skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They have also had serious quality issues.

This is not accurate. Their early models often suffer from issues, but not long term.
You keep conflating unions and professional organizations. They're not the same thing.
Is the two month delay evidence that the product is not ready now, or is it evidence that it was not ready two months ago?

(This is a rhetorical question. You don't have to answer, because the answer is self-evident.)
> identifying information for the United States government to target individuals based on race, religion, or national origin.

> to minimize the collection and retention of data that would facilitate ethnic or religious targeting.

Those are the only two instance of "target" in the text on http://neveragain.tech/. There is no context on the pledge and that's what they are asking people to sign.

Governments target individuals for a broad number of entirely valid reasons, for healthcare, social services or law enforcement. Some genetic diseases are racial or ethic - if a new genetic disease is discovered, is a national health service obligated to or discouraged from contacting members of that racial group? Scientology is a "religion" that has had a sketchy background, should we make it impossible to build a database to track members?
The census collects anonymized information, and does not use it to "target individuals". The pledge does not apply there.

People are absolutely freaking out about Google and Facebook collecting this data. I don't know why you think this (almost) isn't happening.
>Automakers have caught onto the trend and you will see more mainstream OEMs doing remote updates pretty soon.

I don't know if your serious or hopeful? To simply have the computer that controls my transmissions shifting flashed cost me over $200 at the dealership. Do you think the dealership is going to give up this revenue stream?

Could you imagine paying for every update that comes across an Android mobile or tablet?
I agree that radiation dangers are exaggerated for most things. The amount of radioactive material left over in most nuclear detonations is staggering. Most fission bombs consume only a tiny percent of their fuel and scatter the rest as particles. Unlike a simple meltdown like Chernobyl there is no container to hold this. Put another way all nuclear weapons are also immensely powerful dirty bombs.

To contrast further, I am well aware of stories of survivors in Japan, even the one survivor who is still alive (last I heard) who was thrown tens of meters twice, once per blast. He and most others only survived because of immediate medical attention and then sustained infrastructure that could not survive a doomsday scenario.

Uranium and Plutonium are some of the most dangerous materials to ingest tiny particles of and these are exactly what will be launched and scattered into all the food supplies. The radiation of being near tiny specks of dust can consume the safe dose of a person for the year and likely do nothing more than increase their chance for cancer in 30 years. Eat that same dust and die of horrible cancer and burns in a few months. It will be in all the food because we have enough warheads, as stated in my previous post, to erase most cities, the resulting damage and fallout would leave no on the planet untouched because the dust would scattered high into the upper atmosphere [1] and it will settle every where

The preposterous devastation of a total nuclear war cannot be understated and again I say that comparing it to climate change does climate change a real disservice. CO2 based climate will disrupt industry and cause wars, but it cannot exterminate humanity. The first volley in a nuclear exchange can exterminate all of humanity before the the next planting of crops. Any comparison to nuclear extinction makes it easy for climate change deniers to claim climate change is hyberbole.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_nuclear_explosions
There are plenty of examples where legal ethics or librarian ethics have conflicted with government policy.
> there are loud constituencies who are uneasy about formally allowing people to stay here while being totally content with allowing them to work here undocumented, so long as they're kept second-class.

If you have to get smuggled into a country without papers to live in this country and work for wages less than people who already live in the country, you sort of already have the expectation of being second class. Yet, people still come. It's a choice they make. It's not an easy choice, but still a choice.

> we are a nation of laws

and then

>To deport undocumented workers with children born here is to put young American citizens in the position of having to choose between losing their parents or their home country. Pointlessly.

The law is the point, as you said, we're a nation of laws.

> The due process concerns about deportation are overwhelming.

Due process is only a right guaranteed to citizens. Not quite sure what your point is.
There's no such thing as comfortable earbuds.

You wear them, they ache until your ears adjust, then it's second nature.

Assuming you wear them more than 10 minutes at a time.

I can't be the only one who used those garbage earbuds included with the game boy for years afterwards.
You asked me a personal question, so I gave you a personal answer, somewhat flippantly as I disagree with your premise.

That remark was separate from and unrelated to the actual point I've been trying to make: there is a very significant gulf between the notion of a "self-driving car" as a form of automation built into a vehicle which is still under the control and responsibility of a human driver, and the notion of a "self-driving car" which is a fully autonomous robot built in the shape of a car, that must be capable of doing something reasonable in all situations without depending on a human. The latter is a much harder problem than the former, and we don't yet know whether it can be solved in a way that yields a practical, profitable transportation system of the sort many people like to fantasize about when they discuss (for example) Google's autonomous vehicle program.
You think of this in terms of a ban, but what a professional code of ethics really does is offer cover to people who don't want to behave unethically.
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Unions aren't just about salaries, they're about resisting all sorts of unfair management bullshit. And developers may be "professionals" (that's kind of a loaded fucking word; carpenters are professionals too, and they have unions), but we are also the victims of a lot of unfair management bullshit, including unpaid on-call time and mandatory unpaid overtime (oh, but we're exempt, that makes it okay? Fuck that.)

I'm more concerned with ethics than salaries, too. Which is precisely why i think unions are important. Corporations have no ethics. Management has no ethics.
There is nothing wrong with cynical view. I have zero problems with bluetooth speakers and earbuds... yet many people find them irritating to pair and not very user friendly.

Siri sucks. Once you've spoken to Google via "Ok Google" you quickly realize how bad Siri is.

The world doesn't need Airpods. I get that you want them, but the overwhelming majority in the _world_ can not afford Airpod. I would bet that sales of Airpods will be as transparent as the iWatch... as in completely opaque.
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They define a much more narrow set of ethics. Nobody's losing their engineering license for designing missiles. You lose your license for sneaking in last minute changes in without proper review, accidentally causing missiles to explode in their launch tube.
That we are a nation of laws obviously does not mean we're a nation of ruthless, pointless enforcement of laws, or else we'd all be in prison for Harvey Silverglate's "Orange Juice" crimes.

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...
> 1) Donald Trump has called for keeping a database of Muslims, to surveil and police them.

The problem is that all that information already exists. Google and Facebook know everyone's religion (and ethnicity and so forth). And as Snowden revealed, the government can get access to those databases.

And you can be sure they already do so specifically for Muslim people, for terrorism intel purposes.

If the author of the piece were serious, we would need to start by getting Google and Facebook to remove that information. Or stop working with the government. Or stop working at those companies until they do. But the author realizes that is something people wouldn't accept, I guess, and suggests we "not help create a new database" which just a meaningless distraction.
Counter: do you think if removing the headphone jack made the product better but net cost Apple money do you think they would have done it? Of course not. It can be both.
I am french and I have been working in China (Beijing) for nearly 4 years, there is no doubt that shopping on the internet here is really convenient.

You like a product but you want to know more about it? OK, you can be in contact will the (re)seller in less than a minute without leaving the current website by using chat boxes.

My cart is ready and it's time to pay, let me grab my wallet, get my Credit card, start to type the 16 numbers... oh no, I just need to scan a QR code with my phone and it's done. I have a SMS that said everything is ok. By using a credit card, you have time to regret when you type the numbers into the form, but when you use a fast way like Wechat or Alipay you only regret and think that what you have bought is maybe useless few minutes after you paid.

The next early morning (I am not kidding, I have bought stuff at 3am and got my delivery at 9am the same day), I happily open my package but unfortunately, the size of the shoes is smaller than I thought. No problem, I call back my (re)seller and tell him to send me another pair of shoes which are a bit bigger.
Then he sends back a delivery guy anywhere I want to get my painful pair of shoes back without asking anything. Afterward, I get the new ones in the afternoon or the next day.

The package logistic in this country is just amazing but I think it's because of the road/driving regulations that are not very strict in my own opinion. If you see some of those delivery guys driving, you would get crazy.

The fact that you can pay with your phone, fast delivery, no bargain to get a replacement product might help a lot.
Did I mention that there are nearly no delivery fees?

If you have a look of taobao.com, tmall.com or jd.com, you can see that you have tons of suggestions, it's sometimes hard to only buy what you want. For example, when I ask my girlfriend to order a single new t-shirt for me, I know in the end that she will also get herself some new clothes as well. They target their customers in a very efficient way.
That's very much not the case. Consider the epic battle between librarians and John Ashcroft in the wake of 9/11, over patron privacy.
To be clear, I think it's useful to collect racial and religious information in a national census. It's been critical in enforcing civil rights and equal representation.

American institutions around freedom of religion and the right of privacy are key to keeping national censuses forces for good instead of tools for oppression. We should do whatever we can to maintain strong, healthy American institutions that protect freedom of religion.
Right, because I must be a paid shill to write about my experience that is counter to the popular opinion shared on hacker news. Look, I bought one. All I said is I don't experience the battery issues. Your accusations on me shilling is hilarious. I'm done with this thread. If you need a safe space where people won't challenge your ideas continue as is.
We have a professional organization, it's called the ACM. I've been a member of it all of my career, and no employer has ever given a shit. Why isn't it succeeding at doing what you want it to do?

I want better ethics in software as much as everyone else in this thread, and I'm putting out these comments in the hope of having people reply with concrete, realistic paths to how we can achieve it, and so far I'm not seeing it.
A xeon e5 2665 is rated at 115W thermal, so two of them at full load (let's say, calculating prime numbers) would be 230W... plus the overhead for fans, motherboard, hard drive other heat producing components in the system. I would guess that the lenovo workstation in the ebay link is probably 310W electrical load as measured by a kill-a-watt if you run simultaneous full cpu, ram and disk benchmarks on it.

Depends a lot on your electrical cost. Some people live in places where the power costs $0.05 per kWh. Some people live in places where it cost $0.36 per kWh (Hawaii).
Its the other way around, its when the "web devs" came that its UX started to suffer.
It's amazing to me how much pushback is coming against the simple notion that as professionals we should follow some standard of ethics.

Nobody is proposing that you need a credential to code. Just to be employed as a developer at a reputable tech company.

This is hardly a novel idea. Many professions have professional associations.
"I admitted that generally, school was hard for me, but I loved art..."

Logo. He should have taught them Logo.
Exactly, it is hacking in the biggest sense of the term. It is not just run-of-the-mill politics, which I admit, HN does not do well at, and is no fun to discuss here.
In the Republic of China/Taiwan you can become a citizen with no parent being born there. You have to give up your foreign citizenship and may be subject to potential military conscription depending on your age and gender.

If you have the marriage visa you can do this after 3 years residence - it's 5 years residence with a work visa

https://taiwanease.com/article/46/Turning_Taiwanese_A_Step-B...
You asked for examples of librarians running hundred-million dollar projects, and I gave you one.

I think the issue is one of professional culture and norms, and has little to do with budgets. If you don't like the analogy to librarians, pick one of any number of professions that have a robust code of ethics. Mechanical engineers build aircraft and bridges, for example, at budgets that dwarf ours.
Operative bit in 5.2.2: "Verifiers SHOULD NOT impose other composition rules (mixtures of different character types, for example) on memorized secrets. Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically) unless there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator or a subscriber requests a change."

I'm cautiously hopeful that this will supply needed ammunition for those advocating for saner password rules and policies in organizations big and small.
I don't see how heavier than normal, wireless earbuds would be any easier to forget than normal earbuds.

I don't have a problem with a cable. I actually don't understand why people would want to replace a cheap, robust, simple technology like a cable with non-replaceable batteries and signal-degrading wireless.

Also I don't need my phone to talk at me all day.

But, "courage".
Both my examples did in fact mention "unpaid", but there are plenty of others. Unions would give us leverage against management asking us to do illegal or unethical shit. They wouldn't be able to just say, "Okay, won't write the Muslim Database code? You're fired! Next person!" Seriously, they are a solution to the whole set of problems here.
> Enforcing an unjust law can easily tip in human rights abuse; witness the various anti-Jewish laws promulgated in 1930s Germany.

How odd, a Nazi/Hitler reference. Who'd had thought that was coming?

> Much of American immigration law is arguably unjust.

It's the implementation that needs work. The law is the law. You said yourself "illegal abuses" and "wrongly reported".

> Of course, maybe I've read you wrong and you're OK with some people having their rights violated

If you're not a citizen, you don't have rights to due process, or many other rights that citizens are entitled to. You're fighting with one hand tied behind your back. You probably shouldn't be in a country that doesn't want you.
Anyone try this yet and compare it to Hangouts on a poor connection? I'm constantly dealing with colleagues in another office where the internet connection is sub-par.
We have a professional organization, it's been around for over half a century, it has a code of ethics, it's called the ACM.

Now what?

> Try getting an attorney to do something which would get them disbarred

... so do you want or do you not want a bar exam for software?
Around that time there was a Macintosh web server called WebSTAR. I hacked together a shareware plugin in C that used the newish (at the time) browser 'Host:' header to allow for multi-homed domains without the need for separate IP addresses. He bought an entire site license for $1500 when he could have just spent $35. I had created the $1500 option as a joke thinking nobody would spend that amount. Made my day and that really encouraged me to become a professional software engineer. Thanks Steve!
Sure, force your boss to have the H-1B guy write that SQL query.

Then hop on the Google Bus and try not to think about the ways in which the tech industry is rotting away American democracy (c.f. "Facebook is confirmation bias at scale").
There's still a world of difference between the government actively maintaining a database of Enemies of the State, and the government having to extract that information from at best neutral, and often hostile third parties.

That said, it certainly behooves Facebook and Google to be thoughtful about what data they keep in a form easily accessible to the government.
AM3+ motherboards start at ~$50. LGA2011 motherboards start at ~$170.
Don't play dumb. We all know what this is about.
The H-1B guy is not going to write the query to get himself deported. Even we immigrants are smarter than that.
>8-core Phenom

those don't exist
In the US, it is the same. I had no idea how my son was doing other than his teacher was lying to me. At the beginning of the year, it is impossible to do better than the middle. Not sure if the reasoning was so the children can show improvement? I knew he was doing better than the middle but how well he was doing was a mystery.
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In Florida's Second District.
Note that the JIT mechanism mentioned in the paper meant basically JIT from a program code to the bytecode executed in the VM, and directly executing it (very much like PHP), not necessarily directly to machine assembly.
This place is pretty toxic.
>Since it's also so comfortable, the user might not even notice they lost an earpiece immediately if they are not listening to anything.

Is it possible Apple could implement some sort of loss alert mechanism for this?

Ideally each earpiece would have a low-power heartbeat even when in your pocket to continually verify they haven't been lost.
I take it you don't live in San Francisco, then?

I didn't really mind driving until I moved to the Bay area...
> If you're not a citizen, you don't have rights to due process, or many other rights that citizens are entitled to.

Sigh. For the umpteenth time, the US Constitution does not stipulate that non-citizens are subhuman. The right of due process, as described in the Fifth Amendment:

"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

Note that illegal immigrants are still people. The US Constitution does not define them ipso facto as subhuman.
Add to your list of arguments the many illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children, and have lived here ever since. Where is the part where they did something morally wrong?
While that is true, they largely agree with policy. There's only occasional conflicts. Those organisations have long histories and clearly defined, non-partisan principles that most people largely agree with.

Congress is not going to pass a law to deport Mexicans and Muslims, then pass a law to establish an organization that is designed to thwart their previous law.
Doctors lose their medical license for deliberately harming people or engaging in inhumane experimentation.
> I also don't know if it's possible to allow some domain to always be allowed to be iFramed by any other. For example I would like to always allow embeds from SoundCloud, YouTube and Vimeo on any site.

You can do this with uMatrix (and have added this functionality to my own browsers for the sites you used as an example) To do the same, add the following rules to your 'My Rules' tab:

For SoundCloud:

* sndcdn.com other allow
* sndcdn.com script allow
* sndcdn.com xhr allow
* soundcloud.com frame allow
* soundcloud.com image allow
* soundcloud.com other allow
* soundcloud.com script allow
* soundcloud.com xhr allow

For YouTube:

* youtube-nocookie.com frame allow
* youtube-nocookie.com script allow
* youtube-nocookie.com xhr allow
* youtube.com frame allow
* youtube.com image allow
* youtube.com other allow
* youtube.com plugin allow
* youtube.com script allow
* youtube.com xhr allow
* ytimg.com image allow
* ytimg.com plugin allow
* ytimg.com script allow

For Vimeo:

* vimeo.com frame allow
* vimeo.com other allow
* vimeo.com script allow
* vimeo.com xhr allow
* vimeocdn.com frame allow
* vimeocdn.com other allow
* vimeocdn.com plugin allow
* vimeocdn.com script allow
* vimeocdn.com xhr allow

You can also do a global wildcard that allows all types such as

* soundcloud.com * allow

but I prefer the more granular approach to allowing each element type.
That's a fair point.

I think the fundamental issue lies with the fact that software is one of the most geographically agnostic fields. You're going to have a very hard time getting librarians in the Philippines running a library in Virginia, or engineers based in India building a bridge in San Francisco. But in software, it just doesn't matter. (well, we all know it does matter - but to the vast majority of MBA types, it doesn't matter)

That's why I have a hard time with the librarian analogy, and even the mechanical engineer one and others to some extent. Software just feels conceptually different from other professions in that it's very hard to imagine work that would be any easier to ship to the lowest bidder anywhere in the world. That seems to me like the real philosophical problem to deal with.
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Eh, you said it... YOU believe them. A lot of people here don't anymore.

Let's wait to see what real world use looks like. I mean, if you take the emoji touch bar at face value it's the coolest thing since sliced bread. However, real world use indicates that it might not be as useful as Apple wants it to be.
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There's a difference between register tones and contour tones. Chinese Languages (such as Mandarin) are contour toned languages - nothing at all like musical notes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_(linguistics)#Register_to...
Marketing protip: call your proposal a "guild" (as in the Writer's Guild of America) instead of a "union" and you'll wash off a lot of the blue-collar stigma.
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