skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I get older, I see the opposite happening. At least with individual contributor roles.

Young workers bring naivety with them. They think they can "make a difference" and have little to risk by pushing back.

The older workers seem to settle into happily getting their tasks done so they can go home and do something they enjoy - hobbies, family, etc.
Despite struggles, Facebook isn’t giving up on Watch
GOG is successful and their financial status is good and is indicating their investment in their growth (instead of lining their pockets while doing nothing). I doubt Kotaku has more info than their own shareholders.
Companies pay what a skillset is worth. It's a market.
Right to Repair Initiatives Gain Support in US
I don't think that's accurate:

"The proportion of high school students who earned three or more credits in occupational education — typically an indication that they're interested in careers in the skilled trades — has fallen from 1 in 4 in 1990 to 1 in 5 now, according to the U.S. Department of Education."

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/25/605092520/high-pa...
No. Lambda charges you only for when your application is actually handling request (or other events). That isn't an option with Fargate.
Germany will in fact have the worst ratio of population per member of parliament after the 2019 elections, with 860k people per MEP vs Maltas 77k people per MEP, on the other end of the scale:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apportionment_in_the_European_...
I moved my blog from Medium to a static site hosted on Netlify's free. I'm really, really impressed with Netlify.

A++++++ would recommend.
Build Real Time Maps in Angular with Mapbox GL
Successful migration to a custom XMPP solution
According to the article, the course was developed by Sheryl Sorby. Googling her produces

https://www.higheredservices.org
I don’t agree. The failure(s) weren’t in the old stuff, they were in the poor and ultimately unsafe cover-up (for lack of a better word) of the new.

The CG change from the new engines specifically, being masked by new software, MCAS. The only old part culpable is the legacy 737 limit of 2 AoA sensors (with only 1 used for MCAS input (a new thing)).
Can you link to the article you are referring to?

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19567399
You can look at the ASVAB test used by the military since 1968. One of the categories of the first iteration of the test was space perception. Studies of ASVAB results between men and women have found that men score higher on the composite technical aptitude score even at lower general intelligence than women.

The reality is that men have been observed to have, for whatever reason, higher proficiency at spatial reasoning than women long before video games were a thing. To say that 3d video games played by boys and men has led to boys and men being better at spatial reasoning is fallacious when it's known that this existed before video games were broadly available. It also is logical to see that video games that play into the strong suit of men and boys is going to attract more men and boys.
Definitely don't expect Apple to bring back serial ports, just pointing out that if Laptops smaller than a MacBook Pro can have HDMI, serial, USB A, USB C, ethernet, and VGA then I don't buy any arguments about getting rid of ports to keep the device small.
Functional isn't safer or modern, and Python is about as safe as they come. Try out type hinting if you're scared of duck typing.

Besides, safety for its own sake isn't all it's cracked up to be. I'm happy to take on additional risk in my development process if it allows me to move as fast as Python does. I can account for that risk in other areas, like how I deploy changes and how I do redundancy/failover.
Just tried creating a service with the sample image and love the quick deployment time compared to AppEngine Flex.

I noticed that the console shows a traffic percentage for each revision, but no apparent way to change it. Any plans to support traffic splitting, or at least a one-click way to re-activate (or re-deploy) an older revision?
I think this is an example of developers taking questions quite literally: You don't need to become a manager, but many (myself included) would admit that it does help.

You also might want to take into account the age and seniority of most developers on the platform - for someone with <10 years of experience, it's likely that you absolutely have an avenue to make more money without becoming a manager.
Supernova 1987A
Interesting that GINI coefficient doesn't seem to be correlated with happiness (except in Europe, for some reason). Reminds me of Taleb's assertion that people don't resent the rich simply for being rich, they resent rich people who have no skin in the game. Perhaps rich Europeans are perceived as having less skin in the game?
OpenJDK is the name of an open source implementation of Java. It started as an open sourcing of part of the codebase to Sun's JDK, and gradually more parts moved from the closed source portions to the open source ones (i.e. OpenJDK). Sometimes, some closed source, commercial features were added, but as of JDK 11, Oracle completed open sourcing the entire JDK -- that's OpenJDK.

IBM still have their own VM, J9, and while they produces JDK builds that they misleadingly call OpenJDK, they are not. They replace the OpenJDK JVM (HotSpot) with theirs, but keep the standard libraries. So it's not OpenJDK, but it's a JDK that uses most of the OpenJDK standard libraries.

Azul have two JDKs. They have the proprietary Zing, which uses their own VM (which, in turn, is a modification of HotSpot, which they licensed, with their own optimizing compiler and GC) and the OpenJDK libraries, and the open source Zulu, which is an OpenJDK build.

I think IcedTea is also an OpenJDK build.

> What the hell is this thing: https://hub.docker.com/_/openjdk Is that Oracle's OpenJDK release, which is different from Oracle Java? Or is this the IceTea release?

Good question.
Yes, thanks, Cloud Armor is what I meant.
Maybe they work as an app or web dev?
Yes on both accounts.
Don't be humbled. 20yos interpret humility as weakness. :)
what you’re saying is what? we don’t know if it was intentional or not?
Well, maybe the people asking questions are below and the people answering them are above.
Even in the companies where they do actually care how the trial works out it's usually just "did it work?" and not "is this a good idea?". Often the expensive enterprise product can be made to work with a great deal of effort, and that's good enough to go forward.
I won't agree that a horrendous censorship bill is helfpul for anyone, except for corrupt supporters of police state methodology and control freaks from the obsolete industries who don't care about human rights as long as they can extend their information control craze (under pretense for copyright) to further reaches to satisfy their thirst for power. They are the abusers here and they should be stopped.
We at Cloudrun [0] are excited to try Cloud Run for scaling our platform! :)

[0] https://cloudrun.co/
Berkeley HS student tried to rig his own election, exposing cybersecurity flaws
The Chrome Reaper
Three years ago, The Atlantic published a long article about the drastic increase in suicides among students in Palo Alto, which shares a border with Stanford. While their focus is on high school students, those same students are groomed for and often accepted into Stanford. If their social climate contributes to their problems, then it's worrisome to consider that the social contributions could be spreading to Stanford as well.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-sil...
OK, but what I am saying is that even if individual identities _remain_ anonymous, there's still a serious problem with the acquisition of aggregate information about a population.

Users are pumping out their data en-masse and entities are buying it from the surveillance capitalism "apparatus" provided by Google and the like.

That might be just fine if these entities are just companies that want to sell us soap and pop-tarts, but now we're seeing that there are other not-so-agreeable entities who want this data and are able to use in ways that the populace would find repulsive, including being incompatible with what they think is democracy.

In other words, the scary part of surveillance capitalism is that we "lose as a whole", not as individuals.
5G Deployment: State of Play in Europe, USA and Asia [pdf]
I have a hard time believing a paid browser would ever get big. People just do not care enough.
Thanks for sharing your experience, it sounds like it's much harder than I'd think (as a cis hetero man) to be non-binary. This might be wildly off-topic, but if you wouldn't mind answering, I have a question about workplace bathroom policing. Last week I was leaving the men's bathroom at work and saw someone walking in, who very much looked to me to be a woman. I had a split second to think about if I should say something or not, and didn't say anything. About two seconds later I was walking away and saw this person leaving the bathroom quickly, so I think they were a cis woman and accidentally went into the wrong bathroom.

Was not saying anything the right move here? I imagine non-binary folks get a lot of "are you sure this is the right bathroom for you?", and I'd hate to contribute to that accidentally.
Agreed with others, Netlify is awesome. I deploy my personal Hugo site https://zwbetz.com/ to it, as well as all my Hugo themes
I personally feel that browsers are headed entirely in the wrong direction - "one thing well" no longer applies in this space.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a lightweight browser, if such a thing even exists anymore? Perhaps Chromium + Scriptsafe + uBlock is what I need, but ultimately I want is a tabbed browser without a load of unnecessary features bundled in.

For example; there is no way I would trust the VPN embedded into a browser, thereby rendering it useless bloat. Much like I don't trust the ad blocker in Brave for Android, but I find the experience better than Firefox mobile, and carry on using it despite my displeasure.
Advice on moving over to dev ops from web dev?
I like your site design (and the most recent article), particularly the side/margin notes. I had done a similar thing on a previous incarnation of my own site but eventually decided to keep them in the footnotes section so that the focus would be kept on the essay. But seeing them here makes me rethink that decision.

I am slowly working my way through Web Typography by Richard Rutter (http://www.book.webtypography.net/) as I redesign my website. You may find it helpful as well. Another inspiration is Craig Mod's (https://craigmod.com) site (of which I took more than a few suggestions from).

Looking forward to reading your other articles! Good luck with the writing practice.

Edit: Change 'first article' to 'most recent article'.
Is anyone surprised seeing Bash/shell scripting being so popular? In my experience, I have seen very few people taking Bash scripting seriously. And it is frowned upon in tech interviews.
Thought about this a lot and at the end decided that the best way to not drown was to not go swimming in the first place.

My work computer runs vanilla Ubuntu. Nothing personal ever touches it. My personal laptop is a Toshiba from 2005 running openbsd. I don't store data, except code that goes to GitHub. I don't use a smartphone but have a dumb Nokia for the occasional call, but that is very rare these days.

Other than that, I guess I follow a very practical approach to data. There's no danger of losing it if I don't have any to begin with.
You could fire back with "Well of course, that [foosball, beer] is a given, that's how my last workplace was. Can we talk about what unique perks your company offers?"
I would bet that the vast majority of government websites are nothing more than simple forms or informational pages.

Yes, I'll Grant you that if you've designed an interactive, multipage form then it is costly to rebuild it to degrade. However, I'd argue that the form was probably unnecessary technically complex and that starting with having a degraded option in the first place isn't additionally costly (and better protects the agency from ada lawsuits).

In the very rare cases that we're talking about a true webapp (i.e. Google docs, or I'll even Grant you GIS (mapping)visualizations, even if it's possible to degrade those), then yes, decisions need to be made on what minimal technical requirements are required. E.g. a government agency offering an application that only works in chrome would be a non starter.
The bill will hit smaller business much harder than real behemoths, thus strengthening the rule of big American corporations which can afford content filtering.
I had this book and typed in several of the games. Horserace was surprisingly fun to play with my friends.
Solving the problem of USD value calculations in crypto tax reporting
Interesting side note: The designer of the map Pasha Omelekhin seems to work mostly for the Russian agency Art. Lebedev where he was also involved in the official redesign of the new Moscow metro map [1]. They also have detailed process descriptions for most of their projects.

Among others the agency works for big Russian state owned corporations, like Gazprom.

[1] https://www.artlebedev.com/metro/map3/
We allow them to start businesses with little to no overhead. Let them solve problems as they see them and hire people to help.

Even with the explosion of software related businesses, the actual growth of new small businesses has been grinding to a halt [0]. I'd argue that this is specifically a regulation and paperwork issue from local all the way up to Federal levels.

If we want to "create jobs" for people who are displaced, we need to allow for new jobs to be created. The government can't "create" jobs, no matter how much money it has or taxes it levies. Unless everyone works for the government. Then we're on our way to some kind of bureaucratic totalitarianism.

[0] "Firm Size" - https://www.bls.gov/bdm/entrepreneurship/entrepreneurship.ht...
I think he was referencing a famous Dijkstra letter "GOTO Statement Considered Harmful".
The title of this article is misleading. "Backdoor" implies a deliberate mechanism built into the software, but here there's no evidence that the vulnerability wasn't simply a mistake.
Sure, we could, but I suppose one of the big offers here is that it is managed and we don't have to deal with running it ourselves. GKE on AWS doesn't solve my (1,2) concerns.
Sorry, maybe there's some misunderstanding. I'm saying that the total value of all goods and services produced by humans today will remain at least as big once you replace the people with robots. This frees up the people to do whatever they want, creating additional marginal value. The sum total of value of (humans) is < (humans + robots). It's probably strictly speaking, double, although I was allowing some wiggle room because of your value system (not judging, just trying to meet you on your turf).

Narrowing the gap between the haves and the have nots is something I'm incredibly passionate about too. However, the way to do that IMO isn't by making the have-nots hit things with a hammer in a factory or root around in the ground for shiny rocks while longing for the good old days. It's going to take real social reform and hard work.
I can't imagine that a tenant temporarily obstructing the view of a security camera qualifies as simple vandalism in my country but maybe you live in a different place.

If that's the case then merely standing in view of the camera would qualify as vandalism as well because you'd be obstructing the view of what is behind you.
United has a route where the return leg is so short that they make you sit in the plane for an extra hour after you land.

The issue is that they're required to take off from Ben Gurion airport before a certain hour to meet the nighttime curfew / noise abatement requirements. But that has the flight landing in SFO an hour before the customs and immigration desks open, and they're not allowed to open the doors until then.

Wish there was a way to make this particular flight a little longer...
I assume you saw the note on truffleHog in the article? The paper found it to be rather inaccurate outside of the basics (mainly AWS keys). Hopefully the authors open source their stuff.
Untargeted advertising is very often more egregious than merely telling people a product exists. Traditional pre-digital advertising runs the gamete from "Come to me and I'll fix your car" to "You are ugly and unpopular, but you can fix that by drinking our caramel colored sugar water." Advertising that tries to induce then exploit self esteem issues is a plague.
Ocean Builders – Life Above the Waves
I don't know who downvoted you, but I upvoted you because I think it's unfair to downvote someone just because they have a different opinion.

I have been downvoted too many times before with no explanation so it's just right that I do what I think is right for others.

Back to the topic at hand. If you tell me that by giving you the essay backed by scientists the article I provided is missing, will help change your opinion I will hunt it down and provide it to you.

> Yeah. Other than a revolution, the most realistic way to make sure that happens is to vote for people who care about this stuff, and against e.g people who claim climate change is a hoax.

We don't need a government to do anything or a revolution. We actually need the opposite. Keep the government out of it and you will see how much better our lives will get. Freedom is the path to success.
But once he was on the transplant list he still had to wait and he still gamed it to shorten that wait.

Which makes me wonder why he didn't just get a Chinese liver at that point.
This is a very interesting article. Huawei is quite clever in its strategic approach, but Apple is not that desperate (yet).
Awesome. I'd be interested in adopting it to use for French!
OOh right, i'm a founder. I feel the opposite of burning out.
It's China. I'm not American and don't have a dog in this fight, but I'm inclined to believe that the Chinese are never up to any good.
So will Google start to pay bribes to big wigs and government people ( start.. lol ) in order to gain contracts?

They are investing greatly in Kubernetes but it seems still a long way to go before the lock-in is achieved, so they can use more Oracle tricks.
>One other small difference between the EU, and the USSR, is that T-54 tanks don't start rolling in, when your country decides to hold a little regime change... Or even a general strike.

T-54 are quite outdated, so you're right there.
Oppression doesn’t matter. It only takes a few generations for anyone who doesn’t naturally love being enthusiastically servile to the state to weed themselves out of the gene pool. By then the obedience is baked in at the genetic level. The survivors of this process aren’t worth feeling sorry for.
Chrome 73 on Windows 10, the site is definitely hijacking the browser's back button. Spamming it works, but a single press is not enough to get away from Twitter.

Worth investigating whether this is due to a redirect, or whether it's due to misusing the history API. Either way, it feels very user-hostile.
This argument is made every time regulation against big companies is brought to the table, and it's almost always made... by big companies. If it were true, and it isn't, why would big companies be spending so much money fighting these regulations?

Automated content filtering fails to meet the requirements of the EU article, so it will disproportionately impact large companies which rely on those systems, rather than smaller ones which use human moderation teams.
I think this is perhaps the principal near-term threat of AI: to commodify people into stereotypes.

Pretty much all AI algorithms seek to classify their data (us) into a smaller more manageable number of categories. AI methods work best when each of us 'consumers' fits neatly into one of these classes (whether predefined or emergent; each class's origin doesn't matter). Upon implementation, you shall become a label, so that future interaction with the AI can assume you to be a "Class 137" and lock you into a simplified model (with all your features having low value eigenvectors conveniently excluded). Deviation from this norm will not be tolerated, simply because there's less profit in it.

Blah. If anything, better AI models of the world need to capture more subtlety leading to better user-driven customization, not less. For Predictive Design not to become yet another Big Brother, it needs to reflect each individual's unique constellation of attributes, not the single dumbed-down class they were labeled into.

Seven billion classes. That's the ticket.
Which is exactly how you'd want your backdoor to be perceived when discovered.
Oh, I had completely passed by that site in my own search because it looked like some commercial thing and I was expecting a university course. But this is indeed it, thanks.

$100 to do the course online: https://www.higheredservices.org/product/developing-intellig...
No, but the younger workers often lack the wisdom to see that they need benefits.
Well, you see, this is about products from one brand being able to work as one ecosystem - what we had previously and what we've lost.
Before I had to upgrade my work laptop, when I've got to the office I could just plug my headphones from phone to laptop and that's it - now I have to keep additional ones.
Phone battery run low - I could've just plugged it into a laptop with one cable - now I have to use adapter/charger.
Before all that, if you had to replace your phone/tablet/laptop - you just did that and everything was working as before. Now you have to buy adapters to connect one apple device to another. And don't get me started on travelling.
Opera set itself as the default web browser after install on W10.
That's quite aggressive.
I used to have this idea of a AI chat bot that would ask common questions such as name, address, dependencies, etc... and return a filled 1040 PDF. Turned out I spent more time writing codes to handle the PDF than focusing on the chat bot functionality...

Regardless, I would pay to have such a service.
We can’t leave Grindr under Chinese control
advanced CDNed wordpress from your github source.
That "just" is just your favorite alternative to "npm install". There's nothing "just" about it. Like preferring it was a pip or apt install.
You certainly don't have to. But a lot of younger workers I work for are less likely to be concerned with them.
> I don't know what GCP "doesn't have" for the Enterprise.

Customer service. All the way to the CEO/CTO level, where in event a named customer has a problem and fuming at something, the execs show up at customer's site in person to butter the relationship. Never underestimate how important it is to have a high up person with authority to reassign priorities at a vendor do the executive customer service in order to keep and grow enterprise side healthy.
That's straight up racist.
"Public" also means people, it's just from another language.

One name is about the act of governing and the other is about the property of the governing body.
Ferrets absolutely love running through tight tunnels!

I’ve heard stories (maybe apocryphal?) that ferrets are/were used to run pull cord in long underground fiber conduit runs.
Human rights is at the forefront of my mind. Privacy is a human right, and these companies and these social platforms have been abusing it. Copyright protection is hardly "censorship", and contrary to the marketing and popular belief on the matter, all of the well-understood protections for fair use remain intact with this law.
>2/3 of those in higher education being women, and over 70% of women unwilling to date/marry those of a lower social/education status

Modern hypergamy (Tinder) will create more childless single women in their 40s+ than human civilization has ever seen.
So what, the Chinese aren't allowed to write bugs anymore?
Looks like a bug since clicking the X button on the page does what the back button should do.