skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you worried about their legal rights in the images?

If you're part of a performing group, having images of you splashed all over accompanied by statements of how much people like you ("Who is the most talented Twice member and why is it Nayeon?") is generally considered to be a good thing.
AeroFarms in Boston are one of the foremost aeroponic indoor food growth facilities, they do some interesting software too:

https://aerofarms.com/
Aside: 15 years ago all of our employee laptops passed all of their traffic over our own VPN. One of my employees wanted to quantify how much having all our traffic go to our server space was slowing it down.

He ran a series of tests comparing latency and throughput of directly visiting sites on his home Comcast connection, vs. the VPN. Generally, the VPN was significantly faster.

I wasn't entirely surprised by this. Our facility had multiple high quality connections (Level-3, InterNAP), and one of those traffic optimizers that would add intelligence beyond just BGP.
If you like client-side decorations, the annoying part is that every application you use needs to be modified to draw their own windows in this new style. This takes years, and the intermediate period looks inconsistent. Even in the ideal "endgame" state where all of your apps have switched over to the new style, each app draws their decorations and organizes their menus and buttons slightly differently, so this state also feels inconsistent.

If you don't like client-side decorations, the annoying part is that there doesn't appear to be a good way to opt-out. You can configure your window manager to draw the system title-bars anyway, so that you at least have consistent pin/minimize/maximize/close buttons, but then you usually end up with a double menu. But also, the process of applications moving to this style usually involves throwing away the standard File / Edit / View / ... / Help menu bar, which can be incredibly annoying if not done thoughtfully.

I stopped using gedit because everything is now buried under a single hamburger menu, and interacting with it is infuriating.
I haven't been to a movie theater in more that 10 years now. Almost every trailer I see looks spectacularly boring. I am not exactly demanding audience either. I just want movies to be (1) fun (2) interesting (3) exciting. The recent-ish movies I saw (not in a theater) that would satisfy the given criteria are It: Chapter 1, Upgrade and Arrival. Hollywood can make extraordinary stuff if it wants, but currently it's tied up with modern day "westerns"(?) aka superhero movies. Aren't people tired of "evil vs good + explosions + unfunny one-liners" formula? What about stories like "I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison or "Blindsight" by Peter Watts? Wouldn't they look insane on the big screen?
Not really, it's a bandaid that solves the immediate problem for me but not even for my data. Even then it's not so much about 'my data' but more about herd immunity.

It'll only be so long until a major resource is poisoned that has severe outcomes for many organisations across the globe. Until that happens, status quo, I guess.

The current process of reviewing everything you use isn't maintainable, but outsourcing the reviewing is equally bad. My original post was _intending_ to ask for suggestions that solve the issue on a more widespread approach, but I guess either nobody understood me or nobody is interested.
I do not know. If it’s out of the “main” stream then almost by definition it would be in decline. Unless the mainstream was more of a small plurality rather than a large one, which could be the case?
Thanks a lot for sharing such valuable insights!

Small payback : on your English home page under "Operation of the software" > "Information security", there's one too many sentences:

> We set the highest standards both when creating the software and when processing your data. Both when creating the software and when processing your data we set the highest standards.

(First one is better imho).
Rebranded nihilism.

The trend of positivity focused, directionless hedonism seeking self actualization is no better than lying around drinking all day or addicted to opiates.

Find something outside yourself to be devoted to. Do the hard work to determine what that is, test and iterate.

Happiness is a side effect of a job well done, not a goal.
Sorry if I upset you. I'm not sure if our opinions are different or not. I think I mostly agree with you to be honest and I don't see where my comment is massively opposed to yours.

I don't believe I am setting a precedent with my girls that it's ok to be spied upon. If you know a better way, I would love to hear more about it.

"Unfortunately, no one wants to know what I did. I'm just a woman, so I must be stupid or something.'

I want to know!
First, that's awesome. I'm glad that Xfce provides a lightweight, sane alternative to GNOME.

Second, OMG it's 2019 and we still haven't developed the technology that would allow us to take screenshots that aren't covered in cute women. That was initially kinda cool 25 years ago when we were starting to get computers capable of rendering JPEGs in a reasonable amount of time. It seems less cool now when people are still using them to brag about their comprehensive K-pop collections.

To be clear, I have nothing whatsoever against cute women. I married one. But guys, a little real talk: these kinds of screenshots do nothing to make us look more professional. Can we start showcasing literally anything else, like our collections of tropical fish, or birds, or beaches, or...?
Yes, the SEC definitely follows up on this, or so I've been told. They're not idiots, and this kind of financial crime is basically super-low-hanging fruit for them (probably because many people make the mistake of assuming they are idiots).
What if a delivery drone falls on your head?
Oh how I miss big-endian...
Refreshing angle but I don't see how it would help with college admission. We have admission exams at some Universities here. That seems to give everybody an equal shot. You may hide your previous grades and attendance but you can't fake knowledge on a blank piece of paper.
Any recent ones?
The lived experience of IRV is that this does not happen.

There are probably a few reasons for this. Firstly, the situations where tactical voting can be of benefit tend to arise only rarely. Secondly, when these situations do arise, it is not usually apparent in advance of the election. Thirdly, even when such a situation arises and it is reasonably forseeable in advance of the election, it is easy for the tactical voting to backfire and hinder the candidates chances rather than helping them, if the vote shares/exclusion order aren't as predicted.
Wrong. We just happened to have a president with those standards. Nothing about society then suggested we held politicians to any kind of lofty standards. A certain type had ambitions for higher office. Thats it.
As sad as this seems, theres always an ebb and flow of things. Many of these kids will grow up and accept that "this is the way things are", but many others once they learn history will yearn for the world the learn about, where they don't have to think about what they write and if anything might be flagged. Such kids will probably also become experts at evading monitors, a portion of which may become deeply passionate activists for privacy.

Its not all doom and gloom, there's hope for things to go the other way, towards privacy and freedom.
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>having images of you splashed all over accompanied by statements of how much people like you

If only. These are selfies of women being used in the logo space. It changes to a new selfie every time you reload. Very creepy.
> Let’s start with one very important and obvious change: we will drop Gtk2 support with Xfce 4.16. This will have a concrete effect on old Panel plugins or Gtk2 applications that rely on libxfce4ui.

I read a blog by dedoimedo who complains constantly at how willing Linux developers are to break things / not maintain compatibility. It makes me think of how I take for granted how so many of my old pc games will still run on windows 10. Not that the telemetry is acceptable
Well they had time to prosecute a first year investment banking analyst who made $100k trading on insider information a few months ago and just this week did the same to another Goldman Sachs banker. I’m positive both resulted in gains much smaller than the losses some people sustained by this mishap.
Lifetimes and ownership are about finding use-after-free and double-free bugs. The fact that they enable automatic memory management without a tracing GC overhead is just a cherry on top.

For a long time languages were stuck with the false dichotomy of either trying to be 100% safe (and pay the cost of a VM/sandbox/GC) or said "halting problem" and gave up. Rust solved this dilemma by allowing safe abstractions around unsafe blocks. It works like a charm — I get speed I got from C, but don't have to use gdb.

There's option 3) use program architecture that has clearer ownership and less shared mutable state. Borrow checker doesn't like doubly linked lists or mutual parent-child relationships. Instead you use different containers and DAG structures.

And when you still have to have shared ownership without a clear scope, then you use refcounting. The nice thing in Rust is that (unlike C++/ObjC/Swift) it doesn't always have to be atomic in multi-threaded programs, and objects can be borrowed and used without touching the refcount.
I haven't had issues w/ i3wm and polybar on debian, but I'm somewhat of a zealot when it comes to reducing "noise" on my desktop and am happy to deal with the foibles that pursuit entails.
Infosys and TCS have been around for decades. If their business model was based on "magical thinking-rooted exploitation" then their customers must be real fools. Or maybe they thrive because there were huge demand for IT projects, which continue to the present time, and businesses have traditionally not considered software engineering their core competency, despite the fact that outsourcing is inherently inefficient.

> Engineers need to form their own worker-owned consultancy co-ops and eschew corporations to capture more of the wealth they generate for themselves rather than as underpaid servants of said large corporations

"Infosys was established by seven engineers in Pune, Maharashtra, India with an initial capital of $250 in 1981" [0]

$250 in 1981 is $706 in 2019 dollar. So yes, looks like they started out exactly like how you advocate.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infosys
I would never expect a company that did log to refuse to give those logs to a court. That would be corporate suicide and executives would end up in actual prisons. I also wouldn't expect a VPN provider to refuse a court ordered warrant to begin logging your particular traffic or something like that. So if a company has appeared in court and failed to produce any logs and the court has accepted that information as not existing, it's hard to get stronger verification than that. And that has occurred with at least a few VPN providers (while a few have provided logs to the courts, proving they log).
But why not Chicago?
I love the mission too. I'm always on the lookout for new ways to fund open source. GitHub Sponsors is an interesting thing to watch, as well as Patreon.

Btw, there are a number of big companies that do the "talk to an expert" thing, such as GLG. Might be worth checking them out. Good luck!
You find that easily and quickly reversible?? :)
This all think kinda reminds me of similar practices by Apple on iOS (not enabling any app installation outside of their App store), by Google on Android (actively scanning even side loaded applications by default) or even Amazon on Kindle (remotely deleting books people bought).

One would hope Mozilla would not start playing such lowly tricks as well...

In any case there should have been a clear statement why this has happened which as far as I can tell has not been officially published by Mozilla anywhere.
I assume these are the default values that were selected a while ago, and it would be considered breakage to change them now?
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I've been happy with Xfce since Gnome lost me with v3. I've also found myself relying so much on my tile-window-left/right/NW/NE/SW/SE shortcuts that using a computer without them has become aggravating.

I think I'll probably hold out until Xfce becomes too unusable and then just bite the bullet and pick a tiling wm.
The differences between LXDE (the original branch, not LXQt), Xfce, MATE are basically fading away by now. I wonder if they could all standardize on a shared code base.

Heck, even GNOME3 is not that crazy if you ignore the whole Gnome-Shell bit (and yes, Cinnamon basically forks Gnome-Shell, as opposed to providing an entirely independent environment.) One could easily have an alternative "shell" portion providing an Xfce- or MATE-like experience, while still relying on the basic desktop-app suite that we get as part of that project.
It's less efficient to have all that light leaking to the sky. Makes sense to pass some sort of fee or regulation on massive light pollution like that. It's like methane leaks: it'd probably save some money to fix the problem, but the business deprioritizes it because the biggest cost is an externality which they do not (mostly) bear.
I guess now I just learned they are members of a Korean girl group. Not sure they'd approve of their pictures being used to promote "linuxreviews.org".
There are exceptions to every rule. Are you claiming you are an exception or the rule? If so, how do you back up your claim?
The Wilmington Insurrection is comparable and similarly unknown. Totally shameful, both that they happened and further that we aren't taught.

The Wilmington Insurrection is comparable and similarly unknown. Totally shameful, bothxrhat they happened and further that we aren't aware.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1...
Wow, I just checked and yep there it is - google URL! I wonder if it caches automatically or only when read. If the latter I bet you could game the system by sending a tracking pixel with a unique source URL. Will have to stand up a test server and see what resource gets requested when.
Do you have a screenshot of what you’re referring to? I can’t see it
I’m an engineer at FBN.

We do more than data these days; it’s best to say we do anything we can to help farmers’ bottom line.

In the past year or so we’ve started offering health insurance, started a seed company, and brokerage.

That means we can help farmers with their inputs before the season, decisions during the season with data analysis, and selling outputs afterwords.

And of course we’re hiring!
It is just as easy as sshuttle to set up. I never said it was easy for an average computer user. Average computer users will probably buy some service which uses WireGuard under the hood.
General answer:

Become a specialist, or drive funding/regulatory pushes towards these new hardware technologies. Figure out what you see as the barriers to their commercialization, then figure out what component of that problem you'd love to work on, and become an expert in that.

My biased answer:

If you're in the position to spend a lot of time learning and experimenting with new stuff (e.g. a highschool or uni student), I'd recommend becoming an expert somewhere along the liquid fueled fission reactor stack. Chem eng, nuclear eng, rare earth extraction, uranium extraction, working with molten salts, working with liquid metals, anything like that.

If all goes well, I'll be needing people in just about every specialization there.
Wal-Mart (or any of the big retailers) is that you?
Gender this, ethnicity that...

I feel nothing reading that. Should I? I mean, isn't that... reinforcing isms we were striving to overcome as a society?
It could be TechCrunch but investors would have to have known in advance that's where the numbers will be published.
I once got a couple of interviews through the https://weworkremotely.com/ site. Seemed like a good selection there, and it was open, which was nice. Seems like this one is aspiring to be like that. That's cool, it's a growing space. Any others?

Personally I ended up taking a local job as I find it more enjoyable to work alongside a team, but maybe in the future would take another look.
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There are plenty of scripts online that make it incredibly trivial to set up WireGuard (here's mine[1]). This isn't like configuring OpenVPN -- it actually only takes a minute or two to set up.

Given that WireGuard is headed for inclusion into Linux mainline soon, it probably would be a good idea for folks to take a few minutes to learn how to use a technology that is going to be part of core Linux.

[1]: https://github.com/cyphar/dotfiles/blob/master/.local/bin/wg...
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to make us look more professional

What is "professional"? I'm very glad that Xfce is not a company, because the term only brings to mind bland, sterile, mindless, and boring office-drones. Fortunately plenty of open-source doesn't shy away from being more... raw human (for lack of a better term.)
There is virtually no impact to TC, outside they likely won’t get embargoed content from that source for a while, if ever. Also, TC will still get the article after it hits the wire, they aren’t exclusively in the breaking news category desperately trying to always be “first”, so a slight delay isn’t probably a deal breaker for them.

This is probably part of the reason embargo leaks aren’t that unusual.
> If you watch carefully, you'll realize that they are choreographed to metronome precision.

In the one in Shanghai Nights, they didn't even leave it to your imagination, the whole scene was choreographed to Singin' in the Rain.
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That is my experience today. My Linode is a lot closer to things on the Internet than my Spectrum connection. For example, if I ping the US/Central Overwatch server, it's 50ms from my home connection and 20ms from my Linode (which is 11ms away from home).

It is sometimes as much as 26ms to the first hop after my router, though, which is pretty amazing. That's enough time for light to travel 5000 miles.
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Amazon didn't start out with AWS. That's a side effect at becoming a world-conqueror in terms of logistics.
> Then what is the big deal.

There is no "big deal". You're taking my facetious use of the word "wizard" the wrong way.

> Same with almost every other language that isn't popular yet. Rust and golang and kotlin and swift all went through this.

If Haskell already was popular, it would be an entirely different argument. Then we can talk about the merits of the language/platform versus the alternatives. Right now you're trying to sell me this exotic language used by exotic programmers who have strong opinions on design. From a business point of view, those are alarm bells. That's what you need to at least recognize, even though you disagree.

> Learning Haskell is just slightly more challenging and not a huge drain on productivity. Spend a couple more months training new developers in exchange for a 90% reduction in bugs and much better design.

This is what you believe and take for granted in your argument. I'm sure you're sincere about that, but remember, I'm not buying all those beliefs wholesale. Haskell has been around for thirty years, if it really makes for such vast increases in its productivity, why aren't those Haskell programmers dominating software development?

> This just tells me you're someone with little experience.

At least consider the possibility that there's some insight there that you don't quite grasp yet.

> Learn the language if you really want to understand our perspective.

"Buy the product in order to see why it's so great!" would be a terrible sales pitch, if you catch my drift.
> Every couple years people who write JS come up with new garbage frameworks that don't really move the needle forward. React, angular, vue, jquery.... different flavors of the same issue while fixing old problems and creating new ones.

People needed to figure out how to turn HTML into a somewhat usable application platform while it is evolving. The DOM of 2019 is not the DOM of 2009. Javascript ES6+ is far different from ES3. It's chaotic, but how could it not be?

The other day, someone posted a link on writing Haskell for the web frontend. Guess what, people were reinventing things over and over there too, it's just that nobody really took notice of it.
I'm sure your technical arguments are well-reasoned, but I'm not changing my mind. I already made a modest emotional investment into RISC-V.
Are you sure you don’t mean it was cool when you were 25 years younger? Like the author of this blog post and indeed the developer of the Xfce feature might be for all we know.
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The discounts these companies get from the postal service for mailing in bulk, presorting, using specific labeling, etc can get pretty large. Just a couple cents a mail piece.
She is not allowed to use her phone to install apps that can communicate with people that she does not already know and this is something I periodically check on with the view that I will check less as she gets older.

Why do you think you need to do this? Why does this need to be a hard constraint dictated and controlled by someone else?

My kids were given some general guidelines from a very early age. I tongue-in-cheek would say "No naked pics and no instructions on how to build bombs." They are my kids, so they understood what I was trying to get at.

They also had it explained to them that as a parent, I had latitude to intercede on their behalf, assuming they stayed within certain boundaries. They understood that crimes like murder or arson would change that fact and put decision making power out of my hands and into the hands of strangers.

My power as a parent served them. It was not weilded in an authoritarian fashion.

If a child is getting their needs adequately met "within the rules," they have no reason to break the rules. When my kids proved consistently incapable of following the rules, I wondered what was wrong with my rules and tried to improve my process.

Is there some reason your child would desire to talk to untrustworthy people she doesn't already know? Is she bored? Is she lonely?

People don't take risks of that sort merely out ignorance. They do so out of desperation. Otherwise, they are quick to go "Nope, I don't need to keep this shitty app for talking to this awful person that I don't even like. Ugh. Moving on."
> & how can IRV be hand-counted?

It's very easy. Australia regularly does it with millions of ballots.

Step one: you count the ballots by hand.

Phew, what an exhaustive list of instructions!
A wonderful single screen space in my home town was converted into a pool hall. You picked up the balls and paid for the table at the ticket booth and they reused the theater seats on a raised platform along the tables for viewing. It was really something.
Most kpop fans are female, why do you assume it's a guy? :)
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Many US states and other jurisdictions do have laws banning certain types of knives; the laws tend to focus on modern weapons like switchblades, but can extend to katanas. [1]

To the extent they are allowed – and this also goes for their more dangerous cousin, guns – it’s largely because there is a legitimate use case for attacking someone with a lethal weapon: self-defense. No such use case exists for a spying app.

[1] https://www.sword-buyers-guide.com/are-katana-illegal.html
Spinnaker on EC2... how painful.