skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't really call what happened to email a success. In reality, email these days looks much like your first scenario. Email is GMail and a few other large sites. Everybody else is a rounding error in statistics. For all intents and purposes these guys decide who can use email.

Yes, they don't use a simple trusted list, but some secret Algorithm. The effect is the same (or maybe it's worse, since if the Algorithm doesn't like you, there's no one to ask to add you to the list).

The security improvements you mention were more or less pushed onto others by Google and everybody was forced to implement them since if you can't talk to GMail you might as well as not exist in the SMTP world.

> No company got more users or data when email protocols got encrypted

This is speculation, but it's easy to see how these changes could have benefited big players: they already have the data. By forcing encryption on everyone they deny this information to others (like ISPs who might sniff the traffic).

Also these security improvements increase the burden of maintenance of small mail servers, which again pushes more users towards big players.

I'm not saying encrypting SMTP traffic didn't benefit the users, but reasons for forcing it on everyone might not have been completely altruistic.
Thank you for pointing out my lack of common sense.

Should I take this opportunity to point out that pet.com's $435 million is still a paltry sum compared to WeWork's $14.2 billion in capital, or has that larger point been rendered moot by my lack of common sense?
Pet peeve of mine: solving practical problems often involves capitalism in our system, but that doesn't mean practicality is capitalism. If you're writing ad code, you're working on capitalism only. If you're writing railway logistics code, you're doing practical work that any society needs, capitalist or not. And yes, this might involve understanding customers (or as a different system might call them, "people").

The important question would be "is this work useful," not "does this work involve capitalism."
Maybe I could have done a bit more about the noise, then. I mostly thought about the fans because I once had a noisy desktop PC that turned out to have its fan covered in gunk. The heatsink probably too, though.

It would be really awesome if they fixed the coil whine under warranty. No idea if they will, but I think they should. Isn't it a sign that there's something electrically not quite right?
The fuzzer generates input according to coverage-guided algorithm which proved to be very successful in real-world software. Originaly described in AFL white-paper http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/technical_details.txt
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The issue that resulted in the crashes was angle of attack sensors reporting broken data, which caused MCAS to nose down the plane; this is absolutely not what the pilots are talking about.

Everything else that has been discussed (whether the pilots should have been told how to disable it and tried it in the simulator, whether Boeing should have added the second vane or even a third one on all planes, etc.) fundamentally depends on having incorrect data from the sensors and the plane not being able to deal with that.

The exchange might hint that MCAS had an awful design history, but even a perfect MCAS could have had issues if supplied with incorrect sensor data; garbage in, garbage out. Now if there was somewhere an email about the lack of a voting system on vane readings, that would be another story.
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I wouldn't be so quick to advocate for a sin tax.

What you are basically arguing is that government should either penalize poor people for making health choices they don't like, or limit the ability of poor people to make those choices by making it too expensive for them.

This does not into a functional society.
I would absolutely pay extra for a television without an onboard camera and stealth network connection, yes. It's sad that we should expect to pay extra for our televisions not to spy on us, but here we are.

We bought one of the last "non-smart" TVs available in the store just a few years ago and one of my great (arguably ridiculous) regrets is that when we went on the road this last time, we sold our place furnished, giving up that beautiful, giant, "dumb" TV to buyers who I'm sure don't appreciate its value.
Joga classes in the office can improve employees and management efficiency and their comfort of life so such spend can bring in millions in new business value by healthier and happier staff. Is joga trainer a profit center?
It is not clear from the transcript whether it was a misattribution when they attributed the problems they were discussing to the simulator. It also seems clear that they were not getting flying time on the actual airplane, and so were not in a position to know if the airplane itself had problems.

There are definitely issues to be investigated here, and it is not going to be helped if people are taking the fifth, as Forkner himself has done. He might want to reconsider that.
I'd like to have a house set up and ready with a decent selection of pre-configured robots to take care of my needs, with an easy interface to reconfigure them or add some new ones.

Or are we still talking about Linux?
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>that part of the article misinterprets centralised planning. What it describes is the logistics of getting something from one place to another.

I think it's worthwhile to re-read the passage I quoted:

>Hayek[...] argued that no bureaucracy could ever match the miracle of markets, which spontaneously and efficiently aggregate the knowledge of a society.

This isn't just about physical logistics. Hayek is arguing that no centralised agent has perfect information. The author is arguing that Amazon is approaching the stage when it would have perfect information about the consumers it serves.

>Amazon doesn't have the final word on what people buy (or the destination of goods for that matter) so it isn't a centrally planned system in that sense.

Even if it doesn't have the final word, it does have quite a bit of say in the form of its recommender system.

Also, "communism" in the sense of Marx -- one of the two senses in which I was using the word -- is not necessarily a centrally planned system. Rather, it's an idealisation of what an economy would become if it achieved 100% automation, i.e. an economy operating at 100% efficiency.

You can see it in the structure of Marx's "historic materialism" argument: just as capitalism had displaced feudalism because it's more efficient, socialism would then displace capitalism, and communism would do the same for socialism. In Marx's hierarchy of efficiency:

Feudalism < capitalism < socialism < communism

So a communist economy, in Marx's sense, is also an economy in which there's perfect information. That can't possibly happen in the real world, of course, and Hayek correctly points this out about a centralised bureaucracy. But he's wrong about markets; no market is 100% efficient or operates in an environment of perfect information either.
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Your rebuttal seems to strengthen, not weaken, the original argument.

If the US Military, working with young, healthy, trained, and equipped troops cannot sustain prolonged outdoor living outside the Line of Palms, then any population less conditioned and adapted would fare worse.

The argument is that given an optimal population, equipment, support, organisation, and organisational structure, the US military can make outdoor survival possible slightly outside the LoP. Expecting a general, or disadvantaged, population without means and organisation is far less tractable.
DNSSEC doesn't provide privacy at all; it signs records, but doesn't encrypt queries or responses. So it's orthogonal to the DoH debate.

DoT does essentially the same thing that DoH does. The difference between DoT and DoH, from a practical perspective, is that DoT uses a new TCP port, and DoH overloads 443. The reason DoH overloads 443 is to make it difficult for network operators to disable. In other words: DoT is simply DoH with a network-controlled kill switch.

How exactly is DoT "more comprehensive" (to use the words from the tweet you've cited) than DoH?
> Source: I designed a product that helped networks package up and sell ad space based on this data. I am so not proud of this.

I wonder how many people have knowledge of shady crap like this but don't speak out because of shame or fear.
Most places I’ve worked had the attitude that profit center = sales and everyone else was a cost to be controlled or eliminated. It shouldn’t be really surprising that management thinks management is the most valuable function, and actually making the product is not.
While it's not solely the responsibility of the programmer, most of the responsibility should fall on the programmer.

It's a much more efficient system for the programmer to own UI/UX and for testing and QA to simply verify. In contrast the the programmer doing whatever, and leaving the full responsibility of UI/UX to the testing & QA cycle.
plastic and aluminum litter, xenoestrogens, reservoir depletion, diabetes, obesity, tooth decay...

if only I could figure out a scalable way to punch people in the face, give them the herp, and charge for it? instant billionaire!
Most of these paychecks come from unprofitable companies. I'm not sure what point you are wanting me to walk into. Are we still talking about programmer management strategy?
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Very nice! Starred for further experimentation of my own when (if) I ever have time for this kind of thing again! (it's only a matter of time until one of the regulars on Observable does a fast canvas implementation so they'll probably beat me to it)

This reminds me a lot of Mario Klingeman's Stackblur[0] (and my "quadratic" stackblur variant), which also is O(1) by kernel radius (if I understand the metric of the paper correctly - if measured by total pixels it is O(n)). The techniques seems very similar.

The column histogram trick feels like taking what would be a two-pass and merge it into one more memory-intensive pass. Pretty simple and elegant! I think this could be applied to the stack blur approach too.

[0] https://observablehq.com/@jobleonard/mario-klingemans-stackb...
I agree with you 100% and have attested to the same claims on other threads. With small exceptions, businesses exist to make profit. The whole discussion going all the way back to the original terms should be recast as "ROI positive centers" and "ROI negative centers". From that perspective I would agree, it's better to be working for an "ROI positive center" in the company. And even though it might seem the security compliance department is ROI negative, if the alternative is being shutdown by a government agency or paying heavy fines then it really is ROI positive; it just might be harder to make those calculations up front.
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Thanks for the list. I've shared this with the group responsible for pages.
I agree the problems you're describing are real and important to select for, but just requiring agile experience won't help you there. Lots of people practice a weird form of agile development, where they go through all the motions of fast iteration, but almost all tasks consist of non-negotiable internal dependencies and not value delivered to a customer.

I'd argue a similar thing is true for tech stacks. If there's some correlation between knowledge of all the fiddly bits of C++ and ability to write clean, performant systems-level code, I've yet to see it.
How far along in the approval process is your gel? Is it similar to Evogel?
Update: generally 44 N/S, maximum, though most palms are native to tropical regions.
I use the app for my Yamaha receiver far more than I use the remote. I'm already browsing for content to watch on my phone...

Aside from the 'is the app needed' debate, this TV is almost perfect for me. I hope there are plans for an HDR or extended gamut display too.
They did it to one type of policy.

Framing it in the light of "They are blocking [all] recycling efforts" is dishonest.

In the sense of I read the title, thought, why the fuck is coca-cola blocking recycling efforts, why don't they like recycling? clicked, read, and was disappointed because I felt mislead and click bated to read an article i wouldn't have bothered to read if it was titled more honestly like, "[How] Coca-Cola uses it's charitable efforts in recycling nonprofits to block bottle deposit bills"

So, to answer your question, it's dishonest and misleading because its an over-generalized and over-abstracted summary of the subject matter that gains clicks that a more on point title would not gain.
This is possible regardless of whether Chrome/Firefox/etc deploy DoH support. In fact, it was possible before DoH at all: nothing mandated that malware use standard DNS requests on port 53.
“You can’t rebuild your kernel.” Are you kidding me? Apple supports the hardware it ships on day one, then provides free updates until the device is obsolete.

If you must rebuild Apple’s OSS kernel, you can follow the instructions here: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Da...
In all cases its a subsidy. Because without it the price would be different.

A brand subsidy is when your brand is enhanced by a third party either by direct or indirect but it doesn't have to include money.

Think taking a photo with a star at your dinner and putting it on the wall.
Of course that anyone is free to disagree for any reason, but after having written assembly for about 10 architectures, including several compilers, I definitely prefer SPARC to anything else. The current SPARC V9 ISA spec is about 1/10 of the arm64 ISA (I wrote compilers for both). The instruction encoding is so simple I can assemble in my head.

There are some spectacularly annoying things like the stack bias, but those are easy to hide in the assembler (and those are problems with the System V ABI, not SPARC, embedded ABIs ignore them).
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>The article also misinterprets Marxism/communism.

>it's not a revolutionary seizure of the means of production.

The revolutionary bit of Marxism was a political sideshow for Marx's anarchist supporters. The economic theory of Marx does not require a revolution, because according to that theory, the superior mode of economic production should eventually prevail.

That is why you have political movements like democratic socialism and social democracy. These are moderates who believe that Marx's theory of economic progression is correct, but who also believe in incremental change.
Seconding the Surface line, been using one for around a year and find it on par or surpasses an Apple laptop hardware wise.

Trackpad difference is negligible, keyboard has real key travel and feels great to type on, pen support without buying a $1000 iPad, light and thin but with both usb-a and c.

Don’t even mind using Windows, I still like MacOS but until a hardware option exists again that serves my needs then I’m being forced to look elsewhere. (Linux isn’t an option in my case due to Adobe)
Most of the time, the surrogate metrics align with the unknown metrics when they are small, e.g. 80%. They can start to diverge at 90% for example. When I see people report a .5% improvement over a 98% accuracy and claim the statistical significance, I highly doubt about the real significance. The long tail is always longer than we thought. On the hand, there is no coincidence in the world. If some datapoints happen to be outliers that the metrics miscalculated, it might be that the problem isn't setup right. For example, missed some information in the data. In-person interview helps not just because people have a better judgement. It's because we can find out more details about that sample. The current AI/ML method lacks an active information seeking process. They don't have the freedom to explore the world beyond the defined state/reward space.
One of my speakers also has issues (not cracking in my case, more like weird resonance) so until I have time to take it in to Apple, my workaround is to pan the sound over to the good side, in Sound Preferences. Not ideal but works okay for watching movies etc.
In one of the bash scripts in this article there's a lot of " || exit 1", you can enable this automatically by using "set -e" at the beginning of the script, this works for POSIX shell too. You can get extra safety in bash specifically by doing something like "set -euo pipefail" that will exit on errors, including pipeline failures and also on undefined variables.
People always criticize the lack of customization too as though it's an inherent flaw, like things must be customizable or not be good and I disagree. I love having my Windows Desktop to tinker on, but my Macbook is my workhorse. I don't care if I can customize it to any great degree. I've paid a lot of money for that machine and I expect it to work, without troubleshooting, and without fiddling. I akin it more to going to a very nice restaurant and spending $150+ for a dinner for two: I don't want to give the chef my recipe for some mediocre meal, I want the chef's recipe because it's likely going to be amazing.

Tl;dr: Customization is highly overrated.
Latest version of gnome supports fractional scaling
I've had people call me a 'boeing shill' (what would such a person even have to gain??)

I'm not agreeing with them, but if they're calling you a shill they're accusing you of being paid by Boeing.
I use Comic Sans as my font for closed captions. I'm not dyslexic, but I actually find it way easier and quicker to read than something like Helvetica. But I would never ever use it in a design.
No channels, only color profiles and brightness.
There’s no tuner or apps in the TV which is why it’s “dumb”. It’s a monitor basically.
You hook up your AV-processor to it and use an apple tv remote or harmony or whatever.

It’s what I do, and why I’ll consider buying this as my 11 year old “dumb” plasma is starting to experience intermittent issues.
I use a 2014 MBP at home, a new xps 13 at work. Everything about the Mac is more polished. The hardware differences being more important to me than the software differences. The xps trackpad is a bit flakey, too sensitive maybe; I'll be working away when suddenly I'll have miraculously switched focus to a window on another screen. Does my palm get to close to it whie typing? I guess, but no such issue on the mac. After less than six months I can see keyboard marks starting to appear on the xps screen. The xps 13 keyboard is far better than the Latitude I had previously, which was outright hell, but the mac is higher quality, precision engineering. No contest for me, but I do wish Apple had built a Linux OS for compatibilty reasons. And the reason I'm still on a 2014 model is because the subsequent models haven't appealed. I've been considering an x1 carbon as a mac replacement. Time may soon force my hand.
I notice this a lot on apps in the subway (who doesn't) and the app just dies

A lot of problems in life can be simply avoided this is no different... If you're getting that tiny last bit of differentiation because you're 90% market share and you can afford to hire people to solve that exact specific problem then great. But that isn't most places. Most apps would do better to 100% avoid the problem and just say "No Internet Connection" if there's no WiFi or 3g. On top of that you get mobile developers who swore to God they solved this problem but guess what they actually have no idea what they are doing. They think it works but it doesn't because it's actually a database concurrency control problem. This https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/mvcc-intro.html and what I expect for someone who claims to "solve the problem" not some "algorithm" they invented.

So I don't buy it, and I don't buy the business need for it unless it's an app specifically made for disconnected use. Unfortunately it sounds like one of those things people do to make themselves feel important or smart (no nice way to put it; I see it as bad as someone who invents their own encryption "algorithm" without realizing how ridiculous that is).

In short I would say don't do it. And if someone does it better be a real business requirement.
My operational heuristic is poor people want the same good things as rich people. San Francisco's unsheltered choose it because it is a good place to live. The wealthy choose it for the same reason. For both, the cost of housing isn't the determining factor and there are enough other people like them to create a sense of normalcy.

Normalcy is perhaps more important to the unsheltered. It's generally acceptable to pathologize their necessary behaviors. It's less acceptable to pathologize behaviors enabled by wealth. Indeed it is common to idolize them.
With his Amazon warehouses, for most of his employees he's created the terrible future of poverty and misery that he allegedly dreams of saving humanity from with his space colonies. And his success isn't built on any innovation other than relentlessly keeping as much as he can for himself.
> But that's not the case, the point is that most other criteria are more important that the specific tech experience when dealing with competent people

Unfortunately, the more important criteria are harder to assess, and hiring in the real world very heavily weights the east-to-assess bits whether or not they are actually important.
The issue is the undocumented (and obfuscated) behavior of the airplane after the failure of a single AofA sensor.
That would reduce the availability of carbs and make the GI issues even worse.
Just because you can't measure something doesn't mean it's not there. Perhaps we don't have the tools or knowledge yet to measure depression, like countless other human ailments of the past that are now treatable.
Thank you for taking the time to read my piece.

I think slope of learning curve is an excellent extra metric. The tolerance to ambiguity or maybe even tolerance to opaqueness, the best term I could think of that would mean lack of transparency, would also help. I think I will extend the piece to include these actually.
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I'll say what has been said time and time again in the past: CF should not be the default server. There shouldn't be a default server. Have an onboarding flow that says "choose DNS server" and allow the user to choose between clearly-unencrypted endpoints (ISP/router, Google, quad9, etc) and encrypted endpoints that use DoH.

And again, Google's DoH solution is infinitely less controversial: an upgrade list[0] so that, if your computer/router advertises 1^4, it uses Cloudflare's DoH. If it advertises 8^4, it uses https://dns.google. It even works for a provider known as clean browsing[1] that filters DNS.

0: https://blog.chromium.org/2019/09/experimenting-with-same-pr...

1: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/711b1ba2735f8af4bd...
Nice work so far.

It would be great to show a comparing to other tools (such as YNAB).
> write to key people at these places telling in ONE paragraph what you can do for their business.

Do you have an example of this? What can you possibly do for their business?

Do key people respond to random solicitations for a job. Don't you still have to go though their original Leetcode interview process. I am really not seeing what the advantage of this approach.
I've been conditioned to think that the waste management industry would have tests done by either paid or incompetent people in order to get a rubber stamp of approval. Cynical? Yes, but in this day and age with what we see corporations do I think it's best to be skeptical.
>American companies have an obligation to defend the freedom of expression, even at the risk of angering China.

No they don't, nor have they ever?