skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you need to understand the origins of the emotion, but you can (after understanding it) see it as mistaken.

Say you are pissed because you did not finish a job, but your job performance is increasingly better. Your emotion is not guiding you anywhere useful. It can be useful to understand dispassionately, and then choose to endorse it (that is, this seems a feeling that points to a correct direction, I will thing about solutions) or not (that is, this seems a feeling that does not point to where I want to go, thank you for your message, but I would rather not act on it).

Sometimes feelings are mistakes, like a optical illusion. Sometimes they are not.
One world and one culture is a nightmare not a dream.
No single evaluation covers all users. We can see that the demand for software development is high and is especially high for backend. Anything that offers a safe, easy way to develop/deploy backends is a plus whether opensource or proprietary. Don't lock yourself into not getting locked as it goes.
In city centres, there often is a group of only a few landlords who own entire blocks, then a few housing/investment companies who own most of the development projects (apartments). They collude and conspire with each other and local government to lower their own taxes, have the city improve streets near their properties, restrict supply/development permits, etc...
Can you expand on that? Not really sure what you're referencing?
> It is. They can even install a VPN everywhere they want, that's how much control they have. DoH wants to take it away.

The network control plane is not on the end user’s computer. For a home network, this is probably their ISPs modem, followed their ISPs actual edge. You could opt to set up your own DNS server or use an alternate DNS server, which is bypassing the control plane, assuming your ISP doesn’t force you to use their restrictive equipment.

The difference between DoH and regular DNS here is that even if you choose another resolver, unencrypted DNS can still be intercepted, logged, and modified by the control plane; many providers have been doing this to monetize NX DOMAIN responses even when the user is using another DNS resolver. I first realized this when attempting to get rid of annoying NX DOMAIN search SPAM pages on my phone years ago... That is precisely why this issue is coming up now and not earlier when cleartext alternate DNS resolvers gained some popularity.

> DoH wants to take it away.

What does DoH take away? You can still configure your resolver today.

> You have not been paying attention. Those same organizations removed the exact ability esni proposes once governments applied a bit of pressure on them (I'm talking about collateral freedom domain fronting thing).

What have providers removed from ESNI?
I may be more sensitive to surveillance than others. I work in Tech, and I was fascinated by the sheer number of sheer number of Hikvision facial recognition cameras I saw.

Here is a picture of one set of cameras around the mosque, which did not seem normal to us. My cousin pointed it out and we laughed at the blatant violation of privacy we saw - saying they don't even hide the fact they are watching https://imgur.com/a/8WbFxBi

and I'm not sure its fair to say I stayed in tourist areas, I was an hour and a half outside of town, and we ventured into poor areas of SH.
New England moose deaths worsens as climate warms
You are being ironic, right?
I totally agree!

There are good DevOps and bad DevOps. Personally, I'm a Dev who necessarily knows how to do Ops, because nobody else is there to put out the fires and wipe my ass for me. Good DevOps should not have such disdain for writing code, and should not be so territorial and focused on job security, and should work more closely with developers and code.

And good developers should understand operations, and shouldn't be so helpless and ignorant when it comes to deploying and maintaining systems themselves, so they can design their code to be easily configurable and dovetail into operational systems.

For the same reasons, it's also important for programmers developing tools and content pipelines for use by artists to understand how the art tools and artists work, and how to use them (enough to create placeholder programmer art to test functionality), even if they don't have any artistic ability.

And for artists and designers to have some understanding of how computers and programming works, and how to use spreadsheets and outliners and databases to understand and create specifications and configurations, so they don't design things that are impossible or extremely inefficient to implement, and make intractable demands of computers and programmers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer_art
Almost every piece of software running on Linux or Unix requires some kind of basic configuration file. Whether it's INI or YAML. You can't just 'code all the things'.

If you want an example of a dynamic configuration, look at RPM's .spec. That's a monstrosity. What you're asking for is more of that, and that's insane.

You could also use something like Python to do all your typing, build a dictionary, and just dump it to a yaml file if you think writing yaml by hand is too error prone (which I personally disagree with).
> are you assuming that protecting the murderer was Mr. Fennell's motive?

Who gives a shit what his motivation was? The legal system sure doesn't. The effect of his refusal to testify was that the killer could not be brought to justice. His participation in the attack and his refusal to cooperate after the man's death makes him morally and legally culpable in that death. This is not controversial in any modern legal jurisdiction that I'm aware of.

> Was he offered immunity for his testimony? If not, then he has very good legal reasons, not to mention the Constitutional right, to remain silent.

You appear to be confusing this issue with our Fifth Amendment indemnity against self-incrimination. Mr. Fennell was not examined as a witness, but rather as a defendant. If you refuse to testify against an accomplice, and you expect to be somehow protected from a charge of accessory-after-the-fact, you're in for a rude surprise.
The ticking time bomb of old Slack posts
This sounds like armchair musing rather than a determination from actual data. It generally costs a lot more to treat problems as they arise than it does to prevent them. Paying up front for day to day procedures would significantly reduce the burden that guaranteed emergent care places on society already. It also potentially makes federal programs such as SSI/medicare cheaper as previously insured people are much more likely to be healthy.

The numbers are subject to some debate, eg the arguments over the Mercatus Medicare For All paper, but hand waving and claiming insurance that covers day to day procedures isn’t actually insurance is dubious. Not to mention, many modern plans have high-deductibles and function as you suggest, to where a healthy person may receive little covered service but also pay less out of pocket.

https://www.amsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/CaseForUHC.p...
Common particles (those with which we evolved) are easily identifiable so no it's not them. But like I said it clearly shows it's not purer or higher quality than tap water and is sold like that with enormous price compared to tap water. It's called scam.
>> Let's imagine a hypothetical. Imagine we take a fresh planet, mostly identical to Earth. And we populate it with 1 billion infants, a billion robotic baby sitters, and no external influence. Our robotic Rosies will all behave identically and simply ensure the children do not starve and receive a homogeneous education. All will also be raised in mostly homogeneous settings. Do you believe that there would be no murderers, or others engaged in grossly deviant behavior in this world? <<

... This hypothetical enacted would directly result in chaos. There is no possibility of raising human beings to be civilized without human beings doing the raising.
This approach works for established companies, but breaks down when considering services like waymo, whose value is purely a matter of potential. Waymo is currently worth nothing (if not less) from a cash flow perspective, but potentially worth hundreds of billions in the future, with their effective market value lying at some (entirely subjective) point in between.
> It seems more likely to me he made the threat legitimately

If you genuinely think RMS was considering suicide over a date refusal, your likelyhood calibrations way off. He's weird, but he's not raving maniac. It is ok to exaggerate a little sometimes for the sake of argument, maybe, but really, there's bound of how far the credulity can be stretched.

> Do you have evidence for your assertion that it was a joke?

I just said it in my previous comment. Also, I've seen people. Virtually nobody, excepting gravely mentally ill people that are most likely already on heavy meds and being treated by psychiatrists, commits suicide over a date refusal from a random female.

> The woman who experienced it certainly didn't perceive it as one.

Not getting the joke is a common occurrence. I sometimes not get the jokes, even by professional comedians. And RMS never been a professional in this, so some rate of failure is expected. Making a huge deal out of it almost 40 years after it happened (to zero harm for anyone involved) is the insane part here. Especially as this seems to be the only documented episode of supposed myriads of harassment incidents RMS is supposedly famous for.
Can we even define what a "proven" executive is?

> There is almost no persistence in CEO performance [1]

Meaning that a successful performance as a CEO does not indicate that future stints will be successful.

[1]: https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1db3jy3201d38...
I'm fully following what's going on and I think it's a bit more nuanced than your comment. Many many of the arguments i've seen have not to do with linking, but with the preview. The preview is Google automatically pulling answers to questions from their site. They wanted that to end, because they wanted actual visitors OR they wanted Google to pay for that information.

Google can and could always link to the website. What they were doing was a bit more than that. Google is now trying to strong arm them to let them pull data from their sites. Literally, everything you describe above is what occurs when someone has a monopoly.
I think "intellectual monopoly" is a good term. If we switched nomenclature to that, I think it's a great step in the right direction.

But when I hear the term IP, what I hear is "Intellectual Slavery", as you are declaring control over human behavior, which is the definition of slavery ("restricted freedom").

I'm not necessarily against Intellectual Slavery laws. If we as a people decide it's better to have those laws than not, that's fine. Just let's use honest terms here.
This page completely hung my Android phone too
Is it even a trend, outside of partisan activists and journalists? For most people I know, "are you left or right wing?" isn't a priority when choosing dates or friends.
Check out our "temporary assign" documentation – you only hold on to the state you need. That said, you are right that a LV application will necessarily use more memory than a stateless JSON API, but there is more nuance to the story. A LiveView application will use less resources under application operation than a single page app, for example:

- because LiveViews are stateful, we don't have to refetch/reload the state we need on every "request". Things like current_user, current organization, preferences, etc. So what we lose in memory load, we gain in reduced DB and system load, caching strategies, etc

- because LiveViews are stateful with change-tracking, we actually can send less data than the best hand-written SPA/JSON application you could write. So what we lose in memory load, we gain in reduced latency and overall data on the wire.

Direct link to data-on-the-wire example from my keynote for those curious: https://youtu.be/txk4WAlabvI?t=873
I don't know. Even among my privacy-conscious friends there's hardly any talk about this sort of thing.

Snowden was in 2013. I think all that happened is a few people were briefly horrified, but in no time it was back to business as usual.

You can even point to China as an example of how bad things can get when the state can read everything, but people just don't seem to make the connection.
None of what you suggest addresses the absolutely criminal and despair inducing practice of a surprise out-of-network RNFA charging $40,000 for an hour procedure in order to milk as much as possible from an insurance company and patient.
A lot of these issues describe Calgary (where I'm from), but we have the advantage of near limitless land to develop (everything north, east and south of the city is basically flat farmland, not even particularly productive farmland at that) and the local oil industry's near collapse has caused rents in the city centre to plummet. 20 years ago this article could have described our city nearly perfectly but even today is pertinent. The biggest obstacles to development are still bureaucracy and cartels, but thankfully at least some of their power is reduced by the relatively poor economy and tons of space.
> That would be akin to change the definition of the prime numbers to exclude 1

But one isn't prime:
https://primes.utm.edu/notes/faq/one.html
Some classrooms in China are equipped with AI cameras and brain-wave trackers
From the article: "The ‘Modern C’ I’m talking about here is not modern at all, but already two decades old."

No kidding!

Still, anybody coding C is still, within epsilon, coding C++, but badly.
>Right. Homicide rate in the UK went up significantly after hangings were abolished

Only slowly (following a trend that was there before 1964 - heck, 1053 with the death penalty is higher than 1965 to 1968 without it), then had a sudden jump around mid-90s and a peak in 2002 (35 to 40 years after the abolishment for that to be a factor).

Note also, as the article itself notes, that the measurements were diluted, for example after 1972 "the crimes of murder, manslaughter and infanticide" where lumped into homicides, and that before 1998 they counted multiple murder cases as a single homicide incident.

On top of that, the rate is low enough to be diluted by cases like "58 Chinese nationals who suffocated in a lorry en route into the UK" in 2001, "173 victims of Dr Harold Shipman" in 2013, "52 victims of the 7 July London bombings" in 2006, and so on.

Even with such over-reporting, meanwhile, the whole time, the rate was so far below the US (who had the death penalty the whole time) even at its peak, that it hardly makes the case:

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/03/homicide-rates-in...
They're certainly no harder a concept than pointers in C! They also don't cause crashes that can be very difficult to debug.
The list of limitations of the jailbreak is itself interesting as it shows the benefits of defense at depth: even if you have this exploit you need physical access, Secure Enclave is still inaccessible etc.

Compare to the "firewall" approach which is crunchy on the outside but nice and soft on the inside. Snowden showed the NSA intercepting unencrypted internal comms between google's and yahoo's respective datacenters. And our IoT devices are often exploited vectors.

Interesting the Apple wouldn't even consider their own device boundary adequate. Compare to others who (used to? Still do?) keep, say, fingerprint data in the filesystem. Some people say code structure reflects organizational structure; I wonder if apple's own corporate structure (with internal inter-project secrecy, which I consider insane) lead in part to this approach: "I can't trust those other organizations writing system code to use the security features I put in so I'll consider them a kind of adversary too"
> Well, it was always their right (as they could use robots.txt) but now Google gives them a more fine grained control over it.

Does it? I am pretty sure Google already provided on page directives that gives sites full control of image indexing, snippet usage and even snippet length. [0]

The differences is that now all news sites are opted-out by default, a legal agreement is required to opt in, and the force of law ensures compliance.

I don't really see how this actually does ANYTHING to help anyone except lawyers. I guess it makes it harder for small aggregators to get going...but is that really a result we wanted?

[0] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93710
The useful subset, not coincidentally.
The courts have already ruled that it’s ok to make speech illegal in the name of public safety.
http://habitatchronicles.com/2007/03/the-untold-history-of-t...
"this is basically the point of representative democracy"

Democracy is not a system to promote meritocracy. It's a system to avoid autocracy, and all other things are exernalities rising from this core purpose.

The point of democracy is to have a constant churn within a large enough powerpool to discourage formation of ruling cliques and oligarchies. It's nice if the chosen representatives are efficient and skillfull, but that's not the point of the system.
> When that's the case, what makes them particularly useful compared to some other language with a uniform syntax and possibly better forms of "glue" -- say Python, or lisp, or whatever?

Well, first:

> possibly better forms of "glue" -- say Python

That's not a better form of glue. First, consider that executables of all languages are standarized to work with text. They get text arguments, text input through stdin, text output through stdout and stderr, text input and output through other files whose paths are given as arguments, etc.

Shell languages are good glue because they work only with text. With the exception of control structures like "if", and "while", all statements in a shell languages are based on text. The command name is just text, the arguments are text. Syntax facilitates the manipulation of their standard inputs and outputs. Command substitution allows one to glue the output of one command as arguments to another. That's what makes shell languages a good glue.

Python, on the other hand, is not as good at gluing these executables written in a myriad of languages because it doesn't put enough importance on this universal interface between languages that is text, nor does it sufficiently facilitate the execution of other executables.

Another thing to consider is that shell languages are meant primarily to be used interactively. Things like putting commas between arguments and parenthesis around them would be a nuisance in interactive use. Having to quote every argument would also be a nuisance. In a not-primarily-interactive language like python, one uses variables more than literals, so it's easier to write variables than quoted strings. In a primarily-interactive language like bash, one typically uses literals more than variables, so it's the variables in bash that require the extra syntax (the sigil, '$'), while literal strings do not (most of the time).

> with a uniform syntax

I'm not sure what a more "uniform" syntax is, but I get your drift that there are warts in typical shell languages. I would also prefer that `if` statements didn't end in `fi` or `case` statements end in `esac`, but I think languages like bash and zsh offer to much to forgo them for such little details. There are more to these languages than these warts that makes them worth it.

You might be interested in the fish shell project. It's a newish shell language with a simplified ("uniform"?) syntax. Personally, I don't use it because it lacks too many features, but it's there if you like it.

> Why not allow people to acquire proficiency in just one language, and use it consistently to communicate with their computer?

That's shell languages. If you meant something like python, you can. Just do `usermod -s $(which python) $USER` to set python to be your shell. I wouldn't last long on it as my shell for the reasons I mentioned, but there's no-one not allowing us to if we wanted.
>I bet you apply this very selectively

Yes, I apply it to organized societies and legal systems, who one would expect to have higher standards than criminals and/or juveniles.
You speak of them with such disdain. Is that a common attitude in your company?
But for a certain piece of land, its a complete monopoly. And unlike with goods or services, you can't go somewhere else to get that exact piece of land.

In my opinion there are two issues:
#1: Land owners are not taxed for the un-earned value of their land. Making lots of money for just owning a piece of land is absurd. Normally this doesn't matter due to how large the USA is, but you can see its ugly result when land is very constricted like in major cities.

#2: Land owners are very limited by what they can build on their land by local laws and such, which prevents development of high density buildings, which would lower rents due to the increased number of units and efficiency at which these can be built. A land tax would even necessitate this sort of construction so that it would be profitable for the landlord to even keep the land.
I am about 90% certain that IRC and Slack is already well backdoored.
Yes, you're given a random password when you enable backups that you need to use when restoring. They don't get uploaded to the cloud. On iOS there's no backup feature at all AFAIK.
Firefox doesn't do that. An extension to Firefox does.
I just forked the zoekt project for myself to get a better web UI. Small world.
> If WhatsApp did not use e2e encryption by default (and they didn't)

Correct use of past tense. In the present, e2e encryption is by default.

> Does this new announcement really lessen the security and privacy of the users?

Yes it does, since e2e encryption is enabled by default now. Best I can tell, there’s no way to disable it either.
I'm pretty sure SRE is a very old title at google.
Depends on what kind of career you want to have, but I think for the most part, it could be good experience, depending on the position. Everyone's riding the big SV company bandwagon, so every company is going to be totally different. If you're being brought in to convert applications to run on AWS instead of on premise, or refactoring apps to run in containers instead of VM, you're not an SRE, you're operations, and that's what we call 'lift and shift.' The AWS and container experience will be valuable, but you're probably not going to learn much about software development. You're going to be writing Puppet or Chef modules (or if the company has their act together, ansible), and it's going to mostly suck.

As with anything, you're going to put out what you put in. If you want to be a low-level C programmer, then spend time doing whatever is related to that.
> The idea that moves like this will "keep us safe" is utterly preposterous

The "terrorism" rationalization provided for this surveillance has nothing to do with reality. The United States government is not in any way involved in fighting the source of jihadist terrorism, and the state responsible for 9/11, Saudi Arabia. They are allies, and Trump's cabinet is now attempting to arm Saudi Arabia with nuclear weapons. The actual intent of this law is to surveil whistle-blowers and journalists. WhatsApp messages have already been used in the case against IRS whistle-blower John Fry, who exposed the Donald Trump-Michael Cohen hush payments.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/report-trump-rushing-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCo-0EAu5Oc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW-SjxsGHOI

https://theintercept.com/2019/08/04/whistleblowers-surveilla...
Thanks! I wonder what caused my sulfates to rise. Maybe something I ate, or an infection without symptoms that I noticed. Or perhaps I did take a medication and I don't remember. Or just something genetic.

Thanks for sharing, because it looks like it's not something I need to worry about because my blood quickly went back to red.
Sounds like NHS underfunding is what killed most of them.