skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Christopher Alexander still has the best answers as to why the contemporary buildings suck. Lack of ornament and boring shapes are just the tip.
Have you read Accelerando by Charlie stross? He talks about a Vile Offspring that's basically what you said!
2 weeks ago new junior developer joined our company.

He was really pissed that our company does not give out admin access to developers. And raised this problem in big company wide meeting and called our IT team ridiculous and told developers know how to handle computers.

Week later IT team did company wide phishing test. Same new junior failed this test.

Yes, even if rules are ridiculous. These rules help.
When I worked in an Amazon Warehouse, while a bathroom break was considered time-off-task, it wasn't a big deal to use the bathroom (or take some other break) whenever one wished.

https://old.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/dmnuts/53mamazon_fulfi...

Basically, it was just a gym membership which I got paid for (and couldn't skip out on beyond what my available time off facilitated).
As I understand it, before you open a (potentially dangerous) attachment in another app, it would be saved to your Temp or Downloads folder, where Defender would still have access.

A carefully crafted email (or PDF attachment) that exploits vulnerabilities within Thunderbird's HTML or image rendering (or its PDF.js sandbox) might still pose a risk, but probably less so than any random web page that you open in Firefox, where JS (which should be disabled in Thunderbird by default) is the primary attack vector.

Also, note that there is a setting called "Allow antivirus clients to quarantine individual incoming messages". With this enabled, "Thunderbird first stores each incoming message in a temporary file in the system temp folder" (where Defender would have access). "If the new message file still exists after being scanned by the antivirus software, then it is moved to your Thunderbird Inbox folder file." [1] If this is implemented correctly, it should only impact performance when receiving new emails.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-panel-settings-...
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Social engineers?
OpenSecurityTraining2 has some Assembly courses

https://p.ost2.fyi/courses
From the guidelines:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've loved Pat's music for 15 years now. There's an obsessive passion in the people who are into him, trawling for bootlegs and demos on soulseek, binge watching old Women live shows on YT. my friends excitedly recount the email conversations they've had with him, and hell yeah, wavs up for free e-transfer him if you can.

Regardless of whether you like the music, I think the larger object of his art and our reaction to it is terrific and I wish more people could create, discover, and relate to art this way.
For the last fifty years municipal governments around the world have thought it really neat that they could control what could be built. They have relatively few levers to pull, so they continuously added more and more regulations to what could be built, each time adding complexity, uncertainty and cost. And this went well beyond the canonical example of “we can’t have nuclear power plants next to daycares!”. They just kept going with their new and quirky rules.

In concert with this they started adding fees, and then more fees and more fees onto construction. Development fees, parkland dedication, public art, you name it, they found a creative way to shove the cost into the price of newly built buildings.

The housing crisis today is 100% the result of government, and now government is acting like individuals caused the problem by buying units to rent on AirBNB, or bidding the prices up too high (also due to government’s ridiculously low interest rates for too damn long!)

It’s wild to watch inept politicians fumble around looking to blame anyone but their predecessors for the problem at hand, and in the process hurt a lot of people.

The only answer is more housing, and it will take likely as long to fix this issue as it has to create it - decades. There aren’t enough trades available, material has skyrocketed and will get worse due to demand, and now interest rates are high which makes the economics even more challenging. Essentially, costs have risen faster than rents/sales prices and it takes a long time for either to move in the right direction.
Bro design is supposed to be functional and ergonomic AND look nice obviously. Do you think I'm so dumb that I actually believe the first half of that equation should be left out? I was just pointing out how you seem to have absolutely no appreciation for the second half of the equation, which is tantamount to completely neglecting a huge part of what design is.
Architects have the worst taste in architecture.
I think UK has near US level protection (read: almost none) during the first year of employment.
It would in places where robot owners care about. To avoid social unrest they will be forced to pay for UBI.

The two remaining problems would be:

- purpose and identity.

- places like Bangladesh where industries like textile will disappear.
I rent an ex-coucil house in SE London. It takes around 45 minutes to get into the centre. The local drug-dealers hang out next to the house, there is graffiti on the walls, and it is next to one of the busiest roads in London. There have been multiple murders on the estate since I moved in. It is in the 96 percentile for air pollution. It is apparently worth six hundred and fifty thousand pounds.

Assuming a £100K bung from mum and dad for the deposit, a 25 year repayment mortgage at 5%, and further assuming you spent 50% of your income on the mortgage, you would require an income of £122K to afford it. That would put you firmly in the top 1% of earners in the UK.

Despite your high income, and paying £45K/year tax, you would live in one of the most deprived parts of the country and your local hospitals and schools would be in special measures.
I agree that programming is mostly thinking. But I don't agree with the how the post justifies it.
The FAA has plenty of problems, but they are far from the only aviation regulatory body. I work on avionics and we have to deal with many authorities from around the world. I think the problem runs deeper than any single organization.
Off topic: why is a cam.ac.uk domain pointing to something that is actually a Medium blog with the usual subscription popups and (illegal) notifications telling me it’s going to store tracking cookies whether I like it or not?
There always seems to be implicit assumptions or unstated points of interest in articles about the UK housing market: 1. too much immigration is somehow unsavoury so we'll gloss over that; 2. a price correction should happen quickly; 3. and that the UK ever had 100% home ownership.

The UK has at least 10 million more people since 1997 in a country that had 58 million people, we're now over 70 million. Everything is creaking. The NHS queues, the traffic, the roads, the trains, everything. But somehow all of that is always the fault of the current government, where people pick their own arbitrary point in time, not the cumulative result of the last 25 years of 100k+ people every single year. (edit- we don't have 20% more of everything that we had in 1997, but we do have almost 20% more people)

A price correction in housing will take decades. Home owners won't sell below what they bought at, rarely. House builders won't lower prices either, their prices are locked in. I've only once lived through negative equity in the early 90s and it lasted a couple of years. People stopped moving until prices picked up.

And lastly, the UK has never had 100% home ownership. In fact, IIRC, the peak was 60% or so, during right-to-buy.
I was unable to find Easter Island.
dont be this kid
Also worth seeing that London has about 9 million people, and the south-east has another 9 million. That's 27% of the UK's population in the now-unaffordable area. Throw in some expensive areas outside the south-east (Cambridge, Bristol, seaside resort towns) and that goes up to 30% easily.
Sure, but they also want to see that those policies you wrote and conform to meet a whole lot of bullet points.
the FPS genre? (First Person [biscuit] Supplier)
Im not really sure how on earth you have inferred that I think aesthetics are so important that I would compromise on functionality for that. I never said that. I am saying that both are necessary, whether you want to believe it or not. Just because you are nostalgic for the good old days where UI was more functional in your opinion, does not mean that applications have to look like they were made in 2005. What is stopping us from integrating some modern aesthetic elements into a design that is highly functional? Recognising a problem in the design of some modern apps does not necessitate us reverting to an outdated past vision. We can easily look forward and make a new alternative.
Every reply is saying the radio’s clearer for them, they’re used to it, etc., but I’ve also heard pilots complain that talking fast like this is a problem because as always some people take it to extremes. The fast mumbling seems to be a kind of symbol of experience in aviation culture: https://youtu.be/picf7sPEhi8
What makes you say the protocol is different for each provider?

I maintain a proxy that transparently adds support for OAuth 2.0 support to IMAP/POP/SMTP clients (https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy), and for normal use it doesn’t need to know anything about which service it is connecting to. Apart from advanced features such as CCG or ROPCG which are mostly O365 only, what is different?
So how many things can one person be a true fan of, and what does that tell us about how many people can statistically have 1000 of them?
If you ask a manager to hold an hour's meeting spread across 6 hours in 10 min slots you will get the funniest looks.

Yet developers are expected to complete a few hours of coding task in between an endless barrage of meetings, quick and short pings & syncups over slack/zoom.

For the few times I've had to work on the weekends at home, I've observed that the difference in the quality of work done over a (distraction free) weekend is much better than that of a hectic weekday.
Language has pretty notable differences from animal communication that are actually very well studied.

One aspect is that language can string together small particles to produce arbitrarily complex meanings. In contrast, most animal communication is extremely simplistic - typically one sound or gesture corresponds with one piece of meaning, and the order or number of repetitions has no additional meanings. There may be some exceptions or at least grey areas (whale song, dolphin sound+dance, bee dances, some apes and birds), but the vast majority of animals have an extremely simplistic communication scheme.

Another huge difference between animal communication and human language is that animals communicate in response to direct internal or external stimuli (hungry - > chirp, see dangerous animal -> distress call). In contrast, humans communicate about much more complex feelings, and can choose when to exteriorize their language use.

Note that humans also communicate in ways that aren't language. Our "body language", our cries of pain, baby's cries, grimaces, winking, etc are the equivalent of animal communication and are not language. Sign langauge is absolutely langue though, and you'll notice it fully ticks the two boxes I was mentioning earlier.
To be fair, you can take 25% off that with a Lifetime ISA, so 15K needed.
It’s not the “programming industry” that OP hates, it’s the “corporate world”. I’ve worked with (and have been) developers who have mismatched expectations on what “the real world” wants out of them.

The corporate world doesn’t give a shit about finesse, abstractions, witty or beautiful code. They care about finding developers who will pump out features to the business requirements. Some human beings in that cog (managers, directors, peers, etc) may allude to enabling developers to actually practice the “art” of programming but the bottom line is if you aren’t moving the needle economically for the company, you’re a liability.

Find comfort in programming outside of the corporate world and practicing the art but don’t expect the “industry” gives a damn about the how or why of programming, mearly the characters we punch onto the screen into cash. Once you come to terms with this, life gets a lot easier, less frustrating and you can actually find fun in the work (albeit, not necessarily “art”).
Solution: go independent, work on your own ideas, and sell them to consumers. That might be your own start-up, but for me it was to become an indie game developer.

One of my games, YOYOZO, was featured in Ars Technica's "Best Video Games of 2023" so I feel my decision was the right one.
Reminds me a whole lot of the opening sections of developer hegemony.
Yes, many of the islands are missing even if they have labels (e.g. Faroe Islands). It would be nice if there was just a blob there at least.
I have used noscript + ublock origin for almost a decade now, approving js on some sites is not a big deal and I have had zero issues with malware or popups or other garbage website.

You can tell when a website is a tracker nightmare when it wont load HTML text content without javascript.
After 10+ years of work in enterprise software development I don't care about the results or where the circus is heading.

Only thing I care now is a paycheck with ridiculously high salary.
Next up: CSS naked day?

Seriously though, I respect the ideal of using HTML as much as possible for what it's made. But the web is more than just pure content sites. And Javascript provides a lot of nice things as well.
"Just" 33% is £60k. Most minimum wage jobs are zero hours or part-time. So the idea that our lovely couple are going to find it easy to save £60k is... rather optimistic.

As is the implication that those earnings will be stable and reliable and not subject to periods of unemployment.
>How do we teach them not math and science but the actual act of learning/adapting.

This is literally what they're trying to do. People complain about the way things like math (concepts instead of rote memorization of facts) and spelling (stems and etymology instead of rote memorization) are taught. People complain that kids aren't learning cursive and other things like that.

But schools are trying to teach critical thinking and how to reason your way through problems, rather than blanket "facts".
depends on which journalist you chose
Completely disabling JavaScript is a no-go these days. But Firefox+NoScript is both enlightening and refreshing. Did you know that CNN tries to run JavaScript from more than 30 domains on the front page, but is functional and ad-free after enabling 2 or 3?

The Add-on allows you to enable or disable specific domains serving JavaScript, and automatically save those preferences for later visits. I find that I only notice the add-on for a few days on a new device before it is tuned. After that, the only thing I notice is how slow and garbage-laden the same sites are when I'm on a computer without my setup using e.g. Chrome

YMMV but I have been NoScript-ing for 2 years and won't go back by choice.
I think you're underestimating how much of London is quite pleasant green suburbs. It's not a very dense city, especially when you get out of Zone 1 and a few adjacent places like Tower Hamlets. I grew up in a rural farming town, and there's no way I'd move back.
Morality motivates our interest in the question of free will, but I understand morality to be a concept only whereas free will is supposed to be a feature of reality. That’s why it seems crazy to me and probably the above poster that morality should be a test of free will.

Please excuse my probably oversimplified understanding of the debate as someone who hasn’t read most of the arguments yet.
Is it arrogance? It's a huge uphill battle to prove that bees moving a ball around are "playing" and not just misapplying some other ingrained behavior, such as landing on a flower. It seems more like just pretending that animals engage in human behaviors because it feels good and satisfies our sense of pride.
Seriously, that’s a legit plan. If you use GuardDuty, you can have it trigger EBS volume scans to look for malware if it sees strange behavior. I spun up an EC2 instance and ran an nmap port scan on another server and a bitcoin daemon. It caught both of those, triggered scans, and reported its findings.

I’m heading down that road instead of running a traditional on-OS process.
The only example given being Alan Turing cracking Enigma is that right?

Also yes being a worker sucks.
It's clear that technological development creates a shift in jobs, i.e some jobs are lost, but new ones are created as a result. Whether the total #jobs increases or decreases is debatable.

The issue that I see addressed less often is that the new jobs require by definition, a higher skill set. (You wouldn't displace 100 manual labor workers with a machine that requires 105 workers to maintain). So by definition, the average intelligence requirement for jobs increases over time (though never stated directly). This means that as time and technology progress, a growing percentage of people will have no jobs that they are capable of doing. [o]

What's the proper social response to that, I don't know.

[o] If and when AGI comes along, that will be all of us.
(1) is as an admission of a lack of housing, because "demand is too high" is the same as "supply is too low". The interaction makes the price, and we can't say only one side causes the imbalance unless there's some hard structural reason why the other side can't adjust. People that promote (1) focus on the demand side of the equation because that gives them their desired policy outcome of restricting immigration, but that's a sneaky rhetorical device (begging the question) more than a useful analysis that honestly considers all the different factors that contribute to the housing crisis (investor demand for capital assets, zoning, materials and labor cost inflation, credit costs, rural to city urbanization migration, etc).
Working From Home doesn't dissuade people from wanting to live near densely populated areas because of the social opportunities that people get out of such places. It's mostly young people driving these trends, anyway.
A very worthy initiative. Unfortunately, the CMS my work mandates requires js, so this is a non-starter for me. What I may do, is run my work profile as regular, but turn off js for my non-work profile. I can complain all I like about the work CMS, but that would be fighting a losing battle.
I wonder if it's the same consultant he hired into the company as the organizational coach for this shuffle.
Right-to-buy isn't fundamentally bad. What's bad about it is how much local councils lose on the deal.
People You Should Be More Like: My Father
I got caught up in this hype when this album hit number one of the year so far on rateyourmusic (think of it as letterboxd but for music).

So I downloaded it, converted it to a format I could add to Music.app and play on my iPhone (for this reason alone it's not the future of music), listened to it, was distinctly unimpressed, so deleted it. It sounded too derivative.

Since I've heard new music by other artists that did a lot more for me.
> Google Maps simply omits the walk time and incorrectly tells you the journey takes 14 minutes - making you late.

No it doesn't, it calculates the walk time. How about we take 10 seconds to Google this?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/1JcSMN3qrNuFpNSL8

Has walking times
What was Coding like 40 years ago? [video]
> We are so thankful that you left.
> It amuses me

You don’t sound amused, you sound like your feelings are hurt because someone doesn’t like the city you live in.
Picketing Google's CEO is not the way to change the law.

If you don't like the law, there's a category of people generally known as "lawmakers" -- typically elected representatives of wider groups of people who are then endowed with the power to change the laws. You should either try to influence the lawmakers directly, or indirectly through electing other lawmakers.

In other words, there's nothing really new to what I wrote: if you don't like what Google is doing, there's a way to appeal, contest, you name it. The legal ways to do this are designed the way they are in order to take into account the freedoms and convenience of people involved in the process.

> "Fixing" these problems is down to the morality of the observer.

No, it's not. Laws are designed to regulate relationships between many people for the benefit of many people in most cases. And in the case in point, that's exactly what they are meant to do. The morality of individual observer is not and should not be the authority to fix these laws. Pretty much the same reason why individuals in most but the very trivial cases are not allowed to prosecute the law: this creates anarchy, and, in practice, leads to something like what's happening in Haiti today -- gang violence, failed economy, failed medical system etc.
The web is more than just pure content and, yes, some of it requires JavaScript to function. But it's a lot less than sites actually allow for. We shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of much, much better than the status quo.
You think this is the future of music?

https://youtu.be/AG8fJ50sxR8?si=jTsAS_siwnvXCLj2
You could say -- and people do -- the exact same thing in support of the opposite argument, i.e. that it feels good and satisfies our sense of pride to pretend that humans are the only ones with such complex inner lives. So I think the "arrogance" claim should be retired, as it clearly doesn't add any value.
> You probably need it because your corporate IT department wrote a policy that says you must have it.

I think the causes are deeper. At the end of the thread you will probably find some horribly outdated "best practices" and some big consulting firm that is paid $$$ to security-audit your company. The IT department are just the poor buggers that need to do whatever is needed to get that audit, although they may well know that much of it is theater.
> Housing seems to be a disaster almost everywhere in the world these days

Interest rates have been ultra low (versus historic norms) in the developed world for two decades. And prior to that they were on the decline.

Similarly, the developed world has largely not been building housing in line with population growth. For decades.

We are at the natural conclusion of decades of bad policy and we aren’t going to squeeze out of it in a few years. It will take decades of good policy to fix this and our leaders don’t seem programmed for maintaining good policy for more than a few years until there’s a hint of prosperity and then they fritter it away.
The AI hype is so bad that even Apache directory indexes are now being named with "AI" despite having nothing to do with LLMs.
Yeah, could be.. IIRC, he said he doesn't find version control and databases interesting. So he just did what had to be done, did it quickly and then delegated, so he could get back to more satisfying work.

I can relate to that.
I don’t want to get into a tit for tat but yes the milk is $16, at a regular grocery store. It’s on 81st and 1st you’re welcome to go visit it.