skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“33% Are committed by an acquaintance” which is more likely to be an internet friend, especially nowadays

It is a false narrative to pretend that automagically means “oh it was the creepy” uncle
Not only that but throwing away precision is an intrinsic part of becoming higher-level. This is just a different way of doing it.
> ready to drop kinetic warheads from orbit

I don't think those are a thing. It's so much easier and cheaper and faster to launch things from the ground (or water).
You guys just didn't pivot fast enough, you should have become your own certificate manager so you could run a man in the middle attack and break the https, add your ads, and then re-encrypt it
Something like that. Especially when the Chatbot then corrects the small usual mistakes it already knows by itself (as ChatGPT can).
Bro I feel like you're mixing up a whole lot of entirely unrelated thoughts and feelings here.

One thing is a random blog post. One thing is your frustration that teachers/historians don't get paid well. A third thing is that people find blog posts more engaging than history text-books.

I also find your expression "making shit up" really weird. Anyways that's all for you to unpack -- this is a fun read, if you want to be angry at everyone who has a non-academically-rigorous idea that they type up that's one way to spend your energy.
I have never had Bluetooth earbuds fall out of my ears. Maybe it's an Airpod problem. I don't know; I've never used them.

I certainly don't miss having a wire catch on something and yanking my ear.
Yes, outside of HN type circles it's still loved and respected.
> If you work at a FAANG you can afford to live anywhere, including in places that would give you a short commute to work

I think this is an exaggeration. Not everyone who works at FAANG companies is making $300K+/yr or whatever the current figure being quoted is, although senior people probably are. For rank-and-file employees, even engineers, your choices "within walking distance" of a FAANG office typically are: 1. A tiny apartment or townhome, 2. A larger townhome with roommates, or 3. Unaffordable. Numbers 1 and 2 are fine I guess if you're young and don't have kids, but I'm not willing to move my family into a sardine can in Mountain View or Cupertino.

So yea, you can afford to live almost anywhere, but only if you adjust your lifestyle drastically.
This is an excellent accidental rebuttal to the entire Manifest v3 project. The stated reason for the new major version and breaking changes is officially:

> Manifest V3 represents one of the most significant shifts in the extensions platform since it launched a decade ago. Manifest V3 extensions enjoy enhancements in security, privacy, and performance...

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/

Web developers (see uBlock origin for one) have been complaining that Manifest v3 breaks chrome extensions for no discernible benefit and Manifests v3 exists entirely to protect Google's ad business. This review gives fresh evidence to support that assertion and showcases Google's deception. As seen in this blog post, extensions can request literally every permission and the user permission warning actively hides the permissions beyond the content fold.These changes haven't been made for security's sake.

I wish the entire Manifest v3 was scrapped, but that likely won't happen. I'll settle for people assuming Google is lying by default.
Anecdotally I think some training on preseed/seed funding may be beneficial.

I’ve met more than a few pre seed folks who are focused on equity retention. This is all well and good for a few exceptional founders, and they are welcome to seek out a compatible match. However there should be an asterisk on when people are looking for a founding engineer or otherwise giving out marginal equity.

I had a few such meetings which were educational- but ultimately non productive as it would not make financial sense for me to join a seed stage firm for less than a 50% stake. Of course the discussion is different for later stage firms.

That being said the speed dating events were fantastic.
The openings don't seem like an important part of the airless design. Once the structure is there, you can close them up for aerodynamics.
Another option is to use S3 + Cloudfront + SPA with your services running as web socket lambdas.
Ask HN: Is Icloud.com Down?
Service status shows everything is fine, but it seems to me it os not.
> Well, then you need to pay more attention... Your interpretation is wrong.

> You don't understand the difference between quality and pricing policy. Best food is not the "fast food", even though customers love it and it's cheap.

> There's nothing positive about people like him.

This is the exact problem I'm getting at: Individuals don't get to unilaterally declare what good software is, what the worth of people is, what people do or don't understand.

This guy may in fact have a more nuanced and "better" understanding of software and what goes into making it, than you. Prove that he doesn't! If you can, you can take that proof into work and take his job!
Most out-of-the box AI stories perhaps are not worth publishing and a large flood of them would then be a ddos attack on the submission process.
Ironically I drove the most when I was in high school. I had a car for much of undergrad but didn't use it all that much. Then in grad school it sat unused and was expensive so I got rid of it. 12 years later, I still don't have one and only occasionally drive rentals...
Do you make a habit of collecting eggs and/or sperm from the people you meet for the purpose of determining their biological sex? How many of your friends’ and acquaintances’ gametes have you confirmed?

If this person[1] tells you that they are a man, what level of scrutiny should they be subject to in order to confirm this to your satisfaction? If you do not intend to reproduce with them, to what end is it important that you establish which type of gamete they produce?

If a future surgery allows a woman to produce sperm, is this what will qualify them as a man from your perspective?

Where do hermaphrodites fit into this picture? What about people that produce neither sperm nor ova?

[1]: https://trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/transgen...
Quick rule of thumb. The Earth's average temperature would be similar to the Moon's average temperature (-130 to around +120 Celsius, so average is around -5 Celsius). Though the high and low swings wouldn't be as great for the Earth (maybe to -35 and +25 Celsius) because the Earth spins in one day, while the Moon takes a month.
I feel like a broken record. I’ve been saying the same thing since this AI frenzy ramped up in the last year or so. I won’t restate your complaints, but I share them.

I’d like to see more work done to incorporate all the advances AI has brought us into our traditional software. Using the example from the article, if databases can be 70% faster and use 10x less memory by leveraging a neural net, how? If we can figure out the how, we can understand it and incorporate it in other areas. A great deal of success in various fields draws on inspiration from other fields, for example biomimicry. We even come up with mental models in areas like computer science that trivialize complex topics to simple objects a child could understand (trees, stacks, etc.). We would benefit immensely from learning from neural networks, but instead we have decided to largely ignore the how and see what they can do. Both are important, but one is severely lacking.
That is whataboutism. Yes, al that stuff is really bad and should be fixed on a global level - but meanwhile pushing for less work hours where possible does not take away from improving, on the contrary, it paves the way.
Maybe, maybe not. I'm not spending my time working on a closed question.
When is someone gonna make a new similar site without the crippling modern SO problems?
I know similar sites exist, but they seem to have a tiny fraction of the users and not much activity.
SO badly needs a successor everyone currently on SO can move over to.
thanks for you input, i'd just want to add a pinch of chaos and averages into the mix.. a 9-5 is also an escape from problems elsewhere, or a somehow balanced dance/wave (morning, commute, work, come back), it's not just late stage capitalism imo

thanks again
>, which is how do you educate the market to recognize the "cost" of low quality

Typically... pay them more. When I was broke quantity mattered more to me. Now that I have discretionary income I am far more selective.

See Also: 'Boots Theory' of Socioeconomic Unfairness
I actually would like to talk to people who really want to run a startup (with on of my great pre-developed ideas) in a somehow coordinated way and get a five percent stake in the company or something. Is there a good place for that (other than putting it on Hackster)?

I met people with great ideas, ones with great skillsets, ones with great management and leadership skills, and you just can have all those things vary over time in your life.

The question is, but also for the classic startup, how stable and dedicated would such a construct be. The need for fame, money or just joy of development also varies over time, so I would guess there should be a way to bring those interest together into a working construct without necessarily judging up front that this is not the real deal. Lots of CXXs are just employees in a company they did not found themselves after all. Still they receive shares of their company. So why not start with that as the base right away.
So, like, doxx them? Because Reddit does not have this information to begin with. Surely those studios are not naive enough to believe a mail address is generally helpful?
I believe I saw this on a Windows laptop purchased in the last week - was very surprised it was technically possible for a neutral browser to do this but I moved on as quickly as possible. Yeah the browser clearly wasn’t neutral - how is it possible to trust software like that?

(If this is in the testing phase maybe we were a canary)
OpenBSD: Pinsyscall, Execve, and Rop Pivots
> not to mention expansion of women's soccer ... It might make me fall in love with the game, however, because I have seen how relegation is a high stakes event for teams and the fans

Amusingly, Chelsea's women's coach thinks England's league should look into the US model without pro/rel: https://www.90min.com/posts/emma-hayes-wsl-should-be-open-fr...

England in particular's struggled with pro/rel in the women's game because from a financial sustainability standpoint, there's effectively no place to promote from or relegate to -- if you aren't Liverpool or Man United, promotion can be a financial bullet to the head. And if you're Liverpool, the stakes of relegation are next to nil, but if you're Doncaster, the stakes are utter destruction and demotion past the second and third tiers because of unattainable financial requirements. (Mexico's leagues, men's and women's, have had similar problems with pro/rel.)

The US has a similar, more systemic problem on the women's side. Even with new pro second-division leagues starting, our real women's second division is the NCAA, with all the legal baggage that carries.
One thing I don't see very often in connection with Agile is the reasons pre-Agile project management approaches failed: Replanning a resource-leveled critical path analysis takes way too much time and effort for little benefit in the context of most kinds of software development projects.

That, in turn, points toward incremental assignment of people to tasks as a key difference. There are of course many other differences, but exactly zero Scrum certification training courses even come close to mentioning stuff like this. "Cargo cult" is the inevitable outcome of not knowing anything about why one should do Agile for software development projects.
When you're in your final years and you look back at your life, does anyone seriously think "I wish I had spent more hours at work"? I personally don't know a single case. However, "I wish I had had more time for..." is probably the norm.

Life is so much more than work.
But do people actually have a good impression of it or do they just use it?

There’s a ton of services that I use but have an unfavorable view of. Most are large corporations.
From the quarterly numbers here: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
> if you are truly just doing productive, meaningful technical work, beyond 3 full days most people can't do it.

Ok but an important detail is the distribution of those hours. You probably didn't do 7 consecutive hours of exhausting hard thinking work in one day, nor probably 3.5 hours across 2 days... you'll be able to confirm, but sounds to me like an important key part of most meaningful, intensively intellectual (or physical) work lots of people do is that those hours are more-or-less spread across the whole work week, so in your example, kind of 1h30m per day on a 5-day week or closer to 2h/day on a 4-day week.

I would fully agree with the latter part of your comment. Even if you argue that you'd not get more than 3 days of actual work done during a week, it doesn't necessarily follow that your work week should have been 3 days long; more like your daily timetable should probably be shorter and you should not have to wait in your office, mentally tired and not being productive, until the clock says it's 5pm and so you can now go home.
I understand (and agree!) with what you are saying, historically the role of "brands" was to curate customer specific features for sourcing product offerings. So while Sears & Roebuck might get hand tools from a factory in China, those that they applied the Craftsman brand to had a lifetime warranty, and as a result they would push both quality requirements and quality inspections on to the manufacturer. The consumer bought the "brand" because it was a "quality" brand.

Amazon, is in the process of destroying any brand value it has by not doing any curation for counterfeits, quality, or even fitness of purpose. In this way they are duplicating the AliExpress model which was essentially a payments processor in front of Alibaba the market aggregation web site.

I disagree that quality can't be objectively compared (I think it is possible you were using "compared" for what I think of as "discernment"). Using hand tools as an example, I can easily compare steel quality between two wrenches, I have a variety of objective ways to understand their mechanical properties and measure their conformance to specifications (like is a 3mm wrench really 3mm?).

But it is impossible to discern quality from either a magazine advertisement, a web advertisement, or a web site listing. I learned that the hard way when I ordered a "two person submarine" from the back pages of Popular Science magazine.

One of the greatest services Backblaze provides is annualized failure rates on disk drives they use. It demonstrates both what a lack of quality "cost" (in terms of disk failure) and who sucks. That is not something that I could take on (I don't have the budget for thousands of drives ;-)) but it helped improve the market for disk drives overall as consumers gravitated to the quality drives over the less quality ones. Similarly when I was at Google, Google started publishing power supply statistics and their requirements for PSUs in their systems. This drove both an awareness in consumers (the information was widely shared) and change in the PSU market place.

In the absence of brands, aka "white box" or "clone" manufacturers, discernment is not possible. And consumers who don't care and "just buy what is cheapest" get crap. And that crap gets crappier and crappier as people find ways to make it cheaper as long as you don't care how long it lasts or how well it does what it is supposed to do. (crapitalism in a nutshell). And to the extent that this exhausts the addressable market for quality items, it results in worse quality for everyone because the people who could make a quality item, won't because not enough people would buy it to keep the factory busy.
> you already know what they're going to say because you all, you know, talk

Standups are a pet peeve of mine especially. If the team isn't communicating regularly, then there's a larger issue that standups won't solve. If it is, then standups are a complete waste of time.
And this is why I am hesitant to install any and all Chrome extensions.

Well done!
Video showing it being bounced and dunked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC02e5dcvZw
I think you mean system call bound which is really another way of saying CPU bound. The hardware underneath is incredibly capable, but the interfaces to it are inefficient. I’m skeptical that JSON payloads over HTTP based applications are saturating 10gig+ network interfaces.
You should be aware that it is possible to direct your balloon pretty much anywhere by just changing the altitude.

If I was China and I wanted to make super advanced balloon to spy on US I would definitely make it so that it can use air currents at different altitudes to direct it where I want.
These might be evident in retrospect, but it's usually tricky to predict what will matter and what won't during design time. (Someone smarter than me said something about premature optimization once.)

This is also usually where experience can make a big difference.
Santa is real, but he is a memeplex that delivers presents.
Not commenting on whether or not the situation is better or worse.

But your comment is meaningless without also providing data showing the amount of CSAM on twitter over time.

An article saying the team was axed doesn't tell us anything about the effect on the outcomes that team was responsible for.

If you axed the team and the amount of CSAM increased, that tells one story.

If you axed the team and the amount of CSAM stayed the same, that tells a different story.

If you axed the team and the amount of CSAM dropped, that tells a different story.
There is nothing in agile stopping you from producing comprehensive designs or specs.

Every project I take on these days has a pre-production phase. This phase is 1-3 sprints. It involves speccing sophisticated systems, designing UX and several spikes to evaluate technology. These all have outputs in the form of documents. Even the spikes should produce a short document outlining the technology recomendations and the reasons for the recommendation.

Similarly, in a project with a more research orientation, we perform spikes which involve building various prototypes and documenting their feasibility.

None of this conflicts with agile principals nor creates a situation in which engineers and designers are pressured to forsake, "building it right".

In fact the only differences between this approach and "waterfall" is that there is frequent accountability and there is protection for the development team because they are still choosing what comes into a sprint.

I generally find that whatever form the various criticisms of agile take over the years, there are generally two impulses really at work underneath them. Either management is trying to undermine the protections agile and scrum create for the dev team by violating the "only pigs talk" principal or it's developers trying to avoid regular accountability so they can build their castles in the air.

To be 100% clear, I'm not even saying that approach never works. There are phenomenal developers who disappear for weeks and come back with magic. But often enough, developers who cannot deliver try to perform the same act and their incompetence sinks a project. The development team cannot collectively afford the risk to find out which kind of developer you might be and therefore you owe them accountability. We all owe each other accountability.
Yeah, I must be missing something because the OODA loop just seems to be a flowchart depiction of common sense
according to a master I trained under, the meditation taught today is the opposite of what buddha taught; it leads you to abandon and lose yourself, and to call the souls of the dead to come in and drive your body. they show people things, such as experiences, to trick the living person into allowing the dead soul in. they use aspects of your existing character to make you think the feelings are coming from your own self even though the impulse is environmental. for example some religious people are made to feel as if they are more special or as though they have a special connection with heaven. there are a lot of people who claim enlightenment in the world today. but none of them except for a Tathagata have actually come near to it or attained it in reality. most of them are nearly totally possessed by ghosts.

if this were not true then we would have teaching and advancements in human society from many fully realized beings. they would be able to realize anything in physics or the way and causes to any desired effect in real life. but we obviously dont have this. instead what we have left are platitudes and falsehoods which are designed to confuse the opponent.
Ha yes, the famous cyber security experts that dont know what an HTTP request is but will run a nessus scan, charge 10k and tell you you are secure...
Hmm, can you provide an example regarding the third pathway feedback loop?
> Seriously though, do normal people like Microsoft?

Halo fans?
Basically just like humans on the internet.
Now all you need is processing power, a design, business logic, storage, bandwidth, users, and employees to deal with all of that.
Even leaving aside the fact that 90% of the slop an “AI” crapped out wouldn’t be worth reading in the first place, of what value is the culture of absolute solipsism you’re proposing?

I would think we’re all rather beyond the age of asking our parents to tell us a story about a pretty unicorn and being satisfied with whatever meandering narrative they supply — is that really all you think books are? There’s no meaning the author was conveying, no value in a shared culture experiencing and interpreting the same work and building a common understanding, this can all just be effortlessly replaced by endless atomized autogenerated slop for piggies?
They've got a taste of browser market share with the new Bing (since the days of IE) and are now foaming at the mouth ...
The one thing I would go to the office for are sprint ceremonies. On my best functioning teams, we would plan and make sure everyone knew what was needed and solutions brainstormed until we had an agreed approach.

Then you stay at home and just execute. And you can used your best hours to smash stuff out and then enjoy the rest of the day.
More important than what we want is what we can afford. Additionally, the result of these zoning laws (artificial restrictions) is to increase homelessness. So commenting on an on about what people prefer is rather immaterial.
What if you produce neither or both from birth? What if surgery changes which of those, if any, you produce?

What if I told you that none of this really matters to me? What if people discriminating against people who want to be one or the other now makes it matter because discrimination increases crime and reduces productivity?
Summary: We have no idea how to ensure alignment of a super AI. People are spending a lot of money to create a super AI. Super AI is likely to destroy humans as a byproduct of its actions, whatever it will decide to do. Happening to create a super AI that is also a humanity aligned super AI is like creating software randomly and it becoming information secure by accident, very unlikely.

Investors and researchers are mocking people warning of the large scale dangers of AI.
A business mentor of mine used to say that the two primary ways startups die is 1) by not having enough money, and 2) having too much money.
Chromeframe was back when IE 6/7 were still commonly used yet couldn't support "modern" HTML5/JavaScript functionality because Microsoft gave up on web standards. It was a workaround but not a particularly evil one imo.
Similar problem: online reviews will now become quite useless as anyone can generate hundreds of different ones that all sound quite human-like (unlike the obviously fake reviews)