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> First, the new code of conduct makes clear that people who participate in any kind of harassment or inappropriate behavior, even outside our project spaces, are not welcome in our project spaces. This means that the Code of Conduct applies outside the project spaces when there is a reasonable belief that an individual’s behavior may have a negative impact on the project or its community.

So, outsiders can muckrake and as long as they are loud enough, someone will be removed?
The only difference is that ponzi schemes promise a positive return on investment while fractional reserves just make the people holding the fractional reserve more money.
It's not a stupid comment to give a link explaining why the officers weren't charged when someone says "why weren't they charged".
You're ignoring risk. This is one failure out of millions(?) of customers. It's like someone being seriously injured in a bicycle crash and deciding not to cycle to work anymore. Or having their house burgled and moving out of the neighborhood. People get hurt when rare bad things happen to them and it scares them off.
Even in the far future when all cars are Level 5, they will still be developed by error-prone humans, and I'm still gonna teach my kids to look both ways before they cross the street.
Yep not very touch friendly at the moment. Bug filed
That's absolutely true -- but even if it completely and irreparably bricked the device, I think it's fair to say that you'd still be talking about a very different set of consequences from batteries exploding or emitting noxious fumes.
More precisely the biggest problem is "Sybil attacks." There is no way to tell if someone who is part of a crowdsourcing campaign is honest.
That would depend on what kind of ownership structure you have. Do they exercise management control, have seats on the board etc?
Elon Musk’s meltdown makes perfect sense
So when disagreements arise among colleagues or leadership as to what constitutes "indecency", there's a document to point at that will help settle the dispute.

Everyone's unspoken idea of "decent" varies.

I also find it strange though. At least disheartening that teams feel the need to formalize these things. But at scale, it seems like a necessary evil.
Ask HN: Best resources on making argument for buy vs. build?
What are some of the best resources (articles, blog posts, etc) you've seen that make a compelling argument for buying non-core software (i.e. blog for your website) over building it?
> So they issue 11million unbacked USDT and use it to buy bitcoin.

Who is selling them BTC for USDT apart from a few daytraders? Where is the sink of 2.8 billion USDT?
> They speak Japanese and not English, but lets be honest about it being the lingua franca

If you go to Seoul they don't even have Romanized names for the train stations. Everything's in Hangul. For a massive system built primarily for Japanese speakers it's really pretty accessible.

> Japan was a lot like NYC, the subway there is also more confusing than places like DC or Taipei.

I mean, DC and Taipei are much smaller systems than NYC and (especially) Tokyo. There's also geographical concerns -- Tokyo is just huge and NYC is very oddly shaped. DC, Taipei, Boston, Chicago, etc are very radial which makes them easy to figure out.
- IPs are personal private infromation

- You need opt-in consent for all (ad) cookies, including non-tracking ones. Basically,advertising is optional in EU sites as of today.

- I could argue the right to download your data is superfluous, mostly because it creates potential holes for data leaks/phishing etc.

The law is confusing "privacy" with "invisibility".
Think before returning items to Amazon, you may avoid a lifetime ban
It seems more targeted towards the intellectual bullies, the online jerk types and seems to stay clear of politics.
Because empirical evidence is that at least some people have a really hard time with being decent human beings, or at least are happy to not be if given the chance. And some organizations have, historically, tolerated that as long as it didn't affect the working of the organization (too much).
Don't worry. The same type of scheme is currently happening in large corporations and governments all across the west.

The prerequisite being social skills and/or ability to BS and politic.

Sadly, as you pointed out, reality is never fooled for long and the consequences of bad leadership eventually catch up.
This is sad but forseeable as Essential sold poorly. It was a nice phone but it can be hard to establish a new brand right now and differentiate oneself.

The only new brand of smartphone in the last four years I can think of is OnePlus that has had success. OnePlus did this by buying their popularity. By offering a ton of value initially and then raising the price each generation.
My problem with the motion activated office lights (at least the ones at the wework my company is located) is that you can't turn them off. The button appears to turn the lights off and disable the motion sensor for some (short) period of time, then movement turns the lights back on again. Very annoying.
Sure, but the discussion seems to be more about how to attribute success outcomes to various factors that might have predicted it.

Another way to say it might be that if you want to do a regression of some success metric on a bunch of factors, such as positive attitude or charisma or whether your first name is “John” or what country you were born in, the R-squared of such a model is likely crap — most of the outcome is random even after controlling for volitional factors we think should matter (another way to say this: it’s mostly luck), and factors with large, significant effect sizes might have no volitional aspect (e.g. was born in America).

This is not normative. It says nothing about what you should do. Rather it’s descriptive. What factors correlate with success, and does their correlation result in a meaningful explanation of the variation of outcomes we see?
Stellarator’s plasma results show a triumph of engineering and modeling
> would be a potential target of regulators looking to establish precedents of enforcement with a big name.

Shouldn't law apply equally to everyone? One could have thought that setting an example "to show them!" wouldn't have occurred in a civilised country.
Marco Arment is the founder of Instapaper. He sold it after building it into one of the first successful iOS applications/services.
Same here. I used it as recently as a month ago.
If a light application of the brakes causes the car behind you to slam into you, the fault is with the idiot tailgating you, while playing with their phone.

Nobody's suggesting that anyone should slam the brakes every time a moving object intersects your vector of motion.
> under the theory that you can't commit hate crimes if you can't identify your outgroup

That's such hilariously appalling logic. "What's the common thread in all hate crimes? That's right--minorities! If we force the minorities to stay undercover, no one will be able to attack them! Problem solved."
That's so irresponsible. So the system cannot apply emergency braking, but why didn't it try at least to decrease the speed?

Those cars are not ready for public roads. If your sensors give too many false alarms then you should improve them.

Also I think initially there should be a speed limit for self-driving cars. For example, 15-20 mph should be enough for driving in the city and won't cause too much harm in the case of an accident.
I said this in another thread about the Essential Phone, but I'll say it again: their strategy was 100% bass-ackwards. You can't come in at the high end of the market: that's where the big dogs live with huge advertising budgets, carrier buy-in, and solid R&D for great cameras. You can't compete with that starting from scratch.

You have to be like OnePlus and the other Chinese manufacturers: start by offering a good phone at a good price that undercuts Apple and Samsung's stupidly expensive flagships, then gradually work your way up-market. That kind of disruption strategy is the only way to break into smartphones.
> Why would a government impose anything other than the maximum?

Because it's bound to apply a bunch of other rules in setting penalties by the same regulation that set the maximum cited. Saying that every offense will get the maximum is saying that the government will ignore the regulation, in which case you can just as justifiably say that any behavior, even if it isn't a violation of the rules, will get a fine of €1.337 quintillion, or 1,000% of global combined GDP, whichever is greater.

Heck, even ignoring the casd-by-case factors that must be considered, the 4% or €20 million maximum is much greater than the maximum for many violations, there are only certain GDPR violations that have that maximum.
"respond only to account holder, or disable some actions for others"

This is exactly how the Google Home works right now.
This is a great way to scale your system. Well done.

AWS Lambda is fairly reliable for running untrusted functions (as well as trusted functions with carefully managed inputs) at scale for customers, but any function provider should work well for this purpose (as long as their container lifecycle meets your needs).
sha256crypt != sha256

The hash function used here is not the problem. Notably for example scrypt also uses sha256 under the hood.
Given that police report to local governments in the US, I would expect diverse responses. I wonder if some municipalities police very alike Europe while others are particularly militaristic. If they're mostly militaristic (like the responses in this thread suggest), I wonder what would drive the uniformity? These are earnest questions; I'm not trying to make any point.
And that was the entire point of the article. IQ is not a direct measure of skill in all arbitrary domains, yet skill is valuable to society in many of those domains.
And Bank of America is now pushing its Digital Assistant, Erica. Just what I need, another robot to talk too...

https://promo.bankofamerica.com/Erica/she-is-here/
People don't drive like that. People expect reasonable behavior from other people and that includes expectations that they won't jump into the road. If Uber will drive unreasonably, its passengers will prefer other taxi who drive more aggressively.
> Pre-hash the input to bcrypt by passing it through SHA512. Makes bcrypt now grow in the exact same way as shacrypt.

The pre-hash is only applied once, so the change in runtime is linear and very small compared to bcrypt.
If there is so much ambiguity and interpretations what kind of manager would risk getting into doing such project if a risk of failure is equal to not doing it at all?
The paper argues that any reactionless drive that produces more force per newton than a perfect photon drive can be turned into a perpetual motion machine, regardless of how it's built:

"Since applying a constant force results in a constant acceleration, the kinetic energy of a mass driven by such a device increases quadratically with time, while the energy input increases only linearly with time. Thus, at some point, the kinetic energy of the device-driven mass exceeds the energy input, and if this energy is collected via decelerating the mass (via regenerative electromagnetic braking, for example), then there would be a net gain in energy."

With a photon drive, the break-even point is at the speed of light (which you can never actually achieve), but with any drive that's more power-efficient, the break-even point will be less, and you will be able to extract limitless free energy by accelerating the drive past that point.
You lose a percentage of what you exchange
Because unfortunately too many people think that if they're not formally told to be a decent human being, they don't have to be a decent human being.
My experience can be summarized by this:

Me: "Alexa, tell Harmony to tune to CNN"

Alexa: turns on the TV, and tunes it to CNN.

Me: "Alexa, what alarms do I have set?"

Alexa: tells me I have a weekday alarm set for 5:30 AM

Me: "Alexa, set the bedroom temperature to 75 degrees"

Alexa: sets the temp to 75 degrees in the bedroom

Me: "Alexa, turn on the great room"

Alexa: turns on the great room lights

Me: "Alexa, turn off the office light"

Alexa: turns off my study lights

Me: "Alexa, turn on the whole house"

Alexa: turns turns on every light in the house

Skill integrations include: Harmony, Lutron, etc. YYMV. But we have one Alexa device in every room (8 devices total) and our biggest issue is waking her up when talking "about" her.
Awful idea. Hire based on merit. Stop trying to enforce equality of outcomes.
I'm visiting London right now, and compared to here, Tokyo train stations are amazing for signage. There are always super clear, easy to spot signage for where transfers & exits are, what exits they are and what landmarks they lead to, where elevators or escalators are, etc. Electric signs starting at the entrances (before the gates even) for what trains are arriving at what platforms and when.

In London navigational signs are either completely missing or white signs on white tile backdrops so they blend in and are hard to spot (aside from the generic "Way Out" exit signs that don't specify out to where, will I have an escalator/elevator, etc). Electric signs are sparse (maybe one after the gates and one or two only at the ends of the platform)

Tokyo is complicated by the fact that it's actually 10+ different systems run by different, mostly private, companies (JR trains like Yamanote, Tokyo Metro trains, keio, toei, keikyu, keisei, yurikamome, etc etc) so I'm always impressed by how integrated they manage to make it seem.

It sucks that Japan is mostly a cash society, but Apple Pay Suica on iPhone 8 and up helps a lot :)

Singapore does have an amazing subway though, completely world-class.
I'd definitely pay to use this theme in web and mobile apps
If the iPhone has a lock screen, Siri will not do any of those actions without it being unlocked first FYI.
That's hilarious. I can totally relate.

And don't pay any attention to these alcoholic fratbros. You be you, man!
In an era when there were few women scientists around for someone to harrass, there is little risk employing the harrasser. Now that there are enough women in the field, the harrasser will cause more damage to the scientific output of the organization than he can contribute.

In this more enlightened age, people should call the harrasser out on their behavior before it becomes a big problem, and the harrasser should have enough awareness to stop the damaging behavior, which is not necessary for their work.
i know and it was more just an exercise for myself. polymer and react interop still isnt very nice as far as i can tell. calm down :)
Love the UI. One bit of feedback: on https://parabola.io/ under "Self Documenting and Repeatable" I keep clicking the play buttons in the screenshot.
Making mass consumer flagship smartphones and going up against Samsung, Huawei, and Apple is a really tough game, but I'm sure Andy and the team at Essential knew that. I like that there are people who, in the face of giants, pick up the stone.
Their ads were terrible. They talked so much about their lack of bezel but the shots of the phone would display apps or pictures with black bars so you couldn't even tell the screen was nice.
In a world of limited resources, it makes sense that regulators would pursue enforcement against entities that impact a large number of people.
Yeah, it was just surprising to me that people were praising this document.
The Case Against Credentialism (1985)
The article is about sha256crypt, which is a salted, pessimised password hash.

Despite the legacy name "crypt" this isn't about encryption, encrypting passwords isn't what anybody is trying to do here.

Because it uses salt, all time-space trades including rainbow tables are irrelevant. If you struggle to see why, the simplest way to understand it is that you'd need to generate new tables for every single salt. The salts are random and different for each account.
This misunderstands the problem...

Carriers are the main distribution channel for phones. You can’t compete with carrier distro.
Every day I become more convinced that we've really let tech get a little too out of control, and could probably benefit from putting the brakes on a bit to get some very critical stuff under control first (e.g. security/privacy).

Don't get me wrong, technology is amazing and the cutting edge stuff going on today is super exciting... But it seems the capabilities of software now are far, far outpacing our abilities to ensure an adequate level of security and personal privacy. We've been blinded by flashy tech, too busy being amazed at everything all the time ("look at what AI can do!") and not stopping to consider the huge hidden price we're paying.

The reasons this has happened are kind of obvious...
I just fear that it's going to take things getting to a point where we have a really major catastrophe on our hands for anyone to be willing to really do anything about it. A lot of people can and will get seriously hurt. I can imagine such an event resulting in a great "cooling" period in tech where advances are slowed while bigger investments are made into security, cryptography, solving the "identity problem", etc. But it would be nice if we could just have the foresight to fix things before it gets to that point...
Errata Security: C is too low level
The atrocities of the Nazis are not in any way comparable to sexual harassment.

Sir Tim Hunt might be a better comparison. One (possibly) out-of-bounds joke and he's kicked out of science, no matter how bad the results for humanity. Not to mention his students, some of whom are women.
> The only new brand of smartphone in the last four years I can think of is OnePlus that has had success. OnePlus did this by buying their popularity. By offering a ton of value initially and then raising the price each generation.

Aren't they a major Chinese brand? Seems like the message here is that you'd better already be big with deep pockets to wade into the smartphone market.
Wait! So you're saying that Alexa actually includes the capability to record voice, and send recordings to contacts? I suppose that some would love that. But, as this demonstrates, it's prone to fail spectacularly.

You'd think that there'd be protection. Maybe a restricted set of contacts who could get such messages. And a confirmation step, such as "Do you want to send this recording to 'my mother'?" Or "... to '911'?"

Edit: Damn, didn't see Clubber's comment.
Silly question - could tires be used to do this? I mean, could one improvise a storage system via a stack of car tires?
Then you'll have all sorts of disputes for example someone could claim their cat stepped on a touchscreen and consented without the user knowledge or someone consented whilst being completely drunk - such consent is not valid. That means potentially companies are keeping the data illegally thinking they comply.
If Microsoft couldn’t force their way into the phone market late, no way a startup was going to.
Yes, I also used to work in that space, our software / platform was used by Fortune 500 companies.

My point still stands. This is Amazon and not random company X's customer service. There are very few companies like this that people can name (e.g. Nordstrom, Patagonia, ...) It this used to not happen at Amazon. Customer service used to be empowered to make customers happy, which was what made Amazon legendary. Things have changed. Customer service is now crippled like almost every other mediocre company. This is just one of the symptoms. Maybe Amazon feels that it has enough market share now, so it doesn't matter as much?
There's a wide spectrum of behaviours in between "Sheriff Andy's to come up to the door" and "immediately shoot the first person to open the door". Police officers are (should be) professionals. You should expect better.
Flynn most recently has been giving talks about the reverse Flynn effect.

It isn't holding, especially in isolated populations that are easy to measure like Iceland.
I didn’t mean to suggest that one is not allowed to question religion (these days), I meant questioning religion becomes either a useless spiral of circular logic or you finally wind up at the point I made about faith. That’s been my experience at least.

All that said, reading Jordan Peterson’s book has increased my opinion of the Bible and the knowledge about the human condition that it contains, but as an allegory, not a literal history.
Sansar Sees Slow Growth Despite Top Twitcher and Overwatch Team Partnerships
Because it does a great of making indecent human beings self-identify and loudly storm off in a huff. :-)
Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared user’s private audio [Updated]
Looks like your site is down, chief.
Oh, cool! Thanks for that link, the STM32F4 is pretty close to the F0/L0/L4 series that I've been learning about; I was actually thinking of using an L082KZ to start with because it has a lot of Flash, built-in EEPROM, a simple M0+ core, and is easy to hand-solder.

Cool idea using VGA as the output; was that hard, or could you just use the DACs normally? I was looking into parallel LCD interfaces for awhile - some F4 cores have a 24-bit RGB LCD peripheral - but they look complicated and I'm still puttering around with SPI OLED/TFT displays.

Anyways, looks like a really cool project!
This doesn't strike me as a uniquely American thing. When I visited Paris, I saw lots of pairs of soldiers or police patrolling streets and subway stations carrying FAMAS rifles. You don't even see that in the US (most foot patrols only carry pistols, most officers in cars leave their carbines in the vehicle unless they need it).
What exactly does "worth" mean in this context?

If it's an abstract idea of right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the idea that an existence should be respected, then yes, all persons are of worth.

But if "worth" is meant in terms of the capacity of an individual to increase my (or your or company X's) share of goods and services than manifestly all people are not of equal worth. This isn't society discriminating, it's reality. And intelligence is only one (albeit important) component of this.

"Worth" in an economic sense isn't fixed. People can (and do) make themselves worth more. But probably they do it less if they are raised with an idea that worth doesn't have anything to do with effort.
Explicit is better than implicit. Different communities/subcultures have different standards of desirable and undesirable behavior - some communities believe that heated and emotionally intense debate is the right way to get a good result and "decent human beings" have a thick skin and try not to get offended, some believe that this precludes good results and "decent human beings" are empathetic and try not to offend.

Since contributing or maintaining an open-source project is a pretty intense commitment to interpersonal interactions (if we all knew what code was right, we wouldn't need maintainers), it's good to know what beliefs a community has about desirable and undesirable means of interpersonal interaction before you commit to joining it.

Note that as a corollary, I think it's important that there exist communities have codes of conduct that aren't based on the Contributor Covenant etc. Linux's Code of Conflict is a pretty good example: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/process/code-of-confli... If that doesn't sound like it describes a community you'd enjoy, maybe it's good to know that well before you burn out on contributing to Linux (as many technically-prolific contributors have done). If it does, great, you'll enjoy the project and the mailing list.