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> You will inevitably break ITAR, this is why most companies under ITAR (& gov agencies like NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/careers/working-with-nasa) does exactly what SpaceX is being prosecuted (persecuted) for.

NASA employees are in civil service, not the private sector; there are different rules.
When I was younger I witnessed a well witcher find a location with a devining stick. Spooky stuff.
The Ten Worst C++ Design Choices
I guess it's all perspective. I've always looked at exceptions as a base case.
Of course they are.

If people don't see content they want to watch when they start Netflix they will eventually stop paying for it.

Netflix is not there for you to watch your favorite movies when you want. It is there to encourage you to watch as much Netflix as possible. So it makes sense for them to advertise as much content to you as possible.
Ask HN: Publicly Sharing Revenue?
I always enjoy reading how much projects make, for example Candy Japan (https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes), Side Projects earning more than 2k p/m (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567822) etc.

I am planning on launching a network of sites & considering doing the same for all my projects, starting from day 1. Are there any downsides doing this though? To be more specific, I want to share amount of visitors, page views, hours spent on projects, expenses and revenue.

Who here shares their revenue etc. & what are your experiences/advice?
"Facebook does this"

This is an important point. Don't try to do what Facebook/Google/etc do because you are not Facebook or Google and you don't have a team to support the same complexity levels nor the budget to invest until that point of maturity. Trying to be like the big ones is a classic trap.
as long as you're not doing conditionals and loops you probably won't be able to tell you're not using bash

personally I almost never put anything that complicated into my shell, once it gets to that point it goes into a script.
did you mean the research on the study of research on the psychology of expertise in weather forecasting?
That you are using a mac? I ised to still call it the super or windows button, because my macbook ran linux. This whole article is mac centric, but it doesn't seem aware of that. Most keyboards don't have the switch symbol, most just say alt, and its where the mac has the command key.
The Tyranny of Structurelessness, by Jo Freeman

https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
I don’t know. I find pessimistic views, like you are expressing, very strange.

My Tesla drives and navigates itself most of the time. 90-95% at least, just not 100%.

As apposed to cars 10 or more years ago which didn’t do any of that.

To me it is much like the “God of the Gaps” when tremendous progress on a big problem is dismissed negatively, due to the (continuously shrinking) gaps of what it can’t do.
Probably because you're cherry picking the most absurd example.
Yup, this is it.

Diversity in the sense that people from various walks of life provide diverse(!) opinions is a very good thing. Getting stuck in thought bubbles is a very easy mistake to get into.

"Diversity" in the sense that people explicitly of a given race or sex be placed in a given seat to satisfy some "diversity" quota is not a show of diversity, it's just plain old discrimination.
You're being overly pedantic. They meant a GNU/Linux distribution without the Android bits, not an Android distribution.

And that's obvious.
> Now imagine either of those two writers gave you a list of rules to follow. You’d throw that piece of paper in the garbage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manual

This book has been the inspiration for/method for a lot of hit records.

I think you are underestimating how much method, methodology, effort and development goes into something like Reservoir Dogs. Tarantino may have apparently emerged fully-formed, but he had spent decades learning about cinema the hard way -- watching it, studying it, absorbing the logic/form of cinema. It is (and Pulp Fiction is) not a work of pure intuition; it's clearly a work of homage.
I dispute that, if the metric is a chess game between an ant and a human
It's a news article, not a research paper. It's kind of expected that they'd find (friendly) experts to rely on for appeal-to-authority and not be picky about questioning "common knowledge" (that the article isn't specifically written to question).

It doesn't seem particularly worse than I'd expect a minor news article to be. Also, have you heard of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect?
Doesn't make any sense to do that without a financial upside as well, as the businesses are unlikely to spend more their entire valuation on fintech products (and 84 mom and pop shops owned by the VC signing up isn't much of an illusion of growth to boost the fintech companies' valuation either)
I’ve used fish for a half decade too, I still write my scripts in bash like everyone else. I want them to be standard and portable.

Longer scripts get the Python treatment or a Go application.
Try going around a park photographing what everyone is doing. Further, start giving selectively (to kids and other vulnerable people) lollipops in exchange for them identifying everybody in their friends and family circle by name. At best you would be chased out of the park. At worst you would be lynched.

The cry to identify "real harm" is insidius and malevolent. There have already been documented instances of political manipulation. Given the opaque nature of the sector and the massive leverage it affords its very likely this was just the tip of the iceberg. Risk management is not just making sure you dont die of food poissoning today. It is also about avoiding that heart attack that will come decades early.

Again, its not about the act of advertising as such. It is the behavioral profiling that is the toxic practice. What grave harm can behavioral profiling possibly insert into policing, medicine, finance, education, relations with state and corporate employers etc? Its not even a rhetorical question. Its a societal disaster of historic proportions.

The moral bankruptcy of the adtech industry is not just the original sin of rolling this practice out, but, (after they have been outed) to pretend that they have this under control. That it is a sandboxed environment. It is not. The digital domain is interconnected and leaky. Economic and political dynamics is unpredictable and all the above mentioned domains come into play with adtech itching to expand its reach.

Its not a "new right" that people to defend, the framing is again odius. Who gave the right to certain entities to institute mass surveillance? They simply abused the lack of regulation. Moved fast and broke things.

At stake are fundamental questions about human agency, transparency and accountability of the actions of organised enterprise (and public sector), and the very nature of our social systems as we move deeper into the digital era.

The start of that era is certainly dystopic-looking with unscrupulous private sector and captured governments. The major question is if the (unexpected to be honest) principled stance of the European Union will help boot into an alternative operating system.
If you want diversity of opinion, NYT is not a suitable source. (Something like The Atlantic works much better.)
It is doable though. A bunch of years ago I followed some instructions and set up a dual-boot on one using a Chinese ebook platform firmware. This way if you wanted to read epubs or PDFs you would boot to the other OS. Worked pretty well! Had access to all of the hardware including wifi.

So it would be the same basic principle here as what you envision.. boot into that other system, but have it instead launch some other app.
Talking about it doesn’t help people who are sick. It’s something we’ve done for decades and we are no closer to universal health care. We can continue to talk and bemoan the state of things. But when you’re sick, you personally, the great mass talking about how shitty it is that you’re sick matters not one bit. No one doubts change would come from us - but if there is to be a change, it’ll be over a sea of misery. Sitting around taking a medical ethics stance that everyone must die unless a licensed medical professional billed you with correct billing codes to an insurance company is on the surface absurd. People received and gave medical advice and care without both of those things for almost all of humans existence, yet here we all are, the world didn’t end. It would be a hell of a lot better if medical care weren’t rationed by death panels, but it is rationed by the death panels of Congress.

I take it you’re on the “LLM can’t do anything but hallucinate.” However an awful lot of folks use LLM for quite a lot successfully already. I’ve found in the space of medical advice GPT4 is already fairly sophisticated. I wouldn’t use it without double checking it’s output, but I can ask it fairly complex questions about physiology, biochemistry, medicines, and many other subjects and it almost always provides a concise, detailed, and insightful answer. I’ve not yet found it hallucinating so long as I don’t ask it questions that are essentially information retrieval questions (who wrote the paper about blah will often induce a wrong answer, while, say, what medicines shouldn’t be mixed with ibuprofen will not). I personally believe LLM’s are not the answer as well, but I believe LLMs are a major missing piece in the assembly of partial answers we’ve built to date. I think LLM’s combined with information retrieval, optimizers, constraints systems, goal based agents, and other classical AI and information techniques forms a powerful combination greater than the sum of its parts. And I definitely think the way to scale medical care is for most medical questions that don’t need an expert to be serviced by a machine. The vast majority of our medical systems time is taken up by people with colds, GERD, and other questions and conditions that can be handled without a human.
Supernote is decent in this regard. It's an android base, but the software has been very intentionally designed so as to avoid many of the pitfalls. It's primarily a notetaking e-ink tablet, it excels at writing notes or marking up pdfs/ebooks. If you really want you are able to install other applications, currently not officially supported though they've said they plan on adding support, but it's completely secondary to the primary mostly seamless design.
After reading the comments on prior submissions it does seem like this is no where near as clear cut as the blog post claims. Unclear what really happens to me, but I agree - affiliate links are fine, changing reviews if someone doesn’t pay is not (though possible this didn’t even happen based on prior discussion)
Ask HN: Will Tesla have a Chat GPT moment?
Musk claims Tesla will have a ChatGPT moment where, all of a sudden, all Teslas will become potential robotaxis. He has been saying this for a while but until now failed to deliver.

True autonomy turned out to be a challenge, harder than imagined by a lot of people, including Musk. On the other hand Tesla has kept its focus and continued to improve the system.

I think the chance of AI making a ChatGPT like leap to super humane driving capability is likely and may only be a few years away. I used to think otherwise and argue that a million cornercases would pose a significant hurdle to autonomous driving but the way ChatGPT could be trained to correspond and translate language changed my view. What is your take?
The use case for me is a prompt that Just Works. No need to hack $PS1 or anything else, I just install it and everything works.

There are some optional bits for more niche things (like laptop battery) you can enable with a config file, but it’s not necessary.
> If you sit in a park bench and watch me running around on a hot day I can’t compel you to “forget I was there”.

I will naturally forget because I’m a human with fuzzy memory / storage.

I am not an highly consistent, available and resilient database which will store the information for the next 5 / 10 / 15 / 30 / N years.

Appreciate this is a bit of a nit pick on your argument, but I feel it is also important because it highlights the massive risk / impact difference.
When OP says "PTO comes out of salary," I think they mean that the company has more money to pay a person if the person takes less PTO. For example, if a company needs a janitor role filled, and a janitor gets (for sake of simplicity) 6 months/yr PTO, then the company has to hire two people to fill the janitor role. So, if the company wants to dedicate $100k to the janitor role, each person would get $50k. With 0 PTO, one person could do the role for $100k.
Even with in "diversity" the goal is only 2 metrics of diversity, race and sex...

Nothing about political, socio-economic, geographic, cultural, educational, or 100's of other factors.
> With a lot of high potency weed consumption you are going to get various psychosis and such at higher rates, sure the public health ramifications are better than for alcohol..

I suspect if you find the numbers for the rates of increased cases of psychosis you will realize how absolutely ridiculous this argument is.

“Higher rates” doesn’t mean a whole lot when the background rate is vanishingly small.
Looks like some of the patents have expired, but the e-ink company keeps adding more. At least to my layman's eye the new patents don't seem to be particularly revolutionary :/
>It requires a shared library you have to compile.

Library is part of bash and patch is for supporting multiple connections. On vers>=5.2 patch is included so no need to compile anything.
That's an old argument that doesn't hold water. Sure if you misconstrue everything the worst way, you can convince yourself.

To pursue minority candidates who are qualified, is in no way discrimination. Unless you assume they are less deserving intrinsically, then it's fair to include them in a search.

Why would those candidates be excluded? Because white guys might suffer? That's a bankrupt argument at the core.

Fairness, the the privileged, looks like discrimination every time.
I think there are pretty valuable things in the generics in there too, like:

Start before you feel ready. Stop before you feel done.

This is a surprising antidote for a lot of behaviours I struggle with (that come from a mix of definite OCD and likely ADHD. It's absolutely a tool for rejecting waiting for inspiration and focussing instead on control of inner drive.
This sounds like the old question "if a blind-from-birth man (who can recognize squares by feel) gained sight would he be able to recognize squares visually?"

And since that question has been answered in the negative, I'm inclined to agree.
> Archive's catchpas are useless and absurd so I will comment without reading the article.

As a paid subscriber, I used the tool to share w/o paywall in the link I posted to HN, to avoid need for archive.is link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/business/flat-structure-c...

It seems HN stripped that, sorry.
Off topic but the favicon for this website is giving me big Windows 3.1 File Manager nostalgia. Whenever I see a file icon from that era it takes me back. </getting-old>
I also use starship with barely any custom config (like fish). It shows me the environment I'm in for a project, including which versions of tools are active and which server I'm currently connected to (if any). And it looks pretty enough.
Big one for me was out of the box support for showing current kubernetes context. Very helpful if you work in multiple kubernetes clusters and in particular if you move around namespaces helping others.

Doable with configuration and either lots of work or plugins in other shells but the combo of fish + starship.rs offers a lot for little setup.
The DMA requirements for interop has a longer lead time. They won't go into full force until 6 March 2024.

With the IETF still working out MIMI and MLS, that's not necessarily a bad thing in my opinion.
It's a lot like working with a human, you accept imperfect work all the time from people.
Not really. I think things are very different. His health needs are overseen by his general practice. Getting power of attorney is just done online on the government website, with a form printed off, signed and returned. No lawyers!
But, what about everything under the surface down to the bottom of the cup? What shape is the cup? Does the vortex reach to the bottom of the cup? If I could look down the vortex, would I see the bottom of the cup?
Or, “regardless of” these hard limits.

I’ve used a PowerBook / MacBook since about 2002, and even had one with me at the time when I was writing, but nevertheless found the iPad Air a perfect tool for the task at hand. I needed to read and write and create, and it did that brilliantly. When I needed to get more involved and manage heaps of files and format them into a multi-gigabyte publication, yeah of course I switched to doing that on a MacBook, but it remains that I wasn’t hamstrung in creative terms by carrying an iPad around all day, and indeed, more inspired by being able to use a computer more often and more effectively. Some of the images in my book were also taken with the iPad, which the MacBook couldn’t have done. So yeah, some limitations but some new freedoms.
It's a plain electric switch symbol. It's funny how such buttoned-up devices as macbooks carry a raw engineering symbol right on their faces.
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I see Linux and Android there, not Arduino?
Abandoned reply URL in Azure AD app could let attackers gain privileges
Name one person from 2123 that has said that?
I’m a cyclist, and have experienced plenty of bad behavior by drivers.

But cyclists also do incredibly stupid things, and I witness this almost every time I ride. I’ve had to make extreme evasive maneuvers on my bike to avoid a serious accident caused by inattention or dangerous choices made by other cyclists.

One day, I was driving my car, and after stopping at a stop sign, began to make my way through the intersection.

A moment later, a cyclist landed on my hood. They had - at full speed - gone the wrong way around a roundabout covered by dense foliage in the middle, and exited the roundabout the wrong way down a one way street, where my car was just beginning to roll.

Maybe this circumstance doesn’t fit the “if a car driver hits a cyclist” criteria (the responding police officer and later, the insurance company agreed), but every collision is unique, and the cyclist plays a part.

Cars are overwhelmingly at fault in most cases. Cyclists often contribute to or directly cause extremely dangerous interactions.
This is a bit of a thinly veiled promo for a book.
The government has quite a bit of power to set cost, but not as much as in other countries because in the United States private health insurance is a huge industry and makes up a huge alternate payer. This includes health insurance coupled directly to hospital networks, which is almost certainly double dealing itself in a way that makes the numbers meaningless.
"Nobody is pretending anything" Wrong, wrong, wrong. The whole thing has been PR to cast hashicorp as some evil company who withdraws from Open Source. It's quite hypocritical to pretend to support Open Source from companies which don't even have source available!

Cut the bs please, this is just a self-serving fork. You all don't give a shit about open source, you just want to keep using TF in competing services for free.
CISA: Public researchers tipped feds to 1,300 ‘valid’ vulnerabilities last year
> yet its only argument really for "not working" is that these companies aren't diverse.

I don't think diversity is the main reason they brought up theranos.
No-paywall link (in theory):

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/business/flat-structure-c...
>>journalist

Does the traditional media even employ journalist's anymore? Seems to be most organization are very lacking in journalistic standards
Thanks for sharing your experience. I like how you put it. To me American culture is a bit too obsessed with wealth and their economy operates in a very dehumanised way. I'd never want my children to grow up with such "values" around them.
spent decades learning about cinema the hard way -- watching it, studying it, absorbing the logic/form of cinema. It is (and Pulp Fiction is) not a work of pure intuition; it's clearly a work of homage.

So you think he took an academic approach? Dude dropped out of high school and worked in a video rental store. You are only applying the pastel of studious (the puns are just flying today) because he didn't make absolute shit. If he did make absolute shit, we'd say "gee my god, that's what happens when you drop out of high school and think watching movies is enough to write a good movie".

Right? No seriously, right?

Me and you disagreeing is proof enough we have no idea where this stuff comes from.
Here's the problem:

1. There is genuine disinformation. Russia, China, and North Korea (at least) have active disinformation organizations, Russia's being the most effective.

2. Disinformation has become weaponized by both US political parties as a way to try to shut down positions they don't agree with. "All the evidence points our way; all the evidence that doesn't is disinformation." And, in fact, as we have come to expect politicians to lie, we should probably come to expect political parties to conduct disinformation campaigns.

I don't want to be on the receiving end of disinformation campaigns. I also don't want people to be able to label anything they don't like as "disinformation", and thereby stop me from seeing it.

I am essentially asking big tech to do the impossible. No matter what they do, they can't do both pieces of what I want.

The internet used to be a place where you could go to find information. Now it's a place where you go to find disinformation. For those of us who loved the old internet, that's an extremely painful change.
This is brilliant.

Instead of saving on labor costs by pretending your employees are contractors like Uber and friends, they go in the opposite direction. You're not a contractor, or even an employee, but an owner.

Just imagine how big your milkshake will be once you all own 80% of the business! Admittedly, a business where this company has slurped out most of the value and saddled you with various software license fees or whatever in perpetuity. But a business nonetheless.

And now when the business goes belly up and these owners are destitute, the HN logic applies-- hey man, most businesses fail. So why not just learn some python and code up some nice fintech that extracts value from other rubes?
I'm there with you on that.
Eh I also wouldn't take that job. But why, really? If you're used to 35 days of PTO, and you take the same 35 days off at your new job, who are they to claim that whatever you're used to is unreasonable?
The median is $120k. https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-develope...

And that's selecting for a particularly senior role. Most people are what that site calls "computer programmers", whose median is $93k.
OK but with libgen offering a much better, non DRM alternative that point is ultimately not an issue IMO
Was there anything wrong with SP3?
Alcohol is the only one of the drugs under discussion which actually ruins "hundred of thousands of people's lives".
“YouTube-dlc” the fork of the port from “YouTube-dl”
If you have to go back hundreds of years to find an example, something tells me it's not really all that relevant.

But to ignore that, of course authorities are going to label criticism as misinformation. Of course that's what happens. I was hoping we could tacitly assume that misinformation as denying clear vote outcomes, deliberately going against science and so on.