skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Norway example is misleading for people who are primarily familiar with US sentencing. Twenty one years is the maximum sentence one can be given initially, but it can be extended five years at a time at the end of the sentence. There are no limits on the number of five year extensions, so a twenty one year sentence can effectively be a life sentence.

It's basically equivalent to a US sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 21 years, though the default is that you're released after 21 years, as opposed to the US default of you continuing to stay in prison unless you can convince a parole board to release you.
> The #1 question I get asked by the developers is "Did you really want to transfer from development to ops?"

I’m not sure what job listings they’re looking at, but as an ops person (kubernetes) I’m interviewing for jobs with close to half a million a year in total comp.
What are your thoughts about server-side ad insertion?

One of your captured urls in the paper looks like it might be part of a VAST request, which could lead to SSAI.
Honestly I’d rather google stopped with this knowledge base/metadata extraction and focused on search. They’re trying to be star trek but they’re more like a concierge for existing businesses, and they aren’t much help where there isn’t existing capital investment. It’s parasitic.
> Everyone hates YAML. Everyone writes a lot of YAML.

I don’t know a single engineer (ops or not) who enjoys writing YAML, yet it is utterly unavoidable.

I’ve lost count of the amount of bugs and broken deploys that have happened because of YAML, or because of a type error caused by it.
Maybe it was false and he stood on the side of only saying what is true and/or not condemning the wrong person for the crime.
> You don't need socialism to have universal healthcare.

What I'm saying is that many, many people on both sides of the issue use "socialism" to mean "any socialist policy regardless of the majority economic or governmental system." That's not what Marx intended, and it may not be what it means in the former USSR, but that's usually what it means in English. When someone says "we need more socialism" or mocks the idea that "socialism will destroy America", then barring additional context, it's not helpful to assume they want a full Soviet system.
I also moved from development to ops and am now at a company with a large engineering organization.

Most developers don't care about ops. They expect everything to "just work" and they don't expect to have to help that process along with the way their code is written. It doesn't matter how junior or senior they are either.

I'd say more than 50% do things that are extremely irresponsible wrt resource utilization. Especially if it's I/O.
Fortunately for normative social theory and political economy, a lot of research has happened since Adam Smith evengalized self-interest and the free market.
Devs just don’t care about infrastructure in my experience.
> Are they going to outlaw encryption libraries?

Yes. Absolutely. That's the only logical endgame.
Where did you go? I've only been to Bejing, Shangahi, Nanjing, and Hanzhou. They seemed like normal large cities. I didn't see police anywhere. I walked around the cities no problem. Road the subways no issues. Ate lots of yummy food. Went shopping, walked malls, went to mom and pop stores. Bought stuff at covenience stores. Went to bars. Went to museums. Went to several night clubs. Went to China Joy, video game trade show that seemed a lot like Gamescom but more sexy. I literally saw nothing oppresive. The most was that Google Maps being bad and I don't read enough Chinese to use Baidu maps. Used a HK sim last time I went (can order online) but my day to day experience like a pretty normal life would be in Los Angeles, New York, Paris, or London except the of course the cities are full of Chinese people with Chinese inspired architecture etc.. I did see lots of poverty, especially outside the big cities.

Note I am not defending Chinese. Just shocked at how different our experiences were. Plenty of youtube travel videos or videos of Shenzen or other cities that look similar to the experiences I've had.
I have noticed that whenever one brings up concrete examples of Chinese state surveillance, oppression, or bad behavior, people come out of the woodwork with examples of how it is “no different” than the other western countries. There seems to be a pattern of attempting false equivalence on every subject that paints China in a bad light.

Is that because the West is acutely self-critical? Or is there something else going on here?
I suspect Facebook has wanted an excuse to remove the end to end encryption and avoid the negative publicity at the same time. Done.
More anecdotes, still have my Nexus 4 kicking around. Just switched from my Pixel 1 after about 3 years since I cracked the screen.
No. Yes. Yes. Yes. ¯\(°_o)/¯
I haven't met anyone I would label as a moron. I think if you're talking about a specific kinds of smarts, then sure, some have more than others. I don't think I'm particularly smart, but if you're speaking academically, I have performed better than average. However, I've met many people over the years who most would not consider "smart" by the traditional definition, but they exhibit other forms of intelligence that are often less appreciated.
On-topic: And that's just the sort of copy-editing that would end up being done by (unpaid) reviewers and not the paid copy-editors.

(Thank you, by the way.)
It doesn't matter if they "say" it. They act like they do and it speaks just as much.

Everywhere I look (modulo self bias) I find people that are in awe of the digital touch interface. In contrast I don't find people in awe of analog buttons. They just use them and complain when they don't work for whatever reason. Digital interface touch "buttons" don't work on cars. We complain. It's simple.
Absolutely, some screening has been proven to be "useless" - such as thyroid cancer screening among the general population.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/05/09/5275692...

You also have to be careful to quantify "useless," "useless" can mean "doesn't work," but if we are objectively detecting cancers it's hard to say it's "useless."

You also may have one person's life saved for every 20 who were harmed by the screening program - it's still useful for those people who benefited. So yeah, that terminology is problematic.

It's more accurately to speak of a bad screening program "causes more harm than good on a population wide scale."

And, of course, it's important to clarify we are talking about screening the general population who is asymptomatic and at average risk. If you've got symptoms then the topic becomes diagnosis, not screening. If you have an increased risk due to genetic factors, family history, or increased exposure to some cancerogenics then then risks of screening for the general population don't apply to you.
I think it is that feeing of discovering the unknown.

Somewhat related I’ve been reading the original Mt. Everest reconnaissance journals, and it’s just so fascinating reading someone describing their awe, joy, and disappointments as they try to find a path to Everest, not even a summit route.

I never thought I would get so engrossed in reading this kind of thing.

https://archive.org/stream/mounteverestreco00howa#page/n10/m...
DevOps Topologies
How is gnews “more options”. They dont write news, they aggregate
Right. The Wikipedia route is just convenient in not having to remember a particular address (e.g. in case you're not on your own machine).
Sorry about not finding myself in agreement over what would be a "real revelation", but I might have misunderstood. My apologies.
"Enforced" is not the word I was looking for. More like showing the ruling class that it's in their own interest to gradually apply some changes. There are many obstacles for such a strategy. But even if there isn't a clear path, there needs to be some factors in place for somebody inside to invent that path. If nothing is ever done, nothing will change.
International physician compensation report 2019
Buffon's Needle Problem
Thanks for calling it out! I think I first heard this from Plasmodium researchers, and in my mind the claim has strengthen over time. A better statement would be: "“Malaria could have potentially killed nearly to half the people who ever lived, predominantly children”."

And this is based off the idea that for most of human history people have lived in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the majority of people who lived died as children, and the predominate cause of death was Malaria.
If you bother to read the article, it makes heavy reference to Adam Smith’s opposition to landlords and their rent-seeking because of the heavy drag they place on markets. They capture and enclose too much capital that could otherwise be used for dynamic and productive investment. He was as right then as he is now.
Disagree on hypocrisy. US still affords significant freedoms and largely respects human rights. Whether your communications can be decrypted or intercepted on networks that are government regulated anyway is not hypocritical.

Residents of the US are still free to use whatever mathematical algorithm they want to encrypt their comms. Transporting OTP's across physical borders is trivial, and not technically illegally if not mistaken. Strong encryption is open source as you've pointed out. There's no law against using those open source libraries, nor any discussion to try to censor/outlaw them, AFAIK.

Policing the airwaves and internet pipes hardly qualifies as some major abuse of human rights, particularly when the best that the Intercept/Snowden crowd can come up with regarding things like "Parallel Reconstruction" is "abuse" of "surveillance power" to catch, e.g., methamphetamine traffickers [1].

[1] https://theintercept.com/2018/01/09/dark-side-fbi-dea-illega...

edit: Downvote due to disagreement? This seems to be the mantra of HN in recent years.
> If I can compile audited code from source myself, without any backdoors, then I can be reasonably assured there aren't any backdoors

Many people can compile code from source. Not so many people have the ability to audit code for obscured backdoors. The number of people that are capable to audit and have the time that is necessary to do it is practically nil.
Right. The reviewers who did the peer review were unpaid; readers will read the pre-print. What value does the publisher add?
Maybe I missed something, but you can clearly go into each file in the src folder. I took a quick glance and things seem to be fairly small and separated. You can always just take the class/method you want without taking all the files, or package.

Not associated with the project, but confused as to the follow-up threads.
With all due respect, your entire reply here reads to me as someone that I would not want to work with.

My group at work is largely full of people who believe in what we do, enjoy the work we do, and feel an obligation to our users.

For many groups, the only thing more important than getting the right people in, is keeping the wrong people out. Your talented employees can probably quite easily find a lateral move. Hiring the wrong person can lose you several of your most talented team members.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule

when an offender kills (regardless of intent to kill) in the commission of a [felony], the offender, and also the offender's accomplices or co-conspirators, may be found guilty of murder.

Which is to say, he was guilty from the get-go.
> Why should they pay for Agency content brandet as high quality newspaper content?

because they're using someone elses intellectual property in the process, and that's what this law is about. Sure, the relationship goes both ways in that it increases exposure for the newspaper, but there is a very principled case to be made that Google profits for free off the intellectual creations of third parties.

The one point I agree with in your question is "why only newspapers", I think we should systematically move towards monetisation when Google indexes, reuses and displays content from third parties and incorporates them in their products.
What indication is there of this?
>Goalpost? What is your goal?

His goal is to point out that you said "in China they tell you you need to register at hotels", and when he answered that that's the case in the US and other countries too, you expanded your question to "Does the police show up if you don’t register in Other countries they do in China".

That's normally called "moving the goalposts".

Now you're implying that they have some further motive, or just "want to agree".

Well, they wanted to point a flaw in your original argument (that implied it's somehow unique to China to have you register at hotels). Are they allowed to?
Lots of critics are uninformed, unscientific, and defective. the world is full of people who make confident pronouncements about the field of economics that are ill-informed. (It's actually a bit mysterious to me why that is.)
I think the implication is just that Whatsapp has to hand over encrypted messages ...

I'd imagine if the police are then in control of the target mobile they can decrypt those messages.

Tbh, if my understanding is correct, I'm not sure I see any problem there. It's targeted at specific individuals for good reason (presumably following a warrant process) and requires both the messages (from Whatsapp) and they keys (from the individual's device). What's the problem?
It requires a certain amount of mathematical experience and is not suitable for people who are unfamiliar with school-level algebra, or unwilling to learn difficult concepts through prolonged mental concentration and effort.

Why do materials on functional programming always have to be at least somewhat condescending towards the reader?

Or maybe: why such sentences seems to appear only in them?
Ethics evolve, and shouldn't be pinned to a person.

BSD licensed software is fine as well, nobody would say it is unethical.

In the same way the GPL3 came about due to external circumstances, other forms of licensing should be able to be considered free (like the AGPL or maybe others) with regards to the current landscape and circumstances.
Not possible in the US unless the Supreme Court stops giving a crap about the first amendment. Incredibly unlikely no matter how unpopular free speech might become.
Should you get less of a sentence because you testify?
There is absolutely zero ways for WhatsApp and other to comply unless there is a back door. If the Senate votes on this treaty then it has the exact effect of legislation.
I hope I hate this code one day
Not sure who told you its CISC, the SuperFX GSU is a rather conventional RISC CPU.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-07-04-born-slippy-th...

The best quote, from Jez San, one of Argonaut's founders, is, "At the time that it came out, it was also the world's best-selling RISC microprocessor until ARM became standardised in every cellphone and took the market by storm."
I think there's still an attitude among developers that anything that looks like system administration is beneath them.

My theory, which might annoy some people, is that it probably has to do with operating systems collecting so much legacy cruft that a lot of coding to interact with the underlying system is just extremely gross. Like, shell scripts and command line apps have not gotten that much more elegant since the 1980s, but programming languages definitely have. The funny thing is that things like Kubernetes and containers and a lot of these devops technologies are actually really interesting and exciting, but at the end of the day the lingua franca is still bash. And if you're writing code in modern python or typescript or whatnot and all the sudden you have to regularly use a language that lacks robust support for things like arrays you're not going to be a happy camper.
Is this common in western countries, or one of those "only in the US and/or some third world country" things, like the "three-strikes" and the "death penalty" (even for juveniles) laws?
Okay, as they used to say on slashdot when I frequented it (and maybe they still say it), "I know I'll be downvoted for this ...". But I'll say it anyway:

Mr Fennell was a good candidate for parole. I'm not opposed to parole for him. He didn't need to be in jail any longer.

But ...

Why oh why can 5 un-elected people be allowed to decide that his incarceration was "cruel and unusual punishment". As one of the dissenters on the court noted, mandatory life sentences "could not plausibly be described" as unusual when a majority of states endorse them.

Giving the Supreme Court the power to do this is IMO very bad. People simply love love love it when the result is something they agree with, but what about all the other decisions?

I really don't like this court decision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_v._Alabama
Disagree. The end goal has always been to make civilian use of encryption in a such a way as to prevent government from being able to intercept communication illegal. That’s where we will end up.
Thanks for mentioning, this is good to keep in mind. I'm just getting started with LiveView for the first time on an internal admin. I don't have an educated opinion yet, but I'm excited about it after watching all of the ElixirConf talks.
Right, and then they ignore the .tex sources, including formatting, and reset the whole thing in some weird proprietary system anyway, making half of the compliance to formatting that I did completely pointless. (And in the resetting, they introduce a few new errors into the references for good measure.)
Exactly. I, the parent, have probably the same opinions on policy of animal captivity as those who disagreed that I should have said a thing. Those who can't see the point I was making are precisely those who enable the kinds of atrocities looked back on with the thought "how could they let that happen?".
So we are back to using code words, one time pads etc?

This will do nothing except intrude on civil rights.
I'd expect Norway to let the judiciary decide whether someone is a still a threat and needs to stay in prison.

In America, it's governors who ultimately decide, and a politician has vastly skewed incentives.
The vast majority of iPhones in circulation are the X or below.

So, stated otherwise: this carries the same weight as saying about 90% (anecdotal estimate) of iPhones in circulation are jailbreakable
So basically quantum supremacy helps convince us that it might be worth trying to achieve the latter because it might actually be possible.

Its like e.g. sending a sounding rocket into space and back down. It doesn't reach orbit or carry a useful payload, but it shows that a rocket could probably reach orbit. Not a perfect analogy though since in the rocket case it's really a matter of just scaling the rocket while for QC there remain large known unknowns and probably many unknown unknowns.
An IPO flop is more reliable, though.
Human rights aren't related to humans and their rights?

Riiight.
You are exaggerating to make a point, but... what else would you prefer? That your sysadmins approve your frameworks? How detailed would you get? Do you want a formal approval cycle before installing a new npm package?

I'd prefer an ops team that trusts the dev team is competent, and trusts that if the tests pass, the devs probably made acceptable decisions.
I like this as a good counterpoint:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/countering_tr...

If you have multiple compilers and they all aren't infected in exactly the same way (e.g. one is not infected, or they have different types of infections) then you can detect there's a problem with them.
I don’t think of it as a demotion, it just seems a lot harder and more of a slog. I’m on an on-call rotation, getting paged sucks. I can’t imagine signing up for more of that.

Plus, for all the grief frontend dev gets for its change of pace, it seems like there is a new ops tool with an unpronounceable name every day.

You can respect the job someone does while not wanting to do it yourself. Think of, I dunno, teachers.
> I can't imagine that responsibility for MY code in production (and delivery of the said code to production) lies on a different team/department that are possibly not even on the same floor/building I'm at.

I recently did some interviews with our devs to find out what features we could add to our platform that would provide them with value. The result was interesting and I found that people typically fall into one of two camps:
1) I want to know everything about my deployed service and have tools that alert me and allow me to intervene, or
2) I don't want to know anything about the deployed service runtime and expect operations to handle my issues and alert me when there's a problem.

It sounds like you might be in the former. =)
the bigger model is called a bicycle
google serves AMP websites whenever possible (from Google News) as they've scared publishers into adopting their standard. AMP strips traditional advertising networks and monetization options from the website and is only compatible with Google's Ad Network.

So Google gets to advance the dominance of AMP, gets to track user behavior and does make money from Google News. If it didn't really have any value to Google and advance their agenda, it would be shutdown.
What use would ciphertext be to GCHQ? I’m fairly certain that “encrypted messages” describes which messages they will have to provide in plaintext, not the format they will come in.
Four lights. Nice try, Madred.
This is why high IQ is evolutionarily disadvantageous after a certain point. Probability of mating declines with increasing IQ.
> As a result they also talk about mental health more than programmers do.

It really is. All of the lifelong DevOps/sre people I know have spent time grappling with the consequences of this. On all experiences also seem so much more dramatically in larger companies where teams can properly load balance.
There is no other endgame in which this is pointful.
> Being 17 or acting as part of a group don’t make you less culpable.

Yes it does. Boys do strange things, boys in groups do stranger things, like not testifying against each other, especially if they feel society has abandoned them and the world is against them.

Normal societies are set up to deal with that or prevent it.

Fix your bloody society.
Right. Homicide rate in the UK went up significantly after hangings were abolished: https://fullfact.org/news/has-murder-rate-doubled-hanging-wa....

Europe had much lower homicide rates before criminal justice reforms. Arguably, the causation runs the other way. Europeans were willing to have more lenient sentences because homicides were less of a pervasive problem.
"How can a country that oppress people they didn’t in 1972 and moreover do so more effectively be freer?"

Cultural Revolution [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution