skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but it's not a binary thing, it's a continuum. It's perfectly possible for someone like you, the OP, myself, others reading this to have strong narcissistic tendencies but to be self-aware enough to want to change and not be a complete malignant narcissist, the kind who destroy lives and end up on true crime podcasts.
The only issue is here is that the proximate cause of failure was what you’re saying.

What is worrying is that there could be many other potential sources of failure which simply didn’t trigger because the MCAS situation was so bad it led to 2 plane crashes before they even had a chance to bring down some planes.

In other words, if you have 2 bugs, one with a 1/100 chance of triggering and the other with a 1/1000 chance of triggering, by the time you hit 500 attempts, odds are the first bug triggered twice, while the second didn’t even once. So you solve the first bug, that still leaves you with a problem that has a 1/1000 chance of triggering, when the expectation is that bugs should only trigger at worst 1/10000 times.

Solving the MCAS issue is not by itself a reliable indicator that this is a safe plane to fly, especially since we know there are many fundamental procedural reasons to be worried about the quality of the plane.
From my point of view, the proliferation of so many new classes of network connected devices has offset much of the gains in better practices. With enough systems being designed, the odds of a single system being both incompetently designed and widely deployed approaches unity.

I think I'll call this the "lightbulb effect" since in 1995 the lightbulbs in everyone's home were secure against all RCE vulnerabilities, while in 2020, this is no longer true.
As mentioned elsewhere here, it seems (to me) a uniquely Western phenomenon (and a modern one, at that) to only present happy endings in fairy tales. Most of the Disney canon's origin tales were much more gruesome. Take, for instance, what happens to Cinderella's stepsisters - in order to try to fool the prince that their feet fit the small slippers, they cut off several of their toes and commence to dance for him while in excruciating pain.

I grew up in Russia, so I have a very different baseline for what is a "standard" fairy tale. The tales I grew up with tended to have a solid moral lesson - for instance, I remember "7-year-old Daughter," a tale with two brothers, one rich and stupid and the other poor but with a smart daughter. The poor brother's horse gave birth to a foal, but the foal crawled into the rich brother's wagon, and so the brothers began arguing about who owns the newly born animal. To settle the argument, they go to a tsar, who gives them some lofty riddles to solve to determine ownership. The rich brother thinks the riddles are easy and doesn't think too deeply about them. The poor brother, distraught, seeks his daughter's help. I remember one riddle involved bringing to the tsar the "softest item ever," and the daughter recommended to tell the tsar that this item was a fist - since when one lays to sleep, no matter the pillow, does one not always place their fist to support their head?

In the end, the clever triumph over the stupid rich, the poor brother gets his foal, and the daughter eventually marries the tsar (who's impressed with her cleverness).

Or another tale spoke of a fisherman who discovered a magic genie fish in his net, who granted him endless wishes if he only asked - but with each wish, his wife became more greedy, until she wished to be a fish goddess herself. So the fish left the family with naught but the poverty they started with.

Now imagine my bewilderment when I watched The Little Mermaid and then followed it up with reading the book. What is the advice of the first? Abandon your family for a "true love" you only met once? And the book - it seems to say that doing so will only end in your misfortune and death? The first is foolishly romantic, but the second hopelessly tragic. I would love to hear the perspective of a scholar in Western fairy tales - specifically, what such tales can tell us about the moral fiber of England, France, Belgium, US, etc.
Did you notice your wireless signal strength considerably lower when going to dd-wrt?

I put openwrt on my c7 V5 and could barely get any bars.

Flashed back to the stock and was back in business.

Another thing I've read is the third party firmwares don't get hardware access to NAT resulting in speed hits.

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That's still an industry problem. No one hires doctors or architects for $9/h.
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Is there? About the only thing I've seen suggested that might work is to offer everyone a choice but as another poster commented, the vast majority would choose an office over an open floorplan.

Group rooms, shared offices, etc., would be an acceptable compromise for some but far from all. These middle solutions still have the negatives of the open floorplan just on a smaller scale. If you prefer cola and I prefer water, watered down cola isn't going to make either of us very happy.
I'm not sure you know what 'vaporware' means. SpaceX has successfully completed 81 launches to space, including many smallsat payloads (which is what they're selling here).
What the blazes are you on about? SpaceX have had 81 successful falcon series launches.
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Yeah, lots of languages have things like this like Pig Latin and Jeringozo.
>critical software goes under a much more rigorous testing regime

Testing is not only not enough, it's also not required :)
(as Dijkstra said, it can only show the presence of bugs, not their absence)

For example, the software for some automated subways in France has never been tested, only proven correct (source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc9QmqKIUj4&t=54m50s).

Similar formal methods are used for critical software pieces in Airbus aircrafts (source: the same speaker as for the linked video, but I don't remember which talk that was in).
A therapist is trained to spot things you miss.

It's like asking, "what does a junior engineer get out of being mentored by a senior engineer that they couldn't just figure out by coding or reading blogs?" A therapist brings things like context, breadth of knowledge, and honesty. I felt like the therapist wasn't incentivized to sugar coat things to spare my feelings, something close friends and family might do.

I am not sure about seeing one for 5 years, though. The point of a therapist is to make themselves unnecessary, in my opinion - they're supposed to give you the tools needed to do exactly what you're saying people should do - understand their behavior and change it.
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It'll use up all your miles though.
If you open the Android security settings you'll be asked if you want to set a password or pin. A password is longer and can contain arbitrary characters. I've never heard a person refer to a short series of numbers used to protect something as a password and not a pin.
I see something wrong with more research: opportunity cost. All the scientist taking time to study this are not spending their time on paths of research that could result in some new knowledge.
I'm going to counter the "therapists are great" theme that I'm seeing here. I think they're a waste of money. Cognitive behavioural therapy is a great tool. With practise and courage you can use it to reform the way you think. It won't fix something like schizophrenia but it might be useful for a narcissist who wants to change.
Airbus has been doing it for a while. The big difference between Airbus and Boeing has been how much more reliance Airbus places on technologies like MCAS vs straight up pilot skill.

Airbus has designed their planes to counteract bugs by adding tremendous amounts of redundancies. The Max is Boeing’s effort at creating an Airbus like plane without the redundantsafety features.
> 2) There are plenty of closed-room office spaces available if you need focus time

As a coder, the ratio is like 99% focus time and 1% socialising. If I were just to take an office everyday id be viewed as entitled even if its the most rational thing

> 4) There is Sonos in both open-office areas and people are pretty good about not hogging it or playing obnoxious/too-loud music

Just, why is there a Sonos in the first place!? I can't imagine being at work and wanting to hear someone's playlist.
From an accounting perspective, this is a strategic way to pump up your balance sheet.

And I agree with @paxys, I'd love to get those credit card points too! :)
Cancer is a group of illnesses that share a key common trait of uncontrollably dividing cells.

But when I say intractable I mean that the amount of output in lives you get per dollar of input is small compared to other issues that you can help with.
Still being taught in school; my CS program in Rome had it as one of the "software engineering methods" chapters, it was part of the finals curriculum and everything.
Seems like pretty concrete timelines to me, and I don't think adoring fans are too interested in booking commercial satellite launches.

https://www.spacex.com/smallsat
You would look it up, as you would for anything else you see for the first time.
Not congress in plural, the republican held senate, and specifically Mitch McConnell blocking almost every bill.
We don't need notifications about sites or services being down here on HN.
I don't believe the assertion was that these genes are ethnogenetic. I find gp's assertion dubious as well, but I think you may have misunderstood it.
We have unofficial office rules that work just like that. We do not have a sea of 50 people in the same space however, instead we have sort of isolated spaces that contain about 15-20 people each. All phone calls, chats longer than a minute or two ('I need to whiteboard this with you') and such are always done in small dedicated phone / meeting rooms on the sides of the open space. There is an adjacent coffee and food eating space shared by 3 such shared spaces, so about 40 people. It works well enough, almost everyone is mindful of sticking to the rules, since it benefits everybody to keep it that way.
> So you can end up taking time away from other fulfilling activities to get told your doing badly at the thing you are spending all your time trying to do. That is a horrible place to be mentally.

I suppose this would be another selling point of BI? If your entire livelihood isn't tied to a demoralizing/uninteresting job, then it may be easier to brush these things off.
Can you name any of those psychotherapy podcasts? Would love to know.
Falcon 9 rideshare launches are not vaporware.
I mean an example of why this new language feature -- the ability to implicitly treat a keypath as a function -- is useful.

(The last example in your link shows using a keypath to specify a sort criteria. That's a nice use of keypaths, but isn't helped by this new feature.)
It’s a lot more comfortable to blame Indian engineers (and of course the HN crowd loves that explanation, no matter how invalid it is) than to place the blame where it belongs. Squarely on Boeing management.
For me !! is a bad code smell. It is appropriate sometimes, but very rarely. Usually you can write it better with ?.let/apply/also/etc scope functions. Assigning it to temporary val can be done as a workaround for doing !! twice, but as said, probably needs a scope function instead.

Same with vars, they are still needed every now and then but most of a clean codebase is hopefully vals and immutable data classes.
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I think it's the same with all notifications, social media accounts ... uptime reports / status boards ....

Eventually all notifications are placed in the hands of people who are very cautious of bad news / often are not technical.

Their aversion to bad news and not understanding the technical side of things results in stalling, inaccuracy, and eventually just not doing anything.

It seems to be a common pattern.
I'm not entirely convinced narcissism is something that has to be fixed.

There are some aspects to it that are of course destructive as you mentioned (not enjoying listening to other people, and taking things to personally). Fixing these things I think comes down to enjoying the people you spend time with, and a radical belief that things will work out no matter what happens.

But there are other aspects of narcissism that really lend themselves well to success. Overconfidence/inflated egos are some of the only ways that you can take on really big challenges ahead of you. (See Sam Altman's blog post on this - https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful, and PG's tweet - https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1217724728644861953)

I'd love to hear what other people think :)
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I think any motivation to get software engineers to think and act less like lone wolves would be a step towards in the right direction. At the very least, some sort of sw labor organization can voice their displeasure towards open offices in a united fashion.
They provided a very detailed, technical, 29 page PDF as well.
whats the issue here? (genuine question) besides having to trust the author? and what installation methods do you recommend for cli tools?
A Telnet server is way too obvious for a backdoor. It’s more of a leftover debug feature.
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Looks great, I think I will pick this up. Can I ask a strange question, what font is used for the text in the book? It's very pleasant to look at!
People say this a lot, but it never seems very actionable.

How do you do find someone good that you trust? How do you find someone worth the time? The couple of times I've tried to find someone you end up making a lot of unreturned phone calls.

Maybe I have an unfairly negative impression of therapists - I both think that it's incredibly valuable to introspect and have someone smart and thoughtful to work things out with, but also suspect a lot of therapists are neither of those things?

CBT and growth mindset seems helpful, what's the process to actually find someone successfully? How many people actually are doing therapy vs. just recommending other people do it? It seems a lot more people are recommending it than actually doing it themselves (which would explain the vague advice).
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The assumption I’m referring to is just the thing you said, in your post, that you assumed.
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when viewed from a sludge-money lens (a la the F35) electronic voting and election security seem largely working as intended:

- we know paper works (Canada/UK) so there must be an ulterior motive for pushing on tech solution so hard

- money gets sent to various entities under the guise of tech, security, freedom, etc. (contracts for voting machines, contracts for software, etc.). this basically gives some limited air cover for transfer of funds to entities

- it nicely feeds into itself: defensive work always needs to keep up with (real or imagined) offensive threats so basically unlimited amounts can be spent without too much eye rolling

- it is basically a get out of jail free card for both political parties in the future: "elections were hacked" is bipartisan and can be a useful tool to defeat/deny access to popular party outsiders on both parties, as opposed to a genuine candidate blowing up the system (Sanders?)

- any foreign entity can be conveniently used if e.g. need to get a quick war going to distract the plebs from, say, medical parasitism or offshoring jobs
Can't you just use apache_beam.coders.coders.ProtoCoder?

https://beam.apache.org/releases/pydoc/2.0.0/apache_beam.cod...
FWIW it appears that archive.is caught a copy of it, and the only comment at the time of its snapshot is "proof or gtfo": https://archive.is/U0lpu
Voter ID laws aren't about protecting elections, they're about disenfranchising voters:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/some-republicans-ackno...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/21/trump-advise...
Most expats do not move away altogether from their country of origin. Labor mobility ("brain drain"), even of skilled professionals, is not a negative; on the contrary, it has huge positive externalities for both the origin and the destination country, even if these don't always show up in obvious monetary terms.

People are the ultimate 'resource' for building wealth, and ensuring that people are free to move around and seek the highest and best opportunities for themselves is absolutely the best policy. (At least if a few safeguards are included to minimize, e.g. social disruption due to large-scale movement of people affecting the local culture and society in unexpected ways. 'Open borders' should never be taken literally, but it's an ideal to move towards gradually.)
Plenty of clinical psychologists use CBT in practice.
> Some people should be physically abused.

I think that's completely morally wrong. The only exception is if someone else is physically at risk and you are protecting them.
> It won't fix something like schizophrenia

Your comment is terribly unhelpful. Therapy isn't about "fixing" someone, but to help individuals with issues that negatively affect their life find opportunities to manage those issues. CBT is not something you can start doing by yourself without an external catalyst.

I have ADHD, OCD, and bipolar II along with recurring bouts of PTSD from a terribly traumatic childhood. Without therapy, I would have considerable more issues integrating with my peers and navigating the emotional turmoil that is the battlefield of my brain. Therapy has assisted me in shifting my perspective and enabling me to live my best life despite the demons that seem to constantly want to drag me down.
How does this pump up the balance sheet? SpaceX takes in $1 million in a rideshare deposit, and now has a corresponding and equal liability to provide the service (hopefully for $1mm or less in costs) at a future point in time.

It helps the cash balance, sure.
> In their defense, the software industry is a complete joke in terms of quality control.

My dishwasher stopped working today. Last week I had to replace a wheel bearing in my van ($900). I just got a refund for a pond aerator that stopped working after a few weeks. And the head came off my plastic toy.

Hardware fails all the time: does that mean I can generically say all manufacturing has shitty QC?
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I wonder if improv classes might help? I've been taking improv recently and I've found it to be extremely interesting from the POV of learning to pay more attention to other people.

The core to learning improv is learning how NOT to be the center of attention. Everything is about supporting your team-mates: you have to pay extremely close attention to what they are doing and look for ways to give them further opportunities and make them look great.

Our improv instructor keeps on giving us exercises where if we take the lead, we're losing. I can already feel myself becoming better at paying attention to what other people are doing. One of the books we are reading for the class even makes the case that improv can help people become better at remembering each other's names.

I have no idea if improv classes are a useful way of combating narcissism, but maybe they could help?
There’s an interesting statistical observation that the kind of therapy seems to matter less than the relationship between therapist and patient. We are social animals a neutral experienced observer helping us identifying current problems and behaviors is much more impactful on an emotional level than a book. Narcissism is not an intellectual construct it is an emotional construct.
Using the modern populations of these countries is disingenuous, you need to consider recent historical immigration rates (legal and illegal). This is like saying there are 42 million Black Americans and most Black people have West African roots, so Roughly 20% of Nigeria has moved to the US. As posted below, historically Mexicans have been in the US forever, and the US annexed large parts of Mexico relatively early in its history.
The programming language Oberon by Niklaus Wirth is an exception. It has actually become slightly smaller over the years.

https://www.miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html
I'm curious what your thoughts or beliefs are regarding Tesla's position, condition?
I wouldn’t be surprised if ticket booking sites didn’t throw up a “this could potentially be a 737 Max plane” indicator the moment these planes are ungrounded.

Because the first ticketing site that did that would gain a definite edge. And even if the airline doesn’t tell you what plane is flying, we know what routes and airlines are flying 737 Max’s, which is enough to raise an indicator. If that happens, flying a 737 Max may potentially cause airlines to lose money even if the particular flight isn’t a 737 Max, because it might be one.
Do they charge more for a window seat? I'd imagine their extra luggage fee is out of this world.
The amount that they spent on advertising might be small, but the amount that they spent on managing troll accounts stoking conspiracy theories definitely wasn't, with hundreds of accounts removed on multiple platforms. Neither campaign is legally allowed to use that trick, which is evidently very effective by how many people are seen spouting political conspiracy theories these days.
Job titles in the software dev world haven't been terribly meaningful for a very long time.
I don't think "ease of grok" is the sense the original commentor meant :)
It's about keeping non-citizens who don't have the right to vote from voting. Not implementing these laws diminishes the enfranchised.
I think they've got SpaceX confused with the SLS system - now that has sucked up billions for zero launches.
I can't agree. I've been using Android since the Nexus One days, and it is generally much more stable for me than some of those early devices.
This is soooo cool! I’m excited for them to keep lowering the cost of access to space. Maybe one day it will be a few thousand dollars, and I can buy a satellite to hack around with.
No it wouldn’t.

The regulations worked fine and weren’t super expensive, until the FAA decided to outsource its regulations to the very companies it was supposed to regulate (Boeing).
Riding on the back of a commsat probably isn't very luxurious. You'll have a hell of a view though between the cargo fairing opening up and the point where you run out of oxygen.
Very very few.

Air travel in the US averages 0.2 deaths per 10 billion passenger-miles.

Driving is 150 deaths per 10B P-M.

Driving across a small town is more likely to kill you than flying across the country.