skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A common argument (that you also make) is that if you're on the inside, you obviously know better than those on the outside. There's a lot of reasons to believe that isn't true.

First, you may not have the right training (e.g., media studies, media economics, privacy). Second, you favor your coworkers because they are your friends. Third, the positive news and justified criticism of external critics is widely shared internally, but the points that are appropriately critical are much less shared. A single flawed external article can lead to defensiveness, making it that much easier to dismiss tens of other appropriate articles.

More poetically, it's like the Three Blind Men and elephant. The conviction of the blind men is so great, but their closeness leads to a misplaced confidence that they know the answer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

I call this effect the "truth distortion field," and liken it to the Facebook friend filter bubble:

https://www.nemil.com/tdf/part1-employees.html
Having the secret only exist on a single phone is the most secure, but keeping a backup of the secret for recovery if you lose the phone only lowers security a negligible amount if you are careful about it.

If it is an account you set up from home, probably the simplest thing to do is print the setup page before you scan the QR code for the secret. Even better, print the page, and then scan that QR code from the printout. Then store the printout where you keep other important papers (e.g., mine would go in my fire proof safe).

Another possibility is to scan the code on two devices. I scan on both my iPhone and my iPad. Nearly all realistic scenarios that involve me losing both of those at near the same time also involve me dying.
The company meals are productivity enhancing:

- employees stay on site and so they take shorter lunch breaks

- they are likely to eat with other employees and talk shop

- it does help recruit and keep good employees. If the firm you are thinking of moving to doesn't provide lunch, that's one more friction point: new commute, possibly new schedule, now you have to figure out what you will do for lunch after you have grown accustomed to such an easy solution.

Note how that last point seems to resonate closely with the author's point since his Ithaca is apparently about leaving your job and starting a startup... or something? It's not clear what his Ithaca is.

His skipping lunch is an exercise in asceticism that I think he is hoping will serve some higher purpose later. But at the end of the day I think he's just not satisfied where he is and would rather work somewhere else. Other than "moving to San Francisco" he doesn't mention any job changes. So I think that's his problem. And if you're not happy somewhere, free lunch is not going to stop you from leaving.
Well, there are references of "Open source" being in use earlier; for example:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.ms-windows.pro...

http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/fall96/0269.html

Especially that Caldera one seems pretty high profile.

"Open source" has always been used as a generic term, because it's a very descriptive adjective+noun one. Trying to reserve such terms for one particular narrow usage seems like an fools' errand to me, which is why these discussion are being held all the time.
Also don't forget that Rafael Reif was responsible for orchestrating the massive coverup of fraud at MIT Lincoln Laboratory regarding Ted Postol's allegations of fraudulent missile defense tests:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401412/postol-vs-the-pent....

If the Department of Defense had not punted on the investigation, then provost Rafael Reif and his supervisor president Susan Hockfield would be serving time in a federal penitentiary with former dean of MIT Sloan School of Management Gabriel Bitran

https://money.cnn.com/2014/08/12/investing/mit-professor-sca....

instead of sending thank-you notes to one of the most depraved child molesters of the 20th century.

Shame on Rafael Reif and Susan Hockfield!
I think one thing you're getting at is this idea that all players can make locally optimal choices which result in a globally non-optimal solution. I.e. uber drivers could individually want to drive uber rather than work a 9/5 retail job, but all of them would have been better off unionizing or something.

The other thing sounds like "this policy is good for me personally so I'll support it", which is at least honest.
I think it's important to note that he describes a functional alcoholic. He seems to be managing his responsibilities and dependents without egregious carelessness.

This is distinction is important to note so friends and families can identify regressions earlier and thus better manage the resulting behaviors. I don't support strict abstinence or the 12 stepsbut every addict needs a system thatcatches them well before their live disintegrates. By recognizing when someone is slipping from casual use into binges and benders we can all save lives, money, time, and relationships.
I'm just amazed he was stupid enough to not understand that his texts, messages and devices are compromised.
> why would all the missiles be launched towards everywhere?

Because that's the way nuclear deterrent theory works.

If you collapse the game theory calculus down, it turns into "Any technology or action that makes it less likely an adversary will respond with an unacceptable counterstrike on me makes it more likely that I will consider a first strike a viable option."

Examples of technologies or activities with this result: missile defense, hypersonic reentry vehicles, hard target capable systems, smaller / tactical-sized warheads, launch site or attacker obfuscation.

Raising the likelihood that in the event anything happens to me I will ensure an unacceptable number of nukes are delivered to your country is one of the easier ways of ensuring deterrence and making the entire business unpalatable.

Nobody wants to destroy the world. But it's in everyone's interest to make everyone else think they're absolutely willing-to and capable-of, in the event they're strategically attacked.
I'm not a spy or imaginative enough to lay out a scenario, but remember if someone has a security clearance, then someone, who is assumed to be the Chinese government, likely has their entire file (clearance investigation, fingerprints, you name it) due to the Office of Personnel Management having everything stolen. So this could be used in synergy with any other tactics applied to CIA agents who aren't compromised by the OPM or people without clearances.
Farm work much of the time is ephemeral. There is a small window for goods to be picked. There is a small window for the tractors to be up kept post or pre harvest/planting.
And, as others have said it can be a paper money transaction business.
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I had an issue on my Windows computer with some UTF-something text displaying as Chinese characters a while back...
As someone that's tried aa meetings and found sobriety through other means I want to echo that finding people with your story and your struggles is one of the keys to recovery. I didn't find these people in the aa meetings I went. Or on therapists couches. I still haven't really found my people, but I have found that I'm not alone in my struggles and that I cannot escape through substance abuse. This was my turning point in allowing me to reign in my substance use. Did it solve any of the problems I had before? No. But I've got one less problem now.
I’m no fan of what Trump did. But after a lot of sabre rattling and threats against the US, Iran holds a state funeral where innocent Iranians get crushed to death, launches a token missile strike, then incinerates a bunch of innocent Iranians by accident. How many own goals can you kick in one week?
> Who wants to destroy the world and why wouldn't they have done it already?

Who wants to shoot down a civilian airliner and why wouldn't they have done it already?

It's not about the desire to destroy humanity. It's about the catastrophic scenarios that can arise when nuclear armed countries think they're under nuclear attack and start getting jumpy about counter strikes or even pre-emptive strikes. The only sensible strategy is, basically, to Launch All The Things and wipe out your enemy before they can do the same.
Social media fanatism or outrage hardly reflects the market as a whole.
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There are still family farms BUT they are farms where you have multiple people in the family that have gone to university, even have masters, phd, law degrees, business degrees.

They don't treat it as a family farm anymore. What people used to call a family farm year/decades ago is now more likely classified as a hobby farm.
Full-year sabbatical is the norm, but the home institution does not necessarily offer salary for that full year, so it's up to the professor to find funding for the rest of it from the host or some grant. According to their web site[1], MIT pays salary for half of the sabbatical year, leaving Lloyd to raise the other half himself. 125k sounds to me like a believable half-year salary for a full professor at MIT.

1: https://vpf.mit.edu/300-sabbaticals
Apache Kafka's documentation is pretty good, too: https://kafka.apache.org/0102/documentation.html

Also, for a 10,000 foot overview of popular open-source tools, see https://aosabook.org
To some people, beer is food. It's not pretty to watch them rot away with malnutrition. In one company I worked, we were instructed to watch one guy come with us for lunch. If we didn't, he'd slink away with a few beers for lunch.
I meant for the services currently relying on SMS for account recovery... for example, how should you recover your gmail account if you lose access?
How do you recover your google voice account if you lose that?
If a strike aircraft were that close to a sensitive military installation (by accounts: missile R&D facility) then it could launch weapons at any second.

There likely wasn't "human-scale" time to confirm identity. And specifically against a US adversary with stealth technology, it would make sense to have automated air defense systems on a hair trigger and human air defense systems with extremely liberal RoE.

What seems like it should have happened is that the international airport grounded all outbound traffic and parked all non-emergency inbound traffic in holding, until such time as Iranian air defenses could relax their posture to guarantee safety.
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Huge fan of bottle. I use it for a lot of things.
what's the blowback that you envision? maybe one of his investors will say "you used to be an alcoholic so we're pulling funding"?
It would be interesting to see what you're saving on each tool and why they beat free alternatives. I think the only one that doesn't have a compelling free option is getresponse but there's sendfox for email that does the job well.
I am an Uber Driver. I have been wanting changes like this ever since I started driving. I saw people asking, 'how does this make drivers less employee like?' I'll tell you this. It makes us feel less like employees when we actually have enough information to choose whether or not we want to take a ride. Now we will be able to see the estimated fare before we take a specific ride. There will be no more driving 20 minutes to a ride only to discover that it will be a half mile ride that wastes another twenty minutes at a convenience store netting us $3 for 40 minutes of our time. I will simply skip any ride like that. We feel less like employees and more like the contractors we are supposed to be when we know why Uber gets a certain percentage of the fare. I wholeheartedly agree with the changes Uber is making.
>What makes you more qualified to judge whether the public perception was accurate as compared to someone who actually worked there - an "FB vet" in your own words?

For starters, most of us here don't benefit financially from putting a positive spin on disasters at Facebook. As the Upton Sinclair saying goes, it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

I've not talked to Facebook employees personally but I've witnessed the same degree of delusion at other large tech companies. Some are straight-up like a cult with employees willing to defend just about anything their company does regardless of how hazardous it was. Which is even more baffling if one takes into consideration that these are usually salaried employees working there only for a few years with no personal stake whatsoever.

The point isn't even to discuss some sort of internal nuance about the technical details of CA. If you are a company as large as Facebook and you allow user data to be abused to this degree, even if there is some nuance to it, when facing the public you apologize, tuck your tail between your legs, admit that you screwed up, and fix your problems, and you turn the arrogance and the world saving rhetoric down a notch.
I wish more people understood the limitations of markets (just as I wish more people understood the power of markets). Markets only work well with with price/quality transparency, enough competition, substitutability... everything that healthcare in America lacks.

As far as market mechanics in healthcare, Singapore has the closest thing to market mechanics in healthcare (albeit heavily subsidized and regulated): https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/25/15356118/s...

> What Singapore shows is that unusual fusions of conservative and liberal ideas in health care really are possible. Singapore is a place where the government acts to keep costs low and then uses those low costs to make a market-driven insurance system possible.
Oh, I understand - I lived 25 years, until recently, in bushfire country in Victoria.
As unfortunate as it was, one incident ≠ "a history."
This would be a nice solution for giving your family access after death too.

They can meet at the funeral to assemble your horcruxes.
This is what scares me. That life springs up all around us in our galaxy, and promptly 'F's it up before we even discover radio communications. So, if we ever find life, say on a Jovian moon, we've just increased the odds that there have been intelligent life... that just wasn't intelligent to not knock each other out.
In the late 1990s "everyone" was doing so -- and then a nonzero percentage of "everyone" went to jail for it. By 2005 people were on notice.
Thank you. it is mine. how can I get companies to pay me for this?
AB5 aside, I am all for giving drivers greater latitude at refusing rides. The abuses some drivers got from the riders are sickening.
They denied it at first, yes. But they were also surprisingly open to allowing foreign investigators on site. They even agreed to give the black boxes over to the Ukrainians.

If they were trying to hide something I feel like they would have handled it much differently. Like, for instance how the Russian-backed forces acted when they did the same thing in 2014. Deny, deflect, deny, repeat.

The truth would have come out eventually in Iran. Video or not. After all, this incident happened over a populated area with the worlds best intelligence apparatus laser focused on it.
What do non-human mammalian species have to do with anything? Few things vary across species more than sexual behavior. Even chimps and bonobos (very closely related, same genus) have wildly different gender roles, sexual/mating patterns, etc.

It makes no sense at all to invoke the entire of mammalia.
>I have amazing executive control (I have suffered incredible emotional and physical pain over the last decade but I have never shed a tear in that time.

not to offend, but that doesn't define executive control to me. Generally it's not unhealthy to cry during emotionally turbulent episodes in your life; it's (crying) a method by which you're controlling your stress. Those i've met that don't cry tend to have longer periods between emotional 'episodes', but tend to act out much more aggressively. I tend to think that the supression of emotions does little to satisfy our need to express them, it just puts them on the backburner until they finally boil over much more violently than normal.

Another point, by which i'm not trying to offend you personally : is it healthy to villanize alcohol? It seems that would take the responsibility away from your father, when in reality he's the one who abused a substance that plenty of people can enjoy casually without issue.

I'm glad your coping with whatever methods you find that work personally, but I think that in a general sense that it is self-damaging to damn things in life based off of the experiences of others. Of course, that doesn't apply to suicidal ventures, but to avoiding common things in life.
> hey didn't want me back, but I had basically decided I'd never work there

Always stay positive! You won't work there not because you failed the interview, but because you didn't want to!

> Not even a hint of apology, remorse

He should have stood on his knees, and start crying asking for your forgiveness.

> "no one thanks us enough."

I'm 99% sure you are lying or intentionally misquoting. I cannot imagine any colleague of mine who would have said that during the interview. Because people who talk like that publicly do not survive in the company long enough. Especially, nobody would allow them doing interviews (there are shadow interviews, there is feedback from the candidate by the recruiter, a guy who talks like this wouldn't have been removed from doing interviews).

I work for Facebook.

I think CA scandal is media trash. 10 years ago the internet was very different from what it is now, more open, more friendly, safer. And Facebook worked in that environment and behaved similarly. The data stolen by CA won't help you win the election despite what the NY Times tells you.

Any anyway, poking the company over and over for the issue company solved three years before you learned about it is just stupid. It would be as stupid as poking the author of telnet for security problems caused by it.

Although I work for the company, there are tons of things I disagree with. For example, moderation is too strict and can be exploited by bad actors (causing good accounts to be banned). Or moderation forgives far left calling to crucify "white nationalists", but can ban you for a photo of machine gun or boobs. But how media covers CA scandal is just lies and over-exaggeration.

OK, now go downvote.
We live in a world where we punish for incorrectly jumping to conclusions.

But we don't punish for not stating correct conclusions when things happen.

Which seems to be a fault in the way things work.

People who go with cowardice, of lets not talk to soon, or don't speculate, or just tow official lines rule. It's why we had Weapons of Mass Destruction. It's why Science has the replication issues. It's not a small thing.
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"I read sci-fi in my moms basement and because I want it to be true it is!"

No, we can't.

So let's ingore the whole "we don't live long enough to make the trip". Because we don't.

So if we're going to go, it's a generation ship. Which is currently magic. Our MVP experiments trying to do this on earth have failed, not in space with all the crazy complications that incurs.

So there's no reason to think our meatbags can go at any price. So....

We've never built a machine that can work for a 1000 years. That's a fraction of what you need to go to another star.

So the fact that there is nothing magic about crossing these distances is exactly the reason we can't do it right now. And probably never can.
Police drones are falling from the sky when it rains, report finds
Your best bet is to find some kind of East Asian brand(Uniqlo or H&M for example but they are fast fashion tier places so I'm not actually recommending those specifically) where smalls are actually small and fit nicely on smaller frames.
And this is also "one incident".
> “Have you managed to talk to many of my friends?”

> Epstein had been supplying me the phone numbers of important scientists and financiers and media figures. “Do you understand what an extraordinary group of people they are, what they have accomplished in their fields?"

-- http://nymag.com/news/features/41826/
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They could do it dutch auction style. Suppose there are five drivers and three rides. The drivers bid per-mile rates of $.75, $1, $1.25, $1.50 and $1.75. The rides go to the three lowest bidding drivers and they all get $1.25, i.e. the highest rate of the drivers who get rides.

It gives everyone the incentive to bid their actual threshold past which they wouldn't want the ride, because if you bid too high you don't get any rides, but if you bid lower you may still get paid more than that unless bidding that low was actually necessary to get the ride. And at any given time all the riders pay the same rate as each other.
Saw this coming. Bought a car. I just drive everywhere in SF. This is great. My commute stays the same (8 min) + parking and walking time (6 mins).

As a bonus when I hang out with my friends I "can't" drink which is a nice constraint on myself.
Not just hand signed paper thank-you notes, but also Neri Oxman's artistically illuminated 3D-printed glass marble, sent as a thank-you gift for a $125,000 donation to her design lab.

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/neri-oxman-jeffrey-eps...

https://www.dezeen.com/2019/09/16/neri-oxman-mit-donations-j...

>The newspaper also reported that her lab produced "a grapefruit-sized, 3-D printed marble with a base that lit up", as a personal gift for Epstein that was delivered to his Manhattan apartment.
And down the rabbit hole we go...
In the x86 case, it's proprietary to Intel, and the blob for each generation is universal across products using that generation of CPU. That blob then loads up a standard higher-level firmware that presents a uniform environment to operating system bootloaders. ARM boards don't boot with a blob from ARM, but with a blob from the particular SoC vendor, and everything after that point is unpredictable and unstandardized.
Everything in comparison.
MH17 launch was geolocated, TEL videoed and photographed from ground and satellite. Russia is still denying it.
South Korea is also attempting it, but the Constitutional Court has blocked a complete transfer from Seoul.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejong_City

Canberra is also a created capitol.
Anti aircraft missiles are not automatically fired and any claims that they are are incorrect.

The warning system is automatic, but it is a human (in this case on heightened alert) that pulled the trigger.