skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Google's privacy team is understaffed or doesn't have enough resources to do its job, we should have a conversation publicly about that. I get where you're coming from, but Google isn't a company without resources. In this specific scenario, where there is an actual power dynamic at play, it's not enough to just say, "well, people should get involved." The people who get involved are not the people who are making long-term decisions about process.

If Google itself isn't acknowledging the problem, or worse, if Google is actively thwarting or working against its own privacy team, then anyone who gets involved will also end up starved for resources or moved to other teams. Google is not a level playing field for people who want to change the system from inside.

So it's not wrong at all for you to bring this up during an incident. But if we take the premise that this incident is the result of one of the largest companies in the world starving its own privacy team, not paying enough to attract talent, or not giving them enough input into internal processes... well, that's honestly something that needs to be discussed company wide. That's a very serious situation.

And if that's the case, users should be distrusting Google's privacy commitments until it has that conversation. The first step to fixing a problem is acknowledging the problem -- you won't get anywhere trying to fix a system that doesn't want to be fixed.

From the responses that have come out of Google regarding this incident, it doesn't sound much like it wants to be fixed. Changing that is the first step. Hiring people is the second.

By all means, let's talk about Google's privacy team. I am all for that. Let's get productive. But let's get actually productive. Let's have an open, public talk about management and resource allocation, and why the team is understaffed. From Google's AI/self-driving divisions, we know what it looks like when the company gets serious about attracting talent. And we know it has the resources to do so.
And revolut?

https://www.revolut.com/jp/?lang=en
This studio closure hits a little close to me, since I know a few former employees:

- They really did not see a full studio closure coming so suddenly. Yes, they were aware that they were struggling, but the 25% staff reduction was supposed to keep the studio sustainable.

- They were in the planning stages for an original IP, their new leadership realized too late that expensive IP licenses were unsustainable.

- Their frantic development pace meant that they their engine was a patchwork of features cobbled together over the years, and not enough resources to rework it, despite their audiences stating that they didn't care enough to fix it. This made development a lot more painful than it should have been. They finally ditched it for Unity, but again, much too late.

- They were getting ready to move into a new office building. That's how in the dark everyone at the company was kept.

- All of these actions were caused by incompetent management, their staff was and still is amazingly talented.
However, this is only the case if you have just a big blob of text and UTF-8 might be better if the east asian text is interspersed with ASCII characters. For example, HTML with east asian text often is smaller when encoded with UTF-8, because a significant portion of the content is HTML markup.
I believe DNS/domain name is really a problem that could be better served using a blockchain technology. The registers can't be trusted
please note the announcement of the French 'security OS'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18031201
How do you mean unnecessary?
Surely writing such a specification takes many man hours, even after having spent many man hours to learn TLA+? Can none of this effort be encapsulated into something reusable?

The desire for reuse is not driven by a want to reduce LOC, but hours spent.
In his example maps is a list, no?
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I imagine most people want their bookmarks/history/extensions/settings synced..
My father has received severance - not once, but twice from Kodak Canada. The first time was during their bankruptcy, the second time was because they cost-optimized most of the senior people out of his project.
This sort of thing makes me very glad I live in a country with legally guaranteed employee entitlements and public healthcare.
It’s ranged from over 50% in 2000 to a low of about a third during Obama, then back up to 40% now. It seems more connected to political rhetoric than any changes in climate science.
The canonical "good" ending of the first game? You rescue Atrus (the author-father-figure) by bringing him what he needs to return to Myst.

Then he asks for your (further) help, sending you to Riven, the next game in the series.
This is a very good review, but it still makes me miss the ones John Siracusa wrote.

He was(is!) a great writer, programmer, and colleague (separately, of course). Hope he's up to something fun!
So ballet/dance/sports and other complex precision choreographed movements training is in major part about fine tuning these CPG?
I had the same sensation, but the adjective prehistoric is not applied to the animal here. If I'm not wrong could be rephrased as "a pancake-shaped inhabitant of a prehistoric ocean".
Microsoft and Shell team up to build AI into gas stations
Also notable that buying health insurance on your own, versus through your employer is typically 2 to 4x the cost.
It makes perfect sense. If Bob has syncing enabled on his primary computer, Alice could enable syncing to copy the previously synced data to her browser. But she could also view the same data on myaccount.google.com.
Protonmail?

Based in Switzerland, client-side encryption

https://protonmail.com/blog/switzerland/
Ted from Namecheap here. I shot you an email. We'd be happy to help you out and ensure that your domain is locked down.
As far as I can tell, this is not settled law.

GPLv2 is not the only license without an explicit "no-take-backsies" clause, and pretty much all literature I've read about open source previous to this incident suggested that although you could relicense future versions of the code, you couldn't put the genie back into the bottle on old releases.

Also, to be frank, I think that if there _was_ settled law saying you could rescind old licenses, it would have far-reaching ripple effects throughout the open source world. Let's be clear, it would be a weapon that could be used by any slighted maintainer or former maintainer to damage a project, for _any_ reason. And if a single or group of maintainers could do it, a corporation with dollar signs in its eyes could do it just as easily. Be careful what you wish for.
> I haven't fully learned Rust yet but from what I understand, the borrow checker only applies to mutable data

This is not correct. The borrow checker applies to references, both mutable and immutable.
I agree. I was living in Italy during the Berlusconi years, every time there was a new law designed to limit personal rights or freedoms, someone would reply "then what about XYZ" where XYZ was invariably what Freedom House would describe as a non-free or partially-free country. No one ever tried to compare Italy to, say, Sweden or Denmark. Once the 'race to the bottom' mentality becomes mainstream, it can do a lot of damage.
That's where GCC was circa 1988.
My argument for the VP was essentially not to release their source, rather to release all of the details that you need to create, sign, and then load a bitmap file into their FPGAs. Also to document how the chip is laid out, and how you can floorplan it by hints in the .bit file.

If they did just that, then the source code would "appear" as people wrote back ends for the various open source HDLs that are already in existence.

The challenge that I see is that Xilinx has already had the experience of selling that data to vendors like Synopsis who sell their own synthesis tools and charge major money for them. And like a person who holds an unvested stock option for a stock that goes from price A above the strike price, to a price B that is below the strike price, they feel as if they "lost" money. Similarly, Xilinx can't see "giving up" thousands, if not millions of licensing dollars they are getting from tools vendors, just to enable an open source community to start. Because they fundamentally can't see that having a vibrant open source ecosystem benefits all players. And this in spite of the gcc example which is pretty incontrovertible in my opinion.
A mouse (unless Apple made it) has visible buttons. A touch screen has no indications that it can be force touched.

You only discover force touch if you mistakenly use too much force at the right time and place, which isn't an everyday occurrence. Where as a right click function could be discovered by clicking randomly with the right button which was obviously put there with purpose.
Literally the next sentence after the one you quoted is:

> Signing in enables Chrome’s synchronization feature.

This is no longer true, so it seems most likely that that entire paragraph is simply out of date.
To hide the fact that the earth is flat.
A lot of things like COBRA go though your former employer. I wonder how many post-employment benfits work at when the former employer no longer exists.
I wouldn't expect copy shops or internet cafes to do so as they're private/profit focused entities, and I definitely wouldn't lump libraries in with them.

As a public entity we had a mandate to protect user information and make sure it wasn't stored by us or accessible by others. This applied across the organisation from what books someone checked out to what websites they visited.

Maybe this was just more of a thing in Canada or even Alberta but the concept was definitely agreed upon with other libraries and people in the system I was in contact with. I have read other articles and such from American libraries about protecting information so I assumed it was more widespread.
I get the feeling a lot of folks ended up there from Domain Discover which had good ratings back in the day. They actually aren't that cheap.
I actually agree that this would presumably be a good thing to do. However, that's not because "children dying == bad" but rather precisely because a decent amount of research appears to have been directed at this idea already.

My intent was not to question the merits of the stated goal, but instead to highlight the importance of critical analysis instead of emotionally based lines of thought.
Feedback: very interested on the topic of your book, but seeing the marketing tactics and your response to criticism seriously put me off. I’d rather support more agreeable authors. Content ignored indeed.
I'm still not clear about what the actual change in behavior even is - seeing some statements on Twitter from someone on the dev team, it sounded to me like there isn't actually any difference, just a UI change to show which Gmail account is currently logged into.

If that's really all it is, I don't really get what people are upset about. Specifically, if there's no additional data being stored connected to your account (which is what one of the devs seemed to be very explicitly claiming) until you deliberately connect Chrome to your account, this seems like a whole bunch of drama over a misunderstanding.

If I'm wrong, then that's a separate matter. Personally, I appreciate the syncing features, but I completely understand why people would be bothered, and it's definitely something they should roll back.
> They really did not see a full studio closure coming so suddenly. Yes, they were aware that they were struggling, but the 25% staff reduction was supposed to keep the studio sustainable.

Yeah, so this is just pure mismanagement. Either they couldn't do math, or they signed an agreement that required some sort of hidden balloon payment, or they couldn't reign in their costs when managers were allowed to buy things under the sun.

> Their frantic development pace meant that they their engine was a patchwork of features cobbled together over the years, and not enough resources to rework it, despite their audiences stating that they didn't care enough to fix it.

Again, mismanagement. Someone came up with a term that managers could understand: "Technical Debt". The "Debt" part is the "interest" you pay because you are prioritizing features over maintaining your tech stack. And no doubt would add to their frantic development pace.
Camera made from 32,000 drinking straws takes pointillistic photographs
And then what do you do when you have the wrong ROM running and you get grabbed by the police with no opportunity to reboot your phone? There are mitigations but getting this right requires a high amount of vigilance.
If that works, then it should work to have a different Android profile or use an environment isolation app such as Island or Google's Test DPC. I think there's another new one in the F-Droid store, too, now.
Will this run alongside virtual box? (In other words, does it need hyper-V turned on on a windows box?
> Maybe the Chrome team was wrong to introduce signing in to a browser at all?

maybe, but that would mean that all browser vendors did it wrong. (including mozilla)
You can purchase your old benefit through FMLA for up to 36 months in an involuntary departure, but you pay 104% of the cost that previously was split between you and the employer.
Can we stop with argumentative and ultimately pointless comparison between the US and China.

For me what's astounding is:

"Lastly, nothing is transmitted from the individuals device to the receiving server over HTTPS — all in plaintext via HTTP — and updates are unsigned.
This means all the data the app collects is transmitted to the unknown entity on the receiving end in a way that allows someone with a trivial amount of technical knowledge to intercept and potentially manipulate" [0]

Is there any reason besides incompetence why the apps developers would do this?

[0] https://www.opentech.fund/news/app-targeting-uyghur-populati...

Edited: formatting
>The old UX was dangerously misleading for people who share computers, a worryingly common practice. The new UX makes it at least a bit more clear that if you’re browsing on a borrowed computer, you really should be using a discardable Guest profile.(I think Guest Profiles are one of the coolest little-used features in Chrome).

I preferred the old ui of checking "keep me signed in". The whole "just use private/guest/whatever" annoys me.

In any case, this change reinforces that if you don't like google,
then don't use chrome.

>If Extra Evil Google is in your threat model, you shouldn’t be using Chrome at all, because obviously Extra Evil Google could just backdoor Chrome before encryption or after decryption.

If you care about privacy, then of course you'll prefer a browser that is private by default, rather than making you run around in settings.
Adventure games seems to be a segment that is especially prone to boom and bust cycles. This has to be at least the third major collapse, following Infocom and LucasArts.

Even when well executed, the formula is hard to keep fresh, and the emphasis on story and writing leads to generally poor replayability. Particularly now, in the youtube/twitch age - most of the enjoyment of these kinds of games is watching the story play out, rather than actually playing the game.
A notable difference is that Debug is using the sterile insect technique (SIT)[1], as opposed to gene drives, which are much harder to control once released. With SIT, 1) we have a lot more experience using it for decades, and 2) it's pretty easy to simply stop releasing sterile insects if unintended consequences were found.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_insect_technique
Well, okay. Technically you're right ;)
But what if you count any movements that are followed by another movement of the same face as a single step?
The tiger mosquito your parent mentions, though, is invasive. Ecologists are usually more than happy to target invasive species.
Big Tech's Business Model Is Broken
NASA, for example, spends immense amounts of money on trying to ensure that their projects have a high success rate.

They'd rather spend $2b to get a 97% likelihood of a positive outcome, than $1b with an 80% likelihood.

Time is a big deal when you're going to spend a decade on a project. NASA will have a ~$250b budget for the next decade. The people that they have access to to work on projects, are finite however. Their lifespans are finite, how much time they're willing to spend on one thing is often very restricted, and just nailing them down for a given project can be difficult. There are a lot of other things they can be doing with their time. You want to get things right the first time and not spend five years doing it all over again (and more likely, the project is simply cancelled). NASA's budget being sizable, gives them some flexibility on spending more to increase positive outcome chances.

It's better to spend $10b on James Webb (if necessary), than $3b with a meaningfully higher chance of failure. If it fails at the lower budget, they still won't do it all over again, it'll just be dead. It'd be a massive loss of time and potential.
I remember reading stuff a year ago about how the engine was originally written by the CEO and a large reason for its persistence until today is that it's basically his pet project. Do you happen to know how accurate this is?
Just another among 10s of reasons why healthcare shouldn't be left to the market. Lining up capitalist incentives with public health is incredibly hard -- the people who need more expensive treatment more badly are almost always the people who are less capable of affording it, for evident reasons: being invalid made them unable to work, being in poor conditions in the first place led to their health conditions, it's all a vicious cycle.

It's fine to have subsidized higher tier insurance as an employee benefit, but basic coverage should be part of normal social security, or, in an ideal universe (or nordic country), something that hospitals don't even bill for because a few billion from taxes could go into the healthcare industry instead of military or roads.
> other low-productivity time?

How would you even measure low productivity time for someone like Musk who has incredible leverage?

For example I was chatting with a friebd about his companies product and it sounds awesome.

Yet for me this was a “low value” conversation as I know I couldnt get my workplace to purchase it.

Musk on the other hand can delegate the evaluation and if it’s a good fit his company will buy it.

So for Musk the same conversation could be very high productivity.
Tutanota: https://tutanota.com/ (Germany)

Proton: https://protonmail.com/ (Switzerland)

Fastmail: https://www.fastmail.com/ (Australia)

I went from self-hosted to fastmail for personal emails and I'm pretty happy with them. I have a gmail account too.
In an ideal world this would be feasible. Few people have the pricing power for their labor to do this. I'd classify what you call a failed business transaction as a failure of government to enact necessary labor laws.
That's a bit of a straw man.

The concern is the western countries taking actions to become more like China rather than less like China. It's natural to worry about convergence because eventually these things just become run away systems that are too entrenched to change.

Think about how we used to differentiate ourselves from the totalitarian regimes of the world in the post war communist fighting era. This pool of attributes is shrinking. Indefinite imprisonment without trail, national security letters, labelling the media as traitors, labelling companies that enable encryption as traitors, an omnipresent eavesdropping apparatus, etc...
Every time I try to use Facebook app - on any platform - it breaks my workflow about 5 minutes in, because I can't post a link to a group (or another comment) in a comment.

Some kinds of things are just a better fit for the web.
Point A is far more subjective than you're making it appear. Personally, puking is far more effective at provoking a reaction of disgust.
plausible deniability? that way if you get hacked by the govt, they can blame it on cybercriminals or western intelligence agencies
Trust us, pyrus calleryana- sorry, I mean anopheles gambiae- definitely won't crossbreed with anything.
Agreed, that is a question mark on this study - I think more basic research needs to be done in this area. As you can see from other comments in this tree, many folks think that the science on these matters is settled. As Mark Twain said: “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
I would assume that an actuary might put the cost of an unemployed person twice that than an employed person. Because technically people with chronic health problems would tend to be unemployed.
You're stuck in a loop
Ciao Emanuele, just dropped a linkedin connection request. I am working on a product that would benefit from solo, would love to pick your mind sometime in near future.