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Ask HN: Preferred feedback mechanism?
Let's say you're using an app, or a website. There's a problem with the product, and you'd like to get the developer's attention to get it fixed.

What would be your preferred way to submit feedback to developers?
Not "inaccessible" but totally unnecessary. Why the bloody hell do you need a 9-volt battery to replace the battery!?!?

Removing the back glass takes special tools, but I'll take that over having to replace my phone every time it gets wet.

Gaskets have been around for over a century.
best mindset tbh
Mine tends to go from the drier to laying out flat on top of the drier. So the fact it gets folded would be great. Every now and then I actually fold and put away and I feel like an adult. We try not to do that much around here
Nah that figure hella exaggerated and you know it
this is super good
And removable batteries require far more internal space

No they don't. Less than 1% extra volume.
There is a whole theory about how companies in different stages attract different types of leaders/managers. At some point they attract cut throat middle/micro managers that rise up and kill innovation and loot the company. The it dies.

Innovators, organizers, managers, looters and scavengers in that order.
consumers, and the EU
We can educate people. We can protect them. There's a massive disparity in competence between the people selling credit cards and the people using them. That's not intrinsic, it's done to them.
What's to resolve? You either do something for the love of it or you don't. There's nothing to solve, it is what it is. If you want to get paid for writing your software get a job, start a company. OSS is neither of those things.
Yeah, I think it would take something like bankruptcy of a Fortune 500 company because a critical open source piece shut down.

And I'm not holding my breath that even that would sink in. People are amazingly talented at hearing only what they want to hear to justify doing it like they've always done it.
This is not progress, this is overengineering pretending to be progress.

Batteries don't need to be glued on in the first place.
relatedly, I prefer using the github app instead of using the CLI.
unfortunately this post was deleted on Reddit.
These are two very different things.

One is talking about an improvement made by making control flow changes during inference (no weights updates).

The other is talking about using reinforcement learning to do weight updates during training to promote a particular type response.

OpenAI had previously used reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF), which essentially relies on manual human scoring as its reward function, which is inherently slow and limited.

o1 and this paper talk about using techniques to create a useful reward function to use in RL that doesn't rely on human feedback.
We flew Southwest last month from MCO - LAS (we’ve been twice this year) because we wanted to try it and SW has more non stop flights than Delta from MCO.

We knew about the non assigned seats. But flying Southwest without assigned seats is like a reenactment of Peloponnesian War (“We are Sparta!!”). We said we would do a layover before flying SW again.

My wife chose to fly Spirit back to LAS when she went to a conference over flying SW and that’s saying a lot.
that seems not possible but i'm just guessing. where are you getting the 1% from?
I'd argue credit card debt actually makes people better laborers, by forcing them to work more. If someone is spending 20% of their income servicing their debt, they aren't spending more, they're working more for the same amount of goods and services.
Was there a point to this story?

I have a pixel 5a with a dead screen that runs but can't be used because the dead part is part of the motherboard not the screen. It's a known problem with this model. So it still runs, but I can't recover any pics or texts from dead people from it because I can't respond to the screen prompts to allow the USB connection.

I don't see how I'm any better off.
I'm far from the only person who feels people should get paid for their work if they add value to the lives of others or this article wouldn't exist.

Some people know how to add value and don't know how to turn that into an income and if they desperately need income and everybody wants their work but nobody pays them, it's extremely infuriating and crazy making.
Every GitHub Repository Should Be a Dataset
Old open source maintainers think they are more important and replaceable than they really are. It's the same in any job or company. We are all very replaceable. Boomers thinking they hold the world together is typical and hilarious.

Edit: At my current job I replaced a 65 year old retiree that the company thought was an irreplaceable lynchpin. I learned his job in 2 weeks.
Someone who borrows my poorly stored record collection may get the wrong impression about an artist. Or the book they borrow may be missing packages, making the story not make sense.

All of that is irrelevant. I own those copies and am free to share them as a please. That the copy I own is digital versus physical should not change that.
But wait... most Windows runs on Intel, we should shutdown Intel.

Of course shutting down Windows will have zero effect on security. There are plenty of exploits for Linux, and most data leaks are hosted on Linux (but have nothing to do with the OS.)

To the degree to which software is a failure at the coding level (like every SQL injection, phishing, social engineering , sim swap, php, attack ever) the OS is irrelevant.)

In truth most all security has to do with people; programmers and users. The OS might be a nice scapegoat but it's not the root of the problem. Blaming it though helps to deflect attention away from ourselves though.
What she is asking for is a radical economic restructuring of a free market.

It's attitudes like hers that lead to the federal government having the worst software imaginable. It just doesn't work unless everyone agrees to do it .. so good luck
Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: AI Innovations in SharePoint and OneDrive
Talking about transactions in Redis, one area came on top of my head is metadata in file systems. I've seen colleagues/collaborators run large-scale training on a distributed file system w/ a billion files, which puts a lot of pressure on the metadata part. They tried a few options and Redis was one of them. It's fast and Lua is good enough to support metadata ops. But the thing is that it cannot scale (or Lua is gone) and may lose data from time to time, which is annoying. It looks like this durable-transactional combination may fit in. Will wait to see how this is unfolded.
There is a vast body of literature that shows that in person interactions is not just correlated with happiness, but an effective intervention for loneliness and depression.

In full disclosure, even setting aside the research, I have way too much anecdotal evidence from what I have seen and experienced to be convinced otherwise.
The notion that a 25% across the board performance increase isn't a huge deal just because supposedly there's some other company in the same industry that's better makes no sense.
No, it helps on a lot of issues. Starting with safety (it reduces damage on drops).
Second this. Libraries like Material UI are battle tested and cover the vast majority of components you’re going to need. You can extend or theme them to match your needs and often include a built in design system. The likelihood of building something better from scratch are low.
Who is complaining that their storage provider kept a promise to not delete customer data?
> Like, what do you expect?

Fewer empty threats. A lot fewer.
Credit card debt is fine when it is used properly; you can defer paying a charge for almost 2 months with no interest depending on when its statement due date is.

The problem is revolving credit card debt, which comes from not paying statement balances in full and you end up accruing interest. That is spending beyond your means, which is bad whether the debt comes from revolving lines of credit or otherwise.

Don't spend more than you can afford and keep money earmarked to pay statements in full when they come due. A credit card that is used properly has an effective interest rate of 0% and helps make your finances easier to manage.
Genuine question, are the ethics of "anonymous facial recognition", where the system keeps track of a particular face, does not remember the face, and does not correlate the face to a identity , comparable to a social-credit like system?
My coworkers are extremely wonderful people, however we aren’t friends.

It is possible, and in many places quite easy, to make local friends without relying on coworkers.

Facebook Groups has been very helpful to find local groups.
I’m talking about particular user stories, not the overall estimate.

For projects it’s almost always a budget issue “how much money and time does it need?” And that’s important because, like money is hard to get and $1 is different than $2M. I think the time is usually related to money due to revenue and costs and whatnot.

My example was about estimating “how long to add a revert button to 5 pages” and that requires “db crud to revert stuff” so how long the latter takes affects when the former can start and if they can both make it into the same sprint. Etc etc
It was water-indifferent, like a Jeep.

(Kidding. I did love mine and I did not protect it, and I'm sure it got rained on many times, but I don't know if I ever literally hosed water through it. :)
There ain't no justice so don't expect any. Either join the filthy dogfight or not. I prefer to not.
Study: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2322399121
If I was blind I’d have a multitude of things worth living for. All of my senses have the potential of lifetimes of experiences, and so much is missed out on because I prioritize my sight so much.

I’m pretty sure I’d adjust quite quickly. Start playing music again, pay closer attention to my surroundings not directly in front of me, learn new ways to relate with my family and deepen our relationships, you name it.

It’s a loss, but it’s also an opportunity. Do I want to go blind? No, I’d rather not. Would I want to die? Not at all. I got almost 40 years in with sight already. Many don’t even make it this far with their lives in tact. I’m incredibly fortunate as it is.

I could die tomorrow entirely accidentally. I’d rather go blind instead. Absolutely.

Of course you’re welcome to your own perception and opinions on the matter. I just couldn’t disagree much more. I’m a little surprised I guess; I’m diagnosed with untreatable depression and I fully support assisted death for the right circumstances. Going blind has never struck me as one of those, though. Or having a disability, generally speaking. I am diagnosed as disabled. I’m pretty glad I was born this way rather than, say, not at all.
Yes we speak about the same thing.
Exploitation is the backbone of the strong American economy.
for some time I have been (manually) exporting kmz from google maps and importing to organicmaps. what benefits does this provide?

(it would be nice to retain the pin colors!)
Rush has gotten me in for endoscopy twice this year with two-three months notice.

It took 6 months to get into neurology there, and they rescheduled my 6 month follow-up to be a 14 month follow-up
At the same time, I don't want to live in a world where others are doing things for "my safety".
The cost of the tools required for device repair and the cost of genuine components make self repair almost as expensive as getting a repair from an Apple retail location or an Apple Authorized Service Provider

Malicious compliance accomplished.

Apple's instructions for all of the battery repairs include expensive equipment like an iPhone battery press to put a replacement battery back in place.

It's like they just copy-pasted their production line processes, but clearly that's not necessary.

Apple is known for their... interesting attitude towards repair, even in the previous manuals that have leaked. It somewhat reminds me of German automotive engineering --- lots of special tools and fixtures when a simpler and more conventional process would work just as well.
As an investor, if a company doesn't know what to do with their employees - it's a bad signal.
This isn’t an exclusively remote problem though. This happens in-office, too.

It’s extremely easy to pad a week with meetings, “I’m checking/organizing my email”, “I need to double check code from last week”, etc… if you wanted to burn time.

Sure the remote worker has the opportunity to go hiking, but the business impact is the same. Except at least the hiking wastes less time from others.
This. Everyone I've seen in high levels of debt got that way because they have access to credit. If it's not credit cards, it's going to be loans of other kinds. You can't really stop people from going into debt, it's a mental thing.
It may seem normal, if you have never experienced regular in-person relationships (in a work environment).

Even after WFH for a long time I think everyone becomes used to it, but there is definitely something missing.
OK so ignore me, I'm definitely wrong. Though: my wife is a Rush neurology pt (migraines, super problematic migraines) and she's gotten scheduled p. quickly (but for probably simple appointments).

(I don't know why I hadn't placed you as a Chicago person before; you should come out with us sometime!)
What does this measure exactly? Money in savings accounts or all assets of a person? Does this account for investments and stuff that is not traditionally thought of as savings but is very popular because of returns of traditional savings accounts?
Whom decides what the requirements are re: the accredited investor thing analogue? The corporation? Because that sounds like reinventing feudalism.
Sorry, I should have been more specific in my last paragraph. I was talking about individual employee performance, not an across-the-board increase in performance across all company metrics like gross profit, etc. A 25% across the board performance increase would be a huge deal.

If you know someone at work that doesn't really make much of a difference, there's not rally a big difference between him at 100% capacity and him at 70% capacity. Either way, he's not affecting the company baseline that much. That's how I feel about most companies I've interacted with so far. From what I've seen, your average lifer at a subcontractor for NASA doing 30% better on his monthly performance is about the same as your average SpaceXer doing 0.001% better.
*saving rate
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My interest in running Linux binaries on Windows is zero. I run native windows binaries. Why would I want to run via WSL2 when I can do it natively?

Why people constantly insist on adding unnecessary layers of abstraction is beyond me.
I think the majority of the effect is that and confirmation bias, but I think there could be some marginal effect.

Im hybrid with days in office counted and a performance consideration. When I have used by WFH days then get sick, I 100% take it to the office.

I dont know if this surpasses the effect of fewer people in the office, but I think it is possible.
I have not followed them but I got the impression that AI simply doesn’t do what they said theirs could do.
It's the same thing everywhere — there are some dependencies you can't ship. On Linux, you can't ship the window server (because you need to share it with all of the other apps also running). On mac, you can't ship Core Foundation. On Windows, kernel32.dll etc. I assume Android is similar — I haven't tried figuring out what a purely static app on Android would be, since I think the bootstrap is Dalvik…

It's literally impossible to _not_ depend on the system path.
I'm getting pretty tired of WSJ clickbait.
Their own repair guide states you can use literally any DC power supply, up to 30V. No need to waste 9Vs when you can use an off the shelf DC supply.
The top entry is based on a Transformer architecture. It's basically an LLM, but trained on the input instead.
But you already do. Your meat is processed to a certain standard.
Your foodstuffs may only have a certain percentage of contaminants. Your vehicle must meet certain safety standards. The buildings you traverse through meet building codes. I could go on.
"Personal saving is equal to personal income less personal outlays and personal taxes; it may generally be viewed as the portion of personal income that is used either to provide funds to capital markets or to invest in real assets such as residences."
What is your location?

Here, in Poland, its mostly the kids bringing infections home. I usually expect at least one week off due to sickness in early fall, and then proper flu (taking around 10 days) in december/january. This is the norm.

I remember a stark contrast with the UK where, I guess due to the climate, the kids dont get sick at all.
we need to stop looking at accessibility as something we add occasionally to a product when things are going well and we want to feel nice about ourselves.

the best way to do it is through things like this, where the content is available to you and you can choose how to consume it - dark mode, but maybe also reader mode, large fonts, wide screens, text search, etc - these should be considered the basic necessities, and then anything you want to do to make it look nice and feel creative is on top, as an option - even the default option if you really care about marketing over content.
yeah you do. or at least, the people who make your comfortable life possible do: https://www.osha.gov/young-workers/real-stories. it's wild that's it's only taken a single generation for people to forget the struggles of the generations before them and to take those hard-won rights for granted.
We do hybrid with people in office 3-4 days of the week (and no one on Friday.) Feels like a good balance.

As a manager, it’s absolutely not to micromanage. People build bonds in person in a different way than online. I can give reasons why that helps with work, but also it’s nice to be around humans?

As for commute, NYC subways are great (or at least as good as America’s got…). We have people in NJ, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.

Everything has trade-offs, but it’s common for engineers to mention in the interview process that they’re looking for something at least partly in person.
At the bottom of the page it says:

Frequency: Monthly

Personal saving is equal to personal income less personal outlays and personal taxes; it may generally be viewed as the portion of personal income that is used either to provide funds to capital markets or to invest in real assets such as residences.
They optimize themselves for a market that no longer exists while borrowing against a future that is not profitable.
I have a "Roku TV". It has many pointless problems. But the biggest is that it takes a very long time to turn on. If you turn it on by remote control, there is no indication that anything has happened until the TV finally starts showing something. You just have to hope that the signal got through. It's fairly frequent that we fail to turn the TV on because we assume that it just isn't done getting ready to turn on yet.

You can avoid this by using the physical power button, which is conveniently located behind the TV. It will still take forever to turn on, but there's no ambiguity over whether you've started the process.

I still have trouble believing the device was allowed to reach customers in this state.
The money question is did you work in person with your wife, and do you think you would have started the relationship if you were remote coworkers?

Maybe I'm small minded, but I struggle to imagine people starting office romances from remote relations.
It isn't malice dude. Unfortunately, it really is just that 70% of developers are utterly incompetent.
I remember the days when Dropbox was good. It worked exactly as advertised. Syncing data to the cloud and between my machines. All was well.

Then things changed. Their client got really heavy, constant pushes to use other functionality like docs, etc. CPU usage went up and it would slow down my computer. I eventually ended up uninstalling the whole thing.
Thanks, they're very flowery!
In just about any other situation in life, you will have to make some investment in tools with the understanding that you can use them multiple times.

For example, I bought the iFixit repair kit nearly a decade ago and I have used it for any minor work for all that time. $80 spent once and I’ve never once needed to fish for some strange bit or tool no matter what device I’ve opened. In fact, the iFixit kit will still be sufficient for this entire repair plus the 9 volt battery of course.

Unless you’re saying all these are one time use tools but I didn’t see that from the parts lists.
Isn't it just a matter of choosing the license properly? To be honest, I find it contradictory:

On one hand OSS authors select permissive license exactly because they want big corps to use their software.

On the other hand - OSS authors are unhappy about big corps using their software in a way that license allows them to.

Just stick to GPLv3 / AGPL.
>> That's fine, it just means that devs without stamps can't sign off on anything actually important

For some definition of important.

But let's follow your thought through. Who decides what is important? You? Me? The developer? Yhe end-user? Some regulatory body?

Is Tetris important? OpenSSL? Notepad ++? My side project on github?

If my OSS project becomes important, and I now need to find one of your expensive engineers to sign off on it, take liability for it, do you think I can afford her? How could they be remotely sure that the code is OK? How would they begin to determine if its safe or not?

>> Software did in-fact eat the world. Why shouldn't it have any legal/professional liability like civil and structural engineering?

Because those professions have shown us why that model doesn't scale. How many bridges, dams etc are built by engineers every year? How does that compare to the millions of software projects started every year?

In the last 30 years we've pretty much written all the code, on all the platforms, in use today. Linux, Windows, the web, phones, it's all less than 35 years old. What civil engineering projects have been completed in the same time scale? A handful of new skyscrapers?

You are basically suggesting we throw away all software ever written and rebuild the world based on individual's prepared to take on responsibility and legal liability for any bugs they create along the way?

I would suggest that not only would this be impossible, not only would it be meaningless, but it would take centuries to get to where we are right now. With just as many bugs as there are now. But, yay, we can bankrupt an engineer every time a bug is exploited.
> 15 years ago the 500 channel problem looked difficult

Knowing what was on 500 channels may have been difficult, but that's equally difficult now. The problem of navigating 500 channels was solved more than 25 (not 15) years ago by remote controls that had numpad buttons on them. You navigate to channel 351 by pressing buttons 3, 5, and 1 in sequence.
I know of many institutions that rely on wsus as a way of locking down external traffic from sensitive areas on the corporate network. Granting these machines internet access is often undesirable.

I'm not sure what you mean by modern clients, but we have numerous WinServer 2022 connecting to our internal wsus servers.
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