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I disagree with your analysis in the first sentence on a fundamental level, so I think we may just not see eye to eye on this. I think it's more reflective of the issues of crony capitalism and exploitation of the working class than as a litmus test of whether automation has "made it" yet.

Self checkout at the grocery store is still a mess that requires frequent intervention from on-hand employees, and even the most advanced system still usually requires someone there for insurance. Hell, the best minds in the country still can't get cars to drive themselves without someone on deck to pull the plug if it all goes tits up.
That's silly. NPM's business relies on its thriving package ecosystem, and ecosystems like it face a very real risk from this problem. It would be in their interest to provide such a service, and it would swiftly become obvious if any funny-business were going on, at which point their reputation would be completely decimated.
> Apple are being real dicks about the all-or-nothing nature of these events. Why can't we have some granularity as to the holidays we see in our Calendar?

Opposing customization in favor of a common consistent curated experience based on Apple’s superior knowledge (especially compared to customers themselves) of what customers want has been the Apple way for a long time.
It's not much but what I have done is began marking Not Interested in the spam of mainstream news coverage after each event. I also only watch coverage from places that refuse to name the shooter or show their face and avoid "body count" style coverage, Philip Defranco is one example.
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Are holes in security infrastructure required to collect metadata? Are keys, data that secures content - considered metadata? They're not content. Since you can't discuss the letters publicly, a claim could be that it is metadata, and compel keeping the request to collect it as such secret - similarly the fight from the silenced party, if there were any fight, could be out of public visibility.
I don’t care about his views on those kind of politics at all. But when it comes to free software he is an ideological maximalist. Take a look at how he uses computers personally, his values (at least currently) don’t fit in with most users expectations of what personal computing should be. His contributions aren’t in question, and his voice is a valuable one to have in the choir, but he’s not a person willing to accept a middle ground, and as such the RMS way of doing things is never going to be widely accepted.
Touch typing and home row typing are different things by the way.

My hands aren't on the home row but I do type by touch. I don't look at the keyboard except for a few weird key combos.
For the extra curious, more transistors = more parallelism, bigger cache.
> "I would easily be able to get a good job and be successful"

I think the misconception is on 'easily'. It took me a lot of work at every possible part of the chain to get to where I am. While it wasn't easy for me to get into a role I am very happy with, I wouldn't have gotten here without a lot of studying and hard work.

going to your lack of phone screen issue, do not rely solely on applying to websites. I don't know what all the best things to do are, but you do need to approach it smarter. For example, try introducing yourself to the recruiters on linkedIn. The reply rate (for me, and for many others that I saw) is about 1/50 - harsh.
Means, motive, opportunity. Remove as many as you can. The media can help with motive.
If you have kids that you communicate with, stickers and iMessage apps like bitmoji are a big deal, and Whatsapp doesn’t have them.

Whatsapp really seems to be missing the boat with tweens and teens - that’s cant be good for their future.
I always forget about Jonesforth. Glad to see it's on GitHub now!
If I download something from a server, of course that server knows what I downloaded.

This is different. It’s a proxy in front of others repositories. They want info on downloads from GitHub, gitlab, and anywhere else you get code from.

They (google) are a 3rd party to the download.
Really? You don't see a different in regionally accredited or non-accredited schools?
Again, whether "it benefits everyone" or "private universities should be allowed to use whatever criteria they want" -- I don't care for arguments about whether the ends justify the means. I'm arguing that the act itself is immoral.

You are paying money to {univeristy|coach}, with the expectation that (a) the payment will help your kid's admissions prospects, and (b) {university|coach} will maintain the facade that money did not have any influence.

That's bribery.
The text of the 2016 referendum was "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?" No mention of deal or no-deal.

Logically speaking, every single person who voted to leave in 2016 either voted for no-deal as a possible mode of leaving or misunderstood the text of the referendum.
> You are using money to buy an advantage.

In a state school, it's obvious that this is wrong since this would be a violation of equal protection. However, I'm not sure I understand what is wrong about buying an advantage at a private school. Does a private school have some statutory responsibility to be "fair?" Does anyone have an inherent right to go to a private school? Sure, we're supposed to be outraged and pretend we are angry about a rich person getting accepted to Harvard because their mom donated $10 million towards a new medical library -- but is that really unfair or unjust? Is the rich kid going to Harvard preventing the poor kid from going to UMass? If you donate millions to a school, shouldn't that earn you the right to go there? You're literally paying for the school to exist.

We could make this more fair though by ending tax exemptions for universities (specifically their endowments.) If they are to benefit from public subsidization, then there is at least some moral obligation to serve society a bit more fairly than they do now. It is quite unfair that one can donate $10 million to Harvard, enjoy the tax deduction from the charitable donation and, at the same time, receive a financially valuable benefit of your child's admission into the school. It would be like me donating a tax-deductible $10 million to an airport and my child getting free Gulfstream flights for four years as an untaxed benefit. If we eliminate the tax exemption, then there's no conflict of interest -- now, it's just a business transaction rather than a business transaction masquerading as philanthropy.
But here you're taking the analogy to making a financial decision within a domestic partnership and stretching it well past the breaking point.

Let's keep people A and B, but also add people C through CZZZZZ. And now we no longer need to frame it as an intractable argument between two people; we can recast it as an opportunity to re-survey all these people's opinion in order to see how everyone's opinion has changed in light of the new information that's been presented.
Can you describe how/why a bayes approach would work better than frequentist in situation like NFL?
I can't disagree with any of what you wrote. I agree with it all. I just want to avoid the generalization that that's how everything works or how everyone "gets ahead" in life.
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There are trade offs other than just cost. Want a long, thin, flexible cable to charge your laptop? Then you prioritize power delivery at the expense of data speed. If you insist on 40 Gbps capability, something else has to give.
Is it advertised as meritocratic? Many students do gain acceptance on merit. That doesn't preclude other students getting in on connections.
Probably not through voting. But direct action can get you to a better reality.
Well, "Either four or more P or four or more Q" is a bit hard to parse.

Perhaps "works for both four or more P and four or more Q" avoids the issue.
You can also use multiple AWS accounts to separate those environments, which also eases user management (usually you have different people with access to each environment, with some overlap).

This also means that developers can have close to admin privileges, since the worst they can do, is to disrupt work of another developer, without affecting either QA or production.
Also note that despite the technique being proven in the lab, and the fact that mosquitoes kill a half-million people per year, we have not yet pulled the trigger and done it. Exactly for fear of the potential ecological consequences.
Log file analytics does not work with Javascript apps.
Electric trams used resistive controllers in the day. There is quite an interesting description here: http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/papers/electrictrams.htm
This 'contagion effect', also supported by research in relation to media coverage of suicide, has often been discussed after mass shootings. Yet, little tangible action has been taken.

Maybe it's time for some new federal laws. Some possibilities:

• make reporting about mass shootings subject to a mandatory "cooling off" waiting period, of 48 hours to 1 week, to reduce the sensational allure of such "hot" stories to the mentally-unstable

• ban the reporting of salacious details, like a shooter's name & motivations, or specific weapons & actions – specialized information which is mainly of use to deranged individuals, rather than normal citizens

• set up a government office which would "fact-check" & approve stories about mass shootings before they're published/broadcast

• require reporters to receive official training about responsible reporting, and mandate reporting licenses to exclude careless or sketchy/unstable people from risky reporting activities
Why is it sad? Just because voters on HN and the USA agree?
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So, the issue isn't the information sent back to the language maintainer, but the identity of the maintainer?
I've had a lot of supposed "Enterprise" sales people at well known large companies try to pull that.

They'll send a calendar invite and pretend it's a follow up to a meeting we had. Yeah like I can't see through that bullshit. Immediate report as spam.
Absolutely. A good start is calling out injustice when you see it.
Media don't make people smoke, people make that decision. However, it's a decision that's influenced by what's in the media, which is why media are making sure they don't glorify or even normalize smoking. I'm pretty sure you can follow that same logic when it comes to mass shootings.
Check out monolaurin. It's a natural substance made from coconut milk. It's the ingredient in breast milk that supports a baby's immune system. I used it to kick Epstein Barr Virus. I highly recommend it.
The researchers drank a tube of it and got ulcers. Pretty conclusive.
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Understanding enough to exploit is not what I meant. I meant understanding enough to know how to secure it. Like how understanding how to design a secure RNG is a heck of a lot harder than knowing how to exploit an insecure one.

> enough to set up a lattice basis and reduce it with LLL

This gets across my point perfectly well. I rest my case.
> The world is getting better by basically any objective metric at an incredible pace.

I think “basically any” is overselling it (particularly when combined with “incredible pace”)

Climate change is hard to overlook, for example.

Income inequality is rising. That leads to more of the kind of statements you’re objecting to.
I want to work to build parallel power that can help others exit capitalism or dramatically reduce how much they rely on it.
“When it comes to covering mass shootings and gun violence, we want to emphasize the victims, we want to tell the stories of the community, and recovery, and resilience, rather than focusing on the perpetrator.”

This is the solution proposed in the article.
Nothing is wrong, by definition, with legal exchanges. The crux of the argument here is specifically that this quid-pro-quo was not legal, that it was obtained or solicited fraudulently.
It's later than you think
Had this happen to me just recently, too. I was super surprised that spam invites showed up on my calendar by default!

Wonder if it was something going around, and maybe Google has already fixed it. Hasn't happened again, fingers crossed.
To go to the nuclear option Stallman is pro voluntary pedophilia. This puts him so outside the mainstream of opinion that he might as well be shoving Jews into ovens himself.

The honesty is extremely refreshing for a small subset of people who will be fanatically loyal to him. These people will also be some of the most talented and difficult to work with, much like Stallman himself. In my circle of friends technical competency is directly proportional to your agreement with Stallman.
Would you consider software engineers that require a visa?
This tech people influencing friends and family lore has been disproven many times. No non tech user is using duck duck go.
> - The containers concept is really great but not for most of the general users to make use of it. It’s still a bit geeky in nature.

This. Containers are quite complicated to reason about, require a fair amount of setup and do not sync. Not to mention the color pallete is bizarrely limited.

I use both Firefox and Chrome but use Chrome for work because Profiles are much easier to use. I just open another profile, which loads with a nice theme and a set of extensions (limiting my exposure to some extensions in other profiles).

Profiles are so simple and just work.

Firefox of course has profiles, but you cannot run two of them at the same time without using the command line (or creating shortcuts to launch multiple versions of the browser).
Except this feature doesn't add security, it just adds a tool for reducing the usability trade-off of having a long hard password.

I think it is very misleading phrasing.
It could be the case that that is true.

If I were a business owner, that is not a bet I'd make.

1. z-series experts are rare, expensive and typically old. Old does not mean unemployable, but it does mean a limited future career. Who's going to replace the current crop of experts? Internal education is a possibility that could work, but any way you cut the knot, it'll be more difficult than going with x86 and linux.

2. z-series hardware sucks. They are low volume parts who's main value is their backwards compatibility. If you think the hardware performance is acceptable today, will it be so in 10 years? Computer performance improvements have certainly slowed down, but peripheral vendors like nVidia continue to make solid progress. Even if IBM gets around to supporting them, you'll always be a 2nd class citizen compared to the PC platform: drivers, bus availability, etc. will be half baked or late.

3. z-series is off the main stream of computing. Huge numbers of talented software developers are building great open source software for linux (and other OS's) on x86. I don't know if administration on z-series can be done better or less expensively than on x86 today. I feel confident in saying that there will be no contest in 10-15 years. The pace of innovation is enormous, and IBM is not a company that can credibly make a commitment to bring that innovation to the mainframe.

4. Yes, mainframes can run linux and do various sorts of emulation. I don't think that that is a cost effective. I'm not alone in that assessment: if running mainframes was a cost effective way to run linux, I'd expect that to be the way big internet businesses run their internal data centers. They don't.

5. You'd have to deal with IBM sales. At least with x86, you have multiple sources for parts, and if you're big enough you can do contract manufacturing.

6. The markups for EC2 (especially the network transit) is really high. There is a continuum from Lambda and App Engine, through, EC2 to dedicated hardware rental like OVH and finally running your own. That is way more options than you have running on a mainframe: certainly way more vendors.

P.S. Huge fan of your writing.
Neither US national elections nor top position in an HN comment thread represents simple # of votes from voters.
Not a nitpick, dates are important for all personal writing.

It's one thing I don't miss from the 90s web design.
Unfortunately, the Second Amendment makes it infeasible to remove means and opportunity.
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All of these suggestions violate the 1st amendment. Also there are no "reporting licenses".
I'm the author. I've updated the article to clarify.

It's powered by a 220/110V USB power supply outside the fridge, USB micro cable in through the door seal, and then the 5V/12V-converter lives inside the fridge. The converter is also used to adjust the speed of the fan.
Shouldn't those be visible in the permissions prompt, prior to installing the extension?
This is it, exactly. No browser has ever gotten a dominant market share by convincing user Joe Average that it was better for their needs. That is an approach that is doomed to fail.

Just about every person I know that uses or used to use Firefox does so because I told them to use it or (more likely) I installed it for them. That's how most people start using Firefox.
You're right in that pure meritocracy without bias doesn't exist. It never has, and probably never will. However, the post you replied to argued that we should strive for a more meritocratic society, and I think we can all agree that some societies are more meritocratic than others. That's what I take issue with on your point.

I challenge you to name a perfect system in the universe that was created by a human. Just because perfection doesn't truly exist doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for it anyway. Or else what's the point in even being here?
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Firewire sucked for simple low bandwidth devices like mice and keyboards though. Even though the connectors were about the same size it really was quite different from USB. Firewire was mostly about bulk data transfer and streaming. It was much more specialized than USB, and it's really not a surprise that it died off once USB got fast enough to do the same streaming, even if it wasn't as good at it.
The whole point of USB is reduced wiring. Side channel interrupt would not have made sense.

"Polling" doesn't involves the host CPU, adds no latency. It is done by the USB controller, which sends poll packets to the device. This is all a philosophical decision by USB which is master/slave and doesn't support anything asynchronous by the slave.

The master can choose to ignore certain slaves on the bus if it desires, which isn't always possible with an asynchronous slave. Recall that many devices dangle off a single USB chain.
> Firewire was better

Firewire was faster but it wasn't better. It could only handle the minority usages (external storage), but not the majority ones (mice & keyboard - which were always wired back then).

Firewire also had hellish compatibility, whereas things like USB HID was amazingly plug & play in an era where that really didn't exist. And early on in Firewire's life it made the mistake of changing physical connector and not being backwards compatible.
For those that prefer a more visual guide, I've created one here: https://flowshare.io/flow/how-to-block-spam-invitations-from.... It has a screenshot for every step(desktop) and less than 50 words in total.
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Thank you for posting this. I also had spam showing up in my calendar and feared that my Google account had been hacked. The spam even caused calendar notification sounds to be played in the middle of the night! Worst Default Setting Ever.
I agree! But most people don't read, and car manufacturers know this, so placing very extremely important information, potentially life threatening if not understood information, in the manual without further pro-active education of the consumer, at the same time that they market it with verbiage that leads drivers to over-rely on auto-pilot... well that doesn't seem very not-negligent to me.
I would be interested in a review of applicable law which would limit the effect of a US FISA court order.

I'm not aware of anything that would prevent the court from ordering a vendor to implement features to effectuate surveillance ordered by the court.
By buying meat in a global market, you are creating demand for meat, which affects all markets.

The only way the purchase of a good can fail to move global markets is to be wholly disconnected from the market. This means you would have to live in a country that neither imports nor exports meat at all.
Not all of it, but sitting on cash is not smart. Cash is for very short term spending. It’s not a long term store of wealth. It never has been. Currencies that become a store of wealth inevitably fail.

Source: actual real life economist.
apparently, my sarcasm was missed.

$5 that this gets report next to 0% coverage in the media though, all the while gun control 'outrage' blows up.

we should be looking at this systemically, is my point, and I'm sure the people looking for a quick scapegoat in firearms control and banning the scary looking guns will happily avoid this topic because it's a less preferable bogeyman.
> Apple does also cut features when they roll out those updates though. Not all iOS versions are equal.

Only when the hardware does not support the features.
For Display Port cables, if they're not certified, you run the risk of strange hardware faults at best, smoking hardware at presumably worst.

USB4 is tremendously more dangerous if the cable does something really wrong.
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>Fundamentally, "one port and protocol to rule them all" is probably just a bad idea

I disagree. The situations are:

1)ports are the same, protocol match : works

2)ports are the same, protocol mismatch : won't work, some user confusion

3)ports are different, protocol match : could work but won't without an adapter

4)ports are different, protocol mismatch : won't work. Adapters might exist but those won't work either.

I'd much rather deal with situation 2 over 3 and 4. Display adapters already have situations where you can get adapters to cobble together DVI and VGA ports but still fail to get a proper connection, so its not really a fix anyway.

The USB foundation should just come up with better branding around what kinds of things a port supports. No reason we can't have a thunderbolt icon next on a USB port. Its strictly better than a new physical port, IMO.
Are you sure they discover specific things that are only part of OOP, because I find a lot of people conflate OOP with good design. Thinking in components is not something OOP invented, people did that long before there was OOP.
The problem is that we are terrible at dealing with cognitive dissonance.

When someone believes they have a disorder for many years/decades it becomes a part of their identity. Admitting they were wrong means that they needlessly caused suffering to themselves. It is embarrassing and emotionally painful.

They become instantly defensive, and hostile towards anyone offering alternative explanations.
Donations paid to the university are used to fund generous scholarships to students that would otherwise not have been able to attend. Stanford doesn't charge tuition for families making less than $125,000. And ~30% of their undergraduate population are first generation college students. Would the university be able to afford this if the donations-for-easier-admissions scheme didn't exist? Maybe, maybe not, but the reality is that the resources of universities does come in large part from the patronage of wealthy people.