skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People on Reddit and Hackernews seem to be mostly pessimistic. I agree with you. Yeah, we have potholes in places and old bridges that need repair, but we managed to put roads across the entirety of the US in a 100 years.

Most of the shitty roads I've seen in the states are in the cities where there are loads of traffic. I'm not really bothered by it.
Jeffrey Epstein’s death was on 4chan before officials announced it
Nobody in this conversation has done so, because nobody in this conversation is attempting to present a complete explanation of the world. Try a very quick search before saying "nobody wants to x". https://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/masculinity-healthy...
> Rather than attacking the business, the ACLU should address the structural issues that prevent people from participating in the mainstream economy.

But, that's exactly what they're doing here. Businesses are an institutionalized, structural component of society and, believe it or not, cash purchases are still part of the mainstream economy.

I know you mean that the ACLU should be focused on making plastic accessible to those who don't have access yet, but I think it's worth acknowledging that the issues with going full plastic might be significantly more difficult to tackle than simply preserving the existing payments system. If we're addressing the systemic inequity behind access to banked payments we're going to have to solve issues pertaining to financial stability, proof of identity and reform an incredibly large, complex bureaucracy which has been designed to exclude the people who don't have access. While you're busy addressing the broader systemic inequity of our finance system, the people who you're trying to help are still going to be facing exclusion by businesses who have gone cashless.

If we accept the premise that a cashless society is a desirable end goal and the very true fact that it isn't the fault of vendors that people have been systemically excluded from newer payments systems, we should also acknowledge there isn't an easy way to fix that. Until that's fixed, it will be up to these businesses to choose whether or not they're going to act in a way that excludes customers with cash.
Context is essential in headline writing. You must consider your audience and the goal. Here, the title of paper plays a very different role to the title of a blog post.

The blog post example is designed to attract a specific audience. Clearly, you are not a member of that audience. However, that does not prevent them from writing articles which would be of interest to you. It also does not mean that the audience doesn't exist, however small you believe it to be.
> Building things to throw away means componentizing your code

No it doesn't. You can really tell who has and hasn't worked at a start-up by the responses to OP.
I have no idea of the details, but this:

> The URGENT/11 vulnerabilities affect the noted VxWorks versions since version 6.5, but not the versions of the product designed for safety certification – VxWorks 653 and VxWorks Cert Edition, which are used by selected critical infrastructure industries such as transportation.

Seems to me more like meaning that a "certified" "safe" version exist but that a lot of companies used (most probably to save money) the "normal" edition, and - indirectly - that the differences between the "normal" and the "certified" editions were known, at least to the developers/company actually making VxWorks.

It would be "queer" that the "certified" editions have "different" mechanisms implemented (for completely different reasons) and only coincidentally they are more secure.
Why is it obvious no MS DB? SQL Server runs on Linux.
I'm not really getting your point. Is it: There are people who have it worst, so we need to stop trying to have it better? Because if so, that's a logical fallacy: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as

Or are you saying that, this kind of article will not win us sympathy from the greater populace, and we should adopt a different strategy in that regard?

Or something else?
We used to have a Gros Michel monoculture, and now we have a Cavendish monoculture. There's not a great candidate for the "next" monoculture, in that TR4 affects all the varieties that ship well.

And bananas, because we want seedless varieties, favor cloning which favors monocultures (both directly because they're, you know, clones; through slow propagation which in turn makes scaling a variety pretty capital intensive, etc.)
I have to say, I think the article has a very poor title. Most of the people discussed said they really liked working at Google, most of the time. They felt their jobs were interesting, did important work, and had impact.

The "misery" I think is talking about the company, not the employees per se. None of the employees in the article claimed they were miserable... and as you can see the simple word "misery" has totally allowed the conversation to bypass anything substantive about Google's policies and focus only on feeeeeelings that aren't even in the article.

I think someone could be miserable at Google. Humans have a remarkable capacity for misery in all sorts of circumstances!
The Cutting Edge of Jazz Swing Theory (2017)
Flying on MVP software must surely be exhilerating.
Committees should rely on the quality of published articles, rather on where these articles are published. As long as the latter mentality persists, it will take a long time.
Actually that makes me feel worse. I've never fully understood that sort of bathroom etiquette, even when it happens in a public restroom at a public park (which is common). But, to hear it happens within Google makes me lose a little bit of hope that we will ever achieve a civil and courteous society.
Would those who regained hearing have tinnitus? I mean, in theory, wouldn't you be able to recover from tinnitus if you made yourself deaf and ate the proteins. Maybe stupid question, but why not?
Yeah, it was a bit rude. Thanks for calling me out. It's just annoying to hear the same complaints over and over when things are improving so much. 10 years ago what we have now was futuristic and a joke.
At least the user should be informed, meaning it should show the bare minimum to allow us to act upon. Something like "USB keyboard connected: [Device specified name]" for common device types. More complicated/dangerous stuff should only run after user acknowledgement. This way there is at least a significant risk to get caught / chance for the user to catch it.

Not sure if I just mis-configured my windows, but it is certainly lacking on that front. The Settings -> Devices -> USB having just a single checkbox for error popups is probably not a good sign.
> banana ripening centers that pump ethylene through a chilled chamber to get them to ripen.

Thanks for sharing this. I've read a few things like this one, regarding "ripening centers" for various fruits, including apples and strawberries.

I am not sure that a banana stays "healthy" after going through a toxic gas - well, apparently the normal concentrations are not toxic to humans [0]: "Ethylene has been found not harmful or toxic to humans in the concentrations found in ripening rooms (100-150 ppm)."

Or maybe IT IS toxic after all? [1]. This is where a national medical/certification/food system should step in and clarify things for good.

[0]: https://www.catalyticgenerators.com/ethylene-c2h4/

[1]: https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/MMG/MMG.asp?id=730&tid=133
> Anything that tries to connect to the internet for a reason that you didn't both understand and ask for in advance is malware.

So, everything?
Open Core: Definition, Examples and Tradeoffs
Where in the article does anyone say they're miserable, though?
> (GitHub) There are some requirements for this attack to work, as far as I'm aware it will only work if you have a display language installed that uses an OoP TIP

There is an IME installed on every Windows 10 installation for at least a year: the emoji IME. You hit WIN + . to invoke it. I'm not sure if it's a OoP TIP.
"Does this code bring me joy?" :P
The Giant Rats That Are Sniffing Out Landmines (2015)
School buses pick up at trivial distances from children's homes, where they can be visually supervised between the door and the bus either by their own parents or by a trusted neighbor. The bus driver passes a background check, and no other adults are allowed. The bus drops off right on school property, not on the other side of a fast road. If a school bus does not come, takes a long detour, or quits mid-route it is national news [0].

For people who can afford alternatives, riding public transit is something you do as an adventurous young adult, and maybe get turned off of even then (sexual harassment, aggressive panhandling, long delays and breakdowns). In the culture I grew up in, sending your 7 year old to navigate that unsupervised every day is bonkers.

[0] https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Bus-Driver-Detour-Fort-L...
Among the many ASes of things they've acquired, Verizon is AS701 / UUNet, which is historically one of the largest and most widespread ASes on the planet. I still think of it as uunet.
Talmudic question: what's the average fertility rate of the clientele worrying about misgendering, and how does that average relate to civilization progressing through time?
So... okay, I did not want to go public at first and emailed privately, but since there are others, and why not:

I too had tinnitus for a long time and it all went away after chelation treatment against chronic mercury poisoning from amalgam fillings after being lucky that it was diagnosed (I had to actively search for a rare researcher/university clinic doctor specialist, nearly no chance with normal doctors). See my post history, I mention it a few times. I could write a few more pages about it all but in this format I'll leave it at that, people with the problem can decide for themselves if this is relevant for them. I was reluctant to post because I know a lot - most? - people don't take low-dose heavy metal poisonings seriously at all. I had people wanting to buy an espresso machine off of me despite me having revealed that I planned to scrap it because the water coming out of it had twice the official limit for lead in it (and the medical limit is zero so any lead would have been bad). Because "how bad can it be, such a tiny amount sure does not matter".

OP is from Scotland and I though it might be relevant because it seems they use that stuff according to this very recent document: https://www.gov.scot/publications/amalgam-dental-fillings-ac...

PS/EDIT:

By the way, my tinnitus went away within year one of chelation treatment. However, after almost a decade (of continued occasional chelation because it still helped) I had a lot of activity all of sudden for a few weeks around both ears. For the last decade I had shifting activity patterns in various areas, so that wasn't a surprise, I had expected something like that since that was a major impacted area. For weeks I could not listen to music and definitely not use a headset. Something was going on there and it wanted quiet.. Anyway, long story short - I can now hear much better than a decade ago! I first noticed because I've had the exact same MP3 player with the exact same songs for well over a decade, and the same in-ear headset for just as long. Suddenly I had to turn the (numerically adjusted) volume much farther down, into regions where previously I could not hear a thing apart from "music plays". Now I have to play everything on about 10-20% less volume than before, and it all happened exactly after those weeks of activity (where I even had to go to a doctor to get the ears cleaned, there was way more ear wax than usual during that time).
Scrum has been a catastrophe to the software industry (argued elsewhere countless times) - I don't want to imagine the consequences it can have for jet figthers.

For such environments you definitely want to have no deadlines at all, to have a special focus on well-defined requirements, and in software quality.

That investment should be marginal compared to hardware costs.

And in fact, by going more slowly, you end up delivering faster after a couple years, when you enjoy zero tech debt and an excellent foundation.
> you're just consuming the junk food version of that culture and are better served reading a wikipedia page or watching a video.

That's extreme. There's plenty of value in traveling to even touristy places in other cultures.
This average increase mark is obviously very useful and important, but there's another dimension to add on to that when it comes to temperature trends.

In the Twin Cities, for instance, the altered jet stream has greatly increased both colder-than-usual and hotter-than-usual patterns that stick around for longer. So although our average increase looks low, for instance this summer espeially we are having unusually hot streaks followed by unusually cold streaks (and the winters have been very bad over the past several years, with two 'polar vortex' years due to arctic air masses displacing on us, which is greatly impacted by climate change and arctic warming).

TL;DR I'd be very interested to look at the data shifts in temperature more deeply and see which areas are impacted by both hotter AND colder weather, which wouldn't show up in an examination of averages.
What Cambodia’s Debt Crisis Means for Microlending
Huh, thanks for the suggestion - done!
Title text says "Blockchain-based alternative for Google Docs".

GDPR mandates "right to be forgotten", which afaik isn't very compatible with how blockchains work.

How do you deal with it?
Google is effectively controlled by Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt through their voting shares. In fact the stated reason for having a dual class of shares was so they can "manage the company for the long run".
I have never once wanted to attach a keyboard to my phone
This is pretty hilarious. So some consultants swooped in, there was 8 weeks of training, and now everything is going to go back to how it was.

Source: seen more than one of these external “transformation” efforts.

“ Through an eight-week Red Hat Open Innovation Labs residency, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics replaced the waterfall development process it used for F-22 Raptor upgrades with an agile methodology and DevSecOps practices that are more adaptive to the needs of the U.S. Air Force.“
Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More
Microsoft is the oldest of them all. Microsoft had its own "teenage years" problems... maybe it has less problems these days because it's more mature?
I meant dialup modem tapping. 2600 or phrack had something about feds being able to wire into telephone line and record/live decode modem connection. You could easily write something like this in GNU Radio for <=2400 links (or use minimodem), but anything higher transmits full duplex on same frequencies - both modems mutually jam each other.
> "I [snip] don't feel like getting into a debate [snip], please leave me alone."

I do this for all manner of things, including political discussions at work. That other people don't hold this as a default position is astounding to me.
"You guys have got a lot of nice words! Any way we can get some of those words over here?"
Design Feedback in 3 Clicks
I get the legacy part of it, but for new development I don't see the benefit. Even if Microsoft offers to subsidize hosting if you use Windows or one of their services, that obviously would not last forever.
Excellent rebuttal.

Something about the presence of a metric and an algorithm causes our brains to switch off.
>Robert Gordon's examples of new technology are almost all physical. It may be true that 1970 was the end of a century long "mechanical age". Now we are in the information age, and innovations are virtual/mental rather than physical.

I think this hits the nail on the head.

The other issue is that the closer to the present we get, the harder to see the impact of any particular advance. This is why, e.g. Nobel Prizes are so late in recognizing work.

That said, some advances are already possible to be recognized: reusable rockets, good search, good automated translation.
It's “clickbaity” in the sense that calling that novel Independence Day was “clickbaity”—it doesn't tell you much about what is contained in the article, or the novel (especially if you’ve seen the movie). You could plausibly argue that it's somewhat misleading, since it isn't about the ancient Semitic god Moloch at all, but rather about the metaphorical Moloch of Allen Ginsberg's Howl.

It is, however, clearly not the same A/B-tested genre as This one weird trick will put an end to your perverse-incentive problems! and Top 7 myths of socialist politics, which are designed to offer a quick, tempting info-snack that you must click through to consume, or be consumed by. In fact, if we were arranging titles by literary quality, I think a more explicit title like How coordination problems result in profoundly suboptimal but very stable Nash equilibria would be closer to the revolting filth above than to the more lapidary title Meditations on Moloch.

Perhaps, though, there is the occasional archæologist specializing in Semitic prehistory who does click on that title and experience a profound disappointment.
This cable targets the host computer it's plugged in to, not the phone.
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Note the heavy creation of new accounts who parrot similar sets of talking points. State-sponsored posting has reached HN. Surprising to me, we are a vanishingly small niche audience -- but it lets you draw conclusions about the extent of wumaodang activity in other venues.
Which is exactly what google is being forced to implement here, except that because there are thousands of search engines, they're auctioning rather than picking the top 10.
Not just technology, but the landscape of our cities too; suburbia, car culture, skyscrapers in the urban core; there haven’t really been radical transformations there either.
Not the original poster but from experience of running windows on everything for over 20 years the risks are: being treated like a criminal until you prove yourself innocent, unreliable and difficult to automate tooling, half-baked clones of ideologies as a me to proposition rather than a product direction, absolutely no support worth mentioning even when you pay for it in organs, schizophrenic roadmaps which never materialise or turn up half baked, pretending to care about the community while shitting on it with telemetry and products being yanked that you rely on. Then QA so bad that it makes me wonder if there was any. I feel like most of my time and cash investment has been thrown into putting a marketing facade over this steaming pile of feces.

Now there's a pile of legacy on top of Windows which is unavoidable but at this point I couldn't possibly consider building a product from scratch on top of something which has been basically a 20 year long bad trip. I will also push for everything to be moved off their platforms at every available opportunity.

On numerous occasions the pure frustration caused by MSFT has nearly made me quit the industry entirely.

To confirm, everything is greener on the other side. I do that too.
I’ve found self-serve gas stations which assault you with loud video ads, and recently they haven’t even supported turning volume off. I never revisit such gas stations.
What would you have done about it, if you were the CEO of Exxon in 1982?
Common term in defense, basically just an organizational efficiency. Since the devops people kept breaking security, we made them sit next to the security people.
The device shows up as a keyboard on your computer, not on your iphone
Thanks for lecturing me about licensing, as a contributor I already know that.

Isn’t it allowed to go further that sources access, what’s written on a piece of paper, and caring about ethics?

Does OSS contributors really needs to be so alienated?
Disclaimer: This statement is future-looking.

If you use block-chain to empower machine learning you can enable your business to proactively think outside the box on all of your action items!
I'm in a similar position... almost every week I have an idea for a new project I really want to start, and every other week I actually do :D

It's just what I like to do... but one day, I do want to start my own company out of one of these projects... I know one of them is being used by a large train company in Europe and a local government in the US (because they wrote to me asking for help with issues! so government-y, write an email instead of opening a GH issue). But unfortunately it's not a project I currently have interest in working on (it's like 5 years old, uses tech I haven't used basically since then)...

But my reason for wanting to start a company is just so I have freedom to work for myself, not feel like a slave sometimes (well paid one, but still!) more than anything else.

I admire the OP for doing that and even getting his girlfriend and another developer on board! Good on him!
Or maybe it is deployed less so targeting it is not as attractive...
Because capitalism is an optimization function for making money. It doesn't care about anything else.
I like that this article states the warming has been a long time coming.

Filed under believe but cannot prove: Agriculture interrupted the background warming & cooling cycle.

If humanity is to survive climate crisis, we'll need to actively manage the entire carbon cycle. aka Garden Earth.
Nothing saves money like designing your airplane by saying yes to every persons idea in the conference room!
DevOps is mashing development and operations together. But that ignores security, often putting security reviews after the code has been deployed or at least after it's done being written, which necessitates re-work. DevSecOps makes sure security is a part of the development and operations work.

Yes it's a re-wording of an existing concept. No, it is not a new idea. Yes, it is important enough to call it out because so many companies don't let security/operations/development work together.

You're not the target audience, your CISO or CTO is.
I'm surprised of the amount of blockchain hate in the comments from people who haven't even checked out the product...
Kangaroos filmed hopping through rare Australian snow
This is a good take.
Data analysis of a brazilian e-commerce
C bad. Rust good. Rah rah rah.
Say a business needs some web dashboards, you write them in a way that should be clean and maintainable, and has documentation for the next person to come in and help if needed later. They like what you did so ask for more of your help. They could decide to change at any time but like working with you and how you get things done, so keep going with the contract.

I don't see how that could be seen as bad. You are helping the business, they are happy, paying, and you've even made it so if they wanted to switch it could be done in the easiest possible way. Did I miss something you'd be concerned about?
Quillette loves hoaxes that embarrass the left
I read the whole thing, and found most of the characters sympathetic.

Also, I don't recall seeing any references to racism in the article. However, and I mean this constructively, when you said "these are the same kind of folks who", that sounded like an unfair generalizing prejudice, a bit like racism.

I suppose, the next time we see someone on Twitter advocating strength, self-reliance, self-determination, etc., it just might be that they, like the main character in this story, actually felt none of those things in their real life, and are desperate because the social contract is failing them.
Words cannot express the depth of sadness these actions make me feel. We are lost.
GHS Integrity?
As a society we need to make the decision to take the microphone away from people who are just plain wrong or stupid. If we just ignore them, they can't do any harm.

Yes, even when it's a celebrity or elected official, we should just utterly ignore them.

Whenever I hear about a celebrity breakup like it's actual news I shudder.
Can 'Supercharged' Plants Solve the Climate Crisis?