skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who was on Usenet regularly until the mid 2000's, I don't think it was the trolls that killed Usenet. They were easy enough to ignore. The younger generations simply never found it, as the WWW forums were much easier to find and grew more popular. For the two dozen or so groups I visited regularly, over time they became the playground of only the old guards, and conversation slowly died out.
I would argue that there's a reason for the general size of military formations: a change of size of about half an order of magnitude per level. Much more than that for sub ordinate organizations masks it difficult to know what those orgs are actually doing. So your product team might be like 8 people. Next level up us 3-5 product teams. The 3-5 of those. And so forth. It actually scales with remarkably few levels of management. It also allows space for free form connections between people on other teams.
Phobic literally means fear, from the ancient Greek 'phobos', meaning... fear.

It's used for things (like hydrophobic molecules) that avoid other things (in this case water) as if they fear them.

Unless we're doing one of those "literally literally means figuratively" things here in which case... meh?

Just to be crystal clear here, I'm not saying we don't have groups who are anti-X for whatever value of X. I'm saying that recasting (and often miscasting) that antipathy as (maybe masked) fear is counterproductive.
As much as I hate the idea, when you see the advertising spread on all displays [1] I think it has some great potential to increase sales.

[1]: https://twitter.com/RunDaltonRun/status/1408573096756269061
I actually programmed it, for that exact scenario, and there's some really nice C++ libraries that outperform Perl, even in the cases you mentioned. Sure, Perl it's easier, but not necessarily faster.

You can downvote this comment as well, code is code at the end of the day :^)
I was dying with laughter. Love the helpful chat box which takes forever to drop, the helpful popup telling you to hurry up with an option to lock it where you'd expect an ok, and the expand button where you would expect the close button.

But captchas were truly the icing on the cake.

The only thing missing would have been a 'subscribe to our newsletter' feature 2 seconds after each page loads.
Indeed.

> Softer fields are likely to be found, even if perhaps at lower frequencies, in the physical and the biological sciences. Conversely, there is no reason why high-consensus fields should not exist in the social sciences, too.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3694152/#!po=0....
In the '90s I was in a technology based art class at CMU. An artist talked about a project they wanted to do: a music streamer, but it would use GPS to know it's location, and play music from the local culture, to keep you connected to your surroundings.

Another student said: "You mean, a radio?"
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>But one of them had publicly declared a few months earlier that they have “dissociative identity disorder”, DID.

The specific person they are talking about declared the diagnosis they received.
Ironic that Bitcoin is your example here, as it definitely did not originate in the experimental arm of a corporation.
100% i think it was peter thiel who i heard say something to the effect of “if 90% of the most recent supreme court justices went to hardvard/yale, you have to ask yourself what are they teaching there?”

and on the other side, i witnessed what the chicago public school system says to the kids (remote learning) and holy shit. it was like something from 1984. gotta start preparing us to not own anything and like it some time…..
Indeed, reading the documentation is often an unfair advantage =)
> IE, you're part of the problem. You're just rationalizing to make yourself feel better.

That's not true. Governments exist to deal with this kind of situation. If companies make it difficult for citizens to cancel subscription, it is time to regulate subscriptions.

Why is the responsibility of some developers to lose their jobs to stop a company doing something that is completely legal. If they have done that, they will have my gratitude and admiration. But, the developers are not "part of the problem". Microsoft is the problem, and the lack of regulation the other part.
You left out the FBI, which doesn't have “counterintelligence” in the name but is nevertheless the primary civilian counterintelligence agency.
Credit cards should be able to send a "Cancel" signal that companies should be obligated to respond to. Problem solved, no need to trust third party websites (although I'm fine with them also being obligated to have an easy way to cancel on their site).
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Fooled By Randomness was a really great book, I second your suggestion.
Read the ‘Art of seduction’ then read the books that he talks about. Memorize the stories in that book and learn how to retell them to other people. That alone will make you more interesting.

(If you want to understand the hard problems of human existence, read literature. The royal road to that is to read a literature review, which that book almost is. Pro Tip: If you want to get somebody to do something, get them to read about it.)

It might be more relevant for the needs of middle aged people who are interested in their cohort. (right about now they feel boxed in by the last 40 years of choices they have made and if you can take down the gate they might knock you down on the way out -- it's frightening how easy it is).

Most young people want a lifetime mate (eventually) and that’s a much bigger ask.
I guess you're lucky that Cal Newport starts with blog posts and turns them into books later. This post seems to be the one that introduced deep work.

https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers...

"Last week I introduced the deep work philosophy" in this blog post links to the one above: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/27/some-notes-on-dee...
I would hope so. The expectation is to build a multi-billion dollar company. There are more interesting products and ideas to explore out there, but they won't make you rich.

Which is why I'm super-skeptical of anyone who says they're at some rocketship growth startup because they just want to make "great products". Unless their definition of a "great product" is one that makes a lot of money or is popular, they either aren't being honest or don't fully understand their own motivations.
> but there's a point where the not yet completely dependent person should say "It's not even 4 o'clock yet and there's no social reason, what am I doing with this can of beer?"

Alcoholism is a mental illness and can have comorbidity with other mental issues. For many the answer to your "why am I holding this beer" is "I don't want to feel". But the alcoholic (not in any sort of recovery) never gets to the self reflection where they ask themselves why they have the beer.

Like many mental illnesses, the inability to have agency over certain thoughts or thought process is what make it an illness. Alcoholism and other addictions are not typically something people reason themselves into with compelling arguments and a cost-benefit analysis.
Hmm, that listener seems to have ignored the first two expressions of 20 / 5 and just printed information about 5.

If it did evaluate /, it would have worked because / has a variable binding in the Common Lisp listener.

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/v_sl_s...

The variable / refers to the list of values which came from the most recent Listener evaluation. // refers to the previous one, and /// to the one before that.

Funny coincidence; I just fixed a related issue in TXR 264, released today.

This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 263.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on an empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
Reminder: your account balance of 37 closing parentheses is past due.
1> 20 / 5
20

The first expression is extracted; trailing stuff is ignored.

This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 264.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on an empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
TXR is tested on nothing but animals (so to speak).
1> 20 / 5
expr-1:1: trailing material after expression
** syntax error: read: expr-1: errors encountered

A user reported doing:

txr -e '(defun foo () ...) (foo)`

from the system prompt, and was surprised that the function wasn't doing anything, which is because `(foo)` is never evaluated.

Silently doing some wrong/unexpected thing is the bane of software.

Some things you don't run into by yourself; stuffing in two or more expressions where I know one is expected is something I just wouldn't run into myself.
Not everything can nor does have a "name". First, there are kinds of molecules which we have not yet imagined yet, for which we do not yet have an IUPAC naming system. One could be devised, however that's an ongoing task.

Think of the endohedral fullerenes — metal atoms stuck inside of buckyball cages — those have really only been directly in chemists' sights for 30 or so years. [0]

Another pair of extrema are 2D materials and network solids, which are effectively massive molecules. Again, we don't have a great naming system for them, even if we could properly catalogue all of the bonds (and enclosed species). And more practically, one is probably better off with a set of atomic coordinates to describe them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endohedral_fullerene
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Don't they already do that? AFAIK supermarkets sell shelf space to manufacturers.
You know what's a "dark pattern?" Using the phrase "dark pattern."

We have plenty of words in English to describe underhanded behavior. Such as "underhanded behavior."
I don't think it's a "computers are hard" problem. I think it's a "corporation sold a defective product" problem. Well charted territory.
> It'd be much better to not collect that data at all.

That may not be possible to enforce without shuttering the entire computer networking infrastructure of the world and rebuilding it on new computer science foundations.
This may be unusual but in my business school, we had a department that focused on Psychology and Org. Behaviour. They offered a free evaluation (they used the California Psychological Inventory [1]) and consultation for all students. The main upshot of what I discovered from that interaction was that relatively shorter term, expertise based project style work is what suited my personality the best. I only applied to consulting style jobs out of college and joined what was effectively an internal consulting arm of a large multinational and am now a globally recognised expert in some domains within the company. Compared to my peers, this knowledge did help me avoid a lot of angst finding a role fit.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Psychological_Inv...
Didn't Donal Trump fool a lot of people in a democracy? And how does this have anything to do with metrics?
It wouldn't happen because it would not serve any establishment, elite, or entrenched group's interests.

Unless the mental health algorithm was cover for flagging political opponents. But there wouldn't be any support for such a system. Mental health has a problem with having too low a profile, not too high. So there isn't motivation to do this.

Labeling opposing political groups as scary extremists is easy, gets public support, time tested.
A lot of favourite programming languages not listed
> I have trouble understanding why it bothers people so much that Linus is rude sometimes.

Can people actually point to instances where he was rude?
Pro Git(https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2). You'd be surprised how many people in our professional community try to get by in life having never just sat down and read the documentation on their tooling. Obviously the git man-pages are terrible enough that we have goofy parody generators, but its okay because this book exists.
An UI framework well may have or lack support for hardware acceleration (video encoding/decoding acceleration in particular) or have it incompatible with particular video card models.
Game Theory Through Examples [pdf]
I find many "productivity" books tend be easily summarizable... but reading the book is really to drill the concept in your head so that you're conscious of the tips/advice in your day to day.

Plus, if you spread out the reading over a few days/weeks, you can apply what you've learned throughout the day as you read along.
OED. Growing in the Soviet Union, where English proficiency was pretty low, I learned English in a specialized school. I chose to improve and maintain my language skills by procuring and reading English books and taking additional classes. When computers become popular, I had an instant advantage by understanding user interface and documentation and having access to books that were unaccessible to my peers unless translated to Russian.
Previous related discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27625925

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27624735
I have no interest in the “god” concept and I think the Bible is the most overrated book around. Also, I know it’s bad form to talk about comment voting, and I’ve never done it before. But I saw the greyed-out vanitas comment and gave it my upvote to undo a bit of the damage. I mean, come on.
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Have we really done a thorough scientific test of #4?
I totally agree. It can have a lot of upsides that people ignore because they're afraid of someone eating their lunch with a 5min clone job. If it sounded like I was implying that no one actually thinks going FOSS is a bad idea, I wasn't. I totally believe you, I'm just not in the games industry so I wouldn't know first hand what people think about it. I just brought this up since it's something I've been thinking about as I work on my own projects which may or may not involve any monetization. My first instinct was to default to closed source and open up if I had a compelling reason to, but I've come around to starting open. Even without the benefits of easy modding and that stuff, I think there's also a bit of good will that you gain from being open source, although I'm sure most players don't care whether its FOSS or just has a modding API.
> We fantasized about telling the VP to stick it and quitting en masse, but we knew it wouldn't change anything. We'd just be replaced by someone that would.

I sympathize with you. If you have quit, you would have my admiration and gratitude. But, what you did is reasonable. Microsoft was not doing anything illegal.

This is the reason why regulations exists. If companies are abusing consumers by making it difficult to cancel a service, developers cannot be the responsible to bring justice. Governments have that responsibility.

> I ran the diff. Each file had the same change - they had added code that makes an ajax saveEmail() call onBlur. In other words, email addresses were being saved to the database when a user inputs an email and the input loses focus.

e.g. The article situation is solved by the GDPR. This would completely break the GDPR as it requires informed consent before saving personal information like an e-mail.

If your government is not solved this issues, it is time to get a better one. I wish people, including in this threat, stop blaming employees for the fault of the bad action corporations. Corporation morality is a good example when the total is less than the sum of its parts.
This kpi driven decision making persists across VC funded start ups everywhere. Gotta keep those investors happy so they pony up for the next round. Whatever kpi you sold them on, is all that matters now.
Data shows hiring for fulltime “creators” is up 96% year over year
automate every part of it
The 15 hour work week prediction seems to have been an oversimplification unfortunately. Just the introduction of varied scarcity of labor and scalability (you try getting enough doctors for them to work 15 hours a week), let alone lack of "baton passability" of tasks between people. On a personal level an obstacle is the labor market's demands for those who want uncommon arrangements.

As a current status quo most jobs which would accept 15 hour weeks and more employees are lower valued and lower productivity ones. More retirement hobby jobs as a model than even something to sustain a spartan lifestyle. Higher paying and higher productivity jobs tend to be scarcer.
Doesn't fix Windows "Upgrades" ruining workflows, but Sharex[1] is a very useful utility that you might be interested in. System-wide hotkeys for screenshots, can do short encoded video, optional auto-uploading, etc.

[1] https://getsharex.com/
Which presumably cleared on its own in a few minutes as the air circulated inside. While this technology makes it impossible to see what is behind the door 100% of the time forever, by design.
I'm no engineer either, but it seems logical to me that a building would not even notice mild to moderate uniform sinking, but that differential sinking could split the building in half.

Also, I guess that differential sinking can be detected before catastrophic failure if the sink rate were measured on two or more points on the building. If the south side is sinking at 2mm/year while the north side is sinking at 0.2mm/year, that sounds like a recipe for disaster that you don't need xray eyes to see.
Never Split the Difference - a negotiation book by famous hostage negotiator.

It's so immediately useful and practical, my entire team used it to collect massive amount of debts and enact other business changes. It was invaluable, and I make everyone I know read it.
Without knowing more, I would think most counterintelligence work is still done by the FBI, CIA, NSA, and maybe DIA. But I was replying to the specific claim that there were no "designated ... agencies", where I interpreted designated to mean specialized. The FBI, CIA, and NSA are monolithic organizations.
The internet though is a terrible place to take personal advice to heart.

Imagine taking the youtube comments on a video to heart. shudder
The number of possible chemical compounds (organic and inorganic) far exceeds the number of atoms in the observable universe. The 166 billion number is just a small selection of promising candidates from that space, not the entire set.
Always wondered why they haven’t remade the 2D games to just match the look of Yoshitaka Amano’s concept art. The monsters in the games were nearly always straight Amano digitizations, and looked out-of-place next to a world of semi-chibi reinterpretations of the PCs and NPCs (which always read to me more as compromises in the name of animatability, rather than a truly desired visual style. See e.g. the character menu portraits in the original FF6, which were also Amano art.)

Why not make the rest of the world look like the monsters? Amano’s original art is still right there in their archives, cleaned up and digitized for their own art books and everything. Just take those, draw a few variations each, and use them directly as visual-novel-style taking heads in dialogue and battles; and then make much-closer-matched 3D models / hi-res spritework of them for overworld navigation.
The real question is how likely is it for this mainland Chinese maintainer to have allegiances to the Chinese regime. Actually, even when holding convenience passports, the question still holds [0]. And it wouldn't be the first time Huawei employees tried questionable things. [1] [2]

[0] https://www.justice.gov/usao-az/pr/former-raytheon-engineer-...

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/7275588/inside-the-chinese-milita...

[2] https://blogs.cisco.com/news/huawei-and-ciscos-source-code-c...
Wouldn't bflat be the same note as a sharp, not c sharp? I'm not musically educated, but I don't get the name.
I haven't heard how these people are actually being exploited. When I read the CVE, it makes me think javascript in the browser is reaching out over their LAN and hitting their NAS boxes, but I can't be sure that's whats happening. I can't imagine all these users set up port forwarding or UPnP on their MyBook Live. I would imagine a person buys that type of device because they don't want to or know how to do that kind of management. I'm curious to hear the details about the nuts and bolts of the exploit.
> And they all saw the same object from the same perspective

This just isn't true if you listen to their interviews. I'm going to assume you're just the disinformation guy now.
Related ongoing thread:

Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27635934
So, I went to bookmark this and I already had it bookmarked in exactly the place where I was planning to file this. Sigh.
As a canadian, sorry about that ;)
When I have a bug, I find a lot of the time, my basic assumption of what the system is doing was wrong, largely because I had no visibility into what it was doing.

For something like status effects, I was thinking about using a datalog engine, like jasonwatkinspdx mentioned in a sibling comment. That way, you can query it for applications of status effects, instead of hunting it down in code.

That said, I never heard any game dev talking about Datalog, and was wondering if there was a reason for that--whether it's obscurity, or if it's impractical for some reason.
If you can securely distribute the hash of the binary, you can probably also distribute a set of URLs representing where the binary can be downloaded from.

Bittorrent would fit well as a way of distributing the apps themselves, as that ecosystem already uses magnet links, and developers could quite cheaply run a node which acts as a seed of last resort.
Unless it's on an ad break.
Is this your experience with Apple as a user or as a security researcher?
I think they are drink coolers without any moving parts (well I guess there's a compressor), not
vending machines. I bet there are cameras everywhere and you're expected to self-checkout. Or just check-out at a counter.

I recently bought something with self-checkout at an appliance store, so not groceries. Grabbed a thing of a shelf, scanned it at a touch screen terminal, payed for it with my contactless payment ring and just walked out. No human contact whatsoever. If that isn't future then I don't know what it.