skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Triangulation (the narcissistic one) at it's best. Make a machine - or software function in this case - the messenger. As an evil c#nt you get a) plausible deniability, b) smoke and mirrors, c) gas lighting, and d) a scape goat in one. Oh, and your algorithms become your 'flying monkeys' as well.

For personal reasons I had to dive into NPD, BPD and psychopaths (all cluster B personality disorders) the last years. Once I finally understood that sh1t, a whole lot of other stuff made sense. What big tech is doing here is using these same principles on a world wide scale. I'm not saying this is new, because the Romans with their 'divide and conquer' did basically the same.

The solutions to counteract this as an individual are also the same as found in the psychology books: go 'no contact', or at least 'gray rock'. If you are capable, that is. There's going to be a lot of casualties, and I feel for the workers there (or should I say 'victims').
To me, it's difficult to believe this is legal. Compare with: FCC Certification. If you change something that could affect the 'intentional emitters' in your product, you need to re-certify!

There ought to be an option to 'stay' at any 'version' you want. Only permit bug fixes. You know, LTS....
This really doesn't sound like a better experience to me then. Especially since CarPlay doesn't exclude existing functionality on the car system.
And just to be clear I'm only suggesting it for junior positions. Most of the time I think you can suss out whether someone can code by discussing their direct contributions to previous projects. If not, you can always do one LC problem.

I see it as a great way to just run a sanity check that this person who graduated from Random State six months ago can actually code, and as a great way to ensure high quality very senior people refuse to go through your interview (unless you're paying FAANG wages).
Hard agree. One of the worst gambles to make is ‘are folk going to be chill with they/them pronouns’ vs. ‘if I don’t say now, folk are never going to change later’. That’s not going away any time soon.

Making the choice mandatory in a thirty person meeting is hell.

Plus? Not gonna lie, if I don’t see you regularly and you fuck up my pronouns, I’d rather just get shit done than have another pronouns discussion.
On a car with as much technology as Tesla has, is a defroster icon even necessary? Can't the car know the windows needs to be defogged/defrosted and just turn it on for the driver.

This isn't like temperature, where somebody has a preference to see. Is my windshield clear of fog or ice? No? Turn on defroster.
You could put a little turbine in a Cessna or Beechcraft driving a generator and little-ish battery, and an electric motor driving the prop, and get the same benefit, but the cost and maybe weight would be higher in a place where both are critical.

Still, FAA probably should look into pre-approving such a configuration, too.
Highly dependent on the law or regulation in question.
So sketchy -- I actually like Chromium Edge, but I stopped using it because of Microsoft's increasingly slimy tactics they're using to push it and Bing.
Credentials do matter to some extent or at least actually following the scientific method.

But overall there has been quite a big regression since SETI has pretty much failed to capture anything of even remote interest.

Loeb isn’t Sagan but the fact that you can’t even get funding for simple missions like looking for technological markers in the atmosphere of exoplanet does seem to indicate that there is a lot of stigma these days against anything related to searching for intelligent life.
Machines don't have shame, reputation, values, empathy. There's little hope of self-correction. An algorithm will never ask "Are we the baddies?"
Maybe your company is the exception.

The fact that there is a talent shortage seems to point to a long-term issue regarding barriers to entry across the industry.
FSD has finally gained consciousness
Reminder, every “talent shortage” is actually a wage shortage. Double those salaries and you’ll find plenty of talent.
It feels as though accusing me of making personal attacks is just a way for you to try to get out of the corner you’ve backed yourself into. The comment history is public, anyone can read back and see who started making assumptions about the other first.

> You keep bringing up "you can farm and hunt" as a cop-out to imply that work is optional. In most countries there is no wilderness with game to hunt in, nor is there unused agricultural land to establish farms on.

This is a fair point, and I’ll concede on that.

> Let's put it this way. What would it take to convince you that a workfree society is possible? What evidence do you need? If you can't formulate that, then perhaps it is because you don't want to be convinced?

What would it take to convince you you that you can survive on water and light alone? What evidence do you need? If you can't formulate that, then perhaps it is because you don't want to be convinced?

In all seriousness though, I believe that workfree (per your definition of work) societies can (and do) exist, but they cannot work on a macro scale. I believe this because in ‘workfree’ societies, members are assigned roles and complete tasks still, the only difference is that there’s no exchange of money.

This works because individuals are able to independently verify whether everyone in the community is pulling their weight. Without every individual being able to do that to every other individual, then you either a) simply have to trust people, which has historically tended to result in a few taking advantage of the many, or b) come up with some way of attesting work has been done, which is just another name for money.

By your definition any society which uses money cannot be a workfree society.
Statute inherits from SAE J902A which costs $89 to read, so we don’t know from the statue alone.
Too many cooks in the kitchen.
I wonder if hyperloop/boring thing won't motivate realistic underground narrow freight trains.

ps: obligatory history article https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/02/a-world-without.html
The new Volkswagen ID.3 has the same issue. Would be great if it had some more physical buttons (although it already has more than a Tesla).
Only answering with what I'm familiar with, but AWS S3 provides access logs:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Server...
> ... remember that as a member of this forum you are probably an order of magnitude better at navigating complex institutions, understanding business objectives, understanding the “intent” if a piece of algorithmic technology, and advocating for yourself than the average person who picks up gig work. To many people it is literally magic, and the further your boss is toward being magical the closer you are to being a slave to them.

So true. Not everybody is going to see through the smoke and mirrors.
> In April 2020, Kadlec and Marks wrote a proposal for HHS secretary Alex Azar, who in turn took it to Jared Kushner and others in the White House, who were enthusiastic. President Trump sup­ported it and signed off on it. Azar brought in the DoD as well. (The bureaucratic history of OWS, like everything to do with it, is complex and contested.) Azar, Kushner, and others then made two hiring deci­sions that were crucial to Warp Speed’s success, recruiting Moncief Slaoui, a pharma executive, and Gustave F. Perna, a general, as its leaders. Slaoui, OWS’s chief adviser, had been chairman of global vaccines at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and brought pharma knowledge. General Perna, OWS’s chief operating officer, had overseen the global supply chains for the U.S. Army and brought logistical expertise.

It's really not possible to overstate what an accomplishment this was. To stand up an organization like this outside of the normal departments and to give it the political backing it needed. And the accomplishment of not only getting multiple vaccines ready in record time, but also solving the distribution logistics problems in parallel.
Go-testdeep presentation given at OVHcloud
Because it's really hard to design an interface with high information density. So the "designers" hide everything behind a menu and call it a day
Is it actually achieving that goal though if the advice is "use C if you have to do `unsafe` stuff"? That's really my point. IMO the language was always intended to be able to be used in any situation C is used (with maybe a few exceptions), which includes situations where `unsafe` is necessary.
Bonforte still CEO over there?

Oh to be a fly on the wall for that conference call.
Shouldn't mediocre be generally acceptable? It seems unreal to expect the majority to be above average.
Yeah at this point, swe are more key to bringing in the future efficiency advancements per person than doctors or lawyers, I remember doctors making multiple hundreds of thousands a year decades ago, with surgeons into the millions. It seems reasonable that swe salaries surpass that as software eats everything and our ability to disseminate engineering Skill stagnate.
>Even Model 3 has a physical hazard light switch.

That's because a physical hazard light switch is required by law.
Wait, they're worried that Canadians might get violent?

Either I've mis-judged Canadians all this time, or else people really don't like vaccine mandates...
It might look pretty, but having used one for a few months now I’m pretty dissatisfied with the overall feel. Would prefer if they ripped the whole screen out and put a small clock in with some push buttons and dials
The problem with "data driven" approaches is that they often miss the context.

Which can make their results absolute garbage.

Like data driven can tell you a button is "not used often" it can't tell you that a button is "essential to be fast available in some safety critical situations". (Or for other examples, that a feature is not unused because people don't want it but because it's hidden or bad designed.)

But somehow I still meat people which believe that poorly data driven approaches will yield the best results, which as far as I can tell is complete unrealistic. (Which doesn't mean in any way you shouldn't also use data for decisions, just be aware that data just shows a part of an picture and can often be very misleading.)
Others Macintosh gems:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ResEdit

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontographer

and later

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai%27s_Power_Tools
Why I won’t use Let’s Encrypt
Microsoft went the opposite way with the Ribbon, but then went the same way with the Windows 11 right-click menu.
I have about a decade of real professional coding experience. Not going to say I'm excellent, or near the caliber of developer FAANG are looking for, but I can write code. I can count on one finger the number of interviews I've got in the past couple years. Zilch. There is a massive disconnect from what you hear on the news, and the reality, where somebody like me is a pariah and the deafening silence of _any_ interest.

This is just outsourcing 2.0, this time under the guise of a lack of qualified candidates.
http://www.stargrave.org/WhyNotLE.html
Based on your comments it sounds like you believe that Neil Young's statements are both censorship and free speech. If that's the case, what should we do about it? Clearly boycotting him for censorship would be censoring his speech.

Is there any form of consequences for speech that would not be censorship?
Where is this magical land? I remember trying to ship an internal tool with SQLite several years ago and getting admonished by a senior dev for it. Haven’t seen it since across 4 different companies and and additional 8 years of coding.
I'm curious if we see other unconformities related to other Ice Ages. If receding glaciers scraped away the earth and led to this big of a gap, shouldn't this have happened again when the glaciers receded after more recent ice ages, like in the Pleistocene?
maybe the car has gained the ability to comment here.
The talent abroad ends up working for US companies though, how will dominance dissipate. The market and financing is in the US.
The manufacturer changing the UI of a car after you bought it should be illegal or at least highly restricted.

I think many of us have been incensed by UI changes in software we use for our daily work, and that's already bad enough; but IMHO this really crosses a line.

There were jokes when Apple changed the scroll direction, comparing it to the steering wheel of a car suddenly working opposite to what everyone is used to; I'm not sure if it's possible to do that with a Tesla or other modern car, but it's disturbing that we seem to be headed down that path. What an absurd reality.

The icons-only UI is also a huge regression; would it really take much extra effort to add a text label? I know people often mention localisation when it's brought up, but much of the world knows English, this is an American car sold in English-speaking regions, and changing the text in software is much easier than a separate part with different printing.

(I drive a 50-year-old land yacht that's received many upgrades, but all under my control; so my perspective may be slightly biased...)
You can have an automatically updated playlist of likes using smart playlists. You have to create it one time on desktop, but it’s automatic after that.

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/12/19/create-smart-playli...

I’m an insane person so I listen to all my liked songs on shuffle and ride the wave of tonal inconsistency, so this feature is very important to me…
Having worked in government places like this. I can say you’re 100% wrong.
Yep - https://blik.com/en
Myst is an interesting example… while it’s definitely a HyperCard stack, it relies heavily on XCMDs and XFCNs… which let you call into native code. So while it’s certainly the most famous example of a program written in HyperCard, it’s not a typical or representative example of how people made HyperCard programs.

Here’s a recent thread about it: https://twitter.com/uliwitness/status/1408841306013581313
Although not the same as what the paper talks about, an approximation would be Oracle running with raw volumes managed by the DB, on a cluster, using Web based UIs done on Apex.
I built a "Google Docs" in 1997 using Java applets (couldn't raise funds, too early). And HoTMaiL had launched the previous year, bringing email to the web, which is certainly one of the closest things I can think of to the first "web app".

WikiWikiWeb launched in early 1995. I'm trying to think what could classify as the first "web app"? I was on the Web in 1993 and there wasn't much of any use on there. Writing web apps was hard because there were no tools for it. I ended up writing most of my back end code in C. Which sounds crazy until I realize I'm writing it all in C# now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb
The humour in this is excellent!
The point is senators' scope as committee members isn't limited to their voting jurisdiction.
For me that moment is ENS and IPFS which I just learned about a few months ago. I think it's so cool to have a decentralized website and URL and I never want to go back. Had used Tor addresses previously for the DNS part.

I realize this may seem like moving the goalposts -- but have you thought about comparing to the development of the internet instead of web? Arpanet 1971 means 13 years in is 1984. I figure you've thought this through so will have some good points for why web/1991 is a better analogy than arpanet/1971.

All the stuff you wrote here is really good. Could be a blog post instead of these more ephemeral comments.
Eh, and this is always the response.

The problem is that we saw crime increases before police protests and defunding movements, including in cities that aren't in California, so it really doesn't make sense to blame the recent "defund the police" movement for all of that increase. When you actually sit down and do the math, there is no strong correlation between police defunding/reforms and the recent crime wave -- cities that didn't alter their policing strategy also saw increases in crime.

The other thing that's worth bringing up once again is that people don't just claim that decreasing crime... decreases crime. They claim it decreases inequality, they claim it's responsible for decreasing other ills. But the only stats that they're ever interested in are crime stats, at which point they just kind of jump to the conclusion that "of course businesses will have to spend more money to armor stores."

There's not good data to support this -- the most convincing example is San Francisco, which when you dig into, also doesn't really hold up. Store closings in San Francisco aren't that much higher than the rest of the country.

> This will increase poverty and inequality.

And again... opposed to before?

What's frustrating about this is that we have a strategy we're trying -- tough on crime -- that is not reducing inequality. And whenever anyone suggests alternative strategies, the response is, "that will make inequality worse." But the existing approach is not working right now. It's all based on fear of what's about to happen. It's not based on looking back at historical data and saying, "we implemented stop and frisk and then people got better jobs." Because that didn't happen.

It's always based around this idea that society is about to fall apart, not tangible data that crime rates are causal for the other harms.
Having no clue as to why I left the industry, your point is a stretch to say the least.
I, personally, like it more when I can say "no, don't track me".

It's only worse for the user when the cookie notification is blocking the content, there is no "no, I don't agree" button or clicking it means clicking trough 100 extra toggles.
> The problem with nuclear is that there are far too many grifters in it.

This is true.
Any tips for getting started doing mobile with Lisp?
Or general moving from standard development environments to lisp?

I've been interested for a long time, but never really came across examples of established developers branching our so I don't really know where to look to get started. I'm already an emacs user too, so it bothered me that way too.
The Tesla that crashed in The Woodlands, Texas, is frightening in this respect. It seems like the occupants couldn't figure out the manual/emergency door latches, and so died in the battery fire.
Hello, honest question, can't you install an aftermarket car stereo that has CarPlay from any reputable manufacturer?
A Supercut of Supercuts: Aesthetics, Histories, Databases
While I understand their point, I wouldn't call this "piracy".

Ads have become too invasive in recent years. Not only they make certain websites painful to read, they also enabled a whole industry dedicated to invade users' privacy.

And I admit that the main counterpoint to this would be to just stop consuming content from these creators. But ads are so pervasive these days, I would argue that going down that route would make most of the mainstream Internet useless.
When I informed my spouse that there wasn't windshield wiper controls on the steering wheel stalks, she pretty much immediately struck Tesla from her future car purchase plans.
Likewise I am forever grateful to my dad for the same thing. He had me learn relational dbs and SQL 20+ years ago and am still benefittinng greatly from that. Unfortunately, beside SQL almost everything has seen drastic changes since then.
Okay, that's an interesting theory. Violent crime rates have decreased dramatically across America over the past several decades. Has inequality gone up or down?

Because if it's gone up, then decreasing crime rates didn't do what your theory says they should do. The theory doesn't really matter that much if we can point at two arrows going in opposite directions and say, "look, making one of the arrows go down didn't make the other one go down."

I'm kind of picking on you here, but to be clear, we can ask the same question in the opposite direction -- inequality has gone up by many metrics even though crime has gone down by many metrics, so clearly inequality doesn't have as much of a direct effect on crime rates as people say it does, or else crime rates wouldn't have gone down.

But no matter what way you're looking at it, these really simplistic models just don't hold up to even surface-level scrutiny like, "are they playing out in the real world?" There has to be more complicated stuff going on or else the numbers would be different. And so it's just frustrating to hear people say, "the correct answer is to keep doing the exact same things we've been doing, and to hope that the results are different."

There has been ample opportunity for policies focused on crime to prove that they solve these social issues, and they haven't solved them.
The same argument can be made about any TV station. "Political propaganda" is a broad term and "harmful" is subjective. Using these labels to censor content / deplatform you disagree with is the antithesis of free speech.

What really happened here is that Neil Young is so woke that he deplatformed himself.
Maybe Figma should've been a desktop app.
What did you think about the book?
Wait, getting multiple vaccines ready but none were from the US.

The most used one is a partnership from Pfizer and was created by Biontech. The vaccine was practically ready on day 2 of COVID due to mRNA. Pfizer even declined Warp speed funding ( but pre-orders were accepted in December during phase 3 trials)

So I'm not sure why Warp speed is considered a success?
Its a vanity project for retured Googlers.

The blog author thinks copying a smaller than 10x10 array of pointers, less than once per minute, is a memory-intensive, performance-sensitive operation, so it's pretty clear that they don't know what they are doing.
Spotify to Add ‘Content Advisory’ Warnings to Podcasts with Covid Discussion
I like how pretty much every post here contains multiple people asking for new regulations. Thank god the HN crowd is not in charge of legislation because soon everything would be illegal.
The legal protections on hourly workers aren't enforced in the US or are skirted around by making hourly employees contractors. Professionals would like some of the protections but only if they are actually enforced.
It's not his music anymore he sold the most of his catalog last year and spotify delisted the whole catalog.
People are telling you that you are too judgmental. People are telling you that you need to accept your situation. People are telling you to move to a huge city.

Instead, you need to be MORE judgmental. You need to reject your situation EVEN HARDER. Definitely DO NOT move to a huge city (unless you have people there).

Your problem is that, up until now, you have been following money and interests, and expecting that the belonging issue to sort itself out.

This is a foundational mistake, it's completely backwards. You need to belong FIRST. Your interests should stem from the needs of the people that you love, your tribe. Your work/employment should stem from the needs of those people, and your role in what they are working towards. The other way around does not work.

Basically, you are alone because you were misled into prioritizing the wrong things. Turning that around will involve a lot of pain and sacrifice.

Find the people that you actually love, love being around, and love being connected to. Find them online. Find them through extended family. Find them through old friends. Go travel, and reconnect with your own people.

These people exist! There is no reason to settle for less. Stop what you are doing now, and orient your whole life around this. Once you find it, go find more people like yourself and pull them into the group. So many people like you are trapped in this same situation, and they need your help.