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buggy6257on Y Combinator backs its first defense startup, Ares Industries

Onebrief makes military planning software so it’s a matter of where people mentally draw the line. Ares is literally making weapons, so I could imagine that being the line for some people, though not for all surely.

buggy6257on Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase

This is an aside but “trifecta but with four” actually has an awesome name: “Superfecta”!

buggy6257on Satya Nadella Reads/Games Hacker News (2018)

iii. Limits on use of data from the AI Services. You may not use the AI services, or data from the AI services, to create, train, or improve (directly or indirectly) any other AI service.

That has nothing to do with your code that you got help from copilot with. Are you referring to a different section? I didn’t see one that says anything like what you claim.

buggy6257on Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

Not specifically the HN who's hiring etc threads, but through YCombinator's job board I was approached, interviewed, and hired. Loved the company, work was fun (even if not my favorite language), but I upset the CTO by questioning his Golden Boy, the CTO stole an idea wholesale from me after telling me it was a bad idea, and then fired me with no specific reasons.

If it weren't for that CTO I'd likely still be working there.

buggy6257on Crypto-failure Terraform Labs to cough up $4.5B, liquidate self

Baader-Meinhoff

buggy6257on The Day I Learned to Think Like a Browser

And he wasn’t paid a single dime extra for his time or effort.

buggy6257on 1 in 4 U.S. Teachers Say AI Tools Do More Harm Than Good in K-12 Education

Math blaster. Stuck in my head forever

buggy6257on The iPad Pro Manifesto (2024 Edition)

Tangent sorry, but can you give me a quick rundown of the app as a user? I have a Mini 2 and would consider using it, but $25 is a steep price to "try" it...

buggy6257on About 25% of Americans age 50 and older expect to never retire, AARP study finds

For the math that would mean after 8x he’s now making ~111k. Depending on the place he lives this may very well not be keeping pace with COL

buggy6257on Fossils found in Somerset by girl, 11, 'may be of largest-ever marine reptile'

A young girl, Ruby Reynolds (alliterative name), makes a large scientific discovery.

...This is how comic hero backstories start.

I look forward to Dinogirl or whatever (far better) name she comes up with!

buggy6257on U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades

Enforced randomization isn't going to fix the problem, it just evenly distributes the problem.

Based on these results, it would mean that the graders are just getting tired/lazy/inattentive the further they get in their stack of papers to grade. That's the problem the needs to be fixed, not the order they get graded in. Enforced randomization is simply a short term alleviation so no student(s) get disproportionately affected by this phenomenon.

buggy6257on F/OSS Comics: 8. The Origins of Unix and the C Language

They don't say in the comic, but it seems like maybe they named it Unix as a cheeky nod to the "Multics" being too complex so a "simpler Multics" would naturally be "Unics"

Am I correct on this?

buggy6257on Error Handling in Baby Toys

I have this exact toy for my daughter I think. I would tinker with it a bit, I think just the fact that you hit a certain set of the buttons was enough on its own - I’d have to find the toy to test but I have heard the same voice stab but didn’t do the Konami code.

Sorry to be a spoilsport! :)

buggy6257on If You Don't Change the UI, Nobody Notices (2009)

> the objectively (from the perspective of a non-oblivious user)

You’ll be happy to hear there’s an easier way of saying this! It’s “subjectively”

If you need a shorthand you could also go with “IMO”.

buggy6257on Stashpad launches Google Docs alternative you can use without any login

At this point I have PyCharm as my IDE, Obsidian as my official "Notes" with a capital N, and about 40 open unsaved text documents in Sublime Text that i just use as scratchpads. Writing down things, acting as a poor man's extended clipboard, etc.

I absolutely love this flow and it works so well for me now.

buggy6257on Can We Just Throw in the Towel on Airport Security Theater Already?

How are you still allowed to fly you monster

buggy6257on Can We Just Throw in the Towel on Airport Security Theater Already?

We…we did. For 87 years of air travel we did. Went pretty darn good. People seemed to have fun with it. They even looked forward to flights.

What an odd comment.

buggy6257on Password may not contain: select, insert, update, delete, drop

So… what’s your new last name?

buggy6257on Slack: Our biggest redesign yet came to be

I could be wrong, but worth mentioning -- my DMs at my work slack have never auto-deleted. Looking through setting shows nothing that calls this out, but one note is that when I click on "Direct Messages" on the sidebar and go to "Show and sort", I have "Show in this section" set to "All", and "Sort this section" set to "Alphabetically". Maybe something with those settings is persisting mine? I have 1 chat that has been there well over 2 weeks now, and another where i never even messaged them, just opened the DM window.

Either way, it all sucks, and I totally sympathize. :(

buggy6257on Slack: Our biggest redesign yet came to be

Seems like they moved them to a small headphone icon button in the top right corner of the window for the channel/DM you're in.

buggy6257on How to (and how not to) design REST APIs

I want to hug you right now.

buggy6257on 28 governments signed a declaration agreeing to cooperate on risks of AI

28 governments signed a declaration agreeing to get wrecked by the rest of the countries that didn't sign this agreement and have no compunctions about using AI to rid themselves of all their enemies no matter what it takes.

buggy6257on Splunk to cut workforce by 7% after cisco deal

I don't think ANY CEO is looking at Musk's handling of Twitter/X and thinking the layoffs had "no material change to their business"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-x-worth-less-221637...

buggy6257on Threads Software Limited gives Meta 30 days to stop using the name Threads

Have it named Xfer and then sell it for 2 billion to Musk when he wants to add financial transactions to his Everything App.

buggy6257on The Supreme Court could soon change the internet forever

…what are the downsides then?

buggy6257on Some advice I would give to a junior DevOps Engineer

That was a lot of words telling us all what introversion isn’t, but not a single word telling us what you think it actually is. Care to try again?

buggy6257on "You have a 27% 'AI' issue in here"

If perfect spelling/grammar was so easy to have the moment "personal computers became a thing", then why do my eyes bleed trying to read what people write online every day? We've had near-flawless spellcheck for years now. I think maybe it's not as much of a useless skill as you think it might be...

buggy6257on X (Twitter) Obtains License to Store, Transfer, and Trade Bitcoin and Crypto

“No… please… stop…”

Willy Wonka quote is appropriate here.

buggy6257on Layoffs are down, but employers are still finding ways to cut jobs

So is this one just as much of a media-created nothing burger as Quiet Quitting was? I'm betting yes...

buggy6257on Today I learned you can pause the Windows Task Manager moving apps around

Because as we all know as software engineers, Windows as a whole is likely only written by a single team or maybe even single developer, and thus multiple features cannot be worked on at the same time, and thus you have to pick between these two things.