skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Designs should not, by the use of adhesives, welding, non-standard fixings, unnecessary integration, traps, and fuses, prevent the easy disassembly and reuse of modular components

This would forbid production of security tokens (like Yubikey) which are designed to be hard to disassemble and peek inside.

Non-standard whatever is how innovation happens. Non-standard fasteners, etc are fine as long as tools to work with them are available (not patented and kept from circulation).

The welding and adhesives clause is also problematic. Is a welded car body unnecessarily welded, preventing reuse of its individual metal parts? If so, how are glued-together components of a phone not the same deal? A part of the car body likely costs more than an electronic part of a phone.

Otherwise, I'm with you.
They are all slaves, including Musk himself.
Windows support has made great leaps forward in the last few releases.
For something to be a threat I would have to be at Twitter, which I'm not. It's not a threat: I think it's a risk. You announce you're going to fire 75% of a company on day one, you haven't taken steps to secure the infrastructure before spreading chaos, that's a huge gamble. I'm sure the folks at Twitter are all ethical enough that nothing bad will happen, but doing this this way is sure playing with fire.

Telling people to "ship a feature in a week or you're fired" is abusive as hell. And this isn't some clever three-dimensional gambit to get people to quit: Musk has done this elsewhere as well. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-reportedly-terrifi...
How does censorship help any of those problems?

I can think of two recent examples where it failed, bitterly dividing the country:

1. in the case of the Hunter Biden laptop, a media organization was censored based on false allegations of “misinformation”; and,

2. during COVID, people who said authoritarian policies were a bad idea were censored — including medical professionals; resulting in devastating but only marginally effective authoritarian policies.

How, specifically, do you only censor “wrong” speech — without in practice just giving special government powers to the people who manipulate speech in the pursuit of personal power, eg Fauci?
If someone yells FIRE without a real FIRE in a crowded town hall that causes a stampede resulting in death or injury - I guess it is ground for bringing criminal charges against the original yeller.

I don’t see what is so hard to understand here. We already have the legal clarity , they just needs to be implemented diligently.
> Is that accurate?

It is - we would have to be so wrong about how the universe works for that to be possible that it would be absolutely miraculous that we can even make a fire, not to mention a particle accelerator.

People tend to significantly underestimate how little room there is for us to be significantly wrong about such things and still have all the observations we've made. There are still major gaps in our understanding of the universe, to be sure, but they are nowhere near the level of allowing for beings which strip quarks from a nucleus.
What if they just took less of everybody's money and let them keep it for themselves?
"This is convenient for corporations so suck it up." isn't a very compelling argument. The purpose of the government is to represent the interests of the people in situations where there is sufficient agreement to pass legislation. If your company doesn't like complying with local laws, its easy, just don't look for people in this country. The people have a right to set the terms of exchanges in the marketplace.
>Not "from scratch" but there are tons of routers that either don't support IPv6 or have broken support and thus need to be replaced.

A fair point. Many older (and possibly some current) consumer routers don't support IPv6 and would obviously need to be replaced.

That said, AFAICT, all the Tier I and Tier II providers and most major ISPs routing infrastructures support IPv6. Depressingly, many of those don't offer IPv6 to their customers.

This is anecdata, but my ISP (Spectrum) doesn't offer IPv6 to me (presumably based on my location), but does offer it to other customers.

And unless (this is US-centric, I know it's different elsewhere) you have an organization of a certain size[0], and most small businesses and consumers aren't anywhere near big enough, one needs to rely on their ISP for IPv6 allocations/support.

I'd add that most modern (last 10-15 years) OS implementations have IPv6 baked in, and most routers have supported dual stack for quite some time, IPv6 should be much more widely deployed in the US.

According to Google[1], less than half their users (~41%) access their services via IPv6. That's a significant increase since 2013 or so, but I suspect much of that is because India has ~80% IPv6 utilization.

All that said, I hope IPv6 adoption increases across the world in the near to medium term, and more importantly (to me at least) that my ISP starts offering it in my area.

[0] https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv6/first_request/#end...

[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=ipv6...
What GP is referring to is Traffic Calming techniques:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_calming

Common example I'm used to seeing is narrowing of the roads and causing a slight bend at various points to essentially 'force' you to slow down. It's not technically causing you to slow, but you feel much more comfortable going slower when transitioning through the calmed area. No speed enforcement needed... just some small changes to the road.
They also fought it because they didn't go to medical school and survive residency to fill out forms all damn day—and they didn't used to have to, they had staff for that.

Then the computerized systems "replaced" that staff but all that really means is they cut the human time needed low enough that full-time workers weren't needed, but didn't eliminate it, so now that's another thing doctors have to do themselves.

AFAI can tell, the effect of tech overall is to cut some jobs while making the remaining ones harder and more stressful, while increasing so-called context switching.
> Programming all night in a do-or-die mode is fun and all until you get a bit older. For many people who lived this life they realize only too late that they didn't spend enough time making friends and building a community around themselves of genuine relationships.

I feel like this is a false dichotomy that bad engineers tell themselves to justify not working hard at being a good engineer and instead screwing off.

Believe it or not, you can actually be a world class engineer and have a healthy life, who would have known? Weird.
This post is so hyperbolic, it could have been written by the mainstream media.
>Do Twitter employees have a safe place to discuss this?

How did people communicate before the invention of Twitter and employer provided email and slack channels?
Booze is a different beast than the other vices.

Sometimes being careful means not dying from the DT's in hospital because you understated how much you drink.
Rural countryside in the Midwest here. Our dog decided to escape and go on an adventure a few weeks back. The person who found him went to the local Facebook group for lost dogs and after not seeing him there for a few hours finally called animal control (where we, as not really Facebook users, had reported him missing).

It's pretty wild what an alternate reality Facebook creates when you don't use it but others do.
I think it is normal to setup a new board after an acquisition -- usually with all the people that help finance the deal and maybe an independent director or 2.

A "sole director" in a multi-billion dollar company is strange.
In order to re-earn it through honest communication, they have to recognize that it's a problem rather than a valid strategy.
Pretty much everything about Hunter Biden that was decried as "disinformation" or "Russian propaganda" has turned out to be true. The laptop story was squelched just prior to the election.

https://nypost.com/2022/04/01/new-york-times-finally-admit-h...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/analysis-...
Did you click on the link to the github repo?

https://github.com/japiirainen/fp
No, not at all: for example, you can be a non-profit and still contribute to GDP, since you're still creating economic activity. Heck, even what the government does contributes to GDP, and that's not making money for anyone.
> Maybe. Just maybe. If the system did not produce ignorant citizens, there would be no need to police disinformation systems those citizens engage in.

> I do not understand the naivety that comes with this particular view.

Frighteningly, producing ignorant and naive citizenry works for governments on both fronts. On one front, it makes the populace susceptible to "foreign" propaganda, thus a justification for censorship. On the other front, it makes them susceptible to government overreach and the erosion of their own civil rights to combat this "threat".
I remember two decades of Intel having unrivaled smallest fab process and AMD always having larger, hotter chips. To see Intel lagging behind is so unnatural.
Show HN: A Theory of Design: what it is, what it does
I've been looking for good explanations to talk about design with non designer for over a decade. And I think I've discovered an explanation that helps make discussions specific. But I really need peer-review, so please give me some good arguments:

Does this explanation make sense? Or am I missing something?
Do the examples illustrate the idea, or are they vague?

I hope this helps, or that someone points out some clear flaw. Thanks
> DHS plans to target inaccurate information on “the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine.”

Nice Western values at play here. Hooray for the rules-based order!

Total joke of a society, at this point I’m wondering when will the whole pack of cards begin to fall, there’s ideologically nothing holding it in place.
yeah, I'm not sure if they are defending censorship to protect people, or claiming that we've been hoodwinked by censorship.
Musk team working to reboot Vine this year
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PAYEMS

We only recently got back to the same number of employees as pre-pandemic. And this statistic is somewhat misleading because more people today are taking on 2x or 3x jobs. (Thanks to higher wages, extra jobs has never before been more profitable)

The dip in the number-of-workers is blatantly obvious to anyone following the statistics. COVID19 "obviously caused it". Not necessarily all of it (ie: the 63+ crowd was nearing retirement anyway), but is the most obvious cause / what's different about March 2020.

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If you have any other theories about what happened to cause that massive dip in #-of-workers on March 2020, I'm all ears.

In any case, the point I wish to iterate is that number-of-workers is the most obvious explanation for our economy today. Its a statistic that stands out, above other statistics, that explains:

1. Our record low unemployment rates

2. Our record low productivity (we're making less stuff today than in 2020 pre-COVID)

3. The industries that have been affected by #1 and #2. (Lumber becoming rare because of all the housing projects people did while stuck at home. Oil prices hitting negative-dollars because so many people stopped driving. Oil prices reaching record highs as we leave the pandemic and return to normalcy, etc. etc.). Housing market going crazy as people look for good home-offices for work-from-home...

We're in this really odd period of really good jobs market but fewer things being made overall. COVID19 really is a good explanation.

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EDIT: I get these are USA's statistics. But I assume that Europe's statistics would be somewhat similar. I admit to ignorance of the European economy.
Whats to stop people saying: $45,000-$500,000
Absurd? Yes.

How exactly is it ironic?
Why do they provide it then? Out of goodwill?
It means if you lose out on a job to a less qualified person there is much less chance it ever gets rectified in your favor.
> "Your framing of all of this, including narrowing it down to just a few things and asking “do you think the combination of factors above is problematic?” is emblematic of the kind of subversive pidgeonholed discord that’s very useful for adversaries to control narratives (see f.e. “Nerd Sniping”)."

You did the same exact thing to him just prior...
If your car violates emissions the check engine light will come on. Isn't that enough - why do we need a new light for this? The scan tool will tell you why the light it one. Note that there is no general way to tell the difference between replacing replacing parts that violate emissions with the correct parts failing. That takes a mechanic looking at the sensor values and checking the entire system to see why a sensor is out of range.

Besides most of the above emissions changes are specifically about changing the programming of the ECU. While you can make mechanical changes, they typically only have a small effect and so you wouldn't notice. However if you change the ECU programming you can get a lot more power out of the engine - at the expense of engine life and emissions. Which is why I say that the only people doing this to their cars will just turn off the code that turns that light on: they are already changing the code of the ECU.
In any other decade this would be by far the largest political scandal in US history, with non-stop mass media coverage, endless investigative journalism, universal public outrage, pop culture shaming, politicians resigning en masse, and criminal prosecutions. Today? A collective shrug from everyone like-minded, or who got caught on that particular side of the story. All the safeties have been removed these days, the ends always justify the means, and near total control of this country's most important institutions by the left (everything but SCOTUS, as far as I can tell) is the ultimate enabler of this tacit collusion.
Isn't that just a variation on the paradox of tolerance, though? If we tolerate government entities pushing ideas to restrict the speech of citizens, we are going to lose our freedom of speech.
https://www.bls.gov/productivity/graphics/2022/graphic-4.htm

"Real compensation" is "Employer costs for wages, salaries, and employee benefits", adjusted for inflation.
Your 10G SFP modules have a power budget of 6.2 dB https://www.fs.com/products/11603.html Assuming zero losses at the fusion-spliced pigtail connectors this would be enough for a ~12.4 km fiber link (~0.5 dB attenuation per km). With the connectors I linked, 0.2 dB loss at each end, the power budget is reduced to 5.8 dB which would be enough for a ~11.6 km fiber link.

As you see this makes no difference for a residence where all your links are much shorter than even 0.1 km ! All I'm saying is you had cheaper options than buying a fusion splicer. But I understand you for buying it — it's a cool tool to have fun with, and to get some experience. I would have probably done the same since fiber is also a hobby of mine (though I reiterate I have never built a cable myself) :)
Not the case with proof of stake.
I honestly think it comes down the insane competition for eyeballs. If your news isn't inflammatory enough you lose eyes to those who are.
They should probably take a look at the lawsuit around Tesla's illegal layoffs. Your description sounds similar to that.

It's probably worth it to find a labor attorney.
This just seems really paranoid to me? They can't see what you're entering and sure they can scan the receipt for what you put in after if they want but I've almost never seen them do more than shove the receipt in their pocket and quickly move on. If it's not busy half the time they just leave the machine and come back to get it after taking someone else's order or something.
Seems a little overkill? 2FA isn't even really necessary if you have a password manager. Write down the master passwords on some paper, put it with the rest of your documents in a fire safe. Access to someone's email account is the biggest thing you need anyway since everything can be reset through it.
People don't experience it because the water heater output is a consistent temperature. There's nothing to experience with increased consumption of electric/gas/heating oil, especially when those concurrently increase for home heating
Honestly, that isn't a super convincing source. Every news outlet has a criticism section. For an almost 150 year old organization, that is pretty sparse. Even better some of things in there are non-issues like "Trump repeatedly railed against The Washington Post on his Twitter account." Who didn't he tweet "fake news" at?

News agencies are organizations made of humans that have flaws and we should always treat with a critical eye. But we shouldn't just dismiss one out of hand as not one of the best because of the existence of a "Criticism and controversies" section on Wikipedia especially when it is FAR tamer than many mainstream competitors.
I cannot fathom it either. First I heard that it was a thing was when the Glazers borrowed money to buy Manchester United then saddled them with half of the debt. They had no debt prior to being purchased. I don't know how common it is, but it feels like you're telegraphing that you're going to use the organization you bought as a piggy bank or a plaything. Like, see this shit (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glazer_ownership_of_Manchester...)

From 2016, the Glazers paid themselves annual dividends from the club, at over
£20 million every year from 2016 to 2020. In that same period, the club's debt
repayments "all but ceased", described The Daily Telegraph, while interest
payments continued. While paying dividends was common in business,
Manchester United were the sole Premier League club to "pay regular
dividends of any kind", reported The Daily Telegraph in May 2021

I don't even like Man Utd, but that's shady as hell
Considering everythat happened this past decade of mismanagement you'd think priority 1 would be limiting how tools can be used in bad faith rather than creating new ones of horrifying unchecked scope.
Just curious, what are your favorite not-solarized color schemes?
If your client tells you secretly that the base salary range for the position is 200K-250K. And the prospective employee tells that s/he wants 150K. Would you disclose that s/he can ask up to 250K or would you rather make your client happy by getting them a bargain?
> I don’t see what is so hard to understand here. We already have the legal clarity , they just needs to be implemented diligently.

Then read between the lines and recognize the public in general has moved away from recognition/acceptance of the rules as written and now all the mobs are demanding speech they don't like be restricted by powers on high.
If you've never read it, you'd probably enjoy this short story: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
Far more important is to know the salary target that you are aiming for.

I think people would be more willing to accept this if the application process was not such a complete cluster fuck 99% of the time.

So many sites want you to upload a resume, and then also re-type the whole thing into some clunky form so that the company can seemingly index it or search it or whatever

Then after your resume has been randomly selected for review you get to waste more time with useless recruiters and/or HR people for some kind of preliminary screening process that makes little sense.

If you're lucky enough to actually start to enter a real interview process you can plan to sink another 2-8 hours of your time before the discussion of salary ranges is even remotely danced around.

Finally, after a ton of hassle you learn that the company wishes to pay approximately minimum wage for this position and wants to pay you in IOU's, bottle caps, or gift vouchers (only a slight exaggeration sometimes).

If a company cannot give a salary range that is even +/- 20%, perhaps they're not actually ready to make a job posting and invite people to hopelessly waste their time on the application process.
Machine Learning and Causal Inference Taught by Brigham Frandsen
> How about "fight" "disinformation" "weapons" with explanations of the truth

Tell me how this isn’t comparable to saying “if you just explain to the trolls they are hurting your feelings, they’ll stop”

I 100% promise you “the truth” already exists for 99% of topics out there. You seem to be setting up a paradox. The government shouldn’t intervene in misinformation, but somehow the government and media should align themselves to spread only factual information, which would be way creepier.

Any realistic solution has to happen despite an imperfect media and a landscape with all sorts of conflicting information, not try to eliminate it. Ad council seems like just another way to tell people in their bubbles what they already know.
"The pen is mightier than the sword" isn't a new idea.
I’m not sure there is that much overlap between the two groups.
I think many here will disagree, but this is spot on. Having a fixed salary range also implies there’s a fixed/well-defined set of tasks for that role, which is only applicable to typical lower-level jobs that do repetitive tasks. Once you get into higher skilled positions, the roles become much more flexible and negotiable.

The HN crowd is exactly the opposite type of people who would benefit from this. Job definitions become fixed. You want to try your next project in Rust? Implement a new database? Start learning the customer-facing side of things? Too bad, the job description didn’t include that, and your salary range is locked in to the job description.
Do you have a regular dialogue with your CTO? If so, I'm sure that:

>but perhaps he doesn't have clear idea on how he can continue to help and I haven't gone to him and told him explicitly

Might go away almost overnight. If he knows what's going on on a day-to-day (or regular) basis, he might be able to insert himself and his knowledge when tactically relevant or useful.
Are we sure the documentation isn't coming as required from the insurance companies?

I know many Drs and especially nurses who CYA on all their documentation otherwise insurance will try to pin them on an adverse reaction.
these sausage men are great, and I personally consider their cartoonish, everyman nature to be a selling point. Bob's Burgers has a similar aesthetic, and people complain about it. Anyone who says that its a bad decision though is empirically in the wrong.

No one gives positive feedback on anything, so you are almost always doing the right thing by ignoring negative feedback below some threshold. I hope that this person and their friends have not one iota of influence on your character design.
I agree with this. Given the vast time necessary to move (or even communicate) between stars, there is no social, political or economic reason to travel more than a few light years from your home planet. That's leaves science, religion and adventure as the only reasons to go really far out int space, and the cost of interstellar travel limits how many other planets can be visited for those reasons, even over tens of thousands of years.
There are huge productivity gains in private practices that eliminate web pages and email and switch to paper in filing cabinets only. This is also why fax machines still exist and are exclusively used by medical practices.
I’ve been working on adding a watch companion app to an iOS app and its been maddening. The documentation boils down to: you can send strings back and forth. The method to sync app state doesn’t work in the simulator. It appears the rest is on my own to discover. I’m convinced its impossible to develop a watch app only using the simulator and docs.
That seems to be not as effective as desired.