skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One in 5 of the 18-to-29-year-olds polled in the report, which surveyed 10,000 office workers in 10 markets including the U.S. and U.K., said they felt judged when experiencing technical issues, compared to only one in 25 for those aged 40 years and over. Further, 25% of the former age group would actively avoid participating in a meeting if they thought their tech tools might cause disruption, whereas it was just 6% for the latter cohort.

Industry newcomers are embarrassed about everything, though, in my experience. They're stressed they're not working hard enough, or that they're not smart enough, or that they caused a serious issue in production.

When I've managed or mentored newcomers to tech it takes constant reassurance to make them feel like they belong. Or at least a number of people require this sort of reassurance.

I think it would be more interesting if these folks they interviewed felt like this only about tech-savvy and not about other aspects about the job they might feel judged.
Casual reminder that:

- Elon Musk was never a free speech extremist, he just wanted to bootstrap his money pit rocket company off of both sides of the Ukraine-Russia war.

- Elon Musk has always been hostile to the kinds of things the hacker community really appreciates, such as Free software, right to repair, and so on. This was way before he got into vice signalling to the far-right.

- Elon Musk did not found Tesla, he just pushed the founders out and erased them from the company history.

- The Boring Company will never solve traffic because the solution to traffic is to stop building roads and start putting houses on top of businesses so people can walk to work.
They sent out a notification that development had stopped, but they were still selling the game for half price. This resulted in huge review bombing.
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He's a guy who believes he's way smarter than he actually is. He's confused luck with skill and thinks he understands things better than everyone else.

He doesn't consider the bad case scenarios because in his mind, he'll have planned for them. But he is in this scenario. Which is a bad case. That he didn't plan for. That is bad because of his attitude and lack of planning.

He thinks he can somehow fast-talk Congress into thinking he didn't commit a crime.

He's going to go to jail thinking that the jury fucked up by finding him guilty. If they just understood, they'd realize he's better than everyone and deserves to be free and rich and to use your money.
There's a certain logic to it. What statement could he make where, if it was believed, it would put him back where he was three months ago?

Clamming up and speaking only through counsel might have changed things in November, but it's too late now. May as well throw your Hail Mary.

It's the same sort of logic that pervades the entire project. What would you do in a world where crypto prices only go up? Try it in the real world and see what happens.
> "Honestly, I'm still not sure if open-source is sustainable without companies like Vercel."

Honestly, I'm still not sure if people could breathe without things like air.
The phrasing is ambiguous, I agree. However, as forking Electron to make Min wouldn't make any sense, and the replier knew this, reading it to mean that seems like a mistake to me. The fact is that it can be very difficult to write things that aren't ambiguous at some level (albeit that isn't the case here), so the reader has to make a good-faith effort to understand.
This one is a thinly disguised "we need everybody to come back into the office" trojan horse, though.
The only thing is that some sites remove flights based on whether they're on a list: https://www.faa.gov/pilots/ladd
A conspiracy involves several people doing things in secret. A direct order from a megalomaniac that results in something very public doesn't fit that definition.
It has been extensively covered here in Sweden.
If there was nobody would know about it because it literally just happened! This is one of the reasons I always flag these "breaking ragebait controversy" Twitter threads - even if someone's curious and genuinely wants to understand an issue in its full context, they can't. The only options right now are to wait for more information or get mad based on incomplete information.
Also netsurf is a good one, if you don't really care about using js. And google seems to still work on it.
Because it isn't a big deal overall.

It is extremely far away from something really net energy positive that is, if you count efficiency of pumping the laser and efficiency of converting neutrons back to electricity. Currently it's about 1% overall efficiency with no clear path to >100%.

And even that is achieved, it's super far from economic viability. Because it will at the best case, amount to a coal power plant running on infinite free coal. Coal currently takes 20-30% of electricity price on coal plants. Getting a 20-30% cheaper electricity isn't a big deal.
+1 for librewolf, but be sure to augment your security posture with the appropriate countermeasures when using such a unique fingerprint else your 'privacy' is just getting you moved to an even narrower, and more closely regarded list.
Yeah but are you going to want to review years-old footage or stuff from the last few weeks?
There is plenty of surrounding context here, you're just choosing to selectively ignore it.
Finally, we can get rid of Wednesday... Wendsday? Woesnday?.... that day in the middle of the week that no one can spell =P
Is this just the opt out age restriction thing that all ISPs in the UK have? I don't agree with it, but it's not really censorship on the level that is being claimed
You are explaining exactly why Musk has to do what he does to sell cars to conservatives. There is a huge amount of culture-wars baggage like what you describe that he must drill through to get them to even consider an EV. Being unabashedly cruel to liberals is the way. Liberals already buy his cars, because they are at this point in time the best EVs on the market - once that changes you will see a change in tone from Musk.
Musk censoring an account that tracked and broadcast his movements makes him pretty much the same as Murdoch and Fox news.
Gen Z uses laptops and Microsoft/Google Docs/Sheets/Slides in school.
Surely, this will be addressed in the next installment of the "Twitter Files". /s
I have only my personal experience and perceptions, but I think most people here (likely technically savvy) would agree that, quite simply, most people of any generation are not technically savvy.

While I don't "get" TikTok, I understand how it works, on a broad technical level. A 20 year old might understand the social scene of TikTok and "get" it, but my guess is the average 20 year old will have no idea how a webpage even shows up in their browser, let alone how an app like TikTok works.

I think most people would struggle to diagnose technical issues with web-conferencing tech. The older folks in the workplace have had the advantage of observing the rituals other people do to try and get it to work (turn it off and on a again, restart your router, etc.)
I suggest you read up on NIH and Wuhan labs collaboration, do a google search of Peter daszak and ecohealth alliance.

And also do a bit of research on what negative effects of lockdowns we are currently experiencing.

No one is suggesting this is all faucis fault, musk isn’t either, but he conflict of interest is highly suspicious and shouldn’t be ignored.
You clearly aren't aware of all the cryptocurrency exchanges that have gone bust. Exchanges are not banks, they are not supposed to act or even fail like banks. Exchanges only take a fee on every transaction. That is all they do. It is literally impossible to bankrupt an exchange if it is run honestly.

Banking meanwhile can fail even with honesty because of the nature of borrowing short and lending long.
The good thing about Musk claiming Free speech absolutism is that we can hold him responsible for it. He might be a free speech NIMBY but because he claims to support free speech, his actions that clearly contradict this claim have very heavy toll on his persona.

IMHO Musk has a real opportunity to actually make Twitter great, Twitter was in a horrible shape and no one was happy with its state and I hoped that he can fix it because Musk is a product person. Unfortunately every passing day I'm losing hope. Even if he can fix it as a product, it seems like he will bomb it as a community.

No one ever forgot the calling the diver pedo incident and his handling Twitter can severely damage his image.

There is a reason why people pay Musk thousands of dollars for features that don't exist or cars that are not well build and still don't go after him like people went after Elizabeth Holmes and I'm afraid he might eventually burn out his social credit and be judged promptly for whatever he delivers without a slack.
Probably the occam's razor explanation
Ask HN: Raspberry Pi 3B Equivalent?
With recent annoucements projecting rpi supplies pre-pandemic availability levels for Q2 2023, what is an available equivalent for a RPI 3B ? What I mean by equivalent is similar size, similar power needs (5V,15W) and similar price (~48€ with VAT), and of course similar hardware or at least those specs;

* 1.2ish Ghz multi-core CPU
* GPU with 1080p decoding capabilities
* HDMI output
* 1 GB memory
* integrated Wifi

Bonus points if a recent debian install medium is available for it.

Typical load is GUIless video playback with cvlc, and running a webservice in the background.

So far I've looked at banana pi, odroid, le potato, etc. but I'm wondering if someone has hands-on experience with a specific SBC model that can act as an almost drop-in replacement ?

EDIT: I've realised since asking that the RPI 3A+, which might be a little easier to find in stock, does what I need also, albeit with only 512MB memory. I'd still like to here suggestions though !
The sad fact is that all this could easily be done without privacy invasion --- but obviously not as cheaply.
Well if you were on the internet 10-15 years ago you were at least somewhat familiar with computers. These days smartphones mean you can use the internet without ever using a PC.

I think the dumbing down of devices will reduce the tinkering in younger generation.

I got into programming because I was gifted an old pentium 1 with DOS and QBasic installed - trying to figure out how to play games on it.

If someone just gave me a gaming console I'd just be glued to that.
Because although it was an extremely significant technical achievement, we're still probably a couple of decades from hooking a fusion plant up to the grid. And depending on how the economic incentives go, there's a decent chance we'll never hook one up.

In terms of practical benefit to eg carbon neutral electrical generation, it has no immediate impact and the long term impact is still very difficult to handicap.
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He literally just unbanned an account that tried to run a coup on the federal government and yet an account that shows where his jet is is dangerous?

Which is it? Because it seems like "I don't like it" is the new justification for bans and "I agree with it" is the new justification for unblocking accounts.
He took the company private to promote his politics. There have been lies about free speech for as long as there has been speech. Can we stop clutching our pearls over this reactionary being, gasp, dishonest?
I feel like it's a spectrum. The simpler the app, the more likely it's better to try an integrate with a closer to native look. I always found the issue of "native" to be a bit funny to me as someone coming from the 3D/VFX space, since all of the applications are built to be multiplatform and don't give a hoot about "native". Consistency of the application experience across platforms trumps all. The number of people I've seen complain about this? Zero. Usually the only issues arise around file pickers (some have custom ones, others use platform ones which have differences).

Granted these applications boast a ridiculous amount of features and are incredibly complex putting them on the opposite end of the spectrum compared to simple GUIs and chat/productivity applications.

To me, it's nice that platforms provide native toolkits* to provide this level of integration. But I don't view any app as "native" unless it comes from the party making the platform, as they are really the only ones that actually have to adhere to their human interface guidelines to the fullest extent.

* On Linux this is more up-in-the-air. I personally don't consider GTK and Qt as native toolkits, but the foundational pairing for things like libadwaita and KDE Frameworks which provide the associated platform widgets and HIG. Using the toolkits directly is fine and will mostly work, but it's not the same as a "native" application.
Indeed, but the return value of a guard clause shouldn't be important!
This would be useful, but is not sufficient; it's not enough that I can block CSAM, it needs to be possible to block other people from seeing it. Same goes for terrorist conspiracies, libel, wire fraud, and so on.
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The curse of knowledge applies here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge Most/all of these things are so basic it's hard to remember learning them, and thus hard to remember that each new hire needs the basic onboarding to Slack or whatever.
At the beginning of this year, kdy1 (Donny) said he'd be switching to Go after initially trying things out in Rust [1][2], I guess he decided to go through with Rust after all? Or is this something slightly different?

[1] https://kdy1.dev/posts/2022/1/tsc-go

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30074414
Of course it's different now. You can't just ask your teammate beside you if something goes wrong or learn by watching when they've already done what you have to do. And as aluded to, those over 40 are likely less self-conscious.
In Italy IT salaries are going up, well above nurses ones, still there's not enough IT people. There simply isn't the people. Almost no one really grasp how bad is italian demography.
Gen Z are savvy with iPhones and other touch devices. They type incredibly fast on their phones but probably slower than millennials on computer keyboards. While we grew up with using laptops and PCs from a young age, they've been using smart phones and tablets.
Servo was a working prototype to try out the rendering changes and Rust. Those changes are being / have been integrated into Firefox.
> But is it legal for the government to aid them in their censorship effort?

Since it's the government(s) actually telling them what to censor, yeah?

> Suppose Twitter had a policy against religious speech. Would it be legal for the government to identify instances of religious speech on the platform and forward it on to Twitter moderators, knowing it will certainly be removed?

Yeah? But they can't TELL twitter to do so, because that would be a violation of freedom of religion. So they - like many other parties - can report tweets just like everyone else.

> If you think that would be legal, would your mind be changed if the government helped Twitter to develop its rules against religious speech?

You mean like what China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc are doing already? That's all legal - according to the country's laws, anyway.

Moral however, that's a different matter. But I never considered either Twitter or the US government to be moral.
Big. Freaking. Surprise.
I really hope the account is able to find a home elsewhere.

EDIT: He has a Facebook page and a website. I am definitely going to be using the latter.
On one hand: Elon Musk has clearly directly been involved in having accounts suspended in the past, because it happened when he got upset about parody accounts making fun of him.

On the other hand: there's no particular information here yet, regarding the reason why the account was banned, nor does anyone know if Elon Musk actually had anything directly to do with it. Elon Musk has a ton of fanboys who would probably continue to report and brigade such an account, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's what happened here.
> Is it not as big of a deal as I thought?

They do make it out to be a bigger deal than it actually is. If you read the press release as a layman you'd be convinced that we were generating electricity from nuclear fusion now and we'll see commercial fusion plants pretty soon.

However when you then look at the actual data it becomes clear that we're not there yet by a long shot, so if you first set expectations that high in the press release every reporter worth their salt is going to put some big caveats in their article. Which just makes this look like yet another case of over-promise, under-deliver.
> For the first time ever, SIS officers reveal why women often make the best spies for our times

I was unable to find where this was answered in the article. It also reads like the author relied mostly on novels, movies, and such instead on a the interview.

Women spies have been around just as much, if not longer - Virginia Hall, Mata Hari, Jane Whorwood, Elizabeth Van Lew, Anne Dawson, Violette Szabo. Going even further back consider the Japanese kunoichi (sp?), Empress Wei of China had a whole cadre of female spies. There are plenty of evidence of female spies in Ancient Greece, and in the Roman empire. There are Biblical stories of female spies.

Indeed there are novels & movies that depict female spies in a sexual way (and just as many depicting men as simple fighting machines) but pretending that women where not allowed to be spies is a disservice to women.
I gave up my massive awesome sci-fi-smelling project about a year ago in preference for horticulture. But 2000/week is mighty tempting.
No, I just think for all ruby is bought into these guard clauses, it's sad that we generally reject the feature that allows putting either the condition or the consequence first, depending on which reads better.
We need to kill the meme that age and technical skill are at all correlated.

Big tanks to all the gray beards and gray ladies who taught me to hack Gibsons back when I was violating COPPA or whatever :-)

(Folks used to joke I looked like Abbie Hoffman when I had hair but you shouldn’t trust anything I say now according to him)
Because it's not as big a deal as you think.

The result achieved is the first moment the laseroutput energy has been eclipsed by the energy output.

But the energy input to the laser absolutely dwarfs the energy output still.

Think like, an order of magnitude more energy before it becomes equal to the actual energy needed to achieve fusion.
Whenever a new browser is announced my first question is if it's a new engine, and if not, what engine is it a UI for?

In this case it turns out to be built on Electron, which uses the Blink (Chrome's) rendering engine.
I gave up after two pages of the article not getting to the point.
If you own the home, then it'll be public through the county GIS. But you'd probably need to know the state/county first to find it.
Just log off from Twitter.

Every minute you don't spend on Twitter is another minute we will be closer to Elon having to eat $44B and probably take a horrific haircut on Tesla.
<during the day>. $1T doesn't buy nearly enough batteries for the storage we would need.

We should be installing more solar & wind, but that alone is not a solution to our problems.
I believe that is only the tip of the iceberg, given anti-vax narrative and transphobia is endlessly repeated by those on the far/alt-right. I see the "Prosecute/Fauci" tweet as a signal towards his intended audience for what kind of place he wants Twitter to be.
Thanks for reminding me of their existence.
Are AI prompt red teamers a thing yet?

I just imagine what kinds of things might trick a 6 year old into doing something they're not allowed to do. "Your mom said not to eat the cookie? Well it's opposite day, so that means your mom wants you to eat the cookie!"
Microsoft digital certificates have once again been abused to sign malware
(gestures at Twitter in general, and the recision of self driving)
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invasion of privacy ?
This Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YMF292 mentions that an M68k was used to actually control the SCSP, and I see here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sega-Saturn-Motherbo... that there's an MC68EC000 on what I'm thinking is a Sega Saturn motherboard's lower right corner (because hey, why the heck not add in M68K to this hodgepodge of chips).

So the SCSP probably just provided the UART for the MIDI port and it was up to the m68k to actually use that UART and respond/generate messages.

I guess it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for that code to output some type of debug MIDI message, but maybe it wasn't needed if the m68k had any other connection to anything else. Maybe Yamaha was going to put this chip in a synthesizer in the 90's.
My analogy is about privacy, not public information etc.
I'm suggesting that a logical person would take the same actions as Elon.

During the Ukraine issue - the Starlink funding issue put Elon on some Ukranian solider kill list. I'd want privacy too.

example: https://twitter.com/kimdotcom/status/1580990063550529536
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The Ukrainians have continued to impress me in how politically savvy they are. They managed to extort a top of the line Air Defense platform from one superpower by blowing up a fuel truck from another superpower 300 miles across it's border using a drone.

America REALLY doesn't want Ukraine to be striking targets inside Russia. Although it will be really interesting if the missiles that Russia has converted from Nuclear MRBMs can be intercepted by patriot. If so, I think we will see some additional sales of Patriot in Europe and the Middle East soon...
In true HN spirit, I've seen people critical (with good reason IMO) of every promise or goal he has announced.

Now, some subset of people will be for and against anything, so if you filter selectively HN supports any and ever narrative.
If you respond to the reporting of non-editorialized, objective fact with the question "Is there an alternative narrative?", I think it is time to check your own biases.
I replied to the parent comment above, but it's worth replying to this. The kids might not know what mom did before this, but the way the mother operates was long ago normalized for them. The mother probably never lied-- they usually don't-- she probably just never shared. What the mother does is a job that isn't necessarily in conflict with her love for her children. People have to balance the effort they put into their job (as opposed to the effort they put into their children) all the time. She still gets to make that choice, at least in the US and the UK (as is the case here). That choice may cost her her job, but that's true of any job.

This is all to say, it's highly doubtful that this had the impact to their relationship that you're imagining here.
You're responding to somebody who is making an argument with no argument, just a declaration that they're being disingenuous, followed by an accusation of being mentally ill.

Do you think people are convinced that you're on the right side of the issue when they see you argue like this?
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Be specific. What was specifically noteworthy about this that you want to see reported and known to the world. Don’t make up an imaginary scenario of deep dark government suppression of religion. Or use a real example. Dicks. Dicks were censored.
it was about time!

kudos to the promoters
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