skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the UK has a lot of CCTs. But that's relatively new, and certainly after the idea that the Internet should allow anonymous or pseudonymous use.

Even then, here is literally the first post box I found looking in the UK, in a small town: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.0936599,0.0761217,3a,75y,165... . No CCT in sight, no power, good solid iron.

Plus, think of how difficult it is to match a person to the physical envelope.

At best there could be a distinctive envelope.

Otherwise, yes, you can get a list of people who use the box. But for that to be useful, the mail from different boxes can't simply be jumbled together into the same pickup bag as that would broaden the number of suspects.
Classic case of Gresham's Law. Fake reviews drive out the good.
And good moderation. Unfortunately many of the said assholes have tricked gullible people into thinking moderation equals censorship.
Ah, my bad, I misread the titles as being MIRA C, not C++.
>it requires an Apple account to work

Not true.

“The “magic” is that you don’t have to sign up for an account, or create a new username or account identifier. You just send a message from your phone number to another phone number, and if both numbers are registered for iMessage, the message goes over iMessage instead of SMS, even if you don’t have an Apple ID. Beeper had that working last week. Now, Beeper users need to have an Apple ID, and sign into that Apple ID within Beeper. (Beeper should actively encourage users to create and use an app-specific Apple ID password[1] for Beeper.)”[2]

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/102654

[2] https://daringfireball.net/2023/12/beeper_mini_is_back
Ok, I'll give this some thought. Appreciate the feedback!
Eventually it will become affordable for parents, evangelical churches, and spouses.
I recently saw a film about an art curator in Sweden ("The Square"?) that gave me a lot more insight into how that works. My experience in Japan also makes me aware of this sort of conflict avoidance (and my frustration with it), though it's still quite culturally different. It's more unnerving when done in English.
> He PMd 2 other tech teams the same way.

I'm with you that all of this is bad PM work, but this seems to be the root cause. I've been at a startup like this where there weren't enough PMs to start and then a couple left, which just led to the rest being stretched across more teams.

You just can't do much of anything useful in this situation - your existence consists of preparing for and attending stakeholder meetings. I guess some people thrive on the pseudo-glorified existence of "managing" a bunch of different teams, but I found it to be as miserable as you seem to have found it from the eng side. I was there to spend time with customers and designers and engineers, and after a few months of doing none of those things, I quit without a job lined up.

Once you get to that point, it can become even worse because you end up in this doom loop of management realizing that the core PM work is getting delegated to eng, thinking that this means they don't need as many PMs and then delegating more work to eng.
If anyone at Goodreads or Amazon cares about the platform at all they have a funny way of showing it. It’s been stagnant and shoddy for years.

Goodreads really has only one thing going for it: a pristine data set of books, authors, cover images, etc. There are so many other reading apps with a better UX but they are frustrating to use because the data is spotty or low quality.
> I think one order of magnitude is the least we should demand. I would consider it a rather low bar. I suspect that it'd need to be more like two orders of magnitude in order to retain sufficient community consent.

So right now we have 125 deaths every single day on the roads in the US. Same today. Same tomorrow. 45,625 every single year. Year after year.

You're saying it would need to be < 12.5 per day to be acceptable, but really we should aim for < ~2 per day.

So that means if we invent some system that reduces the number of deaths PER DAY from 125 down to, let's say, 30, you think we SHOULD NOT implement it, because that's not enough of an improvement?

Let's say that system is the best we can ever make, but we decide to never turn it on, because it's not a whole order of magnitude better. You're choosing to kill an additional 34,675 people per year, because a reduction in deaths from 125 per day down to 30 per day is "not good enough".
> Al Qaeda's income fell off a cliff following the American response to 9/11. (Not after 9/11 per se.)

Hoist the "Mission Accomplished" banner! What happened next?

(Hint: It rhymes with "schistlamic plate".)

> Look, if Hamas intended what happened they are incompetent and evil. That strengthens the argument for their liquidation; it says they cannot be reasoned with.

I agree! I just don't think the Israeli approach is going to do the trick, and is likely actively harmful to that goal.

> Islamic Jihad, for one. Proxies can have proxies.

PIJ is a rival to Hamas. They've fought from time to time, and coordinate attacks at other times. US intelligence describes it as a "tense relationship": https://www.dni.gov/nctc/ftos/pij_fto.html

> The Taliban took back ground control.

As will Hamas or their successors as soon as Israel withdraws from Gaza. Barring a Holocaust-scale elimination campaign against the population, there'll be a powerful set of insurgent groups in Gaza for the forseeable future.
How long from reading thoughts to writing thoughts?
While this was a pithy comment, I'd totally upvote and read an article on how someone who frequents HN found themselves in the scenario you mentioned.
I wonder if a-linguistic thought could work too. Maybe figure out what your dog is thinking or dreaming about, based on a dataset of signals associated with their everyday activities.

It seems like outputting a representation of embodied experience would be a difficult challenge to get right and interpret, though perhaps a dataset of signals associated with embodied experiences could more readily be robustly annotated with linguistic descriptions using a vision-to-language model, so that the canine mind reader could predict and output those linguistic descriptions instead.

Imagine knowing the specific park your dog wants to go to, or the subtle early signs of an illness or injury they're noticing, or what treat your dog wants you to buy.
The only thing missing is a country filter, so I can just disable reviews from certain countries prone to excessive national pride and the accompanying "that Island is ours, it wasn't on your map. ALL REVIEWS BE BAD" completely. The five good reviews out of these areas never outweigh the rest.
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It’s a standard for the use of c++ in critical systems. Basically a guide to techniques and language features you can and can’t use (or how) and still have very predictable/controllable system behavior.
Chess and tennis rating systems work reasonably well. Academic grading does not. Academics will never change; the humanities will never go along.

While sites like Netflix use all the AI they can muster to tune and individualize their recommendation systems, the review systems we know best rely on straight democratic votes that can be gamed. Or worse, they rig the votes for profit.

The AI objective function should be to synthesize advice relevant to each user. As a component of this, treat each reviewer as a tennis tournament, to develop a tennis rating system summarizing reviews? One could apply weights tuned to each user for the relevance of each other user's reviews. If there was a shadow economy behind these uses, as if a hedge fund had to pay pennies to include each voter, the "review bomb" voter's inputs would quickly become useless, and be disregarded.

What we have instead is singularly dumb. Is there room for a startup here? Google page rank was obvious in hindsight. Won't this too be obvious in hindsight?
It's a similar concept, but that only allows you to specify one task at a time. With NowDo you have a "queue" of tasks, as you mark each as done the next one is shown.
North Korea hasn't signed any treaties abolishing nuclear weapons tests. In point of fact, the USA itself hasn't ratified[0] any treaties prohibiting the type of underground tests the DPRK has conducted. The US chooses not to do those (and has maintained a voluntary moratorium since 1992), but is under no obligations.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Nuclear-Test-Ban...
I work in an organisation that has a list of essential people and I happen to work close with one of them. The entire 300 people company would seriously cease to exist if this person found a new job, got sick or whatever can happen. In my 20 years of working as a software developer and manager, I’ve never before witnessed someone who wasn’t replaceable. As you’re taught in MBA, “anyone is replaceable it’s just a matter of cost”, but that just doesn’t apply to this person because of how much operational knowledge they have. Both about the businesses, the finances and also the technical aspects. This person doesn’t make much more money than I do as a software developer. Which isn’t bad, but also nowhere near their value. They’ve also been sort of shifted around the organisation because nobody really know where to place them as they are essential to everyone. No effort is being done to document or train anyone in case they leave.

This is obviously anecdotal, but this sorry isn’t atypical from my experience. People aren’t credited (or promoted) unless they ask and work for it. My own strategy was sort of silly, I let my bosses know how much more money I could make if I took up one of the offers I get (there is a severe lack of developers in my area or the world), and well, it worked well enough to get me good raises and into management before I decided I didn’t want to be a manager at all. I’ve cruised by people who sacrificed themselves way more than I’ve ever done, simply by playing the social and political aspects of working, and I’ve seen so many people not get their due, that I really doubt the articles point. That being said, it’s easier to position yourself well in an organisation if you’re genuinely nice to work with and being a go-to person obviously helps with that. Not only because of your knowledge and willingness to help, but also because people who have that last part are generally just more approachable. But unless you figure out a way to turn that into money, then I really double it’ll help you much in the modern job market.

Quality of work doesn’t even really do a lot for people. I’ve worked with three people who did exactly the same job, and the one who produced the best quality work was paid 50% less than the two others because they were “bad at negotiating” pay… I’m sure their manager was happy about that, and it wasn’t even too dangerous as the person was simply “content” which was really a MBA way telling me the person was so uncomfortable with big life altering changes that they would likely work that job until retirement.
I agree, whenever other senior / mid-level employees quit you’ll have to pickup the slack as it’s hard to find the right competences - specially at a discounted rate.

Personally I did manage to get promoted, but not before giving notice.
> The website feels abandoned

What does that mean?
Oh gosh, I wrote something similar (though not that well articulated and did not spend much time) recently and asked for similar thinkers, and now someone provided me one. Thanks !!

My thoughts are a bit different, a bit tangential, but there's an overlap.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38061439

Thanks again !
The point is knowing where your limit is. A promotion often comes with more money and career opportunities. At least it did for me most of the times. The only time when it didn't I left and found better opportunities within a few months.

If you like what you do, and they give you new challenges that you enjoy (more pie) and more money/benefits. It's a win win scenario. I realize is not always the case and maybe in many jobs is rarely the case. My whole career almost every promotion has had substantial benefits, opportunities and growth. I am working nowadays less than I did my first 10yrs of career and doing almost 10x the comp.
From my experience

Management likes more:
- someone who are loyal to them
- someone who knows how to communicate to them in a right way
- someone who won't threaten them, being promoted to the new role
For a long time, the prevention of divorce was intended to protect women. It meant partners can't just be thrown aside if a better deal comes along. Eventually, of course, it became a trap for women (and men). Nowadays, unless you're religious, marriage is essentially just a socioeconomic winner trophy.
Not at all, I appreciate the feedback :)
my memory was just of running Pidgin and being able to reach everyone through it (google, FB, weirdo self-hosters). guess it must have had good multi-accounting support and i was relying on that. i assumed it was using the same code paths for all my contacts, but if not then i guess the "FB used XMPP" point would be almost entirely moot.
She tried to enforce the GPL on a Chinese company and the mainland Chinese government threatened her with... something. Speculation is rampant. Naomi had a Uighur wife, and mainland China is both homophobic and currently doing ethnic cleansing of Uighurs in Xinjiang. In fact, her wife isn't even allowed to leave the country, so it's entirely possible that they said "shut up or we jail her".

The way that authoritarianism[0] works is that there are two sets of laws. The real laws are secret and ever changing. Sometimes they will change for just one person. The published laws are the excuses and punishments they will use against you for violating the real laws you were never told.

[0] In any form of liberalism, the real laws will always be a subset of the published laws. The government is free to not enforce a law they think is obsolete, but they cannot invent a new law without telling anyone and make up a punishment for it.
I'm surprised that they're going forward with this at all.

I personally like it, but to really keep them honest (i.e. avoid what happened to XMPP) will require a lot of interdependence with other services of similar size. It has to be net negative for them to turn off the integration again or they'll manage to profit from the fediverse while potentially also damaging it.
2023 is supported in the enterprise edition but not in the community edition yet. We gradually move features from EE to CE as new features added to EE. So you can expect 2023 support in CE in the future :-)
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As the other commenter mentions, you definitely need a technical cofounder. Maybe not right this minute, but eventually - preferably soon. If you have money to outsource some of the technical work for now, even that might be preferred to doing the technical work yourself. There simply are only but so many hours in the day, and trying to do _everything_ yourself is just going to burn you out super quick :(

There are a few platforms you can use to find a potential technical cofounder. There's obviously YC's "Cofounder Matching", and then there's a newer service (might be invite only?) called Co-foundermatch.ai. I've had some success with both but found my current role through YC's co-founder matching.

Good luck :)
Natural selection operates at the gene level, not the population level.

There has to be a positive expected return for the genes of the individual that takes the risks.

If it’s beneficial to not take risks then populations will be full of individuals who play it safe.
If this were proven, we would be forced to set a rigorous foundation for our values where all people have the same rights and worth regardless of how smart they are. Instead of saying people are only equally worthy if they are equally smart, and hoping no one proves the latter wrong.
If you find a critic who usually aligns with your opinions on what's good about something that's a valid approach. The problem is if you don't have one, cause well, it's all subjective in the end, even if it's from a "well known name" like a critic.
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Can't say i feel much like a hipster programmer after doing some amount of programming for 20 years. I still prefer the github approach.
+1 Also Fastmail, have used it for a few years now, you can add multiple domains and have all email end up into the same inbox with catch all addresses. When you reply you can pick which domain the response comes from.
Not once after a promotion I've been asked to work more than the rough expectation of 8hrs a day (and even that has been flexible). Work conditions vary across companies and it's a shame people gets so cynic that they miss opportunities at good companies.
This is too cynical IMO. Documents are actually the correct tool for some kinds of thought and communication. Issues are different, Miro/Figma boards are different.
Yes, true. And I say this as someone on the right—we complain about “feelers” but that’s Trump’s whole MO.
Fear is a strong emotion, and while we know little of what we may gain from this, we know a lot of what we stand to lose.
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(Hey, I'm just sharing some opinions in the interest of discussing usability... hope this doesn't come across as negative.)

I respect what this initiative is doing (prioritizing actual accessibility and equitable access to government services, see [1] and [2]), but IMO they go a bit far in serving the "lowest common denominator" experience to everyone.

Yes, the website is simple and clean, but IMO in doing so, it sacrifices information architecture/ease of navigation (especially for browsing), and has a generally poor visual hierarchy.

There's no easy way to skim the "Services and information" section short of reading all 16 entries, which all look the same and are arranged alphabetically. And that section looks pretty much the same as "Popular" and "Featured", and is followed by "Government activity" and "More on Gov.uk".

It's dozens of links to manually comb through, in a long vertical scroll, before I can figure out where to go next. My eye loses its place easily in these long, undifferentiated lists. I can't compare links above and below the several folds (vertical screen-spaces worth of scrolls). The search isn't great either, and returns a similarly long lists of undifferentiated links with low relevance and no autocomplete or manually curated highlights for popular queries.

Even something like https://www.usa.gov/benefits (with its quickly scannable cards and clear headlines) is easier to skim through, IMO. The NZ and Canada websites use something similar: https://www.govt.nz/ and https://www.canada.ca/en.html just with less emphasis on typography and color as differentiators. Something like the Washington State one, on the other hand, places even heavier emphasis on graphics and color: https://www.dshs.wa.gov/, and the California DMV uses a hierarchy to better differentiate sections: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv-online/

The takeaway for me (again, just IMO!) is that it's totally fine to use either "progressive enhancement" or "graceful degradation" to ensure all users can use your site, but you shouldn't stop at the most "accessible" version. Accessible !== plaintext! Companies and researchers have spent many decades and dollars exploring and improving best practices over time that help sighted users with color vision navigate in many ways that can be better than "long lists of text". Those users shouldn't have their experiences limited by what screen readers can parse any more than screen reader users should be limited by graphic design. It's totally possible to do both, and give different audiences each a great experience.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/accessibility-requirements-for-p...

[2] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/accessibility/
Absolutely - with NowDo you just hit Ctrl+Opt+A (from any app) and type the task, hit enter - and then you can safely forget about it and get back to what you were doing. Making it as easy and non-interruptive as possible to add tasks was a key design goal for exactly the reason you mentioned.
I can definitely see how this is appealing for small technically oriented teams that want to move fast. It is likely however that your team will reach an inflection point and at some point having a *good* PM would be a net positive to the company.
We've already produced lasers with about a 100x efficiency improvement over what the NIF currently uses (65% vs 0.5%). Same wavelength, but obviously very different power levels.

https://www.laserfocusworld.com/lasers-sources/article/16556...
Guys Figure 1 is not real results, it's an illustration of the "goal" of the paper. The real results are in Table 3. And are much worse.
Unfortunately many people get into a vicious circle of cynicism early in their careers that their lack of growth becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
More precisely, physicists believe that the presence of the singularity in this solution of the Einstein Field Equation means that GR breaks down there and we will need some other theory (the best candidate at this point appears to be a quantum gravity theory) to figure out what happens there. But unless and until we discover that other theory, GR is the best we have and the best we can do is to describe what it predicts and acknowledge the limitations.
It also depends on what you're the go-to person on and what the promoted position is. Being the expert on some low-level technology isn't necessarily going to help you get promoted to a managerial position or the upper tiers of technical positions.
At first I thought it was pointless, i.e. to migrate from github only to mirror your code there eventually.

But in the end I like it — mirroring self hosted source forges to github seems a good way to raise awareness of github alternatives.
iOS devices must be activated to use them. This is indeed stored in a database. AppleCare and third-party repair centers can query activation information using GSX.

You are correct about pre-T1 Intel Macs though. Apple will have a blind spot by design, until support is dropped for old machines.
My guy, he and his friends constantly pronounce their names for you in their songs.

> I call him R.Z.A not Riza cause that ain't how that shit is written.

I know rza is wholly unaffected by your pronunciation of his name, but I implore you to rethink this behavior with people actually in your life.

Pronounce other peoples names the way THEY want you to, anything else is just narcissistic.