skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost all of this is heavily exaggerated, presenting relatively innocuous features as if they were harmful, or calling out simple bugs as if they were intentional and actively malicious. None of it is flat-out wrong per-se (at least as far as I can tell), and I can certainly see where GNU is coming from, but I think for the average user most of the features they're criticizing actually do a lot more good than harm.

Just a few examples, to demonstrate my point:

- They describe Google's demonstrated ability to remove malware from user's devices as a "backdoor"

- They describe parental controls as "censorship"

- They consider the fact that Android supports DRM "malware"

- They cite the fact that Android malware exists as a security flaw. (Ignoring the fact that there is basically no OS in existence that can't be infected with malware.)

- They consider the ability for users to remotely reset their Android lockscreen combo if they know their Google account password a "back door"

- They describe a bug where Google Assistant incorrectly identified the "Okay Google" hotword as "Google Assistant recording users' conversations"

- They describe the fact that a Google message app doesn't delete conversations until the user asks it to as "surveillance"

Again, I'm not saying this point of view is necessarily wrong. From a certain point of view, all of the claims I described above are actually quite logical. (I even find myself agreeing with some of them.) But from the perspective of the average user, the vast majority of this stuff simply isn't worth worrying about, and I think it's a little extreme to characterize it as "malware". Just something to keep in mind.
As an Android user, what are some ways that I can deal with the problems addressed here? (I already do a number of things, but I’m curious what everyone else does.)
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Maybe I'm just lucky in that I very rarely have to talk to non-technical staff. I can see how that would be a pain
This is straight out of the CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual, see Section 4.11 General Interference with Organizations and Production.

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...

Re: a special chair for your back... "Order high-quality materials which are hard to get. If you don't get them argue about it. Warn that inferior materials will mean inferior work."
This last winter on an incredibly cold night(<-10 F) we had a power outage in the middle of the night. I was up late and noticed it right away. After I reported it to the utility, I made sure the dog was on the bed with me, closed the bedroom doors, and hunkered down. I'm not sure what time it came on but when I woke up the thermostat was showing it had dropped more than 15 degrees F in the house. I should probably buy a generator.
Glad to see restrictive laws like this get the chop, rather than, say, journalists they don't like.
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In a disaster, public transit is one of the first utilities to go. A fun exercise is “could I walk home from here?” If not, and you spend a lot of time there, you need to stage an emergency kit there at least as much as you need one at home.

I wouldn’t count on BART service anytime soon after The Big One. (Not that I’d count on freeways either. A bike seems like your best bet).

You find dependencies on electricity in surprising places. Good luck getting water out of an automatic faucet or push button water fountain. Good luck getting your car out of a stacker system - even if it’s already at ground level, those doors don’t have manual releases. Good luck getting through any badge reader doors in your office or apartment complex. (This may rule out the bike, even if you brought one).
My point is that it's not a socially neutral term. Those are almost all positive associations in the synonyms.

I also think most of your phrases aren't things people would actually write, in that the adjective tone is dissonant with the noun. The one exception is evil genius, where I think the dissonance is the point.
When you start getitng into gig speeds, you're gonna run lower than 1gbps in a speed test, because of overhead too, I'd note.
I can only speak from what I saw all around me growing up in the US, but people were eating some comically terrible stuff back then. People grew up on white Wonder bread and shoveling raw sugar out of the bowl onto their cornflakes, etc.

I don't think it's the industrialization so much as the quantity.
probably should have just said anglophone world.. started to leave it at 'the west', but actually have no sense of this perception outside of anglophone countries (e.g. germany).. hence poorly selected combination of west+anglophone.. apologies
Since Comcast offers gigabit, I doubt there are many people who are itching to switch to something faster than that.
Yeah, my experience fits. I spent about 6 months at my first job trying to understand and use Git with AOSP. In contrast, my second job used Mercurial and I learned how to do everything Git could do in about 2 weeks, then never looked back. I always groan when someone has to use Git.

I think people tolerate Git because they really like Github.
I find it fascinating that normal food presented in odd ways and combinations can look so exceptionally repulsive. Maybe a variation of the uncanny valley phenomenon.
>With users reaching typing speeds of up to 65 wpm or more on their phone or tablet, DOTKey has unlocked the potential of mobile devices

I just did a typing test on my regular phone keyboard and got 60. But maybe this will bring me up to desktop speeds. And if I get a physical corded keyboard, I'll go interstellar!
Ignore this list and find a better one that actually represents the issues fairly.
Having read that now, I'm still not sure who it's supposed to be discriminating against?

If a parent, say, gets refused part-time hours, how does their sex alter the effect of that refusal?
I'm not sure that's ulterior.
I like the motivation behind it but it's still too complicated typing "t add" with quotes blahblabha. I aptly fit the description in the introduction, but so far my best experience (by far) has been using OSX Notes.app.

First I pin the note so its always at the top, then I use automatic * bullet points.

First, I have items in bold which are critical and waiting on me to get done TODAY

Then I put an empty space, and i put non-bolded items which are waiting on me, less critical, and can be done in a week or month.

I also dont do any 'crossing off' or anything like that. I just immediately delete it when its done, and try to see those bold items go away

I use alfredapp.com bound to control+space and then type "n" for notes and hit enter, and my todo list is right there, usually with the cursor where I want it.

I rebound caps lock to space for even more efficiency in vim and when using alfred (with my pinky)
They have a few things to work on:
http://www.womensmediacenter.com/news-features/saudi-arabia-...
The US has a lot of weird norms in the corporate office culture.

It's a result of a protracted period of tucking more and more of the emotion of an interaction into the background context to avoid offense, conflict, or resentment. A lot of this is early Corporate Culture engineering.

A good beginners example is the phrase, "per my last email." That's the one you'll see most, but variants such as "per the last meeting" and "per our previous conversation" are included.

This phrase seems innocuous enough, but it's an expression of deep frustration with a tinge of insult at it's target. It's essentially saying, "You haven't been paying attention or you're an idiot. Either way, you are wasting my time."

Imperative requests framed as optional questions is kinda a part of that. A constant stream of imperatives from your manager begins to feel like you're being "ordered around" and you're not "appreciated." So a manager will often ask you giving you the appearance of choice even though you both know you do not because the context of their authority makes it so.

For a very long time, this worked. It was definitely manipulative, if not borderline brainwashing. Baby Boomer's misguided advice to younger generations about loyalty to employers is a result of this.

For Gen X and on, it's mostly an empty husk of norms that are either meaningless or just the accepted way to insult someone without losing your job. "You're an idiot" will cost you your job but "Per my last email" carries the same message and doesn't cost you your job. Asking me politely to do a task is just how you assign tasks now, no one thinks it means you actually respect or care the assignee.

I can definitely see how this layer would cause issues with people on the spectrum. It causes enough problems for neurotypicals.
Having attempted growing vegetables on the rooftop of a 6 story building, I discovered that preparing and cleaning the roof is incredibly energy intensive. You have to bring soil from some soil farm to the city and then onto the roof of a building where you have special beds setup and a way for runoff to be cleaned and processed. Water, nutrients, tools, everything else has to be brought up there. Dust blown off the beds when it gets a bit dry flies all over the city. It also gets too hot up there because the roofs are super hot, so you need more water. Then the birds, squirrels who are actually able to climb as high as necessary, neighbors who live below the roof, and other problems creep up that were totally unexpected. Good luck to many others who will try the same and find out this on their own.
They also have a truck they tour around to various events to do on-site repairs. I've encountered it at 24 Hours of Horseshoe Hell (endurance rock climbing competition), it's very cool!

https://www.patagonia.com/worn-wear.html
Most of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_rights_in_Saudi_Arab...

Global Gender Gap Index Rank: 141st out of 149
It works to the extent there's slack in the economy. Circulating money is just a tool to allocate real resources (materials, people, manufacturing capacity, etc.) If the resources are under-allocated (i.e., high unemployment), then circulating more money can fix that problem.
I'd say yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire

also, this was misphrased on my part. I started to mean 'the west', but realized I could only speak to my experience of perceptions of greek-egyption relations in 'the anglophone west' and mis-parenthesized the west as anglophone only.

the above article is good at pointing out that central / continental perspective of the last several hundred years is or has been different from that in the low countries + uk (and it's offshoots).. but seems to ignore the historical background of this w/r/t the protestant reformation (see HRH link ^); prior to this, 'the west' was western christendom, and the general alliance of the same countries generally continues today in modern post-enlightement/secular form (EU/Nato).
POWER ISA Contributed To Open-Source, OpenPOWER Joining The Linux Foundation
Goverment budgets are highly unelastic - railways, submarines, healthcare, pensions must be paid. So even small increase in costs of servicing debt results in embarasing and painfull cuts in elastic areas of the budget.

So in general MoFs avoid that unless they are going to pass the ball to the opposition.

But of course you have to borrow to roll old debt.
They do have installations of Fiber all the way into the box in your home. I don't know if that is uniform although I assume it would be. And of course they are over provisioned.
I think when everyone is heavier, it sets a lower bar for attracting a partner. That's a big factor.
>the answer for most work tasks would be "no".

Well, yeah. But if someone answers honestly when the question was not honest, then the only mistake they made was assuming their job has a stronger work culture than it does.

My bosses have bluntly told me to bluntly refuse more forceful requests for my time than that than because I was stretching myself too thin. If someone asked if I desired work I would interpret as an inquiry if I wanted to shift my job focus.

I get it - I have a hard time assigning work without beating around the bush too - but I’m working on my communication skills so that I dont cultivate a group of yesman and can get meaningful feedback.
I think, generally, everyone should try to use that phrasing, because it opens the door to discussion in a way that a command doesn't.

Telling someone "Do X by Friday" or even the slightly softer "I need X by Friday" doesn't open the door to reasonable objections. "Would you like to" implies that discussion is expected but unilateral refusal is probably not.

Of course, if someone systematically shows that their reaction to being softly asked is not reasonable, one should stop softly asking them.
To further specify: go read the user reviews of the kids in Google Play Store for the app. Apart from being hilarious, they are actually quite sad and I understand, in part, their points.
To those that have yubikeys: are they actually durable enough to keep on a key chain?
thought you were going to tie it back into transistors for a second there... difference amplifiers are, after all, one of the simplest circuits out there. Not so sure about similarity amplifiers
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> ... In the end all it is really saying is that calculus requires irrational numbers, well doh!

That's really not the point, it really isn't. In the middle it says:

"The theorems of the calculus that work for the reals but fail for the rationals, despite the very different claims they make, are all equivalent to each other!"

There's something quite deep going on with the reals, and it may be that you don't realise it, that you do realise it and don't care, or whatever, but it's not as simple as you seem to be implying.
> I know the client key is derived from the server key

No. TOTP is a shared secret system, there is only one key.

> I'm guessing it depends on the implementation, are the server secrets normally derived per user or shared across users

Again no. The only reasonable thing to do is pick secrets entirely at random for each user. If the same secret is used then users can trivially impersonate each other, which makes no sense.
Not to be a thorn in your excitement but gravity assist is a standard technique for more than 40 years in space exploration. Literally every spacecraft uses it in some way or the other.
It should have.

A 100 km X 30 km looks like elliptical orbit to me.
It’s not only about management. There are basically three levers of power in any organization - relationship, expert, and role. In that order of importance. A manager that doesn’t know how to build relationships is much less effective than an individual contributor who has built both the right relationships and is well respected.
Two thing are not mutually exclusive.

Would the people protesting be better off being Sacked by CX or have their names in a CCP's Watch List?

As to some comment asking how would they know employees were protesting. The reason was many of them went on Strike ( or Sick Leaves as it is officially called ) on that day, CCP wanted a list of employees that were reported on Sick Leave.

Swire ( Parent Company of Cathay ) were already under immense pressure from Beijing.

And somehow, the announcement of Rupert Hogg Resigned made it on Beijing TV broadcast 30 min before HKEX ( That is SEC in the HK ) and Cathay made the announcement. That night, many of the Cathay Employees either deleted some of their post on the movement on Social Media or had their whole profile deleted. And the Cathay pilot making the announcement on plane about the protest in Hong Kong so passenger are aware of what is happening, is no longer working in Cathay.

Once is Chances. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.
“On entering Moon's sphere of influence, on-board thrusters will slow down the spacecraft for Lunar Capture. Subsequently the orbit of Chandrayaan-2 around the moon will be circularised to a 100x100 km orbit through a series of orbital maneuvers.”
Is this even true?

https://gomspace.com/shop/subsystems/attitude-orbit-control-...

https://www.cubesatshop.com/product/ifm-nano-thruster/

https://www.vacco.com/space/chems-overview
OMG, sad. And I'm part of the problem:

I've always wanted to use Mercurial; I'd always found its user interface to be an improvement over git; as if it shipped with a great "porcelain" by default. I respect its ability to leak fewer implementation details while still offering plenty of power.

But I kept using git for all my projects, and GitHub with it.
i would add that managers are coaches, not players, in that their work output is generally not meant to produce product (in the larger sense of work product, not just the company's offering) but rather make the producers themselves better.

so one easy way to be (viewed as) a bad manager is to forget that your focus should be people, not product. it is absolutely your job as a manager to ask about and know the motivations and constraints of those you manage, including probing no's like that.
I do get annoyed at this, buy only sometimes and it passes fast...

Similar to others commenting here I think i have learned social skills and human behavior in the same way i have learned programming etc. and as a result i can articulate and logically process peoples behaviors better than many (most?) people.

I score high in empathy / feeling metrics in tests at work and I am one of the first people that people come to with personal problems relating to dealing with people (all kinds of problems really), but from my perspective its all through careful analysis of whats going on around me since a very early age, nothing intuitive about it. Mostly it involves very carefully thinking things though from the starting point of : whatever that person is doing must appear logical to them. (and i really really mean MUST - I have never met an illogical person)

In any case.. the reason I mostly don't get annoyed is because: If you are feeling this way then that means you have more awareness of what is going on than the other person, and if you are in a position of considering how to act (not just reacting) then that means you are in a position of strength with the power to improve the situation. So then it becomes like when i am helping someone move furniture or whatever and i happen to be twice their size.. i may end up expending more energy, putting in more effort, but i really would not have it any other way.
By they, you mean collectively? In the US the government annually diverts more than 25% of GDP, which is about 650 times what the largest private company diverts annually as profit and 100 times more than what that company has on it's balance sheet. So if we want to find the single entity that "own[s] the biggest capital and resources to be able to tackle the problem", it's the government. I think it might be more effective if we, being in a democracy, would tell the government to change its priorities for all that resource. But then that would mean it's our fault which means we wouldn't be able to point fingers at others.
Actually, it will choose the right function to dispatch at compile time. In fact if it will in certain occasions even erase all function call and replace with the final output and even remove unaccessible branches from the generated code.
Yeah I have mixed experience with that. I get some surprisingly fast downloads on my 1 gbps line+wifi

But then redownloading a non-new game from playstation network goes only a few mbps, and my playstation 4 is the only wired connection I maintained

Some of the services that you would think have highly connected CDNs or could leverage multi participant torrent like downloads just... dont? Games are like 40gb+ these days but I still expected it to take 20 minutes

Any way thats what I’m paying a premium for

Spoil me
The average user certainly doesn't worry about any of this, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't.

The worst, of course, is the tragedy of the commons dynamics. A lot of harm that comes from surveillance capitalism does not affect someone in particular, but it amounts to great damage to society as a whole. For example, by degrading public discourse, addicting people to screen time while robbing them of living their actual lives, and assisting authoritarian regimes in oppressing their own people (project dragonfly).
Socialism/communism are not the opposite of capitalism, and this is the strawman that the US government has been using for decades to fleece their own citizens.
I want the answer to the question. "Would you like to coordinate the next software deployment?" is a genuine question but it also shows deference and ... deference is expected in return. A flat "no" defies social expectations; a "no" with deference and reasonable context is probably fine.
> Most things able to be solved by email chains are better off in some sort of issue tracking or wiki system.

In my experience, nothing except "bugs" and "customer support issues" are better in an issue tracking system. Issue trackers add too much overhead for end users, and the "structured data" features encourage people to adopt processes that require every user to think about what level of the hierarchy some issue belongs at, what tags to assign, who "owns" the issue, etc. For most communication, there ends up being a serious impedance mismatch between the structure of the data in the issue tracker and the natural flow of communication.
I have shifted to part-time, and found it a bit difficult at first. What helped me most was assigning priorities, refreshing my To Do list once a week or so.

Without it, I tended to spend most of the day doing who knows what, and realizing the day was pretty much over.

I was also the type who had a hard time relaxing when going on a week or two of vacation. Maybe 4-5 days before I had finally unwound, then champing at the bit 9-10 days in, having a hard time waiting to get back to "work."

So I am setting up passive income streams, expecting I will likely be a tinkerer, rather than a complete life of leisure, as I had first fantasized...

That also seems to sort my "identity" as well, as I, too, identified myself by my chosen profession...
Any social media company whose business isn't renting your eyeballs to the highest bidder.
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I believe some of the unity developers are constantly creating pull request to update Kallithea and are core developers.

Can't say for sure but I think Unity's system Ono is using Kallithea as core with additional plugins developed for their own use.
Even capped bandwidth is oversold. There is not enough capacity in the system for everyone to use up their entire cap.

"their bandwidth" doesn't actually exist.
It's very common for larger projects requiring sophisticated algorithm development coupled with demanding runtime requirements such as high throughput, low latency, or high reliability. In such cases, the separate toolchain inefficiency can be justified by higher developer efficiency and the advantage of having two separate code bases developed two ways by two different teams. The two versions can be compared functionally to find many errors that would otherwise be missed due to bad assumptions, library issues, compiler issues, incomplete test coverage, etc.
But-- it can be difficult to tell apart "he acts with apparent disregard for you because he doesn't give a shit about his work/you" and "he acts with apparent disregard because he has autism and requires different management practices."

This is a valid point, it absolutely can be -but the mere existence of that dichotomy doesn't preclude the necessity of digging through the ambiguity of motive and intent by stopping to first clarify, communicate and consider before letting social "instinct"-as you've put it-dictate the course of interaction.