skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"you're depressed"

Don't listen to this guy. Don't let people keyboard diagnose you. You can go falk to a therapist if you want an actual diagnosis (although you state that you don't, which seems fine to me).
I'm really curious how Tesla tested this update. I'm not a UX designer myself, but have worked with some really great ones, and there's not a chance in hell they would've put anything as drastic of a change as this into a customer product, especially if it has safety implications, without extensive testing.
> This account, or at least should account, for a very small minority of interactions with healthcare facilities.

sadly its not. you're in pain? you need to visit a medical facility to figure out whats wrong. without knowing how serious it is it can lead to a life long issue. again you don't really have choices here. pay the healthcare tax or risk long term issues.

there is a reason preventative medicine is cheaper (overall) than delaying care until a condition has progressed.

the capitalists idea of a market simply doesn't apply to healthcare.

> If a hospital exists because people routinely visit the doctor.

this isn't true. we fund hospitals in rural areas because there literally isnt enough people to keep one operating via patient care.

you're also asserting that if the populace can't sustain the healthcare system then it shouldn't be available to people. which is fairly cruel and immoral.
I don't know to what extent you can disentangle cause and effect in human psychology. Certainly if you believe rich people are evil, you will feel justified in tearing them down, so you will tend to tear them down more, in which case it's a cause of the crab-bucket mentality. But you might also just feel a lot of envy for rich people and consequently engage in motivated reasoning that leads you to believe that they are evil, in which case it's an effect.

(Negative feedback systems in general do this weird interchange of cause and effect. An op-amp's inputs are kept at the same voltage because they're its inputs. It's a real mindfuck, in a good way.)

More generally, throughout history, most people who got rich did get that way by screwing over other people; I mean that's literally how warfare works, by harming the opposing forces enough to get them to submit, and in feudal systems (and quasi-feudal systems like the Argentine system) that's how you gain power and wealth. Feudal nobles and partisan politicians are whoever was historically best at harming the opposing forces. Most of human history isn't that, of course, because everyday life always works by cooperation and goodwill, but most of the parts of history that got written down were people competing to hurt each other.

The crab-bucket mentality is very helpful to politicians because it prevents upstart businesses (and regions, and cities) from creating alternative centers of power that could compete with the established order.

Capitalism was the decisive break with that tradition, in which people compete by doing the most good for their customers instead of harm to whoever their enemies are at the moment; but nothing in capitalism prevents powerful and rich people from hurting whoever they see as their opposition, except that it's unprofitable to spend too much on hurting them, and if you choose poorly they may be able to hurt you back, which is even more unprofitable. And whoever is powerful can use that power for harm, too, and being human, they usually do. Still, by changing the criterion for wealth from doing harm to doing good, capitalism changed the incentives enormously.
I am no fan of ms, but you make a good point. I usually use safari on my mac, and dl chrome for work (create a profile for each client, have gmail separated, etc). Never has google asked me to set the search engine and every time asked me to set chrome as default. It also does some ‘magic’ when i login to gmail and makes my session ‘identifiable’ to chrome.

I don’t use windows so am not a user, but can see how google uses chrome to make google the default and ms using windows to make bing the default (yes brwser vs os, but i would guess 90% of peope ha e no clue of the difference)
if she wasn't your wife already I would've told you she's marriage material!
At the large retailer I work for, AWS is off limits. Strategically, they don't want to base their IT operations in a cloud of a company that is also a competitor in online retail. I can understand that. Here Azure has a great advantage.
It seems to me quite plainly clear that people exist who are confused about their gender and my understanding is that people like this exist in all cultures. I actually learned many years ago that Native Americans had a concept of something of a "third gender" which suggested to me that it's a universal human variation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit

What I had never considered was to mix in the idea of a soul - it's actually curious because I never thought that the soul (if you believe in such a thing) would be gendered and it adds a curious layer to the whole situation. But now reading a little more about native beliefs, it seems that the two-spirit term actually thinks about it more as two souls within one body.

I find it all rather fascinating and hard to reduce down to silly dogma.
Both Russia and China are literally dying. So, any delusion of becoming "the world power" is DOA. This makes the present much more dangerous as they have less to lose.
> Britain sent convicts to Australia because it was so remote

That was a long time ago. We could bear in mind that for most of human history, people in Britain had no idea that Australia or most of the world existed.
I always think about this.

If you can't trust people with the ability to see or hear certain information, how can you even trust them to vote?
The EU had a substantially delayed rollout of vaccines compared to the US [1]. You can see that the purple line (US) is about 2 months ahead of the yellow (EU). Especially in the early days of the rollout the EU was very behind.

[1]: https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2412
is MOE maintenance of equipment and MOW maintenance of way?

I thought the big inefficiency of rail was not physics, but capitalism and competition.

the cost of starting a trucking company is negligible and a truck can immediately use the shared resource roadway.

Meanwhile use of a railway system is governed by a central authority and shipping is not subject to competition in the same way. Additionally long segments of single-rail prevent efficient use of routes

Would be interesting if there was a two-way (two or more tracks) railway system where trains could hop on and hop off on a first-come first-served basis...
High wages do not manufacture talent. Spending more money won't allow every soccer team in the world to have a Lionel Messi on squad. There are a finite supply of most skill sets, which can be well below the total demand for those skill sets.

Companies don't want to hire generic software engineers, there is a huge demand for software engineering skill sets that are extremely difficult to learn, and which can only be acquired after years of diligent effort and experience. This is where the gap is and no amount of paying more will create a larger supply. Some software engineering expertise is already paying in excess of $1,000,000, and there are still severe shortages. That's not a "wage shortage" unless you expect me to believe that software engineers are choosing to grind away on ERP software for $150k instead.

The highest paying software engineering skill sets are the most difficult ones to fill. Software engineering skill sets are not fungible. The highest paid ones are often those with the least elastic supply.
> because we don’t have time

This part is a huge society-wide problem that can theoretically be fixed so people can become more informed and active participants in the framework of their daily lives. Don’t ask me how, though, because I just got off work and am too exhausted to do anything except let the news tell me what to be afraid of today, then probably binge The Office and slam a few brewskis until I fall asleep on my couch ‘cause I got work again tomorrow
The bias of this mathematician and the rest of the Royal Society working group regarding vaccination is irrelevant to the subject of these papers, which analyse how and why misinformation is spread, and how correct information can retain credibility.

Reflexively trying to discredit them while being too lazy to read beyond the headline is a great way of making your own position look highly dubious though.
We can't.

The moment we sit down and start singing Kumbayah some neighbour will take his chances to sweep us up. If ever we were to manage to tame the entire human race into singing Kumbayah we'd be taken over by a fleet of flying saucers, sapient gorillas or just rebooted because the simulation entered a state of deadlock. It isn't just humans either, strife and conquest are a fact of life from the most primitive life forms to homo sapiens and everything in between.
I tend to agree with you having worked with IBM's global consulting services and their workforce in both India and Brazil many moons ago.

While in theory, it may sound like you could have around the clock hands-on-keyboard time by having folks in India, it's more advantageous to have people work in similar time zone if it is joint development work.

I do have to say, when there are important soccer matches though, developers in Brail were... a bit harder to reach. no joke. lol.
The principled way to do this is “I’m leaving indefinitely because I don’t approve of your editorial priorities,” not single out one guy and try to bribe or extort the company into breaking their commitments with him. Only customers en masse should be able to demand a change like this, because the company’s duty is to customers rather than competing vendors.
The "talent shortage" is self caused by FAANG. Your company does not invest in education, yet expects people to be experienced. Accreditation for compsci and others is sorely out of touch with the tech industry, and university programs are not funded. We are literally strangling the life out of young adults with course materials that don't matter, expenses they have to work manual labor to pay, classes that don't teach, and making them have to sort through dumpsters to find an Arduino. It's that bad. What do tech companies do when asked to sponsor a program? No response. They don't care unless it's from a FAANG employee themselves, if that.

These companies are meant to be heavily taxed for how much they are taking from society, with those taxes put back into education. Yet here we are.
Maybe not, it is certainly debatable. But propaganda implies (to me at least) it has gone beyond debate. It also implies a tool to influence others. Aka a form of weaponized information. I do think there is a gradient where one could say “this goes beyond free speech” , for instance as in your example.
Hahaha I was the same way. I rebelled against scientific authority and wore a mask. It was only months later I was called a sheeple doing whatever the globalists wanted for wearing a mask.
There are also some "physics" reasons for this - the source of electric current in an ICE car is usually a 1kWh lead-acid battery - obviously not always at 100% state of charge. Even if the designers wanted to put an awesome infotainment system into such car, the battery won't be able to power it for long before jeopardizing driving-related critical functionality. As an example - keeping Tesla's sentry mode on (screen on and cameras recording), drains about 250W - enough to completely kill a classic car battery in 4 hours

Electric cars, with their batteries in 30-100 kWh range, lift this constraint - so designers have a field day
In my (long) experience it isn't a spectrum though. I think there's this pernicious lie that anybody could learn anything "if they just work hard enough" and it's not really true.

There's a certain base level of analytical ability that's required - and if you have that you can learn anything in tech given time.

Everybody else who cannot think analytically like this - including many who work in tech and basically fake it - has a very limited understanding that is close to useless and often very dangerous because of their role.
What I want to know is, what happened to all that “warp” speed since then? We had been waiting for delta vaccine and whatever else, for over a year. They can surely churn them out quick with mRNA (they even did it for HIV!) but they don’t.

The profit motive happened. With government and media carrying water for these vaccine manufacturers, and forcing everyone to get an outdated vaccine, why would they cannibalize their own profits? It’s like if everyone were told you must install Windows 98 to get on the Internet or do any sort of work, why would Microsoft want to release Windows NT?

Meanwhile, you can see how the US Army with no profit motive has outdone them and created a vaccine for ALL the variants:

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/12/us-army-create...

This just goes to show that government and industry often work together and market failures often result, while institutions with no profit motive can overtake them (Wikipedia, NGinX, Linux, Wordpress, WebKit and many others overtook their capitalist counterparts.)
Apropos: Mericans would then say I have "700c" or "28 inch" in front and "29 inch" in back.
Yeah, seems to be correct.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/131709/biontech-buys-a-novarti...

But i did mention the facility in Puurs ( since it's from my country), i wasn't keeping track on all of them ofc
There are lots of famous names around, probably more so than before. Kojima and Myamoto come to mind, Tim Schafer is 20 years into a 'comeback', Minecraft - one of the most popular games of the last decade - has a well-known designer who'd still be part of the conversation if he hadn't taken it upon himself to torch his public reputation. And that's just scratching the surface.
Doesn't windows have an ~80% market share in desktop os?
Is it really less of a monopoly than other big tech?
This cartoon still holds much truth:

http://joyreactor.com/post/287724
When you have a kid and are working to pay the mortgage, you basically don't have time for friends either. This leaves a very small group of potential friends who are single by choice.

I think the biggest thing is managing expectations. Nothing works the way we envisioned it as kids. It's disappointing, but that's life.
>Acquiring Replit is also worth exploring given its strong positioning among young developers who are still malleable.

Microsoft already has top compiler / programming language / tooling engineers / people

Why would the need Replit? Is the product good? Why not JetBrains?
Take my upvote. Came here to say exactly this. If the author is getting attacked on Twitter I wonder how many of the attackers are Tesla shareholders (or bots for shareholders) vs actual owners. The new UI is a step back and hides often used functions that used to be “one click” off the Home Screen. Changing driver profiles is a great example.
Oh, I didn't realize you were talking about a time long ago.
Technology apologism has got to stop. Watching people defend the butterfly keyboard's consistent failure, try to justify vendor-locking GPU features, explain away Windows' lack of meaningful updates, listing all the reasons why the iPhone shouldn't load the apps you want... it all drives me insane. At least with open source the attitude de-facto is "this software sucks, how can we fix it?". Even if the overall user experience is poor, improvements come from interested parties instead of a FAANG employee who's pager just lit up with a "rewrite x" alert.
A Rational Design Process: How and Why to Fake It
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11101358

From Feb 2016, with just 2 comments. The paper is much better than the comments would suggest.
It just seems like an out-of-context statement.

The entire thread was about accounting, then a sub-thread on family accounting, then you pop in to just say 'I do my accounting solo, as does my wife" which may be on-topic, but just not relevant.
Then 75% of software is shit?
> My main wish for it would be serial console support

FreeDOS doesn't work if you put:

ctty com1

in your autoexec.bat?

Seems to be supported:
http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Ctty

Perhaps you need to modify the installer disk with that option, or install FreeDOS to disk on another system first?
There's a very inspiring interview with the co-founder on the Changelog podcast. Highly recommended!

Changelog Master Feed: Leading Auth0 to a $6.5 billion acquisition (Founders Talk #78) https://changelog.com/founderstalk/78
The OS is in the middle of an internal refactor which will make a modern mobile edition (with support for all chipsets/apps on launch) more feasible in the future.

In an odd turn of events the hardware has exceeded the software in the case of Surface supporting Android on the Duo.
I suppose I was once part of the problem back when I marked assignments in grad school. We're heavily incentivized to not fail students. There's virtually no difference in grades between a 10x programmer and someone who can barely code fizzbuzz in their 4th year.
After 7 years of android I switched over to iPhone. Largely due to the Google hate I experience here on hn. There is so many small annoyances on iPhone. Some things like hide my email, password management are brilliant, even if I need to use Safari, which I hate because I want to use Firefox for ad blocking. But iOS is objectively terrible. Notifications are so horrible. Support for my Garmin watch is awful. The jarring system sounds and don’t even get me started on the awful alarm sounds. Siri is unusable and the fact that I can’t change to another assistant is terrible. Apple Maps doesn’t even have biking directions in one of the most bike central cities of the world, amsterdam, lol!! Useless. Dutch is not supported in system wide translations feature, again I need to revert to Google translate. Keyboards for multilingual people are really really terrible. I need to switch between 4 languages every day. The fact that I need to switch between keyboards and then still have autocomplete fight me whenever I dare to use a word form a different language ( even simple ones like “yeah” which I want to use in German or Dutch as well ). The keyboard is so terrible as well. And then just things that make no sense at all. Why can I not see a battery percentage on the icon of the battery? I need to swipe control center down to see that. Why can I not see seconds in the time? Why can I not set two timers?????

I really really really hate iOS. It has things that are nice and better than android. But for anybody to think that it is a “complete and integrated” ecosystem makes me … laugh. Like it’s just objectively terrible.
Yeah, I'm old. That was 10+ years ago.
Why? Of the options you list, to me GAFAM is the least recognizable. Why pick that one?
I don't understand what you mean by duplicate here. Apply a Schwartzian Transform and there you go -- no duplicates.
That's actually one complaint I have about the 1st gen Chevy Volt - the hazards switch is a physical button... on the right side of the center console, over by the passenger. It's not a location that is either rapid to find if you don't know where it is, or particularly rapid to hit when you need them - it's a substantial span reach, unsupported, on a smaller button than I think reasonable. Though, admittedly, I miss the ones on the top of the steering column. That was standard enough for a long time that I still look for the toggle there.

I use them at least a few times a year, though far less than I used to when I was on the interstate a lot more. Any time traffic rapidly drops more than about 20mph, I light up my hazards to let following traffic know, "Yes, you see brake lights, no, they're not just people scrubbing a few miles an hour off - get on your brakes now!" Probably a habit I picked up from truckers, a lot of them do this for the very understandable reason that a big rig doesn't stop on a dime, and even if they will, you're likely to unstack your cargo in the process.

Super infrequently used compared to other buttons, but also not something I really have the time go sorting through menus for when I need it. And neither do I trust the car's automatic systems to turn them on for me.

Though, if I could dream, we'd use LED brake lights to encode braking intensity somehow. The car knows if I'm barely touching the pedal to cancel cruise control and light up the brakes, or if I've just mashed them to the ABS actuation point, but the brake lights don't encode any of this useful info. You couldn't rely on it for car behavior (trivial to spoof, and get rid of tailgaters), but it would be an additional useful input for driving - "Woah, hey, that car in front of you just nearly locked up their wheels, radar data agrees, slow down!"
I can't do LeetCode to save my life. I'm not that kind of natural Google-tier genius.

But I have a relevant PhD, demonstrable industry experience leading a recognisable project, many papers, lots of experience developing juniors, influential keynotes, blog posts, etc.

If you used LeetCode you wouldn't hire me. I don't know if you think that's a loss or not? But it's a data point.
The CDC recently dropped to 50% public trust, after repeated failures, mixed messages and outright lies in some cases.

They lie and then act incensed when the public stops believing them. Given the massive damage they've done, I'd consider it justified.

The CDC is an incompetent, bloated and fundamentally dishonest organization that was perfectly comfortable throwing grandma to the wolves via lies (masks don't work!) if it meant their unpreparedness wasn't exposed.

Via anti-masking lies, CDC irreparably damaged their reputation and also likely got people killed who believed them. The damage is deserved.
There was a long legal battle arguing that there were no race-based admission quotas, but that race was a factor taken into account in order to achieve desired levels of diversity. Or something equally nonsensical.
Similarly, antilock braking systems (ABS) can have real safety effects if you know how to use the system [0] (though it looks like the effects are insignificant on a population level, as a lot of drivers don't know how to use it) [1].

However, I hear the point of the parent comment that the writing prefers an aesthetic/tactile experience of driving cars in the traditional way with minimal assistive technology (though I personally think that modern vehicles typically give you more control over your car).

[0] https://mycardoeswhat.org/safety-features/anti-lock-braking-...

[1] https://doi.org/10.1016/s0001-4575(01)00032-x
Nah, you're a youngster.
A UX designer needs to walk into an Apple Home app bar too. And even more, a Google Nest Hub bar. Both are a complete mess of broken stuff.
>The issue that plagues us is a lack of trust in long-standing societal authorities.

What caused that trust to be lost? Is it something they did?