skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And I suppose, as someone who does a lot of thinking without an internal narrative I feel a bit attacked by the whole idea.

When ideas like this and Sapir-Whorf pop up it really makes me wonder if maybe the social "sciences" are studied exclusively by some subset of the population that thinks entirely different from me. How else would they come to the conclusion that thoughts take the form of articulated monologues? Maybe I'm the outlier but it takes deliberate effort for me to serialize my thoughts into anything articulate. I mean do other people just hear "I didn't give the correct arguments to this function" in their head when they code?
Yeah, crazy that people want to work on a project without being berated publicly and called incompetent on a mailing list. Those darn SJWs!!
Really the biggest issue with AI Ethics boards is they are all Hollywood FUD instead of actual ethical issues. If you are worried about self driving cars killing people you shouldn't consult an ethicist but reliability engineers - design flaws are what ultimately kill.

What we need to fear are the users being stupid (misapplying it to be superstition or reinforce biases) or evil (knowingly abusing it).

Ethics boards failing to improve actual organizational ethics is no way unique however.
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> MCAS were raised internally by some engineers

I think it's quite generous to Boeing to imply the MCAS system was developed in house. I'm leaning towards 3rd party contract, built to Boeing's spec. Whoever wrote the spec might be 3rd party as well, with Boeing's 'engineers' just performing as project managers.
My point is, in both cases, you're making a requirement based on what part of cinema you feel is important.

You see "ability for the public to see this movie in X years" as important for cinema.

Steven Spielberg sees "ability for the public to see this movie in a theatre" (at some point) as important for cinema.

Both are valid criteria.
Could always use vimeo?
>Do you choose to either prosecute a burgler or put a lock on your door but not both?

Physical property and intellectual property are not the same, so this analogy does not hold.

Copyright is fundamentally a balancing act between these two opposing interests:

- the right of a creator to make money of their creation for a limited time

- the right of the public "to promote the progress of science and useful arts"

There is no such duty for a physical property owner to allow others to access, view, or build upon his property.

If you choose to use technological means to deny society the second interest above you should not also be allowed to claim the protection of the first interest above.
This happens with the subway in NYC all of the time - a very crowded train will announce that it's running express to X stop...a thousand people get off and onto the next one to continue on.

It's quite annoying when it's you that has to get off and wait, again, haha, but appears to be the right move for the system
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Sorry Linus, you can't both be BDFL of the world's most popular OS and be able to "stupid crap". Given the choice between the two, I think it's good he's taking some time to work on the "stupid crap" part.
Depends on your definition of aeroplane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_%28spacecraft%29#SABRE_...
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[Dropbox]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Did you swear an oath to uphold the constitution? If so, it is your duty to allow others to exercise their 2nd amendment rights.
Exactly! And it also does not stop Netflix from playing by the MPAA's rules, which have requirements for showing the film in a theatre for a given period of time. Newcomers love to throw out the "rules" (or outright knowingly facilitate the breaking of laws) that have been in place for generations, which have made industries possible and to thrive (like, in this case, the relationship between the studios, distributors, and theatre operators). Yes, times have changed, but the MPAA allowing Netflix to bypass the rules will do the same thing to movie theaters that Uber and Lyft have done to cab companies.
Oh, well that's nice and helpful. Good for them!

It probably adds almost no value to the product they're selling (nobody is buying windows for notepad, and anyone with serious notepadding to do gets a real editor) but it's a nice thing to do.
In an article by the Atlantic it's stated that the books at least are kept around.

> it’s 50 or 60 petabytes on disk, and the only people who can see it are half a dozen engineers on the project who happen to have access because they’re the ones responsible for locking it up.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-t...

They invested non-trivial amounts of money in scanning those books, deleting them would throw that money away. As for Usenet, it's similar: storing the data is cheap, and acquiring it again is probably next to impossible, so unlikely they threw it away unless idk it contains proof that sergey and larry have stolen their ideas from some usenet post or something.
As for refinements, I have never used them, never
seen them used, and I don't even really remember
what they are. I think they were to save us from
the evils of monkey patching.

They're pretty cool. IMHO they could be considered a best practice whenever you're reopening a class, whether it's for the purpose of monkey patching an existing method or adding your own.

Rather than overriding, say, `String#upcase` on a global basis you could override it in some reduced scope, like within some specific class. This is arguably not ideal, but I would say that it is more explicit and less dangerous than a global monkey patch.

Or, if you have a use case for adding a bunch of new methods to `String`, you can go ahead and add that `String#decorate_with_random_emoji` method you've always dreamed of - but only within particular scopes, such as a particular Rails presenter or something. I think this is often better than polluting the `String` class globally, or having some utility class full of methods like `MyAwesomeStringUtils.decorate_with_random_emoji(some_string)`.

In most cases I would say that these refinements belong in a mixin that classes can explicitly opt into -- `include my_string_refinements` or whatever.
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"It's not that it's legal" Unless this somehow escapes qualified immunity, it's legal for them to lie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity

Also you may have no way to gather your own evidence anyway.
Internet Archive has a clear mission and pure motives though. As an independent non-profit they are free from “business” motivations.
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Ironic that it's posted on Medium, which does most of this stuff.
Computers and smartphones don't really matter when looking at a total-cost-of-living calculation in today's economy. In the US, they are vanishingly cheap compared to housing, health care and education (aka, servicing student debt). Cars cost a bit more (last I checked, some years ago, about $6k/year - base cost + gas + insurance).

Rent is >$500 just about everywhere these days... https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/mo/sa... ). The US relies on employer-provided health insurance, but, as a result, employers keep people working multiple part time jobs to avoid footing the insurance costs. And since most people pay for education with loans, the lowest wage workers are often also left paying for years for failed attempts to get out of the lowest economic class.
Greco-Roman gods absolutely punished immoral behavior. It's just that "what is moral" has changed a lot over time. For example, the classical Greek period was a time when pederasty and war were considered perfectly moral. It's often pointed out that pre-Christian morality seems to differ considerably from post-Christian morality.

Also, Ancient Greece/Rome definitely count as "complex societites".
Vancouver buses have this ability! And they will often specifically refuse to let new people on the bus if they are at or near capacity.

It noticeably speeds up things.
Part of effective trolling is to actually get some credible folks to try and beat what you've created. I think the creators know saying things doesn't make it true. What makes it true is when you stick your neck out a little, troll a little, get people to take a few swings, and everyone sees they just keep on missing the mark. Or perhaps they land a punch, EverCrypt get a bloody nose, and we see whether and how they dust themselves off and try again.

I translate "hacker proof" into two things: this is something we all need; and we're ready, give us your best shot!
If you cannot handle the heat, leave the kitchen. If a developer submits patches or bits of code that haven't been tested and/or says dumb things that developers of that caliber shouldn't, I don't see any reason not to call them out publicly. Open source projects, open source comments. I don't want to live or work in a world where I have to constantly guard my tongue for fear of "offending" someone, even though I know offense is taken and not given. It seems like everyone is just so defensive anymore and for why? I'm not bothered by any of it.
Assuming you are in a relative large company.

and the issue is not only inside finance company
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
> dangerous wildlife is the one that survived the cats.

More like professional courtesy.
https://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/news/state/nccapitol/2019/04...
This illustrates the folly of rule/law keeping. You can make all of the codes of conduct you want, but what they really serve to do is enhance the power of the rule makers rather make any real progress.

Real leadership is expressed through relationships, not rules. Linus apologized because he cared about those relationships. He changed his behavior to enhance those relationships and encourage new ones.
I literally suggested that if you read my comment.
The cure is worse than the disease.
...the last time I checked they were only available at restaurants, so this was very happy news for me. Thanks!
I believe the critical passage is here in CFR 14 §25.175¹

(2) With the landing gear retracted at low speed, the stick force curve must have a stable slope at all speeds within a range which is the greater of 15 percent of the trim speed plus the resulting free return speed range, or 50 knots plus the resulting free return speed range, above and below the trim speed (except that the speed range need not include speeds less than 1.3 VSR1, nor speeds greater than the minimum speed of the applicable speed range prescribed in paragraph (b)(1), nor speeds that require a stick force of more than 50 pounds)[...]

The crucial phrase is "stick force curve", which is the characteristic MCAS was created to tweak.

As far as 'authoritative sources' go, I'll just mention the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.²

(me: non-active aircraft dispatcher)

¹—https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?node=14:1.0.1.3.11#se1...
²—https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect?wprov...
Certainly, including emoji in say... a contract negotiation could introduce unwanted ambiguity, but that's absolutely not an argument against using text-based messaging platforms for that purpose. Instead, the fact that misunderstandings could be costly is an argument for using precise language for those kinds of discussions regardless of media.
The internet is a big place with lots of views and you'll find whatever it is you're looking for.

On the flip side, there are also people that are looking to be outraged about "political correctness" and inserting their own biases into a situation that doesn't require it.
> I never thought Linus was in bad form. His project, his rules.

I think this is a problematic way to view things.

Linus was usually right on the technical aspects, but he often made personal insults that were really just irrelevant. There's no need to attack people personally to get your point across. Honestly, his attitude in many of those famous comments strikes me as immature — he presents himself as someone who would rather spend time berating a person who tried to make a contribution and didn't do a good job than simply explaining why their contribution isn't good enough.

Sure, "his project, his rules", but that doesn't give him carte blanche to be a dick to people without any repercussions. Just as he is entitled to speak his mind, so too are the people who felt that his comments were out of line.
Most, if not all, arguments on data ownership are arguments by analogy. This makes them ipso facto invalid. Using that same line of inductive reasoning, we could argue that we own the trash we generate, and that's not a reductio ad absurdum.

An encrypted 'digital locker' is a naive and unreal solution, at least until homomorphic encryption is mature. How would I request data I'm interested in from people without knowing if they have it in the first place? Issue a million requests? And if I'm issuing such requests, do people have to pay me now because it's data that I have generated?

We are agreeing on the terms and policies of all information services we use and generate data from. It's not like they took us by surprise, except for few Analytica cases of course. If we follow the data ownership argument, which has (re)surfaced mostly due to media attention on FB and the likes, such services will become dysfunctional right away.

Privacy isn't the weak argument, it's just not very well enforced yet mostly because most people don't care much. Ideally, if a company wants to sell your data, as part of their ToS/PP, they notify you. If you approve, you get a share of that sale (basically what Nukleosome is doing). If you don't, they just move on.
Why do you think this is an attempt at humor? I would say this is what is often referred to as a thought exercise.
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This was one of the things that really drove me to get a Drobo back in the day. I liked the idea that I could effectively just throw hard drives in it and it would run. And run it did. Slowly, but it worked!
And then the feed goes to the Feds, and they have their own tools to mine the dataset that aren't subject to your controls and audits. This is an area that requires laws.
I would argue that only the most inelastic items (aka, rent) would see a long-term price increase. Production of other things can increase to meet the demand, and, in fact, you'll end up with a more vibrant economy overall. One can argue that this is the post WW2 US boom in a nutshell.
> It works as a sort of shorthand. Would have been 3x longer in essay form.

beering’s sibling comment made essentially the same point in direct expository form, and was much shorter, so I disagree with the suggestion that that rambling narrative is any sort of shorthand.
A young female who's been using linux decides she wants contribute back. She's interested in software development, and knows a few things. So she picks a simple issue, codes up a solution and submits a PR. She's made rookie mistakes, nothing new. She's gets called a stupid bitch and told girls can't code, and that she should go back to her dolls, or back into the kitchen. She decides to drop her idea of becoming an engineer.

While I have no specific case to point to, similar situations have occurred many times in many tech circles. A strong leader does not need to tear people down, insult them, or call them names. You can correct someone without insulting them.
I'm sorry, but there's a great deal of literature in support of this idea that naming things /well/ is one of the harder problems of programming.

If you're arguing that "fst" and "snd" are better names than "@1" and "@2" then I think we have a disagreement. None of those are good names. (All of those might be perfectly "sufficient" names, though. For a local variable, I would argue that spending any time at all on naming is a mistake.
Spend that time writing a descriptive method name instead.)

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

https://hilton.org.uk/blog/why-naming-things-is-hard

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-naming-things-hard-in-computer-...

This is foundations of computer science stuff. If you choose a solidly descriptive but wrong name before the design is fully solidified, you may be stuck with it because it will work its way through dependencies. Even if you can rename it later during refactoring, the name will shape the formulation of those refactors.

I think all of this is overblown when it comes to talking about local variables in a block scope. This is absolutely a case study in the "bikeshed problem" at this point in the thread.

There are other features planned in Ruby 2.7 (like the :. operator) that actually make the operation of some code less discoverable and will hurt to see in your codebase for the first time, but we're not talking about them at all, because they're simply not as easy for us to hate on.
Blockchain is the only way to do this.
"You're a fucking moron"

- Linus Torvalds
Users care very little about security, actually.
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Real question.

How does making your family deal with extra bullshit from the awful parts of the internet make facebook suffer? I don't understand your logic with this.
Nope, that's pretty silly BS. Apparently Melbourne had some really stupid "efficiency motivators" that made train operators do this, but that's stupid. The transit company/authority/whatever that's in charge knows that the blow back for being late is nothing compared to refusing to let people disembark where they want to, it's also a _bit_ of a sunk cost. When you let someone board you're accepting the time for them to embark and disembark (you need to let them off sometime)... as a driver you would save a bit of time by not pulling into the stop.

Anyways, with downtown buses I'll often do this voluntarily, if the bus is full I'll wait until the stop after mine to pull the cord, and disembark at my stop or one before if someone else is getting off - a block or two of walking isn't going to hurt anyone.
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In the US, an NDA can't be used to conceal a crime.
Getting rid of padding bytes would be great were it not for the number of processor families that _require_ multi-byte types to be aligned in some way. Even processors that don't require alignment tend to perform better with alignment.

I'm not saying that we can't work around alignment issues _and_ get rid of padding bytes, but it's not a simple "oh just do this" as the article seems to imply.
Saw chart. Not stunned.
Would you feel the same about getting insulted by random people for ambiguous design choices on an open source product for which you are the sole maintainer and have no accountability to anyone for?
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I'm suddenly imagining a hydrogen balloon-plane at take off that uses up the hydrogen in the balloon as it flies, until the balloon has been fully reeled back into the plane and it lands on a runway like a normal plane, with reserve hydrogen in its wing-tanks.
Why don't banks provide a read only api and login/password if this type of thing is becoming more common.

Providing any company my banking or email account login password sounds like a really bad idea. And something I'm not willing to provide.
I'd say the primary problem with this argument on its own terms is that one of the natural questions to ask is "OK, then, how much are these companies stealing from me?" and the answer is roughly "At the upper end, probably on the order of $10/month". That's going to be hard to build a social movement around. I could argue that if we were being paid a fair price, it would be worth more, but that's a chicken & egg problem; until we have such a free market, we can't really know what will happen with enough confidence to make a strong argument that we need a market of some sort.

The real problem with all this surveillance isn't the direct impact to me, it's the impact to society. It merely turns it into a sick joke that my social order is being upended and social contracts rewritten for an amount of money I'd happily hand to them to just... not. (I mean, that has it's own issues if it actually came to be, but in its current form, yes, I'd happily pay $10/month in hard cash for them to just leave me entirely alone.)

In the long term, I'm much more concerned about the fact that knowledge is power. I don't particularly look forward to the era of "SELECT name, current_location FROM citizens WHERE dissidence_level >= .6 ORDER BY dissidence_level DESC". But until that happens, to a much greater extent than it has, and it visibly manifests in the real world, it's going to be hard to get people to care, until it happens and it's too late.

What really scares me is idea that the reason why it hasn't happened yet is precisely that the people who want to do that are deliberately waiting until it would be too late.
Consider instead of YouTube though broadcast TV in the old days. If you were sitting in front of the TV at the right time, you could watch the latest episode of Star Trek. (OK. I'm dating myself. Work with me here.) You might have been aware that repeats would probably air on some unknown schedule some day. But, really, maybe you'd never be able to watch that particular show again.
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Maybe biomass could help. Already now we put apples etc into cold storage to get them out duringtimes where there are no apples growing on the trees. Same could be done for biomass. Put into the fridge and gotten out when we need it. Of course, cooling down the biomass does require energy, not sure whether it requires little enough.