skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is also example of devs thinking they are another Linus Torvalds. Being assholes because they think they are brilliant coders. Unfortunately most of the times these people were inventing unnecessary complexity not writing some great code.
Okay, so this is what I find interesting about this post.

I actually posted this exact same thing a few days ago, and admittedly at the time, I was fairly confident that it wouldn't kick off because the title was kind of half-arsed and confusing. But also, it was uniquely me. I didn't really care.

And when I read this title, it sounds like something ChatGPT would have produced, in a very general way.

Even the body sounds very ChatGPT. So I wonder if this user decided to repost my post, in a way that would actually get engagement.

Then it got me thinking: Maybe we're reaching a point where the only thing that really matters, is your ability to create prompts. Your ability to ask the right questions to AI, so you can produce the right answers. That will be the future of humanity, and your inability to adapt to this way of thinking will hinder you.

Just an observation. Nothing more. But yeah, that title is way, way better.
This is so rambly that I can scarcely parse it. The title is also linkbait.

The end though has some good questions so maybe a better way to approach this is to say what asks we'd like from a platform.

Here's the contract I would like to see with platforms:

- Ability to whitelist/follow people so that we get their legal messages, even if provably factually incorrect, (optionally with a caveat attached by the platform if it's say a known falsely labeled video that's a deliberate misinformation attempt)

- Ability to blacklist any person or ad

- All ads are marked as ads

- Ability to blacklist subject matters from feeds, and ads

- No entitlement of anybody to be put it any feed for non-subscribers

- Ability to create ones own feed, to which others can subscribe
The terminology of "friar" and "monk" is often used more fluidly these days. The Carmelites are a mendicant order, so we'd normally call them friars, but members of this group clearly call themselves monks.

You are correct that Carmelites are not Benedictines.
Windows advertising features were bugging me, so I tried to install MacOS on my computer, but Apple told me that I would have to purchase different hardware from them directly if I wanted to run their software.

Seems like MacOS does not run on hardware that is not sold by Apple.
> Hey, sorry that happened, it should have preserved all of the default applications, etc.

Thanks for your apology. I can imagine this could happen to some random unknown software team but not to the supposed leader of the desktop. I believe this is honest apology but I am not sure I can trust that the issue was a bug and not a feature.
I don’t see the disagreement! Good info; thanks.
Can confirm a 2 day engagement is unusual, and 50% of time writing the report is possible but very much an outlier for standard pen tests. Some interesting exceptions include:

* Some regions have a much shorter average engagement time. North America is usually pretty generous, where markets in other countries will only bear half or a third of the time.

* If you are a junior or less skilled you are perhaps more likely to get the small jobs while you are learning.

* External inf can be short on testing time and long in reporting if you find lots of issues, but automation helps the reporting in that regard.

* Some pentests are very documentation intense for specific reasons, such as M&A due diligence, or clients who want threat models and design reviews incuded. Still isn't 50% though.

And others. But in general what Thomas describes has been my experience over the years.

Disclaimer: I work for NCC, but nothing related to former Matasano and I don't know Thomas. Opinions are my own.
Yep, it's a perennial. Naieve entrepreneurs and investors love the romance of these vessles, but they will never carry enough payload fast enough to compete with the vast array of existing options. All they're good for is suckering grant money and writing clickbait.
It's done all the time. And a reason why e.g. in the US or EU sites, domains, accounts and whatnots will be blocked or frozen for CP, whereas that (type of) CP may be legal in the place where the distributor is based.

While that's an entire different scale as "didn't display cookie banner" the mechanisms are the same and in place. If the EU finds privacy infringement important enough the infringer will be warned than fined[1]. I'm no lawyer, but I would expect that when a company doesn't pay that fine, they'll ultimately be prohibited from doing any business in the EU. e.g. through blocks, frozen accounts and such.

[1] https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
Don't forget about the Patagonia fleece vest! Many VC firms require someone to wear one to every meeting.
No. People pay cash all the time. You think illegal immigrants do kyc stuff? And that's just a small example
No, there absolutely no strict rules regarding the scientific method. At most there are conventions about the structure of papers in some journals.
Usually it won't last much unless you weld it with some added material (that needs to be the same thermoplastic or it likely won't stick).

What I found exceptional for this kind of small plastic repair is one of those welding guns that can hot-staple, originally a professional tool to repair plastic elements like bumpers in car body shops, they are now available cheap (from China, quality may vary), still makes no sense for just one repair, but it is an useful tool to have if you happen to do repairs often.
No tinkering required. Tinkering can be tempting and dangerous, but if you keep yourself in check it's just not a thing you need to do. Unless you install Arch, but then you deserve what you get. Just install Ubuntu or Pop and you'll be fine.
has anyone told Technology Connections about this??
Institutionalization in action. You might me interested in the book Disciplined Minds.
A bit of an aside, but CS and software engineering programs should be based on FOSS to the greatest extent possible, with proprietary software only being used when necessary. The idea that CS programs would use Windows or macOS by default is pretty horrifying to me.
> but currently in the UK, the police are pretty much always the first (often only) to deal with MH issues and get people into care/section them etc.

I can't talk about Scotland, Wales, or NI. But here's the data for England:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/sta...

There were 34,000 detentions under the act. Of these, only 4,150 were detentions following a Section 135 / 136 place of safety order (the bit of the Mental Health Act that the police can use).

The CQC also have their "Monitoring use of the Mental Health Act" report here: https://www.cqc.org.uk/publications/monitoring-mental-health...

This strengthens the point you're making. EG https://www.cqc.org.uk/publications/monitoring-mental-health... and https://www.cqc.org.uk/publications/monitoring-mental-health... both talking about the poor care recieved by patients as a result of the defunding of the NHS and social care systems.
My Android phone runs native Microsoft Office apps, so we are half-way there.

I am just waiting for Microsoft to give up on Windows-on-Arm and instead create a Microsoft-branded Linux distribution that has an actual Windows subsystem for Linux (that is, a compatibility / emulation layer similar to Wine or Proton to run legacy Windows software).

Decades of backward compatibility makes Windows a resource hog. I do not think it can make the jump to Arm or RISC-V easily.
I think a lot of what this thread shows is that everyone has a different utility function.

That's kind of whats interesting about the modern economy is we can all express our preferences in how we spend. The bottom end has gotten much cheaper and the top end has gotten exponentially more expensive, and in many markets the middle has sort of disappeared.

This contrasts a lot with the 1950s boom era where there was a big thick middle end and not a huge range from bottom to top.
Is it also common for the people who know them personally, who belong to the group in question, to defend the accused?
Show HN: AI generated conversation starters in Slack
The only 'big deal' is that NASA is planning to return to the Moon after a 50+ years hiatus.

There's little that is groundbreaking.
The main trick I use to avoid feeling overwhelmed is for each technology that feels important in some way, do the minimal work required to learn the following questions:

1. What problem is this trying to solve?

2. What are the strengths / weaknesses?

Usually you don't have to go very deep to get a feel for these questions. I figure that if I know these things, then in future if I encounter a problem where tech X is useful I can go learn the details. If I never do, I can at least prioritize within whatever free time/energy I have for additional side learning.

As an example, for quantum computing the problem it's solving is surprisingly hard to identify. Breaking (some) cryptographic algorithms is the classical example, but that's not a problem I plan to try and solve anytime soon. Other use cases tend to be vague - ML is often mentioned but actual players in the AI space don't seem to be investing into QC much. Quick eval result: pass for now until use cases become clearer.

What about ML? Many useful problems that can be solved with that - anything where you can't easily express an algorithm to solve a problem but one may be learnable by example. Strengths: capable of doing things no other technique can do. Weaknesses: requires lots of clean(ish) data, advanced ML may need specialists, training/inference can be expensive, finding ways to actually apply it to business problems is remarkably tricky due to its capacity for random failure and difficulty in coming up with fixes for that, which doesn't fit the needs of most automation projects ... but can be OK if you can predict fast enough to speed up a human who's already in the loop, or if mistakes are cheaply correctable. The exact details of how it works? I enjoy reading about it. There's a good article on the GPT-3 DNN architecture on the HN front page right now actually, but it's just some casual hobby learning. I don't feel stressed if I don't grok all the details right now because it's not necessary to do so.

In other words, focus on knowing the outlines of these topics and learning when/how to apply them, then forget the rest. That doesn't take as much time as you'd expect.
For Java developers check out the Inside Java Podcast where we interview the folks working on the Java Platform for an inside look at important innovations (eg Loom, Panama, Amber, JavaFX, secure coding guidelines, contributing to OpenJDK, etc.)

https://inside.java/podcast

I haven't found many that hit 100%, so subscribing to a bunch and allowing your podcast app to store say the "latest 3" is how I pick and choose the episodes I'm interested in.
Sibling comments indicate that the behavior is an intentional Dark Pattern. You can sleep tight and write it off to the PO.
As a fellow YC founder, just wanted to pipe in to say this whole thread really isn’t a good look.

Whether or not the employee was right or wrong, it’s probably best to just leave and accept the conversation where it is.

Edit: changed “your employee” to “the employee”
Replacing a domestic heating system is significantly more difficult than adding new electricity plants. Domestic heating is a completely decentralized problem. If you wanted to change everyone over to electrical heat, yes it could be done. But not rapidly. And swapping out gas radiator boilers for electric options can be very difficult and costly.

There is no law that says that you must use gas for heat. But once you have that installed base, you can’t just switch from gas to electric heat overnight. It will take decades to make that change. Even if all of the equipment was available (and it’s not), it would take a team of 3-5 workers 2-3 days to convert each home. And that’s assuming a simpler gas -> electric boiler swap without needing to upgrade electrical service panels/etc. This type of change can get complicated quickly for just a single house. Multi unit homes would be more complex. Now factor that over all other homes/buildings and you can see that the number of workers required to do this rapidly don’t exist.

Even in the US, there is a push to phase out gas heat in many locations. But it’s a phased rollout with a plan decades long.

Could this be a longer term plan? Definitely. But with a quick turnaround? Not really.
The actual title is "What's Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It". Not exactly a neutral title edit...

Especially as this comes from "a part of DARPA's SCORE program, whose goal is to evaluate the reliability of social science research"
For precisely the reason you stated - loads of non-native English speakers for all over the world - you just get used to it. I’m so used to “broken” English that’s it just not really a big deal. I know what they meant. Drop all the articles and don’t conjugate verbs for all care (many verbs don’t even change in most tenses anyway), it rarely makes a difference. And if I’m not sure I’ll ask.

English is flexible, adaptive, and with a rich vocabulary. In my experience is pretty hard to not be understood, no matter how poor your English. Don’t know what something is called? Just put two words together, I’m sure it’ll be good enough to be understood.
This was probably always the gamble. Treat your human employees terribly with the assumption that robots will be available once you burnt all those bridges.
This would be incredible... very excited for the details in the announcement coming Tuesday.
"now we're doing it safely."

Mercury through Apollo really did not like the idea of using solid rocket boosters, you can't turn them off if things get out of hand, and of course they'll do that themselves in lots of failure modes. Suitable for a launch escape system ... and see the Shuttle for when these principles were turned on their head.

Its SRBs, now being literally recycled for Artemis were low capital, high operating cost kludges that infamous killed one shuttle and its crew. In part because there was no provision made for escape aside from the pilots in the first couple of launches or so and that was rather limited, SR-71 technology with a pretty low max altitude.

On the other hand the Orion crew capsule does have a tower escape system.

So that old NASA you decry, they didn't lose a crew except on the ground due to a high pressure test with pure oxygen!?!?!! OK, that's a credible validation of that part of your thesis, see also Apollo 13 which was a close call.

On the other hand does the Orion have a heavy shield for the astronauts to shelter behind in case of a solar storm (see Heinlein's Podkayne of Mars)? If not Apollo and the Artemis program are every bit as dangerous in what was a primary reason Nixon stopped Apollo before all its planned missions, program delays would have extended it into the change in the solar cycle.

I would also note the start of this program many years ago was so badly designed the booster system's vibrations would have been lethal to humans. Springs in the crew capsule were part of the proposed solution to that, but going back to Shuttle diameter SRBs, only adding one segment, and all the mass of the tank and SSMEs should have fixed that. If my memory is correct that was a rocket powered by a single stack of SRBs, purely for sending crews out into space.

But I'd like to know what happened after the Shuttle and it to make NASA take crew safety seriously. NASA was utterly callous about the known risk from the launch that killed the second shuttle and its crew.

I finish by noting a bit of humility is warranted after just a single test mission success. That NASA and its contractors were able to pull it off is quite a feat, but as the Shuttle should have taught us bad designs can eventually catch up with you.
> Having a lot of crackpots proposing bad theories is a sign that your conceptual model is garbage

We have crackpots proposing that the Earth is flat.
Given current trends, I guess I'd say give it 6months?
I recommend Happy Path Programming, with Bruce Eckel (author of Thinking in C++) and James Ward. It tends to focus on programming language topics rather than software engineering more broadly.

I would give a link, but it doesn't seem to have a home-page.
Try New Zealand.

Wikipedia has a list of political scandals here, which is mostly fairly laughable if you are from most other countries, with headline numbers being $100,000: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_scandals_i...

I remember an Israeli acquaintance laughing hysterically at our lack of problems, because the front page of a major NZ newspaper was about a large seal that had got onto a motorway and was causing trouble. Seriously, our major news items often read like we all live in some hick back-country village. That’s a good thing, by the way.

One of the 3 major “scandal” highlights from 2015: “National cabinet minister Murray McCully is involved in the controversial setting up of a sheep farm in Saudi Arabia in partnership with Saudi businessman Hamood Al-Ali Al-Khalaf, seemingly to negate the risk of Al-Khalaf suing the New Zealand government”. Another highlight from 2017: “Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei reveals that she had at one time committed benefit fraud during the 1990s”.

We apparently had no scandals at all in 2012.
It's the result of cheap fossil fuels, provided by Russia.

There is no shortage of electricity in Germany, so there was no economic interest to build more nuclear power plants? Germny even exports electricity to France, which has a lot of nuclear power plants (many of which currently don't work).

We don't even know where to safely put the waste for the next million years.
Germany doesn't have the huge inhabited areas like the US - and even they have not solve that problem yet.
That’s interesting. I have a MacBook for work with no Apple ID and I don’t think I’ve ever been asked to sign into anything. I wonder if there are fleet management controls my company is using to disable a lot of that stuff.
What of the installed base of water heaters, stoves, and home furnaces? These can all be converted to e.g. induction ranges and heat pumps, but the time and expense of doing so needs to be factored in.
If my response seemed to support the idea of meritocracy as a fact it was unintended. Obviously I missed "inheritance" or family-estate from the triad.
Anti-glare glasses
They still don’t really have any serious competition, other than macOS (that push you Apple services) and Chromebooks (that push you Google services).
The price set is the marginal price for the last MW of capacity required (which is the most expensive one). No other way to do it I guess: if you give the cheaper producers less than the most expensive ones, they have the economic incentive not to supply until they get the higher price.
It is well established, which is why it’s somewhat funny when someone “disagrees”.
I’m one of the only people I know with a wallet style phone case with cards/id in it but I think I’ve just decided to go back to a separate wallet/card case. Will help thin down the phone too since I’ll probably just go caseless.
I’d rather see the financial and labor resources for this thing going into the adoption system. There is too much friction on both the supply and demand sides of adoption right now and frankly it’s the most life changing thing that you can do for someone.
I don't understand how microsoft can be bring so much in the Open Source world and this kind of things in the OS world. Seems completely out of touch.
Bro, you sound like an asshole. None of your 'feedback' is useful or actionable, and neither this comment or anything on your profile points to any content created by your more entertaining personality.
One Arm length?

One hand length is like 6 inches lol
cheeky chooky
It's a pretty good argument in favor of the GNU/Linux vs. plain Linux distinction. Which is not a thing I really thought I'd say.
Like you said "they can’t be bothered working out how to..." That's a fact which is not going to change.
Perhaps phone theft is too petty a crime to make it worth it?

In the 80s and 90s bait cars were ubiquitous in cities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait_car
Are you sure? Why not? C'mon. Yes? Haha ok that definitely is a yes.
Right, but they can understand their inability to regulate themselves and be responsible. Some of us can drink all we want and we won't commit crimes or hurt people yet others can't help it so they should not get drunk. Plenty of people gamble at vegas without losing all their savings and plenty if people trade options without committing suicide. So because a bunch of people can't help themselves that doesn't mean you take away the libery of everyone, it means those people need to know themelves and stay away from it.
You see this A LOT in food spend in US especially in rich urban areas.

I have friends who would kind of scoff at a Rolex but proudly describe the latest $500-for-2 dinner they went to last week.

Similarly I had a friend who only upgraded his iPhone with hand-me-downs from his teenage daughter, so he'd be like 3-4 years behind the curve. Meanwhile he owned like 4 homes and dined out similarly to my other friend.
Twitter works exactly this way today, if you use lists and ignore your timeline. See my other comments for instructions.
Can you send this to me as well? Interested to see it. Email is zqdo.tech@gmail.com. Thanks.
His approach may be something best described as counter-countersignalling.
maybe. I'd like to think that is true but was not in my experience but I wish I had experimented more before everything went remote so maybe take what I am saying with a grain of salt on this matter. I definitely took shit for it although some people were fascinated. I think the exception is if you have long hair or are a steampunk enthusiast. I am not really kidding. Even then you might come off as odd.

I sometimes would have to go to nearby tech companies we worked with and the leads who would greet me would mention something like "oh sorry we didn't tell you that you don't have to wear a suit". You have to explain yourself and there is the implication that wearing a suit is somehow inappropriate.
It's well documented, I saw it at least once a month when logged out of iCloud. Certainly not the most annoying pop-up though, that award goes to the automatic Apple Music launcher when you put on headphones.
wine runs older windows games better than modern Windows

with Microsoft's declining focus on compatibility, the time is coming where the majority of Windows games now run best on something that isn't Windows

(not to mention the lack of ads, spyware, general lack of stability and forced reboots)
Same. Windows has done this in the past on updates
Well, how much are you willing to pay for Windows?

Consumers already spoke with their wallets: they don't want to buy OSes. They're expected to be free.

The only reason macOS isn't this aggressive about advertising is because it's locked down to profitable hardware and linked together with a proprietary ecosystem of even-more-profitable hardware.

Diving into these, I still think this article is a bit dramatic.

1. Recommended Websites: Do you even look at your start menu? I don't. I hit the Windows key and type in the first few letters of the app I'm trying to open. The Start Menu could be completely blank and I wouldn't care.

2. Search Highlights: You don't even need to have a search bar in your taskbar at all

3. Suggested Actions: Can be turned off entirely

4. Warnings in the wrong places: Easily ignorable text in another piece of UI I never look at.

5. Please use our search filled with ads: Again, remove the search icon from your taskbar. It doesn't have to be there at all.

Don't want any of this? Install Linux.
thanks for the suggestion! I'm not super familiar with VST. Can you explain what issue this would solve, and for whom? It would help me decide!