skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a really good writeup - and one of the reasons I'm sceptical of "code as law" until code can sucessfully model concepts like intent, origin or that articles' "color" that fundamentally rely on human - and often subjective - understanding.

(Though I'd argue that "color" still doesn't meet the core of the copyright problem. E.g., if you drew your own Micky Mouse sketch and published it, you'd probably still get in trouble for copyright violation, even though you never actually copied any material from Disney.

In that case the criteria seems that some humans (the lawyers and judges) believe some other humans (the general public) will reliably associate your drawing with their own concept of Micky Mouse...)
I'd expand that a bit - how can you find a good approach for anybody based solely off anecdotes?

Finding someone with a similar age, height, weight, race, ancestry, metabolism, activity level, sleep level, gut flora, etc. to take advice from would be nearly impossible.

A dozen "it worked for me" stories without any form of control is effectively useless.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong and Tokyo have higher population density, and they're not as noisy. These cities have 2 things in common: first, they have top notch public transportation (especially HK. If you have tried the MTR, Elon Musk's past jabs at public transportation ring hollow: clearly he doesn't know), which means much reduced traffic -- it's still busy mind you, but "European capital" level of busy. And second, they have (or have learnt) that most essential of things in urban life: etiquette. They know when to shut up. I will add that around 40% of Hong-Kongers are immigrants, mostly from (much more noisy & unruly) Mainland China, so clearly that etiquette thing is not innate and can be learnt.

So I would make the case that if you want a high-density city in the West to remain tolerable noise-wise, basic regulations are not enough. You need some 'investment', both in the local administration and in the local culture.
Yes, I'm aware of that, but it bears mentioning in this discussion for other readers who perhaps did not follow the discussion from over two months ago.
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Are there resources (video, book, or web) that explain iOS and the Apple ecosystem for a user who's technical but who's lived on other platforms his whole career?
The assumption is that tax revenue would go to mending the subway system and other public transport.

People will manage, it wouldn't be the first implementation of the tax, you'll end up with less cars on the road and more revenue and that is something you can work with.
So this has me wondering, if I were to copy someone's car, would that count as conversion, and would the victim be the owner of the car, or the company who owns the right to make the car, or the dealer, or some other party?
Exhaustive list of your data (sorted, redundant copies not included):

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I should think that the Chinese Communist Party would love to maintain a stranglehold over gaming media in China. Making a version of SteamOS and making a success within China would align with how Chinese tech companies have formulated business plans.
Scrypt is "excessively parameterized." ;)
Xenko game engine 3.0 is now free and open-source
Totally understand why they did it but couldn't help chuckling since 6 months ago in this blogpost: https://blog.buoyant.io/2017/12/05/introducing-conduit/ they literally said: "Conduit is not Linkerd 2.0." ;-)
Ok then take away the 'state run' subway in American cities and see what happens? Or take away the 'state managed' roads and highways?

The state is not hugely efficient, but when it comes to these things, it's largely construction unions and the not-overtly-but-kinda-corrupt construction firms etc.. Doing any city work costs gazillions unfortunately.

But some forms of public transit (subways, maybe not buses) are as priceless as the highway system.
I've noticed a lot of consolidation in 401Ks moving towards Fidelity. This has caused me some doubt as to their long term trustworthiness since greater power usually results in lower value for end customers. so, i'm pleasantly surprised to see them offering such a great product.
On the one hand, a voice interface would be really great. Think of a car - you could control things (open/close the windows, turn the AC on/off, change the radio station, ...) just by talking without ever taking your eyes off the road. This might actually prevent a few accidents.[0]

On the other hand, imagine the office where I work, one room, four people, and imagine them talking to their computers instead of typing or mouse clicking.

[0] I have no idea how many accidents are caused by drivers looking at their radio, AC control, whatever. I am conviced the number is greater than zero, but I suspect it is only small fraction of the overall number of traffic accidents. But still.
Except the listing for Montana is a ruin.
I saw one in a museum where the canvas was simply painted a solid color.

Yes, anyone can do that.

There was a guard near it, too, watching me, making sure I didn't approach closer than a line taped on the floor.

I could almost hear the artist laughing at the gullibility of the modern art patrons.
Is the idea to network with people who live nearby? There are already apps that do that (e.g. NextDoor). Any app can be made given enough programming knowledge or money. The real question is "should it be built?"
Nope! Ed25519 is great and honestly I think the compatibility concerns are overblown. It was introduced in 2014. If you are running four year old SSH you have other problems, like probably RHEL or some nonsense.

That said: Ed25519 is a local optimum: the bigger win is to not have long-held credentials at all, and instead use an SSH CA or something like Gravitational Teleport. Doesn't work for GitHub though.
> Since the review process is iterative, the reviewer will point out what they consider to be a shortcoming, and the author will fix that part.

That takes a non-zero amount of time, and thus funding. So now we've got a system where disagreeing about someone's forecasting of potential social consequences or their decisions around ethics imposes costs on mathematics.

Even processes intentionally and explicitly designed to be iterative have an unfortunate tendency to stop iterating as conditions change. This adds one more reason for papers to not reach publication.

> If they disagree, and the author is keen on not mentioning those concerns even as worth considering, but the paper is otherwise good, we could evolve a system whereby the reviewer comment is published along with the paper.

That sounds like a good idea. In fact, why not just skip the review portion of it and publish reviewer's comments on a paper's ethics along side it every single time? It would seem to get to the same point more quickly!

> How do we stop this ethics statement from being vacuous, unless it is reviewed?

Here we have the crux of it: the whole point of this proposal is for there to be real consequences attached. Which brings us back to my point about false positives and side effects.

I suspect that in most cases, the statements would correctly be vacuous. Many - probably most - papers in computer science have minimal to no obvious or reasonably forseeable social implications.
Study shows humans can be emotionally manipulated by robots
Sorry I was hopping between wifi connections at airports and didn't have the studies I wanted on hand (I don't really keep a stack for any time I want to make a case haha); curious what you make of these papers. In general it's hard to find proper fasting studies on humans due to perception issues though I think that's changing now.

ADF succeeds in the reduction of insulin resistance/type II: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15640462

Fasting increases metabolic rate: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14066725 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10837292

Fasting dramatically increase HGH production: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3127426 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1548337

IF (1 meal per day) improves body composition even when the caloric intake remains unchanged: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17413096

Body composition is better after fasting than caloric restriction even in the event of equal amount of mass re-gain (i.e. regain after CR is fat, after ADF is muscle/lean): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5042570/

And here's the mouse study I mentioned (I think I cited rats) showing ADF improves metabolic markers without change in caloric intake, but of course, it's mice, so YMMV: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5872764/

In case you hadn't figured it out, I fasted for a while out of personal curiosity and in the spirit of self-experimentation (a few 5-day fasts) and wanted to learn all about what I was getting myself into. Honestly, for the record, it was quite easy; after day 2 I just wasn't hungry anymore. In fact I felt quite energized and focused, which from the studies above, is likely due to increased noradrenaline levels.
We like Y4's just fine. For the very limited set of machines we maintain that we ever need to SSH into, we use Y4 SSH keys. But we don't promote them to clients; we're working on rolling out short-lived SSH credentials with them.
> whether Computer Science (the academic discipline) should focus more on the societal impact of computing.

The people behind http://interactions.acm.org/ would say YES. I bet most of academia would say yes.
The only thing I can think of is that no smartcard/usb-key that I know of support them. Please if someone knows of any, let me know.
None of those qualify as significant. I'm asking for examples like: Linux, Java, OpenSSL, PHP, Apache, MySQL.. widely used codecs or implementations of them, compilers or scripting languages, network stacks.. frameworks.. like Ruby on Rails, Laravel, React.. graphics libraries or tools like Photoshop, GIMP, autocad, unity, unreal engine..

Can you think of an example that is widely popular and not trivial? Is there some software related thing that originated from China that is just so fundamentally important that the rest of the world could not resist copying it or building on it?
> 45-second video of Slack opening (surely the worst offender among modern apps

I hate to defend Slack as it's far from snappy, but comparing it to a console app seems hardly fair.

I wonder how much of it's slowness is due to network requests? I could make the argument that git is slow because when I clone a large repository it takes a while.
If you go a bit deeper in the paper it suggests engaging social scientists to predict them as well as computer science folks.
The F train is horrendous. Problems almost every day.
Given that the top complaint filed relates to construction noise, I can't imagine a way to fix that unless they don't allow construction.

I live near an airport and have neighbors who are always bitching about airplane noise. I'm not sure what they expected when they bought a house next to an airport.

Filing these sorts of issues under "user error."
That would be the weirdest dark pattern ever, although I could see it going down in a design meeting:

You know how people speak up more if you say something wrong, than if you ask for the right answer? Well, what if people were more likely to make accounts, if we made them think they already had an account called "Pam"?

...brilliant!
I use it all the time, but more because I manage a few groups, people who come out and I talk with are always happy to find there are people who share their interests, even if they never come back.
Exactly, that is the exact question. Who should be the arbiter? The public. Everyone.

The physicists & engineers didn’t identify the MAD inevitability from developing nukes. The public did.

I’m not demonizing the physicists or engineers here either, how were they to know what the outcome of their developments could be?! But the public at large contains people who have other ways of looking at new technologies other than “this is innovative!” or “this will end the war!” this will be profitable!”. It’s these outsider viewpoints that are needed for the public to decide if laws are required in order to robustly protect the public from that new technology.

In specific implementation scenarios, these debates are pointless because we have the nukes & chemical weapons examples from recent history. The ethics are clear. I’m more speaking about developers of new technologies alerting the public at large about potential risks involved with their technology that would make robust laws protecting the public from misuse of their technology prudent.

But, in saying that, there are examples of programmers who could have alerted the public in the public interest, but kept their mouth shut instead such as the developers who developed the emissions cheat software for Volkswagen. Worse, they knew that their actions would lead to deaths among the populations in which those cars were sold because emission-related deaths have been intimately understood for decades now. That is a crime that was perpetrated at the frontlines of software development. Those guys knew what they were doing and their “secrecy” is nothing more than a bloody conspiracy to murder. They didn’t give a fuck how many have died from the emissions released by their cars during the decade they were on sale because “I’m just doing my job building the software I was asked to build” is an adequate excuse in their book.
It does seem to be available online at inflated prices. I got mine at a restaurant supply store, see if you have one near you.

Also try calling morton and asking who carries it in your area, they should be able to tell you that.
Pitch Mistakes 2018 Edition
Minimal OpenGL example
First Roman Jewish War (66-73 AD)
"Scarcity can always be traced back to the same thing: prices are too low."

And prices (i.e. the supply curve and the demand curve) are function of relative economic power.

If you want to sell the roads to the highest bidder, the 'expensive cost' of driving you had will go up 10x and you will never be able to drive in NYC because it will be a privilege of a class of very few individuals that you will never be a part of.

Like I say enough people would be happy to pay a price to make sure you can't drive near them.
One of the failures of modern GUI design is exemplified by the calculator app on the iphone. It looks exactly like the old stand-alone desktop calculators. What could be wrong with that?

Have you ever used a calculator, and wondered if you'd punched in the operands correctly? I have. And so I do the calculation again.

With a scrolling terminal, you can see (and check) the operands on the previous line(s).
That works in theory. In actuality the system is already overfunded compared to other cities and funds simply become fodder for well-connected contractors on large capital projects or union workers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

Here is an excerpt from the article:
"Subway workers, including managers and administrative personnel, now make an average of about $155,000 annually in salary, overtime and benefits, according to a Times analysis of data compiled by the federal Department of Transportation. That is far more than in any other American transit system; the average in cities like Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington is less than $100,000 in total compensation annually."
I find it interesting that you conflate Trump voters with Alex Jones-style conspiracy theories. They are different subsets, just like your average Hillary voter isn't some mask-wearing rioting antifa.
"They weren't forcing anyone to sign the contracts"

This is very, very disingenuous. If the only way to have a successful product in the American and European markets is to have the Play Store, then yes, there is some level of force there.

"see Fire devices and the Chinese mobile market for google free Android examples."

Google wasn't allowed in China to begin with, so that's a very poor comparison. And the Fire Android devices flopped pretty badly.

"Also you're making sound like they were "bundling" trash, the apps are useful and of higher quality than most apps on the platform"

Completely irrelevant; they're still forcing the bundling.
Hawaii seems wrong: there are fort like structures still standing that are obviously hundreds of years old.
Sounds like you've been through similar things? What helped you master time management? We're bootstrapped so the only money management problems is really related to (wasted) time management.
Heise is even worse. They covered GDPR extensively, yet don't do any notifications on their own websites.
I do not see how that comparison is unfair. Terminal IRC clients, for example, accomplish the same exact functionality as Slack in a curses UI in a vastly faster way.
Wouldn't this depend upon how it is used? If I take someone's copy of a game and make it available for all to download, it can deprive the company of many sales. If I take Coca Cola's trade secret formula and research it for my own curiosity, but then do nothing with it, they would lose nothing.

Would the ability of the company to challenge the sharing of the game really make a major distinction, especially since it would be possible to host the website in a country that doesn't care enough to take it down?

Of course, in the case in the linked article, I think it is reasonable to assume this wasn't done just for sating some curiosity.
You stated that we have moral culpability for second-order effects, whatever those are. If a person engineers a bridge that works as designed, what would the second-order effects be?
My issue here is that the "problem" as posed is stupid and so all "solutions" are trivial and irrelevant, particularly the suggestion to tax everything until only super rich people can afford to drive. That's the neoliberal fantasy of a "public/private partnership" at its finest.
As I said, you can only export the original media files and none of the organisation/folders/albums/tags. An analogy might be a filesystem where you can copy files out but not the folder structure.
RHEL 7 (and derivatives) do support Ed25519 keys.
Is there a mathematical theory trying to quantify this value?
You can make your own extremely easy.

1kWh is about 85 Amp Hours. You'll need at least a 160Ah battery if you don't want any extra storage. Usually you will need to at least double that for days when you don't have much sun. I would suggest you need at least 400Ah worth of batteries.

Then you have to figure out how much sun your panels are getting to determine if you can fully charge your batteries in that time for the rest of the day.

You'll most likely only need a few 100W panels. This means you'll be looking at <$1k for the batteries and <$1k for everything else, including a cheap controller.

Size? Well expect this entire thing to weigh around 500lbs!
Why can't it be fixed and then just break for Redhat (until Redhat rolls out fixes/patches)?
Is there any particular department you speak with to get free trades? Based on your comment, I just gave it a shot and was told they don't do free trades and the person I spoke with was confused as to why I would even ask.
Animations are cool the first time you see them. The tenth time, they are just aggravating.
Crumpled weird distorted trees and houses have to be one of the worst features of the newest google maps.
No it doesn't.

GDDR5 is bad for CPU as it sacrifices latency for throughput.
Cache misses and branch mispredictions become so expensive and in the end it's inefficient.
I highly disagree that the animations are superfluous for the vast majority of users. Yes, they can be superfluous, but that's not by their nature of existing.

History shows us that consumers value good UX, of which animation is a key component. The iPhone wasn't the first smartphone, but it was the fist one to take UX as seriously as the hardware.

As for the examples:

- Slack: Yes, it takes forever to load and I hate that, the real problem is performance, not the animation. Would it be better if no animation happened and didn't inform the user about about what's going on? Keep in mind that the animation also serves to inform the user that it hasn't "frozen", so a still interstitial would be a regression.

- Spaces: The animation tells the user what is going on! Having the entire screen change instantly would be confusing for the vast majority of users.

I do value choice though, so perhaps there should be a setting for power users to disable/minimize them.
But somehow there's all these people that want to use Slack over Irssi.
Hah. I didn't even get to asking the wrong person out. I was caught looking. Oops. :)
You can bundle assets, like icon, in your binary. In that case changing an image results in a new build and a new binary. Then deployments are still just one copy via Ansible, or similar.
Try to use recognizable in-store footage of a person in a commercial advertisement without their consent and see what the lawyers say. It's not as clear-cut as you are making it out to be. You cannot just use photos or video of a person however you want without their consent.
The place sounds like a shit show. I'm not sure why you stuck it out for 4 years.
They keep flying and dying crashing into my windows, despite a dozen eagle silhouettes being glued to them. What else can we do?
I agree.

Only I think the tax should be indexed, and increase semi-exponentially based on the price of your vehicle.

That would satisfy both sides of the argument. The wealthy would pay WAY more for their ego-mobiles. The poor and middle class would be paying next to nothing for their Honda Civics. And all the money collected would be made available to improve public transit.
the only good food in the grocery store is

1) produce aisle

2) butcher

3) some dairy

4) a few dried base foods like oats, rice, and maybe beans.

The entire rest of the grocery store is tasty poison.
Firefox removes RSS support
You raise a bunch of valid points. Just to answer the one about authing against the CA (I'm in the LV airport for BlackHat and my laptop battery is about to die): yes, still get U2F tokens. You're right that malicious Chrome extensions will mess you up, but that's true for everything else you run too: you need to enforce Chrome extensions via MDM regardless of what your SSH key story looks like. I consider having to SSO in a good thing: it means onboarding/offboarding/audit logging is easier.

The context for SSH CA/Teleport is SSHing into a box. When you do actually need an SSH key, Yubikeys are the best answer. (I like using gpg-agent's ssh-agent emulation mode because I find it works better on Macs, but that's irrelevant to the security analysis.)
+1 for introducing me to flavocol.
That's why "ownership" is a bad model for this, and (to my knowledge) not really used in any privacy laws. They are not about who owns records, it's about who has which rights to them. Under GDPR, you do not own data about you a company has, but you have rights related to it.
IDK. I feel most ppl are locked into a mindset of consuming food as something they want, not something they need. That is, it's mostly about pleasure and satisfaction and too little about nutrition and replacement.

As one of my XFit friends say "you can't outtrain a bad diet."

p.s. I too prefer vodka and soda. I like it. But I also know I'm better off with V&S than a beer. One look at the waistlines of my beer drinking friends and I'm happy with plain and boring V&S.
It's because people now see each other mostly as competitors; socializing is a tool for manipulation; the purpose of which is the acquisition of material resources and procreation. Only fools think it serves any other purpose.