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A _lot_ of folks here in the comments are missing the point and "getting distracted" by the word "kill."

Sure, it was probably a bit short-sighted of the speaker to not connect the dots and see that this software would be actively used to seek out and kill people. But to me the core message of this talk applies to the very large grey area that lies in between fully ethical software and stuff the DoD makes to kill people (yes killing _can_ be necessary I know, I know, don't get distracted!). And that grey area is mostly social media and ad-tech.

These are two domains which require software to be written that is actively harmful to people's privacy and mental health. We see Twitter being used to target and harass people to the point of suicide. Instagram has been precisely designed to the point of addiciting its users into a fake world that makes them feel like they are nothing and that everyone is happier than they are and it depresses them.

The examples I just cited are prevalent criticism and can start to echo in our chamber here (HN). But how about a real, recent example: Facebook's use of two-factor authentication phone numbers in advertisements. Some engineer at Facebook was given these requirements to implement this super shady and deceitful functionality and chose to implement it anyways without pushing back. It takes advantage of folks who were simply trying to improve the security of their account, but now it is being used to target them with advertisements.

Most of us will have long careers that don't involve writing software that will kill people, but a stunning majority of us will be somewhere in this grey area at one point or another, and you must think about what you make at that point still.
Oh, give him a break. Country has a non-state meaning of "area" as well.
Its both. Absolving yourself of hunting jews for nazis because you didnt personally pull the trigger is morally and ethically bankrupt. Your line of thinking is exactly the problem.
Okay, so I can write to Applications. But I can't use that ability to install an application that actually has permissions to do anything real, right?

Apple's System Integrity Protection only applies to pre-installed programs. I just now screwed around with the following object and the system let me do it:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox

If I can do that from Terminal, then what's to stop some malicious JavaScript from doing that IRL? Once user installed programs in /Applications are fair game, it becomes much easier to subvert macOS.

By allowing untrusted binaries, you're essentially saying to the world "Go ahead, run any binary you want on my computer as an unprivileged user. macOS will protect my system from you".

Not me. I'd rather make it just that much more difficult to keep malware off my computer. Setting aside everything else, the whole meltdown/spectre thing is enough for me to want to minimize the random untrusted code I run.

And even if macOS itself is safe, those random binaries can still exfiltrate all my user data as an unprivileged user. They can mine Monero. They can participate in a botnet. All of that is possible without subverting macOS.

No. Just no.
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Both of these things are true:

(i) Like you said, if you found a triangle whose internal angles added up to 190 degrees, and you followed the procedure, you would have turned 190 degrees, rather than 180 degrees. This is true because during the procedure, you turned three times, each by one of the angles of the triangle, so the total amount you turned was the sum of the angles.

(ii) You would end up back at the line you started with, facing in exactly the opposite direction. This is true because the last step of the instructions is to turn until you're facing in the direction of this line. Thus you have turned 180 degrees.

Now of course this is nonsense: you can't have turned 180 degrees, but also turned 190 degrees. How did we arrive at nonsense like this? The logic is sound, so it must have been one of the assumptions. Which assumption is questionable? Oh, right, the triangle whose angles added up to 190 degrees.

This is a proof by contradiction, that shows that a triangle whose angles add up to 190 degrees cannot exist.
I'd love to see a website or app stylize their hamburger menu button as an actual hamburger.
Light is light, except for the intensity and wavelength.

I'm not sure why you're so set on this obviously inaccurate thing and are now moving the goalposts to stuff about retinas and what the meaning of 'intrinsic' is. All I'm saying is both light and especially the perception of it are fairly complicated. You can just read up on it like everyone else instead of building a weird messageboard logic hill fort.
The problem is that there's no alternative to "free plus ads or tracking" for most services. If I could pay a reasonable fee for all the content and services I need, I'd do it. I can do it some places, but other things just aren't available.
Use Protonmail and feel you’re super secure until the JS gets tampered by the three-letter agency and you’re screwed.
The US military is, by and large, concerned with killing people who are demanding policy changes under threat of violence. To commit to nonviolence requires making those changes, and any others that someone with a gun demands. Is that better?
I'm working on a food-related app and this might actually be a consideration.
Re processing of DNA etc, this isn't the level these studies are typically working at. There's no biochemistry knowledge involved. They are just looking at DNA sequences, and what data they have about outcomes. Whether a piece of DNA makes something critical for some muscle, or is 10 steps away in part of some complicated switching apparatus, of indeed just influences something else which causes the growing animal to enjoy behaviour which happen to exercise this muscle -- all of this detail is a black box, all of these would contribute to genetic effect.

Re universal education, etc: in adoption studies this translates to "among parents who will be approved to adopt", and this indeed cuts the very bottom off the distribution of some factors. I don't think it's a huge issue, but not an expert.

But my understanding of the point Plomin is making there is a bit different. Regardless of the current state of (say) schooling, he's pointing out that moving from a system with large schooling inequalities, to a system of absolute schooling equality, would almost certainly increase the heritability of education. In the unequal system, some bright kids are stunted etc, weakening the correlation between input and output; but in the equal one, all the variation in the output will be driven by the input.

At least I think that's what he's saying. Haven't read the book, and not really my field at all...
City transportation is definitely improving, but has a long way to go. A lot of people in the burbs consider buses as something you would see in a low income city or a downtown. Some weird stigma people have.
The footer of the Wiki page says: "Last edited 3 years ago"
Also, if we go a little deeper, then intensity is really not intrinsic property of photons themselves. Photons radiate through space and are carriers of electromagnetic force. They have momentum but no mass. Its energy and momentum is a function of frequency (or wavelength). Furthermore, they also have spin angular momentum which is truly intrinsic as it does not depend on frequency.

So, the saying that light is just "intensity and frequency" is naive and flat-out incorrect.
The argument is that since the light is the same, it can't have different effects. Reflected light cannot be inherently healthier than light from an LCD.
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Same here. I often have to switch to "verbatim" results. I hate their too clever "we guessed what you're really searching for! here you go!" results...
> I haven't used WebEx, but what is the problem exactly? Are you concerned you won't see the invite or that the sender will get an annoying automatic response?

Basically, WebEx sends invites from their own email address. If your customer has not white-listed the WebEx domain, they will not receive the WebEx invitation.
The only solution we found for our sales team is to "double" the invitation with a manual email sent separately, with the link to the WebEx invitation...

Also, I just realized that I was not very clear in my comment: my company does NOT use MailInBlack :). However, a lot of our customers do, and this has been a nightmare for our WebEx invitations process.
Unless you're providing very specific information, good luck with that. People will just get their info elsewhere.

Or, you know, someone will get the info and repost it somewhere less restrictive.
If you want a very good summary of recent genetics research results, have a look at Adam Rutherford's A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes. Basically, even the most careful and underwhelming claims from the popular press overstate how much we actually understand about the connection between genes and real world attributes of people.
Yet you fail to point out the inaccuracies... I'm not moving the goal posts, I'm just clarifying where they were to begin with. You pushed them as far as you could within the wording of my original message, instead of taking the "strongest plausible interpretation" of my original message.
Hi there. Just a precision: the fact that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle is 180 degrees is not really provable, it is a postulate of the Euclidean geometry. It is an intuitive and accepted property, it reflects the fact that the geometric space usually considered is flat. Proving this statement would be possible provided that you change basic postulates. At that moment, it would become a proposition of these new mathematics and would certainly be provable starting from the new postulates.
Changing these postulates is possible, that's how we got the parabolic and hyperbolic geometries, see wiki!
Unfortunately no, it's closed source AFAIK. The cost of having this is that Opera will see all your browsing history and interactions.
if i understand correctly, it would probably be illegal (at least in the US) for a doctor not to operate in that situation. the only circumstance i know of where a doctor can willfully allow a patient to die is when a notarized do not resuscitate order has been filed. even in this situation, they would still probably be obligated to try any other means at their disposal to save the patient.
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You can take that one step further. Couldn’t the willingness to believe in the foreordaining nature of genetics also be determined by genetics? Maybe those people, who believe that genetics does not determine everything, cannot believe otherwise, because of their own genes? In that case, isn’t there no point in you trying to argue about this? Those who believe in genetics and determinism will do so and leave everything to fall as it may, and those who believe in personal hard work and perseverence will try to work as hard as they can, because that is their nature.
Ask HN: Tools to search across internal knowledge bases?
I’m imagining something like a tool that hooks up to confluence + google groups + dropbox paper + github + docs + external support + sourcegraph. I know of stripe home and internal knowledge wikis like tettra, but us anyone built the google for internal knowledge?
From my experience, it seems that the daily digest is not enough :). And they still seem to blacklist WebEx invitations, which is really weird as it is definitely a "standard" in web-conferences.
DDG is not a standalone service?
Its a sign that DDG's search traffic has value, which is a great change from just a few years ago.

I tried to use DuckDuckGo, but even still I feel its results are not up to par with Google, despite Google's results sliding in quality year after year. Qwant has been a decent supplement, the results for general queries are good and on the more specific ones (part numbers, key terms from papers and articles) its equal to or better than Yahoo/Bing.

On specific queries, Google has really dropped the ball. Part numbers get ignored or rewritten, and results are just plain missing (despite other search engines having those key results).
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Not all fakes are worse.

Some fake products add features, especially the best features from the competitors product that the 'genuine' products couldn't include for licensing reasons.
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> First, the purpose of a military is to be able to break things and harm people as effectively as possible. Did he think his job would involve making the military less effective?

That's his point. He was distracted by the pay, the work, etc. and put thinking about what his software would do to the side. Of course it's obvious, but it's easy to "get distracted" and not think about it.

> Second, why is it bad to work on software that's used to kill people? Killing isn't necessarily bad. If this software helped kill Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi or Ayman al-Zawahiri, it would have a hugely positive impact upon the world.

This is inaccurate for two reasons:

1. It assumes moral absolutism: that certain killing is bad and certain is good, but good or bad for whom? The CIA tried to kill Castro multiple times, but he's a hero to the people of Cuba. I'm sure people in the USA would've applauded this, but Latin America would've mourned and been furious.

2. Is the US government the best judge to decide who lives and who dies? Moreover, is the single individual in the military who will ultimately call the order to kill the person who should decide who is good to die and who isn't? And on that note, where does that ethically place the enabling of certain people to wield such power?
BTW I have never actually installed (and never seen installation discs of) Windows before Windows 95 - we just copied it between PCs.
Not sure what you mean by 'secure'. If you send a person an email with ProtonMail, it defeats all the security that ProtonMail has (unless it's to another PM email). You should only rely on yourself for security. Start using PGP and demand that all your friends/relatives use PGP. Only sign in through Tor, use different emails for different services, etc.

You can't rely on a company to provide you security or privacy.
But this example works and, I assume, is intended to work over localhost. How would cross origin detection work in this case?
Sounds pretty similar in target usage to LMDB.
Preemptive self-defense absolutely is a legitimate thing, if used properly. If a great deal of violence against civilians can be stopped by a smaller amount of violence against combatants, the second part is justified, even if it takes place "preemptively, on foreign soil on the other side of the world." A significant amount of context based on real world cases is necessary however.

When such capabilities have been misused, we look at why they have been misused and fix those. The Department of Defense has a legitimate usage for defense of the United States. Misuses of that should be handled through the appropriate political channels, rather than destroying something with a legitimate purpose.
how many levels of indirection does it take before you are no longer "morally and ethically bankrupt"?

is the janitor at CIA partially responsible for extrajudicial killings? is it morally bankrupt to pay federal income tax, a portion of which will finance the killing machines?
I smell some sarcasm in this thread.

But we are on the net so nobody knows for sure.
This is xenophobic nonsense. I have travelled extensively all over Latin America (a massive and heterogeneous place by the way) for the last 20+ years and literally none of this rings true at all.

I mean are you extending this “age of violence” theory to Chicago, or Orlando nightclubs, the Las Vegas strip, or a typical American public school?

Or do you confine your contempt to brown people who speak a different language?
Have you ever faced the decision to leave your "home"? There are many variables to consider that question the very existential beliefs of a person. "Smart" means different things. Furthermore, the outside environment as well as the inside world of a person is always plastic so the threshold between staying and leaving is very murky. By the time, it is "obvious" to leave, it is often too late.
I wonder what to read to understand how the fact that so much money is invested in index funds these days could eventually become a problem in a crisis situation and how to profit if that happens.
>If you unsubscribe every time you see a new e-mail that you’re not interested in it’ll help keep it in check.

That statement gets to the crux of the whole situation.

Why should I spend time tending an inbox, continually scanning for the unsubscribe link in any new email I receive? The sender put in almost no effort to send me that email, whereas I the recipient have to expend time getting off their list. I don't want to do that for the rest of my life. I'd rather just remove that email from my whitelist (one keystroke).

>For spammers who don’t respect unsubscribes and you’re using Gmail, you can create a filter which immediately trashes the message based on the “from” address

Same problem as above. I tried it and in the end found maintaining a blacklist (which is what you're essentially suggesting) burdensome. It's continual work for the rest of my life adding people to a blacklist. I inverted the whole thing. Let the sender work to get on my whitelist.
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Have you been to Baltimore or Detroit?
Why I don't find many of these types of articles interesting isn't because of the supposedly provocative genetic part, but of the glossed over results. They look at something like grades and then try to find a link between those grades and genetics. Eventually they do and conclude that there is a link between genetics and grades. But they don't consider if those genetics or grades are important in themselves. Which is why these sort of studies tends to not survive real comparisons e.g. between groups with different norms.

Even so I think the largest flaw tend to be in the final conclusion. Which is essentially always about how we should treat less fortune people. They day such an article conclude that we need to shut down private schools and make sure we don't have genetically challanged CEOs I will give them points for being provocative.
I just encountered this as I was having issues with google results. I thought maybe something is wrong with google and people are switching yo duckduckgo.

Seriously I just searched something on google and second page of results are total crap. When I switch to duckduckgo with same keywords I get relevant results.

For the record, keyword I was searching for was "first man curiositystream", on Google I get a bunch of fake websites on second page of results, sited with lots of random words in description for seo hacks.
surely it's both—that our capacity for mental fortitude can lay dormant until woken by conditions
> Kept us from using it to play games :)

Why? All the best games ever run under DOS!
The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 are Open Source now
I'll piggyback on this comment to recommend (no affiliation) twistedpearaudio.com

Awesome little company with great kits for people into building HiFi gear
I find this a good mechanism for determining which sites I don't care about.
Well, I always had problems differentiating "opaque" and "transparent" because depending on your point of view often both concepts can be applied interchangeably.

For instance in your post I didn't really get your point because at one time you seem to favor containers as a single entity from the perspective of the OS so they can be easily managed. This is what I understand you called "transparent to the OS". The is opposed to the container root fs that you call "opaque", supposedly because it cannot be easily mounted from the host OS etc.

As the implementor of container runtimes you know that there's not a container entity but an agglomeration of isolation techniques such as namespaces, cgroups etc. including some kind of overlay fs that make up an actual container. For me that's not very transparent. VMs on the other hand are in that respect – in a similar way Solaris zones and Jails are, as they are actual entities that can be seen and managed on the host OS.
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Which smartphone displays can you set to 'incredibly low brightness'? all iPhones and Androids I've used are like bright flashlights when the lights are switched off.
Btw git is already running on SSB (Scuttlebut protocol): https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25n92DiQh7ietE%2BR%2BX%2FI403LQoy...

There it has issue tracking, Readme parsing etc. Looks pretty githubby to me.
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Learning to touch type properly. A short course I took in the summer pays off every time I use a keyboard, which is all day.

The other one was a summer course in basic accounting that taught the basics of double-entry bookkeeping, balance sheets, and income statements. That has paid off literally, ongoing, and well. Very good investment of time.
I said "and their chain of command". Yes, I get that in addition to the trigger-puller following an illegal order, someone would have to have provided that order - and at worst, the buck stops with the Joint Chiefs and the President.

Unless this blog-post's author is a serious multitasker, I highly doubt that he/she was anywhere in that chain-of-command.

Or do you mean to insinuate that - for instance - if the Navy had been using OpenBSD to run their carriers' computers, then that makes Theo de Raadt responsible for everything the Navy does that you think is bad?

(And of course, there's also the facts that our military aren't the Nazi-led Wehrmacht and the terrorists aren't Jews ... but by Godwin, that's the darnedest angle to take here.)
We agree. I said that the purpose of a military is to be able to break things and harm people as effectively as possible.
Mediatation.

I’ve been meditating daily using the app Headspace for the past 3 months and have seen improvements in my focus and a reduction in anxiety.

My mind would previously wonder off in meetings and I would miss a lot of the discussion, but with meditation I’ve noticed that I’m alot more focused and my mind doesn’t wander off as much.

I’ve also felt alot happier and less anxious, as meditation has allowed me to notice my thoughts and feelings and let go of those that are negative.
I don't use either Amazon or Netflix, the former really got me with rusty/leaking canned goods and fake items, thus why I ceased using 'em.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cocaine-meth-opioids-all-fuel-r...

First thing I searched up, not the article I originally read but I’ll find it. You tell me how is cocaine related to opiates? Cocaine overdose deaths doubled since 2013...that’s 5 years and it DOUBLED. Cartels are pushing all of these especially meth.

Actually ignore the first link, check out the .gov link here on overdose deaths: https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/o...

Both links have good visuals. Meth quadrupled in 5 years, FIVE times as many deaths from 1 drug, heroin increased even by a larger magnitude.
Their culture seems to be based on rotating new product managers in every 2-3 years. It's logical that a new manger will want to make their mark and prove they "did something".