skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we have reached a point where your analysis no longer holds up. I used to agree, but:

- The laws that govern legal search and seizure have departed dramatically from the protections afforded by the bill of rights.

- There have been multiple incidents of companies not disclosing extralegal "cooperation" with state actors such as the US government (and others)

- Warrant canaries are legal, yet big tech refuses to use them. Why not? Because using legal methods to improve user privacy and security are not considered "cooperative" enough.

- We have no reason to believe that governments are following the laws, even in the US. The recently revealed CIA scandal illustrates just how out of control things are.

- There is now a revolving door between big tech and state intelligence agencies, and big tech is becoming increasingly sympathetic to authoritarian candidates and hostile to third party or far left candidates.
Under US law, you have no expectation to privacy for data that you give to a third party (in this case Google). I think you hit the nail on the head here, there's not much legal difference between Google and a nosy neighbor other than scale.
Hey, we're in my territory!

Something to note is this premise is disputed by A LOT of experts in this domain. They've been challenged to a debate on this by Marc Effron (not my favorite guy but does generally have grounded thinking in his work) with proceeds benefiting charity but no uptake yet. They have also not shared their data in a way that enables replication or outside validation (or hadn't lest I checked). They is a pretty robust history of peer-reviewed research that doesn't come to the same conclusion.

I think they are on to something here but I think they are taking too far. For their "Source of Truth" section, most of what they say is true, particularly about rating and assessment of employees. Extending that to say suggestions on future behavior from others is also value-less is wrong. The former is problematic because it's treated as a source of objective truth that personnel decisions are made against, the latter is clearly a single subjective data point people can reflect on and potentially integrate into future behavior.

For "How We Learn" section, much of the words written are true but the conclusion goes beyond what I have seen data justify. Yes, we get better faster at the things we're already better at. Should that mean focusing on strengths is often a better coaching direction than weaknesses, yes. Does that mean we shouldn't do the latter or that it is value-less? No. It does mean we have to find ways to make weakness-oriented feedback happen in a repeatably non-threatening way.

On the "Excellence" section I'm again in agreement with most of it, but have fewer overall critiques. I should think more about this. I still say the conclusions are not natural endpoints for the points he makes.

Then, interestingly there is a table near the bottom. I find it interesting that many of those things you should "Try" rather than "Instead of" are indeed types of feedback and modern organizational development professionals espouse. Language really does matter, that's a great table with great suggestions, and most of those are feedback prompts.

All that said, I truly like Marcus Buckingham and find his work to typically be evidence-based (to the extent work like this can be) and on solid ground. Here is a brief video of him that is on a related topic that I think everyone should really take to heart if interested in this topic. https://www.marcusbuckingham.com/rwtb/performance-management...
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4.35 on my phone!

It's difficult because it advances to the next round as soon as you lift your finger and it tends to shift around at that point so your hard work gets messed up. I tried pressing too far up on the page and dragged down to accidentally refresh as well.
Still using it, but most of our major applications have been ported to .NET / SQL Server.

That being said, still some 50+ smaller / departmental style applications that continue to work, and will likely keep running in their current form for the next 10+ years.

In fact, someone asked me a random foxpro question in the middle of typing this comment haha.
There are plenty of companies that provide solutions to this problem that don't integrate with law enforcement as part of their business model.
This[1] and other links tell me that there are no addons for Firefox on iOS. Sadly, that is what I use.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-firefox-ios
So what happens is that Facebook chooses 11 people and gives them money so that they could make Facebook censorship decisions look like they don't come from Facebook. But since they people in that "court" still are appointed by Facebook, that's all just a shell game. But now they can point at "independent verification" by people they chose to pretend there's some objectivity behind it (even though there can't possibly be).
Completely off topic but...

Althlon64 was a swift kick in the nuts for Intel, but AMD really didn't followup until Ryzen. I wonder if they're going to stick around and fight this time.
I think gut-punching your interviewer is a strong negative signal about how it would be like to work with you, but wearing informal clothing is not much of a signal at all. There are just so many different reasons someone might be dressed that way: they could be the kind of person who doesn't put effort into things, they could think dressing up for an interview is cheating, they could not care about clothes in general, they could have been going off of advice to "wear something comfortable".

Similarly, if the candidate brings their own water bottle vs asks for a drink you could say that this is good because it shows them being prepared, but I think all of this is just too noisy to read anything into.

(I do think in other fields things are different. I'm just talking about programming here.)
x86-64 procesors can generally be run in IA32 compatibility mode. And intel still makes some IA32-only chips for embedded.
> If Twitter is hoping to outsource curation to shared protocols,

I don't think they would ever do that. It would be really dangerous to implement and would possibly expose an unfiltered stream of partially illegal content.

I mean, can you imagine "validate if this is an unsolicited dickpic", or "verify if this is a dox attempt", or "verify this is cp"? This is one area that can never be exposed to non-employees.
P2P is not really solved. Not to the true satisfaction.

For example, there are tens of millions of images uploaded to Twitter daily. They all have to be stored, and then retrieved for nearly arbitrary tweets and arbitrary users.

All this content has to be stored somewhere and retrieved fast enough to be useable.
How so? My hypothesis is that if a human is not exposed to this curricula of learning, he'll be close to these animals in intelligence. I don't know of any such humans. I also don't know of any such parrot that was given a learning program for 25 years.
But it's 2019 about to be 2020. Surely people can easily automate this aspect of recruiting?
The carriers have your location data on a dumbphone - only the carriers (certainly not Google) - and that's all the data they have. In addition, I can take the battery out of my dumb phone any time and all their ability to track my location goes away. My dumb phone doesn't have apps and doesn't have wi-fi, which means my data isn't being harvested by every company with an app and every passing wi-fi hotspot. Certainly you'd do better not to carry a phone at all but its just wrong to claim that "the same data" is available (and being broadcast) by your dumb phone.
At least some of these products had free replacements, or replacements that were bundled with future versions of windows. Microsoft Internet Explorer is on the list, and I'm pretty sure its replacement (Edge) costs nothing.
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Amazon is going to require a subpoena/warrant to turn over video...I'm not sure why you think their cooperation with police is required in order to continue selling cameras.
Uni: Query the Unicode database from the CLI, with good support for emojis
Fuck training people that are older than me, have higher credentials than me but still expect me to handhold them and then cry that its a hostile environment while they fail to do the job they obtained a 5 year degree for and then in the end some third party like an intern with even less experience than me redoes the job better. Said intern is not a man so clearly the damn problem is not the gender. It's complete disinterest in the job.
Removing all politicians and pundits from Twitter is a good start, but we should go further. Kick them all off Facebook and every other platform. Kick them off TV and radio. Don't give them an inch of print. Let them have nothing but static HTML/CSS web sites.

Politicians should be like sysadmins; we shouldn't have to acknowledge their existence unless something has gone wrong.
If they immediately tasked 20 or 50 people to the project, it would be far more absurd than starting with five. Ideally a project like this starts out from a small team and is given more resources only when it's needed.
I’ve already played a lot of it. Try it in VR if you want a real physiological challenge.

6DOF games are hard to come by. Evochron is a decent example of one. I spent 20 hours just figuring how to pilot the damn ships then “finished” the game in a few hours. There’s something there, maybe. Idk. It has trouble gamefying it’s space simulation.
And a few petabytes of open storage.

And a few open data centers to handle the load to the database and to the storage.
I'd hope if women had thought about the serving example they would have made the same choice out of a sensible respect for setting up the future. A society that keeps their women from dying needless deaths has a reproductive advantage over societies that send them into the meat grinder - the protective society can produce more children after the conflict. From a quick and lazy glance at some statistics [0] losing a young man in 1945 is statistically losing a man, losing a young women is more like statistically losing 6 people (1 now, 5 next generation). The baby boom doesn't work out as well as it did if a big group of women just died off.

Equality of opportunity to die serving a country is all very well, but until men figure out how to operate wombs without women there are practical differences when deciding who is risks probable death. The situation has probably changed now that growing populations no longer looks like an easy win but the calculus goes a bit beyond 'men just didn't like the idea'. Men didn't like the idea because it is an objectively bad idea in an era where population really mattered. The women probably agreed with that one on the whole.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate
Maybe a balloon to provide most of the lift, then attach a few electric props? And if you have access to ice, maybe we can use solar panel to electrolise it into fuel.
I have a camera pointed at the street but it is not a ring camera... am I asking for it?
Warning: if you click that link on some browsers it will remove your back button history by opening a new tab and killing the previous one.

Instagram is aggresively user-hostile and if you work there you should feel bad.
I'm a four season bike commuter, and have been wearing a helmet cam for the past year or so— it's just breathtaking the amount of small violations I catch on camera: I don't even go looking for them or dwell at hotspots, and I pick up probably 5-10 instances per week of things like cars turning right on red without fully stopping, going through stop signs without fully stopping, not fully yielding to pedestrians in crosswalks, changing lanes in roundabouts/intersections, etc etc.

As it is, it's a huge amount of effort to slice out these clips, upload them somewhere, figure out the plates involved, and then go through my police department's clunky incident reporting system. On the handful of times I've bothered to do it (like when I was almost creamed by someone running a red light), the response has been either nothing or "thanks but we just don't have time for that", or in one case an indication that they would be unable to charge the person unless I also had a face shot of who it was in the driver's seat.

Now, we can argue until we're blue in the face about whether it's right to snitch on people for these "victimless crimes", but I suspect (and commenters like Neil Arason agree) that more consistent enforcement would go a long way toward promoting safer and more respectful driving. A lot fewer people would drift through stop signs and crosswalks if they didn't think they could get away with it 99% of the time.

All that to say, if there was a portal somewhere where I could just upload my timestamped helmet cam and porch cam videos as part of a dragnet operation to identify and catch repeat violators of the rules of the road, I'd be awfully tempted to participate, despite ideological misgivings about pervasive surveillance.
> it was colorful and silly

You misspelled inflexible. :)
>Accepting that girl infants prefer faces and boy infants prefer trucks—what does that have to do with programming?

Programming jobs often involve extremely minimal face to face interactions
I couldn’t find a source for this photograph, but my dad showed it to me a few years ago and I feel like it perfectly captures the tone of the current global civil unrest: https://i.pinimg.com/236x/c0/e4/06/c0e406018cc6b42ad0a2562f8...
Yep. Plus, data brokers like Experian provide a linkage between me and things like my credit card purchases.

Plenty for Facebook to have creepily accurate targeting without needing a microphone listening in.
"The laws that govern legal search and seizure have departed dramatically from the protections afforded by the bill of rights."

That, right there, is the problem. That should be illegal and should have been shot down every single time such a law was challenged in court. The fact that it wasn't says something about the status of the 4th amendment. And the lack of citizen revolt over this is disheartening.
It already did, in 2016.
There are 10,000 mattress stores in America—for reference there are 14,000 Starbucks [0].

The markup must be sky-high to sustain that, and I‘d assume hotels buying factory direct at a fraction of retail.

Never mind the product tie-ins mattress companies do with hotels [1] (which is pretty genius... how often do you really get to test a new mattresses?)

[0] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/676543180?storyId=676543180?...

[1] https://www.serta.com/mattresses/hotel-collections
Ubuntu is the Mozilla of Linux distributions and MacOS the Explorer.
Liberty BASIC (JustBASIC first, then later switched to Liberty) was how I got started in programming as well. The community was awesome and there were tons of examples out there to reference from.

Later I spent a lot of time writing IRC bots and the IRC communities were equally as friendly.

The real light bulb moment for me was a PHP tutorial from, I think, W3Schools. There was this moment where I realized I could build this thing and with a single click anyone in the world with a computer and internet connection could consume it. Everybody has a web browser! That was the moment I realized I wanted to to be a web developer and I never looked back.
> If they aren't interested enough to put up with racism, they shouldn't be here to begin with

I did not say "put up with", I said "deal with", which includes many options other than accepting what you're given. If your workplace discriminates on the basis of race, you could report them for violation of anti-discrimination laws, lobby for stronger laws, leave the workplace for a better one, etc.

> It is their own responsibility to do something about it and fix the racist environment that they are in

Exactly what I just discussed, maybe in an ideal world such things shouldn't be your responsibility, but the only way to guarantee action is to take it. If someone pushes you into a puddle, you might be right to say that it shouldn't be your responsibility to remove yourself from that situation, as you did not put yourself into it, but I think most would agree that the right course of action is to deal with it yourself anyways.

I am not suggesting that the responsibility falls solely on women or minorities to deal with their own problems at all, but I am suggesting that they should take some agency of their own.
Can you please provide more detail as to what attack vectors you forsee being a problem? I want to be conscientious of security concerns, but I legitimately can't think of a scenario that would make what I'm doing genuinely unsafe.

This machine:

• Is connected to the internet.

• Is behind a router. All incoming ports are closed, except one for ssh. (An updated SSH binary has been installed via Macports.)

• Runs Little Snitch, so I can monitor what data gets sent out of my machine.

• Is running an up-to-date copy of Firefox.

• Has all important data backed up to cold storage regularly.

I consider any application I install locally to be trusted code, so the only source of untrusted code is the Javascript that I run inside of Firefox, which is up to date.

Some attack scenarios I can imagine:

1. There's a Firefox zero day. My vulnerable OS does not offer the extra layers of protection that a newer one might.

2. Someone exploits Spectre/Meltdown/etc via Javascript. My attacker is incredibly lucky, and the tiny portion of memory they retrieve just so happens to be the bit that contains something vital, like my master password.

3. Someone emails me a malicious image, which isn't caught by Gmail (personal accounts) or Microsoft Exchange (work account), and infects my machine when it's rendered by Apple Mail.

4. A person I know/trust is tricked into sending me an infected document, likely a PDF or MS Office file. Even though I don't have Acrobat or Microsoft Office installed, the vulnerability is compatible with Preview or iWork '09.

I'm not a particularly important person, so I think I'm more likely to die in a plane crash than get hit by 1 or 2. The latter two scenarios are maybe a bit more concerning, but not to the point where I consider them real threats. Particularly given that I also have cold data backups and Little Snitch.
Alternatively, with a simple SDR you could create a network of small tranceivers around town and for a fee have them ping cell towers with your IMEI in a realistic fashion.
Only that still isn’t it.
The Seattle Times article is more clear whats going on:
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-e...

After analysis of lightning strikes, it was determined that the probability of strikes in some areas of the wing were overestimated. The design of the aircraft was adjusted to reflect that and Boeing seeked approval from the FAA which wanted more analysis of the probability.

It must be fun to be an statistician for these people, with all the second guessing going on.
I will say, Windows 95 was pretty great, I identify with the Microsoft customer in the hero image. I'm gathering notes to write a GUI toolkit which only makes well-formed Windows 95-style UIs.
No. I don’t think it’s because of POTUS. I think it’s because there are a large number of men with mommy issues.

Thoughts?
"Another human species". Europeans are part Neanderthal, so it's not another species, just some of our ancestors.
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Great, more crossing-breeding with untested species we aren't used to ingesting. I wonder what weird and wonderful food allergies we'll be able to enjoy now?
Agreed, and it's a shame Australia became a place that cannot be trusted to maintain valid encryption.
i think the tl;dr here is that we have a bunch of tech debt, and we’re not working on the things that you think we should be working on, and that we undervalue your input and should delegate to you rather than discussing specifics.

i’m afraid that nobody is going to delegate to you, but you are welcome to contribute via concrete spec proposals, which are assessed based on merits (and whose review is far from dominated by me; if they were my own proposals might move along faster than they do). if the spec process is too slow and doesn’t work for you, then feel free to spell out the proposal however you like.
Doing something bad is not okay or fine just because you are good at it and passive support by a majority is also not an indicator for whether something is okay or not. Never was and never will be.
There may be regulatory technicalities that must be sorted out. But there isn't any reason this couldn't be handled in exactly the same way as street name shares are today. Voting rights would be interesting.
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In my city, the current recommendation is to simply throw alkaline batteries in the garbage - no special disposal. Only rechargeable batteries require special disposal. This goes against what I was taught growing up, but then most recycling isn't as green as we were led to believe.
This is a typical misapplication of machine learning. It's important to realize what information can possibly be learned by a trained network. In this case, the only thing that can be learned is which components of Fourier space can be ignored for a given imaging problem. Such a question is far more rationally addressed by a deterministic algorithm, if the goal is to speed up acquisition for any specific anatomy. But to generally assume that an imaging protocol can ignore parts of frequency/phase space without generating artifacts is not only wrong, but very dangerous for patients. I can easily play with Fourier space and generate the appearance of pathological conditions that don't exist -- or disappear ones that do! Not good!
> The fields you mention made serious efforts to counter sexism.

Do you have any references on what those efforts were?
> As it is, it's a huge amount of effort to slice out these clips, upload them somewhere, figure out the plates involved, and then go through my police department's clunky incident reporting system. On the handful of times I've bothered to do it (like when I was almost creamed by someone running a red light), the response has been either nothing or "thanks but we just don't have time for that", or in one case an indication that they would be unable to charge the person unless I also had a face shot of the driver."

They're probably just sick of the cyclist who fancies himself an amateur traffic cop and want you to go away.
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Update on Carbon Capture and Storage
I have, although I seem to have mistyped it as AndOSM.
A few things:

Windows Photo Viewer: Indeed, Microsoft has had several iterations of image viewers over the years. They all have nuances and pros/cons. But in the end, not everyone was happy about the "upgrades." WPV was deprecated and articles like this showed up:
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-get-windows-photo-viewer-...

Works: Works was a free (with new PCs) entry-level office suite. MS Office is of course not free. They are completely separate product lines that happen to share some (but not all) file formats.

Cobol: I believe Visual Studio only supported Cobol starting in 2015. That's a ~20 year absence from the original.

The list shows deprecated products that didn't have a specific drop-in, straightforward upgrade path for the end-user.
If Ring cared about security they would enforce 2FA for everyone.
> op is in fact expending significant effort

And the reason I'm expending effort is because this is important to me. My computer isn't just a tool, it's where I spend a significant portion of my life.

I want Mavericks's beautiful interface in my life. That has inherent value.