skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't match mine. The people I know who do this come across as insecure and defensive. I think it takes high self-esteem to not feel as if apologising for your mistakes would lessen you in any way.
Interesting question, I wrote and deleted many answers, all probably equally valid.

At the end of the day, it is frightening to raise a child in a world you are not optimistic about. And I can't imagine my youth without this idea of a bright future.
Is self hosting an option?
They get subsidised by the individual countries to soften the blow? Think I'm missing your point.
just an utterly daft opinion.

you cannot fight entropy, you can only feed it
I’m reminded of another thread from the other day about resume length. As someone with a huge career change on the distant horizon. I don’t know if I hate resume. If I had to guess, majority of my skills in knowledge comes from outside work and is not something

The problem is this just is not sufficient in covering all I’ve learned and done. I’ve been regularly screened out of jobs that I 100% know I can perform, but it’s fair. If you looked at my resume you’d never think I’m qualified, but I’ve picked up so many skills and knowledge from a cumulation of years of just fucking around. At this point the only jobs I can get it’s [equivalent of old job] + more pay.
>In my anecdata, its women around me that are apologizing for very benign things, often and habitually, apologizing for basically breathing and other things that I’m sometimes saying “…. You don’t have to apologize for that”

A dear friend of mine does that. We kept telling her to stop apologizing, but she just keeps doing it.

So my peer group made it a drinking game. Every time <my friend> apologizes, everyone has to drink.

It hasn't made her stop apologizing, but it's less disconcerting when you're half in the bag. :)
Future of Blitz
> Are a family of 8, wash 2x daily, it breaks after manufacture's stated warranty? Probably, not covered.

That sounds fair, until it's not. It's perfectly normal that a washer as a whole fails after 15 years: the thing is the belt is the only part that should fail and it should be easy to replace. Like with IT parts, manufacturers go to great lengths to ensure parts are incompatible with one another and hard to replace.

Most electro-mechanic devices i've seen fail in the past two/three decades were due to electronics: heater thermostat (not the IoT kind, the dumb kind), washing machine program selector (also dumb kind), etc. Likewise in auto industry it was reported that most vehicles being recalled in the past years in USA were due to electronics failing, not mechanics.

I personally find that outrageous and bet everyone would be better off if consumer products had standard bodies mandating use of specific interchangeable parts (like we have for electric/USB sockets or lightbulbs), and if it was illegal to sell hard-to-repair products (no glue breaking the device when you tear it apart).

Mandating a >20y warranty and duty of available spare parts is in my view the path of least effort for regulators: it will significantly raise the overall price of pushing out new incompatible models. Manufacturers would only release a device once every decade once they have achieved some significant efficiency/usability gains, instead of releasing parts-incompatible new designs for bad products every month just to profit. If you add in some standards regulations dictating interoperable formats for specific parts, that would start to look like an eco-friendly user-benefiting regulation.

Of course amateur industry like Pine64 needs to be exempt from such regulations to allow for innovation, but customer devices are a currently a nightmare destroying our planets and ruining our lives and wallets. I applaud Quebec for taking those steps, but they simply won't cut it.

PS: How is IoT even legal? In 99% of cases, it introduces unnecessary complexity and fragility, and in most cases has glaring security concerns.
I was under the impression Pittsburgh is one of the currently hip gentrifying cities (like Austin or Portland were 10 years ago)? At least I know several people who moved there from other, already expensive, cities.
I don't see any comment on their website about this endorsement, could you please point it out?

I really hope this site persists... Valve made many games of my childhood... Portal especially had a large impact on my life.
Your generation? I think most living generations have this addiction. :(
Definitely not all women are chronic apologizers, but I can't think of ever meeting a chronicly apologetic man. I don't think parental norms and society, taken together, encourage it or even really allow it, at least in the West.

I suspect there's big overlap between women who are chronic apologizers and women with overbearing mothers (NPD, BPD types).
I think it is a question of individual's morale, not a question of your country's economic. Wouldn't you grab someone's property if you have alredy became a part of a gang destroying and murdering so-called enemies?
For sure, however really get the feeling now days people are too sensitive now days get offended by anything a bit taboo, not PC or out of norm.
I’m able to find good quality shoes and boots, jackets, watches, and bags. I can’t for the life of me find quality chinos, polos, t-shirts, sweaters, and other basic articles of clothing.

I’m fine with Levi jeans, but all other clothing items seem to be crappy cotton/spandex blends of poor quality fabric, no matter if you spend $15 or $150 on a garment. It’s very frustrating, I’d rather just buy quality stuff that lasts, but I’m unable to find any quality clothing. Hopefully this legislation encourages clothing manufacturers to use quality fabrics and construction again.
Yeah, recently Chun Doo Hwan died, he went all the way to his death never apologizing for the Gwangju massacre, and insisting that the whole thing was a communist plot to besmirch his good character.

There are only consequences if someone makes there be consequences.

And, as a species, we're generally quite bad at letting the worst among us not just roam free, but rise to the very top.

Edit: Chun Doo Hwan, not Park Chung Hee, getting my dictators mixed up, sorry.
I recently started doing part time contracting dev work for a couple companies. The best part is that management doesn't invite me to these bullshit meetings because they know I will be billing them for no value being delivered.
If a development would greatly help members of a historically oppressed group and somewhat hinder members of a historically powerful group

There are a lot implicit assumptions in here of outcomes you cannot predict, and which I'm frankly a little dubious you can precisely define and measure in a falsifiable way.
> Second, The absolute price for a clothing item is not really relevant without considering its lifespan.

With the exception of children's clothes. These unfortunately get hit with all issues: 1. Kids are more active and will stain/tear them more often than adults. 2. They grow out quickly, limiting initial lifespan. 3. Due to point 1, it's hard to resell things past the baby stage.
This fast-fashion shit has ruined everything. Zara is a spanish brand that around 20 years ago used to produce high quality garments, remember having a lot of shirts, sweater and pants lasting from 5 to 10 years .... After going global they shit everything up .... Always the same issue with capitalism and globalization
I don't really understand why anyone would consider "don't apologize for anything" a "power move". I understand why someone who lacks empathy would default to that kind of behavior, but I don't agree that it's rational. Being open, honest and actionable is what creates a dependable leader or co-worker in my mind, anyone that attempts to cover up problems, blames others and avoids resolving issues would lose my trust very quickly, which from a Machiavellian perspective is not in that persons interest. Humans are very social beings and we have been conditioned over thousands of years to identify unreliable partners and shun them, the idea of the "highly functional psychopath" is a complete myth, because the only context a person like that can succeed is in one where human relationships are irrelevant (because they are temporary, for example).
I don't know what you need to be huffing to consider a master student at the final stages "untrained". A master is basically the highest form of schooling there is.
Edit: leaving up as an embarrassing reminder to myself fully rtfm before opening my mouth. I thought this did NOT have comments and sub by email but it does. Glad y’all provided me with some feedback to realize I was wrong.

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Original comment:

I don’t get it. If you want to write and don’t care how much you’re read, write privately (Google Docs, a journal, text file, etc.)

If you’re writing publicly presumably it’s for public consumption. The way you know if your writing is read is through feedback - comments, shares, email subs, etc.

Feedback on your writing both helps you understand where you need to think more deeply about what you wrote AND provides valuable positive reinforcement: somebody is reading what you put into the world.

Not providing hooks for these seems to defeat the purpose of writing in public.
Also when you destroy a ship hidden in a corner, you only get to exclude half of usual surrounding tiles (since ships can't connect). So long ships of lengths 4, and 3 are best to be placed on edges, because they're going to be hit sooner rather than later anyway, while small ships can try dodge late-game shots.

Edit: just realized a lot of commenters here played a version where the ships can touch. My reasoning above won't apply in such case.
'Archival' is an adjective. The gerund 'archiving' works nicely and is grammatical.
False advertising, no nudes anywhere to be found!! /s
Agree, I just downloaded Firefox onto my windows PC this week, experienced none of these things, and the process was really easy. I am in the US, so that could be an explanation.
Sounds almost like a sitcom...
Even the first page, it implies it is made by the original designer. It is disingenuous from the start. And actually i looked a few more pages, the quality of the content is quite bad.
Mizora [1] is a boutique Japanese brand producing woman's nightware out of recycled Kimono (silk) or Tencel. I purchased some for my partner, she loves them.

I thought it was such a cool concept. Everything is handmade to order, seems really well made.

[1] https://mizora.studio/
> Food delivery has all but stopped my need to ever get in my car.

Is it better though? Depends on your car, but someone on a scooter loitering, then going to a restaurant/store for you, and then to your home, and then the same thing again, is drastically less efficient than you doing a round-trip.
It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars to certify an LTE/5g device. Not the chipset, but the entire device. Then, the per part cost of adding LTE chipsets that won’t be used on the majority of devices, since they’ll be connected to consumer internet. Finally, there is a fixed service cost that is not trivial per device per month per kb, usually.

Each stage of design cuts into the already razor thin margins. And for what? To get data on a few people that don’t connect their tv to the internet?
An apology doesn’t necessarily need to involve committing to never doing the action again.
I would not. It just prevents me in achieving my objectives.
Maybe consider that you're not their target audience.
I thought these type of comments weren't allowed on HN.
>Matches my anecdata. The people I know that never apologize definitely have more confidence and self esteem than the people I've seen apologize.

That sounds about right. But those same people are also pretty universally considered gigantic assholes.

On the other hand, as someone who tries hard to take responsibility for my actions, including apologizing for my screw ups, I have lots of confidence and self esteem.

Much of that comes from my belief (whether founded or not) that being a decent human being is an important part of living a good life. And when I take responsibility for myself, that enhances my sense of personal integrity and value.

On the gripping hand, there are no absolutes and context is vital. As such, YMMV.
If I was making policies I would oblige manufacturers of anything to take back and recycle their product at the end of life. This would make sure products/packagings are made to be recyclable and/or biodegradable.

This should be applied not only to clothing, but really everything. I would expect the first result would be no single use plastics anywhere.

Obviously the cost of the change would be transferred to consumers on the purchase price. However we are already paying it in a deferred manner with the degradation of the natural world.
Technically, it is possible, but my approach is generally to use Kaitai only for uncompressed/deobfuscated stuff. So I just do the decompression ahead of time and feed that into Kaitai. That way, I can use WebIDE/etc.
GP is flagged.
The Life Pro Tip should be to avoid mistakes in the first place. An apology is an express acknowledgement that you've screwed up that first part, for the avoidance of doubt; hence, it is best kept short and to the point. "Apologizing" simply has no meaning otherwise.

That's why you see people often saying things like "I'm sorry that you seem offended" and the like. It's a way of clearly stating that you don't think an apology is called for in the first place, without being outright insulting or burning bridges in the process.
Brick and mortar isn’t a great choice in a place that is seismically active.
What do these examples have to do with interpersonal relationships or group dynamics? You are doing the same as cancel mobs:

Take unrelated extreme examples and link them by association to anyone who loses their patience.
Sadly, it's easy to mistake self-esteem for grandiosity, which is why it's important to take a bit more time, and pay a bit more attention to people before figuring them all out.
You yourself actually linked to the relevant plot "Employed full time: Median usual weekly real earnings". If you want to make credible arguments, look for median income.

Q3 2001: $338, Q3 2021: $367, so that's an 8% increase, claimed to be CPI adjusted.

CPI measures price changes for things such as flip flops, snickers bars, and TVs - things you find in Walmarts. What people complain about is the price of housing.
I'm in Hungary, Europe so not even an EU thing
Not sure what kind of feedback you want?

They have comments and they have (local) analytics. What more do you expect from a blog?
I’m trying to understand who the target audience is.

Phrasing my comment a slightly different way: what’s the point of writing *in public* if you don’t get feedback?
False dychotomy
Seems very similar to https://bearblog.dev — another cool project
My parents recently bought a Roku TV which indeed had to be connected to the internet. They didn’t care about any smart features they just wanted a cheap TV to watch the local news on. Trying to watch plain OTA TV stations was unbearable as the local channels were mixed in with the “free” internet channels and you couldn’t just skip to the channel you wanted- you had to cycle through. Thankfully they returned it. I told them to buy a dumb tv even if they have to pay more.
I see where you’re coming from, but I personally love blogging with zero concern for who reads it, how many likes it gets, or whether or not people want to give feedback.

It prevents me from falling into a trap of crafting posts that have a bias toward what I think people might want to read, it keeps it pure.
Life pro tip: don't think that the usual act of apologising (i.e. saying 'I'm sorry') is the only path to a genuine apology. Personally I don't really care if someone doesn't explicitly say the words 'I'm sorry', I care far more about their actions insofar as they show some level of contrition. If you've done something that has deeply hurt me, and never say the word sorry, that's fine (although it's not like I object to someone actually saying that literal phrase) - so long as you took other actions to rectify the situation.

I think being aware that different people value different forms of apologies is useful, I highly doubt I'm unique here.

Personally I've found there are ways to communicate that dramatically lessen the chance of hurting someone else, thus avoiding having to say sorry much/at all. It's worth finding out what these methods are (e.g. couching criticism in general terms while still being specific to someone's work can be very effective).
> For most consumer appliances, it’s vastly more wasteful and energy intensive to run them for 20 years than to replace them at ten.

That might be true in terms of CO2 and energy efficiency, although the only sources i've found on the topic gave very opposite results. But no study that i know of accounts for pollution (waste water and polluted surroundings of extraction sites, refinement sites, assembly sites, and "recycling" sites) so i'm tempted to argue that anything we don't manufacture is better for the environment than better efficiency.

> The lack of appliances that last this long is itself a result of better production: if you have some large number of components, each one must have a 50 year expected lifetime if you want a chance for the machine to work for even a decade.

I strongly disagree with this interpretation. First, because industry routinely employs bad parts and bad design on purpose (planned obsolescence, eg. televisions placing heat-sensitive capacitors near heat sources). But also because an individual part failing is in my view OK as long as this part is standard and easy to source.

There are some environmental/logistic concerns if you want to repair old devices given the gazillion incompatible spare parts they each use. But if they all used standard parts, we could and should have repair shops run as a free public service to avoid throwing stuff away. This in itself would do more for the environment than any "green new deal" would ever do.
Cutting the free tier from 3 GB to 500 MB makes it useless for many people: that's 500 images at okay resolution, and lots of people like to put photos on their blogs. And 300 "visits" (page hits?) per day is almost as bad, as a runaway crawler or minor spike in interest can blow through that in no time.

I moved away from WP.com when they started putting ads on the free tier. I thought their business model was upselling some people, so monetizing the free version felt scummy. The fact that they're crippling the free version now makes me even more glad I moved away.
I've not found that for the heavier clothes. If you have money to spend, outdoors clothes shops will sell you awesome quality clothes. (What's yours local equivalent of Kathmandu or Patagonia brands)

But I totally agree on t-shirts - I've been trying to find good ones for a while and each company ended up being a disappointment. American Apparel seems to survive the longest, but I got a recommendation to try one of the online-ordered tailored items. I've used those for shirts and was very happy in the past... it seems like an overkill for t-shirts but I'll give it a go.
Okay, do it. Indeed I've seen it happen, but... it requires a "certain kind of person" to pull it off. And I certainly wouldn't bet on it as a probability.

It's very easy for newly minted engineers to get sucked into the grind. Most entry level engineering work consists of organizing and arranging things, fitting things together, troubleshooting, bureaucracy, and attending meetings. It's easy to become so busy with those things that you forget your math & theory (or whatever fundamentals you learned in your field). Many engineers are happy to operate the machines (CAD, IDE, etc.) all day long, and get paid a lot.

To learn more in those 3 years requires some combination of potential, motivation, and luck. You might be someone who refused to join the grind, and were strong enough to get away with, or found a great mentor. You might be capable of grinding for 8 hours, then going home and immersing yourself in a fructifying side project.

Granted, a PhD doesn't guarantee any of those things either. It also requires potential, motivation, and luck. There's massive attrition in PhD programs, and they will let you render yourself unemployable. There's no filter at the start of the PhD program that weeds out people who will struggle with the soft skills required for success in higher level jobs.
Do you have any proof for the boiled frog myth? Would love to read.
Surely it’s ok to do some things in the extreme, no?
This is so different from my first job experience, I can't imagine a more night and day comparison. I literally got stuck at a desk and had no mentoring at all, team meetings were blind leading bling into ditch, and all work was 100% individual. Nobody would have helped me even if I had asked, they probably would have told me to fuck off since they had their own tickets. Since I am really introverted and flat out don't like dealing with people, this was pretty nice for me, bu being remote during the whole thing would have been heaven. I'd still be working there if that were the case.

To your question, what do you want to learn? I can tell you that if you want to broaden out, just do projects in new languages/frameworks. If you want to learn technique, I would suggest you go find quality academic publications on the topics you want. The chances that your teammates are anywhere near as "good" as what you might observe in such books is honestly very low. Most engineers are mediocre, that is just a fact, so your team may not be imparting as much wisdom as you feel it is. I know mine didn't.
Long-term development of some mathematical software projects
I think it's pretty important to not only read the headline, but also the abstract:

> In two empirical studies, we examined the unexplored psychological consequences that follow from a harm-doer's explicit refusal to apologize. Results showed that the act of refusing to apologize resulted in greater self-esteem than not refusing to apologize. Moreover, apology refusal also resulted in increased feelings of power/control and value integrity, both of which mediated the effect of refusal on self-esteem. These findings point to potential barriers to victim–offender reconciliation after an interpersonal harm, highlighting the need to better understand the psychology of harm-doers and their defensive behavior for self-focused motives.

Note that the "psychological benefits" mentioned here are completely individual: greater self-esteem, increased feelings of power/control, etc.

This study says nothing about any "benefits" of refusing to apologize in a social context, i.e. whether it would improve ones standing among other people from a group psychology perspective, which a lot of comments seem to (understandably) default to discussing.

The abstract specifically mentions these findings as being interesting within the context of "victim–offender reconciliation", i.e. understanding what keeps offenders from apologizing even if they are fully aware their actions were wrong.

I think it's pretty safe to assume that the "benefits" in a social context would not outweigh the negative effects of being shunned by the group as an unreliable agent, but that's just my perspective (no apologies).
I wish tech had frozen at like the 2005-2006 era; good enough for wireless routers in homes and some Web 2.0 capabilities but before everything was aggressively targeted towards an always connected phone in your pocket at all times
> Why shouldn't a company that sold me a refrigerator be able to point out that it produces ovens as well?

Depends on how big that company is in the fridge market. Using a monopoly power in one market to dominate another is textbook abuse of monopoly power and exactly why MS got sued for IE back in the day.
Well, it mentions fossil, so...
Yeah — I think a “you sell it, you scrap it” law would de-externalize a lot of really harmful end-user sales: not just for source manufacturers, but every middle-man in between.