skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
20+ years of web site ecommerce development experience and what I see is that consistently the designers and the managers and/or product owners (who have the final say and must be suitably impressed) have no access to, or don't bother to consume or understand the site metrics and in many cases don't even have a rudimentary understanding how how their site works (or doesn't work). I've been in so many meetings where the group was ready and willing to kill a feature, or a link or a button and I've had to bring up hard metrics to keep them from killing something that not only people used, but converted more often with a bigger cart. And these are ecommerce sites, so I can only suppose that it is even more so with any site where cold hard cash is not on the line. The trend towards hiding things just to make the design look clean is ignorant and lazy. UX is hard. It should be driven by metrics and validated by observing real user behavior. Anyone who doesn't do that is being vastly overpaid and inevitably eroding the user experience. Nobody should ever have to hover randomly around a screen to hunt for controls, but I see it every single day, and now even on former bastions of usability like core Mac interfaces. How does this stuff get through usability testing? A: It was probably never done, or if it was the aforementioned decision makers never gave it a first let along a second look. Best advice I can give is to never, ever, do a wholesale site redesign when conversion counts. Always incremental, always iterative, always driven by metrics and true usability labs. If someone balks at doing any of this, they shouldn't be in the business, get rid of them or ask for another designer/team.
I really, really, hate REST prescriptivism. I'm going to return 200 from POSTs and want to use request bodies for GET requests to do filtering. We may as well use POST for updates. REST doesn't work for my use-case or probably most use-cases but people seem to treat it like an article of faith even when it forces a completely bass-ackwards design.

SOAP was the pinnacle of API design.
Yeah I ended up with my own variant from here as well many moons ago:

.PHONY: help
help: # Show this help screen
@ack '^[a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?# .*$$' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) |\
sort -k1,1 |\
awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?# "}; {printf "\033[1m%-30s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'
To me, Bungie is associated with Apple and the amazing Marathon game series for Mac back in the 90s.
Sadly, state run gambling aka national lotteries typically offer you much worse returns than anything in the casino.
> The belief that advertisers are owed my attention is absurd.

You are trying to rationalize theft through self-righteous nonsense.

If you don't want the ads, don't use the site/service/content. Simple as that. Anything else is you stealing it.

You don't get to decide how a site pays for the cost of running their operation. They do. If they decide ads is the way and you don't like it, don't use their site. Stealing the content does not make you virtuous, no matter how you might attempt to distort reality. It makes you a thief.

"I don't how you do things, so I am going to steal your product!"

Yeah, that's a formula for a better society.
Kiwifarm?
I'll present an alternate case, mine. I'm in a senior IC role sitting in India making almost 1/4th of what my US Counterpart makes. I work as much as them if not more. We as Indians are always taught to be sincere and obedient and I try to show that in my work trying to stay up finish the work so that my sincerity is never questioned. I'm always on the side to prove my quality - even though I'm highly underpaid for the same work.

Overall, I'm someone who needs to prove everytime that I'm sincere and I'm intellectual while I'm known only for being a cheap resource.
And then some hobbyist decides that backfiring is really cool, and tunes their vehicle to get that effect.
Oligopolize all the markets!
I hate testing. Is it possible to write the cases just without those system properties then run them through AWS Device Farm somehow?
Which is also included in your excellent GNU Make Book¹, which you should've pimped directly ;) It is both a fantastic general guide and an amazing source of usable little recipes, thanks!

¹ https://nostarch.com/gnumake
Whatever these folks at YouTube are doing with the comments section, they're doing a great job. I really enjoy YouTube comments - I check them for every video I watch, and I often get more laughs from the comments than I do from the actual video! Would love to know more details about how this is implemented. I assume it's some sort of massively scalable NLP & ML system?
What planet are you on...that's ALL corporations care about.
huh TIL.. slightly less ironic then.
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My total daily energy expenditure averages around 2900 kcal. It's hard to imagine how I could eat that much on a vegan diet without making myself sick.
I'm a fan of Joe Rogan, but the "doesn't have a conflict of interest" argument doesn't seem correct to me. The point of Joe's podcast is that his biases and motivations are transparent, not that they don't exist. Joe is interested, like many people, in contrarians. It's a heuristic that leads him to interesting conversations, and those kinds of interesting conversations are why the podcast is so popular. Oftentimes people who seem one-dimensional in media coverage are shown to be much more than meets the eye when placed in a long-form non-confrontational setting. There is no guarantee of factualness or good faith in any conversation on the podcast, and in many cases he will bring in verifiably crazy people just to see what they're really like -- these are some of the most popular episodes, by the way.
Seems like they were worried about IP and equipment theft.
The last vehicle I owned about 15 years ago was a late 90's model Rodeo and I absolutely loved it. I hope you take yours out for a spin every now and then!
> The best way to deal with tech debt is to never use the term in the first place.

At the very least, give it a more specific name.

A Reforge article[0] that was shared here about a month ago[1] suggests these six categories:

- maintenance debt
- developer efficiency debt
- stability debt
- security debt
- technical product debt
- decision debt

[0] https://www.reforge.com/blog/managing-tech-debt

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29727487
I'm on Reddit often, I'm subscribed to a couple of dozen niche subreddits, but I usually just browse r/all. I can honestly say, after 12 years being a member, the most toxic conversations I see actually happen in the SMALLER subreddits. If you ask a question in a typical hobby-related subreddit as a beginner, be prepared for the most upvoted comment saying something like "omg just search on the internet for the answer newb." And I'm not jaded from personal experience, I mod a medium-sized tech subreddit.
IRC is popular today.
I started watching Adam Curtis' Century of the Self [1] recently, then decided to fact check [2]. Curtis makes out Sigmund Freuds nephew Edward Louis Bernays as the inventor of modern advertising, but he exaggerates for effect as usual. I've been a fan of busting ads for a long time, at least since I learned as a boy that I was being psychologically manipulated.

We're an activist hub and the headquarters of Adbusters magazine, the journal of the mental environment. Since 1989, our international collective of artists, designers, writers, musicians, poets, punks, philosophers and wild hearts has been smashing ads, fighting corruption and speaking truth to power. [3]

[1] The Century of the Self - Part 1: "Happiness Machines"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom

[3] https://www.adbusters.org/about-us
Really? I bought a high end Sony Bravia with Android TV and the experience honestly sucks. It’s slow as hell, the sounds are awful, Google pushed fucking ads to the home and the UI is really not very nice looking. There are lots of apps though which is cool.
I am actually very curious of which board you are able to have meaningful discussions
obsidian.md is another great tool (supports local md folder, backlinks, graph view)
Check out the Something Awful forums.
Google should buy Take Two, make Grand Theft Auto Online, Stadia exclusive, console unnecessary. $5/month. Checkmate.
Google's statement was that they will make it clear that ads were not the same as search results.

Krebs paraphrased that statement as Google "critiques the practice of displaying ads above search results" and noted that they were instead placed on a sidebar.

He's not flagging the statement out of a belief that ads and search basically amount to the same thing.
A multi year pandemic will do that to ya. Even if you live in an area that doesnt take it very seriously, meet ups and in office work/events are still significantly smaller or less frequent than they were pre pandemic.

TBH my weekly online poker game with buddies keeps me sane.
Plus here in the U.S.A we have data caps if we have to use AT&T so any bandwidth taken up by ads is bandwidth we can not use for stuff we really want to see.
On top of that we are constantly inundated with malware, from drive by's and other malicious websites, that we have to pay for malware protection, on top of having to pay for 70 per month to 100 Megabits per second in the LA ara
> It's sport. It's humans. There is no solve.

People say that about a lot of things, but we humans have moved out of caves, created science, machines, governments, freedom, etc etc. We can do something about our condition.
It's kinda sad seeing them bought up again. I was reading https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwqjg3/the-complete-untold-h... yesterday (great but long read) and they really desperately wanted out of MS, and - victims of their own success with Halo 1 - made a lot of Halo games they didn't want to as the price of freedom. And now here they are again in a big conglomerate.
Rise of grasslands is linked to atmospheric CO2 decline in the late Palaeogene
> That sounds like an argument for better payment mechanisms but people still need to be paid.

Paying people for good content doesn't fix the problem. The internet is still cluttered with awful content drowning out the useful stuff. Not because people are trying hard and learning or just plain love their awful guitar playing even if nobody is watching, but because they're getting paid by surveillance. What we need is the absence of that incentive.

This is one of those cases where the free market would actually fix the problem if there was some sensible regulation applied. Sadly it'll never be quick enough to catch up with the technology.
Most companies I've worked for use "I can see them at their desk" or meeting attendance as the primary measure of "your employees are working".
How Organisms Come to Know the World: Fundamental Limits on AGI
There were a number of years where I would have been happy if YouTube just removed the comment section. The "culture" of comments in the early '10s is reminiscent of what you find today on sites like 4chan. Scrolling down to the comments could truthfully be a deeply upsetting experience that can offset the value provided by whatever you were watching.

"Don't read the YouTube comments" was a common phrase, and for good reason. Nowadays, I wouldn't say YouTube comments are especially funny or insightful, but they are certainly tolerable. I imagine having a list of epithets, slurs, and phrases (and accounts that use them) to de-rank would have gone far enough to help fix the nightmare that was the comment section.
App Store lawsuit over rejections and scammers can proceed, judge rules
Redis 7 brings new features and breaking changes
> my main pet peeve with subreddit growth is just the lower standards and decline in quality.

I think that's just regression to the mean and inevitable as any community grows.

For any small community to get traction, it must be particularly compelling to rise above network effects of existing entrenched communities. Small mediocre communities simply disappear. So every small community that grows starts out better than average.

But as the community grows it attracts a wider range of members. The aggregation algorithms that determine what threads show up then optimize for lowest common denominator content that appeals to that wider demographic. And the members themselves, just by virtue of statistics, on aggregate end up less interesting or engaging than the small core that were so much better than average that they got the community off the ground.

It makes me a little sad when communities get watered down as they grow, but I accept it as a natural side effect of growth and not some sort of moral failure of its participants.

I do sometimes fantasize about trying to build some sort of social media thing that deliberately puts an upper limit on community sizes to see how that would effect quality.
Hm, surely it must have been later than 2007 that they split? Wasn't Reach made by Bungie?
No spam and micro transactions. Post costs 10 pens. Like 2 pens. etc...
You can yearn money if someone shares your content, likes, etc. Its all on blockchain. You own your twetch data and can move on any time
You can do that (adding body to GET) but you might generate some restrictions for using the cire. Example from the article:

> When working with HTTP, there’s servers but also load balancers, proxies, browsers and other clients that all need to work together. The behavior isn’t just undefined server-side, a load balancer might choose to silently drop bodies or throw errors. There’s many real-world examples of this. fetch() for example will throw an error.
> fundamentally I believe "taking notes" is the wrong way to think about it.

Hard disagree for a few reasons.

Even with history, sometimes I forget how to look up a paper I saw six months ago. A lot of stuff sits at the tip of my tongue, and I'm unable to adequately describe it well enough to find it again. Or if I can find it, it takes a great deal of effort. I'm pretty sure this problem isn't unique to me.

But even more importantly, writing helps your brain build connections. When you have to analyze, synthesize, and summarize, your brain is actively grappling with, contextualizing, and relating new concepts to the world you're already familiar with. It becomes an active part of your worldview.

Coupled with spaced repetition, note-taking is one of the best tools for learning.
> What's next? MS buying naughty dog?

I doubt Sony would ever sell them. :)
I believe there's also a substantial cost as e-waste when people dump devices that are no longer powerful enough to display ad-filled garbage without terrible lag and stutter.
Yes it would work too. We are very Azure-heavy but lately there is a move to multiple cloud vendors, basically GCP in addition.
To be clear, this particular cat was not feral. But if you’re going to kill an animal, then take responsibility and kill it, don’t just use it for target practice.
This looks great! Congrats on shipping! My only nit is that it needs some paddings
Money aside, 1/3rd to 1/2 of their family members (and themselves) would then stop dying of cancer.
My favorite car, ever, was a ‘96 Tercel my mother gave me (she was literally going to junk it). It was completely mechanical and analog, and I absolutely loved it. It was fun, reliable, and dead simple to maintain and
operate. Only things I did to upgrade it was to install an aftermarket audio system so I could use my smartphone with it, and I installed slightly wider tires to give it a bit more stability. It reliably got 36-40 mpg on regular gas, and since everything was mechanical (even down to the rack-and-pinion steering), nothing ever broke, ever. That thing had about 400,000 miles on the odo before I sold it. Good times.
> But if I told someone that I don't need to know the effects of v7.1.3 before patching it because I can't think of a mechanism for it going wrong, and besides, we already released all those other versions and they were fine, I'd hopefully be fired.

But this isn't what they're saying. They're saying that there are few to no ways for it to not have any detectable issues for 6 months and then suddenly go wrong (which I'll note is also true for software!). Canarying and staged rollouts are a good idea in software, as they are in medicine. But much like you don't think its necessary to canary v7.1.3 for a year, just in case it has a bug that makes it shut down suddenly after 200 days, its probably not necessary to wait a year to see if a vaccine causes sudden acute liver failure after 7 months, because there just isn't a biological mechanism for it to do that (the vaccine is already out of your body by that point!).

And to the extend that such issues are possible (leap days can do weird stuff), we can look specifically for those mechanisms (like say monitoring for stuff that would lead to liver damage in the weeks after vaccination).
I am just making a couple of considerations about you, audience, considering I silently read what you comment for years already. This is not a throwaway account. I just felt the need to express my opinion, if you are sad about that, and the only way to answer me is to label me as a "neo-anti-vaxer" you are just demonstrating my point.
I've worked at companies where many of the devs were not remotely excited about any new technologies and just wanted to do their 9-5 and get home to the wife and kids, which is a totally valid career choice. These guys just wanted to stick with what worked and what they knew. They LOVED boring.
The big difference between cars and smartphones is that you can focus all of your attention on your smartphone screen to use it. That's not true for the driver of an automobile.

The best automobile interfaces use knobs of different sizes and with different textures so that you can find them without looking. Buttons should be arranged in rows, so they are easy to find with a short look. Extremely common buttons should be located on the steering wheel. Etc.

Until screens can offer some kind of dynamic tactile experience, where you can feel what you're about to control, they can't be better than real tactile buttons and knobs.

Don't get me wrong, I love a big screen in my car for advanced features (360 camera, vehicle settings, navigation, music, etc). But the basics need to be tactile.
I still haven't found anything better than RDP. Back when Windows was my primary work machine, I could bring it home, plug it into power, shut the lid, toss it up on a shelf and still RDP into it, and use all of my monitors. And it ran as good as local. Still haven't found anything that compares to it in any way. VNC always just gives you the resolution of the host's desktop. Plus it's always just some screen capture into a video codec.

Ok, well back in the day, I would say X11 was actually far better than that. Over dialup, it would blow away RDP performance-wise.
Yes, we also have religion. Some would view that as big of a vice as gambling etc. Not sure your point is carrying much weight with me.
This reads like a defense of Bill Gates and Microsoft. Comparing Microsoft to the Roman Empire is hubris. I don't trust anything from Microsoft and the blue screen of death is still too real. Many parts of Azure, especially its data offerings, are vapor ware and/or cr*pware. In return for the initial low low price, the number of developer hours required to keep all the moving parts moving is ridiculous. The fact that Azure doesn't cap you off so you don't get billed for runaway processes screams Azure is an untrustworthy platform.
It’s Wizards and Warriors for me.. loved that game.
I'm over a year from having a boss who was a slack tyrant and I'm almost able to use slack without some dread.
Sounds like bread-and-butter kind of machine learning stuff to me.
I never used an ad blocker. I think ads are a symptom of our time, and although I understand that not everyone would (or should) follow this idea, I will neither ignore or treat a symptom but rather watch it closely as one should with enemies. Most people on this planet is not using ad blockers so there's an inequality issue, and hiding the effects (ads) of a problem will further stop us from taking systematic action.
I would be really worried with false sense of security when dealing with HIV/AIDS... Covid in the end is a mild thing, same can't really be said about HIV/AIDS. And if the protection is only temporary and partially it might be worse than having nothing at all if it leads to lot more risk taking.
We only have 10 ish staff during election season.

For us it's always been unpredictable and I wouldn't go as far to say intentional fraud.

But there is a trend that the people who put the most experience, list best tech skills, have good buzzword filled interviews often don't live up to it.

Often it's the fresh person with less experience, or the person coming from something different that doesn't even have the baseline skills, that becomes the super talented value adder.

I think a big part of their success is ability to teach themselves. Google it success.

I wish we had a better way to make choices. Still though it's not like it's horrible. out of like 10 we usually only get one we need to let go of or move to a less intense role.

We tried doing some basic tests of like paying people to do 2 hours of work, proof reading, etc. But didn't go well.
HIV doesn’t mutate in the same way a disease like Covid does, at least not at the same speed— also, PrEP has existed for years. It’s still proven to be effective protection against contracting HIV even if directly exposed (though it’s a pill that must be taken every day rather than a vaccine).

I honestly don’t know why everyone who is sexually active isn’t on PrEP (the federal government even mandates it be free to those without insurance in most cases)— it should be as common practice as wearing a condom and birth control, yet its existence isn’t even known to many people (especially among straight people).
Hopefully Sony is smart enough to leave them alone. The independent Era of Bungie has led to one of the best ongoing stories I've ever seen in a game (Destiny 2). Don't kill the golden goose, Sony.
Hey,
Sorry about that, our qa process must not be thorough enough.

May I ask what android version you're using? And if you send us an email at hello@pidgeon.app and tell us the email you used to sign up we can probably fix this manually.
Public debate is performance for the audiences. Private debate can absolutely be like Socratic dialogue
No guest play.
On Android, Youtube Vanced (https://vancedapp.com/) is the best solution, in my experience. Used it for multiple years, no complaints.
What does this even address? Your original implication was that JRE is doing this for the bux, but my comment is saying he may well have done this deal to protect his platform. Now you say this? What exactly is your point?