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> I've been asked to work for military industry companies before. And I have always declined for ethical reasons.
But as I sit here and think about it, I wonder if its a good thing that a person like myself (that believes I'm on the ethical high-ground) decline these types of jobs.
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> Someone is going to take the job. Perhaps someone less skilled than myself, perhaps someone less ethical than myself ? What is the result of that ?

Whenever I find myself in this line of thought, I always remember: I am not that special. The impact that anyone has on a workplace is small and mostly inconsequential--more important is group momentum and culture. The likelihood that you'd do bad in a bad workplace is much higher than that you'd be able to stand fast and do good--the world just does not work that way.
> Like it or not the world is full of extremists who would like nothing more than to hurt innocent people.

"Full of"? The world is more peaceful than it's ever been. Extremists do hurt innocent people, and we should not ignore them. But with each choice that we need to make, we should carefully consider pros and cons. Is there really a net benefit here?
Pick a problem that interests you and involves lots of physics and math. This worked for me.
It's perfectly convenient. The subprocess module works well enough for such things. Or even the old os.system.
> Many social media companies now appear to agree with Brady and are making efforts to address some of the concerns that research like his raises. Twitter, for example, recently announced an open call for proposals on how to improve “conversational health” on its platform. And last October, Reddit rolled out a more robust policy for actively monitoring its discussion boards.

Those initiatives weren't designed to lessen the "exploitation of moral emotions", they were designed to give preference towards the extreme moral emotions of a particular world view.
I applaud your morality. In terms of moving the needle towards a more moral world, do you think employee resignations have a positive effect or does it create a less moral survivor bias where the people who are left have fewer limits or concerns?

I'm sure disclosure would be illegal per your employee contract, but are there any other steps concerned employees can take?
I was lucky to very early on have one of those Voodoo cards, so it's kind of amazing how far we've come.

Unfortunately, it's a true pain to determine whether or not a card matches reference. The reason is simple: if the layout changes, there's a good chance the water cooling block won't correctly align with the high points on the card. Having that happen means two things: you will have points where the block won't be making contact, or you will have to bend the PCB, or you will have a component not being cooled. All really bad things. This can even be impacted by the thermal pads used by the OEM.

I mostly check to see if they're using the reference cooler design. I haven't bothered with AMD/ATI cards in ages, so this only really applies to Nvidia products. Cards with the blower style coolers with a single fan towards the rear of the card, with an output near the video outputs are almost always reference. Cards with coolers the OEM designs often are, but sometimes are not. That's mostly where things are annoying. Thankfully, water cooling OEMs often have specs from the start as to which cards will match if you're planning on buying day on.

An example: With reference layouts the 980 and 980 Ti ought to be compatible. On some EVGA cards, you have memory mounted on the rear of the card, that makes backplate installation impossible depending on which backplate you use, as it'll teeter: either a 980 backplate, or one meant to be compatible with both the 980 and the 980 Ti. Worse, that can mean having to find a different set of screws to mount the water block you wish to use.
'The Expanse' went from really exciting in the first season to really boring in the second season. I watched the whole first season at once, but couldn't handle a single episode of the second season.
The manual normally says "with no clothes", but I'm not sure what the basis for that is.
Yeah, you're right. I quickly realized that after posting my comment.
things like better misconduct-handling process for employees, more frequent background checks for drivers, the implementation of tips,

Still not paying their taxes tho’. There’s a shedload Of Employer’s NI they owe us.
Unfortunately they’re also very effective at killing foreign nationals with nothing to do with any conflict. And if you reply with the weasel words “collateral damage” then, with all due respect, fuck you. (Sorry dang, I’ll take any downvotes as deserved, but this comment is unacceptable in my eyes).
I agree that Tcl isn't mainstream and thus a lot of concepts used by Tcl are not mainstream, but other than that it's got a lot going for it.

Tcl's string representation for objects is just a serialization/deserialization mechanism, which seems to be pretty popular in other languages as well.

Additionally all of the cool things in Tcl such as coroutines, threads (as an additional, but included, package), great documentation delivered as man pages, virtual filesystem access, virtual time, safe interpreters for running untrusted code, a stable ABI (stubs) so that compiled extensions can be used for decades, a small memory as well as disk footprint, extremely cross-platform, easy to embed into larger programs as an extension language, easy to compile a large static program with Tcl as the "main" entrypoint, native BigNum support, many thousands of great packages, ....

What would a modern take on Tcl improve on Tcl that Tcl couldn't just build easier ?
Every company is involved in killing. Every industry supports the military in some way. Name an industry that the military does not utilize the technology of.
For me, Rust has made programming fun again. And I find that a langauge has done that maybe twice in my programming career.

I love Rust. It's fun and fast.
One goal in testing is to automate yourself out of a job. That and to be sure you can test everything appropriately!
I am worried we are not too far away from this becoming a reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM
My simple logic then says we should sue those who bought Volkswagen, VW itself just had a "bad policy".

My question still stands though, who decides it's just bad policy and it's not in fact hiding/helping/aiding the criminal?
Interesting, well I’ll try to keep reviewing this stuff and hoping I find an application.

I really would like to find an application in my work, because without that I find new techniques don’t really stick and after a few months I forget them...
Same here. I've been eyeing few books on Amazon myself. Most come with answer sheet at the back to check your work.

It's all about doing it like we did in high school. Pen, graph paper, and maybe a calculator. Drilling down the practice will help with theory.
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Arguably the majority supports the ideological foundations, aims, and methods of the institutions you are speaking of. In particular the military and intelligence institutions. If they didn't, they would have been removed by vote or force some time ago.

Frankly the broad majority of people in the US benefit materially in some way from their existence in ways that they might not even be fully aware of.

I am not arguing this is a good thing, but I think it's a reality. Military power abroad means wealth accumulation at home.
Helmets were introduced because a dozen plus kids were dying every year playing it due to things like skull fractures. Football is an inherently violent game and it is because of the rules not the helmets.
"Perfect doesn't exist so I'm going to ignore better."
Are advertising profiles designed and bought so that they state can oppress dissidents?
You sound like maybe you've played football. If so, you must recognize that it's nothing particular about any sort of violent acts that makes it so dangerous, but the technique where action at the line teaches driving up from the shoulders to the head which leads to repetitive contact.

The big open-field head-on-head hits are horrific but not the ones that lead to every single brain that's been analyzed showing evidence of CTE.

The NFL will live with having to handle the freak accidents; they can't exist in a world where playing football => long term traumatic brain injury
The schools won't allow my kids to use Wikipedia as a source - so yeah. (this is despite the fact that Wikipedia got more strict with allowing people to comment and that they require references)

You're just mad I didn't trust your article
This will expose you to cutting edge research going on. But I disagree entirely on this approach to learning fundamentals of math and physics.

The colloquia are usually very subject specific. When I did my PhD in condensed matter physics, depending on the speaker, sometimes it could be 10 minutes into the lecture when it delves into narrow field-specific material I don’t understand (eg, a speaker talking about particle physics or astrophysics). Good speakers and even non-physicists can follow the whole talk regardless of subject matter. But good speakers are rare. And colloquia are typically for benefit of the department (students + faculty), so will quickly gloss over fundamentals into the real meat.

So you might learn about super cool research happening, which is great. But you aren’t likely to learn key fundamentals.
That seems to be exactly why ISO isn't moving forward, or at least has been in the past.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-standards-insight/d...
Why Is Pipenv the Recommended Packaging Tool?
If you can foresee what potential benefits each technological application has, then maybe i agree with you. There are plenty of examples where military applications and research has led to a bonanza of side applications which improve the human condition.

Look at the MRI imaging. They are a downstream invention that came from the development of nuclear weapons (nuclear magnetic resonance). How many lives do you think that has saved and improved in the past 70 years?
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Your assuming that other means would not have been used eg dumb bombs from b52's. Or SF teams lazing targets for PGM's
Programming is like fixing a broken toilet
I am not accusing peterson of anything. I'm just trying to predict the future. He seems like an icon. Something long lasting. He's just another figurehead, and anyone could have filled his place. This is just tides turning. This is just a hiccup in the universe. He will go away, he will try to stick around, and it will be ugly. But he will fade away. He will go mainstream. It won't matter. This is just entertainment. It's not real help. It's not therapy. It's not a fix for the underlying issue of our society and our males.
There's also precious little understanding of the fact that the US isn't the only high-tech military power in the world, and that there's nothing stopping countries like Russia and China from developing this kind of technology. And you're a fool if you think they would use that technology more ethically than the US military.
They are calling ketosis “a dangerous state”. Does anyone with knowledge about these things know if this is the same state that has been popularized by podcasters and health “guru” people and such? I was under the impression it wasn’t particularly dangerous, just sort of unessesary.
I'm referring less to the curve, and more to the scanlines[3]. The bleed in CRTs means that's not what it actually looked like when displayed on era accurate hardware, so it's always confused me why people would opt for a filter that claims to be "authentic" that does this, especially when emulating the visual experience enough to show screen rounding.

For example, here's a picture of an actual DOS ANSI output, from a CRT monitor[1], and here's the equivalent display from this filter[2]. In what way is emulating the scanlines making this more authentic?

Edit: clarified a bit

1: https://steemit-production-imageproxy-thumbnail.s3.amazonaws...

2: https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvMjU1NzcwLzEyMjU1NTQucG5n/origi...

3: The correct terminology is escaping me. The interlacing? Whatever is responsible for the skipping of lines in the output.
We should add something to an EULA that says something to the effect that if someone is a Police officer they can never arrest the creator or community of a software or if they are a lawyer/judge they can never judge. It do be interesting to see how the govt reacts to that.
If helmet size was no obstacle, could you add a thick inner layer of much softer foam to help gradually slow down the skull so the brain would crash into a suddenly stopped skull?
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Original HN title had the word "Google" in it.

According to this document, Google requires Bash.

I do not use Bash. I use Almquist shell. I try to avoid using uncommon "features" or utilities.

I am not a frequent Linux user but whenever I have to use it, all of the hundreds of scripts I wrote using another OS and Almquist shell still work. They all work in Bash.

Over the years, I used this site as a reference:

https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/
Ask HN: Is anyone disabling email tracking because of GDPR?
I'm trying to make my personal blog GDPR-compliant. I use a free MailChimp account to send emails when I post a new article. Seems to me that MailChimp's tracking of email opens and clicks, which are clearly associated with personally-identifying email addresses, is not GDPR-compliant. Obviously, MailChimp is not alone in offering this functionality. And yet, I don't get the sense that anyone is turning off email tracking or, alternatively, requesting my permission to track my interaction with their emails.
I'm not surprised. After finishing my degree, I went to optimize a couple of production lines. I didn't get much detail and thought it was for plastic/glass bottles (filling liquids and moving them around - many tiny grabbers, simple movement, not that wide tracks).

After about 2 months of work, and after the production line got parallelized and speed drastically increased I went to see it work.

What I saw shocked me and I immediatelly quit. It was a production line for handling of female and male young and grown chicks. Debeaking, throat slitting. I was absolutely shocked how none of the superiors told me exactly which product was being handled.

After seeing the horrific product of my work I quit.

Since then, I'm not surprised, given what horrors we do to living animals, that we are ready to do them to each other.

I doubted the meaning of my work at university, what did I do? Spend 4 years at college to create killing machines? I didn't think I'd ever do that.
We disagree that it is okay for wealthy people to buy badges.

I'm pretty okay with letting reserve officers that don't do a lot of duty fall through the cracks, that's a better tradeoff than selling Stephen Seagull a badge.
> Like it or not the world is full of extremists who would like nothing more than to hurt innocent people.

And some of them are parts of governments.
> Would freedom be allowing for gambling or banning gambling?

It's not so binary. You could allow for regulated gambling that mitigates the social problems, but ban unregulated gambling.

> To me the real issue is the lack of informed consent in these contracts, as people don't understand the consequences of an arbitration agreement.

I agree that's part of the issue, but not the "real" issue. For example: if you desperately need a job and someone puts an all-or-nothing employment contract with an arbitration clause in front of you, you'll sign even if you fully understand that arbitration is a bad deal for you.

The real issue is that these arbitration clauses can be put in a non-negotiable, all-or-nothing contract by the more powerful and savvy party to the determent of the weaker one.
It's a fairly generic motif.
The thing I liked the most was the person view in how it shows things in real life dimensions, seems much more "personable" to communicate across distances for teams, at least from a non-vr way.
Wait lol then I don't get it, the original comment is why does anybody play football professionally, doesn't the same argument apply to why does anybody ride motorcycles professionally?
> Its been the defacto standard for package management

While I agree that it's a standard for package management, I don't think that using a package manager is the defacto standard. I've yet to see any onboarding docs that use brew install, for the reasons I stated parallel to your comment.
Aye, I was incorrect. I have pushed a correction, but it will take a moment to appear on the site.
> I’d like to offer the point of view that if the drones become better and more surgical in their precision, it would reduce civilian casualties.

I am not sure why some people instantly assumes that the whole purpose of making drones more autonomous is to make them more precise: historically, the DoD/US military have made virtually zero efforts to even try to reduce civilian "casualties".

Maybe I am too cynical, but I genuinely think that the military is only willing to invest in technology that would help them expand current and future operations, disregarding the impact that these will have in the civilian population of foreign territories... probably because it's orders of magnitude cheaper to just pay someone to write a public statement denying every statistics published by neutral NGOs around the world.
The Constitution doesn't address whether the right to bear arms is either open or concealed carry. The Constitution does not grant this right - it, among others, is considered a natural right, applicable to the free people. It only lists this right, among others, to emphasize that government is not supposed to infringe upon it. We all see how poorly that enumerated philosophy is followed, understood, accepted, or defended.
Good morning HN! John from Ghost here - Thanks for all your support over the last 5 years. We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for that very first blog post hitting the #1 spot of HN and getting so much attention back in 2012. That was the very first time anyone ever heard about Ghost, and everything we've built since then has been thanks to that.
How to constructively review a research paper
Me: mutters under his breath, "rockets are robots..." ;-)
This appears to be a ideology based study from a right wing think tank. Reference: www.sourcewatch.org
Magnus EN1070K is a leaner build, like they did with the original Steam Box NEN (basically the Magnus EN970 on the charts you linked):

https://www.zotac.com/us/product/mini_pcs/magnus-en1070k-win...

It's smaller than Mac Mini, yet you can do serious gaming, Deep Learning and cryptomining with it; that's not possible with Hades Canyon. It's quiet as well. Power consumption should be quite a bit lower than 1080 version as well.
Oh right, because continuing on with the status quo of spewing gigatons of CO2 in the atmosphere will be so cheap to remedy. Who's buying this kind of false economy any more?
Not really, it's really used to setup the environment for a network boot, it supports VLANs and network configuration and loading modules and stuff (even from Tcl virtual filesystems), it's basically just Tcl+TUAPI[1]

[1] https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/tuapi/doc/trunk...
I've never actually heard of an arbitration clause surviving in court though, do you have any examples of a pitched battle being fought over this?
1% of a really big number isn't "essentially zero".
The 1.0 release still feels like it was just yesterday. :)

As with any mention of Rust 2018 and the rustfix tool, I want to emphasize how seriously compatibility is being taken:

> You can use old editions indefinitely on new compilers; editions are opt-in.

> Editions are set on a per-crate basis and can be mixed and matched; you can be on a different edition from your dependencies.

> Warning-free code in one edition must compile, and have the same behavior, on the next.

> Edition-related warnings, e.g. that an identifier will become a keyword in the next edition, must be easily fixable via an automated migration tool (rustfix). Only a small minority of crates should require any manual work to opt in to a new edition, and that manual work must be minimal.

> Most new features are edition-independent, and will be usable on new compilers even when an older edition is selected.

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/03/12/roadmap.html
There's a big difference between tangentially supporting the military because your widget (e.g. toothbrushes) is used by them and many others, and making a full on weapon system for them, and only them.
Right? The public perception of Uber over the years has been fascinating to me. I worked there for quite a while, and I always had a laugh at how the media would portray something. It was almost always grasping at straws in an attempt to paint Uber evil.

There has been legit bad news about Uber, especially the stuff Susan Fowler talked about. But you know what? We all give money to equally, or often times far more sinister organizations on a daily basis without batting an eye-lash. Why hold Uber more accountable than everyone else?
> We disagree that it is okay for wealthy people to buy badges.

I don't think you should be able to simply purchase badges. I think reserve officers should go through the same hiring process as full time officers and attend a police academy.
These videos are posted any time linear algebra is mentioned. I find it almost comical at this point. What good is this intuition? I struggle to understand the value that these videos bring, but I'm not saying there is no value. I'm just lost, and kind of jealous because I need a deep understanding of linear algebra for work.
I think that depends on your view.

There is no constitutional right for the concealed carry of a gun, based on your view of what the second amendment means.
AKA, People can join as auxiliary police to get police allowance to conceal carry.

So, background check, they have to re-new application, if they get fired it gets revoked, if they commit a felony it gets revoked.

And the majority of the reserve forces compromise ex-military and active duty service members.

Article makes it sound like the badges are handed out in the millions by handing over a check to the police department. No idea why they had to pinpoint Dan Bilzerian as a poster child. Lots of people are auxiliary police force, just like auxiliary fire department, etc.

Oh bloomberg, just stick to buying elections and gun laws, throwing millions at swinging votes and buying elected officials... The article is just absurd propaganda piece.
Ask HN: How do I learn a new language in my thirties
As someone who is learning a new language (German) in early thirties, I find it not as easy as when I was learning English as a little kid (Sinhala is my mother tongue)

Specially with the pronunciation. For the love of god, I cannot differentiate the pronunciation difference between letter u and ü. As an example musst and müsst both sounds the same to me. Maybe this is because I'm too old. Has anyone else experienced the same? If so how did you overcome it?
> If the textbook is in its 4th printing or so, the answers are correct

It's terrifying that it takes 4 printings before the answers should be considered trustworthy...
Lots of people agree with you, including one of the greatest NFL wide receivers: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/04/hines-ward-...
But you actually can't even say the same about motorcycling. Football players get minor brain damage in practically every game they play, which accumulates over time. On a moto you only suffer injury when something goes wrong.
The problem with this logic is it could be extended indefinitely into the future.

Python 3.3 has been available since 2012. 2020 was already a deadline that had been pushed back at least once for 2.x. I understand volatility, but 5+ years in the software world is an eternity.