skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's very good. The more high-profile people speak up against what's happening, the more the general public realizes what's really going on. Frankly, most non-technical users have no idea how they're profiled and what the real and potential dangers are.

You know what's funny? We reached a point where 100% private conversation between two endpoints is finally possible, without the dependence on any third party (be it the Post Office, GSM operators,, Google, Apple, or anyone else). That's a huge step for communication privacy. And yet, most people choose the other way, they prefer to share their most intimate details with Facebook via Messenger and WhatsApp, with Google via Gmail, with Microsoft via Skype... Mostly because they're unaware of how things work and that other, more secure ways are available. So kudos to Cook for helping that cause just a bit.
Also they should've limited the field of research. Pick one department, survey everyone in there for at least a year and see how that works out. I don't like these "quick results" studies because in the end, you have multiple faulty methods in there.

You will alter the study based on your assumption on what is going to be the result. If people know they are surveyed, they will act differently for at least a few weeks. If you have too many different departments, your results will vary so much, you cannot make any assumptions about the result. And on and on and on.
This reminds me of Van Halen's infamous "no brown M&Ms" contract clause.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/

The story goes that they used this as a quick test to see if the venue management had read the contract. If not, the crew would need to check all the technical specs. (Adequate power, controlled risk of fires, etc.)
I've started running Tails on my laptop on a daily basis. It's great. https://tails.boum.org/

It runs off a USB stick and presents a pristine system each time you boot. Modifications to the filesystem go on a ramdisk "overlay", which disappears as soon as you power it off.

It does support "encrypted persistent storage", but there is quite fine-grained control over what things are allowed to go in it. In particular, nothing to do with the web browser persists across a reboot unless you go quite far out of your way to make it persist. And each time you boot, you can opt not to unlock the persistent storage if the work you want to do is either liable to get you infected with malware, or just doesn't need any of your persistent data.

Additionally, all of the networking is done over Tor, and the firewall blocks non-Tor traffic, so you can't even miss out Tor by accident. (But if you don't want to use Tor, it's probably not for you, although having used Tor in the past, I was pleasantly surprised how much faster it is now than it was then).

EDIT: And for those who don't know, OP is developer of https://www.qubes-os.org/ which I tried out for a while, and really like the premise of, but found just slightly too inconvenient to use, and I currently prefer Tails.

Qubes has multiple container VMs. All applications run inside a VM, but the I/O is transparently multiplexed into one desktop environment. The window decorations tell you which VM each application is running in. You can copy and paste, and share files, between different VMs, but only where you explicitly want to. You can create VMs to separate data for different purposes (e.g. one just for email, one just for web browsing, and different ones for working on different projects). The VMs can even run different OS's, and there are VMs included by default that route all of their internet over Tor. It is great.
It would help if they decoupled the so-called "end-to-end encrypted" iMessage from automatic backups to centralized iCloud servers to which all governments have access.
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I always knew that Scrum wasn't as agile as some people want to tell you, but this was the first time I read about 'Dark Scrum' [1].

In my opinion, Scrum is a good tool to kickstart the process of becoming an agile organization, but too often the process languishes there and generates a lot of frustration.

[1]: https://ronjeffries.com/articles/016-09ff/defense/
I guess it would extend into "dont buy chinese hardware"
And guess what, children in cars around you don't stop people from speeding and increasing the differential between them and people around them.

Thinking about the children isn't something that people generally do... So parents have to take responsibility and be a lot more cautious on the roads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jFqhjaGh30

(I do get your comment on law-creep...) Speeding kills.
Self-destructing cookies (whitelist only) + firefox containers works well for me
> Money is about imbuing items - some of which may be intangible - with power and manna

People will imbue all sorts of things with power and manna. (Video game highscores, or clothes, or the food you eat, etc. , etc.) Money is not special here.

> It's bean counting with imaginary magic beans, controlled by a priestly caste of imaginary magic bean rationers.

No. Fiat money (like the USD) are just IOU scrips from the government. No more magical or priestly than the IOU's you might give to your neighbor.

Fiat money IOU's are special only because you need them to pay taxes.
Thirdly, Mr Cook should put some of that $250b cash mountain he sits on to work making this stuff happen.

Prove that localized models built on small datasets work.

Invest in cryptography and user anonymity technologies.

Instead he's just sitting on it like smaug.
I thought they were a design/branding company -- what proportion of hardware do they make themselves. Again I thought they outsourced [most of] that?
How does sourcing in China require you to sell to the Chinese market? I don't see how Apple could be compelled to open their iCloud to the Chinese government if they're not operating iCloud in China and don't directly have Chinese customers.
Apple has had stripped-down versions of this before on both iOS and macOS via Voice Control.
I would also add:

5) your data is sold or shared with a third party and they leak it, ex Equifax so you have a lot to lose when your data is leaked (imagine if all our browser history would be collected for years and then somehow leaked, that would suck a lot, probably lives would be destroyed)
That's right, and you won't have the carbon emissions that happen right now with annual grains from tillage/erosion/too much fertiliser.

Soil has a carbon budget but I'm not sure saturation is an issue - that's basically how grasslands work today
It's substantial but doesn't come anywhere near explaining prices. The PDF here has some numbers:

https://www.aha.org/data-insights/2018-01-03-uncompensated-h...

Somewhere in the ballpark of $40 billion dollars a year vs total revenues in the ballpark of $3 trillion. Various aspects of Obamacare had the effect of leveling them off.

There is likely additional underpayment due to Medicaid and Medicare (to the extent those programs are underfunded and operate by mandating care, they are a hidden tax).
Ah but that doesn't scale!

Do you have an example?
I read this as "military industrial complex" and was positively surprised to see such a strong sociopolitical statement coming from Tim Cook, then I noticed the article talks about "data industrial complex" and realised this is still tame enough to count as aggressive marketing.
Damn. This makes me gain a bit more faith in apple, even though I can’t see myself buying a new Apple product anytime soon.
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> Prove that localized models built on small datasets work.

> Invest in cryptography and user anonymity technologies.

That’s what they literally do. Much of iOS’s “proactive” features are done on-device, as is things like photos analysis. And most of Apple’s products utilize at least some sort of cryptography and anonymized logging.
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You are right. There is no good reason for them to develop and build autonomous cars, just like there is no good reason for them to develop and build conventional cars. When autonomous cars take off, Lyft and Uber can still use their current model. The only difference would be that the car owner doesn't have to drive.
> Workplaces with that dynamic are toxic.

The problem with that is that, weighted by number of job openings (for internship/begining/otherwise-not-already-successful candidates), most[0] workplaces are toxic.

If you can find somewhere to escape to, go for it, but sometimes you can't.

0: The exact proportion one sees will vary, but basically bear in mind that if people aren't quitting in disgust, your own workplace is less likely to be looking for replacement shmucks.
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My recollection was both but certainly mobile.
Her comment was being targeted at the upper class who are the loudest ones yelling for this. There's also a fair amount of 'working class' industries who rely on migrant workers to keep labor down, such as landscaping and house cleaning. This is what the tweet is hammering at.
Paywalls that actually work.

The existing model is to treat the Internet as a magazine rack. It doesn't work that way.

A user might read one article from the WSJ a month. Obviously they won't pay 5 USD for that, they'll either attempt to get around the paywall or not bother.

Giving users a few free articles means that they'll just rotate around sites to get what they want. You need to charge a small amount from hit 1.

Not withstanding that it's not hard to build a paywall that actually functions, just don't send the content unless you've paid. This addon relies entirely on the fact that content which has not been paid for gets sent anyway.

Realistically though, the answer is that paid journalism disappears, or the Internet as we know it disappears. Increasingly lately it's looking like both will happen.
Yes, completely agree. Good add.
I'm with you here. It's not that Haskell isn't a good language, but that scripting languages are really good at scripting :)

Haskell does have a good REPL and being able to distribute a binary when finished is really nice.
This is really a pedantic point. By your metric, most companies we know today as making “hardware” are not hardware companies because they don’t make every component that goes into their products themselves.
Let's put it this way:

Apples' core business is not to violate your privacy left and right, which probably gives them an edge about the likes of Facebook and Google (at least in my book) in this sphere.
Apple can effect data industrial complex, unlike the military industrial complex. Doing the opposite would be empty posturing.
Clearly they're not doing enough, if they were, Siri wouldn't have fallen so far behind. I know it's a new and difficult field (I work in it) but it's also one where you could throw buckets of cash at the problem and get better results.
That's unfortunately roughly what I am seeing.

It is pattern of management pushing on teams and then team members themselves declaring "agile" without willingness to actually understand what and why they want to achieve this way, without willingness to understand what Agile really entails and why it works. Being "agile" is a political issue now in every major corporation. Everybody "is" "agile" because not declaring "being agile" puts you against your management who themselves don't understand and don't care and wouldn't recognize Agile way of thinking if they stumbled on it. But that's just what you have to do because you already have scores of other things to fight for and you can't fight every war so you decide this is just one of the things corporations do and you will just try to do your job.

This is really problematic because it completely undermines efforts of people really understanding and trying to introduce Agile way of thinking. Since everybody else already "is agile" and since the effects can only be seen through participation of everybody in the way of thinking and only after a longer period of practice, the management is very unlikely to ever observe any Agile team and and observe positive results of that team as flowing from them working on being Agile.

Effectively management is never going to learn Agile because the setup is such that it severely impedes any efforts to introduce and promote Agile.
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Thanks, man - but I am a terraform user. We use the S3 backend for state management and it works really well for us.

The thing that I like most about terraform is that ultimately, it's just a tool. Just something independent and (mostly) pinnable & controllable that runs on peoples' machines.

> Which, mind you - is optional

Everything starts out as optional before they start ramping up the monetization model.

But of course, it's an open source project, so wherever Hashicorp want to take this, the community can just fork it. However, it's clear where the center of gravity for future development is going to be - towards pushing Hashicorp into your critical path.
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Large-scale geoengineering has the potential for unexpected consequences that could seriously damage the environment. This applies to olivine mining and desert flooding.

Personally, I think a good compromise lies in resorting to algal blooms in a controlled setting.

Algal blooms have another advantage: there is already hypertrophication around farming regions where water bodies are polluted with fertilizers.

So the ideia is to build artificial reservoirs as buffers for algal blooms that not only pollute the water, jam irrigation systems and decrease biodiversity, but also as a means for carbon fixation. The algae would then have to be harvested, processed and buried. A fraction of it could be used to produce biofuels, thus reducing the need for fossil fuels, and for fertilization, which would reduce the usage of artificial, carbon-releasing fertilizers.

My only doubt is whether the scalability is interesting enough.
Yup.

I've come to realize a few key things:

1) Humans have an extremely limited capacity to determine what's true.
2) Our modus operandi is not to determine what is true but with which side are we politically affiliated
3) The truth is of little importance

This plays out exactly like you describe. A cargo-cult. You're either for or against it. You are either on the political side of the divide that believes being in the cult is better for ones survival or you are on the side that believes deep introspection about what is better for the situation at hand is best for survival. Close to nobody has the resources or capacity to evaluate if it's actually a good idea or not and even less so the political clout to sway the group for or against. So cargo-cult it is, for better or for worse.

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> I'm not sure how you got this confused

Mostly because it holds for zero of the countries our current team lives in. :-) I appreciate your help though, but so far accountants have been less than helpful. The ones I talked to seem to know international employment stuff worse than I do.
agile is a manifesto that I don't think should have ever become whatever people think it is today , its sort of become this Scrumish thing with consultants that try to sell faux zen like wisdom. Some of the silly thought experiments that were getting done on the email lists about how "extreme" we could take things that were done around the early 2000s have now become weird dogma. It's just a mess. I think part of the problem is that some of the core philosophy that people like Kent Beck were trying to capture and communicate was actually quite nuanced and subtle that it simply got lost in the noise of the new "Agile Industry" that quickly latched onto blunt and concrete rules about how to do things and a lot of things seemed lost and diluted over time.
Voice Control does this, but it’s not particularly great. I doubt it’s seen significant updates in years.
There's a big difference between recognizing "open the photos app, computer" and "what times is the avenger's showing today, Siri?"
Good to see. Also nice to watch Facebook and Twitter and Youtube employees being called out for what they have enabled.
If you are smart enough to get a job anywhere, why even work to keep these toxic machines propped up? Time to bail before things get worse. Or read a book about the decline of Yahoo.
We now know the cost of mobile privacy from Google's EU pricing. They should just add it as a feature: "Privacy - $40".
According to the Bloomberg article, Amazon learned of this when they did a security check on Elemental, a company they wanted to buy. Elemental's video processing devices with supermicro boards are present on US navy warships, for example.

And Amazon also runs the GovCloud. And are the leading vendor in the race for Pentagon's cloud contract.
> add VPN on/off to control center

I really hoped they'd add this in iOS12.
Blendle (https://blendle.com) is a news aggregator where you pay per article that you decide to read. Price ranges from ~20 cents for a fluff opinion piece to ~90 cents for quality journalism. It’s just for the Netherlands and possibly Germany (?) atm but they are working towards a US launch.

This is a pretty good model I think. It’s accessible and sustainable for both publishers and readers.
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I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike!
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I originally took this opportunity to critique the idea that Cook can stand to take a strong stance on privacy because their business model relies on selling an actual product and said product can only be affordable if you leverage cheap labor (and given historical context: very questionable working conditions).

However, for the sake of maintaining consistency with the article and staying relevant I have revised this post.

Tim Cook is there to give a speech at a Privacy conference. I thought his comments were consistent with how Apple has been presenting itself over the last years. This gives me some confidence that Cook will continue to lead and push for stronger privacy laws while fighting against politicians who look to weaken encryption
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WhatsApp is (we are told) end-to-end encrypted using the same protocol as Signal.
"hey Siri"

- I'm sorry Dave, I don't have a network connection, I cannot respond to you.

"But you just did."

- I'm sorry Dave, I didn't understand you.
You're addressing the technical problem but Tim Cook is addressing the political problem, which is more effective at tackling the root causes.
…did you just reply to your own comment?
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I agree, and you can also tell that Apple is on the right side of this because of that FBI phone unlocking case. Apple fought the government tooth and nail, and they made it literally impossible to do for later models of phones. That whole incident really impressed me.

Of the "giant evil megacorporations that will dominate our cyberpunk future", I think Apple has slightly more moral sense and backbone compared to Google and Facebook. Not much, but it's something.
No I'm not. I'm asking "how can I pay my people". Your snark doesn't help. If you say that asking people to be contractors is tax fraud, then I ask you what the alternative is. It's an honest question, we're an honest company. Don't assume the worst.
Yes, the values are too vague. The twelve principles are better for conveying what Agile is trying to be.

The "responding to change" point means in practice that it's better to deviate from a plan than to not have any plan to deviate from. The plan has to be adjusted all the time. For that to be possible, there has to be a plan.

The twelve principles are very basic, common sense. Common sense is not common though.
Not sure what happened there, was trying to reply to @mtgx https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18291227
You're mistaking Apple for Hooli.
IMO the point _should be_ to educate, and not to belittle readers. The list looks very interesting, but it's too terse to take away anything from it.
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Man thats a cool insight !! Never thought about the mechanism like that !
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It was forked in 2010, so the the differences after 8 years of separate development are probably quite significant. (But both clients let you add third-party repositories, so in that regard there is no difference.)
Well if Windows were running primarily on Azure then the hardware and configurations are a known set so the surface area on which to test reduces dramatically.
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> And yet what I'm hearing so much is the Agile Industrial Complex imposing methods upon people, and that to me is an absolute travesty.

I find it depressing that Fowler sees the same problem I do. I have yet to find a shop that practices “agile” in a way that's actually consistent with the Agile Manifesto. What I've been seeing instead was micromanagement and cargo cult. All power to make decisions lies with management and if there are developers involved at all, it's the top one or two who are de facto part of management.
I have owned couple of google phones (Nexus and Pixel). Today for the first time ever I am considering buying an iPhone. I would pay premium for privacy on Google devices if they make it available. And we now know what the price is - $40 in EU. Just sell it like this Google.
I'm always amazed at peoples' ability to observe users, and when user behaviour doesn't match up with the intended design, think "Hmm... the users have a pervasive misunderstanding. They need to be educated to understand the design."

Could it be that the model you describe doesn't fit the mental model of a typical human very well? Could the cause of this "pervasive misunderstanding" be bad design, rather than dumb users?
Doesn't this statement ignore a huge amount of context?
Google sets a pretty good standard over at https://myactivity.google.com/ IMO. But yeah the whole passive data collection e.g Wifi networks done the Street View cars, as one example, bears scrutiny. Likewise Android
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To be perfectly honest, I'd most likely invest in Amazon at the earliest chance I got and let Bezos build Amazon as he did.

I don't worship Amazon (nor currently own any shares other than via index funds), but I'm a very happy customer of many of their businesses and think they've created vastly more good than ill. I'd rather they continue doing what they're doing.