skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were to say I disagree with this comment, a valid rebuttal would not be of the form "Toxic as applied to individuals today just means ..." - there is a difference between lacking meaning and becoming generic as to be near tautological (something which I don't think is true) and the meaning shifting to cover other behaviors.
Of course they are real. And people can find them fascinating and other people can find them boring. Nothing wrong with either attitude.
I guess my worry is more that people are very invested in their technical work, and when prompted are aware of the problems in the company culture - but just seem less interested in being part of the solution.
One theory goes that the left has no genuine interest in improving its voters' circumstances, because a more empowered individual has less need of the state to look after them, and thus would be less likely to vote for the left. The corollary is that it is in the left's electoral interests to attempt to disempower, impoverish and weaken the greatest number of voters as possible, because then said voters will see that their best interests would be served by the party that 'looks after them', and would vote for socialism en masse.
I'm a little sad at the thought that we as a society don't help people to better deal with questions like these. Or that someone alive in space and time can be stuck like this.

See a movie. Date a person. Start a community war. Draw a picture. Read a book. Write a book. Go for a swim. Call a relative. Visit a friend. Make a friend. Take a night class. Play a video game. Whittle. Cook. Volunteer. Brew beer. Start a fight. Walk around. Pull a prank. Make graffiti. Build a robot. Throw a party. Have a regular potluck. Buy a dart board and get really good. Play a game. Feed some ducks.

But I'm genuinely curious. Did you have this problem as a kid or after the school day or did it sorta just happen when you started in the workforce?
I believe some research out of Duke had already done similar things with chimps, but bringing it to humans is major. Each of these studies becomes a proof of concept for what "should" be true of the brain, but theories fall flat all the time. Each lays a brick in the foundation for building a true BCI.

I'm most excited that this was done with only an 8-channel OpenBCI headset, 16-bit, for the "Receiver". The "Senders" had a much stronger/better headset, but seeing open hardware show up in this is awesomely inspiring!
Generally it's the latter, and people are just forced to use it. However, I have made an honest effort to try and see the value in it, but the whole concept of trying to squeeze everything into artificial scheduling boundaries via sprints just feels very weird to me. Invariably projects just end up spilling over from sprint to sprint, because even if you manage to break things up into small enough chunks to do a meaningful piece of a project inside of a sprint, then you still end up with leftover time at the end...and then of course you're not going to sit around doing nothing, but rather you'll go ahead and get started on the next sprint's work in advance.

So the ultimate outcome is that you have to follow a certain specific set of prescribed meetings and rituals every X weeks when the current sprint ends or the next sprint is starting, but the actual work that's happening rarely seems to follow a schedule that has anything to do with the sprint cadence.
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> a website that uses CloudFlare front [1] is susceptible to its secure traffic being intercepted by CloudFlare, because by-design TLS would be terminated at CloudFlare servers

Keep in mind, this is also true of cloud providers. By running the hypervisor, AWS has full access to your instance's RAM and could snoop on traffic if they pleased.

A compromised service provider is a risk you're accepting unless you own and physically control the hardware terminating TLS. Whether this is an acceptable risk comes down to your threat model. (As do so many things in infosec.)
Uhm, I lived in Russia for 20 years so I know how biased it is.
And Alphabit...
They want the data.
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Their public LinkedIn profiles say that they went to university in China. They're Chinese.
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Why is the headline changed from "third-party" to "first-party"? It fundamentally changes the story...
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It is hilarious, but is it really that different from the fads that have swept through society for all of recorded history? I remember Pogs coming and going within a few months when I was growing up. I don't see it as all that different.
I find it interesting how this sort of thing is spreading so far.

The CCP state, Facebook, Google... now Gaggle.

I hope there's some studies of the damage such things do to people.

How much do they lose the ability to control their own lives?

How does this change their attitude to other people?

Respect for authority?

Most of all, this ought to be opt-in, opt-in only, and if you opted-in you can get out again. My reading of the articles says it's none of these.
I think this has a lot more to do with Google punishing web results without https than it does with Snowden, couple that with Cloudflare and Let's Encrypt and you have an easy path.
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>> the "hate," if it can even be called that, is for the Chinese government and the CCP.

> You may only hate the government...

Hate is actually not a very good word to describe the situation, IMHO. I only used it because the GP did, but I quoted and questioned the choice. If I had to describe it, I would say it's moral disapproval coupled with a recognition of incompatible goals that requires some kind of response.

> You may only hate the government, but you should be aware that many of those who seem to be on your side criticising the CPC do in fact hate everything Chinese.

I find that a bit hard to square with the support of Chinese things by the same group, like the Tiananmen Square and Hong Kong protests (for instance). I don't doubt that there exist people who are racist against Chinese people, but I think the overlap with HN is small, and definitely small enough that it's a derail to bring up on a vague prompt like in the parent of this subthread.
The system is not firewalled from the internet. There are tools that need internet based licenses. There are organization firewalls, but there is always a risk involved with having unpatched platforms. I have to weigh that risk against the cost of porting. Both are difficult to gauge.
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IIRC, a working Cray inside of a traveling Tardis collapses the whole thing into a black hole.
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wat.... ?
1. you rent a car, and on the Term of Service you declare you are not going to use it for anything illegal .

2. Go rob a bank with it.

3. The rental car company is liable?

According to this logic, if you checkout a book from the library, hit someone on the head with it, then the library is liable....

Society will stop functioning in this case. Google would have to start requiring background checks to open a gmail account...

If FB/Instagram was: 1. Actively promoting that illegal activity, or 2. Turning an blind eye / not removing posts that are clearly doing illegal stuff, then they might be liable...

The point is that there are hundreds of millions of accounts in FB/Instagram, and it is almost impossible to monitor everything that goes on it.....
Absolutely. But that's the not box to think in to see the problem. Sure, we haven't had that happen in recent memory. Soooo... if there were to be a problem then, that means it wouldn't look what like we think "food problems" should look like. What we see doesn't determine the problem space, the problem space suggests ways we may need to change our viewing angle.

By the time you're responding to a catastrophe there have already been system level changes happening for quite some time before that kind of observable "phase transition" from normal function to disaster even occurs.

We've gotten increasingly better at producing a particular type of highly optimized food and distributing it through just as optimized Just in Time/LEAN systems. Which is great and allows you to carry less "inventory waste" - we've managed to get down to now keeping about 75 days worth of food reserves globally - HOWEVER, the trade off to that type of efficiency is that introduces new sources of risk. It (by definition) removes a ton of redundancy from the system and severely decreases the resilience of the total system to any sort of shock - let along multiple coincident ones.

THAT then brings in our outdated ways of conceptualizing, preparing for, and mitigating risks across functional and geographic areas. If you're dealing with an issue as complicated the global food system it's not productive to just have individual risk calculations with insurance/consumer pricing baked in for individual scenarios. For example, in any particular area there may be an x% chance of a 1000 year flood. So if there are 5000 of those communities and the total system would have been able to withstand some number of 1000 year floods distributed between them in a normal year, what happens when you factor in that, for instance, our climate "context" is different than when lots of infrastructure was built? What's the ability of the system to withstand the normal amount of thousand year floods when you add in climate effects that may both cause more events and make each event more severe/destructive and there also happens to be a "bad year"/5-10% reduction in (mostly monoculture) cereal crop output or a case of African swine fever that kills 300 million pigs in China. Now factor in the systemic changes and consolidation leading to less redundancy in the food system and you've got a hard risk management problem on your hands.

A few case studies that may be interesting:
https://www.bu.edu/pardee/files/2017/03/Multiple-Breadbasket...
https://www.fcrn.org.uk/research-library/lloyd’s-emerging-ri...

A great video about food/ecological systems and co-benefits:
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_barber_how_i_fell_in_love_with...
> "What they are doing is promoting an online slave market," said Urmila Bhoola, the UN special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery.
> "If Google, Apple, Facebook or any other companies are hosting apps like these, they have to be held accountable."

Of course we don't want social media enabling that. But the bad guys are the people who are keeping others as slaves, and the law enforcement that turn a blind eye. The solution isn't to take down the posts, but to alert law enforcement.

These governments should be urged to find and arrest the people who are doing this, otherwise it won't stop even if blocked. A single dev could mock up a replacement, "like craigslist, but for slaves".
Thanks for sharing your expertise. It was very interesting to hear your perspective.
I'm not sure how much stock I put in this analogy, but you could be right.

It could also create an incentive to avoid collecting data in the first place, which would obviously be a good thing. But perhaps this could be better achieved through other methods.
Using F-Droid is considered sideloading.
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Yes, please update this thread!
Configuration isn't stored in environment variables. Rather, they are exposed as environment variables.

The idea is that the application environment / infrastructure should own the config data, not the application code itself. 12 factor practices require that devs draw a boundary between app and infrastructure.
I looked into FreeSWITCH ~5-6 years ago, while I started a complete re-write of some answering service software I had written with PHP and Asterisk back in 2007. Asterisk has the AMI (Asterisk Manager Interface), which would give me realtime information about calls, which I could use to capture all the stuff I needed and popup windows on screens and all that jazz. FreeSWITCH didn't have anything that gave me all the info I would have need to replicate that. Of course, this might have been updated since then.
In my opinion modifications to overly long titles are acceptable to fit it into the character limit (assuming that you do not turn it into click-bait in the process;).

I think Cytoplasm of ruptured frog eggs organizes into cell-likes that can divide might be fine?
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Article is about this book that will be released on Tuesday.

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/0...

This Numberphile interview with him is interesting:

https://youtu.be/QNznD9hMEh0
I think the time it takes changes with the pace of development a company has.
> this is about US culture, not US government or law

But these things do not exist in a vacuum.

Ask anybody working on the tech and legal ends of the adult industry and you will hear quite horrific stories about having to jump through so many hoops just for finding a payment provider.

For a while, these used to be www dominating issues, and how they were dealt with in the US, often ended up being the de-facto global standard.

A very recent and relevant example for this is footage out of the Syrian Civil War on platforms like Twitter and YouTube.

Over these past years, whole swats of videos have disappeared on the basis of being tagged as "terrorist propaganda" [0]

In a very similar vein how "Napalm Girl" ended up getting censored as child pornography [1].

By now even Reddit has learned to "selectively forget", as all undeleting/uncensoring sites that used to work, have stopped working.

Just because it's not some US government agency playing the censor, but rather the US government pressuring US companies into self-censorship, doesn't make this kind of censorship any less real in its overall impact.

[0] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/youtube-ai-deletes-war-cr...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37318031
It's about $4000 for food. It's been a while since I looked at the rest. The house and cars are paid off.

I don't expect to pay for college for all 12. They start dual-enrollment as early as 12, with the school district paying for books and tuition, so a college degree can be had for the cost of commuting and trivial fees. Normally that would be just an AA degree (the few 4-year degrees offered locally are lousy), but a couple more years to upgrade it to a BS at UCF isn't terribly expensive. I could just pay it, but it might be better for the kids to solve their own financial problems. Maybe somebody will go into the military, go to a trade school, or be a homemaker. The ones with plans so far have chosen: CPA (maybe), software developer, lawyer (physics undergrad), something medical (physician assistant?), and midwifery.
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Art has nothing to do with intellectualism. And many subfields of art, even that with experts contemplating brush strokes, are very anti-intellectual in their core.
I wouldn't exactly say running a 100 yard dash is creative.
I had the same instinct as you but quickly realized that almost nobody notices most fancy watches unless they're also a collector. Also showiness is often unrelated to price - lots of showy watches are really cheap [0], and some of the most understated are very expensive [1].

[0] example of a watch a normal person probably finds showy: https://invictastores.com/men/invicta-pro-diver-mens-quartz-...

[1] $63k on a rubber strap https://forums.watchuseek.com/f29/fs-patek-philippe-aquanaut...
Every single one of the stories on that top ten most visited list is "sticking to sports", by the looks of it. My understanding is that the new owners are perfectly fine with stories that are even tangentially related to sports, they just objected to totally unrelated political activism like the story linked in the comment you're replying to.
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I'm pretty sure this is not how it is intended, but it works for me.
Having been at my current org for 8 years, I have to say that it's difficult to fully grasp the politics of a place if people only plan on staying for 1-3 years at a time.

I've also become more and more effective at quickly diagnosing problems and creating solutions taking into account the people, politics, tech, etc. involved. Tech is only one aspect of our jobs. A lot of time it's the easiest part.

Why would I stay this long at a job? I love the people in the dept I work in. The best team and job environment I've ever had. The drawback to staying a job this long is that, yes, you will probably be underpaid compared to market rate. Life is full of trade-offs and everyone will have to decide if it's worth it. For now, it is for me, but that might change in the future. If I get a new boss or the president of the org changes and he's terrible... /shrug maybe I'll move on. But life is short and if the position is good there's nothing wrong with staying IMHO.
We changed the title because the actual story, as stated in the first paragraph, is distant enough from the article title as to make that title misleading. "U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok" connotes something very different from reviewing a specific acquisition. Actually Reuters is usually a lot more careful than that.

As for whether the headline says TikTok or ByteDance, the only thing I care about is what readers will complain about least. If we make it say ByteDance, that's correct, but people will accuse us of trying to bury the lede because no one has heard of ByteDance. (Why on earth would we do that? Obvious answer: we must be controlled by the Chinese state, or some other sinister interest. How people come up with this stuff...)

The problem is that if it says TikTok, people will complain about the title being incorrect. I've flipped it the other way for now; let's see what's worse.
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So this is like the business method patent. It is new - it uses a computer! - it is new is uses an app/hashtag!

The system in the gulf has been there for decades. If you weren't outraged five years ago - no reason to be now. If you were - keep the fire burning and try to do something.

As long as the system for abuse is in place, people will communicate with smoke signals if needed to facilitate the involuntarily employment change.
Actually, having written operating systems in C, Objective-C and Smalltalk I can say that unless we are talking about something MS-DOS like in simplicity then the Smalltalk OS will be much smaller than the C one.

The unstripped binary for the Little Smalltalk 3 virtual machine is 55,229 bytes on my Linux computer and the systemImage file, at 102,100 bytes, includes mostly things that would not be needed for a "hello world" program.