skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electric trucks can't get here fast enough.
I do think that an agreement to work remotely for (cumulatively) multiple months of the year is pretty exceptional.

That being said, in what world does the Eng director look good? Insisting on using SMALLINT (and thus necessitating a change away from SQLite in development) is just terrible, and an Eng director who is halfway competent should realize that such a requirement is patently ridiculous, or at the very least know not to stick their neck out if they know so little about the subject at hand. I'd be furious if my Director of Engineering did stuff like that.
So, assuming my local LAN DNS resolver, which serves my own custom DNS information to LAN clients, doesn't support DoH itself, but uses DoH to reach out to the authoritative servers, chrome will bypass this my local resolver?

Sounds like interfering with the way my intranet operates to me.
Hardly the first floating nuclear power station.

I see no logical difference between a general-purpose floating nuclear power station and a one which is dedicated to (say) powering an aircraft carrier.

Both floating, both nuclear. Both subjected to the same risks. If anything, the carrier is exposed to greater risk.
you know this one is good because the cia denounced it. i started it earlier this week.
While I'm no investor or anything, there's one life-y takeaway from this article: diversify your areas of interests. Take as many bets as possible. I've always been working on it.
You don’t have to guess. You can actually see it.

What you can infer is why and who. Which is the real danger. I would trust google to protect sensitive data like sexual preferences before I trust my ISP.
Khmer Rouge killing lots of intellectuals is one classic example, although most socialist revolutions had their own variants.

I suppose you can do a No True Scotsman and say that those weren’t truly enforcing equality of outcome since there were people at the top of that society doing the enforcing, but most would find that argument pretty strained.
This WOMP will never be done in time for the monthly SPOINK
Personally, I've decided that if somebody bases their opinion of of me off of an internet comment I made a couple of years ago- their opinion really isn't worth considering. So I've decided not to care about it.

Whatever stigma exists online with people who have the "incorrect" opinion- I haven't really seen reflected in real life.

The logbook of my opinions is actually really interesting for me to look back on. See how I've reevaluated some opinions, or take a critical look at older arguments that I hadn't considered recently. Of course- I do some sanitation as well, removing certain things that may have been particularly dumb.
How do you know this fact?
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DNS requests are transmitted in plaintext through the ISPs connections. Because DNS is not remotely secure there isn’t any reason they couldn’t simply redirect your selected DNS to their own, or replace “not found” responses with a link to their own advertisements.

So without DoH an ISP knows everything you request, even if you have a different DNS server set, and if they really wanted to they can simply hijack any connection you make.
Something I’ve wondered: It isn’t quite clear from the various articles how they’re doing this monitoring. I can totally see how they could monitor their own caching resolvers. They might even passively monitor popular internet resolvers (1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8). But if I run my own caching resolver at home, is that data being mined? I am aware it’s unencrypted and possible to do so, but is it actually happening? DoH sounds nice, but it brings me back to using a shared caching resolver which I’m not a huge fan of.
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We have lockboxes in my building in Japan. They’re just part of the infrastructure of a high-end condo here. You tap your key to get in the lobby door. A chime and recorded voice tells you that a package is waiting. You tap your key again inside and the locker with your stuff pops open. The lockers range in size from small to quite large boxes.

These work with any delivery carrier, but I’m not sure how the delivery person enters the apartment number.
(I would edit for formatting but HN isn't letting me do that for some reason, hopefully that's clear enough. There should be a set of dot points in the second half.)
From my reading, Snap was already public when the author joined. Is that right? I've heard that 25/25/25/25 is the standard at most of the public tech companies.
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That is a great story!

I've seen companies pack trunks of cars with unclaimed scrap. Buy a 55' trailer with cash, fill it with stuff, then claim it belongs to the neighbors. Load material onto 30' racks and send the forklift operators home.

It's almost better that your company committed to ISO to kinda get organized and then let it slide afterwards. I'd almost say it's worth it in a medium sized company every 10 years just to stay accountable and organized.
All they have to do is pay the Google tax
It seems like this is a matter of fashion and it could easily swing the other way? Why couldn't a machine make excellent coffee?
I figured that the reason the Linux kernel gained popularity originally was because Torvalds was so open about accepting contributions. This compared to BSD which had "standards".

I get where either were coming from (BSD was open-sourcing an established codebase, Linux was a from-scratch effort), but it does seem like that foundational culture persisted.

Sounds like GLibc is more of the latter.
Serious question: What actually goes wrong, in concrete terms, if you explain that you're leaving because you don't want to work with someone who is aggressively incompetent? I get that people won't like it, but how am I actually harmed by speaking the truth? I've heard a lot of wishy-washy answers about burning bridges, but I have trouble making myself believe that's enough reason to let someone continue fucking shit up when they might be stopped if someone just knew what was happening.

Edit: Assume I've already accepted the risk of slightly lower lifetime earnings due to following principles rather than the money.
I’m friends with solutions engineers at Hortonworks and Cloudera. It’s possible I’m wrong, and since this is anecdotal evidence I see “fact” isn’t a valid use here.
With Edge going away the only 3 "real" browsers to test are Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. The rest are just UI remixes on slightly older versions of the listed.
I must be missing some serious nuclear brinkmanship going on somewhere. Russia is kind of stirring up trouble, but mainly in a desperate attempt to even get noticed. The tensions between India and Pakistan don’t really seem to have an imminent nuclear dimension.
yes, and federal prosecutors should order hits on defense witnesses since the bad guys can do it
Unz is Jewish.
Google makes the majority of its revenue by knowing things about their users and then allowing them to be targeted with ads.

Google's plans being usually "obviously good" is a highly subjective opinion.
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A whole bunch of irrelevant retorts + a personal attack. I've never seen a comment more deserving of getting flagged than this one.
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Tried searching, but couldn’t find a report by KPMG. Has one been produced already or is this a future thing?

Regardless, impressive step to take.
It all depends how much is abstracted behind a common host (eg name based virtual hosting). I can see you are going to Google. But I don't know what within Google you are really accessing or using in most cases.
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What I wish I had is a book that introduces control engineering in some depth for software folks like me.

I wanted to write such a book, or half of such a book, as a second part of Knative in Action. I wrote a simulator[0] and did a ton of reading which felt like I'd barely scratched the surface of the surface.

But really, there's just no room for what I wanted to do. Based on a simple estimate it would have run to about 200 pages on top of another 250 pages of actually-about-Knative material. So that whole section wound on the cutting room floor. Maybe another time.

In terms of books I felt helped me the most down this road, here's a reasonable reading list I'd point to:

Feedback Control for Computer Systems: Introducing Control Theory to Enterprise Programmers, by Philipp Janert. Short, to-the-point introduction to basic classical control theory using PID controllers.

Matching Supply with Demand: An Introduction to Operations Management by Cachon and Terweisch. A short, meant-for-MBAs textbook on operations management (ie applied operations research). Simple and approachable. Very good for warming up to...

Factory Physics by Hopp and Spearman. Magisterial in scope, also magisterial in grumpiness and idiosyncracy. I've directly applied material from this book and Matching to research work.

Business Dynamics by Sterman. Still the best system dynamics book I've ever read. I'm anxiously waiting for the 2nd edition, expected circa 2021.

Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action by Harchol-Balter. Approachable and enlightening. I stumbled on a few of the proofs and got lost once or twice in thickets of notation, but that's due to my own mathematical immaturity more than the book itself.

But I still don't have a book to refer to for the specifics of software dynamics, spanning its physics and economics. And I wish I did. I would love to read that book, if folks can make recommendations.

[0] https://github.com/pivotal/skenario
Well you and the rest of the naysayers are in luck. They just burned the amazon rainforest. That probably frees up plenty carbon into the air for the process.
Yeah, especially on a phone or tablet. At least on iOS, when you snap a screenshot, you see a thumbnail. Clicking on that takes you to an interface where you can do that right away.
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I know of one organization that uses it to enable early release of a time-embargoed document to prevent server overload when it's released. Instead, everyone downloads the document in advance and they release the password at the release time.
Not sure I understand. If you're using your ISP's DNS service, majority of your requests are going to hit their cache. You shouldn't notice any downtime as long as the cache doesn't expire.
The phrase "well-trained idiot" appeared in an HN comment earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21123542

Although they mean different things -- a confident idiot is uninformed but convinced he is the opposite; a well-trained idiot has been brought up (usually in an upper social class) learning how to fake intelligence -- I wonder if https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=who-knows (who submitted this post) read this comment and had the notion bouncing around in their head.

In any case, there's also an "educated idiot": https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Educated%20I...
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Your resolver still makes DNS requests that the ISPs snoop. Unless that connection is encrypted, they have the same info as if you used the ISP’s servers.
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Yup. But I didn't take the offer.
I'd argue today's situation is, despite many problems, still comparatively better than the past: the Hoover era, as the most salient example, was vastly more corrupt and undemocratic.

It's crucial in this regard to distinguish two issues: (a) to what degree do these institutions wield power unchecked by democratically-elected/legitimized institutions (President/Congress/Courts), and (b) those institutions commanding certain secret programs you (or I) disagree with (i. e. the stuff Snowden revealed).

Despite some regression in the last two years, there is still at least _some_ accountability, as the current whistleblower demonstrates. But, of course, the safety margin is shrinking. With enough turnover in some key positions, a future whistleblower may just find their legitimate complaint buried.
Honestly, that’s great for you and I’m sure your skills and future earning potentials don’t differ as it’s all about work performance once you’re in.

But I’m sure you’ve noticed that you’re the exception from your school whereas that’s the norm for HYPS et al. That’s why people strive to go to those schools.
Not to mention incredible tax treatment of their assets.
Yeah what happened to those?

A decade ago I remember being surprised that they were becoming a "thing" -- getting them as change, might have been from vending machines too -- but now I realize I haven't seen one in years.
Gaslighting doesn't necessarily imply narcissism - it applies any time someone persistently attacks another person's confidence in their own view of reality (starting with just contesting their recollections, moving on to actively messing with their environment).
Could the collected DNS info be used for their own proprietary investment? I was reading a book about Koch industries and it made me think about the potential that most of the infrastructure companies could have outsized profit out of the derivative investment based on the information gathered from the business they are better known at.
Given that all that carbon that we are extracting has already been on the atmosphere once, with some of what is currently in stable mineral, and life didn't end at the time, it's unlikely that now, with a thinner atmosphere and a weaker Sun it will be enough.

We have enough of a disaster to deal with, there's no need for fearmongering.
I no longer have a stake in the game, true. But there are a bunch of people there who deserve better than to have their work lives ruined by someone else's aggressive ignorance. Some of those people I might even regard as friends. Sure, I have nothing to gain for me. I don't tell the truth about why I left for me. I tell it so that it might help others.
The best thing we can do is to allow the labor market to be more dynamic. This means reducing barriers to entry, including licensing, employer-mandated benefits, minimum wage, etc.

Placing minimum employee costs upon an employer or minimum qualifications upon an employee both have the same effect: reducing the ability of entry-level employees to get work. Either the jobs don't exist due to minimum costs, or the labor that qualifies demands too high a wage.

A highly-restricted labor market doesn't make any sense in an ever-changing global economy.
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Not if you use modules.
They’re awesome because they’re decades old. That’s a lot of time to get things just the way developers like them.
I still have something like 15 Spectrum Bogus NXDomains blacklisted on OpenWRT. When I set it up the page they were redirecting too was still the Charter page with a half done Find/Replace of Charter/Spectrum.
Yes, Google used the right approach here. They honor your DNS settings, and upgrade it if it's available. Firefox, on the other hand, plans to force all of their users to trust Cloudflare by default.. and most users won't even know they made that change.
Its not all desert. Half of Lake Tahoe area is Nevada and pretty nice mountains and water.
I used to worked at Intel as a design engineer and I had to look through data-sheets to find the ICs with features and specs that I needed for the design.
Chrome doesn’t know that your local intranet is trusted or that the local resolver is trustworthy. You need to tell Chrome this by flipping a switch to either change your DoH provider or disable it all together.

This change is explicitly protecting users from malicious network operators. Since you control the endpoints it should be no big deal, you apply GPO, run Puppet, whatever and everybody is talking to your local DNS again but it is absolutely right to not trust local unencrypted DNS by default for every network you connect to.
Crashed my Firefox tab. :(
Yes, there's tons of non-unicast traffic: ARP requests, spanning tree, various UDP broadcast packets, etc...
It's a good point, but it is preventable by the network admin. For example, I bypass that by tunneling everything out over a VPN, and the local resolver attempts to use HTTPS to connect to upstream anyway.
Obviously not every user is in a position to protect themselves in such a way, so I get why the browser is attempting to protect them.

Just seems very wrong to me to take the control away from the user/network-admin in any way.
I mean, if you're gonna do it, go whole-hog. Delete HTTP from the browser entirely, right? I don't think that would go over well either, although it could certainly be justified by the same logic.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something about the issue, there has been a fair bit of FUD, but I simply don't feel good about the browser taking authority outside it's "please render this code into a webpage" scope.
> Underlying your position, is the belief that the main reason that African Americans face poorer outcomes than Asian Americans in aggregate is because they have faced more discrimination against them. You are unwilling to compromise in this belief.

Different discrimination. I'll elaborate.

> You ought to first quantify the discrimination (you'll have to figure how to do that yourself)

Sure. Slavery is worse. Multi-generational race based slavery is worse still. That on top of pulling people from multiple distinct ethno linguistic groups, separating their families, destroying their culture and language, and killing them, is worse still. That's the history of blacks in America. Its not just discrimination (which is bad). Its the wiping out of culture that's the problem. When you put discrimination on top of it, you get what we have today. That's what I believe to be true based on what I know so far. To tie that back in, I think it makes sense that it would take generations of affirmative action like repairs to fix the problem. Its not that I don't think Asians (etc) were not discriminated against. Its just that I think it was a (much) larger, more severe scale, that warrants an independent reparation. Its perhaps comparable to Native Americans. I bet they fare similarly in modern America (I don't know the stats).

> we would be forced to conclude that other groups

No. I don't know much about those other groups. It could be any number of extrinsic factors that put them into a similar position (as measured by, e.g. poverty?).
Yes, but then how will the Amazon (or FedEx/UPS/etc) delivery person put the package inside? There’s a business idea here in connecting their handhelds to the Lockerbie and apps on customer phones.
Why are you asking me to give you a history lesson? Go look it up! Much more authoritative sources than I available to you if you actually want to know what was going on at the time.

Once you've done that you will realize that it was VERY specifically written to deal with a problem going on at the time. Hell, there are even comments in this very submission that also describe.
Sorry, increased exploitation.

And I'm mostly arguing that tech has a large contingent of selfish assholes who don't care about the impact that they have on other human beings.
You are spot on. There appears to be a fair amount of evidence to support your observation:

https://www.unz.com/article/why-harvard-is-right-to-discrimi...
I'm tempted to just call out the absurdity of arguing this point, but instead I'll just air-drop a factoid: if you Google "https://www.statista.com/statistics/196590/total-number-of-s..., you'll find a graph showing approximately 1,650 specialty coffee shops in the US in 1991, and 31,490 in 2015.

I'd link directly to it but the site forces you to pay to see the graph unless you clicked on it from a Google search results page, which is bad and evil. I can't find a better source.
They can. People pay up for the experience.
There are a small number of people running anything of that sort vs the billions running Chrome.
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