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We can all agree that cultishness is a general human failing and leftist cults are as likely to form as Branch Davidians. Historically, some of those cults have caused immense harm.

Nevertheless, this article strikes me as being deliberately written for its own cult members. Its air of injured rationality is exhibit A in grievance studies, the white people version.

Is there some vast underground of fence-sitters waiting to be convinced by their argument? I doubt it. Instead, the article is catnip for those who share the same grievances as the writers. Sure, they have one more data point that the other side is gullible or stupid.

I am more than willing to admit that portions of academia are cultish with guru figures who can easily destroy your life.

However, all one needs to do is look outside the ivory tower and ask if there are real injustices in the world, and the answer isn't hard to find. The vast majority of activists I know, women and men fighting for the rights of women, people of color, animals and trees have no interest in the battles over grievance studies.

This is not an article written in good faith. Which is to say, it's propaganda.
What exactly is being advertised? It would be interesting to know what kind of work can be safely done while driving.
"Scandals" which have been nothing more than a bunch of idiots completely misunderstanding and/or misrepresenting what Mozilla is actually doing.

Mozilla does not have a history remotely related to any sort of privacy violations, except in the eyes of those who think that literally anything to do with "telemetry" or "advertizing" is automatically evil.

Problem is, you can have non-privacy-invasive and non-malicious telemetry and advertizing.

Google and Microsoft are particularly nasty in this regard. But don't extrapolate their behaviour onto Mozilla.
It's risky to tie up your ego, or sense of self, with being anything other than yourSelf. When I started out coding in my career I had a huge chip on my shoulder. I needed a popular project on github, I needed to be given that big new project, I needed the recognition and praise of others. I didn't realize I was setting myself up for a lot of angst. And I'm ashamed of some of the things I did or said trying to protect my ego, which was now bound up in being seen by others as a genius programmer. Took me 7 or 8 years to figure it out and let go.
You’re right. It was a random comment by a friend of his gf who claimed to have visited his house during the crisis.
Correct it's just to discuss the idea.
That's not correct. If you don't have a floppy disk, the PC boots into ROM BASIC just like the 8-bit home computers of the time.
Wayland will specifically fix this. Fixing it in X has proven to be hard if not impossible.

(there are other security fixes by adopting Wayland)
Suggested build from Jeff Chen: https://medium.com/the-mission/why-building-your-own-deep-le...
They wouldn't applaud unless the reduced cost for the business lead to a reduction in the purchase price for consumers.
The problem, of course, is that you're competing against actual free-as-in-beer code generated by the vendor's IP coregen tools.

By itself, free-as-in-speech doesn't do me any good, but free-as-in-beer does.

Still a very nice article, well-written with lots of educational value!
Brennan Dunn's stuff is great, and I know freelancers who have been very successful in part thanks to him. I'd recommend starting small if buying products though - he had a $50 book version of Double Your Freelancing that was worth it, but at one time he also had a $2000 online course version which probably isn't the right choice for everyone.

Freshbooks have a fantastic free PDF called Breaking The Time Barrier that is about charging for value, not for your time. It's worth reading even if you don't use Freshbooks (I use Harvest instead). The PDF was actually recommended to me by a client, who I think was giving me a hint that I was charging unsustainably low prices.

https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/breakingthetimebarrier
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I agree with actions but not the reasons.

You should get confirmation in writing to verify your understanding and protect against a non malicious, honest manager who has a lot of things on his plate and may honestly forget the details of a conversation.

But, if you hope written communication will help you as a CYA move if you have a conflict with your manager and your manager is being purposefully underhanded, that rarely works.

The organizations primary job is to protect the organization. Unless you’re a special snowflake, your manager’s manager or your HR department will always take the side of a manager.

That’s just like getting a PIP. Once you get one, learn from your mistakes and take an honest self assessment - but do it at another job. If you interview while having a job, it’s much easier than trying to interview if you got fired.
True. In order to know kubernetes, you need to know kubernetes. But the point is at least it's a framework rather than someone you or I came up with and never wrote down. But if you don't know it, you don't know it. The question is, is learning it useful?
The Chinese hacked them and stole their source code and was caught tracking dissidents emails.
I don't understand how any technically-minded person can take this stuff seriously: https://images.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/peterson3.jpg
Not sure where your drawing your data from the US does have a large working class population and always has had.

Up in the hollers you can still find some very poor working class people and its noticeable that the forces recruit from these populations (this is from conversations with USAF personnel)
I would imagine that you wouldn't want to disclose that information. There are a lot of businesses out there who want people with GEDs to do simple data entry. That's probably where I would start looking. Maybe craigslist or similar?
People should be allowed to have fun, right?
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I think it’s probably possible to model credit-worthiness according to search history and site use patterns. Google’s partnership with Mastercard could be something to do with that. What would be particularly irritating is if Google start showing credit offers next to product ads. Eg you look at an advert for a new iPhone and google then lets you know Mastercard will give you an immediate credit line for an impulse purchase. Marketing strategy is obviously focused on overcoming your will power to buy things you want but don’t need. One of our last lines of defence is: I can’t afford that right now...Mastercard and by axiom Google profit when you don’t think like that.
Presuming to know someones mind better than they do themselves is the height of arrogance.

It's even more arrogant when you are citing fairy tales as the evidence that you have some insight into the subject that they do not.
I think of this: https://xkcd.com/927/
Already been done: http://octodadgame.com/
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The boss escaped, employees took over the label printing enterprise (in Turkish)
macOS does that to me too
No its social status you can be a poorly paid academic/scientist and are middle class but say a train driver on 80k a year will consider themselves working class
In case someone doesn't know, RT is literally paid for by the Russian government.
You're probably coming off as an arrogant prick.

Try something like "In order to write better tools and automation, I need to empathize with the people using the tools and experiencing day-to-day pain. Can we find somebody who is willing to let me watch over their shoulder for a few minutes on one day?" Note the implicit bargaining for small amounts of time and only small intrusion, as well as the understanding that you are not a decider, but an observer; not an automator, but a pain-reliever.
Having a distorted view of reality has evolutionary benefits
Stop trying to make Kubernetes cool. Guess what? People don't need to scale everything, or even better, most people don't need to learn or use Kubernetes, like, ever. Get over it. You made a tool you thought would scale, it didn't, because not everything needs to scale.
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Do it in a boring way - via neighborhoods/groupings and not in a sexy way via point to point fiber everywhere. But even at $1200/household it is peanuts: birds being able to supply a large amount of bandwidth are expensive i.e. trench digging would be be far cheaper than launching and maintaining a pile of birds and earth stations to get even a fraction of that bandwidth magically beamed from above.

Edit: Been there - done that. Supplied IP over satellites. CapEx is a very solvable problem. OpEx would kill you.
Or your parents where hippies in the 60's and you inherited a property.
Never accept the title of Junior Developer.

https://daedtech.com/junior-developer-never-accept/
Sounds like a bipartisan victory waiting to happen.
It'd probably be a massive overfit to race and age. In comparison, everything else would be unbiased noise.
> Similarly, when someone claims that "four men watched 2,328 hours of hardcore pornography over the course of a year and took the same number of Implicit Association Tests", you might realize that 2328 hours/(4*365) > 1 hour 36 minutes per day; and ask for the titles and duration of the porn allegedly watched, just to make sure that this extremely onerous experiment has actually been performed.

I don’t see the point. The authors could easily respond with a long list of porn titles. (And as an unpaid reviewer with lots of real work to do, are you going to bother verifying every title in the long list?)

>Note that the paper about that "experiment" was not accepted

Then it's not a very good example to base your argument on.

>the real sample size is at least 2328

You’re both wrong. You can’t treat 2328 observations from 4 subjects the same way as 2328 observations from 2328 subjects (see e.g. https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Advanced_ANOVA/Repeated_meas...)

More generally, virtually no-one understands statistics. Every field where statistical analysis is used routinely publishes papers that use bad statistical methods.

>I realize that peer review mostly doesn't operate at that level of scrutiny, but maybe it should.

What does the “should” even mean here? Do you think that reviewers who work for free “should” do even more work than they do already? Or that journals “should” force reviewers to do this (even though they have no mechanism for doing so)? There are practical limits to the amount of scrutiny any given paper can be subject to. It would suck if we needed to spend more time reviewing papers just because a bunch of assholes keep trying to get fake papers published.

>it's certainly possible to trust less.

Not really. You don't seem to realize that more scrutiny during the review process would require real people to give up more of their real time for free. You can't just snap your fingers and make that happen.
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do not burnout

I know you are young and you feel like you're invincible. I know you can pull an all-nighter and work the next day just fine. We have all been in that situation and believe me, it is gonna take a toll at your performance ... and it could even trigger or help you develop some health issues in your life that can sabotage you down the line.

Realize there's only so much progress one can do in the day. Stop before you are absolutely exhausted and passing out, I know it's sounds tempting but please please do not fall into the trap management or more senior people (that were forced to do this too but didn't learn or are "paying it back" now negatively) to wrest that one last drop of energy. After your X allotted time, even if you are still feeling energized, go spend that energy jogging or something! Work a craft, learn to play an instrument.

Risking to toot my own horn, this might be the single best non-technical advice in this thread.
To me it sounds like we need a Libre Office of Google Docs (web based). Everyone is worried about tracking and privacy, but what about the productivity tools? If you quit Google, you also abandon the GSuite - which is quite nice.
Reading through Apple's MDM protocol documentation and coding up one yourself is a great learning exercise. I had an idea for a niche MDM product and coded up a proof of concept. Eventually I realized the idea wasn't profitable, but still got a lot of value out of the development exercise. I even rewrote it from Java into a couple of different languages (Kotlin, Swift, Go...) to learn a bit more. It's a sufficiently difficult service to implement that you learn quite a bit along the way, but not so difficult that you don't see any progress as you go.
There should have been push-back on the change before it got to the implementation stage. It shouldn't be down to the implementor to query the decision (as they won't have full sight of all factors). That querying should have happened at the management level.

When a nonsensical requirement reaches implementation, it indicates that all the gatekeeping in place before this stage has failed.
Nobody would seriously claim that airport security is an effective way of stopping determined people. It is a deterrent that works to catch thoroughly stupid people and to make smart people dwell on the anxiety of getting caught.
Is there something like Google Photos I can pay for with money, not data?
I have about 15 years of photos spread across multiple hard drives. In the past I've tried a few different tools for cataloguing and organizing them, but I've never really kept it up.

In a perfect world, I'd have a tool like Shotwell with Linux, Android, Mac, and web apps which did the cataloguing, deduping, etc. client side, but stored encrypted versions of my photos and their metadata online, but I'm guessing this doesn't exist.

I don't care about searching for photos of "beaches" or any ML fanciness.

In some ways Google Photos would be a clear choice, but I'm trying to reduce the amount of Google in my life, not increase it.

Is there anything like this? I know Amazon had a consumer-focused photo storage app, but Amazon gives me similar concerns to Google.
Hopefully this will moves the bottom wages up, as well as putting pressure to up the Middle Class salaries.

Next US has to figure out how to (much) lower Rent / property pricing.
Oh, I would assume a "real geek" was responsible for any bot activity on G+ before I'd assume some big orgs had bothered.
It is funny that they load Google Analytics and Doubleclick. There's also trackers for Comscore and Amazon on the page.
Show HN: I analyzed 40,000+ trending YouTube videos. Here are the results
Google does send your user data to third-parties, for "external processing" (it's in their privacy policy).
I used Python with packages like Pandas and Matplotlib to analyze a dataset that contains data about more than 40,000 trending videos collected over ~7 months. The analysis is done in a Jupyter notebook with beautiful visualizations and charts. It aims to find patterns in these trending videos, and to extract insights that can be used by people on YouTube.

It got a good reaction on /rdatascience on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/datascience/comments/9kpmcn/i_analy...
I see them all the time in New Jersey. They seem to be trying to get into the house before winter.
The internal arguments I've seen in companies with 100, 1000, and 10,000 employees have one thing in common: nobody differentiates good decisions made because we were lucky and good decisions made because we understood the problem. The outcome of those conversations end up with being shut down by "let's be practical here". Companies with less than 100 avoid both of these problems simply by employees being more exposed.
Same here. I just spend 3 minutes trying to figure out how to opt out, but couldn't find it in the walls of texts and links down the rabbit hole. Closed the tab.
Because your "privacy focused nonprofit" is itself funded by those very same "multi-billion ad companies".
I am not sure if seeking a “secondary processor” exclusion qualifies as "abuse". I agree that their products are not as "pure" as advocated by some enthusiasts. But the company itself openly says so and for me that is important.

What I do not like is their absolutely ridiculous pricing of additional equipment. For instance, they ask $499 for a 500GB NVMe storage [1], while it can easily be purchased for less than third the price [2]. When I complained about it, their response was: "we are well aware of the problem and will be addressing it within the next few months". That was 4 months ago.

[1] https://puri.sm/shop/librem-13/
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-970-EVO-500GB-MZ-V7E500BW/dp/...
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Jupiter Barcodes, a barcode label printing enterprise in Turkey, is about to declare banktruptcy. The boss realised he will not be able to uphold his debts and escaped. Employees learned this by a text message they received from their boss.
Google always knew that trust was very important to their long term growth and viability. It's why "Don't be evil" was their motto for so long and it actually appeared to be more than lip service. That motto is gone, and now they're actively monetizing that accumulated goodwill.
Synchronizing the concept of "logged in" for Google services with the concept of "logged in" in the browser.

Previously, you could be logged in in the browser but not into Google's website, or logged into Google's website but not into the browser. That was confusing for users ("It's asking me to log in to Google? But I'm logged in already. The hell?"). This change synchronized the login experience so if you're logged into Google, you're logged into the Chrome browser and you don't have to think about them separately. Users don't like logging in, so anything that can be done to safely minimize the amount of that necessary is seen as a user experience gain.
Most valuable skill that wasn't yet told: learn to help yourself. You won't always have a mentor, or formal education on a subject. The ability to succeed despite external support is basic.

Don't fall in love with a random company, expecting reciprocation; wait for the company to show love to you. If you do an astonishing good work and the company doesn't reward you, pull back, do "normal" work, then look for another company. Most companies either show their appreciation quickly and regularly, or never.
We already did with NSA : https://opendatacity.github.io/stasi-vs-nsa/english.html
From: https://adwords.googleblog.com/2017/05/powering-ads-and-anal...

"even if your business doesn’t have a large loyalty program, you can still measure store sales by taking advantage of Google’s third-party partnerships, which capture approximately 70% of credit and debit card transactions in the United States"

Who knows what other 3rd party data they correlate...
I agree completely, this is the "oh shit I clicked the wrong button" -view in finder.

Its even worse in save dialogs. Sometimes using this abomination is the only way to go "up" in the filesystem.
I wonder if any of the genetic control strategies used with the Aedes aegypti mosquito [1] could be used in this case. The obvious difference would be that males would also be harmful to the environment in this case. The strategy could also be improved if actual non-viable offspring was produced, increasing opportunity cost of reproduction and spent energy.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4001467/

[2] https://www.popsci.com/mosquitoes-designed-self-destruct
I’m seeing more webpages entirely break on Firefox recently. I tend to reach for Vivaldi when I need to try a different browser, as it’s Chromium without all the tracking.
The money flow itself doesn't invalidate them. They have multiple bidders for their defaults, and that isolates them from the whims of their funders. The funders are just customers.
Make sure you don't stay in the same position for over 3-4 years. Make sure you get promoted or look elsewhere.

IMO: Being too comfortable in the same position is not good enough
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I toy with the idea occasionally of writing a Lispish language (probably a whitespace lisp) that transforms itself down to a Forth/PostScript style engine for execution - one of many things on my ToDo list ;-)
mastercard does not issue cards, credit lines or control interest rates, your bank does this.
What kind of personal projects need a cluster?

I'm pretty sure docker-compose + swarm can satisfy 99% percent of your needs.
Well most fortune 500 companies don't have large numbers of minimum wage workers.
Yes, you make very good points here about seasonality and weather. We have looked at training the model on a small window of flight dates vs randomly sampling across all dates and the former performed better in testing. We wanted to limit our modeling complexity to random forest and gradient boosting as an initial proof of concept here. Our plan is to retrain the current weather model weekly while monitoring performance, store the data, and then maybe look to using a more complex model like a neural net to train a model using data across all dates.
Are you sure about that? I don't know K/Q, but I learned some J and I don't think it can be called concatenative. It's tacit/point-free style it but one of the styles you can use in J. I think if J is concatenative, then so is Haskell - and I never heard anyone claiming that.
I leave or click the Reader Mode button in Safari.
But my guess is that those cookies have already been set.
Simple.com has something similar, but not to different accounts. You can set up automatic expenses on a schedule and it moves it to expense "buckets". The balance of un-allocated funds is called "Safe to Spend".

Plaid.com might be an option, they have a free account level. Not sure our limited it is.
This was my first thought after reading the title and URL