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I'm having trouble believing an AI did this. I mean, I know it did, and I trust HN to call BS. But ... it's just too perfectly imperfect. You can almost spot the cardboard headwear. I literally can't convince myself an AI did it. It's a weird feeling I'm experiencing.

> if you don’t have the means or experience to prepare for it.

This is where they therapy side would be interesting to understand. Everyone is going to need a different response plan. Granted, many will be similar, but how do you teach someone to prepare?

To the three of you that told me this. You are correct, it is Google. Is there a difference? (Rhetorical)

"Overall, we found that warnings have no effect on affective responses to negative material nor on educational outcomes (i.e., comprehension). However, warnings reliably increase anticipatory affect. Findings on avoidance were mixed, suggesting either that warnings have no effect on engagement with material, or that they increase engagement with negative material under specific circumstances. Limitations and implications for policy and therapeutic practice are discussed."

The characteristics of the meta analysis were largely focused on the general public and attempts to limit anxiety in that domain. But I think they forgot an entire other application: NSFL warnings.

Whenever I see NSFL I ABSOLUTELY avoid clicking, I even stop reading, and that has greatly improved my peace of mind. Learned that the hard way during the early internet: I've accidentally seen way too many horrific things I wont even tangentially mention to last me 1000 liftimes. Sure there is an anticipatory impact, but NSFL works for me!

It seems like one message here is that more moderation is needed if anticipation has similar impact as the actual content.

Oh it is totally passive-aggressive coersion.

The notion of "poor performers" is a sign of bad management. They bloat the company to where they can no longer get their billion dollar handouts, er, payouts, and then take it out on people who actually care about their jobs and claim they are "poor" at it. While scaring the shit out of everyone else.

I know there are going to be a bunch of bros who think, "Yeah, that's not me, I'm fucking Tony Stark," but in reality, part of their brain will noodle on this gaslighting whether they want it to or not. So it really affects everyone.

It is a sign of toxic rot in a culture when they start branding people this way. But it's Amazon, it's a synonym for toxic.

Sure, it is a remotely controlled gun.

The question is: do we want to allow this? Without going all slippery slope on this debate, I don't think we've had time to think through the consequences of a precision remote-controlled gun. Of course, they didn't give us a say on selling military weaponry to police departments, so I don't think we'll have much to say in this either.

> I think the author has deeper seated issues to deal with, especially if they spend time languishing over this, and then writing these posts to justify/circumvent their negative emotional reactions by reframing and then echoing their internal troubles to the rest of us like we need to be enlightened.

Seriously. It is loud and clear. The justification of their own pathological behavior is wildly unhealthy. Too bad they don't see a therapist.

Found the boomer. You're right, the goal is to feel disappointed. Isn't that what your generation was about, "Disappointment builds character" and all that toxic nonsense?

No. I do NOT want to "Stop Confetti" thank you very much.

0.1% representing!

I got some code to fix.

Totally. A computer is worth tens of thousands of board feet of wood. Until I could afford a house and woodworking tools, this (and music) were my two primary creative outlets.

Same here! I started cooking like an adult around age 30, and then really got into it around 35, but didn't feel confident enough to feed large groups until my late 40's. Now I'm in my 50's and love throwing parties and cooking days in advance. My next house needs a dining room that can seat at least 14 or I won't be happy.

Engineers like woodworking because they spend so much time often building intangible things (like software engineers), that it satisfies an unmet need to hold, feel, or experience their creations in a tactile way.

Thus said a therapist I had ages ago.

vi.

it is always there.

it loads instantly.

it can handle filesizes that make other editors croak.

Agreed. I don't think a 40 year old document can be trusted. (Side-eye at the US constitution. :)

Of course, some people love velveeta. But if that's all you've ever had...

I thought the smiley face on my comment was a dead giveaway.

When I want the cool refreshing taste of fruity vinegar I buy this:

https://www.amazon.com/Pok-Som-Drinking-Vinegar-5x4-Oz/dp/B0...

Fight me. :)

> The thing is, wine quality is entirely subjective.

The article says it isn't. And I agree. Go buy a two-buck chuck at Trader Joe's, and a $50 Chateauneuf de Pape from 2018. One is an acrid, acidic fruit punch, the other is a balanced soft tannin delight. I guarantee your palette can tell the difference, or your money back. :)

TL;DR -- "Wine is not fake. Wine experts aren’t fake either, but they believe some strange things, are far from infallible, and need challenges and blinded trials to be kept honest. How far beyond wine you want to apply this is left as an exercise for the reader."

It is a showoff sport. Insane wine prices are there for rich people who have too much money to spend, or people who are in desperate need of validation. We all know someone in a McMansion with premium beige textured walls and a few Lexus who has a "wine cellar" that they can't stop talking about. The market is mostly for them.

I say "mostly" because like TFA says, some people really can tell the difference, but I feel bad that they have to pay so much more due to the idiot tax.

IT is such a big domain. Can you be more specific? I've been coding for 35+ years across an extremely broad range of topics and can't get enough of it. I do it on my free time. I've worked for a dozen companies and at least as many managers and countless projects. I'll probably quit when I can no longer type.

I think if I had stayed at one place, it would have soured. So to risk being obvious, try a new company?

EDIT: maybe a bit of hyperbole on the # of jobs. but it's been a lot.

Huh. Did I not expand a comment somewhere? Because I didn't see anyone citing the correct material.

Its funny how the comments section of this question on stackexchange.com are people complaining to @jonk that his answer is irrational when he's just reciting material, yet they double down on their position despite his objection. Doesn't help that @jonk is kind of arrogant, but my point is... people.

TimJ lists simply enumerates a bunch of software names with almost no content to move the discussion along.

I could have said, "Well blockchain is important because I used Schmaltz, Goober, and Cookie deployed on Flanders, Homer and Kearney, the open API just works out of the box," and by your logic I'd be some wizened mage on the subject.

There is a cliff on HN, but you might want to invest in a parachute.

EDIT... :)

I have been working on small motion camera devices like this using off-the-shelf parts, and getting 1080p to stream over wifi with arducams is nontrivial. There's a lot of special MCU features you need or you're effed: enough GPIO for the camera and the SDCARD, h.264 acceleration, enough RAM to run the LWIP stack and TLS (or crypto accelerator), zero wait-state memory. Trying to get good battery life is a whole different ball of wax. Hats off the companies that finally nailed this.

EDIT: Part 3 of this is truly impressive. OP decoded the IP used, and it came from freaking EVERYWHERE.

EDIT: Why do I post sometimes...

I just fixed some neural-net code to use #7. I hate passing pointers to layers that have a fixed size, and passing an array causes problems sometimes that require too many cats. Typedef array pointer to the sized array is precisely what I needed.

The switch/case anywhere looks equally useful and dangerous, and is so close to assembly that it really illustrates the low-level capabilities of C.

> Otherwise you're essentially asking to dumb it down for you.

I wonder if you are exempt from the judgment you put on others.

While I agree that one can obtain a deeper understanding of a culture by exploring it thoroughly, your suggestion that any translation is "dumbing it down" is as absurd as your first argument, and an insult to every teacher.

This purity argument is destructive, as it reflects a powerfully deep elitism that is so exclusive, it appears to be an obvious volley against truth. I also wonder if you are capable of that kind of deep cynicism, or are just blathering.

(In anticipation, one easy argument against this purity is that people who speak English, live in America, went to college in America, got degrees in America ... STILL do not understand incredibly large parts of American culture until it is explained to them in their mode and register, and not even then in many cases. As my citations I'll simply point to our elections. So, yes, one can obtain deeper knowledge by full immersion--which is the point of deeper intellectual understanding--but ultimately that is an approximation, and even full assimilation does not bring enlightenment. Unless you are the thing, you are speaking through translation suited to your cultural comprehension.)

I don't think you understand my opinion very well.

At no point did I say I do not wish to understand other people's opinions. But I don't speak in their culture, so I need it explained to me. That's literally what liberal humanities are all about, from the Renaissance on: trying to understand the world around you.

Are you somehow assuming, for example, that to truly understand Russia I should only read Russian newspapers and talk to Russians and speak Russian? I shouldn't have say how absurd that is, but here we are.

> y’all have just as many problems as any other social group

I never said we didn't. Don't put your shit on me.