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I'm on the IEEE P7010 Standards working group, which is part of the larger P7000 series that is focused on addressing ethical concerns when building software.[1]

As a body, we're going through painstaking effort to build a firm footing for how and why systems designers should build an ethics decision process into their workflow.

However I keep struggling to see why any software developer would care to follow our standards. They don't seem to generally follow any other standards, or even generally know they exist.

I can't think of anything more formalized that would help either, because the monetary incentives of ignoring or never learning about standards just aren't there. If you're just out there winging it, trying to make as much money as possible, what short term incentive do you have to adopt ethics? I'm trying to help find or create real incentives that aren't easy to ignore, so if anyone has any good ideas I'm open.

[1] https://standards.ieee.org/project/7010.html

[2] https://standards.ieee.org/project/7000.html
Private blockchains are interesting because it causes separate business to share code and data formats. There is a better interface for integrating. Plus you still get the rule of law.
I really find this kind of comment toxic.

I would appreciate it if mods could moderate comments such as the one you made.

Not everything is about race, gender, equality and being politically correct.

Please, do not derail yet another conversation.

Respectfully, [insert your preferred gender/race/correct pc term here]
I have not, but I turn off my lights when I go to bed.
But the max per year is $3k, which is garbage.
This is a good point and likely going to result in a massive class action that a few of these companies don't survive.
For LEDs, LM-80 data is used to extrapolate lifetime data via the TM-21-11 methodology. Its not great, but it is what we have. If you read the standard, it has pretty good summary of the drawbacks of the current approach to lifetime extrapolation:

https://www.ies.org/product/projecting-long-term-lumen-maint...

But, in practice, other components generally fail before the LEDs have a (binary) failure.
This is where a political problem needs to be fought back where it hurts the government the most, threaten to get the hell out and see their corporate taxes income dwindle.
I bought a bunch of the Cree LED bulbs from HD when they first came out, and I've had probably 6-8 of them fail into what I call "disco strobe" mode.

Eventually I'll replace the rest of them as they fail with whatever cheap store brand LED bulbs I can get.
> ...yet higher earners are moving into cookie-cutter subdivisions in distant exurbs of major cities and into homes that are built rapidly with poor materials. And yet there's no such stigma there.

Ever hear of McMansions? That's derogatory. I think people who buy them are shallow and have no taste. They're just happy with the faux status that "muh big house" brings.

I have friends in Mount Airy, Maryland, and I've seen tons of these things tossed up on old farmland covered in styrofoam faux stucco, brick and stone. They are often just plopped down in a field with nothing around them but open air. It looks so hideous when you come upon a large field with a dozen large homes standing in the open with cars in front. And then to add to that, the juxtaposition of barns, silos, cows or corn fields opposite the road. It almost looks like they're growing them.
The meme community generally accepts that "as long as you credit source, you're golden". This was a big issue with the Fat Jewish(among others) years ago, and he hand to bend the knee and apologize for joke theft and start crediting.

FuckJerry is just the perfect shitstorm of bad optics. They put out an image of douche-bro behavior (I mean, look at their name) and one of their biggest claims to infamy is being the marketing team behind Fyre fest. They're whole response to every scandal has been "you're a jealous idiot, and our legal team is more powerful than yours so eat shit".

What we're seeing right now is the community holding someone accountable. You can argue fairness, or free speech til the cows come home on both sides, but in the end the ball is rolling and we just have to wait and see where it stops.

Also >>"Why are people acting so entitled? Seems to me they just saw the huge revenue pie and want a piece."

Yes. Why would these entitled CONTENT CREATORS want to be compensated by people using their content for commercial gains?! What a bunch of entitled babies. They should be happy for the exposure. /s
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The $10k cap on SALT (state and local tax) deductions starting with the 2018 tax year will be shocking to many people on here living in high tax blue states like CA or NY/NJ. If you have a very average wage and modest property in these states you'll almost definitely pay more this year than in previous years.
Since it does in fact have racist origins, maybe a campaign could be organized to make more aware of this? seems like the kind of thing that pretty much everyone except racists would be for, and so its just a matter of getting the word spread, once it is, outrage organically will emerge, and from that hopefully change.
Regardless, that's a really fucked up incentive structure if ya think about it.
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We do outdoor lighting for industrial environments
One of the main points of the article is that the government and the legal system is an effective mechanism of trust. If you're worried someone will squelch on their end of the deal, you write up a contract and thereby get to sue them if they fail to do so.

This is usually where the bitcoin adherents start referring to corruption and the ilk to explain why government can't be trusted. But Schneier has the rebuttal: we know damned well from experience that you can't write bug-free, secure code. Bitcoin requires hidden trust in the programmers of the software, and in the community to move forward on decisions, and history has borne out that this trust is misplaced.

Blockchain isn't trustless, it just replaces trust in a system that is designed to efficiently enforce sanctions against those who violate trust with a system where every participant is responsible for policing trust individually.
Higher socioeconomic classes inherently have benefits, like better informed parents, and friends who have better informed parents. This will show through any test, and it's just a fact of life since everyone isn't equal.

I don't see changing a test to be a solution. If the problem is not having well equipped parents and network, then the solution has to attack that issue. Which of course is very difficult and spans over decades as it would take generations to change.
> I think the fact that a gig economy company with fair (for lack of a better term) labor practices hasn't shown up yet (to my knowledge) is an indictment on the lack of vision from VCs and entrepreneurs.

IMO, The "fair" gig economies are inversely correlated with their broadness and accessibility. Uber, Lyft, Doordash, Shipt, etc will never be fair because so many people are able (and willing) to race to the bottom.

Things requiring specialized skills generally seem relatively fair. They tend to pay less than a normal job, but still well above minimum wage. That's a fair tradeoff for the flexibility they come with. It's much better than the alternative of not having any options. Tutoring, tech support, care giving, nursing, and more have successful gig economy companies that offer people a way to easily make additional income.
Lifetime isn't even my #1 concern with LED bulbs. It's strobing/flickering.

I film all the LED bulbs I buy in slow motion at 240 fps with an Android phone, and play the movie back on a PC with mplayer using the dot(".") key to move frame by frame. Here is a shot I made comparing 2 brands of LED bulbs: https://youtu.be/QbenId_F2RQ (Edit: yeah you don't have to transfer to a PC, just playing back in slow motion on the phone will still show the effect quite well.)

It's amazing how I find this way that most (but not all!) of LED bulbs flicker with a strobe effect at 120 Hz (frames alternate between bright and dim) because they have crappy power supply designs that fail to smooth the A/C voltage. As a result they flash one time during the positive phase and one time during the negative phase of the 60 Hz A/C mains frequency.

I find this unacceptable. Although not too noticeable in normal conditions, a 120 Hz strobing light is definitely noticeable when your eyes move or track an object illuminated by the bulb.

In my experience, Philips lightbulbs are one of the few brands that don't have this flaw because they take care of converting AC to a stable DC voltage internally. In fact they are advertised as such: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CFRCGKC "COMFORTABLE LIGHT: Our products meet strict test criteria including flicker, strobe, glare and color rendition to ensure they meet EyeComfort requirements"
Your English is very good considering.
I think Norway has a similar program. 16 year olds go to school - it can be trade school or continuing education for university prep (or both, depending). It also isn't mandatory, even though most folks go.
Not to be pedantic, but why isn't "Instacart" being annotated as "Instacart (YC S12)" in this latest round of stories? Seems only fair.
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as with many such articles, the title is rhetorical and not intended to be answered.
To some extent, they can't. (How do you verify the email without being on the wifi?)
Do hooks work well with TypeScript? e.g. types will catch errors for you and you don't need to use "any"
The people in positions of power to make these sorts of decisions are almost never incentivized to do anything other than make the maximum possible amount of money for investors/shareholders. I've never heard of a corporate leadership structure that would, for example, reward the lowest executive/director on the totem pole individually for choosing to do something that has a good chance of limiting revenue from what is legally possible, but for empathetic/moral reasons around "caring about users."

And this isn't about some sort of explicit negative incentive against this sort of thing, it's just that the individual incentives to make more money are so much more tantalizing and rewarding. It's not about creating a non-zero incentive out of thin air around moral actions, it's about looking at the overall incentive structure and moving "user empathy" to a higher rung in the overall hierarchy, among things like reducing costs & increasing revenue. You could then argue with me over the appropriate place for "user empathy" in that overall hierarchy, but I don't think it's reasonable to expect mis-aligned incentive structures to produce many cases (always can be outliers...) of someone in a leadership position "doing the right thing" from a moral standpoint outside the numbers of the business.
Graphical Models in a Nutshell [pdf] (2008)
So what this is saying is that light bulb companies engineered their bulbs to need regular replacement and we could have had much much longer lifespans with somewhat dimmer bulbs?
Because that was a known feature since 2008 that helps making aliases on the fly. For example, you register on SomeForum as myemail+someforum@gmail.com, and if you ever receive spam on that address, you know it was SomeForum who sold email lists. This was a good thing when email lists were being sold without regulations.

https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-mo...
One of my close friends is a USPS courier. Technically they are never allowed to accept cash or cash equivalents like gift cards.

You can give them small non-cash-like gifts such as a bottle of wine though.

https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2012/pb22349/html/cov...
I have to go around my VPN provider for DNS because they intercept and alter DNS requests.
If you're a technical person, you don't need to trust Blockchain technology; you can verify that it works on your own. If you're not a technical person, you can find independent technical experts to verify it for you.

Much of the value of a cryptocurrency can be attributed to the fact that it's difficult to coordinate a large number of people to agree on changes. Also, because most blockchains are public ledgers; it's impossible to manipulate them behind the scenes without raising alarms.

On the other hand, fiat money is constantly being secretly manipulated. There is very little transparency and much of the new fiat money which flows into the system has to pass through big financial firms/gatekeepers who get their cut of the new money supply. Big finance firms have had many decades to figure out how to game the fiat system and there is no doubt that they've been successful at it.

Cryptocurrencies have the potential to greatly improve the financial system by making it simpler, fairer and more transparent. When anyone will be able to launch their own cryptocurrency, we will have a chance to free ourselves from the coercive influences of debt, venture capital and corporations.
Simple way to beat their system: Always enter $0 as tip in their app and the tip the driver with cash or your favorite money app
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould
Does a bank's own blockchain require trusting that bank? If so then you probably don't need a blockchain since you already have assumed a trusted third party.

If you are aiming to reduce your institutional trust assumptions to me the question is why not use Bitcoin?
In my last job I had two realms of development. The first was strictly based on what the company had been doing for years, what we expect new hires to know and what we touted as our language of choice. Embedded world that was C.

The second realm was languages that I picked purely because they filled a niche better than anything else. Often these were side projects, or tooling, or things that I could sell based on how quickly and efficiently I could get up and running with X language that would save us money even if we eventually had to replace it if no one learned it.

I used F# for big data processing because I am an FP guy and they wanted .Net and I could do data manipulation like nobody's business. I used tcl/tk because I needed a super quick and dirty UI for tooling that I could quickly update to add new features. I used Racket when meta programming would hugely benefit me.

The problem is that for a lot of our jobs we are stuck with realm 1, the things we can't change. This is the area where we end up pitting languages against each other because they end up used way more than realm 2. You have to push really hard and hope someone listens but more often than not you just keep on doing what you're doing.

I worked on a huge JVM based project and even though no one in the company knew Java there was just no selling upper management on using Clojure. FP would have reduced complexity, meta programming and dynamic code generation would have made it much more robust without a lot of effort, but it was just too foreign (or at least not advertised as being used in places well enough), too new, and when you Googled it the "major" issues developers had scared everyone.
None. Our industrial customers require minimum 5 year warranty at 12hrs on per day, 365 days per year. We work hard to make both the lighting producing and mechanical aspect of the luminaires last.
I've been in similar meetings and spoken out against similar shadiness. I was told the decision was made and it was happening because a new revenue stream on a process that was otherwise already saving us money was too irresistible and to shut up and do my job, there was a long line of people willing to replace me.

I did eventually leave that company and at least one of the specific individuals involved in pushing that decision were ultimately caught embezzling money and fired, but they were not otherwise punished and they had a new job within a week.

Hell our CEO from when we were involved in a 880 million dollar accounting scandal got off effectively Scott free despite anyone who ever worked with him knowing he personally directed the accounting fraud that lead to the scandal. Only the CMO got any jail time.

My point is that if the rot is from the top down, no amount of speaking up is going to do anything except limit your career path. There is limited recourse for holding the decision makers accountable.
Speaking Japanese Natively Improves a Brain's Working Memory
I quite like technologies / ideas / concepts like Merkle-Trees, DHT's, P2P and have them on my CV. Those companies that know what they're doing engage me on these topics. When somebody talks about blockchain I usually leave the room though. When I was still on LinkedIn I made the mistake to have blockchain in addition to those mentioned above in my profile and got bombarded with ICO scams and people adding me with "blockchain" in their titles. (the type that used to do SEO or growth-hacking before but have no idea about anything). Removing blockchain from the list dramatically reduced these requests.

Although I can't say if it was just that or whether I simply exhausted the pool of those that harassed me by trolling them back. Here is some fun I had:
I made an extra 400-600 every other month by emailing people who spammed me with ICO crap. They always first connected on LinkedIn then exported their data to mailchimp abusing the Mailchimp ToS (and back then upcoming GDPR too) I sent them a requests for immediate removal from their system and an invoice. This required a little research on my part on the type of spam e.g. by filtering for those in my legal jurisdiction and getting names of people involved in their scam ... The invoice was a modest fee just above €100,- to reimburse me for my time wasted. I also attached all smtp headers, accompanied by a strongly worded letter that it would be handed over to my lawyer if the money wasn't paid within 7 days. The invoice came from an EU based Ltd operating under the same jurisdiction (no point in going after companies weak EU jurisdictions with very long legal process, ... but France, Germany, Holland, etc worked well). Only 2 of the spammers didn't pay up immediately and they got referred to my lawyer which then ensured I got the money within a month and without further fights. It did cost me around ~30-40 mins in time spent (some considerably longer but this was on average) to prepare the invoice and do the actual research on the people behind the corp (little bit of social engineering with those that seemed to be faceless and dangle some investment did the trick). It wasn't really a way of earning money but I enjoyed the extra thrill and exposing these idiots. Good times and great fun to waste a little bit of my time with figuring out how they worked (or how big they were compared to how big they claimed their operation was on social media ...)
In theory lobbyists perform a public good: they create legislation that someone wants. The problem is that we only have them for groups that have the money to pay lobbyists, so the only lobbyist-originated bills that cross legislators' desks are the ones representing a narrow set of interests.

So rather than outlaw lobbyists, one alternative would be to balance this out by hiring public lobbyists. They would craft the legislation on behalf of the state.

The analogy I'm thinking of is that this would work in much the same way that we hire public prosecutors to represent the public interests in the courts by prosecuting criminal cases on behalf of the state. Otherwise the only criminal cases would be if someone hired a private prosecutor, as it was until the 18th century.

Currently the bill-writing is the responsibility of legislators and parties. This would make it a non-political, non-partisan role in the bureaucracy.
I've never seen a washing machine manufacturer put their money where their mouth is with a $2000 machine with a 20 year comprehensive warranty.
Sure, but not for any other purpose, and that's what GP means.

It's like GPS tracking: I track every trip I make with OsmAnd's tracking feature automatically when it starts routing. But I wouldn't trust Google Maps to do the same with their location history feature. Their usage of the data isn't limited to what's in my best interest, so I'll collect it myself.
Going deeper into XOR topic:

Virtually any data can be decrypted into illegal content. It's a matter of algorithm.

So if one would like to put you in jail, you could be accused of possesing illegal thing, your disk drive could be taken and then cyber crime guys will discover child abuse images in your perfectly valid zip file of a Word document.

Sounds like out of mind but it's technically valid.

And scary.
The weirdness is because the state or context seemingly comes from thin air - there's no explicit location for the data.
There is no good reason investment income should be privileged over income from labor.
No, you’re talking about a different thing.

Each of the listed words can also have stress applied, or not, in different ways and still be differentiated by the “tone” as it would be called in Chinese. I’m not calling it tone since we don’t really have a word for it other than “pronunciation” but it’s essentially the same thing as what is happening in Chinese with tones, albeit with a very limited set of cases rather than being a pervasive feature of the language.

But feel free to call the thing I’m talking about whatever you want. But calling it “stress” doesn’t make it the same thing as the kind of stress that you were talking about with your example sentences.
1) Schneier evidently doesn't understand alternative consensus algos to mining. That's OK; they're hard to understand. Even permissioned chains apparently hard to understand.

2) Schneier doesn't understand that some people choose to trust the cryptocurrency community more than the banking/government community. If he looked at the first block of bitcoin aka "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" he'd understand why this seems reasonable to many.
I think it's nice that people can make a choice. I can definitely see how people from different background, communities or countries might have more trust in a decentralized system.

Personally I put most of my money in my bank, because this is who I trust. I tend to trust European banks more than American banks as well because I've heard horror stories here of people being impersonated and banks refusing to refund such scams.

Ideally, if everyone's bank would work on a decentralized network (that works, is bug-free, scales, has high-throughput, etc.), banking throughout the world would be a simpler experience. Decentralized and centralized at the right places.
I was not clear. The point I was trying to make was that transformers are not perfect in the conversion even when there is no load there is some power loss in the form of heat. Not sure if it is a real problem or not.
Nope.

If the user clicks a link in the email they won’t be able to log in to that account to confirm the change.

If the user navigates to Netflix themselves they won’t have anything to confirm in their own account.
Tax-loss harvesting is different than carrying losses from previous years forward. And in the case of tax-loss harvesting, the company wouldn't be realizing massive profits for that year because said profits would be offset by investment losses.
Yes there's definitely some moral gray area here (forgetting about the legality for a moment), which the article sort of mentioned. This isn't some dude reposting memes for the lulz. The dude's signing deals with Viacom for posts at more than $30k a pop; all off the backs of actual creators. On the flip side, where do you draw the line?