skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Impossibility of communication (because the very physical means necessary are way beyond our capacity as a species) is also a far more plausible idea than anthropomorphic beings (speaking some language that can be deciphered and uttered by humans).

Lem's work (at least Solaris) explored the intellectual inability of our species to communicate with a vastly superior intelligence. Solaris did not have any problem seeing what people were doing, thinking, signalling to it, and so on. It's just that what possible difference could it make?
UX research isn't just asking people what they want. If you do it right, it can help you assess the risk and reward of the new paradigms you're considering.
Funny coincidence, I just watched both the original Solaris and the remake this weekend. They've been on my list to watch for years. I enjoyed both. The original requires a lot of patience, and it's somewhat less accessible I think to non-Russian speakers who have to read subtitles.

Ebert's reviews are pretty spot on.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-solaris-1972

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/solaris-2002

If you like anything by PKD, or you enjoy 2001, you'll probably like Solaris.
Hi my name is node_modules have you met me? If you invite me to a party I bring my 500 closest friends as my plus one!

I just looked at the node_modules folder for a project that runs user configured code when your imap server gets a new mail via imap idle. It's called imapnotify and inside its node_modules dir I see it pulls in 549 js files.

The majority are under 100 lines per file dozens are between 1 and 30.

Cutting just the last segment so that /foo/bar/baz.js and /bam/baz.js both appear as baz.js and removing dupes reduced the number of unique filenames to 383.

Basically every js dev is either telling you or not telling you that they don't know what they are giving you to run on your computer.
contact your local DPA[1] and file a complaint. There's plenty of info on the original thread[2] on what they're doing wrong.

[1] - https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

[2] - https://community.ui.com/questions/UI-official-urgent-please...
It will allow other ad networks to compete. And other search engines to get ad revenue.
Yes, UX should be at the core of any PM's job.
> discriminating based on notational origin is a big no no from an ethical perspective

However, discriminating based on exposure to coercive pressure from aggressive and hostile foreign powers is probably OK, even if such exposure is heavily correlated with national origin. The key is that the discrimination must be based on an individual analysis of the applicant and his/her life circumstances.

It's not OK to blanket deny any person of Chinese ancestry.

Denying such a person access to sensitive data or positions might be OK, however, if that person is exposed to coercive threats by, e.g. having family located in a jurisdiction known to use its power over expatriates' families as leverage to recruit sources and agents.

So long as the intent is genuinely to serve a compelling interest in protecting against security threats and the vetting policy is as narrowly tailored as possible to minimizing insider risk from applicants with vulnerability to certain threat actors, I think such a policy could pass ethical and (IANAL) maybe legal muster.
Humorist, too. The Star Diaries introduced me to recursion back in the day
As Cognizant+Infosys loom under pressure, this could be signal to India IT story
Wouldn't they help increase airflow around/between clothing?
I can easily switch between C#, javascript and postgres SQL. But when it comes to powershell.. I google every little language construction. It happens to me every 2-3 weeks for a decade. I still cannot remember from the first time how to iterate over collection, how to define collection or hash table. I dont know why I struggle so much to remember it.
Seems like Apple is going through Xerox phases..Very soon they will have to explain everything.

There was a time when Xerox had to explain what their products were for.
In one of the computer ads the headline said
"This Xerox machine can't make a copy"

https://ries.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncatego...
that would only be valid if crash support is requested and provided. As far as I know ubiquiti is pretty hands-off in terms of support, so the case isn't too valid.
Ja my biggest gripe with UX-Ppl is that the ones I have encountered are all ex-graphics-artist with a new title.

Not a new education or new field of study they did... It was just on Monday they were graphic artist... and on Tuesday they were a UX-Expert ! If someone tells me make this button yellow and move it down. I want to quantitative science on yellow and why ? Or at least a statistical test(call it A/B if you want).

I have no idea where all these sudden so called experts came from overnight.

As that one quote goes. "If we don't have data and only opinions let use mine.(sic ?)"
"People with something to hide" is everyone.
Is there any way you make your work during the day a bit more collaborative? Maybe block yourself time to go socialize with others over coffee or lunch.
Exactly what I imagined when I wrote the comment
I didn't see this earlier and need to respond:

> you can buy positions on hacker news

That's false, as far as we know, and we've put a lot of work into this. If anyone knows otherwise and cares about HN, please tell us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can counteract it. Anti-abuse measures are our priority.

If you don't have specific evidence, please don't say "its no secret that you can buy positions on HN". People repeating things doesn't make it true. In fact, when it comes to matters like this, people repeating things is mild evidence that it's not true.

> various websites sell upvotes for cheap

What websites exactly? I know of one, and we've been tracking their nefarious deeds and banning their customers for a long time now. Don't confuse buying votes with buying prominence. I can't say for sure it's not happening (that would be a Rumsfeldian known unknown), but can tell you for sure that what many accounts are actually getting in exchange for paying these spammers is an instant ban for themselves and their sites.
Thanks so much. I thought I had read through the manual but there's all kinds of stuff I've missed.
Don't forget about everything being "visual".

I learned just recently that Microsoft Visual Studio is completely different from Visual Studio Code.
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You mentioned that "the biggest hold up is getting enough properly trained data, tagged appropriately, in order to let the models train correctly." I think using SNES music as training data is a viable way of getting hundreds of songs' worth of training data in a fairly automated fashion. (I'd estimate that each game has 10 to 80 songs which can be used for training, I have 5 to 10 games of OSTs already downloaded, and each song is only 64 kilobytes and takes minimal disk space before rendering to WAV.)
How can I reverse engineer a simple through-hole circuit board?
Re-framing will be helpful, thanks. Because this is truly a great opportunity.

I land on the half-conclusion that I will make it very clear that they are wanted and what's in it for them and hope that they are the right fit.
It’s hard when you have people in your circle of trust who are subject to coercive law enforcement. My heart goes out to victims of such apparatus.

It isn’t even as simple as worrying that foreign national employees can be coerced by their home nation police or state security services — anyone subject to policies like Gitlab’s who is local to your business but who has family or assets abroad that can be used to effect duress, or who can be blackmailed in some way elsewhere, would need to be vetted.
This has been extensively studied, and virtually every analysis comes to the same conclusion: it's cost-effective.

Here's an old analysis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12533280, which puts its effectiveness on-par with MMR vaccines and cost-effectiveness significantly better than the median $/QALY for existing interventions (~$42k, I think).

It's on the WHO list of recommended vaccines, and there are a ton of country-specific ones too; I linked to some elsewhere in the thread. Wikipedia has a giant list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV_vaccine#Vaccine_implementa...
Would it flex too much where it shouldn’t?
I think at the core of it all, Hacker News is about discussion and conversation, and sharing job opportunities are a by-product of that, not the main focus.

By cluttering up the feed with auto-generated content on a more frequent basis, the value of all the other good stuff we come to read would be diminished. Not to say that 'Who's hiring?' isn't useful, maybe we just don't need it that often
So I have to move my kids to a new school and tell my wife her career needs to move to a different town? We've already made 2 big moves in our married life one of which was international. Our kids are stable at school now so not sure why I need to force the family to do another move?

So you're saying I should be able to find a team where I am not the majority (religion, gender, or race etc) and I should apply to work there? How would I go about identifying that company and the composition of their teams?

I've spent over 17 years building my career around consulting to the Oil and Gas industries around operational excellence and software systems implementation. What if I can't find the type of team you are telling me about in that industry? I'm currently working for a strategy consulting firm and I lead the Oil and Gas practice, I'm not sure that I could easily move to another career track and make the same money. Why can't I just continue to work in my current field for the type of companies I have always worked for?

Your advice comes down to this:

1. try and find a team where I am the minority and work there
2. Move to another city if I need to in order to find that job

I have no idea why I should follow any of that advice? I can't even imagine how I would sell this to my wife or kids. There's just no upside for me or my family here. This has to be strangest advice I have ever read. I'm not 24 anymore, I'm in my forties and carry a serious amount of responsibility at home, at work and in my industry. Should I also sell our house at a loss or maybe rent it out and hope the tenants will look after our 1/2 acre properly?

What city should I move my family too? We're doing well in Perth and that's the epicentre of my industry. I think Brisbane has some mining companies so I could try there but there are a lot less jobs and higher house prices. Sydney and Melbourne don't really have many jobs in my industry, I could always move to another practice and take a pay cut but the property is even more expensive in those two cities. Maybe you can call my wife and explain why we need to do this?

Maybe I should move my family back to the UK, my kids don't remember it because they were only 1 and 3 at the time. Maybe my 14 year old daughter can drop all of her friends and just go to the UK though; that would probably require an industry change too.

Are you just trolling me?
Years ago, or perhaps decades ago, when there switching languages every few months wasn't common, yes - syntax was not only memorized, it was second nature. Not only that, but the language influenced how you thought and solved computing problems. I have always felt that it would take about a year to retrain your brain to efficiently program (or rather think) in a new language. Until then, you would structure your code as if it was written in the last language you use, because that's how you break down problems in a logical nature.
I was hoping they’d call it AdiOS.
Yep - instead, Windows is dragged down by 20-40 years of bug-for-bug API compatibility, even in the things that were never documented as public API and pretty clearly look like internal solutions that the author at Microsoft never designed for public use.

There is a good reason for how Apple approaches use of their private APIs, and for how Microsoft approaches use of their private APIs. Not saying either one is correct, there really is no answer, but consider that for any public API that exists, there may be undocumented details that some software somewhere relies upon whether they realise it or not. Apple is just taking a more aggressive approach than Microsoft here by detecting and disallowing private API use in their store so as to avoid issues down the line.
>>Medicare and Social Security are just a tax.

Calling things by different names changes nothing. The generic point is that an ever increasing group of people call upon contributions from a shrinking set of people to get paid(Pensions, SS, Medicare etc). Note this is not an investment. It's not like the older people invested in better schools, colleges and healthcare, that the people passing out will spin new methods of making more money with less people.

Once you arrive here. You can even call it tax or whatever and it changes nothing in terms of basic math. The only reason something like SS/pensions has not collapsed yet is because they use increasing percentage of taxes to pay for it, than spend it on college or infrastructure or something else.

Its not very surprising that people are in awe of Chinese infrastructure or the British healthcare or German education system. You get what you invest in. The US invests in elderly people.
If people are unwilling to do the math themselves, then it becomes a question of what can you trust?

Something physical (an abacus, say) could potentially be manipulated by slight of hand or optical illusion.

Something digital (an iPhone app) could silently do the same.

But what if you make it really easy for the user to do the math themselves, by explicitly breaking down the calculation into a video of smaller steps where the numbers move to show the calculation.

E.g. $19 + $25 + $28 on such an app:

19

25

+28

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10

20

14

+28

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10

20

10

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+12

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Is that a joke? Surely you aren't suggesting that developers should have full knowledge of all transitive dependencies that compose their application stack.
Machines have been making labour more efficient for decades. The issue is the wealth generated by the efficiencies have been gone only to the wealthy.
That is highly unlikely to happen. The complexity of the tax code is what supports the lawyers in the accountants who make a lot of money to find those loopholes. It also makes it easier to levy taxes, raise taxes, and confuse the public. A simplified tax code means it’s easier to find where the money goes, and that is something the government cannot afford to let happen
Sort of. It keeps the overpotential of the oxygen evolution reaction down at increased current densities. This means that a compact electrode arrangement can split water faster without losing efficiency. Normally more current would increase both current density and overpotential, so that efficiency would go down.

This discovery maintains efficiency that would normally require a larger electrode surface. It doesn't double the chemical energy output from the electrical energy input. That would be impossible as conventional electrolyzers are already more than 50% efficient. It (potentially) improves the economic efficiency more than the thermodynamic efficiency.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpotential
Side note/rant: I've never seen it more clearly illustrated when working as a waiter back in the day. The head chef(more like head guy in charge of kitchen not really a chef). Got flustered whenever it got busy and then just barked out commands to NO ONE. The end result was, that while the restaurant was at its busiest there was a scary dude yelling "SOMEONE get me new spoon". Because he didn't delegate or assigned this task to anyone. THE WHOLE kitchen came to a stop and ppl looking at each other wondering who is going to give the yelling beast a new spoon.
I went on a science-fiction reading binge a few years ago, and the majority I found atrocious, but Fiasco and Solaris really stood out as excellent novels.
Can you rephrase that question? I did not set out to prove anything, so I'm not sure what you mean.
With Apple Arcade and recently added support for Xbox and PS4 controllers, space may become a constraint.
Oh, because people are regularly installing the 7.8GB Xcode update?

Aside from the fact that I doubt anyone downloads that many apps, from my understanding Apple TV makes you use on-demand resources for anything above 4GB. That means that old resources automatically get flushed out, so the actual benefit of those extra 32GB is more of caching-feeling behavior.
Wasn’t that implying their infra running the implicit “.” at the end of “.com” (I know, it’s literally not what the copy says)? I.e. the internet .com resolving depended on Sun.[0][1]

[0] https://serverfault.com/questions/134611/why-no-final-dot-fo...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server
Women were excluded from the workforce for most of that time.
Okay, I think I've got this figured out. Can someone check my working?

https://imgur.com/a/GVdsG7r

Color key:

Green: Apple set-top box
Yellow: App for Apple set-top box
Orange: App for other Apple devices
Red: App for third-party devices
Yellow/Orange/Red stripe: App generally across all platforms
Violet: Integrated external subscription content
Blue: Apple subscription content
Violet/Blue stripe: Content generally
Rainbow stripe: Apple TV
So the bridges themselves came up with this idea? I'm impressed with the AI now being put into modern bridges.

/sarcasm

This is an indication of how bad journalism is getting. Sloppy writing and sloppy editing.
> I think this is a really elitist and unsympathetic statement

I think that describes the attitude of electron developers toward their users, you're putting your time and convenience over them.
As a user of macOS, I want developers who makes apps to use public APIs that will be supported so I don't get breakages on system upgrades or migrations.
I am not sure what you are getting at.

Are you saying the research paper got their conclusion and with that title wrong?

In my opinion, for anyone that cares about the scientific accuracy content of the paper titled "The Myth Regarding the High Cost of End-of-Life Care" should be more credible than that "comment"/"blog post"/opinion piece "Life is a Ponzi Scheme".

This is what is so wrong with this original post - it a not a curated, reviewed article. Just a subjective and superficial opinion - but because it was published in an otherwise selective journal it gets more credibility.
This.

I think the "anywhere on the body... technically, this has not been proven." is also an infelicitous bit of wording. The links to anogenital cancers have been studied pretty thoroughly. There's less data on the head/neck/throat ones and virtually none at all on the vaccines' possible effect on warts elsewhere on the body.
It's presumably all the same mechanism whereby HPV infection stresses cells and eventually causes cancer, but it's much further from "proven".
While "any current x86-64 PC" is an exaggeration — UEFI-only systems, in particular, won't boot any version of DOS or Windows 9x — drivers may be less of a problem than you think:

- Even fairly recent systems with hybrid UEFI/BIOS still provide an IDE-compatible mode for onboard SATA
controllers that should work with Windows 95.

- Windows 95 supports 16-bit MS-DOS drivers and BIOS disk access, so any storage controller with BIOS boot support and/or 16-bit MS-DOS drivers (disk, optical, ASPI) should work.

- Modern video cards still provide SVGA-compatible modes that should work.

- PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports should work.

- Serial and parallel ports should work.

- USB devices with legacy emulation provided by the system's BIOS (floppy, mass storage [hard drive, flash drive], keyboard, mouse, [optical?]) should work, assuming they're plugged in at boot.

Likely problems:

- non-emulated USB devices

- network adapters

- audio

- large amounts of RAM

For network and audio, your best bet would probably be to find a (still relatively recent) machine with pre-Express PCI slots for an older NIC and sound card (some not terribly old workstations and servers have these); while PCIe-to-PCI, and even PCIe-to-ISA, expansion boxes exist, the ones I've seen are both expensive (>$1,000) and hard to find on the used market.
When the Apple TV first launched, you were limited to 200MB of an initial download and 20GB total counting later-downloaded on-demand resources. These on-demand resources in theory automatically get flushed out, so the HD space serves more like a cache. So the 32/64GB has a very tenuous relationship with performance before, and now that it's been raised to 4GB install probably will not be nearly enough space. It's a weird device.
Device Has Been Measuring the Ocean’s Plankton Since the 1930s
Not viable for the majority of users.

How do you explain to one of these "I'm not good with computers haha" types what a CDN is and why Taboola CDN shouldn't be allowed but Akamai should be otherwise things Won't Work Right. Even if they're capable of learning [1] why should they care, when all these security measures actively make their life harder?

Blocking audio and other fingerprintable surfaces by default, with a "click here to enable audio / video" and a "remember my choice on this site in future" is the only way it can possibly work, because 99% of users will only ever go for the laziest option. We need to have protections for them that work regardless of (or in spite of) their skill level.

[1] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/
Women shouldn't work after they give birth, this outsourcing of raising babies is not helping anybody. They should go to work only after the kids are old enough to go to school. We are just ruining are society with this idea that women should work all the time like men. We don't need all this work from women, it is not valuable like them taking care of their kids and taking care of home.
John Browning’s 1892 En Bloc Lever-Action Prototype
It's funny how the general consensus on here is against Microsoft's abuse of private APIs in Windows to help Word and DOS against WordPerfect and DrDOS, 20+ years ago. But Apple doing it right now in a much worse way is considered acceptable and defendable.
It's ultimately a selection bias for both. If you're in the top X percent to get accepted to Harvard Business School, you're also the type of person to have a higher chance of success in general. Same for YC.

The post is calling into question which network can best help a given candidate (who would have presumably been accepted by both) achieve their goals.
Across the world, what percentage is Portland cement vs the other CO2 absorbing kind? I googled around, but couldn't find the answer.