skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welcome to the club.Take a seat, beer is in the fridge.

No, not all are like us, but there are a lot of club members from other professions.

At first it feels quite strange and you tell yourself,that can't last for long.
But it does. I accepted my fate after about five years and learned to live with it. It's not allways easy to cope with it, but my wife suffers from the same condition, so we can support each other.

Heads up mate, life goes on.
You're not alone.
> what annoys me is they don't really understand why we are having "someone pwned your phone via a series of memory corruption bugs" daily.

No, I understand it. I started out in vuln research and have been in defense for a decade. It's probably fair to even say I'm an expert on it.

I'm going to keep advocating for rust as one the highest ROIs for improving security.
> It's filthy. So this is how we go out, not with a bang but with a whimper.

agree. and we just have to watch

>So much for "all men (and women) are created equal"

created equal != retain equal value
> Are most of us secretly lying about how much we are working?

Yes, but I would venture it's the other way - most of us are probably working our butts off and thinking we make a decent wage for 40 hours a week when we're putting in 60 hours a week. I didn't really notice this until I had a family and started bumping into family activities. At first, I was really pissed off that something was getting in the way of work, then I reassessed by values and got pissed off that I was putting in that sort of time.

> Have I just been incredibly lucky and every boss I have had is too incompetent to notice?

Pretty much. It's likely the problem is systemic (your boss doesn't work either). One of two things are going to happen, by my guess. You are going to get re-orged when some efficiency expert comes in and they're going to apply arbitrary metrics which are designed to "accelerate delivery" or something. Since you don't do anything already, you can't meet those metrics. The good news is people who do work probably can't meet them either since it's designed to make people uncomfortable, so you'll be one of many getting a parachute. Feign indignation and leave with the herd.

The second thing that might happen is someone updates the tech stack in a significant way. This happens when consultants come through and a company tries to "buy the devops" or "buy the kubernetes". They have a vested interest in delivering a solution, so they're going to want to train people on the new thing. If you're not participating in the existing workflow in a meaningful way, it's going to be rapidly apparent that you're also not using the New Expensive Thing(tm). Since the New Expensive Thing is indeed quite expensive, there's going to be a lot of eyeballs on it, and you'll probably either get noticed for not using it or for being one of the people "not adopting the New Expensive Thing".

Of course the third option is you live in like Cornfield, Kansas and you're actually pretty cheap compared to everyone else across the country and so you're really not going to attract any scrutiny whatsoever. Who knows!

Best of luck, either way.
> You'll rely on the existing codebase without any ability to provide your own ideas, only shifting code from here to there without fully understanding what you're doing and will always need a senior whenever things go awry.

Absolutely, and I would submit that this is most developers' experience up until a senior-ish role. Not title, you can have juniors doing this, but the pyramid of tool-users versus tool-makers.

> In the end of the day you need the seniors and people who really get it to maintain the code and steer the ship in the right direction.

Again agreed--but jeez, there are just so many fewer tool-makers at most places I've found myself. (This worked out great for me early in my career because there were tons of vacuums to start doing that work even in my first year out of college--building systems that other people could rely on to go faster, because nobody else was doing it!) Thinking about it, this impression perhaps sticks more because of the businesses I consulted for, which is perhaps where my perspective comes from--hiring uncritically 'til you're in a pit where you're paying the medium bucks to get somebody to come dig you out.

> Where is the business logic at? They also write services or something similar or stick it in the Model.

Found the guy who hasn't seen too many 10KLOC controllers in his time out there. ;)

You may be right that I am grim about this, but at the same time, reading your description makes me go "I haven't seen too many places that actually do-it-right". The truth's probably somewhere in the middle, and outliers exist on both sides. But yeah, I've absolutely been consulting for more than one company whose primary product was thin models, gargantuan controllers, and no service abstraction to speak of. They make a lot of money, too. (Fortunately for me, they brought me in for devops stuff, not "please save our megamonolith".)
I've been there. Maybe not 5 hours a week but certainly 10. I was in a small company that got acquired, and the organizational bloat really killed my productivity. Having to deal with paperwork for payroll and pointless meetings was a distraction from the actual work. I think this contributed to a creeping burnout, which led to me actually working 10 to 25 (tops) hours per week for maybe a year or two. Eventually I was put on a performance improvement plan and I decided to quit to take some time off.

After ~5 months off I started working as a contractor (for one employer) which has made me realize getting 35 hours of actual work done in a week is a Herculean task for me. I only run my time tracker when I'm actually working, and in a week I might have 2 to 4 hours of meetings, and through pushing myself, can get 15 to 30 hours of work done.

It's pretty rough, I'm not going to lie, and I don't understand how so many people can regularly work more than 40 hours a week (but I was also on medication for ADHD as a child and currently not treating it, so I understand I may operate differently than most people)

Basically to get 35 hours per week of work done, I have no life now other than trying to work. Fortunately it's not the end of the world if I only get 25 hours, though it's not great for my savings.
You source [1] doesn't disprove it to be honest. It is not because of population growth that less people live in extreme poverty. It is because of technological achievement and progress in society. Basically its the time (considering we progress) that is eradicating extreme poverty not the population growth. You are linking wrong data to prove me wrong. In fact, overpopulation means more pressure on resource which we already can't mine due to various reason.

You connected nursing home with wrong thing again. The problem with less fertility is that when there are lot of old people many people can't go to factory and old people can't work. But with technological advances one people can manage a lot of machines due to automation. Anyway, nursing home is easier to manage today than it was 100 years ago.

Your entire comment is basically saying life is hard so people should not be born? This is absolutely the best time to ever be alive in history.
Is it really? Your source clearly says "Most people in the world live in poverty. 85% of the world live on less than $30 per day, two-thirds live on less than $10 per day, and every tenth person lives on less than $1.90 per day"

Would you like to be that 85% who wants to live on less than $30 per day? So, you are trying to conceal the difficulty saying life is hard but in fact it is extremely hard for many people.
“Jaywalking” is a term with victim-blaming built in.
>I've paid Social Security and Medicare taxes for 25 years, since my first paycheck, and it's not likely I'll ever receive anything from these programs based on current projections.

This is a purely political decision. When Paul Ryan made this assertion in Congress to justify privatizing the system Alan Greenspan shot him down[1]. The government chooses how many dollars to allocate to Social Security and Medicare. Whether those dollars come from taxes elsewhere is almost entirely irrelevant.

The only factor is whether seniors will get enough from the program to buy what they need to live. This has as much to do with the prices of goods as it does with the size of the benefit itself. We will need to ensure we have the production we need to meet the demand by investing in sustainable, productivity amplifying technologies. The reality is with population aging or stagnating we will need one worker to be able to produce what two or more was able to to keep prices stable.

I think the pressure to do this is already being felt by workers here in the US. It's one of the main reasons why there is so much apathy from the ruling classes when it comes to ensuring workers can earn a living wage from one job. The people in charge would rather we keep the conditions such that one worker must work three jobs to scrape by than make the costly investments to increase productivity.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNCZHAQnfGU
https://archive.md/CZHGF
While generics are definitely useful to implement container types, it seems that the Go design seems to prevent that. It seems to me that generics get overused when the language allows you operator overloading for example. Go is a "one way to do thing X" language, it doesn't give much room to write "creative" code
people say "oh Bitcoin is mature it's 10 years old".

Meanwhile the world is amazed that the United States is so stable at only 200 years old.

And these shitcoins are weeks old. and these aren't new products. Each one is, by design, a new governance structure.

Would you take a vacation or move your life to a country that was invented last week.... by anonymous people?
Sigh, what's up with the online insurgence of angry men that blame their inner misery on lack of sex they deserve?

I didn't even try to have sex as a teenager, and I'm happily married now, no psychic problems. Honestly, I got more PTSD from playing basketball at PE classes.
I think there is plenty of evidence that she and her husband have been profiting off of insider info for decades.

I’ll say it here too, the gerontocracy needs to die if we are going to fix the problems this country faces.
Woof, csco, essc, snow...
I like the note that there is a new risk since their model can access the web at training time. A model in this situation could potentially do something malicious online!
I haven't followed this in a while, but the last time I checked it had lots
of very knowledgeable smart people on it.

https://forum.wilmott.com/
There are already standard ways of doing brick and mortar identity verification, and in somewhat surveillance-resisting ways even! The most common is "notarization" - a state-deputized "notary" verifies that you are who you say you are, and then endorses your signed document with a special stamp and a signature. Another common one used for financial transactions is a "medallion stamp", wherein not only do they verify your identity, but the institution doing the medallion stamp also takes on the risk for a fraudulent transaction.

Both are generally available for free by being a customer of your local small bank or credit union. These could be easily adopted by web companies for password resets, account withdrawals above self-set limits, etc.
I think "high iteration time" taken to the extreme is programming without a computer, like when taking a walk. You construct a very detailed mental model of how the program operates and interrogate it in your head.

This only works once you're a bit more advanced, but the one sure sign of a senior dev is the accuracy of their mental model. Which is also what allows you to write your piece without a continual back and forth with the compiler.

This all said, I greatly enjoy ping pong with a repl or instant hot reloading when doing visuals or sound.
They implemented some really heavy handed content filters that (un)intentionally gimped their AI even more than it already was (while also announcing that they were retroactively banning anybody who had violated the filters that didn't exist to that point, as well as stealthily removing all privacy guarantees they had previously made). The rationale was to prevent non-corporate-friendly content like underage sexual content, harmful slurs, and extreme violence.

In practice it actually made those things more common somehow, and prevented mention of ANY children, any number between 6 and 18, the words "boy" or "girl", watermelons (no really), among other things. And...it didn't just filter them out, it actually locked you out of the story if you got caught in the filter so you could no longer continue it until it was reviewed by a human, though there were some annoying workarounds to this. The quality of the AI in general went down drastically.

Keep in mind: the vast majority of the userbase, especially the subscription-paying users, used AI Dungeon for erotica. A data leak (oh yeah, that also happened, they never notified anybody that there was a vulnerability that allowed anybody to read your private stories) actually showed that something like 60% of stories were NSFW, and most were caught by the filter for some reason or another (it was a terrible filter and entire otherwise unobjectionable topics were caught by it).

I haven't checked in a while but last I heard the filters are still active, because they were imposed by OpenAI in the first place. Virtually the entire community jumped ship, and within a month volunteers had stood up a functional replacement for AI Dungeon using the open source models (that's NovelAI). That's not even 10% of the story either, AI Dungeon is a legendary clusterfuck of mismanagement, accidental success, incompetence, drama, hacks, inter-community conflict, etc.
The ideas presented here don't really account for the fact that in many cases, the men who do the most damage in terms of sexism and misogyny are those who are already married or otherwise have ready access to sexual partners.

They are not necessarily chasing sex. They already have sex. In at least some cases, they're quite satisfied with the sex they have and aren't looking to cheat on their wives.

Yet we still see sexism and misogyny coming from this group.

Why?

Because sexism, while it might be caused sometimes by an unfulfilled desire for sex, is fundamentally distinct from that desire, and it can exist on its own, regardless of how much sex a man might be having.
No, but I think what they're getting at is that since these events are usually over 30 anywhere, you will see a lot more women show up in cultures that consider that age "undateable".
It also depends on the company. I've worked at companies where the #1 project can change weekly and by that I mean the previous project is completely abandoned for the new shiny. If you've worked at a place like this (there are lots of them), you have to not burn yourself out. It is very demoralizing to give your all to a UI just to have it literally thrown away. Sometimes slow rolling can let you move things forward in a protective way. If it is still #1 after 5 weeks, maybe it is time to dive in more fully. Digging holes and filling them back in is tough.
Self driving should be pay as you go. Either on demand, daily, monthly or annually. Because the number of frequent updates is far too much and costly.
1) The ability to reset account credentials or get into a service just by using a phone number is not real 2FA and is a huge security risk generally. SMS based 2FA is not real 2FA.

2) Social engineering mobile phone first-tier customer service reps into doing a SIM swap is not hard at all.
> Teenagers? How many teenage women do you know of that are fucking 30+ year old men.

Plenty. Try seekingarrangement.com
We can argue about the ratio but that doesn't actually matter. Whether it's 50/50, 90/10 or 99/1. We only care that the alternate case does occur genuinely (and we should exclude cases where it happens as satire or a political statement).

One of the reasons why I like the host club example is because it's a business in demand, it has a big focus on privacy and it has an audience that choses to be there. The female patrons of the host club aren't there to put on a performance or make a political statement.

Put another way. Let's take nursing, which tends to be female dominated. Do you think the female/male power balance still occurs? Does it occur in the same way? Is it flipped?

A lot of male nurses report sexual harassment problems. That suggests to me that the underlying cause is not an innate male/female power structure. There is some other root cause at play.
Presumably to mitigate the large downsides of Active Record.
Reminds me of the WiFi232 by Paul Rickards, presented by LGR a few years back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsS0E4G310Y
Needs [1998] in the title (see http://www.edm2.com/0608/)
Right. My point is that after you get there by search results or shared links enough times some percentage of users will create an account.
"people want to have sex with women"
Actually approximately 50% of people want to have sex with men.
What is the point of this comment? The topic that was being discussed was
>I’m betting on monogamy since that has worked for thousands of years.

The reply asked worked for who? Then out of nowhere you're talking about men being killed in droves. Are you saying that monogamy didn't work for either gender (one that lost their freedom and and the other that lost their lives)?
"Whereas men have simply been killed in droves"

Not by women. Obviously it's not that simple, but that is a true statement.
> None of this is disputing the broad gendered trends in "sexual value" (ew) by the way

> aging is social hell for women as far as I can tell

So what you're saying is you actually agree with the notion that older women are less valued and therefore have less leverage and power than younger women.

I don't know about the teens thing but if we accept the above as true then women overestimating their own worth is well within the realm of possibility. So how come you say it's "so far off the mark from the real world"?
> Yes there is: change your bank. If your bank is still using SMS based 2FA, get the hell out of there.

Have any suggestions for a bank that supports TOTP? I have yet to find a decent bank in the US that supports this.
> This is both normal and mostly acceptable, in my professional opinion.

Perhaps at large companies?

I would hope people applying to jobs at small 5-20 person startups aren't bullshitting and lying about the work they do. Or to reword the same sentiment, I hope people looking for the easiest possible path target their job search at companies with lots of bureaucracy where people not doing your job is more easily tolerated.

Edit: I like the suggestion from someone else in the comments here to "work in an environment where not being productive is not harmful."
That's my observation. My favourites are the projects where the last commit was 5 years ago with a copy-pasted log4j stanza that must have been 4 years old at that point, which now can't practically be upgraded at all because of the bitrot and loss of organisational knowledge. I've seen one that needed somewhat special measures just to regain access to the source code...
Combinatorial Theory Publishes First Issue
I strongly agree with your statement. Free sex and love are fine as long as there are no consequences. But sadly even with all our technology there must be consequences since we don’t know of any other way to propagate the species into the future.

For the advocates of sexual libertinism I have a question: how do you ensure male parental investment? As a society we value it and often legally demand it. I certainly could not argue for the alternative. How do you assign fathers under complete sexual liberation? A common thread is that somehow you socialize childrearing but I am seriously skeptical of the scalability of that approach beyond small tribal societies.
Or maybe literally every human experiences sexually frustration soemtimes but certain types of men have been so coddled that they blow up their smallest discomforts into Big Societal Problems That Must Be Solved.
I'm surprised you're asking this because it's quite optimistic. No, it's not possible. The best you can do is probably patching Win11 to somehow use Win10-ish UI features.
Melania Trump launches NFT platform in first public endeavor since White House
This is super interesting and everyone I’ve showed it to at work agrees. I suggest you make this a new post here on HN.
Hard to imagine people will still be buying and selling crypto anywhere near the scale it is today if it’s illegal in the US. A lot of the value is “future value” like a stock.
Photoshop CS6 works pretty reliably on the majority of setups, I remember having an... ahem, perfectly legal copy installed without needing to use any install helpers whatsoever. WINE just downloaded all of the dependencies before launching the installer and it worked like a charm. According to WineHQ[0], the only features it seems to be missing is the updater that came with it. Creative Cloud seems to be a bit more hit-or-miss, but I genuinely don't know many people running CC these days. It might be worth doing your own research there.

Ableton Live 10 works fine though, I played around with it for a while before switching to Bitwig (which has a native Linux build), and I really didn't have any complaints besides the CPU usage being marginally higher than native Windows. I haven't tried it recently either, so the situation may well have improved.

EDIT: just reinstalled my copy of Live 11, it works out-of-the-box with WINE installed and no configuration.

I can't go around making claims that it's perfect, but it's pretty damn close. You may as well see for yourself, all the software (WINE, Linux, etc) is free.

[0] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...
I mean the paper form that assume no more than X things ever need to be in a record. I.e. ICD
> Settings app is now uses a more traditional left pane navigation instead of a list of large boxes for touch

Serious question: why didn't they just do this in the first place? It can't be hard to check if the user has a touch input and dynamically resize buttons / list items, then size them back down when the user is done. They do exactly this for "Tablet mode"[0] in Windows 10.

This, and the pitch black dark mode that honestly looks dreadful on non-OLED, makes me think they don't really take customisation into much consideration.

[0]: https://www.howtogeek.com/221973/what-is-tablet-mode-in-wind...
I'm not so sure it will be an overall win.

Will it be nice with generics for carefully crafted and cherry-picked use-cases? Absolutely.

Will it make the average large codebase less readable after a dozen coders have been doing their own cleverness with generics 3-5 years down the line? In my experience, most definitely.

Of those two, I'm much more afraid of working with the latter than missing out on the former.

It sometimes feel like we as devs have a habit of optimizing for the individual dev's convenience (not to mention what's fun) rather than for the collective effort's best interest - like the long-term maintainability/coherency of the code base. To some extent I assume that's just being human, but in other professions I think it would be seen as a bit lazy and thus more stigmatized.
"A bit obsolete" is underselling a 9-year-old release that's been EOL for 6...
I like monoliths... which are modular inside... no need for microservices, easy deployment even without Docker and Kubernetes... just a single binary...
I remember Brattacas on the Atari ST, best played on the monochrome monitor!