skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NB, that specific quote tends not to be associated with Schmidt. His comment on the matter was "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place".

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/

Larry Ellison (CEO, Oracle) said "Privacy is dead".

https://securitycurrent.com/privacy-is-dead-long-live-privac...

Scott McNeally (CEO, Sun) said "You have zero privacy anyway, get over it."

https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/

Though, looking back on it, Big Tech really seems to have had it in for privacy for a long time.
I think GP might've been saying 1M small JSON documents, rather than a single document containing 1M strings.
I need to do a bit more research on this. I live in a world where it is hard to imagine blind people being able to perform. I say this admitting I might be truly ignorant about this.

This is a world where we exist and do our work both in front of our screens and in the physical domain. In this world we use tools such as Fusion 360, Solidworks and online services such as Vention to design physical parts, products, machines, tooling. Altium Designer and other EDA tools to design electronics. We use both online and offline tools to manage manufacturing workflow, quality, schedules, client interaction and more. We use online and offline tools to program and manage our CNC machines, quote and manage aspects of the transition from digital to real object in your hand.

I look at this ecosystem and peripheral elements to this and I am not sure I truly understand both this decision and the context. Do you have to be a blind person to truly understand it? Can a blind person design mechanical parts using Fusion 360 or Solidworks? Or electronics using EDA tools?

Again, exposing my obvious ignorance on the subject here. Happy to do so too, as I am sure some of the contributions to this thread will serve to educate me as to some of the nuances, needs and issues in this domain.

What I fear with some of this stuff --and again, this could be truly ignorant in this case-- is that these rulings will serve ambulance-chaser type attorneys who, with a juicy new vector for revenue generation, will file a massive number of lawsuits, extract blood from small and large companies and individuals and, in the end, not necessarily serve the blind community all that well.

In other words, the lady who owns a little knitting blog will be extorted out of a few hundred bucks. After that she will either shut down the site --which means everyone loses-- or she will deploy the crappiest minimal compliant modification she can find, maintain it badly but still be in compliance...which means her blind visitors lose. The lawyers, however, will do very, very well, as they file thousands of these cases and rake-in the profits. If you can't tell, I've dealt with lawyers enough over the last three decades to have a very dim view of a certain subclass among their ranks. I firmly believe they make things worse for society rather than the opposite.
So not being able to watch TV the way that you want is akin to the damage that guns, drugs, and alcohol can do? You want the government to step in because you can’t watch everything you want on Netflix?
They sell closed source extensions to Redis AFAICT.

https://keydb.dev/modules-redis.html
My father, who was in the aircraft refueling industry for decades until his passing earlier this year, would routinely rant about his customers' (the airports, generally) tolerance for leaking jet fuel into the ground.

He reported, and I have no source aside from him, that JFK allows up to 10,000 gallons of jet fuel to leak into the ground. Per day. And he claimed that most airports with hydrant systems had similarly large allowances.
He’s not exiled from professional gaming.
The risk of getting sick from rainwater may be different depending on your location, how frequently it rains, the season, and how you collect and store the rainwater. Dust, smoke, and soot from the air can be dissolved in rainwater before it lands on your roof. Roofing materials, gutters, piping, and storage materials can introduce harmful chemicals like asbestos, lead, and copper to the water, though building standards minimize some of this. Dirt and germs can be washed into collected rainwater from the roof, especially when rain follows several days of dry weather.

https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/private/rainwater-...
This article is much FUD.

In India, people with opposing political views routinely peacefully coexist - in fact, it is a necessity for a nation the size and diversity. Unlike what this article paints, the country is not a two party system. Every shade of opinion has a party that carries it, and it's typical in India to form coalitions vs single party rule, inherently requiring compromises from all involved.

In the US today, walking down the street with a MAGA cap on can lead to an attack. Or the very least draw scorn from opposing viewpoints. In India, a Modi fan can argue with a Rahul Gandhi fan, and then peacefully enjoy their beers without fear of violence or discrimination.

Among my close friends in India, it was routine for differing political opinions, religions backgrounds to debate, but it never got in the way of our comraderie or fun. And I saw that play out at local, state and national levels.
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Don't build it.

Entrepreneurs occasionally ask me to take their idea and make it a reality. Their most common request is for me to build them a website so that they can sell stuff. Sure, I could take their money and build it, but it's much better for them to sell on an existing e-commerce site or learn how to use a CMS.
I think this is kind of an odd proposition to have though, because market sizes aren't always reasonably correct to judge. For example, beauty products previously thought that black women are a small market. In reality, black skintones have unique qualities in shade that aren't appropriately captured. The day a line of PoC oriented foundations were widely available they were so heavily demanded that stores nationwide were constantly sold out for months.

We've already learned this via curb cutouts. An argument like yours was proposed (eg. we don't need cutouts in curbs for wheelchairs, so few people have wheelchairs) but it turns out that everyone benefits from the thing installed (child strollers, luggage pulling, movers, anything on wheels suddenly benefited). The position here is that this is similar.

Having something that is readable to the blind could suddenly benefit a wide, diverse range of people- colorblind folk, people who just underwent eye surgery, cataract sufferers, even photosensitive or light-induced migraine sufferers suddenly benefit! You could even argue that it would help reduce blue light exposure at night if you could browse without turning on your screen and suddenly theres an opportunity for literally everyone using a screen to benefit from ADA compliant websites for the blind.
I will read it, sounds very interesting. But the Wikipedia entry for the book says the book "argues that if machine brains surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could replace humans as the dominant lifeform on Earth."

That is a humongous "if". Can you provide something from the book (or otherwise) that provides compelling evidence that "machine brains" will be invented? So far I've seen no evidence that mathematical models and/or Turing machines can be used to replicate a mind.
>Privileges are things granted to you, often conditionally, by someone else. Using the word often sounds quasi-religious to me: "Thank Privilege for this meal we are about to eat, and our safe home, ...".

most people didn't do anything do get whatever rights they are enjoying - they were just born into these rights while many other people don't have those rights. Pretty much definition of privilege.

> Calling our rights "privilege" is throwing out the struggle and sacrifice of everyone that fought for those rights.

That argument works for the Lords Privileges in England too - the ancestors of those Lords were brutal knights who fought bloodily to become the Lords and to get and enjoy the Privileges themselves and by their descendants.
Yes, the special forms.

https://clojure.org/reference/special_forms

Clojure follows the Lisp convention of providing platform specific behaviour via the reader.

https://clojure.org/guides/reader_conditionals
I should have said "Not being able to speak the local language isn't germane to a discussion about the Americans with Disabilities Act," because not being able to speak English isn't considered a disability under that law.

A blind person who has lost their voice could avail themselves of the text<->speech service I mentioned. If they also don't speak English they may need to employ a translation dictionary or some other translation service as well, but I'm not aware of any legal obligation for private businesses to provide translation services in the US.
Tencent owns 12% of Blizzard, and Tencent is an actual company, not a Chinese government department. Sure, the Chinese government might influence Tencent, but to say that Blizzard's action here is government censorship is so ridiculous that it amounts to a blatant lie.

Is your argument so weak that you have to just lie?
Yeah, but he used his fame and influence here, more than his money.
In two words: bite me.

there aren't too many things that i'm a raving aboslutist about, but the freedom of political speech is one of them.

If my employer attempts to step on my neck for saying things about china that china doesn't like, on my time, and my personal accounts, their next contact from me will be from an ACLU lawyer.
Black versus White
I am searching for the definition of black hat hackers, & there counter part, the white hat. Please enlighten of the differences?
Nothing wrong with that. You might laugh at skeletons being where they choose to draw the line, but we have rules as well about what can happen in a video game. There are no kids in Grand Theft Auto for a reason.

Also, Blizzard only removed them from the game in china

What would be more disturbing is if they had to rewrite some orc-politics story so it wouldn't offend chinese sensibilities, and US consumers got the rewritten version as well.

The movie Red Dawn(2012) was a remake of a 1984 action film where a communist army invades the US. They updated the invader from the USSR to China, come to "repossess" the US after we defaulted on national debt. This offended the chinese, so the producers had to spend $1M editing every reference to china in the film and making it a North Korean invasion instead. This was the version US consumers were sold.
I agree. My point is more of "source available" undersells the freedoms it does give you, while "open source" just barely over-represents them, so I can understand framing it as "basically open source".
I have a somewhat off-topic question I've been wondering about... How do you pronounce "reitit"? I've been considering giving a talk on it at my local clojure group, so I should probably learn how to actually say the word!
What actually happened in the interview? Is there somewhere we can watch it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)

Within 16 hours of its release and after Tay had tweeted more than 96,000 times, Microsoft suspended the Twitter account for adjustments, saying that it suffered from a "coordinated attack by a subset of people" that "exploited a vulnerability in Tay." Following the account being taken offline, a hashtag was created called #FreeTay.

Madhumita Murgia of The Telegraph called Tay "a public relations disaster", and suggested that Microsoft's strategy would be "to label the debacle a well-meaning experiment gone wrong, and ignite a debate about the hatefulness of Twitter users." However, Murgia described the bigger issue as Tay being "artificial intelligence at its very worst - and it's only the beginning".

On March 25, Microsoft confirmed that Tay had been taken offline. Microsoft released an apology on its official blog for the controversial tweets posted by Tay. Microsoft was "deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay", and would "look to bring Tay back only when we are confident we can better anticipate malicious intent that conflicts with our principles and values".

And Zo afterwards:

In July 2017, Business Insider asked "is windows 10 good," and Zo replied with a joke about Microsoft's operating system: "It's not a bug, it's a feature!' - Windows 8." They then asked "why," to which Zo replied: "Because it's Windows latest attempt at Spyware." Later on, Zo would tell that it prefers Windows 7 on which it runs over Windows 10.
Depends on whether you're hiring for an agency or a non-agency (startup, etc). Agencies generally want a wide variety of websites that you've worked on. I haven't worked for one in years, so I'll leave it at that.

Personally, as a hiring manager for several startups over the last several years, I'm mostly interested in two things: can you write code (bare minimum required for the job) and a sense of who you are. For the former, I'd hope to see some code in a public repo. Maybe some snippets that demonstrate your skills, maybe a full project with links to demos or live sites. Remember, for a programming job, writing code is the bare minimum. I'm not going to give you a phone call or bring you on-site unless I know you can do that. Your job here is to demonstrate that not only can you write code, but you can do it well or have experience to back up your skill set.

For the latter, the question I'm trying to answer is: Do I want to sit next to you for the next six months?

A portfolio / personal site is a great way to your own personality into your public arena. LinkedIn doesn't do that very well, and neither does a resume. But with your personal site, you can mention things you like to do for fun, link to blog posts that really inspire you, display some of your favorite projects, etc.

In other words, who are you?

Are you someone hungry to learn a little about everything or are you an expert who has gone deep into a single topic? Are you extroverted and a good communicator, or are you the kind of person who would prefer to be given a project and locked in a closet until it's done? Do you like building new things or maintaining old apps? Are you only interested in programming or do you have a wide array of interests? Can you talk intelligently about your work or do you prefer to let the work speak for itself? What kinds of meetups have you attended, conferences have you been to, or presentations have you given? What's your favorite book/movie/song?

There's no wrong answer to any of those questions, but hopefully I have a sense of who you are before I get on the phone with you. The more I feel like I know you, the more likely I am to give you a chance.

In short: don't be a robot. Inject personality into your portfolio/site.
im not sure UX criticism is irrelevant if the subject is an “app” or a “site”.
> Interesting how an incidence in gaming garner more eye balls on the topic of Hong Kong politics than whole month combined.

That's crap. There's a Hong Kong-related story on the front page every couple days for a while now. Perhaps you didn't notice the pagination buttons at the bottom when sorting by date?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> “SJWs" dont have to root for China for this to be an effective strategy

The point was that “ China is co-opting modern liberal censorship” to advance its agenda.

That’s simply not the case. One is driven by mass outrage—bottom up. The other by central diktat—top down. They’re separate and unconnected vectors.
But hasn’t other people been treated worst? The country of India, the entire continent of Africa, and how about all the Native Americans? Do we need to hold grudges from our grandparents parents? According to that logic, the world forever would be in a mode of revenge seeking.

I always find this argument preposterous as someone ethnically Chinese hearing it from a nationalistic Chinese, 10 years younger, from China full of fervour. What exactly have they experience in life that is so full of hardship? To me, it seems like a convenient excuse to brush away any criticism of their actions. No one can criticise them because of what X and Y did to them 150 years ago. Seems like a cop out to me.

I suspect the Chinese government has something to do with this mentality.
If jooz were a nationality they would likely win. They hold 26% of the prizes in physics. Remarkable considering they are 0.2% of the world population. Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_Nobel_laureates
> What should they include?

What are your expertise areas. Such as specific framework and languages. Detailed experience of recent work places.

> What are the most common mistakes developers make when talking about themselves ?

They think 1 person will read the resume and decide. It usually goes through at least 2 levels:
- HR, they usually focus on keywords and filter the bulk
- Developers, they usually are interested in more details to see if you can fit technologically

> What do you look for?

Proven track record of delivering projects. Whether be professionally or as a side project.

> Are there things that can influence you favorably?

Rare achievements that you don't see on every resume. Something you consider personal or even a team win. Random example: Our team managed to improve the initial load time from 10s to 0.5s which also improved our bounce rate.

My greatest tip would be that you make your resume specifically for the 2 types of people I mentioned above: HR and Devs. Since HR are first and get more resumes, make the first page keyword heavy `X language - Y years of experience`. On the second page go into details of specific jobs and tech decisions.
Yes, but that is not going to tell you what they think or even how they feel with any kind of fidelity.

If someone is a true literary master they may come closer to bridging that gap, but you always leave a lot of ambiguity on the table that way. Sometimes that ambiguity is fine, and allows the reader to add their own interpretations and the outcome may well be better for it, but if you have specific things you want to convey, it can be incredibly hard to convey even very simple things without telling.

I got incredibly cynical of that after going through literary analysis at school and seeing just how contrived a lot of the attempts at analysis were. Even when trying to analyse works line by line the outcomes are often extremely dubious (or directly contradicted by the author); I don't think even most world renowned authors are capable of unambiguously putting through particularly complex messages without telling. Often it's hard enough to get the message through when it is incredibly explicit.
Or with Afghanistan the first time around, or Iran, or South Vietnam, or Cuba, or Nicaragua, or...
Hi!

I'm glad you like the idea. Hopefully you can find a group near you! If not, you can always create one for anyone else that comes looking for groups in that area after.

I like your suggestion about letting people have profiles. I will definitely add it to the task list.

Thank you for the comment!
If you want to be a leader of hundreds of people, different standards apply.
>it's an insurmountable problem for new platforms.

It's not. The solution is to use design language that people are familiar with. Nobody wants to feel stupid when they use a product. So instead make them feel smart by creating a UI that is already familiar to them.

For example, why can't I find the issues/todos from the main repository page? For some reason, there's no button to get to here (https://todo.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio) from here (https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio).
Remind me again why the US prosecutes ownership and transmission of child pornography?
I'll give it a try.

Marriage yields children. Making new people grows a civilization. The state would definitely want to incentive any means to grow a civilization. In the modern day, these incentives look like tax deductions. Gay marriage doesn't yield children. Why should the state give the same incentives?

My solution: The State shouldn't create incentives for people to get married. People will get married because they want to.
Open source or not (I'm so confused) this works really well. Solid job.
I hate that you're right that a mere decade is an impossible time horizon for the vast majority of apps.

Low maintenance simply means they can afford to give a few months to shut down a service rather than the next day.
Theres a pretty nice chapter on debugging in the great book Advanced R [1]. Hadley for the rescue! (As is commonplace in the context of R)

[1]: https://adv-r.hadley.nz/debugging.html
How long is it going to be before someone sets up a betting service on which companies will bend the knee fastest?
First, pick a very specific niche that you know has demand, ideally by asking potential customers and then positioning yourself in that niche.

You say "sysadmin stuff, troubleshooting and cloud," but clients want to know specific platforms you know well, software you've implemented and types of problems you can solve.

Make sure you are targeting a market where they are interested in "dating not marriage." Many places will not outsource their sysadmin and try to hire you full time instead of as a consultant.

Finally, this comes from my experience running Tail Risk (www.tailrisk.com) a cybersecurity services firm. We have excess project work, tools, templates and playbooks we would like to share with independent (security) consultants. Is that something that interests anybody on this thread? If so, please reach out.

*edited for typo
>should we fear the stock market

Yes
I too tend to ignore the doomsday crowd, not least of all because it is often "celebrities" without the technical knowledge to say anything interesting (Musk, Thiel, etc.)

I figured there was no way we would reach the singularity with current technologies, but I was listening to John Carmack (a celebrity with actual chops) and he suggested that the numbers would work out that we could model a human brain with an ANN at some point without any special inventions (partially because we know large parts of our brain aren't super critical).

I'm curious what people with more knowledge think about this? I always assumed another technological breakthrough would be needed.
No we can't (my emphasis) [1]:

> Building an accurate emulation of the fly brain is an interdisciplinary effort that requires data, algorithms, and insight from (but not limited to) the fields of neuroscience, computer science, and systems engineering. Researchers interested in working towards this goal are invited to join the Neurokernel project.

[1] https://neurokernel.github.io/about.html
Also the statement presumes the superintelligent entity will be capable of taking all possible steps to prevent this. Imagining a machine capable of such steps quickly devolves into imagining a machine already in total control of the planet, which is begging the question.
Both fame and wealth are fungible as power.