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I'm not aware that practicing radical self-censorship for the sake of conformity is the current standard of social justice, and, as far as I can tell, numerous forms of injustice were at one point or another deemed socially acceptable.

Even justifiable concerns are just exactly that, justifiable concerns. If anything, it is the society that cannot behave however it wants but has an obligation to uphold justice. It needs to have a fair legal system as opposed to mob justice and to punish only genuine criminals as opposed to merely people with criminal reputation.
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15 or so years ago I was in a remote African town and a local business had a picture of Gerald Ford up. Perplexed I asked why. The United States, I presume while Ford was president, had sent aid to build a bridge, some irrigation canals, and eradicated what he described as a worm that you pull out of your skin by wrapping it around a pencil and turning, an inch an hour. I guess it would have been this worm or something similar.

Not a big deal for us, I'm sure hardly anyone outside the area heard of it. But for the locals it changed their lives, the food they could eat, the quality of life they could live. I'd say that I wish we did more stuff like this instead of the geopolitical games, but on another trip I found out that the majority of the Kenyan governments entire budget is foreign aid. Didn't seem to be doing much. But I knew some people from the USA who existed on donations that ran a free school for children, with meals out of a slum. They were poor in the US, but doing so much good. While the official NGO staff drove around in $50,000 SUVs to do surveys.

Doing good is hard. Throwing money at something is not enough. It takes thoughtful, wise people and hard work. But there have been so many people pulled out of really bad conditions over the last few generations. Many many unsung heros.
Both NASA and the soviets sent animals into space that they knew weren’t coming back alive. Read up on Laika the dog if you’d like an example. I agree that it’s cruel but it’s no more cruel than things we’ve already done.
My favorite comment on this topic is from Tim Sweeney:
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/735#comment-6678

Going after two folks in Java and C# communities (the later being involved in developing the language) for committing the same error.
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Nope, not in the slightest. I've got more pressing concerns.

I'm pretty much desensitized and take with a grain of salt almost anything the news pushes; after a while, you see that the same stories get trotted out year after year, almost like clockwork, on a wide array of topics, and it's the same thing, with nothing ever actually changing. The stories wear different clothing, but it's always the same; the end is nigh, repent o ye sinner, believe and ye shall be saved, and reborn again pure. If I had a fit about everything that the newspaper or the TV anchors try to work up a dudgeon about, I'd be a constant nervous shaking wreck. So I just go about my business and ignore the panic of the day.
I guess they did.

For posting this article, I'm sorry if it wasn't appropriate for HN for anything, but I think the story around:

"The city’s protest movement has unofficial representatives, crowdfunded advertising, viral videos, and much else that has caught China off guard."

might be interesting to the HN audience.
Semi-amusingly, to tie that to GP's comment, the few times they show "real" programming on Star Trek, that's exactly what it looks like - visually chaining transformations together in a directed graph.
Interesting. Not to entirely doubt what you're saying, but the source for that statement on Wikipedia doesn't have a primary source. Do you happen to have more reading? I would love to have the complete story between them.

(Aside: Now that I look into it, Mr. Bushnell's Wikipedia page has basically been rewritten on September 22nd [1] after his article)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Bushnell&a...
I've notice this problem as well, makes it really difficult to search what all "classes" implement a certain interface. Not sure how wide spread it is, I see this hack some times:

var _ MyInterface = (*MyImplementation)(nil)
> The major problem is that I constantly 'hear' my pager going off when other devices beep in a roughly-similar fashion even when I'm not wearing it and my heart starts racing, so I have to change the ringtone frequently to de-Pavlov myself.

Yup. I've got very, odd, sounds for all my "paging" needs. It's the only way to stay sane.
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Whether violent ABC or nonviolent ABC, “I’d better not see XYZ or else ABC” is equally inappropriate here regardless.
Are you referring to Jack Wolfskin? Yes it's not something that might be consciously noticed but 100% it's picked up by the subconscious and in post-processing this CEO is going to be a blur with all the other tech execs who flash by one's screen on any given day

It's simply that tech professionals who ought to know a thing or two about data science, statistics, human psychology, color theory etc would notice how naively they've optimized for a very narrow band when it comes to personal and professional branding
most tech companies are bubbles or at least unrealistically over valued. its just that if you keep believing the myth long enough, it starts being true.
Missing content for:

https://boyter.org/posts/an-informal-survey-of-10-million-gi...
Throw in some Bronkaid and you have a proper EC stack. Be careful if you have family history of heart disease and especially if you have heart issues yourself. Also, like anything don't overdue it. And research the heck out of it first please.
I hate that this is the world we've come to, but I think an acquisition by Microsoft would be the best outcome.

Or maybe Oracle could so diabolically implode Docker like a Las Vegas hotel, that everyone will move to something with a much better security model and stop with the containers in VMs nonsense.
From that article:

The strategy positions Yahoo as an “amplification brand,” amplifying the things that matter, helping to “amplify you.”

So, umm, I guess I have no idea what they do.
Idk, I’ve always looked for a search engine that prioritizes good content over pages with ads. Like, there’s 7 billion people on this planet, are you telling me there is no one that has a cookie recipe that nicely fits on one page without going through oodles of advertising.
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So it is safe to say that at least some of the people eager to see Stallman burn have a grudge with him. In other words, they are not being objective.
That thread definitely has a lot of interesting information. Some things seem kind of off though... but in general it seems mostly fair.
I'd push back on your characterization of "fictitious" here, since all you're asking them to do is "document" their work.

From a software engineer's perspective, that's all I really want/need to do for my colleagues. I don't need to "show my work" because they're making sure I didn't copy/paste, they're trying to move quickly and don't have time to work things out on their own about how I came up with the solution.

Maybe "show your work" should be taught; less because it's a gateway into the mind of the solution provider, and more because it's helpful to others to see how someone arrived at a conclusion.
Most programmers aren't worth even a pimple on Richard Stallman's ass. Most people too.
I strongly doubt that Google harbors any negative feelings for you specifically. Do you have any concrete evidence for your claim?
The types of governments that are typically collecting fines on a regular basis don’t possess the authority to destroy money or lawfully affect the money supply in any meaningful capacity.
> At its core, Black Scholes is a set of "obvious" differential equations.

Interestingly, the Schrodinger equation works about the same way. Just assume a handful of reasonable and "obvious" things about physics, and out pops the equation.
Which is a completely subjective lense.
Easily the most autistic person I know. No contest.
Specifically, two events: "The plant was introduced by Jose Antonio Gelabert in the 18th century. French colonists later brought their own production methods and by the time of the Cuban revolution in 1959 the country was a major global exporter.

The political context and nationalisation of the industry led to much-reduced production."

followed by another whopper: " With the collapse of the Soviet bloc, Cuba lost 80% of its export trade."
https://www.perfectdailygrind.com/2018/09/exploring-cubas-co...
>It was also very different from languages like TypeScript and Java, where if User implemented Named, as well as being able to pass User to a method accepting Named:

This is possible in Java? Is this a new feature? Or is this only true for arrays (rather than List)?

I could have sworn List<Cat> would be incompatible with List<Animal>.
Please complete your construction; it’s missing the “or else” phrase that is required for it to be interpreted without guessing.

Your phrase was:

> I better not see anyone here lionize Steve Jobs ever again.

Without an “or else” construction, this phrase is not parseable English. Why is “better” present if it is not a command-tone declaration upon others? What reason exists to say this if it is not intended to imply “or else you’ll regret it”, either nonviolently or violently? What precise regret do you imply that anyone who “lionizes” will suffer?
Hardly a major provider though.
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The problem is it's selectively applied. I can just as easily argue that rap music as "harmful" and what they said were "terrible" things, and yet there is no public outrage over that. In western society, it seems, thugs are exempt from all the politically correct standards that the rest of us are expected to abide by.
There's actually a well-developed practice at holding discussions where people's feelings are deliberately included--marital or group counseling, integrative negotation, conflict resolution strategies, etc. Recognizing that people's feeling are always somewhat involved, we have the dialectical tools to work with them, because the purely dispassionate approach you believe is the sole path to truth is something that most learn, sooner or later, rarely works and rarely satisfies.
I've worked in ediscovery software for years. Everlaw is definitely an up and coming player with an attractive interface, but no serious law firms/in house counsel have been using spreadsheets to conduct reviews for, oh, two decades at least
I came across his work years ago and adore it. He's really carved out a niche for himself. I also recommend his book "Tricks of the Mind" as a gift for young nerds: https://www.amazon.com/Tricks-Mind-Paperback-DERREN-BROWN/dp...

It's a nice combination of charm, trickery, and skepticism. Bits about his life, teaching techniques he uses in his mentalism, and interesting items from his work. For example, he goes into this trick in detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haP7Ys9ocTk

For those who don't watch it, he pretends to be an astrologer and gives a group of people a reading. They are shocked at how accurate it is. He then has them randomly trade readings and try to guess who the reading applies to. It turns out that he gave them all the same reading, making use of the Forer effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect

In the book, he explains how he constructed it and gives the text of the reading. It was a pleasure to read through and see how artfully it was done.
This was very much my take on the comment. I also think that, if you're over 30 and don't look back on a lot of what you thought at 20 and cringe a bit, you're probably missing something. Same goes for being over 40 and looking back at 30, etc., etc.
Wow, that's really good. So nicely performed. Thanks for sharing that.
Electric cars are pretty heavy thanks to the batteries, so it's not like having a bit more weight in the wheels is going to drastically change the unsprung:sprung weight ratio for the worse.

In a light vehicle, it's very important to minimize unsprung weight for the reasons you've listed. Not so much with a heavy vehicle.
Like I mean most all tech execs dress as some variation of Marc Benioff of Salesforce .. unbuttoned shirt, jacket, looking like they just came out of the shower

My question is how many are doing that because they are simply copying each other and trying to signal that they are indeed tech execs, how many are simply clueless and how many just don't care

Why isn't there a one except say Masayoshi Son and Mark Zuckerberg who dresses all the way up every now and then? Is it because they care what other people think -- and using the same argument, wouldn't there be a case for over dressing if you care about what people think?

This should be old hat to professionals who specialize in statistics and human behaviour and who understand concepts like the central limit theory, branding and other advanced topics but to a man they all seem to prefer looking like they just got off a private jet and didn't have time to get dressed on the way to the conference and it's getting tired and boring

It seems they want to over-optimize for being 'casual and approachable' and never for being 'authoritative and distant' and then their companies tank and they move onto other companies -- leaving the ordinary people to scrounge for new career prospects in an increasingly cynical job market
To be fair to the author of the article, the official Go blog, written by Go's designers, offers the same explanation as the article, unfortunately.
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Did they send a seedling or did they actually grow something from a seed?
> My employer provides... blackberries

If it's still an option, I'd be amazed you don't take it. I still have and love my Q10, but Wire has upped their minimum API level to 5.0 (above the runtime RIM shipped).
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The fact that it hasn't happened yet when there are so many Google employees suggests that it's infeasibly difficult.
> Why just women?

Because they are the people who have been made uncomfortable by his behavior. If it were men, or also men, I'm sure the parent post would have read "men or women". This is not an abstract case, so implying that somehow men are underrepresented when dealing with a person whose (alleged) behavior has been targeted at women sounds a little petty.

Imagine someone is accused of abusing children, and the local prosecutor says "if we find that any children have been harmed, we will press charges". Do you really think you need to correct them by saying "but what about adults?" It's unnecessary, and distracts from the actual case.
They should literally go to anywhere that isn't a profit center. In fact, they should just go directly to the national budget. No net income for anyone.

Anything else is an incentive for abuse.
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Yeah, but in practice, "they" is used to describe the plural. Singular they might have been in use, but in the modern context, typically only brings confusion. Not to mention screwing with sentence flow.

Singular they are? they is? Both seem pretty offputting to me.
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As much as I love the confirmation that .yml is the correct extension, I’m most amazed by the fact that there’s over a TRILLION lines of code public on GitHub.

That’s an astronomical number. And that’s only what we can all see. Can’t imagine how much more is private.

Also, it look’s like 20% of code is comments. Which feels just about right.
s/businesses/engineers looking for resume items for FAANG applications/ and it's completely rational.
mail.yandex.com - they don't even require a cell phone number.
The problem with your argument is that it implies that the people who were chased away from CSAIL, MIT or CS in general by people like Stallman were all planning to pile into a giant ineffective committee with each other and thus can be assumed to be No Great Loss, which is... a rather peculiar leap of logic.

There's no reason to suppose this. Even accepting your logic, the people he discouraged from CS might have wound up being highly effective solo contributors or worked in small teams.
So ... I probably shouldn't write anything here. Anyway, in the spirit of learning and communication and respectful dialogue ...

I think one of the tensions here is between people who think that providing one non-gendered pronoun is a sufficient individual vs. societal customization setting versus those who think that every(-ish) stated individual pronoun choice being mandatory is the appropriate and respectful customization setting.

I first started thinking about these issues not from a trans / non-binary / fluid direction, but from the point of view of removing unnecessary gendering when it was irrelevant to the situation under discussion. So, from that perspective a single unambiguous non-gendered pronoun seemed sufficient.

I wasn't looking at things in terms of providing people with fine-grained customization to express themselves.

I find the desire for fine-grained gender-expression customization in tension with the desire to de-emphasize gender. But I can also see how he/she/they sounds suspiciously like he/she/other(not normal) and could be interpreted as alienating or insulting.

I still don't really understand, but frankly I don't have much skin in the game.

I'm half and half white/black so I've never really felt the urge to identify with either. I identify as a tennis player or scientist or programmer.

We live in a society where these days lefties are not disadvantaged, although they were brutalized in the past, and I see no intense desire among lefties to identify as lefties. It makes me wonder whether, if we did not brutalize non cis-gender conforming people, would we see such intense desire for recognition and affirmation of fine-grained gender identity? But obviously we don't live in that world yet.

I may have offended someone here, but I hope it's clear from my care and tone that it's not from a place of disrespect, but one of unfamiliarity and desire to understand.

EDIT> By "lefties", I mean left-handed people.
> Just consume less? I dunno... wild thought.

Suppose I need a new shirt, because my old one is ragged (pretend that I only have one shirt). There are two short brands I am deciding between, A and B. A is cheaper and they look like the same quality, so I buy A. However, the production of A (made in China, shipped to the US) is much more carbon producing compared to B (made just across the border in Mexico). Instead, I should have bought B. But the label doesn’t tell me that. A carbon tax on the shipping would resolve this.
Building a heliport or just using a yacht with a helipad in the bay just off of SF would be cool. They could use a speed boat to ferry to shore, plus less concern about noise.
A lot of applied math -- especially modeling -- is pretty freaking fuzzy.
Autism has become the junk drawer of disorders everyone seems to think they're somehow qualified to diagnose.

Could you provide some actual evidence of RMS being formally diagnosed as autistic?

Because otherwise you're basically spreading a rumor that RMS has a mental disorder, which is not right.
> Because one basic way of showing any respect at all for someone is calling them by their preferred name and pronouns

This argument makes no sense as before knowing you, I cannot know neither your name nor “preffered pronoun”.

I’m going to call you by the default pronouns defined for the default genders as established by millennia of biological and linguistic evolution.

Anyone demanding everyone else to deviate from those established norms for the sake of pleasing their “personal” pronouns, are simply holding unrealistic expectations, only serving to bring themselves down.
It reads like an ad to me. It's hard to figure out what the catch is, if any (and in this world of tradeoffs, there usually is a catch).
Would steganography count as encryption?
Let me try to rephrase this in a simpler way:

This is even more troubling because smart people are less likely to be caught.

At least, like Snowden's leaks, this is proof that privacy extremists aren't conspiracy nuts, and hopefully it will open a few eyes to the real danger of giving up privacy.

Other comments are right: stop using big words and write plain sentences.
The worst thing when that inevitably fails, sometimes with loss of innocent life if stakes are high, you can't even feel good you were right. Being right is completely useless and pointless there.
Many motorcycles are even louder, regularly setting off car alarms and we don't do anything about those.
They should also have a restriction so that no one can touch that money until something like 5 years after collection.

I dislike your suggestion because the central "coffers" still distribute the money. Say they need more cops,they can still use that money.

I suggest restrictions that would allow the money ti be spent only on reparative and maintainance related needs. Broken roads,bridges,buildings,etc... Payroll ,material procurement,real estate,marketing and a few othet things should never use fine money. I believe this would improve quality of life for the people in the communities.
Funny how autism isn't a valid excuse but being transgender is. Because there are plenty of trans "woman" engineers at large companies like Google, Twitter, GitHub etc. that are fucking creepy and spend all day posting nudes and talking about "girl dick" on social media and yet they're immune from criticism or losing their jobs. Why is it okay to call out Stallman for being a disgusting fuck but the moment you call out these other freaks you're considered a bigot? Why is autism not a valid excuse to be a pervert but being trans is?
Not just contractors. In most parts of the world there will be a 20 year old, with 3 months of "security training" paid less than $1000 a month, running around the data center with keys to the castle.
How much does motor weight matter in a modern long-range EV, vs battery weight?
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> i put both in quotes because to this contingent both of those concepts have absolutely zero relation to their actual form.

Indeed, and that deserves some emphasis, I think. Applying "logic" to complex issues in real life is fraught with difficulties, because there aren't really any obviously and fully true premises to base logical arguments on in the first place, and a lot of common sense or "self-evident" inferences are either false or only weakly or unreliably true.

Experience and feelings encode a lot of implicit knowledge about how the world works. When someone makes a dispassionate "logical" argument, they essentially throw these heuristics away and instead work their way up from axioms. Which sounds good in theory, until you realize these axioms are simplistic assumptions that often fail. For example, you might base an economic theory upon the axiom that economic actors are rational. In reality, though, that's not true, and you'd be better off incorporating some of your personal experiences and feelings because they may give you an intuitive grasp of when to trust the axiom, and when not to.

Logical, dispassionate arguments are (not always, but often) like arguments about spherical cows. Sure, they are technically valid, but they rely on simplifying assumptions, sometimes to the point of uselessness. The people who do that have undue confidence in a lot of platitudes, which makes them blind to the fact they are building their arguments on sand.
That how smart people can get away with these things and employees can see your images could be a wake up call for taking privacy concerns seriously I think