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I suppose I'm tainted because I've seen one too many methodology consultants. "What you're doing now is bad...but this new way will solve all your problems.." Enter "Value Scrum" your new savior.

After almost 3 decades in software, I've come to perceive a few things about the industry and the people in it, especially the new entrants:

1) All problems begin with "how can we solve this with new software/feature/etc?" because after all, we're software people and we make software so clearly software is the answer.

2) Society believes #1. They expect that all problems are solved with software. Not only does society believe this, VCs believe this also. There is incentive to behave as #1 in the hopes that it leads to $$$.

3) Anyone not believing #1 is a detractor, or worse, a Luddite. Technology as solution is the prevailing axiom. It is Maslow's hammer. All non-believers must be purged or cancelled.

So when I read what I'll admit is an enticing article that demonstrates experience and analytical thinking by the author I'm intrigued and mostly supportive. Just like software frameworks (yes, you Javascript community) the answer to problems is always a new present solution which one day will be a future problem whether it be tech or tech inspired methodology. Tech first problem solving usually always leads here.

I was reminded of this book when reading the article. Many patterns of org behavior are well described here:
https://www.amazon.com/Organizational-Patterns-Agile-Softwar...

I was also struck by an adaption of a statement I read once about XML. The adaptation follows: "Agile is like violence, if it isn't working you're not using enough of it."

So what does this mean, abandon all tech? No. It means, apply critical thinking. Let dissent be ok. Do the things the article suggests. You don't need training, or a seminar or a consultant. And if the leadership wants to do something you can't fully engage in, find something else to do. Don't waste your life.
Map of the closest countries to Madagascar along a straight line
I'm curious to the particulars (I have no opinion on the technical merits of Microsoft's offering as I've never tried it). What specifically does it do better?
I think it's stupid as hell to have to convince anyone that nazis are worth punching, but whatever, I'll give you one response and leave it.

1) IDK, start with anyone who says they're a nazi. There are tons of people who are openly fascist, white supremacists. No need to worry about grey lines, plenty of punching to go around. If you really want to push the boundaries, go for people who are openly hateful towards minority groups - it's usually not subtle. Punch away, totally ethical.

2) Up to you, it's your punch.

> Is there a continuum between nazi and non-nazi?

Sure but who cares? There may be a continuum but there's also huge parts of the spectrum that are extremely clear cut. Hitler falls in the continuum of nazis, and it's hardly a grey area simply by virtue of being gradient.

> Also how many punches is being a nazi worth?

IDK, depends on the nazi, and how many punches it takes to accomplish what you set out to do.

> do I become a nazi if I stop punching nazis?

Again, your call. It's really weird to me that you have such a hard time with this. You position this like there's tons of moral ambiguity, but I find it extremely concerning that you have a hard time determining who is and is not a nazi. The people who run around with swastikas and want to kill minority groups? They're the nazis buddy, don't worry about whatever weird grey area you've got concocted. When in doubt, feel free not to punch - it's that easy! When they're definitely a nazi, as so many are, and so obviously so, do your thing!

> To me you are literally the most dangerous person in term of risk of an authoritarian regime.

Weird, to me it's the nazis, since like, they advocate for fascism and genocide. Whereas I just feel it's ethical to punch genocidal fascists. Seems like one of us should be a lot scarier than the other

Anyway, I'm sorry you have such a weak ethical compass that somehow "nazis are bad" is a big deep scary question for you.

P.S. If you think the people punching nazis started the violence, I'd recommend reading up!
it would more likely be that one of their systems being down would cause this ;)
You could send a small message enquiring about compensation and update the posts as you get that information. If someone replies with “it depends”, you can mention your website and ask if they can at least give a range (they should get more replies that way) or just put “to be determined”.
It's partially modern web frameworks, too. I happened to load up the web version of Slack on a Core 2 Duo running at 2.2 GHz today, and it was unusable. By comparison, I remember using AIM via Meebo (remember that site?) on dial-up back in the late 2000's, on a Pentium 166 MHz laptop. It wasn't exactly snappy, but it was better than Slack was today on a 2 GHz laptop with 500 times the bandwidth and a fraction of the latency.

It probably would have been even better if I'd been using a native AIM client instead of Meebo, but I'm amazed by how inefficient some modern websites are.
Dictionaries are a form of consensus, a descriptive consensus rather than normative. In particular the usage of a dictionary (eg in law) is to justify your choices of wording.

In a sense the power of a dictionary is that you are allowed to use those meanings (indeed they mostly contain positive information and rarely what words do not mean)

> If you description was actually accurate, there would be no new slang (e.g. yeet)

Completeness ad accuracy are different.

> words would not change their usage (e.g. "they" is now also a gender neutral singular)

Speech can be sometimes accurate and sometimes less accurate. As a medium the value of speech is what you can express with it, it is in general not a form of art per se.

>> In one case I am declaring that something needs to be true, in the other I am declaring that I believe something as true.

>Those are not as different as you seem to believe.

I indeed believe they are quite different, 2=2 must be true in terms of the statements I understand it to be. Evolution on the other hand is something that I simply believe.

I cannot even fathom[1] what a proof of "not 2=2" could be, as in even if you had one I would be unable to understand it or believe it.

Evolution is something that instead can be disproven, even more than that a huge chunk of why scientist believe it is because experimental result could disprove it but instead keep confirming it.

[1] this is an important logical concept: for a statement of facts to be (at the very least) well formed you must be able to understand what it would be required for a proof and/or a confutation.
John Stewart Used White-Hat Hacker Analogy for Trump
John always blows me away. he actually uses the `White-Hat` Hacker analogy i've always used:

"But in a way, Donald Trump’s presidency has been a positive, because it shows that American democratic exceptionalism is not a birthright. He’s like a white-hat hacker. You go: ‘‘I think we’ve done a great job of building a safeguarded system. Could you test the vulnerabilities?’’ The hacker goes — boop, boop, boop — ‘‘I’m in through the back door, and I stole all your information.’’ With Donald Trump it’s like: ‘‘We have a very fair and impartial judiciary. What do you think, Donald?” He goes — boop, boop, boop — ‘‘Actually, if I move some people around, I can turn it into a corrupt partisan affair.’’ "

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/15/magazine/jon-stewart-interview.html\
If you're building on AWS properly, your usage scales with demand. So a huge bill should mean you have huge demand.
How do people get digitalattack map to show today? I can only see yesterday on there and some people are posting images that say the 15th.

Either way, it's being taken out of context. There are always DDoS attacks like that. The past couple of months has had constant traffic on their timeline.
It's not useful to assume free will doesn't exist for this very reason. All debates are moot. Democracy is moot.
I hear this a lot, but I rarely see any data or evidence to back this up.

The company I work for used to have most of its revenue come from VC-backed startups. Over time that changed as we courted more well-capitalized enterprises. If our VC-backed-startup customers all went bankrupt tomorrow, it would certainly hurt, but it wouldn't kill us, not by a long shot.

I would expect that to be even more true for a product like AWS, not less.
Somehow people forgot that "micro" was part of "micro aggressions". When you are in a comfortable space where macro aggressions are absent, it's worth looking at micro agressions.

I'd rather GitHub keep "master" and have a onhover tooltip in the web UI showing a quote of the day about modern slavery or racism and linking to a way to take action.
Ah man, excellent! The one thing I'm really missing in my current finance workflow is accidentally turning my money column into text and never being able to revert it!
The biggest bottleneck in RPi performance has always been the slow SD card access times. I have hardware from the Pi 3 era that still flies because they run off SSDs.
In other words, they are implicitly telling us that we should archive their entire site... although I suspect the IA has already done so.

The only thing really bad about Flash was the security, but otherwise it is an extremely efficient vector/animation format that AFAIK none of the "open standards" have managed to come close to. Seeing Flash disappear, only to be replaced by SVG (yuck!), JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, was extremely disturbing.

(I have written a SWF to PDF converter. Parsing the format itself is quite straightforward, I could've probably written most of a player if I went further and added the interactive stuff too.)
When I was deciding between Nix and Guix, perhaps 5 years ago, I definitely got the impression that Nix had more contributors and the more comprehensive package set, which is one reason why I ultimately decided on NixOS. I couldn't say which was more up-to-date, but, well, anything not up-to-date is an excuse for me to contribute :)

That being said, at the time I had wanted to choose Guix over Nix. The channels seemed a bit better thought-out and grafts sounded like a good idea.

Not having a lisp background though, it was just easier for me to get into Nix.
Did you happen to be there for Adobe's "premium licensing" debacle? I'd like to know exactly what the execs were thinking trying to charge Unity developers for something the web could already do (WebGL + emscripten).
Fines that are not income/wealth dependent are discriminating against those with less money, whom are overrepresented, and should thus logically be forbidden in a functioning democracy. I guess little proper functioning democracies according to my standards.

Good point.
I was responding to a comment which said:

> The GOP controls the Executive branch and half of the Legislative--2/3 of the lawmaking machinery of the federal government.

You're right that it is misleading (and potentially dangerous) to think of the Executive branch as part of the "lawmaking machinery of the federal government", but there is such a thing as a presidential veto, so it's not like the Electoral College is completely irrelevant in terms of Congress's power to create legislation.
Don't have an article on hand :/ just something that I've played around over with over time.

Which part is confusing? Maybe I can try to clarify/give examples where helpful.
The Philippines is one of Facebook's Internet.org countries where any link tapped on Facebook isn't charged against your phone's load/balance. (the country is largely pre-paid accounts and balances)
More importantly, Netflix is using AI and data to determine where to invest next in acquiring content or producing original content.
There is another post on the front of HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23532560

The detective work there says it was a technical glitch as opposed to the conspiracy theories making rounds.
I work in an organization where people prefer “on prem” solutions that they have complete control over. Unless there’s a legal injunction or law, I can’t imagine how much of a pain this is going to be to argue.
Security, the fact that it was a closed standard, touchscreen support, battery life... most of the issues brought up by Steve Jobs are still valid: https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
I agree and just want to add IAM to the list of AWS Lock In services. We provisions environments almost entirely using Config-as-code tools (packer, ansible, terraform) and generally have a good blueprint for what an environment looks like and the parts I’ve had the hardest time thinking about migrating to another cloud provider is all the IAM rules that magically give hosts/services the ability to talk to other services.
It's not so much they think they can get away with it as the dehumanization is sufficient to override their moral apprehensions.
Why don’t you peruse the elected members of the UN Human Rights Council and get back to us on who is seen as ‘human rights violations’.
I tweet every time I spend money
Widespread outages reported by US telecom, likely not a DDoS
My copy of the Holy Bible has several sections about conquering and enslaving foreign nations (ethnic groups).

Obviously, "scientific racism" didn't exist before "science".
I miss rethinkdb. I loved their approach and their tooling.
The confusion here might be around the term "self-signed". Technically, all roots are self-signed—that's the definition of a root CA!—but in this case the user just means "self-signed" as in "signed by me, not signed by some commercial third party". "Self-signed certificates", though, usually refer to certificates with no PKI chain: the device created a single certificate, signed it with its own key, and then just distributes it to create trust without the usual hierarchy of a PKI.

The attack on that latter system is that you as the client have no basis on which to trust that cert when its first presented. So an attacker who can intercept that first presentation of the certificate and replace it can MITM the traffic flow without you knowing. Worse, most devs "fix" that initial trust problem by telling the client not to validate the cert when its presented (because they wouldn't have any basis for doing that anyway), so an attacker is free to inject their own cert into the traffic at any time.

Using an actual private PKI hierarchy helps fix this: you create a root, and get your clients to trust only that root. Now you can issue your own certs, and an attacker can't MITM the traffic unless they can get their own cert from your CA. That's the same model as is used with commercial CAs: you're just operating the root of the chain yourself instead of paying someone else to do it.
> We had all kinds of downtimes due to AWS over the years.

No, you just had downtime, full stop. Failures are inevitable, regardless of whose datacenter you're using. Failure-tolerant architecture design minimizes (or eliminates, if you're lucky) the downtime caused by failures. I'm not saying that's easy or necessarily appropriate depending on the stage of your company, but foisting responsibility onto AWS is missing the point.
I believe it was mainly legal issues that the community, with their obsession with the purity of open-source, didn't want to accept contributions from those who had done any RE'ing of the official implementation.

The SWF format itself is tiny in comparison to the web standards like HTML, JS, or CSS.
Last year somebody posted this [1] right here in HN. Speaking about being mind blown.

[1] https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28760/neon-genesis-evangelion
> I think ICE needs reforms, but I don't believe a pressure should be put on them to impose changes

I'm in one of those weird moods where I want to see if I can argue something that sounds weird at first. If that's not your thing just ignore this post.

Putting pressure on ICE isn't going to change anything. Institutions cannot be trusted to reform themselves. In fact, it's going to be worse than doing nothing. The people involved will feel like they have "done their part" and will do fewer useful things in the future than they would have otherwise, mostly because they wasted their time on this thing.

Pressure has to be put on congress to reform ICE. Anything that distracts from that, or makes people feel a sense of accomplishment without furthering that goal is worse than useless.
Do you have a Physics background by any chance? Anyway, I believe the module might be named after the mathematician, not the number system called after the same mathematician.

Regardless the name Grassman is tied to exterior algebras (and therefore geometric algebras), which are implemented by this library and which can be used to solve matrix equations (although I couldn't recommend using the geometric algebra approach for higher dimensions, unless you can do so symbolically).
Putting Covid-19 Traffic Growth into Perspective
Since this is dBase file format, does this mean shapefiles can do more than alternative formats, like geoJSON?
Paragraph 18 [1] mentions Executive 1 being upset about an Apr 10th article [2] on their compensation.

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/465728291/FBI-Affidavit-agai...

[2] https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2019/4/155...
You are right, that is a much much better cartoon as a reply! If it had been in my faulty memory banks...

(and I agreee - the first dilbert cartoon is super contrived)
Building Trust in Digital Policing: A Scoping Review of Community Policing App
Already discussed, with over 150 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23529035
DDOS Attack apparently.
https://twitter.com/OutageAlert2020/status/12726387880119951...
To suggest that Github “can’t” end this contract is crazy talk. If a huge chunk of the company won’t do it, they must end the project.
Model 3 motors could handle it. It’s what they swapped out the front motors on the S and X Raven powertrains for.
A computer programmer can change programming terminology. They can't really change police department practices.
I use 1Password 2FA everywhere I can and choose services specifically for that reason. I just switched cell providers today because Verizon didn’t offer it. I don’t have influence over my employers IT though.
I think you are restating my point.
There Are at Least 36 Intelligent Alien Civilizations in Our Galaxy
More than $100 billion after you have invented 100T magnets is how I read it. So a hella lot more expensive than 100G$.
Cell manufacturing is currently the limit, especially for utility storage (which Musk said demand for is tremendous on the last earnings call), but Tesla has a new battery partner (China based CATL) that has the capacity necessary for the Class 8 Semi project.
The assymetric geometry brings back memories. Trying to tie a stack of bricks together with a "girder" vertical across connected with the pegs!

I guess there's upsides and down. I think what bugs me is each brick before was more variable. You could build a corner if you needed to. Agreed not nearly as structurally sound thoughm
I'm surprised we haven't seen more Balkanization of services. When IBM and others announced they're not selling facial recognition technology to governments, I have to imagine there are companies who are absolutely willing to. Maybe this is happening already and I am not informed.

Also this for social media like Facebook and Twitter.
50 years from now, historians will say...

Amazon's online store was basically an incubator that allowed the company to pivot to its real profit center: virtualized online services for startups and companies seeking to move to the cloud.
Hadn't heard of their new OS - interesting.
Ive always wanted Synology to license their OS out as their hardware is all low power stuff and useless for virtualisation.
Looking at the affidavit [1], Executive 1 is definitely the ex-CEO.

> "On April 10, 2019... Executive 2 texted Executive 1... sending along a link to the Newsletter’s coverage that day [2] of Executive 1's compensation".

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/465728291/FBI-Affidavit-agai...

[2] https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2019/4/155...
I blame the school system which somehow convinced some people that dropping accents from capital letters is okay. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

In uni, for the typography class, the learning material had a nice capital "PALAIS DE CONGRES" on the first page, suggesting a building full of eels.
“Creed” [0] is a protected class and it will be interesting to see a legal determination if this is discrimination based on the creed of the organization. Namely, carrying out its congressional mandate.

I think that social constructs could be discriminated against based on race, religion, sex, etc if it was discriminated against because its members were part of a protected class.

[0] https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/8686/what-is-a-creed...
Former eBay executives charged with cyberstalking
Prototype Mobility Platform?

Percussive Maintenance Phone?

Pimp My Pandemic?
Is this more ammunition for Amazon to use in the JEDI contract battle?
This is top comment material.
I don’t see the problem here, just have reasonable defaults. (e.g. port 80,443, perhaps deny private networks by default)
And? You're not responding to anything the parent said, you're just spouting Marxist dogma.
Could enthusiasts not form a non profit entity to receive accreditation and delegate access?
As someone who bet his startup in 2000 on Postgres (with little experience at the time) and registered on HN just to praise Tom Lane for being exceptionally helpful and forthcoming on the mailing lists, I enjoyed this but don't think it's very relevant to Postgres' success in the past 20-odd years - that was entirely due to a few good people who had the right priorities and made good decisions without drama and without being overly opinionated. A very notable exception in the world of open source...
What would those many libraries offer, deserving switching from SJCL? I particularly like the size of the library; having said that, there could be some more important features.
Basics of Pneumatic Logic
I'd rather pay for GCP to be honest.

There's just no way I'm going to trust workloads on their cloud to run with anything close in reliably or security. They are behind the big 3 and have a harder time getting the same quality engineers. Seems like a bad bet from our point of view.
Thats fantastic! I've been wanting to do something like that on my own with a Pi-Phone or use limbo.
This drives me mad. I have no idea why Amazon even bothers with the retail side. It barely pays for itself, they are already the biggest player by a mile, and there is no horizon in which economies of scale start paying off (the uptick of demand from Covid probably lost them money!)

The only thing that makes sense to me is some political long play. The Amazon retail operation employs a lot more people in a lot more places than just the coast. I think leadership has realized they need to be seen as a job creator by politicians in order to join the "big boy industry" club. Which is why Amazon doesn't mind paying their warehouse workers more than all the other guys.

To that end, the Amazon.com is just a giant, self-funded employment program designed to make Amazon a bigger company.
Spot on, because the rebuilding process stresses drives that are likely as old as the one that failed
I don't think the password managers do, for master passwords. So if you ever consider it, you can set your master password to a strong one generated here and let the pw manager generate those 30 char random strings that fill all of the requirements for the other sites.
Sounds like a good outcome.

VCs need to have a chance of "returning the fund". If they are investing out of a $200m fund, and they own 15% of your company at exit after 5 years and subsequent dilution, that 15% has to have a chance of being worth $200m.

Otherwise the math does't work.
Hacker News needs a "Flag As 'This Is Going To Be The Next Dropbox Comment, Isn't It'" button