skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems nuts:

"Starting with CEO Jack Dorsey, and then going down the organizational chart, every single person needed to get onto a video conference with their supervisor and manually change their passwords in front of them. It was the Covid-era version of requiring everyone to get in a line outside the IT desk. Agrawal was soon in a meeting with the entire executive team, not to plan the response, but to confirm that everyone was who they said they were."
I can't agree with you here, and in fact, I think this comment is proof of a shifted overton window. You are correct that things are not as blatant as now, of course

DRM is, for example, a way to kill the second hand market or lending. I can sell my table without approval from its manufacturer, or drag it to my neighbours for a day. I can't sell my songs.

In the same spirit, if I as a computer enthousiast want to upgrade my computer hardware or reinstall windows, I should not depend on microsoft's goodwill.
Then it is even more ridiculous. USCIS is backlogged and takes 6 months for routine applications. More so, students cannot stay enrolled "indefinitely"; the I-20 generated by USCIS has an expiry - generally the duration of the program or maybe a year longer - but never indefinite.

Even if there is a need for such a proposal why not set it to the general duration of the program + 1 year, which is 5 years for Bachelors, 3 years for Masters and so on?
I don’t think regulators are actually doing their jobs here. If Teslas actually a successful dead man switch, we wouldn’t see story after story like this -

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/17/canada-tesla-d...

I don’t need to put forth a solution to point out that Tesla is trying to have its cake and eat it too. They say one thing to regulators and another to consumers and they are being allowed to do it.

I don’t disagree with you about personal responsibility, but Tesla also has responsibility for what they market and the downstream effects.
It's not an American thing. It's an authoritarian thing. Authoritarians the world over love criminalizing people. It just so happens that drugs are a great way to go about it because so much of the population does this or that drug and so few people are gonna step up and defend the addicts.
Yesterday's Google outage was a pool of routing servers crashing
Oh yeah because Twilio like to be partially responsible for election rigging. Being a dev at Twilio must be an interesting job: you get to witness the erosion of democracy!
We will agree to disagree, but I still appreciate the conversation. I encourage you to write a letter to the regulator of your jurisdiction if you feel your concerns aren't being addressed. I have done the same with US regulators (NHTSA) in support of Tesla's driver assist systems.
What video codec were you converting to?
Agreed- I get very confused on this site. Sometimes it seems like most people are able to have rational discussions without much bias, based in facts.. other times there are still topics where I might as well be talking to someone on reddit.
> Software has always sucked and had these issues.

I disagree, subjectively it had its ups and downs and we are in a down phase right now. YMMV.
Wow, an automotive news source heavily entrenched with the traditional manufacturers editorializes the hell out of an article about Tesla. What are the odds.
Book keeping is a vocation closely related to accounting. Much of formal accounting training is financial accounting. Financial accounting is forecasting, cost allocation, and so forth rather than book keeping of debits and credits.

Formally, accounting is a profession with educational standards, certifications, and continuing education. In the US, that's typically five years of formal education to qualify to take the CPA exam (certified public accountant).

Honestly, this is something worth out-sourcing to an expert. If spending money on an accountant is problematic, then the business is under-capitalized (that's accounting 101 :)

Good luck.
> Until around 2007, games received no updates. Ever. Once a game shipped, it was shipped. There wasn't even a mechanism for installing an update from physical media.

Sure, but they still (sometimes) released (a few) extra revisions of a game. They were just targeted at people who bought physical copies after the revision date, rather than at existing customers.

Or said updates came on the 1.0 version of the game as shipped in markets that got the game later than others. (Just imagine — per-market release versioning. Every market effectively got its own fork of the codebase!)

Or said updates came in the form of a re-release port. There are patches made to the emulated downloadable app-store re-releases of some games, that never made it into any physical edition of the game.

Also, before home consoles, arcade game machines did receive bug-fix updates regularly. Arcade machines were essentially provided “as a service” from their manufacturers, with support contracts et al. Sort of like vending machines are today. If you reported a bug, they’d fix it and send you a new EEPROM chip to swap out in your cabinet. If there was a critical bug that affected all units, they’d send techs out to everybody’s machines to swap out the ROM for the newest revision. (For this reason, it’s actually kind of hard to do art-conservation / archiving of arcade games. The cabinets almost never have fully “original-release” components inside.)
There are several 'visual' tasks (medical scan, taking out trash, shields, shooting astroids) that allow's one to prove they are a ligitimate crewmember. Casting doubt on you as a 'self reporter'. Also things like the security camara's add even more dimensions to the game.
> That’s the world WE ALL are living in now.

No Nikita, this is the world you live in. I saw this happening five years ago and ripped Apple out of my life like a band-aid that's been there so long the skin's closing up around it. It sucked, but now it's a million times better.

There simply isn't enough manpower, capital, or willpower to create decent software when you also have to contend with the profit motive. The author of the article went down a massive list of annoyances that just shouldn't happen, and they all stem from the need to keep Apple's technology proprietary.

This need goes all the way back to the Apple II, when Jobs made the prescient observation that people want to buy full packages of hardware and software, not bits and pieces that they have to assemble themselves. To do that, you need to make a company to do it, then control the platform, hardware and software, to ensure a good user experience. This is the DNA of Apple and it's served them well and we got a lot of great tech out of it.

He was right, until he was wrong, and he didn't really start being wrong until technology complicated to the point where a profit-seeking enterprise stopped being able to keep up with market demand.

I'll tell the author or anyone else what they should do if they want to stop being constantly annoyed by technology. Use tech that is modifiable by the people that use them and not tech that is only modifiable by people you buy it from. If you do that, then you can lean on a community of people for support instead of a faceless corporation.

Apple is slowly morphing into 90s-era Microsoft as they keep holding on to the need for dominance over their platform.
The problem is with the idea of "continuous delivery". Many people fail to understand that technological advances only increase productivity if the innovations, the great leaps forward, are relatively rare, with long periods of stability and refinement in between.

There's always an adjustment period, where people have to spend time learning a new technology, and any issues with the new technology need to be resolved. The gains in productivity happen mainly after the adjustment period. But we've eliminated the periods of stability and are constantly pushing for more "innovation", which means we're in constant periods of adjustment and resolving problems, where the promise of increased productivity is never fully met.

The worst idea ever in technology is regularly scheduled updates. Innovation has never and will never happen on a schedule. This is simply greed-driven, promotion-driven, pointy-haired-boss-driven development.

Produce something new and great... but then let us all enjoy the new thing for a while. Novelty for its own sake is not productive.
Seems quite naive.

In reality editors need to pander to all kinds of legal, ethical, and 'relationship', aka political pressures.

Many stories are not published simply because it would piss-off the the wrong person. I've see this in person.
That would make sense. 4 years is the right number to “not really” hurt UG and MS but for sure hurt all PhDs.
The journey can be imaginary. Try to make the places memorable. And the close your eyes and walk round the imaginary route
He is just claiming no evidence and cherry picking data. I can just as easily point to other countries that have limited their Covid cases to single digits.
Do we really need a controlled experiment to prove to you that wearing masks limit the spread of an airborne virus? That is common sense.
https://twitter.com/mikeash/status/943890969879023618?lang=e...

> mikeash @mikeash · Dec 21, 2017

> Huge news! I’ll be joining Apple in January to work on the ObjC and Swift runtimes. It’s an amazing chance to work on stuff I’ve tinkered with for years. Friday Q&A will continue, although it might be a bit slower while I get into the swing of things.
If you apply for an extension before your visa expires you have 240 days before you become out of status and your stay becomes unauthorized. You then start accruing illegal stay which could lead to bans on future entry to the US.
What is your understanding?
>This test is so poorly done it feels like it must have been done for propaganda or bad PR.

I disagree. The test is not poorly done. Such conditions are trivial for a human to recognize. You will not be allowed behind a wheel if you could not avoid a dummy while driving.

If an AI can't recognize such trivial circumstances why would I let it take control when I'm going 60 mph on a freeway? That's like putting my kid on my lap and letting him drive... yeah of course I can take over control at anytime, but it's still illegal to do this and absolutely insane.

Let's put it this way, if it's insane and illegal to put a 7 year old kid on your lap and allow him to drive at 60 mph down a freeway (even when you have executive override abilities to take control at anytime) then why is it normal to have an AI (who would do considerably worse than a 7 year old at recognizing a pedestrian) do what's basically the same thing?

Is this Bad PR or is it a Tesla owner trying to justify his purchase?
Eh, the drug tested feds in my area (NYC) are reasonably clean. My non-cheater friends do well enough in local and even national meets that I'm pretty confident in that. I think having an untested outlet for competition (with better cash prizes than the tested feds) helps.
Amen. Windows 2003 Server was perfect.
>Then you can choose between security and convenience or max performance.

How does running a transcode job in a browser provide "security and convenience" vs a native app?
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> If you think tinkering and configuring are fun you should stay as far away as possible from software design

You overlook that not giving the user options to configure their systems is bad practice as it can force all manner of dark patterns on them, and they are left constrained in that software, unable to bend it to their will. Let them tweak, I say!
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I have worked for software companies for over 25 years, mostly on teams building software, and I hate software. I find bugs in every software I use (my freaking microwave oven control panel!). In addition to questionable quality, software is often downright hostile (lose all the data you typed into a web form if you accidentally backspace while not in a text field, because it navigates off the page). Ironically software engineering tools (build systems, etc.) are some of the worst. I don’t know what has to happen for people to stop tolerating software as it is.
Stars. Their economically useful for the industry, but entirely irrelevant to union requirements outside of SAG. Bringing them up when discussing labor practices in the industry at large is essentially a non sequitur.

To your question, I was a member of IATSE Local 600 (Cinematographer’s Guild) as a loader, 2nd AC, digital utility and sometimes focus puller. I noted my union affiliation upthread. Members are explicitly allowed to work on non-union jobs, but there is an expectation that you call it in if the budget is over ~1 million. Below that, the union is not particularly interested in attempting to flip the show so no one cares.

(This is where I would call you out for your tone of ignorant self superiority, but I’ll just defer to the HN guidelines and let it drop)
As opposed to Tesla fanboys fawning over anything Musk says regardless of reality?
> My guess is, instead of a conspiracy, it's a case of a massive sunk cost fallacy, whereby politicians and high profile celebrity epidemiologists etc. can't admit that they were wrong in their original estimations.

Absolutely. Remember though the original push was to isolate to the bend the curve so that hospitals could cope. Now hospitals have spare capacity but we're still isolating. The story changed.
Quoting from https://www.hpmuseum.org/hp35.htm:

2.02 ln ex resulted in 2 rather than 2.02. When the bug was discovered, HP had already sold 25,000 units which was a huge volume for the company. In a meeting, Dave Packard asked what they were going to do about the units already in the field and someone in the crowd said "Don't tell?" At this Packard's pencil snapped and he said: "Who said that? We're going to tell everyone and offer them, a replacement. It would be better to never make a dime of profit than to have a product out there with a problem".
^ This.

If everything is going well, it's five minutes spent.

If anything -isn't-, it's five minutes spent highlighting where additional interaction needs to take place.

Even if everything is going well, a status update can be "I'm working on X, no blockers", and someone else can still say "Oh! I've done X! Let me know if you need help", setting the team up for avoiding future obstacles.

Without it, you'll have people hammering at the same problem for days without raising it up because they don't realize anyone else can help them. Or reinventing the wheel because they don't realize someone else has already done it.

Etc. Done right, it's an excellent way to spend 5 minutes. Done wrong, it's a waste of an hour.
I have the same question. I suppose ads billing might have transactional requirements, but that's separate from search itself.
Chinese Wikipedia https://zh.wikipedia.org automatically transliterates into Mainland Simplified, Hong Kong Traditional, Macau Traditional, Malaysia Simplified, Singapore Simplified and Taiwan Traditional. The article text can be in any variant (and is usually a mixture after getting edited by people using different standards) and if you visit an untransliterated page, you'll be prompted for your preference.

There's no simple one-to-one correspondence for all characters, but Wikipedia has multiple layers of special cases and exceptions that can cover most situations (including vocabulary differences). That doesn't mean the text always makes sense after transliteration: The article about the Taiwanese township of Shuili mentions that it was originally named 水裡, but then renamed to 水里 in 1966. At least in the Taiwanese Traditional version https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E6%B0%B4%E9%87%8C%E9%84%89 . If you read the Mainland Simplified one ( https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/%E6%B0%B4%E9%87%8C%E9%84%89 ) both of these names get simplified to 水里.
Pointing someone to a specific program is a crime in the same way as a doctor helping a career criminal regain their strength while they boast about committing new crimes. That is to say, not at all. Our field has a duty of care to help people actualize themselves in the digital realm.
It's been interesting to see how popular "Among Us" has become. (I guess the problem for me is that, ahem, it's best played with a group of friends...) It does seem to make for a good game on Twitch, since several streamers can play together or with their chats.

"Among Us" seems to be displacing the previous game "Town of Salem". Maybe people like the more real-time aspects? ("Among Us" also seems to inspire more "drama".) They're both in the "social deduction" genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_deduction_game There's an old game called "Mafia" in the same genre. (I guess "Mafia-like" might be a bit ambiguous as the name of a genre.)
The target will not see it as a "friendly attack with only a low-yield device" (and the US can't count on a measured response). If my country gets nuked what would justify my _trust_ that the next attack won't be a big one?

> "Hey all you nuclear powers out there. We’re just going to trust that you recognize this is “just a little nuclear weapon” and won’t retaliate with all you’ve got. Remember! The US only intends to nuke you “a little bit.”" -- https://twitter.com/mhanham/status/1089648491616448514

It doesn't matter the yield when the target is also a nuclear power - it was still the first strike and the correct response would be escalating (in case your adversary is many times stronger your only move would be to inflict max damage on your enemy in as little time as possible - you might not have much, or risk losing it all - that means very high chance of nuclear escalation).

edit:

for those interested, some further reading on why this is a problem:

The Role of U.S. Nuclear Weapons: New Doctrine Falls Short of Bush Pledge https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2005-09/features/role-us-nuc...

THE NEW U.S. DOCTRINE OF PREEMPTIVE WARFARE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR NUCLEAR DETERRENCE AND DISARMAMENT (pdf) https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1071&conte...
Is it unfair to have a pedestrian dart out onto the roadway? That is a very predictable occurrence, any FSD developer should have pedestrians darting out as the top of their priorities list. And it's way more important to not hit pedestrians than other cars, they have so little defense.
It’s not evidence, though, is it? It’s just a reflection of your prior information state that influences the truth value you assign to the new proposition in the absence of evidence.

That is a prior.

There can’t be evidence of the cover up since the cover up is actually fictional.
Fair enough. I just figured that it would be worthwhile reminding people that search engines exist and should be used first.

Also, I must admit to not having clicked the link first, as I usually go to the comments to get an idea of if it's worthwhile before going through. However, I should have gone to the link and then come back and commented.
Great read. Really interesting perspective on qAnon being like a fan fiction where people are deciphering instead of just ingesting.
I was initially annoyed thinking the same but each part had a quote from somebody from ab different business so it's not nearly so bad.
It happens surprisingly often. I'm curious how your understanding differs though. I'm not trying to describe how we think about Chaco today, but rather how academics 60-70 years ago interpreted it through a diffusionist lens.
Example #1: https://github.com/f-secure-foundry/GoKey

Example #2: https://twitter.com/AndreaBarisani/status/130368998099743949...

(which runs, on the USB armory Mk II, a modified version of https://github.com/f-secure-foundry/armory-ums)
There're three kinds of manual testing:

1. Manual testing that should be manual (exploratory).

2. Manual tests that are new and haven't been automated yet (but will be).

3. Manual tests that should be automated.

(3) is the one many people see and suffer through (I know I have). They need to be automated to free up time for (1), which is where many issues are actually discovered. But if (3) dominates your time, you can never get to (1) and you'll constantly ship broken things (or more broken than they should be).
This is missing Ben Eater's channel, for learning about the lower-level parts of programming:

https://www.youtube.com/user/eaterbc
I agree that games used to have far fewer bugs when shipped, but it's not true that games never received updates back in the day. I distinctly remember queuing on file sharing sites as a kid in the early 2000s to download half-life updates and updates for other games.
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There are so many things that can be configured (eg visual tasks can be turned off because they make the game trivially easy for a group that plays together often), it's interesting watching people adapt the game to their group and play level/maturity in the game.

The game is so simple, and the meta-game is pretty simple too, but the meta-meta-game changes every round as people die and are voted off. It really hurt my brain quite a bit until I figured out that I was watching a meta-meta-game; and it still does hurt my brain a bit.
This is a nitpick but maybe a slightly interesting one: in theory it's true that chess is not a "game" in this sense, but in practice it is not true. The "imperfect information" is all the paths that exist past the horizon of computation. When playing another human, that horizon is not very far away at all, so there is plenty of uncertainty. And it is absolutely possible to bluff to take advantage of a less well informed opponent, for instance by playing a move that may be less optimal, but is more likely to provoke a response that you know is bad but your opponent does not. At the very highest level this is less and less possible, and it does devolve into more of a computational exercise than a game, but I would argue that the same tactical constriction as skill improves exists in poker as well.
That skill applies to poker but only to cash games, not tournaments. In a tournament you can't choose your table, it's assigned randomly.
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I somehow missed the link in the original comment, my mistake.
I'm sure this happened occasionally, but it wasn't advertised. Nobody was buying a new copy to get an update. Reviewers weren't revising their reviews in accordance (something which does actually happen now). It was still absolutely mission-critical to get things as polished as possible the first time around.
I have to shout out James Hoffman, he won a barrista championship and his YouTube channel goes into the minutia of coffee making for those who care to know.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMb0O2CdPBNi-QqPk5T3gsQ
Not at all, perhaps you meant another commenter? From the link "Before exhaled breath collection, each participant was randomly allocated in a 1:1 ratio to either wearing a surgical face mask (cat. no. 62356, Kimberly-Clark) or not during the collection. [...] Participants were then invited to provide a second exhaled breath sample of the alternate type (for example if the participant was first assigned to wearing a mask they would then provide a second sample without a mask)"

They actually tested infected patients with and without mask.
I don't know too much about the China-India dispute. From what I know, the current border was unilaterally drawn by the British during India's colonial period. China and India later disagreed on this British-setup border. I heard that China did try to propose some solutions, including one in which more than 50% of the territory is ceded to India, but India has rejected all offers so far.

This article by the Asia Research Institute (set up by Kishore Mahbubani) has some background on the diplomatic history of this issue: https://ari.nus.edu.sg/app-essay-kanti-bajpai