skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, "cool" is too subjective to really say much, especially when only thinking on a micro level. I think a better phrasing of that is that "dumbness" is being more mainstream today (in the US) than before. Some states are back to banning more books than ever in schools, the country was split over something as basic as medicine ( a few choosing horse de-wormer over a professionally approved vaccine), etc.

There was always such conspiracy, but never talked about at such a scale. But not too much of this has to do with techies outside of "tech made it easy for conspirators to gather".
If you've honestly never seen the types of leaders envisioned in this article you are very lucky indeed.

For a large majority of supervisors, if you give them carefully-worded, polite, respectful, private, accurate, truthful, ego-preserving feedback about something they're doing wrong, their response will range between "immediate firing" and "hold a grudge against you, fire you as soon as they can find a replacement". There is nothing that makes people as angry as accurately pointing out their flaws.

The way around this is in essence to get the leader to think it was their idea to make a change, which is possible in some cases but not in others.
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I think that’s incorrect. The article and the Wikipedia page on the antenna effect say antenna effects are caused by plasma etching, which uses RF to create the plasma.
Metabolism changes are metabolism changes. What does the food you eat have anything to do with that, in practice? As far as I can tell, the mix of carbs/fat/protein has little to do with how much your body “compensates” from a surplus/deficit. If you don’t meaningfully have control over that, the only other real lever is how many calories you eat. Finding a way to lower calories without satiety problems or food noise issues ultimately is the solution. Some people do it via lots of low caloric foods (veg, mainly) that still have high satiety. Some people do it with Ozempic. Some people just aren’t bothered nearly as much by a caloric deficit no matter what they eat.
What if you're trying to find an opening to move right, but the safest available space to change lanes is behind the people passing you?
I'd replace "business" with "capitalism".
Takes me back over a decade ago, working for a manufacturer that used a “Wi-Fi setup network” on many of their products, I started encountering early versions of “WIPS” (wireless intrusion prevention systems) that would leverage these deauth techniques in TIFA to prevent connection to rogue (read: our) Wi-Fi networks.

That might sound fine at first glance, so here’s a common scenario we’d have:

During a renovation on a high-rise building BigCorp that still occupies office space on that floor, is happily (unknowingly/uncaringly) spamming deauths and even spoofing our BSSID and to our field techs it would generally just look like “incorrect password”

I wrote a long internal bulletin about it, mostly geared towards helping our techs identifying the issue (with varying levels of networking knowledge) and getting to someone in IT to help.

This is the easy wire shark proof if you suspect it:

#filter for deauthentication frames
`(wlan.fc.type == 0)&&(wlan.fc.type_subtype == 0x0c)`
Especially looking for a reason code of 2
`Previous authentication no longer valid.`
ohh that would be the day! not to sound all pessimistic on this fine saturday but people are too stupid to see the benefits of it
My dad had a simpler take: The early Internet was filtered essentially by wealth and intelligence. You had to have a (relatively) expensive setup, and you had to be the type to be "on the bleeding edge" of technology. That didn't necessarily mean you were a "nerd" or "weird". This group included researchers at government labs, university professors, military, etc... Anywhere where the Internet had early adoption was over-represented. I remember NASA and CERN as significant fractions of the entire Internet in the earliest days!

I remember debates on the talk.origins usenet newsgroup with very highly educated priests, some at the highest levels of the church. These people wouldn't give me the time of day now!

In some sense it's the same filter that a University admissions process applies, and companies like Google try to reproduce.
If you like lazydocker also check out lazygit by the same author: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
This whole BlueSky thing feels inorganic.
> PTO days and on-call days don't indersect.

If you have any national holidays, somebody still ends up being on-call for that holiday. I've been on-call for almost every US holiday this year.
the political leaders in Qatar/Turkey could easily be invited to the Hague.
"Rate limit exceeded" error on first try.
Mine's pretty quick, using the stock OS. I assume in your case it's doing a cold start with no AGPS assistance? If so, it'll take up to a couple of minutes to acquire a fix.
People can grow into their roles. You don’t expect junior devs to know everything one day one, so why would you expect a “junior[1]” manager?

[1] I know the article is about senior managers, but it reads as though the mean “somebody more senior than me” and not “somebody who has been managing a long time”
In the US traffic laws are state-by-state. In most states, unlike most European countries, "undertaking" _is_ legal, but, additionally most states still have a "slower traffic must keep right" rule.

That's what the sign the parent post is referring to is trying to point out - if someone is passing you in the "slower" lane, you are not in the correct one.
> it’s still a sale and actual ownership

What makes it actual versus pretend ownership? Remember, ownership is a social construct.
I'm by no means a speedrunner but decided to record my runs in case I got a sub-3. Just uploaded the 2:57: https://youtu.be/0THaZ61sCmg

I challenge someone to beat it!
"weird" isn't a good description. Specifically, most people on the internet back then were well-educated computer nerds, so the typical post would be more relatable to those on HN and arguably (according to those on HN) "higher quality".

These people aren't "weird" in a bad way, but in a "different than the average (less-educated, less tech-oriented) person" way.

The anonymity part probably isn't correct. But I get the impression people back then were a lot more open, at least hearing about dating sites, chat-roulette, old YouTube channels, and internet friends who met IRL in the 90s/2000s. Although I know a lot of people post on Facebook and Twitter, so maybe that hasn't changed either.
You must never have seen Breaking Bad
Certainly more intelligent and even-minded than the post itself.
> working from home not only isolates you

I’m less isolated than ever WFH as I now have the time and energy to have a social life after work.

Additionally, I can be more involved with my local community because instead of commuting to some CBD and filling the pockets of business there, I support and have relationships with the small businesses in my local community.

Equally though, I see how if you were a parent, or are incapable of going outside unless forced, it could be more isolating for some.
It is FAR more useful on a smartphone with GPS but it also works on a desktop connection if the geolocation of your IP is accurate. For me it was spot on.
The more common a swear word is the more likely it has been semantically bleached to the point assumptions like this seem (ironically) nonsensical. Few people saying "you bastard" actually give a damn whether one is born of wedlock or not these days (many not even realizing that's what it ever meant in the first place) they just know and use it as "a general swear word you can shout in frustration". Same for bitch, it's certainly possible to use it in the original context and it is still done but it's most often used in a way equally interchangeable with how one would typically use "bastard".

Common swear words like bitch become so semantically bleached context is needed to even decide if it's being used in a negative way at all, let alone with a gendered intent. E.g. "that's bitching" -> is something awesome or not? Is something "shit" or "the shit"? Is it "fucking amazing!" or "fucking 'amazing'"?
In my experience, those phrases are more often used to disguise the real intent: "you are doing it wrong and I can't stand it".

I think the best feedback comes from people who have tried to understand the reasons other people have, before asking "is there a reason ...?".
Professional environments are terrible. Why do you think there's an abundance of films like "mayhem" and others, showing how dehumanising the "professional environment" is?
I agree. I'm intrigued by the self-hosted option. But it is unclear whether the iOS and Android clients will stick around to consume the saved data.
> So scanning processes is the correct thing to do.

Most solutions in engineering involve a trade-off. Clearly this solution trades simplicity for complexity and multiple CVEs. An OS could utilise a known static configuration as described by its packaging system, for a much simpler solution. It could disallow running services any other way.
I think people tend to think too much in terms of black and white. Jaded cynicism is sometimes a good response, and sometimes less so, and other times won't make too much of a difference or can go either way. The trick is to know how to balance it all.

Same story with "tear it all down" vs. "work within the system".
Telegraphs and Telephones – How They Work
He will never leave Israel again. He is 75 and doesn't have many years ahead of him anyway. At some point soon he will either be voted out or kicked out through regular knessent machinations and spend his remaining years writing his memoris in hebrew only.
OP is complaining about the person being passed. In other words, the jackass cruising in the passing lane.
The correct thing to do is to turn on your turn signal and wait for a safe opportunity to move to the right.

But in most circumstances, if you’re trying to find an opening to move right, that’s still an indication that you’ve been hanging out in the left lane for an inappropriate amount of time and/or misusing the lane.
> It really weeded out the folks who were just looking for an engineering job

Wanting an engineering job means that engineering is such an important part of your life that you desire that your job (i.e. many hours each day) centers around it.

The breed of people that you mentioned to be weeded out were not looking for an engineering job, but for some well-paid (often management) job that formally requires engineering qualifications, but where the daily business has barely to do anything related to engineering.
Square, Stripe, Cash App, Venmo, Paypal, etc...
In FireFox I can translate the site to English.
> You still haven't even attempted to address the key question of whether the per capita rate of war crimes in Iraq was notably high.

What? So war crimes only matter if there were a lot of them? I've only skimmed the Geneva convention but don't recall seeing that part. In any case, you'd struggle to find a developed country in the past few decades with anything resembling the US war crime rate, and torture of civilians rate. So yes, obviously.

And there's a legitimate case to be made that ISIS and their crimes are the direct result of American incompetent handling of Iraq post the toppling of Saddam. So we can add some more to the pile.

> I'm hoping with Trump's election, the US will act as more of a neutral and peaceful arbitrator, instead of automatically taking the side of "allies" like you for some bizarre reason

You seem to have misconceptions about US foreign policy and what it means to be a US ally, and, hell, what Trump is and what he stands for (money). Check out what the US did to France with the Australian submarine deal, is that the an ally siding? With Trump in charge, his favourite dictators will do whatever they want.

In any case, good riddance. A few countries will be screwed through no fault of their own (Ukraine, Taiwan), being surrendered to a despotic regime. It's unfortunate, but it's clear that a lot of Americans cannot tell right from wrong, so it is what it is. The rest of the world can't force the US to continue in the role it took itself as the world police at least paying lip service to freedom and morality and what not. (More often than not this was propping up fascists and similar against anything left of Franco, but still, in some cases like Taiwan and Ukraine, something good came out of it)

But the EU will take the opportunity to stand up and become more autonomous, fully taking in on how unreliable the US is. The world will be better off, on average. It's just horrible how many people will have to suffer to get there.
Which is why I see so many people driving while staring at their knee.
I love that verbiage, because IMO it really gets to the crux of the issue: many drivers think that if they're going the speed limit, it's OK to park out in the left lane.

The problem with that is nearly everywhere in the US the average rate of speed on highways is about 5 miles over the speed limit, so if you're doing the limit you are going to be one of the slower cars driving.

It really is about cars passing you. If you're not passing you need to move over.
There are so many examples. Widespread ubiquity of pornography and gambling. Proliferation of unstable “gig” work. Flows of large amounts of cash into politics.

There’s a lot more. Like I said there are good effects too but it’s disingenuous to claim there aren’t immediately obvious negative consequences.
One of the most annoying things in companies is how criticism only flows downwards and praise usually only only flows upwards.
You haven't lived until you've spent a whole weekend at work rushing to fix a production-limiting issue because the boss doesn't know, though you do, about the other division's production-limiting issue which cannot, under any wildly optimistic circumstance, get done in the next two weeks.

Oh, and that weekend is the weekend before Christmas.
And the delivery truck crashed the gate. Amazon recursion model!
I don’t get it. He said gripe to his superior but he is basically kissing ass?
> Making a copy of a purely intangible set of data doesn’t deprive someone of that data

You’re making an argument on the non-rivalry of digital content. This is one of the good arguments I referenced.

Digital content is currently a club good, like broadcast television. (Excludable.) You’re arguing for treating it like a public good, like a park. (Not excludable.)

Ownership being a social construct makes statements like stealing X has meaning somewhat useless, particularly when it comes to rules.
Wordpress.org released Secure Custom Fields "PRO" version with ACF pro features
Related:

Like 'old Twitter': The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42198278
Those who can't do... teach?
That seems pretty crazy to me (18M)

even for one-off scripts, I'll often throw them into a VCS because why not!
> The reason you fluff up feedback to your subordinates is because lower down the chain they tend to be insecure and don't yet have the experience to distinguish between actionable impartial feedback, and threats to their job security.

Rather than fluff it up, just make it explicit whichever you are doing.

If you actually like their work and are making an actionable suggestion, just say that, and don't forget to praise them for the work that you like. Far too often I see managers only give the suggestion and then it ends up looking like a threat.

> The reason you don't fluff feedback, or any information for that matter to your superiors, is described in basically every handbook on highly effective communication in organizations.

The reason you do fluff feedback to your superiors is that you're on an H1B visa, are at risk of getting deported from the country and having to find a new home for your partner and new school for your kids (possibly in an unfamiliar language and environment for them), just for upsetting one superior.

The reality is most people in large companies do not care about "highly effective communication". They are just trying to survive and not get deported. Once we can get rid of this stupid 60 day rule and insane housing and child-raising costs maybe people will start caring about their work. The most basic of Maslow's needs are not being met, hence the fluffing up to the authorities (bosses) who are in control of your livelihood.
And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5KW5d15J7I
I daily FF; and every couple weeks i have to open up whatever isn't working in Edge or Chrome to continue. It's usually a banking website or similar.
Without getting fired? "That's a brilliant idea! The only reason we won't execute is incompetence."

Deviate and your career will stall at best
> If you're in the left lane and getting passed on the right that means you should have moved to the right...

Not always.

I'm often in the passing lane (passing a semi, for example) and someone else zooms up behind me and expects me to accelerate to their speed.

They get annoyed that I'm not passing fast enough, so they either ride on my bumper or they fall back and scoot 2-lanes to the right and then speed up to pass everyone (the semi and me).

To be clear: after I pass the semi (or whatever) in the center lane, I will move to the right, but I'm not going to speed up to the point where I consider it dangerous just to please the speed demon behind me.
Oh wow, looks like someone uploaded a 2:55 yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6yExxPR1vI
I've found these situations to be no-win.

When I had reasonable certainty of my next gig being lined up, I even put the question to leaders. "If I tell you why this project is destined to failure now in Q1 vs being quiet and playing along til end of year, will I be rewarded or punished any differently then?".

The response was 100% nervous laughter. It turned out both layers of management above me were also well aware the marching order they were passing along were going to end badly, and had already lined up their internal transfers, which happened within days of my departure as well.
I must say I exaggerated a bit. My work involves staring at screens a lot as well and it is not always pleasant. Luckily there's also the brainstorming, experimenting with equipment and working together with other people.

The ideal job however for me would be a mix of being a tutor, experimenting, reading up on new ideas or technologies and fixing problems, in a part time regime. The free time can then be spent on woodworking, gardening, sports, family. I haven't attained that exactly but i'm actually not super far off.

My point being, it does not have to be black and white, work vs retirement. You can do part time work that you like for a very long time and have fulfillment.
That may well be, but quite surprising to learn that the best paying university is still paying under minimum wage…
Exemplum docet
Yeah. I used openlook on a Sun grayscale monitor. Would be interesting to see what it looks like in color.
It's also unlikely to be seen by someone looking at their phone.
It will be interesting to see (as someone without skin in the game 'cause I live in Sweden but having seen a similar type of downward development towards 'equity' here) whether the incoming government will make good on its promise to abolish the department of education which was put in place by Carter in 1979. While the press is doing its best to portray this as a terrible idea which will create mayhem and lead to the quality of education to fall even further it is a fact that the quality of education has markedly deteriorated since its inception while its mission is supposed to be the opposite [1]. Most of the news I've seen regarding education in the USA has trended towards the negative: programs for gifted pupils are shut down because they lead to a decrease in 'equity' where some pupils gain advantages over others, the debacle around extended school closures during the SARS2 unpleasantness, the oversized influence of the (extremely politically biased) teachers' unions, the lack of school choice in many places combined with the influence of districting - where you live decided which school you attend - and more. To me it seems clear the department has failed in its mission and with that needs to be either closed down or overhauled. Given that it is a relatively young department and that educational outcomes were better before it was created - keeping in mind that this does not necessarily indicate a causal relation - it makes sense to abolish this department and relegate essential tasks back to where they were before it was created.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/US-Department-of-Education
Now go look at the need for antenna diodes in SOI technology:) with the substrate no longer the safe haven, a lot more oxides can be exposed to large differential voltages during manufacturing.
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The new law isn't apt to be enforced as often as many might like. Emphasis added:

>How is this law enforced?

>In Colorado, mobile electronic devices, like cell phones, are not allowed while driving a vehicle without a hands-free accessory. Colorado’s hands-free law is a secondary offense, which means drivers will be pulled over for this law only if an officer witnesses an individual drive in a careless or imprudent manner while holding a device in their hands or pinning it to their ears. Some examples are a driver holding a cell phone to their ear while driving through a construction zone or a driver holding a phone in their hand and looking at it while traveling 75 mph on a highway.
Lived through that period and never heard of it.

SA has a reference from 2000 that suggests it's a little bit different than a blog.

https://www.somethingawful.com/news/en-spotlight/
> adults don't have time for following a Discord per every topic they're interested in.

Funny, I do just that, despite having a bunch of pets and a full-time job - I follow at least 30 game-specific discords. You must be thinking of people compulsively checking notifications like a social media addict?

I feel sorry for anyone who uses Discord like that. Thankfully, you don't have to since many communities now have mini-wikis inside of the Discord to organize the FAQ/common knowledge.
You know what's "explicit"? The aftermath of an automobile collision with a human body. The f-bomb doesn't even belong on the same scale.

I don't understand why humans are such ridiculous prudes about all the wrong things, while in other contexts they are blissfully murdering each other—quite literally. This is why I stay off social media. I do not understand my own species, and they frighten me.
That's right. One of the knocks on those early versions was that every new release broke previous code in significant ways. Which is one reason that v. 1.0 was so important to the community. They could finally commit code using a stable language.
Reading this comment chain is kinda confusing to me. Y'all really not aware that there are countless works of art that predate AI art that look literally just the same?

Missing symmetry is super frequent in hand drawn art, and overusing/adding too much detail that ultimately detract from the art is something any aspiring artist has done at some point.

I get that you don't like to look at pictures like that, but it's really not unique to AI art.
I moved to Miniflux from Nextcloud News a few years ago after News stopped working after an update.

It is likely one of my favourite pieces of software that I host myself. Doesn’t take a lot of resources, quick and simple UI, and just works.
I think that if you simply call someone bitch in place of a name, it has become largely but not entirely degendered, but if you call someone "a bitch" it is still pretty gendered.