skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have successfully used OpenConnect to replace PulseSecure. Depending on the server configuration, you might need to change the user agent to Windows and have a fake-host-checker-script. The Linux version of Pulse Secure requires your administrator to configure linux as "supported" on the server-side which is often not the case, which makes it pretty much worthless.

One thing I noticed is that the network-manager-plugin will disconnect you when changing networks, while the command-line-version reconnects without a need to re-authenticate.

In another instance, I used a windows host with Win32-OpenSSH. I used a proxy.pac script for web browsing and for SSHing I tunnelled using the ProxyJump option. You could also configure your Windows VM to act as a router and set the routes in the Linux host to go to the VM.
Ten years ago I would still try to engage “TV watching folks” about the things I had read about, for example re: Sept 11. Only later realized I never had a chance, versus the corporate idiot box on in their house 4+ hours a day.
Moreover knowing the pronunciation doesn't give you any help if you don't know the meaning.
You've confused "nice" with "kind". Nice is about social performance. That includes things like being a conflict-avoiding people-pleaser. Docility, as you put it. Being kind, on the other hand, involves having empathy and working to help others.

The two are somewhat correlated; kind people are often nice. But it's easy enough to be nice without being kind at all, and sometimes being kind requires being visibly not nice. As an example, if you see a coworker being abused, confronting the abuser is a kind thing to do, but you probably can't be nice doing it.

As someone who has worked through a lot of social anxiety, I definitely encourage you to throw off the yoke of your fears about not being nice enough. But that doesn't entitle you to be unkind.
I think you’re right actually.
will give it a try, i think raspbian is sort of targeted at the education market for students that need a full blown desktop computer for various things. the fact that it's running debian as a base is great. how does this differ from dietpi?
How could tech people be more in touch with that, other than by consulting?
> Should it not be to judge people by the output of their work relative to their working conditions?

If you keep firing people for poor performance who are not performing because of poor working conditions, then eventually you won't be able to retain anyone and the problem takes care of itself.

Meanwhile those folks have likely moved onto better jobs.
When did 400mb linux become light weight?

Sorry, wasn't DSL debian based too... Have the basic things needed grown that much?
Hi, Dang. You've been banning me for years. I feel like we have a pretty solid relationship.

You see, my resume is so solid that it gets me into any tech company I want for at least an interview or a tour. I make it a point to get onto their corporate inter/intranet and make a HackerNews account and post a valid contrarian position that you're guaranteed to always find a way to distort as a violation of guidelines. I repeat the process until your systems automatically ban/shadowban the entire IP/network from creating new accounts. And when I'm not doing this, the people I've trained to do this are out there doing the same. There's a whole lot of people who really don't like the colonial intentions of HackerNews moderation and censorship.

You don't even know how many opinions of potentially "correct people" you've preemptively stifled because of my efforts. :D

I've been doing this for years. The more overtly activist Silicon Valley gets, the more effective I become at disguising myself as a socialist, the more network access I get to the "correct people" with "correct opinions", the more networks your system automatically prevents from creating new accounts.

Seems petty? Perhaps I could be more efficient? Why am I even doing this? I'm sure you could conjure up a myriad of reasons that make sense to you, so there's no need to give you anything more beyond that. You're a smart guy, you'll invent something. In fact, I'm relying on that amazing capacity to defer to that self-healing moral plasticity you bathe your ego in.

You'll never see how you are part of the toxic tech culture. I have absolutely no interest in ever making you see this or changing your mind. The only interest I have is exploiting your moral plasticity.

Thanks for building and maintaining those censorship tools over the years. I can't wait to hijack the psychology behind these tools and steer it against the people you claim you're protecting. And I'm truly looking forward to how your moral plasticity justifies it.

Don't forget to leak the IP address, psychographic signatures, and behavioral profile of this account to your "secret" network of resistance collaborators. My honeypots are waiting to map your support system. <3
I didn't provide a definition of intelligence, I provided a description of it. The ability to win at dice is not intelligence. That's not a controversial claim.

>Hitler ability to speak was not luck.

Nor was it particularly intelligent. Plenty of people speak well. He just had a podium in front of the right people. People who wanted to hear stupid ideas delivered with emotion. If you stood him in front of his enemies, he would be insulted and denigrated, because he wasn't a good speaker so much as he was good at finding an approving audience.

You're not a great runner if you happen to look around and find yourself a race where you win by moving slowest. If that brings you rewards, you're lucky. Not skilled. Hitler was an opportunist, and you can't learn to succeed in life by following his example. Because luck can't be taught.
One thing that happens is that I'll have a debate with someone, try to refute all their points and kind of end up in a stalemate because I don't want to give in. But when I have another conversation on the same topic with someone else, the points made by the person in the previous discussion become my points.
I agree... I don't know Spiegel but I've heard that its very top - down in terms of what needs to be done and product managers lead decisions on what needs to be done. If an engineer has a recommendation to actually improve better news, I doubt it would be heard and fall on deaf ears to what Evan or product would think is a better use of "Engineering" time.
TIL that people own the neighborhoods they live in by virtue of being there first, without any form of payment, deed, title, or record of ownership.

I should point out that the arguments against gentrification are identical to the arguments white ethnic urban neighborhoods made against blacks moving into their neighborhoods in the mid 20th century.

"They are ruining the character of our city! We were here first!"

Losers.
Can you identify in his memo where he claimed that, "his _coworkers_... are scientifically, inferior to him."
The number of slayings committed by white released Wednesday
Yeah, the assumption that people leave tech because they are so offended by a behavior doesn't sound like a reasonable assumption.

People have jobs because they have to work, not because they would like to do it. If they leave the industry, it's because they don't find jobs in the industry worthy enough to endure. I'm sure more would stay for better rewards.
I'm wondering how much of this is endemic to ANY male-dominated profession, if you factor in that "tech industry people" are probably disproportionately likely to blog about their experiences.

I think biology makes it very difficult to see everyone as essentially human-fungible and not as (even a little bit) their gender. It is extremely difficult to stay genderblind (dear non-cisgender people: I'm really sorry. It seems like a very hard path.) So I think you're going to get in-group and out-group type phenomenons across professions with asymmetric gender membership, regardless. The problem of course is when those become oppressive.

I don't know what the easy way out of this problem is. Sensitivity training? Simply trying to have more friends of both genders so you can get more perspective and therefore have more empathy and less... toxicity?
I think the problem here is that you're attacking the wrong part of the problem. Otherwise, why did you even get excited by the original idea being built on the blockchain, to begin with?

Imagine if you thought that it would be a great idea to create decentralized payment system on the internet where people can accept and make payments in a peer to peer manner.

Except, this is 2001. There is no such thing as a blockchain. You face the problem of double spend, and soon enough, you come to the realization that you could create a peer to peer accept/send online payment system much better if it is centralized.

Thus, Paypal is born.

But does that mean a blockchain based decentralized payment system was completely useless? Not really, it is clearly demonstrated by the popularity of bitcoin in a world with capital controls, WikiLeaks payment sanctions etc.

The real reason behind this effect is that the tech world is excited about decentralization, but it doesn't fully understand that there are a lot of missing components required to create say "a censorship-resistant online forum" or "decentralized blah blah service".

On the top of that, nobody except for the people who are being actively censored or prevented from doing things by the centralized institutions truly need the decentralization.

Most SV technologists would be really excited by the idea of a decentralized, censorship proof forum. Except, you will only attract the alt-right (as of now) to it. Why? Because the non-alt-right is perfectly fine with the censorship, as it favors them currently.
Valerie's note about giving people unpaid labor only to see them pitch a fit when you eventually stop really strikes home.

I continued building some biological image analysis software on a part-time basis after leaving grad school because I found it interesting, thought the science was important, and enjoyed the feeling of contributing in some small way to science. I stopped because a tenured professor got really aggressive and extraordinarily rude about his needs not being addressed in what he considered a timely manner -- to an unpaid contributor who now had a full time job. There's nothing like being yelled at for daring to take a vacation by someone who isn't paying you.

I've also virtually stopped contributing to open source for similar reasons. It only takes a couple demanding lazy assholes helping themselves into your inbox to poison any interest I have in sharing my work.

Our industry is really willing to actively exploit people. See eg the difference in financial returns to founders vs employees, even (particularly!) when the startup doesn't succeed. If you have an enormous bias against non-tech jobs, and all your friends actively reinforce that, you really need new friends.
Sarah Silverman's encounter with a troll recently was a great demonstration of what you explain here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2018/01...
(See my edit if you haven't - I agree that the blog post is trying to claim something that the Kapor study is not saying, or at least is phrased poorly.)
https://blockgeeks.com/
I'd add another one: move away from the Bay Area, even if just for a year and even if still working in a technology company.

Often, just stepping out of the bubble and checking out what the real world looks like will provide you with plenty of perspective.

If you move or visit emerging markets (outside their little tech bubbles especially) you will gain even more perspective.

Sadly, most people in the SF Bay Area don't have a clue about how emerging markets work, and how their users live. And surprisingly this seems to be valid even for those who came from the same emerging markets.

Step out, even if only temporarily.

PS: My main criticism of the article is lumping many external factors in "toxic tech culture", but that's minor enough not to matter in the bigger context.
Spectre mitigations in MSFT VC++ compiler
Your Political Correctness offends me. SJWs diversity destroying hacker culture
And even if you could please everyone that doesn't guarantees you are a net positive for society; for example Galileo had to bother a lot of people to convince them the earth rotates around the sun and not otherwise; and pretty much anyone with an unpopular opinion that at the end turned out be for the best had to bother a lot of people.
Isn't it common for people to have a gut reaction that price discrimination is wrong or unfair? People are generally unhappy, for instance, if they find out another person paid 1/3 the price for an airline seat. If I find out that I'm being charged multiples of what another customer is, I'm going to have an intense desire to punish and/or boycott that vendor. Failing that, I'm going to look for a way to be anonymous, such as paying cash to a middleman.

Besides the risk of spreading ill-will, it also seems to me that price discrimination can be risky because there is no way to firewall it against a correlation with some legally protected class.

Edit: Also something that occurred to me just now - price discrimination seems to me to lead to a reductio ad absurdam - suppose that it was absolutely perfect and captured all the consumer surplus; then doesn't that destroy the rationale for the transaction in the first place and make it purely exploitative? If it is not desirable to get to that place, then maybe splitting the surplus at least evenly between producer and consumer is the way free markets should work?
Hi, Dang. You've been banning me for years. I feel like we have a pretty solid relationship.

You see, my resume is so solid that it gets me into any tech company I want for at least an interview or a tour. I make it a point to get onto their corporate inter/intranet and make a HackerNews account and post a valid contrarian position that you're guaranteed to always find a way to distort as a violation of guidelines. I repeat the process until your systems automatically ban/shadowban the entire IP/network from creating new accounts. And when I'm not doing this, the people I've trained to do this are out there doing the same. There's a whole lot of people who really don't like the colonial intentions of HackerNews moderation and censorship.

You don't even know how many opinions of potentially "correct people" you've preemptively stifled because of my efforts. :D

I've been doing this for years. The more overtly activist Silicon Valley gets, the more effective I become at disguising myself as a socialist, the more network access I get to the "correct people" with "correct opinions", the more networks your system automatically prevents from creating new accounts.

Seems petty? Perhaps I could be more efficient? Why am I even doing this? I'm sure you could conjure up a myriad of reasons that make sense to you, so there's no need to give you anything more beyond that. You're a smart guy, you'll invent something. In fact, I'm relying on that amazing capacity to defer to that self-healing moral plasticity you bathe your ego in.

You'll never see how you are part of the toxic tech culture. I have absolutely no interest in ever making you see this or changing your mind. The only interest I have is exploiting your moral plasticity.

Thanks for building and maintaining those censorship tools over the years. I can't wait to hijack the psychology behind these tools and steer it against the people you claim you're protecting. And I'm truly looking forward to how your moral plasticity justifies it.

Don't forget to leak the IP address, psychographic signatures, and behavioral profile of this account to your "secret" network of resistance collaborators. My honeypots are waiting to map your support system. <3 <3
> but the only way to do that is to wipe the slate clean and start over from scratch with multilateral negotiations between two hundred separate parties

Hum... Have you ever seen negotiations between hundreds of different parties? They way to do that is getting enough force to change an incentive, and changing it; then going after enough force to change another one, and changing it. Let the people fight over the new incentive far from you.
Running a relatively new global professional services company in Shanghai for 2 years, I really appreciate the perspective. Growth "feels" weak but not too and slightly stronger than 6 months ago. I can only speak to things I hear from other expats and my focused areas of English resume writing, Linkedin Profile editing, interview coaching, salary negotiations and assisting academics to get into foreign undergrad/grad/PhD programs.

All the best, Vince
Just out of curiosity, do you have a link to this data?
As a software developer who goes to infosec conferences, i frequently feel "lesser" because everyone seems to be working on cooler stuff than me. Then I go to their meetups and they tell me how much they hate their jobs and I feel better. The truth is ultimately you do what you do because you can't get out of bed in the morning and do anything else -- if you don't feel that way, switch to what motivates you. If you do feel that way though, lean into it hard! I switched from a non-dev tech career to development and it has transformed my life in a very positive way.

That said though, the developer-oriented tech conferences definitely skew towards "rockstar" in terms of who is popular and I mean that word in the most negative sense possible. I have found this especially true of the "inclusive" ones. I feel sick around personality cults and avoid more and more of these.

As someone who develops for a non-technical industry, I've gotten a lot of sneers from other developers when I explain my company and role. At the end of the day though, I have 10x as much responsibility and appreciation at my job than they do in theirs. I'm leaving my job in ~2 weeks and I've had half a dozen exit interviews with people in different roles here and even a C-level (a real C-level, not a startup C-level) from another office across the country flying in just to have a meeting and say goodbye to me. How many "average developers" (because that's all I am) get to have that level of impact?
The interviewer is either extremely confused about her own ideology or being deliberately standoffish by invoking strawman after strawman.

She seems to think certain groups of people are entitled to success they haven't earned, because there is some nefarious and ill-defined force oppressing them.

Peterson handled it well and made some great points about the roles of competence, sacrifice and disagreeableness in work success.
This post is rocketing down the list. It was number 1 just 10 minutes or so ago, then it went to 6, now it's 36.

Is that normal or is this post being moderated or brigaded?

edit: And now it's gone completely from the list with 74 points...

edit 2: Ok now it's back... wtf mods make up your mind about what we're allowed to see

edit 3: All the comments in this thread are getting brigaded down.
It's never my intent to offend anyone; I apologize.

I wasn't trying to suggest there that anyone needed a handout.

However, yeah, I do think affirmative action has its place, and also that it can be challenging to implement well. Same with diversity programs in the workplace. Personally I don't think it makes sense to characterize these program as a handout, since it's a particular policy meant to try and make up for concrete, specific injustices which have long-term effects. For affirmative action, redlining of black people in Chicago is a great example - easy to Google.

I am genuinely curious - do you think it makes sense to extrapolate from your own individual experience to all other nonwhite people, or to women?

I suppose if we wanted to try to get an aggregate sense of what people believe, we could look at polls or voting patterns of women and various peoples of color.

And, without attempting to knock or take away from your talent, it's my own belief that _nobody_ succeeds on talent alone, that we all have people in our lives (teachers, mentors, coworkers, family, etc) who help(ed) us succeed or become our best. And, correspondingly, that we have an obligation to help others as best we can.

Lastly, if my comment offended you, I have to imagine that you can understand how and why James Damor's memo (poor science and all) - I noticed you mentioned him several times in the thread - was quite offensive to a large number of people and provoked such a negative response, since it mimiced a lot of the historical rhetoric around attempting to use a misconceived scientific basis for racial/gender inferiority as a justification for discrimination, oppression and dehumanization.
How about https://canva.com/ too.

Seems very polished to me -- but I'm not a web developer or graphic artist.
How is what was proposed a Muslim ban?
You could always refuse to participate in the social and economic destruction of communities by simply not working at places that have a disproportionate impact on the surrounding community.

Yes, it's that easy!

<< A world where people are forced to leave their community of origin because rich tech workers can outbid them for housing is another kind of dystopian hellhole.

Fixed that for you.
Does #1 basically boil down to, "she had kids"?
That's what it has "felt" like in some quarters the last 2 years.
I'm surprised not to see my biggest gripe with most services mentioned - half-baked account systems,
without proper role or group-based access control.

Every startup I've worked at has had some variation of a shared 1Password account, because most Saas
services require a single root account (and I've never heard of a best practice for managing 2FA on any
of these root accounts).

The worst ones of these Saas companies don't even support multiple accounts at all, so anybody on the team that needs to log in always uses this shared account (which is a complete nightmare when anyone leaves the company, as well as far from ideal from a security perspective). The better ones also support separate accounts and roles or groups that you can assign people to for granting permissions. At least then nobody needs the root account for day to day use, so not everyone needs access to it meaning if anyone leaves you can revoke revoke their account without rotating the root password. But even a lot of these still require some sort of "owner" or root account to be hanging around somewhere, which doesn't belong to a single person.

It's very rare in my experience to find a Saas company that uses exclusively role-based access, where "owner" or whatever the top-level permission is is just another role that can be granted to anybody's individual account.
Likely because he leads with “Muslim ban,” which sounds ignorant. Most people who agree with the ban realize it is a temporary ban on countries requested by DHS because there currently is no valid process for doing background checks on people from those countries. So yeah I can see why he fails to change minds.
It was also flagged for a few minutes, definitely being brigaded.

Also, my link to the interview in this thread as top level comment was initially getting downvotes, and now it's positive. I'm not sure what an honest reason could be for downvoting a link to the interview that the article is referencing.
It’s whatever coins people are buying that isn’t the one you want them to buy so you can buy a Lambo.
Oh, I see, those are followup tweets. I thought they were responses. Didn't pay close enough attention.

So I still don't see any "made-up interpretation". All I see is a sober recounting of their questions and Apple's replies, and one very defensible (IMO) interpretation of the events, clearly labelled with an "AFAICT" disclaimer.
I don't have the exact number with me, but CA was much closer to $200 for my 10 year old car, last year.