skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Citing his perspective as a parent, Mr. Zuckerberg pledged in his Facebook post his commitment to continuing to research and prioritize the welfare of children, framing their exposure to his products as inevitable. “The reality is that young people use technology,” he wrote. “Rather than ignoring this, technology companies should build experiences that meet their needs while also keeping them safe.”

Without a commitment to screening advertisements and paid partnerships (which are arguably more damaging) for selling ridiculous psuedo-science like 'detox tea' to young women and girls this rings empty. While social media companies remain in the business of selling advertisement space, they can't be trusted to not tell anyone of any age that they aren't good enough in some way; there's simply too much money in it.
1. If you were to take apart an outlet and look at the contact wipers that the prongs slide into, you would find that they have bumps on them. These bumps fit into the holes so that the outlet can grip the plug's prongs more firmly. This detenting prevents the plug from slipping out of the socket due to the weight of the plug and cord. It also improves the contact between the plug and the outlet.

2. Electrical devices can be "factory-sealed" or "locked-out" by the manufacturer or owner using a plastic tie or a small padlock that runs through one or both of the prong holes. Construction projects or industrial safety requirements may require this type of sealing. For example, a manufacturer might apply a plastic band through the hole and attach it to a tag that says, "You must do blah blah blah before plugging in this device." The user cannot plug in the device without removing the tag, so the user is sure to see the instructions.

3. There also is a small savings in raw materials (metal) for the manufacturer of the actual plug prong. Every little bit helps!

It has been reported that really old outlets used captive ball bearings and coil springs for the detent, but today it is done with a bump and springy copper contacts.

https://home.howstuffworks.com/two-flat-prong-plug-holes.htm
Yes, this is common. Frankly it was a bad idea to complain; you should be prepared to... be invited to leave your current position.

Here's why: Everyone (on the ground floor at least) knows that the code is terrible, but the organization is not optimizing for good code. Code quality is simply and literally a non-goal. The goal is to deliver Projects, where a Project is a unit of work which advances someone's career, whether it be an IC, a project/team lead, a project manager, etc. Now, it's okay not to internalize that goal for yourself; but you've exposed yourself as not understanding that this is the goal that everyone else has. Unfortunately, this makes you a liability w/r/t the goal.

There are ways to advance other goals in the organization, and I suspect these organizations only survive as long as sufficient people are doing just that, but they all revolve around making other goals coincide with The Goal described above.

Note that The Goal isn't a secret or taboo; it's explicitly acknowledged in some organizations. Not so long ago at Microsoft, for example, it is known as "impact" and is the explicit top-level metric for performance review. If you can figure out how The Goal it's expressed in your organization, you can attempt to rescue the situation by explaining that what you really meant was you want to advance The Goal (eg. "improve my impact") by delivering improved code quality in future projects which will have such-and-such an impact on visible metrics.
It was already since a very very long time

People are just waking up, slowly, but a little too late, the ship was already sinking since 2010

3.6% market share only, -0.6% YoY

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

2009 - 2021

https://i.imgur.com/Crg4OA8.png
I guess there are few of us, but I would absolutely never use that subsystem rather than a real Linux system.
>Thirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse

I'm pretty sure the same was true 20 years ago and back then it was mainstream media that made them feel worse.

Are we really going to blame Instgram/FB for every societal problem?

Also just a reminder that most teenagers have migrated to TikTok/Snapchat. Instagram is just celebrities and influencers now while Facebook is for keeping contact with relatives.
> Technology should be used carefully when in the environment of the unknown. Trials and observations should be conducted in limited capacity with a long window of study

A laudable goal.

And yet, without the agricultural revolution of the 1960s, we wouldn't have grocery stores today with well-stocked shelves.

Cautiousness has its own price.
> John von Neumann's record illustrates why brilliant scientists may not be the best architects of foreign policy. In particular, von Neumann's belief in the inevitability of nuclear war led him to call for a first strike against Soviet cities before they could develop a nuclear arsenal. This is a rather difficult political-moral-ethical position to rehabilitate. One also gets the sense that a JvN was a bit stingy with sharing credit on major breakthroughs in computing.

I don't think it's a hard position to rehabilitate. What people find so outrageous are not von Neumann's views about geopolitics and nuclear weapons but his attitude. They object to the cheerful terms in which he advocated for the use of nuclear weapons.

And fair enough. But, attitude aside, there's nothing obviously wrong with arguing that the US should have used its nuclear monopoly to secure the independence of Eastern Europe or even to end the Soviet regime.
You clearly don't have much exposure to the outside world.

I know a lot of parents, basically almost all parents that I know of, enroll their kids in all sorts of things.

They are admitted into schools where you speak only English, they are admitted into swimming school, karate, painting, singing, dance class, you name it.

My cousin's kid is enrolled into five extra-curricular classes. She is 7.

I have been seeing this for decades now. Despite being born into upper middle class homes, and having their parents shower money on stuff, most kids grow up to be vastly uninteresting individuals.

- Most of them speak grammatically incorrect, Indian-style English.

- Many struggle to find jobs even in the low-paying strata of the private sector.

- Most of them don't go to top schools since almost any college that matters takes admission through meritocratic channels (academic test scores and/or admission tests)

I have seen a lot of these rich babies fail in life.

Privilege never equals achievement.

There is always some element of genetics involved.

Hard work matters more than genetics, I believe so. But the influence of genes is not trivial.

Genes + extreme hard work + good environment provide a baseline for true genius.
I don't think the point needs to be proven because the notion that kids can spread Covid to adults is just a given. As is the rate of non-fatal hospitalization among children. And "gamble the future health of our children" is not a plausible concern given that we have proof of safety. My only speculation is on the result of both vaccine plus infection. Which isn't really informative to the debate since deliberate exposure isn't a valid public health policy.
looks nice. I am wondering though: do you really want to host your own uptime monitoring? and if it’s down? I’d imagine that’s where it almost always better to have someone else host and manage it for you?
You will need a very tiny font size to fit all of those terms on one page.

But here are some thoughts from me that might help:

1. The industry-standard startup vesting schedule is over a 4-year term with a 1-year cliff. Document processors like Clerky set these terms by default when creating a new company or adding a new employee. However, it often takes 10 years for a company to have a successful IPO or acquisition, so a 4-year term might be too short. Similarly, many startups aren't off the ground until 24 months after incorporation, suggesting that a 1-year cliff might be too short. However, there is a huge social stigma to offering non-traditional vesting terms.

2. I don't know what "moving to full-time" means. All founders should be full-time from Day 1. If not, then they are either a contractor or a part-time employee.

3. Every startup should have a tie-breaker for disputes. By default, this should be the CEO founder. But for startups with two founders that want to be as equal as possible, the tie-breaker could be an external board member or an advisor specifically tasked as the tie-breaker.

4. Every founder, employee, and contractor should sign an IP assignment agreement. It's easy to find a template on the Internet with fairly standard terms, but even a simple IP assignment agreement will be many pages long.
What "actual qwerty device" (the OP's words) is convenient while walking around? I mean, I'm curious what form factor we're talking about here.

Is the OP talking about the cell-phone form factor? The interesting thing there is that people have already abandoned qwerty on cell phones, so there's no real reason to think it's ever going to pop up on a new radio. Perhaps you'd have better luck convincing someone to make an amateur radio with a glass touchscreen.
First recognize “burnout” also leads to suboptimal work output. People too attached to work will become bad at prioritizing what’s most important to work on. It also encourages a “hero” mentality from this employee, which might lead to resentment from other employees.

So it’s both employee mental health and org health.

At Shopify we have a culture of “protecting each other’s downtime”. I think thats super important for a remote company to fight burnout.

How do you do this?

Set a really strong example with your own downtime. If you have weird working hours make it clear when those are and only work then unless you need to.

Keep public slack channels or other work comms quiet outside work hours. Don’t DM unless absolutely necessary. Council employees to disconnect by NOT putting slack, email etc on their phones and disable GitHub email notifications. Actively tell people too chatty outside work hours to take some time off.

If people DO get a big idea over the weekend, encourage them to try strategies like writing it down and try to encourage taking breaks and developing outside interests.

If they DO just need to work on the idea or a deadline, try to encourage them to run silent” and not spam public channels or other employees outside work hours. Encourage them to also set the tone with work boundaries.

Under all of this is hiring the right people. If you have a few star performers and one or two bright stars, you’ll setup a situation where only a few people care about their work. They’ll feel pushed to work a lot to maintain quality. Surround them with great people that also want their downtime, then it can work out.
Oh, great! Happy to help. I've been using it for years now -- it's becoming a faithful friend, to the bafflement of my colleagues who are mostly Vi(m) or Emacs fans.

The one thing it doesn't do for me is pick up Git commit templates, so for that I have to have my default set to `mc`. I don't know why that one thing doesn't function.
Not saying anything about real world feasibility, but honestly, if I'm emperor? Advertising to minors outlawed.
End of the day you're getting in bed with Microsoft. No matter ho open-source/friendly it seems.
Your point is he selectively choose to published articles for one side. You feel a journalist should publish everything or they committed a crime?

CNN selectively chooses news stories, fox news as well as your local news. Why do you hear about fires and shootings but not the great Apple pie your neighbour made because those news stations select news that will bring in viewers.

In this case he published a drone camera killing which was bad for the party in power. He published the leaked emails which was bad for a different party. I can't agree he has taken a political party's side because it is not clear which political party. One thing is he has enemies in both parties and no friends.
iirc, on mac capslock works like (caps OR shift) and on windows its (caps XOR shift), that is, on mac, with capslock on its always cap, but on windows its just a toggle.
> I'm pretty sure the same was true 20 years ago and back then it was mainstream media that made them feel worse.

Fashion media, more specifically, and they were targeted for it much the same way Facebook is now, and for the same reason: it was a conscious, commercially engineered and manipulated effect intimately tied to marketing/advertising.
Are we living in the same reality? This is the vector by which a lot of creepy groups that primarily recruit/exploit young men convince them to join stuff. Literally any time anyone says a greek letter before the word "male" you are seeing that tactic working. We're just in a cultural moment where this has a harder time disguising itself as "normal and healthy interaction with one's peers" than exploiting insecurities about body image among teen girls.
Best Player in 2014
A new round of embrace, extend, extinguish?
Magazines all over the world are thankful for Facebook taking all the heat :D

But yeah, people will blame anyone and anything rather than take (and learn) responsibility, so don't expect anything to be solved anytime soon.
> Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Idaho, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Oregon

Are the eight states from the title. Though it seems New York should be included since it says "The bumblebee species have declined by 99 percent in New York."

Also noteworthy

> In the Midwest and Southeast, population numbers have dropped by more than 50 percent.

To nobodies surprise, the culprit is pesticides. Interestingly the west's bumblee population isn't listed as being in trouble.
Fun fact: one of the pressures put on Bombus bees are honey bees, which are themselves an invasive species.
Yes. Best dev env that I used. Linux tools and Windows Gui. Problem os that eats too much memory.
Convenient cropping of the screen is convenient.

https://www.si.edu/spotlight/flag-day/flag-facts#:~:text=Fla...

Directly under where you cropped is the link where Google parsed its answer from. This link shows the history of the orders around the flag of the USA.
Isn't the entire world a cesspool for teen girls?
If Cloudflare was an email provider everyone would be blocking them for sending too much spam and not caring about it.
Fully agree. I see very many well written though provoking comments these days almost completely greyed out. In 2019 they would have provoked discussion and created interesting threads.
I am pretty sure the people that follow have not changed all that much. I kinda suspect bots and big scale opinion moderation. You can usually tell in the comments and weird down/upvote spikes that the concensus is artificially generated.

The only discorse censored are one way. Against concensus.
Up until early 2020, being agains concensus was perfectly fine on HN granted you provided a quality source.
And usually made for fun though provoking reads.

HN has not sunken so low on opinion sharing that it had become the absolute disaster that reddit has. Sadly its getting close though.
If the video is not the actual source, why not link the actual source? I certainly have a bigger hate of videos than normal, as any kind of research into them requires far more work than proper text, so I’d be happy to get anything that can be more easily verified.

For the second point, according to the article it was pretty minor stuff where what The Guardian did was far worse.
This is the TED Talk about version 1, and the vision of a different kind of technology base: https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski_open_sourced_blu...

Marcin et al., had also designed and built an open source earth brick maker, and trialed it in building buildings out of it. The advantage is being able to source building materials on site.

I don’t know how far the organization has gone in designing and prototyping the other devices they have on their roadmap.
> Did we mention that a TPM isn’t going to protect you from UEFI malware that was planted on the device by a rogue agent at manufacture time?

I find this to be a pretty weak strawman, and one that not many people would consider to be part of their threat model (and if they are, they'd just purchase the part from a brick-and-mortar store so that, if there is malware, it's non-targeted).

Microsoft is mostly doing this for their endpoint security enterprise customers. The objectives aren't exactly hidden, either:

- Don't want anyone to be able to get data off of a bitlocker-encrypted drive[0]

- Don't allow things like O365 login credentials (including temporary auth tokens) to be pulled off a drive[1]

- Prevent thunderbolt 3 DMA (eg. from a rogue usb on the back of the computer)[2]

And yes, they probably also don't want people to keep hacking online video games, which is why Riot uses TPM attestation as an additional security measure to preventing people banned for hacking from evading bans in Valorant[3].

0: https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/11/17/meet-the-....

1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...

2: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/informatio...

3: https://www.pcgamer.com/valorant-leads-the-charge-on-enforci...
It was skirting because outright talking about suicide in any form will get you banned.

"You can go kill yourself and others, just don't use our platform for any content about it."
To be clear: this site defines "recovery" by combining COVID and economic factors - equally weighted.

If we look solely at COVID transmission rate, that's a somewhat different picture: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100k...
I keep seeing these random sites popup saying he is a key witness. I assure you they still have a case with or without his support.
A big reason why I don't buy sublime despite buying other products I don't use much is that it is not open source. That is a big one for me because even if I wanted to inspect for telemetry or other things, I'm not trusted to do so.
It's pretty standard in all office buildings, well before the pandemic. I don't think expanding it to classrooms and gyms is going to cause problems.
It's easy enough already to find the addresses though. I don't see how this site could pose an additional threat.
A bit over the top, but if you do not like programming, that will be your experience.

When I started out in this field, I actually took a pay cut. But I loved the job, I followed trends and educated myself and was luckily to work for good managers. And I am still doing the work and did all I can to avoid being a manager.

But about 25 or so years ago, I started seeing people getting into the field just for the pay and cared little for the work. This has been accelerating since.

Some were good, but many were rather bad in various degrees at the job, so others would have to step in to fix their work. But they were all good at marketing themselves and dotting the 'iS' and crossing the 'tS', so they were able to hang on until get they got into management, which may have been to be their main goal. In fact one I know was this way but ended up being a very good manager after a year or two of moving to that position.

I wonder if he was one of those and was not able to 'move up'. (even though he may be good at is work). I just put up with the BS at work so I can feed my 'habit', which in comparison makes the BS seem trivial.
Have you seen the grocery stores today? I mean really stopped and taken a good hard look at what's on them?

Mostly garbage. Garbage. And then you have this: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/q4aeuc/e...
They've come close already. Recently they tried adding directx compatibility extensions to linux and it created legal drama.
I think there are two problems here. The first is that what is “standard” is not very well known, so candidates considering startups are operating with little in terms of default assumptions and expectations. Is there any resource that describes what the default even is?

The second problem is that companies are never transparent about any of these things. If you ask, you get funny looks or continued evasiveness, and candidates are left with only part of the full picture anyways. From other comments here it seems that even if you run through a checklist of questions, the company’s structure could drastically change in a subsequent funding round of some such event. And if that’s the case, does knowing the current state of affairs matter at all?
I’m not agreeing one way or another about needing cap table in detail, but if the company isn’t giving you the information you need to evaluate an offer after you request it, then don’t work there.

As for luck, of course there’s some risk component there, otherwise the ROI wouldn’t be higher, but it’s not a dice roll unless you let it be.

I’m biased. I was part of lackluster exits, failed startups, and dead-end startups that will forever raise more money. I learned a lot of valuable lessons the hard way on how to evaluate companies, and have since been able to pick winners when I look to change jobs. The other thing that goes unmentioned is once you “win” once, your risk tolerance might change, or your patience to wait for the exact right next opportunity may increase significantly.

I think you can ask yourself if you’d invest 500k in this company (or whatever assets you have up to that), and if you value your time more than your money, that should tell you something.
Honestly, we are really pretty good at playing god. Killing off a species of bee is sad and may have some unintended consequences but it hasn't put a dent in our ability to engineer the earth to suit our needs. The problem is motives and objectives. We have created the incentives to extract resources and not to protect organisms. So that's what we do.
Looks identical, runs the same plugins just without the telemetry. The perfect solution.
This happens in some Scandinavian countries already and seems to work well.
I agree the term life-hacks has lost all meaning.

For me what destroyed it was a video about home-decorating 'life-hacks', and one was basically 'have a laundry chute' - great if you have one, but basically pointless otherwise as its almost impossible to retrofit to a house (or at least a standard UK home).

It was at that point I realised that to many people 'life hacks' are just 'things which are cool/I like' and not, as I understood, optimising your life (whatever that means).
That was ~60 years ago, it’s perfectly reasonable to use a 20 year time horizon for testing changes to the food supply etc.

Progress isn’t just about whatever the new thing is it’s about finding something actually better.
> I don't hear googlers or Microsoft employees do this,

Is this a joke? Google has been on the front page here a few times for questionable behavior alleged by (former) employees
So patching it to work without company servers after they've been shut down might be ok too!
> Now I've left Google, after 7 years, of course.

Why “of course”?
So if Australia was the instigator, how can China be blamed for their sanctions (“pushing” Australia)?
Trump was a fucking disaster and the idea that he had much of anything to do with the economy doing well during that time is pretty childish