skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The office developed gradually over decades and centuries into one of administration of the royal finances, and under Henry VII, the Groom of the Stool became a powerful official involved in setting national fiscal policy, under the "chamber system".

and later:

> ... It is a matter of some debate as to whether the duties involved cleaning the king's anus, but the groom is known to have been responsible for supplying a bowl, water and towels and also for monitoring the king's diet and bowel movements[6] ...

Freud had some fascinating ideas on the connection between money and defecation:

> ... In reality, wherever archaic modes of thought have predominated or persist... money is brought into the most intimate relationship with dirt. We know that the gold which the devil gives his paramours turns into excrement after his departure ...

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/about-money/brown-gold

It appears the English monarchy were tapping into something primal by linking the office of royal defecation helper with finance.
It would be interesting to see an "impact" score for these sites. (in average impressions perhaps)

It would be even more interesting to see a comparison with an "impact score" for a write up in TechCrunch etc.
> But it'll be slower, more expensive, and less transnational etc

That's the issue with your idea though. For the current status quo all I need is a valid credit card and the ability to type
"curl -H "hibp-api-key: <whatever the key is>" https://haveibeenpwned.com/api/v3/breachedaccount/test@examp...

I can have that done in less then 60 seconds, it fits his threat model, and can be done in any language with a tcp lib.

Your idea isn't bad, it just does not fit the problem.
Hopefully this is just US-based employee surveillance as this type of employee-data data mining is strictly illegal in Germany.
Oh. That's unfortunate. I am culturally inept. I was intending to be mildly jocular (in a dry way) and got swooshed. Welcome to Friday, I guess.

(There was no onion-on-the-belt reference, so at that point - I was lost!)
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20473819
> Such that they think implementing one of the most universally hated office schemes

I'not sure open offices are so unpopular in practice.

I suspect a handful of people with misophonia are passionately against them. A sizable minority think they makes work more fun, and the remainder are indifferent.

As someone who loathes them myself, I read all kinds of articles about how awful they are. But that's how news works: I'm a likely click for any article that vindicates my hatred of my stupid boss. So while I've seen plenty of surveys showing people complaining about it, I'm doubtful I'm seeing the same data management is.

I've simply never seen anyone really protest it. It's a small sample, but if I've worked with a hundred people, that predicts the real value is small. I even had a team that actively wanted management to remove the dividers when we had half-cubes, and I was the lone holdout!
I agree with your list of benefits. Only thing I really want to comment on (but see my response elsewhere) is

> My interest in strong privacy engineering means, frankly, I don't give a shit about federation.

I think the point of federation is that I don't know any way to get all three of the following:

1. I can run my own server, and keep my own account on it. (Last I checked, Signal couldn't realistically do that, but maybe things have changed or I was mistaken.)

2. I can communicate with one of my sources without them having to sign up for an account on my server (which may not be possible in certain conditions).

3. The protocol is not federated.

But maybe we mean slightly different things by federation.

Anyway, I'm sorry you've been targeted by people overly enthusiastic about the merits of PGP. I'm certainly not one - it's absolutely a very flawed approach.
I like how “The office developed gradually over decades and centuries into one of administration of the royal finances”. Money don’t smell, huh?
Are there any semi-automated services for this? Back when I made Flash games there was a service that would submit it to a list of websites for you and distributed information along with it (like control and screenshots). It was very, very handy.
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I am right there with you. I did the same thing, and now when I jump into Vim from anywhere, it's so much easier.

Though I really do like having the Capslock key remapped to escape.
Depending on your job there's no reason that you would ever need to use defaults. You should optimize your editor for your day-to-day use case
Very true, SMS feels super clunky and hobbled compared to many of the better alternatives we have. Thanks for the optimism :-)
Great dissection of the poem/author.
Raise taxes? They need to stop giving free money to residents first, that is the direct cause of this budget crisis.
The bad guys have access to it either way. That's the whole point: this is data that already leaked.
Probably right. The same is true of roaches and flies.
You are correct, the Krebs article I cited does not say that. But it's my strong hunch.

There was much discussion of the poor state of Baltimore's IT infra (see https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2019/05/21/baltimores-out-of-d...), and at the same time Microsoft released a patch for an RDS flaw (CVE-2019-0708, https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/05/14/prevent-a-worm-by...) which says "Vulnerable in-support systems include Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2008. Downloads for in-support versions of Windows can be found in the Microsoft Security Update Guide. Customers who use an in-support version of Windows and have automatic updates enabled are automatically protected. "

So unpatched servers are where I'm laying my money.
This probably gonna get me killed but I've got to put it out there.

I was so disappointed by the food and music scene in Nashville. Literally every restaurant was some trendy clone of some vaguely hipster cracker barrel (one exception). The music I could find (with one exception) was just sad cover bands doing the same Counting Crows covers over and over again.

Redeeming restaurant: Princes hot chicken. Got that shit at a XXX and it melted my face. Wonderful.

Redeeming venue: High Watt/ Mercy lounge. I don't remember who I saw but it was great.

If you know better places to eat/ find good up-and-coming music in Nashville, please let me know. I want it to live up to what I think it could be.
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http://mentalfloss.com/article/26838/why-are-coupons-worth-1...

Sure but they are basically worthless
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Civil rights, Apollo, total cultural leadership, leading decolonisation the world over, Bretton Woods still on, net exporter still, pre local peak-oil...
this +

nvi had more direct lineage to true vi, Keith Bostic was in the Bill Joy headspace, but it kind-of got stuck. Vim diverged in ways which used to annoy me but I've come to accept.

I won't mention "the other editor family" here but it is interesting to see the things in that one, which I miss in this one (for me at least) which are principally the ability to cut-paste regions, and a set of things which became screen and tmux. Now there IS screen and tmux, that matters less.

Not having 2D region cut-paste is a small price to pay for the joys of a modal editor.
"a complete lack of understanding of people."

As a former McKesson employee, i'd say you found the issue.
I am not arguing the importance of backups, but tbh, simple is not a fair statement.

At the very least, if you have backups, you might have the ability to rebuild/redeploy, but for any non-trivial system, without a comprehensive DR plan that is drilled regularly, even having backups won't save the business if the tooling to get those backups into a production ready state.
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When they shut down the artist portal they said this:

> With the launch of YouTube Music last year, we eventually plan to replace Google Play Music with YouTube Music. In anticipation of this change, we are shutting down the Artist Hub.

Source:

https://9to5google.com/2019/04/03/google-play-music-shutdown...
Strange example. Signal does support unencrypted sms which would make it easy for someone to forward a previously encrypted message as plain text.
Campaigning and voting in elections are several orders of magnitudes more effective than paper straws or reusable shopping bags.
I suggest reading the article you linked to realize that it doesn't at all categorize my comment.
Nashville is somehow an even more overrated version of Austin don't @ me.

edit: sorry, I sometimes forget that humor is unilaterally banned on HN. my mistake.
Almost all of them but HN loves jumping on the bandwagon.
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Increasing taxes is exactly what people would oppose, and a party that promises to scrap/not implement the tax will take opportunity to capture votes. This shouldn't be hard to understand.
It seems pretty obvious the cornerstone of that narrative is a poorly functioning market, lacking competition, price transparency, freedom of choice, etc.
On the other hand it's a fix with a limited potential, and an investment in coal plants. Usually many coal advocates try to sugar coat "clean coal".
What did you use for "looks like a password"?
The past year I've changed quite a bit about myself due to self-reflection. My SO and I were having some issues and I told her outright I wished she put as much effort and time into our relationship as she did her career.

But that got me thinking about how I'm perceived professionally versus how I'm perceived personally. How am I regarded to everyone in my life outside of work? Around the office, I've worked hard to be seen and described as a calm, level headed guy who is well rounded with both hard dev skills and soft skills. Am I that outside of work? The truth is I can be impatient, I can be fierce, and my standards can certainly feel unachievable from others. I consciously draw a hard line showing that in any workplace setting. I get it from my father and upbringing. He was a hardened road cop for work and a loving, yet strict father at home. I was living his work-life temperament in reverse. I didn't want to reverse it, just carry over the good. I'm now in my early thirties, about the time he had me.

Easier said than done, but simply put, I've stopped giving a shit about the little things that ultimately add up to so little importance in life. The ingraining of this took a while, but I'm (nearly) unphaseable now. I live life with better temperament. I'm a warmer person. It's led to less stress and and a happier personality. I've also striven to see my parents more and to be the catalyst to spending time with friends. It feels better to give out to others than take in. I still live a perpetually busy schedule, but days are relatively easy and fulfilling, rather than a grind like before.

Point is I believe this thread is targeted to the workplace, but don't ignore everything outside of it. It took me long enough to realize it's much more important.
I don't see anything special to US in that phenomenon. I'd even say that US is notably better than most of the world in keeping its 2nd tier cities alive economically.

Most of Asia had that problem for decades, where only 1st tier cities had market for jobs above the "better than nothing" level.

It is either USA becoming more like Asia here, after few decades lag, or it is American second tier cities actually sliding back.
Where does one go to learn emacs basics?
I doubt the Inuits do, but probably most of the people in Anchorage/Fairbanks.
Yeah, like... Seattle? Toasted grasshoppers are fairly popular at Mariners games.

https://www.si.com/eats/2017/07/06/seattle-mariners-grasshop...
My Gastroenterologist said the invention of the disposable sigmoidoscope revolutionised his industry. Maybe the groom of the stool dreamed of that...
To be fair, my wife and I were both "definitely no children MAYBE 1" for a long time, but now that we live in an area with lots of 4+ children families (middle of Ireland) it doesn't seem so outlandish to have 3. We won't, because 1) we're old and 2) We should really view 2 as a hard max if we're going to try not to destroy Earth (though since it looks like we will anyway you might as well just have as many as you want I guess. More soldiers on your side for the food wars).
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Ha. Yes. Fair point. I was not precise in my wording.

I was specifically referring the "last mile" of distribution that gets it to my front door. I want to go to the store, and pore the produce.

I don't think Amazon, or grocery-start-up-of-the-month is going to fix that by removing people further from their food. They seem to optimizing for convenience, not the problem I referred to.
Thank you for giving such an indepth summary of headless and all its meanings. I'm glad we are all now up to speed.

However as you've highlighted, its not whats going on here.

I will accept:

o Content-as-a-service

o multi-play publishing

o API driven syndication

o multiplatform publishing

but "headless"? Its a half arsed term to supposedly differentiate them in a crowded marketplace.
I think his point is that "old people" won't live with the outcome of their votes. It's not a generally correct point, but it makes sense from the perspective that they don't have skin in the game.
That’s very cool!
implies that I should be concerned about some random sleazeball for raising my healthcare costs, rather than the insurance companies themselves

We must have read the title differently.
I have been hearing about WA 38 for a while, and I am eagerly looking forward to tasting it this fall.
I go for a heap of plugins but don't remap the things that start off built-in, so I get the muscle-memory for the defaults when I need a remote shell somewhere, but still the useful plugins on my own computer.
.NET runs great on Linux! You should learn about it.
To anyone who hasn't tried it - http://www.vimgolf.com/ is probably the quickest and most fun way to take your skills to the next level.
There's nothing worth watching in Netflix now. I find myself spending more time on Prime Video where I can find richer content through Prime movies and subscription channels like HBO, Starz and PBS (for British murder mystery shows). Moreover, Netflix is getting its recommendations for me completely wrong. Without user reviews, I've no idea if the content is good. I'm not going to waste my time watching some random show if I find that it's crappy 2 episodes in. Prime on the other hand shows me IMDB ratings (which are good enough) along with user ratings.
Gaming keyboards tend to be the cheapest high-quality mechanical keyboards.
I am not familiar with this domain, anyone mind answering: What does this mean for amateur radio practitioners, and what does this mean for the greater internet/communications industry?
MAC addresses are not used in a purely routed/virtualized network.

qemu uses the same MAC address by default.
I don't even really like apples but for some reason i've been following this apple for several years... very excited to try it!
They're not really all that close. For instance that Autograd library requires that you use its own version of numpy instead of the regular version because it can't differentiate C. Because most non-trivial python code is actually written in C, there's almost no performant programs you can just differentiate out of the box unless autograd itself has a fork of that package.

My understanding is that the python Autograd library is also quite slow (though it's been a while since I looked at it).

Zygote will give the same runtime performance as handwritten derivatives in many cases and works across almost the entire julia ecosystem since nearly all julia packages are truly written in julia.
Turkey Twizzlers?
Back when I lived in Seattle, the Honeycrisp at the farmer's market down the street were ginormous. I had never seen them that size anywhere else in the country.
There's nothing immoral about charging for content that you've aggregated. People sell dictionaries.

The problem here is that instead of building APIs (or just posting to FTP sites), governments are building offices and funding staff to answer snail mail requests. Or building sophisticated web forms and search engines.

It's obvious how we got to this point (before the internet, you obtained public records by walking into an office) but it's long past time to change. We don't need fancy web forms to search and find data; cut all that out and just provide data in machine readable form to anyone who wants it.

Someone will build a pretty commercial interface to public records data. Chances are, they can do it for less than the 8-figure sum required for UI development in the public sector. Win-win.
Tip of the iceberg.

I know a fellow that got a bill a drug testing company didn't mean to send him. He was meant to check for a single restricted medication because of some treatment regimen he was on. Instead, it checked for pretty much everything and automatically rechecked both positive and negative results.

Long story short, a $50 test turned into a $2500 test, invisible to all but the testing company and the insurance company.

The testing company told him to ignore the bill and, indeed, he wasn't charged that amount. It piqued his curiosity and offended his sense of fairness and it led him down a disturbing rabbit hole of uncovering some very bad behavior and desperately trying to get folks to do notice what was happening and do something about it.

Basically, this company seems to be in the business of bribing doctors through ridiculously priced leases in their medical office that they pay for to house their 'testing advisors'. We're talking on the order of $15K a month for a broom closet. In return, doctors use the testing company's pre-filled documents for requesting testing -- standing orders for the whole suite of tests with re-checks rather than just what is needed.

By the time the insurance companies caught on they'd amassed a huge war chest and were more than happy to tie up the courts fighting claims that they're doing something wrong.

One reason I support universal healthcare even though, generally, I'm a free-market proponent, is because it would make this kind of fraud a lot easier to spot and the federal government has a lot more tools to bring to bear to stop it.
Governments and online communities are two very different things, and the key concern with government censorship is that there is no recourse or alternative.
That's a really low bar for them to beat.
Windows strategy: one way dfs replication to onsite backup server hooked up to an offsite cloud backup provider.
A machine may become your boss
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My point was more "hey that seems like a MikeRoweSoft [1] potential legal quagmire, terrible for branding and SEO and a great way to be mocked and not taken seriously at all by potential clients".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft
Use of the term in searches seems to have picked up quite a bit over the past couple of years, so might not have been in such common use ~3yrs ago:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
All questions are answered at https://www.ampr.org/amprnet/ (which was submitted several times but didn't make the front page).
I’m not convinced.

Again, jQuery was an easy sell. Saying manual DOM manipulation is messy… not so much.
Next thing you know, business owners will think it's a good idea to have everyone put on an eeg skull cap to monitor thoughts, emotions and attention while employees work!

Vote with your feet if the surveillance starts feeling creepy. I think people sign up to do a job, not be a guinea pig in some sort dystopian Skinner box. There should be limits on what personal information is collected.
The AD-DC works pretty well these days, and has been adopted as a standard solution by a major European government (what helps is a local vendor committing to support the solution).

There are also some large cloud-based companies using it (and I mean other than the Amazon "Simple AD" solution that they never really promoted much - my suspicion was they did that to get a better price from Microsoft :-).

Hang out on the samba-technical@lists.samba.org list and you'll find around 70-80% of the questions are from Samba-AD-DC users - the fileserver is considered a somewhat solved problem these days.

Look at the email domains to get an idea of who is using it and for what.
D has a garbage collector, and yet you can use it for operating system development: https://dlang.org/areas-of-d-usage.html#operating_systems

Lisp has a garbage collector, and yet you can use it for operating system development: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano

Go has a garbage collector, and yet you can use it for operating system development: http://lsub.org/ls/clive.html
Is there an extensible JMAP core (what this RFC presents) server framework available? I know there are JMAP mail/contacts/calendar server implementations, but it'd be interesting to have a fairly clean starting point for other potential applications...
I remember the first time I ran `vimtutor` in my terminal. A lot changed since then! Although I just stick with defaults since I have my IDE for my day-to-day job.
This is a bad take. You're assuming that incoming folks won't change the politics of funding decisions of the city. In most cases, they do change them, and change cities for the better.
This brings back memories of the time before Google Search.
The problem is that every user has a different 10-15% of features that aren't covered by G-Suite... and o365 is definitively better than G-Suite. Setup an inbound email list, for example. I've tried both a few times, and consistently the experience with o365 is better.

I want to like google's offering, they just don't seem to care much about actual user experience or cohesion in features and configuration. As much as Teams isn't as good as slack in a lot of ways, it's better than gsuite... as okay as gmail and gcalendar are, outlook (even web) is just so much better.

The spreadsheet stuff is almost on par, MS has better integrations. The doc stuff is significantly better in o365 word.

G Suite would have to drop closer to $2/user/month to really be a value alternative even.
points to a bigger issue: a complete lack of understanding of people.

What makes you think they even want this kind of understanding? Not to mention the handwavey vagueness of "understanding people."
gotta agree with you on the windows phone thing... circa 2012 the Nokia windows phones were really well built AND they had the easiest operating system to use at the time... windows had burned so many people by that point though that no one was having any of it.
I'm not a fan of modern js-ridden site implementations but a search engine that displays a resource different from what will actually be consumed by the user is a bad search engine.

Perhaps you can put the blame on the creator of the site, but that won't bring us anywhere if we just allow people to game the system.
Not hard until you want to become involved in an organization that happens to use Facebook as their primary platform for broadcasting information. Or maybe you really would like to see photos of your newborn niece or nephew. Depends on your situation.
From what I heard, it’s own people got tired of Ghadaffi’s crap and revolted, but let e know if that is just western media bias.
Is there a way of freezing a compromised machine, such that the contents of RAM are kept around for forensics, but the compromised system can't do any more damage to itself?
SysRq? Intel ME?