skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Hippocratic oath is similarly local in scope. Individual doctors try hard not to cause harm to individual patients, but the medical establishment causes massive amounts of harm, by:

- developing treatments for chronic symptoms instead of curing diseases

- being unprepared for pandemics

- making health care unaffordable except through employer plans

- promoting wrong nutrition guidelines for decades after the evidence was in

and more.

To have good outcomes you need ethics at both individual and system-wide levels.
Yeah, I can certainly appreciate the environmental and cost savings, but this would make me miserable. I could get myself the make the trip for ice cream, but the multiple runs back to the fridge while preparing food has me agitated just thinking about it.
Hmm its possible. In India I bought stitched suit for ~350$, and store bought for ~100. The tailor was best in class (two extremely well dressed men who probably made more money than me took multiple measurements and I had to go to the store three times), the cloth was best in class too. But on the other hand I bough tailored work pants for ~7$, and store bought for ~15. This tailor while talented, ran a poor mans store, even his best cloth lacked a little in elegance. I am just telling you my experience, you can guess though that one could find someone in India who can tailor the perfect cloths for you at a price that beats "some" store cloths.
"Let's say you walk up to a restaurant. As you look at it, you see a virtual waitress outside. The you can see the menu floating there, interact with virtual food models, interact with a fully animated and articulated intelligent agent. This all has to load dynamically in a an "AR Web"-like environment (no way you're going to download and install an APP per local brick and mortar)."

Maybe I'm just getting old, but this all sounds tedious and cumbersome compared to just having a menu stuck to the front window.
Ethic is subjective. Across time and space.

Want to see an example - Ask Aristotle are women same or lower than men?
It sizzles on your tongue when you bite it. I thought it was interesting but not desirable.
In such an environment, anecdotes may be among the most accurate information one can get.

I've never really seen such personally. People occasionally petition the central government due to grievances, but those people are heavily monitored, strongly discouraged, and later suffer negative repercussions (I know one such individual personally).

There are occasionally protests regarding local issues: housing demolition, environmental problems. They are not allowed to persist. I've never seen these in person.

I used to very occasionally see graffiti critical of the government, but I don't think I've see such in 5+ years. I figure the omnipresence of the security cameras have discouraged this.

I once received a robocall from the Falun Gong critiquing the government. I also occasionally see Falun Gong messages stamped on paper currency.

That's about it. I'm curious about the specifics of the case(s) about which you've heard.
Under which nation-state's legal system are we basing this theoretical scenario?
I have always been under the impression it is because the US wasn't bombed to bits during WWII and didn't basically get to re-think infrastructure.
Perhaps a smaller L1 cache in the form of a mini-fridge could hold the prep for a given meal or even day or so in the kitchen, while keeping the cold storage cold storage downstairs.
I think what we should focus on, instead of ethics or humanity, is things like transparency, open discussion and clear feedback, etc. We can't really tell what's exactly ethical or human when the situation is changing this quickly. What we can ensure, though, is that a process exists that can spot and fix issues at hand in a timely manner, publicly. It's a bit like OODA for ethics. I think a similar system would be needed for the US police system too. Be it a company or police, when its secrecy is of its utmost importance, ethics cannot be expected.
> They didn't check my ID. I am not kidding. I did enter my ATM card and PIN.

If this is the bank I think it is, once you inserted your card and entered your (valid) PIN, the teller was shown the color scan of your ID card that you presented when you opened the account. The teller then uses this to compare to you without you handing over a (possibly-faked) ID card.

That is why this bank will periodically ask you to provide a new copy of your ID.
> China has pressed charges against an American citizen who lives in America for conduct that took place in the United States.

> R.I.P Westphalian sovereignty

This reminds me of our arrest (well, Canada's arrest at our demand) of Meng Wanzhou.
This is like saying “we need a hippocratic oath for hands”.
"The rapid expenditure of COVID emergency relief payments highlighted the critical importance of having a resilient instant payments infrastructure with nationwide reach, especially for households and small businesses with cash flow constraints," said Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard."

It sure sounds like this particular thing is good for "the people". It'll take away some business from industries that prey on the poor, like check-cashing.
That's the point! The brine is frozen at -19c and liquid at - 17c which is well below the freezing point of everything else in the freezer.

Or you can have normal water which is frozen at -1c and liquid at 1c. Your pick.

The handy thing about the brine is that its absorbs heat at a temperature below that which everything else thaws. So as the brine thaws it keeps your freezer at -18c which means everything in it is still frozen.
AIUI the sharing provisions aren’t triggered by internal company use.
you'll learn to plan your meals better. take everything out that you need before you start...
> We have invaded others countries for less

America finally invaded itself: https://old.reddit.com/r/2020PoliceBrutality/
Secretopact Loyalty
Completely saturated salty water freezes right around -6F or -21C. And most home freezers are set to right around that for energy conservation reasons, but max out even lower. So you could use any briny water and it will phase change before your food melts.

I'm surprised a 12v based deep freezer that runs off a reasonably sized solar panel is not more popular/affordable. With the right amount of thermal mass, and good insulation, and a small battery you could greatly extend how long your food stays cold. There are a lot of people who live in places where snowy weather or high winds and loss of power is an eventuality. In an emergency losing your food is a bigger concern than just the cost of the food.
If you can live with just minimum, current, and maximum temperature instead of a detailed log, this works well [1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004QJVU78/
Some companies work hard at convincing the customers that the best venue for expressing their individual personality traits are mass-produced designs of those specific companies (e.g. Hot Topic, Forever 21).

For what it's worth, they develop a loyal following.
This is a great point, and reasonable people can disagree about when an application's abuse or potential for abuse crosses the line. The same goes for pivots or for general-purpose code that's used elsewhere. (Is it ethical to contribute to internal tools at Facebook? What if those tools make other engineers way more effective at doing things that ultimately undermine democratic systems?)

My point here isn't to dictate what software is or isn't ethical, but to argue that if a program is unethical, its ethical implications are the responsibility of the engineer(s) who wrote it.
You set up a policy in a test environment and run the code there. Of course, generally, the policy can't be identical across environments, so you can run into errors.
> Engineers should know enough about their business domains to understand the ethical impacts of their work.

This would be more reasonable in the era of 10-20 years in the same company or industry. Needing to job hop every 2-3 years for a decent raise, and software skills applying to a vast array of industries, makes it less reasonable IMO.

> ...but I'm far less sympathetic for anyone making 5+ times the median US income.

Not everyone here or in software makes that kind of money. Some of us in the Midwest--or who aren't as skilled at negotiating--don't pull down nearly that much.
You say “FedNow will eventually supplement”, and I read through your post, not too thoroughly, but I liked it and saved it to my Pinboard archive. Why couldn’t FedNow eventually replace the system you described though?
No system of any kind allows that. With public transit, you pay for it in personal discomfort and rigidness of schedule. With personal automobiles, you simply externalise the negativities – but there's still a huge cost, only no longer paid by the individual.
The phrase “Follow your Heart”
No company can have more than 100 employees!

Stops 100th monkey syndrome, stops it been corrupted easily, creates alot more genuine compition and most of all, stops big corpa and too big to fail bs we're fed today.

Its a start...
Xi Jinping and the CCP’s official goal is for the Chinese people and everyone else to have a common destiny.

Interpret these how you wish, because they are interpreting these how they wish.
Prototyping an interface combining coding tutorial videos and a browser IDE
We have never invaded any countries for purely human-rights oriented reasons. There is always a larger element of preservation of power structures and capture of wealth.

But both of those reasons would also align with an intervention in China. The true answer to why we haven't intervened is both mundane and terrifying: China has nuclear weapons.
In the US at least, many (most?) tycoons are involved with lobbying of the sort that destroys the function of democracy, even though they leave the form.
Is this a public fact or an accusation?
I really don't see any change that can realistically take roots there.

We have seen harsh sanctions fail to bring changes in a small poor country like NK where anyone looking South must be amazed at where they could have been.

In case of PRC, forget a kinetic physical action. Their economy is so interconnected with every other major economy that no one can afford even actual sanctions.
Ethics are subjective and always evolving. I think Engineering ethics is not to tell you what to build or not to build but rather to tech you what is the likely outcome if you decided to build x or not to build x. Based on that its up to you to decide whatever to do or not do it.
Much more women than men. Even minorities. Don't let 2020 see this.
I am afraid that what happens in the upcoming election will be a referendum on what kind of country the US will become, and what kind of reaction it will have to the urgent existential problems the world faces today. If the current administration persists, I do not see any genuine way that the country could tackle these problems. Just look at the completely botched non-response to the current pandemic at the Federal level; not to mention the constant racism in calling the coronavirus "Kung Flu". All the political appointees lie constantly and seem to be terrible at their jobs. I do not personally believe that the country can handle the upcoming crises in a reasonable manner if that happens.

On the other hand, even with a change in the Presidency, it is almost guaranteed that the GOP will do everything in its power to obstruct the new Administration, if it holds any power at all.

I am not sure what will happen. I share your hope but not your optimism.
The key incentive is cash. As long as doing sinister things can pay, there will be people doing it.
To be honest, I have no good idea. The obvious thing is to add a really long resting period before the subsequent note. Maybe engage the subject in a task of distraction while waiting.

But that is going to take a long time, so not ideal for a lab setting.

Absolute pitch is easier to recognize in life, because people who possess it can name a pitch completely out of the blue, and of pretty much anything, like a sneeze, door slam, not just piano tones.

So, there are three traits of AP --- which I gathered anecdotally, not scientifically --- that I think that might help to distinguish AP from a good RP.

1. AP works on anything with a stable, audible frequency. Memorizing the sound cannot provide that. (e.g. I cannot tell the frequency of a door slam, even though I can tune a violin without a tuner.) So, potentially, the test would use the type of sound they didn't train with.

2. AP also works really fast. As soon as they hear the sound, they know the pitch. No time for calculation. So, the subject should be asked to answer immediately.

3. People with AP doesn't seem to make mistakes at all.

All of these have led me to believe that AP is not a skill of adeptness. It's like they perceive sounds in a fundamentally different manner than I do, as if there is a separate mapping of frequency in their brain.

Again, this comment is based on my experience with people who have absolute pitch. I don't have a background in neuroscience to understand how AP works precisely, or to state definitively that the traits I described are universal among people with AP.
I have never been to China. I'm from the US and I only speak English. Currently I'm living in the Philippines though.

I imagine China is a lot like the Philippines. There are a lot of dialects and then one national language. The national language here is Tagalog, but English is also a national language.

You can expect that almost everyone speaks the local dialect unless they are from another region. You can expect that most people speak conversational English. Some have a difficult time speaking Tagalog and may revert to English if Tagalog is the only common language among the speakers.

People feel confident speaking the languages they use regularly. For regions outside the Tagalog regions, that's mostly the regional dialect. Most street signs are in English. Local TV is mostly Tagalog but there are English stations as well.

Everyone is unique, but in many cases people have no reason to speak Tagalog. They may hear it, but hearing is different than speaking. In any case, you can't make the same assumptions nation-wide as you can with people in the US.

In the Philippines, you could do pretty good with marketing in English. Kids are taught English in school and it's possible the regional dialects could quickly disappear in the future. If you're going to learn only one language in the Philippines, it should be English. Other countries may not have this same unity on language. Each country is different.

In the US, you have (Wikipedia 2019 numbers) nearly 330 million people who you can make solid assumptions for in terms of language. Most of those people are English as a daily driver if not a first language. It's hard to beat the combination of one of the most widely spoken languages and one of the largest countries by population.

I don't know what other language has that many "first language" speakers in a single country. Mandarin could be, but even within the Mandarin language there are lots of dialects (one caveat is that the writing system is the same for all.) So, it's difficult to determine what the actual numbers are. According to a quick Google search, a quarter of the Chinese population doesn't speak the common tongue at all.

An honorable mention might be Brazil, a country with a population of over 200 million and all-in on Portuguese.
How about the median American who got fired from his job for cracking his knuckles, while driving the company can? A passerby thought the guy was flashing the white power hand signal.
This is all kind of overkill. Just put a penny on the surface of a cup of ice in the freezer.
By looking at it, literally.
It always feels like going back in time whenever an American requests a cheque. I haven't filled one in for over 15 years at this stage.
this is precisely the problem. few physicists knew they were all collectively building a nuclear bomb because the big picture was well compartmentalized. feynman only found out because he picked the locks of his colleagues to piece it all together.
While instead the high school should have taught about false dilemmas.
But that's not an independent fact. That's one of the major goals of medical oaths; they establish that doctors must be able to determine the right course of action on their own, that ethical doctors won't work for an organization that won't give them that agency.
Billy boy as always been into euthanasia!
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. -Nathaniel Borenstein
Why are people so obsessed with "don't be evil" if "be good" is a much more effective commandment. This suit had to visit pope Francis to ask him how to program a soulless machine, his time would have been better spend helping a local charity or even better a struggling family member.
I believe you’re downvoted for mentioning politics but it is true. The US had an effective pandemic infrastructure, which got dismantled in 2018.

This isn’t unique to the US. Canada had an extremely effective pandemic forecasting agency. This got dismantled by two separate governments since 2014. I can’t find the article but the globe and mail had a big exposé.

The Atlantic article above is one of the top five articles I’ve read on the pandemic disaster and is worth reading.
I meant 'Roaming' sorry. And IIRC the roaming is for companies that use network storage or sync to keep people's settings no matter what workstation they use.
> Ethics and law are orthogonal, so thankfully this is generally much easier than being a legal expert.

I suspect a lot of philosophers would disagree with you that ethics is much simpler than interpreting laws.
I have had this happen without any devices nearby, consistently, meaning we must be chipped already.
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai arrested on suspicion of foreign collusion
You often want to control brightness and possibly color on light bulbs, and it's good if that can be integrated with other systems so you can have central control and automation. Wifi may not be the best way to connect, but it's reasonable.

With an air filter, do you ever want to control it? Naively I'd think that you'd want to leave it on unless you're going to be gone for a week or more. And even in that case it's probably easier to flip the switch.

Would it tell you when it needs a filter change? Would that actually work better than a calendar?
> optimizing that toolkit for the use case of touch.

iPadOS seems to be good enough with mouse pointer and keyboard input too now.
That's pretty much the norm in every developed country and many developing countries.
The actual number closer to 1,000 than 100. There is a lot of uranium and thorium in coal. Not all of it is captured when coal is burned.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
Eh, this isn't a great analogy either. If I'm an engineer that develops a single beam in a bridge, is it my fault if someone assembles those beams together in such a way that is dangerous? At which point does a function become unethical? Do you now have to only use software made in your country by ethical developers?

Software isn't a bridge and comparisons fall apart quickly.
No thanks. Apart from creating unnecessary barriers to entry, such an oath would immediately be politicized and used to stifle certain views, speech, and work. More broadly, I also think licensing in general can be counter productive, constraining supply and imposing bureaucratic certifications where none are needed.

How about we start with something we need more immediately - updated antitrust laws that are enforced against giant companies like Microsoft? Brad Smith is talking big about requiring an oath for engineers but neglects his own role. Before he was President, he was General Counsel for MS. He is still today the chief legal officer and chief compliance officer alongside his president title (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Smith_(American_lawyer)). Let see him and Microsoft come clean on antitrust, privacy, theft of others’ innovation (like Slack) while holding a giant patent war chest, etc.
Normal lockpicking technique has you put tension on the lock so that (ideally) one pin is under sheer and the rest are free. You use your tool to push the binding one to the position allows the cylinder to turn slightly then move to the next. So this usually leaves marks on the pins than you can see if you take the lock apart.

Usually while picking you'll also scratch up the pins and keyway in a way that a key won't. You can also end up with the pins a bit cockeyed.

You can also turn it in directions that it can't turn with the key in it, and on some cylinders you can turn it the wrong way and have all the pins fall out!

You in many locks you can also end up with it 'locked open' where you have to pick it again to be able to get a key into it.

I think in the incident I mentioned the cylinder was left in slightly askew which made it feel odd to insert the key. I'm not sure if someone who hadn't picked a lock before would have recognized something was unusual just from the feel.
Oh, probably because it interprets it as a logical negation; not "negative X", but "remove X from results".
Ethics is not a hard science.

Also it's not that the underbelly asks would ask their hacker candidates for a license, or that the military/cops would care about a licensing body.
I have a Samsung fridge and there is a problem that causes water to pool in the meat/vegetable trays. It's very simple - a tube in the back behind a panel takes run-off under the fridge. But this drain runs past the freezer, so it freezes solid eventually and overflows. It took quite a while to work out the first time but YouTube came to the rescue.

The fix is apparently replacing or extending the stupid little piece of metal they attached that is meant to transfer heat into the pipe. Instead we add a longer copper wire or something that goes deeper and conducts better. Doing this only costs only a few dollars more (currently, I've simply poured hot water down there to unclog it twice in ~6 years but next time it's getting the wire).
It might be able to! I was being a little conservative.

It's possible that some of the more obscure abilities of ACH, like death notification entries[1], won't be needed in FedNow or will be replaced separately. But that's idle speculation on my part.

[1]: https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/what-happens-when-you...
cool to think diversity could exist in a tech company...
The most practical outcome seems to be a gradual emigration of all the HK citizens to the UK/other countries. I can imagine citizens forming networks where they would warn each other of an upcoming arrest so their friends/family would scurry out of the country.

I am hopeful that the sheer number of citizens in HK would perhaps lead to the city retaining some of its independence. We can't predict the future... who knows? What if Xi dies in the next 5 years and his successor isn't such a hardliner?
That's the first time I've heard of success with Microtik and OpenWRT - do you have more details?
You use "cheap" as a pejorative, but it's actually a positive. By signaling that you are X, or believe yourself to be X, (where X can be anything - gender, hobbies, wealth, social class whatever) you gain the interest of everyone who is seeking X without needing to speak to them. And save the time of everyone who isn't interested in X. It's a cheap, efficient way to filter people. Is it perfect? Heck no. But humans are often happy to sacrifice accuracy for speed.
And I mean, that is good of you to have a moral backbone, unfortunately there are many people behind you that will do the same job in software and they can be located anywhere in the world.