skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like saying a 14 button calculator (0-9, +, *, -, =) achieved mathematical supremacy over humans.

Sure, it's better at some specific tasks. It's not a spreadsheet, let along a general purpose theorem prover, yet.
Whatsapp is under the obligation to comply with lawful intercept regulation wherever they operate, just the same as any other communications platform out there. and no, Whatsapp is not some 'small indie company that just happens to not have been noticed'.

Pretending and using obfuscated language to lead the reader to believe otherwise is disingenuous.
What do you consider free software? Because I don't consider anything licensed under GPL as free, but I would consider software licensed under MIT or BSD as free.
I agree with this, but I think the main problem is the centralization of trust, or the user having to place trust in one or two entities.

Imagine if 10 or 20 different organizations all had access to the source code and could vouch for the checskum of a each build.

While it would be nice if we could trust FB, Apple, etc., it would be much better if we didn't have to, and could simply trust others who have less to lose from alienating government officials.
Goalpost? What is your goal? I was sharing my personal experience in traveling to China - being in a society with no notion of Human Rights, because someone asked.

Is your goal to argue? I don't get it.
I used to use Gentoo, and I built my entire OS from source. I'm not extraordinary in any way, I'm just an ordinary person who has a deep interest in software and computers.
IANA FE-dev, but I don't think I've met many that fit this description. The closest I can think of is to settle on an acceptable/popular framework (e.g. React) and make it as pain free as possible (e.g. use TypeScript, clean component patterns).

At the same time, current hype results in using React-Native for mobile which seems feasible but short-sighted to me.

Maybe a better description is one who understands current trade-offs and makes pragmatic choices rather than seeking future payoffs.
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For your first question, this is mostly about legal interpretability. The GPL has a long text that describes explicitly what it allows and doesn't. Yes, that is based on an ethical framework, but that ethical framework is all baked into the text of the license. There is no ambiguity. The GP contrasts this with the JSON license which only uses the term 'good' to describe what it allows. This is incredibly ambiguous from a court's perspective, likely past the point of just being thrown out as a clause in a legal contract.

For your second question, you are right that you don't have 'complete freedom,' which another commenter pointed out cannot even theoretically exist. The closest you really get is public domain, in which you're not even restricted like the MIT; you don't even have to list the author! (IANAL, so this is not legal advice, but just my understanding.) However, the GPL is not interested in guaranteeing complete freedom, in the style of very permissive licenses. Instead, it's interested in maximizing end-user freedom. An MIT library can immediately be placed in a proprietary program, and now the end-user has none of the Four Freedoms, though the author of the program still has all of them. So, the GPL puts restrictions on developers and how they can use the software ('limiting freedom', if you want, though it's the freedom to limit others' Four Freedoms that is being limited), to guarantee that the Four Freedoms reach the end-user. This does lead to incompatibility as you've outlined, and so goreportcard would have to adopt the GPL to use the library and remain compliant (again, IANAL), but from the perspective of the GNU foundation, this maximizes the total number of freedoms retained because it continues to protect end-users. I hope this helps, I wanted to expand on what the goals of the GPL actually are, since you seemed to earnestly be asking.
So reboot after going through airport security. Without the pin no data can be retrieved.
I feel the only moral option for refugees has been enshrined in plain text of the treaties and is well established in precedent for the value of human life. It is akin to complaining about firefighter's hoses and people fleeing burning buildings tracking mud into their yards and concluding armed men should be set up around the perimeter to prevent mud from being tracked in. It is callousness and detachment without reason. Thus the only reasonable and humane response is utter harshness and ridicule to those who support and normalize it.

Fuck your stupid borders you selfish stupid cunts. Don't you dare to complain about civility or harsh language when people's lives are in imminent danger is the height of moral obscenity.
Sorry I am a non sophisticated peasant that likes Human Rights. I'll go back to my internet hole.
Mailspring. Excellent, except it doesn't have Outlook Calendar integration.
If it wasn't clear from my initial argument, I am very strongly opposed to the minimum wage (with an important caveat). I also stated that I believe there is a role for the state in ensuring a reasonable standard of consent. So in regards to being scammed, I think it's entirely reasonable for the state to impose hurdles to ensure that individuals transacting are made fully aware of the terms and consequences. Likewise, with minimum wage, there is a point of desperation where a person's back is up against a wall, where they have no options and can be essentially coerced into exploitative rates for their services. Here, too, I believe that there is a role for the state in ensuring that consent is practically employed. I generally favor some level of UBI, rather than minimum wage laws, in terms of giving people the level of stability necessary to start acting outside of immediate survival pressures.
Original removed, web archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190928130035/https://fant.io/p...
So to which messenger should we finally switch to? Telegram, Signal, Threema, Wire or some other newcomer?
Or they could simply refuse to sell it to you or anyone else without signing an NDA.
> The most common job title seemed to be SRE (Site Reliability Engineer), although there was a long tail, and they don’t care much about job titles.

Oh I like that one. "I kept the pile of shit running and put the fires out before they were noticed" is too long to put on a business card, anyway. "Site Reliability Engineer" sounds almost tame.
> Are you sure you can distinguish between those categories?

Typically yes, through appropriate risk assessment. Cue "Antifragile" here.
I do sometimes use firefox and I found the canary hostname, linked in the article, to be a good tip:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/canary-domain-use-appli...

My home network has a DNS server that already talks to the outside DNS servers with TLS, so having browsers reach out to cloudflare would prevent cross-device caching and only protect against snooping on my LAN or wifi, which I don't find to be very necessary. So I just made this domain return NXDOMAIN.
- readability > optimization

- investing for engineering excellency > paying technical debts

- preventing premature abstraction > code reuse

- interaction design is as important as UI design

- removed codes > added codes

- currently popular tool != the perfect tool for the job

- complex solution for a simple work != complex work

- being explicit > being implicit

- unfinished project will stay unfinished

- feeling the work less urgent actually lower team's morale

- team achievements > bean bags

- communicating technical problem and non-technical people is a sign of a mature engineer

- requirement gold-plating is as destructive as developer gold-plating

- adding engineers to a late project doesn't help

- delegating stuffs is actually a good exercise

- declarative is for structures, imperative is for stories

- static typing scales projects

- framework doesn't help if you don't know the fundamentals

- undefined is not a function
But it doesn't get released as easily. I've read a few weeks ago a thread on an ultralight backpacking forum where they were discussing cooking in beer can. They were pulling spec docs and Lab tests of how much plastic gets released if they cook in those cans. The results was that they release about 0.01% of FDA limit. So, according to ultralight backpackers on that forum, it should be safe.
You are assuming that the public isn't aware of it and would care if they were. I think the public is aware of it, they just don't care.
To paraphrase Adam Smith, nothing has helped more people more than self-interest in a free market.

Raised the standard of living for billions.
> Chemist invents a fuel additive which improves fuel economy and extends engine life, then gas+car companies integrate it into their product, then everyone gets shit on for not considering the effect of tetraethyl lead on human health... after the damage is already done
If society were structured that way (or if it had been), then probably. But there are notably fewer people who are against matriarchy for, I reason, the fact that matriarchal society has not been prevalent in the history of civilization and it isn't today. Most philosophers who are against patriarchy would argue that patriarchy is bad because of its power relations, not some mystical "innate badness" of the male sex. As such, their criticisms would likely apply to matriarchy too.
Neither can a child
Unless your mom is planning to involve herself in illegal activities I don't see a problem. Most electronic communication channels are compromised anyway. If you don't want eavesdroppers, don't use electronics.
I disagree. Normal workers are managed via Gantt charts, tasks lists, and projects completed. High level executives are managed in stock price share increase, or business value increase each of which have multiplier effects.
Bike shedding can be a horrific time waster because there is no best answer.

In cases where multiple experts legitimately support both views a vote or random choice is often just as effective as a 3rd party.
How do you carbonate water yourself?
At least regarding beef, no; imports have remain steady, while exports have increased. From the "Beef & Veal Market Situation" EC report: https://cdn1.imggmi.com/uploads/2019/9/28/fe1dd519b19bb90850...
Trust isn't binary. You can trust a company to keep your conversation private for most purposes without it being safe from a government wiretap. We do that whenever we use a phone.
There are two ways to read it.

"Encrypted" could mean that's how they'll be delivered to the UK.

Or it could be a definition of the set of which messages are in question. The set is defined as the ones that users expected were supposed to be protected by encryption (or that government could not access because of encryption).

In other words, from the phrasing alone, it's not clear whether "encrypted" describes the state of the messages or the scope of the sharing.
Because I'm not a dictator.

I can only make changes by being politically active and making environmentally sound decisions myself/encouraging others. I do these things, but don't have the power to force systemic change.
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I fully agree with this. I know people intelligent people who used to be pretty liberal; years of reading this vile hate-rag seem to have poisened their minds.
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Except in Japan it really is just a cute cartoon. There is very little actual police presence and they rarely carry firearms or project a forceful posture.
All of the exist in the States? I'm not saying th EU is easy, but state legislatures have made it increasingly hard.
I'm basing it on personal experience, so it's anecdotal. When the topic is discussed (because it does happen), everyone speaks out against it.

It's not an obscure law at all, everyone is well aware of it and we've even got a colloquialism for it so there's no chance this is something the lawmakers tried to slip by us.

The law exists because 15 year olds want to have sex with each other, and penalizing that is crazy.
In other news: US, UK subjects agree to stop using WhatsApp in favor of Telegram and Signal:

https://telegram.org/

https://www.signal.org/

These are free software, not controlled by a giant corporation (although both are limited liability companies; Telegram in London/Dubai, Signal in San Francisco IIANM); with the developer/company not having unencyrpyed access to your data.
Thats a rather unfortunate opinion. I'm glad that despite posts like yours, people still made new great new languages like Rust and Swift, and are still making great new languages like Nim and Cone. It makes me excited for the future of programming =)
Beeken.io visualizes news over stock charts
Doubling the speed of std:uniform_int_distribution in the GNU C++ library
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Original article

https://web.archive.org/web/20190928113147/https://fant.io/p...
I would see Germany as a failure of the state to take an active role in ensuring consent.
Not if the lawbreaking is enabled by a loophole, as in this case. Closing the loophole may not be enough, but it should be the first priority.
That's pretty far off topic, but China is at least as racist as the US, arguably far more so.

At least in the US, victims are allowed to publicly protest and seek redress in the courts. Not so in China.
Agreed! Thankfully software is protected by the 1st amendment in the US[1]. If not for that, I don't know where we'd be.

[1]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...
It's true, it just might not mean what you think.

"Quantum supremacy" = "This circuit runs faster than it possibly could have under classical rules, no matter how clever it might be," aka. an asymptotic speedup.

It proves that quantum computation is possible, and the universe isn't just conspiring to pretend quantum mechanics works while actually following something like Copenhagen, but few people were doubting that in the first place.
I've had to convince some folks that indeed, someone with the title of "system administrator," if they put more than one programming language on their resume, is probably "SRE," or "DevOps."

I have the job title of SRE currently and could care less what the actual title is. I've got work to do, and I'm going to accomplish it in the best way possible given whatever constraints exist at that time.
>In many cases, economic inequality is morally just and socially desirable. Those who work more, should earn more

This is a good principle, but it assumes that inequality is due to the fact that people who work more earn more, which most proponents of egalitarianism argue isn't the case in today's society.
I made a post about this on reddit and the most upvoted comment is from some woman bragging how she already has a bunch of casual sex with practically strangers anyway, she might as well go get paid for it...
This comment made my day. I laughed out loud. Well done.
I’m curious to see how well it scales. One of the big selling points for Phoenix LiveView is that the BEAM is able to handle millions of concurrent connections.
> Is it a joke or do they really not realize that [...]

In case you're not aware, the idea that there are no universal moral truths is not universally accepted. :)

(But, yes, it was a joke at George W. Bush's expense, per wikipedia).
I saw them but am not sure they made a point. Can you add anything?

They're appealing to emotion by (re)stating that bad things can happen to nonpersons and that the nonpersons have some capacity to feel bad about those things. Which is true and not really disputed.

But the counterargument of the relative importance isn't being addressed. Why should we have laws on this?

As an extreme example, if someone kills puppies for fun they're probably not a great person. At the same time I do not know of a good legal framework to handle this. Relying on people thinking to themselves "that guy kills puppies for fun and may not be a great person" seems the more robust solution. Even then, what is fun? People selectively breeding dogs sometimes kill litters. If you keep people from killing puppies (for potentially good reasons) you have in a roundabout way made certain animal husbandry illegal.
> Florida's Center for Great Apes

Sounds like a fun place to work
Turns out, we can have two problems at once. Let's address both of them.
matrix seems pretty good, but it is still young and buggy (at least with the the client that I use, riot.im)
I'm a bit more pessimistic there will be a backlash.

I've also been surprised how much a properly motivated non-techie can be. I've seen a few grandmothers who live far away purchase and setup a web cam and learn software I find confusing all by themselves.
There is no deterministic, technological solution to the problem that all technological solutions can be banned and its users threatened with draconian punishment.

There is no mathematical escape hatch from society. All we have is a messy assortment of technological mitigations that change the cost of surveillance.

These mitigations work best in combination with constitutional rights that limit what the government of the day can do, triggered by the latest outrage in the news.
That is the general feedback, but I'd be curious to hear why? It would only be successful with some kind of "proof" system. At least 5 witnesses would need to approve the claim, etc.

Decentralized judicial system
I’ve seen it in the fine print reserving the right to enter hotel room at any time. Police don’t need warrants for hotel rooms either.
Didn’t we all give up worrying about that with the rise of package managers?
Just because it's open source doesn't make it trustworthy or bug free. Are you going to audit tends of thousands of lines of code to find an obscure vulnerability that a state actor has gotten added in a way that's not obvious?
I was being genuinely honest asking why there was downvotes.

The words I read were what I already believed to be true and indeed would've written myself - and if it wasn't true I'd want to know.
Uh, the children are. I'm not sure how a toddler had anything to do with winding up in a cage, and I'm pretty sure you don't either.
Reading, unless the video enhance the knowledge transfer.

Videos can help us understand about complex concept like quantum computing, 3D graphics, the social impacts of a tech talk.

Most of the time videos are only people typing on their screen. Reading is more effective in this case, since it is faster and less opiniated.
> Is the answer open borders? I would think not

(At the risk of wading into a topic that can easily go off the rails, I'll preface this by saying that I'm absolutely in the minority here, but...)

I really wouldn't have a problem with open borders at all. In fact, I think it makes sense from a humanitarian and an economic perspective.

We have open borders between and among the states in the U.S. and it works great. Same goes for the E.U. And the internet is basically a giant borderless market for information. I'd even go so far as to say that the internet has suffered real harm over the last decade or so as governments have been forcing internet service providers to arbitrarily "recognize" borders more frequently.

Free trade is good economic policy. Why does that somehow not apply when it comes to the free movement of people? And for the most part we actually do allow "people" to freely cross borders - as long as they're a legal person and not a natural person. A corporation can enter just about any market with an afternoon's worth of paperwork.

I'm just not sure I see the distinction that justifies the free movement of information, goods, and services but not the free movement of labor.

And, of course, economics aside, I'm one of those "crazy" people who believes that if we have the means to help someone, we should. If we have the choice between showing hospitality or hostility to an uninvited guest I'd much rather take the opportunity to make a new friend.
Personally, I do believe that there are no right or wrong answers, just right or wrong reasons. At least for the tech parts of the interview.

I like that you called out that culture fit questions often have right answers. I failed to mention that but it's definitely true. Ironically, the more "cultural" a question is, the more likely it has right and wrong answers.

(As a little background, I'm usually involved in the tech-eval stages of the interview. The "culture fit" is evaluated by other people at our company. So, I don't have a lot of experience with that, unfortunately.)
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> the idea that there are no universal moral truths is not universally accepted.

Yes, I know, which further strengthens the point that this is an extremely subjective territory. :P
> If you want equivalent costs to the rest of the world, expect the US expectation of care, turnaround time, and time-to-service to decrease drastically.

I'm already waiting upwards of 3 months to see a specialist. Every GP I go to wants me out of that room within 10 minutes. If I'm in the hospital, your "rounds" last maybe 2-5 minutes - you guys are constantly interrupting me. Your admins have you on such a tight schedule that you'd rather just send me for another scan, more panels, etc. It's easier to code and bill the heck outta me and my insurance companies that way.

Your industry is 100% anti-consumer... and I have GREAT health insurance as a tech worker. I hurt inside to imagine what those who have worse coverage (OR NO COVERAGE) are going through...

I recently watched the following https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LZJz7GtJA0 and literally cried thinking about how I wish someone from your world would respect me/my health like these men vs. cutting me off every other word when I'm telling you about symptoms.

You think it would get worse? Well in my mind it's already trash service because it's a whole bunch of competing industries trying to survive/make money off of each other with the patient as the last priority. The US healthcare system is brutal even if you have the coverage.

> You can't compare the US standard of care with the rest of the world's standard of care.

Also. Uh... yeah I can. We're America.

Please respond. I sincerely want to hear what someone with "MD Harvard Medical School. MGH Radiology Fellow." on their profile would have to say about this.
Telegram group chats are not e2e encrypted, while Signal is notorious for being unreliable at actually delivering messages. Also, if you change your phone number the official Signal recommendation is to manually tell all your friends about the new number. WhatsApp just lets you do it.

I use both apps regularly but neither of them is perfect.
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Data can be retrieved and stored. Just not decrypted, yet, as far as publicly known.

Not to mention that allowing one to install anything on your device opens up the gates for a myriad of potential security exploits.
When making complex decisions affecting the lives of millions, or handling issues that require deep subject matter expertise, is an educated upper middle class not better at making decisions than an uneducated lower class? (or any uneducated person)?

That isn't to say the lower class has no say in their government - it is why "democracy is the worst form of government, besides all the others". But having an intellectual, technical team of "trying-not-to-be-partisans" helping elected officials make decisions is a good thing, and you make it sound like a bad thing.