skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's much better for someone using Office daily. Having seen quite a few who are occasional users struggle with the Ribbon it sure seems like they find it worse. With an old static toolbar they could at least hunt and (eventually) click. With the intermittent context awareness they were searching something that was often simply not there at the moment.

I had a relative who ran a mailmerge to print some address labels once a month, which apart from the odd letter was all he did with Word. Without fail after Word 2007 (IIRC the one the Ribbon arrived in) I'd get a monthly call, that usually became long and painful, trying to let him print his labels. Few months later, I visited and put back his old copy of 2003. :)
Teresa Amabile: “The Progress Principle” – Talks at Google
My experience is that the rolling "NixOS unstable" channel is more usable. The releases don't offer any improvement in security and have less maintenance effort overall. And despite the name "unstable", the breaking changes typically incubate in the staging branch first for a few months.

But that's using it on a desktop, maybe on a server releases are more useful.
a) woosh
b) It wouldn't be unreasonable to think somebody might mention another MMO developer. thatsthejoke.jpg
Let's not go into black and white thinking. Saying the onus is societal/cultural or the onus lies only on the individual are both wrong. Environmental/cultural factors will play on individual decision making - this doesn't absolve the individual but it also doesn't absolve any related societal/cultural forces at play.

Both angles can and should be explored when examining cases where individuals act out in harmful fashions.
You're proving my point. That's a big list of all the ways the car wastes energy that have nothing to do with the thermodynamic minimum to move the mass from point A to B. Those factors absolutely dominate the energy use.

Maybe an analogy is useful? There's a claim that you can cook 20 pounds of food in one type of bonfire setup with less fuel use than if you cooked 1 pound of food in a different type of bonfire. The amount of energy needed to actually perform the chemical changes on a pound of food, even multiplied by 20, is negligible compared to the vast quantities of energy that are going to other things.
The snowden leaks revealed this years ago. He said the NSA/CIA and anyone else with access to the tools was routinely using them to spy on people they knew (lovers, family, friends etc.) and some of them would use the tools to look for sexting images or nude images in email. Then they would show them to other staff as a sort of game.

The reality is if you want to keep your privacy you need to use end-to-end encryption on your devices and make sure your devices don't have malware on it. All big tech or major corporation will just comply with requests for data from any alphabet agency which is why you need to use end-to-end encryption on everything.
There wasn't really anything I disagreed with in this. At the same time, there was nothing here that made me have an "aha" moment about how a company could really use this to improve, and worse, it avoided most of the "in the trenches" difficulties that make managing by outcomes instead of outputs (sometimes) very difficult in practice, especially in software.

In any moderately complex software product in a medium-to-large company, you're talking about teams, not just a singular team. You want folks to have as much freedom as possible, but at the same time, there needs to be a high degree of coordination and planning between teams, especially when it comes to software. You want to "change the balloon from red to blue" to use an example from the article? But what about the marketing team that already sent out the teaser video with the red balloon?

Honestly, one of the most demoralizing things I've seen affect software teams is not micromanagement, but what I call "whiplash" management, where priorities and directions change so frequently that teams feel like they have to spend more time replanning that actually building outputs.
Sure, you're totally right that in some cases, physically losing a phone also means loss of that phone number. But in 100% of cases, physically losing a phone means loss of those TOTP tokens.

For the vast majority of people, that's a dealbreaker, in spite of SMS being deeply flawed, as the comment you originally replied to said.
This may be just like, your opinion, but it really ties the room's arguments together.
See how good an adult is at chess after 10 games, compare that to a supercomputer AI trained on 10 games.
Why Use Terraform
They would likely be roundly disagreed with people and that would be a perfectly normal interaction. It sounds like you're attempting to imply that the US would have responded in the same way as China but that's simply not true.
>>>I'm not so sure it's okay for him to do it on Blizzard's show/event.

>>>...but was she right to do it from Saturday Night Live's Live broadcast?

If SNL wants to not invite O'Connor back, or cut her from the rest of the show, or yank her off stage, yep it's their show, fair enough. Same with blizzard - they can stop the interview and tell him he doesn't get to say what he wants on their show. I wouldn't exactly be impressed with that, but in general it's their show, their rules.

To take his winnings and ban him from the game is absolute bullshit.
In the United States, the idea seems to date back at least to the early years of independence:

"I accost an American sailor, and I inquire why the ships of his country are built so as to last but for a short time; he answers without hesitation that the art of navigation is every day making such rapid progress, that the finest vessel would become almost useless if it lasted beyond a certain number of years."

Alexis de Toqueville, "Democracy in America," 1840
Since Twitter is blocked in China, I bet it is corpotate regional managers who are flipping out about posts that reach maybe 1 percent of China's population
Why fears about lukewarm institutional interest in Bitcoin may be overblown
Please don't reply to a bad comment with another bad comment. That only makes this place even worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They are simply hedging for the future by signaling that future decisions regarding other US Government developers will likely be consistent with this one, but without making that specific claim so overtly.
GNU (and I think the GNU Project) is trademarked so there is a legal entity that own the trademark. There is also the domain gnu.org which domain owner is a legal entity. There is the publisher who publish information on the site and distribute the copyrighted works, which depending on the law where the server is located may or may not also be a legal entity. Last we have the Free System Distribution Guidelines (GNU FSDG) which is maintained by the FSF Licensing and Compliance Lab, which I would assume is owned by FSF.
Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China
Only if you get FAANG offers, most other traditional companies pay less than startups
You're being downvoted (and rightfully, I believe), but you do sound genuine (so far at least), so let me speak a little bit more and hope your mind might change even just a little bit.

First, as pvg said, a massive protest is not analogous to 9/11.

But, let's put even that aside for a moment, and pretend that they are analogous. The more proper analogy is this: Pretend that after 9/11, a Malaysian singer working for a Chinese recording company made the comment you suggested, and Americans got upset with it, put pressure on the Chinese company that the star belonged to (because the Chinese company was going to lose support and profits from American audience), and the Chinese company fired the Malaysian star.

You're ok with this? You think the Chinese company bending over backwards to please the American people to keep their revenue stream, is entirely fine? Considering the Malaysian star's political opinion is even aligned with your own country's?
George Bush is a war criminal who is incalculably more evil than the entire cadre of Chinese communist leaders who you all hate so much recently.

Trump has to kill a couple hundred thousand more women and children before he's even in the same league.
Interestingly and maybe ironically, Chinese navigation apps had speed trap warnings since day one. I wouldn't be surprised if it was officially sanctioned with a ton of false-positives thrown in, in a "speed traps are everywhere so you better always drive slowly" sort of way. Which makes me wonder, couldn't the HK police figure out ways in spam locations into this app?
Fine, I'll be more specific about my problem with your statement:

To me, it sounded like you were judging the previous poster as if he was making a moral defense of Blizzard/EAs actions.

While skipping the section of his email where he alluded to their actions being immoral -- thus doing the same thing to them that you are claiming I did to you.
As I said: there is nothing factually incorrect in my statement, and it's not my fault you can't parse humor.
No.

I didn't say not providing bedding, I said removing existing bedding. Because ICE believes in collective punishment of children, and considers removing bedding to be acceptable. [1,2]

Here's a question for pro-ICE people: if another country started rounding up and separating American families, then lost track of the children, would you support those actions as well? Or does it only apply to people with the wrong skin color?

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/inside-a-texas-buildi...
[2] https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1142540367797116929
Yup.

http://solarcooking.org/radiant-fridge.htm
Whether or not their actions are consistent with our laws, and whether or not they are similar to the gestapo is orthogonal to the morality of their actions, and the morality of knowingly dealing with them. That's the real question to be asked.
Side note: what's going on HN lately with all this pun/troll/meme nonsense? Please leave that stuff on reddit.
There's an entire theory of non-computable functions. Probably the most vivid introduction is the "busy beaver function."
In this post you looked at an argument that was essentially Reductio Ad Absurdum, and then argued that those things were absurd.

Yes, they are. That’s the whole point being made, and that strengthens your opponents argument, not yours.

If it’s absurd to say that a propeller and a jet engine are equivalent, then it’s just as absurd to claim a mainframe and an iPhone are equivalent.
Yep you got it right.
Sony confirms the PlayStation 5 is coming in 2020, reveals new hardware details
This is really unfortunate. The problem isn't law enforcement per se. The problem is selective disregard for humans under pressure.

Many government organizations under current administration are deliberately hemorrhaging law enforcement or bringing in policies through internal memos (without congressional approval) to prey on the vulnerable.

I would've hoped companies like Github would take a stand and call out these unfair enforcements. Once they do that, they can then continue on to serve the contract. However, keep highlighting how your customers are using perverted interpretations of law to treat humans badly.
Thanks. Yep, it's not down. It's just weird that from some locations this resource is not accessible..
Much "NSA shit" is also well known.

The questionable behavior in this case is getting a guy fired for selecting a politically-incorrect secret passphrase. This is merely one step removed from reading his brain and figuring out he fantasizes about spanking coworkers while having sex with them. (I've done this, and yet we are good friends!)

We don't know all the details, maybe that guy actually harassed people, but scrutinizing someone's private thoughts without prior suspicion for offensive-but-noncriminal behavior that can be pivoted into larger accusations is how police states work.

In the best case, this encourages people to filter their private thoughts and actions by the standards of what is acceptable to advertise publicly, which is incredibly unhealthy and oppressive.
Satire is sometimes the most effective means of pointing out an unfair bias (See: South Park). It seems clear to me that bringing to light a clear political bias is not only applicable to the topic but offering a thought provoking viewpoint on how free speech is not only being threatened by an external entity (China in this case), but domestically by our peers.

The question asked was about US leadership doing something about this problem. The comment was immediately discounted using dismissive language (by you) implying that there is no evidence, while providing none yourself.

Now you've chosen to tie it off with a condescending link to rules you've chosen to selectively enforce under the guise of being "constructive".

The current president has been doing things to resist the power the CCP has over our economy: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-us-chi...
There's been plenty of technological progress in the drug trade despite being illegal nearly everywhere, and a widespread perception of drugs being a social ill.

It's inevitable that if there is enough demand for something, someone will make it. There will be people out there that don't care about the ethics. Some of those things can be constrained by regulation or social pressure, but only some of them.
It should also be noted that as of 2015, the average age of a passenger car in use in Europe is 10.7 years, with a mode of around 12 years, and max 17+ years. Out of a fleet of 252 mln, 123 mln or about 50% were 10+ years old in 2015.

Same for light commercial vehicles, and even worse - at 11.7 years average - for mid and heavy commercial vehicles.

See page 9, 10 & 11 here:
https://www.acea.be/uploads/statistic_documents/ACEA_Report_...
Neo-classical fantasy of being politically neutral and consistent with your own rules, even if said rules never envisioned a customer being a state-sanctioned criminal.

One that only people bathing in privilege can indulge in.
Too bad, because according to his narrow free speech == 1st amendment view, it doesn't matter where the pressure comes from, as long as it's not the US government. "The people" he refers to end up being multinational corporations, and they're just banning the "assholes" that are endangering their profits. Or even just drawing attention to them: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/business/media/cartoonist...

Of course he knew perfectly well that "the people" are giant corporations. But because he agreed with the censorship at the time, he chose to frame it as somehow democratic.
I think this is analogous to the philosophy behind "duty to report" type laws. If you discover -- even through a completely unrelated activity -- harm being done to someone, it is your ethical responsibility to report it to someone who can help. Obviously some amount of discretion is necessary, as some things are sensitive enough that reporting in the wrong way, or to the wrong person, could cause the situation to be worse, but as a general rule, if you see something bad going on, you should try to make the situation better if you're able.

I think OP acted entirely appropriately.

To address a couple specific points:

> As an admin you have an obligation to your users to not be nosy

In the free-wheeling academic sense where your users are more of a community, sure, I think that's the accepted social contract. In the workplace, not at all. While I'm not a fan of employers spying on what their employees do on the employer's network and hardware, I fully appreciate that it is their right to do so, and in some situations, for some purposes, I might even agree with its necessity.

> reading the plaintext yourself for fun then scurrying to HR is kinda a slimy thing to do

I don't think "fun" had anything to do with it, and reporting a likely case of sexual harassment, regardless of how the information was obtained, is never "slimy". Quite the opposite.

> Just because you have the ability to peek into the CFO's mailbox and see what everyone's salary is, doesn't mean you print out the spreadsheet and take it to your boss demanding a raise.

That is indeed slimy, unethical, and likely a violation of company policy, but that is not even remotely the same as what the OP did.

> if you got in trouble for playing Farmville or whatever while sitting on the toilet at work, which they found out about by installing cameras in the stalls

Also not even remotely the same. Any reasonable person would agree that cameras in bathroom stalls would be a gross violation of privacy (and probably illegal).
"Good news! We’re getting more while using less."

Or maybe we just haven't accounted for inflation and the rampant advent of landlords and landlord-like start ups which consumes greater and greater slices of the consumer's money.
> I'd be shocked beyond belief if such a contract existed here though.

Even if it existed, the PR backlash of "Exxon steals Nobel Prize from scientist" would probably prevent its enforcement.
> After these ports, our team has built up some expertise with Go and its compiler quirks. But you can still get burned. For example, you can very easily write data that you want to place on the cheaper stack instead onto the much more expensive heap. You won’t even know this is happening by reading over your code. That’s why, as with any new language that you require high performance from, you need to monitor processes closely and create benchmarks around CPU and memory use. And then share what you learn with the community so that this knowledge becomes less tribal.

While Go doesn't have formal semantics that let you specify whether a value is allocated on the heap or stack, it seems like it would be easy enough to create your own. The compiler has flags that cause it to output the sites where it heap-allocates--if you add comments above a function or an allocation site such as `// noalloc`, then you could write a "linter" that compares the allocation sites against those comments and errors if one of those noalloc sites allocates.

In lieu of allocation semantics, this seems like a better approach than writing performance tests for each of these sites.
>No, I think changing license terms to "won't be used by a company which separates families

So, Child Protective Services shouldn't be allowed to license GitHub either?

Edit: I know this isn't what you meant. But such obvious clarity issues are a sign that there are many more subtle issues that limit articulation of your position and prevent engaging in a productive conversation over the internet.
Thats the magic of NixOS basically.

I've used a handfull of OSes regularly and I worked somewhere that used the Nix package manager, its pretty neat in a land of broken everything (most Linux distributions)!
I get that you want to avoid pure white, but why avoid pure black though? It looks gorgeous on an OLED device, blending with the bezels.
US, UK, and Australia request for Facebook to stop end-to-end encryption plans
NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/world/asia/china-apple-nb...
Even the same organisation. Still not a conspiracy but as a non US citizen it's clear that a lot of the US media doesn't treat China the same as the US. I am sure it's like that in every country, but that makes it difficult to find objective news, or at least news that doesn't have an emotional charge to it.
The release announcement on Discourse:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-19-09-release/4306
They won't detain you unless they have a reason to go after you. If you try to work for NSA/CIA or similar agency then they will probably ask what you meant by x statement on your facebook etc.
At least partially I'm sure that's the case, however it looks like we're approaching the apex of that trend as well:

TFA:
>> The growth in plastic consumption has slowed down greatly, to less than 2 percent per year between 2009 and 2015. This is almost 14 percent slower than GDP growth over the same period. So while America is not yet post-peak in its use of plastic, it's quickly closing in on this milestone.

It will be interesting to see what our other material trends do once we do hit peak plastic, if we shift to using more paper and aluminum as people push back against plastics for their various drawbacks.
For .no, I reckon it's a combination of small population and the fact that you need to be a citizen to buy one. Until recently, they were only available to organizations. There's also restrictions on the number of registered domains you can have (100 for organizations, 5 for individuals), that limits squatting somewhat.
and to think of all the times i used passwords that were a some variation of “thisCompanySucks@$$!” or “B1llis@d!ck”...
Can they hack into a phone and manipulate it? I’ve learned there are different hats, I’m trying to understand why I’d be targeted.
I'd imagine the ones who are going to boycott Epic games have been doing so already over the launcher/store. I don't see this event adding more to the heap. Personally, I'm not one of these people, but I have refused to buy products for random reasons too so to each their own.

If anything, I'm kind of shocked he's jumping out ahead of an event happening to Epic Games of a player protesting on behalf of Hong Kong and stating what they will do, with Tencent being part of their funding. Either this is to push the "they don't control us" narrative re:Tencent. I don't know how big Fortnite is in China (seems PUBG is the big one there?) and they relatively recently bought the developer behind Rocket League I believe which similarly, don't know how big of a presence they have in China.

Kudos to him whatever the reasoning though. Being willing to draw the ire of a country that, population wise, eclipses your other larger markets because you disagree with their handling of a protest is gutsy on his part. Granted, they're basically printing money with Fortnite so I guess he doesn't have to care too much to keep the lights on, but still, he is not solely driven by capitalism as it would be easy to just stay quiet.
What would be a weak creepy password? I feel those properties run opposite. Weak enough to be bruteforced and creepy enough to get fired. Good job on that fella’s part I would say!
New Zealand is a model to follow [1]. As you mention, of course GDP will plummet as renewables and technology act as enormous deflationary forces (good luck Central Banks trying to inflate against those forces). Software is eating the world, there is no marginal unit cost for delivering that benefit to the world. For example, consider what was previously spent across the world on TLS certs that now Let's Encrypt provides to the world for a few million dollars a year. Every opportunity for a Unicorn is an opportunity for a lean, well functioning non-profit to deliver similar consumer excess (or as a Human would say in behavioral econ, "happiness") very inexpensively (another example I love: Watsi.org [2]).

[1] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/6/8/18656710/new-zea... (Forget GDP — New Zealand is prioritizing gross national well-being)

[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tZq47h6jg7NX4ddhTS_H... (Watsi.org Transparency Log)
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