skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"IT is seen as such a money sink, that true and proper workload and therefore workforce requirments are almost never understood, much less met, so you end up with a one man miracle show sysadmin working a 40k job, always on call, who literally doesn't have the time to be proactive. If he or she brings it up with management, their work is often criticized and the budget is whined about and they are lucky to get a teir 1 helper (maybe only part time too!)."

This is so spot on, I'm going to ooze nostalgia for a moment:

I was the tier 1 helper brought in to help the one man miracle 40k sysadmin, way back at the start of my career. He taught me pretty much everything I know about sysopping well, skills that after languishing for over a decade still let me perform miracles to the eyes of my current SWE coworkers, and even at my prime I only had a FRACTION of his knowledge.

He kept two datacenters, literally thousands of machines, almost singlehandedly out of "being on fire". His management would have been more effective had they actually been in-abscentia, I have some fun stories about when our manager broke networking by wiring a routing loop, leaving work early after giving up trying to fix it, and leaving me there alone because "I'm sure you can get it working". (In trying to fix it, management broke pretty much all our vnets and trunking, this all started because the main sysadmin was out sick, which he almost never let happen)

I can go on with stories for days, I don't think I really had a compelling point in this other than to say working with him biased me towards good faith in sysops. It's funny to say that since the few other helpers who passed through in the years I worked with him were mostly all the terrible things you hear about incompetence/laziness, but part of me now keeps an eye out in any shop that's not perpetually on fire for the one sysadmin keeping the roof up.

To give a point for this ramble, I just want to voice out my support for those one man miracle shows, as an attempt to further thank the one who helped me so damn much, who was given so little for doing so.

To bring this back to the point of the OP, which I entirely forgot at the end of writing this, at one point we found that a keylogger had been hidden in our systems, and a rootkit had likely been proliferated. We recommended essentially a full nuke and repave, since there was very little we could do at this point to determine the extent of the compromise. Not only did management disallow us from properly cleansing some systems, they didn't even let them be taken down and rekeyed fully, making our efforts in the clusters we had full control over essentially moot. In short, sometimes a company can seem almost pathologically against good practices, despite the best intentions of those who might know better.
It really depends on what your goal is. You don't need to buy into any of it and still write high quality software. Concat & minify is still there like it always was (what tools you use to get this done is really irrelevant). You don't need to use Node, NPM, webpack, rollup, babel/buble or classes because today that means you're obligated to use all the tooling and compilation. Not to say that these things dont add value, but the value is greatly overhyped for projects that are not Facebook or Google sized. Virtual dom, Promises, rAF, Canvas, CSS3, new web APIs are definitely worth learning because they provide huge value and will be around for a long time. There has certainly been a shift towards declarative/functional/immutable paradigms in JS but that doesnt mean it works better for all cases.

Might as well do a shameless plug here. If you don't want to learn the current hotness-of-the-month. I've written domvm [1] to be small, fast, fully free from dependencies and build/tooling requirements. It uses virtual dom concepts under the hood, so you get the benefits of both declarative templates and imperative views in pure JS and a very small learning curve.

Believe me when I tell you that you can still write complex-yet-maintainable, performant web-apps with just your browser and vim/notepad w/syntax coloring.

If you're looking to be employable, though, you'll probably need to learn Angular/React/Vue and everything that comes with them ;)

[1] https://github.com/leeoniya/domvm
i was able to see an on broadway, original cast, performance of book of mormon.. for free

my sister had a friend from college who grew up on the upper east side who in turn had a friend from childhood who 'invests' ~10,000$ every year by buying tickets to broadway shows and reselling them

when we went looking four tickets were offered to us for free because 'i've made 4000x on this show already'
Wow. You now have to pay a monthly fee to avoid 30 second videos in Solitaire ! That's almost extortion.

"It's a shame if something were to happen with all that time you got here."
> Strictly speaking, mopeds are driven by both an engine and by bicycle pedals

More of a scooter than a moped
And MacOS and Windows and and...

It's the "worse is better" approach or whatever that is called that set the 'not-quite-field' (thank you AK for this) back to where it started. To me it feels like we are in a hamster wheel of constant reinvention rather than using the software technologies of the 70ies (mainly from Xerox Parc) as a stepping stone. And whenever the methodologies break down we cry for the next framework/language/hardware platform to solve everything.

I for one would love to see a refresh about what is happening to OMeta and its family of technologies developed at Viewpoint [1]. Is this still ongoing?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbwOPzxuJ0s
Yeah, I'm sure he would've raised no suspicions whatsoever by taking snapshots of his NSA workstation screen with a camera. /s
Thanks for your thoughts, I think you have a decent point there.

My experience does include running front-end at the startup I worked at, and even being part of the three-person group that decided on the direction of the product (with the two founders). My communication skills are battle-tested from years of contracting (and a liberal arts university background), but I do lack experience dealing with huge bureaucracies and I lack experience with business development. So maybe that was it.

That said, if your theory is right that they were slotting me in as a GS-14, they could have communicated with me about that difficulty. I would have been totally fine with whatever role they wanted to give me - which I made clear in the "groundhog day" interviews - because I just wanted to help. :-D
Thanks for your reply.

I read those two links, but, I don't seem to see where Obama jailed any journalists.

The stories there appear to be about government employees who gave out information they were not supposed to give out. As far as I can tell, and, please correct me if I'm missing the point, the journalists were not prosecuted in these cases.

Do I have that wrong? What am I missing here?

Again, thank you for the reply.
Aside from the main topic of the post, I thought the use of a "precommitment", also known as a commitment scheme[1], was interesting

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commitment_scheme
Practically everywhere. From USB in hardware to touch events, WebRTC and MSE in the browser.

Anyway, no interoperable standards were available at the time doesn't excuse them not adding these standards when they become available.

Maintaining a legacy decision made for one of the above reasons is exactly NIH and attempt to sabotage interoperability.
The blame for the high cost-of-living in SF lies with the people of California, and especially the people of SF. It'd create a massive moral hazard to have the federal government subsidize that. Run your city like a gravy-train and everyone else will bail you out. People will, I hope, never stand for that. I'm very wary of insulating people from the consequences of their decisions, especially entire political units.
It's because the things people do in the frontend are very different now than 5 years ago.

People forget SPAs and modern frontends are very new and in their infancy... of course they change quickly.

> Compare that to someone who wrote a JS app 1-2 years ago - they have months of catching up to do.

1-2 years ago I'd randomly guess they were using basic jQuery, Backbone, or Angular 1.x... which still work fine. Don't see the problem here.
No, just a local. I described the experience here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11832220

It's not bad at all.
I can't imagine it would be that good? I suspect limiting the search space to your friend list (and probably the part of your friend list that you're ever actually likely to meet) is the only way to keep these results even a little accurate.
There is not a single, rationale reason why one guy would be mass downloading files under several people's names on his personal machine. Whereas, wearing a wire long enough to look at a few emails entails almost no risk in comparison. There will be nobody noticing it unless you're very careless. You will also leave no records.

There's about no comparison between screenshoting some emails and conning employees out of passwords then mass downloading TS files. My suggestion is WAY lower risk. Worked for CIA and KGB whole Cold War, goo. ;)
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I think even with Volume Licensing, Enterprise is more expensive than Pro. But my point is that it is definitely possible to get it.
I've never liked Facebook's "do you want to tag your friend" feature. It's a loaded question, like... have you stopped beating your wife? However you answer it, you've given Facebook feedback about their facial recognition.

If I hit yes, I'm tagging friends who might not want to be tagged. Furthermore, I might end up in the same boat with friends tagging pictures of me! Either way, I help better Facebook's facial recognition, which unnerves me.

On the surface, clicking "no" means that they got the facial recognition wrong. But what am else am I revealing? If the match was 98%, would they infer that one of us (or both) is concerned about privacy? That we have something to hide?

The third alternative is to click nothing. The only information that gives Facebook is that I'm not interested in helping curate their data any more than I already am.
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But that seems not unreasonable on its own. Tipping a friend $20 because he helped carrying boxes when you moved as compared to hiring a professional mover for $20 seems like a valid difference to me. But you a right that this could maybe be turned into a good argument for an universal basic income because you may be able to sidestep some otherwise relatively difficult to solve gray area issues, but I am not sure, I haven't thought that through.
Welcome to being a victim of sensational misreporting. Win7 does not upgrade itself randomly or without telling you. It will schedule an upgrade, then tell you about it and give you a chance to cancel it beforehand. And using something like https://www.grc.com/never10.htm you can also disable the scheduling.
My idea is that these catastrophic insurance plans would be affordable by anyone with their basic income. Debt financing could cover anything below the deductible, for the indigent. Getting such loans would also be easier because of the UBI. Again, people would be financially responsible for their own healthcare, which restores sane incentives, but it wouldn't be possible for it to financially destroy them. No need for a single payer system if this works as I envision it.
Non-fossil-based hydrocarbon fuels would be an environmentally viable option.

Economically viable is another question, but there's some possibility that this may be the case.
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I'm thinking of energy in the physics sense.
What happens to outbound UDP packets when the 'VPN' is active? Can they be inspected or modified by your ISP?
I've read speculation that chickenpox is a seasonal disease, and that one difference between severe cases and mild cases is the child's vitamin D level.

It is unfortunate that children are now commonly vaccinated against chickenpox. This is a weakling virus that barely kills anyone, and more good could be done by figuring out factors that help children have a mild case.
While this tells you which XEPs you should enable for a modern XMPP experience it doesn't tell you how to do that. In my experience the documentation especially for ejabberd is lacking and it's often not trivial to find out.
Also this begs the obvious question: Why aren't the options to have a modern XMPP server enabled by default?
Why was I downvoted? I was just asking a question about monetary policy, hoping the GP (who clearly knows more than I) would come back and answer it.
Yeah this is what I was expecting too
What user data is tracked for ads and which ones result in SQM details?

Are changes in tracking behavior detailed in patches?
E2E is our main focus at the moment - sorry for missing the question; we must have missed it. There's nothing on github as the E2E stuff is all hosted on https://matrix.org/git/olm. The FAQ is old - we have finished the 1:1 ratchet and group ratchet and almost all the key distribution stuff. Currently wiring it into all the SDKs and checking it works and then getting it audited. We should be ready to yell about it in N weeks where 2<N<5.
My father told me a computer that I built for one of his customers running windows 95 almost 20 years ago is still running and being used daily.

I don't think they would like windows 10. :p
If you trust the CA system (eg https, imaps) and your provider follows the spec and forces ssl, there isn't any particular mitm danger.

Like if you use mail internally in a domain, eg Gmail, outlook.com etc - there's no obvious mitm attack surface. Users logs into Gmail over https or imaps, emails user2@gmail either via https or smtps - and user2 logs in the same way (similar for self-hatred [lol, there were a few autocorrect errors, leaving this one in - appropriate for "self-hosted"] email).

As far as I know xmpp federation is "point2point", and the current standard demands ssl. So user1@jabber1.tld talking to user2@jabber2.tld will have the communication protected by the CA system and TLS from client1 via server1 to server2 down to client2.

It is a system of many devices, each of which might be compromised, but traditional mitm isn't the biggest danger in this case.
Could you be more specific? What literary magazines and abstract art did the CIA fund? What about the way basic income is developing gives you the impression that it's a CIA program? Without detail this seems like an unsupported conspiracy theory. What would be their incentive in this instance?
Want to see some rapid speciation? Kill off all the bees* and watch the other insects take over and start to specialize. It's not necessarily an apocalypse event, based on http://www.hortmag.com/plants/fruits-veggies/vegetable-crops... and Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crop_plants_pollinated... :

"The most essential staple food crops on the planet, like corn, wheat, rice, soybeans and sorghum, need no insect help at all; they are wind-pollinated or self-pollinating. Other staple food crops, like bananas and plantains, are sterile and propagated from cuttings, requiring no pollination of any form, ever. Further, foods such as root vegetables and salad crops will produce a useful food crop without pollination, though they may not set seed;"

*The unknown unknowns about gene drive weapons may or may not be able more powerful than the extreme efficacy of natural selection on r-strategists.
Why stop there? From scratch should involve extracting the materials from the Earth.
> After reading about the literary magazines and abstract art that the CIA funded ...

Any links?
Of course they started at least 10 years after Google.
Uh, okay. Why would an intelligence agency have an interest in UBI? The idea's been around for a long time, by the way. MLK was into it.
That's interesting. My employer is also based in Manhattan. I live in Minnesota. I live in a 4-br home that costs me $800/mo including taxes in downtown Minneapolis. I go and work in Manhattan once every 3-6 months for a week or so. I could never live there though; I would be throwing my money away. I like certain aspects of NYC, but not enough to take such a paycut. There have been a lot of studies that show that what kind of home or city has almost no bearing on your happiness. You might reconsider.

Also, seriously, if someone is on food stamps or their kids are in the free lunch program, they are not advantaged, they are not comforted: they are living on the edge. Trust me.

On the other hand, I live in subsidized housing. The mortgage interest deduction is the largest (in terms of $) subsidized housing program on earth.
I think the usage and purpose of the two kinds of data would be completely different.
Not to worry, the game's console supports command aliasing.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/254320/discussions/0/52839871...
^ Just scroll to the comments section, as the initial post applies to prerelease versions of the game.
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And it crashes Firefox on my phone.
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The article cites Snowden as saying that as a contractor he was not subject to the protections of the whistleblower law.

Perhaps I should write "protections" since we also know that whistleblowers are punished rather than protected.
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Not quite:

Consider a society with 2 members, Mr Rich (net worth $10M) and Mr. Poor (net worth $100). Mr. Rich is 100,000 X richer than Mr. Poor right now.

Institute a ridiculous UBI of $1M/year for everyone. At the end of the year, Mr. Poor has $1,000,100 and Mr Rich has $11M but Mr Rich is now only ~ 11 X richer than Mr Poor.

Now sure cheeseburgers at Micky-D's are now $700 but the fact has changed that before, Mr Rich could buy a hundred thousand burgers for every one Mr Poor could buy. Now he can only buy 11.

UBI works like gravity. Continually pulling the unequal towards a center. The rich will still stay rich, but unlike today where rich automatically makes richer, the force will be reversed. It will take "energy" to stay rich.
"a derivative copy of well known software idea"

As someone who has been around the web from the beginning, I will tell you this is horse shit.

Andreessen was building Mosaic at NCSA when very few people knew what a web browser even was. (There were only a few browsers in existence at that time, most of them were unusable, and the most popular one displayed only text. ftp was still massively more 'popular' than the Web, and in fact so was gopher ... gopher, FFS.) O'Reilly hosted what was basically the first WWW conference, in New Orleans, sometime in 1992. The attendance was about 40 people -- that is how big a Web conference was at that time. Marc was there. (So was I). People were mad at him because Mosaic was hacking the IMG tag into HTML without waiting for everyone else to discuss and agree on a standard.

So yeah, you are denigrating someone despite having no idea what you're talking about. But hey, I guess that is par for the course on an internet forum.

Also. Marc actually had hair in 1992!!
That would fix the economic incentives, but not the larger externalities. After all, many black boxes are never recovered[1], including the Eastern Airlines one at issue (well, it might have just been recovered, decades late) and, so far, MH370's. To an airline, this outcome is not the end of the world, or perhaps even preferable: abstractly, data from the flight recorder might help prevent future crashes, but that's far in the future, the crash rate is already very low, and in the near term, whenever info about the crash makes it into the news cycle, that's bad PR for the airline. But the government has a strong interest in getting that data: if it was terror, that information can help catch the masterminds and prevent future attacks; if it was an accident, well, government regulatory bodies are the embodiment of the public's collective interest in safety, which is considered more important than short-term profit. On top of that, typically, people who knew the victims have a very strong emotional interest in learning what happened, no matter whether any practical benefit can be derived from the knowledge.

If there was some realistic dollar amount that would guarantee recovery of existing black boxes, then sure, bill the airline for it and let them weigh the probabilities. But there isn't. The only way to prevent these types of situations from happening again is by upgrading the technology, and that has to be done in advance.

Of course, that doesn't mean we are supposed to disregard the cost of reducing externalities; nobody wants a bankrupt industry. Me, I'm not familiar with the economics of aviation, so I don't know whether the airlines should, or whether the government should require them to, make those upgrades in the near term. But at the very least, both of those statements will be true someday (due to turnover, technology improvements, etc.), and economic benefits won't have much to do with it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unrecovered_flight_r...
Frankly, you can't say with 100% certainty that an enormously large exposure to crispr protein wouldn't have any effect. After all, many techniques used in transformation have extremely low transformation rates and require a very high concentration/rare event to occur.

Further, there are a long list of unexpected outcomes in biology where somebody said "no, never will happen" and then it happens, at some very low rate, and it turns out to have huge consequences (antibiotic resistance and cancer cells resistant to chemo are two that come to mind.)

That said, I agree, based on the nature of this specific technology, the risk of direct exposure in a non-therapy situation would be unlikely to lead to unexpected/unplanned transformation.
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He wouldn't have if he did it right. Security was very lax if you've followed anything about the situation. Whereas, I've done exactly this in a higher security setting. I'm not speculating.

He can bug his computer. He can hide executables tgat copy it to disks. He can screenshot it to disks. He can photo/video the screen. Examples abound. And remember he's a trained, ex-CIA spy. Not some idiot that cant pull off fieldcraft 101.

He just failed to collect evidence one way or another for a key claim.
Large reserves of liquid petroleum were first proven viable in 1869. Even then, supplies were uncertain in the US until 1930, at which point the largest onshore find in the lower-48 states to that time and the present was discovered, the East Texas Oil Field.

Initially used for lamps (Standard Oil was founded as an illumination company), motive power wasn't practical (aside from as an alternative to coal or wood for steam engines* until Nikolaus Otto perfected the four-stroke engine in 1876. Daimler started his own company in 1880, but didn't perfect a transport-capable engine until 1885.

Within 25 years, Henry Ford was selling Tin Lizzies to anyone who could come up with $260 in cash. Numbers of automobiles and companies exploded.

And yet total patents filed not only plateaued by 1925, but fell afterward. Not all the hard problems had been solved, but many were, and there's been comparatively little qualitative improvement in automobiles in the subsequent 90 years, particularly as compared with the 50 preceding.

From first inception to mass consumer product was the blink of an eye considering all of historical innovation in transport previously. We saw 6,000 years of transport expertise obsoleted within a generation.