skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding things like 2FA: This is also a matter of what might be reasonable to one group isn't necessarily reasonable to another group. Let's imagine this the other way round: let's say, Apple were to install a set of different colored hand cranks in front of each house, requiring users to crank a specific set of them to initiate certain interactions. While someone who was once accustomed to fetch water from a hand pump at the back of the house may adopt easily to such a scheme, you would probably be like, "scr$w you, let's go back to 1990s pagers, it's mostly about insert-preferred-messaging-app-of-the-season anyway." You wouldn't even try to memorize these cranking schemes (and ADHD may not help particularly in doing so).
Environment variables are also commonly used by cli programs.
Here are more details from the source (Hindenburg research): https://hindenburgresearch.com/jj-purchasing/
Ask HN: Name of when inconsistent UI makes you feel like youre about to stumble
Is there a name for the feeling like you're about to trip and fall that you get, when a UI is inconsistent?

For example, if a New Document Wizard uses Alt+N ("Next") to proceed through several screens of input, before switching to Alt+D ("Done") at the last screen. At that point, you need to get out of the habit of using "Next" to proceed and start using your new document, and must use "Done" instead.

Every time I hit one of those weird little UI inconsistencies, it makes me feel like I'm about to trip and fall like in music, when a drummer misses the beat.

Edit: I'm not talking about intentional dark-patterns, I'm talking about things caused by oversights or deadlines.
Wow. A survey by doctors say not using doctors isn't as good as using doctors. Who'd a thunk it?
Why not just stop watching the videos? Then you’re not exposed to ads.
It doesn’t seem moral to do this on revenue. The only thing that should matter to regulators is the active-users metric, as a percentage of the population.

Doing it by money seems like sour grapes. You succeeded in the free market so we’re going to hamper your progress.
The plugin to connect Pidgin and Meta/Facebook messenger is dying. I think Pidgin may lose a lot of users if this in not solved.

If someone want to help them :

- https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/issues/526

- https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/issues/518
It's less egregious, but remember that clicking away from the list (e.g. to close it) is also often an input option. Even though that's a lower input priority it could still disrespect the user's desires if they were trying to leave the list.
Well there is a geopolitical perspective to this as well right? Wouldn't want our biggest adversary to have strategic influence over these nations. Not to mention the potential intelligence capabilities from installing our equipment rather than theirs. Whether one country is more righteous than the other doesn't matter at this point - you should be rooting for the country that your survival depends on.
No. What really happens is that the hospital does a check on whether the uninsured person has any assets.

If yes >> garnish the assets. This can include your business, your house, whatever you have.

If no >> ok they're poor, let's negotiate it down to the limit of what they can pay.

If they're really, really poor, it gets written off... and the other uninsured people bear the cost of that writeoff. That's one of the major reasons that the costs for uninsured people are so crazy; the hospital system is allowed to do that.
Out of curiosity: What was the old language and what was its replacement?
And do their concerns get addressed somewhere up the chain? Do they even have ways to express their concerns?

I've heard there's a similar contingent within Microsoft complaining about all the ads and shady privacy stuff in Windows and they're just left to fester in the echo-chamber of internal Yammer.
> I'm not the one constructing evidence or claiming to know what's in his mind.

False. This is precisely what you have done, and the evidence is plainly seen in your comments.

> You're the one busy with that strawman.

This statement is in fact an example of ad hominem fallacy and straw man fallacy.

> You're the one doing the whole "what he thinks" shtick.

Again, this is both ad hominem and straw man. I have supported my position with Colbert's known disposition and his very own words.

> Which I repeatedly said is redundant.

This is a new and separate claim, which, because of the content of the claim and the lack of actually previously claiming such, the statement is currently false.
A mirror cube made like this would be perfect as it doesn't need any markings on the faces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_blocks

(The mirror cube is my favourite shape mod!)
It's seeming like piracy and Plex servers is the only way forward for people who want to stream stuff without having to worry about it getting removed eventually or the service getting worse year after year.
I'm not sure 99% is considered the gold standard you think it is. Sure, a lot of our tests can't even do that well, but we know that 99% isn't a lot for large populations. We even have jargon like "five nines", "six sigma" around the fact that 99% isn't a lot.
How about a system where documents are formed by using regular expressions to extract desired words and passages from a corpus such as the works of Shakespeare?
Fusion 360 has a free version and is very approachable. It's pretty popular among 3D printing hobbyists, but you can use it for all kinds of 2D and 3D designs.
Yeah I agree that hormone blockers in teens is not an action to take lightly (my understanding is that it is not reversible). I don’t have a ton of knowledge on it, but it seems we should be careful with that.
Heh, that's in the article under _Wrapping up and next steps_

> For the tickets themselves, a QR code could be added to link directly to the issue on GitHub. You could also add in more details from the issue itself like tags and severity.
Software Quality Metrics
Did I? How so? Please be specific. Was it that it doesn't support tables?
Yeah I just linked that study because it was looking at QALY which is an aggregate metric so it should in some sense take into account the effects of overdiagnosis even if overdiagnosis is not explicitly handled.

Here is another study looking at all-cause mortality, which again does implicitly handle overdiagnosis. https://www.ajronline.org/doi/full/10.2214/AJR.14.12666
I'm a Software Engineer.

Currently I'm working for a USA based product company with ~1000 employees (The ones who said
"We'll get a new front-end resource soon". "We're opening two more backfills for backend resources". "We need a front-end resource to unblock this ticket".)

The interview invite was for the position of a Tech Lead in an outsourcing firm in India. (The ones who said "Request to panel-Please Take Resource Snapshot along with Any ID Proof and share the Feedback along with IRF post completion of interview."

Edit: In a recent anonymous survey, I gave the feedback to stop treating the India employees as code monkeys or outsourced work, because several have started considering this as "yet another service-company type job", and are thinking to leave. With outsourcing companies, you expect it. But if most indian engineers had clarified that "the India office is not a outsourcing office for this company" before joining, people are gonna be more pissed on being treated like that.
The point was that building a simple x-ray device is about as technically far-out as say, winding your own transformer. Sure, not too many people do it, but it's not exactly on the forefront of technology either.

To your point, safety standards have evolved enormously in the last thirty years even. You don't get to modern safety standards by accident or good intentions or earnest application of the best practices you know. From that I would assume Osman built an X-ray that was potentially unsafe in ways he did not anticipate. That is, it would not have been a suitable replacement for a commercial X-ray compliant with FDA regulations. To be fair, I haven't watched the video but I did read the summaries and it sounds like Osman had a healthy and reasonable regard for the risk of building and operating his device, as manifest in the fact that he didn't operate it much and decomissioned it afterwards.

And also, we know for a fact that the Victorians injured themselves with X-rays. Nothing to doubt or wonder about.
Don't forget Trillian!
Recently I switched to a Logitech K380, a tiny thing with quiet, soft and effortless keys. I suppose it's the complete opposite of a mechanical keyboard.

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/keyboards/k380-multi...
60% of Russian missiles fail in the field
Confiscating someone's land should also be illegal, but unfortunately government has too much power.

Mandating size of plugs is a good thing for anyone to build things that can operate with electricity, mandating some private entity with a perfectly functional ecosystem without any interest to open its system to provide a certain type of socket, is not.
I don’t follow this comment. The last time I engaged with Teleport’s sales team they somewhere between $40-$80/host (server, VPS, etc). That seems like it would definitely scale with use.

Edit: per year. And there was a minimum order quantity.
Yeah, I should fix that someday. It’s been faintly annoying me for a decade now; other stuff takes priority.
I didn't see anything that indicated the size of this asteroid. How big was it? Would it have burned up in the atmosphere if it indeed was on a collision course with earth?
I don’t know about repair but the $99 Brother laser printer doesn’t require any malware. You can print wirelessly from Windows/Mac/iOS without installing anything
https://youtu.be/R13BD8qKeTg
Estonian Tied to 13 Ransomware Attacks Gets 66 Months in Prison
If Ikea did not bribe and failed to get approval perhaps it is part of the local culture of getting anything approved
This statement relies on those with guns being more loyal to the leader than to, say, cash, continued life of themselves and their family and no internal religious, ethical or nationalistic motive that might get in the way.

It also relies that those issuing the reliability certifications are they themselves reliable. It also forgets that there's all sorts of "action at a distance" weapons and tools that can be used far more precisely that an pistol.
Xoogler here:
I'm sure if Memegen still exists, someone has made a post about this. Not to be glib, but Googlers are people too and share most of the frustrations about Google's product strategies. I joined right before Inbox was being sunset and there was a small, but very vocal contingent of folks who were upset by that. I myself was a member of the so called Inbox Resistance.

Maybe not a perfect metaphor, but I think of it as similar to how constituents continue to reelect their specific congressperson, but Congress as a whole has record low approval ratings. It's always another PA that's ruining Google ;)
If it's on purpose to fool users, e.g. to make more profit, then it's probably https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/
I've seen people report lack of deeply capable repl, slime a few times. People don't like immutable first too (maybe they prefer metaobject update protocols).
If you think you know better, why don't you give everyone a useful, detailed solution, instead of providing curt, unsubstantive, and argumentative responses?

Per the HN Guidelines:

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
and I thought apple customers would buy anything.
Yeah the days of integrated chat messengers seem to be dead. I loved Trillian way back when and all of the UI customization options.
I got all the dates from Wikipedia. shrug

Oh wait also I did the math wrong in my reply above :)
Watch all the CAD streams from wintergatan live.
When I was at MS I once saw someone from legal jump into the middle of an email thread, that he wasn't on, and shut it down.

That was... interesting to say the least.
Similar.

1. IRC

2. ICQ

3. MSN

4. IRC (again)

5. Skype and Facebook

6. WhatsApp

7. Facebook again

8. Still Facebook (very sticky)

9. IRC + Slack (some communities) + Discord (some communities) + Facebook/Whatsapp + Signal + Telegram + Matrix + Zulip

Yeah, I think we need a new libpurple.
I would be interested in hearing HN's take on the matter.

I'd imagine the tolerance for bugs in a support application written by IT is higher than the tolerance for bugs in a mission critical defense application. (Not to belittle a support application, in large organizations business logic can be exceedingly, unnecessarily complicated)

Overall, what would an acceptable, practical defect rate in IT?
You can’t be serious. Does this mean not clicking on any links in the search that dont lead to a “trusted” site? Not following any links that your friends send you?

I think fixing the browser is a less tedious task than limiting useful internet surface like this.
I don't think every culture has exactly the same ethical framework. One can easily imagine a few different examples where that's not the case.
Excellent episode of the Omnibus podcast in which very, very large oil paintings become the 19th-century precursor of the modern movie theater:

https://www.omnibusproject.com/366

Hosted by Ken Jennings and John Roderick
IMVHO that's a classic fallacy of a managerial-driven thinking: numbers are not the essence of anything, they can be used in many things to summarize to the extreme something but not everywhere for everything.

It's like to say "how many degree of temperature and humidity there are in this room"? Most just look at nearest thermo-hygrometer and say out load a number, let's say 19℃ considering that number "the truth" at maximum with the relative precision error of the meter. Actually that's a "somewhat realistic approximation", a room is not a well insulated calorimeter, so I can say that's 32℃ just because behind the windows with direct sunlight that's the temperature locally measured with 30% humidity, but also on the other extreme of the room, one of an old masonry house placed direct on ground soil, where I measure 14℃ and 60% humidity.

For intelligence it's not much different, only even harder to measure. We can say someone is very skilled in math so "he/she is intelligent" and craft some kind of test (like uni admissions tests common in various faculties around the world) but can also be absolutely not much skilled in math but very smart in talking and comprehend peoples so we can craft a "social ability skill" intelligence scale etc and finally combine all those test in a giant one and establish a scale, but again that scale is a kind of generic approximation of something we try to "standardize" after a long process of observation on many peoples abilities. It's not a real measure out of something tangible and really meaningless, for instance if you need a developer how it's intelligence score matter? Someone might have a high score but still being far less able to sole certain kind of programming tasks than someone else.

Long story short: there is no real and meaningful measure for intelligence, we just try to pretend there is something to craft studies on that produced like an industrial product because in a managerial-driven society anything must be like that, it's not possible to think about immeasurable, not programmable Gantt diagrams style things.
That's interesting! I fear the privacy crowd wouldn't be huge fans of this idea, so doing it just on municipal vehicles might be easier as a first step. But definitely, collecting data from things which are already driving around in general is a great idea!
I disagree that it would necessarily take that long. Per the OP, his father is not starting from scratch, and has some programming in his background. Being a CEO, CCO, etc... We can assume his father is an intelligent and successful person.

Possibly, if his father applied himself, he could find himself a niche in which he would be adequately competent within 2 years. To include being a freelancer or independent developer.

As you alluded to, because of his father's business background, he might do really well in sales for a software related company or starting his own business.
Agreed. Reminds me of the payments of as much as $183K a month from a Ukrainian natgas company to a man with no energy sector experience that just happened to be the son of the US Vice President. There's no evidence it was a bribe, just a hit piece, probably from a competitor like Russia
that’s quite impressive, not so many startups can afford to do this
> Kodak famously invented the digital camera around 1975. But they failed to envision a future without film.

What would you have even put a photo onto to view it in 1975? A television I guess - at 320x240 NTSC resolution. Which is wildly inferior to an actual photograph in terms of quality at that time (35mm negatives are around 20 megapixels at 75 lp/mm).

How would you have distributed it? Photo CD? CDs weren't standardized for another 5 years. Laserdisc I guess? Not standard equipment for anyone at the time (even leaving aside that nobody had PCs either).

In 1975, the market for digital photography would have consisted of: satellite reconnaissance, military applications, and wire-service news photography. Military applications and wire-service being large fixed-installation cameras and not a SLR format.

Bear in mind, this is what a digital camera looked like in 1991, let alone in 1975: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_DCS_100

Blasting Kodak for "not envisioning a future without film" in 1975 is like blasting IBM for not envisioning the personal computer in 1950. They were correct that the worldwide market for computers didn't exist at that time. And when the opportunity came to pivot - like the DCS-100 - they largely did. The military were early adopters of that for special operations teams for example.

What they didn't do was dive into consumer photography aggressively in the early 00s. And I'm sure that seemed like a reasonable business decision at the time: margins were much lower for consumer gear than professional, and kodak was not really a semiconductor firm.

Anyway, "kodak could have become kings of digital photography!" is one of those bits that has just sunk into the pop-culture psyche but isn't really true at all. Much like the IBM "there is only a worldwide market for five computers" line - they actually were right at the time they made that observation. The real problem was that when the time was right they were too blinded by their higher-margin businesses to pivot, but 1975 was not it.

The world was nowhere near ready for consumer digital photography in 1975 and it doesn't even pass the smell test that it might possibly have been. There's about another five technologies you really needed before digital photography could have become a thing commercially let alone viable for consumers.
Show HN: Very Good Table is a no-code database for small businesses
Oh, good point; I was thinking from the perspective that a Chromecast is cheap, but it looks like an Apple TV is only $180 which probably is close enough if you use it any decent amount.
What do you do with your receipts? If they weren't meant to be edible, you wouldn't get a complimentary one with every restaurant meal.
I’ve seen “Source?” used as a concise critique against what I consider to be epistemically illegible arguments.
> I'd spin this around and cast it as a challenge -- regular, forced interactions with coworkers is minimally sufficient and retards some people from pursuing social activities outside the home.

Or,it allows people with social anxiety or depression a room for social interactions with very well defined rules and in an environment where people generally interact positively with you. I like the convenience of WFH too but I do miss cooking with my colleagues and their families on Wednesdays.

This might sound weird to you but living alone and having had parents that made every meal either a screaming match or a barrage of passive aggressive comments I enjoyed those lunches with my much more reasonable colleagues a lot.

Being essentially alone most days certainly didn't help with my depression and that makes other social interactions harder.

I still won't go back though, wearing trouser being optional at work is a worthwhile tradeoff
Me desperately trying to get a decent repro case for a bizarre networking bug in Halo: "Oh man, gotta remember, better not bribe any foreign officials while I sort this out."
heh it must hurt to have paid for all that commercial real estate that's now sitting empty. I bet a decent portion of the motive to get employees back in the office is to just validate the rent bill.
Show HN: Butt Mover, an IRL Productivity and Health Improvement Game
I need to get up from my chair and take a walk at regular intervals for medical reasons, But I often forget to do that when I'm immersed with work, So I wanted a solution which reminds me to take a walk at regular intervals automatically.

Hence I created Butt Mover to solve that problem, It has two parts;

1. Butt Trigger: An ESP8266 based button switch which goes under a butt cushion on the chair and is connected to the computer.

2. Butt Mover: The game which starts the task timer (25 minute interval) when we sit on the chair and reminds to take a walk when the timer ends(with audio). When we get up from the chair the break timer (5minutes for 5 tasks and a long break for 30 minutes) starts and reminds to get back to the seat when the timer ends.

Those who cannot build the Butt Trigger, Can start the timers manually but that removes the major advantage of not having to focus explicitly on Butt Mover.

I've been using a crude version of this setup for past two years with good improvement in my productivity and health; So I finally created a version which is more accessible to others upon suggestion from many including some from HN.

I hope you can try Butt Mover, Especially with the Butt Trigger and if you liked what it does then you can also build and sell Butt Trigger for others who are interested.
But tests are not generally described in terms of accuracy. They're described in terms of sensitivity and specificity, because those quantities are both "accuracy" but they're not closely related to each other.

A test that is always negative has 0% sensitivity and 100% specificity. Nobody thinks that sounds good.
First reply to you: "His intentions though are irrelevant."

Yet you persist to cherry pick...
Oh, it took us very little time to figure out to start in the middle. It took us more time to figure out what was the most effective response to that. It is hard to remember now, as I haven’t played the game in decades. But most likely, both of us made just enough mistakes, which the other then exploited, that the initial advantaged drowned in the noise of what followed, if you get my drift.
How do you make friends at gyms? Here everyone has noise cancelling headphones on, focusing on their sets, and only staring at their equipment or their phone. There's no socializing with strangers going on on unless you brought your own friends, as everyone is busy to do their sets and go home.

And what's the difference between a gym and a weightlifting club? Here we have gyms, where there's free weights, machines and cardio equipment where you can do everything including weightlifting. Never heard of a weightlifting club. What do you do there besides lift weight like in any other gym? Is it done in a group or something?
...Falsifiable? The author uses a lot of words and seems to appreciate brevity, but isn't the entire article summarized by this one word?
Does the $1k to go to Disney land buy the same utility as the $1k average yearly income in Bangladesh?

Or the utility a 80th percentile household in the US could buy for the same amount.
Billions get paid to Microsoft from countries with starving people.
This has always upset me and I do not use Microsoft.
Why Would Two Ordinary People Steal a $160M Willem de Kooning Painting?