skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this article is a good critique of the current "fast-food" like brainstorming session many people/companies are running.

I name them fast-food-like because most of the brainstorming sessions are something like "Let's have a 1-hour meeting and brainstorm some ideas". It is expecting people to go in a creative flow instantly after the meeting has started and also feel psychologically safe when entering the room/zoom call. No preparation made, no group forming, nothing to actually prepare the meeting. It is a pure form of wanting to just get ideas as fast as possible from participants' brains.

I strongly recommend anyone to read the "Applied Immagination" book by Osborn. It is where he (first) talked at large about brain storming sessions. Can be read freely on the Internet Archive Open Library.

I will just give here three important points from that book, where Osborn talk about how to organise such sessions.

First, it talks about the importance of facilitators. Here are the requirements Osborn had for facilitators:

- Should ask stimulating questions

- Should have plans for guiding the generation of ideas

- Should provide warm-up exercises

- Should teach and reinforce the guidelines

- Should do the planning and scheduling of follow-up sessions

Then, it talks about the profile of the participant: should be a self-starter and should have experience with the matter/area related to the brainstorming subject.

And then it lays out how the session should be organised:

1. Preparation of the type of the problem to be approached

2. Send a one-page background and invitation memo to participants describing the task to be solved with some example of the type of ideas desired

3. Individual ideation should be done by each participant on their own in advance before the group session

4. Group brainstorming session - with the duration between 30 and 45 minutes

5. Follow-up individual ideation should happen again after the group session

As one can notice doing such brainstorming sessions as designed by Osborn is very different that what we see normally in a company/organization where someone just sends an invite with the title "Brainstorming about new feature/solution for ..." and then expects people to come and be creative.

As a side note, I also recommend reading The Art of Thought by Graham Wallace. While the psychology of creativity has done many advanced in the last 100 years, his book has still defined the general concept for what people now call creative problem-solving.

I read both books and I managed to publish a summary of the Art of Thought on my blog, but not on the Applied Imagination by Osborn. Hope to find time for this soon.
Yeah, but what about the music video and commercial advertising argument? E g., That sexiness is commonly used in western society? Why single her out?

Also, if it were about the "onus", where does it stop? I'm regularly attracted to women and OBVIOUSLY I have to suppress my visceral urges. Do you want women to wear a burkha?
Why? I find this such an annoying feature having to accept every app to access my different folders. This should be a global setting to set once and allow for exceptions to be added when you want to restrict an app.
It’s great to see that in this day and age, at least some people care to defend free speech. I’m used to a world where biased monopolists repeatedly censor wrongthink on their platforms, propagandizing the world with one sided narrative shaping. I gladly support many writers on Substack.
This is also why you viciously respond with a follow up message saying "You would like to "discuss <controversial topic here> in a non-recorded/discoverable medium?"

Yes. I've seen that tactic before, and it is very easy to counter with the pre-message and a post-summary message with CC and BCC. The fun part is dropping in statutory and case law citations. Nobody expects actual well formed legal research, and it makes it more difficult for legal to try to wiggle out of or deflect the awkward questions if litigation ever eventually comes up. This baking in of accountability is a valuable tool to ensure people stay on their best behavior.
But your claim that the situations are nearly the same is itself a moral evaluation. (And it’s clearly false in many of the cases presented.)
Sexualization is in the eye of the beholder. In most cases, men. So men can’t keep it in their pants so women have to surgically reduce their breast sizes to accommodate some boundary of sexualization set by men?
It's a narrative that is pushed so that they feel like they don't have to change anything. It's not the hirer being abusive or bad, it's the market which has no available talent.
You can introduce negative interest rates to pay off debt and reduce the money supply. Do the same to land via a land value tax.

A lot of equity derives its value from real estate so the obvious escape into stocks won't work in practice.
I am a functional safety engineer for industrial plant and equipment and this exactly what I do for designing the sequencing and safety systems for large fired equipment. Either single FSM or a hierarchy of them when there is multiple burners.

I wrote myself a package using PyQt that sort of looks like a special spreadsheet that allows the combustion engineers to specify and also simulate the logic on a scan by scan basis.

The supporting logic "engine" is actually so simple as to be effectively 4 bitwise ops on bit packed words, per state (I use Mealy machines so the outputs are coupled directly and synchronously to states). Bonus is first up alarms and whats holding you out from next state all come for free in the logic used and you can derive a bunch of test cases automatically.

The sim/spec tool could export code ready to import to the controller, but we haven't had the economies of scale to support the required generalised tool testing this would require, but it does generate a bunch of hex codes that are the "configuration" that controls the functionality, interpreted by the 'engine'

A bunch of other bonuses, it allows you collect notes in a rich text doc behind every transition or condition cell and it can export these to make an easier to read human readable spec, it has an OPC server so you can couple it up to a HMI and do some basioc training or simulation demonstration, or you can bolt it onto an existing machine and see how well it "shadows" it if you are doign a retrofit or brownfields job.

The improved quality of outcomes and traceability etc (all the good engineering things desireable) yielded by an executable specification has increased by at least an order of magnitude by having a tool of this nature.

Previously most systems like this were effectively done by specifying with a "crappy narrative". This usually entailed, at best, a collection of vague thoughts about some things that were wanted, and some things that weren't, often some in conflict, and a not mentioning a bunch of negelected things. You then rolled the dice on the programmer and hoped they knew enough to ask the 3000 needed questions to somehow come up with adequately coded functionality. New tool is way, way better.

A final note, a joke I am sure most of you know, about why English is a poor specifying language and the sort of thing that drove me to take this path (with English it's all about assumed context)

A wife asks her husband, a software engineer, "Could you please go shopping
for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6!"

A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk.

The wife asks him, "Why the hell did you buy 6 cartons of milk?"

He replied, "They had eggs."
They perform different roles. A biologist is not necessarily expert in epidemiology/public health, which is really the expertise you need to evaluate the vaccines at scale.
I don’t think anyones really debating it except him. All he does is steal other peoples ideas then use his “reputation” to try sell them for 10x the price.
How do you ship enough balsa wood to Venus to build a city?
Female breasts were, are, and will be secondary sexual characteristics. With whatever implication.

Male and female bodies will never be the same, and they shouldn't be.

That should have zero implications on equality though. It means that it is trickier to achieve
They're called pots and baking trays. Are you a teenager (legit question)?
You're thinking here of front-end developers. Everyone else:
Platform
Back end
Mobile
Etc

Is not targeting median consumer grade laptops

At my org the PO's had to upgrade from MacBook air to MacBook Pro in order to be able to screenshare Jira via Ms Teams with slack and outlook open
How many of these automatically would have been prevented by Rust compiler with production compilation settings?
I am not talking about death penalty. I honestly think death penalty is too lenient. After you're dead there is no more punishment. And like you said:

> how many of them even expect to get out alive?

What I would want is suffering for a long time. Now is that justice or vengance? I say it's both.

> Which is probably what they deserve

Is that not what you would describe as just?
Yeah KnowBe4. My work bothers us with it too. Their emails are really easy to detect and have a huge header too describe what they are too :P
Agreed, we both noticed this as well. Although pandemic allowed us to develop a few exciting side projects, productivity run slowly from time to time.
With great power comes great responsibility. You don't see spiderman ripping in pieces that reporter who harassed him, and if you did, it would be a completely diff character. You don't abuse your power to punish people you disagree with. It's evil. Call it whatever you like, what this guy did is very very bad
I think USSR fans generally dont care about safety. Its assumed there will be casaulties, the end justifies the means. One needs to either spend some time in Russia, or know Russians well to appreciate how much this influences everyday life in their country.
Is that per standard, or the result of an implementation detail in Go that might be different in e.g. Python?
A lot of people think that looking at flickering colorful lights on a planar surface can be sexually arousing. There are so many fetishes... ;)

However I do think that western culture is a bit on the prude side and has a strange double standard regarding nude or partially nude bodies depending on gender or its features. Sexualizing one type, while normalizing another.
I often think of your public statements against SJW issues and people diminishes your feminist work. I think the technical work stands on its own for sure.
From a recent editorial from a Johns Hopkins professor addressing the CDC trying to whitewash their own failings in the study:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-high-cost-of-disparaging-na...

"Yet the CDC spun the report to fit its narrative, bannering the conclusion “vaccination remains the safest strategy.” It based this conclusion on the finding that hybrid immunity—the combination of prior infection and vaccination—was associated with a slightly lower risk of testing positive for Covid. But those with hybrid immunity had a similar low rate of hospitalization (3 per 10,000) to those with natural immunity alone. In other words, vaccinating people who had already had Covid didn’t significantly reduce the risk of hospitalization."

"Similarly, the National Institutes of Health repeatedly has dismissed natural immunity by arguing that its duration is unknown—then failing to conduct studies to answer the question. Because of the NIH’s inaction, my Johns Hopkins colleagues and I conducted the study. We found that among 295 unvaccinated people who previously had Covid, antibodies were present in 99% of them up to nearly two years after infection. We also found that natural immunity developed from prior variants reduced the risk of infection with the Omicron variant."

Classic NIH:
Say there isn't enough data when challenged on a policy, then deliberately not study it. They did this for DECADES with cannabis.
Which is a shame. They're all watching animes, mangas and I want my girls to one day see all the cool things one can do with 3d printers and that you can be dressed in whatever you like and be awesome, and call BS on bad ventilators or bad security practices, and still be respectful of your moral roots and parents and live safely in an authoritarian place...

I hope YT realize one day that your content is far better and rich than the false medical ads they're pushing sometimes on kids playlists... And that an less evil alternative emerges.
Abagnale gave a google talk too. But the last thing I read on the subject (I forget what, sorry) suggests it's most likely he just made most of his life story up.
> That's like saying house prices in San Francisco are set by how much people are willing to pay.

They literally are.

> It's true but hides the real problem which is housing is unaffordable for many in that area.

Area has finite amount of estate. The only "solution" is to create ghettos of human hives which lead to classes of problems on their own.
It is quite telling that every single time one talks about secure OSes, someone has to bring out Rust.

The parent only mentioned "use a memory safe language", yet Rust it must be.

No, it could have been JOVIAL, NEWP, PL/I, BLISS, Modula-2, Modula-3, Oberon, Object Pascal, D, Nim, System C#, Ada, Swift, ....
Depends on what is painted on the cardboard.
I feel like the actual problem behind this is a useful definition of what "trusted" and "untrusted" mean that does not resolve to assigning blame for problems that have already happened.
I am very torn re: McDonald's because like many former food-avoiding kids I was probably kept alive in part by the Filet-o-Fish. White food, bland, precise.

When you look at McDonald's at a distance, what they sell is comfort, consistency, and freedom from disappointment. It's always the same.

Haven't eaten there in years, but decades on I can see that there are people in our high-stress world for whom that provides some value.
Not surprising I suppose, likely the inspiration, but the pressures and temperature and general inhospitable-ness sound an awful lot like the alternate life supporting planet for Rocky in Project Hail Mary. Good book!
I really appreciated reading your post. So much of what I read online and then come to even believe myself pushes me towards one extreme or the other. I almost argue I need to do A or B. Again and again, something nudges me back to realizing it's a balance, an oscillation between the two sides, never fully settled, always with a little bounce and overshooting.

Reading your post helped me feel calm and at ease, nudging me back towards this realization. So thank you.
Thank god Apple uses swift for new code.
The palantir lets the user see anywhere and communicate telepathically with other palantir users. Sauron didn't taint the palantir. He would simply overpower anybody who recklessly used one. Aragorn was able to use one and survive Sauron's mental attack.
I once heard "Advertising doesn't work on me, I'm too smart."

But we're all susceptible to suggestion and sensationalism, and some to a greater degree. The fact that this company is paying him millions, and probably making more, creates a perverse incentive to sustain and promote him and his nonsense.
Hence outsourcing argument.
I'm happy to see you here, and kind of shocked how the discussion seems to flow past your comments, going back and forth within the HN crowd instead of engaging with literally the creator who's livelihood is being discussed here.

For any random project that gets posted on HN, "hey, author here..." posts will typically end up at the top of the page, let's hope we also manage for this one here.

I had honestly not ever thought about your financials, simply assuming that with such a prolific youtube chain you would be fine. Your first twitter thread about this a few days ago made me reconsider, and given that youtube are being so arrogant about this I just signed up for a small $5 subscription on your tipeee.

@everyone: if your stance is "just ditch youtube" then this is your chance to make it possible: https://en.tipeee.com/naomiwu/

Edit: wow, just read through the rest of the thread. Actually a lot of back and forth going on. I stand corrected. :)
Because the term "relative" is relative to the current directory, not the current file. It's subtle, but if a directory is being referenced in a form that looks like a file (without the trailing slash) with no additional context, then the parent directory is considered.
From what I understand it is as often a problem with translation as it a clear political standpoint. What makes the phrase 'mainland China' problematic in English, is that it can mean a number of things. Someone from China using it may do so because:

* They were taught to do so and simply understand it to mean 'someone from the People's Republic of China'. No political subtext intended.

* They use it to mean that they are from the literal mainland of the People's Republic of China, but not Hong Kong or Macau.

* They use it because they genuinely see Taiwan as 'that other part of China' that needs to be unified with the People's Republic of China, despite having been a sovereign democracy for over 70 years.

When you say "I am from China" (or "I am from the PRC"), there is no chance of this having any deeper political meaning. When you say "I am from mainland China", there is a good chance that you do see Taiwan as a 'rogue province' and may support its 'inevitable' reunification by any means, including force. That latter sense is the one that is highly political and irks many people.

Note: there is no need to get into the justness or wrongness of Chinese reunification here; it would be off-topic and not likely to be fruitful. I do think it is important that people understand that the phrase 'mainland China' is not bereft of connotations and may cause readers to form an opinion of the person using it that may not be in line with that person's actual intent.
What's the first one? Politics?
Is he though? He asked them to remove JRE or remove his catalog. He's exercising his choice to remove himself from the platform because he doesn't want to be associated with Spotify and the people they employ.

Supporting censorship would be more along the lines of asking the government to jail Rogan, erasing his content, etc.

Spotify has actually removed certain JRE episodes from the available catalog as a condition of their deal.[1]

[1]: https://nypost.com/2021/04/09/spotify-quietly-deletes-contro...
I heard about "Proud Boys" a couple of years ago and went looking for more information to find out about their group so I could have an informed position on the subject. Google removed their website.

I understand Google feeling compelled to remove extreme and illegal content, but this is not that. Google removed them for political and/or moral reasons. DuckDuckGo let me find the website and form my own opinions. Imagine how many other websites Google is withholding for political and moral reasons? How much of our general knowledge is now carefully shaped and curated by Google, because that's what they allow us to see?

I also moved to DuckDuckGo. A search engine which removes the things you're looking for "for your protection" is no search engine at all.
The Bush government at the time pressured that Ukraine and Georgia should be ascension candidates. It was an aggressive move by Nato towards Russia, I don't think that can be denied. Does that justify Russias response? Of course not, but to say this is one-sided aggression doesn't fit reality in my opinion. Biden does mirror the politics of Bush right now. I also think there is a lot of thirst for any conflict now that Afghanistan was lost.

Giving the benefit of the doubt is useful, but you should also always check the claims.
The US has survived a lot of extreme speech. The Communist Part of the United States existed through the entire Cold War, and while they were sometimes hassled, they continued to publish their newspaper and pamphlets. They still have a web site. The American Nazi Party used to have a big sign on their HQ: "White Man Fight - Smash the Black Revolution Now". I walked by it as a kid. The sign stayed up until one of their members shot their leader. The Klu Klux Klan was an out and out extremist organization, but no one suggested in their heyday they should be muzzled. Just prosecuted for killing people. Even censorship of pornography mostly ended.

The pushback began in the 1980s, with the Meese Report on pornography. The authors were looking hard for something to criminalize, and hit on child pornography.[1] Not just making it, but possessing it. That was a new thing at the time.

The next big pushback was on Holocaust denial, first criminalized in Germany in 1985 and in France in 1990. A few other countries have followed, although not the US. This has gradually broadened into European laws against "hate speech", which is often political and very much a matter of opinion. While it seems to be settled law that the US government cannot prohibit hate speech, there's a lot of pressure on private organizations to do so.[2]

A new problem is overuse of the "big lie" technique.[3] For decades, nobody in a country with a free press tried that much, because it didn't work. The people pushing the lie were quickly discredited. That obstacle seems to have been overcome. That's leading to a new era of censorship merely for being wrong.

And that's the way it is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_pornography#History

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_in_the_United_Stat...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie
Maybe it's just me that's very bad. I don't use any self-computed or computed word lists though.. :)

We can't share the wordle emoji thing here because hacker news strips something from it that removes the colors.
I'm working on building computers designed to last longer than 50 years. They are primarily for the sort of timeless applications mentioned in the article. It's hard to imagine what people will be doing 50 years in the future, but it's not so difficult to see what people were doing 50 years ago that they're still doing today.

Transferring data off the computers won't be a problem in the future, if people are still interested there will be adapters and interface modules available, or you can make your own because of the open-source hardware, software and documentation. The software won't need to be updated because it won't need to run the latest version of everything.

There will be some advantages to using simpler and less capable computers for certain tasks, but most people will still need a modern computer for doing things like paying taxes and viewing advertisements.
This. The music industry is continously producing even more sexualized content, basically utilizing the visual model of porn in their "music" videos to get popular and attract viewers, through appealing to the lowest common denominator of our basic needs.

But I guess there is money in that for advertisers, so it's allright, too bad money speaks and then when individual content creators just try to utilize that same thing, they get demonetized.

I'm all for youtube not becoming basically a strip club, but at least have some cohesive applying of those rules then for the music industry also.
I worked a route at Frito Lay. The store bought the goods, but was rebated on anything that didn't sell. We bit the bullet on product that didn't move.

But merchandising and stocking the shelves was also 100% our responsibility.
I would assume the number includes all unique seller accounts as it doesn’t specify a constraint on seller activity or similar.

In fact, (less reputable) data from marketplace research claims a far higher number in 2021 of over 6 million.

https://www.marketplacepulse.com/articles/amazon-reaches-six...
The ultimate conman fools everyone into thinking he’s a conman.
Developer here,
I've got i9 2.4GHz (Turbo 5.3 GHz) with 64GB of RAM from my employer. I think it doesn't count as crappy.