skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Don't be evil' as a company motto really seemed to make Google different in the early days - not just in terms of being hip and cool in contrast to their contemporary competitors, but in terms of recognizing that technology has a moral dimension and that the firm's long-term wellbeing lay not just in maximizing its technological power but distributing the benefits thereof as widely as possible, rather than conserving it for private advantage.

I find their news product a useful barometer of the extent to which they've abandoned that. Last Monday I sat down at my workstation and the top item - amid war, political instability, and everything else going on in the world - were articles about the Google Pixel 4. I know this wasn't a reflection of my browsing habits - I'm just not interested in phone technology at the product level, and and any online shopping/product research that I do these days happens on a separate account on a separate device, because I don't want to mix up my consumer preferences with my intellectual interests.

You would think that with all Google's brainpower the presentation and distribution of news would by now have seen massive advances, but instead it has simply magnified the worst aspect of print and Tv news. I'm beset with sports, entertainment, 'health' (mostly quackery), and 'technology (mostly consumer products) news every day, even though I used to be able to opt out of those things. If I make the mistake of looking at a sports article on my workstation or phone, I am swamped with sports articles for the next day or two, presumably because the sports market is so lucrative and Google's algorithms get tremendously excited at the possibility that I am adopting the consumer the consumer profile of a sports fan.

Likewise I am constantly being advanced second- and third-hand sources of news based on SEO and existing reach; every other story I read is a half-assed rewrite of original research done by a news outlet with a smaller brand footprint. If I'm lucky I can see that in the first paragraph or two and can click through to the original, if not it's because a big news outlet is just stealing or redoing stories without credit or attribution and I may find out about it later when I read Twitter.

I could rant on and on and on about Google's news product and about their other products and practices, but all my critiques of the firm boil down to this: google has become a company that takes bids (including from itself) on the order in which it provides leaves to consumers, while denying them sight of the trees they are plucked from.
Assuming there is direct causation here rather than simple correlation I'll take it. The long term harms of religion far outweigh these items. You don't have to look much further than the death toll in the middle east for an example.
Good question. uBlock Origin doesn't show any third party domains (after I clicked "accept"). I also don't see any meaningful (tracking) cookies at all. So, their cookie consent banner is actually unnecessary.
No idea about Mozilla but it's a large enough organization and user base that those 100 people could be working on:

- Acquisition: Managing channels like search and social ads to grow the user base, upsell browser usage across devices, etc.

- Branding: Working on display and out of home media that reinforces values like privacy and security with how people think of Mozilla

- Partnerships: Working with other tech companies to co-promote or integrate directly (like Ubuntu, etc.)

- Product: Writing release copy, blogposts, etc for new feature launches, announcements, etc. and ensuring they highlight what users want

- Events: Having a presence at major tech events to showcase new product features, reinforcing the brand, making users happy, etc.

- PR: Working with media companies to share assets, messaging, and updates on releases, announcements, etc. to make sure referral moments (like this very article) are favorable
correlation != causation

Europe has been though a similar de-religion phase without many of the problems you stated.
Again. What is that thing?

"Climate apocalypse" is a function of capitalism/"neoliberal economics" only insofar that this system provides things that make living nice and comfortable - like smart-phones, air-conditioning on hot days, heating in the winter, affordable air travel, meat, washing machines, etc - and there is no way to provide those things to 7 billion people without major impact on the environment. You can choose a system that makes everybody poor and consequently environmentally friendly - but do you really want to?
Always nice to see Haskell at work. I haven't learned the language myself yet, but I absolutely love postgREST, which is implemented in Haskell.
It's the companies that are bound by laws in both jurisdictions. If a company operates in several jurisdictions, and can not comply with the laws in one without breaking the laws in others, it's not a matter of precedence, just a bad situation to be in.

Edit:sorry, I didn't understand the point you were making. You're correct.
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He wrote "so I delegated the decision. I ran from the fear". He delegated the decision, not just the task of finding options for the space.
Yeah, it’s almost as if a Christian-backed conservative political coalition dismantled the welfare state and stopped new services from being put in place or something...
There are proposals in the US to do this.

I think the best I've seen so far is Andrew Yang's plan:

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/making-taxes-fun/

Opt in to have your taxes automatically done. National celebration of projects completed. Ability to specify where 1% of your taxes go.

So not only make it easy to do, but try to make it fun and shift the mindset from burden to societal contribution.
How do we increase IT competence in the public sector? There's no reason important servers should be running on Windows machines with "backups" consisting of making a copy of a file on the same hard drive as the original.
I think the vague and abstract way Ben Horowitz has worded his essay makes the lesson he's trying to impart very confusing. Here's my interpretation of his advice into more concrete terms:

- "fear": "dot com boom will crash" ... but I can't articulate why I believe that in perfectly logical statements

- option (1) is to run away or ignore the fear: delegate to somebody to go ahead and buy more office space for $30 million and make the fire marshall happy

- option (2) to "run towards the fear" is to cut spending immediately which may also include laying people off. E.g. create a new MS Excel spreadsheet, put all the staff's salaries on it and start making the hard decisions of who needs to be let go. In other words, your business actions still need to match your fears -- even if your "fears" are poorly articulated gut feelings

As a bonus, the painful exercise of doing Option 2 may reveal the logic of why you believe the dot com boom is ending.

(Of course, an alternative to Option 2 is to find new revenue but that's often 100x more difficult than cutting costs.)

In other words, it's way easier to have your office admin shop for a new office building than to fire people -- some of whom are your friends that took a risk and depend on you.
>I'm not saying Trump, his reptilian cronies, and liked-minded types wouldn't be capable of imaging gross schemes like this, but this article goes almost nowhere in proving it.

What's the point of going here. There are crooked people of all political ideologies and this offers nothing of substance to the argument.
Wouldn't this be a copyright infringement?
I use ~/ops

...but not in the "operator" sense. Rather, the "operations" sense...and that is because i used to use ~/projects...But i got lazy to type that out.
Don't forget about the publication certificate fee too:

> After you get done publishing, the newspaper will provide an Affidavit of Publication, and you send that to the New York Division of Corporations with a Certificate of Publication that carries a $50 filing fee.

I live in NY but never filed an LLC, but I Google'd that. I can't believe such nonsense exists to get money in a state that already has high state / sales taxes.
I worked on Aquameta for a few years and I'll say that having a build running locally is a joy I've never encountered elsewhere in my career.

Every time I need a little app or something, instead of reaching for some SAAS product, I would just build a quick prototype for myself. I could make a prototype in a couple hours and over the course of a week or two I would polish it up when I had a few extra minutes. Rather than using something built for the masses, I could tweak the interface to my own taste and I owned all the data.
‘Hunter killer assassins’: Why the Boeing saga is the story of our times
It just applies to the special provisions relating to NI and if I am reading it correctly the first opportunity to vote would be just before 4 years after the end of the transition period. The next vote would be in another 4 years if the decision is made by a simple majority or 8 years if it has cross community support.

And on the big issue of what happens if Stormont isn't in session to vote (maybe the most likely possibility), the UK is also supposed to come up with an "alternative democratic consent process" according to the "unilateral declaration" that the agreement requires (:/). Nothing else is specified about that alternative process except that Stormont take priority if possible. The wording of the agreement indicates that a vote (of some sort) must happen for the NI status to change. The "unilateral declaration" also specifies that if a vote to continue the agreement does not have cross-community support then there will be an "independent review" lasting no more than two years to attempt to find changes that would have cross-community agreement.

The two documents are available at (particularly Article 18 on page 15 in the first document):

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/r...

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Crime rate is on global decline for several decades (even article you linked mentions that)
Small chance, but, is it the same person? https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-johnson
Also joined with a rise in support for LGBTQ rights. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
In fact, if you haven't tried to recover from a backup, it probably doesn't work. Like most recovery/data integrity hardware/software, if it isn't being (regularly) tested, it probably is misconfigured, not running or broken. Like all software.

I've seen many PC-raid hardware solutions that simply didn't work. A drive fails, and the machine becomes unusable, fail to recover when a good drive is inserted, or crashes/hangs and the data is lost.

Yet people keep buying raid solutions for PCs. I recommend: pull a drive from your raid hardware and see what happens. If you're afraid to do that, then you need a different solution.
I worry about the picture you are painting. Most of the time there was organization at all these levels — the Attic city states understood themselves to be Greeks — for centuries before the efficiency and effectiveness of the higher order ones reached a degree where they could be useful. Part of what makes them work at all is actually the degree to which they are counter-balanced by the subordinate ones.

It is possible the UN simply isn’t structured enough to address conflicts. For example, could the recent conflict over postal rates have gone through the UN? Adding “power” to the top does not necessarily create an upper layer that leads to stability. The Roman emperor was very powerful; but the effect was a lot internal conflict and war. The balanced states we have seen in recent years — more effective than what preceded them, though in a legal sense much less powerful — are doing well at abating internal conflict in part by reducing the stakes.
Seriously, most people here probably send location data to Google several times a day and have for almost a decade. We all make security tradeoffs for convenience, people high roading on this thread are no different.

The people avoiding voice assistants and smart locks probably have 50 way more vulnerable security gaps in their personal lives
How do they not understand the technology? They clearly compared the theoretical max to each technology as options for last mile connectivity.

If you have last mile fiber into your home, then you're capable if receiving 10Tbps. Yes a PON setup won't actually provide that, but they never state that someone would offer those speeds, only the theoretical last mile capacity.

The point of the article is to counter lobbyist claims that we don't need fibre investment because cable and 5g are fast enough. This article points out that even in their best case that is not true.
Would you agree that there's a real relation there, though? That piracy was affected by industrialization and militarization as was CO2 output?
Turn Christianity into a vehicle for conservative identity politics instead of a community and moral framework, and the people victimized by it will cease to identify as it. Simple as that.
You’re being unfair to gscott. He didn’t make a causation claim.
I thought that, but if you look at the video linked, you can clearly see they register their fingerprint pre-screen protector. And then by putting the screen protector on, they can now unlock it with any finger.

I'm quite baffled by it honestly.
We are best off not paying them regardless: if there is no payout the bad actors will give up the attack. If you are in a group that pays out target them. It doesn't pay to target someone who has good backups (though it might not be worth checking if infecting everyone is easy)
Will be interesting to see what happens when the country trades the Protestant worth ethic, concepts of morality, duty to family, for .... whatever is adopted as faith instead.

Identity politics seems to be the new religion for many.
ok maybe this make a difference. I can train a junior on elixir and have them writing code that I am confident won't break the system in prod within three months. I can't do that in any of the other languages, I would have to buy a senior.
> Haskell is great for business and great in production

I disagree. It's a beautiful language but it lacks a lot of features to make it useable at scale. And in my experience Haskell engineers are extremely smart but the environment/culture they create makes it difficult to foster team spirit.

I've been in 2 companies in the last 4 years who initially used Haskell in production. One has transitioned to Go and the other is rewriting the codebase in Rust.
I've heard a lot from senior devs getting into Elixir, or former Ruby devs. How about junior devs? What's their experience like?
How about in their car? Or on their land? Or anywhere that you rely on others to provide for your safety at all?
One set of rules is enough. Don’t want to have to follow common law and some made up religious laws as well.
Docker Compose reads your “.env” without opt-out
I don't know anything about video editing, but if they are at $5k/MRR, doesn't that serve as a proof of concept?

Clearly there are people who are willing to pay for what Veed is offering.
I agree. I think it matches the absurdity of the original comment perfectly.
Let's not forget the other important issue: aligned with privacy-invasive technology is the business incentive towards turning products into services. This is what drives most of the bad engineering in IoT products - perhaps even more than the secondary revenue stream of selling users' data. When you make your device depend on the Internet for its most basic functions, you secure yourself a recurring revenue stream.

I'd like to see regulations addressing this issue directly, in addition to more strict pro-privacy regulation. For instance, I'd love to see it so that data, software and compute become independent - instead of current vertical integration. That is, I want to a) own my data, b) choose where it'll be processed, and c) have the software processing it come to the data - this way the vendor supplying software for c) won't be able to take the data and sell it or hold it for ransom.
In general, replace all of the social and infrastructure with themselves at the center and then there's nothing to replace when the churches fail to serve the people - so people leave.

(I've never been a member of any - I just study - as a hobby - "conversion era" in Europe. Be aware that some of what the church replaced was toxic, and some was not. It's an interesting set of eras to study....)

The churches have failed though, largely. And finding out why can be informative.
(this is not a religious failure, this is a social one. Don't blame peoples' beliefs for this, that's not the right target).
I'm going to say probably not. I've been pretty disappointed by the attempts of private industry to deliver what should be government infra (tax prep, healthcare, prisons, etc), while I'm super happy with my roads, police, fire, water, sewer, muni fiber, and the USPS (all government provided or backed).
This is an incredibly good series. Just what I've been looking for. I'm writing a Servant API myself and this really explains a lot of the fundamental concepts in plain English.
None. I ignore them. They usually are just an ignorable message on top/bottom of the page. If a site does make a modal prompt about it, I just close the site.
Why draw the line at kidneys? Why not create a whole system of voluntary for-profit organ harvest? Anything you got two of, might as well sell one. No one needs two lungs, or two eyes.
Just a heavy implication.
> Otherwise, you will miss out on better ciphers as they are added and would be stuck on this one forever.

You’ve identified issues with whitelisting but blacklisting isn’t perfect either. For example, many don’t trust NIST and may want to prevent the use of any of their future curves. Blacklisting fails here.

When updating to a newer version of SSH I think it’s good practice to ‘man ssh_config’ and at least look at KexAlgorithms, HostKeyAlgorithms and Ciphers.
Basically, yes. I don't know if they avoided GNU GCC C language extensions but I'd be surprised if they did use any in any significant manner.
It's implied considering how irrelevant those statistics are to this conversation.
> Attributing quantum phenomena to randomness also makes no falsifiable predictions.

“Any research effort will find no deterministic explanation” is, I suppose, falsifiable, but mostly I agree; randomness as explanation is the absence of an explanatory hypothesis, not a substantial hypothesis.
Except when it isn't, or another "convenient" bug makes everything a hot word, turning the device into an always-recording Internet stream.
I used SimpleTax for the first time this year and it's a lot more intuitive than StudioTax which I used in the past.
It may not be ideal for every situation, but it was much simpler for me.
I hope they change before Yahoo Groups deletes all content in December!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21269614
Of course, because the reasoning wasn't 'you are a jerk' or 'we don't want to make that type of cake' or 'we're too busy right now' but rather 'you are gay'. Sexual orientation is a protected class and acting like a jerk on the internet isn't.

No one is forcing all businesses to do serve all customers everywhere always. We are saying you can't discriminate on the basis of marginalized groups.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how provocative another comment is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Arguably the second blow does more damage to the container.
Oh mb.
One of the services a church provides is a community. For some religions it’s wielded as a weapon though.
Leave, and lose everything. Take a peek at /r/exmormon for a bunch of examples.

What people need is a secular community to replace it, and not all find it. Some of the things listed above are exacerbated by feelings of isolation or lack of purpose.

A lie is best concealed between two truths. Churches know how to organize people. It’s a rare set of people management skills that has nothing specific to do with the Divine. They’ve just had more opportunity to hone those skills.

But as humans we often trust people who show expertise in multiple areas to be telling us the truth about other things as well. There are plenty of good things that happen at churches, but they don’t have to happen at a church. And the more they happen in the secular world, the more people figure out they can pick and chose things that make them feel like decent human beings without signing up for the others. That’s either a terrifying or comforting statement, depending on which way you are coming from.
For a while I worked with some products that were popular with municipalities, and school districts in a previous career. The scale of under funding, and incompetent leadership in those roles is staggering, and sadly not surprising to me.

Internal politics are always an issue of course, especially at schools where a handful of luddite teachers / administrators can kill good idea, but that's also an issue of IT leadership too.

I was glad to move away from those products.
> It is extremely hard to learn, has an extremely confusing + needlessly complicated syntax and

I agree with your other points but what's wrong with the syntax? I actually really like the syntax for the most part
«This parodies the suggestion from some religious groups that the high numbers of disasters, famines, and wars in the world is due to the lack of respect and worship toward their deity.»

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster#Pirat...
From this video: https://twitter.com/Sta_Light_/status/1184475413252210688

It seems like it.
curious, why are you angry? Since I've adopted Elixir where I work, I'd like to know so that I can avoid those mistakes.
Catholicism has never been that, and it's declining too.
It's also condemned by the World Health Organization unless totally altruistic because organ trafficking and human trafficking are intertwined with the politics of organ transplantation.

Living donor programs already exist in many states and hospitals - If you want to help reduce medicare spending by donating your organs, go for it! But don't expect to get paid for it any time soon.
One important factor to add here is the free network effect which influenced hosts to use Meetup.
With this pricing, Meetup is closing the door to free network effect and not letting the host benefit from own efforts too.

I believe Meetup is heading Ning way => https://www.zdnet.com/article/andreessen-founded-ning-cuts-s... Andreessen-founded Ning cuts staff, free service.

You should check https://info.explara.com/switch-from-meetup-to-explara
This community doesn't seem to have the capacity to discuss religion.

Edit: ok you guys, message received. I won't do it this way again.
I am a Christian, and I believe this is caused directly by a few factors:

1. The history of actions taken by theocracies is not good. There is a strong modern social justice movement, and even saying something bad 10 years ago is enough to cancel someone. Now imagine a group that committed multiple genocides over the centuries.

2. A growing rise of "spiritual but not religious" has led young people to eschew attending church. These young people grow up and have young people of their own who are now never exposed to Christianity.

3. Relegation of religion to personal matters alone, taboo in public.

4. Christians have allowed the book of Leviticus to overwhelm their message. Because of what is said about LGBTQ, Christian == bigot in many people's minds.

I'm sure there are fellow Christians who visit HN. I think these are the primary obstacles that must be overcome in order to grow the cause. All the mission work and happy Easter messages in the world won't make a lick of difference against these 4 issues.