skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everytime I want to use my macbook, the cold metal isn't very inviting. Especially if I want to lay it on the lap with shorts on. It is always cold as hell.

Compare this with Thinkpad's soft-touch coated magnesium chassis - almost as sturdy but feels so inviting.

People get woo'ed by something made of metal. Yeah, its nice from an engineering standpoint but it is not the "best industrial design" just because its made of metal. IMO, best design is the one that is more human centric than marketing bullshit and luxury quality cliches.

I really think Thinkpad X1 series is the best laptop ever in terms of its industrial design (not OS, display quality etc). Keyboard is so incredible.
‘This was not a breach’: How Big Tech gaslights the world on data leaks
Though there have been SVTs and DVTs the vast majority have been CVSTs with thrombocytopenia:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/13/astrazeneca-bl...
Only if you are the sole author.

If you have accepted third party contribution and don't have any copyright assignment agreement (which is... Most of the projects out there), you can't relicense easily.
The pandemic is one of those scenarios that challenges the soul of a nation like the US.

Oh, your society believes, at a deep ethical and philosophical level, in individual freedoms, personal responsibility, and general laissez-faire attitude regarding behaviors that do no harm to others? Okay. Here's an invisible threat that is on average low-probability fatal but with wide error bars and a step-function if enough people decide to ignore it. If enough people take collective actions that are uncomfortable, inconvenient, and in some cases heavily disruptive (possibly resulting in loss of individuals' livelihoods), the odds of dying from it are minimized for everyone (but nonzero). If not enough people do these things, the odds spike up (hard to say by how much). In terms of personal responsibility, you don't know if you're spreading the disease and if someone catches it and dies, we only have probabilities to estimate responsibility regarding who it came from.

Oh, and a handful of the mitigations might also have nonzero risk of harm or death, with some noteworthy error bars on the estimates.

... and all this on top of a population that barely understands what probability is in general, let alone error bars. Most citizens are, in fact, not nearly educated enough to calculate those risks. But they sure want to think they are, because we put personal responsibility for one's health on the person.

It's like the crisis was hand-tuned to be everything Americans hate.
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500004241422-...

This is the real reason this is happening. Other apps have no problem with hiding NSFW content by default (i.e. Reddit, Twitter). Discord has a burning need to lower their age rating for some reason.
The lazy solution to rivalry getting out of control is bicameralism. Make tree-based governance where most of the action is, but design another chamber that can veto it without the same rivalries involved.
That is of course true, and you're free to weigh up the risks however you like. Also true that there are unknowns. But the benefits of the vaccine are known too, and the risks of COVID include death and long covid, which also has unknowns and does not look nice.

Let me try one more way I have been thinking about it. I'm also weighing up whether I should get the vaccine and TBH made this site as much for myself as anyone else.

The point of the site is really to show the fallacy of there currently being zero risk in your life. Comparing 'none' to 'additional' isn't really what is happening. You have risks in your life every day, every time you do anything.

On any given day you already have about 1 Micromort's chance of dying from any unnatural causes. So that's 365 a year. So getting that vaccine puts it up to 366.

That's an increase in risk of just under 0.3% for the year, from an already pretty low baseline of likelihood of dying that we enjoy these days.

This way of thinking helps me. I'm hoping it might help some others too.
No, we continue to only interact in ways that drastically drop the chance of propagating the virus until the virus dies out.

Nothing in the guidance says that you have to "mask, social distance, and not gather indoors" - just to avoid actions that are _massively_ likely to spread a virus (from an asymptomatic carrier to either a potentially-symptomatic carrier - who a) will actually suffer from it, and b) will incubate and carry the virus for longer, thus spreading it to more people - or to a _bunch_ more asymptomatic carriers).

A lot of people don't seem to realize that "vaccinated" isn't the same thing as "not carrying the virus". The virus is going to die off _faster_ in a vaccinated body, but not immediately. It still makes sense to be cautious (but not _so_ cautious) with that lower (but still non-zero) risk of being a carrier/spreader.
At this point, the only browser that could ignore FLoC without being blocked by website is Safari. If Safari chooses not to implement FLoC, it might be sufficient to prevent web developers from blocking other non-FLoC browsers.

All of this rest on Apple standing up for privacy through.. so watch for any announcements from Apple.
Ever since about the 1960's-1970's, it has been a slow, gradual frog boiling of American culture, institutions, government, community, and society. Look at all the neighbors and people in public who refuse or don't interact with each other. This was not the case 40 years ago. American socialization with strangers and neighbors was entirely different. Americans barely acknowledge the presence of one-another apart from pointing out microaggressions, espousing conspiracy theories, or berating someone for "how so stupid they are for believing X." At some point, if people don't need or want each other, and don't benefit from the presence of one another, it stops being a civilization and starts being a prison colony where the inmates look to escape.

Morris Berman discussed it to a degree in 2000.

Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam (2000) hinted to it. Heck, there are countries now with restaurants that cater to solo diners. That seems really depressing.

The late Chalmers Johnson predicted it convincingly in 2006 and during a few interviews.

America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges (2018).

When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present by Nick Bryant (2021).

Most civilizations tend to last an average of 250 years until corruption and other factors causes their effective collapse. I think there is often a combined gradual decline and more sudden decline into effective collapse when civilizations lose their "critical mass" to maintain basic infrastructure and services. There are numerous failed states in the world that perpetually operate on the edge of this condition. Healthy civilizations needs lofty aspirations that don't lead to insolvency.

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-08-10/four-reasons-c...
> I am often thinking about this sustainable way of living and I always come to conclusion that we can't.

Oh no doubt it's unlikely. Does that mean we should build suburbs instead of walkable neighborhoods? I'm not sure why it would.

> I am not sure how possible it is to retrofit adequate infrastructure into american cities

I'm not even arguing for that. I'm saying just stop building more suburbs. The cities will retrofit over time on their own as it starts to make economic sense.

> Most people that want to stay in suburbs prefer it because of ... well a lot of reasons.

I live in the suburbs. Most people have no choice in living in the suburbs or not. The suburbs are simply built, and then that's all the choice you have.

> Apartment dwellers usually have an issue with noise coming from their neighbors and there does not seem to be a solution to this problem without raising costs astronomically.

Yea... tell me about it as I have to close my windows because every day there is constant mowing, leaf blowing, and weed whacking and people driving loud cars and motorcycles. Oh and dogs barking. Though that's in the suburbs.

> It gives me freedom no public transport can

Why would you need public transportation to walk down the street? You'd just walk.

> I just dont trust the government to be there for me

Why would you then trust the government to build and maintain roads and highway infrastructure?

> I'd rather support technical solution than ideological.

I don't think technology can solve the problem. It's a public policy one. We need subtractive solutions, not additive ones, in my opinion.
Try to compare it with Nutella, just to see where it's going ;)
I hope your couch is comfortable.
In a civil suit, what's "reasonable" is up for debate, and it depends on how much you want to spend on lawyer time to prove it. The lesson is clear, if it's cheap enough, then arming yourself with more information is only beneficial to you. So much that it might make business sense to violate the employees' privacy.

The ability to track people's precise locations due to the proliferation of smartphones and various wireless technologies is pretty new, and probably hasn't been tested in various court cases yet.

I know at one point, it was enough to have paper logs of your drivers. But now, electronic GPS tracking is so cheap and commonplace, that the court might say as a business, it is your responsibility to utilize it to ensure your drivers are not regularly speeding.

The problem with civil cases is there are few well defined standards. And if you're in the sweet spot where your business is doing well enough to be a nice target, but not well enough to have lawyers on staff who can deal with swatting them down, then you've got some decent risk exposure you need to address. And the best way to do that is to have as much information as possible.

I'm sure the only reason this issue of tracking is coming up is only because it's so incredibly cheap to track them, since the employee already has a phone on them, the access points or wireless signals are already there, it costs almost nothing to physically download the app and enable functionality, and it costs almost nothing to store this data. At that point, it's a calculation of do we spend this minimal fee to protect from a host of litigation where we can prove this person was at this place at this time.

I find that many of my friends who are office employees or haven't operated a public facing business are unaware of these types of problems that you don't have to deal with when you don't physically entertain random people of the public, thereby greatly reducing your risk exposure to these kinds of scams.

>Regardless, this scenario doesn't really jive with my assertion that it should be illegal for employers to track their employees.

Yes, if it was illegal, it would eliminate this problem. But my intent was to show that at least some of the impetus might not be to make the employees' life worse.
So, Spotify is noticing that with streaming music every extra customer costs them extra money (in royalty payments). If you don’t turn a profit with 100.000 users, you won’t with 10.000.000 or 100.000.000 either.

So now they are trying to emulate Apple: stream music at a loss, but use that service to sell devices with healthy profit margins.

Except instead of a class leading technical marvel smartphone they bring out a...thing? For in your car? That already has Bluetooth?
This is great! I remember working with my son when he was transitioning from Scratch to "code" about 4 years ago -- I wrote about my experience teaching him Javascript and the different analogies I used to explain functions, closures, arrays, etc. (https://medium.com/hackernoon/how-my-10-year-old-learned-jav...). Replit wasn't around back then, but he now uses it frequently with his school coding club. Great job!! If you need any help, feel free to reach out.
I see it as a bit of a crime and punishment situation. They have fired this guy who pointed out some differences between the sexes to the cheers of the media and then hired this useless woman only to get it bite them in the ass. Maybe they will learn some lesson but I doubt it.

I think tech companies shold make a policy to hire women only for proper technical jobs rather than all the fluff work that they do today. It will help both the company which will get serious and productive women and women themselves who will realise that they are treated equally and expected to do the main productive work, the same way they do it in hospitals or law firms.
That results from a navel-gazing view of history.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26590540
I'm not sure where you're getting your stats, but so far I've gotten

> That's about 10 times less risky than walking down the stairs

and

> That’s the same risk as driving for 5 hours

Which implies that walking down some stairs is equivalently risky to driving for 50 hours. That seems... unlikely.

There are about 150 deaths per 10 billion passenger-miles in the US [1]. That means that a micromort (a 1 in a million chance of death) corresponds to about 66 miles driven, which would probably be about 2 hours of driving.

In 2000, 1,307 people died from falling down stairs[2]. The US population in 2000 was about 280 million, so 1307 / 280e6 / 365 = 1.27e-8, so the average person had about a 12.7 in 1 billion chance of dying by falling down stairs on a given day. It seems reasonable to estimate that on average, each American goes down stairs about once per day (some people never go down stairs, others go down them multiple times per day). As such, I think the estimate for "risk of going down the stairs" should be more like 10 in a billion and less like 10 in a million.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...

[2] https://danger.mongabay.com/injury_death.htm -- "Fall on and from stairs and steps"
WS2811 chips are not "I2C" - they're daisy-chained, active driven (no pullups) and regenerate the signal (and re-edit it) as they go

My experience is that chip to chip signal integrity for them is not an issue - however power/ground noise is, especially if you try and pass the power over the string to the far end
the dedicated server situation was (is?) pretty dire back when i hosted a few SRCDS instances. here's a small taste: https://wiki.alliedmods.net/SRCDS_Hardening#Current_Exploits

not to mention that the commands themselves obey absolutely zero *NIX conventions at all. Left a bad taste in my mouth ever since
Alcohol and drug abuse is way up as well, that will have long term ramifications.
It really depends on the interviewer not wasting both our times and making it worth for everybody. I had candidates that weren't good sellers of their past experience, but I made sure to engage with them and they were in fact excellent professionals.

When interviewing you can ask the candidate for details on their MySQL + cron job and investigate how do they think, architect and build a solution and how much bullshit they're talking. Were you given a very detailed task to perform and you just did it? Or did you reach the conclusion that a MySQL DB plus a cron job would achieve the results? Why? What if the cron job failed? Draw a rough flowchart of your script, etc.

On the other hand, you can smell the bullshit of interesting fictions from a long distance when you ask those probing questions.

Now, an interview on basic CS algorithms? The only thing I would know is that you have a good memory and can recall the Cracking the Code Interview book.
Big same. I appreciate that they exist, so that I don't have to worry about it :)
You don't need to trust Google. If you buy a Samsung phone, for example, their official domain would be printed in their documentation.
Doing what you love is generally good for your mental health, but I can't imagine feeling anything but terrible being at a computer for 14 hours a day (assuming you stop for basic bodily functions) and 7 days a week. How long can/do you sustain that for?
"You are not dealing with a few thousand trolls."

In my own experience, it's the trolls that are rather confounding.

Go to any twitter poster with even a slightly political bent. Look for the first shitty person. Look at their posting history. It'll nearly always be 100 post/day of shittiness telling you just what you need to hear. Unless the evil Russians are extremely clever, it all appears to be grassroots poor behavior.

I guess you can view social media as a giant laboratory showing the behavior of people when they are not nose-to-nose with you in a bar. It's all super disappointing.

Maybe there's a place for highly curated social media.
I can see advertising networks forming some sort of revenue split agreement with browsers so that they include FLoC.
The trick is to find the ones with chackchouka (cooked tomatoes, onions and bell peppers) and take them without fries, they're way better this way. Tacos World in Lyon is usually pretty decent this way, although it's still just street food.
> "we refuse to take responsibility ourselves"

I'm to be responsible for what someone else's views are?

Nonsense. This is the cry of the censorship apologist. This moderation draft you speak of... what guidelines will the draftees follow? Will they moderate out of the goodness of their hearts? Or will they follow some standard? (I'm sure many people would be extremely eager to author! You mean I get to decide what is permissible to discuss online? What a wonderful avenue to advance my political causes by force!)

The author is right. The solution is not to double down on moderation.
i've heard some weird stories from people just a little older than me who didn't have access to internet at the age of puberty.

Life of a teenager is much better with internet, including ability to access porn anytime, our predecessors were sharing erotic journals and other images with each other, just because they didn't know any better.

kids who have no interest in content like that shouldn't have unrestricted access to computers anyway, and if your child is old enough to manage his time playing games, he is old enough to figure out sex on his own the same way his parents did
I think HN moderation works because it is relatively obscure and several orders of magnitude smaller than FB/Twitter/etc. I wonder long do it would take for HN to be completely overwhelmed if a large subreddit decided to come in and start trolling/spamming?
Slow and Steady: Converting Sentry’s Entire Front End to TypeScript
This is exactly right, and I agree.

But instead of dancing stupidly, could we demonstrate real-world skills with real-world code and real-world experience?

And there's a flip side to that coin (from the perspective of hiring managers):

You want me to dance for a $300K comp package? OK, I'll dance, but don't be upset when you can't find qualified employees when you are selecting dancers.

You wonder why candidates are complaining about not getting interviews (let alone offers) and employers are complaining about not finding candidates. This is why, my guy.
Neat, seems it's available to people with a Family subscription, too.
This app is literally a fake medical product that pretends to detect your blood pressure via the camera and pretends not to charge you. It instead uses color recognition to detect if you're holding it against a finger, and if so displays a canned animation.

When someone on Twitter discovers an app making more revenue than Microsoft Word will "detect" the blood pressure of a reddish candy bar responding by reducing the star rating by 0.9 just doesn't cut it.
Exactly. At least Microsoft has courage.

Unlike Apple who seems to like to solder everything onto the board, such that to fix the SSD would require an entirely new logic board and a trip to the Apple Store.

That alone makes the Surface 4 'look' like a good deal, but at the price of $1000? No thanks and no deal (For now).
> Wasn't there also an issue with companies trying to interview people and asking them questions like that, not as a way to hire anyone but as a free way to get smart people to solve some of their software problems?

It's a struggle between fitting the interview to real-world situations vs making it seem like the candidate is doing work for the company.

I feel like a good situation might be actual problems previously encountered with the technology being assessed during the interview that would've required you to have collaborated with someone who is also experienced in that technology to help you solve them.

Maybe the best way to do this is when the situation is proposed to the candidate, make it clear that the answer is already known and put it in an envelope (physical or digital), which will be referred to when it's solved or the candidate hits a dead-end.
Yup. As someone who has gigged an (original) ARP Odyssey, I can attest that this is indeed the case, even with a consistent power supply!
I think content moderation can be effective in smaller communities where social norms can be formed and effectively enforced. Perhaps the problem is that Facebook and Twitter are too large to be allowed to exist?
Is anyone familiar with the secure introduction workflow using Hashicorp Vault? An orchestrator gets no more than a one-time use "cubbyhole" introduction token for a service that it is initializing. The initializing service uses the intro token to get actual credentials and secrets from the Vault. The orchestrator never touches any secrets: no secrets need to be passed as env variables anymore. With this setup, the person/service that seeds secrets into the Vault and the introduced system that uses the secrets are the only two that may ever touch them. Not sure how well this is actually documented but I gleamed enough from docs and a tech talk to figure the workflow out. It's pretty intuitive once you dig in.
I get the sense that you’ve read a lot of theory without any observational facts.

The vast majority of the 1% and 0.1% get most of their income from labor nowadays. This is a phenomenon called “The Rise of the Working Rich”. This looks like CEO compensation, top athletes, too musicians, business owners, and so on. On average, the 0.1% gets about 20% of their income from investments and 60%+ from their actual labor.

70% of the Forbes 400 are self-made, the vast majority of millionaires receive $10k or less in total inheritance, 11% of Americans will be in the 1% for at least 1 year in their lifetime, and the majority of Americans will be in the top 20% for at least 1 year in their lifetime. If you chop off the top 1% in developed countries, their Gini coefficients are very similar, implying that the US doesn’t have exceptional levels of suffering from inequality, it just produces a lot of rich people.
The word I've heard on the street is that her paper passed the normal internal peer review process at Google (which is open wrt to the reviewers' identities) and was then hit with a second, just for her and her paper review process that had secret identities and made ultimatums that the paper simply wouldn't allowed to be published based on it's content, even with edits.

I'd be pissed in those circumstances too, seeing it as an affront to the academic process in general, and be looking at the obvious reasons why they chose me and my paper to apply these previously unheard of constraints to.
Once I was given a Surface Pro as a work computer. The hardware was okay, but I prayed for the sweet release of a hinge. That thing was a usability disaster.

I am so thankful Microsoft is being rewarded for making quality, sensible devices.
Pressure-induced high-temperature superconductivity retained at ambient
A friend of mine dropped out of college 1 semester short of a CS degree, wrote some iOS apps, sold them for a lot of money, started several software companies, wrote a book on how to do this, invested in several more startups and lost most of what he had made - and now runs a land clearing company and is having loads of fun and success doing it. Sometimes you don't realize what you really want to do until something bad happens.
How did you go about solving the problem in the end?