- That has been the case for a long time, and I guess something about the current generation of parents has gotten them to act more on it. My dad came from a very religious family and they all did private religious schools for their early grade school years. Then they went to public for high school years.
If I had to guess, its maybe something about the demise of church life that has gotten religious parents to just pull back entirely. It wasn't that uncommon for public schools to make nods toward Christian ideals/lifestyles before like the 90s, but now that stuff just doesn't happen anymore.
- I'd disagree, they're not mutually exclusive.
- Anyone in law enforcement for long enough, and I'd probably say something like 5-10 years on the beat, is enough to make many apathetic to rights and dignities. A sad reality unfortunately. Its the same vein of salespeople who get so caught-up in the hustle they that see everyone and every relationship as a potential transaction. And if I'm being introspective, my own flaw of seeing most systems/laws/social contracts as problems that can be solved with tinkering (they can't).
- I'd go a little further to say that he believes the government has the authority to do what it needs to do to catch criminals/terrorists/bad guys. He's much more concerned over whether a method is technically legal than whether or not the government should do said method. Whether its a properly signed warrant is kind of immaterial when there are various ways to get around that requirement legally and with precedent.
- I have deep disagreements with my father on this subject. He worked as a federal agent for 30 years, mostly in digital forensics. He does not believe in the right to privacy in any of the same ways I do. Whereas I believe a right to privacy in your tools and communication is essential, he believes they infringe on the government's ability to catch criminals. Classic justification of "if you're not a bad guy, what do you have to hide?"
I just thought this was worth sharing, my dad was a tech guy (though not much of a programmer), the folks on HackerNews and related sites mostly have a privacy-first worldview. But not everyone shares this view, especially those who work in or around law enforcement. Civilians who believe in the right to privacy must stand their ground in the face of this.
- After using agentic models and workflows recently, I think these agents belong in both roles. Even more than that, they should be involved in the management tasks too. The developer becomes more of an overseer. You're overseeing the planning of a task - writing prompts, distilling the scope of the task down. You're overseeing writing the tests. And you're overseeing writing out the code. Its a ton of reviewing, but I've always felt more in control as a red team type myself making sure things don't break.
- The worst offender of giving my secrets away is still myself sadly.
- I haven't seen a lot of progress on it, but I would definitely jump on whatever device lets me not have this chunky block in my pocket all the time. The concept I saw years ago was like a slap bracelet that you could remove from your wrist and unwrap into a tablet form-factor.
- Entirety seems a little extreme. Maybe gradually they could get there as society and technology changes. But yes changing large areas to pedestrian-only seems totally doable to me in NYC.
- Additionally all those emergency vehicles are going to have an easier time shuttling patients to hospitals and firefighters to fires. The whole spectrum benefits from that, not just the rich.
- For some of us that's a plus!
- I read enough to trust that the writer dug very very deep on this. I was thinking early on "oh yea, probably just an error of the script getting to production and then a producer making a call as they switched locations", indeed it was something like that, but the writer here got down to the exact timeline of events, rewrites and script reads involved, etc. Even for someone like myself who is obsessed with BOTH birds and filmmaking, this is getting a little too deep, but I appreciate the effort!
- I think that loyalty counts when the decision-makers are more localized. People who show up and demonstrate that they care will generally get the bonuses from their direct managers or higher up managers who recognize the effort (because it happened to cross their path somehow). But these monetary decisions are more and more just calculations on a spreadsheet - here's your 3% annual pay increase and we can allocate 10% of the workforce gets a larger raise to ensure 80% retention. When the layoffs come it has nothing to do loyalty and often has little to do with competence in the role. Hopefully the guy with the spreadsheet is considering whether they can continue to run the business with certain individuals or not, but I don't think it ever gets that granular. This is the MBA era of business.
- Right, but society changes around this stuff pretty substantially. A lot of the discourse gets spent debating whether we like the changes or not, and the solutions to the new problems are usually very pie-in-the-sky or completely unachievable. Like we can't really put the social media genie back in the bottle, its here and society has reshaped around it. But banning phones from schools is pretty tangible and I'd probably argue its for the betterment of students.
- Yea, well I would consider it that in the sense that it seems like a mix of his personal interests, history, and promotion of stuff he cares about (his biography and foundation and various projects he's on). Its a unique site because he has the cash to hire people who put a great UX experience on top of it all. I think that's the main difference.
Not that he's unique in this, but I do really appreciate his book lists. I usually grab a few books during the year based on his recommendations.
- > In the end, I got enough of the cyber ick, I decided to seek a simpler, less internet-connected solution to my temperature-controlled bed needs.
Great line. And my eyes bugged out a little at this part as I also realized what the implications were:
> - They can know when you sleep
> - They can detect when there are 2 people sleeping in the bed instead of 1
> - They can know when it’s night, and no people are in the bed
I have a more pragmatic question. Do any consumer publications do security reviews for products? I'm thinking like consumer reports and how they should probably publish if a product is a security nightmare or not. At the end of the day you still need people publish this stuff out and for social media to spread to consumers to beware, but maybe a magazine type of publication could take on part of that responsibility.
- That's a nice throwback. Totally different subject matter but Matt Levine of Money Stuff on Bloomberg also continues to do that.
- Doesn't work in what sense though?
- What would lead me to assume that at this point?
I still think the central issue is the economy. There are more seniors available to fill roles, so filling out junior roles is less desirable. And perhaps "replacing juniors with AI" is just the industry's way of clumsily saving face.