skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is plenty of online content discussing the pros and cons of both static and dynamic types. Discussing it in this post would be tangential, I believe. The authors point is to list shortcomings of Smalltalk, not so much trying to convince us on the advantages of dynamic types.
What if they follow your advice and it wasn't the reason? Now instead of one bored person you have several unhappy ones.

I am sure a good chunk of the fathers who are still "looking for the right pack of cigarettes" had a similar idea
Whatsapp also doesn't encrypt backups to icloud, which it nags you to turn on.
> The hostel claims that people come from around the world to visit the burger, and the website receives up to 400,000 hits daily.

Wait, what? No way that website receives four hundred THOUSAND visitors a day.
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I really wonder what sort of information sources people are exposing themselves to for "slavery still exists, and tech platforms are used to facilitate it" to be a revelation.

I just don't understand the news-browsing/discovery experience of educated, tech-savvy people who somehow don't even stumble upon global news websites with tons of articles about all the bad shit that happens worldwide, and that it's not isolated incidents but PREVALENT and normal in some places.
I like Python because it is dynamic but recently I have been catching at least one bug per PR whenever I changed an existing python code.

I too was sceptical before using it and Python or the community does not enforce it. But it is indeed useful.
When each of my kids turned 5 I started letting them go around the block with another kid, 2 kids minimum. My neighbors started texting and calling me as if my kid was in danger. They couldn't understand that I let my kid out of my sight. The best playtime is unsupervised. Being allowed to be out of sight and making your own decisions builds confidence. We learn from mistakes, we learn less when we are prevented from making mistakes.
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A fully-cooked fatty burger isn't going to change much over time, and deep-friend french fries are unlikely to change, but that bun is certainly unnatural.
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There is nothing to address in your points. They are not incorrect per se, but they miss the forest for the trees. We all know that presently "[Facebook] are within their rights to refuse to rebroadcast content you upload to the servers they own". Focusing on how something occurs does not make for a justification of why it should.
> public USB device seems incredibly dangerous to me.

That story is in China, where everyone is already massively monitored constantly (and this is not even hidden by their government).
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Something changed when I started telling stories. Clients didn’t start saying, “Wow, love the narrative, Tom” or “Gee, great use of subtext.” But they did say, “Loved your piece,” and “Great work. Sales want you on every project.”

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You don't like censorship but you want US government to decide what should a certain foreign app show to users?
And yet advertising works. If we really believed people have free choice, there would be no uproar about Russian interference in elections, or political advertising on Facebook and Twitter, because it wouldn't sway people's behaviour in any way. Certainly you aren't ordered around in total, but you are a finite amount of brainpower with well known biases and failure modes, and Capitalism is rewarding those who exploit them and condition people's behaviour most effectively.
And it seems lots of router vendors dont give you decent options of setting your congestion control algorithm. Their QoS settings are stuck in the mid2000s.
You don't say anything about your company or your role in it. Company "culture" is one of those immeasurable wishy-washy borderline woo-woo things that either gets fetishized and obsessed about or completely ignored. The best companies are the ones where the culture is set from the top and manages to seep downward into every aspect of the organization. So if you're not the owner / CEO / somewhere in a leadership role, and you think there's a problem, you're probably not in a place to make it better.

As for specifically improving the way you work, I've been in this exact problem before. A company I worked for knew that our software was lacking documentation, that we didn't have good processes in place for bringing new developers up to speed, and that some of our devops systems were really lacking. Leadership talked for 3 years about the existence of these problems. We discussed them in team meetings. Everyone knew they existed, but because there was always other work taking precedence nothing ever changed and what was broken remained broken.

If you want to make your company better and improve the way you work, start by allocating time to make your company better and improve the way you work. Whether that's an hour a day, a 2 day period every month, or a week every quarter, dedicate time specifically for internal improvements. Get the whole company involved. Mandate that other work doesn't get scheduled and take precedence, and that meetings not related to internal improvements don't interfere.

Once people see that you value internal improvements, and they see how much value those improvements can bring they'll likely be more willing to take ownership of them and invest in them as part of their routine.
I hear you. You won’t see me campaigning against gun ownership.
Can we actually get numbers for men, or is that just too hard?
Because it says “powerful” rather than “useful”, I was expecting this to be about surprising data types rather than business cases.

For example, you can make a data URL containing JavaScript and turn that into a QR code:

https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2017/04/10/executable-...

Some QR code readers execute that JavaScript. (Not all, fortunately).
OK, I have to confess I didn't know it's that easy to preserve food, that's really cool.

So what do I do if I want to preserve some boiled potatoes, say? I cook them well, let them dry and that's it? I can just eat them whenever or do I have to re-hydrate them? And won't they grow mold while I'm letting them dry? Will that work with spaghetti or rice?

What about my home-made mayonnaise? Somehow I can never pasteurise eggs right at home so when I make mayonnaise I have to eat it all in days. How do I preserve mayonnaise like this? Do I have to hang it out to dry?

Can I preserve some salad like this also? This is so exciting!
> "us" includes a lot of Chinese people, so it's not so much Chinese vs not-Chinese.

I fear not everyone realizes that on an intuitive level. People see a bunch of vocal Chinese nationalists repeating government propaganda and get the impression that this is representative of the average Chinese person, leading them to demand that Chinese users be banned from social media, or Chinese students have their visas denied, or whatever measure would solve the issue at hand while simultaneously excluding the Chinese part of "us."

It's maybe a question of defaults, where the knowledge that something is Chinese leads to the suspicion that it must be bad, unless some redeeming quality (such as being anti-government) can be found.
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I love progressive death metal. I love that the songs are loud and visceral, then soft and nuanced. I love the complexity and technicality. But I don’t play it on the speakers in my thinly-walled apartment, nor do I play it out loud in public spaces like work, the library or city streets. As much as I enjoy it I understand that it demands focus in a way that can be very obnoxious and unenjoyable for others.

People don’t dislike the author’s taste, they dislike being subjected to it. Get over yourself and use a less obnoxious font when distributing your work.
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Sorry if you're getting downvoted a lot. We as a group need to start learning a little subtlety when it comes to condemning all of a person's contributions because we don't like their opinions or their actions. We are smart enough that we should be able to condemn ESR's idiotic words and actions and still praise his extremely important contribution to technology.
I read that as an acknowledgement of the privilege to be able to easily find another job since he has sought after skills. Many people could not dream about quitting their job to "branch out".

But maybe I overlooked something.
Thing is, even if LetsEncrypt were less secure (I don't really think it is, but lets assume), that would hurt the security of every website.

If you use a paid CA, someone trying to impersonate you could still go to lets-encrypt and get a certificate there. In other words, the system is only ever as secure as its weakest link. It doesn't matter what link you chose, it matters what link a potential attacker would use.

All of this is because failure of a CA only means false certificates are issued. Its not like lets encrypt ever could get access to any of your private key material.
The trend is going in the right direction.
We actually cannot, unless some excellent new technologies begin to exist, you will run afoul of entropy or plain lack of space.

Not to mention energy distribution network will be a problem.

You would also have to make actually truly positive energy input rockets, which has not happened. (Price is not materials or work.)

It's still a relatively high bar until we mine out Earth, but water might be a more pressing problem soon. (Desalination at mass scale is very expensive.)
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I respect that attitude, but I do wonder if the authorities might decide to take my kid away from me I try that with my kid (after I become a parent). Attitudes are a bit restrictive in many big cities.
There is a park near me with a metal bridge only a couple feet off the ground. There are gaps where children can fit through to climb up/down. Just outside and perpendicular to this particular bridge is a set of metal stairs. I witnessed a toddler fall off the bridge and narrowly miss hitting his head on the metal corner of the stairs. It probably could have killed him. The mother was sufficiently spooked that they immediately left. Everyone is just worried about limiting liability. In this case, smarter positioning of stairs would eliminate some risk. Considering how these sets are so modular, I'm surprised there isn't more oversight about deployment.
Yeah, that sounds far better than what I saw. I swear, a toy watch from a cereal box should have been worth more money than the watches I saw. What a waste of metal.
In other words, the effectiveness of the CT logs is a thing. There are multiple services which will do this for you for free (Cloudflare and Facebook at least make it trivial to get notifications for your domains) and it’s a level of visibility which almost nobody had just a few years ago.
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The amount of 1st party software in those watches is astounding. And it almost all gets processed on-watch.

The 3rd party app support is laughably poor, but the APIs are there. ConnectIQ apps are written in their own language (MonkeyC, which is kinda hard to use), which hinders adoption, and are generally slow and feature-poor.

But the good thing for Garmin is that the 1st party software more than makes up for the lack of 3rd party support. The music-enabled watches (eg FR645) have Spotify support, GPS, and Bluetooth music, last for an eon, and are hardy as all hell.
>He's addicted to it the same way Trump is.

I'm not so sure about that. Musk's social-media posts have typically been of the "this is cool stuff I'm interested in or am working on" sort, not political self-aggrandizement. He may simply be coming to terms with the idea that Twitter is not right place, for either formatting or typical-audience reasons, for the sort of in-depth engineering discussions he seems to enjoy.
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Not when there's no space for them to live in, or jobs to work. That's still far in the future though.
You already have right to delete in this instance.
If your application _needs_ a companion extension installed, be a good citizen of other people's computers and during the installation, add a step that says "this application needs the Bleep Bloop extension to work. Do that now?" and if they click yes, you do a system call to open https://yoursite.kibbles/products/bleepbloop/extension so they can take care of that part. And if they click no, go "in order for this software to work, you will need to install the Bleep Bloop extension. You can do this from help -> install web extension after installation" so that your users have a completion path afterwards, when they simply run your application.

Or, when they click OK you can make your installer tell the OS to "run" your .xpi file, which will open Firefox, and ask the user whether that extension is really something they want to install. And then when they click no you tell them that they can initiate the .xpi install process at any time by going to your application's help -> install extension or something.

What you _can't_ do, and what you should never have done in the first place, is copy a file into the magic Firefox directory that forces that extensions to be loaded outside of the control of every user and profile for Firefox on that computer.
What kind of technical due diligence did you do?

I'm wondering if machine learning could be used for this.
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What do you mean, it "can be abused?"

Hanlon's Razor, paraphrased, dictates always to underestimate your enemy and be lethargic. Of course it can be abused.

How on Earth this crap came to be regarded as a piece of "wisdom" is beyond me.

The strategically sound approach is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to always assume the actual outcome was the intent, and respond accordingly.
You've been making stuff up throughout this conversation. I'm quite well informed; my information on brands comes both from direct experience as well as from talking to brand owners and others in the field.

>Brands want to have it such that brick and mortar retailers can still exist, so they create pricing models that allow for that additional discount.

The brands that really care about preventing distribution will buy back and destroy their inventory at the end of the season. See e.g. https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/17/17852294/fashion-bra...

But plenty of brands don't feel like buying back and destroying hundreds of millions of dollars worth of inventory. So they use cheaper alternatives, namely perjury to get rid of legitimate sellers.

>They add no value, only take. It hurts brands, manufacturers, retailers and even consumers to a large degree.

This is incorrect on most counts. For the most part this benefits retailers, which is why most retailers have liquidation programs to sell off their overstock in the first place. This benefits consumers as resold goods lead to lower prices. It does hurt some brands, as they can no longer channel stuff to pad revenues. But increased competition hurting companies and benefiting consumers with lower prices is generally considered a good thing, in economics.

I've been to many conferences and spoken at a couple. In my experience most conferences on Amazon selling are geared towards private label brands that add little value.
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Is this really a new rule? I know Google sells itself as having a strong culture of openness, and it used to be even more open than today. But it's hard to believe it was ever acceptable to attack other employees by name or publicly demand that they should be fired.
I'm going to quibble your 2nd sentence:
"Highly addictive ones do indeed ruin lives"

Today, I'll agree with you. Question is why?

Clearly heroin ruins the lives of people who commit crimes to pay for it, as they're pulled into the criminal justice system. If you can afford to buy all the heroin you need from your checking account - well obviously it 'ruins your life less' as you're not in prison.

Maybe you decide to turn up at 9am for your job, or stay in bed - but that's an additional choice you have, as you're not locked up.

My point is, the drug's the same, you're the same, and the difference is the access to it you're afforded.

Anecdotally the highest every number of opiate addicts was post the first world war, where it was handed out as an anesthetic by the government.

To bring my meandering back in, I think we simply need to clarify what we want to achieve in society.
Reduction in drug use - or a reduction in drug harm.
> the targeted audience(s) for which their advertisers pay an (assumed) premium.

Online advertising does not work this way, and has not for years. Advertisers bid on the right to show users an ad, per ad, based on all of the surveilled data known about that user. Deadspin will get the best bid price per-user regardless of what demographic the winning advertiser was targeting.
IPSec is just usually an abysmal inane thing to set up, with defaults from the 90s and an extra bonus of error messages and documentation that just make you cuss. I don't recommend anyone IPSec, whatever it offers, after you spend all the time making sure your configuration is good, is really not worth it if you can do Wireguard or even OpenVPN. Ugh, I'm annoyed just thinking about it again.
Well, I’m not throwing anyone under the bus. I’m literally quoting what others are saying. Here are a few more articles:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/03/08/meet-world-rekn...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/03/07/allegations-emp...

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/famous-trauma-therapist-fire...

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/famed-trauma-therapist-respo...

The reason I mentioned the controversy around Bessel van der Kolk and The Trauma Center that he co-founded (and was fired from) is that his book is basically required reading for many people entering the mental health field. I strongly believe people deserve the right to know about what happened so they can form their own opinions.
Blaming the software and then shrugging "well, we did everything we could" seems to become a pattern to deflect accountability. Worrying
In the CA model is anything 100% yours? A signed cert has to depend on someone you dont know.