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Linux “Code of Conflict” Altered to “Code of Conduct”
> I've never understood this attitude

Then consider a lesson in putting yourself in the shoes of others. When I make the decision to not cook, I am not you. Capture that, and it will make sense. Unfortunately, more often than not, I found people are just looking for someone to consider below them, rather than understanding that some people just make different choices.

I think cooking takes as much time as it does modulo your skill level. Obviously someone who cooks a lot will have lots of tricks up their sleeve. Their confidence level will be high. They won't make dumb mistakes. It doesn't take them forever to chop an onion. My cooking skill level has never been high. For example: I'm really bad at coordination. If I am doing two things at once (boiling + frying), I tend to mess up timing. Something ends up overdone underdone.

Another: logistics. When did I buy that broccoli? What if I can't find good broccoli? What if it spoils? Now my plan is in ruins. This is probably the hardest part of cooking for me, is deciding on ingredients, buying them at the right time, and not letting them spoil.

Whenever I do make food, say, for potlucks, it's a sufficiently advanced process that I don't really want to repeat it every single day.

Also, I'm used to tasty food. I'm not used to bland food. Boiled pasta with store sauce is just not going to cut it, I tried. I'd need to, at minimum, add cheese to it. And boiling pasta is hardly cooking anyway.
No, this was for a locked iPhone. They were after encrypted data-at-rest. Warantless surveillamce would not apply, as they had a warrant - I believe - seeing as they went after the iCloud data and said it was not helpful (No backup stored there).

Additionally, an OIG report seems to suggest they did not attempt their usual avenue for acquiring access tools in order to get in, instead trying to force a legal precedent.
This assumes getting better is necessarily the goal, which it may not be. For example, I like to play soccer. I'm not terribly good at soccer, nor do I spend much time outside of playing to improve (i.e. doing soccer specific workouts, drills, etc.). I have the self awareness to realize that my ceiling is limited and my enjoyment would not be greatly impacted by "fighting my way through." I just want to play. In a twisted way, I feel I achieved a sort of mastery just by doing the thing for the thing's sake.

This isn't to say that it's not good advice, but when I spent my life relentlessly trying to optimize (a trap I still fall into frequently, I'm reading these comments after all), I just got frustrated and felt like a failure. I decided it was OK to watch a TV show I enjoyed, to read books that had nothing edifying except a story I enjoyed or to simply waste time.

I think regular self assessment and awareness are possibly more important that optimization or improving.
I just honestly do not believe that those are the motivations of folks trying to decolonize programming vocabulary.
i'm a huge fan of the work cbc does; IMHO they strongly exemplify a more true journalistic enterprise. kudos on the excellent reporting as usual.
Also first I've heard that the New Yorker was directly involved in the decision:

Torvalds’s decision to step aside came after The New Yorker asked him a series of questions about his conduct for a story on complaints about his abusive behavior discouraging women from working as Linux-kernel programmers.

On the topic of women engineers and also as a manager of top-notch woman engineers: wholly agree. For the Moneyball readers, I sometimes joke that women engineers are the Greek Gods of Walks when it comes to software development. Which is really just another way of saying that characteristics traditionally associated with women correlate in my experience with skills that are often underestimated in software development and evaluating them with brogrammer-world biases is a competitive disadvantage.
> no, your optimization techniques for at-home body weight are not welcome here

Body weight exercise is not all you should be doing, but it's certainly helpful. Don't be close minded. Running is possibly the best exercise you can do, and you don't need to go anywhere.

Meditation can absolutely be fit into short segments throughout your day (and if you're overwhelmed, yes, it's probably a good idea).

You're right about most of the rest. You can obsess about what you're missing, or appreciate what you have. Either way, you'll be absolutely right.
This feels a bit to me like saying: "electric cars still have to charge their batteries somewhere, and they aren't necessarily being charged with renewable energy."

Electric cars provide the capability to power a car with renewable energy. Powering the grid with electric energy is a separate problem.

IPFS provides the capability of distribution. Incentivizing pinning is indeed a separate problem, but providing this capability feels like a huge step forward to me.
You're right about being active, but it's hard to have such a strong sense of identity and worldview-- to just say: I'm going to structure my life around training for a triathalon.

I feel like there are so many parts of life I want to explore to see if I'd like them. I and a lot of people my age haven't found our 'triathalon' and I'm worried about not having enough time to find it.

Also, the post was more about there being so many recommendations and 'upkeep tasks' for being healthy and functional. I don't see how assessing whether things are worth doing is 'fundamentally passive'.
These pointless canon lists are basically English majors' snobbier version of the clickbait listicle, except they are also designed to show off the exalted and eclectic tastes of the writer.

None of these forgettable books will rate even a footnote in ten years' time, let alone 82.
Sure. My ancestors were enslaved by the British. The difference is that I do not face discrimination today as a result of that. For black people in the US today, that's not the case -- the effects of slavery are still systemic issues.
I wonder if there's a need to read the entire article, because anyone who thinks a little bit about continuous costs and one off costs will arrive at the same conclusion as mentioned in the first paragraph:

> a move that gives them more flexibility to dial back that compensation if the economy turns sour.

To add further, though salary cuts can be done by companies (this may vary across geographies), it's usually a little more cumbersome and also sends a different message to employees. It's a lot easier to put in vacation caps (thus chopping off the ability to use the provided compensation completely) or not pay a bonus. While bad for morale, at least some employees may not consider these moves as a loss from the status quo. That's why different kinds of variable pay schemes is very attractive for employers so that they have several knobs to control.

As far as I'm concerned, employees should consider their base salary, benefits and some expected bonus as their fixed compensation so that they can better understand if the company is just skimming money and not rewarding their work because top executives want the bonuses for themselves (even when the situation looks like it wouldn't hurt to give some additional compensation). This behavior is quite common in many companies, and is probably one of the reasons why the CEO to average employee compensation has become increasingly skewed over time and is getting worse.

On the other hand, given a choice, most employees would choose a salary increase (continuous increase) over an unpredictable and one off bonus or any other benefit that can be easily cut.
It's because the allowance of women to exist in technical communities is already marginal due to years and years of entrenched misogyny. Women are well aware of this which is why they often tread more carefully and avoid conflict more often than men do. One way this shakes out is that women simply remove themselves from situations like this, where they are likely to face abuse and an uphill battle for recognition. If you're already starting as a marginal member of the community or an outsider then you're going to rationally decide to avoid that conflict. You're going to find other ways to spend your time, other projects to contribute to (maybe). This isn't just hypothetical, the article itself had several examples of women who had been contributing to the linux kernel who were discouraged from doing so by the toxic environment.

To break things down even simpler, whenever there is a pre-existing power imbalance it's typical for destructive actions that are, in theory, unbiased to nevertheless result in an amplification of the pre-existing power imbalance.
Exactly what I was trying to get at! Thank you.
Equifax fined £500k by UK's Information Commissioner over data breach
RCKT doesnt require root access, only a basic SELECT, INSERT and DELETE user. We highly recommend that people create MySQL credentials specifically for RCKT, and we always prioritize security in our platform architecture
Are you a many worlds person, Or is this your interpretation of what they believe? There is no need for an irreversible decoherence. Any real situation where there is a question of copenhagen versus many worlds is a pretty decoherent problem to begin with, since you are dealing with macroscopic beings.

Edit: Add the state change in the measurement

(|z+> + |z->)|obs> => |z+,obs+> + |z-,obs->

First there is an electron in one of two states, and the observer is uncorrelated. After the measurement, the observer becomes correlated with the electron.
Lawn cutting services are cheap and straightforward. Can't think of many things easier to automate.
Every person is free to experience their own unpleasant emotions. It's not OK to verbally abuse other people just because you can't control those emotions. It's especially offensive with email since it takes time to type and one could make a habit of not hitting send immediately - write a draft and give yourself time to cool off, then edit out the nastiness before sending. If that seems a waste of time, one might learn to just not write the stuff that needs to be removed in the first place just for efficiency sake.
Do you really think women don't want to put "developer for the Linux kernel" on their resume?

That because of their gender they are instead are just drawn to new and shiny languages/frameworks?

Edited for GC clarity
> What are 100, 110, or 140 supposed to represent?

A compromise between two or more people with the power to influence such things.
You misunderstand my point.

Obviously, there are perfectly accurate and FDA approved tests for BRCA1 and BRCA2. The point is 23andMe don't do these tests. Therefore, how can you argue that their testing for lowly penetrant poorly characterised ultra-rare risk loci (which means most of the positive tests will be errors, as in this case) is somehow a great benefit to humanity, if they don't offer by far the most common, clinically significant and life saving genetic test there is?

As I said, the answer is of course that 23andMe are acting in their own interests. Anyone paying for the privilege to give away their genetic information to a private company should realise this.

> why would their Illumina chips look for those variants in the first place given that they are rare and they can't use them?

And testing for ultra rare lowly penetrant AD loci is more useful?

Your entirely tangential example from DeCODE makes no sense. DeCODE was not a user pays self-referred program. It was a research project.

If you read my original comment, I did not state in past tense that 23andMe made billions (I presume you are merely careless in reproducing what I said, rather than disingenuous). My comment specifically was 'Meanwhile 23andMe makes billions selling the data to pharma?', indicating that there is potential for them to make billions or that they are in the process, not yet complete, of making billions. Their valuation by VC funding is entirely supportive of that potential and process. The CEO has come out many times stating their business plan is to sell population genetic data to pharma.
I mean, yeah, if you truly feel hurt when I use that word, I won't use it around you. Absolutely. It's more important to me that the people around me feel heard and seen than for me to get to use a particular word.

If a whole group of people say "hey this word makes me feel uncomfortable of hurt," then I try to modify my vocabulary accordingly and eliminate it.
I've always wondered: why poison? It doesn't always seem to kill the victim and makes it easy to identify the perps as state actors.
heh. literally the comment under you own comment is someone defending him as being better than a few years ago.
Safari updates significantly more often than twice a year.
Presumably a raise brings a long term cost as it’s much harder to lower someone’s wage than to not give them a bonus.

Similarly I suspect people take a bonus of X amount more happily than a raise that would work out to the same amount (like credit purchases talking about monthly costs making a purchase seem cheaper, even when you end up paying more). Of course it’s possible a lump sum all at once has more intrinsic “value” to the recipient (eg getting a bonus right now vs more money spread over the next year)
Huh. My impression was always that "universal prediction" got replaced by various branches of statistics, ML theory, and probability theory, each considering more specific questions that used to fall under a single umbrella?

Perhaps a best comparison is "cybernetics", which doesn't get funding these days except, of course, for the billions upon billions of dollars thrown at robotics, self-driving, factory automation, and so on.
That last sentence seems eminently reasonable all around.
>I've always wondered: why poison?

Exactly for these reasons:

>It doesn't always seem to kill the victim and makes it easy to identify the perps as state actors.

Quick and effortless death by a bullet don't terrify peons as much as death after weeks of excruciating agony.

In this case, it is also to send intimidation message to the country hosting them: hey look, we just wetted a man guarded by a squadron of crack bodyguards on your soil, now, think what we can do to you
From what I've seen most parents effectively cease to exist once they get kids (i.e., drop hobbies) and their life revolves around their kids, so I am not really convinced that the time problems doesn't exist and parents don't just flag it as "OK" in their heads due to hyper-focus on their kids.
No. I may not have conveyed the idea very well in the comment. That is normal quantum mechanics. People just use the term "world" when it applies to these observers and not when it applies to something like an electron.
Getting better at soccer is so much fun though! Watch a little pro soccer (try the EPL or Champions League) and see how the pros can do more with less effort. Force entire defenses to rotate by changing the angle of your body. First touch the ball into space instead of nowhere. Make the tight cut at the right time to slice through a defense.
Artists' reputations may take a hit if they price their tickets overly high, as it's seen as gouging fans. Instead, Ticketmaster charged multiple hidden fees for each ticket, often including a venue fee, service fees, and other interestingly named fees that are different based on the event, venue, and tour (although all events in some tours might have a similar fee, some some venues might have a similar priced venue fee across all events...).

Some of these are collected and go right back to the artist, promoter and venue. Fans are unhappy about this, but they place the blame on Ticketmaster, not the artist or venue. This is the reputation shield Ticketmaster offers. They take the blame for higher prices while passing a lot of those fees back to the artist and venue. They take a cut for processing the order, and probably a higher than normal cut for taking the negative PR, but both Ticketmaster and the artists and venues make more money in the end.
Lots of executive have “low” salaries in exchange for one off* bonuses :D

* though they do seem to get a lot of one offs...
> * hair cuts: No 2 all over takes about 10 minutes and your good for another 3-6 months. Can even do this yourself in theory (in practice I can't).

The heck is No 2?

What is this mythical 10 minute haircut? I never had a 10 minute haircut.
Spy Fears Prompt China to Censor Its Own Recruitment Drive
But "art" isn't special.

As much as people may speak of art reflecting its creator, once it gets into the outside world, it becomes an interaction with everyone it contacts. There are a million new perspectives formed, and plenty that could be done to extend the work.

I could imagine taking software principles and applying them to art in many ways:

* Bugfixes-- from simple grammar flaws, to finishing dangled story threads, why aren't we patching and re-releasing novels?

* Technical improvements-- I could imagine, for example, a speaker manufacturer remixing songs so they sounded better on their hardware.

* Customization -- if you've made an attractive image or song, and it hasn't been repurposed to sell Diet Pepsi, you haven't really arrived.

The limit to these visions is that they run headlong both into the literal principles of copyright law, and the philosophy that art is somehow sacred as-is, rather than being a baseline for better and better things. Shorter copyrights and mandatory licensing can make it happen.
For a while I shared the mentality that Russia was unequivocally bad and the anti-thesis of all Western values of freedom. It was like common knowledge to me.

But with every breathless proclamation like yours of Russia as a cartoon villain I started to have doubts. It seemed like everything was suddenly Russia's fault--they were the absolute root of all evil in the world. Anyone who disagreed was obviously a Russian bot.

The last straw for me was when Theresa May declared, without any doubt, that the Russian state had attempted to assassinate two British citizens using nerve agents (10 days after the fact, before the conclusion of any investigation and without any concrete evidence to implicate Russia).

This Russia-phobia is dangerous. We have made a bogeyman and a scapegoat out of a desperate, nuclear-equipped nation that less than 30 years ago had its federation, economy and national identity shattered. I'm afraid that this delusion won't stop until a full on conflict breaks out which should be a much scarier prospect than yet-another-evil-dictatorship.
Not sure if you've seen these trends: https://news.gallup.com/poll/237137/republicans-positive-rel...
< then the CISO had them turn off the alerts

I'm reminded of the Target breach.
IIRC it has been considered experimental since version 6. Many people were hoping it would be upgraded to fully supported in version 7.
I put some of the blame on an unhealthy insistence of code reuseability and sticking to paradigms. The result is so much code that is just abstractions piled onto abstractions piled on to more abstractions until you get the famous FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition [0] that I'm sure we've all seen by now.

Nobody wants to just write some god damn code anymore. They include entire frameworks instead of just writing a couple helper functions.

[0] https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
Did you actually read the linked post before posting that? This is the final para:

So here's a plea: if you have anything to do with security in a distro, and think that my kids (replace "my kids" with "sales people on the road" if you think your main customers are businesses) need to have the root password to access some wireless network, or to be able to print out a paper, or to change the date-and-time settings, please just kill yourself now. The world will be a better place.

Given the above, do you feel that Mr T is telling a coworker to kill themself or simply sounding off?

As it turns out I do have something to do with security in a distro and yet for some reason I don't feel threatened by Mr T.
So yeah, this is about programming language vms, like JVM, not cloud vpses....
Please support librecores. It's a small start. I think one thing we are missing is a Stallman of hardware. Some who is loud, willing to take a stand, and who has enough technical chops to back it all up.
14 years of copyright + another 14 years if the author was alive and renewed was already a solid amount to begin with. This is absolutely ridiculous.
Clickbait headlines have the happiest HN commenters :D

(I love you all :) )
For concrete data, take a look at for example the Netherlands; where right-wing extremist parties led by Wilders and Baudet have shifted public opinion such that the 'moderate right-wing' parties have taken on considerably more xenophobic and fascist rhetoric over the past few years, because that was the only way for them to compete against Wilders' and Baudet's brand of populism.

This is fundamentally the problem with fascism; it doesn't come into power through people saying "I'm a fascist". It comes into power by 'infecting' everything around it, and gradually shifting the Overton window such that the populace will eventually willingly grant power to the fascists.

That also means that such a 'fascist takeover' can only be detected and interpreted through a trend in public discourse, not as an easily calculable single metric.
At the end of the day Linus is making a very clearcut threat here: "if you harbor a particular idea on this topic then I believe you have no right to exist and should end your life immediately". That's wholly out of bounds in a technical discussion. Especially coming from a person in a position of ultimate power.
Extensive discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18000698
The percentage of people requiring a non-(s)he pronoun is small enough it shouldn't negatively affect your life. For those that do, just train yourself.

In a similar vein, it took me a few weeks a few weeks to remember to call an, previously female, employee "he" once they transitioned. It was important to them as a person, so I made it important to me as their employer.

How is this any different to remembering not to use a newly married person's maiden name? Do you complain about being confused with all the "non-original" surnames you need to remember after a wedding?
Because it's completely OTT. There's a reasonable point in there, but he had to go ruin it. It's like the recent Boris Johnson gaff with "letterboxes". A reasonable point pushed out of sight by bravado.
Parents with no children are clearly happiest
I'll be long dead before any of these changes matter.

I know I should be happy for future generations, but for some reason I can actually feel why the big-name politicians don't care about this. Because it will never even remotely affect them.
Frankly, the proprietary "your" or "my" employees is already the wrong way to think.

I don't belong to my CEO - my CEO needs to give a reason to want to offer them my time. And while it is unlikely I'd find out, if I did find that management at my company made slimy deals with other firms to hurt my career, I'd be out the door immediately, loudly explaining to my coworkers and extended network of technical types why.

The superhero-CEO myth in the valley needs to go. It isn't even healthy for them.
There's a few people confusing the purchase of software and the purchase of a software company. Sorry for not being more clear.

I'm specifically talking about the fact that all of those companies have massive amounts of cash that they could buy the company and it would create an ROI from the profit it generates.