skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fire their UX team and hire this guy and consult with NNG, their visual design language is so unusable, small tiny cryptic icons and hidden gestures be damned. Why do we consumers put up with this bullshit design? The cover art search pattern for podcasts literally makes it impossible to search when I’m on the go, it bothers me so much.

I miss the days of Apple Human Interface Design Guidelines that were actually based off scientific principles of human visual perception.
They don't care about bulk mail, if you try to return it it'll just be destroyed anyway.

If it's not addressed to you at all then you should probably return it of course.
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No value has been destroyed because the land and buildings are still there. There’s less demand for them than before so they can charge lower rents and the property will sell for less. But that’s because of better other options. The production possibility frontier has expanded, not contracted.
The delta between good and bad faith/intentions on the internet may be much larger than the delta between me at 18 and me at 44. There's also very bright 18 year olds contributing usefully to GitHub repositories. So, for me personally, the recurring assertion that they are "only" 18yo doesn't do much for me.
I also like to look at the two and four star reviews. 5 are obviously bought, 1 could just as easily be an irrational customer, and 3 may just be people who feel lukewarm. Well written 2 and 4 star reviews seem to have the greatest number of people attempting to approach the review objectively.
It will be interesting to observe what this means for growth of cities. In the last 100 years, city sizes increased while staying within Marchetti's travel time budget [1] (1 hour for round trip) thanks to higher speeds available through motorized transport. Now that technology is redefining proximity once again, I wonder what factors will continue to encourage/discourage people to live in dense cities.

1 - http://www.cesaremarchetti.org/archive/scan/MARCHETTI-052.pd...
Ask HN: Is hiring a PM with domain expertise considered harmful?
I'm only speaking from my experience, but we shipped things quicker and were better received, and I'm curious if part of that reason is that, for the first time in my career, product didn't start with a background in the target domain. I wouldn't say this area is simple either. We deal with a lot of features on the merchant side of things (ecommerce).

I also don't doubt a lot of other factors came into play, but I want to focus on the product's background for a moment. One thing that stood out to me was that there were less arguments to push for something just because it's been done in other software for the past two decades. Which very well may be true, but uncertainty pushes my current PMs to investigate.

It's almost like we're starting from a blank slate and only adding the essential parts. They do take cues from other existing products, but I love how their attitude defaults to challenging them. We're also fortunate enough to have good relationships with our clients in order to validate our ideas. But we're not letting them lead the direction of the product.

Because that's what I feel sometimes with PMs rooted with deep domain knowledge. What we're building is being designed by a customer. This not only has the potential to make it less user friendly (UX designers feel less empowered to challenge them because the PM has relevant background while they don't), but it cascades down to the engineers with the amount of work that's been added.

I won't dismiss that that a PM can have both a background and release good products. But why do certain companies make it necessary for *all* PMs to have such backgrounds?
Probably depends on where one is, geographically?
>You can imagine it being like if a farmer had a bunch of grain stored in a silo and it somehow went bad.

It's fundamentally different, practically the opposite.

Paper losses are like a farmer realizing that the grain in his silo is bad. Knowing this when you were oblivious before is a good thing, whereas the grain going bad is obviously not.

Once you start regarding bad news as a loss, very bad stuff happens. In some contexts, we'd all agree. "Shooting the messenger" is an age-old cliche for counterproductive use of power, right?

Just saying that $X billion dollars were "lost" by market price fluctuation is dangerous, because it suggests it can be weighed numerically against real things and real peoples' lives lost.

If you were a CEO or a politician or someone powerful, would you justify destroying one warehouse or home or hurting one person, in order to avoid, say, a trillion dollar "loss" of paper value in some assets?

I mean, don't you think people do this, directly or indirectly, and it's wrong?

Stock market declines are called "corrections" for a reason.

>The money spent on that commercial real estate is gone. Those big fancy buildings will have been wasted resources and effort.

Maybe, but nobody can say for certain what the world will look like in 5, 10, 20, 50 years anyhow.
Yeah, seems like a silly way to grant access
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The problem is that GitHub's default subscription behavior is terrible. Unless the repo is mine or my account is directly @'d I shouldn't receive anything.
The decision [1] includes the court's full justification for setting aside ejusdem generis, starting at the bottom of page 20.

As I understand it: The short answer is the legislature changed the statutory definition on more than one occasion where it can be shown they were aware of the broader interpretation of that clause being in use and took no action to narrow it. This, according to the decision, establishes legislative intent for the broad interpretation, which supersedes ejusdem generis.

[1] https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/C093542.PDF
We did communicate our desire to exclude names from mailers; you can see an example from last month at https://twitter.com/TravelTechGuy/status/1513965348177219588. Because we wish not to be exposed to any user data, our QA process ends prior to the stage where names would be printed. Once we learned names had been printed on a recent batch (a deviation from previous batches), we took prompt action to "halt and catch fire," so to speak.
Lower rents or building values means businesses leasing/purchasing those buildings have more money to invest elsewhere. It could be argued that the capital will be used to drive a real ROI… something that rent does not provide.
That's not how market devaluation works. The "money" (paper money value) definitely was disappeared. It doesn't flow to someone else. Markets don't work like that.

If I buy something for $100, the market value increases to $150 and then drops to $50, I've still lost $100 from the peak on paper. It didn't go to someone else.
Microsoft's entire existence has been "see what some dreamer has dreamt, and mass-produce it for the average homo sapiens"
One way ticket, yes?
video in bad weather https://ulstein.com/innovations/x-bow/comparison-tests
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How would a steel or concrete wind turbine fare if it was in the middle of a forest fire? I don't know but I would imagine that they would be fairly damaged or weakened as a result.

For what it is worth though, they are building low/mid-rise buildings out of wood now and supposedly they can be better at handling fires than steel (since steel will fail catastrophically at a certain temp but wood chars as it burns, insulating the unburnt parts which retain structural strength for longer)
The 50k is just the plot of land, or comes with a (decently) build cabin? I’ve actually been looking (in my spare time, not very seriously) into owning something in either Finland or Norway. I’m a EU citizen, so visa is not a requirement.

A friend of mine is building entirely off-grid in Finland: https://medium.com/@upnorthandoffgrid

I’m not that interested in off-grid, but I am in a nice plot of land with nature, a decent home on it (as sustainable as possible) that I can use for a few months/year.

Let me know once you launch a site.
But to be fair, none of those hedge fund’s employees are employed by the caymans entity, and the only reason they are not in the US (at least for US hedge funds) is to accept non-taxable us investors and foreign investors, U.S. taxable investors typically invest through a Delaware LP.
Looking around, everyone has a story like this, so I don't want to just pile on with my similar experience at Verizon. But what stood out at me there was the low quality responses from low-level managers in far parts of the world, demanding, by the power vested in them, to be taken off the email chain... you know... IMMEDIATELY!
Does any brand at all sell ECC UDIMM DDR5 modules? I want to use it for an Alder Lake workstation, but can’t seem to find any except for Dell OEM memory. Is there none on the “open” market?
Infinite carousel?
A very interesting recent interview with an author of the concurrent work “decision transformer”
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5uYwk4KcqRtdMjn7hlVOZD?si=2...
"Techno-miraculous" thinking.
The Japan that Abe Shinzo made
No privacy impact. Brave doesn't have any names or addresses; those are with the United States Postal Service (never exposed to Brave). We asked that names NOT be printed on these mailers. Previous batches went out without names, as intended. You can see an example of this from a Tweet last month: https://twitter.com/TravelTechGuy/status/1513965348177219588.
Yes but could we please not? Orbital death rays for power generation seem like a bad idea when we have options like rooftop solar and wind turbines.
Yeah BlackBerry 10 had a similar feature called BlackBerry Balance. Still I'd rather carry two separate phones.
The topline of the decision is about one page of doublespaced text and is quite readable: https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/C093542.PDF

The short answer is that the headline is rubbish. A law originally covering only fish was amended by the legislature to expand what it covered by redefining the meaning of "fish" in the rest of the statute, which is simpler than amending each mention of "fish" to a big long list.

One of the categories in that list was "invertebrates", and this court ruling simply found that non-aquatic invertebrates are included, and therefore bees are included.

But it gets more clicks to say "bees are now legally fish in california"
Brave never has access to your information. We didn't use "a service that collects data about people," we used the EDDM offering of the United States Postal Service, which has legitimate claim to names and addresses. This service is attractive in part because it exposes no data to Brave in the process.
What did the guy do?
> Agreed. I mentioned that in my last point about IP, which you conveniently ignored.

Apologizes, you did indeed mention it, I was on mobile and skimmed past it.

> I can't count how many Chinese-made things I've bought that ended up in the trash a few days/weeks/months after purchase. I also own a lot of poorly made Chinese electronics that have survived for years, so technically they pass QA, but are cheap feeling and annoying to use despite being expensive. Lenovo laptops come to mind.

Having been to China multiple times, they have perfectly good electronics for sale domestically. Heck for some product categories, the electronics over there are better than what you can get in the United States.

> Have you seen how rampant this is on Amazon, Wish.com, et al, let alone on Chinese owned retailers?

Wish.com's entire business model is cheap crap. They are the online equivalent of a dollar store.

The problem on Amazon is real, although I sometimes encounter some really good Chinese made products, not electronic but I recently purchased a shoe rack from a Chinese retailer on Amazon and it is worlds better than any of the shoe racks American brands are selling.

I also remember a4tech back in the day, they had some absolutely amazing mice! I still miss my duel scroll wheel optical mouse, I loved that thing.

> It's absolutely exhausting, and often impossible to avoid. A lot of people have given up entirely on purchasing from Amazon, but the convenience is a big factor for me.

My issue is that American brands are also making crap products. You have companies like DJI making products so good that they put American competitors right out of business.

But you also have a strange lack of quality smart watches out of China, figure someone who cares would make a smartwatch with quality firmware. I am genuinely confused as to why this hasn't happened yet.
Xfce also supports really easy arbitrary launcher functionality via the whisker menu.

Setup takes just a few minutes, you start by mapping the command `xfce4-popup-whiskermenu` to super+space in the keyboard settings, to make it easy to open the Whisker Menu with its launcher prompt. This gets you the basic menu search functionality. Next it's just a matter of adding a Search Action which can include any commands or shortcut keys you want to use.

(Oh, and btw, add ` --pointer` to the shortcut above to make the menu open at your cursor. It looks more like a launcher this way.)

To add Search Actions, right-click the whisker menu icon, go to "Search Actions" and add whatever you want, for example I have `e [your sentence here]` mapped to espeak:

- Name: Say it out loud

- Pattern: e

- Command: espeak "%s" -v us-mbrola-2 -s 140 -a 200 -g 1 -p 60

(This requires the mbrola voice package in addition to espeak)

It also supports regex. Anyway, just in case this is useful to anybody as a launcher using built-ins...and I mean you could even use it to launch various different launchers. :-)
The day I wiped a production database table
That's in the long run though. The "destroyed value" was an evaluation based on future rental income. In a way the valuation puts a price tag on the assumed future return on purchasing the property. Someone else is now not paying that rent, but they didn't get a lump sum transfer of that valuation in cash.
Yeah - in the past two weeks, shipping to a major metro area, not one, not two, but three orders ended up "Running Late". One of the items was a $180 AirPods Pro, which I ended up never receiving and getting a refund for. The other two are several days beyond the estimate. This is totally new - I've only had this happen once before, and it makes me wonder whether there's been a rapid rise in Amazon supply chain theft going on.

(Grabbed the AirPods for the same price from Costco while Amazon figures out what on earth is going on...)
Unfortunately New York’s zoning laws forbid what you’re suggesting. The new mayor is attempting to change them (though is facing resistance from the city council).
Rofi is also king in my opinion. It can do everything you need with extensions / scripts but at its core it is kept minimal with a VERY small memory footprint.
Sure dmenu is even smaller but some esthetics aren't bad.
Users with Java annotations as their name probably get notified a fair few times each day.
I doubt it but I wonder if OP is lying and didn't realize there would only be a hundred or two emails
Wow, epic games has that many devs on GitHub?
> The kid is barely 18. The emotion and stress resulting from mistakenly sending a notification to 400,000 is likely overwhelming.

Huh? I don't think it's "the kid"'s fault that some random organization is using GitHub orgs as a proxy to get people to sign their Terms of Service. If the org or group is on GitHub, it's only a matter of time before someone is going to mention it.

The emotion and stress should be on the org admins who thought that asking every user who signs their ToS to a group called `developers` would be a good idea.
New York’s zoning laws.
Thank you both for this.

It turns my world view upside down, but that's good.

I've been seeing it as the universe tearing us down this whole time. Really it's us tearing the universe down.

Somehow this is much more comforting to me. Thank you!
Presumably these would be on-shore only? Or could you have e.g. a steel base and then a wooden tower for an off-white turbine?

At least in the UK, off-shore wind is utterly dominant.
Oh yeah, then it would be an IV catheter. It was just for fluids and antibiotics, fairly routine I think.
The names and addresses are with the USPS. Brave (hello, I'm a team engineer) used the EDDM offering of the United States Postal Service. We were attracted to this method of advertising in part because it never exposes sensitive information to us at Brave. User data, instead, is with the USPS, which has legitimate claim over such information. As stated in our blog post, we sent only the artwork (for the mailer itself), and the Zip Codes we aimed to reach. That's it. We also asked that names NOT be printed, which was the case for earlier batches (e.g. https://twitter.com/TravelTechGuy/status/1513965348177219588). I hope this helps!
A process shrink for the compute cores is always nice. 15% single core performance is always nice.
Totally.

I take a slightly different view in the statics thing; like a static means you want something to be available across threads. So by using a static, you’re opening yourself to that possibility. If you want something global to a thread, use thread local storage, and Rust will allow you to use stuff that’s not okay if multiple threads were involved. It’s about expressing your intent correctly.
>the seller posted enough pictures of the actual stock for me to believe it

what about a picture on the internet made you believe it? were there images of serial numbers that matched the items received?
In Japan and France, at least, people sometimes put stickers on their mailboxes: "no ads".

It works pretty well, but I wonder if that does anything for the USPS.
Hijacking over 100k GoDaddy Sites
Is it? How else do you selectively grant access to a repo? Orgs are the normal way, it's just not normal to have a project which is proprietary and somewhat private but available to 400k people.

Github just needs to rethink how tagging all users works and a way to prevent this.
Given the USPS is the one doing this, it feels like running a state or national campaign on just regulating an opt out feels extremely doable.

Hell, maybe you hate the post office? Great way to punish it!
I've received things via DHL that I had no idea when ordered it was coming directly from China. However, being DHL, it arrived in 2-days. There was no signifincant offsetting charge for this delivery method.
30% if there’s no tax treaty. Treaties trump laws (if ratified). So you’ll have to read through each treaty with your employees’ country to see what needs to be withheld.

So for OP, for operational simplificity, a domicile with the least number of treaties would be best (but possibly horrendous for tax efficiency).
I don’t necessarily agree. For example, I work in some OSS projects where the core maintainers are in a GH group, and the group is just pinged if their feedback is needed on a decision/conversation/PR. Only a couple dozen people in the group, and it gets maybe 3-4 notifications a day. Easy to ignore if I’m not needed.

It seems like teams of 400k people aren’t quite within the spirit of the intended feature!
No, anyone is allowed to join the org and see the source code after accepting a T&C. The org is just used to grant permission / acknowledge you accepted the terms.
The folks holding those assets didn’t have the money either though, until it was time to sell and they sold.
Two things immediately strike me:

1. The rock needs a name.

We name all sorts of “notable rocks” during missions like this, and this rock is definitely notable. My immediate suggestion is something to do with “Friend” or “Companion”. I’m sure there’s a clever name other than just calling it “Companion rock”

2. Channeling my inner child … Can we keep it?

Can we get the mission planners to commit to, to the best of their abilities, avoid planning manoeuvres that would cause the rock to likely get dislodged from its home in the wheel and get left behind. It feels like a small ask to further “humanise” the mission. Next selfie shot to ensure we keep the new friend in frame, and to just be able to tell people, “We didn’t indent to adopt this pet rock. But once it was with us we couldn’t just abandon it.” It might seem silly and unscientific but it’s “human” and just like carrying Tombaugh’s ashes on new horizons, or a tiny metal Lego figure of Juno on the Juno spacecraft sent to Jupiter… doing these little “human” things when we venture into the unforgiving environments of space and other plants, just feels somehow fundamentally right and good.
As time has gone on, “if someone comes along in six months” so to me, a fantastic reason to use Rust. These things can feel onerous at first, but the pain it saves you later is wild. Niko has an anecdote about how he had an Rc<T> somewhere deep in a program, and later he came back and added in threads, and the compiler was like “oh no! You gotta fix that first!” and that would be a latent bug in 99% or programming languages.

Humans are fallible, but compilers don’t forget.
Any developer worth their salt can have that corrected. Everyone in NY walks around with someone else's hand in their pockets.
respectfully disagree. knowledge, just like innovation cannot be reverted. it hadn't taken off before the pandemic since we were living under a purposefully driven illusion of the necessity of office work.

just like food delivery, employers, just like workers now have the knowledge that wfh works. thus workers will always have the leverage of having competitive companies that know it does offering it.
Rust doesn’t follow the platform C ABI unless you ask for it specifically. If you do, it will, and if you don’t, the ABI is unspecified for a reason.
Google does use Android work profiles - if you have an Android device. Unfortunately, iOS doesn't really have an equivalent concept (e: see comment below), so device-wide privileges are necessary there.

Everyone has their own level of comfort, of course. I've worked for two employers now whom I've given the power to erase my personal iPhone in exchange for the convenience of not needing to lug around a second phone.

Disclosure: I work at Google; opinions are my own.
It's somewhat unique because of the odd situation the UE org is in. It isn't an internal company org, you get invited after accepting their terms and conditions which grants you access to the source code. Which means literally anyone can join this org and then ping 400k users. I'm not sure there is any other org/repo which this is possible.

Yes it is expected behavior but its the scale and particular nature here that has turned expected behavior in to a dangerous tool.
HK is over unfortunately
“Railroaded into an unethical choice” is an interesting concept in video games. The notion of “railroading” itself is unique to video games—if you were reading Tale of Two Cities, would you feel railroaded into the ending? Well, no. What makes video games different? Perhaps video games only provide an illusion of choice, most of the time?

To be honest, I can’t think of railroading as “right” or “wrong”, but instead as a poorly understood narrative choice in games. Another example that stands out in my mind is Nier and Nier Automata, which both feature early boss fights that occur mechanically, regardless of the player’s personal morality. You, as the player, may be playing a character and this is a deeply troubling thing for people to do. That character may have desires that do not match the player’s desires.

On a more real level, the question about violence in games is more “can I talk to my children about this” and less “does this game depict violence”.

I don’t have the answer for It Takes Two.

Games can’t really force you to take ethics seriously, IMO. Few games have ever really had any serious take on ethics. If you want a serious take on ethics in games, play Undertale or something.