jtsuken

2 jaar geledendiscuss

A couple of maths professors I worked with had very poor spelling, grammar, etc. Good luck with your approach, if you are trying to hire a specialist in an area that is not middle management, HR or marketing. Let alone if you need people do something in the physical world such as building, cleaning or moving things.

jtsuken

2 jaar geledendiscuss

Wow! Not using social media and avoiding your photos from being publicly shared is what distinguishes a North Korean hacker?

I see how ex-CIA guys would expect to get a profile on everyone and know what color toothbrush they use.

I am lucky that I can refer to media publications citing my name in a professional context. But it's a creepy world where the employers' expectation is that all your personal information is public.

jtsuken

2 jaar geledendiscuss

There was a post on HN some time ago about a candidate for a senior IT role, who wrote code in MS Word.

I can't find it right now. Maybe I should try Bing search

jtsuken

3 jaar geledendiscuss

I feel like Elon Musk is about to propose a tech-driven innovative solution to this centuries old problem.

jtsuken

3 jaar geledendiscuss

Sorry to disappoint you, mate. Weizsäcker is much more likely to be an equivalent of Wheatbagger.

Weizen - wheat Sack - bag

jtsuken

3 jaar geledendiscuss

There is a point in moving the FROM ahead of SELECT and getting sensible auto-complete suggestions from your IDE as you type.

LINQ, however, attempts to solve a much bigger problem: Use consistent code to process data and don't worry whether it is in a remote database or in a local array.

If you manage to do it in a way that

- integrates seamlessly with e.g. Python IDE and I don't have to pass and parse strings

- allows me to access graph, document and relational data

- allows me to pull and process the data from REST APIs, [O/J]DBC and straight from my RAM

- and maybe even includes deductive (PROLOG/DATALOG) features

I will be your most loyal client

jtsuken

3 jaar geledendiscuss

Being able to pick the source (i.e. the FROM clause) first is useful in itself, as you then get the benefit of sensible auto-complete suggestions.

jtsuken

3 jaar geledendiscuss

To skip TSA nonsense you just need to skip TSA nonsense. Outside of the US airtravel is still relatively similar to rail. You have to be on time, you have to handle the baggage, but you can walk through xray and security within minutes and only need to show the ticket on your phone.

An electric wing-in-ground-effect aircraft still looks like an airplane and might still fall under the same regulations as any other airplane.

In any case TSA objectively does not add much security[1] and does cause issues e.g. for people who have names with similar spellings to those on a no-fly-list [2].

But that aside, the technology is great for short distance travel. Climbing to 2-5 thousand foot to travel some 50 miles is clearly insane.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Admini...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#False_positives

jtsuken

3 jaar geledendiscuss

> Wikipedia is nothing but a superminority making the website their playground, though[0].

It's more like the minority of the minority does a lot of spellchecking and editing, but it seems, much more plausibly, that a group much larger than a minority does the bulk of writing.

Any discussion of Wikipidia on HN is incomplete without a reference to Aaron Swartz's analysis of how Wikipedia is written:

"[He] concluded that the bulk of its content came from tens of thousands of occasional contributors, or "outsiders," each of whom made few other contributions to the site, while a core group of 500 to 1,000 regular editors tended to correct spelling and other formatting errors.He said: "The formatters aid the contributors, not the other way around." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#Wikipedia

jtsuken

3 jaar geledendiscuss

Why not call your children John or Maria Smith at birth then? Wouldn't this guarantee almost full anonymity in most contexts?

The typical security precautions are very hard to maintain in real life. e.g. should your child win some spelling context or a regional crosscountry run or whatever, how would you explain to them that their name and photo are not appearing among all the other winners?

jtsuken

3 jaar geledendiscuss

Came here to say the same: "wtf how are bananas and pineapples trees? Shall we get him to look up the pictures or ask some AI model to get the images of wikipedia and to classify them?"

There are fern trees (Tree Fern to be precise), but they only grow in tropical regions. Bananas and pineapples are clearly grass with huge leaves.

jtsuken

4 jaar geledendiscuss

"there are objectively no advantages to having your privacy taken away..."

Your words, correct?

My claim is that whenever you do something of high consequence, it is safer for you and the society to have your privacy taken away. (or the link between whatever you do and your name be public knowledge)

*The vaccine produced by an anonymous scientist*

*The car crashtest and certification site operated by an anonymous owner*

*The airplane designed by an anonymous engineer*

Talking about airplanes. An air traffic controller in Switzerland is a largely anonymous job. But after causing an aviation accident (a rather high-consequence deed) it would have been safer for the controller, if he and the police assumed that the air traffic controller's name and location were public knowledge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Kaloyev

The information that John Doe operates XYZ Pty Ltd does not affect their privacy too much, but if either John Doe or XYZ do or even consider doing something of high consequence, they better know that the link is public.

there are objectively no advantages to having the link between your name and your high-impact activity be hidden.

jtsuken

4 jaar geledendiscuss

How nice you brought up the vaccine example.

So would you like to a live in a country where the government can mandate a vaccine and you have no way to find out who owns the VAXXPROD company, whose vaccines are mandated? What if the owner by pure coincidence is the nice of the Vax Minister?

On the other hand, how will John Doe's privacy be affected if it was public information that he owns Flush Pty Ltd, as long as Flush Pty Ltd is not doing anything of public interest?

Obviously, would get into the realm of public interest if John Doe also owned Flush-A, Flush-B, ... Flush-Z Pty Ltds, and these were purportedly competing for the tenders to install toilets in the City Council Building. Or would you rather keep this information private?

jtsuken

4 jaar geledendiscuss

No, it's not! When you surf, you get used to punching through the surface and then holding your breath and dealing with the water movement. You have to consciously remind yourself to not do the equivalent of going head first through the face of the wave or stretching out your toes when bailing of the board.

jtsuken

4 jaar geledendiscuss

https://phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1791

jtsuken

4 jaar geledendiscuss

> you're all drawing a distinction that I don't see?

The distinction you are not seeing is between actual harm and a pretext for lawyers to sue.

Actual harm to the environment and real business profits result from manufacturers producing and selling proprietary charing devices (I bought at least 3 and disposed of at least 2 Apple magsafe2 chargers, while having perfectly working generic chargers around my home).

An indie developer hosting a free website is neither causing permanent and irreversible damage to the environment nor is he making any money as a result of his websites not being accessibility compliant.

jtsuken

4 jaar geledendiscuss

The next step is to change your legal name to Zhang Wei or at least a John Smith.

jtsuken

4 jaar geledendiscuss

Where is the Occam's razor?

If I am a dictator sitting on an oil well, exporting more and more oil and keeping 100% of profits to myself, the GDP will still grow in line with the amount and price of oil exported.

There is little correlation between what the population is doing and what the countries economic and social potential is. Isn't that in-part the definition of a dictator?

jtsuken

4 jaar geledendiscuss

What? No one has shared this link yet?

I was sure the whole content of the article and of the discussion here would boil down to this:

https://m.xkcd.com/1667/

jtsuken

4 jaar geledendiscuss

Just realised that the point I've made in response to a comment probably should be a level higher:

Don't trust the radiation monitoring system, the actual monitoring system has been destroyed by a rocket impact three days ago.

The monitoring system has been shot down on 1 Sep.

Here is the statement from the Nuclear Agency in Ukraine:

  On March 1, 2022 at 11:40 as a result of rocket impact, the communication network of Zaporizhzhya NPP was damaged. As a result, the Automated Radiation Monitoring   System (ARMS) of the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant lost its full functionality and stopped the transmission of data to the international radiation monitoring network IRMIS. IAEA has been informed about the incident.

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