and how did you build/deploy the code? How idiomatic the code was? e.g. was it C-like code but in S-expressions? (imperative, for loops, in-place modifications, no high level abstractions, etc... but I guess this also might count as "idiomatic Lisp" in some circumstances)
I'll admit I haven't used in a long time. It's definitely been improving for a long time, but my recollection of it has always been as being somewhat messy.

Compare, say, to Affinity, Pixelmator, Procreate...
https://domainnamewire.com/category/policy-law/

Should be enough examples and info there.
If it only receives the near field, can I used that to subtract the near field from a close-by regular antenna? That should make it more immune to local influences and improve the SNR of a far away signal?
soulseek is far better than spotify.
I canceled my Spotify subscription because it was so dang buggy. Getting it to play music for longer than an hour was simply impossible for a myriad of reasons.

I switched to Amazon Music and at the time the webapp looked pretty much just like mainstream Amazon: drab, white/orange/blue, simple. But dang, it was rock solid. I couldn't get it to error if I wanted to. I could leave the tab open for weeks and it'd play music on command without missing a beat. They have since redone the site to make it look more trendy and more Spotify-ish. This new skin brought bugs with it and it's not the reliable workhorse it used to be. It's still way better than Spotify though.

I am very sensitive to buggy software. And in my opinion, most software available today is just riddled with bugs. I completely switched away from Apple because of this for example. To me, this is the real tragedy of modern software. The bad UX, the dark patterns, the slowness, etc... None of this stuff bothers me all that much when it comes down to it. But bugs, bugs get me every time.
Second OneNote. I switched to it back when they broke Evernote. It does not do everything as well as the old Evernote, but it is STABLE. Very few new features in the past 10 years, and that is a GOOD thing.
This x1000. I wouldn't qualify as an "addict" by clinical definitions, but I have a set of bad habits. Over the last year or so I have been making journal entries . The journal entries made me realize exactly what you said - the odds of falling into bad habits multiply several fold during periods where I don't know what I should do.

I realize now that maintaining a journal is a very important and fruitful habit. It is a valuable exercise to record your feelings and state of mind at regular intervals. It will help you figure out your failure modes and patterns (if any) to your successes and failures.
The Citibike app is a great example of an app that has gotten way worse for no good reason at all. They've cut a lot of features like being able to see available docks prior to undocking a bike (i.e. for route planning), and you used to be able to add friends on your ride without them needing to sign up separately, which is completely gone. The bike unlocking experience has also gotten significantly worse, and will sometimes refuse to unlock a bike when it insists that you "aren't at the station" even though you are. It also treats all stations as points when in reality some are a block long, so if you're at a dock trying to unlock a bike and you happen to be far from the point the app thinks the station is located at, it can fail. Oh, and GPS drift caused by tall buildings is killer.

The whole app has gotten significantly worse since the Lyft takeover.
You will definitely notice that it takes 10× more propellant and 10× more time to complete a maneuver.
No, I did not suggest the definition and explanation as content for them to use. I was trying to explain a concept that they discussed incorrectly multiple times in the paper. It is an advanced concept that might not even appear in graduate-level courses on the subject, so I can understand why they did not understand it fully. That said, I did not give them permission to copy my words there. If there are any particular changes I want the authors to do I put them in quotes. This wasn't in quotes. It was an explanation for their own benefit so that they can correct the mistakes in the paper (by re-writing it).

Once I re-read the submission I wanted to reject it immediately, but I realized that I should get a second opinion first. So I contacted the editors, who agreed that it was blatant plagiarism. Hence, they rejected the paper once I recommended rejection in my second review. So this wasn't just a conversation where I made some suggestions and the authors used them. Even the editors thought it was plagiarism once they looked at it.

An acknowledgment would be impossible because the review was single-blind. The reviewers knew the identities of the authors but not the other way around. What the authors should have done was just re-phrase where they used the term in the paper. They didn't even need to copy my explanation, to be frank. The paper would worked fine without the paragraph they copied. If they just re-phrased the relevant parts no other changes would have been needed and this whole thing could have been avoided.
Can confirm. Had the same experience using a VPN. I “didn’t have anything to hide”, just wanted privacy benefits of using a VPN while browsing the web, but the CAPTCHAs made it totally impractical so I gave up on it. I guess Google got what they wanted.
I'm thinking about making my own Lisp focused on scripting together C ABI libraries, possibly out of nostalgia.
Imagine being this persnickety about any use of a song that was relevant more than 30 years ago, and hasn't really been since.
I want to give the Spotify app one piece of credit for a feature that Apple and others don’t seem capable of providing: gapless playback.

Entire albums simply do not work without gapless playback.
CPI drastically understates inflation--- my guess is that real returns after 'real' inflation are pretty close to zero
I'd imagine their metrics are aligned with user behaviour, not experience.
If you change the specification, that’s a new index FFS. It’s like changing the specification for Fahrenheit.
“A bank doesn’t need a full time development team for example”

Banks and finance are like the number one employer of software developers outside of pure tech companies. I might be misunderstanding your point, but a bank doing digital banking needs a huge IT staff, including software devs. Even if no new products are being developed (unlikely), they support changes to common industry systems, redevelop systems for retiring hardware/operating systems, support integrations with changing business partners, changes to regulatory requirements, etc. I’m sure some devs pulled late nights trying to support the PPP program for example.
But everybody is expanding solar/wind quickly, and most new solar has batteries attached to it...

I'm not sure if I'm missing some sarcasm or something?
My nephew-in-law's groom cake (at his wedding) was in the shape of a Laphroaig bottle. The whisky always struck me as like drinking diluted roofing tar.
Access to debt is still difficult for those that will be hurt most by inflation of consumption goods (CPI in the US).

Furthermore it's also more accessible proportionally to existing wealth, which means inflation is in effect an inequality amplifier.
Really nice explanation from someone who knows a thing or two about images/photos (Dr. Neal Krawetz is the creator of https://fotoforensics.com and specializes in computer forensics).
For first time average pay for restaurant/supermarket workers tops $15 an hour
Something I’m struck by in reading such discussions (esp on forums) is how often people’s choice of programming languages (and tools, more generally) is from a defensive stance. I understand that when working on problems where better technology is unlikely to lead to significant advantages (so you’d prefer to cap the potential downsides), but I’m still surprised by the sheer paucity of examples where people are willing to make aggressive technology choices to get leverage on their goals. I wonder whether that’s another manifestation of the blub paradox.
Yikes, how fragile and easily offended do you have to be to write something like this.
Could perhaps most of 4000 square miles of the county being filled by water intensive farming have some connection to town located in that county at the edge of ocean being dry?
This kind of thinking is every where. There is a reason politicians announce grand projects and cut ribbons in full public few (never mind these projects exceed budget and timeline multiple times) instead of fixing existing failing infrastructure.
I did not see mention of rifling in the barrel, which imparts gyroscopic stability in rifles. I am not sure the Gauss gun should qualify as a rifle.

If the weapon delivers about 100J or 75 foot pounds of energy, then that is less energy than a slingshot. Not terribly impressive for a weapon of any sort.

Maybe they should rethink their design and use the electricity to compress air in an air rifle.
Good point. There's huge praise when an A/B test shows positive results. "Ship it, we've made the world better!"

So that feedback loop is going to incentivize short term thinking and small changes that might not be beneficial to the whole.