skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I’m having a hard time understanding how “I forgot to change gears and then hit the gas” can be classed a UX problem. Sounds like PEBKAC."

On the one hand, it is easy to point to this as user error and you're not wrong.

But older cars have a significant tactile difference in operating different systems in the car. Shifting a gear is very, very different physically than pushing the button for your hazards. Your body moves in very different and operates these controls very differently.

This distinction was made clear to me years ago when we bought a 2013 Mercedes wagon - the physical action to: shift to park, turn the car on, turn the radio on were all nearly identical - just a button press. In fact, the buttons themselves were almost identical.

So, although I never actually did this, there were a number of times when I got relatively overloaded, cognitively, and I pressed the power off on the radio in an attempt to shift to park. Or I pressed the park button a second time in an attempt to turn the car off.

I believe that different subsystems in the car - especially life safety / critical driving systems - should have vastly different controls that force different physical interactions.
Did anyone get anything from Equifax for their data breach?
I'm going to go way out on a limb and assume no one received anything from them. Before I let my cynicism completely go awry, though, I wanted to check if anyone has received anything from them (cash, help with the impact of the breach, restoration, etc...).

FWIW, my status continues to show as

Your claim was received by the Settlement Administrator and is under review.

Please note, the Court gave final approval to the Settlement and overruled all objections on January 13, 2020. However, some of those that objected to the Settlement have now appealed the Court’s decision to approve the Settlement. By order of the Court, the Settlement cannot become final until all appeals are resolved and there is currently no timeline for the resolution of these appeals. Benefits cannot be distributed until the appeals are resolved and the Settlement becomes effective.

When the appellate court enters a schedule for the appeal, we will update the Settlement website to provide individuals with more guidance as to the timing of a decision. Please periodically check the Settlement website at www.EquifaxBreachSettlement.com for further updates.
While its not common enough to matter much, there have been cases of apt vulns (DSA-4371-1) which would give anyone who can exploit it with a MITM root access.

One example of where this could lead to a wide spread attack is distros like whonix.org which update over Tor. They mitigate this with https/.onion package servers.

Theres also the smaller problem of package-set fingerprinting like you said.
Am I the only one who misses ALL CAPS RAGE COMMENTS and horibly mispelled wrod sallad comments? Oh, and remember link comments? And what about those ascii art ones that you had to click on "see more" to get the full effect from? Oh or how about, substantive comments that disagreed with the the content of the video? Yeah, those were great, back before every video was watched mainly by subscribers who would become the echo chamber for content creators, even if they and YouTube mods (see the algorithm) didn't purge you first. Yeah, YouTube comments are great if you never want to be challenged by anything.
Personally, I lost a lot of respect for Peterson over that quote/interview. Clearly all models are simplifications, that's the entire point. We can't simulate reality with full fidelity, anything more than a hydrogen atom requires a simplification.

Hearing Peterson directly say something non-sensical like that is an incredibly effective way to convince reasonable people that he is wrong. Much more effective than any attempt to cancel or silence him.
I'm glad to hear they're improving. Maybe by the time I have to replace my car I won't have any complaints.
Mazda is the only major auto manufacturer that seriously prioritizes driving ergonomics over tech gimmicks/cost savings. But gimmicks sell better.
Old people who manage legacy systems, like that one guy duct-taping a bank's online operations.
Believe me, I don't need to watch that video. I've been there ;)

A lot of development happened right before Combat Evolved got released due to Microsoft injecting a lot of money. It wasn't just an Xbox port of an already finished game. Look at the E3 2000 trailer which is pretty much what has been shown at Macworld the year before. Combat Evolved looked quite different when it came out a year later. Note that Microsoft acquired Bungie in 2000.
From what I've seen, there are three big schools with technical debt (past choices that now make changes difficult):

1) Ignore it and gradually ossify as the code congeals and it becomes harder and harder to make any change at all.

2) Assign a fixed budget of time, e.g. 20%, to refactoring and bugfixing and updating models and "moving to the new version of the language/library which lets us ...".

3) Prioritise the engineering tidy-ups alongside features. This involves (a) being able to credibly estimate the effort and value in the same dimensions as feature work is estimated and prioritised; (b) the people who do the prioritisation believing that engineering-desired work is as necessary as sales-desired or PM-desired work.

That last route requires people's beliefs and abilities to align. The middle route bypasses the entire prioritisation conflict at the cost of sometimes working too much or too little on technical debt. I think that's why you see a lot of fixed budgets for internal work.
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Can you highlight some of the BS?
Right, we're gonna get a lot of "my manager did them and they were great, so I think they're great" and (probably a lot more of) "mine did them and they sucked, so I think they suck" and "I did them and my reports loved them" (true) and "I did them and my reports loved them" (their reports were lying or this person can't read the room) and the reason for those experiences will not have much to do with the practice itself.
By building a profile of each user based on their viewing history and then when they use the search engine that I also own I would show them personalized results with sponsored links to products to buy. Plus I would be selling that information to third parties. And then I would of course also show some ads to all of the the normies that surf without an adblocker.
People never learn from history, and repeatedly try to fix exchange rates. "By god, this time it will work!"

Price fixing, rent control, anti-gouging laws, etc, all fail for the same reason, but that never discourages the next cohort that imagines they can defy economics.
> it turns out people have been working on the (mRNA vaccines) technology for decades.

if you mean "Developing mRNA vaccines from nothing to a working product" then yes, that's taken decades.

I don't really think that fact has much to say about if when you're already making millions of doses of commercial mRNA vaccines around the world this year, how fast next year's version can be made, tested, approved, manufactured at scale and deployed. The challenges involved seem to non-overlapping.

"delta- and omicron-specific vaccines" are coming soon, but this is still the very early days on mRNA vaccines, as a commercial mass-scale product.
I use NewPipe.
> I wonder how well my car will age when miscellaneous sensor all over the car start failing.

I predict that 50 years from now there will be more functioning cars from the 1960s than from the 2020s. With the combination of quickly obsoleting technology that won't be fixable and overly interconnected electronics that become impossible to diagnose after a while, there's not much hope for current and future cars to be anything but disposable.

Old mechanical cars though, can be kept running essentialy forever by just someone with access to a machine shop and some patience.
They weren't sent into nursing homes, they were returned to their homes which were nursing homes.
> I get so exhausted listening to people talk about http semantics, and arguing about the restfulness of different approaches.

I'm with you this far.

> From an implementation point of view, the difference between a POST, GET, and QUERY with a body is...trivial.

Sadly the difference is not trivial at all. I suppose if you're implementing an application-specific HTTP server that directly understands the application's semantics then the difference between these is trivial enough. But for the client the difference is not trivial at all, and the clients are bound to be off-the-shelf in many cases. And for an off-the-shelf HTTP server framework the difference may not be so trivial either.
Let's Encrypt FTW
I do this too. Be careful relying on it in an automated way, though: it will make some PDFs bigger.
No, the composition of sunlight literally changes throughout the day. When the sun is low in the sky in the morning or evening, light is traveling through more atmosphere than it is at noon. As light travels through the atmosphere, a certain fraction is scattered in a wavelength-dependent way. UV-B light--the Vitamin-D-causing kind--has a hard time passing through the atmosphere because of interactions with ozone molecules, so at grazing angles almost none gets through. However UV-A light is less affected by ozone and can still give you a sunburn. Interestingly, ordinary glass blocks both.
Is a Dermochelys, very big and specialized turtles with powerful jaws.
If you change to letsencrypt, maybe route some of that to them?
Contracts have to be upheld by a court, to mean anything. I could write in a contract that you will be required to hand me your testicles if you miss the deadline, that doesn't mean I will actually go to court to get them. A lot of companies write aggressive contracts and never actually bother to enforce them, since it would be more costly than what they might actually gain.
Regexes Are Cool and Good
I am sure only Jets fans truly appreciate your humor.
4chan is not that bad, just stay out of /pol/
Ah, I admit I read it all in reader view. The site says last updated in 2003, so almost an artifact in itself.
Youtube started being a corporatized content farm the day they removed video replies.
Sure, but game devs use tools like unreal engine the development time of which shouldn't be factored into the human hours calculation
Yes exactly, too late to edit but thanks for the clarification.
Website fined by German court for leaking visitor's IP address via Google Fonts
>Still, all I want is a car that isn’t as overbearing as all the rest of the devices I already own, sending me notifications, dinging, reporting errors, asking permissions, needing updates — my god!

No dings or errors also means no airbag, no ABS, and no way of knowing if your tire pressure suddenly drops. And good luck if you have any issues whatsoever while on a roadtrip. You did expect all mechanics to give a fair and honest price to get you back on the roadway, right?
That happens very rarely in Second Life. Being a jerk in Second Life has an annoyance radius of about 100 meters. The world is the size of Los Angeles or Greater London. This gives the system considerable resistance to annoyances. Space is what keeps everything from being in the same place. Unlike the 2D web, there's not much ability to annoy large numbers of people. There's no way to broadcast spam. There are no "retweets".

If you hold an event on your own land, you can block people, or require they be in a your group just to get in. You can prevent objects owned by others from entering. You can kick people out and send them to their home location. You can even use weapons they can't use on your property to apply large physical forces to their avatar and kick them up a few thousand meters. That's usually considered overkill. Property owners have more than enough tools to deal with problems. This is why Second Life needs only a tiny "governance" unit.

I have a virtual motorcycle shop in an adult area of Second Life and I'm not seeing annoyances like that. All the action is in nightclubs and people's own houses, just like real life.
Here is what I always recommend people: Try to use the 1:1s with your boss productively, ideally engage her/him in a problem solving session for one of your work topics.

I used to managed a large group of people. I always made clear that this is the time of the report. She/he could use the time with me at their will.

I have found the best use of our time was when a report would walk in (back in the day, you know...) and shared what they were struggling with. We would then jointly problem solve. This way, I could get an insight into their daily struggle, get updates on status and help them.

The least effective ones were over after 5 minutes or so, when the report didn't want to share anything. I am aware that this is a trust issue. But you can't build up trust without time to interact.
Yeah, I remember good ads there. Used to be the only reason I went on Facebook. I just checked to see what ads it would show these days. They were terrible and 4-5 of them had some hilarious typos in them.
> "Main" _is_ a better name for that branch though. It's shorter and more intuitive.

That's just making stuff up. IIRC, "master branch" comes from "master copy," which has long established usage and connotations of "thing you make copies from." My educated guess is that "master" in this case ultimately comes from the idea of someone who "mastered" a craft and created an item that less skilled workers would then copy to mass produce. "Main" lacks those connotations, which actually makes it more confusing.

If you want to use a different branch name, fine, but please don't make up BS justifications for doing so.

Honestly, if you're looking for an alternative that's about as intuitive as "master," "root" is probably a better choice than "main" (at least given the branching system I've always used).
It's the market for lemons problem. If it's your job, it's worth it to learn all you need to know to differentiate between junk and quality. If you're buying one of the 75 different appliances in your home, you'll probably just look at a review site, which can easily be gamed by companies selling junk.
The price of things don't have to be represented in dollar amounts. If I want to give you a free iPad for watching my 2 hour lecture, I don't expect you to put on some sunglasses and take a nap for 1 hour 55 minutes. If you do that, I don't have to give you that iPad even if you sued me for it.

Piracy in general is just 'unauthorized use'[0]. YouTube requires you watch ads to use their website, so not doing that is piracy. The only reason there's no consequences for adblock are because (A) it'd be bad optics and bad PR to sue regular viewers, and (B) YouTube sees the value of subsidizing those who block ads as a plus, since it means they can keep their tight grip on where 'everyone' goes to watch videos and thus where creators are required to upload if they want people to see their stuff. If they blocked ~37% [1] of viewers with adblock, different services more lenient to ad blockers (at first) would be able to actually attract viewers and perhaps get the content creators to start dual-uploading their content.

0: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piracy

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30151590
I don't think everything needs to be monetized. I wouldn't monetize it, I'd use a p2p protocol like peertube.
especially given how much of a Steve Jobs fanboy I was back in those days...
> The only outstanding problem, however, is that American infrastructure has been deliberately designed solely around the car.

The problem is that "infrastructure" doesn't just mean roads. It's where houses are. Where schools are. Where food is transported. It's where water and electrical service runs. It's how property is zoned. It's how police, fire, and hospitals are located. It's how municipalities design snow removal and garbage pickup. It's where shops and services are.

In many ways, fixing the infrastructure problem in the US means razing the whole continent and starting over.
Honestly, that would have been awesome!

I loved Myth and Myth II. A space-based one would have been great.

I don't understand the timeline, though, as the videos shown at MacWorld in 1999 (before Microsoft), show Halo as a first-person shooter. The video is linked above. I think it was a FPS long before Microsoft was interested. I think Microsoft bought it specifically because of the FPS game.
A glib response to a glib question: frankly, yes.

This is not an actual problem in real-world practice. Change tracking is easy and fairly universally understood. I see this idea from engineers that what lawyers do is try to slide in secret edits and a lawyer’s job is to be ever-vigilant for these secret attacks, but this is not how lawyers actually work.

Only non-lawyers imagine this is some huge issue that lawyers grapple with and for which they cry out for a solution. Again, it really would behoove any would-be saviors of the legal profession to engage with actual practitioners and listen to what their actual problems are, not what you strongly feel they must be.
I have approached the problem in a similar way, but without python.

I published my self-documenting docker Makefiles here:

https://github.com/Infused-Insight/docker_makefiles
Meh if you put a little effort into it by checking the post & comment history of the person doing the review it should give you a clue. Sure some companies have bought accounts with lots of Karma and "good will" in the past but I think that's pretty rare.
Me too. I think it's just an error by the author.
Interesting piece but I found the chart confusing. I don't know how you would do it better but the way the chart was done suggested to my mind that the devalued notes has actually gone up in value and I only sorted it out by reading the explanation very carefully -- that the "going up" green line actually represents "It takes more of these to get a dollar than it used to."
Why? Because the expected value is negative?

If that's the heuristic for defining stupid, we better revisit auto insurance, which also has a negative expected value.

On the other hand, maybe variance and skewness (to say nothing of kurtosis) have values (and costs) which a rational analysis needs to consider. Some people might be willing to pay to shed variance, while others might pay to take it on depending on the value of their assets and their time horizon.
The old notion that sensors always go bad in cars was never really accurate. People would see a check engine light, get the code read and see it says "O2 sensor" and replace the O2 sensor. Then the code happens again, they say "That damned O2 sensor on this stupid car" and replace the O2 sensor again. Rinse and repeat until you get a new car.

However, I'm willing to bet the O2 sensor was actually giving the correct read and was working fine, and the source of the issue is probably well upstream of the O2 sensor.
I know what the conversation is referring to, and my response is in regards to the naiveté demonstrated by responses like yours. The problems of today are different only in particular application, not in motivation or nature.

"Merit" as I understand it—who can best perform the job—has almost never been the primary hiring characteristic. Companies are comprised of people and those people are almost always the ones making the ultimate decisions. In hiring, this means that "merit" almost always means something different or is a secondary consideration behind more personal factors. "Is diverse" doesn't really strike me as inherently more corrupt a trait than "went to the same school I did" or "is a member of the same country club I am," though why it gets a lot more attention is certainly not a mystery.
I agree, this is why I like rapid.
> Apparently the obvious and easy solution here is to only get US-born hires. So why don't you?

This seems to be an unnecessarily aggressive take on it.

If I (an American) were working for an Indian company, I would plan to learn and understand what the culture is like in Indian companies, and then do my best to conform to that. If I didn't believe I'd feel comfortable in that environment, then I wouldn't take the job. I would expect an Indian working at an American company to do the same.

I get that it can be difficult, and that some of these cultural things aren't just company culture, but are deeply ingrained, real cultural differences between people of different backgrounds.

Having said all that, I do think a US manager who hires reports from India (or from any other country with a different culture than the US) should be aware of what cultural differences exist, and try to meet their employees in the middle as much as they can.

I do agree with the grandparent, though, that I don't want to work with people who are "obedient", at least in the way I'm guessing the great-grandparent meant (perhaps I'm inferring the meaning incorrectly, though). I agree that I want people who won't just do what management says, and will instead apply critical thinking to the work they get assigned, and question things that don't make sense.
No money, but I got free credit monitoring for a year after someone used it to steal my identity.
I tried it a few times, but there wasn't much immersion happening at the standard 1.5Mbps DSL speed, never mind modem.

It needs about 50Mb/s and a GTX 1060 or better to work well. With gigabit networking and a GTX 3070, it's pretty good. Now once the viewer becomes multi-threaded...
Thanks. Hope your students also enjoy it!
Even better - cheers to software freedom!
where do i sign up?
This project comes to mind: https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/timeline
Vasectomy worked great long-term as a not-to-do. No magical children have magically become manifest.

Marriage is on that list too. Also working swimmingly and comes highly recommended.

Your mileage may vary.

It's just something I noticed. Marriage and children did something to people. Especially to men. Whatever it was, it wasn't good. They all seemed to prematurely age and become miserable. I tell myself the good is private, you can't see the good of family life because you are not privy to it. I don't know if I'm wrong. I also tell myself that this is a construct of our society, not of man. That we should want to have children, that this shouldn't be a fundamental part of our lives. Yeah it isn't it, it's a misery. That a child can so completely trap us financially and otherwise is a great sadness. Money being more valuable than life. The high priests of finance determining how much life there can be.
Is this related to the concept of original antigenic sin?
Pretty cool to see firecracker 1.0 release.
Are they really the "best" developers? It just sounds like a different skillset and mindset, not necessarily better or worse.
no pebkac, I assure you. this happened multiple times, to multiple people, at multiple employers. all felt MS Office was too expensive until free solutions cost them thanks to problems like these.

couldn't be the software, huh? you sure? no bugs? ok...
I wish America had more bikeable cities and better public transport too, but I don't see what that has to do with the linked article. I would also really like a dumbcar.
Sorry: meaning this one copied from that earlier one, without attribution? yuck.
An interviewer once asked me what the difference between GET and POST were. My answer was along the lines of "well technically just four letters in the header but they're used differently" and the interviewer was absolutely adamant that I was wrong and that there was some fundamental difference between GET and POST requests to the point that I tried numerous times to steer it back towards how they're used.

Eventually I gave up and just ended the interview.
For most web hosting providers, enabling HTTPS is a button click, if not enabled by default, thanks to ACME and LetsEncrypt et al.
The prius has this fuel efficient design and opted to just give you more window on the back of the car anyhow.