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I am usually not averse against regulation but one advantage of tech is that it's still the Wild West where it's possible to innovate quickly and change things. Lawyers and doctors are in much more controlled environment where not much innovation is happening. I am also not sure how to determine what's ethical or not.

I much prefer laws like GDPR where there is a set of rules everyone has to follow.
I think its wondrous that anyone things its okay to ignore Guantanamo and the hundred other CIA black sites where this kind of activity is the norm. Its also scary.
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Senator Joe Manchin explaining Assange's arrest, and some interesting ideas on property;

>"I understand they, I understand they intervened on our behalf.

>So we're going to extradite him and we're going to get him back, it'll be really good to get him back on United States soil.

>He's our property. So we can get the facts and the truth from him."

https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/1116322371781058561/video/...
In this case, another commenter suggests it's because of the number of people employed. But I don't see why they can't punish everyone proved to be personally responsible (and perhaps the leadership wants to move people who are suspected but can't be proved deserving of criminal charges). And then at worst the assets (including the supply chain, infrastructure and all the employees required to operate it all) can continue under different ownership, but maybe mostly new leadership, or whatever. Surely some impact to the innocent still, but not nearly as much and justice is still done as much as can be proved.

I don't think this problem is unique to private corporations, though. If government projects blow through their budget and achieve almost nothing, they're usually able to get more funding, because if you don't give them more funding, "who would build the roads"? If an agency keeps having corruption issues, there's often a scapegoat or a review board put in place until the PR shitstorm blows over, and then nothing really changes. Very rarely will the general consensus be, "maybe giving people this much power and authority on this issue just does more harm than good".
What confusese is that anytime the open-office concept is mentioned it seems that nearly nobody is in favor of it, yet that is the model employed by most coworking spaces. I can't imagine trying to actually be productive in most of those environments.
Perhaps not: https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobi...
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If it requires the output of another person's labor to supply the good or service it is absolutely not free, and the parasitic mindset that allows one to think it 'free' is pure mathematical unsustainability, aka terrible culture. If the OP meant something else why didn't he say what he meant then?
There are also ICE farm and construction vehicles, airplanes, generators in rural areas, pumps, etc. Gasoline is an extremely convenient fuel.
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Have there ever been any effective privacy limitations that Facebook placed on itself that have done a thing?

We've seen internal memos raising questions effectively ignored. Facebook's own actions seem to indicate there is no limit to what they'll do to users. Their own actions seem to indicate there is no limit to what they'll do to companies that partner with, specifically lie about what level of access they're providing. Their own actions seem to indicate they don't seem to care even when they operate on another platform such as when they released a traffic monitoring VPN on Apple's app store, it was removed by Apple... so they just renamed it and put it out there again.

Facebook as an entity seems antithetical to privacy at its core. It couldn't have grown into what it is with limits... I can't imagine they are capable of being anything else.
Well I didn't think I would learn anything but I didn't know about cit/cat - very cool!
You are describing modifying someone else's unrelated code will cause the rebuild of your code right? This looks like your targets unintentionally depend on the other code.

To find out how/where the dependency was introduced, you can use bazel query 'somepath(your_target, some_other_file)'. Not sure if Buck have an equivalent, but bazel should work with Buck repo.
The only remote meetings that work are ones where everybody is remote. Even if you are sitting next to someone in the same meeting, your both have your headphones on so that you only hear each other via the call. As soon as there is a room there is a struggle in my experience: it is too easy talk to the people in the room.

There is on type of in room meeting that works: the all employee meeting. The agenda is preset (first Joe will talk about goals, then Carla will go over financials, then Fred will update us on United way...).
I think he meant rented warehouse space, not an actual storage unit. Storage units rarely have more than a single electrical outlet and many lower end ones don't even have that.
Lucky it was only a $700million satellite

in another application people could have died
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should we look at the numbers how many times it happened?
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Some people will think creating weapons for defense is an ethical thing to do. I prefer not to do that but I think the point is valid and there is no clear way to determine what’s ethical and what isn't.
They keep most of their inventory uninflated so storage requirements are not that big and the designs keep a long time, and for non-specialists, it's generally not worth keeping bottled Helium around, so it's a pretty decent business I suppose.
> Why didn't Sweden have an extradition request ready

From what I recall about the situation from past threads is that Sweden cannot send extradition requests in advance. Most criminal courts don't go out of their way to break the rules as that costs and they have to justify the budget.

Also why spend extra time and money on something when they could just wait until he was under British custody? Where is the urgency when normal procedures would suffice?

The Americans went out of their way because this is a political matter to them and their budget was approved.
As an Australia who enjoys universal healthcare, not once have I ever worried about being sick financially and how much it would cost me.

I can go to any doctors I want and easily afford the medication I may need, and may visit a doctor preemptively and without worry about cost.

It saddens me that American citizens are suffering with such an awful healthcare system, and no where in the galaxy would I ever wish a system like yours to enter Australia.

You should vote for universal, single payer healthcare.
It’s happens a lot more than it’s talked about. When a few people left the company I worked at for Rackspace who was paying a lot more the CEO of my company talked with Rackspace into agreeing to stop interviewing people from my company. I moved on from that company after the CEO admitted to the agreement.

It’s a practice older than IT. Hard to judge the man on that alone.
It's true. You can only set one 2FA factor on an IAM account. As a work around, I ended up making myself two IAM accounts: one tied to primary Yubikey and another to my backup. Certainly not ideal.
The head is shadowman. I think shadowman was edgy, which doesn’t really fit Red Hat’s status as the solid and boring Linux company.

Also people will spell Red Hat properly now (two words)
Making missile guidance software is wholly unethical and is what we should be striving to prevent engineers from working on.
> But the self-determination of communities is a more fundamental right than the right to consume whatever substances you want.

Pretty sweeping statement there. What if a majority of a "community" decides its residents shouldn't eat meat?
The President can ask the DOJ to drop things, but they don't "have to" listen.
I can't speak for others on this, but I do have one: https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics

Like medical and legal professionals, it is concerned with professional ethics. Many people would be surprised to find their personal ethics are not present.
I am producing baking soda. Unfortunately it is also containing arsenic. But it is very popular baking soda and I am making a lot of money. Some people complain so I make a pledge that one day I will change my production process to make my baking soda arsenic-free.
I agree with the idea, and so does the IEEE.

https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html

We, the members of the IEEE, in recognition of the importance of our technologies in affecting the quality of life throughout the world, and in accepting a personal obligation to our profession, its members, and the communities we serve, do hereby commit ourselves to the highest ethical and professional conduct and agree:

1) to hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public, to strive to comply with ethical design and sustainable development practices, and to disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or the environment;

2) to avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest whenever possible, and to disclose them to affected parties when they do exist;

3) to be honest and realistic in stating claims or estimates based on available data;

4) to reject bribery in all its forms;

5) to improve the understanding by individuals and society of the capabilities and societal implications of conventional and emerging technologies, including intelligent systems;

6) to maintain and improve our technical competence and to undertake technological tasks for others only if qualified by training or experience, or after full disclosure of pertinent limitations;

7) to seek, accept, and offer honest criticism of technical work, to acknowledge and correct errors, and to credit properly the contributions of others;

8) to treat fairly all persons and to not engage in acts of discrimination based on race, religion, gender, disability, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression;

9) to avoid injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by false or malicious action;

10) to assist colleagues and co-workers in their professional development and to support them in following this code of ethics.
a press release of a Wikipedia for profit, with no information.

just flag it.
I should do that

Everytime some staff member says "it will be covered we are just doing x, y, z this is covered"

and then you get a bill from the insurance company and the doctor's office says "we THOUGHT it was covered"
If you're a techie, young with no family, and you want good culture, good climate, good outdoors, and good job prospects...the valley is hard to beat.

Yes I know about droughts, we can debate all day if the culture is good or terrible, all these tech people are ruining the parks, yadayadayada. Point still stands, the san fran area has a unique and sought after position.

And to address your point about gold mine of people, not every company does the whole remote thing. I mean I agree remote shouldn't be hard but it's a legitimate position to prefer onsite employees.
I find it interesting how Japan and Germany both have a constitution that was essentially written by Americans after the second world war. But there is a big difference in civil liberties between these countries.

E.G. If the police charge you in Japan, there is very little chance not being sentenced to something (or taken hostage). Compared to Germany where you would have a much fairer trial.
I think his point is that this type of environment would discourage or essentially ban the type of huge corporation that depends on unaccountable middle managers to offload liability.
oh for real fuck regex. I need to just sit down for an hour and learn it, but I never do :( it's like Vim..
Can you help me understand what bit rot means as you are using it, and why it is different in a mono repo vs an equally large multi-repo system?
Most of the plumbing technology developed for RV 'boondocking' would be perfectly adequate. Bit of a PITA, but I've done that for 2.5 week stretches in the mountains on ~1 gallon/day of H2O. My real concern would be no windows, definitely not great for anyone who suffers from seasonal affective disorder.
Shouldn't you be the one citing the Swedish legal process...?
> For the above to work you need a large enough population

I think you also need a sanely designed city with effective public transport. For example, Atlanta or Charlotte have millions of people, including hobbyists and artists and enthusiasts, but I don't think many of the shops in the linked article would survive in a strip mall.
Real math.
Nothing short of regularly repeated practice prevents "forgetting how to manage a server" like the article describes, but that's not the only pitfall TFA refers to.

Besides, hiding the how does contribute a tiny little bit towards the forgetting. Not much, but still. So we keep asciinema[1] recordings of the tool performing some of the important tasks, so they can serve as a quick look-up, while the code serves as a full-detailed look-up.

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1: https://asciinema.org
Audible has daily deals and lots of sales. Also, Kindle unlimited + whispersync means lots of cheap audiobooks. Lots of classics are available at $0.99. I recently got latest Pride and Prejudice narrated by Rosamund Pike for $0.99

Check /r/audible
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I'm quick to criticise what I see on the internet, but I feel it's a detrimental personality trait most of the time and want to change as I feel it might cost me opportunities...
Why would there be a $143k bill at any point? You only get that if there are profit-maximizing companies in the supply chain.
I can't wait till software development is as ethical as the medical and legal industries.
Wild guess: the name of people you consider important plus the location in which you live/work? Just in case they ever pass by close to you, so you can try to catch up to them and have a conversation.
Sure. But you'll need to figure out some way to model social acceptance. Going to jail for weed in 1990 was not considered a miscarriage of justice. Going to jail for weed in 2010 is.
Exactly. And even if the US government were to default on loans Theter would be the least of your concerns since the USD and consequently the global economy would be in a pretty bad shape.
>the main way that TV manufacturers make money in 2019 is by selling user information through the apps.

Which is precisely why Apple needs to enters it? And negative margins - It is not like Apple is targeting the lower end of TV spectrum anyway.
Had she been bitten by a venoumous snake? TFA says "Thought to have been a copperhead"... They don't always use their venom. My dogs kill a few every year, they've had a couple bites but nothing serious. On the other hand I've lost several dogs to moccasin bites.

They're not hard to distinguish from other snakes, but then again, how many people saw that snake, had they any experience identifying snakes, etc.

Surely they wouldn't go shooting up someone with anti-venoms until they determined whether it was necessary?
> A homeowner isn’t going to let someone use their home all day to make a few £.

Are you sure? I mean if I had the space and situation (that is, an office room separate from the rest of the house, e.g. a garage) it's something I'd consider. It probably doesn't fall under hotel / lodging laws either.
Doctor and lawyer ethical codes work because there is a state sanctioned licensing authority. If you try to practice law or medicine without a license, you will be arrested.

Because of that, the ethical codes have teeth, as the medical board or bar can strip you of your license and thus the ability to practice for ethical violations.

There is so such equivalent to the medical board or bar for programmers. Anybody who has the inclination can program. Because of that, any ethical codes will be just words. In fact, companies may actually pay more for people willing to violate these codes.

While I think ethical codes are good, I don’t think they are worth having a licensing authority. I am happy that anyone with the ability is allowed to program and that I don’t need a state license.
> something that was the fault of lower-level employees (as here)

Ah, yes, some ‘lower-level employees’ just got together to falsify metals tests because… they have a fetish for falsifying metals tests? They get to brag to their pals at the pub about falsifying metals tests? They have a betting pool to see who can falsify the most metals tests? It must be something like that.
That depends on how much it actually costs to deliver their services, in aggregate.
And still we trust Google and they philosophy ?
It's amazing! How people are naive and easy to lead..
I don’t think journalists are necessarily aware of (maybe they just don’t care) how long root cause investigations can take. Obviously the euphemistically described “anomaly” is going to set them back, but going public without a clear root cause would make them look incompetent.
> I had an Indian friend that told me that specializations in old cities was also geographically organized. One part of street would only sell pressure cookers while another side would sell watering cans.

That’s how London used to be, which is why the area around St Paul’s has roads like “Leather Lane”, “Milk Street”, and “Poultry”.
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He can always issue a pardon, which would end the entire thing.
exactly. and that is as valid :)
The problem is, and every bodybuilder knows, that having elevated testosterone for ANY extended period in your life gives you an advantage even after you stop getting that supplimentation. The issues nonbinary conforming athletes face are not going away even with this level of scrutiny. I don't know a solution, but we must not ignore the facts.
Or an RV or van converted to an office space.
Massive side not - I have no idea why you guys insist on using football stadiums and football fields as a unit of measurement, what gives?
> They include Founder Collective, which turned its $100,000 investment in 2010 into $300 million

Wow.
https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics

https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html

These seem like good starting points to me.
Ethics was a required 2 credit course in my university computer science studies. It isn't some new idea, but I guess it isn't an industry standard yet. I'd agree anywhere the opportunity to do harm exists there should be clear ethical standards established.
The alternative to guided missiles isn’t peace, it’s carpet bombing.
That doesn't really seem to be working -- people are coming but are doubling and tripling (and quadrupling) up in housing that wasn't meant to accommodate them.

Of course, that's nothing new - I rented a large closet (literally a closet) when I first moved to SF over 2 decades ago. Eventually I got promoted to the formal dining room (which unfortunately was the walkway from the bedrooms to the livingroom, but still beat living in a closet!)
One thing to add, the majority of the population supports this outcome (if you measure actions as more important than words).
I think that's a horrible idea. It would lead to a lifeless, technocratic society.

In many ways we've already tried that, for example in urban planning, and it failed miserably.

For a counter point, as applied to urban planning, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_Am...

Social problems are best solved from a grassroots perspective, and they require negotiation, compromise, and HN hates this one, wait for it... politics (both official politics, and everyday interpersonal politics.)
> Busses are such good vehicles for batteries, that for some routes it may even make sense to run them with super-capacitors, with chargers embedded in the road at stops.

I would think busses are a very poor fit for batteries: their economics favours driving around for as long as possible (switching drivers in shifts). Any time spent charging is a waste.

This is less favourable than a consumer car, which sits around unused for most of the time (hence easily charged) and usually only makes a few short trips a day (e.g. commute).

I can understand the desire for supercapacitors on busses, since they are much quicker to charge than batteries. Putting chargers in the stops is a way to mitigate the low energy density of supercapacitors: they only need to last as far as the next charging point.

I think supercapacitors + fast charging stops makes busses very suited for electricity; but I don't think they're best suited for batteries (the fact that there are battery-powered busses shows that there's enough wiggle-room in the economics that they can work despite this unsuitability).
What about a single product with multiple components though? Let's say you have an API and a browser client (SPA). Should you keep them in the same repo, or separate them?

So far the only good reason I've had for separating them has been related to deployment concerns (e.g. your API is deployed to AWS and your browser client is on Cloudflare).
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> Yet the executives are escaping prosecution because the company employs so many people.

The DPA doesn't prevent criminal proceedings against individual executives, in fact the entire point of it is to focus the punishment on those that made and oversaw the criminal decision making, rather than the company as a whole, which would unduly punish innocent employees and shareholders.

In the case of SNC-Lavalin's conduct in Libya, alongside the criminal case against the company itself, at least one VP was also criminally charged. Subsequently those charges were dropped due to delays (nothing to do with a DPA, which by the way still hasn't happened): https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-430-snc-lavalin-in-cou...

I'm not going to advocate for SNC-Lavalin, they're slimy and have been for decades, but the reason the PM pressured for a DPA was so that they didn't incur the automatic penalty of not being able to bid on government contracts, which if applied was thought to be enough to bankrupt the company or at least cause them to move out of Canada.
The planes needed to drop those bombs have software too.
That's not what happens in practice - a government has a lot more negotiating power, and less skin in the game, than individuals who need the treatment. Governments can and do sometimes refuse to pay treatments that are too expensive. This may cause citizens who want that treatment to be upset, but for 99.99% of treatments it leads to them being a lot more affordable.
> they would make ideal workplaces

I'm not sure ideal is the right word, but I get your drift.
Do it! What would you build if you take a month off?
RHCEs, etc. don't strike me as adequate signaling. I've worked with RHCEs that didn't have much in the way of RHEL administrative chops. I've worked with people without them (and don't have one myself) who have solid downstack and upstack proficiency.

This is one that I genuinely don't know how to solve; I do not know how you evaluate somebody whose skillset you don't fully understand. But certifications aren't the answer.
Interesting. Wish you best of luck.
Video recording like that is totally throwing the staff under the bus (they will undoubtedly be talked to about making commitments like that).

I'm sure hospitals will all include a "all promises maid by staff are null and void unless documented in writing" waiver if the practice becomes widespread.
No we shouldn't. Obey your personal codes and follow the laws.

Tech is fun. Let's keep it that way.
For every ethical software developer, there are 10 who will work for Cambridge Analytica and there is nothing you can do about it.

It's a fools errand; at most serving the purpose of 'feeling good about yourself' rather than any societal impact