skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been helping startups design interfaces (B2B SaaS mostly) for 12+ years [1]. Here are my insights:

the big misconception is that design is important in every stage of your startup. Which is not the case.

Design becomes important after you’ve tackled the fundamentals and hit product market fit.

The companies I’ve worked with that ended up being successful, all fit in that category. Startups that would contact us before having product market fit, would see themselves innovate slower by focussing on design. It would literally slow them down. Instead of talking to customers they would ask us to change the colors of their buttons for the tenth time.

Once you have a product, that sort of works and a handful of customers love it, despite it looking like crap… that’s when design becomes a powerful fuel to your rocket.

[1] https://fairpixels.pro
Point 3 - the article explicitly mentioned lawn sprinklers, a pool for bathing horses, and some other things that most definitely DO waste water. And are they required to be better insulated?
Am I the only one struggling to understand this? Are 'Mr. Big' and 'Showrunner' references to something specific? Why are these terms in quotes?
Toyota completely botched the transition. They were in the lead with Prius and then they make several strange strategic errors. This sounds like rationalization to me at this point. Cheap electric vehicles are very well within reach, especially for highly urban places. And PV for remote locations is totally possible right now, no grid.
It put me at 82% put my age at 20 (I am 34 and visibly graying). This was the project of a student of a local uni so I'm not going to put too much stock in it. But as student projects go it's pretty slick.
Tents, public defecation and drug use were just as much of a problem in the 30s. They called tent cities "Hoovervilles" at the time [0].

The prevalence of poverty in the 1930s was the impetus for "aesthetics" laws like these. Like today, homeowners wanted to preserve property values and living standards in their immediate surroundings.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville
There are lots of payment services that are not credit/debit cards and are widely used (swish in Sweden is another one). All these cannot use NFC on IOS.
That’s a good point about Apple’s own resource reallocation necessary in the short term. iOS feels _pretty good_ these days compared to where it was not too long ago, but having to “unlock” APIs that were built to be private but now have to be public will also expose new bugs (both inherent and new).
I agree, it could be ugly. The GDPR is supposed to be great, but what practical impact did it have on most of us? Cookie consent dialogs everywhere.
> When you move into a city you have to assume you are voluntarily giving up your rights

This would be a valid argument if all people were born outside of the city and have plenty of economic and social opportunities outside of cities.
> Renting your information infrastructure is a great way to reduce startup costs

they can rent hardware only, and still run their own infra (kubernets and all stuff on top on it), then they can negotiate reasonable prices and migrate away if they want to.
I would note that the grandparent was not disputing the upcoming 'hardship, difficulty and pain' (i.e. 'doom and negativity') that come with procreation, so at least that bit does not seem to be out of place.
By this rule there’s hundreds of cars that are actually illegally parked in the Richmond district and it would be literally impossible for that additional number to find street parking
You'd think that when healthy and of able mind.

But as life slides towards that state, it's amazing how people still find very good reasons to stick around. It's strange to us, but even blind and demented, life is still worth living.

In my little bit on experience, the only thing that makes life not worth living seems to be pain. When we're in a lot of pain, then people tend to opt out of living. But until there is pain, there's still something in life that makes it all worthwhile.
>you can keep using app store, so I don't understand the issue

Apps with massive following that are into the idea of violating privacy rights will leave App Store and its restrictions, and will be available only on third party app stores where they can do whatever they want.

Imagine Facebook leaving App Store and becoming available only on Meta Store (or whatever they would call it). Oh, and they dont have to abide by Apple's privacy rules anymore. Oh, and you also got no choice now if you want to continue using it.

I personally don't use FB, but it was a solid example, and it can apply to any other app. Facebook is almost definitely cheering now at this decision, because I remember they had a pretty bad earnings call last year after Apple added additional privacy restrictions to iOS/App Store. But worry no more, FB is back in the game as soon as they can release their unrestricted version on a third party app store.

"More choice available", in this scenario refers not to my personal choices, but to more ways for companies behind those large apps to avoid privacy considerations and restrictions of the platform.

Tl;dr: FB has only two options now - abide by the current privacy rules of App Store or not have an app for iOS at all. With third party app stores being available, FB has a new and way juicier option - publish a version in their own app store with zero restrictions. Why would they even consider the official App Store and follow the restrictions. Consumers lose a solid option here.
The annoying popups are basically malicious compliance.

Yes, and this should not have come as a surprise to competent regulators.
I agree with the sentiment, but in my experience that's just not true. [1] The PS4 and PS5 are nice and pain free. The Switch even more so, because the games will run right off the cartridge without needing updates. They have available updates, but the version shipped on the cartridge is 100% playable.

[1] With the exception of the XBox because Microsoft can't get their shit together.
Having Jackson even nominally involved in the project would be a pretty terrible sign for me, after the Hobbit fiasco (which in turn colored my appraisal of ROTK and, in particular, the extended LOTR editions).

As for the writer's room on this show, it looks solid to me:

* Jason Cahill wrote a bunch of episodes for The Sopranos

* Justin Doble wrote 4 episodes in S1 and S2 of Stranger Things, and those are the only two good seasons of Stranger Things

* Gennifer Hutchison won a WGA award for her work on Breaking Bad, which is one of the best shows ever to air

* Bryan Cogman wrote 11(!) episodes of Game of Thrones

* Stephany Folsom was a writer on Toy Story 4 and Thor: Ragnarak

The two show-runners (JD Payne and Patrick McKay) are people I'm not familiar with, but so was DB Weiss before Game of Thrones.

Except for Sean Bean, I didn't know any of the GOT actors either; they're all famous for GOT now. The Amazon LOTR show could be a debacle, but it won't be because they chintzed out on actors.
This is so good. At least one regulator seems to be doing its job.
Lol at the fact that this is unreadable on a phone.
idk, all of the best characters in game of thrones were the established actors. ned stark, Robert baratheon, roose Bolton, tywin lanister.
It's not about ui = f(x) though, it's about React. There are a lot of `ui = f(x)` that are more efficient and lightweight.
I mean, I'm in the minority where I actually like Thunderbird as it exists today (well ok, the create filter experience could use less clicks), but Fastmail works perfectly fine in Thunderbird. Actually a little better since I have my fastmail inbox set up as folders not labels, so it avoids that weird impedance mismatch where the Thunderbird UI wants folders but Gmail provides labels.

Meanwhile in my employment they turned off IMAP for security reasons, so I'm forced to use the Gmail web interface and it is not up to the task of the volume of email I receive at all.
How does it compare to a regular bricks & mortar retail store? Shelf fees, etc?

Edit: downvoted for asking a question? Thanks HN.
"You can pay the fine, or spend tens of thousands of dollars to do something no one has had any issue with for decades."

Seem reasonable?
Seems like a somewhat pointless exercise in the days of js-driven websites... We can easily make an infinite website

Actually you don't even need js
Precisely. The same guy who thinks that parroting their self-righteousness is a virtue. The same guy who can not understand the difference between diversity and tokenism. That's the guy who can not understand nuance in thought.
No he wasn’t. He’s in 2/3 of them.
Maybe this site should be designed better? Meaning it is not readable on mobile. It is not any better on the desktop. Also piecharts - really? Do they know that people with even minor color blidnes do not read piecharts in same way as you think?

I 100% understand and agree with points but this site shows that achieving these points is really really hard. Maybe impossible?
> I'm less interested in parents trying to rationalize what deep down they know was a bad decision

You lost me here. You're not genuinely interested.
I see most places raising their prices as seed funding goes out.
Long term I would much rather see cars parked on property rather than on-street to the extent that it is reasonable and feasible. We don’t need laws that incentivize the opposite.
EU lawmakers pass landmark tech rules, but enforcement a worry
He’s putting those in quotes because they’re generally not formal positions that are explicitly credited, but are informal phrases referring to whoever has final creative control over a series.
Instagram Keeps Showing Me Children’s Tragedies
I'd disagree that's intrinsic to criticism or praise (the phrase "constructive criticism" is distinct from just normal criticism). Consider:

Constructive praise: "I like when you wear different t-shirt colours than you usually do."

Non-constructive criticism: "I don't like your shirt."

We might find the non-constructive criticism to have more force to effect change than the constructive praise. I know I would be more reactive to the latter comment even though there is less constructive detail in it. But I think that's just because we're hardwired to be more sensitive to criticism, as per the article.
This comment caps off an exceedingly educational thread of questions and answers.
8086 / AMD 9586A
Is this some kind of successor to Vimac? See https://github.com/dexterleng/vimac
I agree with some parts what is being said here, but overall I get a feeling that the content is ultimately superficial. I don't mean this as a joke or pun.

For example really good UI design is more often than not conservative and not innovative. There are reasons to break the rules, but just breaking them in order to be "innovative" often comes off as edgy and showoff-y and almost always introduces unnecessary problems. A good reason to break the rules is borne from problem _solving_ and choosing the right trade-offs.

Something I'm missing here is consistency. It is probably one of the hardest things to achieve, because in order to be consistent, a design needs to adhere to a common set of goals and restrictions. Being inconsistent and "patching over" a design or introducing new concepts is always easier. This can introduce actual problems in a design that need solving and this is where innovation can or should happen.
this is brilliant.

But I am wondering how big companies that advertise job posts in popular job boards filter through all those applications?
> allowing sideloading is like allowing chemical weapons to be used in war.

yes, it is exactly like that. Millions of people who download .exe to their compuyters every day are doing chemical warfare
This is just for payment providers though, not alternative app stores.
Every few years the City does make the rounds there just to paper cars, though not usually to the tune of $1,500.
Then again, I remember when your list of "great" features was exactly what was perceived as making "cars insanely expensive" and unreliable at the time. And a generation or two earlier, it was seatbelts, headrests, fuel injectors replacing carburetors, power windows, digital clocks instead of mechanical(!), digital radio tuning instead of mechanical(!!), etc., all of which many folks complained were just being added to drive up the MSRP.

On the flip side, having experienced post-2000 adaptive cruise control, rear-view camera, blind-spot indicators in side-view mirrors, auto-release emergency brake, integration with phone for Waze and such, etc., I would not want to go back. Indeed, I find myself noticeably annoyed when a car rental is missing any of these features.
In most cases, I'll take YouTube's default ranking, which might incorporate captioned text, comments, and other signals. Good to have this search operator as an option for specific uses.
I read the whole article, and I found it quite interesting and it has a lot of good references that I've encountered in the past (for example Zombie Children etc...)

However I find it very difficult to read: there's so much text and not many example to illustrate.
By moving my face to show my best profile, I managed to get a 10.1 in beauty. Yes, point 1. Don't know if the algorithm was being sarcastic.
it will be a ~10% drop of their profits maximum . They have nothing to fear, and have been engaging in these shenanigans just because they can
No but keeping to yourself when sick will help, which I hope they do.
I mean, you did want to manage bare metal servers, right?

AWS almost certainly gets batches of bad hardware too. And if your services are running on the bad hardware, you can't have a peek inside and find the iron filings. For servers, this is probably not too bad, there used to be articles about dealing with less enthusiastic ec2 vms since a long time, and if you experience that, you'd find a way. AWS has enough capacity that you can probably get vms running on a different batch of hardware somehow. With owned hardaware, if it was your first order of important database servers and they're all dodgy, that's a pickle; HPE probably has quick support? once you realize it's their hardware.

If your cloud provider's network is dodgy though, you get to diagnose that as a blackbox which is lots of fun. Would have loved to have access to router statistics.

There's a lot of stuff in betwren AWS and on-prem/owned datacenter, too.
Hard to call this a lawn: https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/sf-couple-fined-1500-parking...
Although I think "impostor syndrome" is vague and over-diagnosed, it's a natural reaction to a diseased society such as ours.

Capitalism tells you you can be anything you want to be, if you're good enough. Of course, most people are never going to get anything good--the decent opportunities were mostly allocated before we were born. Watching this, the naive conclusion is that only the very best are going to get anything, and that everyone else just sucks. (And, if 99.9% of people who try to do something suck at it, it's just reasonable to assume a high probability that you also suck. Priors. Self-perception does not typically have enough resolution to conclude otherwise.) The other possibility is that society is deeply and thoroughly corrupt, but to voice it makes a person sound bitter... and bitterness, at least in the US, is extremely socially unacceptable, especially when one is right.

If it were a college, it would look like this.

Person: Hi, Labor Market University Dean. I'd like to major in writing.
Labor Market: No can do. We've got too many writers.
Person: I suppose I'll major in... machine learning sounds fun.
Labor Market: No slots left. All taken.
Person: What about business leadership?
Labor Market: Hahaha, no.
Person: Well, I have to do something. What've ya got?
Labor Market: It looks like we've got room for you to major in... subordinate bullshit, subordinate bullshit, and... subordinate bullshit.

Of course, to speak of impostor syndrome usually implies that the person actually is competent (not an impostor). And so, it tends to be most prominent in people who (a) are quite good at what they're doing, and (b) have beaten the odds to achieve some recognition and success. The problem, at that point, is that you start to see so many charlatans who get just as much in the way of rewards as you do. What this establishes is that worldly success, rare as it is in anything worth doing, is not indicative of skill or talent, at least not in any field where there is even an iota of subjectivity (athletics are a different story). There's too much corruption and there's too much noise.

As humans, it comes naturally to find patterns when they aren't actually there. If we fail, it's too easy to accept society's narrative that we deserved failure and aren't really fit to be more than a business subordinate. If we succeed, we see both (a) the failure of people as good as, or better than, we are, as well as (b) undeserved success of incompetents even at the highest levels. The first case is one of perceiving a spurious pattern; the second is a case of watching the pattern break down and concluding that external indicators of one's competence carry almost no signal, thus falling back into an I-know-nothing state... which tends to make a person feel incompetent... because how good can you be if you don't even know whether you're good[1]?

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[1] In reality, there is at most a weak correlation between one's competence and precise confidence thereabout; however, if we make certain assumptions of rationality that sometimes hold and sometimes fail, we are led to expect that they would correlate.
What right of way are you referring to? In this video, the car is clearly not blocking the sidewalk.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/sf-couple-fined-1500-parking...
Yes. I am not very familiar with GUI development so I focused on the CLI first. No concrete plans yet.
My understanding is that these aren't for intimidation but rather to reduce theft by giving people an outside view of themselves. A mirror can also serve this purpose, but may be more difficult to fit in certain spaces. If this is correct, then these cameras aren't recording, just displaying the image directly on the screen. Here's an article about it https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/blogs/et-commentary/mir...
> The desert is probably the best place to build sprawling metropolises with the lowest ecological impact (overall)

Ecological impact includes draining aquifers and diverting rivers.

Human civilizations, particularly dense ones, have preferred oceans and rivers near temperate rainforests (like the entire Northeast) for this reason. The marginal advantages of less heating aren't outweighed by the resource and economic advantages of living near large bodies of water in areas where the geology and ecology actually supports it.
Can we stop pretending that Apple has the users best interest in mind? They just want to be the gatekeeper for lucrative applications/functions so they can charge for it. That they somehow convinced apple users that it's somehow in their interest just shows how good their marketing is.
>> Cooling is more energy efficient than heating.

How is that?

First thing ofcourse is everything we do as human, including our body is generating heat, for my cooling my home is FAR FAR FAR more expensive (thus i would assume more energy intensive) than heating my home.

>>Houses in places like AZ are implicitly less wasteful (no lawns, better insulated, etc).

This is largely government zoning or HOA's here, people outside of AZ could allow for less lawns as well. This would require a cultural shift. I would love to replace my lawn with something I did not have to mow, but my local government prevents that

>- People like it

Some people like, some people (like me) like cold climates, or places with seasonal changes. I would never in a million years live in the south west US, I prefer places that snow.
A Tech Millionaire Bought a Giant Cold War Radar to ‘Find UFOs’
UXer with 25+ years here.

To be respectfully blunt "the responsibility of designers to the end users of their work."

No, it's our job to make the user's goals as seamless as possible - within the functional constraints of the business. If that business is to fuck users privacy over, we must operate within that overarching environment or GTFO.

To be clear, I dont understand how conscientious UXer's function at a place like Facebook, unless the plot of Servance is a reality?
I'm assuming the right to privacy is now gone. It wasn't explicitly in the constitution, so this court is not going to honor it any more.
The returns are diminishing each cycle.
We are already working hard on this: .nl is the country with the lowest average CO2 emmissions per new car sold in the EU (and thus also nitrogen most likely). We're finally building decent amounts of wind turbines (still a shame that we dutch don't lead in this).

However, farming emissions have plateaued: https://www.rivm.nl/sites/default/files/2022-06/Grafiek%20Em...
Fastmail can fetch new messages and send mail through Gmail:

https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278022-Us...

Use a "wildcard alias" to receive any e-mail sent to a custom domain:

https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277942-Ca...
how would your wife respond to the claim in the article that the outcomes between robotic and traditional surgeries appear the same?
While DALL-E might seem like something out of the world, what it outputs at the end of the day is pretty basic: a 2D image.

To run a high-fidelity simulator of human body that is useful for surgeons, you need a LOT more. And I doubt it can be data-driven. Data-driven simulators for things like autonomous cars are just coming up, and these are way simple as the agent (the autonomous car) doesn't directly change the environment when it's driving around (as in, you don't have to simulate the car colliding into a traffic pole and then breaking it, etc.)

To simulate a human body, you need to be able to capture the material properties of different layers, some of which are fluids, and then also the interaction between them and how different organs react to a surgical operation. It's a very hard problem.

Why do all that when you have animal corpses readily available? There's no need to create a problem that doesn't exist.
Not one of the Marvel Shows would break any reasonable TV top 10. The "1-2 showrunners, a writers room, and a rotating cast of directors" model is unimpeachably successful; it got us Breaking Bad, The Wire, The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Americans, and Mad Men, among many others.
> Has there ever been a console where, over the life of the console, the hardware was sold for a loss?

All of them.

Speaking about PS5 specifically: there's quite a few advancements in there that you're not thinking about, the kraken decompressor that can run at native NVME speed in hardware and load assets directly into video memory has no PC equivalent. Though PC vendors are trying to do NVME<->GPUMem these days, it still can't do effectively 9GBit like the PS5 can (theoretically).

Even ignoring those architectural advantages and the R&D; last time someone did a cost comparison of an equivelant PC (a year ago) it was $1,600: https://gamerant.com/ps5-specs-pc/
This is so condescending it’s hard to take seriously.