skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One job I had a serious issue (that kept escalating until I got fired, since the other people involved were more senior) where certain employees never replied my questions properly (and it was my job to ask them) because they kept trying to "read between the lines" and no matter how I tried to phrase my questions, they would misunderstand it.

For example:

I asked a team lead the bare mininum permissions that were absolutely mandatory for the SDK to work, the CEO asked me to make clear what permissions were mandatory and what ones were optional based on features that clients might, or might not, use. The team lead I asked about this, gave me just a list of all permissions used, with no explanation when one or another is needed or not.

So I asked: "Is X permission enough for the SDK to work on iOS?" and the other guy replied: "The W permission is needed to use Popular Feature"

I then asked again: "If there is only X permission on the plist, will the SDK start, on iOS?" and the other guy replied: "But then Another Popular Feature won't work."

I ended having to be extremely precise: "If the programmer uses solely X permission, and attempts to start the SDK, and he doesn't intend to use any features at all, except start the SDK and get it to report RUNNING enum state, will this work?"

Finally he would reply: "Oh, yeah, it should work, oh wait, the programmer would need permission Z too..."

Because of timezones this conversation took over days, delayed projects and got clients angry.

I concluded that some people just assume others won't speak plainly and will attempt to find the hidden meaning.

Another classic issue is when you ask something on Stack Overflow for example, people assume it is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem too much, and will mark your question as duplicate or downvote it... But sometimes you are not asking about "Y" in the XY problem, you literally need to know "X". Wikipedia page there lists as example someone that asks how to get the last 3 characters when what they really wanted was to figure out the extension, but sometimes, people really needed to know the last 3 characters, and it had nothing to do with file extension.
People who deem themselves to be important.
The counterpoint to this is that Wikipedia's article contains everything that the other one does, and also contains all of the things that Linehan is currently well known for.
It is not typical. I think in this case the extreme language is meant to signal to judges and stakeholders, "this is going to take a long time and be really messy, your usual expectations of the timeline of this process do not apply".
I am worried that 1, 2 and 3 is already being used by the western governments to do the exact same thing against it's own population. The FBI is just jealous they didn't have the boot on Tiktok like they do with all other kinds of social media and websites.
I think tailscale may be the only company that is build on WireGuard but also commits code to wireguard repo itself.

That says a lot, to me at least, but parent's comment on giving the keys to the kingdom to a third party still holds (as it does for many other SaaS/cloud/hosted platforms of course).
I wouldn't discard the possibility that Twitter affects his other assets, though. It seems like he's using his other companies' talent and money to try to prop up Twitter (like borrowing engineers from Tesla and committing SpaceX to Twitter ad-spend) and Musk himself is distracted from running his other companies. On top of that, a lot of Tesla's stock price hinges on speculative value instead of current cash flows. If public perception starts to believe that Musk is damaging his brands and mismanaging his companies by spreading himself too thin and commingling profitable businesses with unprofitable ones, his other holdings will become less valuable.

I mean, he'll always have food on the table at the end of the day, but there's a good chance he won't have the kind of wealth and influence in the future that you'd need to make a big-balls move like buying a large tech company.
Those networks were all marketed to Twitter cast-offs, specifically those people who were cast-off for the content they were producing. When your site is "The Alternative to Platform X" and consists of only users who got kicked off of X for bad behavior, the content is just going to be radioactive.

The only hope an alternative to Platform X has lies in its ability to migrate and capture the mainstream.
We want to be green so we're trying to stop drilling for oil. But we also need oil because our society runs on it. This guy has oil. This guy can therefore do whatever he likes.

This is obviously way better than drilling at home.
I believe the US legally defines the US customary units by metric counterparts anyway. https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/si-units-length

Still, I'm probably the 1% of 1% of Americans who uses Celsius in daily life, except where I cannot (my car won't let me do hybrid miles and Celsius, ugh).
You can ask GPT for variations. Also, combining this with thefuck might circumvent most issues.
If you understand human minds through the perspective of electricity flowing through branching webs of neurons, it helps you understand why different people have different methods of communication.

Some people's neurons are organized such that topics of information are tightly bound without reaching too far into adjacent topics.

Other people's neurons are broadly organized with topics of information overlapping.

Neither method of organization is superior. They each have pros and cons.

Tightly organized minds are efficient at particular tasks and can delve deeply into any particular area of knowledge, but are more rigid and less able to cope with new situations.

Loosely organized minds are less efficient and their knowledge is more superficial, but they're able to be flexible in the face of new situations and more apt to generate novel ideas to solve problems.
But the US was happy to force TikTok to share all that juicy data for the last few years.

They simply cannot accept that TikTok is the biggest wonder in the history of apps, and it's not theirs.
> Nobody is saying that.

> Nobody has ever said that.

nailer, 1 day ago:

"I am saying anything more complex than forms requires web component tech"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33638793

---

nailer, 7 hours ago

"Implementing a web app without react or svelte would require using web components"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33652391

---

Edit. It's also funny/sad that you say "nobody is saying that" to my comment which quotes the exact part were you're saying that.
> I think using anti-fingerprinting is itself a fingerprint. I imagine it would be easier to hide in the noise of regular browsers.

That's what I thought originally too. The problem is the "leaky-ness" of Chrome and Firefox - they expose a large amount of information that can be easily used to train various ML classifiers. Chrome's DevTool Protocol is most commonly used when headless access to Chrome is desired and is inherently "leaky", by design as a protocol for debugging. Don't even try to use any flavor of headless Chrome, even with stealth plugins. Firefox isn't much better.

Webkit doesn't seem to expose as much information, and having a much lesser percentage of usage, I think there's simply less information to feed into a classifier to learn to detect it reliably. There's a few sites that offer fingerprint testing such as:

- https://amiunique.org/fp

- https://webscraping.pro/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/testresul...

Try writing a script that goes to a page like this and have it take a screenshot, using Chrome, Firefox, and then Webkit to see the difference yourself. I use the Python port of Playwright personally. In the project I mentioned in my last comment, all I had to do was change the browser Playwright was using to webkit - i.e "browser = p.webkit.launch()" where "p" is a sync_playwright context manager instance. I tried Chrome and Firefox with many, many, attempts at stealth modifications and none worked. Removing my "stealth code" for the other browsers and changing it to webkit was all that was needed. Blew me away that it was that simple honestly. I've used this trick on other websites and have noticed webkit just gets processed differently by captchas/anti-bot, etc. Selenium should also offer support for a WebKit driver if you prefer it over Playwright.
Digital Dollar Pilot
I believe we have Ronald Reagan to thank for cancelling our efforts from the 70s.
So he can't be held liable because he is the Prime Minister of SA.

Essentially the same thing here where the sitting President cannot be directly charged with a crime (or sued personally).
Would have loved to see more of the technical details involved in spinning up Firecracker VMs on demand for Github Actions.
Military technology is subject to very real, very dangerous prisoners' dilemmas. In a way it doesn't matter if one side is starting it or not, the real question is if it can be ruled out that either one of the sides could be doing it.

And it's shit, because unilaterally declaring you're not gonna do it won't work at all, so there needs to be enough trust between the parties to institute a supervision regime, otherwise, if something is technological possible and promises military benefits, it will be done sooner rather than later.
Used-car retailer Carvana cuts 1,500 jobs
Is there a good start-to-finish summary of this? I don’t really pay attention to crypto at all, but this keeps coming up.
Their in-house psychiatrist to write them all scrips said that the amount of drugs and hooking up was way overstated. Maybe? Maybe it's the dealer saying there are no drugs? I have no idea.

"Rich 20-somethings like drugs and sex on tropical beaches" is a pretty uninteresting story to me. "Rich 20-somethings do so much adderall that they code backdoors instead of having sex whith tropical beaches are outside" is at least more interesting to read about.
We do have work contracts, but for salaried employees they are often :

"You work for us, we pay you (salary amount) and you will do everything we ask you to and thanks to 'right to work' laws we can fire you at anytime for any or no reason"
I've always wanted to work for Musk, but never felt like I was skilled enough to work on spaceships or cars... But Twitter? I am thinking about applying, so go ahead and quit.
this is literally impossible in any case that uses a server to process unencrypted data.
> Been on carnivore for 10 days now

10 days to evaluate a diet seem low. Not many people in the history of humanity have had a pure carnivore diet, there's a reason we have evolved longer intestines than carnivores. Another interesting fact is that the inuk people who have mostly a carnivore diet due to inability to farm in the artic, live 15 years shorter than the average person in the developed world. Omnivore is the way to go, not carnivore.
When I realised it was all about share-xor-mutate, just like all reasonable systems:

Rebase and force-push on your own branches only (they are mutations), pull-request when putting stuff onto other branches.

I also find the whole git tree WAY easier to read if it's fast-forward-only, and no merge commits.

Atlassian's not as popular as they used to be I guess, but I found Bitbucket presents the best view of the git tree ever. When I wanted to do anything advanced, I'd look at the Bitbucket view, do local git commands in my shell, push, and then watch Bitbucket again.
So why do people write real production code in it?
Not just political. Half the articles I read are spun like pr pieces lately, at least when it comes to organizations and people (even dead people)

Random one I read last night

> The realization that Fitzgerald had improved as a novelist to point that Gatsby was a masterwork was immediately evident to certain members of the literary world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald

Editors aren’t even trying to appear objective any more. It’s like the news. I think this is becoming the commonplace on Wikipedia and I hate it
I don't know what this is but it doesn't seem to meet the criteria for what should be submitted.
An answer I didn't see in the FAQ: why should someone rely on a tech startup to exist and function correctly after their death, for something important, usually decades later?
Why Russian Companies Sought Mafia Protection in the 90s
3 months pay sounds like something.
Boldly Go
Not sure where you read the "unique" statement in my comment, but it was never meant to be implied.

American culture is very Christian influenced, even now.

e: I would be curious if the name "Judas" or its equivalent is a common synonym for traitor outside of english, however.
>>In terms of practicality, before the coffin enters the ground the amount of earth leaving and returning to the hole must be considered – if none was removed from the pile of earth, there will be a large mound left once the grave is filled in. If too much is taken, you’ve got a trough-shaped problem on your hands.

I made this mistake burying the cat in the back garden. There is now a dent in the lawn where I buried him.
I still find it weird that his story arc made it past the editors, such as they were, and I'm not sure if I mean the people who decided what was/wasn't canon back in the day and/or the English translators from King James edition onwards.

It's a massive plot hole in the NT, that a person whose mission can only be fulfilled by a death/resurrection cycle (to the extent of making sure none of his other allies prevented the death, nor making even a cursory attempt at defence in either of the two trials) would regard Judas as a betrayer.

And yet, he is named as such even before the deed. Although, looking at this text, I assume a wild mistranslation happened somewhere and that the original word which became "betray" had a much more general sense of causing harm rather than violating trust or confidence:

> After he received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “Do quickly what you are going to do.”
There can be a lot of different reasons but simple misunderstanding is often the cause.

- They couldn't give you a direct answer because they didn't understand the question.

- They couldn't focus on the point of the discussion because they thought the focus is something else.

It's good to consider that you can be the one not communicating clearly and try to see where your message could be confusing. Maybe try to clarify the question you have and explain why you have it. It won't always work but a lot of the times you can find the right approach.
A quick search shows Windows has had SMB specific zero days in 2017 and 2011.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/smb-zero-day-...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2513099/new-windows-ze...
They get tons of views but it's more difficult to know how much of that translates into sales, but this has long been a problem with advertising. There was recently an influencer who tried to sell her own line of shirts directly and went on an angry rant because of low sales despite having a large number of followers.
OP here. My apologies for the phrase "Twitter alternative" in the article title, which is NOT exactly Noam Bardin's vision for the Post startup.

I appreciate the comments here from HN users. I've hardly posted here in a long time, because in recent years I have posted mostly about politics, which is off-topic posting here on HN. A federated world of specialized online communities is an appealing idea, and I will be trying out the Fediverse as well. (A lifelong friend who is an infosec specialist has landed on a server about infosec, and that's probably where I will establish a lurker account, in the interest of being on a securely configured server.)

Information security in an online service is one of the features I look for, and why I prefer big, well invested commercial online services to home-brew solutions. I figure HN has enough back-end infrastructure to keep what data I share with HN safe, and Facebook does too. (One can dislike how Facebook allows advertisers to look at user data while still appreciating how Facebook keeps away certain kinds of criminal threat vectors.)

The user perception of the user experience ultimately decides what users think about online networks. Part of the user experience in any network is the other users. That's what I've long appreciated about HN. That's what I liked about Twitter as I took care to follow interesting people who post there. I'll see about the newest communities and who else is there, and decide based on my preferences as everyone else will.

Thanks again for the back-and-forth in the discussion here, which has been good food for thought.
Context: Engineer now manager.

I have been on both ends of the conversation. From what I have learned, each technical question to some degree requires reciting what architecturally is occurring from memory. The more complex a system becomes the harder it is to do that. Potential solutions are writing documentation, reducing complexity, or staffing people to keep complex parts in their memory.
Thomas Sowell
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

and

“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
They could have settled down, collected their thoughts.

This “rant” literally provides evidence the poster is a crappy communicator. Are we sure they’re not blaming everyone else out of frustration with their own shortcomings?

I suggest they read some Camus and consider in a relative world not everyone is composed of the same statefulness they are.
The argument isn’t that it’s better to not write it at all, it’s that it’s not worth the effort when you could have done something else. Opportunity cost and all that.
Mattocks are amazing. I've used them for taking up small stumps from shrubs as well.
Instead of an enema the patient has been pared down to a lobotomized quadriplegic.
Yes, the convention is shit.

Alas, the things that force it are also shit. Overall, it is an improvement.

Want real fun. touch -- --help # or similar. :)
Communication is a two way street. In general, if you’re often getting responses that don’t have the information you need, then you need to figure out how to change how you ask a question.

Here’s how I address your issues, when I encounter them:

> don’t directly address the point of your question

I clarify why I’m asking - in the future, I make sure the person I’m talking to has the same context as me before asking.

> don't stay focused to the point of the discussion

I make sure I understand what it is I’m asking. Usually, this happens when I ask a dumb question.

> don't some level of clarity in their train of thought and speech

I make sure we have a common intellectual structure/framework to use. Usually, this happens when there’s more complexity than I initially realized

> generally over-complicate matters by wandering off to other related subjects and extending the scope of the discussion

Could be a lot of reasons for this. Usually, I asked a big question and put them on the spot, so they’re rambling. I give them time to answer, and May schedule a meeting to discuss.

You may be noticing a pattern here: in general, if someone isn’t communicating clearly with me, it’s my fault, and I can fix it.
Agreed. It's certainly possible to build way more robust controls using chatops than email or some internal "enterprise" app. FTX may not have implemented it this way, but one could envision the chatops automatically requiring approvals from the correct people based on dollar amount and expense type. And requiring those people to 2FA with their approval.
People sure love to hate Wikipedia. I wonder why.
Absolutely stunning images! Just look at Wolf-Rayet 140

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/01GEJB2906TM...

I wish they dropped that awful orange slider on mouse over...
I'm agnostic on the "reality" of the existence of machine elves and the like, but as someone who once got heavily into lucid dreaming, it's actually very common for people in dreams to argue with you convincingly that you're not in a dream. It's well known in the lucid dreaming community.
I think you are describing something that is fundamentally difficult for all human beings. (1) Understanding abstract problem statements (2) solving the problem (3) communicating the solution to other people accounting for their various levels of understanding and context (4) the meta problem of knowing which problems to solve and which conversations to have.

Some people are legitimately better than others in all of the above and my view is that those who are better have a responsibility to help the team.

Here are some things that have worked well for me:

* Good information gathering can happen in group discussions but I try to avoid problem solving in groups of more than 3 people.

* A super powerful question that focuses the conversation is this: "What are the decisions that we need to make in the near term?" Now if the answer to this question involves more than 2 or 3 things, politely propose that the group focus the conversation on just 1 or 2 decisions.

* In an engineering context it is extremely rare to find someone who is both very unfocused in conversations and at the same time very effective in getting their solutions built. So, don't waste too much energy trying to correct these people or bring them back on track because they just can't do much damage. Instead spend your energy in small group discussions with other effective engineers. This is where the real decisions are made and the large group discussions are for propagating these decisions for transparency.
You're obviously right that processed foods are far worse, but the study the article cites[0] doesn't say what the article says it does, not at all. The article deliberately misconstrues the phrase "weak evidence" to mean that the authors are attacking the past studies, when in fact they're just saying more research needs to be done. Here's the opening paragraph of the Discussion section:

> We evaluated the relationship between unprocessed red meat consumption and six selected disease outcomes following implementation of a meta-analytic approach. We found that unprocessed red meat intake had weak evidence of an association with increased risk of colorectal cancer, breast cancer, IHD and type 2 diabetes and no evidence of an association with ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke. In other words, given all the data available on red meat intake and risk of a subsequent outcome, we estimate that consuming unprocessed red meat across an average range of exposure levels increases the risk of subsequent colorectal cancer, breast cancer, IHD and type 2 diabetes at least slightly compared to eating no red meat (by at least 6%, 3%, 1% and 1%, respectively).

[0] Full text here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01968-z#Sec2
“Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?”