skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but I don't think that makes the US a dystopia. I think it makes the US a society in a regressive slide towards dystopianism. Admittedly, this is a nitpick of your point, but it's an important distinction because a dystopia is supposed to be the absolute worst anything can be. The US is just nowhere near that.

I also think that when we analyze the direction of a society, we should be looking on a larger timescale than between 1980s and 2010s. If you zoom out a little, to, say, the 1910s to 2010s, it's hard to make the argument that people are worse off on average. There's a lot of doom-and-gloom forecasting that suggests that not only is our society regressing, it is regressing so quickly and to such a low point that this cannot be countered. I don't think that's true. I think there is still time for positive change and that our society still provides us avenues for achieving it. It isn't easy, and it isn't getting any easier, but it is possible. While that possibility exists, a state cannot be a true dystopia.

I'm also curious as to how old you think I am. I have a feeling I'm much younger than you may imagine. I also think I should point out that while I haven't read Push, it looks like it has a relatively uplifting ending that is a counterexample to what you're claiming.
I've heard that it's reporters are actually quite young and inexperienced, but the editorial anonymity masks that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist#Editorial_anonym...:

Is there any truth to that?
I went to the OpenStack summit in austin last year and really loved the city. I live in the south west of the UK, which although can be nice for 4+ months of the year, is mostly dark, wet, cold from September to March.
Sometimes I think that we are seeing so many conflicting dreams of utopian societies, and so many conflicting dystopian descriptions of our existing societies that it makes us think our world is much worse than it really is, without any path on how to actually improve it, and that's why everybody's gloomy without a reason to be.
Mobile messaging, using an end-to-end encrypted system like WhatsApp or Signal, is the most secure way to communicate. Even the service provider cannot access the plaintext content of delivered messages. They exist in plaintext only at the end points (individual phones).

But if you store the content of those messages with a cloud provider--regardless of which company--you have killed a lot of security value. The plaintext will sit there, just waiting for someone to go get it, and you'll never know if they do.

Email does not work that way. Even if it is encrypted in transit, it is always stored in plaintext in servers at either end. So, taking that into account, which email service provider has the best security team to defend that plaintext. This guide argues it is Google.
Is it a bad practice to keep X.509 certificates on external memory?
I don't know what you're referring to with that distinction. AFAICT they weren't testing for POSIX compliance but rather where the POSIX layer was being used in practice, which statistically was by system-level frameworks rather than the applications themselves on the OSes they tested.

The notable change between now and 25 years ago is that the POSIX layer tends to be used at the lower levels of system frameworks, while the programs that run on those OSes tend to be written on top of higher level frameworks and do not directly use the POSIX APIs.

This is fine and makes sense given how much has changed in the last 25 years, but given that the POSIX layer is no longer being used (statistically speaking) for what it was originally designed for, it raises questions about to what degree that design is still valid, and whether or not it should be revisited to better suit what it's actually being used for.

I don't think anyone has any answers, but it's always good to question assumptions and never let anything in tech become a sacred cow. Maybe POSIX is fine for its current role, but that doesn't mean people shouldn't think about it.

Disclaimer: I skimmed the article pretty aggressively, so I may have misunderstood something.
I haven't spent a lot of time there but, if I had no ties to anyplace else, I'd very seriously consider that area. I'd miss the ocean but it pretty much ticks all the other checkboxes.
Great to hear the guide will continue to evolve!
Looking to relocate to South Korea or Singapore.I have worked in Singapore and absolutely loved that place.
If anyone is looking for a devops engineer for nix or windows please hit me up.
Lessons learned from How to Win Friends and Influence People
How so? As recently as 2015, sendmail, Microsoft Exchange Server, Postfix, and Exim together represented over 90% of SMTP service.

Or is this one of those pre-emptive "called it first!" kind of comments?
Filipinos are often amazing workers. They seem to be generally happy (which I generally believe they are). Are fairly diligent. They speak English and communicate well.
And work hard.

The biggest issue I have seen is that they can be naive. I have had to talk a few of my Filipino friends out of some scams.
We Are Asking the Wrong Question About Healthcare
Also, why using fingerprint to unlock devices is not recommended?
I wholeheartedly agree. Any idea how to contribute to making things better?
But wait a minute - shouldn't most of one's future-proofing be making sure you CAN easily alter a design later if need be (including better documentation), especially in the ways you can already see change coming?
If you are US-based and remote, I would recommend taking a serious look at the US Virgin Islands. I would explain further but I'm currently sitting on the beach :)
> I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but I don't think that makes the US a dystopia. I think it makes the US a society in a regressive slide towards dystopianism. Admittedly, this is a nitpick of your point, but it's an important distinction because a dystopia is supposed to be the absolute worst anything can be. The US is just nowhere near that.

I mean, fair enough, but if we zoom out, well, global warming is a thing. We're going to be too late to do much about it, and we may not be able to save ourselves or anyone else among humanity. Most non-human life is now going extinct. Multicellular life as a whole may go extinct if the clathrate gun turns out to be a real thing.

We have declining living standards and the expectation of mass death. Oh, and a rather evil government.
Wish I had known about this hack before today, even if it is just experimental at this point.
> Your job shaming just reinforces the notion that everyone must get a higher education degree or GTFO.

i think they were simply remarking that someone had an advanced degree and it wasn't being put to use.

this point is really about the system/world/situation and not so much about individuals.

> there's nothing inherently wrong with a job that requires you to drive around all day

seems like a red herring.
Is it a reliable signal?
UK tech industry pay is paltry, but think twice before heading to Silicon Valley
I consider this as an object of argument as well, however, axioms seem to be the underlying structure of repetition for all proofs [as far as I understand mathematics].
Thanks for this! Ive been doing wacky stuff like kexec which was completely unecessary when I could've just done a pivot_root...
I doubt it's a conscious thing. Some kind of explaining reflex.
$50 seems extremely low if you're in the US. Even $100 is low imo for any native development.
"Something like cancer, with ct scans, chemo, radiation, surgery with a 1 week hospital stay, etc...can bankrupt you."

Again, I will have to disagree. Do you have any actual experience with this or are you going to just give me more talking points....

My wife's sister went through stage 2 breast cancer over the past 2 years and she had her own insurance plan as well. After 4 major surgeries and 1 year of chemo, her total expenses are $10K.

You can negotiate with hospitals and they almost always have payment plans with 0 interest for a few years. She negotiate it down to $5K, which is pretty reasonable, considering the amount of time she spent in the hospital.

My Aunt lives in Canada and she had thyroid cancer a couple of years ago. Because it wasn't considered 'life threatening', she had to go before a health board to determine when she should actually receive surgery.

They determined that she could have surgery in 2 years. This was unacceptable, so she went over the border to the US and got it done in a month.

I would much rather have the option of actually getting the surgery done in a timely fashion than having to go before a board (IE: the 'death panels' that everyone talks about) to determine my fate.

The US healthcare system does need work, but many people use hyperbole and have never experienced it first-hand.
I use zerotier instead of openvpn, I really like the p2p aspect of it.
It's more than that. People who take personal responsibility for failures in their life empower themselves to fix it, find a way around it, do better next time, etc.

People who consider themselves as victims believe there's nothing they can do to improve their lot, and so do not.
Android is so bad that iPhone is probably better, despite all those issues.

The real glaring issue here is that we don't really have good, safe services or devices available to us, especially if you want to stay plugged in (have access to the internet, social media, and necessary tools). Pretty much everything is owned by a corporation or compromised or both.

I'm not really convinced that much is gained by using one browser or phone over another at the end of the day. If someone really wants your information, and you're connected to the world, they'll figure out how to get it.
Bret Victor's essays, demos, and talks focus on this topic:

http://worrydream.com/
Announcing the wrapr packge for R
> Use Chrome as your browser

This one breaks my heart a little.

I mean, I get it, I understand why it's there. But it still breaks my heart.
I once wasted a helluvalot of money obeying just such an order, and not doing the extra coding I knew would prevent inadvertent huge purchase X. Turned out the boss just didn't know how to do complex logic or how to listen, or think ahead. The break, when it inevitably came, was catastrophic, but had the good effect of removing said boss (I was long gone.)
What real choices do you have in the US besides California and Washington?
It's been a while since I've read it, but I believe it's partially a reference to a lute song called "Flow my tears" [1], but it's also a reference to a moment near the end of the book when one of the policemen has an embrace with a man he just met at a gas station following the death of the policeman's sister.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow,_my_tears
Time to call in the Guardian for an expose on Bluetooth keyboard security.
What Google was doing to you is immoral, and should be illegal.

Yes, 'it stinks' to have low wages because one might not have much of an education - but there's absolutely no reason on earth not to have 'basic worker protections'.

I generally don't like Unions, especially those that are entrenched - but we wouldn't need them if people were not so greedy.

Google does this a lot, and I find it despicable that they take the 'moral high ground' on so many issues, but then treat people as commodities.

Google is massively rich, there's no reason they can't offer 'decent pay' with 'regular paid holidays' and 'sick days' and to ensure that their contractors are doing the same.

High tech has this weird duplicity: they want to 'save the world' and 'end disease' - when they fail to realize that the world would be a pretty good place to begin with if all of the actors - people and companies - just behaved conscientiously - and that they have a role to play in this.

Steve Jobs for example - with one single sentence, in one single email, could have ensured basic worker protections for every worker in his entire supply chain.

And I'm not talking about 'gold plated retirement packages' and 'can't get fired no matter what' - I just mean '2 weeks vacay, basic healthcare, 40 hours a week max' and 'actual bathroom breaks'.

We talk about intellectual things like UBI, heyzeus, we could make big inroads with just some basic things.
Our society is something between Huxleyan and Kafkaesque. Ironic since most civil libertarians are mentally stuck on fearing Orwellian models.
US law enforcement is allowed to take fingerprints, which can then be used to unlock the device. Somewhere less friendly may just compel you to put your finger on the device
Thoughts on Redux vs. Baobab
I see you have actual experience with the system. Most people commenting here seem to be parroting talking points from politicians.

When I actually post my real experiences, I get down voted to -2.

....and we wonder why there are so many broken systems in the US.
Really? I find many math topics to be covered extremely poorly, and presume a lot of prior knowledge without linking to that knowledge.

Plenty of philosophy articles are also very poor. For example the page on Deconstruction, though its better than it was ~4 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction
Step 1: Wear a wig and dark sunglasses and buy a laptop (with cash while you still can) from a Walmart as far away from where you live as possible and never, never connect it to a network.

Step 2: The rest is easy.

Edit: You guys need to get a sense of humor
Prisoner's Dilemma. A very real thing in management stuctures - one historical example, middle managers under pressure from the top who cheated on X-Rays testing the work on a silo for a nuclear plant. The big boys didn't know. Killed the plant, and I think, the company.
I'm a little confused by the distinction. For example, if I use a framework that abstracts away pthreads from me, but still uses pthreads in its implementation of threading, is the application I write still POSIX-compliant?
Seem like a fancy name for parallel computing chip that specialize in efficient parallel computing
> Even if every sentence is meticulously sourced, you can't tell if someone is "lying by omission."

This is a problem for literally every source on Earth, and persists even among the most prestigious newspapers, books, etc.
People will call you at 2AM if you're a plumber. Or a doctor. Or a dentist. Or a locksmith.

And sometimes you'll get stuck waiting tables on XMas because the restaurant you work for requires it.

Yes, it varies by job. But 2AM calls are hardly unique to programming.

FWIW I really do want a doctor that's passionate about medicine, for the same reason that I want my lead developer to be passionate: If it's "just a job" they may not be following current best practices, which do change rather rapidly.

To be honest, I think the "GP" doctor's days are numbered. A registered nurse with a really good AI medical reference would likely to a better job than the 80th percentile of doctors, maybe even match the 99th percentile. There's too much information that isn't in any doctor's head, and a GP is basically a human expert system. A really good AI expert system would do a better job, and a solid nurse following the directions could handle the human part of the interaction.
How would you define reality?
«In representations to your customers or in public communications, you agree not to mischaracterize PayPal as a payment method. At all of your points of sale (in whatever form), you agree not to try to dissuade or inhibit your customers from using PayPal; and, if you enable your customers to pay you with PayPal, you agree to treat PayPal’s payment mark at least at par with other payment methods offered.»

If you have to add that to your User Agreement, what does that say about your service?
Except support is nonexistent, so if anything happens to your gmail access you're screwed there's nobody to contact. I would think any non profit who relies on emails for fundraising/networking would want a paid service like FastMail or other paid service with 2FA
Ubik. Not responsible for any subsequent mental breakdowns you may experience. It's a tough read but if you liked inception then you'll appreciate it.
>Texas is the best alternative to California in my opinion. It's warm(er), you get more space and privacy for less, people are actually nicer

From what I've read about the laws that get passed there etc, there are a lot of classes of people Texans aren't "nice" to.
I hate big cities. I hate traffic. I get extremely uncomfortable in large crowds. I also hate snow.

For health reasons (I'm an asthmatic), I've found being right on the coast is best (clean, moist, salty air).

My ideal place would be sparsely populated, warm, and on the coast. A small beach town on the Florida coast would do it (where I can get away with wearing a halfway-unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt every day). I'd consider one of the lesser-populated Hawaiian islands if it wasn't so dang expensive :)

I live in the "Space Coast" region in Florida (just south of Cape Canaveral), which isn't bad, but its starting to get a little crowded for my taste. Not to mention all the freaking snowbirds from New Jersey/New York who come down here during the winter and drive around like they're lost.

Ok, someone just give me a remote job so I can live wherever I want and I'll be happy.
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This is a rare opportunity to cite the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect: "You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray [Gell-Mann]'s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the 'wet streets cause rain' stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gel...
The above like appears to be based on using tenure of current employees to measure "retention". So that is going to heavily skew low for companies that are growing, which makes it unsurprising that Kodak has the best retention and growing tech companies are generally low.

So I wouldn't put much stock in that as a meaningful comparison.
Not that I diagree with your premise, but in this particular example the WHATWG HTML Living Standard now allows containing divs around dt/dd pairings[1] and browers support this fine.

[1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#the-dl...
The Huxleyan one is apathetic. The Lem version is illusory.
Wire is not Signal, right?
Does this work better? https://archive.org/details/a2gs_Thexder_1987_Sierra The Archive also has DOS and Tandy versions, maybe others.
Is this a joke or for real?
>Really? I find many math topics to be covered extremely poorly, and presume a lot of prior knowledge without linking to that knowledge.

At what level, an ELI5 level or the level of people who are actually going to look that stuff up?
Exactly. Instead I would totally code up my own self hosted key/value store in a couple of hours than trusting this website.
Something tells me you overbought into the marketing speak
They are only barbaric if you know of a better alternative.

Barbarism is bad behaviour when the better alternative is already known.

We need to be careful when we judge the past to judge it on the facts known at the time.

So, I agree that they will look barbaric once a pill free of side effects can cure cancer but it will only look barbaric, not have been barbaric.
Another great collection of old browser-ready software from archive.org: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary
I find it encouraging we have some AI to throw at this. I've hypothesized for a while that people make blaming statements using biased arguments because it is cheap, effective, and presents the gain of an upper hand without too much risk.
> It absolutely is

while i agree with your sentiment about not at all utilizing the potential of an advanced education, i'm not sure how google is "at fault" here...

assuming this resume requirement is real: is it google's fault there is a sufficient supply of master's holders willing to drive for minimum wage, such that they're content having the requirement?
No, ES6 modules aren't just syntactic sugar over CommonJS modules, they are a different type of module entirely. One big difference is that ES6 modules have a static structure so that you can determine imports and exports from the source code alone, unlike AMD or CommonJS modules which determine their imports and exports dynamically at runtime. Import and export statements can only occur at the top-level of a module and don't accept expressions of any kind, so they can't be conditional or accept parameters.

This means if your application is only using ES6 modules then newer bundlers such as Webpack 2 and Rollup can perform "tree-shaking" - statically analysing your codebase to determine what code paths are used, and then pruning dead code from the final bundle.

So if your code imports something like Lodash with hundreds of functions but you only call one of them, then only that one function will be in your final bundle.
Wouldn't this provide a great targt for spies and security services? I mean, maybe I'm being stupid here, but if I was in charge of the NSA and knew that people with sensitive information were buying this gear from a certain vendor, said vendor would be right at the top of the target list.

I don't think I'd be able to trust any individual or company selling 'secure devices' for journalists and activists.
Ironically, I've mostly abandoned big-name news sites to listen more to people like tptacek. What I see in the papers is mostly people pushing a story, usually with seemingly little technical expertise, and without the important context, or worse still selective context to support their arguments. The comments on e.g. HN probably have about the same 'median' quality (OK, lower) but if the topic is relevant to the site's interests, the highest quality post will greatly exceed anything you will find in a paper. If it's a contentious point, someone will oppose it. I remember a thread on the Fukushima disaster (sadly I can't find it) containing a detailed discussion of the situation between a few people who had designed / worked on nuclear plants, and its depth and balance made the journalists look like a bunch of children shouting for attention. If there was an issue concerning security, I know I'd want to know what tptacek had to say about it; conversely, I happen to know a couple of WSJ journalists and frankly I'd take anything they say with a bucket of salt, apart perhaps from wine recommendations.

StratFor (for example) seems maybe worth it but I feel like the generalist reach and short form style of big news stops it from ever truly educating. I guess what I'm trying to say here is OK, the experience might be more pleasant, but what makes you think WaPo / Guardian / NYT content is even comparably as good as a blogger dedicated to the topic? (honest question to anyone)
The MP mentioned in this article has been subjected to a lot of vicious anti-Semitic trolling.

Here's another person who was targeting her for harassment.

https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/judgments/sentencing-remarks-of...
The Man Who Broke Ticketmaster
The Dunning–Kruger effect?
I remember a Stephen Baxter novel had a coating like this in - it generated power and did computation too..it may have also been a screen
Anyway, that would be the ultimate coating: paint-on solar power source, parallel processor and screen
They are the primary supply for domestic workers in Canada, specifically for things like nannies.
Legitimately gone down this path and hack on it to procrastinate. It's now redis-backed, supports dependent todos, and has a decent command-line interface.

No idea how I am still employed.