skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there is a very vocal set of people (Roko, Yudkowsky and others) who are rooting for some extremely restrictive measures for AI development. I predict it'll take about 12 months for Roko's Basilisk to reach mainstream and be used to sway the general public against "free" development of AI technologies. A loss for all of humanity for sure.
At Kroger and Albertsons stores, you might be paying a lot more if you do not use the coupons that are only available in the app.
There's a difference between "stop using single-use items completely" and merely reduce their usage. There's a lot of excessive packaging in supermarkets that can be addressed without compromising usability/user-experience and ultimately reducing the plastic footprint significantly.

Most produce doesn't need stickers or rubber-bands for example, nor does it need individual packaging - the packaging can be provided at the supermarket in the form of a single plastic bag.
What is quinoa put in?
You’ve pretty much eliminated all agency that exists in those countries and their people.

This is the only way to support Russia and China today. By using a “Great Power” theory which pretends smaller countries have no agency and their people have no value, other than how they affect the interactions of those larger countries.

The U.S. is also surrounded by a bunch of countries. Somehow those countries aren’t clamoring to join the Warsaw Pact or kowtow to China.
> What if root servers just take it down?

Root servers only control the mapping up to the TLD. That is, they for instance know the nameservers for ".br", but they know nothing about the nameservers for ".com.br", or about the domains below that. If your domain is "example.com.br", the nameservers which could "just take it down" are the nameservers for ".com.br", not the root nameservers. In the same way, the root servers are completely unrelated to domain registrations (other than pointing to nameservers which know about them).
This is a fallacy imo. The less mundane, mindnumbing and highly automated jobs we have, the better.

There is a reason why for example living human beings do not manually switch phone lines anymore when you make a phone call - you could rationalize it as much as you can, but frankly humans we born for better stuff.
This is not just nightly, even Firefox-esr on Debian didn't support screen-sharing at least a few months ago. Had issues during client meetings last year and since then I always propose google meet instead if I see a teams link in the invitation, explaining why.

It's not technical it's lazy devs. The button is disabled claiming my browser doesn't support it. Bullshit.
> You don't see leaving something for your kids/family to improve their lives as meaningful? I don't require a reward after death to want the best for my wife/kids. Lacking a family, why not charity?

Corporations and the government are, short sufficient (0.1%) wealth to protect your assets upon death, finding ways to confiscate any left over wealth, and prevent it from transferring to children/spouses/charity/etc.

Medicaid cost recovery, for example.
Not always that simple. Where I work I need to provide a list of browsers customers can use, list those in the documentation and make sure QA test all of them and block any others.

Bugs in the app can lead to big issues and telling the customers to use whatever browser suits them and "if it works it works" is not good enough. There are still large differences between browsers that feature existence is not same as feature conptivinility.

Of course customers can tweak user agent and "lie" about their browser but then responsibility of issues is shifted to them.
I don't think anyone is assigning blame to a specific individual here, but to the corporation as a whole. A corporation that has time and time again been proven and acknowledged themselves to engage in anti-competitive behavior.
The checkout lane at the grocery store is not really the pinnacle of meaningful human interaction.
If you really want to hire engineering talent, paying above "competitive salary" is very important.

It's a bit orthogonal to the concerns in this article, but in some ways it's much more important.

What I wonder about is given an org that is able and willing to compensate at market clearing rates, how do they get the word out well enough to get engineers interested. Because the other big BS in hiring is the whole recruiting side of things.
Ask HN: What are you Words of Wisdom?
Curious what favorite quotes folks around here live by, often think about, or repeat to themselves on a daily basis.

Even if it's only "a favorite", what are yours?

I've amassed a few on my user profile here, and I always keep a ~/quotes.txt on my machines (though I'm not quite organized enough to periodically sync them to a central place).

I'll appreciate any indulgence you afford me and gems you share :)

Thank you!
Wouldn't this be a modern form of colonization, since these countries cannot produce these seeds? Extinguishing local crops for patented seeds produced by a company abroad
And you don’t see why a corporation would do that?
My biggest concern is that ChatGPT, etc. will kill off smaller, enthusiastic contributors that are domain experts.

I want to build a tech product at some point and I've always thought one of the ways I would start promoting it would be to create high quality, ad free guides for related topics. It took me the better part of a decade to gain my knowledge and might take hundreds of hours to put together a nice set of guides.

Where's the incentive for me if some search bot is going to steal my content and give it away without the consumer even knowing I exist?

The big publishers might be able to negotiate licensing deals, but I won't and, even if I could, the value I'd get via small payments from search would be trivial compared to the value I'd get from real site visits.

Plus, from my understanding of them, the LLMs will be susceptible to SEO optimization, so if I popularize a new idea someone else is going to come along and dump money into trashy AI generated SEO tripe that "wins" the search ranking. It does nothing but accelerate the terrible path big tech has us on where a crappy product + tons of money always beats a good product + less money.

I've been enthusiastic about tech since the 90s, but I'm starting to wish I could push the delete button on Microsoft, Google, etc. I think they're making the world worse and worse for the average person year after year.
There is exactly one reason why I wish a supermarket would contact me out of the blue: a recall, since they would in theory know what I purchased if I used the card, so no need to first hopefully hear about the recall, then try to figure out if it applies to me.

That said, I've never heard about that as a benefit from a market in the US, just discounts on food items (or put differently, upcharges if you don't use a card).

Not that we have GDPR-level protections here either.
You don't even need Trusts for this. EWS is decided by an issued certificate. The issuer can be bribed.
Just look at how values are different across societies to get a sense. We are currently fighting wars of what we call democracy vs what we call authoritarianism. In some sense inflamed by them worrying about “woke culture” as presented locally by their media. We support capitalism and react with triggered indignation if someone suggests an alternative too strongly. We used to fight religious wars.

And for domestic consumption, the top-down control or manipulation of the media often plays a part. Sometimes they find a way to spin these differences to explain why we must be at war (“they hate us for our freedoms”, or “they just hadn’t had a taste of true democracy”). Other times they spin these differences to inculcate in you a national pride and make you be a good consumer — the “American Dream” comes to mind:

1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzXze5Yza8

But if you want to go further, about how people are controlled here and around the world, by centrally planned movements, I have collected some of the most hard-hitting documentaries most of you have probably never heard Of:

2. Century of the Self (on Burnays and the PR industry): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04

3. Merchants of Cool (marketing to kids) https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-merchants-cool/

4. NAM, von Mises and Austrian School: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/corporate-am...

5. The Shock Doctrine, Disaster Capitalism (the Chicago School): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aL3XGZ5rreE

And this is just the beginning — without personalized AI!
Every time I've found a way to improve my life drastically, I've wanted to share it with people. I didn't always do it but it's nice to inspire people and see them succeed.

This person may be in a good spot in their life and feel like if they share their world view or advice, someone else could find their happiness through it. That person obviously isn't you.

Nonetheless, I think it's less about being pretentious or thinking that your words are so precious and wise they must be read by others than it is about what I said before.
I just reuse my "disposable" bags anyway, like ziplocks and stuff. I agree the fancy "reusable" plastic bags are pretty much junk (when storing food, like lunch items). It does make sense using the reusable grocery bags, though. Those things last a long time and don't get gross inside.

I'm waiting for someone to invent the re-usable dog-poop bag. ;)
I see this is from Andreas Kling, the creator of SerenityOS.
good package for laravel
I use the same userAgents in all of my web-scraper code, I just copy and paste my user-agent string after all these years.

It is still an old FireFox user agent I got somewhere. I should test my code and see if it still works after all these years. At the time, it was the only userAgent string which didn't lead to being limited. It was almost like an invisibility cloak for my bots.
> Are there any guides for securing a Android or iPhone against state actors?

You cant, in fact an entire industry exists namely infosec to mislead you into this line of thinking, in much the same way the diet and weightloss industry exists to make you think its possible to stay slim and sexy for the rest of your life!
The origin is the only factor that has no theoretical impact on the quality of the finished product. It's a purely political poison pill for any would-be producer, which means at the end of the day it is all about the location.

If I offered you a perfectly functional car, but added an unnecessary kill switch that prevented you from starting it without my express and arbitrary permission, would the deciding factor in your purchasing decision be the build quality of the engine, or that kill switch?
> Not between, but making it more difficult for Russia to safely send troops into the Donbas region.

Based on the way you write it seems you think this is problematic.

Do you?
>Meaningful innovation requires both invention and implementation, the ability to execute and commercialize new inventions at scale.

This is a really good point. Innovations must be accepted and penetrate the whole society to be useful. Underutilization of innovations is a problem.

The latest South Park episode was funny because it's so accurate. Japanese developed technological singularity for your ass (Full Self Driving toilet) several decades ago and people still use toilet paper.
Well yeah, but the police will ignore the laws, do a parallell reconstruction, and do whatever they want.

We must take away the tools that make their illegal works possible. One of them are imsi catchers, the other is location access to apps on phones, especially when the app is closed, then better authentication schemes must be implemented (some of it is done with 5g, but eg 2g is completely broken), etc.

IMSI catchers are not passive listeners, but actively transmit and act as if they are a legit tower and let phones connect to them, identifying them only because phones send identifiers to them. Passively listening to signals doesn't do much on newer networks and even with older (eg. 2g) only works if you capture the first connect to the network (when IMSI is transmitter, after that a temporary TMSI is used).
This is focused on finding technically skilled engineers, but I think you can get a more wholistic (holistic?) view of the person by asking them to walk you through their work history, project by project, and call a subset of the people they’ve worked with.

It’s more conversational, and you don’t have to live in hypotheticals.

We all know that skilled engineers will learn whatever skills they need to on the job, so less and less am I interested in what they can do in the interview pressure cooker.
> rubber bands

Natural rubber or synthetic? The former is biodegradable and compostable at industrial facilities. Don't put rubber in your backyard compost bin, though, even if you're 100% sure it's natural.

I agree about the little plastic stickers, though. Those are an abomination.
I'll kick it off with:

> "People look at failure much more carefully than they look at success."

> Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34042340
Contra: lobotomy.

Frankl was a hack.
> At least when I go to a store, I completely forget about security because I'm, you know, not there to steal something. It doesn't even cross my mind.

Have you never been to a store that occasionally plays an announcement saying "Security to section 3" or some such nonsense? Those are the best, because that is 100% BS. It's theater, designed to make the people who do shoplift think they're going to be caught. And a lot cheaper than actual security when you're operating a grocery store on tight margins.
> the best experiences were when the interviewer wanted me to succeed, was emphatic

I assume you mean empathetic. Same word is spelled “Emphethatic” later. (I tried finding a way to reach you privately, but your site “about” says you have contact methods on the left but, on mobile, there is no left…so here will have to do.)
You’re comparing the behavior of a 10 year old with the behavior of grown adults.

The guy who bullied your friend in college is probably still a monster today. And here you have a company full of people who were older than that (including grad and doctorate students).

If he says the sky is blue you look up. It’s probably cloudy.
Perhaps Go's GC is not state of the art, or perhaps it is, but I don't think that's a very helpful statement without being more specific.

Here is a what I found:

"The ZGC design strives to deliver a max pause time of a few milliseconds with marginal throughput loss." [1]

"We now have an objective of 500 microseconds stop the world pause per GC cycle." [2]

Of course, those GCs have different tradeoffs in terms of max pause time, app throughput, memory fragmention/usage, etc.

[1] Deep Dive into ZGC: A Modern Garbage Collector in OpenJDK
, September 2022, https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3538532

[2] Getting to Go: The Journey of Go's Garbage Collector, July 2018, https://go.dev/blog/ismmkeynote
Comparing classical plant breeding with GMO (or with the techniques used in the green revolution) isn't really that useful. There are too many technical differences between a process that uses selection which operates over hundreds to thousands of years, and a process which instantly changes the phenotype of a plant. And those differences matter a lot!

The only truly risky GMO I've seen was a case where the allergen from brazil nuts was accidentally introduced to experimental soybeans, which seemed to cause the soybeans to trigger brazil nut allergies in people. That was discontinued pretty quickly.
The next time any recruiter asks me to do a "homework" assignment, I will ask them to write me a 15-page essay explaining how that homework assignment will actually be used, to what extent it will be reviewed, and what criteria it will be judged on.

If the comeback remark is something like, "if you really want this job," I will reply, "if you really want to hire me."

My current job, I told them that I was too busy to do such a thing (and I was), and got hired anyway.

Nobody w/ actual responsibilities in their life should be coerced into doing something for free, for someone they do not know.

Will an attorney give you free legal advice until you decide they are fit to represent you, or will you get free surgery until someone proves they won't completely butcher you? Can you drive a car for free (for 5 - 8 hours) until you decide that's the car you want to buy?

Why is it any different in the software industry? Because we just clack on our keyboards all day and do nothing?
Yes, because using Firefox doesn’t put money in Google’s coffers.

Oh wait…
Learning disabilities are a type of neurodevelopmental disorder in which a student that is of otherwise average of above average intelligence struggle with a specific type of material, commonly reading (dyslexia) or basic math (dyscalculia). The most effective treatment is early remediation, in which students in primary education are identified and given extra lessons and exercises on their weakness to help make them more well rounded so they do not struggle later in their education. This is super effective.

I can tell your frustrated with accommodations. I think your arguments against accommodations would be a lot stronger if you knew more about them. I think you might have some good points inside, but your frustration and ignorance prevent them from being compelling. I encourage you to do more reading, but let me point out a few mistakes in your post.

* You seem to mistakenly associate a learning disability with low intelligence. A person cannot have a learning disability and be below average in intelligence by definition. Struggling to learn how to read while being average or above average in every other subject is different than strugglingly to learn everything. The more a student struggles to learn to read while excelling at everything else, the more likely they are to be diagnosed. This means very intelligent students with a learning disability are more likely to be diagnosed than average students with the same disability.

* Extra time on test is an accommodation.

* Accommodations are not being handed out like candy for no reason. Anyone can buy candy. Accommodations require a documented disability.

* Many standardized test accommodations are very appropriate, such as blind people being offered a braille version of the test, or people with poor motor control having someone else physically fill in scantron bubbles.

* A student can be disabled based on low intelligence. It's not called a learning disability, because it's fundamentally a different thing.
I thought compostable plastic bags only worked in commercial composters? I probably wouldn't use those in a home situation. But your home situation, you're kind of lucky, because you can just go dump the bin in your compost pile at anytime, and aren't waiting for a pickup or anything.
Dear ChatGPT, remind me again to how many Nm I need to tighten these bolts holding together my car?
Um what kind of reusable bag are you using?

I’ve had the same reusable bags for probably 5 years now and not a single one has failed.
This sounds remarkably familiar. A certain ERP I've been dealing with sent out dire warnings about installing and updating Edge, else something nebulously defined would break. This understandably caused a lot of confusion and frustration with users (the ERP spammed so many with this warning...) and pissed off IT teams. It turns out that the Edge they were talking about was the ERP's own software named Edge (amusingly named and released long after Edge the browser showed up), which they leave for the end user to optionally install, and actively refused to clearly document why, where, and how to install it.

The fun part is all of this was to update an expired certificate.
Have to also have a challenge process. I built an infosec talent pipeline for a fintech; stakeholders get a veto but the hiring mgr can go back to the veto voter and ask them to dive deeper (and possibly perform an additional candidate call) to confirm the veto. >1 veto = no hire.

It’s working well, and has avoided at least two false negatives since implementation within the last six months.
There are reusable bags that are fairly durable. I bought one in Mexico, I think its woven plastic. Not cheap thin plastic by any means. I bought it from Bodega Aurrerá which is owned by Walmart de México y Centroamérica. The bag is labeled 100% recyclable. I've been using it for eleven months, so far it has a one 2 cm cut in the bottom of it. It is still very useable.
You don't have to invent imaginary scenarios when the one before us does quite well on its own. We are not talking about an individual, we are talking about a faceless megacorp with a storied history of bad faith.

Just being a faceless megacorp is reasonable grounds for losing the benefit of the doubt, but one with their history? Ascribing anything other than malice first is plain and simple naïveté.
Yes some people have it easy. We have all seen this tons of times in life.

So stop comparing yourself to other people. Nobody starts at the same place.
There should be consultants who specialize in Hanlon's Razor, coming up with ways to make future plans look like stupid mistakes. Or maybe more usefully, they could discover profitable mistakes based on current conditions and events e.g. "Those two labels could be confused with each other; is there any way to make money from claiming that we confused them?"
Well, felt smart, anyhow.
More like "this guy has a long history of bullying others by pretending that they're out of spec, and now hes' saying someone is out of spec; what are the odds that it's an honest mistake?"
It's certainly an advantage, but why unfair?

To be sure, there may be an unearned privilege that underlies getting coverage (reporters and news orgs aren't free from bias, after all), but you can't just assume that, and declare all such coverage unfair.

It is a lottery ticket, and winning tickets aren't evenly distributed, but neither do they go only to preordained winners, nor is getting coverage a guarantee of success (though it certainly helps).
Die it do anything? I remember S3 cards saying you would get HW acceleration, but it was impossible to tell a difference to software rendering.
No. They mentioned what happens upon dropping affirmative action. Standardized tests still exist.
Why would that be surprising? Gifted people tend to be that way in multiple areas. I wouldn't be surprised if the average IQ in Hollywood is quite above the overall average.
Of they will learn.

But instead of having to learn about how to setup python, they will spend the same time learning on how to solve their problem with python.

Given that days have only 24 hours, the latter is more attractive to a lot of people.
Never attribute to incompetence that which can be attributed to laziness.
Okay. So Microsoft is now being anticompetitive by not recommending a minor browser. But it is recommending it’s biggest competitor?
AMD's Zen 4 I/O Die Shot Analysis (From the Isscc Presentation)
> and you lose your job.

You're making up stuff to make your case stronger. Also, it's totally legitimate to fire people for making mistakes, it's not an injustice.

edit: Instead, imagine being fired for making a mistake when you were actually told to ignore something by a supervisor.
Sure, reduction is a reasonable goal, but this thread started with

> The only way is to reuse and stop using single use items.
Money isn't on the line w.r.t. to Firefox Nightly. I don't even think real money is on the line w.r.t. to Firefox entirely.

We may love it, but Firefox is a big fat nobody in the browser space of 2023.
Microsoft could just keep an independent fork—just match features at a slower pace. Google can't change the license of Blink, their renderer, since it's a fork of KDE's LGPL renderer.